Wait.. I knew a girl from the Isle of Man. I thought it was technically a part of the UK (they handled foreign affairs) and such. Then again, I guess she DID have a Isle of Man passport, not a EU passport. Hrrm. Is it like an crown territory or something?
True on all points I'm sure but Opera was the first to combine all these things and present them in nice package. I'd call Opera the most innovative browser over the last 5 years, every single major browsing feature that has - today - become commonplace was put in Opera first. There are some exceptions of course, some of the coolest things going on out there are in Firefox extensions (adblock, bugmenot, etc) but - still I would say Opera was the first. It also remains the smallest full featured browser/email client, I think 3.6meg total download (sans Java). I should preface that by saying "except for lynx, etc;)"
Because it's not firefox and GOD FORBID you'd have to like pay money for software. Not to mention that nearly every single feature that makes firefox what it is (tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, mouse gestures, lightweight interface) was pioneered by Opera first.
Sad but true. Not that there is anything wrong with either (I use firefox on linux boxes, opera on windows, and safari on mac) but most of the/. crowd has a mentality that we have to dismiss Opera even though most, if not all, of the revolutionary features of webrowsing were pioneered by opera first.
Perhaps because RBL's are such worthless steaming piles of crap nobody in their right mind would use them? Nearly every RBL's false positive rate must be enormous compared to these other offerings.
Here's an exmaple. At the ISP I work for, we have TMDA for some of our customers. When spam email is recieved by these customers it sends a challenge email, theory behind it if the person isn't on the customers whitelist they can jst reply to the challenge email and it will add them automatically. Some of these emails get sent to spamcop's challenge boxes. SpamCop then counts these as spam. Their solution? Shut off TMDA since they won't say which boxes these spamtraps are (secret and all that). Yeah, no thanks.
After all my experiences with RBL's i'm convinced that only spamassasin type solutions are good (which use IPs etc as a way to help determine if an email is spam but not just blacklist ips).
Yes, I should've said "free" tech support. However, nobody wants to call that line knowing that if they determine its "your problem" it costs something like $2.95 a minute last time a checked. And they charge $40 per virus last time I checked as well.
At any rate, its annoying. Doing microsofts free tech support is one thing but doing norton's isn't my deal;).
ps
We don't use any special software whatsoever (just plain DUN/etc in windows/mac) and with the problems we have with NIS I can only imagine the horrors that techs at AOL, etc have to deal with.
Well they did get 9 years and kevin got 5 (and kevin got out in like 3 didn't he?) so intenet was considered in the case obviously.
Yes punishments are harsh in the US and there's a good reason for this For one, people like vengence. Oh boy do they like vengence. For another, throwing tougher and tougher laws on the books doesn't piss anybody off. Won't you think of the CHILDREN? 3 strikes your out laws, etc, etc all appeal to about 70% of the population - namely the middle class and the rich (those who vote).
Wait, what about criminals? Chances are people in jail, or those who are affected by these laws, are politically disenfranchised, have never voted and will never vote. In other words, the poor. Mmmm democracy in action! Of course, there is a large section of the US that seems to be getting fed up with certain laws (like drug laws) because they were drug users, and are now middle class, etc and believe the drug penalties to be ridiculous.I do believe New York just overturned some of the toughest drug laws in the country that were originally passed in the 1970s. That and people seem to be getting more and more upset that something ridiculous like 3% of our population has been in Jail during their lives.
Yeah SP2's failure rate - where by failure rate I mean turn computer into an unusable state requiring a fresh reinstall - seems to be about 1%. As for breaking specific applications I would say around 5% of people have problems. This is all based on experience working tech desk at an ISP and being a computer tech for the univeristy library.
Of course, it could be worse. I love SP2 for the fact that as soon as somebody installs it I can immediately shut off Norton "Internet Security" also known as Norton never works right, Norton constantly breaks itself on updates, Norton randomly decides to block port 80 and 25, and - oh by the way - Norton doesn't offer tech support so have fun supporting our product ISPs!
Not that I hate Norton or anything;) but, seriously, I wish that company would get sucked into an enormous black hole and never ever ever return.
Your reinstall IE doesn't do what the rundll file does, replaces all IE components with the originals - either from cd or cab files. ALL underlying comhtml components.
Winsock fix rebuilds entire winsock.dll and registry keys as well.
Automatic updates were explained before, 75% of our customer base is on dialup.
Anti-virus,.. I have no idea what that is and don't care. AVG is free, and so is stinger.
yes. Obviously. Because in countries that implement extreme forms of progressive tax (like sweden) nobody works there anymore. And the country sucks...
I'm sure your partially right, and that in less modern countries where there isn't as much money things can get done for far cheaper than they would in the west. With that being said...
Certain things can't. Space exploration, massive computing grids, particle accelators, etc all require massive bucks. And while there might be a big waste of money (hell I'll even give you $50 billion) off the US' r&d budget, they are still spending 5 times as much as China.
Not that i'm saying its bad (I still don't know why i was modded as flamebait) I wish every country would spend more money on science.
Possibly, then again some would argue that the beaucracy of a communist nation, and the central planning thereof, would be a hinderance to its scientific goals (certainly killed USSR from about 1970 onwards).
As a side note, if you want to read about funny/scary/interesting things about mcmurdo station check out http://www.bigdeadplace.com
undoubtedly, but with research most/alot of the investment tends to be in hard to manufacture/extremely expensive equipment, not in salaries (there are plenty of grad students around!:)). I'm sure it scews the result some, but not all that much I would say. Perhaps an extra $1-2 billion ?
Heh. The US science and R&D budget is probably bigger than China's whole national budget.
As a matter of fact: China 2003 (world factbook) revenues: $265.8 billion expenditures: $300.2 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (2003
That would be China's entire National budget. Figures for US
$275 billion - in 2001. Just in Science spending, from here. The US numbers are, of course, including private research - which, btw, is $57 billion in China. We're talking orders of magnitude here:).
ONLY if it's a SRS which, from the flames going on at polling places everywhere, appears to not have been.
The exit pollers are apparently biased towards women (perhaps cause most of the pollsters are male...) ergo you get weird results. Since it's not an SRS those numbers mean jack shit.
I used gentoo. I tried it with an old laptop I hard. Godddam was it fast - after it finished complining. PII 400 - took 1 week almost to get everything compilied. Afterwords it ran faster than everything that was ever before put on that laptop - win98 even. Of course it took 3 weeks to even get it close to a functional state and eventually had to put fedora core 1 on it to get sound working (I do not blame gentoo I blame lun1x in general for its stupid hassles.
But then I had an ephinany. We'll call it Mac OS X 10.3. Not only was it nearly as fast at gentoo but it required 0% of the hassle to get working.
Now I realize what linux is missing. I love my powerbook - that wya it works the effortless installtion of *nix apps (thanks fink!) and everything else. I could never imagine going back to pure linux enviroment. I have my windows desktop, my mac laptop, and my lunix server. And that's how it will remaind until linux gets its act in gear
I have no idea if the agove made sense, have had too many pints. But I think it does. and that's all that matters
Probably slashdot. The site is ancient non-compliant HTML 3.2 code. Slashdot won't even let you validate the source of the page at w3c because it fails so miserably.
When I was in England, Scotland, Ireland, and Germany I never once was met with hostility because I was an american. INstead, I was met with hostility because our president is a goddam retard.
Seriously. Most europeans will - in good fun - poke fun of some aspects of American Culture or Americans they don't hate america --- mostly our president.
cool extension. Of course, now I just realize that the ISP I work for doesn't publish SPF records (although we do use SPF odd). Oh well. nifty little plugin.
Slashdot Mirror
I've been wondering why there are no green stars for like years. What a bummer, I think that'd be the coolest star.
Damm you Roy. G. Biv. for not fulfilling my dreams.
Wait.. I knew a girl from the Isle of Man. I thought it was technically a part of the UK (they handled foreign affairs) and such. Then again, I guess she DID have a Isle of Man passport, not a EU passport. Hrrm. Is it like an crown territory or something?
True on all points I'm sure but Opera was the first to combine all these things and present them in nice package. I'd call Opera the most innovative browser over the last 5 years, every single major browsing feature that has - today - become commonplace was put in Opera first. There are some exceptions of course, some of the coolest things going on out there are in Firefox extensions (adblock, bugmenot, etc) but - still I would say Opera was the first. It also remains the smallest full featured browser/email client, I think 3.6meg total download (sans Java). I should preface that by saying "except for lynx, etc ;)"
PLease go and watch Dr Strangeglove, you'll save yourself the embarassment next time ;).
Because it's not firefox and GOD FORBID you'd have to like pay money for software. Not to mention that nearly every single feature that makes firefox what it is (tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, mouse gestures, lightweight interface) was pioneered by Opera first.
/. crowd has a mentality that we have to dismiss Opera even though most, if not all, of the revolutionary features of webrowsing were pioneered by opera first.
Sad but true. Not that there is anything wrong with either (I use firefox on linux boxes, opera on windows, and safari on mac) but most of the
Perhaps because RBL's are such worthless steaming piles of crap nobody in their right mind would use them? Nearly every RBL's false positive rate must be enormous compared to these other offerings.
Here's an exmaple. At the ISP I work for, we have TMDA for some of our customers. When spam email is recieved by these customers it sends a challenge email, theory behind it if the person isn't on the customers whitelist they can jst reply to the challenge email and it will add them automatically. Some of these emails get sent to spamcop's challenge boxes. SpamCop then counts these as spam. Their solution? Shut off TMDA since they won't say which boxes these spamtraps are (secret and all that). Yeah, no thanks.
After all my experiences with RBL's i'm convinced that only spamassasin type solutions are good (which use IPs etc as a way to help determine if an email is spam but not just blacklist ips).
Yes, I should've said "free" tech support. However, nobody wants to call that line knowing that if they determine its "your problem" it costs something like $2.95 a minute last time a checked. And they charge $40 per virus last time I checked as well.
;).
At any rate, its annoying. Doing microsofts free tech support is one thing but doing norton's isn't my deal
ps
We don't use any special software whatsoever (just plain DUN/etc in windows/mac) and with the problems we have with NIS I can only imagine the horrors that techs at AOL, etc have to deal with.
I should've said 70% of the voting population perhaps :)
Well they did get 9 years and kevin got 5 (and kevin got out in like 3 didn't he?) so intenet was considered in the case obviously.
Yes punishments are harsh in the US and there's a good reason for this For one, people like vengence. Oh boy do they like vengence. For another, throwing tougher and tougher laws on the books doesn't piss anybody off. Won't you think of the CHILDREN? 3 strikes your out laws, etc, etc all appeal to about 70% of the population - namely the middle class and the rich (those who vote).
Wait, what about criminals? Chances are people in jail, or those who are affected by these laws, are politically disenfranchised, have never voted and will never vote. In other words, the poor. Mmmm democracy in action! Of course, there is a large section of the US that seems to be getting fed up with certain laws (like drug laws) because they were drug users, and are now middle class, etc and believe the drug penalties to be ridiculous.I do believe New York just overturned some of the toughest drug laws in the country that were originally passed in the 1970s. That and people seem to be getting more and more upset that something ridiculous like 3% of our population has been in Jail during their lives.
Yeah SP2's failure rate - where by failure rate I mean turn computer into an unusable state requiring a fresh reinstall - seems to be about 1%. As for breaking specific applications I would say around 5% of people have problems. This is all based on experience working tech desk at an ISP and being a computer tech for the univeristy library.
;) but, seriously, I wish that company would get sucked into an enormous black hole and never ever ever return.
Of course, it could be worse. I love SP2 for the fact that as soon as somebody installs it I can immediately shut off Norton "Internet Security" also known as Norton never works right, Norton constantly breaks itself on updates, Norton randomly decides to block port 80 and 25, and - oh by the way - Norton doesn't offer tech support so have fun supporting our product ISPs!
Not that I hate Norton or anything
Your reinstall IE doesn't do what the rundll file does, replaces all IE components with the originals - either from cd or cab files. ALL underlying comhtml components.
.. I have no idea what that is and don't care. AVG is free, and so is stinger.
Winsock fix rebuilds entire winsock.dll and registry keys as well.
Automatic updates were explained before, 75% of our customer base is on dialup.
Anti-virus,
SP2 :). Norton INternet Security is the one we loathe and above all else despise, the rest seem to work decent enough.
And here is our General Fix-all-our-customers-problems cd we send out
IE6sp1 full
IE55 full
IE517 full
IE_Reinstall_bat (batch file that reinstalls ie using run dll)
IE secure site fix
Winxpsp2
winxp winsock fix (rebuilds winsock using registry)
winxp individual critical fixes
Ad-aware
Ad-aware/spybot definitions
Spybot
Coolweb killer? removal? Shredder? Can't remember offhand
AVG anti-virus (highly recommended)
McAfee AVERT stinger (even more highly recommended)
norton's varius virus removal tools (fix sobig, fix blaster, etc)
Win2k Sp4
Firefox
Thunderbird
yes. Obviously. Because in countries that implement extreme forms of progressive tax (like sweden) nobody works there anymore. And the country sucks...
oh wait. You're wrong. Get over it.
I'm sure your partially right, and that in less modern countries where there isn't as much money things can get done for far cheaper than they would in the west. With that being said...
Certain things can't. Space exploration, massive computing grids, particle accelators, etc all require massive bucks. And while there might be a big waste of money (hell I'll even give you $50 billion) off the US' r&d budget, they are still spending 5 times as much as China.
Not that i'm saying its bad (I still don't know why i was modded as flamebait) I wish every country would spend more money on science.
Possibly, then again some would argue that the beaucracy of a communist nation, and the central planning thereof, would be a hinderance to its scientific goals (certainly killed USSR from about 1970 onwards).
As a side note, if you want to read about funny/scary/interesting things about mcmurdo station check out http://www.bigdeadplace.com
undoubtedly, but with research most/alot of the investment tends to be in hard to manufacture/extremely expensive equipment, not in salaries (there are plenty of grad students around! :)). I'm sure it scews the result some, but not all that much I would say. Perhaps an extra $1-2 billion ?
Heh. The US science and R&D budget is probably bigger than China's whole national budget.
:).
As a matter of fact:
China 2003 (world factbook)
revenues: $265.8 billion
expenditures: $300.2 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (2003
That would be China's entire National budget. Figures for US
$275 billion - in 2001. Just in Science spending, from here. The US numbers are, of course, including private research - which, btw, is $57 billion in China. We're talking orders of magnitude here
ONLY if it's a SRS which, from the flames going on at polling places everywhere, appears to not have been.
The exit pollers are apparently biased towards women (perhaps cause most of the pollsters are male...) ergo you get weird results. Since it's not an SRS those numbers mean jack shit.
Over 5 million.
Although, with the electoral college, a trend of about 100,000+ in either Ohio or Florida would do it.
Randoma observations ahead.
I used gentoo. I tried it with an old laptop I hard. Godddam was it fast - after it finished complining. PII 400 - took 1 week almost to get everything compilied. Afterwords it ran faster than everything that was ever before put on that laptop - win98 even. Of course it took 3 weeks to even get it close to a functional state and eventually had to put fedora core 1 on it to get sound working (I do not blame gentoo I blame lun1x in general for its stupid hassles.
But then I had an ephinany. We'll call it Mac OS X 10.3. Not only was it nearly as fast at gentoo but it required 0% of the hassle to get working.
Now I realize what linux is missing. I love my powerbook - that wya it works the effortless installtion of *nix apps (thanks fink!) and everything else. I could never imagine going back to pure linux enviroment. I have my windows desktop, my mac laptop, and my lunix server. And that's how it will remaind until linux gets its act in gear
I have no idea if the agove made sense, have had too many pints. But I think it does. and that's all that matters
The editors got tireed of the hypocrasy of bitching about web standards while, at the same time, having an ancient non-compliant site.
:).
That would be the reason
Probably slashdot. The site is ancient non-compliant HTML 3.2 code. Slashdot won't even let you validate the source of the page at w3c because it fails so miserably.
When I was in England, Scotland, Ireland, and Germany I never once was met with hostility because I was an american. INstead, I was met with hostility because our president is a goddam retard.
Seriously. Most europeans will - in good fun - poke fun of some aspects of American Culture or Americans they don't hate america --- mostly our president.
cool extension. Of course, now I just realize that the ISP I work for doesn't publish SPF records (although we do use SPF odd). Oh well. nifty little plugin.