The license is available for applications on any platform, except for applications that compete directly with the five Office applications that currently have the new UI (Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access). We wanted to make the IP available broadly to partners because it has benefits to Microsoft and the Office Ecosystem. At the same time, we wanted to preserve the uniqueness of the Office UI for the core Office productivity applications.
Firefox does not compete with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook or Access. Microsoft might claim Thunderbird competes with Outlook, if the Mozilla folks want to add ribbons there as well, but unless the actual license text is substantially different, there should not be any problem for Firefox other than possibly users' objections.
According to Wikipedia there were two different 60GB models. One for North America and one for Europe.
No, according to wikipedia, at the page you linked to, there were two different 60GB models. One for NTSC and one for PAL. This doesn't mean one for North America and one for Europe. There are other countries (Japan comes to mind) where 60GB models were sold.
Ah, right. If the government (or anyone, really) wants to release a binary without the source, but gives you full permission to reconstruct the source to the best of your ability, then there's not really much point in not releasing the source directly. Thanks for that.
If it's public domain, it's already open source unless I'm missing something. If you meant that it should be open source but not public domain, you're not agreeing, you're disagreeing.
Are you talking about purging them for specific domains, or globally? For specific domains, I can imagine why it might be a problem (though I'm not aware of how any of them are stored on disk), but if you mean globally, is there any problem in removing the relevant directories, exactly as at least I would do for cookies? Surely none of them are stored in the same directory as (for example) the browser bookmarks?
As for the legitimate uses, I suppose it depends on your viewing habits. There are not nearly enough good examples of use of even scripting and cookies for me to consider allowing them globally, and I happen to not need Flash at all. (In fairness, if I could not see the movies on Youtube etc. without Flash, I might have installed it.)
I'll admit I had to run the program, and even then it took me a while to see it.
v.size() has vector<int>::size_type as its return type. Depending on which specific type, either that type will be converted to int, and all is fine, or the result of std::accumulate(v.begin(), v.end(), 0) is converted to an unsigned type, then divided, and then converted back to int. In the latter case, when you have a negative sum, the division gives the wrong result.
I think the <istream> and <ostream> headers are required because the types of std::cin and std::cout might otherwise be incomplete, meaning operator<< might be undeclared. I know the <ostream> header is also required to that std::endl is declared. I'm not seeing what could be in <iomanip> that's of interest of your program. Could you explain that last one?
Even if no one is around to hear the tree fall, you can record the sound and listen to it later. I'm not sure how to apply this to Apple, but I'm guessing it involves zombie networks. Any ideas?
Maybe that because it makes no sense if normal users cannot read and execute applications and their associated data?
I hope you meant that the other way around. Normal users should be able to execute applications and read data. They don't have to be able to read applications or execute data.
I don't see the DMCA mentioned in the links, nor in the news that they reference. It's indeed irrelevant here; this is just another someone's idea of fabricating details of a story in order to spark more interest.
Delphi used to come with the source for the runtime library with the Professional editions, but now includes it in all editions, even the free (gratis) version of Turbo Delphi. It was and still is extremely useful.
I've typed full URLs into Google's search more than once, because I wanted to look at a cached version, or because I wanted to find pages referencing that URL.
From what I can tell, there's three camps of consumers when it comes to DRM:
The camp that can't stand it, won't buy it, and goes without the content.
The camp that doesn't like it all that much, but buys it anyway.
The camp that won't pay no matter what you do, and pirates the content instead.
Your second camp can be divided into the group that doesn't like it all that much, but buys it if the DRM can be bypassed, and the group that doesn't like it all that much, but sucks it up and deals with it. I consider them very different groups.
I use mutt, but you probably won't consider that as modern. If you have no problem with KDE, there's Yzis, which offers an embeddable vi-style text editor, suitable for use in any KDE application that uses standard text editor controls. It would surprise me if this did not include KMail. (I haven't used it recently, so I don't know if it still has some usability issues.)
Plain text editors can have security holes too. vim has had security bugs that could be triggered simply by pressing the Reply key in your e-mail app and having vim as your default editor.
I throw in the qualifier because, other than stuff like regular expressions and SQL, which are not Turing-complete and have blissfully narrow scopes, everything else has seen javascript-acular scope creep.
Extended regular expressions have been used as tests for prime numbers. I'd say that counts as beyond the original intended scope.
A fundamental part of his explanation pivots on the following being true:
1/0 = infinity
-1/0 = -infinity
So, according to that, the following would hold:
if 1/0 = infinity
then infinity * 0 = 1
infinity * 0 is indeterminate. It can be 1 in one case, 0 in another, or something entirely different. See Wikipedia or better, Dr. Math for an explanation.
which does not work, for obvious reasons. This I told my teacher in 6th grade.
If it's obvious to you as a 6th grader but not to a teacher, you should consider the possibility that you're missing something.
Er... no. It's entirely possible for x^(-1/2) and x^(2) to be equal. This happens when x=1. (I know what you meant, but what you posted is very different.)
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I don't know if you're right, but I'm not going to just take your word for it, and it's not something that's easy to look up myself.
Firefox does not compete with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook or Access. Microsoft might claim Thunderbird competes with Outlook, if the Mozilla folks want to add ribbons there as well, but unless the actual license text is substantially different, there should not be any problem for Firefox other than possibly users' objections.
No, according to wikipedia, at the page you linked to, there were two different 60GB models. One for NTSC and one for PAL. This doesn't mean one for North America and one for Europe. There are other countries (Japan comes to mind) where 60GB models were sold.
Ah, right. If the government (or anyone, really) wants to release a binary without the source, but gives you full permission to reconstruct the source to the best of your ability, then there's not really much point in not releasing the source directly. Thanks for that.
If it's public domain, it's already open source unless I'm missing something. If you meant that it should be open source but not public domain, you're not agreeing, you're disagreeing.
Are you talking about purging them for specific domains, or globally? For specific domains, I can imagine why it might be a problem (though I'm not aware of how any of them are stored on disk), but if you mean globally, is there any problem in removing the relevant directories, exactly as at least I would do for cookies? Surely none of them are stored in the same directory as (for example) the browser bookmarks?
As for the legitimate uses, I suppose it depends on your viewing habits. There are not nearly enough good examples of use of even scripting and cookies for me to consider allowing them globally, and I happen to not need Flash at all. (In fairness, if I could not see the movies on Youtube etc. without Flash, I might have installed it.)
I'll admit I had to run the program, and even then it took me a while to see it.
v.size() has vector<int>::size_type as its return type. Depending on which specific type, either that type will be converted to int, and all is fine, or the result of std::accumulate(v.begin(), v.end(), 0) is converted to an unsigned type, then divided, and then converted back to int. In the latter case, when you have a negative sum, the division gives the wrong result.
I think the <istream> and <ostream> headers are required because the types of std::cin and std::cout might otherwise be incomplete, meaning operator<< might be undeclared. I know the <ostream> header is also required to that std::endl is declared. I'm not seeing what could be in <iomanip> that's of interest of your program. Could you explain that last one?
Even if no one is around to hear the tree fall, you can record the sound and listen to it later. I'm not sure how to apply this to Apple, but I'm guessing it involves zombie networks. Any ideas?
I don't see the DMCA mentioned in the links, nor in the news that they reference. It's indeed irrelevant here; this is just another someone's idea of fabricating details of a story in order to spark more interest.
Delphi used to come with the source for the runtime library with the Professional editions, but now includes it in all editions, even the free (gratis) version of Turbo Delphi. It was and still is extremely useful.
Since when are takedown notices supposed to be sent by search bots?
I've typed full URLs into Google's search more than once, because I wanted to look at a cached version, or because I wanted to find pages referencing that URL.
The Flash specification is not open. It is freely available, but may not be used to create Flash players, only Flash creators.
Here's the EULA, and here's where it's linked from. Complain away! :)
I use mutt, but you probably won't consider that as modern. If you have no problem with KDE, there's Yzis, which offers an embeddable vi-style text editor, suitable for use in any KDE application that uses standard text editor controls. It would surprise me if this did not include KMail. (I haven't used it recently, so I don't know if it still has some usability issues.)
Plain text editors can have security holes too. vim has had security bugs that could be triggered simply by pressing the Reply key in your e-mail app and having vim as your default editor.