As another poster stated, this could be incredibly simple. Firefox supports XSLT; a method of transforming one type of XML document into another. All you'd need is an XSLT document which maps the Open Document format into html, and firefox could display it.
In other words, it wouldn't require any additional code added to firefox, but simply a document which explains how to turn OD into HTML. (That's assuming that this is possible, which it really should be if the Open Document Format is worth anything.)
Let the user configure a preset number of tabs which load automatically upon opening the first instance of a Firefox browser.
You know how you can set a homepage for a browser? Firefox actually lets you have a collection of homepages, which will open in tabs when you start up. Simply open the sites you want in tabs, go to Options->General, and click the "Use Current Pages" button.
Who drinks the water from the hot-water tap, anyway? Blech!
Well, I do. And other people I know do. I guess if you're 100% confident that no one who ever visits your place drinks hot water, or will on accident, it's ok to have deadly bacteria living in your hot water tank. ^_^ (I know the chances are small in the first place, but your argument just isn't very good.)
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I'll have to agree with one of the other posters: It's true that Small Godsis better. One of my favorite books of all time. But The Color of Magic is way geekier. ^_^
Well, it's the only disability I've ever seen referred to when talking about accessibility. You should mention what other issues there are, if you want to raise awareness of them. ^_^
Actually Novell was partnering with Mozilla, working on XForms. However, it seems that with the cutbacks, that's no longer the case. (I might have misunderstood something, but that's what the blog entry seems to say.)
This right here is the line that indicates you're a troll/flamebait. ^_^ It doesn't matter how "valid" the patent is legally, it's not stealing to come up with an idea independantly.
That's exactly what I was thinking. Whether it's wrong or right, Blizzard isn't the first to have gone down this path. There really is little other recourse if you want a technological solution to the problem of cheaters.
That is a pretty weird metric to use in judging a product. Especially when it's a metric you can't even apply to the product currently in use!
Your boss is probably relieved that he'll never actually have to spend time looking into this... I think that a downward trend in the number of filed bugs would only ever occur if the product was losing popularity, and thus no one was filing bugs.:)
That's probably why OpenOffice installs the quickstart by default. (I turn it off because I almost never deal with "office documents" at home. But considering the crap that windows loads by default, that doesn't exactly make it an unfair comparison. ^_^)
To be really clear, that's just not good enough, at least from a legal standpoint. The rights holder has to give their permission for you to make a copy. That's what holding copyright means. AFAIK, making something opt out doesn't contribute to a fair use defense. If it is fair use, then making it opt out is just a courtesy. And if it's not fair use, then making it opt out doesn't make it any less illegal.
While from an ethical standpoint opt out is better than nothing at all, that doesn't necessarily help from a legal standpoint. And just because I might approve of the ultimate result of the Google Print project, that doesn't mean I'm going to close my eyes and pretend it's automaticly legal under current law.
This blog post by a lawyer who works mostly within the publishing industry (I think he represented Ellison in the AOL case) lays out the reasons he thinks the fair use defense won't apply. He's been analysing this case quite a lot, and while I don't think you could say he's unbiased, he's at least way more informed than most other people commenting on it.
While the US is pretty good (possibly the best) for enforcing freedom of speech in political matters, considerlike the recent FBI crackdown on porn. That wouldn't happen in much of Europe. (Of course, political speech is probably more important for society than the right to porn. But it's still not true that the US is 100% more free than Europe. ^_^ )
I think the point was that, in the long term, DNS isn't needed. Not that it's sudden shut down wouldn't cause problems, but that those problems are only short terms one. (And remember when all advertisements had, not domain names, but AOL keywords?)
The audacity project is actually just gearing up for some new releases: a 1.3 beta and 1.2.4. The latter mostly just fixes some long outstanding bugs in 1.2.3 (such as problems with the compressor ^_^.)
1.3 introduces some new features such as multiple clips per track. (And I think you can now minimise the tracks verticly to save space.) Although there was a long gap between releases, the project now seems to be getting back up to speed.
The grandparent post didn't come up with the term "intellectual elite." The whole point is that our culture looks down upon people who are into science and other academic matters, and comes up with such terms to stigmatise them. It's easy to observe that kids who take an interest in intellectual persuits are often looked down upon.
I'm sure that throughout history, the "average person" hasn't really put all that much effort into examining the world around them. That doesn't mean that our culture (or at least some aspects of it) has to reinforce this attitude.
And the way the system is working, they will never need to--because the people who choose to use it are not the same people who pay $65 for it and then throw it away five months later.
Hopefully this will change; the reason being that current prof's experiance differs so much from current students. The physics dept. where I TA right now has exactly the same issues. But all of the TA's realise what bullshit this is, and most of the prof's are sympathetic once they actually understand what's going on. I'd assume that as new faculty bring more hands on experiance into Universities, they'll support OSS (or at least non evil) systems.
This is probably especially true in fields such as physics where a reasonable number of the faculty already use Linux and other OSS.
For each generation of quarks, the article says that the two types of quark (such as top and down) are complements of each other; that is, if you put them on top of each other it creates a solid space.
Overall they did a decent job of representing the spin, color, and generation. And they chose a shape which has an orientation, so that direction can be expressed. I'm not sure that you get so good feel for the masses of the particles, though...
Dark matter isn't even that sensational. Suppose you have equations that would be balanced if you have a certain amount of mass in the universe, and you observe less than that amount. There's two simple explanations: you got the equations wrong, or you're not observing the right amount of mass (in other words, there's some stuff out there we can't see.) Neither idea is that fantastical, and dark matter is just the somewhat catchy name for the stuff we can't see.
This paper is just claiming that, in fact, the equations were wrong. (And it's not like no one had checked them before. ^_^ They're just claiming to have done a better job, I guess.)
Well, one of the improvements in 1.5 is to make it easier to install in a corporate enviorment. That and the mere fact that it's not 1.0 anymore could well help it's adoption by buisness.
Also, the bare fact of a new release will still garner (positive) press coverage, and this will probably create a bump in use.
My dad's a physics prof., and he's commented several times that you can actually see two seperate distributions superimposed on a good physics test. There are two seperate gaussians, one composed of student's who "get it," and one composed of those who don't. The higher one will be in the 90's, the other much lower. ^_^
I've been reading a blog that has been following the issue for some time now. The blogger (or blawger if you prefer) is a lawyer who represents authors in cases like this, so his POV is probably both biased and knowledgable.
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As another poster stated, this could be incredibly simple. Firefox supports XSLT; a method of transforming one type of XML document into another. All you'd need is an XSLT document which maps the Open Document format into html, and firefox could display it.
In other words, it wouldn't require any additional code added to firefox, but simply a document which explains how to turn OD into HTML. (That's assuming that this is possible, which it really should be if the Open Document Format is worth anything.)
You know how you can set a homepage for a browser? Firefox actually lets you have a collection of homepages, which will open in tabs when you start up. Simply open the sites you want in tabs, go to Options->General, and click the "Use Current Pages" button.
Firefox 1.5 tries to hold onto memory more aggressively, in order to prevent this problem. Maybe you should check it out. :)
Well, I do. And other people I know do. I guess if you're 100% confident that no one who ever visits your place drinks hot water, or will on accident, it's ok to have deadly bacteria living in your hot water tank. ^_^ (I know the chances are small in the first place, but your argument just isn't very good.)
I'll have to agree with one of the other posters: It's true that Small Gods is better. One of my favorite books of all time. But The Color of Magic is way geekier. ^_^
Well, it's the only disability I've ever seen referred to when talking about accessibility. You should mention what other issues there are, if you want to raise awareness of them. ^_^
Actually Novell was partnering with Mozilla, working on XForms. However, it seems that with the cutbacks, that's no longer the case. (I might have misunderstood something, but that's what the blog entry seems to say.)
(because they are all using stolen technology)
This right here is the line that indicates you're a troll/flamebait. ^_^ It doesn't matter how "valid" the patent is legally, it's not stealing to come up with an idea independantly.
That's exactly what I was thinking. Whether it's wrong or right, Blizzard isn't the first to have gone down this path. There really is little other recourse if you want a technological solution to the problem of cheaters.
That is a pretty weird metric to use in judging a product. Especially when it's a metric you can't even apply to the product currently in use!
Your boss is probably relieved that he'll never actually have to spend time looking into this... I think that a downward trend in the number of filed bugs would only ever occur if the product was losing popularity, and thus no one was filing bugs. :)
That's probably why OpenOffice installs the quickstart by default. (I turn it off because I almost never deal with "office documents" at home. But considering the crap that windows loads by default, that doesn't exactly make it an unfair comparison. ^_^)
To be really clear, that's just not good enough, at least from a legal standpoint. The rights holder has to give their permission for you to make a copy. That's what holding copyright means. AFAIK, making something opt out doesn't contribute to a fair use defense. If it is fair use, then making it opt out is just a courtesy. And if it's not fair use, then making it opt out doesn't make it any less illegal.
While from an ethical standpoint opt out is better than nothing at all, that doesn't necessarily help from a legal standpoint. And just because I might approve of the ultimate result of the Google Print project, that doesn't mean I'm going to close my eyes and pretend it's automaticly legal under current law.
This blog post by a lawyer who works mostly within the publishing industry (I think he represented Ellison in the AOL case) lays out the reasons he thinks the fair use defense won't apply. He's been analysing this case quite a lot, and while I don't think you could say he's unbiased, he's at least way more informed than most other people commenting on it.
While the US is pretty good (possibly the best) for enforcing freedom of speech in political matters, considerlike the recent FBI crackdown on porn. That wouldn't happen in much of Europe. (Of course, political speech is probably more important for society than the right to porn. But it's still not true that the US is 100% more free than Europe. ^_^ )
I think the point was that, in the long term, DNS isn't needed. Not that it's sudden shut down wouldn't cause problems, but that those problems are only short terms one. (And remember when all advertisements had, not domain names, but AOL keywords?)
whoosh....
The audacity project is actually just gearing up for some new releases: a 1.3 beta and 1.2.4. The latter mostly just fixes some long outstanding bugs in 1.2.3 (such as problems with the compressor ^_^.)
1.3 introduces some new features such as multiple clips per track. (And I think you can now minimise the tracks verticly to save space.) Although there was a long gap between releases, the project now seems to be getting back up to speed.
The grandparent post didn't come up with the term "intellectual elite." The whole point is that our culture looks down upon people who are into science and other academic matters, and comes up with such terms to stigmatise them. It's easy to observe that kids who take an interest in intellectual persuits are often looked down upon.
I'm sure that throughout history, the "average person" hasn't really put all that much effort into examining the world around them. That doesn't mean that our culture (or at least some aspects of it) has to reinforce this attitude.
Hopefully this will change; the reason being that current prof's experiance differs so much from current students. The physics dept. where I TA right now has exactly the same issues. But all of the TA's realise what bullshit this is, and most of the prof's are sympathetic once they actually understand what's going on. I'd assume that as new faculty bring more hands on experiance into Universities, they'll support OSS (or at least non evil) systems.
This is probably especially true in fields such as physics where a reasonable number of the faculty already use Linux and other OSS.
For each generation of quarks, the article says that the two types of quark (such as top and down) are complements of each other; that is, if you put them on top of each other it creates a solid space.
Overall they did a decent job of representing the spin, color, and generation. And they chose a shape which has an orientation, so that direction can be expressed. I'm not sure that you get so good feel for the masses of the particles, though...
Dark matter isn't even that sensational. Suppose you have equations that would be balanced if you have a certain amount of mass in the universe, and you observe less than that amount. There's two simple explanations: you got the equations wrong, or you're not observing the right amount of mass (in other words, there's some stuff out there we can't see.) Neither idea is that fantastical, and dark matter is just the somewhat catchy name for the stuff we can't see.
This paper is just claiming that, in fact, the equations were wrong. (And it's not like no one had checked them before. ^_^ They're just claiming to have done a better job, I guess.)
Well, one of the improvements in 1.5 is to make it easier to install in a corporate enviorment. That and the mere fact that it's not 1.0 anymore could well help it's adoption by buisness.
Also, the bare fact of a new release will still garner (positive) press coverage, and this will probably create a bump in use.
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My dad's a physics prof., and he's commented several times that you can actually see two seperate distributions superimposed on a good physics test. There are two seperate gaussians, one composed of student's who "get it," and one composed of those who don't. The higher one will be in the 90's, the other much lower. ^_^
I've been reading a blog that has been following the issue for some time now. The blogger (or blawger if you prefer) is a lawyer who represents authors in cases like this, so his POV is probably both biased and knowledgable.