Well, that looks a lot like what an Opera Widget is, and everyone poo-pooed those. I mostly agreed with that, but we'll have to see if the iPhone goes anywhere in the large scheme of things. The downside there is that I would think if you wrote your "widget" cross browser, then you could have it work on other phones than just the iPhone.
Of course, until cell data rates drop a lot, I can't see too many people wanting to eat money doing much web based stuff anyway.
In general this is a point I see a lot, which is it's no good because it's not what I'm used to. And this is an important point, whatver the new thing is, it has to be better enough than what you know to be worth learning and using. It's probably why I'm still using Opera over Firefox. When I switched to Opera in 2001, it was clearly faster and less attacked than IE5.5. Now in 2007, Firefox isn't clearly faster or less attacked than Opera, and the features I might gain via extensions aren't mind blowing enough over Opera and proxomitron (that I already know how to use) to get me to switch.
I expect Safari on Windows to have a hard time overcoming that inertia for those using alternate browsers. Anyone who hasn't already gotten comfortable with Firefox or Opera likely still uses IE, and I dont see anything this Safari release gives an IE6/7 user over what they've got.
Well, I wonder if Verisign etc would go along with AT&T or not? Also, there are various other vendors that may get a surge in customers if say, Verisign let ISPs break their certs.
And for those of you who want to look at OSS tools (that may not meet all needs on OSX quite yet) you ought to look at a combination of OCSNG and ZenOSS (with GLPI integrated to OCSNG for a full helpdesk/inventory etc database, License tracking and more).
I'm pretty sure it's legal to print "fiat" money as well, as long as it doesn't look like Federal Reserve Notes. See Ithaca Hours for instance. While it's not "legal tender" in that someone *has* to accept it, if someone *chooses to accept it*, it counts as a legal payment (like barter as far as I can tell).
Libertydollar.org has some writeups regarding this, while that money is backed by silver, I'd guess lots of that would apply to anyone.
Well, unfortunately I don't do much with particle physics (I do IT), but IIRC, several of these older colliders are being converted to ERLs like CESR/CLEO is after CLEO completion in 2008. But as I understand it, that's about X-Rays, not particle physics as such. Most of those people are doing CMS...
In general, I think it depends on many factors. My experiance with Dell has been very mixed. Generally, I have found the machines to be less than reliable for any consumer hardware. The only thing I can say for their consumer products is they are cheap. For coporate products, they are slightly more reliable, but not any better than Lenovo/HP etc. Their products are generally more likely in my experiance to have propriatery parts that cause issues with drivers and imaging.
Their Linux support for servers included modifying and recompiling the kernal, not so great in my opinion.
Finally, their build quality ranges from shoddy at the low end to average at the high end in the machines I've personally seen.
While I'm willing to re evaulate any manufacturer, Dell consitantly has been at best average, and several times poor. I see little reason to recommend them to anyone. Even if I wanted the cheapest PC I could buy, I can get a comparable price from a whitebox vendor.
I'm pretty sure that CSS is faster and more efficient (as you don't have to redownload the whole thing every time - and there were several stories that said it would save/. lots of bandwidth charges) for any browser made in the last, what - 7 years?
I have no idea about how the memes play out here, but I think this is very wrong. Amateur doesn't mean bad. As far as I can tell, most publishing houses are like the RIAA in that 1 out of 50 good authors get picked up, and they happen to do you the favor of dropping the other 5000 shitty writers. But you still miss out on 49 good writers.
Then there are the people who might tell a good story, but aren't interested in doing so professionally for whatever reason. Kind of like small OSS contributors. And like OSS values, many feel there are interesting ways to build on existing stories. This isn't necessarily crap, and certainly could be as good as any of the hundreds of Star Trek or Star Wars books already existing (World of Warcraft books etc).
Slashdot often promotes OSS values, Indie Artists - I can't understand this meme of derogatory hatred of writers...
I must say (on computers) this has been my experiance as well. Every time I buy a game I'm smacking my self. The last 2 games I bought - NWN2 and Caesar 4... NWN2 was fun, but damned buggy and slow. Slow for everyone. Needed patching to 1.03 (that was over a month of salivating to see if it would run right finally) to go decently. Stopped playing for a while, haven't gone back yet.
Caesar 4 I got last weekend at a discount for $30. More than I should have paid. The interface sucks vs Caesar 3, it's also almost unusuably slow (How does a strategy game with gfx from 2004 *miss mouse clicks*?), and managed to bluescreen my PC.
Now, while I don't have a top of the line gaming rig, I don't have an ancient P4 either. I've got an X2 4600, 2.5GB PC400 RAM, GeForce 7600GT w/ 256MB GDDR3 and plenty of HD space. XPSP2. I usually have 1.5GB RAM free when I'm not gaming, so... I'm running 1280x1024 normally, but it looks like Caesar 4 drops that to 1024x768 when it runs (fuzzy on my LCD). Is there any reason this should run so slow?
Only thing I can think is I don't shut everything down before starting the game, but hell, that's what lots of RAM and a dual core processor is for right?
So, NWN2 was worth it as I did get over a month of play out of it, so compared to movies say, I got value. Caesar 4... not as much, I'm worried about playing it again, seemed to hit some driver bug that bluescreened my PC.
I'm not sure what exactly would be wrong with letting states be what they want as long as people are still allowed to move freely between them. That is, if California and New York want to be solicalist (though I doubt they really want that per se) and the "Confederacy", whoever that is, wants to scare off lots of their population is that necessarily a bad thing?
What I don't see is why everyone else would get shafted? By who? How? Because there isn't a federal dictation that every area must run the same?
I don't support racial segregation, but I'm not sure why it would be bad to let local people choose their government in the most areas possible. I can't see New York being socialist hurting say, Montana any more than Canada being socialist does (to the extents that they are socialist).
I see. It's going to be like the label functionality in M2/Thunderbird. That most people never use. I just don't see a likely need to do that sort of reporting on bookmarks... I suppose it might be useful if you can't name your bookmarks something you'll remember, but even then - will you remember enough to make a useful query? I doubt it.
Maybe this will allow some cool extensions, but my imagination isn't good enough to see anyone going beyond the current use model for bookmarks. Maybe this will at least make large bookmark lists more efficient - though I don't have much inefficency that's noticable to me with my large file.
Then again, I don't really know how Opera treats bookmarks in the backend.
Maybe I'm missing something, but how is this different than using the bookmark description field for "tags" and current quicksearches (Well, in Opera)? I don't mean the SQL backend, but the UI or use imagined.
Personally, at work we used to use CutePDF and switched to PDFCreator. One because PDFCreator didn't have a link asking us to buy an upgrade, but also because it supported encryption/PDF limitations, and a psudo print queue so you could combine prints from multiple apps into one PDF file. Of course, I added on PDFTK Bulider for PDF Split/Merge as well.
Ehh, I'd suggest Paint.net if I wanted free + easy to use, and Photoshop Elements if I was going to spend $70... I'd put out the $25 or whatever more it is for Elements.
I think it does, I saw a post that you can pay more for a different non-crapware loaded SKU when ordering via phone. So it's not that Windows is cheaper, but that companies will pay to get their trial software on an install. I would guess that there aren't many companies who would pay to get some linux software pre-installed. I mean, what software would that be?
Yea, but they get that from your UA string anyway. And google can track you going on their site. It's the toolbars that track you on other sites + Google Analytics/Urchin ad/tracking cookie mix that would be worse.
And Windows doesn't have this problem? I remember cursing XP when I started using it cause everything was different from 98 save there was a start menu... Vista seems the same, I spent better than 10 minutes trying to figure out where network settings were and how to try a default driver for a 10/100 NIC... Mind you, this NIC worked OOTB in XP so where the driver went in Vista is anyone's guess.
I have to spend lots of time keeping up with the UI changes across Windows versions. I'd be suprised if any OS was *worse*.
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Well, that looks a lot like what an Opera Widget is, and everyone poo-pooed those. I mostly agreed with that, but we'll have to see if the iPhone goes anywhere in the large scheme of things. The downside there is that I would think if you wrote your "widget" cross browser, then you could have it work on other phones than just the iPhone.
Of course, until cell data rates drop a lot, I can't see too many people wanting to eat money doing much web based stuff anyway.
In general this is a point I see a lot, which is it's no good because it's not what I'm used to. And this is an important point, whatver the new thing is, it has to be better enough than what you know to be worth learning and using. It's probably why I'm still using Opera over Firefox. When I switched to Opera in 2001, it was clearly faster and less attacked than IE5.5. Now in 2007, Firefox isn't clearly faster or less attacked than Opera, and the features I might gain via extensions aren't mind blowing enough over Opera and proxomitron (that I already know how to use) to get me to switch.
I expect Safari on Windows to have a hard time overcoming that inertia for those using alternate browsers. Anyone who hasn't already gotten comfortable with Firefox or Opera likely still uses IE, and I dont see anything this Safari release gives an IE6/7 user over what they've got.
Well, I wonder if Verisign etc would go along with AT&T or not? Also, there are various other vendors that may get a surge in customers if say, Verisign let ISPs break their certs.
AES128 is quite fast... Why use weak crypto?
And for those of you who want to look at OSS tools (that may not meet all needs on OSX quite yet) you ought to look at a combination of OCSNG and ZenOSS (with GLPI integrated to OCSNG for a full helpdesk/inventory etc database, License tracking and more).
I'm pretty sure it's legal to print "fiat" money as well, as long as it doesn't look like Federal Reserve Notes. See Ithaca Hours for instance. While it's not "legal tender" in that someone *has* to accept it, if someone *chooses to accept it*, it counts as a legal payment (like barter as far as I can tell).
Libertydollar.org has some writeups regarding this, while that money is backed by silver, I'd guess lots of that would apply to anyone.
IANAL.
Always on time? WTF? How exactly do you measure "on time"? The time of Sunrise and Sunset change every day...
Well, unfortunately I don't do much with particle physics (I do IT), but IIRC, several of these older colliders are being converted to ERLs like CESR/CLEO is after CLEO completion in 2008. But as I understand it, that's about X-Rays, not particle physics as such. Most of those people are doing CMS...
In general, I think it depends on many factors. My experiance with Dell has been very mixed. Generally, I have found the machines to be less than reliable for any consumer hardware. The only thing I can say for their consumer products is they are cheap. For coporate products, they are slightly more reliable, but not any better than Lenovo/HP etc. Their products are generally more likely in my experiance to have propriatery parts that cause issues with drivers and imaging.
Their Linux support for servers included modifying and recompiling the kernal, not so great in my opinion.
Finally, their build quality ranges from shoddy at the low end to average at the high end in the machines I've personally seen.
While I'm willing to re evaulate any manufacturer, Dell consitantly has been at best average, and several times poor. I see little reason to recommend them to anyone. Even if I wanted the cheapest PC I could buy, I can get a comparable price from a whitebox vendor.
I'm pretty sure that CSS is faster and more efficient (as you don't have to redownload the whole thing every time - and there were several stories that said it would save /. lots of bandwidth charges) for any browser made in the last, what - 7 years?
I have no idea about how the memes play out here, but I think this is very wrong. Amateur doesn't mean bad. As far as I can tell, most publishing houses are like the RIAA in that 1 out of 50 good authors get picked up, and they happen to do you the favor of dropping the other 5000 shitty writers. But you still miss out on 49 good writers.
Then there are the people who might tell a good story, but aren't interested in doing so professionally for whatever reason. Kind of like small OSS contributors. And like OSS values, many feel there are interesting ways to build on existing stories. This isn't necessarily crap, and certainly could be as good as any of the hundreds of Star Trek or Star Wars books already existing (World of Warcraft books etc).
Slashdot often promotes OSS values, Indie Artists - I can't understand this meme of derogatory hatred of writers...
I must say (on computers) this has been my experiance as well. Every time I buy a game I'm smacking my self. The last 2 games I bought - NWN2 and Caesar 4... NWN2 was fun, but damned buggy and slow. Slow for everyone. Needed patching to 1.03 (that was over a month of salivating to see if it would run right finally) to go decently. Stopped playing for a while, haven't gone back yet.
Caesar 4 I got last weekend at a discount for $30. More than I should have paid. The interface sucks vs Caesar 3, it's also almost unusuably slow (How does a strategy game with gfx from 2004 *miss mouse clicks*?), and managed to bluescreen my PC.
Now, while I don't have a top of the line gaming rig, I don't have an ancient P4 either. I've got an X2 4600, 2.5GB PC400 RAM, GeForce 7600GT w/ 256MB GDDR3 and plenty of HD space. XPSP2. I usually have 1.5GB RAM free when I'm not gaming, so... I'm running 1280x1024 normally, but it looks like Caesar 4 drops that to 1024x768 when it runs (fuzzy on my LCD). Is there any reason this should run so slow?
Only thing I can think is I don't shut everything down before starting the game, but hell, that's what lots of RAM and a dual core processor is for right?
So, NWN2 was worth it as I did get over a month of play out of it, so compared to movies say, I got value. Caesar 4... not as much, I'm worried about playing it again, seemed to hit some driver bug that bluescreened my PC.
This is why RAID doesn't mean BACKUP. You still need backups. Or something like the above Starfish filesystem with mirroring.
One thing I've read is you cannot increase a RAID Z "drive" easily by adding another disk. Is this true?
I'm not sure what exactly would be wrong with letting states be what they want as long as people are still allowed to move freely between them. That is, if California and New York want to be solicalist (though I doubt they really want that per se) and the "Confederacy", whoever that is, wants to scare off lots of their population is that necessarily a bad thing?
What I don't see is why everyone else would get shafted? By who? How? Because there isn't a federal dictation that every area must run the same?
I don't support racial segregation, but I'm not sure why it would be bad to let local people choose their government in the most areas possible. I can't see New York being socialist hurting say, Montana any more than Canada being socialist does (to the extents that they are socialist).
I see. It's going to be like the label functionality in M2/Thunderbird. That most people never use. I just don't see a likely need to do that sort of reporting on bookmarks... I suppose it might be useful if you can't name your bookmarks something you'll remember, but even then - will you remember enough to make a useful query? I doubt it.
Maybe this will allow some cool extensions, but my imagination isn't good enough to see anyone going beyond the current use model for bookmarks. Maybe this will at least make large bookmark lists more efficient - though I don't have much inefficency that's noticable to me with my large file.
Then again, I don't really know how Opera treats bookmarks in the backend.
Maybe I'm missing something, but how is this different than using the bookmark description field for "tags" and current quicksearches (Well, in Opera)? I don't mean the SQL backend, but the UI or use imagined.
Personally, at work we used to use CutePDF and switched to PDFCreator. One because PDFCreator didn't have a link asking us to buy an upgrade, but also because it supported encryption/PDF limitations, and a psudo print queue so you could combine prints from multiple apps into one PDF file. Of course, I added on PDFTK Bulider for PDF Split/Merge as well.
I'm guessing it's because you need a google account to try it out/use it... Plus it looks like it doesn't work in Opera, so cout me out anyway.
AmDeadlink is useful here in general, with cleaning up bookmarks.
Ehh, I'd suggest Paint.net if I wanted free + easy to use, and Photoshop Elements if I was going to spend $70... I'd put out the $25 or whatever more it is for Elements.
I think it does, I saw a post that you can pay more for a different non-crapware loaded SKU when ordering via phone. So it's not that Windows is cheaper, but that companies will pay to get their trial software on an install. I would guess that there aren't many companies who would pay to get some linux software pre-installed. I mean, what software would that be?
Yea, but they get that from your UA string anyway. And google can track you going on their site. It's the toolbars that track you on other sites + Google Analytics/Urchin ad/tracking cookie mix that would be worse.
And Windows doesn't have this problem? I remember cursing XP when I started using it cause everything was different from 98 save there was a start menu... Vista seems the same, I spent better than 10 minutes trying to figure out where network settings were and how to try a default driver for a 10/100 NIC... Mind you, this NIC worked OOTB in XP so where the driver went in Vista is anyone's guess.
I have to spend lots of time keeping up with the UI changes across Windows versions. I'd be suprised if any OS was *worse*.
Oh, and those using proxomitron or the like can just disable/remove google analytics.