Every time I think that the US comes out on top on violating basic rights to privacy, some country in the EU outdoes us. You'd think with such a rich history of war, the citizens would know better.
Consider, too, that Microsoft encompasses hundreds of products. If other groups provided as many products as Microsoft did, you might see a similar number of problems. Then again, Microsoft has had a rocky history of security and other issues.
Those examples don't need PHP, they are simple copy and paste jobs. Adding PHP did nothing for the code.
Sure, you could argue that using PHP would allow you to add features, but if that were the case, the article should explore possible additions.
Damn, that'd be a tough call... I mean, someone who eats kittens and babies, man, that's tackeling two problems at once: pet overpopulation and stupid baby overpopulation!
I've made it clear to all of my federal representatives that this is my deciding factor in their vote. I do not like voting on one issue alone, but this is one that I would. I also made it very, very clear that I will make a very, very big deal out if this if they do not support it. Working in mass media has its perks.
And yes, we are biased. Our demographic likes our bias. So piss off about that.
Just because users are stupid doesn't mean that there is some kind of evil monopoly at play. New computers have come with MSN.com set as their homepage for years, yet even users as daft as my great grandmother find and use Google over MSN. She's 94, by the way, and hates all the "blue junk" that MSN uses.
Would you rather MS show an empty blank page at startup and no default search engine configured? Image the user frustration when they try to search and IE7 pops up a box "I see you're trying to search... which search engine should I use?" In slight defense of MS, Firefox doesn't do that, nor does Safari or Opera. In fact, the three latter browsers set their default to Google. Go figure.
It is EASY to change the embedded search option in IE7. Just as easy as it is in Firefox et all.
I'm not talking about GMail or others. I write AJAX stuff (and rewrite, lately, taking over for past contracts) for a living these days. Gmail and related tools are very well written, but there are some horrible AJAX coding out there where the server sends back a massive XML document for a simple update, e.g., a badly designed GMail would resend the inbox.xml (figurative name) for upadting 1 item. GMail doesn't do this. XML processing can be very quick, but it can also be very slow when stupid programmers decide they need full XPath support (which generally means a massive JS library to implement XPath on older browsers) just to pull a single string out. The goal I was trying to hit (and missed, apparently) was that just because a tool (AJAX, XPath) is there doesn't mean you have to use it or that it is the best idea to do so.
The best advice I can give you is have stunning writing skills. You will be writing every day. E-mail, IM, proposals, agendas, reports and presentations are part of any job, even if they are a small part. Some companies don't care if you have good writing skills, but no business will complain if your skills are higher than they want.
With Ajax, using it to update a part of a page instead of the whole page, you get less load on both the server, the connection and the client.
Just make sure your users actually want updating parts of the page. Personally, I would hate to see a news site (as an example) that updated content on the fly, it would interrupt my reading. Give the user a way to turn it on but leave it off by default. Also, load on the client goes up significantly, at least processor wise. For that reason, I still prefer to deliver raw Javascript objects and eval() them. A bit less safe, but much faster.
Little is the key there. Google also serves over 3 million domain names under their AdSense program for parked domains. They serve parked domains, which serve the typo domains, and make legitimate domain holders buy AdSense words to redirect typo domains to their real website. Users click, Google gets paid. Mad cash.
While the toolbar is cool, that won't stop my grandmother from mistaking her bank's website. Icons don't cut it, unfortunately you have to be abrassive with this otherwise users will ignore the warning signs.
Late reply, but we use a few different DVRs at work. I currently have a ReplayTV and the user interface is a pain in the ass. Very few things are intuitive, for instance, to change the channel while recording you have to press "stop" on the remote. The "stop" button is a tiny button. Once you press "stop", you have to change the channel again to actually change the channel. To cancel an active recording on a TiVo, you press the big-ass "Select" button. You use the same button for most functions.
One thing of note over some other DVRs: TiVo UI panels run in both directions. The major screens are up/down, sub screens are left/right. I think more people are comfortable with that, whereas other DVRs (Replay, etc) are generally all up/down panels.
The TiVo remote has a lot to do with the fan love. You can use a TiVo remote in the dark... there are only a handful of buttons, it fits easily in even small hands, and the buttons are big enough for even the biggest of fingers.
I think their predictive functions are cool, too. When I tried my cable company's DVR, it refused to stop recording the cable channel's news station (they run their own local 24/7 news channel -- horrible quality, by the way). TiVo, on the other hand, has introduced me to good content. It has made some mistakes (like recording Roseanne...) but three down arrows corrects that straight away.
Don't forget their online scheduling. I schedule my TiVo from work. I'm not aware of any cable company DVRs that allow that.
You aren't paying money for their free service, but you are generating revenue for them through massive advertising campaigns. If they screw up their free e-mail, they will chase away the numbers that allow them to charge 2 and 3 times the rate that other similar sites do (Hotmail, for example). Sure, they will keep their paying customers, but Yahoo makes far more on advertising. Using Adblock doesn't eliminate the ads from their perspective, you are still using and promoting the brand by using an @yahoo.com e-mail address.
You're getting the heebie jeebies from an undersecretary? The position means very little, be glad he wasn't given a real job like a spot on the Supreme Court.
Ultramon (Google for it) fixes Windows to do exactly that. Each screen gets its own taskbar; you can either mirror them (all tasks on all bars) or set them to only show that monitor's windows. It gives you slick keyboard shortcuts to move apps, maximize, minimize, etc.
The only thing it lacks is a start menu, quick launch, and tray icon areas on every bar. Those should be available in the next version, though. Small consolation for other great features.
Window's default behavior, and even the behavior of nVidia's multi-monitor tools just suck ass.
I believe that each use consume charges. I'm not sure why they differentiated the two, but when echanting the bigger gem you use the more charges you get.
You have to click when the tumbler moves up AND the pick moves up. Each tumbler will randomly fall very quickly; the next tumbler push after a rapid fall will be slower and more controlled. Pick each tumbler til you see the rapid fall before trying. Or just learn Alteration.
There are mods in the works to rebalance Oblivion. I think we'll see mods that reverse the leveling bonuses, too. As-is, you make the most powerful character by picking crap major skills and having your main skills as minor ones.
Bethesda unfortunately dropped the ball on the construction set for Oblivion. Morrowind's set had quite a few features that Oblivion is just plain lacking. They can't even release their 3d exporter due to the crappy Havok license they bought.
Some of the features are pretty cool, like the worldspaces and mass-land editing through RAW and bitmap files. Spell effects are hard coded, containers are hard to open from the script, and too much of the game relies on voice files... for instance, adding a birthsign requires dialogue editing. If two mods add a birthsign, they both have to edit the same dialog point. Thus those two addons conflict and won't run together.
Even the render window is a pain in the ass. Even with maximum clipping distance small objects fade out at a tiny distance. I was trying to use a set of tiles to make a raised floor but couldn't zoom out to check my work because they disappeared at anything more than a few feet despite their scale being set as 3.0.
I'm shocked, really. I'm sure the mod community of Morrowind spurred many, many sales. I know at least a few people that bought the XBox AND PC versions (just for the mods).
Anyway, my best "WTF?" moment was the Imperial city guards killing each other for food after I stole all the food from their garrison tower. Free armor! >:)
Given a 3 GB movie, a consumer will download it all regardless of delivery speed. AT&T's model is that it is cheaper to sustain a very long connection with limited speed; Verizon's view is that the faster that connection is done, the better, and the more (burstable!) bandwidth for everyone.
AT&T's network also scales badly. When the entertainment industry begins to transition to secured P2P for transmission, Verizon's network will perform beautifully. If your neighbor is downloading the same movie as you, your effective speed from the distributor can double since you have a direct connection (practically) with your neighbor. The shared data never has to leave your neighborhood (it should get relayed at the first available router, e.g., within the local fibre system).
AT&T's system has to sustain two connections over a much longer period of time.
My apartment complex is slated to be one of the first bigger complexes to be fitted for FIOS this summer (Tampa, FL). From the info we've received from Verizon, it looks amazing.
Distributions are open source. Why develop yet another distribution rather than build upon the security of existing OSes? Why not develop a fork of a more popular--and known--distribution and opt not to package it with X, etc? I'm sure almost any of the distributions out there would welcome additional developers that focus on security and stability.
Just remember that Oblivion is built to scale with your capabilities. As graphics cards and computers keep improving, so will some of the graphics of Oblivion. Draw distance will get longer, texture blending will improve, and the shadows should scale, too.
Gamers on various forums are starting to explore the expansive INI settings available. You can easily crash your game, but there are some promising improvements out there already of things that make the game look even better if you have the equipment to support it.
In case you didn't know, the grass is generated by the game itself based on the climate and terrain type. The floor of a forest will be more sparse and rugged than open expansive plains where there is almost too much grass. When terrain gets too high/steep, the foliage thins.
The "dot" would be implicit, "com expediAAAAAAHHH!" Instead of "google dot co dot uk" it would be "uk-co google". The "dot" could be explicit if needed for clarity. And actually, it would end up being "uk-com".
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Every time I think that the US comes out on top on violating basic rights to privacy, some country in the EU outdoes us. You'd think with such a rich history of war, the citizens would know better.
Consider, too, that Microsoft encompasses hundreds of products. If other groups provided as many products as Microsoft did, you might see a similar number of problems. Then again, Microsoft has had a rocky history of security and other issues.
Those examples don't need PHP, they are simple copy and paste jobs. Adding PHP did nothing for the code. Sure, you could argue that using PHP would allow you to add features, but if that were the case, the article should explore possible additions.
Damn, that'd be a tough call... I mean, someone who eats kittens and babies, man, that's tackeling two problems at once: pet overpopulation and stupid baby overpopulation!
I've made it clear to all of my federal representatives that this is my deciding factor in their vote. I do not like voting on one issue alone, but this is one that I would. I also made it very, very clear that I will make a very, very big deal out if this if they do not support it. Working in mass media has its perks.
And yes, we are biased. Our demographic likes our bias. So piss off about that.
Just because users are stupid doesn't mean that there is some kind of evil monopoly at play. New computers have come with MSN.com set as their homepage for years, yet even users as daft as my great grandmother find and use Google over MSN. She's 94, by the way, and hates all the "blue junk" that MSN uses.
Would you rather MS show an empty blank page at startup and no default search engine configured? Image the user frustration when they try to search and IE7 pops up a box "I see you're trying to search... which search engine should I use?" In slight defense of MS, Firefox doesn't do that, nor does Safari or Opera. In fact, the three latter browsers set their default to Google. Go figure.
It is EASY to change the embedded search option in IE7. Just as easy as it is in Firefox et all.
You must be a Native American or an Asian.
Sure, he can beat his students, but what about pirates?
If there ever was a use for Fark's tags on Slashdot, this is one that deserves a big spankin [Hero] tag.
I'm not talking about GMail or others. I write AJAX stuff (and rewrite, lately, taking over for past contracts) for a living these days. Gmail and related tools are very well written, but there are some horrible AJAX coding out there where the server sends back a massive XML document for a simple update, e.g., a badly designed GMail would resend the inbox.xml (figurative name) for upadting 1 item. GMail doesn't do this. XML processing can be very quick, but it can also be very slow when stupid programmers decide they need full XPath support (which generally means a massive JS library to implement XPath on older browsers) just to pull a single string out. The goal I was trying to hit (and missed, apparently) was that just because a tool (AJAX, XPath) is there doesn't mean you have to use it or that it is the best idea to do so.
The best advice I can give you is have stunning writing skills. You will be writing every day. E-mail, IM, proposals, agendas, reports and presentations are part of any job, even if they are a small part. Some companies don't care if you have good writing skills, but no business will complain if your skills are higher than they want.
With Ajax, using it to update a part of a page instead of the whole page, you get less load on both the server, the connection and the client.
Just make sure your users actually want updating parts of the page. Personally, I would hate to see a news site (as an example) that updated content on the fly, it would interrupt my reading. Give the user a way to turn it on but leave it off by default. Also, load on the client goes up significantly, at least processor wise. For that reason, I still prefer to deliver raw Javascript objects and eval() them. A bit less safe, but much faster.
Little is the key there. Google also serves over 3 million domain names under their AdSense program for parked domains. They serve parked domains, which serve the typo domains, and make legitimate domain holders buy AdSense words to redirect typo domains to their real website. Users click, Google gets paid. Mad cash.
While the toolbar is cool, that won't stop my grandmother from mistaking her bank's website. Icons don't cut it, unfortunately you have to be abrassive with this otherwise users will ignore the warning signs.
Late reply, but we use a few different DVRs at work. I currently have a ReplayTV and the user interface is a pain in the ass. Very few things are intuitive, for instance, to change the channel while recording you have to press "stop" on the remote. The "stop" button is a tiny button. Once you press "stop", you have to change the channel again to actually change the channel. To cancel an active recording on a TiVo, you press the big-ass "Select" button. You use the same button for most functions.
One thing of note over some other DVRs: TiVo UI panels run in both directions. The major screens are up/down, sub screens are left/right. I think more people are comfortable with that, whereas other DVRs (Replay, etc) are generally all up/down panels.
The TiVo remote has a lot to do with the fan love. You can use a TiVo remote in the dark... there are only a handful of buttons, it fits easily in even small hands, and the buttons are big enough for even the biggest of fingers.
I think their predictive functions are cool, too. When I tried my cable company's DVR, it refused to stop recording the cable channel's news station (they run their own local 24/7 news channel -- horrible quality, by the way). TiVo, on the other hand, has introduced me to good content. It has made some mistakes (like recording Roseanne...) but three down arrows corrects that straight away.
Don't forget their online scheduling. I schedule my TiVo from work. I'm not aware of any cable company DVRs that allow that.
You aren't paying money for their free service, but you are generating revenue for them through massive advertising campaigns. If they screw up their free e-mail, they will chase away the numbers that allow them to charge 2 and 3 times the rate that other similar sites do (Hotmail, for example). Sure, they will keep their paying customers, but Yahoo makes far more on advertising. Using Adblock doesn't eliminate the ads from their perspective, you are still using and promoting the brand by using an @yahoo.com e-mail address.
Right. "Your ignore list is full." anyone? Just because you can ignore someone does not make their behavior acceptable or appropriate.
You're getting the heebie jeebies from an undersecretary? The position means very little, be glad he wasn't given a real job like a spot on the Supreme Court.
Where would you get enough dust to do that? We're not talking a dumptruck full, are we? Got a link? Sounds interesting.
Ultramon (Google for it) fixes Windows to do exactly that. Each screen gets its own taskbar; you can either mirror them (all tasks on all bars) or set them to only show that monitor's windows. It gives you slick keyboard shortcuts to move apps, maximize, minimize, etc.
The only thing it lacks is a start menu, quick launch, and tray icon areas on every bar. Those should be available in the next version, though. Small consolation for other great features.
Window's default behavior, and even the behavior of nVidia's multi-monitor tools just suck ass.
I believe that each use consume charges. I'm not sure why they differentiated the two, but when echanting the bigger gem you use the more charges you get.
You have to click when the tumbler moves up AND the pick moves up. Each tumbler will randomly fall very quickly; the next tumbler push after a rapid fall will be slower and more controlled. Pick each tumbler til you see the rapid fall before trying. Or just learn Alteration.
There are mods in the works to rebalance Oblivion. I think we'll see mods that reverse the leveling bonuses, too. As-is, you make the most powerful character by picking crap major skills and having your main skills as minor ones.
Bethesda unfortunately dropped the ball on the construction set for Oblivion. Morrowind's set had quite a few features that Oblivion is just plain lacking. They can't even release their 3d exporter due to the crappy Havok license they bought.
Some of the features are pretty cool, like the worldspaces and mass-land editing through RAW and bitmap files. Spell effects are hard coded, containers are hard to open from the script, and too much of the game relies on voice files... for instance, adding a birthsign requires dialogue editing. If two mods add a birthsign, they both have to edit the same dialog point. Thus those two addons conflict and won't run together.
Even the render window is a pain in the ass. Even with maximum clipping distance small objects fade out at a tiny distance. I was trying to use a set of tiles to make a raised floor but couldn't zoom out to check my work because they disappeared at anything more than a few feet despite their scale being set as 3.0.
I'm shocked, really. I'm sure the mod community of Morrowind spurred many, many sales. I know at least a few people that bought the XBox AND PC versions (just for the mods).
Anyway, my best "WTF?" moment was the Imperial city guards killing each other for food after I stole all the food from their garrison tower. Free armor! >:)
Given a 3 GB movie, a consumer will download it all regardless of delivery speed. AT&T's model is that it is cheaper to sustain a very long connection with limited speed; Verizon's view is that the faster that connection is done, the better, and the more (burstable!) bandwidth for everyone.
AT&T's network also scales badly. When the entertainment industry begins to transition to secured P2P for transmission, Verizon's network will perform beautifully. If your neighbor is downloading the same movie as you, your effective speed from the distributor can double since you have a direct connection (practically) with your neighbor. The shared data never has to leave your neighborhood (it should get relayed at the first available router, e.g., within the local fibre system).
AT&T's system has to sustain two connections over a much longer period of time.
My apartment complex is slated to be one of the first bigger complexes to be fitted for FIOS this summer (Tampa, FL). From the info we've received from Verizon, it looks amazing.
Distributions are open source. Why develop yet another distribution rather than build upon the security of existing OSes? Why not develop a fork of a more popular--and known--distribution and opt not to package it with X, etc? I'm sure almost any of the distributions out there would welcome additional developers that focus on security and stability.
Just remember that Oblivion is built to scale with your capabilities. As graphics cards and computers keep improving, so will some of the graphics of Oblivion. Draw distance will get longer, texture blending will improve, and the shadows should scale, too.
Gamers on various forums are starting to explore the expansive INI settings available. You can easily crash your game, but there are some promising improvements out there already of things that make the game look even better if you have the equipment to support it.
In case you didn't know, the grass is generated by the game itself based on the climate and terrain type. The floor of a forest will be more sparse and rugged than open expansive plains where there is almost too much grass. When terrain gets too high/steep, the foliage thins.
The "dot" would be implicit, "com expediAAAAAAHHH!" Instead of "google dot co dot uk" it would be "uk-co google". The "dot" could be explicit if needed for clarity. And actually, it would end up being "uk-com".