I'm not talking about ads on search results. I'm talking about all the "Ads by Google" you see all over the internet. The relevence of such ads is almost nil. When you go to universetoday.com you are not going there to see astronomy related ads, you are going there to read their content. The fact that there are astronomy related ads doesn't make them somehow appropriate for the user experience. They are just a waste of bandwidth.
Well, Grand Canyon does something useful. As does Washington Monument (which doesn't have an address even though it's surrounded by streets.) Mount Rushmore also seems to work just fine.
None, because it ruins the entire point of maps if you turn them into nothing but billboards.
Ummm. This is Google we're talking about. The guys who do everything they can to convince people to place ads on every page on the internet? (As an fyi, Google's ads frequently make up 20-30% of the data transfered when you load up a page with their ads.)
Have you ever put something like "Mt. Rainier" into Google maps? Does it seem fucking stupid that Mt. Rainier is not one of the returned results? Maybe Google has already "ruined the entire point of maps."
Have you read the article you linked to? Here's a line you apparently missed:
While receiving more attacks, the Microsoft XP SP2 machine and the Macintosh OS X 10.3.3 were not compromised by the attacks.
Even then, without all the fixes that have been released since, that was a default install of Windows XP SP2 sitting unfirewalled on the internet for two weeks without a compromise.
...how many bots infect an operating system in 2 hours of "typical" surfing.
For "typical" surfing, pretty much any OS will survive days without any kind of issue. It's things people double-clicking on the "TheKids.jpg(.exe)" that they received from their friends that cause most of the problems. Or installing "iTunres4Free.exe". Or downloading and installing the latest "Britney's Titties See-thru.scr". This shit is almost entirely self-inflicted. And it'd be the same whatever the OS. As soon as critical mass is reached the asshats and scam artists will give their full attention.
How many of these 50 states have better cell phone coverage than Estonia?
I don't know. But if I was going to make an educated guess I would think that something around nine of them have challenges that are comparable to Estonia's. The other 41 are going to have a more difficult time, because they are a series of island (Hawaii) or because they have a land area larger than most of western europe combined (Alaska & Texas) or they have massive, protected, canyon right through the middle of the state (Arizona) or rivers that flood annually (the mississippi delta)... the list goes on.
Intel and AMD are American companies. The technology involved in their CPUs currently originates from US based engineers (everything about the AMD Indian design center talks about future work, and mentions a staff of 40.) The only major CPU designers that are not US based are ARM, Samsung makes an embedded CPUs and Fujitsu makes a SPARC chip. Neither the ARM nor Samsung would be considered "high performance". In contrast you have PPC (IBM), x86 (AMD/Intel), and SPARC (Sun).
I don't see having the latest piece of gadgetware as being an increase in standard of living or more intelligent or more advanced technologically.
That's nothing, Paco! My *apartment* beats the flying fuck out of every nation on the planet: 100% broadband penetration. 100% employed in the IT field. 8:1 computer to user ratio. All this despite having a GDP several orders of magnitude smaller than any nation on the planet.
Estonia's land area is smaller than 41 of the 50 US states. It has a lower population tha 40 of the 50 US states. Maybe it would be wise to consider the challenges in deploying a cellular service to a massive country vs. to a tiny country.
Finally you ought to consider what it really means to improve your life.
If you want talk "beating pants off technologically" you might want to take a look see about which countries make high performance micro processors.
P.S. - Perjury would require statements on the part of Gonzalez that are demonstrably false - in this case he expressed an opinion that the Constitution doesn't offer the right of Habeus Corpus - thank what ever you hold sacred that he isn't a judge in a position to rule on matters of law to that effect.
If he can be demonstrated to not uphold and defend the constitution he would be in violation of his oath of office. The untrue statement would be when he swore to uphold the constitution.
You know perjury isn't treason. As a crime treason is very specifically defined. People toss "traitor", "treason", "treasonous", etc. around without even the slightest hint that an act of treason has actually been committed. They should rip the tongues out of anyone who makes baseless accusations.
It sounds like you won't try adapting to the metaphor of interleaved windows, which is the basis of the UI; those windows are supposed to have stuff showing around the edges.
First "interleaved windows" fails to convey any useful content. Second, assuming you mean overlapping windows that's neither here not there. Maybe I regularily want to open a window to it's maximum possible size because I'm going to be utilizing that inner whitespace? Of the two categories of tasks, consuming or creating, having the window adapt to it's current contents favors the consumer way more than the creator. For a system that works hard to have the rep that Mac's have, that's just stupid.
I can understand how that annoys, if you don't use the zoom function.
Or maybe there are uses to being able to change the width of a window without changing the height? Sort of like there are uses in drawing and drafting programs to forcing a line to horizontal or vertical only?
I agree, but it isn't much of a gripe; you've started whining. Just use MPlayer if it's MPEG2 you want, otherwise most mpeg files play fine in Quicktime, and plenty of free codecs are available to add in.
I've started whining? Not having an MPEG-2 quicktime component is a totally valid complaint. And no, pointing at an MPEG-2 playing application is not the same as having a quicktime component that works in any application. Apple should be shipping quicktime components for every industry standard out there.
They're hoping to push that task onto the service providers, and it sounds like it's working in this case.
That's how it should be. We don't go to businesses that pollute and tell them ok, go ahead and pollute and everytime we catch you we're going to tell you to stop doing it. No, we tell them don't pollute. When we catch them dumping their toxic shit in the river we fine them or jail them or some number of other things.
Posters here regularily point at a particular business model and say "welcome to the internet..." Why don't these service providers have to figure out a business model that abides by the law? They complain "the technical issues are too hard to solve," well too fucking bad. If your business model is only profitable or possible when you have to externalize the costs, fuck you.
...it is usually easy to determine what size is reasonable.
Reasonable is the size that I want it to be. The app has zero context for what I am doing, am about to do, or even just prefer. Having a "make bigger" button that makes it just big enough for the current content is annoying (I recently bought a MacMini so I'm not talking entirely out of my ass). Additionally it's bloody annoying that I can't grab the side of a window and drag it wider. Or the bottom of the window and drag it taller. Instead I have to grab the lower corner of the window and drag it wider and taller or make a best guess estimate to do one or the other.
It's also quite amazing in this day that you have to buy mpeg decoder components.
The documentation for screensavers assumes that you're coding in objective-c.
OTOH, we need to give Red Hat and Alan a great big hand for making the effort and spending the $ to apply.
Why would you give them a hand? It's not their money they are wasting. While you might like the idea of someone blocking DRM via patents it's not something that could reasonably be within the scope of Red Hat's business.
If anything ought to be done to Red Hat it should be a lawsuit.
Don't forget the post that was critical of the overall comments/moderation system. It was moderated over a thousand times and resulted in a whole slew of people being permanently banned from moderation. They implemented magic code for this specific purpose.
No one. Absolutely no one thinks linux is "just a kernel". Even the kernel coders who build it don't think it's just a kernel. You know how I know this? Because every one of them talks about it as if it actually runs. Linux-just-the-kernel doesn't do anything. Nothing at all. It is totally incapable of booting itself. It is totally incapable of creating the required filesystems. Even when given a pass on the chicken-and-egg problem (ie. grub, mkfs, fdisk, etc.) Linux is only capable of running for a few seconds. It prints a bunch of shit and then exits. Oh, you want init too? See, there's not a single hardware platform that you can take the code as distributed by kernel.org, built it with any particular set of options you want, and end up with code that is capable of starting itself up. And yet everyone who talks about "linux" talks about it doing things, ergo it is very clear that "linux" to those people is, at an absolute minimum, a kernel+boot loader+some kind of userland code (initialization, configuration, content).
The only people who ever really claim that linux is "just a kernel" are tossers who have an emotional investment in the idea that linux being some pristine, flawless, virginal jewel.
Darwin/OSX is based on the FreeBSD userland. The kernel is based on Mach. Regardless of whether either one requires an MMU or a nuclear reactor in order to run keep in mind that it's software. Which means that clever types and go in and make some changes and maybe take away a requirement or add a feature. Gosh kids these days.
Eventually the nuisance factor will rise so high that "community" sites that allow anonymous, psuedo-anonymous, and public participation will be required to police their content. Youtube will be held liable for the damaging content that they host, even though it was posted by Pete1999. Either that or they will require real validation of the identities of the posters.
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Halo 3. You're either going to play on Xbox 360 or Vista. Enjoy.
I'm not talking about ads on search results. I'm talking about all the "Ads by Google" you see all over the internet. The relevence of such ads is almost nil. When you go to universetoday.com you are not going there to see astronomy related ads, you are going there to read their content. The fact that there are astronomy related ads doesn't make them somehow appropriate for the user experience. They are just a waste of bandwidth.
Well, Grand Canyon does something useful. As does Washington Monument (which doesn't have an address even though it's surrounded by streets.) Mount Rushmore also seems to work just fine.
Have you ever put something like "Mt. Rainier" into Google maps? Does it seem fucking stupid that Mt. Rainier is not one of the returned results? Maybe Google has already "ruined the entire point of maps."
Presumedly every OS can be bot-free. I mean it's not like they come pre-installed.
If you mean permanently bot-free, then it's going to be an empty internet because every OS has security issues.
I don't know. But if I was going to make an educated guess I would think that something around nine of them have challenges that are comparable to Estonia's. The other 41 are going to have a more difficult time, because they are a series of island (Hawaii) or because they have a land area larger than most of western europe combined (Alaska & Texas) or they have massive, protected, canyon right through the middle of the state (Arizona) or rivers that flood annually (the mississippi delta)... the list goes on.
Intel and AMD are American companies. The technology involved in their CPUs currently originates from US based engineers (everything about the AMD Indian design center talks about future work, and mentions a staff of 40.) The only major CPU designers that are not US based are ARM, Samsung makes an embedded CPUs and Fujitsu makes a SPARC chip. Neither the ARM nor Samsung would be considered "high performance". In contrast you have PPC (IBM), x86 (AMD/Intel), and SPARC (Sun).
I don't see having the latest piece of gadgetware as being an increase in standard of living or more intelligent or more advanced technologically.
That's nothing, Paco! My *apartment* beats the flying fuck out of every nation on the planet: 100% broadband penetration. 100% employed in the IT field. 8:1 computer to user ratio. All this despite having a GDP several orders of magnitude smaller than any nation on the planet.
Estonia's land area is smaller than 41 of the 50 US states. It has a lower population tha 40 of the 50 US states. Maybe it would be wise to consider the challenges in deploying a cellular service to a massive country vs. to a tiny country.
Finally you ought to consider what it really means to improve your life.
If you want talk "beating pants off technologically" you might want to take a look see about which countries make high performance micro processors.
If he can be demonstrated to not uphold and defend the constitution he would be in violation of his oath of office. The untrue statement would be when he swore to uphold the constitution.
medacious isn't a word. if you meant mendacious then you don't even know the definition of the word.
You know perjury isn't treason. As a crime treason is very specifically defined. People toss "traitor", "treason", "treasonous", etc. around without even the slightest hint that an act of treason has actually been committed. They should rip the tongues out of anyone who makes baseless accusations.
First "interleaved windows" fails to convey any useful content. Second, assuming you mean overlapping windows that's neither here not there. Maybe I regularily want to open a window to it's maximum possible size because I'm going to be utilizing that inner whitespace? Of the two categories of tasks, consuming or creating, having the window adapt to it's current contents favors the consumer way more than the creator. For a system that works hard to have the rep that Mac's have, that's just stupid.
Or maybe there are uses to being able to change the width of a window without changing the height? Sort of like there are uses in drawing and drafting programs to forcing a line to horizontal or vertical only?
I've started whining? Not having an MPEG-2 quicktime component is a totally valid complaint. And no, pointing at an MPEG-2 playing application is not the same as having a quicktime component that works in any application. Apple should be shipping quicktime components for every industry standard out there.
You have a very weak stomach. I would advise that you save your outrage and shock for more important ills of the world.
That's how it should be. We don't go to businesses that pollute and tell them ok, go ahead and pollute and everytime we catch you we're going to tell you to stop doing it. No, we tell them don't pollute. When we catch them dumping their toxic shit in the river we fine them or jail them or some number of other things.
Posters here regularily point at a particular business model and say "welcome to the internet..." Why don't these service providers have to figure out a business model that abides by the law? They complain "the technical issues are too hard to solve," well too fucking bad. If your business model is only profitable or possible when you have to externalize the costs, fuck you.
Reasonable is the size that I want it to be. The app has zero context for what I am doing, am about to do, or even just prefer. Having a "make bigger" button that makes it just big enough for the current content is annoying (I recently bought a MacMini so I'm not talking entirely out of my ass). Additionally it's bloody annoying that I can't grab the side of a window and drag it wider. Or the bottom of the window and drag it taller. Instead I have to grab the lower corner of the window and drag it wider and taller or make a best guess estimate to do one or the other.
It's also quite amazing in this day that you have to buy mpeg decoder components.
The documentation for screensavers assumes that you're coding in objective-c.
Or you know, maybe they could have used gatoraide instead of water. Simple enough change for them and would be totally safe.
Why would you give them a hand? It's not their money they are wasting. While you might like the idea of someone blocking DRM via patents it's not something that could reasonably be within the scope of Red Hat's business.
If anything ought to be done to Red Hat it should be a lawsuit.
Don't forget the post that was critical of the overall comments/moderation system. It was moderated over a thousand times and resulted in a whole slew of people being permanently banned from moderation. They implemented magic code for this specific purpose.
they don't have enough mexicans. we can threaten to ship them a few million and they'll cave to any u.s. demands.
No one. Absolutely no one thinks linux is "just a kernel". Even the kernel coders who build it don't think it's just a kernel. You know how I know this? Because every one of them talks about it as if it actually runs. Linux-just-the-kernel doesn't do anything. Nothing at all. It is totally incapable of booting itself. It is totally incapable of creating the required filesystems. Even when given a pass on the chicken-and-egg problem (ie. grub, mkfs, fdisk, etc.) Linux is only capable of running for a few seconds. It prints a bunch of shit and then exits. Oh, you want init too? See, there's not a single hardware platform that you can take the code as distributed by kernel.org, built it with any particular set of options you want, and end up with code that is capable of starting itself up. And yet everyone who talks about "linux" talks about it doing things, ergo it is very clear that "linux" to those people is, at an absolute minimum, a kernel+boot loader+some kind of userland code (initialization, configuration, content).
The only people who ever really claim that linux is "just a kernel" are tossers who have an emotional investment in the idea that linux being some pristine, flawless, virginal jewel.
Get over it.
Darwin/OSX is based on the FreeBSD userland. The kernel is based on Mach. Regardless of whether either one requires an MMU or a nuclear reactor in order to run keep in mind that it's software. Which means that clever types and go in and make some changes and maybe take away a requirement or add a feature. Gosh kids these days.
Eventually the nuisance factor will rise so high that "community" sites that allow anonymous, psuedo-anonymous, and public participation will be required to police their content. Youtube will be held liable for the damaging content that they host, even though it was posted by Pete1999. Either that or they will require real validation of the identities of the posters.
In most municipalities cats are allowed to run loose. They don't form packs and eat small children like dogs do.