He doesn't mean the insulation. Mineral oil won't eat through that (usually). He means the wrapping of the cables. Inside that, the conductors are indevidually insulated with an oil-resistant material (pvc, often). Transformer coils are insulated with a different kind of oil resistant plastic, and are often submerged in oil.
Personally, I grew up on DOS and wouldn't have had it any other way. If you want your children to have a deeper appreciation for computers, how they work, and what to use them for, please consider starting them off on the command prompt. If you do, they will get a better idea of how the filesystem works (this is more important than most people know) and they will see the computer as more than a pretty toy (well maybe, but it's better than a pastel UI with the filesystem as abstracted as possible and wizard-type interfaces that hide the true workings of things). If I had waited until Windows 95 to start using computers, I'm not really sure where I'd be right now, but the idea is not a pleasant one.
I assume you mean WYSIWYG editors. Good HTML editors, like Arachnophilia, kate and Vim are great. Auto indentation and syntax highliting make things a lot easier.
If you sincerely trust the third party, it's not a bad idea to use javascript and cookies in webmail, as long as you're at a trusted terminal. Otherwise, it would be nice to have at least two interfaces. One bloated (or just featurefull) and one minimalist (at least not requiring javascript or cookies).
Wasted bandwidth, wasted cpu time, for starters.
Dialup still exists. Dialup users tend not to wait for pages to load when they don't have to, especially when they are ridiculoudly graphics laden.
Furthermore, you can't safely send back some of the information that users have input, since it would sit there, unencrypted in any way, in the html.
Firefox is not derived from a unix project. Neither is OOo, really. They are both meant to be cross-platform. I still agree that they should work better than they do with limited privlages. I've had a mozilla install only work with admin privilages because it writes all user files to a subfolder of the home of the user that installs it.
The problem with certain extensions not installing in Firefox has to do with the extension programmer more than Firefox itself. The global chrome directory is protected by default, as it should be so non-admin users can't make changes for everyone. If an extension programmer decides to make an extension local only, then it's their oversight. This problem has deminished with recent releases, though.
As for installing plugins, there is no problem there either. Plugins are full fleged programs, which you are designed not to be able to install without admin privilages.
Generelly, software for UNIX-like oses is designed to be installed by a privilaged user (unless you compile if from souce and install it to your home directory) and to be run by unprivilaged users, placing dot-files/folders for configuration in their home directories. OpenOffice practically reinstalls the entire app in a user's home directory the first time they run it.
There's more to be said, but I'm tired of typing.
Try to find one once a law is passed. Find me a CD/DVD burner that will burn an encryption block to a disk.
You're not thinking with that second paragraph. Think about SSH, for instance. There's a good chance that a law will be passed for some complex handshake procedure coupled with encrypted data transmission to view any digital video output. We move closer to this every day. I keep hoping people are no that stupid, but currently, things are in a state that would have seemed impossible 20 years ago ("Yeah, but the people will never let that happen."). It's almost amazing what a populace will accept if eased into it gradually, especially when patriotism is so (too tired to complete the sentence). This is at it's worst during a time of war. People have this delusion that the government is "of the people, by the people, and for the people" (or something similar, depending on the coultry) and that they will do what's best for the common good, and that huge corporations are a necessary part of life.
Why am I typing this? I'm tired, I need to sleep, and noone will ever read it.
They don't need to even try; consumers
have proven to be foolish enough to do it voluntarily if it's bundled with the next big shiny new gotta-have feature(tm).
The consumers won't have much of a choice. They may be dragged along, kicking (themselves, probably) and screaming (or whining, but not at anyone who has anything to do with it), but they'll go.
Anyway, DVD is not good enough for a lot of people, especially the ones with HDTVs, which will be most people, soon enough (most likely), since the phase out will be moving along soon. Anyway, DVDs are MPEG encrypted, and the quality issues are apparent to anyone who looks close enough, and are blaringly obvious to many (some?).
That's not technically using your game as a window manager since the game won't manage any windows. All it will do is make it's own window full screen and run itself. A window manager manages the windows on a display, usually drawing decorations, managing focus, and possibly giving you a toolbar/slit/desktop menu/keybindings. A game (none that I know of, anyway) does none of these things, or anything even remotely similar. And, without a window manager, you have to hope that, by some quirk (bug?), your game doesn't lose focus, because you'll never get it back (although, it's more likely that your window manager will accidentally take focus away from your game).
386 at 5... you're young still, then.
Some might argue that if a child wants to learn about sex, then it's best to learn about it from their parents, and that instead of making other sources easier, parents should make themselves more approachable. If the parents are uncomfortable, it's a different issue, which raises more issues. There is no one size fits all solution to computer use.
I must admit, though, that IM is a good tool for practicing typing and increasing spead/accuracy, if used properly.
No, the human ear can not detect the direction which low frequency sounds eminate from, but you can still feel it to some extent, giving you an artificial sense of where the sound is coming from. Your brain does do an amount of mapping for such sounds and you do get an idea of the general direction. In movie theatres, I often can place the subwoofer during their bug, cheesy sound effects, like amplified stomping/car engines and climaxes in the music during a time of suspense.
I have atually been exposed to several BSODs on winxp pro lately... along with a corrupted hard drive on one. Actually... two of them were my parents computers... Try talking through troubleshooting windows with a computer illiterate 55 yr old woman over a phone... Time consuming... not fun. BTW... It wasn't a hardware problem... I god fed up and installed FreeBSD on the same hardware and it worked fine.
air != fluid
fluid implies liquid. Air is a gas. Sure, liquids and gas are both amorphous, but there are important principal differences. Namely that particles of liquids cling together and thus form liquids. (I know... liquids form liquids... it really makes more sense than it sounds like) Gas particles are attracted to other particles, but do not cling, but bounce off each other.
Certain trojan horse programs have practical and benign uses. These include monitoring employees and students and remote access to machines. This is one of the reasons which back oriface has survived so long. Although such programs are mainly used for malevolent purposes, they do have their place in the world of computing. Manufacturers of such programs should not be held responsible for their use as long as they maintain that they are to be used only for legal uses and don't add stupid features such as "Corrupt boot sector" and "Assign random passwords to all user accounts".
Definately not totally lame...
There just a bunch of geeks trying to have fun doing what they like. They're pretty corny and over-caffenated at times, but they still have some cool stuff. Not that you can't find it elsewhere, but they have a bunch of cool stuff in one place, and they take the time to use it enough to tell you about it, other than what's on the label.
You manage windows servers without ssh via their remote terminal server. It pretty much sends graphical draw commands over a network to your machine so you see a windows desktop. It is mind-numbingly slow on dial up and a bit lagged on broadband. Needless to say... it is a pain in the ass no matter what. Windows is a bitch to administer with or without a gui. Unfortunately, I'm stuck doing it... IIS none-the-less. THat's the worst part of it.
I don't see what the big deal about running 64 and 32 bit applications natively is. Sparc64 has done this since inception. It probably blows athlon 64 chips out of the water too. Won't run windows though. That's about all Athlon 64 has over them anyway. Waht a fcuking sahme. Too bad widnows is so fkucing poupalr. Dnam mircofost.
Ok... let me clear this fear of Mars' current position. (Not that anyone will read this) I have no idea how the apocolyptic school of thought that Mars is going to crash into Earth originated. There is another school of thought which states that planetary motion amd numerous other astronomic events are due to electromagnetism in addition to gravity. This, therefore means, that since Earth is directly between Mars and the sun, it would, under this theory, experience abnormal ionization and magnetic forces, possibly changing weather patterns. The earthquake thing is highly unlikely. Nevertheless, this school of thought is not without logic, and by association, neither is the associated fear of strange weather patterns. The chances of Mars crashing into Earth or some other appoliptic emergency occuring are near impossible and would require some other persuasion than said astronomical event. The point is, besides informing some of you, that people are not crazy for believing such things as long as those beliefs are well-founded.
If you're batman, where the hell is robin. Besides, what the hell would a multi billionair be doing on a slashdot messageboard? Shouldn't you be out buying companies or fighting crime.
(I know, this deserves a negative mod. It'll never get read anyway)
Hey... Leave Linux AIM alone. Obviousely they prefer Linux to Windows. After all, why else is the Linux version ad free? They must be looking out for our best interest. Plus, we still get all of the latest features, like buddy chat and network stored buddy lists and user profiles. What more can you ask for? I mean, so what if GAIM has all of the features of the windows version? It's all icky and open source like and has all those nasty advanced features. Nope... proprietary is always best. They'd never lead us wrong.
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He doesn't mean the insulation. Mineral oil won't eat through that (usually). He means the wrapping of the cables. Inside that, the conductors are indevidually insulated with an oil-resistant material (pvc, often). Transformer coils are insulated with a different kind of oil resistant plastic, and are often submerged in oil.
Personally, I grew up on DOS and wouldn't have had it any other way. If you want your children to have a deeper appreciation for computers, how they work, and what to use them for, please consider starting them off on the command prompt. If you do, they will get a better idea of how the filesystem works (this is more important than most people know) and they will see the computer as more than a pretty toy (well maybe, but it's better than a pastel UI with the filesystem as abstracted as possible and wizard-type interfaces that hide the true workings of things). If I had waited until Windows 95 to start using computers, I'm not really sure where I'd be right now, but the idea is not a pleasant one.
So you're saying that you can throw in any kind of fucked up style sheet and as long as the page looks good without it, it will look good with it?
I assume you mean WYSIWYG editors. Good HTML editors, like Arachnophilia, kate and Vim are great. Auto indentation and syntax highliting make things a lot easier.
If you sincerely trust the third party, it's not a bad idea to use javascript and cookies in webmail, as long as you're at a trusted terminal. Otherwise, it would be nice to have at least two interfaces. One bloated (or just featurefull) and one minimalist (at least not requiring javascript or cookies).
Wasted bandwidth, wasted cpu time, for starters. Dialup still exists. Dialup users tend not to wait for pages to load when they don't have to, especially when they are ridiculoudly graphics laden. Furthermore, you can't safely send back some of the information that users have input, since it would sit there, unencrypted in any way, in the html.
$ENV{USER} $ENV{HOME}
Firefox is not derived from a unix project. Neither is OOo, really. They are both meant to be cross-platform. I still agree that they should work better than they do with limited privlages. I've had a mozilla install only work with admin privilages because it writes all user files to a subfolder of the home of the user that installs it.
The problem with certain extensions not installing in Firefox has to do with the extension programmer more than Firefox itself. The global chrome directory is protected by default, as it should be so non-admin users can't make changes for everyone. If an extension programmer decides to make an extension local only, then it's their oversight. This problem has deminished with recent releases, though. As for installing plugins, there is no problem there either. Plugins are full fleged programs, which you are designed not to be able to install without admin privilages. Generelly, software for UNIX-like oses is designed to be installed by a privilaged user (unless you compile if from souce and install it to your home directory) and to be run by unprivilaged users, placing dot-files/folders for configuration in their home directories. OpenOffice practically reinstalls the entire app in a user's home directory the first time they run it. There's more to be said, but I'm tired of typing.
Try to find one once a law is passed. Find me a CD/DVD burner that will burn an encryption block to a disk. You're not thinking with that second paragraph. Think about SSH, for instance. There's a good chance that a law will be passed for some complex handshake procedure coupled with encrypted data transmission to view any digital video output. We move closer to this every day. I keep hoping people are no that stupid, but currently, things are in a state that would have seemed impossible 20 years ago ("Yeah, but the people will never let that happen."). It's almost amazing what a populace will accept if eased into it gradually, especially when patriotism is so (too tired to complete the sentence). This is at it's worst during a time of war. People have this delusion that the government is "of the people, by the people, and for the people" (or something similar, depending on the coultry) and that they will do what's best for the common good, and that huge corporations are a necessary part of life. Why am I typing this? I'm tired, I need to sleep, and noone will ever read it.
The consumers won't have much of a choice. They may be dragged along, kicking (themselves, probably) and screaming (or whining, but not at anyone who has anything to do with it), but they'll go. Anyway, DVD is not good enough for a lot of people, especially the ones with HDTVs, which will be most people, soon enough (most likely), since the phase out will be moving along soon. Anyway, DVDs are MPEG encrypted, and the quality issues are apparent to anyone who looks close enough, and are blaringly obvious to many (some?).
That's not technically using your game as a window manager since the game won't manage any windows. All it will do is make it's own window full screen and run itself. A window manager manages the windows on a display, usually drawing decorations, managing focus, and possibly giving you a toolbar/slit/desktop menu/keybindings. A game (none that I know of, anyway) does none of these things, or anything even remotely similar. And, without a window manager, you have to hope that, by some quirk (bug?), your game doesn't lose focus, because you'll never get it back (although, it's more likely that your window manager will accidentally take focus away from your game).
386 at 5... you're young still, then. Some might argue that if a child wants to learn about sex, then it's best to learn about it from their parents, and that instead of making other sources easier, parents should make themselves more approachable. If the parents are uncomfortable, it's a different issue, which raises more issues. There is no one size fits all solution to computer use. I must admit, though, that IM is a good tool for practicing typing and increasing spead/accuracy, if used properly.
it is firefox's fault (bug 156493).
in posix systems, firefox needs to contain plugins so they don't cause it to crash if they are unstable
No, the human ear can not detect the direction which low frequency sounds eminate from, but you can still feel it to some extent, giving you an artificial sense of where the sound is coming from. Your brain does do an amount of mapping for such sounds and you do get an idea of the general direction. In movie theatres, I often can place the subwoofer during their bug, cheesy sound effects, like amplified stomping/car engines and climaxes in the music during a time of suspense.
I have atually been exposed to several BSODs on winxp pro lately... along with a corrupted hard drive on one. Actually... two of them were my parents computers... Try talking through troubleshooting windows with a computer illiterate 55 yr old woman over a phone... Time consuming... not fun. BTW... It wasn't a hardware problem... I god fed up and installed FreeBSD on the same hardware and it worked fine.
air != fluid fluid implies liquid. Air is a gas. Sure, liquids and gas are both amorphous, but there are important principal differences. Namely that particles of liquids cling together and thus form liquids. (I know... liquids form liquids... it really makes more sense than it sounds like) Gas particles are attracted to other particles, but do not cling, but bounce off each other.
Certain trojan horse programs have practical and benign uses. These include monitoring employees and students and remote access to machines. This is one of the reasons which back oriface has survived so long. Although such programs are mainly used for malevolent purposes, they do have their place in the world of computing. Manufacturers of such programs should not be held responsible for their use as long as they maintain that they are to be used only for legal uses and don't add stupid features such as "Corrupt boot sector" and "Assign random passwords to all user accounts".
Definately not totally lame... There just a bunch of geeks trying to have fun doing what they like. They're pretty corny and over-caffenated at times, but they still have some cool stuff. Not that you can't find it elsewhere, but they have a bunch of cool stuff in one place, and they take the time to use it enough to tell you about it, other than what's on the label.
You manage windows servers without ssh via their remote terminal server. It pretty much sends graphical draw commands over a network to your machine so you see a windows desktop. It is mind-numbingly slow on dial up and a bit lagged on broadband. Needless to say... it is a pain in the ass no matter what. Windows is a bitch to administer with or without a gui. Unfortunately, I'm stuck doing it... IIS none-the-less. THat's the worst part of it.
I don't see what the big deal about running 64 and 32 bit applications natively is. Sparc64 has done this since inception. It probably blows athlon 64 chips out of the water too. Won't run windows though. That's about all Athlon 64 has over them anyway. Waht a fcuking sahme. Too bad widnows is so fkucing poupalr. Dnam mircofost.
Ok... let me clear this fear of Mars' current position. (Not that anyone will read this) I have no idea how the apocolyptic school of thought that Mars is going to crash into Earth originated. There is another school of thought which states that planetary motion amd numerous other astronomic events are due to electromagnetism in addition to gravity. This, therefore means, that since Earth is directly between Mars and the sun, it would, under this theory, experience abnormal ionization and magnetic forces, possibly changing weather patterns. The earthquake thing is highly unlikely. Nevertheless, this school of thought is not without logic, and by association, neither is the associated fear of strange weather patterns. The chances of Mars crashing into Earth or some other appoliptic emergency occuring are near impossible and would require some other persuasion than said astronomical event. The point is, besides informing some of you, that people are not crazy for believing such things as long as those beliefs are well-founded.
If you're batman, where the hell is robin. Besides, what the hell would a multi billionair be doing on a slashdot messageboard? Shouldn't you be out buying companies or fighting crime. (I know, this deserves a negative mod. It'll never get read anyway)
Hey... Leave Linux AIM alone. Obviousely they prefer Linux to Windows. After all, why else is the Linux version ad free? They must be looking out for our best interest. Plus, we still get all of the latest features, like buddy chat and network stored buddy lists and user profiles. What more can you ask for? I mean, so what if GAIM has all of the features of the windows version? It's all icky and open source like and has all those nasty advanced features. Nope... proprietary is always best. They'd never lead us wrong.