If you go to Tools, Options, Web Features and 'Allowed Sites' next to "Allow websites to install software" you will get a list. By default this list only contained update.mozilla.org, and not www.mozilla.org, so when I hit the link in the subject of this topic I followed the "click here" on the next page to install the patch. That page was on www.mozilla.org, not update.mozilla.org. Incidentally that link took me to http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/0.10.1/patch es/259708.xpi which I have not added to my accepted software install list, yet it didn't have a problem with doing it. It seems only to care about where the originating link is, and not to where it points.
Well, please tell me what mozilla is advocating:
http://www.mozilla.org
Additionally if you go to the Firefox product page it's the only one being advertised (although not necessarily the only one being linked to).
I don't believe it was that message. This appeared as a bar at the top which stated (loosely) that it prevented the website from running... something or other. I don't have it inform me in any way when it blocks a popup. Anyway it had an options button which had a list of trusted sites. update.mozilla.org was already on the list, however the link originated from www.mozilla.org so it wasn't picked up. I would say they should add that site to the list.
Well, yeah. That is a bad thing. Especially with that "at any cost" bit, such as drug companies giving out drugs they know will kill people. Oil companies? Law firms? Used car salesmen?
Don't step into capitalism unless you know how far down it goes.
I must admit I/it fumbled. I went to the mozilla website as posted in the subject and hit the "click here". What happened? A funny bar appeared near the top saying that Firefox protected me from the website. Luckily there was an options button which allowed me to add www.mozilla.org as a trusted site and it was all very obvious to me, but it won't be obvious for my parents (who I switched to Firefox).
Virgin wins the spoils of SpaceShipOne, right? Well if a company wants to compete, they'll probably do it with a counter technology. Where will they get this counter technology? Another contender. Even if they don't win the prize, it's nothing compared to the investment they'll be making.
So yes, it's important that the others try even without the prize.
I don't mean to get all US-political or anything but I'm betting than if Bush wins election he will postpone the Iraqi election by at least a couple months. Not that it is the wrong thing to do, I think Kerry would do it to. The fact of the matter is Iraq will not be ready for elections, however announcing it now would hurt his campaign.
Rise of Nations is simple to learn? Not for the people I try to play with. You want to really get the party going? Buts out Master of Orion 3. In about three days you'll have a real game kick'n.
Let's say something has a 50% chance of happening, and you try to make it happen twice. There's a 75% chance it will happen.
Now let's say something has a 25% chance of happening and you try to make it happen four times. There's a.75^4 chance it won't happen. That's a 68% chance it will happen.
One more time let's say there's a 1 in 1,000,000 chance of something happen which is tried 1,000,000 times. There's a (999,999/1,000,000)^1,000,000 chance it won't happen. That's a 63% chance it will happen.
You can see where this is going I wager? If there is a 1/infinity chance of something happening, and it is tried an infinite number of times, it won't necessarily happen. Now when you throw in the fact that it isn't even truely random, you can probably come to the conclusion that it will not happen.
I agree entirely. I think the idea of people mobbing celebrities is a social problem of ours, not a technological one. Cure the problem, not the (albeit) catalyst.
I personally can't comprehend how people become so attached to celebrities that they collect things about or belonging to them. Or in the case of a musician (er most likely bad singer) go to an event with the person and scream so much they don't even hear the music-- what are they really there for? I'm calling the entertainment industry sick and perverted, and blaming the audience.
You can buy a 500 gb harddrive now. I think it's cooler to call it 0.5 TB. Anyway I don't see anything wrong with expecting it to go up 50 to 100 megs every six months. Not only that but the bottom line prices are plummeting. 200 gb is down to $95 according to pricewatch. What I forsee happening is a real rift between performance vs storage harddrives.
Don't worry, they'll have a shelf life of 3 years by technology and 2 years by design. And I base that on nothing whatsoever.
Doesn't make me wrong though;-).
I really doubt Bush or Kerry stealing the election. What wouldn't surprise me one bit is supporters of either one doing it. Don't break it up into sides though- either someone is rigging the election or they aren't. The direction they are rigging it should not be a consideration.
3. Observers see no problems but the problems actually exist and remain.
4. Observers see the problems and a massive corruption scandal ensues.
5. Observers don't see problems and they don't exist, but stay in the system year after year to ensure it doesn't happen in the future.
Even if we knew with certainty that we've never had problems, I'd still want them.
Well then you'll agree that the only reason not to have international monitors is the cost, but that's trivial compared to what's at stake.
Unless you have another reason? Saving face, for instance? Sorry, but when it comes to games of pride and nationalism, it isn't worth it. There simply isn't a valid excuse to not have it. Always err on the side of caution, especially with something so ridiculously important as this.
This is a little bit off topic from what you said but it relates to Intel engineers vs managers. I had a 6-month internship at Intel and I plan on going back next summer. One thing I noticed was how unbusiness-like the managers were. It seems most of the people just decided to go up form being an engineer. Most engineers don't want to adopt a life of PowerPoint and endless (truly endless) meetings even if it does mean a raise. Those who do (and obviously also show promise) gradually move up the chain. Others stay as engineers. It's not like Intel doesn't pay the engineers well either-- if you work hard, you get rewarded big time.
I don't know the atmosphere of their upper level management. The most I got to see was a talk with Fister (now CEO of Cadence). He was a senior VP at Intel, and is an electrical engineer (masters). Any business education he's had (I'm sure he's had some) wasn't mentioned in his bio. This suggests it might just be company classes. I think how someone becomes a higher ranking member of a company is completely different company to company, and from what I see I like how Intel does it.
How very wrong--- and I actually just posted on this (marked + 2 funny:P). Here:
I think the government should stop spoon-feeding us what they think we should know and let us have what we think we should know.
It's a tiny bit more complicated than that. Not only should we know what we think we should know, should we not also know of what we think we should not know?
Translation: You need to know OF what you are not allowed to know. Seriously.
Thanks. I agree with a lot of what you say, but I have some of my own opinions as well. I think we need the system to be much simpler than it is, yet a lot of people should still be able to get out of paying a lot of tax (low income families and small businesses exclusively). I'm sure that business taxes get extremely complicated because of all the different things that can decrease the amount owed (which seems like practically everything).
The problem isn't just on the tax end, but obviously on the spending end. For example the amount that Americans pay for health care right now is enough for everyone to get everything they want or need from the industry-- so how come most people can't afford it? I also belong to the group of people who say that our military spending is simply ridiculous. I'm not saying cut back on troops, I'm not saying stop supplying the troops. The unconventional weapon production (including our WMD) should be scaled back significantly as well as our outlandish air force purchases. There simply isn't anyone who presents a threat in these areas so we should spend the money wiser. Here we are with a crumbing education system, mass transit system and general infrastructure. I don't know how the US gets its money but I must agree it has enough if it would just set its priorities straight. Sorry to go off on a tangent but being a liberal who agrees with you about something I had to give a counter explanation;)
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If you go to Tools, Options, Web Features and 'Allowed Sites' next to "Allow websites to install software" you will get a list. By default this list only contained update.mozilla .org, and not www.mozilla .org, so when I hit the link in the subject of this topic I followed the "click here" on the next page to install the patch. That page was on www.mozilla .org, not update.mozilla .org. Incidentally that link took me to http://ftp.mozilla .org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/0.10.1/patch es/259708.xpi which I have not added to my accepted software install list, yet it didn't have a problem with doing it. It seems only to care about where the originating link is, and not to where it points.
Well, please tell me what mozilla is advocating:
http://www.mozilla.org
Additionally if you go to the Firefox product page it's the only one being advertised (although not necessarily the only one being linked to).
I don't believe it was that message. This appeared as a bar at the top which stated (loosely) that it prevented the website from running... something or other. I don't have it inform me in any way when it blocks a popup. Anyway it had an options button which had a list of trusted sites. update.mozilla .org was already on the list, however the link originated from www.mozilla .org so it wasn't picked up. I would say they should add that site to the list.
Well, yeah. That is a bad thing. Especially with that "at any cost" bit, such as drug companies giving out drugs they know will kill people. Oil companies? Law firms? Used car salesmen?
Don't step into capitalism unless you know how far down it goes.
I must admit I/it fumbled. I went to the mozilla website as posted in the subject and hit the "click here". What happened? A funny bar appeared near the top saying that Firefox protected me from the website. Luckily there was an options button which allowed me to add www.mozilla .org as a trusted site and it was all very obvious to me, but it won't be obvious for my parents (who I switched to Firefox).
Virgin wins the spoils of SpaceShipOne, right? Well if a company wants to compete, they'll probably do it with a counter technology. Where will they get this counter technology? Another contender. Even if they don't win the prize, it's nothing compared to the investment they'll be making.
So yes, it's important that the others try even without the prize.
I don't mean to get all US-political or anything but I'm betting than if Bush wins election he will postpone the Iraqi election by at least a couple months. Not that it is the wrong thing to do, I think Kerry would do it to. The fact of the matter is Iraq will not be ready for elections, however announcing it now would hurt his campaign.
Rise of Nations is simple to learn? Not for the people I try to play with. You want to really get the party going? Buts out Master of Orion 3. In about three days you'll have a real game kick'n.
How about first we get the cache to access as fast as the CPU?
Let's say something has a 50% chance of happening, and you try to make it happen twice. There's a 75% chance it will happen.
.75^4 chance it won't happen. That's a 68% chance it will happen.
Now let's say something has a 25% chance of happening and you try to make it happen four times. There's a
One more time let's say there's a 1 in 1,000,000 chance of something happen which is tried 1,000,000 times. There's a (999,999/1,000,000)^1,000,000 chance it won't happen. That's a 63% chance it will happen.
You can see where this is going I wager? If there is a 1/infinity chance of something happening, and it is tried an infinite number of times, it won't necessarily happen. Now when you throw in the fact that it isn't even truely random, you can probably come to the conclusion that it will not happen.
Unfortunately unlike Ross Perot I don't have spare billions of dollars.
I agree entirely. I think the idea of people mobbing celebrities is a social problem of ours, not a technological one. Cure the problem, not the (albeit) catalyst.
I personally can't comprehend how people become so attached to celebrities that they collect things about or belonging to them. Or in the case of a musician (er most likely bad singer) go to an event with the person and scream so much they don't even hear the music-- what are they really there for? I'm calling the entertainment industry sick and perverted, and blaming the audience.
You can buy a 500 gb harddrive now. I think it's cooler to call it 0.5 TB. Anyway I don't see anything wrong with expecting it to go up 50 to 100 megs every six months. Not only that but the bottom line prices are plummeting. 200 gb is down to $95 according to pricewatch. What I forsee happening is a real rift between performance vs storage harddrives.
Don't worry, they'll have a shelf life of 3 years by technology and 2 years by design. And I base that on nothing whatsoever. ;-).
Doesn't make me wrong though
Why is this funny? Why is this overrated? That's a real link and I checked up on it.
Oh yeah? www.virginspacehotel.com, registered Jun 17, 1999.
I really doubt Bush or Kerry stealing the election. What wouldn't surprise me one bit is supporters of either one doing it. Don't break it up into sides though- either someone is rigging the election or they aren't. The direction they are rigging it should not be a consideration.
3. Observers see no problems but the problems actually exist and remain.
4. Observers see the problems and a massive corruption scandal ensues.
5. Observers don't see problems and they don't exist, but stay in the system year after year to ensure it doesn't happen in the future.
Even if we knew with certainty that we've never had problems, I'd still want them.
Well then you'll agree that the only reason not to have international monitors is the cost, but that's trivial compared to what's at stake.
Unless you have another reason? Saving face, for instance? Sorry, but when it comes to games of pride and nationalism, it isn't worth it. There simply isn't a valid excuse to not have it. Always err on the side of caution, especially with something so ridiculously important as this.
This is a little bit off topic from what you said but it relates to Intel engineers vs managers. I had a 6-month internship at Intel and I plan on going back next summer. One thing I noticed was how unbusiness-like the managers were. It seems most of the people just decided to go up form being an engineer. Most engineers don't want to adopt a life of PowerPoint and endless (truly endless) meetings even if it does mean a raise. Those who do (and obviously also show promise) gradually move up the chain. Others stay as engineers. It's not like Intel doesn't pay the engineers well either-- if you work hard, you get rewarded big time.
I don't know the atmosphere of their upper level management. The most I got to see was a talk with Fister (now CEO of Cadence). He was a senior VP at Intel, and is an electrical engineer (masters). Any business education he's had (I'm sure he's had some) wasn't mentioned in his bio. This suggests it might just be company classes. I think how someone becomes a higher ranking member of a company is completely different company to company, and from what I see I like how Intel does it.
How very wrong--- and I actually just posted on this (marked + 2 funny :P). Here:
I think the government should stop spoon-feeding us what they think we should know and let us have what we think we should know.
It's a tiny bit more complicated than that. Not only should we know what we think we should know, should we not also know of what we think we should not know?
Translation: You need to know OF what you are not allowed to know. Seriously.
Didn't you know? Pi is exactly four.
Never before has a disaster made me want to eat a Cadbury egg so much.
Well, maybe once..
Some snake venom basically does that, although I'm pretty sure the reaction is entirely chemical independent of temperature.
Thanks. I agree with a lot of what you say, but I have some of my own opinions as well. I think we need the system to be much simpler than it is, yet a lot of people should still be able to get out of paying a lot of tax (low income families and small businesses exclusively). I'm sure that business taxes get extremely complicated because of all the different things that can decrease the amount owed (which seems like practically everything).
;)
The problem isn't just on the tax end, but obviously on the spending end. For example the amount that Americans pay for health care right now is enough for everyone to get everything they want or need from the industry-- so how come most people can't afford it? I also belong to the group of people who say that our military spending is simply ridiculous. I'm not saying cut back on troops, I'm not saying stop supplying the troops. The unconventional weapon production (including our WMD) should be scaled back significantly as well as our outlandish air force purchases. There simply isn't anyone who presents a threat in these areas so we should spend the money wiser. Here we are with a crumbing education system, mass transit system and general infrastructure. I don't know how the US gets its money but I must agree it has enough if it would just set its priorities straight. Sorry to go off on a tangent but being a liberal who agrees with you about something I had to give a counter explanation