Right now the people that still use Netscape 4 should be hung upside down by their little toes, wipped with a chainsaw and burned with acid dripping on their genitals.
It sounds like you have had to develop websites that actually worked properly on Netscape 4 as well as later browsers. Having shared that experience, I feel your pain.
There is bound to be some old code laying around that may of been leaked in by an ex caldera/sco employee.
Caldera released all of that code under the GPL, though.* If not initially, through the contributing developer, then when they published the resulting body of work as OpenLinux.
They still retain copyright, but that doesn't mean they can revoke the use, distribution and modification rights that they've already granted to Linux users.
* (and SCO were still doing so until midway through last year, after this whole kerfuffle started.)
Not necessarily. It could have been purchased by SCO, on the condition that Novell gets a 95% royalty on every sale.
Such an arrangement would be... erm... unorthodox, but no more unorthodox than SCO's current behaviour. Given their odd behaviour, though, it's hard to see them winning any court cases.
In a similar light, the cable ISP's could offer an alternative plan where they would cap the bandwidth used during peak times for "heavy" customers. Most bandwidth charges to such companies is based on the 95th percentile for bandwidth, so as long as you arn't helping push the bandwidth charge up for them, it's effectively free.
Internode, an Australian ISP, is doing this with its "flat rate" plans. Of course, being in Australia, 'heavy' is probably a lot lighter than in other countries... (anywhere from 12-24 GB usage in a rolling 30-day window, depending which plan you're on).
Thankfully bandwidth is shaped downwards rather than a straight-off speed cap, and only during times when they don't have the capacity to service everyone at full speed... so if you've been leeching to excess, you'll drop transfer speeds during busy periods gradually across that time. "Essential" services -- local mail, their ftp archive, etc. -- aren't included in the speed cap although of course they get added into the byte-usage count.
Actually, there were a lot more writings about Jesus and Christianity (that still exist) but in the canonization of the Bible, the Catholic church decided to leave out anything they were unsure about -- or perhaps were biased against. These texts can still be found, however, so if you are unsure about the current canonization, well, they're there.
Anyway, I just wanted to point out that thought that the Bible was written by people who just wanted to control the masses was, while a common belief (perhaps because a couple of the authors were kings -- but remember, most were not), is probably inaccurate.
You are correct... but remember that all of the writing of these texts was done as part of a "messianic project", so to speak, of which the purpose is by definition influence or control of a large majority of people.
They didn't *just* want to control the masses, but controlling the masses was part of the plan.
I never have seen his endings as rushed. I've seen them as incomplete as are his beginnings.
Well... often his prose is nowhere near as descriptive; i.e. a lot more happens (in terms of plot advancement) within 50 pages towards the end of a book compared to 50 pages near the start. You could argue for differences in tone here, but it does read like he's getting a little sick of the work and isn't giving it the same level of development he did when he was more enthusiastic about the project. (Zodiac being an exception here, as I think it was more strongly plotted and balanced in prose than anything else I've read of his; Diamond Age and Snow Crash are particularly bad examples of the problem under discussion. Haven't yet finished Quicksilver, so I can't speak on that yet.)
If he's going to use the narrative form, it's probably a good idea to stick to its structure (i.e. beginning, middle and end), given that he's not really breaking any of the other narrative conventions (strongly identifiable narrator(s), etc.) The ends of his books aren't deliberately incomplete, they're partially plotted and incompletely fleshed out; whether that's because he's rushed or interrupted during writing, or just too slack to finish in time (a la Douglas Adams), is something I can't really know without talking to all concerned.
BTW: My phrasing looks a little odd to me, but it's 3am here and I can't really work out why. Submitting as is.:)
It lacked polish and pacing. The plot had problems with maintaining tension or building to a climax. It was a lot of really neat scenes cobbled together. The ending was anti-climatic... when I got to the last page I wondered where the last chapter was. Not sure if the book needed to be twice as long (to flesh it out more), or if some parts shouldn't have been chopped to allow other sections to be fleshed out properly.
No-one edits these days, I think. If writers don't have the natural skills to do it themselves (and Neal, for all his skills as a writer, hasn't shown much form in the editing of his own work) it doesn't seem to happen very much.
Most of Neal's books (except maybe Zodiac, the book before Snow Crash) struggle with their pacing and seem to have their endings written in a hurry. His writing is very good though, on a paragraph-to-paragraph level -- plenty of detail while still being readable and amusing.
Yeah, I love their method... each chapter is a series of "and what if... and what if... and then what if...".
By the next chapter, of course, the contents of the preceding chapter are considered gospel truth, and the tower of falsehoods that results is truly astounding.
The term "Web Technologies" usually refers to interactive web sites. The term didn't exist when I started programming HTML back in '96 or even when I was coding servlets in '98. Perhaps they meant web browsers and HTTPD servers, but that's not what they said.
CGI was invented in 1993, and I'm pretty sure was using Perl to write CGI scripts (yes, implementing "interactive web sites" as you so quaintly put it) in 1996. I'm sure others were doing similar stuff earlier. Just because you weren't, doesn't mean it didn't happen.
Given the number of Linux trolls writing for the trade press, though, you'd think there would be at least a few people prepared to diss the Mac for the ad views alone.
According to SCO, it might as well be, given that those evil kernel hackers stole every last line from them...
This, of course, ignores things like Caldera legalising this by releasing the same code under the GPL itself, making this an attribution issue rather than a trade secret issue.
And even this, of course, ignores the fact that SCO hasn't actually produced any reasonable evidence yet.
But trying to have a conversation with someone left of center about an issue they disagree with is like trying to put out a fire with gasoline.
Sense isn't politically exclusive to one side of the debate or the other... I think your sentence is just as correct when it reads
But trying to have a conversation with someone about an issue they disagree with is like trying to put out a fire with gasoline.
Call it the diminishment of public debate. Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" sums up the reasons why, but for all the effect it had he may well not have bothered.
And I can also search for "liberal satan ass cream" and I get results too, over 2000 in fact.
That in itself is worth a +5.:) Interestingly, "bush satan ass cream" gets over 5,000, "clinton satan ass cream" around half that. Just checking...
Oil is definitely the issue. 9/11 means that the Saudi oil supply can't be assured in the long term, so it was best to go after the the world's second biggest source instead... after all, the House of Saud are dangerous thugs too, but they're currently America's "friends".
These days I split my time about equally between Mac OS X, Windows 2000 and Linux. Most of my work is done using pretty high-level, cross-platform stuff (Java, Perl, Python, etc.), but I'll tend to pick which OS I'll use on a per-project basis, as shifting mid-stream can cause all sorts of conceptual breakdown. No OS is perfect, all of them annoy me differently.
It's all an improvement on writing mail-merge improvements in WordBasic on Windows 3.1, anyway.:)
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The really old Dr Who shows are being repeated (possibly in order) on the ABC in Australia.
They are in order, but they're skipping the storylines for which they don't have all the episodes.
This does mean things seem to jump occasionally, and you have to resort to the BBC website to work out what was supposed to have happened in between.
I wonder if they're planning this run to finish up around the time the new Dr Who series broadcasts here, sometime in 2005 or 2006?
Galeon has tabs, and the little X to close a tab is conveniently located right on the tab itself. No other browser does this
The Tabbrowser Extensions extension provides this for Mozilla and Mozilla Firebird.
Right now the people that still use Netscape 4 should be hung upside down by their little toes, wipped with a chainsaw and burned with acid dripping on their genitals.
It sounds like you have had to develop websites that actually worked properly on Netscape 4 as well as later browsers. Having shared that experience, I feel your pain.
Duke Nukem Forever?
There is bound to be some old code laying around that may of been leaked in by an ex caldera/sco employee.
Caldera released all of that code under the GPL, though.* If not initially, through the contributing developer, then when they published the resulting body of work as OpenLinux.
They still retain copyright, but that doesn't mean they can revoke the use, distribution and modification rights that they've already granted to Linux users.
* (and SCO were still doing so until midway through last year, after this whole kerfuffle started.)
It's on slashdot at four in the morning.
Free clue; not everyone lives in your time zone.
Not necessarily. It could have been purchased by SCO, on the condition that Novell gets a 95% royalty on every sale.
Such an arrangement would be... erm... unorthodox, but no more unorthodox than SCO's current behaviour. Given their odd behaviour, though, it's hard to see them winning any court cases.
In a similar light, the cable ISP's could offer an alternative plan where they would cap the bandwidth used during peak times for "heavy" customers. Most bandwidth charges to such companies is based on the 95th percentile for bandwidth, so as long as you arn't helping push the bandwidth charge up for them, it's effectively free.
Internode, an Australian ISP, is doing this with its "flat rate" plans. Of course, being in Australia, 'heavy' is probably a lot lighter than in other countries... (anywhere from 12-24 GB usage in a rolling 30-day window, depending which plan you're on).
Thankfully bandwidth is shaped downwards rather than a straight-off speed cap, and only during times when they don't have the capacity to service everyone at full speed... so if you've been leeching to excess, you'll drop transfer speeds during busy periods gradually across that time. "Essential" services -- local mail, their ftp archive, etc. -- aren't included in the speed cap although of course they get added into the byte-usage count.
Actually, there were a lot more writings about Jesus and Christianity (that still exist) but in the canonization of the Bible, the Catholic church decided to leave out anything they were unsure about -- or perhaps were biased against. These texts can still be found, however, so if you are unsure about the current canonization, well, they're there.
Anyway, I just wanted to point out that thought that the Bible was written by people who just wanted to control the masses was, while a common belief (perhaps because a couple of the authors were kings -- but remember, most were not), is probably inaccurate.
You are correct... but remember that all of the writing of these texts was done as part of a "messianic project", so to speak, of which the purpose is by definition influence or control of a large majority of people.
They didn't *just* want to control the masses, but controlling the masses was part of the plan.
I never have seen his endings as rushed. I've seen them as incomplete as are his beginnings.
:)
Well... often his prose is nowhere near as descriptive; i.e. a lot more happens (in terms of plot advancement) within 50 pages towards the end of a book compared to 50 pages near the start. You could argue for differences in tone here, but it does read like he's getting a little sick of the work and isn't giving it the same level of development he did when he was more enthusiastic about the project. (Zodiac being an exception here, as I think it was more strongly plotted and balanced in prose than anything else I've read of his; Diamond Age and Snow Crash are particularly bad examples of the problem under discussion. Haven't yet finished Quicksilver, so I can't speak on that yet.)
If he's going to use the narrative form, it's probably a good idea to stick to its structure (i.e. beginning, middle and end), given that he's not really breaking any of the other narrative conventions (strongly identifiable narrator(s), etc.) The ends of his books aren't deliberately incomplete, they're partially plotted and incompletely fleshed out; whether that's because he's rushed or interrupted during writing, or just too slack to finish in time (a la Douglas Adams), is something I can't really know without talking to all concerned.
BTW: My phrasing looks a little odd to me, but it's 3am here and I can't really work out why. Submitting as is.
Snap. I've just finished Years..., and am 200 pages into Quicksilver (should have a bit more time to read it soon). :)
Quicksilver's slow, but I'm enjoying it.
It lacked polish and pacing. The plot had problems with maintaining tension or building to a climax. It was a lot of really neat scenes cobbled together. The ending was anti-climatic... when I got to the last page I wondered where the last chapter was. Not sure if the book needed to be twice as long (to flesh it out more), or if some parts shouldn't have been chopped to allow other sections to be fleshed out properly.
No-one edits these days, I think. If writers don't have the natural skills to do it themselves (and Neal, for all his skills as a writer, hasn't shown much form in the editing of his own work) it doesn't seem to happen very much.
Most of Neal's books (except maybe Zodiac, the book before Snow Crash) struggle with their pacing and seem to have their endings written in a hurry. His writing is very good though, on a paragraph-to-paragraph level -- plenty of detail while still being readable and amusing.
Yeah, I love their method... each chapter is a series of "and what if... and what if... and then what if...".
By the next chapter, of course, the contents of the preceding chapter are considered gospel truth, and the tower of falsehoods that results is truly astounding.
The term "Web Technologies" usually refers to interactive web sites. The term didn't exist when I started programming HTML back in '96 or even when I was coding servlets in '98. Perhaps they meant web browsers and HTTPD servers, but that's not what they said.
CGI was invented in 1993, and I'm pretty sure was using Perl to write CGI scripts (yes, implementing "interactive web sites" as you so quaintly put it) in 1996. I'm sure others were doing similar stuff earlier. Just because you weren't, doesn't mean it didn't happen.
the best known being Dave Cutler. Any software project would be glad to have this kind of talent on board.
Assuming they could put up with the temper tantrums, of course. Or maybe he's mellowed in his old age...
No, no, the worst are the Atari ST zealots.
Given the number of Linux trolls writing for the trade press, though, you'd think there would be at least a few people prepared to diss the Mac for the ad views alone.
Hopefully I managed to avoid the mandatory misspellings, though.
Man, it is going to be SOOOO much fun watching you guys when we begin to uncover cache after cache after cache.
About a month before the next Presidential election? You mean it will take them that long to smuggle the evidence in?
UnixWare isn't a Linux distro.
According to SCO, it might as well be, given that those evil kernel hackers stole every last line from them...
This, of course, ignores things like Caldera legalising this by releasing the same code under the GPL itself, making this an attribution issue rather than a trade secret issue.
And even this, of course, ignores the fact that SCO hasn't actually produced any reasonable evidence yet.
If we're talking mental age, that's been apparent for a while. :)
But trying to have a conversation with someone left of center about an issue they disagree with is like trying to put out a fire with gasoline.
:) Interestingly, "bush satan ass cream" gets over 5,000, "clinton satan ass cream" around half that. Just checking...
Sense isn't politically exclusive to one side of the debate or the other... I think your sentence is just as correct when it reads
But trying to have a conversation with someone about an issue they disagree with is like trying to put out a fire with gasoline.
Call it the diminishment of public debate. Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" sums up the reasons why, but for all the effect it had he may well not have bothered.
And I can also search for "liberal satan ass cream" and I get results too, over 2000 in fact.
That in itself is worth a +5.
How many countries has Kim Jong-Il attacked recently? None. How many countries has GWB attacked recently? Two.
Who has more nukes?
Oil is definitely the issue. 9/11 means that the Saudi oil supply can't be assured in the long term, so it was best to go after the the world's second biggest source instead... after all, the House of Saud are dangerous thugs too, but they're currently America's "friends".
As long as you don't mind listening exclusively to religious and/or patriotic music, I guess there's no problem.
Well, so far the "free" market seems to have produced Britney Spears, etc. I'd prefer Mozart, myself.
These days I split my time about equally between Mac OS X, Windows 2000 and Linux. Most of my work is done using pretty high-level, cross-platform stuff (Java, Perl, Python, etc.), but I'll tend to pick which OS I'll use on a per-project basis, as shifting mid-stream can cause all sorts of conceptual breakdown. No OS is perfect, all of them annoy me differently.
:)
It's all an improvement on writing mail-merge improvements in WordBasic on Windows 3.1, anyway.