OTOH, I like having the ability to make last minute changes as
well. OOo is harmless on laptops with mostly unused 250GB hdds.
I haven't heard any complaints yet.
Maybe a silly question, but, does OOo have an option for keyboard shortcuts yet?
I can't live without ctrl-b for bold ctrl-i for italics, and I really like ctrl-+ for increasing fonts. I won't give up MS Word until I can have those.
OTOH, I have given up powerpoint altogether -- it's safer to have open office presentations + OOo installer on a CD than to have a powerpoint presentation and hope they have the right version of MS office.
We've never seen a pulsating carbon convection star, but we've also never actually seen a binary white dwarf that looks like this. Both are highly complicated systems and neither is inherently more complex than the other.
And the first gets +1 cool, where the second gets a -1 redundant. That's at least as important as any other rating system right now.
You should really look into a concept known as graceful degradation. I use flash, javascript and css (in reverse order) to accomplish things. Then I look at my page in lynx to make sure that it's still readable. I don't test every combination of browser and OS, but I do ensure that the basic html version is functional.
Certain people are required join the armed forces ala involuntary re-ups. Obviously you don't know anyone serving a second term against their will, or you would not be so flip about it. But perhaps you should read what I actually wrote, which was in no way related to how people get into the military.
They gave up some rights in order to serve their nation, but it does not logically follow that they should be forced to give up additional rights in order to make some small-dicked bureaucrat feel better about himself. If our soldiers want to look at porn and read political commentary on their time off, I don't see any reason why you should stop them.
"In the case of a 404, your browser can do a google search for you."
Yes, that is what happens. But it has nothing to do with my browser prefs. Let's begin again, because I'm a glutton for punishment.
Depending on you browser settings your browser can do an MSN or Google search on return of a 404, or it could simply give you an error message.
In IE, it defaults to MSN, but can be set to give you a basic 404 not found page. In FF, it defaults to a 404 not found page, but you can download various extensions to make it do whatever you want, eg. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4693
Go ahead, explain to me what the difference between multicast-over-the-internet and p2p would be, even using cars if necessary. I freely admit that I have no idea what multicast-over-the-internet would look like, since AFAIK no such thing exists. How do you handle switching between subnets when that one person in China wants to hear it and one person in Portugal and one in Minnesota but no-one else.
I apologize, I did forget that slashdot doesn't keep whitespace, so my two paragraphs became one. However, if you'll read my quote, I said that p2p is dynamic content caching, not that it's multicast. And I suspect that p2p is the most efficient model possible for distributing dynamic content in real time across multiple subnets.
I don't actually understand why you think p2p is incompatible with cacheable content. Let's say I run their p2p software. When I want to watch something, it downloads to my local media player from the closest p2p point. If I have already watched this show before, I am the closest server. No traffic. Or if my neighbor has watched it, he's the closest server. A single-link download, minimal traffic. For more obscure shows, I travel farther away, until I hit the original seeder. Looks like caching to me.
You want to add multicast over the internet? What would that look like? Repeating a multicast is not free, and any time someone on a different subnet asks for it, it must be repeated. The only person who is better off is the original broadcaster, the backbone still carries the traffic.
When you mistype a URL, you get the squatter page hosted at yourtypo.com, or you get a 404 error when there's no squatter. In the case of a 404, your browser can do a google search for you. With this new change, you will never get a 404, because RoadRunner is effectively squatting on every unregistered domain, forwarding you ads for every typo.
Why must the government regulate content availability, rather than content filtering availability? That is, everyone gets the same internet, but ISPs get a gold star for offering a filtering service. They could offer separate DNS servers that filter out pornography, ala http://www.scrubit.com/ without taking away the freedoms of adults.
The trick is, by solving the problem at the wrong level, they can force that "solution" onto everyone. Thereby blocking all porn completely. If the only high-speed ISP around is porn filtered, then you can give up porn, or switch to dial-up!
The solution should be handled via local software, but since no-one wants to bother with that, lets bump it up to the DNS level, not the ISP! I'm shilling today: http://www.scrubit.com/
Seems to me that if you're worried about this kind of stuff in your home that it should be solvable with a $50 router and an hour reading the manual.
Plus several million hours visiting every website in existence to determine which IPs to block. I believe he already addressed that: whitelist the 5 or so sites you want your child to visit, block everything else. Adds 2 minutes to his estimate, tops. It's not like I'd let my kids read slashdot anyway.
The inventor deserves the credit not the first to file!
You misunderstand the point of patents entirely. Patents are not designed to encourage people to invent, they are designed to encourage people to tell other people about their inventions.
If you invent something and tell me I'll steal your idea -- so you keep it secret. But with patents you can tell me and the courts forbid me from stealing it.
If you insist on keeping secrets and I figure out your secret through a legitimate means of my own, then your misanthropy is rewarded with a loss of profits. Perfect!
Or did they pay penance via open source contributions?
Bingo.
I was a bit skeptical when IBM said they were producing Redhat servers, but since they released workable code and stayed legal, I appreciate the good they've done. Microsoft has never produced anything that was OSS, so each time they say they are about to do so, I regard them with a little more skepticism. Maybe this time they'll actually come through...
Ah yes, delusional FFOSSies like IBM have on understanding of how to run a business, it's due entirely to the GPL that there are problems in this world, and Microsoft is a benevolent God come to make our lives better.
Man, you either need to share, or put away that koolaid.
And nobody except you, your brother, and bill gates; gives a sh*t about what he uses for a desktop. Which is why linux on the desktop is still a pipe dream. That's all I was saying.
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He said "no internet there." Not "no internet here." That implies he is somewhere his 7-year old is not, and he (obviously) does have internet.
That's actually a really good idea.
OTOH, I like having the ability to make last minute changes as well. OOo is harmless on laptops with mostly unused 250GB hdds. I haven't heard any complaints yet.
OTOH, I have given up powerpoint altogether -- it's safer to have open office presentations + OOo installer on a CD than to have a powerpoint presentation and hope they have the right version of MS office.
And the first gets +1 cool, where the second gets a -1 redundant. That's at least as important as any other rating system right now.
Personally I'd only gotten as far as 1-bad, 2-bad, 3-good, 4-meh. I suspect 25% good ideas is the current state of congress, not an improvement.
You should really look into a concept known as graceful degradation. I use flash, javascript and css (in reverse order) to accomplish things. Then I look at my page in lynx to make sure that it's still readable. I don't test every combination of browser and OS, but I do ensure that the basic html version is functional.
Certain people are required join the armed forces ala involuntary re-ups. Obviously you don't know anyone serving a second term against their will, or you would not be so flip about it. But perhaps you should read what I actually wrote, which was in no way related to how people get into the military. They gave up some rights in order to serve their nation, but it does not logically follow that they should be forced to give up additional rights in order to make some small-dicked bureaucrat feel better about himself. If our soldiers want to look at porn and read political commentary on their time off, I don't see any reason why you should stop them.
The difference is this: you are not required to live at work. Unless you work for Google, of course.
Depending on you browser settings your browser can do an MSN or Google search on return of a 404, or it could simply give you an error message.
In IE, it defaults to MSN, but can be set to give you a basic 404 not found page. In FF, it defaults to a 404 not found page, but you can download various extensions to make it do whatever you want, eg. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4693
I apologize, I did forget that slashdot doesn't keep whitespace, so my two paragraphs became one. However, if you'll read my quote, I said that p2p is dynamic content caching, not that it's multicast. And I suspect that p2p is the most efficient model possible for distributing dynamic content in real time across multiple subnets.
I don't actually understand why you think p2p is incompatible with cacheable content. Let's say I run their p2p software. When I want to watch something, it downloads to my local media player from the closest p2p point. If I have already watched this show before, I am the closest server. No traffic. Or if my neighbor has watched it, he's the closest server. A single-link download, minimal traffic. For more obscure shows, I travel farther away, until I hit the original seeder. Looks like caching to me. You want to add multicast over the internet? What would that look like? Repeating a multicast is not free, and any time someone on a different subnet asks for it, it must be repeated. The only person who is better off is the original broadcaster, the backbone still carries the traffic.
Note the date of registration. Someone registered it because of this story.
When you mistype a URL, you get the squatter page hosted at yourtypo.com, or you get a 404 error when there's no squatter. In the case of a 404, your browser can do a google search for you.
With this new change, you will never get a 404, because RoadRunner is effectively squatting on every unregistered domain, forwarding you ads for every typo.
Why must the government regulate content availability, rather than content filtering availability? That is, everyone gets the same internet, but ISPs get a gold star for offering a filtering service. They could offer separate DNS servers that filter out pornography, ala http://www.scrubit.com/ without taking away the freedoms of adults.
The trick is, by solving the problem at the wrong level, they can force that "solution" onto everyone. Thereby blocking all porn completely. If the only high-speed ISP around is porn filtered, then you can give up porn, or switch to dial-up! The solution should be handled via local software, but since no-one wants to bother with that, lets bump it up to the DNS level, not the ISP! I'm shilling today: http://www.scrubit.com/
Ah yes, because filtering all porn from reaching Utah to "protect the children" has anything to do with children, at all.
Why must we fix this at the ISP level, when it's already solved at the DNS level for free? http://www.scrubit.com/
Plus several million hours visiting every website in existence to determine which IPs to block. I believe he already addressed that: whitelist the 5 or so sites you want your child to visit, block everything else. Adds 2 minutes to his estimate, tops. It's not like I'd let my kids read slashdot anyway.
Not exactly. I am still waiting for the Apple Vacuum.
I've heard it sucks though.Eww
Google has added too much crap on their main page. Portals are for people who don't know where they want to go today -- while I'm already there.
I'm pretty sure you mean Solarian, not Syrian. Syria is a real place.
Patents are not designed to encourage people to invent, they are designed to encourage people to tell other people about their inventions.
If you invent something and tell me I'll steal your idea -- so you keep it secret. But with patents you can tell me and the courts forbid me from stealing it.
If you insist on keeping secrets and I figure out your secret through a legitimate means of my own, then your misanthropy is rewarded with a loss of profits.
Perfect!
Ah yes, delusional FFOSSies like IBM have on understanding of how to run a business, it's due entirely to the GPL that there are problems in this world, and Microsoft is a benevolent God come to make our lives better.
Man, you either need to share, or put away that koolaid.
And nobody except you, your brother, and bill gates; gives a sh*t about what he uses for a desktop.
Which is why linux on the desktop is still a pipe dream. That's all I was saying.