I have another theory for the hiring
on
Microsoft in 2008
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· Score: 2, Funny
Hey, it's 2005 (I mean, when Linus joined Microsoft in the story). Microsoft's worried about Google being a bigger monopoly than them.
- Hey, Bill, Google's trying to own a new area!
- What now?
- The Open-Source Developer Hiring. They just got Ben Goodger, from Mozilla!
- Those bastards. Well, I have an idea. We'll invite Linus, that'll show 'em. And if they hire another communist geek, take me into line with RMS immediatelly!
Now for the most important question: do they have inexpensive broadband access in Curitiba?
I've never been to Curitiba, but considering the prices I know (from Rio de Janeiro and especially Brasília, my city), I'm fairly sure you can get there an ADSL 256 for a monthly fee of US$ 20 or less. I don't know if that's cheap in worldwide terms, but I certainly would feel happier if that price lowered;-)
What sucks here is that anything above that is quite rare for home use. In Brasília, at least, it is practically impossible.
I wonder what happened to language packs... they used to appear in the Firefox Update window. Now, AFAIK, you can't have more than one language pack (the one that comes with your download) installed.
I'm guessing it's because there's no official way to switch language packs (though there's an extension), but could anybody confirm this?
Not to be picky, but why was this story posted on/. Developers?
I always thought of this section as a center for application development, and WPDFD seems to be purely about webdesign.
I can extend that into a better idea: a worm that propagates this IE plugin!
Just imagine how many souls we could save!
Now to the topic: there's the Mozilla ActiveX Control an AC posted. Not exactly what you're asking for, but maybe it can be used (or maybe with a few adaptations) as a control inside IE. Yeah, it'd be somewhat weird to have a rendering engine inside a rendering engine, but you could use it to display XUL.
"Oh, thanks, Jimmy, you're so sweet! The funniest thing is that just by this morning I got an e-mail from our bank telling us to get this CD and run it to follow the new security directives! This gift was so on time!"
My main reason is that when I do a Google Images search, the number of 404s I get when trying to see the actual pictures is fairly high; depending on the search, I think I already got over 50% broken links.
So, the indication that Google Images' index is outdated does make sense to me. Just like the guy that reported his Morgan Webb picture is still indexed "7 months after it was removed".
Now moving on, I'll happily wait for this update, so the image search gets useful again and returns more than a bunch of outdated links.
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Hey, it's 2005 (I mean, when Linus joined Microsoft in the story). Microsoft's worried about Google being a bigger monopoly than them.
- Hey, Bill, Google's trying to own a new area!
- What now?
- The Open-Source Developer Hiring. They just got Ben Goodger, from Mozilla!
- Those bastards. Well, I have an idea. We'll invite Linus, that'll show 'em. And if they hire another communist geek, take me into line with RMS immediatelly!
I thought it was by fhqwhgadshgnsdhjsdbkhsdabkfabkveybvf...
How about some kind of weird bug that misteriously makes Adblock stop blocking Google AdWords? :-)
(yes, I'm kidding.)
I thought if we decyphered it the universe would instantly disappear, and get replaced by another one with an even more incomprehensible code...
It's a shame such a promising program can't support the simplest non-ASCII characters, let alone Unicode...
The remaining 20% are distributed in other locations.
I've never been to Curitiba, but considering the prices I know (from Rio de Janeiro and especially Brasília, my city), I'm fairly sure you can get there an ADSL 256 for a monthly fee of US$ 20 or less. I don't know if that's cheap in worldwide terms, but I certainly would feel happier if that price lowered ;-)
What sucks here is that anything above that is quite rare for home use. In Brasília, at least, it is practically impossible.
I'm guessing it's because there's no official way to switch language packs (though there's an extension), but could anybody confirm this?
Not to be picky, but why was this story posted on /. Developers?
I always thought of this section as a center for application development, and WPDFD seems to be purely about webdesign.
Just imagine how many souls we could save!
Now to the topic: there's the Mozilla ActiveX Control an AC posted. Not exactly what you're asking for, but maybe it can be used (or maybe with a few adaptations) as a control inside IE. Yeah, it'd be somewhat weird to have a rendering engine inside a rendering engine, but you could use it to display XUL.
...wouldn't Netscape Beta be what happens when Agent IE dominates Firefox' body?
Hope you didn't use Windows... imagine all the security flaws and plenty of back doors in the house!
See here then.
"Oh, thanks, Jimmy, you're so sweet! The funniest thing is that just by this morning I got an e-mail from our bank telling us to get this CD and run it to follow the new security directives! This gift was so on time!"
I'm fairly sure he's talking about Channel9 and the IE blog.
"-- Ok, but does it run Linux?
-- Yes... in Japan!"
This is an article where two legendary memes meet! What a nice achievement.
Do you use your fingers to touch the keyboard nipple?
So, I believe that, by induction, you also hold the rights for IsToo Infinity + 2 and so forth?
Damn, I hate you.
Bullshit. I won't believe it until Netcraft confirms so.
Where's the "and" key?
By reading that title, for a moment I thought it was some new DDR game...
they call it Play-and-Plug!
Crap, I wish I had posted as an AC...
Try GCC, the Government Compiler Collection.
My main reason is that when I do a Google Images search, the number of 404s I get when trying to see the actual pictures is fairly high; depending on the search, I think I already got over 50% broken links.
So, the indication that Google Images' index is outdated does make sense to me. Just like the guy that reported his Morgan Webb picture is still indexed "7 months after it was removed".
Now moving on, I'll happily wait for this update, so the image search gets useful again and returns more than a bunch of outdated links.