'If surfing can be doubled in speed for nothing, of course nearly everyone will go for it', the upshot of which is that AOL, MSN and Earthlink lose their relevancy.
Er, maybe not. For a start, the GWA doesn't "double" surfing speed. Second, with current bandwidth, I doubt most people would notice or care much about "double" text-loading speeds (GWA doesn't get that sort of compression on images, MP3s, etc, obviously). Third, it's not complex technology. People have been developing (and using) this crap for ages. It's not as if Google have cracked cheap, in-your-house nuclear fusion.
Once OpenOffice picks up more steam (namely complete interoperability with all Office suites)
Why such a high bar for OO.o? MS Office doesn't have 100% compatibility with "all" office suites, so why demand this of OO.o?
The original poster said "all Office suites." Note the capitalization. It would be fair that if OO is to be a viable alternative, it should be able to open the documents users have already created on Office. It doesn't do a bad job at this, granted, but it could always improve.
I'm not sure how they do it, or if it's down to the personalities of people in the UK, but Microsoft dominates British IT in a scary way. In the US, sure, there's lots of Microsoft developers, but there's a lot of Unix developers too. In the UK, the ratio is significantly higher on the Microsoft side than for anything else. Why is this? I'm not sure why, but the British seem to be suckers for a monoculture.
That's why it says "repeated" disturbance. Most noise pollution issues are not one-offs or few and far between. Most involve people living in close quarters (apartment blocks, tenements, terraced houses, etc) and having to put up with endless racket on a daily basis.
I don't see the point. It's like demanding 3D paper or 3D TV. Paper and TV have been around significantly longer than GUIs, and I don't see anyone jumping to make those 3D. I saw some demos of some 3D TVs in the 90's, and while the idea had a certain 'cool' factor.. it seemed pointless.
Some things simply don't need to be more complicated than they are.. like adding buttons and extra text boxes onto Google search, or developing 3D paper.
Yes, because they've provided a stable, though not rapidly growing, economy since 1997. Furthermore, we avoided a recession in 2001-2002, unlike nearly every other major world economy.
Implement a firewall and a throttler and/or packet management. A single Linux box might do the trick (though it'd possibly be slow depending on the number of clients).
Block all incoming ports for clients (if they're on NAT, they don't need it for 99% of functions). Block any outgoing ports 1024 that aren't 80, 21, 22, 8080, 3128, 110, 143, or 119. Most of your problems will go away.
The only people who will bitch will be P2Pers and gamers.. and jeez, they can get their own connection if they care that much about that.
I'm beginning to see quite a few forums and other places that use e-mail addresses saying things like "Please don't use an AOL address here, enter another e-mail address" and so on. AOL is getting a bad reputation for its handling of mail.
AOL has no problem with blacklisting people willy-nilly, even if they're other ISPs. I only have experience with a few large companies and their mail systems, but all have been blocked by AOL at some time or another for some supposed transgression.
It's high-time that those of us who run web-apps, and the like, took a stand against AOL and banned the use of their e-mail addresses in our systems. They're more trouble than they're worth.
This is a bit of a turnaround for Gates, no? Microsoft's employees are already amongst the best paid and best supported. Their benefits, bonuses, and salary are significantly above average for the sector. I can't see how they'd have problems attracting coders on a monetary basis alone.
I would have considered the fact that it's not really considered 'cool' to work on MS stuff (or that most of the world's best coders and hackers are UNIX geeks) to have been the biggest problem MS has.
Ah, I'm not from the United States, but we get a little media 'leakage' of things like this, which is why I wasn't entirely familiar. Thanks though. This looks great!
I remember when CDs were £14.99 new, and routinely £16.99-£19.99 for stuff off the beaten path (I paid £17.99 for Daft Punk's 'Homework' in 1998). The current situation of being able to buy almost any chart CD for under £10 including postage (play.com) is a significant improvement.
Games prices, on the other hand, have not fallen significantly at all. That said, game production prices have shot up, while production prices for music have fallen.
For what it's worth, in the EU you pay both higher income taxes than the US as well as VAT (varies between 15-20%). However, since VAT is basically the equivalent of your sales tax.. And don't forget our sky high gasoline duties too! The EU is no paradise when it comes to taxes.
.. was somewhat like the way the "bill" character was presented in the Simpsons episode where Lisa was trying to get some bill approved/disapproved in Washington.
It was something to do with spoofing a campy 70's political cartoon. Were these cartoons real? Where do I recognize this style from? The "bit" in this video seemed familiar in terms of style.
This is true. You can cut your tax burden on even a minimal wage if you know the right places to look. The problem is that most poorer people don't have accountants with their fingers on the pulse. Perhaps there should be an easy 'how to cut your taxes" web site about this:)
I don't know. Perhaps he'd be like the next Mitnick, and eventually get out and start a spam consultancy business and be considered a hero in the industry?:-)
Yet another badly written/. submission. Was this submitted by a Microsoft fanboy or something? Check out the actual report and you find that the affected servers are.. "Windows NT4 and 2000 DNS servers" and those that run "Symantec gateway products." This is about as newsworthy as "Windows XP/98/2000/whatever has yet another gaping security hole."
This only sucks if you're using the default nameservers and are signed up with an ISP using shoddy insecure products.
But working hard at acting stupid in pursuit of a cleverly crafted strategy whose whole purpose is to make oneself a world-famous icon of spoiled stupidity strikes me as pretty clear evidence one is actually stupid in reality.
You certainly shouldn't notice the shape of the 'g's.
I'm not typical, but the shape of g's has always bugged me ever since I was a kid. Heck, the shape of a's too. The double level a's and g's are, generally, little used in handwriting, so they seem misplaced. Most people only fail to notice them because they're so commonly used in printed text.(That said, I go out of my way to use them in my handwriting now,;-))
Check out this one of an example search results page. Look at the file sizes. They're just duped between sections.. so are the dates! I'm sure you don't have 5 e-mails and 5 totally random files all with corresponding dates and sizes. Seriously, check it out.
Even if the interface work here isn't fake, there has been some copying/pasting going on OR Longhorn doesn't have file size and date functionality yet;-)
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'If surfing can be doubled in speed for nothing, of course nearly everyone will go for it', the upshot of which is that AOL, MSN and Earthlink lose their relevancy.
Er, maybe not. For a start, the GWA doesn't "double" surfing speed. Second, with current bandwidth, I doubt most people would notice or care much about "double" text-loading speeds (GWA doesn't get that sort of compression on images, MP3s, etc, obviously). Third, it's not complex technology. People have been developing (and using) this crap for ages. It's not as if Google have cracked cheap, in-your-house nuclear fusion.
Once OpenOffice picks up more steam (namely complete interoperability with all Office suites)
Why such a high bar for OO.o? MS Office doesn't have 100% compatibility with "all" office suites, so why demand this of OO.o?
The original poster said "all Office suites." Note the capitalization. It would be fair that if OO is to be a viable alternative, it should be able to open the documents users have already created on Office. It doesn't do a bad job at this, granted, but it could always improve.
I'm not sure how they do it, or if it's down to the personalities of people in the UK, but Microsoft dominates British IT in a scary way. In the US, sure, there's lots of Microsoft developers, but there's a lot of Unix developers too. In the UK, the ratio is significantly higher on the Microsoft side than for anything else. Why is this? I'm not sure why, but the British seem to be suckers for a monoculture.
Aha! I think you've nailed it. Silly me :) Putting that part of the query in quotation marks seems to solve the problem and get expected results.
This search for cache::memcached (a Perl module) always fails. I reported it to Google several days ago. Other searches, such as for io::socket do not fail similarly.
Got any other searches which always fail with a server error?
That's why it says "repeated" disturbance. Most noise pollution issues are not one-offs or few and far between. Most involve people living in close quarters (apartment blocks, tenements, terraced houses, etc) and having to put up with endless racket on a daily basis.
I don't see the point. It's like demanding 3D paper or 3D TV. Paper and TV have been around significantly longer than GUIs, and I don't see anyone jumping to make those 3D. I saw some demos of some 3D TVs in the 90's, and while the idea had a certain 'cool' factor.. it seemed pointless.
Some things simply don't need to be more complicated than they are.. like adding buttons and extra text boxes onto Google search, or developing 3D paper.
Yes, because they've provided a stable, though not rapidly growing, economy since 1997. Furthermore, we avoided a recession in 2001-2002, unlike nearly every other major world economy.
Implement a firewall and a throttler and/or packet management. A single Linux box might do the trick (though it'd possibly be slow depending on the number of clients).
Block all incoming ports for clients (if they're on NAT, they don't need it for 99% of functions). Block any outgoing ports 1024 that aren't 80, 21, 22, 8080, 3128, 110, 143, or 119. Most of your problems will go away.
The only people who will bitch will be P2Pers and gamers.. and jeez, they can get their own connection if they care that much about that.
I'm beginning to see quite a few forums and other places that use e-mail addresses saying things like "Please don't use an AOL address here, enter another e-mail address" and so on. AOL is getting a bad reputation for its handling of mail.
AOL has no problem with blacklisting people willy-nilly, even if they're other ISPs. I only have experience with a few large companies and their mail systems, but all have been blocked by AOL at some time or another for some supposed transgression.
It's high-time that those of us who run web-apps, and the like, took a stand against AOL and banned the use of their e-mail addresses in our systems. They're more trouble than they're worth.
Sergey Brin in drag during his Stanford days!
Okay, now I've just signed away my opportunity to work for Google, ever.
This is a bit of a turnaround for Gates, no? Microsoft's employees are already amongst the best paid and best supported. Their benefits, bonuses, and salary are significantly above average for the sector. I can't see how they'd have problems attracting coders on a monetary basis alone.
I would have considered the fact that it's not really considered 'cool' to work on MS stuff (or that most of the world's best coders and hackers are UNIX geeks) to have been the biggest problem MS has.
I have a piece of wood that changes shape in the company of hot chicks.
Ah, I'm not from the United States, but we get a little media 'leakage' of things like this, which is why I wasn't entirely familiar. Thanks though. This looks great!
I remember when CDs were £14.99 new, and routinely £16.99-£19.99 for stuff off the beaten path (I paid £17.99 for Daft Punk's 'Homework' in 1998). The current situation of being able to buy almost any chart CD for under £10 including postage (play.com) is a significant improvement.
Games prices, on the other hand, have not fallen significantly at all. That said, game production prices have shot up, while production prices for music have fallen.
For what it's worth, in the EU you pay both higher income taxes than the US as well as VAT (varies between 15-20%). However, since VAT is basically the equivalent of your sales tax.. And don't forget our sky high gasoline duties too! The EU is no paradise when it comes to taxes.
.. was somewhat like the way the "bill" character was presented in the Simpsons episode where Lisa was trying to get some bill approved/disapproved in Washington.
It was something to do with spoofing a campy 70's political cartoon. Were these cartoons real? Where do I recognize this style from? The "bit" in this video seemed familiar in terms of style.
This is true. You can cut your tax burden on even a minimal wage if you know the right places to look. The problem is that most poorer people don't have accountants with their fingers on the pulse. Perhaps there should be an easy 'how to cut your taxes" web site about this :)
I don't know. Perhaps he'd be like the next Mitnick, and eventually get out and start a spam consultancy business and be considered a hero in the industry? :-)
In the end it became necessary to dim the monitor to a degree where it was hard to see any adversarys...sort of a catch 22 situation really. :)
:)
I guess you quite liked Doom 3 then!
UNIX is the only one unrecognizable in it's current state. (Mac OS X)
How you snuck that one through and still got a +5 is beyond me.. bravo!
Yet another badly written /. submission. Was this submitted by a Microsoft fanboy or something? Check out the actual report and you find that the affected servers are.. "Windows NT4 and 2000 DNS servers" and those that run "Symantec gateway products." This is about as newsworthy as "Windows XP/98/2000/whatever has yet another gaping security hole."
This only sucks if you're using the default nameservers and are signed up with an ISP using shoddy insecure products.
But working hard at acting stupid in pursuit of a cleverly crafted strategy whose whole purpose is to make oneself a world-famous icon of spoiled stupidity strikes me as pretty clear evidence one is actually stupid in reality.
It seems to have worked for George W Bush though.
You certainly shouldn't notice the shape of the 'g's.
.(That said, I go out of my way to use them in my handwriting now, ;-))
I'm not typical, but the shape of g's has always bugged me ever since I was a kid. Heck, the shape of a's too. The double level a's and g's are, generally, little used in handwriting, so they seem misplaced. Most people only fail to notice them because they're so commonly used in printed text
Check out this one of an example search results page. Look at the file sizes. They're just duped between sections.. so are the dates! I'm sure you don't have 5 e-mails and 5 totally random files all with corresponding dates and sizes. Seriously, check it out.
;-)
Even if the interface work here isn't fake, there has been some copying/pasting going on OR Longhorn doesn't have file size and date functionality yet