Just because I used Steam to explain the concept doesn't mean they're the exact same thing. Steam advertisements tend to be scarce and they're all concentrated in one area or come up as a one-time pop up. Steam is proprietary software whereas Azureus is licensed under the GPL, so even if advertisements/other undesirables appear, you can just start a new fork without them and just change the name.
Since they didn't explicitly say there would be advertisements, you can't go on a limb and assert that they WILL be there. I think the motives and goals of the people at Valve and the developers of Azureus are quite different.
RTFA, it doesn't say anything about advertisements or banners. Think of it more like Steam (like, for Half Life) except instead of games, it's movies/other media (really, it can be any arbitrary digital media but right now they're targeting indie movies).
Speaking as a "kid" (presently a high schooler), I can say that most kids are more interested in the "hacker" programming than actual programming involving algorithms/data structures/etc. Meaning, all they want to do is be able to write a program that will install 20 viruses on the school computer or play a prank that forces someone to restart the computer or something of that nature. Or script kiddies that just want enough knowledge to be able to do a DoS attack on their neighbors.
The furthest I've seen kids go is to produce a quick application in Visual Basic that will do things like take input and print it out in some predetermined format. Maybe somewhat more complex than that, but nothing beyond an if/else statement or maybe an occasional while statement. They certainly don't take advantage of the fact that Visual Basic is object oriented (do they know what that means?).
In my school, for all I know (I've tried to re-assemble an computer science team for the school but no avail), I'm the only one that actually knows what a class is. And I don't mean classroom.
As to why, I really don't know. I don't think it's the "nerd" image that's associated with computer programming, but I really don't fit into that "nerd" image, and the other kids that have a basic interest in programming really don't either. Our school offers a Intro to Computer Programming course which basically teaches kids BASIC - but I don't think it goes past for loops, and if it does, it doesn't go much further. This is a semester course for 90 minutes a day?!
Before, the programmers in our school took Computer Science AP - and that's how they got good. But right now, not enough kids sign up to take the course for them to make it happen. So it's the lack of computer programming in the high school is self-perpetuating: not enough kids aren't interested, so no one gets exposed to it.
I don't consider myself an expert programmer by any means but I do have a rudimentary knowledge (enough for the AP test anyway) and I also have some experience (various school clubs ask me to write programs for them).
Anyway, to me programming is problem solving. Making algorithms to solve problems. Other kids see it as a way to trip up their friends or impress/piss off people ("Wow, how did you load 5 gigs of horse porn on my computer??") - which is the real problem in my opinion. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one that gets a rush from solving a difficult problem - most kids will just give up if something is too difficult. Anyway, that's my two cents.
Bush said something along the lines of "there are two ways to react to this. One is to complain about people taking away our jobs and block trade. The other is to educate ourselves and train ourselves to do those jobs." It was like he says saying Americans are too dumb to do the jobs that Indians are doing.
I was rather surprised. Because that's just gross oversimplification, the kind of thing you'd expect to hear from a 10 year old. Outsourcing happens because people work for less in India because the standard of living is less there. I'm not an economist, so someone correct me if that comment was way off target.
When this contest was announced I was totally expecting something really new and innovative. I didn't see much of it. The stuff here is new, yes, but I can't see myself ever using it. They don't add much to my browsing experience.
Thumbnails of tabs? The only time I really felt thumbnails were useful was browsing through pictures, especially pictures from digital cameras, whose names end up being something like 03042005.JOG (the date) and really don't tell you what the image is. But the title of a web page should (and usually does) give a good clear indication as to what it's about.
One thing I wanted was a definite single only mode. With TabMix Plus I can get 99% of that but viewing source still pops up in a new window (I know you can use a bookmarklet to open the source in a new tab - but it doesn't always work, especially if you have a PHP script that generates the source dynamically). This would probably be relatively simple to add to TabMix Plus though... I should probably just go to them instead.
I use 18 extensions, my Firefox is heavily customized (my tabs switch when I mouseover them, they're on the bottom, etc.), but not cluttered (I disabled a lot of the toolbars). So I'm not a minimalist, I'm not opposed to extensions. I just don't see anything really appealing and new coming from this.
I'm not sure what you mean, but science and religion shouldn't mix. They should understand each other, realize the distinction between each other, and make peace.
I'm nonreligious, but it really irks me when people consider science to be an undeniable truth. It isn't. A lot of people treat science as a religion. They follow it with blind faith and a closed mind.
A fundamental postulate of science is that the universe behaves in a rational and predictable way. That seems intuitively reasonable, so most people accept it. But science does not deal with absolute truths. Based on observation and experimentation, science gives us predictions. It gives us models. Chemistry lets us predict what will happen when we mix hydrochloric acid and sodium hydroxide (you get water and salt). Physics tells us how fast a 10 kg object will accelerate if we constantly apply 50 newtons of force to it (5 meters per second per second).
These things are pretty well founded and genreally accepted as "truth," and for all practical purposes, that's fine. But for philosophical purposes, it's dangerous. Things that were once regarded as undoubtedly true have been shown to be false or true only in certain situations. The most famous example is of course Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.
Religion, by definition, is based on faith. You don't need evidence in religion. Science, however, requires evidence and extensive experimentation to verify things - science, in a way, is just a best explanation at the time, not an absolute and undeniable fact.
You'd think that newspapers would like having pieces of their stories on Google News. You don't read the whole article on Google News, you read the headline and click the link. The link that goes to the newspaper's website.
Sounds like your friend has been watching too many AOL commercials...
Or taking them too seriously.
You know, the one where the guy stands up there and tells everyone that high speed internet is bad because of viruses, spyware, (the list goes on), and then tells everyone to switch to AOL before viruses attack your computer and eat your babies.
Vulnerabilities in KDE are counted as vulnerabilities.
Vulnerabilities in GNOME are coutned as vulnerabilities.
Separate vulnerabilities in Gentoo, Red Hat, and all other distros are counted as separate vulnerabilities.
Even MacOSX vulnerabilities are considered Linux/Unix vulnerabilities.
That doesn't seem like a fair comparison. After all, you can't run Linux on both KDE and GNOME at the same time...
It's average rating is about the same of King Kong's. 80% on Rotten Tomatoes is impressive. Nonetheless, I saw the movie not seeing the series, and I liked it a lot.
The US cannot - cannot - fight China militarily. China has an extremely powerful military. Nationalism is rampant in many parts of China. They have the largest military in the world (in terms of people - although they may not be the most well-equipped).
Censorship and torture are common practice in China and everything is run by a one-party system. China has the economic power to grow into the next world power - many think it's inevitable. And knowing that the next world power will be a government that suppresses its own citizens (never mind the citizens of other countries) is a scary thought.
We can't change their government - they have to do it themselves. All we can do is give them a reason to.
Our country is being run by individuals who only care about the market. And China is good for our market - when they see China they see cheap labor and a large consumer base. But what good will that do when China eventually overpowers us? Such impeccable foresight.
I'm proud to say that I am one of a small minority of teenagers who does not have a myspace.
These online blogs tend to be filled with idiots. Xangas - for instance - are filled - plagued - with political blogs of 13 year olds with opinons that are devoid of intelligence and thought. They basically read "political" books and parrot the opinions fed to them in the books. And whenever anyone with a different opinion says so, they can't help but insult the hell out of each other until neither of them has any dignity left. I see this equally from both sides of the coin. As far as I'm concerned, anyone who can't form his or her own opinion has a worthless opinion.
Myspaces are different in the sense that it's just so utterly pointless. It's not like people don't have enough e-contact every day. We have e-mail, we have instant messaging. Now people make myspaces and put their "profile info" up and write about themselves and more about themselves. Then they mention why their life pretty much epitomizes sorrow and individuality, and how their lives are so much worse than everyone else's, which makes them important, and thus they must talk about it more.
In a recent study, security analysis and software company Secunia found that Firefox had 3 unpatched security risks out of 25 discovered problems, compared with 20 unpatched risks for IE out of 86 found. Opera had them both beat, with no unpatched holes out of 8 detected. Of course, as browsers become more popular, they also become more attractive targets.
That's only part of the picture. Currently, Secunia's most critical bug in IE is rated "extremely critical" (the highest rating). Then, looking at IE's records, we see that 15% of its bugs are "extremely critical" and 29% are "highly critical." Compared to Firefox's 4% "extremely critical" (which ends up being only one - and that one only affected *nix) and 24% "highly critical" (which sounds awful close, but IE has about triple the vulnerabilities that Firefox has).
And that doesn't even take into account that Firefox is an open source application whereas IE is not. How many bugs in IE are just temporarily hidden because it's closed source?
Hold the space bar so you'll jump continually. Then, while holding the space bar, click on a window that isn't your browser (so the browser will lose focus). Then go back to the browser.
Click on the canvas, and walk around. You've turned into a rabbit.
Firefox has a lot of positives, but sometimes people really need a good reason to change. Some people won't change for some new features.
I think this is a really good reason not to use IE
The fact that gaping vulnerabilities like these are found in a closed source browser like IE all the time and yet remain unpatched is one of the most convincing arguments to lead people away from IE.
I use Gaim.
Right click, delete.
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No thanks.
These bots just don't go down without a fight.
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Just because I used Steam to explain the concept doesn't mean they're the exact same thing. Steam advertisements tend to be scarce and they're all concentrated in one area or come up as a one-time pop up. Steam is proprietary software whereas Azureus is licensed under the GPL, so even if advertisements/other undesirables appear, you can just start a new fork without them and just change the name. Since they didn't explicitly say there would be advertisements, you can't go on a limb and assert that they WILL be there. I think the motives and goals of the people at Valve and the developers of Azureus are quite different.
RTFA, it doesn't say anything about advertisements or banners. Think of it more like Steam (like, for Half Life) except instead of games, it's movies/other media (really, it can be any arbitrary digital media but right now they're targeting indie movies).
The furthest I've seen kids go is to produce a quick application in Visual Basic that will do things like take input and print it out in some predetermined format. Maybe somewhat more complex than that, but nothing beyond an if/else statement or maybe an occasional while statement. They certainly don't take advantage of the fact that Visual Basic is object oriented (do they know what that means?).
In my school, for all I know (I've tried to re-assemble an computer science team for the school but no avail), I'm the only one that actually knows what a class is. And I don't mean classroom.
As to why, I really don't know. I don't think it's the "nerd" image that's associated with computer programming, but I really don't fit into that "nerd" image, and the other kids that have a basic interest in programming really don't either. Our school offers a Intro to Computer Programming course which basically teaches kids BASIC - but I don't think it goes past for loops, and if it does, it doesn't go much further. This is a semester course for 90 minutes a day?!
Before, the programmers in our school took Computer Science AP - and that's how they got good. But right now, not enough kids sign up to take the course for them to make it happen. So it's the lack of computer programming in the high school is self-perpetuating: not enough kids aren't interested, so no one gets exposed to it.
I don't consider myself an expert programmer by any means but I do have a rudimentary knowledge (enough for the AP test anyway) and I also have some experience (various school clubs ask me to write programs for them).
Anyway, to me programming is problem solving. Making algorithms to solve problems. Other kids see it as a way to trip up their friends or impress/piss off people ("Wow, how did you load 5 gigs of horse porn on my computer??") - which is the real problem in my opinion. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one that gets a rush from solving a difficult problem - most kids will just give up if something is too difficult. Anyway, that's my two cents.
I was rather surprised. Because that's just gross oversimplification, the kind of thing you'd expect to hear from a 10 year old. Outsourcing happens because people work for less in India because the standard of living is less there. I'm not an economist, so someone correct me if that comment was way off target.
Thumbnails of tabs? The only time I really felt thumbnails were useful was browsing through pictures, especially pictures from digital cameras, whose names end up being something like 03042005.JOG (the date) and really don't tell you what the image is. But the title of a web page should (and usually does) give a good clear indication as to what it's about.
One thing I wanted was a definite single only mode. With TabMix Plus I can get 99% of that but viewing source still pops up in a new window (I know you can use a bookmarklet to open the source in a new tab - but it doesn't always work, especially if you have a PHP script that generates the source dynamically). This would probably be relatively simple to add to TabMix Plus though... I should probably just go to them instead.
I use 18 extensions, my Firefox is heavily customized (my tabs switch when I mouseover them, they're on the bottom, etc.), but not cluttered (I disabled a lot of the toolbars). So I'm not a minimalist, I'm not opposed to extensions. I just don't see anything really appealing and new coming from this.
Maybe next time.
Mod parent up. Not flamebait.
A fundamental postulate of science is that the universe behaves in a rational and predictable way. That seems intuitively reasonable, so most people accept it. But science does not deal with absolute truths. Based on observation and experimentation, science gives us predictions. It gives us models. Chemistry lets us predict what will happen when we mix hydrochloric acid and sodium hydroxide (you get water and salt). Physics tells us how fast a 10 kg object will accelerate if we constantly apply 50 newtons of force to it (5 meters per second per second).
These things are pretty well founded and genreally accepted as "truth," and for all practical purposes, that's fine. But for philosophical purposes, it's dangerous. Things that were once regarded as undoubtedly true have been shown to be false or true only in certain situations. The most famous example is of course Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.
Religion, by definition, is based on faith. You don't need evidence in religion. Science, however, requires evidence and extensive experimentation to verify things - science, in a way, is just a best explanation at the time, not an absolute and undeniable fact.
You'd think that newspapers would like having pieces of their stories on Google News. You don't read the whole article on Google News, you read the headline and click the link. The link that goes to the newspaper's website.
Or taking them too seriously.
You know, the one where the guy stands up there and tells everyone that high speed internet is bad because of viruses, spyware, (the list goes on), and then tells everyone to switch to AOL before viruses attack your computer and eat your babies.
And by viruses, you mean N'SYNC and Good Charlotte albums... right?
Vulnerabilities in KDE are counted as vulnerabilities. Vulnerabilities in GNOME are coutned as vulnerabilities. Separate vulnerabilities in Gentoo, Red Hat, and all other distros are counted as separate vulnerabilities. Even MacOSX vulnerabilities are considered Linux/Unix vulnerabilities. That doesn't seem like a fair comparison. After all, you can't run Linux on both KDE and GNOME at the same time...
It's average rating is about the same of King Kong's. 80% on Rotten Tomatoes is impressive. Nonetheless, I saw the movie not seeing the series, and I liked it a lot.
http://geddeth.dk/downloads/gaim/
I have to say... it's quite impressive. I went ecstatic when I found out file transfers were working.
The US cannot - cannot - fight China militarily. China has an extremely powerful military. Nationalism is rampant in many parts of China. They have the largest military in the world (in terms of people - although they may not be the most well-equipped).
Censorship and torture are common practice in China and everything is run by a one-party system. China has the economic power to grow into the next world power - many think it's inevitable. And knowing that the next world power will be a government that suppresses its own citizens (never mind the citizens of other countries) is a scary thought.
We can't change their government - they have to do it themselves. All we can do is give them a reason to.
Our country is being run by individuals who only care about the market. And China is good for our market - when they see China they see cheap labor and a large consumer base. But what good will that do when China eventually overpowers us? Such impeccable foresight.
Why not just steal the goddamn thing?
I'm sure with all this scheming, they could have easily found a simple way to swipe the iPod and get it out of the store.
These online blogs tend to be filled with idiots. Xangas - for instance - are filled - plagued - with political blogs of 13 year olds with opinons that are devoid of intelligence and thought. They basically read "political" books and parrot the opinions fed to them in the books. And whenever anyone with a different opinion says so, they can't help but insult the hell out of each other until neither of them has any dignity left. I see this equally from both sides of the coin. As far as I'm concerned, anyone who can't form his or her own opinion has a worthless opinion.
Myspaces are different in the sense that it's just so utterly pointless. It's not like people don't have enough e-contact every day. We have e-mail, we have instant messaging. Now people make myspaces and put their "profile info" up and write about themselves and more about themselves. Then they mention why their life pretty much epitomizes sorrow and individuality, and how their lives are so much worse than everyone else's, which makes them important, and thus they must talk about it more.
Yes, that $200 case is a real great product...
It wasn't out at the time of my post either.
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Big red letters, you can't miss it: Firefox1.5 is not yet out
That's only part of the picture. Currently, Secunia's most critical bug in IE is rated "extremely critical" (the highest rating). Then, looking at IE's records, we see that 15% of its bugs are "extremely critical" and 29% are "highly critical." Compared to Firefox's 4% "extremely critical" (which ends up being only one - and that one only affected *nix) and 24% "highly critical" (which sounds awful close, but IE has about triple the vulnerabilities that Firefox has).
And that doesn't even take into account that Firefox is an open source application whereas IE is not. How many bugs in IE are just temporarily hidden because it's closed source?
The vulnerability does not affect IE7 beta. It does crash it though.
Hold the space bar so you'll jump continually. Then, while holding the space bar, click on a window that isn't your browser (so the browser will lose focus). Then go back to the browser.
Click on the canvas, and walk around. You've turned into a rabbit.
I think this is a really good reason not to use IE
The fact that gaping vulnerabilities like these are found in a closed source browser like IE all the time and yet remain unpatched is one of the most convincing arguments to lead people away from IE.
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It's hard to imagine all the pop bands and artists sounding any more the same than they do now.