I concur. Though, as a blind fly bumping into walls, I have taken a rather indirect approach.
I have switched from XP to Vista, which made my life miserable. Then from Vista to Ubuntu 7.10. Then Fedora 8. Then back to Ubuntu.
I only planned to run it on one computer (my laptop). But, one morning I turned on my desktop XP machine and it gave a billion errors about how SVCHOST.exe could not write to a memory address. I also noticed that firefox was never being updated since 99% of the time it ran under a limited account, and unlike Vista, there is no UAC to prompt for an admin user/password.
After that fuss, all the computers in my house run Ubuntu.
I remember watching a Channel9 video. If my memory does not deceive me, Microsoft have 4-6 people working on IE7, and most of their work was to fix bugs, mostly security, and change the interface. With so few resources given to IE after it has been neglected for many years, one cannot expect Microsoft to provide a decent browser. Based on the fixes (CSS, transparent PNG, etc.), IE is moving into the right direction. However, as we all know, they tied it with Windows releases. Assuming that IE8 will be at the same standards support or better than Opera/Firefox and further assuming that the next version of Windows is released 3-5 years after Longhorn (Vista), IE8 is very far away.
For a web designer, which I am, IE is a hell. For programmers, think of sending a compiler valid code, and instead of generating the executable properly, it generates rubbish, or it whines that proper syntax is invalid, or it generates 2+2=5.
Opera also introduced tabbed browsing and other cool features since adopted by Firefox but not, as yet, implemented by Microsoft.
I'm not sure if it is his poor sentence structure or if he is trying to imply that Opera copied Firefox's tabs. Opera was the first to have tabs in Opera 6.0 (many years ago).
Curiously, Opera is already designed to appear to Web sites as Internet Explorer. This feature was added to prevent sites from blocking non-Microsoft browsers from capturing data and downloading.
Dvorak, do your homework; Opera 9.0 (soon to be released) identifies as Opera.
Furthermore, Google is supposed to buy Opera, not Microsoft, and personally, I would preffer if Google buys it. If Microsoft buys it, they'll have to strip it dry and take only the rendering engine because they have Outlook Express and Outlook. They can't show that Opera and Gmail (Google copied Opera) have a better eMail client.
This makes Slashdot exactly on the day Firefox v1.5 is supposed to be released. Apparently, Mozilla want to create a huge marketing campaign, better and larger than the one for v1.0. This is a perfect time to capitalize on this horrible security hole to promote Firefox.
No, I do not ask that. I ask them to do no choosing for me. I want to choose my own programs and get them directly from the developers.
That's why I said, no programs bundled except system binaries and base kde/gnome binaries (base means the binaries needed for kde/gnome to launch, no the most common text editor).
This is not a troll. This is what I believe that users want: the Firefox model.
Maybe Linux will evolve into the 21st century with Novell and SUSE.
My ideal Linux distro:
1 CD (less than 250 MiB)
Gobo linux style file system hierarchy (mac style)
YaST
Only base KDE/base gnome
base system (system binaries)
No other applications (exactly, don't need 10 text editors,
5 databases, 20 audio players, etc.)
All programs are provided by their developers directly via
Autopackage or BitRock, and other windows-like installers sice no one in the linux community seems to like app folders
There is a port of Ant to.NET available from here.
It had a great following until MS announced MSBuild.
Unfortunetly, MS put RIP on it when they created MSBuild, which comes with.NET. Visual Studio project files are MSBuild files.
This would be irresponsible, especially if you are of Chinese decent. It is highly probable that out of 1 billion people, your name collides with someone else's. You won't get in trouble, but they might receive the torture chamber due to mistake identity.
Kinesis probably takes $10 to manufacture, maybe even less. Do you people know of any garage/boat made copycats that are sold for $20? $240 is outrageous.
Right now, it isn't working. Assuming that it would become the best torrent search engine, it would be nice if he would relase an API in order for BT clients to talk to it. If he doesn't, we can always parse the html, but that sucks.
I don't know how he plans to make money of it since it is a black-greyish area. You don't see Sony, Porche, etc. ads in the middle of a porn film.
So, it keeps going and going and going until a human gives it the command to make a wrong turn. Maybe, we should upgrade the remaining rover with AI software that will analyze the travel objective and choose the best path to get there.
An XBOX as entertainment centre can be done today using the XBOX Media Centre. It can play pictures, movies, music, start games, XLink access, karaoke, manage your hard drive. As far as I know, It cannot yet function as DVR.
If this is what you want, you can do this today with $200.
When XBOX 360 comes out, check to see if the XBMC is good enough for what you need before paying $500-$800 (guesstimate). I would also wait to see what GameCube 2.0 and PlayStation 3 have to offer before buying an XBOX 360.
If you are a pirate. You have to use XLink to play games because XBOX Live detects modded xboxes. Currently, on PS2, there is no Play Station Live. Every company has its own servers, and they are not as draconian.
Excuse me, but since when does another country have to agree with what the US thinks that it is right for the rest of the world? From the way the post is worded, it sounds very draconian to me. It sounds as if the US is big, evil dictator, and it is going write a report bashing those countries that do not agree with the DMCA. No wonder that the world hates USA.
The article should say something like: "We the USA do not agree that you disagree with the DMCA for the following reasons... Please review them and have another vote on DMCA." However, it sounds like, "You fucking suck because you don't agree with the DMCA. We are going to report you to Uncle Sam and embargo your arse to the Stone Age. Who do you think you are to disagree with what we think is right?"
I used to watch it during 2000-2002. After that, I only watched during sweapstake answers live hour:08 - hour:15 (I still didn't watch the show). After that, as you all know, it went down hill. The marketing geniuses that come from the same pool that keep bringing us crappy movies thought that they'll be able to teach us what quality is, and that they will make a few dollars at the same time. They were wrong, and a good show was destroyed. A little more time passed and the entire station was destroyed.
Maybe Leo and Patrick they will make a video show like The Broken if the audio show is successful.
I wish that NASA of today was as exciting and had the same respect as back then. The leadership did not say, "Sorry Apollo 13, you're dead, and we won't spend any resources in a futile attempt to save you." Two shuttle disasters later due to bureaucracy and they don't even have the balls to save Hubble let alone mount a human trip to Mars.
A lesson in economics about marginal benefit, marginal cost, total utility, marginal utility, and opportunity cost.
Opportunity cost is what you give while doing an activity. The opportunity cost of watching anime is sex. The opportunity cost of sex is watching anime. Marginal benefit is the benefit you get of an additional unit of sex or one additional unit of anime. The marginal cost is the opportunity cost of that additional unit.
If the marginal benefit is greater than the marginal cost, do it. If the marginal cost is greater than the marginal benefit, do not do it.
Utility is the feeling good points you give to an activity.
The first time you had sex with your girlfriend the marginal utility was 500. The second time, it was 450. The third time 400, and so on. As you can see, there are diminishing returns. The second time is not as good as the first. The third time is not as good as the second, etc. At this point. Your total utility of sex is 500+450+400 = 1350. If that marginal utility gets close to 0, go back to watching anime. You don't want it to get into negative. You know, sex gets boring with the same person after a while.
There is a little bit more to the microeconomic terms I gave you; look them up if you want a deeper insight. I would have told you more, but I got to go home.
This is very good news. The only problem is that SciFi couples it with Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis on Friday nights. So, when one should be out partying with an actual human girl, he is staying at home addicted to 3 hours of very good television. Last Sunday, I downloaded and watched the last 6 episodes of Battlestar Galactica. Last night, I saw the last episode of season 8 of Stargate SG-1. I am addicted to these 3 shows. I love every minute of them, and Battlestar Galactica is probably the best Sci Fi show since Babylon 5, maybe even better.
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I concur. Though, as a blind fly bumping into walls, I have taken a rather indirect approach.
I have switched from XP to Vista, which made my life miserable. Then from Vista to Ubuntu 7.10. Then Fedora 8. Then back to Ubuntu.
I only planned to run it on one computer (my laptop). But, one morning I turned on my desktop XP machine and it gave a billion errors about how SVCHOST.exe could not write to a memory address. I also noticed that firefox was never being updated since 99% of the time it ran under a limited account, and unlike Vista, there is no UAC to prompt for an admin user/password.
After that fuss, all the computers in my house run Ubuntu.
Do you care to elaborate on how it is wrong?
I remember watching a Channel9 video. If my memory does not deceive me, Microsoft have 4-6 people working on IE7, and most of their work was to fix bugs, mostly security, and change the interface. With so few resources given to IE after it has been neglected for many years, one cannot expect Microsoft to provide a decent browser. Based on the fixes (CSS, transparent PNG, etc.), IE is moving into the right direction. However, as we all know, they tied it with Windows releases. Assuming that IE8 will be at the same standards support or better than Opera/Firefox and further assuming that the next version of Windows is released 3-5 years after Longhorn (Vista), IE8 is very far away. For a web designer, which I am, IE is a hell. For programmers, think of sending a compiler valid code, and instead of generating the executable properly, it generates rubbish, or it whines that proper syntax is invalid, or it generates 2+2=5.
Yes, I concur. I must have read it wrong. The grammar lesson was not necessary; though, it made me read it again.
Opera also introduced tabbed browsing and other cool features since adopted by Firefox but not, as yet, implemented by Microsoft.
I'm not sure if it is his poor sentence structure or if he is trying to imply that Opera copied Firefox's tabs. Opera was the first to have tabs in Opera 6.0 (many years ago).
Curiously, Opera is already designed to appear to Web sites as Internet Explorer. This feature was added to prevent sites from blocking non-Microsoft browsers from capturing data and downloading.
Dvorak, do your homework; Opera 9.0 (soon to be released) identifies as Opera.
Furthermore, Google is supposed to buy Opera, not Microsoft, and personally, I would preffer if Google buys it. If Microsoft buys it, they'll have to strip it dry and take only the rendering engine because they have Outlook Express and Outlook. They can't show that Opera and Gmail (Google copied Opera) have a better eMail client.
This makes Slashdot exactly on the day Firefox v1.5 is supposed to be released. Apparently, Mozilla want to create a huge marketing campaign, better and larger than the one for v1.0. This is a perfect time to capitalize on this horrible security hole to promote Firefox.
What if you never had a job, and you are in school? How do you go about getting an intership with a blank resume?
No, I do not ask that. I ask them to do no choosing for me. I want to choose my own programs and get them directly from the developers. That's why I said, no programs bundled except system binaries and base kde/gnome binaries (base means the binaries needed for kde/gnome to launch, no the most common text editor).
Maybe Linux will evolve into the 21st century with Novell and SUSE.
My ideal Linux distro:
My next computer will be a Mactel.
There is a port of Ant to .NET available from here.
It had a great following until MS announced MSBuild.
Unfortunetly, MS put RIP on it when they created MSBuild, which comes with .NET. Visual Studio project files are MSBuild files.
This would be irresponsible, especially if you are of Chinese decent. It is highly probable that out of 1 billion people, your name collides with someone else's. You won't get in trouble, but they might receive the torture chamber due to mistake identity.
Great! Now, his bayesian filter will get Slashdoted and he will actually see 1,000,000 viagra, penis enlargment, horse fucking spam.
It is called "Internet Information Services". It also has FTP, SMTP, and a few other things.
Kinesis probably takes $10 to manufacture, maybe even less. Do you people know of any garage/boat made copycats that are sold for $20? $240 is outrageous.
Right now, it isn't working. Assuming that it would become the best torrent search engine, it would be nice if he would relase an API in order for BT clients to talk to it. If he doesn't, we can always parse the html, but that sucks.
I don't know how he plans to make money of it since it is a black-greyish area. You don't see Sony, Porche, etc. ads in the middle of a porn film.
Plus, some of us have AdBlock.
I swear that if you live it to these marketing executives, the next ice age will be the result that the sky looks like a sports car.
So, it keeps going and going and going until a human gives it the command to make a wrong turn. Maybe, we should upgrade the remaining rover with AI software that will analyze the travel objective and choose the best path to get there.
An XBOX as entertainment centre can be done today using the XBOX Media Centre. It can play pictures, movies, music, start games, XLink access, karaoke, manage your hard drive. As far as I know, It cannot yet function as DVR.
If this is what you want, you can do this today with $200.
When XBOX 360 comes out, check to see if the XBMC is good enough for what you need before paying $500-$800 (guesstimate). I would also wait to see what GameCube 2.0 and PlayStation 3 have to offer before buying an XBOX 360.
If you are a pirate. You have to use XLink to play games because XBOX Live detects modded xboxes. Currently, on PS2, there is no Play Station Live. Every company has its own servers, and they are not as draconian.
FORD backwards (DROF) is "Driver Returns on Foot".
Excuse me, but since when does another country have to agree with what the US thinks that it is right for the rest of the world? From the way the post is worded, it sounds very draconian to me. It sounds as if the US is big, evil dictator, and it is going write a report bashing those countries that do not agree with the DMCA. No wonder that the world hates USA.
The article should say something like: "We the USA do not agree that you disagree with the DMCA for the following reasons... Please review them and have another vote on DMCA." However, it sounds like, "You fucking suck because you don't agree with the DMCA. We are going to report you to Uncle Sam and embargo your arse to the Stone Age. Who do you think you are to disagree with what we think is right?"
PS: I live in the US.
I used to watch it during 2000-2002. After that, I only watched during sweapstake answers live hour:08 - hour:15 (I still didn't watch the show). After that, as you all know, it went down hill. The marketing geniuses that come from the same pool that keep bringing us crappy movies thought that they'll be able to teach us what quality is, and that they will make a few dollars at the same time. They were wrong, and a good show was destroyed. A little more time passed and the entire station was destroyed. Maybe Leo and Patrick they will make a video show like The Broken if the audio show is successful.
I wish that NASA of today was as exciting and had the same respect as back then. The leadership did not say, "Sorry Apollo 13, you're dead, and we won't spend any resources in a futile attempt to save you." Two shuttle disasters later due to bureaucracy and they don't even have the balls to save Hubble let alone mount a human trip to Mars.
Great, Star Trek meets The OC. Ryan - Kirk Cohen - Spock Julie - Q ....
You get the idea
A lesson in economics about marginal benefit, marginal cost, total utility, marginal utility, and opportunity cost.
Opportunity cost is what you give while doing an activity. The opportunity cost of watching anime is sex. The opportunity cost of sex is watching anime. Marginal benefit is the benefit you get of an additional unit of sex or one additional unit of anime. The marginal cost is the opportunity cost of that additional unit.
If the marginal benefit is greater than the marginal cost, do it. If the marginal cost is greater than the marginal benefit, do not do it.
Utility is the feeling good points you give to an activity.
The first time you had sex with your girlfriend the marginal utility was 500. The second time, it was 450. The third time 400, and so on. As you can see, there are diminishing returns. The second time is not as good as the first. The third time is not as good as the second, etc. At this point. Your total utility of sex is 500+450+400 = 1350. If that marginal utility gets close to 0, go back to watching anime. You don't want it to get into negative. You know, sex gets boring with the same person after a while.
There is a little bit more to the microeconomic terms I gave you; look them up if you want a deeper insight. I would have told you more, but I got to go home.
This is very good news. The only problem is that SciFi couples it with Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis on Friday nights. So, when one should be out partying with an actual human girl, he is staying at home addicted to 3 hours of very good television. Last Sunday, I downloaded and watched the last 6 episodes of Battlestar Galactica. Last night, I saw the last episode of season 8 of Stargate SG-1. I am addicted to these 3 shows. I love every minute of them, and Battlestar Galactica is probably the best Sci Fi show since Babylon 5, maybe even better.