This is not embarrassing. Rules are there to be circumvented, nothing else. Primaries are no exception. If you think an opponent possibly has a chance to pass the primaries and no chance to win the election, you vote for him/her. True in any country where you can vote for free in the primaries.
But that's the reason people buy Android phones, to have the freedom to do stupid things and install dodgy software?
Right on. Choose your store, choose your virus. Android is much more of a general computing platform than iOS will ever be. And that's not always a good thing.
Given the current political climate in France, there will be not much competition for the next general election. Sarkozy has no worthy opponents, and the only one that could eventually match him will be blown into tiny bits by his own "comrades" long before the campaign will begin.
I don't mean to say that Sarkozy is the greatest, but he is certainly the less mediocre right now.
so i assume it's very pretentious to not be a native english speaker?
The fact that non native speakers try to write english is apparently perceived as being offensive and pretentious. This goes in contradiction with our beliefs - you know, us from the old continent, and so old fashionned and.. well, just plain old - that they would be glad that others make the effort to communicate.
Well, it looks like *you* have never been to Paris. Most people working in Paris live outside Paris. And there, you can easily find a route not covered by train/buses...
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Netscape 4 was not DOM based. There was just no way to make it competitive against the beast that IE was at the time.
Let's make a car analogy, it's been a while. If you have a 1995 Toyota tercel and are about to start a race against a Corvette, new tires or a new carburator ain't going to change much. What you need is a new car.
Ahhhh... Car analogies makes me feel good.
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Ah, I agree.
The cynical person in me would say that the dominance of IE is at least half of the blame on Mozilla's disastrous decision to re-write Netscape from scratch, resulting in them having literally no way of competing with Microsoft.
You fail to mention that Netscape (4.x) was in no way or shape capable of beating IE. It was a pile of crap. IE went into dominant position because it was a so much better browser starting at IE4.
(It's also telling that IE won against Netscape on the Macintosh, a platform which wasn't subject to the biases you mentioned.)
Well, this is not the case anymore. Again, they won because they had no worthy competition.
I mean, if you want Microsoft to write good software, you need to compete with them-- that's just how it works. No competition to Microsoft = no effort from Microsoft.
But they did make lots and lots of efforts to wipe Netscape out of the map. They did succeed because Netscape had such an horrendous product AND because they did all they could for it to go away, not counting technical superiority.
As someone above stated, fame and notoriety often means that you are treated different.
Yes, and it's wrong, whether it's good or bad for the notorious guy. Just because you don't like Assange it doesn't suddenly makes it right.
Lots of things are wrong in the world. Mostly because we would never agree on what's right. It's all a matter of trying to find the worst wrongs. Here, I think we are closing on the bottom of the list.
Any program I run should be have the option of being sandboxed by the the OS if I so choose.
I guess you mean that every OS should propose that option. I mean, every modern OS, not this unix clone that is based on technologies from the 70s right?
This is pathetic. This program is a "Reader", just that! How hard can it be to fix all of those buffer overflows? Is the source code so horrendously broken that only a sandbox can fix it? What's next? Sandboxing vi ? ls?/dev/null?
In all fairness, I don't think anyone doubt that Android will outpace the iPhone. I mean, 5 major phone manufacturers all produces Android smartphones at a pace of 5/year each and with one thing in mind: bring the iPhone down. Of course, 50 handets to 1, they will collectively win.
That said, I don't foresee very clearly the time when the iPhone will be outsold by ONE handset.
Under GPL if I add something useful and extend the program, I have to also post those changes under GPL. I may not want to do that. BSD gives me the freedom to do as I wish.
BSD imposes the exact same terms in this formulation. Let's re-read BSD: * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
It doesn't allow you to remove the license. The license must stay.
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This is not embarrassing. Rules are there to be circumvented, nothing else. Primaries are no exception. If you think an opponent possibly has a chance to pass the primaries and no chance to win the election, you vote for him/her. True in any country where you can vote for free in the primaries.
But that's the reason people buy Android phones, to have the freedom to do stupid things and install dodgy software?
Right on. Choose your store, choose your virus. Android is much more of a general computing platform than iOS will ever be. And that's not always a good thing.
I take it you don't live in a big european city.
Given the current political climate in France, there will be not much competition for the next general election. Sarkozy has no worthy opponents, and the only one that could eventually match him will be blown into tiny bits by his own "comrades" long before the campaign will begin.
I don't mean to say that Sarkozy is the greatest, but he is certainly the less mediocre right now.
so i assume it's very pretentious to not be a native english speaker?
The fact that non native speakers try to write english is apparently perceived as being offensive and pretentious. This goes in contradiction with our beliefs - you know, us from the old continent, and so old fashionned and.. well, just plain old - that they would be glad that others make the effort to communicate.
Well, it looks like *you* have never been to Paris. Most people working in Paris live outside Paris. And there, you can easily find a route not covered by train/buses...
Netscape 4 was not DOM based. There was just no way to make it competitive against the beast that IE was at the time.
Let's make a car analogy, it's been a while. If you have a 1995 Toyota tercel and are about to start a race against a Corvette, new tires or a new carburator ain't going to change much. What you need is a new car.
Ahhhh... Car analogies makes me feel good.
Ah, I agree.
The cynical person in me would say that the dominance of IE is at least half of the blame on Mozilla's disastrous decision to re-write Netscape from scratch, resulting in them having literally no way of competing with Microsoft.
You fail to mention that Netscape (4.x) was in no way or shape capable of beating IE. It was a pile of crap. IE went into dominant position because it was a so much better browser starting at IE4.
(It's also telling that IE won against Netscape on the Macintosh, a platform which wasn't subject to the biases you mentioned.)
Well, this is not the case anymore. Again, they won because they had no worthy competition.
I mean, if you want Microsoft to write good software, you need to compete with them-- that's just how it works. No competition to Microsoft = no effort from Microsoft.
But they did make lots and lots of efforts to wipe Netscape out of the map. They did succeed because Netscape had such an horrendous product AND because they did all they could for it to go away, not counting technical superiority.
It's inapropriately based on the old curse "May you live in interesting times".
There, fixed that for ya.
We sure are living in interesting times.
I guess you meant amusing times, interesting is a little far fetched here...
Google adsense makes text ads very unintrusive. It's the choice of the person putting the ad online, nothing else.
There is no google gears anymore. It's all in HTML5 now.
Ok. Finally got my login to work, so I dont show up as anonymous.
You mean that you remembered your password?
As someone above stated, fame and notoriety often means that you are treated different.
Yes, and it's wrong, whether it's good or bad for the notorious guy. Just because you don't like Assange it doesn't suddenly makes it right.
Lots of things are wrong in the world. Mostly because we would never agree on what's right. It's all a matter of trying to find the worst wrongs. Here, I think we are closing on the bottom of the list.
Considering the US is the richest, mightiest, most powerful and most influential country in the history of world
Have you read a snigle history book? I mean, a book that relate history older than 100 years?
Doing this would be an admission that Reader is insecure. Adobe would never go this route.
And sandboxing the damn thing isn't an admission of crappiness?
But only one of them is a unix clone.
Any program I run should be have the option of being sandboxed by the the OS if I so choose.
I guess you mean that every OS should propose that option. I mean, every modern OS, not this unix clone that is based on technologies from the 70s right?
This is pathetic. This program is a "Reader", just that! How hard can it be to fix all of those buffer overflows? Is the source code so horrendously broken that only a sandbox can fix it? What's next? Sandboxing vi ? ls? /dev/null?
...we'd all be cancer-free and solar-powered by now...
and under the reign of the Queen of England.
In all fairness, I don't think anyone doubt that Android will outpace the iPhone. I mean, 5 major phone manufacturers all produces Android smartphones at a pace of 5/year each and with one thing in mind: bring the iPhone down. Of course, 50 handets to 1, they will collectively win.
That said, I don't foresee very clearly the time when the iPhone will be outsold by ONE handset.
I seem to have struck a chord and I'm sorry about that. Down here in France we joke about pretty much everything.
I'm wondering if e-commerce sites selling glasses will have to be accessible to the blind...
Under GPL if I add something useful and extend the program, I have to also post those changes under GPL. I may not want to do that. BSD gives me the freedom to do as I wish.
BSD imposes the exact same terms in this formulation. Let's re-read BSD:
* Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
* Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
It doesn't allow you to remove the license. The license must stay.