Google had a choice. Get blocked in a millisecond or censor some items. What use would it be to get blocked?
They arent doing evil, thats the Chinese government. No they arent supporting the government, they are supporting the people. I'd imagine that they are quite annoyed by the Chinese but there is nothing they can do about it.
In Australia at least, with DSL ISPs need to pay Telstra more for a faster connection. ADSL2 ISPs do go at full speed but they have good pipes and you also get net at full speed.
That being said, I sync at 1.5Mbit on a 512k plan. Havent figured out what thats about yet.;)
Yeah that could be a problem for Microsoft. After all their Vista code has no bugs, security flaws and memory leaks. Its been debugged completely.;)
When you get to the stage where Vista is at the moment, its best to just break compatibility. I shudder to think about the age of massive amounts of code and how much extra code is there just for compatibility. The Windows API has plenty of wierd and bizarre quirks. Just ask the Wine guys.
Taking in to account that pressed CDs cost tenths of a cent, everyone who buys a CD is getting ripped off. Pressed CDs are dirt cheap to make especially in the quantities the major albums are made in.
You *have* to break backwards compatibility every couple of years. Otherwise your software becomes bogged down and very inflexible.
It occurs in open source software occasionally. Look at KDE 4. They are taking the opportunity to break compatibility in the name of progress. Any old dusty and hackish code can be thrown away and be replaced with shiny new code.
This is Window's primary problem. Microsoft is scared shitless at breaking compatibility. However they will need to do so very soon to survive. Windows Vista is already filled to the brim with hacks and really odd behaviors due to backwards compatibility.
Want to see a really good example of how it should be done? Look at Apple. They went from PPC to x86 and it was relatively smooth.
Whats sad is you American assume that the terrorists are dumb and stupid.
9/11 happened without any indication (that anyone paid attention to anyway). That would indicate that you are underestimating their capabilities. They are usually well funded and are very determined.
You dont need much material for a effective dirty bomb. It can also be transported in smaller quantities. That makes lead a valid option for transportation.
You assume they wouldnt use a clean room. I'd say that if they knew there was a possibility of being detected then they would. Anyone who can get any substantial amount of radioactive material has considerable resources.
Every window on my screen at the moment is maximized. I dont run programs any smaller. Also even if I did, I would lose the snap feature where a window sticks to the edge of the screen.
Little things like that are even more annoying than 16:9 for me.
The test in question should get a 404 then display the fallback content. Move it to a different domain and it fails the security checks but doesnt show the fallback content.
A clear violation of the standard and IE 8 gets the FAIL rubber stamp.
Microsoft did the correct thing with the cross domain scripting stuff.
However they then ignore the fall back content hence the problem. The standard says that if there is a problem with the object tag then the html inside the html tag should be shown. IE8 has a problem with the object tag and then ignores the fallback completely.
Why does it work on the official site? Because its not cross scripting anymore, instead it fetches the page and gets a 404. It then uses the fallback content.
In summary: Microsoft is making their own standard as per usual.
If you go to the appropriate wikipedia page you will see a long list of CSS 2 and 3 features. Beside this list is all the major browsers and how they implement each feature (fully, partially, broken, not implemented, etc...).
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Of course the Romans didnt have computers and nuclear energy.
;)
It was the Atlantians who had that stuff.
I even heard they had 1024 core computers with terrabytes of ram!
Actually OOo's had PDF export since the beginning basically. :)
Its always been there ever since I've been using it.
Google had a choice. Get blocked in a millisecond or censor some items.
What use would it be to get blocked?
They arent doing evil, thats the Chinese government.
No they arent supporting the government, they are supporting the people.
I'd imagine that they are quite annoyed by the Chinese but there is nothing they can do about it.
In Australia at least, with DSL ISPs need to pay Telstra more for a faster connection.
;)
ADSL2 ISPs do go at full speed but they have good pipes and you also get net at full speed.
That being said, I sync at 1.5Mbit on a 512k plan.
Havent figured out what thats about yet.
Well if you want to get technical. :P
Ubuntu seems to do it out of the box while Windows has never done it properly.
Hence why I said it was a Ubuntu feature.
*Zombies swarm around the brain gibs*
Thats called frequency scaling and its a feature of Ubuntu.
You can guess that he wasnt throttling the cpu back.
*Whoosh* :P
Ah the good old Streisand effect. :)
At the rate at which the US exchange rate is dropping you'll have a million dollars soon. :D
;)
Unfortunately it'll be worth half a euro but oh well.
Yeah that could be a problem for Microsoft. ;)
After all their Vista code has no bugs, security flaws and memory leaks.
Its been debugged completely.
When you get to the stage where Vista is at the moment, its best to just break compatibility.
I shudder to think about the age of massive amounts of code and how much extra code is there just for compatibility.
The Windows API has plenty of wierd and bizarre quirks. Just ask the Wine guys.
The problem is smaller than what you make it out to be.
Since the data is related to every car near by, one message can help many cars.
$2.50 for burned cds is a reasonable price.
Taking in to account that pressed CDs cost tenths of a cent, everyone who buys a CD is getting ripped off.
Pressed CDs are dirt cheap to make especially in the quantities the major albums are made in.
You *have* to break backwards compatibility every couple of years.
Otherwise your software becomes bogged down and very inflexible.
It occurs in open source software occasionally. Look at KDE 4.
They are taking the opportunity to break compatibility in the name of progress.
Any old dusty and hackish code can be thrown away and be replaced with shiny new code.
This is Window's primary problem. Microsoft is scared shitless at breaking compatibility.
However they will need to do so very soon to survive.
Windows Vista is already filled to the brim with hacks and really odd behaviors due to backwards compatibility.
Want to see a really good example of how it should be done? Look at Apple.
They went from PPC to x86 and it was relatively smooth.
Resistance isnt the problem. Its a few cm of copper.
;)
The problem is inductance and cross talk causing interference.
One solution is to shield every wire in a bus but its not really practical.
Whats sad is you American assume that the terrorists are dumb and stupid.
9/11 happened without any indication (that anyone paid attention to anyway).
That would indicate that you are underestimating their capabilities.
They are usually well funded and are very determined.
You dont need much material for a effective dirty bomb.
It can also be transported in smaller quantities.
That makes lead a valid option for transportation.
You assume they wouldnt use a clean room.
I'd say that if they knew there was a possibility of being detected then they would.
Anyone who can get any substantial amount of radioactive material has considerable resources.
Or, if they cared about their sexual organs, they would use lead which would render the fancy detectors useless if done properly.
Every window on my screen at the moment is maximized. I dont run programs any smaller.
Also even if I did, I would lose the snap feature where a window sticks to the edge of the screen.
Little things like that are even more annoying than 16:9 for me.
I'm huffy because the MSN Blog article about is boasting about how its really secure.
That would be acceptable if I then didnt lose the maximize feature. :P
No, the security checks are fine.
The test in question should get a 404 then display the fallback content.
Move it to a different domain and it fails the security checks but doesnt show the fallback content.
A clear violation of the standard and IE 8 gets the FAIL rubber stamp.
Microsoft did the correct thing with the cross domain scripting stuff.
However they then ignore the fall back content hence the problem.
The standard says that if there is a problem with the object tag then the html inside the html tag should be shown.
IE8 has a problem with the object tag and then ignores the fallback completely.
Why does it work on the official site?
Because its not cross scripting anymore, instead it fetches the page and gets a 404.
It then uses the fallback content.
In summary: Microsoft is making their own standard as per usual.
If you go to the appropriate wikipedia page you will see a long list of CSS 2 and 3 features.
Beside this list is all the major browsers and how they implement each feature (fully, partially, broken, not implemented, etc...).
Voila! Partial compliance.
Personally I dont think a lawyer OR a veteran should be the head of the most powerful nation on earth.
:(
Maybe pick someone who is intelligent and not a asshole for starters?
Hmm damn. I applied those filters to the list of candidates and it filtered everyone out.
I'm actually worried that in 500 years or so, FSM will be the dominant religion. :)