A lot of bill collectors don't like letters. They leave what is called a "permanent record" of the transaction, thus inhibiting their being able to say things like "Pay up fucktard, we know where your kids go to school!" and deny it later.
This can be very frustrating for them, especially if that's their entire vocabulary.
The question you raise here is not whether a bug in Mozilla is a bug in the Firefox browser ( I consider that a tautology and uninteresting), but rather whether a bug in Mozilla is a bug in Windows.
There is an essential difference between having to end a task and restart it and having to reach for the big, red button; as well as an essential difference for a bug in an application to require a patch to the kernel.
As for your last point it just might be case that I want isolated applications because I want to run a Mozilla browser, but a Eudora mail client. Isolated applications allow you to mix and match, not simply run all the stuff in the monolithic app seperately.
In any case the point raised by the original poster, which I agreed with and expounded upon a bit, was that Mozilla should not handle data exchange at a low level and while OP rasied Windows as an example my own post was generic.
He means calls to the system API, or even the kernel itself, to handle application level functions.
While embedding application level code at a low level can certainly reduce the amount of duplicate code in memory and provide a certain core "integration" of products written against that code it also means that a crash or security flaw of an application can be a crash or security flaw of the system itself which can only be corrected by rewriting system level code.
He suggests that data exchange between applications instead be accomplished by the simple expedient of applications using a common data exchange format. It's a radical concept, I know, but it just might work. Someone might want to start down this road by devising a simple binary code for the alphabet and numbers and stuff.
"Earth may be interested in getting rid of the excess of meat"
Earth isn't any more interested in getting rid of "the excess of meat" of humans than the cage is interested in getting rid of the "excess of meat" of rats.
Doesn't mean it sucks any less to be one of the rats though.
surely this film must be in the Slashdot pantheon of awesome films ?
Not true, there are hurricanes in Wisconson and Minnesota. Of course by the time they make it even the worst of them are minor storms, less powerful than a normal summer thunderstorm.
At which point they are things that used to be hurricanes, which is something rather different than a hurricane.
Anything that hits you has to go through me first. I'm only 200 miles from landfall and I've never seen a true hurricane here in my lifetime, although the Great Hurricane of '38 made it this far before being downgraded to a tropical storm on its way toward you.
My mother lived in New Bedford at that time. New Bedford went 8 feet underwater. She was one of the lucky ones and got rescued from a second story before the full force of the storm hit.
I have also been through a hurricane (when traveling, in the mid-west).
No, I'm afraid you haven't. A thunderstorm maybe, which can be really nasty in the midwest, but they aren't hurricanes and lack the most destructive part of the hurricane. The ocean.
Live in Florida? Have a nice big cement dome built, with bullet-proof plexiglass windows/skylights.
This works until it gets hit by a ship or the ground underneath it simply ceases to exist. Florida's bedrock is saturated limestone and not to be trusted either. The plexiglass better be cannon proof. There are places where it's vaguely possible to build a "hurricane proof" (for sufficiently low values of "proof") house. Florida's coastal areas aren't one of them.
Live in flood territory? Have your home built on 6 foot-tall columns, anchored in cement. Then, when the area floods, your deck and stairs may be washed away, but your house will remain in good shape.
In my area our trout streams that you can wade across in 30 seconds without getting more than your ankles wet in July wash away major steel highway bridges in March. One good four ton chunk of ice traveling downstream at 60 mph will clean away your house, six foot tall concrete columns and all.
We are small and puny and can be squashed like bugs on a windshield, as can the sturdiest of our structures under the right conditions.
I think it's a fairly safe bet that responsibility can be laid at the feet of something the military calls by the code name "The Sun."
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The essential problem is that everything you say turns out to sound stupid afterwards. The "Sweet Young Thing Effect" works both ways to maintain the universal balance.
Live and learn.
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. ..which nation's currency is the easiest to counterfeit. ..
Smaller countries typically have their money minted privately. It might come as a surprise to some that the Franklin Mint actually is a mint.
As such every country has access to fairly sophisticated anti-counterfeit technology. Some might be easier to fake than others, but none of them are easy. In some respects it's far more important in a smaller economy (especially if it's a poor one) to avoid massive counterfeiting than in a larger one. It's the sort of thing that can topple governments overnight.
I suppose the best you can do is to move to a place where you are least likely to get caught passing funny money.
And yes, since you bring it up, I do have a pining for Mongolia. I could probably live there for some months on what I've got in my pockets right now, it's the cost of getting there that proves the fly in the yak butter.
Of course there's also the fact that I don't like yak butter and Mongolia is one of the few places in Asia where a rice eater like myself is at a disadvantage.
Lovely looking place though, and you can download togrog jpegs on the internet. I suspect that the average yak herder is fairly sophisticated about checking his money though. Most people for whom money is a real scarcity (as opposed to the modern western concept of "poor") are.
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Sure, and that money looks more realistic.
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That's already happened in NYC. A guy went for quite a number of years passing phoney ones, just enough to eke out a poor living above his Social Security payments.
They were of extremely poor quality too, but no one much looks at ones.
He was careful to spread them around, a buck here, a buck there, first to avoid detection, but also because he actually had a moral sense of not wanting to risk the people he was passing them too getting stuck for more than a buck or two.
He was finally caught only when he broke his own rule and passed too many bills at one location.
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That too is a frame of reference issue and I remember a time when toll booths on the New York State Thruway actually had signs out asking people to pay in Canadian money if they had any.
So I guess what goes around comes around.
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I hear tell they're going to ban P2P money sharing.
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I actually said that once ( I was younger and stupider) to a sweet young thing I met while staying in Quebec. She turned to me and told me that since most play money in Canada is green American play money to them it's American money that always looks like it's play money.
As it turns out it's all relative to your reference frame. Who woulda thunk it?
Step three however, and the really important one in this case, so important that he can skip the first two if he's a bit squeamish about that sort of thing, is to put his own eyes out.
Well, that's kinda what you have to do to get 'em to lie still long enough to get 'em on the open pit barbeque.
As a cooking tip just make sure you turn them often enough to burn off all the artificial bear fur, assuming you haven't skinned them for fly tying material. Lotta good Squirrel Tail streamers on an Ewok.
Skinning is prefered anyway, as that removes the zipper as well.
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A lot of bill collectors don't like letters. They leave what is called a "permanent record" of the transaction, thus inhibiting their being able to say things like "Pay up fucktard, we know where your kids go to school!" and deny it later.
This can be very frustrating for them, especially if that's their entire vocabulary.
KFG
Screw that...
I agree. You're going to see the wrong bands at the wrong venue.
KFG
The question you raise here is not whether a bug in Mozilla is a bug in the Firefox browser ( I consider that a tautology and uninteresting), but rather whether a bug in Mozilla is a bug in Windows.
There is an essential difference between having to end a task and restart it and having to reach for the big, red button; as well as an essential difference for a bug in an application to require a patch to the kernel.
As for your last point it just might be case that I want isolated applications because I want to run a Mozilla browser, but a Eudora mail client. Isolated applications allow you to mix and match, not simply run all the stuff in the monolithic app seperately.
In any case the point raised by the original poster, which I agreed with and expounded upon a bit, was that Mozilla should not handle data exchange at a low level and while OP rasied Windows as an example my own post was generic.
KFG
They still make some money from CD sales
Yes, they are perfectly free to buy CDs from the label and resell them just like any other retailer.
They generally do this at live performances to supplement what they make at the gig and often the house takes a cut of that.
Very few artists, even those with hits, ever see dime one in their pockets from royalties.
This doesn't mean that it's right to download songs illegally, but, as a general rule, when you do so you are ripping off the label, not the artist.
IF you wish to support artists first you buy a ticket to their gig, then you buy one of their self owned label CDs while you are there.
They'll even autograph it for you.
KFG
Or even simply brute force it, although this approach still requires speed and wisdom to pull it off.
KFG
Who knows what you mean by "deep system call"
He means calls to the system API, or even the kernel itself, to handle application level functions.
While embedding application level code at a low level can certainly reduce the amount of duplicate code in memory and provide a certain core "integration" of products written against that code it also means that a crash or security flaw of an application can be a crash or security flaw of the system itself which can only be corrected by rewriting system level code.
He suggests that data exchange between applications instead be accomplished by the simple expedient of applications using a common data exchange format. It's a radical concept, I know, but it just might work. Someone might want to start down this road by devising a simple binary code for the alphabet and numbers and stuff.
KFG
It's waiting for the letter from Pontiac saying, "Dudes, wtf is with naming all your software after our cars?"
They'll probably rename it to Sunfire before moving on to Sunfox and I can't wait for the Mozilla standalone download manager: GTO.
Goatbird and Firegoat are really going to suck though.
KFG
Is Microsoft paying you to whore this device?
Why pay when after a couple of beers they'll give it away for free?
KFG
"Earth may be interested in getting rid of the excess of meat"
Earth isn't any more interested in getting rid of "the excess of meat" of humans than the cage is interested in getting rid of the "excess of meat" of rats.
Doesn't mean it sucks any less to be one of the rats though.
surely this film must be in the Slashdot pantheon of awesome films ?
Surely.
KFG
Not true, there are hurricanes in Wisconson and Minnesota. Of course by the time they make it even the worst of them are minor storms, less powerful than a normal summer thunderstorm.
At which point they are things that used to be hurricanes, which is something rather different than a hurricane.
Anything that hits you has to go through me first. I'm only 200 miles from landfall and I've never seen a true hurricane here in my lifetime, although the Great Hurricane of '38 made it this far before being downgraded to a tropical storm on its way toward you.
My mother lived in New Bedford at that time. New Bedford went 8 feet underwater. She was one of the lucky ones and got rescued from a second story before the full force of the storm hit.
Now that is a hurricane.
KFG
I have also been through a hurricane (when traveling, in the mid-west).
No, I'm afraid you haven't. A thunderstorm maybe, which can be really nasty in the midwest, but they aren't hurricanes and lack the most destructive part of the hurricane. The ocean.
Live in Florida? Have a nice big cement dome built, with bullet-proof plexiglass windows/skylights.
This works until it gets hit by a ship or the ground underneath it simply ceases to exist. Florida's bedrock is saturated limestone and not to be trusted either. The plexiglass better be cannon proof. There are places where it's vaguely possible to build a "hurricane proof" (for sufficiently low values of "proof") house. Florida's coastal areas aren't one of them.
Live in flood territory? Have your home built on 6 foot-tall columns, anchored in cement. Then, when the area floods, your deck and stairs may be washed away, but your house will remain in good shape.
In my area our trout streams that you can wade across in 30 seconds without getting more than your ankles wet in July wash away major steel highway bridges in March. One good four ton chunk of ice traveling downstream at 60 mph will clean away your house, six foot tall concrete columns and all.
We are small and puny and can be squashed like bugs on a windshield, as can the sturdiest of our structures under the right conditions.
It's best to run away if you have the chance.
KFG
I think it's a fairly safe bet that responsibility can be laid at the feet of something the military calls by the code name "The Sun."
KFG
The essential problem is that everything you say turns out to sound stupid afterwards. The "Sweet Young Thing Effect" works both ways to maintain the universal balance.
Live and learn.
KFG
. . .which nation's currency is the easiest to counterfeit. . .
Smaller countries typically have their money minted privately. It might come as a surprise to some that the Franklin Mint actually is a mint.
As such every country has access to fairly sophisticated anti-counterfeit technology. Some might be easier to fake than others, but none of them are easy. In some respects it's far more important in a smaller economy (especially if it's a poor one) to avoid massive counterfeiting than in a larger one. It's the sort of thing that can topple governments overnight.
I suppose the best you can do is to move to a place where you are least likely to get caught passing funny money.
And yes, since you bring it up, I do have a pining for Mongolia. I could probably live there for some months on what I've got in my pockets right now, it's the cost of getting there that proves the fly in the yak butter.
Of course there's also the fact that I don't like yak butter and Mongolia is one of the few places in Asia where a rice eater like myself is at a disadvantage.
Lovely looking place though, and you can download togrog jpegs on the internet. I suspect that the average yak herder is fairly sophisticated about checking his money though. Most people for whom money is a real scarcity (as opposed to the modern western concept of "poor") are.
KFG
Sure, and that money looks more realistic.
KFG
That's already happened in NYC. A guy went for quite a number of years passing phoney ones, just enough to eke out a poor living above his Social Security payments.
They were of extremely poor quality too, but no one much looks at ones.
He was careful to spread them around, a buck here, a buck there, first to avoid detection, but also because he actually had a moral sense of not wanting to risk the people he was passing them too getting stuck for more than a buck or two.
He was finally caught only when he broke his own rule and passed too many bills at one location.
KFG
That too is a frame of reference issue and I remember a time when toll booths on the New York State Thruway actually had signs out asking people to pay in Canadian money if they had any.
So I guess what goes around comes around.
KFG
I hear tell they're going to ban P2P money sharing.
KFG
I actually said that once ( I was younger and stupider) to a sweet young thing I met while staying in Quebec. She turned to me and told me that since most play money in Canada is green American play money to them it's American money that always looks like it's play money.
As it turns out it's all relative to your reference frame. Who woulda thunk it?
KFG
He's supposed to go poke his mom?
That's only step one.
Step two, of course, is ???
Step three however, and the really important one in this case, so important that he can skip the first two if he's a bit squeamish about that sort of thing, is to put his own eyes out.
KFG
Ewoks-the Breakfast Cereal
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I was soooooo there, until I found out it wasn't made with real Ewoks.
Ewoks-the Flaaaame Thrower. .
target.
KFG
Just think how much cooler these made for TV movies would have been if Lucas had kept the Wookies on Endor.
Yeah, then they would have been The Wookiee Babies Special with baby Kermit and baby Miss Piggy as the guest stars.
KFG
Even the Ewoks have taste!
Enhanced by marinading.
KFG
You owe me a new keyboard.
KFG
I love those little dudes!
.to all you Ewok-bashers out there. . .
Me too!
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Well, that's kinda what you have to do to get 'em to lie still long enough to get 'em on the open pit barbeque.
As a cooking tip just make sure you turn them often enough to burn off all the artificial bear fur, assuming you haven't skinned them for fly tying material. Lotta good Squirrel Tail streamers on an Ewok.
Skinning is prefered anyway, as that removes the zipper as well.
KFG