Use Mozilla. There is an option to remove the javascript open window function.
I'm using Netscape 7, by the way.
So far almost everyone has suggested that I block popups. Is that a good solution for spam as well? Just block it? Or would you rather see it obliterated?
Why I ask that Slashdot not link to sites which use popups is to curb people sending in stories just to make money (I'm sure it's happening). Popups are also an annoyance, but that's not my main motivation for bringing up this issue.
Say you had two massive, extremely sturdy poles which were joined together with a hinge. Let's say the hing was really a generator, and that this generator had an extreme gear ratio such that it would take thousands of tonnes to move opposite ends of the poles closer together. You just wedge the poles into something really strong like a tide or a fault line, etc... Could we not gain a lot of energy from this technique?
My favourite is Windows' (any version?) file copy with Win. Explorer. I believe this is how to reproduce it: Take a large number of files - say a thousand small html files and just a few huge 500-1GB files. Copy them somewhere and look at the time remaining. It will claim something like 100 or 500 years if you calculate out the hours remaining.
With this same technology, radio stations can unobtrusively transmit ads, Web site URLs... to in-car cell phones.... which my in-car spam filter will ably weed out and dispose of.
There must be a better way to get ads to people... like when people actually want to look for a new product (what a concept!). Most ads I skip right by because I'm trying to get something done when they show it to me. I'm in a mental train of thought (a "zone" if you will) and actually reading and comprehending the ad would take me off of what I'm concentrating on doing - like if someone were to tap on my shoulder. Advertisers need to think of better places and times to get their ads to me, or give me a place to go to look for them (hey how about a catalog, huh?).
Could be that MIPS is not first on the list of platforms to start optimizing for? Remember, it's open source, so somebody on MIPS needs to take the time to make and test careful, MIPS-specific optimizations all the while making sure they aren't breaking or slowing down gcc on other platforms. Correct me if I'm wrong.
A full search engine setup should need almost no administration after the initial breakin period. Why? The basic functions of the engine should never change!
Search engines crawls pages, indexes them, provides an interface for searching, and returns search results for browsing. Ten years from now, it'll still do the same thing.
To me that begs the question - why on earth would anyone pay for 24x7 support for a search engine? In case the engine goes down? That's an unlikely event given the stability of open source software and proper hardware. But say it _did_ go down - reboot the machine. Done. What if the hard drive crashes? Restore it - that's what IT is for. Need an expert? Pay for one on an hourly basis ($200/hour should attract someone quick - that's still cheaper than 24x7 support that will rarely be used).
Propriety software is not usually supported too far out from when it is released. Propriety software companies want you to upgrade every year or two or they'll pull support and you'll be on your own. So you have to upgrade your search engine say once a year and pay for someone to do it. Plus, it might break some other software or require you to upgrade to the latest version of Windows, etc... which also must be figured in.
Anyway, this story is chock full of holes. Many more questions could be asked for which no answers have been given. For example, what about the number of pages indexed? Most search companies charge you based on the # of pages you want indexed. Go above that and you'll need the costly enterprise version. I find it very hard to believe that a proprietary software solution would be cheaper than open source.
Reasonable prices definitely being the "operative word"! I was looking at Transmeta systems a few months ago and the prices were way out of line. I would have been paying more than a competing Intel- or AMD-based system and getting much less performance. What the hell! Sure Transmeta's per unit costs are probably higher since they're a smaller shop, but I'm sorry, I don't buy based on feeling sorry for a company's problems. I have a budget, too.
I was wondering if they track the number of time "I do not agree" is chosen.
Unfortunately for statistics gathering purposes, I bet most people simply close their browser window (I do). I don't click any more buttons than I have to because usually the logic goes "If they don't want to surf *our* site, we'll redirect them to a page with zillions of popups and advertising and get paid 0.002 cents in exchange".
If CISS-1 is a short-term vision, then we hope that CISS will become a long-term vision. Canada Foundation for Innovation requires that the computing sites share 20% of their resources. One can envision CISS being a monthly event where, for example, 3 days a month are set aside for large-scale national computations. This would be unique in the world, and a tremendous opportunity for Canadian scientists.
This is pretty cool.. I wonder if they plan on including p2p clients in the future?
Speaking of images, check this priceless item out:
http://www.glowbowl.com/media/horn_boppers.gif
Don't forget your Horn Boppers while surfing with Longhorn!
Seriously, I can't forget the mental image of Gates growing a horn through his forehead every time I hear of this OS. <Mr.Burns_accent>Excellent. The transformation is almost complete...</>
There must be more to this story than meets the eye. How is it the cable company's decision how serious the crime is? Does that mean I can call the FBI and have them kick the door in with guns drawn if someone steals my car stereo? Or keeps prank calling me?
Sounds reasonable. Maybe what game makers need to find is another niche - we've got adventure games, shooters, role playing, sims, etc... each with people willing and able to play, but with only so much free time left after that. A new area could entertain a whole new batch of people who aren't already spending their time playing some other kind of game.
How can we - people who don't pay a single dime to each use gigabytes worth of Slashdot bandwidth - complain that Slashdot is trying to generate some revenue to pay for what must be a very expensive to run website?
Force all the head honchos from Microsoft (Bill Gates, etc..) to leave the company and to have no financial stake in Microsoft.
Of course, being as greedy as they are, they will create a rival company to Microsoft and have billions to put behind it. Now that would be interesting. I wonder if any of Bill's hired henchmen could possibly be more evil than he is?
...if the users fill it full of crap because they can't waste their precious time doing a little research...
I appreciate your point, but there's the other side of the coin where a bug description is in l33t hacker speak or colloquial language which makes searching for its existence very difficult. eg. using the word "horked" instead of "broken".
I still think the C64 webserver was way cooler. I won't link to it so it doesn't get slashdotted (can barely handle one person hitting it), but you'll find the site through Google. Anybody can destroy a computer.
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I'm in total agreement. However, I'd like to add that if my employer was willing to buy me a different suit jacket/shirt/pants/slacks/tie for each day over two weeks, a couple nice pairs of shoes, and to pay for dry cleaning expenses and time spent dealing with dry cleaning, I wouldn't mind so much wearing a suit each day. As it stands now, I don't get paid enough to spend that kind of money on expensive clothes, and thankfully they don't expect that of their programmers.
Frankly, I have a trust problem with people who _overdress_. It usually shows me that they are insecure and under-qualified and only wear expensive clothes to give people that "I know what I'm doing" air about them and make themselves feel better. People like that get found out eventually.
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Use Mozilla. There is an option to remove the javascript open window function.
I'm using Netscape 7, by the way.
So far almost everyone has suggested that I block popups. Is that a good solution for spam as well? Just block it? Or would you rather see it obliterated?
Why I ask that Slashdot not link to sites which use popups is to curb people sending in stories just to make money (I'm sure it's happening). Popups are also an annoyance, but that's not my main motivation for bringing up this issue.
I hereby make a request that Slashdot should prohibit linking of any sites in a front page story which use popup or popunder ads.
All those in favour, say "I".
(Note to moderator: a little leeway, please)
Say you had two massive, extremely sturdy poles which were joined together with a hinge. Let's say the hing was really a generator, and that this generator had an extreme gear ratio such that it would take thousands of tonnes to move opposite ends of the poles closer together. You just wedge the poles into something really strong like a tide or a fault line, etc...
Could we not gain a lot of energy from this technique?
Funny, even without the launch those people on the front page are still laughing and yakking it up on their spiffy new phone. I wonder who's it is?
My favourite is Windows' (any version?) file copy with Win. Explorer. I believe this is how to reproduce it: Take a large number of files - say a thousand small html files and just a few huge 500-1GB files. Copy them somewhere and look at the time remaining. It will claim something like 100 or 500 years if you calculate out the hours remaining.
..finding out where the public wants to draw the line between liberty and safety.
That's easy - the line's way back there... it's already been crossed.
How can we get back to that line is the real question.
From the article:
... to in-car cell phones. ... which my in-car spam filter will ably weed out and dispose of.
With this same technology, radio stations can unobtrusively transmit ads, Web site URLs
There must be a better way to get ads to people... like when people actually want to look for a new product (what a concept!). Most ads I skip right by because I'm trying to get something done when they show it to me. I'm in a mental train of thought (a "zone" if you will) and actually reading and comprehending the ad would take me off of what I'm concentrating on doing - like if someone were to tap on my shoulder. Advertisers need to think of better places and times to get their ads to me, or give me a place to go to look for them (hey how about a catalog, huh?).
Could be that MIPS is not first on the list of platforms to start optimizing for? Remember, it's open source, so somebody on MIPS needs to take the time to make and test careful, MIPS-specific optimizations all the while making sure they aren't breaking or slowing down gcc on other platforms.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
A full search engine setup should need almost no administration after the initial breakin period. Why? The basic functions of the engine should never change!
Search engines crawls pages, indexes them, provides an interface for searching, and returns search results for browsing. Ten years from now, it'll still do the same thing.
To me that begs the question - why on earth would anyone pay for 24x7 support for a search engine? In case the engine goes down? That's an unlikely event given the stability of open source software and proper hardware. But say it _did_ go down - reboot the machine. Done. What if the hard drive crashes? Restore it - that's what IT is for. Need an expert? Pay for one on an hourly basis ($200/hour should attract someone quick - that's still cheaper than 24x7 support that will rarely be used).
Propriety software is not usually supported too far out from when it is released. Propriety software companies want you to upgrade every year or two or they'll pull support and you'll be on your own. So you have to upgrade your search engine say once a year and pay for someone to do it. Plus, it might break some other software or require you to upgrade to the latest version of Windows, etc... which also must be figured in.
Anyway, this story is chock full of holes. Many more questions could be asked for which no answers have been given. For example, what about the number of pages indexed? Most search companies charge you based on the # of pages you want indexed. Go above that and you'll need the costly enterprise version.
I find it very hard to believe that a proprietary software solution would be cheaper than open source.
Reasonable prices definitely being the "operative word"! I was looking at Transmeta systems a few months ago and the prices were way out of line. I would have been paying more than a competing Intel- or AMD-based system and getting much less performance. What the hell! Sure Transmeta's per unit costs are probably higher since they're a smaller shop, but I'm sorry, I don't buy based on feeling sorry for a company's problems. I have a budget, too.
I think if my life depended on my "partner" Microsoft
Ever see Fatal Attraction ?
Microsoft's just pissed that their Switch campaign didn't go as well as Apple's.
I was wondering if they track the number of time "I do not agree" is chosen.
Unfortunately for statistics gathering purposes, I bet most people simply close their browser window (I do). I don't click any more buttons than I have to because usually the logic goes "If they don't want to surf *our* site, we'll redirect them to a page with zillions of popups and advertising and get paid 0.002 cents in exchange".
Try MSN Hotmail, too. Look for the _linked_ EULA's nested inside the main EULA.
Interesting paragraph from the site:
If CISS-1 is a short-term vision, then we hope that CISS will become a long-term vision. Canada Foundation for Innovation requires that the computing sites share 20% of their resources. One can envision CISS being a monthly event where, for example, 3 days a month are set aside for large-scale national computations. This would be unique in the world, and a tremendous opportunity for Canadian scientists.
This is pretty cool.. I wonder if they plan on including p2p clients in the future?
Speaking of images, check this priceless item out:
http://www.glowbowl.com/media/horn_boppers.gif
Don't forget your Horn Boppers while surfing with Longhorn!
Seriously, I can't forget the mental image of Gates growing a horn through his forehead every time I hear of this OS. <Mr.Burns_accent>Excellent. The transformation is almost complete...</>
There must be more to this story than meets the eye. How is it the cable company's decision how serious the crime is? Does that mean I can call the FBI and have them kick the door in with guns drawn if someone steals my car stereo? Or keeps prank calling me?
Sounds reasonable. Maybe what game makers need to find is another niche - we've got adventure games, shooters, role playing, sims, etc... each with people willing and able to play, but with only so much free time left after that. A new area could entertain a whole new batch of people who aren't already spending their time playing some other kind of game.
How can we - people who don't pay a single dime to each use gigabytes worth of Slashdot bandwidth - complain that Slashdot is trying to generate some revenue to pay for what must be a very expensive to run website?
Here's what you do:
Force all the head honchos from Microsoft (Bill Gates, etc..) to leave the company and to have no financial stake in Microsoft.
Of course, being as greedy as they are, they will create a rival company to Microsoft and have billions to put behind it. Now that would be interesting. I wonder if any of Bill's hired henchmen could possibly be more evil than he is?
...if the users fill it full of crap because they can't waste their precious time doing a little research...
I appreciate your point, but there's the other side of the coin where a bug description is in l33t hacker speak or colloquial language which makes searching for its existence very difficult. eg. using the word "horked" instead of "broken".
Awesome! Just when I was about to declare Red Hat the winner, Mandrake comes up with a "cluster in a can". Great news.
I still think the C64 webserver was way cooler. I won't link to it so it doesn't get slashdotted (can barely handle one person hitting it), but you'll find the site through Google.
Anybody can destroy a computer.
Metamoderate if you don't like it.
I'm in total agreement. However, I'd like to add that if my employer was willing to buy me a different suit jacket/shirt/pants/slacks/tie for each day over two weeks, a couple nice pairs of shoes, and to pay for dry cleaning expenses and time spent dealing with dry cleaning, I wouldn't mind so much wearing a suit each day. As it stands now, I don't get paid enough to spend that kind of money on expensive clothes, and thankfully they don't expect that of their programmers.
Frankly, I have a trust problem with people who _overdress_. It usually shows me that they are insecure and under-qualified and only wear expensive clothes to give people that "I know what I'm doing" air about them and make themselves feel better. People like that get found out eventually.