- - "Opera doesnt support even half the standards of Mozilla."
- Is that so? I would like to see a list of these standards.
How about CSS1 and CSS2. Mozilla has the best support of CSS1, while having partial support of CSS2. Opera has partial support of CSS1. (IE has broken support of CSS1 and broken partial support of CSS2).
- - "Opera to me is at the level of Netscape 3x Its a slim downed browser, compareable to other slim browsers, but not to something like Mozilla.
Opera has built in ICQ but so what, Mozilla is owned by AOL and will always has the best built in ICQ and AOL support so lets not go here."
Mozilla is not "owned" by AOL. Mozilla also does not have ICQ and AOL support.
- - "MOzilla has built in AOL, opera does not."
Mozilla does not have built in AOL.
- - "Composer, Spell checker, IRC chat,"
- True, but I have no use for these things.
Wysiwyg HTML editors are not useful. Mozilla does not have a spell checker. IRC chat is a good thing, but it is not used by most people.
A few notes: Opera supports themes, but not nearly to the extent that Mozilla does (Opera supports skins, not themes). Opera is much faster than Mozilla. Opera has a GUI-based method to lie in the UA string. Mozilla has better standards support. Mozilla is FREE in more than one way. Opera is not.
You think somebody in Somalia has internet access?
The only people who might possible have internet access is _maybe_ a few people in government. There is one government trying to become built peacefully in the capital, but it is not liked by the warlords and the only way for the internet to work is via satellite uplink.
In the northern part of Somalia, a much more stable government exists (broken away from the south), with maybe a few people with internet access there. Either way, the only people who can use the internet are very educated officials, which probably know what a penny is anyway (which in fact is not an American coin at all. Penny = British. "Cent" = American).
See http://nic.so/ for the state of the Somalian domain name.
One thing that has always annoyed me about certain open software licenses is the restriction that the software in question can not be used to make money. (Read: included in a product.)
How is closed source better? With closed source, there is no chance of incorporating a product's code at all.
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Anybody with a memory of Seinfield (sp?) should mod the parent as funny. Subtle, but funny.
You shouldn't jump to conclusions. After the Oklahoma City Bombing, everybody said it was the Arabs, the Islams, the Palestinians, the Libyans, Bin Laden (even though all of those examples are Arabs). As it turned out, it was an American. In fact, that North American was a U.S. citizen. Jumping to conclusions only spreads the flames.
When the makers of Visicalc worried about getting sued for the same sort of reason, they simply sold the product "as-is." It was the first piece of software sold as-is. Why isn't "as-is" good enough anymore?
It is impossible to get a negative score in golf. How can you get -1 on a hole? The lowest golf score ever on a standard course (+6000 yards) is a 58 (maybe a 57?). On the PGA tour, it is 59. In theory, the lowest possible score would be 18, with 18 holes in one.
The negative scores you see on TV are the current standing of the golfers in relation to par. They are only used to compare scores of golfers on different holes.
We've got computers beating world champions because chess has a finite number of moves
That's a bunch of hogwash. The number of positions possible on a chess board is more than the number of atoms in the solar system. One figure says it is equal to about half the estimated number of particles in the universe, so I'm being extremely conservative. Either way, a brute force approach would be impossible. Any computer that was big enough to use brute force would be better adapted to find the meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
Even if it were possible, a computer that played from memory would be using moves that were only as good as the ones its programmers chose. And programmers wouldn't have the time to program every move because humans would easily be extinct by then. The estimated completion time would be later than the destruction of the Earth at the death of our sun.
Yes there is. A guy took over an old WW II platform, called Roughs Tower, and declared independence from England. You can read more about it at Sealandgov.com. Or, copy and paste:
http://www.sealandgov.com/
The.sl domain name does mean Sierra Leone, though.
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Apple is beginning to support two-button mice. Read this article. Or, copy and paste:
A final thought, would we consider the digits of 1 random if our number system was base pi?
You can't make a number system based on a non-positive integer. Number systems must be based on positive integers that are not one. Think about it. What would the digits of base-pi be? 0, 1, 2, 3, 3.141? I don't think so.
Just for people who think it's not zero... The reason it is zero:
Argument 1
One divided by infinity is zero. Why? What is one divided by zero? Infinity. Therefore, infinity and zero are reciprocals. Of course, this reasoning stretches the bound of mathematics.
Argument 2
Imagine a number line going from 2 to 3. 2.5 is a point on that number line. What are the dimensions of a point? 0 by 0 by 0. 0/inf is zero. I like this argument much better than the first.
Cecil Rhodes, the guy who created De Beers, was much more evil than Gates. He was the famous billionaire of the time (1890s, S. Africa), and he took the lands of the many native Africans. He took the lands that now make up Zambia and Zimbabwe (which he named North and South Rhodesia) from the Africans and enslaved them, making them work in the diamond and gold mines.
This was in the 1880s and the 1890s, well after America abolished slavery (and this land was part of the British Empire!). His actions against the blacks led to the situation of apartheid in South Africa that lasted up until 1990-1994. Zimbabwe and Zambia didn't get their freedom from white control until the 1980s.
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- - "Opera doesnt support even half the standards of Mozilla."
- Is that so? I would like to see a list of these standards.
How about CSS1 and CSS2. Mozilla has the best support of CSS1, while having partial support of CSS2. Opera has partial support of CSS1. (IE has broken support of CSS1 and broken partial support of CSS2).
- - "Opera to me is at the level of Netscape 3x Its a slim downed browser, compareable to other slim browsers, but not to something like Mozilla.
Opera has built in ICQ but so what, Mozilla is owned by AOL and will always has the best built in ICQ and AOL support so lets not go here."
Mozilla is not "owned" by AOL. Mozilla also does not have ICQ and AOL support.
- - "MOzilla has built in AOL, opera does not."
Mozilla does not have built in AOL.
- - "Composer, Spell checker, IRC chat,"
- True, but I have no use for these things.
Wysiwyg HTML editors are not useful. Mozilla does not have a spell checker. IRC chat is a good thing, but it is not used by most people.
A few notes: Opera supports themes, but not nearly to the extent that Mozilla does (Opera supports skins, not themes). Opera is much faster than Mozilla. Opera has a GUI-based method to lie in the UA string. Mozilla has better standards support. Mozilla is FREE in more than one way. Opera is not.
You think somebody in Somalia has internet access?
The only people who might possible have internet access is _maybe_ a few people in government. There is one government trying to become built peacefully in the capital, but it is not liked by the warlords and the only way for the internet to work is via satellite uplink.
In the northern part of Somalia, a much more stable government exists (broken away from the south), with maybe a few people with internet access there. Either way, the only people who can use the internet are very educated officials, which probably know what a penny is anyway (which in fact is not an American coin at all. Penny = British. "Cent" = American).
See http://nic.so/ for the state of the Somalian domain name.
This case is about the fact that ReplayTV 4000 allows users to share recordings over the internet.
One thing that has always annoyed me about certain open software licenses is the restriction that the software in question can not be used to make money. (Read: included in a product.)
How is closed source better? With closed source, there is no chance of incorporating a product's code at all.
Anybody with a memory of Seinfield (sp?) should mod the parent as funny. Subtle, but funny.
Wasn't there a Calvin and Hobbes strip like that?
Yes.
This is nowhere near as bad as what my high school has. They have a pretty pathetic website at http://www.mnsd.net/ .
Guess what company owns http://www.mnsd.org/ .
Making matters worse, the teachers seem to think that their email addresses are located at the Microsoft domain.
You shouldn't jump to conclusions. After the Oklahoma City Bombing, everybody said it was the Arabs, the Islams, the Palestinians, the Libyans, Bin Laden (even though all of those examples are Arabs). As it turned out, it was an American. In fact, that North American was a U.S. citizen. Jumping to conclusions only spreads the flames.
When the makers of Visicalc worried about getting sued for the same sort of reason, they simply sold the product "as-is." It was the first piece of software sold as-is. Why isn't "as-is" good enough anymore?
A one word solution to your problem that guzzles less gas and is safer and more suitable to on-road conditions:
Minivan
Here, let me ruin your lame joke with logic.
It is impossible to get a negative score in golf. How can you get -1 on a hole? The lowest golf score ever on a standard course (+6000 yards) is a 58 (maybe a 57?). On the PGA tour, it is 59. In theory, the lowest possible score would be 18, with 18 holes in one.
The negative scores you see on TV are the current standing of the golfers in relation to par. They are only used to compare scores of golfers on different holes.
We've got computers beating world champions because chess has a finite number of moves
That's a bunch of hogwash. The number of positions possible on a chess board is more than the number of atoms in the solar system. One figure says it is equal to about half the estimated number of particles in the universe, so I'm being extremely conservative. Either way, a brute force approach would be impossible. Any computer that was big enough to use brute force would be better adapted to find the meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
Even if it were possible, a computer that played from memory would be using moves that were only as good as the ones its programmers chose. And programmers wouldn't have the time to program every move because humans would easily be extinct by then. The estimated completion time would be later than the destruction of the Earth at the death of our sun.
Yes there is. A guy took over an old WW II platform, called Roughs Tower, and declared independence from England. You can read more about it at Sealandgov.com. Or, copy and paste:
.sl domain name does mean Sierra Leone, though.
http://www.sealandgov.com/
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Apple is beginning to support two-button mice. Read this article. Or, copy and paste:
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http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,39773
The REAL reason Congressman Waxman is concerned about porn on P2P file-sharing:
*Searching BearShare:* Porn
(matches show up)
*Thinks:* "Goatse.Cx.jpg, eh? I wonder what this image is."
*Clicks*
A final thought, would we consider the digits of 1 random if our number system was base pi?
You can't make a number system based on a non-positive integer. Number systems must be based on positive integers that are not one. Think about it. What would the digits of base-pi be? 0, 1, 2, 3, 3.141? I don't think so.
I was arguing it's not zero but 1/inf
Just for people who think it's not zero...
The reason it is zero:
Argument 1
One divided by infinity is zero. Why? What is one divided by zero? Infinity. Therefore, infinity and zero are reciprocals. Of course, this reasoning stretches the bound of mathematics.
Argument 2
Imagine a number line going from 2 to 3. 2.5 is a point on that number line. What are the dimensions of a point? 0 by 0 by 0. 0/inf is zero. I like this argument much better than the first.
Cecil Rhodes, the guy who created De Beers, was much more evil than Gates. He was the famous billionaire of the time (1890s, S. Africa), and he took the lands of the many native Africans. He took the lands that now make up Zambia and Zimbabwe (which he named North and South Rhodesia) from the Africans and enslaved them, making them work in the diamond and gold mines.
This was in the 1880s and the 1890s, well after America abolished slavery (and this land was part of the British Empire!). His actions against the blacks led to the situation of apartheid in South Africa that lasted up until 1990-1994. Zimbabwe and Zambia didn't get their freedom from white control until the 1980s.