First off *slaps the story poster* call it XSL-FO, not XSL which tends to infer XSLT which is perfectly good and often used in combination with CSS.
Now *slaps the person who wrote the post*, if youre not going to write a fair comparison don't bother writing one at all, the XSL-FO shows a page-size selector which will work for any size page, and he compares this to a one-size A4 CSS definition, I stoped reading at that point, if your going to argue Hello World is better than A cellular automota because it's got less lines of code in it, I don't want to hear any more of your arguments.
Almost totally wrong, the chances of your data going though a satelite on a normal day are pretty low, unless you have satelite internet access.
There are two options to the location of a space-router, one is a geo-stationary orbit, this would take it to 36,000 km, so a round-trip for the signal of 72 milion meters and a 'lag' of 240ms just in getting there and back (slightly longer since you don't want to send/recieve from the same palce).
The other choice is that if the system works they opt for a selection of fast-orbiting satelites which won't stay over the same spot and instead work 'shifts' over the diferent parts of the globe, these satelites could orbit at significantly lower orbits, the lowest being 320km, which would only incur a latency of just over 1ms (to a station directly below).
Most commercial satelites tend to opt for the geostationary, Iridium is the only one I can think of which has enough satelites to cover the world at a relatively low orbit around 750km I believe, 66 satelites that takes, lower would need more due to the curvature of the earth.
Oh come on, Insightful *slaps people about* Funny perhaps, I actually forgot to enable this once when starting with a blank set of kernel options, Kernel panic, can't load Init... I was stumped for a while:)
I'm sure all 3 security problems have come up seperately when they were actually first found, I seem to remember checking when they were fixed and I think 1.0 shiped with all 3 fixed, or at least the nightly builds don't suffer from the bugs which arn't deadly serious in most situations.
Protecting you from hollywood going bankrupt and no longer shoving large numbers of feel-good movies about life at you in a vain attempt to push there profits higher and drain your pockets more.
Nope your better joining your local sunday league team.
I'm sure if Think Secret were selling the information to the highest bidder it would definately be a breach of trade secrets laws, but really when there only telling the world about what theve found out...
Why can't the private life of a film star be a trade secret too then?
Well I could argue that the reason we havn't seen IE updated is the $, there's no $'s to be made in updating IE for old customers, hence why it seems any updates are tied to longhorn, an updated IE for that might bring in some $.
Microsoft are depressingly money driven, if they demonstrated a larger care for there customers instead of only the care for $'s they might not have the image of the big nasty evil company that they have.
Alternatively M$ is a corporate disease, MS is a chronic autoimmune disease.
Great one for criminals trying to out-run the police, no more deflating the tires using mats full of tiny tubes which puncture the tire...
Well also reduces the chance of blowouts, and the hastle of monitoring the pressure of your tire, but all the other problems will no doubt be with us until we give up using things which have wheels:)
People have fixed symptoms of deeper problems, and now the operating system is so patched up that it's almost impossible to make the sweeping changes we should have originally made.
One case in point, filing system journaling was not existant, so a common method was to save to a new file, and then issue a command to the filing system to overwrite the old file with the one you just saved once the file is written to disk.
This sounds fine, but then you realise that none of your old editors preserve ACL's. The same issue I believe can cause problems in some journaling systems.
The problem is, we fixed all the problems the wrong way.
To computers time is the counting of ticks, to humans it's the orbit of the earth around the sun and the rotation of the earth.
Gregorian calendar works fine for the physical realities of this planet, while computers and there seconds since Midnight Jan 1st 1970 works fine for them too.
Conversion between the two is trivial for computers and the functions to do it written many times in every language you can imagine.
There's no worry, and it matters not a jot. Well at least until were living on other planets, they might not be happy about the fractional number of seconds in a day.
From what I remember of the news at the time, Nvu is the result of the person who was working on a standalone version of composer under the mozilla umbrella who then decided to go it alone.
Personally I'm still waiting for a stand alone one with the official stamp of mozilla on it, not sure why he went it alone, but I don't remember it being a friendly parting at the time.
Microsoft has probably worked out that it doesn't really have much to loose by IE not being the browser on everyones desktop, the original plans I believe were along the line of the AOL style intergrated internet package.
Where's the profit in a browser, now a Media Player with intergrated DRM trusted by industury, there's money in that, probably why there's been several media player updates compared to the relative stagnent security fixes only which IE has recieved over the past few years.
Prisons were originally designed to stop people from committing crimes, commonly they would only lock people up at night so they couln't break into peoples houses or shops. Only in the last couple of centuries with the advent of the idea of reforming people come in, prison sentences got much much longer and the idea of reforming people in the early days was though harsh treatment and work.
The harsh treatment and work didn't have the desired results, but we carried on locking people up not because of there own rehabilitation but because it makes the victums feel better.
The whole system needs a damn hard re-think, and we need to stop puting people in prisons when mabie prisons arn't the best option.
I'll also make a point that the death penalty is only there to satisfy the sadistic perverted desires of revenge that the victums have. Death is no punishment, and if you belive in reincarnation, it might as well be a free ticket out of jail in the form of a new life.
Question is, would someone caught walking out the building with a backup tape from the credit card database server be locked up for 9 years, or is this just another waste of tax payers money on making another example of computer hakers when really the computers were just a tool in a rather mundane crime.
16, I remember that age... long time ago now though.
The language could have been improved, and the typo's probably didn't help. In reply to the other person who commented on this thread I've not had any rendering glitches, the nightly build I'm using is from the 11th Dec.
Avary landed on Trunk a few days ago, so there's significant improvements in the 1.0+ version which will go on to be developed towards 1.1, though likely less stable and with a whole hoast of new bugs people are already reporting that it's got faster page load times.
Not to mention the best benifit, 1.0+ renders slashdot correctly:)
Though it appears the guy pushing for it has abused his power in office to get his lovers nanny a vesa to work in the UK fast-tracked for aproval... hopfully that combined with the fact he's been having an affair anyway should be enough to push him out of goverment and give us back some hope of liberty.
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First off *slaps the story poster* call it XSL-FO, not XSL which tends to infer XSLT which is perfectly good and often used in combination with CSS.
Now *slaps the person who wrote the post*, if youre not going to write a fair comparison don't bother writing one at all, the XSL-FO shows a page-size selector which will work for any size page, and he compares this to a one-size A4 CSS definition, I stoped reading at that point, if your going to argue Hello World is better than A cellular automota because it's got less lines of code in it, I don't want to hear any more of your arguments.
Almost totally wrong, the chances of your data going though a satelite on a normal day are pretty low, unless you have satelite internet access.
There are two options to the location of a space-router, one is a geo-stationary orbit, this would take it to 36,000 km, so a round-trip for the signal of 72 milion meters and a 'lag' of 240ms just in getting there and back (slightly longer since you don't want to send/recieve from the same palce).
The other choice is that if the system works they opt for a selection of fast-orbiting satelites which won't stay over the same spot and instead work 'shifts' over the diferent parts of the globe, these satelites could orbit at significantly lower orbits, the lowest being 320km, which would only incur a latency of just over 1ms (to a station directly below).
Most commercial satelites tend to opt for the geostationary, Iridium is the only one I can think of which has enough satelites to cover the world at a relatively low orbit around 750km I believe, 66 satelites that takes, lower would need more due to the curvature of the earth.
They have done it in the past, but If your a organic farmer, then you could probably sue for milions.
I guess monsanto just wanted to be the first to court and hope the other guy doesn't get the idea of sueing them for damages to there crop.
I only ever complain about the crappy customer service while I'm on hold :)
Spot down the bottom: ©2003 Google
Cool, but not new.
Can I also add the following UK online stores:
d store.com/
http://www.refreshcomputers.com/
http://www.re
http://www.novatech.co.uk/
In particular, redstore do some damn fine prices on network cables.
Oh come on, Insightful *slaps people about* Funny perhaps, I actually forgot to enable this once when starting with a blank set of kernel options, Kernel panic, can't load Init... I was stumped for a while :)
I'm sure all 3 security problems have come up seperately when they were actually first found, I seem to remember checking when they were fixed and I think 1.0 shiped with all 3 fixed, or at least the nightly builds don't suffer from the bugs which arn't deadly serious in most situations.
Protecting you from hollywood going bankrupt and no longer shoving large numbers of feel-good movies about life at you in a vain attempt to push there profits higher and drain your pockets more.
Nope your better joining your local sunday league team.
Trade secrets... vs Freedom of speach...
I'm sure if Think Secret were selling the information to the highest bidder it would definately be a breach of trade secrets laws, but really when there only telling the world about what theve found out...
Why can't the private life of a film star be a trade secret too then?
(sorry but this has to go to it's conclusion)
Jumper cable!!! We had to manually re-set the gears in our analitical engine.
Well I could argue that the reason we havn't seen IE updated is the $, there's no $'s to be made in updating IE for old customers, hence why it seems any updates are tied to longhorn, an updated IE for that might bring in some $.
Microsoft are depressingly money driven, if they demonstrated a larger care for there customers instead of only the care for $'s they might not have the image of the big nasty evil company that they have.
Alternatively M$ is a corporate disease, MS is a chronic autoimmune disease.
Great one for criminals trying to out-run the police, no more deflating the tires using mats full of tiny tubes which puncture the tire...
:)
Well also reduces the chance of blowouts, and the hastle of monitoring the pressure of your tire, but all the other problems will no doubt be with us until we give up using things which have wheels
I think it's a bad route to go down taxing one industury and giving the revinue to another, no matter what the reasons behind it are.
"that statement was about features"
I still don't think M$ understands why were screaming at them to update IE, we don't want features we want it to work properly.
People have fixed symptoms of deeper problems, and now the operating system is so patched up that it's almost impossible to make the sweeping changes we should have originally made.
One case in point, filing system journaling was not existant, so a common method was to save to a new file, and then issue a command to the filing system to overwrite the old file with the one you just saved once the file is written to disk.
This sounds fine, but then you realise that none of your old editors preserve ACL's. The same issue I believe can cause problems in some journaling systems.
The problem is, we fixed all the problems the wrong way.
To computers time is the counting of ticks, to humans it's the orbit of the earth around the sun and the rotation of the earth.
Gregorian calendar works fine for the physical realities of this planet, while computers and there seconds since Midnight Jan 1st 1970 works fine for them too.
Conversion between the two is trivial for computers and the functions to do it written many times in every language you can imagine.
There's no worry, and it matters not a jot. Well at least until were living on other planets, they might not be happy about the fractional number of seconds in a day.
From what I remember of the news at the time, Nvu is the result of the person who was working on a standalone version of composer under the mozilla umbrella who then decided to go it alone.
Personally I'm still waiting for a stand alone one with the official stamp of mozilla on it, not sure why he went it alone, but I don't remember it being a friendly parting at the time.
Microsoft has probably worked out that it doesn't really have much to loose by IE not being the browser on everyones desktop, the original plans I believe were along the line of the AOL style intergrated internet package.
Where's the profit in a browser, now a Media Player with intergrated DRM trusted by industury, there's money in that, probably why there's been several media player updates compared to the relative stagnent security fixes only which IE has recieved over the past few years.
Prisons were originally designed to stop people from committing crimes, commonly they would only lock people up at night so they couln't break into peoples houses or shops. Only in the last couple of centuries with the advent of the idea of reforming people come in, prison sentences got much much longer and the idea of reforming people in the early days was though harsh treatment and work.
The harsh treatment and work didn't have the desired results, but we carried on locking people up not because of there own rehabilitation but because it makes the victums feel better.
The whole system needs a damn hard re-think, and we need to stop puting people in prisons when mabie prisons arn't the best option.
I'll also make a point that the death penalty is only there to satisfy the sadistic perverted desires of revenge that the victums have. Death is no punishment, and if you belive in reincarnation, it might as well be a free ticket out of jail in the form of a new life.
Question is, would someone caught walking out the building with a backup tape from the credit card database server be locked up for 9 years, or is this just another waste of tax payers money on making another example of computer hakers when really the computers were just a tool in a rather mundane crime.
Doesn't make much sense the other way around, programs connect to the window manager, the window manager can't connect to programs.
16, I remember that age... long time ago now though.
The language could have been improved, and the typo's probably didn't help. In reply to the other person who commented on this thread I've not had any rendering glitches, the nightly build I'm using is from the 11th Dec.
Avary landed on Trunk a few days ago, so there's significant improvements in the 1.0+ version which will go on to be developed towards 1.1, though likely less stable and with a whole hoast of new bugs people are already reporting that it's got faster page load times.
:)
Not to mention the best benifit, 1.0+ renders slashdot correctly
... a national database of everyone is proposed.
Though it appears the guy pushing for it has abused his power in office to get his lovers nanny a vesa to work in the UK fast-tracked for aproval... hopfully that combined with the fact he's been having an affair anyway should be enough to push him out of goverment and give us back some hope of liberty.