Actually with EDGE you're looking at maximum connection speeds of 384kbps with 48kbps per time slot.
You're right, but I haven't heard that EDGE would be very commonly implemented or supported currently. I hope that it would be supported as soon as possible, because...
Instant messaging, RSS feeds, and e-mail aren't necessarily technologies in need of überbandwidth.
... I have to use Lotus Notes over GSM network and it is a pain in the ass. Out company policy is that while working outside of the office, we have to call to our own call-in service (so no GPRS or other public Internet access) and use Notes to check e-mail and access documents. I heard that the EDGE would be the next thing to be used, but at the moment there is no coverage for it.
Do not fix your web pages to a specific resolution. I hate those idiots, who think that world rotates around 1024x768 monitors. I'm surfing web with different kinds of devices and browsers (WAP browsers, text-only browsers, Avant Go etc.) and it pisses me off when I hit the page which can't scale correctly to my browser.
Content is what matters, not fixed-sized cool-looking layout (you know, it's possible to make nice looking, functional web sites with scalable layout).
I've noticed that the most notorious misusers of fixed layout are designers, who have used to design magazines. Apparently there is not enough education about web designing at art schools even nowadays.
If your job can be done from home, it can be done from India, or China, or Mexico.
I think, you are wrong. Yes, I can see your point and agree to some degree, but in general, a telecommuter is a person, who has to do creative work and his/her presence is not required regularly at the office.
I'm telecommuting and I don't feel that my position would be threatened. My contribution to the company is pretty important and both my employer and I have agreed that telecommuting will increase my productivity. I'm working as a software engineer and I constantly find it hard to concentrate at the work-place (I'm sitting in the cubicle). Telecommuting makes it possible to get out from the noisy office to much quieter place and achieve better results.
"an instruction manual on a CD-ROM that will advise wearers on, among other things, how to change the battery"
So, does these shoes have a CD-ROM-drive built-in or how one is going to use the manual on the road? Because, it would suck quite royally ass if the BSOD strikes while running at the woods and you have to try to figure out, how to reboot your shoes. And what if the batteries run out? The only thing you can do with the manual is to wave it and hope someone equipped with pair of AAA-batteries (or whatever the shoes are using) and a laptop would see you (a laptop is required because the manual contains the instructions, how to change batteries).
These shoes will bring us to a totally new level of complexity of having some exercise.
I prefer outline-minor-mode. I have found out, that it works better with Tcl/Tk code. It has same keyboard commands as hs-minor-mode, but also supports hide-sublevels (C-c @ C-q) command (hides all hidable parts with one command).
This laptop should be "Linux certified" and even the review says: "Overall, this is a well-working, robust laptop, hardware-wise. My problems were all OS-related." So, what kind of a certification is this? I thought that the whole point on "certifying" something is same as promising that there are no hick-ups in the product - in hardware-wise or software-wise. Why would the company, who makes this kinds of promises, ship the hardware with the software which clearly doesn't support the hardware fully? They even admit that the computer isn't fully functional with Xandros Desktop 2.0.
I can see that in this case the "certification" is more of a promise that the machine will work with future versions of Linux distributions (which is stupid, because the LinuxCertified.com says: "We make sure that all the core components, including the screen in its full resolution, sound etc., are correctly configured with Linux.", which at least for me, is a promise of fully functional OS shipped with the product).
Consumers in general aren't interested in future compatibility of products. They want fully functional product NOW. Without any hassle of installing newer version of the OS later.
In general, I like the idea that there will be companies who are willing to guarantee that the hardware will work with Linux. But I also want to see products that are usable without any additional tinkering.
I think that in the reviews, the writers comments and experiences are the most important aspect. Rating with numbers or percents is dangerous, because it seems to be a rule, that all games are rated between 80% to 100% and if any game receives any lower rating, it is automatically labelled as a bad game even if the game is billiant and the lower rating is given only by techincal reasons (bugs etc.). Also, it's tempting to compare numbers between different reviews even if there isn't any common rule set between different gaming magazines for giving these ratings (so the comparing is actually pointless). Numerical ratings are too subjective to be taken as a meter for the quality of the game (idea, storyline) itself.
Damn. Still no pie charts, because it "It's not possible in gnuplot" (as stated in the FAQ). How hard can it be? I like Gnuplot very much, but it seems that I still have to rely on self-made Tcl/Tk-script so I can bake myself some nice EPS pies.
While you can distribute the JRE, you can only do so if you aren distributing it for the purpose of running your application.
Could you clarify this claim a bit? Last time I checked the JRE license file (and the readme.txt), it was permissible to redistribute JRE as a part of your product without paying any royalties.
"I'm sure the case doesn't take a hellacious amout of natural resources. I mean, it's just bending metal. The power supply is relatively simple electronics."
Actually, I think that the UN study is a bit misleading. It's not the water or chemicals only. For example mining ore for all metallic parts for a computer case (iron, aluminum) or for components (silicon, tin, gold, etc.) is also a serious environment hasard. For example gold mining industry is using mercury for separating gold from ore. Also large-scale iron mining has (apart from being an aesthetic disaster) a huge impact on environment.
So, when you're upgrading your PC, was it just a case or a motherboard, the environmental effects will be significant, one way or the other.
Once I found this interesting P2P service, Snackster.net, which claims to be a recipe sharing network. I tried this once, but at the time it didn't work at all. Does anyone have any experience about this service?
I just made few PNGs with GIMP and used them at a web page. To my surprise, the pictures didn't look right because the IE6 doesn't seem to support PNGs correctly. The whole point of using the PNGs at the page was that they offer nice support for transparency and alpha channel. But IE6 rendered the pictures using black background and the whole page looked like a shit.
I'm not saying that we have to slow down the technological progress because IE can't support standards, but come one, if the major player isn't supporting even the older version of the standard (PNG v.1 is a part of the W3C standards, right?) then how could we expect anyone to support yet another version?
I use "mkisofs/etc/root/home -R -T -o backup.iso && cdrecord dev=0,0,0 speed=4 blank=fast -data backup.iso" to create an ISO image, which will be burned to the CDRW disk. That's all I need to backup my workstation. And restoring the data doesn't require any special tools.
First I read "Software Development with Scum" and I thought that this must be something about those clients I have been working for.
It's not a secret, why business-driven software development so often turns to be a such a mess. The demanding part (management, customers) is just plain stupid. No, sorry, bone-headed whould be a better term.
I thought that CGI stands for Common Gateway Interface and is a standard method of transferring information between a server and a client. The method doesn't say anything about the language used. The article gives an impression that CGI is equal to C programming. Isn't CGI a base for almost all WWW browser based client-server communication? What other methods are available? RMI? Bare TCP/UDP sockets? How.NET transfers data between the browser and the server? How Java Server Pages do it?
As you can see, I'm not a web programmer and the article actually made things more unclear for me. Did I misunderstood something? Can someone clarify things up for me, please?
Ah, I wasn't aware of the fact that the mouse button was configurable. And now I have to be a bit more specific. I was actually using those gestures with Phoenix (I think that the package was designed for Mozilla, anyway) and at the time I was testing the gestures package, there was no way to change the configuration of any plug-in functionality.
So, I admit my ignorance and apologize my inaccurate description of my past situation. My previous comment wasn't meant to be a troll. I was just trying to ask an innocent question about the true meaning and usefulness of the gestures.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually with EDGE you're looking at maximum connection speeds of 384kbps with 48kbps per time slot.
... I have to use Lotus Notes over GSM network and it is a pain in the ass. Out company policy is that while working outside of the office, we have to call to our own call-in service (so no GPRS or other public Internet access) and use Notes to check e-mail and access documents. I heard that the EDGE would be the next thing to be used, but at the moment there is no coverage for it.
You're right, but I haven't heard that EDGE would be very commonly implemented or supported currently. I hope that it would be supported as soon as possible, because...
Instant messaging, RSS feeds, and e-mail aren't necessarily technologies in need of überbandwidth.
Emphasis on the word "slow", right?
If I haven't misunderstood anything, the "High Speed" in the GSM network means approximately 28.8 kbps transfer rates (and with GPRS it's 56 kbps).
Do not fix your web pages to a specific resolution. I hate those idiots, who think that world rotates around 1024x768 monitors. I'm surfing web with different kinds of devices and browsers (WAP browsers, text-only browsers, Avant Go etc.) and it pisses me off when I hit the page which can't scale correctly to my browser.
Content is what matters, not fixed-sized cool-looking layout (you know, it's possible to make nice looking, functional web sites with scalable layout).
I've noticed that the most notorious misusers of fixed layout are designers, who have used to design magazines. Apparently there is not enough education about web designing at art schools even nowadays.
Dictaphone. Or a small tape recorder. Cheap, light-weight, durable, easy to use.
If your job can be done from home, it can be done from India, or China, or Mexico.
I think, you are wrong. Yes, I can see your point and agree to some degree, but in general, a telecommuter is a person, who has to do creative work and his/her presence is not required regularly at the office.
I'm telecommuting and I don't feel that my position would be threatened. My contribution to the company is pretty important and both my employer and I have agreed that telecommuting will increase my productivity. I'm working as a software engineer and I constantly find it hard to concentrate at the work-place (I'm sitting in the cubicle). Telecommuting makes it possible to get out from the noisy office to much quieter place and achieve better results.
You can't be serious... can you?
No, I can't.
My comment was meant to be funny, not insightful. Thanks to brilliant moderation, people now think that I was seriously writing that stuff.
Oh well... This just proves that I'm not a funny person and I shouldn't try to make fun of things.
"an instruction manual on a CD-ROM that will advise wearers on, among other things, how to change the battery"
So, does these shoes have a CD-ROM-drive built-in or how one is going to use the manual on the road? Because, it would suck quite royally ass if the BSOD strikes while running at the woods and you have to try to figure out, how to reboot your shoes. And what if the batteries run out? The only thing you can do with the manual is to wave it and hope someone equipped with pair of AAA-batteries (or whatever the shoes are using) and a laptop would see you (a laptop is required because the manual contains the instructions, how to change batteries).
These shoes will bring us to a totally new level of complexity of having some exercise.
I prefer outline-minor-mode. I have found out, that it works better with Tcl/Tk code. It has same keyboard commands as hs-minor-mode, but also supports hide-sublevels (C-c @ C-q) command (hides all hidable parts with one command).
This laptop should be "Linux certified" and even the review says: "Overall, this is a well-working, robust laptop, hardware-wise. My problems were all OS-related." So, what kind of a certification is this? I thought that the whole point on "certifying" something is same as promising that there are no hick-ups in the product - in hardware-wise or software-wise. Why would the company, who makes this kinds of promises, ship the hardware with the software which clearly doesn't support the hardware fully? They even admit that the computer isn't fully functional with Xandros Desktop 2.0.
I can see that in this case the "certification" is more of a promise that the machine will work with future versions of Linux distributions (which is stupid, because the LinuxCertified.com says: "We make sure that all the core components, including the screen in its full resolution, sound etc., are correctly configured with Linux.", which at least for me, is a promise of fully functional OS shipped with the product).
Consumers in general aren't interested in future compatibility of products. They want fully functional product NOW. Without any hassle of installing newer version of the OS later.
In general, I like the idea that there will be companies who are willing to guarantee that the hardware will work with Linux. But I also want to see products that are usable without any additional tinkering.
I've resigned from my subscription to Penthouse when I got married. And there was no press release on Slashdot.
:-)
But did you submit that information to Slashdot? You know, this is after all a place for stuff that matters
I think that in the reviews, the writers comments and experiences are the most important aspect. Rating with numbers or percents is dangerous, because it seems to be a rule, that all games are rated between 80% to 100% and if any game receives any lower rating, it is automatically labelled as a bad game even if the game is billiant and the lower rating is given only by techincal reasons (bugs etc.). Also, it's tempting to compare numbers between different reviews even if there isn't any common rule set between different gaming magazines for giving these ratings (so the comparing is actually pointless). Numerical ratings are too subjective to be taken as a meter for the quality of the game (idea, storyline) itself.
Damn. Still no pie charts, because it "It's not possible in gnuplot" (as stated in the FAQ). How hard can it be? I like Gnuplot very much, but it seems that I still have to rely on self-made Tcl/Tk-script so I can bake myself some nice EPS pies.
While you can distribute the JRE, you can only do so if you aren distributing it for the purpose of running your application.
Could you clarify this claim a bit? Last time I checked the JRE license file (and the readme.txt), it was permissible to redistribute JRE as a part of your product without paying any royalties.
It could perform a musical. "Singin in the crime" or something...
"I'm sure the case doesn't take a hellacious amout of natural resources. I mean, it's just bending metal. The power supply is relatively simple electronics."
Actually, I think that the UN study is a bit misleading. It's not the water or chemicals only. For example mining ore for all metallic parts for a computer case (iron, aluminum) or for components (silicon, tin, gold, etc.) is also a serious environment hasard. For example gold mining industry is using mercury for separating gold from ore. Also large-scale iron mining has (apart from being an aesthetic disaster) a huge impact on environment.
So, when you're upgrading your PC, was it just a case or a motherboard, the environmental effects will be significant, one way or the other.
Once I found this interesting P2P service, Snackster.net, which claims to be a recipe sharing network. I tried this once, but at the time it didn't work at all. Does anyone have any experience about this service?
This Google Directory Category directly under the toplevel: Adult.
I have no idea, why it is always hidden (even if the content filtering is turned off) or how to reach it from the toplevel.
This is off-topic, but can someone explain, why RDF uses namespaces? Isn't it a bit overkill?
I just made few PNGs with GIMP and used them at a web page. To my surprise, the pictures didn't look right because the IE6 doesn't seem to support PNGs correctly. The whole point of using the PNGs at the page was that they offer nice support for transparency and alpha channel. But IE6 rendered the pictures using black background and the whole page looked like a shit.
I'm not saying that we have to slow down the technological progress because IE can't support standards, but come one, if the major player isn't supporting even the older version of the standard (PNG v.1 is a part of the W3C standards, right?) then how could we expect anyone to support yet another version?
Sounds like some flasher jumping out of the bushes...
Better link, IMHO, is this: Windows Downloads. The link provides correct up-to-date links to different download areas.
I use "mkisofs /etc /root /home -R -T -o backup.iso && cdrecord dev=0,0,0 speed=4 blank=fast -data backup.iso" to create an ISO image, which will be burned to the CDRW disk. That's all I need to backup my workstation. And restoring the data doesn't require any special tools.
It's not a secret, why business-driven software development so often turns to be a such a mess. The demanding part (management, customers) is just plain stupid. No, sorry, bone-headed whould be a better term.
As you can see, I'm not a web programmer and the article actually made things more unclear for me. Did I misunderstood something? Can someone clarify things up for me, please?
So, I admit my ignorance and apologize my inaccurate description of my past situation. My previous comment wasn't meant to be a troll. I was just trying to ask an innocent question about the true meaning and usefulness of the gestures.