I think it would be really really fun if it turned out to share everyone's music and video. Especially if MAFIAA computers got infected in the process.
I recall a test of viruses under Wine, a while ago... apparently, only a few of the tested viruses would even run, but none were able to do anything dangerous.
Some have used this as an argument that Wine is not nearly compatible enough.
Where can I go into a shop and buy a PC with the previous incarnation of Windows? And if Vista is such a success why is MS moving to Windows 7 already?
"Already" ? Vista will be 3 years old by the time Windows 7 is released (and that's assuming it's released on schedule).
The problem is, not everyone has noticed it has been this long.
With all the initial problems and all the free downgrades, quite a number of people bought new computers and failed to upgrade to Vista. This had not been the case before.
Because if the Conficker's designers had any sense, they have set Conficker up to ignore the system date and act on an NTP server signal or something. Furthermore, one of the easy ways of avoiding detection of whatever the payload should be is not including it in the first place. Then, when the date comes, and Conficker activates, the peer-to-peer system it incorporates can first serve as a means of payload distribution.
And when I shopped for a ThinkPad T60p, and found out that the model without Windows was sold out, I got an equally-specced MacBook Pro for about the same price.
I will gladly pay the price for either a MacBook or a ThinkPad; both are extremely fine machines, though I find the Mac a bit more on the stylish side, and the ThinkPad more on the indestructible slab side. Never mind; both appeal to me.
By bringing serious study and research to this field, we can shed light on it and evolve the field to be at least in line with current scientific thought.
At first I thought you were serious, but the mention of evolution convinced me otherwise.
There is no evolution. Therefore, creationism cannot evolve.
The Crash Reporter did appear and I had it submit the crash info to Mozilla. Three or four times in a row, in fact. However, I do not recall the crash ID; I might try it out again in a day or two.
Well, I've downloaded it. The Mac version.
It may be that my 3.0.7 profile is a bit buggy, but 3.1b3 simply crashes again and again. And that after disabling (nearly?) all of my extensions, too.
Wow. From human-computer interaction to verbing my noun in two posts.
Whatever happened to those 5.25" drives that were to be used for cyber sex? You should have mentioned them as well.
Still, not a very poor troll. I'll give it a 3 out of 5.
In Croatia, people who ride trams usually do not even use Bluetooth earphones. The earbuds you mention would have been extremely improbable even if I had not seen her ears. And her hands were empty, too.
I appreciate the what-ifs, but I have considered them all, and tried to verify against them. I had to default to her being a bit wacky.
The kinds we get in our trams, a giggler is just fine and dandy.
Recently I noticed just how much the Bluetooth headset has changed the way we perceive people.
I rode a tram, and heard a girl near me giggle. She was looking outside, speaking softly, giggling from time to time. Naturally, I'd assumed she was talking to someone via Bluetooth.
Boy, was I wrong. I don't know what was making her giggle, and who she was talking to, but there was no mobile phone or any of its possible accessories in sight.
The mere fact her being crazy was not the first thing that crossed my mind shows how far we've gone so far; I'm not sure I'd like going any further in that direction.
Do you really want to talk to a computer the way you would talk to a person?
While there may be some potential in technologies like Ubiquity, I still prefer simple Unix-style commands for stuff I do often. And which i do not have to say out loud.
The computer already occupies my eyes. Better interaction means occupying less, not more of my resources.
I have toyed with voice commands, some. And I did not like it. Still don't.
If it's not something I can do silently, while talking to someone and without looking rediculous, I'm not using it.
Now, a lighter version of those VR gloves that were touted as the future of human-computer interaction, where there would be a few sensors near my fingertips, I could live with. Even typing would work, though it would look silly.
I do not want to keep turning this wink/smile/nod "feature" on and off all the time. If I hear a song I like, I will smile; I don't want it to rewind just because I like it. If I listen to music while walking, and I run into someone I know, I may smile; this does not mean I wanted the bloody song to rewind. And I don't want to stick my tongue out to turn off my iPod just so I can smile at someone.
If my hands cannot do that, and both are still attached, then it is too complicated anyway. Leave my face alone. Don't read it, don't expect input from it. If and when I want to interact with a device, I will use my hands. You know those appendages with opposable thumbs that are usually used for tool manipulation? (Appendages, not thumbs alone.) Yeah, them. If I need a tool, I'll use them.
My facial expressions are for other people to see and react to, should they care to do so.
However, this technology may prove to work well for quadriplegic people or Stephen Hawking. OK, not Stephen Hawking. So it's even less useful than it seemed to be.
This reads like my experience with a certain translator in the KDE team. He is, incidentally, the head of the translation team for my native tongue. And the only translator in the team.
"I couldn't work with him" since he got offended when I criticised some of his translations. However, my story didn't end so well as yours: the KDE team took the safe route, as I knew they would, and kept him, leaving me out. In all fairness, I would have done the same; I was brand new, with no commits, and got kicked before I could properly start.
I remain sorry for the project and anyone who gets to work with that asshole with PTSD (he actually physically assaulted me. In public.), I regret that I will not be able to contribute, but I'm fucking glad I will never ever have anything to do with that guy. It is the one bridge I will not regret burning; there is no point working with someone you cannot stand. Though nowadays I work with the first guy ever to get in my killfile, and in fact we work together rather well.
Any time you burn a bridge, be sure it is not a large one. I've been careful not to burn any whenever I thought there may be a chance for me to work with the same people again. (In the case above, I am fairly certain I have not stepped on any toes in the KDE community in general.) Although in times of crysis any job will do, most times there are still other options.
From the way she put it, I'd say her miscarriage was a well-known fact. This is just a parting shot explaining the rest of her e-mail, showing them what assholes they've been.
I'd love to see the rest of the e-mail.
You fail to account for the fact that not only the underlying technologies have changed, but also the way we use the browser. Not to mention the negligible little fact that the users have changed as well.
I like the way things are going and do not consider Firefox bloated.
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And then, relieved, people forget to remove it. And on April 2nd, when it is no longer a joke, the real fun begins.
Well, Conficker has P2P functionality...
I think it would be really really fun if it turned out to share everyone's music and video. Especially if MAFIAA computers got infected in the process.
Popcorn time indeed.
I recall a test of viruses under Wine, a while ago... apparently, only a few of the tested viruses would even run, but none were able to do anything dangerous.
Some have used this as an argument that Wine is not nearly compatible enough.
Where can I go into a shop and buy a PC with the previous incarnation of Windows? And if Vista is such a success why is MS moving to Windows 7 already?
"Already" ? Vista will be 3 years old by the time Windows 7 is released (and that's assuming it's released on schedule).
The problem is, not everyone has noticed it has been this long.
With all the initial problems and all the free downgrades, quite a number of people bought new computers and failed to upgrade to Vista. This had not been the case before.
Because if the Conficker's designers had any sense, they have set Conficker up to ignore the system date and act on an NTP server signal or something. Furthermore, one of the easy ways of avoiding detection of whatever the payload should be is not including it in the first place. Then, when the date comes, and Conficker activates, the peer-to-peer system it incorporates can first serve as a means of payload distribution.
And when I shopped for a ThinkPad T60p, and found out that the model without Windows was sold out, I got an equally-specced MacBook Pro for about the same price.
I will gladly pay the price for either a MacBook or a ThinkPad; both are extremely fine machines, though I find the Mac a bit more on the stylish side, and the ThinkPad more on the indestructible slab side. Never mind; both appeal to me.
By bringing serious study and research to this field, we can shed light on it and evolve the field to be at least in line with current scientific thought.
At first I thought you were serious, but the mention of evolution convinced me otherwise.
There is no evolution. Therefore, creationism cannot evolve.
Have at that, ye pesky evolutionists!
I thought that was a quickie.
You can also add the repository with OO.o 3 and install that, too.
or even better: not touching a hot stove is the cure for frequent burns
Quite so. An ounce of prevention and all that.
No, I do not. The option does not even exist.
Ah. I didn't know that.
Here you go:
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d4962b88-6952-4738-8ee1-8b6df2090312 3/12/09 6:19 PM
b7b9da6a-a640-41ff-af86-091452090312 3/12/09 6:19 PM
The Crash Reporter did appear and I had it submit the crash info to Mozilla. Three or four times in a row, in fact. However, I do not recall the crash ID; I might try it out again in a day or two.
Good morning, Dave.
Well, I've downloaded it. The Mac version.
It may be that my 3.0.7 profile is a bit buggy, but 3.1b3 simply crashes again and again. And that after disabling (nearly?) all of my extensions, too.
Back to 3.0.7, at least for now.
Wow. From human-computer interaction to verbing my noun in two posts.
Whatever happened to those 5.25" drives that were to be used for cyber sex? You should have mentioned them as well.
Still, not a very poor troll. I'll give it a 3 out of 5.
In Croatia, people who ride trams usually do not even use Bluetooth earphones. The earbuds you mention would have been extremely improbable even if I had not seen her ears. And her hands were empty, too.
I appreciate the what-ifs, but I have considered them all, and tried to verify against them. I had to default to her being a bit wacky.
The kinds we get in our trams, a giggler is just fine and dandy.
Recently I noticed just how much the Bluetooth headset has changed the way we perceive people.
I rode a tram, and heard a girl near me giggle. She was looking outside, speaking softly, giggling from time to time. Naturally, I'd assumed she was talking to someone via Bluetooth.
Boy, was I wrong. I don't know what was making her giggle, and who she was talking to, but there was no mobile phone or any of its possible accessories in sight.
The mere fact her being crazy was not the first thing that crossed my mind shows how far we've gone so far; I'm not sure I'd like going any further in that direction.
Do you really want to talk to a computer the way you would talk to a person?
While there may be some potential in technologies like Ubiquity, I still prefer simple Unix-style commands for stuff I do often. And which i do not have to say out loud.
The computer already occupies my eyes. Better interaction means occupying less, not more of my resources.
I have toyed with voice commands, some. And I did not like it. Still don't.
If it's not something I can do silently, while talking to someone and without looking rediculous, I'm not using it.
Now, a lighter version of those VR gloves that were touted as the future of human-computer interaction, where there would be a few sensors near my fingertips, I could live with. Even typing would work, though it would look silly.
I do not want to keep turning this wink/smile/nod "feature" on and off all the time. If I hear a song I like, I will smile; I don't want it to rewind just because I like it. If I listen to music while walking, and I run into someone I know, I may smile; this does not mean I wanted the bloody song to rewind. And I don't want to stick my tongue out to turn off my iPod just so I can smile at someone.
If my hands cannot do that, and both are still attached, then it is too complicated anyway. Leave my face alone. Don't read it, don't expect input from it. If and when I want to interact with a device, I will use my hands. You know those appendages with opposable thumbs that are usually used for tool manipulation? (Appendages, not thumbs alone.) Yeah, them. If I need a tool, I'll use them.
My facial expressions are for other people to see and react to, should they care to do so.
However, this technology may prove to work well for quadriplegic people or Stephen Hawking. OK, not Stephen Hawking. So it's even less useful than it seemed to be.
I'd guess it's a mouse protocol bug, especially if it occurs only with some newer mice with many buttons.
Or do what you did, and say what you mean in an oblique enough fashion.
This reads like my experience with a certain translator in the KDE team. He is, incidentally, the head of the translation team for my native tongue. And the only translator in the team.
"I couldn't work with him" since he got offended when I criticised some of his translations. However, my story didn't end so well as yours: the KDE team took the safe route, as I knew they would, and kept him, leaving me out. In all fairness, I would have done the same; I was brand new, with no commits, and got kicked before I could properly start.
I remain sorry for the project and anyone who gets to work with that asshole with PTSD (he actually physically assaulted me. In public.), I regret that I will not be able to contribute, but I'm fucking glad I will never ever have anything to do with that guy. It is the one bridge I will not regret burning; there is no point working with someone you cannot stand. Though nowadays I work with the first guy ever to get in my killfile, and in fact we work together rather well.
Any time you burn a bridge, be sure it is not a large one. I've been careful not to burn any whenever I thought there may be a chance for me to work with the same people again. (In the case above, I am fairly certain I have not stepped on any toes in the KDE community in general.) Although in times of crysis any job will do, most times there are still other options.
From the way she put it, I'd say her miscarriage was a well-known fact. This is just a parting shot explaining the rest of her e-mail, showing them what assholes they've been.
I'd love to see the rest of the e-mail.
You fail to account for the fact that not only the underlying technologies have changed, but also the way we use the browser. Not to mention the negligible little fact that the users have changed as well.
I like the way things are going and do not consider Firefox bloated.