Sorry, but I'm still not in agreement with this: A) The GNU project did not start Linux. B) The GNU project is still working on it's own OS! (Hurd) C) It is unpronounceable. D) It is a stupid thing to haggle over. E) Everytime some GNU purist hears a person say linux, they immediately pause the conversation to waste the person's time explaining to them how evil it is to call it Linux not GNU/Linux. F) Did I mention it is a stupid thing to haggle over? G) Did I mention that they waste people's time with it?
Not just that though, load times for the browser are higher on my machines with Opera. And the page load latency you speak of does seem higher with Opera to me. I use IE on my Windows boots (when I boot into Windows...it isn't often lately) and Galeon in Linux. So, I'm not exactly a militant nothing Mozilla type...I've just had poor experience with Opera.
It is funny you say that. From my experience (YMMV) Opera is much slower. I heard how fast Opera was, so I downloaded it and watching as the images diffused before my eyes. Whereas, with Mozilla and related browsers (I normally use Galeon) and also with IE, everything is snappy. Perhaps the Gig of ram (*evil laugh*) helps in that, but should that just make Opera all that much faster too?
On the other hand, when I'm at school and I use the linux lab's ever not so fast Pentium 3 550MHz with 128mb RAM, Mozilla has a hideous load time, and Galeon's is only decent at best. However, once loaded, the page load times are just as snappy as here at the house.
As for this being a step in the right direction... It is my understanding that the Mozilla project's main goal is to produce the browser engine. So why don't they focus on bug fixes and let people like Netscape and the Galeon project make browsers? Galeon is great (along with a few other Gecko engine browsers) and it very lightweight.
It is much more expensive to get broadband in some places than others. I would be interested to see these results accoording to geographic location. Here in Atlanta, getting good DSL or cable modem service is not that expensive...in fact it costs about the same as a second phone line and dial-up service. The problem here (IMHO...) is one of availability as most people I know simply can not get it. Overall, these results do not surprise me, especially when I hear how much my friends in other states pay for broadband, it seems pretty obscene next to what I pay.
I voted (my first time as I am 18 yay!) in the primary and got to see one of these thing first hand. Very nifty. The interface is VERY clean, and it takes no time at all. The old method however was to basically fill out a form similar to a scantron sheet (darken the bubble...) where you constantly wondered if it was dark enough. I'm all for faster, more accurate voting counts too. Talk about instant results! Anyhow, again, I liked, everyone is entitled to their own opinion.
I think we've already seen that alot of the fears generated by the DMCA have come to pass. Hello...the whole DeCSS debacle...IEEE almost requires papers be declared legal by the DMCA? Just my 2 cents worth...
I built a desktop machine last summer and I put a 250mb zip drive in, instead of the floppy drive. Why? Simple, I wanted one so that I could easily take files back and forth to the labs at school and it's also very convenient rewritable storage whichhas more space and greater reliability than the current floppy disks. Not to mention: I use CDs as boot disks, I use CDs for software installation...heck I use CDs for excess storage! Wait...I never use floppy disks!:-)
Nobody cares to try it because everyone knows that it is technically impossible. Where's the fun in trying to do something you know you can't do???:-) Sides, who wants to waste good technology on windows?;-)
I took the class, when i went to the cheating lecture it was anentire lecture (some lecturers may vary.;-)
I knew no one else in the class because i only went to the first few lectures and never went to recitation other than for tests. I never cracked the text book. I got a B and I half-assed the entire class. But, I've also been programming since I was 9. I'm worried for the MEs and the like that have no programming experience whatsoever. Sorry, copying is wrong, I agree, but a friend pointing you in the right direction shouldn't be. And as it was made out to me, that is considering cheating.
I disagree. Having taken the introductory CS course at Tech, I've got to tell you the rules for cheating were downright insane. They number so many and are so complex that they devote an entire lecture to explaining them. See a problem? Student's litterally could not help each other at all! This is pretty bad considering that kid's that really have no business taking a programming class have to take it - try being a first year college student with very minimal computer experience, no programming experience, no knowledge of programming or what it takes or the mindset it requires, basically no preparationf rom your previously schooling or life experience and being thrown into a course were you are expected to write stupid sorting routines which sometimes have only vague differences, with very crap materials, with a language which has a very crap syntax (scheme..the crap syntax thing is just my opinion) and no real help from anyone when you have a problem with the materials because there is 200 people in your lecture, and then your TA is very limited in how he is allowed to help you. Hmm. See a problem?
My parents did work two jobs to give me an education: at home. Private school for 5 years and the rest were at home. The irony of it all: I had more friends when I was homeschooled along with better test scores than anyone in private school or public school and i began to excel in sports AFTER I started homeschooling. Go figure. My parents were always there for me when I needed them too. They could have been there more if they didn't have to pay for other kids education's with taxes.
I never said theirs is worse. I said socialism results in a crap education. all public education systems are a result of socialism, hence they all suck. I'd never send a kid into a public school. If it meant working two jobs to pay for his or her education, I would NEVER do it.
A) How in the name of God is it my responsibility to pay for other's health insurance?
B) People who don't have health insurance almost universally (there are exceptions) don't have it because either they choose not to have it, or because they made poor choices which resulted in their inability to have it. Geez, even fast food places offer health insurance to full-time employees! At Chick-Fil-A here in Georgia they offer it at no cost to the employee!!!
C) Well, whys hould it be cheaper...hmm maybe because we're not a part of the EU and we shouldn't subject to your silly socialist laws and regulations (wake up, socialism does not work in the real world! It results in a crap economy, crap education, and crap health care, and eventually, pissed off citizens!) We're a sovereign nation. Instead of trying to get us to enforce your laws, try getting ISPs in your country's to enforce it. Charge a small user's fee. Then you'd make money off people who didn't even make online purchases...
show me where in the constitution or even declaration of independence democracy is mentioned. saved your time it's not. the idea wasnted even mentioned until the wilson administration.
Gee, in that case it's to bad we don't have a democratic government, cause then we could all sit back and watch and not have to keep and eye of the representatives and senators we have to elected in our republican government as they try to slip one more right away from us. I agree however with your premise: Legislation is not what's needed. A industry paradigm shift however IS needed.
While it IS pleasant news, it was not a surprise. If you read the change log to the last patch, one of the changes was the addition of a mod menu. Hmm could this be because they are releasing the game code?:-)
Umm Deus Ex is a fairly popular game, and Thief once was. Deus Ex is supposed to have a sequel on the way and Thief already had one ( maybe 2) sequel. Deus Ex does still matter, if you've seen some recent betas - there's a game called neocron, that's massively multiplayer, that resembles Deus Ex a lot.
I thank God everyday I live off campus. Everyone in the dorms whines about the lag and D/L speeds! They need to add another OC/3 or 2.:-) I have a friend on west campus who consistently downloads at 3/K a second, My ADSL line pisses him off!:-)
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Sorry, but I'm still not in agreement with this:
A) The GNU project did not start Linux.
B) The GNU project is still working on it's own OS! (Hurd)
C) It is unpronounceable.
D) It is a stupid thing to haggle over.
E) Everytime some GNU purist hears a person say linux, they immediately pause the conversation to waste the person's time explaining to them how evil it is to call it Linux not GNU/Linux.
F) Did I mention it is a stupid thing to haggle over?
G) Did I mention that they waste people's time with it?
Not just that though, load times for the browser are higher on my machines with Opera. And the page load latency you speak of does seem higher with Opera to me. I use IE on my Windows boots (when I boot into Windows...it isn't often lately) and Galeon in Linux. So, I'm not exactly a militant nothing Mozilla type...I've just had poor experience with Opera.
It is funny you say that. From my experience (YMMV) Opera is much slower. I heard how fast Opera was, so I downloaded it and watching as the images diffused before my eyes. Whereas, with Mozilla and related browsers (I normally use Galeon) and also with IE, everything is snappy. Perhaps the Gig of ram (*evil laugh*) helps in that, but should that just make Opera all that much faster too?
On the other hand, when I'm at school and I use the linux lab's ever not so fast Pentium 3 550MHz with 128mb RAM, Mozilla has a hideous load time, and Galeon's is only decent at best. However, once loaded, the page load times are just as snappy as here at the house.
As for this being a step in the right direction...
It is my understanding that the Mozilla project's main goal is to produce the browser engine. So why don't they focus on bug fixes and let people like Netscape and the Galeon project make browsers? Galeon is great (along with a few other Gecko engine browsers) and it very lightweight.
It is much more expensive to get broadband in some places than others. I would be interested to see these results accoording to geographic location. Here in Atlanta, getting good DSL or cable modem service is not that expensive...in fact it costs about the same as a second phone line and dial-up service. The problem here (IMHO...) is one of availability as most people I know simply can not get it. Overall, these results do not surprise me, especially when I hear how much my friends in other states pay for broadband, it seems pretty obscene next to what I pay.
Except that it has been done before. Many Many times before.
Actually...I've had several ISPs do this very thing for me on several occasions.
I voted (my first time as I am 18 yay!) in the primary and got to see one of these thing first hand. Very nifty. The interface is VERY clean, and it takes no time at all. The old method however was to basically fill out a form similar to a scantron sheet (darken the bubble...) where you constantly wondered if it was dark enough. I'm all for faster, more accurate voting counts too. Talk about instant results! Anyhow, again, I liked, everyone is entitled to their own opinion.
I think we've already seen that alot of the fears generated by the DMCA have come to pass. Hello...the whole DeCSS debacle...IEEE almost requires papers be declared legal by the DMCA? Just my 2 cents worth...
I built a desktop machine last summer and I put a 250mb zip drive in, instead of the floppy drive. Why? Simple, I wanted one so that I could easily take files back and forth to the labs at school and it's also very convenient rewritable storage whichhas more space and greater reliability than the current floppy disks. Not to mention: I use CDs as boot disks, I use CDs for software installation...heck I use CDs for excess storage! Wait...I never use floppy disks! :-)
who want's a box playing bass in your punk/ska band though? I sure don't!
Less possible chord formations also, iirc. :-)
I'd like to see a robot bass player...bass players are hard to find these days, particularly half-way decent ones.
Nobody cares to try it because everyone knows that it is technically impossible. Where's the fun in trying to do something you know you can't do??? :-) Sides, who wants to waste good technology on windows? ;-)
Thanks, like i said, I only glanced at the page (was to busy doing calculus 3 homework.)
I admit i only glanced at the page...but i didn't see a how-to section...come on details please! that's so frigen kewl i gotta do it myself!
I took the class, when i went to the cheating lecture it was anentire lecture (some lecturers may vary. ;-)
I knew no one else in the class because i only went to the first few lectures and never went to recitation other than for tests. I never cracked the text book. I got a B and I half-assed the entire class. But, I've also been programming since I was 9. I'm worried for the MEs and the like that have no programming experience whatsoever. Sorry, copying is wrong, I agree, but a friend pointing you in the right direction shouldn't be. And as it was made out to me, that is considering cheating.
I disagree. Having taken the introductory CS course at Tech, I've got to tell you the rules for cheating were downright insane. They number so many and are so complex that they devote an entire lecture to explaining them. See a problem?
Student's litterally could not help each other at all! This is pretty bad considering that kid's that really have no business taking a programming class have to take it - try being a first year college student with very minimal computer experience, no programming experience, no knowledge of programming or what it takes or the mindset it requires, basically no preparationf rom your previously schooling or life experience and being thrown into a course were you are expected to write stupid sorting routines which sometimes have only vague differences, with very crap materials, with a language which has a very crap syntax (scheme..the crap syntax thing is just my opinion) and no real help from anyone when you have a problem with the materials because there is 200 people in your lecture, and then your TA is very limited in how he is allowed to help you. Hmm. See a problem?
My parents did work two jobs to give me an education: at home. Private school for 5 years and the rest were at home. The irony of it all: I had more friends when I was homeschooled along with better test scores than anyone in private school or public school and i began to excel in sports AFTER I started homeschooling. Go figure. My parents were always there for me when I needed them too. They could have been there more if they didn't have to pay for other kids education's with taxes.
I never said theirs is worse. I said socialism results in a crap education. all public education systems are a result of socialism, hence they all suck. I'd never send a kid into a public school. If it meant working two jobs to pay for his or her education, I would NEVER do it.
A) How in the name of God is it my responsibility to pay for other's health insurance?
B) People who don't have health insurance almost universally (there are exceptions) don't have it because either they choose not to have it, or because they made poor choices which resulted in their inability to have it. Geez, even fast food places offer health insurance to full-time employees! At Chick-Fil-A here in Georgia they offer it at no cost to the employee!!!
C) Well, whys hould it be cheaper...hmm maybe because we're not a part of the EU and we shouldn't subject to your silly socialist laws and regulations (wake up, socialism does not work in the real world! It results in a crap economy, crap education, and crap health care, and eventually, pissed off citizens!) We're a sovereign nation. Instead of trying to get us to enforce your laws, try getting ISPs in your country's to enforce it. Charge a small user's fee. Then you'd make money off people who didn't even make online purchases...
show me where in the constitution or even declaration of independence democracy is mentioned. saved your time it's not. the idea wasnted even mentioned until the wilson administration.
Gee, in that case it's to bad we don't have a democratic government, cause then we could all sit back and watch and not have to keep and eye of the representatives and senators we have to elected in our republican government as they try to slip one more right away from us. I agree however with your premise: Legislation is not what's needed. A industry paradigm shift however IS needed.
While it IS pleasant news, it was not a surprise. If you read the change log to the last patch, one of the changes was the addition of a mod menu. Hmm could this be because they are releasing the game code? :-)
Umm Deus Ex is a fairly popular game, and Thief once was. Deus Ex is supposed to have a sequel on the way and Thief already had one ( maybe 2) sequel. Deus Ex does still matter, if you've seen some recent betas - there's a game called neocron, that's massively multiplayer, that resembles Deus Ex a lot.
One word: Huh?
I thank God everyday I live off campus. Everyone in the dorms whines about the lag and D/L speeds! They need to add another OC/3 or 2. :-) I have a friend on west campus who consistently downloads at 3/K a second, My ADSL line pisses him off! :-)