No. It was because users were too dumb to give it a chance and did not even try it. But... you know.. they vote bush, they believe in religions, they use internet explorer and aol... what did you expect?:(
...creating a good worm that spreads like mad and automatically patches every "infected" pc with all patches avaliable for his os and software, so that it's always perfectly up to date. this would instantly fix most problems with viri and evil worms.
of course i would recommend adding a plugin for it that also kills the IE and replaces it by firefox. or it even kills windows at all and completely replaces it by linux. i guess the normal user would not even see the difference when some of those lame windows-imitating windows manager themes would be used.;))
> If one assumes the wrong things and gets an answer that doesn't fit the observations, perhaps its time to change the assumptions, not add unseen dark matter, epicycles, etc.
Damn, this is exactly what i wanted to say. You just wrote it with much better words.:) So you got 5, insightful, and i possibly only get 2, funny.:\
Everytime i heard about the whole dark matter / dark energy concept, i just felt as if it were some poor escape. Not that i don't accept that you have to have strange theories to get ahead, but it was like:
"No. Our theories aren't wrong. And our formulas are perfectly right! What? The results are differing strongly from the measured reality? Well then let's invent something new... And let's call it *dark* matter... It's the dark side of everything! Woooohh... gives you a creepy starwars feeling... And *tadaaa*: as i said, our formulas are perfect!";)
That finally someone could prove that dark matter is as useless as luminiferous aether is wonderful news for me.:)
> Anyone remember that retarded "rotary dial" interface on the 3650?
Hey, i have exactly this phone, and for me the "rotary dial" totally rocks! I would never exchange it against a "normal" layout! It's hard to explain, but it simply feels better to type with it.
Sure... you could make it better. But it's a good idea to start with. And isn't it better to innovate, than to reuse a design that is unchanged for, what, 50+ years now?
You know what i always have to think when i read/hear comments like yours? "Prejudices". Because I bet you never used it , you just played with it for some minutes, and then you're bitching against it for the rest of the time. Come on, say that I'm right!;)
This does not mean that i thnk nokia are the greatest of all. My next phone will be a japanese import of a samsung. One of those crazy things that are 5 years ahead of nokia.;)
Why does it come that in "medium quality" this thing looks better than an SVCD in full screen?? On a 2048 kb/s DSL line? Impressing! With a java app? Would be even more impressing, if it would not use some lame dll that my firewall warns me about*. Does anyone know the internal format?
Btw: Space is pause. In case you have to go to the toilet.;)
* I have the Agnitum Outpost firewall. Prety sure the best windows FW out there.:)
This thing is mainly java, but it uses the C++-interface to call a library (a DLL for windows). My firewall warned me about this. It told me that firefox wants to use some dll with a strange name from the temp directory. I said yes, because of some dumb moment.;) But actually: Don't try this at home!!;)
The other thing is that it's an applet of the Java 2 Standard Edition. And i doubt your java-enabled phone has anything better than Java 2 Micro Edition with the MIDP 2 profile. (If it's not some palm- or windows-ce device, it will most certanly not have full SE). End even if the applet can start, it does not know this mini-os and can't select the right os-specific library. So it will die in error.;)
So much for that. Hope i could explain the intrnals a bit and did not make some stupid error.;)
Function VBGetSwfVer(i)
on error resume next
Dim swControl, swVersion
swVersion = 0
set swControl = CreateObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash." + CStr(i))
if (IsObject(swControl)) then
swVersion = swControl.GetVariable("$version")
end if
VBGetSwfVer = swVersion End Function
The question here is: Why does it actually *work* in Firefox?? I thought i disables windows scripting host, and firefox does only true javascript...
"If you think about it, it would mean having access to your office documents from any browser,"
And if you think about it some more, it would mean that anyone other could also have access to your (and everyone else on the server 's) office documents...
There still is one thing i miss: A *reason* why it's better to have an interpreted office suite than one written in plain C++? Is is the 99% overhead of XML? The 90% overhead of JavaScript? The ton of possibly insecure attack points? Or even the incompatible slow and buggy inflexibility of browsers? Or just "because we can"?
Then why don't we build an operating system on top of javascript that can run xml-"binaries" and run Java applets in the AJAX-JVM of its built-in firefox, to create the coolest virtual integrated rapid environement for blog writing (VI RapE-BloW)?
Sounds like the style of those "Inteeligent Design"-extremists.
They always rely on the fact that "normal poeple" (aka brainless retards) blindly accept or deny something they don't understand, based on some primitive false assumption.
Yeah. Like in the guy in "Hyperion that was only able to say 7 words (5 of 'em were words for genitals and maledictions) who had help to terraforming a planet by removing stuff like sulphur in parched riverbeds with a shovel.;)
... in the 90s we nearly esxlusively watched "hollywood blockbusters", except for some old easterns.
But now most of my friends love the fresh wind in the "all-repeating typical american heroism" (quote of one of my friends), brought to us from asia and europe.
Some examples [unordered]: Everything by Stephen Chow (hongkong, got bellyache from laughing!!:) City of God (brasil*, real and great story) snatch & "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" (UK, by guy richie, also damn funny and totally crazy plots.:) In China They Eat Dogs 1 & 2 (denmark, also damn funny and strange style:) Ju-On 1 & 2 (japan, the true one, horror the way i love it) bang boom bang (germany, for insiders) Onk-Bak (thailand, top notch thai-boxing action;) some mad movie about some fiend's girl that got raped, where you see the story in reverse (not memento) (french) There are some more, but i don't rememer them right now.
I just hope someone in hollywood stops doing remakes of books, foreign movies, and old stuff for the third time and gets some new ideas... (i don't say that thre are none, but certanly there are not enough).
I also guess, the thing here is just that some years ago the hollywood industry forgot that movies actually are some form of *art*, wich imples that it's something creative.
* ask any brasilian. they *hate* it that their country gets called "brazil" all the time. so if you want to stay alive in the "city of god" don't write "brazil";))
Btw: My cooling system is from there, and they offer the greatest* support i ever had: Hed over to their forum, to have a chat with the designers and developers of all their stuff. Literally cool guys.;) (* The only support that comes close to it is the telephone support of terratec. those guys love their job and stuff too. I even had some laughs from their funny and good quality product manuals:)
They are your employees by the simpe fact that your nation chose an pay some poeple to do administrative tasks, and those poeple decided to pay other poeple to do this for investigations (FBI).
Now they messed it up damn hard.
And what happens in a company when you as an admin mess everything up driving your own boss (in this case the poeple of the usa) mad? You get fired with a kick in the ass!
Now you voted them again. So you obviously thought they did the best work and ther couldn't be anyone better.
In this case: DON'T COMPLAIN!
But if you did not vote them you still have two (similar) choices:
1. leave and found your own country. If you don't hurt anyone nobody will stop you. You could even only do a half-government like some little european countries smaller than luxemburg. (those countries did not have their own money, but still have mostly their own laws.)
2. trow out those poeple that you complain about, and let them found their own country of they want.
Seriously. I think a peaceful split would be the best that could happen to the usa. Mad neo-conservatives on the one side, and real americans on the other side.
Guess who will have the most poeple and weapons after the split? *ggg*
I have a very silent system here. My 500 PSU uses two 19db fans and barely gets away its own heat. it also heatens the case a bit. then the rest of my system is cooled by a water cycle and a convector cooler that is nearly the size of one of my case's side plates. additionally i have a 12" fan on a radiator that should only run when my pc gets too hot for the convector. And guess what: It runs non-stop.
Why? Because my old Radeom 9800XT that runs with a two-sided cooler and still has 67C right now while i'm writing this, and goes up to 72-75C in games like doom 3.
The conclusion is: You CAN'T cool a high-end-pc really silently!
I thought about taking a second convecor for the other side. But this would not double the cooling but only add some percents to it because of the cubic relationship of the cooling surface and the difference between air-temperature and water-temperature.
Now my case as a whole gets so hot from everything, that I can't even touch the hard disks without nearly burning my fingers. (7200rpm raid)
So the only solution for completely silent coolness is something like a real refrigerator with a real compressor, or alternatively some really huge convector in a cold room, beause i don't even need a radiator for heating the room: My pc heats it even when it's less than 0C outside.
If only i could put all this lost power in processing capacity...:(
> Those who download these torrents are unable to complete a full download, as the file transfer stops at approximately 97%-98%.
Damn... are there still poeple out there who don't get it??
DONT'T EVER download anything were the amount of incomplete downloads is big while there are only some or none complete ones. (it's the difference).
I can *guaratee* you that they are fakes, or at least that the complete ones are gone by the time you need those last parts.
In mldonkey you have a nice column in the search results called "complete sources". if it's less than 3, and it's not some kind of extremely rare thing, then: DON'T DOWNLOAD IT.
It's that simple.
And b.t.w.: If your favourite network does not support showing complete and incomplete sources in separate columns, then consider switching to another network.
here we have a great example: http://map24.com/ They once had everything in the applet, but moved the column on the left side out of it. Just try it out (use the java applet that opens when you search for a location or route).
And i must say i liked it.
Now all i have to ask is: Wich one will be quicker and use less bandwidth? Java or Javascript+XML?;)
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No. It was because users were too dumb to give it a chance and did not even try it. But... you know.. they vote bush, they believe in religions, they use internet explorer and aol... what did you expect? :(
...creating a good worm that spreads like mad and automatically patches every "infected" pc with all patches avaliable for his os and software, so that it's always perfectly up to date. this would instantly fix most problems with viri and evil worms.
;))
of course i would recommend adding a plugin for it that also kills the IE and replaces it by firefox.
or it even kills windows at all and completely replaces it by linux.
i guess the normal user would not even see the difference when some of those lame windows-imitating windows manager themes would be used.
> Keep the faith guys, from the ashes will rise a phoenix.
Dut before becoming a success it has to be renamed to firebird... errm... firefox... eeerm... firesomething... whatever...
> If one assumes the wrong things and gets an answer that doesn't fit the observations, perhaps its time to change the assumptions, not add unseen dark matter, epicycles, etc.
:) :\
:)
Damn, this is exactly what i wanted to say. You just wrote it with much better words.
So you got 5, insightful, and i possibly only get 2, funny.
Whatever. Thanks for spreading the thought!
Everytime i heard about the whole dark matter / dark energy concept, i just felt as if it were some poor escape.
;)
:)
Not that i don't accept that you have to have strange theories to get ahead, but it was like:
"No. Our theories aren't wrong. And our formulas are perfectly right!
What? The results are differing strongly from the measured reality?
Well then let's invent something new... And let's call it *dark* matter...
It's the dark side of everything! Woooohh... gives you a creepy starwars feeling...
And *tadaaa*: as i said, our formulas are perfect!"
That finally someone could prove that dark matter is as useless as luminiferous aether is wonderful news for me.
Hey, this is not offtopic. If you're unable to understand it, then STFU!
If that girl is your future president, then... ;)
1.2GB??? My JBuilder 2005 seldomly goes over 100MB! ;)
Maybe you're using the wrong RAD-software.
> Anyone remember that retarded "rotary dial" interface on the 3650?
;)
;)
Hey, i have exactly this phone, and for me the "rotary dial" totally rocks!
I would never exchange it against a "normal" layout!
It's hard to explain, but it simply feels better to type with it.
Sure... you could make it better. But it's a good idea to start with. And isn't it better to innovate, than to reuse a design that is unchanged for, what, 50+ years now?
You know what i always have to think when i read/hear comments like yours?
"Prejudices". Because I bet you never used it , you just played with it for some minutes, and then you're bitching against it for the rest of the time. Come on, say that I'm right!
This does not mean that i thnk nokia are the greatest of all. My next phone will be a japanese import of a samsung. One of those crazy things that are 5 years ahead of nokia.
Ever seen this? *g*
http://www.419eater.com/
Why does it come that in "medium quality" this thing looks better than an SVCD in full screen??
;)
:)
On a 2048 kb/s DSL line? Impressing!
With a java app? Would be even more impressing, if it would not use some lame dll that my firewall warns me about*.
Does anyone know the internal format?
Btw: Space is pause. In case you have to go to the toilet.
* I have the Agnitum Outpost firewall. Prety sure the best windows FW out there.
You don't know *that* much about java, do you? ;))
;) ;)
;)
;)
This thing is mainly java, but it uses the C++-interface to call a library (a DLL for windows). My firewall warned me about this. It told me that firefox wants to use some dll with a strange name from the temp directory. I said yes, because of some dumb moment.
But actually: Don't try this at home!!
The other thing is that it's an applet of the Java 2 Standard Edition. And i doubt your java-enabled phone has anything better than Java 2 Micro Edition with the MIDP 2 profile. (If it's not some palm- or windows-ce device, it will most certanly not have full SE).
End even if the applet can start, it does not know this mini-os and can't select the right os-specific library. So it will die in error.
So much for that. Hope i could explain the intrnals a bit and did not make some stupid error.
No only it uses a plugin, it also uses VBS.
http://video.google.com/jslib/misc.vbs contains:
Function VBGetSwfVer(i)
on error resume next
Dim swControl, swVersion
swVersion = 0
set swControl = CreateObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash." + CStr(i))
if (IsObject(swControl)) then
swVersion = swControl.GetVariable("$version")
end if
VBGetSwfVer = swVersion
End Function
The question here is: Why does it actually *work* in Firefox?? I thought i disables windows scripting host, and firefox does only true javascript...
Another example of saying the truth, and getting modded to flamebait for it.
great slashdot, great....
"If you think about it, it would mean having access to your office documents from any browser,"
And if you think about it some more, it would mean that anyone other could also have access to your (and everyone else on the server 's) office documents...
There still is one thing i miss: A *reason* why it's better to have an interpreted office suite than one written in plain C++?
Is is the 99% overhead of XML? The 90% overhead of JavaScript? The ton of possibly insecure attack points? Or even the incompatible slow and buggy inflexibility of browsers?
Or just "because we can"?
Then why don't we build an operating system on top of javascript that can run xml-"binaries" and run Java applets in the AJAX-JVM of its built-in firefox, to create the coolest virtual integrated rapid environement for blog writing (VI RapE-BloW)?
Sounds like the style of those "Inteeligent Design"-extremists.
They always rely on the fact that "normal poeple" (aka brainless retards) blindly accept or deny something they don't understand, based on some primitive false assumption.
Is this still the old-fashioned hard shading of doom 3?
Come on. Nowadays i expected multi-light soft shading on high res rigid bodies...
Dvd his what?
Or did you mean DVDs?
Yeah. Like in the guy in "Hyperion that was only able to say 7 words (5 of 'em were words for genitals and maledictions) who had help to terraforming a planet by removing stuff like sulphur in parched riverbeds with a shovel. ;)
... in the 90s we nearly esxlusively watched "hollywood blockbusters", except for some old easterns.
:) :) :) ;)
;))
But now most of my friends love the fresh wind in the "all-repeating typical american heroism" (quote of one of my friends), brought to us from asia and europe.
Some examples [unordered]:
Everything by Stephen Chow (hongkong, got bellyache from laughing!!
City of God (brasil*, real and great story)
snatch & "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" (UK, by guy richie, also damn funny and totally crazy plots.
In China They Eat Dogs 1 & 2 (denmark, also damn funny and strange style
Ju-On 1 & 2 (japan, the true one, horror the way i love it)
bang boom bang (germany, for insiders)
Onk-Bak (thailand, top notch thai-boxing action
some mad movie about some fiend's girl that got raped, where you see the story in reverse (not memento) (french)
There are some more, but i don't rememer them right now.
I just hope someone in hollywood stops doing remakes of books, foreign movies, and old stuff for the third time and gets some new ideas... (i don't say that thre are none, but certanly there are not enough).
I also guess, the thing here is just that some years ago the hollywood industry forgot that movies actually are some form of *art*, wich imples that it's something creative.
* ask any brasilian. they *hate* it that their country gets called "brazil" all the time. so if you want to stay alive in the "city of god" don't write "brazil"
You can buy this cooling towers since 2002 (if i remember it correctly):
m l?http://www.webshop-innovatek.de/0000009427113970 4/000000942713b3501/50142494350d4401b/501424943d0a 34647.html
;) :)
http://www.webshop-innovatek.de/assets/s2dmain.ht
Btw: My cooling system is from there, and they offer the greatest* support i ever had: Hed over to their forum, to have a chat with the designers and developers of all their stuff. Literally cool guys.
(* The only support that comes close to it is the telephone support of terratec. those guys love their job and stuff too. I even had some laughs from their funny and good quality product manuals
You - literally - own the FBI!
They are your employees by the simpe fact that your nation chose an pay some poeple to do administrative tasks, and those poeple decided to pay other poeple to do this for investigations (FBI).
Now they messed it up damn hard.
And what happens in a company when you as an admin mess everything up driving your own boss (in this case the poeple of the usa) mad?
You get fired with a kick in the ass!
Now you voted them again. So you obviously thought they did the best work and ther couldn't be anyone better.
In this case: DON'T COMPLAIN!
But if you did not vote them you still have two (similar) choices:
1. leave and found your own country. If you don't hurt anyone nobody will stop you. You could even only do a half-government like some little european countries smaller than luxemburg. (those countries did not have their own money, but still have mostly their own laws.)
2. trow out those poeple that you complain about, and let them found their own country of they want.
Seriously. I think a peaceful split would be the best that could happen to the usa. Mad neo-conservatives on the one side, and real americans on the other side.
Guess who will have the most poeple and weapons after the split? *ggg*
I have a very silent system here. My 500 PSU uses two 19db fans and barely gets away its own heat. it also heatens the case a bit.
:(
then the rest of my system is cooled by a water cycle and a convector cooler that is nearly the size of one of my case's side plates.
additionally i have a 12" fan on a radiator that should only run when my pc gets too hot for the convector.
And guess what: It runs non-stop.
Why? Because my old Radeom 9800XT that runs with a two-sided cooler and still has 67C right now while i'm writing this, and goes up to 72-75C in games like doom 3.
The conclusion is: You CAN'T cool a high-end-pc really silently!
I thought about taking a second convecor for the other side. But this would not double the cooling but only add some percents to it because of the cubic relationship of the cooling surface and the difference between air-temperature and water-temperature.
Now my case as a whole gets so hot from everything, that I can't even touch the hard disks without nearly burning my fingers. (7200rpm raid)
So the only solution for completely silent coolness is something like a real refrigerator with a real compressor, or alternatively some really huge convector in a cold room, beause i don't even need a radiator for heating the room: My pc heats it even when it's less than 0C outside.
If only i could put all this lost power in processing capacity...
Lossless processors anyone...??
> Those who download these torrents are unable to complete a full download, as the file transfer stops at approximately 97%-98%.
Damn... are there still poeple out there who don't get it??
DONT'T EVER download anything were the amount of incomplete downloads is big while there are only some or none complete ones. (it's the difference).
I can *guaratee* you that they are fakes, or at least that the complete ones are gone by the time you need those last parts.
In mldonkey you have a nice column in the search results called "complete sources". if it's less than 3, and it's not some kind of extremely rare thing, then: DON'T DOWNLOAD IT.
It's that simple.
And b.t.w.: If your favourite network does not support showing complete and incomplete sources in separate columns, then consider switching to another network.
here we have a great example: http://map24.com/
;)
They once had everything in the applet, but moved the column on the left side out of it.
Just try it out (use the java applet that opens when you search for a location or route).
And i must say i liked it.
Now all i have to ask is: Wich one will be quicker and use less bandwidth? Java or Javascript+XML?