1) Maker Faire, Netizen, and Web 2.0 are all registered for a single use: Conferences. They named a conference and they should be allowed to protect that name. If someone started running their own thing and couldn't come up with a name so they called it E3 or PCExpo, you'd expect the holders of those trademarks to sue, no?
2) The "Website" trademark application was also for a single use, in this case "computer software used to create a server on a global computer network..". Apparently, O'Reilly used to make a piece of software called "Website Professional", and it was this uninspired name they were trying to protect. Again, color me unsurprised.
This entire argument has gone back and forth a million times already, so it's kind of pointless. People who are anti-trademarks will argue that this is word-squatting and that "netizen" and "web 2.0" are public domain words. People who aren't will argue that the trademarks only cover their original uses by O'Reilly and thus using the word(s) netizen on a website or a newspaper or even the cover of a best-selling book is not infringement.
Where I work, we're paying sub-$4k for single-unit dual-Opteron Sun servers, on top of which we're running Linux. On a simple performance-to-cost ratio, these are the best Linux servers out there. From an administration point of view, they are a pleasure to work with, and it's a downright transcendental experience when they fail. I love my SunFire v20zs.
I've noticed an interesting pattern here on Slashdot. The editors are obviously notorious for duplicate stories (although, in my opinion, they have improved over the last few years). But a couple weeks after posting an article about a new Google feature, someone independently discovers it and the Slashdot editors feel the need to discuss it again. I only point this out because they did it not one month ago with search by numbers (original).
Release a sample? That's a great idea. Maybe it should be some flagship feature behind Solaris 10. Like DTrace? Which was released open-source in January? You are a marketing genius.
In order for me to consider GMail, here are a few things that I need:
Summary: "I need more cruft."
I definitely don't want integrated IM, forums, weather, news, etc. A calendar might be nice, and making the "drafts" area more like Yahoo's Briefcase would be kinda nice, too, but most of this stuff reeks of featuritis. I (and 99% of webmail users) don't want this junk, so I hope that Google doesn't pile it all on.
She did no dumb thing. It is often reported that she 1) was driving, and 2) placed the cup between her legs. Neither is true. Her son was driving, and she was in the passenger's seat. She merely grabbed the cup, which had an inadequately secured lid, and was therefore far less stable.
I think this article means a seventh sense. There's already a sixth sense, called "proprioception". Essentially, it lets us know where our body parts are. But because it's less demonstrable than the other five senses, it's often ignored.
> Checking the Alexa rankings over the past few months, Google Groups have gone from about 7% of all Google users down to 1% as of a few moments ago.
If we assume that this Forbes article is still approximately accurate, Google gets 60 million unique users per month. One percent of that is 600,000 users.
How many percent do you think hit Froogle? Or Answers, or Catalogs? Using percent-of-total-hits as the sole deciding factor for whether to keep data or not is really not what I expect from Google.
Let's not also forget that a high-speed impact of a heavy object like a heat shield is likely to expose some otherwise-covered rocks to the surface. Investigating the impact site itself may likely reveal things about Martian geology.
Actually, Black Friday is not the busiest shopping day of the year, even for Brick-and-Mortar. The two weekends before Christmas almost always push the day after Thanksgiving to fifth-busiest. See Snopes.
A small, 14-seat plane is circling for a landing in Atlanta. It's totally fogged in, zero visibility, and suddenly there's a small electrical fire in the cockpit which disables all of the instruments and the radio. The pilot continues circling, totally lost, when suddenly he finds himself flying next to a tall office building.
He rolls down the window (this particular airplane happens to have roll-down windows) and yells to a person inside the building, "Where are we?" The person responds "In an airplane!"
The pilot then banks sharply to the right, circles twice, and makes a perfect landing at Atlanta International.
As the passengers emerge, shaken but unhurt, one of them says to the pilot, "I'm certainly glad you were able to land safely, but I don't understand how the response you got was any use."
"Simple," responded the pilot. "I got an answer that was completely accurate and totally irrelevant to my problem, so I knew it had to be the IBM building."
(From math funnies, feel free to modify the company and the location for maximum hilarity.)
Third-level domain names don't have to be registered, and more importantly, VeriSign has no idea (and it would be impossible to find out) how many "deep" domain names exist. At the company I work for, we have at least a dozen strictly-internal subdomains: dmz, dqs, corp, stress, etc., and thousands (maybe tens of thousands) of node names registered in DNS. If each of these internal FQDNs were counted separately, I guarantee you the number would be much higher.
Unless BIND was phoning-home, there would be no way for anyone to figure out how many of them we had configured. And even then, it'd have to get around our firewalls.
Have you never used an open-source application before? More to the point, have you never used a beta release or a CVS build of an open-source application? Release might be a confusing name for it in this context, sure, but releases still have a strong place in OSS. Basically the developers are saying "here, this snapshot is Safe to Use." If there were never releases, you could never be sure you were using the same build as another person, or that you weren't grabbing the CVS HEAD in the middle of someone's four-part CVS update.
How come this guy felt it was more appropriate to post this to a widely-read security mailing list than to submit a bug to Bugzilla? Complaining about QA to a group of security experts doesn't improve the product. That's what's great about the Mozilla Foundation, and Open Source in general. Don't just complain "Waah, it's broken", file a bug!
Luckily, someone did it for him: Bug 264944. I can't link from here, but if you visit http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ and put the bug number in the little search field, you can see it for yourself.
In Linux, the prefs are under Edit -> Preferences, to obey the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines, since they use the Gnome libraries. In Windows, it's still under Tools -> Options, since the goal for Firefox 1.0 is to attract IE users.
In Firefox: * "Edit" -> "Preferences" * Select "Web Features" * Click the "Advanced" button next to "Enable JavaScript" * Uncheck "Disable or replace context menus" (This was bug 86193, checked into the code in March. It's in 1.0PR)
As for single-window mode, there are plenty of extensions. Try the one called "Tabbrowser Extensions", for instance.
This is very easy to explain. The Game Boy and Game Boy Color used an ~4MHz 8-bit CPU similar to the Zilog Z80 (which was itself based on the Intel 8080). The Game Boy Advance uses a ~33MHz 32-bit ARM7 CPU. In order to make Game Boy backwards compatibility as fast, simple, and (yes) cheap as possible, it's got a second processor: a Z80. They can't be used at the same time, because they're for different architectures for different cartridges.
Since the DS uses a ~67MHz 32-bit ARM9, they either had to 1) have three processors in the thing, 2) abandon the legacy games, or 3) write emulation software into the console. $150 is already fairly expensive for a Nintendo device, portable or not, so they chose option 2. Accordint to the Wikipedia article, there are emulation projects for the ARM9 underway.
I'd just like to point out that a file with the primes up to 9999999999 is going to be somewhere on the order of pi(10^10) * 11 bytes = 5005577621 bytes = 4.6 gigs. That's a big file to read into memory and then search through for every single ten-digit substring of e.
It'd be far easier to get a list of the primes up to 100,000 (or sqrt(10^10)), and then take each ten-digit substring and perform the Sieve of Eratosthenes on each one. A _lot_ less memory use, and modulo division is (relatively) cheap.
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1) Maker Faire, Netizen, and Web 2.0 are all registered for a single use: Conferences. They named a conference and they should be allowed to protect that name. If someone started running their own thing and couldn't come up with a name so they called it E3 or PCExpo, you'd expect the holders of those trademarks to sue, no?
2) The "Website" trademark application was also for a single use, in this case "computer software used to create a server on a global computer network..". Apparently, O'Reilly used to make a piece of software called "Website Professional", and it was this uninspired name they were trying to protect. Again, color me unsurprised.
This entire argument has gone back and forth a million times already, so it's kind of pointless. People who are anti-trademarks will argue that this is word-squatting and that "netizen" and "web 2.0" are public domain words. People who aren't will argue that the trademarks only cover their original uses by O'Reilly and thus using the word(s) netizen on a website or a newspaper or even the cover of a best-selling book is not infringement.
Yeah, you and RFC 3339 (and their dog).
I've never noticed that bug. Is it this one: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27324 4
(You'll need to copy-and-paste the URL, bugzilla doesn't allow links from slashdot.)
Where I work, we're paying sub-$4k for single-unit dual-Opteron Sun servers, on top of which we're running Linux. On a simple performance-to-cost ratio, these are the best Linux servers out there. From an administration point of view, they are a pleasure to work with, and it's a downright transcendental experience when they fail. I love my SunFire v20zs.
ForecastFox is working for me. Try upgrading to 0.7.8.
I've noticed an interesting pattern here on Slashdot. The editors are obviously notorious for duplicate stories (although, in my opinion, they have improved over the last few years). But a couple weeks after posting an article about a new Google feature, someone independently discovers it and the Slashdot editors feel the need to discuss it again. I only point this out because they did it not one month ago with search by numbers (original).
Release a sample? That's a great idea. Maybe it should be some flagship feature behind Solaris 10. Like DTrace? Which was released open-source in January? You are a marketing genius.
In order for me to consider GMail, here are a few things that I need:
Summary: "I need more cruft."
I definitely don't want integrated IM, forums, weather, news, etc. A calendar might be nice, and making the "drafts" area more like Yahoo's Briefcase would be kinda nice, too, but most of this stuff reeks of featuritis. I (and 99% of webmail users) don't want this junk, so I hope that Google doesn't pile it all on.
The lady in question knew she did a dumb thing...
She did no dumb thing. It is often reported that she 1) was driving, and 2) placed the cup between her legs. Neither is true. Her son was driving, and she was in the passenger's seat. She merely grabbed the cup, which had an inadequately secured lid, and was therefore far less stable.
I think this article means a seventh sense. There's already a sixth sense, called "proprioception". Essentially, it lets us know where our body parts are. But because it's less demonstrable than the other five senses, it's often ignored.
> Checking the Alexa rankings over the past few months, Google Groups have gone from about 7% of all Google users down to 1% as of a few moments ago.
If we assume that this Forbes article is still approximately accurate, Google gets 60 million unique users per month. One percent of that is 600,000 users.
How many percent do you think hit Froogle? Or Answers, or Catalogs? Using percent-of-total-hits as the sole deciding factor for whether to keep data or not is really not what I expect from Google.
Let's not also forget that a high-speed impact of a heavy object like a heat shield is likely to expose some otherwise-covered rocks to the surface. Investigating the impact site itself may likely reveal things about Martian geology.
Actually, Black Friday is not the busiest shopping day of the year, even for Brick-and-Mortar. The two weekends before Christmas almost always push the day after Thanksgiving to fifth-busiest. See Snopes.
A small, 14-seat plane is circling for a landing in Atlanta. It's totally fogged in, zero visibility, and suddenly there's a small electrical fire in the cockpit which disables all of the instruments and the radio. The pilot continues circling, totally lost, when suddenly he finds himself flying next to a tall office building.
He rolls down the window (this particular airplane happens to have roll-down windows) and yells to a person inside the building, "Where are we?" The person responds "In an airplane!"
The pilot then banks sharply to the right, circles twice, and makes a perfect landing at Atlanta International.
As the passengers emerge, shaken but unhurt, one of them says to the pilot, "I'm certainly glad you were able to land safely, but I don't understand how the response you got was any use."
"Simple," responded the pilot. "I got an answer that was completely accurate and totally irrelevant to my problem, so I knew it had to be the IBM building."
(From math funnies, feel free to modify the company and the location for maximum hilarity.)
Third-level domain names don't have to be registered, and more importantly, VeriSign has no idea (and it would be impossible to find out) how many "deep" domain names exist. At the company I work for, we have at least a dozen strictly-internal subdomains: dmz, dqs, corp, stress, etc., and thousands (maybe tens of thousands) of node names registered in DNS. If each of these internal FQDNs were counted separately, I guarantee you the number would be much higher.
Unless BIND was phoning-home, there would be no way for anyone to figure out how many of them we had configured. And even then, it'd have to get around our firewalls.
Have you never used an open-source application before? More to the point, have you never used a beta release or a CVS build of an open-source application? Release might be a confusing name for it in this context, sure, but releases still have a strong place in OSS. Basically the developers are saying "here, this snapshot is Safe to Use." If there were never releases, you could never be sure you were using the same build as another person, or that you weren't grabbing the CVS HEAD in the middle of someone's four-part CVS update.
" Congratulations, a^2 = b - 1, you are the Equation of the Week!"
(There was a tshirt available, but it's been discontinued as of just last week. Sorry)
Because, well, he didn't post it. The bug was submitted by Daniel Veditz. The guy who posted to Bugtraq was Michal Zalewski.
Whether he notified the Mozilla Foundation some other way, I'm unable to say.
How come this guy felt it was more appropriate to post this to a widely-read security mailing list than to submit a bug to Bugzilla? Complaining about QA to a group of security experts doesn't improve the product. That's what's great about the Mozilla Foundation, and Open Source in general. Don't just complain "Waah, it's broken", file a bug!
Luckily, someone did it for him: Bug 264944. I can't link from here, but if you visit http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ and put the bug number in the little search field, you can see it for yourself.
In Linux, the prefs are under Edit -> Preferences, to obey the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines, since they use the Gnome libraries. In Windows, it's still under Tools -> Options, since the goal for Firefox 1.0 is to attract IE users.
I'd like to see something like this, for instance, in Firefox's security settings near the Javascript permission settings:
Block sites from:
[X] Disabling right-click context menus
In Firefox:
* "Edit" -> "Preferences"
* Select "Web Features"
* Click the "Advanced" button next to "Enable JavaScript"
* Uncheck "Disable or replace context menus"
(This was bug 86193, checked into the code in March. It's in 1.0PR)
As for single-window mode, there are plenty of extensions. Try the one called "Tabbrowser Extensions", for instance.
Search Bugzilla for open "Tech Evangelism" bugs (listed under the "Product" selectbox). I see 2389 right now.
This is very easy to explain. The Game Boy and Game Boy Color used an ~4MHz 8-bit CPU similar to the Zilog Z80 (which was itself based on the Intel 8080). The Game Boy Advance uses a ~33MHz 32-bit ARM7 CPU. In order to make Game Boy backwards compatibility as fast, simple, and (yes) cheap as possible, it's got a second processor: a Z80. They can't be used at the same time, because they're for different architectures for different cartridges.
Since the DS uses a ~67MHz 32-bit ARM9, they either had to 1) have three processors in the thing, 2) abandon the legacy games, or 3) write emulation software into the console. $150 is already fairly expensive for a Nintendo device, portable or not, so they chose option 2. Accordint to the Wikipedia article, there are emulation projects for the ARM9 underway.
I'd just like to point out that a file with the primes up to 9999999999 is going to be somewhere on the order of pi(10^10) * 11 bytes = 5005577621 bytes = 4.6 gigs. That's a big file to read into memory and then search through for every single ten-digit substring of e.
It'd be far easier to get a list of the primes up to 100,000 (or sqrt(10^10)), and then take each ten-digit substring and perform the Sieve of Eratosthenes on each one. A _lot_ less memory use, and modulo division is (relatively) cheap.
Amail, Bmail, Cmail, Dmail, Email, Fmail, Gmail, Hmail, Imail, Jmail, Kmail, Lmail, Mmail, Nmail, Omail, Pmail, Qmail, Rmail, Smail, Tmail, Umail, Vmail, Wmail, Xmail, Ymail, and Zmail
Sorry.