Opera all runs in one big window, a-la win 3.1, old staroffice (not sure if staroffice still does that), old versions of the MS-Office programs. That is to say, all of your browsers are in sub-windows of one big window.
I personally find the one-big-window paradigm to be a real pain in the rear. I want to be able to have a few browser windows open, and pull one up from the command tool at the bottom. Just one. I also can't alt-tab between browsers like I do with every other program in windows because the different browsers aren't different windows.
When will someone beat it into their brains that users should at least have the option of selecting multi-window browsing? I'm not saying it should be required, or even the default (because some people are used to the One-Big-Window paradigm), but it should at least be there as an option.
Of course, if I'm completely off my rocker and they've already abandoned that paradigm, let me know. I'm sure this post will be modded into oblivion, though, because it doesn't praise Opera (which seems to be a poster child right now).
That's because Win98 doesn't support the USB mass-storage standard. Win2K, XP, and most BSD's do... Microsoft laggin behind... who'd a thunk it?
Yeah, its too bad Win98's technology is behind that of Win2k and XP. I mean, if Win2k and XP were a lot newer than 98, I could understand it. But with such a great, new product as Win98, its simply inexcusable.
Of course, you also can't excuse Microsoft for releasing Win98 when it is Clearly inferior to Win2k and XP. The company that produced those products is probably jumping for joy at that Microsoft snafu.
Seriously, I'm sure I'll get modded down for this one, but I just find idiocy hard to believe sometimes. I won't comment on the BSD's, because he leaves the door pretty wide open here, and I'm not sure when BSD got MSD released.
Then give me an honest deal that says "Residential Service == guaranteed 98% uptime", "Business Service == guaranteed 99.95% uptime".
If I'm a residential customer, I want nothing worse than 2 nines. (99% uptime). That allows for 7.2 hours of outage in a month, which I still consider pretty bad. A business should expect at least 3 nines (99.9% uptime), which leaves.72 hours/month or 8.76 hours/year. As a home user, if that's what the difference between residential & business packages consisted of, I'd be much more willing to pay for a business class connection. A business that knows how to write a contract and is willing to pay for it should be able to get 4 nines.
Of course, if having network access is mission critical to you (such as an ISP), you should have multiple redundant connections to different providers, bringing you to 5 nines, or.0876 hours of downtime/year.
Now the GE system's unique in that it's designed to run off of Methane and thereby allowing you to use biomass sources to power the unit instead of LPG/NG- which would be a pretty "green" system indeed.
Methane *is* natural gas. What you get out of biomass decomposition is very dirty methane. Unfortunately, unless you build a reformer for your reformer (i.e., something to clean it up into methane before it hits the fuel cell's reformer) you have too much gunk in the gas and will destroy your fuel cell with dirty natural gas.
Of course, you could also ask why Netscape doesn't support the HTML standard, which doesn't require you to close off certain table parts. (I think the only thing you're required to have a closing tag for is )
This has *got* to be a troll. But, in case it isn't, there have been numerous cases where an individual has registered a domain years before a company by that name existed. The individual uses the domain to host a personal website, then suddenly a company comes in and wants the domain because it 'infringes on their trademark', even though the domain existed before them. The same has been true for non-profits vs. companies, and small businesses vs. megacorporations.
Is the CIA that stupid? Is the NSA that inept? I don't think so.
You think better of them than I do, then. I tend to have a problem with government conspiracy theories because it implies, usually, that a large enough portion of our government is able to be that coordinated, accurate, and quiet about something. That's not the government I know.
Remember what happened when the United States went in to feed the Somalis? It ended with 17 dead Rangers and Delta team members, after we went after Adid.
And don't forget the several hundred (at least) civilians that died when the rangers were backed against a wall. Oh, I'm sorry, that didn't fit your worldview or what CNN thought was important.
Not quite... They bought the rights to publish in paper (and CD-ROM) an image of the site at a specific time, all 1408 pages of it. I'm still not quite clear about what they sued on, though, even after reading his description of the litigation. I'm also not clear on how they can claim diminished sales of a discontinued item. If its discontinued, doesn't that mean you're not selling it? How do you diminish a sales figure that starts out at zero?
Before complaining on Slashdot, you might want to at least CALL the satellite company to see if that's true in your area. I live 30 miles out of San Francisco and I get the local SF channels. I am quite happy with my DirecTV + TiVO offering.
Generally speaking, the satellite companies aren't allowed (by fcc regulation, I believe) to give you access to your local broadcast channels if a) you can pick them up on an antenna, or b) you've gotten them within the past 6 months on cable. The reason for this is the cable companies lobbied to prevent the satellite companies from invading their turf. If the satellite companies could provide truly comparable service, that would eliminate the cable company monopoly and the cable companies would actually have to provide good service to stay in business.
All online purchases are treated as "no signature present" transactions, which means that the merchant is responsible for detecting fraudulent use.
I realise its way too late for anyone to see this, but...
Make MS foot the bill, then. Set up a worm that hacks as many passport accounts as it can, and have every one order the latest version of Windows and ship it to the shipping address in passport for that account, using that account number. Include a message in the shipment with the gist of, "Microsoft wants you to have the latest and greatest, so here it is, delivered directly to your door!" Don't imply the recipient actually paid for it, and wait for the fallout. A few million extra copies of XP, and microsoft has to eat it because nobody ordered it. The bad press stays 100% with microsoft. Microsoft software was shipped, microsoft service was hacked to do it, microsoft gets a black eye for it.
I'd recommend buying them without hesitation, but if you're still not sure, all four of the books are available on Gnutella. I'm not ordinarily one to condone piracy without paying--but I'm confident that once you've read them, you'll enjoy them enough that you want to own them.
I'll second that. My wife and I picked up the first one in paperback just as the fourth was coming out. We immediately went back and purchased all four in hardcover, because we know how much use they'll get. (And we don't even have kids yet.)
I mean, isn't that what you want a system that's malfunctioning to do, shut down?
In the good old days, sure. Intel went beyond that, though, and in case of a heatsink loss the system continues to operate. It merely slows itself down far enough that the operating temperature doesn't exceed specs. And all that's on-chip, too. Read tom's article, its interesting.
After the pc freezes of dies, the burnt cpu would logically cool down. I just don't buy it.
You seem to be under the impression that a failed cpu will become nonconductive, i.e., all contacts will go to an open state. When a cpu fails, many of the connections will short out, and that amount of current passing through a fairly resistive area will cause it to heat up quite rapidly. The burner on the stove you mention probably only takes a few hundred watts and spreads it out over about 6 cubic inches, for about 50 watts/cu in. The cpu is spreading about 60 watts into 4/1000 of a cu in. (1/4"^2*1/16") for 15000 watts/cu in.
Didn't read the article, did you? The motherboard was specifically verified with its manufacturer that it was compatible. However, the thermal diodes response time was not designed for catastrophic heatsink failure. It is unable to respond in time to catch the failure, since the temperature of the processor skyrocketed in just a few seconds. He did, in fact, use one of two motherboards he was aware of that support AMD's thermal diode in this configuration. Also, after the burnout, he checked with the motherboard's manufacturer and found that yes, this was a realistic failure scenario, since the diode can only respond at about 1C/s
Yahoo has gone from the king of all search engines to a portal for sex chats, and a messaging client quickly losing its own little war.
As much as I like google (and I do use it for almost all my searches), I still think Yahoo has a place. Google, for all its worth, isn't an organised site. With yahoo, I can quickly get a listing of the radio stations in Boston, MA, for example.
Besides, once you get beyond yahoo's organised pages, it claims to be 'powered by google' anyways. I'm not sure if that means the result database is google's own or if it just runs the same software, but I expect the former.
Firewalls do stop users when they lie between the server and everything else. If i were configuring a database server, it would have two ports accessible from the corp - ssh and the database. Nimda can't do much over that.
Scratch ssh, too, if you have operators in your shop 24x7. And if you're looking for 5x9's, you probably do. If you need something done on the server, do it via console or via a special workstation (also running minimal services) inside that level of firewall and inside your secure server room.
Hey, I posted this this morning...
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I like many others will refuse to buy a single cd that I can't rip to mp3 (or whatever, better format comes along).
On the contrary, when I hear about a retail copy of a cd that's copy protected, I'll rush right out and buy it. I'll see if I can play it with my computer. When I can't, I'll take it back, because it doesn't play in my cd player and is therefore defective. I'll exchange it for another copy. I'll go through as many copies as they'll let me, so they have to eat the expense of selling a cd my computer can't read.
If everyone at slashdot does this, that format will probably never see another press as they'll lose too much money on all those returns.
So they really don't notice when they treat people unfairly. Those aren't people, they're employees.
Hey, where've you been? Those aren't "employees", they're "resources". Within the past few years I've actually found myself refered to as a "resource" to be allocated to a project, just as they were allocating machines (other "resources") to the project.
Say you get paid bi-weekly for the previous two weeks of work. You're supposed to get your paycheck on Friday, and it doesn't come. You walk out the door and don't come back. That's three weeks of pay you're out: The two weeks the paycheck's for, and the third week at the end of which the paycheck would arrive. Most companies pay for the previous week or two's work, not the current week.
What the hell do you think you are securing with "security" if not freedom?
Lives. Security has nothing to do with protecting freedom, its all about protecting lives. Personally, I'd rather lead a free, less than completely secure life than a secure life in a police state.
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Am I the only one who finds the fact that the article referenced is in the Vancouver Sun just the slightest bit funny?
May I be the first to suggest Opera 6.
I'd like to add to the Bad:
Opera all runs in one big window, a-la win 3.1, old staroffice (not sure if staroffice still does that), old versions of the MS-Office programs. That is to say, all of your browsers are in sub-windows of one big window.
I personally find the one-big-window paradigm to be a real pain in the rear. I want to be able to have a few browser windows open, and pull one up from the command tool at the bottom. Just one. I also can't alt-tab between browsers like I do with every other program in windows because the different browsers aren't different windows.
When will someone beat it into their brains that users should at least have the option of selecting multi-window browsing? I'm not saying it should be required, or even the default (because some people are used to the One-Big-Window paradigm), but it should at least be there as an option.
Of course, if I'm completely off my rocker and they've already abandoned that paradigm, let me know. I'm sure this post will be modded into oblivion, though, because it doesn't praise Opera (which seems to be a poster child right now).
That's because Win98 doesn't support the USB mass-storage standard. Win2K, XP, and most BSD's do... Microsoft laggin behind... who'd a thunk it?
Yeah, its too bad Win98's technology is behind that of Win2k and XP. I mean, if Win2k and XP were a lot newer than 98, I could understand it. But with such a great, new product as Win98, its simply inexcusable.
Of course, you also can't excuse Microsoft for releasing Win98 when it is Clearly inferior to Win2k and XP. The company that produced those products is probably jumping for joy at that Microsoft snafu.
Seriously, I'm sure I'll get modded down for this one, but I just find idiocy hard to believe sometimes. I won't comment on the BSD's, because he leaves the door pretty wide open here, and I'm not sure when BSD got MSD released.
Then give me an honest deal that says "Residential Service == guaranteed 98% uptime", "Business Service == guaranteed 99.95% uptime".
If I'm a residential customer, I want nothing worse than 2 nines. (99% uptime). That allows for 7.2 hours of outage in a month, which I still consider pretty bad. A business should expect at least 3 nines (99.9% uptime), which leaves
Of course, if having network access is mission critical to you (such as an ISP), you should have multiple redundant connections to different providers, bringing you to 5 nines, or
This would've been a wish list of cool toys when I was younger... I'll have to remember this site for when I have to give gifts to that age group.
Now the GE system's unique in that it's designed to run off of Methane and thereby allowing you to use biomass sources to power the unit instead of LPG/NG- which would be a pretty "green" system indeed.
Methane *is* natural gas. What you get out of biomass decomposition is very dirty methane. Unfortunately, unless you build a reformer for your reformer (i.e., something to clean it up into methane before it hits the fuel cell's reformer) you have too much gunk in the gas and will destroy your fuel cell with dirty natural gas.
Of course, you could also ask why Netscape doesn't support the HTML standard, which doesn't require you to close off certain table parts. (I think the only thing you're required to have a closing tag for is )
This has *got* to be a troll. But, in case it isn't, there have been numerous cases where an individual has registered a domain years before a company by that name existed. The individual uses the domain to host a personal website, then suddenly a company comes in and wants the domain because it 'infringes on their trademark', even though the domain existed before them. The same has been true for non-profits vs. companies, and small businesses vs. megacorporations.
Is the CIA that stupid? Is the NSA that inept? I don't think so.
You think better of them than I do, then. I tend to have a problem with government conspiracy theories because it implies, usually, that a large enough portion of our government is able to be that coordinated, accurate, and quiet about something. That's not the government I know.
Remember what happened when the United States went in to feed the Somalis? It ended with 17 dead Rangers and Delta team members, after we went after Adid.
And don't forget the several hundred (at least) civilians that died when the rangers were backed against a wall. Oh, I'm sorry, that didn't fit your worldview or what CNN thought was important.
one time, CRC press bought the right to the site
Not quite... They bought the rights to publish in paper (and CD-ROM) an image of the site at a specific time, all 1408 pages of it. I'm still not quite clear about what they sued on, though, even after reading his description of the litigation. I'm also not clear on how they can claim diminished sales of a discontinued item. If its discontinued, doesn't that mean you're not selling it? How do you diminish a sales figure that starts out at zero?
Before complaining on Slashdot, you might want to at least CALL the satellite company to see if that's true in your area. I live 30 miles out of San Francisco and I get the local SF channels. I am quite happy with my DirecTV + TiVO offering.
Generally speaking, the satellite companies aren't allowed (by fcc regulation, I believe) to give you access to your local broadcast channels if a) you can pick them up on an antenna, or b) you've gotten them within the past 6 months on cable. The reason for this is the cable companies lobbied to prevent the satellite companies from invading their turf. If the satellite companies could provide truly comparable service, that would eliminate the cable company monopoly and the cable companies would actually have to provide good service to stay in business.
All online purchases are treated as "no signature present" transactions, which means that the merchant is responsible for detecting fraudulent use.
I realise its way too late for anyone to see this, but...
Make MS foot the bill, then. Set up a worm that hacks as many passport accounts as it can, and have every one order the latest version of Windows and ship it to the shipping address in passport for that account, using that account number. Include a message in the shipment with the gist of, "Microsoft wants you to have the latest and greatest, so here it is, delivered directly to your door!" Don't imply the recipient actually paid for it, and wait for the fallout. A few million extra copies of XP, and microsoft has to eat it because nobody ordered it. The bad press stays 100% with microsoft. Microsoft software was shipped, microsoft service was hacked to do it, microsoft gets a black eye for it.
I'd recommend buying them without hesitation, but if you're still not sure, all four of the books are available on Gnutella. I'm not ordinarily one to condone piracy without paying--but I'm confident that once you've read them, you'll enjoy them enough that you want to own them.
I'll second that. My wife and I picked up the first one in paperback just as the fourth was coming out. We immediately went back and purchased all four in hardcover, because we know how much use they'll get. (And we don't even have kids yet.)
I mean, isn't that what you want a system that's malfunctioning to do, shut down?
In the good old days, sure. Intel went beyond that, though, and in case of a heatsink loss the system continues to operate. It merely slows itself down far enough that the operating temperature doesn't exceed specs. And all that's on-chip, too. Read tom's article, its interesting.
After the pc freezes of dies, the burnt cpu would logically cool down. I just don't buy it.
You seem to be under the impression that a failed cpu will become nonconductive, i.e., all contacts will go to an open state. When a cpu fails, many of the connections will short out, and that amount of current passing through a fairly resistive area will cause it to heat up quite rapidly. The burner on the stove you mention probably only takes a few hundred watts and spreads it out over about 6 cubic inches, for about 50 watts/cu in. The cpu is spreading about 60 watts into 4/1000 of a cu in. (1/4"^2*1/16") for 15000 watts/cu in.
Gee, I wonder why it would heat quicker?
Didn't read the article, did you? The motherboard was specifically verified with its manufacturer that it was compatible. However, the thermal diodes response time was not designed for catastrophic heatsink failure. It is unable to respond in time to catch the failure, since the temperature of the processor skyrocketed in just a few seconds. He did, in fact, use one of two motherboards he was aware of that support AMD's thermal diode in this configuration. Also, after the burnout, he checked with the motherboard's manufacturer and found that yes, this was a realistic failure scenario, since the diode can only respond at about 1C/s
Yahoo has gone from the king of all search engines to a portal for sex chats, and a messaging client quickly losing its own little war.
As much as I like google (and I do use it for almost all my searches), I still think Yahoo has a place. Google, for all its worth, isn't an organised site. With yahoo, I can quickly get a listing of the radio stations in Boston, MA, for example.
Besides, once you get beyond yahoo's organised pages, it claims to be 'powered by google' anyways. I'm not sure if that means the result database is google's own or if it just runs the same software, but I expect the former.
Firewalls do stop users when they lie between the server and everything else. If i were configuring a database server, it would have two ports accessible from the corp - ssh and the database. Nimda can't do much over that.
Scratch ssh, too, if you have operators in your shop 24x7. And if you're looking for 5x9's, you probably do. If you need something done on the server, do it via console or via a special workstation (also running minimal services) inside that level of firewall and inside your secure server room.
And got rejected :(
I like many others will refuse to buy a single cd that I can't rip to mp3 (or whatever, better format comes along).
On the contrary, when I hear about a retail copy of a cd that's copy protected, I'll rush right out and buy it. I'll see if I can play it with my computer. When I can't, I'll take it back, because it doesn't play in my cd player and is therefore defective. I'll exchange it for another copy. I'll go through as many copies as they'll let me, so they have to eat the expense of selling a cd my computer can't read.
If everyone at slashdot does this, that format will probably never see another press as they'll lose too much money on all those returns.
So they really don't notice when they treat people unfairly. Those aren't people, they're employees.
Hey, where've you been? Those aren't "employees", they're "resources". Within the past few years I've actually found myself refered to as a "resource" to be allocated to a project, just as they were allocating machines (other "resources") to the project.
Say you get paid bi-weekly for the previous two weeks of work. You're supposed to get your paycheck on Friday, and it doesn't come. You walk out the door and don't come back. That's three weeks of pay you're out: The two weeks the paycheck's for, and the third week at the end of which the paycheck would arrive. Most companies pay for the previous week or two's work, not the current week.
Lives. Security has nothing to do with protecting freedom, its all about protecting lives. Personally, I'd rather lead a free, less than completely secure life than a secure life in a police state.
Would you be so kind as to provide contact information for the Community Supported Farm you mention?