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Who cares about the bandwidth between the US and some foreign country? The US doesn't go out of its way to establish more bandwidth to Cuba, so why Hawaii?
In IE, if you enter ALT-D, your cursor moves to the address bar and you can enter a new URL without using the mouse. Is there an equivalent shortcut in Mozilla? I need to use Netscape at work and I always find myself typing ALT-D.:-)
If they ripped them off as you say they would not be able to licence them as GPL now could they?
sure they could. The BSD license lets anyone do whatever they want, including relicense the code as GPL. There is already BSD code in the Linux kernel.
Didn't Netscape give away their browser because they want to drive their revenues from server software sales? Netscape's web servers sucked. Did Microsoft kill them too by bundling IIS with Windows 98?
Yes, IIS is "free" with Windows NT, but we all know that, despite what Microsoft claims, NT holds a minority position in the server market. So IIS is not free if you must also purchase NT server licenses.
I've had experiences before where an application would crash whilst in a DLL, (or a VXD but I could be wrong - it's been a long time), and then within the course of say, the next five minutes, the computer would appear to become more and more unstable
I'm confused about your claim that your computer "appears" more unstable? If it doesn't crash, then how is it unstable?
Here's a question I don't know the answer to - what happens when Internet Explorer crashes? Does it get completely unloaded from memory, like any crashes program should, or does partially remain?
Explorer.exe and IExplore.exe are just regular processes. Why would they "partially remain" after they crash? Here's a Windows experiment. CTRL+SHIFT+ESC to open your Windows Task Manager and kill Explorer.exe. Your computer does not crash, but your shell just disappeared. From the Windows Task Manager, File \ New Task Run explorer.exe and your shell just came back.
Apple has more or less given us proof that both gpl'ed (aka "free") and closed source software CAN and DO work well together, in fact, they can work so well together to such an extent that whole operating systems are built on the idea.
1) It's hard to keep up to date. Until you can make Flash that updates itself from SQL, it's worthless for any real data
This is not true. Your Flash movies can dynamically read XML files from your web server. Just have your web server periodically publish a new XML file (just like Slashdot does) and you can have dynamic Flash.
There are also other ways, such as ActionScript's LoadVars, to dynamically update your Flash movie.
From what I've read of "Aspect Oriented Programming", it is just a reinvention of multi-dispatch methods or a language-level support for the Visitor OO design pattern. With multi-dispatch in a language like Lisp/CLOS, a single function call can (optionally) implicitly call your logging function, a monitor synchronization function, a security check function, etc.. before or after calling the "real" function.
Funny how so many new programming fads are simply reinventions of old Lisp features because the new programming environments (like C++ or Java) need clumsy workarounds.
Don't forget that most customer computers (ie Windows 95, 98, ME) do NOT support IPv6. Why would an ISP pay for hardware and support for a feature that the majority of their customer cannot use?
What year was that Slashdot story from? Why does Slashdot omit the YEAR on their stories? The Slashdot archives are utterly useless without a YEAR, people.
I, for instance, tend to prefer dating women who find fat, bearded computer geeks attractive. That's not an evolutionarily sound move on my part,
sure it is. Your "selfish genes" want to propagate. They do not care about the evolutionary good of the entire gene population; they just want to help themselves. Your genes know that their/your only chance of reproducing is to date women with like fat, bearded people.
Why does everyone asume TLA agencies know the most? If you knew how to factorise products of large primes, who would you tell? (If you want to live to tell the tale!)
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Who cares about the bandwidth between the US and some foreign country? The US doesn't go out of its way to establish more bandwidth to Cuba, so why Hawaii?
That list forget to include the following line of code:
#define BACKDOOR_PASSWORD "!seineew era sreenigne epacsteN"
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I've heard of "wheel" from BSD, but how does it relate to GNU/Linux?
In IE, if you enter ALT-D, your cursor moves to the address bar and you can enter a new URL without using the mouse. Is there an equivalent shortcut in Mozilla? I need to use Netscape at work and I always find myself typing ALT-D. :-)
If they ripped them off as you say they would not be able to licence them as GPL now could they?
sure they could. The BSD license lets anyone do whatever they want, including relicense the code as GPL. There is already BSD code in the Linux kernel.
FREE operating system that cannot read your Word docs from work or play any of the games you bought at CompUSA! FREE!!!
Didn't Netscape give away their browser because they want to drive their revenues from server software sales? Netscape's web servers sucked. Did Microsoft kill them too by bundling IIS with Windows 98?
Yes, IIS is "free" with Windows NT, but we all know that, despite what Microsoft claims, NT holds a minority position in the server market. So IIS is not free if you must also purchase NT server licenses.
What the fuck is a LIFT? In this country, we use elevators, you limey bastard!!!!!!!!!!111111!!!!!1!!
I've had experiences before where an application would crash whilst in a DLL, (or a VXD but I could be wrong - it's been a long time), and then within the course of say, the next five minutes, the computer would appear to become more and more unstable
I'm confused about your claim that your computer "appears" more unstable? If it doesn't crash, then how is it unstable?
Here's a question I don't know the answer to - what happens when Internet Explorer crashes? Does it get completely unloaded from memory, like any crashes program should, or does partially remain?
Explorer.exe and IExplore.exe are just regular processes. Why would they "partially remain" after they crash? Here's a Windows experiment. CTRL+SHIFT+ESC to open your Windows Task Manager and kill Explorer.exe. Your computer does not crash, but your shell just disappeared. From the Windows Task Manager, File \ New Task Run explorer.exe and your shell just came back.
US culture already "occupies" much of the world.
Did your dev team look into using Windows CE.NET or Windows XP Embedded ?
Your quine [nyx.net] link did NOT contain any hybrid C/Scheme quines..
Suddenly, 64 bits is no longer adequate..
char *sz = (char*) malloc(18446744073709551616);
Apple has more or less given us proof that both gpl'ed (aka "free") and closed source software CAN and DO work well together, in fact, they can work so well together to such an extent that whole operating systems are built on the idea.
except that Mac OS X is not GPL'd. Not even the Darwin kernel is GPL'd. Refer to Apple's Apple Public Source License (APSL).
1) It's hard to keep up to date. Until you can make Flash that updates itself from SQL, it's worthless for any real data
This is not true. Your Flash movies can dynamically read XML files from your web server. Just have your web server periodically publish a new XML file (just like Slashdot does) and you can have dynamic Flash.
There are also other ways, such as ActionScript's LoadVars, to dynamically update your Flash movie.
From what I've read of "Aspect Oriented Programming", it is just a reinvention of multi-dispatch methods or a language-level support for the Visitor OO design pattern. With multi-dispatch in a language like Lisp/CLOS, a single function call can (optionally) implicitly call your logging function, a monitor synchronization function, a security check function, etc.. before or after calling the "real" function.
Funny how so many new programming fads are simply reinventions of old Lisp features because the new programming environments (like C++ or Java) need clumsy workarounds.
I don't know what you are talking about Seattle having a better road system..
Don't forget that Canada uses the metric system.. though I'm not sure if that is an advantage or disadvantage..
Don't forget that most customer computers (ie Windows 95, 98, ME) do NOT support IPv6. Why would an ISP pay for hardware and support for a feature that the majority of their customer cannot use?
* There is no IPv6 because there is no demand.
What year was that Slashdot story from? Why does Slashdot omit the YEAR on their stories? The Slashdot archives are utterly useless without a YEAR, people.
She should consider having NO children and helping humanity voluntarily make itself extinct. We have done far too much damage to this planet already.
Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
I, for instance, tend to prefer dating women who find fat, bearded computer geeks attractive. That's not an evolutionarily sound move on my part,
sure it is. Your "selfish genes" want to propagate. They do not care about the evolutionary good of the entire gene population; they just want to help themselves. Your genes know that their/your only chance of reproducing is to date women with like fat, bearded people.
Why does everyone asume TLA agencies know the most? If you knew how to factorise products of large primes, who would you tell? (If you want to live to tell the tale!)
t s_of_large_prime_numbers .
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