I thought that Black Holes had no dimensions, but this one is several miles across. Where have I gone wrong? The scientists most likely rounded off the imaginary numbers to make the dimensions more tangible to the human mind.
Firefox and Gecko are developed on the same branch. Was this when the Mozilla foundation switched to Firefox from the Mozilla suite? Firefox wasn't official for the longest time. Also, how does XULRunner factor into things?
I mean, Firefox is just a front end to Gecko, right? Back when the Mozilla suite was the focus of the Mozilla foundation and Firefox was just a side project, Firefox development effected Gecko development very little. Is this still true even with the focus shift from the Mozilla suite to Firefox?
I do know that Firefox nightlies DO NOT equal webkit nightlies. Firefox and Gecko are actually devoloped on separate branches and are only merged at intervals.
Interesting. From what I have seen, the Firefox and Gecko teams are separate entities. I don't think the Firefox guys work on the engine at all to speak of. (A Firefox version increase not meaning a Gecko version increase is a symptom of this.) But I could be wrong....
Actually the first thing that I thought after reading the summary was that FF4 was going to be Internet Explorer. Actually, FF4 is IE4. That was the first version of Explorer to start putting the tendrils into Windows. On the bright side the Gecko engine is open source, so it can and IS used in other projects. Also, a fork of an older version of FF is not out of the question if things get bad.
Most MS feature promises are just rhetoric to keep people from jumping ship until they forget about the said rad feature. Then, when they announce the next big OS of the future, Microsoft can just update and change the "features" planned for the next release so it matches the palettes of the people of the time period. Oh marketting, thy name it Microsoft. There is little connection here to actually implimenting the feature.
It's almost like people's computers are slowly being infected by Mac software. Now that the subsystem is in place, the qoup de gras will be the sneak installation of Mac OS X on top of the Windows kernel in the next update. God bless social engineering.
That's, quite literally a fuckton of systems. So simply patching new kernels isn't going to make the problem go away. GCC 4.3.0 was released March 5, 2008. Few if any distros even have an option for installing it as they are still testing it for bugs. Most sane distros do not throw experimental packages on their users unless they specifically want it (at their own risk.)
Furthermore, it's not very difficult to make a dependency for a specific kernel version against a GCC version in most package managers.
Supposedly, whale meat tastes a heck of a lot like beef because they are both mammals. So in a nutshell, Cows can already be thought of as the less intelligent, easier to manage "whale" on land. Even if Japan managed to create a race of huge, land-dwelling sperm-cows, I am not sure where they would raise them with the lack of land. Smaller Sperm Wales that would be raised in hatcheries might make sense though. Japan has a lot of salt water and catching fish actually fits the culture.
I personally realized that was possible when I saw the Gentoo example of 'USE="-esd" emerge gnome'. But still this is a hack to a larger problem. What is the point of having your local in a different language if you have to change it back to get the appropriate dictionaries?
Actually you have a point. Walmart has a history of creating their own brand of 'something' to use as bargaining power against name brands. It gives them the power to say, "We will lower the price of our walmart brand cola if you don't sell us your Coke to us for 15 cents less."
The late release gained the web and the industry as a whole a fairly standards compliant rendering engine. If Netscape/AOL had just released Netscape 5, the web would most likely still be dealing with Communicator 4's quirks like we deal with IE's now.
Furthermore, the delay gained users a fairly flexible open source browser that will run on most hardware/OS configurations that will likely never again stagnate even if it did get a top market position.
I for one am happy that the Netscape delay happened because we had gotten a much better product out of it and less browser confusion. I for one am disappointed the delay in IE because they did nothing, and planned nothing. All of the developers were just funneled to other projects until recently...and it shows...horribly at that.
History has shown that the higher quality product does not always win. But that is why Linux is destined for greatness. We have both the higher quality product and the lower quality product, GNOME and KDE! There is no way we can lose with this monopoly or great-suckiness.
*I think I just hemorrhage about 5 mod points indirectly with this post at a poor attempt at humor
They go to a store to buy a laptop with the latest Microsoft OS on it, and they have certain expectations... that it will work at least as well as the last version of Windows they had, for one. That reminds of the advertisement text that Microsoft forces you to watch when you install a new version of Windows manually. At first I thought "How in the hell can a OS made 5 years later be faster AND require greater specs. Unless the thing is a piece of junk, programs should run faster on faster hardware anyway."
Nowadays the speed advertisements make even less sense as Windows is preinstalled on practically everything and the only people installing manually are on old hardware.
It most likely passed through with so few complaints because of how different the culture is there from here. Something like this might seem like the ridiculously obvious thing to do for them. You can't count on very body to think the same as Americans, for better and worse.
Lets do a comparison or three: If you play with cap guns, it is generally considered not violent if you pretend to shoot someone and they play dead. It may even be called cute. If you shoot a paintball gun with red paintballs it looks more violent, especially since the projectiles actually make an implact on their target and it leaves a red bloodish looking substance. But this example is no more violent than the capgun example. Now if you acutally shoot someone with a gun, it looks more violent still because they are writhing in pain, screaming and spewing blood everywhere. But we know that it actually isn't more violent even though it only appears more violent.
Farakin brings us a story about how cameras in roughly 200 Chicago schools are being connected directly to the parents of the children by the intelligent sensing of their implanted RDIF tags. The goal of the effort is to "consolidate video surveillance," and it will involve both routine monitoring and real-time updates to parents on their way to a crisis. Especially for the children who have had a history of trouble.
And what happens when they come out with an incompatible new version of Silverlight and don't release the documentation and don't help with the development of the FOSS version? Then the FOSS version starts mimicking the development style of WINE. And given how well that goes I am not very excited.
The market fixes this problem itself very nicely, if not immediately.
If Microsoft does those things, there's suddenly a golden opportunity for another competitor or competitors to get going -- they'll be able to gain mindshare and traction much more easily from nothing, because they'll be providing something Microsoft isn't. Two to three years is not "immediately"...as that is how long it takes to develop a fresh new product to maturity on average.
You answered your own question. When MS puts out a competitor, it tends to eat the other competitors alive so there are no more competitors.
Given MS's past, I can see them suddenly stopping support for Silverlight if it gains real traction. They've done it with IE, WMP, VBscript in office...etc etc. I do NOT want to have to rely on the Mono/Silverlight group like the WINE group. In the case of flash, we would be trading a devil for THE devil.
That is pretty weird. It sounds like they are calling the files mp4 by a technicality because MPEG-4 is in the video codec's name. H.264 is MPEG-4 Part 10. XviD and DivX are based on the MPEG-4 Part 2 standard. Shadey...
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I mean, Firefox is just a front end to Gecko, right? Back when the Mozilla suite was the focus of the Mozilla foundation and Firefox was just a side project, Firefox development effected Gecko development very little. Is this still true even with the focus shift from the Mozilla suite to Firefox?
I do know that Firefox nightlies DO NOT equal webkit nightlies. Firefox and Gecko are actually devoloped on separate branches and are only merged at intervals.
Interesting. From what I have seen, the Firefox and Gecko teams are separate entities. I don't think the Firefox guys work on the engine at all to speak of. (A Firefox version increase not meaning a Gecko version increase is a symptom of this.) But I could be wrong....
The question is: How difficult is it to retrofit a new Gecko into an old Firefox?
No, but I do play a lot of Mortal Qwanbat.
Most MS feature promises are just rhetoric to keep people from jumping ship until they forget about the said rad feature. Then, when they announce the next big OS of the future, Microsoft can just update and change the "features" planned for the next release so it matches the palettes of the people of the time period. Oh marketting, thy name it Microsoft. There is little connection here to actually implimenting the feature.
It's almost like people's computers are slowly being infected by Mac software. Now that the subsystem is in place, the qoup de gras will be the sneak installation of Mac OS X on top of the Windows kernel in the next update. God bless social engineering.
Furthermore, it's not very difficult to make a dependency for a specific kernel version against a GCC version in most package managers.
AGH! I have ears regenerating all over my body! Get them off!
Supposedly, whale meat tastes a heck of a lot like beef because they are both mammals. So in a nutshell, Cows can already be thought of as the less intelligent, easier to manage "whale" on land. Even if Japan managed to create a race of huge, land-dwelling sperm-cows, I am not sure where they would raise them with the lack of land. Smaller Sperm Wales that would be raised in hatcheries might make sense though. Japan has a lot of salt water and catching fish actually fits the culture.
I personally realized that was possible when I saw the Gentoo example of 'USE="-esd" emerge gnome'. But still this is a hack to a larger problem. What is the point of having your local in a different language if you have to change it back to get the appropriate dictionaries?
Actually you have a point. Walmart has a history of creating their own brand of 'something' to use as bargaining power against name brands. It gives them the power to say, "We will lower the price of our walmart brand cola if you don't sell us your Coke to us for 15 cents less."
The late release gained the web and the industry as a whole a fairly standards compliant rendering engine. If Netscape/AOL had just released Netscape 5, the web would most likely still be dealing with Communicator 4's quirks like we deal with IE's now.
Furthermore, the delay gained users a fairly flexible open source browser that will run on most hardware/OS configurations that will likely never again stagnate even if it did get a top market position.
I for one am happy that the Netscape delay happened because we had gotten a much better product out of it and less browser confusion. I for one am disappointed the delay in IE because they did nothing, and planned nothing. All of the developers were just funneled to other projects until recently...and it shows...horribly at that.
You can not tell me that rewriting your browser from scratch (Netscape 6) equals doing absolutely nothing with your web browser (IE 6) for 5 years.
*I think I just hemorrhage about 5 mod points indirectly with this post at a poor attempt at humor
Nowadays the speed advertisements make even less sense as Windows is preinstalled on practically everything and the only people installing manually are on old hardware.
It most likely passed through with so few complaints because of how different the culture is there from here. Something like this might seem like the ridiculously obvious thing to do for them. You can't count on very body to think the same as Americans, for better and worse.
Lets do a comparison or three: If you play with cap guns, it is generally considered not violent if you pretend to shoot someone and they play dead. It may even be called cute. If you shoot a paintball gun with red paintballs it looks more violent, especially since the projectiles actually make an implact on their target and it leaves a red bloodish looking substance. But this example is no more violent than the capgun example. Now if you acutally shoot someone with a gun, it looks more violent still because they are writhing in pain, screaming and spewing blood everywhere. But we know that it actually isn't more violent even though it only appears more violent.
Farakin brings us a story about how cameras in roughly 200 Chicago schools are being connected directly to the parents of the children by the intelligent sensing of their implanted RDIF tags. The goal of the effort is to "consolidate video surveillance," and it will involve both routine monitoring and real-time updates to parents on their way to a crisis. Especially for the children who have had a history of trouble.
If Microsoft does those things, there's suddenly a golden opportunity for another competitor or competitors to get going -- they'll be able to gain mindshare and traction much more easily from nothing, because they'll be providing something Microsoft isn't. Two to three years is not "immediately"...as that is how long it takes to develop a fresh new product to maturity on average.
You answered your own question. When MS puts out a competitor, it tends to eat the other competitors alive so there are no more competitors.
Given MS's past, I can see them suddenly stopping support for Silverlight if it gains real traction. They've done it with IE, WMP, VBscript in office...etc etc. I do NOT want to have to rely on the Mono/Silverlight group like the WINE group. In the case of flash, we would be trading a devil for THE devil.
That is pretty weird. It sounds like they are calling the files mp4 by a technicality because MPEG-4 is in the video codec's name. H.264 is MPEG-4 Part 10. XviD and DivX are based on the MPEG-4 Part 2 standard. Shadey...