If you lead, you must lead by example. If you don't go outside, you can't expect your kid will.
I've got a kid on my own. When I play his childish games with him, I'm often a little bored. But WTF it's his time he's spending with me and I *will* play his games anyway as long as he thinks it's fun to him. I'm proud he wants to spend time with me. Soon enough he will be too old for this and he will think that everything I'm doing is wrong and stupid.
Hiding and Chasing each other around is one of the more fun things to do btw.
....At least IE natively will let you debug JS!...
Aww come-on. How many Users will need a Debuger installed by default with their browser? More or lss dan 1%? And to the rest it will be a burden on the harddrive and a confusing item in the menu-list.
A Java-debugger most clearly belongs into a plugin.
I once designed GUIs as a professional and found it to be a very difficult job. I too hate Explorer with a passion, though now that I work with Ubuntu at home and at work it has become more and more a memory of the past. But I disgress...
Designing GUIs is difficult because you don't really know what it should look like until someone else tries to use it. Every person will use your GUI a bit differently and those will want you to adjust your GUI your GUI accordingly (and often be right at that). And (and this is the most problematic part) even persons who don't use your GUI will still have an oppinion how the GUI should look like and work, according their own logic and might demand that you change it (bosses and such). That is why I have huge respects to the guys over at apple. Oh and I don't get me wrong. I don't search any excuses for MS, after so many years they still manage to screw up on the usability side. I just want to give you another perspective as to why such might crap happens at MS. My guess goes towards bad bosses.
The other thing I wanted to say is, that I think your "DISK1C___GAMES PORN___(E)" is pretty kinky and I bow before you beeing so straight forward and not obfuscating it after taking screenshots of it;)
While you might really need a axe or a knife at home you don't need your military weapon. While you still might kill someone with a knife or an axe, its a lot more difficult to slash an hit repeatedly than to just pull a trigger.
As a matter of facts, politicians found a compromise and it seems, we are going to leave the weapon but without the ammunition.
In Switzerland almost everyone has a gun and for the purposes of civil defence were compelled to have one, and to generalise, they are fairly well off, have almost no crime and no cameras.
I'm Swiss. You almost got it right. Let me clarify.
Switzerlands army is mainly composed of a militia force, which means that every able and healthy man has to serve part-time the military. It is true that everyone in the military brings his arm home. But the ammunition they bring is sealed. The seal would be opened in case of a war. Opening the seal in any other case means you will go to prison.
Anyway, recently there have been problems having those weapons at home, the most recent and violent event was a man shooting and killing his wife because she wanted divorce him. That is why we are thinking about returning the arms to the military. Since in Switzerland we can initiate to change our own laws i guess in some years we won't have as many arms at home anymore.
Insurance companies want to raise more money and (almost) no mention about "Sicko" the latest film from Michael Moore? Well here it goes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicko_(film)
I've seen the movie. Best Michael Moore film ever.
While Linux (and the other opensource projects surrounding it) isn't just 'grass roots' as it once used to be the community and its individual (sometimes hobbyist) members are very important. It's good that the key developers around Linux are employed at companies where they can program for Linux and be paid for it. But where would Linux be without those many people writing bug-reports, howtos, translations and the like? Gentoo and Ubuntu wouldn't be half as popular if their many wiki entries wouldn't exist.
So while it isn't 'grass-roots' anymore its more like a community in which individuals and companies play their role.
And whats so bad with the hobbyists image? I myself am sick and tired of marketing types promising the moon and the sun and delivering nothing but hot air.
This is, of course, assuming that your model of the "physics of the brain" will somehow behave intelligently. But why should it?
One can show that a hand full of nodes in a neuronal network (if properly watch and arranged) can learn and show intelligent behavior. The problem is that until now, it doesn't work with bigger sets of nodes. The problem here is not (or not only) processing power. The problem is that we don't know _enough_ about learning and intelligence to put the finger on it and produce a better model that would show the same behavior as a Real Brain.
Trying to mimic more of the "physics of the human brain" is just a desperate move in finding the missing parts of the current models of how the brain might work. Maybe we learn some more about how the brain works, but my guess is that we are still far far away of building a model which exposes the same capabilities a Real Brain.
Pornography is all about sexual fantasies. Most people don't have sex like the do on a porno movie. An impressionable children might come to believe that having sex like seen on a porno movie is the normal way of having it.
I'm not against nudity or teaching kids about sex, but it should be a balanced education about the facts and not just about some male fantasies.
I'm using a phpBB as my Bultin-Board System and I thought that such a well known BB would have state-of-the-art anti-Spam features. I was wrong, there is a Captcha but is by far too weak to stop any spam at all.
I then installed the reCaptcha plugin and since haven't received any spam at all.
True: Microsoft is working on a Windows based system that can be executed on the OLPC laptop.
False: There is no strategy change. The OLPC is continuing to develop a Linux-based software set for the laptop in conjunction with Red Hat. But since the OLPC project is open we cannot (and maybe even don't want to) stop other people from developing and supplying alternate software packages.
My guess is, Microsoft has a two reasons why they are behaving like this:
In the past, unstable drivers have been one of the major sources of instable systems (aka bsod).
Vista wants to serve to the movie and the music labels, so they thigthen all screws to ensure encrypted paths to the video- and music-subsystems.
My guess is, microsoft would be in some sort of breach of contract if they didn't ask you to write to those constrained apis. I'm not at all surprised that there are problems now to deliver good drivers.
I guess (or at least *hope*) this will be the last attempt to force DRM upon the consumer. This should go to show that it costs a big amount of effort (and money) and in the end the system will still be cracked with minimal effort. It also hope, it will show that opening up the source is a huge benefit to everyone as it will allow to make better products and not to reinvent the wheel again and again and again.
I'm sure happy, I'm not in your place writing those drivers.
It seems to me that the minds who work on DRM probably aren't all that brilliant.
Thinking of it. Maybe they are brilliant. Let me explain....
On a regular Job you will need to make your best to accomplish the job and make it work to get the warm rewarding feeling in the end. But if you work for a DRM producing company, you will just need to sabotage it in a very subtile form to get that warm rewarding feeling...;)
I guess the reason Cleartype is turned off by default is that some old applications don't like it and refuse to display anything. Having Cleartype turned off by default might have eased the work of many call-centers.
I've seen the progress on stuff that weren't for gamers. FireGL-cards for video-processing and their ilk. This stuff gave you more power but were expensive... and stayed expensive for years to come without much progress. The Gaming-rigs are used by a wide audience, there is a big market and have multiple competitors, which over time results in a lower prices and faster new hardware.
So be happy when your hardware can also be used by gamers, it will soon cost a lot less and/or something better can be expected in a year or less.
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If you lead, you must lead by example. If you don't go outside, you can't expect your kid will.
I've got a kid on my own. When I play his childish games with him, I'm often a little bored. But WTF it's his time he's spending with me and I *will* play his games anyway as long as he thinks it's fun to him. I'm proud he wants to spend time with me. Soon enough he will be too old for this and he will think that everything I'm doing is wrong and stupid.
Hiding and Chasing each other around is one of the more fun things to do btw.
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;)
....At least IE natively will let you debug JS!...
Aww come-on. How many Users will need a Debuger installed by default with their browser? More or lss dan 1%? And to the rest it will be a burden on the harddrive and a confusing item in the menu-list.
A Java-debugger most clearly belongs into a plugin.
> Bill Gates actually had several more responses, but they forgot to upload 4 of the pdfs.
;)
640 should be enough evil for anyone.
I once designed GUIs as a professional and found it to be a very difficult job. I too hate Explorer with a passion, though now that I work with Ubuntu at home and at work it has become more and more a memory of the past. But I disgress...
;)
Designing GUIs is difficult because you don't really know what it should look like until someone else tries to use it. Every person will use your GUI a bit differently and those will want you to adjust your GUI your GUI accordingly (and often be right at that). And (and this is the most problematic part) even persons who don't use your GUI will still have an oppinion how the GUI should look like and work, according their own logic and might demand that you change it (bosses and such). That is why I have huge respects to the guys over at apple. Oh and I don't get me wrong. I don't search any excuses for MS, after so many years they still manage to screw up on the usability side. I just want to give you another perspective as to why such might crap happens at MS. My guess goes towards bad bosses.
The other thing I wanted to say is, that I think your "DISK1C___GAMES PORN___(E)" is pretty kinky and I bow before you beeing so straight forward and not obfuscating it after taking screenshots of it
Cheers
Herbiestone
While you might really need a axe or a knife at home you don't need your military weapon. While you still might kill someone with a knife or an axe, its a lot more difficult to slash an hit repeatedly than to just pull a trigger.
As a matter of facts, politicians found a compromise and it seems, we are going to leave the weapon but without the ammunition.
I'm Swiss. You almost got it right. Let me clarify.
Switzerlands army is mainly composed of a militia force, which means that every able and healthy man has to serve part-time the military. It is true that everyone in the military brings his arm home. But the ammunition they bring is sealed. The seal would be opened in case of a war. Opening the seal in any other case means you will go to prison.
Anyway, recently there have been problems having those weapons at home, the most recent and violent event was a man shooting and killing his wife because she wanted divorce him. That is why we are thinking about returning the arms to the military. Since in Switzerland we can initiate to change our own laws i guess in some years we won't have as many arms at home anymore.
Cheers MadMike
Insurance companies want to raise more money and (almost) no mention about "Sicko" the latest film from Michael Moore?
Well here it goes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicko_(film)
I've seen the movie. Best Michael Moore film ever.
I kindly disagree.
While Linux (and the other opensource projects surrounding it) isn't just 'grass roots' as it once used to be the community and its individual (sometimes hobbyist) members are very important. It's good that the key developers around Linux are employed at companies where they can program for Linux and be paid for it. But where would Linux be without those many people writing bug-reports, howtos, translations and the like? Gentoo and Ubuntu wouldn't be half as popular if their many wiki entries wouldn't exist.
So while it isn't 'grass-roots' anymore its more like a community in which individuals and companies play their role.
And whats so bad with the hobbyists image? I myself am sick and tired of marketing types promising the moon and the sun and delivering nothing but hot air.
This is, of course, assuming that your model of the "physics of the brain" will somehow behave intelligently. But why should it?
One can show that a hand full of nodes in a neuronal network (if properly watch and arranged) can learn and show intelligent behavior. The problem is that until now, it doesn't work with bigger sets of nodes. The problem here is not (or not only) processing power. The problem is that we don't know _enough_ about learning and intelligence to put the finger on it and produce a better model that would show the same behavior as a Real Brain.
Trying to mimic more of the "physics of the human brain" is just a desperate move in finding the missing parts of the current models of how the brain might work. Maybe we learn some more about how the brain works, but my guess is that we are still far far away of building a model which exposes the same capabilities a Real Brain.
Pornography is all about sexual fantasies. Most people don't have sex like the do on a porno movie. An impressionable children might come to believe that having sex like seen on a porno movie is the normal way of having it.
I'm not against nudity or teaching kids about sex, but it should be a balanced education about the facts and not just about some male fantasies.
Greets
MadMike
I'm using a phpBB as my Bultin-Board System and I thought that such a well known BB would have state-of-the-art anti-Spam features. I was wrong, there is a Captcha but is by far too weak to stop any spam at all. I then installed the reCaptcha plugin and since haven't received any spam at all.
True: Microsoft is working on a Windows based system that can be executed on the OLPC laptop.
False: There is no strategy change. The OLPC is continuing to develop a Linux-based software set for the laptop in conjunction with Red Hat. But since the OLPC project is open we cannot (and maybe even don't want to) stop other people from developing and supplying alternate software packages.
Now I have to clear my browser cache and hack into our corportate internet usage survailance system... again.
- In the past, unstable drivers have been one of the major sources of instable systems (aka bsod).
- Vista wants to serve to the movie and the music labels, so they thigthen all screws to ensure encrypted paths to the video- and music-subsystems.
My guess is, microsoft would be in some sort of breach of contract if they didn't ask you to write to those constrained apis. I'm not at all surprised that there are problems now to deliver good drivers.I guess (or at least *hope*) this will be the last attempt to force DRM upon the consumer. This should go to show that it costs a big amount of effort (and money) and in the end the system will still be cracked with minimal effort. It also hope, it will show that opening up the source is a huge benefit to everyone as it will allow to make better products and not to reinvent the wheel again and again and again.
I'm sure happy, I'm not in your place writing those drivers.
Just my to 2 cents
Is this a pentration tester in your pocket?
Or are you just happy to see me?
On a regular Job you will need to make your best to accomplish the job and make it work to get the warm rewarding feeling in the end. But if you work for a DRM producing company, you will just need to sabotage it in a very subtile form to get that warm rewarding feeling... ;)
Again? www.thinkfree.com allready has an Office in all Java. The thing is so fast, that you'd think it's written in plain C.
Germandcompoundnouns: the showstopper for german scrabble
I guess the reason Cleartype is turned off by default is that some old applications don't like it and refuse to display anything. Having Cleartype turned off by default might have eased the work of many call-centers.
Greets MadMike
Ah but you look at it the wrong way.
I've seen the progress on stuff that weren't for gamers. FireGL-cards for video-processing and their ilk. This stuff gave you more power but were expensive... and stayed expensive for years to come without much progress. The Gaming-rigs are used by a wide audience, there is a big market and have multiple competitors, which over time results in a lower prices and faster new hardware.
So be happy when your hardware can also be used by gamers, it will soon cost a lot less and/or something better can be expected in a year or less.
Greets
HS
I was hoping for a "funny" moderation.
Note to myself: Make the "Smiley"-emoticon twice as big.
would you want to plow a field knowing that "only" 10% of the original mines are still active?
The question is: With what kind of plow? This one might make it through http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mine_plow
Cheers
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