I don't know what this release of Firefox was made for, but I doubt it's "only" minor bugs and new features. At least when you go to Windows Update, you can view information about the patches you are installing. The release notes for Firefox 0.9.1 say nothing about the changes between 0.9 and 0.9.1, they just repeat the changes between 0.8 and 0.9. The dialog that pops up says it is a Critical Update, but the only information I have on what is changed is a Slashdot story.
The only visible difference I can see is that the default icons are now even more cartoony than 0.9, though hopefully it does not crash as much as 0.9, as I was almost ready to start using IE again.
MS cranked up the PR machine when Java hit the street, but I'm pretty sure ActiveX predates Java, at least in implementation if not name.
Certainly not. COM might have been, but COM is only a part of ActiveX. The on-demand install and signing aspect of it (which is where it "competes" with Java) came long after Java applets first came out.
That probably explains why they looked so nervous.
It has improved, it was about six weeks after 9-11 happened, at the airport where two of the planes took off from when I went through, so they'd pulled all these army guys in with no training, and everyone was still tense with the twin towers fresh in their mind. At least now they've had time to give them some training, and it seems they're picking slightly older more experienced soldiers for the job (probably so they can send the young ones off to Iraq).
Just like when they had the national guard monkeys running around with M16s. Absolutely no use whatsoever, but makes the American public go "Gee - we're so protected! I love our President(tm)!
Granted, I'm not an American so maybe my perception is different, but the sight of nervous 19 year olds with M16s at Logan airport in late 2001 did not make me feel "protected".
How would it make you better off in Australia? Do you have to keep spare sets of measuring spoons or something around for when we come over to visit?
No need. Cooking is an imprecise science anyway, so it doesn't matter if he uses a 5ml measuring spoon or whatever size standard American teaspoons are (I bet most Americans wouldn't know what size they are beyond "a teaspoon" anyway), or if he freepours and guesses like most professional chefs would do anyway.
in a typical British way we decided to be pragmatic and consensual about the move rather than doing a dictatorial "everyone will use metric exclusively from next tuesday" (or whenever).
Like "everyone will use metric exclusively from 1 January 2000"? I'm sure all the retailers that were prosecuted in early 2000 for using imperial scales or marking produce prices per pound will have something to say about your "typical British way".
I recently switched to Thunderbird 0.7 from Mozilla 1.7, and I'd say the same. Mozilla 1.7's spam filter caught about 80% of spam with no false positives. Thunderbird 0.7's catches about 50%, but more disurbingly it also marks a lot of genuine mail as spam.
I tried the D-Link first because it was cheap. It used the Prism2 chipset. But after reading every bit of documentation, and trying it as both a module and in the kernel under about 10 configuations I gave up.
Are you sure it was a Prism2? D-Link are notorious for completely changing the underlying chipset between Rev A and Rev B of the same model number. I bought one of their 54Mb cards thinking it was Prism54, but when I installed it, lspci told me it was Atheros (thankfully still supported, though I had to put it in Master mode due to poor Ad-Hoc support). The latest versions of the same model are apparently TI based, which sucks.
You either don't get what I am saying, or you are a Microsoft shill. I just went to a PC with Outlook installed and checked its timezone settings were correct and with automatic daylight savings checked. I created an appointment request in Outlook and sent it to myself. This is what I get back:
When: 18 June 2004 15:30-16:00 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time : Dublin,
Edinburgh, Lisbon, London.
The calendar in Outlook shows that meeting as being scheduled at 15:30 in the current timezone, which is actually BST (+0100) due to daylight savings. So any mail client that wants to parse Outlook's appointment messages must interpret the above When: line in the same incorrect way.
I was talking about the way Outlook handles timezones. I don't think reporting it in bugzilla.mozilla.org will help. Even sending mail to Microsoft about bugs in Microsoft products does not help in my experience.
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Does it interpret the time wrong in the same way as Outlook? I'm forever getting meeting invitations from Outlook users for "Friday 18 June 2004 10:30:00 AM Greenwich Meridian Time (Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London). When I come in to work early so I can turn up at 9:30 BST, they're nowhere to be seen, because their Outlook ignored the daylight savings time flag.
I've tried pointing out to people that their calendar software is really a piece of crap, but most of them don't understand timezones any better than Microsoft. The ones that do just claim I'm being pedantic. Sorry, but who is it that insists on spelling out the timezone in full so it makes up 80% of the meeting request? Getting time and timezones right seems to me like a fundamental feature for calendaring and scheduling software.
It amazes me how Americans put UK down for its privacy, when they themselves are submitted to drug testing and covert surveillance by employers etc. Privacy laws in the US are way behind UK and other European laws, and the laws they do have only seem to apply to the Government. Americans seem to have inconsistent standards for what the Government can do compared with private companies.
The US keyboard has # above the 3, where the pound sign should be. That is why they often mistakenly call # 'pound' instead of octothorpe (official designation) or hash (common colloquial term) or sharp (Microsoftism).
I've been trying to validate these facts using reliable sources and as of yet I have not found them
You can't have looked very hard. Note that in order to avoid comparing apples to oranges that I looked up the murder rates for large cities in Texas, not the state itself. If you want to compare with the UK, then by all means compare it with the state of Texas, but if you are comparing London, then you need to compare it with a comparably sized city.
In Texas we have a problem that inflates our numbers as well. This problem is we border with a country whose economy is not as strong as ours. This means we have jobs in Texas people from Mexico desperately want. This leads to criminals who are willing for a fee to smuggle people across the boarder.
I've noticed before that you gun nuts are quick to find excuses when your numbers are shown to not add up.
Now, unless I am mistaken, I can only infer from their statement above that they are now running the FDP which is still susceptible to the problems highlighted by the test.
That's not the way I understand it. From their report, I understand the events went something like this:
Overnight while it is quiet, new FDP software is brought online for testing.
Testing was successful, and they brought the old FDP system back online (probably before 5:30 in time for the first arrivals at Heathrow).
At 6:03 they noticed "errors in the distribution of flight data between Centres." I don't know what exactly this means, but if I had to guess, I'd say that the other Centre was not taken offline during the tests, and some test data leaked onto their live system as a result.
So the problem is most likely not due to a bug in either the new or current software, more likely a bug in the testing procedure they were using.
Whats more interesting is that sometimes what control+v pastes is different from what the middle-click pastes.
That is how it should be, to avoid the problem with Ctrl-V just pasting what you are trying to replace.
X has a number of seperate selection mechanisms. The "primary selection" is what is currently highlighted, and is what should be pasted by the middle mouse button. The "clipboard" should be used by Ctrl-C/X/V (or Alt-C/X/V in Motif), and should require data to be explicitly put there. Then there is the "secondary selection", which most programs just ignore.
I love you Americans. Pearl Harbor was "senseless genocide", invading Iraq was neccesary to protect America from all those WMDs Saddam was supplying to Al Qaeda, inmates of Guantanemo Bay are entitled to the protections of neither the Geneva Convention, nor the US Constitution.... and you wonder "why do all the nasty foreigners hate us so much?"
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No, it wasn't. The GPL includes such things, only subtly different.
Subtly different enough that I can't find them. Perhaps if you weren't spouting misinformed bullshit, you'd back this up with the actual parts of the GPL which you consider to be "such things".
WHY DOES HE NOT FEEL THAT OTHER PROJECTS DESERVE CREDIT AS WELL?
Why should it be his responsibility to look out for everyone else. He's never said that other projects don't deserve credit, has he?
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Which, incidentally, was his argument against the original BSD license.
His argument against the original BSD license is that it created a legal requirement to mention the Regents of California in the documentation and other places. He has no problems with people who write BSD licensed software saying "please give credit where it is due", which is essentially what he is doing with GNU/Linux.
Robbery happens, but in a society where you can reasonably expect a person to carry a weapon, there are 2 options from the point of view of the robber:
- victim doesn't seem to defend themselves.. easier pray.
- victim may carry a weapon and looks like soemoen who might use it.. worse pray, and when going for it anyway, better make sure I'm first to kill.
You can add to this what tends to happen in South Africa: If you are disturbed in the process of a burglary, assume the victim has a gun and shoot them. Americans that think concealed carry laws make them safer are deluding themselves.
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I don't know what this release of Firefox was made for, but I doubt it's "only" minor bugs and new features. At least when you go to Windows Update, you can view information about the patches you are installing. The release notes for Firefox 0.9.1 say nothing about the changes between 0.9 and 0.9.1, they just repeat the changes between 0.8 and 0.9. The dialog that pops up says it is a Critical Update, but the only information I have on what is changed is a Slashdot story. The only visible difference I can see is that the default icons are now even more cartoony than 0.9, though hopefully it does not crash as much as 0.9, as I was almost ready to start using IE again.
Certainly not. COM might have been, but COM is only a part of ActiveX. The on-demand install and signing aspect of it (which is where it "competes" with Java) came long after Java applets first came out.
It has improved, it was about six weeks after 9-11 happened, at the airport where two of the planes took off from when I went through, so they'd pulled all these army guys in with no training, and everyone was still tense with the twin towers fresh in their mind. At least now they've had time to give them some training, and it seems they're picking slightly older more experienced soldiers for the job (probably so they can send the young ones off to Iraq).
Granted, I'm not an American so maybe my perception is different, but the sight of nervous 19 year olds with M16s at Logan airport in late 2001 did not make me feel "protected".
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No need. Cooking is an imprecise science anyway, so it doesn't matter if he uses a 5ml measuring spoon or whatever size standard American teaspoons are (I bet most Americans wouldn't know what size they are beyond "a teaspoon" anyway), or if he freepours and guesses like most professional chefs would do anyway.
Like "everyone will use metric exclusively from 1 January 2000"? I'm sure all the retailers that were prosecuted in early 2000 for using imperial scales or marking produce prices per pound will have something to say about your "typical British way".
Legally, its beer in 560ml glasses. Nothing else is allowed to be served as a "pint", not even a real imperial sized pint (568.26ml).
I have seen pubs selling 1 pound pints before. But they're usually Foster's, which you'd have to pay me to drink.
I recently switched to Thunderbird 0.7 from Mozilla 1.7, and I'd say the same. Mozilla 1.7's spam filter caught about 80% of spam with no false positives. Thunderbird 0.7's catches about 50%, but more disurbingly it also marks a lot of genuine mail as spam.
Are you sure it was a Prism2? D-Link are notorious for completely changing the underlying chipset between Rev A and Rev B of the same model number. I bought one of their 54Mb cards thinking it was Prism54, but when I installed it, lspci told me it was Atheros (thankfully still supported, though I had to put it in Master mode due to poor Ad-Hoc support). The latest versions of the same model are apparently TI based, which sucks.
When: 18 June 2004 15:30-16:00 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time : Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London.
The calendar in Outlook shows that meeting as being scheduled at 15:30 in the current timezone, which is actually BST (+0100) due to daylight savings. So any mail client that wants to parse Outlook's appointment messages must interpret the above When: line in the same incorrect way.
I was talking about the way Outlook handles timezones. I don't think reporting it in bugzilla.mozilla.org will help. Even sending mail to Microsoft about bugs in Microsoft products does not help in my experience.
I've tried pointing out to people that their calendar software is really a piece of crap, but most of them don't understand timezones any better than Microsoft. The ones that do just claim I'm being pedantic. Sorry, but who is it that insists on spelling out the timezone in full so it makes up 80% of the meeting request? Getting time and timezones right seems to me like a fundamental feature for calendaring and scheduling software.
It amazes me how Americans put UK down for its privacy, when they themselves are submitted to drug testing and covert surveillance by employers etc. Privacy laws in the US are way behind UK and other European laws, and the laws they do have only seem to apply to the Government. Americans seem to have inconsistent standards for what the Government can do compared with private companies.
The US keyboard has # above the 3, where the pound sign should be. That is why they often mistakenly call # 'pound' instead of octothorpe (official designation) or hash (common colloquial term) or sharp (Microsoftism).
You can't have looked very hard. Note that in order to avoid comparing apples to oranges that I looked up the murder rates for large cities in Texas, not the state itself. If you want to compare with the UK, then by all means compare it with the state of Texas, but if you are comparing London, then you need to compare it with a comparably sized city.
In Texas we have a problem that inflates our numbers as well. This problem is we border with a country whose economy is not as strong as ours. This means we have jobs in Texas people from Mexico desperately want. This leads to criminals who are willing for a fee to smuggle people across the boarder.
I've noticed before that you gun nuts are quick to find excuses when your numbers are shown to not add up.
Swanage is in Dorset, probably not much more than about 20-30 miles from Swanwick. Last I checked, Dorset was still part of England.
That's not the way I understand it. From their report, I understand the events went something like this:
- Overnight while it is quiet, new FDP software is brought online for testing.
- Testing was successful, and they brought the old FDP system back online (probably before 5:30 in time for the first arrivals at Heathrow).
- At 6:03 they noticed "errors in the distribution of flight data between Centres." I don't know what exactly this means, but if I had to guess, I'd say that the other Centre was not taken offline during the tests, and some test data leaked onto their live system as a result.
So the problem is most likely not due to a bug in either the new or current software, more likely a bug in the testing procedure they were using.That is how it should be, to avoid the problem with Ctrl-V just pasting what you are trying to replace.
X has a number of seperate selection mechanisms. The "primary selection" is what is currently highlighted, and is what should be pasted by the middle mouse button. The "clipboard" should be used by Ctrl-C/X/V (or Alt-C/X/V in Motif), and should require data to be explicitly put there. Then there is the "secondary selection", which most programs just ignore.
I love you Americans. Pearl Harbor was "senseless genocide", invading Iraq was neccesary to protect America from all those WMDs Saddam was supplying to Al Qaeda, inmates of Guantanemo Bay are entitled to the protections of neither the Geneva Convention, nor the US Constitution.... and you wonder "why do all the nasty foreigners hate us so much?"
Subtly different enough that I can't find them. Perhaps if you weren't spouting misinformed bullshit, you'd back this up with the actual parts of the GPL which you consider to be "such things".
WHY DOES HE NOT FEEL THAT OTHER PROJECTS DESERVE CREDIT AS WELL?
Why should it be his responsibility to look out for everyone else. He's never said that other projects don't deserve credit, has he?
His argument against the original BSD license is that it created a legal requirement to mention the Regents of California in the documentation and other places. He has no problems with people who write BSD licensed software saying "please give credit where it is due", which is essentially what he is doing with GNU/Linux.
The same reason North West Scotland has lower crime rates than South East London.
- victim doesn't seem to defend themselves.. easier pray.
- victim may carry a weapon and looks like soemoen who might use it.. worse pray, and when going for it anyway, better make sure I'm first to kill.
You can add to this what tends to happen in South Africa: If you are disturbed in the process of a burglary, assume the victim has a gun and shoot them. Americans that think concealed carry laws make them safer are deluding themselves.