How many of those packages are desktop packages? Seems like a odd metric to just compare the number of packages as to how well an OS is suited to the desktop.
It probably has a lot to do with FreeBSD having a much more focused niche. FreeBSD is really tuned primarily for servers. You can use it on your desktop, but that's not really it's main purpose. Linux on the other hand, has really branched out. It has desktop distros, server distros, embedded distros, and probably a couple other areas I haven't thought of.
In my university, it was part of the engineering (applied science) faculty. I think it's probably best situated there. I took software engineering, and we shared quite a few courses with the CS people. Software engineering was quite similar to CS, but it had more focus on quality assurance and architecture of large systems.
If they actually implemented the standards well, they wouldn't have to worry about specific tests, they would just do well on them by default. Now I don't think that any browser does 100% on Acid 3, but I think a lot of them do fairly well.
You know people have too much money when they're willing to spend $300 on a pressed CD, with a few books, and some guys name scrawled across the front.
Most unknown bands will never reach that level of notoriety anyway. The real question is, can small bands make a decent living selling music this way. When you compare this method to the alternative of selling CDs in a retail store, it's probably a lot better.
I'm not sure why people think the price of education is so high in the US. Sure places like Harvard and Yale are expensive, but I priced schools in the US when I went. For international students, it's really high, but if you go to a school in your own state, the prices are quite comparable to those in Canada.
Does anybody else find a problem with him using TBP to distribute the torrents, and not just posting the torrent on his own site? Sure, some people don't mind going to a site with porn ads just to download music. But it seems a little non-professional to do something like this.
$30000 isn't much though. That's 3000 people who want to buy your album. I think it's a good model. What I wonder about, is what happens to all the bands, and the money from the people who don't generate the $30,000. Can I get my money back if the band doesn't produce an album in some amount of time? What if the album just really sucks? Some bands put out completely different albums, and half the fans hate it. What would fans do in a situation like this?
That's where corporations like Apple or other dedicated online music stores can really help out though. It's not cost efficient for most bands to buy the necessary servers just for the 1-2 week period following the album's release. You probably won't find many hosting providers that want to sell you a ton of traffic for 2 weeks, and then have your usage drop to 5% of that. I think that with all the rage over this type of distribution, there really needs to be a more efficient way to distribute it. First, if you want it free, it should be bittorrent only. That would get rid of a lot of congestion. I would also like to see something from bittorrent where you make your purchase, get a key, and enter that into the application. After you enter a valid key, you're allowed to join the torrent. You'd need a central server for key verification, but that would be a lot easier to setup, and not overload, than everybody trying to download the music off a single server.
I downloaded the first free album just to see if it was worth purchasing. I was extremely disappointed. One song consisted of the same 11 notes played over and over again for 3 minutes. One song had so much distortion it was painful to listen to. A lot of it sounded like the soundtrack to Alone In The Dark, or some other similarly themed game. The music was extremely repetive. Most of the songs were extremely simple, and were basically the equivalent musically of "Mary Had a Little Lamb", although the song sounded a little darked. I'm not sure why everybody thinks it's so great. I love that bands are starting to have much better online music offerings, and breaking away from the labels. However I found that this album just isn't something that I enjoy listening to.
Couldn't you just have a USB stick with a physical switch to set it as readonly, and then set the computer to only boot off that device? Most (all?) new computers support booting off the USB device. Using this method of booting, along with having/usr and other places mounted as write only, you could probably stop most stuff from infecting the system. You might still have a problem with things infecting your home directory, but that can be more easily removed.
Running under a VM is really nice for debugging purposes. Changing the code in mid-run, and continuing on executing the code saves a lot of time. Also, you can actually rewind from an exception in.Net, fix the problem, and continue on debugging. Running thing's in.Net lets you get a whole lot more information about where your memory is being used, or where the performance bottlenecks are. Some of this stuff is probably possible without a VM, but having a VM adds a lot of features that you simply can perform with regular machine code.
It allows you to specify per-application permissions, without creating a new user for each application. So you can run something as yourself, from your browser, but give it no access to the file system. You could give an application access to the file system, but no access to the network. Running under a VM lets you have a lot more fine-tuned control over what the application can and can't do. It also does it in a way that's completely platform independant. So even if you are using DOS 3.2 (assuming the VM runs on that platform), then the permissions you set, will work.
It probably has a lot to do with their clients more than their banking system. I remember hearing that ING had very low identity theft rates, and people chalked it up to their convoluted login system. I would say it has more to do with the fact that they are only online, and scare away a lot of web-savvy people. Also, because they mostly only for savings accounts, their clients pass the automatic IQ test by actually saving some money.
Is it really entirely necessary to do online banking? Sure, using the web for other stuff could be considered mandatory, but what's to stop you from not using online banking. I know tons of people who don't use online banking, just because they like the traditional method better.
I could use a circle, but then I couldn't have borders going from width 3, to width 1 in the transition of the corner. I've never seen a solution that uses only CSS. Could you please show me one. Most of the other implementations I've seen used 4 nested divs, so my solution was a lot nicer.
If you're looking for a way to do rounded borders, you might want to check out my method of creating rounded borders. It seems to be a lot easier than all the other implementations I've found, and doesn't require you to mess with your HTML too much.
Microsoft is playing some serious catch-up after laying dormant with IE6 for so long. It will be nice if they can get XHTML 1, CSS2, and HTML4 all working respectably well in IE8. It's yet to be seen if they will maintain that momentum and continue to adopt new standards such as HTML5 and CSS3. I personally hope they do, especially with CSS3, as it has lots of really nice features.
Yes, other than not passing Acid2, I can't find any major problems with Firefox's rendering. Other browsers do much better on the Acid2, but do much worse in actual real world web pages.
So does Safari. Yet from my experience it has way more rendering bugs than most other browsers I've used and tested against. Passing Acid2 does not mean that it is standards compliant. For instance. IE doesn't support the:last-child pseudo-class, but that doesn't appear in Acid2. So even if it does pass Acid2, it may still not support this feature.
The major problem is that paypal actually uses email to communicate with their customers. Telling people to ignore emails from paypal isn't really what they want.
Why are you following a link to go to your banking site? Why is your friend emailing you the URL to your bank? I don't check every link. But when I go to my banking website, I type in the URL myself, or click on the bookmark. And then I look for the little lock on the bottom of my screen. Probably not completely impenetrable, but until the rest of the world gets a whole lot smarter, most phishers won't try anything more advanced.
Does paypal offer the ability to sign (via PGP) the legitimate emails they send? I'm not a user, so I wouldn't know, but I think it would be a good feature. For a company who deals with money, and who's only way of contacting their customers is through email, it would be nice if you could really verify that the email they actually did sent was legitimate. I know that it wouldn't be for everyone, and that most people probably wouldn't know what to do with signed emails. However, for those of us who do, it would be a very welcome feature.
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How many of those packages are desktop packages? Seems like a odd metric to just compare the number of packages as to how well an OS is suited to the desktop.
It probably has a lot to do with FreeBSD having a much more focused niche. FreeBSD is really tuned primarily for servers. You can use it on your desktop, but that's not really it's main purpose. Linux on the other hand, has really branched out. It has desktop distros, server distros, embedded distros, and probably a couple other areas I haven't thought of.
Maybe Safari is cheating? If the test is screwed up, and Safari still passes, they must be cheating.
In my university, it was part of the engineering (applied science) faculty. I think it's probably best situated there. I took software engineering, and we shared quite a few courses with the CS people. Software engineering was quite similar to CS, but it had more focus on quality assurance and architecture of large systems.
If they actually implemented the standards well, they wouldn't have to worry about specific tests, they would just do well on them by default. Now I don't think that any browser does 100% on Acid 3, but I think a lot of them do fairly well.
You know people have too much money when they're willing to spend $300 on a pressed CD, with a few books, and some guys name scrawled across the front.
Most unknown bands will never reach that level of notoriety anyway. The real question is, can small bands make a decent living selling music this way. When you compare this method to the alternative of selling CDs in a retail store, it's probably a lot better.
I'm not sure why people think the price of education is so high in the US. Sure places like Harvard and Yale are expensive, but I priced schools in the US when I went. For international students, it's really high, but if you go to a school in your own state, the prices are quite comparable to those in Canada.
Does anybody else find a problem with him using TBP to distribute the torrents, and not just posting the torrent on his own site? Sure, some people don't mind going to a site with porn ads just to download music. But it seems a little non-professional to do something like this.
$30000 isn't much though. That's 3000 people who want to buy your album. I think it's a good model. What I wonder about, is what happens to all the bands, and the money from the people who don't generate the $30,000. Can I get my money back if the band doesn't produce an album in some amount of time? What if the album just really sucks? Some bands put out completely different albums, and half the fans hate it. What would fans do in a situation like this?
That's where corporations like Apple or other dedicated online music stores can really help out though. It's not cost efficient for most bands to buy the necessary servers just for the 1-2 week period following the album's release. You probably won't find many hosting providers that want to sell you a ton of traffic for 2 weeks, and then have your usage drop to 5% of that. I think that with all the rage over this type of distribution, there really needs to be a more efficient way to distribute it. First, if you want it free, it should be bittorrent only. That would get rid of a lot of congestion. I would also like to see something from bittorrent where you make your purchase, get a key, and enter that into the application. After you enter a valid key, you're allowed to join the torrent. You'd need a central server for key verification, but that would be a lot easier to setup, and not overload, than everybody trying to download the music off a single server.
I downloaded the first free album just to see if it was worth purchasing. I was extremely disappointed. One song consisted of the same 11 notes played over and over again for 3 minutes. One song had so much distortion it was painful to listen to. A lot of it sounded like the soundtrack to Alone In The Dark, or some other similarly themed game. The music was extremely repetive. Most of the songs were extremely simple, and were basically the equivalent musically of "Mary Had a Little Lamb", although the song sounded a little darked. I'm not sure why everybody thinks it's so great. I love that bands are starting to have much better online music offerings, and breaking away from the labels. However I found that this album just isn't something that I enjoy listening to.
Couldn't you just have a USB stick with a physical switch to set it as readonly, and then set the computer to only boot off that device? Most (all?) new computers support booting off the USB device. Using this method of booting, along with having /usr and other places mounted as write only, you could probably stop most stuff from infecting the system. You might still have a problem with things infecting your home directory, but that can be more easily removed.
Running under a VM is really nice for debugging purposes. Changing the code in mid-run, and continuing on executing the code saves a lot of time. Also, you can actually rewind from an exception in .Net, fix the problem, and continue on debugging. Running thing's in .Net lets you get a whole lot more information about where your memory is being used, or where the performance bottlenecks are. Some of this stuff is probably possible without a VM, but having a VM adds a lot of features that you simply can perform with regular machine code.
It allows you to specify per-application permissions, without creating a new user for each application. So you can run something as yourself, from your browser, but give it no access to the file system. You could give an application access to the file system, but no access to the network. Running under a VM lets you have a lot more fine-tuned control over what the application can and can't do. It also does it in a way that's completely platform independant. So even if you are using DOS 3.2 (assuming the VM runs on that platform), then the permissions you set, will work.
It probably has a lot to do with their clients more than their banking system. I remember hearing that ING had very low identity theft rates, and people chalked it up to their convoluted login system. I would say it has more to do with the fact that they are only online, and scare away a lot of web-savvy people. Also, because they mostly only for savings accounts, their clients pass the automatic IQ test by actually saving some money.
Is it really entirely necessary to do online banking? Sure, using the web for other stuff could be considered mandatory, but what's to stop you from not using online banking. I know tons of people who don't use online banking, just because they like the traditional method better.
I could use a circle, but then I couldn't have borders going from width 3, to width 1 in the transition of the corner. I've never seen a solution that uses only CSS. Could you please show me one. Most of the other implementations I've seen used 4 nested divs, so my solution was a lot nicer.
If you're looking for a way to do rounded borders, you might want to check out my method of creating rounded borders. It seems to be a lot easier than all the other implementations I've found, and doesn't require you to mess with your HTML too much.
Microsoft is playing some serious catch-up after laying dormant with IE6 for so long. It will be nice if they can get XHTML 1, CSS2, and HTML4 all working respectably well in IE8. It's yet to be seen if they will maintain that momentum and continue to adopt new standards such as HTML5 and CSS3. I personally hope they do, especially with CSS3, as it has lots of really nice features.
Yes, other than not passing Acid2, I can't find any major problems with Firefox's rendering. Other browsers do much better on the Acid2, but do much worse in actual real world web pages.
So does Safari. Yet from my experience it has way more rendering bugs than most other browsers I've used and tested against. Passing Acid2 does not mean that it is standards compliant. For instance. IE doesn't support the :last-child pseudo-class, but that doesn't appear in Acid2. So even if it does pass Acid2, it may still not support this feature.
The major problem is that paypal actually uses email to communicate with their customers. Telling people to ignore emails from paypal isn't really what they want.
Why are you following a link to go to your banking site? Why is your friend emailing you the URL to your bank? I don't check every link. But when I go to my banking website, I type in the URL myself, or click on the bookmark. And then I look for the little lock on the bottom of my screen. Probably not completely impenetrable, but until the rest of the world gets a whole lot smarter, most phishers won't try anything more advanced.
Does paypal offer the ability to sign (via PGP) the legitimate emails they send? I'm not a user, so I wouldn't know, but I think it would be a good feature. For a company who deals with money, and who's only way of contacting their customers is through email, it would be nice if you could really verify that the email they actually did sent was legitimate. I know that it wouldn't be for everyone, and that most people probably wouldn't know what to do with signed emails. However, for those of us who do, it would be a very welcome feature.