But the problem is that most designers are NOT following these standards,they keep using non standard features of the older browsers, thus the software writers now have a dilemma of the own making i grant.
They have two choices, Only render the pages that follow the standards and have 99% of sites non functional in there browser or allow it to work so there browser can be used today.
The only company that could currently force the updating of many sites is our favorite company Microsoft and even then I'm sure there would be resistance to a browser that only followed the standard.
So the burden had to be on the designers of the site to pull them into line with the standard, once the browsers can render strictly to the standard such as mozilla and opra etc.
IMHO, the Mozilla developers made a very bad decision when they decided to create their own GUI toolkit from scratch rather than rely on the interface of each operating system Mozilla ran on. Sure, Mozilla's controls look the same on Mac OS X as they do on Windows and Linux and Be and OS/2 and OpenVMS... but who cares? I don't want it to look like a Windows application on my Mac. And having to reinvent the wheel and get all the buttons and scrollbars and pulldowns working right must have added at least a year or two to Mozilla's schedule, and they still need work.
Have you actually tried to create a application that can run on multiple platforms and present a GUI that matches the underling OS.
You have two basic options 1) use something like qt which just emulates the look and feel if the OS, this very close to what mozilla did, there are just no windows themes*
2) Write the GUI side of you application for each OS you wish it to run on. Which would at least double the amount of work required and also prevent to from being able to show a consistent interface across platforms. Not to touch upon the complexities of debugging issues.
The only other option is use something like wxWindows which tries to present a single API that is platform independent but will use native widgets, though this approach has it own problems.
*There are actually as part of the mozdev project.
I must say i find being able to change the size of the viewport is extremely usfull. Why do you need to change the resolution, what advantage does it give over just having a large display and ajusting the viewport size?
What would be more usfull is the ability to change colour depth on the fly.
People aren't going to go out and buy MS Office if there's already this nice FREE Open Office program pre-installed that they can use.
Well I would of agreed with you until I was asked to re-install a friend machine. After getting windows* installed, I came to put office back on and then found they didn't have any office CD's umm, it turns out another friend had installed it.
Ok i say i got a copy of Openoffice.org. It'll will open and edit you word documents not a problem... but no for some strange reason she buys officeXP which min spec if higher than her machine and then asks if I'll install that.
It turns out she happy to pay as she has heard that it is the best choice** and it what she has used before.
Or should the government except Microsoft testimony, then demand all government agencies and any one with whom they share data with stop using Microsoft software as it's a danger to national security.
OpenOffice's rendering of MS Office documents is not perfect and this becomes more noticeable with more complex documents.
Though i agree OpenOffice.org isn't perfect at rendering complex documents. Nor is MS Office it's self, just try taking a document produced on a Windows machine to a mac or visa-versa. This can cause the document text to be re-flowed, thus causeing changed in page breaks etc. This is probably because the fonts have changes slightly.
Well, posts on message boards are opinions, not facts
By this are you suggesting that all reporters only speek the truth and don't give opinions.
I suppose the press also don't lie either, after all we all know we can trust the press, don't we ?
While i agree with your comment about it beeing upto the individual sovereign states to deal with Microsoft, one also has to consider that some, of these states have litle power enforce Microsoft to do anything.
Consider if British Govermenrt decided Microsoft should freely make available all API etc. Do we think Microsoft would:
a) Comply with the ruling
b) Tell the British Gov where to get off and drop the English market.
The question thus is what markets are BIG enough to make microsoft comply. How much of a market loss would Micosoft be willing to take.
Remember Microsoft can delay having to drop a market by repeted apples and just non complience. Can Microsoft afford to just pay/take any penalties.
Could this be accounted for by 'NEW' ISS machines, remember the number is a percentage of the total number of ISS servers that month, so if more unpatch ISS server are added than patch ISS servers in the following month, then the percentage of unpatch server will increase.
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As the infected server is requesting an action from your server by contacting you in the firstplace, you could say that this is a obvious request for you to fix there machine.
Read this section from the old license...
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
are met:
To me it does sound like you can redistribute modified code..
Higher temperatures cause a higher cost to run the machines
Ok, but the cans are also in the machine for a shorter time.
Also, faster soda purchases require more storage space...
Not quite, the speed of soda sales don't effect the size of the machine. unless they change the machine dependent on the weather too.
... and more frequent monitoring of levels of supply within the machines
More frequent monitoring debatable?, refilling yes, but hot weather results in a higher and faster turnover, always good. You might even want to think about economy's of scale.
All the advantages of selling in the winter too of less mobile vendors taking you custom, etc.
Has author has accepted patches / bug fix's to the original code?
If these where given to him under the GPL then would he need to remove these from the version he is selling, or provide the source as it containing GPL code?
Or is there a minimum % content before the GPL would be enforceable
In that case could you send the output from dd to an app to read the brocken TOC in the same way a normal CD Player does, then use dd again to just cut out the tracks as required?
In Europe that doesn't matter you can return it, and say it isn't fit for the purpose you bought it for. They have to refund you money, and you don't need to say what your purpose was.
As the cd didn't i assume have any marking to say it used this copy protection, and that this would prevent it working like normal CD's you have a better legal position too.
Really, the only reason it wouldn't work is that most of us wouldn't want to stand up in a room full of people and say, "I'm the guy who built the open source censorware that libraries use world-wide!" - by X Though if you where to stand up and say "I'm the Guy who built the open source censorware that prevented the control of censorware black lists from failing into the hands of an unaccountable third parties." then you have a different response. If censorware is to become common use or even a requirement then the open source community SHOULD develop it own version(s). The real question is can the open source community try to stop the acceptance of censorware and should it. If censorware is to become part life which i think it probably is, whether i like it or not, what is the community response to this issue. Either way by starting to developing an open source censorware software which collects the black list from a public visible list (possibly with a restricted editing / submission facility), this would allow for the adoption of levels of censorship control and many other great ideas common to open source software. If this then forces other censorware company's to open up the lists that great. At worst it will just add to the growing list of censorware products.
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But the problem is that most designers are NOT following these standards ,they keep using non standard features of the older browsers, thus the software writers now have a dilemma of the own making i grant.
They have two choices, Only render the pages that follow the standards and have 99% of sites non functional in there browser or allow it to work so there browser can be used today.
The only company that could currently force the updating of many sites is our favorite company Microsoft and even then I'm sure there would be resistance to a browser that only followed the standard.
So the burden had to be on the designers of the site to pull them into line with the standard, once the browsers can render strictly to the standard such as mozilla and opra etc.
From the wineHQ website ....
Wine is an implementation of the Windows Win32 and Win16 APIs on top of X and Unix. Think of Wine as a Windows compatibility layer.
No,the first mistake was coming down from the tree.
Though some would say leaving the sea was a bad mistake.
IMHO, the Mozilla developers made a very bad decision when they decided to create their own GUI toolkit from scratch rather than rely on the interface of each operating system Mozilla ran on. Sure, Mozilla's controls look the same on Mac OS X as they do on Windows and Linux and Be and OS/2 and OpenVMS... but who cares? I don't want it to look like a Windows application on my Mac. And having to reinvent the wheel and get all the buttons and scrollbars and pulldowns working right must have added at least a year or two to Mozilla's schedule, and they still need work.
Have you actually tried to create a application that can run on multiple platforms and present a GUI that matches the underling OS.
You have two basic options
1) use something like qt which just emulates the look and feel if the OS, this very close to what mozilla did, there are just no windows themes*
2) Write the GUI side of you application for each OS you wish it to run on. Which would at least double the amount of work required and also prevent to from being able to show a consistent interface across platforms. Not to touch upon the complexities of debugging issues.
The only other option is use something like wxWindows which tries to present a single API that is platform independent but will use native widgets, though this approach has it own problems.
*There are actually as part of the mozdev project.
* changing resolutions on the fly
I must say i find being able to change the size of the viewport is extremely usfull. Why do you need to change the resolution, what advantage does it give over just having a large display and ajusting the viewport size?
What would be more usfull is the ability to change colour depth on the fly.
People aren't going to go out and buy MS Office if there's already this nice FREE Open Office program pre-installed that they can use.
Well I would of agreed with you until I was asked to re-install a friend machine. After getting windows* installed, I came to put office back on and then found they didn't have any office CD's umm, it turns out another friend had installed it.
Ok i say i got a copy of Openoffice.org. It'll will open and edit you word documents not a problem... but no for some strange reason she buys officeXP which min spec if higher than her machine and then asks if I'll install that.
It turns out she happy to pay as she has heard that it is the best choice** and it what she has used before.
*their choice.
**not from me I'll add
Or should the government except Microsoft testimony, then demand all government agencies and any one with whom they share data with stop using Microsoft software as it's a danger to national security.
OpenOffice's rendering of MS Office documents is not perfect and this becomes more noticeable with more complex documents.
Though i agree OpenOffice.org isn't perfect at rendering complex documents. Nor is MS Office it's self, just try taking a document produced on a Windows machine to a mac or visa-versa. This can cause the document text to be re-flowed, thus causeing changed in page breaks etc. This is probably because the fonts have changes slightly.
You could just assign the rights to a third party.
I agree it unlikly they would complain if they where doing it too, but then they did denied that they had complained to the Messe.
So can we realy say on hand knows what the other is doing to coin a phrase.
Ok, but how do you or NASA stop these probes which are beeing sent to Europa from contaminating the sample?
:)
Is the probe sterile, Do we boil it for five minutes before lanch
Well, posts on message boards are opinions, not facts
By this are you suggesting that all reporters only speek the truth and don't give opinions.
I suppose the press also don't lie either, after all we all know we can trust the press, don't we ?
While i agree with your comment about it beeing upto the individual sovereign states to deal with Microsoft, one also has to consider that some, of these states have litle power enforce Microsoft to do anything.
:
Consider if British Govermenrt decided Microsoft should freely make available all API etc. Do we think Microsoft would
a) Comply with the ruling
b) Tell the British Gov where to get off and drop the English market.
The question thus is what markets are BIG enough to make microsoft comply. How much of a market loss would Micosoft be willing to take.
Remember Microsoft can delay having to drop a market by repeted apples and just non complience. Can Microsoft afford to just pay/take any penalties.
Could this be accounted for by 'NEW' ISS machines, remember the number is a percentage of the total number of ISS servers that month, so if more unpatch ISS server are added than patch ISS servers in the following month, then the percentage of unpatch server will increase.
As the infected server is requesting an action from your server by contacting you in the firstplace, you could say that this is a obvious request for you to fix there machine.
The license hasn't been changed.
...
Read this section from the old license
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
To me it does sound like you can redistribute modified code..
Higher temperatures cause a higher cost to run the machines
...
... and more frequent monitoring of levels of supply within the machines
Ok, but the cans are also in the machine for a shorter time.
Also, faster soda purchases require more storage space
Not quite, the speed of soda sales don't effect the size of the machine. unless they change the machine dependent on the weather too.
More frequent monitoring debatable?, refilling yes, but hot weather results in a higher and faster turnover, always good. You might even want to think about economy's of scale.
All the advantages of selling in the winter too of less mobile vendors taking you custom, etc.
So should prices should change?
Has author has accepted patches / bug fix's to the original code?
If these where given to him under the GPL then would he need to remove these from the version he is selling, or provide the source as it containing GPL code?
Or is there a minimum % content before the GPL would be enforceable
In that case could you send the output from dd to an app to read the brocken TOC in the same way a normal CD Player does, then use dd again to just cut out the tracks as required?
In Europe that doesn't matter you can return it, and say it isn't fit for the purpose you bought it for. They have to refund you money, and you don't need to say what your purpose was.
As the cd didn't i assume have any marking to say it used this copy protection, and that this would prevent it working like normal CD's you have a better legal position too.
Doesn't the 'Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, or FCPA' only apply if the act or bribe is committed in the US?
:)
But then again the US do assumes the hole planet is part of the US
Really, the only reason it wouldn't work is that most of us wouldn't want to stand up in a room full of people and say, "I'm the guy who built the open source censorware that libraries use world-wide!" - by X Though if you where to stand up and say "I'm the Guy who built the open source censorware that prevented the control of censorware black lists from failing into the hands of an unaccountable third parties." then you have a different response. If censorware is to become common use or even a requirement then the open source community SHOULD develop it own version(s). The real question is can the open source community try to stop the acceptance of censorware and should it. If censorware is to become part life which i think it probably is, whether i like it or not, what is the community response to this issue. Either way by starting to developing an open source censorware software which collects the black list from a public visible list (possibly with a restricted editing / submission facility), this would allow for the adoption of levels of censorship control and many other great ideas common to open source software. If this then forces other censorware company's to open up the lists that great. At worst it will just add to the growing list of censorware products.