These could be valid complaints, Microsoft was always concerned about printing. So many people still print their Emails *shrugs*
It it is true and Microsoft is really interested in implementing HTML5 then I am certain they do not see it as thread to their core business: windows and office. If so I guess their bets are on silverlight.
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Here crappy providers (I mean the big ones which serve 90% of our population) tend to cache DNS records for um to 2 weeks completely disrigarding TTLs... yes *two fucking weeks*. It is especially annoying when we move customers from one hosting provider to another.
OMG, who uses PNG files?! The compression routine is rubbish!
Who cares about this small difference in file size? PNG is compressing images lossless, supports alpha transparency and you do not have to worry about copyrighted parts of the implementation (it's free not just as in beer). Who cares if the files might be (but must not) 10% larger? Once you realize it is lossless you might even see a benefit;)
They do this because various websites sniff for various browsers, and they want to show up as much like Mozilla/Gecko as possible. If your user agent parser isn't very smart, it might miss the Safari/530.18 part of that user agent string.
This is exactly the problem, browser sniffer should not sniff for products but for render engines. So for example sniffing for "safari" is as wrong as sniffing for "firefox".
Sniff for "KHTML" if you also want to detect safari (resp. khtml compatible browsers).
Sniff for "gecko" if you want to catch Seamonkey, Firefox, epiphany, etc.
It's really quiet simple. Even better, there are tons of libraries which do it reliable already, I don't understand why so many people try to reinvent the wheel.
being sceptical is an important attribute for an engineer. It just might be true that many/. readers are engineers.
If people were screwed about one topic over years it is very likely that they do not believe something has changed just because the outcome of a few cases is different.
I was flying R/C playes, helicopters and real planes nearly my whole life. I can second what you are saying.
However, this is a really nice hack! I had a big smile on my face while watching this video. Hacks like these are the things which seperate the real techies from the kids;)
this must have been your provider. I used to work for an ISP not so long ago. The Federal police is forcing providers to monitor all users and hand out these data (in realtime) to their system. But I am not aware of of any such rgulation you are mentioning.
We did not implement it btw, but most of the large providers do it.
It was in an earlier/. story, that ubuntu will not use the brown scheme in the next release. They are very secretive (or were, I haven't checked lately) how the next release's theme will look like but I guess it will be blue-ish.
Isn't the biggest problem with worms like Conficker the fact that most of the affected users are totally unaware that they have it.
Maybe yes, maybe nooo. I have a legit copy of windows XP at home (OEM, came with my computer). But i refuse to install WGA. So I am not sure if i get those patches (the windows update website doesn't work for me, however, eventually I get updates somehow). Also, i am not going to find all these hotfixes an appling them manually (my time is too valueable for this kind of shit).
Because this is my gaming computer, i do not care much since i hardly ever boot into windows anymore and its the only windows install in my network.
You are modded Funny, I would have modded You Insightful but decided to comment.
In a time where even Joe Avarage's webpage starts utilizing javascript frameworks such as JQuery, ExtJs, GWT, prototype and the such I have to ask who cares about html rendering speeds?
Trident, the rendering engine of IE, has been famous for it's bad Javascript performance (especially on string manipulation which is often heavily used). Does IE have better javascript performance? I ask, because the competition is successfully upping their standards in this area.
You should disable previews (at least in gnome) and problem solved. Unfortunately I haven't figured out how to do this selectively for NFS mountpoints (previews for ssh://, smb://, ftp:// can be disabled in nautilus' preferences)
My Brother is flying for british airways. When crossing country borders fuel usually isn't taxed. I don't know about the US (many domestic flights) but here in europe there are usually not many jet flights not crossing a country border.
What I want to know is WHY did the piratebay take it down?
Maybe because it was editing the hosts file and therefore blocking thepiratebay.com? Where is your freedom of information if you can't access the infromation?
... and have stops every 10 - 15 miles, with stops lasting no more than 1 minute and have multiple trains so that a train came by a stop every 30 minutes, (maybe get it down to every 15 minutes), then we could have a very functional non car based economy.
You would love my country, make it "stops every 5 miles" and "a train every 15 minutes" plus a good bus network connection train stations with the area around it.
Although nearly every household here in switzerland owns 2 cars most people use public transport to go to work. Most of the goods are transported by train, not trucks.
This, however, has only been possible because politics has worked toward that goal for decades.
With the upcoming SDL user interface of FreeCiv it even looks like a modern game (was unfinished when i checked a couple of months ago). http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Screenshots
Some freeCiv players also like freecol, a similar game written in java. I never got into it so I can't say much about it.
Yesterday I have seen the first TV advert on German TV which said (in german obviously) somthing like: "musicload.de: pure MP3, no digital restrictions".
AFAICT DRM was a topic for gamers but not the average music customer. The DRM topic has hit the mainstream Media now.
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I am swiss, this has nothing to do with with UBS or the IRS (UBS is a private company, not switzerland).
We do actually have quiet some strict privacy laws, but some are getting abandoned due to us pressure.
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As far as I can tell, the all use the same password, this one: *******
These could be valid complaints, Microsoft was always concerned about printing. So many people still print their Emails *shrugs* It it is true and Microsoft is really interested in implementing HTML5 then I am certain they do not see it as thread to their core business: windows and office. If so I guess their bets are on silverlight. -S
Here crappy providers (I mean the big ones which serve 90% of our population) tend to cache DNS records for um to 2 weeks completely disrigarding TTLs ... yes *two fucking weeks*. It is especially annoying when we move customers from one hosting provider to another.
So, if I understand this right: 7 is faster than XP because it offloads things to the GPU XP doesn't do (window compositing)? -S
Who cares about this small difference in file size? PNG is compressing images lossless, supports alpha transparency and you do not have to worry about copyrighted parts of the implementation (it's free not just as in beer). Who cares if the files might be (but must not) 10% larger? Once you realize it is lossless you might even see a benefit ;)
Kind regards,
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They do this because various websites sniff for various browsers, and they want to show up as much like Mozilla/Gecko as possible. If your user agent parser isn't very smart, it might miss the Safari/530.18 part of that user agent string.
This is exactly the problem, browser sniffer should not sniff for products but for render engines. So for example sniffing for "safari" is as wrong as sniffing for "firefox".
It's really quiet simple. Even better, there are tons of libraries which do it reliable already, I don't understand why so many people try to reinvent the wheel.
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wga?
Ray
being sceptical is an important attribute for an engineer. It just might be true that many /. readers are engineers.
If people were screwed about one topic over years it is very likely that they do not believe something has changed just because the outcome of a few cases is different.
Yours typical cynical and skeptical ./ reader ;)
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... Since it isn't on x86, it doesn't even have the "compatible with every last weirdo activeX control and embedded horror" angle going for it. ...
sssh -- don't tell MS. This is actually a good thing and I fear they are gonna read this.
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it probably depends where you live, they pretty sure use different service providers in different countries.
I am not living in the US and have exactly the same problem as GP.
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I was flying R/C playes, helicopters and real planes nearly my whole life. I can second what you are saying.
However, this is a really nice hack! I had a big smile on my face while watching this video. Hacks like these are the things which seperate the real techies from the kids ;)
this must have been your provider. I used to work for an ISP not so long ago. The Federal police is forcing providers to monitor all users and hand out these data (in realtime) to their system. But I am not aware of of any such rgulation you are mentioning.
We did not implement it btw, but most of the large providers do it.
It was in an earlier /. story, that ubuntu will not use the brown scheme in the next release. They are very secretive (or were, I haven't checked lately) how the next release's theme will look like but I guess it will be blue-ish.
Kind regards,
-S
Isn't the biggest problem with worms like Conficker the fact that most of the affected users are totally unaware that they have it.
Maybe yes, maybe nooo. I have a legit copy of windows XP at home (OEM, came with my computer). But i refuse to install WGA. So I am not sure if i get those patches (the windows update website doesn't work for me, however, eventually I get updates somehow). Also, i am not going to find all these hotfixes an appling them manually (my time is too valueable for this kind of shit).
Because this is my gaming computer, i do not care much since i hardly ever boot into windows anymore and its the only windows install in my network.
You are modded Funny, I would have modded You Insightful but decided to comment.
In a time where even Joe Avarage's webpage starts utilizing javascript frameworks such as JQuery, ExtJs, GWT, prototype and the such I have to ask who cares about html rendering speeds?
Trident, the rendering engine of IE, has been famous for it's bad Javascript performance (especially on string manipulation which is often heavily used). Does IE have better javascript performance? I ask, because the competition is successfully upping their standards in this area.
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As an Add-On and Web developer i'd say: disable firebug when you don't need it. Firebug is a ressource hog.
Constantly running a debugger must slow down your browser.
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You should disable previews (at least in gnome) and problem solved. Unfortunately I haven't figured out how to do this selectively for NFS mountpoints (previews for ssh://, smb://, ftp:// can be disabled in nautilus' preferences)
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..though keep in mind its not uncommon for a plane to be mostly empty, not just cars).
If this was true, most airlines would be bankrupt by now or ticket prices would skyrocket.
Somtimes, planes can be nearly empty but airlines will make sure they sell as many seats as possible or they can't afford operation.
My Brother is flying for british airways. When crossing country borders fuel usually isn't taxed. I don't know about the US (many domestic flights) but here in europe there are usually not many jet flights not crossing a country border.
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What I want to know is WHY did the piratebay take it down?
Maybe because it was editing the hosts file and therefore blocking thepiratebay.com? Where is your freedom of information if you can't access the infromation?
... and have stops every 10 - 15 miles, with stops lasting no more than 1 minute and have multiple trains so that a train came by a stop every 30 minutes, (maybe get it down to every 15 minutes), then we could have a very functional non car based economy.
You would love my country, make it "stops every 5 miles" and "a train every 15 minutes" plus a good bus network connection train stations with the area around it.
Although nearly every household here in switzerland owns 2 cars most people use public transport to go to work. Most of the goods are transported by train, not trucks.
This, however, has only been possible because politics has worked toward that goal for decades.
With the upcoming SDL user interface of FreeCiv it even looks like a modern game (was unfinished when i checked a couple of months ago).
http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Screenshots
Some freeCiv players also like freecol, a similar game written in java. I never got into it so I can't say much about it.
Yesterday I have seen the first TV advert on German TV which said (in german obviously) somthing like: "musicload.de: pure MP3, no digital restrictions".
AFAICT DRM was a topic for gamers but not the average music customer. The DRM topic has hit the mainstream Media now.
-S
Also in that report, it shows that Firefox use broke 20% for the first time ever at the expense of Internet Explorer.
With this low FF usage we are probably talking about US customers.
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