Because any release can have a release candidate. A final release can have a release candidate, and likewise a beta release can have a release candidate. It's called a candidate because it's not guaranteed to be the ultimate release of that version. To give one example, Opera had a release candidate of Opera 10.5 beta. It was a release candidate because it was not guaranteed to be the final release of Opera 10.5 beta.
A beta release is a release. Perhaps you're thinking only the final release or a stable release is a release. Alphas and betas are referred to as releases.
I just downloaded it from http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer11.html without applying to any program. But anyway, I was using a beta version of Flash 10.3 for 64-bit Linux before, and this is just a new beta version.
Your idea will get broadband to trailer parks, but what about farmland where there are a few homes per square mile? I would think that satellite or other wireless access would be more cost effective than wired Internet access in sparsely populated areas.
Yes, that's all true. But if you look up the definition of a computer science pointer, you'll see that Java, Python, Perl, and JavaScript references are all pointers. So Java has pointers, but not C pointers that can do pointer arithmetic.
As I've pointed out to you before, the temperature has increased about 1 degree Celsius over the last century. Every piece of data I've seen shows that the warming is continuing. You can see my previousposts for all the links to land, ocean, and satellite measurements of temperature as well as measurements of melting ice in the Arctic and Antarctic.
That's very nice, but it doesn't explain why the Arctic and Antarctic ice is melting. We have temperature observations in the ocean and from satellites also. They all show warming. It's nice to show some pictures of temperature stations in parking lots and pretend that they invalidate all temperature measurements because you find the warming to be inconvenient.
I think you should read your post, my reply, and your reply again. You're not making any sense at all. How can it cool and yet also be the same temperature? How can 2011 be tied as the warmest year on record, if as you claim, "we've been in a cooling period since 1998 that has reversed ALL of the observed warming that took place previously in the early 20th Century and more"? If what you claim is true, it should be much cooled now that in 1998, not the same temperature. Can you think straight for a few seconds?
Science never has everything figured out. You should be skeptical of science. But most arguments I've seen against global warming have nothing to do with healthy skepticism; they generally use made up evidence or faulty reasoning. In any case, we will need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions no matter what, because fossil fuels will not last forever. The only question is how quickly should we reduce them. Personally, I think it makes sense to reduce fossil fuel now use simply to reduce demand and avoid energy prices spiraling out of control, and to have sources of energy that do not depend on stability in the Middle East.
That's what's been happening. Solar output has dropped and warming has continued. You can see the solar cycle variations and instrumental temperature record for yourself. It's as if something besides the sun is causing warming. What could it be?
Water vapor is not water droplets. One is gas, the other liquid. Water vapor is a greenhouse gas. I've seen a few climatologists claim that more water vapor will cause more clouds, which will have a cooling effect. I haven't seen any data to confirm this cloud formation and cooling, though.
Warming and cooling have positive feedback mechanisms. As the Earth gets colder, more water turns to ice, which reflects more sunlight into space, which causes cooling. When the Earth warms, the opposite happens. There are also some negative feedback mechanisms which cause the warming and cooling to stop.
The recent warming (over the past four decades) is at a much faster rate than the warming since the last ice age, by orders of magnitude. It's not the warming that's the problem. It's the rate of warming that's the problem.
The temperature can fall for a period of several years even while the long-term trend is warming. Weather patterns such as El Nino and La Nina cause this effect. You can look at the instrumental temperature record to see many dips in temperature that last several years, while the long-term trend is warming. It's possible that decreased solar output will cause short-term cooling, but the long-term trend is warming. Solar output would have to drop dramatically for at least decades to stop the warming, and when the solar output returns to normal, the warming will be faster than ever if the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is higher.
My understanding is that power usage could be remotely controlled in case of emergency. Instead of brownouts or rolling blackouts, the smart grid could turn up the thermostat temperature on hot days. Everyone would be slightly less comfortable, instead of some being miserable because they don't have reliable energy.
Up to Firefox 3.6, Firefox used less memory than other browsers. I'm sure Firefox has had memory issues, but then again, other browsers seem to have worse memory issues. All browsers also experience crashes and security vulnerabilities. The question is one of how severe the problems are, not whether or not they exist. If you read the linked articles closely, you'll note they are about issues new to Firefox 4. The memory issues have become more severe in the latest version. That's what the new MemShrink team will work on.
I'm currently in the Masters program in Computer Science at the University of Michigan. It seems like most professors and GSIs run Windows these days, from seeing their desktop on the projection screen as they start their presentations. Some have Macs. I can't say that I've seen anyone besides me using Linux on their personal computer. Only a few CAEN lab computers are booted into Linux at any given time, and the reason students boot into Linux seems to be mainly that they need to use Linux for a class they're taking.
I'm currently working towards a Masters degree in Computer Science at the University of Michigan. On the engineering campus, lab computers dual-boot into Windows 7 and RHEL 5. If they're using their own Linux distro, I didn't notice. I connect to the services using Fedora. Although my distribution isn't officially supported, I haven't had any problems using Fedora. The only problem I've had as a Linux user is that when I contacted support because my laptop kept disconnecting from the WiFi network, they suggested I install a new driver for my wireless card, and pointed me to Windows drivers. They subsequently discovered that the problem is interference from unauthorized access points.
Patents are granted for ideas. You can have an idea for building a machine or an idea for building a program. Those ideas can be patented. If you implement the idea in software, that particular implementation is copyrightable. Patents and copyrights apply to different things, You're playing a semantic game by calling a program software and also an algorithm software, and trying to claim copyrights and patents apply to both.
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It works great for me. It identifies itself as version 10.3 d162 instead of version 11, but it fixes the sound problem the old version was having.
Because any release can have a release candidate. A final release can have a release candidate, and likewise a beta release can have a release candidate. It's called a candidate because it's not guaranteed to be the ultimate release of that version. To give one example, Opera had a release candidate of Opera 10.5 beta. It was a release candidate because it was not guaranteed to be the final release of Opera 10.5 beta.
I've looked at the section and can't find what you're referring to. Can you show where it states that the term "release" means only a final release?
A beta release is a release. Perhaps you're thinking only the final release or a stable release is a release. Alphas and betas are referred to as releases.
I just downloaded it from http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer11.html without applying to any program. But anyway, I was using a beta version of Flash 10.3 for 64-bit Linux before, and this is just a new beta version.
Your idea will get broadband to trailer parks, but what about farmland where there are a few homes per square mile? I would think that satellite or other wireless access would be more cost effective than wired Internet access in sparsely populated areas.
Yes, that's all true. But if you look up the definition of a computer science pointer, you'll see that Java, Python, Perl, and JavaScript references are all pointers. So Java has pointers, but not C pointers that can do pointer arithmetic.
No, the are pointers. They can be implemented using pointers or handles. Don't confuse what something is with how it is implemented.
Java references are pointers.
Chrome uses an extension API to help ensure that extensions work from one version to the next. They also have an updating mechanism that ensures nearly all users have updated to the latest version of Chrome within a week of final release. Firefox has neither of these, so extensions can easily break from one version to the next, and it could be months until most Firefox users update to the latest version. Mozilla should have ensured their updating mechanism worked quickly and most popular extensions used Jetpack before they switched to a rapid release schedule like Chrome has.
As I've pointed out to you before, the temperature has increased about 1 degree Celsius over the last century. Every piece of data I've seen shows that the warming is continuing. You can see my previous posts for all the links to land, ocean, and satellite measurements of temperature as well as measurements of melting ice in the Arctic and Antarctic.
That's very nice, but it doesn't explain why the Arctic and Antarctic ice is melting. We have temperature observations in the ocean and from satellites also. They all show warming. It's nice to show some pictures of temperature stations in parking lots and pretend that they invalidate all temperature measurements because you find the warming to be inconvenient.
I think you should read your post, my reply, and your reply again. You're not making any sense at all. How can it cool and yet also be the same temperature? How can 2011 be tied as the warmest year on record, if as you claim, "we've been in a cooling period since 1998 that has reversed ALL of the observed warming that took place previously in the early 20th Century and more"? If what you claim is true, it should be much cooled now that in 1998, not the same temperature. Can you think straight for a few seconds?
That's an interesting claim. That's the fabricated evidence I usually see in arguments against global warming. In fact, 2010 tied 1998 as the warmest year on record according to the NOAA. You can see the instrumental temperature record to see the warming of the past several decades. If there were good evidence against global warming, you wouldn't need to fabricate any, would you?
Science never has everything figured out. You should be skeptical of science. But most arguments I've seen against global warming have nothing to do with healthy skepticism; they generally use made up evidence or faulty reasoning. In any case, we will need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions no matter what, because fossil fuels will not last forever. The only question is how quickly should we reduce them. Personally, I think it makes sense to reduce fossil fuel now use simply to reduce demand and avoid energy prices spiraling out of control, and to have sources of energy that do not depend on stability in the Middle East.
That's what's been happening. Solar output has dropped and warming has continued. You can see the solar cycle variations and instrumental temperature record for yourself. It's as if something besides the sun is causing warming. What could it be?
Water vapor is not water droplets. One is gas, the other liquid. Water vapor is a greenhouse gas. I've seen a few climatologists claim that more water vapor will cause more clouds, which will have a cooling effect. I haven't seen any data to confirm this cloud formation and cooling, though.
Warming and cooling have positive feedback mechanisms. As the Earth gets colder, more water turns to ice, which reflects more sunlight into space, which causes cooling. When the Earth warms, the opposite happens. There are also some negative feedback mechanisms which cause the warming and cooling to stop.
The recent warming (over the past four decades) is at a much faster rate than the warming since the last ice age, by orders of magnitude. It's not the warming that's the problem. It's the rate of warming that's the problem.
The temperature can fall for a period of several years even while the long-term trend is warming. Weather patterns such as El Nino and La Nina cause this effect. You can look at the instrumental temperature record to see many dips in temperature that last several years, while the long-term trend is warming. It's possible that decreased solar output will cause short-term cooling, but the long-term trend is warming. Solar output would have to drop dramatically for at least decades to stop the warming, and when the solar output returns to normal, the warming will be faster than ever if the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is higher.
My understanding is that power usage could be remotely controlled in case of emergency. Instead of brownouts or rolling blackouts, the smart grid could turn up the thermostat temperature on hot days. Everyone would be slightly less comfortable, instead of some being miserable because they don't have reliable energy.
Up to Firefox 3.6, Firefox used less memory than other browsers. I'm sure Firefox has had memory issues, but then again, other browsers seem to have worse memory issues. All browsers also experience crashes and security vulnerabilities. The question is one of how severe the problems are, not whether or not they exist. If you read the linked articles closely, you'll note they are about issues new to Firefox 4. The memory issues have become more severe in the latest version. That's what the new MemShrink team will work on.
I'm currently in the Masters program in Computer Science at the University of Michigan. It seems like most professors and GSIs run Windows these days, from seeing their desktop on the projection screen as they start their presentations. Some have Macs. I can't say that I've seen anyone besides me using Linux on their personal computer. Only a few CAEN lab computers are booted into Linux at any given time, and the reason students boot into Linux seems to be mainly that they need to use Linux for a class they're taking.
I'm currently working towards a Masters degree in Computer Science at the University of Michigan. On the engineering campus, lab computers dual-boot into Windows 7 and RHEL 5. If they're using their own Linux distro, I didn't notice. I connect to the services using Fedora. Although my distribution isn't officially supported, I haven't had any problems using Fedora. The only problem I've had as a Linux user is that when I contacted support because my laptop kept disconnecting from the WiFi network, they suggested I install a new driver for my wireless card, and pointed me to Windows drivers. They subsequently discovered that the problem is interference from unauthorized access points.
Patents are granted for ideas. You can have an idea for building a machine or an idea for building a program. Those ideas can be patented. If you implement the idea in software, that particular implementation is copyrightable. Patents and copyrights apply to different things, You're playing a semantic game by calling a program software and also an algorithm software, and trying to claim copyrights and patents apply to both.