As far as I can tell you always had to download and approve XUL code before it could run, and sometime requires you to reboot your browser.
You always have to download DHTML pages and their associated Javascript and CSS too. You don't have to approve them because the designers of Javascript took the position of limiting what the language could do instead of the approach taken by XUL, Java,.NET and ActiveX which was to require user approval for actions that could potentially be dangerous. As for rebooting your browser, that is true of extensions, but XUL-only applications do not require it.
he dismisses as 'random malarkey' the idea that Microsoft is having trouble hiring and keeping the kind of brilliant employees that have always been the company's competitive weapon.
"That's random malarkey! Who needs brilliant employees when we have chairs as our new competitive weapon.", Ballmer responded.
I have a Dell laptop with a TPM chip, which was also non-functional until explicitly enabled in the BIOS. I enabled it to play with the file encryption functionality it offered, but it turned out to be impractical. Judging by the performance I get, the TPM chip seems to have a 9600 bps serial bus connecting it to the motherboard.
Should it really be fair to restrict some online service to have to treat all clients the same way just because one version was derived from another?
Should it really be fair to limit the definition of "linking" to its use in the 1980's long before the invention of SOAP, REST, CORBA, DCOM and other network protocols (OK RPC was around back then, but limited to very simple APIs). Should it really be fair that someone can circumvent the GPL by wrapping their "internal" modified code as a webservice and exposing it that way?
how would this affect applications/companies like MySQL? Don't they have two versions (if I am not mistaken), a GPL version and a commercial version.
MySQL is the copyright holder, that is what gives them the right to dual license under the GPLv2 and a commercial license, and nothing in GPLv3 can take away their rights as the copyright holder to license their work as they wish.
You're probably using their wap gateway, instead of their internet access point. Most phones come preconfigured to route everything through the wap gateway, some have the settings for full internet access programmed in but not enabled by default, on others you'll need to search the operator's site or user forums for details and set it up manually. I find I have to keep switching, as the phone's browser requires the wap gateway to function, but Java midlets normally only work with a full connection.
If you are there for any sort of pedestrian good you always have to walk the entire length of the store to get it.
It depends on the item. Supermarkets around here have figured out that customers will chose the lunch-bar down the road rather than walk through the supermarket and wait in a checkout queue for the high-markup ready-to-eat food that people are likely to want for lunch. So they have all that at the front of the store, next to the cigarette counter where people can be in and out quickly. But milk, bread, and other staples are always up the back, as you say.
Why would you expect any different, not just from microsoft but from ANY company out to make money?
Because the idea that dual-boot somehow causes them to lose money is a false one. They already sold you a copy of Windows, by making it difficult to use that alongside another OS, what are they expecting to acheive? Selling you two copies of Windows to satisfy your dual-boot urge?
Clearly their only motivation is to be anti-competitive, which is what one expects from a convicted monopolist.
Actually, the European and American methods of measuring octane are a little different. The end result is about the same for what you put in the engine.
Regular gasoline in the US is equivalent to 92 octane measured by the European method. Regular petrol in the UK is 95 octane, 92 is what we put in the lawnmower.
Yes there is, and has been for years. Banks derive a lot of income from the charges on other banks' customers using their machines, and their customers using other banks' machines, so it is in their interest to follow the standard. There is also a standard for magstripe cards, which is why you can encode your bank details on almost any magstripe card, often without interfering with what was there before (as long as it wasn't another bank card, or a non-standard card with non-bank information on track 2).
Bandwidth, not really, that ceased being an issue for me about 5 years ago. Processor power, yes, but most Flash and animated gif ads don't really reach the limit where I'd get annoyed. I do use FlashBlock though, and set animated gifs to not loop, because I do get annoyed by ads that are distracting. I also block tribalfusion's ad servers at the DNS level, because they use tricks to get their Javascript around popup blockers.
I'm happy to accept that webpage authors need to pay the bills, and advertisers are willing to pay them. For that reason, I don't use AdBlock, or a DNS that blocks all advertisers, and am happy to accept ads that do not detract from the content I am trying to read. I usually ignore the ads, just as I ignore ads on television, radio, and in newspapers and magazines. That is a fact that advertisers have to live with, and stop trying to get in people's faces because it just pisses them off.
I can't believe that eight year olds need cell phones. Who are they calling? Why are they calling?
My friends who have children that age give their children phones so they can call their parents when they need to be picked up, when they're in trouble, or whenever.
FWIW, my position is that I felt really F'd over, years ago when CDDB decided to start selling the info I had helped them collect. I thought the whole idea of FreeDB was to correct the mistakes of the past so that this could never be done again.
So yeah, I think this data should be public domain...
The data being public domain is what allowed cddb.com to get away with what they did. There is a good reason why the freedb project chose to license their database under the GPL.
First, it looks like the database files are already GPL'd. I'm not sure what you would want to do with the data that isn't allowed by the GPL.
The article author is probably connected in some way to the idiot who was working on the new version of freedb but decided to keep his source to himself. My guess is that he wants to repeat what happened with cddb - take freedb and make it his own. Luckily the authors of freedb learned from the cddb experience, and licensed their database under the GPL to prevent people like himself profiting from the years of work by users that went into creating this database.
Of course, in other countries, it's pretty common to charge both ends of a phone call, so maybe we're just going to end up more like them.
Sorry, which countries would those "other countries" be? The US is the only one I can think of, unless you are talking about roaming, in which case, which countries aren't in the "other countries" camp?
Last time I checked, Europe was a collection of countries with their own laws. Yes, the EU has had some influence in bringing some of those laws closer in recent years, but AFAIK this has not yet extended to Telecoms regulation. At least in the European country where I currently live, none of what you said above is true. The incumbant telecoms operator has not been forced to open the local loop, though they do have competition in the long distance market, and to a lesser extent they have competition for internet and local loop from the cable companies (all two of them). They have been forced to open their network to ADSL providers, which has made that market very competitive, but you still need to pay the basic line rental to the incumbant telecoms company to maintain service, there is no "naked ADSL" option.
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You always have to download DHTML pages and their associated Javascript and CSS too. You don't have to approve them because the designers of Javascript took the position of limiting what the language could do instead of the approach taken by XUL, Java, .NET and ActiveX which was to require user approval for actions that could potentially be dangerous. As for rebooting your browser, that is true of extensions, but XUL-only applications do not require it.
Thanks god it is not Google. MS chairs will probably thank him publically.
MS bookcases on the other hand, are quivering in fear.
he dismisses as 'random malarkey' the idea that Microsoft is having trouble hiring and keeping the kind of brilliant employees that have always been the company's competitive weapon.
"That's random malarkey! Who needs brilliant employees when we have chairs as our new competitive weapon.", Ballmer responded.
I have a Dell laptop with a TPM chip, which was also non-functional until explicitly enabled in the BIOS. I enabled it to play with the file encryption functionality it offered, but it turned out to be impractical. Judging by the performance I get, the TPM chip seems to have a 9600 bps serial bus connecting it to the motherboard.
Should it really be fair to restrict some online service to have to treat all clients the same way just because one version was derived from another?
Should it really be fair to limit the definition of "linking" to its use in the 1980's long before the invention of SOAP, REST, CORBA, DCOM and other network protocols (OK RPC was around back then, but limited to very simple APIs). Should it really be fair that someone can circumvent the GPL by wrapping their "internal" modified code as a webservice and exposing it that way?
how would this affect applications/companies like MySQL? Don't they have two versions (if I am not mistaken), a GPL version and a commercial version.
MySQL is the copyright holder, that is what gives them the right to dual license under the GPLv2 and a commercial license, and nothing in GPLv3 can take away their rights as the copyright holder to license their work as they wish.
You're probably using their wap gateway, instead of their internet access point. Most phones come preconfigured to route everything through the wap gateway, some have the settings for full internet access programmed in but not enabled by default, on others you'll need to search the operator's site or user forums for details and set it up manually. I find I have to keep switching, as the phone's browser requires the wap gateway to function, but Java midlets normally only work with a full connection.
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So how does that work then?
If you are there for any sort of pedestrian good you always have to walk the entire length of the store to get it.
It depends on the item. Supermarkets around here have figured out that customers will chose the lunch-bar down the road rather than walk through the supermarket and wait in a checkout queue for the high-markup ready-to-eat food that people are likely to want for lunch. So they have all that at the front of the store, next to the cigarette counter where people can be in and out quickly. But milk, bread, and other staples are always up the back, as you say.
I usually sort it out at the customer services desk later. That way the queue behind me doesn't get held up through no fault of their own.
Why would you expect any different, not just from microsoft but from ANY company out to make money?
Because the idea that dual-boot somehow causes them to lose money is a false one. They already sold you a copy of Windows, by making it difficult to use that alongside another OS, what are they expecting to acheive? Selling you two copies of Windows to satisfy your dual-boot urge?
Clearly their only motivation is to be anti-competitive, which is what one expects from a convicted monopolist.
Actually, the European and American methods of measuring octane are a little different. The end result is about the same for what you put in the engine.
Regular gasoline in the US is equivalent to 92 octane measured by the European method. Regular petrol in the UK is 95 octane, 92 is what we put in the lawnmower.
There is no ATM or even credit card standard;
Yes there is, and has been for years. Banks derive a lot of income from the charges on other banks' customers using their machines, and their customers using other banks' machines, so it is in their interest to follow the standard. There is also a standard for magstripe cards, which is why you can encode your bank details on almost any magstripe card, often without interfering with what was there before (as long as it wasn't another bank card, or a non-standard card with non-bank information on track 2).
Preferably with images.
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Bandwidth, not really, that ceased being an issue for me about 5 years ago. Processor power, yes, but most Flash and animated gif ads don't really reach the limit where I'd get annoyed. I do use FlashBlock though, and set animated gifs to not loop, because I do get annoyed by ads that are distracting. I also block tribalfusion's ad servers at the DNS level, because they use tricks to get their Javascript around popup blockers.
I'm happy to accept that webpage authors need to pay the bills, and advertisers are willing to pay them. For that reason, I don't use AdBlock, or a DNS that blocks all advertisers, and am happy to accept ads that do not detract from the content I am trying to read. I usually ignore the ads, just as I ignore ads on television, radio, and in newspapers and magazines. That is a fact that advertisers have to live with, and stop trying to get in people's faces because it just pisses them off.
which didn't even make it to the US
Yeah, well neither do the people who've been racially profiled onto the no-fly-list once they've left. (registration free link)
I can't believe that eight year olds need cell phones. Who are they calling? Why are they calling?
My friends who have children that age give their children phones so they can call their parents when they need to be picked up, when they're in trouble, or whenever.
But false or erroneous facts and theories which are presented as true are treated as facts and are uncopyrightable.
Cool, so no one can come after me for copying Slashdot comments then!
FWIW, my position is that I felt really F'd over, years ago when CDDB decided to start selling the info I had helped them collect. I thought the whole idea of FreeDB was to correct the mistakes of the past so that this could never be done again.
So yeah, I think this data should be public domain...
The data being public domain is what allowed cddb.com to get away with what they did. There is a good reason why the freedb project chose to license their database under the GPL.
First, it looks like the database files are already GPL'd. I'm not sure what you would want to do with the data that isn't allowed by the GPL.
The article author is probably connected in some way to the idiot who was working on the new version of freedb but decided to keep his source to himself. My guess is that he wants to repeat what happened with cddb - take freedb and make it his own. Luckily the authors of freedb learned from the cddb experience, and licensed their database under the GPL to prevent people like himself profiting from the years of work by users that went into creating this database.
Sorry, which countries would those "other countries" be? The US is the only one I can think of, unless you are talking about roaming, in which case, which countries aren't in the "other countries" camp?
In europe...
In Europe, they...
Last time I checked, Europe was a collection of countries with their own laws. Yes, the EU has had some influence in bringing some of those laws closer in recent years, but AFAIK this has not yet extended to Telecoms regulation. At least in the European country where I currently live, none of what you said above is true. The incumbant telecoms operator has not been forced to open the local loop, though they do have competition in the long distance market, and to a lesser extent they have competition for internet and local loop from the cable companies (all two of them). They have been forced to open their network to ADSL providers, which has made that market very competitive, but you still need to pay the basic line rental to the incumbant telecoms company to maintain service, there is no "naked ADSL" option.
The bug report says that specifically the problem is in GLib 2.8. Mine uses GLib 2.10, so maybe it is fixed there?
I'm using WinGaim (2.0beta3) with GTK+ 2.8.18 right now. What exactly doesn't work for you?
I'm not so sure about that, but there are certainly great non-geek rap songs in the world, so why not rap?