PHP originally meant Personal Home Page Tools originally developed by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994. Version 1.0 was announced on the Usenet newsgroup comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi on June 8, 1995.
Actually it isn't a Mozilla bug but rather an OS bug. Even so, people started switching from IE to Firefox and now they should start switching from MS Office to OpenOffice. As long as they're going to do that, they might as well make the transformation complete and switch to Linux.
For someone who will be moving on shortly after the next election. Should have tried this four years ago (although the suggestions would've still fallen on deaf ears).
Aren't government agencies usually the worst offenders as far as network security is concerned? Aren't they usually given D and F ratings by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) year after year? Yet here is a government agency cranking out advice on securing Win XP. It makes more sense to get rid of the offending OS if it really is that bad rather than trying to fix the unfixable. I can't beleive all the time and money that is spent on firewalls, antivirus software and patching on what shouldn't be a major problem in the first place. I don't understand why Microsoft Software is so popular if it really is this crappy. Even if it came "free" with the computer (I can assure you it didn't), MS would still be charging too much for such a low quality POS by any other standard. By all rights, all MS OSes should have some sort of warning during installation that says that the OS was designed for easy installation of viruses, worms, trojans, and malware that you should retract your hard drive for safety.
Yeah, sure, I can talk smart; I don't use MS products so what do I know.
It seems you are the one doing the crap science. If you would have read the article, you would have noticed it said, "In 1974 it had a close encounter with Jupiter and was thrown onto a new orbit that brings it closer to the Sun. A comet loses material when it approaches the Sun, as solar radiation causes ice from its surface to "sublimate" into space, carring dust and larger particles with it. The process creates a cloud of material that reflects sunlight and creates the familiar head of a comet (scientists call it a coma) and sometimes a tail." So for most of it's existance, it would not have sublimated and hence remained unchanged.
"The United States is the home of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, an internationally respected agency which contributes to the worldwide effort to protect and govern intellectual property."
It may have been respected in the past but now with the USPTO issuing patents without proper review I'd say it isn't worthy of respect today. Also, wasn't the intention of patents to give the inventor a 17 year limited period of protection? Its main goal, however, was to have the invention end up in the public domain for the benefit of its citizenship. He doesn't seem to understand that and I'll bet he doen't understand the concept of public schools or libraries either. Ken Brown has a very pueril view of the purpose of goverenment.
That's the funniest thing I've read in a while! Wish I had been able to see it. It would have given me a chance to experience Windows in a big way and in the great outdoors to (re)boot.
How exactly does going from a proprietary MS OS to a proprietary Apple system (OS and hardware) give you a warmer and fuzzier feeling about your computer? Eye candy is still eye candy.
If Thy Contract Offends Thee, Pluck it out, and cast it from Thee; for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Duh? The point is not whether you bought or stoll the car radio but rather the question is what right does the car have to attempt to detect whether you bought or stoll the radio? Are you automatically considered a criminal and guilty? What court ordered a trial that is being conducted by a computer in the car? What if the radio came from Linux, Mac, older or import car, will it not work? Can only MS approved radio installers install radios?
How crude! Trying to blame the poor end-users for Microsoft's bugs has been going on for years.I know we've all heard someone say that Word or Windows crashed and that "...it must have been my fault". Ah, but it wasn't.
Scrooge's suggestion of decreasing the surplus population will not effect the number of bugs microsoft produces now or in the future.
Hey, I happen to enjoy reading the derision heaped on Microsoft as I'm sure others do. If you don't like it then just look for the Bill-the-borg icon, read the story and avoid reading the comments.
I would expect a generation brought up in a Microsoft world to be unable to understand why MS is a problem today let alone accept the fact that they are criminals.
If you truly don't fancy a world totally ruled by MS you wouldn't be so glib about buying their products and using their browser. In fact, you'd be buying NON-Microsoft OSes and NON-Microsoft browsers because as the cliche goes, "if you aren't part of the solution then you're part of the problem". The only problem is it maybe too late. How we ever let MS get this out of control is beyond me. Was it because it was one of the first PC OS makers or was it because of the sheep mentality of businesses in general? I don't know. I do know it's bothered me since 1991 or so when Word came out and all the other word processors started to disapear.
One can only speculate how many companies were squashed by Microsoft over the last ten years. Hopefully, they will all sue Microsoft and drain its resources until it's gone. And if you believe that the world's economy depends on a healthy Microsoft then all I can say is B-a-a-a-a-a-a-h.
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PHP originally meant Personal Home Page Tools originally developed by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994. Version 1.0 was announced on the Usenet newsgroup comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi on June 8, 1995.
Try before you buy.
Actually it isn't a Mozilla bug but rather an OS bug. Even so, people started switching from IE to Firefox and now they should start switching from MS Office to OpenOffice. As long as they're going to do that, they might as well make the transformation complete and switch to Linux.
For someone who will be moving on shortly after the next election. Should have tried this four years ago (although the suggestions would've still fallen on deaf ears).
Aren't government agencies usually the worst offenders as far as network security is concerned? Aren't they usually given D and F ratings by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) year after year? Yet here is a government agency cranking out advice on securing Win XP. It makes more sense to get rid of the offending OS if it really is that bad rather than trying to fix the unfixable. I can't beleive all the time and money that is spent on firewalls, antivirus software and patching on what shouldn't be a major problem in the first place. I don't understand why Microsoft Software is so popular if it really is this crappy. Even if it came "free" with the computer (I can assure you it didn't), MS would still be charging too much for such a low quality POS by any other standard. By all rights, all MS OSes should have some sort of warning during installation that says that the OS was designed for easy installation of viruses, worms, trojans, and malware that you should retract your hard drive for safety.
Yeah, sure, I can talk smart; I don't use MS products so what do I know.
It seems you are the one doing the crap science. If you would have read the article, you would have noticed it said, "In 1974 it had a close encounter with Jupiter and was thrown onto a new orbit that brings it closer to the Sun. A comet loses material when it approaches the Sun, as solar radiation causes ice from its surface to "sublimate" into space, carring dust and larger particles with it. The process creates a cloud of material that reflects sunlight and creates the familiar head of a comet (scientists call it a coma) and sometimes a tail." So for most of it's existance, it would not have sublimated and hence remained unchanged.
"The United States is the home of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, an internationally respected agency which contributes to the worldwide effort to protect and govern intellectual property."
It may have been respected in the past but now with the USPTO issuing patents without proper review I'd say it isn't worthy of respect today. Also, wasn't the intention of patents to give the inventor a 17 year limited period of protection? Its main goal, however, was to have the invention end up in the public domain for the benefit of its citizenship. He doesn't seem to understand that and I'll bet he doen't understand the concept of public schools or libraries either. Ken Brown has a very pueril view of the purpose of goverenment.
That's the funniest thing I've read in a while! Wish I had been able to see it. It would have given me a chance to experience Windows in a big way and in the great outdoors to (re)boot.
How exactly does going from a proprietary MS OS to a proprietary Apple system (OS and hardware) give you a warmer and fuzzier feeling about your computer? Eye candy is still eye candy.
If Thy Contract Offends Thee, Pluck it out, and cast it from Thee; for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Duh?
The point is not whether you bought or stoll the car radio but rather the question is what right does the car have to attempt to detect whether you bought or stoll the radio? Are you automatically considered a criminal and guilty? What court ordered a trial that is being conducted by a computer in the car? What if the radio came from Linux, Mac, older or import car, will it not work? Can only MS approved radio installers install radios?
How crude! Trying to blame the poor end-users for Microsoft's bugs has been going on for years.I know we've all heard someone say that Word or Windows crashed and that "...it must have been my fault". Ah, but it wasn't.
Scrooge's suggestion of decreasing the surplus population will not effect the number of bugs microsoft produces now or in the future.
Hey, I happen to enjoy reading the derision heaped on Microsoft as I'm sure others do. If you don't like it then just look for the Bill-the-borg icon, read the story and avoid reading the comments.
I would expect a generation brought up in a Microsoft world to be unable to understand why MS is a problem today let alone accept the fact that they are criminals.
If you truly don't fancy a world totally ruled by MS you wouldn't be so glib about buying their products and using their browser. In fact, you'd be buying NON-Microsoft OSes and NON-Microsoft browsers because as the cliche goes, "if you aren't part of the solution then you're part of the problem". The only problem is it maybe too late. How we ever let MS get this out of control is beyond me. Was it because it was one of the first PC OS makers or was it because of the sheep mentality of businesses in general? I don't know. I do know it's bothered me since 1991 or so when Word came out and all the other word processors started to disapear.
One can only speculate how many companies were squashed by Microsoft over the last ten years. Hopefully, they will all sue Microsoft and drain its resources until it's gone. And if you believe that the world's economy depends on a healthy Microsoft then all I can say is B-a-a-a-a-a-a-h.
Have you used your microVAX today?