If you want more stability in N4 (certainly on windows) disable Java. If you also disable JavaScript it's actually quite stable. Unfortunatly your stylesheets go out the door along with JavaScript though... Not that they were supported all that well to begin with =P
well how did this whole open source movement get this far? Seems to me OS has done fairly well for itself with a lesser degree of distributed leadership. Just because it seems like the correct "traditional" route to go (with leadership) doesn't mean that it's the right thing for OS, or how things will work in the future. Especially since Linux has already proven that OS (the perposterous rule breaker itself) CAN work, and DOES work with a lack of leadership. I think what most OS projects really need is an arbitrator. Instead of having programmers bicker about doing this or that, there needs to be someone who says we'll do it this way, and if it sucks we'll do it the other way.
would you really want to find out what sort of program microsoft would come up with as a zip utility?
After you have to have the latest version of IE installed (a requirement of course), and it integrates with your system, and takes at least 10 seconds to load you say to yourself: "I just want to unzip this 5k file".
how about we go back to text based games and figure out which video card can render faster. Special effects can include changing the font color. And instead of worrying about the sound card, we'll just use the PC beep for sound effects too.
isn't that what the problem with the P4 is? That there are no compilers optimizing for it? I think Intel is taking a bad approach by relying too much on compiler optimization. Supposidly once programs are optimized for the P4, it will run programs far faster (than say an Athlon). As for all those legacy apps (that is, everything nowdays)... sure they'll run, but performance wise? oh well, you should have recompiled it. Might not be so bad for the UNIX systems where you can recompile your stuff if you have the code, but on Windows you will just get shafted
actually I sort of already posted a lot of what I've gotten. Well I didn't post the content, or the mail addresses, but I did sort of post summaries of what I recieved. And no I am NOT in anyones addressbook, I just happen to have the misfortune of having a webpage which people visited with this virus around.
I wrote a simple perl script to take out the junk. Basically
read(FILE, $buffer, 137216);
then print the rest of the file to a new file. I guess I never thought much about the ethics, I more or less considered it compensation for the stupidity of those who got it and sent it to me. Well I never got anything too comprimising, but it's interesting to see what "normal" people put on their computers.
It seems to me that if the ancient Egyptians had used a method as unusual as a kite, that there would be more than a few hyerogliphs of it. I mean something that radical would certainly warrant some pictures.
And for the record (which has probably been stated elsewhere here) - It is more than likely that they ancient Egyptians did NOT use slaves to build the pyramids, but instead employed workers. I've seen more than a few documentaries which support this, although I find it hard to believe that the Egyptians would have slaves, and not use them to do at least some of the work.
This is exactly the problem I had as a college graduate looking for a job. The philosophy at my university was: "We teach HOW to program, not how to program in a specific language". But as soon as you look for a job everyone wanted 2 years of programming in language "X". Now I wasn't picky about my wadges. My background was in C++, so with a little training I could easily shift into C or Java. It's sort of like "You can't get a credit card without credit, and can't get credit without a card" problem. Ironically, I graduated and ended up with a job in which I use the skills I picked up "on the side" during college, while my C++ manual sits gathering dust.
I agree with you, but I'd also have to say that more than a few people think that there always has to be a Linux version of everything Microsoft has. If you've ever seen the wish list for Mozilla, you can see this gets old fast. "Why can't it do this and that the same as IE? Why doesn't it support Active X? IE supports Active X. Why doesn't it look like IE? I like the way IE looks..." etc. Believe me, when MS figures out gestures are an awesome idea and incorporate it into IE, everyone will praise MS for such a great innovation... as some people (such as the MS PR department) don't consider anything an "innovation" until Microsoft does it.
Mimicking might not be the best idea, but remember that having an open source equivalent can make it a lot easier to migrate. And perhaps once the transition has already happened, they can find and open source alternative which better suites them (since they actually get the freedom to CHOOSE).
er... couldn't we just make up our own extremely long numbers to do this? Seems to me that if there is so much of a thought about wheither Pi is random or not, that people could figure out a number just as big and random. I mean I could take a gigantic picture of my butt, convert it to ascii and that's random enough for me.
Next thing you know they'll use SSN's for social security... Like I'll ever see any of that money I'm paying in for it. So I spend my working portion of my life paying in for this bar code (SSN) and at the end I get rewarded with a $5 a month check. Whee, thanks Uncle Sam.
How long will it be until intel supports DDR? I just purchaced a computer, and I decided to go with AMD. Granted I've heard a lot about the benchmarks between AMD and Intel, but the main two factors for me were cost vs performance (in which AMD seems to almost always been ahead), and the fact that AMD has been going with DDR RAM.
And I think most of us saw Rambus spiraling down for a while now, so this isn't so much of a surprise.
that's nice now, but what about the suckers who bought it at one episode per tape when it was first released? I'll admit they've (Pioneer) have gotten better about it, but one ep per tape? They then re-released it at two episodes (OAV) per tape - which is probably where many more people saw it. The DVD was released with lots of cool gizmos - no doubt to draw those hard core fans, or those who just wanted it on DVD (it seems to be targeted at those who already have the series on VHS). Finally the OAV saw yet another incarnation when it was released on TV, which probably generated a lot more revenue for Pioneer. Overall they're marketing has been extremly smart, and has probably been the most profitable anime series Pioneer will ever see.
Anyway, don't give us the "what are you talking about", when some of us have been into anime for a long time, and many of us are still majorly pissed about getting cornholed on prices for YEARS before 99% of the U.S. even knew what anime was. I can remember pretty clearly the time when it wasn't so much about what was released when; but when you would be able to afford what you wanted.
correct me if I'm wrong, but if I don't use IE, and thus don't use "Temporary Internet Files" for my cache, then it can't find any addresses either. In one way or another this would seem to require a M$ product.
well Microsoft (in their concern for security) are one step ahead of you, since they're not going to include the JVM anymore. Ahh.. I feel safer already.
yeah, I got the pif one this morning. Now I'm no genius, but when was the last time you saw a.pif file that was over 3 megs? (I'm a M$DOS batchfile junkie, so I mess with them all the time). Anyone know how to remove the virus from the attachment so you can see what random file you got? I got a *.zip.pif, and I'd like to see what it is since my mailbox just got stuffed with this damn thing.
then again maybe everyone will run away in fear from all those ".tif" files on their computer. Egads! My scanner makes viruses!
Slashdot Mirror
yeah, that won't take any bandwidth to do...
It's a version bug.
There is some calculus property, such that as the Mozilla version gets closer to 1, time goes to infinity. =)
If you want more stability in N4 (certainly on windows) disable Java. If you also disable JavaScript it's actually quite stable. Unfortunatly your stylesheets go out the door along with JavaScript though... Not that they were supported all that well to begin with =P
well how did this whole open source movement get this far? Seems to me OS has done fairly well for itself with a lesser degree of distributed leadership. Just because it seems like the correct "traditional" route to go (with leadership) doesn't mean that it's the right thing for OS, or how things will work in the future. Especially since Linux has already proven that OS (the perposterous rule breaker itself) CAN work, and DOES work with a lack of leadership. I think what most OS projects really need is an arbitrator. Instead of having programmers bicker about doing this or that, there needs to be someone who says we'll do it this way, and if it sucks we'll do it the other way.
would you really want to find out what sort of program microsoft would come up with as a zip utility?
After you have to have the latest version of IE installed (a requirement of course), and it integrates with your system, and takes at least 10 seconds to load you say to yourself: "I just want to unzip this 5k file".
hmm.. sounds sort of like the windows start screen.
Um... if they didn't know what to do with it, what was it for, and what did you use it for afterwards?
how about we go back to text based games and figure out which video card can render faster. Special effects can include changing the font color. And instead of worrying about the sound card, we'll just use the PC beep for sound effects too.
isn't that what the problem with the P4 is? That there are no compilers optimizing for it? I think Intel is taking a bad approach by relying too much on compiler optimization. Supposidly once programs are optimized for the P4, it will run programs far faster (than say an Athlon). As for all those legacy apps (that is, everything nowdays)... sure they'll run, but performance wise? oh well, you should have recompiled it. Might not be so bad for the UNIX systems where you can recompile your stuff if you have the code, but on Windows you will just get shafted
actually I sort of already posted a lot of what I've gotten. Well I didn't post the content, or the mail addresses, but I did sort of post summaries of what I recieved. And no I am NOT in anyones addressbook, I just happen to have the misfortune of having a webpage which people visited with this virus around.
I wrote a simple perl script to take out the junk. Basically
read(FILE, $buffer, 137216);
then print the rest of the file to a new file. I guess I never thought much about the ethics, I more or less considered it compensation for the stupidity of those who got it and sent it to me. Well I never got anything too comprimising, but it's interesting to see what "normal" people put on their computers.
sort of like how a computer becomes unusable if you move the start bar to the top and on autohide? har har.
It seems to me that if the ancient Egyptians had used a method as unusual as a kite, that there would be more than a few hyerogliphs of it. I mean something that radical would certainly warrant some pictures.
And for the record (which has probably been stated elsewhere here) - It is more than likely that they ancient Egyptians did NOT use slaves to build the pyramids, but instead employed workers. I've seen more than a few documentaries which support this, although I find it hard to believe that the Egyptians would have slaves, and not use them to do at least some of the work.
This is exactly the problem I had as a college graduate looking for a job. The philosophy at my university was: "We teach HOW to program, not how to program in a specific language". But as soon as you look for a job everyone wanted 2 years of programming in language "X". Now I wasn't picky about my wadges. My background was in C++, so with a little training I could easily shift into C or Java. It's sort of like "You can't get a credit card without credit, and can't get credit without a card" problem. Ironically, I graduated and ended up with a job in which I use the skills I picked up "on the side" during college, while my C++ manual sits gathering dust.
I agree with you, but I'd also have to say that more than a few people think that there always has to be a Linux version of everything Microsoft has. If you've ever seen the wish list for Mozilla, you can see this gets old fast. "Why can't it do this and that the same as IE? Why doesn't it support Active X? IE supports Active X. Why doesn't it look like IE? I like the way IE looks..." etc. Believe me, when MS figures out gestures are an awesome idea and incorporate it into IE, everyone will praise MS for such a great innovation... as some people (such as the MS PR department) don't consider anything an "innovation" until Microsoft does it.
Mimicking might not be the best idea, but remember that having an open source equivalent can make it a lot easier to migrate. And perhaps once the transition has already happened, they can find and open source alternative which better suites them (since they actually get the freedom to CHOOSE).
a company, maybe. But perhaps not a product. Take Back Orifice for instance.
er... couldn't we just make up our own extremely long numbers to do this? Seems to me that if there is so much of a thought about wheither Pi is random or not, that people could figure out a number just as big and random. I mean I could take a gigantic picture of my butt, convert it to ascii and that's random enough for me.
Next thing you know they'll use SSN's for social security... Like I'll ever see any of that money I'm paying in for it. So I spend my working portion of my life paying in for this bar code (SSN) and at the end I get rewarded with a $5 a month check. Whee, thanks Uncle Sam.
How long will it be until intel supports DDR? I just purchaced a computer, and I decided to go with AMD. Granted I've heard a lot about the benchmarks between AMD and Intel, but the main two factors for me were cost vs performance (in which AMD seems to almost always been ahead), and the fact that AMD has been going with DDR RAM.
And I think most of us saw Rambus spiraling down for a while now, so this isn't so much of a surprise.
I think the moral of the story is not to trust Microsoft's so called "security".
that's nice now, but what about the suckers who bought it at one episode per tape when it was first released? I'll admit they've (Pioneer) have gotten better about it, but one ep per tape? They then re-released it at two episodes (OAV) per tape - which is probably where many more people saw it. The DVD was released with lots of cool gizmos - no doubt to draw those hard core fans, or those who just wanted it on DVD (it seems to be targeted at those who already have the series on VHS). Finally the OAV saw yet another incarnation when it was released on TV, which probably generated a lot more revenue for Pioneer. Overall they're marketing has been extremly smart, and has probably been the most profitable anime series Pioneer will ever see.
Anyway, don't give us the "what are you talking about", when some of us have been into anime for a long time, and many of us are still majorly pissed about getting cornholed on prices for YEARS before 99% of the U.S. even knew what anime was. I can remember pretty clearly the time when it wasn't so much about what was released when; but when you would be able to afford what you wanted.
correct me if I'm wrong, but if I don't use IE, and thus don't use "Temporary Internet Files" for my cache, then it can't find any addresses either. In one way or another this would seem to require a M$ product.
only if you get the right "attachment"
well Microsoft (in their concern for security) are one step ahead of you, since they're not going to include the JVM anymore. Ahh.. I feel safer already.
Hey, what does this Active X thing do?
yeah, I got the pif one this morning. Now I'm no genius, but when was the last time you saw a .pif file that was over 3 megs? (I'm a M$DOS batchfile junkie, so I mess with them all the time). Anyone know how to remove the virus from the attachment so you can see what random file you got? I got a *.zip.pif, and I'd like to see what it is since my mailbox just got stuffed with this damn thing.
then again maybe everyone will run away in fear from all those ".tif" files on their computer. Egads! My scanner makes viruses!
its funny how they do usability studies, then still give you prompts to answer yes or no questions with "okay" and "cancel"