Re:I think I buy into this "ajax" thing
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This is what bothers me a little bit. Sometimes when I'm at a web page that uses Ajax, I'm expecting the page to refresh, or do something else when I, say, click on button. Sometimes you don't even notice stuff happening, and you're sitting there waiting for some page to load, that is never going to load. I know how the web works, so I expect things to happen a certain way. When pages use AJAX, they change the way things are done, and start to confuse those that really know what's going on.
Re:Can AJAX finally bring us "push technology"
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You really can't do "push" with webpages, or their data. You could make something that looked like push, but in reality is actually just polling. The problem with this is that AJAX is supposed to reduce the amount of traffic to a website. If you have users constantly polling you for information, you're going to increase your load. I guess it would be better than polling and getting an entire page every time. We'd need to change the way AJAX works in order to get something that was truly "push".
This is why I think firefox is a good browser. It mostly contains the minimum, and doesn't try to include everything under the sun. If you want extra features, you can download and install extensions which provide the functionality you want. The same thing work work very well in the IDE or Word Processor system, which 90% of the features go unused by most of the users. The program would be much easier to master if it only contained the features you need.
For the price of stamping out a couple of CDs, they should probably include the CDs, along with the USB drive. They must be able to stamp CDs out for about 10 cents a piece by now.
This is a terrible idea. Only a small amount of people actually own computers and know what a flash USB drive is, let alone how to transfer the songs to a CD. I think that they are seriously overestimating the computer saviness of society on this one. I know a lot of people that would think this is a good idea. But I'm a big geek, and so are all my friends. We're definitely not what you would call average. If I want MP3s, I'll buy the CD, and rip it to MP3. I'm not going to pay $30 for mp3s on a device I may or may not end up keeping the songs on. I like CDs because they provide pretty much permanent storage, as long as I don't scratch them, and I don't have to worry about losing the music when my hard drive dies. I don't see any advantage over offering the music in this format over a standard audio CD.
Maybe not rural america, but rural canada has these prices. Check out http://www.remaxelliotlake.com/ and check the listings for townhouse and condo. they are mostly under 30 grand. If you want a 2 story, you can get one for 50k. Remember, these are the list prices, and you can usually bring people down.
I know people who just won't switch away from IE, even though they know of all the security advantages, and even though they've seen the tabs in FF. Some people have been using IE for so long that it really is hard for them to switch. When you've been getting the job done without tabs for so long, its hard to change your entire working method and start using tabs.
On another point, why doesn't Microsoft default windows to some better refreh rate. Surely there's ways to determine what refresh rates the monitor accepts when you install the OS. If you can see this, click ok, works pretty well in most situations.
With the cost of living difference between the two, you could afford to travel to the city to do exciting things. While at the same time, not having to put up with the "excitement" of the city all the time. Small towns are exciting, you just have to learn how to make them exciting.
I was referring more to Canada, and I can tell you, there are a lot of places where you can get a house this cheap. In my home town, 5 years ago, you could get a townhouse in great condition, 10 years old for under 20K. Single family homes were going for 30K. And even the really nice houses had trouble selling for more than 70K. Now prices have gone up, but you can still get a townhouse for 30K, and a single family home for 60K. I know one girl who bought a house and was only paying $250 on her mortgage. Just think about how cheap you could live if your mortgage was only $250.
Where do you live? I live in ottawa, and I don't recall having too many blackouts. I remember the giant blackout that lasted for days, and maybe 1 other black out in the last 6 years. There's small ones, maybe lasting 15 seconds, that your UPS should be able to handle. But I think the only one that lasted longer than a minute was that huge one that affected a big chunk of North America.
I don't get why more companies don't do this. In small towns, you can pay people a lot less and still keep them really happy. When their house only costs $30000, you don't have to pay them $80000 a year to allow them to live comfortably. Also, it would allow more people to live in small towns. The only reason that many people live in cities is because of access to more jobs. I think if people had just as many opportunities to jobs while living in small towns, then they would live there.
As the other guy said, don't isntall stuff you don't want to support. Also, I would like to point out that you shouldn't complain that things are being patched. With Microsoft you get what you get. That doesn't mean that everything that should get patched does. I don't think that Microsoft has some super secret coding model that makes them actually have less bugs. If there are less patches, then there are more things that are broken. Think about how long it's taken to get Transparent PNGs working in IE. It's still not working, and will only ever be fixed in IE7. I realize this is a non-critical bug, but it kind of shows their attitude towards fixing things that really should be fixed in the interest of providing a good product.
Yeah this is so true. Windows servers usually have to be upgraded every few years or you risk losing access to bug and security fixes. With Linux you always have updates to the security fixes, no matter how old you system is. I don't really see why you would migrate from SUSE 8 to SUSE 9 rather than just update a few key packages you happen to be using. For a web server, update Apache, maybe MySQL or PostgreSQL, and probably the kernel, if there are big changes that actually affect you. No reason to go updating everything on your system.
Yeah, the best trick was to leave it dangling behind you, so that anything that came up from behind would never hit you. And you should always have one in reserve for when something does hit it. Also, you could easily hit the guy in second by releasing it when they are just behind you, and therefore have no time to dodge.
I'm pretty sure in Linux you can use ModeLines to specify just about any refresh rate and resolution you want. Whether or not your video card an screen will accept them is another story. Is there anyway to do this in windows, possible through the registry, or editing some text file?
In your display properties (desktop-> right click -> properties) go to settings tab and click on the advanced button. Then go to Adapter, and click the list all modes button. You'll generally see a lot more modes there then you will get with the slider bar. I'm not sure what kind of success you'll get with trying the different modes.
That's the whole strategy behind the game though. Wait until the right moment to use your weapons, when they will be the most effective. I certainly wish they would change the game, or at least give the option, so that the items were actually random, and the person in last place didn't end up getting all the good weapons, and the person in first stuck using green shells and banana peels.
Yeah, The newer version of the PS2 doesn't support 40 PS1 games. There is like a lot of games for PS1, so supporting all but 40 of them is pretty good. The funny part, is that 7 PS2 games are now unsupported. When a system doesn't support its own games, that's pretty bad.
The games do change a lot from system to system. If not just for better graphics, then for a whole set of new tracks. I guess that many people wouldn't go out and buy the new mario kart if the old one worked in their new system. But that really depends on the person. I know people who by the EA Sports NHL Game, even when they are on the same system and their game from last year still runs perfectly fine.
RC Pro AM and Excitebike were nice. Maybe Test Drive would be nice. Although the newer ones kind of suck. I think the NFS series should be on the list. There's probably a tonne of games that I'm forgetting.
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This is what bothers me a little bit. Sometimes when I'm at a web page that uses Ajax, I'm expecting the page to refresh, or do something else when I, say, click on button. Sometimes you don't even notice stuff happening, and you're sitting there waiting for some page to load, that is never going to load. I know how the web works, so I expect things to happen a certain way. When pages use AJAX, they change the way things are done, and start to confuse those that really know what's going on.
You really can't do "push" with webpages, or their data. You could make something that looked like push, but in reality is actually just polling. The problem with this is that AJAX is supposed to reduce the amount of traffic to a website. If you have users constantly polling you for information, you're going to increase your load. I guess it would be better than polling and getting an entire page every time. We'd need to change the way AJAX works in order to get something that was truly "push".
This is why I think firefox is a good browser. It mostly contains the minimum, and doesn't try to include everything under the sun. If you want extra features, you can download and install extensions which provide the functionality you want. The same thing work work very well in the IDE or Word Processor system, which 90% of the features go unused by most of the users. The program would be much easier to master if it only contained the features you need.
For the price of stamping out a couple of CDs, they should probably include the CDs, along with the USB drive. They must be able to stamp CDs out for about 10 cents a piece by now.
It stands for D Yanking Initiative. You can fill in the D with the any word you find appropriate.
This is a terrible idea. Only a small amount of people actually own computers and know what a flash USB drive is, let alone how to transfer the songs to a CD. I think that they are seriously overestimating the computer saviness of society on this one. I know a lot of people that would think this is a good idea. But I'm a big geek, and so are all my friends. We're definitely not what you would call average. If I want MP3s, I'll buy the CD, and rip it to MP3. I'm not going to pay $30 for mp3s on a device I may or may not end up keeping the songs on. I like CDs because they provide pretty much permanent storage, as long as I don't scratch them, and I don't have to worry about losing the music when my hard drive dies. I don't see any advantage over offering the music in this format over a standard audio CD.
well, remember we are talking about rural. We aren't talking about the price of houses in the cities. Those are always expensive.
Maybe not rural america, but rural canada has these prices. Check out http://www.remaxelliotlake.com/ and check the listings for townhouse and condo. they are mostly under 30 grand. If you want a 2 story, you can get one for 50k. Remember, these are the list prices, and you can usually bring people down.
I know people who just won't switch away from IE, even though they know of all the security advantages, and even though they've seen the tabs in FF. Some people have been using IE for so long that it really is hard for them to switch. When you've been getting the job done without tabs for so long, its hard to change your entire working method and start using tabs.
On another point, why doesn't Microsoft default windows to some better refreh rate. Surely there's ways to determine what refresh rates the monitor accepts when you install the OS. If you can see this, click ok, works pretty well in most situations.
With the cost of living difference between the two, you could afford to travel to the city to do exciting things. While at the same time, not having to put up with the "excitement" of the city all the time. Small towns are exciting, you just have to learn how to make them exciting.
I was referring more to Canada, and I can tell you, there are a lot of places where you can get a house this cheap. In my home town, 5 years ago, you could get a townhouse in great condition, 10 years old for under 20K. Single family homes were going for 30K. And even the really nice houses had trouble selling for more than 70K. Now prices have gone up, but you can still get a townhouse for 30K, and a single family home for 60K. I know one girl who bought a house and was only paying $250 on her mortgage. Just think about how cheap you could live if your mortgage was only $250.
Where do you live? I live in ottawa, and I don't recall having too many blackouts. I remember the giant blackout that lasted for days, and maybe 1 other black out in the last 6 years. There's small ones, maybe lasting 15 seconds, that your UPS should be able to handle. But I think the only one that lasted longer than a minute was that huge one that affected a big chunk of North America.
I don't get why more companies don't do this. In small towns, you can pay people a lot less and still keep them really happy. When their house only costs $30000, you don't have to pay them $80000 a year to allow them to live comfortably. Also, it would allow more people to live in small towns. The only reason that many people live in cities is because of access to more jobs. I think if people had just as many opportunities to jobs while living in small towns, then they would live there.
As the other guy said, don't isntall stuff you don't want to support. Also, I would like to point out that you shouldn't complain that things are being patched. With Microsoft you get what you get. That doesn't mean that everything that should get patched does. I don't think that Microsoft has some super secret coding model that makes them actually have less bugs. If there are less patches, then there are more things that are broken. Think about how long it's taken to get Transparent PNGs working in IE. It's still not working, and will only ever be fixed in IE7. I realize this is a non-critical bug, but it kind of shows their attitude towards fixing things that really should be fixed in the interest of providing a good product.
Yeah this is so true. Windows servers usually have to be upgraded every few years or you risk losing access to bug and security fixes. With Linux you always have updates to the security fixes, no matter how old you system is. I don't really see why you would migrate from SUSE 8 to SUSE 9 rather than just update a few key packages you happen to be using. For a web server, update Apache, maybe MySQL or PostgreSQL, and probably the kernel, if there are big changes that actually affect you. No reason to go updating everything on your system.
Yeah, the best trick was to leave it dangling behind you, so that anything that came up from behind would never hit you. And you should always have one in reserve for when something does hit it. Also, you could easily hit the guy in second by releasing it when they are just behind you, and therefore have no time to dodge.
I'm pretty sure in Linux you can use ModeLines to specify just about any refresh rate and resolution you want. Whether or not your video card an screen will accept them is another story. Is there anyway to do this in windows, possible through the registry, or editing some text file?
In your display properties (desktop-> right click -> properties) go to settings tab and click on the advanced button. Then go to Adapter, and click the list all modes button. You'll generally see a lot more modes there then you will get with the slider bar. I'm not sure what kind of success you'll get with trying the different modes.
That's the whole strategy behind the game though. Wait until the right moment to use your weapons, when they will be the most effective. I certainly wish they would change the game, or at least give the option, so that the items were actually random, and the person in last place didn't end up getting all the good weapons, and the person in first stuck using green shells and banana peels.
Yeah, The newer version of the PS2 doesn't support 40 PS1 games. There is like a lot of games for PS1, so supporting all but 40 of them is pretty good. The funny part, is that 7 PS2 games are now unsupported. When a system doesn't support its own games, that's pretty bad.
The games do change a lot from system to system. If not just for better graphics, then for a whole set of new tracks. I guess that many people wouldn't go out and buy the new mario kart if the old one worked in their new system. But that really depends on the person. I know people who by the EA Sports NHL Game, even when they are on the same system and their game from last year still runs perfectly fine.
RC Pro AM and Excitebike were nice. Maybe Test Drive would be nice. Although the newer ones kind of suck. I think the NFS series should be on the list. There's probably a tonne of games that I'm forgetting.
But Firefox does come for a wide variety of OSes, so surely it's not impossible to create a web browser that runs on almost all OSes.
3000 UKP is nothing compared to what they would have received in the US.