I've been following Dr Faustman's research since I learned of it a couple years ago, and I have a lot of hope that it will work. However, I've also been aware of the fact that if a cure is found, or a cheaper alternative treatment, there will be many obstacles to getting it to us.
Type 1 diabetics are in the minority, but we're still pretty big cash cows for certain companies. Besides the various types of insulin we need to survive, most diabetics that wish to succesfully manage the disease use additional products like disposeable needles, blood glucose meters and strips (big money), insulin pumps, and more. Potentially, it's many thousands of dollars per person per year and not many companies would want to lose that cashflow.
I know a lot of people were waiting to see the July browser stats to see if Internet Explorer share dropped off after the vulnerability announcements last month.
The FAQ says it works in AdSense test mode, so Google doesn't pay anyone or charge anyone. It's probably possible to hack it and distribute it as a "customized" version for your users, though.
You can actually use the latest versions of Putty as a dynamic socks5 proxy (works with most browsers, mail clients, etc), so you don't even need a real proxy server, just an SSH connection that allows tunnelling.
There are plenty of things you can do that aren't lose/lose:
1. Use mod_gzip (or equivalent) to compress text pages. It's a small cpu hit on the server (less if you cache the gziped output), but it pays off in reduced bandwidth costs for you and faster page loads for users.
2. Use properly compressed PNGs rather than GIFs for line art/text graphics. If at all possible, use actual text with styles instead of graphics.
3. Use proper (X)HTML and CSS. They'll compress better if they're valid, and if you use external CSS files, users can cache them.
4. Set correct expiration headers on pages/graphics to let the user's browser know how long it can cache them.
It's skewed highly towards the web developers/more technically inclined, BUT the fact that non-IE browsers are doing so well there is a GREAT sign, as it means web designers are moving away from IE.
If you want a better general representation of the web, Google's Zeitgeist web browsers graph (from May) is a better place to look. If you zoom in, you do see that the Mozilla based browsers are slowly gaining.
You can use the downloadable 8.x parts on your card, just without the DVD portion. My 8500DV came with 7.x, too, and I downloaded and ran 8.x on it just fine until recently upgrading to an AIW 9600. Depending on your system, 8.x may use more resources than you like, but it does has a lot of new features including MPEG4 in the latest releases.
You can use content negotiation. You leave the file extension off and let the browser choose which file format it wants. (W3C does this with some graphics) To get it work right with IE (And choose GIF over PNG), I had to assign a slightly lower quality level to PNG on the server. It ended up being more hassle than it was worth. It's been a while since I did it, but if I remember correctly, IE wouldn't cache anything using this either. So now I just use 8-bit PNG and pray for the day IE catches up.
There's a lot of difference in how images are compressed. Photoshop produced PNGs are not the most size efficient, and might lead someone to believe GIF would be a better choice.
I watched a preview release of Star Trek: First Contact in Washington, DC, and while I'm a Star Trek fan... some of those people were crazy. I'd never seen so many Klingons in my life.
Nakamichi makes a 5 disc SCSI changer that fits in a single drive bay. You could chain 7 of these together to access 35 discs. So, if you put together 6 of these CD-servers, you'd have 210 CD's!
I have a "Bulk Reseller" account over at VenturesOnline so that I can host a bunch of domains. It comes with a gig of disk space, and 20gb transfer, and they have bigger BR plans (up to 2.5 gigs/35 gig transfer for $65).
If I had quite a few gigs of data, I'd get a dedicated server (either a real one or a "virtual" one).
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Now we just need little icons representing each of our achievements next to our names.
From the site (I know, I know):
Microsoft offers an XP SP2 + IE7 Virtual PC image for testing. It has a date expiration, so you do need to download new ones every few months.
The WMATA RideGuide lets you enter a starting point and a destination and offers you multiple routes using rail, buses and walking.
I've been following Dr Faustman's research since I learned of it a couple years ago, and I have a lot of hope that it will work. However, I've also been aware of the fact that if a cure is found, or a cheaper alternative treatment, there will be many obstacles to getting it to us.
Type 1 diabetics are in the minority, but we're still pretty big cash cows for certain companies. Besides the various types of insulin we need to survive, most diabetics that wish to succesfully manage the disease use additional products like disposeable needles, blood glucose meters and strips (big money), insulin pumps, and more. Potentially, it's many thousands of dollars per person per year and not many companies would want to lose that cashflow.
Are you sure it was the sig? Go look at the cache of a page from Slashdot (what Google indexed).
Here's the first cache I pulled up from a "site:slashdot.org 2004" search. You'll notice there are no sigs in it.
Google does see the links you put in your personal info, so that can help your PR.
I know a lot of people were waiting to see the July browser stats to see if Internet Explorer share dropped off after the vulnerability announcements last month.
The FAQ says it works in AdSense test mode, so Google doesn't pay anyone or charge anyone. It's probably possible to hack it and distribute it as a "customized" version for your users, though.
You can actually use the latest versions of Putty as a dynamic socks5 proxy (works with most browsers, mail clients, etc), so you don't even need a real proxy server, just an SSH connection that allows tunnelling.
There are plenty of things you can do that aren't lose/lose:
1. Use mod_gzip (or equivalent) to compress text pages. It's a small cpu hit on the server (less if you cache the gziped output), but it pays off in reduced bandwidth costs for you and faster page loads for users.
2. Use properly compressed PNGs rather than GIFs for line art/text graphics. If at all possible, use actual text with styles instead of graphics.
3. Use proper (X)HTML and CSS. They'll compress better if they're valid, and if you use external CSS files, users can cache them.
4. Set correct expiration headers on pages/graphics to let the user's browser know how long it can cache them.
In about:config, check browser.search.defaulturl. Mine is set to: http://www.google.com/search?lr=&sourceid=firefox& ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=
Yes, but if you notice, IE5/5.5 were decreasing. Even Microsoft has been pushing people to upgrade from those.
It's skewed highly towards the web developers/more technically inclined, BUT the fact that non-IE browsers are doing so well there is a GREAT sign, as it means web designers are moving away from IE.
If you want a better general representation of the web, Google's Zeitgeist web browsers graph (from May) is a better place to look. If you zoom in, you do see that the Mozilla based browsers are slowly gaining.
Your description comes from the Google Directory, which comes from DMOZ.
You can use the downloadable 8.x parts on your card, just without the DVD portion. My 8500DV came with 7.x, too, and I downloaded and ran 8.x on it just fine until recently upgrading to an AIW 9600. Depending on your system, 8.x may use more resources than you like, but it does has a lot of new features including MPEG4 in the latest releases.
I was 1:114/244. Message networks are one thing I really miss in the "modern" network. Usenet just isn't the same thing, and neither are web forums.
It does, but IE is lazy, and just says */* without assigning a quality value.
x t/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,video/x-mng,image/pn g,image/jpeg,image/gif;q=0.2,*/*;q=0.1
Here are some examples of the HTTP Accept header...
IE:
image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, application/x-shockwave-flash, */*
Mozilla:
text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,te
Opera:
text/html, image/png, image/jpeg, image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, */*;q=0.1
You can use content negotiation. You leave the file extension off and let the browser choose which file format it wants. (W3C does this with some graphics) To get it work right with IE (And choose GIF over PNG), I had to assign a slightly lower quality level to PNG on the server. It ended up being more hassle than it was worth. It's been a while since I did it, but if I remember correctly, IE wouldn't cache anything using this either. So now I just use 8-bit PNG and pray for the day IE catches up.
There's a lot of difference in how images are compressed. Photoshop produced PNGs are not the most size efficient, and might lead someone to believe GIF would be a better choice.
Is PNGOUT by Ken Silverman. It's even beats PNG Crush most of the time. I create my PNG's in Photoshop, and then when I use PNGOUT before going live.
It was a cut and paste from Google's webpage (since it was a quote) via Mozilla. Microsoft was not involved in my creation of the summary.
I watched a preview release of Star Trek: First Contact in Washington, DC, and while I'm a Star Trek fan... some of those people were crazy. I'd never seen so many Klingons in my life.
Nakamichi makes a 5 disc SCSI changer that fits in a single drive bay. You could chain 7 of these together to access 35 discs. So, if you put together 6 of these CD-servers, you'd have 210 CD's!
I have a "Bulk Reseller" account over at VenturesOnline so that I can host a bunch of domains. It comes with a gig of disk space, and 20gb transfer, and they have bigger BR plans (up to 2.5 gigs/35 gig transfer for $65).
If I had quite a few gigs of data, I'd get a dedicated server (either a real one or a "virtual" one).
Waterfall.
Have you tried Optimoz Mouse Gestures?