Yes, exactly! The magic of the web is that it was designed so minimally. HTML and HTTP, that was it. The rest is up to the user, and we know that turned out pretty well. We have google, wikipedia, web frameworks and CMS's by the dozen...the simplicity and looseness eventually became its strength. A properly engineered and structured system might not have grown as useful!
If the www wasn't invented by Tim and gopher had become the dominant medium, then obviously people would have extended it as they did the web. The real question is...how would it compare? Would gopher have been extended and plied as well as the web? Or would design decisions have made it more structured...more like what scifi used to think future computers would be like; useful and powerful, but with a very defined role.
We now have websites that spring up every day to cater to our every need -- for free! That aspect alone I think is a consequence of the way the web evolved. Anyway, I always wonder about that, whether different possibilities would have been as good, or whether we got lucky and scored a big win:)
Can the universe handle all that I/O? I mean, won't the oceans boil or something? I'm pretty sure I read something about that somewhere. For God's sake man, don't turn it on!
I actually like GTK Windows apps better than native ones! Smaller dialogs are usually resizable, which is something Windows (at least XP and earlier) does horribly wrong. Options dialogs also often don't disable the main window, another thing Windows sucks at.
Hopefully QT will bring more windowing goodness to Windows (if it hasn't already).
I've actually had this happen to me. After a couple of years, my video card decided to 'degrade' its performance. It would sometimes lock up (completely, no numlock or anything) when playing certain games, but after 30-90 seconds, Windows would change modes to tell me there was a problem with my card. Pretty nice if you ask me.
Hopefully you have the same customer service standards as Cox.
If Cox gets one of these letters with your IP address, they bypass all that corporate bureaucracy and help you by directly disconnecting your internet! No need to worry about innocence or guilt, a mere accusation will do!
Many of these people keep complaining that ed2k/kad are slow. Well of course a particular file will be slower if there are 100x as many files. They don't seem to understand the original intent of p2p.
I share 400-500 files, as do many users. Compare that to BT, where each person must be running a file's torrent for it to be shared (1-10 avg, I would guess). One is for distribution, the other is for file sharing. If you want something that's not popular enough to have active torrents at any given time, try eMule, where many files are permanently shared.
I must disagree. I switched to Avast specifically because I liked it's UI better. The only thing I have a problem with is the yearly registration required for the free version.
Even so reporters who didn't take the extra step and log onto the Internet through an additional secure connection like a virtual private network, risked having their data exposed to colleagues sitting just feet away.
Even so people who post stories to Slashdot, should learn to use commas.
I'd have to slightly disagree. Some people might be more or less incapable of overcoming their own addictions, but they CAN choose to ask for help.
I have just such an addictive personality, but can overcome it with enough willpower (granted, I'm gifted in the mental department). I've gone from one game to the next, often with signifigant pauses in between.
But deep inside, at the bottom of the well, lies a panic button. I doubt there's anybody that's so addicted that they really can't reach for it. The more ruined you are, the more despair you'll feel, and the more accessible the button will be.
Their casemods are cooler? Am I the only one who thinks computers that look like aliens are really ugly? I look upon one of those as I do a low-riding SUV with 19" wheels and spinners.....as crap. A pile of crap that cost a lot of money.
Ummm, that's exactly what modern society teaches us. Effort X skill = results. Determination and effort = results. Skill is often just an effort modifier. More skill = less work for same production, at least if many of life's pursuits.
Or to put it mathematically for the programmers: 1 effort X 5 skill is less than 10 effort X 1 skill.
What do business leaders, inventors, scientists teach us? They say don't give up. Skill determines how far you CAN go, but your effort determines how far you DO go.
This may not apply so much to art, etc., because those disciplines are very dependent on skill, rather than effort, making your question self-answering.
I've got an unused machine in my office at a decent university set up as my mail and web server. Unlimited bandwidth (within reason). Free bandwidth! My own box! On-site administration! Nobody knows! Unlimited email space! ALL THE EXCLAMATION POINTS I WANT!!!
The article doesn't seem to distinguish between Europe and Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Somebody here knows not geography.
It also doesn't say how many units shipped in Europe, so no direct comparison is possible. So either the headline was made up or the article was poorly written.
I use Seamonkey (Mozilla) mail because I LIKE my mail client integrated with my browser, and I LIKE it staying resident in memory, checking my email every 10 minutes. Oh yeah, the name change was stupid. It's freaking Mozilla. Long live Seamonkey!
Simple: get what's new and cost-effective and popular.
CPU:Athlon 64 3200 or better
Motherboard: Socket 939, dual-channel DDR RAM (single channel if too costly), PCI-Express, gigabit LAN (future proofing). Chipset:I'd say Nforce4, but that's the one thing I'm behind on.
RAM: DDR 400 (PC3200) or better with a name brand (name brand gets you more reliability and overclocking)
Video card: Nvidia Geforce 6600GT (or 6800GS if you want lots of performance....ohhhh I wish I had one...). Alternitavely, you can go lower if you're not into games that much. I'm still using an overclocked Geforce 4200 for new games because I have no money, and it works ok.
"The measure of our hearts isn't how much we love others, but how much others love us."
I think this is meant to say that doing good things is better than thinking about them. As in, Mother Theresa's heart was of greater measure than Grandma's. Grandma may be the kindest woman in the world, but she didn't sacrifice her life to helping others. Thousands+ of people love Mother Theresa, but only 30 love grandma...
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Yes, exactly! The magic of the web is that it was designed so minimally. HTML and HTTP, that was it. The rest is up to the user, and we know that turned out pretty well. We have google, wikipedia, web frameworks and CMS's by the dozen...the simplicity and looseness eventually became its strength. A properly engineered and structured system might not have grown as useful!
If the www wasn't invented by Tim and gopher had become the dominant medium, then obviously people would have extended it as they did the web. The real question is...how would it compare? Would gopher have been extended and plied as well as the web? Or would design decisions have made it more structured...more like what scifi used to think future computers would be like; useful and powerful, but with a very defined role.
We now have websites that spring up every day to cater to our every need -- for free! That aspect alone I think is a consequence of the way the web evolved. Anyway, I always wonder about that, whether different possibilities would have been as good, or whether we got lucky and scored a big win :)
Can the universe handle all that I/O? I mean, won't the oceans boil or something? I'm pretty sure I read something about that somewhere. For God's sake man, don't turn it on!
Believe it or not, some people do like Windows Server 2003/2008 as a workstation OS. Some Examples: 1 2 3
I actually like GTK Windows apps better than native ones! Smaller dialogs are usually resizable, which is something Windows (at least XP and earlier) does horribly wrong. Options dialogs also often don't disable the main window, another thing Windows sucks at.
Hopefully QT will bring more windowing goodness to Windows (if it hasn't already).
I've actually had this happen to me. After a couple of years, my video card decided to 'degrade' its performance. It would sometimes lock up (completely, no numlock or anything) when playing certain games, but after 30-90 seconds, Windows would change modes to tell me there was a problem with my card. Pretty nice if you ask me.
I've since lowered the resolution to avoid this.
for i in infinity:
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Hopefully you have the same customer service standards as Cox.
If Cox gets one of these letters with your IP address, they bypass all that corporate bureaucracy and help you by directly disconnecting your internet! No need to worry about innocence or guilt, a mere accusation will do!
Many of these people keep complaining that ed2k/kad are slow. Well of course a particular file will be slower if there are 100x as many files. They don't seem to understand the original intent of p2p.
I share 400-500 files, as do many users. Compare that to BT, where each person must be running a file's torrent for it to be shared (1-10 avg, I would guess). One is for distribution, the other is for file sharing. If you want something that's not popular enough to have active torrents at any given time, try eMule, where many files are permanently shared.
I must disagree. I switched to Avast specifically because I liked it's UI better. The only thing I have a problem with is the yearly registration required for the free version.
Even so reporters who didn't take the extra step and log onto the Internet through an additional secure connection like a virtual private network, risked having their data exposed to colleagues sitting just feet away.
Even so people who post stories to Slashdot, should learn to use commas.
This explains why I like their beer so much. They're using mind control!
Perhaps this "networking pioneer" can enlighten me.
One of my favorite freaky movie endings...
I'd have to slightly disagree. Some people might be more or less incapable of overcoming their own addictions, but they CAN choose to ask for help.
I have just such an addictive personality, but can overcome it with enough willpower (granted, I'm gifted in the mental department). I've gone from one game to the next, often with signifigant pauses in between.
But deep inside, at the bottom of the well, lies a panic button. I doubt there's anybody that's so addicted that they really can't reach for it. The more ruined you are, the more despair you'll feel, and the more accessible the button will be.
"University censors educational websites"
I think that says it all.
Indeed, I lost my taste for sugar a long time ago, and I never look back (although I still drink 3 soft drinks a day - horrible for my teeth, I know).
You've got to train your brain to like what's good for it. As in, no frivolous sugar, no white bread, no useless carbs, etc.
Their casemods are cooler? Am I the only one who thinks computers that look like aliens are really ugly? I look upon one of those as I do a low-riding SUV with 19" wheels and spinners.....as crap. A pile of crap that cost a lot of money.
Who gave the Military Police power to vote on things like this? I thought France was a peaceful nation.?
Maybe they're preparing for war...better dust off them running shoes...
Ummm, that's exactly what modern society teaches us. Effort X skill = results. Determination and effort = results. Skill is often just an effort modifier. More skill = less work for same production, at least if many of life's pursuits.
Or to put it mathematically for the programmers:
1 effort X 5 skill is less than 10 effort X 1 skill.
What do business leaders, inventors, scientists teach us? They say don't give up. Skill determines how far you CAN go, but your effort determines how far you DO go.
This may not apply so much to art, etc., because those disciplines are very dependent on skill, rather than effort, making your question self-answering.
Who won again? The tortoise or the hare?
Yet another submitter who can't reconcile what he's writing with what he's writing...
...prevent roughly half of all PCs from running Microsoft's new OS.
One In Two PCs Won't Run Vista's Interface
Do what I do...do both!
I've got an unused machine in my office at a decent university set up as my mail and web server. Unlimited bandwidth (within reason). Free bandwidth! My own box! On-site administration! Nobody knows! Unlimited email space! ALL THE EXCLAMATION POINTS I WANT!!!
The article doesn't seem to distinguish between Europe and Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Somebody here knows not geography.
It also doesn't say how many units shipped in Europe, so no direct comparison is possible. So either the headline was made up or the article was poorly written.
I use Seamonkey (Mozilla) mail because I LIKE my mail client integrated with my browser, and I LIKE it staying resident in memory, checking my email every 10 minutes. Oh yeah, the name change was stupid. It's freaking Mozilla. Long live Seamonkey!
Simple: get what's new and cost-effective and popular.
CPU:Athlon 64 3200 or better
Motherboard: Socket 939, dual-channel DDR RAM (single channel if too costly), PCI-Express, gigabit LAN (future proofing). Chipset:I'd say Nforce4, but that's the one thing I'm behind on.
RAM: DDR 400 (PC3200) or better with a name brand (name brand gets you more reliability and overclocking)
Video card: Nvidia Geforce 6600GT (or 6800GS if you want lots of performance....ohhhh I wish I had one...). Alternitavely, you can go lower if you're not into games that much. I'm still using an overclocked Geforce 4200 for new games because I have no money, and it works ok.
I think this is meant to say that doing good things is better than thinking about them. As in, Mother Theresa's heart was of greater measure than Grandma's. Grandma may be the kindest woman in the world, but she didn't sacrifice her life to helping others. Thousands+ of people love Mother Theresa, but only 30 love grandma...