Most Flash sites I use tend to be fixed at certain resolutions. Since the screens I use vary from an 1024x768 to a 1600x1200, this really doesn't work very well.
For example, those of you with large screens and Flash might take a look at Jaguar's X-Type site. See that tiny square somewhere in your screen? That's the best use that site will ever make of your screen real estate...
That thread is based on the emperical experience of thousands of mail admins throughout the world...all they have to do is administer their mail servers competently and close down their open relays.
Excellent example of the insidious nature I mentioned. This topic isn't even about open relays - it's about a mailing loop. Read the rest of the replies and you find most examples of these have been Western. Yet this simple, newbie slip-up is used as a yet more proof that the whole of Asia should be firewalled.
Is it really time to consider the firewalling of certain asian email...
Right, well I've been to Singapore and I have to tell you that its IT and communications are in a very good state. In fact, I'm rather hoping someone actually from Singapore will chip in here
Singapore was the first place I saw ADSL in. It has a row of internet 'phone' booths on its most popular shopping street (Orchard Road). In my hotel, 24 internet access was available for a ridiculously low fee (12 SGD I think). It was cheaper for me to phone the UK from my my hotel than it was for a person in the UK to phone me. Cheaper from a hotel phone.
There seems to be some insidious 'oh, it's those clueless Asians' thread running through so many Slashdot posts recently that I think it's time the balance was addressed. The US's mobile phone system, for example, is an utter shambles compared to the Asian systems. I was reading on a UK's paper site that BT was planning to roll out the world's first internet booths - I was reading it from an internet booth in Singapore.
I can assure everyone that the people I worked with in Singapore were quite bright enough to run systems properly, and every bit as interested as their Western equivalents in doing so.
If you have a few friends who also run sites, it might be cheaper to co-lo a 1u box at some hosting farm.
My site (a very modest affair mainly there for permanent email) is run off a co-lo box. We run sixteen other sites, and the costs are way lower than for a hosting company. Plus you get your own box to play around with as you choose.
In my case, the break-even point was 8 sites. After that, we're saving money by running off a co-lo, not spending it.
Argh! I can't STAND it when I read things like this. No price has been mentioned, yet here's a knee-jerk reaction that, "Oh, I might have to pay money for software that I'll use every day."
Not at all. Read again. A commercial split - if you want the extras Star Office gives, pay. If you don't, use OpenOffice. Same for Netscape and Mozilla. My comment was actually to head off such hysteria - seems to me that Sun have taken a reasonable course of action here, promoting their goods to their customers, but leaving a free alternative available for everybody else.
What if it was $80? $60? $20? $5 shareware registration?
Possibly alone in the Slashdot universe, you will find that every piece of shareware on my PC is registered, and every commercial piece of code I use is paid for. I run a one-man company, and license fees are really the last thing on my mind. If code is worth it to me, I pay.
Still, if a free version exists that satisfies my needs, I don't see why I should shell out for a commercial thing instead.
Does this essentially lead to a Mozilla-like 'split', where a commercial derivative with extra frills is available on top of a free version (both senses)?
I don't use either - was looking forward to trying Star Office 6 as I'd heard it had removed the custom desktop. Now it looks as if I'll be trying out OpenOffice instead.#
You certainly won't find out what's new in the world by watching TV.
Caused confusion twice now. I meant as in "What's new in the world of TV?". People do need to know this in order for viewing habits to change, otherwise "I love Lucy" would have lasted forever...
Entirely true. It's not a perfect analogy, but I don't pay some corporation to force me to read a chapter from a series of books before I decide what I want to read.
Fair point.
My counter-argument would be that my most common way to choose which books I want to read is to go to a bookshop and browse them. Second most common would be reviews (word of mouth or otherwise).
Now, putting my points and your points together, we seem to come up with the idea of a central repositary of TV shows from which we could randomly browse clips to decide if we liked it. I could then use my browsing method to decide, you could use your word of mouth and reviews methods to decide.
Why would I want someone else to decide when I want to watch something when I could download it whenever I want?
If you hadn't watched at least some of a series first, how would you know whether to download it?
This is always my big argument against totally prescriptive 'personal scheduling'. I have a TiVO box and think it's great, but still watch ordinary TV because otherwise how would I ever find out what's new in the world? If all I ever watched was what I'd told it to record, things would become stagnant very quickly.
I cringe when I read these posts that say "how the hell can they do this?" and "this is just another example of big business..."...Frankly that is the result of allowing all people to act as they wish...And what is wrong with this?
Nothing is wrong with this. Similarly however, nothing is wrong with posting opinions which are against company involvement in such projects. Same logic applies.
The movie you linked (Braveheart)...has historical perspective
I agree with your general points, but saying that Braveheart has historical perspective is much like saying that Disney's Bambi is an educational nature programme.
Try here for a start on what's wrong with it. Good film, total fiction.
Well then, where do you get off saying "With the guiding principle of law being innocent until proven guilty, they must do no such thing." as if there were only one kind of law to contend with?
Because the American legal system was based on the British one, which in turn was based on Habeas Corpus, literally "you should have the body". This requires a high standard of proof and innocent until proven guilty.
How do you think customs works? "I think this stuff is cocaine, but I don't have a search warrant so I can't test it, you know 4th ammendment and all...
Different circumstance. In this case, there was no doubt about the goods - a serial cable for connecting to a Sega Dreamcast. No tests required. This cable has an entirely legal, innocent, and clearly stated use.
Cheers,
Ian
(PS: I don't know what your Fourth Amendment is, I'm in the UK).
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For example, those of you with large screens and Flash might take a look at Jaguar's X-Type site. See that tiny square somewhere in your screen? That's the best use that site will ever make of your screen real estate...
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Ian
Quite right. I submitted the story, and it looks my typing habits have been corrupted by too many iD games....
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Ian
You very bad lah. So can cannot?
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Ian
(More Singlish here.)
Excellent example of the insidious nature I mentioned. This topic isn't even about open relays - it's about a mailing loop. Read the rest of the replies and you find most examples of these have been Western. Yet this simple, newbie slip-up is used as a yet more proof that the whole of Asia should be firewalled.
It's ridiculous.
Cheers,
Ian
Right, well I've been to Singapore and I have to tell you that its IT and communications are in a very good state. In fact, I'm rather hoping someone actually from Singapore will chip in here
Singapore was the first place I saw ADSL in. It has a row of internet 'phone' booths on its most popular shopping street (Orchard Road). In my hotel, 24 internet access was available for a ridiculously low fee (12 SGD I think). It was cheaper for me to phone the UK from my my hotel than it was for a person in the UK to phone me. Cheaper from a hotel phone.
There seems to be some insidious 'oh, it's those clueless Asians' thread running through so many Slashdot posts recently that I think it's time the balance was addressed. The US's mobile phone system, for example, is an utter shambles compared to the Asian systems. I was reading on a UK's paper site that BT was planning to roll out the world's first internet booths - I was reading it from an internet booth in Singapore.
I can assure everyone that the people I worked with in Singapore were quite bright enough to run systems properly, and every bit as interested as their Western equivalents in doing so.
Cheers,
Ian
My site (a very modest affair mainly there for permanent email) is run off a co-lo box. We run sixteen other sites, and the costs are way lower than for a hosting company. Plus you get your own box to play around with as you choose.
In my case, the break-even point was 8 sites. After that, we're saving money by running off a co-lo, not spending it.
Cheers,
Ian
Though I get your general point, 'Linux' wants nothing. This particular distribution of Linux wants it, and so do its target users.
Another distro, say Debian, can put together something completely different and yet still be a Linux system.
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Ian
#include
int main(void);
int main(void) {
fprintf(stdout, "Hello World\n");
}
Not at all. Read again. A commercial split - if you want the extras Star Office gives, pay. If you don't, use OpenOffice. Same for Netscape and Mozilla. My comment was actually to head off such hysteria - seems to me that Sun have taken a reasonable course of action here, promoting their goods to their customers, but leaving a free alternative available for everybody else.
What if it was $80? $60? $20? $5 shareware registration?
Possibly alone in the Slashdot universe, you will find that every piece of shareware on my PC is registered, and every commercial piece of code I use is paid for. I run a one-man company, and license fees are really the last thing on my mind. If code is worth it to me, I pay.
Still, if a free version exists that satisfies my needs, I don't see why I should shell out for a commercial thing instead.
Cheers,
Ian
I don't use either - was looking forward to trying Star Office 6 as I'd heard it had removed the custom desktop. Now it looks as if I'll be trying out OpenOffice instead.#
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Ian
It's true. There are very few Americans or indeed British left anymore that speak English right. Or even correctly... :-)
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Ian
Or maybe even a few scientists at CERN...
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Ian
Caused confusion twice now. I meant as in "What's new in the world of TV?". People do need to know this in order for viewing habits to change, otherwise "I love Lucy" would have lasted forever...
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Ian
Entertainment, not news shows...
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Ian
Fair point.
My counter-argument would be that my most common way to choose which books I want to read is to go to a bookshop and browse them. Second most common would be reviews (word of mouth or otherwise).
Now, putting my points and your points together, we seem to come up with the idea of a central repositary of TV shows from which we could randomly browse clips to decide if we liked it. I could then use my browsing method to decide, you could use your word of mouth and reviews methods to decide.
Seem like a good idea?
Cheers,
Ian
If you hadn't watched at least some of a series first, how would you know whether to download it?
This is always my big argument against totally prescriptive 'personal scheduling'. I have a TiVO box and think it's great, but still watch ordinary TV because otherwise how would I ever find out what's new in the world? If all I ever watched was what I'd told it to record, things would become stagnant very quickly.
Cheers,
Ian
Any plans to update to DOS...?
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Ian
Nothing is wrong with this. Similarly however, nothing is wrong with posting opinions which are against company involvement in such projects. Same logic applies.
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Ian
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Ian
Err...surely it did it in twelve seconds?
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Ian
I agree with your general points, but saying that Braveheart has historical perspective is much like saying that Disney's Bambi is an educational nature programme.
Try here for a start on what's wrong with it. Good film, total fiction.
Cheers,
Ian
Because the American legal system was based on the British one, which in turn was based on Habeas Corpus, literally "you should have the body". This requires a high standard of proof and innocent until proven guilty.
Cheers,
Ian
Different circumstance. In this case, there was no doubt about the goods - a serial cable for connecting to a Sega Dreamcast. No tests required. This cable has an entirely legal, innocent, and clearly stated use.
Cheers,
Ian
(PS: I don't know what your Fourth Amendment is, I'm in the UK).
With the guiding principle of law being innocent until proven guilty, they must do no such thing.
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Ian
Done with style.
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Ian