You can always cmd-w the current Safari tab closed even if it has no toolbar. I guess to get a window you cold swap the selected (off bar) tab with the last (on bar tab) but people might find that even less intuitive.
The only tab feature I'd like from Firefox is the warning on closing the whole window when you have multiple tabs open. That would have saved me some history searching in the past.
The proof has been done. We're just having some trouble getting the results back...
But seriously - from a scientific perspective there is no proof for whether or not G/god(s) exist. It is, and will most probably, remain an "unknown". That's where "belief" and "faith" come in.
May your chosen religion triumph over all those other false ones!
I can probably send you a culprit php file if you want one. After surfing today (OSX.3/Safari) I found a file on my desktop called "count.php" that clearly uses vbs to write a binary file to the C: drive and then launches that file. From there it appears to reference "http://w12.biz/v6/file_0.php" which downloads an.exe file that (no doubt) does things you'd rather not have it do.
I simply tossed it in the trash after reviewing it and felt all snuggy warm in my Steve Jobs approved black turtleneck but I probably still have it...
that's sort of a silly analogy, because shooting indiscriminately doesn't really result in anything productive.
I wasn't trying to draw an analogy as much as I was trying to point out that your question was stated as "Other than effect, what's wrong with cause?" The obvious only answer to any question stated that way is 'nothing' since you already acknowledged "effect" so why even ask?
The real problem is that many people don't even acknowledge the effect and resent any attempt to mitigate the cause. And all the while the cause spreads (encouraged by us) while some try to actively deny the effect.
=tkk
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but why shouldn't we drain and use the oil here on Earth?
See your answer below.
The pollution is the problem. Global warming, smog, and all that.
"It's not the shooting that's the problem... it's the holes poked in everything! Just because we don't have a solution now is no reason to stop shooting indiscriminately."
but they can't just go and change the way their browser treats content any time they feel like it.
So your basic argument is that because flaws in IE6 have stunted web development to this point fixing it would cause chaos and should be avoided. Continuity of error over correct implementation of standards simply for order's sake.
I can't think of a better argument for ending IE domination or the web or an illustration of the ill effects of monopoly.
Yeah he's an idiot. How dare he criticize a program that's buggy. It's frozen from development and it's replacement will ship in 2 years or so, Stupid. So what if they never, ever fixed the PNG display pipeline since IE 6 shipped. Why should graphics display correctly - it's not like the web is a graphics medium, right?
Vendors should never, ever roll back changes into older versions of their software they force you to use. Tabbed browsing, correct graphics display, CSS support will all be available someday so shut yer piehole! All you'll have to do is upgrade your entire system to get these features. And it's not like anyone else has managed to get that stuff working on the same platform, right? Right? Well, maybe some one has but they must have more programming resources than MS, no doubt...
Point taken - but Spidey is a comic book movie. The villains are supposed to be big and goofy and crazy evil. I mean if you want to poke holes in Spidey 2 why does Doc Oc throw a car at Peter Parker in the cafe? He sets out specifically to capture him alive - no one suspects Peter is Spiderman - but when he finds him he chucks a car at him through a giant plate glass window. If Peter wasn't Spiderman he'd be dead - WTF?!?
But cool super slo-mo action ensues... so don't worry about it too much...
But these other movies don't have that excuse - they were supposed to be "real" life people, but their plots are just as goofy and characters as flat as 2D comic books...
Come on... Spidey 2 was a masterwork compared to _The Saint_. Elizabeth Shue as a top nuclear physicist who can't explain the math or physics behind her theory but is sure that if she just arranges her 3x5 cards in the right order she'll get fusion because she can "feel" it.
Yeah.... sounds JUST like every physicist I've ever met... The shallowest "characterization" attempt of a physicist since Kelly McGuire was supposed to have a PhD in astrophysics and yet was somehow explaining aerial combat to fighter pilots.
[Steve Martin] "Oh, ho, ho, irony! Oh, no, no, we don't get that here. - We haven't had any irony here since about, uh, '83, when I was the only practitioner of it. And I stopped because I was getting tired of being stared at." [/Steve Martin]
The PS3 is using the "Cell processor", which is reportedly based around a POWER5 PowerPC clocked at 3.2GHz.
Wrong. The Cell is closest to 3.2 Ghz simplified 970/G5 with 8 simplified Altivec units.
he Xbox 360 is also using a PPC (with 3 cores) clocked at 3.2GHz. The G5 hasn't yet hit those kinds of speeds, and the Xbox 360 is using (a) 64-bit processor(s).
But the 970/G5 IS 64 bit - this puts the chips closer together not further apart.
Complete wild-assed-guess: the Xbox 360 is also using a POWER5 CPU
You're completely wrong. The Power5 is a giant ceramic brick with multiple chips that takes two hands to hold and probably weighs as much as an XBox and costs 5 times as much as one.
The XBox processor is probably a simplified/specialized 970/G5 structure to allow the increased clock speeds wired together by an very highspeed bus system. Need more proof? The XBox360 development kits were G5 machines. You know those fancy tech demos at the XBox360 "release" were being run on paired G5 towers behind the scenes, right? The XBox360 machines are just finished design production and haven't started being produced yet.
In your defense you did SAY it was complete speculation.... but still try to at least stay in line for ballpark if not actually IN the ballpark.
I knew Michael Robertson in college and he was a technological lamer and pretty much an A-hole. And he doesn't appear to have changed much. He's cobbling together whatever technologies he can get his hands on and then shamelessly pimping^H^H^H^H^H^H^H self promoting whatever his latest project is regardless of merit.
He unfortunately seems to have learned that there is little fact checking in the business press - especially where technology is concerned - and that if he can create a stir he can probably create profit.
It was several years before I realized that it was the same Michael but I visted the website and found his picture there - in multiple super high resolutions - seriously why would I want a 1435x1980 pixel image of him? Does he think he's desktop material? There's even information for booking him for speaking engagements... but it's not about ego. *SIGH*
Look for the stock pump and dump scheme followed by an SEC investigation in 5 - 10 years...
It is not impressive that NextStep and Apple have known about this panic bug for 10 years but haven't been able to fix it!
Is it clear from his write up that NextStep/Apple has known about this bug? It sounds to me like he uncovered a long standing bug but I didn't see anywhere that he says Apple knows about it. He simply says this bug has 'existed for 10 years' not that he told Steve Jobs about it 10 years ago.
Not that I'm saying that I support the MS plan *cough* but it IS true that the information from one person's profile is worth very little. A server that holds thousands on the other hand is worth alot more and is a single point of failure. Therefore huge effort might be leveraged against a server while little effort would be leveraged against a single computer.
It's like SSL protection - I dealt with people who were paranoid about someone building one of those single purpose cracking machines and being able to break their encyption. They seem to forget that their credit limit is $3,000 and most of that is used. Against a bank's transactions it might pay off but spending millions to (possibly) steal thousands is not a winning proposition.
That being said - if someone could figure out how to easily grab someone's data and then was able to launch it against a vast number of PCs it would be worth it.
Would I EVER entrust my personal data to Microsoft security. Um... no. But then I don't use an MS OS so it's easy for me to say.
From what I've read, it seems that Microsoft signed ATI for Xbox Next because Nvidia kept trying to push OpenGL
Call me cynical but it might also have something to do with the screwing Nvidia gave to MS over the XBox. MS made the mistake of buying chips from Nvidia who didn't see it MS way when MS decided they needed them to be cheaper when they were trying to lower the construction cost of the XBox. Nvidia was the only one really making money on each XBox sold. I expected them to go with a different company all along after that.
At least MS learned their lesson. For XBox2 they licensed ATI technologies not the actual chips.
The unintended consequence in all this is that Nvidia made noises that if XBox2 was XBox game compatible Nvidia might sue because they would allow ATI to emulate Nvidia proprietary technologies. Whether the XBox2 is backwards compatible and whether Nvidia actually cares enough to go after MS if it is may be a very different story.
Remember the original story line shown at the preview? "You're defending Earth in a last ditch stand against the horror!" Now notice the cut scenes that made no sense and then suddenly the story plot is left open ended?
Bungie was ready to conclude the Halo story with 2 and move onto something new (as the did with their other story lines) but Microsoft insisted that there be a Halo 3 for XBox 2. Against Bungie's wishes the plot was changed from a concluding chapter to a chapter 2 scenario which was clearly written by someone who didn't write the original. They threw out ALL interesting parts of the first story: -the Halo is an ancient one of a kind artifact - no, our bad there are a bunch of them. -the enemy is a mindless horror you can't reason with - oops now you can chat with them over AIM anytime after 6.
Check out how many Bungie personnel from the original group that transfered to Microsoft are still around. The ones who quit and refused to move over to Microsoft originally were the smart ones.
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You can always cmd-w the current Safari tab closed even if it has no toolbar. I guess to get a window you cold swap the selected (off bar) tab with the last (on bar tab) but people might find that even less intuitive.
The only tab feature I'd like from Firefox is the warning on closing the whole window when you have multiple tabs open. That would have saved me some history searching in the past.
=tkk
d00D OmFG!1!!! U sp3ll3d teh rit butt 3v3ry 0t43r w0rd r0ng!1!
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Wtf!?!?!1!?
tkk
"It's a trick. Get an axe"
-Ash _Army of Darkness_
Ummm... why would Jesus need to rescue me from your past?
What the hell did you do to me?
=tkk
The proof has been done. We're just having some trouble getting the results back...
But seriously - from a scientific perspective there is no proof for whether or not G/god(s) exist. It is, and will most probably, remain an "unknown". That's where "belief" and "faith" come in.
May your chosen religion triumph over all those other false ones!
=tkk
I can probably send you a culprit php file if you want one. After surfing today (OSX.3/Safari) I found a file on my desktop called "count.php" that clearly uses vbs to write a binary file to the C: drive and then launches that file. From there it appears to reference "http://w12.biz/v6/file_0.php" which downloads an .exe file that (no doubt) does things you'd rather not have it do.
I simply tossed it in the trash after reviewing it and felt all snuggy warm in my Steve Jobs approved black turtleneck but I probably still have it...
=tkk
m pretty sure just about every 17 year old has either had sex
But we're talking about GAMERS here... do I need to point out they're a whole subset?
=tkk
PS I KEED! I KEED....
that's sort of a silly analogy, because shooting indiscriminately doesn't really result in anything productive.
I wasn't trying to draw an analogy as much as I was trying to point out that your question was stated as "Other than effect, what's wrong with cause?"
The obvious only answer to any question stated that way is 'nothing' since you already acknowledged "effect" so why even ask?
The real problem is that many people don't even acknowledge the effect and resent any attempt to mitigate the cause. And all the while the cause spreads (encouraged by us) while some try to actively deny the effect.
=tkk
but why shouldn't we drain and use the oil here on Earth?
See your answer below.
The pollution is the problem. Global warming, smog, and all that.
"It's not the shooting that's the problem... it's the holes poked in everything! Just because we don't have a solution now is no reason to stop shooting indiscriminately."
=tkk
but they can't just go and change the way their browser treats content any time they feel like it.
So your basic argument is that because flaws in IE6 have stunted web development to this point fixing it would cause chaos and should be avoided. Continuity of error over correct implementation of standards simply for order's sake.
I can't think of a better argument for ending IE domination or the web or an illustration of the ill effects of monopoly.
=tkk
Yeah he's an idiot. How dare he criticize a program that's buggy. It's frozen from development and it's replacement will ship in 2 years or so, Stupid. So what if they never, ever fixed the PNG display pipeline since IE 6 shipped. Why should graphics display correctly - it's not like the web is a graphics medium, right?
Vendors should never, ever roll back changes into older versions of their software they force you to use. Tabbed browsing, correct graphics display, CSS support will all be available someday so shut yer piehole! All you'll have to do is upgrade your entire system to get these features. And it's not like anyone else has managed to get that stuff working on the same platform, right? Right? Well, maybe some one has but they must have more programming resources than MS, no doubt...
=tkk
Point taken - but Spidey is a comic book movie. The villains are supposed to be big and goofy and crazy evil.
I mean if you want to poke holes in Spidey 2 why does Doc Oc throw a car at Peter Parker in the cafe? He sets out specifically to capture him alive - no one suspects Peter is Spiderman - but when he finds him he chucks a car at him through a giant plate glass window. If Peter wasn't Spiderman he'd be dead - WTF?!?
But cool super slo-mo action ensues... so don't worry about it too much...
But these other movies don't have that excuse - they were supposed to be "real" life people, but their plots are just as goofy and characters as flat as 2D comic books...
=tkk
Come on... Spidey 2 was a masterwork compared to _The Saint_. Elizabeth Shue as a top nuclear physicist who can't explain the math or physics behind her theory but is sure that if she just arranges her 3x5 cards in the right order she'll get fusion because she can "feel" it.
Yeah.... sounds JUST like every physicist I've ever met... The shallowest "characterization" attempt of a physicist since Kelly McGuire was supposed to have a PhD in astrophysics and yet was somehow explaining aerial combat to fighter pilots.
But I digress...
=tkk
a really bad keanu reeves movie
Ummm.... I'm afraid you'll have to more specific...
That's funny - it reminded me a really bad Val Kilmer movie.
I know, I know... I'll have to be more specific...
=tkk
[Steve Martin]
"Oh, ho, ho, irony! Oh, no, no, we don't get that here. - We haven't had any irony here since about, uh, '83, when I was the only practitioner of it. And I stopped because I was getting tired of being stared at."
[/Steve Martin]
The PS3 is using the "Cell processor", which is reportedly based around a POWER5 PowerPC clocked at 3.2GHz.
Wrong. The Cell is closest to 3.2 Ghz simplified 970/G5 with 8 simplified Altivec units.
he Xbox 360 is also using a PPC (with 3 cores) clocked at 3.2GHz. The G5 hasn't yet hit those kinds of speeds, and the Xbox 360 is using (a) 64-bit processor(s).
But the 970/G5 IS 64 bit - this puts the chips closer together not further apart.
Complete wild-assed-guess: the Xbox 360 is also using a POWER5 CPU
You're completely wrong. The Power5 is a giant ceramic brick with multiple chips that takes two hands to hold and probably weighs as much as an XBox and costs 5 times as much as one.
The XBox processor is probably a simplified/specialized 970/G5 structure to allow the increased clock speeds wired together by an very highspeed bus system. Need more proof? The XBox360 development kits were G5 machines. You know those fancy tech demos at the XBox360 "release" were being run on paired G5 towers behind the scenes, right? The XBox360 machines are just finished design production and haven't started being produced yet.
In your defense you did SAY it was complete speculation.... but still try to at least stay in line for ballpark if not actually IN the ballpark.
=tkk
Or iTger since they say that the placement of the vowels isn't that important to actually reading something...
=tkk
I knew Michael Robertson in college and he was a technological lamer and pretty much an A-hole. And he doesn't appear to have changed much. He's cobbling together whatever technologies he can get his hands on and then shamelessly pimping^H^H^H^H^H^H^H self promoting whatever his latest project is regardless of merit.
He unfortunately seems to have learned that there is little fact checking in the business press - especially where technology is concerned - and that if he can create a stir he can probably create profit.
It was several years before I realized that it was the same Michael but I visted the website and found his picture there - in multiple super high resolutions - seriously why would I want a 1435x1980 pixel image of him?
Does he think he's desktop material? There's even information for booking him for speaking engagements... but it's not about ego. *SIGH*
Look for the stock pump and dump scheme followed by an SEC investigation in 5 - 10 years...
=tkk
It is not impressive that NextStep and Apple have known about this panic bug for 10 years but haven't been able to fix it!
Is it clear from his write up that NextStep/Apple has known about this bug? It sounds to me like he uncovered a long standing bug but I didn't see anywhere that he says Apple knows about it. He simply says this bug has 'existed for 10 years' not that he told Steve Jobs about it 10 years ago.
=tkk
does it shock you for shooting people on your own team or just them for getting shot? Because there's always at leasy one "team killing f**tard".
I think we all know where this is going....
"Dude, those are my chips.... Dude, I said, those are MY chips... Dude, alright I warned you!'
BBBBZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!
AHAHAHHAHAHAAA!!!!
BBBZZZZZZTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!
And what if you keep shooting him? I SO see a Jackass episode in this invention.
=tkk
Here's what you do: Buy a mac mini. Buy a USB mouse with more buttons. Plug it in.
Step three? There is no step three!
Umm.... I mean four.
There's is no step four.
=Tod K
Not that I'm saying that I support the MS plan *cough* but it IS true that the information from one person's profile is worth very little. A server that holds thousands on the other hand is worth alot more and is a single point of failure. Therefore huge effort might be leveraged against a server while little effort would be leveraged against a single computer.
It's like SSL protection - I dealt with people who were paranoid about someone building one of those single purpose cracking machines and being able to break their encyption. They seem to forget that their credit limit is $3,000 and most of that is used. Against a bank's transactions it might pay off but spending millions to (possibly) steal thousands is not a winning proposition.
That being said - if someone could figure out how to easily grab someone's data and then was able to launch it against a vast number of PCs it would be worth it.
Would I EVER entrust my personal data to Microsoft security. Um... no. But then I don't use an MS OS so it's easy for me to say.
=tkk
[Get Fuzzy]
You couldn't be geekier if you were actually standing there with a Dungeon Master's Guide in your hand.
-The old Dungeon Master's Guide or the new one? Because the new ones are swwweeeeeeet!
I stand NOT corrected.
[/Get Fuzzy]
=tkk
From what I've read, it seems that Microsoft signed ATI for Xbox Next because Nvidia kept trying to push OpenGL
Call me cynical but it might also have something to do with the screwing Nvidia gave to MS over the XBox.
MS made the mistake of buying chips from Nvidia who didn't see it MS way when MS decided they needed them to be cheaper when they were trying to lower the construction cost of the XBox. Nvidia was the only one really making money on each XBox sold. I expected them to go with a different company all along after that.
At least MS learned their lesson. For XBox2 they licensed ATI technologies not the actual chips.
The unintended consequence in all this is that Nvidia made noises that if XBox2 was XBox game compatible Nvidia might sue because they would allow ATI to emulate Nvidia proprietary technologies. Whether the XBox2 is backwards compatible and whether Nvidia actually cares enough to go after MS if it is may be a very different story.
=tkk
that's why Halo 2 sucked. Well, that's why the "story" sucked.
Remember the original story line shown at the preview?
"You're defending Earth in a last ditch stand against the horror!"
Now notice the cut scenes that made no sense and then suddenly the story plot is left open ended?
Bungie was ready to conclude the Halo story with 2 and move onto something new (as the did with their other story lines) but Microsoft insisted that there be a Halo 3 for XBox 2. Against Bungie's wishes the plot was changed from a concluding chapter to a chapter 2 scenario which was clearly written by someone who didn't write the original. They threw out ALL interesting parts of the first story:
-the Halo is an ancient one of a kind artifact - no, our bad there are a bunch of them.
-the enemy is a mindless horror you can't reason with - oops now you can chat with them over AIM anytime after 6.
Check out how many Bungie personnel from the original group that transfered to Microsoft are still around. The ones who quit and refused to move over to Microsoft originally were the smart ones.
=tkk