It's not possible to censor in detail having only control of what top level domains exist and what servers contain the next level of domains. The only potential conflicts with that are creation of new domains (should we have.xxx?), picking the controller for national domains (does North Elbonia or South Elbonia have the.elb domain since the start of the civil war?) and picking the controller for general domains (Network Solutions have handled.com ok, but Christian Solutions promises not to give out porn.coms).
The quote from the article on this: Certainly, it is controlled by the United States government--which renegs on its duties by letting ICANN blunder about so much--but the solution is not to bring it under U.N. control. The solution is to hand all its powers over to leaner, more technically focused groups that operate with less fuss and more consensus.
I don't think this is really possible. If governments are interested in an issue, you can't really shut them out of it. Deciding what TLDs there are and what authority controls which TLD has become a global political issue, like it or not.
One thing we would like to mention is that our library had 1000+ songs, but there were no hiccups while scrolling through the list. It was almost like scrolling down Google's search results, which is very smooth and hassle-free. This could be due to implementation of Microsoft's new graphics technologies, namely XAML and WGF 2.0.
This makes you wonder... Why would you describe how smooth scrolling down a text-only html page is? Modern computers are around 1000 times faster than they were when that got smooth. This review seems like a propaganda piece for the ignorant; would anyone who knows anything about computers think scrolling through a list of 1000 file names would be slow without "new graphics technologies"?
It doesn't look any different from XP's Control Panel. In XP, that is the "Detail" view. The default is "Icons", which looks like any window with icons and lables under them. That view has looked the same since Windows 3.1, at least.
The worst problem seems to be that the menus are tiny and have been moved "inside" the window, which seems odd.
And when dirty water and HIV/AIDS are killing so many people, computers are useless because there's no one to operate them.
Ok, now this is getting out of hand. They're not all dead!
In general, "they dont need x because they don't have y" is just a way of saying "we don't want to give them x". There are people in Africa who have y, for any relevant values of y you can come up with. Those who have access to computers need software. Those who donate or sell computers to poor countries need cheap or free software. And the main reason Microsoft's claim is crap is that you don't get the expertise to use software without having that software.
I'd settle for anything that can play an mp3 as the alarm. I hatehatehate my clock radio that jolts me awake instantly. I slap it until it's quiet, then wake up 15 mins later. Rinse and repeat for 1-2 hours. I waste 5% of my life this way.
I just want something that will play a decent sound, slowly increasing in volume over 15+ minutes.
"The turn of the great cycle is conjectured to have been of great significance to the Maya, but does not necessarily mark the end of the world. According to the Popol Vuh, a sacred book of the Maya, they were living in the fourth world. The Popol Vuh describes the first three worlds that the gods failed in making and the creation of the successful fourth world where men were placed. The Maya believed that the fourth world would end in catastrophe and the fifth and final world would be created that would signal the end of mankind.
The last creation ended on a long count of 13.0.0.0.0. Another 13.0.0.0.0 will occur on December 21, 2012, and it has been discussed in many New Age articles and books that this will be the end of this creation or something else entirely."
To paraphrase Bill Gates, 13.0.0.0.0 should be enough for anyone.
I give it one year before we start to commonly see this in the high cost items at first (Rolex and Tag watches, etc)
It's likely cheaper, but is it any more scratch resistant than the sapphire used now? Ten dollars per square inch is peanuts, though. Mobile phones and iPods could very well use it.
The main thing that gives the RIAA the stranglehold it has on music is the huge marketing and distibution networks the big companies have. Indie artists may create a comparable product, but if the consumer doesn't know it exists, he can't buy it.
The same goes for games. Perhaps it's easier to get advertizing on the web for games than music, but how would you as an independent game maker get your product on store shelves around the world?
The place where I work has some kind of filtering software installed to prevent "unauthorized" web browsing. Some of it is for security reasons (Hotmail is banned, "The page you have requested is categorized as "Web Mail" which is not permitted"), some to prevent wasting time (Playboy.com gives "The page you have requested is categorized as "Pornography" which is not permitted").
I do wonder who exactly distibutes the list of banned domains. For example, from this story I can access the "one of the most hopeful signs" link, but the "turns out to be a hoax" link is labeled as pornography.
What resolution or refresh rate would a keyboard need?
Assuming your question isn't rethorical, the resolution would have to be at least 20 dpi, preferrably more, to show the letters / symbols on the keys. That assumes the refresh rate is fast enough to change the displayed symbol in a reasonable time when you press the shift key.
I don't think the grandparent question is stupid, if that's what you're implying.
Yeah, screw using a single wall; all four walls AND the roof would make a really cool feeling of immersion. Imagine setting your room to virtually float through clouds when you go to bed. Or waking up in a green sunny grass field with butterflies flapping around and birds singing.
The study you posted compared media reports to Republican and Democrat views, while the previous one compared media-influenced views to reality. The two studies do not contradict each other. Assuming both are valid, the views of the most inaccurate media fall right between Democrat and Republican views.
Presumably both parties are somewhere far from reality.
I already posted this above, but have a look at the Wikipedia article on Hostile Media Effect
Hey thanks! The bookmark bar was the only one that did not, for some reason, give me that right click menu. (ALso the only one I right clicked...) It wasn't turned off when empty, but I got it removed by right clicking the menu bar and deselecting Bookmarks Toolbar.
Javascript is an accepted WWW standard. There is no reason for any app developer to not use javascript to his heart's content.
It's usually a good idea to provide alternatives for clients without javascript. When the whole point of the project is to make webmail with AJAX, that might be too much hassle. I tend to make things work without it, regardless. A submit button/image for every onchange-submit dropdown etc. Javascript features should generally be convenient for the user, not mandatory.
That was years ago; I get up to five dynamic IPs now so it's no longer an issue. I did get some distro made for zip drives to fit, but I could never get it to recognize more than one of the network cards. Thanks for your advice, regardless.
Most of the answers back then were genuine attempts to be helpful, but after days of frustration as a complete Linux newbie I really didn't want to hear "If you don't like it, why don't you fork it".
Why does EVERYTHING have to be so feature-bloated with them? Firefox, without any extensions or plugins, has The address bar, 5 navigation buttons, and the search bar an "Go" button (And the bookmarks toolbar folder, but that's easily hidden.
My thoughts were the complete opposite. I'd like to have Firefox as stripped down as IE7 looked. You forgot to mention the menu and the google searchbox. I don't have any plugins installed, but I still have a useless "Bookmarks Toolbar Folder" bar with "Customize Links", "Windows Media" and "Windows"-buttons. I don't see any easy way to get rid of it, and deleting all bookmarks from it didn't help.
Anyway, looking at Firefox, I don't need to see the menus. "Bookmarks" and "Menu" buttons would replace them fine. The home-button is pointless and has always been; it's just another bookmark. Why does the go-button have both an icon and text? Irrelevant anyway, since I hit return when I write an address by hand. I can't remember ever clicking that button, and I think it's been there since Mosaic? The tab row doesn't need the entire width of the window. The necessary buttons could go there. Come to think of it, why can't I customize and move this stuff around like in Word?
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Being a non-Linux nerd, I had more than a little trouble when I tried to share a one-IP cable connection between me and my roommate using an old 33mhz 486. Finding a distro that fit on the HD, figuring out how to get it to recognize two old Ethernet cards etc. I spent about three evenings all in all googling and asking questions here and there.
I quit trying after getting the "Why don't you fork it?" response. Twice.
Damned if they do: Accused of trying to leverage out Symateic, damned if they dont: blasted for insecure OSes. Damned if they do pt 2: Put fixes in Vista software, and are accused of trying to gouge customers out of more money for an upgrade.
How about acting like any other business and fixing a flawed product for free? Poor Ford, damned if charge you extra for installing brakes that work, damned if they offer to sell you a new car.
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Don't tell me I'm the only one that opened IE just to check?
I feel so stupid...
It's not possible to censor in detail having only control of what top level domains exist and what servers contain the next level of domains. The only potential conflicts with that are creation of new domains (should we have .xxx?), picking the controller for national domains (does North Elbonia or South Elbonia have the .elb domain since the start of the civil war?) and picking the controller for general domains (Network Solutions have handled .com ok, but Christian Solutions promises not to give out porn .coms).
The quote from the article on this: Certainly, it is controlled by the United States government--which renegs on its duties by letting ICANN blunder about so much--but the solution is not to bring it under U.N. control. The solution is to hand all its powers over to leaner, more technically focused groups that operate with less fuss and more consensus.
I don't think this is really possible. If governments are interested in an issue, you can't really shut them out of it. Deciding what TLDs there are and what authority controls which TLD has become a global political issue, like it or not.
One thing we would like to mention is that our library had 1000+ songs, but there were no hiccups while scrolling through the list. It was almost like scrolling down Google's search results, which is very smooth and hassle-free. This could be due to implementation of Microsoft's new graphics technologies, namely XAML and WGF 2.0.
This makes you wonder... Why would you describe how smooth scrolling down a text-only html page is? Modern computers are around 1000 times faster than they were when that got smooth. This review seems like a propaganda piece for the ignorant; would anyone who knows anything about computers think scrolling through a list of 1000 file names would be slow without "new graphics technologies"?
It doesn't look any different from XP's Control Panel. In XP, that is the "Detail" view. The default is "Icons", which looks like any window with icons and lables under them. That view has looked the same since Windows 3.1, at least.
The worst problem seems to be that the menus are tiny and have been moved "inside" the window, which seems odd.
And when dirty water and HIV/AIDS are killing so many people, computers are useless because there's no one to operate them.
Ok, now this is getting out of hand. They're not all dead!
In general, "they dont need x because they don't have y" is just a way of saying "we don't want to give them x". There are people in Africa who have y, for any relevant values of y you can come up with. Those who have access to computers need software. Those who donate or sell computers to poor countries need cheap or free software. And the main reason Microsoft's claim is crap is that you don't get the expertise to use software without having that software.
I'd settle for anything that can play an mp3 as the alarm. I hatehatehate my clock radio that jolts me awake instantly. I slap it until it's quiet, then wake up 15 mins later. Rinse and repeat for 1-2 hours. I waste 5% of my life this way.
I just want something that will play a decent sound, slowly increasing in volume over 15+ minutes.
2012, according to Wikipedia
"The turn of the great cycle is conjectured to have been of great significance to the Maya, but does not necessarily mark the end of the world. According to the Popol Vuh, a sacred book of the Maya, they were living in the fourth world. The Popol Vuh describes the first three worlds that the gods failed in making and the creation of the successful fourth world where men were placed. The Maya believed that the fourth world would end in catastrophe and the fifth and final world would be created that would signal the end of mankind.
The last creation ended on a long count of 13.0.0.0.0. Another 13.0.0.0.0 will occur on December 21, 2012, and it has been discussed in many New Age articles and books that this will be the end of this creation or something else entirely."
To paraphrase Bill Gates, 13.0.0.0.0 should be enough for anyone.
Like "nuclear" and "nucular"?
Omg, even the jokes are dupes !
I give it one year before we start to commonly see this in the high cost items at first (Rolex and Tag watches, etc)
It's likely cheaper, but is it any more scratch resistant than the sapphire used now? Ten dollars per square inch is peanuts, though. Mobile phones and iPods could very well use it.
The main thing that gives the RIAA the stranglehold it has on music is the huge marketing and distibution networks the big companies have. Indie artists may create a comparable product, but if the consumer doesn't know it exists, he can't buy it.
The same goes for games. Perhaps it's easier to get advertizing on the web for games than music, but how would you as an independent game maker get your product on store shelves around the world?
I dont need no grammer checker at all. My grammer like myself is perfect.
ur spellign sux d00d
The place where I work has some kind of filtering software installed to prevent "unauthorized" web browsing. Some of it is for security reasons (Hotmail is banned, "The page you have requested is categorized as "Web Mail" which is not permitted"), some to prevent wasting time (Playboy.com gives "The page you have requested is categorized as "Pornography" which is not permitted").
I do wonder who exactly distibutes the list of banned domains. For example, from this story I can access the "one of the most hopeful signs" link, but the "turns out to be a hoax" link is labeled as pornography.
What resolution or refresh rate would a keyboard need?
Assuming your question isn't rethorical, the resolution would have to be at least 20 dpi, preferrably more, to show the letters / symbols on the keys. That assumes the refresh rate is fast enough to change the displayed symbol in a reasonable time when you press the shift key.
I don't think the grandparent question is stupid, if that's what you're implying.
Yeah, screw using a single wall; all four walls AND the roof would make a really cool feeling of immersion. Imagine setting your room to virtually float through clouds when you go to bed. Or waking up in a green sunny grass field with butterflies flapping around and birds singing.
The study you posted compared media reports to Republican and Democrat views, while the previous one compared media-influenced views to reality. The two studies do not contradict each other. Assuming both are valid, the views of the most inaccurate media fall right between Democrat and Republican views.
Presumably both parties are somewhere far from reality.
I already posted this above, but have a look at the Wikipedia article on Hostile Media Effect
I swear, we were just trying to Slashdot their mail server!
It's called Hostile Media Effect.
Hey thanks! The bookmark bar was the only one that did not, for some reason, give me that right click menu. (ALso the only one I right clicked...) It wasn't turned off when empty, but I got it removed by right clicking the menu bar and deselecting Bookmarks Toolbar.
Thanks again, that really helped.
Javascript is an accepted WWW standard. There is no reason for any app developer to not use javascript to his heart's content.
It's usually a good idea to provide alternatives for clients without javascript. When the whole point of the project is to make webmail with AJAX, that might be too much hassle. I tend to make things work without it, regardless. A submit button/image for every onchange-submit dropdown etc. Javascript features should generally be convenient for the user, not mandatory.
That was years ago; I get up to five dynamic IPs now so it's no longer an issue. I did get some distro made for zip drives to fit, but I could never get it to recognize more than one of the network cards. Thanks for your advice, regardless.
Most of the answers back then were genuine attempts to be helpful, but after days of frustration as a complete Linux newbie I really didn't want to hear "If you don't like it, why don't you fork it".
Why does EVERYTHING have to be so feature-bloated with them? Firefox, without any extensions or plugins, has The address bar, 5 navigation buttons, and the search bar an "Go" button (And the bookmarks toolbar folder, but that's easily hidden.
My thoughts were the complete opposite. I'd like to have Firefox as stripped down as IE7 looked. You forgot to mention the menu and the google searchbox. I don't have any plugins installed, but I still have a useless "Bookmarks Toolbar Folder" bar with "Customize Links", "Windows Media" and "Windows"-buttons. I don't see any easy way to get rid of it, and deleting all bookmarks from it didn't help.
Anyway, looking at Firefox, I don't need to see the menus. "Bookmarks" and "Menu" buttons would replace them fine. The home-button is pointless and has always been; it's just another bookmark. Why does the go-button have both an icon and text? Irrelevant anyway, since I hit return when I write an address by hand. I can't remember ever clicking that button, and I think it's been there since Mosaic? The tab row doesn't need the entire width of the window. The necessary buttons could go there. Come to think of it, why can't I customize and move this stuff around like in Word?
Being a non-Linux nerd, I had more than a little trouble when I tried to share a one-IP cable connection between me and my roommate using an old 33mhz 486. Finding a distro that fit on the HD, figuring out how to get it to recognize two old Ethernet cards etc. I spent about three evenings all in all googling and asking questions here and there.
I quit trying after getting the "Why don't you fork it?" response. Twice.
Zealots, go fork yourself.
Damned if they do: Accused of trying to leverage out Symateic, damned if they dont: blasted for insecure OSes. Damned if they do pt 2: Put fixes in Vista software, and are accused of trying to gouge customers out of more money for an upgrade.
How about acting like any other business and fixing a flawed product for free? Poor Ford, damned if charge you extra for installing brakes that work, damned if they offer to sell you a new car.