Does anyone know who designed Beta? Was it done in house or did they use some 3rd party? I really want to know, so I would never ever have to deal with these people.
"In response to the growing proliferation of the use of "secret sauce" as a vehicle for entrepreneurs', venture capitalists', and investment bankers' thinly veiled proprietary machinations, a global consortium of premium condiment manufacturers has launched the Open Sauce Foundation (OSF). Founding members include McIlhenny Company (producer of Tabasco brand pepper sauce), Huy Fong Foods (producer of "Rooster Brand" Sriracha sauce), and Kikkoman (producer of Kikkoman brand Soy Sauce). The new foundation's stated aim is not only to uphold the virtues of buying worthy sauce manufacturers' products, but to demonstarate to the tech, financial, and media communities the "Open" companies, and condiments, can, and do, assume leadership roles in thir respective markets."
Well, Firefox now comes with click-to-play feature so you can activate plugins on demand or white-list sites. Opera has it too. But it's not the point, OP was talking about removing the whole thing and it's just not an option.
Then, clearly, he didn't know what he was talking about. Licenses don't apply to the copyright holder; they apply to redistributers. He could certainly have release xMule as binary-only, or as open source with a license that prohibits copying and redistribution (think Microsoft's "Shared Source" licenses). Perhaps he didn't want to do those things, given his goals in creating the project, but to say he had no choice is simply nonsense.
It's not a nonsense. Maybe he used alot of GPL code in his project. He is no longer the only copyright holder in this case. And rewriting major parts of the program might not have been the option for him.
I'm going to disagree. Programming will teach kids the logic and logical thinking. Thus, I'm pretty sure they will excel in other subjects, especially math.
Release target seems to be Firefox 16, according to their wiki page. I had a few issues with a couple of sites in Firefox 15, I haven't tried nightly, but mostly it's working fine.
How about just go to about:config and set plugins.click_to_play to true to enable opt-ins plugins. I think Mozilla added it in Firefox 14. You can whitelist sites too (Page Info -> Permissions). And they're working on adding the ability to only enable plugins of a specific runtime (Flash, Java, Silverlight, etc).
So far, my favorite comment on that topic is that the years 1 through 524 also didn't exist in our Western calendar. The numbering we use, usually called "A.D." (for Anno Domini" was devised in the year 525, and wasn't used before that time. Actually, it was hardly used by anyone except a few monks for several centuries after that.
What difference does it make if it wasn't used back then? It is used now.
If you're 5 months old, it's your first year on Earth. If you're 1 year and 3 months old, it's your second year on Earth. Year 2000 is the 2000th year. In order for us to say that two millennia have passed the year must end, thus the new millennium starts in 2001. There's no year 0, because it would mean the 0th year of Christ on Earth. Which means he did not exist, ergo BC.
My other favorite comment on the topic is that today is also the start of a century - the century that starts today and ends 19 April 2112. Every day is the start of a century. So arguing against a popular "start of century" year is basically silly.
We are talking about Gregorian calendar here. The year doesn't start at April 19. You are free to create whatever system you like, it wouldn't change the Gregorian calendar though. Therefore, it's a silly argument.
This is an active R&D test facility. The photo of the document which can be found on the blog says it's a "ÐÐÐs-751" (R&D test facility) and according to Energomash's website they had 21 tests there in 2011 and more tests were planned in 2012.
First of all, the guy who wrote the article is just clueless. No offense to him, but he sounded as one who has clearly no competence to speak on the matter.
Secondly, the panel only made a recommendation. The ICGA board plus WCCC tournament director acted like the jury. They agreed with the recommendation.
Thirdly, Ken Thompson was one of the members of the panel and I quote investigation report:
Here are some opinions of panel members recorded on the investigation wiki pages:
Ken Thompson:
After reading all the evidence, voted that he was convinced by the case against Rybka.
If you are going to call him an asshole, I'm definitely going to call you an idiot.
Fruit was a GPLed program until and including version 2.1. The investigation panel had compared Rybka 1.0 beta to Fruit 2.1, then they took a look at previous and later versions, including Rybka 2.3.2a to establish a pattern behavior. You can read all that has been done in the report: http://www.chessvibes.com/plaatjes/rybkaevidence/Rybka_Investigation_report.pdf
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I was not referring to JavaScript and what you're saying might technically be correct, but... we should not forget that the language constantly evolves and definitions of yesterday could be expanded today.
In computerised document preparation, a method of adding information to the text indicating the logical components of a document, or instructions for layout of the text on the page or other information which can be interpreted by some automatic system*.
1. Instructions for a computer in some programming language, often machine language (machine code).
The word "code" is often used to distinguish instructions from data*
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If it's acceptable to refer to HTML or CSS code as code then it's perfectly acceptable to say you code in HTML or CSS. And besides when I say I code in Java, C, etc. what I'm really saying is that I'm programming in those languages.
And here is where I completely disagree with you. MS had a choice to include alternatives to IE, they choose the lesser evil for them and removed IE. Now ask yourself which browser is most likely going to be bundled with OEM setups?
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That's how Dice (t)roll.
Does anyone know who designed Beta? Was it done in house or did they use some 3rd party? I really want to know, so I would never ever have to deal with these people.
The candidate is seated in aroom with a secretary type person, who after a few minutes, says, hey are you a tech guy - my printer isn't working
And an obvious answer would be: "Yes, I am a tech guy and would really like to help you. Really, but unfortunately I don't work here... yet."
The data pipes through Sweden and they do sniff the traffic. I wouldn't be surprised if they share the data with US and UK.
It's a substitution cipher:
Plain: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Cipher: nopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklm
The post reads:
First time accepted submitter TekTek writes
"In response to the growing proliferation of the use of "secret sauce" as a vehicle for entrepreneurs', venture capitalists', and investment bankers' thinly veiled proprietary machinations, a global consortium of premium condiment manufacturers has launched the Open Sauce Foundation (OSF). Founding members include McIlhenny Company (producer of Tabasco brand pepper sauce), Huy Fong Foods (producer of "Rooster Brand" Sriracha sauce), and Kikkoman (producer of Kikkoman brand Soy Sauce). The new foundation's stated aim is not only to uphold the virtues of buying worthy sauce manufacturers' products, but to demonstarate to the tech, financial, and media communities the "Open" companies, and condiments, can, and do, assume leadership roles in thir respective markets."
If you are part of IT world and never heard of Python, then God help your company. No, seriously.
Well, Firefox now comes with click-to-play feature so you can activate plugins on demand or white-list sites. Opera has it too. But it's not the point, OP was talking about removing the whole thing and it's just not an option.
Easy for you to say. Here in Norway we are required to have it to do online banking :(
Then, clearly, he didn't know what he was talking about. Licenses don't apply to the copyright holder; they apply to redistributers. He could certainly have release xMule as binary-only, or as open source with a license that prohibits copying and redistribution (think Microsoft's "Shared Source" licenses). Perhaps he didn't want to do those things, given his goals in creating the project, but to say he had no choice is simply nonsense.
It's not a nonsense. Maybe he used alot of GPL code in his project. He is no longer the only copyright holder in this case. And rewriting major parts of the program might not have been the option for him.
I'm going to disagree. Programming will teach kids the logic and logical thinking. Thus, I'm pretty sure they will excel in other subjects, especially math.
Release target seems to be Firefox 16, according to their wiki page. I had a few issues with a couple of sites in Firefox 15, I haven't tried nightly, but mostly it's working fine.
How about just go to about:config and set plugins.click_to_play to true to enable opt-ins plugins. I think Mozilla added it in Firefox 14. You can whitelist sites too (Page Info -> Permissions). And they're working on adding the ability to only enable plugins of a specific runtime (Flash, Java, Silverlight, etc).
So far, my favorite comment on that topic is that the years 1 through 524 also didn't exist in our Western calendar. The numbering we use, usually called "A.D." (for Anno Domini" was devised in the year 525, and wasn't used before that time. Actually, it was hardly used by anyone except a few monks for several centuries after that.
What difference does it make if it wasn't used back then? It is used now.
If you're 5 months old, it's your first year on Earth. If you're 1 year and 3 months old, it's your second year on Earth. Year 2000 is the 2000th year. In order for us to say that two millennia have passed the year must end, thus the new millennium starts in 2001. There's no year 0, because it would mean the 0th year of Christ on Earth. Which means he did not exist, ergo BC.
My other favorite comment on the topic is that today is also the start of a century - the century that starts today and ends 19 April 2112. Every day is the start of a century. So arguing against a popular "start of century" year is basically silly.
We are talking about Gregorian calendar here. The year doesn't start at April 19. You are free to create whatever system you like, it wouldn't change the Gregorian calendar though. Therefore, it's a silly argument.
Can we all just agree it's 1999 again, and have a "do over"?
Except that year 2000 was still 20st century... you know, 21st century began on January 1, 2001.
"ÐÐÐs-751" should read "NIK-751" in Russian.
This is an active R&D test facility. The photo of the document which can be found on the blog says it's a "ÐÐÐs-751" (R&D test facility) and according to Energomash's website they had 21 tests there in 2011 and more tests were planned in 2012.
First of all, the guy who wrote the article is just clueless. No offense to him, but he sounded as one who has clearly no competence to speak on the matter.
Secondly, the panel only made a recommendation. The ICGA board plus WCCC tournament director acted like the jury. They agreed with the recommendation.
Thirdly, Ken Thompson was one of the members of the panel and I quote investigation report:
Here are some opinions of panel members recorded on the investigation wiki pages:
Ken Thompson:
After reading all the evidence, voted that he was convinced by the case against Rybka.
If you are going to call him an asshole, I'm definitely going to call you an idiot.
ICGA didn't f*ck up.
Fruit was a GPLed program until and including version 2.1. The investigation panel had compared Rybka 1.0 beta to Fruit 2.1, then they took a look at previous and later versions, including Rybka 2.3.2a to establish a pattern behavior. You can read all that has been done in the report: http://www.chessvibes.com/plaatjes/rybkaevidence/Rybka_Investigation_report.pdf
You'll be surprised how common this is.
why would this be considered a bad idea?
I was not referring to JavaScript and what you're saying might technically be correct, but... we should not forget that the language constantly evolves and definitions of yesterday could be expanded today.
and besides http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/markup Computing Dictionary markup definition (1995-03-30):
In computerised document preparation, a method of adding information to the text indicating the logical components of a document, or instructions for layout of the text on the page or other information which can be interpreted by some automatic system*.
and http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/code Computing Dictionary code definition (2000-04-08):
1. Instructions for a computer in some programming language, often machine language (machine code). The word "code" is often used to distinguish instructions from data*
* emphasis added
If it's acceptable to refer to HTML or CSS code as code then it's perfectly acceptable to say you code in HTML or CSS. And besides when I say I code in Java, C, etc. what I'm really saying is that I'm programming in those languages.
Or a combination of both?!
Policies might be dumb, admins might be lazy, but all this is not what is keeping IE6 alive. The reason is quite simple: Upgrades cost money.
And here is where I completely disagree with you. MS had a choice to include alternatives to IE, they choose the lesser evil for them and removed IE. Now ask yourself which browser is most likely going to be bundled with OEM setups?
One other thing, you did have a choice before.