Or you could just smuggle it to the target area in an actual Mack truck - a helluva lot less suspicious, and slightly harder to find than just watching a radar display for aircraft...
I can't say much about it, but maybe they have visual confirmation of the satellites (US or not), possibly with US markings or corporate insignia on them?
DISCLAIMER: I don't write JavaScript and I can't code Java, so if somebody else who does comes and explains it better, they probably know what they're talking about a bit more than I can...
Nope - one of the first things any serious programmer I've ever talked to will say (and remind people of every chance they get) is that JavaScript is not Java.
JavaScript is a scripting language that is parsed every time it is run in the same manner that HTML is parsed for formatting whenever a browser loads HTML or JavaScript code, and the 2 are often mixed in the same plain-text document. Java, however, must be compiled into bytecode and then run inside of a JVM (Java Virtual Machine). The JVM is what allows the compiled Java program to run on any machine with the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) installed without the person who wrote the code having to recompile it for every target machine it will be run on (Windows, Mac, Linux, x86, x86-64b, etc). JavaScript is able to run on any JavaScript browser because it is parsed every time you run it - almost like compiling your code every time and then only keeping the result in memory instead of saving it.
Umm... no... It's a webpage using AJAX tricks and DHTML to draw boxes that look like windows and can be dragged around with buttons, menus, and fields that people would typically see on a workstation GUI. So for example you right click on the "desktop" (webpage backdrop) and it uses a script to bring up what looks something like the desktop context menu you would see with the same action on an actual Windows or Linux workstation desktop...
Columns-UI,
add a pane somewhere for selecting playlists, and then context/right-click in that area and select "New" - drag and drop your songs in, and save then save it as m3u, fpl, etc...
For importing playlists, do the same thing up to creating a new one but do "Load" instead...
It's like how using "su -" gives you more privileges than just "su" on a *nix box - just get into the habit of doing it that way and it works (or at least for me - YMMV)...
And then if you get Xming, you can tunnel your Linux apps over to your Windows client. The reasons Xming is superior to Cygwin/X for minimal installations is:
A: It actually gets updated (the last time Cygwin/X was updated was summer of 2005)
B: What if I don't want the entire Cygwin package? Xming is packaged nicely into a typical exe installer Windows users are familiar with.
Also, unless the applications you want to use with Xming have any odd special requirements, it saves you from having to pay for something like Hummingbird Exceed...
While this is a Wired story, and I usually don't put much faith in the validity of anything technical they write, but this "coupons.com" sounds like your everyday malware to me. Quote TFA:
The coupons are distributed by Mountain View, California-based Coupons Inc. through ad banners, e-mail and its website, coupons.com. To use them, consumers must install Coupons Inc.'s proprietary software. The software assigns each user's computer a unique identifier, which the company uses to track and control the consumer's coupon-printing practices, usually limiting each user to two coupons per product. Each printed coupon has its own unique serial code.
While it sounds like the guy is definitely violating the TOS, what kind of respectable site with a purpose as mundane as this requires you to download proprietary software and make registry changes so you can print _fscking_coupons_ (AFAIK local grocery store corporate sites tend to have printable coupons as either GIF/JPG images or maybe a PDF)??? I'd call him an idiot whether he's guilty of the accused charges or not for even going to such a website (sounds EXACTLY like every other domain with a site just waiting to install malware).
I looked at the "12 point plan" link in the summary, and it looks like the homepage-redesign they are talking about is making it look more friendly and colorful, along with the page for downloading the Firefox installer by putting images on it detailing some of the steps people might get stuck on like that most people should just click the "run this program instead of saving it" dialog option and another page to show the benefits of Firefox using less content on the page (to help less "technically apt" people be able to comprehend a bit better). Another interesting thing is to make a task-switcher come up when you press control+tab or whatever to switch tabs in the manner of "the WinXP Power-toys task-switcher" which would help promote people still used to IE to use tabs instead of opening new windows for example. The bad thing about the task switching feature they proposed is that a lot of people wouldn't like it and would consider it to be bloat, but if they provided options to turn it off that it might make the options dialog seem more cluttered/complex. Another objective is to change the name of the desktop/quick-launch/dock icon that the Firefox installer creates to "make it closer resemble the action of getting on the web". This is mostly to help get the people who think that the only way to browse the web is to "click the blue e on the desktop" to understand that clicking Firefox will get them on the same web as IE. Another part of that objective (renaming the icon) is to have the installer position it in an easier to find place on the Windows quick-launch bar and the like...
Mostly its redesigning a few Mozilla pages to be friendlier to people who are less computer literate and some other marketing and "think outside the box" seminar type stuff.
I'll have to give Ubuntu a go on that machine again then... Would your Acer machine also happen to have an internal Broadcom Airforce (don't remember which exactly) wifi working "out of the box" (or close to out of box) under recent Ubuntu spins? I've gone from Fedora to Debian so far, but somewhat stayed away from Ubuntu because it indescribably feels somehow "dirty" to me...
As an added note, I haven't gotten that ATI graphics to work using either the ATI drivers from the ATI/AMD site or any of the ones I've seen in Fedora or Debian Etch repos (for respective distros). Like I said, so far the video output itself works and I can get a GUI with default installs, but not having hardware acceleration has been kinda a bummer, so it'll be nice if Ubuntu works after trying it again...
No - I don't even care if its free (F/LOSS free). As long as it fucking works and gives me 3D hardware acceleration under Linux on my laptop, I'll be happy (Radeon xpress 200m)...
Not necessarily - people will be sold on "Super Crazy Ninja Vista Ultimate Media Center Laptop" sales at Best Buy due to the "uber-enhanced media capabilities", and then when they go on a long flight and want to watch movies, how many of these people do you think will take the laptop but forget they can play movies on it and go spend an extra $300 to 400 USD on a standalone portable DVD-player device?
It's not just a case of pot-head room-mates, less technically apt-people seem to associate certain functions with devices advertised to to just that and go purchase it when they already have a much more powerful/useful device already (Vista or not, just about any laptop is going to be more useful than a standalone DVD player)
First off - the entire point of CentOS is so people that want whatever stability RHEL offers but can at least touch CLI and use Google (and don't mind/prefer it that way) don't have to dish out an extra couple hundred bucks for support they don't want/need. Second, the point of CentOS isn't to "update" code in RHEL - its to provide the previously mentioned people with an exact copy of RHEL minus the Red Hat artwork (and maybe 1 or 2 other things stated by the Red Hat redistribution guide-lines). This means that if I'm running CentOS and some idiot package needs the certain parts of code or package names to be exactly the same as on RHEL, CentOS isn't making undocumented changes thats going to break my "Super Ultimate RHEL5 only" package installation...
Mod the parent up - liquid cooled HDD's aren't new at all. Maybe this model is or its one more company manufacturing the stuff, but definitely not new, and though a lot of us here on/. are gear-heads that look at just about everything on the market before making a buy, it definitely isn't news for nerds - TFA states its for desktops and
"To do this, NEC and Hitachi actually wrap the hard drive in "noise absorbing material and vibration insulation."
Which sounds exactly like every HDD cooling kit I've heard of.
The only way I could see somebody having a "need" for something like this is if they were "serious" and going to spend loads of cash on an HTPC rig where they wanted to silence their HDD's in it - except anybody that wants to put in that much effort is likely going to keep HDD's out of the front-end and use a small CF card or USB flash drive instead and make a back-end server to sit in the closet with all the storage HDD's...
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Mod the parent insightful - even if it totally fails as a video format or for games, it would still be useful for things like data backups (if it got cheap enough), maybe even to the point that it would be worth it for the average Joe Sixpack to perform bi-annual backups of his desktop or laptop (or for the bit-torrent people, all of the Battle Star Galactica episodes they've downloaded for example).
This has absolutely nothing to do with corruption or the massive amounts of money he didn't receive from oil companies for the home he didn't remodel - the FBI just got tired of the damned "internet=tubes, !=trucks" jokes. Next up: I've got tin-foil hats for sale to whoever came up with the backwards Russia joke and the bastard responsible for captioning cats, cuz they're gonna need 'em!
Because all of the other laptops are 15 inch screens and weigh at least 5 to 6 pounds (if you're lucky) - this is just under 2lbs with a 7 inch screen. All other super-small notebooks on the market are currently about $1100 to $1500 USD EASILY, and even with the other 2 subnotebooks coming out soon - the VIA Nanobook and PALM Foleo are both around 500 to 600 USD for extremely close to the same specs.
I thought large numbers of machines in China used the proprietary Loongson/Godson series of processors (proprietary modified MIPS) for various reasons, the first of which I would see as to prevent operating systems not authorized by the Chinese govt from running (for example it might aid in their Great Firewall of China). Supposedly they are comparable to P4's but with a lower production cost, and is one less thing China has to import or license from foreign countries.
I'm not sure just how many PC's in China run these things, but if the number of x86 or normal MIPS and PPC machines running in China, but if those numbers are insignificant compared to the Loongson series, just how does MS plan to sell Windows to people that can't even run it?
I don't see why they don't solve this by having a custom prefix to the extension download URI - something like thunderbird://addons.mozilla.org/*/*/tbird_extensi on.xpi. Even if you don't have Thunderbird open at the time, it would open automatically, and then realize its being fed an.xpi format extension and automatically prompt to install it.
Maybe it introduces security risks I suppose, but the extension could be signed with an encryption key and checked against a Mozilla/TBird-team database to make sure that not only you don't have extensions getting installed by non-white-listed sites, but I think would also make it harder to spoof TBird into accepting fake signatures. This would really only be needed I think if you wanted to be able to install TBird extensions from say Opera or IE - it could be done away with if TBird extensions could only be installed through Firefox (and just use a white-list maintained in/by Firefox), except then a lot of people would cry foul play for the process being less open and negatively effect people who for example use TBird but Opera or IE for their browser (work place policies, personal preference, etc)...
Now to wait and see if people flame me for not submitting it straight Mozilla - I'm sure other people have thought of this, since I just did in the past few minutes here (didn't even have it thought out all the way when I started posting, but it could surely be refined)...
Well, I guess the retro-futuristic cathode tube computers in the Fallout series will be trumped by an even more retro-ish mechanical processing power...
Except that is a PDA - I would say that something like the Asus Eee PC would be more comparable to the XO-1 (OLPC $100). I'd actually just heard about it the other day, but Asus is apparently aiming for a launch price of about $200 to 250 USD (from what I've read). Their launch date is in August and is supposed to run Xandros Linux with a customized small screen GUI using a tabbed interface, but obviously you could just put Debian or Fedora on it if you wanted.
It's supposed to target "regular" people, as in college students and middle-aged to seniors who just want to load photos from their camera, mild word processing, and wifi. It sounds like a lot of what this version of Xandros is made of is OpenOffice, Firefox, Kopete, and links to places like Wikipedia on the tabbed "desktop". I really don't care for using Xandros, but I guess it would have a more polished UI for the less computer literate than the typical GNOME, KDE, or Xfce desktop.
They look pretty nice, I've been drooling over ultra-portables lately as the laptop I've got now weighs about 7 or 8 lbs (a 15.4" Compaq). The problem with all the other ultra-portables I've looked at is they're around $1100 to 1500 USD new or about $500 for a beat up used IBM x40 series (before the Lenovo merger IBM models) on eBay. If Asus actually does launch these at $200 or even 250 USD in August, I think I'll probably get one...
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Or you could just smuggle it to the target area in an actual Mack truck - a helluva lot less suspicious, and slightly harder to find than just watching a radar display for aircraft...
I can't say much about it, but maybe they have visual confirmation of the satellites (US or not), possibly with US markings or corporate insignia on them?
DISCLAIMER: I don't write JavaScript and I can't code Java, so if somebody else who does comes and explains it better, they probably know what they're talking about a bit more than I can...
Nope - one of the first things any serious programmer I've ever talked to will say (and remind people of every chance they get) is that JavaScript is not Java.
JavaScript is a scripting language that is parsed every time it is run in the same manner that HTML is parsed for formatting whenever a browser loads HTML or JavaScript code, and the 2 are often mixed in the same plain-text document. Java, however, must be compiled into bytecode and then run inside of a JVM (Java Virtual Machine). The JVM is what allows the compiled Java program to run on any machine with the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) installed without the person who wrote the code having to recompile it for every target machine it will be run on (Windows, Mac, Linux, x86, x86-64b, etc). JavaScript is able to run on any JavaScript browser because it is parsed every time you run it - almost like compiling your code every time and then only keeping the result in memory instead of saving it.
Umm... no... It's a webpage using AJAX tricks and DHTML to draw boxes that look like windows and can be dragged around with buttons, menus, and fields that people would typically see on a workstation GUI. So for example you right click on the "desktop" (webpage backdrop) and it uses a script to bring up what looks something like the desktop context menu you would see with the same action on an actual Windows or Linux workstation desktop...
Columns-UI, add a pane somewhere for selecting playlists, and then context/right-click in that area and select "New" - drag and drop your songs in, and save then save it as m3u, fpl, etc...
For importing playlists, do the same thing up to creating a new one but do "Load" instead...
It's like how using "su -" gives you more privileges than just "su" on a *nix box - just get into the habit of doing it that way and it works (or at least for me - YMMV)...
- A: It actually gets updated (the last time Cygwin/X was updated was summer of 2005)
- B: What if I don't want the entire Cygwin package? Xming is packaged nicely into a typical exe installer Windows users are familiar with.
Also, unless the applications you want to use with Xming have any odd special requirements, it saves you from having to pay for something like Hummingbird Exceed...I looked at the "12 point plan" link in the summary, and it looks like the homepage-redesign they are talking about is making it look more friendly and colorful, along with the page for downloading the Firefox installer by putting images on it detailing some of the steps people might get stuck on like that most people should just click the "run this program instead of saving it" dialog option and another page to show the benefits of Firefox using less content on the page (to help less "technically apt" people be able to comprehend a bit better). Another interesting thing is to make a task-switcher come up when you press control+tab or whatever to switch tabs in the manner of "the WinXP Power-toys task-switcher" which would help promote people still used to IE to use tabs instead of opening new windows for example. The bad thing about the task switching feature they proposed is that a lot of people wouldn't like it and would consider it to be bloat, but if they provided options to turn it off that it might make the options dialog seem more cluttered/complex. Another objective is to change the name of the desktop/quick-launch/dock icon that the Firefox installer creates to "make it closer resemble the action of getting on the web". This is mostly to help get the people who think that the only way to browse the web is to "click the blue e on the desktop" to understand that clicking Firefox will get them on the same web as IE. Another part of that objective (renaming the icon) is to have the installer position it in an easier to find place on the Windows quick-launch bar and the like...
Mostly its redesigning a few Mozilla pages to be friendlier to people who are less computer literate and some other marketing and "think outside the box" seminar type stuff.
I'll have to give Ubuntu a go on that machine again then... Would your Acer machine also happen to have an internal Broadcom Airforce (don't remember which exactly) wifi working "out of the box" (or close to out of box) under recent Ubuntu spins? I've gone from Fedora to Debian so far, but somewhat stayed away from Ubuntu because it indescribably feels somehow "dirty" to me...
As an added note, I haven't gotten that ATI graphics to work using either the ATI drivers from the ATI/AMD site or any of the ones I've seen in Fedora or Debian Etch repos (for respective distros). Like I said, so far the video output itself works and I can get a GUI with default installs, but not having hardware acceleration has been kinda a bummer, so it'll be nice if Ubuntu works after trying it again...
No - I don't even care if its free (F/LOSS free). As long as it fucking works and gives me 3D hardware acceleration under Linux on my laptop, I'll be happy (Radeon xpress 200m)...
Not necessarily - people will be sold on "Super Crazy Ninja Vista Ultimate Media Center Laptop" sales at Best Buy due to the "uber-enhanced media capabilities", and then when they go on a long flight and want to watch movies, how many of these people do you think will take the laptop but forget they can play movies on it and go spend an extra $300 to 400 USD on a standalone portable DVD-player device?
It's not just a case of pot-head room-mates, less technically apt-people seem to associate certain functions with devices advertised to to just that and go purchase it when they already have a much more powerful/useful device already (Vista or not, just about any laptop is going to be more useful than a standalone DVD player)
Ah, so *that's* why your last name is Norris!
Hell, I thought you were going to tell 'em to switch to Geico...
First off - the entire point of CentOS is so people that want whatever stability RHEL offers but can at least touch CLI and use Google (and don't mind/prefer it that way) don't have to dish out an extra couple hundred bucks for support they don't want/need. Second, the point of CentOS isn't to "update" code in RHEL - its to provide the previously mentioned people with an exact copy of RHEL minus the Red Hat artwork (and maybe 1 or 2 other things stated by the Red Hat redistribution guide-lines). This means that if I'm running CentOS and some idiot package needs the certain parts of code or package names to be exactly the same as on RHEL, CentOS isn't making undocumented changes thats going to break my "Super Ultimate RHEL5 only" package installation...
As a side note, I prefer Debian...
The only way I could see somebody having a "need" for something like this is if they were "serious" and going to spend loads of cash on an HTPC rig where they wanted to silence their HDD's in it - except anybody that wants to put in that much effort is likely going to keep HDD's out of the front-end and use a small CF card or USB flash drive instead and make a back-end server to sit in the closet with all the storage HDD's...
Mod the parent insightful - even if it totally fails as a video format or for games, it would still be useful for things like data backups (if it got cheap enough), maybe even to the point that it would be worth it for the average Joe Sixpack to perform bi-annual backups of his desktop or laptop (or for the bit-torrent people, all of the Battle Star Galactica episodes they've downloaded for example).
And yet it's still probably cheaper for the porn companies to do it that way. If it really is cheaper to do so, why the hell not?
This has absolutely nothing to do with corruption or the massive amounts of money he didn't receive from oil companies for the home he didn't remodel - the FBI just got tired of the damned "internet=tubes, !=trucks" jokes. Next up: I've got tin-foil hats for sale to whoever came up with the backwards Russia joke and the bastard responsible for captioning cats, cuz they're gonna need 'em!
Because all of the other laptops are 15 inch screens and weigh at least 5 to 6 pounds (if you're lucky) - this is just under 2lbs with a 7 inch screen. All other super-small notebooks on the market are currently about $1100 to $1500 USD EASILY, and even with the other 2 subnotebooks coming out soon - the VIA Nanobook and PALM Foleo are both around 500 to 600 USD for extremely close to the same specs.
That's why you gotta get a Mr. Fusion installed!
I thought large numbers of machines in China used the proprietary Loongson/Godson series of processors (proprietary modified MIPS) for various reasons, the first of which I would see as to prevent operating systems not authorized by the Chinese govt from running (for example it might aid in their Great Firewall of China). Supposedly they are comparable to P4's but with a lower production cost, and is one less thing China has to import or license from foreign countries.
I'm not sure just how many PC's in China run these things, but if the number of x86 or normal MIPS and PPC machines running in China, but if those numbers are insignificant compared to the Loongson series, just how does MS plan to sell Windows to people that can't even run it?
I don't see why they don't solve this by having a custom prefix to the extension download URI - something like thunderbird://addons.mozilla.org/*/*/tbird_extensi on.xpi. Even if you don't have Thunderbird open at the time, it would open automatically, and then realize its being fed an .xpi format extension and automatically prompt to install it.
Maybe it introduces security risks I suppose, but the extension could be signed with an encryption key and checked against a Mozilla/TBird-team database to make sure that not only you don't have extensions getting installed by non-white-listed sites, but I think would also make it harder to spoof TBird into accepting fake signatures. This would really only be needed I think if you wanted to be able to install TBird extensions from say Opera or IE - it could be done away with if TBird extensions could only be installed through Firefox (and just use a white-list maintained in/by Firefox), except then a lot of people would cry foul play for the process being less open and negatively effect people who for example use TBird but Opera or IE for their browser (work place policies, personal preference, etc)...
Now to wait and see if people flame me for not submitting it straight Mozilla - I'm sure other people have thought of this, since I just did in the past few minutes here (didn't even have it thought out all the way when I started posting, but it could surely be refined)...
Well, I guess the retro-futuristic cathode tube computers in the Fallout series will be trumped by an even more retro-ish mechanical processing power...
Except that is a PDA - I would say that something like the Asus Eee PC would be more comparable to the XO-1 (OLPC $100). I'd actually just heard about it the other day, but Asus is apparently aiming for a launch price of about $200 to 250 USD (from what I've read). Their launch date is in August and is supposed to run Xandros Linux with a customized small screen GUI using a tabbed interface, but obviously you could just put Debian or Fedora on it if you wanted.
It's supposed to target "regular" people, as in college students and middle-aged to seniors who just want to load photos from their camera, mild word processing, and wifi. It sounds like a lot of what this version of Xandros is made of is OpenOffice, Firefox, Kopete, and links to places like Wikipedia on the tabbed "desktop". I really don't care for using Xandros, but I guess it would have a more polished UI for the less computer literate than the typical GNOME, KDE, or Xfce desktop.
They look pretty nice, I've been drooling over ultra-portables lately as the laptop I've got now weighs about 7 or 8 lbs (a 15.4" Compaq). The problem with all the other ultra-portables I've looked at is they're around $1100 to 1500 USD new or about $500 for a beat up used IBM x40 series (before the Lenovo merger IBM models) on eBay. If Asus actually does launch these at $200 or even 250 USD in August, I think I'll probably get one...