I think that would be time to start looking for another job... FAST! Absolutely no good can come out of this situation except as a blurb on your resume. i.e. Was responsible for network security at firm with more than 500 computers for the last 6 months.
I know this isn't machine learning but how about remembering the pages I had open when I closed Firefox and then displaying them again in tabs next time I open it. That is something I am used to in Avant Browser and I really miss in Firefox. Another thing I would like is a minimize to tray feature. One more thing I would like is a nice set of toolbar buttons to enable/disable things like pop-ups, images, javascript and so on instead of having to go through menus. These are also available in Avant Browser. If Avant didn't use the Internet Explorer engine I would still consider it to be a better browser, but Mozilla is very close.
P.S. I know I can make some of these things myself, but I havn't been able to yet. But I will start in probobly a couple of months.
The Opportunity
Power supplies are one of the crucial building blocks of a modern society, converting high-voltage alternating current (AC) into low-voltage direct current (DC) for use by the electronic circuits in office equipment, telecommunications, and consumer electronics. Over 2.5 billion AC/DC power supplies are currently in use in the United States alone. About 6 to 10 billion are in use worldwide.
While the best power supplies are more than 90% efficient, some are only 20 to 40% efficient, wasting the majority of the electricity that passes through them. As a result, today's power supplies consume at least 2% of all U.S. electricity production. More efficient power supply designs could cut that usage in half, saving nearly $3 billion and about 24 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year.
The Purpose of This Web Site
This Web site was created by EPRI PEAC Corporation and Ecos Consulting to initiate a global dialogue about energy efficient power supplies. Our focus here is particularly on the issue of energy consumption in the active or "on" mode of product operation. According to our research so far, nearly 75% of all the energy used by power supplies occurs in active mode. For those interested primarily in standby power consumption or other low-power modes, please visit Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Web site on that topic at http://standby.lbl.gov.
The California Energy Commission's PIER (Public Interest Energy Research) program has funded Ecos, EPRI PEAC, and the Energy Innovation Institute (E2I) to assess the efficiencies of modern power supplies and recommend strategies for improving them. An open exchange of design information, test methods, measured results, and other related documents is essential to that project's success, tapping the best information available from manufacturers, government agencies, utilities, and product users.
In addition, Ecos and EPRI PEAC are working on a variety of other power supply efficiency initiatives in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, described in more detail under Projects. Our goal in every case is to accelerate the market for more energy-efficient products, saving energy and preventing pollution.
How You Can Get Involved
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I'm not trying to start a big flame war here but my killer Windows app is Visual Studio.NET 2003. If Microsoft put half as much work into their OS as there is in Visual Studio the computer usability world would be a much better place. And if there was a Linux app that had comparable features I would switch over completely in a second (even if I had to pay for it).
Why would Google do anything but search in real-time? There is no point in scanning ahead, since the difference in response time would be minimal. The only thing I could see impacting them would be the no records thing, since they won't be able to track users interests and such, which can be in turn used to attract advertisers.
was a lady running a Mandrake system asking me about saving files to a disk. She was having troubles and thought that maybe automount wasn't working. I went over there, put in a disk, and copied the file.
Her problem - she hadn't put a disk in the drive.
Mandrake 10 is in beta-2 right now, and the stable community version should be released within the next month. It will also come with other cool things such as KDE 3.2 and the latest OpenOffice
Maybe I could tell all of the ladies that I absorb noxious gases instead of emitt them, and that explains my pastiness.
But I doubt they would believe that
Does anybody else see something wrong with Apple having a program that only works on Windows and Macs? You would think they would be a little bit more understanding of those of us running "alternative" OSes.
What is keeping me from using Mozilla full time is that it can't download my Hotmail e-mails the way that Outlook can. I know you can get around that with things like Hotmail Popper. But it just isn't the same...
Unfortuneately for Belkin, the damage has already been done. I already thought their routers were no good after I had a hell of a time getting one to work with a DLink wireless NIC. They've just run out of chances with me.
This stuff has been running for 30 years unchecked on a big-ass server in some back room. Who in their right mind is going to want to switch this over to.net and introduce 1 million new errors and make the company buy a new server, plus someone to maintain it.
COBOL was originally designed by the military to be a language that even managers could read and understand exactly what was happening. The original COBOL specification didn't even have comments!! Statements looked like this:
add this to that giving something-new.
multiply x by y giving z rounded.
perform function until condition. ...
end-perform.
stop run.
Statements are called sentences. Groups of statements are called paragraphs. You get the picture. The reason that it became so popular was because it was designed by the military, and they coded everything in it. Then when those coders went to go work in the corporate world, they took COBOL with them.
Slashdot Mirror
By that he means his.
I think that would be time to start looking for another job... FAST!
Absolutely no good can come out of this situation except as a blurb on your resume. i.e. Was responsible for network security at firm with more than 500 computers for the last 6 months.
Me: Hello, I am a researcher and I would like access to this network
Them: And what is your field of research, sir?
Me: Why, I am researching human biology and behaviour in group situations.
Them: Well that sounds very interesting. How exactly would having 10 Gbps help you.
Me: Glad you asked. First I download all the pr0n I can find, then I watch it...
Them: Look, this is about the 1000th application we have had that wants to download porn. Good day, sir.
Me: But, but....
Them: I said good day!
I know this isn't machine learning but how about remembering the pages I had open when I closed Firefox and then displaying them again in tabs next time I open it. That is something I am used to in Avant Browser and I really miss in Firefox.
Another thing I would like is a minimize to tray feature.
One more thing I would like is a nice set of toolbar buttons to enable/disable things like pop-ups, images, javascript and so on instead of having to go through menus. These are also available in Avant Browser.
If Avant didn't use the Internet Explorer engine I would still consider it to be a better browser, but Mozilla is very close.
P.S. I know I can make some of these things myself, but I havn't been able to yet. But I will start in probobly a couple of months.
The Opportunity Power supplies are one of the crucial building blocks of a modern society, converting high-voltage alternating current (AC) into low-voltage direct current (DC) for use by the electronic circuits in office equipment, telecommunications, and consumer electronics. Over 2.5 billion AC/DC power supplies are currently in use in the United States alone. About 6 to 10 billion are in use worldwide.
While the best power supplies are more than 90% efficient, some are only 20 to 40% efficient, wasting the majority of the electricity that passes through them. As a result, today's power supplies consume at least 2% of all U.S. electricity production. More efficient power supply designs could cut that usage in half, saving nearly $3 billion and about 24 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year.
The Purpose of This Web Site This Web site was created by EPRI PEAC Corporation and Ecos Consulting to initiate a global dialogue about energy efficient power supplies. Our focus here is particularly on the issue of energy consumption in the active or "on" mode of product operation. According to our research so far, nearly 75% of all the energy used by power supplies occurs in active mode. For those interested primarily in standby power consumption or other low-power modes, please visit Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Web site on that topic at http://standby.lbl.gov.
The California Energy Commission's PIER (Public Interest Energy Research) program has funded Ecos, EPRI PEAC, and the Energy Innovation Institute (E2I) to assess the efficiencies of modern power supplies and recommend strategies for improving them. An open exchange of design information, test methods, measured results, and other related documents is essential to that project's success, tapping the best information available from manufacturers, government agencies, utilities, and product users.
In addition, Ecos and EPRI PEAC are working on a variety of other power supply efficiency initiatives in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, described in more detail under Projects. Our goal in every case is to accelerate the market for more energy-efficient products, saving energy and preventing pollution.
How You Can Get Involved
At 11 comments it is just a little bit slower.
Sorry.
I'm not trying to start a big flame war here but my killer Windows app is Visual Studio.NET 2003. If Microsoft put half as much work into their OS as there is in Visual Studio the computer usability world would be a much better place. And if there was a Linux app that had comparable features I would switch over completely in a second (even if I had to pay for it).
Why would Google do anything but search in real-time? There is no point in scanning ahead, since the difference in response time would be minimal. The only thing I could see impacting them would be the no records thing, since they won't be able to track users interests and such, which can be in turn used to attract advertisers.
originally posted on Match 29th
right here
Queue the BSD is dead posts.
Why can't we all just get along??
was a lady running a Mandrake system asking me about saving files to a disk. She was having troubles and thought that maybe automount wasn't working. I went over there, put in a disk, and copied the file.
Her problem - she hadn't put a disk in the drive.
has had a network like this in the works for a couple of years now. It is supposed to be finished within the next year I think.
Mandrake 10 is in beta-2 right now, and the stable community version should be released within the next month. It will also come with other cool things such as KDE 3.2 and the latest OpenOffice
Maybe I could tell all of the ladies that I absorb noxious gases instead of emitt them, and that explains my pastiness.
But I doubt they would believe that
Does anybody else see something wrong with Apple having a program that only works on Windows and Macs? You would think they would be a little bit more understanding of those of us running "alternative" OSes.
You've been in University for 7 years? You need to spend less time playing with robots.
Proud to be a card-carrying nerd since 1983!!
What is keeping me from using Mozilla full time is that it can't download my Hotmail e-mails the way that Outlook can. I know you can get around that with things like Hotmail Popper. But it just isn't the same...
This could bring phone sex to a _whole_ new level.
Might stop the girlfriend from pretending anyways.
Now if only they could engineer themselves up a server that could take more than 100 hits/minute.
Holy crapola
I for one, welcome our new polymor overloards.
How many times now has /. said that finally the SCO case was going to come to an end soon. I count at least 4 or 5.
Unfortuneately for Belkin, the damage has already been done. I already thought their routers were no good after I had a hell of a time getting one to work with a DLink wireless NIC. They've just run out of chances with me.
This stuff has been running for 30 years unchecked on a big-ass server in some back room. Who in their right mind is going to want to switch this over to .net and introduce 1 million new errors and make the company buy a new server, plus someone to maintain it.
COBOL was originally designed by the military to be a language that even managers could read and understand exactly what was happening. The original COBOL specification didn't even have comments!! Statements looked like this:
...
add this to that giving something-new.
multiply x by y giving z rounded. perform function until condition.
end-perform.
stop run.
Statements are called sentences. Groups of statements are called paragraphs. You get the picture. The reason that it became so popular was because it was designed by the military, and they coded everything in it. Then when those coders went to go work in the corporate world, they took COBOL with them.