When you look at the Task Manager in Windows XP, the only running programs that are called 'Applications' are the ones that have an open window in the taskbar. Things in the system tray do not count as Applications. I assume that this Starter version of XP would use the same differentiation.
Another poster pointed out that a search for XFree86 on that adult search engine brings up a number of results, that have XFree86 in them.
It's just porn operators placing a number of popular terms (like XFree86) into their sites so that they will come up as results for that search. It probably just happens that the MSN search blocking algorithm picked up XFree86 recently.
The actual site isn't blocked, just the search term "XFree86". Nothing to see here, it's just the MSN Search algorithms doing their job, albeit poorly.
The grandparent post was referring to Firebird/Firefox, not the other Mozilla browser.
I just recently switched to Firefox, and I haven't found any problems, except for some MSN/Hotmail pages, although that is likely a standards problem with the page, not a problem with Firefox.
When the revenue comes before the costs, Dell will also get interest from the bank. This is also how payroll companies make all their money, from interest.
When I was shopping around for an older Cadillac STS (never got one) I recall reading that if the check engine light came on, you could push a certain combination of buttons on the dash and the trouble code and description would then display on a text readout on the dash.
That's actually a good point... one of the reason why textbooks are so expensive are because of low circulation. E-books would remove the cost of printing a small run of textbooks, effectively lowering the price of texts...
I don't have any evidence to quote or anything, but I am sure that Intel has been making compilers (and charging for them) since the first intel processor came out.
Buying the latest Intel compiler is probably a normal cost written off every year at most large software companies. One person in this thread asked why the GCC compiler may be a 'risk' compared to the intel one. I am sure companies would be more comfortable using the compiler made by the processor company rather than from a 3rd party. Its like buying parts for your car, sure the aftermarket ones should work fine, but if you buy the ones from GM, sure they may cost more, but you can be assured of compatibility and quality.
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You do have to consider a couple of things...
Opera can report as many different browsers, and I don't think it defaults to reporting as Opera, so that would probably move opera up a little, possibly past Konqueror.
You also have to consider some of the statistical rules... your not actually getting a sample of slashdot users, but a sample of slashdot users who are interested in this particular story.
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Also don't forget those who, after having their movies expire, believe the files have somehow disappeared, and don't take up any more disk space. Then they will be wondering why their 30GB HD's are full...
"Here's your problem, you have about 40 movies on your HD"
"But how can they be there? Media Player (or your favourite equivalent) can't play them anymore!"
The thing that I noticed here is that his "HTML rendering" test was actually, according to his account an "HTML table rendering test"... how about other HTML elements... he should have made his own page that was really long, and had a good assortment of all the different elements from tables to lists, and add in some CSS and other stuff...
Now there are probably more bugs in IE than Netscape, but I do recall after just reading through HTML - The Complete Reference, that everywhere you looked it kept mentioning how this and that work fine under IE, but not under netscape.
However, when considering "Standards Compliant", IE does go beyond the standards quite a bit, implementing their own features everywhere. This has good and bad implications, since many pages will only render properly under IE, however if the W3C incorporates them into the next set of HTML standards, it can make HTML better (or more cluttered).
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You can preorder a GameCube for $199 or a Xbox for $499. Which do you think a gamer who just got laid off, or is paranoid that they might be laid off when everyone is freaking out about the shitty economy?
They will probably choose none of the above. I don't think buying a new gaming system is the priority for someone who just got laid off. (Unless, of course you are dealing with someone like me, who seems to always find the cash required for "new super deluxe item better than anyone else has" no matter how much money I do or do not have.
MS probably already has her under a contract, kinda like how the people who voice The Simpsons aren't supposed to do their voices in public. I guess it would be a bit more difficult if it was her normal voice they were using, but i am sure she has some rules, releasing her voice to the press may be one of them.
customers using the Microsoft Windows NT Server or
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server operating systems.
So I guess the people who are running Windows 2K Pro think they are fine? Windows 2000 Professional includes IIS 5.0. But, it is not installed by default, if I remember correctly.
Ya, it kind of annoyed me that the northern areas of canada were cut off. They just barely got edmonton on there. It would have been neat to see some of the northern towns in the yukon and the territories (and for you americans, Alaska). There is one "earth at night" image that a different poster (jmorzins) linked to, Here, that shows all the way up to the north pole. It is interesting since every little town and research site up there seems to have at least one light turned on.
Most of the light shown in the picture is probably being reflected off of the ground, so lights that just point down will not help. Unless we put a giant shield over the entire earth, then no light would get out and we could see the night sky.... nevermind.:)
One thing to point out, is that the map is using mercator's projection (a way of making a sphere look like a square on a map) and it makes things near the equator a lot smaller than the land far from the equator. This makes places like india, australia and the malasia area a lot smaller compared to europe, canada, and northern US. Those cities in australia, for instance, are a lot larger than some of the canadian cities shown, yet it looks like they give off a heck of a lot less light. I don't think it is the amazing lighting technology they are using.
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To my knowledge, Microsoft didn't even try to mass-mail the patch to their registered customers who might be affected.
To solve the problem of servers being shut down and the internet being slowed down, we're gonna send emails to every single Windows 2000 user?
I agree with other posters that the responsibility is in the hands of the system admins and the home users (i do believe cable and DSL are being hit hard, too). MS has done what they can by making the patch availiable, and the media "hype" involved with this virus should be enough for admins and users to download the patch.
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He could argue that he liked that level of brightness and volume, something that is not uncommon among high rollers according to TFA.
He was asking to have a disabled gambling feature (double down) activated, not merely adjusting the brightness and volume.
this was done not using a tracker inside the puck, but was painted on digitally during the broadcast delay
Wikipedia says that it used infared LEDs and special cameras to add the glow. That sounds like tracking to me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FoxTrax
I think we need to get James Bond over there ASAP, that, or Smokey the Bear.
I'd imagine it would be difficult to write anything with only one of each letter.
When you look at the Task Manager in Windows XP, the only running programs that are called 'Applications' are the ones that have an open window in the taskbar. Things in the system tray do not count as Applications. I assume that this Starter version of XP would use the same differentiation.
The moment we build a Microwave plant, we'll have UFO's all over blowing stuff up.
Your sig says it all: Nothing to see here.
Another poster pointed out that a search for XFree86 on that adult search engine brings up a number of results, that have XFree86 in them.
It's just porn operators placing a number of popular terms (like XFree86) into their sites so that they will come up as results for that search. It probably just happens that the MSN search blocking algorithm picked up XFree86 recently.
The actual site isn't blocked, just the search term "XFree86". Nothing to see here, it's just the MSN Search algorithms doing their job, albeit poorly.
The grandparent post was referring to Firebird/Firefox, not the other Mozilla browser.
I just recently switched to Firefox, and I haven't found any problems, except for some MSN/Hotmail pages, although that is likely a standards problem with the page, not a problem with Firefox.
When the revenue comes before the costs, Dell will also get interest from the bank. This is also how payroll companies make all their money, from interest.
When I was shopping around for an older Cadillac STS (never got one) I recall reading that if the check engine light came on, you could push a certain combination of buttons on the dash and the trouble code and description would then display on a text readout on the dash.
That's actually a good point... one of the reason why textbooks are so expensive are because of low circulation. E-books would remove the cost of printing a small run of textbooks, effectively lowering the price of texts...
I don't have any evidence to quote or anything, but I am sure that Intel has been making compilers (and charging for them) since the first intel processor came out.
Buying the latest Intel compiler is probably a normal cost written off every year at most large software companies. One person in this thread asked why the GCC compiler may be a 'risk' compared to the intel one. I am sure companies would be more comfortable using the compiler made by the processor company rather than from a 3rd party. Its like buying parts for your car, sure the aftermarket ones should work fine, but if you buy the ones from GM, sure they may cost more, but you can be assured of compatibility and quality.
You do have to consider a couple of things...
Opera can report as many different browsers, and I don't think it defaults to reporting as Opera, so that would probably move opera up a little, possibly past Konqueror.
You also have to consider some of the statistical rules... your not actually getting a sample of slashdot users, but a sample of slashdot users who are interested in this particular story.
They could be using Wine...
Also don't forget those who, after having their movies expire, believe the files have somehow disappeared, and don't take up any more disk space. Then they will be wondering why their 30GB HD's are full...
"Here's your problem, you have about 40 movies on your HD""But how can they be there? Media Player (or your favourite equivalent) can't play them anymore!"
The thing that I noticed here is that his "HTML rendering" test was actually, according to his account an "HTML table rendering test"... how about other HTML elements... he should have made his own page that was really long, and had a good assortment of all the different elements from tables to lists, and add in some CSS and other stuff...
Now there are probably more bugs in IE than Netscape, but I do recall after just reading through HTML - The Complete Reference, that everywhere you looked it kept mentioning how this and that work fine under IE, but not under netscape.
However, when considering "Standards Compliant", IE does go beyond the standards quite a bit, implementing their own features everywhere. This has good and bad implications, since many pages will only render properly under IE, however if the W3C incorporates them into the next set of HTML standards, it can make HTML better (or more cluttered).
You can preorder a GameCube for $199 or a Xbox for $499. Which do you think a gamer who just got laid off, or is paranoid that they might be laid off when everyone is freaking out about the shitty economy?
They will probably choose none of the above. I don't think buying a new gaming system is the priority for someone who just got laid off. (Unless, of course you are dealing with someone like me, who seems to always find the cash required for "new super deluxe item better than anyone else has" no matter how much money I do or do not have.
MS probably already has her under a contract, kinda like how the people who voice The Simpsons aren't supposed to do their voices in public. I guess it would be a bit more difficult if it was her normal voice they were using, but i am sure she has some rules, releasing her voice to the press may be one of them.
So I guess the people who are running Windows 2K Pro think they are fine? Windows 2000 Professional includes IIS 5.0. But, it is not installed by default, if I remember correctly.
Ya, it kind of annoyed me that the northern areas of canada were cut off. They just barely got edmonton on there. It would have been neat to see some of the northern towns in the yukon and the territories (and for you americans, Alaska). There is one "earth at night" image that a different poster (jmorzins) linked to, Here, that shows all the way up to the north pole. It is interesting since every little town and research site up there seems to have at least one light turned on.
One thing to point out, is that the map is using mercator's projection (a way of making a sphere look like a square on a map) and it makes things near the equator a lot smaller than the land far from the equator. This makes places like india, australia and the malasia area a lot smaller compared to europe, canada, and northern US. Those cities in australia, for instance, are a lot larger than some of the canadian cities shown, yet it looks like they give off a heck of a lot less light. I don't think it is the amazing lighting technology they are using.
To solve the problem of servers being shut down and the internet being slowed down, we're gonna send emails to every single Windows 2000 user?
I agree with other posters that the responsibility is in the hands of the system admins and the home users (i do believe cable and DSL are being hit hard, too). MS has done what they can by making the patch availiable, and the media "hype" involved with this virus should be enough for admins and users to download the patch.
The difference is he is attaching his comments to the actual news story, where others are posting comments.
Editorials should be left to editorial articles, or to comments about articles.
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