Well, here in Russia you can buy completely legal copies of games (Half-life 2, Doom 3, Warcraft 3) for something like $4-$10 (depending on the number of CDs). The only drawback is that these games are translated into Russian, so you won't be having fun if you don't understand it. Adobe and Microsoft price Windows the same as everywhere in the world (and that means more than my computer is worth), and that means that nobody gets legal versions but always pirates them. If Adobe prices Photochop something like $30 and sells it only in Russia, it would be completely legal.
My parents tried hiring a maid and it was a complete disaster. The first of them scratched all the paint from the fridge while cleaning it. The second often unplugged power cables while mopping the floors, resulting in critical equipment (DECT phone, router, computer compiling Gentoo) to be reset and as a result these had to be turned on because they don't do it automatically when plugged into power. The third one was so slow that cleaning one window seemed to take something like 40 minutes. And when ironing clothes, instead of using the "steam" button on the iron she spat on clothes! After that we decided that we won't hire another one (or she'd burn down the flat or something).
If you don't like the font, change it! I usually set the default font in Firefox and make sure that web pages aren't allowed to change it. I set the monospace font to Dejavu Sans Mono and all the non-monospace fonts to Dejavu Sans. Also, I set the minimum font size to 12pt. It's amazing how some crappy sites using tiny Times-like fonts actually get readable and eyecandier.
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I had a Brother word processor, made in something like 1991, and it had a sticker "Made in USA from domestic parts" or something like that. Intel or AMD (I think) may have a few plants in the US of A.
Yup, but these come with an advanced image editor, various programming languages, compilers, kernel source code, a couple of mail clients, a pack of browsers and a dozen media players. Vista doesn't have lots of these (at least as I understand).
They even allow you to pay you through smart ATMs (which usually allow you to pay any cellphone provider bill, banking bill etc from a single machine): http://music.allofmp3.com/osmp.shtml However I, as a Russian citizen believe that a very small percentage of Russian mp3 downloaders use the service. mp3s, movies, games and software are usually obtained in LANs (which also act as ISPs). My LAN for example has something like 2 terabytes of pirated content. Even people who can afford a licensed copy of Windows (spend less than 5% of their income for Windows XP) buy it pirated. I know a guy who has a fairly large income but he always says that legal WinXP is too expensive for him. The only people who seem to be using a legal copy of Windows are corporate users who are afraid of MS's legal department. Because of that, only Windows and Office (and a bunch of small apps) are thanslated into Russian.
Mandrake stores the user's backups in a read-only (for normal users) directory. So the virus can damage the user's home dir, but yesterday's (or last week's) backup will remain intact, because only root can hose it and not the user or the virus.
This method could be improved if the image is a 3D one and the captchas are generated from different viewing angles, distances, perhaps objects being slightly moved or even have their color changed. However recognizing user input may be a problem, as people may be using different words etc. So it would be better if the user had to answer some precise question, like "what is the color of the brick" or "is the pool filled with water".
Mod parent up I've had a simular idea: the cracker processing all the captchas, so that only form-filling work is automated. But your approach is much better - using people for nearly the same purposes as Windows Zombie Boxes!
>This is why everyone should get a Mac The cheapest Mac costs 3-4 times more than a cheap PC capable of internet browsing, Office and games that don't demand the latest hardware (Half-life 2 etc.)
No, the same drive but with a smaller partition hehehe...
Seriously, I've bought a Western Digital 80Gb hard drive in 2005 and it already has only one platter (maybe even single-sided!)
Well, I opened the Atlas website with Konqueror following your link and Konqueror stopped responding for 30 seconds. And BTW, is live.com using Atlas? It is completely incompatible with Konqueror, and that means Safari (and that means most Mac) users are probably also experiencing problems.
You may prefer a traditional music player, like WMP Classic, Kaffeine, Totem etc. But many people like advanced music organization features in players like Amarok, Banshee etc. Features like picking 50 random songs with a rating of at least 3 stars are really useful when you get 4 gigs of new music each month (don't ask me where). Features like album art, a graphical equalizer, volume normalization are really useful. Device synchronization is also a great feature. However I agree that CD burning should be done in a separate app, and visualizations are for people who have too much CPU cycles in their hands. Usually I use Amarok for music management (stuff that I have approved) and Kaffeine for watching videos and listening for new music I don't want to be cataloged, reted and submitted to last.fm
For anyone who read the article, the author suggests that Microsoft should license Vista and Office for no more than $50. Visual Studio 2005 Express was originally thought to be priced $50 a copy, then Microsoft made it free (as in beer) for anyone who downloads it before November 2006. The express editions have pretty much anything that you get in the real thing, except Microsoft's analog for CVS and a few other enterprise things. Express is a great product for anyone who wants to have fun with coding or even write commercial applications. I think Microsoft may be heading in the right direction, because I'd never pay more that 50 bucks for Windows in the country where I live in, because the pirated version of XP Pro Corporate Edition costs $2.5 and because it's corporate, you'll never need to activate it - installs on any number of PCs without cracking anything. And because I prefer to be on the safe side, I'm currently using a perfectly legal version of Kubuntu.
This article is hosted at IBM, and IBM invests heavily in Java (SWT, Eclipse, etc.) So this article should be taken with a grain of salt. It's like Microsoft comparing.NET with Java (remember Microsoft's ".NET is X times faster than Java" statements?) However it's nice to see that IBM knows that Ruby exists and knows its strong points - so that they may borrow the good stuff into Java.
XUL is a layer, allowing Firefox and its extensions create widgets. All the widgets that are requested from XUL are rendered with the appropriate toolkit: GTK on Linux, MFC (I think) on Windows and Cocoa (not sure) on OS X. This allows Firefox to use the native toolkit on all platforms and allows extension to be used on any platform without rewriting anything.
Hehe, I remember using IE on a 486 PC with a 133 Mhz AMD CPU, 32 megs of RAM and a 1.6 Gb hard disk drive. The funniest thing was that IE 5 was much faster than Netscape 4 and even Opera, probably because this little amount of RAM was completely dedicated to Windows 98 and IE 5.
Your post looks like flamebait, but still - Vim is popular exactly because it works that way. Customizable (most power users have their own hand-crafted configs), light, console-based (great in shells and when your system is screwed up) and does a lot of stuff really fast if you know how to use it. I usually use vim for editing configs or when I'm too lazy to run Kate or Gedit. For editing text files, source code etc. I usually use Kate. If you don't like Vim because of its interface, use another editor, perhaps nano. Vim's interface is the reason that makes it popular.
Well, the stupid management in my university have declared that today is Monday, tomorrow will be Saturday and the day after tomorrow is Sunday. This is not a joke! This May 9 celebration (Russian victory in WWII) causes crazy holiday and workday shifts. So I don't even know which day will actually be Tuesday.
Time exists when something is happening. IIRC the physical definition of a clock is some object in which some periodic process is happening. So when nothing happens and stands still (even no atomic/subatomic motion), how can you measure time? In fact matter will become so dense that not only time, but even dimensions may cease to exist.
Occasionally, Gmail's spam filter places valid mail into Spam - once it was some user's request for an invite, once it was my cellular phone invoice, and once a Dilbert daily strip. So I have to wipe out the spam folder with caution - at least I have to read every subject.
A thermos stores coffee hot for a about day, so maybe even a thermos without any heater would be sufficient. In fact I used to fill a 0.6 liter thermos with hot coffee in the morning and drink it during the day. Was more convenient, easier and cheaper. And no non-recycable materials!
This is modded funny, but consider these two examples: 1) string a = SELECT + a + FROM + b + WHERE + "param=" + c 2) string a = "SELECT " + a + " FROM " + b + " WHERE param=" + c But putting it into a class that is completely isolated and doesn't have any methods (and otherwise SELECT will look like SqlWords.SELECT) is indeed insane.
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Well, here in Russia you can buy completely legal copies of games (Half-life 2, Doom 3, Warcraft 3) for something like $4-$10 (depending on the number of CDs). The only drawback is that these games are translated into Russian, so you won't be having fun if you don't understand it. Adobe and Microsoft price Windows the same as everywhere in the world (and that means more than my computer is worth), and that means that nobody gets legal versions but always pirates them. If Adobe prices Photochop something like $30 and sells it only in Russia, it would be completely legal.
My parents tried hiring a maid and it was a complete disaster.
The first of them scratched all the paint from the fridge while cleaning it.
The second often unplugged power cables while mopping the floors, resulting in critical equipment (DECT phone, router, computer compiling Gentoo) to be reset and as a result these had to be turned on because they don't do it automatically when plugged into power.
The third one was so slow that cleaning one window seemed to take something like 40 minutes. And when ironing clothes, instead of using the "steam" button on the iron she spat on clothes!
After that we decided that we won't hire another one (or she'd burn down the flat or something).
If you don't like the font, change it!
I usually set the default font in Firefox and make sure that web pages aren't allowed to change it.
I set the monospace font to Dejavu Sans Mono and all the non-monospace fonts to Dejavu Sans. Also, I set the minimum font size to 12pt. It's amazing how some crappy sites using tiny Times-like fonts actually get readable and eyecandier.
I had a Brother word processor, made in something like 1991, and it had a sticker "Made in USA from domestic parts" or something like that. Intel or AMD (I think) may have a few plants in the US of A.
Yup, but these come with an advanced image editor, various programming languages, compilers, kernel source code, a couple of mail clients, a pack of browsers and a dozen media players. Vista doesn't have lots of these (at least as I understand).
They even allow you to pay you through smart ATMs (which usually allow you to pay any cellphone provider bill, banking bill etc from a single machine): http://music.allofmp3.com/osmp.shtml
However I, as a Russian citizen believe that a very small percentage of Russian mp3 downloaders use the service. mp3s, movies, games and software are usually obtained in LANs (which also act as ISPs). My LAN for example has something like 2 terabytes of pirated content. Even people who can afford a licensed copy of Windows (spend less than 5% of their income for Windows XP) buy it pirated. I know a guy who has a fairly large income but he always says that legal WinXP is too expensive for him. The only people who seem to be using a legal copy of Windows are corporate users who are afraid of MS's legal department. Because of that, only Windows and Office (and a bunch of small apps) are thanslated into Russian.
Mandrake stores the user's backups in a read-only (for normal users) directory. So the virus can damage the user's home dir, but yesterday's (or last week's) backup will remain intact, because only root can hose it and not the user or the virus.
This method could be improved if the image is a 3D one and the captchas are generated from different viewing angles, distances, perhaps objects being slightly moved or even have their color changed.
However recognizing user input may be a problem, as people may be using different words etc. So it would be better if the user had to answer some precise question, like "what is the color of the brick" or "is the pool filled with water".
Mod parent up
I've had a simular idea: the cracker processing all the captchas, so that only form-filling work is automated. But your approach is much better - using people for nearly the same purposes as Windows Zombie Boxes!
>This is why everyone should get a Mac
The cheapest Mac costs 3-4 times more than a cheap PC capable of internet browsing, Office and games that don't demand the latest hardware (Half-life 2 etc.)
No, the same drive but with a smaller partition hehehe... Seriously, I've bought a Western Digital 80Gb hard drive in 2005 and it already has only one platter (maybe even single-sided!)
Well, I opened the Atlas website with Konqueror following your link and Konqueror stopped responding for 30 seconds.
And BTW, is live.com using Atlas? It is completely incompatible with Konqueror, and that means Safari (and that means most Mac) users are probably also experiencing problems.
It's not AJAX based on Java but an AJAX framework based on Java.
You may prefer a traditional music player, like WMP Classic, Kaffeine, Totem etc.
But many people like advanced music organization features in players like Amarok, Banshee etc. Features like picking 50 random songs with a rating of at least 3 stars are really useful when you get 4 gigs of new music each month (don't ask me where). Features like album art, a graphical equalizer, volume normalization are really useful. Device synchronization is also a great feature.
However I agree that CD burning should be done in a separate app, and visualizations are for people who have too much CPU cycles in their hands.
Usually I use Amarok for music management (stuff that I have approved) and Kaffeine for watching videos and listening for new music I don't want to be cataloged, reted and submitted to last.fm
For anyone who read the article, the author suggests that Microsoft should license Vista and Office for no more than $50.
Visual Studio 2005 Express was originally thought to be priced $50 a copy, then Microsoft made it free (as in beer) for anyone who downloads it before November 2006. The express editions have pretty much anything that you get in the real thing, except Microsoft's analog for CVS and a few other enterprise things. Express is a great product for anyone who wants to have fun with coding or even write commercial applications. I think Microsoft may be heading in the right direction, because I'd never pay more that 50 bucks for Windows in the country where I live in, because the pirated version of XP Pro Corporate Edition costs $2.5 and because it's corporate, you'll never need to activate it - installs on any number of PCs without cracking anything.
And because I prefer to be on the safe side, I'm currently using a perfectly legal version of Kubuntu.
This article is hosted at IBM, and IBM invests heavily in Java (SWT, Eclipse, etc.) So this article should be taken with a grain of salt. It's like Microsoft comparing .NET with Java (remember Microsoft's ".NET is X times faster than Java" statements?)
However it's nice to see that IBM knows that Ruby exists and knows its strong points - so that they may borrow the good stuff into Java.
XUL is a layer, allowing Firefox and its extensions create widgets. All the widgets that are requested from XUL are rendered with the appropriate toolkit: GTK on Linux, MFC (I think) on Windows and Cocoa (not sure) on OS X. This allows Firefox to use the native toolkit on all platforms and allows extension to be used on any platform without rewriting anything.
Hehe, I remember using IE on a 486 PC with a 133 Mhz AMD CPU, 32 megs of RAM and a 1.6 Gb hard disk drive. The funniest thing was that IE 5 was much faster than Netscape 4 and even Opera, probably because this little amount of RAM was completely dedicated to Windows 98 and IE 5.
Your post looks like flamebait, but still - Vim is popular exactly because it works that way. Customizable (most power users have their own hand-crafted configs), light, console-based (great in shells and when your system is screwed up) and does a lot of stuff really fast if you know how to use it. I usually use vim for editing configs or when I'm too lazy to run Kate or Gedit. For editing text files, source code etc. I usually use Kate. If you don't like Vim because of its interface, use another editor, perhaps nano. Vim's interface is the reason that makes it popular.
Well, the stupid management in my university have declared that today is Monday, tomorrow will be Saturday and the day after tomorrow is Sunday.
This is not a joke! This May 9 celebration (Russian victory in WWII) causes crazy holiday and workday shifts. So I don't even know which day will actually be Tuesday.
Time exists when something is happening. IIRC the physical definition of a clock is some object in which some periodic process is happening. So when nothing happens and stands still (even no atomic/subatomic motion), how can you measure time? In fact matter will become so dense that not only time, but even dimensions may cease to exist.
Occasionally, Gmail's spam filter places valid mail into Spam - once it was some user's request for an invite, once it was my cellular phone invoice, and once a Dilbert daily strip. So I have to wipe out the spam folder with caution - at least I have to read every subject.
A thermos stores coffee hot for a about day, so maybe even a thermos without any heater would be sufficient.
In fact I used to fill a 0.6 liter thermos with hot coffee in the morning and drink it during the day. Was more convenient, easier and cheaper. And no non-recycable materials!
This is modded funny, but consider these two examples:
1) string a = SELECT + a + FROM + b + WHERE + "param=" + c
2) string a = "SELECT " + a + " FROM " + b + " WHERE param=" + c
But putting it into a class that is completely isolated and doesn't have any methods (and otherwise SELECT will look like SqlWords.SELECT) is indeed insane.
It certainly destroys it: Wheee!!!