The bug in IE was reported almost a year ago, and it is still unpatched.
The bug was reported in all major browsers (Mozilla and Firefox, Opera, Safari, Konqueror, IE), and was patched in all of them except IE. It has now reappeared in Mozilla.
You forgot one result:
Your screen flashes black to white at 60fps. This is a result of resizing each 1080i field to 720p and displaying it. While it wouldn't give good results for this example, it would probably look the best for real-world signals, because nothing would be discarded, and there is no good way to deinterlace without showing some artifacts or blurriness.
Perhaps you need to check your facts. That test compared Mozilla 1.8 alpha 6 with Firefox 1.0 (which is based on Mozilla 1.7). If they tested recent nightlies of Firefox (which are based on Mozilla 1.8), they would probably have been faster.
I don't see any COPYING file in the archive, and the source files contain the following:
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That's just fine if you're only running Gimp. But if you have other applications running, you'll see them in the background between the gimp windows which is distracting (unless you bother to minimize them each time you switch applications).
Also, gimp clutters up the task bar, which makes it harder to switch applications, and means that when you want to switch to gimp you will have to click each of the gimp taskbar buttons instead of clicking just one.
The article you linked to isn't about a bombing that just happened. It is about a bombing that happened in 2002, and is probably the same bombing you referred to in your previous post. The target was the leader of the Hamas terrorist organization, not just "someone Israel doesn't like".
And there is a difference between bombing a terrorist that constantly surrounds himself with children as a human shield, and setting out to intentionally kill innocent civilians.
1. Users don't accidentally run into buffer overflows (or many other security bug types). It's something you have to actively search for. The money is supposed to motivate more people to do this.
2. You may think that MNG support is more important than sites that can take over your computer or steal your credit card number. However, most people (including Mozilla developers) would disagree.
Umm.. what does Mozilla have to do with the fact that you have spyware installed? It probably came bundled with some program you installed, or got installed when you used IE.
Even before the whitelist approach discussed in this article, Mozilla would confirm with the user before installing anything, so it's highly doubtful that it was the source of the malware.
This is the same as when they switched to the Firebird name. They switched without warning the community in advance, which caused an outcry from the Firebird database folks. Finally they had to change the name again.
I believe the same can happen now: If enough people show how much they hate this theme, the devs will replace it.
Hopefully, they will learn from their mistakes and try to get the community opinion BEFORE making the next big change.
They say the GPU outperforms the CPU, but they do not test it fairly: They did not use SIMD instruction sets such as SSE for the CPU code, but coded it in "straight C++". If they had, the CPU code would probably have run faster than the GPU version (at least for the matrix multiplication.)
Qt uses a dual license. If you make commercial closed-source software using Qt, you have to pay for non-GPL licenses. Otherwise you can use the GPL license (but you have to open-source your app).
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I take it the people who modded this up haven't completed high school chemistry yet?
Or maybe they don't completely lack a sense of humor, like some others here.
This was published in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz on March 16, so it isn't an April fools joke - it really took place. However, it obviously wasn't meant as a serious experiment.
And while you're at it, we need more successful terrorist attacks, so that people will be more aware of the dangers of terror! People will give more support to anti-terrorist actions after a few loved ones have died.
I don't think a lot of telemarketers would agree with you, since their salary usually depends on the number of sales they make and this kind of call would just waste time.
Added to this I would like to say that annoying telemarkers may seem fun but these people are almost always in a bind and do not want to work there either.
To use Dave Barry's analogy, I'm sure muggers are also in a bind and would rather do something else.
Basically you're annoying people for a living, and then complain when they try to annoy you back.
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The bug in IE was reported almost a year ago, and it is still unpatched.
The bug was reported in all major browsers (Mozilla and Firefox, Opera, Safari, Konqueror, IE), and was patched in all of them except IE. It has now reappeared in Mozilla.
You forgot one result: Your screen flashes black to white at 60fps. This is a result of resizing each 1080i field to 720p and displaying it. While it wouldn't give good results for this example, it would probably look the best for real-world signals, because nothing would be discarded, and there is no good way to deinterlace without showing some artifacts or blurriness.
Nope. The IE team completely rewrote their controls to be windowless. If you don't believe me see here.
Perhaps you need to check your facts. That test compared Mozilla 1.8 alpha 6 with Firefox 1.0 (which is based on Mozilla 1.7). If they tested recent nightlies of Firefox (which are based on Mozilla 1.8), they would probably have been faster.
From the libtorrent documentation: libtorrent is released under the BSD-license.
I don't see any COPYING file in the archive, and the source files contain the following:
When you buy a lottery ticket you have a chance of winning.
You are blind. Click 'view tree' inside the message to get the threaded view. You only need to do this once since it's remembered in a cookie.
groups.google.com goes to the original, but searching from there takes you to the new interface.
Also, gimp clutters up the task bar, which makes it harder to switch applications, and means that when you want to switch to gimp you will have to click each of the gimp taskbar buttons instead of clicking just one.
This is a bug that has been known publicly for over a month, but apparently Microsoft have other priorities.
The article you linked to isn't about a bombing that just happened. It is about a bombing that happened in 2002, and is probably the same bombing you referred to in your previous post. The target was the leader of the Hamas terrorist organization, not just "someone Israel doesn't like".
And there is a difference between bombing a terrorist that constantly surrounds himself with children as a human shield, and setting out to intentionally kill innocent civilians.
1. Users don't accidentally run into buffer overflows (or many other security bug types). It's something you have to actively search for. The money is supposed to motivate more people to do this.
2. You may think that MNG support is more important than sites that can take over your computer or steal your credit card number. However, most people (including Mozilla developers) would disagree.
An article about biased news sources, posted on Slashdot.
Umm.. what does Mozilla have to do with the fact that you have spyware installed? It probably came bundled with some program you installed, or got installed when you used IE. Even before the whitelist approach discussed in this article, Mozilla would confirm with the user before installing anything, so it's highly doubtful that it was the source of the malware.
A computer is also needed to read the e-book, so they should ship a computer with each e-book.
On Windows, try ToDoList. Now that I'm using it, I don't know how I managed to keep track of my tasks before.
This is the same as when they switched to the Firebird name. They switched without warning the community in advance, which caused an outcry from the Firebird database folks. Finally they had to change the name again.
I believe the same can happen now: If enough people show how much they hate this theme, the devs will replace it.
Hopefully, they will learn from their mistakes and try to get the community opinion BEFORE making the next big change.
They say the GPU outperforms the CPU, but they do not test it fairly: They did not use SIMD instruction sets such as SSE for the CPU code, but coded it in "straight C++". If they had, the CPU code would probably have run faster than the GPU version (at least for the matrix multiplication.)
Qt uses a dual license. If you make commercial closed-source software using Qt, you have to pay for non-GPL licenses. Otherwise you can use the GPL license (but you have to open-source your app).
I take it the people who modded this up haven't completed high school chemistry yet?
Or maybe they don't completely lack a sense of humor, like some others here.
This was published in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz on March 16, so it isn't an April fools joke - it really took place. However, it obviously wasn't meant as a serious experiment.
If you look here, you will see that they do exploit an IE flaw:
<a href="http://www.fdic.gov=01@202.63.206.88/index.h tm">
The part where it says =01 probably originally said %01, which causes the URL to be snapped at that point in IE and only display http://www.fdic.gov.
2.) The WMAs are smaller in file size (even at the same bit encoding).
Yeah, and a Porche will get you to your destination faster, even if you drive at the same speed.
Correct!
And while you're at it, we need more successful terrorist attacks, so that people will be more aware of the dangers of terror! People will give more support to anti-terrorist actions after a few loved ones have died.
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To use Dave Barry's analogy, I'm sure muggers are also in a bind and would rather do something else. Basically you're annoying people for a living, and then complain when they try to annoy you back.