They say he'll be upgraded...do you know how often a working project is upgraded at a university?
"`The first ten million years were the worst,' said Marvin, `and the second ten million, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.'"
I hate to break this to you, but probably neither of the people who use the Dvorak layout will see this tip. As for the rest of us, we don't know the Dvorak layout, or we'd be using it...sorry.
...have to be two of the least productive (and most annoying) forms of advertising. When you think about it, pretty much every other form of advertising has at least a little targeting that goes along with it. Billboards target people who are in the area of the business advertising. Television and radio ads target the general demographic that watches/listens to that show. Banner ads (as annoying as they are), at least know a little about the typical person that is looking at them. Despite claims of spammers to have "targeted" lists of email addresses, there is very little that they can know about those email addresses...same with telemarketers and phone numbers.
One solution advertisers are using more and more as people become immune to typical methods is product placement. TV show, movies, etc., are now filled with "products" in use or on the set. Of course, the stuff spammers are selling is a little harder to use with this method...I can see it now: "Quick, get the guns, we're gonna have to...wait a minute...I don't have to do this...I've made millions...(to viewer)...you too can get rich quick with my new scheme to..."
I couldn't tell from the page if it just won't boot to BSD because there is some incompatibility, or if IBM actually took steps to block BSD and other unsupported OS's from booting. If the first, then I'm disappointed, but if it's the second, then I'm outraged.
Some background about this method of energy production. I also saw some stuff about Wavegen developing "Powerbuoy...an offshore multi MW floating wave station in conjunction with the oil industry...".
All of these sound neat, but how many of these things would you have to have to actually produce serious (enough to power cities) amounts of power?
I don't see where you get all that. The news release didn't say anything about cross-platform compatibility. In fact, it mentioned the product coming on a CD. Office 10 isn't.NET (afaik). Correct me if I'm wrong, but all I see is Microsoft adding a subscription service to a Windows-only product.
Come now, do you really think that someone who wanted Office 2000 without paying for it would be stopped by the fact that there is no registration version? As long is there are software licenses to break, people will find ways to break them.
...of the many companies providing irritating cripple-ware to consumers. Microsoft's "innovation"? Paying the "registration" fee only gets you another year. Blegh.
I know it's not the main focus of the article, but the second page of the article mentioned that the new domains (at least.info and.coop) will be managed by new registry providers (.info: Register.com, Tucows.com, and.coop: CORE). Even thought the new domains aren't nearly as desirable as the old standbys, at least Network Solutions doesn't have a strangle-hold on the registry market anymore.
I signed up months ago, and did get an email from them yesterday asking me to update my info. I run W2K, which is about as stable as Windoze gets (I like it, actually...up for two months, with the only reboots being to install new hardware...). I've also got a 24/7 LAN connection (I love my school:). My machine is pretty powerful, lots of RAM, etc. If this doesn't fit the bill, I'm not really sure what would.
Actually, the Netscape installer allows you to save the install files locally. Having just upgraded to IE 5.5 (I know, I know, but I still have to test my pages in IE), I was disappointed to find that (at least on the W2K IE install) there is no longer an option to save to disk. If you go to the M$ website, they have a link for you to buy a CD with all the install files. What a(nother) ripoff!
I must say, it took them long enough to shoot the three scenes that won't be completely computer animated...now the real work begins:)
Hmmm...what about stability...?
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Ok, let me get this straight...we all want more stable computers, right? Yet you want to put something to completely disable a computer inside it? All I know is this thing better be a lot more reliable than the typical computer system, or a lot of super-secret information is gonna be lost when it triggers accidentally...
The system seems to be extremely well-endowed considering it's size, but what is it trying to be? A portable computer? A replacement for a tower PC? Even with all it's features, it's still no match for a desktop computer that can have 384 megs of RAM, extra expansion slots, harddrives, etc. If it's trying to be a portable computer, then the problem of a seperate, portable display comes up. Personally, I wouldn't want to carry my computer and screen around separately...
Both file formats have their own uses. JPGs are excellent for photographs and similar applications, but when dealing with images with a small color palatte or large areas of uniform color, JPG compression distorts the image. For example, say you have an image that fades from black at the center, to white on the edge. The GIF/PNG format will end with a true white, but the JPG (because of the compression) will end with a very faint shade of grey. If you are depending on the image to fit with another image or the background seamlessly, you would have to use a lossless format, namely PNG or GIF.
Right now, GIFs and JPGs are the only image formats that are reliably supported across browsers, platforms, yada yada yada. Since the features of the two formats are different, using gifs is impossible to get around in some cases (like when transparency is needed). I would switch to PNGs in a heartbeat (for several reasons) if I knew they would appear the way I designed them to look.
I don't think support for PNGs will become a priority for browser vendors until enough sites use them, but until the browser support is there, all those sites are potentially disfigured. There's no way I can tell a client I'm going to use an image format that might mess up their webpage. It's a catch-22, and browser developers are the ones best situated to get out of it. All that to say, PNG support needs to made a priority now.
As far as "political" considerations go, using GIFs has always been a little distasteful, but it wasn't as big an issue as it is now. Now that Unisys is pressing the issue, it't time to leave the GIF format behind.
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They say he'll be upgraded...do you know how often a working project is upgraded at a university?
"`The first ten million years were the worst,' said Marvin, `and the second ten million, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.'"
I hate to break this to you, but probably neither of the people who use the Dvorak layout will see this tip. As for the rest of us, we don't know the Dvorak layout, or we'd be using it...sorry.
(Joking)
Or, you could figure out a pretty easy password, memorize the keystrokes, then shift the pattern to another location (changing case, of course).
For example, "password" becomes "0qWw294E"
Reminds me of a website I ran across a few months ago. Read the first few, laughed a little, then realized there were 25 pages of the stuff.
The Numbers of God
...have to be two of the least productive (and most annoying) forms of advertising. When you think about it, pretty much every other form of advertising has at least a little targeting that goes along with it. Billboards target people who are in the area of the business advertising. Television and radio ads target the general demographic that watches/listens to that show. Banner ads (as annoying as they are), at least know a little about the typical person that is looking at them. Despite claims of spammers to have "targeted" lists of email addresses, there is very little that they can know about those email addresses...same with telemarketers and phone numbers.
:)
One solution advertisers are using more and more as people become immune to typical methods is product placement. TV show, movies, etc., are now filled with "products" in use or on the set. Of course, the stuff spammers are selling is a little harder to use with this method...I can see it now: "Quick, get the guns, we're gonna have to...wait a minute...I don't have to do this...I've made millions...(to viewer)...you too can get rich quick with my new scheme to..."
lol. Never mind
...could be called DoD DoS's ?
:)
Sorry...couldn't help it
I couldn't tell from the page if it just won't boot to BSD because there is some incompatibility, or if IBM actually took steps to block BSD and other unsupported OS's from booting. If the first, then I'm disappointed, but if it's the second, then I'm outraged.
I always check Slashdot right before settling down to study...talk about demotivitating...
The article is talking about long-term memory, not just recall of something seen a few minutes or hours ago.
They are developing an offshore varient, according to this page. They are calling it the "Powerbuoy". I don't know about it being underwater.
Some background about this method of energy production.
I also saw some stuff about Wavegen developing "Powerbuoy...an offshore multi MW floating wave station in conjunction with the oil industry...".
All of these sound neat, but how many of these things would you have to have to actually produce serious (enough to power cities) amounts of power?
I think we should have a name for acronyms like these...how about YAYAA (Yet Another 'Yet Another' Acronym)?
I don't see where you get all that. The news release didn't say anything about cross-platform compatibility. In fact, it mentioned the product coming on a CD. Office 10 isn't .NET (afaik). Correct me if I'm wrong, but all I see is Microsoft adding a subscription service to a Windows-only product.
Come now, do you really think that someone who wanted Office 2000 without paying for it would be stopped by the fact that there is no registration version? As long is there are software licenses to break, people will find ways to break them.
...of the many companies providing irritating cripple-ware to consumers. Microsoft's "innovation"? Paying the "registration" fee only gets you another year. Blegh.
I know it's not the main focus of the article, but the second page of the article mentioned that the new domains (at least .info and .coop) will be managed by new registry providers (.info: Register.com, Tucows.com, and .coop: CORE). Even thought the new domains aren't nearly as desirable as the old standbys, at least Network Solutions doesn't have a strangle-hold on the registry market anymore.
I signed up months ago, and did get an email from them yesterday asking me to update my info. I run W2K, which is about as stable as Windoze gets (I like it, actually...up for two months, with the only reboots being to install new hardware...). I've also got a 24/7 LAN connection (I love my school :). My machine is pretty powerful, lots of RAM, etc. If this doesn't fit the bill, I'm not really sure what would.
For the unenlightened, a 'DC-RW' is a CD-RW that writes backwards...or maybe I just can't spell :)
Actually, the Netscape installer allows you to save the install files locally. Having just upgraded to IE 5.5 (I know, I know, but I still have to test my pages in IE), I was disappointed to find that (at least on the W2K IE install) there is no longer an option to save to disk. If you go to the M$ website, they have a link for you to buy a CD with all the install files. What a(nother) ripoff!
I must say, it took them long enough to shoot the three scenes that won't be completely computer animated...now the real work begins :)
Ok, let me get this straight...we all want more stable computers, right? Yet you want to put something to completely disable a computer inside it? All I know is this thing better be a lot more reliable than the typical computer system, or a lot of super-secret information is gonna be lost when it triggers accidentally...
The system seems to be extremely well-endowed considering it's size, but what is it trying to be? A portable computer? A replacement for a tower PC? Even with all it's features, it's still no match for a desktop computer that can have 384 megs of RAM, extra expansion slots, harddrives, etc. If it's trying to be a portable computer, then the problem of a seperate, portable display comes up. Personally, I wouldn't want to carry my computer and screen around separately...
BUT IT'S SO COOL!!!!
Both file formats have their own uses. JPGs are excellent for photographs and similar applications, but when dealing with images with a small color palatte or large areas of uniform color, JPG compression distorts the image. For example, say you have an image that fades from black at the center, to white on the edge. The GIF/PNG format will end with a true white, but the JPG (because of the compression) will end with a very faint shade of grey. If you are depending on the image to fit with another image or the background seamlessly, you would have to use a lossless format, namely PNG or GIF.
Right now, GIFs and JPGs are the only image formats that are reliably supported across browsers, platforms, yada yada yada. Since the features of the two formats are different, using gifs is impossible to get around in some cases (like when transparency is needed). I would switch to PNGs in a heartbeat (for several reasons) if I knew they would appear the way I designed them to look.
I don't think support for PNGs will become a priority for browser vendors until enough sites use them, but until the browser support is there, all those sites are potentially disfigured. There's no way I can tell a client I'm going to use an image format that might mess up their webpage. It's a catch-22, and browser developers are the ones best situated to get out of it. All that to say, PNG support needs to made a priority now.
As far as "political" considerations go, using GIFs has always been a little distasteful, but it wasn't as big an issue as it is now. Now that Unisys is pressing the issue, it't time to leave the GIF format behind.