How is there a 'market' for DSL if the telco is the only provider? Competing with another market that happens to offer a similar service (cable, etc) doesn't count.
In the UK, we have a pretty well-regulated telecoms sector, and I for one am happy about it. I have over 50 DSL ISPs to choose from, and there's a decent amount of competition.
You think that's bad? BT once ended up terminating my _ADSL_ line because someone had phoned up and supplied my mother's maiden name! The person that had phoned up wasn't the same GENDER as me, damnit! It was an honest mistake (they meant to get a different ADSL line cancelled), but it goes to show how 'secure' their system is.
Yeah, I don't know where people got this crazy idea from that the Earth is spherical, what a load of tommyrot. Why, I almost fell off the edge yesterday.
Do I like asking convenient questions in my posts and answering them myself? Yes. Is it an irritating example of a bad writing style? Yes. Should I find a better way of phrasing my comments? Yes.
I'd say it does have some place in a philosophy class. When I took philosophy, we spent a long time banging through Descartes' meditations, which address issues such as how he can know he exists, and that he might be a brain in a jar, etc. This involves discussing how one might come into existance, which is where ID/creationism has some place. Saying you were created by a god is about as legitimate as saying you're a brain in a jar.
Yyyyyes, it is. Name-based hosting allows the web server to serve multiple sites up, based on the browser's Host: header as well as the IP address connected to.
Out of interest, what's wrong with hauling up lead plates? Sure, it's heavy and stuff, but this would be for a several year mission, and time for preparation is available. And we have plenty of lead.
Getting a well-edited tape recording, and somehow keeping it from degrading over time would be difficult and costly to do. So would getting the necessary editing equipment to take out ads. This is assuming there are no DJ's voices over the song in the recording, and also given the fact that radio is quite low-quality in the first place.
But sometimes you HAVE to use hacks to get a basic effect. Ever tried floating an image inside a DIV, using a 'prop' to force the div to be at least as high as the image? Peekaboo bug. Try fixing that in IE6 without a hack.
For alllll that effort he went through, this was the final result.
I was expecting to see something beautifully plugged into the wall like an ATM or whatnot, but this just looks like a regular computer. If he'd just put the Mac Mini under the table it'd look the same. Haha.
I hate to break it to you, but even though today is Saturday, it is in fact Sunday somewhere while it is Saturday for you, under the current system. I live on the Christmas Islands, you insensetive clod!
What Microsoft has is some of the world's brightest programmers working for it. Frankly, after looking at the latest release of IE7, one starts to wonder even about that.
However, there are large improvements, like the rendering engine, and the Feeds (which I didn't play around with too too much). It's a good start, Microsoft No. How the hell is it a good start when even you, a self-confessed MS supporter, thinks there are problems with the GUI (which basically seems to be all they've done any work on)?? As has been stated before, virtually NO improvement on CSS1/2 compatibility has been added. This browser is a turd.
This is the same "problem" people had with XP, yet its fully optional. Go to View -> Skin Chooser, and select 'Classic'. Bang, skins disabled, its normal. Except that, damn, when I move into skin mode, I lose the functionality to have a playlist. In Classic skin there is no music visualization displayed either. And there're likely a bunch of other things you can only do in non-skin mode, or it will automatically click back into non-skin mode when you try to do them. Nope, you're basically stuck in default mode for most stuff beyond 'player that looks cool for about 5 seconds' functionality. I knew there was a reason I never bothered with the classic skin mode. Wow, that's well implemented, huh?
The feature isn't too horrible, as I've found it to be always correct and very usefull. Goody for you. I haven't.
Tools -> Options, select 'Privacy'. Press the button labeled 'Clear Caches' There isn't such a button, but I figured it out. Well, whaddya know... it worked! God knows how ANYONE is supposed to f*cking guess to do that.
Many niggles, an increasingly bloated and horriffic looking 'Fisher-Price' interface, more bloat (radio channels? Media guide? Premium content?), and very annoying skinning. Skinning is horribly implemented, let alone the fact that I don't even like skinning very much. Yes, this all slows down the player, and makes it less fun to use.
Also, incredibly annoying auto-connection to the Internet in order to 'guess' what the titles of your CD, and the songs on it, are. Yes, you can disable this 'feature' but it still keeps the names it wrongly ascribed to tracks on CDs already played. It still thinks my HoMM2* CD is 'Best of David Allen Coe'...
I'm obviously missing something here, so please enlighten me...
Is it not the case that, if Microsoft extend Linux, they must do so in accordance with the GPL? (all of this is moot if you're suggesting they actually create their own version of Linux *from scratch*!).
In accordance with the GPL, if Microsoft 'extend' Linux and distribute that version, they must also make available the full source code to it? In which case, somebody could compile and release a free version too?
You can make an entirely safe populace by placing everyone in solitary confinement in a vast prison system. But what if one of the prison officers, management or members of the government was a terrorist?
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What's that you say? A pedantic language that requires you to use whitespace to specify blocks and doesn't massively improve on Perl is going to replace Perl, given that many Perl programmers wouldn't bother switching because of the former reason _alone_, not to mention the fact that they're already satisfied with the ease and elegance of Perl?
But sometime in the near future, things in the 'car' industry will change radically, and this car will be the only one your music and video will play in. It's already the only one you can do certain things in. This is a totally unfair, unlevel playing field.
And you think that's because of the offline messaging feature?
Funny, that's one of the things I really LOVE about ICQ and YIM. And, btw, i've also received zero unsolicited IMs. ON YIM.
No, I suspect ICQ's downfall was probably the UIN system. Is it easier to write a script that guesses a load of screennames to fire off ads to, or just use the value of an incrementing counter?
Not good enough. They'd just get lobbyists from the relevant states to lobby the relevant officials.
Here's my suggestion - make it 100% illegal for bribery to occur. Campaign donations should be limited to a very small amount, perhaps $100 maximum; obviously only individuals may donate them, not companies/corporations. People may only lobby by power of ARGUMENT ALONE.
Will this make the officials less wealthy, less able to spend multi-millions on TV campaigns, helping to re-enforce a two-party system? Yep. Hey, just killed 2 birds with one stone!
Article: -1 Dupe, -1 Flamebait (Most Slashdotters will proceed to bitch on about how it's their machine, and ad companies have NO part in their lives, aside from funding half the services they regularly use).
IE supports enough PNG functionality to be able to do anything you could do with JPEG, and more. It just can't do proper transparency, which JPEGs don't support either.
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How is there a 'market' for DSL if the telco is the only provider? Competing with another market that happens to offer a similar service (cable, etc) doesn't count.
In the UK, we have a pretty well-regulated telecoms sector, and I for one am happy about it. I have over 50 DSL ISPs to choose from, and there's a decent amount of competition.
You think that's bad? BT once ended up terminating my _ADSL_ line because someone had phoned up and supplied my mother's maiden name! The person that had phoned up wasn't the same GENDER as me, damnit! It was an honest mistake (they meant to get a different ADSL line cancelled), but it goes to show how 'secure' their system is.
We sued them and got about £300 i think.
Yeah, I don't know where people got this crazy idea from that the Earth is spherical, what a load of tommyrot. Why, I almost fell off the edge yesterday.
Do I like asking convenient questions in my posts and answering them myself? Yes.
Is it an irritating example of a bad writing style? Yes.
Should I find a better way of phrasing my comments? Yes.
I'd say it does have some place in a philosophy class. When I took philosophy, we spent a long time banging through Descartes' meditations, which address issues such as how he can know he exists, and that he might be a brain in a jar, etc. This involves discussing how one might come into existance, which is where ID/creationism has some place. Saying you were created by a god is about as legitimate as saying you're a brain in a jar.
Yyyyyes, it is. Name-based hosting allows the web server to serve multiple sites up, based on the browser's Host: header as well as the IP address connected to.
Out of interest, what's wrong with hauling up lead plates? Sure, it's heavy and stuff, but this would be for a several year mission, and time for preparation is available. And we have plenty of lead.
Cost? Quality? Level of difficulty?
Getting a well-edited tape recording, and somehow keeping it from degrading over time would be difficult and costly to do. So would getting the necessary editing equipment to take out ads. This is assuming there are no DJ's voices over the song in the recording, and also given the fact that radio is quite low-quality in the first place.
But sometimes you HAVE to use hacks to get a basic effect. Ever tried floating an image inside a DIV, using a 'prop' to force the div to be at least as high as the image? Peekaboo bug. Try fixing that in IE6 without a hack.
For alllll that effort he went through, this was the final result.
I was expecting to see something beautifully plugged into the wall like an ATM or whatnot, but this just looks like a regular computer. If he'd just put the Mac Mini under the table it'd look the same. Haha.
I hate to break it to you, but even though today is Saturday, it is in fact Sunday somewhere while it is Saturday for you, under the current system.
I live on the Christmas Islands, you insensetive clod!
What Microsoft has is some of the world's brightest programmers working for it.
Frankly, after looking at the latest release of IE7, one starts to wonder even about that.
However, there are large improvements, like the rendering engine, and the Feeds (which I didn't play around with too too much). It's a good start, Microsoft
No. How the hell is it a good start when even you, a self-confessed MS supporter, thinks there are problems with the GUI (which basically seems to be all they've done any work on)?? As has been stated before, virtually NO improvement on CSS1/2 compatibility has been added. This browser is a turd.
This is the same "problem" people had with XP, yet its fully optional. Go to View -> Skin Chooser, and select 'Classic'. Bang, skins disabled, its normal.
Except that, damn, when I move into skin mode, I lose the functionality to have a playlist. In Classic skin there is no music visualization displayed either. And there're likely a bunch of other things you can only do in non-skin mode, or it will automatically click back into non-skin mode when you try to do them. Nope, you're basically stuck in default mode for most stuff beyond 'player that looks cool for about 5 seconds' functionality. I knew there was a reason I never bothered with the classic skin mode. Wow, that's well implemented, huh?
The feature isn't too horrible, as I've found it to be always correct and very usefull.
Goody for you. I haven't.
Tools -> Options, select 'Privacy'. Press the button labeled 'Clear Caches'
There isn't such a button, but I figured it out. Well, whaddya know... it worked! God knows how ANYONE is supposed to f*cking guess to do that.
Many niggles, an increasingly bloated and horriffic looking 'Fisher-Price' interface, more bloat (radio channels? Media guide? Premium content?), and very annoying skinning. Skinning is horribly implemented, let alone the fact that I don't even like skinning very much. Yes, this all slows down the player, and makes it less fun to use.
Also, incredibly annoying auto-connection to the Internet in order to 'guess' what the titles of your CD, and the songs on it, are. Yes, you can disable this 'feature' but it still keeps the names it wrongly ascribed to tracks on CDs already played. It still thinks my HoMM2* CD is 'Best of David Allen Coe'...
And that's just off the top of my head.
*Heroes of Might and Magic 2 (a PC game)
I'm obviously missing something here, so please enlighten me...
Is it not the case that, if Microsoft extend Linux, they must do so in accordance with the GPL? (all of this is moot if you're suggesting they actually create their own version of Linux *from scratch*!).
In accordance with the GPL, if Microsoft 'extend' Linux and distribute that version, they must also make available the full source code to it? In which case, somebody could compile and release a free version too?
You can make an entirely safe populace by placing everyone in solitary confinement in a vast prison system.
But what if one of the prison officers, management or members of the government was a terrorist?
What's that you say? A pedantic language that requires you to use whitespace to specify blocks and doesn't massively improve on Perl is going to replace Perl, given that many Perl programmers wouldn't bother switching because of the former reason _alone_, not to mention the fact that they're already satisfied with the ease and elegance of Perl?
But sometime in the near future, things in the 'car' industry will change radically, and this car will be the only one your music and video will play in. It's already the only one you can do certain things in. This is a totally unfair, unlevel playing field.
And you think that's because of the offline messaging feature?
Funny, that's one of the things I really LOVE about ICQ and YIM. And, btw, i've also received zero unsolicited IMs. ON YIM.
No, I suspect ICQ's downfall was probably the UIN system. Is it easier to write a script that guesses a load of screennames to fire off ads to, or just use the value of an incrementing counter?
Not good enough. They'd just get lobbyists from the relevant states to lobby the relevant officials.
Here's my suggestion - make it 100% illegal for bribery to occur. Campaign donations should be limited to a very small amount, perhaps $100 maximum; obviously only individuals may donate them, not companies/corporations. People may only lobby by power of ARGUMENT ALONE.
Will this make the officials less wealthy, less able to spend multi-millions on TV campaigns, helping to re-enforce a two-party system? Yep. Hey, just killed 2 birds with one stone!
Article: -1 Dupe, -1 Flamebait (Most Slashdotters will proceed to bitch on about how it's their machine, and ad companies have NO part in their lives, aside from funding half the services they regularly use).
How you you drag the mouse around without accidentally pressing a button? :-)
I find those 5 button mice infuriating.
Also:
Wrong: "Too (measurement) of a (noun)", eg. Too big of a room.
Right: "Too (measurement) a (noun)", eg. Too big a room.
IE supports enough PNG functionality to be able to do anything you could do with JPEG, and more. It just can't do proper transparency, which JPEGs don't support either.