I had heard this joke. When people were emigrating from England, Australia & the USA were given a choice. They could either take in the "Religious Nuts" or the Criminals. Australia were given first choice & they chose the criminals.
What happened? Did Christopher Columbus sail to Australia & think he was in the USA?
It's a rather dry book unlike the Al Franken book etc, but it's very informative.
This book conclusively proves that the Bush Administration has been the most "spinning" administration in the country's history. This book is written by the people who run this website.
This book conclusively proves that the Bush Administration has been the most "spinning" administration in the country's history. This book is written by the people who run this website. This is a very unbiased site, they criticize Kerry, Micheal Moore etc also very heavily, so I am inclined to believe that the book isn't biased.
The way I look at it: if it doesn't work in Mozilla, then it is, by definition, broken. There's no conceivable reason they shouldn't be able to code it to work in Mozilla.
There is also a 3rd option - a bug in mozilla. Is that also inconceivable?
I think some stupid web site will generate some sympathy.
Talking about the website, I tried it in both Firefox & IE. In firefox, the "Roll mouse over timeline icons to see summary of each document." doesn't work.
Is this a problem with the website or with Firefox?
If I were writing any commercial grade code, especially stuff that I know that people would take advantage of, I would sure as hell make sure that I had all my buffer checks in place.
I am sure that the parent post was talking about the/GS checks & not just regular buffer checks.
Alot of open source software is written for fun or to scratch a paticular person's itch, when it is released, it is merely so other people can benefit from it.
Closed source software is written for profit, to fulfill various peoples needs, when it is released it is expected to work as it has been paid for. When you have a few million dollars to put into manpower you are expected to come up with the goods fast, especially faster than what a group of decentralized volunteers can do.
You are basically proving an argument for why companies shouldn't migrate to software which is written mainly to scratch someone's itch & software that when released isn't expected to work because it hasn't been paid for.
What, you think I'm kidding? Nobody cares about oil for its own sake, or the Middle East. Oil isn't a demonic black ichor that carries intrinsic evil. It's the importance of oil to the economy that makes people care enough to fight over it. If wind were equally important to the economy, you'd still see lots of money changing handes, lots of haves and have nots, economic dominance of upwind countries, and fighting over the best wind generation spots and "downwind rights" based on prevailing wind patterns.
If you really want a fair comparison, you've got to consider all the side effects that come from utilizing an energy source on an industrial, planet-wide scale, not just from some little backyard experiment. And you'll find that most of those "hidden costs" will pop right back up with any other forms of energy. They're not inherent to the energy at all.
This is a 2nd reply to your post.
One more thing to consider. The USA consumers 20 million barrels of oil per day. Japan consumers around 6, China 5, India 2.
How much are Japan, China, India etc paying for fighting wars for Oil?
IMHO, Oil is also heavily subsidised by the govt. Oil has hidden costs that is never taken into consideration, because it's borne by the govt & not the oil company.
I am talking about the cost of fighting wars for oil.
It's part of a MARKETING STRATEGY (and a particularly brilliant one, I might add) not because of any technical requirements.
I agree. I have signed up for a gmail account. Not because I want one (I am not using it all that much), but only because it's a scarce thing.
I see nothing all that special about gmail - the only good thing was that it made yahoo increase their storage size & I had not longer had to periodically clean up the account.
Just one thing, w3schools.com is a site for people who write websites, so they'd naturally have a much higher percentage of non-IE browsers than the more general browsing population.
Any website gathering data is OK as long as the result shows Mozilla or Linux gaining share.
Apple didn't jump into the mp3 scene right away, they waited for the market to mature before introducing the iPod
So what other products of Apple did you see this in? i.e. the waiting for the market to mature thing.
Other than the IPod?
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I had heard this joke.
When people were emigrating from England, Australia
& the USA were given a choice. They could either
take in the "Religious Nuts" or the Criminals.
Australia were given first choice & they chose the
criminals.
What happened? Did Christopher Columbus sail to Australia & think he was in the USA?
It would take something extraordinary for me to switch from Firefox at this point.
They know this. That's why they have that something
extraordinary - it's called "By Invite Only".
I agree - Spinsanity pretty much flames both sides.
I have also read their book
It's a rather dry book unlike the Al Franken book etc, but it's very informative.
This book conclusively proves that the Bush Administration has been the most "spinning" administration in the country's history. This book is written by the people who run this website.
Compilers for Windows: Microsoft's, Borland's, icc, gcc-mingw
For Windows there are also
Digital Mars - used to be Symantec C++
LCC
Open Watcom
I think there are more for Linux also, like Visual Age
etc.
Take a look at this book.
This book conclusively proves that the Bush Administration has been the most "spinning" administration in the country's history. This book is written by the people who run this website. This is a very unbiased site, they criticize Kerry, Micheal Moore etc also very heavily, so I am inclined to believe that the book isn't biased.
The way I look at it: if it doesn't work in Mozilla, then it is, by definition, broken.
There's no conceivable reason they shouldn't be able to code it to work in Mozilla.
There is also a 3rd option - a bug in mozilla.
Is that also inconceivable?
I think some stupid web site will generate some sympathy.
Talking about the website,
I tried it in both Firefox & IE. In firefox, the
"Roll mouse over timeline icons to see summary of each document." doesn't work.
Is this a problem with the website or with Firefox?
How should he know how a NULL is handled? Isn't there an operating system that's supposed to do that stuff?
Where's that damn garbage collector???
Have you ever coded C or C++ in your life?
But I have nightmares where I write Win32 apps in FoxPro.
I can believe that.
If I were writing any commercial grade code, especially stuff that I know that people would take advantage of, I would sure as hell make sure that I had all my buffer checks in place.
I am sure that the parent post was talking about the
Do we really want beer helping the police to free harmful radicals?
"Either you are with us or with the radicals"
- Arthur W Guinness
( Sept 13 1759 )
Alot of open source software is written for fun or to scratch a paticular person's itch, when it is released, it is merely so other people can benefit from it.
Closed source software is written for profit, to fulfill various peoples needs, when it is released it is expected to work as it has been paid for. When you have a few million dollars to put into manpower you are expected to come up with the goods fast, especially faster than what a group of decentralized volunteers can do.
You are basically proving an argument for why companies shouldn't migrate to software which is written mainly to scratch someone's itch & software that when released isn't expected to work because it hasn't been paid for.
The US pacifies the middle east through regular wars Is this a joke?
What about the cost of fighting wars for wind?
What, you think I'm kidding? Nobody cares about oil for its own sake, or the Middle East. Oil isn't a demonic black ichor that carries intrinsic evil. It's the importance of oil to the economy that makes people care enough to fight over it. If wind were equally important to the economy, you'd still see lots of money changing handes, lots of haves and have nots, economic dominance of upwind countries, and fighting over the best wind generation spots and "downwind rights" based on prevailing wind patterns.
If you really want a fair comparison, you've got to consider all the side effects that come from utilizing an energy source on an industrial, planet-wide scale, not just from some little backyard experiment. And you'll find that most of those "hidden costs" will pop right back up with any other forms of energy. They're not inherent to the energy at all.
This is a 2nd reply to your post.
One more thing to consider.
The USA consumers 20 million barrels of oil per day.
Japan consumers around 6, China 5, India 2.
How much are Japan, China, India etc paying for fighting wars for Oil?
What about the cost of fighting wars for wind?
I can't really think of people fighting wars for wind, mostly because much wind is more evenly distributed than Oil around the globe.
And tapping into wind energy isn't going to deplete wind, unlike Oil.
IMHO, Oil is also heavily subsidised by the govt.
Oil has hidden costs that is never taken into consideration, because it's borne by the govt & not the oil company.
I am talking about the cost of fighting wars for
oil.
Go compare the number of vulnerabilities in IIS6 and Apache 2, you'll be very surprised.
How can I do a comparison - is there any website doing such a comparison?
Patents - Bad.
But the recording industry also Bad.
Who do we support in this discussion?
No joke, I just tried that with firefox, and it took me to a download page for Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1.
Yes - at download.com
Typing "Miserable failure" in firefox also takes you to the Whitehouse website.
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Wasn't there a Mozilla security bug which they kept hidden for 4 years and fixed it only when it was found out?
There is a hidden option in the Mozilla bug database option - what's that other than security by obscurity.
The story was covered in slashdot, but I can't find a link.
It's part of a MARKETING STRATEGY (and a particularly brilliant one, I might add) not because of any technical requirements.
I agree. I have signed up for a gmail account. Not because I want one (I am not using it all that much), but only because it's a scarce thing.
I see nothing all that special about gmail - the only good thing was that it made yahoo increase their storage size & I had not longer had to periodically clean up the account.
Just one thing, w3schools.com is a site for people who write websites, so they'd naturally have a much higher percentage of non-IE browsers than the more general browsing population.
Any website gathering data is OK as long as the result shows Mozilla or Linux gaining share.
XP has also gained share as per the page.
So whose complacency is it, in that case?
Also, are these stats reliable - the google stats
seemed to be different.
Screenshots
Looks identical to Outlook's Calendar, even menu option names etc.
OSS seems to be totally following the MS way, including very little innovation.
Apple didn't jump into the mp3 scene right away, they waited for the market to mature before introducing the iPod
So what other products of Apple did you see this in? i.e. the waiting for the market to mature thing.
Other than the IPod?
I'm surprised how the article doesn't mention the slow move we are making to a cashless society, which will make problems of counterfeit currency irrelevant
Yup, credit fraud is the crime du jour.