I just made my install of Mozilla pretend it was Opera, by adding the following to the user.js file:
user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.0 [en]");
I restarted Mozilla (1.3a), checked the about page (it shows the user agent) and then visited the MSN page. The page showed up fine. I thought that maybe that maybe MS had changed the CSS. I downloaded the style sheet in Mozilla and saw the -30 there. From what I can tell Mozilla must have a check to ensure that text does not appear outside of the cell, not matter what the css indicates. If Mozilla can do it, then the guys over at Opera can do it too.
Note - I am not saying that this clears MS, as any well implemented web site should only need one version of any page, unless they have localization. What I am saying is that this is a fixable issue on the part of Opera.
> idée fixe' (difficult to translate, something like an unchangeable opinion)
The usual "translation" is just to cite the phrase in French; it usually implies more than an unchangeable opinion, rather one that is also almost obsessive.
This is why the English translation is Dogmatix. Dogmatic defined as "positiveness in assertion of opinion especially when unwarranted or arrogant". But then you all already knew this.
How long til the.mil and the.gov and the rest realise that spoofed sites like these could be a fantastic tool in capturing possible IPs of those stupid enough to actually try to use them.
If the posts, here on/., are anything to go by, then they will probably end up having range of IP addresses covering the globe, which would probably be a waste of resources trying to see who these people are. A would guess the larger percentage of crackers are akin to the person who tries to get two papers instead of one, from those vending machines, because they are curious to see if it is that easy.
Like anything the quality of the screen will vary, depending on how much you pay and who you buy it from. I have a Dell portable with a 15" screen with a resolution of 1400*1050, and the image is crisp. Now I have walked into a fair few stores and most of the screens look fuzzy. I attribute this to the fact that they are all using SVGA (digital->analogue->digital), which in not the best solution. Most of the top end screens use a DVI connector which takes out the analogue conversion, which only really makes sense for CRTS. The other problem is, unless I am going for the high end, the screens tend to have a lousy resolution for their size.
For me resolution and screen real-estate are just as important, but unless I am willing to pay the price of a computer on a screen, I am going to stick with my CRT for my desktop.
Have you followed the "re-release" of classics like Snow White, Sleeping Beauty... over the last few years...
The interesting thing here, is that these titles predate Disney, therefore Disney only has copyright over the animated form that it has produced and anyone producing a work based on the original story should be free to do so. IANAL, but I believe that you can't take a work and remove it from the public domain.
One thing that I have always liked about SGI systems, is that not only do I get a high performance system, but I also get something that looks good design wise. Other companies, such as IBM give me the feeling that I am buying, in equivalent terms an F1 car with the body of a Lada. If I pay top of the line prices, I also like to have something nice to show off.
If you read the article, this issue is brought up (last three paragraphs):
With product sales and licensing fees in jeopardy, Rambus launched into its second life, as a litigant. Starting in 2000, the company began to seek patent royalties and pursue lawsuits against Micron, Infineon and other memory companies. The company said that patents it filed in 1990 entitled it to royalty payments on all of the SDRAM and DDR DRAM ever sold.
Potentially, the lawsuits could have entitled the company to billions in royalties. Infineon and others, however, alleged that Rambus committed fraud in securing those patents and, so far, the memory companies have won in court.
Since then, the company has tried to position itself as the kindler, gentler Rambus, with executives stating that the company will work more on chip connections and spend less time in court.
So it looks like that they have realised that litigation was not getting them anywhere and decided to go back to their core business.
I assume we are are talking dollars and not dolls. Without the currency, we could even be talking RMB, which isn't that much. A currency symbol would have been nice.
Until the original poster gives us a clue as to the company concerned, I will take the news with a pinch of salt.
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Interesting post and a good perspective. I would like to add my 2c:
2) The Penguin logo MUST go ASAP.
I am not sure about this. Maybe he needs to be restyled or something, but not done away with completely. Taking away Tux is like taking away the Apple logo. There is an association there, like it or not.
4) Direct X - A MAJOR stumbling block on Linux's road to world domination is the lack of Direct X support for Linux
There is such a thing. It is known an LibSDL. There are probably others, but this is the one that I know the best.
Now to some other issues:
Part of the problem is a culture clash and there are too many hard-liners on both side of the fence. What we need is a way to bring both sides together, in a way that suits both parties, rather than make them feel that they are giving in. People in marketing depend on the people doing the research and people in research depend on the people in marketing. Until both parties realise that, they each depend on each other, we aren't going to get far.
The anti-communist attitude is very American and illustrates a fear of an alternative approach to things. You can be socialist with out being a communist. Many contries in the world, such as European countries, successfully balance a social and commerical agenda.
Linux was original targeted as a server solution and does it does a good job there. I think part of the problem is that we are asking too much from Linux. We shouldn't be going out and expecting everyone to be using Linux. Rather we should be concentrating on making a great product and let those who wish come when they want. We can't be all things to all people and this is the most important lesson.
The best marketing are case studies. Both good ones and bad ones and evaluating why things worked and why things didn't work. Its also good for people developing with Linux to know why things went wrong and address the issues.
The article also says "Recently, two Finnish churches refused to pay royalties to the country's copyright society for the performance of Christmas hymns. The congregations won their case in a district court, but the society has appealed.".
Surely most hymns are written by long dead classical composers, so any copyright would have expired?
I know this wasn't the/. story, but is was in the article and is just as much an issue.
Apple has always had an x86 version of Darwin. What isn't available is their second-level operating system, Aqua, which is the graphical environment along with extended application support. The top level is actually and evolution of NeXTStep, then OpenStep and then Rhapsody. NeXTStep worked on the 680x0 processor and OpenStep ran on Intel. It is very much processor independant. There is very little assembly (probably none) in the code. This is all to say that anything can happen, but whether it will is a whole different story.
It is known that Apple does have an in-house version of MacOS X that runs on Intel, but this is more to test that coding approaches are well thought out.
Heck, Microsoft might even have a PPC version of Windows XP, but does that mean that they will sell it? As I said, anything is possible, but as to it happening...
GM fields should even be restricted to green-houses. This way you avoid the problem of a GM plant cross-pollinating to an 'organic' version of the crop.
The hard drive might be to blame, but then again if you are using an IDE drive, then the processor is also plays a part as all copies go through the processor. If on the other other hand you are using a SCSI drive then it will pretty much take care of itself since the controller handles most of the work itself.
Trash the box, and any other cardboard you don't need. Post the necessary documents, if you are really paranoid. And when at customs don't say anything if they don't ask. After all are you going to say anything if you had that computer for more an than a few months?
With the description of the above poster it seems that it should be possible to make a smarter CD driver that falls back to simple red-book mode if everything else fails. I am not in the business of writing drivers, so if someone who does could comment on this, then it would be great.
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I just made my install of Mozilla pretend it was Opera, by adding the following to the user.js file:
user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.0 [en]");
I restarted Mozilla (1.3a), checked the about page (it shows the user agent) and then visited the MSN page. The page showed up fine. I thought that maybe that maybe MS had changed the CSS. I downloaded the style sheet in Mozilla and saw the -30 there. From what I can tell Mozilla must have a check to ensure that text does not appear outside of the cell, not matter what the css indicates. If Mozilla can do it, then the guys over at Opera can do it too.
Note - I am not saying that this clears MS, as any well implemented web site should only need one version of any page, unless they have localization. What I am saying is that this is a fixable issue on the part of Opera.
According to this link they are trying to find out.
> idée fixe' (difficult to translate, something like an unchangeable opinion)
The usual "translation" is just to cite the phrase in French; it usually implies more than an unchangeable opinion, rather one that is also almost obsessive.
This is why the English translation is Dogmatix. Dogmatic defined as "positiveness in assertion of opinion especially when unwarranted or arrogant". But then you all already knew this.
How long til the .mil and the .gov and the rest realise that spoofed sites like these could be a fantastic tool in capturing possible IPs of those stupid enough to actually try to use them.
/., are anything to go by, then they will probably end up having range of IP addresses covering the globe, which would probably be a waste of resources trying to see who these people are. A would guess the larger percentage of crackers are akin to the person who tries to get two papers instead of one, from those vending machines, because they are curious to see if it is that easy.
If the posts, here on
Like anything the quality of the screen will vary, depending on how much you pay and who you buy it from. I have a Dell portable with a 15" screen with a resolution of 1400*1050, and the image is crisp. Now I have walked into a fair few stores and most of the screens look fuzzy. I attribute this to the fact that they are all using SVGA (digital->analogue->digital), which in not the best solution. Most of the top end screens use a DVI connector which takes out the analogue conversion, which only really makes sense for CRTS. The other problem is, unless I am going for the high end, the screens tend to have a lousy resolution for their size.
For me resolution and screen real-estate are just as important, but unless I am willing to pay the price of a computer on a screen, I am going to stick with my CRT for my desktop.
Have you followed the "re-release" of classics like Snow White, Sleeping Beauty ... over the last few years...
The interesting thing here, is that these titles predate Disney, therefore Disney only has copyright over the animated form that it has produced and anyone producing a work based on the original story should be free to do so. IANAL, but I believe that you can't take a work and remove it from the public domain.
One thing that I have always liked about SGI systems, is that not only do I get a high performance system, but I also get something that looks good design wise. Other companies, such as IBM give me the feeling that I am buying, in equivalent terms an F1 car with the body of a Lada. If I pay top of the line prices, I also like to have something nice to show off.
...damn doll of the guy who made 65 million...
I assume we are are talking dollars and not dolls. Without the currency, we could even be talking RMB, which isn't that much. A currency symbol would have been nice.
Until the original poster gives us a clue as to the company concerned, I will take the news with a pinch of salt.
Interesting post and a good perspective. I would like to add my 2c:
2) The Penguin logo MUST go ASAP.
I am not sure about this. Maybe he needs to be restyled or something, but not done away with completely. Taking away Tux is like taking away the Apple logo. There is an association there, like it or not.
4) Direct X - A MAJOR stumbling block on Linux's road to world domination is the lack of Direct X support for Linux
There is such a thing. It is known an LibSDL. There are probably others, but this is the one that I know the best.
Now to some other issues:
Part of the problem is a culture clash and there are too many hard-liners on both side of the fence. What we need is a way to bring both sides together, in a way that suits both parties, rather than make them feel that they are giving in. People in marketing depend on the people doing the research and people in research depend on the people in marketing. Until both parties realise that, they each depend on each other, we aren't going to get far.
The anti-communist attitude is very American and illustrates a fear of an alternative approach to things. You can be socialist with out being a communist. Many contries in the world, such as European countries, successfully balance a social and commerical agenda.
Linux was original targeted as a server solution and does it does a good job there. I think part of the problem is that we are asking too much from Linux. We shouldn't be going out and expecting everyone to be using Linux. Rather we should be concentrating on making a great product and let those who wish come when they want. We can't be all things to all people and this is the most important lesson.
The best marketing are case studies. Both good ones and bad ones and evaluating why things worked and why things didn't work. Its also good for people developing with Linux to know why things went wrong and address the issues.
The article also says "Recently, two Finnish churches refused to pay royalties to the country's copyright society for the performance of Christmas hymns. The congregations won their case in a district court, but the society has appealed.".
/. story, but is was in the article and is just as much an issue.
Surely most hymns are written by long dead classical composers, so any copyright would have expired?
I know this wasn't the
For those of you who have no idea of what 'Hello Kitty' is, you may want to check the web site.
Apple has always had an x86 version of Darwin. What isn't available is their second-level operating system, Aqua, which is the graphical environment along with extended application support. The top level is actually and evolution of NeXTStep, then OpenStep and then Rhapsody. NeXTStep worked on the 680x0 processor and OpenStep ran on Intel. It is very much processor independant. There is very little assembly (probably none) in the code. This is all to say that anything can happen, but whether it will is a whole different story.
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It is known that Apple does have an in-house version of MacOS X that runs on Intel, but this is more to test that coding approaches are well thought out.
Heck, Microsoft might even have a PPC version of Windows XP, but does that mean that they will sell it? As I said, anything is possible, but as to it happening
If someone knows any site with pictures of the field, could you please provide us with a link.
If you hop over to the Japanese section, you will see it feels much more up to date, and there is even a photo gallery.
GM fields should even be restricted to green-houses. This way you avoid the problem of a GM plant cross-pollinating to an 'organic' version of the crop.
For the impatient there is 'How to screw-up your system in 5 minutes'.
Looks like for the first time in years project Gutenberg has been /.ed.
The hard drive might be to blame, but then again if you are using an IDE drive, then the processor is also plays a part as all copies go through the processor. If on the other other hand you are using a SCSI drive then it will pretty much take care of itself since the controller handles most of the work itself.
Reuters has also has an article on the subject.
If a star was about as far away as the moon, I think I'd worry about more than pocket change and floppy disks.
Someone still uses floppies?
Trash the box, and any other cardboard you don't need. Post the necessary documents, if you are really paranoid. And when at customs don't say anything if they don't ask. After all are you going to say anything if you had that computer for more an than a few months?
I had a friend who flew over to NY to buy his portable. H managed to fly return for around 300 pounds from London. He still made a huge saving.
With the description of the above poster it seems that it should be possible to make a smarter CD driver that falls back to simple red-book mode if everything else fails. I am not in the business of writing drivers, so if someone who does could comment on this, then it would be great.