RC1 still managed to corrupt places.sqlite (the History/Bookmarks database) when I tried to upgrade from Firefox 3.6, just like one of the last 4.0 betas. I had to install a portable edition of FF 3.6, open a backup of my profile with it, and set up Sync in both installations before I could use my existing browser history in the new installation.
Oh, and it now takes about 2 seconds to switch between tabs on a 3-year-old PC.
This is something I've never understood. Why on earth would you ever use a debit card when a credit card can be used instead? As long as you keep your account balance at zero, you have nothing to lose by using a credit card. And you gain a few legal protections against fraud; your own money generally isn't exposed.
To be honest, the New York Times' tech and science reporting (and that of most major news organizations) is largely incompetent. They're able to cover the business side well, but the technological aspects are usually described vaguely and inaccurately. For the Slashdot crowd, this means that the NY Times is not a highly relevant source for "news for nerds." (It is, of course, a great news source for many other subjects.)
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Umm, this should be moderated "funny," not "informative." You guys missed the joke.
The video narration is inaccurate. What you see there is not a progressive JPEG loading (they might be using progressive compression for the JPEG, but it doesn't matter). What you're seeing is progressive refinement, which is a raytracing rendering technique that starts to show an image immediately and continuously adds detail (rather than rendering the image in full detail immediately). The light and dark splotches you initially see are a typical artifact of low-detail radiosity rendering. More information here.
It wasn't the listing of the shared host that was the problem. It was the fact that the university's filters resolve URLs in message texts to IP addresses, and block messages based on that criterion alone, rather than merely influencing a spam score. If you get a bounced message like this, you can't even report it to an administrator on the university mail network without removing all the URLs.
Block lists are useful, but, as several people in this article's discussion pointed out, they're not accurate or granular enough to be used for deterministic blocking. And this particular usage, resolving link URLs to block messages, is illogical for many more reasons.
filter *URL's pointing to a PBL'd IP that are embedded in a message*!!!
My university does that, too. I run a student organization site that has a university subdomain, but is hosted on a shared host. The host inexplicably got listed in the CBL several times, and that screwed up email for the organization staff, and mailing lists for hundreds of students for days at a time.
I didn't realize anyone else used this brilliant filtering scheme.
Actually, on LinkedIn, there seem to be many Independent Entertainment Professionals who are 0 degrees away from Kevin Bacon. By giving yourself a creative name (e.g. "Kevin Bacon"), you can be one of them, too.
Some people have been mentioning DTV tuners with Firewire other outputs. Under the law that enabled the coupons, only RF, composite, and possibly S-Video output is allowed on subsidized converters. See #54 here.
I'm not sure to what extent you're kidding, but I've seen similar occurrences going as far back as Windows XP. At fault is generally Wake-On LAN, which can be disabled through your Ethernet adapter's driver settings.
Who or what manages to broadcast wake-up packets with the right MAC address is beyond me, but disabling WOL on the card tends to stop these mysterious reanimations.
That's fine if you're presenting only spam emails as the CAPTCHA. But where would you get your corpus of legitimate emails? Pick a random existing user and show a message from his inbox?
Something tells me this wouldn't quite work.
When I was three or four years old, my parents were teaching me to tell time. At one point, they asked me which was longer, a half-hour or an hour. I said, "a half-hour." They asked me "By how much?" and I replied "8 millimeters."
Kodak's cartridges are cheaper, but how many milliliters of ink do they hold? The measurements don't seem to be available anywhere.
You have to think in terms of dollars per milliliter to get even a remotely reasonable gauge of cost of operation. (Price per page would be better, but there's no easy way to calculate that.)
Just stop. Seriously. There have been articles about Vista's poor prospects almost twice weekly. It's hard to imagine that many readers still care. We don't need a new post every time another pundit decides to chime in with the same information.
Symantec lets you legally download their updates, for free, from their FTP servers. ftp://ftp.symantec.com/AVDEFS/norton_antivirus/. Extract the files from the.exe to NAV's Incoming directory using WinRAR and you're good to go. (One minor problem is that the newest version of Norton's security bloatware seem to "protect" their program directories by default, so you have to disable that setting in order to install updates manually.
And if you look around online, there's actually a Windows batch file that will do it for you automatically. You can even schedule it with Windows Task Scheduler.
if the studios want to get their content to the customer, they have to accept that DRM is useless in their strife to protect their rights. if the studios want to get their content to the customer, they have to accept that DRM is useless in their strife to deny consumers their rights.
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There's an entire Wikipedia article about this phenomenon.
Medical expert Doc. Cottle agrees.
One bulb per household.
I don't think many households have 300 light fixtures in which they could replace bulbs.
RC1 still managed to corrupt places.sqlite (the History/Bookmarks database) when I tried to upgrade from Firefox 3.6, just like one of the last 4.0 betas. I had to install a portable edition of FF 3.6, open a backup of my profile with it, and set up Sync in both installations before I could use my existing browser history in the new installation.
Oh, and it now takes about 2 seconds to switch between tabs on a 3-year-old PC.
This is something I've never understood. Why on earth would you ever use a debit card when a credit card can be used instead? As long as you keep your account balance at zero, you have nothing to lose by using a credit card. And you gain a few legal protections against fraud; your own money generally isn't exposed.
Do debit cards have any advantages at all?
To be honest, the New York Times' tech and science reporting (and that of most major news organizations) is largely incompetent. They're able to cover the business side well, but the technological aspects are usually described vaguely and inaccurately. For the Slashdot crowd, this means that the NY Times is not a highly relevant source for "news for nerds." (It is, of course, a great news source for many other subjects.)
Umm, this should be moderated "funny," not "informative." You guys missed the joke.
The video narration is inaccurate. What you see there is not a progressive JPEG loading (they might be using progressive compression for the JPEG, but it doesn't matter).
What you're seeing is progressive refinement, which is a raytracing rendering technique that starts to show an image immediately and continuously adds detail (rather than rendering the image in full detail immediately). The light and dark splotches you initially see are a typical artifact of low-detail radiosity rendering.
More information here.
It wasn't the listing of the shared host that was the problem. It was the fact that the university's filters resolve URLs in message texts to IP addresses, and block messages based on that criterion alone, rather than merely influencing a spam score. If you get a bounced message like this, you can't even report it to an administrator on the university mail network without removing all the URLs.
Block lists are useful, but, as several people in this article's discussion pointed out, they're not accurate or granular enough to be used for deterministic blocking. And this particular usage, resolving link URLs to block messages, is illogical for many more reasons.
filter *URL's pointing to a PBL'd IP that are embedded in a message*!!!
My university does that, too. I run a student organization site that has a university subdomain, but is hosted on a shared host. The host inexplicably got listed in the CBL several times, and that screwed up email for the organization staff, and mailing lists for hundreds of students for days at a time.
I didn't realize anyone else used this brilliant filtering scheme.
The X and Y chromosomes that make up a genome.
Believe it or not, X and Y chromosomes aren't the only ingredients...
You mean decrease?
Actually, on LinkedIn, there seem to be many Independent Entertainment Professionals who are 0 degrees away from Kevin Bacon. By giving yourself a creative name (e.g. "Kevin Bacon"), you can be one of them, too.
Some people have been mentioning DTV tuners with Firewire other outputs. Under the law that enabled the coupons, only RF, composite, and possibly S-Video output is allowed on subsidized converters. See #54 here.
I'm not sure to what extent you're kidding, but I've seen similar occurrences going as far back as Windows XP. At fault is generally Wake-On LAN, which can be disabled through your Ethernet adapter's driver settings.
Who or what manages to broadcast wake-up packets with the right MAC address is beyond me, but disabling WOL on the card tends to stop these mysterious reanimations.
Following in the tradition of paamayim nekudotayim (::), I'm going to propose that the name for the new operator be lokhsan achori (\).
A quick read through the Amazon reviews of Spore seems to suggest that the negative comments are already putting people off from buying the game.
This line from the product page seems to suggest otherwise:
Did anyone else initially misread the headline?
That's fine if you're presenting only spam emails as the CAPTCHA. But where would you get your corpus of legitimate emails? Pick a random existing user and show a message from his inbox?
Something tells me this wouldn't quite work.
When I was three or four years old, my parents were teaching me to tell time. At one point, they asked me which was longer, a half-hour or an hour. I said, "a half-hour." They asked me "By how much?" and I replied "8 millimeters."
How right I was.
"Making Touchscreens Work With Fingers"?
I'd hate to think what kinds of surgery our digits would require to make them as effective as a regular stylus...
Kodak's cartridges are cheaper, but how many milliliters of ink do they hold? The measurements don't seem to be available anywhere. You have to think in terms of dollars per milliliter to get even a remotely reasonable gauge of cost of operation. (Price per page would be better, but there's no easy way to calculate that.)
Just stop. Seriously. There have been articles about Vista's poor prospects almost twice weekly. It's hard to imagine that many readers still care. We don't need a new post every time another pundit decides to chime in with the same information.
Symantec lets you legally download their updates, for free, from their FTP servers. ftp://ftp.symantec.com/AVDEFS/norton_antivirus/. Extract the files from the .exe to NAV's Incoming directory using WinRAR and you're good to go. (One minor problem is that the newest version of Norton's security bloatware seem to "protect" their program directories by default, so you have to disable that setting in order to install updates manually.
And if you look around online, there's actually a Windows batch file that will do it for you automatically. You can even schedule it with Windows Task Scheduler.