I didn't think it was possible, but seeing all these replies makes me kind of ashamed of being part of the Slashdot community. I mean, occasional trolls are one thing, but more than hundred posts of fresh new jokes and insightful rants about France, that's just really embarassing. Signal to noise was never this bad. And the only on-topic comments by people who bothered to read the article came down to this being sort of a non-issue.
So why should I have to reboot when I install something like Nero?
Yes, why should you? Why would you? I don't think the Nero setup actually forces you to reboot. The vast majority of applications work without a restart, and so do some drivers. Some recent games are an exception to the rule because they install or update copy protection measures that run at a very low level.
I love Miranda, but that is some spot on criticism there. I haven't really had a problem with those issues, but I imagine one might, and the software engineer in me cringes when I hear it. And in fact in my laptop install of Miranda, I didn't install the pop-up plugins because I wasn't sure which combination to use.
While I'm at it: Does anybody know if there's a tool to merge two Miranda IM databases? I've got one on my laptop and one on my PC, for the same ICQ account, and I'd like to sync them up every once in a while. It seems a simple enough thing to do (merging two ordered lists is trivially O(n)), but I don't think any such application exists. I admit I haven't looked very hard though.
Yes, but only idiots waste time skinning applications. Normal people are happy when it works great when you need it and stays the hell out of sight when you don't.
Huh? Is this screenshot representative of the current default theme of Miranda? What's funky about it? If that isn't the standard Windows look and feel then I don't know what is. What do you expect, Windows buttons for every contact? A combo box? It's hard to know what the standard widget would be because it's just not a standard application. But vanilla Miranda is certainly plain enough to qualify as a Windows look and feel application IMO.
AIM doesn't do offline messages?! That's hilarious, I never knew such a crippled IM protocol still existed, I thought they were all pretty much equal feature wise. Stored history is secondary - not in usage: my years of ICQ history is probably more important to me than my email archive - but it's a client feature. Any decent client will implement a good history, and the official clients are all garbage, anyway.
Of course, Slashdot has a nice solution (the "[scammer.com]" bit).
That is so funny because Slashdot didn't display the [etc] part next to the URL you posted. Despite the fact that I thought I had enabled it, and that it usually was visible. Confused, I found the respective preferences page and saw that it was set to "show only in recommended situations".
Now first of all, did I activate this setting? I'm not sure, I don't recall doing so and I guess it's a new feature all previous users have been moved to. Second, it doesn't say what a recommended situation is - but I guess it won't display it when the site is already obvious from the URL, ie it wouldn't display it when I link to http://www.google.com/ using the address as the actual text of the hyperlink (eg. via Slashcodes URL tag). That's sane enough. Of course, and crucially you didn't do that, the hyperlink "label" was a fraud designed to fool people into clicking it. Well it worked, it totally fooled Slashcode. I guess then you might as well disable the feature, because the half-assed protection is worse than none - you're tricked into a false sense of security, believing that links without an explitice site tag are safe.
For the time being, that's true. But being online everywhere, all the time isn't very far of, at least not in urbanised, rich areas. I'm pretty sure that in one or two years prices for 3G internet data flatrates will have gone down far enough for me to get one. It's won't work on airplanes, but maybe by that time, they'll have fixed that, too.
But they have removed it. They have read the mail and okayed/deleted it locally, either way it's gone from their inbox. The fact that copies are still on the POP3 server because the email client never deleted it is not easily understood. (And really, the email client should just delete it from the server by default.)
Okay, he never said anything about the "coming years" or about running it on x86. Here, I'll repeat it because it's so easy using copy and paste. He never said anything about the "coming years" or about running it on x86. One more time? Nah, I think two should be enough. Well, three, because he already repated it. And he also said it in the first place. Or didn't say it. See above. Now, please either make a point why we will never be able to emulate the Cell on any other architecture ever or, well, you get the drift. No offense.
That's just it, they changed the default behaviour in version 9 TP1. From the changelog:
Changed keyboard shortcuts for closer cross-browser compatibility: Ctrl+T replaces Ctrl+N for opening a new tab. Ctrl+N opens a new browser window.
Since I never ever use a second root browser window, I've bound both to opening a new tab. Note that in contrast to what you say, opening a new window is not equal to opening a new tab in Opera (or Firefox).
FWIW since either Opera 8.5 or Opera 9, Ctrl-T works by default. Pissed me off to no end because Ctrl-N stopped working, the key combo Opera has been using since before there even was a Firefox. But it was simple enough to add it in, now both Ctrl-T and Ctrl-N work. I also use Gmail with it without any showstopping bugs, although I'm not sure if the address autocompletion works.
Here's a review of a current Antec PSU: "2. EFFICIENCY was a little disappointing for a model that claims to be high efficiency. The meassured efficiency peak of 79% is three percentage points off the 82% claimed for 115VAC input. Because our methodology for testing efficiency has just been revised, we do not yet have a large database of efficiency data to compare our results to, but preliminary testing has turned up at number of power supplies that peak above 80% efficiency. It would not be correct to say that the Neo HE is inefficient, merely that it not as efficient as Antec claims, and it is not quite in the top tier when it comes to efficiency."
So, not great, but you're a bit harsh. The power factor of the model tested in the review is essentially 1 for all relevant voltages - you obviously got a model without PFC, so the bad power factor isn't really surprising. Recent models all have active PFC because it's required for use in the EU.
It will reach a point where everyone except the very rich have these water saving devices because it makes economic sense. This is the case in europe, and it will become the case in North America because it must.
I'm from Europe. Water is really cheap here, too, I don't know how cheap relative to the US, but so cheap that I don't think I've ever really heard about anybody installing a water saving device due to economic pressure. And in fact I don't think water saving devices are very wide-spread (except for press-twice-to-stop flushers), or maybe they're just so wide-spread that I've never really seen anything else. --
Okay, I just did some googling and found a PDF on European water pricing. It's from 1998 with prices from '96, I guess today it's a tad more expensive, so I guess a couple of Euros - per cubic metre (1000 litres). Yeah, I'm not losing sleep over that. Another cent down the toilet, literally.
I'm curious, what's filtered tap water? I mean, what's being filtered? I guess it's iron or something like that. But when I was in the states, I thought the tap water was fairly horrifying because it contained so much chlorine - not suitable for drinking or cooking, and barely so for washing, in my recollection (I was like 10 at the time). Do you filter the chlorine, or is your tap water (basically) chlorine free and you filter something else? Maybe fluorides the commies put in the water to poison your precious bodily fluids?;)
I do mean old- like 486 or older AT style PSUs that will actually power on without a computer around.
FYI: You can easily get ATX power supplies to power on without a computer by shorting the right pins. I think it's green to ground (black), but it's probably better not to take my word on it. Instead, you should trust some random guy who has a web site.;) Devising a permanent solution isn't hard either, you can also get them from stores. Don't do it without putting some load on the PSU, some people say that it might damage it, although I guess they are on crack. Best not to anger them, though.
Of course, there are a number of services that have been offering free image hosting with virtually unlimited bandwidth for some time. Mostly every blogging service does, but images hosted by ImageShack have been popping up everywhere, because it's freakishly easy to host an image with them - registration is optional, for one thing. I doubt Google will clamp down on it, I'm sure they were aware of it when they started (the beta of) Base.
So really, image hosting isn't what's new about Google Base. In fact Google Base instantly reminded me of ImageShack, it's (close to) the simplicity of IS applied to not just images, but article style content. Of course IS has really taken off because people have needed space for their images forever - to post them in internet forums, mostly. I'm not sure people have the same need for article hosting - probably not in the example of internet forums, but maybe in other contexts. Of course, as you and other folks have pointed out, with an API this is much more interesting. And even without, it's still a really cool service. There's also this whole (I hesitate to use the word) "folksonomy" thing they have pulled off with their labels/attributes thingie. I'm sure that will make some people foam.
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In theory, with all the editorial mistakes and dupes, that we all know and love, the only thing that's really holding everything together is the community.
You make that sound as if it's a little thing. Slashdot is all about the community. If I want news (and I do), I read other sites - Ars, The Register, heise, and others (freshmeat comes to mind for the Linux geeks). If I wanted to know stuff even faster (and I don't), I guess I'd subscribe to a million blogs. Anyway, Slashdot certainly isn't about the news, it probably makes for one of the worst news outlets ever. But Slashdot has a one of a kind community. It's mostly just really, really large, which entails that there are a lot of idiots in there, but a few smart people, too, and usually a real expert on every issue. The news stuff is really just a way to make a substantial percentage of those people focus on a single issue. I think posting random computer-related topics from Wikipedia would accomplish much the same - and in all likelihood it would still be news more often, too.;)
Sorry for going on a wild tangent here, I sometimes feel like I have to justify why I'm still reading Slashdot after such a long time.;)
It's not limited to products and prices? As in, it's a totally different thing? It may be based on the same tech though, hardly surprising since it's from the same people.
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I didn't think it was possible, but seeing all these replies makes me kind of ashamed of being part of the Slashdot community. I mean, occasional trolls are one thing, but more than hundred posts of fresh new jokes and insightful rants about France, that's just really embarassing. Signal to noise was never this bad. And the only on-topic comments by people who bothered to read the article came down to this being sort of a non-issue.
Sounds like the defence used in the Nurenburg trials.
Wow, Godwin's Law in the FP. You lose!
So why should I have to reboot when I install something like Nero?
Yes, why should you? Why would you? I don't think the Nero setup actually forces you to reboot. The vast majority of applications work without a restart, and so do some drivers. Some recent games are an exception to the rule because they install or update copy protection measures that run at a very low level.
I love Miranda, but that is some spot on criticism there. I haven't really had a problem with those issues, but I imagine one might, and the software engineer in me cringes when I hear it. And in fact in my laptop install of Miranda, I didn't install the pop-up plugins because I wasn't sure which combination to use.
While I'm at it: Does anybody know if there's a tool to merge two Miranda IM databases? I've got one on my laptop and one on my PC, for the same ICQ account, and I'd like to sync them up every once in a while. It seems a simple enough thing to do (merging two ordered lists is trivially O(n)), but I don't think any such application exists. I admit I haven't looked very hard though.
If you want to skin it, good fucking luck.
Yes, but only idiots waste time skinning applications. Normal people are happy when it works great when you need it and stays the hell out of sight when you don't.
Miranda tries but has its own funky grey look.
Huh? Is this screenshot representative of the current default theme of Miranda? What's funky about it? If that isn't the standard Windows look and feel then I don't know what is. What do you expect, Windows buttons for every contact? A combo box? It's hard to know what the standard widget would be because it's just not a standard application. But vanilla Miranda is certainly plain enough to qualify as a Windows look and feel application IMO.
AIM doesn't do offline messages?! That's hilarious, I never knew such a crippled IM protocol still existed, I thought they were all pretty much equal feature wise. Stored history is secondary - not in usage: my years of ICQ history is probably more important to me than my email archive - but it's a client feature. Any decent client will implement a good history, and the official clients are all garbage, anyway.
Of course, Slashdot has a nice solution (the "[scammer.com]" bit).
That is so funny because Slashdot didn't display the [etc] part next to the URL you posted. Despite the fact that I thought I had enabled it, and that it usually was visible. Confused, I found the respective preferences page and saw that it was set to "show only in recommended situations".
Now first of all, did I activate this setting? I'm not sure, I don't recall doing so and I guess it's a new feature all previous users have been moved to. Second, it doesn't say what a recommended situation is - but I guess it won't display it when the site is already obvious from the URL, ie it wouldn't display it when I link to http://www.google.com/ using the address as the actual text of the hyperlink (eg. via Slashcodes URL tag). That's sane enough. Of course, and crucially you didn't do that, the hyperlink "label" was a fraud designed to fool people into clicking it. Well it worked, it totally fooled Slashcode. I guess then you might as well disable the feature, because the half-assed protection is worse than none - you're tricked into a false sense of security, believing that links without an explitice site tag are safe.
Nice.
For the time being, that's true. But being online everywhere, all the time isn't very far of, at least not in urbanised, rich areas. I'm pretty sure that in one or two years prices for 3G internet data flatrates will have gone down far enough for me to get one. It's won't work on airplanes, but maybe by that time, they'll have fixed that, too.
But they have removed it. They have read the mail and okayed/deleted it locally, either way it's gone from their inbox. The fact that copies are still on the POP3 server because the email client never deleted it is not easily understood. (And really, the email client should just delete it from the server by default.)
Okay, he never said anything about the "coming years" or about running it on x86. Here, I'll repeat it because it's so easy using copy and paste. He never said anything about the "coming years" or about running it on x86. One more time? Nah, I think two should be enough. Well, three, because he already repated it. And he also said it in the first place. Or didn't say it. See above. Now, please either make a point why we will never be able to emulate the Cell on any other architecture ever or, well, you get the drift. No offense.
FWIW since either Opera 8.5 or Opera 9, Ctrl-T works by default. Pissed me off to no end because Ctrl-N stopped working, the key combo Opera has been using since before there even was a Firefox. But it was simple enough to add it in, now both Ctrl-T and Ctrl-N work. I also use Gmail with it without any showstopping bugs, although I'm not sure if the address autocompletion works.
That's one strange ballot you got there.
Here's a review of a current Antec PSU: "2. EFFICIENCY was a little disappointing for a model that claims to be high efficiency. The meassured efficiency peak of 79% is three percentage points off the 82% claimed for 115VAC input. Because our methodology for testing efficiency has just been revised, we do not yet have a large database of efficiency data to compare our results to, but preliminary testing has turned up at number of power supplies that peak above 80% efficiency. It would not be correct to say that the Neo HE is inefficient, merely that it not as efficient as Antec claims, and it is not quite in the top tier when it comes to efficiency."
So, not great, but you're a bit harsh. The power factor of the model tested in the review is essentially 1 for all relevant voltages - you obviously got a model without PFC, so the bad power factor isn't really surprising. Recent models all have active PFC because it's required for use in the EU.
Seems the seat lids were being broken by students deciding to stand on the thing?
No. It's a joke. It's more polite than saying "we don't like cleaning your piss from the back wall, so sit down".
It will reach a point where everyone except the very rich have these water saving devices because it makes economic sense. This is the case in europe, and it will become the case in North America because it must.
I'm from Europe. Water is really cheap here, too, I don't know how cheap relative to the US, but so cheap that I don't think I've ever really heard about anybody installing a water saving device due to economic pressure. And in fact I don't think water saving devices are very wide-spread (except for press-twice-to-stop flushers), or maybe they're just so wide-spread that I've never really seen anything else. --
Okay, I just did some googling and found a PDF on European water pricing. It's from 1998 with prices from '96, I guess today it's a tad more expensive, so I guess a couple of Euros - per cubic metre (1000 litres). Yeah, I'm not losing sleep over that. Another cent down the toilet, literally.
They work fine, we have got one. And it's certainly possible to get uncomfortably hot water from them.
I'm curious, what's filtered tap water? I mean, what's being filtered? I guess it's iron or something like that. But when I was in the states, I thought the tap water was fairly horrifying because it contained so much chlorine - not suitable for drinking or cooking, and barely so for washing, in my recollection (I was like 10 at the time). Do you filter the chlorine, or is your tap water (basically) chlorine free and you filter something else? Maybe fluorides the commies put in the water to poison your precious bodily fluids? ;)
I do mean old- like 486 or older AT style PSUs that will actually power on without a computer around.
;) Devising a permanent solution isn't hard either, you can also get them from stores. Don't do it without putting some load on the PSU, some people say that it might damage it, although I guess they are on crack. Best not to anger them, though.
FYI: You can easily get ATX power supplies to power on without a computer by shorting the right pins. I think it's green to ground (black), but it's probably better not to take my word on it. Instead, you should trust some random guy who has a web site.
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Actually, I've seen that particular spelling error so often, I guess it'll probably be recognised as a proper alternative spelling in due course.
Of course, there are a number of services that have been offering free image hosting with virtually unlimited bandwidth for some time. Mostly every blogging service does, but images hosted by ImageShack have been popping up everywhere, because it's freakishly easy to host an image with them - registration is optional, for one thing. I doubt Google will clamp down on it, I'm sure they were aware of it when they started (the beta of) Base.
So really, image hosting isn't what's new about Google Base. In fact Google Base instantly reminded me of ImageShack, it's (close to) the simplicity of IS applied to not just images, but article style content. Of course IS has really taken off because people have needed space for their images forever - to post them in internet forums, mostly. I'm not sure people have the same need for article hosting - probably not in the example of internet forums, but maybe in other contexts. Of course, as you and other folks have pointed out, with an API this is much more interesting. And even without, it's still a really cool service. There's also this whole (I hesitate to use the word) "folksonomy" thing they have pulled off with their labels/attributes thingie. I'm sure that will make some people foam.
In theory, with all the editorial mistakes and dupes, that we all know and love, the only thing that's really holding everything together is the community.
;)
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You make that sound as if it's a little thing. Slashdot is all about the community. If I want news (and I do), I read other sites - Ars, The Register, heise, and others (freshmeat comes to mind for the Linux geeks). If I wanted to know stuff even faster (and I don't), I guess I'd subscribe to a million blogs. Anyway, Slashdot certainly isn't about the news, it probably makes for one of the worst news outlets ever. But Slashdot has a one of a kind community. It's mostly just really, really large, which entails that there are a lot of idiots in there, but a few smart people, too, and usually a real expert on every issue. The news stuff is really just a way to make a substantial percentage of those people focus on a single issue. I think posting random computer-related topics from Wikipedia would accomplish much the same - and in all likelihood it would still be news more often, too.
Sorry for going on a wild tangent here, I sometimes feel like I have to justify why I'm still reading Slashdot after such a long time.
It's not limited to products and prices? As in, it's a totally different thing? It may be based on the same tech though, hardly surprising since it's from the same people.