There's still a difference: if the door is unlocked, it's trespassing, if it is locked it's burglary. Quite a difference in the amount of punishment I would imagine.
This comparison is misleading. You can't physically hurt people through computers. In fact, the damage caused is rather hard to assess... most is just a few hours of peoples' time. Now, you could sum up all the work hours and arrive at a huge amount, but then what about the other things that steal workers' time, like rebooting the OS, messing around with driver problems or application bugs that cause work to be lost? The software vendors aren't held responsible for these.
I'm not going to bother responding with intelligent counters because
this post, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, as well as this one
already do that, and I don't feel a need to duplicate the work. BTW, these are non-troll posts, as opposed to the one you linked to. Oh yeah,
this, this and this are the relevant Bugzilla entries. Of course all these people are abusing the poor browser, right?
All that said, I find it quite odd that you wouldn't use the tab feature extensively, considering this post of yours (the avatar suits you). But maybe you just play Everquest all the time.
OTOH, I had a look at your site, and all you have there is some IE specific JavaScript stuff, and you also mention that you use IE as your browser... strange, huh?
Thanks for sparing me the slew of obscenities, BTW. Oops, no you didn't... too bad. Well, maybe you can say some nice things about my mother in your reply?
I call bullshit or troll. First of all, 50 open tabs for days is so unbelievably illogical that I can't even begin to imagine what you're doing.
Because you never do any serious research on the web, nobody else needs to? Just because all you do with a word processor is write one page letters to your grandma, it shouldn't be possible to write a dissertation with it? Have the terms "arrogant" and "wanker" been applied to you lately?
I can't exactly say I'm going to hold it against the Firefox developers that their browser becomes a memory hog when people are using it waaayyyyy beyond its intent.
So bugs are OK, as long as they only affect other people in their productivity? Cf. last sentence of my previous paragraph.
If that's something you legitimately need, offer a patch or use a tool that's actually meant to do that.
Actually, Firefox is designed to browse the web. That's why it's called a web browser. The memory leaks and the crashing are not intentional. This is called a bug.
Otherwise, don't complain that it's not doing things it's not supposed to.
So Firefox isn't supposed to be a web browser? Better go and tell the developers then.
Second, the trite old "it loads slower than IE" is so incredibly irritating that I have to bite my tongue to prevent a slew of obscenities.
Not that it would bother you, obviously.
Boo hoo. So, you have to wait an extra 2 seconds for it to load up because the WEB BROWSER isn't tied to the KERNEL. After all, what sort of moronic dipshits would make a web browser an integral part of a system kernel anyway?
I guess it wouldn't really be a/. discussion without some incoherent ramblings thrown in.
Finally, I call bullshit on the "slow loads". If you've got benchmarks, show 'em. Otherwise, my anectdotal evidence says your anecdotal evidence is full of crap because the only lag I see on my 1.5/Cable connection is from the servers on the other end of the pipe.
I don't know what to say about this, really. Do you suffer from narcolepsy?
Thanks for the link. I never bothered to look it up because I always hoped it would be fixed in the next revision. This also confirms my perception that 0.7 was particularly bad; 0.8 was a big improvement in this regard.
Maybe you should learn to read before falling into a hysterical fit... I'm complaining about Firefox crashing once it reaches 140-150MB. Right now I have about 40 tabs open and the mem usage is around 90 megs (I restarted about an hour ago). Now, after a day or two the mem usage rises, and doesn't go back down even if you close all the tabs. It just keeps eating up memory and then it crashes.
You may also note, after you have wiped the foam from your mouth, that despite this I still use FF, because I find IE too annoying to use, but I can't remember it having that sort of problem when I was still using it.
Yeah, except for the fact that it's full of memory leaks. After a few days of browsing, the mem usage will be at 140 to 150 megabytes, and it'll crash with all your 50 open tabs, which you haven't bookmarked of course.
Also, it loads slower than IE and is generally slower during usage. But you'd be stupid to use IE with no tabbed browsing and all these security holes.
Oh yeah, these are great. They cost about 300 bucks and have less functionality than a $2 AVR or PIC. The only difference is that instead of programming them in C or Assembler, you have a fancy graphical, overly simplistic "programming language". I know, they have a market - engineers (?) who couldn't program a "Hello, World" app if their life depended on it. But honestly, what's the point? If you're not seriously retarded, you're better off getting a breadboard and a few PICs or AVRs and going through a few of the hundreds of tutorials that are available on the net.
You can probably guess that I have my doubts about these "eBlocks". Hello, ever heard of breadboards? I mean how much easier could it get? The only use for these things that I can imagine would be for people who absolutely don't even want to learn anything at all about electronics, but still want to build stuff, kinda like those PLCs, which are designed for people who want to program but don't want to learn a programming language! Well, it just seems stupid.
Driving LCDs without inbuilt controllers (i.e. the ones you find in laptops and other digital appliances) is non-trivial. The problem is, you need some kind of controller, and then you also need to drive that controller (preferably over a CPU bus or some other fast connection). Epson makes LCD controllers. You'd have to design a PCB and then solder an SMD chip with hundreds of tiny leads (or even a BGA chip). The other alternative would be to brew your own controller with an FPGA, like this guy did (text is in German). He built a controller for an old 640x480 laptop TFT.
Basically, without some rather advanced electronics skills, you're SOL.
Oh, and don't just hook up a display's power without providing the proper clock signals... the liquid crystals will decompose through electrolysis.
Most of the R&D is being carried out in Japan (no surprise).
Umm, no it isn't. A German company has already built a maglev route in Shanghai. BTW, the things you see in animes are not real. The Japanese don't really have battle robots and stuff like that.
Yes, but considering the fact that by putting on this suit, the wearer gives up all hope on ever passing on his genes, he would still win a Darwin Award.
Not really, because while the relative speed of computers is still increasing quickly, the absolute speed has reached a point where they don't become obsolete so quickly. Back when 500MB hard drives were first introduced, they had a huge capacity compared to previous drives, but the absolute size was small, you can't store much video or even audio on a 500MB drive. Compared to this, a 500GB drive is huge, but also absolutely speaking. Even when 500TB drives will be around, the 500GB drive will still be large enough to store at least your audio collection. If your home theater PC can store and play back 300 hours of video and 5000 hours of music, then that has a lot of usefulness, and I'd say it wouldn't need upgrading until something much better comes along, possibly decades from now. You could in fact liken it to an appliance like a VCR, which you wouldn't replace until it breaks or something much better is available (DVD/digital video).
The problem is that, from what I can tell, all this robot does is play back previously recorded motions. The way these motions were derived was through a (probably rather long-winded and painstaking) process of trial and error. It probably went like: move foot forward 1mm - robot topples - repeat, now move foot 1mm to the right first... you can see this has nothing to do with intelligence. This is how asimo works as well, btw.
This robot can't react to it's environment. It has no sensors. If the environment changes only a tiny bit, it fails. E.g. if you put it on a slope, or just next to a wall. I guess you could call it a fake. The Japanese seem to have a weak spot for stuff like this - stuff that really looks cool, but when you look closer there's not much behind it.
Remember the "Super Mario Bros 3 in 2 minutes" video? The Japanese guy made it in an emulator, basically frame by frame. Every time something he did was not perfect, he reloaded the game and tried again. I took him months. In the end, it looks like some guy plays a fantastically good game, but, it's really a fake, and if you think about it, a pointless exercise.
No, they weren't. HD and DD diskettes were actually very different - the DD had only half the coercivity of the HD. I and a few other people I knew tried to convert our DDs to HDs using the method you describe. It worked, but after a short time (days, weeks), disks would randomly start to crap out, become unreadable, etc.
I don't know why all the other guys here write that it worked, because it didn't, and I don't know anyone who got these "converted" DDs to work reliably. Maybe they do that for the same reason why old people tell their grandchildren bullshit stories. Yes, it was a hack. But it wasn't clever, it didn't work. Due to the lower coercivity of the DD media, tracks would simply "bleed" into each other, making the disk unreadable.
What a bullshit argument. By that reasoning, you can justify giving power to anyone. After all, the Khmer Rouge were people, right? And we all know that all people are really good at heart and want the best for everyone, especially once they gain power. Ever heard the phrase "checks and balances"? Ever thought about what it means?
Judging from the weight of this thing, the slightest gust of wind would probably send it tumbling to the ground. So I'm guessing he's only flying it indoors.
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There's still a difference: if the door is unlocked, it's trespassing, if it is locked it's burglary. Quite a difference in the amount of punishment I would imagine.
This comparison is misleading. You can't physically hurt people through computers. In fact, the damage caused is rather hard to assess ... most is just a few hours of peoples' time. Now, you could sum up all the work hours and arrive at a huge amount, but then what about the other things that steal workers' time, like rebooting the OS, messing around with driver problems or application bugs that cause work to be lost? The software vendors aren't held responsible for these.
The iPAQs aren't radiation hardened either.
this one,
this one,
this one,
this one,
this one,
as well as this one
already do that, and I don't feel a need to duplicate the work. BTW, these are non-troll posts, as opposed to the one you linked to. Oh yeah, this, this and this are the relevant Bugzilla entries. Of course all these people are abusing the poor browser, right?
All that said, I find it quite odd that you wouldn't use the tab feature extensively, considering this post of yours (the avatar suits you). But maybe you just play Everquest all the time.
OTOH, I had a look at your site, and all you have there is some IE specific JavaScript stuff, and you also mention that you use IE as your browser ... strange, huh?
Thanks for sparing me the slew of obscenities, BTW. Oops, no you didn't ... too bad. Well, maybe you can say some nice things about my mother in your reply?
Because you never do any serious research on the web, nobody else needs to? Just because all you do with a word processor is write one page letters to your grandma, it shouldn't be possible to write a dissertation with it? Have the terms "arrogant" and "wanker" been applied to you lately?
I can't exactly say I'm going to hold it against the Firefox developers that their browser becomes a memory hog when people are using it waaayyyyy beyond its intent.
So bugs are OK, as long as they only affect other people in their productivity? Cf. last sentence of my previous paragraph.
If that's something you legitimately need, offer a patch or use a tool that's actually meant to do that.
Actually, Firefox is designed to browse the web. That's why it's called a web browser. The memory leaks and the crashing are not intentional. This is called a bug.
Otherwise, don't complain that it's not doing things it's not supposed to.
So Firefox isn't supposed to be a web browser? Better go and tell the developers then.
Second, the trite old "it loads slower than IE" is so incredibly irritating that I have to bite my tongue to prevent a slew of obscenities.
Not that it would bother you, obviously.
Boo hoo. So, you have to wait an extra 2 seconds for it to load up because the WEB BROWSER isn't tied to the KERNEL. After all, what sort of moronic dipshits would make a web browser an integral part of a system kernel anyway?
I guess it wouldn't really be a /. discussion without some incoherent ramblings thrown in.
Finally, I call bullshit on the "slow loads". If you've got benchmarks, show 'em. Otherwise, my anectdotal evidence says your anecdotal evidence is full of crap because the only lag I see on my 1.5/Cable connection is from the servers on the other end of the pipe.
I don't know what to say about this, really. Do you suffer from narcolepsy?
Thanks for the link. I never bothered to look it up because I always hoped it would be fixed in the next revision. This also confirms my perception that 0.7 was particularly bad; 0.8 was a big improvement in this regard.
You may also note, after you have wiped the foam from your mouth, that despite this I still use FF, because I find IE too annoying to use, but I can't remember it having that sort of problem when I was still using it.
Also, it loads slower than IE and is generally slower during usage. But you'd be stupid to use IE with no tabbed browsing and all these security holes.
I just hope it won't interfere with my Vortex Field Generator or detune my Resonance Cascade.
Where beer does flow and men chunder?
So you think the guy would have made it back to the LM after he flipped the thing, smashed his visor on a rock and his eyes popped out of his head?
Just be careful with those Orichalcum beads.
You can probably guess that I have my doubts about these "eBlocks". Hello, ever heard of breadboards? I mean how much easier could it get? The only use for these things that I can imagine would be for people who absolutely don't even want to learn anything at all about electronics, but still want to build stuff, kinda like those PLCs, which are designed for people who want to program but don't want to learn a programming language! Well, it just seems stupid.
Basically, without some rather advanced electronics skills, you're SOL.
Oh, and don't just hook up a display's power without providing the proper clock signals ... the liquid crystals will decompose through electrolysis.
The problem is that the tiny, crappy lens doesn't even have an optical resolution of 2 megapixels.
Umm, no it isn't. A German company has already built a maglev route in Shanghai. BTW, the things you see in animes are not real. The Japanese don't really have battle robots and stuff like that.
And in that vein, might I recommend Castlevania: Symphony of the Night for PSX? It's just like Super Metroid, with an incredible soundtrack thrown in.
Yes, but considering the fact that by putting on this suit, the wearer gives up all hope on ever passing on his genes, he would still win a Darwin Award.
Not really, because while the relative speed of computers is still increasing quickly, the absolute speed has reached a point where they don't become obsolete so quickly. Back when 500MB hard drives were first introduced, they had a huge capacity compared to previous drives, but the absolute size was small, you can't store much video or even audio on a 500MB drive. Compared to this, a 500GB drive is huge, but also absolutely speaking. Even when 500TB drives will be around, the 500GB drive will still be large enough to store at least your audio collection. If your home theater PC can store and play back 300 hours of video and 5000 hours of music, then that has a lot of usefulness, and I'd say it wouldn't need upgrading until something much better comes along, possibly decades from now. You could in fact liken it to an appliance like a VCR, which you wouldn't replace until it breaks or something much better is available (DVD/digital video).
This robot can't react to it's environment. It has no sensors. If the environment changes only a tiny bit, it fails. E.g. if you put it on a slope, or just next to a wall. I guess you could call it a fake. The Japanese seem to have a weak spot for stuff like this - stuff that really looks cool, but when you look closer there's not much behind it.
Remember the "Super Mario Bros 3 in 2 minutes" video? The Japanese guy made it in an emulator, basically frame by frame. Every time something he did was not perfect, he reloaded the game and tried again. I took him months. In the end, it looks like some guy plays a fantastically good game, but, it's really a fake, and if you think about it, a pointless exercise.
I don't think so. If they honor the robots.txt, they should be fine. Google and archive.org do basically the same thing.
I don't know why all the other guys here write that it worked, because it didn't, and I don't know anyone who got these "converted" DDs to work reliably. Maybe they do that for the same reason why old people tell their grandchildren bullshit stories. Yes, it was a hack. But it wasn't clever, it didn't work. Due to the lower coercivity of the DD media, tracks would simply "bleed" into each other, making the disk unreadable.
What a bullshit argument. By that reasoning, you can justify giving power to anyone. After all, the Khmer Rouge were people, right? And we all know that all people are really good at heart and want the best for everyone, especially once they gain power. Ever heard the phrase "checks and balances"? Ever thought about what it means?
Didn't you hear? 3DRealms has decided to make a Hurd version first.
Judging from the weight of this thing, the slightest gust of wind would probably send it tumbling to the ground. So I'm guessing he's only flying it indoors.