It's a joke when the weather man can't even predict what the weather is going to do tomorrow. One day we may understand the complex system we live in.
There is no argument that has been tremendous climate changes in the past due to non-human related factors. I think we'd all be better served spending our efforts on technology that allows us to adapt.
That's not to say we shouldn't endeavor to reduce our polution. But it seems like we're spending great effort to stop something that may not have a lot of impact in the end.
We have emmisions testing here, which is a joke. At the start the test only failed 13% of cars. Consider that probably a large percentage of those cars were not driven much and is why they failed, the test. So the actual emissions were probably only reduces by a few percentage points if that. So $20 was basically spent for a work fare program for the state with no real impact on air quality. If it had been a program that really produced a real increase in air quailty I wouldn't have minded spending the $20. But it seems so many of these programs turn out to be junk science.
It's possible to get it right, yes. See for example IBM's SWT widget set for Java. But it's also quite the norm to get it awfully wrong: witness Sun's Swing.
This is an age old problem repeated over and over again. At least today, the new UI widgets coming in has slowed considerably. But back in the days when C/C++ UI frameworks were being born, the problem with the SWT approach was that there was considerable lag in supporting the latest greatest GUI widgets that were available on the OS. So you're app would looked dated. It didn't have a nice tree control, or whatever the latest thing was. I imagine it's similar for trying to do such wrappers for video given the advances in video rendering
And as you pointed out DirectX is more than just a 3d API and it had much different goals than OpenGL even in the 3d API arena.
Same here. Reminds of the time I was driving down the highway and saw a sign "DSL $1.99" And couldn't believe someone was selling Internet access that low. Hopping to see a phone # I then realized the sign was at a gas station. My next thought was how odd that a gas station would branch into the internet access business. Then it finally hit, they were selling diesel, not "DSL".
We aren't offened by them, though we perhaps respect them less since the last election. (OK, in 2000 you didn't know G. W. was a fuckup, but this time you should have.)
Now there's an attitude that will gain one respect.
Their deception, bias, illogical reasoning, and clear pandering towards good sound bites and entertainment over truth is quite obvious and offensive
Shoot, most people don't spend enough time with their kids due to job and various self center activities. You expect them to take time out to do research and actually check what a politician says? I guess the rest of the world must have an abundance of free time and be much more selfless to be so well informed.
Regardless of that, from what I've seen, it's more of who's sound bites do you like more. I've seen very few politicians stand up and be refreshingly honest and speak his heart. Kerry certainly didn't do that. Kerry couldn't even agree with himself. So Bush may have messed up, but why vote for someone who would have probably made a bigger mess out of things.
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I have always maintained that handsfree doesn't do squat... it's the split mental attention and not having both hands on the wheel.
Cool, so we're going to ban kids in cars as well?
These same debates came up when radio was introduced to the car. I wonder if much the same tone existed as well.
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Yes, numbers would have been nice, and the absence points to deception.
That's like saying I spend more on milk than gasoline. What does that mean? Is milk too expensive, or do I spend very little on gasoline. It's impossible to determine anything from such a statement.
This sounds amazingly similar to the recent product that claims to increase a car's MPG. It's just a small plastic rectangle that you place on the bottom of your gas tank. And from tests, it IS just a small piece of plastic. Wonder if it's the same company?
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Think of your favorite sig line and imagine it here
Although most people believe it's due to humans, there is evidence on both sides
So lets ignore any evidence to the contrary. It's much more fun to run around like Chicken Little forcasting doom and gloom.
Apparently the closing of the ozone hole is contributing to global warming as well. So we've apparently shot outselves in the foot by banning CFC's.
I still say that we'd be much better off spending resources on dealing with the effects of global climate changes. Evetually the climate is going to change even if humans didn't exist.
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It's interesting that AOL gets stigmatized by its users. And that opening up access to the masses is viewed as somehow bad.
While the clueless newbies are a headache, would we be better off shutting them off from internet access or working to educate them on how to become productive internet users.
Maybe AOL did create a huge "September" effect by bringing the internet to the masses, but is that really a bad thing? Is AOL really to blame?
Hopefully his foundation will have more luck protecting kids against viruses than his Outlook and OS teams have protecting their products.
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Tab browsing was a nice new feature, but it was available a good bit before Firefox.
A very useful feature, one that keeps me using Firefox and Mozilla.
You may be satisified to view static and semi dynamic content but the future is going to demand more dynamic and responsive behavior from web sites. Whoever achieves this with something that's not overly combersome for users and developers will see a lot of success.
I constantly get hit with request that customers want my web applications to look and behave more like fat client applications. I can't do that with the current technology.
Firefox is nice, but it's yet another browser. That's one thing that shocked me. Netscape brought the browser to the masses but they never really moved passed it.
For quite sometime people's needs have grown beyond the browser. Java Applet, and ActiveX have been bolted on, but what is needed is a more seamless integration that provides a more traditional application feel.
It's unfortunately that we're still stuck using a "browser" when what we need is something more dynamic and powerfull.
Firefox is yet another browser. Definitely better than many of the current crop. But it would be nice to see something truly innovative.
They can't even predict a snow storm eight hours out. We just got five inches of a dusting here.
How the heck can anyone predict what's going to happen in 10 years with any amount of accuracy. What will happen will happen. Prepare for what we can and don't sweat the stuff we can't. When and if something happens we'll have to deal with it. I'm not sure it's real productive to try and prepare for things that might never happen. And it might be deterimental if something completely different and worse happens
As others have noted, this is rather obvious. It's native code. It's one of the things myself and other that attended the various ActiveX roll out sessions wondered. When questioned about it the presenters tried to sidestep the issue. It's very old news
However you'll find it's rather hard to format your main hard drive since Windows keeps a tight grip on that. You can't even do a chkdsk/f on it, much less a format C:. Honestly formatting my hard drive is probably one of the lesser things I worry about. What's far more dangerous is something that lives on your system hidden from view that does more nafarious things that are harder to detect. It's the malicious code that you don't see that you should fear not the stuff that is obvious.
What's unfortunate is that no one else has come up with a decent alternative to ActiveX as far as easy of development. Until that happens it's going to be hard to erase ActiveX.
SMTP isn't secure anyway. SO what's the big risk that someone can get my message off of gmail from left over memory image. They could have just as easily sniffed the SMTP packets going from gmail to whatever server they're going to.
Bottom line don't use e-mail for sensitive information unless you use proper encryption before hand.
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I find that I can do some things more efficiently on the command line while others are much easier with a gui.
For instance, I have a directory, and I need to copy 10 out of a 100 files. There's no commonality between the ten nor are there any distinguishing characteristics. GUI's excel at this.
Now I want to rename a bunch of files and add a old. prefix to them. That's easy on a command line, but difficult to accomplish on the current crop of GUI's, at least that I've used.
So why slam either. Each is a tool with its own advantages and disadvantages.
Keyboard isn't going away until something more efficient comes along. Sure there will be cooler input devices and they'll have strengths, but for general input into a computer nothing beat a keyboard out side of direct neural interface. It would be nice to see more efficient keyboards become mainstream.
2 miles in a year. That averages out to about a foot an hour. Must have been a lot of down time. Hopefully it wasn't using the left lane.
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There's definite benefit. I'm just curious as to who's paying. I'm also wondering if they're going to provide an on-line viewer as an alternative to mailing a report.
We already have https://www.freecreditreport.com/. I've never used the site, but assuming it's as they claim, why do we need this government mandated service?
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It's a joke when the weather man can't even predict what the weather is going to do tomorrow. One day we may understand the complex system we live in.
There is no argument that has been tremendous climate changes in the past due to non-human related factors. I think we'd all be better served spending our efforts on technology that allows us to adapt.
That's not to say we shouldn't endeavor to reduce our polution. But it seems like we're spending great effort to stop something that may not have a lot of impact in the end.
We have emmisions testing here, which is a joke. At the start the test only failed 13% of cars. Consider that probably a large percentage of those cars were not driven much and is why they failed, the test. So the actual emissions were probably only reduces by a few percentage points if that. So $20 was basically spent for a work fare program for the state with no real impact on air quality. If it had been a program that really produced a real increase in air quailty I wouldn't have minded spending the $20. But it seems so many of these programs turn out to be junk science.
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He was probably using a steam locomotive model train. You were probably using one of the bullet train model railways.
The bullet trains are much better at hard tasks like compiling kernels, but watch out if they derail. Gives new meaning to the term "system crash".
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It's possible to get it right, yes. See for example IBM's SWT widget set for Java. But it's also quite the norm to get it awfully wrong: witness Sun's Swing.
This is an age old problem repeated over and over again. At least today, the new UI widgets coming in has slowed considerably. But back in the days when C/C++ UI frameworks were being born, the problem with the SWT approach was that there was considerable lag in supporting the latest greatest GUI widgets that were available on the OS. So you're app would looked dated. It didn't have a nice tree control, or whatever the latest thing was. I imagine it's similar for trying to do such wrappers for video given the advances in video rendering
And as you pointed out DirectX is more than just a 3d API and it had much different goals than OpenGL even in the 3d API arena.
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Same here. Reminds of the time I was driving down the highway and saw a sign "DSL $1.99" And couldn't believe someone was selling Internet access that low. Hopping to see a phone # I then realized the sign was at a gas station. My next thought was how odd that a gas station would branch into the internet access business. Then it finally hit, they were selling diesel, not "DSL".
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snogwa togbram mibra brockno
We aren't offened by them, though we perhaps respect them less since the last election. (OK, in 2000 you didn't know G. W. was a fuckup, but this time you should have.)
Now there's an attitude that will gain one respect.
Their deception, bias, illogical reasoning, and clear pandering towards good sound bites and entertainment over truth is quite obvious and offensive
Shoot, most people don't spend enough time with their kids due to job and various self center activities. You expect them to take time out to do research and actually check what a politician says? I guess the rest of the world must have an abundance of free time and be much more selfless to be so well informed.
Regardless of that, from what I've seen, it's more of who's sound bites do you like more. I've seen very few politicians stand up and be refreshingly honest and speak his heart. Kerry certainly didn't do that. Kerry couldn't even agree with himself. So Bush may have messed up, but why vote for someone who would have probably made a bigger mess out of things.
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fordtod mostu grantard boxwog
I have always maintained that handsfree doesn't do squat... it's the split mental attention and not having both hands on the wheel. Cool, so we're going to ban kids in cars as well?
These same debates came up when radio was introduced to the car. I wonder if much the same tone existed as well.
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odif fortis mordor bugone
Yes, numbers would have been nice, and the absence points to deception.
That's like saying I spend more on milk than gasoline. What does that mean? Is milk too expensive, or do I spend very little on gasoline. It's impossible to determine anything from such a statement.
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fidos ubre toba ubar
This sounds amazingly similar to the recent product that claims to increase a car's MPG. It's just a small plastic rectangle that you place on the bottom of your gas tank. And from tests, it IS just a small piece of plastic. Wonder if it's the same company?
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Think of your favorite sig line and imagine it here
Although most people believe it's due to humans, there is evidence on both sides
So lets ignore any evidence to the contrary. It's much more fun to run around like Chicken Little forcasting doom and gloom.
Apparently the closing of the ozone hole is contributing to global warming as well. So we've apparently shot outselves in the foot by banning CFC's.
I still say that we'd be much better off spending resources on dealing with the effects of global climate changes. Evetually the climate is going to change even if humans didn't exist.
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Encrypted here be a message
I guess that show wasn't so far fetched after all
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Hidden message contained here
It's interesting that AOL gets stigmatized by its users. And that opening up access to the masses is viewed as somehow bad.
While the clueless newbies are a headache, would we be better off shutting them off from internet access or working to educate them on how to become productive internet users.
Maybe AOL did create a huge "September" effect by bringing the internet to the masses, but is that really a bad thing? Is AOL really to blame?
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Hopefully his foundation will have more luck protecting kids against viruses than his Outlook and OS teams have protecting their products.
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tosid ifido sidwod farsto
Tab browsing was a nice new feature, but it was available a good bit before Firefox.
A very useful feature, one that keeps me using Firefox and Mozilla.
You may be satisified to view static and semi dynamic content but the future is going to demand more dynamic and responsive behavior from web sites. Whoever achieves this with something that's not overly combersome for users and developers will see a lot of success.
I constantly get hit with request that customers want my web applications to look and behave more like fat client applications. I can't do that with the current technology.
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I forgot my sig line
Firefox is nice, but it's yet another browser. That's one thing that shocked me. Netscape brought the browser to the masses but they never really moved passed it.
For quite sometime people's needs have grown beyond the browser. Java Applet, and ActiveX have been bolted on, but what is needed is a more seamless integration that provides a more traditional application feel.
It's unfortunately that we're still stuck using a "browser" when what we need is something more dynamic and powerfull.
Firefox is yet another browser. Definitely better than many of the current crop. But it would be nice to see something truly innovative.
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I forgot my sig line
They can't even predict a snow storm eight hours out. We just got five inches of a dusting here.
How the heck can anyone predict what's going to happen in 10 years with any amount of accuracy. What will happen will happen. Prepare for what we can and don't sweat the stuff we can't. When and if something happens we'll have to deal with it. I'm not sure it's real productive to try and prepare for things that might never happen. And it might be deterimental if something completely different and worse happens
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odis didow fidos rostin boxen
Just because you don't age doesn't mean everyone lives forever.
There will still be car accidents and people slipping in the bathroom.
It's not like we're all turned into immortals and the only way you can die is having someone chop your head off.
-- fosk doble hipple brot tu
As others have noted, this is rather obvious. It's native code. It's one of the things myself and other that attended the various ActiveX roll out sessions wondered. When questioned about it the presenters tried to sidestep the issue. It's very old news
/f on it, much less a format C:. Honestly formatting my hard drive is probably one of the lesser things I worry about. What's far more dangerous is something that lives on your system hidden from view that does more nafarious things that are harder to detect. It's the malicious code that you don't see that you should fear not the stuff that is obvious.
However you'll find it's rather hard to format your main hard drive since Windows keeps a tight grip on that. You can't even do a chkdsk
What's unfortunate is that no one else has come up with a decent alternative to ActiveX as far as easy of development. Until that happens it's going to be hard to erase ActiveX.
SMTP isn't secure anyway. SO what's the big risk that someone can get my message off of gmail from left over memory image. They could have just as easily sniffed the SMTP packets going from gmail to whatever server they're going to.
Bottom line don't use e-mail for sensitive information unless you use proper encryption before hand. -- fopd sodis risdick tra
I find that I can do some things more efficiently on the command line while others are much easier with a gui.
For instance, I have a directory, and I need to copy 10 out of a 100 files. There's no commonality between the ten nor are there any distinguishing characteristics. GUI's excel at this.
Now I want to rename a bunch of files and add a old. prefix to them. That's easy on a command line, but difficult to accomplish on the current crop of GUI's, at least that I've used.
So why slam either. Each is a tool with its own advantages and disadvantages.
Keyboard isn't going away until something more efficient comes along. Sure there will be cooler input devices and they'll have strengths, but for general input into a computer nothing beat a keyboard out side of direct neural interface. It would be nice to see more efficient keyboards become mainstream.
-- fiewl diwor dowe wutie er godist phudo
2 miles in a year. That averages out to about a foot an hour. Must have been a lot of down time. Hopefully it wasn't using the left lane.
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yosd dieo sda reost felwo
Oh yes, thanks for refreshing that bit of memory. -- fid doseg soe jeod meorne
And are women knighted these days? -- This signature is encrypted
A local radio station began playing Christmas music in early November 24/7. Promo was something like 50 days of Christmas
Now I enjoy Christmas music, but that's going way too far. At least wait until December.
You obviously haven't priced Lego's lately.
There's definite benefit. I'm just curious as to who's paying. I'm also wondering if they're going to provide an on-line viewer as an alternative to mailing a report.
We already have https://www.freecreditreport.com/. I've never used the site, but assuming it's as they claim, why do we need this government mandated service?