When calling the link directly, it tells me "Currently, the playback feature of Google Video isn't available in your country.", but the coralized link works fine:-)
Not a hero, but a philosopher and true to his principles. I can admire that, even when I strongly disagree with some of his views, especially concerning boycotting and warfare, his ideas of "good" and "right" overlap with mine way more often than those of any other "tech"-celebrity.
So, it collect all data fitting into the criteria set by the agency without any chance of anyone ever knowing what those criteria were? How is the "law-abiding" citizen to know he's not accidentaly fitted one? They say it improves privacy, but it actually removes it, since you can never know you've not been deemed a "terrorist".
OK, I think the editors have finally lost it. First one Tripe after the other and then an apache story, title "Woof!" without sensical content appears and disappears again? What are you smoking, I hope nothing toxic is burning in that server room, you know? This wasn't funny in the first place, get your act together, you're paid for that job, ok?
I tend to ascribe that to resolution specifically (or, better, our minds ability to connect-the-dots on low resolution displays). On low resolution the fluidity of motion is more important since we'll make up for the lack of detail anyway, but it is apparently easier to create higher resolution for computer games than higher fluidity (artists cost?), so they try to achieve realism that way, which doesn't really work. Case in point: I saw the FF movie on crappy resolution first and was utterly stunned at its realism, so I decided to go to the cinema... Boy, what a mistake. Apparently they had great motion artists (When compared to games, which need to use the same animations again and again), but the detailed visuals were seriously lacking for my taste...
But then again...
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A stove that communicates with the pots via RFID has enough micro-electronics inside to contain a clock, maybe a scheduler even! Mom can place the pan there, it'll heat up in time and signal you via WLAN, Bluetooth or SMS, so you know when food is ready! What a pointless waste...
Since this release equals RC2 I think some of you might encounter this problem I had (and the solution took a while to find).
On Linux (SuSE 9.2, in my case), using the archive, the first time I started the shell-script "thunderbird", an error occured and the whole thing crashed. The error message includes the line "Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server" (Gurus might know what this means, I didn't.). The solution is to open a shell and navigate to you thunderbird directory, execute "xhost +", then "./thunderbird", close the thing again, and "xhost -". From now on the script should work as expected. (Apparently that is a multiuser config thingy of X...
Everyone gets to say his piece, no matter how offtopic. And giving moderator points will lead to people moderating things any way _they_ see fit. So, if you want to kill off-topic discussions you'll have to hand-pick your mods, but live with the fact that users will then complain about that...
Simply put, Taco, keep it the way it is (well, maybe add a way to moderate stories:-P ) and live with the fact that if a majority (Otherwise there is no drowning) of commenters like to bash the submitter then that's simply the way it is. Submitters should get their link (The reason I removed my URL from my profile is specifically that I don't want it on the frontpage, just in case I get accepted) and if Slashdot "thinks" the submitter is more interesting than the story, and you thought otherweise, well, you were wrong apparently:-). But in the end, that doesn't matter. Keep up the impartiality, it's one of those things that keeps me coming back (Despite the hideous pop-ups...)
Have you actually read how the exploit works? WMF allows arbitrary access to the graphics system and thus code execution by design. That is not "undocumented"...
Even if one assumed that they did see it, they'd still have to implement it, because it is part of the API, which they're trying to clone. It's not too hard to get that concept, is it???
But that would either require VNC on the host (and I have never seen anybody but me have that installed) or using the webclient, which is a pain in the ass and kind of defeats the purpose... The PDA will have problems accessing the net (Windows is crap as router, really), your apps are limited to the PDAs processing capacity, etc. In the end, just using the PDA seems a lot easier:-)
Well, I understand most people use Windows, but i use Linux, so I'd need my "portable" apps to be multisystem, either by being truly compatible or including both compiles. When will such a thing surface? Browser, email, calendar, office... These "portable" apps (OOo, FF, TB, etc.) are nice, but in the end, a small suite, coded in Java or as a bootable system (though that's inconvenient), is more likely to be of use to me...
How about: "Buy our new and improved Windows, now with enhanced security protecting you from piracy!"? Never underestimate the word-twisting of the advertisers in relation to the stupidity of the commoners. Microsoft has a devastating track-record when it comes to virtually ass-raping users, but that doesn't hurt them financially (people are just too non-technical in general to understand and/or even wish to do so), which is exactly the reason they don't stop.
They have simply sold their product to any company that wants to preinstall it instead of the end-user (using a few nasty contract clauses). In my book that counts as "selling best"... For me that statement doesn't include any notion of being a good product or having actual customer interest, just plain old "gathering shitloads of money" and I'd argue that Microsoft seems to know very well what "sells best" in the end.
Oh, and, no more protection laws, please, I don't want any government baby-sitting me any more... I can buy my PC without Windows, which is all I need. Actually enforcing existing laws (against Microsofts contracts for example) is another thing.
I could've been talking about Windows XP in this case, but I was referring to every OS that does what you want (or, usually, the greatest subset thereof). While I personally prefer GNU/Linux for philosophical reasons I have never simply said "* is better" to anybody. Use whatever satisfies your needs (Apparently yours include using broken disks, mine don't, but I do watch DVDs...).
Bashing everything in sight isn't the smartest option, you know?
Install an operating system that does make your hardware do whatever you want! Microsoft is under no duty to make the system you wish for, they just make one they believe sells best, but it's up to you to decide whether you want to buy it or not...
Will Opera continue to expand the inclusion of XML standards such as SVG? Will we see namespace support, SVG full, MathML, XLink, XPath, XSL -FO & T etc.?
Of course, OpenSourcing the beast would be a dream-come-true, since I'm one of those people who prefer compiling their software themselves:-)
Well, I prefer writing "by hand" too, but compared to other pseudo-WYSIWYG editors (e.g. practically everything producing HTML-output) LyX is very good. It doesn't hide the structure, allows to include arbitrary LaTeX commands, while still offering a GUI that's a perfect (IMHO) mixture between old-school UNIX applications (compare to XFig) and a modern WYSIWYG system. "Slow" I cannot comment on, on my 3400+ system even a few thousand pages (of output) aren't...
Slashdot Mirror
Apparently Google poisoned the Cache, it doesn't work anymore (It did before, I watched the vid, not much that you're missing though) :-(
I have a Greasemonkey Script running that adds CC as a second link after each link on /., that's quite neat in cases like this :-)
http://video.google.com.nyud.net:8090/videoplay?do cid=7521044027821122670
When calling the link directly, it tells me "Currently, the playback feature of Google Video isn't available in your country.", but the coralized link works fine :-)
Not a hero, but a philosopher and true to his principles. I can admire that, even when I strongly disagree with some of his views, especially concerning boycotting and warfare, his ideas of "good" and "right" overlap with mine way more often than those of any other "tech"-celebrity.
So, it collect all data fitting into the criteria set by the agency without any chance of anyone ever knowing what those criteria were? How is the "law-abiding" citizen to know he's not accidentaly fitted one? They say it improves privacy, but it actually removes it, since you can never know you've not been deemed a "terrorist".
OK, I think the editors have finally lost it. First one Tripe after the other and then an apache story, title "Woof!" without sensical content appears and disappears again? What are you smoking, I hope nothing toxic is burning in that server room, you know? This wasn't funny in the first place, get your act together, you're paid for that job, ok?
I tend to ascribe that to resolution specifically (or, better, our minds ability to connect-the-dots on low resolution displays). On low resolution the fluidity of motion is more important since we'll make up for the lack of detail anyway, but it is apparently easier to create higher resolution for computer games than higher fluidity (artists cost?), so they try to achieve realism that way, which doesn't really work. Case in point: I saw the FF movie on crappy resolution first and was utterly stunned at its realism, so I decided to go to the cinema... Boy, what a mistake. Apparently they had great motion artists (When compared to games, which need to use the same animations again and again), but the detailed visuals were seriously lacking for my taste...
A stove that communicates with the pots via RFID has enough micro-electronics inside to contain a clock, maybe a scheduler even! Mom can place the pan there, it'll heat up in time and signal you via WLAN, Bluetooth or SMS, so you know when food is ready! What a pointless waste...
Since this release equals RC2 I think some of you might encounter this problem I had (and the solution took a while to find). On Linux (SuSE 9.2, in my case), using the archive, the first time I started the shell-script "thunderbird", an error occured and the whole thing crashed. The error message includes the line "Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server" (Gurus might know what this means, I didn't.). The solution is to open a shell and navigate to you thunderbird directory, execute "xhost +", then "./thunderbird", close the thing again, and "xhost -". From now on the script should work as expected. (Apparently that is a multiuser config thingy of X...
No need to download if you have 1.5 RC2 installed already, there have been no changes.
Everyone gets to say his piece, no matter how offtopic. And giving moderator points will lead to people moderating things any way _they_ see fit. So, if you want to kill off-topic discussions you'll have to hand-pick your mods, but live with the fact that users will then complain about that...
:-P ) and live with the fact that if a majority (Otherwise there is no drowning) of commenters like to bash the submitter then that's simply the way it is. Submitters should get their link (The reason I removed my URL from my profile is specifically that I don't want it on the frontpage, just in case I get accepted) and if Slashdot "thinks" the submitter is more interesting than the story, and you thought otherweise, well, you were wrong apparently :-). But in the end, that doesn't matter. Keep up the impartiality, it's one of those things that keeps me coming back (Despite the hideous pop-ups...)
Simply put, Taco, keep it the way it is (well, maybe add a way to moderate stories
Slated for release in April '06, price probably around 500 US$.
Have you actually read how the exploit works? WMF allows arbitrary access to the graphics system and thus code execution by design. That is not "undocumented"...
Even if one assumed that they did see it, they'd still have to implement it, because it is part of the API, which they're trying to clone. It's not too hard to get that concept, is it???
But that would either require VNC on the host (and I have never seen anybody but me have that installed) or using the webclient, which is a pain in the ass and kind of defeats the purpose... The PDA will have problems accessing the net (Windows is crap as router, really), your apps are limited to the PDAs processing capacity, etc. In the end, just using the PDA seems a lot easier :-)
Well, I understand most people use Windows, but i use Linux, so I'd need my "portable" apps to be multisystem, either by being truly compatible or including both compiles. When will such a thing surface? Browser, email, calendar, office... These "portable" apps (OOo, FF, TB, etc.) are nice, but in the end, a small suite, coded in Java or as a bootable system (though that's inconvenient), is more likely to be of use to me...
I'm not in the US :-) And, to be overly technical: Illegality is a different problem than technical inability...
How about: "Buy our new and improved Windows, now with enhanced security protecting you from piracy!"? Never underestimate the word-twisting of the advertisers in relation to the stupidity of the commoners. Microsoft has a devastating track-record when it comes to virtually ass-raping users, but that doesn't hurt them financially (people are just too non-technical in general to understand and/or even wish to do so), which is exactly the reason they don't stop.
Do you think I like it ?
Why wish for something you don't like?
They have simply sold their product to any company that wants to preinstall it instead of the end-user (using a few nasty contract clauses). In my book that counts as "selling best"... For me that statement doesn't include any notion of being a good product or having actual customer interest, just plain old "gathering shitloads of money" and I'd argue that Microsoft seems to know very well what "sells best" in the end.
Oh, and, no more protection laws, please, I don't want any government baby-sitting me any more... I can buy my PC without Windows, which is all I need. Actually enforcing existing laws (against Microsofts contracts for example) is another thing.
I could've been talking about Windows XP in this case, but I was referring to every OS that does what you want (or, usually, the greatest subset thereof). While I personally prefer GNU/Linux for philosophical reasons I have never simply said "* is better" to anybody. Use whatever satisfies your needs (Apparently yours include using broken disks, mine don't, but I do watch DVDs...).
Bashing everything in sight isn't the smartest option, you know?
Install an operating system that does make your hardware do whatever you want! Microsoft is under no duty to make the system you wish for, they just make one they believe sells best, but it's up to you to decide whether you want to buy it or not...
Will Opera continue to expand the inclusion of XML standards such as SVG? Will we see namespace support, SVG full, MathML, XLink, XPath, XSL -FO & T etc.?
:-)
Of course, OpenSourcing the beast would be a dream-come-true, since I'm one of those people who prefer compiling their software themselves
Well, I prefer writing "by hand" too, but compared to other pseudo-WYSIWYG editors (e.g. practically everything producing HTML-output) LyX is very good. It doesn't hide the structure, allows to include arbitrary LaTeX commands, while still offering a GUI that's a perfect (IMHO) mixture between old-school UNIX applications (compare to XFig) and a modern WYSIWYG system. "Slow" I cannot comment on, on my 3400+ system even a few thousand pages (of output) aren't...