I behave differently at red lights because I hate when people play music I don't like real loud at red lights. I do blare out NOT in the middle of nowhere because there are plenty of times when people blast music flying past my house and it doesn't bother me at all because it only lasts an instant.
If I must suffer an instant for someone else to enjoy a few songs, thats fine.
You would think that when designing a device who's primary function is to play a randomized list of songs that the engineers might have thought to make sure the random feature worked?
Algo optimizations have far better gains than simple ASM level optimizations. When coding (expecially for modern computers), programers should just do whatever is clearer. Focus on readability of code and optimizing algos. You will find A) you probably don't have a performance problem anyway and B) such a simple optimization won't yield noticable gains.
Popup blockers are becoming standard issue. As a result, circumventing popup blockers is primarily to get to those people who could have been sucked in by a pop-up ad had they not run Windows Update and gotten SP2 auto installed.
Secondly, it might be the advertising services or the pages that host these ads that are trying to bypass blockers. The advertisers probably realize that people who go out of their way to block ads won't every buy anything, but many sites with ads or web ad providers just care about the impression count, not their click through rate.
> Sorry, but when a single title causes your system to significantly increase profits, > it really makes me wonder what the system is really being propped up on. > Knock Halo out of the equation and honestly, what is XBox left with?
Next time you buy a multi-platform game, check the reviews. IGN and Gamespot (I think) both comment on which platform the game is "best on". XBOX wins almost every time.
XBox Live is increadable. Nothing compares. Rarely, if ever, any lag. Voice comm and match making.
A slew of other great exclusive titles: http://www.in5ane.com/platform/Xbox/exclu sive (granted a lot of these are ported PC->XBOX or XBOX->PC, they are great for people who can't afford a high end desktop or with live support)
The PS2 is an increadable platform with increadable games (many of which exclusive to PS2), but the XBOX is just superior in just about every way except for sheer quantity of games.
I personally greatly dislike tabbed browsing. I have tabs...on my task bar.
I could never detect a speed difference between IE or Firefox. IE crashes on me once a month at most. I've used Firefox 1.0 maybe a dosen times for it's one useful feature, is its superior javascript debugger. In those dosen times, I have had it crash on me three times.
Since SP2, I have managed to avoid spyware completely without any additional effort.
As for standards compliance, what good is standard compliance when web pages fail to shine on broken code: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10 /19/023 6213&tid=113
As for the claims of "undocumented APIs" I defy anyone to find these APIs. You can explore the externed interface of a DLL. Go ahead, find this stash of undocumented APIs.
I use IE because it works with the most pages without giving me spyware, and apparently it's faster. I have Firefox around because it is growing in popularity and I do a little bit of web development.
Photos on ID = good thing Anti-counterfit measures = good thing except for college students, but the drinking age is another issue Machine readable support = convineance
OK so no the problem is linking the databases?? Well your state already has all your info, whats so bad about the other states having it as well?
Microsoft's mappoint.com works well. I prefer it over switchboard.com and mapquest.com because it offers the excellent "line drive" feature for driving directions
I am having some difficulty getting Google's to work (it just says "Loading..." and then there are javascript errors on the page), but I am sure it works great.
I don't think there is a direct relationship between bloat and slow-down.
Take Visual Studio.NET, the software I use most often, for example:
VS.net 2002 takes 30+ seconds to load where as VS.net 2003 does it in about 10 seconds. The 2005 beta takes less than 5 seconds...
(These times listed above exclude the extra cost of openning the first.NET application on a machine. I have a small.NET application that was oppen when I started the various VS.net instances)
The beta was probably compiled with lots of debugging info in it. I wouldn't be surpized if it was damn near instantanious to load come the final release.
What is it that really happens during that loading? How much pre-processing is really required to present an empty interface? I don't know, but clearly it's either optional or easily optimized. So, *cough* release schedule *cough* why wasn't optimized back in 2002?
Assemblies (.NET DLLs and EXEs) require special permission to run unsafe code. In the eyes of.NET, all unmanaged code or any use of pointers is considered unsafe. This includes every C/C++ application ever..NET's philosophy on security is clear: A.NET assembly is secure except by special request to use unsafe code. Over time, all assemblies should be completely void of unsafe code except for assemblies from trusted sources.
For example: The end user can grant unsafe permissions to the Microsoft Managed DirectX assemblies. Anyone could then use these assemblies without needing unsafe permissions. If you trust MS MDX to use unsafe code, and you trust the app you downloaded to use MS MDX, you don't need to give the app permission to use unsafe code.
Tell them that "click" means "left-click". If you want them to use their right mouse button you will specifically tell them to by saying "right-click".
`There are no games using "real-time radiosity," period. Radiosity (or more generally, global illumination), almost by definiton, is too slow for real-time.`
Not really...
There are discussions of real time GI in an engine by Yann L here: http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/top ic.asp? topic_id=172296
Unfortunatly, no one has seen that engine in action (other than a few scattered screen shots).
More recently, http://www.artificialstudios.com has gone live with their increadable (and really inexpensive) engine that sports `Precomputed Radiance Transfer (aka "Realtime Radiosity") support, allowing for Real-Time Subsurface Scattering and Soft Shadowing`
Really a large difference, but only a very subtle distinction for the average user.
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All of the new camera phones that I have seen produce a sound that can't be turned off for exactly the reason you stated. As I understand it, this is more a joint choice of several corperations rather than law.
...maybe it's because I am not ivyleauge material, but I will never understand these people.
"There's a classic videotape made at a Harvard University graduation a few years ago that illustrates exactly what I mean. In the opening scene, young graduates and faculty members still in their caps and gowns answer this question: Why is it warmer in the summer and colder in the winter? Twenty-two out of 25 of them got the answer wrong. Just as disturbing was how confidently and articulately the Harvard University grads, offered their incorrect explanations. They didn't recognize the contradiction between their typical explanation It's warmer in summer because the Earth is closer to the sun and their knowledge that when it's summer in Boston, it's winter in Sydney." source: http://www.luminet.net/~wenonah/new/rocketsc.htm I am a student at Drexel University. The school is located edge to edge with UPenn's. People often go there to party because they are rich and (IMHO) spoiled and everything is free at parties there. But Drexel kids always come back to our campus after drinking at the UPenn parties because the people here are way more fun to be with. There is just a tremendous gap in social and common sensical skills at many schools that make their graduates useless as employees.
"Seeing things like this get added to XP and things like WinFS taken out of LH, it's making it less and less attractive to ever upgrade to LH."
You are forgetting Aero. As I understand it, no one has ever seen Aero outside of Microsoft (and maybe nVidia and ATI). Supposibly it will be a complete revamp of the operating system's visual experiance. Avalon is just the engine that powers Aero. Aero will be unique to Longhorn (ie not on XP or Server 2k3). While I was really looking forward to WinFS, Aero is going to be what compels the average user to Longhorn.
Knoppix saved files from my friends::shudder:: WinME machine.
But if I remember correctly, this was a little over a year ago and I wasn't able to use this approach on an NTFS based system a few weeks later.
Has NTFS support improved? It would be critical for saving newer Windows boxes, even though I personally haven't had any serious issue with XP yet.
I burnt a copy of Knoppix for that simple home NTFS user who just wanted to surf the web and check webmail. They used that and just ignored their important files until I was able to fix their windows installation. After I showed them where the browser was, they no problem doing what they needed to do. Knoppix is damn cool.
Maybe articles/sections could have dedicated moderators?
Moderators would be interviewed by the moderator of the parent section. All changes made would be reviewed by a moderator. If a moderator fails to approve/deney a particular change in a particular time period, the parent moderator would receive a forward of the change request. The parent moderator of that section could then decide if a new moderator should be instated.
Users could vote on the accuracy and usefulness of sections/articles. Problem areas could easily be statistically identified and fixed. Failure to fix a section could result in the appointment of a new moderator.
Unmoderated sections/articles would be clearly identified for credability purposes. Users could even have the option of showing unapproved changes, unmoderated articles, or poorly scored articles.
No reported vulnerabilities at all with IE 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158 nor with Firefox 1.0PR, but I must say Firefox popped up two new windows and prompted me to open about a half dosen files. IE openned only one new window popup, didn't request to open any files, but did launch windows media player 10 (which simply reported an error) and openned a javascript file with Dreamweaver.
I would say that both are equally secure according to this test. Firefox only really has one up on IE in that Firefox prompts for confirmation when IE just openned the media file and javascript file.
I dunno what makes me special, but as far as I know, I am still spyware and other malware free even though I use IE. Until I experiance an issue, I will use IE. I don't see the usefulness of tabbed browsing (isn't the task bar like tabs?), nor have I noticed a speed difference between Firefox and IE. I have noticed that Firefox fails to render some pages (who's fault that is, I care not) and 1.0 even crashed on me twice in the short period of time I have used it. IE crashes on me once a month as a generous estimate.
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"....um actually... I'm not dead yet"
"well then you shall not have been mortally wounded in vain"
"um, actually I think I might pull through..."
I behave differently at red lights because I hate when people play music I don't like real loud at red lights. I do blare out NOT in the middle of nowhere because there are plenty of times when people blast music flying past my house and it doesn't bother me at all because it only lasts an instant.
If I must suffer an instant for someone else to enjoy a few songs, thats fine.
"I guess it's the same people that blare their radio in the car with the windows rolled all the way down."
That is an interesting comment...
Personally, I hate ringtones, but I love to rock out real loud with the wind pouring in the windows on a nice fall or spring day.
The difference is that when I get to a red light, I lower the volume.
I guess it's the same people who leave their phone on loud durring a meeting who don't lower their radio when it could be annoying other people.
You would think that when designing a device who's primary function is to play a randomized list of songs that the engineers might have thought to make sure the random feature worked?
Algo optimizations have far better gains than simple ASM level optimizations. When coding (expecially for modern computers), programers should just do whatever is clearer. Focus on readability of code and optimizing algos. You will find A) you probably don't have a performance problem anyway and B) such a simple optimization won't yield noticable gains.
Popup blockers are becoming standard issue. As a result, circumventing popup blockers is primarily to get to those people who could have been sucked in by a pop-up ad had they not run Windows Update and gotten SP2 auto installed.
Secondly, it might be the advertising services or the pages that host these ads that are trying to bypass blockers. The advertisers probably realize that people who go out of their way to block ads won't every buy anything, but many sites with ads or web ad providers just care about the impression count, not their click through rate.
> Sorry, but when a single title causes your system to significantly increase profits,
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> it really makes me wonder what the system is really being propped up on.
> Knock Halo out of the equation and honestly, what is XBox left with?
Next time you buy a multi-platform game, check the reviews. IGN and Gamespot (I think) both comment on which platform the game is "best on". XBOX wins almost every time.
XBox Live is increadable. Nothing compares. Rarely, if ever, any lag. Voice comm and match making.
A slew of other great exclusive titles:
http://www.in5ane.com/platform/Xbox/excl
(granted a lot of these are ported PC->XBOX or XBOX->PC, they are great for people who can't afford a high end desktop or with live support)
The PS2 is an increadable platform with increadable games (many of which exclusive to PS2), but the XBOX is just superior in just about every way except for sheer quantity of games.
...why firefox is considered to be so amazing.
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I personally greatly dislike tabbed browsing. I have tabs...on my task bar.
I could never detect a speed difference between IE or Firefox. IE crashes on me once a month at most. I've used Firefox 1.0 maybe a dosen times for it's one useful feature, is its superior javascript debugger. In those dosen times, I have had it crash on me three times.
Since SP2, I have managed to avoid spyware completely without any additional effort.
As for standards compliance, what good is standard compliance when web pages fail to shine on broken code:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/1
As for the claims of "undocumented APIs" I defy anyone to find these APIs. You can explore the externed interface of a DLL. Go ahead, find this stash of undocumented APIs.
I use IE because it works with the most pages without giving me spyware, and apparently it's faster. I have Firefox around because it is growing in popularity and I do a little bit of web development.
...who really doesn't see a problem with this?
Photos on ID = good thing
Anti-counterfit measures = good thing except for college students, but the drinking age is another issue
Machine readable support = convineance
OK so no the problem is linking the databases?? Well your state already has all your info, whats so bad about the other states having it as well?
clearly, Apple rather people buy songs from iTunes Music Store than strike a deal with a Sat radio company
Microsoft's mappoint.com works well. I prefer it over switchboard.com and mapquest.com because it offers the excellent "line drive" feature for driving directions
I am having some difficulty getting Google's to work (it just says "Loading..." and then there are javascript errors on the page), but I am sure it works great.
I don't think there is a direct relationship between bloat and slow-down.
.NET, the software I use most often, for example:
.NET application on a machine. I have a small .NET application that was oppen when I started the various VS.net instances)
Take Visual Studio
VS.net 2002 takes 30+ seconds to load where as VS.net 2003 does it in about 10 seconds. The 2005 beta takes less than 5 seconds...
(These times listed above exclude the extra cost of openning the first
The beta was probably compiled with lots of debugging info in it. I wouldn't be surpized if it was damn near instantanious to load come the final release.
What is it that really happens during that loading? How much pre-processing is really required to present an empty interface? I don't know, but clearly it's either optional or easily optimized. So, *cough* release schedule *cough* why wasn't optimized back in 2002?
Assemblies (.NET DLLs and EXEs) require special permission to run unsafe code. In the eyes of .NET, all unmanaged code or any use of pointers is considered unsafe. This includes every C/C++ application ever. .NET's philosophy on security is clear: .NET assembly is secure except by special request to use unsafe code. Over time, all assemblies should be completely void of unsafe code except for assemblies from trusted sources.
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For example: The end user can grant unsafe permissions to the Microsoft Managed DirectX assemblies. Anyone could then use these assemblies without needing unsafe permissions. If you trust MS MDX to use unsafe code, and you trust the app you downloaded to use MS MDX, you don't need to give the app permission to use unsafe code.
Tell them that "click" means "left-click". If you want them to use their right mouse button you will specifically tell them to by saying "right-click".
What ever it is, the backyard video shows lighting far more impressive than anything else I have ever seen in real time...
`There are no games using "real-time radiosity," period. Radiosity (or more generally, global illumination), almost by definiton, is too slow for real-time.`
p ic.asp? topic_id=172296
Not really...
There are discussions of real time GI in an engine by Yann L here:
http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/to
Unfortunatly, no one has seen that engine in action (other than a few scattered screen shots).
More recently, http://www.artificialstudios.com has gone live with their increadable (and really inexpensive) engine that sports `Precomputed Radiance Transfer (aka "Realtime Radiosity") support, allowing for Real-Time Subsurface Scattering and Soft Shadowing`
Watch the videos, you will be amazed.
A browser is a PLATFORM, not an OS...
Really a large difference, but only a very subtle distinction for the average user.
All of the new camera phones that I have seen produce a sound that can't be turned off for exactly the reason you stated. As I understand it, this is more a joint choice of several corperations rather than law.
...maybe it's because I am not ivyleauge material, but I will never understand these people.
"There's a classic videotape made at a Harvard University graduation a few years ago that illustrates exactly what I mean. In the opening scene, young graduates and faculty members still in their caps and gowns answer this question: Why is it warmer in the summer and colder in the winter? Twenty-two out of 25 of them got the answer wrong. Just as disturbing was how confidently and articulately the Harvard University grads, offered their incorrect explanations. They didn't recognize the contradiction between their typical explanation It's warmer in summer because the Earth is closer to the sun and their knowledge that when it's summer in Boston, it's winter in Sydney."
source: http://www.luminet.net/~wenonah/new/rocketsc.htm
I am a student at Drexel University. The school is located edge to edge with UPenn's. People often go there to party because they are rich and (IMHO) spoiled and everything is free at parties there. But Drexel kids always come back to our campus after drinking at the UPenn parties because the people here are way more fun to be with. There is just a tremendous gap in social and common sensical skills at many schools that make their graduates useless as employees.
"Seeing things like this get added to XP and things like WinFS taken out of LH, it's making it less and less attractive to ever upgrade to LH."
You are forgetting Aero. As I understand it, no one has ever seen Aero outside of Microsoft (and maybe nVidia and ATI). Supposibly it will be a complete revamp of the operating system's visual experiance. Avalon is just the engine that powers Aero. Aero will be unique to Longhorn (ie not on XP or Server 2k3). While I was really looking forward to WinFS, Aero is going to be what compels the average user to Longhorn.
You are talking about an international mega corperation.... they have LOTS of employees, most of which love their jobs as I understand.
*warning*trollish*sarcasim* Do you think that just maybe they could simultaniously work on two products?
...chat on AIM and refresh Slashdot fast enough to get a first post!
Knoppix saved files from my friends ::shudder:: WinME machine.
But if I remember correctly, this was a little over a year ago and I wasn't able to use this approach on an NTFS based system a few weeks later.
Has NTFS support improved? It would be critical for saving newer Windows boxes, even though I personally haven't had any serious issue with XP yet.
I burnt a copy of Knoppix for that simple home NTFS user who just wanted to surf the web and check webmail. They used that and just ignored their important files until I was able to fix their windows installation. After I showed them where the browser was, they no problem doing what they needed to do. Knoppix is damn cool.
Maybe articles/sections could have dedicated moderators?
Moderators would be interviewed by the moderator of the parent section. All changes made would be reviewed by a moderator. If a moderator fails to approve/deney a particular change in a particular time period, the parent moderator would receive a forward of the change request. The parent moderator of that section could then decide if a new moderator should be instated.
Users could vote on the accuracy and usefulness of sections/articles. Problem areas could easily be statistically identified and fixed. Failure to fix a section could result in the appointment of a new moderator.
Unmoderated sections/articles would be clearly identified for credability purposes. Users could even have the option of showing unapproved changes, unmoderated articles, or poorly scored articles.
Sound reasonable?
No reported vulnerabilities at all with IE 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158 nor with Firefox 1.0PR, but I must say Firefox popped up two new windows and prompted me to open about a half dosen files. IE openned only one new window popup, didn't request to open any files, but did launch windows media player 10 (which simply reported an error) and openned a javascript file with Dreamweaver.
I would say that both are equally secure according to this test. Firefox only really has one up on IE in that Firefox prompts for confirmation when IE just openned the media file and javascript file.
I dunno what makes me special, but as far as I know, I am still spyware and other malware free even though I use IE. Until I experiance an issue, I will use IE. I don't see the usefulness of tabbed browsing (isn't the task bar like tabs?), nor have I noticed a speed difference between Firefox and IE. I have noticed that Firefox fails to render some pages (who's fault that is, I care not) and 1.0 even crashed on me twice in the short period of time I have used it. IE crashes on me once a month as a generous estimate.