I think he was saying that they check the browser version by check which dom commands fail.
For instance, documents.all only works with IE. This is a fool proof way of checking the browser version. Doesn't matter what your AppName is set to.
I just finished reading The Day of the Triffids, by John Wyndham.
Excellent.
The old authors are the best in my opinion because they wrote before Sci Fi became so popular and took their subject seriously and weren't in it just to make a fast buck. That's why Tolkein and HG Wells are so much better that the mass of authors that have jumped on the gravy train in the last two decades.
In some countries there are laws which make below cost selling of certain goods (such as food for instance) illegal. However, this does not apply to technology, which is why MS can sell Xboxes below cost without any problem.
I'd have a hard time thinking of a bigger waste of resources
What about putting 460 tonnes of hardware into orbit to test the effects of weightlessness on bees.
I've just been reading this:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9445
Very interesting claims about the validity of certain benchmarks. According to the inquirer the PC World bencharks are the only ones to be trusted.
Also quite interesting what they are saying about how consumers have been ripped off for buying Celerons.
Also, of the foreign aid that the US contributes, the lion's share goes to Isreal.
Much of the rest comes with strings attached. For instance, the US threathened countries that voted on the last UN resolution that if they didn't toe the line they would have their aid pulled.
The problem is *not* that some one is using the "wrong" measurement system. There will always be two different mesurement systems: Kalvin/Fahrenheit/Celcius whatever, you have to be able to handle the conversion correctly. That's where the problem was.
One feature that both of these are missing is a Line-out connection.
I got a Nomad Jukebox3 reciently one of the most useful features for me is the line-out. This means I can plug it into my stereo at home (Or indeed any stereo anywhere) and play my entire CD collection at random without ever having to change CDs.
Playcenter has this feature as well, it's called "auto sync", but it is rather simplified. If you delete a file on your Jukebox it doesn't delete the corrasponding one on the PC. Neither does it update when you change a MP3 tag.
I have a jukebox 3 as well and agree that the Playcenter is fairly bug ridden. However, I don't think Red Chair Software made a good choice for the design of their software. It is basically designed as an extension of Windows Explorer. Better to keep the application seperate from the OS. If there's a bug in their software then maybe the whole system becomes unstable. Also, they will have to release an upgrade every time a new version of Windows comes out.
It would be far more useful if they released a version that is compatible with the MAC, which is a feature that is really lacking
What's stopping somebody from "partnering" with a manufacturer, producing a PC that won't boot DOS/Windows, but will boot Linux?
Easy, offer a "market development fund" to manufacturers who agree only to install Windows on all their PCs. Manufactures who install Linux are not eligible. Then, the fierce competition and slim margins in the PC business ensure that any manufactures that don't sign up will not be able to compete.
These graphs seem to show that MP3s recorded at 128 kB cut off everything above 15 kHz. This would mean that they sound more "muffled" than the orgional
The tom's hardware artical says that 64-bit is faster because it "can natively calculate the important 64-bit floating point format". This is a rather shows up badly their limited knowledge of CPUs. The FPU has already been 64-bit for quite some time. I wonder how much of the rest of the artical is acurate.
For instance does increasing the amount of registers from 8 to 16 really increase performance? Or does this (more likely in my opinion) make things more convient for people who write software in assembler?
I never said that they will delibertly target civilians... just that I think there's no more "special effort" to protect civilians than in any other war. That's just lip service to try and pacify the huge anti-war sentament. I think the Americans will target whatever targets they need to win the war. This war is the same as all other wars. Their main objective is to make progress, protect their own troops and win the war quickly. They will try to avoid harming civilains where possible, but if it's not possible... well, war is hell.
These campaigns always start off nice and clean, when the public attention is at it's highest.
These surgical hits are cortesy of precise targetting information which the Americans have garnered before the war. After the war starts this information goes stale, as the enemy wise up and hide themselves better. As good as the technology is, smart munitions are fairly useless if you can't supply it with precise targeting information.
So, if the resistance remains stuborn they will eventually have to resort to "dumb" bombing. (In fact they did carpet bomb a city in Afganistan towards the end of the campaign). The US PR machine will hope by this time that the public will have lost interest and/or got accustomed to civilan casualities.
The US is going to extreme lengths NOT to hit civilians. This is what the PR machine of the Bush Adminitration is telling us over and over again. But do we have any actual *facts* to back up this claim?
Yeah, the news reported on this side of the pond is radically different than in America.
It even goes to the point were some news services actively suppress news that makes the war campaign look bad.
For instance, if you do a search for the recient news story about America presenting forged evidence that Iraq tried to buy Uranium from Nigar, you will hardly find a mention of this story anywhere on CNN and where they do mention it, it's reported in such a way that makes it seem discredited.
Other stories, such as the leaked MI5 report that says there is no link between Iraq and Al Queda, get relegated to the back pages or to a place where people won't see them
You're talking about accessing memory from a *hard drive*, which takes a massive amount of CPU cycles. In comparision the performance hit of using 32-bit paging instead of 64-bit direct addressing, is only a couple of CPU cycles which is negable.
I think the origonal poster's point wasn't about the life supporting capablities of water versus other liquids, just that this liquid causing these stains may not be water.
I don't think that persuing the Media Player issue is so important as stuff that benefits the consumer.
The consumer currently doesn't have a choice of OS.
This is because Microsoft "awards" the so-called "market development funds" and other such offers to OEMs which install Windows on all PCs that they sell. These offers are just loopholes to get around the so-called "uniform licensing provision". The margins on PCs are so small that if an OEM looses these discounts they will become uncompetive. That's why you don't see Linux offered on any low range PCs from the big OEMs.
I think the EU should outright ban the "market development funds" scheme and all other such "offers" to really level the playing field.
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I think he was saying that they check the browser version by check which dom commands fail. For instance, documents.all only works with IE. This is a fool proof way of checking the browser version. Doesn't matter what your AppName is set to.
I got the impression that it was aimed for small groups of people working on a common project, at least it could be very useful for that purpose
I just finished reading The Day of the Triffids, by John Wyndham. Excellent.
The old authors are the best in my opinion because they wrote before Sci Fi became so popular and took their subject seriously and weren't in it just to make a fast buck. That's why Tolkein and HG Wells are so much better that the mass of authors that have jumped on the gravy train in the last two decades.
In some countries there are laws which make below cost selling of certain goods (such as food for instance) illegal. However, this does not apply to technology, which is why MS can sell Xboxes below cost without any problem.
I'd have a hard time thinking of a bigger waste of resources
What about putting 460 tonnes of hardware into orbit to test the effects of weightlessness on bees.
I've just been reading this: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9445 Very interesting claims about the validity of certain benchmarks. According to the inquirer the PC World bencharks are the only ones to be trusted. Also quite interesting what they are saying about how consumers have been ripped off for buying Celerons.
Also, of the foreign aid that the US contributes, the lion's share goes to Isreal. Much of the rest comes with strings attached. For instance, the US threathened countries that voted on the last UN resolution that if they didn't toe the line they would have their aid pulled.
Oh yeah? Well, not according to this happy user: http://www.nomadness.net/modules.php?op=modload&na me=Forums&file=viewtopic&topic=5503&forum= 9
The problem is *not* that some one is using the "wrong" measurement system. There will always be two different mesurement systems: Kalvin/Fahrenheit/Celcius whatever, you have to be able to handle the conversion correctly. That's where the problem was.
or are there any facts facts that show that the technology is capabable of maintaining the same rate of increase?
One feature that both of these are missing is a Line-out connection. I got a Nomad Jukebox3 reciently one of the most useful features for me is the line-out. This means I can plug it into my stereo at home (Or indeed any stereo anywhere) and play my entire CD collection at random without ever having to change CDs.
Playcenter has this feature as well, it's called "auto sync", but it is rather simplified. If you delete a file on your Jukebox it doesn't delete the corrasponding one on the PC. Neither does it update when you change a MP3 tag.
I have a jukebox 3 as well and agree that the Playcenter is fairly bug ridden. However, I don't think Red Chair Software made a good choice for the design of their software. It is basically designed as an extension of Windows Explorer. Better to keep the application seperate from the OS. If there's a bug in their software then maybe the whole system becomes unstable. Also, they will have to release an upgrade every time a new version of Windows comes out. It would be far more useful if they released a version that is compatible with the MAC, which is a feature that is really lacking
What's stopping somebody from "partnering" with a manufacturer, producing a PC that won't boot DOS/Windows, but will boot Linux? Easy, offer a "market development fund" to manufacturers who agree only to install Windows on all their PCs. Manufactures who install Linux are not eligible. Then, the fierce competition and slim margins in the PC business ensure that any manufactures that don't sign up will not be able to compete.
I think they've already done that
These graphs seem to show that MP3s recorded at 128 kB cut off everything above 15 kHz. This would mean that they sound more "muffled" than the orgional
The tom's hardware artical says that 64-bit is faster because it "can natively calculate the important 64-bit floating point format". This is a rather shows up badly their limited knowledge of CPUs. The FPU has already been 64-bit for quite some time. I wonder how much of the rest of the artical is acurate. For instance does increasing the amount of registers from 8 to 16 really increase performance? Or does this (more likely in my opinion) make things more convient for people who write software in assembler?
I never said that they will delibertly target civilians... just that I think there's no more "special effort" to protect civilians than in any other war. That's just lip service to try and pacify the huge anti-war sentament. I think the Americans will target whatever targets they need to win the war. This war is the same as all other wars. Their main objective is to make progress, protect their own troops and win the war quickly. They will try to avoid harming civilains where possible, but if it's not possible... well, war is hell.
These campaigns always start off nice and clean, when the public attention is at it's highest. These surgical hits are cortesy of precise targetting information which the Americans have garnered before the war. After the war starts this information goes stale, as the enemy wise up and hide themselves better. As good as the technology is, smart munitions are fairly useless if you can't supply it with precise targeting information. So, if the resistance remains stuborn they will eventually have to resort to "dumb" bombing. (In fact they did carpet bomb a city in Afganistan towards the end of the campaign). The US PR machine will hope by this time that the public will have lost interest and/or got accustomed to civilan casualities.
The US is going to extreme lengths NOT to hit civilians.
This is what the PR machine of the Bush Adminitration is telling us over and over again. But do we have any actual *facts* to back up this claim?
$198.92 in America, probably $500 in Europe, if you can evan find one
Yeah, the news reported on this side of the pond is radically different than in America. It even goes to the point were some news services actively suppress news that makes the war campaign look bad. For instance, if you do a search for the recient news story about America presenting forged evidence that Iraq tried to buy Uranium from Nigar, you will hardly find a mention of this story anywhere on CNN and where they do mention it, it's reported in such a way that makes it seem discredited. Other stories, such as the leaked MI5 report that says there is no link between Iraq and Al Queda, get relegated to the back pages or to a place where people won't see them
You're talking about accessing memory from a *hard drive*, which takes a massive amount of CPU cycles. In comparision the performance hit of using 32-bit paging instead of 64-bit direct addressing, is only a couple of CPU cycles which is negable.
I think the origonal poster's point wasn't about the life supporting capablities of water versus other liquids, just that this liquid causing these stains may not be water.
I don't think that persuing the Media Player issue is so important as stuff that benefits the consumer. The consumer currently doesn't have a choice of OS. This is because Microsoft "awards" the so-called "market development funds" and other such offers to OEMs which install Windows on all PCs that they sell. These offers are just loopholes to get around the so-called "uniform licensing provision". The margins on PCs are so small that if an OEM looses these discounts they will become uncompetive. That's why you don't see Linux offered on any low range PCs from the big OEMs. I think the EU should outright ban the "market development funds" scheme and all other such "offers" to really level the playing field.