Still, since he can't sync, yet posters here have indicated its no problem, then I suspect he is just a weanie. Now weanies can be influencial. Its who you know, and what people think you know, ya know? But he obviously doesn't really know.
Its really not the same world as when the Palm was first released. "It's a gizmo to help you track your schedule, your contacts, and to burn time while waiting in airports." Or run octave so that a quick eigensystem could be calculated in class when a prof. reaches -1=1, and looks around lost and confused. Think of it as the ultimate HP-48 killer, and it makes since. Think of it as a palm, and its just a palm...
No, actually "Ctrl+N" forces you to wait for a whole new window to be produced. In that time, it should be finished rendering the page. Sorry...your "killer feature" is last years methodology. As well as being faster, its a more intuitive interface. I love tabs.
Yeah well but...pulling the engine would be analogus to pulling the cpu and changing the rom-bios, yes? Running emacs would be more like putting a music CD "from an unapproved band" into car's sound system. If it makes no changes to the registry it should be ok.
Agreed, and its a big deal to numerical types who use athlons. Our chem. dept. put together a cluster of dual 1.2 ghz athlon boards. Ran a test case using sandia labs MPQC (Massively Parallel Quantum Computing, GPLed by the way:-), comparing it to results from the prof.s single cpu 800 mhz athlon. The 800 mhz athlon kicked ass on the dual 1.2 ghz, until we researched the problems with later gcc and athlons, downloaded an older compiler, and recompiled MPQC. Then it rocked! Interested people might google for ATLAS (or take the ATLAS link after googling LAPACK).
Actually the cheaper CD distributions do have binary only (for the app.s). If I want to recompile VI for an option not included in the default binary compilation I am sent to Mandrake by the html-ized help. Once I get there I find out that I have to promise to pay $60/year (about the price of the binary distribution) in order to download the source...So I downloaded the source elsewhere. Sorry, but I'm a poor grad. student, and right now my cash is *strapped*.
I've bought CD sets for the last two Mandrake releases (used to used SuSE, and before that Redhat, and before that Debian). I bought CD sets for everthing except Debian (because the "first time" should be free). Unfortunately, after convincing a friend in the PSU Math dept. that Octave was a workable MatLab clone (and showing him the Emacs/Octave extensions) he was put off when he went to download Mandrake. "I thought this Linux stuff was supposed to be free to download. I should have known it was a cheap marketing gimmick!"
I didn't have a clue, so I went and looked. Sure enough... I tried to loan him my CDs, and he wouldn't take them. Said that he had better things to do than pirate Linux.
Whether its "skill" or "art" has mostly to do with the approach taken by the practicioner. I've seen people who take care with (admittedly) simple services who are obviously doing more than just slinging it my way. Is that art? Ever drink tea? Is that art? Its all a matter of the approach you take. Anyone who says "coding isn't art", I agree with them that their code isn't.
"Some of us don't care how the OS works as long as it does. "
Of course, but the issue only exsists at the point in time where it *doesn't* work, at which point the "welded-shut car hood" system goes to crap. Also a concern is not just if the OS does what I tell it to, but what else its doing that I can't tell it to stop doing...
Agreed. Mozilla is prettier, laid out better (which to me means its more functional), and at least percieves to be as fast as IE. In terms of "polish" Mozilla's chrome shines (sorry! couldn't resist;-)
I personally am *sick* of the web looking like the designer wants it to rather than like I want it to look. I browse at a high enough res. that many pages reduce to the middle third of my screen. What a waste. And for God's sake, why insert hard coded returns? Text should *wrap*. At the very least put the "printer" button at the top, and don't load anything until I can trigger it (better still, lets code a "print option"-bot:-)
But if you have set www.google.com as your default search engine (as you should;-), it doesn't make sense that "search" should "middleman" through netscape's server.
"According to a network traffic analysis performed by Newsbytes, Netscape is capturing Navigator 6 users' search terms, along with their Internet protocol (IP) address, the date Navigator was installed and a unique identification number."
So your #1,
All http requests send your IP address, they are making normal functionality seem sinister.
misses out on the users' search terms, along with their Internet protocol (IP) address, (and) the date Navigator was installed and a unique identification number. One needs the former to perform the function. Tracking the date installed I could see them legitimately being concerned with if done anonomously for their stat.s. The private ID # lets them tag you and thats where it does potentially become sinister.
Lynx easily beats IE even though "IE is part of windows itself". Also Opera is faster (if you must have graphics...). Merely being "part of the OS" doesn't mean the code is better. There should be advantages, yes. Should doesn't mean there will be.
"most people don't understand the idea of spyware at all, or simply don't care"
I respectfully but *strongly* disagree that people "don't care" their software is tracking and reporting their online behavior. This is one of two issues that people seem to get. They really don't like being spied upon.
Actually dueling used to be condoned. No other way for a Gentleman to protect his honor than to murder his opponent. Yes, I know, "murder is the unlawful killing", but even after dueling was outlawed it was condoned by society.
By the way, its suggested that "being paid" is the key, not really whether you work as a teachering assistant or a research assistant. As an employee you sign over research rights...
Well probably you agreed to sign over your rights when you registered. Remember agreeing to abide by the rules and regulations of the university? Those regulations may or may not (depending on where you go to school) grant the institution all your rights to your work. At least at my school, there is no doubt that I don't own my homework. Research is being debated...lol...unless I'm being paid as a grad. assistent, in which case they got me!
Except MS isn't an employee of Sun. Lets make that more like "Sun's CEO gave me an alpha copy of Solaris from a branch that isn't going to be persued but which is valuable to my unusal needs". The engineers cry, "but I coded that!" The CEO/Professor replies "you coded it for *me*". If you don't want the grade, you don't submit the work. IF you want the grade, you "sell" your work for it. Not everywhere...but its not so clear cut as you propose.
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Theft wasn't mentioned. You assume facts not in evidence.
Still, since he can't sync, yet posters here have indicated its no problem, then I suspect he is just a weanie. Now weanies can be influencial. Its who you know, and what people think you know, ya know? But he obviously doesn't really know.
"Friends don't let friends be marginally literate."?
I buy used text books, and some of the most entertaining course related material I've experience has been stuff I've found in the margins!
Its really not the same world as when the Palm was first released. "It's a gizmo to help you track your schedule, your contacts, and to burn time while waiting in airports." Or run octave so that a quick eigensystem could be calculated in class when a prof. reaches -1=1, and looks around lost and confused. Think of it as the ultimate HP-48 killer, and it makes since. Think of it as a palm, and its just a palm...
What was *not* redundant was the fact that the developer application was in *.doc format. It does rather seem that Sharp isn't targeting us at all.
No, actually "Ctrl+N" forces you to wait for a whole new window to be produced. In that time, it should be finished rendering the page. Sorry...your "killer feature" is last years methodology. As well as being faster, its a more intuitive interface. I love tabs.
Yeah well but...pulling the engine would be analogus to pulling the cpu and changing the rom-bios, yes? Running emacs would be more like putting a music CD "from an unapproved band" into car's sound system. If it makes no changes to the registry it should be ok.
Agreed, and its a big deal to numerical types who use athlons. Our chem. dept. put together a cluster of dual 1.2 ghz athlon boards. Ran a test case using sandia labs MPQC (Massively Parallel Quantum Computing, GPLed by the way :-), comparing it to results from the prof.s single cpu 800 mhz athlon. The 800 mhz athlon kicked ass on the dual 1.2 ghz, until we researched the problems with later gcc and athlons, downloaded an older compiler, and recompiled MPQC. Then it rocked! Interested people might google for ATLAS (or take the ATLAS link after googling LAPACK).
Actually the cheaper CD distributions do have binary only (for the app.s). If I want to recompile VI for an option not included in the default binary compilation I am sent to Mandrake by the html-ized help. Once I get there I find out that I have to promise to pay $60/year (about the price of the binary distribution) in order to download the source...So I downloaded the source elsewhere. Sorry, but I'm a poor grad. student, and right now my cash is *strapped*.
I've bought CD sets for the last two Mandrake releases (used to used SuSE, and before that Redhat, and before that Debian). I bought CD sets for everthing except Debian (because the "first time" should be free). Unfortunately, after convincing a friend in the PSU Math dept. that Octave was a workable MatLab clone (and showing him the Emacs/Octave extensions) he was put off when he went to download Mandrake. "I thought this Linux stuff was supposed to be free to download. I should have known it was a cheap marketing gimmick!"
I didn't have a clue, so I went and looked. Sure enough... I tried to loan him my CDs, and he wouldn't take them. Said that he had better things to do than pirate Linux.
Its a strange world we live in, huh?
In terms of email we call that "additional content" spam.
Whether its "skill" or "art" has mostly to do with the approach taken by the practicioner. I've seen people who take care with (admittedly) simple services who are obviously doing more than just slinging it my way. Is that art? Ever drink tea? Is that art? Its all a matter of the approach you take. Anyone who says "coding isn't art", I agree with them that their code isn't.
"Some of us don't care how the OS works as long as it does. "
Of course, but the issue only exsists at the point in time where it *doesn't* work, at which point the "welded-shut car hood" system goes to crap.
Also a concern is not just if the OS does what I tell it to, but what else its doing that I can't tell it to stop doing...
Actually the stripping of the copyright notice from the bianary was a source of sore contention.
Agreed. Mozilla is prettier, laid out better (which to me means its more functional), and at least percieves to be as fast as IE. In terms of "polish" Mozilla's chrome shines (sorry! couldn't resist ;-)
I personally am *sick* of the web looking like the designer wants it to rather than like I want it to look. I browse at a high enough res. that many pages reduce to the middle third of my screen. What a waste. And for God's sake, why insert hard coded returns? Text should *wrap*. At the very least put the "printer" button at the top, and don't load anything until I can trigger it (better still, lets code a "print option"-bot :-)
But if you have set www.google.com as your default search engine (as you should ;-), it doesn't make sense that "search" should "middleman" through netscape's server.
"According to a network traffic analysis performed by Newsbytes, Netscape is capturing Navigator 6 users' search terms, along with their Internet protocol (IP) address, the date Navigator was installed and a unique identification number."
So your #1,
All http requests send your IP address, they are making normal functionality seem sinister.
misses out on the users' search terms, along with their Internet protocol (IP) address, (and) the date Navigator was installed and a unique identification number. One needs the former to perform the function. Tracking the date installed I could see them legitimately being concerned with if done anonomously for their stat.s. The private ID # lets them tag you and thats where it does potentially become sinister.
Lynx easily beats IE even though "IE is part of windows itself". Also Opera is faster (if you must have graphics...). Merely being "part of the OS" doesn't mean the code is better. There should be advantages, yes. Should doesn't mean there will be.
"most people don't understand the idea of spyware at all, or simply don't care"
I respectfully but *strongly* disagree that people "don't care" their software is tracking and reporting their online behavior. This is one of two issues that people seem to get. They really don't like being spied upon.
Actually dueling used to be condoned. No other way for a Gentleman to protect his honor than to murder his opponent. Yes, I know, "murder is the unlawful killing", but even after dueling was outlawed it was condoned by society.
Or agreeing to abide by the rules and regulations of the university which aren't set out in full when you sign...
By the way, its suggested that "being paid" is the key, not really whether you work as a teachering assistant or a research assistant. As an employee you sign over research rights...
Well probably you agreed to sign over your rights when you registered. Remember agreeing to abide by the rules and regulations of the university? Those regulations may or may not (depending on where you go to school) grant the institution all your rights to your work. At least at my school, there is no doubt that I don't own my homework. Research is being debated...lol...unless I'm being paid as a grad. assistent, in which case they got me!
Except MS isn't an employee of Sun. Lets make that more like "Sun's CEO gave me an alpha copy of Solaris from a branch that isn't going to be persued but which is valuable to my unusal needs". The engineers cry, "but I coded that!" The CEO/Professor replies "you coded it for *me*". If you don't want the grade, you don't submit the work. IF you want the grade, you "sell" your work for it. Not everywhere...but its not so clear cut as you propose.