I learned some C in highschool, but not C++. I eventually got around to learning by messing with Half Life mods, figuring out how the OO stuff worked as I struggled to add slight modifications to the code.
In the couple of movies I've seen Eddie Izzard in (Shadow of the Vampire and Mystery Men), it didn't seem like he was just using his stand-up persona. And I saw an interview with him where he mentioned he prefers acting to standup.
I believe this refers to Firefox prior to 1.0. It shouldn't be necessary when upgrading from 1.0->1.0.x.
However, anytime you ask for support in the forums, after a new profile is tried people will reccomend that you do a clean reinstall. This often isn't necessary, but almost always works, and so is a popular solution.
That's not the issue. What jon said was: I don't like being forced to use a specific operating system or a specific player to watch movies (or listen to music.)
The problem wasn't that a particular dvd player had DRM, but that by restricting who could make DVD decoders, manufactureres would be able to make all DVD players have DRM.
The true history... stopping at 1999. While an interesting read, this was way before the release of phoenix 0.1. Hell, this was three years before [i]mozilla 1.0[/i], as the massive rewrite of mozilla's codebase was in the embryonic phase.
For what it's worth, I managed to implement a very barebones jabber client as a 10k firefox extension... and I don't even really know what I'm doing.:) I wouldn't suggest anyone else use it, but by installing it onto portable firefox I could use AIM/MSN/Yahoo in any of the campus labs. I've found even this crappiest IM client is very nice in terms of convenience.
And although my little extension isn't really useable by anyone else, there are people working on a jabber client in XUL called jabberzilla. It hasn't released any code that I could find.:( But regardless, a good, working jabber client will probably be released for Firefox at some point.
Hmm, since I can't edit comments, I must doublepost.
Someone else posted a link to this, which appears to state that only certain aspects of a game (the artwork and the written manual from what I can tell) are copyrighted. In fact, it states that:
"Copyright protection does not extend to any idea, system, method, device, or trademark material involved in the development, merchandising, or playing of a game."
Obviously I know nothing about copyright law, but I'm curious as to how this jibes with your comments.
The values of the individual letters - you don't get to copy these, they are to a certain extent arbitrary and altough you can discern a general rule, you cannot say that it inevitably leads you to chose those particular values for any variation of the game.
I believe that the value of the individual letters was determined using an algorithm and letter frequancy statistics... so not as arbitrary as might be thought.
XML is just a representation of hierarchy data via named parameters and list
I think the point is: XML is a standardised representation of hierarchy data. (And not just a standard, but the dominant standard.)
What do you guys think?
I think that if it were slashdot's goal to be an accurate source for news, we'd have seen some improvements already. Slashdot's only inherant worth is the number of people who read it, coupled with the moderation system. And isn't the moderation system part of the opensource slashcode?
But why people are trying to convince the Mozilla foundation to offload their new, exciting, successful, popular line-up of software and head back to what's become a bit of a dead-end, I don't know.
Because the slashdot article distorts the actual situation? ^_^ If you read the linked article, it mentions that "one user commented" with the firefox foundation suggestion; and that suggestion was really to rename the mozilla foundation to reflect its primary product.
What is being suggested is to spin off the suite into a community driven project rather than one handled by the MoFo.
Lets be clear on the actual discussions taking place here...
MoFo doesn't want to have to fully support two differant projects; they don't have the resources to do that. So it's proposed that there won't be a 1.8 final release, as that would take a lot of QA work and entail still more work later on to keep up with security patches.
Obviously some people don't like this. Oddly enough most of them are users of the suite.
Severaldevelopers have stated that mofo shouldn't continue suite releases, at least not in the same way. None of them have suggested spinning firefox off into a seperate foundation.
Slashdot has posted an inflammatory article about the issue; very few people commenting have bothered to go to the primary sources to see whats going on. (Surprise!:))
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I learned some C in highschool, but not C++. I eventually got around to learning by messing with Half Life mods, figuring out how the OO stuff worked as I struggled to add slight modifications to the code.
In the couple of movies I've seen Eddie Izzard in (Shadow of the Vampire and Mystery Men), it didn't seem like he was just using his stand-up persona. And I saw an interview with him where he mentioned he prefers acting to standup.
I believe this refers to Firefox prior to 1.0. It shouldn't be necessary when upgrading from 1.0->1.0.x.
However, anytime you ask for support in the forums, after a new profile is tried people will reccomend that you do a clean reinstall. This often isn't necessary, but almost always works, and so is a popular solution.
Even the comments are dupes. ^_^
Well, firefox takes you to ebay, but it is by means of Googles "I feel Lucky" search, rather than just appending a .com.
I think you'll find that this is heavily dependant on the subject and the person...
And apparantly, you'd have preferred a better letter grade to an honestly good paper?
It is mandatory when being a Grammar Nazi to include at least one error of you're own.
"There's no undocumented "infrared nerve" that would allow us to see something unique from our normal vision if it were stimulated."
If it's undocumented, how come you're so sure? ^_^
How accessible are your flash sites, out of curiosity? For example, can a blind person access them with a screen reader?
(If you're using Firefox you can just drag the link into the Tab bar and it will open.)
The problem wasn't that a particular dvd player had DRM, but that by restricting who could make DVD decoders, manufactureres would be able to make all DVD players have DRM.
Hmm, mines at 1131 right now.
And it's about 3:00 am for me. 24/3=.125
I'd guess they're aiming for it to last all day? I can't remember what timezone googleplex is in, though...
The true history... stopping at 1999. While an interesting read, this was way before the release of phoenix 0.1. Hell, this was three years before [i]mozilla 1.0[/i], as the massive rewrite of mozilla's codebase was in the embryonic phase.
For what it's worth, I managed to implement a very barebones jabber client as a 10k firefox extension... and I don't even really know what I'm doing. :) I wouldn't suggest anyone else use it, but by installing it onto portable firefox I could use AIM/MSN/Yahoo in any of the campus labs. I've found even this crappiest IM client is very nice in terms of convenience.
:( But regardless, a good, working jabber client will probably be released for Firefox at some point.
And although my little extension isn't really useable by anyone else, there are people working on a jabber client in XUL called jabberzilla. It hasn't released any code that I could find.
Hmm, since I can't edit comments, I must doublepost.
Someone else posted a link to this, which appears to state that only certain aspects of a game (the artwork and the written manual from what I can tell) are copyrighted. In fact, it states that:
"Copyright protection does not extend to any idea, system, method, device, or trademark material involved in the development, merchandising, or playing of a game."
Obviously I know nothing about copyright law, but I'm curious as to how this jibes with your comments.
The values of the individual letters - you don't get to copy these, they are to a certain extent arbitrary and altough you can discern a general rule, you cannot say that it inevitably leads you to chose those particular values for any variation of the game. I believe that the value of the individual letters was determined using an algorithm and letter frequancy statistics... so not as arbitrary as might be thought.
What is this GPC of which you speak? :P The GPL is a license, not a contract...
Sitting around all day doing nothing but playing warcraft and looking at porn doesn't burn too many calries... oops, misread the headline. :)
you have to work around Firefox/Mozilla's assinine profile directory naming convention, arguably the stupidest thing they've done.
If only there was some way to create profiles without the salt... oh.
XML is just a representation of hierarchy data via named parameters and list
I think the point is: XML is a standardised representation of hierarchy data. (And not just a standard, but the dominant standard.)
What do you guys think?
I think that if it were slashdot's goal to be an accurate source for news, we'd have seen some improvements already. Slashdot's only inherant worth is the number of people who read it, coupled with the moderation system. And isn't the moderation system part of the opensource slashcode?
Hmm, I first heard about NVu when it was at the 0.2 stage or so. It's improved a lot since then, oddly enough. Maybe you should try again. :P
The link to a .uk domain was another hint. :)
But why people are trying to convince the Mozilla foundation to offload their new, exciting, successful, popular line-up of software and head back to what's become a bit of a dead-end, I don't know.
Because the slashdot article distorts the actual situation? ^_^ If you read the linked article, it mentions that "one user commented" with the firefox foundation suggestion; and that suggestion was really to rename the mozilla foundation to reflect its primary product.
What is being suggested is to spin off the suite into a community driven project rather than one handled by the MoFo.