Is this their solution to bloatware? They sole purpose of a thesaurus is to enhance one's vocabulary not limit it. What's next on their agenda, making it impossible to change the desktop colours unless they are coordinated? Is something in the works with Martha Stewart?
XUL (pronounced zuul) is Mozilla implementation of XML that is used to describe the interactive Web-like page faces of Mozilla-based applications. Think of XUL as the Mozilla developers' name for an XML-based language used to describe the UI (User Interface). Creating a Mozilla skin or UI is mostly a matter of hacking the XUL, XML, CSS, JS and so forth that define the chrome and skin, and/or redoing the graphic images and widgets they use.
To be more precise, however, XUL is not exactly XML. A standard XML parser cannot interpret XUL. That is why you cannot display XUL as a Web page with Internet Explorer 5, Netscape 4.x, or other non-Mozilla-based browsers. Mozilla-based browsers have a special parser that can interpret XUL.
Would it have been too hard to make it so an XML parser can interpret it? Is it okay for other browsers to have this special parser?
...no, sad is watching people take the same bus/metro back and forth every day. Life is what you make of it: if you want to spend all day sulking, that's your perogative. If you want to wear black, go for it, but doesn't a tie-dye shirt just bring a little bit more a of a smile to your face? Did you know that there aren't any trees with black leaves. When you're dead things will be black enough, why start now? And since when does fashion matter anyways?
And let us not dwell on the fact that I submitted a better version of this article early in the morning with more links than the one they decided to go with(sulking ends now).
What the easiest method to accomplish the follow line would be?
But to turn that into an Internet connection, one end has to be plugged to an Internet backbone. There are many ways to do this. Put one end of the circuit at your business. Put one end at your school. Put one end in the machine room at a local ISP.
Obviously the most important fact about this announcement is that we have a new (and hopefuly more competent) judge involved.
First the good news, Judge Kollar-Kotelly has worked as an attorney for the Department of Justice before and should therefore be sympathetic to the limited resources available to them compared to the big money behind Microsoft.
More good news, she's decided against the Big Banks before and in favour of the credit unions in one of her previous decisions.
She also appears to have seen through the foolishness of some patents in another one of her judgements, this time against the pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb.
A good old fashioned APFSDS round (armoured piercing fin stabilizing discarding sabot) made of tungsten and traveling at 2000m/s will do the job just fine...and wouldn't you know it, lots of other tanks have magnesium alloys in their hulls/turrets. There's nothing more terryfying than watching a tank on fire.
Next time bring that NeXT case over to a tank firing range and someone there would be happy to test it out.
Try RAS PPPoE (search for it on google, I'm too lazy to post the URL).
It's the PPPoE protocol and nothing more, no bogus software. Where I live in Canada they tried forcing us to use their software which was designed around the Enternet PPPoE dialer, but it was just a 2meg advertisement with freakin' memory leak in it, plus it usualy lost the connection every 6 hours or so. RAS PPPoE does a much better job and only 100k of resources, no ads or popup crap. Since I switched to RAS PPPoE I haven't had a single complaint about my dsl connection.
My mistake. As per the article Mars has 1/3 gravity and the moon 1/6. I shouldn't have relied on my memory...not only is it volatile, it decays faster than I wish to admit.
Thanks for the tip.
There's a cheaper and more hilarious solution!
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You get fifteen 30 second zero-G dives as well as 15 1.8g climbs! They even start you off with a 2/3g dive (Mars) and 1/3g dive (Moon)...plus it's in a freakin' cavernous jet!
I swear I'll never read another article concerning the music media again.
from now on I mind my own business as I proceed to rip all my CDs to.mp3 format, if it dies out it won't be because of me. And yes, I do intend to share!
I bet if they did a second study it would show that half the people who do not use the big 4 sites tend to spend more time on Slashdot than any other site.
I was one of the first to hop on the Napster bandwagon back when there was regularly less than a gig of mp3s available and a good 6 months before even the alternative papers caught on to it. Since then I have not purchased a CD from a music store for close to two years (minus a Miles Davis Box set).
Will I ever purchase another CD again? Not if I can help it! It's all swell to say that people who use Napster go out and buy more CDs, but we are only fooling ourselves and trying to fool the industry at the same time by saying this. The reality of the situation is that some people may be buying a few more CDs, but in general most people are slowly replacing their CD collections entirely with MP3s, eventually cutting out the record store entirely. Maybe today I can only find a few songs from the latest album, but as things progress it will become easier to find those missing tracks, thus removing any need whatsoever for going to the record store.
Think I'm exagerating? A quick poll of my friends shows that on average they all have at least 5000mp3s in their collection...try bucking a trend like that!
If you're like me and have access to several 800 numbers (tech support people, raise your hands!) then you don't really need a cellphone, just a pager with voicemail and the following trick:
When you receive a call you just step up to the nearest payphone (not hard to find in a city like Montreal) and call the person back for free (i.e. Dial 800 number, ask to be transfered by your buddy at the other end).
Am I just spoiled by my job, or am I abusing my priviledges? Who cares! It's still way cheaper and almost as convenient as a cellphone!
The ultimate goal of Open Source is free software.
Now this means that you don't pay anything for it.
If this happens, there is no money to pay programmers. As a result, intelligent people such as myself, who could command 6 figure salaries in any profession will take different career paths.
Ummm...maybe you should try to understand the following:
If a company saves $1,000,000 with the implementation of a new piece of software (there's a million examples but lets say it's a warehousing database) then part of the money they save goes to the programmer who wrote the software. It is not neccessary for software to be sold in order for the people who wrote it to get paid.
Now, nowhere is anyone in the open source comunity saying that it should be ILLEGAL to charge money for software, they just think that it is nice to return something to the people sometimes without attaching a pricetag to it. There is also nothing stopping you (or anyone else) from selling the software for the first 2 (or 5 or 10) years and then making it open source.
If you don't agree with this, then please send me five dollars for the precious time and effort it took me to write this.
Apparantly output potential for the goats is equivalent to 1 kevlar vest a month per goat, and the vests would also be about 1/5 the weight of current kevlar vest. Having worn those rigid things for a better part of the summer teaching kids how to throw grenades and launch rockets I gotta say it's a much needed improvement.
This has been a popular subject in the Montreal area for a little while.
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Link seems to be dead. Any chance of describing it for me?
Is this their solution to bloatware? They sole purpose of a thesaurus is to enhance one's vocabulary not limit it. What's next on their agenda, making it impossible to change the desktop colours unless they are coordinated? Is something in the works with Martha Stewart?
Would it have been too hard to make it so an XML parser can interpret it? Is it okay for other browsers to have this special parser?
Optimus Prime, get Polybot on our side and we can purge the world of that nasty Megatron forever!
...no, sad is watching people take the same bus/metro back and forth every day. Life is what you make of it: if you want to spend all day sulking, that's your perogative. If you want to wear black, go for it, but doesn't a tie-dye shirt just bring a little bit more a of a smile to your face? Did you know that there aren't any trees with black leaves. When you're dead things will be black enough, why start now? And since when does fashion matter anyways?
Check out the pictures and graphics that IBM has made available.
And let us not dwell on the fact that I submitted a better version of this article early in the morning with more links than the one they decided to go with(sulking ends now).
What the easiest method to accomplish the follow line would be?
But to turn that into an Internet connection, one end has to be plugged to an Internet backbone. There are many ways to do this. Put one end of the circuit at your business. Put one end at your school. Put one end in the machine room at a local ISP.
Obviously the most important fact about this announcement is that we have a new (and hopefuly more competent) judge involved.
First the good news, Judge Kollar-Kotelly has worked as an attorney for the Department of Justice before and should therefore be sympathetic to the limited resources available to them compared to the big money behind Microsoft.
More good news, she's decided against the Big Banks before and in favour of the credit unions in one of her previous decisions.
She also appears to have seen through the foolishness of some patents in another one of her judgements, this time against the pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb.
Anyone have any other pertinent info?
Wow! People still use Adlib? I though Creative/Soundblaster nuked them off the face of the earth!
A good old fashioned APFSDS round (armoured piercing fin stabilizing discarding sabot) made of tungsten and traveling at 2000m/s will do the job just fine...and wouldn't you know it, lots of other tanks have magnesium alloys in their hulls/turrets. There's nothing more terryfying than watching a tank on fire.
Next time bring that NeXT case over to a tank firing range and someone there would be happy to test it out.
Try RAS PPPoE (search for it on google, I'm too lazy to post the URL). It's the PPPoE protocol and nothing more, no bogus software. Where I live in Canada they tried forcing us to use their software which was designed around the Enternet PPPoE dialer, but it was just a 2meg advertisement with freakin' memory leak in it, plus it usualy lost the connection every 6 hours or so. RAS PPPoE does a much better job and only 100k of resources, no ads or popup crap. Since I switched to RAS PPPoE I haven't had a single complaint about my dsl connection.
I'd love to see an image to go with that....Bill Gates meets the Borg meets Clash of the Titans era Medusa.
I was camping in upstate New York and the Kingston area for 7 days...how much spam did I get in my Hotmail account? 158 pieces!
For those who care (and are still reading), I only use the account for shuttling pieces of info in case of emergency.
My mistake. As per the article Mars has 1/3 gravity and the moon 1/6. I shouldn't have relied on my memory...not only is it volatile, it decays faster than I wish to admit.
Thanks for the tip.
Check out Pen (from Pen and Teller) and a dude from ZZTop they were the first to try the new commercial version of the Vomit Comet!
You get fifteen 30 second zero-G dives as well as 15 1.8g climbs! They even start you off with a 2/3g dive (Mars) and 1/3g dive (Moon)...plus it's in a freakin' cavernous jet!
I swear I'll never read another article concerning the music media again.
from now on I mind my own business as I proceed to rip all my CDs to .mp3 format, if it dies out it won't be because of me. And yes, I do intend to share!
I bet if they did a second study it would show that half the people who do not use the big 4 sites tend to spend more time on Slashdot than any other site.
End prophesy here
Damn straight! Download 2 CDs a month and the money you save is enough to pay for your High Speed connection.
Personaly I wouldn't recommend Morpheus but rather the superb WinMX.
I was one of the first to hop on the Napster bandwagon back when there was regularly less than a gig of mp3s available and a good 6 months before even the alternative papers caught on to it. Since then I have not purchased a CD from a music store for close to two years (minus a Miles Davis Box set).
Will I ever purchase another CD again? Not if I can help it! It's all swell to say that people who use Napster go out and buy more CDs, but we are only fooling ourselves and trying to fool the industry at the same time by saying this. The reality of the situation is that some people may be buying a few more CDs, but in general most people are slowly replacing their CD collections entirely with MP3s, eventually cutting out the record store entirely. Maybe today I can only find a few songs from the latest album, but as things progress it will become easier to find those missing tracks, thus removing any need whatsoever for going to the record store.
Think I'm exagerating? A quick poll of my friends shows that on average they all have at least 5000mp3s in their collection...try bucking a trend like that!
If you're like me and have access to several 800 numbers (tech support people, raise your hands!) then you don't really need a cellphone, just a pager with voicemail and the following trick:
When you receive a call you just step up to the nearest payphone (not hard to find in a city like Montreal) and call the person back for free (i.e. Dial 800 number, ask to be transfered by your buddy at the other end).
Am I just spoiled by my job, or am I abusing my priviledges? Who cares! It's still way cheaper and almost as convenient as a cellphone!
Scarface meets Donny Brosco. Pretty good.
Assuming mach 7 and the engine being at full speed at 35km altitude (one can dream) then it would only take 15 seconds before it hit the ground.
That thing is gonna make one hell of a thud!
The ultimate goal of Open Source is free software.
Now this means that you don't pay anything for it.
If this happens, there is no money to pay programmers. As a result, intelligent people such as myself, who could command 6 figure salaries in any profession will take different career paths.
Ummm...maybe you should try to understand the following:
If a company saves $1,000,000 with the implementation of a new piece of software (there's a million examples but lets say it's a warehousing database) then part of the money they save goes to the programmer who wrote the software. It is not neccessary for software to be sold in order for the people who wrote it to get paid.
Now, nowhere is anyone in the open source comunity saying that it should be ILLEGAL to charge money for software, they just think that it is nice to return something to the people sometimes without attaching a pricetag to it. There is also nothing stopping you (or anyone else) from selling the software for the first 2 (or 5 or 10) years and then making it open source.
If you don't agree with this, then please send me five dollars for the precious time and effort it took me to write this.
Apparantly output potential for the goats is equivalent to 1 kevlar vest a month per goat, and the vests would also be about 1/5 the weight of current kevlar vest. Having worn those rigid things for a better part of the summer teaching kids how to throw grenades and launch rockets I gotta say it's a much needed improvement.
This has been a popular subject in the Montreal area for a little while.
I've got 2 futons and 120 ft of CAT-5 waiting for anyone coming to my home town of Montreal for the YAPC!
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