Because Mozilla was the code-name of the original Netscape (IIRC; Mozilla was to indicate that it would be a HTML rendering beast compared to Mosaic, the original graphical web browser) and so both Netscape and IE have reported themselves as such as far as I can remember.
"All of our development work for the new MSN.com is...W3C standard," said Bob Visse, the director of MSN marketing, referring to the World Wide Web Consortium, which is developing industry standards for Web technologies. "For browsers that we know don't support those standards or that we can't insure will get a great experience for the customer, we do serve up a page that suggests that they upgrade to an IE browser that does support the" standards.
An empirical study of the demographics of EE departments leads me to conclude that 'spacefem' cannot be female and that it must be some sort of elaborate ruse. For what, I do not know...;-)
Actually, that shape is technically called a truncated icosahedron, IIRC. That way it doesn't matter what sport you play: everyone is equally confused...;-)
So far, Carbon is good for hardness (diamond), tensile strength (aramid fiber, buckytubes), lubrication (graphite), electrical conductivity (buckytubes), and now it can even be used for magnetic memory, and presumably for transformer cores, and antennae.
Maybe that's why people are made with lots of carbon...:-p
The Mozilla devel team has posted very much in advance a specific roadmap... it's not like everybody else... hmmm, 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, oh what the hell let's call the next 2.0. (ahem cough cough KDE)
Or Java. Renaming Java 1.2 java 2 caused hell for publishers publishers and authors whose books had already gone to press.
Of the OS'es I've used, I'd say that Debian (apt-get) and FreeBSD (CVSup and the ports collection) have the best systems for automatically patching systems, with Mandrake close behind (the Software Manager automatically requests that you add a source for security updates). Microsoft could come close to Mandrake if they made better use of their Critical Update Notification utility.
Not to mention that Larry Ellison and Scott McNeely have nothing to gain from the establishment of a nationwide database and the infrastructure to go with it...:-p
The DVD Forum license prohibits downloadable players.
That's why the DVD Forum can fsck off and die...:-p
Seriously, though, I doubt that this was the straw that broke the camel's back. Apple had better have better reasons than this to disenfranchise all the early adopters who bought OS X 10.0 under the impression that they wouldn't have to pay anything to upgrade to OS X 10.1.
Digging up lots of ground to lay fiber is also pretty expensive. It also takes a lot of time. Telcos have to think long term, so they lay dark fiber so that it's there if they need it.
Apparently there are sync problems -- signals carried one polarization may travel faster than the other polarization.
This phenomenon is called polarization-mode dispersion and we just covered it in my fiber-optic communications class. It occurs because of birefrigence, which is the phenomenon where different polarizations see different refractive indices. Since refractive index is the speed of light in vacuum divided by speed of light in a medium, this means signals with different polarizations will travel different speeds. Even worse, since fiber birefringence is probably stress-induced and varies over the length of the fiber, it is difficult to tell what the polarization axes of the fiber are so that you can minimize this effect.
Polarization-mode dispersion is a problem even when you're not multiplexing by polarization because it results in the ordinary and extraordinary polarization of a light pulse separating and possibly colliding with other pulses, thereby limiting the bandwidth of the fiber. On the other hand, if you use the ordinary polarization as one channel and the extraordinary polarization as a separate channel, both channels will propagate with zero polarization-mode dispersion and double the effective bandwidth of the fiber. They will propagate at different speeds, but that really isn't an issue as long as the light pulses that represent your 0's and 1's aren't spreading.
The trick is determining the ordinary and extraordinary axes of the fiber, which is the breakthrough that this group made. It sounds like they use a reference channel to determine the ordinary and extraordinary polarization axes of the fiber and also to measure the change in polarization introduced by the fiber so that they can demultiplex the two polarization channels. This is a very simple and elegant way to negate polarization mode dispersion and to enable polarization-division multiplexing.
The Security Focus article is pretty unclear as to whether the attack is on the authentication phase or on passwords typed in a session, so the confusion is somewhat warranted. The fact that you can look at the source code and clear this up is a pretty compelling demonstration, IMHO, of the value of Open Source, Free Software, etc.
Does XP secure the first user's session? This seems to be a recurring question about the X way of doing it, which begs the question if Windows does it. The operating system choice of all pr0n-viewing brothers seems to depend on it...
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Because Mozilla was the code-name of the original Netscape (IIRC; Mozilla was to indicate that it would be a HTML rendering beast compared to Mosaic, the original graphical web browser) and so both Netscape and IE have reported themselves as such as far as I can remember.
What do we do when the mirror list gets slashdotted? :-p
An empirical study of the demographics of EE departments leads me to conclude that 'spacefem' cannot be female and that it must be some sort of elaborate ruse. For what, I do not know... ;-)
Really? :-p
Wanna post some URLs or IPs so we can really stress test those motherboards? ;-)
When that happens, could Apple be nice and give us our Aqua themes back?
Last I checked, aluminum and plexiglas were pretty rigid, and this stuff is being touted for its flexibility. Maybe an inflatable kiddie whale pool?
Actually, that shape is technically called a truncated icosahedron, IIRC. That way it doesn't matter what sport you play: everyone is equally confused... ;-)
What, you mean you don't already have "The Complete Crappy Works of the RIAA" on the single super-hyper-buckyball-stuff DVD Audio disc?
/. ate my editing... :-(
Of the OS'es I've used, I'd say that Debian (apt-get) and FreeBSD (CVSup and the ports collection) have the best systems for automatically patching systems, with Mandrake close behind (the Software Manager automatically requests that you add a source for security updates). Microsoft could come close to Mandrake if they made better use of their Critical Update Notification utility.
Damnit, I need to stop leaving out those tags... :-p
In fact, last I checked, they were busy copying us... :-p
Not to mention that Larry Ellison and Scott McNeely have nothing to gain from the establishment of a nationwide database and the infrastructure to go with it... :-p
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I bet Bill's wet dreams revolve around this fictional universe...
Unless you're British, in which case optical fiber is optical fibre and everyone is confused...
Incidentally, is fibre channel actually supposed to be called fibre channel or is it just one of those meter/metre things?
That's why the DVD Forum can fsck off and die...
Seriously, though, I doubt that this was the straw that broke the camel's back. Apple had better have better reasons than this to disenfranchise all the early adopters who bought OS X 10.0 under the impression that they wouldn't have to pay anything to upgrade to OS X 10.1.
Digging up lots of ground to lay fiber is also pretty expensive. It also takes a lot of time. Telcos have to think long term, so they lay dark fiber so that it's there if they need it.
This phenomenon is called polarization-mode dispersion and we just covered it in my fiber-optic communications class. It occurs because of birefrigence, which is the phenomenon where different polarizations see different refractive indices. Since refractive index is the speed of light in vacuum divided by speed of light in a medium, this means signals with different polarizations will travel different speeds. Even worse, since fiber birefringence is probably stress-induced and varies over the length of the fiber, it is difficult to tell what the polarization axes of the fiber are so that you can minimize this effect.
Polarization-mode dispersion is a problem even when you're not multiplexing by polarization because it results in the ordinary and extraordinary polarization of a light pulse separating and possibly colliding with other pulses, thereby limiting the bandwidth of the fiber. On the other hand, if you use the ordinary polarization as one channel and the extraordinary polarization as a separate channel, both channels will propagate with zero polarization-mode dispersion and double the effective bandwidth of the fiber. They will propagate at different speeds, but that really isn't an issue as long as the light pulses that represent your 0's and 1's aren't spreading.
The trick is determining the ordinary and extraordinary axes of the fiber, which is the breakthrough that this group made. It sounds like they use a reference channel to determine the ordinary and extraordinary polarization axes of the fiber and also to measure the change in polarization introduced by the fiber so that they can demultiplex the two polarization channels. This is a very simple and elegant way to negate polarization mode dispersion and to enable polarization-division multiplexing.
The Security Focus article is pretty unclear as to whether the attack is on the authentication phase or on passwords typed in a session, so the confusion is somewhat warranted. The fact that you can look at the source code and clear this up is a pretty compelling demonstration, IMHO, of the value of Open Source, Free Software, etc.
Does XP secure the first user's session? This seems to be a recurring question about the X way of doing it, which begs the question if Windows does it. The operating system choice of all pr0n-viewing brothers seems to depend on it...