Perhaps this could be intergrated in mail clients as a plugin. Mozilla Mail springs to mind, coupled with Mozilla's ability to load links in the background.
As for complaints about Reiser's performance -- last I heard, it was more optimized for many small files -- precisely the domain that this thing didn't test.
And we all know that all Linux distros have one thing in common: like all *nixes, they're made up of an enormous amount of small files working together. Precisely why ReiserFS is so popular these days.
Macromedia has several pages about the changes to Internet Explorer, although it's interesting to note that they don't mention Eolas by name. Essentially, one is supposed to call the active content from JavaScript. Macromedia articles of intereste are:
I have done this also for a very large organization (as part of a team). We found that the biggest problem was getting people to use it. More often than not, requests continued to come in the old-fashioned way: the customer would send an email to the CEO, who would instruct the CTO, who would instruct the project lead, who would then pass it down to us programmers, who would then fill out the change request forms we designed for the customer at the customer's request.
As someone else pointed out earlier, there is a difference between plain English and marketing English. The phrase "benefitting from this" actually means "using a small, rather insignificant, amout of".
For the tin-foil-hat crowd, Microsoft might gain by eliminating the GPL. The temporary confusion and delay could give them a few months of breathing room. Still, even if they are funding SCO's sillyness, I doubt that ``break the GPL'' is on their list for Santa, let alone a serious plan.
What do you mean, even if? MS bought a license from them right? Seriously though, the GPL is a direct challenge to Microsoft's business model. They'd be fools to not have a plan, even if it's not a very good one.
In addition to this, the paper ballot that the voter takes from the voting machine should be placed in a ballot box. By the voter, no-one else. That box would then read the vote, and if it matches the one placed by the voter in the booth, the vote would be committed to the database and a green indicator would light up on the ballot box. A red light would indicate failure and the voter would be given the option of retrying the rejected ballot, or cancelling the vote and trying the whole process again.
The point is that the voter must be able to verify with the election official that the vote is correct. Until that happens, the vote would not be committed and could be retracted to allow the voter to modify his vote.
Another key consideration is that no vote should ever involve a time stamp. That way, observers would not be able to tell after the fact which voter cast which vote. Furthermore, all of the machines should have minimal interfaces and employ tamper resistant design, requiring advanced support in the event of machine failure. This is to ensure that ordinary election officials cannot tamper with the machines. Obviously, the machines would need to undergo military-class reliability testing, because machine failure could invalidate all votes for that precinct, requiring not just a recount but a another vote entirely, which brings a host of new problems.
If someone has a couple million bucks laying around, I've got more ideas on the subject. We should talk;)
I think your mission is doomed to failure. The only way (aside from your theory of natural selection) to increase driver competance on an wide scale is to require extensive driver training. What with the powerful auto lobby, and the fact that owning a car is a virtual necessity for most Americans, more restrictive licensing is not an option in this country. 'Drive-Thru' signs are also a bad idea because they would necessarily reduce visibility, causing more problems than they would solve.
Imagine, for a moment, what would happen if zombie machines all over the internet suddenly started a flooding http://sitefinder.verisign.com/ with badly formed requests. I, for one, would not shed any tears over that particular chuck of molten processors.
By using your loopback address, you effectively short-circuit their method.
This is, of course, a limited fix. It will not have any effect outside of your machine, so contact ICANN, Verisign, and your ISP and tell them what you think.
That's true as far as it goes, but one shouldn't underestimate the value of such research. While it can occasionally give misleading results, use of focus groups can quickly identify problem areas in a user interface that went unnoticed by the programmers because the programmers were "too close" to the project. As with any research, proper analysis is the key to realizing any benifit from it. Those auto hiding menus are a good example of this. More extensive analysis of the results from said research could have brought the 'out of sight, out of mind' phenomena further to the fore and and in turn result in this behavior being turned off by default.
I don't live in a snow-bound climate, but once I visited Colorado. I (stupidly) chose to drive a pick-up truck with bald tires from Denver to Fort Collins during a minor blizzard. Yeah, I made it, but not without a fair number of white-knuckle moments.
Anyway, it seemed like the only people that slid off of the road that day were SUV drivers. I don't mean to imply that you are a bad driver (I wouldn't know), but my experience tells me that an awful lot of SUV drivers out there are soccer moms that are unsafe in any car, much less a 6000 lb. behemoth. Simply driving a large vehicle does not impart better judgement or driving skills.
And by the way, those 50 mph zoned curves you mention are zoned at 50 mph because they have to consider the lowest common denominator - large trucks, SUVs, and bad drivers. A good driver in a responsive car can handle that same curve at well over seventy. Of course, there's nothing one can do about bad drivers once they are behind the wheel.
I should add that Verisign's actions could have implications reaching farther than just the world of user agents. This would also affect search engine spidering. It could seriously mess up Googles Page Rank system. Verisign would immediately become the single most popular website due to the fact that so many other websites contain broken links.
This is not unacceptable. Microsoft has control over how it's browser interprets error codes, and that's a good thing, regardless of the specific interpretation.
User-agents (browsers) must have control over what happens when they encounter error codes. If yours does something you don't like, you should complain to it's manufacturer (MS in this case) or choose a different product (such as Mozilla). What you should not do, is press for outside regulation. That type of thing merely serves to repress innovation.
What Verisign is doing, however is completely different. They are interfering with the system of error codes that browsers rely upon to properly interpret conditions under which they operate. Verisign wants to change the DNS error code system so that user agents will no longer be able to determine if they have reached a legitimate website or not. That can only have negative effects, regardless of what Verisign claims.
Hell, the neo-conservative religious nut-jobs here in Texas are trying to prevent any mention of enlightened scientific theory from appearing in our state's public school textbooks. I have no doubt that these people would hold weekly book burnings if they thought they could get away with it.
And before anyone replies with "I'm glad I don't live in a back-water like Texas", you should realize that many states pay close attention to what goes on the Texas curriculum, and textbook publishers pay close attention to that. That means that your state is probably taking it's educational lead from mine. Ponder that for a minute.
You might also consider GW's track record regarding schools during his tenure as governor.
Globalism is a scam designed to siphon the wealth of American off into other nations.
You're a little off the mark here. Globalism exists to siphon the wealth of the entire globe into the coffers of the extremely wealthy elites in many different countries. Middle and lower class Americans stand to lose as much as any foreign class.
When Sun hired all those Indian workers, the idea was to make Sun's major investors more wealthy - they couldn't have cared less about the well being of the workers they hired.
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Open each link in a seperate tab so that they play together. It's pretty eerie.
Perhaps this could be intergrated in mail clients as a plugin. Mozilla Mail springs to mind, coupled with Mozilla's ability to load links in the background.
Who cares? It's a big-ass screen.
As for complaints about Reiser's performance -- last I heard, it was more optimized for many small files -- precisely the domain that this thing didn't test.
And we all know that all Linux distros have one thing in common: like all *nixes, they're made up of an enormous amount of small files working together. Precisely why ReiserFS is so popular these days.
So what happens if close the dialog with the 'x' button instead of cliking 'OK'?
:)
sorry, not running windows atm.
The summary lists some rather interesting looking automated solutions for updating your web pages, though the manual method may be more reliable.
I have done this also for a very large organization (as part of a team). We found that the biggest problem was getting people to use it. More often than not, requests continued to come in the old-fashioned way: the customer would send an email to the CEO, who would instruct the CTO, who would instruct the project lead, who would then pass it down to us programmers, who would then fill out the change request forms we designed for the customer at the customer's request.
As someone else pointed out earlier, there is a difference between plain English and marketing English. The phrase "benefitting from this" actually means "using a small, rather insignificant, amout of".
For the tin-foil-hat crowd, Microsoft might gain by eliminating the GPL. The temporary confusion and delay could give them a few months of breathing room. Still, even if they are funding SCO's sillyness, I doubt that ``break the GPL'' is on their list for Santa, let alone a serious plan.
What do you mean, even if? MS bought a license from them right? Seriously though, the GPL is a direct challenge to Microsoft's business model. They'd be fools to not have a plan, even if it's not a very good one.
Get a window manager that can group similar tasks on the taskbar. KDE and Gnome can both do this. I think WinXP can as well.
Too bad, I'd like to show it to the FTC, the postal inspector and the Commonwealth's Attorney.
Show them what, his ass or the invoice?
Good God, no! But whatever you do, don't loose it on the kids. Think of the children man!
In addition to this, the paper ballot that the voter takes from the voting machine should be placed in a ballot box. By the voter, no-one else. That box would then read the vote, and if it matches the one placed by the voter in the booth, the vote would be committed to the database and a green indicator would light up on the ballot box. A red light would indicate failure and the voter would be given the option of retrying the rejected ballot, or cancelling the vote and trying the whole process again.
;)
The point is that the voter must be able to verify with the election official that the vote is correct. Until that happens, the vote would not be committed and could be retracted to allow the voter to modify his vote.
Another key consideration is that no vote should ever involve a time stamp. That way, observers would not be able to tell after the fact which voter cast which vote. Furthermore, all of the machines should have minimal interfaces and employ tamper resistant design, requiring advanced support in the event of machine failure. This is to ensure that ordinary election officials cannot tamper with the machines. Obviously, the machines would need to undergo military-class reliability testing, because machine failure could invalidate all votes for that precinct, requiring not just a recount but a another vote entirely, which brings a host of new problems.
If someone has a couple million bucks laying around, I've got more ideas on the subject. We should talk
I think your mission is doomed to failure. The only way (aside from your theory of natural selection) to increase driver competance on an wide scale is to require extensive driver training. What with the powerful auto lobby, and the fact that owning a car is a virtual necessity for most Americans, more restrictive licensing is not an option in this country. 'Drive-Thru' signs are also a bad idea because they would necessarily reduce visibility, causing more problems than they would solve.
Imagine, for a moment, what would happen if zombie machines all over the internet suddenly started a flooding http://sitefinder.verisign.com/ with badly formed requests. I, for one, would not shed any tears over that particular chuck of molten processors.
This works. Add an entry to your hosts file:
127.0.0.1 sitefinder.verisign.com
By using your loopback address, you effectively short-circuit their method.
This is, of course, a limited fix. It will not have any effect outside of your machine, so contact ICANN, Verisign, and your ISP and tell them what you think.
But this will at least give you some relief.
Kee-rist, sounds like somebody has a case of the Mondays.
Shit man, I believe you might get your ass kicked for saying something like that.
That's true as far as it goes, but one shouldn't underestimate the value of such research. While it can occasionally give misleading results, use of focus groups can quickly identify problem areas in a user interface that went unnoticed by the programmers because the programmers were "too close" to the project. As with any research, proper analysis is the key to realizing any benifit from it. Those auto hiding menus are a good example of this. More extensive analysis of the results from said research could have brought the 'out of sight, out of mind' phenomena further to the fore and and in turn result in this behavior being turned off by default.
I don't live in a snow-bound climate, but once I visited Colorado. I (stupidly) chose to drive a pick-up truck with bald tires from Denver to Fort Collins during a minor blizzard. Yeah, I made it, but not without a fair number of white-knuckle moments.
Anyway, it seemed like the only people that slid off of the road that day were SUV drivers. I don't mean to imply that you are a bad driver (I wouldn't know), but my experience tells me that an awful lot of SUV drivers out there are soccer moms that are unsafe in any car, much less a 6000 lb. behemoth. Simply driving a large vehicle does not impart better judgement or driving skills.
And by the way, those 50 mph zoned curves you mention are zoned at 50 mph because they have to consider the lowest common denominator - large trucks, SUVs, and bad drivers. A good driver in a responsive car can handle that same curve at well over seventy. Of course, there's nothing one can do about bad drivers once they are behind the wheel.
Could this action spark renewed interest in native media-rich implementations? I'm specifically thinking of SVG support.
I should add that Verisign's actions could have implications reaching farther than just the world of user agents. This would also affect search engine spidering. It could seriously mess up Googles Page Rank system. Verisign would immediately become the single most popular website due to the fact that so many other websites contain broken links.
This is not unacceptable. Microsoft has control over how it's browser interprets error codes, and that's a good thing, regardless of the specific interpretation.
User-agents (browsers) must have control over what happens when they encounter error codes. If yours does something you don't like, you should complain to it's manufacturer (MS in this case) or choose a different product (such as Mozilla). What you should not do, is press for outside regulation. That type of thing merely serves to repress innovation.
What Verisign is doing, however is completely different. They are interfering with the system of error codes that browsers rely upon to properly interpret conditions under which they operate. Verisign wants to change the DNS error code system so that user agents will no longer be able to determine if they have reached a legitimate website or not. That can only have negative effects, regardless of what Verisign claims.
Hell, the neo-conservative religious nut-jobs here in Texas are trying to prevent any mention of enlightened scientific theory from appearing in our state's public school textbooks. I have no doubt that these people would hold weekly book burnings if they thought they could get away with it.
And before anyone replies with "I'm glad I don't live in a back-water like Texas", you should realize that many states pay close attention to what goes on the Texas curriculum, and textbook publishers pay close attention to that. That means that your state is probably taking it's educational lead from mine. Ponder that for a minute.
You might also consider GW's track record regarding schools during his tenure as governor.
That's easy, silly. He can work for less money ;)
Globalism is a scam designed to siphon the wealth of American off into other nations.
You're a little off the mark here. Globalism exists to siphon the wealth of the entire globe into the coffers of the extremely wealthy elites in many different countries. Middle and lower class Americans stand to lose as much as any foreign class.
When Sun hired all those Indian workers, the idea was to make Sun's major investors more wealthy - they couldn't have cared less about the well being of the workers they hired.