Without disabling XUL, I mean it's the equivilent of using images and text forms to spoof the IE menu bar, it just so happens that Firefox gives you tools that can be used to do a better job of it.
At any rate this can be overcome quite easily by changing the javascript prefs so that sites can't hide things like the status bar and menus.
The Earthlink email got me as they used an IE display bug to hide the @ symbol, but I was only using IE because their silly status bar display code didn't work in Firefox.
I was a bit dubious that the link was different to the text but I put that down as Earthlink being rubbish (kind of a double bluff).
It certainly looks fairly good, much better then the first prototype shots of it I've seen,
However, I'm gonna have to say I prefer the PSP in terms of looks, it's just that little bit sleeker (tho with all those shiney surfaces it'll probably get scratched up real easy).
As for which system will be better it all depends on the battery life and most importantly the games.
The thing about aircraft is they get to move around in 3 dimensions so can fly over each other, whereas cars are stick in 2 dimensions. At least until 2015.
What about the year 2038 bug? 68 years may have seemed like a long time back in 1970, but it's getting closer, and if there are still a lot of old unix systems/programs running by the mid 2030's there's gonna be a lot of problems.
I thought that XP was a merge of the two forks? (The NT kernal with a lot of the consumer features of ME).
Personally I can't see why they kept the DOS line going so long anyway, NT is so much better then the 9X core if they'd just released a cut down NT for consumers (eg. not have 100's of services running as standard) with maybe a dual boot dos option for the games of the time the world would be a much better place.
By the sounds of the article Microsoft has submitted their VC-9 codec as an open standard, does that actually mean that OS encoders/decoders can be developed free from MS lawer related hassle, or are there still strings attached?
On a more serious note I remember reading that after a certain amount of time in this extended mission they would have shut the rovers down because they didn't have the money to keep the control room going, but I guess as they're talking about keeping them going longer still I'd hope they've been able to find a bit more cash
I think it's a physical limitation of the wheels more then anything else, the reason they think it might not be able to get out is because they'll just slip on the sandy slope.
I mean, sure, they could've tried tracks on it, but they'd probably have their own problems. There's only so many situations they can guard against before the whole thing just becomes unfeasible.
This is taken from the news.com.com.com article, talking about digital projectors
"But the technology has raised concerns that audience members might eventually create high-quality copies of movies using handheld video cameras smuggled into theaters."
Rriiiiigggghhhhhttttt, so I'm going to be able to take a wobbly handheld camcorder into a movie, sit behind some tall bloke, and magically record an ultra-high quality digital copy of a movie.
I guess some people just hear the word "digital" and suddenly get reality confused with a load of RIAA/MPAA propaganda.
But with Natwest bank I have a 4 digit pin number and a password, when I log in it asks me for 3 random digits from each
eg. Please enter the 2nd, 4th and 1st digits of your pin [ ] [ ] [ ] Please enter the 6th 8th and 2nd letters of your password [ ] [ ] [ ]
While this isn't as secure has using 1 time passwords it prevents people from finding your password with just a keylogger (you'd have to be able to carefully monitor the users screen and keypresses over a long period of time to find out the password), and its a shame more login systems don't do that as I always feel a bit funny typing full passwords into obviously spyware infested internet cafe computers.
Colossus wasn't the first computer, but I think it was the first all electronic computer, whereas the Z3 used physical relay switches.
If you're after the first programmable computer then Charles Babbage's Difference Engine beat the Z3 by over 100 years (although he never actually finished building it the science museum reproduced it and it worked)
10p each track to charity is all well and good if the songs were say 20-30p each, but 75p to 1 quid? I don't think so. I may as well just go into Oxfam and buy a couple of quids worth of old cloths or whatnot, then all the money goes to Oxfam.
Until a digital music service offers me MP3s at a reasonable price all my money is going to the Russians
If they made a shirt out of OLED...
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...then presumably the entire t-shirt could be a display, now that would be cool
It probably wouldn't be bright enough for Preditor style camouflage but it'd be pretty nifty to have an animated shirt anyway:)
A few days ago I saw a message from our firewall asking if I wanted to allow Security Authority Subsystem to be contacted by a remote host.
A simple click on the "No" button stopped this worm in its tracks.
If more admins just installed firewalls and made sure all unnecessary services were blocked there'd be a lot less worm infections. (sure it won't protect people who need to use the Security Authority Subsystem, but I'm willing to bet a lot of the infected machines don't use it at all)
Humans are designed to survive much dirtier conditions then we live in now, that's what we have an immune system for.
Infact one of the reasons why there's a lot more people suffering allergies these days could be that because we live in such clean conditions our immune system's got nothing better to do then go nuts over minor environmental contaminates.
MMORPG "Eve Online" is a free download, with a charge to set up an account and the usual monthly carge, which seems pretty sensible to me. If a game needs to be played over the internet then what point is there buying a CD? It may as well just be free with a setup charge to create an account.
I think Eve Online is also avaiable on CD (with a key for a free account) for people who can't be bothered to download it.
I guess this is the next step up.
Soon enough they'll probably be able to build completely artificial DNA based "life" that can be programmed to perform various tasks , perhaps even sooner then traditional nanobots can be developed.
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Without disabling XUL, I mean it's the equivilent of using images and text forms to spoof the IE menu bar, it just so happens that Firefox gives you tools that can be used to do a better job of it.
At any rate this can be overcome quite easily by changing the javascript prefs so that sites can't hide things like the status bar and menus.
The Earthlink email got me as they used an IE display bug to hide the @ symbol, but I was only using IE because their silly status bar display code didn't work in Firefox.
I was a bit dubious that the link was different to the text but I put that down as Earthlink being rubbish (kind of a double bluff).
It certainly looks fairly good, much better then the first prototype shots of it I've seen,
However, I'm gonna have to say I prefer the PSP in terms of looks, it's just that little bit sleeker (tho with all those shiney surfaces it'll probably get scratched up real easy).
As for which system will be better it all depends on the battery life and most importantly the games.
Well as long as they don't use feet and inches they should be safe
Because it uses less fuel.
The more "slingshots" the better, hence the long route.
The thing about aircraft is they get to move around in 3 dimensions so can fly over each other, whereas cars are stick in 2 dimensions. At least until 2015.
I'm betting the owner of ilovebees.com is in on it, probably just an in-joke with some of the halo developers, maybe they know the guy or something.
According to the whois record ilovebees.com was created on 14-JUN-04, so the entire site might be fake like that Mini robot thing a while back
It doesn't fall down if you have one of these
What about the year 2038 bug? 68 years may have seemed like a long time back in 1970, but it's getting closer, and if there are still a lot of old unix systems/programs running by the mid 2030's there's gonna be a lot of problems.
I thought that XP was a merge of the two forks? (The NT kernal with a lot of the consumer features of ME).
Personally I can't see why they kept the DOS line going so long anyway, NT is so much better then the 9X core if they'd just released a cut down NT for consumers (eg. not have 100's of services running as standard) with maybe a dual boot dos option for the games of the time the world would be a much better place.
You may as well just buy a new hard disk, you can probably get a 2nd hand 2.5" drive in eBay for very little.
Of course, if your BIOS supports booting from a USB cd-rom you could use a linux boot disk
By the sounds of the article Microsoft has submitted their VC-9 codec as an open standard, does that actually mean that OS encoders/decoders can be developed free from MS lawer related hassle, or are there still strings attached?
Can you still outright crash NT by sending too many backspaces to the console?
Maybe they were made by Toyota?
On a more serious note I remember reading that after a certain amount of time in this extended mission they would have shut the rovers down because they didn't have the money to keep the control room going, but I guess as they're talking about keeping them going longer still I'd hope they've been able to find a bit more cash
I think it's a physical limitation of the wheels more then anything else, the reason they think it might not be able to get out is because they'll just slip on the sandy slope.
I mean, sure, they could've tried tracks on it, but they'd probably have their own problems. There's only so many situations they can guard against before the whole thing just becomes unfeasible.
This is taken from the news.com.com.com article, talking about digital projectors
"But the technology has raised concerns that audience members might eventually create high-quality copies of movies using handheld video cameras smuggled into theaters."
Rriiiiigggghhhhhttttt, so I'm going to be able to take a wobbly handheld camcorder into a movie, sit behind some tall bloke, and magically record an ultra-high quality digital copy of a movie.
I guess some people just hear the word "digital" and suddenly get reality confused with a load of RIAA/MPAA propaganda.
But with Natwest bank I have a 4 digit pin number and a password, when I log in it asks me for 3 random digits from each
eg.
Please enter the 2nd, 4th and 1st digits of your pin [ ] [ ] [ ]
Please enter the 6th 8th and 2nd letters of your password [ ] [ ] [ ]
While this isn't as secure has using 1 time passwords it prevents people from finding your password with just a keylogger (you'd have to be able to carefully monitor the users screen and keypresses over a long period of time to find out the password), and its a shame more login systems don't do that as I always feel a bit funny typing full passwords into obviously spyware infested internet cafe computers.
Colossus wasn't the first computer, but I think it was the first all electronic computer, whereas the Z3 used physical relay switches.
If you're after the first programmable computer then Charles Babbage's Difference Engine beat the Z3 by over 100 years (although he never actually finished building it the science museum reproduced it and it worked)
I think you'll find that buckyballs kill brain cells
10p each track to charity is all well and good if the songs were say 20-30p each, but 75p to 1 quid? I don't think so. I may as well just go into Oxfam and buy a couple of quids worth of old cloths or whatnot, then all the money goes to Oxfam.
Until a digital music service offers me MP3s at a reasonable price all my money is going to the Russians
...then presumably the entire t-shirt could be a display, now that would be cool
It probably wouldn't be bright enough for Preditor style camouflage but it'd be pretty nifty to have an animated shirt anyway :)
A few days ago I saw a message from our firewall asking if I wanted to allow Security Authority Subsystem to be contacted by a remote host.
A simple click on the "No" button stopped this worm in its tracks.
If more admins just installed firewalls and made sure all unnecessary services were blocked there'd be a lot less worm infections. (sure it won't protect people who need to use the Security Authority Subsystem, but I'm willing to bet a lot of the infected machines don't use it at all)
Humans are designed to survive much dirtier conditions then we live in now, that's what we have an immune system for.
Infact one of the reasons why there's a lot more people suffering allergies these days could be that because we live in such clean conditions our immune system's got nothing better to do then go nuts over minor environmental contaminates.
MMORPG "Eve Online" is a free download, with a charge to set up an account and the usual monthly carge, which seems pretty sensible to me. If a game needs to be played over the internet then what point is there buying a CD? It may as well just be free with a setup charge to create an account. I think Eve Online is also avaiable on CD (with a key for a free account) for people who can't be bothered to download it.
I guess this is the next step up. Soon enough they'll probably be able to build completely artificial DNA based "life" that can be programmed to perform various tasks , perhaps even sooner then traditional nanobots can be developed.