The maxim I always use is: The company that holds your account never needs to ask you for your password since they already have it.
I would add: Often the employees of the company don't have access to the password because it is encrypted on their end. But the institution can change or reset your password without knowing the old password. This is usually preceded by a manual check performed by customer service over the phone to ensure you are really you. They might also ask you to come into the bank and provide ID.
small animals are a humourous topic
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I noticed that mainly monkeys and squirrels but other types of small animals get a lot of laughs in video games, even just from reading through many of these posts.
What's up with that? Something cute that has attitude. It's funny to squash them.
A better question might be: Which elements would make up best game humour, and WHY?
Out of pure curiosity, from the logical principle of Occam's razor, how might you choose to apply it to this "discovery"? (Everybody who is reading this thread, feel free.) Thanks.
Because a common "genetic fingerprint" was found between two species does not necessarily mean they have a common ancestor -- that statement is supported only if you are already assuming the theory of evolution is true.
Why can intelligent design not have used similar mechanisms amongst different species? That would be intelligent choice -- to re-use i.e. a special cell works well here, and also over there. The two species don't have to be related by a common ancestor if you are assuming the theory of creationism is true.
I can see how the link is made for the theory of evolution. However I can also a link for creationism. In my opinion it's a tie -- both sides can share it. The discovery can be used to support or refute either side.
In the past Mozilla has always suggested uninstalling the old version before installing the newer version. Of course on the various machines where I've overwritten Firefox with a newer version, I've had sporatic success (sometimes acts weird, sometimes doesn't).
However ultimately I think before the final 1.0 version is released, they should fix this problem because the average home user doesn't know to (or understand) about uninstalling the older version first. This might leave a bad taste in user's mouth when they discover Firefox is acting buggier on their Windows box compared to IE (ack!). I think it is the responsbility of the Mozilla developers to find some kind of automatic fix to this problem if they plan for 10 million downloads (or whatever the big number was) of the 1.0 final release.
that anthropologists have found the skeletal remains of seven hobbit sized hominids.
Did anybody else stop and think: maybe children?, or midgets? or do we take for granted that the scientific equipment accurately pegged them as 30-year-olds or whatever from 18,000 years ago?
From ABC article: so the 18,000-year-old skeleton cannot be some kind of 'freak'
Man, don't be so hard on them. I know we all get mad at kids once in a while but that's just harsh.
And might the "miniature elephants" be baby elephants?
Note: Komodo dragons today are "giant lizards", so what has changed there?
The article just feels really weird, like they might not be considering the obvious, in favour of some great discovery instead. I mean, it sounds like a ploy to make the skeletons seem like they're from a different evolutionary species or something.
For every knowledgeable enthusiast, there are many more misinformed or incorrect speculators whose opinions usually spring from personal preference or a need to hear themselves talk.
Really!... Well then you have certainly come to the right place.
With this new engine, it seems that an inexpensive trip to Mars is now firmly within our grasp. Will we rise to the challenge?"
All excited, the trip takes its toll on your body but you finally get to Mars, severely disappointed because there's nothing to do and the environment is too severe to enjoy, cry and want to go home to earth, go crazy on the way back to earth, have lost your job, get committed to a mental institution.
... because everybody wants more of the market share, because each browser to a degree disagress with what the other browser/company is doing, because each browser just wants to be a little bit more popular in the browser wars.
It's a bit of a catch-22: for one browser to exist, everybody involved will have to make concessions; nobody is making concessions because they are still in a browser war. For only one (type of) browser to exist, I believe human nature dictates somebody will have to win this war, rather than everybody making concessions.
catch-up has slowed down in my opinion
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From the article: Along the way, Firefox is fast becoming the browser of choice for anyone fed up with all the nasty things polluting the Web (pop-ups and viruses and spyware, oh my!).
However XP Service Pack 2 has taken a big bite out of many security, spyware, etc types of issues that formerly plagued Microsoft's IE browser. That said, users on other versions of Windows do not benefit from these new features.
Going forward, I would say that Firefox has more of a fight on its hands, now that Microsoft is starting to listen to the browser crowds.
I went strictly Firefox about seven months ago, and for the last few months have not even had the IE icon available on my desktop or in my menus. However since XP SP2, I've started moving back to using IE sometimes, because it blocks pop-ups, ActiveX controls, etc. Of course Firefox still has many extensions available which I (not the average user, but a developer user) have fallen in love with. However from the average Windows XP user's point of view, why would they switch to Firefox when Microsoft just made IE more secure for them and blocked annoying popups for them? It's definitely going to be harder to market those Mozilla features now that they doen't represent the edge over IE (XP SP2) anymore.
Maybe to some gamers but only while HL2 is in the limelight, however not lost to developers -- the richness of the Doom 3 engine will not be overlooked. You can be guaranteed that many good levels, characters (even totally different games) will be spawned for many years to come based on Doom 3.
The so-called ethical dilemmas we're faced with today are just temporary hurdles created by people who are frightened of progress and/or don't understand what the goals are.
I would suggest that it's necessary to attempt to struggle with and handle the issues before any critical point is reached. At that point it would be too late (e.g. It's harder for the President to get the American people out of Iraq after they are there.)
And how long can we breed the "best" children before the best become so far ahead of the worst, that the worst no longer have any "value" to society at all?
Or until the "best" people -- who know they are the best and who cannot bear the "worst" people any longer -- make some unethical cleansing decisions. It may be hard to stop a race of people who are much better.
Are patents valid only for the life of a company (i.e. including merging)? Or can patents be bought and sold?
There should be something in place to prevent companies from just acquiring patents that they did not invest anything in, in the first place, and then using them to enforce litigation
There's probably a gray area about mergers and such. Are there any rules in place right now around this type of thing?
aimed squarely at finally realising the dream of bringing an easy-to-use, free software desktop to everyday users.
If this Syllabus has a desktop that users would like, and a backend that does not equal Linux (from what I can gather from some comments), and if both projects are open source, what would be the feasibility of slapping the Syllabus desktop on a real Linux back-end and having the best of both worlds. I mean, the Syllabus desktop could be included with the others as an alternative, and maybe enable as defaul for some distro being sold to users.
For those of you familiar with Syllabus and Linux, what is the feasibility of something like this?
So if all the licensing schemes eventually get patented, does that mean a company cannot license its own software to users without having to pay a royalty fee to a patent holder to do so?
From the article: "The other programmer, the observer, continuously observes the work of the driver to identify tactical (syntactic, spelling, etc.) defects"
Driver: click, click, click, tappety-tap tap tap, click.
Observer: Dude, Intelli-sense just underlined that word in red. It's some kind of syntax error -- just hover your mouse over it to see it.
Driver: Ya, I saw it... I just want to finish up what I'm typing and...
Observer: It just underlined something else in your code. I don't think it's gonna' compile.
Driver: Of course it won't compile. Just wait until I finish this thought.... tap, tap, clickety click, tap-tap
Observer: I would fix those errors before continuing.
Driver: WHY? clackety-clack, slam, bang
Observer: Why not?
Driver: ARGH!
Observer: I'm bored. I'm just gonna' go grab another coffee.
Driver: GO AHEAD. AND WHILE YOU'RE AT IT, HAVE A SMOKE, AN EXTRA LONG LUNCH, AND THEN TAKE THE REST OF THE DAY OFF BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT LOOKING SO GOOD RIGHT ABOUT NOW.
Why would anybody in their right mind (and with good concience) release an OS which runs a really limited number of apps (virtually is crippled) for less cash. The cash still adds up. They are setting computing back a decade for their Starter Edition users. That's just dumb. How many of those people, after a few months of frustration or even less time, are going to either upgrade to a non-crippled Win XP, or even pirate one that allows them to connect to other computers. I won't be surprised if this goes the way of MS Bob (to use an over-used analogy). The main problem with this is some users don't know what they need until it's too late. Microsoft is pulling the wool over people's eye with this stupid Starter Edition software.
Do they offer a Starter Ed. of MS Office, or do they still expect you to shell out full price for the Office suite to run on your crippled OS? Maybe someone else can answer that. I'm too angry right now to look it up
Can open source and closed standards work together?
Yes, anything can work if you make it work, and Sun is a hard-working company. The other questions is: Do we want it to work?
Why not. Sun has to maintain some kind of reign on the technology if they are to control it properly to compete against (for example) Microsoft and.Net.
Kudos to them... they're trying their best to serve the best of both worlds: their own, and the Open Source community. Maybe it doesn't look like it's giving as much control to some developers as they want, but it's better than nothing. And the two sets of interests do compete... so -- again -- kudos to Sun for even trying this. At least they're trying something new and innovative instead of saying it cannot be done.
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I would add: Often the employees of the company don't have access to the password because it is encrypted on their end. But the institution can change or reset your password without knowing the old password. This is usually preceded by a manual check performed by customer service over the phone to ensure you are really you. They might also ask you to come into the bank and provide ID.
What's up with that? Something cute that has attitude. It's funny to squash them.
A better question might be: Which elements would make up best game humour, and WHY?
Out of pure curiosity, from the logical principle of Occam's razor, how might you choose to apply it to this "discovery"? (Everybody who is reading this thread, feel free.) Thanks.
Why can intelligent design not have used similar mechanisms amongst different species? That would be intelligent choice -- to re-use i.e. a special cell works well here, and also over there. The two species don't have to be related by a common ancestor if you are assuming the theory of creationism is true.
I can see how the link is made for the theory of evolution. However I can also a link for creationism. In my opinion it's a tie -- both sides can share it. The discovery can be used to support or refute either side.
However ultimately I think before the final 1.0 version is released, they should fix this problem because the average home user doesn't know to (or understand) about uninstalling the older version first. This might leave a bad taste in user's mouth when they discover Firefox is acting buggier on their Windows box compared to IE (ack!). I think it is the responsbility of the Mozilla developers to find some kind of automatic fix to this problem if they plan for 10 million downloads (or whatever the big number was) of the 1.0 final release.
Did anybody else stop and think: maybe children?, or midgets? or do we take for granted that the scientific equipment accurately pegged them as 30-year-olds or whatever from 18,000 years ago?
From ABC article: so the 18,000-year-old skeleton cannot be some kind of 'freak'
Man, don't be so hard on them. I know we all get mad at kids once in a while but that's just harsh.
And might the "miniature elephants" be baby elephants?
Note: Komodo dragons today are "giant lizards", so what has changed there?
The article just feels really weird, like they might not be considering the obvious, in favour of some great discovery instead. I mean, it sounds like a ploy to make the skeletons seem like they're from a different evolutionary species or something.
Really! ... Well then you have certainly come to the right place.
I agree with you. Although I found some info about Al Gore's support of the Internet and telecommunications in general even dating far back, there does seem to be a disconnect between what he said and what his involvement actualy was. I have to assume he did not understand exactly what he was implying when he spoke.
All excited, the trip takes its toll on your body but you finally get to Mars, severely disappointed because there's nothing to do and the environment is too severe to enjoy, cry and want to go home to earth, go crazy on the way back to earth, have lost your job, get committed to a mental institution.
... a google-branded key chain that beeps when you clap so you can _search_ for your keys and get fast results. Appropriate.
why can't it just be a browser???
It's a bit of a catch-22: for one browser to exist, everybody involved will have to make concessions; nobody is making concessions because they are still in a browser war. For only one (type of) browser to exist, I believe human nature dictates somebody will have to win this war, rather than everybody making concessions.
However XP Service Pack 2 has taken a big bite out of many security, spyware, etc types of issues that formerly plagued Microsoft's IE browser. That said, users on other versions of Windows do not benefit from these new features.
Going forward, I would say that Firefox has more of a fight on its hands, now that Microsoft is starting to listen to the browser crowds.
I went strictly Firefox about seven months ago, and for the last few months have not even had the IE icon available on my desktop or in my menus. However since XP SP2, I've started moving back to using IE sometimes, because it blocks pop-ups, ActiveX controls, etc. Of course Firefox still has many extensions available which I (not the average user, but a developer user) have fallen in love with. However from the average Windows XP user's point of view, why would they switch to Firefox when Microsoft just made IE more secure for them and blocked annoying popups for them? It's definitely going to be harder to market those Mozilla features now that they doen't represent the edge over IE (XP SP2) anymore.
(cue Aladdin music)
A whole new world
A new fantastic point of view
No one to tell us no
Or where to mow
Or say we're only dreaming
Maybe to some gamers but only while HL2 is in the limelight, however not lost to developers -- the richness of the Doom 3 engine will not be overlooked. You can be guaranteed that many good levels, characters (even totally different games) will be spawned for many years to come based on Doom 3.
I would suggest that it's necessary to attempt to struggle with and handle the issues before any critical point is reached. At that point it would be too late (e.g. It's harder for the President to get the American people out of Iraq after they are there.)
And how long can we breed the "best" children before the best become so far ahead of the worst, that the worst no longer have any "value" to society at all?
Or until the "best" people -- who know they are the best and who cannot bear the "worst" people any longer -- make some unethical cleansing decisions. It may be hard to stop a race of people who are much better.
You must work for Renault. C'mon admin it, you're in the PR department. :)
Sounds like a helluva way to get out of a speeding ticket.
There should be something in place to prevent companies from just acquiring patents that they did not invest anything in, in the first place, and then using them to enforce litigation
There's probably a gray area about mergers and such. Are there any rules in place right now around this type of thing?
A cute name is a start.
If this Syllabus has a desktop that users would like, and a backend that does not equal Linux (from what I can gather from some comments), and if both projects are open source, what would be the feasibility of slapping the Syllabus desktop on a real Linux back-end and having the best of both worlds. I mean, the Syllabus desktop could be included with the others as an alternative, and maybe enable as defaul for some distro being sold to users.
For those of you familiar with Syllabus and Linux, what is the feasibility of something like this?
This is not patent stuff. This sucks.
Driver: click, click, click, tappety-tap tap tap, click.
Observer: Dude, Intelli-sense just underlined that word in red. It's some kind of syntax error -- just hover your mouse over it to see it.
Driver: Ya, I saw it ... I just want to finish up what I'm typing and ...
Observer: It just underlined something else in your code. I don't think it's gonna' compile.
Driver: Of course it won't compile. Just wait until I finish this thought .... tap, tap, clickety click, tap-tap
Observer: I would fix those errors before continuing.
Driver: WHY? clackety-clack, slam, bang
Observer: Why not?
Driver: ARGH!
Observer: I'm bored. I'm just gonna' go grab another coffee.
Driver: GO AHEAD. AND WHILE YOU'RE AT IT, HAVE A SMOKE, AN EXTRA LONG LUNCH, AND THEN TAKE THE REST OF THE DAY OFF BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT LOOKING SO GOOD RIGHT ABOUT NOW.
Why would anybody in their right mind (and with good concience) release an OS which runs a really limited number of apps (virtually is crippled) for less cash. The cash still adds up. They are setting computing back a decade for their Starter Edition users. That's just dumb. How many of those people, after a few months of frustration or even less time, are going to either upgrade to a non-crippled Win XP, or even pirate one that allows them to connect to other computers. I won't be surprised if this goes the way of MS Bob (to use an over-used analogy). The main problem with this is some users don't know what they need until it's too late. Microsoft is pulling the wool over people's eye with this stupid Starter Edition software.
Do they offer a Starter Ed. of MS Office, or do they still expect you to shell out full price for the Office suite to run on your crippled OS? Maybe someone else can answer that. I'm too angry right now to look it up
Yes, anything can work if you make it work, and Sun is a hard-working company. The other questions is: Do we want it to work?
Why not. Sun has to maintain some kind of reign on the technology if they are to control it properly to compete against (for example) Microsoft and .Net.
Kudos to them ... they're trying their best to serve the best of both worlds: their own, and the Open Source community. Maybe it doesn't look like it's giving as much control to some developers as they want, but it's better than nothing. And the two sets of interests do compete ... so -- again -- kudos to Sun for even trying this. At least they're trying something new and innovative instead of saying it cannot be done.
The mouse lag on the LCD monitor seems to be getting slower all the time since he posted to /.-- ya, the one on the computer that hosts the video file.