I don't understand, why gestures are so popular. I tried Mozilla gestures once, but run into problems with them. At first, they seemed to be a great help, but eventually they just started to make my life difficult. For example, when I tried to paint a piece of text by dragging mouse from right to left, the gesture system decided that I wanted to go to the previous page. Well, that's just stupid. And if I remember correctly, it doesn't help to drag mouse from left to right while painting a section, because it assumes that I want to move forward a page. For me, this kind of a system just makes life harder.
A kid coding 780'000 lines of code in 18 months. All alone. In that time he have had to design and implement the whole shit including "every single media player built in".
It would require some sort of dial-up-server side module to compress and modify the contents of the data and this kind of system would most certainly be a lossy method for transferring data. It won't be possible to transfer binary data with this thing without corrupting the result completely.
And what kind of a piece of software would choke under the load of 7x56k modem ("At seven times it actually crashes so I have limited it to six.")?
This is just a cheap attempt to gather some attention.
Can't comment about my bedroom which is just an alcove near my computer, TV, gaming console, stereos and other electrical devices:) But I have made few things to stop work-related calls interrupting my spare time.
I have a Nokia 6210 cell phone which has these nifty "profiles" and "caller groups". I've set two profiles to my phone: "spare time" and "work hours". In the "spare time" mode no signal is given if the call is coming from the office or the caller is one of my co-workers. Also, the phone is silenced so if someone not-work-related person calls, the phone just beeps and vibrates.
The "work hours" profile on the other hand has a ring tone and all other annoying panic-causing effects turned on and all calls are accepted.
With this simple trick I can truly turn off my work and relax and enjoy me spare time.
how did you get around the lack of support for gaming in linux?
Well, I bought a Play Station 2. I admit that it doesn't has same variety of games as a PC has, but it fullfills my needs.
and you'll forgive me but Wine has failed to impress me so far.
I wouldn't even dream of playing Windows games under the Wine. I've tried, but I can't even get installers of my PC games to work. And to tinker with the settings of the Wine is too much hassle for me. That's why a gaming console is best choice for me.
And Linux actually made things to work better. I felt that under the Linux, the Voodoo cards were better supported than under the Windows. I'm not blaming Microsoft (entirely, anyway). A big part of the problem were those shitty drivers offered by the 3dfx.
And this happend a few years ago, sometimes in the late 90's. I've been using Linux as an only option for a quite a long time now.
Do you find yourself using the console or the computer more now?
I'm using my computer now as much as I used it before. But I'm playing more games with the console than I've used to play with the computer. The console has made playing games so much easier that it encourages me to play more. And at the same time, NOT playing with my computer gives me more time to do useful things with it and not to fight with driver dependencies. A win-win situation, I would say.
Perhaps everyone's just switching to Linux and playing games on their console?
I did just that. I dot tired of fighting with Windows and video card drivers. After having serious problems with GTA2 and Unreal (I had to downgrade GFX drivers to be able to play GTA2 and then updgade the drivers to be able to run Unreal) I decided to start searching an alternative to my crappy PC hardware. I ended up buying PS2 and installing Linux to my PC. I've been very happy computer user ever since.
Only after getting the cell phone, however, did I realize the amazing freedom of being able to call or be called anywhere at any time.
Someone give him a coconut.
Considering the quality of cellphones today, it actually is quite amazing if you can make a phone call with the new nifty device containing tons of bells and whistles they call a cellphone. It seems that nowadays the ability to make a phone call is not as important as the ability to play games and take photos.
If I remember correctly - but I might be wrong - Sendmail ignores everything after the '+' sign in the username part of the address. So "abc+def@example.com" is always sent to address "abc@example.com". No need to play with alias file.
Yes and no. The information you have successfully received from the Whois database is pointing to the phone company in Finland, which happens to be a host for raketti.net domain. Petri Siltakoski is just an administrative contact of the ISP (Raketti.Net). He has nothing to do with the web page set up by an individual who seems to have an account in this ISP.
I didn't answer to all options, because I have nothing to say to them. I just pointed out one detail.
On windows, btw, copy is default for all cases. At least that is consistent, and works with the principle of least surprise.
Actually, Windows has the same inconsistency as Machintosh. Dragging an object with left mouse button moves the object, while dragging it to another drive copies it. And as the article points out, dragging the executable makes a link. Not very consistent for me, I think.
I'm not defending the way Mac is doing things. I'm a Linux user and used to handle everything from the command line.
But he does give an alternative: the Machintosh way of doing it. Press Option button down and drag. Actually this same feature is implemented in Windows also. Press Ctrl and drag the object with left mouse button.
Because it doesn't matter if everyone is able to read, modify and generate Office-compatible files. People will us Office products in future. Opening the file formats doesn't change anything.
XML makes it easy to create programs that will depend on MS Office. So this only makes it easier to create programs which depend on Microsoft products.
I am sorry, but how can you think that some license has anything to do with the birth of the Linux? If we are writing the timeline of Linux, then the line starts from the birth of the innovation - and the software. Not from some license.
First I decided to get a VLB mother board. Just after the purchase PCI won the market. Then I chose to buy an Aureal sound card. And just after that, the Aureal died. Then I got a Voodoo3 video card and that also died a horrible death. And now... just after purchasing an AMD Duron and a new motherboard, they claim that there will be Duron no more. Damned... Either I'm a bad decision maker or then I'm an angel of death. Too bad there is no place to bet for the loser because I'm going to buy a new monitor...
At the discovery of a serious bug/vulnerability, the company would be forced to show documentation of the development process and prove that they have taken reasonable care about avoiding programming mistakes. If it shows that the company hasn't taken care of quality control, and no patches have been released at a reasonable time after discovering the problem, the company will be liable for the bug.
On the other hand, if there is evidence that the bug was an unfortunate accident or the customer hasn't taken care of installing patches or updates, the company will not be liable for the bug.
I know, sounds a bit naive, but this could work...
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I don't understand, why gestures are so popular. I tried Mozilla gestures once, but run into problems with them. At first, they seemed to be a great help, but eventually they just started to make my life difficult. For example, when I tried to paint a piece of text by dragging mouse from right to left, the gesture system decided that I wanted to go to the previous page. Well, that's just stupid. And if I remember correctly, it doesn't help to drag mouse from left to right while painting a section, because it assumes that I want to move forward a page. For me, this kind of a system just makes life harder.
"Computers are like air conditioners: they stop working properly when you open windows."
A kid coding 780'000 lines of code in 18 months. All alone. In that time he have had to design and implement the whole shit including "every single media player built in".
It would require some sort of dial-up-server side module to compress and modify the contents of the data and this kind of system would most certainly be a lossy method for transferring data. It won't be possible to transfer binary data with this thing without corrupting the result completely.
And what kind of a piece of software would choke under the load of 7x56k modem ("At seven times it actually crashes so I have limited it to six.")?
This is just a cheap attempt to gather some attention.
I have a Nokia 6210 cell phone which has these nifty "profiles" and "caller groups". I've set two profiles to my phone: "spare time" and "work hours". In the "spare time" mode no signal is given if the call is coming from the office or the caller is one of my co-workers. Also, the phone is silenced so if someone not-work-related person calls, the phone just beeps and vibrates.
The "work hours" profile on the other hand has a ring tone and all other annoying panic-causing effects turned on and all calls are accepted.
With this simple trick I can truly turn off my work and relax and enjoy me spare time.
And I'm doing that right now...
Well, I bought a Play Station 2. I admit that it doesn't has same variety of games as a PC has, but it fullfills my needs.
and you'll forgive me but Wine has failed to impress me so far.
I wouldn't even dream of playing Windows games under the Wine. I've tried, but I can't even get installers of my PC games to work. And to tinker with the settings of the Wine is too much hassle for me. That's why a gaming console is best choice for me.
No, I had a Voodoo graphics card.
And Linux actually made things to work better. I felt that under the Linux, the Voodoo cards were better supported than under the Windows. I'm not blaming Microsoft (entirely, anyway). A big part of the problem were those shitty drivers offered by the 3dfx.
And this happend a few years ago, sometimes in the late 90's. I've been using Linux as an only option for a quite a long time now.
I'm using my computer now as much as I used it before. But I'm playing more games with the console than I've used to play with the computer. The console has made playing games so much easier that it encourages me to play more. And at the same time, NOT playing with my computer gives me more time to do useful things with it and not to fight with driver dependencies. A win-win situation, I would say.
I did just that. I dot tired of fighting with Windows and video card drivers. After having serious problems with GTA2 and Unreal (I had to downgrade GFX drivers to be able to play GTA2 and then updgade the drivers to be able to run Unreal) I decided to start searching an alternative to my crappy PC hardware. I ended up buying PS2 and installing Linux to my PC. I've been very happy computer user ever since.
Someone give him a coconut.
Considering the quality of cellphones today, it actually is quite amazing if you can make a phone call with the new nifty device containing tons of bells and whistles they call a cellphone. It seems that nowadays the ability to make a phone call is not as important as the ability to play games and take photos.
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That shouldn't be too hard... I bet that my Palm Pilot has enough power to predict exactly, what my boss is going to say in the next meeting tomorrow.
If it's about schedules, he'll say:
Work...
- harder
- smarter
- cheaper
- faster
In that order.If it's about project goals, he'll ask me to:
Make...
If it's about specifications, he'll say: "I have no idea. You find out yourself." And for anything else it would be just blank. All blank.
On the other hand... if a manager actually has any real thoughts... Well, that would be as easy as to predict patterns from a pure chaos.
Yes and no. The information you have successfully received from the Whois database is pointing to the phone company in Finland, which happens to be a host for raketti.net domain. Petri Siltakoski is just an administrative contact of the ISP (Raketti.Net). He has nothing to do with the web page set up by an individual who seems to have an account in this ISP.
On windows, btw, copy is default for all cases. At least that is consistent, and works with the principle of least surprise.
Actually, Windows has the same inconsistency as Machintosh. Dragging an object with left mouse button moves the object, while dragging it to another drive copies it. And as the article points out, dragging the executable makes a link. Not very consistent for me, I think.
I'm not defending the way Mac is doing things. I'm a Linux user and used to handle everything from the command line.
Because it doesn't matter if everyone is able to read, modify and generate Office-compatible files. People will us Office products in future. Opening the file formats doesn't change anything.
XML makes it easy to create programs that will depend on MS Office. So this only makes it easier to create programs which depend on Microsoft products.
Of course it is an ego thing. Didn't you know, that the guy who can clone a mammoth gets all the chicks?
Think it as a scientists version of a monster truck.
I am sorry, but how can you think that some license has anything to do with the birth of the Linux? If we are writing the timeline of Linux, then the line starts from the birth of the innovation - and the software. Not from some license.
Isn't it better to try to prevent bad things happening rather than to trust that people will think what would be right or wrong?
We are living in a cruel, cold world, you know. There is people out there who are willing to commit crimes without worrying consequences.
First I decided to get a VLB mother board. Just after the purchase PCI won the market. Then I chose to buy an Aureal sound card. And just after that, the Aureal died. Then I got a Voodoo3 video card and that also died a horrible death. And now... just after purchasing an AMD Duron and a new motherboard, they claim that there will be Duron no more. Damned... Either I'm a bad decision maker or then I'm an angel of death. Too bad there is no place to bet for the loser because I'm going to buy a new monitor...
Here is a description by F-Secure and it claims that one part of the virus is actually using .NET:
http://www.fsecure.com/v-descs/blunt.shtml
How about this:
At the discovery of a serious bug/vulnerability, the company would be forced to show documentation of the development process and prove that they have taken reasonable care about avoiding programming mistakes. If it shows that the company hasn't taken care of quality control, and no patches have been released at a reasonable time after discovering the problem, the company will be liable for the bug.
On the other hand, if there is evidence that the bug was an unfortunate accident or the customer hasn't taken care of installing patches or updates, the company will not be liable for the bug.
I know, sounds a bit naive, but this could work...