There are four confirmed sites where police are dealing with reported explosions this morning. These are:
1) Russell Square and King's Cross underground 2) Moorgate, Aldgate, and Liverpool Street underground 3) Edgware Road underground 4) Tavistock Square, where there has been a confirmed explosion on a bus.
We cannot at this stage confirm the number of those injured, though casualties are multiple. There are believed fatalities but again numbers are not confirmed.We are also asking members of the public not to contact police at this stage unless it is a genuine emergency.
I thought of that too, then I started thinking of ways that Microsoft could make it not work.
Say that Microsoft just sell Windows, and don't bundle anything by default. Hooray! XP N was meant to help distributors bundle their own media player, instead of WMP. Now, Windows can ship PearBrowse and BananaPlayer, and people who want those can be all happy.
But all MS has to say is "Bundle IE and WMP, or we'll take away your Windows selling licence" and they have no choice but to comply to continue selling Windows. Remember, Windows generally makes the most profit, and Microsoft can (and has done in the past) stopped people from selling competitiors' products by threatening to take away the Windows licence. That, or add balloons that "Download this Media Player to enable advanced media playback facilities" that annoy you every now and then, and people would do so and ignore it.
Which is a shame, because if this doesn't happen, XP N would be a good idea.
You're not "forced" to use Totem. It's there by default in the install, and if you don't like it you can apt-get remove totem and it is gone. Same with Quicktime - want to replace it with something else? Then uninstall it and do so.
You are "forced" to use Windows Media Player. It's there at the beginning, and you can't uninstall it or its libraries, because they're tied in with various other components in the OS. Not to mention that MS is a monopoly and does this illegally. That's the differenced between being "forced" to have it and not.
The principle was necessary and meant for distributors to bundle their own media players, but this didn't seem to happen, ah well. At least it's a step in the right direction
"Software is software," says Ken Silva, chief security officer for VeriSign. "I wouldn't classify it as a failure on the part of the security industry. Hackers are just getting a little smarter."
If hackers (crackers?) are getting smarter, and the security industry isn't catching up with them, then I'd say it's definitely the industry's fault.
This is just more proof that the GPL is a viral licence! Microsoft just had to look at open-source software, and all the features suddenly spread to the Microsoft products!:)
I'm interested to know how the beer will be transported. In an airtight container smuggled through check-in? Frozen (planes get pretty cold you know)? Or will they just send money for us to buy beer with?
The way it does the windows. They snap to the screen edges, like in KDE, and resize that way too. The main window uses its own pseudo-weird MDI format. The windows don't have scrollbars, and they open the way Mac windows used to (still do?). All those shadows are mine, though.
It seems powerful, but by the looks of things most of the power is hidden. All those little windows you see at the right and bottom affect what is going to happen, and there are a lot of them. I had to keep checking on all of them to remember what I was doing. You can change fill, opacity (from a menu), brush style (many of these), gradient (many of these too), and various other things.
The one thing badly wrong with it is how slow it is. I wasn't sure how much CPU it takes, though as it made my system too slow to open Task Manager, probably quite a lot. You need to use it to get an idea of how slow it is. I eventually had to End Task it because I told it to do something complex, and couldn't see how to stop it doing it.
Do we know what the values used for R D F S V and A are - ie, are they values from 0-10, or a percentage? The best I can do would be "X was good, but it wasn't as good as Y", which is hard to put into numbers. Not to mention that things like verbal wit and the main character will change for each person..
basically it's a rigorous test that ensures that a browser has all the goodies that web developers have been lusting after forever.
I wouldn't say that much... Gecko renders the smiley face pretty shoddily but copes with almost all web pages fine, for example. If you look at the source, the acid2 test uses bizarre things like PNG images in the source, negative height values, clear float elements, and so on - things that should work, but aren't likely to come up on many web pages any time soon.
Although, it is nice to know that browsers are making loads of progress in regards to standards
Slashdot Mirror
Has sort of been done:
Friends don't let friends use Internet Explorer
Bah, I could find an overseas resource to do the same thing for $12.
I downloaded a desktop assistant that does the same thing for free!
The met police site (if you can get to it) confirms four:
There are four confirmed sites where police are dealing with reported explosions this morning. These are:
1) Russell Square and King's Cross underground
2) Moorgate, Aldgate, and Liverpool Street underground
3) Edgware Road underground
4) Tavistock Square, where there has been a confirmed explosion on a bus.
We cannot at this stage confirm the number of those injured, though casualties are multiple. There are believed fatalities but again numbers are not confirmed.We are also asking members of the public not to contact police at this stage
unless it is a genuine emergency.
The BBC is still reporting seven.
Beating google by 999992 decimal places :)
% firefox /dev/tty
<html><? cool php script ?></html>
^d
What do you call that?
The usual...
It's usually used for tracking download numbers, locations, etc. for people who don't know how to/can't use their own server logs.
I can't. House-viewing level gives "We don't have imagery for this level" messages, and the next view up is too fuzzy :(
I thought of that too, then I started thinking of ways that Microsoft could make it not work.
Say that Microsoft just sell Windows, and don't bundle anything by default. Hooray! XP N was meant to help distributors bundle their own media player, instead of WMP. Now, Windows can ship PearBrowse and BananaPlayer, and people who want those can be all happy.
But all MS has to say is "Bundle IE and WMP, or we'll take away your Windows selling licence" and they have no choice but to comply to continue selling Windows. Remember, Windows generally makes the most profit, and Microsoft can (and has done in the past) stopped people from selling competitiors' products by threatening to take away the Windows licence. That, or add balloons that "Download this Media Player to enable advanced media playback facilities" that annoy you every now and then, and people would do so and ignore it.
Which is a shame, because if this doesn't happen, XP N would be a good idea.
You're not "forced" to use Totem. It's there by default in the install, and if you don't like it you can apt-get remove totem and it is gone. Same with Quicktime - want to replace it with something else? Then uninstall it and do so.
You are "forced" to use Windows Media Player. It's there at the beginning, and you can't uninstall it or its libraries, because they're tied in with various other components in the OS. Not to mention that MS is a monopoly and does this illegally. That's the differenced between being "forced" to have it and not.
The principle was necessary and meant for distributors to bundle their own media players, but this didn't seem to happen, ah well. At least it's a step in the right direction
DoubleDick?
Microsoft sent Opera a version of the MSN web page that made it look broken, and it was proven that this was to discredit Opera: some links about it.
However, this was a long time ago, and newer versions will identify as Opera (I think)
Not to mention this'll be duped in 51 years' time
By posting it here, will you attract the slashdot moderation messages?
"MOD THAT SITE UP!"
after me using my computer for years without any antivirus program installed on it and not having a single infection
Although I see your point, I have to ask: without any antivirus program installed, how did you know if you weren't infected?
"Software is software," says Ken Silva, chief security officer for VeriSign. "I wouldn't classify it as a failure on the part of the security industry. Hackers are just getting a little smarter."
If hackers (crackers?) are getting smarter, and the security industry isn't catching up with them, then I'd say it's definitely the industry's fault.
This is just more proof that the GPL is a viral licence! Microsoft just had to look at open-source software, and all the features suddenly spread to the Microsoft products! :)
I'm interested to know how the beer will be transported. In an airtight container smuggled through check-in? Frozen (planes get pretty cold you know)? Or will they just send money for us to buy beer with?
Well they've certainly integrated IE some more... it has a handy little "hint" window, and guess what's used to display the hint?
I tried it, download failed at 95%, downloaded it again, and tried it. Imageshack is the best I can do, but here are some screenshots:
first look
hello slashdot
text
lots of windows
heh, that's almost pr0n
New Folder is a bad name although you can Export, but I did not know this then
Things you can't see:
The way it does the windows. They snap to the screen edges, like in KDE, and resize that way too. The main window uses its own pseudo-weird MDI format. The windows don't have scrollbars, and they open the way Mac windows used to (still do?). All those shadows are mine, though.
It seems powerful, but by the looks of things most of the power is hidden. All those little windows you see at the right and bottom affect what is going to happen, and there are a lot of them. I had to keep checking on all of them to remember what I was doing. You can change fill, opacity (from a menu), brush style (many of these), gradient (many of these too), and various other things.
The one thing badly wrong with it is how slow it is. I wasn't sure how much CPU it takes, though as it made my system too slow to open Task Manager, probably quite a lot. You need to use it to get an idea of how slow it is. I eventually had to End Task it because I told it to do something complex, and couldn't see how to stop it doing it.
Yeah, but who knows what DRM is? They'll probably dress it up as:
"Microsoft songs have DRM features, giving artists more control over music, thanks to Microsoft!"
or something, and the end-user won't have a clue.
Do we know what the values used for R D F S V and A are - ie, are they values from 0-10, or a percentage? The best I can do would be "X was good, but it wasn't as good as Y", which is hard to put into numbers. Not to mention that things like verbal wit and the main character will change for each person..
basically it's a rigorous test that ensures that a browser has all the goodies that web developers have been lusting after forever.
I wouldn't say that much... Gecko renders the smiley face pretty shoddily but copes with almost all web pages fine, for example. If you look at the source, the acid2 test uses bizarre things like PNG images in the source, negative height values, clear float elements, and so on - things that should work, but aren't likely to come up on many web pages any time soon.
Although, it is nice to know that browsers are making loads of progress in regards to standards
Cue the "I welcome our new Ancient Bear Overlords" comments.....
They will be helped by the right to arm bears!
Well if people are searching for $product, I'm sure they're making money anyway. Not to mention the advertising already...