The Opera 8 Betas (1,2, and 3) support XmlHttpRequest. I've been using them for the past few months, and they're as stable as a release browser. Can even use Gmail with them, although there are still a few layout rendering bugs there.
The ones who knew enough to find the "swag" on a relevant website are the ones who should be first in the queue to be admiited. After all they're the ones with the acumen.
No, that would only include the hacker that figured out the vulnerability in the first place. All the others get kudos for being able to follow simple directions, but that's it. No kudo's for reading Businessweek forums - in this day and age that's nothing less than expected of an aspiring MBA.
"I don't know about you, but NTFS is fine for me. I mean, jesus, its a file system, not a damn search engine."
One of the business problems MS is trying to solve with WinFS is one of the major obstacles to upgrading to new Windows versions. Currently, Joe User doesn't buy a new computer b/c he doesn't know how to get his data from the old one to the new one, or if he has an inkling (backup files, then copy them all manually to the new computer, via disk, cd, usb drive, etc.). Pain in the Ass. But if all file data is stored in a database file system, you just copy the filesystem to the new computer, using a utility provided by MS, and voila! Piece of cake, by comparison.
the only reason I know that is because I walked the movies over the weekend.
Out of curiosity, what kind of leash did you use? I need to walk my movies too since they keep pissing all over my house, but I can't seem to find a suitable leash that they aren't able to slip out of when they pull really hard...
"Now the company seems to have trouble executing even the one task that should take precedence over everything else: getting 'Longhorn,' its Windows replacement, to market. Longhorn is now two years late. That would be disastrous for a beloved product like the Macintosh, but for a product that is universally reviled as a necessary, but foul-tasting, medicine, this verges on criminal insanity. Or, more likely, organizational paralysis."
Or, more likely, Windows, with its backwards compatability, integrated applications, and security flaws, among other design problems, is so sprawlingly complex that it is reaching the level unmanageability. IANAME (MS Employee), nor have I been, but I know they hire the best. If even teams of such people struggle for so long to produce a major upgrade to Windows, then that seems to me to be a sign that they're now dealing with an unmanageable monstrosity, rather than a sign of organizational paralysis. Not that such a distinction matters much to the author's argument, though...
f-ing sick. I'll spare you some of the more graphic stories, but let me tell you... nothing makes you more apathetic for humanity that working in a pr0n store for almost three years.
Hmm, a judgemental porn store clerk. Your real name wouldn't happen to be Randal, would it?
[Oct 4 1993, 10:25 am] "I'll try and post news here from time to time if it
seems like it might interest people - for instance, it looks as if the HHGG
movie is finally coming after the shelf after 10 years."
Really, if Americans had to deal with the level of terrorism that Isrealis do on a daily basis, society would fall right apart.
People always like to think that about Americans, and they're always wrong. It's reassuring for the world to think that behind the juggernaut there's a rotten core of obese idiots and weaklings. Europeans have always liked to believe we're a nation of peasants who just got lucky, and the third world thinks "God gave those people too much", as an Indian friend once recounted to me. But what such people either conveniently forget or just don't understand is how competitive our society is, professionally, economically, and even athletically. When others join us in friendly competition, we all benefit - the rising tide raises all ships - but shake our bee-hive hard enough and we can and do turn that competitive drive against you, militarily in the case of Al Quaeda.
Among the posts on communism in this thread, this is the only one that deserves a 5. Someone who was actually there and knows first hand, and is not some punter who's skimmed Das Kapital and thinks he's an expert. It's the rare pieces of wheat like this that make/. worth reading.
and the idea that everyone is supposed to contribute to the public good.
No it wasn't. It was founded on the belief that everyone has the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of [their own] happiness. There's nothing about "public good" in there anywhere.
In that case, the Chinese citizens would have lost a very valuable resource for finding information. And despite their efforts, it's highly likely that there is still a great deal of information to be found on google that the Chinese governement doesn't want its citizens to see.
There's also the fact that to the Chinese, relationships are very important. As an innovative, world-beating company, Google has a long-term opportunity to build strong relationships in China, both with the government and with China's best intellectuals (some of whom led Tiennamen Square protest, and many of whom studied in the West), albeit at the cost of acquiescing to the Communists on cenorship in the short term. Such a position may allow them some influence in the future, influence they might use to persuade the Chicoms to see there is more benefit in allowing information to be free than in censoring it. While this is basically the same old, pernicious rationalization that the ends justifies the means, and is arguably "evil", I think Google sees this as their best option. Work within the Chinese system now to help change it in the longterm.
But the problem is it only works once, so it is not good for terrorism per se.
Unless your goal is not just to terrorize America but to destroy it, as Al Quaeda's is. Then such a plot would work pretty well. Combine it with some bioterror in the West and the Heartland that requires quarantines and shuts down interstate commerce, and you've delivered quite a blow.
Most tsunamis are very small out in the ocean, most less then a few centimeters tall.
You mean, they're very short out in the ocean. A few centimeters tall perhaps, but tens or hundreds of meters long. When they hit shallows, they compact lengthwise, transferring their spread-out mass into a vertical wall.
I've never been to Texas but this looks like a big solution looking for an equally big problem. How does the press release justify it? "Supporters say the corridors are needed to handle the expected NAFTA-driven boom in the flow of goods to and from Mexico". Not the kind of expenditure - financial, social, and political - I'd want to risk on something that's just "expected" at some time in the future.
And why would you mix oil pipelines and optic cable in with a massive roadway? One bad traffic/train accident and half of Texas loses their internet connections. Yes, that's a simplification and/or exaggeration, and I'm sure the engineers would include that consideration in their safety factor calculations. But I get the impression this aspect was dreamed up by some poli or beauracrat that thought it sounded cool. Perhaps some slashdot-reading civil engineer can shed some light on benefits of mixing utility and optic pipes into a massive road and rail way.
Pointing a laser pointer at a cop is a serious threat to that cop...
Most likely b/c the cop thinks the laser is attached to a gun aiming at him, rather than to just a dumb kid trying to blind him, especially at night as in the Florida case.
Athlon64, Nforce3 Ultra, built-in heat-pipe CPU cooler, etc. etc. I just a built a barebones version, and it's well-layed-out, small, quiet, performs well, and is so far reliable.
Slashdot Mirror
I doubt that many slashdotters will make it to heaven.
And even if we did we probably wouldn't make it very far with the virgins anyway...
The Opera 8 Betas (1,2, and 3) support XmlHttpRequest. I've been using them for the past few months, and they're as stable as a release browser. Can even use Gmail with them, although there are still a few layout rendering bugs there.
The ones who knew enough to find the "swag" on a relevant website are the ones who should be first in the queue to be admiited. After all they're the ones with the acumen.
No, that would only include the hacker that figured out the vulnerability in the first place. All the others get kudos for being able to follow simple directions, but that's it. No kudo's for reading Businessweek forums - in this day and age that's nothing less than expected of an aspiring MBA.
"I don't know about you, but NTFS is fine for me. I mean, jesus, its a file system, not a damn search engine."
One of the business problems MS is trying to solve with WinFS is one of the major obstacles to upgrading to new Windows versions. Currently, Joe User doesn't buy a new computer b/c he doesn't know how to get his data from the old one to the new one, or if he has an inkling (backup files, then copy them all manually to the new computer, via disk, cd, usb drive, etc.). Pain in the Ass. But if all file data is stored in a database file system, you just copy the filesystem to the new computer, using a utility provided by MS, and voila! Piece of cake, by comparison.
What do you mean vi is not an OS?!?
Our high schools have long been designed to provide worker bees, and some argue this is deliberate...
the only reason I know that is because I walked the movies over the weekend.
Out of curiosity, what kind of leash did you use? I need to walk my movies too since they keep pissing all over my house, but I can't seem to find a suitable leash that they aren't able to slip out of when they pull really hard...
... that the French, for one, welcomed their new English-speaking overlords.
"Now the company seems to have trouble executing even the one task that should take precedence over everything else: getting 'Longhorn,' its Windows replacement, to market. Longhorn is now two years late. That would be disastrous for a beloved product like the Macintosh, but for a product that is universally reviled as a necessary, but foul-tasting, medicine, this verges on criminal insanity. Or, more likely, organizational paralysis."
Or, more likely, Windows, with its backwards compatability, integrated applications, and security flaws, among other design problems, is so sprawlingly complex that it is reaching the level unmanageability. IANAME (MS Employee), nor have I been, but I know they hire the best. If even teams of such people struggle for so long to produce a major upgrade to Windows, then that seems to me to be a sign that they're now dealing with an unmanageable monstrosity, rather than a sign of organizational paralysis. Not that such a distinction matters much to the author's argument, though...
"And though Steve Ballmer is legendary for his sound and fury, these days his leadership seems to be signifying nothing."
Nice to know that some in the main stream press can still call it like they see it...
of long-hair hippies in business suits
Shouldn't those be long haired hippies in jeans and black turtlenecks?
f-ing sick. I'll spare you some of the more graphic stories, but let me tell you... nothing makes you more apathetic for humanity that working in a pr0n store for almost three years.
Hmm, a judgemental porn store clerk. Your real name wouldn't happen to be Randal, would it?
[Oct 4 1993, 10:25 am]
"I'll try and post news here from time to time if it seems like it might interest people - for instance, it looks as if the HHGG movie is finally coming after the shelf after 10 years."
Heh.
Really, if Americans had to deal with the level of terrorism that Isrealis do on a daily basis, society would fall right apart.
People always like to think that about Americans, and they're always wrong. It's reassuring for the world to think that behind the juggernaut there's a rotten core of obese idiots and weaklings. Europeans have always liked to believe we're a nation of peasants who just got lucky, and the third world thinks "God gave those people too much", as an Indian friend once recounted to me. But what such people either conveniently forget or just don't understand is how competitive our society is, professionally, economically, and even athletically. When others join us in friendly competition, we all benefit - the rising tide raises all ships - but shake our bee-hive hard enough and we can and do turn that competitive drive against you, militarily in the case of Al Quaeda.
Thats like comparing this 2.0Ghz Celeron against a 2.0Ghz P4
That's so true! The P4 has no chance.
When we had communism in Poland,
/. worth reading.
Among the posts on communism in this thread, this is the only one that deserves a 5. Someone who was actually there and knows first hand, and is not some punter who's skimmed Das Kapital and thinks he's an expert. It's the rare pieces of wheat like this that make
and the idea that everyone is supposed to contribute to the public good.
No it wasn't. It was founded on the belief that everyone has the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of [their own] happiness. There's nothing about "public good" in there anywhere.
In that case, the Chinese citizens would have lost a very valuable resource for finding information. And despite their efforts, it's highly likely that there is still a great deal of information to be found on google that the Chinese governement doesn't want its citizens to see.
There's also the fact that to the Chinese, relationships are very important. As an innovative, world-beating company, Google has a long-term opportunity to build strong relationships in China, both with the government and with China's best intellectuals (some of whom led Tiennamen Square protest, and many of whom studied in the West), albeit at the cost of acquiescing to the Communists on cenorship in the short term. Such a position may allow them some influence in the future, influence they might use to persuade the Chicoms to see there is more benefit in allowing information to be free than in censoring it. While this is basically the same old, pernicious rationalization that the ends justifies the means, and is arguably "evil", I think Google sees this as their best option. Work within the Chinese system now to help change it in the longterm.
But the problem is it only works once, so it is not good for terrorism per se.
Unless your goal is not just to terrorize America but to destroy it, as Al Quaeda's is. Then such a plot would work pretty well. Combine it with some bioterror in the West and the Heartland that requires quarantines and shuts down interstate commerce, and you've delivered quite a blow.
Most tsunamis are very small out in the ocean, most less then a few centimeters tall.
You mean, they're very short out in the ocean. A few centimeters tall perhaps, but tens or hundreds of meters long. When they hit shallows, they compact lengthwise, transferring their spread-out mass into a vertical wall.
I've never been to Texas but this looks like a big solution looking for an equally big problem. How does the press release justify it? "Supporters say the corridors are needed to handle the expected NAFTA-driven boom in the flow of goods to and from Mexico". Not the kind of expenditure - financial, social, and political - I'd want to risk on something that's just "expected" at some time in the future.
And why would you mix oil pipelines and optic cable in with a massive roadway? One bad traffic/train accident and half of Texas loses their internet connections. Yes, that's a simplification and/or exaggeration, and I'm sure the engineers would include that consideration in their safety factor calculations. But I get the impression this aspect was dreamed up by some poli or beauracrat that thought it sounded cool. Perhaps some slashdot-reading civil engineer can shed some light on benefits of mixing utility and optic pipes into a massive road and rail way.
Pointing a laser pointer at a cop is a serious threat to that cop...
Most likely b/c the cop thinks the laser is attached to a gun aiming at him, rather than to just a dumb kid trying to blind him, especially at night as in the Florida case.
Try Shuttle XPC G5 9500g or 9500m:
http://sys.us.shuttle.com/BuildXPC.aspx?id=1089
Athlon64, Nforce3 Ultra, built-in heat-pipe CPU cooler, etc. etc. I just a built a barebones version, and it's well-layed-out, small, quiet, performs well, and is so far reliable.
Someone should write a novel about this. ... Come to think of it, this is exactly the sort of thing Chuck Palahniuk would write (author of Fight Club).
Or Po Bronson.
Yeah me too... ... Have you found any?
:).
Yup.
I then decided that even funny people will have to suffer a bit for the greater good