It's difficult to argue with logic like that, but here goes, are you taking crazy pills?
Are you trying to make me believe that you tot up your total extra energy consumption from using incandescents and subtract it from something else? I don't care if you're house is efficient, I don't care if you live up a fricking tree. If you stop using them your energy footprint will be smaller. It's not about how much your neighbor uses than you, its about how much everyone uses in total.
I never said you were(never proved I wasn't one either I guess), but from the limited amount of info I have, no, I can't tell if you're a slashbot or not. I'm not impressed if you're just running from a finite list though. Augmenting your list with posts from other users might be a start, Google and Wiki's seem to be a common source for that kind of info these days as well.
I "seriously" doubt that this could be used to pass a turning test. The noise and heat from the fan sink keeping a 250+ watt processor cool would be a dead giveaway. If I recall correctly though I don't think you need a fancy avatar for the robot/computer/whatever to pass the turning test. It's more of a black box approach where all that matters is what the box says not how it says it.
I tend to ramble a bit, but like I said I didn't try to argue the why of it, thats obvious and has been done before. Nor was I trying to make excuses for anyone. My post was in reponse to the fact that the developer seemed to hold up Firefox as an example to explorer on how things should be done. Firefox handles standards far better, but not perfectly as far as i'm aware (correct me if I'm wrong here). So why should he set the bar for microsoft lower than it needs to be just because its ok for Firefox?
I won't argue the why of it (I'm sure someone else here has been harping on about it already) but as far as I'm aware, while Microsoft is by far the worst offender, all the different browsers render the same html differently and none of them do it "correctly". It may simply be that they have too many developers working on it, whatever the reason I do believe they're at least getting better. The big problem they have is that if they released a browser tomorrow. Pushed to every XP machine as a critical update, they'd be up s**t creek. Only the most basic and crappy of websites would still render as the developer intended. So like they've been doing, they incrementally correct the web browser, allowing ample time (very ample in the case of IE7, thought they were just going to forget to release it or something) for the developer to amend their websites.
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OK, the fact that all the "new" features in IE7 were implemented in the front end was news to me, thanks for the info. However would it not be better to argue how this release fits in the generally accepted definition of an alpha release http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release rather than flogging a dead horse, just because it happened to be in the same field?
I'm sick to death of all this bs. If I leave my bike outside at night tied up with a piece of rope and someone steals it, sure, sure they committed the crime, they stole my bike. It doesn't change the fact that I'm the idiot who trusted my bike to strangers and a piece of rope. In fact if I left someone else's music, I mean bike, protected as such I'm the one that would be held responsible. In this case admittedly its probably impossible to fully protect the music without crippling it but its unreasonable for them to think that anyone, least of all young teenagers won't take something that they see as being free. I don't know what the solution is I just know that want they're doing now is not the answer. It just demonizes the music industry.
Very true, though I'd imagine you'd need a meteorite or some such to do that much damage. Sorry if your post was ment as a joke or something, I'm too hungover to catch the humor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_meltdown
First off I use XP almost exclusively, i'm fairly happy with it and am used to its shortcommings, but I'm not looking forward to Vista. By all accounts before XP is fully obsolete I'll probably switch to linux. Primarily because I rather doubt any of these flash interfaces etc will be of any interest to me. That said however, you can be sure that with the final version of windows vista most of the driver bugs will have been worked out. Try running a game on XP with just the default drivers for your graphics card and you'll likely get the same shoddy results. As for your memory problems, Vista has a more aggressive approach to memory management. It considers unused memory wasted memory (i think ms has a point here) so it fills it all up with whatever it thinks is important in advance. This in theory makes everything snappier, apps open quicker etc. Hence you won't have as much memory displayed as "free" at any one time as you did with xp. But it can still reclaim all that memory as it needs to.
Companies that don't ever diversify don't always do well either. Dell's foray into the MP3 market turned out to be ill conceived, but as the great Homer put it "No matter how good you are at something, there's always about a million people better than you." Dell were on the bottom and gave up (probably a wise decision) but the Apple iPod is just one of an eventual million other better products. I see no reason why any company with enough money and ingenuity can't beat the iPod into second place, it's just a matter of time.
I happen to agree that it's wrong to give a kid a car when they're 16. But I do not agree that by doing so they will never have respect for it and go on to recycle it as a lamp post warmer or whatever. If you had won a car when you were 16, do you honestly believe that you would drive any differently now? Personally I feel a parent who would give away a car so readily have "probably" also spoiled the child throughout his/ her life. From my own experience, I believe my behaviour and personality was remained more or less unchanged since before my mid teens, giving me a car then, would have been nice but nothing more. As an aside, I'd also like to mention that "responsible" parents who give their kids nice safe bicycles as an alternative often neglect to make their kids wear nice safe helmets.
It's hardly a redundant if you read all the articles. One of them suggested that rabbits do not have "holes" and could be stretched into a circle without a loss of information. That's wrong on several levels, moral ones for a start. I rather doubt a rabbit is really all that stretchy as well. And anyway, even if they were, as Vellmont quite rightly pointed out, it would be far less futile to attempt to stretch one into a doughnut.
I still stand by my original comment, though admittedly I should have pointed out that it was so far off topic from the TFA that it could be considered a dot (the other bit that is, the duel stuff was just a typo). I'm actually sitting at home in my basement right now, fanatically clinging to my gaming windows pc, blissfully uninterested in TFA. Anyway, my comment had more to do with the subject "Proof that MS-fanboys just don't get it." And your first line "Comments like these just flow over from ignorance and stupidity." So to reiterate my point was that from what I've seen "Linux zealots" in general seem to be far more derogatory towards "MS-Fanboys" than the other way around, and in my mind insulting people's intelligence is not the best way of winning an argument.
I've personally never used Linux, the reason being I've never had any major problems with windows, and my work revolves around several windows specific coding tools. I'm also a "gamer" and many games will of course only run on windows, though I don't own a basement (perhaps you could elaborate on why windows is the best choice of OS for a pc in a basement?) The parent comment may have been incorrect but it was not rude nor did it suggest anyone was stupid or ignorant. Time and again I see "zealots" making derogatory comments about windows "fanboys" which in my opinion comes across as childish and small minded. Not everyone wants the hassle of switching OS or running duel boot systems that does not mean they are stupid, ignorant or "fanboys".
Just my 2 cent, first off I kindof agree with the gist of what you said, no need to spend a lot on fancy stuff etc. But that said, it can be worth your while spending a little extra on the case. My full tower case cost a little over 100 euro but it takes a lot of the headaches out of tinkering with the component of my pc. For my money (spent over 3 years ago) I get rails for the drives, room for any amount of fans, well laid out ventilation etc. Quite fan sinks are usually huge, but my case leaves plenty of room to install them for example. Anyway the cheapest steel case you can find isn't always the best is my point, aside from anything chances are the PSU supplied with a cheap case will be rubbish. Regarding noise reduction I wouldn't recommend putting a fan on the top of the case or in the front where it's closer to you. To me it make more sense to me to vent air from the rear top of the case with a large diameter fan where it's hot (most PSU's fill this role) and to suck air into the case at the bottom. Though personally I haven't invested any time researching what's the best fan configuration, so I could of course be wrong.
"Windows elitist attitude"
I'm not sure where you're going with that. As a company Microsoft will push their product as the "best", I assume the same is true for the different flavours of Linux (which I know nothing about). Nth best OS with more holes than you could shake a stick at just wouldn't sell as well. If you are referring to users, I'm sure there are some out there who have this attitude you mention, however I've never met one of them. Every windows user I've ever met, from the know-it-alls to my neighbour who needs help with antivirus software complains, but simply couldn't be bothered learning anything new(myself included). Windows is the OS installed on the machine they buy, its the OS that everyone sees advertised on TV etc and guess what, thats what makes it the OS they choose to use. It rarely has anything to do with informed choice.
I'd hardly refer to my post as a theory, but anyway, no I did not imply anything of the sort. That said if "Ubuntu" also mentioned that the new feature was a humongous security risk then yes I believe it would be ok. No one forces you to use it after all do they?
"A security vulnerability giving a "regular" user full access to a machine is a security vulnerability no matter what the OS"
Absolutely correct, but as with the parent post it doesn't relate to a users default access rights in Windows. If an administrator creates a user account in windows and wants it to be limited then they should set it to limited. If they do not, then there is a serious security bug, which resides between the administrator's keyboard and chair. Not everyone agrees with the whole default admin rights(myself included) but to the best of my knowledge that in and of itself does not allow regular ie: non admin users to have admin rights, whereas the Ubuntu vulnerability did.
Yes and no, for things like flickr I agree 100% the search criteria could become hopelesssly complex, at least for the average Joe Soap at any rate. However assuming that all the material is p0rnograhic in nature(though this would apply to anything though of course), you could tailor the search page with that in mind. Then it wouldn't have to just a series of dropdowns or whatever. For example everyresult set returned could have one control pic which has more tags than usual. You could open that pic and click on hair, eyes, feet, whatever floats your boat and that would act as a filter for further searches etc. In theory this could work on a more generic and broader scale to cover all of flicker or zoomer or whatever but the work required to set up the filter pictures would go through the roof as would the confusion for the end user.
How is the fact that by default a user has administrator rights on a windows machine relevant? It mightn't be a great idea, cough, but it's documented, it's by design and it's a well known security risk that anyone with half a brain cell knows how to rectify. This post relates to a BUG, an unknown security risk, which until it was discovered, left systems vulnerable. Get off your high horse; this has nothing to do with windows v Linux or what ever.
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Are you trying to make me believe that you tot up your total extra energy consumption from using incandescents and subtract it from something else? I don't care if you're house is efficient, I don't care if you live up a fricking tree. If you stop using them your energy footprint will be smaller. It's not about how much your neighbor uses than you, its about how much everyone uses in total.
I never said you were(never proved I wasn't one either I guess), but from the limited amount of info I have, no, I can't tell if you're a slashbot or not. I'm not impressed if you're just running from a finite list though. Augmenting your list with posts from other users might be a start, Google and Wiki's seem to be a common source for that kind of info these days as well.
Did you actually read up on what a turing test is, or did you just learn about it from the experts here at Slashdot? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test
I "seriously" doubt that this could be used to pass a turning test. The noise and heat from the fan sink keeping a 250+ watt processor cool would be a dead giveaway. If I recall correctly though I don't think you need a fancy avatar for the robot/computer/whatever to pass the turning test. It's more of a black box approach where all that matters is what the box says not how it says it.
I tend to ramble a bit, but like I said I didn't try to argue the why of it, thats obvious and has been done before. Nor was I trying to make excuses for anyone. My post was in reponse to the fact that the developer seemed to hold up Firefox as an example to explorer on how things should be done. Firefox handles standards far better, but not perfectly as far as i'm aware (correct me if I'm wrong here). So why should he set the bar for microsoft lower than it needs to be just because its ok for Firefox?
Well don't keep me in suspense, what does it explain? Does he love watching reruns of Matlock or something?
I won't argue the why of it (I'm sure someone else here has been harping on about it already) but as far as I'm aware, while Microsoft is by far the worst offender, all the different browsers render the same html differently and none of them do it "correctly". It may simply be that they have too many developers working on it, whatever the reason I do believe they're at least getting better. The big problem they have is that if they released a browser tomorrow. Pushed to every XP machine as a critical update, they'd be up s**t creek. Only the most basic and crappy of websites would still render as the developer intended. So like they've been doing, they incrementally correct the web browser, allowing ample time (very ample in the case of IE7, thought they were just going to forget to release it or something) for the developer to amend their websites.
Are the modifiers taking crazy pills?
OK, the fact that all the "new" features in IE7 were implemented in the front end was news to me, thanks for the info. However would it not be better to argue how this release fits in the generally accepted definition of an alpha release http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release rather than flogging a dead horse, just because it happened to be in the same field?
I'll change, it wasn't me, it was open plans fault, just give me a second chance.
I'm sick to death of all this bs. If I leave my bike outside at night tied up with a piece of rope and someone steals it, sure, sure they committed the crime, they stole my bike. It doesn't change the fact that I'm the idiot who trusted my bike to strangers and a piece of rope. In fact if I left someone else's music, I mean bike, protected as such I'm the one that would be held responsible. In this case admittedly its probably impossible to fully protect the music without crippling it but its unreasonable for them to think that anyone, least of all young teenagers won't take something that they see as being free. I don't know what the solution is I just know that want they're doing now is not the answer. It just demonizes the music industry.
you don't wear clothes, clothes wear you...
Very true, though I'd imagine you'd need a meteorite or some such to do that much damage. Sorry if your post was ment as a joke or something, I'm too hungover to catch the humor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_meltdown
First off I use XP almost exclusively, i'm fairly happy with it and am used to its shortcommings, but I'm not looking forward to Vista. By all accounts before XP is fully obsolete I'll probably switch to linux. Primarily because I rather doubt any of these flash interfaces etc will be of any interest to me. That said however, you can be sure that with the final version of windows vista most of the driver bugs will have been worked out. Try running a game on XP with just the default drivers for your graphics card and you'll likely get the same shoddy results. As for your memory problems, Vista has a more aggressive approach to memory management. It considers unused memory wasted memory (i think ms has a point here) so it fills it all up with whatever it thinks is important in advance. This in theory makes everything snappier, apps open quicker etc. Hence you won't have as much memory displayed as "free" at any one time as you did with xp. But it can still reclaim all that memory as it needs to.
Companies that don't ever diversify don't always do well either. Dell's foray into the MP3 market turned out to be ill conceived, but as the great Homer put it "No matter how good you are at something, there's always about a million people better than you." Dell were on the bottom and gave up (probably a wise decision) but the Apple iPod is just one of an eventual million other better products. I see no reason why any company with enough money and ingenuity can't beat the iPod into second place, it's just a matter of time.
I happen to agree that it's wrong to give a kid a car when they're 16. But I do not agree that by doing so they will never have respect for it and go on to recycle it as a lamp post warmer or whatever. If you had won a car when you were 16, do you honestly believe that you would drive any differently now? Personally I feel a parent who would give away a car so readily have "probably" also spoiled the child throughout his/ her life. From my own experience, I believe my behaviour and personality was remained more or less unchanged since before my mid teens, giving me a car then, would have been nice but nothing more. As an aside, I'd also like to mention that "responsible" parents who give their kids nice safe bicycles as an alternative often neglect to make their kids wear nice safe helmets.
It's hardly a redundant if you read all the articles. One of them suggested that rabbits do not have "holes" and could be stretched into a circle without a loss of information. That's wrong on several levels, moral ones for a start. I rather doubt a rabbit is really all that stretchy as well. And anyway, even if they were, as Vellmont quite rightly pointed out, it would be far less futile to attempt to stretch one into a doughnut.
I still stand by my original comment, though admittedly I should have pointed out that it was so far off topic from the TFA that it could be considered a dot (the other bit that is, the duel stuff was just a typo). I'm actually sitting at home in my basement right now, fanatically clinging to my gaming windows pc, blissfully uninterested in TFA. Anyway, my comment had more to do with the subject "Proof that MS-fanboys just don't get it." And your first line "Comments like these just flow over from ignorance and stupidity." So to reiterate my point was that from what I've seen "Linux zealots" in general seem to be far more derogatory towards "MS-Fanboys" than the other way around, and in my mind insulting people's intelligence is not the best way of winning an argument.
I've personally never used Linux, the reason being I've never had any major problems with windows, and my work revolves around several windows specific coding tools. I'm also a "gamer" and many games will of course only run on windows, though I don't own a basement (perhaps you could elaborate on why windows is the best choice of OS for a pc in a basement?) The parent comment may have been incorrect but it was not rude nor did it suggest anyone was stupid or ignorant. Time and again I see "zealots" making derogatory comments about windows "fanboys" which in my opinion comes across as childish and small minded. Not everyone wants the hassle of switching OS or running duel boot systems that does not mean they are stupid, ignorant or "fanboys".
Just my 2 cent, first off I kindof agree with the gist of what you said, no need to spend a lot on fancy stuff etc. But that said, it can be worth your while spending a little extra on the case. My full tower case cost a little over 100 euro but it takes a lot of the headaches out of tinkering with the component of my pc. For my money (spent over 3 years ago) I get rails for the drives, room for any amount of fans, well laid out ventilation etc. Quite fan sinks are usually huge, but my case leaves plenty of room to install them for example. Anyway the cheapest steel case you can find isn't always the best is my point, aside from anything chances are the PSU supplied with a cheap case will be rubbish. Regarding noise reduction I wouldn't recommend putting a fan on the top of the case or in the front where it's closer to you. To me it make more sense to me to vent air from the rear top of the case with a large diameter fan where it's hot (most PSU's fill this role) and to suck air into the case at the bottom. Though personally I haven't invested any time researching what's the best fan configuration, so I could of course be wrong.
"Windows elitist attitude" I'm not sure where you're going with that. As a company Microsoft will push their product as the "best", I assume the same is true for the different flavours of Linux (which I know nothing about). Nth best OS with more holes than you could shake a stick at just wouldn't sell as well. If you are referring to users, I'm sure there are some out there who have this attitude you mention, however I've never met one of them. Every windows user I've ever met, from the know-it-alls to my neighbour who needs help with antivirus software complains, but simply couldn't be bothered learning anything new(myself included). Windows is the OS installed on the machine they buy, its the OS that everyone sees advertised on TV etc and guess what, thats what makes it the OS they choose to use. It rarely has anything to do with informed choice.
I'd hardly refer to my post as a theory, but anyway, no I did not imply anything of the sort. That said if "Ubuntu" also mentioned that the new feature was a humongous security risk then yes I believe it would be ok. No one forces you to use it after all do they? "A security vulnerability giving a "regular" user full access to a machine is a security vulnerability no matter what the OS" Absolutely correct, but as with the parent post it doesn't relate to a users default access rights in Windows. If an administrator creates a user account in windows and wants it to be limited then they should set it to limited. If they do not, then there is a serious security bug, which resides between the administrator's keyboard and chair. Not everyone agrees with the whole default admin rights(myself included) but to the best of my knowledge that in and of itself does not allow regular ie: non admin users to have admin rights, whereas the Ubuntu vulnerability did.
Yes and no, for things like flickr I agree 100% the search criteria could become hopelesssly complex, at least for the average Joe Soap at any rate. However assuming that all the material is p0rnograhic in nature(though this would apply to anything though of course), you could tailor the search page with that in mind. Then it wouldn't have to just a series of dropdowns or whatever. For example everyresult set returned could have one control pic which has more tags than usual. You could open that pic and click on hair, eyes, feet, whatever floats your boat and that would act as a filter for further searches etc. In theory this could work on a more generic and broader scale to cover all of flicker or zoomer or whatever but the work required to set up the filter pictures would go through the roof as would the confusion for the end user.
How is the fact that by default a user has administrator rights on a windows machine relevant? It mightn't be a great idea, cough, but it's documented, it's by design and it's a well known security risk that anyone with half a brain cell knows how to rectify. This post relates to a BUG, an unknown security risk, which until it was discovered, left systems vulnerable. Get off your high horse; this has nothing to do with windows v Linux or what ever.
She could even tell if you're excited or not.