An Athlon MP costs about $40 more than the equivilent MP. You can buy an older ( 1.5Ghz, fine for testing) SMP-capable proc for next to nothing. Developers don't want a modded version of the top-of-the-line AMD chip just to test their threading.
Yes, he's correct. Doom3 graphics are rendered using OpenGL, but (on Windows anyway), it'll probably use some aspects of directX for input and networking.
Mozilla is free (as in beer). That alone multiplies the potential audience by a factor of about a hundred. As for standards compliance, I don't know what you're smoking, but it must be strong. Mozilla has always had better CSS/HTML/JavaScript support than Opera. Opera has gotten better lately, but it's still not at Gecko's level.
Mozilla is considered to be the flagship open source browser, and one of the strengths of the open source desktop lineup. Therefore, a lot of open source fanboys are interested in its progress. Opera is of interest to a far smaller subset of people, seeing as it has neither the standards compliance, platform support, or freedom (beer and speech) of Mozilla. I'm not saying Opera doesn't have it's strengths, but a lot of people are more interested in Mozilla than Opera.
Mozilla is considered by many to be theflagship open source browser, and thus of interest to the community of Slashdot. Opera is just another proprietary browser, which happens to have some advantages over Mozilla (and some disadvantages). Even so,/. announcesOperaminorversionupgrades too, so I don't know what you're bitching about.
Your computer doesn't have to be compromised to fake the lock. A web page just has to disable the status bar and put a status-bar like image in its place, complete with lock. The only way something could get your dog's name would be Administrator access, which is pretty far from just being able to display a webpage (IE security holes aside).
You make a financial gain off your download, because you still have the money you otherwise would have spent on the song. An artist also makes a financial gain off a sample, and usually they even have the consent of the original group to do it. In this case, Dre thought he did but didn't. That's all there is to it.
IE5 - bundled with the OS. Better in some ways than Netscape (6). Netscape even smaller player.
IE6 - bundled with the OS. Sucks ass compared to Netscape (7+). Netscape can't get much smaller.
Not a very realistic example; it would be immediately detected (and possibly corrected) by the user and of no use to the attacker. Furthermore, running everything as root prevents this problem as there are no passwords. Try again.
Even if the current password is blank, it's still quite possible to change it to something non-blank.
It seems to me it's quite easier (and safer) to keep backups of the programs
Easier, safer, and completely useless. You can redownload a program any time you want. You can't download your documents back.
And if your non-root user has been "infected" the trojan/virus can keep deleting your documents until you reinstall the system
No, you can log in as root and delete the non-root trojan. If the trojan had root access, it would be able to stop that.
MS isn't using OpenGL, they're using DirectX. E17 will never be finished, and Transluxent is currently an unfinished, unreliable hack. MS is most certainly not copying either one of them. They might, however, be copying Quartz Extreme.
No possible input stream should crash Mozilla (or any other browser). Not Hotmail, not , not 20 MB straight from/dev/random. It may not render correctly or even be usable on a given page, but it should never crash.
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C may overload, but you can't overload in C (short of using #defines). Therefore, you can't mutate the language to the same degree you can with C++.
We already have the penny, that's pretty close...
An Athlon MP costs about $40 more than the equivilent MP. You can buy an older ( 1.5Ghz, fine for testing) SMP-capable proc for next to nothing. Developers don't want a modded version of the top-of-the-line AMD chip just to test their threading.
Yes, he's correct. Doom3 graphics are rendered using OpenGL, but (on Windows anyway), it'll probably use some aspects of directX for input and networking.
They would have to be out of their minds to use an Itanium in a car. More likely it's a Crusoe, StrongArm, or something similar.
Mozilla is free (as in beer). That alone multiplies the potential audience by a factor of about a hundred. As for standards compliance, I don't know what you're smoking, but it must be strong. Mozilla has always had better CSS/HTML/JavaScript support than Opera. Opera has gotten better lately, but it's still not at Gecko's level.
Yes it would. CSS is optional, and any reasonably professional DVD burning app will let you burn a DVD with or without it.
Mozilla is considered to be the flagship open source browser, and one of the strengths of the open source desktop lineup. Therefore, a lot of open source fanboys are interested in its progress. Opera is of interest to a far smaller subset of people, seeing as it has neither the standards compliance, platform support, or freedom (beer and speech) of Mozilla. I'm not saying Opera doesn't have it's strengths, but a lot of people are more interested in Mozilla than Opera.
Mozilla is considered by many to be theflagship open source browser, and thus of interest to the community of Slashdot. Opera is just another proprietary browser, which happens to have some advantages over Mozilla (and some disadvantages). Even so, /. announces Opera minor version upgrades too, so I don't know what you're bitching about.
Right here.
Your computer doesn't have to be compromised to fake the lock. A web page just has to disable the status bar and put a status-bar like image in its place, complete with lock. The only way something could get your dog's name would be Administrator access, which is pretty far from just being able to display a webpage (IE security holes aside).
You make a financial gain off your download, because you still have the money you otherwise would have spent on the song. An artist also makes a financial gain off a sample, and usually they even have the consent of the original group to do it. In this case, Dre thought he did but didn't. That's all there is to it.
As long as it's stable, why would anyone but a control freak/perfectionist care?
IE5 - bundled with the OS. Better in some ways than Netscape (6). Netscape even smaller player.
IE6 - bundled with the OS. Sucks ass compared to Netscape (7+). Netscape can't get much smaller.
That's all they'd need to expose. In fact, I'm sure you could do it using the standard QuickTime API.
I cannot think of a single thing that would cause Netscape/Mozilla to abandon Gecko and ruin platform consistancy just to tie in with WebCore.
But then his comment wouldn't be the 5th one from the top. :-)
Even if the current password is blank, it's still quite possible to change it to something non-blank.
It seems to me it's quite easier (and safer) to keep backups of the programs
Easier, safer, and completely useless. You can redownload a program any time you want. You can't download your documents back.
And if your non-root user has been "infected" the trojan/virus can keep deleting your documents until you reinstall the system
No, you can log in as root and delete the non-root trojan. If the trojan had root access, it would be able to stop that.
MS isn't using OpenGL, they're using DirectX. E17 will never be finished, and Transluxent is currently an unfinished, unreliable hack. MS is most certainly not copying either one of them. They might, however, be copying Quartz Extreme.
It's not exactly landing if you do it on the ocean.
You're forgetting XBill.
Whatever. I'm not a C guru. All operators with 'bit' in them sound the same to me. :-)
Ender's Game is going to be a movie, but OSC's writing the script, so it shouldn't suck too badly.
Plus, in C (which I assume is what's being used), ^ is the bitshift operator, not the exponent operator.
No possible input stream should crash Mozilla (or any other browser). Not Hotmail, not , not 20 MB straight from /dev/random. It may not render correctly or even be usable on a given page, but it should never crash.