Maximum PC got the same results an issue or two ago: you'll take a performance hit if you move from XP to Vista. they said the story might change when newer drives come out, though.
same. i replaced nearly my entire (new) PC before i realized it was my sound card. the sound card is so low on my the-problem-might-be list that i spent another $1000 before even bothering to check it. i'm using the onboard Realtek audio now. the quality is noticably less, especially in games, but it still sounds good.
our site is actually working with one of these companies (on the receiving end of the paycheck, though). they want to put "ads" on our site that link to other sites. they dont care at all what the ads look like or where they are on the page, but just that there's a link to another site. and the link has to be search-indexable (no javascript). all they care about is boosting the rank of their clients, not the number of clicks.
it may not be cheaper, but it may be more effective. search engines generally identify results that were purchased, and i'm sure a user is less like to click on it if they see that. the clients of these companies are buying their way into the results without have to be in that section.
nope, both are connected to our ISP through the same hub, but they're not on a local network.
keep in mind, though, that i havent done extensive testing of this. i've only reinstalled 2 or 3 times in the past year or so, but it happened every time.
i've noticed that whenever i try to upgrade to SP2/etc on a new install of XP, it will fail if any other PC using the same CD key is online at that moment. but once i unplug the other PCs, the upgrade works fine.
assuming this isnt a fluke, that really frightmens me, the fact that MS knows when any of my PCs are online.
yeah, i'm an idiot. in my head "Microsoft Word" and "Microsoft Office" are interchangeable. didnt occur to me that they were just talking about Word, not all of Office.
IIRC (correct me if i'm wrong), but i think OpenOffice can only handle the word-processor part of Open XML, not the rest of it (spreadsheet, presentation, etc).
and, since many large organizations/governments have already switched to ODF, those groups wouldn't really be able to switch back to Microsoft without a conversion tool, preferably built into Office. this could be MS's attempt to get them to switch back.
hmm... the video i was talking about is gone, replaced by the 2nd one under "Multimedia." sorry about that. the other 2 are still good though. the smoke is in the first one. too bad, though, the snowglobe was great.
this may be what i was thinking of, but i'm not sure:
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no idea. at the time i didnt know anything about the types of terminals. tell you the truth, i still dont.
it was running X Windows though, on Tru64. i dont remember if the windows machines were terminals or not, but pretty much all the Unix machines were terminals, as far as i could tell.
Another thing to note is that Linden Labs (Second Life producers) explicitly stated the users own copyright of their own in-game creations.
bingo. IIRC, eBay justified the delisting by pointing to the already-existing section in their terms of use that said something to the effect of "If it's not clear you own the copyright of the item you're selling, you cant sell it."
well, yes, granted, if you're going to use a validator, that trumps application/xhtml+xml, so you're probably fine.
but there are certain things (most) validators wont even catch, but your browser will. e.g., in XHTML, CSS is case sensitive. took me a while to figure out that one.
i had to do something like that once, where the left column and top row were frozen. i used javascript instead of CSS, though, and it worked in both IE and firefox.
for just the top row there is an easier way to do it, though, but IE doesnt support it: separate the header of the table using a thead and set it to position: static, i believe.
i find XHTML is fine as long as you develop using the application/xhtml+xml content type, then switch to text/html for production. and obviously you'll have to develop using a broswer that supports XHTML (not ie).
that, or have your site change the content-type in a script, depending on what the browser sent in the Accept header.
if you're not using application/xhtml+xml in development, you might as well stop using XHTML all together, because chances are there are errors all over the place.
i assume when they say "ban" they mean legally, like a restraining order. they're probably already banning all the accounts, but if they banned them legally they could threaten to legally take action if they caught them again.
Technology Review had another article on this back in august. with the same image, in fact. and actually, it was here too.
and recently i saw an episode of mythbusters where they used the same (i think) technology to create a hovering triangle thing. they were testing "anti-gravity" devices, and this was the only thing that surprised them. when they plugged it in, it shot up in the air. after some bewilderment, they realized it was ionizing the air and blowing it down, in turn causing thrust upwards.
wont work. the javascript is after the #, so it's client-side. the server will never see it.
someone on sla.ckers.org had a good suggestion: redirecting to a random, one-time address (that translates to the right PDF file on the server-side) if the client requests the PDF file directly. the valid addresses would have to be hard to guess, though.
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Maximum PC got the same results an issue or two ago: you'll take a performance hit if you move from XP to Vista. they said the story might change when newer drives come out, though.
same. i replaced nearly my entire (new) PC before i realized it was my sound card. the sound card is so low on my the-problem-might-be list that i spent another $1000 before even bothering to check it. i'm using the onboard Realtek audio now. the quality is noticably less, especially in games, but it still sounds good.
our site is actually working with one of these companies (on the receiving end of the paycheck, though). they want to put "ads" on our site that link to other sites. they dont care at all what the ads look like or where they are on the page, but just that there's a link to another site. and the link has to be search-indexable (no javascript). all they care about is boosting the rank of their clients, not the number of clicks.
it may not be cheaper, but it may be more effective. search engines generally identify results that were purchased, and i'm sure a user is less like to click on it if they see that. the clients of these companies are buying their way into the results without have to be in that section.
nope, both are connected to our ISP through the same hub, but they're not on a local network.
keep in mind, though, that i havent done extensive testing of this. i've only reinstalled 2 or 3 times in the past year or so, but it happened every time.
anyone else seen this happen?
i've noticed that whenever i try to upgrade to SP2/etc on a new install of XP, it will fail if any other PC using the same CD key is online at that moment. but once i unplug the other PCs, the upgrade works fine.
assuming this isnt a fluke, that really frightmens me, the fact that MS knows when any of my PCs are online.
why does the department of transportation have the authority to tell me what software i can and cant run?
which is exactly why i voted it down in the firehose.
yeah, i'm an idiot. in my head "Microsoft Word" and "Microsoft Office" are interchangeable. didnt occur to me that they were just talking about Word, not all of Office.
IIRC (correct me if i'm wrong), but i think OpenOffice can only handle the word-processor part of Open XML, not the rest of it (spreadsheet, presentation, etc).
and, since many large organizations/governments have already switched to ODF, those groups wouldn't really be able to switch back to Microsoft without a conversion tool, preferably built into Office. this could be MS's attempt to get them to switch back.
hmm... the video i was talking about is gone, replaced by the 2nd one under "Multimedia." sorry about that. the other 2 are still good though. the smoke is in the first one. too bad, though, the snowglobe was great.
this may be what i was thinking of, but i'm not sure: from http://pages.ebay.com/help/tp/compliant-listings.
no idea. at the time i didnt know anything about the types of terminals. tell you the truth, i still dont.
it was running X Windows though, on Tru64. i dont remember if the windows machines were terminals or not, but pretty much all the Unix machines were terminals, as far as i could tell.
my school actually did have this pretty much campus wide. or at least most of the computer labs were terminals.
it wasnt too bad except for the bandwidth (slower response time than a desktop).
well, yes, granted, if you're going to use a validator, that trumps application/xhtml+xml, so you're probably fine.
but there are certain things (most) validators wont even catch, but your browser will. e.g., in XHTML, CSS is case sensitive. took me a while to figure out that one.
i had to do something like that once, where the left column and top row were frozen. i used javascript instead of CSS, though, and it worked in both IE and firefox.
for just the top row there is an easier way to do it, though, but IE doesnt support it: separate the header of the table using a thead and set it to position: static, i believe.
i find XHTML is fine as long as you develop using the application/xhtml+xml content type, then switch to text/html for production. and obviously you'll have to develop using a broswer that supports XHTML (not ie).
that, or have your site change the content-type in a script, depending on what the browser sent in the Accept header.
if you're not using application/xhtml+xml in development, you might as well stop using XHTML all together, because chances are there are errors all over the place.
i assume when they say "ban" they mean legally, like a restraining order. they're probably already banning all the accounts, but if they banned them legally they could threaten to legally take action if they caught them again.
Technology Review had another article on this back in august. with the same image, in fact. and actually, it was here too.
and recently i saw an episode of mythbusters where they used the same (i think) technology to create a hovering triangle thing. they were testing "anti-gravity" devices, and this was the only thing that surprised them. when they plugged it in, it shot up in the air. after some bewilderment, they realized it was ionizing the air and blowing it down, in turn causing thrust upwards.
they'd probably be patched through the same means. so if you survived the patch to the new DST, you'll be able to get a new patch to remove it.
wont work. the javascript is after the #, so it's client-side. the server will never see it.
someone on sla.ckers.org had a good suggestion: redirecting to a random, one-time address (that translates to the right PDF file on the server-side) if the client requests the PDF file directly. the valid addresses would have to be hard to guess, though.
how can the sites fix this? the javascript part of the url is after the #, which doesnt get sent to the server.