Maybe they aren't against targeted filtering(like you can do with the content filter in Opera) and are just against total blanket filtering of ad content like AdBlock with Filter Set G does?
Hate to play the devil's advocate here, but the list for AdBlock blocks ALL ads, not just "ads that jitter about by a couple of pixels, or flash bright contrasting colors".
If everybody were to use AdBlock with the default list, what would happen to the web as we know it? The only sites that would exist would be subscription sites(thus denying the financially poor access to information), e-commerce sites and maybe some non profit sites,blogs which can afford hosting costs(denying the financially poor a voice)
How would you like paying for using Slashdot, Google, YouTube etc. ?
Is there a list that blocks only the annoying ads? Information may want to be free, but bandwidth sure ain't.
If they're planning on making the next Windows UI mirror Office 2007 then count me on the list of people likely to never buy it. The Office 2007 UI is horrible and badly done. Never before with MS products have I felt the desire to kill someone after using a software. Well except for that time I tried using MS Plus but that's a whole nother article.
I beg to differ. First of all, they're not going to 'mirror' the new Office UI into Windows 7. If they wanted to do that, they would just need some code monkeys. They moved the guy who did it into Windows 7 development, which I think is a good move looking at how he improved the usability of Office. Lets hope that he work a similar type of magic for Windows.
I find the new Ribbon UI leaps and bounds ahead of the UI in Office 2003. The menus are just way more accessible instead of navigating through a labyrinth-like maze of dropdowns. You are more likely to use many features while you never knew even existed earlier because navigating was a chore. Also, I think it makes very good use of the extra pixels that modern screens have(a few years ago, it would have been a colossal waste of screen space).
Take the anecdotal evidence for what it's worth, but almost every person at work seems to love the new interface. I think that this is a good move by Microsoft.
Laptops are bad because there is no one good posture to use them with. Check out this illustrated article about laptops forcing you to use bad postures no matter how you try. You may not suffer from that problem now, but remember repetitive use can worsen things and also some people have bone and muscular problems that can exacerbate this
The fact that a laptop keyboard and monitor do not adjust independently of one another forces a user to choose between comfortable hand/wrist or head/neck posture. This puts the laptop user into awkward or unhealthy postures which may lead to short- and/or long-term discomfort or injury.
The only way out is to mount the laptop in this fashion but it needs a separate keyboard and mouse and is not a very portable solution on the move.
As I said, reducing screen thickness is one of the main factors. Also, the LED backlight results in far less power consumption than the traditional screen, so the laptop can be packed more densely and needs to spend less hardware on fans, heatsinks, power supply etc.
I am betting that the main factor reducing the thickness would be the LED-backlit LCD screens. Sony has had them in their VAIO TX and SZ lines for about a year now and they rock(that was one of the reason I bought a Sony instead of an Apply laptop). The screen is just about 3mm thick and it makes a considerably brighter screen and lighter laptop.
o sum up your comment:
Macs suck for the enterprise because they come with too much stuff.
A VERY bad summing up of my comment. A more accurate summary would be that too much stuff is forced upon you, whether you really need it or not.
Please, enlighten me as to how having a webcam during the twelve hours of netmeetings I had last week would make things WORSE - because my speakerphone is decent, but being able to see someone does help. Explain how having more RAM than absolutely necessary is a BAD thing, given that corporate desktops typically have at least one software upgrade cycles.
So... umm... you're incapable of buying and installing a webcam on a PC if it's really needed? And PC vendors won't ship your order if you install more than 256MB of RAM? And you cannot upgrade the RAM with a software upgrade cycle?
Your entire argument seems to revolve around dissing this article and macs because the author stresses the additional capabilities (at very little extra cost or for less than the PC equivalent) that Macs have for Enterprise use. Pardon me if I happen to think that adding productive capabilities to my employees' toolset is a good idea. Typically, the more that people can do, the more they will do.
Here, I have a white elephant to sell to you at a very little extra cost or for less than the other vendors do. Wanna buy it? Also, it's well known that Apple charges a premium for their hardware. Why else would they artificially limit OS X to run on their own hardware? It's their business model for heaven's sake.
Also, you cannot properly configure a PC order to "add productive capabilities to your employees' toolset" ?
Boy, *I* am happy that I don't work in a company with such narrow minded zealot fanbois who can't see beyond their own nose.
(The article dismisses Linux desktops in the enterprise in a single bullet item.)" And how is this still considered a noteworthy article?
It's been written by the same scum that brought you the incredibly retarded and contentless article featured on Slashdot on Virtualization sucks
We find that most PCs that are sold as enterprise desktops are actually stripped-down, lightweight versions of the computers the same companies sell to home users. These machines lack the basic technologies needed in the modern enterprise. Apple, on the other hand, simply doesn't sell a minimalist computer whose predominant 'feature' is its price point, aimed at businesses or any other market
Care to specify what the basic technologies are?
Oh here they do.
For instance, you can't buy a Mac without at least 512MB of RAM, Bluetooth, 802.11g Wi-Fi networking, Gigabit Ethernet, FireWire and even a remote control -- and that's before you consider the included software. None of the base business models of HP or Dell even comes close to that.
Yes, the modern enterprise needs WiFi on fricking corporate desktops, FireWire, BlueTooth and remote control. And what if you want just 256MB RAM for the secretary who doesn't use anything but Outlook? Nope, you can't buy a Mac without at least 512MB of RAM! And, you get to pay for it!
Apple's desktop lineup has three families: the minis, the iMacs and the Mac Pros. The mini is a full computer -- sans keyboard and mouse
Uhh, it's either a full computer or not. A full computer without a keyboard and mouse is NOT a full computer.
IMacs are Apple's middle-of-the-road desktop line, but a better-looking computer doesn't exist at any price. Complete with a built-in webcam for video chats and LCD screen, it comes in 17-, 20- and gorgeous 24-in. varieties.
Wow, another basic feature without which the enterprise cannot function. The webcam!
There is no comparison between Apple's "consumer" machines and the consumer lines of its competitors. All of Apple's machines are ready to move into the enterprise, depending on the job at hand.
Yes there is no comparison, on one hand you have multiple vendors some of who will pre-install Linux, and almost infinite hardware configurability and on other hand you have limited configurations shoved down your throat whether you need them or not. Macs may be enterprise-worthy, but this article sure doesn't make a case for it.
I recommend that Computer World articles be blacklisted.
Do you also get a battery and a small mike, speaker, and a number keypad free with your phone?
A charger is an essential *part* of a cell phone, not a free optional accessory. When was the last time a new cell phone package came without a charger? Hence, we pay for the charger and if you go asking people if they want a similar charger for their device, you will notice that they care about it.
A federal employee gets hassled by Homeland Security for antiwar stickers on his car. Is it a mistake, a new rule, or the part of a trend of the First Amendment being bullied out of existence? Read the transcript, read the rules and decide for yourself
Does it have to be good or bad and do I have to have an opinion on it? I know this is slashdot and all but I am just giving the information for what it is worth and fuel further discussion. I never knew that the Mozilla foundation gets so much money from google, so I thought it was interesting enough to share.
According to some blogs, there are rumors that the Mozilla foundation gets 30 million dollars a year for the search box in Firefox defaulting to google. Also, only the financial details for 2003 have been made public by Mozilla. So it requires someone to file a special request under the law to check Mozilla's dealings.
So, remember, everytime you do a search in Firefox, some money goes from google to Mozilla, estimates ranging from 50 cents to 1 dollar per user per year.
see subject.
I would say this move is partially open source but nowhere close to free software. This is the difference that Stallman tries to drill into people heads at his talks. And yes, I attended one of his talks.:)
"Even for people who use the same username and password everywhere, this shouldn't be a problem since the passwords should be stored in a manner that is encrypted and can't be reverse-engineered. They wouldn't be stupid enough to store the passwords, right?"
I think it's not safe to store MD5 password hashes, many of the ones below like 12 characters can be recovered using the rainbow attack(basically using look up on a big ass database full of precomputed md5 hashes).
Sorry for the second reply, but I failed to address this gem:
" the sheer numeric improbability of evolution is science"
Suppose u have a huge roulette wheel with 10,000 numbers around it and u spin it and it arrives at a number, lets say 6283. The probability of it arriving at 6283 is 1/10000. But it did happen didn't it?
Life on earth is similar to it and if you want to look at all the failed attempts, take a telescope and see how many planets and stars have inhospitable planets. Those show the other cases in which the right mix didn't work out.
Also, remember that once evolution gets started, it's anything but random and probabistic. Natural selection and survival of the fittest pushes life to better and more complex forms.
It has been repeated again and again that theory of evolution discusses how evolution works, not if evolution takes place or not. Kind of like the theory of gravity, which does not discuss if gravity exists or not since we can see it all around us, but how gravity works.
Similary there is a LOT of evidence for evolution all around us. The theory part is just how it works and this is a new step in that direction
Also, I meant 'undisprovable theory of intelligent design' not 'unprovable'. Evolution is easily disprovable, just find human remains in a dinosaur, or humans at the same level and dating in the ground as a dinosaur before the supposed advent of primates, or find highly advanced related creatures all which lived at the same time in earth's crust. In other words, dig dig. But how the hell would one go about disproving intelligent design?
Err, by the dark side of the moon, i meant the side of the moon that always faces away from the earth because of it rotation. I did not mean that one side of the moon is always unilluminated by the sun.
This is why I love science,new and exciting discoveries every day and answers to so many interesting unanswered questions. A very welcome change to the religious people's "God did it! now go pray".
I am sure that given enough time, scientists can plug holes in the theory of evolution and answer questions that critics throw at it like. Remember, a theory can always be changed and disproved by evidence unlike intelligent design which can't be disproved(and no one seems to have proved it either).
And before someone starts an intelligent design rant, please remember, unprovable assumptions like 'there's a naturally occuring ipod on the dark side of the moon, since you can't disprove it, it exists' have no place in science at all. Also remember, science is self criticizing and self correcting, read up on the criticism on string theory if you have any doubts.
Point 1 is proven beyond doubt and universally accepted.
Point 2 is under study and discussion, as to whether the warming is completely natural or caused by human activity. Many studies claim point 2 is true.
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Maybe they aren't against targeted filtering(like you can do with the content filter in Opera) and are just against total blanket filtering of ad content like AdBlock with Filter Set G does?
Hate to play the devil's advocate here, but the list for AdBlock blocks ALL ads, not just "ads that jitter about by a couple of pixels, or flash bright contrasting colors".
If everybody were to use AdBlock with the default list, what would happen to the web as we know it? The only sites that would exist would be subscription sites(thus denying the financially poor access to information), e-commerce sites and maybe some non profit sites,blogs which can afford hosting costs(denying the financially poor a voice) How would you like paying for using Slashdot, Google, YouTube etc. ?
Is there a list that blocks only the annoying ads? Information may want to be free, but bandwidth sure ain't.
I beg to differ. First of all, they're not going to 'mirror' the new Office UI into Windows 7. If they wanted to do that, they would just need some code monkeys. They moved the guy who did it into Windows 7 development, which I think is a good move looking at how he improved the usability of Office. Lets hope that he work a similar type of magic for Windows.
I find the new Ribbon UI leaps and bounds ahead of the UI in Office 2003. The menus are just way more accessible instead of navigating through a labyrinth-like maze of dropdowns. You are more likely to use many features while you never knew even existed earlier because navigating was a chore. Also, I think it makes very good use of the extra pixels that modern screens have(a few years ago, it would have been a colossal waste of screen space).
Take the anecdotal evidence for what it's worth, but almost every person at work seems to love the new interface. I think that this is a good move by Microsoft.
Laptops are bad because there is no one good posture to use them with. Check out this illustrated article about laptops forcing you to use bad postures no matter how you try. You may not suffer from that problem now, but remember repetitive use can worsen things and also some people have bone and muscular problems that can exacerbate this
The fact that a laptop keyboard and monitor do not adjust independently of one another forces a user to choose between comfortable hand/wrist or head/neck posture. This puts the laptop user into awkward or unhealthy postures which may lead to short- and/or long-term discomfort or injury.
The only way out is to mount the laptop in this fashion but it needs a separate keyboard and mouse and is not a very portable solution on the move.
As I said, reducing screen thickness is one of the main factors. Also, the LED backlight results in far less power consumption than the traditional screen, so the laptop can be packed more densely and needs to spend less hardware on fans, heatsinks, power supply etc.
I am betting that the main factor reducing the thickness would be the LED-backlit LCD screens. Sony has had them in their VAIO TX and SZ lines for about a year now and they rock(that was one of the reason I bought a Sony instead of an Apply laptop). The screen is just about 3mm thick and it makes a considerably brighter screen and lighter laptop.
A comparison review of MacBook Pro and Sony VAIO SZ (with lots of pics) Note: This is different from the amazingly awesome superthin and superbright(and superexpensive) OLED screens that Sony is coming out with later this year. Click here for pics
YOU check the maps. There's 3G on most locations in the US, courtesy of Verizon and Sprint. Just not on AT&T and Tmobile.
Boy, *I* am happy that I don't work in a company with such narrow minded zealot fanbois who can't see beyond their own nose.
It's been written by the same scum that brought you the incredibly retarded and contentless article featured on Slashdot on Virtualization sucks
Care to specify what the basic technologies are? Oh here they do. Yes, the modern enterprise needs WiFi on fricking corporate desktops, FireWire, BlueTooth and remote control. And what if you want just 256MB RAM for the secretary who doesn't use anything but Outlook? Nope, you can't buy a Mac without at least 512MB of RAM! And, you get to pay for it! Uhh, it's either a full computer or not. A full computer without a keyboard and mouse is NOT a full computer. Wow, another basic feature without which the enterprise cannot function. The webcam! Yes there is no comparison, on one hand you have multiple vendors some of who will pre-install Linux, and almost infinite hardware configurability and on other hand you have limited configurations shoved down your throat whether you need them or not. Macs may be enterprise-worthy, but this article sure doesn't make a case for it. I recommend that Computer World articles be blacklisted."I get a charger for free with my phone."
Do you also get a battery and a small mike, speaker, and a number keypad free with your phone?
A charger is an essential *part* of a cell phone, not a free optional accessory. When was the last time a new cell phone package came without a charger? Hence, we pay for the charger and if you go asking people if they want a similar charger for their device, you will notice that they care about it.
There is a gvim plugin for visual studio
A federal employee gets hassled by Homeland Security for antiwar stickers on his car. Is it a mistake, a new rule, or the part of a trend of the First Amendment being bullied out of existence? Read the transcript, read the rules and decide for yourself
Might Linux Violate Sarbanes-Oxley. yoda talk day today on slashdot is it?
It should read "Automated TiVo to iPod for mating" instead of the current "Automated TiVo to iPod formating"
Does it have to be good or bad and do I have to have an opinion on it? I know this is slashdot and all but I am just giving the information for what it is worth and fuel further discussion. I never knew that the Mozilla foundation gets so much money from google, so I thought it was interesting enough to share.
So, remember, everytime you do a search in Firefox, some money goes from google to Mozilla, estimates ranging from 50 cents to 1 dollar per user per year.
see subject. I would say this move is partially open source but nowhere close to free software. This is the difference that Stallman tries to drill into people heads at his talks. And yes, I attended one of his talks. :)
I think it's not safe to store MD5 password hashes, many of the ones below like 12 characters can be recovered using the rainbow attack(basically using look up on a big ass database full of precomputed md5 hashes).
Suppose u have a huge roulette wheel with 10,000 numbers around it and u spin it and it arrives at a number, lets say 6283. The probability of it arriving at 6283 is 1/10000. But it did happen didn't it?
Life on earth is similar to it and if you want to look at all the failed attempts, take a telescope and see how many planets and stars have inhospitable planets. Those show the other cases in which the right mix didn't work out.
Also, remember that once evolution gets started, it's anything but random and probabistic. Natural selection and survival of the fittest pushes life to better and more complex forms.Similary there is a LOT of evidence for evolution all around us. The theory part is just how it works and this is a new step in that direction
Also, I meant 'undisprovable theory of intelligent design' not 'unprovable'. Evolution is easily disprovable, just find human remains in a dinosaur, or humans at the same level and dating in the ground as a dinosaur before the supposed advent of primates, or find highly advanced related creatures all which lived at the same time in earth's crust. In other words, dig dig. But how the hell would one go about disproving intelligent design?
Err, by the dark side of the moon, i meant the side of the moon that always faces away from the earth because of it rotation. I did not mean that one side of the moon is always unilluminated by the sun.
I think you're wondering about irreducible complexity. You need to click here.
I am sure that given enough time, scientists can plug holes in the theory of evolution and answer questions that critics throw at it like. Remember, a theory can always be changed and disproved by evidence unlike intelligent design which can't be disproved(and no one seems to have proved it either).
And before someone starts an intelligent design rant, please remember, unprovable assumptions like 'there's a naturally occuring ipod on the dark side of the moon, since you can't disprove it, it exists' have no place in science at all. Also remember, science is self criticizing and self correcting, read up on the criticism on string theory if you have any doubts.
Linky.
Take a deeper and longer look at number 1 & 2.
1. Global warming is occurring.
2. Humans are causing it.
Point 1 is proven beyond doubt and universally accepted. Point 2 is under study and discussion, as to whether the warming is completely natural or caused by human activity. Many studies claim point 2 is true.