But i would imagine that the 'solution' will never filter down to the common man as it will be so complex only a few of us will be able to control our own hardware at that point.
Well then *fuck* the common man. If you're too stupid to be free, that's not my problem.
I guess only the smart people get to be rebels. The rest will just be rabble.
You know, if they go for one-time pad encryption for only the most popular movies, then society would probably be better off. Hopefully they could implement that right at the source - Will Farrell and Ben Stiller themselves encrypted with one-time pads. Yeah, that'd about do it for me.
An 'assload' is the metric name for 'buttload', both of which are greater than or equal to 1 'shitload' or 'crapload', respectively. I know the whole Imperial/metric conversion thing is problematic at times, but you could've at least Googled this before asking such a silly question.
And the problem with TPM is that you still have access to the hardware. If you've got that and enough time and skill, TPM eventually won't matter, either.
I wonder if Google's stats might be a bit non-IE-centric, though, as IE browsers default to MSN searching, don't they? I guess that might apply to any non-MSN site, though. It would be interesting to base stats on router traffic rather than web sites. Is anyone making that kind of info available for free?
No, this is bad advice too. Walmart's just built a web service that only works in Internet Explorer. How many non-IE users do you think they are seeing in their logs compared with IE users? Looking at your current users can only tell you to keep doing more of the same.
That's a good point, but I was thinking from the point of view that they hadn't already implemented IE-only stuff.
It IS really annoying that Google doesn't release their browser stats; I don't know what their reasoning is on that one. I'd also like their stats on screen resolution (and window) resolution.
Unless you are Google, don't worry about what Google's browser stats are. Instead, look at the browser stats of your OWN web site. Those are your customers.
I''ll mostly refrain from talking about the monumental stupidity of using IE-only functionality because I know the Slashdot crowd will be (justifiably) beating your head in over that momentarily. Good luck with that.
I just installed a caching-only nameserver on my home machine last night. Nice speed boost. Not that has anything to do with this other than being DNS. I'm just sayin'. I hope my install didn't mess up the root servers.:)
is there a lightweight CSS-compatible browser that's not a memory pig on the order of Konqueror or even Firefox?
Opera, if you can stand the interface (or if you can figure out how to customize the interface - what a mess *that* process is, but worth the effort if you can figure it out).
Um... wasting development and PR money on something "most people would not know how or why to use"?
This qualifies as a disaster? Mistake, possibly, but hardly a disaster. I actually like the option of having the IETabs extension in Firefox for testing purposes.
Well, if it's a sodding web browser you want, I can highly recommend IE7. It definitely ups the sod factor significantly.
I wonder if someone could come up with a Navigator 3 theme for Firefox that would configure the interface to the (vastly superior) Navigator 3 interface. That'd be nice. I'd keep CSS though, if I were you (although I'd make sure minimum font size and override web author colours was turned on).
As far as speed goes, I think most people would be SHOCKED at how much faster the Web experience is if you have a caching name server running on your machine. Seriously - the biggest speedup you'll probably ever see.
Oh, man, that'd be awesome! If they could just add JavaScript to Gopher, it'd be perfect! And image support. And Flash. Yeah, that's all Gopher really needs to succeed. But that would be a pretty l33t Gopher, so we should probably spell it g0ph3r to save confusion. Either that or Bruce (since Archie and Veronica are already taken).
I'm pretty sure you've seen the one owl test of this over and over. And where's the control? Absolutely no scientific value in that test whatsoever. I say good day to you, sir!
"How many licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop?"
Obviously, the erroneously-reported answer of 'three' is in the public consciousness, but that was hardly determined by the scientific method.
Anyone here got experience in filling out government research grants? I'm willing to put in the time necessary to do the research, as long as I can get the funding.
Wow, that's from *July*?! Geez, someone really beat me to the punchline on that one. *sigh* That's the hazard when you specialize in the obvious jokes as I do, though. *shrug*
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Yeah, the Jar-Jar problem kind of overshadowed the problems like Annakin, the directing and the writing.
Still, cool lightsabre battle there at the end, eh?
But i would imagine that the 'solution' will never filter down to the common man as it will be so complex only a few of us will be able to control our own hardware at that point.
Well then *fuck* the common man. If you're too stupid to be free, that's not my problem.
I guess only the smart people get to be rebels. The rest will just be rabble.
No, the problem with TPM was that lousy Jar-Jar character. He had more than enough jibber-jabber.
As much as I hated Jar-Jar, there was a *hell* of a lot more wrong with TPM than just him.
At least it had a truly *great* lightsabre battle in it.
You know, if they go for one-time pad encryption for only the most popular movies, then society would probably be better off. Hopefully they could implement that right at the source - Will Farrell and Ben Stiller themselves encrypted with one-time pads. Yeah, that'd about do it for me.
An 'assload' is the metric name for 'buttload', both of which are greater than or equal to 1 'shitload' or 'crapload', respectively. I know the whole Imperial/metric conversion thing is problematic at times, but you could've at least Googled this before asking such a silly question.
And the problem with TPM is that you still have access to the hardware. If you've got that and enough time and skill, TPM eventually won't matter, either.
I wonder if Google's stats might be a bit non-IE-centric, though, as IE browsers default to MSN searching, don't they? I guess that might apply to any non-MSN site, though. It would be interesting to base stats on router traffic rather than web sites. Is anyone making that kind of info available for free?
No, this is bad advice too. Walmart's just built a web service that only works in Internet Explorer. How many non-IE users do you think they are seeing in their logs compared with IE users? Looking at your current users can only tell you to keep doing more of the same.
That's a good point, but I was thinking from the point of view that they hadn't already implemented IE-only stuff.
It IS really annoying that Google doesn't release their browser stats; I don't know what their reasoning is on that one. I'd also like their stats on screen resolution (and window) resolution.
Unless you are Google, don't worry about what Google's browser stats are. Instead, look at the browser stats of your OWN web site. Those are your customers.
I''ll mostly refrain from talking about the monumental stupidity of using IE-only functionality because I know the Slashdot crowd will be (justifiably) beating your head in over that momentarily. Good luck with that.
See the Xiph wiki page for a list of Ogg Vorbis chips."
:)
Also see the page for a list of consumer products supporting the Ogg format.
It's the only way to be sure.
I just installed a caching-only nameserver on my home machine last night. Nice speed boost. Not that has anything to do with this other than being DNS. I'm just sayin'. I hope my install didn't mess up the root servers. :)
Isn't called 'Functional Programming'? I thought that was the hot new trend these days...
is there a lightweight CSS-compatible browser that's not a memory pig on the order of Konqueror or even Firefox?
Opera, if you can stand the interface (or if you can figure out how to customize the interface - what a mess *that* process is, but worth the effort if you can figure it out).
Um... wasting development and PR money on something "most people would not know how or why to use"?
This qualifies as a disaster? Mistake, possibly, but hardly a disaster. I actually like the option of having the IETabs extension in Firefox for testing purposes.
the disastrous decision to include the Internet Explorer rendering engine as an alternative to Gecko
Uhm, what disasters were caused by having an _alternate_ rendering engine which most people would not know how or why to use?
I want a sodding web browser.
Well, if it's a sodding web browser you want, I can highly recommend IE7. It definitely ups the sod factor significantly.
I wonder if someone could come up with a Navigator 3 theme for Firefox that would configure the interface to the (vastly superior) Navigator 3 interface. That'd be nice. I'd keep CSS though, if I were you (although I'd make sure minimum font size and override web author colours was turned on).
As far as speed goes, I think most people would be SHOCKED at how much faster the Web experience is if you have a caching name server running on your machine. Seriously - the biggest speedup you'll probably ever see.
Oh, man, that'd be awesome! If they could just add JavaScript to Gopher, it'd be perfect! And image support. And Flash. Yeah, that's all Gopher really needs to succeed. But that would be a pretty l33t Gopher, so we should probably spell it g0ph3r to save confusion. Either that or Bruce (since Archie and Veronica are already taken).
I'm pretty sure you've seen the one owl test of this over and over. And where's the control? Absolutely no scientific value in that test whatsoever. I say good day to you, sir!
"How many licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop?"
Obviously, the erroneously-reported answer of 'three' is in the public consciousness, but that was hardly determined by the scientific method.
Anyone here got experience in filling out government research grants? I'm willing to put in the time necessary to do the research, as long as I can get the funding.
Wow, that's from *July*?! Geez, someone really beat me to the punchline on that one. *sigh* That's the hazard when you specialize in the obvious jokes as I do, though. *shrug*
Thanks for the link.
Isn't that a song from Aerosmith?
Instead of 'g' for Google, they could use 'e' for Europe - and call it something like E-mail or somesuch.
> "G'zOne" is not an electronic device, it is a name for a freaking Klingon.
Smile when you use the G'zOne...
Man, if they just made this with WiFi and built-in SSH, I'd be set! :)
Okay, actually, add that to the TI-92/92 II, or Voyage 200, and I'd be set, since they have QWERTY keyboards.