You're missing the point. The parent is pointing out that due to bugs and badly implemented features, some browsers are mutually exclusive. And when given the choice "90% of the market xor 10% of the market", the answer is obvious.
I agree that bandwidth metering is inevitable, but CONTENT metering is what this article is objecting to. Would you like to have metered bandwidth for everything except your feed of the latest Disney movie? How about an extra charge on your bill because you were detected running unauthorized programs? How about getting extra law enforcement attention because the vast majority of your packets were encrypted?
There is absolutely an overhead for increasing bandwidth. Remember that every bit that goes flying around goes through a wire or fiberoptic cable. Laying cable of any sort cross-country is NOT trivial and only the biggest telecom companies could afford to bankroll such a project (and even they can only do it by bringing in an even bigger company and indebting themselves to it in return for the support). Plus, it does take more hardware to manage more bandwidth. You need more powerful and expensive routers, more or higher capacity servers, and so on.
Hold down Command and the focus partially follows the mouse in cocoa apps with some caveats (you can't enter text in background windows, and lots of apps already use command-click for special functions and will detect that instead).
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Breaking a 64-bit key does take O(2^64) time. Big-O notation expresses the performance of the algorithm on a wide range of inputs; all 64-bit keys are 64 bits and can be cracked in (on average) the same amount of time.
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And then hopefully He will smite all those people for using the blink tag:)
Seriously, get real. You can claim that P2P networks have legitimate uses all you want, but trying to flat-out deny that they are used for piracy is stupid.
I don't get your last paragraph... Why isn't everything in Earth orbit being gradually drawn towards L4 and L5? Why isn't there some large body captured there already?
I don't see anything about handwriting recognition or OCR in there. Wouldn't this pen be FAR more useful if it showed up on your computer as text instead of a bad scan of your handwriting? Surely there's a modern OS with a built-in handwriting recognition service out there somewhere...
On a related note, there was a bug in the old Mac versions of Netscape 4... Something (perhaps excess swapping) would throw off a timer or something, and the status at the bottom of the window would display messages like "0% of 4K (at 458395934785K/sec)" (sadly I have no screenshot of this).
Remember, this plane is a prototype and to some extent a proof-of-concept plane. Now that the concept has been proved and Boeing has assured its backers that the damn thing can fly at all, they can start building a version with munitions bays (you're right, there's no way they are going to carry missiles on the outside, and the F-117 carries stuff internally). I expect the same principles used to hide the landing gear doors would work on missile bay doors too.
Also remember, as others have pointed out, the fact that we even know about this plane proves that it's quite out-of-date. God only knows what's in that hangar in Area 51 today.
CmdrTaco probably already knows this, but if you hold down the command key the mouse does soft focus in all Cocoa apps (but it's not perfect, as the background app will perceive the fact that the command key was held down and this may trigger a command that's not what you want).
You misunderstand the parent's point. Why don't we (and RMS) try to objectively evaluate which tool and development model is better for a given project, instead of always demanding free software and frothing at the mouth? And why does he seem to take it as a personal offense every time a high-profile project makes a decision he doesn't like?
If you are developing a GUI application from scratch and portability is not a concern, learn Cocoa. Interface Builder is hands down the best GUI-building tool in the industry.
If you are already a C++ expert and have no desire/resources to learn a whole new language, or you want to use a more traditional toolkit that's easier to port, or you are porting an app written for Windows or OS 9, use Carbon. It's essentially identical to the Mac Toolbox, with a few types changed and memory hacks replaced with accessors.
If portability is very important, use Java. OS X's implementation of the various Java GUI toolkits provides the Aqua interface automaticaly, as well.
It is possible to use all of OS X's native APIs (Cocoa, Carbon, and Posix) in the same project, if you really must. The libraries are already quite interdependent and any potential conflicts are noted in the documentation (i.e. don't use NSThreads and pthreads at the same time).
I intend to die in a highly amusing manner, thank you very much. Not sure exactly which way yet, but I don't want to just throw my death away like that.
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A nearly complete list of every single change Cartoon Network has ever made to an anime.
And you thought YOU had too much time on your hands
I'm sure Batman could come up with some gadget to counter that if he knew ahead of time Supes would try it.
And if various bills get passed in the future, the CD player that can play copy-protected CDs will not have a 1/8" audio-out jack.
You're missing the point. The parent is pointing out that due to bugs and badly implemented features, some browsers are mutually exclusive. And when given the choice "90% of the market xor 10% of the market", the answer is obvious.
It's Saturday, so you should be able to drool over this movie for... ::checks calendar:: 3 days. Then start the boycott.
I agree that bandwidth metering is inevitable, but CONTENT metering is what this article is objecting to. Would you like to have metered bandwidth for everything except your feed of the latest Disney movie? How about an extra charge on your bill because you were detected running unauthorized programs? How about getting extra law enforcement attention because the vast majority of your packets were encrypted?
There is absolutely an overhead for increasing bandwidth. Remember that every bit that goes flying around goes through a wire or fiberoptic cable. Laying cable of any sort cross-country is NOT trivial and only the biggest telecom companies could afford to bankroll such a project (and even they can only do it by bringing in an even bigger company and indebting themselves to it in return for the support). Plus, it does take more hardware to manage more bandwidth. You need more powerful and expensive routers, more or higher capacity servers, and so on.
Hold down Command and the focus partially follows the mouse in cocoa apps with some caveats (you can't enter text in background windows, and lots of apps already use command-click for special functions and will detect that instead).
Breaking a 64-bit key does take O(2^64) time. Big-O notation expresses the performance of the algorithm on a wide range of inputs; all 64-bit keys are 64 bits and can be cracked in (on average) the same amount of time.
And then hopefully He will smite all those people for using the blink tag :)
Don't forget that no piracy is fair use either. That's something to keep in mind no matter which side of the argument you are on.
I'm guessing he ran Kazaa for a few minutes.
Seriously, get real. You can claim that P2P networks have legitimate uses all you want, but trying to flat-out deny that they are used for piracy is stupid.
That's not counting the FC RAID add-on unit that should be released Real Soon Now(tm).
I don't get your last paragraph... Why isn't everything in Earth orbit being gradually drawn towards L4 and L5? Why isn't there some large body captured there already?
I don't see anything about handwriting recognition or OCR in there. Wouldn't this pen be FAR more useful if it showed up on your computer as text instead of a bad scan of your handwriting? Surely there's a modern OS with a built-in handwriting recognition service out there somewhere...
Remember, this plane is a prototype and to some extent a proof-of-concept plane. Now that the concept has been proved and Boeing has assured its backers that the damn thing can fly at all, they can start building a version with munitions bays (you're right, there's no way they are going to carry missiles on the outside, and the F-117 carries stuff internally). I expect the same principles used to hide the landing gear doors would work on missile bay doors too.
Also remember, as others have pointed out, the fact that we even know about this plane proves that it's quite out-of-date. God only knows what's in that hangar in Area 51 today.
No, it's just that they finally discovered why Star Trek V sucks so much.
CmdrTaco probably already knows this, but if you hold down the command key the mouse does soft focus in all Cocoa apps (but it's not perfect, as the background app will perceive the fact that the command key was held down and this may trigger a command that's not what you want).
No one would recognize him. You can't tell words are misspelled when spoken aloud.
Personally, I'd recommend making it 200% heavier.
Now explain why both of my parents and my brother have black hair, but I have red :P
You misunderstand the parent's point. Why don't we (and RMS) try to objectively evaluate which tool and development model is better for a given project, instead of always demanding free software and frothing at the mouth? And why does he seem to take it as a personal offense every time a high-profile project makes a decision he doesn't like?
If you are developing a GUI application from scratch and portability is not a concern, learn Cocoa. Interface Builder is hands down the best GUI-building tool in the industry.
If you are already a C++ expert and have no desire/resources to learn a whole new language, or you want to use a more traditional toolkit that's easier to port, or you are porting an app written for Windows or OS 9, use Carbon. It's essentially identical to the Mac Toolbox, with a few types changed and memory hacks replaced with accessors.
If portability is very important, use Java. OS X's implementation of the various Java GUI toolkits provides the Aqua interface automaticaly, as well.
It is possible to use all of OS X's native APIs (Cocoa, Carbon, and Posix) in the same project, if you really must. The libraries are already quite interdependent and any potential conflicts are noted in the documentation (i.e. don't use NSThreads and pthreads at the same time).
I intend to die in a highly amusing manner, thank you very much. Not sure exactly which way yet, but I don't want to just throw my death away like that.