Actually, and I think also legally, they can just fuck off whatever. There's no trade mark restriction cos they aren't in competing markets, there was no intent to confuse, so what is the basis for restitution?
Really it's just a combination of free publicity and inconvenience that they should try to make the best of.
You really think evolution has resulted in infants that need to 'queue' their own breathing from their mothers? (I'm ruling our that you think such a crap system would be intelligently designed.)
Crikey.
I think mechanical asphyxia (face down death) or some kind of error in the nerve structures controlling breathing are far, far, far, far, far more likely.
Can't help but notice that XBox Live isn't aren't given away like Google Docs and Spreadsheets. Encarta isn't freely available like Google Earth. Somehow Google's offerings have a ring of philanthropy while MS's are, well, just business.
I haven't done a make in about three years. I don't need to any more. I haven't tweaked a config file for about 18 months.
I have run apt-get manually. I could've used a gui if I'd preferred.
I think you're not rusty but not up-to-date with the options. Perhaps it's time you took another look at a vaguely recent Linux distro... perhaps even Ubuntu?;-)
This 'kept back' bit is what puzzles me - I did my upgrade/dist-upgrade as usual, and a whole bunch of things were kept back including some portions of X!
NP for me, I know what I'm doing with apt in a shell, but for a newbie that would have been fatal = reinstall.
I can't think why some packages were kept back.
(I don't want to get in a discussion about this on/. of all places, just give you some feedback.)
The point of the exercise is not really to worry about how much time/memory it took, but to improves mechanisms for finding and then understanding structure within data.
Perhaps two classes would be interesting: one with, and one without, time/space limitations.
IMO, Oracle genuinely is faster, more reliable and more scalable than the others. Mind you, I've been an Oracle dev for some years, so YMMV. It also works cross-platform, which is a biggie for lots of customers these days.
Take a look at this for an allegedly unbiased opinion (but who knows what is shilling and what is real these days?!).
However, it's still not enough:( There are still new windows being opened when I want all popups in tabs. Back to the extensions... (thank dog for extensions...)
Perhaps the primary goal of Mozilla is not 'share'?
To quote Mitchell Baker: "The goal of the Mozilla project is to promote innovation and enable the creation of standards-compliant client technology to help keep content on the web open."
I think they are doing very nicely at that, myself. I take my hat off to them.
1) Write them all on little pieces of paper. 2) Put them in a hat. 3) Pull out one piece of paper at a time. 4) If it says "DOM2 Events" or "PNG transparency", subtly pick another one while pretending to have a coughing fit. 5) Give it to a developer to implement.
I don't think the author suggests that the 2d web is going away. More that the 3d web is coming along.
As a programmer who really has built (in VRML) software bikes and raced them in the darkness of the electronic night (although it didn't scale past two racers on 28k dial-up!), I look forward to it.
As a Java contractor who is sick of driving for miles to work at client sites when I could do exactly the same work from home, but the clients like to see what they are paying for, I really really look forward to it. There are real world uses for this stuff, and not paying for huge offices is only one.
We probably could build a tower from known materials (eg stone which is really, really, hard to crush, hence cathedrals etc). However, a tower is not stable. It would fall over at that height, even with our current best engineering efforts. Unless you made it very wide. Very, very wide, as it needs to be at least 50 miles (70 would be better) high to be useful. Our current tallest buildings are less than 600m high (that's less than 1% of 50 miles).
The other end of the ribbon is fastened to an counterweight asteroid a long, long way out, in geo-synchronous orbit. This means that it would be a stable structure requiring no special real-time balancing act. The (forst) problem is that we don't have a material with sufficient tensile strength.
We are currently believed to be more likely to solve the problems in (2) than (1). We may be wrong!
I'm implementing more and more internal business front ends as browsers. Browser+office software is all the apps they use at almost anywhere I work these days, and more and more places are locking out USBs and other funky hardware anyway. There's pretty much no reason left not to switch. I reckon MS is scared shitless of that realisation spreading across the market.
You missed the 'maintain our monopoly' reason out of your list. And if you doubt that, I suggest you look at the early years of Java. I'll grant you the other reasons are possible, but 'maintain our monopoly' is proven in a court of law.
That seems to be a little simplistic. Extensions can't read my email files. Extensions can't create smtp connections. Extensions can't be dynamically downloaded by a web page. Even if I clicked yes blindly they simply couldn't. Could they?
The accelerative magnets are only providing a few g, there clearly are other - much stronger - ones preventing an impact. Crucially, these ones don't need to change the force they are delivering quickly. If a linac approach was used then the very strong magnets would need to turn on and off very quickly and at precise times.
What acceleration technique can we use that provides 1000g acceleration roughly consistently over a 5km distance in one second? I can't think of anything.
The advantage of the circular device is that the accelerators can be switched on and off in time (faster and faster). However, they still only provide a few g. How many Tesla would we need to generate 1000g (possibly from 5km away!).
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I just don't accept this. There can surely be no requirement in law, or in life, to take account of other people's incompetence.
I see your point, but I think it's way beyond what a court would consider reasonable.
Justin.
Actually, and I think also legally, they can just fuck off whatever. There's no trade mark restriction cos they aren't in competing markets, there was no intent to confuse, so what is the basis for restitution?
Really it's just a combination of free publicity and inconvenience that they should try to make the best of.
Justin.
You really think evolution has resulted in infants that need to 'queue' their own breathing from their mothers? (I'm ruling our that you think such a crap system would be intelligently designed.)
Crikey.
I think mechanical asphyxia (face down death) or some kind of error in the nerve structures controlling breathing are far, far, far, far, far more likely.
Justin.
Can't help but notice that XBox Live isn't aren't given away like Google Docs and Spreadsheets. Encarta isn't freely available like Google Earth. Somehow Google's offerings have a ring of philanthropy while MS's are, well, just business.
Justin.
I don't want to know what Hot Chocolate is...
I haven't done a make in about three years. I don't need to any more. I haven't tweaked a config file for about 18 months.
;-)
I have run apt-get manually. I could've used a gui if I'd preferred.
I think you're not rusty but not up-to-date with the options. Perhaps it's time you took another look at a vaguely recent Linux distro... perhaps even Ubuntu?
Justin.
...and there's nothing we Linux fans can do to help them with that.
Better take them out behind the barn, give them a really good meal, and err, no, hang on, that's dogs, isn't it?
Justin.
This 'kept back' bit is what puzzles me - I did my upgrade/dist-upgrade as usual, and a whole bunch of things were kept back including some portions of X!
/. of all places, just give you some feedback.)
NP for me, I know what I'm doing with apt in a shell, but for a newbie that would have been fatal = reinstall.
I can't think why some packages were kept back.
(I don't want to get in a discussion about this on
Cheers,
Justin.
The point of the exercise is not really to worry about how much time/memory it took, but to improves mechanisms for finding and then understanding structure within data.
Perhaps two classes would be interesting: one with, and one without, time/space limitations.
Justin.
Take a look at this for an allegedly unbiased opinion (but who knows what is shilling and what is real these days?!).
J.
Rightly? RIGHTLY? Because the Redmond fairies haven't given them a big money-making opportunity?
Well in that case, OI, FAIRIES! Where's my rocket car!?
Worth a shot, eh?
Justin.
The pope bears crap in the woods? Why? Why would he bear crap? And where would he bear it to?
Justin.
I totally agree, and thanks for the hints.
:( There are still new windows being opened when I want all popups in tabs. Back to the extensions... (thank dog for extensions...)
However, it's still not enough
Justin.
Try having a netmeeting with more than two locations. It sucks. A Metaverse approach would be marvellous.
Perhaps the primary goal of Mozilla is not 'share'?
To quote Mitchell Baker: "The goal of the Mozilla project is to promote innovation and enable the creation of standards-compliant client technology to help keep content on the web open."
I think they are doing very nicely at that, myself. I take my hat off to them.
Justin.
Easy:
1) Write them all on little pieces of paper.
2) Put them in a hat.
3) Pull out one piece of paper at a time.
4) If it says "DOM2 Events" or "PNG transparency", subtly pick another one while pretending to have a coughing fit.
5) Give it to a developer to implement.
Justin.
I don't think the author suggests that the 2d web is going away. More that the 3d web is coming along.
As a programmer who really has built (in VRML) software bikes and raced them in the darkness of the electronic night (although it didn't scale past two racers on 28k dial-up!), I look forward to it.
As a Java contractor who is sick of driving for miles to work at client sites when I could do exactly the same work from home, but the clients like to see what they are paying for, I really really look forward to it. There are real world uses for this stuff, and not paying for huge offices is only one.
Justin.
Not too sure if you are joking, but I'll bite:
We probably could build a tower from known materials (eg stone which is really, really, hard to crush, hence cathedrals etc). However, a tower is not stable. It would fall over at that height, even with our current best engineering efforts. Unless you made it very wide. Very, very wide, as it needs to be at least 50 miles (70 would be better) high to be useful. Our current tallest buildings are less than 600m high (that's less than 1% of 50 miles).
The other end of the ribbon is fastened to an counterweight asteroid a long, long way out, in geo-synchronous orbit. This means that it would be a stable structure requiring no special real-time balancing act. The (forst) problem is that we don't have a material with sufficient tensile strength.
We are currently believed to be more likely to solve the problems in (2) than (1). We may be wrong!
Justin.
I'm implementing more and more internal business front ends as browsers. Browser+office software is all the apps they use at almost anywhere I work these days, and more and more places are locking out USBs and other funky hardware anyway. There's pretty much no reason left not to switch. I reckon MS is scared shitless of that realisation spreading across the market.
You missed the 'maintain our monopoly' reason out of your list. And if you doubt that, I suggest you look at the early years of Java. I'll grant you the other reasons are possible, but 'maintain our monopoly' is proven in a court of law.
Justin.
I can almost hear the documentation writers for products with crappy drivers editing their installation instructions already...
That seems to be a little simplistic. Extensions can't read my email files. Extensions can't create smtp connections. Extensions can't be dynamically downloaded by a web page. Even if I clicked yes blindly they simply couldn't. Could they?
Justin.
I concur, with just one question... how the fuck do I pronounce it?
J.
The accelerative magnets are only providing a few g, there clearly are other - much stronger - ones preventing an impact. Crucially, these ones don't need to change the force they are delivering quickly. If a linac approach was used then the very strong magnets would need to turn on and off very quickly and at precise times.
Justin.
What acceleration technique can we use that provides 1000g acceleration roughly consistently over a 5km distance in one second? I can't think of anything.
The advantage of the circular device is that the accelerators can be switched on and off in time (faster and faster). However, they still only provide a few g. How many Tesla would we need to generate 1000g (possibly from 5km away!).
Justin.
Just out of interest, are you the Byron Miller who works for Forrester?
J.