Just a coincidence. Mine is a nickname that friends used to call me when I played TFC (Team Fortress Classic) and Counter Strike. My name in the game was Nemesis and people called me Nemi for short.:)
I use Spybot for Malware infections, but SpywareBlaster does a much better job of immunizing IE against getting malware ActiveX infections and blocking bad cookies in IE/Firefox.
Exactly. I am a programmer and constantly do research on the internet. It is so much easier to open google, search for a term, and then middle click all good potential links so they open in a new tab. While I am looking for more and more good links on the google page, those tabs are loading in the background. It seems like a simple thing, but you would not believe how much of a time saver it is.
Also, if I have 6-8 pages of material open and I switch from my browser to my IDE, I do not have to search for the right icon on the task bar for my reference material again, I know it is in the one Firefox icon.
I must also mention the other killer feature in Firefox for me, though it is a bit off topic. Ctrl-mouse wheel to change the font size. This (supposedly) works for IE, but IE will not resize the font if the html has pixel sizes set. Firefox will resize all fonts, no matter what the page designer intended. Also, each tab is independent, so changing font size in one does not affect the other. Lastly, When I close my browser it goes back to the default size. IE keeps the last size you picked, so if you were on a web page with tiny font and scrolled it up several sizes, the next time you open a browser it is huge on a normal site. Way too cumbersome.
Age of the software should make no difference. The problem in this particular case was that the system could only handle 32,000 transactions a month (the programmer obviously used the wrong data type). That could be a problem with software of any age. Age had nothing to do with it failing.
This article rings more as a sales article than anything else - only it isn't selling anything. Which puts it squarely in the "wtf" category for me.
Linux frowns on binary-only, closed-source drivers for a reason: they decrease the overall kernel quality if nobody else can help debug them. Nvidia's closed-source driver is fine, until its doesn't fucking work.
Hmm, Whats the use of having a "quality" system if said system can't do anything because my hardware doesn't work? Something should be said about priorities.
I truly don't mean this as a troll post, and I admit that I have not read the book, but I would have a hard time with suspension-of-disbelief that a bunch of children at age 5 or so could be great warriors. It would probably be much more believeable reading it (though I would still have a tough time), but I can't imagine it on the screen. Most children actors just can't pull it off, imho.
This is infecting the machine using a signed applet. Hello? I can do anything I want to your pc if you allow a signed applet to run. This not news. I can install a trojan, key logger, back door, whatever. Infecting IE is the least of someones problems if they allow signed applets from untrusted sources to run.
I used the word addiction in quotes because the term is controversial, not necessarily because I don't believe in the phenomenon. However, I believe psychological "addictions" are better described as "habits". From someone who has quit smoking cold turkey, I can tell you that a physical addiction (the true definition of the word 'addiction', imho, despite what the dictionary says) is much harder to break than any psychological "habit".
Hmm, I have wanted to get a tivo for some time now. The only thing stopping me? A land line is required.
Before you say anything, I understand that new tivos work over broadband. However, as I understand it, to get a new tivo to work over broadband you must first - wait for it - hook it up to a phone line. Excuse me? I don't have a phone. Period.
Explain to me why a company that is so technically innovative would just now be in the process of broadband enabling their hardware? I am genuinely curious.
You know, you have some good points, but I can't help but think that points 2 and 3 are directly conflicting. Applet has some of the most excessive effects I have ever seen.
So the article appears to be saying that if we had counted all the votes of the people not intelligent enough to properly use the ballot clearly then Gore would have won.
I will leave the implications of this as an exercise for the reader.
I would love love love to get an ipod, but why can't they put a simple radio in it? Though I love listening to my own music, there are times when I just want to listen to some random music on the radio, or maybe a football game.
I know there are competing players with radios, but after you try the ipods UI there is no going back. I guess I will just have to wait until they release one with a radio.
You know, I saw that posted the other day and read the blurb from dictionary.com
Usage Note: Affect and effect have no senses in common. As a verb affect is most commonly used in the sense of "to influence" (how smoking affects health). Effect means "to bring about or execute": layoffs designed to effect savings. Thus the sentence These measures may affect savings could imply that the measures may reduce savings that have already been realized, whereas These measures may effect savings implies that the measures will cause new savings to come about.
But then I went and read the definition of effect:
2. The power to produce an outcome or achieve a result; influence: The drug had an immediate effect on the pain. The government's action had no effect on the trade imbalance.
Am I the only one seeing a contradiction here? The second definition of effect clearly states that it can be used "to influence", no?
- When you land from a jump, you STOP MOVING. No more bunny hoppers! Also if you fall from a high enough ledge to take damage, you stop moving for a bit.
Uh, you stop moving in current CS also unless the admin has turned it off.
Well, actually I agree that if this were a different situation I may have just put windows on it, to be honest.
First off, I work in IT and we were getting rid of old laptops for $25. Good price on an older laptop. Because of my limited need for a laptop and the low cost involved, I wanted to get the cheapest card and access point I could find, so I got a remanufactured set from some site, $50 for both. Quick checking online told me I should have been able to get the DWL-650 to work with linux. All indications pointed to it. As far as I could tell there is no definitive place to go to tell you which cards work and which don't. pcmcia-cs at sourceforge listed this card. Would you consider this "absolutely known to work"?
Bottom line is, this was an experiment and learning experience for me. I gained valuable experience configuring linux and learned how to compile the kernel. I hate to say it, but if I just wanted it to work, I would have put windows on it. (There goes my karma)
I just got this card working on an IBM thinkpad 240. I spent a good week or more trying to get the prism2 drivers to work because all documentation I found said that that is the chipset it had.
After going through many different drivers and kernel compiles, I Later found that some 650's not only have an ADMTek chipset but some also have be a Realtek chipset. After trying the ADMTek drivers I found my particular card had a Realtek chipset and it came right up using the ndiswrapper driver using the windows Realtek driver (the driver supplied by d-link on the cd would not work. I had to get the windows driver from Realteks site). The thing works like a champ now with Fedora core 1.
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Just a coincidence. Mine is a nickname that friends used to call me when I played TFC (Team Fortress Classic) and Counter Strike. My name in the game was Nemesis and people called me Nemi for short. :)
I use Spybot for Malware infections, but SpywareBlaster does a much better job of immunizing IE against getting malware ActiveX infections and blocking bad cookies in IE/Firefox.
Also, if I have 6-8 pages of material open and I switch from my browser to my IDE, I do not have to search for the right icon on the task bar for my reference material again, I know it is in the one Firefox icon.
I must also mention the other killer feature in Firefox for me, though it is a bit off topic. Ctrl-mouse wheel to change the font size. This (supposedly) works for IE, but IE will not resize the font if the html has pixel sizes set. Firefox will resize all fonts, no matter what the page designer intended. Also, each tab is independent, so changing font size in one does not affect the other. Lastly, When I close my browser it goes back to the default size. IE keeps the last size you picked, so if you were on a web page with tiny font and scrolled it up several sizes, the next time you open a browser it is huge on a normal site. Way too cumbersome.
Not in my page there isn't. No onmousedown events at all.
This article rings more as a sales article than anything else - only it isn't selling anything. Which puts it squarely in the "wtf" category for me.
Hmm, Whats the use of having a "quality" system if said system can't do anything because my hardware doesn't work? Something should be said about priorities.
I truly don't mean this as a troll post, and I admit that I have not read the book, but I would have a hard time with suspension-of-disbelief that a bunch of children at age 5 or so could be great warriors. It would probably be much more believeable reading it (though I would still have a tough time), but I can't imagine it on the screen. Most children actors just can't pull it off, imho.
This is infecting the machine using a signed applet. Hello? I can do anything I want to your pc if you allow a signed applet to run. This not news. I can install a trojan, key logger, back door, whatever. Infecting IE is the least of someones problems if they allow signed applets from untrusted sources to run.
Just the kind of girl I want to take home to mom...
I used the word addiction in quotes because the term is controversial, not necessarily because I don't believe in the phenomenon. However, I believe psychological "addictions" are better described as "habits". From someone who has quit smoking cold turkey, I can tell you that a physical addiction (the true definition of the word 'addiction', imho, despite what the dictionary says) is much harder to break than any psychological "habit".
Actually, if someone had deprived you of your gaming "fix" for a couple of weeks, you probably would have gotten over "addiction".
And I quote: Gah i'd rather jab pointy objects into my eyes than have to be an accountant.
Before you say anything, I understand that new tivos work over broadband. However, as I understand it, to get a new tivo to work over broadband you must first - wait for it - hook it up to a phone line. Excuse me? I don't have a phone. Period.
Explain to me why a company that is so technically innovative would just now be in the process of broadband enabling their hardware? I am genuinely curious.
If the phone company that gives me service goes under, I can go to another phone company and use my hardware. Not so with Tivo.
You know what I love? Punctuation. Oh, and Capitalization, if given the time, of course. Reaching for that shift key can be such a time sync.
You know, you have some good points, but I can't help but think that points 2 and 3 are directly conflicting. Applet has some of the most excessive effects I have ever seen.
I will leave the implications of this as an exercise for the reader.
I know there are competing players with radios, but after you try the ipods UI there is no going back. I guess I will just have to wait until they release one with a radio.
But then I went and read the definition of effect:
Am I the only one seeing a contradiction here? The second definition of effect clearly states that it can be used "to influence", no?
Uh, you stop moving in current CS also unless the admin has turned it off.
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First off, I work in IT and we were getting rid of old laptops for $25. Good price on an older laptop. Because of my limited need for a laptop and the low cost involved, I wanted to get the cheapest card and access point I could find, so I got a remanufactured set from some site, $50 for both. Quick checking online told me I should have been able to get the DWL-650 to work with linux. All indications pointed to it. As far as I could tell there is no definitive place to go to tell you which cards work and which don't. pcmcia-cs at sourceforge listed this card. Would you consider this "absolutely known to work"?
Bottom line is, this was an experiment and learning experience for me. I gained valuable experience configuring linux and learned how to compile the kernel. I hate to say it, but if I just wanted it to work, I would have put windows on it. (There goes my karma)
After going through many different drivers and kernel compiles, I Later found that some 650's not only have an ADMTek chipset but some also have be a Realtek chipset. After trying the ADMTek drivers I found my particular card had a Realtek chipset and it came right up using the ndiswrapper driver using the windows Realtek driver (the driver supplied by d-link on the cd would not work. I had to get the windows driver from Realteks site). The thing works like a champ now with Fedora core 1.
Wow, could you say anything worse to kill your credibility?