Better yet - Please define "spyware". A lot of internet users and anti-spyware companies consider browser cookies to be a form of spyware. Does this mean that I will end up having to recode all my web pages to not use cookies, in order to avoid a fine?
But I know what you mean - the first time I typed text into the address bar ("2008 Olympics" I think it was) and it automatically took me to the best match (in this case here), I was in awe. Now I use it all the time.
Note that they're "negotiating". This is MS we're talking about here...
"We'll give you a financial boost if you'll fast-track our application to be an OSI-Approved License. Just ignore the incompatibilities, and here's $100k for your trouble."
Something tells me that the technology used will inevitably be faster than the athletes it's used to track. Athletes are, after all, not going twice as high, twice as long or twice as fast, every two years.
... potentially put the U.S. at risk of falling behind the rest of the world
Not going to happen - because the US will just swallow up (read: US-Australia Free Trade Agreement) anything that seems to be creeping ahead, thus quashing these technologies in other parts of the world as well.
This is completely weird. No mention anywhere on the mozilla.org site (at least none in an obvious place) of WHY there's a Mozilla 1.7.1 or Firefox 0.9.2.
Personally I would really like to see something at least in bold that says Hey there's a vulnerability (that we've fixed!) and you should upgrade.
Ona different machine, go find the "redist" version of SP1 (SP1a actually) and burn the executable to CD.
Or better yet, go visit AutoPatcher.com and download the latest one of those, including all the newest post-SP1 patches.
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I get many MANY like this. Some are only a few words, others go on for lines and lines, some are formated, others are all on a single line. My guess is that it's a bayesian confusion mechanism. Other you find these sorts of things inside otherwise spam emails. sometimes they just appear on their own.
Might I add here that I dual-boot Mandrake and WinXP (and before that, Fedora and WinXP) and have not had any problem with either scrambling my MBR. I switched from Fedora to Mandrake after a disagreement with some of the Fedora policies, and love Mandrake. Fact is I use the 2.6 kernel and it hasn't touched my XP partition at all.
Well - sorry to be morbid, and pour vinegar on deep wounds, but if this sort of thing happened more often, then things like the Bali bombing attacks and 9/11 might have been avoided.
What you're basically saying is that, if the guilty parties in the 9/11 attacks had been noticed snooping around in flight records, building plans and whatever else, that nobody should have done anything because they might just be doing something legit.
If there's one thing these recent attacks should have taught us, it's to not trust anything anybody does, ever.
Uhm.. I may be horribly wrong but don't all modern video cards do much of the 2D acceleration anyway? The fact that some do 3D acceleration as well is just an added bonus:-)
Although it's probably not needed anymore, there's a mirror of the software, movies and shots at PlanetMirror. Available via HTTP or FTP. They also have the.NET Framework available.
I wonder if at any point the makers thought that naming something ever-so-close to everyone's favourite WBcartoon dog (now a pairof major motion pictures by the same studio) would be just asking for trouble?
...mirrors would need to be in sync at all times for this to work. Otherwise your PDTP client is only able to download from the mirrors that are in sync, or worse, will get some chunks from files that aren't up-to-date, causing problems.
Unfortunately, it's (almost) impossible to mirror new files instantaneously, so mirrors are never all in sync, all the time.
Yes - the planet appears to be warming up. That much I don't dispute. But here's a newsflash for you: the planet is many billions of years old and we've been monitoring it for, what, 200-300 years? How the hell can we be 100% certain that the warming isn't a cyclic thing that the planet does every so often?
There is evidence to suggest that Ice Ages are a cyclic event in Earth's histroy (every 10,000 years or so, and we're due for one any time now), and that the planet warms up for a number of years, just before going into an Ice Age.
How arrogant can we possibly get as to think that we have even and inkling of understanding into how the planet works on an astronomical scale?
I want to make sure (a user) can't get through... an online experience without hitting a Microsoft ad.
Considering the number of Microsoft ads that crowd my Slashdot experience, isn't this already happening? Fortunately I can run click the "Block images from this server" button and enjoy a relatively popup- and ad-free experience.
Now if only they could have a "Block nauseating flash animations from this server" button.
No - I don't have a problem with them protecting their rights to stuff. I do have a problem with giving stuff away for free with one hand, and clenching a tight little fist around anybody trying to make a buck with the other. Intentional or not, that's the impression I'm getting from this move.
... software should be free to be downloaded by the masses. go forth and download all the Open Stuff you want. BUT don't you dare use our pictures or graphics, or we'll sue.
Seriously, all this litigation, threats of lawsuits, license clauses in software, logos and so on - it's starting to make "Open" look a heck of a lot more like "Closed" to me; imagine what it looks like to the Clueless Observer.
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Better yet - Please define "spyware". A lot of internet users and anti-spyware companies consider browser cookies to be a form of spyware. Does this mean that I will end up having to recode all my web pages to not use cookies, in order to avoid a fine?
Really? I use Firefox myself.
But I know what you mean - the first time I typed text into the address bar ("2008 Olympics" I think it was) and it automatically took me to the best match (in this case here), I was in awe. Now I use it all the time.
Note that they're "negotiating". This is MS we're talking about here...
"We'll give you a financial boost if you'll fast-track our application to be an OSI-Approved License. Just ignore the incompatibilities, and here's $100k for your trouble."
Sorry - had to be said:
Where's Australia, and the rest of the world, you insensitive clod?
I got the following unexpected response when trying to retrieve <http://slashdot.org/>:
Please make sure you have entered the URL correctly.
Big Oooops?
Something tells me that the technology used will inevitably be faster than the athletes it's used to track. Athletes are, after all, not going twice as high, twice as long or twice as fast, every two years.
... potentially put the U.S. at risk of falling behind the rest of the world
Not going to happen - because the US will just swallow up (read: US-Australia Free Trade Agreement) anything that seems to be creeping ahead, thus quashing these technologies in other parts of the world as well.
Or you could get it from PlanetMirror, now couldn't you? :-)
This is completely weird. No mention anywhere on the mozilla.org site (at least none in an obvious place) of WHY there's a Mozilla 1.7.1 or Firefox 0.9.2.
Personally I would really like to see something at least in bold that says Hey there's a vulnerability (that we've fixed!) and you should upgrade.
Ona different machine, go find the "redist" version of SP1 (SP1a actually) and burn the executable to CD.
Or better yet, go visit AutoPatcher.com and download the latest one of those, including all the newest post-SP1 patches.
I get many MANY like this. Some are only a few words, others go on for lines and lines, some are formated, others are all on a single line. My guess is that it's a bayesian confusion mechanism. Other you find these sorts of things inside otherwise spam emails. sometimes they just appear on their own.
- Move to a safer neighbourhood
- Don't carry all my stuff around with me
Just a thoughtMight I add here that I dual-boot Mandrake and WinXP (and before that, Fedora and WinXP) and have not had any problem with either scrambling my MBR. I switched from Fedora to Mandrake after a disagreement with some of the Fedora policies, and love Mandrake. Fact is I use the 2.6 kernel and it hasn't touched my XP partition at all.
Well - sorry to be morbid, and pour vinegar on deep wounds, but if this sort of thing happened more often, then things like the Bali bombing attacks and 9/11 might have been avoided.
What you're basically saying is that, if the guilty parties in the 9/11 attacks had been noticed snooping around in flight records, building plans and whatever else, that nobody should have done anything because they might just be doing something legit.
If there's one thing these recent attacks should have taught us, it's to not trust anything anybody does, ever.
If you're looking for a place to host your stuff, check out PlanetMirror - can't hurt to send 'em an email. support (AT) planetmirror.com
Uhm.. I may be horribly wrong but don't all modern video cards do much of the 2D acceleration anyway? The fact that some do 3D acceleration as well is just an added bonus :-)
Although it's probably not needed anymore, there's a mirror of the software, movies and shots at PlanetMirror. Available via HTTP or FTP. They also have the .NET Framework available.
I wonder if at any point the makers thought that naming something ever-so-close to everyone's favourite WB cartoon dog (now a pair of major motion pictures by the same studio) would be just asking for trouble?
Aha! I beat all of you. On two counts. I use Xine. AND I don't play and .xm files.
...mirrors would need to be in sync at all times for this to work. Otherwise your PDTP client is only able to download from the mirrors that are in sync, or worse, will get some chunks from files that aren't up-to-date, causing problems.
Unfortunately, it's (almost) impossible to mirror new files instantaneously, so mirrors are never all in sync, all the time.
Mirror available at PlanetMirror now here.
Yes - the planet appears to be warming up. That much I don't dispute. But here's a newsflash for you: the planet is many billions of years old and we've been monitoring it for, what, 200-300 years? How the hell can we be 100% certain that the warming isn't a cyclic thing that the planet does every so often?
There is evidence to suggest that Ice Ages are a cyclic event in Earth's histroy (every 10,000 years or so, and we're due for one any time now), and that the planet warms up for a number of years, just before going into an Ice Age.
How arrogant can we possibly get as to think that we have even and inkling of understanding into how the planet works on an astronomical scale?
I want to make sure (a user) can't get through ... an online experience without hitting a Microsoft ad.
Considering the number of Microsoft ads that crowd my Slashdot experience, isn't this already happening? Fortunately I can run click the "Block images from this server" button and enjoy a relatively popup- and ad-free experience.
Now if only they could have a "Block nauseating flash animations from this server" button.
No - I don't have a problem with them protecting their rights to stuff. I do have a problem with giving stuff away for free with one hand, and clenching a tight little fist around anybody trying to make a buck with the other. Intentional or not, that's the impression I'm getting from this move.
... software should be free to be downloaded by the masses. go forth and download all the Open Stuff you want. BUT don't you dare use our pictures or graphics, or we'll sue.
Seriously, all this litigation, threats of lawsuits, license clauses in software, logos and so on - it's starting to make "Open" look a heck of a lot more like "Closed" to me; imagine what it looks like to the Clueless Observer.