Other than the acid test itself can you show me a site that uses capabilites that IE does not have that really provide true "gotta have it" functionality?
Every single popup site, every single drive-by virus site, every single spyware infested shareware site on the net. There's a lot of hostile web out there if you're using IE.
One page will look nice on Opera, Firefox, Safari, Mozilla, and Netscape, and then will look horrid on IE.
Looks like this one is designed to do the opposite - if you have MSIE, it'll have nice.png alpha shadows. Other browsers miss out. Can anyone with IE confirm this?
More to the point, do you have, even if just for contingency or internal use, a Microsoft Linux distro which addresses what you see as the failings of the other Linuxes out there?
Not open or free, but Realdraw http://www.mediachance.com/realdraw/ is one of my favorite drawing tools. It's not as deep as AI or Freehand, and is probably closer to Fireworks in concept since it also does html slicing and bitmaps, but to get a design out quickly and intuitively it's one of the best.
It exports to SVG, and the author has a policy that you pay once and get upgrades for the life of the app.
If you thought Microsoft Acrylic was a good idea, but needed work, Realdraw is what it'll be like when it's finished. Fun too...
And sorry about being an asshole -- I hadn't had gotten in my once-daily 'cause a large solar flare to lase and aim it at things' time yet today.
No need to apologise, it's been fun.
And to respond to your previous point;
If I were you, I would research Friendly Fire casualties in previous conflicts and military actions. Two deaths out of several thousand (how many are we up to in the current Police Action? Somewhere above 2 thousand, I think?) are due to Friendly Fire instead of dozens out of two thousand, I think it's well worth it.
I have done some research on friendly fire incidents in Iraq, and depending on who you listen to, it's estimated about 10-15% of casualties result from friendly fire.
Interestingly, the $180 million Army "Battlefield Combat Identification System", which was supposed to prevent this sort of incident, was itself killed in 2002 when the Pentagon decided it was too expensive to equip tanks and other vehicles with the ID system. A victim of friendly fire perhaps?
my brain capacity, which, from your reply and original post, is definately more expansive than your own
Yes, so expansive you didn't even notice the original post was by Renraku and the reply by me (ozmanjusri). I'll have to take your word that the change from Breeder status has occurred (and since you're posting on Slashdot, you're not a Breeder), so there has to be another explanation. Maybe you should lay off the tasp when you're posting...
You're really not that bright, are you?
Have you never heard of the 'Friend or Foe' Identification systems used in the Military to avoid things like this?
Brighter than you, by the looks of it. Maybe you need a few more Tree-of-Life roots...
Secondly, where the hell can anyone get a server for $14. Even if this is a dual p200 pro, that can still make a good home email server.
If you RTFA, you'll see these are RS/6000 E20 boxes. They're most likely running single 133mhz 603e PPC processors. You could use them as a home server, but since you can get ex-gov P3/450 wintel machines for not much more, why would you bother?
I just do not see them as being mutually exclusive - why can God not act through natural events? br>
If the events are natural, what's god's purpose then?
You don't get a warranty with Linux in the first place.
Why is this insightful?
Apple
You expressly acknowledge and agree that use of the Apple Software is at your sole risk. The Apple Software is provided "AS IS" and without warranty of any kind
Microsoft:
In no event shall microsoft or its suppliers be liable for any special, incidental, punitive, indirect, or consequential damages whatsoever (including, but not limited to, damages for loss of profits or confidential or other information, for business interruption, for personal injury, for loss of privacy, for failure to meet any duty including of good faith or of reasonable care, for negligence, and for any other pecuniary or other loss whatsoever) arising out of or in any way related to the use of or inability to use the product,
Nobody is required to give warranties on consumer OS or software. It's one of the reasons why there's so much crap out there
if you change it you have to publish your modyfied version as well
Most of the modifications I make to beer involve kidneys, liver and bladder. There have been a few occasions where I have made their products freely available, but most people seemed more annoyed than grateful.
A couple of years ago I submitted a request to the Thunderbird team to include a button which would do exactly this. I still believe it's a good approach, although an Outlook plugin would probably be more effective.
I'll try to address some of your objections, but I think you missed the main one;
(*) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
I've had to deal with dozens of Joe jobs every year, and I'll have to deal with dozens more every month for the forseeable future. It's already so bad, a few more won't make it significantly worse.
(x) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
No, even a few thousand false records in a spammers database would be enough to increase their costs. That's the goal here, and while more would be better (especially if the company which hired the spammer is paying per response), it's a step in the right direction.
(x) Laws expressly prohibiting it
None.
(x) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
(This time the spammers will be doing the filtering, and that will be quite easy for them.)
It will reduce their profits. That's good.
(x) Extreme profitability of spam
This will reduce it.
(x) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
Doing nothing will achieve even less.
(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
It doesn't have to, at least not by itself. Spammers are just another in a long line of parasites humanity has had to deal with over the years. We're winning more often against most of our parasites, but rarely do we ever eliminate them completely. Spammers are winning now, they're a plague on the internet. Getting them under control in the way we have lice or fleas under control is a process, not a once-off event. This will be one control out of many.
That's going to make their already weak muscles weaker.Muscles grow on consisten application of resistance.
It doesn't have to. You could dial in as much resistance as you want. Consistency is important to frail people, and often fear of injury dissuades them from any exercise at all. This would help.
Slashdot Mirror
Can anyone here tell me what Baidu.com is actually like as a search engine
It looks a lot like this. http://www.baidu.com/.
Other than the acid test itself can you show me a site that uses capabilites that IE does not have that really provide true "gotta have it" functionality?
Every single popup site, every single drive-by virus site, every single spyware infested shareware site on the net. There's a lot of hostile web out there if you're using IE.
One page will look nice on Opera, Firefox, Safari, Mozilla, and Netscape, and then will look horrid on IE.
.png alpha shadows. Other browsers miss out. Can anyone with IE confirm this?
Looks like this one is designed to do the opposite - if you have MSIE, it'll have nice
Which is scarier;
Apple Mac on Intel
Open Source Solaris
or
Wine/Cedega/Crossover on Linux?
Does it run linux?
More to the point, do you have, even if just for contingency or internal use, a Microsoft Linux distro which addresses what you see as the failings of the other Linuxes out there?
Not open or free, but Realdraw http://www.mediachance.com/realdraw/ is one of my favorite drawing tools. It's not as deep as AI or Freehand, and is probably closer to Fireworks in concept since it also does html slicing and bitmaps, but to get a design out quickly and intuitively it's one of the best.
It exports to SVG, and the author has a policy that you pay once and get upgrades for the life of the app.
If you thought Microsoft Acrylic was a good idea, but needed work, Realdraw is what it'll be like when it's finished. Fun too...
...Flamebait?
The mods are obviously worried about kicking of one of those "Which is better, vi, emacs or Notepad.exe?" flamewars.
Now it's time for Steve Jobs to give me new kidneys.
You think you've got problems. I was an Access developer. Bill Gates owes me a new liver.
NASA should be using Duct Tap to fix the shuttle.
If they did, wouldn't they have to faucet into the crack?
My favorite rule from any job was: you're required to add a comment when you do something clever.
So I should have added a comment for my resignation letter?
obviously George Bush is pouring sugar in your gas tank while sodomizing your mother.
No way he would do that. The guy can't even eat a pretzel without choking.
And sorry about being an asshole -- I hadn't had gotten in my once-daily 'cause a large solar flare to lase and aim it at things' time yet today.
No need to apologise, it's been fun.
And to respond to your previous point;
If I were you, I would research Friendly Fire casualties in previous conflicts and military actions. Two deaths out of several thousand (how many are we up to in the current Police Action? Somewhere above 2 thousand, I think?) are due to Friendly Fire instead of dozens out of two thousand, I think it's well worth it.
I have done some research on friendly fire incidents in Iraq, and depending on who you listen to, it's estimated about 10-15% of casualties result from friendly fire.
Interestingly, the $180 million Army "Battlefield Combat Identification System", which was supposed to prevent this sort of incident, was itself killed in 2002 when the Pentagon decided it was too expensive to equip tanks and other vehicles with the ID system. A victim of friendly fire perhaps?
my brain capacity, which, from your reply and original post, is definately more expansive than your own
Yes, so expansive you didn't even notice the original post was by Renraku and the reply by me (ozmanjusri).
I'll have to take your word that the change from Breeder status has occurred (and since you're posting on Slashdot, you're not a Breeder), so there has to be another explanation. Maybe you should lay off the tasp when you're posting...
Have you never heard of the 'Friend or Foe' Identification systems used in the Military to avoid things like this?
Brighter than you, by the looks of it. Maybe you need a few more Tree-of-Life roots...
Secondly, where the hell can anyone get a server for $14. Even if this is a dual p200 pro, that can still make a good home email server.
If you RTFA, you'll see these are RS/6000 E20 boxes. They're most likely running single 133mhz 603e PPC processors. You could use them as a home server, but since you can get ex-gov P3/450 wintel machines for not much more, why would you bother?
I just do not see them as being mutually exclusive - why can God not act through natural events?
br> If the events are natural, what's god's purpose then?
You don't get a warranty with Linux in the first place.
Why is this insightful?
Apple
You expressly acknowledge and agree that use of the Apple Software is at your sole risk. The Apple Software is provided "AS IS" and without warranty of any kind
Microsoft:
In no event shall microsoft or its suppliers be liable for any special, incidental, punitive, indirect, or consequential damages whatsoever (including, but not limited to, damages for loss of profits or confidential or other information, for business interruption, for personal injury, for loss of privacy, for failure to meet any duty including of good faith or of reasonable care, for negligence, and for any other pecuniary or other loss whatsoever) arising out of or in any way related to the use of or inability to use the product,
Nobody is required to give warranties on consumer OS or software. It's one of the reasons why there's so much crap out there
Dont remember AmigaDOS costing me anything
AmigaDOS 2.04 cost me A$90.00. I got a ROM chip, five floppy disks and a couple of manuals, from memory.
if you change it you have to publish your modyfied version as well
Most of the modifications I make to beer involve kidneys, liver and bladder. There have been a few occasions where I have made their products freely available, but most people seemed more annoyed than grateful.
Ungly people tend to breed wiht ugly people.
My girlfriend is ungly, you insensitive clod!
A couple of years ago I submitted a request to the Thunderbird team to include a button which would do exactly this. I still believe it's a good approach, although an Outlook plugin would probably be more effective.
I'll try to address some of your objections, but I think you missed the main one;
(*) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
I've had to deal with dozens of Joe jobs every year, and I'll have to deal with dozens more every month for the forseeable future. It's already so bad, a few more won't make it significantly worse.
(x) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
No, even a few thousand false records in a spammers database would be enough to increase their costs. That's the goal here, and while more would be better (especially if the company which hired the spammer is paying per response), it's a step in the right direction.
(x) Laws expressly prohibiting it
None.
(x) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches (This time the spammers will be doing the filtering, and that will be quite easy for them.)
It will reduce their profits. That's good.
(x) Extreme profitability of spam
This will reduce it.
(x) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
Doing nothing will achieve even less.
(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
It doesn't have to, at least not by itself. Spammers are just another in a long line of parasites humanity has had to deal with over the years. We're winning more often against most of our parasites, but rarely do we ever eliminate them completely. Spammers are winning now, they're a plague on the internet. Getting them under control in the way we have lice or fleas under control is a process, not a once-off event. This will be one control out of many.
Now can they please start with th research of the effects of pepper spray on penguins. That's the real science goldmine.
Pepper spray? I've been using pepper sauce. No wonder they still taste fishy.
That's going to make their already weak muscles weaker.Muscles grow on consisten application of resistance.
It doesn't have to. You could dial in as much resistance as you want. Consistency is important to frail people, and often fear of injury dissuades them from any exercise at all. This would help.
Either I really missed something, or there is a flaw in Mr. Schwarz's journalism.
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You missed something. http://www.novell.com/newzealand/promotions/schoo
And what am I supposed to eat while I sit there in the dark waiting for the lights to come back on? Untoasted bread?
Until your species discovers fire, I'm afraid so.