Actually, 90% of their traffic will just have several consecutive birthdays and then update their Yahoo profile. Methinks Yahoo! will be getting a lot of 18 year olds very soon;^)
I just checked and it does offer the standard checkboxes as to whether icons should be installed. And to answer the grandparent, it reinstalls the icons because you're effectively reinstalling Firefox every time you download an update to the browser; there are no patches involved, you just install a new one overtop (it is, in fact, the same file as someone who is installing from scratch). Just do a custom install and uncheck whatever icons you want.
I bet ANYTHING this will premier with the release of IE 7, and will not work with anything but IE. Microsoft has finally come up with a way to get people back to their side of the browser war.
As usual, I and everyone on here will not be affected, but I bet IE use will jump in website stats. Time (and the quality of IE 7) will tell whether it will last.
When I was working at Stream (a tech support outsourcer), in the beginning about three years ago, we had a Verisign call center. That always struck me as kind of odd, because it was the only contract that had to be cut off from the rest of the building, i.e., the others had windows to the "main hall" whereas the Verisign portion you could never quite see what they were doing. I mean, I can understand (kind of...) outsourcing first and perhaps second level customer service for the desktop division of someone like HP (the contract I was on) but outsourcing the primary customer contact for a security company?
They went internal some time afterward from what I heard but I often wonder if we actually just lost the contract to a lower bidder.
Sure, another bully will pop up, but I seriously doubt they'll be able to make as much of an impact in a world where the game itself has changed. Artists can easily, easily distribute their own music online nowadays. Advertising, marketing, and the like, they can simply hire an ad agency that doesn't want them to sign a huge-ass contract giving them 90%.
I give the current RIAA hangers-on about 10 years to die out before music is almost entirely distributed online, without the completely unnecessary middleman.
I bought my phone without the discount and without the contract, with a nice non-discounted $300 pricetag, so I'd have the freedom of buying minutes when I wanted / needed (as I didn't use my phone all that much). Later on in the year, I went to visit my girlfriend in the US, and had to buy an unlocking kit just to be able to use another provider. They wouldn't even let me roam because I didn't have a contract!
If you ask me, they gave me no choice really, as I simply wasn't going to sign any sort of contract and there was no other way to use my phone in the States other than unlocking it and using it with a local provider at my destination.
The unfortunate thing with living in Canada is that 90% of the stuff you order online will come from the states, which means the Canadian government can tax the living hell out of it as soon as it crosses the border. UPS and Fedex do the same thing, adding on nice brokerage fees for no apparent reason. It was quite a shock a few years ago when my laptop arrived with an apparent COD charge of over $400.
I've had a lot of experience (years) of running Apache on Windows, and it has been very stable for me, to the point that I can't remember a single crash in all the time that I was using it. That said, I'm pretty sure the gist of what they're saying is that Apache is most stable in a Linux / Unix-style environment, as that's what it's always been built for.
Besides, you shouldn't run a production web server on Windows unless you have a real need for it (ASP.Net comes to mind, and even then there are ways to run that in a Unix-style environment).
It may be very hard to stop someone who wants to blow up a train and is convinced it is the will of their God to do so. Security should be increased and anything in the power of public utilities like train stations and airports should be done to prevent terrorism.
However, I urge anyone reading to fight the erosion of their civil liberties in a so-called trade for their "security". I'm especially worried about the UK putting forward an equivalent of the PATRIOT Act because if they do, it sets a precident for all of their allies and will likely put pressure on them to do the same (which includes Canada, where I live).
I know I'm preaching to the converted here on Slashdot, but I wish there was a way I could make people see what we do: that the PATRIOT Act in the US allows the Government can monitor an individual's web surfing records, use roving wiretaps to monitor phone calls made by individuals "proximate" to the primary person being tapped, access Internet Service Provider records, monitor the private records of people involved in legitimate protests, spy on suspected computer trespassers (not just terrorist suspects) without a court order, and most concerningly, allows law enforcement to issue search warrants that do not force them to tell the subject that he was searched. (Source: EFF)
This is another reason why you should use standards. I've been programming in PHP for years and the fundamentals haven't changed. Granted, being in the IT field means you have to learn things quickly, but if you get away from Microsoft you find things tend to be a LOT more interoperable.
Of course, if your job forces you to use Microsoft APIs... I pity you.
This actually gives me an idea. Most people that get all this malware and spyware are on a direct connection to the net rather than behind a router right? So Windows has certain ports open that are really only supposed to be open on a local area network, not to the Internet at large.
What if there was a small device, small enough that it could fit into one's pocket, that you could plug between the network card and the cable modem that had the firewall security of a router (NAT, closed ports unless forwarded, etc.) but was designed for a direct connection?
Such a thing could probably be manufactured fairly cheaply (one female, one male ethernet port), powered by a USB attachment (unless there's a way to power it with standard ethernet, I'm not sure), and given away by ISPs as an all-in-one "security dongle". It would definitely keep support costs down...
But you are the one who is wrong. MySQL is a server. Thus, you don't generally (and by generally, I mean 99% of the time) have to actually INCLUDE MySQL in your code. Because you don't have to include it and are instead accessing a separate MySQL server, whether running locally or elsewhere, you are not bound by the GPL and can license your program any way you want.
Now, if you're making a device or custom software that includes the MySQL server code itself, that's different, but I personally have never heard of such things (though I'm sure they exist), which suggests to me that most people are doing what I'm doing: Making websites in PHP / Python / Perl / what-have-you that ACCESS MySQL servers but don't actually include MySQL code.
How else do you think commercial products like X-Cart, VBulletin and the like could exist? They're certainly not under the GPL.
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Actually, 90% of their traffic will just have several consecutive birthdays and then update their Yahoo profile. Methinks Yahoo! will be getting a lot of 18 year olds very soon ;^)
You'd have to spread it out through the day, the editors work on shifts.
Interesting idea. I'm not sure he thought that far through it but if he did, it's quite brilliantly evil.
I just checked and it does offer the standard checkboxes as to whether icons should be installed. And to answer the grandparent, it reinstalls the icons because you're effectively reinstalling Firefox every time you download an update to the browser; there are no patches involved, you just install a new one overtop (it is, in fact, the same file as someone who is installing from scratch). Just do a custom install and uncheck whatever icons you want.
I bet ANYTHING this will premier with the release of IE 7, and will not work with anything but IE. Microsoft has finally come up with a way to get people back to their side of the browser war.
As usual, I and everyone on here will not be affected, but I bet IE use will jump in website stats. Time (and the quality of IE 7) will tell whether it will last.
You said that mental illness was an ILLUSION, which is why you got modded down.
When I was working at Stream (a tech support outsourcer), in the beginning about three years ago, we had a Verisign call center. That always struck me as kind of odd, because it was the only contract that had to be cut off from the rest of the building, i.e., the others had windows to the "main hall" whereas the Verisign portion you could never quite see what they were doing. I mean, I can understand (kind of...) outsourcing first and perhaps second level customer service for the desktop division of someone like HP (the contract I was on) but outsourcing the primary customer contact for a security company?
They went internal some time afterward from what I heard but I often wonder if we actually just lost the contract to a lower bidder.
I've seen this argument before and my response has always been: They consider IE to be featureful by comparison?
Sure, another bully will pop up, but I seriously doubt they'll be able to make as much of an impact in a world where the game itself has changed. Artists can easily, easily distribute their own music online nowadays. Advertising, marketing, and the like, they can simply hire an ad agency that doesn't want them to sign a huge-ass contract giving them 90%.
I give the current RIAA hangers-on about 10 years to die out before music is almost entirely distributed online, without the completely unnecessary middleman.
So add an export button.
Or even better, an automated backup button that would store all your documents locally in a readable (read: open) format.
Here's a link to search for "open document format" on Office Online.
I bought my phone without the discount and without the contract, with a nice non-discounted $300 pricetag, so I'd have the freedom of buying minutes when I wanted / needed (as I didn't use my phone all that much). Later on in the year, I went to visit my girlfriend in the US, and had to buy an unlocking kit just to be able to use another provider. They wouldn't even let me roam because I didn't have a contract!
If you ask me, they gave me no choice really, as I simply wasn't going to sign any sort of contract and there was no other way to use my phone in the States other than unlocking it and using it with a local provider at my destination.
The unfortunate thing with living in Canada is that 90% of the stuff you order online will come from the states, which means the Canadian government can tax the living hell out of it as soon as it crosses the border. UPS and Fedex do the same thing, adding on nice brokerage fees for no apparent reason. It was quite a shock a few years ago when my laptop arrived with an apparent COD charge of over $400.
In C#, the String class probably has an equivalency test. You're not comparing two char * variables here.
Windows Vista Ultimate Corporate Leaked Key Edition!
I've had a lot of experience (years) of running Apache on Windows, and it has been very stable for me, to the point that I can't remember a single crash in all the time that I was using it. That said, I'm pretty sure the gist of what they're saying is that Apache is most stable in a Linux / Unix-style environment, as that's what it's always been built for.
Besides, you shouldn't run a production web server on Windows unless you have a real need for it (ASP.Net comes to mind, and even then there are ways to run that in a Unix-style environment).
When should you use a Firefox extension?
Only when you're EXTENDING FIREFOX.
If your website requires an extension (or, for that matter, ActiveX) to work, you're simply coding it incorrectly.
Possible exceptions includes Windows Update, but even then, Microsoft coded that as part of the OS in XP, so the web portal really isn't necessary.
Very well said.
It may be very hard to stop someone who wants to blow up a train and is convinced it is the will of their God to do so. Security should be increased and anything in the power of public utilities like train stations and airports should be done to prevent terrorism.
However, I urge anyone reading to fight the erosion of their civil liberties in a so-called trade for their "security". I'm especially worried about the UK putting forward an equivalent of the PATRIOT Act because if they do, it sets a precident for all of their allies and will likely put pressure on them to do the same (which includes Canada, where I live).
I know I'm preaching to the converted here on Slashdot, but I wish there was a way I could make people see what we do: that the PATRIOT Act in the US allows the Government can monitor an individual's web surfing records, use roving wiretaps to monitor phone calls made by individuals "proximate" to the primary person being tapped, access Internet Service Provider records, monitor the private records of people involved in legitimate protests, spy on suspected computer trespassers (not just terrorist suspects) without a court order, and most concerningly, allows law enforcement to issue search warrants that do not force them to tell the subject that he was searched. (Source: EFF)
The word needs to be brought out to the streets.
This is another reason why you should use standards. I've been programming in PHP for years and the fundamentals haven't changed. Granted, being in the IT field means you have to learn things quickly, but if you get away from Microsoft you find things tend to be a LOT more interoperable.
Of course, if your job forces you to use Microsoft APIs... I pity you.
This actually gives me an idea. Most people that get all this malware and spyware are on a direct connection to the net rather than behind a router right? So Windows has certain ports open that are really only supposed to be open on a local area network, not to the Internet at large.
What if there was a small device, small enough that it could fit into one's pocket, that you could plug between the network card and the cable modem that had the firewall security of a router (NAT, closed ports unless forwarded, etc.) but was designed for a direct connection?
Such a thing could probably be manufactured fairly cheaply (one female, one male ethernet port), powered by a USB attachment (unless there's a way to power it with standard ethernet, I'm not sure), and given away by ISPs as an all-in-one "security dongle". It would definitely keep support costs down...
Then you're arrogant and don't give a shit about your users, and I won't be going to your website any time soon, even though I use Firefox.
Some of us want everyone to be able to read our content.
Hehe.
Amen. Calling it "sequel" just leads to confusion IMHO. Just spell out acronyms unless they actually spell something, which SQL does not.
But you are the one who is wrong. MySQL is a server. Thus, you don't generally (and by generally, I mean 99% of the time) have to actually INCLUDE MySQL in your code. Because you don't have to include it and are instead accessing a separate MySQL server, whether running locally or elsewhere, you are not bound by the GPL and can license your program any way you want.
Now, if you're making a device or custom software that includes the MySQL server code itself, that's different, but I personally have never heard of such things (though I'm sure they exist), which suggests to me that most people are doing what I'm doing: Making websites in PHP / Python / Perl / what-have-you that ACCESS MySQL servers but don't actually include MySQL code.
How else do you think commercial products like X-Cart, VBulletin and the like could exist? They're certainly not under the GPL.