Why? Who else is there to replace them? Or are you advocating a no-standards-free-for-all?
This is the whole point of the submission. Did you not read that declaration by representatives of those 6 nations?
OK, I am not new here, so I should know better. It is a signed declaration, put in very strong terms, that while these guys aren't going to waste any more time and money pursuing appeals, they object to the way the ISO/IEC bent all the rules to railroad the proposals.
Furthermore, "What is now clear is that we will have to, albeit reluctantly, re-evaluate our assessment of ISO/IEC, particularly in its relevance to our various national government interoperability frameworks. Whereas in the past it has been assumed that an ISO/IEC standard should automatically be considered for use within government, clearly this position no longer stands."
Seems pretty clear to me. What part of that don't you understand?
In the old style multi-tabbed environments(Firefox, Opera), if one tab crashes, all tabs crash.
Personally, I couldn't care less about this. If a tab crashes when I'm in the middle of some online transaction (which, unfortunately, usually seems to be the case) I couldn't care less if my other tabs go down too. The damage is done. A tab devoted to Slashdot is just not that important.
So the single-process approach is at least as desirable if I am using the machine for anything else at the same time.
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Mozilla has no one to blame but themselves for getting humiliated by Google and Chrome.
Humiliated? Where did you pull that from?
So Google have come up with a sort of functional (for some) browser. Great, that's nice, atrength in diversity, different strokes for different folks yada yada. But Firefox is a feature-rich, mature browser, lean in itself, but with lots of add-ons tailored to individuals with individual requirements.
Chrome has only just been released, lacks features other than stability and apparently has a huge memory footprint.
If I were a Firefox developer, I really don't think I would be humiliated.
and possible very helpful for many web users who want a very fast and safe browser.
I'll give you fast, since I haven't tried it (because I can't), but your definition of "safe" might depend on the thickness of your tin-foil hat.
I have always gone to quite a lot of trouble to minimise tracking of my movements (I feel no personal requirement to contribute to marketing statistics), so I don't let my browser keep persistent cookies. It beggars belief that Google has somehow neglected to incorporate the best tracking routines they can design into their own browser. That alone seems a good reason to give Chrome a wide berth.
There've been three browsers (and Opera!) for a long time now.
Let me see, that must be Firefox, Safari, Opera, and what? Oh, Konqueror, of course!;-)
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Yeah, it's getting to the stage where the UA string might as well be abandoned altogether. Obviously, if websites are coded to standards, it shouldn't matter what browser you use.
In my experience it seems to be used mainly as a cop-out to explain why someone's crappy code crashed the browser. Hence those stupid "browser-check" windows you sometimes see.
Fortunately, forcing your way past the latter usually has no unpleasant consequences in Firefox, but it is still tiresome that prople are just too lazy to do their job properly.
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Also, the comic is quite entertaining for a geek...
If Google were aiming this at geeks, it would have made sense to develop a *nix or OS X version first, and get the geeks interested in using it.
Sadly, by making it Windows-only, they have missed the boat for stirring any interest in much of the more tech-savvy community, and quite probably have left yet another opportunity for malware infestations on insecure boxes.
every single increment brings us closer to "accepting the inevitability" of an actual conflict with Russia - something which Bush and Putin would both seem to benefit from wrt power consolidation.
The practice of setting up straw dolls as a focus for enmity is hardly confined to recent history.
But many of those of us who lived through the Cold War, in the expectation that someone like Ronnie Ray-Gun was highly likely to push the button and blow us all to hell might not see this as such an increment.
Russia is not the same nation as it was in the '70s and '80s. It is nearly broke, and has a disorganised and ill-equipped military. Russia cannot afford a major conflict with the US or Europe, regardless of what bellicose rhetoric Putin might spout.
I used to know a guy (back in the early 14th century, when the planet was newly cooled, and there was no internet etc...) who just let the bills pile up in his hallway. Each month, he would pay just one bill from that pile.
If anybody objected or sent the bailiffs round, he would simply offer the opportunity to refuse to participate in his lottery, in which case they wouldn't get paid.:-)
OK, he was a hippie (as was I) but the notion was interesting nonetheless...
Let's remember if they've got you and your device physically, there really isn't much you can do to defend yourself at that point.
Well, actually there is. You can be very careful what you leave lying around on your phone.
Unless, of course, you really are a terrorist or some other sort of criminal, "they" won't get much joy out of your contacts list or "c u @ 7.00 2nite" text messages.
...was go shopping for antique rings. But if I were doing it all over again, I would probably go for something funky in the way of mokume-game, where you get interesting effects from different coloured metals diffusion-welded together.
I couldn't have done it when I got married (18 years ago), but I have acquired a lot more skill in metalwork and jewellery since then, so I would be tempted to make something myself. Or at least offer to.
Reiser3 is considered feature-complete and very stable. I'm not sure how well it stacks up for performance against newer journalling filesystems, but at the time I installed it on my machines it was the stand-out winner by a significant margin.
I haven't considered changing simply because reformatting == unnecessary downtime for no perceptible gain in performance.
Something that has been overlooked in the majority of posts here is that the legal consequence of a crime is to be sent to jail AS punishment, rather than being sent there FOR punishment.
Anal rape and beatings are not part of the sentence handed down by the judge, but deprivation of liberty is.
Bearing this in mind, it isn't inconsistent to design these institutions with rehabilitation in mind.
There isn't room in society for people that do that.
There's no point debating that point, since the argument would last forever.
But the fact that the legal system can and does allow for a killer's release has to be regarded as a recognition that there must be such a place in society.
None of us really know the circumstances of his crime, and it's not unreasonable to suggest that factors other than unmitigated evil may have been at work. Reiser is an intelligent man, he has already contributed a lot to all of us (regardless of whether you use the actual filesystem he developed) and there is no reason to suppose that he can't continue to do so after his release.
Thumping a bible and chanting "kill 'em all and let God sort 'em" accomplishes nothing other than exposing simplistic thinking. The rest of society disagrees with you, and this acceptance of degree is reflected (however imperfectly) in the laws we make.
Most burnable cds only last around two or three years under usage.
I stopped using re-writables for backups about 2 years ago (since USB HDDs are so cheap now), but I have CD-RW media from 1998 (over-written on a 3-week cycle) here that still read just fine. I have yet to become so confident with DVDs however...
Would you like them to offer up *your* email for any hack to see if he can find any juicy bits? Irrespective of whether or not any such nuggets are to be found, the principle remains questionable.
In other words, ethics are negotiable. I can't say this impresses me much.
No matter which way you slice it, to breach someone's privacy just to offer the media a convenient fishing trip is ethically unsound. Looks like they might need those funds for their own defence.
except for the fact that viruses hang out on USB sticks now.
I really don't see that this is so very much different from the viruses I used to write (*ahem*, oops) back in the early 14th century when we all used 5.25" floppy dicks. (;-))
The take-home message is that, just as in a sexual relationship, you have to be a bit careful where you stick your "stick".
Something I find useful when travelling is the wall-wart charger Apple sells for iPods. Since it is designed to deliver charge at conventional USB line levels through the USB socket in the back of it, it works as a convenient "universal" charger if (like me) you adopt a policy of buying only USB-charging gadgets.
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There are some exceptions, mostly for beer and sprits.
And road signs, which might be just about the first things the traveller might see there.
Why? Who else is there to replace them? Or are you advocating a no-standards-free-for-all?
This is the whole point of the submission. Did you not read that declaration by representatives of those 6 nations?
OK, I am not new here, so I should know better. It is a signed declaration, put in very strong terms, that while these guys aren't going to waste any more time and money pursuing appeals, they object to the way the ISO/IEC bent all the rules to railroad the proposals.
Furthermore,
"What is now clear is that we will have to, albeit reluctantly, re-evaluate our assessment of ISO/IEC, particularly in its relevance to our various national government interoperability frameworks. Whereas in the past it has been assumed that an ISO/IEC standard should automatically be considered for use within government, clearly this position no longer stands."
Seems pretty clear to me. What part of that don't you understand?
In the old style multi-tabbed environments(Firefox, Opera), if one tab crashes, all tabs crash.
Personally, I couldn't care less about this. If a tab crashes when I'm in the middle of some online transaction (which, unfortunately, usually seems to be the case) I couldn't care less if my other tabs go down too. The damage is done. A tab devoted to Slashdot is just not that important.
So the single-process approach is at least as desirable if I am using the machine for anything else at the same time.
Mozilla has no one to blame but themselves for getting humiliated by Google and Chrome.
Humiliated? Where did you pull that from?
So Google have come up with a sort of functional (for some) browser. Great, that's nice, atrength in diversity, different strokes for different folks yada yada. But Firefox is a feature-rich, mature browser, lean in itself, but with lots of add-ons tailored to individuals with individual requirements.
Chrome has only just been released, lacks features other than stability and apparently has a huge memory footprint.
If I were a Firefox developer, I really don't think I would be humiliated.
and possible very helpful for many web users who want a very fast and safe browser.
I'll give you fast, since I haven't tried it (because I can't), but your definition of "safe" might depend on the thickness of your tin-foil hat.
I have always gone to quite a lot of trouble to minimise tracking of my movements (I feel no personal requirement to contribute to marketing statistics), so I don't let my browser keep persistent cookies. It beggars belief that Google has somehow neglected to incorporate the best tracking routines they can design into their own browser. That alone seems a good reason to give Chrome a wide berth.
There've been three browsers (and Opera!) for a long time now.
;-)
Let me see, that must be Firefox, Safari, Opera, and what? Oh, Konqueror, of course!
Yeah, it's getting to the stage where the UA string might as well be abandoned altogether. Obviously, if websites are coded to standards, it shouldn't matter what browser you use.
In my experience it seems to be used mainly as a cop-out to explain why someone's crappy code crashed the browser. Hence those stupid "browser-check" windows you sometimes see.
Fortunately, forcing your way past the latter usually has no unpleasant consequences in Firefox, but it is still tiresome that prople are just too lazy to do their job properly.
Also, the comic is quite entertaining for a geek...
If Google were aiming this at geeks, it would have made sense to develop a *nix or OS X version first, and get the geeks interested in using it.
Sadly, by making it Windows-only, they have missed the boat for stirring any interest in much of the more tech-savvy community, and quite probably have left yet another opportunity for malware infestations on insecure boxes.
every single increment brings us closer to "accepting the inevitability" of an actual conflict with Russia - something which Bush and Putin would both seem to benefit from wrt power consolidation.
The practice of setting up straw dolls as a focus for enmity is hardly confined to recent history.
But many of those of us who lived through the Cold War, in the expectation that someone like Ronnie Ray-Gun was highly likely to push the button and blow us all to hell might not see this as such an increment.
Russia is not the same nation as it was in the '70s and '80s. It is nearly broke, and has a disorganised and ill-equipped military. Russia cannot afford a major conflict with the US or Europe, regardless of what bellicose rhetoric Putin might spout.
Here we get free banking until the age of 25 :)
As a matter of (purely historical, in my case), where's "here"?
This is true.
In Australia, the customer is alway wrong.
Ha!
:-)
I used to know a guy (back in the early 14th century, when the planet was newly cooled, and there was no internet etc...) who just let the bills pile up in his hallway. Each month, he would pay just one bill from that pile.
If anybody objected or sent the bailiffs round, he would simply offer the opportunity to refuse to participate in his lottery, in which case they wouldn't get paid.
OK, he was a hippie (as was I) but the notion was interesting nonetheless...
Let's remember if they've got you and your device physically, there really isn't much you can do to defend yourself at that point.
Well, actually there is. You can be very careful what you leave lying around on your phone.
Unless, of course, you really are a terrorist or some other sort of criminal, "they" won't get much joy out of your contacts list or "c u @ 7.00 2nite" text messages.
...was go shopping for antique rings. But if I were doing it all over again, I would probably go for something funky in the way of mokume-game, where you get interesting effects from different coloured metals diffusion-welded together.
I couldn't have done it when I got married (18 years ago), but I have acquired a lot more skill in metalwork and jewellery since then, so I would be tempted to make something myself. Or at least offer to.
Reiser3 is considered feature-complete and very stable. I'm not sure how well it stacks up for performance against newer journalling filesystems, but at the time I installed it on my machines it was the stand-out winner by a significant margin.
I haven't considered changing simply because reformatting == unnecessary downtime for no perceptible gain in performance.
Something that has been overlooked in the majority of posts here is that the legal consequence of a crime is to be sent to jail AS punishment, rather than being sent there FOR punishment.
Anal rape and beatings are not part of the sentence handed down by the judge, but deprivation of liberty is.
Bearing this in mind, it isn't inconsistent to design these institutions with rehabilitation in mind.
There isn't room in society for people that do that.
There's no point debating that point, since the argument would last forever.
But the fact that the legal system can and does allow for a killer's release has to be regarded as a recognition that there must be such a place in society.
None of us really know the circumstances of his crime, and it's not unreasonable to suggest that factors other than unmitigated evil may have been at work. Reiser is an intelligent man, he has already contributed a lot to all of us (regardless of whether you use the actual filesystem he developed) and there is no reason to suppose that he can't continue to do so after his release.
Thumping a bible and chanting "kill 'em all and let God sort 'em" accomplishes nothing other than exposing simplistic thinking. The rest of society disagrees with you, and this acceptance of degree is reflected (however imperfectly) in the laws we make.
Well, I always did think ReiserFS was a killer filesystem. ;-)
I'm still using Reiser3 on this machine, in fact. Though I gather the poor guy hasn't contributed much code lately...
And don't forget, 15 years won't seem so long now he's no longer married.
Nitrogen is not really per se an inert gas. You'll need to look to the so-called "noble" gases such as He, Ar, Xe etc to avoid oxidation.
But, given how these cells work, I don't think this applies in any case. Sorry.
Most burnable cds only last around two or three years under usage.
I stopped using re-writables for backups about 2 years ago (since USB HDDs are so cheap now), but I have CD-RW media from 1998 (over-written on a 3-week cycle) here that still read just fine. I have yet to become so confident with DVDs however...
Would you like them to offer up *your* email for any hack to see if he can find any juicy bits? Irrespective of whether or not any such nuggets are to be found, the principle remains questionable.
In other words, ethics are negotiable. I can't say this impresses me much.
No matter which way you slice it, to breach someone's privacy just to offer the media a convenient fishing trip is ethically unsound. Looks like they might need those funds for their own defence.
except for the fact that viruses hang out on USB sticks now.
I really don't see that this is so very much different from the viruses I used to write (*ahem*, oops) back in the early 14th century when we all used 5.25" floppy dicks. (;-))
The take-home message is that, just as in a sexual relationship, you have to be a bit careful where you stick your "stick".
Something I find useful when travelling is the wall-wart charger Apple sells for iPods. Since it is designed to deliver charge at conventional USB line levels through the USB socket in the back of it, it works as a convenient "universal" charger if (like me) you adopt a policy of buying only USB-charging gadgets.