Actually, most Chinese commentators (and some american and european) seem to think that China will revaluate (now that's not a common word) the Yuan sometime in 2005. The direct link to US Dollar is rather much of a liability these days...
I suspect that the vast majority of users out there probably feel the same way.
Wrong. Integration is absolutely essential for an Office suite. Every single document I...
Hello? The "vast majority" does not at all times include "yourself". That's why it says the "vast majority", and not "all". You should really read up on basic language constructs.
INSIGHTFUL? The point is simply: We do not have any data or reliable sources for these factors more than 500 years ago. Jesus. Parent is funny, not insightful.
Apparently, the story is true, but the picture you have seen is forged. Noone was there to take a picture, but someone constructed a picture afterwards.
I've also seen some claims that the shoe incident never happened.
Its bad enough most people (outside/.) think HTTP is the Internet
People who know what HTTP is, do generally also know what a protocol is, and do not think HTTP is the Internet. People think the Internet is a program with an icon depicting a blue E.
In Norway, you get a (paper) copy of your credit report every time someone hires a company to make one. It's the law over here. It seems reasonable. You've actually had to pay for getting to know your own credit details? It's kind of funny.
1. Military jobs, if you think that AI is going to be good enough to have computers acting as soldiers any time soon then you either have a really unrealistic view of AI develop or you have an incredibly disrespect for what it takes to be a soldier.
Yeah, it's really hard to program a robot to do sadistic torture and break the Geneva convention without being held responsible. It's a lot easier to program people to do so, and then claim you had nothing to do with it (it was just the soldiers).
Maybe the majority in straight amount of information, but not at all the majority of what the people of western nations get to watch on TV, read in newspapers etc. All channels I've got (Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, CNN, EuroNews) have correspondents in Ukraine.
After all, this is Europe's second largest country.
It's the rendering engine. It is responsible for rendering the pages correctly on your screen and should not impose a security risk.
That is -4, completely insightless. Although everyone agrees that a rendering engine should not impose a security risk, the entire point of security flaws in IE is that its rendering engine imposes risks. Its rendering engine (pipeline) includes ActiveX objects, VBScript and all the other atrocities causing all the bad stuff.
The Netscape browser offers you to render stuff by using MSHTML.DLL, which includes a small IE within another program. Many programs does so nowadays. And all the other browsers out there (Neowin etc.) are really just shells around an IE ActiveX object.
So, all problems with IEs security will be accurately reproduced when activating IE rendering in this Netscape browser. (And all flaws of Gecko will be produced when you use Gecko).
You got it right. Red Hat changed the name when they realised others wanted to use it as well. It's pretty bad for Mandrake to be using the RedHat Package Manager, so they eventually changed the name. Anyway, much of the development in RPM came from other sources than RedHat employees, making the name a little misleading. An RPM file is now known as just that - an RPM file or an RPM Package or an RPM Package Manager file.
Actually, Netscape died when MS offered a browser for free. That is not illegal. MS did plenty of other illegal stuff, but what they did to kill Netscape was not illegal. It is hard to compete against a competitor who offers a similar product for nothing.
It would not be illegal if Microsoft didn't have something close to a monopoly. They shut down Netscape because they used their desktop/OS monopoly to spread their (unrelated product) Web browser. This is not legal under US Anti-trust legislation.
That's why they were forced to make Internet Explorer separate from their OS. Then it isn't illegal any more.
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In Norway, quite a few people died recently from drinking illegal vodka, which turned out to be methanol. The guy who sold it got quite a few years in the slammer.
Oh, there's a truckload of other options to commit copyright infringement of IE. For instance selling it under your own brand.
Therefore, you don't infringe the copyright of IE, but you infringe the EULA, which says you need to own a copy of an MS OS to use it. Your point is absolutely meaningless - you do obviously not infringe anything as long as you already own an MS OS. But that was not what we were discussing - we discussed if IE is free or not.
Of course I agree with your obvious statement. Everything should be tailored to everyone, ideally. That's why I explicitly stated that comparing sizes was not the point in this discussion. Generally, I do agree that Size Matters.
Your other way to look at it is interesting, yet not what was discussed and replied to in my first parent and grandparent.
They're available as a separate download - the vast majority of Windows users neither want nor need them.
I don't even know what separate download you refer to, but it is not the equivalent of a standard linux distribution development environment (unless you actually use cygwin and get the same environment). Considering that the discussion was about the size of linux distros compared to windows installation discs, what is available as a separate download is completely irrelevant.
Hmmm... I wonder why they didn't create a page using XUL, like this page:
I wonder... could it be because it's ugly, looks different on different platforms, takes four times as long to load and provides no extra benefit for the user?
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China's Yuan is directly linked to the US Dollar
Actually, most Chinese commentators (and some american and european) seem to think that China will revaluate (now that's not a common word) the Yuan sometime in 2005. The direct link to US Dollar is rather much of a liability these days...
Is there some valid architectural reason for it?
Shared libraries and keeping configuration etc. between different versions of the same program.
Wrong. Integration is absolutely essential for an Office suite. Every single document I...
Hello? The "vast majority" does not at all times include "yourself". That's why it says the "vast majority", and not "all". You should really read up on basic language constructs.
INSIGHTFUL? The point is simply: We do not have any data or reliable sources for these factors more than 500 years ago. Jesus. Parent is funny, not insightful.
There are really only two ways that folks will take drastic action to curtail global warming: economics & disaster.
Yes, but disaster does only apply because a disaster would cause prices to rise.
Hotmail isn't the most popular. GMail is. It's just that not everyone can get a GMail account :-)
Apparently, the story is true, but the picture you have seen is forged. Noone was there to take a picture, but someone constructed a picture afterwards.
I've also seen some claims that the shoe incident never happened.
What's wrong with KOrganizer? It can schedule meetings and stuff.
Its bad enough most people (outside /.) think HTTP is the Internet
People who know what HTTP is, do generally also know what a protocol is, and do not think HTTP is the Internet. People think the Internet is a program with an icon depicting a blue E.
In Norway, you get a (paper) copy of your credit report every time someone hires a company to make one. It's the law over here. It seems reasonable. You've actually had to pay for getting to know your own credit details? It's kind of funny.
Actually, an automated helpdesk is the second example project in my introductory book on Java ("Objects first with Java", Barnes/Kölling).
1. Military jobs, if you think that AI is going to be good enough to have computers acting as soldiers any time soon then you either have a really unrealistic view of AI develop or you have an incredibly disrespect for what it takes to be a soldier.
Yeah, it's really hard to program a robot to do sadistic torture and break the Geneva convention without being held responsible. It's a lot easier to program people to do so, and then claim you had nothing to do with it (it was just the soldiers).
For instance when Tom Ridge raises the terror threat immediately after the Democratic Convention people report on his speech and that's it.
Here in Europe, all the media were insinuating that it was due to political tactics. Maybe we should swap a few journalists and editors?
Maybe the majority in straight amount of information, but not at all the majority of what the people of western nations get to watch on TV, read in newspapers etc. All channels I've got (Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, CNN, EuroNews) have correspondents in Ukraine.
After all, this is Europe's second largest country.
Of course if you wrote this in a compiled language you'd know this buy now. *ducks*
buy != by.
It's the rendering engine. It is responsible for rendering the pages correctly on your screen and should not impose a security risk.
That is -4, completely insightless. Although everyone agrees that a rendering engine should not impose a security risk, the entire point of security flaws in IE is that its rendering engine imposes risks. Its rendering engine (pipeline) includes ActiveX objects, VBScript and all the other atrocities causing all the bad stuff.
The Netscape browser offers you to render stuff by using MSHTML.DLL, which includes a small IE within another program. Many programs does so nowadays. And all the other browsers out there (Neowin etc.) are really just shells around an IE ActiveX object.
So, all problems with IEs security will be accurately reproduced when activating IE rendering in this Netscape browser. (And all flaws of Gecko will be produced when you use Gecko).
As someone who is doing it right now (in China, not India), I can say that it absolutely rocks
Uhhm... you should really be paying more attention to the girl while you're "doing it". Slashdot is not a turn-on for everyone!
You got it right. Red Hat changed the name when they realised others wanted to use it as well. It's pretty bad for Mandrake to be using the RedHat Package Manager, so they eventually changed the name. Anyway, much of the development in RPM came from other sources than RedHat employees, making the name a little misleading. An RPM file is now known as just that - an RPM file or an RPM Package or an RPM Package Manager file.
Actually, Netscape died when MS offered a browser for free. That is not illegal. MS did plenty of other illegal stuff, but what they did to kill Netscape was not illegal. It is hard to compete against a competitor who offers a similar product for nothing.
It would not be illegal if Microsoft didn't have something close to a monopoly. They shut down Netscape because they used their desktop/OS monopoly to spread their (unrelated product) Web browser. This is not legal under US Anti-trust legislation.
That's why they were forced to make Internet Explorer separate from their OS. Then it isn't illegal any more.
In Norway, quite a few people died recently from drinking illegal vodka, which turned out to be methanol. The guy who sold it got quite a few years in the slammer.
Oh, there's a truckload of other options to commit copyright infringement of IE. For instance selling it under your own brand.
Therefore, you don't infringe the copyright of IE, but you infringe the EULA, which says you need to own a copy of an MS OS to use it. Your point is absolutely meaningless - you do obviously not infringe anything as long as you already own an MS OS. But that was not what we were discussing - we discussed if IE is free or not.
Of course I agree with your obvious statement. Everything should be tailored to everyone, ideally. That's why I explicitly stated that comparing sizes was not the point in this discussion. Generally, I do agree that Size Matters.
Your other way to look at it is interesting, yet not what was discussed and replied to in my first parent and grandparent.
I don't even know what separate download you refer to, but it is not the equivalent of a standard linux distribution development environment (unless you actually use cygwin and get the same environment). Considering that the discussion was about the size of linux distros compared to windows installation discs, what is available as a separate download is completely irrelevant.
It makes sense with voice recognition on embedded platforms (PDAs, cell phones), which happens to be Opera's main market.
Hmmm... I wonder why they didn't create a page using XUL, like this page:
I wonder... could it be because it's ugly, looks different on different platforms, takes four times as long to load and provides no extra benefit for the user?