The Mozilla Foundation was formed in July 2003 around when Mozilla 1.4 was released. Until then Mozilla (which included Gecko) was owned and operated by Netscape. So yes, the Gecko code was provided (or at least sponsored) by Netscape).
Also, Firefox (formerly Firebird formerly Phoenix) was started in late 2002 when Mozilla was still part of Netscape.
In Sun's Java there are no sun. packages (JDK 1.5 API).
If OOo has any sun. classes then they have to be included with the application because they are not part of the runtime. That would make these classes application specific rather than vendor specific runtime classes.
Also, the article mentions that:
A source at Sun said, "OO.o 2 works OK with GCJ" and that "Red Hat has been tremendously helpful in the effort to make that so, filing bug reports etc."
Apparently Red Hat was able to figure out that if OOo doesn't work with gcj then you submit a bug report and get it fixed whereas the FSF whines about it and issues demands to Sun that it run the OOo project according to the FSF's agenda.
The issue is that right now You have to patch OOo to compile under gjc and OOo is using some vendor-specific functionality from Sun's Java in order to get a number of improvements and some base functionality.
I believe the patches were needed because of deficiencies in the current gjc and not because of "vendor-specific functionality". Java by it's very definition is vendor neutral and if gjc was implemented 100% according to the spec then there wouldn't be a problem. I'm sure it will eventually but just not today.
Then Lucas will re-re-re-edit episodes 4-6 so that Jar-Jar is really Luke and Leia's father and digitally add big floppy ears to Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher.
Third place in an undergrad playwriting contest does not make your opinion any more right than anyone else's. Steven Spielberg's opinion is no more valid than anyone else's. The point to this whole exchange is that a person doesn't have to be "in the business" to have an opinion about it.
You don't have to be a chef to know if a meal tastes good or bad.
Everyone is entitled to an opinion. You may not think what Lucas has done is crap but others, myself included, think it is. The story is weak, the dialog predictable and he relys waaaaay too much on special effects to unsuccessfully make up for the deficiencies. Lucky for him the general public is easily impressed.
For the record, movies are released in theatres not box offices. When someone mentions box offices it's usually in reference to financial success. That's what I thought was being clumsily indicated. Instead it was something else being clumsily indicated.
So, unless YOU have theatrical release #1 then I guess you're not entitled to an opinion either.
Oh, pshaw: when you have box office release #1 under your belt (irrespective of whether it draws vacuum) then you may be in a position to call Lucas's body of work a "pile of crap"
Unless YOU have a #1 box office success I guess you're not entitled to an opinion either.
For decades we've tuned out the constant barrage of marketing that gets heaped on us. The advertisers are just pissed because we found a way to automate it.
The reason the article included Canada was to refute the claims of people like you.
"all these countries with a lower standard of living"
As others here have pointed out, that's just wrong.
"with far higher population density"
Have you been to Canada? Can you even find it on a map? U.S.: 32.0 people/sq km Canada: 3.6 people/sq km
And before you complain about it being in "sq km", I used population and areas stats from the CIA factbook which quoted area in "km".
"and enormous federal pork to build their broadband connections"
The federal government didn't kick in money to build our broadband services. It was done through regulation, existing infrastructure tax breaks and forced competition.
Blocking Flash ads is no different than not having Flash installed. If they don't block non-Flash users from viewing their site without the ads then there's no reason why we can't block them.
It only has to be on the opposite side not the opposite hemisphere. Since this base would be at the north pole then the other base only has to be an equal distance on the other side of the pole not the other side of the south pole. If the bases are 100 miles either side of the pole then you only need 200 miles of cable rather than 4500. Much more economical considering the shipping costs.
And if I remember correctly, because the moon doesn't have an atmosphere the terminator is a sharp line that is literally the difference between night and day. That being the case the bases might only need to be a few miles apart.
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Ferret face!
AVG from Grisoft has a Linux version as well as a free Windows version.
The Mozilla Foundation was formed in July 2003 around when Mozilla 1.4 was released. Until then Mozilla (which included Gecko) was owned and operated by Netscape. So yes, the Gecko code was provided (or at least sponsored) by Netscape).
Also, Firefox (formerly Firebird formerly Phoenix) was started in late 2002 when Mozilla was still part of Netscape.
Glad to be of service.
...paranoid crackpot leftovers from the waning days of the Spanish Inquisistion
Well, I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.
If OOo has any sun. classes then they have to be included with the application because they are not part of the runtime. That would make these classes application specific rather than vendor specific runtime classes.
Also, the article mentions that:
Apparently Red Hat was able to figure out that if OOo doesn't work with gcj then you submit a bug report and get it fixed whereas the FSF whines about it and issues demands to Sun that it run the OOo project according to the FSF's agenda.
The issue is that right now You have to patch OOo to compile under gjc and OOo is using some vendor-specific functionality from Sun's Java in order to get a number of improvements and some base functionality.
I believe the patches were needed because of deficiencies in the current gjc and not because of "vendor-specific functionality". Java by it's very definition is vendor neutral and if gjc was implemented 100% according to the spec then there wouldn't be a problem. I'm sure it will eventually but just not today.
Or IBM on AIX, AS400 and OS/390.
Real men are cut . . . without anesthesia.
Then Lucas will re-re-re-edit episodes 4-6 so that Jar-Jar is really Luke and Leia's father and digitally add big floppy ears to Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher.
Third place in an undergrad playwriting contest does not make your opinion any more right than anyone else's. Steven Spielberg's opinion is no more valid than anyone else's. The point to this whole exchange is that a person doesn't have to be "in the business" to have an opinion about it.
You don't have to be a chef to know if a meal tastes good or bad.
Everyone is entitled to an opinion. You may not think what Lucas has done is crap but others, myself included, think it is. The story is weak, the dialog predictable and he relys waaaaay too much on special effects to unsuccessfully make up for the deficiencies. Lucky for him the general public is easily impressed.
For the record, movies are released in theatres not box offices. When someone mentions box offices it's usually in reference to financial success. That's what I thought was being clumsily indicated. Instead it was something else being clumsily indicated.
So, unless YOU have theatrical release #1 then I guess you're not entitled to an opinion either.
Oh, pshaw: when you have box office release #1 under your belt (irrespective of whether it draws vacuum) then you may be in a position to call Lucas's body of work a "pile of crap"
Unless YOU have a #1 box office success I guess you're not entitled to an opinion either.
And "pshaw"? Who the hell talks like that.
I stand corrected. The summary WAS right even though it's title, "3XS Isotope - 11 Sided Gamer's Computer", was wrong.
Not to be picky (OK I'm being picky) but it's not 11-sided. The front and back are also "sides" making this a 13-sided case.
Pictures can be saved as TIFF or JPEG as well as the NEF format.
You also have to create a shortcut
Well that just blows your TCO. Better go back to IE.
Another coward heard from.
Even people in Iqaluit on Baffin Island just south of the Arctic circle can get 256K access for $60CDN/month.
Well said.
For decades we've tuned out the constant barrage of marketing that gets heaped on us. The advertisers are just pissed because we found a way to automate it.
The reason the article included Canada was to refute the claims of people like you.
"all these countries with a lower standard of living"
As others here have pointed out, that's just wrong.
"with far higher population density"
Have you been to Canada? Can you even find it on a map?
U.S.: 32.0 people/sq km
Canada: 3.6 people/sq km
And before you complain about it being in "sq km", I used population and areas stats from the CIA factbook which quoted area in "km".
"and enormous federal pork to build their broadband connections"
The federal government didn't kick in money to build our broadband services. It was done through regulation, existing infrastructure tax breaks and forced competition.
I'm glad most Americans aren't like you.
Am I still "violating" the social contract?
Blocking Flash ads is no different than not having Flash installed. If they don't block non-Flash users from viewing their site without the ads then there's no reason why we can't block them.
It only has to be on the opposite side not the opposite hemisphere. Since this base would be at the north pole then the other base only has to be an equal distance on the other side of the pole not the other side of the south pole. If the bases are 100 miles either side of the pole then you only need 200 miles of cable rather than 4500. Much more economical considering the shipping costs.
And if I remember correctly, because the moon doesn't have an atmosphere the terminator is a sharp line that is literally the difference between night and day. That being the case the bases might only need to be a few miles apart.
Yeah, but no matter what I do I keep getting ring around the teabag.
How about nudge, nudge, wink, wink. Say no more.
I guess I just assumed the "eh", eh?