But in the Microsoft response the editor comments they are in Malaysia, so maybe it's already April 1st there? Joke lag anyone? You are right. Malaysia is GMT+8 and it is already April 1st there.
Oh, come on! This has to be either an early April Fool's Day joke or a false rumor. Maybe someday we will see something in this regards, but I think we are still quite a long way from practical implementations, which could provide ray tracing in such performance that it would be usable in gaming. Besides, there is no sources mentioned at the article, it seems to be based completely on rumors (or lies?) and at the end of the article, there is some "quotes" from manufacturers, which seem like a 12-year old kid has written them. Besides, what's the deal with all those smiley faces?
GNU Global is able to generate a set of HTML pages from C/C++ source code. This tool has helped me several times. All member variables, functions, classes and class instances are hyperlinks. It provides an easy way to examine source code. It also provides tags for several text editors (for Vim and Emacs especially). http://www.gnu.org/software/global/
I think there's a setting in "options" that limits the ram used for caching. Thanks for the tip! I searched the options and found memory settings for embedded objects. The amount of memory provided for the objects was for some reason very low and I just increased all values tenfold and now image intensive documents work much better!
I don't know, what they did to OOo, but when I upgraded from the 2.0.2 to 2.3.0, the performance of the Writer dropped dramatically. I have a document, which contains 20 500x500 pixel images distributed over 30 pages. The scrolling from one page to another is awful. It takes from 5 to 20 seconds to switch from one page to another. This delay seems to be pretty random but consistent at the same time, because it doesn't matter if I already have visited both pages and I'm working between these two pages, the delay still varies between the 5-20 seconds each time. I didn't have this problem with the 2.0.2 version. Now I'm considering downgrading back to 2.0.2.
Even previously unquestioned organizations like ISO are proving to be all too easily corrupted. Others, like the UN you wish to hand the greatest achievement of Western Civilization over to, were so flawed in their design they became failed instituitions before the ink was dry on their charters.
Seriously, this isn't a troll or flamebait. Name three achivements of the UN since it's founding. Maybe these are not achievements you are talking about, but in my opinion UNICEF, UNESCO and WFP are quite good organizations that are working under the UN.
I will not argue that any of these organizations would be flawless. Some of these organizations have done quite stupid things or have been working quite inefficient manner, but I think that - in general - all of these organizations are doing good things and without them the world would be worse place to be for some people.
And I think that questioning organizations is a GOOD thing. There should be no organization with any kind of power going on without questioning their actions. But are they totally worthless, I don't think so. Or maybe I'm just naive.
Adam Osborne and his statements, which led to the bankruptcy of his company, Osborne Computer Corporation.
I'm not implying that Apple would face similar fate. I'm just wondering, why these kind of news does not damage the company nowadays like in the "good" old days.
The article says that you will not receive neither XP installation disk nor a valid XP Product Key. All HP hardware that I have been using have had a rescue CD set, vanilla XP installation CD (although, the CD has HP label) and a Product Key sticker glued to the machine. The Key works with the installation CD, but the activation process has to be done over the phone.
This is the situation in Finland. Does HP have different policies in other countries? I'm just curious to know if there just are different policies in different countries or is this some completely new policy that HP started using just recently?
Well, I faced a similar need some time ago. I ended up using MoinMoin. I know, it's not a blogging software, it's a wiki, but in my case it does the job. There might be some other choices available at the wiki-front, but MoinMoin has syntax-colorisation for some programming languages built-in (Python, C, SH scripts if I remember correctly, I had a need for Python only).
Colin McRae Rally actually has a lot deeper meaning for me than just being a comfort game. I have developed a habit that every christmas I buy some crackers, different sorts of cheese and I dedicate a day just for playing this racing classic. I eat nothing but cheese and crackers and play and I'll have this Zen-like experience. This ritual gives me the peace some people seek form churches or other spiritual christmas activities.
Except that WinModems are the exact OPPOSITE of the philosophy that's being espoused here with crypto offload engines, intelligent network cards, etc.
Yes, I know. I was referring to WinModems because I think that this kind of technology will fail in similar fashion (well, ok, if we look modern laptops, it can be argued that the WinModem buisiness haven't actually failed).
The only way that I could see this whole business being "WinModem-like" is in it being tremendously difficult to program for on non-Microsoft OSes. But that's not a consequence of the design per se, but of how I suspect MS will choose to implement it.
Yes, that's what I had in my mind except Microsoft has nothing to do with this. It's about the hardware manufacturers and their ability to provide standard interface for these devices. Instead of providing just the network layer, now the functionality up until the application layer will be proprietary. You can say Bye Bye! to all generic 3COM, RealTek and NE2000 drivers (yes, even with current cards there are no standards, but at least we have a set of well-known chipsets). So, when we look these new all-in-one NICs, it'll look awfully lot like the current situation with WinModems and their drivers.
In the future we will probably see things like SSL encryption being performed on the card as well.
If I remember correctly, there was once upon a time encryption accelerator cards for servers to release some stress from CPUs. They were discarded as obsolete because the CPU power kept growing and in the end, the pure CPU calculation power was much more greater than with these accelerator cards. It would have required constant hardware investments to keep the cards up to speed with ever-growing CPU speeds.
It seems that these old cards are on sale on the eBay and [when I look those other search results] also some are sold as new, so I guess that this is still viable technology in some places: http://www.google.com/search?q=ssl+encryption+acce lerator+card
Anyway, I just have this feeling that it's not a good idea to integrate any kind of encryption technology directly to the card.
the iPod touch scroll thing is a PITA, and MS makes kick ass hardware.
So, you have already used this new player? Interesting. Or are you just saying that automatically every piece of hardware that MS makes will be great? Yes, MS makes excellent mice and keyboards (and I prefer them) but I'm not assuming anything based on my previous experiences.
Shove your "fanboi" thing up your ass and use your brain.
Oh, how rude. I just asked an honest question and you immediately are showing things up my ass. Well, maybe you have difficulties comprehending what I wrote. Just re-read and think. Did I accuse anyone (except maybe Apple fans and Linux users) of fanboyism?
This made me wondering, if there is somewhere people wearing T-shirts with Microsoft (or Windows) logos and chanting the Microsoft name. Is there such fanboyism, which will guarantee the sale of this kind of device? Because, otherwise it could be quite difficult to penetrate the market with this new device. We already have Apple and Creative and they both provide well-known music players. And I have this feeling (so, no real knowledge) that the music player industry is like mobile phone industry. You have to be hip to be on the belt of a teenager. Right?
So, the question is, is there such a movement - like behind Linux or other subcultures we are familiar with here in Slashdot - for Microsoft products? And now I'm not talking about business software. I'm talking about the passionate young people with ideologies and ideals.
Won't that memory-leak the system? I'm not a DOS guru but on UNIX this would hog the memory in matter of moments - the script never quits after calling another instance of itself.
Actually, no. When a batch file calls another batch file (or itself) it will immediately quit from the current batch file process and start another one. CALL statement is intended for situations, where you need to continue the execution of the original batch file after calling another batch file.
Well, I agree with you that the Linux support is great. With my current R50, everything - except modem and wlan adapter - works great with every modern Linux distribution. However, there is no support for the harddisk under the FreeBSD, which I find quite odd. But I have heard that this is an issue with some strange emulation layer inside of the harddisk, which is handled well under the Linux but not under the FreeBSD.
When I claimed that the quality is terrible, I meant the hardware quality. R50 series is plaqued with keyboard problems and there is bunch of other issues with harddisks, screens, CPUs etc. Well, at least with most of the machines we have in our company (and there are hunderds of these machines).
Nowadays, only brand of laptops I truly trust are the Fujitsu-Siemens laptops. They are not perfect either, but the Linux-support seems to be pretty OK and overall quality is good.
Am I the only one who thinks that newer IBM / Lenovo laptops are just pieces of crap?
Company I'm working for has a contract with IBM and we are using an IBM hardware. I have an R50 laptop and last week I had a chance to try some X series laptops. I have heard that the T series are (were?) a good laptop brand, but I have no experience of them (I've heard that the T series, T42 to be more specific, is quite a nice machine for Linux). Anyway, my R50 - and every other R50 I have dealed with - is just a huge pile of crap. And now the light-weight X series seems to be following the footsteps of the R series. The thing is, both models are, as far as I know, provided by the Lenovo factories.
Oh, and the legendary "black IBM design" with well-finished product quality (case and components) is just a joke. Pieces are not fit together well enough and the finishing touch is just missing. Also, the assembly of the LCD screen is just terrible. Every time, I open the laptop lid, it feels like the CD drive and the lid would come off in any minute.
The worst thing is that most reviewers have been giving absolutely glorious reviews for the R50 series laptops. But maybe drug-abusing is common trait in the laptop-reviewer-circles.
I thought that final paragraph was funny, and I'm British
Well, It's nice to hear that the great British sense of humour is still there:)
Still, I think that when talking about software security, this kind of humour perhaps isn't most appropriate considering the subject. Usually, if someone wants to lighten the speech up, mocking the people of the host country perhaps is not the best thing to do. Instead, mocking the neighbours is OK;) But then again, maybe I just take this a bit too seriously and I'm thinking too much of the etiquette.
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Oh, come on! This has to be either an early April Fool's Day joke or a false rumor. Maybe someday we will see something in this regards, but I think we are still quite a long way from practical implementations, which could provide ray tracing in such performance that it would be usable in gaming. Besides, there is no sources mentioned at the article, it seems to be based completely on rumors (or lies?) and at the end of the article, there is some "quotes" from manufacturers, which seem like a 12-year old kid has written them. Besides, what's the deal with all those smiley faces?
GNU Global is able to generate a set of HTML pages from C/C++ source code. This tool has helped me several times. All member variables, functions, classes and class instances are hyperlinks. It provides an easy way to examine source code. It also provides tags for several text editors (for Vim and Emacs especially). http://www.gnu.org/software/global/
RFID has already been suggested (here is the old Slashdot story) and sounds much more convenient to use.
I don't know, what they did to OOo, but when I upgraded from the 2.0.2 to 2.3.0, the performance of the Writer dropped dramatically. I have a document, which contains 20 500x500 pixel images distributed over 30 pages. The scrolling from one page to another is awful. It takes from 5 to 20 seconds to switch from one page to another. This delay seems to be pretty random but consistent at the same time, because it doesn't matter if I already have visited both pages and I'm working between these two pages, the delay still varies between the 5-20 seconds each time. I didn't have this problem with the 2.0.2 version. Now I'm considering downgrading back to 2.0.2.
Seriously, this isn't a troll or flamebait. Name three achivements of the UN since it's founding. Maybe these are not achievements you are talking about, but in my opinion UNICEF, UNESCO and WFP are quite good organizations that are working under the UN.
I will not argue that any of these organizations would be flawless. Some of these organizations have done quite stupid things or have been working quite inefficient manner, but I think that - in general - all of these organizations are doing good things and without them the world would be worse place to be for some people.
And I think that questioning organizations is a GOOD thing. There should be no organization with any kind of power going on without questioning their actions. But are they totally worthless, I don't think so. Or maybe I'm just naive.
Adam Osborne and his statements, which led to the bankruptcy of his company, Osborne Computer Corporation.
I'm not implying that Apple would face similar fate. I'm just wondering, why these kind of news does not damage the company nowadays like in the "good" old days.
64 hours should be enough for anyone.
The article says that you will not receive neither XP installation disk nor a valid XP Product Key. All HP hardware that I have been using have had a rescue CD set, vanilla XP installation CD (although, the CD has HP label) and a Product Key sticker glued to the machine. The Key works with the installation CD, but the activation process has to be done over the phone.
This is the situation in Finland. Does HP have different policies in other countries? I'm just curious to know if there just are different policies in different countries or is this some completely new policy that HP started using just recently?
Worms and Worms 3D. These are all-time classics. In my opinion these will provide most fun and you can't take these games too seriously.
By the way, Vim is another editor, which is able to save syntax-highlighted code as an HTML.
Well, I faced a similar need some time ago. I ended up using MoinMoin. I know, it's not a blogging software, it's a wiki, but in my case it does the job. There might be some other choices available at the wiki-front, but MoinMoin has syntax-colorisation for some programming languages built-in (Python, C, SH scripts if I remember correctly, I had a need for Python only).
- Colin McRae Rally (the first one)
- Gran Turismo 3
- Nethack
- Commander Keen (any one of the series)
- SSX (the first one)
Colin McRae Rally actually has a lot deeper meaning for me than just being a comfort game. I have developed a habit that every christmas I buy some crackers, different sorts of cheese and I dedicate a day just for playing this racing classic. I eat nothing but cheese and crackers and play and I'll have this Zen-like experience. This ritual gives me the peace some people seek form churches or other spiritual christmas activities.Yes, that's what I had in my mind except Microsoft has nothing to do with this. It's about the hardware manufacturers and their ability to provide standard interface for these devices. Instead of providing just the network layer, now the functionality up until the application layer will be proprietary. You can say Bye Bye! to all generic 3COM, RealTek and NE2000 drivers (yes, even with current cards there are no standards, but at least we have a set of well-known chipsets). So, when we look these new all-in-one NICs, it'll look awfully lot like the current situation with WinModems and their drivers.
It seems that these old cards are on sale on the eBay and [when I look those other search results] also some are sold as new, so I guess that this is still viable technology in some places: http://www.google.com/search?q=ssl+encryption+acc
Anyway, I just have this feeling that it's not a good idea to integrate any kind of encryption technology directly to the card.
Hmm... Do I smell WinModem?
Oh, how rude. I just asked an honest question and you immediately are showing things up my ass. Well, maybe you have difficulties comprehending what I wrote. Just re-read and think. Did I accuse anyone (except maybe Apple fans and Linux users) of fanboyism?
Or is this just too touchy issue for you?
This made me wondering, if there is somewhere people wearing T-shirts with Microsoft (or Windows) logos and chanting the Microsoft name. Is there such fanboyism, which will guarantee the sale of this kind of device? Because, otherwise it could be quite difficult to penetrate the market with this new device. We already have Apple and Creative and they both provide well-known music players. And I have this feeling (so, no real knowledge) that the music player industry is like mobile phone industry. You have to be hip to be on the belt of a teenager. Right?
So, the question is, is there such a movement - like behind Linux or other subcultures we are familiar with here in Slashdot - for Microsoft products? And now I'm not talking about business software. I'm talking about the passionate young people with ideologies and ideals.
Well, I agree with you that the Linux support is great. With my current R50, everything - except modem and wlan adapter - works great with every modern Linux distribution. However, there is no support for the harddisk under the FreeBSD, which I find quite odd. But I have heard that this is an issue with some strange emulation layer inside of the harddisk, which is handled well under the Linux but not under the FreeBSD.
When I claimed that the quality is terrible, I meant the hardware quality. R50 series is plaqued with keyboard problems and there is bunch of other issues with harddisks, screens, CPUs etc. Well, at least with most of the machines we have in our company (and there are hunderds of these machines).
Nowadays, only brand of laptops I truly trust are the Fujitsu-Siemens laptops. They are not perfect either, but the Linux-support seems to be pretty OK and overall quality is good.
Am I the only one who thinks that newer IBM / Lenovo laptops are just pieces of crap?
Company I'm working for has a contract with IBM and we are using an IBM hardware. I have an R50 laptop and last week I had a chance to try some X series laptops. I have heard that the T series are (were?) a good laptop brand, but I have no experience of them (I've heard that the T series, T42 to be more specific, is quite a nice machine for Linux). Anyway, my R50 - and every other R50 I have dealed with - is just a huge pile of crap. And now the light-weight X series seems to be following the footsteps of the R series. The thing is, both models are, as far as I know, provided by the Lenovo factories.
Oh, and the legendary "black IBM design" with well-finished product quality (case and components) is just a joke. Pieces are not fit together well enough and the finishing touch is just missing. Also, the assembly of the LCD screen is just terrible. Every time, I open the laptop lid, it feels like the CD drive and the lid would come off in any minute.
The worst thing is that most reviewers have been giving absolutely glorious reviews for the R50 series laptops. But maybe drug-abusing is common trait in the laptop-reviewer-circles.
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Dear God! What are you doing with those marshmallows? Having sex with them? You sick bastard!
I thought that final paragraph was funny, and I'm British
:)
;) But then again, maybe I just take this a bit too seriously and I'm thinking too much of the etiquette.
Well, It's nice to hear that the great British sense of humour is still there
Still, I think that when talking about software security, this kind of humour perhaps isn't most appropriate considering the subject. Usually, if someone wants to lighten the speech up, mocking the people of the host country perhaps is not the best thing to do. Instead, mocking the neighbours is OK