The problem is that that link didn't work in many browsers (I use Avant Browser, nothing happened when clicking the link in there), and in the ones that it did work it brought up a login page requireing you to log in with a google account (gmail) first in order to make any changes.
I didn't follow through logging in so I don't know first hand what it showed after logging in, but I've seen complaints from others that claim that even then you couldn't turn it off, but merely replace it with a white background image.
Monumentally stupid move from Google on multiple levels here.
Windows XP works nicely on a 1GHz Mobile P3 CPU and 512MB of PC133 RAM. Since 7 is a good replacement for XP, it will surely work just as fast as XP works now. Right?
Right. Close, at least.
I know it's popular to slam Microsoft products, but seriously -- Windows 7 is much leaner than Vista was, and overall is pretty similar to XP in performance. It will run on a pentium 3 CPU, and it will run just fine with 512MB of RAM as well. Granted, you'd probably will need to turn of the Aero graphic acceleration on the desktop and some other eyecandy, but in general it's perfectly happy on a 512MB machine... Unlike Vista, which was pretty much a slideshow on anything with less than a gigabyte.
In actual benchmarks XP may edge it in certain areas (There's some CPU penalty for added functionality, of course), but it really is surprisingly usable on older hardware. Microsoft really did a pretty decent job on trying to turn the whole vista trainwreck around.
Does that effectively mean you can't legally install GPL code on ROM since it couldn't be overwritten even if you did have the build environment and installation scripts?
I doubt it, because you can still replace the ROM chip altogether with a custom written version.
After all, you also can't directly overwrite/replace GPL code that's distributed on other read-only media, like CD or DVD... but as long as you have access to the proper equipment (CD burner + blank discs) there is nothing that stops you from creating usable 'custom' copies. I'd think the same applies to code in ROM, it's just that the necessary equipment is not typically found on your average home computer.
...how much the numbers are actually mis-represented in side-by-side vulnerability comparisions between the various platforms (windows/linux, etc.), if there's a bunch of them that being swept under the carpet.
99 comments and no one has mentioned:
d) Fly around it
How wide is this ash cloud, anyway?
Several thousand miles, covering most of North-Western Europe. The entire airspace of a long strip of countries was completely closed to all air travel. On top of that, the bulk of the cloud was between 20,000 and 36,000 feet up, which is also where a good chunk of your air travel happens.
When a large number of your international transfer airports are right smack in the middle of a no-fly zone, then it doesn't really matter what direction you're coming from -- you still won't be able to go to your destination.
According to Wikipedia starcraft page, South Korea accounted for almost a third of the blitzards global 'starcraft' sales.
Thanks to its enduring popularity there, blizzard first announced the upcoming Starcraft 2 at a South Korean gaming event.
Finally, from Wikipedia's page on South Korea:
In recent years online games have become a significant part of Korean culture. StarCraft, the real-time strategy game, is by far the most popular televised game in South Korea. Game tournaments, recorded in places like the COEX Mall are often broadcast live on TV stations such as MBCGame and Ongamenet. Professional StarCraft players can command considerable salaries in South Korea as members of pro-gaming teams that are sponsored primarily by cell phone providers.
Nonsense. The problem with the space race is that it was unsustainable. There was no way any nation would maintain that kind of spending for an extended period of time
How so?
It's not like they're shoveling the money out of an airlock, almost every dime of it gets spend stimulating your local/national economy.... Giving tax breaks and the likes to stimulate the economy is supposedly good for the country, but actually paying people to design/build things isn't?
He isn't exactly known to believe in privacy in the first place, after all:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jan/11/facebook-privacy The rise of social networking online means that people no longer have an expectation of privacy, according to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Talking at the Crunchie awards in San Francisco this weekend, the 25-year-old chief executive of the world's most popular social network said that privacy was no longer a "social norm".
"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence"
One thing I couldn't help but notice though, is that Microsoft always pops IE in the number one spot for a moment *before* shuffling the browsers and showing them in randomized order... Very visible if you visit the ballot manually in IE and hit F5 a few times: http://www.browserchoice.eu/
though the trackpad on the back seems a little wierd when you already have a touch-screen
Except the touchscreen is difficult to use while you're walking around -- a 10" panel is kind of unwieldy to balance in one hand, especially while applying pressure to the touchscreen in varying locations. Overall this looks like a pretty ingenious setup, although I do wonder if the touchscreen on the back is going to be affected by other things than fingers pressing it.
I'm curious how the monochrome version compares to actual eInk displays.
The conversion software available to ePub is a bit primitive at the moment, but it does exist, from practically any format you can care to name.
At least ePub is an open format with published fileformat descriptions, so you can theorethically make your own converter...
ePub is pretty much a renamed.ZIP file, containing an index and content in.xml format, plus cover image(s)
As far as conversion is concerned, I'd recommend using calibre -- it's pretty much the ultimate ebook library manager, which supports converting back and forth between many of the common ebook formats and can interface with the majority of ebook readers currently on the market. Open source, free download at http://calibre-ebook.com/
I like the Sony PRS-505, but those have been discontinued...
Sony kind of shot themselves in the foot there: the 'budget' PRS-300 has a nice quality screen except it's too small, and the higher end PRS-600 has a decent size screen but gives you a lot more glare and a crappy contrast ratio, courtesy of its added touchscreen layer... There really is a huge difference though, I'd recommend you try to find a display unit somewhere before actually comitting to ordering one.
The nook looks nice (touchscreen is a seperate color LCD screen which does not muddle up the e-Ink display), but trivial operations like changing the font size are much more elaborate on those...
From their site: In the past, Battle.net was presented as a multiplayer option off to the side, off of the main menu of Blizzard Entertainment titles. That is all changing. With the new Battle.net experience, the service and the game are now interwoven into one experience. Whether you are in single-player or multiplayer StarCraft II, you are always connected, and enjoy a bevy of new and enhanced functionality.
Just... Great.
Yet another game that you can't play without being tethered to the internet. No biggie for multiplayer, but it really shouldn't have any business in single-player campaign mode...
Especially when creating Web sites intended for technical audiences, wouldn't it be best to end support for obsoleted browsers?
I'd think that most 'technical audiences' would already be running a non-obsolete browser if they had any say in the matter...
Not everyone has the option of installing/running alternate browsers (think: locked down corporate PC's, etc.)
*Especially* with technical audiences, there's a larger than average chance that you'd lock these people out completely by preventing them to use an older browser. It's more likely that grandma doesn't realize that her browser is ancient than it would be for your typical techie...
What will happen will be the standard that us humans have followed throughout the ages.
We will wait until the IPv4 addresses run out and then force businesses to start using IPv6 if they want to get on the internet.
Yes -- and the reason is very simple: IPv6 is great if/when everyone uses it, but there is next to no benefit in being the first one to do so...
So everyone is waiting for other people to deal with the hassle first. (IPv6 isn't really a drop-in replacement, after all -- there's still sizable chunks of the national and international backbone connections that don't talk IPv6, so you still have to deal with IPv4 at the same time regardless.
As long as the software/library is written completely by yourself, you're free to pick any license -- or dual-license it.
You can have your program both licensed under BSD, and also offer the same code/library as closed-source for $xx at the same time, with different conditions and fewer restrictions.
Is heat output. More or less, any energy that isn't becoming light is becoming heat. Now in some areas of the world, that matters little to none. However in hot climates, it does. An incandescent produces more heat which gets dumped in to the air in your house. You then have to run your AC more often. So you end up paying double for the power, in terms of using it and then eliminating the excess.
Don't forget the other way around: if you have electrical heating, there are little to no savings using compact florescents during the fall/winter months. With incandescent bulbs the so-called waste heat is actually useful in helping heat the home itself. Without them, my electric baseport heaters just have to work harder to make up the difference, using pretty much the same amount of electricity I'd alledgedly safe by not using incandescents.
Sure, you'll safe a little during the summer time because you need less A/C, but realistically your lights will get most of their usage during the dark months...
Another one (a little longer back) revolved around.WMF files - an old printer image metafile format that can include executable code which windows ran without asking anything. Simply viewing the file in internet explorer ran the payload. Icing on the cake is that it still worked if the malicious.wmf files were renamed to.JPG thanks to the way IE handles the image rendering. Some entrepreneuring people spread a bunch of these on the major ad networks without getting caught, and there you go... Any website running ads from these networks now came with a malicious payload. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/1/1/235748/4675
Now, hey may not have done so intentionally, but plenty of big, mainstream websites have indeed been caught unwittingly pushing out trojans and malware over the last few years. It's really not that far-fetched. These are just two examples, there have been plenty more over the years.
What Psystar is doing here is the equivalent of copying the book, slapping on a different cover, and selling it for profit. It's not like reselling a book, or installing Mac OS X on your personal hackintosh. It's a commercial venture based on the deliberate infringement of someone else's IP.
Except they still bought OS X for each machine they sell, they're not just cranking out copies without any compensation for Apple.
Car analogy time: Assume a car manufacturer only sells red cars. Would it be legal to buy one, paint it blue, and sell it for profit to people who prefer blue cars? the manufacturer still got compensated for the goods... The only difference in the Psystar vs. Apple ordeal is that there Apple is saying "Hey, you can't do that!".
why not?
Better the devil you know... I'm unhappy enough about Microsoft's kill switches, and I'm still on Windows 2000
With Windows 2000 approaching its drop-dead, end-of-life, no-more-critical-security-patches-ever stage, before long *everyone* will have a kill switch for your computer...
Then again, you only need to click 'yes' as opposed to type your password, so it's not too bad.
Except if you happen to do anything from the command line like trying to copy/move files into 'protected' system folders, with things like Robocopy, xcopy, or Unixtools for windows -- rather than triggering a UAC prompt, it flat-out get shot down with an 'access denied'... Which made UAC completely unusable for frequent commandprompt users.
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The problem is that that link didn't work in many browsers (I use Avant Browser, nothing happened when clicking the link in there), and in the ones that it did work it brought up a login page requireing you to log in with a google account (gmail) first in order to make any changes.
I didn't follow through logging in so I don't know first hand what it showed after logging in, but I've seen complaints from others that claim that even then you couldn't turn it off, but merely replace it with a white background image.
Monumentally stupid move from Google on multiple levels here.
Windows XP works nicely on a 1GHz Mobile P3 CPU and 512MB of PC133 RAM. Since 7 is a good replacement for XP, it will surely work just as fast as XP works now. Right?
Right. Close, at least.
I know it's popular to slam Microsoft products, but seriously -- Windows 7 is much leaner than Vista was, and overall is pretty similar to XP in performance. It will run on a pentium 3 CPU, and it will run just fine with 512MB of RAM as well. Granted, you'd probably will need to turn of the Aero graphic acceleration on the desktop and some other eyecandy, but in general it's perfectly happy on a 512MB machine... Unlike Vista, which was pretty much a slideshow on anything with less than a gigabyte.
In actual benchmarks XP may edge it in certain areas (There's some CPU penalty for added functionality, of course), but it really is surprisingly usable on older hardware. Microsoft really did a pretty decent job on trying to turn the whole vista trainwreck around.
Does that effectively mean you can't legally install GPL code on ROM since it couldn't be overwritten even if you did have the build environment and installation scripts?
I doubt it, because you can still replace the ROM chip altogether with a custom written version.
After all, you also can't directly overwrite/replace GPL code that's distributed on other read-only media, like CD or DVD... but as long as you have access to the proper equipment (CD burner + blank discs) there is nothing that stops you from creating usable 'custom' copies. I'd think the same applies to code in ROM, it's just that the necessary equipment is not typically found on your average home computer.
Or more typical:
Mac: Hi, I'm a Mac
PC: And I'm a PC
Mac: Whatcha doing, PC?
PC: Playing games.
Mac: Cool, can I play too?
PC: No.
...how much the numbers are actually mis-represented in side-by-side vulnerability comparisions between the various platforms (windows/linux, etc.), if there's a bunch of them that being swept under the carpet.
Throughout our history the Unites States has always given aliens the same rights as citizens
Most rights, but not all.
For example, legal permanent resident aliens still aren't allowed to vote. What about that 'Taxation without representation' thing again?
99 comments and no one has mentioned:
d) Fly around it
How wide is this ash cloud, anyway?
Several thousand miles, covering most of North-Western Europe. The entire airspace of a long strip of countries was completely closed to all air travel. On top of that, the bulk of the cloud was between 20,000 and 36,000 feet up, which is also where a good chunk of your air travel happens.
When a large number of your international transfer airports are right smack in the middle of a no-fly zone, then it doesn't really matter what direction you're coming from -- you still won't be able to go to your destination.
According to Wikipedia starcraft page, South Korea accounted for almost a third of the blitzards global 'starcraft' sales.
...Whatever floats your boat, I guess.
Thanks to its enduring popularity there, blizzard first announced the upcoming Starcraft 2 at a South Korean gaming event.
Finally, from Wikipedia's page on South Korea:
In recent years online games have become a significant part of Korean culture. StarCraft, the real-time strategy game, is by far the most popular televised game in South Korea. Game tournaments, recorded in places like the COEX Mall are often broadcast live on TV stations such as MBCGame and Ongamenet. Professional StarCraft players can command considerable salaries in South Korea as members of pro-gaming teams that are sponsored primarily by cell phone providers.
Nonsense. The problem with the space race is that it was unsustainable. There was no way any nation would maintain that kind of spending for an extended period of time
How so?
It's not like they're shoveling the money out of an airlock, almost every dime of it gets spend stimulating your local/national economy.... Giving tax breaks and the likes to stimulate the economy is supposedly good for the country, but actually paying people to design/build things isn't?
He isn't exactly known to believe in privacy in the first place, after all:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jan/11/facebook-privacy
The rise of social networking online means that people no longer have an expectation of privacy, according to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Talking at the Crunchie awards in San Francisco this weekend, the 25-year-old chief executive of the world's most popular social network said that privacy was no longer a "social norm".
"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence" One thing I couldn't help but notice though, is that Microsoft always pops IE in the number one spot for a moment *before* shuffling the browsers and showing them in randomized order... Very visible if you visit the ballot manually in IE and hit F5 a few times: http://www.browserchoice.eu/
though the trackpad on the back seems a little wierd when you already have a touch-screen
Except the touchscreen is difficult to use while you're walking around -- a 10" panel is kind of unwieldy to balance in one hand, especially while applying pressure to the touchscreen in varying locations. Overall this looks like a pretty ingenious setup, although I do wonder if the touchscreen on the back is going to be affected by other things than fingers pressing it.
I'm curious how the monochrome version compares to actual eInk displays.
The conversion software available to ePub is a bit primitive at the moment, but it does exist, from practically any format you can care to name.
.ZIP file, containing an index and content in .xml format, plus cover image(s)
At least ePub is an open format with published fileformat descriptions, so you can theorethically make your own converter...
ePub is pretty much a renamed
As far as conversion is concerned, I'd recommend using calibre -- it's pretty much the ultimate ebook library manager, which supports converting back and forth between many of the common ebook formats and can interface with the majority of ebook readers currently on the market. Open source, free download at http://calibre-ebook.com/
I like the Sony PRS-505, but those have been discontinued...
Sony kind of shot themselves in the foot there: the 'budget' PRS-300 has a nice quality screen except it's too small, and the higher end PRS-600 has a decent size screen but gives you a lot more glare and a crappy contrast ratio, courtesy of its added touchscreen layer...
There really is a huge difference though, I'd recommend you try to find a display unit somewhere before actually comitting to ordering one.
The nook looks nice (touchscreen is a seperate color LCD screen which does not muddle up the e-Ink display), but trivial operations like changing the font size are much more elaborate on those...
From their site: In the past, Battle.net was presented as a multiplayer option off to the side, off of the main menu of Blizzard Entertainment titles. That is all changing. With the new Battle.net experience, the service and the game are now interwoven into one experience. Whether you are in single-player or multiplayer StarCraft II, you are always connected, and enjoy a bevy of new and enhanced functionality.
Just... Great.
Yet another game that you can't play without being tethered to the internet. No biggie for multiplayer, but it really shouldn't have any business in single-player campaign mode...
Especially when creating Web sites intended for technical audiences, wouldn't it be best to end support for obsoleted browsers?
I'd think that most 'technical audiences' would already be running a non-obsolete browser if they had any say in the matter...
Not everyone has the option of installing/running alternate browsers (think: locked down corporate PC's, etc.)
*Especially* with technical audiences, there's a larger than average chance that you'd lock these people out completely by preventing them to use an older browser. It's more likely that grandma doesn't realize that her browser is ancient than it would be for your typical techie...
What will happen will be the standard that us humans have followed throughout the ages.
We will wait until the IPv4 addresses run out and then force businesses to start using IPv6 if they want to get on the internet.
Yes -- and the reason is very simple: IPv6 is great if/when everyone uses it, but there is next to no benefit in being the first one to do so...
So everyone is waiting for other people to deal with the hassle first. (IPv6 isn't really a drop-in replacement, after all -- there's still sizable chunks of the national and international backbone connections that don't talk IPv6, so you still have to deal with IPv4 at the same time regardless.
As long as the software/library is written completely by yourself, you're free to pick any license -- or dual-license it.
You can have your program both licensed under BSD, and also offer the same code/library as closed-source for $xx at the same time, with different conditions and fewer restrictions.
An example of other software that uses the dual-licensing approach is MySQL: for more information see http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/newsletter/2003-11/a0000000220.html
Are you saying that microsoft gave the chinese government the source code to IE/Windows?
Apparently they did -- or at least let them inspect/study it:
http://news.cnet.com/China-looks-into-Windows-code/2100-1016_3-5083458.html
Large national governments actually have enough leverage to get access to sourcecode that's not publicly available.
Forget Facebook instead.
Is heat output. More or less, any energy that isn't becoming light is becoming heat. Now in some areas of the world, that matters little to none. However in hot climates, it does. An incandescent produces more heat which gets dumped in to the air in your house. You then have to run your AC more often. So you end up paying double for the power, in terms of using it and then eliminating the excess.
Don't forget the other way around: if you have electrical heating, there are little to no savings using compact florescents during the fall/winter months. With incandescent bulbs the so-called waste heat is actually useful in helping heat the home itself. Without them, my electric baseport heaters just have to work harder to make up the difference, using pretty much the same amount of electricity I'd alledgedly safe by not using incandescents.
Sure, you'll safe a little during the summer time because you need less A/C, but realistically your lights will get most of their usage during the dark months...
They aren't. There's no way anyone is being infected by these sites.
.WMF files - an old printer image metafile format that can include executable code which windows ran without asking anything. Simply viewing the file in internet explorer ran the payload. Icing on the cake is that it still worked if the malicious .wmf files were renamed to .JPG thanks to the way IE handles the image rendering. Some entrepreneuring people spread a bunch of these on the major ad networks without getting caught, and there you go... Any website running ads from these networks now came with a malicious payload.
Don't be so sure -- there have been plenty of cases the last few years with major websites being duped into pushing out malware.
For eample, the New York Times pushed out trojans recently: http://www.scmagazineus.com/New-York-Times-inadvertently-sold-ad-space-to-hackers/article/148990/
Another one (a little longer back) revolved around
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/1/1/235748/4675
Now, hey may not have done so intentionally, but plenty of big, mainstream websites have indeed been caught unwittingly pushing out trojans and malware over the last few years. It's really not that far-fetched. These are just two examples, there have been plenty more over the years.
What Psystar is doing here is the equivalent of copying the book, slapping on a different cover, and selling it for profit. It's not like reselling a book, or installing Mac OS X on your personal hackintosh. It's a commercial venture based on the deliberate infringement of someone else's IP.
Except they still bought OS X for each machine they sell, they're not just cranking out copies without any compensation for Apple.
Car analogy time: Assume a car manufacturer only sells red cars. Would it be legal to buy one, paint it blue, and sell it for profit to people who prefer blue cars? the manufacturer still got compensated for the goods... The only difference in the Psystar vs. Apple ordeal is that there Apple is saying "Hey, you can't do that!".
why not?
Better the devil you know... I'm unhappy enough about Microsoft's kill switches, and I'm still on Windows 2000
With Windows 2000 approaching its drop-dead, end-of-life, no-more-critical-security-patches-ever stage, before long *everyone* will have a kill switch for your computer...
Then again, you only need to click 'yes' as opposed to type your password, so it's not too bad.
Except if you happen to do anything from the command line like trying to copy/move files into 'protected' system folders, with things like Robocopy, xcopy, or Unixtools for windows -- rather than triggering a UAC prompt, it flat-out get shot down with an 'access denied'... Which made UAC completely unusable for frequent commandprompt users.