If, however, the javascript doesn't work in your browserNO - Javascript works fine in my browser - I have just turned it off for security reasons. And I insist that all my family and employees that report to me do the same.
As you say - if the web site doesnt work without javascript, then thats fine if its a porn or gaming site, but its not going to hack it for business.
My system is ready it responds "Your browser is insecure, to avoid viruses and spam, please replace it with a more secure one such as Firefox -link here-"
And the reason that Ford does not sell enough cars is that it has too many models?
There may be a problem with end users being unable to understand what is different about the various distributions. That suggests that the Linux people should spend less time saying "Its Linux, Stupid!" and more time saying "We offer more X and better Y" (or maybe "less X" as the case may be).
There is nothing like "PAM killer" on the horizont in next 1-2 years
Maybe for someone your age, 1-2 years is a long time. However, in a large part of the real world, applications take 2-3 years to develop, and then have a life of 10-20 years, during which tiome, ALL the technology used during development becomes obsolete, and much of it is replaced, as part of "routine maintenance".
Some of it isn't replaced, because the new hardware is worse than the old - hence the amount of 10 year old kit still in daily use. Notice how much of *BSD is over 7 years and guess what 10 year old software still runs! How old is Fortran exactly? and Colossal cave, written in Fortran in the 1970's STILL RUNS. Notice how some people still drive 1970 Mustangs. (Notice how no sane person still uses DOS 3.3 and no sane person _ever_ used DOS 4.x)
The moral of this story is: Just because its old does not make it good, but sometimes you need to make an investment over a long period. This requires stable APIs.
I think you will find that all economically viable computers had BASIC long before MS existed. (Most compputers that were not economically viable also had BASIC, too). A lot of Mainframes offered a choise of two or three different compilers or BASIC interpreters.
You might want to Google Dartmouth College, or even BASIC. In those days, every man and dog programmer team had written a BASIC interpreter, if not two.
However, please remember that we have had plenty of terrorist attacks over the years, mainly by the (American funded) IRA.
The scary think about this one is the extent to which the police and government appear to have over-reacted, and the fact that our present government is already hell-bent on abuses of civil liberties justied by claims that they are "anti-terrorist".
The whole purpose of terrorism is to scare the government into over-reaction (read all about Che Guevara, etc). In general, it has failed miserably to achieve anything useful, anywhere. There is real hope that you will be able to tell your children "This tactic was tried all over the world, by all sorts of people, and almost all did their cause irreperable damage. Eventually, the Internet made is possible for the perpetrators to see how stupid there actions were, and gave up."
It's no different if I went out and bought a Microsoft program
Exactly - I can see it now Man arrested for using Microsoft Software See/. articles on how your Win machine will instantly become part of an intergalactic Beowulf cluster of anal probe gizmotrons on powerup.
Cameras in public aren't too threateningTake that back NOW
They did not used to be threatening, but now they are used to spot people stopping on red routes. So long as you are not actually moving (eg stopped to shift a drink bottle from under the pedals), In London, they can and will take your picture and send you a £80 fine. If you pay within 7 days, you get to pay £40. If you argue its a minimum of £80. And since they dont accept your arguments. you might as well pay the £40.
The Blair government is convinced that 1984 was a sound manifesto, and their ID card proposals are based on the same philosophy - if it moves, tax it. If it doesn't, tax it anyway!
Probably 99.x percent of the people on this planet.
The problem is that (100-99.x) is non-zero.
A small percentage of people are nutty as fruitcakes, and there are a lot of people. 0.5% of 200,000,000 citizens is a million nutters in America alone. If only 1% of the nutters are dangerous, then thats 10,000 gun-crazed loonies on the loose.
Clearly, if GTA was not allowing them to release their tensions in harmless ways, we would have loads more shootings, stabbings, etc! Praise be to God for violent Vide Games.
Then this is not about you. This is about people who are too stupid to realise the popup is not part of the site they intended to visit, but was inserted by some junk that their kids picked up from another site, several days earlier.
It may not make sense to you, but then again, APL does not make sense to me. Perhaps the problem is your lack of learning.
In order to understand English spelling, you first need to understand English (assembly of Japanese motorcycle requires great peace of mind).
All words in English are derived from words in other languages. The way words are spelt in English is determined by the language they came from, so when you learn a new word, you need to learn its etymology. Fortunately, this is in the dictionary (The Oxford University dictionary. Others don't count).
Unfortunately, the etymology is not entirely correct in many cases - most etymologists know their Latin, Greek, and French, and can read German text books, but know nothing of Arabic or Chinese or various Indian, and possibly African languages that may have been the origins of common English words, so they are rarely credited. Nothing is perfect except God.
Why is the preterite of run ran, yet the preterite of shun is shunned?I do not know the actual answer to this question, but there are normally two explanations for this, both working together. The change of vowel sound: run->ran is generally derived from Arabic, while the change of ending is a European (Greek, Latin) technique. The reason the difference is retained is generally to maximise the linguistic difference from words which might be confused in the same context. Context being both gramatical (similar positions in a sentence), and semantic (words with similar meaning). It may also be that this is specific to certain environments: the similarity might only occur in a classroom, printing house, or some other significant work environment. It might be to make the word easily distinguished from background noise in an environment where it was common.
English has developed in a darwinian manner, and the fact that you cannot tell the spelling from your local pronounciation is not necessarily a snag. Your accent is likely very different to mine. Within my family, we pronounce "there", "their" and "the're" recognisably differently. My wife's family pronouce "ear" and "hair" indistingushably.
I once worked on a speech synthesiser using a National Semis phonym based synthesiser chip. Unfortunately, although the users could easily tell which parts were programmed by me (with a Cambride accent) and which by my colleague (With a Newcastle accent) no one could understand what the damn thing was actually saying.
The problem is more complex than you think: People actually recognise English words by different features in different places. Yoruba speakers are used to a pitch language, and will always pronounce English words with the same pitch setting. They readily understand each other speaking English, but often find it hard to recognise English spoken by English people who use changes in pitch for emphasis.
Before the Internet was common, we had Fidonet. We found out on Fidonet that: If you obey the established spelling rules, people who are not native english speakers have a chance of understanding what you mean, even if they have to look up every word in the dictionary. If you don't, and try to write phonetically, then people outside your local area
won't have a clue what you are talking about.
Cell architecture is similar to specialist data-flow architectures which have been known to deliver incredibly high performance for years. Unfortunately, not with competitive pricing. Sony will change all that, because of their volume of sales.
Of course, it will take around two years for developers to understand how to use it effeectively, and probably even longer before their is a reasonably efficient tool chain. At that point, P4s will suddenly look like the 6502 does now.
The poster who spoke of realistic simulations of blowing up dams was right. Realistic simulations of dam-buster bouncing bombs will be possible! With simultaneous simulation of ack-ack fire tracking radar capability too. Imagine open-source war games with real-time capture of sattelite intelligence. Imagine driving games able to use satellite capture of real traffic reports, and place you behind real cars in real streets in real time.
Of course we all know the killer app will be walk-in 3d porno simulations (sense-surround, eat your heart out!)
Unfortunately, for all these games, a user interface consisting a joy-pad, even if radio connected, is fundamentally crap. Forget further CPU development, guys, and work on transdermic interfaces. We dont want virtual reality - we want real reality. (AI may be alright for artificial problems, but real problems need real intelligence!)
I write this using FBSD5 as my desktop. Where is the disaster of which you speak?
Sure 5.0 and 5.1 did not install on any hardware I own, but then, Windows2k won't install on this machine, and no-one knows why. (It did run Win2kServer, but one day it stopped, and I have not managed a successful reinstall!).
This is a perfectly normal P4 with a standard mobo. It runs FBSD5.4, and its been running it since the day RC2 came out. The only problem I know about is Xine crashes a lot. If I cared, I'd do something about it. I am more interested in PGSQL than Xine (Sad, I know)
If you cannot tell the difference between character assasination (with words) and actual assasination (with bullets) then you are unlikely recognise freedom when it hits you over the head.
I expect MS are 15% less keen on free speech than the Chinese government, but 87% of statistics are made up on the spot...
They can start by declaring Nuclear war on spammers. Especially those who are known to lie within the US jurisdiction, or promoting products sold by US based companies.
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My personal method is not to use on-line banking. It has worked well so far!
It beats a lot of the other methods in common use today!
If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck: Vote for it!
As you say - if the web site doesnt work without javascript, then thats fine if its a porn or gaming site, but its not going to hack it for business.
My system is ready it responds "Your browser is insecure, to avoid viruses and spam, please replace it with a more secure one such as Firefox -link here-"
There may be a problem with end users being unable to understand what is different about the various distributions. That suggests that the Linux people should spend less time saying "Its Linux, Stupid!" and more time saying "We offer more X and better Y" (or maybe "less X" as the case may be).
What do I care, I am a dead *BSD user
Surely thats Huey, Louis, and Dewey
Some of us do.
But then some of us still use NC mills that read paper tape.
The tooth fairy is clearly a global threat to profit-making.
Maybe for someone your age, 1-2 years is a long time. However, in a large part of the real world, applications take 2-3 years to develop, and then have a life of 10-20 years, during which tiome, ALL the technology used during development becomes obsolete, and much of it is replaced, as part of "routine maintenance".
Some of it isn't replaced, because the new hardware is worse than the old - hence the amount of 10 year old kit still in daily use. Notice how much of *BSD is over 7 years and guess what 10 year old software still runs! How old is Fortran exactly? and Colossal cave, written in Fortran in the 1970's STILL RUNS. Notice how some people still drive 1970 Mustangs. (Notice how no sane person still uses DOS 3.3 and no sane person _ever_ used DOS 4.x)
The moral of this story is: Just because its old does not make it good, but sometimes you need to make an investment over a long period. This requires stable APIs.
In fact, they need a Linux device as well.
http://www.onlinepaymentspaypaleiowoewqwrwetwrwe.3 322.org/ who are sending fake e-mails pretending to be confirmation of credit card payments for things on e-bay.
I suggest that cruel and inhuman torture would be appropriate.
I think you will find that all economically viable computers had BASIC long before MS existed. (Most compputers that were not economically viable also had BASIC, too). A lot of Mainframes offered a choise of two or three different compilers or BASIC interpreters.
You might want to Google Dartmouth College, or even BASIC. In those days, every man and dog programmer team had written a BASIC interpreter, if not two.
However, please remember that we have had plenty of terrorist attacks over the years, mainly by the (American funded) IRA.
The scary think about this one is the extent to which the police and government appear to have over-reacted, and the fact that our present government is already hell-bent on abuses of civil liberties justied by claims that they are "anti-terrorist".
The whole purpose of terrorism is to scare the government into over-reaction (read all about Che Guevara, etc). In general, it has failed miserably to achieve anything useful, anywhere. There is real hope that you will be able to tell your children "This tactic was tried all over the world, by all sorts of people, and almost all did their cause irreperable damage. Eventually, the Internet made is possible for the perpetrators to see how stupid there actions were, and gave up."
Thats 3c per packet for every data packet you've ever sent.
To avoid unpleasant visits from the RIAA, FAST, NAACP, CIA, MIB, etc, email me for details of where to the outstanding money to:
Exactly - I can see it now Man arrested for using Microsoft Software See /. articles on how your Win machine will instantly become part of an intergalactic Beowulf cluster of anal probe gizmotrons on powerup.
They did not used to be threatening, but now they are used to spot people stopping on red routes. So long as you are not actually moving (eg stopped to shift a drink bottle from under the pedals), In London, they can and will take your picture and send you a £80 fine. If you pay within 7 days, you get to pay £40. If you argue its a minimum of £80. And since they dont accept your arguments. you might as well pay the £40.
The Blair government is convinced that 1984 was a sound manifesto, and their ID card proposals are based on the same philosophy - if it moves, tax it. If it doesn't, tax it anyway!
The problem is that (100-99.x) is non-zero.
A small percentage of people are nutty as fruitcakes, and there are a lot of people. 0.5% of 200,000,000 citizens is a million nutters in America alone. If only 1% of the nutters are dangerous, then thats 10,000 gun-crazed loonies on the loose.
Clearly, if GTA was not allowing them to release their tensions in harmless ways, we would have loads more shootings, stabbings, etc! Praise be to God for violent Vide Games.
Then this is not about you. This is about people who are too stupid to realise the popup is not part of the site they intended to visit, but was inserted by some junk that their kids picked up from another site, several days earlier.
In order to understand English spelling, you first need to understand English (assembly of Japanese motorcycle requires great peace of mind).
All words in English are derived from words in other languages. The way words are spelt in English is determined by the language they came from, so when you learn a new word, you need to learn its etymology. Fortunately, this is in the dictionary (The Oxford University dictionary. Others don't count).
Unfortunately, the etymology is not entirely correct in many cases - most etymologists know their Latin, Greek, and French, and can read German text books, but know nothing of Arabic or Chinese or various Indian, and possibly African languages that may have been the origins of common English words, so they are rarely credited. Nothing is perfect except God.
Why is the preterite of run ran, yet the preterite of shun is shunned?I do not know the actual answer to this question, but there are normally two explanations for this, both working together. The change of vowel sound: run->ran is generally derived from Arabic, while the change of ending is a European (Greek, Latin) technique. The reason the difference is retained is generally to maximise the linguistic difference from words which might be confused in the same context. Context being both gramatical (similar positions in a sentence), and semantic (words with similar meaning). It may also be that this is specific to certain environments: the similarity might only occur in a classroom, printing house, or some other significant work environment. It might be to make the word easily distinguished from background noise in an environment where it was common.
English has developed in a darwinian manner, and the fact that you cannot tell the spelling from your local pronounciation is not necessarily a snag. Your accent is likely very different to mine. Within my family, we pronounce "there", "their" and "the're" recognisably differently. My wife's family pronouce "ear" and "hair" indistingushably.
I once worked on a speech synthesiser using a National Semis phonym based synthesiser chip. Unfortunately, although the users could easily tell which parts were programmed by me (with a Cambride accent) and which by my colleague (With a Newcastle accent) no one could understand what the damn thing was actually saying.
The problem is more complex than you think: People actually recognise English words by different features in different places. Yoruba speakers are used to a pitch language, and will always pronounce English words with the same pitch setting. They readily understand each other speaking English, but often find it hard to recognise English spoken by English people who use changes in pitch for emphasis.
Before the Internet was common, we had Fidonet. We found out on Fidonet that: If you obey the established spelling rules, people who are not native english speakers have a chance of understanding what you mean, even if they have to look up every word in the dictionary. If you don't, and try to write phonetically, then people outside your local area won't have a clue what you are talking about.
a) Babies learn
b) Alcohol makes students drunk
Research grants are obviously given out by the USPTO
Of course, it will take around two years for developers to understand how to use it effeectively, and probably even longer before their is a reasonably efficient tool chain. At that point, P4s will suddenly look like the 6502 does now.
The poster who spoke of realistic simulations of blowing up dams was right. Realistic simulations of dam-buster bouncing bombs will be possible! With simultaneous simulation of ack-ack fire tracking radar capability too. Imagine open-source war games with real-time capture of sattelite intelligence. Imagine driving games able to use satellite capture of real traffic reports, and place you behind real cars in real streets in real time.
Of course we all know the killer app will be walk-in 3d porno simulations (sense-surround, eat your heart out!)
Unfortunately, for all these games, a user interface consisting a joy-pad, even if radio connected, is fundamentally crap. Forget further CPU development, guys, and work on transdermic interfaces. We dont want virtual reality - we want real reality. (AI may be alright for artificial problems, but real problems need real intelligence!)
If they use WWF wrestlers, no one will have any more idea if they are brain dead than they did with the lawyers^h^h^h^h^h dogs
Sure 5.0 and 5.1 did not install on any hardware I own, but then, Windows2k won't install on this machine, and no-one knows why. (It did run Win2kServer, but one day it stopped, and I have not managed a successful reinstall!).
This is a perfectly normal P4 with a standard mobo. It runs FBSD5.4, and its been running it since the day RC2 came out. The only problem I know about is Xine crashes a lot. If I cared, I'd do something about it. I am more interested in PGSQL than Xine (Sad, I know)
I expect MS are 15% less keen on free speech than the Chinese government, but 87% of statistics are made up on the spot ...
They can start by declaring Nuclear war on spammers. Especially those who are known to lie within the US jurisdiction, or promoting products sold by US based companies.