So what's your damn point? Carbon-14 is only one trillionth of the carbon in the atmosphere. Most of it is carbon-12, which has a half-life of -- you guessed it -- forever!
Wow -- I had no idea it was that old. I made heavy use of it in early '97, when I started hacking a BSDI UNIX system.
That book, K&R, and "The POSIX Programmer's Guide" by Donald R. Lewine were major influences. Followed shortly by TCP/IP Illustrated and UNIX Network Programming (Stevens, RIP) and Andy Tannenbaum's yellow OS book (Operating Systems: Design and Implementation or something like that)
> Since we are not Mozilla and actually have paying customers and support contracts > we can't just tell people to fuck off and go on a quest finding a standards complying browser.
Out of curiosity, what do you tell them when a security vulnerability is discovered?
You can find out detailed information about your build by entering about:buildconfig in your location bar.
I'm not sure why you're having grief with firebug: it's possible that it really *is* broken on Firefox 7-beta (they are in the midst of re-vamping debugger functionality), or maybe the max rev wasn't bumped on AMO when you downloaded the beta?
(Further Digging) - it looks like you may need to use Firebug 1.9 for Firefox 7; Firebug 1.9 itself is still in beta. If you want to use firebug from Firefox 7 beta, head over to getfirebug.com and download the firebug 1.9 beta too.
Either way, I would be very surprised to find Firebug not working when Firefox 7 gets released.
Firefox's goal, though, is to introduce no *new* bugs rendering web content generated by standards-adhering web pages.
So - unless you are relying on Firefox-specific bugs, you should not have any future-compatibility problems with the fast release train.
Mozilla also does significant testing to insure that this is what happens, and they have an excellent track record already in this regard.
This is the same goal that all the other browser makers have, as well -- and if you are doing the standards thing, if your vendor of choice *does* screw up, you can flip over to $competitor immediately.
It's really win-win for the enterprise, but you have to stop trying to applying Y2K-era browser/app management, and go with a standards-oriented scenario. The browser is a tool to display your pages. Your pages are written to standards. Any standards-adhering browser should work. If it doesn't, there are others. We are no longer stuck with Netscape 4 and IE 4.
The picture you paint may seem rosy to you, but it is not attractive most people IMO. The good news is, reality is even better than you think it is.
If the add-on developer hosts the add-on on addons.mozilla.org (AMO), the browser will check with AMO to see if the extension is compatible when the browser starts; if so, the maxVersion of the extension is *automatically* bumped.
The extension compatilibity is determined through automated analysis, and the *vast* majority of updates work properly this way. The update bump normally happens some time around the second week of Aurora; it is possible that *you* need to edit your XPI files by hand because you are on the beta channel, but that is *not* the expected end-user experience.
End users should almost always find out that extensions hosted on AMO "just work"
We were able to mark 3,890 add-ons as compatible with Firefox 5. There were 256 that failed our automatic scanners either due to including binary components or using navigator.language, which was changed in Firefox 5. All affected add-on authors received an email about the compatibility update and instructions depending on whether they passed or failed.
The shuttle accidents did not occur in space - the shuttles were still in the air, and thus aircraft. So, no American space craft have had accidents, and I believe the American aircraft safety record is actually quite good compared to the Soviets.
The military has been using this for decades, it's easy to calculate based on UTC, and also has a cool name. Heck, it also has it's own web site clock:
> I expect millions of Kindle owners will happily skip the added weight > and shorter battery life of a full-fledged tablet,
I buy that the Kindle could have a less eye-strainy screen than an iPad, but how good ARE the batteries in these things? My iPad will a full day of use, and if I'm only using it casually, it goes a couple of weeks between charges.
As for weight, I always thought that was battery-related. The iPad, when put in a book-like case, feels a little denser than paper to me. Feather-light would be nice, but it's not like it weighs 15 lbs.
I live in a rural backwater 100 miles from nearest large metropolis. The ILEC Bell won't even put a DSLAM in my CO.
Fortunately, they missed buying up one of the local CLECs in the 1980s when they were on a spending spree, and said CLEC acquired a large mom-and-pop ISP around Y2K.
The CLEC moved into my area, put a DSLAM of their own in my CO, and gives me 5Mbps ADSL 2+ service (we tested to 16, but I didn't want to pay for more than 5). This uses the ILEC's copper from CO to NID but everything else is done by the CLEC/ISP.
Next month or so, the CLEC will be burying fiber in my yard -- for free -- and the yard of anybody else in the neighbourhood that already has underground services and wants it; whether they are a current customer or not. This is because they just strung fiber on the pole and have a crew in the area that can just go down the street and bang-bang-bang get er' done. Unlike Verizon FiOS, said CLEC is also NOT ripping out the existing copper infrastructure.
So, about 2 months from now, I expect to be running 20 Mbps fiber service from these guys; 6 months or a year later, I'll also have Internet TV through them (they just bought a small traditional cable company in the area). In a rural village. And a few years from now, I bet they'll be pushing a lot more than 20 Mbps through the fiber.
So, no, we don't need Google to get fast internet. We need competition!
> The most frequent damage to a residential house in an earthquake is the house > bouncing off the foundation
So, what, the long bolt that goes through the sill plate rips out of the concrete? Does it normally fall apart or do the floor joists and plywood hold things together well enough that you can jack it back up and slide it back on the foundation?
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What the hell are you talking about? I have *yet* to see a single reference to Douglas Crockford.
> How much does a girlfriend cost again?
2X
Where "X" is the total value of everything you own.
So what's your damn point? Carbon-14 is only one trillionth of the carbon in the atmosphere. Most of it is carbon-12, which has a half-life of -- you guessed it -- forever!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_carbon
GEEZ
Wow -- I had no idea it was that old. I made heavy use of it in early '97, when I started hacking a BSDI UNIX system.
That book, K&R, and "The POSIX Programmer's Guide" by Donald R. Lewine were major influences. Followed shortly by TCP/IP Illustrated and UNIX Network Programming (Stevens, RIP) and Andy Tannenbaum's yellow OS book (Operating Systems: Design and Implementation or something like that)
....I only just got the freaking pun in the title. Just now. September 2011.
Lord help me!
> Since we are not Mozilla and actually have paying customers and support contracts
> we can't just tell people to fuck off and go on a quest finding a standards complying browser.
Out of curiosity, what do you tell them when a security vulnerability is discovered?
"Upgrade in 6 months when we're done testing"?
You can find out detailed information about your build by entering about:buildconfig in your location bar.
I'm not sure why you're having grief with firebug: it's possible that it really *is* broken on Firefox 7-beta (they are in the midst of re-vamping debugger functionality), or maybe the max rev wasn't bumped on AMO when you downloaded the beta?
(Further Digging) - it looks like you may need to use Firebug 1.9 for Firefox 7; Firebug 1.9 itself is still in beta. If you want to use firebug from Firefox 7 beta, head over to getfirebug.com and download the firebug 1.9 beta too.
Either way, I would be very surprised to find Firebug not working when Firefox 7 gets released.
Firefox's goal, though, is to introduce no *new* bugs rendering web content generated by standards-adhering web pages.
So - unless you are relying on Firefox-specific bugs, you should not have any future-compatibility problems with the fast release train.
Mozilla also does significant testing to insure that this is what happens, and they have an excellent track record already in this regard.
This is the same goal that all the other browser makers have, as well -- and if you are doing the standards thing, if your vendor of choice *does* screw up, you can flip over to $competitor immediately.
It's really win-win for the enterprise, but you have to stop trying to applying Y2K-era browser/app management, and go with a standards-oriented scenario. The browser is a tool to display your pages. Your pages are written to standards. Any standards-adhering browser should work. If it doesn't, there are others. We are no longer stuck with Netscape 4 and IE 4.
> In java we have WeakReferance for that kind of usage, but I
> don't think that JavaScript offer a similar functionality.
Not yet. There is being work done with TC39 in this direction. You can bet Firefox will have it before the other browsers.
Why not simply develop standards-adhering web applications, and let your customers use whatever standards-supporting browsers they want to use?
How do you deal with the frequent Chrome updates?
Observation 1: Firefox does well enough in browser comparisons that I'm thinking there probably aren't any truly critical 9-year-old bugs in it.
Observation 2: Feel free to take it and work on it! Moz guys tend to be great mentors if you can avoid being a help vampire.
> I even found INCO, but no definition for that either.
Inco was the International Nickel Company, the 2nd largest nickel producer in the world, prior to its acquisition a few years by Vale Limited
The picture you paint may seem rosy to you, but it is not attractive most people IMO. The good news is, reality is even better than you think it is.
If the add-on developer hosts the add-on on addons.mozilla.org (AMO), the browser will check with AMO to see if the extension is compatible when the browser starts; if so, the maxVersion of the extension is *automatically* bumped.
The extension compatilibity is determined through automated analysis, and the *vast* majority of updates work properly this way. The update bump normally happens some time around the second week of Aurora; it is possible that *you* need to edit your XPI files by hand because you are on the beta channel, but that is *not* the expected end-user experience.
End users should almost always find out that extensions hosted on AMO "just work"
http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2011/05/21/firefox-5-compatibility-bump/ :
The shuttle accidents did not occur in space - the shuttles were still in the air, and thus aircraft. So, no American space craft have had accidents, and I believe the American aircraft safety record is actually quite good compared to the Soviets.
Thanks for the clarification. I was trying to figure out the hell not eating horse meat had to do with timekeeping. ;)
Why not just use Zulu Time?
The military has been using this for decades, it's easy to calculate based on UTC, and also has a cool name. Heck, it also has it's own web site clock:
http://www.zulutime.net/
> For all we know he might be perfectly (well as perfect as you
> can be after a transplant and cancer) healthy
Did you click on the photo link in TFA? It saddens me greatly, but I am quite certain Jobs has seen his last Christmas. And maybe even Labour Day.
> I expect millions of Kindle owners will happily skip the added weight
> and shorter battery life of a full-fledged tablet,
I buy that the Kindle could have a less eye-strainy screen than an iPad, but how good ARE the batteries in these things? My iPad will a full day of use, and if I'm only using it casually, it goes a couple of weeks between charges.
As for weight, I always thought that was battery-related. The iPad, when put in a book-like case, feels a little denser than paper to me. Feather-light would be nice, but it's not like it weighs 15 lbs.
> As a scientist you're not supposed to name things after yourself
> or have your students name them after you.
Why not? It's better than naming a planetoid after Mickey Mouse's dog.
If that is indeed what happened -- then Real should sue themselves for hosting the link on the lawyer's harddrive!
Also, if the link was pasted into court documents, they should sue the court!
I live in a rural backwater 100 miles from nearest large metropolis. The ILEC Bell won't even put a DSLAM in my CO.
Fortunately, they missed buying up one of the local CLECs in the 1980s when they were on a spending spree, and said CLEC acquired a large mom-and-pop ISP around Y2K.
The CLEC moved into my area, put a DSLAM of their own in my CO, and gives me 5Mbps ADSL 2+ service (we tested to 16, but I didn't want to pay for more than 5). This uses the ILEC's copper from CO to NID but everything else is done by the CLEC/ISP.
Next month or so, the CLEC will be burying fiber in my yard -- for free -- and the yard of anybody else in the neighbourhood that already has underground services and wants it; whether they are a current customer or not. This is because they just strung fiber on the pole and have a crew in the area that can just go down the street and bang-bang-bang get er' done. Unlike Verizon FiOS, said CLEC is also NOT ripping out the existing copper infrastructure.
So, about 2 months from now, I expect to be running 20 Mbps fiber service from these guys; 6 months or a year later, I'll also have Internet TV through them (they just bought a small traditional cable company in the area). In a rural village. And a few years from now, I bet they'll be pushing a lot more than 20 Mbps through the fiber.
So, no, we don't need Google to get fast internet. We need competition!
That's why the switch on the side is there. You flip it to stop the screen from rotating on you.
LOL
If I had mod points, you'd get a funny. And don't call me Shirley!
> The most frequent damage to a residential house in an earthquake is the house
> bouncing off the foundation
So, what, the long bolt that goes through the sill plate rips out of the concrete? Does it normally fall apart or do the floor joists and plywood hold things together well enough that you can jack it back up and slide it back on the foundation?
I like to lie on my side while reading in bed.