Is it just me, or is the ITworld LIVE feature of their web site one of the most annoying features ever? Many web sites have a section that provides links to other recent articles, but this one lists new users joining the site, and responses in forums, and other seemingly unrelated activity that has occurred in the last day. And instead of just putting a list on the page, or putting it in a box you can scroll to see it all, they put it in some sort of box that scrolls all the time. This makes it look like it is updating to show new activity, but it isn't; it just repeatedly scrolls through the same items, one at a time, and then jumps back to the top when it reaches the end. The same items are always there, and the times do not update; the person who joined from 1 minute 19 seconds before I loaded the page remains the first item, with that same time shown.
The photo in the story comes with this caption:
Aerial view shows white smoke billowing from a window in the No. 2 reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on March 23. The Japanese unclear safety agency, NISA, said radioactive contaminants were found in water pooling on the floor of the turbine building.
Unclear safety indeed!
The do-not-call list in the US doesn't work because there are too many loopholes in the law. Political calls, surveys not meant to sell a product, and charities are exempted. So instead of me getting 2-5 scam extended vehicle warranty and other such calls a week (and occasional legitimate sales calls), I get a couple of charities or surveys each week and multiple political calls a day when there is an election soon. It actually does greatly cut down on the scam calls, though perhaps that is also partly due to a lot of the scammers having gotten busted.
And even with Google, they have had Google App Engine, which is a platform for creating web sites, since 2008, and it even appears as an option in the current poll. Far from a new usage of "app".
Actually, most of the broadband routers these days include a caching DNS server and send out configuration info to connected computers which includes using the router as primary DNS, so if the router is failing because it was installed outside in the cold/rain/snow, it might knock out the DNS.
Yes, this is exactly the issue - 1Gbit ram chips make 1GB ram sticks, and most people are beyond the point of adding more 1GB sticks. The only use for these now is in the two or three 1GB sticks that manufacturers put in new low-end systems. The article is very deceptive since the prices of bigger ram chips/sticks have not fallen by anywhere near as much, though they have fallen.
Whoosh! Sure, the city is, but in this story we are talking about a hacker who lives in Poland who named himself after the infamous Ukraine nuclear disaster site.
Nothing against linux, but why does linux get a 64-bit plug-in and Windows is still sitting around forcing users to use 32-bit versions of browsers in order to use plug-ins.
If you had bothered to click the link before your fr1st p0st, you would have seen this includes 64-bit Windows versions as well.
According to marcus's Google search, there are 67 distinct pages with this review. However, due to a number of duplicate pages, there are 67 THOUSAND pages matching the search.
Nine years ago I paid $50/month for 640kbps. For the last few years it has been $30/month for 3Mbps and I could have gotten 720kbps for $20/month. That qualifies as a drop no matter how you look at it.
Specifically, if you read the article, the conditions that apply are that the solar energy is collected in North Carolina, since a 30% federal subsidy and a 35% North Carolina subsidy are deducted from the price of the solar energy. Absent subsidies, this means that solar energy has become less than about 3 times as expensive as nuclear.
I don't think Q*bert is slang for anything, but the character swears with a series of punctuation marks in the video game, similar to the title of this program.
It was taken from the inaccurately titled Wired article (which also includes "vs. RIM," which was omitted from the Slashdot version of the story, quite rightly since they are not mentioned in this story as suing or being sued by any of these others, though they were in lawsuits with NTP, Kodak, and Motorola in the past).
Even taking Google (who, the article notes, is "not a party to this lawsuit") and RIM out, the headline is still wrong in that it implies everybody is fighting everybody, when it fact it is just Apple suing and/or being sued by Nokia and HTC.
I found this story mentioning a similar incident regarding WordPress blogs, but it happened two weeks ago, rather than this weekend. The original site is slashdotted, so I can't tell if this is really the same incident or not.
There was a brief (read days) interval very recently when the Fedora development group was thinking about allowing installation of packages without root access. They decided against it. On F11, which I am running now, an attempt to install a package from the repository responds with "You need to be root to perform this command." To my recollection, it has always been thus.
It went a bit further than just thinking about it. Less than a month ago it was reported here on Slashdot that Fedora 12 allowed local users to install software without root privileges. The uproar this caused led to a very quick update to revert back to the usual policy. The article for today's story is rather confused about this, though, unless you consider earlier patchlevels of the current release to be "earlier versions." As far as I know, the change never affected Fedora 11.
Since it is counted by bytes, the old adage that a picture is worth a thousand words is a bit of an understatement. Digital cameras these days put out 2 MB jpgs, compared with the average word taking about 6 bytes. So a picture is actually worth about 300,000 words.
I've never actually met or talked to somebody that thought carbon offsets weren't a scam, except for those trying to sell them. I get your point about derailing the thread, but have to ask... do you actually think carbon offsets are legitimate?
There are two kinds of carbon offsets. The Wikipedia Carbon offset article describes them as two markets, right up top.
The larger carbon offset market is based upon laws limiting total industrial carbon dioxide emissions, and in this market companies buy carbon offsets in the amount of carbon dioxide they are emitting, and, yes, sell any excess ones they have to other companies. The difference between this and a simple tax on carbon dioxide emissions is that the total amount of offsets available in any year is limited. These are legitimate to the extent that companies aren't cheating on emissions, and in theory somebody is checking for compliance. The "caps" link in this discussion on Wikipedia leads to a topic on emissions trading, where you can read about similar systems, including the system limiting sulfur dioxide emissions in the United States which has been around since before anybody heard of carbon offsets. However, since there is no law limiting the amount of bad code people can write, this does not compare well to "bad code credits". This is probably why GP considered it a poor example.
The smaller, consumer carbon offset market is what you're thinking of. This is where people effectively donate money to environmental causes, theoretically to pay activities that either prevent carbon dioxide from being emitted or remove it from the air. I won't argue with you here; I agree that at least some of these are not legitimate, or have other problems that make them not effective. And it is this kind of carbon offset which is more relevant to the discussion at hand.
The operating system as a whole is called OS X, probably in no small part because it's easier for some reason to trademark a series of letters "OS X" than it is to trademark a version number "OS 10." Also, X is the Roman numeral for "10."
And just like Intel did with the Pentium, once they figured out how to trademark a version number, they stuck with that same number for ages and ages. Intel eventually got over it, but I think only due to the fact that they were making different processors aimed at different markets.
This is based on flags that the document authors set when they create the document. That is to say that the author either shot himself in the foot by setting stupid permissions, or only wants a printed response and should make that clear in the document or where it was presented.
For similar reasons, the// is also necessary to ensure all types of relative URLs within HTML pages can be distinguished. It would still be possible to have relative URLs without it, but certain types of relative URLs would not be allowed.
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Is it just me, or is the ITworld LIVE feature of their web site one of the most annoying features ever? Many web sites have a section that provides links to other recent articles, but this one lists new users joining the site, and responses in forums, and other seemingly unrelated activity that has occurred in the last day. And instead of just putting a list on the page, or putting it in a box you can scroll to see it all, they put it in some sort of box that scrolls all the time. This makes it look like it is updating to show new activity, but it isn't; it just repeatedly scrolls through the same items, one at a time, and then jumps back to the top when it reaches the end. The same items are always there, and the times do not update; the person who joined from 1 minute 19 seconds before I loaded the page remains the first item, with that same time shown.
The photo in the story comes with this caption: Aerial view shows white smoke billowing from a window in the No. 2 reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on March 23. The Japanese unclear safety agency, NISA, said radioactive contaminants were found in water pooling on the floor of the turbine building. Unclear safety indeed!
The do-not-call list in the US doesn't work because there are too many loopholes in the law. Political calls, surveys not meant to sell a product, and charities are exempted. So instead of me getting 2-5 scam extended vehicle warranty and other such calls a week (and occasional legitimate sales calls), I get a couple of charities or surveys each week and multiple political calls a day when there is an election soon. It actually does greatly cut down on the scam calls, though perhaps that is also partly due to a lot of the scammers having gotten busted.
And even with Google, they have had Google App Engine, which is a platform for creating web sites, since 2008, and it even appears as an option in the current poll. Far from a new usage of "app".
Actually, most of the broadband routers these days include a caching DNS server and send out configuration info to connected computers which includes using the router as primary DNS, so if the router is failing because it was installed outside in the cold/rain/snow, it might knock out the DNS.
Yes, this is exactly the issue - 1Gbit ram chips make 1GB ram sticks, and most people are beyond the point of adding more 1GB sticks. The only use for these now is in the two or three 1GB sticks that manufacturers put in new low-end systems. The article is very deceptive since the prices of bigger ram chips/sticks have not fallen by anywhere near as much, though they have fallen.
Chernobyl is in the Ukraine, not Poland.
Whoosh! Sure, the city is, but in this story we are talking about a hacker who lives in Poland who named himself after the infamous Ukraine nuclear disaster site.
Maybe Data Center Knowledge should put some of that knowledge to work, as the article is slashdotted after only 5 comments.
Nothing against linux, but why does linux get a 64-bit plug-in and Windows is still sitting around forcing users to use 32-bit versions of browsers in order to use plug-ins.
If you had bothered to click the link before your fr1st p0st, you would have seen this includes 64-bit Windows versions as well.
It's posted all over the place.
Google for any component phrase or set of words such as "ordinary would still be an understatement. Robert Louis Kemp has built a plateau of quod erat" and you'll get a number of hits.
Anon is at least efficient with his writing.
According to marcus's Google search, there are 67 distinct pages with this review. However, due to a number of duplicate pages, there are 67 THOUSAND pages matching the search.
Nine years ago I paid $50/month for 640kbps. For the last few years it has been $30/month for 3Mbps and I could have gotten 720kbps for $20/month. That qualifies as a drop no matter how you look at it.
Specifically, if you read the article, the conditions that apply are that the solar energy is collected in North Carolina, since a 30% federal subsidy and a 35% North Carolina subsidy are deducted from the price of the solar energy. Absent subsidies, this means that solar energy has become less than about 3 times as expensive as nuclear.
Actually, it now appears the whole site http://www.techdirt.com/ is slashdotted.
Off by an order of magnitude. 26 years x 365 days/year x 1 meter/day = 9490 meters, 9.49 km, or almost 6 miles.
I don't think Q*bert is slang for anything, but the character swears with a series of punctuation marks in the video game, similar to the title of this program.
Even taking Google (who, the article notes, is "not a party to this lawsuit") and RIM out, the headline is still wrong in that it implies everybody is fighting everybody, when it fact it is just Apple suing and/or being sued by Nokia and HTC.
I found this story mentioning a similar incident regarding WordPress blogs, but it happened two weeks ago, rather than this weekend. The original site is slashdotted, so I can't tell if this is really the same incident or not.
The link is broken, but http://thetandd.com/articles/2010/03/31/news/doc4bb28b1e4aec7913713205.txt works.
There was a brief (read days) interval very recently when the Fedora development group was thinking about allowing installation of packages without root access. They decided against it. On F11, which I am running now, an attempt to install a package from the repository responds with "You need to be root to perform this command." To my recollection, it has always been thus.
It went a bit further than just thinking about it. Less than a month ago it was reported here on Slashdot that Fedora 12 allowed local users to install software without root privileges. The uproar this caused led to a very quick update to revert back to the usual policy. The article for today's story is rather confused about this, though, unless you consider earlier patchlevels of the current release to be "earlier versions." As far as I know, the change never affected Fedora 11.
Since it is counted by bytes, the old adage that a picture is worth a thousand words is a bit of an understatement. Digital cameras these days put out 2 MB jpgs, compared with the average word taking about 6 bytes. So a picture is actually worth about 300,000 words.
I've never actually met or talked to somebody that thought carbon offsets weren't a scam, except for those trying to sell them. I get your point about derailing the thread, but have to ask... do you actually think carbon offsets are legitimate?
There are two kinds of carbon offsets. The Wikipedia Carbon offset article describes them as two markets, right up top.
The larger carbon offset market is based upon laws limiting total industrial carbon dioxide emissions, and in this market companies buy carbon offsets in the amount of carbon dioxide they are emitting, and, yes, sell any excess ones they have to other companies. The difference between this and a simple tax on carbon dioxide emissions is that the total amount of offsets available in any year is limited. These are legitimate to the extent that companies aren't cheating on emissions, and in theory somebody is checking for compliance. The "caps" link in this discussion on Wikipedia leads to a topic on emissions trading, where you can read about similar systems, including the system limiting sulfur dioxide emissions in the United States which has been around since before anybody heard of carbon offsets. However, since there is no law limiting the amount of bad code people can write, this does not compare well to "bad code credits". This is probably why GP considered it a poor example.
The smaller, consumer carbon offset market is what you're thinking of. This is where people effectively donate money to environmental causes, theoretically to pay activities that either prevent carbon dioxide from being emitted or remove it from the air. I won't argue with you here; I agree that at least some of these are not legitimate, or have other problems that make them not effective. And it is this kind of carbon offset which is more relevant to the discussion at hand.
The operating system as a whole is called OS X, probably in no small part because it's easier for some reason to trademark a series of letters "OS X" than it is to trademark a version number "OS 10." Also, X is the Roman numeral for "10."
And just like Intel did with the Pentium, once they figured out how to trademark a version number, they stuck with that same number for ages and ages. Intel eventually got over it, but I think only due to the fact that they were making different processors aimed at different markets.
This is based on flags that the document authors set when they create the document. That is to say that the author either shot himself in the foot by setting stupid permissions, or only wants a printed response and should make that clear in the document or where it was presented.
For similar reasons, the // is also necessary to ensure all types of relative URLs within HTML pages can be distinguished. It would still be possible to have relative URLs without it, but certain types of relative URLs would not be allowed.
The slashdot blurb is fixed now, but the typo comes from the original story. This time it's not the slasheditors at fault.