No, I don't expect Mozilla to write a multi-threaded version of Firefox. But Can they easily make a version of firefox that gives you an *option* of each separate window being a separate instance of Firefox? After all, we're already forced to open i.e. for a web-site every once in a while.
Wouldn't a new instance of firefox be the rough equivalant of a multi-threaded browser?
I don't think a monopoly has to be State run to be sensible, but I still agree with you in essense. An efficient monopoly is great, especially when it is dealing with a basic service, such as coal, oil production, maybe tap-water, energy production, just so long as it is a uniform, single procedure
What is really bad is when that monopoly starts bundling (i.e. for every tank of gas you fill, you get a 'free' 32oz bottle of water! from the same monopoly) soon, the old monopoly on a single service pushes all of their new 'free' service competitors out, and we all know that bottled water isn't actually 'free'.
Microsoft's bundling is bad in two ways, as I see it: 1)The bundled software obviously isn't 'free'; and 2)the bundled software uses up valuable resources (i.e. I.E., even when I'm running Firefox)
If you're talking about MANY MANY hard drives, you could still recycle them after shredding them back, nearly to sand, with something like this. Nevermind degaussing, the rds, and all the techno-jargon. This is something that even grandpa can enjoy!!!
You know, this is one of those things that people will just always argue over, until we can get some SERIOUSLY unbiased teachers in our public schools.
I think there are four kinds of High School History class right now:
1) Ignorant, Liberal: Atomic Bomb Bad.
2)Ignorant, Conservative: Atomic Bomb saved lives! It good!
3)Mediocre, Liberal: The Atomic bomb was used, unfortunately, even though the Japanese had already offered their surrender. Unfortunately, just as the Japanese failed to communicate a declaration of War, they failed to go through proper channels of surrender. If we'd only listened!
4)Mediocre, Conservative: The Atomic Bomb was used because.... (See above post)
I actually have the feeling that it was the fact that none of the Japanese were willing to tell their Emperor (i.e. their god) that part of the agreement of surrender was, in fact, surrender of the Emperor himself! How does one surrender a god? On the other hand, while no other political leader would ever ask to surrender himself in this way at the end of a war, the U.S. knew that without this condition, Japan would never truly stop fighting.
As others have said, Salaried employees (Usu. management) do not have a minimum wage. However, there must be a VERBAL agreement in order for the employee to recieve less than minimum wage/hourly even if they are on salary, in most states. (i.e. "Hey bob, can you stay until ten today? Big favor for me" "Sure, Earl" would work.) Also, split wage (Those who recieve less than minimum wage + commission or tips) actually require a written agreement. (P.S. I live in California)
1) Go to college. Get a degree in... whatever.
2) Go to law School. Get a degree in Law. Specialize in Patents, Copyrights, and trusts.
3) Just to be sure, go back to Law school. Say, Harvard or Oxford. Somewhere important-sounding.
4) Write a lot of editorials for the New York Times supporting MS. Write Letters of support to MS. Do ANYTHING to get on their good side.
5) Get a job on the MS team. Wait a few years.
6) When you are sure this is the big case. You know, the one that's going to make you BIG, RICH, and FAMOUS, for being a real bad-ass corporate, sharp-shooting lawyer... that's when you remember your plan. Quote these words before the court: "My Client would like to plead Guilty of all charges."
"To get early experience with its 230 gigabit per square inch drives"
Do the creators mention how many cubic inches this drive will be? Honestly... Please mod up all troll/flame posts for this article. You will be doing the Slashdot community a favor.
A cheap, reusable fuse works lovely. Just take as many D batteries as you need/will fit, solder wire to them in a line, use a x-volt fuse, stuff it inside of one of those biking water bottles. With a little ingenuity you can have the wires going out through the little hole, and then hot-glue the hole shut from the inside. You don't ever have to open the bottle, until the batteries are totally dead in a few hundred recharges.
Better movie, though admittedly not as impressive camera work (All filmed in an apartment). It was all filmed in a single take, without any cuts. They said that Hitchcock did all of his direction with gestures from off-stage, though I don't know how you could do this.
Has anyone compared the statistical date of drop in malware with drop in usage of Outlook? I haven't ever used Outlook, but I was one of the first Optimum Online (One of the original Cable ISPs) users, and I remember when your Optonline.net account would (with always-online) automatically dump to Outlook, which basically would 'prepare' for your use by opening all your e-mail before you read it.... I haven't used either optonline e-mail or Outlook since.
This article is both dated/mostly off topic, but it was the first I found that supported what I wanted to hear (With none to the contrary)
I have a Rio Carbon. I love it. Before I answer your 5 criteria, I will say that it holds 5 Gigs, which is more than I ever will need (about 1800 songs at 128 kbit). Now:
1. It connects to the PC, and when synced, you can play music off of it through the simpl USB 2.0 connecter. (No bulky base station required) from which you can do anything wirelessly. As to easy access, while it takes about 2 seconds to write a song on USB 1.1, or less than a second with USB 2.0 (I only use 128kb) it takes VERY little time to load a song 2. having a CD player built into the base station would be costly and inefficient. The software that came with my rio allows you, if you wish, to rip music directly from a CD into the player (Unlike the ipod, although someone might tell me if this is possible to do with a mac to an ipod. It is not possible with a PC) 3. They do build car stereos with RCA inputs. 4.I agree with you here, and won't point out the obvious economic solutions... 5. For wireless headset, you can buy http://www.bigfrogmountain.com/soltronixsolarradio.html one for about eighty dollars, or build one found in the premier issue of MAKE http://makezine.com/
Off topic: I also want to say that buying an MP3 player with a built in FM radio seems kind of pointless, unless it has a built in recorder that can upload to my PC. I could then edit out static/advertisements, etc. but I doubt any portable MP3 players on the market are capable of this.
The New(er) version of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, the classic Disney movie, which I saw again recently. Go rent it. It's got a CRAZY documentary on the Humbolt Squid, which I think they said reaches 12 feet. These suckers (Pardon the pun) are fierce. They bash heads.
It's also just a good movie in general, but it is worth seeing the DVD for the short (8-10 minute) documentary on the Humbolt Squid, which was the inspiration for the Giant squid in the movie.
Can anyone tell me if the idea of a USB Flashdrive browser would be any less secure?
They would be more expensive, but surely a 56MB flash drive for secure online banking would be worth the equivalent of about $12 U.S. to someone who really wanted to do their online banking.
Besides that, it would solve the update problem that everyone is rightfully griping about.
The method used for the collection of data was not mentioned. They obviously asked their subjects:
Do you use e-mail? Do you get spam? Do you click links/buy products from spammers? in a total of about fifty to seventy questions.
Did they: A)Walk the streets, asking these questions B)Use a call directory, and ask for the 'head of the household' for a 'survey', or C)ACTUALLY E-MAIL PEOPLE THE SURVEY
If it is C, I aplaud them, because they wasted more time/effort/resources than I did typing this post.
Evidently, Nye's Father was a Vietnam POW, and managed to stay relatively 'sane' (he wasn't crazy, when he got back, but wasn't totally normal, either. Kind of like those guys from WWII who did math during sense deprivation)
No, Nye was stuck in a chain-link fenced area, with a small shed to huddle in from the rain for most of that time. He had lots of sticks to play with, and made thousands of sun dials.
Years later, he tried to start a sun dial store, but the idea didn't go over too well, so I guess Bill Nye now has a whole bunch of sun dials in his storage.
We all need an outlet. Not everyone uses/.
This is the same kind of ignorant, selfish, ultimately paranoid way of thinking. If you believe that privacy laws are only there to protect 'the bad guys,' you are sorely mistaken.
Imagine a world where every time someone committed a crime, every citizen were required to walk outside of their home, pull their pants down, and wait for the doctor to come around for a very uncomfortable exam... Then you might readjust your thinking.
Sometimes people begin to confuse issues such as privacy laws, which are there to protect everyone, with privacy rights, which gun rights enthusiasts claim are the same thing. In fact, your privacy was guarenteed in the constitution, and about 9/10th's of the Bill of Rights WAS privacy laws, depending on how you look at things (i.e. we don't have an ammendment for the right to vote, but I believe that it is in there that you have a right to privacy concerning for whom you choose to vote)
No, privacy laws are generally tenatious little devils that get into the nitty little cracks, such as new technology. When they first wrote the constitution, the only way to see inside a person's house was to walk in the door. Now, we have all kinds of infra-red, microwave, etc. scanners, laser-sensor listening devises, microphones, etc. So now they require a new kind of warrent every time one of these devises are invented. Unfortunately, so many of them come around, that often the government can use one a few times before the courts demand a new law, or by way of precedents effectively create one themselves, for this new technology.
I hope this helps, but if not, I suggest you do a google for "Privacy Laws," and just skim over some of the editorials and web sites you'll find. I haven't, but I'm sure there are all kinds of interesting factoids that might change your mind.
Slashdot Mirror
Welcome our new Open-Source, Not-for-Profit Overlords....
Congradulations, Firefox Team.
They've got a notice: "Welcome Slashdot" -doesn't that mean that it specifically *wasn't* slashdotted? So none of us have read it? I'm confused.
Was hoping to hear that Petaluma was washed several miles east, but no such luck.
No, I don't expect Mozilla to write a multi-threaded version of Firefox. But Can they easily make a version of firefox that gives you an *option* of each separate window being a separate instance of Firefox? After all, we're already forced to open i.e. for a web-site every once in a while.
Wouldn't a new instance of firefox be the rough equivalant of a multi-threaded browser?
I don't think a monopoly has to be State run to be sensible, but I still agree with you in essense. An efficient monopoly is great, especially when it is dealing with a basic service, such as coal, oil production, maybe tap-water, energy production, just so long as it is a uniform, single procedure
What is really bad is when that monopoly starts bundling (i.e. for every tank of gas you fill, you get a 'free' 32oz bottle of water! from the same monopoly) soon, the old monopoly on a single service pushes all of their new 'free' service competitors out, and we all know that bottled water isn't actually 'free'.
Microsoft's bundling is bad in two ways, as I see it: 1)The bundled software obviously isn't 'free'; and 2)the bundled software uses up valuable resources (i.e. I.E., even when I'm running Firefox)
Tally-ho
If you're talking about MANY MANY hard drives, you could still recycle them after shredding them back, nearly to sand, with something like this. Nevermind degaussing, the rds, and all the techno-jargon. This is something that even grandpa can enjoy!!!
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http://www.securitymagazine.com/CDA/ArticleInform
You know, this is one of those things that people will just always argue over, until we can get some SERIOUSLY unbiased teachers in our public schools.
I think there are four kinds of High School History class right now:
1) Ignorant, Liberal: Atomic Bomb Bad.
2)Ignorant, Conservative: Atomic Bomb saved lives! It good!
3)Mediocre, Liberal: The Atomic bomb was used, unfortunately, even though the Japanese had already offered their surrender. Unfortunately, just as the Japanese failed to communicate a declaration of War, they failed to go through proper channels of surrender. If we'd only listened!
4)Mediocre, Conservative: The Atomic Bomb was used because.... (See above post)
I actually have the feeling that it was the fact that none of the Japanese were willing to tell their Emperor (i.e. their god) that part of the agreement of surrender was, in fact, surrender of the Emperor himself! How does one surrender a god? On the other hand, while no other political leader would ever ask to surrender himself in this way at the end of a war, the U.S. knew that without this condition, Japan would never truly stop fighting.
Stalin was definately the best Social Hacker to date.
*Disclaimer: I'm not endorsing Stalin here, just saying that he was good at what he did.
As others have said, Salaried employees (Usu. management) do not have a minimum wage. However, there must be a VERBAL agreement in order for the employee to recieve less than minimum wage/hourly even if they are on salary, in most states. (i.e. "Hey bob, can you stay until ten today? Big favor for me" "Sure, Earl" would work.)
Also, split wage (Those who recieve less than minimum wage + commission or tips) actually require a written agreement. (P.S. I live in California)
C'mon, this has to be a joke, right? With a name like that? They should have just called her "Chikenaf ThahSea"
For all the complaints from Slash-dotter's about how it isn't really walking, I still applaud these people for their achievements.
The only thing I would have done differently is make the guns inter-changable with paint-balls, Air-soft, etc.
1) Go to college. Get a degree in... whatever.
2) Go to law School. Get a degree in Law. Specialize in Patents, Copyrights, and trusts.
3) Just to be sure, go back to Law school. Say, Harvard or Oxford. Somewhere important-sounding.
4) Write a lot of editorials for the New York Times supporting MS. Write Letters of support to MS. Do ANYTHING to get on their good side.
5) Get a job on the MS team. Wait a few years.
6) When you are sure this is the big case. You know, the one that's going to make you BIG, RICH, and FAMOUS, for being a real bad-ass corporate, sharp-shooting lawyer... that's when you remember your plan. Quote these words before the court: "My Client would like to plead Guilty of all charges."
Volunteers?
"To get early experience with its 230 gigabit per square inch drives"
Do the creators mention how many cubic inches this drive will be? Honestly... Please mod up all troll/flame posts for this article. You will be doing the Slashdot community a favor.
I, for one, welcome our new Oligarcical Kleptocratic overlords.... oh, wait.
A cheap, reusable fuse works lovely. Just take as many D batteries as you need/will fit, solder wire to them in a line, use a x-volt fuse, stuff it inside of one of those biking water bottles. With a little ingenuity you can have the wires going out through the little hole, and then hot-glue the hole shut from the inside. You don't ever have to open the bottle, until the batteries are totally dead in a few hundred recharges.
Better movie, though admittedly not as impressive camera work (All filmed in an apartment). It was all filmed in a single take, without any cuts.
They said that Hitchcock did all of his direction with gestures from off-stage, though I don't know how you could do this.
Has anyone compared the statistical date of drop in malware with drop in usage of Outlook? I haven't ever used Outlook, but I was one of the first Optimum Online (One of the original Cable ISPs) users, and I remember when your Optonline.net account would (with always-online) automatically dump to Outlook, which basically would 'prepare' for your use by opening all your e-mail before you read it.... I haven't used either optonline e-mail or Outlook since.
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This article is both dated/mostly off topic, but it was the first I found that supported what I wanted to hear (With none to the contrary)
http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2004/12/31/fre
P.S. WOO! ACTIVE PERL OVERFLOW. Thank god for Norton Firewall...
I have a Rio Carbon. I love it.
o .html one for about eighty dollars, or build one found in the premier issue of MAKE http://makezine.com/
Before I answer your 5 criteria, I will say that it holds 5 Gigs, which is more than I ever will need (about 1800 songs at 128 kbit). Now:
1. It connects to the PC, and when synced, you can play music off of it through the simpl USB 2.0 connecter. (No bulky base station required) from which you can do anything wirelessly. As to easy access, while it takes about 2 seconds to write a song on USB 1.1, or less than a second with USB 2.0 (I only use 128kb) it takes VERY little time to load a song
2. having a CD player built into the base station would be costly and inefficient. The software that came with my rio allows you, if you wish, to rip music directly from a CD into the player (Unlike the ipod, although someone might tell me if this is possible to do with a mac to an ipod. It is not possible with a PC)
3. They do build car stereos with RCA inputs.
4.I agree with you here, and won't point out the obvious economic solutions...
5. For wireless headset, you can buy http://www.bigfrogmountain.com/soltronixsolarradi
Off topic: I also want to say that buying an MP3 player with a built in FM radio seems kind of pointless, unless it has a built in recorder that can upload to my PC. I could then edit out static/advertisements, etc. but I doubt any portable MP3 players on the market are capable of this.
The New(er) version of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, the classic Disney movie, which I saw again recently. Go rent it. It's got a CRAZY documentary on the Humbolt Squid, which I think they said reaches 12 feet. These suckers (Pardon the pun) are fierce. They bash heads.
It's also just a good movie in general, but it is worth seeing the DVD for the short (8-10 minute) documentary on the Humbolt Squid, which was the inspiration for the Giant squid in the movie.
There have been no proper "In Soviet..." jokes... ...How about...?
"In Soviet Russia, Alarm Clock Snoozes you!"
http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_firefox
Can anyone tell me if the idea of a USB Flashdrive browser would be any less secure?
They would be more expensive, but surely a 56MB flash drive for secure online banking would be worth the equivalent of about $12 U.S. to someone who really wanted to do their online banking.
Besides that, it would solve the update problem that everyone is rightfully griping about.
The method used for the collection of data was not mentioned. They obviously asked their subjects:
Do you use e-mail?
Do you get spam?
Do you click links/buy products from spammers?
in a total of about fifty to seventy questions.
Did they:
A)Walk the streets, asking these questions
B)Use a call directory, and ask for the 'head of the household' for a 'survey', or
C)ACTUALLY E-MAIL PEOPLE THE SURVEY
If it is C, I aplaud them, because they wasted more time/effort/resources than I did typing this post.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/153690_mars23. html
It's not covered in this article, but the local paper where I live had a story about the Marsdial, when it was launched.
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Evidently, Nye's Father was a Vietnam POW, and managed to stay relatively 'sane' (he wasn't crazy, when he got back, but wasn't totally normal, either. Kind of like those guys from WWII who did math during sense deprivation)
No, Nye was stuck in a chain-link fenced area, with a small shed to huddle in from the rain for most of that time. He had lots of sticks to play with, and made thousands of sun dials. Years later, he tried to start a sun dial store, but the idea didn't go over too well, so I guess Bill Nye now has a whole bunch of sun dials in his storage. We all need an outlet. Not everyone uses
This is the same kind of ignorant, selfish, ultimately paranoid way of thinking. If you believe that privacy laws are only there to protect 'the bad guys,' you are sorely mistaken.
Imagine a world where every time someone committed a crime, every citizen were required to walk outside of their home, pull their pants down, and wait for the doctor to come around for a very uncomfortable exam... Then you might readjust your thinking.
Sometimes people begin to confuse issues such as privacy laws, which are there to protect everyone, with privacy rights, which gun rights enthusiasts claim are the same thing. In fact, your privacy was guarenteed in the constitution, and about 9/10th's of the Bill of Rights WAS privacy laws, depending on how you look at things (i.e. we don't have an ammendment for the right to vote, but I believe that it is in there that you have a right to privacy concerning for whom you choose to vote)
No, privacy laws are generally tenatious little devils that get into the nitty little cracks, such as new technology. When they first wrote the constitution, the only way to see inside a person's house was to walk in the door. Now, we have all kinds of infra-red, microwave, etc. scanners, laser-sensor listening devises, microphones, etc. So now they require a new kind of warrent every time one of these devises are invented. Unfortunately, so many of them come around, that often the government can use one a few times before the courts demand a new law, or by way of precedents effectively create one themselves, for this new technology.
I hope this helps, but if not, I suggest you do a google for "Privacy Laws," and just skim over some of the editorials and web sites you'll find. I haven't, but I'm sure there are all kinds of interesting factoids that might change your mind.
welcome our new Carpet-Bagger Overlords.