But I'll bite - attacks on DNS servers will direct everyone to the wrong site, Windows, Linux, UNIX, and Amiga users.
Yes, but that site won't have a cert, so you won't type in your account info because the little "lock" or "key" symbol will be missing. Hence clueful users of any operating system are protected against that attack.
ZEV does not mean does not pollute, it just means does not pollute where it goes. For example, a 100% electric vehicle is zero emissions, but there is certainly a lot of pollution when generating the power for it. Tue supposed advantage of ZEV transportation is that it prevents the pollution from accumulating in densely populated areas (such as downtown). There is also the hope that by centralizing the production of energy (in power plants instead of inside of every car) it can be made more efficient and cleaner, and help the transition to alternate methods (wind, nuclear, whatever).
I agree with you though that using public transit is a good idea.
I wonder why that is. Is it impossible for something to travel fast enough at 100km to attain a stable orbit, or is this an arbitary line, or is the atmosphere present so that it required a powered orbit (in essence, not an orbit, becaus eyou have ot counteract the atmosphere?)
Well, with enough power you can orbit the planet from any altitude - including 100km. The term "low earth orbit" is used to describe (just as you guessed) the lowest altitude from which one can stay in orbit without using power - just by starting out at the right speed. The main factor is that there is not enough athmosphere at LEO to slow you down.
The altitude for low earth orbit is 350km, far higher than SpaceShipOne is going. The 100km limit is just an nice, round, arbitrary number.
No. 8% of Windows failures require a reboot. Big difference.
Well that's one interpretation, but I don't think that's the most direct one. Reading the article segment again ("Ainsi, le taux de panne moyen nécessitant un redémarrage du système est mesuré autour de 8% par session"), I would parse it as follows: "Ainsi, le taux de (panne moyen nécessitant un redémarrage du système) est mesuré autour de 8% par session". In english: the average rate of (bugs requiring a reboot) is 8% per sessions.
I think that means that 8% of the sessions encountered a bug that made a reboot necessary.
After all, if they were measuring which fraction of bugs make a reboot necessary (as you are suggesting), why would they measure that "per session"? In that case they would not say "par session" but "par bug".
And, before you flame -- yes, I do speak the language.
CPU driver? CPU driver? What on earth is a CPU driver?
I mean, a driver is something that tells your computer how to talk to some piece of hwardware - say a modem. It maps from a common API (say, the windows API) to the specific API of the device (say, use Int21 with ax=3 to hang up the phone).
Are you saying there's a windows API to the CPU? Something like HWND add(HWN ax, HWN bx) ? That makes no sense at all.
Someone please explain this to me.
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RGB is a set of orthogonal colors, and a linear combination of RGB can express any color in the universe. Similar comments apply to CMY.
I think that is incorrect. What we call color is the frequency of an electromagnetic wave (aka "light"). Our eyes have detectors for four of these frequencies, that we call "red", "green", "blue", and "white" (white is detected by the rods, the colors by the cones).
In reality, there is an infinite number of colors. Note that infrared and UV are also colors under that definition; the only reason we don't normally think of them as colors is that our sense can't perceive them. Other than that, there is nothing fundamentally different between them and normal colors (which is why you shouldn't be too surprised when come digital cameras actually "see" infrared light). Which combination of R, G and B gives you infrared, exactly?
So it is true that if you had a 4D color space display (RGBW for red, green, blue and white) you could calibrate it to one person so that the display can accurately show any color that that person can see (people's cones do not always react to exactly the same frequencies, which can explain some interesting miscommunications. And let's not go into the few people who have an extra 4th color cone). Anyways, that display could show any color you can see, but it still wouldn't be able to show every color that exists. That's the difference.
Is there a simple way to know which kernel upgrades include security patches, and which do not? The changelogs are huge, it would be great if someone did the work and shared it with all.
Because you said that google.com existed for a while before froogle.com, I got curious and did a whois on google.com. I don't understand some of what I got back as a response. Here's a portion of it:
Domain names in the.com and.net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.
Why in the email client is select all 'Alt-A'? In most other apps select all is 'Ctrl-A' yet for some strange reason it is 'Alt-A' in Mozilla.
That's because the Linux convention is that Ctrl-A means "beginning of line". That was before some people decided they wanted their Linux app to behave like windows apps and started making Ctrl-A "select all". And since, for better of for worse, there is no single person in charge to enforce a standard of which keyboard shortcut should do what, we're stuck with three different groups:
The emacs camp (Ctrl-A: beginning of line)
The vi camp (esc-0: beginning of line)
The windows camp (home: beginning of line)
So now you know why. Is it a good or a bad thing? You decide. Maybe the existence of these many groups is why most Linux apps are so customizable, so emacs-people can use apps written by vi-people and vice versa.
The bounty is only valid until September 6, 2004 - so let's get coding!
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P.S: yes i have seen beautiful swing apps, yet they look out of place.
I guess it's a matter of taste. You may prefer that your java app looks the same as the other apps around it at the time, but I prefer my java app to look the same on my windows machine and on my linux machine.
It is possible to transform all flash animations into a "click-to-play" button. The step-by-step instructions are on this web page.
This is very useful, especially since these days flash is mostly used for ads. When you go to a site when you actually want to view the flash animations, just click on the button.
I agree with you that some of the most wide-reaching improvements have been in training. And my favorite, by far, has been videofinish. It lets you superimpose two videos *without requiring any special camera*. So you can compare yourself against your performance from yesterday, or against a champion.
Let me say that again: you don't need anything special (ok, a computer). You film the champion skiing down the slope (or grab the TV feed), then film yourself from the same place -- but you don't have to have the same camera movements. Then you use videofinish and magically you end up with a tape that compares you with the champion!
[publish the exploit within a timelock puzzle, give the key to the maintainer of the buggy software]
I don't grok why you'd want to do that. How is it better than sending the exploit to the maintainer and just announcing that you will make it public in a month or so? Isn't that the traditional procedure?
Are you afraid the publisher doesn't believe you'll make the exploit public?
Yes, Netscape uses Mozilla (starting from v6.0) - however Netscape includes an older version of Mozilla, so the latest Netscape (6.2.3) and the latest Mozilla (1.1beta) are not equivalent.
Given the speed at which things have been moving, I would be cautious about what a book - any book - says. Since you didn't quote any version number, it is hard for me to determine how recent the information is. The fact that the book doesn't mention Mozilla might even indicate that it dates back from the dark ages of computing!;-)
More to the point, all the sources that I have seen (and I have given pointers to them in my previous posts) indicate that Mozilla (1.0) is more standards-compliant than IE 6.0. I will continue to believe this until proven otherwise.
I notice that your book does not cover Mozilla, and yet you claim that IE has better DOM support than Mozilla. Oh wait, that book doesn't even talk about DOM, it talks about CSS.
So, basically, you're saying that you pulled the comment about IE having the best DOM support out of your ass.
I think that fits the definition of FUD, friend. Next time you want to convince me that IE is more standards-compliant than Mozilla, try with some substantiated data.
By the way, IE is the most DOM compliant browser (comparing it to NS, Mozilla, Opera, and Links). So don't spread the FUD.
Accusing someone of FUD while - in the same breath - making statements with no supporting proof whatsoever takes a lot of guts, congratulations.
Care to substantiate? Because I know that pages like Complex Spiral, written entirely to CSS1 spec (that's a Jan. 1999 standard, you know, three years old) works in Mozilla but NOT in IE6/Win.
But I'll give you that: It is possible that the situation is better (for IE) with the DOM than with CSS.
I was going to ask you for some proof of that statement, but that would be pointless since I don't have IE6, and I'm not going to install it just because of your FUD.
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But I'll bite - attacks on DNS servers will direct everyone to the wrong site, Windows, Linux, UNIX, and Amiga users.
Yes, but that site won't have a cert, so you won't type in your account info because the little "lock" or "key" symbol will be missing. Hence clueful users of any operating system are protected against that attack.Before, I had to write a meta-search engine for research papers (papersearch), but maybe now all we'll need is google.
Actually cycling is zero emissions.
ZEV does not mean does not pollute, it just means does not pollute where it goes. For example, a 100% electric vehicle is zero emissions, but there is certainly a lot of pollution when generating the power for it. Tue supposed advantage of ZEV transportation is that it prevents the pollution from accumulating in densely populated areas (such as downtown). There is also the hope that by centralizing the production of energy (in power plants instead of inside of every car) it can be made more efficient and cleaner, and help the transition to alternate methods (wind, nuclear, whatever).
I agree with you though that using public transit is a good idea.
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I wonder why that is. Is it impossible for something to travel fast enough at 100km to attain a stable orbit, or is this an arbitary line, or is the atmosphere present so that it required a powered orbit (in essence, not an orbit, becaus eyou have ot counteract the atmosphere?)
Well, with enough power you can orbit the planet from any altitude - including 100km. The term "low earth orbit" is used to describe (just as you guessed) the lowest altitude from which one can stay in orbit without using power - just by starting out at the right speed. The main factor is that there is not enough athmosphere at LEO to slow you down.The altitude for low earth orbit is 350km, far higher than SpaceShipOne is going. The 100km limit is just an nice, round, arbitrary number.
Ok, tell me quick: how do I watch a real or WMP stream from Linux?
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"Windows Fails 8% of the Time"
Well that's one interpretation, but I don't think that's the most direct one. Reading the article segment again ("Ainsi, le taux de panne moyen nécessitant un redémarrage du système est mesuré autour de 8% par session"), I would parse it as follows: "Ainsi, le taux de (panne moyen nécessitant un redémarrage du système) est mesuré autour de 8% par session". In english: the average rate of (bugs requiring a reboot) is 8% per sessions.No. 8% of Windows failures require a reboot. Big difference.
I think that means that 8% of the sessions encountered a bug that made a reboot necessary. After all, if they were measuring which fraction of bugs make a reboot necessary (as you are suggesting), why would they measure that "per session"? In that case they would not say "par session" but "par bug".
And, before you flame -- yes, I do speak the language.
CPU driver? CPU driver? What on earth is a CPU driver?
I mean, a driver is something that tells your computer how to talk to some piece of hwardware - say a modem. It maps from a common API (say, the windows API) to the specific API of the device (say, use Int21 with ax=3 to hang up the phone).
Are you saying there's a windows API to the CPU? Something like HWND add(HWN ax, HWN bx) ?
That makes no sense at all.
Someone please explain this to me.
I think that is incorrect. What we call color is the frequency of an electromagnetic wave (aka "light"). Our eyes have detectors for four of these frequencies, that we call "red", "green", "blue", and "white" (white is detected by the rods, the colors by the cones).
In reality, there is an infinite number of colors. Note that infrared and UV are also colors under that definition; the only reason we don't normally think of them as colors is that our sense can't perceive them. Other than that, there is nothing fundamentally different between them and normal colors (which is why you shouldn't be too surprised when come digital cameras actually "see" infrared light). Which combination of R, G and B gives you infrared, exactly?
So it is true that if you had a 4D color space display (RGBW for red, green, blue and white) you could calibrate it to one person so that the display can accurately show any color that that person can see (people's cones do not always react to exactly the same frequencies, which can explain some interesting miscommunications. And let's not go into the few people who have an extra 4th color cone). Anyways, that display could show any color you can see, but it still wouldn't be able to show every color that exists. That's the difference.
Is there a simple way to know which kernel upgrades include security patches, and which do not? The changelogs are huge, it would be great if someone did the work and shared it with all.
Scientific uses such as splitting your plank into five equal parts, for example?
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Because you said that google.com existed for a while before froogle.com, I got curious and did a whois on google.com. I don't understand some of what I got back as a response. Here's a portion of it:
I didn't believe it, so I checked... and it's true, that text DOES show up (among other more informative text, to be perfectly honest).Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.
GOOGLE.COM.SUCKS.FIND.CRACKZ.WITH.SEARCH.GULLI.COM
GOOGLE.COM.HAS.LESS.FREE.PORN.IN.ITS.SEARCH.ENGINE .THAN.SECZY.COM
GOOGLE.COM
(...)
This trick is apparently possible becaus e there are several whois servers (?)
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Why in the email client is select all 'Alt-A'? In most other apps select all is 'Ctrl-A' yet for some strange reason it is 'Alt-A' in Mozilla.
That's because the Linux convention is that Ctrl-A means "beginning of line". That was before some people decided they wanted their Linux app to behave like windows apps and started making Ctrl-A "select all". And since, for better of for worse, there is no single person in charge to enforce a standard of which keyboard shortcut should do what, we're stuck with three different groups:So now you know why. Is it a good or a bad thing? You decide. Maybe the existence of these many groups is why most Linux apps are so customizable, so emacs-people can use apps written by vi-people and vice versa.
There's a more readable version of the story on treocentral's stories page
The bounty is only valid until September 6, 2004 - so let's get coding!
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P.S: yes i have seen beautiful swing apps, yet they look out of place.
I guess it's a matter of taste. You may prefer that your java app looks the same as the other apps around it at the time, but I prefer my java app to look the same on my windows machine and on my linux machine.This is very useful, especially since these days flash is mostly used for ads. When you go to a site when you actually want to view the flash animations, just click on the button.
Let me say that again: you don't need anything special (ok, a computer). You film the champion skiing down the slope (or grab the TV feed), then film yourself from the same place -- but you don't have to have the same camera movements. Then you use videofinish and magically you end up with a tape that compares you with the champion!
There is a demo online, as well as videos.
It looks like BellSouth missed the clue train.
Ah, good point. Thanks for the clarification.
[publish the exploit within a timelock puzzle, give the key to the maintainer of the buggy software]
I don't grok why you'd want to do that. How is it better than sending the exploit to the maintainer and just announcing that you will make it public in a month or so? Isn't that the traditional procedure?
Are you afraid the publisher doesn't believe you'll make the exploit public?
mod the parent down... the article is NOT about running outlook under Wine. It's about running the work from KMail.
Wow! I can ban doubleclick & co and still browse comfortably? Why didn't you say it earlier? That's a killer feature!
I'm downloading 1.2a *RIGHT NOW*!!
Given the speed at which things have been moving, I would be cautious about what a book - any book - says. Since you didn't quote any version number, it is hard for me to determine how recent the information is. The fact that the book doesn't mention Mozilla might even indicate that it dates back from the dark ages of computing! ;-)
More to the point, all the sources that I have seen (and I have given pointers to them in my previous posts) indicate that Mozilla (1.0) is more standards-compliant than IE 6.0. I will continue to believe this until proven otherwise.
So, basically, you're saying that you pulled the comment about IE having the best DOM support out of your ass.
I think that fits the definition of FUD, friend. Next time you want to convince me that IE is more standards-compliant than Mozilla, try with some substantiated data.
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By the way, IE is the most DOM compliant browser (comparing it to NS, Mozilla, Opera, and Links). So don't spread the FUD.
Accusing someone of FUD while - in the same breath - making statements with no supporting proof whatsoever takes a lot of guts, congratulations.Care to substantiate? Because I know that pages like Complex Spiral, written entirely to CSS1 spec (that's a Jan. 1999 standard, you know, three years old) works in Mozilla but NOT in IE6/Win.
But I'll give you that: It is possible that the situation is better (for IE) with the DOM than with CSS.
I was going to ask you for some proof of that statement, but that would be pointless since I don't have IE6, and I'm not going to install it just because of your FUD.