The other thing is they could just say, "Due to unforeseen expenses, Microsoft will be increasing the cost of all products sold in the European Union by 50 cents per day."
Which would mean their profit would increase, which would mean the maximum fine they would have to pay would increase in turn.
What I want to know is if you can download other people's brains back into you, while your brain is backed up on some server somewhere. Maybe we could start a P2P service for swapping brain patterns!
There's another reason - the four main contributors (Spain, UK, Germany, and France) get to sing every time, because they give lots of money to the contest, and they have made a habit of being in the bottom 4 in recent years. Everyone hates our being filthy, filthy rich.
The article was published on the 20th, which was one day before the yearly contest, making it a whole year out of date; the results were hardly surprising, though.
That is not a bad point, in general - if I write a program with a security vulnerability, and people use this vulnerability to install spyware on people's computers, do I share the blame with the spyware writers?
Sadly, the first use I thought of was as a prize given away for winning a gaming tournament. With its high price it could become quite the thing to play for.
XHTML is better, because there is a greater chance that the page will look like how you intended. This has nothing to do with how the page looks in the browser (that's standards), but how the browser parses your page.
Suppose your page had this here mystery tag in it:
<foo>
What should the browser do? Should it do something and leave it at that (like <br>) or do something and enclose all the rest of the page in a <foo> block then try to sort out the rest of the page when it thinks the tags aren't in the right order (like <p>)?
With XHTML and validating code, the tag will be this:
<foo/>
This means that it just does something by itself, without enclosing any HTML inside it. With plain HTML, there is ambiguity so your page might not look correct, but with XHTML, your page will be parsed correctly every time.
Getting the browsers to display the page correctly is another matter, however. (I hope you see what I am getting at here)
<b> and <i> are visual tags: they make text look bold or italicised without altering the meaning of the sentence they are in. <strong> and <em> are logical tags: <strong> provides emphasis in web page readers, as well as looking bold, for example. <em> does the same, but renders differently in text browsers. There are other italic tags such as <cite> that are used for citing references, for example.
No, these are XUL vulnerablilities, which are not present in Gecko, only in Mozilla/Firefox. I can make a FileSystem ActiveX in Javascript and that's IE's fault, for anoyher example.
ICT at GCSE level is next to useless. If you want to get a computingery/programming job, don't even consider doing ICT for it, unless you want to write Office macros for a living. The better colleges and universities know this, and tend to prefer maths and a science to it. In fact, the skills needed for programming/computery jobs are picked up by yourself, instead of being learnt in a lesson, so when you've nothing to do in the lessons anymore try learning stuff then.
For example, you can't right-click or use the "File" menu in Windows Explorer. Haha, that is insane. Ask them why they do it, then swap the mouse buttons around and get everyone into trouble someday.
OpenOffice, MS Office, AbiWord etc. are all pretty similar, so it should not be too hard to work out how to use another product; even when the students in question have not learned how to use MS Office directly, they have learned how to use a generic office suite, and could probably pick up MS Office in a day or two, if required.
The chicken and the egg thing doesn't really matter, what matters is that some party is going open source, and more should follow.
The article makes a point about it being able to save as PDFs - if OpenOffice becomes as popular as they say it will, would it kill Microsoft's own upcoming Metro format?
They concentrated more on the back-end things than the interface at first, which is why the Google page looked so bad back then. After they'd done that, I suppose they just had to find some tutorials:)
Slashdot Mirror
The other thing is they could just say, "Due to unforeseen expenses, Microsoft will be increasing the cost of all products sold in the European Union by 50 cents per day."
Which would mean their profit would increase, which would mean the maximum fine they would have to pay would increase in turn.
What I want to know is if you can download other people's brains back into you, while your brain is backed up on some server somewhere. Maybe we could start a P2P service for swapping brain patterns!
There's another reason - the four main contributors (Spain, UK, Germany, and France) get to sing every time, because they give lots of money to the contest, and they have made a habit of being in the bottom 4 in recent years. Everyone hates our being filthy, filthy rich.
The article was published on the 20th, which was one day before the yearly contest, making it a whole year out of date; the results were hardly surprising, though.
Yes, but Mac users are faster, better, and look prettier when they're being stupid ;)
Reminded me of this.
I don't think you could type so well if the battery explodes and mangles up the keyboard quite badly
When you search for something you 'Google' for it, MSNing for something just seems wrong.
;)
And when you slashdot something, it's the worst of all
That is not a bad point, in general - if I write a program with a security vulnerability, and people use this vulnerability to install spyware on people's computers, do I share the blame with the spyware writers?
Sadly, the first use I thought of was as a prize given away for winning a gaming tournament. With its high price it could become quite the thing to play for.
XHTML is better, because there is a greater chance that the page will look like how you intended. This has nothing to do with how the page looks in the browser (that's standards), but how the browser parses your page.
/>
Suppose your page had this here mystery tag in it:
<foo>
What should the browser do? Should it do something and leave it at that (like <br>) or do something and enclose all the rest of the page in a <foo> block then try to sort out the rest of the page when it thinks the tags aren't in the right order (like <p>)?
With XHTML and validating code, the tag will be this:
<foo
This means that it just does something by itself, without enclosing any HTML inside it. With plain HTML, there is ambiguity so your page might not look correct, but with XHTML, your page will be parsed correctly every time.
Getting the browsers to display the page correctly is another matter, however. (I hope you see what I am getting at here)
Super quick whizzbang explanation:
<b> and <i> are visual tags: they make text look bold or italicised without altering the meaning of the sentence they are in. <strong> and <em> are logical tags: <strong> provides emphasis in web page readers, as well as looking bold, for example. <em> does the same, but renders differently in text browsers. There are other italic tags such as <cite> that are used for citing references, for example.
This page says it better than I do.
Obviously a troll.
Have you no eyes, man?
What's the opposite of news?
Slashdot
But if Slashdot doesn't post enough stories, we'll get stories like Slashdot Growth Slowing?, which is kind of useless really.
Ach a fi, I stand corrected.
No, these are XUL vulnerablilities, which are not present in Gecko, only in Mozilla/Firefox. I can make a FileSystem ActiveX in Javascript and that's IE's fault, for anoyher example.
What are editors for, again?
Complaining about
ICT at GCSE level is next to useless. If you want to get a computingery/programming job, don't even consider doing ICT for it, unless you want to write Office macros for a living. The better colleges and universities know this, and tend to prefer maths and a science to it. In fact, the skills needed for programming/computery jobs are picked up by yourself, instead of being learnt in a lesson, so when you've nothing to do in the lessons anymore try learning stuff then.
For example, you can't right-click or use the "File" menu in Windows Explorer.
Haha, that is insane. Ask them why they do it, then swap the mouse buttons around and get everyone into trouble someday.
And the word you were looking for is "obviously". Get ispell or something.
OpenOffice, MS Office, AbiWord etc. are all pretty similar, so it should not be too hard to work out how to use another product; even when the students in question have not learned how to use MS Office directly, they have learned how to use a generic office suite, and could probably pick up MS Office in a day or two, if required.
The chicken and the egg thing doesn't really matter, what matters is that some party is going open source, and more should follow.
The article makes a point about it being able to save as PDFs - if OpenOffice becomes as popular as they say it will, would it kill Microsoft's own upcoming Metro format?
There were millions of people named Robert before Microsoft named something after them.
At this time, the servers run Fedora Core and use the 2.6 kernel provided by RedHat.
Yup.
They concentrated more on the back-end things than the interface at first, which is why the Google page looked so bad back then. After they'd done that, I suppose they just had to find some tutorials :)
If they implement the full protocols, everyone could have your TCP/IP folder :)