This is the US you're talking about. I'm not trolling but I've been surprised by the lack of protests and resignations over such failed policy. A war based on false information, falling dollar, weakening economy, information getting destroyed, Katrina, etc.
In old Europe, where I am from, governments would resign and write out new elections after such disastrous events. If they don't write out new elections they would be forced by countless protests from the public. In the US however people seem to fear being questioned about their patriotism when they publicly protest their government.
I think Hillary will argue at the convention that even though Obama got the most unpledged delegates he did not get the popular vote. He simply won the caucuses which do not represent a pure popular vote. Besides that she will argue that she carried all the big states. States that are most important for winning the general election. Therefor making her a more electable candidate.
There is no 20.7% increase from the beginning of 2007 like the summary says. According to the Ars technica chart the usage of Firefox at the beginning of 2007 was 23.2% - so that is at most a 4.8% increase. And an increase from 20% two years ago to 28% till the end of 2007.
"Leopard is an Open Brand UNIX 03 Registered Product, conforming to the SUSv3 and POSIX 1003.1 specifications for the C API, Shell Utilities, and Threads. Since Leopard can compile and run all your existing UNIX code, you can deploy it in environments that demand full conformance -- complete with hooks to maintain compatibility with existing software."
As far as I know only the specs will be finished soon. Will there actually be a full implementation of these specs shortly or will that still take months/years?
I think you're indeed too old. MTV != Hip With The Youngsters either nowadays. So in that respect Microsoft, for which you observation is right, would be an ideal partner. Although I don't believe Realnetworks has the coolness factor MTV would be looking for.
I'm not an American, so maybe I don't understand the logic of this grammar. But this 'once-ballyhooed partnership with Microsoft appears to be all but dead.'. In other words, the partnership is everything except dead. I know that in logic and implication can't be reversed by definition. But I believe you could also write 'all but dead' as 'nothing but alive' - which would mean that MTV has a healthy partnership with Microsoft. Which makes no sense with the rest of the story. It's so confusing!
I tried to do the math and I ended up at an angle of about 95.41 degrees. Initially I was pretty sure it was correct. I'm however starting to doubt a bit after not seeing the answer here. Anyone can confirm, or deny?
I already did boycott them. Since the rootkit debacle I haven't considered buying a Sony product anymore and some actions from Sony after it only confirmed my stance. Actually I find it pretty easy. Sony used to make innovative electronics, nowadays it's just busy being engaged in conservative business politics. Real innovation comes from other companies nowadays. Nintendo and Samsung for example. So I'm not really interested in Sony products anymore anyway.
PC, personal computer. Apple surely qualifies as a personal computer manufacturer. Or do you mean x86 compatible PC manufacturer? I believe they even do that too nowadays...
So he even manages to spell it wrong on his own webpage? And What is umulated? Do you mean umlauted? Which is something the Dutch hardly do. That's a German thing...
I believe you misunderstand. sudo is a command that takes a user listed in the sudoers file and gives them root priviledges.
Exactly! But when do you get root priviledges? Only after you give your password to sudo (either on the cli or in the installer). Before that point you have as much privileges as a ordinary user.
The little thread started because cgenman said "OSX users run as admin by default" with which he seemed to imply that Mac OS X users run with root priviledges by default and therefor don't get prompted for a password. But this is not the case.
I don't even think we're making a different point. My definition of admin is just more confusing I guess. You're indeed right that the default user is a user from the admin group, but my point is that even though the user might be an admin, he doesn't have root priviledges without giving a password first.
That's what I just said. It asks me for my password and only then I get promoted to the admin user (by means of sudo I assume). The point of the article is that "without prompting the vast majority of Mac OS X users for a password of any kind". If someone then says "most OSX users run as admin by default" that makes it sound as if users are running a root account by default. Which is not simply true.
I'm running a default installation of Mac OS X and I'm surely not working as the admin user. Neither did I, as far as I can remember, explicitly add my less-privileged user-account. I do however get prompted for my password whenever an application wants to install something in a directory that's only accessible for the admin user.
Either I forgot that I added a less-privileged user account or the default installation of Mac OS X just has this as the default. I think the latter option is more likely.
So install Leak Monitor. Then you can see the cause of the most severe memory leaks: poorly coded extentions.
Can anyone explain how this happens. All(?) extensions are written in XUL using javascript right? How is it possible to create a memory leak using javascript. The garbage collector of the javascript engine should get rid of unused allocated memory right? Is it the javascript engine that has leaks? Or is it just the definition of memory leak taken very broadly?
But the review on it was not too bad. Too bad I already spent my mad money on a GP2X [wikipedia.org].
5 minutes after OrangeTide posted on Slashdot that he spent his mad money on a GP2X, The wikipedia pages get updated to tell us that the GP2X, is in fact, a gigantic dildo.
I've got the newest all-in-one-gestures working on my 1.5 beta. It works perfectly fine for so far i can see.
I uninstalled the currently installed all-in-one-gestures extension from my firefox. Downloaded a new one from the all-in-one website (0.16). Opened the xpi as a zip file and edited the install.rdf that's contained in the xpi. Changed the maxversion value to 1.5+. Draged the xpi with edited maxversion value in my firefox 1.5 beta. Installed it...and it works like a charm...
great because i really can't do without all in one gestures.
If Firefox had a dozen different versions, each with different web locations/features/visuals/interfaces, it would not be as popular as it is today. This should be obvious.
Your comparison is not totally fair. Firefox is just the shell around the Gecko render engine and there are a gazillion products based around that Gecko engine.
If you compare Linux with Firefox you could see Firefox or Camino as a distribution of the Gecko render engine. Like Gentoo or Debian are the distribution of the Linux kernel.
While "technies" like us may look at IBM/Linux vs Apple/Linux relationships, the common user is looking at a price tag.
Car analogies often fail, but well.
The common person buys cars for the features and looks and most often not for speed and the acceleration. Common people are willing to pay a premium price for the car with less speed but with more features and better looks.
I think the same goes for Apple computers. Lots of users would be willing to pay a premium price if they're able to have a good looking computer with a nice set of features as long as it's fast enough for them (which the macs will undoubtedly be).
I don't think Microsoft likes the current patent law very much either. They get sued a gazillion times a year by small companies for patent infringement. Only yesterday they lost a patent case against some guy from Guatemala for a pretty trivial invention, it costed them 9 million dollar. Peanuts for Microsoft probably. But it adds up if you get such a lawsuit every week. Especially like the Eolas where they were ordered to pay 500 million for yet another trivial patent.
Microsoft it taking part in this patent game themself of course. But it would be stupid for them not to. They're a company that wants to make as much profit as possible and with the current patent law they're probably losing more money than making it so they would like to see a change in the law.
Pursuant to the terms and conditions of this License, you are granted a nonexclusive license to use the Specification for the sole purposes of developing Products that output SWF
Developing a SWF player would probably mean breaking the license agreement. I don't think it means breaking the DMCA.
SWF is an open format as far as I know, you can find the documentation of the format on the Macromedia website. There are quite a few GPL SWF creation tools also.
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This is the US you're talking about. I'm not trolling but I've been surprised by the lack of protests and resignations over such failed policy. A war based on false information, falling dollar, weakening economy, information getting destroyed, Katrina, etc. In old Europe, where I am from, governments would resign and write out new elections after such disastrous events. If they don't write out new elections they would be forced by countless protests from the public. In the US however people seem to fear being questioned about their patriotism when they publicly protest their government.
I think Hillary will argue at the convention that even though Obama got the most unpledged delegates he did not get the popular vote. He simply won the caucuses which do not represent a pure popular vote. Besides that she will argue that she carried all the big states. States that are most important for winning the general election. Therefor making her a more electable candidate.
There is no 20.7% increase from the beginning of 2007 like the summary says. According to the Ars technica chart the usage of Firefox at the beginning of 2007 was 23.2% - so that is at most a 4.8% increase. And an increase from 20% two years ago to 28% till the end of 2007.
"Leopard is an Open Brand UNIX 03 Registered Product, conforming to the SUSv3 and POSIX 1003.1 specifications for the C API, Shell Utilities, and Threads. Since Leopard can compile and run all your existing UNIX code, you can deploy it in environments that demand full conformance -- complete with hooks to maintain compatibility with existing software."
As far as I know only the specs will be finished soon. Will there actually be a full implementation of these specs shortly or will that still take months/years?
I think you're indeed too old. MTV != Hip With The Youngsters either nowadays. So in that respect Microsoft, for which you observation is right, would be an ideal partner. Although I don't believe Realnetworks has the coolness factor MTV would be looking for.
I'm not an American, so maybe I don't understand the logic of this grammar. But this 'once-ballyhooed partnership with Microsoft appears to be all but dead.'. In other words, the partnership is everything except dead. I know that in logic and implication can't be reversed by definition. But I believe you could also write 'all but dead' as 'nothing but alive' - which would mean that MTV has a healthy partnership with Microsoft. Which makes no sense with the rest of the story. It's so confusing!
I tried to do the math and I ended up at an angle of about 95.41 degrees. Initially I was pretty sure it was correct. I'm however starting to doubt a bit after not seeing the answer here. Anyone can confirm, or deny?
I already did boycott them. Since the rootkit debacle I haven't considered buying a Sony product anymore and some actions from Sony after it only confirmed my stance. Actually I find it pretty easy. Sony used to make innovative electronics, nowadays it's just busy being engaged in conservative business politics. Real innovation comes from other companies nowadays. Nintendo and Samsung for example. So I'm not really interested in Sony products anymore anyway.
PC, personal computer. Apple surely qualifies as a personal computer manufacturer. Or do you mean x86 compatible PC manufacturer? I believe they even do that too nowadays...
So he even manages to spell it wrong on his own webpage? And What is umulated? Do you mean umlauted? Which is something the Dutch hardly do. That's a German thing...
Exactly! But when do you get root priviledges? Only after you give your password to sudo (either on the cli or in the installer). Before that point you have as much privileges as a ordinary user.
The little thread started because cgenman said "OSX users run as admin by default" with which he seemed to imply that Mac OS X users run with root priviledges by default and therefor don't get prompted for a password. But this is not the case.
I don't even think we're making a different point. My definition of admin is just more confusing I guess. You're indeed right that the default user is a user from the admin group, but my point is that even though the user might be an admin, he doesn't have root priviledges without giving a password first.
That's what I just said. It asks me for my password and only then I get promoted to the admin user (by means of sudo I assume). The point of the article is that "without prompting the vast majority of Mac OS X users for a password of any kind". If someone then says "most OSX users run as admin by default" that makes it sound as if users are running a root account by default. Which is not simply true.
I'm running a default installation of Mac OS X and I'm surely not working as the admin user. Neither did I, as far as I can remember, explicitly add my less-privileged user-account. I do however get prompted for my password whenever an application wants to install something in a directory that's only accessible for the admin user.
Either I forgot that I added a less-privileged user account or the default installation of Mac OS X just has this as the default. I think the latter option is more likely.
Off the record but I've heard that the label on the Mac lab door actually reads "the copy room"
Funny enough, making clones turned out to be the one thing that wasn't fraud.
I've got the newest all-in-one-gestures working on my 1.5 beta. It works perfectly fine for so far i can see.
I uninstalled the currently installed all-in-one-gestures extension from my firefox. Downloaded a new one from the all-in-one website (0.16). Opened the xpi as a zip file and edited the install.rdf that's contained in the xpi. Changed the maxversion value to 1.5+. Draged the xpi with edited maxversion value in my firefox 1.5 beta. Installed it...and it works like a charm...
great because i really can't do without all in one gestures.
The common person buys cars for the features and looks and most often not for speed and the acceleration. Common people are willing to pay a premium price for the car with less speed but with more features and better looks.
I think the same goes for Apple computers. Lots of users would be willing to pay a premium price if they're able to have a good looking computer with a nice set of features as long as it's fast enough for them (which the macs will undoubtedly be).
I don't think Microsoft likes the current patent law very much either. They get sued a gazillion times a year by small companies for patent infringement. Only yesterday they lost a patent case against some guy from Guatemala for a pretty trivial invention, it costed them 9 million dollar. Peanuts for Microsoft probably. But it adds up if you get such a lawsuit every week. Especially like the Eolas where they were ordered to pay 500 million for yet another trivial patent. Microsoft it taking part in this patent game themself of course. But it would be stupid for them not to. They're a company that wants to make as much profit as possible and with the current patent law they're probably losing more money than making it so they would like to see a change in the law.
http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/open/lice nsing/fileformat/license2.html
You are indeed right...the license states
Pursuant to the terms and conditions of this License, you are granted a nonexclusive license to use the Specification for the sole purposes of developing Products that output SWF
Developing a SWF player would probably mean breaking the license agreement. I don't think it means breaking the DMCA.
SWF is an open format as far as I know, you can find the documentation of the format on the Macromedia website. There are quite a few GPL SWF creation tools also.