Do we know their sales though? I last played Duke Nukem 3D probably in 1999 or so, and if my peer group was the target audience for the game, most of us are probably to the point of not really caring like they should have wanted us to.
If they'd have hyped it and released a crappy game around 5 years after DN3D (so '01 or so) then they probably could have gotten a lot more sales than this version did.
...that the whole point was that it actually was planned to be a joke, hence, "Forever", and that they weren't supposed to be working on it for real. Their only task was to load the 3d rendering program and to build another fake "screenshot" with some new changes to the old "screenshot" so that it looked like they were doing something.
They could have milked this another 20 years if they'd been smart, but NO, they had to go and actually try to build the thing...
I just pulled up the information for the Port of Los Angeles (San Pedro). They averaged 140 million metric revenue tons through the port. Being pessimistic and assuming that the weight of the container itself factors into a metric revenue ton, and assuming for this thought exercise that every shipping container is loaded to maximum weight, I still come up with over 4,615,000 containers through the Port of LA alone in a year. At one port, not accounting for light containers.
Are you trying to tell me that Customs is opening and inspecting 4,615,000 containers in LA? Are you somehow implying that they can keep track of everything, or that they're somehow able to even keep their heads above water?
Just because it came off of the ship doesn't mean the Customs ever got notified that it's in the yard. It's even possible that, *gasp!* people with rather high dollar interests managed to find a way to bribe officials to let a truck or two out without documentation, or to forge documentation that made it look legitimate.
Consider these container ship pictures and the number of containers present, then consider that there are a lot more than one ship's container load in a dockyard, and that containers can be loaded on to rail, tractor trailer, or on to other ships, and in some places can probably be manually emptied. There's probably a whole railyard in the area, and a large fleet of tractor trailers. It's probable that they genuinely lose stuff in the yard without meaning to, and that some stuff that hasn't cleared customs genuinely gets accidentally loaded for outbound shipping. Further consider how much of what we buy comes in from overseas (almost all TVs and other consumer electronics, most small appliances, some large appliances, lots of cheap tools and equipment, most of our furniture, most of our clothing, lots of food, etc) it's no wonder there's real worry that our shipping is the next target for attack.
If you want to fix all of this, the simple solution is to upgrade the security at the ports to the point that the speed of the non-security setup we currently have is maintained, and factor that cost into the cost to ship. That could mean 100x the number of personnel, billions of dollars in equipment, and probably new legislation to get it to happen, but it'll have a few benefits- first, one reduces the "lost" container problem, as it's much harder to bribe the necessary number of officials when there are many more officials paying attention. Second, it reduces the real possibility of an attack, as suddenly containers get the scrutiny that they should. Third, if the real cost to pay for all of this gets built into the price of the good, suddenly foreign goods are much more expensive than they were relative to domestic goods, which benefits our domestic economy and is difficult to label as an unfair tariff as it's just forcing importers to pay for the real security costs to import.
...that's why you take a good, hard look at who pulls the strings for a given language and why before you adopt it. When a company, by itself, is the controlling body this is a risk. Granted, consortiums can take a long time to do things, and single companies theoretically can respond more quickly when needs arise, but a company is in the position to write the floor out from under you for the sake of their profits.
Microsoft has a track record of this kind of behavior. It's no surprise if true.
If the Internet no longer supported file sharing, people would do it by USB flash media. If somehow they managed to make USB flash media DRMed, people would do it via LAN Party. If they somehow managed to make that not work, people would burn things to CD. Even if they somehow managed to completely eliminate the possibility of digitally copying the files, two people would hook up the analog-out of one device to the analog-in on another and hit play and record.
If you want to stop movie and music piracy, price the product appropriately so that it's not worth the effort to pirate, and use a format that is inconvenient to pirate through. It took a long time for significant software piracy of video game consoles to really take off, and from what I've peripherally seen, it still seems to happen to mostly old ROM cartridge systems, with no more profitability left for the original publisher anyway. There's some early optical piracy, but that doesn't seem too widespread.
If the music industry had any brains, they would have worked with the CD hardware manufacturers to develop firmware that didn't support reading an audio CD at anything more than 1.1x playback speed. This would have allowed enough read-ahead for skip protection and ECC, but would have made it difficult for one person to engage in large-scale piracy. DVD could have had the same thing, in the sense of using an alternate file structure for movies along with firmware that restricts read speed on that file structure or for all discs with that structure. Additionally, with CDs, had they chosen to make the audio quality much better, the files themselves would either be too big (at least at the end of the 20th century when this became a problem) or so lossy that people might have actually been unsatisfied by the output. If these various industries would have done all of this and then also priced their products appropriately, I'd bet that most people would have opted for the legitimate distribution.
A counter argument to the "23000 people would have bought our products if they hadn't pirated them!" is that most of these people probably wouldn't have bought the product if it weren't available through piracy. If it's free to pirate it then the opportunity cost is obviously low to nil, especially if it's difficult to find and prosecute pirates. If the product costs $20 for ten songs, then the casual listener probably wouldn't have bothered to buy it, especially for songs that are overplayed on their local FM stations. As for movies, I'd also bet that if the movie wasn't available through piracy, most of the viewers simply wouldn't have ever seen it or even heard of it. I'm not going to argue that piracy is helpful as the converse, but it probably doesn't cause nearly as much harm as content sellers would like to argue.
That's what it would do for me- I do not have good e-mail sorting or reading practices. I have about 1600 unread messages that I'll probably never, ever get to.
Come to think of it, we use gmail at work too. If they ever start handing out work via email, maybe I should use a system like this...
It was a speech. IIRC there are some articles on Gawker about it and her subsequent attempts to justify her historical fiction of the event.
Either way I agree with some of the posts on Gawker, concerned for her brain damage, as most people would be embarrassed by such gaffes, but she seems to have no shame.
One of the comedians or shows (can't remember which) had a fake Palin for 2012 Republican Nomination ad, with "Paid for by Barack Obama" line at the end... This kind of thing of gaffe on her part just reemphasizes the funny...
...then you have to go back to basic principles, which isn't compatible with a hosted site.
In an ideal world, you'd have a public network (the Internet connection) and a DMZ/semi-private network, with the DB server. The web daemon wouldn't run on the DMZ side, and would have to forward requests through to the other server.
It's been a really long time since I dealt with this stuff firsthand, but I suppose that on a single box one could create a virtual network or use loopback to connect the web daemon to the DB daemon, and then restrict the DB daemon to only communicate on the virtual side, but you'd probably still need local root access to set everything up.
From what I gather, many hosting companies that offer space on a box with multiple other customers typically have a DB guy on staff to work with this kind of thing, and they typically charge for the both the cgi bin and for the DB component. As I said though, it's been a LONG time since I've dealt with this stuff personally (like, people were still using compiled-C for server-side coding), so things might have evolved from my mindset.
Last time I was in a radio shack (last week), their Virgin Mobile phones were $30 more than they were at Best Buy.
I'm not going to buy a cell phone at Radio Shack. I'm going to look on the Internet for plans and costs, and maybe I'll drive around to a few places where I can make final comparisons. I'm probably going to buy the phone from the store associated with the carrier, or in the case of Virgin Mobile, wherever it's cheapest.
If Radio Shack doesn't carry all of those connectors or kits then they have no reason to exist for me. I can easily go to Fry's if I want to put up with the unhappy employees or disheveled retail shelves, but I'll probably still find something that'll work. Certainly, I'll spend three times the amount of time trying to find what I need, but I'll find it.
Ace Hardware's model versus the big-box Home Improvement stores makes a good comparison.
If they're smart, they'll look into new personal hacking systems like Arduino, they'll get back into home automation, and they'll position themselves as the place to get all of the stuff needed to tie differing systems together. They also need to keep later hours Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, when the hobbyist has screwed something up and needs some replacement parts.
Ideally Radio Shack, in my opinion, should be the convenience store of electronics. One needs something at odd hours, or needs one or two of something, or needs to make the shopping trip quick and fairly painless, go to Radio Shack.
I've had really odd finds in there. I have an old Realistic HTX-100 that was given to me without a handmic, they still had the connector for me to add to another that I have, as well as the power harness stub. In a fairly new store. They need to carry truly geeky toys, the kinds of things carried at Harbor Freight but better quality, and the kinds of things sold at Fry's Electronics, but without the hassle and bad employee morale. They should carry model rocketry launch stuff (though not really the rockets themselves) like launchers, controllers, altitude and GPS trackers, homing beacons, and that sort. They should carry the electronics for entry level to mid level RC, but not the car or plane body kits. They should carry the most common bulbs for projectors and televisions, even if only one or two in a store, and they should have a nice thick, Grainger-style catalog for ordering all kinds of other things that's actually easy to use and peruse. They should carry basic electronics how-to books, so geeklings can learn how to do what they will.
They should carry a lot less in the line of cell phones.
Funny enough, they used to have this store, it was called "Tech America". They created it after they lost their Incredible Universe business (ingloriously bought out by Fry's here in the Phoenix area) and then they failed at that. In that case they had a little too much in-store, so their inventory overhead was way too high, but pick something half-way. Carry enough of the components to make geeks have a reason to come in, but not so much that one closes. If we need EVERYTHING then we'll order it. If we need one of something small and cheap we'll probably be willing to pay a lot more for that one thing if we can get it immediately and at late hours.
That's what I've always liked about proper user versus management privileges on a computer- when the user who isn't the computer's owner or admin b0rks their account, you just nuke the account and recreate or just nuke the home directory, backing up only if they're important enough for it to cost you if you don't. Unfortunately, when the "admin" is the owner and only has user-level knowledge, they're probably not willing to nuke their own account, assuming they're not running with too many privileges in the first place. At least with OSX it should be possible to do this as they're following the POSIX model for the most part, but only if the owner is willing/able to do it right.
On a somewhat-unrelated note, it still blows my mind when enterprise level IT still has users with full admin rights over the local workstation, as those machines constantly and continually get infected and reinfected through the ignorance of the users. Sure, it means that a user can add a local device more complicate than a printer without calling the helpdesk, but it also means that any piece of unauthorized software, whether the user intended to install it or not, or whether it's benign or malicious, gets on to the computer. When the IT department sets up the computers and privileges properly, and if the OS doesn't have local root exploits so large one can drive a Mack truck through, the user can do a lot less damage.
I wouldn't want tree-style tabs, but what I could go for is a tab system similar to what Microsoft used in dialog boxes that had two or more rows of tabs, but then take the entire assemblage and turn it 90 and put it on the left or the right side. On top of that I'd probably put a URL box or bar or some other method to get a field to type a URL into. Or, put the URL there and use a smaller font. Put an autohide searchbox in the upper right, and have it clickable for searching the web via engine of one's choice or for searching the page that one is on. Do the same thing at the upper left for forward/back/reload/stop/history, where it autohides.
With the advent of 16:9, add-on toolbars at the top really need to go away. Put them on the side if you feel that you have to have the whole toolbar, so that the page doesn't end up this little thing only half-visible.
Sadly, the machine I casemodded in full Duke regalia in anticipation of DNF back in 1997 is wholly incapable of running the game, and since it's AT form factor it ain't gettin' upgraded...
I still haven't figured out what Twitter is actually supposed to be used for. It has acquitted itself well in the Arab Spring movement, but I don't think that was what it was designed for, and I'm honestly tired of hearing about the tweets of politicians and other public figures. I thought CNN was supposed to give me NEWS, not what Sarah Palin thinks (and I use the term loosely) about some given topic.
There was no one technology in the nineties that dominated- many technologies achieved supremacy only to be replaced by a similar but different technology a year later.
IRC was never mainstream popular- its dominance was due to the tech-savvy adopting it, rather than because the masses used it. The masses wouldn't know what efnet or dalnet were, or how to find a good list or IRC servers for given networks. The tech-savvy also were the ones who adopted ICQ. The mainstream used AIM, Yahoo Pager, and later MSN Messenger, and that's why those took off- there was no number versus name, no obfuscated configuring or servers, it just required you to register for a username, then use that to log in.
Technology's success appears to be based on accessibility- Microsoft, and to an extent, Apple, see success because their OSes are preloaded so the average idiot user can unbox the new computer, plug it in, and just start playing. Linux doesn't enjoy that preloaded userbase, which explains why the various distributions still fit a niche market. This is also partially why during the antitrust suits against Microsoft, companies like AOL worked hard to get their main software and their other products like AIM preloaded as part of the agreement, and is also probably why Microsoft makes it damn difficult to get MSN Messenger to go away.
I'm guessing that accessibility is why Facebook is doing well at the moment. For awhile it was the place for college kids, which of course meant that high school kids wanted to be on. That drove demand, so when they opened it up to everyone, everyone tried it out, and finding everyone on, it was easy to get people to stay, at least for the moment. I'm sure that it'll change too, as they'll break something at an inopportune moment and a newer, "better" (and I use the term loosely) thing will come along and steal their userbase. That's what seems to always happen, after all.
Coding might not require it, but it certainly can help a lot. At one point I had three displays set up. One for writing in, one for displaying documentation on, and one for displaying the view that the user would get so I could see how my programming was working out. Granted, this was in the 15" to 17" display days, but using what was a user-normal display was handy for ensuring what I created would work for almost everybody.
Monitors are not all that expensive. It's foolish to take a monitor from one whose job is to create the very products that generate revenue for a company and to give that monitor to someone whose job is to do work internal to the company.
You should QoS down SMTP in your setup, and probably some other protocols as well, and you should probably outright block some stuff on the public router. If there were a good way of filtering I'd suggest that too, but to my knowledge there aren't any especially good free filter packages.
Russia has been having some crop problems again, especially since that series of large wildfires they had. If anything, a desire for cheap grain might well keep Russia from selling anything to anyone that the US doesn't want them selling to...
I think that espionage is more likely. Someone in a position to provide enough nuclear material who didn't have permission did so, probably as a result of seeing the wars Israel fought. I would bet that while the US has been good in its record keeping, it may not always have been quite so good, and that between the disassembly of old warheads, the purification of materials, the use of nuclear materials in research environments, and pre-computer record keeping would allow some material to escape.
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Do we know their sales though? I last played Duke Nukem 3D probably in 1999 or so, and if my peer group was the target audience for the game, most of us are probably to the point of not really caring like they should have wanted us to.
If they'd have hyped it and released a crappy game around 5 years after DN3D (so '01 or so) then they probably could have gotten a lot more sales than this version did.
...that the whole point was that it actually was planned to be a joke, hence, "Forever", and that they weren't supposed to be working on it for real. Their only task was to load the 3d rendering program and to build another fake "screenshot" with some new changes to the old "screenshot" so that it looked like they were doing something.
They could have milked this another 20 years if they'd been smart, but NO, they had to go and actually try to build the thing...
I just pulled up the information for the Port of Los Angeles (San Pedro). They averaged 140 million metric revenue tons through the port. Being pessimistic and assuming that the weight of the container itself factors into a metric revenue ton, and assuming for this thought exercise that every shipping container is loaded to maximum weight, I still come up with over 4,615,000 containers through the Port of LA alone in a year. At one port, not accounting for light containers.
Are you trying to tell me that Customs is opening and inspecting 4,615,000 containers in LA? Are you somehow implying that they can keep track of everything, or that they're somehow able to even keep their heads above water?
Just because it came off of the ship doesn't mean the Customs ever got notified that it's in the yard. It's even possible that, *gasp!* people with rather high dollar interests managed to find a way to bribe officials to let a truck or two out without documentation, or to forge documentation that made it look legitimate.
Consider these container ship pictures and the number of containers present, then consider that there are a lot more than one ship's container load in a dockyard, and that containers can be loaded on to rail, tractor trailer, or on to other ships, and in some places can probably be manually emptied. There's probably a whole railyard in the area, and a large fleet of tractor trailers. It's probable that they genuinely lose stuff in the yard without meaning to, and that some stuff that hasn't cleared customs genuinely gets accidentally loaded for outbound shipping. Further consider how much of what we buy comes in from overseas (almost all TVs and other consumer electronics, most small appliances, some large appliances, lots of cheap tools and equipment, most of our furniture, most of our clothing, lots of food, etc) it's no wonder there's real worry that our shipping is the next target for attack.
If you want to fix all of this, the simple solution is to upgrade the security at the ports to the point that the speed of the non-security setup we currently have is maintained, and factor that cost into the cost to ship. That could mean 100x the number of personnel, billions of dollars in equipment, and probably new legislation to get it to happen, but it'll have a few benefits- first, one reduces the "lost" container problem, as it's much harder to bribe the necessary number of officials when there are many more officials paying attention. Second, it reduces the real possibility of an attack, as suddenly containers get the scrutiny that they should. Third, if the real cost to pay for all of this gets built into the price of the good, suddenly foreign goods are much more expensive than they were relative to domestic goods, which benefits our domestic economy and is difficult to label as an unfair tariff as it's just forcing importers to pay for the real security costs to import.
...that's why you take a good, hard look at who pulls the strings for a given language and why before you adopt it. When a company, by itself, is the controlling body this is a risk. Granted, consortiums can take a long time to do things, and single companies theoretically can respond more quickly when needs arise, but a company is in the position to write the floor out from under you for the sake of their profits.
Microsoft has a track record of this kind of behavior. It's no surprise if true.
As long as it's copyable it'll be copied.
If the Internet no longer supported file sharing, people would do it by USB flash media. If somehow they managed to make USB flash media DRMed, people would do it via LAN Party. If they somehow managed to make that not work, people would burn things to CD. Even if they somehow managed to completely eliminate the possibility of digitally copying the files, two people would hook up the analog-out of one device to the analog-in on another and hit play and record.
If you want to stop movie and music piracy, price the product appropriately so that it's not worth the effort to pirate, and use a format that is inconvenient to pirate through. It took a long time for significant software piracy of video game consoles to really take off, and from what I've peripherally seen, it still seems to happen to mostly old ROM cartridge systems, with no more profitability left for the original publisher anyway. There's some early optical piracy, but that doesn't seem too widespread.
If the music industry had any brains, they would have worked with the CD hardware manufacturers to develop firmware that didn't support reading an audio CD at anything more than 1.1x playback speed. This would have allowed enough read-ahead for skip protection and ECC, but would have made it difficult for one person to engage in large-scale piracy. DVD could have had the same thing, in the sense of using an alternate file structure for movies along with firmware that restricts read speed on that file structure or for all discs with that structure. Additionally, with CDs, had they chosen to make the audio quality much better, the files themselves would either be too big (at least at the end of the 20th century when this became a problem) or so lossy that people might have actually been unsatisfied by the output. If these various industries would have done all of this and then also priced their products appropriately, I'd bet that most people would have opted for the legitimate distribution.
A counter argument to the "23000 people would have bought our products if they hadn't pirated them!" is that most of these people probably wouldn't have bought the product if it weren't available through piracy. If it's free to pirate it then the opportunity cost is obviously low to nil, especially if it's difficult to find and prosecute pirates. If the product costs $20 for ten songs, then the casual listener probably wouldn't have bothered to buy it, especially for songs that are overplayed on their local FM stations. As for movies, I'd also bet that if the movie wasn't available through piracy, most of the viewers simply wouldn't have ever seen it or even heard of it. I'm not going to argue that piracy is helpful as the converse, but it probably doesn't cause nearly as much harm as content sellers would like to argue.
What gesture? Or should I read between the lines?
That's what it would do for me- I do not have good e-mail sorting or reading practices. I have about 1600 unread messages that I'll probably never, ever get to.
Come to think of it, we use gmail at work too. If they ever start handing out work via email, maybe I should use a system like this...
It was a speech. IIRC there are some articles on Gawker about it and her subsequent attempts to justify her historical fiction of the event.
Either way I agree with some of the posts on Gawker, concerned for her brain damage, as most people would be embarrassed by such gaffes, but she seems to have no shame.
One of the comedians or shows (can't remember which) had a fake Palin for 2012 Republican Nomination ad, with "Paid for by Barack Obama" line at the end... This kind of thing of gaffe on her part just reemphasizes the funny...
...then you have to go back to basic principles, which isn't compatible with a hosted site.
In an ideal world, you'd have a public network (the Internet connection) and a DMZ/semi-private network, with the DB server. The web daemon wouldn't run on the DMZ side, and would have to forward requests through to the other server.
It's been a really long time since I dealt with this stuff firsthand, but I suppose that on a single box one could create a virtual network or use loopback to connect the web daemon to the DB daemon, and then restrict the DB daemon to only communicate on the virtual side, but you'd probably still need local root access to set everything up.
From what I gather, many hosting companies that offer space on a box with multiple other customers typically have a DB guy on staff to work with this kind of thing, and they typically charge for the both the cgi bin and for the DB component. As I said though, it's been a LONG time since I've dealt with this stuff personally (like, people were still using compiled-C for server-side coding), so things might have evolved from my mindset.
Last time I was in a radio shack (last week), their Virgin Mobile phones were $30 more than they were at Best Buy.
I'm not going to buy a cell phone at Radio Shack. I'm going to look on the Internet for plans and costs, and maybe I'll drive around to a few places where I can make final comparisons. I'm probably going to buy the phone from the store associated with the carrier, or in the case of Virgin Mobile, wherever it's cheapest.
If Radio Shack doesn't carry all of those connectors or kits then they have no reason to exist for me. I can easily go to Fry's if I want to put up with the unhappy employees or disheveled retail shelves, but I'll probably still find something that'll work. Certainly, I'll spend three times the amount of time trying to find what I need, but I'll find it.
Ace Hardware's model versus the big-box Home Improvement stores makes a good comparison.
If they're smart, they'll look into new personal hacking systems like Arduino, they'll get back into home automation, and they'll position themselves as the place to get all of the stuff needed to tie differing systems together. They also need to keep later hours Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, when the hobbyist has screwed something up and needs some replacement parts.
Ideally Radio Shack, in my opinion, should be the convenience store of electronics. One needs something at odd hours, or needs one or two of something, or needs to make the shopping trip quick and fairly painless, go to Radio Shack.
I've had really odd finds in there. I have an old Realistic HTX-100 that was given to me without a handmic, they still had the connector for me to add to another that I have, as well as the power harness stub. In a fairly new store. They need to carry truly geeky toys, the kinds of things carried at Harbor Freight but better quality, and the kinds of things sold at Fry's Electronics, but without the hassle and bad employee morale. They should carry model rocketry launch stuff (though not really the rockets themselves) like launchers, controllers, altitude and GPS trackers, homing beacons, and that sort. They should carry the electronics for entry level to mid level RC, but not the car or plane body kits. They should carry the most common bulbs for projectors and televisions, even if only one or two in a store, and they should have a nice thick, Grainger-style catalog for ordering all kinds of other things that's actually easy to use and peruse. They should carry basic electronics how-to books, so geeklings can learn how to do what they will.
They should carry a lot less in the line of cell phones.
Funny enough, they used to have this store, it was called "Tech America". They created it after they lost their Incredible Universe business (ingloriously bought out by Fry's here in the Phoenix area) and then they failed at that. In that case they had a little too much in-store, so their inventory overhead was way too high, but pick something half-way. Carry enough of the components to make geeks have a reason to come in, but not so much that one closes. If we need EVERYTHING then we'll order it. If we need one of something small and cheap we'll probably be willing to pay a lot more for that one thing if we can get it immediately and at late hours.
I donno, when we lost the ability to use Tiny Elvis things went downhill...
"uhh, uh... Look at that Icon. That thing's HUGE!"
That's what I've always liked about proper user versus management privileges on a computer- when the user who isn't the computer's owner or admin b0rks their account, you just nuke the account and recreate or just nuke the home directory, backing up only if they're important enough for it to cost you if you don't. Unfortunately, when the "admin" is the owner and only has user-level knowledge, they're probably not willing to nuke their own account, assuming they're not running with too many privileges in the first place. At least with OSX it should be possible to do this as they're following the POSIX model for the most part, but only if the owner is willing/able to do it right.
On a somewhat-unrelated note, it still blows my mind when enterprise level IT still has users with full admin rights over the local workstation, as those machines constantly and continually get infected and reinfected through the ignorance of the users. Sure, it means that a user can add a local device more complicate than a printer without calling the helpdesk, but it also means that any piece of unauthorized software, whether the user intended to install it or not, or whether it's benign or malicious, gets on to the computer. When the IT department sets up the computers and privileges properly, and if the OS doesn't have local root exploits so large one can drive a Mack truck through, the user can do a lot less damage.
I wouldn't want tree-style tabs, but what I could go for is a tab system similar to what Microsoft used in dialog boxes that had two or more rows of tabs, but then take the entire assemblage and turn it 90 and put it on the left or the right side. On top of that I'd probably put a URL box or bar or some other method to get a field to type a URL into. Or, put the URL there and use a smaller font. Put an autohide searchbox in the upper right, and have it clickable for searching the web via engine of one's choice or for searching the page that one is on. Do the same thing at the upper left for forward/back/reload/stop/history, where it autohides.
With the advent of 16:9, add-on toolbars at the top really need to go away. Put them on the side if you feel that you have to have the whole toolbar, so that the page doesn't end up this little thing only half-visible.
But is it compatible with Duke Nukem Forever?
Sadly, the machine I casemodded in full Duke regalia in anticipation of DNF back in 1997 is wholly incapable of running the game, and since it's AT form factor it ain't gettin' upgraded...
I still haven't figured out what Twitter is actually supposed to be used for. It has acquitted itself well in the Arab Spring movement, but I don't think that was what it was designed for, and I'm honestly tired of hearing about the tweets of politicians and other public figures. I thought CNN was supposed to give me NEWS, not what Sarah Palin thinks (and I use the term loosely) about some given topic.
There was no one technology in the nineties that dominated- many technologies achieved supremacy only to be replaced by a similar but different technology a year later.
IRC was never mainstream popular- its dominance was due to the tech-savvy adopting it, rather than because the masses used it. The masses wouldn't know what efnet or dalnet were, or how to find a good list or IRC servers for given networks. The tech-savvy also were the ones who adopted ICQ. The mainstream used AIM, Yahoo Pager, and later MSN Messenger, and that's why those took off- there was no number versus name, no obfuscated configuring or servers, it just required you to register for a username, then use that to log in.
Technology's success appears to be based on accessibility- Microsoft, and to an extent, Apple, see success because their OSes are preloaded so the average idiot user can unbox the new computer, plug it in, and just start playing. Linux doesn't enjoy that preloaded userbase, which explains why the various distributions still fit a niche market. This is also partially why during the antitrust suits against Microsoft, companies like AOL worked hard to get their main software and their other products like AIM preloaded as part of the agreement, and is also probably why Microsoft makes it damn difficult to get MSN Messenger to go away.
I'm guessing that accessibility is why Facebook is doing well at the moment. For awhile it was the place for college kids, which of course meant that high school kids wanted to be on. That drove demand, so when they opened it up to everyone, everyone tried it out, and finding everyone on, it was easy to get people to stay, at least for the moment. I'm sure that it'll change too, as they'll break something at an inopportune moment and a newer, "better" (and I use the term loosely) thing will come along and steal their userbase. That's what seems to always happen, after all.
Coding might not require it, but it certainly can help a lot. At one point I had three displays set up. One for writing in, one for displaying documentation on, and one for displaying the view that the user would get so I could see how my programming was working out. Granted, this was in the 15" to 17" display days, but using what was a user-normal display was handy for ensuring what I created would work for almost everybody.
Monitors are not all that expensive. It's foolish to take a monitor from one whose job is to create the very products that generate revenue for a company and to give that monitor to someone whose job is to do work internal to the company.
Somehow I expected it to be posted Anonymously...
You should QoS down SMTP in your setup, and probably some other protocols as well, and you should probably outright block some stuff on the public router. If there were a good way of filtering I'd suggest that too, but to my knowledge there aren't any especially good free filter packages.
Russia has been having some crop problems again, especially since that series of large wildfires they had. If anything, a desire for cheap grain might well keep Russia from selling anything to anyone that the US doesn't want them selling to...
But more importantly, never get involved in a land war in Asia...
*thinks about it for a minute*
Aw crap...
[citation needed]
I think that espionage is more likely. Someone in a position to provide enough nuclear material who didn't have permission did so, probably as a result of seeing the wars Israel fought. I would bet that while the US has been good in its record keeping, it may not always have been quite so good, and that between the disassembly of old warheads, the purification of materials, the use of nuclear materials in research environments, and pre-computer record keeping would allow some material to escape.