Couldn't you just measure the amount of data sent out over the connection? If you only count the stuff that the server has sent back the ACK packets for, you could probably get a pretty good indication of the progress of the upload. It wouldn't represent the size of the file on the actual server, but it would be a really good indicator. I think part of the problem is that it requires going a little bit more low level than generic posting code that the browser would usually call, but there's no reason it couldn't be done.
I think the problem with a tag is that the sites hosting the video won't use it. I mean, if they really wanted you to be able to just download and watch the video, they would have just put a link to a.mpg, or.avi. Instead what they want to do, is to ensure, as much as they can, that you are watching it in your browser window, so that all the ads show up on the side, and so that you can't save a copy. By using tricks such as using flash, or storing the actual URL inside a playlist file, inside a playlist file, inside a playlist file, inside a playlist file, inside a playlist file, they can stop most casual users from downloading a copy of the file, or watching it in a program that is not their browser.
Then again. Consider the alternative. Imagine having to install a separate program for every online service you wanted to access. If all your browser had was HTML+CSS+Javascript, how many extra programs would you have to install, just to get your current web experience? Imagine how hard it would be to get things like youtube to catch on if you had to install a program to experience it. Wait.... Maybe this is a good idea.
You can accomplish the same thing with a few different settings. I have firefox configured to delete all cookies when I exit, except ones on my whitelist. You can change what each site in the exception list does. You can configure it to not accept cookies at all, and then sites in the exception list can keep them for the session or until they expire, as per your configuration. I also have it configured to clear out my cache and history when I exit too. If you don't want to go that far, you can go to tools->clear Private Data, to clear that stuff whenever you want.
I don't think that converting a vector graphic to a bitmap in memory, to display it on the screen would be any more processor intensive than decompressing a JPG. If I had to guess, I would say that it would be less work than decompressing the equivalent jpg/gif/png image.
Vector graphics could actually allow your computer to load pages faster. Vector graphics are almost always smaller than raster images for images that contain vector qualities.
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No, actually, the best keyboard is the Nintendo Wii Onscreen keyboard. How long until they let us use a USB keyboard for the web browser?
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I got the Scorpius M10 keyboard. It's basically a DAS keyboard, with actual letters printed on the keys, and without the scooped F and J keys. I am very satisfied with mine. Costs quite a bit less than the DAS keyboard too.
Like I said, video is just about the only thing that most people do that uses a lot of bandwidth. I think everything you mentioned there is a video download service, in one way or another.
That's good advice for Dells too. Just buy the hardware at your local computer shop, or at newegg, or at tiger direct. You'll probably find that Dell is 200% more expensive than those alternatives.
I think that even on the old system, as far as I'm aware, that child posts of hidden posts always showed up in the wrong place. I'm actually still browsing on the old web 1.0 mode, and it still happens. I don't think it has anything to do with the new system at all.
I would argue that there's still only a couple things that you can use a lot of bandwidth for. Mostly anything involving downloading video. You'd have to download 5000 songs a month to reach 20 GB (at 4 mb/song). Playing games doesn't take up that much bandwidth. We used to play doom on 56 K modems. I know games a little more complex now, but I can't see the games needing to transfer that much more information. At least not on the scale that our internet connections have increased. Video is just about the only thing that would require a lot of bandwidth. That, or downloading lots of software.
How about disabling the automatic reboot when windows updates itself one Windows XP home. I've configured a lot of Linux boxes without ever dropping to the command line. I've done a lot of windows machines without editing the registry. In most cases, you don't have to do much of either. But pretending it doesn't happen in either operating system just makes you look like you are in denial, or that you don't have that much experience with either.
I am a big fan of Windows and have several servers and workstations running the OS, but it it far from bing an operating system that "Just Works". Configuring Windows still basically requires significant registry editing work. It may Just Work in a couple of years, but at this point Mandriva is still a safer bet for the average consumer.
I agree that Linux still has it's problems, but I don't think windows is any better in a lot of ways. I mean, it can't even scale a desktop image for the wallpaper while maintaining aspect ratio. What kind of joe sixpack OS can't do that? Do you expect people to edit their own photos? Windows simply thrives because it's what people are used to. It isn't because it is any better than the competition. Truth be told, if we were all using the actual best available product, I would say that most of us would be using Macs. And that comes from somebody who doesn't really particularly like Apple.
No, the time is not a dimension, because it can be assumed that the time is a constant at the time of measurement. You really only need 3 satellites. Because you are measuring the position in 3 dimensions, you need four points to figure out the exact position. If all the satellites are on the equator, with 3 points you get 2 positions. One in the northern hemisphere, and one in the south. If you know which hemisphere you are in, you can just discount the obviously false one. Actually, with 4 you can't even get the exact position, but it calculates one anyway, because it assumes you aren't out in space. (3 satellites also has this problem.
I say this year, for the 100m dash in the Beijing Olympic games, we should just do away with cameras and and the millisecond accuracy clocks, and have a guy with a push-button stopwatch figure the whole thing out. Nothing like a good controversy to stir things up. I mean, it's not like the olympics don't have enough controversy as it is this year.
How do you scientifically measure the accuracy of the system without having a more accurate system to compare the results to? I guess you could cover the ball in pain, or chalk, so that when it hits, you could measure later exactly where the ball hit, and compare that to where the hawkeye system said it hit. Although with errors as small as a few millimeters, I'm not sure that the mark on the ground would be good enough to get an exact reading of where exactly it landed.
They've been using human referees for a long time, but they really haven't had any other option up until this point. You could say the same thing about the introduction of the car. Everybody's been using horse and buggies for getting around for a long time. Since they've gone so long without the technology, it's evident that discarding it wouldn't be so bad. Even if the error is as large as 1 cm, I would say that's pretty good. How good is the accuracy of human vision at a distance of 40 feet with an object moving at 200 km/h?
It seems to me that the only people making things large and unwieldy are large closed source software companies (like MS, but others exist), that believe they have to be the be-all-and-end-all, the "one software company to bind them all", that they end up creating giant monstrosities like Vista. Open source, or at least, the Linux way, is to keep things simple. Do one thing and do it well. Don't try to be everything to everyone. Realize that it's OK if somebody wants to use some other competing software product. Just because our computers are fast, and they do lots of stuff, it doesn't mean that we have to make it complicated.
How is using the WINE API different from using any other API, like OpenGL? If the library exists, and they ensure they only use the parts of WINE that work, then what's the actual downside of using WINE?
You think we have problems with racial discrimination now. The only thing really separating most people is the colour of their skin. If people had as much variation as dogs, I think we'd be in for a whole lot more wars.
So are are the things listed here. Wow looking at that gives you quite an indication of the crime rate. In 1960, the murder rate was.005%, and in 2006, the rate was.0057%. The rate hasn't gone up much, but if you watch the news, it seems like it's happening a lot more.
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Couldn't you just measure the amount of data sent out over the connection? If you only count the stuff that the server has sent back the ACK packets for, you could probably get a pretty good indication of the progress of the upload. It wouldn't represent the size of the file on the actual server, but it would be a really good indicator. I think part of the problem is that it requires going a little bit more low level than generic posting code that the browser would usually call, but there's no reason it couldn't be done.
I think the problem with a tag is that the sites hosting the video won't use it. I mean, if they really wanted you to be able to just download and watch the video, they would have just put a link to a .mpg, or .avi. Instead what they want to do, is to ensure, as much as they can, that you are watching it in your browser window, so that all the ads show up on the side, and so that you can't save a copy. By using tricks such as using flash, or storing the actual URL inside a playlist file, inside a playlist file, inside a playlist file, inside a playlist file, inside a playlist file, they can stop most casual users from downloading a copy of the file, or watching it in a program that is not their browser.
Then again. Consider the alternative. Imagine having to install a separate program for every online service you wanted to access. If all your browser had was HTML+CSS+Javascript, how many extra programs would you have to install, just to get your current web experience? Imagine how hard it would be to get things like youtube to catch on if you had to install a program to experience it. Wait.... Maybe this is a good idea.
You can accomplish the same thing with a few different settings. I have firefox configured to delete all cookies when I exit, except ones on my whitelist. You can change what each site in the exception list does. You can configure it to not accept cookies at all, and then sites in the exception list can keep them for the session or until they expire, as per your configuration. I also have it configured to clear out my cache and history when I exit too. If you don't want to go that far, you can go to tools->clear Private Data, to clear that stuff whenever you want.
I don't think that converting a vector graphic to a bitmap in memory, to display it on the screen would be any more processor intensive than decompressing a JPG. If I had to guess, I would say that it would be less work than decompressing the equivalent jpg/gif/png image.
Vector graphics could actually allow your computer to load pages faster. Vector graphics are almost always smaller than raster images for images that contain vector qualities.
No, actually, the best keyboard is the Nintendo Wii Onscreen keyboard. How long until they let us use a USB keyboard for the web browser?
Here's a nice little trick I found. If you go to https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom, you can get an Atom feed of your unread GMail messages.
I got the Scorpius M10 keyboard. It's basically a DAS keyboard, with actual letters printed on the keys, and without the scooped F and J keys. I am very satisfied with mine. Costs quite a bit less than the DAS keyboard too.
Like I said, video is just about the only thing that most people do that uses a lot of bandwidth. I think everything you mentioned there is a video download service, in one way or another.
That's good advice for Dells too. Just buy the hardware at your local computer shop, or at newegg, or at tiger direct. You'll probably find that Dell is 200% more expensive than those alternatives.
I think that even on the old system, as far as I'm aware, that child posts of hidden posts always showed up in the wrong place. I'm actually still browsing on the old web 1.0 mode, and it still happens. I don't think it has anything to do with the new system at all.
I would argue that there's still only a couple things that you can use a lot of bandwidth for. Mostly anything involving downloading video. You'd have to download 5000 songs a month to reach 20 GB (at 4 mb/song). Playing games doesn't take up that much bandwidth. We used to play doom on 56 K modems. I know games a little more complex now, but I can't see the games needing to transfer that much more information. At least not on the scale that our internet connections have increased. Video is just about the only thing that would require a lot of bandwidth. That, or downloading lots of software.
How about disabling the automatic reboot when windows updates itself one Windows XP home. I've configured a lot of Linux boxes without ever dropping to the command line. I've done a lot of windows machines without editing the registry. In most cases, you don't have to do much of either. But pretending it doesn't happen in either operating system just makes you look like you are in denial, or that you don't have that much experience with either.
I am a big fan of Windows and have several servers and workstations running the OS, but it it far from bing an operating system that "Just Works". Configuring Windows still basically requires significant registry editing work. It may Just Work in a couple of years, but at this point Mandriva is still a safer bet for the average consumer.
I agree that Linux still has it's problems, but I don't think windows is any better in a lot of ways. I mean, it can't even scale a desktop image for the wallpaper while maintaining aspect ratio. What kind of joe sixpack OS can't do that? Do you expect people to edit their own photos? Windows simply thrives because it's what people are used to. It isn't because it is any better than the competition. Truth be told, if we were all using the actual best available product, I would say that most of us would be using Macs. And that comes from somebody who doesn't really particularly like Apple.
No, the time is not a dimension, because it can be assumed that the time is a constant at the time of measurement. You really only need 3 satellites. Because you are measuring the position in 3 dimensions, you need four points to figure out the exact position. If all the satellites are on the equator, with 3 points you get 2 positions. One in the northern hemisphere, and one in the south. If you know which hemisphere you are in, you can just discount the obviously false one. Actually, with 4 you can't even get the exact position, but it calculates one anyway, because it assumes you aren't out in space. (3 satellites also has this problem.
I say this year, for the 100m dash in the Beijing Olympic games, we should just do away with cameras and and the millisecond accuracy clocks, and have a guy with a push-button stopwatch figure the whole thing out. Nothing like a good controversy to stir things up. I mean, it's not like the olympics don't have enough controversy as it is this year.
How do you scientifically measure the accuracy of the system without having a more accurate system to compare the results to? I guess you could cover the ball in pain, or chalk, so that when it hits, you could measure later exactly where the ball hit, and compare that to where the hawkeye system said it hit. Although with errors as small as a few millimeters, I'm not sure that the mark on the ground would be good enough to get an exact reading of where exactly it landed.
They've been using human referees for a long time, but they really haven't had any other option up until this point. You could say the same thing about the introduction of the car. Everybody's been using horse and buggies for getting around for a long time. Since they've gone so long without the technology, it's evident that discarding it wouldn't be so bad. Even if the error is as large as 1 cm, I would say that's pretty good. How good is the accuracy of human vision at a distance of 40 feet with an object moving at 200 km/h?
It seems to me that the only people making things large and unwieldy are large closed source software companies (like MS, but others exist), that believe they have to be the be-all-and-end-all, the "one software company to bind them all", that they end up creating giant monstrosities like Vista. Open source, or at least, the Linux way, is to keep things simple. Do one thing and do it well. Don't try to be everything to everyone. Realize that it's OK if somebody wants to use some other competing software product. Just because our computers are fast, and they do lots of stuff, it doesn't mean that we have to make it complicated.
How is using the WINE API different from using any other API, like OpenGL? If the library exists, and they ensure they only use the parts of WINE that work, then what's the actual downside of using WINE?
For Canadians, it's penny, nickel, dime, quarter, dollar coin, 2 dollar coin. All these coins are in common use.
You think we have problems with racial discrimination now. The only thing really separating most people is the colour of their skin. If people had as much variation as dogs, I think we'd be in for a whole lot more wars.
So are are the things listed here. Wow looking at that gives you quite an indication of the crime rate. In 1960, the murder rate was .005%, and in 2006, the rate was .0057%. The rate hasn't gone up much, but if you watch the news, it seems like it's happening a lot more.
Yeah, nobody plays those old games like Starcraft or Counter-Strike anymore.