Everyone will give points to moderators and administrators. Why? Who knows. Maybe they think it's like a bribe.
Lots of people who contribute won't be noticed by everyone who's giving mods, admins, and big editors/posters points. Thus these people end up not getting points. Unless:
Everyone gets a point for every day they do something on wikipedia and don't get marked as a vandal, for example.
People have unlimited points to give or are otherwise set up with limitations that encourage wider spreading of points.
The minority in any issue, even if their stance is perfectly valid, legal, and within boundries of freedom of speech, and allowable by the rules, could theoretically get ranked down into oblivion. Fortunately I think Wiki's community is more mature than this.
Because my school's network is prejudiced against IRC connections. They last maybe all of 5 seconds. IRC over SSL works fine, but unfortunately not all networks support it. Only downside to using tor for IRC is that some idiots have gone and gotten some tor nodes glined (ie banned).
Luckily tor servers are run by people from all over the world. It would have to take a very large cooperative international effort in order to bring down tor... hopefully the majority of governments realize that would be a stupid idea.
Wow, you believe what a random guy wrote on a random website? OK How about I try:
ZoneAlarm is NOT malware.
Haha! You're confused now!
And as for that webpage, if the author simply didn't make their button url have the word "advert" in it it probably wouldn't be blocked by ZoneAlarm, durr. Adblock knows better than to let "advert"s though as well.
Now when I forget about a paper, I can just print out some pages of Lorem Ipsum! Then when the prof goes to read my paper, he won't be able to find it, and in the meantime I'll have finished it. Then he'll have to ask me to print him another copy, bwhahaa.
Vista's default file access settings prohibit the access of any hard drive partitions except your Vista one. So you have to go and Take Ownership of every item on every drive, and then give yourself Full Control permissions to be able to use the drive. It's quite annoying, but luckily it's faster in RC1 than B2.
I wrote a term paper on the Enigma. The bombe was possibly named after the dessert you found a definition of. Another possible reason for the name was the ticking sound that it made as it ran, which stopped if it had found a possible solution.
What OS are YOU using that it doesn't free memory allocated to a process after the process exits? Upgrade to something released this millennium, thanks. Windows NT based OSs and Linux are both acceptable.
Sadly I see the grandparent's attitude among many otherwise smart Christians (I myself am a Christian... just to get that out of the way). Many mistakenly think that evolution contradicts the creation story and they insist it's wrong. They won't even take the time to learn about it or, in the case of private Christian schools, teach it. I didn't learn about evolution in a classroom setting until I was 19, but I'm glad I did. My picture of my faith now encompasses evolution, just like it encompasses a round earth that isn't in the center of the universe--Remember that whole Galileo thing, the church messed up real bad there, and I can't help but thing we're doing EXACTLY THE SAME THING AGAIN. All the independant scientific evidence to support evolution can't be ignored. We as Christians need to acknowledge several things: 1) The core of our belief is that Jesus Christ came to earth to in human form to show his love for us and to give us the chance to have a relationship with him. Evolution does not change this. 2) The Bible is not a scientific textbook and should not be treated as one. Jesus spoke to his people though parables all the time... why would God have chosen a 100% accurate word-for-word report on the beginning of life? Note I am just saying we should be more open-minded about this. 3) Evolution does not say God did not create the world, it merely changes the way He created it. I find it much more exciting to think that God planned the entire process of evolution, and the path of every thing on this world, from the beginning to the end of time, and then started everything rolling and let nature itself take over. After all, God is unchanging, right? Why would he then shape and mold the world for a week and then completely withdraw from managing nature? I'm not saying God is absent in the world... indeed, his current presence has simply been unwavering since the beginning of time.
As you can see I've thought a bit about this, and this excites me. So to my fellow Christians: don't be ignorant about Evoltion, get yourself educated and open your mind! Just like Galileo did.
On the other hand, if the guard only stopped people who he wasn't sure had paid for their items, he could be accused of racial/gender/age/etc profiling, regardless if it was true or not.
A policy to verify with EVERYONE at least ensures this can't happen.
As for me, a college student with no car, I do all my shopping online.
OK let's be sure we are both on the same page. When Explorer loads a plugin, the DLL is loaded into memory and mapped into Explorer's address space. Then the Explorer program counter (the variable that stores which machine instruction Explorer is currently on) jumps into the DLL's address space.
From here, Explorer cannot control what happens, as the DLL has taken control. Under normal circumstances, the DLL finishes quickly so as to not freeze explorer (some programs, and maybe even Explorer, I don't know, may opt to launch the plugin on a separate thread so it doesn't have to worry about this problem) and returns. However, if something happens (invalid memory access, divide by 0, etc) Windows sees the plugin executing, recognizes the thread belongs to Explorer.
Now here is where we disagree. According to you, Windows should figure out how to jump back into Explorer's memory space somewhere. Under.NET this is exactly what happens, as.NET would catch memory errors and divide by 0 errors before they happen, and then move the program counter to the closest layered try/catch block.
Except this isn't.NET, and the error occurs. Windows catches the error instead. I believe it is possible at this point for a program-defined function to run (Firefox runs it's Feedback program at this point) but the function CANNOT access anything in the bigger program, lest IT risk crashing too, as there's no way to know where the program was when it crashed, especially given some programs inject DLLs into every process. After the function returns, Windows kills the current thread and pops up the dialog box. Once you click "Close", Windows kills the process and all the other threads attached to it (hence why you can sometimes continue using some programs and leave the error box sitting there, the crash happened on a different thread from the UI thread).
I'm a CS major in college, I knew how to use DOS when I was 4 and I learned my first programming language when I was 8. Most of my Windows programming is in.NET but I have had decent experience with native Win32 code as well. I think I know what I'm talking about.
I have not seen ANY Windows thread recover in the way you say it should, under 3.1, 95, 98, ME, NT, 2K, XP, or Vista. They just crash..NET is a different story, but Windows Explorer is not written in.NET.
Windows Explorer's job is not to recover gracefully from errors.... that's part of.NET's job. Explorer's job is to provide a basic interface for interacting with Windows and your computer and your applications.
Microsoft WAS going to recode Explorer in.NET, but that got scrapped along with WinFX and everything else when they started panicking about time constraints. Eventually we might have Windows Explorer.NET, but until then plugins that access null pointers or divide by zero or overflow their memory allocations are going to crash the host program. There is no way around it. I'm still not ruling out Microsoft's fault in DivX crashing, but I find it far more likely DivX is at fault, and at the very least you can't just ignore the posibility.
Unmanaged Microsoft VS6 C++ does have some exception handling support, but from what I can see it appear to only work when triggered manually with a throw statement. It can't catch null pointers or memory overflows like.NET can (because it's UNMANAGED). Thus even in one of these blocks a program can easily crash.
You yourself admit it's a third-party plugin that has problems. Maybe it's a bug in Microsoft's own API impelmentation and DivX uses it as it should be used... but it could also be just as likely (if not moreso) that DivX might have cut corners and not followed the API as Microsoft designed it. That may have worked fine in XP but Vista might handle the API differently enough that the hacks no longer work. You can't know who's fault it is for sure unless you disassemble everything and take a look at it in assembly code. I'm guessing you haven't done this, so until you do or read something by someone who has, please don't assume it's Microsoft's fault and go on a bashing spree.
On a related note, imo DivX codec sucks, I installed it once and then every time I played a DivX video it chugged away, and popped up a TRAY ICON. Why does a codec need a TRAY ICON. What's worse is when Picasa indexed my videos and DivX slowed it's indexing down to a crawl while it's icon constantly poked in and out of my system tray. I'll stick to whatever superior codec [url=http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html]mpl ayer[/url] ships with (probably XviD).
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So a politician who we thought was an idiot turns out to be a visionary? This challenges my whole worldview! >:(
Sysinternals made a really nice BSoD screensaver for Windows.
Because my school's network is prejudiced against IRC connections. They last maybe all of 5 seconds. IRC over SSL works fine, but unfortunately not all networks support it. Only downside to using tor for IRC is that some idiots have gone and gotten some tor nodes glined (ie banned).
Luckily tor servers are run by people from all over the world. It would have to take a very large cooperative international effort in order to bring down tor... hopefully the majority of governments realize that would be a stupid idea.
Wow, you believe what a random guy wrote on a random website? OK How about I try:
ZoneAlarm is NOT malware.
Haha! You're confused now!
And as for that webpage, if the author simply didn't make their button url have the word "advert" in it it probably wouldn't be blocked by ZoneAlarm, durr. Adblock knows better than to let "advert"s though as well.
All their visual and aural assets are likely based off of Halo concepts and designs. They'd have to remake everything but the coding.
Yeah I just finished watching it.
They've had one for over a year now, but they've never actually used their stardrive to date.
Ummm buy a new motherboard? Duh.
Crazy awesome!
He's got a gun!
Actually it was useful, as you could use it to see the names of the Anti-Facebook News Feed groups everyone was joining. ;)
The sibling posts say it all... but keep in mind the Wii is supposed to have a direct monitor connection port. So I'd think it would support LCDs. :)
Now when I forget about a paper, I can just print out some pages of Lorem Ipsum! Then when the prof goes to read my paper, he won't be able to find it, and in the meantime I'll have finished it. Then he'll have to ask me to print him another copy, bwhahaa.
Vista prompts you during first boot if you want to use automatic updates. You are allowed to opt out of the feature.
Vista's default file access settings prohibit the access of any hard drive partitions except your Vista one. So you have to go and Take Ownership of every item on every drive, and then give yourself Full Control permissions to be able to use the drive. It's quite annoying, but luckily it's faster in RC1 than B2.
I wrote a term paper on the Enigma. The bombe was possibly named after the dessert you found a definition of. Another possible reason for the name was the ticking sound that it made as it ran, which stopped if it had found a possible solution.
What OS are YOU using that it doesn't free memory allocated to a process after the process exits? Upgrade to something released this millennium, thanks. Windows NT based OSs and Linux are both acceptable.
Sadly I see the grandparent's attitude among many otherwise smart Christians (I myself am a Christian... just to get that out of the way). Many mistakenly think that evolution contradicts the creation story and they insist it's wrong. They won't even take the time to learn about it or, in the case of private Christian schools, teach it. I didn't learn about evolution in a classroom setting until I was 19, but I'm glad I did. My picture of my faith now encompasses evolution, just like it encompasses a round earth that isn't in the center of the universe--Remember that whole Galileo thing, the church messed up real bad there, and I can't help but thing we're doing EXACTLY THE SAME THING AGAIN. All the independant scientific evidence to support evolution can't be ignored. We as Christians need to acknowledge several things: 1) The core of our belief is that Jesus Christ came to earth to in human form to show his love for us and to give us the chance to have a relationship with him. Evolution does not change this. 2) The Bible is not a scientific textbook and should not be treated as one. Jesus spoke to his people though parables all the time... why would God have chosen a 100% accurate word-for-word report on the beginning of life? Note I am just saying we should be more open-minded about this. 3) Evolution does not say God did not create the world, it merely changes the way He created it. I find it much more exciting to think that God planned the entire process of evolution, and the path of every thing on this world, from the beginning to the end of time, and then started everything rolling and let nature itself take over. After all, God is unchanging, right? Why would he then shape and mold the world for a week and then completely withdraw from managing nature? I'm not saying God is absent in the world... indeed, his current presence has simply been unwavering since the beginning of time.
As you can see I've thought a bit about this, and this excites me. So to my fellow Christians: don't be ignorant about Evoltion, get yourself educated and open your mind! Just like Galileo did.
If you are using a Right-To-Left language, Windows will reverse most of this stuff for you.
Of course, this includes menus, windows... everything mirrored.
It's all or nothing.
if the first articles scanned and posted were related to the creation of the Internet.
On the other hand, if the guard only stopped people who he wasn't sure had paid for their items, he could be accused of racial/gender/age/etc profiling, regardless if it was true or not.
A policy to verify with EVERYONE at least ensures this can't happen.
As for me, a college student with no car, I do all my shopping online.
OK let's be sure we are both on the same page. When Explorer loads a plugin, the DLL is loaded into memory and mapped into Explorer's address space. Then the Explorer program counter (the variable that stores which machine instruction Explorer is currently on) jumps into the DLL's address space.
From here, Explorer cannot control what happens, as the DLL has taken control. Under normal circumstances, the DLL finishes quickly so as to not freeze explorer (some programs, and maybe even Explorer, I don't know, may opt to launch the plugin on a separate thread so it doesn't have to worry about this problem) and returns. However, if something happens (invalid memory access, divide by 0, etc) Windows sees the plugin executing, recognizes the thread belongs to Explorer.
Now here is where we disagree. According to you, Windows should figure out how to jump back into Explorer's memory space somewhere. Under .NET this is exactly what happens, as .NET would catch memory errors and divide by 0 errors before they happen, and then move the program counter to the closest layered try/catch block.
Except this isn't .NET, and the error occurs. Windows catches the error instead. I believe it is possible at this point for a program-defined function to run (Firefox runs it's Feedback program at this point) but the function CANNOT access anything in the bigger program, lest IT risk crashing too, as there's no way to know where the program was when it crashed, especially given some programs inject DLLs into every process. After the function returns, Windows kills the current thread and pops up the dialog box. Once you click "Close", Windows kills the process and all the other threads attached to it (hence why you can sometimes continue using some programs and leave the error box sitting there, the crash happened on a different thread from the UI thread).
I'm a CS major in college, I knew how to use DOS when I was 4 and I learned my first programming language when I was 8. Most of my Windows programming is in .NET but I have had decent experience with native Win32 code as well. I think I know what I'm talking about.
I have not seen ANY Windows thread recover in the way you say it should, under 3.1, 95, 98, ME, NT, 2K, XP, or Vista. They just crash. .NET is a different story, but Windows Explorer is not written in .NET.
Windows Explorer's job is not to recover gracefully from errors.... that's part of .NET's job. Explorer's job is to provide a basic interface for interacting with Windows and your computer and your applications.
Microsoft WAS going to recode Explorer in .NET, but that got scrapped along with WinFX and everything else when they started panicking about time constraints. Eventually we might have Windows Explorer.NET, but until then plugins that access null pointers or divide by zero or overflow their memory allocations are going to crash the host program. There is no way around it. I'm still not ruling out Microsoft's fault in DivX crashing, but I find it far more likely DivX is at fault, and at the very least you can't just ignore the posibility.
Unmanaged Microsoft VS6 C++ does have some exception handling support, but from what I can see it appear to only work when triggered manually with a throw statement. It can't catch null pointers or memory overflows like .NET can (because it's UNMANAGED). Thus even in one of these blocks a program can easily crash.
Well good thing it's shipping in January then! That gives them 2-3 more months to work on it!
You yourself admit it's a third-party plugin that has problems. Maybe it's a bug in Microsoft's own API impelmentation and DivX uses it as it should be used... but it could also be just as likely (if not moreso) that DivX might have cut corners and not followed the API as Microsoft designed it. That may have worked fine in XP but Vista might handle the API differently enough that the hacks no longer work. You can't know who's fault it is for sure unless you disassemble everything and take a look at it in assembly code. I'm guessing you haven't done this, so until you do or read something by someone who has, please don't assume it's Microsoft's fault and go on a bashing spree.
On a related note, imo DivX codec sucks, I installed it once and then every time I played a DivX video it chugged away, and popped up a TRAY ICON. Why does a codec need a TRAY ICON. What's worse is when Picasa indexed my videos and DivX slowed it's indexing down to a crawl while it's icon constantly poked in and out of my system tray. I'll stick to whatever superior codec [url=http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html]mpl ayer[/url] ships with (probably XviD).