"Smooth Downloading Files are automatically saved to your Desktop making them easy to find."
When I read things like this (and they're also at firefox's official site), it makes me a little bit sick. Actually I dislike this feature and I dislike the fact that Firefox uses it as the default (not asking where you want to save the file, putting it in the desktop automatically).
My point is - they should either change this feature, change the way that they advertise it, or not advertise it at all... Something like "By default, files are saved to your desktop bla bla bla"...
Yeah, and then I get to hear some colleagues at university saying things like "Computers are getting faster and faster, so we can use things like Java now". What the fuck? I shouldn't need a P4 with 512 MB of memory to run a damn development environment... An IDE should run on a 486 or low grade without problems, or else I'll hate to use it.
No surprise considering that applications are getting heavier and heavier... Most programmers no longer care about optimizing their code, as they used to (and had to) some years ago.
Actually when I read that story it was a system to distinguish between pictures of tanks and pictures of cars. Might be from a different source though... I read it in a book by Skiena.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (news - web sites) said the money would go to the Geneva-based Global Alliance for Vaccination and Immunisation (GAVI), a partner of the World Health Organisation.
"GAVI will use the funds announced today to support national immunization programs in 72 of the worlds poorest countries," he said in a statement. "Supporting childrens immunization is undoubtedly the best investment weve ever made."
Gates also appealed to other donors to plug the gap in financing vaccination programmes for children in developing countries.
Yep, that would be a good idea, but I don't think they would implement it... They would think of "bad image", although I would think it would be the opposite - those sucky articles make slashdot look like shit.
BTW, as someone else as already pointed out here, the submitter of this story is a known troll
I think this is anthropomorphosizing the bits of the brain a bit.
Haven't you heard of Mr. Sigmund Freud?? Repression of memories into the subconscious and things like that??
That was what I was talking about when I was trying to find an explanation to the other poster's dad forgetting about his war times... And yes, those repressed memories actually hurt us, but not as much as if they were in our most conscient part. That's why psychiatrists exist:)
Pain usually wants to be forgotten by the brain... And everyone is different, which might explain why your dad "forgot" (I'm sure he knows it deep inside even if he thinks he doesn't), and the grand-parent poster remembers his experience.
I find it kind of funny that people worry so much about Google invading peoples privacy, but don't worry about things like trusted computing being silently pushed towards us, which is already happening...
Slashdot Mirror
I'm sure MS would immediately collapse without that money eheh.
:)
Good point though
Some of those are also the ones who are propelling trusted computing...
In their firefox page, Speakeasy says:
"Smooth Downloading
Files are automatically saved to your Desktop making them easy to find."
When I read things like this (and they're also at firefox's official site), it makes me a little bit sick. Actually I dislike this feature and I dislike the fact that Firefox uses it as the default (not asking where you want to save the file, putting it in the desktop automatically).
My point is - they should either change this feature, change the way that they advertise it, or not advertise it at all... Something like "By default, files are saved to your desktop bla bla bla"...
Am I alone in this?
The last US elections result has changed this though. They'll be able to change the zombies to sprites of more than half of US's population...
Wow. Which internet did you buy? Mine is not that good :(
Doesn't Chessmaster do this?
(maybe you were talking about a different kind of games, though...)
Yeah, and then I get to hear some colleagues at university saying things like "Computers are getting faster and faster, so we can use things like Java now". What the fuck? I shouldn't need a P4 with 512 MB of memory to run a damn development environment... An IDE should run on a 486 or low grade without problems, or else I'll hate to use it.
Did you forget trusted computing?
Yeah, that thing that few people know about, but really should...
No surprise considering that applications are getting heavier and heavier... Most programmers no longer care about optimizing their code, as they used to (and had to) some years ago.
And oh yeah, I only saw your joke after I posted that :D
What about the editors? They're the ones who have the obligation to fix those mistakes, I think...
Actually when I read that story it was a system to distinguish between pictures of tanks and pictures of cars. Might be from a different source though... I read it in a book by Skiena.
That's enough for me...
Yep, that would be a good idea, but I don't think they would implement it... They would think of "bad image", although I would think it would be the opposite - those sucky articles make slashdot look like shit.
BTW, as someone else as already pointed out here, the submitter of this story is a known troll
And... slashdot editors really suck! Sometimes I don't even understand why this site is so famous... Do you?
No, you should just adjust the RTFA module on your brain...
Someone mod this -1 Troll...
Simply put - the point of bittorrent is to allow servers to distribute big files to many people without the server being brought to it's knee.
It seems they are close to doing it.
Haven't you heard of Mr. Sigmund Freud?? Repression of memories into the subconscious and things like that??
That was what I was talking about when I was trying to find an explanation to the other poster's dad forgetting about his war times... And yes, those repressed memories actually hurt us, but not as much as if they were in our most conscient part. That's why psychiatrists exist
Actually I haven't read any book about recovered memories.
All I've said is easy and proven psychology...
Pain usually wants to be forgotten by the brain... And everyone is different, which might explain why your dad "forgot" (I'm sure he knows it deep inside even if he thinks he doesn't), and the grand-parent poster remembers his experience.
I find it kind of funny that people worry so much about Google invading peoples privacy, but don't worry about things like trusted computing being silently pushed towards us, which is already happening...
Then he can say... I sold my soul to google and all I got was a lousy GMail account :)
You have already downloaded gecko if you have Firefox :P