While background scans appear useful, any good virus in the future is going to disable the antivirus software as it is installed, or otherwise evade detection indefinately. I mean, if it wasn't caught initially, what's going to catch it later after it has control of the computer?
Plain text certainly is a problem. Word takes over almost all text formats, and for programmers there is no reason they'd enjoy having a text document open in word, only to have to paste to another WORD/ TEXT editor to save it properly in Plain text.
There are dozens of formats you can save to that no one uses, but why not the most basic one on all Windows computers, and other machines too?
It just doesn't make sense. It's like if Media Player 9 would play MPEG files, but not uncompressed AVI, for that you need to open Media Player basic to have proper support. It's lunacy.
Heh, the chances of anyone going after the several parties responsible for browser hijacking, and winning in a timely manner, are slim to nil with the average judge's knowledge of computers. And then I highly doubt the money would go to something worthy. The lawers would get at least a 1/3 of a large settlement, and unless Mozilla did the suing, little money would go there.
That post was most certainly not offtopic. I mean, it discussed silly patents, and crying.
It was a joke. Just because something car related, has a Microsoft reference, doesn't make it automatically offtopic. I hope you were metamoderated out of existance.
When is Microsoft going to patent... The crying computer?
Install Windows ME and Office XP on a Pentium 166MMX, with 64MB of RAM, and it'd cry too. Sorry, that would be me crying, so I guess the patent would have to be for computers that make humans cry...
And some flavour of Linux could patent a computer that gives out free beer.
Unfortunately the only people more likely to steal than military people, is college students.
That, and campus security is often poor, at least where I went to University. Many $5000 projectors were swiped one night for instance. Computer labs would be ripe picking if entrants aren't tracked in some way.
But the police should be called, and when they see how lax the university was at keeping sensitive information private, they should file charges against Oxford too.
Then they can put Oxford Hack in the dictionary: Someone who tattles, and gets in trouble too because of their guilt in the incident.
:-) It sounds like we all have our definitions, but I'm sure we can all agree that Capitalism isn't the best economic system there ever will be. At least I hope we can all agree on that, and work to make something better that works for more people at the same time. IANAEconomist
Or perhaps his eBay account is suspended for not paying $130US for 3 purchases, after he realized he was paying way too much, and now he can't bid anymore.
I would hope these things go through a daily or weekly cleaning routine. It isn't like a human that can wash their hands, robots don't give a darn about personal hygine.
Perhaps they are even cleaner than humans, however they probably have a lot of people touching them.
That isn't the defining point to capitalism, although it is easy to get that impression if you watch the stock market. The point of capitalism is to do something better than everyone else, and make money from it -more than your competitors. It doesn't have to be more than you made last year.
I'd recommend sending them to Michael Moore, and Mel Gibson, the reasons for the renewed interest in the movies. They burst into the other two forbidden topics: Religion, Politics, and Hollywood has Sex locked up already.
Plenty of other browers have been "rated" above IE, in the past, it is just that Netscape was the last one, pre 1999, and IE version 4 or 5.
FireFox is just the latest one, and it is still up to the test of time, and many more beta testers, before FireFox makes it to the forefront of the browser world or at least a share bigger than 1/5.
Perhaps I should have used a better example. I wanted to demonstrate marketers dictating what consumers want, through monopoly or manipulation.
It is clear that consumers are not demanding degrading DVDs, if anything they want them to last forever. So who is coming up with this junk? Producers, trying to manipulate the market by choking off current technologies, and substituting them with others that make them more money, and pass on the waste and expense to consumers who not only don't have DVDs that last, but pay to store them in landfills, or recylcing bins.
Importing flour to the so called Bread-basket of the world AKA Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, is a fine example though of the market gone wrong. That is the point I was making. Degrading DVDs is the market gone horribly wrong, for profit of a few tech engineers, and a few in the MPAA.
But does that $50 consider the cost of a full landfill, and requiring barges, or trucks, or trains, and the resulting pollution of transport too, to move the pollution elsewhere for someone else to deal with the leaching, and other mess?
Economics does not consider all Bads, only Goods. And it is the reason things that don't make sense, happen regularly. Such as Canada importing French flour.
A friend of mine, who is computer savvy, tried to import bookmarks from their old version of Firefox.8, and.9 OVERWROTE their bookmarks instead.
This should not happen by accident, and there should be MEGA warnings if the possibility of overwriting files like that exists when you try to upgrade.
Aslo, I wish memory usage would drop considerably in FireFox. The temptation to open many tabs is there, so I had to add another 256MB of RAM to cope with FireFox's tabs.
Plants add air recycling AKA Oxygen from CO2. And a psychological affect of having a connection to nature.
And paint adds longevity to the wall's materials by insulating it from air.
This is/., not a mother oohing and aweing over a kid's painting.
Sure, a pretty case is impressive, but geeks of all people know that it is what is under the hood that counts.
"Secondly, everyone does stuff that is not of a functional nature, so saying anything bad or deogatory about someone elses hard work when obviouly they are quite proud of it simply because it didn't make it any faster is a little hypocritical. For instance ever painted a room or bought a plant? Did painting the room add any space or help you organize the room better? Did the plant clean up after you or remind you that you had things to do? They wern't very functional endevors now were they, but you did them anyways."
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While background scans appear useful, any good virus in the future is going to disable the antivirus software as it is installed, or otherwise evade detection indefinately. I mean, if it wasn't caught initially, what's going to catch it later after it has control of the computer?
Plain text certainly is a problem. Word takes over almost all text formats, and for programmers there is no reason they'd enjoy having a text document open in word, only to have to paste to another WORD/ TEXT editor to save it properly in Plain text.
There are dozens of formats you can save to that no one uses, but why not the most basic one on all Windows computers, and other machines too?
It just doesn't make sense. It's like if Media Player 9 would play MPEG files, but not uncompressed AVI, for that you need to open Media Player basic to have proper support. It's lunacy.
But don't forget to protect your pets too. After all, it's like locking the front door, and leaving the back wide open [goatse pun not intended].
Use the PFHT as seen on my homepage link, and may the foil be with you.
Improved foil hats have made great bounds in public acceptance, and asthetics in recent years, due in part to my work.
See my homepage for instance.
I mean, I've never had a /. article make me feel faint before, but..
oh....
*woooze*
needles, ugh. Glad they are making a good training device finally.
Heh, the chances of anyone going after the several parties responsible for browser hijacking, and winning in a timely manner, are slim to nil with the average judge's knowledge of computers.
And then I highly doubt the money would go to something worthy. The lawers would get at least a 1/3 of a large settlement, and unless Mozilla did the suing, little money would go there.
1. Build and deploy great working device.
2. Wait for it to fail.
3. Then build and deploy new untested working device years later.
4. ???
5. No profit, only the loss of the previous, valuable device.
That post was most certainly not offtopic. I mean, it discussed silly patents, and crying.
It was a joke. Just because something car related, has a Microsoft reference, doesn't make it automatically offtopic. I hope you were metamoderated out of existance.
When is Microsoft going to patent...
The crying computer?
Install Windows ME and Office XP on a Pentium 166MMX, with 64MB of RAM, and it'd cry too. Sorry, that would be me crying, so I guess the patent would have to be for computers that make humans cry...
And some flavour of Linux could patent a computer that gives out free beer.
/. CBC? It got sluggish on 9/11, but /.'ing CBC is well, like /.'ing /.
I have to hope that no dentist is playing Weird Al's song, that's about dentists, and features drill noises and screaming in the background.
Because besides having to pay SOCAN now, they'd be chasing people away.
Unfortunately the only people more likely to steal than military people, is college students.
That, and campus security is often poor, at least where I went to University. Many $5000 projectors were swiped one night for instance. Computer labs would be ripe picking if entrants aren't tracked in some way.
But the police should be called, and when they see how lax the university was at keeping sensitive information private, they should file charges against Oxford too.
Then they can put Oxford Hack in the dictionary:
Someone who tattles, and gets in trouble too because of their guilt in the incident.
:-)
It sounds like we all have our definitions, but I'm sure we can all agree that Capitalism isn't the best economic system there ever will be. At least I hope we can all agree on that, and work to make something better that works for more people at the same time.
IANAEconomist
Or perhaps his eBay account is suspended for not paying $130US for 3 purchases, after he realized he was paying way too much, and now he can't bid anymore.
I would hope these things go through a daily or weekly cleaning routine. It isn't like a human that can wash their hands, robots don't give a darn about personal hygine.
Perhaps they are even cleaner than humans, however they probably have a lot of people touching them.
That isn't the defining point to capitalism, although it is easy to get that impression if you watch the stock market. The point of capitalism is to do something better than everyone else, and make money from it -more than your competitors. It doesn't have to be more than you made last year.
I'd recommend sending them to Michael Moore, and Mel Gibson, the reasons for the renewed interest in the movies. They burst into the other two forbidden topics: Religion, Politics, and Hollywood has Sex locked up already.
Plenty of other browers have been "rated" above IE, in the past, it is just that Netscape was the last one, pre 1999, and IE version 4 or 5.
FireFox is just the latest one, and it is still up to the test of time, and many more beta testers, before FireFox makes it to the forefront of the browser world or at least a share bigger than 1/5.
Perhaps I should have used a better example. I wanted to demonstrate marketers dictating what consumers want, through monopoly or manipulation.
It is clear that consumers are not demanding degrading DVDs, if anything they want them to last forever. So who is coming up with this junk? Producers, trying to manipulate the market by choking off current technologies, and substituting them with others that make them more money, and pass on the waste and expense to consumers who not only don't have DVDs that last, but pay to store them in landfills, or recylcing bins.
Importing flour to the so called Bread-basket of the world AKA Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, is a fine example though of the market gone wrong. That is the point I was making. Degrading DVDs is the market gone horribly wrong, for profit of a few tech engineers, and a few in the MPAA.
But does that $50 consider the cost of a full landfill, and requiring barges, or trucks, or trains, and the resulting pollution of transport too, to move the pollution elsewhere for someone else to deal with the leaching, and other mess?
Economics does not consider all Bads, only Goods. And it is the reason things that don't make sense, happen regularly. Such as Canada importing French flour.
I'd like to see my PFHT withstand that gun, that is if the police consider my cat a crowd control threat.
Here's where to look for the FAQ.
A friend of mine, who is computer savvy, tried to import bookmarks from their old version of Firefox .8, and .9 OVERWROTE their bookmarks instead.
This should not happen by accident, and there should be MEGA warnings if the possibility of overwriting files like that exists when you try to upgrade.
Aslo, I wish memory usage would drop considerably in FireFox. The temptation to open many tabs is there, so I had to add another 256MB of RAM to cope with FireFox's tabs.
Funny you should pick those two "customizations".
/., not a mother oohing and aweing over a kid's painting.
Plants add air recycling AKA Oxygen from CO2. And a psychological affect of having a connection to nature.
And paint adds longevity to the wall's materials by insulating it from air.
This is
Sure, a pretty case is impressive, but geeks of all people know that it is what is under the hood that counts.
"Secondly, everyone does stuff that is not of a functional nature, so saying anything bad or deogatory about someone elses hard work when obviouly they are quite proud of it simply because it didn't make it any faster is a little hypocritical. For instance ever painted a room or bought a plant? Did painting the room add any space or help you organize the room better? Did the plant clean up after you or remind you that you had things to do? They wern't very functional endevors now were they, but you did them anyways."