They should show up a few seconds before it expires and remove it from the refrigerator, or my hand, just as the expiration happens. That's a valuable service and I would expect people to pay extra for it.
Not as valuable as having them shove a finger down your throat if they arrive a few seconds after you drank it. Now that would be downright priceless, for the spectators anyway.
It's failed for me. I've seen a few popups in Firefox (and Safari) this week, for the first time since I've used those browsers. Fortunately, Adblock sometimes keeps the messages from appearing, so all I get is a blank window. But it's still annoying.
Anxiously awaiting a fix.
The cure is already built in Firefox, there's probably something you let slip in through the cracks. The lethal combo for killing pop-ups is: block popups in Firefox options; install FlashBlocker; disable Java (not JavaScript); and finally either choose between filtering the very few remaining offending JavaScript pop-ups with AdBlock, or turn off JavaScript.
If you are a skilled keyboard user and you have Web Developer extension installed, you can use your left hand to dial Alt+T,W,D,S for quick JavaScript toggling. Or you can activate the WebDeveloper toolbar and use that.
If there's any extension developer out there who's bored, please create a statusbar extension that turns JavaScript on/off with one mouse click. Guaranteed success.
the MPAA have got court orders giving them access to all of LokiTorrent's server logs and records...
One thing those logs will be good for is estimating which movies/music pieces are the most popular in the wild. It's one of the best surveys the movie and music industry could hope for. Raw popularity statistics, in enough numbers to be relevant, not tainted by any interests.
What are they going to do with all the money that was donated? I belive that someone was speculating that this is EXACTLY what was going to happen. 1) Do something illegal 2) Get sued 3)....* 4) Profit! * Make a plea to the community and then run away anyways.
Let's be paranoid for a moment. Speculating that the Loki guy fled with a profit even after settling with MPAA may be just what they want you to think. It instills doubt in the community and only serves to divide it.
I used to step through my code by placing either "Fuck yeah!" or "Shit's broke" inside and outside of different condition statements. Then one day some idiot on the team decided it would be a good idea to randomly show the clients my incomplete, not live code for whoknowswhy, and in the middle of the page at random was "SHIT!"
See, now that's why I use "kilroy was here" for debug statements.
/* * IOC3 is fucked fucked beyond believe... Don't even give the * generic PCI code a chance to look at it for real... */ if (cf == (PCI_VENDOR_ID_SGI | (PCI_DEVICE_ID_SGI_IOC3 << 16))) goto oh_my_gawd;
arch/sparc/kernel/ptrace.c:
/* Fuck me gently with a chainsaw... */
net/core/netfilter.c:
/* James M doesn't say fuck enough. */
And of course
/* Fuck me plenty... */
which occurs several times in the Linux kernel. I wonder who it was.
There was also a predecessor chip to the HME called the Big Mac.. so it's not coincidence that they were using mcdonalds names for their products, i'm just surprised they didnt get sued.
In this context, it's more like free advertising. Hopefully nobody's gonna take a bite outta that chip, will they.
Microsoft charging for anti-virus and anti-spyware must be the acme of nerve. Hell, scratch that, it's brilliant. Make people pay for defective stuff you already sold them once and get away with it.
Sure they do. A leader with dictatorial tendencies gets voted into office, then starts changing the laws to increase his powers and decrease checks and balances. It has happened dozens of times, including Germany in the 1930s.
It takes more than one man, I think that's what the grandparent meant to say. It's not just one superman who suddenly decides to take over the country. That leader you mentioned is supported by a powerful clique, which in turn has been allowed to develop due to certain circumstances. In any case, it's a long term thing, it doesn't "just" happen.
If the mac mini does well, that will hopefully get into an even better situation and we'll have a 3 browser engine world - Safari (and WebCore that is essentially KHTML) too.
Sorry, mate, but Safari is irrelevant in the browser wars. Apple is still too much of a niche market. I almost feel enclined to say that the Linux desktop is too. If Longhorn Explorer will be everything it should be, it will obliterate competition across Longhorn Windows desktops.
The only thing slowing it down would be people using older Windows versions, assuming Microsoft doesn't port it to them too.
This is just about the only complaint I have with gnome. You're stuck with the same desktop pic on all your workspaces. It's gone on too long, and it's silly.
It's funny you should request this, but at the same time you also wish (I presume) for a faster, less resource intensive and less bloated Gnome.
Last time I checked there was only one X root window. What you want would mean changing the contents of the root window every time you switch workspace, which would annoy the hell out of me personally, since it wouldn't make Gnome very responsive.
Or, there would be some caching of all the images for all the workspaces in RAM, thus consuming yet more memory. Another winner sure to instill joy in Gnome users.
All this for what is essentially pure eye candy? I don't think so and apparently neither do the developers.
Make two distributions then with a common base perhaps? The base distribution being a normal one for those who are "advanced" users, and the extended one with lots of dumbed down explanations and extra guiding GUI stuff for grandmas... and everyone can be happy.
Why would you want a distribution that caters equally to grandmas and sysadmins? That's one of the main problems IMO: the Swiss Knife distro. A distro should pick a clearly delimited target and a goal and evolve around that. Where's the famous *NIX philosophy "do one thing and do it well"?
Mac has the desktop user. Microsoft has two product lines: the desktop and the server one. Do Linux distros get the hint?
Would be a neat idea though. A Windows exploit that only targets people who have legal copies? How long until it happens? No doubt Microsoft are currently (secretly) working on the opposite, a BSOD exploit that only targets illegal copies.
The one that targets only illegal copies would hurt Microsoft much more than the other one. Assuming a worm that targets legal copies appears, they would use it as an excuse for a lot of DRM and similar crap.
On the other hand, here's what would happen if the work attacked pirated copies:
It will be perceived as a "good" worm, so Microsoft won't be able to say anything of substance against it.
It will lower the adoption of Windows. If Windows had truly serious copy protection Microsoft wouldn't be where it is today.
People will suspect Microsoft released the worm, no matter how much they deny it.
Except, now, that I have told them that they will either have to go out and purchase new computers (with new Windows licenses), or purchase Windows licenses (or be pwned by script kiddies), or switch to Linux.
Guess which one they choose?
The Free One. . . . . ..
Free as in beer, make no mistake. Which comes down to "most users are assholes who want everything for no money". Which makes me think that Microsoft is just rocking the boat, they'll never seriously crush piracy, because when the going gets tough the cheap bastards will move to Linux. And perhaps in the process they'll learn that there are alternatives to the one Microsoft way. And that's just too damn risky.
Irony is an "incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs."
May I point out that while the word "irony" is used like that in translations as well, in various languages other than English the meaning is actually quite different. In several European languages "irony" means "something that seems like the malevolent action of a higher being".
Considering the Slashdot collective managed to do it to a LED display before, a camera doesn't surprise me as much anymore by comparison. Wait for "fridge owners carelessly leave their contents available for the world to see" and the subsequent/.'ing which will eventually lead to the fridge shutting down and the tuna sandwich going bad.
Take "Google discover pages you're not supposed to see" and replace Google and pages with any search engine and online content. Seen it once, you've seen it all. What would be more important is people finally getting the freakin' point.
Not many people showing up in those cameras. Next to none, actually. It gives you and eery feeling, like everybody has left the planet and those who are shown from afar are just the aliens doing the final sweep. Heh, I bet if I look out the window right now I'll see...
There was a recent AlertBox article in which Nielsen described the most hated forms of Web advertising and how much they hurt users and, in turn, the aggressive advertisers and the sites that use them. It's a small article and quite worth a read.
I like the ad supported model. I much prefer it to having to subscribe to sites to be able to see them. Maybe the solution is to have some etiquette. sites stick to relevant non-obtrusive ads (a bit like google) and users agree to see the banners/ads on the sites they visit. I can't see a way to enforce that though. Maybe someone smarter can come up with a solution.
The solution has been around for ages now, and it's called micropayments. It's neither ads nor subscription. It consists of very small amounts of money (fractions of a cent) for which the taxation is embedded in the Web infrastructure. Ideally, every browser would offer support for this, and the user could see in the status bar how he is being taxed and how much he has spent on micropayments so far. He could also set his browser to refuse micropayments over a certain limit automatically, or ask the surfer for permission.
Basically, imagine cookies with a taxation payload.
But for these micropayments to take off we need the industry to come together and adopt it. We need critical mass but we don't have it because nobody wants to go and stick their necks out. They'd rather milk the ad and subscription models to death with increasingly aggressive advertising and content blocking methods.
So I say: use ad blocking technology to its earnest, until online advertisers will hurt and bleed. Perhaps when the cashflow will have slowed down to a trickle they will finally consider micropayments. It's not the 1800's for God's sake, people don't want ads, subscriptions don't work, enough with it already.
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They should show up a few seconds before it expires and remove it from the refrigerator, or my hand, just as the expiration happens. That's a valuable service and I would expect people to pay extra for it.
Not as valuable as having them shove a finger down your throat if they arrive a few seconds after you drank it. Now that would be downright priceless, for the spectators anyway.
It's failed for me. I've seen a few popups in Firefox (and Safari) this week, for the first time since I've used those browsers. Fortunately, Adblock sometimes keeps the messages from appearing, so all I get is a blank window. But it's still annoying.
Anxiously awaiting a fix.
The cure is already built in Firefox, there's probably something you let slip in through the cracks. The lethal combo for killing pop-ups is: block popups in Firefox options; install FlashBlocker; disable Java (not JavaScript); and finally either choose between filtering the very few remaining offending JavaScript pop-ups with AdBlock, or turn off JavaScript.
If you are a skilled keyboard user and you have Web Developer extension installed, you can use your left hand to dial Alt+T,W,D,S for quick JavaScript toggling. Or you can activate the WebDeveloper toolbar and use that.
If there's any extension developer out there who's bored, please create a statusbar extension that turns JavaScript on/off with one mouse click. Guaranteed success.
the MPAA have got court orders giving them access to all of LokiTorrent's server logs and records...
One thing those logs will be good for is estimating which movies/music pieces are the most popular in the wild. It's one of the best surveys the movie and music industry could hope for. Raw popularity statistics, in enough numbers to be relevant, not tainted by any interests.
What are they going to do with all the money that was donated? I belive that someone was speculating that this is EXACTLY what was going to happen. 1) Do something illegal 2) Get sued 3) ....* 4) Profit! * Make a plea to the community and then run away anyways.
Let's be paranoid for a moment. Speculating that the Loki guy fled with a profit even after settling with MPAA may be just what they want you to think. It instills doubt in the community and only serves to divide it.
Ever tried Bookmarks Sync with two somewhat different Firefox sets of bookmarks? Not pretty.
I used to step through my code by placing either "Fuck yeah!" or "Shit's broke" inside and outside of different condition statements. Then one day some idiot on the team decided it would be a good idea to randomly show the clients my incomplete, not live code for whoknowswhy, and in the middle of the page at random was "SHIT!"
See, now that's why I use "kilroy was here" for debug statements.
Ahh, the joys of grepping for "fuck".
arch/mips/pci/pci-ip27.c:arch/sparc/kernel/ptrace.c:net/core/netfilter.c:And of course which occurs several times in the Linux kernel. I wonder who it was.There was also a predecessor chip to the HME called the Big Mac.. so it's not coincidence that they were using mcdonalds names for their products, i'm just surprised they didnt get sued.
In this context, it's more like free advertising. Hopefully nobody's gonna take a bite outta that chip, will they.
Microsoft charging for anti-virus and anti-spyware must be the acme of nerve. Hell, scratch that, it's brilliant. Make people pay for defective stuff you already sold them once and get away with it.
Countries don't just slip into totalitarianism
Sure they do. A leader with dictatorial tendencies gets voted into office, then starts changing the laws to increase his powers and decrease checks and balances. It has happened dozens of times, including Germany in the 1930s.
It takes more than one man, I think that's what the grandparent meant to say. It's not just one superman who suddenly decides to take over the country. That leader you mentioned is supported by a powerful clique, which in turn has been allowed to develop due to certain circumstances. In any case, it's a long term thing, it doesn't "just" happen.
If the mac mini does well, that will hopefully get into an even better situation and we'll have a 3 browser engine world - Safari (and WebCore that is essentially KHTML) too.
Sorry, mate, but Safari is irrelevant in the browser wars. Apple is still too much of a niche market. I almost feel enclined to say that the Linux desktop is too. If Longhorn Explorer will be everything it should be, it will obliterate competition across Longhorn Windows desktops.
The only thing slowing it down would be people using older Windows versions, assuming Microsoft doesn't port it to them too.
This is just about the only complaint I have with gnome. You're stuck with the same desktop pic on all your workspaces. It's gone on too long, and it's silly.
It's funny you should request this, but at the same time you also wish (I presume) for a faster, less resource intensive and less bloated Gnome.
Last time I checked there was only one X root window. What you want would mean changing the contents of the root window every time you switch workspace, which would annoy the hell out of me personally, since it wouldn't make Gnome very responsive.
Or, there would be some caching of all the images for all the workspaces in RAM, thus consuming yet more memory. Another winner sure to instill joy in Gnome users.
All this for what is essentially pure eye candy? I don't think so and apparently neither do the developers.
Make two distributions then with a common base perhaps? The base distribution being a normal one for those who are "advanced" users, and the extended one with lots of dumbed down explanations and extra guiding GUI stuff for grandmas... and everyone can be happy.
Why would you want a distribution that caters equally to grandmas and sysadmins? That's one of the main problems IMO: the Swiss Knife distro. A distro should pick a clearly delimited target and a goal and evolve around that. Where's the famous *NIX philosophy "do one thing and do it well"?
Mac has the desktop user. Microsoft has two product lines: the desktop and the server one. Do Linux distros get the hint?
Shit can't see you.
Would be a neat idea though. A Windows exploit that only targets people who have legal copies? How long until it happens? No doubt Microsoft are currently (secretly) working on the opposite, a BSOD exploit that only targets illegal copies.
The one that targets only illegal copies would hurt Microsoft much more than the other one. Assuming a worm that targets legal copies appears, they would use it as an excuse for a lot of DRM and similar crap.
On the other hand, here's what would happen if the work attacked pirated copies:
Except, now, that I have told them that they will either have to go out and purchase new computers (with new Windows licenses), or purchase Windows licenses (or be pwned by script kiddies), or switch to Linux. .
Guess which one they choose?
The Free One. . . . . .
Free as in beer, make no mistake. Which comes down to "most users are assholes who want everything for no money". Which makes me think that Microsoft is just rocking the boat, they'll never seriously crush piracy, because when the going gets tough the cheap bastards will move to Linux. And perhaps in the process they'll learn that there are alternatives to the one Microsoft way. And that's just too damn risky.
Irony is an "incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs."
May I point out that while the word "irony" is used like that in translations as well, in various languages other than English the meaning is actually quite different. In several European languages "irony" means "something that seems like the malevolent action of a higher being".
Considering the Slashdot collective managed to do it to a LED display before, a camera doesn't surprise me as much anymore by comparison. Wait for "fridge owners carelessly leave their contents available for the world to see" and the subsequent /.'ing which will eventually lead to the fridge shutting down and the tuna sandwich going bad.
Take "Google discover pages you're not supposed to see" and replace Google and pages with any search engine and online content. Seen it once, you've seen it all. What would be more important is people finally getting the freakin' point.
Not many people showing up in those cameras. Next to none, actually. It gives you and eery feeling, like everybody has left the planet and those who are shown from afar are just the aliens doing the final sweep. Heh, I bet if I look out the window right now I'll see...
Well, here we are taking pride in who's got the bigger... err, smaller code. That's geeks for you.
There was a recent AlertBox article in which Nielsen described the most hated forms of Web advertising and how much they hurt users and, in turn, the aggressive advertisers and the sites that use them. It's a small article and quite worth a read.
I like the ad supported model. I much prefer it to having to subscribe to sites to be able to see them. Maybe the solution is to have some etiquette. sites stick to relevant non-obtrusive ads (a bit like google) and users agree to see the banners/ads on the sites they visit. I can't see a way to enforce that though. Maybe someone smarter can come up with a solution.
The solution has been around for ages now, and it's called micropayments. It's neither ads nor subscription. It consists of very small amounts of money (fractions of a cent) for which the taxation is embedded in the Web infrastructure. Ideally, every browser would offer support for this, and the user could see in the status bar how he is being taxed and how much he has spent on micropayments so far. He could also set his browser to refuse micropayments over a certain limit automatically, or ask the surfer for permission.
Basically, imagine cookies with a taxation payload.
But for these micropayments to take off we need the industry to come together and adopt it. We need critical mass but we don't have it because nobody wants to go and stick their necks out. They'd rather milk the ad and subscription models to death with increasingly aggressive advertising and content blocking methods.
So I say: use ad blocking technology to its earnest, until online advertisers will hurt and bleed. Perhaps when the cashflow will have slowed down to a trickle they will finally consider micropayments. It's not the 1800's for God's sake, people don't want ads, subscriptions don't work, enough with it already.
Cameron is a manic perfectionist. He will at the very least die trying.
So now he's a doc somewhere. Probably calculating 10 by 10 digit numbers in his head as he examines you...
OK now that's creepy. If I ever see my dentist stop with his eyes glazed and scribble down a digit I'm outta there.Yeah, you wouldn't want him to extract the 23rd root from the number.