Am I an idiot because I want to use more than one computer, even though my ISP only gives me ONE IP?
No, but being NATed is still a bad idea, and you should expect to have reduced functionality on the second comptuer.
Am I an idiot because I want to keep myself from being infected by the literally hundreds of thousands of zombie computers roaming the internet on a constant basis?
No, but you're an idiot if you think NAT or a firewall is the best way to do that.
Firewalls are a good idea. I'm smart enough to configure my firewall to let traffic in, if anyone had a decent push mechanism that I wanted to allow in.
But it takes a load of effort, and shouldn't be necessary. What if it uses random ports?
But where is this "real push tech" you speak of, and does it actually push anything useful to me?
Mostly in research labs, and no it doesn't, because there are so many people with nat and/or firewalls that don't know how to allow traffic through or direct it to their primary box (Nowadays almost every windows user has a firewall running) that such a technology couldn't succeed on the "real" internet. I've seen papers on how RSS could be better as a true push technology (there was even a/. story about it I think) but with so many firewalled "grandmother" users, it will stay nothing more than a research interest.
Yes. Why do you need them? Either because your TCP stack has a bug, which given how simple they are means you would have been able to get a better one if you had any sense, or because you're running unnecessary services, which means either you're an idiot who turned on a bunch of unnecessary services, or you bought an OS that ships with a bunch of unnecessary services on, in which case you're an idiot for buying it.
No chemists really think that the lanthanides and actinides are "footnotes" in the periodic table.
But many students do. Schools don't teach that far down, the table as a whole is never explained to them (just how to use it for valences and similar). This makes it a bit clearer.
He doesn't know it won't, but you don't know it will either. You should only have a child if you personally will ensure as best as possible that it can receive appropriate care.
You can pick out the elements in the same groups just as easily, they're just "spokes" rather than columns. There's no real scientific reason for the "gap" in the current table to be where it is - you could just as easily have the noble gases on the left, of course the groups need to be shown to be related but if that can be done without needing the "discontinuity" of the current table, as this one does, then so much tbe better. This one also makes visual calculation of electron shells much easier - you can see where the electrons are rather than having to see each row as wrapped around the one above. It's not that much more functional, certainly not revolutionary, but it is a small improvement.
I'd say it's enough of a flaw that makes it worth rearranging. The footnote version breaks up the look of the thing, and leaves you with a lot of unused space when you do it in proper space. If it's as functional when spiralised (and I see no reason it wouldn't be), then the chart is better that way.
They can use a redirector or parameter to tell how many hits on the URL are from RSS, like the ?from=rss slashdot uses. Then have the server use a straightforward tracking cookie or link it to that person's existing one, and voila (sp?).
Any standard would work, but a standard was needed. The great leap was the idea of introducing a simple standard for only sending headlines and summaries. Think about it for a second. In the current world of ever "richer" web media content, what would be the first thing on someone introducing a complementary protocol's mind. Probably how to get flash working on it. It was a real insight that having a one liner and a URL for more is a very useful thing to do, most people would think such things are so trivial as to not be worth making a protocol for.
No, it was going to be true push. RSS only uses a polling mechanism because of the thousands of idiots who think NAT and firewalls are a good idea. There are protocols in place for real push tech, and it would work better than the current RSS model.
How about applying it differently, getting it to learn to pick a move for each position? Obviously that's a little harder than a simple spam/not spam judgement, but I'd have thought you could get it to recognise that if there are 3 pawns in front of the king and you have a rook available you can do a back rank mate, etc.
If you look at the post there's no kharma bonus there, though I suppose he could have turned it off. And I knew what the internet is before this site existed, I just dislike the WWW because it gets all the attention. Sites like this would be better off done via usenet.
When queueing near such people I always enjoy turning to classic FM or radio 2 and cranking it (my car's stock stereo is surprisingly loud). You get some priceless looks.
You trust everyone and you trust noone. In particular, don't believe anything you've heard only from a single source. Get a second opinion. It might annoy some doctors, but it might save your life.
Then what happened to the wonderful integrated commandline, proper dos multitasking without the lame emulation of windows, and nice gui shell (presentation manager?) It was one of the best OSes I've ever used, I would seriously consider using it as my main system if it was opened up.
Don't get me wrong, I don't blame games for things people do. But the fact is that once a kid's 12 or so they're quite capable of going out and buying the games for themselves, and probably hiding them from their parents. I think it would make sense to say shops can't sell these games to anyone who looks underage without ID. Parents can buy them for their kids if they're willing to let them have them, if not the kids can probably get them anyway but we've done all that's reasonable, if the child's willing to go to that length they're probably already too far gone.
1. Obviously personal preference, it's pretty much as themable.
2. Yes, this could well be its downfall.
3. True, but many of the commercial distros have similar costs.
4. Are you sure?
6. They're not that much better, it interoperates pretty well IME.
Beos' multimedia capabilities are still the best on any OS. It was years ahead of its time, did things in 1992 or so that other OSes are only just getting. That's where it's going to be marketed, it's the best thing to use as a multimedia system. It runs a reasonable suite of apps, nothing like the range available for windows but like linux you can find a program for most things. It's eminently usable, especially for older hardware. Whether it will succeed I don't know.
Yes, it is. It's really good for multimedia, the scheduler has to be seen to be believed, and it's a good integrated package. It compares pretty favourably with, say SUSE, at least as a media OS. Of course you can get linux and bsd distros for free download, but the amount of time you'd have to spend finding codecs and getting them set up as well as YT is would easily be worth 99 Euros for many people.
Yep. Repeat after me: the web is not an applications platform, the web is not an applications platform. Until browser developers realise this, there will be holes a mile wide in their browsers.
Memory isn't "dirt cheap", especially for older machines. I doubt I could buy a 512mb stick for this machine, but if I did it would be about £150. The difference between XP and 2K feels like a good 64mb's worth, not just shaving kilobytes.
I'm not complaining so much about the size of the download (though there are a significant number of people with dialup still, which makes the sdk a 3 hour download, and while the source is useful it would be better as a separate download, and my current PC shipped with 20GB and most people I know seem to have single-figure-gigabyte disks) as the performance of java applications. On this box (800mhz duron) java programs take half a second just to open a menu after clicking on it. And there doesn't seem to be any functionality gain for it. Compare yaggui, a gift frontend in java with less features than any other (with the possible exception of the curses one), but it crawls next to giftui or apollon. It's not like Java's even that much easier to code for, I can accept the performance loss in perl or python where you can write 10x less code than C++ to do the same thing.
PCs aren't cheap. You might be able to dump a grand every few years on a new one, but not everyone can. If new software was doing useful things the "upgrade treadmill" might be acceptable, but they seem to just keep adding unnecessary crap to keep people thinking they need to upgrade. I can't see that much functionality on this box that wasn't in GEM from what, 1985? And yet the processor is ~20x as fast as my PC back then, but the performance in terms of GUI responsiveness is, if anything, worse.
The "spigot" (I'm assuming that's a tap) wasn't sold to you as something you could water the back lawn with, just something that supplies you with water. Whereas the computer and OS are sold as a complete package, often with advertising saying how easy it is to use the internet with them.
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No, but being NATed is still a bad idea, and you should expect to have reduced functionality on the second comptuer.
Am I an idiot because I want to keep myself from being infected by the literally hundreds of thousands of zombie computers roaming the internet on a constant basis?
No, but you're an idiot if you think NAT or a firewall is the best way to do that.
Firewalls are a good idea. I'm smart enough to configure my firewall to let traffic in, if anyone had a decent push mechanism that I wanted to allow in.
But it takes a load of effort, and shouldn't be necessary. What if it uses random ports?
But where is this "real push tech" you speak of, and does it actually push anything useful to me?
Mostly in research labs, and no it doesn't, because there are so many people with nat and/or firewalls that don't know how to allow traffic through or direct it to their primary box (Nowadays almost every windows user has a firewall running) that such a technology couldn't succeed on the "real" internet. I've seen papers on how RSS could be better as a true push technology (there was even a /. story about it I think) but with so many firewalled "grandmother" users, it will stay nothing more than a research interest.
Yes. Why do you need them? Either because your TCP stack has a bug, which given how simple they are means you would have been able to get a better one if you had any sense, or because you're running unnecessary services, which means either you're an idiot who turned on a bunch of unnecessary services, or you bought an OS that ships with a bunch of unnecessary services on, in which case you're an idiot for buying it.
I'd say anyone who thinks they're a good idea for home users is an idiot. I don't have enough experience in corporate networks to judge there.
But many students do. Schools don't teach that far down, the table as a whole is never explained to them (just how to use it for valences and similar). This makes it a bit clearer.
He doesn't know it won't, but you don't know it will either. You should only have a child if you personally will ensure as best as possible that it can receive appropriate care.
You can pick out the elements in the same groups just as easily, they're just "spokes" rather than columns. There's no real scientific reason for the "gap" in the current table to be where it is - you could just as easily have the noble gases on the left, of course the groups need to be shown to be related but if that can be done without needing the "discontinuity" of the current table, as this one does, then so much tbe better. This one also makes visual calculation of electron shells much easier - you can see where the electrons are rather than having to see each row as wrapped around the one above. It's not that much more functional, certainly not revolutionary, but it is a small improvement.
I'd say it's enough of a flaw that makes it worth rearranging. The footnote version breaks up the look of the thing, and leaves you with a lot of unused space when you do it in proper space. If it's as functional when spiralised (and I see no reason it wouldn't be), then the chart is better that way.
They can use a redirector or parameter to tell how many hits on the URL are from RSS, like the ?from=rss slashdot uses. Then have the server use a straightforward tracking cookie or link it to that person's existing one, and voila (sp?).
Any standard would work, but a standard was needed. The great leap was the idea of introducing a simple standard for only sending headlines and summaries. Think about it for a second. In the current world of ever "richer" web media content, what would be the first thing on someone introducing a complementary protocol's mind. Probably how to get flash working on it. It was a real insight that having a one liner and a URL for more is a very useful thing to do, most people would think such things are so trivial as to not be worth making a protocol for.
No, it was going to be true push. RSS only uses a polling mechanism because of the thousands of idiots who think NAT and firewalls are a good idea. There are protocols in place for real push tech, and it would work better than the current RSS model.
How about applying it differently, getting it to learn to pick a move for each position? Obviously that's a little harder than a simple spam/not spam judgement, but I'd have thought you could get it to recognise that if there are 3 pawns in front of the king and you have a rook available you can do a back rank mate, etc.
If you look at the post there's no kharma bonus there, though I suppose he could have turned it off. And I knew what the internet is before this site existed, I just dislike the WWW because it gets all the attention. Sites like this would be better off done via usenet.
5 posts and we haven't had a "that's no moon..."? What's this place coming to?
When queueing near such people I always enjoy turning to classic FM or radio 2 and cranking it (my car's stock stereo is surprisingly loud). You get some priceless looks.
You trust everyone and you trust noone. In particular, don't believe anything you've heard only from a single source. Get a second opinion. It might annoy some doctors, but it might save your life.
Maybe you need the wikipedia article on karma whoring.
Then what happened to the wonderful integrated commandline, proper dos multitasking without the lame emulation of windows, and nice gui shell (presentation manager?) It was one of the best OSes I've ever used, I would seriously consider using it as my main system if it was opened up.
Don't get me wrong, I don't blame games for things people do. But the fact is that once a kid's 12 or so they're quite capable of going out and buying the games for themselves, and probably hiding them from their parents. I think it would make sense to say shops can't sell these games to anyone who looks underage without ID. Parents can buy them for their kids if they're willing to let them have them, if not the kids can probably get them anyway but we've done all that's reasonable, if the child's willing to go to that length they're probably already too far gone.
2. Yes, this could well be its downfall.
3. True, but many of the commercial distros have similar costs.
4. Are you sure?
6. They're not that much better, it interoperates pretty well IME.
Beos' multimedia capabilities are still the best on any OS. It was years ahead of its time, did things in 1992 or so that other OSes are only just getting. That's where it's going to be marketed, it's the best thing to use as a multimedia system. It runs a reasonable suite of apps, nothing like the range available for windows but like linux you can find a program for most things. It's eminently usable, especially for older hardware. Whether it will succeed I don't know.
Yes, it is. It's really good for multimedia, the scheduler has to be seen to be believed, and it's a good integrated package. It compares pretty favourably with, say SUSE, at least as a media OS. Of course you can get linux and bsd distros for free download, but the amount of time you'd have to spend finding codecs and getting them set up as well as YT is would easily be worth 99 Euros for many people.
Yep. Repeat after me: the web is not an applications platform, the web is not an applications platform. Until browser developers realise this, there will be holes a mile wide in their browsers.
They purposefully broke nmap et al, by their own admission.
I'm not complaining so much about the size of the download (though there are a significant number of people with dialup still, which makes the sdk a 3 hour download, and while the source is useful it would be better as a separate download, and my current PC shipped with 20GB and most people I know seem to have single-figure-gigabyte disks) as the performance of java applications. On this box (800mhz duron) java programs take half a second just to open a menu after clicking on it. And there doesn't seem to be any functionality gain for it. Compare yaggui, a gift frontend in java with less features than any other (with the possible exception of the curses one), but it crawls next to giftui or apollon. It's not like Java's even that much easier to code for, I can accept the performance loss in perl or python where you can write 10x less code than C++ to do the same thing.
PCs aren't cheap. You might be able to dump a grand every few years on a new one, but not everyone can. If new software was doing useful things the "upgrade treadmill" might be acceptable, but they seem to just keep adding unnecessary crap to keep people thinking they need to upgrade. I can't see that much functionality on this box that wasn't in GEM from what, 1985? And yet the processor is ~20x as fast as my PC back then, but the performance in terms of GUI responsiveness is, if anything, worse.
The "spigot" (I'm assuming that's a tap) wasn't sold to you as something you could water the back lawn with, just something that supplies you with water. Whereas the computer and OS are sold as a complete package, often with advertising saying how easy it is to use the internet with them.
It's the #3 I wonder about. Why are they trustworthy?