Needing information and having full control over the system are two different things. If all activex needs is the information, then let it have read only access.
Which is already enough to be a humongous security breach.
90% of people use IE because 90% of people just want a basic browser and don't really care about things like [...]
Right and wrong. They use IE because that's what the computer ships with their computer, not because they want a basic browser. All the people I've helped set up a computer use Firefox or Opera because that's what I set up for them.
People don't care about extensions and security (until they need to wipe their system because of infections), but they don't actually care about their browser being basic or not. The important part is that since they don't care they use whatever ships with their system, mostly regardless of the feature set.
Fortunately, the one who's wrong is you. Unix time counts the (milli)seconds elapsed since the Unix epoch, full stop. When leap seconds are introduced, they elapse just as well as normal seconds, although every minute, hour, day, week, month, year etc containing will be one second longer (e.g. the minute will be 61 seconds long instead of 60 seconds long). So you only care about leap seconds and Unix time only when you have to convert from Unix time to human-readable form, or conversely, because instead of simple divisions and multiplication by the usual 60 seconds you'll have to interspread some division/multiplication by 61.
What you seem to miss is that the exact same thing also happens with Windows, as my experience as the 'free Windows tech support for everybody that gets to know me' shows.
Correct way to manage your conversations:
Acquaintance: Oh, you do computers? Can you fix my Windows?
You: I'm sorry, but I don't really use Windows. I work on the big ones that run websites and stuff.
You can always admit more knowledge later as circumstances require, but there's no putting the cat back in the bag so don't start with it.
I sort of do that when I don't want to waste time with the usual annoying Windows crap, but the point of my remark is that Windows is not more user friendly for the tech inept than linux is, not that you can skim from helping the tech inepts cope with Windows' alleged user-friendlyness.
Most of the people who say "oh, my wife or kid has no problem using Ubuntu" are also missing the point: your wife or kid has someone at home who actually knows how to use Linux. If they need to ask you how to do something, you're right there like their own permanent, free Geek Squad agent who is always happy to not only help, but take new steps to make things better.
What you seem to miss is that the exact same thing also happens with Windows, as my experience as the 'free Windows tech support for everybody that gets to know me' shows. The myth that Windows is more user-friendly than Linux has been nothing more than a myth for the last two or three years.
oh you pay for it. and if you don't go to the doctor much, you probably pay more for it than you would if it was private.
Considering how much giving birth to a baby or even something as simple as buying flu medicine costs without health insurance in the USA, I doubt that.
And what technology is available for Ogg Theora (not Vorbis) that can encode and stream a live event to hundreds of millions of people?
VideoLAN Client (VLC for short), for example, is free, open source, does Ogg Vorbis (for audio) and Theora (for video), and it can be used both as the streaming server AND as the client, on Linux, Windows and Apple computers.
Being able or not able to use the computer is not what leads me to think she's on the MS paybook. Calling the news about not being able to use Linux is at the very least suspicious, though.
You forgot the much more dangerous criteria of Notability, which is a considerably more arbitrary filter on what can and what cannot be on Wikipedia, and has abundantly misused throughout its history.
And then, apparently, her solution [...] was to call the local news!
Which leads me to think that she is on the Microsoft paybook. Her story perfectly fits in the MS war against Linux and open source, and it needs as much media coverage as possible. Remember, spread the FUD.
No matter how horked X is, I the system always boots in text mode console and work to repair X or a driver, install new software, etc, and even accomplish things with Mutt and links2.
Then, when I'm ready to "go graphical", simply run startx.
What makes you think it would be any different now? The only difference is that now the kernel provides additional hooks and a consistent interface for managing the GPU resources too, which means that you can finally have a much improved integration between graphical systems (e.g. GPU-specific framebuffer consoles and (one or more) X sessions in (one or more) virtual terminals).
Nothing changes as long as you don't start graphical subsystems. And after you do, the difference is that instead of having a distinct HAL in X you use the system one, so that you get cooperation instead of fighting between code that touches the same subsystem.
Unless you plan to put it in your car to give the finger to people honking at you in queue, the only use for LCD screens i can think of is notification. Considering the recent interest in Gnome and KDE for a centralized notification system, you could probably hook _that_ up for your LCD screen so you'd get _all_ notifications.
Actually the watt-hour is a measure of (electrical, in this case) energy. It's an awkward convention, but it makes sense when you realize that Watts are equal to Joules over time and that multiplying time back in leaves you with Joules.
It's not so awkward if you consider typical domestic usages: since most appliances have power consumption in the order of watts and kilowatts, and typical usages are in the hour (not second) timescale, it's much more comfortable to use: after all, 1 J = 1 W*s, so you'd need 3.6 MJ to describe the energy consumed by a 1 kW boiler functioning for 1 hour... much more comfortable to just say it's 1 kWh
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Needing information and having full control over the system are two different things. If all activex needs is the information, then let it have read only access.
Which is already enough to be a humongous security breach.
Being late does not make you a retard.
Being late once only makes you a tard, you need to be late at least two times to be a REtard.
Add a GPS
and you can forget about the 10 hours battery.
90% of people use IE because 90% of people just want a basic browser and don't really care about things like [...]
Right and wrong. They use IE because that's what the computer ships with their computer, not because they want a basic browser. All the people I've helped set up a computer use Firefox or Opera because that's what I set up for them.
People don't care about extensions and security (until they need to wipe their system because of infections), but they don't actually care about their browser being basic or not. The important part is that since they don't care they use whatever ships with their system, mostly regardless of the feature set.
Uh ... wait a sec ...
The interesting thing about version 4 is that it seems to be a generally sucky version. Anybody remember DOS 4?
Then listen better. Even here in Europe there's people spewing this crap.
Who would have thought, there are idiots everywhere.
Wouldn't it have just been easier to change the Firefox icon to the IE icon and been done with it? ;)
Horrible idea, in case anybody else but him has to give tech support.
Fortunately, the one who's wrong is you. Unix time counts the (milli)seconds elapsed since the Unix epoch, full stop. When leap seconds are introduced, they elapse just as well as normal seconds, although every minute, hour, day, week, month, year etc containing will be one second longer (e.g. the minute will be 61 seconds long instead of 60 seconds long). So you only care about leap seconds and Unix time only when you have to convert from Unix time to human-readable form, or conversely, because instead of simple divisions and multiplication by the usual 60 seconds you'll have to interspread some division/multiplication by 61.
What you seem to miss is that the exact same thing also happens with Windows, as my experience as the 'free Windows tech support for everybody that gets to know me' shows.
Correct way to manage your conversations:
Acquaintance: Oh, you do computers? Can you fix my Windows? You: I'm sorry, but I don't really use Windows. I work on the big ones that run websites and stuff.
You can always admit more knowledge later as circumstances require, but there's no putting the cat back in the bag so don't start with it.
I sort of do that when I don't want to waste time with the usual annoying Windows crap, but the point of my remark is that Windows is not more user friendly for the tech inept than linux is, not that you can skim from helping the tech inepts cope with Windows' alleged user-friendlyness.
Too late
Most of the people who say "oh, my wife or kid has no problem using Ubuntu" are also missing the point: your wife or kid has someone at home who actually knows how to use Linux. If they need to ask you how to do something, you're right there like their own permanent, free Geek Squad agent who is always happy to not only help, but take new steps to make things better.
What you seem to miss is that the exact same thing also happens with Windows, as my experience as the 'free Windows tech support for everybody that gets to know me' shows. The myth that Windows is more user-friendly than Linux has been nothing more than a myth for the last two or three years.
oh you pay for it. and if you don't go to the doctor much, you probably pay more for it than you would if it was private.
Considering how much giving birth to a baby or even something as simple as buying flu medicine costs without health insurance in the USA, I doubt that.
And what technology is available for Ogg Theora (not Vorbis) that can encode and stream a live event to hundreds of millions of people?
VideoLAN Client (VLC for short), for example, is free, open source, does Ogg Vorbis (for audio) and Theora (for video), and it can be used both as the streaming server AND as the client, on Linux, Windows and Apple computers.
Being able or not able to use the computer is not what leads me to think she's on the MS paybook. Calling the news about not being able to use Linux is at the very least suspicious, though.
communism or socialism?
Communism is (a form of) socialism (the converse being obviously not true).
You forgot the much more dangerous criteria of Notability, which is a considerably more arbitrary filter on what can and what cannot be on Wikipedia, and has abundantly misused throughout its history.
Open, Free Codecs that work everywhere are surprisingly non-existent. I'd like to see that change!
Last time I checked, Ogg Vorbis was open, free and cross-platform. It was also proposed as the standard for HTML5 precisely for these qualities.
And then, apparently, her solution [...] was to call the local news!
Which leads me to think that she is on the Microsoft paybook. Her story perfectly fits in the MS war against Linux and open source, and it needs as much media coverage as possible. Remember, spread the FUD.
Thank you for elucidating my intent.
No matter how horked X is, I the system always boots in text mode console and work to repair X or a driver, install new software, etc, and even accomplish things with Mutt and links2.
Then, when I'm ready to "go graphical", simply run startx.
What makes you think it would be any different now? The only difference is that now the kernel provides additional hooks and a consistent interface for managing the GPU resources too, which means that you can finally have a much improved integration between graphical systems (e.g. GPU-specific framebuffer consoles and (one or more) X sessions in (one or more) virtual terminals).
Nothing changes as long as you don't start graphical subsystems. And after you do, the difference is that instead of having a distinct HAL in X you use the system one, so that you get cooperation instead of fighting between code that touches the same subsystem.
Unless you plan to put it in your car to give the finger to people honking at you in queue, the only use for LCD screens i can think of is notification. Considering the recent interest in Gnome and KDE for a centralized notification system, you could probably hook _that_ up for your LCD screen so you'd get _all_ notifications.
And beyond that, who wants to measure energy in Michael Jacksons?
Anyone who's ok with measuring power with Snaps
Actually the watt-hour is a measure of (electrical, in this case) energy. It's an awkward convention, but it makes sense when you realize that Watts are equal to Joules over time and that multiplying time back in leaves you with Joules.
It's not so awkward if you consider typical domestic usages: since most appliances have power consumption in the order of watts and kilowatts, and typical usages are in the hour (not second) timescale, it's much more comfortable to use: after all, 1 J = 1 W*s, so you'd need 3.6 MJ to describe the energy consumed by a 1 kW boiler functioning for 1 hour ... much more comfortable to just say it's 1 kWh
Well yes, if it fails again and again, of course people are going to say it's ineffective.
And when it works again and again, people say "it's not possible". Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.
http://xkcd.com/385/