It sounds like you just got a new hobby, your car. So whats the point of your comment? Not everyone decides to play with cars instead of games when they hit 23, its not some rule which explains the findings.
I do dev work in front of a computer all day for my job, and have things like housework, girlfriends, watching tv etc to try and fit into a few hours after work, what I otherwise had all day to do. Theres a lot more women out there without professional careers, or whos job consists of answering the phone, and playing solitaire the rest of the time. I think that explains the findings a lot better, in facts its a bit 'duh'.
It might take you 5 minutes to burn a 700MB CD, but how long does it take to burn 500 or so, and how much would that cost you? How would the storage of 500 CDs affect you? How long and how much would it cost for 1x CDs and drives back 8 years or so ago?
Your comparison to a 700MB CD is totally pointless.
How much did your 2400 cost "a few years" ago though? The only reason it has stood the test of time is because you bought the top of the range a few years ago. If you had bought mid range a few years ago, youd be sitting on something which would have no chance of running a modern OS and games adequately.
Buying support pays for the support staff. What pays for the software developers? If the purchasing of the support is enough to fund your developers, chances are you have very few developers, or a lot working for free out of their parents pockets. Which is pretty much the case for OSS projects big and small. It doesn't scale at all and results in pretty dodgy development. Development (proper development, not quick hacks done by joe in his basement) is extremely slow and poor like this - it will never be able to compete with its commercial counterpart for most projects. (note that is most, not all).
Would you defend the right to play of someone who didn't have electricity
If they originally could play the game without electricity, then yes. Its maybe like paying a years subscription to a chess club on the basis of being able to use an ordinary chess set, then having them mid year demand you start using an electric chess set you cant afford or can't use. You should at least be able to get your money back.
Except this time around many more people have 'always on' broadband connections, much faster computers, a wider selection of rss feeds, IE7 with rss feeds support built in, broader selection and more practical streamable media, exposure to 'everything on the net' by google and the ilk etc. There will be quite a difference me thinks.
That screws up your ratio because others are downloading with your account info. You can very quickly find yourself below the enforced limit if you don't disable DHT
This sounds like a broken protocol rather than a broken client. Being able to use someone elses account info? The security shouldnt be implemented client-side, thats stupid.
Isnt it sad though that this plugin is so popular given what most people actually use it for? Wouldn't a better solution be to have Firefox simply not crash or not chew up so much memory. I think its laughable that in the same thread about how great Firefox is, there are always people suggesting this plugin and how useful it is. Surely when considering its usefulness and widespread use you should be thinking about the faults of the browser, and not how great this plugin is.
Other browsers dont have this plugin, because they don't need it. I can use Maxthon day in day out with very very few crashes, and no unusual amounts of memory used. It has inbuilt tabs restore on restart if you want it.
How about media library, or meta data viewer, or meta library or google desktop search or something like that. Type Manager? It doesnt manage types, it manages files which just happen to have a type. They also have a date stamp, but you dont go around calling it a 'date manager'. In fact, the point of many of these apps is so you can *ignore* the type, and work and find the file based on its meta data - it can bring files of all different types and lets you group them using common themes, while ignoring their type. Bogus.. Article..
Yes a car definetly has the advantage in the corners. Four wheels vs two gives greater surface area on the road and more traction. Its very easy to overcook the corner on a bike and wind up in the gravel - Ive done it several times myself. On a push bike you may feel like youre flying through a corner, but your real speed probably isn't that high. In contrast to a motorbike where you have a reading of your speed and are travelling at the same speed as the rest of the traffic, you notice a lot more the need to slow down for a tight corner.
That show is hardly scientific. They create more myths than they 'bust'. Its sad that so many people think their methods are scientific just because they use the occasional big word.
Nice.... the main article now links to the goatse man. Some guy playing with his redirecting no doubt. Mind you, it does kinda look like some flesh eating virus/plant thing. Great for work.
I think one of the major reasons for Google to be doing this is to detect sites that have simply scanned in dozens of books and presetn the content as their own along side ads, to make quite a fair bit of money. There are many sites out there that do this. Google already detects duplicate content across web sites (ie sites that scrape others), but its a bit difficult when the content has been 'scraped' from a book.
I should at least point out your misunderstanding of security in the context of a VM : Its not just about how secure your apps are that are developed for the given VM, more importantly, its about whether you can run arbitrary apps written by other people in a sandboxed environment and not have them 'escape'.
So "most likely as secure as Your application" isn't much of an argument.
VS has addins, and plenty of them (look at compuware, wholetomato, http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/extend/) . You can easily write your own too. Any that are missing is probably more to do with the fact the IDE already has tons of functionality.
MS has also released a runtime and compiler for BSD, with source. Theres also mono. Plus most likely 64bit versions. Plus its fairly new, and with Microsofts backing and funding, theres likely to be more ports to come.
Its true COM has its faults, and MS recognise these and are improving on it for.NET. COM will certainly still exist though - just think about all the cut-n-paste/drag and drop stuff in existing apps - throwing it out would make these apps lose this funcionality.
Anyway, this just makes the case of Linux even more pathetic - Not only do they not have COM or anything similar, but by the time they do it will already be obsolete.
Its true Gnome has some rough attempt at it - but its not pervasive - which goes against one of the best features of COM, in that its so pervasive throughout windows. Its not something that should be handled by a window manager, it should be integrated into the OS. Its the reason why OLE, the clipboard, drag and drop, context menus etc work so well under windows compared to other OSes. And will continue to - nothing can be done to Linux to make the plethora of existing apps magically support COM and these benefits. just my 2c.
Until Linux gets a pervasive implementation of COM, I will not be switching anytime soon. It is used in Windows for just about everything, form OLE to shell extensions, clipboard management, component re-use, app automation etc. and for good reason. It is a great technology, and something that is completely missing under Unix/Linux - and I can't see it coming anytime soon due ot it being a standard, and a long standing one at that. Something an existing OS can't just pick up at a later date.
err no. Try searching for "cazino" (with the "z"). Plenty of gambling ads there.
Google prevents advertisers targetting gambling related keywords as per their TOS - so advertisers just target slight variations or mispellings that aren't caught by googles filter.
But when you do a search for "SendMessage" or whatever API, when there is only one match, it opens that match. When there is more than one match, it shows the search results which you then have to click. With the Win CE documentation included, there are effectively two results for every core windows API function - which means extra hurdles to jump through everytime you want to look up an API function. (ie you have to search then click the results, rather than just search. Plus the native windows version is much better as far as doco is concerned, and often has examples, headers to use,.libs to include etc - which is different for CE)
I agree entirely with this sentiment about WinCE. You can use filters in MSDN to get rid of it, but its damn near impossible to do it properly. They tried to fix it with the lateset release of MSDN library (on disc Im talking about) by having a 'Desktop and Server OS' filter, but unfortuantly it also filters all the Web stuff and scripting etc which is annoying. Every search requires twice as much effort thanks to WinCE documentation.
The low rights stuff is pretty impressive, actually. Basically they are running the browser with prviliges that only allow it to access the temporary cache for writing and many other limitations. This will increase security a lot.
Regardless of whether there has been or will be vulnerabilites in the browser, this will do a lot to help mitigate anything that may crop up. And will let you lock down the browser to prevent your mum and dad installing random crap from the net etc. Any browser would benefit from such a feature - it has nothing to do with previous poor design decisions. A vulnerability in Firefox would allow the process to write and delete stuff from disk, and run code etc. If its running as admin, the problem is a lot worse IMHO it is necessary at the browser level - because you are effectively running code/HTML from remote servers on your local machine - and you want to lock this down as much as possible.
I for one, would hope the government *doesn't* do this. 99% of Linux users have a copy of Windows lying around, and a fair chunk of those users probably use Windows most of the time. Linux isn't a deskop OS, you can't expect organisations to write desktop software for it.
Wah wah wah... it won't run on my PS2 either, Im going to have a bitch and post on slashdot..
Seeing as its my taxes that would wind up paying for this, I sincerly hope they dont spend thousands of my taxes to satisfy all of 5 users that would actually use it. Grab the paper forms man, this program is provided as a convenience to the 99% of people that run a desktop OS.
Itd be great to be able to place your own flags like in keyhole, so you can label a spot and pass the link to friends. (you can however doubleclick a spot and press 'link to this page' to get a link which always centers on that spot).
Here, someone has had a go at Bob the Builder, and you can see his body:
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It sounds like you just got a new hobby, your car. So whats the point of your comment? Not everyone decides to play with cars instead of games when they hit 23, its not some rule which explains the findings.
I do dev work in front of a computer all day for my job, and have things like housework, girlfriends, watching tv etc to try and fit into a few hours after work, what I otherwise had all day to do. Theres a lot more women out there without professional careers, or whos job consists of answering the phone, and playing solitaire the rest of the time. I think that explains the findings a lot better, in facts its a bit 'duh'.
This appears to be yet another missing link
uhm, 300GB != 700MB
It might take you 5 minutes to burn a 700MB CD, but how long does it take to burn 500 or so, and how much would that cost you? How would the storage of 500 CDs affect you? How long and how much would it cost for 1x CDs and drives back 8 years or so ago?
Your comparison to a 700MB CD is totally pointless.
Who ever heard of this anyway? Suing a company because their coffee is too hot? Coffee is supposed to be hot.
Yeah, but Jackie says the top was faulty
ref: seinfeld.
How much did your 2400 cost "a few years" ago though? The only reason it has stood the test of time is because you bought the top of the range a few years ago. If you had bought mid range a few years ago, youd be sitting on something which would have no chance of running a modern OS and games adequately.
Buying support pays for the support staff. What pays for the software developers? If the purchasing of the support is enough to fund your developers, chances are you have very few developers, or a lot working for free out of their parents pockets. Which is pretty much the case for OSS projects big and small. It doesn't scale at all and results in pretty dodgy development. Development (proper development, not quick hacks done by joe in his basement) is extremely slow and poor like this - it will never be able to compete with its commercial counterpart for most projects. (note that is most, not all).
Would you defend the right to play of someone who didn't have electricity
If they originally could play the game without electricity, then yes. Its maybe like paying a years subscription to a chess club on the basis of being able to use an ordinary chess set, then having them mid year demand you start using an electric chess set you cant afford or can't use. You should at least be able to get your money back.
Except this time around many more people have 'always on' broadband connections, much faster computers, a wider selection of rss feeds, IE7 with rss feeds support built in, broader selection and more practical streamable media, exposure to 'everything on the net' by google and the ilk etc. There will be quite a difference me thinks.
That screws up your ratio because others are downloading with your account info. You can very quickly find yourself below the enforced limit if you don't disable DHT
This sounds like a broken protocol rather than a broken client. Being able to use someone elses account info? The security shouldnt be implemented client-side, thats stupid.
Isnt it sad though that this plugin is so popular given what most people actually use it for? Wouldn't a better solution be to have Firefox simply not crash or not chew up so much memory. I think its laughable that in the same thread about how great Firefox is, there are always people suggesting this plugin and how useful it is. Surely when considering its usefulness and widespread use you should be thinking about the faults of the browser, and not how great this plugin is.
Other browsers dont have this plugin, because they don't need it. I can use Maxthon day in day out with very very few crashes, and no unusual amounts of memory used. It has inbuilt tabs restore on restart if you want it.
How about media library, or meta data viewer, or meta library or google desktop search or something like that. Type Manager? It doesnt manage types, it manages files which just happen to have a type. They also have a date stamp, but you dont go around calling it a 'date manager'. In fact, the point of many of these apps is so you can *ignore* the type, and work and find the file based on its meta data - it can bring files of all different types and lets you group them using common themes, while ignoring their type. Bogus.. Article..
Yes a car definetly has the advantage in the corners. Four wheels vs two gives greater surface area on the road and more traction. Its very easy to overcook the corner on a bike and wind up in the gravel - Ive done it several times myself. On a push bike you may feel like youre flying through a corner, but your real speed probably isn't that high. In contrast to a motorbike where you have a reading of your speed and are travelling at the same speed as the rest of the traffic, you notice a lot more the need to slow down for a tight corner.
That show is hardly scientific. They create more myths than they 'bust'. Its sad that so many people think their methods are scientific just because they use the occasional big word.
Nice.... the main article now links to the goatse man. Some guy playing with his redirecting no doubt. Mind you, it does kinda look like some flesh eating virus/plant thing. Great for work.
I think one of the major reasons for Google to be doing this is to detect sites that have simply scanned in dozens of books and presetn the content as their own along side ads, to make quite a fair bit of money. There are many sites out there that do this. Google already detects duplicate content across web sites (ie sites that scrape others), but its a bit difficult when the content has been 'scraped' from a book.
Heard of COM?
All your arguments are pretty much wrong.
I should at least point out your misunderstanding of security in the context of a VM : Its not just about how secure your apps are that are developed for the given VM, more importantly, its about whether you can run arbitrary apps written by other people in a sandboxed environment and not have them 'escape'.
So "most likely as secure as Your application" isn't much of an argument.
VS has addins, and plenty of them (look at compuware, wholetomato, http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/extend/) . You can easily write your own too. Any that are missing is probably more to do with the fact the IDE already has tons of functionality.
MS has also released a runtime and compiler for BSD, with source. Theres also mono. Plus most likely 64bit versions. Plus its fairly new, and with Microsofts backing and funding, theres likely to be more ports to come.
Its true COM has its faults, and MS recognise these and are improving on it for .NET. COM will certainly still exist though - just think about all the cut-n-paste/drag and drop stuff in existing apps - throwing it out would make these apps lose this funcionality.
Anyway, this just makes the case of Linux even more pathetic - Not only do they not have COM or anything similar, but by the time they do it will already be obsolete.
Its true Gnome has some rough attempt at it - but its not pervasive - which goes against one of the best features of COM, in that its so pervasive throughout windows. Its not something that should be handled by a window manager, it should be integrated into the OS. Its the reason why OLE, the clipboard, drag and drop, context menus etc work so well under windows compared to other OSes. And will continue to - nothing can be done to Linux to make the plethora of existing apps magically support COM and these benefits. just my 2c.
Until Linux gets a pervasive implementation of COM, I will not be switching anytime soon. It is used in Windows for just about everything, form OLE to shell extensions, clipboard management, component re-use, app automation etc. and for good reason. It is a great technology, and something that is completely missing under Unix/Linux - and I can't see it coming anytime soon due ot it being a standard, and a long standing one at that. Something an existing OS can't just pick up at a later date.
err no. Try searching for "cazino" (with the "z"). Plenty of gambling ads there.
Google prevents advertisers targetting gambling related keywords as per their TOS - so advertisers just target slight variations or mispellings that aren't caught by googles filter.
That is the complaint.
But when you do a search for "SendMessage" or whatever API, when there is only one match, it opens that match. When there is more than one match, it shows the search results which you then have to click. With the Win CE documentation included, there are effectively two results for every core windows API function - which means extra hurdles to jump through everytime you want to look up an API function. (ie you have to search then click the results, rather than just search. Plus the native windows version is much better as far as doco is concerned, and often has examples, headers to use, .libs to include etc - which is different for CE)
I agree entirely with this sentiment about WinCE. You can use filters in MSDN to get rid of it, but its damn near impossible to do it properly. They tried to fix it with the lateset release of MSDN library (on disc Im talking about) by having a 'Desktop and Server OS' filter, but unfortuantly it also filters all the Web stuff and scripting etc which is annoying. Every search requires twice as much effort thanks to WinCE documentation.
The low rights stuff is pretty impressive, actually. Basically they are running the browser with prviliges that only allow it to access the temporary cache for writing and many other limitations. This will increase security a lot.
Regardless of whether there has been or will be vulnerabilites in the browser, this will do a lot to help mitigate anything that may crop up. And will let you lock down the browser to prevent your mum and dad installing random crap from the net etc. Any browser would benefit from such a feature - it has nothing to do with previous poor design decisions. A vulnerability in Firefox would allow the process to write and delete stuff from disk, and run code etc. If its running as admin, the problem is a lot worse IMHO it is necessary at the browser level - because you are effectively running code/HTML from remote servers on your local machine - and you want to lock this down as much as possible.
I for one, would hope the government *doesn't* do this. 99% of Linux users have a copy of Windows lying around, and a fair chunk of those users probably use Windows most of the time. Linux isn't a deskop OS, you can't expect organisations to write desktop software for it.
Wah wah wah... it won't run on my PS2 either, Im going to have a bitch and post on slashdot..
Seeing as its my taxes that would wind up paying for this, I sincerly hope they dont spend thousands of my taxes to satisfy all of 5 users that would actually use it. Grab the paper forms man, this program is provided as a convenience to the 99% of people that run a desktop OS.
Itd be great to be able to place your own flags like in keyhole, so you can label a spot and pass the link to friends. (you can however doubleclick a spot and press 'link to this page' to get a link which always centers on that spot).
l l=-27.967898,153.416884&spn=0.008175,0.010461&t=k& hl=en
Here, someone has had a go at Bob the Builder, and you can see his body:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=brisbane+australia&