If programs are written properly and use all the calls and procedures they're meant to then they should work with XPSP2. SP2 did not break anything, it merely patched holes that shouldn't have been there and put an extra layer between the average user and the bits they can take out their PC with. If you use an app which utilises security holes to function, it's your lookout.
We're stuck in the middle. Our head wants usto be a modern, upcoming technological school. So we are encouraged to work digitally, registers are electronic etc which is all fine when it works. But most teachers wouldn't know what to do with a.pdf if it came up and slapped them, so there goes my way of providing universally compatible homework. So I submit as a.doc, only to find that the school's version of Office is 2000 whilst I'm on 2003. Oh well...
This is why I hate ideas like this. I use my name 'jacksonj04' wherever I can, a Google will prove that. I know my username, people know that jacksonj04 is almost certainly me, and there's no single point of failure except my head.
Personally I think these look ugly - I'm more a subterranian housing guy myself. However, the construction method seems pretty damn good. Eventually someone will come up with the right mix of cheap construction, space efficiency, strength, comfort and general coolness. Then I'll go live in one.
I think in the UK the consensus is either GPS based tracking of EVs, or some form of RFID tracking because I know for a fact that around where I live (Leeds) emergency vehicles with lights on get priority no matter what the traffic flow is like - even to the extent that the system will clear junctions ahead and keep traffic off them to let the EV past. This leads me to the conclusion that the system knows which vehicle it is because it knows where it's going, and for example fire engines take priority over police vehicles. You can't do that with IR strobes...
Basically, Firefox should try rendering pages in an IE 'quirks' mode if they have no doctype definitions, or certain definitions. What I see increasingly is pages proclaiming themselves (through doctype definitions) to be XHTML 1.0 Strict compliant when in reality they're still in HTML 4.0.
This causes Firefox to go "OK, we will render this page completely according to the specs" and it duly doesn't get it quite right.
IE in these situations goes "Oh, i know it *says* it's XHTML 1.0 Strict but *I* think it's really XHTML 1.0 Transitional", and renders it how the writer thinks they intended.
I prefer Firefox even if half the web looks wrong - I know my pages are standards compliant when I code them and theyy check out in the W3C validators.
The 'software' I looked at had bits in the blurbs about "To be released Summer 2004" and "Available September 2004". Now, tell me if my clock is wrong, but aren't they like 3 months behind there?
That would actually be far more useful than a single light (or if a lot goes wrong, a lot of lights) all turning on at once. I'd be more likely to notice the marquee wasn't keeping time with the music than the load warning had lit up.
To me it describes something with at least 2 rows of 16 LEDs, one of which must be blue and of no determinate use. The rest are labelled with acronyms, and occasionally turn red or green depending on how CPU #15 is feeling at the time.
Namely, something that does a lot of work behind the nice front panel and needs a lot of LEDs to let people know what's happening. Oh, and the ones you just eradicate fire problems with by keeping them in a halon atmosphere (at about 10C) regardless.
I would imagine it's incredibly hard (and often not that much of a timesaver to make a significant difference) to unlearn that sensitivity.
I solved that problem by actively avoiding pencil and paper for most of my life. I've never done serious art on paper (although I can do a reasonable level of such), and instead work with WACOM tablet, palmtop, tablet PC, anything with a stylus input basically.
Whilst for text you can't beat a good old fashioned keyboard (although those projecting ones look *very* cool), just scrawling notes etc I'd rather use my palmtop than my pencil and paper. This is partly because of the portability (reams of paper on one device), but primarily because I can then go 'Find me anything I drew last week' or 'Find something with a squiggle vaguely like this'. After learning to file my scribbles with little symbols, searching through notes became very fast.
I can appreciate that some people just can't get stylus inputs for sketching though - I agree it takes a lot of getting used to.
Actually, they do. The emergency payments system made sure the really, really essential ones got through regardless and the backlog is being dealt with, albeit slowly.
Actually IPv6 will make this harder than at present, because IPs aren't allocated on a geographical basis. At best you'd be able to narrow down to a single ISP, but since the IP addresses lack any form of static allocation (you read that right - static IPs aren't in the IPv6 specs) it would be even more difficult.
Back to the network provider to work out which piece of wire it's coming from.
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If programs are written properly and use all the calls and procedures they're meant to then they should work with XPSP2. SP2 did not break anything, it merely patched holes that shouldn't have been there and put an extra layer between the average user and the bits they can take out their PC with. If you use an app which utilises security holes to function, it's your lookout.
We're stuck in the middle. Our head wants usto be a modern, upcoming technological school. So we are encouraged to work digitally, registers are electronic etc which is all fine when it works. But most teachers wouldn't know what to do with a .pdf if it came up and slapped them, so there goes my way of providing universally compatible homework. So I submit as a .doc, only to find that the school's version of Office is 2000 whilst I'm on 2003. Oh well...
I am a student in a school. 'Permanent' means 'Until the network goes down again', or about 32 minutes ;-)
This is why I hate ideas like this. I use my name 'jacksonj04' wherever I can, a Google will prove that. I know my username, people know that jacksonj04 is almost certainly me, and there's no single point of failure except my head.
Personally I think these look ugly - I'm more a subterranian housing guy myself. However, the construction method seems pretty damn good. Eventually someone will come up with the right mix of cheap construction, space efficiency, strength, comfort and general coolness. Then I'll go live in one.
I think in the UK the consensus is either GPS based tracking of EVs, or some form of RFID tracking because I know for a fact that around where I live (Leeds) emergency vehicles with lights on get priority no matter what the traffic flow is like - even to the extent that the system will clear junctions ahead and keep traffic off them to let the EV past. This leads me to the conclusion that the system knows which vehicle it is because it knows where it's going, and for example fire engines take priority over police vehicles. You can't do that with IR strobes...
Basically, Firefox should try rendering pages in an IE 'quirks' mode if they have no doctype definitions, or certain definitions. What I see increasingly is pages proclaiming themselves (through doctype definitions) to be XHTML 1.0 Strict compliant when in reality they're still in HTML 4.0.
This causes Firefox to go "OK, we will render this page completely according to the specs" and it duly doesn't get it quite right.
IE in these situations goes "Oh, i know it *says* it's XHTML 1.0 Strict but *I* think it's really XHTML 1.0 Transitional", and renders it how the writer thinks they intended.
I prefer Firefox even if half the web looks wrong - I know my pages are standards compliant when I code them and theyy check out in the W3C validators.
Yep, I see the same. How hard could it be to use some real CSS and check it in something other than IE?
Been there for a while. It's great because I can bypass all the IE settings about Flash and Shockwave :D
Not really all that offtopic...
The 'software' I looked at had bits in the blurbs about "To be released Summer 2004" and "Available September 2004". Now, tell me if my clock is wrong, but aren't they like 3 months behind there?
Will your tax dollars actually produce OS code, or will they just fund an organisation which goes "Ooh, we use Open Source! Look at us!"?
I'm learning shorthand just to get notes down easily, it's well worth it if you plan on doing a lot of note taking.
Yes, I do write in cursive (admittedly on my palmtop, so it then just transcribes it).
That would actually be far more useful than a single light (or if a lot goes wrong, a lot of lights) all turning on at once. I'd be more likely to notice the marquee wasn't keeping time with the music than the load warning had lit up.
To me it describes something with at least 2 rows of 16 LEDs, one of which must be blue and of no determinate use. The rest are labelled with acronyms, and occasionally turn red or green depending on how CPU #15 is feeling at the time.
Namely, something that does a lot of work behind the nice front panel and needs a lot of LEDs to let people know what's happening. Oh, and the ones you just eradicate fire problems with by keeping them in a halon atmosphere (at about 10C) regardless.
Amen to that! If entire countries can do it then why on earth can a single school (like mine) not do it?
*goes back to finding ways around irrational filtering of sites mentioning WINE (the Linux variant, not the alocholic one)*
I don't know. A lot of things are "Ready for Windows", maybe they catch it when it falls?
I thought that as soon as I read the title.
Can you link to the Google branded Firefox? All I've seen is a Firefox branded Google, which is different entirely.
I would imagine it's incredibly hard (and often not that much of a timesaver to make a significant difference) to unlearn that sensitivity.
I solved that problem by actively avoiding pencil and paper for most of my life. I've never done serious art on paper (although I can do a reasonable level of such), and instead work with WACOM tablet, palmtop, tablet PC, anything with a stylus input basically.
Whilst for text you can't beat a good old fashioned keyboard (although those projecting ones look *very* cool), just scrawling notes etc I'd rather use my palmtop than my pencil and paper. This is partly because of the portability (reams of paper on one device), but primarily because I can then go 'Find me anything I drew last week' or 'Find something with a squiggle vaguely like this'. After learning to file my scribbles with little symbols, searching through notes became very fast.
I can appreciate that some people just can't get stylus inputs for sketching though - I agree it takes a lot of getting used to.
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Please?
Off-Topic is the answer.
Don't be a total wimp.
Says he of the AC posting.
Actually, they do. The emergency payments system made sure the really, really essential ones got through regardless and the backlog is being dealt with, albeit slowly.
isn't the appropriate response to thrust your hand forwards, thereby breaking the blogger's nose?
Actually IPv6 will make this harder than at present, because IPs aren't allocated on a geographical basis. At best you'd be able to narrow down to a single ISP, but since the IP addresses lack any form of static allocation (you read that right - static IPs aren't in the IPv6 specs) it would be even more difficult.
Back to the network provider to work out which piece of wire it's coming from.