just a bit on your sig, calling slashdot a tabloid is like calling the weekly world news a news paper. slashdot is more like a knitting circle, the hub of town gossip.. truly a tier or two below a tabloid..
There are many robots programmed to slaughter millions, they are known as ICBMs.
were formerly programed to slaughter millions. they've all been repointed to the 'oceans.' The time it would take to revert them all to there original targets? 10 seconds...
But in one were accidently fired off millions of people would not be killed, just a few thousand fish would be flash broiled... and ready for glow in the dark dipping. thankfully water is a radiation shield.
I pay for my music because I think it is right and proper to recompense my favorite musicians for producing music
Well, since the music is Owned by the RIAA and legally can't be owned by the performing artist, or the song writer (they produced under 'contract' and thus all rights belong to the RIAA) all the money is going to the RIAA, the only money the artists get is dictated by the terms of there contracts, same with the song writers. that's why the average musician makes half the salary of a McDonalds worker.
By paying for music you are not supporting the performing artist. only a very few artists (garth brooks comes to mind) have ahd the cunning and popularity to demand an Actual Percentage of sales.
This is a simple fact, in the united states, it is Illegal for anyone who has signed a contract with Any major industry label to Ever write or own any music, because the terms of there contracts are similare to the 'patent' clause in working for IBM, anything you patent while working for IBM is owned by IBM, not you, only with recording labels the contracts are wtitten so convoluted that IT DOSEN'T matter if you're working for them or not. If you WRITE a SONG 10 Years later ON YOUR OWN IT BERLONGS TO THE RIAA Andy you ARE VIOLATING YOUR CONTRACT and can be PUT IN JAIL.
So there you go, if you have ever worked in the music industry in any facet, the ONLY way to own copyrights on your OWN music is to hire a lawyers and get your contract nullified. somthing that depending on the contract complexity might require an extremely high priced lawyer to manage. so don't be a fool, not even a penny of that dollar goes to supporting artists. performing artists are contract workers, they made a decision to be slaves to 'the man' to gain popularity. and the reason why the recording industry has pure crap for music is that PEOPLE REALIZED HOW FUCKING BIG A MISTAKE IT IS TO SING THOSE CONTRACTS. and started using the internet to promote themselves, and MAKE there OWN recording labels That Don't act like COMPLETE ASSES and ASSUME they have all right to all music ever recorded, for all eternity.
The reason for piracy isn't about the money, It's about the fact that the RIAA are SCUM BAGS, and they've positioned themselves to HAVE ALL RIGHTS STRIPPED FROM ALL WOULD BE ARTISTS AND WRITERS. Don't forget it man, never forget it man the RIAA p0wned j00 when they 'suckered' you into believeing you were supporting an 'artist' by buying music.
Mines are defined as 'concealed' devices All you need to do it paint the robots a nice bright neon color and you can programe it to kill exclusively humans without violating the ottowa treaty.
Further more Mixed Devices are perfectly legal, All you do is Arm the Robot with an RPG and program it to blow up tanks and humvees. then it can also be programmed to slaughter milions of innocent souls and not be in violation of the ottowa treaty even if it's got a digital invisibility cloak*
remember the first rule. Never trust wiki.
*= a fancy device designed to take pictures of the environment around it, and make a 'camoflauge' image around the person, machine etc. using various existing technology. it's actually quite priimative, and guille suits are prefered, as they work better at close range, and at night.. seriously, the millitary has tried (and failed) to make a useful digital invisibility cloak. ideally it would use some kind of image display that worked in day tiem or night time, could match both thermal as well as visual image, and ideally you wouldn't know they were there til you ran into the device. fortunately the devices they built only worked at >= 100 yards away and only in daylight. we just don't have that kind of thermal and visual display technology to match at that high a resolution. and luckily the romulans wouldn't give us there version of the technology that was based on highly modified force shield technology**, to bend the light around the object.
**= luckily our own force shield technology is entirely based on rubbing two very large pieces of plastic together to generate a solid wall of ionized air.. rather than than some artificially created wall of ionically charged particles thyat can be manipulated by a device.
If it's remote controlled, it's not autonomous - and wouldn't really qualify as a robot. Just as a real expensive gunsight.
Some clarification is clearly needed. first off we need to understand the root of the word.
Automatons are mechanical devices or robots designed to follow pre-programed instructions.
Robots are mechanical devices or programs designed to perform a task normally done by a human. There is no implication of autonamy in robotics. Robotic arms have been following simple automaton style press button execute program y logic for Decades now. however the program can well be autonmous. but it is not a requirement.
Androids are robots that have been Designed specifically to resemble a human, while performing tasks conventionally performed by humans.
An automobile is an automaton. press gas == go, press brake == stop, turn wheel == steer. I say it is an automaton because the task it performs is normally done by equines. However, a vehicle which has autonomous programming to 'drive' itself becoms a robot. Even if the 'device' that drives the car is a pair of electronically controlled hydraulics controlled by a small 'box' with an electronic brain followiong simple pre-programmed algoyrthms. (AI is not autonmous, as it is not a 'thinking' or self-programming machine current AI is at conventional Robot level, not fully autonmous)
so you see, even if the device has a 'robot' that takes visual input, and decides to fire based on that data, and decides where to go based on paramters it had been pre-programmed with, ie: fully AI controlled, it is not truly an autonmous machine until it can stop and decide to 'rewrite' it's internal programming to say, turn around and shoot all the people it was programmed to protect. Frankly, Nobody wants an autonmous war bot. AI programming to make it easier to 'remote' control is fine. since that programming does not 'rewrite' itself as long as you design and test it properly there should be no issues.
sexiest browser = fourm about opera sexiest internet browser = an aol music store sexiest web browser = article about cell phones sexiest webbrowser = a 'men's' magazine website
so i guess the sexiest web browser is one that is reccomended my a mens magazine runs opera is a cell phone and has an aol music store built in;)
have completed a college education and an entire generation of video game consoles have passed in the time that Perl 6 has been coming "Real Soon Now".
C'mon Everyone Knows that he's waiting for Duke Nukem Forever to release perl 6!
I was going to mention that Goggle is already in the business of producing TV but you had beat me to it;)
Google Current TV is pretty interesting, they pay people up to $1000 a showing (I think) for a 7 minute clip (in a 'prime time' slot) users not only submit clips, they also Vote on which clips to air on the network. Not bad, you produce an interesting clip, submit it through the currenttv site, and it's actually better than the other stuff other people are putting on there and you can get it voted on air sveral times and make some pretty good money.
My biggest issue with current tv is that because of the 7 minute pod format, and because many of them are produced in house several of them wind up being 7 minute in house commercials. but it's still pretty neat, even if they slip in a few 'advertisement' pods.
For that solution I'd recommend going with the semptron getting a barton core athlon XP would have a slight edge in performance, but for a DVR the semptron should be plenty fast, and can be had real cheap:) 512M ram, a 300-320 gig HD, and a DVD-burner and you've got a pretty nice PVR, throw a PSX style controller USB device and you've got a kick ass emulator station too;) and the total hardware costs should be right around $500.
but really many slashdotters will have a Pc of that generation lying around. all you need is the capture card, and a big HD...
I can gve you the exact reported ram usage straight from windows task manager if you like;) 28,416K currently firefox v 1.0.6
now, i can remember firefox v 1.0.1x or so going above 90MB but I've never seen firefox 1.0.6 use more than 90 MB. sorry i didn't clarify that i was using the latest available version 1.0.6... and generally when i have 20+ tabs about 15 of them are slashdot related, with the rest google related. and one for the e-mail
Bare firefox blows, it's still slower than opera and doesn't have a tenth of Opera's features.
Not having features IS a feature. A feature i cherish and love. YMMY, but the 'slower than Opera' is Pure FUD when running on a modern system*. my computer is 4 years old (custom gaming rig;) and firefox and opera load pages just as fast, and work just as good for what i use them for.
Opera is still a great browser, and firefox extentions are still cool, but there is room on the internet for both of them.
*= 2 GHz (PR or 'actual' clock) or faster, 512MB ram or better, 7200 RPM drive or faster.
just a few small corrections here. your first point is right on the money, ~5 MB (opera) to ~15 MB (firefox)
point 2. Does not compute. Even after 3 days of reading slashdot the most I've ever gotten firefox* up to is about 90MB with 2 windows and 24 tabs open. Also, on a 'fresh' load of the identical 'saved in tabs' bookmarks firefox uses 12MB less RAM than opera. albeit opera is better at prolonged usage in terms of ram, since it rarely if ever goes past 50MB, while firefox can easily go to 60-90 MB
point 3 Dubious claims... considering the entire interface of firefox is rendered by the gecko engine using java etc... perhaps on a slow computer, with low ram you could mamage to get 15x faster perfomance out of opera than out of gecko/firefox... but on the typical PC being sold in stores today the margin is going to be quite slim, between the two engines.
Since opera started getting better about standards compliance, yes they're now about comperable. for a good while firefox was in the lead, but this is the kind of thing that can change as often as someone ratifies a new 'standard' at the w3c;)
*= i run firefox pretty well from a 'stock' configuration, no plugins, no extentions, just a browser. claiming that firefox 'easily consumes 200MB' is quite misleading, as only a firefox bloated down with dozens of 'feature extending' extenions will consume that much ram. hardly fair to blame the browser for the extentions bloated RAM use.
Much of who you are, and what you like, what you'll be good at, and what you'll become, is hardwired at birth.
I'm one of those weird intellectuals who is both reasonably intelligent (at least, I'd like to think so) and has a good-sized family. (5 children) The truth is that I could see who and what my kids were likely to become at a very early age - by the age of 6-8 or so.
age 6-8 isn't 'at birth' you've just contradicted yourself. I personally have memories to when i was 3 yrs and under, and frankly my development was greatly altered by my parents. not for the better, either.
It's not training or parenting styles - it's the simple and true fact that genetics does account for a large percentage of what you are and who you'll most likely be. There's definitely a cultural and educational component - but basic personality is quite significant, too.
personality is not dictated by genetics. The entire human genome has been mapped, and there is no indication of personality traits being anywhere in there. the standard deviation is incredibly miniscule. I'm sorry but 'unique' personality is NOT part of your genetic code, it's part of the software that runs you. Fortunately, the human psyche is Designed from the ground up to deal with stress and trauma, and that part is indeed 'hard wired' but virtually everyone has the same code design. so what you're saying about bad parenting not dooming kids is in fact true, but has nothing to do with genetics as you've implied.
think about it, the difference in your genentic make up and the makup of michael jordan's is less than 1%, and the entire data set is only about 750 MB of data. between your 'individual children' the difference in genetic data is less than 0.01% yet you know they're all Vastly different! how is this 'possible' if they're all 'hardwired at birth' I tell you it is the software, the problem is the software is 'self writing' and is a complex self writing algorythm that operated under an uncertainty prinicipal which can most easily be explained by chaos theory.
two lobes of brain matter, and one data set (the world around us) even though the data set can be predictable, the effects are made chaotic and unpredictable becasue of the effects of the two lobes on each other.
Believe you me, I have worked around and with pretty much completely stupid people, and the fact is they've programmed themselves to be stupid. sure, most of that programming was well in place by age 6, but ultimately that programming did not come from genetics, but rather from mostly random environmental influences..
(have you *ever* seen a bad review in PCMag/PCWorld?)
Of course, when company X pays Y dollars to be reviewed, and comapany B pays y + c dollars to have company X's product bashed into the ground as a POS not worth buying.
duh.
just because a site has info bashing company x or product z doesn't mean they weren't PAID to bash it. what we want isn't positive or negative reviews, but rather unbiased reviews of products. it's hard to be unbiased when you're getting paid tons of money from advertisers, or when companies try to 'dilute' the value of your work by selectively misqoting you.
That's why the CU goes out and sues companies who try and use CR ratings as 'promotional' material to try and 'influence' consumers spending.
your elitism towards superior intellect is over-rated. as dumb as 'sheeple' seem it's not that they don't have the capacity to think and learn it's simply that they've turned it off in software mode.
yeah, the human brains of your typical genius and your average sheeple aren't actually all that different. in fact with the exception of those who've used alchohol and drugs to damage there brains they're usualy identical. so what is the difference? it's the software. The intelectually superior have through trials and tribulations sought to learn vastly more than the typical person cares to. frankly, the primary problem then is not who's reprodicing (as you would suggest) but rather the quality of upbringing and education of the children that is making a difference.
It is true some people have genetic flaws that ihibit normal brain function and require single minded focus on specific problems, but frankly if those proeple are not reproducing like jackrabbits in heat then the human geneome is doing just fine.
oh and BTW when civilization breaks down, those billions will be eating each others corpses, and those who have the ability to hide themselves the best, sneak about the best, and make sure the people they eat aren't contaminated the best will be the ones who run the world. a pretty high standard, when the end of civilization comes the truly stupid will be the first to die.
remeber without oil and coal and phosphate based fertilizers and genetically alterted plants, and refrigeration and electric cooking etc etc this planet will have a damn hard time supporting 60 million people, much less the 6 billion who are supported by it now.
Now that's slashdot for you;) someone posts a claim that hello world is 18 MB compressed in ASP.NET, and someone finds out it's 3072 bytes. complete with shebang it's 28 bytes for my program 'hw' which consists of "#!/bin/sh echo hello world!" but I hear what he's saying about 'compression bloat' with tar bz2 compression hw becomes 154 bytes
right now the 'goal' of desktop linux is to Keep it simple. just have a nice, easy secure desktop does what your average user needs. easy to connect to the internet, easy to read mail on, etc.. windows is trying to 'draw' users in with it's glitz, while also supporting nearly every piece of hardware on the planet (no matter how crappy the support for the hardware is)
Linux desktop projects aren't meant to be 'windows killers' per say, but rather a nice sane easy to use desktop. something you can set grandma up with and not worry about anything. they're also meant to enable the extremely poor to afford reliable computers, hardware that's very basic & relatively slow, something where the 'free' price tag of linux makes perfect sense.
So linux desktop isn't going in the 'direction' of a windows killer, but rather, as the os of the poor masses who want a $50 PC that just has basic web access and e-mail capabilities, some 'free' games are a bonus.
so, secunia comes up with a nice clean layout of the data that was relevent... I don't see what the AC's gripe over using secunia is other than the fact that it's a company that makes it's living off selling a 'solution' for security problems.
ahh a quick google proves me wrong;) it was a 7-eleven marketing idea to 'change' the name. the slurpee name is 38 years old, but 40 years ago 7-eleven started selling icee frozen drinks because a store manager saw them selling in a competitors store.
"In the Fall of 1965, 7-Eleven purchased three machines to test the product in their stores. They were an immediate success, and by the Spring of 1967, the machines were in almost every 7-Eleven® store.
I would guess the missing 2 years == the time it took Icee's lawyers to sue 7-11 for a cash settlment for 'stealing' it's patented method for creating a frozen beverage. icee probably wanted too much money, 7-11 wasn't willing to pay for 'the icee name' and began selling under the slurpee brand, and 2 years latter they 'paid' a settlement to icee. either, that or wiki or this article are wrong. 7-eleven.com is making no big fuss over the slurpee being 40, so perhaps it is as wikipidia is suggesting only 38 years old?
Google earth is slightly higher resolution for me... but it lets you zoom in so much farther than google maps so i can see why you'd think the images were blurrier;) find a city with cars, and make the cars the Exact same size in google earth as on google maps. google earth should come out a hair sharper. the image data is the same, but google maps just gives you an image while google earth can perform processing effects on the image. It's also possible that your graphic card is buggy, and not rendering the image the way google earth told it to.
Just by adding a second account in the control panel, and changing the (default) administrator account to have a relatively secure password.
Since when does having windows XP Home edition prevent you from adding multiple users, some of them restricted users who can't install software? is it because you only know how to use XP pro's tools to manage security? you don't know how to lock down IE with the help of a few simple freeware utilities you can download off the internet;)
I don't get it:) why do small businesses need to buy XP pro when XP home has enough of the features to do everything that is 'easier' to do in XP Pro?
If I'm missing some big reason please tell me, other than XP pro costs at least $120 more (oem pricing) why someone needs to run Pro to do something i did on XP home just last weekend...
Slashdot Mirror
just a bit on your sig, calling slashdot a tabloid is like calling the weekly world news a news paper. slashdot is more like a knitting circle, the hub of town gossip.. truly a tier or two below a tabloid..
There are many robots programmed to slaughter millions, they are known as ICBMs.
were formerly programed to slaughter millions. they've all been repointed to the 'oceans.' The time it would take to revert them all to there original targets? 10 seconds...
But in one were accidently fired off millions of people would not be killed, just a few thousand fish would be flash broiled... and ready for glow in the dark dipping. thankfully water is a radiation shield.
I pay for my music because I think it is right and proper to recompense my favorite musicians for producing music
Well, since the music is Owned by the RIAA and legally can't be owned by the performing artist, or the song writer (they produced under 'contract' and thus all rights belong to the RIAA) all the money is going to the RIAA, the only money the artists get is dictated by the terms of there contracts, same with the song writers. that's why the average musician makes half the salary of a McDonalds worker.
By paying for music you are not supporting the performing artist. only a very few artists (garth brooks comes to mind) have ahd the cunning and popularity to demand an Actual Percentage of sales.
This is a simple fact, in the united states, it is Illegal for anyone who has signed a contract with Any major industry label to Ever write or own any music, because the terms of there contracts are similare to the 'patent' clause in working for IBM, anything you patent while working for IBM is owned by IBM, not you, only with recording labels the contracts are wtitten so convoluted that IT DOSEN'T matter if you're working for them or not. If you WRITE a SONG 10 Years later ON YOUR OWN IT BERLONGS TO THE RIAA Andy you ARE VIOLATING YOUR CONTRACT and can be PUT IN JAIL.
So there you go, if you have ever worked in the music industry in any facet, the ONLY way to own copyrights on your OWN music is to hire a lawyers and get your contract nullified. somthing that depending on the contract complexity might require an extremely high priced lawyer to manage. so don't be a fool, not even a penny of that dollar goes to supporting artists. performing artists are contract workers, they made a decision to be slaves to 'the man' to gain popularity. and the reason why the recording industry has pure crap for music is that PEOPLE REALIZED HOW FUCKING BIG A MISTAKE IT IS TO SING THOSE CONTRACTS. and started using the internet to promote themselves, and MAKE there OWN recording labels That Don't act like COMPLETE ASSES and ASSUME they have all right to all music ever recorded, for all eternity.
The reason for piracy isn't about the money, It's about the fact that the RIAA are SCUM BAGS, and they've positioned themselves to HAVE ALL RIGHTS STRIPPED FROM ALL WOULD BE ARTISTS AND WRITERS. Don't forget it man, never forget it man the RIAA p0wned j00 when they 'suckered' you into believeing you were supporting an 'artist' by buying music.
Note that the Ottawa Treaty of 1999 forbids the production of armed autonomous robots
um no it doesn't http://www.icbl.org/treaty/text
Mines are defined as 'concealed' devices All you need to do it paint the robots a nice bright neon color and you can programe it to kill exclusively humans without violating the ottowa treaty.
Further more Mixed Devices are perfectly legal, All you do is Arm the Robot with an RPG and program it to blow up tanks and humvees. then it can also be programmed to slaughter milions of innocent souls and not be in violation of the ottowa treaty even if it's got a digital invisibility cloak*
remember the first rule. Never trust wiki.
*= a fancy device designed to take pictures of the environment around it, and make a 'camoflauge' image around the person, machine etc. using various existing technology. it's actually quite priimative, and guille suits are prefered, as they work better at close range, and at night.. seriously, the millitary has tried (and failed) to make a useful digital invisibility cloak. ideally it would use some kind of image display that worked in day tiem or night time, could match both thermal as well as visual image, and ideally you wouldn't know they were there til you ran into the device. fortunately the devices they built only worked at >= 100 yards away and only in daylight. we just don't have that kind of thermal and visual display technology to match at that high a resolution. and luckily the romulans wouldn't give us there version of the technology that was based on highly modified force shield technology**, to bend the light around the object.
**= luckily our own force shield technology is entirely based on rubbing two very large pieces of plastic together to generate a solid wall of ionized air.. rather than than some artificially created wall of ionically charged particles thyat can be manipulated by a device.
If it's remote controlled, it's not autonomous - and wouldn't really qualify as a robot. Just as a real expensive gunsight.
Some clarification is clearly needed. first off we need to understand the root of the word.
Automatons are mechanical devices or robots designed to follow pre-programed instructions.
Robots are mechanical devices or programs designed to perform a task normally done by a human. There is no implication of autonamy in robotics. Robotic arms have been following simple automaton style press button execute program y logic for Decades now. however the program can well be autonmous. but it is not a requirement.
Androids are robots that have been Designed specifically to resemble a human, while performing tasks conventionally performed by humans.
An automobile is an automaton. press gas == go, press brake == stop, turn wheel == steer. I say it is an automaton because the task it performs is normally done by equines. However, a vehicle which has autonomous programming to 'drive' itself becoms a robot. Even if the 'device' that drives the car is a pair of electronically controlled hydraulics controlled by a small 'box' with an electronic brain followiong simple pre-programmed algoyrthms. (AI is not autonmous, as it is not a 'thinking' or self-programming machine current AI is at conventional Robot level, not fully autonmous)
so you see, even if the device has a 'robot' that takes visual input, and decides to fire based on that data, and decides where to go based on paramters it had been pre-programmed with, ie: fully AI controlled, it is not truly an autonmous machine until it can stop and decide to 'rewrite' it's internal programming to say, turn around and shoot all the people it was programmed to protect. Frankly, Nobody wants an autonmous war bot. AI programming to make it easier to 'remote' control is fine. since that programming does not 'rewrite' itself as long as you design and test it properly there should be no issues.
sexiest browser = fourm about opera
;)
sexiest internet browser = an aol music store
sexiest web browser = article about cell phones
sexiest webbrowser = a 'men's' magazine website
so i guess the sexiest web browser is one that is reccomended my a mens magazine runs opera is a cell phone and has an aol music store built in
the alternate method is the only useful one, as you check all the messages you want to delete, then do the other two steps.
who deletes e-mails ONE At a time? that would be painful.
I thought silicone censors had been banned, in favor of sodium-chloride-dihyrdo-oxide based censors.
have completed a college education and an entire generation of video game consoles have passed in the time that Perl 6 has been coming "Real Soon Now".
C'mon Everyone Knows that he's waiting for Duke Nukem Forever to release perl 6!
I was going to mention that Goggle is already in the business of producing TV but you had beat me to it ;)
Google Current TV is pretty interesting, they pay people up to $1000 a showing (I think) for a 7 minute clip (in a 'prime time' slot) users not only submit clips, they also Vote on which clips to air on the network. Not bad, you produce an interesting clip, submit it through the currenttv site, and it's actually better than the other stuff other people are putting on there and you can get it voted on air sveral times and make some pretty good money.
My biggest issue with current tv is that because of the 7 minute pod format, and because many of them are produced in house several of them wind up being 7 minute in house commercials. but it's still pretty neat, even if they slip in a few 'advertisement' pods.
For that solution I'd recommend going with the semptron getting a barton core athlon XP would have a slight edge in performance, but for a DVR the semptron should be plenty fast, and can be had real cheap :) 512M ram, a 300-320 gig HD, and a DVD-burner and you've got a pretty nice PVR, throw a PSX style controller USB device and you've got a kick ass emulator station too ;) and the total hardware costs should be right around $500.
but really many slashdotters will have a Pc of that generation lying around. all you need is the capture card, and a big HD...
I can gve you the exact reported ram usage straight from windows task manager if you like ;) 28,416K currently firefox v 1.0.6
now, i can remember firefox v 1.0.1x or so going above 90MB but I've never seen firefox 1.0.6 use more than 90 MB. sorry i didn't clarify that i was using the latest available version 1.0.6... and generally when i have 20+ tabs about 15 of them are slashdot related, with the rest google related. and one for the e-mail
Bare firefox blows, it's still slower than opera and doesn't have a tenth of Opera's features.
;) and firefox and opera load pages just as fast, and work just as good for what i use them for.
Not having features IS a feature. A feature i cherish and love. YMMY, but the 'slower than Opera' is Pure FUD when running on a modern system*. my computer is 4 years old (custom gaming rig
Opera is still a great browser, and firefox extentions are still cool, but there is room on the internet for both of them.
*= 2 GHz (PR or 'actual' clock) or faster, 512MB ram or better, 7200 RPM drive or faster.
just a few small corrections here.
;)
your first point is right on the money, ~5 MB (opera) to ~15 MB (firefox)
point 2. Does not compute.
Even after 3 days of reading slashdot the most I've ever gotten firefox* up to is about 90MB with 2 windows and 24 tabs open. Also, on a 'fresh' load of the identical 'saved in tabs' bookmarks firefox uses 12MB less RAM than opera. albeit opera is better at prolonged usage in terms of ram, since it rarely if ever goes past 50MB, while firefox can easily go to 60-90 MB
point 3 Dubious claims... considering the entire interface of firefox is rendered by the gecko engine using java etc... perhaps on a slow computer, with low ram you could mamage to get 15x faster perfomance out of opera than out of gecko/firefox... but on the typical PC being sold in stores today the margin is going to be quite slim, between the two engines.
Since opera started getting better about standards compliance, yes they're now about comperable. for a good while firefox was in the lead, but this is the kind of thing that can change as often as someone ratifies a new 'standard' at the w3c
*= i run firefox pretty well from a 'stock' configuration, no plugins, no extentions, just a browser. claiming that firefox 'easily consumes 200MB' is quite misleading, as only a firefox bloated down with dozens of 'feature extending' extenions will consume that much ram. hardly fair to blame the browser for the extentions bloated RAM use.
Much of who you are, and what you like, what you'll be good at, and what you'll become, is hardwired at birth.
I'm one of those weird intellectuals who is both reasonably intelligent (at least, I'd like to think so) and has a good-sized family. (5 children) The truth is that I could see who and what my kids were likely to become at a very early age - by the age of 6-8 or so.
age 6-8 isn't 'at birth' you've just contradicted yourself. I personally have memories to when i was 3 yrs and under, and frankly my development was greatly altered by my parents. not for the better, either.
It's not training or parenting styles - it's the simple and true fact that genetics does account for a large percentage of what you are and who you'll most likely be. There's definitely a cultural and educational component - but basic personality is quite significant, too.
personality is not dictated by genetics. The entire human genome has been mapped, and there is no indication of personality traits being anywhere in there. the standard deviation is incredibly miniscule. I'm sorry but 'unique' personality is NOT part of your genetic code, it's part of the software that runs you. Fortunately, the human psyche is Designed from the ground up to deal with stress and trauma, and that part is indeed 'hard wired' but virtually everyone has the same code design. so what you're saying about bad parenting not dooming kids is in fact true, but has nothing to do with genetics as you've implied.
think about it, the difference in your genentic make up and the makup of michael jordan's is less than 1%, and the entire data set is only about 750 MB of data. between your 'individual children' the difference in genetic data is less than 0.01% yet you know they're all Vastly different! how is this 'possible' if they're all 'hardwired at birth' I tell you it is the software, the problem is the software is 'self writing' and is a complex self writing algorythm that operated under an uncertainty prinicipal which can most easily be explained by chaos theory.
two lobes of brain matter, and one data set (the world around us) even though the data set can be predictable, the effects are made chaotic and unpredictable becasue of the effects of the two lobes on each other.
Believe you me, I have worked around and with pretty much completely stupid people, and the fact is they've programmed themselves to be stupid. sure, most of that programming was well in place by age 6, but ultimately that programming did not come from genetics, but rather from mostly random environmental influences..
(have you *ever* seen a bad review in PCMag/PCWorld?)
Of course, when company X pays Y dollars to be reviewed, and comapany B pays y + c dollars to have company X's product bashed into the ground as a POS not worth buying.
duh.
just because a site has info bashing company x or product z doesn't mean they weren't PAID to bash it. what we want isn't positive or negative reviews, but rather unbiased reviews of products. it's hard to be unbiased when you're getting paid tons of money from advertisers, or when companies try to 'dilute' the value of your work by selectively misqoting you.
That's why the CU goes out and sues companies who try and use CR ratings as 'promotional' material to try and 'influence' consumers spending.
I prefer this method of security http://www.uoe.dk/csworld/security-.html
your elitism towards superior intellect is over-rated. as dumb as 'sheeple' seem it's not that they don't have the capacity to think and learn it's simply that they've turned it off in software mode.
yeah, the human brains of your typical genius and your average sheeple aren't actually all that different. in fact with the exception of those who've used alchohol and drugs to damage there brains they're usualy identical. so what is the difference? it's the software. The intelectually superior have through trials and tribulations sought to learn vastly more than the typical person cares to. frankly, the primary problem then is not who's reprodicing (as you would suggest) but rather the quality of upbringing and education of the children that is making a difference.
It is true some people have genetic flaws that ihibit normal brain function and require single minded focus on specific problems, but frankly if those proeple are not reproducing like jackrabbits in heat then the human geneome is doing just fine.
oh and BTW when civilization breaks down, those billions will be eating each others corpses, and those who have the ability to hide themselves the best, sneak about the best, and make sure the people they eat aren't contaminated the best will be the ones who run the world. a pretty high standard, when the end of civilization comes the truly stupid will be the first to die.
remeber without oil and coal and phosphate based fertilizers and genetically alterted plants, and refrigeration and electric cooking etc etc this planet will have a damn hard time supporting 60 million people, much less the 6 billion who are supported by it now.
Now that's slashdot for you ;) someone posts a claim that hello world is 18 MB compressed in ASP.NET, and someone finds out it's 3072 bytes. complete with shebang it's 28 bytes for my program 'hw' which consists of "#!/bin/sh
echo hello world!"
but I hear what he's saying about 'compression bloat' with tar bz2 compression hw becomes 154 bytes
right now the 'goal' of desktop linux is to Keep it simple. just have a nice, easy secure desktop does what your average user needs. easy to connect to the internet, easy to read mail on, etc.. windows is trying to 'draw' users in with it's glitz, while also supporting nearly every piece of hardware on the planet (no matter how crappy the support for the hardware is)
Linux desktop projects aren't meant to be 'windows killers' per say, but rather a nice sane easy to use desktop. something you can set grandma up with and not worry about anything. they're also meant to enable the extremely poor to afford reliable computers, hardware that's very basic & relatively slow, something where the 'free' price tag of linux makes perfect sense.
So linux desktop isn't going in the 'direction' of a windows killer, but rather, as the os of the poor masses who want a $50 PC that just has basic web access and e-mail capabilities, some 'free' games are a bonus.
there are other sources, SANS, cert, securityfocus, etc... but I like how secunia ogranizes the data they collect. they have nice easy to edit urls, too. cert's url is insanely long, with numerous 'obscure' variables http://search.cert.org/query.html?rq=0&ht=0&qp=&qs =&qc=&pw=100%25&ws=1&la=&qm=0&st=1&nh=25&lk=1&rf=2 &oq=&rq=0&si=1&qt=activex&col=certadv&x=0&y=0b m=archive%2F1%2F&submit=Search!&metaname=alldoc&so rt=swishrank
Sans's is just a google interface...
security focus comes up with a lot more stuff including multiple pages of commentary on the same bug etc..
http://securityfocus.com/swsearch?query=activex&s
so, secunia comes up with a nice clean layout of the data that was relevent... I don't see what the AC's gripe over using secunia is other than the fact that it's a company that makes it's living off selling a 'solution' for security problems.
ahh a quick google proves me wrong ;) it was a 7-eleven marketing idea to 'change' the name. the slurpee name is 38 years old, but 40 years ago 7-eleven started selling icee frozen drinks because a store manager saw them selling in a competitors store.
"In the Fall of 1965, 7-Eleven purchased three machines to test the product in their stores. They were an immediate success, and by the Spring of 1967, the machines were in almost every 7-Eleven® store.
The Slurpee mark was created in May 1967 during a brainstorming session at 7-Eleven's in-house ad agency." -- http://www.slurpee.com/story_history.html
I would guess the missing 2 years == the time it took Icee's lawyers to sue 7-11 for a cash settlment for 'stealing' it's patented method for creating a frozen beverage. icee probably wanted too much money, 7-11 wasn't willing to pay for 'the icee name' and began selling under the slurpee brand, and 2 years latter they 'paid' a settlement to icee. either, that or wiki or this article are wrong. 7-eleven.com is making no big fuss over the slurpee being 40, so perhaps it is as wikipidia is suggesting only 38 years old?
Google earth is slightly higher resolution for me... but it lets you zoom in so much farther than google maps so i can see why you'd think the images were blurrier ;) find a city with cars, and make the cars the Exact same size in google earth as on google maps. google earth should come out a hair sharper. the image data is the same, but google maps just gives you an image while google earth can perform processing effects on the image. It's also possible that your graphic card is buggy, and not rendering the image the way google earth told it to.
Just by adding a second account in the control panel, and changing the (default) administrator account to have a relatively secure password.
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:) why do small businesses need to buy XP pro when XP home has enough of the features to do everything that is 'easier' to do in XP Pro?
Since when does having windows XP Home edition prevent you from adding multiple users, some of them restricted users who can't install software? is it because you only know how to use XP pro's tools to manage security? you don't know how to lock down IE with the help of a few simple freeware utilities you can download off the internet
I don't get it
If I'm missing some big reason please tell me, other than XP pro costs at least $120 more (oem pricing) why someone needs to run Pro to do something i did on XP home just last weekend...