For some reason, OO.o isn't providing a PowerPC build of OpenOffice 3.0 in English. You can get 3.0 in French or Japanese, but the latest English build is 2.4. During development of 3.0, PPC builds have been provided by a third party, but they seem to have stopped at 3.0rc4. I wonder why.
For the sake of precision, Hitler was appointed chancellor, not elected. But when he was appointed he was already the head of the largest party in the German parliament, and the Nazis had obtained that result in elections held before Hitler's rise to power.
Turkey is not the only one that needs to change. The EU is having enough trouble operating with the current 27 members: before it can consider expanding, it needs to reform itself, and then it will need time to stabilize in its new form. Right now we're not even sure what direction we want the reforms to take, so I think it'll take years before it makes sense to consider the possibility of Turkish accession.
When people say "WebKit" in browser benchmarks (eg ACID3), they are typically referring to the WebKit nightly builds. Those amount to the latest released version of the Safari application (currently 3.1.2), but run using the nightly build of the WebKit libraries instead of the version that comes with the Safari app.
As for Javascript tests such as SunSpider, those are typically run by invoking the Javascript interpreter directly from the command line, without using a full browser.
So he's really comparing apples to apples and oranges to oranges.
You forget birth control (and abortion). It doesn't matter how early you have sex, what's important is when you reproduce. And that age has most definitely been increasing.
That's because HTTP/1.0 specified Accept as a simple comma-separated list of media types, and when HTTP/1.1 added accept-params they had to keep backwards compatibility. I doubt the USPTO was at some point surprised by the novel invention of first names.
Actually, it seems to be largely orthogonal to platform affiliation. I've seen a lot of Windows or Linux fans sporting Dock imitations on their desktops, and boasting that they don't need an overpriced Mac to get the cool effects. Without fail, their faux-docks are set to closely mimic Apple's default configuration, with the dock on the bottom and exaggerated magnification.
I don't know about Apple fans, but Mac users certainly don't "extol" the Dock. Most people disable magnification, move it away from the bottom of the screen, set it to autohide, and/or replace it with something else (and then complain because you're still forced to use the dock for some things, since a full API for replacing it is not available). Only absolute newbies use the horrible default configuration.
Inventors: Ording; Bas (Sunnyvale, CA), Jobs; Steven P. (Palo Alto, CA), Lindsay; Donald J. (Mountain View, CA)
Since when does the comma take precedence over the semicolon? Normally, that would be read as a list of four items: Ording, Jobs Bas, Lindsay Steven P., and Donald J. The fact that such vile abuse of punctuation is standard as the USPTO is irrefutable proof that the entire institution is corrupt.
Be careful, Roger Penrose will probably sue you for it.
Yes, the man did the unthinkable: he patented and asserted copyright on a mathematical construct.
GP missed an important part of the general rule: adjectives that end with "y" form the comparative with "ier" even if they are two syllables. Uglier, happier, prettier, etc.
I'm mainly a Mac user, so excuse me if I'm missing something obvious about Windows, but why should users pay particular attention to fake dialogs on websites? Whatever evil the page might perform if you click "OK", it could have performed without even displaying the dialog in the first place. The one exception I can think of is that, at least under some popup blocking systems, clicking a button in a fake dialog might enable the page to open a popup window (because it's considered an user-initiated action), but that's no big deal.
On the contrary, it's genuine dialogs (from Windows or the browser) that you should beware of, because if you get one that says "Do you want to allow this site to perform [some evil thing]?" and you click "Yes", you really are exposing yourself to further danger.
The choice of the "memory access error" dialog for the experiment is especially poor. It's a mere notification that tells nothing useful to 99% of users, and doesn't ask them to make any choice, so I would expect most users with significant Windows experience to be used to dismissing that kind of alert without even reading it - which is fine!
A much better experiment, IMHO would have been mimicking an authorization dialog ("Do you want to allow this dangerous operation?" OK, Cancel), and seeing if users pay any more attention (I think they would, if nothing else because they have to choose between two buttons). Then see how long it takes to "train" users to click "OK" without thinking by spamming fake authorization dialogs during web browsing, and how the level of similarity with the real dialog affects the results.
In hindsight - and discounting all technical failures, operators errors and violent attacks by organized military air-defense of whatever country - the major reason for loss of life in air travel is violence by terrorists.
Yes. Terrorism is the biggest threat to air travel, excluding all others.
Then later Apple killed the Apple Dealers and did the store within a store and web store to sell Macintoshes as revenge on Apple dealers that still tried to sell Amiga One and Classic Amiga computers along with Macs.
That had been an interesting post, but you veered into fantasy territory right at the end. Apple's entry into retail was a long-term strategy that represented a huge investment for the company and required several years of work before it was refined into a working model. Do you really think they went to all that trouble just to kill the Amiga? Did the Amiga even need killing at that point? You complain about fanboy hate, but fanboy love can make you just as irrational.
"Native" is a relative concept. Native on KDE, maybe. But on the Mac, I'm reluctant to call a Qt-based application "native". I've yet to see one that looks and feels right on OS X.
I went looking for the same information earlier today. Surprisingly, the design document titled "How Chromium Displays Web Pages" doesn't shed any light on that, at least at this time. You have to dive into the source to find out.
Basically, a single process (the one main browser process) owns the window and draws to it. Renderer processes draw their web content into shared memory; the browser process then transfers the data into a backing store, which it uses to paint the window. The process is coordinated via inter-process message-passing (using pipes, it seems), but the rendering output travels via shared memory.
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For some reason, OO.o isn't providing a PowerPC build of OpenOffice 3.0 in English. You can get 3.0 in French or Japanese, but the latest English build is 2.4. During development of 3.0, PPC builds have been provided by a third party, but they seem to have stopped at 3.0rc4. I wonder why.
For the sake of precision, Hitler was appointed chancellor, not elected. But when he was appointed he was already the head of the largest party in the German parliament, and the Nazis had obtained that result in elections held before Hitler's rise to power.
Turkey is not the only one that needs to change. The EU is having enough trouble operating with the current 27 members: before it can consider expanding, it needs to reform itself, and then it will need time to stabilize in its new form. Right now we're not even sure what direction we want the reforms to take, so I think it'll take years before it makes sense to consider the possibility of Turkish accession.
It does raise the intresting question, if people elected their dictators, is it still a dictatorship?
You might recall that Hitler was elected by the German people. I don't think there's any question that he was still a dictator.
When people say "WebKit" in browser benchmarks (eg ACID3), they are typically referring to the WebKit nightly builds. Those amount to the latest released version of the Safari application (currently 3.1.2), but run using the nightly build of the WebKit libraries instead of the version that comes with the Safari app. As for Javascript tests such as SunSpider, those are typically run by invoking the Javascript interpreter directly from the command line, without using a full browser. So he's really comparing apples to apples and oranges to oranges.
Safari does. Hold down the command key when you submit the form, and the results open in a new tab.
You forget birth control (and abortion). It doesn't matter how early you have sex, what's important is when you reproduce. And that age has most definitely been increasing.
That's because HTTP/1.0 specified Accept as a simple comma-separated list of media types, and when HTTP/1.1 added accept-params they had to keep backwards compatibility. I doubt the USPTO was at some point surprised by the novel invention of first names.
Oh, who am I kidding.
Actually, it seems to be largely orthogonal to platform affiliation. I've seen a lot of Windows or Linux fans sporting Dock imitations on their desktops, and boasting that they don't need an overpriced Mac to get the cool effects. Without fail, their faux-docks are set to closely mimic Apple's default configuration, with the dock on the bottom and exaggerated magnification.
Precisely.
I don't know about Apple fans, but Mac users certainly don't "extol" the Dock. Most people disable magnification, move it away from the bottom of the screen, set it to autohide, and/or replace it with something else (and then complain because you're still forced to use the dock for some things, since a full API for replacing it is not available). Only absolute newbies use the horrible default configuration.
Since when does the comma take precedence over the semicolon? Normally, that would be read as a list of four items: Ording, Jobs Bas, Lindsay Steven P., and Donald J. The fact that such vile abuse of punctuation is standard as the USPTO is irrefutable proof that the entire institution is corrupt.
So tempted to do my bathrooom in Penrose tiles!
Be careful, Roger Penrose will probably sue you for it.
Yes, the man did the unthinkable: he patented and asserted copyright on a mathematical construct.
GP missed an important part of the general rule: adjectives that end with "y" form the comparative with "ier" even if they are two syllables. Uglier, happier, prettier, etc.
It is the best kind of victory.
I'm mainly a Mac user, so excuse me if I'm missing something obvious about Windows, but why should users pay particular attention to fake dialogs on websites? Whatever evil the page might perform if you click "OK", it could have performed without even displaying the dialog in the first place. The one exception I can think of is that, at least under some popup blocking systems, clicking a button in a fake dialog might enable the page to open a popup window (because it's considered an user-initiated action), but that's no big deal.
On the contrary, it's genuine dialogs (from Windows or the browser) that you should beware of, because if you get one that says "Do you want to allow this site to perform [some evil thing]?" and you click "Yes", you really are exposing yourself to further danger.
The choice of the "memory access error" dialog for the experiment is especially poor. It's a mere notification that tells nothing useful to 99% of users, and doesn't ask them to make any choice, so I would expect most users with significant Windows experience to be used to dismissing that kind of alert without even reading it - which is fine!
A much better experiment, IMHO would have been mimicking an authorization dialog ("Do you want to allow this dangerous operation?" OK, Cancel), and seeing if users pay any more attention (I think they would, if nothing else because they have to choose between two buttons). Then see how long it takes to "train" users to click "OK" without thinking by spamming fake authorization dialogs during web browsing, and how the level of similarity with the real dialog affects the results.
In hindsight - and discounting all technical failures, operators errors and violent attacks by organized military air-defense of whatever country - the major reason for loss of life in air travel is violence by terrorists.
Yes. Terrorism is the biggest threat to air travel, excluding all others.
Then later Apple killed the Apple Dealers and did the store within a store and web store to sell Macintoshes as revenge on Apple dealers that still tried to sell Amiga One and Classic Amiga computers along with Macs.
That had been an interesting post, but you veered into fantasy territory right at the end. Apple's entry into retail was a long-term strategy that represented a huge investment for the company and required several years of work before it was refined into a working model. Do you really think they went to all that trouble just to kill the Amiga? Did the Amiga even need killing at that point? You complain about fanboy hate, but fanboy love can make you just as irrational.
It's never been, for me, about who you own or don't own
And here I thought owning was at the very core of the Halo experience.
PsOTUS and FLsOTUS
Shouldn't the plural of POTUS be POTI? And likewise, FLOTI from FLOTUS.
This wouldn't be 4chan's first brush with the FBI. Two people have previously been arrested over terrorist threats posted on the board.
Fight the power.
No, they don't. Maybe in Great Britain, but definitely not in continental Europe.
"Native" is a relative concept. Native on KDE, maybe. But on the Mac, I'm reluctant to call a Qt-based application "native". I've yet to see one that looks and feels right on OS X.
I went looking for the same information earlier today. Surprisingly, the design document titled "How Chromium Displays Web Pages" doesn't shed any light on that, at least at this time. You have to dive into the source to find out.
Basically, a single process (the one main browser process) owns the window and draws to it. Renderer processes draw their web content into shared memory; the browser process then transfers the data into a backing store, which it uses to paint the window. The process is coordinated via inter-process message-passing (using pipes, it seems), but the rendering output travels via shared memory.