Your employer doesn't know what he's talking about. You can't go after the consumers for purchasing or using a device that infringes on patents. Maybe he's afraid of getting cut off of service with no quick way to get service back. That would be a realistic fear. But there is no way that NTP could sue the end users.
As bad as the bugs are in PHP, I'd have to say that the biggest thing you have to fear with ECommerce sites is badly written code in any language. A well written site in PHP is much better off than a poorly written site in J2EE. Most of the insecurity problems with ecommerce sites are due to bad coding, and not the underlying technology used.
I think pen based for pointing is a good thing. However, I find that entering text via the pen never worked very well. It was slower than typing on the mini keyboards, didn't feel natural, so you're writing was messsy, and if you weren't sitting still (on a bus,in a car), then it was even worse.
If we're going to go down that route, where would GAIM be without MSN,ICQ/AIM, and all the other important chat networks. Probably sitting on the outside of obscurity with Jabber.
I don't think most parents would bring their kid into a TRU because it would just be too much trouble. Unless they are actually planning on buying something, I don't think most people go in. I know that kids should be able to understand no means no, and just because you're in a toystore, doesn't mean that you're getting a toy. But that isn't in general the way things work for most kids. Parents bring their kids to walmart because they have lots of different things to buy. TRU is kind of a specialty shop that you don't go to unless you specificly need an item and they have the best price. Which isn't very often.
Web developer is a god send for people who do web development for a living. I don't know how people get by without it. Seriously. It has so many useful features that I can't think of a day I've gone without using it. That, along with the Venkman Javascript debugger, have made my life as a web developer 10 times easier. Microsoft et al should have stuff like this for web development environments.
I actually don't use adblock. What I do use is flashblock. This cuts out 95% of the annoying ads. I don't mind seeing ads as long as they aren't really annoying and intrusive. I think Noscript would be nice too, for those really annoying ones that show up and move around over the content you are viewing. But I don't use it because there are enough sites out there that need javascript to function correctly, such that it would be annoying to have to enable it for every new site I went to. The thing that I find blocks the most annoying stuff is firefox's built in pop-up blocker.
I know a lot of people who had these laptops in university. Definitely a bad idea. If you had 2 lectures in a row then you were pretty much out of luck, unless you could get one of the few precious seats next to an outlet. Often students would carry powerbars with them so they could share the outlets. Remember the whole centrino pitch by intel, that was supposed to disconnect you, so you wouldn't have to be tethered down by wires. I don't think that's happened yet. I should be able to go a whole day without even having to think about charging the laptop. Imagine if you had to stop and charge your cellphone after every call.
I never understood why people bought the desktop replacement notebooks. The smaller notebooks easily have enough power to run almost all applications except games and maybe video editing. Lots of people think it's a really good idea until they have to carry the thing around. Then they wish they had bought an iBook or other actual portable computer.
I bought metroid prime for $CDN 12.50 after tax used at EB. I can't possibly imagine paying $10 for a "classic" game. Maybe they should make them more like iTunes. $0.99 sounds like a fair price to me.
Yes, but none of those features require a new computer. They support a bunch of new hardware, and fix some old security holes. Windows XP should be able to run on an old computer, but instead, they make everything take up tons of resources, even when it doesn't need to. With linux it's possible to slim it down so that it runs on old computers, with all the support for new hardware, and security fixes. Try doing that with windows XP.
Not to bash people who don't speak english, and live in an english country, but I would like to know how they get around in day to day life. I find that knowing how to speak the language spoken by everyone else is important. If I were to move to a country that spoke a different language, I would make every effort possible to learn that language. I took a trip to Quebec, and feel completely helpless because I don't speak french as well as I would like to. How do people carry on their day-to-day lives, without knowing the language that everyone is speaking?
This is what I don't get about MS. Every time they come out with a new OS, they block off a large segment of the market because of very high minimum requirements. There's no reason that they couldn't make windows XP run well on slower computers. Just tone down the eye-candy, and cut down on some things you don't really need. Even the current version of Linux will run on a 486. You just cut out the things you don't need. When you look at it, windows XP doesn't really offer anything new over windows 95. A new version of IE, flashy new version of media player, and support for new technologies. But none of these things really require that it won't run on old machines. Since microsoft doesn't sell PCs, doesn't it make sense that they sell a product that works on as many PCs as possible, instead of working only on PCs made in the last 2 years?
Will they be required to bring it with them to class? Will it have to have WiFi and a P4/G5 processor. Will it have to run windows? What happens when it gets stolen? Do you get kicked out until you buy a new one?
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With web servers it's possible to serve the same content up from multiple servers. Couldn't this be done for world of warcraft? You store the data on a central db, and when you lot into a server, it loads up your character, and lets you play. You'd be able to play on any server, with the same character.
Shouldn't airplanes (the software controlling them) be able to deal with bad information coming in from their GPS systems, either by shutting down, and letting the pilot take over, or having redundant systems that detect when a sensor is giving incorrect data? Don't pilots have to know how to navigate and control the plane without GPS in the case where it isn't working.
But a good filter can do the work. Without giving a back door for companies that have money. I use spam assassin, and It probably catches > 95% of the spam, and in about a year and a half, have only had it block 3 or 4 messages that weren't spam. I get a lot of news letters and emails from companies that I want to get like Nintendo, and all that gets through.
As good as that is, it's nice to go to a school with a good co-op program. Makes it much easier to find a job in the off season when you got the university lining employers up for you. My university had > 95% placement rate, and lots of people got really good jobs. The jobs payed pretty well too.
I find that Mapquest gives much better maps than Google. When zoomed out mapquest gives many more street names, so that you can actually find what you're looking for, or looking for a better point of reference. Check out the links to see what i'm talking about. Mapquest is zoomed out a bit more, but it still shows quite a few street names, google on the other hand shows very few street names until you zoom in a bit more. Google doesn't put the street names unless it can fit it within the width of the street.
Exactly. With PC games there are so many variables that it's hard to pin down what the requirements are, or how fast a game will run on any particular system. With Consoles it should run the same on every console. If it doesn't then the console is broken. I think games should have to pass some sort of test by MS/Nintendo/Sony before they are released for the console, so that you don't get games coming out that make you system look bad.
I would rather ensure that I was safe in the occurance that I did hit something. You can make all the collision avoidance stuff you want to in your car, but it should still be safe in the instance where that fails. If you could design a car that would stop all injuries to people inside in all crashes at less than 100 MPH then it would probably be better than a car that avoided most crashes, but if it ever got in a crash would leave the passengers dead or severely injured.
But when the limitations are artificial then it isn't a good thing. You can't have more than x people connect to your web server because we put this stupid limitation in after the fact so we can charge you more. Maybe they should do the same thing with cars. Charge you extra for the ability to go over 50 MPH, or to go in reverse, even though the only reason it doesn't do those things is because they flicked a switch to disable it, not because the car isn't actually capable of it.
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Your employer doesn't know what he's talking about. You can't go after the consumers for purchasing or using a device that infringes on patents. Maybe he's afraid of getting cut off of service with no quick way to get service back. That would be a realistic fear. But there is no way that NTP could sue the end users.
As bad as the bugs are in PHP, I'd have to say that the biggest thing you have to fear with ECommerce sites is badly written code in any language. A well written site in PHP is much better off than a poorly written site in J2EE. Most of the insecurity problems with ecommerce sites are due to bad coding, and not the underlying technology used.
I think pen based for pointing is a good thing. However, I find that entering text via the pen never worked very well. It was slower than typing on the mini keyboards, didn't feel natural, so you're writing was messsy, and if you weren't sitting still (on a bus,in a car), then it was even worse.
If we're going to go down that route, where would GAIM be without MSN,ICQ/AIM, and all the other important chat networks. Probably sitting on the outside of obscurity with Jabber.
I don't think most parents would bring their kid into a TRU because it would just be too much trouble. Unless they are actually planning on buying something, I don't think most people go in. I know that kids should be able to understand no means no, and just because you're in a toystore, doesn't mean that you're getting a toy. But that isn't in general the way things work for most kids. Parents bring their kids to walmart because they have lots of different things to buy. TRU is kind of a specialty shop that you don't go to unless you specificly need an item and they have the best price. Which isn't very often.
Web developer is a god send for people who do web development for a living. I don't know how people get by without it. Seriously. It has so many useful features that I can't think of a day I've gone without using it. That, along with the Venkman Javascript debugger, have made my life as a web developer 10 times easier. Microsoft et al should have stuff like this for web development environments.
I actually don't use adblock. What I do use is flashblock. This cuts out 95% of the annoying ads. I don't mind seeing ads as long as they aren't really annoying and intrusive. I think Noscript would be nice too, for those really annoying ones that show up and move around over the content you are viewing. But I don't use it because there are enough sites out there that need javascript to function correctly, such that it would be annoying to have to enable it for every new site I went to. The thing that I find blocks the most annoying stuff is firefox's built in pop-up blocker.
I know a lot of people who had these laptops in university. Definitely a bad idea. If you had 2 lectures in a row then you were pretty much out of luck, unless you could get one of the few precious seats next to an outlet. Often students would carry powerbars with them so they could share the outlets. Remember the whole centrino pitch by intel, that was supposed to disconnect you, so you wouldn't have to be tethered down by wires. I don't think that's happened yet. I should be able to go a whole day without even having to think about charging the laptop. Imagine if you had to stop and charge your cellphone after every call.
I never understood why people bought the desktop replacement notebooks. The smaller notebooks easily have enough power to run almost all applications except games and maybe video editing. Lots of people think it's a really good idea until they have to carry the thing around. Then they wish they had bought an iBook or other actual portable computer.
I bought metroid prime for $CDN 12.50 after tax used at EB. I can't possibly imagine paying $10 for a "classic" game. Maybe they should make them more like iTunes. $0.99 sounds like a fair price to me.
Yes, but none of those features require a new computer. They support a bunch of new hardware, and fix some old security holes. Windows XP should be able to run on an old computer, but instead, they make everything take up tons of resources, even when it doesn't need to. With linux it's possible to slim it down so that it runs on old computers, with all the support for new hardware, and security fixes. Try doing that with windows XP.
Not to bash people who don't speak english, and live in an english country, but I would like to know how they get around in day to day life. I find that knowing how to speak the language spoken by everyone else is important. If I were to move to a country that spoke a different language, I would make every effort possible to learn that language. I took a trip to Quebec, and feel completely helpless because I don't speak french as well as I would like to. How do people carry on their day-to-day lives, without knowing the language that everyone is speaking?
This is what I don't get about MS. Every time they come out with a new OS, they block off a large segment of the market because of very high minimum requirements. There's no reason that they couldn't make windows XP run well on slower computers. Just tone down the eye-candy, and cut down on some things you don't really need. Even the current version of Linux will run on a 486. You just cut out the things you don't need. When you look at it, windows XP doesn't really offer anything new over windows 95. A new version of IE, flashy new version of media player, and support for new technologies. But none of these things really require that it won't run on old machines. Since microsoft doesn't sell PCs, doesn't it make sense that they sell a product that works on as many PCs as possible, instead of working only on PCs made in the last 2 years?
Will they be required to bring it with them to class? Will it have to have WiFi and a P4/G5 processor. Will it have to run windows? What happens when it gets stolen? Do you get kicked out until you buy a new one?
With web servers it's possible to serve the same content up from multiple servers. Couldn't this be done for world of warcraft? You store the data on a central db, and when you lot into a server, it loads up your character, and lets you play. You'd be able to play on any server, with the same character.
Shouldn't airplanes (the software controlling them) be able to deal with bad information coming in from their GPS systems, either by shutting down, and letting the pilot take over, or having redundant systems that detect when a sensor is giving incorrect data? Don't pilots have to know how to navigate and control the plane without GPS in the case where it isn't working.
But a good filter can do the work. Without giving a back door for companies that have money. I use spam assassin, and It probably catches > 95% of the spam, and in about a year and a half, have only had it block 3 or 4 messages that weren't spam. I get a lot of news letters and emails from companies that I want to get like Nintendo, and all that gets through.
As good as that is, it's nice to go to a school with a good co-op program. Makes it much easier to find a job in the off season when you got the university lining employers up for you. My university had > 95% placement rate, and lots of people got really good jobs. The jobs payed pretty well too.
I find that Mapquest gives much better maps than Google. When zoomed out mapquest gives many more street names, so that you can actually find what you're looking for, or looking for a better point of reference. Check out the links to see what i'm talking about. Mapquest is zoomed out a bit more, but it still shows quite a few street names, google on the other hand shows very few street names until you zoom in a bit more. Google doesn't put the street names unless it can fit it within the width of the street.
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Exactly. With PC games there are so many variables that it's hard to pin down what the requirements are, or how fast a game will run on any particular system. With Consoles it should run the same on every console. If it doesn't then the console is broken. I think games should have to pass some sort of test by MS/Nintendo/Sony before they are released for the console, so that you don't get games coming out that make you system look bad.
Just use whatever they use on star trek / star wars when travelling at faster than light speeds.
I think that metal has been around much longer than animals or the earth itself.
I have a mug that won't break either. Mine is made of metal.
I would rather ensure that I was safe in the occurance that I did hit something. You can make all the collision avoidance stuff you want to in your car, but it should still be safe in the instance where that fails. If you could design a car that would stop all injuries to people inside in all crashes at less than 100 MPH then it would probably be better than a car that avoided most crashes, but if it ever got in a crash would leave the passengers dead or severely injured.
But when the limitations are artificial then it isn't a good thing. You can't have more than x people connect to your web server because we put this stupid limitation in after the fact so we can charge you more. Maybe they should do the same thing with cars. Charge you extra for the ability to go over 50 MPH, or to go in reverse, even though the only reason it doesn't do those things is because they flicked a switch to disable it, not because the car isn't actually capable of it.