And for the love of God why don't they just give them all 1GB of RAM?
And 7200 RPM hard drives. I simply don't don't understand why they still ship 5400 RPM drives in laptops. Well, I do understand why ($), but the fact is a faster hard drive makes a laptop fell much, much faster, particularly for booting up (which laptops tend to do quite a bit of).
8. Bookmark sorting. Mozilla from about 3 years ago (or more!) used to do this perfectly. I'd like to sort bookmarks by name, with all the folders at the top. Firefox doesn't support this. The only way to do this aside from manually editing the bookmarks file is to import them into Mozilla, sort them and export to Firefox.
I've read up a little on Germany of the 1920s, 30s and 40s. Some of the parallels between current America and Germany after 1933 are frightening. Anyone who does not believe me might do well to read up on the subject.
One further one just struck me recently, both Hitler and Bush want to reshape the world according to a masterplan, with their nation as the leading agent and example of change. Isn't that the real reason the US went into Iraq? Some sort of reverse domino effect, spreading democracy throughout the region? Hitler wanted to bring true greatness to the nations he invaded, liberating them from their dissolute and soft governments and integrating them into an invigorated and renewed Germany.
Now when comparing Nazi Germany and Republican America it is important to note that while there are strong similarities, Nazi Germany was more extreme.
Nonetheless I hope and pray (as a Christian) that the current US administration stopped. They are dangerous.
What if you're FedEx'ing a home movie of your child's birth (including states of undress of the mother) to your mother-in-law who couldn't be there? Would the FedEx personnel be gawking at that?
In that case you are a strange an unnatural person. Who in their right mind takes a video of their children being born? Who in their right mind wants to see such a video?
The only problem is that he was in the UK while the crimes were committed. I'd be interested to know what the legal position on this sort of thing is. Surely this has come up before. Eg someone in country X gets hires a hitman who goes to country Y to kill someone. Assuming there is an extradition treaty, does country X get to extradite him for the crime?
Why do you stop there? This what is fishy to me - that he is looking at a horrendously disproportionate sentence in relation to his crimes. It only remains to be effectively discussed as to why he is looking at such a stupid sentence.
Becuase he messed with.mil. They are sending a strong message.
Container ships don't have to move cargo from one part of the ship to another, on a regular basis. You load it up, sail off, and then unload at the other end of the journey. If the stuff in the bow had to be transported to the stern every twelve hours, you'd probably find fewer enormous steel bulkheads between them, and more wide doors.
This is a bad example. As others have commented, moving to compartments in ships has nothing to do with containters.
It is a particularly bad example because container ships do actually shift cargo while in transit. The contents of one ship may not all be destined for one port, so often after visiting a port a ship may rearrange the containters for optimal unloading at the next port.
Why C++? Microsoft has always had a strong reputation for writing very standards compliant C++ compilers, particularly with the STL. So did they break the standard?
There is an admin pack that seems to be installed on a lot of CSS servers that can filter out offensive language by replacing it with ****. What seems to happen most of the time is people either misspell the word (eg cnut) or add in a space.
A lot of the arguments center around not being able to upgrade the hardware or add your own (possibly legacy hardware) to the box.
The only problem is that Apple sells 2 types machines that you generally don't want to upgrade: Mini and Laptop. I don't know what proportion of their sales are from Minis and laptops, but I'm guessing that the laptop side of things would probably be close to 50% of sales (by boxes, not $). For that side of things, many of the article arguments just don't apply.
So they decided to use the XP code base and go back to square one and rewrite %60 of the code that was fresh. I knew it would be remade in 6 months! 60%?? Try a year, maybe 18 months? That is just huge.
Don't joke about it, I'm doing just that. I want to wait and see if they can get Vista to boot on an intel Mac. It isn't that I want to run Vista, I want the option of running Vista if I need to.
XP was still supposed to be the joint successor to Win2k and ME. And indeed we saw tools developed in this attempt show up first on ME (msconfig being a great example).
msconfig being a bad example. msconfig shipped with 98.
It's very easy. Encode the video in Flash and do a php call so the file name is never revealed - not even the url to the directory where the file *is* is revealed. Can't be downloaded (even by workaround methods),...
Rubbish. This doesn't really change anything. Hiding the URL with the binary write in php doesn't secure the file any further, it just hides where it is stored on the server. You might do this to force people log in, or to limit who can have access to particular files, but once you have given them access to a particular file, there is nothing stopping them downloading it.... and controls can be set in the embedded player so you can't fast-forward (my guess is the last part of the article submission is wrong - you can maybe rewind and then ff to the last point you were at in the video, but you won't be able to skip ahead).
Now this might acually slow people down (a little). Until someone reverse engineers the flash player and works how it streams the media.
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And for the love of God why don't they just give them all 1GB of RAM?
And 7200 RPM hard drives. I simply don't don't understand why they still ship 5400 RPM drives in laptops. Well, I do understand why ($), but the fact is a faster hard drive makes a laptop fell much, much faster, particularly for booting up (which laptops tend to do quite a bit of).
Slapstick and toilet jokes don't count.
I'll add one:
8. Bookmark sorting. Mozilla from about 3 years ago (or more!) used to do this perfectly. I'd like to sort bookmarks by name, with all the folders at the top. Firefox doesn't support this. The only way to do this aside from manually editing the bookmarks file is to import them into Mozilla, sort them and export to Firefox.
I've read up a little on Germany of the 1920s, 30s and 40s. Some of the parallels between current America and Germany after 1933 are frightening. Anyone who does not believe me might do well to read up on the subject.
One further one just struck me recently, both Hitler and Bush want to reshape the world according to a masterplan, with their nation as the leading agent and example of change. Isn't that the real reason the US went into Iraq? Some sort of reverse domino effect, spreading democracy throughout the region? Hitler wanted to bring true greatness to the nations he invaded, liberating them from their dissolute and soft governments and integrating them into an invigorated and renewed Germany.
Now when comparing Nazi Germany and Republican America it is important to note that while there are strong similarities, Nazi Germany was more extreme.
Nonetheless I hope and pray (as a Christian) that the current US administration stopped. They are dangerous.
I am not a USian, but surely it should be clear to all USians that your president has overstepped the bounds of his office. He should be impeached.
What if you're FedEx'ing a home movie of your child's birth (including states of undress of the mother) to your mother-in-law who couldn't be there? Would the FedEx personnel be gawking at that?
In that case you are a strange an unnatural person. Who in their right mind takes a video of their children being born? Who in their right mind wants to see such a video?
The only problem is that he was in the UK while the crimes were committed. I'd be interested to know what the legal position on this sort of thing is. Surely this has come up before. Eg someone in country X gets hires a hitman who goes to country Y to kill someone. Assuming there is an extradition treaty, does country X get to extradite him for the crime?
Why do you stop there? This what is fishy to me - that he is looking at a horrendously disproportionate sentence in relation to his crimes. It only remains to be effectively discussed as to why he is looking at such a stupid sentence.
.mil. They are sending a strong message.
Becuase he messed with
Thanks.
This is a bad example. As others have commented, moving to compartments in ships has nothing to do with containters.
It is a particularly bad example because container ships do actually shift cargo while in transit. The contents of one ship may not all be destined for one port, so often after visiting a port a ship may rearrange the containters for optimal unloading at the next port.
Hey thanks for the info. I wasn't aware of this. That is certainly evil.
^ and % are not pointer operators in C++. Call it something else.
Possibly C#? *ducks*
Why C++? Microsoft has always had a strong reputation for writing very standards compliant C++ compilers, particularly with the STL. So did they break the standard?
There is an admin pack that seems to be installed on a lot of CSS servers that can filter out offensive language by replacing it with ****. What seems to happen most of the time is people either misspell the word (eg cnut) or add in a space.
A lot of the arguments center around not being able to upgrade the hardware or add your own (possibly legacy hardware) to the box.
The only problem is that Apple sells 2 types machines that you generally don't want to upgrade: Mini and Laptop. I don't know what proportion of their sales are from Minis and laptops, but I'm guessing that the laptop side of things would probably be close to 50% of sales (by boxes, not $). For that side of things, many of the article arguments just don't apply.
I tried the:
Anakin: You are so... beautiful.
Padmé: It's only because I'm so in love.
Anakin: No, it's because I'm so in love with you.
But my wife wouldn't play along. In fact she hit me.
So they decided to use the XP code base and go back to square one and rewrite %60 of the code that was fresh. I knew it would be remade in 6 months! 60%?? Try a year, maybe 18 months? That is just huge.
No. They used the 2003 codebase for the restart.
Don't joke about it, I'm doing just that. I want to wait and see if they can get Vista to boot on an intel Mac. It isn't that I want to run Vista, I want the option of running Vista if I need to.
... poo was unavailable.
(Wii is supposed to be pronounced we)
This is your boss, I demand that you lower your rates or I'll hire less-expensive overseas developers.
Here is my number, call me when it doesn't work out.
I would not believe the animals are enjoying their radiation poisoning however until I was able to ask them.
I think you might have to wait for a few more generations of mutations before they have evolved to the point of speech.
Not much. Outlook 2003 is a vast improvement on 2000 and 97, but it is still pretty crap.
What is great is the Outlook-Exchange combination.
I remember a great cartoon in a newspaper soon after 9/11.
A justice figure is holding a sword and telling a small child (labelled civil liberties) to watch out for the backswing.
XP was still supposed to be the joint successor to Win2k and ME. And indeed we saw tools developed in this attempt show up first on ME (msconfig being a great example).
msconfig being a bad example. msconfig shipped with 98.
Its a good thing your not an editor then, you cannot even spell Novell correctly.
Also that should be it's, not its.
It's very easy. Encode the video in Flash and do a php call so the file name is never revealed - not even the url to the directory where the file *is* is revealed. Can't be downloaded (even by workaround methods), ...
... and controls can be set in the embedded player so you can't fast-forward (my guess is the last part of the article submission is wrong - you can maybe rewind and then ff to the last point you were at in the video, but you won't be able to skip ahead).
Rubbish. This doesn't really change anything. Hiding the URL with the binary write in php doesn't secure the file any further, it just hides where it is stored on the server. You might do this to force people log in, or to limit who can have access to particular files, but once you have given them access to a particular file, there is nothing stopping them downloading it.
Now this might acually slow people down (a little). Until someone reverse engineers the flash player and works how it streams the media.