What I don't understand is where do you draw the line on what a monopoly is? I suppose Microsoft has a monopoly on computers, but MacOS has a much larger monopoly on macintoshes. Surely they're abusing their monopoly much worse than Microsoft are?
How about we liken viruses to the 'organisms' from which they get their name? Viruses can only spread with a certain amount of susceptable hosts. Measles for example dies out in a closed population of less than 100,000. Also, as herd immunity rises (antiviruses), it gets even harder.
Computer viruses are the same. I mean yes, of course, the more susceptable the host the easier it is, but by definition a virus, computer or not, must be able to spread, and for this to occur you need to find a hell of a lot of hosts that are accessable. Whether these come from your email address book or over the network, it's a hell of a lot easier to be successful when you're targeting the windows boxes.
So the idea is to blame websites for generating interest, and so increasing bandwidth costs? So many problems
1. Google is a very clean site, MUCH less clutter than so many other search engines - I'd award it for saving bandwidth, considering people are always going to use SOME search engine.
2. Google's good. Really good. ISPs will probably save money getting their customers to use google rather than trawling round irrelevant websites looking for info
3. If we blame sites of generating so much traffic and bandwidth, what stops us blaming protocols or programs? Mr. Cohen's bittorrent generates a hell of a lot of traffic, why can't be blame him for providing this service if we can blame google for providing theirs?
Not sure why people have classed this as funny, it is actually true. Ali G's actor went to Christs College, Cambridge. This professor now supervisors psychology at Trinity college, Cambridge. I know as I'm current I'm currently there doing medicine, and he interviewed me! Professor Baron Cohen is on his sabatical at the moment though, so we don't see him much.
Re:E-mail is a lot like a webpage actually..
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You're confusing email with hypertext. Sorry all the stuff emailed to you goes via the SMTP port, or whatever they use. Not port 80. Your email has hypertext in it, and there may be img tags, but thats for your browser to determine, and it didn't got via the hypertext transfer protocol. You browser opens a connection to a seperate webserver, retrieves those files, and pastes them in. But your email isn't a webpage. It's a link to one, or an email with hypertext. That's just like saying a webpages are the same as email if they have a mailto: link on them.
Web 2.0 doesn't really sound like the web
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'Proponents of the Web 2.0 concept say that it differs from early web development, retroactively labeled Web 1.0, in that it is a move away from static websites, email, the use of search engines, and surfing from one website to the next, to a more dynamic and interactive World Wide Web.'
Moving away from email? Email has absolutely nothing to do with the WWW. It's a completely different service. It sounds more like Internet 2.0. You'd never call an email a webpage.
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It's a great tutorial on how to convert a laptop TFT screen and a regular overhead projector into a great big screen! A good read, practical and down to earth.
'This article was inspired by offers on eBay for home projector construction manuals for around $20 that, on closer inspection, proved to be thoroughly useless.'
That argument would be fine, except Apple are asking $500 dollars for this thing. You can't go and expect people to pay that amount, and then when it's buggy, say "Aww cmon, it was our first try". *Awaits references to Microsoft/Windows*
I don't totally agree with that view. I agree that people shouldn't poke fingers at a product which they (in the larger sense) control. But I think what the writer was getting at what the fact that these operating systems are being sold, for money. Not only that, but they're marketing full operating systems without drivers for basic peripherals. He's cheesed off because people are investing in these products (and the packs with the full manuals and so on, which many of the newbies would need are quite expensive!), and then not being able to use the vital (yes, printers are vital, a family wont use linux if children can't print their homework) parts.
He's blaming these companies, but I think he's mainly blaming the mind-set of the community, who spend all their time developing new GUIs and ports of windows programs, and virtually no time in allowing people to utilise the computer that they've bought!
So your argument is that he can't moan about open source because he has the choice whether to use it or not? Fine, well then Linux users should never moan about Windows, since they obviously don't have to use it. And people should never moan about KDE or Gnome either, since they obviously have a choice.
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That may be true, but HDR is a very broad term, as anandtech said, 'HDR generally speaks to representable contrast in a scene', and:
At first glance, it is clear that Valve has added the usual blooming features that we would expect from HDR rendering, but there are a couple of new features that Valve has added to keep it interesting.
Different games such as FarCry have used what they've called HDR, but valve came up with their own list of features which they felt should be present. Several of which haven't been seen before.
When was it ever definite? They held onto Newton's corpuscular theory of light for years before they listened to Huygens and his wave theory. Then they found the photoelectric effect and went back to thinking it was possibly particular. And then Einstein came along and said it was wave-particle-duality.
I did a paper here on siRNA, RNA interference, and it's possibilities in fighting HIV. It's a small paper that outlines the phenomenon. Wrote it in 6th form.
Yet even the oldest Linux box could be made secure if you turned off every network service on the machine. How can you remotely attack a machine that has no ports open? Answer: You can't. You have to find another vector.
Syn flooding? ICMP echo request and other (D)DoS attacks? There's many more.
What a stupid way for an animal that lives in a river (isn't their enough lubrication around 99% of the time anyway?) to lubricate their pray.
Why not use salivary ducts inside the mouth, rather than make your vision blurred? Also, with an animal as long-snouted as a crocodile, I doubt the tars would get THAT far into the mouth anyway.
More likely I expect it to be a spin off of some histamine-like hormone causing many similar glands, including tear and salivary glands, to respond.
Actually the close window button is still in focus and pressable when the mouse is on the top right most pixel, regardless of the small border between it and the button.
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What I don't understand is where do you draw the line on what a monopoly is? I suppose Microsoft has a monopoly on computers, but MacOS has a much larger monopoly on macintoshes. Surely they're abusing their monopoly much worse than Microsoft are?
Yeh, crap analogy.
How about we liken viruses to the 'organisms' from which they get their name? Viruses can only spread with a certain amount of susceptable hosts. Measles for example dies out in a closed population of less than 100,000. Also, as herd immunity rises (antiviruses), it gets even harder.
Computer viruses are the same. I mean yes, of course, the more susceptable the host the easier it is, but by definition a virus, computer or not, must be able to spread, and for this to occur you need to find a hell of a lot of hosts that are accessable. Whether these come from your email address book or over the network, it's a hell of a lot easier to be successful when you're targeting the windows boxes.
So the idea is to blame websites for generating interest, and so increasing bandwidth costs? So many problems
1. Google is a very clean site, MUCH less clutter than so many other search engines - I'd award it for saving bandwidth, considering people are always going to use SOME search engine.
2. Google's good. Really good. ISPs will probably save money getting their customers to use google rather than trawling round irrelevant websites looking for info
3. If we blame sites of generating so much traffic and bandwidth, what stops us blaming protocols or programs? Mr. Cohen's bittorrent generates a hell of a lot of traffic, why can't be blame him for providing this service if we can blame google for providing theirs?
Not sure why people have classed this as funny, it is actually true. Ali G's actor went to Christs College, Cambridge. This professor now supervisors psychology at Trinity college, Cambridge. I know as I'm current I'm currently there doing medicine, and he interviewed me! Professor Baron Cohen is on his sabatical at the moment though, so we don't see him much.
8-bit D&D.
Still hilarious.
You're confusing email with hypertext. Sorry all the stuff emailed to you goes via the SMTP port, or whatever they use. Not port 80.
Your email has hypertext in it, and there may be img tags, but thats for your browser to determine, and it didn't got via the hypertext transfer protocol. You browser opens a connection to a seperate webserver, retrieves those files, and pastes them in. But your email isn't a webpage. It's a link to one, or an email with hypertext.
That's just like saying a webpages are the same as email if they have a mailto: link on them.
It's a great tutorial on how to convert a laptop TFT screen and a regular overhead projector into a great big screen! A good read, practical and down to earth.
That argument would be fine, except Apple are asking $500 dollars for this thing. You can't go and expect people to pay that amount, and then when it's buggy, say "Aww cmon, it was our first try".
*Awaits references to Microsoft/Windows*
I don't totally agree with that view. I agree that people shouldn't poke fingers at a product which they (in the larger sense) control. But I think what the writer was getting at what the fact that these operating systems are being sold, for money. Not only that, but they're marketing full operating systems without drivers for basic peripherals. He's cheesed off because people are investing in these products (and the packs with the full manuals and so on, which many of the newbies would need are quite expensive!), and then not being able to use the vital (yes, printers are vital, a family wont use linux if children can't print their homework) parts.
He's blaming these companies, but I think he's mainly blaming the mind-set of the community, who spend all their time developing new GUIs and ports of windows programs, and virtually no time in allowing people to utilise the computer that they've bought!
So your argument is that he can't moan about open source because he has the choice whether to use it or not?
Fine, well then Linux users should never moan about Windows, since they obviously don't have to use it. And people should never moan about KDE or Gnome either, since they obviously have a choice.
The link to Kopete actually links to Konqy. You want this.
A remote control for a device you keep on your person?
Sounds a tad pointless/awkward
Then just skip 2.7 and call it 2.8
Smoked.
You know it's slashdot because people use == when 'is' would do just fine (or better).
It does annoy me how writers use terms which are frankly stupid, just to show that they can in fact use a computer.
When was it ever definite? They held onto Newton's corpuscular theory of light for years before they listened to Huygens and his wave theory. Then they found the photoelectric effect and went back to thinking it was possibly particular. And then Einstein came along and said it was wave-particle-duality.
I did a paper here on siRNA, RNA interference, and it's possibilities in fighting HIV. It's a small paper that outlines the phenomenon. Wrote it in 6th form.
Erm, yeh. But you could say the same for Linux. With LILO installed, boot into single user mode and you have root.
Yet even the oldest Linux box could be made secure if you turned off every network service on the machine. How can you remotely attack a machine that has no ports open? Answer: You can't. You have to find another vector.
Syn flooding? ICMP echo request and other (D)DoS attacks? There's many more.
What a stupid way for an animal that lives in a river (isn't their enough lubrication around 99% of the time anyway?) to lubricate their pray.
Why not use salivary ducts inside the mouth, rather than make your vision blurred? Also, with an animal as long-snouted as a crocodile, I doubt the tars would get THAT far into the mouth anyway.
More likely I expect it to be a spin off of some histamine-like hormone causing many similar glands, including tear and salivary glands, to respond.
Do you ever benchmark yourselves while the other watches? Oh man that's hot.
Actually the close window button is still in focus and pressable when the mouse is on the top right most pixel, regardless of the small border between it and the button.
It might be that they do various different scanners of different prices, and the government have no yet committed to which ones at which stations.