it is bad enough that I get regularly banned from posting because my ISP (ntl:) uses an inline cache that reports itself as the remote address and slashcode can't differentiate between different ntl: customers. And, yes, it has been reported many times, the/. attitude is : if you're such a geek, sort yourself another proxy (which I do but it is still a pain).
1. Intended to prevent: deterrent, preclusive, preventive. See allow/prevent.
2. Defending against disease: preventive, prophylactic, protective. See allow/prevent.
The step from Super Mario Brothers 1 to 3 is, in fact, two quantum leaps.
1 - 2 - 3
Perhaps you meant "dramatic improvement". A quantum leap is a value changing from one value to another without any intervening values. Turning on a light via a switch is a quantum leap, turning up the dimmer isn't (on human scale).
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I realised later I should have added embedded. Which is another place where OSS can and is flourishing.
Nokia seem to be dipping their toe into this particular water. Not only with their recently announced Linux tablet but also porting Python and Perl to Symbian 60.
The Linux tablet is a stella idea. Effectively the one we've all been waiting for.
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Where did I say "no shiny boxes", what I said was that shiny-boxes are less important than the components, by an order of magnitude.
I will not cry anything.
There are 196 contributors listed on the Linux credits at kernel.org
That's not many branches of your favourite fast food joint.
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Such an old and tired argument!
Almost all the software written in the world:
bespoke applications tailored to specific workflow
customized solutions using off the shelf software components tailored to specific workflow
cdroms / floppy disks / dvds in little shiny boxes
Anti-OSS idiots (that's you) think that the world revolves around the shiny boxes whereas the rest of us know that the first two are an order of magnitude more important
As long as the middle one exists then people will need:
components - this is the OSS stuff : apache, libgtk, mozilla, linux customisers - hey that's me, unless I'm too busy flipping burgers
The idea is that any customisation done to apache, libgtk, mozilla & linux are shared with everyone and, by this token, everyone wins : as laid out in the GPL.
If you want to build a bespoke web server, feel free. If you want to pay for IIS, feel free. If you want to feel free, use one of Apache, thttpd, etc.
It is in the interests of larger companies to have in-house developers for the components and likewise in their interest to offer their changes back to the pool.
For the life of me I can't understand why so many people confuse this simple principle. It is almost self-evident !!
"Linux Kernel" [nokia.com] means any version of the Linux kernel which (i) is released as "stable version", (ii) is licensed under the "GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991 for the Linux operating system" and (iii) has been published by the Kernel.org Organization, Inc on its Linux Kernel Archive website at www.kernel.org.
> Software patents are an unfortunate fact of life right now. Nokia has done pretty much the best one can under the circumstances. I think one should applaud them for that.
So unfortunate that Nokia is a big pro patent mover in Europe. Keep your hands where they are, no applauding required.
the day IE4 came out was great fun, running round html enabled teen chat rooms that worked via meta refresh and adding window.location="http://lemonparty.org" and friends in =)
and watching said boards go down one by one as admins rushed to work on their html tag filters:>
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please, no more IP based filtering
/. attitude is : if you're such a geek, sort yourself another proxy (which I do but it is still a pain).
it is bad enough that I get regularly banned from posting because my ISP (ntl:) uses an inline cache that reports itself as the remote address and slashcode can't differentiate between different ntl: customers. And, yes, it has been reported many times, the
hmm, it might have been the other way round and I had to add it for mozilla
I don't do javascript much any more, much as I like the language
whichever, my point still stands
When you are running Firefox on your Nokia tablet, you might start singing the performance song.
(note spelling, not "to" but "too")
Tabs were introduced by Microsoft in Office 97, which were copied from Lotus Organizer which were copied as a metaphor from paper organizers
if you did spend all day working in ajavscript, then you'd know that you can create a standard library that will work cross browser
:
..... }
one can replace any functions that are missing or don't work how you like them.
I remember back in the days before getElementById in I.E. I added my own so that I could write my code assuming it was present
document.getElementById = function (id) {
as you go along you find out what works what doesn't.
It's not *that* different from developing wxWindows or gtk to work on windows & X : find the glitches, work round 'em
All programs close
Not true, in fact you could write your X applications to keep executing and re-attach once the X server was running again if you felt the need.
My music runs as a background process for this very reason. If X goes down I don't want it to take my music down with it.
simple, it is time to start stopping
nope
t ative
preventative
adjective
1. Intended to prevent: deterrent, preclusive, preventive. See allow/prevent.
2. Defending against disease: preventive, prophylactic, protective. See allow/prevent.
http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;?tname=preven
I want to drive one of those funky vehicles!
lol, clueless = you
The step from Super Mario Brothers 1 to 3 is, in fact, two quantum leaps.
1 - 2 - 3
Perhaps you meant "dramatic improvement". A quantum leap is a value changing from one value to another without any intervening values. Turning on a light via a switch is a quantum leap, turning up the dimmer isn't (on human scale).
I realised later I should have added embedded. Which is another place where OSS can and is flourishing.
Nokia seem to be dipping their toe into this particular water. Not only with their recently announced Linux tablet but also porting Python and Perl to Symbian 60.
The Linux tablet is a stella idea. Effectively the one we've all been waiting for.
try again
The energy that the P4s need alone in an hour will drive my whole system for number of hours!
0 is a number so your assertion is useless
how does these INTEL and AMD chips compare to IBM Cell processor
there are all turing machines, therefore equivalent
dual core CPUs suffer from the same problem
even SMP in a single core
Where did I say "no shiny boxes", what I said was that shiny-boxes are less important than the components, by an order of magnitude.
I will not cry anything.
There are 196 contributors listed on the Linux credits at kernel.org
That's not many branches of your favourite fast food joint.
Almost all the software written in the world
Anti-OSS idiots (that's you) think that the world revolves around the shiny boxes whereas the rest of us know that the first two are an order of magnitude more important
As long as the middle one exists then people will need
components - this is the OSS stuff : apache, libgtk, mozilla, linux
customisers - hey that's me, unless I'm too busy flipping burgers
The idea is that any customisation done to apache, libgtk, mozilla & linux are shared with everyone and, by this token, everyone wins : as laid out in the GPL.
If you want to build a bespoke web server, feel free.
If you want to pay for IIS, feel free.
If you want to feel free, use one of Apache, thttpd, etc.
It is in the interests of larger companies to have in-house developers for the components and likewise in their interest to offer their changes back to the pool.
For the life of me I can't understand why so many people confuse this simple principle. It is almost self-evident !!
why would kernel.org host such a kernel ?
"Linux Kernel" [nokia.com] means any version of the Linux kernel which (i) is released as "stable version", (ii) is licensed under the "GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991 for the Linux operating system" and (iii) has been published by the Kernel.org Organization, Inc on its Linux Kernel Archive website at www.kernel.org.
> Software patents are an unfortunate fact of life right now. Nokia has done pretty much the best one can under the circumstances. I think one should applaud them for that.
So unfortunate that Nokia is a big pro patent mover in Europe. Keep your hands where they are, no applauding required.
can you think of any uses for that USB port ?
probably by the same people that gave us the cable modem
lol, almost everything you said was totally wrong !!
all turing machines are equivalent, that's the point
I didn't notice a centronics port on the PS/2
the day IE4 came out was great fun, running round html enabled teen chat rooms that worked via meta refresh and adding window.location="http://lemonparty.org" and friends in =)
:>
and watching said boards go down one by one as admins rushed to work on their html tag filters