There are three things which generally people react to far more than normal crime. Crimes against women (PC crowd bugger off for a bit), crimes against pensioners, and crimes against children.
Yes, a crime is a crime, but a crime against those who don't have a chance of fighting back is just below even criminal standards (Most criminals I know do have them; the very elderly, young children, and pregnant women are out of bounds. Or were, the current generation are a bunch of twats.)
I would go as far as saying things like Tivos do learn. They alter their behaviour based on what happens, just like children. If something happens that people don't like (It suggests a crap programme to watch) then something negative happens (Nobody watches it) and learning occurs (It doesn't do it again).
Software patents. None of the big players dare move for fear of infringing one of them (Especially Linux, which sadly can't afford to fight battles even with small companies)
Firefox doesn't have a spyware problem because it hasn't had enough market share to make it really worthwhile.
Remember when Firefox would block every pop-up and pop-under in sight? Now people have found ways round it because Firefox has a fair chunk of the browser market.
Build it and they will come.
(Disclaimer: I'm a FF user and love it, but playing devil's advocate with zealots is fun)
I've certainly seen the studies. They're the same ones which state (quite correctly) that ISS totally outperforms everything else, providing everything else is running on sub-par hardware and ISS is optimised to hell.
Now I'm gonna go try shove Apache onto my graphical calculator.
Actually, if you had a rapidly scanning laser positioned just above the waterline in the bowl, trained to scan for a few cm above the waterline, then you would get a very funky display.
Use 2 or 3 and gradient the colours for that final touch.
As someone living in the UK, I find automated bathrooms very offputting. Even the (admittedly a good idea) IR sensors in public toilets in the US don't feature over here.
As for having my toilet know about my urine sugar, hell no. Start with patents and soon you'll have Microsoft involved.
Brings a whole new meaning to "Where do you want to go today?" doesn't it?
I'd say the fact apache will run out of the box on a pocket calculator with half the memory disabled is far more impressive than just coming top in a benchmark.
You're referring to the IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identifier) number. This is sent to the carrier network along with every "hello", and is unique to the device (Although it is possible to reflash new IMEI numbers to some phones). In theory any phone can be pulled from all networks across the world once it is reported stolen, which is why phone companies tell you to keep the box and write down the IMEI number.
For the curious, dialling *#06# on most phones will show you the IMEI of the handset.
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There are three things which generally people react to far more than normal crime. Crimes against women (PC crowd bugger off for a bit), crimes against pensioners, and crimes against children.
Yes, a crime is a crime, but a crime against those who don't have a chance of fighting back is just below even criminal standards (Most criminals I know do have them; the very elderly, young children, and pregnant women are out of bounds. Or were, the current generation are a bunch of twats.)
If that's the case Windows ME is rock solid. It never gets as far as being able to bluescreen whenever I try it.
SpamBayes plugin for Outlook works quite nicely - http://spambayes.sf.net/
Don't personify my Tivo, it doesn't like it!
I would go as far as saying things like Tivos do learn. They alter their behaviour based on what happens, just like children. If something happens that people don't like (It suggests a crap programme to watch) then something negative happens (Nobody watches it) and learning occurs (It doesn't do it again).
I think the plus about Chinese prisons is they don't rely on stories of male rape.
Heh, I swear the world could go through nuclear war and the only things remaining would be Google and Duck Tape.
Ah, but that one went wrong didn't it? Everyone knows you need a swirling blue tube to create power on the big screen.
If a page declares a doctype, the browser should render it to the spec without even attempting to compensate for bad code.
Software patents. None of the big players dare move for fear of infringing one of them (Especially Linux, which sadly can't afford to fight battles even with small companies)
Hang on...
1x10^100 = googol
1x10^100x10^100 = googolplex (a googol of googols)
10^100x10^100 = 10^(100x100) = 10^10000
therefore 1x10^10000 = googolplex?
Or have I screwed up because I'm up early and haven't had 8 cups of coffee yet? Now I think about it that doesn't look right at all... my bad.
Most are blocked OK, and 1.0.3 made some alterations to deal with most new popups but some (mostly popunders) still get through.
Googolplex, not Googleplex. One is a big big number (1 followed by 10,000 zeroes) and the other is where Google lives.
I call FUD on your argument.
Firefox doesn't have a spyware problem because it hasn't had enough market share to make it really worthwhile.
Remember when Firefox would block every pop-up and pop-under in sight? Now people have found ways round it because Firefox has a fair chunk of the browser market.
Build it and they will come.
(Disclaimer: I'm a FF user and love it, but playing devil's advocate with zealots is fun)
Got the BBC report here since that one seems to have fallen over.
Why call it a black box on planes? The damn things are flourescent orange.
I'm in favour of this tbh. Major upgrades like XPSP2 should be given a 'testing period' then forced upon everybody.
No, I mean it. XPSP2 is the biggest leap forward in terms of basic Windows security for ages.
And umm.... Journal so I can keep reasonable notes.
This isn't a tablet. It's a hybrid. It needs to do laptop and slate configurations.
If you want a touchscreen oriented UI, buy a Palm.
I've certainly seen the studies. They're the same ones which state (quite correctly) that ISS totally outperforms everything else, providing everything else is running on sub-par hardware and ISS is optimised to hell.
Now I'm gonna go try shove Apache onto my graphical calculator.
Actually, if you had a rapidly scanning laser positioned just above the waterline in the bowl, trained to scan for a few cm above the waterline, then you would get a very funky display.
Use 2 or 3 and gradient the colours for that final touch.
You're onto a winner there!
As someone living in the UK, I find automated bathrooms very offputting. Even the (admittedly a good idea) IR sensors in public toilets in the US don't feature over here.
As for having my toilet know about my urine sugar, hell no. Start with patents and soon you'll have Microsoft involved.
Brings a whole new meaning to "Where do you want to go today?" doesn't it?
I'd say the fact apache will run out of the box on a pocket calculator with half the memory disabled is far more impressive than just coming top in a benchmark.
Nope. It's a prism of an 11-sided shape, therefore it has 13 faces and 33 edges so no matter what number they give, 11 ain't it.
You're referring to the IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identifier) number. This is sent to the carrier network along with every "hello", and is unique to the device (Although it is possible to reflash new IMEI numbers to some phones). In theory any phone can be pulled from all networks across the world once it is reported stolen, which is why phone companies tell you to keep the box and write down the IMEI number.
For the curious, dialling *#06# on most phones will show you the IMEI of the handset.
It sounded warmer than these new-fangled 320kbps...
But an iPod shuffle is a sexy white *and* plays MP3s, what more could you require?