Actually fonts in Mozilla 1.1b on OSX 10.1.5 or greater look great. I agree with everything else you say though. It doesn't matter if M$ have achieved their advantage in an "unfair" way. The average person doesn't care. In fact I've spoken to many people who are actively looking forward to the day when Mozilla dies so they only have to worry about designing their pages for IE.
I use Mozilla on OS X for lots of reasons, but I have never understood why it has to be a single monolithic app. Why should I load up the e-mail client when I want to use the browser (or vice versa).
I'm writing this on a Ti Powerbook with a M$ USB Intellimouse optical plugged into one of its USB ports. It works flawlessly (yes, even the wheel) with no extra drivers needed which is more than could be said for my new WinXP box where I had to download the drivers for my PS/2 intellimouse from M$ and then it stopped working for some reason when I plugged in my USB printer (actually I suspect hardware not the OS there).
I've never bought a PC where I liked the mouse supplied with it so I always end up replacing it (usually with an M$ mouse of some sort).
Popular misconception: The British drink their beer warm.
It's not warm in the normal "warm water" sense of the word merely less cold than beer which is deliberately chilled using artifical refrigeration.
Most beers are brewed to completion at the brewery, then pasteurised to remove all the bugs and then chilled so they don't go bad and distributed. British "real ale" is shipped before the brewing process has been completed and it is finished off in the beer cellar of the pub - you can't chill beer that is still brewing. Thus, the taste of a pint of beer in England depends almost as much on the skill of the pub owner as it does on the brand of beer.
Cynics might claim that you don't need to chill British beer because it tastes good enough not to have to anaesthetise your taste buds.
I'd say they were conned about the density of pubs too. It's a while since I've been to Doolin but I remember there being two (maybe three). Still, they make up for it in quality. One of my best memories is of sitting in O'Connell's watching the finals of the All Ireland Hurling Championship (it's a sport in which you club each other to death with wooden sticks) which County Clare won (Doolin is in County Clare).
I can't bring myself to believe that a wildcard cert could possibly be a good idea. If my browser accepted them, I think I'd be looking for the option to turn them off.
Use of the word "upgrade" implies they have a legitimate connection with Equifax. I'd say they were misrepresenting themselves as agents of Equifax. Don't know if that is illegal, if they're defrauding anybody it's probably Equifax (i.e. they get the customer's money not Equifax).
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In 1998 I was interviewed by the Technical Director of a small company in the UK. Their standard tech question was "write a function to rotate a monochrome bitmap". The idea was not to come up with necessarily the correct answer (as if there was *one* correct answer), but to see how you tackled the problem. The only problem with that particular question is that there was a danger that some otherwise perfectly adequate programmers would freeze like a rabbit caught in headlights.
OTOH I've never seen a company with a higher concentration of good programming skills.
If I was interviewing a programmer, I would not expect them to carry the man page for gets(3) in their head. If you give them the man page, it gives away most of the answer. OTOH if they already know the semantics of gets(3), it probably means they have used it before in which case I would seriously consider showing them the door.
With the current state of the agricultural economy in the UK, a good crop circle is an absolute godsend (oops - I meant it is good fortune). Yesterday I passed a field with a crop circle in it and the farmer was charging 1 UKP for people to go in and walk around. He will probably make more money that way than out of the wheat that was flattened.
This makes a few things a little easier to explain such as how complex designs were able to appear overnight and why nobody has ever filmed a circle being made without the cooperation of the "hoaxers". If the farmer is in on the joke, it's a lot easier.
The video surveillance probably saw mysterious lights bobbing about in the field. These were obviously beings from another World - or maybe head torches.
There is absolutely no way any crop circle is the product of anything except standard human beings with a sense of humour - or maybe aliens with a sense of humour although it does seem to be a long way to come just to wind up the local intelligent liefeforms.
Crop circles have been appearing in England since the mid eighties. In fact they are old news here now - nobody talks about them anymore.
At their peak in the early nineties there were people including some reputable scientists who actually believed that they weren't made by human beings. To be fair the reputable scientists all fell into the "bizarre meteorological phenomenon" as opposed to the "beings from outer space" camp.
No, Redhat were wrong. At the time RHL 7.0 was released, the production version of gcc was 2.95.something. That would have been the correct compiler to bundle with RHL 7.
Hewlett Compaquard also has a commercial relationship with SuSE. The Debian news article suggested that they were chosen as the development platform internally. The two statements are not inconsistent.
There's nothing of extra terrestrial origin in Egyptian hieroglyphs. There can't be because the events you speak of happened a long time before the invention of hieroglyphs.
Two million years ago the planet of Golgafrincham loaded all of its useless members of society (advertising execs, hairdressers, telephone sanitizers etc) into a big space ship and fired it at Earth. The survivors of the crash supplanted the indigenous proto-intelligent mammals and became what is now the human race. The rest of the Golgsfrinchams died out tragically from a disease caught from dirty telephones.
If you start from the middle and work outwards, you could do it in 50,000 years at the speed of light. Having said that, it may prove impossible in a practical sense for a number of human beings + the equipment required to keep them alive to get to anything like that speed.
How many cities in the World have 100 million citizens? For the record, London had a population of about 7 million in 1996. The best figure I could get for Boston was 558,000 in 1998 (can you say "order of magnitude"?).
The last major remodelling of London happened in the late 17th century after a significant proportion of it burned down in the Great Fire at which time a) Boston was probably a handful of log cabins, b) the concept of the modern motor car was still three hundred years in the future. Unfortunately, Christopher Wren's idea for a rationally planned London was thwarted because the population wanted to put their houses and shops back where they were before.
London is a city that has been growing in an unplanned haphazard way for nearly 2,000 years. A lot of its road transport problems can be traced to the road system which still more or less follows the mediaval plan. Check out a street map of London to see what I mean. There's none of these nice square grids that most US cities are based on.
Radar detectors are illegal to use in the UK (it's not illegal to sell them AFAIK) although I have heard police officers state the opinion that, since it is the only way to the dangerous lunatics that buy them to slow down to a reasonable speed, they are a Good Thing.
By the way, license plates themselves constitute an invasion of privacy, but we've become so accustomed to them that most of us no longer view it as such.
You don't have to have licence plates on your car. You just are not allowed to drive it on public roads without them. The government says "hey, if you want to use that one ton lump of metal (which is known to be able to cause serious damage to people and other objects) on the roads we provide, then you'll need to accept some terms and conditions..."
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So your AV is doing its job properly. It doesn't know that you actually *want* that exploit.
Actually fonts in Mozilla 1.1b on OSX 10.1.5 or greater look great. I agree with everything else you say though. It doesn't matter if M$ have achieved their advantage in an "unfair" way. The average person doesn't care. In fact I've spoken to many people who are actively looking forward to the day when Mozilla dies so they only have to worry about designing their pages for IE.
I use Mozilla on OS X for lots of reasons, but I have never understood why it has to be a single monolithic app. Why should I load up the e-mail client when I want to use the browser (or vice versa).
I'm writing this on a Ti Powerbook with a M$ USB Intellimouse optical plugged into one of its USB ports. It works flawlessly (yes, even the wheel) with no extra drivers needed which is more than could be said for my new WinXP box where I had to download the drivers for my PS/2 intellimouse from M$ and then it stopped working for some reason when I plugged in my USB printer (actually I suspect hardware not the OS there).
I've never bought a PC where I liked the mouse supplied with it so I always end up replacing it (usually with an M$ mouse of some sort).
Popular misconception: The British drink their beer warm.
It's not warm in the normal "warm water" sense of the word merely less cold than beer which is deliberately chilled using artifical refrigeration.
Most beers are brewed to completion at the brewery, then pasteurised to remove all the bugs and then chilled so they don't go bad and distributed. British "real ale" is shipped before the brewing process has been completed and it is finished off in the beer cellar of the pub - you can't chill beer that is still brewing. Thus, the taste of a pint of beer in England depends almost as much on the skill of the pub owner as it does on the brand of beer.
Cynics might claim that you don't need to chill British beer because it tastes good enough not to have to anaesthetise your taste buds.
I'd say they were conned about the density of pubs too. It's a while since I've been to Doolin but I remember there being two (maybe three). Still, they make up for it in quality. One of my best memories is of sitting in O'Connell's watching the finals of the All Ireland Hurling Championship (it's a sport in which you club each other to death with wooden sticks) which County Clare won (Doolin is in County Clare).
I can't bring myself to believe that a wildcard cert could possibly be a good idea. If my browser accepted them, I think I'd be looking for the option to turn them off.
Use of the word "upgrade" implies they have a legitimate connection with Equifax. I'd say they were misrepresenting themselves as agents of Equifax. Don't know if that is illegal, if they're defrauding anybody it's probably Equifax (i.e. they get the customer's money not Equifax).
(1 xor 1) xor 0 = 0 xor 0 = 0
Not what you wanted.
In 1998 I was interviewed by the Technical Director of a small company in the UK. Their standard tech question was "write a function to rotate a monochrome bitmap". The idea was not to come up with necessarily the correct answer (as if there was *one* correct answer), but to see how you tackled the problem. The only problem with that particular question is that there was a danger that some otherwise perfectly adequate programmers would freeze like a rabbit caught in headlights.
OTOH I've never seen a company with a higher concentration of good programming skills.
The indentation style is the one advocated by Steve McConnell in Code Complete.
If I was interviewing a programmer, I would not expect them to carry the man page for gets(3) in their head. If you give them the man page, it gives away most of the answer. OTOH if they already know the semantics of gets(3), it probably means they have used it before in which case I would seriously consider showing them the door.
32 bit Unix time ends in 2037. Maybe Ken Thompson knew something the rest of us didn't...
such as civilisation will be destroyed by the sudden unexplained collapse of all the World's computer systems resulting from calendar rollover.
With the current state of the agricultural economy in the UK, a good crop circle is an absolute godsend (oops - I meant it is good fortune). Yesterday I passed a field with a crop circle in it and the farmer was charging 1 UKP for people to go in and walk around. He will probably make more money that way than out of the wheat that was flattened.
This makes a few things a little easier to explain such as how complex designs were able to appear overnight and why nobody has ever filmed a circle being made without the cooperation of the "hoaxers". If the farmer is in on the joke, it's a lot easier.
It was dark right?
The video surveillance probably saw mysterious lights bobbing about in the field. These were obviously beings from another World - or maybe head torches.
There is absolutely no way any crop circle is the product of anything except standard human beings with a sense of humour - or maybe aliens with a sense of humour although it does seem to be a long way to come just to wind up the local intelligent liefeforms.
Crop circles have been appearing in England since the mid eighties. In fact they are old news here now - nobody talks about them anymore.
At their peak in the early nineties there were people including some reputable scientists who actually believed that they weren't made by human beings. To be fair the reputable scientists all fell into the "bizarre meteorological phenomenon" as opposed to the "beings from outer space" camp.
It's clear that who ever does falsify financial records ends up doing worse that if they just reported the loses to begin with.
It's not clear to me. Do you have definite evidence that none of the companies that haven't been caught were falsifying their records?
No, Redhat were wrong. At the time RHL 7.0 was released, the production version of gcc was 2.95.something. That would have been the correct compiler to bundle with RHL 7.
Hewlett Compaquard also has a commercial relationship with SuSE. The Debian news article suggested that they were chosen as the development platform internally. The two statements are not inconsistent.
He had dried out before Life of Brian as I recall.
There's nothing of extra terrestrial origin in Egyptian hieroglyphs. There can't be because the events you speak of happened a long time before the invention of hieroglyphs.
Two million years ago the planet of Golgafrincham loaded all of its useless members of society (advertising execs, hairdressers, telephone sanitizers etc) into a big space ship and fired it at Earth. The survivors of the crash supplanted the indigenous proto-intelligent mammals and became what is now the human race. The rest of the Golgsfrinchams died out tragically from a disease caught from dirty telephones.
I know it's tru, I read it in a book.
If you start from the middle and work outwards, you could do it in 50,000 years at the speed of light. Having said that, it may prove impossible in a practical sense for a number of human beings + the equipment required to keep them alive to get to anything like that speed.
How many cities in the World have 100 million citizens? For the record, London had a population of about 7 million in 1996. The best figure I could get for Boston was 558,000 in 1998 (can you say "order of magnitude"?).
The last major remodelling of London happened in the late 17th century after a significant proportion of it burned down in the Great Fire at which time a) Boston was probably a handful of log cabins, b) the concept of the modern motor car was still three hundred years in the future. Unfortunately, Christopher Wren's idea for a rationally planned London was thwarted because the population wanted to put their houses and shops back where they were before.
London is a city that has been growing in an unplanned haphazard way for nearly 2,000 years. A lot of its road transport problems can be traced to the road system which still more or less follows the mediaval plan. Check out a street map of London to see what I mean. There's none of these nice square grids that most US cities are based on.
Radar detectors are illegal to use in the UK (it's not illegal to sell them AFAIK) although I have heard police officers state the opinion that, since it is the only way to the dangerous lunatics that buy them to slow down to a reasonable speed, they are a Good Thing.
How about not running red lights?
By the way, license plates themselves constitute an invasion of privacy, but we've become so accustomed to them that most of us no longer view it as such.
You don't have to have licence plates on your car. You just are not allowed to drive it on public roads without them. The government says "hey, if you want to use that one ton lump of metal (which is known to be able to cause serious damage to people and other objects) on the roads we provide, then you'll need to accept some terms and conditions..."