"First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing because I no verbs."
Actually, many of the cable services in the US allow/require that you buy your own cable modem. However, it still is not legal to change your quality of service with it. If you want to set up your own headend, feel free to uncap your modem all you want, but if you are using the cable company's headend then upcapping your modem is theft of service and is a criminal act.
It may very well be true, but it doesn't change tha facyt that it's still absurd. It would be like a cable TV company selling you the basic service while sending all the channels to your house by simply not tuning the premium channels, and then suing you because you grabbed your TV remote and tuned them yourself. Plain stupid. The DOCSIS standard should have defined company side capping. Period.
Leaving the chassis grounded without using handstraps probably is the stupidest thing to do. Even if you have some static, it probably won't hurt if it has no way to escape through the sensitive CMOS components. The best you could do would be wearing handstraps connected to the chassis. Failing that, it's best not to give electrical charge a way to escape your body through the CMOS components...
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The "genius" doesn't seem to understand the difference between IMAP and hotmail...
My curtains match my sheets. My pants match my shirt. Why would I want the form widgets rendered by my browser to match windows' widgets instead of native ones?
Why don't you e-mail RMS to tell him what you just wrote? This would be, indeed, the proper way to deal with the problem: after persuading every vendor of a foo linux distribution based on GNU to call it "Foo GNU/Linux", everyone would get used to it.
A second mouse button is a must. Except for small, trivial software, I simply can't imagine a good graphical interface without context menus.
Context menus both incredibly speed up most common operations for the power user and allow beginners to perform those operations without knowing where in the menus they are "hidden". And the not-so-common operations are still available via the regular menus.
Usually you have to trade off between ease of use and power. Context menus are good for both, so, definitely, a second mouse button is mandatory.
Hint: the speed of electrons travelling through the wire is a whole lot of orders of magnitude below the speed at which the electromagnetic field propagates. Data is NOT carried by the electrons: it is carried by the electromagnetic waves, so your "measurements" are irrelevant.
Then either you or your software is doing it wrong. Good AA does not make the font look out of focus. Good AA takes the jaggies off large fonts and makes the small fonts much more readable. That's all, no more no less.
Er... No! AA makes very small fonts readable and large fonts look nicer, but normal size fonts (10-12) look out of focus. That's the reason why Windows has AA disabled for normal-sized fonts (between 7 and 15, IIRC), relying solely on the excellent hinting quality of their main fonts.
ethernet however saturates at 60% so you can only get real transfer of about 60 Mbps
Who says so? Half-duplex ethernet may saturate at 60% for a large number of users, but on a single connection (like 2 cards connected back-to-back with a crossover cable) you may achieve near 100Mbps. Even on a larger network, you may get the near-100Mbps figure for a single connection, provided it's using a switch with a non-blocking switch fabric and no other connections are made to any of the two hosts.
That's what I do, but you'd be surprised with the number of sites requiring javascript to even work.
I created a special "internet zone" with javascript enabled to which I add hand-picked sites. It's better than enabling and disabling JS all the time, but it's still a PITA. With mozilla you have fully-functional JS, even with new windows opened at request, and only the popups are disabled. Beautiful.
Luckily, the Internet is not TV, otherwise the Mozilla guys would be sued because they're depriving site owners of ad income, and we users would be sued for content theft.
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"First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing because I no verbs."
Wow! They just invented the wireless X-terminal! I'm amazed...
I remember the days when the "search engine" was a thick book named "The Internet Yellow Pages". We've come a long way since then...
Please mod parent up as insightful.
It may very well be true, but it doesn't change tha facyt that it's still absurd. It would be like a cable TV company selling you the basic service while sending all the channels to your house by simply not tuning the premium channels, and then suing you because you grabbed your TV remote and tuned them yourself. Plain stupid. The DOCSIS standard should have defined company side capping. Period.
Leaving the chassis grounded without using handstraps probably is the stupidest thing to do. Even if you have some static, it probably won't hurt if it has no way to escape through the sensitive CMOS components.
The best you could do would be wearing handstraps connected to the chassis. Failing that, it's best not to give electrical charge a way to escape your body through the CMOS components...
The "genius" doesn't seem to understand the difference between IMAP and hotmail...
My curtains match my sheets. My pants match my shirt. Why would I want the form widgets rendered by my browser to match windows' widgets instead of native ones?
Precisely because consistency is important in aesthetics, I don't want my GTK browser rendering windows-style widgets.
Why don't you e-mail RMS to tell him what you just wrote? This would be, indeed, the proper way to deal with the problem: after persuading every vendor of a foo linux distribution based on GNU to call it "Foo GNU/Linux", everyone would get used to it.
Context menus both incredibly speed up most common operations for the power user and allow beginners to perform those operations without knowing where in the menus they are "hidden". And the not-so-common operations are still available via the regular menus.
Usually you have to trade off between ease of use and power. Context menus are good for both, so, definitely, a second mouse button is mandatory.
Hint: the speed of electrons travelling through the wire is a whole lot of orders of magnitude below the speed at which the electromagnetic field propagates. Data is NOT carried by the electrons: it is carried by the electromagnetic waves, so your "measurements" are irrelevant.
The bogo-sort is such an algorithm.
As I've read somewhere, the winner's "collateral damage" is the loser's war crime...
Talk of "moral superiority"...
Er... No! AA makes very small fonts readable and large fonts look nicer, but normal size fonts (10-12) look out of focus. That's the reason why Windows has AA disabled for normal-sized fonts (between 7 and 15, IIRC), relying solely on the excellent hinting quality of their main fonts.
He did not create the Internet, but he invented the algorythm.
Who says so? Half-duplex ethernet may saturate at 60% for a large number of users, but on a single connection (like 2 cards connected back-to-back with a crossover cable) you may achieve near 100Mbps. Even on a larger network, you may get the near-100Mbps figure for a single connection, provided it's using a switch with a non-blocking switch fabric and no other connections are made to any of the two hosts.
Sexist!
With such high bandwidth, we could very well stop sharing MP3 and start sharing original, uncompressed tracks for optimal sound quality. ;-)
The hole allowed you not to make double sided from single sided, but high density from low density.
That's what I do, but you'd be surprised with the number of sites requiring javascript to even work. I created a special "internet zone" with javascript enabled to which I add hand-picked sites. It's better than enabling and disabling JS all the time, but it's still a PITA. With mozilla you have fully-functional JS, even with new windows opened at request, and only the popups are disabled. Beautiful.
Wait till RPMs are released for your favorite distro and do an rpm -Uvh mozilla* libns*. Easy, ain't it?
Look, guys, ESR posting as Anonymous Coward on slashdot!!!
Luckily, the Internet is not TV, otherwise the Mozilla guys would be sued because they're depriving site owners of ad income, and we users would be sued for content theft.
Like the democracy in the USA, where the candidate with less votes is elected president? Right!