True, and I use jQuery and do w3 checks on xhtml, etc. But there are old browsers, non-IE old browsers at that, that still fail. IE just seems to be a bit behind lately, heh.
I haven't had any issues lately with IE, not even in IE7, for the most part. That may be just good coding (definitely not on my part though;) ), or it's just acid3 tests that nobody actually does anyways...
My main desktop machine has 7GB ram, that's not the issue I'm referring to.... memory leaks exist in firefox, it's not a hidden fact.
In fact, from the link you gave:
Memory leaks can cause Firefox not to release memory that it is no longer using, especially with older versions. There has been a lot of effort to reduce the leaks in recent versions, and Mozilla developers have have created tools to detect them. [5] [6] To minimize leaks, you should upgrade to the most recent version. The most common memory leaks appear to be fixed in Firefox 2. [7] Firefox 3 will likely use even less memory than Firefox 2 due to more memory leak fixes and further efforts to reduce memory usage. [8] [9]
IE only websites has always been a lazy web developer problem, not an IE problem. There are still issues between Opera and Firefox that developers have to stay away from in order to get it to render correctly in both (and a lot of mozilla issues, too... like opacity).
and incidentally, firefox isn't excatly unbloated itself.
Actually, as far as FTP goes... last time I used FTP, firefox can only download, no uploading via FTP with FF. You can sorta do that with "IE" which can be a little bit of a timesaver if you just want to upload a single file or something like that, and you're already on the site, etc...
Hrm. On the other hand, FF is dropping the ball, to some extent, too. It's a good browser, I'm using it now, but having it eat 300MB of RAM is ridiculous.:)
It would cause "What? That looks like Greek. I just want to use the Internet, not Firefox." reactions in a lot of people buying a computer. At some point, too much customization at once is a bad thing.
Of course, I'd have no problem if, say, Dell decided to ship Firefox with their boxes. Or whatever. But what next? Give the option of Silverlight or Flash pre-installed? iTunes pre-installed? Quicktime vs. some other variant? VLC as well as Media Player?
The answer to the browser war, if anything, is going to be "education" not forcing companies to give consumers every possible option.
Besides, the people that use IE probably don't know any better or if they do, have a good reason to use it; the people that don't use IE and would thus benefit from the choice already know how to download an alternative. All it'd really do is make purchasing a computer a little more confusing for those that *don't* know.
The technique has already been used successfully to reanimate the eyelids of human cadavers.
Hmmm. I had no idea that cadavers had the capacity to control robotic eyelids:)
From the abstract:
Metbods: With use of four cadaver heads, an extended upper and lower blepharoplasty incision was used to secure an upper and lower expanded polytetrafluoroethylene implant in the medial orbital wall and tarsal plates. The slings were passed through a hole drilled in the lateral orbital wall or around a titanium screw. Lateral pull on the sling created eyelid closure, and the necessary distance of pull was measured. Results: The eyelid sling mechanism functioned to achieve complete eyelid closure. Less tension was required for eyelid closure when the sling was placed in both eyelids (3 mm of pull instead of 6 mm). Conclusions: The application of artificial muscle to a range of problems that affect both patient morbidity and quality of life is promising. Eyelid closure was created in a cadaver model using a novel sling, but future studies will need to address the feasibility of a prototype artificial muscle eyelid device in humans.
I think so. It's just another instance of regulations of consumer products. It does generally sound good, but what about regulation of other parts of the phone? I see no reason why I can't make a phone that uses whatever charger I want (presuming I'm a cell phone company). So what if nobody uses it, that's not the government's business. Or, in this case, the EU.
Next, let's regulate how much bandwidth any given individual can use at any given period of time. It will make it more convenient for anyone sharing the bandwidth. Or, more similar to this case, let's limit the amount of bandwidth a company can *give* so that it levels the playing field, creates more competition, etc. That way, small company can offer just as good an offer as big company! Better competition! All we need is the EU to regulate that, and boom! Hm. Because we have seen how effective the EU is at stuff like that (like... regulating browser packaging?)
Hmmm. I don't really think this entirely hits the nail on the head. (cliches are great)
We're not talking about stealing physical property so much as stealing revenue. Granted, I'm not a fan of *IAA groups. But copyright infringement, IMO, can be theft/stealing. Let's say I offer my album on Magnatune. Let's say it ends up on TPB. Now let's say people download it on TPB and not Magnatune. That is a loss of revenue for me, correct? So, the question for ME, the artist, in that situation, is what is loss of revenue: theft or copyright infringement?
I realize that the current situation is slightly different because of *IAA groups and all that, but saying that not paying for something and taking it anyway is NOT theft seems to be trying to call something less than what it is. Just because something is not taking the availability away from you does not mean it is not theft. Your example of a calculator is not correct; it would not have been theft from you, it wouldn't have been anything from you. We're not talking about theft from LISTENERS, we're talking about theft from artists or whatever. Or, I guess, theft from *IAA revenue.
Again. I am not advocating *IAA actions, I'm arguing that saying that illegally downloaded music, pirated music, pirated films, pirated books, WHATEVER the electronic medium is that is being pirated... saying that that is ONLY copyright infringement is minimizing the problem. Copyright infringement, as I understand it, has to do with taking something and claiming it is yours (e.g., you take my sheet music, put your name on it, and sell it as yours). If you take my sheet music without my permission/without paying for it, that's theft. Even if it's a digital copy.
Um. Defense is one of those few things in the US Constitution that is MANDATED of the federal government. Unemployment checks are not.
IMO, the way it should go is this: We have $X dollars. We are required to do $Y and $Z, so let's do those first. After that, with our leftover money, let's do the social programs not required of us.
Right now, the government and most Americans seem to think the other way around. Social programs are more important than the Constitutional mandated actions of the federal government. Until, of course, defense becomes a priority due to some event; then, suddenly, everyone is willing to spend money on it.
Am I saying to WASTE money on the mandated obligations of the federal government? No. But we should definitely get the priorities straight before we spend... not spend (somewhere, somehow) and hope it works. Which is apparently the current administration and Congress majority's ideas.
California has the same thing, I just found out. We are required to cite "out of state" purchases that we didn't pay sales taxes on and pay sales tax on it. It is very, very stupid.
I don't know if it's so much a psychological "self-actualization" thing as much as it's just simply doing what you like to do. I've done tons of programming (and indeed, got into it in the first place) simply because it was interesting and I liked doing it.
And, I might add that if Google "lets" their employees work 20% of their time on side projects, that means Google is PAYING them 20% of their salary, essentially, to do those side projects. "For google," still, sure, but it's on Google's time and on Google's salary... isn't that more or less the definition of the perfect job? Getting paid to do what you like and want to do?
And I suppose all the Windows users deserve what they are getting?
I'm not defending Microsoft's holes in its code, but to say "Too bad, Microsoft" and ignore that many innocent users use it is pretty... well, kinda goes back to the annoying Linux attitude that people complain about, I guess.
I like and use Linux. But I would rather not like to have Linux give the same "better than you" vibe that Mac does at the moment...
Interesting, you automatically assume the first 10 comments ARE Americans? I am, but it's an interesting assumption.
Secondly, what about these ethics? I am a minority here, with my thoughts about right, wrong, morality, and ethics. But I'm curious - what ethics do you speak of? Acting for the good of the Egyptian people vs. acting for the good of the company/shareholders/profit? How about acting for the good of your employees vs. acting for teh good of the Egyptian people? Hm. What SHOULD they have done? Or how about, what SHOULD this ONE executive have done? I suppose he should have said, to the government of the country he was working inside of and had agreed to abide by the laws of, "No way. You're corrupt. There's no way I'm going to give you the information that you require of me even though it is within your right as a government to require it." That would have gone over well.
But hey. Various religious groups are murdered all over the world for simply believing in a religion that the government doesn't particularly like (yes, usually Islamic countries like Iran, etc). We don't get upset over that very often, so why get upset over this?
Note: This is partially devil's-advocate posting. And I probably would be murdered in the aforementioned Islamic countries.
Drafting was what I was thinking. You're right. I completely forgot about the propulsion part and was entirely focused on air intake. Rather funny, actually, hehe. Incidentally, part of the problem is that I AM at my day job, which is not slashdot posting, so my mind is kinda split.
I'm guessing that the faster you go, the less "air" there is going to be behind the engines, since you're more or less creating a vacuum behind it by moving through it, right? Which is why motorcycles can do whatever they do behind semi trucks going ~60MPH on the freeway.
It's true. I work with a guy (rather old himself) that writes on the Korn shell because it's the only shell that is included on pretty much all Unix based OSs, including Linux. (and Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX, which we also use).
Slashdot Mirror
Tearing up what? Newspapers? ;)
SWAT team brought in for a schoolyard fight?
Well, why not. If kids can get beaten with baseball bats by other students, it seems more a job for police than teachers at that point.
Hmmm, 4 posts and it's slashdotted? I hope their server isn't running on BSD, for the sake of its publicity :)
True, and I use jQuery and do w3 checks on xhtml, etc. But there are old browsers, non-IE old browsers at that, that still fail. IE just seems to be a bit behind lately, heh.
I haven't had any issues lately with IE, not even in IE7, for the most part. That may be just good coding (definitely not on my part though ;) ), or it's just acid3 tests that nobody actually does anyways...
My main desktop machine has 7GB ram, that's not the issue I'm referring to.... memory leaks exist in firefox, it's not a hidden fact.
In fact, from the link you gave:
Memory leaks can cause Firefox not to release memory that it is no longer using, especially with older versions. There has been a lot of effort to reduce the leaks in recent versions, and Mozilla developers have have created tools to detect them. [5] [6] To minimize leaks, you should upgrade to the most recent version. The most common memory leaks appear to be fixed in Firefox 2. [7] Firefox 3 will likely use even less memory than Firefox 2 due to more memory leak fixes and further efforts to reduce memory usage. [8] [9]
IE only websites has always been a lazy web developer problem, not an IE problem. There are still issues between Opera and Firefox that developers have to stay away from in order to get it to render correctly in both (and a lot of mozilla issues, too... like opacity).
and incidentally, firefox isn't excatly unbloated itself.
Actually, as far as FTP goes... last time I used FTP, firefox can only download, no uploading via FTP with FF. You can sorta do that with "IE" which can be a little bit of a timesaver if you just want to upload a single file or something like that, and you're already on the site, etc...
Hrm. On the other hand, FF is dropping the ball, to some extent, too. It's a good browser, I'm using it now, but having it eat 300MB of RAM is ridiculous. :)
Yes, that would be a Bad Thing.
It would cause "What? That looks like Greek. I just want to use the Internet, not Firefox." reactions in a lot of people buying a computer. At some point, too much customization at once is a bad thing.
Of course, I'd have no problem if, say, Dell decided to ship Firefox with their boxes. Or whatever. But what next? Give the option of Silverlight or Flash pre-installed? iTunes pre-installed? Quicktime vs. some other variant? VLC as well as Media Player?
The answer to the browser war, if anything, is going to be "education" not forcing companies to give consumers every possible option.
Besides, the people that use IE probably don't know any better or if they do, have a good reason to use it; the people that don't use IE and would thus benefit from the choice already know how to download an alternative. All it'd really do is make purchasing a computer a little more confusing for those that *don't* know.
The technique has already been used successfully to reanimate the eyelids of human cadavers.
Hmmm. I had no idea that cadavers had the capacity to control robotic eyelids :)
From the abstract:
Metbods: With use of four cadaver heads, an extended upper and lower blepharoplasty incision was used to secure an upper and lower expanded polytetrafluoroethylene implant in the medial orbital wall and tarsal plates. The slings were passed through a hole drilled in the lateral orbital wall or around a titanium screw. Lateral pull on the sling created eyelid closure, and the necessary distance of pull was measured. Results: The eyelid sling mechanism functioned to achieve complete eyelid closure. Less tension was required for eyelid closure when the sling was placed in both eyelids (3 mm of pull instead of 6 mm). Conclusions: The application of artificial muscle to a range of problems that affect both patient morbidity and quality of life is promising. Eyelid closure was created in a cadaver model using a novel sling, but future studies will need to address the feasibility of a prototype artificial muscle eyelid device in humans.
I think so. It's just another instance of regulations of consumer products. It does generally sound good, but what about regulation of other parts of the phone? I see no reason why I can't make a phone that uses whatever charger I want (presuming I'm a cell phone company). So what if nobody uses it, that's not the government's business. Or, in this case, the EU.
Next, let's regulate how much bandwidth any given individual can use at any given period of time. It will make it more convenient for anyone sharing the bandwidth. Or, more similar to this case, let's limit the amount of bandwidth a company can *give* so that it levels the playing field, creates more competition, etc. That way, small company can offer just as good an offer as big company! Better competition! All we need is the EU to regulate that, and boom! Hm. Because we have seen how effective the EU is at stuff like that (like... regulating browser packaging?)
Hmmm. I don't really think this entirely hits the nail on the head. (cliches are great)
We're not talking about stealing physical property so much as stealing revenue. Granted, I'm not a fan of *IAA groups. But copyright infringement, IMO, can be theft/stealing. Let's say I offer my album on Magnatune. Let's say it ends up on TPB. Now let's say people download it on TPB and not Magnatune. That is a loss of revenue for me, correct? So, the question for ME, the artist, in that situation, is what is loss of revenue: theft or copyright infringement?
I realize that the current situation is slightly different because of *IAA groups and all that, but saying that not paying for something and taking it anyway is NOT theft seems to be trying to call something less than what it is. Just because something is not taking the availability away from you does not mean it is not theft. Your example of a calculator is not correct; it would not have been theft from you, it wouldn't have been anything from you. We're not talking about theft from LISTENERS, we're talking about theft from artists or whatever. Or, I guess, theft from *IAA revenue.
Again. I am not advocating *IAA actions, I'm arguing that saying that illegally downloaded music, pirated music, pirated films, pirated books, WHATEVER the electronic medium is that is being pirated ... saying that that is ONLY copyright infringement is minimizing the problem. Copyright infringement, as I understand it, has to do with taking something and claiming it is yours (e.g., you take my sheet music, put your name on it, and sell it as yours). If you take my sheet music without my permission/without paying for it, that's theft. Even if it's a digital copy.
Um. Defense is one of those few things in the US Constitution that is MANDATED of the federal government. Unemployment checks are not.
IMO, the way it should go is this: We have $X dollars. We are required to do $Y and $Z, so let's do those first. After that, with our leftover money, let's do the social programs not required of us.
Right now, the government and most Americans seem to think the other way around. Social programs are more important than the Constitutional mandated actions of the federal government. Until, of course, defense becomes a priority due to some event; then, suddenly, everyone is willing to spend money on it.
Am I saying to WASTE money on the mandated obligations of the federal government? No. But we should definitely get the priorities straight before we spend... not spend (somewhere, somehow) and hope it works. Which is apparently the current administration and Congress majority's ideas.
California has the same thing, I just found out. We are required to cite "out of state" purchases that we didn't pay sales taxes on and pay sales tax on it. It is very, very stupid.
I don't know if it's so much a psychological "self-actualization" thing as much as it's just simply doing what you like to do. I've done tons of programming (and indeed, got into it in the first place) simply because it was interesting and I liked doing it.
And, I might add that if Google "lets" their employees work 20% of their time on side projects, that means Google is PAYING them 20% of their salary, essentially, to do those side projects. "For google," still, sure, but it's on Google's time and on Google's salary... isn't that more or less the definition of the perfect job? Getting paid to do what you like and want to do?
That was pretty funny :)
And I suppose all the Windows users deserve what they are getting?
I'm not defending Microsoft's holes in its code, but to say "Too bad, Microsoft" and ignore that many innocent users use it is pretty ... well, kinda goes back to the annoying Linux attitude that people complain about, I guess.
I like and use Linux. But I would rather not like to have Linux give the same "better than you" vibe that Mac does at the moment...
Probably offtopic or troll. Oh well.
I can't decide if you're going for "date a center in a box" or "date a sent her in a box" or "data sent her in a box" or what. :)
awww... I miss BG :(
It can probably deliver the aforementioned UPS and generator in a box. :)
Interesting, you automatically assume the first 10 comments ARE Americans? I am, but it's an interesting assumption.
Secondly, what about these ethics? I am a minority here, with my thoughts about right, wrong, morality, and ethics. But I'm curious - what ethics do you speak of? Acting for the good of the Egyptian people vs. acting for the good of the company/shareholders/profit? How about acting for the good of your employees vs. acting for teh good of the Egyptian people? Hm. What SHOULD they have done? Or how about, what SHOULD this ONE executive have done? I suppose he should have said, to the government of the country he was working inside of and had agreed to abide by the laws of, "No way. You're corrupt. There's no way I'm going to give you the information that you require of me even though it is within your right as a government to require it." That would have gone over well.
But hey. Various religious groups are murdered all over the world for simply believing in a religion that the government doesn't particularly like (yes, usually Islamic countries like Iran, etc). We don't get upset over that very often, so why get upset over this?
Note: This is partially devil's-advocate posting. And I probably would be murdered in the aforementioned Islamic countries.
and their employees could go to jail.
Jail or "murdered" or just "disappear."
Drafting was what I was thinking. You're right. I completely forgot about the propulsion part and was entirely focused on air intake. Rather funny, actually, hehe. Incidentally, part of the problem is that I AM at my day job, which is not slashdot posting, so my mind is kinda split.
I'm guessing that the faster you go, the less "air" there is going to be behind the engines, since you're more or less creating a vacuum behind it by moving through it, right? Which is why motorcycles can do whatever they do behind semi trucks going ~60MPH on the freeway.
It's true. I work with a guy (rather old himself) that writes on the Korn shell because it's the only shell that is included on pretty much all Unix based OSs, including Linux. (and Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX, which we also use).