If the ISP is inserting it into a frame on the fly, you've successfully created a page that will continually try to reload itself, as it will never be the topmost ancestor.
I bet you that right now you have at least 10 keys on the keyboard in front of you that you press less than once a day on average. I know I do.
The entire top row. By top row, I mean the Esc and function keys, along with Print Screen, Scroll Lock, and Pause.
Then again, that's why they're on the top row. Not only that, but I can find these buttons by touch, because Esc is by itself, the function keys are split into groups of four, and the only key of the other three that I ever use is on the left side of that group.
Getting back on subject, though, the arrangement of said buttons has a lot to do with it. On a telephone, the numbered buttons are always arranged
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 * 0 #
Buttons on a TV remote are usually the same way, with * and # changed out for special purpose buttons, such as the 100 button and mute.
On all my recent TV remotes, volume and channel change are in a little cross shape, with up and down being volume increase and decrease, and right and left being channel increment and decrement.
On my qwerty keyboard, the f and j keys have special ridges on them, so as a touch typist, I can use those and my memory to locate keys in the five base rows of a keyboard.
I hope there's some way to add words to the dictionary, because if there's one thing I can't stand is my name being marked as misspelled... I'd hate it even more if the damn thing "autocorrects" it to something else.
P.S. Is there a way to turn it off? I'd also hate it if it tried to autocorrect lines of code I might be sending to someone via IM as a fix for something they're working on.
I know this comes as a great surprise, but the OSes and processors this runs on are limited. If you want your programs to run on non-Intel platforms, or on any of the BSDs, I suggest you skip it and use something else.
Processors:
Intel® Pentium® 4 processor
Intel® Xeon® processor
Intel Pentium D processor
64-bit Intel Xeon processor
Intel® Core Solo processor
Intel Core Duo processor
Intel Core 2 Duo processor
Intel® Itanium® 2 processor (Linux systems only)
Non Intel processors compatible with the above processor
OSes:
Microsoft Windows Systems
Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Windows Vista
Linux Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4 and 5 (when using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 with Intel Itanium processors, operating system Update 2 or higher is recommended)
Red Hat Fedora Core 4, 5 and 6 (not with Intel Itanium processors)
SGI Propack 5.0 (not with IA-32 architecture processors)
Mandriva/Mandrake Linux 10.1.06 (not with Intel Itanium processors)
Turbolinux GreatTurbo Enterprise Server 10 SP1 (not with Intel Itanium processors)
Mac OS X 10.4.4 (Intel) or higher
Compilers:
Microsoft Visual C++ 7.1 (Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2003, Windows systems only)
Microsoft Visual C++ 8.0 (Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Windows systems only)
Intel® C++ Compiler 9.0 or higher (Windows and Linux systems)
Intel® C++ Compiler 9.1 or higher (Mac OS systems)
For each supported Linux operating system, the standard gcc version provided with that operating system is supported, including: 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.0, 4.1
For each supported Mac OS operating system, the standard gcc version provided with that operating system is supported, including: 4.0.1 (Xcode tool suite 2.2.1 or higher)
P.S. Slashdot pulled out all the trademark symbols, and doesn't support the sup tag, so you'll just have to picture them in all the appropriate spots.:P
As he said, who cares about the incoming packets ? We're talking about the packets leaving the machine, not incoming, that's the point of the article. Maybe you want to discuss about incoming packets, it can be interesting too, but it's not the subject.
The "very interesting logs from Vista showing connections to the DoD Information Networking Center, United Nations Development program and the Halliburton Company" are incoming logs, ergo it's talking about incoming packets.
Weird, sounds to me like you have a bias on the GPLv3 issue yourself that colors your opinion of Pamela's opinion as "bias". After all, the part where you "lost all respect for her" was due to her saying something that is factually true -- GPLv2 would allow MS' strategy of inserting patent-encumbered code into GPL software then suing users of said software. The only thing that could make that an "accusation", as if Linus was deliberately trying to help Microsoft, is your own bias.
She wasn't accusing Linus of helping MS put patent landmines in the Linux Kernel. She was asking if Linus' concerns regarding the GPLv3 were worth leaving Linux (legally) exposed to the possibility of patent landmines by sticking with GPLv2. Which is a perfectly reasonable question.
I'm biased against the GPLv3 because it tries to step beyond the law.
Example: "To 'convey' a work means any kind of propagation that enables other parties to make or receive copies. Mere interaction with a user through a computer network, with no transfer of a copy, is not conveying."
This particular gem was put there to try and trap Microsoft due to the Novell-Microsoft deal. I'm no Microsoft lover, but this is a brazen attempt to bypass existing copyright law. Just try taking it to court. TRY IT. I dare you. If it's in the US, I'll even pay for a plane ticket just to watch your face get metaphorically slapped by a judge.
A license is used to grant rights that someone wouldn't already have. I don't need it to buy or receive your product. I don't need it to sell or give away your product either, thanks to the doctrine of first sale (Title 17, Section 109 for US Copyright law). I need it to make and distribute copies. If someone else can legally make copies, they call sell them to me and I can resell them to others. Yes, that's conveying. No, I don't need a license for it. No, that's not against the law.
Back to the subject of Pamela and the GPLv3, I think Linus put it best:
Pj, You seem to still be in a "us vs them" mode.
Why do you think the GPLv3 is the only "free" license?
Why do you think that the GPLv2 is inferior?
And why do you think that unquestioning obedience to the FSF is such a good thing, and we all have to march in one line?
Of course, Pamela never replied to that.
Linus brings up one point that I cannot emphasize enough: This shouldn't be an us versus them thing. We know who the enemy is (Microsoft), but we can't stoop to their level to stop them.
For example: "Why not just disallow anyone not capable of not programming a buffer overflow from ever programming a device?"
would be easier to read as "Why not just disallow anyone who has a history of programming buffer overflows from ever programming a device?" although that changes the meaning slightly.
So no, Pamela is not an unbiased source, particularly not when it comes to the GPLv3... and it's not surprising, since she was on one of the committees that created it.
First of all, we're talking about NAT in the context of this screenshot.
If this guy is doing this internally, why is the remote desktop session showing 192.168.0.1, and the PeerGuardian logs showing a destination of 24.247.148.173? Surely if these two machines are on the same network with internal addresses, there's a NAT box somewhere stripping any evidence of the global outside destination in the original IP header. Even if the XP box is sitting at the end of a SPAN port monitoring traffic, why is he delegating global IP addresses to his equipment behind his router?
If the XP box is in a DMZ, is it really any wonder that it's receiving random traffic from large bot infested networks, and even then, why is the traffic so infrequent, and why are there no regular ISP ranges like you'd normally find in a promiscuous scan of incoming traffic?
(Emphasis mine)
Second, even if you couldn't determine that he was talking about incoming traffic from the first paragraph quoted above, it's mentioned explicitly in the second paragraph.
We need a better programming paradigm for taking advantage of multicore.
Such as?
I mean, threads are already independantly executed elements that have a shared memory space. What do propose instead, forked processes that created a shared memory location? Wouldn't forking a GUI process not only waste a ton of memory (as it creates a copy of the entire process's memory space), but also make it duplicate its windows?
A single-threaded GUI application is the digital equivalent of having a call center with only one person working in it. They can only answer one phone at a time, putting everyone else on hold (or just ignoring them) while they do so.
I can't think of a really good analogy for the single-GUI thread, multiple worker threads scenario (which is how KDE and Microsoft Windows appear to work).
The point of this is that javascript can still operate in a single thread, it'd just have to communicate with the GUI thread to have the GUI updated. As someone else mentioned previously, all the other major web browsers do Javascript in a separate thread.
Wii Play and such "games" are fine with me. However, the day you stop making Metroid and Zelda games is the day I don't buy your console.
P.S.: I never bought a Nintendo 64.
WHAT? You didn't buy a console that had not just one, but two Zelda games? It's besides the point that I think Majora's Mask is the weakest game in the series (not counting the CD-i titles).
Yes, I'm aware that it didn't have any Metroid games.;)
earlier this year released... 2 Zelda games(one for Wii and one for DS).
In the US, Nintendo has released no Zelda games so far this year. Twilight Princess Wii was released last November and Phantom Hourglass is on track for an October release.
In Japan, they've released one: Phantom Hourglass.
Nintendo's selling a machine that plays games, singleplayer and LOCAL multiplayer, very very well. That's what I want, and that's what I spent four hours out waiting for in the cold one November morning. And, empirically, that seems to be what the largest group of people want.
Welcome to two generations ago. The Nintendo 64 and Gamecube both did local multiplayer quite well. Nintendo even made the Wavebird for the GC so you could play wirelessly.
The Wii, however, now has WiFi... in order to play multiplayer games online.
I don't seem to recall that many loading screens on the games I've played... other than when you first start the game or load a saved game. A lot of games managed to hide the system's slow load times.
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night was one of the best games I can think of at this... It loaded things while you were passing through one of the corridors that separated sections of the castle, or when it was playing the warp room animation.
Saving games, on the other hand, was obnoxiously slow. That's gotten somewhat better in the previous and present console generations.
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It wouldn't surprise me if the company comes out with yet more weird controllers. Throw it at the wall and see what sticks, because if something does they have it all to themselves.
Well... that was the entire point of putting an addon plug at the bottom of the Wiimote, wasn't it?
No shit the hardcore gamers don't understand the new games - hell, they never understood the old games in the first place (ie: why any of us enjoyed Twilight Princess as much as we did - the Wiimote was just a gimick, right??).
That's probably why I have the GC version and, despite having a Wii, have no intention of buying the Wii version.
I once did a Google search for 'attrs' using Firefox on a Linux box. What popped up was a box asking me to accept a Department of Defense digital signature, served from a DOD server.
why? Google had suggested I was looking for 'atrrs' which was a DOD term, and Firefox tried to pre-load the first result, which was a DOD run website, which popped up the certificate from a site I did not intend to visit! If there is a conspiracy, then Google, Mozilla, and Slackware are in on it.
Let me guess, you had FasterFox or some other accelerator loaded? I'm fairly sure that Firefox doesn't do this by default.
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If the ISP is inserting it into a frame on the fly, you've successfully created a page that will continually try to reload itself, as it will never be the topmost ancestor.
Your sarcasm detector is busted.
The entire top row. By top row, I mean the Esc and function keys, along with Print Screen, Scroll Lock, and Pause.
Then again, that's why they're on the top row. Not only that, but I can find these buttons by touch, because Esc is by itself, the function keys are split into groups of four, and the only key of the other three that I ever use is on the left side of that group.
Getting back on subject, though, the arrangement of said buttons has a lot to do with it. On a telephone, the numbered buttons are always arranged Buttons on a TV remote are usually the same way, with * and # changed out for special purpose buttons, such as the 100 button and mute.
On all my recent TV remotes, volume and channel change are in a little cross shape, with up and down being volume increase and decrease, and right and left being channel increment and decrement.
On my qwerty keyboard, the f and j keys have special ridges on them, so as a touch typist, I can use those and my memory to locate keys in the five base rows of a keyboard.
I hope there's some way to add words to the dictionary, because if there's one thing I can't stand is my name being marked as misspelled... I'd hate it even more if the damn thing "autocorrects" it to something else.
P.S. Is there a way to turn it off? I'd also hate it if it tried to autocorrect lines of code I might be sending to someone via IM as a fix for something they're working on.
I know this comes as a great surprise, but the OSes and processors this runs on are limited. If you want your programs to run on non-Intel platforms, or on any of the BSDs, I suggest you skip it and use something else.
Processors:
OSes:
Compilers:
P.S. Slashdot pulled out all the trademark symbols, and doesn't support the sup tag, so you'll just have to picture them in all the appropriate spots. :P
It was renamed to +1 Insightful to appease the people who hate curse words.
The "very interesting logs from Vista showing connections to the DoD Information Networking Center, United Nations Development program and the Halliburton Company" are incoming logs, ergo it's talking about incoming packets.
I'm biased against the GPLv3 because it tries to step beyond the law.
Example: "To 'convey' a work means any kind of propagation that enables other parties to make or receive copies. Mere interaction with a user through a computer network, with no transfer of a copy, is not conveying."
This particular gem was put there to try and trap Microsoft due to the Novell-Microsoft deal. I'm no Microsoft lover, but this is a brazen attempt to bypass existing copyright law. Just try taking it to court. TRY IT. I dare you. If it's in the US, I'll even pay for a plane ticket just to watch your face get metaphorically slapped by a judge.
A license is used to grant rights that someone wouldn't already have. I don't need it to buy or receive your product. I don't need it to sell or give away your product either, thanks to the doctrine of first sale (Title 17, Section 109 for US Copyright law). I need it to make and distribute copies. If someone else can legally make copies, they call sell them to me and I can resell them to others. Yes, that's conveying. No, I don't need a license for it. No, that's not against the law.
Pamela would like you to think it is.
Back to the subject of Pamela and the GPLv3, I think Linus put it best:
Of course, Pamela never replied to that.
Linus brings up one point that I cannot emphasize enough: This shouldn't be an us versus them thing. We know who the enemy is (Microsoft), but we can't stoop to their level to stop them.
For example: "Why not just disallow anyone not capable of not programming a buffer overflow from ever programming a device?"
would be easier to read as
"Why not just disallow anyone who has a history of programming buffer overflows from ever programming a device?"
although that changes the meaning slightly.
Here's a tip: Your rant would be easier to follow if you failed to not use less negatives.
I'm not the anonymous user you're replying to, but PJ has little credibility with me.
PJ started losing credibility when she started calling things like an OO.o plugin made by Novell a fork of OO.o. Her exact reasoning is "It may not be what it says, but to me it's what it means." and "To me, it's a fork because of the patent deal."
Then stories that are blatant Microsoft bashing, like A Brave New Modular World - Another MS Patent Application, started popping up.
Then the GPLv3 posts started popping up.
One of the moments I remember the most is when PJ accused Linus of "enabling the Microsoft patent strategy" by remaining with the GPLv2, at which point I lost all respect for her.
So no, Pamela is not an unbiased source, particularly not when it comes to the GPLv3... and it's not surprising, since she was on one of the committees that created it.
Second, even if you couldn't determine that he was talking about incoming traffic from the first paragraph quoted above, it's mentioned explicitly in the second paragraph.
OK, apparently you missed that these are incoming packets we're talking about, not outgoing.
No, I think that a good desktop environment needs to be multi-threaded. Heck, single-threaded apps are bad enough.
(I also replied to this because of my signature)
Given that X.Org is the X11 reference implementation, I do believe that present day applies when talking about X11.
Such as?
I mean, threads are already independantly executed elements that have a shared memory space. What do propose instead, forked processes that created a shared memory location? Wouldn't forking a GUI process not only waste a ton of memory (as it creates a copy of the entire process's memory space), but also make it duplicate its windows?
A single-threaded GUI application is the digital equivalent of having a call center with only one person working in it. They can only answer one phone at a time, putting everyone else on hold (or just ignoring them) while they do so.
I can't think of a really good analogy for the single-GUI thread, multiple worker threads scenario (which is how KDE and Microsoft Windows appear to work).
The point of this is that javascript can still operate in a single thread, it'd just have to communicate with the GUI thread to have the GUI updated. As someone else mentioned previously, all the other major web browsers do Javascript in a separate thread.
WHAT? You didn't buy a console that had not just one, but two Zelda games? It's besides the point that I think Majora's Mask is the weakest game in the series (not counting the CD-i titles).
Yes, I'm aware that it didn't have any Metroid games.
That depends... are you a woman?
If not, then yes, it's wrong.
In the US, Nintendo has released no Zelda games so far this year. Twilight Princess Wii was released last November and Phantom Hourglass is on track for an October release.
In Japan, they've released one: Phantom Hourglass.
Welcome to two generations ago. The Nintendo 64 and Gamecube both did local multiplayer quite well. Nintendo even made the Wavebird for the GC so you could play wirelessly.
The Wii, however, now has WiFi... in order to play multiplayer games online.
I don't seem to recall that many loading screens on the games I've played... other than when you first start the game or load a saved game. A lot of games managed to hide the system's slow load times.
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night was one of the best games I can think of at this... It loaded things while you were passing through one of the corridors that separated sections of the castle, or when it was playing the warp room animation.
Saving games, on the other hand, was obnoxiously slow. That's gotten somewhat better in the previous and present console generations.
Well... that was the entire point of putting an addon plug at the bottom of the Wiimote, wasn't it?
That's probably why I have the GC version and, despite having a Wii, have no intention of buying the Wii version.
Let me guess, you had FasterFox or some other accelerator loaded? I'm fairly sure that Firefox doesn't do this by default.