Maybe this heralds the beginning of the end of Constitutional Rights for Legal Fictions -- that whole Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company / 14th Amendment debacle.
The Kyocera Smartphone is a pretty good phone/PDA combo. It's an 8MB Palm (v3.5.3) with a tri-mode phone. $99. I bought one last week and love it. I wish the internet service was always-on (rather than dialing up a PPP server), but that's not a biggie. I can use the thing as a wireless fax or modem out of my regular allotment of airtime.
I really like Jesse Ventura. He shakes up things! And he usually has a good point of view. For instance, pointing out that he's disappointed in Bush because "Bush wants to control everything from Washington, never mind what the states think, or have voted for, twice; he said he was for federalism, but apparently he's not" (paraphrase) in reference to recent medical-marijuana and assisted-suicide laws.
Microsoft of moving towards using 3D hardware to accelerate GUI performance, treating windows as surfaces and textures in order to offload the eye candy to the graphics processor.
I have heard that Apple is trying to (essentially) port Quartz/Aqua to OpenGL, so they they, too, can take advantage of hardware acceleration for drawing their eye candy.
The days of 2-D GUI acceleration, where fills and bitblts were 90% of the solution, are quickly passing. 2D hardware acceleration does not help with alpha blending, for instance.
I wonder how X/QT/Gtk will keep up with this next round of WIMP: WIMP-3D. Perhaps the Gnome Canvas could be hardware-accelerated using GLX. Rasterman is working (supposedly) on EVAS, a 3D-assisted rendering mechanism for X.
Actually, that's an "ActiveX Control for Hosting Netscape plug-ins in IE."
In other words, you have it backwards. MSFT dropped support for Netscape-style plugins, and this is a way to regain use of Netscape-style plugins in Internet Explorer.
I hope this spells the end of ActiveX website "enhancements." Having a large segments of people using a standards-based, non-Windows-specific browser will definitely improve the usability of the Web
Yeah, we forgot, because all their ads were about speed. All the benchmarks they paid for/trotted out were about speed. Apache was about "doing it right, no fast"... now that IIS isn't as fast, IIS is about "services?"
What if someone from china or pakistan is more educated than you, in fact what of hundreds of millions of them are, and they will all work for cheaper than you?
Why hire you?
Why indeed? Free trade helps developing nations more than it helps developed nations.
About 30% of people in Beijing have computers. Beijing, the largest city in China, along with its surrounding countryside, has a population of about 13.8 million people. 2.8 million Beijing residents have internet access; this is about 20%. Their per-capita income is $1200.
The overall computer ownsership rate in the 14 largest cities in China is 21%.
China has a population of about 1.27 billion people. The population of Beijing is less than 1.5% of the population of China.
Rural China -- which is most of China -- has a much lower ownership rate.
Incidentally, a lot of old computers do end up in China, but they end up in dumps as environmental hazards. "Consequently, the ground water is so polluted that drinking water has to be trucked in from a town 18 miles away". Of course, I' sure you have a pat asnwer as to why this is the fault of the U.S.
Minimum Wage is needed, You have to admit we need a minimum wage. Your readers have to do nothing of the sort.
IF you dont agree, then you must be CEO More insulting assumptions. I wish I was a CEO.
The Recording Industry Association of America Latest News about Recording Industry Association of America Recording Industry Association of America Web Site (RIAA) has charged that a Gateway (NYSE: GTW) Latest News about Gateway Gateway Inc Web Site advertising campaign that declares support for digital music downloads uses "misleading scare tactics"
Well if that isn't the most hypocritcal thing i've heard all week, I'll suck my toe.
One more this. This statement: "behave like an adult, and you'll curtail the calls you get" is absolutely not true.
I've had much better success being unfriendly and threatening than I have when I've tried to be engaging and nice about it.
Also, Mr. Offended Telemarketer, telling your target market to "act like adults" is pretty arrogant. Perhaps your industry should try acting like adults, rather that making crank calls for a living.
I'm not an ass, I'm not infantile, I'm just firm with them. The rudest I get is to re-iterate "No thank you, please do not call again" and hang up on them.
Telemarketers are not actually very good about not calling back when I instruct them not to, except for the few times (with repeat offenders) that I've threatened to sue them.
If you enjoy being an ass to a complete stranger more than you enjoy an uninterupted plesant evening, by all means, go ahead with your infantile behavoir. Otherwise, behave like an adult, and you'll curtail the calls you get.
Now that you're done being insulting, please explain why a 7:30 pm sales pitch should be treated with the same repesct and courtesy as a call from my mother.
I think it would be nice to require caller-ID info be available on marketing calls.
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Maybe this heralds the beginning of the end of Constitutional Rights for Legal Fictions -- that whole Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company / 14th Amendment debacle.
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While I use Opera, IE is not "browsing at the same time" and therefore is not "increasing the memory footprint" for browsing.
It is running all the time, unless you have replaced explorer.exe
"You may remember me from such documentaries as, 'Man vs. Nature -- the Road to Victory!'"
CompUSA? CompMEX, more like it. Slim owns Prodigy and CompUSA.
The Kyocera Smartphone is a pretty good phone/PDA combo. It's an 8MB Palm (v3.5.3) with a tri-mode phone. $99. I bought one last week and love it. I wish the internet service was always-on (rather than dialing up a PPP server), but that's not a biggie. I can use the thing as a wireless fax or modem out of my regular allotment of airtime.
I really like Jesse Ventura. He shakes up things! And he usually has a good point of view. For instance, pointing out that he's disappointed in Bush because "Bush wants to control everything from Washington, never mind what the states think, or have voted for, twice; he said he was for federalism, but apparently he's not" (paraphrase) in reference to recent medical-marijuana and assisted-suicide laws.
Microsoft of moving towards using 3D hardware to accelerate GUI performance, treating windows as surfaces and textures in order to offload the eye candy to the graphics processor.
I have heard that Apple is trying to (essentially) port Quartz/Aqua to OpenGL, so they they, too, can take advantage of hardware acceleration for drawing their eye candy.
The days of 2-D GUI acceleration, where fills and bitblts were 90% of the solution, are quickly passing. 2D hardware acceleration does not help with alpha blending, for instance.
I wonder how X/QT/Gtk will keep up with this next round of WIMP: WIMP-3D. Perhaps the Gnome Canvas could be hardware-accelerated using GLX. Rasterman is working (supposedly) on EVAS, a 3D-assisted rendering mechanism for X.
I just tried it. It's neat. I typed, "movies 90210" and it gave me a listing of movies in Beverly Hills.
The problem isn't so much that MSFT says somewhere that a particular extension is proprietary. It's that the extensions get widely used.
You said: "ActiveX can be used in Mozilla."
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Actually, that's an " ActiveX Control for Hosting Netscape plug-ins in IE
In other words, you have it backwards. MSFT dropped support for Netscape-style plugins, and this is a way to regain use of Netscape-style plugins in Internet Explorer.
I hope this spells the end of ActiveX website "enhancements." Having a large segments of people using a standards-based, non-Windows-specific browser will definitely improve the usability of the Web
Yeah, we forgot, because all their ads were about speed. All the benchmarks they paid for/trotted out were about speed. Apache was about "doing it right, no fast" ... now that IIS isn't as fast, IIS is about "services?"
Plants release the oxygen in C02 as a by-product, using solar power.
CO2-producing energy sources will not deplete the earth's atmosphere of oxygen.
+1 insightful, but the Americans and French have a long history of helping each other.
Neither France nor America should bowing down to the other, just as friends and brothers do not bow down before each other.
I'd say, given the agenda of the Democrats over the last ten years, that they already have, wouldn't you?
It's so hard to tell...
What if someone from china or pakistan is more educated than you, in fact what of hundreds of millions of them are, and they will all work for cheaper than you?
Why hire you?
Why indeed? Free trade helps developing nations more than it helps developed nations.
I have to shoot down more of your bullshit.
About 30 percent of China has computers.
About 30% of people in Beijing have computers. Beijing, the largest city in China, along with its surrounding countryside, has a population of about 13.8 million people. 2.8 million Beijing residents have internet access; this is about 20%. Their per-capita income is $1200.
The overall computer ownsership rate in the 14 largest cities in China is 21%.
China has a population of about 1.27 billion people. The population of Beijing is less than 1.5% of the population of China.
Rural China -- which is most of China -- has a much lower ownership rate.
Incidentally, a lot of old computers do end up in China, but they end up in dumps as environmental hazards. "Consequently, the ground water is so polluted that drinking water has to be trucked in from a town 18 miles away". Of course, I' sure you have a pat asnwer as to why this is the fault of the U.S.
Minimum Wage is needed, You have to admit we need a minimum wage.
Your readers have to do nothing of the sort.
IF you dont agree, then you must be CEO
More insulting assumptions. I wish I was a CEO.
Theres alot of people here on slashdot who agree with my point of view.
You keep saying this, as if it matters.
It would be fun for Republicans to show up at the Party Meeting, exercise the Rules and By-Laws, and "seize control" of the local Democratic machine.
The Recording Industry Association of America Latest News about Recording Industry Association of America Recording Industry Association of America Web Site (RIAA) has charged that a Gateway (NYSE: GTW) Latest News about Gateway Gateway Inc Web Site advertising campaign that declares support for digital music downloads uses "misleading scare tactics"
Well if that isn't the most hypocritcal thing i've heard all week, I'll suck my toe.
Just like "Bob" became "Clippy," I'm sure this thing will re-surface.
It's like when a dead guy is dumped in the river... he'll float to the surface eventually.
The aliens knocked out our satellites in Independance Day.
Of course, Jeff Goldblum uploaded that virus and fixed their little green wagons...
Your home page sums it up:
http://www.amishrakefight.org/gfy
One more this. This statement: "behave like an adult, and you'll curtail the calls you get" is absolutely not true.
I've had much better success being unfriendly and threatening than I have when I've tried to be engaging and nice about it.
Also, Mr. Offended Telemarketer, telling your target market to "act like adults" is pretty arrogant. Perhaps your industry should try acting like adults, rather that making crank calls for a living.
I'm not an ass, I'm not infantile, I'm just firm with them. The rudest I get is to re-iterate "No thank you, please do not call again" and hang up on them.
Telemarketers are not actually very good about not calling back when I instruct them not to, except for the few times (with repeat offenders) that I've threatened to sue them.
If you enjoy being an ass to a complete stranger more than you enjoy an uninterupted plesant evening, by all means, go ahead with your infantile behavoir. Otherwise, behave like an adult, and you'll curtail the calls you get.
Now that you're done being insulting, please explain why a 7:30 pm sales pitch should be treated with the same repesct and courtesy as a call from my mother.
I think it would be nice to require caller-ID info be available on marketing calls.