Stats of my website say that Safari is "p0wned" any other browser in existance. Yes, is target at mac users. w3school does not look like targeted at the average consumer
Religion bashing may be pointless but, like governments, the main religious organizations are very influent, powerful and rich (and unlike governments they do not offer any tangible service). I'm all for free thinking but for example the Roman Church has been involved in many scandals and crimes against humanity (crusades comes to mind obviously) and they are never punished for their actions. If my opinion was worth something religious organization wouldn't be allowed or would be controlled as tightly (or even more) as corporations. Corporations which do not even need to prove the existence, let alone the quality of what they sell (the hope of life after death).
The fact that you do not get it, or nobody gets it does not mean that there is no explanation. Our brain is amazing but I doubt that it is the top intelligence ever achievable by a living creature, so it is plausible that we are just not intelligent enough to understand some things.
PS3 and Wii both use OpenGL so it makes sense to have an OpenGL version of a rendering engine even from pure business standpoint. This was a counter argument to your "Console: Custom" statement (even XBOX uses D3D)
It's clear they are *very* late to the pro-photo fight that is on now between Apple and Adobe. Each of those companies has a proprietary "pro photo" format. Since when Apple has a proprietary photo format? And about Adobe, if you are referring to DNG, the format is really open and there are already many third party implementations in the wild. Actually it would be extremely positive for the photographers and software developers if all camera manufacturers switched to DNG.
Many of those inkjet printers actually lock you from printing if they think they are empty until you replace the cartidge. That's why I switched to laser (and B/W was enough for me).
About the warm-up period, there is a bulb which does not suffer of this problem, is called Immediately Dual and is produced by Beghelli, an Italian company. The idea is that there is a 40W halogen lamp inside which stays on a few seconds (2-3 here) and makes the tubes immediately warm. I just recently switched my house to enery-efficient bulbs and bought one of these for my bedroom (regular ones for the rest of the house) and it indeed works as advertised. Sure you have to get used to a blue-ish light (is 4000K unlike the conventional ones) but is well worth.
Wait, let's not mess terms up. On Mac OS X, toolbars are one per window (although not all applications are composed of windows with toolbars). The application menu on the other hand is, like the name implies, one per application and refers to the currently focused document of said application. I guess the confusion is often generated by the fact that on Windows a window represents an application, while on Mac OS X the same instance of an application can open multiple documents (i never understood if technically it is the case for Windows as well, or if separate instances of an application run in parallel) and a window represents only a document of said application.
Deleting files in Windows requires more keystrokes/movements and as such is less efficient than doing it on Mac OS X. Using
GOMS measurements, deleting a file on Mac OS X requires 0,8 seconds composed of 1 hand movement to the keyboard (0,4 secs) + 2 keystrokes (0,2 secs each). On Windows, assuming the user already knows the prompt so he won't read it, there are multiple cases (i don't know which applies of the 2 points, please let me know):
1) The default button of the prompt is "Yes". In which case deleting takes 1 hand movement, 1 keystroke and another keystroke which is again 0,8 seconds assuming the user just hits enter and the delay between the command is issued and the prompt appears is exactly 0 (which is unlikely). If the user uses the mouse to confirm the operation costs 1,9 because you get mouse pointing which costs 1,1 seconds and the keystroke gets replaced by click which is still 0,2 seconds.
2) The default button of the prompt is "No". In the best case you get an operation costing 1 second assuming the user is trained well enough to hit del+tab+enter (if tab works) in rapid sequence, otherwise you get still 1,9 seconds.
Notice i haven't added the time the user thinks about what he is about to do (which costs 1,35s each and are caused by the appearance of a prompt) because I'm assuming the operation is performed by persons which are used to the system.
If you think i've been pulling numbers out of my arse, they are taken by Jef Raskin's book "The Human Interface".
The first five seconds of the movie differ, so given how compressors works you probably won't find enough matches between 2 or 3 files bought from different accounts to rebuild the original. Also, pirates have other ways to obtain the original, and the casual user shouldn't want to buy multiple copies of something just to put it on p2p.
Given that ATM are not sold in mass distribution they could simply program each with a random password and give it to their customer. It's at least better than a default password written on the manual, and working for every machine. This way, even if customer is not going to change it, it is less likely to be broken. This said, the reason you should be able to administer it from the outside and not only from an internal panel with an hardware key + pin is beyond me.
If you need to examine the source (who does, anyway?) to know how something works, then there are some MAJOR problem (i.e: missing documentation). Support people just have a DB of Q/A, and at higher levels they mostly have hands on usage experience and technical knowledge that doesn't come from the source of a particular program. Or do you think HP support is going to patch bugs on-the-fly for the customer?
HTML is a markup language. It can't do anything other than display a document.
Well, the grandparent poster was also talking about possible bugs in JavaScript interpreter which could lead to arbitrary code execution. Is well known that some any parser may contain buffer overflow bugs and the likes which could mean you can embed arbitrary code in every format, including HTML, and the most recent example being the PNG (and JPEG if i don't recall wrong) parsers. So while HTML itself cannot do anything, the parser reading it CAN. I believe Javascript does not allow wide access to system resources in normal operation, so there is really not much difference on this aspect.
Are you serious? I not a pro-GPL zealots, because being zealot about a license is really absurd. I write both open source and commercial software and i think very well what license to use when do open source. I usually (but not always) go for BSD for things like libraries, MIT for snippets of code and GPL for projects i would like to see develop as open source so i can back each and every fix/improvment done to the code (its my right). I guess we just have to use the right tool for problem every time.
Don't know if you are just kidding (because this question has been answered many times). Basically, the output of GCC (the compiler) is not automatically GPL'ed and linking to glibc (the GNU C Library) and STL does not make your program GPL. If you use other GPL (not LGPL) libraries then you can't release your program under licenses other than the GPL. So, basically, linking to "system stuff" is ok, but if you have any doubt over a library you are using just check its license.
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Actually if match product specs (including brands..) you'll see they are around the same price of other computers now. if you looked at the keynote you'd see their high end MacPro is cheaper than a same spec Dell.
There are lots of this kind of cables. Actually with high-speed device (mostly firewire) they could make *some* sense, because the digital data, while strong, is not immune to interferences. Error correction would fix the few transmission errors caused by a bad cable, but this would slow transmission down. Now, the gold plating itself makes no difference, but they usually gold plate the connector as a way to highlight the good quality of the cable. This said, if a gold plated cable costs 10x a standard cable, then is a scam targeted that "audiophile"-alike people. This is NIC is also mostly useless. They were probably trying to develop a way to run p2p/server applications that would run directly on the NIC (the FNA thing), noticed too late it would be of no use and tried to sell it to gamers, who already buy crazy things for no reason at all.
That's right! The card has high quality vacuum tubes and a special magnetic stone that will make the sound much warmer. Another great feature is that this NIC is so powerful only your packets will get to the server, so nobody can shoot at you!
Seriously now, what were these guys trying to do? Probably the card was created for the FNA thing, then when they found it had no application at all, they tried to find a market for it.
...unless M$ is letting them look at the source itself -- but since I haven't heard any reports of Hell freezing over, I'm guessing that isn't happening.
That would be very nice of Microsoft however, you know, we'd finally be able to play Duke Nukem Forever!
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There, fixed it for you.Stats of my website say that Safari is "p0wned" any other browser in existance. Yes, is target at mac users. w3school does not look like targeted at the average consumer
Religion bashing may be pointless but, like governments, the main religious organizations are very influent, powerful and rich (and unlike governments they do not offer any tangible service). I'm all for free thinking but for example the Roman Church has been involved in many scandals and crimes against humanity (crusades comes to mind obviously) and they are never punished for their actions. If my opinion was worth something religious organization wouldn't be allowed or would be controlled as tightly (or even more) as corporations. Corporations which do not even need to prove the existence, let alone the quality of what they sell (the hope of life after death).
The fact that you do not get it, or nobody gets it does not mean that there is no explanation. Our brain is amazing but I doubt that it is the top intelligence ever achievable by a living creature, so it is plausible that we are just not intelligent enough to understand some things.
Ok, thank you for pointing out, I wasn't aware of those differences.
PS3 and Wii both use OpenGL so it makes sense to have an OpenGL version of a rendering engine even from pure business standpoint. This was a counter argument to your "Console: Custom" statement (even XBOX uses D3D)
You spend way too much time renaming things probably.
Many of those inkjet printers actually lock you from printing if they think they are empty until you replace the cartidge. That's why I switched to laser (and B/W was enough for me).
About the warm-up period, there is a bulb which does not suffer of this problem, is called Immediately Dual and is produced by Beghelli, an Italian company. The idea is that there is a 40W halogen lamp inside which stays on a few seconds (2-3 here) and makes the tubes immediately warm. I just recently switched my house to enery-efficient bulbs and bought one of these for my bedroom (regular ones for the rest of the house) and it indeed works as advertised. Sure you have to get used to a blue-ish light (is 4000K unlike the conventional ones) but is well worth.
Wait, let's not mess terms up. On Mac OS X, toolbars are one per window (although not all applications are composed of windows with toolbars). The application menu on the other hand is, like the name implies, one per application and refers to the currently focused document of said application. I guess the confusion is often generated by the fact that on Windows a window represents an application, while on Mac OS X the same instance of an application can open multiple documents (i never understood if technically it is the case for Windows as well, or if separate instances of an application run in parallel) and a window represents only a document of said application.
Deleting files in Windows requires more keystrokes/movements and as such is less efficient than doing it on Mac OS X. Using
GOMS measurements, deleting a file on Mac OS X requires 0,8 seconds composed of 1 hand movement to the keyboard (0,4 secs) + 2 keystrokes (0,2 secs each). On Windows, assuming the user already knows the prompt so he won't read it, there are multiple cases (i don't know which applies of the 2 points, please let me know):
1) The default button of the prompt is "Yes". In which case deleting takes 1 hand movement, 1 keystroke and another keystroke which is again 0,8 seconds assuming the user just hits enter and the delay between the command is issued and the prompt appears is exactly 0 (which is unlikely). If the user uses the mouse to confirm the operation costs 1,9 because you get mouse pointing which costs 1,1 seconds and the keystroke gets replaced by click which is still 0,2 seconds.
2) The default button of the prompt is "No". In the best case you get an operation costing 1 second assuming the user is trained well enough to hit del+tab+enter (if tab works) in rapid sequence, otherwise you get still 1,9 seconds.
Notice i haven't added the time the user thinks about what he is about to do (which costs 1,35s each and are caused by the appearance of a prompt) because I'm assuming the operation is performed by persons which are used to the system.
If you think i've been pulling numbers out of my arse, they are taken by Jef Raskin's book "The Human Interface".
The first five seconds of the movie differ, so given how compressors works you probably won't find enough matches between 2 or 3 files bought from different accounts to rebuild the original. Also, pirates have other ways to obtain the original, and the casual user shouldn't want to buy multiple copies of something just to put it on p2p.
Given that ATM are not sold in mass distribution they could simply program each with a random password and give it to their customer. It's at least better than a default password written on the manual, and working for every machine. This way, even if customer is not going to change it, it is less likely to be broken.
This said, the reason you should be able to administer it from the outside and not only from an internal panel with an hardware key + pin is beyond me.
He already had this back in 1987!
If you need to examine the source (who does, anyway?) to know how something works, then there are some MAJOR problem (i.e: missing documentation). Support people just have a DB of Q/A, and at higher levels they mostly have hands on usage experience and technical knowledge that doesn't come from the source of a particular program. Or do you think HP support is going to patch bugs on-the-fly for the customer?
Well, the grandparent poster was also talking about possible bugs in JavaScript interpreter which could lead to arbitrary code execution. Is well known that some any parser may contain buffer overflow bugs and the likes which could mean you can embed arbitrary code in every format, including HTML, and the most recent example being the PNG (and JPEG if i don't recall wrong) parsers. So while HTML itself cannot do anything, the parser reading it CAN.
I believe Javascript does not allow wide access to system resources in normal operation, so there is really not much difference on this aspect.
rumors say that the first Blu-ray player won't even have a laser, because they want to introduce the technology gradually.
Is sad that it probably would. Media and software companies are doing their best these days to encourage piracy.
Are you serious? I not a pro-GPL zealots, because being zealot about a license is really absurd. I write both open source and commercial software and i think very well what license to use when do open source. I usually (but not always) go for BSD for things like libraries, MIT for snippets of code and GPL for projects i would like to see develop as open source so i can back each and every fix/improvment done to the code (its my right). I guess we just have to use the right tool for problem every time.
Don't know if you are just kidding (because this question has been answered many times). Basically, the output of GCC (the compiler) is not automatically GPL'ed and linking to glibc (the GNU C Library) and STL does not make your program GPL. If you use other GPL (not LGPL) libraries then you can't release your program under licenses other than the GPL. So, basically, linking to "system stuff" is ok, but if you have any doubt over a library you are using just check its license.
Actually if match product specs (including brands..) you'll see they are around the same price of other computers now. if you looked at the keynote you'd see their high end MacPro is cheaper than a same spec Dell.
There are lots of this kind of cables. Actually with high-speed device (mostly firewire) they could make *some* sense, because the digital data, while strong, is not immune to interferences. Error correction would fix the few transmission errors caused by a bad cable, but this would slow transmission down. Now, the gold plating itself makes no difference, but they usually gold plate the connector as a way to highlight the good quality of the cable. This said, if a gold plated cable costs 10x a standard cable, then is a scam targeted that "audiophile"-alike people.
This is NIC is also mostly useless. They were probably trying to develop a way to run p2p/server applications that would run directly on the NIC (the FNA thing), noticed too late it would be of no use and tried to sell it to gamers, who already buy crazy things for no reason at all.
That's right! The card has high quality vacuum tubes and a special magnetic stone that will make the sound much warmer. Another great feature is that this NIC is so powerful only your packets will get to the server, so nobody can shoot at you! Seriously now, what were these guys trying to do? Probably the card was created for the FNA thing, then when they found it had no application at all, they tried to find a market for it.
That would be very nice of Microsoft however, you know, we'd finally be able to play Duke Nukem Forever!