Honestly, why do you want to switch to DVORAK? I use QWERTY, and can reach about 80WPM (according to this site), which is fine for me; never had a problem with it. Actually, I'm probably a bit faster than that as I can type what I'm thinking faster than what I'm reading.
Switching to DVORAK doesn't seem like the kind of revolutionary switch as from dialup to broadband, for example. It seems like a costly (in time and money) way of slightly improving typing speed.
From a section of society?? Hell, I remember about 10 years ago when many people didn't have the internet. It's hard to argue, even in this day and age, that it's THAT important.
What happens when a country's government passes legislation requiring all ISPs to monitor encrypted traffic, and so be able to decrypt it using man-in-the-middle attacks? Sure, it's more difficult, but far from impossible.
This is bollocks. If you're worried about possible innacuracy, what are you doing using the internet for research? For that matter, what are you doing reading anything? NOTHING you read is guaranteed to be accurate. It's all about probability.
If something is reported by the BBC, it's very likely to be accurate, but they've made mistakes before. If I read something technical on Cisco's website, it's very likely to be accurate because they're a professional company. If I read a Wikipedia article that I judge not to have been retardedly vandalized, it's pretty likely to be mostly accurate. What makes you think the cited sources, or non-internet sources are any more accurate? This attitude irritates me.
Instead of trying to eliminate sources of information that aren't guaranteed to be accurate (hint: that's all of 'em), you should be trying to think about how likely something is to be accurate, and examining multiple sources to check whether they correlate. If you're gonna read just one source, though, Wikipedia is as decent (if not more so) as most matches on Google.
So fecking what? 'Chief marketroid' still means they actively supported the RIAA's evil campaign of suing the public for every penny they could get, just to maximize corporate fatcat middleman profits.
Yes. Although I can see some worth in the idea, I don't know why tiny 16kB chunks were suggested; the overhead would be enormous. Take a 600MB ISO; the whole file's hash is 1 hash, but divide it up into 16kB chunks and the file consists of about 38,000 hashes.
The idea would work a lot better with maybe 5 to 10MB chunks.
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I've been running it on my Toshiba Notebook for quite a while and it runs just fine. I didn't have any Driver Issues, No Memory Complaints, in fact, no issues at all. And my computer is about 4 years old. It has a 1.3mhz Celeron processor with 512 meg Ram and 64meg video card. Not a beast, but it runs at least as well as XP does. In some cases, better.
Bill
Cripes, you're the chief software architect for MS, and one of the richest guys in the world, and you're still using a cruddy old 4 year old Celeron laptop?! I knew you were cheap, but wow.
And by the way, stop astroturfing on Slashdot; stick to the MSDN forums.
You shouldn't really need to monitor their browsing/e-mail unless they're not getting the results required. I'm a strong believe that employees should be judged on what they achieve, not how they achieve it. If they can view port 80% of the day and be acceptably productive, so be it.
Hmm, I bought this 'PC' thing the other day that had a keyboard with it, and USB, and MSN Messenger, and it played games as well. Maybe it would be a reasonable alternative.
I guess the only reason to go for the Xbox is that it runs Linux.
Sod being paid; my university seizes all the IP to my final year project (thesis)! This is presumably so they can showcase it in their school building if they feel like it, but I presume I couldn't sell it to someone. I don't like it, but what am I meant to do to 'protect' it? They can refuse to mark it and give me a degree.
People aren't buying into it in droves, because the previous thing they used works well enough for them and the new features offered by it aren't enough of an incentive to 'upgrade'; on the other hand, it is laden with DRM that the previous thing wasn't.
Indeed. The irony is that, having made such a fuss over this thing, Theo has probable dragged 'Marcus' through a LOT more mud than he would've been, beause now it's on Slashdot.
Is Theo really the leader of OpenBSD? Doesn't he attend major conferences and stuff? For someone in this position, he writes (frankly) quite bizarrely. eg.
"You are an inhuman asshole"
and...
> > You refuse to accept it was an accident. Therefore we refuse to > > accept that your public posting was an accident. > > Both exactly right.
You purposely set out to humiliate him.
> I never said I wanted the driver to be deleted. Re-read the whole > thread please. But switch your "turn the meaning of sentences over" device > off first, please.
Your fancy words left him no choice.
Sorry, but I just burst out laughing at that point. Fancy words? Reminds me of a Simpsons episode...
Marge: Homer! Get ready! Patty and Selma will be here any minute. Homer: D'oh! Oh no...better ride this one out in the closet.
[opens it to see Bart and Lisa standing there]
Lisa: Sorry, Dad. This is our spot. Homer: Oh yeah? Well it's _my_ house, so it's _my_ spot.
Bart: N'uh uh, because we called it. Homer: Did not!
Lisa: Well, we're calling it now. Homer: [plaintive] You are?
Bart: 'Fraid so. Homer: Ohh, they got me with their legal mumbo-jumbo!
I think you just unwittingly stumbled upon the answer to the bandwidth problem.
Everyone who wants truly unlimited bandwidth can have it, but they must be placed in a room with glass screens and agree to be ogled by groups of tourists who pay Rogers to view the 'deep sea bandwidth eatin monster'.
Honest question: how is it that Eastlink can manage this, and the other companies can't? Is it really as simple as saying that Rogers et al are greedier and lazier, but could provide unlimited bandwidth if they pulled their fingers out?
Because PAYG is a pain in the ass, and I kind of like to know what my bill will be at the end of the month.
It would suck if they did that for TV or radio. Sure, they do for electricity and stuff, but at least those are resources that get USED UP and so a constant charge is justified. Bandwidth is an unlimited resource that, once something's sent over it, is infinitely* reusable.
* OK, maintenance required very occasionally, so rarely it's effectively infinite compared to electricity/water/gas.
Indeed, this crap has 'Labour gimmick' written ALL over it. Unsurprisingly, the brainchild of this idea, John Reid, is a New Labour bigwig. Only the world's biggest asshole could come up with pretentious, arrogant, crap like this: "[some people] in the minority who will be more concerned about what they claim are civil liberties intrusions".
"But the vast majority of people find that their life is more upset by people who make their life a misery in the inner cities because they can't go out and feel safe and secure in a healthy, clean environment because of a minority of people"
a) Where is his evidence that the 'vast majority' want this? Pulled yet another figure out of his ass? b) What we CLAIM are civil liberties intrusions? They fucking ARE, asshole! Stop being dishonest!
Anyway. Everyone who cares, you know what party NOT to vote for next election, and indeed to vote against. Get 'em out.
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Honestly, why do you want to switch to DVORAK? I use QWERTY, and can reach about 80WPM (according to this site), which is fine for me; never had a problem with it. Actually, I'm probably a bit faster than that as I can type what I'm thinking faster than what I'm reading.
Switching to DVORAK doesn't seem like the kind of revolutionary switch as from dialup to broadband, for example. It seems like a costly (in time and money) way of slightly improving typing speed.
Former? I thought he still sold Windows licences.
From a section of society?? Hell, I remember about 10 years ago when many people didn't have the internet. It's hard to argue, even in this day and age, that it's THAT important.
What happens when a country's government passes legislation requiring all ISPs to monitor encrypted traffic, and so be able to decrypt it using man-in-the-middle attacks? Sure, it's more difficult, but far from impossible.
Some people like to participate in scat porn. Doesn't mean it should be legal for someone to force you into a session.
Spam should be strictly opt-in, with a permanent easy opt-out.
This is bollocks. If you're worried about possible innacuracy, what are you doing using the internet for research? For that matter, what are you doing reading anything? NOTHING you read is guaranteed to be accurate. It's all about probability.
If something is reported by the BBC, it's very likely to be accurate, but they've made mistakes before. If I read something technical on Cisco's website, it's very likely to be accurate because they're a professional company. If I read a Wikipedia article that I judge not to have been retardedly vandalized, it's pretty likely to be mostly accurate. What makes you think the cited sources, or non-internet sources are any more accurate? This attitude irritates me.
Instead of trying to eliminate sources of information that aren't guaranteed to be accurate (hint: that's all of 'em), you should be trying to think about how likely something is to be accurate, and examining multiple sources to check whether they correlate. If you're gonna read just one source, though, Wikipedia is as decent (if not more so) as most matches on Google.
The downside is that they might go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autofellatio and giggle a bit.
To the minds of many parents in the US, their child's visiting that page will have corrupted them irreparably for life.
Note to mods: I'm not joking.
So fecking what? 'Chief marketroid' still means they actively supported the RIAA's evil campaign of suing the public for every penny they could get, just to maximize corporate fatcat middleman profits.
The fact that you closed with an ad hominem barb leaves me doubtful.
Umm, 'ad hominem barb' basically means nasty irrelevant insult. The GP post couldn't have been less of that if it tried.
and yet Palm Hardware started making WinCE devices.
I can't think of a piece ofm Palm hardware that didn't make me WinCE.
Yes. Although I can see some worth in the idea, I don't know why tiny 16kB chunks were suggested; the overhead would be enormous. Take a 600MB ISO; the whole file's hash is 1 hash, but divide it up into 16kB chunks and the file consists of about 38,000 hashes.
The idea would work a lot better with maybe 5 to 10MB chunks.
I've been running it on my Toshiba Notebook for quite a while and it runs just fine. I didn't have any Driver Issues, No Memory Complaints, in fact, no issues at all. And my computer is about 4 years old. It has a 1.3mhz Celeron processor with 512 meg Ram and 64meg video card. Not a beast, but it runs at least as well as XP does. In some cases, better.
Bill
Cripes, you're the chief software architect for MS, and one of the richest guys in the world, and you're still using a cruddy old 4 year old Celeron laptop?! I knew you were cheap, but wow.
And by the way, stop astroturfing on Slashdot; stick to the MSDN forums.
You shouldn't really need to monitor their browsing/e-mail unless they're not getting the results required. I'm a strong believe that employees should be judged on what they achieve, not how they achieve it. If they can view port 80% of the day and be acceptably productive, so be it.
Hmm, I bought this 'PC' thing the other day that had a keyboard with it, and USB, and MSN Messenger, and it played games as well. Maybe it would be a reasonable alternative.
I guess the only reason to go for the Xbox is that it runs Linux.
Sod being paid; my university seizes all the IP to my final year project (thesis)! This is presumably so they can showcase it in their school building if they feel like it, but I presume I couldn't sell it to someone. I don't like it, but what am I meant to do to 'protect' it? They can refuse to mark it and give me a degree.
People aren't buying into it in droves, because the previous thing they used works well enough for them and the new features offered by it aren't enough of an incentive to 'upgrade'; on the other hand, it is laden with DRM that the previous thing wasn't.
Am I talking about Vista or HD-DVD/Blu-ray?
Is Theo really the leader of OpenBSD? Doesn't he attend major conferences and stuff? For someone in this position, he writes (frankly) quite bizarrely. eg. and... Sorry, but I just burst out laughing at that point. Fancy words? Reminds me of a Simpsons episode...
I think you just unwittingly stumbled upon the answer to the bandwidth problem.
Everyone who wants truly unlimited bandwidth can have it, but they must be placed in a room with glass screens and agree to be ogled by groups of tourists who pay Rogers to view the 'deep sea bandwidth eatin monster'.
Honest question: how is it that Eastlink can manage this, and the other companies can't? Is it really as simple as saying that Rogers et al are greedier and lazier, but could provide unlimited bandwidth if they pulled their fingers out?
Because PAYG is a pain in the ass, and I kind of like to know what my bill will be at the end of the month.
It would suck if they did that for TV or radio. Sure, they do for electricity and stuff, but at least those are resources that get USED UP and so a constant charge is justified. Bandwidth is an unlimited resource that, once something's sent over it, is infinitely* reusable.
* OK, maintenance required very occasionally, so rarely it's effectively infinite compared to electricity/water/gas.
Asus have a support department??
- Disgruntled Asus customer
I don't need no damn graphics hogging up my connection, which is limited to a measly 5GB / month. WAP should be enough for anybody!
Boy was my mark pissed off at being called at all hours of the night by people looking to buy the car. He never tried to pull another prank on me =)
You played this prank on your son??
160kbps too bad quality? Christ. Can I borrow your bat hearing?
Indeed, this crap has 'Labour gimmick' written ALL over it. Unsurprisingly, the brainchild of this idea, John Reid, is a New Labour bigwig. Only the world's biggest asshole could come up with pretentious, arrogant, crap like this:
"[some people] in the minority who will be more concerned about what they claim are civil liberties intrusions".
"But the vast majority of people find that their life is more upset by people who make their life a misery in the inner cities because they can't go out and feel safe and secure in a healthy, clean environment because of a minority of people"
a) Where is his evidence that the 'vast majority' want this? Pulled yet another figure out of his ass?
b) What we CLAIM are civil liberties intrusions? They fucking ARE, asshole! Stop being dishonest!
Anyway. Everyone who cares, you know what party NOT to vote for next election, and indeed to vote against. Get 'em out.