It is quite confusing. I believe that 1.0PR was called 0.10 in order to distinguish it better from 1.0RCs and above. THe program actually calls itself "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1", as in 0.10.1, but the "laymans" name is 1.0PR... you could say;)
So I guess what will happen is they will start with 0.10, then now it is 0.10.1.. and work their way back to 0.9 again, after which they will call it "Firefox 1.0RC1", and start the small number scheme all over again!
Do the same for RC2.. RC3.. RC4.. Final RC..
Oh well. When longhorn comes out, we will get Firefox 1.0 for longhorn too!:)
"Death by firing squad for treason, for all congressmen who accept gifts from corporate entities."
Except that corporate entitles are also legally considered to be "individuals", so are you saying any politician who takes "political contribution" should be executed?
I'm surprised that Apple stuff are not bobby trapped to explode when an unauthorised person opens it.
Serious!
Let's look at say, the iPod.
It is darned service unfriendly. No matter how good you are, you will leave a few little marks on that case when you open it.
Then when you finally open it, suppose say the iPod's hard drive died. Short of getting a special hard drive from Apple (the drives they use are actually from Toshiba, but normal OEM drives do not work), there is no way you can fix it.
Apple stuff are darned unfriendly man! The UI is all a guise for its underlying unfriendliness!!:((
Well, I think they are pretty useful gadgets! In fact, I foresee (wait, I meant I can see them around 200 years in the future!)
Things you can do with a PDA: 1) View video disks 2) Record and playback audio logs 3) Receive email from Martian Buddy and win freebies 4) Open and shut security doors in your work place 5)..oh wait a minute..
I just think it is silly to have the scientific community launch on the religious fanatics and vice versa.
In fact, the best would be for the two groups to just leave each other alone. Science is science, religion is religion.
Science will never be able to prove or disprove the existence of a God or otherwise, and similarly it is not like religion is a substitute for science either. They both have their place in society. Problems only arrise when people in one camp start opposing those in the other camp.
Now, some scientific nuts may go smug and think "oh yeah we will, we'll show them!" but I really think it'd be futile. Not too sure about this, I'm talking out of my ass here, but once I heard a mathematician friend talking about some Gödel theory where it says that for a given system, there are conclusions that just can't be drawn just from the information within the system itself.
And humans are only a tiny part within a very huge system (the whole universe?)
For all we know God might actually be living on the far side of Andromeda and looking smugly at us through his quantum telescope. So that's how he appears to be omipotent to some!
Bah, whatever, anyhow I'm not a religious fanatic. Just my 0.00000002 cents. It's so worthless that there is no currency for it:)
Well, it's about time to get rid of those fancy space shuttles!
I'd say we attach a big bucket (made of a potato chip) to a hot air ballon, and float the astronauts into space!
They can also eat the bucket when they are going up too. By the time they reach the zero gravity zone they won't need the bucket anyway! Then for reentry they just use the ballon as a parachute!
Will it ever lead to a day when we would finally have the MCXCIII compilation of Britney Spears FOREVER and on the case instead of showing a busty Britney, it just shows a mound of dust.
That's what Britney would be in say.. 70 years, the way they keep extending these God damned copyrights.
So what if they spent 10 billion dollars to market that bitch? Other industries (like drug firms/whatever) spent a lot to develop products too, they don't get protection as ridiculous as these (thankfully)
Of course, we can go on and on about boycotting them, but as long as Joe Average doesn't know (or care) about what is happening, it won't even make a dent on the RIAA.
So long "the land of the free", let's all migrate to Nigeria!
"Why anyone would use msn messenger is beyond me, I hate that thing. It's more annoying than clippy. They just need a soundbyte with it that yells "you've got spam!" and it'll be complete."
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It is quite confusing. I believe that 1.0PR was called 0.10 in order to distinguish it better from 1.0RCs and above. THe program actually calls itself "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1", as in 0.10.1, but the "laymans" name is 1.0PR... you could say ;)
:)
So I guess what will happen is they will start with 0.10, then now it is 0.10.1.. and work their way back to 0.9 again, after which they will call it "Firefox 1.0RC1", and start the small number scheme all over again!
Do the same for RC2.. RC3.. RC4.. Final RC..
Oh well. When longhorn comes out, we will get Firefox 1.0 for longhorn too!
Indeed, I was half expecting to redownload the whole shebang of a browser again, but no. Just a quickie! :)
Seems like Mozilla foundation did learn something from the professionals in software updates: windowsupdate.microsoft.com!
I got a better one.
"I hereby patent the process of the transfer of money in exchange of a good or service!"
Tomorrow I shall go sue all retailers and major corporations and even those beggers on the street!
Oh wait, maybe I will just leave those beggars alone, but the moment they start performing.....
"Death by firing squad for treason, for all congressmen who accept gifts from corporate entities."
Except that corporate entitles are also legally considered to be "individuals", so are you saying any politician who takes "political contribution" should be executed?
I certainly think so though
I'm surprised that Apple stuff are not bobby trapped to explode when an unauthorised person opens it.
:((
Serious!
Let's look at say, the iPod.
It is darned service unfriendly. No matter how good you are, you will leave a few little marks on that case when you open it.
Then when you finally open it, suppose say the iPod's hard drive died. Short of getting a special hard drive from Apple (the drives they use are actually from Toshiba, but normal OEM drives do not work), there is no way you can fix it.
Apple stuff are darned unfriendly man! The UI is all a guise for its underlying unfriendliness!!
Well, I think they are pretty useful gadgets! In fact, I foresee (wait, I meant I can see them around 200 years in the future!)
..oh wait a minute..
Things you can do with a PDA:
1) View video disks
2) Record and playback audio logs
3) Receive email from Martian Buddy and win freebies
4) Open and shut security doors in your work place
5)
Thanks!
Really appreciate the added touch!
-Playboy fanboy
And somebody else made a point about Nintendo not doing things half-assed.
:)
I just gotta jab in
Cut Every Corner
Shery: If there's a task that must be done,
Don't turn your tail and run,
Don't pout, don't sob,
Just do a half-assed job!
If... you... cut every corner
It is really not so bad,
Everybody does it,
Even mom and dad.
If nobody sees it,
Then nobody gets mad,
Bart: It's the American way!
Shery: The policeman on the beat
Needs some time to rest his feet.
Chief Wiggum: Fighting crime is not my cup of tea!
Shary: And the clerk who runs the store
Can charge a little more
For meat!
Apu: For meat!
Shery: And milk!
Apu: And milk!
Both: From 1984!
Shery: If... you... cut every corner,
You'll have more time for play,
Shary & OFF: It's the American waaaaay!
I just think it is silly to have the scientific community launch on the religious fanatics and vice versa.
:)
In fact, the best would be for the two groups to just leave each other alone. Science is science, religion is religion.
Science will never be able to prove or disprove the existence of a God or otherwise, and similarly it is not like religion is a substitute for science either. They both have their place in society. Problems only arrise when people in one camp start opposing those in the other camp.
Now, some scientific nuts may go smug and think "oh yeah we will, we'll show them!" but I really think it'd be futile. Not too sure about this, I'm talking out of my ass here, but once I heard a mathematician friend talking about some Gödel theory where it says that for a given system, there are conclusions that just can't be drawn just from the information within the system itself.
And humans are only a tiny part within a very huge system (the whole universe?)
For all we know God might actually be living on the far side of Andromeda and looking smugly at us through his quantum telescope. So that's how he appears to be omipotent to some!
Bah, whatever, anyhow I'm not a religious fanatic. Just my 0.00000002 cents. It's so worthless that there is no currency for it
"Where did the computers come from? Oops. Get back to me when a computer constructs itself from a chunk of silicon."
Where did human beings come from? Oops. Get back to me when a human constructs him/herself from a chunk of mud.
=)
"These people are tasked with doing everything within the bounds of the law to return value to the shareholder."
+3 insightful?
Lemme add one more:
"sometimes they even break the law(s) or buy their own law(s) to return value to the shareholder."
there, it looks better now.
"less features enabled that are though actually built into the thing == good? really? like the 486 sx was a good idea?"
Wrong, everyone knows the XT is the best
Is to make that Android in Terminator 2.
God damned, I should have known, Cyberdyne does exist!
Ah, the old saying:
...and a recovery is when George Bush is out of work.
A recession is when someone you know is out of work.
A depression is when you are out of work.
This should be insightful.
Then we are in a MAJOR depression.
This should be funny
This should be +5 funny!
Ok folks, if those bastards steal any more of our rights again, everybody aim your rifle into the sky.
We will shoot that fscking satelite down!
2 weeks without slashdot?!?!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooo.....
Well, it's about time to get rid of those fancy space shuttles!
I'd say we attach a big bucket (made of a potato chip) to a hot air ballon, and float the astronauts into space!
They can also eat the bucket when they are going up too. By the time they reach the zero gravity zone they won't need the bucket anyway! Then for reentry they just use the ballon as a parachute!
The ultimate no-frills space travel!
When will all this stop?
Will it ever lead to a day when we would finally have the MCXCIII compilation of Britney Spears FOREVER and on the case instead of showing a busty Britney, it just shows a mound of dust.
That's what Britney would be in say.. 70 years, the way they keep extending these God damned copyrights.
So what if they spent 10 billion dollars to market that bitch? Other industries (like drug firms/whatever) spent a lot to develop products too, they don't get protection as ridiculous as these (thankfully)
Of course, we can go on and on about boycotting them, but as long as Joe Average doesn't know (or care) about what is happening, it won't even make a dent on the RIAA.
So long "the land of the free", let's all migrate to Nigeria!
http://www.migrate-nigeria.com/
"On the other hand, we have MS that release a fix the same day the exploit is found (JPEG exploit)."
Well Micro$oft fanboy, sorry to disappoint you, but I think the WHOLE Windows XP is one huge bug, and how long did it take MS to fix it?
Well, 3 years to get to SP2, and they are STILL fixing it.
"Why anyone would use msn messenger is beyond me, I hate that thing. It's more annoying than clippy. They just need a soundbyte with it that yells "you've got spam!" and it'll be complete."
I've got just the right thing for you!
http://tmp.infosynaptics.com/spammail.wav
I heard the Irish govt is one big Microsoft customer.. and it seems like the guys backing the software patent nonsense in the EU are also the irish.
Presumably due to "lobbie$" and "political contribution$$$" I guess.
Many other EU states are against it actually.
Same bullshit everywhere.
Which brings to mind, why are the irish so powerful? Are they what, the president of the EU or something?
Not that I'm very in tune with politics in that part of the world, so would like to hear more from those living there.
It sounds like the plans are coming together nicely for overlord robots.
Didn't you watch The Matrix? We still have the good ole fashion trusty EMP SHOCKWAVE!
That'd pawn the asses of our robot overlords good!
Anyhow I hope Darlie would join Kumar where he is going very soon =)
" Another Enron/Worldcom like problem... shoot all the CEOs and the IT industry will prosper."
Except Steve Jobs..
http://www.kodawarisan.com.nyud.net:8090/imacg5/im acg501.html
This is one server that really won't survive a slashdotting too well, so better use the CDN!