Looks like MS has now gone for secure by-default way:
1. The modal installation prompt for ActiveX controls will be initially suppressed using the Information Bar.
2. Changes would have to be made to the way some pages automatically redirect or behave differently when refreshed after a control is not installed
3. If the dialog does not provide an option to install the ActiveX control, the file might not be correctly signed. - Phew! No more hidden installs then, hopefully!
4. In SP2, the Information Bar will suppress file download prompts that are launched automatically
5. Enforcement of file-extensions to match the content-type.
6. SP2 will have the pop-up blocker that is turned on by default
7. And, finally, there are some browser window restrictions
I still don't think SP2 will be a panacea, but for corporations with a large number of users, or naive end-users, SP2 should bring a sigh of relief...
The illustration shows that when the train goes under a tunnel, there might be disruptions in service since the data signal may not be passed. It further suggests that frequently used web pages can be stored or cached, perhaps on a server on-board, and email sending can be held till the service is restored.
So then:
1. Will there be servers on board ?
2. Looks like it will not be a fully connected service then. Still better than nothing I suppose
hahaha! So they have made sure they don't have to spend any efforts in rating the poetry, eh?
From their website: Assess a poem's popularity with Google search: '+"NameOfPoem" +"UMLyric Poem Contest 2004" '.
From November 1st to November 7th 2004 claim your victory: send us the number of such Google hits
wow, so one gotta not only write a poetry, but also claim the prize!
does this make anyone else wonder that MS is finally beginning to feel the pinch from all lawsuits and the growing popularity of linux and other OSS products?
-primitive types and associated classes:
When I want to store a variable of one the primitve types like int (the ones you use in every class) you have to wrap them into a class (Integer) which has no way to change the Value later. So everytime I want to e.g. increment a counter stored this way, I have to convert it back to int, increment it und create a new Integer-Object to store the incremented value back into my container-class.
First of all, you dont *have* to wrap primitive types into classes. Java provides wrapper classes for all primitive data types, so you can treat them as objects if necessary. However, for most number crunching usage, you are advised to use primitive types.
-If I want to compare two Classes I have to use the equals-Method instead of a simple operator-overloading which would enable me to use ==
Right, and why would you want to overload an operator? This has been one of the hotly debated topics in Java, but the bottom line remains that the creators of Java did not think it appropriate to hide a method call (of the overloaded operator). This clarity of method invocation also maintains the readability and consistency
When I retrieve an Object from a Container it is a java.lang.Object instead of the type I stored which totally negates the advantages of static typing
What? well first of all, "static typing" implies type checking during compile time, and not run time. Secondly, when you create Containers, you want them to be generic containers that can contain any type of object and not just a particular type, and hence Containers accept and return java.lang.Object, which is the base class of all types.
Attributes of a Class are not totally protected against access from the outside (I have to work with old code that makes heavy use of this
Huh? What do you mean? Did you even read up on the access modifiers available in Java?
I won't even comment on the rest of your post, but your post smacks of supreme ignorance about basic concepts of Java. It may not be the best language (and it doesn't say it is), but trolling it because of improper usage, is unjust and foolish
well now, even if some of these projects invite some satire or sarcasm on/. or whether people make foolish observations of "rampant anarchy", etc, the fact remains such projects have been slowly adding up to the nation's wealth, and have been contributing towards improving the quality of life bit by bit:
1. For the uninitiated, India's general elections (which is the world's largest democracy) were carried out using Electronic Voting Machines, and there were no problems relating to counting or whatever. This has previously been covered here
2. India has posted a growth of 10.2% in the last fiscal year, and the new Finance Minister is expected to target even higher growth
3. Projects like Simputer might not attract customers from more developed countries, but then they are targeted and priced for the local masses.
4. eChoupal is an initiative to provide farmers of India all the information, products and services they need to enhance farm productivity, improve farm-gate price realisation and cut transaction costs.
These are just an example of the country-wide measures being adopted as the country is slowly geared towards economic well-being
..according to the article, the high court has passed the law back to a lower court for a trial that could give the government a chance to prove the law does not go too far.
The judges contend there may have been important technological advances in the five years since a federal judge blocked the law and that a new trial will allow discussion of what technology, if any, might allow adults to see and buy material that is legal for them while keeping that material out of the hands of children.
So then, any suggestions anyone? What tools are available to safeguard children against web porn?
We have not announced pricing and licensing and will not do so until next calendar year
hmm.. this once again show MS's stand on going for the developer community, which they know lies at the heart of their balance sheet - get the developers hooked in, and you have a much larger customer base than you can ever think of. Most people would agree the developer base had started moving away from MS because of the bloated code and the "undocumented" way of doing things.
There is even an interesting article about MS's losing API war here [JoelOnSoftware]
humanoid soccer plays might play and win against human soccer teams, but will they have the same histrionics and drama and tantrums like us? or the fine art of wailing and thrashing on the ground even when nothing has happened?:-)
Ah, drama and emotion shall always be human forte!
plenty of people across the world will tell you, the only people to benefit from divorce are the lawyers..but i guess, if the bedfellows can't see each other eye to eye, then there is no choice but to go different ways
how much does amazon claim it lost because of this partnership though? $750 M sounds a bit too high to me, even for this "exclusivity" partnership..
Now that market penetration level is at the highest you can think it to be, there is growing momentum of competition, swaying public opinion towards open source and the open source buzzword doing rounds not only in smoky backrooms haunted by developers, but in executive meeting rooms in Fortune 100 corporations, what do you do?
You ride the wave. Turn it to your advantage.
Declare to the world you shall also reveal some of the propreitary code, in order to "share" the comments and knowledge of development community at large, and pacify growing fears that you are not a clammed-up, monolithic, not ready to change company!
But what do you actually share? Probably the code of some old products long sidelined, or maybe tiny irrelevant bits of contemporary products - all in the name of opening up code.
Besides, with better GPL and other OSS licenses in place and the so-called crusade of SCO against popen source, a couple of months later, you jump too and claim your code has been stolen or license breached or something such. And then go back to your old ways..
quite right too! for years, email service providers have treated the email boxes as just a static table really such that after a couple of hundred emails, it is all left up to the user to search and locate the emails, or resort to keeping the chain of conversation in each message.
But then of course, you can't preserve the conversation chain, because you dont have enough space. So for doing anything reasonable, you have to pay them, hence the idea of free email is nothing but luring you to use and then ultimately pay
Oh and we have all have been numbed and blinded by those nasty flash ads making it a nightmare to navigate or find that hidden obnoxious button to close the advert.
Now comes along google, and suddenly everyone panics. I think one of the biggest scares is because of the excitement generated by google's offering in the developer/geek community. MS and Yahoo know that for any product to be successful it has to generate a fair interest and spreads faster through word of mouth than anything else really, which Google succeeded to do.
So now, it has become the case of who makes the biggest thunder!
In an era where instant messaging is touting as the "next big thing", most service providers are always faced with the dilemma of whether to allow third party clients to connect, or prevent.
Messaging clients with advertisement-based model will surely object to allowing third party clients to connect, since it doesnt make any business sense.
Furthermore, they may have allowed such third party clients in the past, to gain that critical mass that ensures market peneration and continued usage, but once they are past the bell curve, they would then clam down on it.
Think of it as an equivalent to Microsoft clamping down on piracy - they never prevented that in the past knowing that so long as its their products being used, they will be able to generate revenues one way or the other. Now that the market penetration is coming to a saturation (or if not, there are far more alternative solutions available than ever before), they have started to really put on the squeeze.
Finally, companies like trillian may well have the best protocol engineers in the world, but such disruptions in service shall push away customers every time, however small the percentage might be. Unless connectivity to widely used messengers is provided by agreement, such connectivity outages will cause most users to move to move away from them.
Well ok, so he/she made an error in conversion units, and then maybe googled a bit and made up a page pointing how others had the same "error" as well. And then posted it here in slashdot highlighting how several other people would/could be wrong in their calculations as well!
38 inches according to a page at Arkansas State University and another at Microflex Technologies.
Well the conversion (1 meter = 38 inches) is mentioned actually by some apparently russian website which is linked on this page at the arkansas state university
Couldnt test this one, because the website was down (probably slashdotted)
38.37 inches according to Honeywell's Sensotec folks.
Ok, well, this is indeed incorrect. However, on the same PDF it is mentioned that 1 inch = 2.54 cm, 1m = 1.0936 yards, which are both correct values. So I seriously believe that (1 m = 38.37in) is just a typo and should have actually been 1m=39.37 in.
That makes sense, doesn't it? Quilt and other such manufacturers would want to save on by "trimming" or low-rounding such conversions wouldnt they? For selling 1000m of their product, they save 37 inches!
39.14 inches according to the specifications on a measuring wheel for engineers. (uh-oh!)
This does look incorrect. I can't think of why they'd equate 1m=39.14 inches.
39.15 inches according to an October 30 2002 entry in a blog.
Why would you be concerned about what's on a blog. People put whatever they want to.
Again, who is richard bowles? I've no idea.. do other slashdotters know? Even if he is an authority on metric systems, why would you use an individual's figures as a source of reference? Would you not prefer to look at a metrics standards body or other such resource?
On the same page you'd notice: "Since many of our students travel to Europe or Australia, we've prepared the chart below to show you how to estimate foreign measurements. We hope you find it helpful:"...Did you notice the word "estimate"? Well, if anything, it wasn't at helpful to you I presume:-)
39.28 inches according to Jonathan Brooks at Penn State University.
Again, I think this "Jonathan Brooks" is a user/student at Penn State University, and this URL you posted isnt an authoritative advisory from the University itself.
Slashdot Mirror
For the size of Microsoft, that's quite an underdog!
:-)
Wonder how it got there?... oh, bad programming practices for one!
Looks like MS has now gone for secure by-default way:
1. The modal installation prompt for ActiveX controls will be initially suppressed using the Information Bar.
2. Changes would have to be made to the way some pages automatically redirect or behave differently when refreshed after a control is not installed
3. If the dialog does not provide an option to install the ActiveX control, the file might not be correctly signed. - Phew! No more hidden installs then, hopefully!
4. In SP2, the Information Bar will suppress file download prompts that are launched automatically
5. Enforcement of file-extensions to match the content-type.
6. SP2 will have the pop-up blocker that is turned on by default
7. And, finally, there are some browser window restrictions
I still don't think SP2 will be a panacea, but for corporations with a large number of users, or naive end-users, SP2 should bring a sigh of relief...
The illustration shows that when the train goes under a tunnel, there might be disruptions in service since the data signal may not be passed. It further suggests that frequently used web pages can be stored or cached, perhaps on a server on-board, and email sending can be held till the service is restored.
So then:
1. Will there be servers on board ?
2. Looks like it will not be a fully connected service then. Still better than nothing I suppose
Not sure if anyone noticed it, but the first comment on article's comments section at http://igargoyle.com/archives/000440.html is:
:-)
You've been Slashdotted, brace yourself and/or redirect!
mods be gentle please!
hahaha! So they have made sure they don't have to spend any efforts in rating the poetry, eh?
From their website:
Assess a poem's popularity with Google search: '+"NameOfPoem" +"UMLyric Poem Contest 2004" '.
From November 1st to November 7th 2004 claim your victory: send us the number of such Google hits
wow, so one gotta not only write a poetry, but also claim the prize!
Prove me wrong, if you can
Meanwhile, can I have that $50 gift certificate please? There is this certain kernel hacking book that I had my eyes on..
..considering the number of warez and other such "helpful" networks, it is quite an apt title, don't you think? - "World of Pirates"..
Or maybe its just me who relates to it so much...ouch!
Slightly more detailed discussion at HL2.net:
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http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=
More screenshots:
http://myhome.hanafos.com/~dream111/de_korea/dust
http://myhome.hanafos.com/~dream111/de_...ayablec
Anyone got a subscription to it? Would be nice if someone could post the text here..
/. :-)
Or maybe I should just wait... usually someone DOES post the text on
does this make anyone else wonder that MS is finally beginning to feel the pinch from all lawsuits and the growing popularity of linux and other OSS products?
First of all, you dont *have* to wrap primitive types into classes. Java provides wrapper classes for all primitive data types, so you can treat them as objects if necessary. However, for most number crunching usage, you are advised to use primitive types.
Right, and why would you want to overload an operator? This has been one of the hotly debated topics in Java, but the bottom line remains that the creators of Java did not think it appropriate to hide a method call (of the overloaded operator). This clarity of method invocation also maintains the readability and consistency
What? well first of all, "static typing" implies type checking during compile time, and not run time. Secondly, when you create Containers, you want them to be generic containers that can contain any type of object and not just a particular type, and hence Containers accept and return java.lang.Object, which is the base class of all types.
Huh? What do you mean? Did you even read up on the access modifiers available in Java?
I won't even comment on the rest of your post, but your post smacks of supreme ignorance about basic concepts of Java. It may not be the best language (and it doesn't say it is), but trolling it because of improper usage, is unjust and foolish
well now, even if some of these projects invite some satire or sarcasm on /. or whether people make foolish observations of "rampant anarchy", etc, the fact remains such projects have been slowly adding up to the nation's wealth, and have been contributing towards improving the quality of life bit by bit:
1. For the uninitiated, India's general elections (which is the world's largest democracy) were carried out using Electronic Voting Machines, and there were no problems relating to counting or whatever. This has previously been covered here
2. India has posted a growth of 10.2% in the last fiscal year, and the new Finance Minister is expected to target even higher growth
3. Projects like Simputer might not attract customers from more developed countries, but then they are targeted and priced for the local masses.
4. eChoupal is an initiative to provide farmers of India all the information, products and services they need to enhance farm productivity, improve farm-gate price realisation and cut transaction costs.
These are just an example of the country-wide measures being adopted as the country is slowly geared towards economic well-being
..according to the article, the high court has passed the law back to a lower court for a trial that could give the government a chance to prove the law does not go too far.
The judges contend there may have been important technological advances in the five years since a federal judge blocked the law and that a new trial will allow discussion of what technology, if any, might allow adults to see and buy material that is legal for them while keeping that material out of the hands of children.
So then, any suggestions anyone? What tools are available to safeguard children against web porn?
There is even an interesting article about MS's losing API war here [JoelOnSoftware]
humanoid soccer plays might play and win against human soccer teams, but will they have the same histrionics and drama and tantrums like us? or the fine art of wailing and thrashing on the ground even when nothing has happened? :-)
Ah, drama and emotion shall always be human forte!
plenty of people across the world will tell you, the only people to benefit from divorce are the lawyers..but i guess, if the bedfellows can't see each other eye to eye, then there is no choice but to go different ways
how much does amazon claim it lost because of this partnership though? $750 M sounds a bit too high to me, even for this "exclusivity" partnership..
..the passports to be changed yet again, to have "better", "smart" fingerprint recognition/imprinting techniques?
Now that market penetration level is at the highest you can think it to be, there is growing momentum of competition, swaying public opinion towards open source and the open source buzzword doing rounds not only in smoky backrooms haunted by developers, but in executive meeting rooms in Fortune 100 corporations, what do you do?
You ride the wave. Turn it to your advantage.
Declare to the world you shall also reveal some of the propreitary code, in order to "share" the comments and knowledge of development community at large, and pacify growing fears that you are not a clammed-up, monolithic, not ready to change company!
But what do you actually share? Probably the code of some old products long sidelined, or maybe tiny irrelevant bits of contemporary products - all in the name of opening up code.
Besides, with better GPL and other OSS licenses in place and the so-called crusade of SCO against popen source, a couple of months later, you jump too and claim your code has been stolen or license breached or something such. And then go back to your old ways..
Very shrewd!
quite right too! for years, email service providers have treated the email boxes as just a static table really such that after a couple of hundred emails, it is all left up to the user to search and locate the emails, or resort to keeping the chain of conversation in each message.
But then of course, you can't preserve the conversation chain, because you dont have enough space. So for doing anything reasonable, you have to pay them, hence the idea of free email is nothing but luring you to use and then ultimately pay
Oh and we have all have been numbed and blinded by those nasty flash ads making it a nightmare to navigate or find that hidden obnoxious button to close the advert.
Now comes along google, and suddenly everyone panics. I think one of the biggest scares is because of the excitement generated by google's offering in the developer/geek community. MS and Yahoo know that for any product to be successful it has to generate a fair interest and spreads faster through word of mouth than anything else really, which Google succeeded to do.
So now, it has become the case of who makes the biggest thunder!
In an era where instant messaging is touting as the "next big thing", most service providers are always faced with the dilemma of whether to allow third party clients to connect, or prevent.
Messaging clients with advertisement-based model will surely object to allowing third party clients to connect, since it doesnt make any business sense.
Furthermore, they may have allowed such third party clients in the past, to gain that critical mass that ensures market peneration and continued usage, but once they are past the bell curve, they would then clam down on it.
Think of it as an equivalent to Microsoft clamping down on piracy - they never prevented that in the past knowing that so long as its their products being used, they will be able to generate revenues one way or the other. Now that the market penetration is coming to a saturation (or if not, there are far more alternative solutions available than ever before), they have started to really put on the squeeze.
Finally, companies like trillian may well have the best protocol engineers in the world, but such disruptions in service shall push away customers every time, however small the percentage might be. Unless connectivity to widely used messengers is provided by agreement, such connectivity outages will cause most users to move to move away from them.
And our doors are open to anyone interested in what the hacker world has to say
.. yeah, and if they are not, we have the people who will open them for us, one way or the other!
1. When we say "high speed", what bandwidth are we talking about?
2. How accessible is this high speed for today devices like say, mobile phones? Can I use my cell phone to browse at high speed?