"First off, by default IE will not allow you to run an unsigned control. A control can be digitally signed, verifying that it came from you, and the signing process is arduous enough that, say, a bored junior high school student won't bother with the process. Unfortunately, anyone with $20 and who DOES care can get signed relatively easily."
Besides the obviously stupidness inherent with ActiveX and its purpose, this is another really good reason why I refuse to use it. It doesn't have to be a program that formats my hard drive. It can be a piece of spyware, or some annoying ad pop-up that gets installed. There is no good way to implement natively executed ActiveX controls, at least for anything other than a company or website I know in advance that I trust unconditionally.
I shutter at the thought of running any code that I (or at least someone else) has not inspected. Just another reason to use Firefox and other opensource software.
Look at x.org. Look at what they want to do with switching everything over to OpenGL rendering. I think you might find quite a few simularities between Longhorn, OSX, and x.org. It's the trend, and I think it's a smart desision.
So what if you won't be able to use the windowing system unless you have an accelerated graphics card? Nearly all new(er) computers have graphics acceleration capability. It opens up a WHOLE lot more possibilities with what can be done within the windowing enviroment. PLUS it makes things a whole lot simpler when you only have to worry about one driver (OpenGL for example), for 2D and 3D applications.
Actually that is an interesting comment. I have often wondered about that same topic. Will people, in the distant (or maybe even near?) future volunteer to swap their human body parts for machine replacements?
If technology keeps developing at the rate it has been, how long will it be before prosthetic limbs become superior to the ones we are born with? Imagine super stong mechanical arms or legs, which are controlled through your nervous system. Imagine replacement livers and hearts and maybe even brains that are immune to disease...
Hmmm, excuse me, I think I'm going to go watch Ghost in the Shell now.
Beacons operating at 406 MHz and 121.5 MHz are compatible with the Cospas-Sarsat System
That's interesting, but I've never encountered such a system. I don't believe that 406Mhz is the international UHF distress freq, 243Mhz is (resonant frequency of 121.5). It (406Mhz) may just be unique to that (Australian?) Cospas-Sarsat System.
A lot of people have developed proprietary distress systems, but I personally would not use them. If I was in serious trouble and could only transmit on ONE frequency, you bet your ass it would be 243Mhz. All you should have to do is transmit for a few minutes straight and the US satelites would pick it up and notify the nessasary authorities (proved by the topic story).
See, that makes no sense to me. I just make my taskbar larger (did you know you could do that?), and I can easily get to my 20+ windows I have open. I can't imagine having to remember what virtual desktop each app is running in and play hide and seek every time I switch. That's a real nightmare for me.
Well this seems a little trollish to me, but I'll bite.
Most people who use virtual desktops organize apps by assigning like programs to individual virtual desktops. IE Desk1: Terminal/File Manager, Desk2: Internet Apps, Desk3: Chat/IM, etc...
Where as with your technique you minimize/maximize tons of apps all on one desktop to a huge taskbar, we virtual desktop users spread out windows in a much less hectic, more organized fashion.
Plus (with Gnome at least) you get the nice "tasklist" in the corner, which is a drop down menu that lists all windows, providing the same functionality as the windows taskbar in a lot less space. WAY more efficient.
Don't forget window shading, sticky windows; flexible panels such as floating, edge, aligned, sliding... I could go on.
In my eyes there is NO contest. Windows has had years to add in this functionality that I've come to expect from a modern GUI enviroment.
Safari does tabbed browsing and is already on the system.
Did I miss something here? I thought he was talking about using WINDOWS when he was complaining about window management problems, not OSX.
Nice little blurb about Windows...
on
The Ultimate MacDate
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· Score: 5, Insightful
From TFA:
For starters, heavy multi-tasking management under Windows had caused me a lot of grief... After a certain point, the cramped taskbar became difficult to use as a locator tool, and while I could ALT+TAB forever, I just felt like I was idle for too long. I knew what it was that I needed to get to, and I knew I had it open, but the process of getting to it was a pain.
This, my friends, is where Windows is seriously lacking as far as usability goes. He makes a good point. I for one can't stand more than about 4 Windows open at a time when I'm using windows, where as when I'm using Linux (I'm not a OSX guy) I usually have 20+ windows open on 6 virtual desktops.
Unix based window managers (along with others) have had virtual desktops for years, where did Microsoft drop the ball?
"the OSCE will be monitoring local and state elections in Kazakhstan, Skopje, Eastern Congo, Ouagadougou and... the United States."
Ok, I really don't see what power a foriegn entity has over America's political machine...
Really, what are they going to do if they find something they don't like: "We Europeans order you to STOP your elections immediately!"... yeaaahh, I don't think so.
It is official; Netcraft confirms: Project Niagra is dying
One more crippling
bombshell hit the already beleaguered Project Niagra community when IDC confirmed that Project Niagra market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states
that Project Niagra has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Project Niagra is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by
failing dead last
in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to
be a Genius to predict Project Niagra's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Project Niagra faces a bleak future. In fact there won't
be any future at all for Project Niagra because Project Niagra is dying. Things are looking very
bad for Project Niagra. As many of us are already aware, Project Niagra continues to lose market share. Red
ink flows like a river of blood.
All major
surveys show that Project Niagra has steadily declined in market share. Project Niagra is very sick and
its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Project Niagra is to survive at all it will
be among processor dilettante dabblers. Project Niagra continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle
could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Project Niagra is dead.
Creative Zen Portable Media Center Review, Part 1... I guess first things first A brief introduction Some of the people reading this will be friends of mine who have been eagerly waiting (impatiently) for some time in fact. If you’re one of them, then too bad, you’ll have to wait a bit more.
I’m Corey Gouker (obviously); I’m a Media Center MVP who hangs out in the Microsoft newsgroups for everything Digital Media and Media Center related. I’m 20 years old and starting up college again at SJSU after already doing a year abroad at the University of Manchester in the Queen’s Country.
I’m pretty much an average geek. I think anything electronic (that at least has some class and style) is totally sexy. For example my cell phone, my Klipsch 5.1 Ultra’s, a 2TB RAID, a super fast Internet connection, you name it. If it’s geeky, chances are I love it and might find it sexy. And please, I don’t mean to get you worried at this point, I don’t find them attractive in a sexual way or anything like that, I’m much more drawn to a nice 5’8” red head than anything made of silicon, LOL, err, no pun intended. Besides that, I’m just an average guy with an anything but average collection of digital media. Some stats I compiled about a month ago are pretty out there. I was sitting on a 204GB collection of music. That’s approximately 44,190 tracks for the curious. My main Media Center Edition PC has a 250GB HDD which at any given time has about 200GB of recorded TV. Then there’s about 500 or so DVDs as well. I’m not even going to guess on the number of pictures, all I know is that there’s a 50 CD folder sitting on a book shelf that is filled with DVD+R’s with nothing but JPG’s from my Canon G2. I’ve actually warn out 3 batteries in the little time I’ve had the camera.
I personally don’t own that many media devices. In fact, I’ve only got one at the moment. A small but nice 256MB Creative MuVo TX. I’m in a unique situation in that unlike some, I couldn’t hope to fit my entire collection on a device to take it with me. Whether it be music, videos, TV, or pictures. I’ve almost bought a Dell DJ, 40GB iRiver, and 20GB Rio Karma, but didn’t buy any since I still felt none of them quite fit what I had in mind. Being a Media Center MVP with some interest in the Digital Media Division as well, I’ve been keeping track as much as possible about some of the new stuff coming along. Portable Media Centers (PMC) really caught my eyes and ears when I first heard about them. Back then I hadn’t a clue what size drives they’d have so I had high hopes that they might be a breakthrough device that would fit my needs perfectly. Something that would really do damage to Apple’s iPod. While some might have put the idea out there that Microsoft wanted the PMC to be an iPod killer, I don’t really think this is true. I think most people within Microsoft who were working in the area knew perfectly well that this device was different and really could not be compared with previous Portable Music Players. The OEMs that signed on to make the device, Creative, iRiver, Samsung, knew the device was different. The only real way they could be compared would be in terms of size, weight, battery life, easy of use, style, and sexiness. The feature set of a PMC far surpasses a regular Portable Music Player. Besides it having a GUI that’s strikingly similar to the Media Center (imagine that) it’s got the PMP part down perfectly. You’ve got playlists, album art, and all that. But you’ve also got videos, TV, and pictures. It really is a on the go Media Center. Or like Microsoft says, [almost] all your media. Here. There. Everywhere.
The devices can be used with or without a Media Center PC but
The copyright laws there are pretty much non-existant.
For example you can purchase a jacket or article of clothing, and they will embroider it with just about anything you want, including emblems/logos that in America are Trademarked (Starter, Nike, etc).
You can also buy fake oakley sunglasses (AKA Foaklies/Oakies) in many parts of the world for $5 a pop.
The rest of the world doesn't always play by America's rules. But we're working on that.;-)
Isn't that the whole problem? Having multiple, incompatible, proprietary protocols? Many of which change on a regular basis, which breaks Gaim. It's a big hassle.
What we need is open, free protocol that everyone can use. So I think that this is a good idea.
But for right now I'm using AIM TOC on Gaim. It's the only one that doesn't change every month.:-P
Given a chance, any company will simply work you to death - you are expendable labor to them, not worth the shit in your bowels.
The problem is more and more work that people used to do are now done by machines. That means there are fewer jobs out there. The worker keeps getting dealt worse and worse hands, while the big boys up top hold all the aces. Why would they hire an American when they can go to Canada, India, or Mexico? THEY have the say in who they hire, and when there are more people then there are jobs, the people have to compete, and that is not good for Joe Blue Collar.
College is supposed to teach for the betterment of society; yet if I go to school pursuing a degree in say, Electronic Engineering, to build robots that take over millions of jobs, putting former human employees on the street, am I really improving society?
Slashdot Mirror
I just pissed my pants from excitement.
I shutter at the thought of running any code that I (or at least someone else) has not inspected. Just another reason to use Firefox and other opensource software.
Look at x.org. Look at what they want to do with switching everything over to OpenGL rendering. I think you might find quite a few simularities between Longhorn, OSX, and x.org. It's the trend, and I think it's a smart desision.
So what if you won't be able to use the windowing system unless you have an accelerated graphics card? Nearly all new(er) computers have graphics acceleration capability. It opens up a WHOLE lot more possibilities with what can be done within the windowing enviroment. PLUS it makes things a whole lot simpler when you only have to worry about one driver (OpenGL for example), for 2D and 3D applications.
Actually that is an interesting comment. I have often wondered about that same topic. Will people, in the distant (or maybe even near?) future volunteer to swap their human body parts for machine replacements?
If technology keeps developing at the rate it has been, how long will it be before prosthetic limbs become superior to the ones we are born with? Imagine super stong mechanical arms or legs, which are controlled through your nervous system. Imagine replacement livers and hearts and maybe even brains that are immune to disease...
Hmmm, excuse me, I think I'm going to go watch Ghost in the Shell now.
What's your reenlistment bonus?
Well I'm convinced... if KDE can run on a gamecube, it must be better than Gnome.
laugh, its a joke
A lot of people have developed proprietary distress systems, but I personally would not use them. If I was in serious trouble and could only transmit on ONE frequency, you bet your ass it would be 243Mhz. All you should have to do is transmit for a few minutes straight and the US satelites would pick it up and notify the nessasary authorities (proved by the topic story).
Well this seems a little trollish to me, but I'll bite.
Most people who use virtual desktops organize apps by assigning like programs to individual virtual desktops. IE Desk1: Terminal/File Manager, Desk2: Internet Apps, Desk3: Chat/IM, etc...
Where as with your technique you minimize/maximize tons of apps all on one desktop to a huge taskbar, we virtual desktop users spread out windows in a much less hectic, more organized fashion.
Plus (with Gnome at least) you get the nice "tasklist" in the corner, which is a drop down menu that lists all windows, providing the same functionality as the windows taskbar in a lot less space. WAY more efficient.
Don't forget window shading, sticky windows; flexible panels such as floating, edge, aligned, sliding... I could go on.
In my eyes there is NO contest. Windows has had years to add in this functionality that I've come to expect from a modern GUI enviroment.
Did I miss something here? I thought he was talking about using WINDOWS when he was complaining about window management problems, not OSX.
This, my friends, is where Windows is seriously lacking as far as usability goes. He makes a good point. I for one can't stand more than about 4 Windows open at a time when I'm using windows, where as when I'm using Linux (I'm not a OSX guy) I usually have 20+ windows open on 6 virtual desktops.
Unix based window managers (along with others) have had virtual desktops for years, where did Microsoft drop the ball?
Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of... oh wait, I guess you can!
"the OSCE will be monitoring local and state elections in Kazakhstan, Skopje, Eastern Congo, Ouagadougou and... the United States."
... yeaaahh, I don't think so.
Ok, I really don't see what power a foriegn entity has over America's political machine...
Really, what are they going to do if they find something they don't like: "We Europeans order you to STOP your elections immediately!"
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Project Niagra community when IDC confirmed that Project Niagra market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Project Niagra has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Project Niagra is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Genius to predict Project Niagra's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Project Niagra faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Project Niagra because Project Niagra is dying. Things are looking very bad for Project Niagra. As many of us are already aware, Project Niagra continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
All major surveys show that Project Niagra has steadily declined in market share. Project Niagra is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Project Niagra is to survive at all it will be among processor dilettante dabblers. Project Niagra continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Project Niagra is dead.
Fact: Project Niagra is dying
Remember:
- When somebody talked about SPAM, they meant the food.
- When a Mouse was a little furry rodent
- When Hardware meant hammers, nails, etc.
- When RAM meant to butt into something.
- When Monitor meant to watch someone closely.
- When Desktops were made out of mahogany.
- When Wallpaper went on walls.
- When Icons where people you looked up to.
- When Pointers were a dog breed.
- When Buttons went on your shirt.
- When a Register was something a store kept money in.
- When a BUG meant an insect.
Ahh the days...Is the theater really going to make more money doing this than showing a movie?
It says that "There is a $3 charge for spectators to watch the games.", but that's a far cry from the $7+ they would charge for a movie.
Who here would actually participate, either player or spectator?
Can I have a 64bit OS too please? (no not linux)
Didn't you hear? According to SCO, Linux doesn't even exist!
That's why I said it reminds me...
Can't it be both? :-D
Reminds me of South Korea.
;-)
The copyright laws there are pretty much non-existant.
For example you can purchase a jacket or article of clothing, and they will embroider it with just about anything you want, including emblems/logos that in America are Trademarked (Starter, Nike, etc).
You can also buy fake oakley sunglasses (AKA Foaklies/Oakies) in many parts of the world for $5 a pop.
The rest of the world doesn't always play by America's rules. But we're working on that.
Isn't that the whole problem? Having multiple, incompatible, proprietary protocols? Many of which change on a regular basis, which breaks Gaim. It's a big hassle.
:-P
What we need is open, free protocol that everyone can use. So I think that this is a good idea.
But for right now I'm using AIM TOC on Gaim. It's the only one that doesn't change every month.