I tried this on Firefox 1.0 on Win XP and you are correct. If you open the Citibank page in a new window, you are vulnerable; if you open it in a new tab, you are not. This is potentially important info to provide the FF team so that they can fix the bug quickly.
I wasn't laughed at this morning when I took notes on my Palm Tungsten T3. The reason why I have a Palm and a phone is because:
the phone is a company phone whereas the Palm is mine,
I prefer to have a small and simple phone that I take everywhere and a Palm that I leave at home when not needed rather than one big phone that does everything and that I have to carry everywhere, including to places where I'd rather not be seen with an expensive gadget,
it gives me 2 backups of my phone numbers, in addition to having them on the work and home computers.
Let me give you another reason why spending those extra 20 seconds is important.
My company has international staff and international customers. As a consequence, the majority of email messages that are sent out are read by at least one person whose first language is not English. So the scope for misunderstanding is huge. Even between British, American and Australian people, we can potentially have misunderstanding. It is therefore imperative that email be written carefully if we don't want to lose time and effort in clarification.
Worse, if an email is badly written, it can be considered offensive by one of the parties, leading to useless tensions. It also makes people look like idiots. For instance, as a person whose first language is not English, I automatically have a negative opinion of a native speaker who sends me an email that contains glaring mistakes that show a misunderstanding of spelling and grammar. If I, as a non-native speaker, can spot the mistakes, surely a native speaker should spot them as well. Working in the software industry, my reaction is that, if this person does not understand the semantics of her mother tongue, how can I trust her to design and write software properly?
I totally agree. All the laptops we have in our office are IBM Thinkpads (I am actually writing this on a T41) and they just run. I have used mine on planes, trains, cars, boats, even the London underground and I never had a problem with it. Compare this to my flatmate's Asus laptop that virtually never moved from the living room and had its DVD drive playing up after 2 months and finaly died after 2 years and 3 days (that's 3 days after the warranty expired). The premium price is well worth it. Now if IBM sells all this to someone else, I don't think this "someone else" will be able to maintain the same quality and it would be a real shame.
Except for the architecture of Antoni Gaudi. This is why Gaudi was considered revolutionary. All his architecture is based around efficiency and the shapes that would give the lightest structure to support what it had to support. It's all based around parabolas, hyperboloids and such like, which results in amazing organic looking buildings that are still very functional. Anybody who's been to Barcelona, Spain, will know what I mean.
The Renault Twingo was never marketted in the UK because, for some reason, the way it was engineered meant they could not provide a right-hand drive version. Note that Smart took its time to provide it as well but they did.
What it might also do is prompt hardware manufacturers like Canon or Minolta to provide Linux drivers for their scanners. The one reason I (still) don't have Linux at home is I cannot use my Minolta Dimage negative scanner on Linux, it needs Windows.
They are not skipping 3 1/2 release numbers, they are just getting rid of the redundant "1." in front. This is standard practice when a technology has matured enough, just drop the first digit because it has stopped being the most significant part of the version number (ie the part that really differentiates between major versions). There is no point in keeping it if you're never going to increment it. This is the case with Java. The platform has matured enough that the major version number is unlikely to ever change and they would go 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, etc. The most significant number is the second one so get rid of the first one. Sun did it with Solaris (2.7 to 8 instead of 2.8). Sybase did it as well (4.9 to 10 instead of 4.10). I'm sure lots of other companies do it although no other example come to mind right now.
Sorry, you are absolutely right. Their diagram is sneakily done so that you believe they're all dual processor configs. Darn, I got caught by Apple and Photoshop:-)
RTFA. Apple have a performance comparison chart on the page between Penthium 4, Xeon, AMD and G5 configurations. According to them a dual 2.5GHz G5 is 98% faster (ie nearly twice as fast) as a dual 3.4GHz P4. Of course, they might be biased:-)
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I totally agree.
Also, the point of electric cars is that once you've converted all cars to electric engines, you've got a clean interface at the car level. The implementation, ie, how you provide the electricity can then be converted to greener and more efficient energy without cars needing to be converted further.
You can also deliver the fuel in a way that makes sense depending on the local natural resources: Long coastline with strong tides? Use tide power. Windy place? Use wind power. Very sunny place? Use solar power. Trendy upper middle class area? Generate electricity from all the people sweating in fitness centres.
In regions as diverse as the US or Europe, it makes complete sense because you then have the possibility to provide energy using a mix of solutions because there is no silver bullet and individual regions are more adapted to one solution or another.
Another advantage of electric power is that the day your country is short, it is easy to buy some from the neighbour. Although, as demonstrated recently in North America, Italy and England, current power grids might not be able to take the strain...
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I tried this on Firefox 1.0 on Win XP and you are correct. If you open the Citibank page in a new window, you are vulnerable; if you open it in a new tab, you are not. This is potentially important info to provide the FF team so that they can fix the bug quickly.
My company has international staff and international customers. As a consequence, the majority of email messages that are sent out are read by at least one person whose first language is not English. So the scope for misunderstanding is huge. Even between British, American and Australian people, we can potentially have misunderstanding. It is therefore imperative that email be written carefully if we don't want to lose time and effort in clarification.
Worse, if an email is badly written, it can be considered offensive by one of the parties, leading to useless tensions. It also makes people look like idiots. For instance, as a person whose first language is not English, I automatically have a negative opinion of a native speaker who sends me an email that contains glaring mistakes that show a misunderstanding of spelling and grammar. If I, as a non-native speaker, can spot the mistakes, surely a native speaker should spot them as well. Working in the software industry, my reaction is that, if this person does not understand the semantics of her mother tongue, how can I trust her to design and write software properly?
I totally agree. All the laptops we have in our office are IBM Thinkpads (I am actually writing this on a T41) and they just run. I have used mine on planes, trains, cars, boats, even the London underground and I never had a problem with it. Compare this to my flatmate's Asus laptop that virtually never moved from the living room and had its DVD drive playing up after 2 months and finaly died after 2 years and 3 days (that's 3 days after the warranty expired). The premium price is well worth it. Now if IBM sells all this to someone else, I don't think this "someone else" will be able to maintain the same quality and it would be a real shame.
Except for the architecture of Antoni Gaudi. This is why Gaudi was considered revolutionary. All his architecture is based around efficiency and the shapes that would give the lightest structure to support what it had to support. It's all based around parabolas, hyperboloids and such like, which results in amazing organic looking buildings that are still very functional. Anybody who's been to Barcelona, Spain, will know what I mean.
The Renault Twingo was never marketted in the UK because, for some reason, the way it was engineered meant they could not provide a right-hand drive version. Note that Smart took its time to provide it as well but they did.
What it might also do is prompt hardware manufacturers like Canon or Minolta to provide Linux drivers for their scanners. The one reason I (still) don't have Linux at home is I cannot use my Minolta Dimage negative scanner on Linux, it needs Windows.
They are not skipping 3 1/2 release numbers, they are just getting rid of the redundant "1." in front. This is standard practice when a technology has matured enough, just drop the first digit because it has stopped being the most significant part of the version number (ie the part that really differentiates between major versions). There is no point in keeping it if you're never going to increment it. This is the case with Java. The platform has matured enough that the major version number is unlikely to ever change and they would go 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, etc. The most significant number is the second one so get rid of the first one. Sun did it with Solaris (2.7 to 8 instead of 2.8). Sybase did it as well (4.9 to 10 instead of 4.10). I'm sure lots of other companies do it although no other example come to mind right now.
Sorry, you are absolutely right. Their diagram is sneakily done so that you believe they're all dual processor configs. Darn, I got caught by Apple and Photoshop :-)
RTFA. Apple have a performance comparison chart on the page between Penthium 4, Xeon, AMD and G5 configurations. According to them a dual 2.5GHz G5 is 98% faster (ie nearly twice as fast) as a dual 3.4GHz P4. Of course, they might be biased :-)
Also, the point of electric cars is that once you've converted all cars to electric engines, you've got a clean interface at the car level. The implementation, ie, how you provide the electricity can then be converted to greener and more efficient energy without cars needing to be converted further.
You can also deliver the fuel in a way that makes sense depending on the local natural resources: Long coastline with strong tides? Use tide power. Windy place? Use wind power. Very sunny place? Use solar power. Trendy upper middle class area? Generate electricity from all the people sweating in fitness centres.
In regions as diverse as the US or Europe, it makes complete sense because you then have the possibility to provide energy using a mix of solutions because there is no silver bullet and individual regions are more adapted to one solution or another.
Another advantage of electric power is that the day your country is short, it is easy to buy some from the neighbour. Although, as demonstrated recently in North America, Italy and England, current power grids might not be able to take the strain...