The funny thing is that Slashdot is a blog itself. A waste-of-bandwidth-and-time indeed...
The thing is, I can skip over the stories that don't interest me. Whereas with podcasting I'm stuck listening to whatever drivel they want to talk about.
Doubleclick wants to get rid of the free as in beer internet
No they don't. If websites went to subscription sites, doubleclick would go bankrupt.
They make money off advertising. Subscription sites don't need to advertise (in fact, that's one of the selling points of subscribing. Don't want to see ads? Subscribe!)
Doubleclick wants to keep free-as-in-beer websites for as long as possible.
The only reason I know this is because we actively use this event at work (Don't shoot: it wasn't my idea).
Why not? It's a good idea. Especially for admin pages. Single click on a link, and it follows the link, double click on a link, and you edit the link in-line.
Because most people, especially professionals (and more so professionals whose companies pay for the equipment), don't like waiting an additional YEAR for a product they use every day
Why not? They use the product every day don't they? The same reasons you give for why a buying a PPC mac now would apply to why you could just stick with the hardware you have for another year and see what happens to the market. No company in their right mind is going to invest tens of thousands of dollars in a product that has such an uncertain future. Especially when it's only a year to be sure how things will turn out.
Companies don't have endless budgets. I know our company is going to hold off on buying new macs for a bit. We'll spend the money budgeted on new hardware on things like new monitors etc.
So what exactly is wrong with hoping that a future of peacful space travel and exploration that does not involve wanton destruction, prejudice and war (all things currently and constantly plaguing our race on this earth), is a bad thing?
The irony is that a lot of star trek geeks don't get that the utopian universe of star trek is pretty much identical to the utopian world of A Brave New World.
Star Trek is a world without feeling, without art, and without passion. It's a world where the only difference between a human and a robot is the ability to use contractions.
Even more interesting is that the volume of spam *did not* increase, but the complaints about being bounced/not getting through decreased.
That's the biggest problem with RBLs... you have *no* way of knowing how effective they are. Since mail gets blocked at the server, you can't tell how many false positives or true positives there are.
How much spam are you blocking? How much legit mail are you blocking? You have no way of knowing.
Randomly denying 6 out of every 10 emails delivered would probably be just as effective as using an RBL.
As an admin of a small mailserver hosting a handful of private domains I'm a very happy user of various DNS blacklists. I use some blacklists to reject ALL e-mail from countries like Korea & China due to the constant flood of spam from those countries.
Why even run an SMTP server at all then? Just turn off mail.
When an application uses javascript for the scripting language, does that mean a javascript parser is also implemented into the application? Or can javascript be used in a standalone environment?
A javascript parser is included in the application. The opensource ultima online server UOX3 used SpiderMonkey (Mozilla's javascript engine) to handle server-side scripting.
It's actually not that difficult to link spidermonkey into your application. I did it once for a benchmark program (it would pull a web page, and parse the javascript banners etc and time how long it took to download every piece of data required to render the page).
I can probably google what I need and find an example before I'd find it in the book with the index.
I'd agree with that, for everything *except* html/css and javascript.
There's so much crap out there that you'll have to wade through thousands of pages of improper CSS and javascript before you find someone who knows what they're talking about.
Just try it.. google for the XMP tag.. tell me what it does. After 500 pages that say "it's like the PRE tag" you *might* find one that tells you that the browser passes through any tags between XMP tags. (Making it very useful to give html examples without a bunch of < entities)
in a large resolution (esp wide screen of dual head), it's width capped at around 800 pixels means it looks stupid as a narrow bar down the centre of your screen, wasting useful space
You're the one who seems to be running your browser full screen.
It's a browser window, not a browser desktop. The width of a column is inversly proportional to ease of reading.
Until someone comes up with an easier way to do multi-column text, a fixed width is going to be required.
It doesn't matter what resolution I'm at.. my browser window is always roughly the same size. Certainly never wider than it is tall... that's just a waste.
Now I'm not saying that OS-X is better, or that it is worse. I'm just saying that it doesn't matter.
The problem is that everyone seems to be forgetting one of the selling points of linux. It's opensource. A closed source UNIX clone could never replace it.
Linux was invented as an alternative to closed source UNIX clones!
I agree. My reasoning is that the next version of OSX is due out in late 2006, early 2007.. around the same time as the x86 macs take over.
Look at how many mac developers only support the *newest* OS. Even Apple sells software (like Motion) that only works on their newest OS.
Yes, your old PPC mac will continue to work, but you're not going to be able to install any new software on it because most mac developers are going to drop PPC like a rock.
Not a big deal anyway.. mac owners go on about how they can use a 5 year old mac laptop but what they don't tell you is that they all have brand new G5s sitting on their desks. Mac owners buy new hardware practically every year.
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don't have 1080i, not even 720p, and neither do most of the people I know.
720p is higher res than 1080i. So you should say "I don't have 720p, not even 1080i".
The funny thing is that Slashdot is a blog itself. A waste-of-bandwidth-and-time indeed...
The thing is, I can skip over the stories that don't interest me. Whereas with podcasting I'm stuck listening to whatever drivel they want to talk about.
I can perform the following actions with one hand holding the iPod and my thumb controlling it
And how many of those actions can you do while wearing gloves?
Doubleclick wants to get rid of the free as in beer internet
No they don't. If websites went to subscription sites, doubleclick would go bankrupt.
They make money off advertising. Subscription sites don't need to advertise (in fact, that's one of the selling points of subscribing. Don't want to see ads? Subscribe!)
Doubleclick wants to keep free-as-in-beer websites for as long as possible.
The only reason I know this is because we actively use this event at work (Don't shoot: it wasn't my idea).
Why not? It's a good idea. Especially for admin pages. Single click on a link, and it follows the link, double click on a link, and you edit the link in-line.
Because most people, especially professionals (and more so professionals whose companies pay for the equipment), don't like waiting an additional YEAR for a product they use every day
Why not? They use the product every day don't they? The same reasons you give for why a buying a PPC mac now would apply to why you could just stick with the hardware you have for another year and see what happens to the market. No company in their right mind is going to invest tens of thousands of dollars in a product that has such an uncertain future. Especially when it's only a year to be sure how things will turn out.
Companies don't have endless budgets. I know our company is going to hold off on buying new macs for a bit. We'll spend the money budgeted on new hardware on things like new monitors etc.
Doesn't it make more sense to use the signals off of Cell towers? They are much more powerful, and fixed point.
They already do that.. that's how E911 works. My audiovox cellphone has it.. calculating my position based off the cell towers.
I wouldn't agree. "Computer Controlled" specifically means that the parent computer is the interface to which the attached device responds.
Airport Express is controlled by iTunes and isn't stand-alone at all.
blu-ray holds more, shouldn't that be the final blow?
Tape holds more... why bother with bluray?
Blue-ray is more prone to damage due to where the data is stored. It's also more expensive for both the players and the media.
So what exactly is wrong with hoping that a future of peacful space travel and exploration that does not involve wanton destruction, prejudice and war (all things currently and constantly plaguing our race on this earth), is a bad thing?
The irony is that a lot of star trek geeks don't get that the utopian universe of star trek is pretty much identical to the utopian world of A Brave New World.
Star Trek is a world without feeling, without art, and without passion. It's a world where the only difference between a human and a robot is the ability to use contractions.
MySQL has a disgusting tendency to fork() at random moments, which is bad for performance essentially everywhere but Linux.
Um.. NO. MySQL doesn't fork at all. Check your process list; only once process. MySQL uses threads.. not process forking.
Even more interesting is that the volume of spam *did not* increase, but the complaints about being bounced/not getting through decreased.
That's the biggest problem with RBLs... you have *no* way of knowing how effective they are. Since mail gets blocked at the server, you can't tell how many false positives or true positives there are.
How much spam are you blocking? How much legit mail are you blocking? You have no way of knowing.
Randomly denying 6 out of every 10 emails delivered would probably be just as effective as using an RBL.
As an admin of a small mailserver hosting a handful of private domains I'm a very happy user of various DNS blacklists. I use some blacklists to reject ALL e-mail from countries like Korea & China due to the constant flood of spam from those countries.
Why even run an SMTP server at all then? Just turn off mail.
When an application uses javascript for the scripting language, does that mean a javascript parser is also implemented into the application? Or can javascript be used in a standalone environment?
A javascript parser is included in the application. The opensource ultima online server UOX3 used SpiderMonkey (Mozilla's javascript engine) to handle server-side scripting.
It's actually not that difficult to link spidermonkey into your application. I did it once for a benchmark program (it would pull a web page, and parse the javascript banners etc and time how long it took to download every piece of data required to render the page).
I can probably google what I need and find an example before I'd find it in the book with the index.
I'd agree with that, for everything *except* html/css and javascript.
There's so much crap out there that you'll have to wade through thousands of pages of improper CSS and javascript before you find someone who knows what they're talking about.
Just try it.. google for the XMP tag.. tell me what it does. After 500 pages that say "it's like the PRE tag" you *might* find one that tells you that the browser passes through any tags between XMP tags. (Making it very useful to give html examples without a bunch of < entities)
in a large resolution (esp wide screen of dual head), it's width capped at around 800 pixels means it looks stupid as a narrow bar down the centre of your screen, wasting useful space
You're the one who seems to be running your browser full screen.
It's a browser window, not a browser desktop. The width of a column is inversly proportional to ease of reading.
Until someone comes up with an easier way to do multi-column text, a fixed width is going to be required.
It doesn't matter what resolution I'm at.. my browser window is always roughly the same size. Certainly never wider than it is tall... that's just a waste.
Watch a movie half way, eject the tape, watch another movie and return to the first one and you can pick up exactly where you left off.
You need to do something about that attention span... that's awful.
He records Divx to VHS tapes and then watches them on TV, from the player.
It'd be cheaper and faster to burn them onto a CDRW and play them in his DVD player. Even Walmart sells $70 DVD players that can play divx.
No one can reasonably hold the belief that vinyl is of higher quality than CD, either.
Right.. and the same goes with 35mm cameras versus digital!
Oh wait...
Now I'm not saying that OS-X is better, or that it is worse. I'm just saying that it doesn't matter.
The problem is that everyone seems to be forgetting one of the selling points of linux. It's opensource. A closed source UNIX clone could never replace it.
Linux was invented as an alternative to closed source UNIX clones!
you could have two separate images appearing on the screen, but only visible to people with the right glasses?
Rowdy Roddy Piper was just telling me about that!
I see a lot of wishful thinking about this.
I agree. My reasoning is that the next version of OSX is due out in late 2006, early 2007.. around the same time as the x86 macs take over.
Look at how many mac developers only support the *newest* OS. Even Apple sells software (like Motion) that only works on their newest OS.
Yes, your old PPC mac will continue to work, but you're not going to be able to install any new software on it because most mac developers are going to drop PPC like a rock.
Not a big deal anyway.. mac owners go on about how they can use a 5 year old mac laptop but what they don't tell you is that they all have brand new G5s sitting on their desks. Mac owners buy new hardware practically every year.
Seriously. Until I can safely and securely use a remote calendar cross-platform (OSX and Linux and Windows), I'm going to stick with the PDA.
Must use a Direct X 9.0c compatible card
Not only that, nvidia users need to upgrade to the *beta* drivers included in the demo. Otherwise there are graphical errors.
The dark side of being a retired Jedi..
That's true. Obiwan had to work at a VW Junkyard in Yuma.