It would seem sort of silly to me to stop advocating Firefox because it has one BIG bug. Most browsers have 100 HUGE bugs. It is still better than any other browser.
I wouldn't think this would be a hard fix. Silly Firefox development team. =)
I was going to go with remove the keyboards.
The only way to secure a Windows PC is have someone constantly watch over them. Novell has some good deals for schools.
While I very much agree with this statement it is heading in the right direction. If anyone in this discussion thinks that it will be JPEG2000 forever please, fill me in as to why you would think that would be. These people will bring it out, people will say, "I'd prefer that there were better picture quality" and someone will come up with some genius way to make it better. There will be pioneers who can get all the arrows and I will be happy with my not-very-lossy wireless HDMI in a few years.
By the way, excellent comparison of Uncompressed, Jpeg and Jpeg2000 is here.
Honestly... I don't see anything wrong with this. The cable might be separate but it could be partially to make the assembly line easier. If the 20GB doesn't have HDMI then they would need to make the packaging of the 20GB and the 60GB MUCH different because they would need to include other cables. Additionally to fit the cable they might need to enlarge the size of the box. Furthermore I am sure that the price delta they are looking at says something like, "If we plan to sell 500,000 PLAYSTATION 3 units adding an HDMI cable will cost us $2,500,000" (assuming they can get them for $5 a piece which is probably accurate since they will get more expensive cables so people don't complain "PS3 Ships with a poor quality HDMI cable")
I think Sony is in a place right now where they need to cut their costs as much as possible but they also need to make themselves look as good as possible. A very hard position to be in. I wish you luck Sony -- though I'm not a big fan.
I'm glad that they have a book for this. How many Google Maps mashups have you made if any? They are not as easy as you think.
[opinion]5. Yes they are.[/opinion]
Agreed that definition is not bad for as short as it is.
It is good that books like this are put out there for those who need that extra boost up the ladder, but for the could-be reader...Google Maps API.
Read that and if you still can't get it, consider the book. If you have spend any time cross scripting (PHP to Javascript to Static HTML) this whole process is quite simple.
Hey now. I won't hear any of that. You pay 3 times.
- Once for the movie
- Once for the media
- Once for the temporary CSS licence.
MPAA wants to make sure you are legally burning dvds because they know how easy it is to forget about dvd copying restrictions. Thank you MPAA.
Actually in my experience many games play very well with Intel Integrated.
Granted an nVidia would slaughter an Intel but the fact that it is on the motherboard it really really nice, additionally thanks to DVMT you can tune the video card so if it is an office user who isn't going to be doing much graphics intensive things it can be simply 64mb or 128mb but you can turn it up to 256mb when someone is going to be gaming or doing advanced graphical renderings. I was very pleased with my 915GAG with the 915G chipset. The only game that didn't play was CS:Source and that was because of their lack of support for DVMT.
Agobot family of malware, for example, are using the open-source CVS (Concurrent Versions System) software to manage their project.
They are right. CVS is where it starts. Trust McAfee to get the job done. They still zip their code and send it around in a mailing list to all the coders. That explains why their code is so damned efficient.
I say we ban open source development, collaboration leads to corruption.
Even then, though, why shouldn't they be free to manually change the ranking if they wanted to? It's their wholly-owned database, so is there any reason they should be kept from altering their own data?
I wholly and completely agree with this statement. I do understand, however, that Google has become a major player online and that altering their database could make a company seem less credible.
It really is unfortunate that when a company is having a hard time getting a handle on their business that instead of working hard and doing everything in their power to compete... They sue. That is what makes America. Instead of asking what's wrong with themselves they try to blame their failure on a competitor.
Well personally I hope they get him for everything he is worth. And all BlueSecurity members should get to punch him in the face.
As far as what he's violated... A lot of things. First of all his original e-mails could be considered threats and are also harassment. Additionally the e-mails contain no opt out link (not that those work anyways).
It's fucking ridiculous. In between the hours of 2am and 8am I received more than 100 pieces of spam. That is after a spam assassin filter and a GroupWise personal junk mail filter. This fucking spammer is trying to screw BlueSecurity but he is dragging people into the game he shouldn't. Spamming is one crime... DDoS attacks, he should be sure he wants to get in trouble before committing to something like this.
Spamming is not a legit way to make a living yet he thinks he has some sort of right to live off other people's hell. I hope he's taken out soon.
Umm, I think it's time for you to turn over your geek license, friend. The Klingons do have a cloak, they "bought" an early version from the Romulans. In fact, the Enterprise had a cloak, too.. Too bad it was illegal. See the TNG episode about the ship Pegasus (IIRC) for more info..
The Enterprise didn't really have a cloak. They modified the Pegasus' cloak to work on the Enterprise so that they could enter solid rock. The Pegasus was found in the Devolin system, the phase cloak stopped working while in a planet and it re-materialized in solid rock. Additionally the Pegasus' cloak was not a simple cloak but a phase cloak which was illegally developed by the federation (violation of the Treaty of Algeron. ).
...the Federation phase-cloak is an interesting piece of technology since it allows passage through solid objects.
I'll buy a cloaking device when it is a phasing cloak device...
My current phone is pretty simple, so I can tolerate the numerous issues I have with it, but are these people on crack when they program these things?
Yes... They really are. It's amazing how impossible they are to navigate.
My phone is paid for by my employer and is "part of my job", I don't want or need a cell phone personally.
I am a mobile developer and I think that mobile phones are an excellent way for people to get things done while not being required to be tied to a specific location.
...The contact list is purely alphabetical, so I either have to bastardize someone's name that I call frequently to put it on the top of the list, or scroll down past the numbers I don't use frequently to get to the number I use frequently. Oh, but I could use the voice recognition to call right?... The two color LED would be perfect for this notification, but instead, its only used to tell me that the phone is on by obnoxiously blinking or that the phone is charging
I used to run into these issues with my Motorolas all the time. Most phones have a pretty nice one touch dial function or good contact search features.
... There are a slew of unintuitive icons on the top of the screen, and I guess I have to look at the book to know what those mean.
RTFM
The settings don't have any information about what the setting is used for. For example, under System/Select System it says "Home is B" and the three options for "Selecting the system" are Home only, Automatic A, Automatic B. So WTF is "Home is B"?
I'll give you that cell phones are no-where near where they should be and that cell phones could really use a tune up but I think that the technology is quite amazing. People tend to forget what they have and because technology is so powerful these days some technology gets given a bad wrap. I think the many additions to phones are great and I look forward to the next evolution. I can be in my car and type in a street address and it gives me directions, driving time, and distance. In addition I can pick up my phone and call the office if I am running late and I can depend that I will have service. That is innovation and I'd rather it continue rather than be cut off.
In response to the actual article there is always they threat of virii and the chance that poorly (or well written) code will have an exploit. It is something that will always arise. However I don't think that the exploits in the mobile realm will be that much more destructive than the ones in the computer industry and I will be happy to continue upgrading my phone and supporting new technology. It's all down to people protecting themselves and with our network I feel very safe. Having said that I do think that cell phones will soon be involved in internet worms.
I'm an Intel guy myself but if AMD gets and holds the market share I would be more than happy to try one of their processors. I hope I don't get modded down for saying I'm an Intel guy.
I haven't RTFA but I'm guessing it is assumed that they are losing the share to AMD (which they are) though this article should be retitled to, "Intel losing market share to competitors" but this title probably gets more attention.
A better description would be that 95% of the world's airports only let "Airbus-compatible" planes take off and land there and Airbus is constantly trying to make it hard for other plane manufacturers to make their planes compatible..
I'm glad someone else pointed this out.
This isn't about someone having a stranglehold on the market. It's about a company having an unfair stranglehold on the market. Other operating systems make communication with their systems easier. They include documentation for developers and try to help others work with their product.
The problem with Microsoft in this place is that they have a large market share and they are not willing to let information out that MAY make it easier for competitors to integrate. Granted, no one wants to lose a good market position but it becomes something you NEED to do when you are that BIG of a player.
I am always wondering what those damn robots are up to!
You must be speaking of the slashdot community.. I ran the first page of comments (minus html and white space and other things (score, etc) through the computer writing detector and got this:
This text had been classified as
INAUTHENTIC
with a 26.0% chance of being authentic text
Microsoft has a bunch of reasons to give up any info they have to hurt Intel if possible. With Intel's recent gung-ho approach and partnering with RH and SuSE anything to hurt them would benefit MS in some small way. Don't be surprised if Ballmer hand delivers the documents himself.
Microsoft also has a lot of reasons to not cooperate with AMD. They work practically side-by-side with OpenSuSE and do all sorts of kernel optimization for their hardware with Linux.
Microsoft doesn't have too many friends these days.
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It would seem sort of silly to me to stop advocating Firefox because it has one BIG bug. Most browsers have 100 HUGE bugs. It is still better than any other browser.
I wouldn't think this would be a hard fix. Silly Firefox development team. =)
Then Again*
...I always try to negotiate deals outside as some of the fees and rules seem pretty damn ridiculous.
Than again I haven't touched that site for at least a year.
I was going to go with remove the keyboards. The only way to secure a Windows PC is have someone constantly watch over them. Novell has some good deals for schools.
Which Religion Is Right?
Not only can we make sure only good people get in, we can also find potential terrorists.
While I very much agree with this statement it is heading in the right direction. If anyone in this discussion thinks that it will be JPEG2000 forever please, fill me in as to why you would think that would be. These people will bring it out, people will say, "I'd prefer that there were better picture quality" and someone will come up with some genius way to make it better. There will be pioneers who can get all the arrows and I will be happy with my not-very-lossy wireless HDMI in a few years.
By the way, excellent comparison of Uncompressed, Jpeg and Jpeg2000 is here.
Honestly... I don't see anything wrong with this. The cable might be separate but it could be partially to make the assembly line easier. If the 20GB doesn't have HDMI then they would need to make the packaging of the 20GB and the 60GB MUCH different because they would need to include other cables. Additionally to fit the cable they might need to enlarge the size of the box. Furthermore I am sure that the price delta they are looking at says something like, "If we plan to sell 500,000 PLAYSTATION 3 units adding an HDMI cable will cost us $2,500,000" (assuming they can get them for $5 a piece which is probably accurate since they will get more expensive cables so people don't complain "PS3 Ships with a poor quality HDMI cable")
I think Sony is in a place right now where they need to cut their costs as much as possible but they also need to make themselves look as good as possible. A very hard position to be in. I wish you luck Sony -- though I'm not a big fan.
[opinion]5. Yes they are.[/opinion]
Agreed that definition is not bad for as short as it is.
It is good that books like this are put out there for those who need that extra boost up the ladder, but for the could-be reader...Google Maps API.
Read that and if you still can't get it, consider the book. If you have spend any time cross scripting (PHP to Javascript to Static HTML) this whole process is quite simple.
Hey now. I won't hear any of that. You pay 3 times.
- Once for the movie
- Once for the media
- Once for the temporary CSS licence.
MPAA wants to make sure you are legally burning dvds because they know how easy it is to forget about dvd copying restrictions. Thank you MPAA.
Actually in my experience many games play very well with Intel Integrated.
Granted an nVidia would slaughter an Intel but the fact that it is on the motherboard it really really nice, additionally thanks to DVMT you can tune the video card so if it is an office user who isn't going to be doing much graphics intensive things it can be simply 64mb or 128mb but you can turn it up to 256mb when someone is going to be gaming or doing advanced graphical renderings. I was very pleased with my 915GAG with the 915G chipset. The only game that didn't play was CS:Source and that was because of their lack of support for DVMT.
I believe that was in response to Rimmer saying, "You can't whack death on the head!"
I just carry a big metal pipe around with me all the time.
That's where I get mine...
Really though. It is incredible that they are not co-located and do not have some sort of fall back plan.
Then again, Fox Interactive owns it so they were probably just being stingy.
They are right. CVS is where it starts. Trust McAfee to get the job done. They still zip their code and send it around in a mailing list to all the coders. That explains why their code is so damned efficient.
I say we ban open source development, collaboration leads to corruption.
I wholly and completely agree with this statement. I do understand, however, that Google has become a major player online and that altering their database could make a company seem less credible.
It really is unfortunate that when a company is having a hard time getting a handle on their business that instead of working hard and doing everything in their power to compete... They sue. That is what makes America. Instead of asking what's wrong with themselves they try to blame their failure on a competitor.
Stupidity.
Surely not. Did they forget to mention the tractor beam eyes? Oh. They did. They have tractor beam eyes.
And I thought it was just kiddie porn! Now I understand why they have taken this to court. That's a serious offense.
Well personally I hope they get him for everything he is worth. And all BlueSecurity members should get to punch him in the face. As far as what he's violated... A lot of things. First of all his original e-mails could be considered threats and are also harassment. Additionally the e-mails contain no opt out link (not that those work anyways). It's fucking ridiculous. In between the hours of 2am and 8am I received more than 100 pieces of spam. That is after a spam assassin filter and a GroupWise personal junk mail filter. This fucking spammer is trying to screw BlueSecurity but he is dragging people into the game he shouldn't. Spamming is one crime... DDoS attacks, he should be sure he wants to get in trouble before committing to something like this. Spamming is not a legit way to make a living yet he thinks he has some sort of right to live off other people's hell. I hope he's taken out soon.
The Enterprise didn't really have a cloak. They modified the Pegasus' cloak to work on the Enterprise so that they could enter solid rock. The Pegasus was found in the Devolin system, the phase cloak stopped working while in a planet and it re-materialized in solid rock. Additionally the Pegasus' cloak was not a simple cloak but a phase cloak which was illegally developed by the federation (violation of the Treaty of Algeron.
).
I'll buy a cloaking device when it is a phasing cloak device...
I'll agree with you there. The UI is completely terrible.
Samsung
Motorola
Nokia
Simply google: <mobile company name> Mobile SDK
Yes... They really are. It's amazing how impossible they are to navigate.
I am a mobile developer and I think that mobile phones are an excellent way for people to get things done while not being required to be tied to a specific location.
I used to run into these issues with my Motorolas all the time. Most phones have a pretty nice one touch dial function or good contact search features.
RTFM
Google is wonderful - First and third results aren't bad.
I'll give you that cell phones are no-where near where they should be and that cell phones could really use a tune up but I think that the technology is quite amazing. People tend to forget what they have and because technology is so powerful these days some technology gets given a bad wrap. I think the many additions to phones are great and I look forward to the next evolution. I can be in my car and type in a street address and it gives me directions, driving time, and distance. In addition I can pick up my phone and call the office if I am running late and I can depend that I will have service. That is innovation and I'd rather it continue rather than be cut off.
In response to the actual article there is always they threat of virii and the chance that poorly (or well written) code will have an exploit. It is something that will always arise. However I don't think that the exploits in the mobile realm will be that much more destructive than the ones in the computer industry and I will be happy to continue upgrading my phone and supporting new technology. It's all down to people protecting themselves and with our network I feel very safe. Having said that I do think that cell phones will soon be involved in internet worms.
Cue AMD fanboys!
I'm an Intel guy myself but if AMD gets and holds the market share I would be more than happy to try one of their processors. I hope I don't get modded down for saying I'm an Intel guy.
I haven't RTFA but I'm guessing it is assumed that they are losing the share to AMD (which they are) though this article should be retitled to, "Intel losing market share to competitors" but this title probably gets more attention.
I'm glad someone else pointed this out.
This isn't about someone having a stranglehold on the market. It's about a company having an unfair stranglehold on the market. Other operating systems make communication with their systems easier. They include documentation for developers and try to help others work with their product.
The problem with Microsoft in this place is that they have a large market share and they are not willing to let information out that MAY make it easier for competitors to integrate. Granted, no one wants to lose a good market position but it becomes something you NEED to do when you are that BIG of a player.
Probably one of my favorite comments ever on slashdot. Thank you.
You must be speaking of the slashdot community.. I ran the first page of comments (minus html and white space and other things (score, etc) through the computer writing detector and got this:
We're all robots.
Good programs? Are you sure we're talking about the same company?
Microsoft also has a lot of reasons to not cooperate with AMD. They work practically side-by-side with OpenSuSE and do all sorts of kernel optimization for their hardware with Linux.
Microsoft doesn't have too many friends these days.