Notice you had to post AC, that is pretty much all you can do with all the flag waving fangirls around here. And I was talking about their ORIGINAL mission, the one they announced when they switched from the suite to Firefox? Forget that one? hell their whole selling point was "to make the browser leaner and meaner, to get rid of cruft and old code, to make a truly great browser".
Parent is right. The mission of the Mozilla Foundation is to promote standards. You are talking about one product of the Mozilla Foundation: Firefox. Back when it was still called Phoenix it was a pet project of David Hyatt (now the safari guy) and then Ben Goodger. The goal was to have a simple browser with an XML language to define the UI combined with javascript and XPCOM. Compared to the Mozilla Suite (which had everything but the kitchen sink) Firefox back then was really lean, fast and configurable/extensible.
I've got 20 iPad 2s, still waiting for a jailbreak to be able to roll them out as kiosks. So much for the The jailbreaking community is alive and well.
I have always asked myself; why the fuck is it impossible to use the default browser on a windows server past w2000 as is (I am not going to white list every page I want to download software from)?
The Report mentions that data was made available also, so everyone should be able to make their own charts. All I could find so far were a couple of xls files which are not very helpful: http://www.fcc.gov/measuring-broadband-america/charts
When media players started fighting over UI design 10 years ago, this meant all functionality was there, from then on they fought for the user who needs new features every N days for no reason. It looks like the browser marked is no in the same state.
Funny, though, those 'open' Macs only appeared after Jobs was gone!
Funny? I'm have trouble finding citation but, as I recall, one of the points of friction between Jobs and Scully at the time of Job's departure was over whether to open up the Macintosh. Jobs was against it. Despite putting slots in the NeXT cubes, I think he still prefers Macs be closed. The first Macs to show the Jobs influence after his return to Apple were the iMacs. Closed again.
Here is a nice story told by Andy Hertzfeld (The main software developer for the macintosh's os) which clearly states that jobs did not want to have any expansion slots in the macintosh (funny read):
... Even in this case, from what I've read I believe a failed hydro power dam has killed more people than the nuclear reactors which have had to handle a quake and tsunami far larger than anything anyone ever expected.
I think we all know that a failing hydro dam will inflict a massive short term damage and a failing nuclear plant massive long term damage.
It would be interesting to see statistics which compare W/h generated vs. kills or injuries inflicted for different energy sources.
My Linux system with upstart boots in 1.5 seconds on SSD (240MB/s read/write) or in about 20-30 seconds from a normal HDD. Not only boot times but everything disk i/o intensive runs better on SSD. Our buses have been getting faster and faster, HDDs still deliver only 50-100MB/s max. However PCIe SSDs deliver up to ~760MB/s.
So there is a huge difference compared to traditional HDDs.
My Brother is an A320 pilot. He uses his iPad, Macbook and cellphone in the cockpit evey day. They have a company cellphone which they use in flight.
However, he says it can be very annoying and even dangerous for their RF communication if many cellphones are turned on. Ever held your cell next to a normal radio receiver? Yeah its not nice. Radio communication is just above normal radio frequencies (> 108 MHz).
Furthermore, JavaScript was called LiveScript at first (>= Netscape 2). JavaScript offers scriptability bindings to java applets. So JS is not completely unrelated to Java, however, marketing was probably the most dominant factor to call it that way.
Nice isn't it? One year ago we bought a couple of macbook pros for some employees. Up until then, I haven't had much experience with apple computers. I entered the hostname of our high volume network printer, osx detected it propperly over the network and configured the appropriate drivers. It even detected the additionally installed hardware modules, a thing the vendor's driver for windows is not capable of (duh?).
Later i found out who is the main contributor of CUPS; Apple. The "Common Unix Printing System" is really really userfriendly once it gets the propper user interfaces and hardware detection (which OSX provides). CUPS with gnome is not bad but can't be compared to what OSX is capable of.
Correction, because the carriers don't want this. After all, the customers of the handset vendors IS NOT YOU THE END USER, it is the carriers. That is who they are selling to and not the end user. And carriers don't want to sell you a device that lets you do whatever as they've found ways in the past to nickel and dime every feature.
You forgot to add, that you are referring to the US American market. This is not the case for most countries around the world where proper regulations are in use (think a working government not owned by big business).
Locking down may be a problem around the world, but mostly in the US. I live in Europe and (shocking news) regulations force carriers to get rid of lock in. I don't know about the markets around the world except Europe and USA but google's ideas might be well perceived in areas of this world where the market is not controlled by a few large companies.
The USA inhabits approx 300 million people, Europe ~450 mil and the whole world inhabits ~7 billions. Google is a worldwide company.
The problem is that if you wait six months between upgrades then that means you spend 12 hours downloading and installing hundreds of megabytes of changes and then it crashes part-way through and your system is hosed. I've reached the point where I'm reluctant to upgrade any of my Ubuntu machines to a new release because of all the problems I've had in the past.
This is the reason i have switched back most of my desktops to debian. The upgrades of ubuntu are not of very good quality. Have a bridged network interface configured? The upgrade process will run into problems. Just to name one annoying example (in todays world of desktop visualization, bridged network interfaces are not so obscure IMHO and are often automatically configured by your visualization solution).
I haven't payed much attention to LibreOffice. It is interesting to see who is on the board of the Document Foundation. Probably 50% are Germans, followed by French, Brazilian and other european people. Also interesting are the companies/foundations that support LibreOffice [1], I see names like Red Hat, Novell, the FSF of course, Oasis and some european national foundations.
I am not very much surprised about this however. Usage of Open Source software in Europe (and especially germany) is quiet high. Also FOSS is more and more used by national and academic entities in europe.
Let's see how this will end. With a Debian maintainer, Novell and Redaht backing this project, they might be on to something in the long run.
Are we talking passenger trains, freight trains, or both? Will this (presumably) be an electrified train system, so no fumes in the tunnels, or something else? Any word on where the power is expected to come from if electrified (nuclear, coal, gas, hydro? I'm guessing you wouldn't run a train system on wind or solar, but perhaps I'm wrong)?
I happen to be swiss and I have worked in civil engineering for some years. This tunnel will be used for both, passengers and freight. The new tunnel will complement some already existing shoter train tunnels.
Germany is one of the biggest exporting countries in europe. A lot of goods have to be moved from germany to the mediterranean sea (from north to south through the alps) and the other way around. Many goods are moved through the highway tunnels and the existing train tunnels.
Here in switzerland we have a very dense and highly frequented train network. It's all electric since roughly WWII (we have replaced steam with electric entirely). A lot of the peak electricity is produced in the alps with water dams and river dams. These have mainly been built post WWII. The base power is produced with nuclear plants (and also partially imported I guess from other european countries, especially eastern europe is offering cheap electricity).
In the 90ies we started heavily investing in an even more efficient train system, the project was called "Bahn 2000" (that's what i have been working for). It's now mainly completed. There is no other transport system that is as efficient as a good working train system. Building more roads through the alps was considered too expensive (imagine tunnel after bridge after tunnel after bridge...) and such a long "base" tunnel was considered too dangerous for cars and trucks.
What we already do is loading trucks on the northern and southern border onto the rail (entire trucks, it's called "HuPac") and transport them through our country within 2-3 hours. It's all transit traffic. Although the rail is more efficient this decision was mostly driven by environmental concerns. They don't want to have more stinking cars in the beautiful alps which are also well known for the winter sport resorts (i don't live in the mountain).
Personally I think the special thing about our new tunnel is, that such a small (although wealth) country can afford to realize this sort of monster project. It will roughly take 20 years to complete.
Well, it seems to have worked against ACS Law, the domain does not resolve anymore (since ca. 29. Oct). http://acs-law.org.uk/
It is very likely that ACS Law will go out of business for doing their shady "porn" extortion. After/During that attack, some 200MB of emails "leaked" which will put the last nail in their coffin: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5850493/ACS-Law_leaked_emails
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Propaganda is only something for commies
Yeah, multi threading is so much easier on an Arduino ;)
The guy, indeed, claims to have stolen 400'000 CC Numbers and not just 6'000 as mentioned in TFS:
http://pastebin.com/13nJQQ9p
Notice you had to post AC, that is pretty much all you can do with all the flag waving fangirls around here. And I was talking about their ORIGINAL mission, the one they announced when they switched from the suite to Firefox? Forget that one? hell their whole selling point was "to make the browser leaner and meaner, to get rid of cruft and old code, to make a truly great browser".
Parent is right. The mission of the Mozilla Foundation is to promote standards. You are talking about one product of the Mozilla Foundation: Firefox. Back when it was still called Phoenix it was a pet project of David Hyatt (now the safari guy) and then Ben Goodger. The goal was to have a simple browser with an XML language to define the UI combined with javascript and XPCOM. Compared to the Mozilla Suite (which had everything but the kitchen sink) Firefox back then was really lean, fast and configurable/extensible.
Cheers,
-S
I've got 20 iPad 2s, still waiting for a jailbreak to be able to roll them out as kiosks. So much for the The jailbreaking community is alive and well.
I have always asked myself; why the fuck is it impossible to use the default browser on a windows server past w2000 as is (I am not going to white list every page I want to download software from)?
You are at war with North Korea (assuming you are from the US).
The Report mentions that data was made available also, so everyone should be able to make their own charts. All I could find so far were a couple of xls files which are not very helpful: http://www.fcc.gov/measuring-broadband-america/charts
When media players started fighting over UI design 10 years ago, this meant all functionality was there, from then on they fought for the user who needs new features every N days for no reason. It looks like the browser marked is no in the same state.
once more a great one, you made my day. thanks.
Funny, though, those 'open' Macs only appeared after Jobs was gone!
Funny? I'm have trouble finding citation but, as I recall, one of the points of friction between Jobs and Scully at the time of Job's departure was over whether to open up the Macintosh. Jobs was against it. Despite putting slots in the NeXT cubes, I think he still prefers Macs be closed. The first Macs to show the Jobs influence after his return to Apple were the iMacs. Closed again.
Here is a nice story told by Andy Hertzfeld (The main software developer for the macintosh's os) which clearly states that jobs did not want to have any expansion slots in the macintosh (funny read):
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Diagnostic_Port.txt
First pony!
... Even in this case, from what I've read I believe a failed hydro power dam has killed more people than the nuclear reactors which have had to handle a quake and tsunami far larger than anything anyone ever expected.
I think we all know that a failing hydro dam will inflict a massive short term damage and a failing nuclear plant massive long term damage.
It would be interesting to see statistics which compare W/h generated vs. kills or injuries inflicted for different energy sources.
Cheers,
-S
My Linux system with upstart boots in 1.5 seconds on SSD (240MB/s read/write) or in about 20-30 seconds from a normal HDD. Not only boot times but everything disk i/o intensive runs better on SSD. Our buses have been getting faster and faster, HDDs still deliver only 50-100MB/s max. However PCIe SSDs deliver up to ~760MB/s.
So there is a huge difference compared to traditional HDDs.
My Brother is an A320 pilot. He uses his iPad, Macbook and cellphone in the cockpit evey day. They have a company cellphone which they use in flight.
However, he says it can be very annoying and even dangerous for their RF communication if many cellphones are turned on. Ever held your cell next to a normal radio receiver? Yeah its not nice. Radio communication is just above normal radio frequencies (> 108 MHz).
Cheers,
-S
Furthermore, JavaScript was called LiveScript at first (>= Netscape 2). JavaScript offers scriptability bindings to java applets. So JS is not completely unrelated to Java, however, marketing was probably the most dominant factor to call it that way.
"The New York Times has an article (cookies and free subscription required) ..."
I just got my cookie jar and what is this free subscription you are talking of?
...
I still don't "see" these issues with google that supposidly exist...
Never got expertSexChange.com (and the like) in your results? I get them frequently and it's annoying.
Nice isn't it? One year ago we bought a couple of macbook pros for some employees. Up until then, I haven't had much experience with apple computers. I entered the hostname of our high volume network printer, osx detected it propperly over the network and configured the appropriate drivers. It even detected the additionally installed hardware modules, a thing the vendor's driver for windows is not capable of (duh?).
Later i found out who is the main contributor of CUPS; Apple. The "Common Unix Printing System" is really really userfriendly once it gets the propper user interfaces and hardware detection (which OSX provides). CUPS with gnome is not bad but can't be compared to what OSX is capable of.
Cheers,
-S
Correction, because the carriers don't want this. After all, the customers of the handset vendors IS NOT YOU THE END USER, it is the carriers. That is who they are selling to and not the end user. And carriers don't want to sell you a device that lets you do whatever as they've found ways in the past to nickel and dime every feature.
You forgot to add, that you are referring to the US American market. This is not the case for most countries around the world where proper regulations are in use (think a working government not owned by big business).
Cheers
-S
Locking down may be a problem around the world, but mostly in the US. I live in Europe and (shocking news) regulations force carriers to get rid of lock in. I don't know about the markets around the world except Europe and USA but google's ideas might be well perceived in areas of this world where the market is not controlled by a few large companies.
The USA inhabits approx 300 million people, Europe ~450 mil and the whole world inhabits ~7 billions. Google is a worldwide company.
Cheers,
-S
The problem is that if you wait six months between upgrades then that means you spend 12 hours downloading and installing hundreds of megabytes of changes and then it crashes part-way through and your system is hosed. I've reached the point where I'm reluctant to upgrade any of my Ubuntu machines to a new release because of all the problems I've had in the past.
This is the reason i have switched back most of my desktops to debian. The upgrades of ubuntu are not of very good quality. Have a bridged network interface configured? The upgrade process will run into problems. Just to name one annoying example (in todays world of desktop visualization, bridged network interfaces are not so obscure IMHO and are often automatically configured by your visualization solution).
Kind regards,
-S
I haven't payed much attention to LibreOffice. It is interesting to see who is on the board of the Document Foundation. Probably 50% are Germans, followed by French, Brazilian and other european people. Also interesting are the companies/foundations that support LibreOffice [1], I see names like Red Hat, Novell, the FSF of course, Oasis and some european national foundations.
I am not very much surprised about this however. Usage of Open Source software in Europe (and especially germany) is quiet high. Also FOSS is more and more used by national and academic entities in europe.
Let's see how this will end. With a Debian maintainer, Novell and Redaht backing this project, they might be on to something in the long run.
1) http://www.documentfoundation.org/supporters/
Are we talking passenger trains, freight trains, or both? Will this (presumably) be an electrified train system, so no fumes in the tunnels, or something else? Any word on where the power is expected to come from if electrified (nuclear, coal, gas, hydro? I'm guessing you wouldn't run a train system on wind or solar, but perhaps I'm wrong)?
I happen to be swiss and I have worked in civil engineering for some years. This tunnel will be used for both, passengers and freight. The new tunnel will complement some already existing shoter train tunnels.
Germany is one of the biggest exporting countries in europe. A lot of goods have to be moved from germany to the mediterranean sea (from north to south through the alps) and the other way around. Many goods are moved through the highway tunnels and the existing train tunnels.
Here in switzerland we have a very dense and highly frequented train network. It's all electric since roughly WWII (we have replaced steam with electric entirely). A lot of the peak electricity is produced in the alps with water dams and river dams. These have mainly been built post WWII. The base power is produced with nuclear plants (and also partially imported I guess from other european countries, especially eastern europe is offering cheap electricity).
In the 90ies we started heavily investing in an even more efficient train system, the project was called "Bahn 2000" (that's what i have been working for). It's now mainly completed. There is no other transport system that is as efficient as a good working train system. Building more roads through the alps was considered too expensive (imagine tunnel after bridge after tunnel after bridge ...) and such a long "base" tunnel was considered too dangerous for cars and trucks.
What we already do is loading trucks on the northern and southern border onto the rail (entire trucks, it's called "HuPac") and transport them through our country within 2-3 hours. It's all transit traffic. Although the rail is more efficient this decision was mostly driven by environmental concerns. They don't want to have more stinking cars in the beautiful alps which are also well known for the winter sport resorts (i don't live in the mountain).
Personally I think the special thing about our new tunnel is, that such a small (although wealth) country can afford to realize this sort of monster project. It will roughly take 20 years to complete.
Cheers
-S
Well, it seems to have worked against ACS Law, the domain does not resolve anymore (since ca. 29. Oct). http://acs-law.org.uk/
It is very likely that ACS Law will go out of business for doing their shady "porn" extortion. After/During that attack, some 200MB of emails "leaked" which will put the last nail in their coffin: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5850493/ACS-Law_leaked_emails