What I mean is that although it saves resources to a cache, instead of saving the fully-rendered page and just re-displaying that when you hit back, it re-loads the whole page, which more often than not means *checking* those very same resources and incurring the largest part of the delay: the chain of DNS lookups, initial queries, and gawd-awful dynamic bits.
I use "open in new window" all the time, due to not wanting to reload (or lose) some previous page. Old Netscape didn't seem to need to reload stuff, but Moz/SM is inconsistent about it.
That's exactly what I'm complaining about. If you were just *at* a page, you shouldn't need to reaload the whole thing just to check a link really quick. Opening the link in a tab or new window is a kludge because the natural thing to do is just click it.
That's because firefox still doesn't do page caching properly. Afaik, only Opera does it close to right (Safari used to, with "snap-back" but then they limited it to just google for some stupid reason): you shouldn't have to re-download/refresh the head page when you're exploring links. Opening them in a buncha different tabs to get the same effect is a kludge.
Multitouch is amazing. I'd say get a Mac just for that, if I hadn't heard that windows 7 has some gestures, too. Mac has a decent gesture vocabulary, but they really need some way for you to define your own, too, especially as many applications don't support the full vocabulary.
At any rate, I love my "giant" (or as I now refer to it, "the right size") trackpad. The new iMacs should've come with a USB multitouch pad instead of the new mouse.
It was clearly an electric carving knife and *not* a hot-wire. The tipoff is the lack of a big ol' step-down transformer: 120v on an 18" exposed, semirigid wire does not a safe situation make.
Seriously, though, we're going through a period where there really aren't any trusted consumer-level PCs out there. Even Apple needs to be watched carefully.
Fear not, though. Eventually, the cost to produce a quality machine will fall so far below the cost of packaging it you'll be able to find good brands again. You'll buy them in the grocery store, but they'll be there nonetheless.
The big-wigs aren't in on the start-up. They're not part of that initial spark of insight, inspiration, and hard work.
They come in later, when the company is growing into medium-to-large-sized breeches, and needs "people experienced in running a medium-to-large sized company." They get hired into the top positions, and bring in their own people. The kind of people (ahem.. like Carly...) that don't think they need to know about their business, because one business is just like any other..
And yet, somehow, boards of directors keep falling for this crap and hiring these hacks as if they're the only ones who could possibly run the company.
Oh wait.. it's not "somehow." These guys buy their way onto the boards' of directors of rising companies and then pick officers from the same club.
It's not "rotten to the core." It's almost good engineering.
Those first few tolerances you shave off save scads of money, if you can live with slightly lower yields. There's nothing wrong with this, as long as you don't misrepresent your product. "Just good enough, but cheap as dirt" is a valid business model. And it was always Dell's stated business model.
Of course, the laws of diminishing returns work in reverse, too, and eventually you have to really shave tolerances to get even meager savings, to the point where you don't have a product any more.
"rotten to the core" is taking the units out of the dump bin and selling them anyway.* Just reducing resources spent while still satisfying people's needs is the whole point of engineering.
*or metaphorically doing that if you're using the users themselves as your QA...
The interference could very well be due to a harmonic of something that's actually more strongly broadcasting in one of those bands. In fact, if it's a person being naughty, it's pretty *likely* that it's someone in one of those bands, since consumer equipment with any power to it starts to get pretty scarce in availability above about 1 GHz.
A self-signed cert that you just click "accept" for is worthless. It could've been useful, if you'd transferred the cert out-of-band and added it directly to the trusted list, but if you're fetching it off the internet, you've no idea whether the cert you're getting is the real one or not.
CA's are a tool for consolidating the certificate transfer process. Instead of having to manually install every certificate, you really only need to manually install through some trusted process, a single certificate that can sign all the others (presuming you have reason to trust their reasons for trusting)
Of course, nobody does that either, and using the certificates built-into a browser you downloaded insecurely is just as dumb as using self-signed certs off the net without any out-of-band component....
Actually, apple.com/downloads is a pretty decent portal for a few things that aren't search. They've got a web-based sort-of repository-like thing (ok, maybe it's more like tucows, but for stuff you'd actually want, and have to pay for.) with various applications that can be downloaded that run on macs, as well as some other things like movie trailers and automator actions, and whatnot.
There shouldn't be an ETF. If you finance your phone through the phone company, that should be a separate line-item on your bill, and you should only have to pay off the balance to get out of the contract.
Phone companies are dipping into the paypal level of scumminess here: they're playing the "unregulated bank" game so they can charge usury interest (and continue to charge premiums even *after* the balance is 100% paid off!)
Your friends are closet puritans. They want to have nice, new things, (including their car), but they feel guilty about wanting it, so they pawn it off on a reasonable-sounding excuse: If I'm replacing a car because it's costing me money, that's "morally superior" to buying a car because you're tired of the old one and want something different.
It's the puritan mentality that you shouldn't have anything nice unless you can't avoid it.
Instead of putting a nozzle in and dumping hydrocarbons, you open the flap, roll the empty cart up so that the fork slides into the slots for that very purpose and pull the release lever so the battery drops onto the fork. Then you roll it off, and roll the fresh battery on, doing everything in reverse.
Or perhaps bottom mount makes more sense, and the hardware will be under the car instead, or an even more streamlined process can be developed.
The GP didn't state a solution, but that doesn't mean that there isn't one.
Erm.. they get that. Which is why the top 40 is populated entirely with the kind of music they want to sell you.
Which depending on the week it's either 39 songs divided into two or three groups of suspiciously similar-sounding drek and one "good" song in one of the groups, or 40 songs you can't listen to sober.
Five years before institutionalized anti-catholic bigotry causes you to lash out against the responsible governing body in a bomb plot as poorly thought out as it is funded?
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What I mean is that although it saves resources to a cache, instead of saving the fully-rendered page and just re-displaying that when you hit back, it re-loads the whole page, which more often than not means *checking* those very same resources and incurring the largest part of the delay: the chain of DNS lookups, initial queries, and gawd-awful dynamic bits.
I use "open in new window" all the time, due to not wanting to reload (or lose) some previous page. Old Netscape didn't seem to need to reload stuff, but Moz/SM is inconsistent about it.
That's exactly what I'm complaining about. If you were just *at* a page, you shouldn't need to reaload the whole thing just to check a link really quick. Opening the link in a tab or new window is a kludge because the natural thing to do is just click it.
That's because firefox still doesn't do page caching properly. Afaik, only Opera does it close to right (Safari used to, with "snap-back" but then they limited it to just google for some stupid reason): you shouldn't have to re-download/refresh the head page when you're exploring links. Opening them in a buncha different tabs to get the same effect is a kludge.
Multitouch is amazing. I'd say get a Mac just for that, if I hadn't heard that windows 7 has some gestures, too. Mac has a decent gesture vocabulary, but they really need some way for you to define your own, too, especially as many applications don't support the full vocabulary.
At any rate, I love my "giant" (or as I now refer to it, "the right size") trackpad. The new iMacs should've come with a USB multitouch pad instead of the new mouse.
It was clearly an electric carving knife and *not* a hot-wire. The tipoff is the lack of a big ol' step-down transformer: 120v on an 18" exposed, semirigid wire does not a safe situation make.
Just buy it directly from foxconn....
Seriously, though, we're going through a period where there really aren't any trusted consumer-level PCs out there. Even Apple needs to be watched carefully.
Fear not, though. Eventually, the cost to produce a quality machine will fall so far below the cost of packaging it you'll be able to find good brands again. You'll buy them in the grocery store, but they'll be there nonetheless.
I was with you till the last sentence.
The big-wigs aren't in on the start-up. They're not part of that initial spark of insight, inspiration, and hard work.
They come in later, when the company is growing into medium-to-large-sized breeches, and needs "people experienced in running a medium-to-large sized company." They get hired into the top positions, and bring in their own people. The kind of people (ahem.. like Carly...) that don't think they need to know about their business, because one business is just like any other..
And yet, somehow, boards of directors keep falling for this crap and hiring these hacks as if they're the only ones who could possibly run the company.
Oh wait.. it's not "somehow." These guys buy their way onto the boards' of directors of rising companies and then pick officers from the same club.
It's not "rotten to the core." It's almost good engineering.
Those first few tolerances you shave off save scads of money, if you can live with slightly lower yields. There's nothing wrong with this, as long as you don't misrepresent your product. "Just good enough, but cheap as dirt" is a valid business model. And it was always Dell's stated business model.
Of course, the laws of diminishing returns work in reverse, too, and eventually you have to really shave tolerances to get even meager savings, to the point where you don't have a product any more.
"rotten to the core" is taking the units out of the dump bin and selling them anyway.* Just reducing resources spent while still satisfying people's needs is the whole point of engineering.
*or metaphorically doing that if you're using the users themselves as your QA...
No, you're just misunderstanding the -graph suffix. It's more than just for images.
It seems we have no time to lose in bringing out a new typesetting engine!
Unless they're keeping the secrets compromised.. secret. the only way you'd know is if you compromised that.
A self-assembling, self-flapping crane?
Nature already did it!
The interference could very well be due to a harmonic of something that's actually more strongly broadcasting in one of those bands. In fact, if it's a person being naughty, it's pretty *likely* that it's someone in one of those bands, since consumer equipment with any power to it starts to get pretty scarce in availability above about 1 GHz.
Except for Microwave ovens, of course.
Yeah, but I wouldn't be surprised to find that that thing is the microwave oven. In his own house. Making non-stop hot pockets.
Wait a minute...
Are you making a pop music reference?
Actually we know the opposite, that none of the FF developers play Farmville. If they did the problem never would have made it into the wild.
Then again, neither would the update....
It's the distribution, stupid.
A self-signed cert that you just click "accept" for is worthless. It could've been useful, if you'd transferred the cert out-of-band and added it directly to the trusted list, but if you're fetching it off the internet, you've no idea whether the cert you're getting is the real one or not.
CA's are a tool for consolidating the certificate transfer process. Instead of having to manually install every certificate, you really only need to manually install through some trusted process, a single certificate that can sign all the others (presuming you have reason to trust their reasons for trusting)
Of course, nobody does that either, and using the certificates built-into a browser you downloaded insecurely is just as dumb as using self-signed certs off the net without any out-of-band component....
I dunno. I'm not convinced that Fed-Ex or UPS would be able to move letters across the country for 44 cents even if they were allowed to.
You'd probably pay $1.50 or $2.00. Though you would get a guaranteed arrival date...
Actually, apple.com/downloads is a pretty decent portal for a few things that aren't search. They've got a web-based sort-of repository-like thing (ok, maybe it's more like tucows, but for stuff you'd actually want, and have to pay for.) with various applications that can be downloaded that run on macs, as well as some other things like movie trailers and automator actions, and whatnot.
Wow...
There are two issues here. First, very few customers actually move out of a service area today
So.. because the policy is now costing them less, they need get rid of it?
There shouldn't be an ETF. If you finance your phone through the phone company, that should be a separate line-item on your bill, and you should only have to pay off the balance to get out of the contract.
Phone companies are dipping into the paypal level of scumminess here: they're playing the "unregulated bank" game so they can charge usury interest (and continue to charge premiums even *after* the balance is 100% paid off!)
Ok, I'll solve it for you.
Your friends are closet puritans. They want to have nice, new things, (including their car), but they feel guilty about wanting it, so they pawn it off on a reasonable-sounding excuse: If I'm replacing a car because it's costing me money, that's "morally superior" to buying a car because you're tired of the old one and want something different.
It's the puritan mentality that you shouldn't have anything nice unless you can't avoid it.
Um... so what?
Instead of putting a nozzle in and dumping hydrocarbons, you open the flap, roll the empty cart up so that the fork slides into the slots for that very purpose and pull the release lever so the battery drops onto the fork. Then you roll it off, and roll the fresh battery on, doing everything in reverse.
Or perhaps bottom mount makes more sense, and the hardware will be under the car instead, or an even more streamlined process can be developed.
The GP didn't state a solution, but that doesn't mean that there isn't one.
Waiting for prostitutes to complain that there are people out there making love for free. o_O
First they would have to establish that there are people making love for free...
Erm.. they get that. Which is why the top 40 is populated entirely with the kind of music they want to sell you.
Which depending on the week it's either 39 songs divided into two or three groups of suspiciously similar-sounding drek and one "good" song in one of the groups, or 40 songs you can't listen to sober.
Five years before institutionalized anti-catholic bigotry causes you to lash out against the responsible governing body in a bomb plot as poorly thought out as it is funded?