You're mistaken. Firefox copied the yellow information bar from Internet Explorer in the beta of XP service pack 2. That meant that Firefox builds had it before SP2 was released, but the IE team invented it.
In today's modern galaxy there is of course very little still held to be unspeakable. Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that were they to be merely breathed in public, the perpetrator would be shunned, barred from polite society, and in extreme case shot through the lungs, are now thought to be very healthy and proper, and their use in everyday speech is seen as evidence of a well-adjusted, relaxed, and totally un(bleep)ed up personality.
So for instance, when in a recent national speech the Financial Minister of the Royal World Estate of Quarlvista actually dared to say that due to one thing and another and the fact that no one had made any food for a while and the King seemed to have died and that most of the population had been on holiday now for over three years, the economy was now in what he called "one whole joojooflop situation," everyone was so pleased he felt able to come out and say it they quite failed to notice that their five thousand year-old civilization had just collapsed overnight.
But though even words like joojooflop, swut, and turlingdrome are now perfectly acceptable in common usage there is one word that is still beyond the pale. The concept it embodies is so revolting that the publication or broadcast of the word is utterly forbidden in all parts of the galaxy except one where they don't know what it means. That word is 'belgium' and it is only ever used by loose-tongued people like Zaphod Beeblebrox in situations of dire provocation.
You'll have to bust your butt trying to create a meaningful document with the same MD5 hash as the original, but if we check with two alorithms, say MD5 & SHA-1, then it's going to be damn hard (I'd almost say impossible, but I'll not go that far without a mathematical proof) to get anything meaningful that produces the same MD5 hash AND the same SHA-1 hash as the original does.
Such collisions must exist. The potential document space is much larger than the MD5,SHA-1 space. There are more possible documents than possible combinations of hashes, therefore collisions must exist (by the pigeonhole principle). Granted, this doesn't prove that for any given combination of hashes there is at least one collision on that combination.
The grandparent surely wasn't talking about K&R. He said "ANSI C" was the book he has, while K&R makes it clear that it is not the standard, but is merely informative (not normative).
At first I thought you were joking but then I did a bit of research and it turns out that you're not far from the truth! Apparently both characters were played by the same actor! Some guy named Harrison Ford. I wonder if he's been in anything else good?
Pretty cool piece of trivia for you movie buffs, huh? Your friends will never believe you when you tell them.
1.0.x releases are for security fixes, not features. This new update mechanism is a major new feature. We're due an alpha release of 1.1 really soon, so 1.1 final is nowhere near 6 months away.
It doesn't include downloads from the update feature, so most updates aren't counted. Some people update manually though, so those wil have been counted. I'm typing this in Firefox on a brand new Ubuntu install so this copy isn't counted. The three I've done at home and in college for Windows machines are counted. The one I use in college on Linux is not counted (came with Fedora Core). So you can see that it isn't a perfectly representative number.
I think everyone recognises that it would be a difficult attack to pull off again, for the reason you gave. But they didn't know the nature of the attack. No-one other than the terrorists knew they were going to fly into buildings.
I agree with all of that up until the last paragraph. Would you deny marriage to atheists, or others without a formal church? Marriage is more a cultural institution than a religious one. The legal union of two (or more?) people should be called marriage whether or not any church cares to recognise it as such.
There is no recognised sovereign nation on Earth that views the island of Ireland as a single country. The constitution of the Republic doesn't even claim the north anymore, and neither does a majority of its population. Similarly a majority population in Northern Ireland doesn't want reunification.
Whatever your personal feelings and opinions it's quite stretch to talk of the island of Ireland as a single country.
Ireland is the name of the island, which includes Northern Ireland (part of the UK) and the Republic of Ireland (a seperate nation). The Republic of Ireland is officially called Ireland (in English) or Eire (in Irish). The name "Republic of Ireland" is its official description for use in contexts where the distinction between the nation and the island (both named Ireland) is necessary to avoid ambiguity.
So yes, part of Ireland (the island) is in the UK. None of Ireland (the country) is in the UK.
Now, we're all going to have to go see it
just to se if it really is that bad.
Oh come on! How many people weren't planning on seeing it but have changed their minds based on a bad review? Sure most of us will go despite the review but no-one's going to see it because of the review.
Does anyone know which books this movie was based off of? Just the first? I have looked but I could not find an answer, thanks.
It's not based on the books. It's based on the screenplay by Douglas Adams, which was then re-written after his death. It presumably derives from the radio show, the books, possibly the TV show, and apparently includes scenes and characters that have never appeared in any of the previous incarnations.
I would imagine that parts of at least the first two books made it in, and parts of the first two radio show phases, though I don't actually know.
Disaaster Area isn't in the radio show either. Is that an abomination? Everyone has their favourite bits of the radio show and books (and some people even like the TV show). Not all of those bits are in every other version. So what? You can still enjoy the books. They haven't removed anything from them, they ust haven't included some stuff in the movie.
Dammit, don't post anonymously when you're saying something like that or people won't see it. Every time a post like yours becomes more visible one of the "pompous assholes" will learn something and change his ways.
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Anoying, isn't it? I don't think any European countries are particularly known for their cinema attendence. France seems to produce a lot of films; maybe it's them. Or perhaps it's somewhere with a particularly young population (Ireland has one of the youngest populations in the world I believe, which may contribute to its high rate of cinema-going). That rules out Germany.
I'm surprised there are as many as 500. I live in a town of < 20,000 people and one cinema (with one screen). If there was one screen for every 20,000 people in a country of ~4m there'd be only 200 screens. Okay, so there are smaller towns than mine with cinemas in them, and being quite close to Dublin we have access to all of the mulitplexes too which probably limits the business opportunities of the local. 500 screens is certainly of the right order.
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In today's modern galaxy there is of course very little still held to be unspeakable. Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that were they to be merely breathed in public, the perpetrator would be shunned, barred from polite society, and in extreme case shot through the lungs, are now thought to be very healthy and proper, and their use in everyday speech is seen as evidence of a well-adjusted, relaxed, and totally un(bleep)ed up personality.
So for instance, when in a recent national speech the Financial Minister of the Royal World Estate of Quarlvista actually dared to say that due to one thing and another and the fact that no one had made any food for a while and the King seemed to have died and that most of the population had been on holiday now for over three years, the economy was now in what he called "one whole joojooflop situation," everyone was so pleased he felt able to come out and say it they quite failed to notice that their five thousand year-old civilization had just collapsed overnight.
But though even words like joojooflop, swut, and turlingdrome are now perfectly acceptable in common usage there is one word that is still beyond the pale. The concept it embodies is so revolting that the publication or broadcast of the word is utterly forbidden in all parts of the galaxy except one where they don't know what it means. That word is 'belgium' and it is only ever used by loose-tongued people like Zaphod Beeblebrox in situations of dire provocation.
Such collisions must exist. The potential document space is much larger than the MD5,SHA-1 space. There are more possible documents than possible combinations of hashes, therefore collisions must exist (by the pigeonhole principle). Granted, this doesn't prove that for any given combination of hashes there is at least one collision on that combination.
The grandparent surely wasn't talking about K&R. He said "ANSI C" was the book he has, while K&R makes it clear that it is not the standard, but is merely informative (not normative).
At first I thought you were joking but then I did a bit of research and it turns out that you're not far from the truth! Apparently both characters were played by the same actor! Some guy named Harrison Ford. I wonder if he's been in anything else good?
Pretty cool piece of trivia for you movie buffs, huh? Your friends will never believe you when you tell them.
1.0.x releases are for security fixes, not features. This new update mechanism is a major new feature. We're due an alpha release of 1.1 really soon, so 1.1 final is nowhere near 6 months away.
Firefox 1.1 will have support for binary patches, meaning no more full application download to fix a single bug.
It doesn't include downloads from the update feature, so most updates aren't counted. Some people update manually though, so those wil have been counted. I'm typing this in Firefox on a brand new Ubuntu install so this copy isn't counted. The three I've done at home and in college for Windows machines are counted. The one I use in college on Linux is not counted (came with Fedora Core). So you can see that it isn't a perfectly representative number.
16:59:00 - 8:00:01 = 8:58:59
Game over. Thanks for playing.
I think everyone recognises that it would be a difficult attack to pull off again, for the reason you gave. But they didn't know the nature of the attack. No-one other than the terrorists knew they were going to fly into buildings.
I agree with all of that up until the last paragraph. Would you deny marriage to atheists, or others without a formal church? Marriage is more a cultural institution than a religious one. The legal union of two (or more?) people should be called marriage whether or not any church cares to recognise it as such.
There is no recognised sovereign nation on Earth that views the island of Ireland as a single country. The constitution of the Republic doesn't even claim the north anymore, and neither does a majority of its population. Similarly a majority population in Northern Ireland doesn't want reunification.
Whatever your personal feelings and opinions it's quite stretch to talk of the island of Ireland as a single country.
Ireland is the name of the island, which includes Northern Ireland (part of the UK) and the Republic of Ireland (a seperate nation). The Republic of Ireland is officially called Ireland (in English) or Eire (in Irish). The name "Republic of Ireland" is its official description for use in contexts where the distinction between the nation and the island (both named Ireland) is necessary to avoid ambiguity.
So yes, part of Ireland (the island) is in the UK. None of Ireland (the country) is in the UK.
No, he's just got this terrible pain in all of the diodes down his left side. Life. Don't talk to me about life.
Oh come on! How many people weren't planning on seeing it but have changed their minds based on a bad review? Sure most of us will go despite the review but no-one's going to see it because of the review.
It's not based on the books. It's based on the screenplay by Douglas Adams, which was then re-written after his death. It presumably derives from the radio show, the books, possibly the TV show, and apparently includes scenes and characters that have never appeared in any of the previous incarnations.
I would imagine that parts of at least the first two books made it in, and parts of the first two radio show phases, though I don't actually know.
Disaaster Area isn't in the radio show either. Is that an abomination? Everyone has their favourite bits of the radio show and books (and some people even like the TV show). Not all of those bits are in every other version. So what? You can still enjoy the books. They haven't removed anything from them, they ust haven't included some stuff in the movie.
I assume you mean "more important than grandma's" (or "grandmas' "). Otherwise you're being very callous.
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Psst... Mitchell Baker is not a "he".
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Anoying, isn't it? I don't think any European countries are particularly known for their cinema attendence. France seems to produce a lot of films; maybe it's them. Or perhaps it's somewhere with a particularly young population (Ireland has one of the youngest populations in the world I believe, which may contribute to its high rate of cinema-going). That rules out Germany.
I'm surprised there are as many as 500. I live in a town of < 20,000 people and one cinema (with one screen). If there was one screen for every 20,000 people in a country of ~4m there'd be only 200 screens. Okay, so there are smaller towns than mine with cinemas in them, and being quite close to Dublin we have access to all of the mulitplexes too which probably limits the business opportunities of the local. 500 screens is certainly of the right order.
Second highest cinema attendance in Europe according to the article.