I dunno about on Windows, but the mozilla version I'm using for Solaris (0.9.1 I think) is incredibly slow, which is the main reason I don't use it. When it takes a full 30-45 seconds to start up the browser, it's not really worth the effort. So I stick with NS4, flaws and all.
Wow, I did that as well, and while I didn't post anything I'm particularly ashamed of (I mainly posted in Offspring newsgroups - the band), it's weird seeing posts of mine from 5 years ago. Not only can't I remember posting most of them, a lot of them don't even sound like something I'd write...
The Glorious MEEPT!! is unquestionably the most glorious poster to have ever posted at this site. Witty and insightful and trollish, yet always on-topic.
And by the way, the MSWord document format is insanely difficult for mere mortals to understand.
I'm curious about this part, because I often see contradictory claims. MS and the previous poster claim that the 1997 Word spec is completely open and published. Does the difficulty lie in merely interpreting this spec (i.e. it's all there, but hard to implement), or does it lie in undocumented stuff that has to be reverse-engineered? Or is the 97 spec not the problem at all, and catching up to the Word 2000 file format is the major problem?
Of course if you have to be able to fix the source to get stuff to work (even if it's only a minor fix), then you can't argue with the people who claim "Linux isn't ready for the desktop - you need to be a programmer to use it." You can't have it both ways.
Actually "professional" pirates are the ones I was contrasting with the releasing groups - by "professional" I mean the people with the industrial-level mass-CD-duplication burners who sell pirated CD-Rs to consumers. They're much more common in Taiwan (and most of East Asia, actually), but there are some rings in the U.S.
But it appears the answer was "neither, they went after some couriers."
Well, any responsible educational instutition should try to limit the use of their network at least somewhat. At the very least, if stuff isn't going to be filtered, QoS should be implemented to bandwidth-limit filesharing. If instead you just keep buying fatter pipes, you're forcing everyone to pay more just to feed some people's mp3/warez habit (even the people who don't want to download mp3/warez, and just want an education). Certainly the money could be spent on better things than more bandwidth, in any case.
Does anybody have any further information on this? Was DrinkOrDie the only group targeted? Was this primarily a raid on IRC-based "warez groups" - groups like Razor911, Class, Myth, Deviance, etc., that rip/crack/distribute warez, or was it a raid on professional-level mass-CD-duplication piracy rings?
But I can't see any better solution affordable for the casual home user. CD-R's are even shorter-term media - I've already had 5-year-old CD-R's become unreliable to read, while my 8-year-old hard drive (it's not even an expensive one - some cheap Connor Peripherals thing that came with my Packard Bell) is working 100% perfectly.
I'd call hard drives semi-permanent media that can be taken off-site easily, especially if they are mounted in a removable rack, as suggested. If a hard drive is used solely for backup (say, once a week?), MTBF should not be less than 10 years, even for a Maxtor.
Gush Shalom did acknowledge, if you'd read the page, that Barak made more extensive offers in his final days in office. However, these were not taken seriously by any sides, as it was doubtful that Barak, well on his way out of office, would be able to live up to his end of the bargain - he hadn't even presented the concessions he was supposedly offering on their behalf to the Israeli public, and Sharon, leading by a large margin in the polls, indicated that even if Barak signed an agreement, he would not honor it.
And the concessions still were not the ones you are claiming. They were more, but still not "100% of Gaza, the West Bank, and Jerusalem" - for example, Barak still did not offer a withdrawal from the largest Israeli settlements, those on the outskirts of Jerusalem, such as the contentious neighborhood of Gilo (built on land seized in the 1967 war but since unilaterally annexed by Israel).
First of all, Arafat won the Peace Prize in 1994 for negotiating and signing the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords.
Secondly, Barak never offered all of the West Bank, Gaza, and Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem. He offered most of the Gaza strip (I don't have an exact number), ~80% of the West Bank, and left Jerusalem for "final status negotiations," making no concrete offers regarding it. See here for some maps of Barak's offers in the West Bank (from Gush Shalom, an Israeli peace-advocacy group).
Arafat won the Peace Prize jointly with Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres for his part in negotiating and signing the Oslo peace accords in 1993. I think that was justified - it was certainly a vast step for all of them to take.
I don't have space here to go into an in-depth discussion of the current Israeli-Palestinian situation, but suffice it to say that Israel never offered to end the occupation. They offered to end a significant percentage of it, but the remaining ~20% was so strewn about the West Bank that it would've made any Palestinian state unviable. See this site (an Israeli one, no less) for some maps of Barak's offers.
Your quoted numbers include a huge portion of Russia, which does not have all these services you speak of, as well as the former Yugoslavia and much of eastern Europe. A more accurate figure to quote would be western Europe, whose land mass is a mere 1,400,000 sq miles.
I dunno, the McDonald's in Thessaloniki, Greece was pretty packed, in a decidedly non-tourist area (the only reason I was there is because I have relatives in the area). There were quite a few in Belgium as well...
Interesting...I suppose that's why as far back as I can remember the slowest CD-ROM drive was a 2x (my first was a 2x sometime in the early 90s), because otherwise they wouldn't be able to play audio cds. Though I assume at some point there was a 1x CD-ROM drive which couldn't play audio CDs, or else it would be silly to call 2x "double speed."
No it wouldn't be. Jukeboxes can only read off one CD at a time, and since they're audio devices only do it at 1x. So you'd have a continual 1x stream coming into the digital input, which any decent computer can easily encode in real time.
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Well, when it's a system used by 1000 people, you can't be doing software upgrades every week...
...which is why I use Opera v6.0 on Windows. =P
I dunno about on Windows, but the mozilla version I'm using for Solaris (0.9.1 I think) is incredibly slow, which is the main reason I don't use it. When it takes a full 30-45 seconds to start up the browser, it's not really worth the effort. So I stick with NS4, flaws and all.
Read the story title.
"Grand Theft Auto Still Banned Down Under"
Meaning to any average (non-/.) person: "Stealing Cars is Still Illegal in Australia."
Wow, I did that as well, and while I didn't post anything I'm particularly ashamed of (I mainly posted in Offspring newsgroups - the band), it's weird seeing posts of mine from 5 years ago. Not only can't I remember posting most of them, a lot of them don't even sound like something I'd write...
The Glorious MEEPT!! is unquestionably the most glorious poster to have ever posted at this site. Witty and insightful and trollish, yet always on-topic.
This is the first I've heard of this, which appears to be Microsoft's answer to Lisa(tm Apple) and VisiON (tm Visicorp). (MS-* are tm's of Microsoft)
Looks like Microsoft won that showdown pretty handily.
And by the way, the MSWord document format is insanely difficult for mere mortals to understand.
I'm curious about this part, because I often see contradictory claims. MS and the previous poster claim that the 1997 Word spec is completely open and published. Does the difficulty lie in merely interpreting this spec (i.e. it's all there, but hard to implement), or does it lie in undocumented stuff that has to be reverse-engineered? Or is the 97 spec not the problem at all, and catching up to the Word 2000 file format is the major problem?
Of course if you have to be able to fix the source to get stuff to work (even if it's only a minor fix), then you can't argue with the people who claim "Linux isn't ready for the desktop - you need to be a programmer to use it." You can't have it both ways.
Actually "professional" pirates are the ones I was contrasting with the releasing groups - by "professional" I mean the people with the industrial-level mass-CD-duplication burners who sell pirated CD-Rs to consumers. They're much more common in Taiwan (and most of East Asia, actually), but there are some rings in the U.S.
But it appears the answer was "neither, they went after some couriers."
Well, any responsible educational instutition should try to limit the use of their network at least somewhat. At the very least, if stuff isn't going to be filtered, QoS should be implemented to bandwidth-limit filesharing. If instead you just keep buying fatter pipes, you're forcing everyone to pay more just to feed some people's mp3/warez habit (even the people who don't want to download mp3/warez, and just want an education). Certainly the money could be spent on better things than more bandwidth, in any case.
Does anybody have any further information on this? Was DrinkOrDie the only group targeted? Was this primarily a raid on IRC-based "warez groups" - groups like Razor911, Class, Myth, Deviance, etc., that rip/crack/distribute warez, or was it a raid on professional-level mass-CD-duplication piracy rings?
But I can't see any better solution affordable for the casual home user. CD-R's are even shorter-term media - I've already had 5-year-old CD-R's become unreliable to read, while my 8-year-old hard drive (it's not even an expensive one - some cheap Connor Peripherals thing that came with my Packard Bell) is working 100% perfectly.
I'd call hard drives semi-permanent media that can be taken off-site easily, especially if they are mounted in a removable rack, as suggested. If a hard drive is used solely for backup (say, once a week?), MTBF should not be less than 10 years, even for a Maxtor.
I of course meant "East Jerusalem," not "Jerusalem."
Gush Shalom did acknowledge, if you'd read the page, that Barak made more extensive offers in his final days in office. However, these were not taken seriously by any sides, as it was doubtful that Barak, well on his way out of office, would be able to live up to his end of the bargain - he hadn't even presented the concessions he was supposedly offering on their behalf to the Israeli public, and Sharon, leading by a large margin in the polls, indicated that even if Barak signed an agreement, he would not honor it.
And the concessions still were not the ones you are claiming. They were more, but still not "100% of Gaza, the West Bank, and Jerusalem" - for example, Barak still did not offer a withdrawal from the largest Israeli settlements, those on the outskirts of Jerusalem, such as the contentious neighborhood of Gilo (built on land seized in the 1967 war but since unilaterally annexed by Israel).
First of all, Arafat won the Peace Prize in 1994 for negotiating and signing the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords.
Secondly, Barak never offered all of the West Bank, Gaza, and Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem. He offered most of the Gaza strip (I don't have an exact number), ~80% of the West Bank, and left Jerusalem for "final status negotiations," making no concrete offers regarding it. See here for some maps of Barak's offers in the West Bank (from Gush Shalom, an Israeli peace-advocacy group).
Arafat won the Peace Prize jointly with Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres for his part in negotiating and signing the Oslo peace accords in 1993. I think that was justified - it was certainly a vast step for all of them to take.
I don't have space here to go into an in-depth discussion of the current Israeli-Palestinian situation, but suffice it to say that Israel never offered to end the occupation. They offered to end a significant percentage of it, but the remaining ~20% was so strewn about the West Bank that it would've made any Palestinian state unviable. See this site (an Israeli one, no less) for some maps of Barak's offers.
Uh, Arafat and Rabin won in 1994, as the page you linked to noted. Rabin was murdered by a Jewish extremist in 1995.
Wasn't Linux Linus's thesis project?
Your quoted numbers include a huge portion of Russia, which does not have all these services you speak of, as well as the former Yugoslavia and much of eastern Europe. A more accurate figure to quote would be western Europe, whose land mass is a mere 1,400,000 sq miles.
I dunno, the McDonald's in Thessaloniki, Greece was pretty packed, in a decidedly non-tourist area (the only reason I was there is because I have relatives in the area). There were quite a few in Belgium as well...
If I weren't using win2k, I'd be using Linux; certainly not BeOS...
Except, of course, for the permanent existence of a 1 km tall concrete tower occupying 20 sq km of land...
Interesting...I suppose that's why as far back as I can remember the slowest CD-ROM drive was a 2x (my first was a 2x sometime in the early 90s), because otherwise they wouldn't be able to play audio cds. Though I assume at some point there was a 1x CD-ROM drive which couldn't play audio CDs, or else it would be silly to call 2x "double speed."
No it wouldn't be. Jukeboxes can only read off one CD at a time, and since they're audio devices only do it at 1x. So you'd have a continual 1x stream coming into the digital input, which any decent computer can easily encode in real time.