part of my personal style is to make a table that has an extra cell around the right edge that is only 1 pixel wide to add a border effect. I use a 1px image as a spacer to keep this open. If you don't have anything there, it will show up as blank in netscape, IE handles it okay, but netscape gets all wierd about tables. Yes 'gets all wierd' is a technical industry term... or something. I was a hobbyist myself until I decided to put my resume out there... I am doing compE in school right now though, so this is more or less a temporary thing.
It bothers me the most when they have a 'Privacy Policy' that they don't actually follow. If the privacy policy actually states what they do, then there isn't a big issue in my opinion.
I recently had to add a privacy policy to a site that I do updates for, and it was complete crap in terms of keeping your stuff private. But they blatantly said that on the site: unless you tell us otherwise, we will call you, send you crap in the mail, and otherwise market the heck out of you... Ya gotta respect honesty
Its actually more detremental to give them fake information than to turn it off... For example, with double click across site tracking, if you enable cookies, then go to a bunch of completely unrelated sites that you would normally never go to, THEN disable cookies, you have built a user profile that is nothing like what you actually do. This is one very small anomaly in a large pool of statistics, but if enough people do it, it could really mess up their data...
I would be more worried about corporate america at this point, just because we can actually stop them... I don't know if that is true for all of the recent news about carnivore... I just HOPE we can stop it.
I agree... we use webtrends on the apache logs here... Its scary but one of the best forms of anonyimity a user has is to be an AOL user. New IP each time?, plus having the webcache keeping some of your http requests from showing up on the server.
As a web designer I am totally against this idea, because I use 1x1 gifs all the time for spacing purposes. I think a better option would be to limit all images on a page to a single server. That way stuff from other server's wouldn't load. This would be a problem when you have images.yourserver.com as well to load balance, but the solution to this would be having all of the images come from a consistent server, so if all the images came from images.yourserver.com, they would be allowed, but the little bug from statmarket would show up as broken...:)
I got VNC on my winCE device just because its the closest thing I can have to running X on CE. Its slower than hell on my CE's 19.2 modem, but its better than nothing.
what they need to do is grab some surplus ROMs that were used to boot winCE on the winCE devices, and get a working boot of linux on there, so all you have to do is pop the new rom in. I wouldn't think that it is soldered onto the board, because supposedly CE was 'upgradeable' I have yet to pop the RAM out of my nino (which is on top of the ROM--at least i think) to find out.
What does anyone else think about this? I like the larger display, and the sound capability of the CE devices, which is why i bought one... wish it wasn't running windows though...
That is the same Idea that I have been thinking of for quite some time. I wonder if (because its so obvious to you and me) that perhaps it can hit the concrete block that the RIAA uses for a brain and use their amazingly large capital to get it started. I doubt this will happen though, simply because of the "50% goes to the artist" clause. I am sure that would make all the beancouters at the RIAA go crazy.
the amuzing thing to me about this entire thing is how stupid the RIAA is being about a minor loss. They posted record sales figures, then they whine that they are losing money. The part that gets me is the quote I saw a while back from some executive saying that he couldn't belive that people would want to create things for free. I create stuff for free all the time. Artwork for my friends, web pages for organizations that need them badly, all kinds of stuff like that... maybe I am just being selfless, but I don't think I am that different from anyone else in this respect, especially where friends are concerned.
oh, and the added benefit is that you could find ALL of the songs you want--as a complete album--if you wanted it that way-- without having to search through FTP sites or deal with the whole napster thing. In short, it would be much much easier to get ALL of the music you wanted.
it would be better if we can convince the majority of the bands on RIAA labels to switch over to mp3 broadband distrobution. If you consider that the typical album costs ROUGHLY $10, take out the $.63 piece of plastic that holds it, the $2 for cover art/printing and the the $.1 that actually goes to the artist, you are left with a pretty big chunk that is going to the label/RIAA. Before you all get mad at my sweeping approximations, please note that they WERE SWEEPING APPROXIMATIONS and not the actual data. Moving right along, if songs are distributed via mp3--say an album for $4 rather than $10, plus the added convenience of shopping online, i think people would be willing to pay for their downloaded music. I personally would be, what do you guys think?
i was a big mil buff back in the 80's but now i don't care so much--however do the russian's even *have* cruise missiles? I figure they would have sold them to the iraqi's and made our life HELL during the gulf war if they did have them. A patriot sure as hell couldn't shoot down a terrain following missile.
I seem to recall SUN making a PCI board to put in the later SPARCs with PCI busses that had an AMD K6 chip on it, and some extra RAM all self contained for running windows on a separate processor, so you can get the best of both worlds...
Personally, I believe that any such study can be very cleverly crafted to say just about anything provided the people in charge have an adequate knowledge of statistics. By my way of thinking, they can either A) modify the exisiting data to their liking by taking specific cross sections that do not represent the true 'average' of the data, or B) they can simply sample a very specific population in a random way. Due to the randomness of their sampling within the specific population, they can claim that the entire study is truely random, and therefore valid data. One last parting shot that I will not back up--I personally believe that violence on television being shown to very young children is the cause of more violent behavior. I enjoy a good action movie as much as the next guy, however if taking violence off the TV entirely is the only way to guarantee that the children do not see it, I am all for it. Besides, then they could make an all simpson's station--and wouldnt that be cool?;)
I personally think that it is the parents responsibilty to keep track of their kids activities on the internet, and if the parents aren't capable of doing that, they shouldn't be allowed to whine and place artificial restrictions on the parents that ARE able to monitor their kids. Nuff said.
Its basically just for opening programs and doing simple tasks. To be perfectly honest I dont know how good it is, cause I haven't trained it. I am already a big enough geek without talking to my PDA;)
As far as processor goes, why are you even concerned about a processor on a PDA? The only thing that I do that is even remotely processor intensive is the ocassional browsing of those nifty little mobile channels. It would appear that microsoft *GASP* didn't write very efficient code for interpreting the page layout. The Mobibook reader for CE does a much nicer job of it, but it also ignores the table layouts and neater parts of HTML that the Mobile channel does cover.
I am not a big fan of the windows 9x operating systems, mainly due to their lack of stability, and that fact that you cant do nearly as much with them as you can with linux. However, I really love my Philips Nino. Being able to read news on the fly, write mail, etc is a very nifty thing. Granted a palm can do pretty much anthing a nino can, but the impressive screen resolution on the nino lets me do minimalistic graphics design, then sync the file over to my windows box to do the real work in photoshop.
More on topic, I don't necessarily thing the cooperation will be a good thing. In trying to defeat one 'evil' (i.e. microsoft) Psion and 3com may be creating another evil. It is important to remember that all corporations are fundumentally out to make money, so an agreement between the two corporations is not going to be about bringing a better product to the user, its going to be about combining technologies to make a more attractive, and therefore more expensive one.
In the long run this may prove to be a good thing if it does provide more competition for either side, but I would be unhappy if either winCE or palm/psion continue to have an unequal share of the handheld market for the simple fact that compeption DOES force companies to implement better products.
Its kind of amusing that my little 8meg winCE box can do all of the things listed on that wish list... Granted the free development kit is NOT in C, but its still a nice language. I am normally as down as anyone is about microsoft, but I have been a big proponent of hardwired OS's for a long time, and microsoft has the first *GOOD* implementation of this that I have seen in a while. I wish I could run CE on my win Box.
What I would like to see is a split right down the middle of Microsoft. Its a very unrealistic thing to do, but in my opinion it would be the best in terms of generating comeptition. Let them keep all the annoying integration of software if they want, but force them into two companies, maybe NT vs 9x or something like that, although they are really designed to serve two different markets.
I don't agree with the idea that "its just another government plot." However, I do not think that having a lack of 'hackers' is good. In the very near future we will see considerably more state sponsored electronic warfare than has ever been seen. Already people are using web sites with security holes to post their opinions about various political things. The chinese response to our 'accidental hit' of their embassy is a good example of this. Whether or not this was actually state sponsored is unclear, however I belive in the near future state sponsorship will become more and more common, and if America has no 'hackers' (i am trying to stay out of the whole hacker/cracker argument) we will not be in a very good position to defend our information systems, or strike back if the occasion is warranted.
You haven't lived till you have played DOOM in one of those things. We have one here at school that they use for among otherer things showing off how nifty our schools computer resources are. And one of the things they like to show off is a doom port... Its really killer. I loved it, and I had no problem with the 3d glasses, even though they were the old RF kind. The RF joystick was a bit strange to get used to, but once you get the hang of it, it kicks ass.
I don't see any reason to give up starcraft for Tib sun... I was not impressed at all. 6 races sounds exceedingly leet though... the more balance to the game, the happier I am.
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part of my personal style is to make a table that has an extra cell around the right edge that is only 1 pixel wide to add a border effect. I use a 1px image as a spacer to keep this open. If you don't have anything there, it will show up as blank in netscape, IE handles it okay, but netscape gets all wierd about tables. Yes 'gets all wierd' is a technical industry term... or something. I was a hobbyist myself until I decided to put my resume out there... I am doing compE in school right now though, so this is more or less a temporary thing.
It bothers me the most when they have a 'Privacy Policy' that they don't actually follow. If the privacy policy actually states what they do, then there isn't a big issue in my opinion. I recently had to add a privacy policy to a site that I do updates for, and it was complete crap in terms of keeping your stuff private. But they blatantly said that on the site: unless you tell us otherwise, we will call you, send you crap in the mail, and otherwise market the heck out of you... Ya gotta respect honesty
Its actually more detremental to give them fake information than to turn it off... For example, with double click across site tracking, if you enable cookies, then go to a bunch of completely unrelated sites that you would normally never go to, THEN disable cookies, you have built a user profile that is nothing like what you actually do. This is one very small anomaly in a large pool of statistics, but if enough people do it, it could really mess up their data...
I would be more worried about corporate america at this point, just because we can actually stop them... I don't know if that is true for all of the recent news about carnivore... I just HOPE we can stop it.
I agree... we use webtrends on the apache logs here... Its scary but one of the best forms of anonyimity a user has is to be an AOL user. New IP each time?, plus having the webcache keeping some of your http requests from showing up on the server.
As a web designer I am totally against this idea, because I use 1x1 gifs all the time for spacing purposes. I think a better option would be to limit all images on a page to a single server. That way stuff from other server's wouldn't load. This would be a problem when you have images.yourserver.com as well to load balance, but the solution to this would be having all of the images come from a consistent server, so if all the images came from images.yourserver.com, they would be allowed, but the little bug from statmarket would show up as broken... :)
I got VNC on my winCE device just because its the closest thing I can have to running X on CE. Its slower than hell on my CE's 19.2 modem, but its better than nothing.
what they need to do is grab some surplus ROMs that were used to boot winCE on the winCE devices, and get a working boot of linux on there, so all you have to do is pop the new rom in. I wouldn't think that it is soldered onto the board, because supposedly CE was 'upgradeable' I have yet to pop the RAM out of my nino (which is on top of the ROM--at least i think) to find out.
What does anyone else think about this? I like the larger display, and the sound capability of the CE devices, which is why i bought one... wish it wasn't running windows though...
the heat from re-entry is caused by atmospheric friction... was there atmosphere before the bacteria came?
That is the same Idea that I have been thinking of for quite some time. I wonder if (because its so obvious to you and me) that perhaps it can hit the concrete block that the RIAA uses for a brain and use their amazingly large capital to get it started. I doubt this will happen though, simply because of the "50% goes to the artist" clause. I am sure that would make all the beancouters at the RIAA go crazy.
the amuzing thing to me about this entire thing is how stupid the RIAA is being about a minor loss. They posted record sales figures, then they whine that they are losing money. The part that gets me is the quote I saw a while back from some executive saying that he couldn't belive that people would want to create things for free. I create stuff for free all the time. Artwork for my friends, web pages for organizations that need them badly, all kinds of stuff like that... maybe I am just being selfless, but I don't think I am that different from anyone else in this respect, especially where friends are concerned.
oh, and the added benefit is that you could find ALL of the songs you want--as a complete album--if you wanted it that way-- without having to search through FTP sites or deal with the whole napster thing. In short, it would be much much easier to get ALL of the music you wanted.
it would be better if we can convince the majority of the bands on RIAA labels to switch over to mp3 broadband distrobution. If you consider that the typical album costs ROUGHLY $10, take out the $.63 piece of plastic that holds it, the $2 for cover art/printing and the the $.1 that actually goes to the artist, you are left with a pretty big chunk that is going to the label/RIAA. Before you all get mad at my sweeping approximations, please note that they WERE SWEEPING APPROXIMATIONS and not the actual data. Moving right along, if songs are distributed via mp3--say an album for $4 rather than $10, plus the added convenience of shopping online, i think people would be willing to pay for their downloaded music. I personally would be, what do you guys think?
i was a big mil buff back in the 80's but now i don't care so much--however do the russian's even *have* cruise missiles? I figure they would have sold them to the iraqi's and made our life HELL during the gulf war if they did have them. A patriot sure as hell couldn't shoot down a terrain following missile.
I seem to recall SUN making a PCI board to put in the later SPARCs with PCI busses that had an AMD K6 chip on it, and some extra RAM all self contained for running windows on a separate processor, so you can get the best of both worlds...
Personally, I believe that any such study can be very cleverly crafted to say just about anything provided the people in charge have an adequate knowledge of statistics. By my way of thinking, they can either A) modify the exisiting data to their liking by taking specific cross sections that do not represent the true 'average' of the data, or B) they can simply sample a very specific population in a random way. Due to the randomness of their sampling within the specific population, they can claim that the entire study is truely random, and therefore valid data. One last parting shot that I will not back up--I personally believe that violence on television being shown to very young children is the cause of more violent behavior. I enjoy a good action movie as much as the next guy, however if taking violence off the TV entirely is the only way to guarantee that the children do not see it, I am all for it. Besides, then they could make an all simpson's station--and wouldnt that be cool? ;)
We can hit the rest of the dairy group next. I wonder if the IDG people are going to try and e-mail everyone in this tread. BRUAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I personally think that it is the parents responsibilty to keep track of their kids activities on the internet, and if the parents aren't capable of doing that, they shouldn't be allowed to whine and place artificial restrictions on the parents that ARE able to monitor their kids. Nuff said.
Its basically just for opening programs and doing simple tasks. To be perfectly honest I dont know how good it is, cause I haven't trained it. I am already a big enough geek without talking to my PDA ;)
As far as processor goes, why are you even concerned about a processor on a PDA? The only thing that I do that is even remotely processor intensive is the ocassional browsing of those nifty little mobile channels. It would appear that microsoft *GASP* didn't write very efficient code for interpreting the page layout. The Mobibook reader for CE does a much nicer job of it, but it also ignores the table layouts and neater parts of HTML that the Mobile channel does cover.
I am not a big fan of the windows 9x operating systems, mainly due to their lack of stability, and that fact that you cant do nearly as much with them as you can with linux. However, I really love my Philips Nino. Being able to read news on the fly, write mail, etc is a very nifty thing. Granted a palm can do pretty much anthing a nino can, but the impressive screen resolution on the nino lets me do minimalistic graphics design, then sync the file over to my windows box to do the real work in photoshop.
More on topic, I don't necessarily thing the cooperation will be a good thing. In trying to defeat one 'evil' (i.e. microsoft) Psion and 3com may be creating another evil. It is important to remember that all corporations are fundumentally out to make money, so an agreement between the two corporations is not going to be about bringing a better product to the user, its going to be about combining technologies to make a more attractive, and therefore more expensive one.
In the long run this may prove to be a good thing if it does provide more competition for either side, but I would be unhappy if either winCE or palm/psion continue to have an unequal share of the handheld market for the simple fact that compeption DOES force companies to implement better products.
Its kind of amusing that my little 8meg winCE box can do all of the things listed on that wish list... Granted the free development kit is NOT in C, but its still a nice language. I am normally as down as anyone is about microsoft, but I have been a big proponent of hardwired OS's for a long time, and microsoft has the first *GOOD* implementation of this that I have seen in a while. I wish I could run CE on my win Box.
So what if your name is Pete Edward Zeffer, and you happen to want to put your initals in the meta-author tag?
What I would like to see is a split right down the middle of Microsoft. Its a very unrealistic thing to do, but in my opinion it would be the best in terms of generating comeptition. Let them keep all the annoying integration of software if they want, but force them into two companies, maybe NT vs 9x or something like that, although they are really designed to serve two different markets.
I don't agree with the idea that "its just another government plot." However, I do not think that having a lack of 'hackers' is good. In the very near future we will see considerably more state sponsored electronic warfare than has ever been seen. Already people are using web sites with security holes to post their opinions about various political things. The chinese response to our 'accidental hit' of their embassy is a good example of this. Whether or not this was actually state sponsored is unclear, however I belive in the near future state sponsorship will become more and more common, and if America has no 'hackers' (i am trying to stay out of the whole hacker/cracker argument) we will not be in a very good position to defend our information systems, or strike back if the occasion is warranted.
You haven't lived till you have played DOOM in one of those things. We have one here at school that they use for among otherer things showing off how nifty our schools computer resources are. And one of the things they like to show off is a doom port... Its really killer. I loved it, and I had no problem with the 3d glasses, even though they were the old RF kind. The RF joystick was a bit strange to get used to, but once you get the hang of it, it kicks ass.
I don't see any reason to give up starcraft for Tib sun... I was not impressed at all. 6 races sounds exceedingly leet though... the more balance to the game, the happier I am.