In most documentation I've been reading (including from the Nasa and some simplified scientific readings) 'moon' is used as a synonim, a simpler word to explain quickly what is a satellite... are they really 2 different words?
I am a French speaker (which may reflect in my bad English). For Engligh-only speakers, several other languages have some special charecters (called accents) which appears on voyels. Our keyboards are the same as the US one (except we have a key between left-shift and Z to type special quotes () that I think we only have in French). Obviously in order to have accents on the keyboards some other less-frequent characters are moved away (square and curly brackets for example) and only accessible through a key combination. For the matter the right-alt key is independant from the left-alt key and used to access those characters.
When I am typing in French I need those accents on my keyboard, but when I type in English (and particularly when typping in code) I want the brackets, slashes and other characters readily available with one single key stroke. Windows has a multi-keyboard featrue which let's me have several keyboard layout available at the same time, and I can switch from one to the other quickly with a key combination (I like ctrl+shift for the matter).
If this OS kills and replaces Linux, than it's probably better than Linux. Windows and Linux are two different systems with quite different goals, none will kill the other, they will just be used by different users in the years to come.
What for? What need is here to run Linux on C64??
C64 came with it's own (very basic) integrated OS. What fun is it to have a newer version of the machine if you run a different OS on it?
Remember: LOAD *,8,1 (or something like that:)
Run AdAware on your computer. I am a programmer, I am a safe and advanced user, and it found like 600 trojans and other pieces of crapped installed. All around IE. Nothing related to Mozilla.
You have established a connection, so they sure have an IP where they can send the data back to you. Don't understand why some people reported they had no IP here.
Use a firewall. Or like me use a router so that the IP is not pointed to your computer but to the router.
2. Cookies
Nothing for me. I admit there was a whole about that in old version of IE, but no more.
3. Clipboard
I admit this one is freaking. I'm not sure it it's just displayed or if they can get that data. Never heard of such a 'bug' before.
Doesn't seem to be possible with other browsers since it doesn't even attempt to get the clipboard data with Mozilla.
4. Hacks and exploits
That is why I don't use IE:)
5. Browser and OS
I don't really care about people knowing what browser or OS I am using... should I ?
6. Geographical location
It's based on my host addresse. For example for me it said Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and now look at my host: HSE-Montreal-ppp140008.sympatico.ca
I don't live in Montreal, I live about 90 minutes from there.
7. Network
That isn't my network, it's a traceroute. Nothing alarming. In my case it stopped after the first 16 hops (the remaining are ***) so can't tell what they would have found. However I am pretty sure that the best they can go is up to my router, which is actually the device with the IP. Everything behind my router, from the Net, is seen as a single machine, there is no way to tell there are 3 machines connected on the network. How you can see is a really good firewall.
Conclusion (my opinion): Those test suck, they are there to affray beginners and get them to buy their product.
This site is best viewed with IE in 1024x768 with millions of colors...
If your site doesn't fit my computer without changes, I don't visit your site.
HTML was made to be portable, so how is it that I find websites not compatible with my browser??
Ok, my computer it pretty much better than the average Internet surfer's computer, so pretty much everything will work on my computer. However my roommate's computer is closer to the average computer and a lot of stuff won't work on it. For example his computer can't display any resolution above 800x600, Flash and Java are very slow, etc...
Take example on/. it works on any computer. Try resizing the window and see how low resolution you can use:)
I use mostly Mozilla, but from time to time i find sites that won't work on Mozilla, I need to use IE for them. They are mostly Flash sites (I don't understand why those won't work on Mozilla, those will work with the Flash engine, not the Mozilla (Geeko) nor IE engine, the Flash engine should be the same for both, no?). I occassionally find sites with links using backslashes (\) instead of slashes (/), which works fine on IE but mozilla won't understand backslashes and you will end up on a 404 page (maybe Mozilla is too much standard-compliant on that one, it's not very complicated to understand slashes in either way).
As a web programmer I support both IE and Mozilla, and try to avoid stuff that won't work on either of them (or at least degrade gracefully). I don't support N6 directly because what works on Mozilla *should* work on N6 giving that they use the same engine (Geeko). I surely don't support N4 anymore, it's greetly outdated, if you use that don't complain my sites don't work. Mozilla being complient a lot I assume my sites should be compatible with all compliant browsers (IE is not compliant but should display compliant sites ok). And giving that I write all HTML by hand (sure I started with Front Page when I was a beginner like everyone else, but used it for like 3-4 months before I started to write HTML by hand) I know what I am doing, I know what is standard complient and what is not, and I know what non-complient features are safe enough to be used.
Please get Flash working the same on both IE and Mozilla and I will be happy... for the rest make your site compliant and I will visit it. I just hate IE enough to not launched it unless I *really* want to view the site.
Actually I though spammers knew me when they sent me penis enlargement e-mails:P
I wished those sending me diet program e-mails knew me too: I weight just under 130 pounds
Unlike spam which is sent totally untargetted to every e-mail addresses they could find, TiVo is based on some information it gets from you... of course it's a machine, it makes mistakes, it does guesses based on info recorded with all shows. I never tried TiVo, but I like the idea. It's like some search engines that suggest some other keywords close to those you entered but sometime are more to the point... sometime totaly pointless too...
Unless you have a studio-grade sound system, I don't see what's wrong with compressed MP3 files.
I have a SoundBlaster Live Value sound card and a Cambridge SoundWorks speaker set. MP3s at 44.1KHz and 128 kbps sounds the same than the original 1.4 mpbs CD quality.
The concern here is not the amount of time it takes to download the CD, it's the amount of data tranfered. I am not sure if everyone else has unlimited bandwidth, but here in Québec (you know, the French population in North-East America?) we have merely two choices for high speed connections:
Vidéotron is a cable provider with a monthly data transfer limit of 6 GB
Sympatico is a DSL provider with a monthly data transfer quota of 5 GB
Given this limit, I don't see myself bying 10 CDs a month, it would cost me much more in extra data transfer than simply go to the store and buy the CD in it's physical format.
If libraries want to block sites - fine. They should acquire blocking software with an open, published blocking list and be prepared to publicly defend each site they are blocking. Heck, why not just set up a "Censorship Board" and have it meet periodically to get citizen input on what is being blocked?
We are the computer guys, so we wish for a publicly available ban list. However the people doing search at the library are those who don't have the ressources to do such a search at home, thus they are not much interested about a publicly availabe ban list, they just want to do a search and believe from the beginning this is something hard to do
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Wow! Is this message authentic? Anyone could confirm its exact source?
Looks like an exceptionnal piece of history. At least for me, Linux being my favorite OS and having a business based on it.
In most documentation I've been reading (including from the Nasa and some simplified scientific readings) 'moon' is used as a synonim, a simpler word to explain quickly what is a satellite... are they really 2 different words?
Now you have 18 new names: J-1 through J-18 :)
So, you are better then them? What are you doing here on /. then? Why aren't you at the observatory providing us with better figures than they did?
so, everything smaller than us doesn't worth existing?
I am a French speaker (which may reflect in my bad English). For Engligh-only speakers, several other languages have some special charecters (called accents) which appears on voyels. Our keyboards are the same as the US one (except we have a key between left-shift and Z to type special quotes () that I think we only have in French). Obviously in order to have accents on the keyboards some other less-frequent characters are moved away (square and curly brackets for example) and only accessible through a key combination. For the matter the right-alt key is independant from the left-alt key and used to access those characters.
When I am typing in French I need those accents on my keyboard, but when I type in English (and particularly when typping in code) I want the brackets, slashes and other characters readily available with one single key stroke. Windows has a multi-keyboard featrue which let's me have several keyboard layout available at the same time, and I can switch from one to the other quickly with a key combination (I like ctrl+shift for the matter).
Why would u be interested in yet another search engine? Written in Python? By a guy I never heard of before?
If this OS kills and replaces Linux, than it's probably better than Linux. Windows and Linux are two different systems with quite different goals, none will kill the other, they will just be used by different users in the years to come.
explorer.exe isn't a GUI, it's a shell... a normal program running under win32 GUI and acting as an interface between the OS and programs.
What for? What need is here to run Linux on C64?? C64 came with it's own (very basic) integrated OS. What fun is it to have a newer version of the machine if you run a different OS on it? Remember: LOAD *,8,1 (or something like that :)
What! Windows 3.x is outdated?? :P
We have AMD servers :)
Run AdAware on your computer. I am a programmer, I am a safe and advanced user, and it found like 600 trojans and other pieces of crapped installed. All around IE. Nothing related to Mozilla.
Probably in the cache, with other webpages
1. IP
:)
You have established a connection, so they sure have an IP where they can send the data back to you. Don't understand why some people reported they had no IP here.
Use a firewall. Or like me use a router so that the IP is not pointed to your computer but to the router.
2. Cookies
Nothing for me. I admit there was a whole about that in old version of IE, but no more.
3. Clipboard
I admit this one is freaking. I'm not sure it it's just displayed or if they can get that data. Never heard of such a 'bug' before.
Doesn't seem to be possible with other browsers since it doesn't even attempt to get the clipboard data with Mozilla.
4. Hacks and exploits
That is why I don't use IE
5. Browser and OS
I don't really care about people knowing what browser or OS I am using... should I ?
6. Geographical location
It's based on my host addresse. For example for me it said Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and now look at my host:
HSE-Montreal-ppp140008.sympatico.ca
I don't live in Montreal, I live about 90 minutes from there.
7. Network
That isn't my network, it's a traceroute. Nothing alarming. In my case it stopped after the first 16 hops (the remaining are ***) so can't tell what they would have found. However I am pretty sure that the best they can go is up to my router, which is actually the device with the IP. Everything behind my router, from the Net, is seen as a single machine, there is no way to tell there are 3 machines connected on the network. How you can see is a really good firewall.
Conclusion (my opinion):
Those test suck, they are there to affray beginners and get them to buy their product.
This site is best viewed with IE in 1024x768 with millions of colors...
/. it works on any computer. Try resizing the window and see how low resolution you can use :)
If your site doesn't fit my computer without changes, I don't visit your site.
HTML was made to be portable, so how is it that I find websites not compatible with my browser??
Ok, my computer it pretty much better than the average Internet surfer's computer, so pretty much everything will work on my computer. However my roommate's computer is closer to the average computer and a lot of stuff won't work on it. For example his computer can't display any resolution above 800x600, Flash and Java are very slow, etc...
Take example on
As a web programmer I support both IE and Mozilla, and try to avoid stuff that won't work on either of them (or at least degrade gracefully). I don't support N6 directly because what works on Mozilla *should* work on N6 giving that they use the same engine (Geeko). I surely don't support N4 anymore, it's greetly outdated, if you use that don't complain my sites don't work. Mozilla being complient a lot I assume my sites should be compatible with all compliant browsers (IE is not compliant but should display compliant sites ok). And giving that I write all HTML by hand (sure I started with Front Page when I was a beginner like everyone else, but used it for like 3-4 months before I started to write HTML by hand) I know what I am doing, I know what is standard complient and what is not, and I know what non-complient features are safe enough to be used.
Please get Flash working the same on both IE and Mozilla and I will be happy... for the rest make your site compliant and I will visit it. I just hate IE enough to not launched it unless I *really* want to view the site.
I wished those sending me diet program e-mails knew me too: I weight just under 130 pounds
Unlike spam which is sent totally untargetted to every e-mail addresses they could find, TiVo is based on some information it gets from you... of course it's a machine, it makes mistakes, it does guesses based on info recorded with all shows. I never tried TiVo, but I like the idea. It's like some search engines that suggest some other keywords close to those you entered but sometime are more to the point... sometime totaly pointless too...
What you described is a bit field :)
I have a SoundBlaster Live Value sound card and a Cambridge SoundWorks speaker set. MP3s at 44.1KHz and 128 kbps sounds the same than the original 1.4 mpbs CD quality.
- Vidéotron is a cable provider with a monthly data transfer limit of 6 GB
- Sympatico is a DSL provider with a monthly data transfer quota of 5 GB
Given this limit, I don't see myself bying 10 CDs a month, it would cost me much more in extra data transfer than simply go to the store and buy the CD in it's physical format.If libraries want to block sites - fine. They should acquire blocking software with an open, published blocking list and be prepared to publicly defend each site they are blocking. Heck, why not just set up a "Censorship Board" and have it meet periodically to get citizen input on what is being blocked?
We are the computer guys, so we wish for a publicly available ban list. However the people doing search at the library are those who don't have the ressources to do such a search at home, thus they are not much interested about a publicly availabe ban list, they just want to do a search and believe from the beginning this is something hard to do