They are allowed to specify a single version if they wish. The intent of the "or later" is to allow for bug fixes to the wording of the license, that do not change its spirit.
This problem occurs with software, too. Code can be automatically obfuscated or pre-processed before distribution, so that it remains compilable but is not readable. The GPL uses a phrase something like "the preferred form for making modifications". I wonder why this was not used in the GDL?
There seems to be a bit of confusion here about what "ActiveX" means. This isn't very surprising, since "ActiveX" has been used as a marketing term, in the same way that "OLE" used to be.
"ActiveX" now appears to be a blanket term for COM (Component Object Model) technologies. Any COM components can now be described as "ActiveX objects", while "ActiveX controls" are COM components containing classes that can implement part of a GUI. These are quite difficult to write, but are very useful for building larger GUIs. From IE3 onwards, they are the main interface for plug-ins. So if you get Acrobat Reader, that will include an ActiveX control to display PDFs. As we all know, IE also supports automatic download of ActiveX controls - encouraging the wider use of plug-ins, and that's a problem. Disabling ActiveX controls altogether, however, will disable the plug-ins you want. I have downloading and running of ActiveX controls set to "prompt".
The other problem with ActiveX controls in IE is in scripting. Only controls declared as "safe to script" can be controlled by scripts on web pages, but many controls have been mistakenly marked as such when they are not. So scripting should generally be disabled. Unfortunately, a few pages do need it for navigation, so I currently set scripting to "prompt" as well. This gives me a lot of prompts, though. Perhaps there should be a toggle for scripting, or a white-list for sites whose scripts the user trusts.
You can't? I know that only one app owns the screen at any one time and that it has to exit when the user switches. However, it can start additional threads (possibly at boot time, when it is initialised). These threads can interact with the user through dialogs. This is how the Fortune program can give me some inane message every day.
Don't forbid your child to view pornography. That will just encourage him or her. Instead, explain it to them and explain why it is wrong and unhealthy.
I suspect that their only shortcoming was not being trained to recognize the print and flat surface of the image on that magazine as a person's face.
This is nonsense - no-one needs training to recognise faces. The brain is so good at picking out faces that it can find a `face' on the moon or in clouds. Of course it may be surprising to see such a realistic reproduction of a face for the first time.
The 286, 386DX, 486DX, Pentium, and Pentium Pro were all initially meant for "servers" and "workstations" rather than the desktop. Virtually every new Intel processor is introduced at the high end with an initially high price.
The local call charge is about 1p per minute in the evening or at the weekend, dependent on the telco and chosen pricing scheme. With a calling card, calls to the US cost as little as 2p or 3p a minute.
USENET = Unix USErs' NETwork. The capitalisation of network names appears to have been conventional around the time it was started (1980). Now it's more common to use just an initial capital.
I do not believe that we have ever fully trusted the media since Orson Welles great broadcast of War of the Worlds!
A drama that some stupid alien-obsessed people tuned into late and didn't recognise as such? It wasn't meant as a hoax, and to me it sounds utterly unconvincing.
A domain name is not supposed to start with a digit,
Only TLDs are not supposed to start with a digit.
but this rule is violated in the very RFC for the IN-ADDR.ARPA domain. Arguably, this is not a problem because you can't TELNET directly to an IN-ADDR.ARPA domain host (I find it rather unfortunate that I can't type telnet t.z.y.x.in-addr-arpa as a substitute for telnet x.y.z.t, I've never understood why that is disallowed).
Why would you want to do that, when the dotted IP notation is shorter? The reason that it doesn't work is that there are different kinds of records for those names - PTR (pointer to name) rather than A (IP address) records.
Tom, I don't think HamNRye was really criticising you. I read his comment as being a parody of C|Net's reviewing style - valuing immediate accessibility over quality of content.
They're paying a notional $674 million, based on Red Hat's current stock price. I think that valuation is unreasonably inflated, at over 90 times the last half's revenue.
Amigas have only ever used 7 IRQs for everything - and 5 of these are meant to be used only by on-board devices. The only speed problem that results is with serial interrupts - and that's only because the on-board serial port is un-buffered.
DOS relies on BIOS support for keyboard, printer, serial port and so on. Most motherboards with USB include BIOS support for USB keyboards. For the other things, I think you're likely to be out of luck.
ANSI C only has 27 keywords (C++ has 29 - class and:: being the new ones).
I'm going to have to be pedantic and point out that in fact ANSI C has 32 keywords, that ANSI C++ has 74 (some of which correspond to macros or typedefs in ANSI C), and that:: is not a keyword.
For one, Al Gore claimed that first, and for two the internet came about on UN*X mainframes in an academic setting - and had nothing to do with PCs.
Uh, the Internet used to run mainly on PDP-10s running TOPS-20. The TOPS-20 users looked down on users of that toy mini-computer OS, Unix. Sites that couldn't afford PDP-10s and TCP/IP connections to Internet would run Unix and use UUCP for the USENET.
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Similarly, if we assume:
;-)
1. 2 = 3
we can multiply through by 0 to get:
2. 0 = 0
So (1) must be true.
They are allowed to specify a single version if they wish. The intent of the "or later" is to allow for bug fixes to the wording of the license, that do not change its spirit.
This problem occurs with software, too. Code can be automatically obfuscated or pre-processed before distribution, so that it remains compilable but is not readable. The GPL uses a phrase something like "the preferred form for making modifications". I wonder why this was not used in the GDL?
Back under the bridge, troll. You have nothing new to say.
There seems to be a bit of confusion here about what "ActiveX" means. This isn't very surprising, since "ActiveX" has been used as a marketing term, in the same way that "OLE" used to be.
"ActiveX" now appears to be a blanket term for COM (Component Object Model) technologies. Any COM components can now be described as "ActiveX objects", while "ActiveX controls" are COM components containing classes that can implement part of a GUI. These are quite difficult to write, but are very useful for building larger GUIs. From IE3 onwards, they are the main interface for plug-ins. So if you get Acrobat Reader, that will include an ActiveX control to display PDFs. As we all know, IE also supports automatic download of ActiveX controls - encouraging the wider use of plug-ins, and that's a problem. Disabling ActiveX controls altogether, however, will disable the plug-ins you want. I have downloading and running of ActiveX controls set to "prompt".
The other problem with ActiveX controls in IE is in scripting. Only controls declared as "safe to script" can be controlled by scripts on web pages, but many controls have been mistakenly marked as such when they are not. So scripting should generally be disabled. Unfortunately, a few pages do need it for navigation, so I currently set scripting to "prompt" as well. This gives me a lot of prompts, though. Perhaps there should be a toggle for scripting, or a white-list for sites whose scripts the user trusts.
You can't? I know that only one app owns the screen at any one time and that it has to exit when the user switches. However, it can start additional threads (possibly at boot time, when it is initialised). These threads can interact with the user through dialogs. This is how the Fortune program can give me some inane message every day.
Er, is it?
Oh, but SVG will kick VML's butt. Once they get the standard (er, Recommendation) agreed. It's actually supported by multiple vendors.
This is nonsense - no-one needs training to recognise faces. The brain is so good at picking out faces that it can find a `face' on the moon or in clouds. Of course it may be surprising to see such a realistic reproduction of a face for the first time.
The 286, 386DX, 486DX, Pentium, and Pentium Pro were all initially meant for "servers" and "workstations" rather than the desktop. Virtually every new Intel processor is introduced at the high end with an initially high price.
The local call charge is about 1p per minute in the evening or at the weekend, dependent on the telco and chosen pricing scheme. With a calling card, calls to the US cost as little as 2p or 3p a minute.
No, the philosophers die because they try to pick up the forks on both sides of them to eat spaghetti, and thus deadlock.
USENET = Unix USErs' NETwork. The capitalisation of network names appears to have been conventional around the time it was started (1980). Now it's more common to use just an initial capital.
A drama that some stupid alien-obsessed people tuned into late and didn't recognise as such? It wasn't meant as a hoax, and to me it sounds utterly unconvincing.
Only TLDs are not supposed to start with a digit.
Why would you want to do that, when the dotted IP notation is shorter? The reason that it doesn't work is that there are different kinds of records for those names - PTR (pointer to name) rather than A (IP address) records.
Tom, I don't think HamNRye was really criticising you. I read his comment as being a parody of C|Net's reviewing style - valuing immediate accessibility over quality of content.
Actually, I think it started on ITS.
They're paying a notional $674 million, based on Red Hat's current stock price. I think that valuation is unreasonably inflated, at over 90 times the last half's revenue.
Hercules and Xena are done in New Zealand because it's cheap to film there. The effects are crap.
Amigas have only ever used 7 IRQs for everything - and 5 of these are meant to be used only by on-board devices. The only speed problem that results is with serial interrupts - and that's only because the on-board serial port is un-buffered.
DOS relies on BIOS support for keyboard, printer, serial port and so on. Most motherboards with USB include BIOS support for USB keyboards. For the other things, I think you're likely to be out of luck.
Gill (GNOME Illustrator) is a vector drawing program currently in development, which will use the new standard for vector graphics on the web, SVG.
I used this script to convert my address-book. I needed to do a little manual fix-up afterwards, though.
#!/usr/bin/perl
/(.*)\t(.*)\t(.*)/ ) { /^\((.*)\)$/ ) { /<.*>/ ) { /(.*), (.*)/) && ($name = "$2 $1");
while(<>) {
if( !/^\#/ &&
my ($nick, $name, $addr) = ($1, $2, $3);
if( $addr =~
print "alias $nick $1\n";
} else if( $addr =~
print "alias $nick $addr\n";
} else {
($name =~
print "alias $nick $name <$addr>\n";
}
}
}
I'm going to have to be pedantic and point out that in fact ANSI C has 32 keywords, that ANSI C++ has 74 (some of which correspond to macros or typedefs in ANSI C), and that :: is not a keyword.
Uh, the Internet used to run mainly on PDP-10s running TOPS-20. The TOPS-20 users looked down on users of that toy mini-computer OS, Unix. Sites that couldn't afford PDP-10s and TCP/IP connections to Internet would run Unix and use UUCP for the USENET.