"One red cent" because, when the phrase was coined (ha, ha) in the 19th Century, the alloy used was a ruddy copper-nickel and became redder from contact with body oils. (The alloy was changed from the ruddy one to a less red high-copper bronze in 1864, and again in 1982 when it became a zinc core clad in the high-copper bronze.)
This has been a Public Service Announcement of the Committee for the Elimination of Mixed Metaphors.
Both the U.S. and ISO standards, when truncated to just month and day, are identical. 12/11 or 12-11 is December 11th, whether you use the American or the international standard.
So any confusion of what day of the year a two-separated-numbers date means is entirely the fault of European stubbornness in refusing to adopt the international standard.
Win98 was released in June 1998, not 1997. Second, the cancellation affects both it and Win98 SE, released May, 1999. So the rough Linux equivalent is Linux 2.2, released in January, 1999. It was last patched (according to kernel.org) March 17th, 2003.
Erm. Sorry about gettin what should have been your positive moderations with my increased prominence due to +1. I did start writing my post before yours came up, at least.
So why the hell do they get to advertise in a public company for FREE?
Um, how did you get the idea AOL was getting to advertise "for FREE"? The United States Postal Service is being paid by AOL for every person who signs up with a disc distributed by the post office. In theory, it means that postal rates won't go up as often or as much.
Because it didn't flop. It's been sixteen years since OS/2 1.0 and it's still available as a commercial product, is still getting updated, and is still getting some development (Java, Mozilla, Xfree86-OS/2, GIMP).
It wasn't wildly successful, nor as successful as hoped, but it's still on the market and still runs current apps. That's not a flop.
I hear this book caused quite a stir in the Vatican. The thing that might have saved it was probably that it was styled as a fiction book.
Unlikely. The basic conspiracy theory has been being spread around for at least 800 years now, and you can buy self-proclaimed nonfiction like "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" and "Bloodline of the Holy Grail" and similar nonsense from Amazon or in your local bookstore.
Disputing only one thing. GM is nowhere quoted as saying that this may void the warranty on your car, so it isn't "definitely FUD on the part of GM". The OnStar CTO quoted specifically says "From my own perspective -- and GM may feel differently" in the article.
Now, yes, OnStar is a subsidiary of GM and so this guy is, ultimately, working for GM. But this guy really is a fairly minor cog in the GM machine expressing a personal opinion. He quite likely knows nothing about car warranties, and is almost certainly not passing on a message from above.
I mean, this amounts to, "If you have a passenger and a laptop in your car, you can replace a tiny subset of the OnStar service by either buying a GPS reciever, or spending time and effort to render your OnStar device otherwise uselss and voiding your waranty."
Only if you take it seriously. Can't anybody see the exclamation points? The over-eager phrasing? The fact that it's obvious that the units a country use are absolutely irrelevant? The play on the NASA Mars probe that failed due to a unit mix-up?
The BBC's description is not entirely fair. Many of the missions did not even try to put a lander on the surface, but just do a flyby or go into orbit.
The proper comparison is either how many of the 30 met mission goals, or how many of the lander attempts were successful. The success rate under either standard is much higher than the BBC quote would indicate.
* The Soviet Union used metric units, and all of their probes failed except one. So did the '96 Russian mission.
* The Customary-using U.S.'s Mariner 4, 6, 7, and 9 worked, as did Viking 1 and 2, and Mars Observer; only Mariner 3 of the Mars missions failed.
* The U.S. Federal Government most far-reaching metrification laws went into effect after Observer was launched, and things have been 50-50 since, reflecting the semi-converted state of the U.S.
Obviously, there is a direct correlation between societal use of metric units and failure of Mars missions! If we are to explore the Red Planet, we must de-metrify now!
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Hello Kitty? No. But the Matrix Vibe is available . . .
Qt is available under GPL or under a proprietary licesne. This means a closed-source software developer must either give away his source or pay Troll Tech a license fee.
GTK+ is LGPL. Thus, a closed-source software developer can use it for free and without releasing his source.
GTK+/Gnome is therefore being picked because it is less ideologically pure than Qt/KDE, not more so.
It's not an old argument, it's a new, different argument.
GTK+ is LGPL. Therefore one can make closed-source apps that link to it for free, without releasing the source. One cannot do that with Qt, which is GPL unless you buy another license.
Therefore, a GTK+ environment is more welcoming for closed developers to build applications for, as they don't have to pay Troll Tech a fee or open their source. This is especially important if the developer is using additional, licensed third-party components (like DRM, or many pateneted encoders, and the like) which they cannot release under the terms of the GPL.
Since the goal of the distribution is adoption on corporate desktops, the platform needs to be as friendly to the closed-source developers that provide software to the companies as possible. Which means LGPLed GTK+, not (GPL|Fee) Qt.
Mozilla is faulty for complying with Internet standards? The URI spec specifically requires support of the form USERNAME(:PASSWORD)@example.com/
Now, yes, Opera gives you a warning box, and it would be nice if Mozilla did that, too. But users not understanding standard URI format is not a fault in Mozilla; it's a fault in either the standard or the users.
Viagra was designed and developed in a research effort that was originally looking for anti-hypertension drugs, and was later refocused on anti-angina drugs. While the stage II clinical trial showed it was not as effective as hoped, it did discover a curious side effect. The priority was not to create an impotency drug; that was a foruitous side effect of what was otherwise seven years of wasted research and funding.
The Pearse-is-first is a myth. Pearse himself said that he didn't beat the Wright Brothers and didn't fly until 1904, despite the (mutually exclusive) claims that he flew March 31, 1902 or March 31st, 1903.
No, it isn't an exploit, any more than the fact that Mozilla Mail doesn't stop you from deliberately executing an attachment you've recieved from somebody you don't know is an exploit.
URLs of the form http://foo.bar@example.com are an official part of the HTTP spec. Delivering you to such pages and displaying the full address is the right thing for the program to do, if it claims to be a web browser. Now, it's a nice feature that Opera prompts in those cases to warn you about an what may be an attempted spoof. But it's the equivalent of DOS's "Are you sure? (Y/N)" message when you tell it to delete *.*; it wouldn't be an error if the prompt was never built in, and DOS went ahead and emptied the directory when you told it to.
If http://foo.bar@example.com URLs are an exploit, it's an exploit in HTTP, not the browser.
Now, IE actually does have an additional exploit -- it hides the @ and beyond when given certain forms of spoofed links. And that's unquestionably Microsoft's error.
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Um, it's "one red cent" or "one thin dime".
"One thin dime" because, well, dimes are thin.
"One red cent" because, when the phrase was coined (ha, ha) in the 19th Century, the alloy used was a ruddy copper-nickel and became redder from contact with body oils. (The alloy was changed from the ruddy one to a less red high-copper bronze in 1864, and again in 1982 when it became a zinc core clad in the high-copper bronze.)
This has been a Public Service Announcement of the Committee for the Elimination of Mixed Metaphors.
Here's the thing that I love:
Both the U.S. and ISO standards, when truncated to just month and day, are identical. 12/11 or 12-11 is December 11th, whether you use the American or the international standard.
So any confusion of what day of the year a two-separated-numbers date means is entirely the fault of European stubbornness in refusing to adopt the international standard.
Bah, who needs a CP/M emulator when you already have DOSEmu?
DOSEmu can run CP/M-86 just fine. You can get the actual OS itself free and legal here, while this site explains how to run it under DOSEmu.
Wasn't arguing either way, just providing the data.
Win98 was released in June 1998, not 1997. Second, the cancellation affects both it and Win98 SE, released May, 1999. So the rough Linux equivalent is Linux 2.2, released in January, 1999. It was last patched (according to kernel.org) March 17th, 2003.
Upgrade to PC-DOS 2000, and buy support from IBM as necessary.
Erm. Sorry about gettin what should have been your positive moderations with my increased prominence due to +1. I did start writing my post before yours came up, at least.
So why the hell do they get to advertise in a public company for FREE?
Um, how did you get the idea AOL was getting to advertise "for FREE"? The United States Postal Service is being paid by AOL for every person who signs up with a disc distributed by the post office. In theory, it means that postal rates won't go up as often or as much.
OS/2 ain't even on the list.
Because it didn't flop. It's been sixteen years since OS/2 1.0 and it's still available as a commercial product, is still getting updated, and is still getting some development (Java, Mozilla, Xfree86-OS/2, GIMP).
It wasn't wildly successful, nor as successful as hoped, but it's still on the market and still runs current apps. That's not a flop.
I hear this book caused quite a stir in the Vatican. The thing that might have saved it was probably that it was styled as a fiction book.
Unlikely. The basic conspiracy theory has been being spread around for at least 800 years now, and you can buy self-proclaimed nonfiction like "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" and "Bloodline of the Holy Grail" and similar nonsense from Amazon or in your local bookstore.
Disputing only one thing. GM is nowhere quoted as saying that this may void the warranty on your car, so it isn't "definitely FUD on the part of GM". The OnStar CTO quoted specifically says "From my own perspective -- and GM may feel differently" in the article.
Now, yes, OnStar is a subsidiary of GM and so this guy is, ultimately, working for GM. But this guy really is a fairly minor cog in the GM machine expressing a personal opinion. He quite likely knows nothing about car warranties, and is almost certainly not passing on a message from above.
Why should GM care?
I mean, this amounts to, "If you have a passenger and a laptop in your car, you can replace a tiny subset of the OnStar service by either buying a GPS reciever, or spending time and effort to render your OnStar device otherwise uselss and voiding your waranty."
I'm sure GM is terrified.
Exactly!
Only if you take it seriously. Can't anybody see the exclamation points? The over-eager phrasing? The fact that it's obvious that the units a country use are absolutely irrelevant? The play on the NASA Mars probe that failed due to a unit mix-up?
Argh.
Interesting? I was trying to be funny. Sure, there's a correlation, but it's a silly one.
The BBC's description is not entirely fair. Many of the missions did not even try to put a lander on the surface, but just do a flyby or go into orbit.
The proper comparison is either how many of the 30 met mission goals, or how many of the lander attempts were successful. The success rate under either standard is much higher than the BBC quote would indicate.
because their country uses metric units!
* The Soviet Union used metric units, and all of their probes failed except one. So did the '96 Russian mission.
* The Customary-using U.S.'s Mariner 4, 6, 7, and 9 worked, as did Viking 1 and 2, and Mars Observer; only Mariner 3 of the Mars missions failed.
* The U.S. Federal Government most far-reaching metrification laws went into effect after Observer was launched, and things have been 50-50 since, reflecting the semi-converted state of the U.S.
Obviously, there is a direct correlation between societal use of metric units and failure of Mars missions! If we are to explore the Red Planet, we must de-metrify now!
Hello Kitty? No. But the Matrix Vibe is available . . .
You seem to miss the point.
Qt is available under GPL or under a proprietary licesne. This means a closed-source software developer must either give away his source or pay Troll Tech a license fee.
GTK+ is LGPL. Thus, a closed-source software developer can use it for free and without releasing his source.
GTK+/Gnome is therefore being picked because it is less ideologically pure than Qt/KDE, not more so.
It's not an old argument, it's a new, different argument.
GTK+ is LGPL. Therefore one can make closed-source apps that link to it for free, without releasing the source. One cannot do that with Qt, which is GPL unless you buy another license.
Therefore, a GTK+ environment is more welcoming for closed developers to build applications for, as they don't have to pay Troll Tech a fee or open their source. This is especially important if the developer is using additional, licensed third-party components (like DRM, or many pateneted encoders, and the like) which they cannot release under the terms of the GPL.
Since the goal of the distribution is adoption on corporate desktops, the platform needs to be as friendly to the closed-source developers that provide software to the companies as possible. Which means LGPLed GTK+, not (GPL|Fee) Qt.
Mozilla is faulty for complying with Internet standards? The URI spec specifically requires support of the form USERNAME(:PASSWORD)@example.com/
Now, yes, Opera gives you a warning box, and it would be nice if Mozilla did that, too. But users not understanding standard URI format is not a fault in Mozilla; it's a fault in either the standard or the users.
Priorities?
Viagra was designed and developed in a research effort that was originally looking for anti-hypertension drugs, and was later refocused on anti-angina drugs. While the stage II clinical trial showed it was not as effective as hoped, it did discover a curious side effect. The priority was not to create an impotency drug; that was a foruitous side effect of what was otherwise seven years of wasted research and funding.
The Pearse-is-first is a myth. Pearse himself said that he didn't beat the Wright Brothers and didn't fly until 1904, despite the (mutually exclusive) claims that he flew March 31, 1902 or March 31st, 1903.
Thems ain't no ladies, bub.
No, it isn't an exploit, any more than the fact that Mozilla Mail doesn't stop you from deliberately executing an attachment you've recieved from somebody you don't know is an exploit.
URLs of the form http://foo.bar@example.com are an official part of the HTTP spec. Delivering you to such pages and displaying the full address is the right thing for the program to do, if it claims to be a web browser. Now, it's a nice feature that Opera prompts in those cases to warn you about an what may be an attempted spoof. But it's the equivalent of DOS's "Are you sure? (Y/N)" message when you tell it to delete *.*; it wouldn't be an error if the prompt was never built in, and DOS went ahead and emptied the directory when you told it to.
If http://foo.bar@example.com URLs are an exploit, it's an exploit in HTTP, not the browser.
Now, IE actually does have an additional exploit -- it hides the @ and beyond when given certain forms of spoofed links. And that's unquestionably Microsoft's error.