Why would they do that?
For now they've WON the browser wars.
They have 95% of the browsers and webpages are coded to whatever crap IE renders whenever necessary. No need to fix anything. No need to add anything new, no need to try to conform to any type of standard at all.
They have a long time before any other browser challenges them, so they might as well put it to good use writing proprietary lock-ins for people to stumble into and never be heard from again.
Quote:" And one of the most famous examples of an upset in scientific theory is Einstein's theory of Relativity verses the Newtonian theories most commonly held at the time."
This is such a common misconception it makes me cringe. .
Einstein did not come revolutionize physics with a brand new theory completely foreign to other physicists at the time. If you read all of the papers from other physicists at the time, you would see that some of them were already stumbling upon special relativity. They just worded it differently and didn't put it all together as nicely. His special relativity paper was *not* revolutionary, it was evolutionary and not a huge step at that.
The reason he became such a sensation was because he put the finishing touch on it and all of a sudden it was ready to be presented to the general public, and THEY were the ones shocked out of their shells because they were also the ones still thinking in Newtonian ways.
By the way, it's versus and not verses. You should try using konqueror sometime.
Oh and ANYONE ELSE IN THE COUNTRY, even a prisoner off death row would be better than bush.
Frankly, I would gladly put the toothless man who works in my cafeteria at work in the oval office before I'd have bush in there again.
Dean never supported the patriot act, he is VEHEMENTLY opposed to it. Neither did some of the other candidates. Yes unfortunately kerry is the kind of BS artist that populates washington D.C. and looks like he's going to win, but don't group them all together.
You don't think the guys who didn't sleep at all were too tired to even think at that point? naw of course not. Deprive me of a night's sleep and see how well I do anything.
They didn't even have a control group.
hahaha you know what I found funniest? Daikatana wouldn't even RUN on my system. the demo just crashed and crashed and crashed...
I thought I was missing a great game. I was so pissed. Then I read the reviews online and saw the pictures.
if this is true then they are being retarded.
Don't they realize that these were mostly parents buying for their kids?
Talk about a good example of making incorrect assumptions from surveys.
I've always wondered why the army didnt use RTS-like interfaces to control their troops in things like the iraq war.
Select the units, choose the formation, right click on the target whatever.
I don't understand this misconception. It's not a GPL violation. It's a violation of your copyrights. All the posts in this thread are falling victim to this error.
I would understand it being called a 'GPL violation' if the companies had called you, informed you they were using your source under the rights granted them by the GPL and would abide by the GPL license, then only partially complied to it. But even then that could be considered a copyright violation as well as improper compliance with the GPL.
So don't even mention the GPL. They are violating your copyrights. Any half-decent legal department will understand this regardless of their familiarity with the GPL. And if they don't I'm sure the courts will.
that wasn't Free Software. Free Software is supposed to *guarantee* those freedoms. Earlier software was freely traded, but not licensed under terms which *guaranteed* freedom and rolled-back improvements.
dude what the hell do you base this on?
This is NEWS and the general public wants the news raw and un-messed with.
The general public tends to get very upset when their news is distorted in any way and they find out. Why do you think reporters are outright fired for doctoring pictures like that guy in iraq who combined 2 scenes into one?
Because it pisses people off to find out they've had the wool pulled over their eyes. This ain't no hollywood movie, it's news about how our money is being spent and NASA are the reporters.
That said I won't come down too hard on them because they always explain *somewhere* that these pictures have been altered, but neither they or the tv news shows explain that this isn't what you would actually see. I'm still not sure why they have to make it red. Give us what we would actually see up there and people will be happier. Not only this but if the pictures linked to in the story are the real 'what you would see' pictures, they are not only still red, but they are much richer and prettier.
I was the exact same way.
Get off the drugs. No caffeine no nicotine NO stimulants, ever!
No games after 9pm or a couple hours before bedtime at least. In fact, stay off the computer completely. The bright lights in your face will render you sleepless.
Eat a banana 1/2 hr before going to bed.
Have sex right before your bedtime, yes with someone else.
Have that someone else help wake you up in the morning.
Try that for a few weeks and tell me you don't sleep better than ever and wake up feeling teenager-fresh.
well if you've just invented the concept of Free Software, there's no other existing free software. How are you going to start writing your Free Software using only Free Software?
well everytime our CEO has spoken, she's said that if sars resurfaces in china before we have it ready, we'll have to explain to the chinese why it's not ready so...
Look around you can find out who we are. We were the first to create a synthetic version of the spike protein from the sequence someone else had obtained.
"But it raises some interesting points, such as a possible new bio-terror weapon."
No, actually the article does not touch on this.
But don't worry, in the lab where I work we already have a treatment against sars in production and nearing the clinical trial stage.
Sars won't be an effective bio-terrorism weapon for much longer. All you hypochondriacs can breathe a sigh of relief.
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Why would they do that?
For now they've WON the browser wars.
They have 95% of the browsers and webpages are coded to whatever crap IE renders whenever necessary. No need to fix anything. No need to add anything new, no need to try to conform to any type of standard at all.
They have a long time before any other browser challenges them, so they might as well put it to good use writing proprietary lock-ins for people to stumble into and never be heard from again.
Damn it neo, I said for you to take the BLUE PILL!
This is such a common misconception it makes me cringe.
. Einstein did not come revolutionize physics with a brand new theory completely foreign to other physicists at the time. If you read all of the papers from other physicists at the time, you would see that some of them were already stumbling upon special relativity. They just worded it differently and didn't put it all together as nicely. His special relativity paper was *not* revolutionary, it was evolutionary and not a huge step at that.
The reason he became such a sensation was because he put the finishing touch on it and all of a sudden it was ready to be presented to the general public, and THEY were the ones shocked out of their shells because they were also the ones still thinking in Newtonian ways.
By the way, it's versus and not verses. You should try using konqueror sometime.
Lindows, the new model free-software citizen. They're also supporting kde-look.org and kde-apps.org... What else are they contributing?
oh but my dear friend. I VOTE. Thankfully I don't live in florida, where my vote might not count.
Is this all you have to do to advertise on slashdot? Just go "hey how do I do use great product ***** on linux?"
Oh and ANYONE ELSE IN THE COUNTRY, even a prisoner off death row would be better than bush.
Frankly, I would gladly put the toothless man who works in my cafeteria at work in the oval office before I'd have bush in there again.
Dean never supported the patriot act, he is VEHEMENTLY opposed to it. Neither did some of the other candidates. Yes unfortunately kerry is the kind of BS artist that populates washington D.C. and looks like he's going to win, but don't group them all together.
You don't think the guys who didn't sleep at all were too tired to even think at that point? naw of course not. Deprive me of a night's sleep and see how well I do anything.
They didn't even have a control group.
hahaha you know what I found funniest? Daikatana wouldn't even RUN on my system. the demo just crashed and crashed and crashed...
I thought I was missing a great game. I was so pissed. Then I read the reviews online and saw the pictures.
I hope you returned it and got your money back. Otherwise the company didnt take a loss from you.
if this is true then they are being retarded. Don't they realize that these were mostly parents buying for their kids?
Talk about a good example of making incorrect assumptions from surveys.
Class action lawsuit anyone?
Whoever took the fucking pictures for this review is a MORON.
I've always wondered why the army didnt use RTS-like interfaces to control their troops in things like the iraq war. Select the units, choose the formation, right click on the target whatever.
I would understand it being called a 'GPL violation' if the companies had called you, informed you they were using your source under the rights granted them by the GPL and would abide by the GPL license, then only partially complied to it. But even then that could be considered a copyright violation as well as improper compliance with the GPL.
So don't even mention the GPL. They are violating your copyrights. Any half-decent legal department will understand this regardless of their familiarity with the GPL. And if they don't I'm sure the courts will.
that wasn't Free Software. Free Software is supposed to *guarantee* those freedoms. Earlier software was freely traded, but not licensed under terms which *guaranteed* freedom and rolled-back improvements.
No, I thought not.
This is NEWS and the general public wants the news raw and un-messed with.
The general public tends to get very upset when their news is distorted in any way and they find out. Why do you think reporters are outright fired for doctoring pictures like that guy in iraq who combined 2 scenes into one?
Because it pisses people off to find out they've had the wool pulled over their eyes. This ain't no hollywood movie, it's news about how our money is being spent and NASA are the reporters.
That said I won't come down too hard on them because they always explain *somewhere* that these pictures have been altered, but neither they or the tv news shows explain that this isn't what you would actually see. I'm still not sure why they have to make it red. Give us what we would actually see up there and people will be happier. Not only this but if the pictures linked to in the story are the real 'what you would see' pictures, they are not only still red, but they are much richer and prettier.
Get off the drugs. No caffeine no nicotine NO stimulants, ever!
No games after 9pm or a couple hours before bedtime at least. In fact, stay off the computer completely. The bright lights in your face will render you sleepless.
Eat a banana 1/2 hr before going to bed.
Have sex right before your bedtime, yes with someone else.
Have that someone else help wake you up in the morning.
Try that for a few weeks and tell me you don't sleep better than ever and wake up feeling teenager-fresh.
well if you've just invented the concept of Free Software, there's no other existing free software. How are you going to start writing your Free Software using only Free Software?
well everytime our CEO has spoken, she's said that if sars resurfaces in china before we have it ready, we'll have to explain to the chinese why it's not ready so...
Look around you can find out who we are. We were the first to create a synthetic version of the spike protein from the sequence someone else had obtained.
I can't really say, since I've signed NDA's etc. But depending how things go it could be ready in 1yr
mine was a 2600 game
No, actually the article does not touch on this.
But don't worry, in the lab where I work we already have a treatment against sars in production and nearing the clinical trial stage.
Sars won't be an effective bio-terrorism weapon for much longer. All you hypochondriacs can breathe a sigh of relief.