Spyware? What spyware? That's not the google search bar, it's just a text box that accepts input and sends it to google (or yahoo,amazon,dictionary.com, ebay or creative commons, depending on what option you choose) as a search query.
Not that I understand why anyone *wouldn't* want the search box (not actually related to google, it's just a search box that can access several differet search engines) but it's easy to remove:
1) Right click on it 2) Select Customize 3) Drag the search box off the toolbar onto the dialog.
Simple and takes less time than posting a mindless rant on slashdot.
You must have a different version of locate to me. I can't get mine to index my emails, it has no idea about the metadata entries in common document types and can't tell the difference between an image and a movie file.
Could you send me the source for the version you have installed that does that?
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Again, 3DFX's demo comparing 30fps to 60fps showed that there was a difference.
The point is that the built in motion blurring on TV/film makes the display appear smoother. A computer game with no motion-blur, high resolution and rapidly changing display does look better at a higher frame rate.
You can see the effect of 24/30fps on cinema screens - watch when the camera pans rapidly and it appears jerky. Of course, filmmakers work round this and most films don't involve rapid camera pans very often, but in first person games they're kind of unavaoidable.
>Is it just me, or have special effects not gotten >visibly better for a couple of years now?
If anything, the over-reliance on CGI has made effects worse. Compare 2001:A Space Oddysey's model shots with any modern computer drawn space film and 2001 looks far more real.
If you're relying on the lights to know when it's safe to cross the road in urban China, you're not going to live long anyway. As far as I could see, traffic lights were taken as a kind of "advisory" that you might want to think about slowing down a bit: fortunately there was a traffic cop at every major junction to prevent total chaos.
My first few days in Kunming (Yunnan province) were terrifying until I got used to the way they drive over there. The mixture of old and new was strange too: taxi drivers doing 60mph swerving round donkey-pulled carts full of live chickens is a strange sight.
Just in case anyone has forgotten, here's a quick summary of recent major state-funded IT projects in the UK:
Immigration service document system (1999) - 18 months late, cost £77m, scrapped after 2 years because system couldn't cope with load
National Insurance system (1997) - delivered late, didn't work, caused a 14 million record backlog, delayed pensions payouts in 1999 and lost 5.2 million people's tax files
Passport office(1999): new system less efficient than what it replaced, caused a backlog of half a million applications, price of passport put up by 30% to fund development of replacement system
Air traffic control(1999): six years late, crashed three times in eight days after installation, complaints from controllers about difficulties with the system.
So, combine the system that created those blunders and Microsoft, a company with a terrible track record on reliability and honesty. I hope I don't need to go to hospital any time soon.
>Now, Mr. Bush, Finish the job we've hired you to do.
What job was that? What was on your job description for Bush? Something like:
- Needlessly kill civilians the world over - Remove human rights from prisoners of war - Increase national deficit - Make most of the world, both east and west, despise your country
Dammit, I say the rest of the world should go to the aid of the US people. Clearly, after years of government propaganda and brainwashing they are unable to rid themselves of their terrible, extremist, bungling ruler.
All diplomatic and democratic methods have failed: it is the duty of the governements of the world now to free these downtrodden people by military means.
PDF is a very important format: virtually every paper I write or read is in PDF. Current Open Source readers are hit-and-miss: either slow, or missing features (thumbnailing, text search) or, as you say, form filling in. Acroread on linux at the moment is awful: it uses Motif, FFS. An update to a decent acroread 6 (using GTK/Qt or something) would be a fantastic improvement.
US papers are (AFAIK) named after a city but often distributed widely outside that area. That's why Americans always refer to the "London Times" or (presumably) the "Berlin" Zeit.
You're forgetting that the donations are from OSS supporters the world over. The third party (Libertarian? sorry, don't follow US politics much) is relying on donations from the fraction of the US population that cares about politics beyond arguing over war records, a fairly small group.
But isn't the main drawback to Firefox at present that it isn't IE? It doesn't support a minority of sites that are IE-specific: by establishing Firefox as a serious competitor with a (say) 20% market share, web developers will be forced to code to the W3 standards and support Firefox. They can't just assume 99% IE and just ignore the few geeks that complain.
That improves the "compatibility" of Firefox without changing a line of code.
Why bother spending on cancer care: we could save thousands of lives in the third world with the money for one cancer ward. Why bother caring for the disabled: we could save thousands of lives in the third world with the money for one disabled access scheme. Why bother campaigning against a road through a nature reserve: we could save thousands of lives in the third world with the money.
The point is, you can reduce virtually any expenditure to "could be better spent saving lives in the third world". That doesn't mean that the other causes are any less worthwhile. Many people believe that the current state of the web is harmful to society, and will donate money to help establish a competitor to Microsoft's domination of the market. If they want to donate money to that cause, that's their choice. They could have given the money to Oxfam, but chose not to.
OK, I skipped C out completely and went straight to C++. So my knowledge of pure C is pretty shaky. One (overly long) question:
Say (for example) I have a program that needs to access, as flat files, data stored in several different formats, each requiring different access methods. I want to minimise the amount of code, obviously. So in C++, I write:
- a File class with the common code and interface (read_data,write_data,open etc) - derived subclasses for each type of file that actually does the reading/writing(DatbaseFile, VFSFile etc.) - a manager class that only knows about File classes, not the subclasses - some factory class that returns an object of the correct File subclass
That way, I keep most of the file access code generic and all the filetype specific code is in one place.
My question is: what is the equivalent of this in C? AFAIK, you'd have to either use switch statements everywhere or some kind of function pointer system. Is there a better alternative? I assume there must be, and I just don't know enough C.
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The United Kingdom's ranking (28th) is largely due to the situation in Northern Ireland, where journalists are constantly threatened by paramilitary groups.
So it's not freedom from government interference, just freedom from interference in general
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Spyware? What spyware? That's not the google search bar, it's just a text box that accepts input and sends it to google (or yahoo,amazon,dictionary.com, ebay or creative commons, depending on what option you choose) as a search query.
It works fine in egg.com, if.com and lloydstsb.com, which are the only banking sites I've used it in.
The identity string for Firefox 1.0 is:
"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0"
whereas Netscape (7.2, Windows in this case) appears as:
"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax)"
Not that I understand why anyone *wouldn't* want the search box (not actually related to google, it's just a search box that can access several differet search engines) but it's easy to remove:
1) Right click on it
2) Select Customize
3) Drag the search box off the toolbar onto the dialog.
Simple and takes less time than posting a mindless rant on slashdot.
Well, he does link to the Wall street journal article on that page, so if he's tring to rip it off he's doing a very bad job of hiding it.
You must have a different version of locate to me. I can't get mine to index my emails, it has no idea about the metadata entries in common document types and can't tell the difference between an image and a movie file.
Could you send me the source for the version you have installed that does that?
Again, 3DFX's demo comparing 30fps to 60fps showed that there was a difference.
The point is that the built in motion blurring on TV/film makes the display appear smoother. A computer game with no motion-blur, high resolution and rapidly changing display does look better at a higher frame rate.
You can see the effect of 24/30fps on cinema screens - watch when the camera pans rapidly and it appears jerky. Of course, filmmakers work round this and most films don't involve rapid camera pans very often, but in first person games they're kind of unavaoidable.
I see what you mean - it looks like some 80's handheld computer game.
>Is it just me, or have special effects not gotten
>visibly better for a couple of years now?
If anything, the over-reliance on CGI has made effects worse. Compare 2001:A Space Oddysey's model shots with any modern computer drawn space film and 2001 looks far more real.
If you're relying on the lights to know when it's safe to cross the road in urban China, you're not going to live long anyway.
As far as I could see, traffic lights were taken as a kind of "advisory" that you might want to think about slowing down a bit: fortunately there was a traffic cop at every major junction to prevent total chaos.
My first few days in Kunming (Yunnan province) were terrifying until I got used to the way they drive over there. The mixture of old and new was strange too: taxi drivers doing 60mph swerving round donkey-pulled carts full of live chickens is a strange sight.
Just in case anyone has forgotten, here's a quick summary of recent major state-funded IT projects in the UK:
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Immigration service document system (1999) - 18 months late, cost £77m, scrapped after 2 years because system couldn't cope with load
National Insurance system (1997) - delivered late, didn't work, caused a 14 million record backlog, delayed pensions payouts in 1999 and lost 5.2 million people's tax files
Passport office(1999): new system less efficient than what it replaced, caused a backlog of half a million applications, price of passport put up by 30% to fund development of replacement system
Air traffic control(1999): six years late, crashed three times in eight days after installation, complaints from controllers about difficulties with the system.
So, combine the system that created those blunders and Microsoft, a company with a terrible track record on reliability and honesty. I hope I don't need to go to hospital any time soon.
Source:http://www.computerweekly.com/Article102
This is the UK state we're talking about here. This project was probably a 50,000 pound problem that had some budget overrun problems.
I was all for the war in Iraq, but what the hell does it have to do with Al-Queda?
Isn't that roughly what the iraqis said?
>Now, Mr. Bush, Finish the job we've hired you to do.
What job was that? What was on your job description for Bush? Something like:
- Needlessly kill civilians the world over
- Remove human rights from prisoners of war
- Increase national deficit
- Make most of the world, both east and west, despise your country
If so, he seems to be doing pretty well.
Dammit, I say the rest of the world should go to the aid of the US people. Clearly, after years of government propaganda and brainwashing they are unable to rid themselves of their terrible, extremist, bungling ruler.
All diplomatic and democratic methods have failed: it is the duty of the governements of the world now to free these downtrodden people by military means.
PDF is a very important format: virtually every paper I write or read is in PDF. Current Open Source readers are hit-and-miss: either slow, or missing features (thumbnailing, text search) or, as you say, form filling in.
Acroread on linux at the moment is awful: it uses Motif, FFS. An update to a decent acroread 6 (using GTK/Qt or something) would be a fantastic improvement.
Not true, as was shown back in the day with 3DFX's 30fps vs 60fps comparison.
They're even trying to hide from the validators:
W3 validator is 403'd
Actual results on the current front page not good
US papers are (AFAIK) named after a city but often distributed widely outside that area.
That's why Americans always refer to the "London Times" or (presumably) the "Berlin" Zeit.
You're forgetting that the donations are from OSS supporters the world over. The third party (Libertarian? sorry, don't follow US politics much) is relying on donations from the fraction of the US population that cares about politics beyond arguing over war records, a fairly small group.
But isn't the main drawback to Firefox at present that it isn't IE? It doesn't support a minority of sites that are IE-specific: by establishing Firefox as a serious competitor with a (say) 20% market share, web developers will be forced to code to the W3 standards and support Firefox. They can't just assume 99% IE and just ignore the few geeks that complain.
That improves the "compatibility" of Firefox without changing a line of code.
Why bother spending on cancer care: we could save thousands of lives in the third world with the money for one cancer ward. Why bother caring for the disabled: we could save thousands of lives in the third world with the money for one disabled access scheme. Why bother campaigning against a road through a nature reserve: we could save thousands of lives in the third world with the money.
The point is, you can reduce virtually any expenditure to "could be better spent saving lives in the third world". That doesn't mean that the other causes are any less worthwhile.
Many people believe that the current state of the web is harmful to society, and will donate money to help establish a competitor to Microsoft's domination of the market. If they want to donate money to that cause, that's their choice. They could have given the money to Oxfam, but chose not to.
OK, I skipped C out completely and went straight to C++. So my knowledge of pure C is pretty shaky. One (overly long) question:
Say (for example) I have a program that needs to access, as flat files, data stored in several different formats, each requiring different access methods. I want to minimise the amount of code, obviously. So in C++, I write:
- a File class with the common code and interface (read_data,write_data,open etc)
- derived subclasses for each type of file that actually does the reading/writing(DatbaseFile, VFSFile etc.)
- a manager class that only knows about File classes, not the subclasses
- some factory class that returns an object of the correct File subclass
That way, I keep most of the file access code generic and all the filetype specific code is in one place.
My question is: what is the equivalent of this in C? AFAIK, you'd have to either use switch statements everywhere or some kind of function pointer system. Is there a better alternative? I assume there must be, and I just don't know enough C.
The United Kingdom's ranking (28th) is largely due to the situation in Northern Ireland, where journalists are constantly threatened by paramilitary groups.
So it's not freedom from government interference, just freedom from interference in general