Except the polls in Russia show the Russian people swallowing the crap Russia Today spews forth. A majority of Russians now have a positive view on Stalin, possibly because all negative aspects of his reign are being denied and suppressed by Putin and his bum chums.
At the very least there are a large number of different media sites and the US government is not legislating to massively curtail and control the media. Russia, however, is.
You're an idiot. There's no strict definition of what a beta release is or how often it can be released and, since everybody has a different way of working and putting out releases, there's no way to compare the number of betas to anybody else that produces any meaningful statistic.
How the hell are you on your way to a PhD? You're describing a motor, not the law of physics that combusting something causes it to expand, causing pressure against its container. If somebody patented "The combustion of fuel causing the resulting pressure to push against an object, therefore causing motion", it might be analogous to a patent on an algorithm.
No. Algorithms are the maths. An implementation of the algorithm is the application. However, we already have a system for protecting implementations of algorithms, we call it copyright.
This thread is dead, but I want to reply for posterity anyway. The number of DOMs that Firefox caches is constant per instance, it doesn't change with the number of tabs or windows open.
"Or is it a misguided attempt to "cache" stuff in memory, which is about the stupidist thing you can do given that today memory is very slow versus processors, so usually it's faster just to recompute what you need when it's needed." Don't be retarded. Parsing HTML into a DOM, parsing CSS and applying that to the DOM, then actually computing all of the page's layout takes considerably longer than just pulling a pre-computed DOM out of memory. Caching pre-computed values in memory is hardly a rare thing, most software does it in one way or another.
This is where a little knowledge is very dangerous. See, you know little about networked game design and thus just assume that vulnerabilities are down to lazy programming. You don't consider things like bandwidth and latency issues causing problems with gameplay.
As I said, I've used NICs from all sorts of vendors, more than I care to remember thanks to living in a house full of geeks. At least three of us are heavily into gaming and none of us had these sorts of issues that couldn't be attributed to other things. Perhaps his NIC was shitty, but it could have just been a duff card, hardly a reason to write off the entire brand.
I've gamed on 3Com, RealTek, Intel and NVIDIA network cards. I have never ever seen any of them deviate in performance by more than 10ms on a LAN. If you are seeing a 150-250ms ping time between your computer and your local router, you have seriously fucked up somewhere.
Talk about complete bollocks. EVE Online is slower in Cedaga than on Windows. Max Payne 2 is slower. Pirates is slower. Battlefield 2 is slower. Dawn of War is slower. Hell, damn near all games supported by Cedega run slower on it than on Windows.
In that case, I think they'd try to discredit you by asking why you didn't report it to the police. Whether they'd be successful or not is up for debate, though.
"when was the last time you saw Windows bluescreen?" Just the other day. Running two Eve Online clients with sound enabled will bluescreen this computer within an hour.
First, IE7 does not support XHTML. Second, Mozilla and co. picked up XMLHttpRequest before Google made it popular. Perhaps you're sick of people attacking IE because you don't actually know the truth.
"Why don't you complain that xvid and divx rips are "good for their size" but lose quality when compared to HD or DVD?" Because I don't claim XVID rips of DVDs are on par with the originals, quality-wise.
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Except the polls in Russia show the Russian people swallowing the crap Russia Today spews forth. A majority of Russians now have a positive view on Stalin, possibly because all negative aspects of his reign are being denied and suppressed by Putin and his bum chums.
At the very least there are a large number of different media sites and the US government is not legislating to massively curtail and control the media. Russia, however, is.
Russia Today is quite literally government controlled and run propaganda. Can you honestly make that claim about the US media?
Slashdot's feeding the Russian propaganda sites now?
PhD or not, you're still an idiot.
You're an idiot. There's no strict definition of what a beta release is or how often it can be released and, since everybody has a different way of working and putting out releases, there's no way to compare the number of betas to anybody else that produces any meaningful statistic.
How the hell are you on your way to a PhD? You're describing a motor, not the law of physics that combusting something causes it to expand, causing pressure against its container. If somebody patented "The combustion of fuel causing the resulting pressure to push against an object, therefore causing motion", it might be analogous to a patent on an algorithm.
That would be why they couldn't patent physical principle of fuel-air mixture burning. Instead, they had to patent an engine that used it.
No. Algorithms are the maths. An implementation of the algorithm is the application. However, we already have a system for protecting implementations of algorithms, we call it copyright.
D'oh!
Actually, it tends to be because Scunthorpe happens to contain the word "cunt".
"The default theme is the user's introduction to the browser. It should have the look and feel of his native GUI."
OK, let's look at the competition on Windows. IE7 doesn't look or feel like a standard Windows application and neither does Opera. Oh well...
This thread is dead, but I want to reply for posterity anyway. The number of DOMs that Firefox caches is constant per instance, it doesn't change with the number of tabs or windows open.
P.S. I'm not an inexperience programmer.
"Or is it a misguided attempt to "cache" stuff in memory, which is about the stupidist thing you can do given that today memory is very slow versus processors, so usually it's faster just to recompute what you need when it's needed."
Don't be retarded. Parsing HTML into a DOM, parsing CSS and applying that to the DOM, then actually computing all of the page's layout takes considerably longer than just pulling a pre-computed DOM out of memory. Caching pre-computed values in memory is hardly a rare thing, most software does it in one way or another.
This is where a little knowledge is very dangerous. See, you know little about networked game design and thus just assume that vulnerabilities are down to lazy programming. You don't consider things like bandwidth and latency issues causing problems with gameplay.
As I said, I've used NICs from all sorts of vendors, more than I care to remember thanks to living in a house full of geeks. At least three of us are heavily into gaming and none of us had these sorts of issues that couldn't be attributed to other things. Perhaps his NIC was shitty, but it could have just been a duff card, hardly a reason to write off the entire brand.
I've gamed on 3Com, RealTek, Intel and NVIDIA network cards. I have never ever seen any of them deviate in performance by more than 10ms on a LAN. If you are seeing a 150-250ms ping time between your computer and your local router, you have seriously fucked up somewhere.
Talk about complete bollocks. EVE Online is slower in Cedaga than on Windows. Max Payne 2 is slower. Pirates is slower. Battlefield 2 is slower. Dawn of War is slower. Hell, damn near all games supported by Cedega run slower on it than on Windows.
So you think that IE5, which shipped after Windows 98 (which include IE4) is more than 10 years old? Hmm...who taught you how to count?
In that case, I think they'd try to discredit you by asking why you didn't report it to the police. Whether they'd be successful or not is up for debate, though.
Because it's where all the kiddy fiddlers hang out. Can I have your respect now?
So, does that mean Microsoft's XBox strategy was illegal?
"when was the last time you saw Windows bluescreen?"
Just the other day. Running two Eve Online clients with sound enabled will bluescreen this computer within an hour.
First, IE7 does not support XHTML. Second, Mozilla and co. picked up XMLHttpRequest before Google made it popular. Perhaps you're sick of people attacking IE because you don't actually know the truth.
"Why don't you complain that xvid and divx rips are "good for their size" but lose quality when compared to HD or DVD?"
Because I don't claim XVID rips of DVDs are on par with the originals, quality-wise.