I think the real trick is not to use white for the main text, but actually a very light grey. White does stand out a little too much, and is nice for text that needs to be highlighted. light grey on black, or light grey on blue, like in the style of the old WordPerfect is very easy on the eyes.
I've always found it more comfortable reading white (or light grey actually) on black. I've set up visual studio this way at work. I've never really understand the need to have my computer screen look like a piece of paper. Is there anyway to simple reverse the color scheme (like a photographic negative) on a list of sites so that I can see the site in white on black?
How many of those were people who try to flash their firmware to try to install custom Linux software on there, and ended up messing up the router? Linksys routers are about the only ones I've commonly heard of being used for this purpose, also I'm sure it can be done with other routers. Linksys is well known for this. I'm wondering how many people screw it up.
Seems to me like it might dilute the enterprise-grade product appeal if they start slapping it on consumer products. Regardless of the actual quality, you'll see a lot of people start to associate Cisco with home networking, and not with real enterprise hardware. Just like MS sells Datacentre Server, which is supposed to be for really big servers, most people don't equate windows with being a real Datacenter OS, because it's what they see on their computers at home, with histories of blue screens and security holes.
That's why someone like Google should go to work indexing and caching their own copies of this stuff. Is there a service that lets you date files? I've always thought this was a good idea. Send a file over the internet to some organization, and they digitally sign it, and somehow include the date which it was signed. I'm not sure how easy it would be to implement something like this, or to prevent them from just signing something with some other date, but stuff like this would be useful for having verification with dates, of when something happened.
After all the horror stories I've heard about corrupted databases and using network drives as the sole means of accessing the repository with Visual Source Safe, I'm not sure if I'd ever want to use a source control system from MS. SVN and CVS are simple, well tested, and can be accessed in a about 1000 different ways, from almost every IDE and operating system. I don't see any strong points to Microsofts offerings, but I hear lots of downsides, such as being crashes, corrupted databases, and very heavy on the network. I think I remember something about having to be connected to edit code in the repository, but that's too stupid, so I must have misread that.
The money in OSS is in support, not in the end product itself.
This is true even of closed source software. MS may make some money selling copies of Windows, Office, and a bunch of other applications. But they also make a lot of money on support contracts, training courses, certifications, and all the other stuff that goes inline with selling the software. There is a lot of money to be made helping people use software, because most of the people using it have no idea how it works.
That's right, currently it's only trademark, but I think that something of the sorts would be useful on copyright as well. If you don't enforce your copyright, or don't sell your copyrighted product, then copyright shouldn't apply. Copyright is there so the owner of the copyright can make money from selling their product, and stop others from selling the same product. If the owner of the copyright doesn't want to sell their product, or doesn't want to stop others from selling (or giving away) their product, then they should give up their copyrights for that product, because they aren't taking advantage of said copyright. Especially in the case when the owner is no longer selling a certain copyrighted item, there should be no problem with making copies, since the owner of the copyright isn't losing anything, because they weren't selling it in the first place.
I know I used to access Yahoo mail all the time through https because the filters at work blocked regular yahoo mail. https was an easy work around. Funny story, but www.yahoo.com/mail was the only one blocked at first, then an admin saw me access yahoo mail. He was like, how'd you do that?, and then I showed him the wonders of mail.yahoo.com. I never even knew it was supposed to be blocked. Within the next couple of days, mail.yahoo.com became blocked. Only took me a couple more days to discover https://mail.yahoo.com./ That lasted me up until the end of my 4 month coop term.
There should be a firefox plug-in that will automatically redirect you to the https url whenever you try to go through the http url. Possibly enable only secure mode for an entire domain. That sure would be handy. That way you don't have to worry about going to the non-secure url by accident.
However, like you said, Australia has bountiful beaches. Tons of them. And not a whole lot of people either. At least no relative to the states. I imagine their ocean side property is at quite a premium. It's completely understandable that beaches would be something you have to pay for. Then again, I'm from a town of 12,000 with 2 beaches, with the town built around a lake. Most of the time we didn't even go to the beach but to some other swimming hole where there wasn't so many people. Anyway, I guess times have changed.
I couldn't see bringing a laptop, or any other wireless device to the beach. First, when you want to go in the water, what do you do with it? Trek all the way back to your car and leave it to roast in there? Second, even if you don't plan on going in the water (why are you at the beach), the sand would still be a major problem.
Chicken breast with or without the skin? Fried, baked, grilled, or poached (gross)? If you're just buying Nestle Ice Tea or similar name brand stuff, then the sugar intake can be quite high. Nestle Iced tea has 89 Calories per cup, while Coke has 105 (based on quick google). Not much different. Also, you don't mention if you're exercising. If you are exercising and eating a low fat and low calorie diet and aren't losing weight, I suggest you see your doctor.
That's what they do with the confederation bridge I linked to above. I see no problem with making a toll on the road, especially when most of it's users are from out-of-state, and didn't pay the taxes that had it built.
Yeah, but 512 MB doesn't do so much for you anymore. Back then 512 MB was all you needed, and if you got 1 Gig, you were swimming in RAM. Now 1 Gig of RAM is the least I will use on a desktop. If I was running Vista, I'd probably want close to 2GB.
Oh, we call him on it all the time. He has some pretty good excuses, like how he tries to go to the gym once a week. Meaning he probably makes it about once a month. One good thing, my boss kept on calling on him about his smoking, and he actually quit. Once you keep on telling people that it's just a motivational issue, and that quitting is entirely possible, they start to realize they can do it. Same thing for losing weight. People try something for a month or 2, and then give up because they've only lost 5 lbs. It took them 5 years to gain that weight, and they want to lose it all in 2 months. People have to realize that they just have to stick with it.
My only other problem is with people who "work out" who don't really work out. They don't break a sweat or get their heart rate up. They go to the gym and take a leisurely walk on the treadmill, or lift some 5 lb. dumbbells. That's not how to lose weight. They say, no pain no gain. That doesn't mean that you have to hurt yourself from exercising too much, but that if you don't feel the workout, then you aren't doing it right.
I remember about a year back reading about state of the art motherboards that got rid of all this crap we don't need. I seriously think that more manufacturers should do this. I have no use for a serial, parallel, ps2, floppy connectors, IDE connectors, and all the other legacy junk they insist on putting on motherboards. Every one of those ports takes away 1 (or several in the case of parallel/ide) ports that could be something useful, such as USB, FireWire, SATA, or something that people will actually use. If people want to hook up ancient hardware, let them use PCI adapter cards and port replecators.
All of us with DDR RAM are pretty bitter about that. I was pretty bitter about a year ago when I tried to buy SDRAM. That stuff is expensive. Still, I can hope that we can go back to the good old days (march 2001???) when SDRAM was $CDN 30 for 512 megs. That was when RAM was the cheapest it has ever been, at least considering how much you could do with 512 MB back then. Now that's that won't even get you the shiny desktop on windows vista.
Exactly. Good riddance. It's not as though these things are in high demand. Sure some company will keep on producing them for people that are into legacy hardware, but I fully expected that the main manufacturers (Seagate, Maxtor, WD, et al) would stop producing these things eventually.
As a new parent (in the past 15 months) I find it appalling that these kind of laws have to be even thought about. There's a lot of bad stuff out there, but there was a lot of bad stuff out there when I was a kid too. Parents that let their kids be babysat by the TV or the internet are going to end up with children who don't know how to make their own judgements. Sheild the world from the evils of the internet, and nobody is going to know how to deal with these situations when they arrive. You can either follow your kids around every second of their life catching them every time they fall, before they hit the ground, or let them hit the ground a couple times, and learn from their mistakes.
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I think the real trick is not to use white for the main text, but actually a very light grey. White does stand out a little too much, and is nice for text that needs to be highlighted. light grey on black, or light grey on blue, like in the style of the old WordPerfect is very easy on the eyes.
I've always found it more comfortable reading white (or light grey actually) on black. I've set up visual studio this way at work. I've never really understand the need to have my computer screen look like a piece of paper. Is there anyway to simple reverse the color scheme (like a photographic negative) on a list of sites so that I can see the site in white on black?
How many of those were people who try to flash their firmware to try to install custom Linux software on there, and ended up messing up the router? Linksys routers are about the only ones I've commonly heard of being used for this purpose, also I'm sure it can be done with other routers. Linksys is well known for this. I'm wondering how many people screw it up.
Even HP still sells the Compaq brand. These are well known names, they shouldn't just throw away a good name.
Seems to me like it might dilute the enterprise-grade product appeal if they start slapping it on consumer products. Regardless of the actual quality, you'll see a lot of people start to associate Cisco with home networking, and not with real enterprise hardware. Just like MS sells Datacentre Server, which is supposed to be for really big servers, most people don't equate windows with being a real Datacenter OS, because it's what they see on their computers at home, with histories of blue screens and security holes.
That's why someone like Google should go to work indexing and caching their own copies of this stuff. Is there a service that lets you date files? I've always thought this was a good idea. Send a file over the internet to some organization, and they digitally sign it, and somehow include the date which it was signed. I'm not sure how easy it would be to implement something like this, or to prevent them from just signing something with some other date, but stuff like this would be useful for having verification with dates, of when something happened.
After all the horror stories I've heard about corrupted databases and using network drives as the sole means of accessing the repository with Visual Source Safe, I'm not sure if I'd ever want to use a source control system from MS. SVN and CVS are simple, well tested, and can be accessed in a about 1000 different ways, from almost every IDE and operating system. I don't see any strong points to Microsofts offerings, but I hear lots of downsides, such as being crashes, corrupted databases, and very heavy on the network. I think I remember something about having to be connected to edit code in the repository, but that's too stupid, so I must have misread that.
That's right, currently it's only trademark, but I think that something of the sorts would be useful on copyright as well. If you don't enforce your copyright, or don't sell your copyrighted product, then copyright shouldn't apply. Copyright is there so the owner of the copyright can make money from selling their product, and stop others from selling the same product. If the owner of the copyright doesn't want to sell their product, or doesn't want to stop others from selling (or giving away) their product, then they should give up their copyrights for that product, because they aren't taking advantage of said copyright. Especially in the case when the owner is no longer selling a certain copyrighted item, there should be no problem with making copies, since the owner of the copyright isn't losing anything, because they weren't selling it in the first place.
I know I used to access Yahoo mail all the time through https because the filters at work blocked regular yahoo mail. https was an easy work around. Funny story, but www.yahoo.com/mail was the only one blocked at first, then an admin saw me access yahoo mail. He was like, how'd you do that?, and then I showed him the wonders of mail.yahoo.com. I never even knew it was supposed to be blocked. Within the next couple of days, mail.yahoo.com became blocked. Only took me a couple more days to discover https://mail.yahoo.com./ That lasted me up until the end of my 4 month coop term.
There should be a firefox plug-in that will automatically redirect you to the https url whenever you try to go through the http url. Possibly enable only secure mode for an entire domain. That sure would be handy. That way you don't have to worry about going to the non-secure url by accident.
However, like you said, Australia has bountiful beaches. Tons of them. And not a whole lot of people either. At least no relative to the states. I imagine their ocean side property is at quite a premium. It's completely understandable that beaches would be something you have to pay for. Then again, I'm from a town of 12,000 with 2 beaches, with the town built around a lake. Most of the time we didn't even go to the beach but to some other swimming hole where there wasn't so many people. Anyway, I guess times have changed.
I couldn't see bringing a laptop, or any other wireless device to the beach. First, when you want to go in the water, what do you do with it? Trek all the way back to your car and leave it to roast in there? Second, even if you don't plan on going in the water (why are you at the beach), the sand would still be a major problem.
Ok, maybe OpenBSD isn't aimed at the desktop, but apparently PC-BSD is.
Chicken breast with or without the skin? Fried, baked, grilled, or poached (gross)? If you're just buying Nestle Ice Tea or similar name brand stuff, then the sugar intake can be quite high. Nestle Iced tea has 89 Calories per cup, while Coke has 105 (based on quick google). Not much different. Also, you don't mention if you're exercising. If you are exercising and eating a low fat and low calorie diet and aren't losing weight, I suggest you see your doctor.
That's what they do with the confederation bridge I linked to above. I see no problem with making a toll on the road, especially when most of it's users are from out-of-state, and didn't pay the taxes that had it built.
Yeah, but 512 MB doesn't do so much for you anymore. Back then 512 MB was all you needed, and if you got 1 Gig, you were swimming in RAM. Now 1 Gig of RAM is the least I will use on a desktop. If I was running Vista, I'd probably want close to 2GB.
Oh, we call him on it all the time. He has some pretty good excuses, like how he tries to go to the gym once a week. Meaning he probably makes it about once a month. One good thing, my boss kept on calling on him about his smoking, and he actually quit. Once you keep on telling people that it's just a motivational issue, and that quitting is entirely possible, they start to realize they can do it. Same thing for losing weight. People try something for a month or 2, and then give up because they've only lost 5 lbs. It took them 5 years to gain that weight, and they want to lose it all in 2 months. People have to realize that they just have to stick with it.
My only other problem is with people who "work out" who don't really work out. They don't break a sweat or get their heart rate up. They go to the gym and take a leisurely walk on the treadmill, or lift some 5 lb. dumbbells. That's not how to lose weight. They say, no pain no gain. That doesn't mean that you have to hurt yourself from exercising too much, but that if you don't feel the workout, then you aren't doing it right.
I remember about a year back reading about state of the art motherboards that got rid of all this crap we don't need. I seriously think that more manufacturers should do this. I have no use for a serial, parallel, ps2, floppy connectors, IDE connectors, and all the other legacy junk they insist on putting on motherboards. Every one of those ports takes away 1 (or several in the case of parallel/ide) ports that could be something useful, such as USB, FireWire, SATA, or something that people will actually use. If people want to hook up ancient hardware, let them use PCI adapter cards and port replecators.
All of us with DDR RAM are pretty bitter about that. I was pretty bitter about a year ago when I tried to buy SDRAM. That stuff is expensive. Still, I can hope that we can go back to the good old days (march 2001???) when SDRAM was $CDN 30 for 512 megs. That was when RAM was the cheapest it has ever been, at least considering how much you could do with 512 MB back then. Now that's that won't even get you the shiny desktop on windows vista.
Exactly. Good riddance. It's not as though these things are in high demand. Sure some company will keep on producing them for people that are into legacy hardware, but I fully expected that the main manufacturers (Seagate, Maxtor, WD, et al) would stop producing these things eventually.
As a new parent (in the past 15 months) I find it appalling that these kind of laws have to be even thought about. There's a lot of bad stuff out there, but there was a lot of bad stuff out there when I was a kid too. Parents that let their kids be babysat by the TV or the internet are going to end up with children who don't know how to make their own judgements. Sheild the world from the evils of the internet, and nobody is going to know how to deal with these situations when they arrive. You can either follow your kids around every second of their life catching them every time they fall, before they hit the ground, or let them hit the ground a couple times, and learn from their mistakes.
In case anybody is wondering, it seems like he's talking about this bridge. And I thought us Canadians were crazy with our bridge building.
Finally a solution to the world's energy problems.