To be fair, you can do the same thing with Windows+R.
Windows+R, 'no' then drop down to the last time you typed it. Windows+R, '\\h' to \\herbert.
The gadget thing is also done (and done first) in Google Desktop. Funnily enough, you can also use it to do exactly the same thing with programs - pop up a launcher and find a program with 'backup' in it.
I'm not saying that the UI isn't different - by moving stuff around, some stuff gets faster. But some stuff gets slower.
I used to be able to right click my wireless card or my NIC, go to Status and see my IP address, or disable or renew it from the same menu.Now to do the same things I have to muck through like 3 pages.
My point is, they took a lot of the (genuinely well-placed) commands and moved them around. We each noticed something different - I noticed where it consistently slowed me down, and you noticed where it sped you up.
With SP1, it ran OK on my machine. 2gb ram, 7900GS, 2GHz C2D.
Then it started out-of-memory'ing me. Every day. I like to leave my machine up; it would last about 18 hours or less before I had to restart it.
After a restart, it ran fine.
There's no excuse for that. I doubt it was a driver issue - no hardware malfunctioned or anything with this. RAM was fine - a bit more than half-used (with Vista's caching) through the whole thing.
If an idle OS can't keep itself upright, I don't have much faith in it.
My laptop is a two-year-old beast. It is many times the minimum spec for Vista.
It's not a cheap POS, it was a high-end Dell laptop. They sent me a $10 upgrade to Vista because it came out a month after I bought it.
I ran it for a bit, but it was slow. So I ditched it and went back to XP.
I reformatted XP recently, and decided to try Vista again. After all, they had their service pack out.
It wasn't so much the slowness (which had been fixed... if you turn off most services) as the fact that it crashed every day. It would out-of-memory me with no programs open, close Aero, and give random errors. Webpages wouldn't render properly, windows would persist over each other... It was bad
There's no excuse for this. And I didn't have a memory leak, either - task manager didn't have me over about 700MB RAM.
I have a WRT54G (not the L, but before they went to that shitty crashy excuse of an OS.. v4 I think)
Before I had DD-WRT on it, I went to the Linksys website to download firmware updates. The source was available.
Has this since changed, or was it incomplete? I've always applauded Linksys (before they were Cisco) for specifically making the Linux-based GL for us tinkerers. You can pull off some cool shit with those routers.
Chill out. He explicitly targeted the women who were liable to say "God is a woman, men are dying out and women will take over the planet"
Most women I've met have a real problem with that kind of thinking, as it's no different than the male-oriented model we've had for thousands of years, just for women.
And most of the women I know are feminists. The equality type, not the 'women are better' type.
Having a problem with crazy people doesn't make you a "chauvinist pig"
impossible to copy the functionality of it without physical access to it.
*snap* I get it! We could have some sort of hardware dongle! Nobody could break that.
Sorry, that was harsh. I think something like the RSA SecureID cards are a lot more useful, as somebody mentioned above. You need the password and the random-but-synchronized 6 digit number that changes every 20 seconds. Damn near impossible to duplicate.
is that this is related to the attack on 'elitism', which has turned into an attack on the elite. There are a lot of stupid people, and a lot of smart people, but people (typically neo-Republicans) conflate elitism (being a dick in the fashion of 'i'm better than you') to being elite (in general, suceeding at life, often because/with education).
This selects against people who suceed at life, or people who look like they have suceeded at life. Because 'they can't relate to me' is more important than understanding a number of economic theories, or the culture of an enemy nation.
My (slightly) partisan guess, but I wouldn't be suprised.
In the 17 years since GPLv2 was published, the software patent landscape has changed considerably, and free software licenses have developed new strategies to address them. GPLv3 reflects these changes too. Whenever someone conveys software covered by GPLv3 that they've written or modified, they must provide every recipient with any patent licenses necessary to exercise the rights that the GPL gives them. In addition to that, if any licensee tries to use a patent suit to stop another user from exercising those rights, their license will be terminated.
What this means for users and developers is that they'll be able to work with GPLv3-covered software without worrying that a desperate contributor will try to sue them for patent infringement later. With these changes, GPLv3 affords its users more defenses against patent aggression than any other free software license.
That was actually kind of a big deal about the GPLv3. If you try and pull the stunt you're talking about, you suddenly can't use the code.
So that's the difference - you can't sue on it or you lose your license and have a major liability you didn't have before.
There are approximately 50 people per square mile in OK, and 1000/mi^2 in NJ. I'm not trying to dis your state, but there's a much more consistent problem with moving people out of the way in NJ - especially northeast NJ (near Newark, etc)
And I'd wager that there are far worse drivers in NJ... I've literally been cut off before (lights and siren) while pulling out of the fucking bay, right in front of the police station. They then proceeded to stop at the stop sign because of oncoming traffic... which we could've stopped.
Our ambulance is outfitted with just a regular Whelen siren, but we've considered airhorns in the past (real airhorns, not the fake electronic crap on the siren. Turns out people move if you sound like a train).
I even read about this particular siren last year, in the Whelen magazine we get every month or so. It looks like a bass amplifier with some nice subwoofers, for what it's worth.
In any case, we're in northeast NJ. Traffic sucks, drivers suck, and people do stupid shit all the time. An airhorn would be useful. But as for Oklahoma, I don't really know if this would be necessary. It's kinda empty...
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses (x) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected (x) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks (x) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it (x) Users of email will not put up with it (x) Microsoft will not put up with it (x) The police will not put up with it ( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers ( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once (x) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists (x) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
(x) Laws expressly prohibiting it ( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email ( ) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses (x) Asshats ( ) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money ( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email ( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches (x) Extreme profitability of spam ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft (x) Technically illiterate politicians (x) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers ( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering ( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud (x) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks (x) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Sending email should be free (x) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses (x) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email (x) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. (x) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. (x) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
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I call fud on this. Today I received a brand new laptop from Dell which I ordered last week. It came with Windows XP Pro.
From parent
It wasn't until the summer that MS allowed the option to pre-install XP again on machines.
.................
Jesus, it's right there in the comment.
Yeah, except it actually tries not to swap.
Unlike all flavors of Windows.
To be fair, you can do the same thing with Windows+R.
Windows+R, 'no' then drop down to the last time you typed it.
Windows+R, '\\h' to \\herbert.
The gadget thing is also done (and done first) in Google Desktop. Funnily enough, you can also use it to do exactly the same thing with programs - pop up a launcher and find a program with 'backup' in it.
I'm not saying that the UI isn't different - by moving stuff around, some stuff gets faster. But some stuff gets slower.
I used to be able to right click my wireless card or my NIC, go to Status and see my IP address, or disable or renew it from the same menu.Now to do the same things I have to muck through like 3 pages.
My point is, they took a lot of the (genuinely well-placed) commands and moved them around. We each noticed something different - I noticed where it consistently slowed me down, and you noticed where it sped you up.
Neither of us is 'more right'.
With SP1, it ran OK on my machine. 2gb ram, 7900GS, 2GHz C2D.
Then it started out-of-memory'ing me. Every day. I like to leave my machine up; it would last about 18 hours or less before I had to restart it.
After a restart, it ran fine.
There's no excuse for that. I doubt it was a driver issue - no hardware malfunctioned or anything with this. RAM was fine - a bit more than half-used (with Vista's caching) through the whole thing.
If an idle OS can't keep itself upright, I don't have much faith in it.
I push that, full settings, same resolution, in XP with a 7900GS Go (laptop model).
And I push that in Linux with (to be fair) DX8.1 forced.
My laptop is a two-year-old beast. It is many times the minimum spec for Vista.
It's not a cheap POS, it was a high-end Dell laptop. They sent me a $10 upgrade to Vista because it came out a month after I bought it.
I ran it for a bit, but it was slow. So I ditched it and went back to XP.
I reformatted XP recently, and decided to try Vista again. After all, they had their service pack out.
It wasn't so much the slowness (which had been fixed... if you turn off most services) as the fact that it crashed every day. It would out-of-memory me with no programs open, close Aero, and give random errors. Webpages wouldn't render properly, windows would persist over each other... It was bad
There's no excuse for this. And I didn't have a memory leak, either - task manager didn't have me over about 700MB RAM.
Linux actually has much better USB2 support than Windows... as in much better throughput. Each device gets to use more bandwidth.
COPPA applies to under-13 only.
See YrWrstNtmr's post.
I have a WRT54G (not the L, but before they went to that shitty crashy excuse of an OS.. v4 I think)
Before I had DD-WRT on it, I went to the Linksys website to download firmware updates. The source was available.
Has this since changed, or was it incomplete? I've always applauded Linksys (before they were Cisco) for specifically making the Linux-based GL for us tinkerers. You can pull off some cool shit with those routers.
Hopefully this is just a misunderstanding.
Chill out. He explicitly targeted the women who were liable to say "God is a woman, men are dying out and women will take over the planet"
Most women I've met have a real problem with that kind of thinking, as it's no different than the male-oriented model we've had for thousands of years, just for women.
And most of the women I know are feminists. The equality type, not the 'women are better' type.
Having a problem with crazy people doesn't make you a "chauvinist pig"
You're right - it does do a periodic check-in.
However, the amplification components of the radio act as detectors to the GSM signal. It's not an interference issue.
A couple of watts microwave RF energy isn't anything to worry about, unless you're on your cellphone all the time.
impossible to copy the functionality of it without physical access to it.
*snap* I get it! We could have some sort of hardware dongle! Nobody could break that.
Sorry, that was harsh. I think something like the RSA SecureID cards are a lot more useful, as somebody mentioned above. You need the password and the random-but-synchronized 6 digit number that changes every 20 seconds. Damn near impossible to duplicate.
Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they ask me to take you to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction, 'cause I don't.
is that this is related to the attack on 'elitism', which has turned into an attack on the elite. There are a lot of stupid people, and a lot of smart people, but people (typically neo-Republicans) conflate elitism (being a dick in the fashion of 'i'm better than you') to being elite (in general, suceeding at life, often because/with education).
This selects against people who suceed at life, or people who look like they have suceeded at life. Because 'they can't relate to me' is more important than understanding a number of economic theories, or the culture of an enemy nation.
My (slightly) partisan guess, but I wouldn't be suprised.
That comment was invented by Shampoo
and pretty well-implemented. It doesn't handle deletions, though - something like Word's Track Changes for deletions might be nice.
There's a test room here: http://etherpad.com/as9F1Jh5cu
AFAIK it's not like in the US, where Covad's ATM routers pick up my packets going over Verizon's lines.
I think it's (in Canada) Bell's routers handling Company A's traffic, and doing their own friendly filtering on it before A's router gets it.
Jailbreak it. There's a quake4iphone in Cydia that's been there for months, with hardware acceleration and everything.
Bullshit. Straight from the "Quick Guide"
Stronger Protection Against Patent Threats
In the 17 years since GPLv2 was published, the software patent landscape has changed considerably, and free software licenses have developed new strategies to address them. GPLv3 reflects these changes too. Whenever someone conveys software covered by GPLv3 that they've written or modified, they must provide every recipient with any patent licenses necessary to exercise the rights that the GPL gives them. In addition to that, if any licensee tries to use a patent suit to stop another user from exercising those rights, their license will be terminated.
What this means for users and developers is that they'll be able to work with GPLv3-covered software without worrying that a desperate contributor will try to sue them for patent infringement later. With these changes, GPLv3 affords its users more defenses against patent aggression than any other free software license.
That was actually kind of a big deal about the GPLv3. If you try and pull the stunt you're talking about, you suddenly can't use the code.
So that's the difference - you can't sue on it or you lose your license and have a major liability you didn't have before.
Wow.. arguing over a python sketch...
Better than arguing over a python script, eh?
Har-de-har-har
There are approximately 50 people per square mile in OK, and 1000/mi^2 in NJ. I'm not trying to dis your state, but there's a much more consistent problem with moving people out of the way in NJ - especially northeast NJ (near Newark, etc)
And I'd wager that there are far worse drivers in NJ... I've literally been cut off before (lights and siren) while pulling out of the fucking bay, right in front of the police station. They then proceeded to stop at the stop sign because of oncoming traffic... which we could've stopped.
Our ambulance is outfitted with just a regular Whelen siren, but we've considered airhorns in the past (real airhorns, not the fake electronic crap on the siren. Turns out people move if you sound like a train).
I even read about this particular siren last year, in the Whelen magazine we get every month or so. It looks like a bass amplifier with some nice subwoofers, for what it's worth.
In any case, we're in northeast NJ. Traffic sucks, drivers suck, and people do stupid shit all the time. An airhorn would be useful. But as for Oklahoma, I don't really know if this would be necessary. It's kinda empty...
Your post advocates a
(x) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based (x) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
(x) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
(x) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
(x) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
(x) Users of email will not put up with it
(x) Microsoft will not put up with it
(x) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
(x) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
(x) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
(x) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
(x) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
(x) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
(x) Technically illiterate politicians
(x) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever
been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
(x) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
(x) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
(x) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
(x) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
(x) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
(x) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
(x) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
house down!
How about not a display format? PDF is PostScript without the logic...
Just use a website if that's what you want your form to act like.
I wouldn't mind a pragmatic president. Perhaps that's because I'm a pragmatic guy...
I have a lot of respect for somebody like Joe Biden that says whatever he thinks, because we get a much better insight into he really is.
And that quote is fucking amazing. He said essentially that a couple times, but slightly cleaned up, for what it's worth.