I severely doubt the US will use nuclear weapons. There's very little international support for that, even after such a tragedy, and it's simply not necessary - the US has enough firepower to turn anything they want into dust with conventional weaponry.
Generally, however, old Netscape browsers will just crash on newer pages, even if the pages are 100% W3C standards-compliant. That's simply because they follow standards that the Netscape team never envisioned (and through some rather sloppy coding didn't properly prepare for).
So you're claiming Microsoft is making a mistake by providing backwards compatibility for DOS, but "open source," whose primary operating systems are Linux and FreeBSD, both designed to be backwards-compatible with 1970s UNIX systems, are somehow not?
And what's wrong with a GUI app parsing the command line? That way you get the best of both worlds - GUI when it's more convenient, and CLI when it's more convenient.
I don't see why you'd want to hobble yourself by doing things 100% GUI (Visual Basic) or 100% CLI (gcc and gdb and nothing else).
That may be - I'm not saying the lawsuit is without merit. I'm merely saying that the Slashdot report, which in effect said that this CD wouldn't play on any CD players - "standard" or otherwise - is incorrect. It does play in some players (most typical stereo component players and portable CD players, for example), the problem being that it doesn't play in all players.
No, which is why there is a lawsuit here. What all you slashbots cannot seem to comprehend with your substandard reading comprehension is that I am not taking the RIAA's side here - I'm merely pointing out that Slashdot misrepresented the nature of the CDs. They do not play in CD-ROM drives, which is the problem here, and the sole problem. The Slashdot story claimed that they do not play in standard CD players either, which is false, as they do play in standard CD players.
This does not mean that I think them not playing in CD-ROM drives is ok.
It may not be the point, but the Slashdot summary is clearly incorrect - this suit is about not being able to play a CD you've purchased in a CD-ROM drive, while the Slashdot summary claims it's about not being able to play a CD you've purchased at all,, either in a CD-ROM drive or a standard CD player, which is clearly not the case, as it plays in a standard CD player just fine.
Perhaps if you weren't as fucking ignorant about government as the Slashdot editors, you'd post a comment that made sense.
Hint: the Department of Justice is part of the executive branch. The judicial branch, as any good 7th-grade civics class will teach you, is made up of the courts.
The antitrust official said the decision announced today was not connected to the introduction of the Windows XP system. He said Attorney General John D. Ashcroft had been notified of the decision but had not influenced the outcome. The official said there had been no White House involvement. "The decisions about this case are being made in the Department of Justice," he said.
Now you might speculate that they're lying, and that Bush actually did order this action, but to report so as fact is clearly very poor journalism.
Perhaps you cannot read, but the article did not state that the Justice Department did this at the instruction of Bush. You might speculate that he was the source of the decision, but reporting it as fact is clearly extremely poor journalism. FWIW, the Justice Department specifically disclaims any administration involvement, saying that the decision was made internally so that the case could be concluded in a reasonable period of time.
Anyone taken a look at the code of SSLeay? Good package thou).
And that is exactly why I consider software "beauty" to be a minor point of importance. I'd much prefer something like SSLeay to be hideous on the inside but still be a "good package" than some elegant, beautiful, but overall rather useless and crappy piece of software.
Despite not being as overwhelmingly monopolistic as they were in the 1980s, this shows just how huge IBM still is - the number 2 computer company, HP, buys the number 3 computer company, and becomes...still number 2. Still can't pass IBM, even combined.
I'd still like to know what frequency my chips are running at. It's especially useful when you want to overclock or underclock your chip to know what the baseline frequency is.
I've seen this debunked as an "urban myth," and seen it reaffirmed as truth, so it's hard to say whether this is actually what the design was based on, but the other side of the story is that QWERTY keyboards were not designed to slow down the typist to avoid jams, but were designed with the most common letters furthers apart because if letters very close to each other were pressed in quick succession it would cause jams. With the common letters further apart, the typist could actually type very fast without jamming the typewriter.
Yeah, this is still a really gray area. On the one hand, one can hardly expect an ISP to give you say a $0.50 refund every time the system is down for 6 hours. But on the other hand, what if it's an extreme case, and the system is down for the entire month? Surely you can't be expected to pay your monthly fee if you didn't get any service at all. So what about the cases in between?
The only time I can think of that this became a legal issue was with AOL downtime and limited availability in early 1997 as they were switching from 20 hours a month free access to completely unmetered access. But they settled that by offering refunds (in the form of rebates on the next month's fee).
Opera. UGH. First of all it is horribly crowded, 100 things going on at once, and it crashes when I try to load just about any page.
Try the Windows version. It's much more stable, and faster. And has the nifty gesture navigation that I can't live without after using it for a few months now...
Because most of those 8% dual-boot Windows to play games, and most of the ones who don't are the sort who don't want to play games anyway. Porting to Linux might get you a 0.5% to 2% sales increase, judging by previous ported games, which simply isn't worth the cost.
I do. I have no need for Apache, Perl, Python, vim, etc. They're all optional utilities, but not essential to booting a GNU/Linux system. The GNU part is essential though - my system would be completely unusable without glibc, bash, and gcc.
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He said nothing, because he did not bomb Hiroshima. He died several months before the bombing.
I severely doubt the US will use nuclear weapons. There's very little international support for that, even after such a tragedy, and it's simply not necessary - the US has enough firepower to turn anything they want into dust with conventional weaponry.
Oh but I disagree - this is precisely what /. was made for. That and l33t Linux users!
well msnbc.com is still up and fast too, having switched to a "high-traffic" minimalist mode.
It appears only Microsoft can handle the big things.
Generally, however, old Netscape browsers will just crash on newer pages, even if the pages are 100% W3C standards-compliant. That's simply because they follow standards that the Netscape team never envisioned (and through some rather sloppy coding didn't properly prepare for).
So you're claiming Microsoft is making a mistake by providing backwards compatibility for DOS, but "open source," whose primary operating systems are Linux and FreeBSD, both designed to be backwards-compatible with 1970s UNIX systems, are somehow not?
And what's wrong with a GUI app parsing the command line? That way you get the best of both worlds - GUI when it's more convenient, and CLI when it's more convenient.
I don't see why you'd want to hobble yourself by doing things 100% GUI (Visual Basic) or 100% CLI (gcc and gdb and nothing else).
That may be - I'm not saying the lawsuit is without merit. I'm merely saying that the Slashdot report, which in effect said that this CD wouldn't play on any CD players - "standard" or otherwise - is incorrect. It does play in some players (most typical stereo component players and portable CD players, for example), the problem being that it doesn't play in all players.
No, which is why there is a lawsuit here. What all you slashbots cannot seem to comprehend with your substandard reading comprehension is that I am not taking the RIAA's side here - I'm merely pointing out that Slashdot misrepresented the nature of the CDs. They do not play in CD-ROM drives, which is the problem here, and the sole problem. The Slashdot story claimed that they do not play in standard CD players either, which is false, as they do play in standard CD players.
This does not mean that I think them not playing in CD-ROM drives is ok.
It may not be the point, but the Slashdot summary is clearly incorrect - this suit is about not being able to play a CD you've purchased in a CD-ROM drive, while the Slashdot summary claims it's about not being able to play a CD you've purchased at all,, either in a CD-ROM drive or a standard CD player, which is clearly not the case, as it plays in a standard CD player just fine.
Perhaps if you weren't as fucking ignorant about government as the Slashdot editors, you'd post a comment that made sense.
Hint: the Department of Justice is part of the executive branch. The judicial branch, as any good 7th-grade civics class will teach you, is made up of the courts.
Now you might speculate that they're lying, and that Bush actually did order this action, but to report so as fact is clearly very poor journalism.
Perhaps you cannot read, but the article did not state that the Justice Department did this at the instruction of Bush. You might speculate that he was the source of the decision, but reporting it as fact is clearly extremely poor journalism. FWIW, the Justice Department specifically disclaims any administration involvement, saying that the decision was made internally so that the case could be concluded in a reasonable period of time.
Anyone taken a look at the code of SSLeay? Good package thou).
And that is exactly why I consider software "beauty" to be a minor point of importance. I'd much prefer something like SSLeay to be hideous on the inside but still be a "good package" than some elegant, beautiful, but overall rather useless and crappy piece of software.
Despite not being as overwhelmingly monopolistic as they were in the 1980s, this shows just how huge IBM still is - the number 2 computer company, HP, buys the number 3 computer company, and becomes...still number 2. Still can't pass IBM, even combined.
I'd still like to know what frequency my chips are running at. It's especially useful when you want to overclock or underclock your chip to know what the baseline frequency is.
I've seen this debunked as an "urban myth," and seen it reaffirmed as truth, so it's hard to say whether this is actually what the design was based on, but the other side of the story is that QWERTY keyboards were not designed to slow down the typist to avoid jams, but were designed with the most common letters furthers apart because if letters very close to each other were pressed in quick succession it would cause jams. With the common letters further apart, the typist could actually type very fast without jamming the typewriter.
Yeah, this is still a really gray area. On the one hand, one can hardly expect an ISP to give you say a $0.50 refund every time the system is down for 6 hours. But on the other hand, what if it's an extreme case, and the system is down for the entire month? Surely you can't be expected to pay your monthly fee if you didn't get any service at all. So what about the cases in between?
The only time I can think of that this became a legal issue was with AOL downtime and limited availability in early 1997 as they were switching from 20 hours a month free access to completely unmetered access. But they settled that by offering refunds (in the form of rebates on the next month's fee).
Well, 25 pounds a month is approximately $40/month anyway. And US cable is typically 2000 Kbps.
Or just "GNU Emacs," to differentiate from "XEmacs."
Opera. UGH. First of all it is horribly crowded, 100 things going on at once, and it crashes when I try to load just about any page.
Try the Windows version. It's much more stable, and faster. And has the nifty gesture navigation that I can't live without after using it for a few months now...
Because most of those 8% dual-boot Windows to play games, and most of the ones who don't are the sort who don't want to play games anyway. Porting to Linux might get you a 0.5% to 2% sales increase, judging by previous ported games, which simply isn't worth the cost.
I do. I have no need for Apache, Perl, Python, vim, etc. They're all optional utilities, but not essential to booting a GNU/Linux system. The GNU part is essential though - my system would be completely unusable without glibc, bash, and gcc.
So how is it a Linux distribution if it removes Linux and replaces it with a different kernel?
and ext2 is a journaling filesystem?