The sky is falling! Wolf Wolf! Read the article. It says that the popup blocker and the activex handler will not be included in the updates to other versions.
The ongoing security updates do not, as Microsoft points out, include the latest security fixes with Service Pack 2, released last month. Those include a new pop-up blocker and a new system of handling ActiveX controls and downloaded content.
I just seems to me that people here are really quick to piont out things that they think MS is doinf wrong and misleading people purposely to get them to hate Microsoft. Listen, I don't like a lot of microsoft software and I didin't get there by people telling me lies or half truths. I simply used the crap and became frustrated with it. You don't need to overstate the faults to win converts. The faults themselves are at times large enough to win people over without amplifying them. Don't lose community credibility by doing this kind of stuff. It only serves as fuel to the other side to show why this community can't be trusted either.
My neighbor tried to use an electric handmixer to make gravey over a hot stove. The cord caught on fire and when he tried to put it out he got electricuted. He read the recipe on the internet using Internet Explorer Browser. If it wasn't for MS, He would be alive today.
See you can tag everything back to MS if you fish hard enough. Next it will be earthquakes and hurricanes we tag blame on MS for.
Doesn't anyone see this as a bit silly to blame MS for an obvious blunder on not only their IT dept. but the morons in charge of maintenance and engineering? If you drive your car through the back of your garage, is it the car manufacturer's fault? How stupid would you look for trying to place the blame back that far?
See that is where this whole notion goes horribly wrong. The ball at the end of the string is able to display is centripetal effects due to it have a mass in the presence of gravity. The two objects, you and the ball at the end of the string are tugging at each other because of gravity. That is not the case with a ball attached to a string attached to earth. Earth IS the gravitational generator, (at least to the best of our knowledge so far), and hanging anything out there in a synced orbit only falls back to earth and rather quickly. It doesn't gain some fictitious angular momentum unless it previous momentum was angular to begin with and we are talking about the object being synchronous with earth's spinning. The earth's spinning will not generate momentum in the object hung stationary above it. Einstein's own theories reflect this. There are some good theories as to how to make this work, but this is not one of them and the science behind it is simply bad.
I have to question the legitamacy of the company altogether. The write-ups are of an amateur nature. Verbage and use of the language is poor in many areas and I would question that any company looking to fund that large of a project would present it's foundation of material in this way to the public. Examples are in the FAQs answering questions such as if a ribbon breaks; "Honestly, it will make a little bit of a mess". and other things they say in describing the strenght of the ribbon; "3-5 times as strong as needed", what about correct english as in 3 to 5 times stronger than needed. Some of it seems written at a 5th or 6th grade english level. Certainly not collegiate level as you would expect. And the frank public statements regarding liability would shun and serious potential investor in the group. Of course you can always send in your paypal donation. I see they did take the time and effort to get the 'take your money' part of the website right. Careful here, you might have been scammed.
Yea that happens a lot. Stuff I submit frequently ends up as an article later in the day or in the following weeks. Of course submitted by someone else, whilst mine is rejected. Their's usually has included misspellings, where I spellcheck. I keep good references in the body, they usually don't, and yet somehow, my articles are ALWAYS rejected. Can't figure it out myself. I just gave up after awhile.
I don't think you will find any party putting up a fight over air the ads. If they did anything like that, they would look pretty foolish. It would only serve to draw attention to what they didn't want you to see or better yet cause people to think that they really had something bad to hide. Free use or not, nobody is going to stop them.
What is your companies name and address. We need to send a group of auditors to your facility to make sure none of the federal funds are 'leaking' into research where funding is specifically banned. By the way we will have to close your entire facility during the investigation. We are not stating anything wrong was done, we just need a year or so to be sure that you are working properly.
Yours Truely
Republican National Committee
P.S. The White House is ours! Keep your grubby democratic mitts off our stuff!
Yea, but they were written in 1983 in an Arial font that didn't exist at the time. And the date was centered at the top of the memo suggesting someone either spent 5 days manually centering the date or it is a fake. So there! The processor's service record IS clean!
Ya, I remember seeing that memo a few years ago. They said we were going to adopt that policy and use 'sister' companies for policing it. I think, if I recall right, oursister company at the time (Intel) was Enron.;)
Results because of the funding issue. You have 1000 people working on adult stem cells for every 1 on embryonic. it's no a fair comparision to say, "see no reuslts there, we were right". That's like tiying someone's hands behind their back and then saying, "See I told you he couldn't hit the ball!"
I if suppose you have the luxury of economic freedom to begin with, you can force someone else to prove to you that is has to be profitable first. We are all Ferengi here. Furthermore since when does capitalism display dignity and display wisdom? The forced economic classes that it creates can only be called dignifying to the rich and the quickly shrinking remnants of the middle class. It certainly is not for the poor. Where is there any wisdom displayed in an economic process that forces an entire class of people to live out their lives scraping enough money together to put food in their children's mouths?
If that is dignity and wisdom, I am all for shredding it!
You make a good point. Do I really want the governemtn to determine whether the disease my brother is dying from worthy of research or not? Then again have the drug companies shown me that they can be trusted to provide me with a cost effective solution to my health problems? I am not sure where the balance needs to be, but it is clear that we don't have ANY balance right now.
Aids research has been going on longer than that. Perhaps we should stop that too, it MUST be a lost cause then. CAncer research has obviously been a complete waste of time according to your theory. Come on that is simply idiotic.
Secondly, I would expect there to be more results from a fully funded parallel research as opposed to one that is nearly completely choked off. That's simply commonsense.
It's a french article, what do you expect? WE all know you can't write stable code in a language like 'French'. I expect that a french version of windows would crash more often. Maybe if they learn to speak a real language, they will get better results.
_Let the facts speak for themselves!
(This should stir the pot, even if it is meant in good fun!)(No real offense meant here, just showing how you can interpret things in a fashion to beat up anyone you want to, BUT IT MUST BE MS's FAULT!)
You go to any government funded Counselling clinic for drugs or alcohol and tell them you drink any amount of alcohol everyday. You will be flagged as an alcoholic or a person with a drinking problem quicker than you can blink. DUI's and offenses that involve drink make up 30 percent or greater of the arrests in this country. The police like nothing more that to here that you had a drink when they come to visit you. That sign, seals and delivers a guilty verdict in front of a judge nearly every time. The official rate of conviction in most alcohol related 'crimes' is above 97%.
The point is that medically it is deemed as a good thing. Socially it is accepted. But the moral minority in this country (USA) wrote the laws and has made it offensive and the ultimate leverage to remove your ability to defend yourself. Try it sometime. Don't like your neighbor? Next time you see him drink a beer, call the police and say that he took a swing at you. They won't belive him no matter how much he tries to deny it. He will go to jail, and the judge will never believe him because the police will say the smelled alcohol. He will be sentence to some sort of counselling and be labeled a problem drinker. Just watch your back when he comes after you with his 9mm.
Now I can beat the crap out of little Jimmy anytime I want too! He can't hide from me anymore. I wonder how well that RFID tag will work after I stuff him in his locker?
Don't worry the above is satire. But it is likely to be used for that sooner or later. The problem with restricting the privacy of the lawabiding people to stop bad things from happening is that the people who want to do the bad things don't give a crap. They will either find a way around it or find a way to use it against you. Meanwhile, you, as a law abiding citizens had more rights removed from you and lost more privacy. All to stop the bad people who are still going to do it to you anyways.
Don't get me wrong here. For kids and stuff, It could be a great tool. I don't think it will stop kidnapping at all whereas the tag can simply be removed, disabled or altered. If someone wants to defeat it, they are going to be able to. It's not going to stop crime. It can however be used for a number of things to help us from day to day. We just have to be aware of those that will try to use this to curtail our freedoms in the mean time.
The fact that you missed in the funding ban is that if a research lab pursues embryonic stem cell research, they will lose ALL of their funding in ALL of their areas of research. The Bush administration has made it clear that they do not want to be tie to this in any way. Nearly every major research firm in America recieves federal funds to aid their research in one fashion or another. They are not going to pursue private funding for research in this area and risk losing all of their funding in others. It is a scare tactic used by the government to stop the research and it works pretty effectively.
Here Apparently you haven't ever used the free version of their browser. The ads cannot be turned off. I am proponent of not paying for somehing I can get for free, (Not steal, just free). I guess that leaves me with the Mozilla or IE browsers. I don't have to pay and I am not force fed advertising.
What the article fails to take into account is the startup cost. If those costs are added into the project and spread out over the lifespan of the equipment available today, it is still cheaper to use fossil fuels. The overhead in this case was payed for with tax dollars and is cheaper right now because of subsidies provided by tax dollars. So the real cost of this power is still higher than your regular dirty power. The real costs are being hidden under the rug, (or better yet in your tax return).
You must have done something wrong if your comment didn't get posted. Everything is posted, even flame comments.
Opera is argueable a robust and stable browser. However, in the face of IE and Mozilla providing a free browser WITHOUT annoying advertising embedded in it, I don't see much of a future for Opera. The new Mozilla browser also has a great leg up on the Opera browser too by not interfering with the operation of an existing installation of IE. That was a big netscape problem and is a major complaint of people who try the Opera browser. Ditch the forced ads and the interference problems with competeing platforms and they might survive.
NO real progress has been made in that area. The color failure rate is still pretty high. the typical failure is a pixel getting 'stuck' in the on or off position. Being that the display is more expensive to make than other available technologies, they probably won't be replaceable and will make the units, escentially, throw aways or disposables.
Production cost is one factor. It is still more expensive to manufacture these things. There are articles out there that claim otherwise, but they are simply wrong. Here is an Independent analysis of manufacturer who happens to make OLEDS. It is a good synopsis of what the real problem is there.
The other problem is that the operation life span of an OLED display is much shorter than other comparable display technologies. The link here is a really good PDF on OLED, what it really is and what advantagious and it's problems. (apologize of my spelling errors, I was too lazy to go back and correct them.)
I was going to bring this point up myself. What difference does it make what they put in them, if you can't buy them? They are not for sale in the US. Sony says they will address sales in the US again next year, but I don't see any reason why they would change their stance. Don't be counting on bein able to pick one of these babies up on US soil, ever.
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The sky is falling! Wolf Wolf! Read the article. It says that the popup blocker and the activex handler will not be included in the updates to other versions.
The ongoing security updates do not, as Microsoft points out, include the latest security fixes with Service Pack 2, released last month. Those include a new pop-up blocker and a new system of handling ActiveX controls and downloaded content.
I just seems to me that people here are really quick to piont out things that they think MS is doinf wrong and misleading people purposely to get them to hate Microsoft. Listen, I don't like a lot of microsoft software and I didin't get there by people telling me lies or half truths. I simply used the crap and became frustrated with it. You don't need to overstate the faults to win converts. The faults themselves are at times large enough to win people over without amplifying them. Don't lose community credibility by doing this kind of stuff. It only serves as fuel to the other side to show why this community can't be trusted either.
My neighbor tried to use an electric handmixer to make gravey over a hot stove. The cord caught on fire and when he tried to put it out he got electricuted. He read the recipe on the internet using Internet Explorer Browser. If it wasn't for MS, He would be alive today.
See you can tag everything back to MS if you fish hard enough. Next it will be earthquakes and hurricanes we tag blame on MS for.
Doesn't anyone see this as a bit silly to blame MS for an obvious blunder on not only their IT dept. but the morons in charge of maintenance and engineering? If you drive your car through the back of your garage, is it the car manufacturer's fault? How stupid would you look for trying to place the blame back that far?
lol, I thinks your rights! (maybe this will makes it.)
See that is where this whole notion goes horribly wrong. The ball at the end of the string is able to display is centripetal effects due to it have a mass in the presence of gravity. The two objects, you and the ball at the end of the string are tugging at each other because of gravity. That is not the case with a ball attached to a string attached to earth. Earth IS the gravitational generator, (at least to the best of our knowledge so far), and hanging anything out there in a synced orbit only falls back to earth and rather quickly. It doesn't gain some fictitious angular momentum unless it previous momentum was angular to begin with and we are talking about the object being synchronous with earth's spinning. The earth's spinning will not generate momentum in the object hung stationary above it. Einstein's own theories reflect this. There are some good theories as to how to make this work, but this is not one of them and the science behind it is simply bad.
I have to question the legitamacy of the company altogether. The write-ups are of an amateur nature. Verbage and use of the language is poor in many areas and I would question that any company looking to fund that large of a project would present it's foundation of material in this way to the public. Examples are in the FAQs answering questions such as if a ribbon breaks; "Honestly, it will make a little bit of a mess". and other things they say in describing the strenght of the ribbon; "3-5 times as strong as needed", what about correct english as in 3 to 5 times stronger than needed. Some of it seems written at a 5th or 6th grade english level. Certainly not collegiate level as you would expect. And the frank public statements regarding liability would shun and serious potential investor in the group. Of course you can always send in your paypal donation. I see they did take the time and effort to get the 'take your money' part of the website right. Careful here, you might have been scammed.
Yea that happens a lot. Stuff I submit frequently ends up as an article later in the day or in the following weeks. Of course submitted by someone else, whilst mine is rejected. Their's usually has included misspellings, where I spellcheck. I keep good references in the body, they usually don't, and yet somehow, my articles are ALWAYS rejected. Can't figure it out myself. I just gave up after awhile.
I don't think you will find any party putting up a fight over air the ads. If they did anything like that, they would look pretty foolish. It would only serve to draw attention to what they didn't want you to see or better yet cause people to think that they really had something bad to hide. Free use or not, nobody is going to stop them.
What is your companies name and address. We need to send a group of auditors to your facility to make sure none of the federal funds are 'leaking' into research where funding is specifically banned. By the way we will have to close your entire facility during the investigation. We are not stating anything wrong was done, we just need a year or so to be sure that you are working properly.
Yours Truely
Republican National Committee
P.S. The White House is ours! Keep your grubby democratic mitts off our stuff!
Yea, but they were written in 1983 in an Arial font that didn't exist at the time. And the date was centered at the top of the memo suggesting someone either spent 5 days manually centering the date or it is a fake. So there! The processor's service record IS clean!
Ya, I remember seeing that memo a few years ago. They said we were going to adopt that policy and use 'sister' companies for policing it. I think, if I recall right, oursister company at the time (Intel) was Enron. ;)
Results because of the funding issue. You have 1000 people working on adult stem cells for every 1 on embryonic. it's no a fair comparision to say, "see no reuslts there, we were right". That's like tiying someone's hands behind their back and then saying, "See I told you he couldn't hit the ball!"
I if suppose you have the luxury of economic freedom to begin with, you can force someone else to prove to you that is has to be profitable first. We are all Ferengi here. Furthermore since when does capitalism display dignity and display wisdom? The forced economic classes that it creates can only be called dignifying to the rich and the quickly shrinking remnants of the middle class. It certainly is not for the poor. Where is there any wisdom displayed in an economic process that forces an entire class of people to live out their lives scraping enough money together to put food in their children's mouths?
If that is dignity and wisdom, I am all for shredding it!
You make a good point. Do I really want the governemtn to determine whether the disease my brother is dying from worthy of research or not? Then again have the drug companies shown me that they can be trusted to provide me with a cost effective solution to my health problems? I am not sure where the balance needs to be, but it is clear that we don't have ANY balance right now.
Aids research has been going on longer than that. Perhaps we should stop that too, it MUST be a lost cause then. CAncer research has obviously been a complete waste of time according to your theory. Come on that is simply idiotic.
Secondly, I would expect there to be more results from a fully funded parallel research as opposed to one that is nearly completely choked off. That's simply commonsense.
It's a french article, what do you expect? WE all know you can't write stable code in a language like 'French'. I expect that a french version of windows would crash more often. Maybe if they learn to speak a real language, they will get better results.
_Let the facts speak for themselves!
(This should stir the pot, even if it is meant in good fun!)(No real offense meant here, just showing how you can interpret things in a fashion to beat up anyone you want to, BUT IT MUST BE MS's FAULT!)
You go to any government funded Counselling clinic for drugs or alcohol and tell them you drink any amount of alcohol everyday. You will be flagged as an alcoholic or a person with a drinking problem quicker than you can blink. DUI's and offenses that involve drink make up 30 percent or greater of the arrests in this country. The police like nothing more that to here that you had a drink when they come to visit you. That sign, seals and delivers a guilty verdict in front of a judge nearly every time. The official rate of conviction in most alcohol related 'crimes' is above 97%.
The point is that medically it is deemed as a good thing. Socially it is accepted. But the moral minority in this country (USA) wrote the laws and has made it offensive and the ultimate leverage to remove your ability to defend yourself. Try it sometime. Don't like your neighbor? Next time you see him drink a beer, call the police and say that he took a swing at you. They won't belive him no matter how much he tries to deny it. He will go to jail, and the judge will never believe him because the police will say the smelled alcohol. He will be sentence to some sort of counselling and be labeled a problem drinker. Just watch your back when he comes after you with his 9mm.
Now I can beat the crap out of little Jimmy anytime I want too! He can't hide from me anymore. I wonder how well that RFID tag will work after I stuff him in his locker?
Don't worry the above is satire. But it is likely to be used for that sooner or later. The problem with restricting the privacy of the lawabiding people to stop bad things from happening is that the people who want to do the bad things don't give a crap. They will either find a way around it or find a way to use it against you. Meanwhile, you, as a law abiding citizens had more rights removed from you and lost more privacy. All to stop the bad people who are still going to do it to you anyways.
Don't get me wrong here. For kids and stuff, It could be a great tool. I don't think it will stop kidnapping at all whereas the tag can simply be removed, disabled or altered. If someone wants to defeat it, they are going to be able to. It's not going to stop crime. It can however be used for a number of things to help us from day to day. We just have to be aware of those that will try to use this to curtail our freedoms in the mean time.
The fact that you missed in the funding ban is that if a research lab pursues embryonic stem cell research, they will lose ALL of their funding in ALL of their areas of research. The Bush administration has made it clear that they do not want to be tie to this in any way. Nearly every major research firm in America recieves federal funds to aid their research in one fashion or another. They are not going to pursue private funding for research in this area and risk losing all of their funding in others. It is a scare tactic used by the government to stop the research and it works pretty effectively.
Here Apparently you haven't ever used the free version of their browser. The ads cannot be turned off. I am proponent of not paying for somehing I can get for free, (Not steal, just free). I guess that leaves me with the Mozilla or IE browsers. I don't have to pay and I am not force fed advertising.
What the article fails to take into account is the startup cost. If those costs are added into the project and spread out over the lifespan of the equipment available today, it is still cheaper to use fossil fuels. The overhead in this case was payed for with tax dollars and is cheaper right now because of subsidies provided by tax dollars. So the real cost of this power is still higher than your regular dirty power. The real costs are being hidden under the rug, (or better yet in your tax return).
You must have done something wrong if your comment didn't get posted. Everything is posted, even flame comments.
Opera is argueable a robust and stable browser. However, in the face of IE and Mozilla providing a free browser WITHOUT annoying advertising embedded in it, I don't see much of a future for Opera. The new Mozilla browser also has a great leg up on the Opera browser too by not interfering with the operation of an existing installation of IE. That was a big netscape problem and is a major complaint of people who try the Opera browser. Ditch the forced ads and the interference problems with competeing platforms and they might survive.
NO real progress has been made in that area. The color failure rate is still pretty high. the typical failure is a pixel getting 'stuck' in the on or off position. Being that the display is more expensive to make than other available technologies, they probably won't be replaceable and will make the units, escentially, throw aways or disposables.
See my other comment for details and supporting links.
Production cost is one factor. It is still more expensive to manufacture these things. There are articles out there that claim otherwise, but they are simply wrong. Here is an Independent analysis of manufacturer who happens to make OLEDS. It is a good synopsis of what the real problem is there.
The other problem is that the operation life span of an OLED display is much shorter than other comparable display technologies. The link here is a really good PDF on OLED, what it really is and what advantagious and it's problems. (apologize of my spelling errors, I was too lazy to go back and correct them.)
Yes they did play a big part in the development of OLED technology.
Kodak OLED Research
I was going to bring this point up myself. What difference does it make what they put in them, if you can't buy them? They are not for sale in the US. Sony says they will address sales in the US again next year, but I don't see any reason why they would change their stance. Don't be counting on bein able to pick one of these babies up on US soil, ever.