The "probable anomaly" is that it is an order of magnitude slower than every other browser at string operations, which are a kind of important feature of Javascript. I'm not sure why he sees this as a probable anomaly, but not any other result where one browser does a lot worse than the others (no browser appears a clear winner or loser on everything, though Opera does come out in front more often than the others).
IE8 will give people the time to make their "crap code" standards-compliant.
More likely it will remove any incentive for them to do so, thus ensuring that a disturbingly large proportion of websites continues to be "optimised for Internet Explorer 5.5 or newer". Microsoft gets it both ways, they can claim standards compliance, while ensuring that their browser remains the standard for cowboy web designers.
I think the researchers experiment is flawed. I have experienced the time slowdown twice, once while watching a car skidding towards my drivers door, at such a slow speed that I started to feel relief that it was going to stop in time - later I found out that it was still travelling at 30km/h (20mph) on impact. Talking to the other driver after the accident, he said that he'd also had that same expectation that he was going to stop in time due to his perception of time. The other time was while bridge swinging, interestingly a bungee jump from a higher height a couple of years before the bridge swing had not given me a perception of time slowdown, perhaps because it was above deep water, while the bridge swing was above shallow water with rocks clearly visible. In such an event your senses become highly focused on finding a way out of pending death. If you are able to concentrate on numbers on a watch, then you are not in such a situation.
So did you try resending without the obscene language?
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Here's my concise cheat sheet, which I have pinned in a prominent place on my cubicle wall. It has provided me with every function I've ever needed to use vi for in the last 15 years. Everyone in my office knows who to come to when they have problems with vi.
:q!
Ainsworth has contributed more featured articles to Wikipedia than all but six other writers. But in October, when he attempted to edit the Weiss article, he was immediately banned from the site for 24 hours by an administrator known as "Durova" - the administrator at the heart of the secret mailing list scandal.
And Durova's ban was seconded by none other than Jimmy Wales.
"Durova [has] my full support here. No nonsense, zero tolerance, shoot on sight," Wales wrote on the site. "No kidding, this has gone on long enough."
If you look at the history on the talk page for Greg Weiss, these events actually occurred the other way around. Jimmy Wales posted his support of Durova's announcement of a zero tolerance policy before Ainsworth was banned. After the ban, Wales then suggested that the zero tolerance policy was perhaps being taken a bit far (Ainsworth was banned for posting off-topic content on the talk page when he responded to Durova's also off-topic threats).
Try telling that to the residents of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th Avenues, E12. Or 1st, 2nd and 3rd Avenue, W10, E17, W3, RM10, EN1 and HA9, 1st and 2nd Avenue, SW14, E13, NW4....
Are there different streets in different parts of the city that are all called Peachtree Street (or Road, or whatever, the important thing is that they are exactly the same)? Is there a Gropecunt Lane? If the answer to these questions is no, then thank you for playing, better luck next time.
You are aware that lorries can and do travel on ferries? A large percentage of lorries on British roads have Polish, Czech or Romanian plates. Many of the ones with UK plates are driven by Polish drivers.
There are circumstances where a design which may qualify for patent protection in another country qualifies only for copyright protection in the US. See Wikipedia:Industrial design rights.
While it can be argued that Italy and Germany had some democratic traditions (however the Weimar Republic was really broken), it was foreign to Japan.
Immediately prior to and throughout the war, Japan had a democratically elected government (though they'd effectively had a military coup, with the military controlling the government since the mid 1930's rather than vice versa). Italy on the other hand had been a fascist dictatorship since 1922.
Apparently, the unique thing about the KONYIN keyboard, is that it can send 2 Unicode codepoints for a single keypress (for some keys, when Shift2 is held down). But the OLPC keyboard doesn't work like this, it uses standard PC scancodes and translates to Unicode at the XKB level, so that can't be what they are complaining about.
This sort of paranoia seems confined to the US. The New Zealand maps that Google uses have property boundaries marked, so if you have a street address, you can count houses from a known corner to find the exact spot 90% of the time (occasionally there are numbering anomalies that break this approach). The Japanese ones have outlines of the houses, and having seen a few large-scale paper maps in Japan, I wouldn't be surprised if the source data came with surnames attached to those houses (at least the detached houses - apartments just have the name of the building).
the data is purposefully innaccurate to ensure that it cannot be used to pinpoint the exact location of any residence to help ensure some level of privacy for each citizen.
Sounds like marketing nonsense to me. If they direct you to the right neighbourhood, then they might as well be directing you to the right address, as any stalker will just use street signs and house numbers once they're in the vicinity to get a finer grained location. The real reason map data providers insert errors is so they can detect and prove unauthorized copying.
Then you have misunderstood what this thread is about. It started with someone claiming that the GPL gave him the right to develop his own private derivative, and it wasn't fair that the AGPL took that away. I was merely pointing out that his derivative is hardly private if he is giving people access to run it from a public website. If its your own software, then nothing forces you to give up the source whether it is private or not.
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The "probable anomaly" is that it is an order of magnitude slower than every other browser at string operations, which are a kind of important feature of Javascript. I'm not sure why he sees this as a probable anomaly, but not any other result where one browser does a lot worse than the others (no browser appears a clear winner or loser on everything, though Opera does come out in front more often than the others).
More likely it will remove any incentive for them to do so, thus ensuring that a disturbingly large proportion of websites continues to be "optimised for Internet Explorer 5.5 or newer". Microsoft gets it both ways, they can claim standards compliance, while ensuring that their browser remains the standard for cowboy web designers.
I think the researchers experiment is flawed. I have experienced the time slowdown twice, once while watching a car skidding towards my drivers door, at such a slow speed that I started to feel relief that it was going to stop in time - later I found out that it was still travelling at 30km/h (20mph) on impact. Talking to the other driver after the accident, he said that he'd also had that same expectation that he was going to stop in time due to his perception of time. The other time was while bridge swinging, interestingly a bungee jump from a higher height a couple of years before the bridge swing had not given me a perception of time slowdown, perhaps because it was above deep water, while the bridge swing was above shallow water with rocks clearly visible. In such an event your senses become highly focused on finding a way out of pending death. If you are able to concentrate on numbers on a watch, then you are not in such a situation.
So did you try resending without the obscene language?
Here's my concise cheat sheet, which I have pinned in a prominent place on my cubicle wall. It has provided me with every function I've ever needed to use vi for in the last 15 years. Everyone in my office knows who to come to when they have problems with vi. :q!
What is not full scale about that? Note that wikipedia says of smaller station BN-350, "BN-350 (1973) was the first full-scale Soviet FBR."
If you look at the history on the talk page for Greg Weiss, these events actually occurred the other way around. Jimmy Wales posted his support of Durova's announcement of a zero tolerance policy before Ainsworth was banned. After the ban, Wales then suggested that the zero tolerance policy was perhaps being taken a bit far (Ainsworth was banned for posting off-topic content on the talk page when he responded to Durova's also off-topic threats).
Are there different streets in different parts of the city that are all called Peachtree Street (or Road, or whatever, the important thing is that they are exactly the same)? Is there a Gropecunt Lane? If the answer to these questions is no, then thank you for playing, better luck next time.
You are aware that lorries can and do travel on ferries? A large percentage of lorries on British roads have Polish, Czech or Romanian plates. Many of the ones with UK plates are driven by Polish drivers.
There are circumstances where a design which may qualify for patent protection in another country qualifies only for copyright protection in the US. See Wikipedia:Industrial design rights.
And yet you still go back to facebook, the source of this crap?
Immediately prior to and throughout the war, Japan had a democratically elected government (though they'd effectively had a military coup, with the military controlling the government since the mid 1930's rather than vice versa). Italy on the other hand had been a fascist dictatorship since 1922.
Apparently, the unique thing about the KONYIN keyboard, is that it can send 2 Unicode codepoints for a single keypress (for some keys, when Shift2 is held down). But the OLPC keyboard doesn't work like this, it uses standard PC scancodes and translates to Unicode at the XKB level, so that can't be what they are complaining about.
Flash has a longer expected life than most hard-drives these days, for all but the most deliberately contrived use cases, so it can't be that.
You can't send SMS to landlines in the US?
Branson sold off his UK stores a couple of months back. I guess he's getting out of the business globally.
This sort of paranoia seems confined to the US. The New Zealand maps that Google uses have property boundaries marked, so if you have a street address, you can count houses from a known corner to find the exact spot 90% of the time (occasionally there are numbering anomalies that break this approach). The Japanese ones have outlines of the houses, and having seen a few large-scale paper maps in Japan, I wouldn't be surprised if the source data came with surnames attached to those houses (at least the detached houses - apartments just have the name of the building).
Sounds like marketing nonsense to me. If they direct you to the right neighbourhood, then they might as well be directing you to the right address, as any stalker will just use street signs and house numbers once they're in the vicinity to get a finer grained location. The real reason map data providers insert errors is so they can detect and prove unauthorized copying.
The AGPL does concern itself with this particular type of use though. That is the difference between AGPL and GPL.
Then you have misunderstood what this thread is about. It started with someone claiming that the GPL gave him the right to develop his own private derivative, and it wasn't fair that the AGPL took that away. I was merely pointing out that his derivative is hardly private if he is giving people access to run it from a public website. If its your own software, then nothing forces you to give up the source whether it is private or not.
There is no specific category for software under copyright law, it is treated as a literary work.
You seem to be overlooking the fact that your so called internal algorithms are actually derivative works.