Well, some people just don't have a good memory. And no methods to compensate. So they can't remember what they have just entered. Unless, of course, you are guessing in random for every single attempt without realizing that you have just guessed. In that case there would be a 50-50 chance of guessing the right character in 25 tries. And 50-50 chance of having a recurring guess after 7 tries.
Guessing 36 combinations doesn't seem like a big hassle to me? And you have a 50-50 chance of getting the right combination in just 18 tries.
Unless, of course, you are guessing in random for every single attempt without realizing that you have just guessed. In that case there would be a 50-50 chance of guessing the right character in 25 tries. And 50-50 chance of having a recurring guess after 7 tries.
(Hey, this is slashdot. The right place for creating an overview for non-existent problems)
MSN Live works fine in Firefox (under Windows) as well - both the "birds eye" view and the 3D feature with texturized buildings. It does require a plugin though which probably is Windows-only.
That article could use a couple of more clear examples. Like the elephants in Africa that lost the rights of their own name since elephants tripled in population without preventing it themselves.
Yeah, open source is great. I'm so happy that after a year nobody responded to my Firefox bug report marked as security related issue. After a year I suppose someone got a notification email and re-wrote the summary, but it is still marked as "NEW". This bug is over a year old, no way it could be regarded "NEW". It should be "FIXED" or at least "INVALID" (or "GET A LIFE, MORON"). Currently it is assigned to "Nobody's working on this, feel free to take it". Yay, the power of open source.
I'm sorry that you put that much trust into a community. It seems like people are more fond of a thought of "the great thing is that when we are THAT many people present at the party surely someone want to do the dishes (and fetch the dead guy out of the pool)" instead of a schedule of "No security bug older than one day/week/month/year" should be regarded "NEW", but should assigned to any responsible person".
I'm not heckling the open source community. I'm part of it. But happy-go-lucky progress just doesn't cut it for security efforts. BIND is open source as well, but its security track record has been awful, especially by comparsion of the simplicity of a DNS server versus web servers (or any other kind of application)
(the mozilla bug is #295922, requires privilege access, no biggie, not a problem for default or average users, but there is still no reason for a security marked bug to have status "NEW" after a year)
If you want a fundamental error and slow fix, look at the ancient mozilla bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10453 2 (you might need to copy-and-paste the link). It took over four years to get a reasonable result. This is damn scary.
Fortunately it seemed like the window-property wasn't shared.
You would experience that in several row level locking engines, e.g. InnoDB and Oracle (thought I might be on thin ice here regarding Oracle)
InnoDB has the same behaviour: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/innodb-restricti ons.html "InnoDB does not keep an internal count of rows in a table. (This would actually be somewhat complicated because of multi-versioning.) To process a SELECT COUNT(*) FROM t statement, InnoDB must scan an index of the table, which takes some time if the index is not entirely in the buffer pool."
Row level locking has a bunch of advantages, but in a bunch of web applications (where COUNT(*) seems to be used a lot) table level locking could result in quicker queries.
Currently in a bunch of countries people are paying more for a 15 second sound clip of a song to use as a tone for their mobile phone than the cost of the entire song on e.g. iTunes...
I have experienced it when unchecking "Allow web sites to install software". It would prevent installation of Firefox updates (but not display this configuration setting as the reason - just hanging in the update process).
I guess it's not the best label for the specific feature that is restricted to only a few sites per default.
Or at least just the same way (as their neighbour, as at work, et cetera).
Even though one might laugh that one should access "Shut down" via "Start" in Windows, this is only an issue the first couple of times. People know how to shut down their computer by now. 10 years of shutdown placed at the same location has clarified that. This is only an concern the first time. The only people who claim they can't find "Shut down" are people who would like to make a point about intuitive UIs.
In that case it doesn't matter whether another OS has a more efficient way of finding the "Shut down" command. Another distribution could have an even more efficient way of shutting down the computer. But it wouldn't be the same way.
Your point about 13 ways of doing the same thing reminds me of a bunch of poor guides. "You can do this in eight different ways" - the obvious response would be "I don't want to do it in eight different ways! I just want to do it in one way" (and maybe afterwards learn about other ways). The issue is that people would often like to tell everything at once in fear of favoring a specific product.
Well, personally I don't want my phone number or address written on the wall in a public bathroom or in the Tom Green show, even if the information is available in public in the first place.
It's a question of context. Even if I can't control the usage of that information on the Internet (or writings on the wall in public bathrooms)
Another possibility is to mention that IE7 renders the page different than IE6 - and leave the question whether they want to "design for IE6", "design for IE7" or design according to standards.
When people state that they are "designing for Internet Explorer", it is pretty easy to ask what version they are "designing for". When they get uneasy about the upcoming (and apparently unexpected) IE7 and the memories of (poor design with) several stylesheets, several conditional scripts, the DOM/standards argument is pretty good.
If you aren't able to tell whether they did it on purpose or if they are just using old maps - and don't want to do any amount of work before you judge... well, then maybe your trust based on guesswork isn't that usable for yourself?
Seriously, you are basically stating that you are unable to perform any kind of criticism besides the obvious (true or not, apparently it doesn't matter) so you'll just fallback to good ol' mistrust.
I don't think that kind of judgment is very useful at all. But if it keeps you running, then I guess it's fine.
There are a couple of different ways to achieve transparent PNGs in IE - besides simple 100% transparent colors (as known from gifs). The Google overlay isn't simply 100% transparent. The same goes for the "speech bubble" when clicking on different places.
There are a couple of different methods. The Google Maps API mentions one:
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Well, some people just don't have a good memory. And no methods to compensate. So they can't remember what they have just entered. Unless, of course, you are guessing in random for every single attempt without realizing that you have just guessed. In that case there would be a 50-50 chance of guessing the right character in 25 tries. And 50-50 chance of having a recurring guess after 7 tries.
Guessing 36 combinations doesn't seem like a big hassle to me? And you have a 50-50 chance of getting the right combination in just 18 tries.
Unless, of course, you are guessing in random for every single attempt without realizing that you have just guessed. In that case there would be a 50-50 chance of guessing the right character in 25 tries. And 50-50 chance of having a recurring guess after 7 tries.
(Hey, this is slashdot. The right place for creating an overview for non-existent problems)
Wow! you actually created a text mode version of a typical flash ad...
Yeah, guess they really raised the whammy bar on this one.
MSN Live works fine in Firefox (under Windows) as well - both the "birds eye" view and the 3D feature with texturized buildings. It does require a plugin though which probably is Windows-only.
About 15.000 people have voted for the movie om IMDb which is pretty high compared to the box office. This sounds
The explanation might be that many of those who have seen the movie actually are the bloggers and participants in the web culture.
But other people that have not witnessed the net hype simply didn't see the movie.
That article could use a couple of more clear examples. Like the elephants in Africa that lost the rights of their own name since elephants tripled in population without preventing it themselves.
Yeah, open source is great. I'm so happy that after a year nobody responded to my Firefox bug report marked as security related issue. After a year I suppose someone got a notification email and re-wrote the summary, but it is still marked as "NEW". This bug is over a year old, no way it could be regarded "NEW". It should be "FIXED" or at least "INVALID" (or "GET A LIFE, MORON"). Currently it is assigned to "Nobody's working on this, feel free to take it". Yay, the power of open source.
I'm sorry that you put that much trust into a community. It seems like people are more fond of a thought of "the great thing is that when we are THAT many people present at the party surely someone want to do the dishes (and fetch the dead guy out of the pool)" instead of a schedule of "No security bug older than one day/week/month/year" should be regarded "NEW", but should assigned to any responsible person".
I'm not heckling the open source community. I'm part of it. But happy-go-lucky progress just doesn't cut it for security efforts. BIND is open source as well, but its security track record has been awful, especially by comparsion of the simplicity of a DNS server versus web servers (or any other kind of application)
(the mozilla bug is #295922, requires privilege access, no biggie, not a problem for default or average users, but there is still no reason for a security marked bug to have status "NEW" after a year)
Hey! Guess what country is next to Cameroon in the CIA World Factbook? Yup, Canada.
The conspiracy is clear!
Just for the sake of curiousity (and karma whoring) I took a couple of screenshots on my Nokia 9500.
Come on, there is only one Last Ninja!
If you want a fundamental error and slow fix, look at the ancient mozilla bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10453 2 (you might need to copy-and-paste the link). It took over four years to get a reasonable result. This is damn scary.
Fortunately it seemed like the window-property wasn't shared.
I considered that too, but my Firefox deletes my history on random intervals even when not asked to. Might as well disable it alltogether.
You would experience that in several row level locking engines, e.g. InnoDB and Oracle (thought I might be on thin ice here regarding Oracle)
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InnoDB has the same behaviour:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/innodb-restrict
"InnoDB does not keep an internal count of rows in a table. (This would actually be somewhat complicated because of multi-versioning.) To process a SELECT COUNT(*) FROM t statement, InnoDB must scan an index of the table, which takes some time if the index is not entirely in the buffer pool."
Row level locking has a bunch of advantages, but in a bunch of web applications (where COUNT(*) seems to be used a lot) table level locking could result in quicker queries.
You can read more about different kinds of locking:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/table-locking.h
Currently in a bunch of countries people are paying more for a 15 second sound clip of a song to use as a tone for their mobile phone than the cost of the entire song on e.g. iTunes...
I have experienced it when unchecking "Allow web sites to install software". It would prevent installation of Firefox updates (but not display this configuration setting as the reason - just hanging in the update process).
I guess it's not the best label for the specific feature that is restricted to only a few sites per default.
they want the most efficient simple way
Or at least just the same way (as their neighbour, as at work, et cetera).
Even though one might laugh that one should access "Shut down" via "Start" in Windows, this is only an issue the first couple of times. People know how to shut down their computer by now. 10 years of shutdown placed at the same location has clarified that. This is only an concern the first time. The only people who claim they can't find "Shut down" are people who would like to make a point about intuitive UIs.
In that case it doesn't matter whether another OS has a more efficient way of finding the "Shut down" command. Another distribution could have an even more efficient way of shutting down the computer. But it wouldn't be the same way.
Your point about 13 ways of doing the same thing reminds me of a bunch of poor guides. "You can do this in eight different ways" - the obvious response would be "I don't want to do it in eight different ways! I just want to do it in one way" (and maybe afterwards learn about other ways). The issue is that people would often like to tell everything at once in fear of favoring a specific product.
.. and yet you do. And even posting comments.
.. that, and the Tux in the lamp :-)
Well, personally I don't want my phone number or address written on the wall in a public bathroom or in the Tom Green show, even if the information is available in public in the first place.
It's a question of context. Even if I can't control the usage of that information on the Internet (or writings on the wall in public bathrooms)
Another possibility is to mention that IE7 renders the page different than IE6 - and leave the question whether they want to "design for IE6", "design for IE7" or design according to standards.
When people state that they are "designing for Internet Explorer", it is pretty easy to ask what version they are "designing for". When they get uneasy about the upcoming (and apparently unexpected) IE7 and the memories of (poor design with) several stylesheets, several conditional scripts, the DOM/standards argument is pretty good.
Yeah, because 300 years certainly isn't enough for a word to be recognized...?
From http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=pirate :
"Meaning "one who takes another's work without permission" first recorded 1701"
Come on, the term is older than RMS!
If you aren't able to tell whether they did it on purpose or if they are just using old maps - and don't want to do any amount of work before you judge... well, then maybe your trust based on guesswork isn't that usable for yourself?
Seriously, you are basically stating that you are unable to perform any kind of criticism besides the obvious (true or not, apparently it doesn't matter) so you'll just fallback to good ol' mistrust.
I don't think that kind of judgment is very useful at all. But if it keeps you running, then I guess it's fine.
There are a couple of different ways to achieve transparent PNGs in IE - besides simple 100% transparent colors (as known from gifs). The Google overlay isn't simply 100% transparent. The same goes for the "speech bubble" when clicking on different places.
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There are a couple of different methods. The Google Maps API mentions one:
http://www.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/#XH
It's pretty neat - the satellite photos are no longer wrapped around a cylinder (making places far away north or south from equator look squished).
Unfortunately there still isn't maps available for Europe besides England. I hope it would arrive soon.