Hopefully there aren't so many sites that will screw the browser over.
www.cvs.com is one of the more major sites that block Opera. You receive an error page stating, "At this time, our site does not support the Opera browser. We hope to remedy this in the near future.".
If you write to the webmaster about it, you receive a canned reply that says they are planning to have Opera support very soon. Unfortunately, cvs.com has been giving that same canned reply for about four years.
I prefer Opera's method of searching from the address bar much, much better than the drop down search capabilities. When I want to search for something at google, I just type:
g something
and Opera sends my request off to google. This method saves space on the toolbars as well, since the dropdown search area is not needed anymore.
It seems like whenever a Microsoft employee speaks they generalize Linux into a huge ball, never mention a distro, and say it's bad.
Microsoft's FUD machine knows only how to target specific entities. With Linux, there is no entity to target, so the generic Linux label is used for the target.
The fact that Microsoft is continuing this anti-Linux campaign does more to validate the usefulness of Linux than anything the OSS advocates could do by themselves. If Linux were really as bad as Microsoft says it is, then why is Microsoft paying so much attention to it?
We should all give Microsoft a big thank you for their assistance is spreading the word about Linux.
Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.
-- George Bernard Shaw
Speaker manufacturers go through great lengths (no pun intended) to assure that the internal dimensions of the enclosure do not allow standing waves to build up. In "box" enclosures, the length, width and height are all differing dimensions, with no dimension being a multiple of the other.
While the internal construction of the ball subwoofer looks rather robust, I didn't see any steps taken to reduce internal standing waves. The wadding helps, but not as much as you might think.
In short, the spherical form factor may look cool and make for a good eBay headline, but it is far from being an optimal speaker enclosure.
But the guy is saying that the negatives are outweighed by the positives, i.e. decreased hassle with user applications needing to get through the firewall, and a more realistic security target. That's his point.
That may be his point, but so far as I am concerned, it is just an assertion and I'm not buying it. Naturally the Vice President and CTO a manager of a Fortune 500 corporation is not going to say that his new pet project did not meet its goals. Indeed, going public with the "improvements" may be one of the best ways to make a failed project look successful.
He's not really ditching his firewall, he's replacing the one border firewall with multiple firewalls in the internal network,
Security consists of layers of protection. By removing his perimeter firewall, he is removing one layer of protection. Now, he can provide all the argumnents that he wants, trying to justify the removal of the perimeter firewall. But the fact remains, he has removed one layer of protection, and has made his internal protection requirements more complex because of it.
Point taken. However, that is one way to assure that those ex-subscribers will never renew, and it is also a way to assure that current subscribers may want nothing to do with Wired in the future.
Bottom line: I seriously doubt sending debt-collectors after ex-subscribers is going to make them happy subscribers once again. so I repeat
I agree that everyone should read and understand the fine print of what they sign and agree to.
That point aside, what is Wired thinking here? Do they think that forcing people to subscribe to their magazine is going to help stem the falloff in their subscription rates?
Does Sun's pulling back on the JDS initiative have anything to do with the recent Microsoft/Sun lovefest? Could this be the removal of a competitor to desktop Windows in China and elsewhere?
I am particularly annoyed at PayPal spamming me to get my account "verified". What they really want is for me to give them direct access to my checking account, so anyone who gets into the PayPal systems can remove money from my checking account. I continually refuse to allow PayPal such access. As a result, PayPal made me close my account because I was over the limit for "non-verified" accounts.
Throughout all of this, I was unable to get a reply from a human being in their Customer Service department. All I received were canned replies telling me how wonderful it is for me to "verify" my account.
PayPal has never been able to explain to me the reasons why being "verified" was A Good Thing for me, or why it was anything more than a possible security mess with my checking account.
I prefer to look at it as what percentage of the hardware price I have to spend on software. For Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office, that percentage has been increasing steadily and dramatically over the past ten years.
" Microsoft, for one, seems to be in no particular hurry to cut the price of Windows. Ten years ago, an upgrade version of Windows 95, then fresh from the labs in Redmond, Wash., was being sold in most stores for $89.95. If you shop online for Windows XP Home, the third-generation successor to Windows 95, you'll find it in the same ballpark.
Ditto with Microsoft Office, which includes Word, Excel and the like. The high-end version of Office 97, which was introduced eight years ago, went for $499; the most recent Office had the same price when it came out in 2003."
I use MS Office '97 because (1) I have the license already and (2) it does what I need it to do. MS Word '97 opens in less than 10 seconds, probably closer to 2 or 3 seconds. I don't have any of the MS Office pre-load daemons running either.
I have trouble believing that Microsoft has slowed down the start-up time of MS Word 2003 by that great of a margin.
I run on a 2.4GHz Pentium 4, 800MHz FSB, 80GB SATA drive, WIndows 2000SP4.
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www.cvs.com is one of the more major sites that block Opera. You receive an error page stating, "At this time, our site does not support the Opera browser. We hope to remedy this in the near future.".
If you write to the webmaster about it, you receive a canned reply that says they are planning to have Opera support very soon. Unfortunately, cvs.com has been giving that same canned reply for about four years.
If two planes crash because of any programming error, you have a worse problems than leap seconds.
The issue here is that it is a programming error, not a problem with leap seconds.
I prefer Opera's method of searching from the address bar much, much better than the drop down search capabilities. When I want to search for something at google, I just type:
g something
and Opera sends my request off to google. This method saves space on the toolbars as well, since the dropdown search area is not needed anymore.
First Robertson needs to justify why Apple should take their strategic direction from Linspire.
From the spec sheet:
Sustained data rate (MB/sec) 64.8 - 31 (zone 0 - 29)
Microsoft's FUD machine knows only how to target specific entities. With Linux, there is no entity to target, so the generic Linux label is used for the target.
The fact that Microsoft is continuing this anti-Linux campaign does more to validate the usefulness of Linux than anything the OSS advocates could do by themselves. If Linux were really as bad as Microsoft says it is, then why is Microsoft paying so much attention to it?
We should all give Microsoft a big thank you for their assistance is spreading the word about Linux.
Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people. -- George Bernard Shaw
While the internal construction of the ball subwoofer looks rather robust, I didn't see any steps taken to reduce internal standing waves. The wadding helps, but not as much as you might think.
In short, the spherical form factor may look cool and make for a good eBay headline, but it is far from being an optimal speaker enclosure.
That may be his point, but so far as I am concerned, it is just an assertion and I'm not buying it. Naturally the Vice President and CTO a manager of a Fortune 500 corporation is not going to say that his new pet project did not meet its goals. Indeed, going public with the "improvements" may be one of the best ways to make a failed project look successful.
Hey, be nice to the guy, he's one of InfoWorld's Top 25 CTOs for 2005...
I wish I could disagree, however, I cannot.
Now, if you could only tell that to the lawyers who will be coming after you, and convince a court of what you say, then we all could live easier.
Security consists of layers of protection. By removing his perimeter firewall, he is removing one layer of protection. Now, he can provide all the argumnents that he wants, trying to justify the removal of the perimeter firewall. But the fact remains, he has removed one layer of protection, and has made his internal protection requirements more complex because of it.
Bottom line: I seriously doubt sending debt-collectors after ex-subscribers is going to make them happy subscribers once again. so I repeat
What are they thinking?
That point aside, what is Wired thinking here? Do they think that forcing people to subscribe to their magazine is going to help stem the falloff in their subscription rates?
The parent message is an excellent example of why innovation is dead in the Windows world.
Does Sun's pulling back on the JDS initiative have anything to do with the recent Microsoft/Sun lovefest? Could this be the removal of a competitor to desktop Windows in China and elsewhere?
... the mist is released. :-)
Stop tracking my whereabouts on the web, and then selling that data to others without my knowledge or consent.
Maybe then I might start letting your ads through my ad-blocking proxy.
Is this the same exploit that was reported last month?
Throughout all of this, I was unable to get a reply from a human being in their Customer Service department. All I received were canned replies telling me how wonderful it is for me to "verify" my account.
PayPal has never been able to explain to me the reasons why being "verified" was A Good Thing for me, or why it was anything more than a possible security mess with my checking account.
Check out their careers page.
I prefer to look at it as what percentage of the hardware price I have to spend on software. For Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office, that percentage has been increasing steadily and dramatically over the past ten years.
" Microsoft, for one, seems to be in no particular hurry to cut the price of Windows. Ten years ago, an upgrade version of Windows 95, then fresh from the labs in Redmond, Wash., was being sold in most stores for $89.95. If you shop online for Windows XP Home, the third-generation successor to Windows 95, you'll find it in the same ballpark. Ditto with Microsoft Office, which includes Word, Excel and the like. The high-end version of Office 97, which was introduced eight years ago, went for $499; the most recent Office had the same price when it came out in 2003."
3 seconds from the time I clicked on the icon until the blank document was in front of me.
I have trouble believing that Microsoft has slowed down the start-up time of MS Word 2003 by that great of a margin.
I run on a 2.4GHz Pentium 4, 800MHz FSB, 80GB SATA drive, WIndows 2000SP4.