Why is Gecko worth keeping if it is outdated and bloated?
Because Gecko is actually less outdated than Webkit. When Webkit can run extensions/plugins without crashing, then may be -- then Webkit could be a serious contender.
What, you say that you need to account for natural disasters? Then get a second site, at least a few hundred miles away, and repeat.
Actually, the London Stock Exchange does have a redundant system located in a nuclear bunker at another location. They built it right after the IRA bombed their financial district and they had to suspend trading because of that attack. I am actually surprised this backup system didn't pick up the slack in this case. Heads should roll.
Go the web site. Look at the list on the right labeled "top searches". At the moment, it reads:
Come on. This is a fully automated listing. Should they have a fully *moderated* listing? Human moderation usually increases liability, not decrease it. Time and again, lawyers have told me not to moderate my own forums/chat rooms unless I receive specific requests/notice to take action (otherwise I would be required to moderate them 24/7). If a web site owner/carrier ignores common sense, it is certainly because the law protects the purposefully ignorant owner/carrier.
There are a lot of people I know in meatspace and have known for years (Such as a girl I lived next door to all my life until I moved away from home) who I have on MySpace and Facebook, and have no other way of contacting them because that's the most convenient way -for them- to communicate.
I can relate to this, ever since 'Caller ID' was invented and everybody got that capability through their cell phones, I've lost all my friends and love interests, including this really pretty girl I've known all my life who said 'hi' to me once, and I've been relegated to the deep bowels of their MySpace and Facebook pages (which they don't even check now).:(
I stopped at the point where you said they don't have good financing. No dealerships have good financing. You buy the car and refinance with your bank, at least I do. The last car I bought, the dealership gave me a 7.9% APR with an 800 credit score. I refinanced with my bank for 5.5% APR.
Mod this parent up! The financing departments of car dealerships are high-pressure sales scams. They will lie to you. They will use whatever blemishes you may have on your credit report to demean you and embarrass you. And then, they'll ask you to bend over, take it like a man, and pretend that they're doing you a favor.
It's far better to do your homework, get a loan through your bank, or through an online loan originator, and then once you have that cashier's check in hand -- start shopping for a car. Online, you'll be able to find any kind of car loan terms that appeals to you, and at a much cheaper cost, so don't go to a car dealership because you think no one else will loan you the money, or because you think no one else can offer you such small car payments, that's simply false. You can always get a better price, or smaller payments, for your car loan online at sites that do not sell cars.
Would I have the the same download speeds? Probably not, but the option is still there.
Yes, you would, and you would probably get a real higher download speed too. It's just that most people complaining haven't done their research. DSL has improved, and keeps on improving. And even now, there are some good alternatives to DSL that don't include cable.
I think DRM has been covered extensively enough about this game, and has little to do with the topic at hand.
Yes apparently, they didn't think to do usability testing of their DRM, that's part of the problem, isn't it? The developers didn't have the DRM on their development machines. QA didn't have the DRM on their machines. And now, we come to find out, not even the users they usability-tested/focus-group-tested had the DRM on the machines that were given to them.
This is because most game designers/executives fail to see their system as a whole. They'll develop, think about, get feedback, and optimize the hell out of their area of "expertise", but then they'll throw most of their efforts away by using some cheap two-bit DRM system that cripples everyone's computer and antagonize their most fanatic customers.
They CAN and DO fly by themselves. Out of the lab. In varying weather conditions. Constantly making adjustments for wind gusts, etc., none of which is being controlled by a human.
They fly with the help of multiple cameras on the *ground*, which makes it more of a 3-D Printer -- not an autonomous flying machine. Notice their emphasis on the "air-ground cooperation" of the original web site for their project. That's because directing flying machines from the ground is a known tractable problem. And directing ground robots from the air is also another known very easy problem. But when you remove the benefit of multiple vantage points, then you add many other problems to the mix.
Yes, but when by her own admission, she seems to think it relevant to mention that she doesn't usually drink Vodka Cooler so early in the day, and that she didn't drink that much of it in the first place. Don't expect many Judges to believe her until her blood results come back from the lab.
That should read "Threatened to take him hostage (is not the same as) Taking him hostage - the title is misleading. I had a less than and greater than that were scrubbed out of the final posting - sorry.
It depends on who you believe. Read the article. According the Tech, she took him hostage, then he escaped. Or if you believe her *side* of the story, the Tech shows up at 12:30 PM, works on her computer, and then takes off running for no reason whatsoever, and then she sits down to drink a third of a vodka cooler as the police knocks on her door.
It is extremely difficult, despite what fiction might tell you, to muster enough false evidence to convince a jury or judge to convict a person when that person is innocent.
It is extremely difficult to convict someone who is guilty, yes, but it is not difficult to convict someone who is innocent. All you need is a police man claiming that a suspect confessed, but that he didn't read the suspect his rights. One study showed that even when the only piece of evidence against a suspect was an inadmissible "confession" and nothing else, juries usually disobeyed their given instructions and rendered unanimous guilty verdicts.
It must be a new code word to mean a Scientific Christian (i.e. Scientologist).
Every body is taking cues from the Republicans these days. You take a concept/label you stand for that has received some bad press, and then you rename it so that it sounds like it means the complete opposite of what it really is: the clean air act, no child left behind, compassionate conservatives, intelligent design, creation theory, and now a "rational christian".
I agree. With my DSL provider, they just doubled my speed with no fee increase, so I called them up asked for a cut in rate instead (with the previous speed). If any you guys have been on DSL for a while, you should definitely shop around, most ISPs are not as upfront at telling you that they've cut their rates and that their infrastructure is better, they would prefer that their old customers would keep on paying the old higher rates for the same speed.
I guess the difference is that a photographer creates the photograph, but how is this different to paying for, say, the Hitler Diaries?
Let me see:
Hitler is dead. Hitler's Estate can not claim copyright ownership. Hitler's rights have expired. Hitler's diaries are much more difficult to tamper with than copied email records. Conversely, Hitler's diaries are probably much easier to authenticate than electronic email records. And contrary to what the CIA wants us to believe -- Hugo Chavez is not Hitler.
And besides, wikileaks doesn't claim to have Hugo Chavez's email records, they claim to have the email records of an unspecified "top aide" of Hugo Chavez. And here in the United States, it's not the top aides that leak the information (unless they sell the information themselves for lucrative book deals, or unless it's a careful manufactured fake leak), it's our own President himself who doesn't know the difference between whitehouse.org and whitehouse.gov when emailing his staff.
I agree. If I was an existing source for wiki leaks, then I would stop giving them free information -- I would want to get paid for it. Same goes if I was donating them free hardware and free bandwidth. This may be just an experiment, but it's going to completely change the way people perceive wiki leaks from now on. Once you sell out, you can never go back.
This is an indirect form of age discrimination because older folks are more likely to have families.
Yes, but mostly younger parents are going to benefit from pre-kindergarden child care. So in a way, it's a form of age discrimination, yes, but one that is directed against the younger parents.
The fact remains; most people associate video games with children and young people.
Art also gets censored all the time. It's just that most people do not realize that some famous paintings they know were covered up with clothes later on, often decades later when some new pope came on the scene. It's just that most people do not realize that countless works of arts were burned or destroyed because they didn't fit a particular racial, religious, and/or political dogma of a particular day. It's just that most people do not realize that Blockbuster (a Mormon institution) censors every video it rents out (and a judge declared that this was ok, since they do have a misleading bullshit notice that says "formatted to fit your television screen"). And it's just that most people do not realize that most of what we see on TV has been censored/vetted/filtered by editors, commercial advertisers, right-wing and left-wing politicians, and various pressure groups of all walks of life.
Sounds like maybe this judge needs to think a little harder about how the Internet works.
No, this is happening because he's been thinking way too much on this topic already.
The judge suffers from a weird case of self-centered career thesis myopia. He wrote a thesis/book titled internet.law.nz. He teaches a course on this very topic at the University of Auckland. He considers himself an expert in that area. And this is basically what happens when you make your local expert know-it-all -- a real judge -- with real powers. Common sense goes out the window, and super-conflated thesis-related academic mental masturbation takes over his every case.
Don't forget, though, if pirating games puts gaming companies out of business, no one will need new hardware for games.
Yeah, just like photocopy machines have put book publishers out of business. And yes, book publishers at the time did try to get the photocopy machine outlawed.
Do not worry, the gaming industry will evolve, in fact it will flourish under this new ecosystem. And even if you do not agree with what I am saying, at least try to remember what I said twenty years from now -- because twenty years from now -- they'll be trying to control and outlaw something else -- hopefully you'll believe me then.
However, mathematicians and physicist usually don't try to "see" or "get a feeling" of higher (or infinite) dimensional objects.
They familiarize themselves with mathematic properties of two and three-dimensional objects and space and what they mean, and then just use these properties in higher dimensional spaces.
Is that you Mr. Spock?
I'm sure that Albert Einstein (not a mathematician for sure), Richard Feynman, and Stephen Hawking, would beg to differ.
Trying to see these spaces or getting a feeling on how these objects would look like most likely confuses for calculations (our brain wasn't really made for this).
Our brain wasn't made for exact calculations either.
Physics and mathematics are usually much sloppier, at least initially, than what most physicists and most mathematicians would care to admit. It's very much like the sausage industry. The end result look perfect and nice, that's the illusion that's being promoted at least, but *only* the real sausage-makers know how the sausage usually gets made.
Prince believes it is wrong for YouTube, or any other user-generated site, to appropriate his music without his consent. That position has nothing to do with any particular video that uses his songs. It's simply a matter of principle. And legally, he has the right to have his music removed.
I wonder which Prince they're talking about. The real person that we know to be "Prince" lost the rights to his stage name a long time ago, and believe me -- he's far more pissed at the recording studio that stole his name and withheld his royalties than he is at his fans for "stealing" a song he doesn't even get any more money from.
Slashdot Mirror
Because Gecko is actually less outdated than Webkit. When Webkit can run extensions/plugins without crashing, then may be -- then Webkit could be a serious contender.
Actually, the London Stock Exchange does have a redundant system located in a nuclear bunker at another location. They built it right after the IRA bombed their financial district and they had to suspend trading because of that attack. I am actually surprised this backup system didn't pick up the slack in this case. Heads should roll.
Come on. This is a fully automated listing. Should they have a fully *moderated* listing? Human moderation usually increases liability, not decrease it. Time and again, lawyers have told me not to moderate my own forums/chat rooms unless I receive specific requests/notice to take action (otherwise I would be required to moderate them 24/7). If a web site owner/carrier ignores common sense, it is certainly because the law protects the purposefully ignorant owner/carrier.
I can relate to this, ever since 'Caller ID' was invented and everybody got that capability through their cell phones, I've lost all my friends and love interests, including this really pretty girl I've known all my life who said 'hi' to me once, and I've been relegated to the deep bowels of their MySpace and Facebook pages (which they don't even check now). :(
Mod this parent up! The financing departments of car dealerships are high-pressure sales scams. They will lie to you. They will use whatever blemishes you may have on your credit report to demean you and embarrass you. And then, they'll ask you to bend over, take it like a man, and pretend that they're doing you a favor.
It's far better to do your homework, get a loan through your bank, or through an online loan originator, and then once you have that cashier's check in hand -- start shopping for a car. Online, you'll be able to find any kind of car loan terms that appeals to you, and at a much cheaper cost, so don't go to a car dealership because you think no one else will loan you the money, or because you think no one else can offer you such small car payments, that's simply false. You can always get a better price, or smaller payments, for your car loan online at sites that do not sell cars.
Yes, you would, and you would probably get a real higher download speed too. It's just that most people complaining haven't done their research. DSL has improved, and keeps on improving. And even now, there are some good alternatives to DSL that don't include cable.
Yes apparently, they didn't think to do usability testing of their DRM, that's part of the problem, isn't it? The developers didn't have the DRM on their development machines. QA didn't have the DRM on their machines. And now, we come to find out, not even the users they usability-tested/focus-group-tested had the DRM on the machines that were given to them.
This is because most game designers/executives fail to see their system as a whole. They'll develop, think about, get feedback, and optimize the hell out of their area of "expertise", but then they'll throw most of their efforts away by using some cheap two-bit DRM system that cripples everyone's computer and antagonize their most fanatic customers.
They fly with the help of multiple cameras on the *ground*, which makes it more of a 3-D Printer -- not an autonomous flying machine. Notice their emphasis on the "air-ground cooperation" of the original web site for their project. That's because directing flying machines from the ground is a known tractable problem. And directing ground robots from the air is also another known very easy problem. But when you remove the benefit of multiple vantage points, then you add many other problems to the mix.
Yes, but when by her own admission, she seems to think it relevant to mention that she doesn't usually drink Vodka Cooler so early in the day, and that she didn't drink that much of it in the first place. Don't expect many Judges to believe her until her blood results come back from the lab.
It depends on who you believe. Read the article. According the Tech, she took him hostage, then he escaped. Or if you believe her *side* of the story, the Tech shows up at 12:30 PM, works on her computer, and then takes off running for no reason whatsoever, and then she sits down to drink a third of a vodka cooler as the police knocks on her door.
It is extremely difficult to convict someone who is guilty, yes, but it is not difficult to convict someone who is innocent. All you need is a police man claiming that a suspect confessed, but that he didn't read the suspect his rights. One study showed that even when the only piece of evidence against a suspect was an inadmissible "confession" and nothing else, juries usually disobeyed their given instructions and rendered unanimous guilty verdicts.
It must be a new code word to mean a Scientific Christian (i.e. Scientologist).
Every body is taking cues from the Republicans these days. You take a concept/label you stand for that has received some bad press, and then you rename it so that it sounds like it means the complete opposite of what it really is: the clean air act, no child left behind, compassionate conservatives, intelligent design, creation theory, and now a "rational christian".
I agree. With my DSL provider, they just doubled my speed with no fee increase, so I called them up asked for a cut in rate instead (with the previous speed). If any you guys have been on DSL for a while, you should definitely shop around, most ISPs are not as upfront at telling you that they've cut their rates and that their infrastructure is better, they would prefer that their old customers would keep on paying the old higher rates for the same speed.
Let me see:
Hitler is dead. Hitler's Estate can not claim copyright ownership. Hitler's rights have expired. Hitler's diaries are much more difficult to tamper with than copied email records. Conversely, Hitler's diaries are probably much easier to authenticate than electronic email records. And contrary to what the CIA wants us to believe -- Hugo Chavez is not Hitler.
And besides, wikileaks doesn't claim to have Hugo Chavez's email records, they claim to have the email records of an unspecified "top aide" of Hugo Chavez. And here in the United States, it's not the top aides that leak the information (unless they sell the information themselves for lucrative book deals, or unless it's a careful manufactured fake leak), it's our own President himself who doesn't know the difference between whitehouse.org and whitehouse.gov when emailing his staff.
I agree. If I was an existing source for wiki leaks, then I would stop giving them free information -- I would want to get paid for it. Same goes if I was donating them free hardware and free bandwidth. This may be just an experiment, but it's going to completely change the way people perceive wiki leaks from now on. Once you sell out, you can never go back.
It can't go up stairs yet, but from this video it obviously has no problem going down stairs.
Here is the actual real video of him walking.
I'll bet it also takes a while for the TSA to allow people with robo-suits on airplanes.
Yes, but mostly younger parents are going to benefit from pre-kindergarden child care. So in a way, it's a form of age discrimination, yes, but one that is directed against the younger parents.
Art also gets censored all the time. It's just that most people do not realize that some famous paintings they know were covered up with clothes later on, often decades later when some new pope came on the scene. It's just that most people do not realize that countless works of arts were burned or destroyed because they didn't fit a particular racial, religious, and/or political dogma of a particular day. It's just that most people do not realize that Blockbuster (a Mormon institution) censors every video it rents out (and a judge declared that this was ok, since they do have a misleading bullshit notice that says "formatted to fit your television screen"). And it's just that most people do not realize that most of what we see on TV has been censored/vetted/filtered by editors, commercial advertisers, right-wing and left-wing politicians, and various pressure groups of all walks of life.
No, this is happening because he's been thinking way too much on this topic already.
The judge suffers from a weird case of self-centered career thesis myopia. He wrote a thesis/book titled internet.law.nz. He teaches a course on this very topic at the University of Auckland. He considers himself an expert in that area. And this is basically what happens when you make your local expert know-it-all -- a real judge -- with real powers. Common sense goes out the window, and super-conflated thesis-related academic mental masturbation takes over his every case.
Yeah, just like photocopy machines have put book publishers out of business. And yes, book publishers at the time did try to get the photocopy machine outlawed.
Do not worry, the gaming industry will evolve, in fact it will flourish under this new ecosystem. And even if you do not agree with what I am saying, at least try to remember what I said twenty years from now -- because twenty years from now -- they'll be trying to control and outlaw something else -- hopefully you'll believe me then.
Is that you Mr. Spock? I'm sure that Albert Einstein (not a mathematician for sure), Richard Feynman, and Stephen Hawking, would beg to differ.
Our brain wasn't made for exact calculations either. Physics and mathematics are usually much sloppier, at least initially, than what most physicists and most mathematicians would care to admit. It's very much like the sausage industry. The end result look perfect and nice, that's the illusion that's being promoted at least, but *only* the real sausage-makers know how the sausage usually gets made.
Well written. Kudos to you sir.
I wonder which Prince they're talking about. The real person that we know to be "Prince" lost the rights to his stage name a long time ago, and believe me -- he's far more pissed at the recording studio that stole his name and withheld his royalties than he is at his fans for "stealing" a song he doesn't even get any more money from.