some of the tests the not-nearly-good one performs are not *really* pop-up tests. you would need to either disable javascript entirely and disable CSS, use custom filters in a proxy like proxomitron to disable the CSS and javascript, or be god.
the damn thing eats memory like nobody's buisiness. other than occassionally buying music through the service, i'll be damned if i use it as my every-day player when winamp takes roughly 15 megs with the same number of songs in the playlist.
beyond hardware, nearly everything else we do touches on intellectual property. discussing the legal and social state of such a thing is fairly important to anyone that develops software for a living.
not exactly true. actually, pretty far from true. life as we know it on earth does not exist on its own. life begets life, and so on - you end up with the tell-tale evidence of the existance of life: chemicals which react with eachother in abundance in the atmosphere. mars is chemically dead, meaning that all chemical reactions that could have taken place have.
uhm, i'll try to translate... you're referring to James Lovelock's work with NASA in the late 60's, early 70's and his formulation of the Gaia hypothesis, i assume. Lovelock is an atmospheric chemist whose work with NASA consisted of finding ways to detect the possibility of life on Mars from orbit. according to him, if the Viking lander had landed in the antarctic of Earth, it would have failed to detect life here as well as its failure on Mars. the Viking lander's flaw, which made it impossible for it to detect life with any sort of plausable accuracy, was that it was not equipped to do a full atmospheric analysis. luckly(?), atmospheric analysis of Mars was readily available through telescope observation, and it was and is a well known fact that Mars atmosphere is dominated by carbon dioxide and had reached relative chemical equilibrium. Earth's however, is in a constant state of disequilibrium. our atmosphere is full of gases that react violently with eachother. the key to this, Lovelock posited, is that life maintaines and continues this disequilibrium as well as requires it, life being dependant on combustion. life and planet existing in cooperation.
did i make any more sense than the anonymous coward?
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i run SMTP, and while port 80 is blocked, a web server on 81. they have no problem with this. we have no bandwidth hog charges, but if you use a ton of bandwidth over a long period of time, they will put a temporary one-week cap on your downstream. i have no upstream cap (same up speed as down). they permit me to use NAT and a firewall. the service has not gone down in over a month.
compare this to Verizon DSL i previously had: 5 (FIVE) months waiting to install, constant downtime (at least twice a week), capped upstream and serious lag.
What is the advantage for recording the text-to-speech?
they're not recording anything. they're asking you to install the text-to-speech software on your machine and have your machine read it... a feat which most modern OS's can already do out of the box.
The fact that this can happen at all is a frightening commentary on the current state of the U.S. federal government.
we can still read about it and act, so they're not quite scary yet. more just generally unnerving. now, trying to get people to actually get off their asses and doing something... that's probably in the realm of scary.
That means he's in charge of the Justice Department
no it doesn't, the Justice Department is the judicial branch.
Congress very often acts on recommendation from the President or from the Executive Branch (like the Justice Department)
see above.
the US government system is based on repetative checks and balances. a law is introduced, passed or killed by congress, signed or vetoed by the president, the veto can be reversed by congress, the signed law can be contested and removed by the justice department, congress can repeal the law.
your mouth really isn't as dirty as you'd think, saliva is actually quite antibacterial. that said, it is pretty difficult to get an infection from a tongue piercing if you take care of it. unfortunately, some people who get piercings are not willing to clean them regularly or take the necessary precautions while healing.
a tongue piercing heals much more quickly than other piercings, usually within a month, but during that time you have to rinse your mouth out with an oral antiseptic after every meal, cigarette, kissing, anything that involves mouth contact with a foreign object. after the piercing is healed, there's little chance of infection because the tongue has healed around the barbell.
that was posited by the parent post. I was replying within that logic. But do you claim they are not finite? At any given moment I would think they must be finite.
ahh, i appologise then. no, i would claim that they are only finite in a human-centric view. that the time it takes for these resources to replenish exceeds the probable lifespan of our species doesn't mean these resources are finite.
of course, that it does exceed our probable lifespan does mean we had better conserve if we don't want to cut that lifespan shorter:)
it doesn't look like they're trying to patent online discussions as a whole. the patent, if you read past the summary (i know, we have difficulty with that here) it goes into database structure and design of the software.
remember Renegade? the Telegard hack? well have a look here.
who knows how far the project will actually get, however, as it appears to be lying dead in the water right now. perhaps some exposure on/. will help it get off the ground.
i really wish mainstream news would do this as well. i'd really appreciate a "how did we get here" column every once in a while, and i'm sure it would teach a lot of people on both sides of the political line a lot.
dear 12-year-old self, know how everyone says your extremely fast metabolism will one day wear out, and how you thought they said that just cause they were jealous?
THEY'RE RIGHT, BEWARE OF CHEESESTEAKS AND COLLEGE.
taking a seat on two sides of the issue - i, a designer, and a very good friend of mine writing for WASP - i get to hear a lot of complaints from other designers about bugs in mozilla, and my friends hears from his other programmer friends about the bugs in mozilla that they've submitted to bugzilla.
complaining is cool. submitting the actually bug doesn't happen often. automated bug reports tend not to tell jack (unless of course you want to send a tidy package containing every spec of information about your machine every time there's an application level crash).
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humans are the planet's worst fear.
humans are humans' worst fear.
wouldn't happen to glow blue, would it?
some of the tests the not-nearly-good one performs are not *really* pop-up tests. you would need to either disable javascript entirely and disable CSS, use custom filters in a proxy like proxomitron to disable the CSS and javascript, or be god.
the damn thing eats memory like nobody's buisiness. other than occassionally buying music through the service, i'll be damned if i use it as my every-day player when winamp takes roughly 15 megs with the same number of songs in the playlist.
beyond hardware, nearly everything else we do touches on intellectual property. discussing the legal and social state of such a thing is fairly important to anyone that develops software for a living.
not to be a jerk, but why do we have to change their minds? personal satisfaction?
not exactly true. actually, pretty far from true. life as we know it on earth does not exist on its own. life begets life, and so on - you end up with the tell-tale evidence of the existance of life: chemicals which react with eachother in abundance in the atmosphere. mars is chemically dead, meaning that all chemical reactions that could have taken place have.
uhm, i'll try to translate... you're referring to James Lovelock's work with NASA in the late 60's, early 70's and his formulation of the Gaia hypothesis, i assume. Lovelock is an atmospheric chemist whose work with NASA consisted of finding ways to detect the possibility of life on Mars from orbit. according to him, if the Viking lander had landed in the antarctic of Earth, it would have failed to detect life here as well as its failure on Mars. the Viking lander's flaw, which made it impossible for it to detect life with any sort of plausable accuracy, was that it was not equipped to do a full atmospheric analysis. luckly(?), atmospheric analysis of Mars was readily available through telescope observation, and it was and is a well known fact that Mars atmosphere is dominated by carbon dioxide and had reached relative chemical equilibrium. Earth's however, is in a constant state of disequilibrium. our atmosphere is full of gases that react violently with eachother. the key to this, Lovelock posited, is that life maintaines and continues this disequilibrium as well as requires it, life being dependant on combustion. life and planet existing in cooperation.
did i make any more sense than the anonymous coward?
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.05 ghz of speed (like you'll notice) but gaining ram and hd space for $200 cheaper
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G4 Dual 1200Mhz 2MB cache
1024MB Memory
52x CD-RW
120GB Harddrive
Geforce4MX 32MB ADC DVI and DVI-> VGA Adapter
2 Firewire, 2 USB Ports, 10/10/1000 Ethernet, Audio in/out
Front Firewire, 2xUSB and Audio OUT
Just Add keyboard, mouse, and OS
ATA, Power Cable and Fans/Heatsink are included.
Just plug in, add keyboard/mouse, boot from OS Install CD and install your OS. No hardware Installation!
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so basically, they're making a household appliance.
he's charging artists to list their merch there. i assume this is how he plans to run the site.
i run SMTP, and while port 80 is blocked, a web server on 81. they have no problem with this. we have no bandwidth hog charges, but if you use a ton of bandwidth over a long period of time, they will put a temporary one-week cap on your downstream. i have no upstream cap (same up speed as down). they permit me to use NAT and a firewall. the service has not gone down in over a month.
compare this to Verizon DSL i previously had: 5 (FIVE) months waiting to install, constant downtime (at least twice a week), capped upstream and serious lag.
thought you might be interested.
What is the advantage for recording the text-to-speech?
they're not recording anything. they're asking you to install the text-to-speech software on your machine and have your machine read it... a feat which most modern OS's can already do out of the box.
The fact that this can happen at all is a frightening commentary on the current state of the U.S. federal government.
we can still read about it and act, so they're not quite scary yet. more just generally unnerving. now, trying to get people to actually get off their asses and doing something... that's probably in the realm of scary.
That means he's in charge of the Justice Department
no it doesn't, the Justice Department is the judicial branch.
Congress very often acts on recommendation from the President or from the Executive Branch (like the Justice Department)
see above.
the US government system is based on repetative checks and balances. a law is introduced, passed or killed by congress, signed or vetoed by the president, the veto can be reversed by congress, the signed law can be contested and removed by the justice department, congress can repeal the law.
your mouth really isn't as dirty as you'd think, saliva is actually quite antibacterial. that said, it is pretty difficult to get an infection from a tongue piercing if you take care of it. unfortunately, some people who get piercings are not willing to clean them regularly or take the necessary precautions while healing.
a tongue piercing heals much more quickly than other piercings, usually within a month, but during that time you have to rinse your mouth out with an oral antiseptic after every meal, cigarette, kissing, anything that involves mouth contact with a foreign object. after the piercing is healed, there's little chance of infection because the tongue has healed around the barbell.
here's a tough one - april fools, or sad reality of slashdot?
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that was posited by the parent post. I was replying within that logic.
:)
But do you claim they are not finite? At any given moment I would think they must be finite.
ahh, i appologise then. no, i would claim that they are only finite in a human-centric view. that the time it takes for these resources to replenish exceeds the probable lifespan of our species doesn't mean these resources are finite.
of course, that it does exceed our probable lifespan does mean we had better conserve if we don't want to cut that lifespan shorter
you claim other people are short-sighted, yet you've confined the earth's reasources to a very short-sighted scale by claiming they're finite.
it doesn't look like they're trying to patent online discussions as a whole. the patent, if you read past the summary (i know, we have difficulty with that here) it goes into database structure and design of the software.
remember Renegade? the Telegard hack? well have a look here.
/. will help it get off the ground.
who knows how far the project will actually get, however, as it appears to be lying dead in the water right now. perhaps some exposure on
i really wish mainstream news would do this as well. i'd really appreciate a "how did we get here" column every once in a while, and i'm sure it would teach a lot of people on both sides of the political line a lot.
dear 12-year-old self, know how everyone says your extremely fast metabolism will one day wear out, and how you thought they said that just cause they were jealous?
THEY'RE RIGHT, BEWARE OF CHEESESTEAKS AND COLLEGE.
what constitutes your own network?
taking a seat on two sides of the issue - i, a designer, and a very good friend of mine writing for WASP - i get to hear a lot of complaints from other designers about bugs in mozilla, and my friends hears from his other programmer friends about the bugs in mozilla that they've submitted to bugzilla.
complaining is cool. submitting the actually bug doesn't happen often. automated bug reports tend not to tell jack (unless of course you want to send a tidy package containing every spec of information about your machine every time there's an application level crash).