And the ASCII problem isn't just bad because it forces people to use inefficient encodings like UTF-8 (THREE bytes per character?)
Other side of story. Some people use efficient character sets like GB2312, Big5, euc-jp. These efficient character sets are very difficult to parse, because you have to parse text byte after byte. Code can't see difference between first and second byte.
UTF-8 is variable length charset. One symbol can take from one to six bytes.
It's bad because it allows people to write code like: if(string[index] == '.' || string[index] == '?' || string[index] == '!') sentenceEnd = true;
All hell breaks loose for Novell, not OpenOffice. Presumably this is being done officially by them and so the blame would fall on Novell.
OpenOffice developers will have to remove that code and waste their time on writing equivalent code. Even when only Novell faces charges of copyright violation, OpenOffice devels are punished. Novell can fight in court and delay punishment. OpenOffice devels will have to work on code.
All EU countries signed Berne convention and TRIPs. I am not a lawyer, but I think these agreements protect copyrights. If Georgii Porgiov distributes counterfeit copies of Microsoft software, he violates copyright laws.
Let me put it this way: MS files suit against Georgii Porgiov for cranking out 30 million counterfeit copies of MSWindows and selling them in the EU. GP's defense is that Microsoft is outside of the Court's jurisdiction (as witness this case) and thus doesn't have standing to bring a case before EU Courts. The Court finds for GP.
Even when Microsoft does not do business in EU, Berne Convention still applies.
In Midway US had three carriers and IJN had four. US won only due to better position, intelligence information and luck. Japanese carriers lost top air cover when CAP fighters had to deal with attacks of torpedo bombers. US lost all torpedo bombers and dive bombers could attack highly vulnerable carriers.
suse has own quirks. In 10.1 zen_updater is resource hog and causes long timeouts in package manager. 9.3 bundled OpenOffice2 when it was not yet production stable. It took several updates to stabilize it. I think they have turned on OpenOffice font substitutions in some 8.x version. Substitutions work correctly only in Latin1 environments.
They are not planning to bundle PDF support. Microsoft wants to bundle Metro (XPS).
Microsoft already bundles MDI support with Office 2003 and made it default image format. Now they want to dominate with own patented, "we don't sue you", "MS-portable" document format.
I think users should have a greater say in what goes into the OS not governments.
Users can't control companies. If government does not restrict what companies can do, they will go only for own profits and ignore possible affects on users, environment or other companies.
...and aren't being given an equally bad architecture to help "protect" for a profit this go around.
Antivirus does not make OS secure. It only tries to patch insecure OS. If Microsoft makes OS secure, EU commission and antivirus companies can't argue about it. If own antivirus solution is bundled instead of securing OS, it looks like monopoly abuse. It is possible that Microsoft is trying to help users, but company is known to use its market position against competitors. Any bundling will look suspicious.
Apple is bundling everything...
Symantec is still selling NAV for Mac. I think Apple does not bundle antivirus.
No rogue states will develop nuclear weapons (or, if they do, they will stop behaving as rogue states and start to subject themselves to the logic of MAD)
No rogue commanders will have the ability to corrupt the launch decision process
All leaders with launch capability care about the survival of their subjects
No leader with launch capability would strike first and gamble that the opponent's response system would fail
Some people are not rational and some islam doctrines can lead to direct or covert attacks on other nations.
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I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
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Martin Niemöller
Other side of story. Some people use efficient character sets like GB2312, Big5, euc-jp. These efficient character sets are very difficult to parse, because you have to parse text byte after byte. Code can't see difference between first and second byte.
UTF-8 is variable length charset. One symbol can take from one to six bytes.
Use regexp or switch.OpenOffice developers will have to remove that code and waste their time on writing equivalent code. Even when only Novell faces charges of copyright violation, OpenOffice devels are punished. Novell can fight in court and delay punishment. OpenOffice devels will have to work on code.
All EU countries signed Berne convention and TRIPs. I am not a lawyer, but I think these agreements protect copyrights. If Georgii Porgiov distributes counterfeit copies of Microsoft software, he violates copyright laws.
Here's a nickel, kid. Go buy yourself a real computer.
math-emu source :)
You don't need xbox in order to buy xbox hd-dvd player.
It is USB drive.
Mac recognized it and was able to play DVD content.
Once you have HD-DVD player program for Mac, Mac should play HD-DVD content just fine.
They haven't tested xbox hd-dvd player on Linux or BSD yet, but I suspect that it will work on Linux and BSD.
Total 36 votes
1/36 = 0.027 = 2.7% error.
In Virginia democrats got 1,175,761 and republicans got 1,166,614. 0.4% difference.
In 2004 presidential elections Americans had 7 states with voting results closer than 2.7%
In Midway US had three carriers and IJN had four. US won only due to better position, intelligence information and luck. Japanese carriers lost top air cover when CAP fighters had to deal with attacks of torpedo bombers. US lost all torpedo bombers and dive bombers could attack highly vulnerable carriers.
Rana Hussein lives (or lived in 2003) in exile in Jordan. See wikipedia info about Saddam Kamel
Linux Flash was at 7th version.
Flash 8 for Windows was released on 2005-09-30.
suse has own quirks. In 10.1 zen_updater is resource hog and causes long timeouts in package manager. 9.3 bundled OpenOffice2 when it was not yet production stable. It took several updates to stabilize it. I think they have turned on OpenOffice font substitutions in some 8.x version. Substitutions work correctly only in Latin1 environments.
Sourceforge has SPF records too. Don't know if gmail.com uses SPF filtering.
Billy: Are you sure that you can do that before next windows update?
CEO Symantec: oh crap.
They are not planning to bundle PDF support. Microsoft wants to bundle Metro (XPS).
Microsoft already bundles MDI support with Office 2003 and made it default image format. Now they want to dominate with own patented, "we don't sue you", "MS-portable" document format.
Are you sure that you haven't confused Spamhaus with SPEWS or some DUL list?
Antivirus does not make OS secure. It only tries to patch insecure OS. If Microsoft makes OS secure, EU commission and antivirus companies can't argue about it. If own antivirus solution is bundled instead of securing OS, it looks like monopoly abuse. It is possible that Microsoft is trying to help users, but company is known to use its market position against competitors. Any bundling will look suspicious.
Symantec is still selling NAV for Mac. I think Apple does not bundle antivirus.
- No rogue states will develop nuclear weapons (or, if they do, they will stop behaving as rogue states and start to subject themselves to the logic of MAD)
- No rogue commanders will have the ability to corrupt the launch decision process
- All leaders with launch capability care about the survival of their subjects
- No leader with launch capability would strike first and gamble that the opponent's response system would fail
Some people are not rational and some islam doctrines can lead to direct or covert attacks on other nations.I think you are comparing ATA-2 drive with ATA-6 or ATA-7.
7200 rpm drives can push up to 60-70 MBps sustained. Speed hasn't changed for years. 10K rpm drives push up to 85 MBps.