... takes a great deal of inspiration from Google Chrome.
Nooooooo!!!
Seriously, what is the point of having Firefox then? The fact that I need to open new tab in Chrome in order to access some bookmark pisses me off and pretty much makes bookmarks pointless.
So ironic to have South Parks' own network so clearly demonstrate the head-in-the-sand behavior which is being protested.
IMO, this irony is what Matt and Trey were aiming for in that episode. They essentially gave the CS administration a choice: either become your own parody or stand up and fight.
I hate religion with all my heart, because it dumbs people down, makes them totally irrational (insane) and hope that one day it will be wiped out from the face of the planet, BUT I'm not going around killing or hurting religious people, I don't threat them and don't encourage others to do so: I tolerate them.
Being tolerant just means being able to cope with something you don't like, even if it is by avoiding it. For example, if someone chooses not to have homosexuals for friends -- it is not intolerance, but when you start denying them jobs for this reason -- it is.
Well, if you need to execute a lot of unix commands in your script and do something with their input/output -- shell script is the easiest way to do it. Filter the stream, generate command line -- pretty easy. However, when you need to ask user the thing or two, do some math, parse options or input file, things get ugly. This is why I often write python programs that generate shell scripts and then feed that output to shell.
... Not only are their products quite good (from both a technical and aesthetic standpoint)
You are absolutely right, they are quite good. However, not "OMFG STEVE JOBS INVENTED [technology that has been around for n*10 years]" kind of good. All apple fanboys seem to be implying the latter.
As a programmer living in Russia I can tell you that nobody here believes in this plan. Forget the plan, nobody believes that intentions of this project are other than getting budget funds and sharing them among fellow "companies".
Besides, this is not the first time (4rth, IIRC) the "Silicon Valley" is being built here, so nobody seems to give a crap anymore.
They don't need to GPL ZFS in order to be able to use it with Linux. They can just distribute the driver in binary form or, which is more likely scenario IMO, license it for use only with *their own* Linux distro and/or DB.
And there's no chance whatsoever that this will ever happen to Mac OS X, so don't lose sleep over it.
Just as the "we can pull your app whenever we wont for no reason" in the App Store TOS was there just to be there and never meant to be used by white and cuddly Apple, right?
The main one, however, is because there seem to be an agreement between all browser vendors that the future is HTML5. Nobody cares about XHTML any more.
Not as funny as it sounds: flash based cookies, which are not that easy to block and/or delete for the user, are used by all advertisers and other bastards, spying on you
First of all, the main usage of Flash (for me) is video and I don't expect anyone to write h.232 codec using javascript and canvas anytime soon.
SVG has failed a long time ago. Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is no good way of putting it in the DOM unless you are using XHTML, which you shouldn't, and all other ways of getting it to the client are non-standard and handled differently by different browsers.
But this is more important! When you develop a web site and then you test it, you are no longer testing it in "Internet Explorer", which used to be the case. You are testing it in every specific version of it. So, from this data you can conclude, that the most important thing is get it to work in FF3.5, *then* IE7, then IE6 and so on. The same applies to the severity of bugs in your app.
But when it comes to marketing dept, yes, you are right, FF is still behind.
You may have a point here. The suit may be filed just to get "free" publicity. Fighting a big and generally hated company in court -- you can't lose this, really.
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I don't use it often enough to bother googling, because I only test our stuff on it, but thanks anyway.
Nooooooo!!!
Seriously, what is the point of having Firefox then? The fact that I need to open new tab in Chrome in order to access some bookmark pisses me off and pretty much makes bookmarks pointless.
So ironic to have South Parks' own network so clearly demonstrate the head-in-the-sand behavior which is being protested.
IMO, this irony is what Matt and Trey were aiming for in that episode. They essentially gave the CS administration a choice: either become your own parody or stand up and fight.
You mixing up tolerance with acceptance.
I hate religion with all my heart, because it dumbs people down, makes them totally irrational (insane) and hope that one day it will be wiped out from the face of the planet, BUT I'm not going around killing or hurting religious people, I don't threat them and don't encourage others to do so: I tolerate them.
Being tolerant just means being able to cope with something you don't like, even if it is by avoiding it. For example, if someone chooses not to have homosexuals for friends -- it is not intolerance, but when you start denying them jobs for this reason -- it is.
Well, if you need to execute a lot of unix commands in your script and do something with their input/output -- shell script is the easiest way to do it. Filter the stream, generate command line -- pretty easy. However, when you need to ask user the thing or two, do some math, parse options or input file, things get ugly. This is why I often write python programs that generate shell scripts and then feed that output to shell.
FYI, no version of Linux is registered Unix.
Thank God for that!
... Not only are their products quite good (from both a technical and aesthetic standpoint)
You are absolutely right, they are quite good. However, not "OMFG STEVE JOBS INVENTED [technology that has been around for n*10 years]" kind of good. All apple fanboys seem to be implying the latter.
At least, THOSE jokes would be funnier
As a programmer living in Russia I can tell you that nobody here believes in this plan. Forget the plan, nobody believes that intentions of this project are other than getting budget funds and sharing them among fellow "companies".
Besides, this is not the first time (4rth, IIRC) the "Silicon Valley" is being built here, so nobody seems to give a crap anymore.
The news meant to say that in 2010 Chernobyl looks slashdotted.
I don't care if my neighbor plays poker. I do care if I have to pay money because my neighbor plays poker.
Well, state monopoly kind of fixes it: they spend money they earn from the poker on fighting the gambling related crimes. Your tax dollars are safe.
I'm also wondering how are they going to emulate 1/6G on Earth.
They don't need to GPL ZFS in order to be able to use it with Linux. They can just distribute the driver in binary form or, which is more likely scenario IMO, license it for use only with *their own* Linux distro and/or DB.
I'm afraid that "GPL something" is the last thing you can expect from Oracle.
And there's no chance whatsoever that this will ever happen to Mac OS X, so don't lose sleep over it.
Just as the "we can pull your app whenever we wont for no reason" in the App Store TOS was there just to be there and never meant to be used by white and cuddly Apple, right?
... Google is heavily invested in HTML5 --and likes open standards.
Google likes standards open to them. There is a difference.
yep, sorry, got confused by all those numbers and didn't bother to check, which one to use ;)
I was talking about video codec.
Why shouldn't you use XHTML?
Many reasons
The main one, however, is because there seem to be an agreement between all browser vendors that the future is HTML5. Nobody cares about XHTML any more.
Not as funny as it sounds: flash based cookies, which are not that easy to block and/or delete for the user, are used by all advertisers and other bastards, spying on you
First of all, the main usage of Flash (for me) is video and I don't expect anyone to write h.232 codec using javascript and canvas anytime soon.
SVG has failed a long time ago. Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is no good way of putting it in the DOM unless you are using XHTML, which you shouldn't, and all other ways of getting it to the client are non-standard and handled differently by different browsers.
No, the weed from Kazakhstan is the best one.
There is a post on a topic dated Dec 1999: Why I Will Never Have a Girlfriend
Well, the *most* embarrassing stuff does *not* require you to interact with girls...
But this is more important! When you develop a web site and then you test it, you are no longer testing it in "Internet Explorer", which used to be the case. You are testing it in every specific version of it. So, from this data you can conclude, that the most important thing is get it to work in FF3.5, *then* IE7, then IE6 and so on. The same applies to the severity of bugs in your app.
But when it comes to marketing dept, yes, you are right, FF is still behind.
You may have a point here. The suit may be filed just to get "free" publicity. Fighting a big and generally hated company in court -- you can't lose this, really.