...that they're not improving the CSS (at least, for senses of the word "improving" that would strike a harmonious chord in the hearts of standards-oriented web developers), but the unofficial-unofficial word is that some of the less-self-important people involved will have finessed some improvements anyway.
...please give me a couple of days warning to point the DNS somewhere else first! If this is what a link in the middle of a story is like, I don't want to know about a front-pager.
...now I know why my ADSL router is lit up like Christmas and twitching and cringing under the desk, here. (-:
Good thing it's a 512/512 link and not a more typical (for Perth, WestOz) 512/128 or I'd have naff-all access left. Give it ten minutes, I may not have any anyway.
For the curious, the coccyx healed up much faster when I started using this, and is mostly fine now. I still use the lappyvator from time to time, e.g. when I'm totally knackered but still have stuff to do. With a comfortable pillow, and as long as I don't actually nod off, I can stretch out the last few hours of a day by lying down as I work.
You can right click on anything in the menu (something i've not seen in *ANY* other menuing system), drag and drop things from the menu (again, nothing i've ever seen in a menu before, short of NeXT's "tear off menu's).
O man of the world, you have not used OS/2 much, have you? Several of the X WM's also allow that, and at least two of them predate Windows 3.11.
However, for day-to-day operation, that's a bug, not a feature. Sooooo many people accidentally move items off their menus, and then later delete the "superfluous" icon from their desktop, and then later again go spare trying to find the -ing menu entry that "was there a minute ago". And then Microsoft make the menus collapse if they're not frequently used. That one really makes people's eyes spin. The combination is a match made in the Vogosphere.
Yes, that little stupid dog and clippy are annoying, but they are not available elsewhere.
Praise the Lord for small mercies! Have you ever had to deal with that [shift-scrobble-on-number-keys]ing yellow dog over a modem link?
So innovative that the KDE crew does it as well.
I see that you have no clue how KDE works.
The khtml client is a component which when invoked from the Konqueror framework and joined to an HTTP request as a kioslave looks like a web browser. You can use any other component in its place.
The Konqueror framework can just as easily invoke an ssh kioslave (type fish://user@server) to manage files or a CD-reading kioslave (type audiocd:/) to display and rip CDs. So the "web browser" doesn't have to be a web browser.
Konqueror will also run under GNOME, BlackBox, xfce or RatPoison instead of KDE. So the web browser is not dependent on the window manager.
Konqueror runs on practically any OS, including MS-Windows, so the web browser is not dependent on the OS.
When Microsoft "ported" MSIE to the Mac, the had to rewrite the sucker form the ground up and in many ways did a much better job. I wish they'd port it back rather than continue using the "it works everywhere except here"/"it only works here" engine. If wishes were fishes, etc.
KDE can use any web browser, including as a default, so the window manager is not dependent upon the web browser.
Linux can run without a video card, in fact without any kind of default screen or keyboard IO hardware at all, so the OS is not dependent upon the web browser.
So far we haven't come across any way in which your statement could be true.
Yeah, anyone who plans to screw over IBM...
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...and then does it - at least twice (MS-DOS and OS/2) - is someone to be watched. Preferably from behind something solid, a fair distance away from ground zero.
Anyone who whines about piracy and about clones while they're still using the very same piracy as a market invasion tool and copying (e.g. from Apple and Lotus) for all they're worth is pretty much guaranteed to screw you over too, no matter how much (or little) you're worth.
Anyone who promises to flood the world with quality software and then actually tries to sell you things like MS-DOS 4, Blackbird and MS-Bob is going to be right at home with Matilda's dad.
Anyone who prates on about standards and then ships first FrontPage and then MS-Word as HTML editors is pretty much guaranteed to be as two-faced about money as well. "OK, boys, buy him out!"
Nobody has ever observed the Big Bang (nor something unequivocally attributable to it), nor a superstring. You could argue about quantum physics, but it would be an uphill battle. Embryology... hmmm... we still have Earnst Haeckel's frauds being touted as truth in textbooks after more than a century. That doesn't bode well.
Not only is "founded on mathematics" about as much snake-oil as "contains herbs" (what herbs? parsley? spinach? lawn clippings? banana leaves? and does an 0.01% inclusion have in impact on the nutritional value?), you'll have woken up all of the mathematicians, now, so the whole thread'll degenerate into painstakingly exact and clever proofs of stuff which has no conceivable physical application. (-:
Even (or especially) if the actual implementation sucks. Just so long as it's enough to break the patent. Pick someone on the other side of the planet. If you're in Norway, pick someone in Brasil; if Japan, maybe Zimbabwe tickles your fancy.
Then when a patent is effectively unenforceable due to prior art (give it at least a month or so), you tell the university that since the code cannot be patented, you will release it under the GPL, never letting on that you discussed the concept with J Random Khazakstani or whomever, admin of the patentsuck.sf.net project. Then "merge" your project with patentsuck.sf.net once the Uni has accepted that fait accompli in order to avoid duplication of effort.
...between actions scenes would have somethign to do with it. (-:
And if you're talking about mere rockets, it takes how long to fly to Mars these days?
Yes, much good SciFi has been written withing these limitations (Podkayne of Mars, anybody? The Moon is a Harsh Mistress? The Fountains of Paradise? Footfall? Protector? Flight of the Dragonfly? Dragon's Egg? etc), but they do narrow the field a lot.
If you travel at or above the speed of light on your ship...
...you smack into the bulkhead at above the speed of light and turn into a truly impressive particle shower. (-:
On a (slightly) more serious note, because the speed of light is relative, the light will stream away ahead of the ship from your perspective, but because your ship has somehow managed to get to FTL in einsteinian space, time will be running backwards for you relative to the rest of the universe and so your headlights will appear to be sucking light out of space ahead of you.
You will also weigh a negative amount, and if you're only just FTL, a very massive negative amount. I interpret that to mean that you briefly turn into a white hole, but I could be wrong. Either way, the results are pretty much guaranteed to be spectacular. (-:
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Hello, CNN.
/. story is a dupe.
And yes, this
Hello, CNN.
...that they're not improving the CSS (at least, for senses of the word "improving" that would strike a harmonious chord in the hearts of standards-oriented web developers), but the unofficial-unofficial word is that some of the less-self-important people involved will have finessed some improvements anyway.
...please give me a couple of days warning to point the DNS somewhere else first! If this is what a link in the middle of a story is like, I don't want to know about a front-pager.
...now I know why my ADSL router is lit up like Christmas and twitching and cringing under the desk, here. (-:
Good thing it's a 512/512 link and not a more typical (for Perth, WestOz) 512/128 or I'd have naff-all access left. Give it ten minutes, I may not have any anyway.
For the curious, the coccyx healed up much faster when I started using this, and is mostly fine now. I still use the lappyvator from time to time, e.g. when I'm totally knackered but still have stuff to do. With a comfortable pillow, and as long as I don't actually nod off, I can stretch out the last few hours of a day by lying down as I work.
Hey, what's wrong with asking? (-:
However, for day-to-day operation, that's a bug, not a feature. Sooooo many people accidentally move items off their menus, and then later delete the "superfluous" icon from their desktop, and then later again go spare trying to find the -ing menu entry that "was there a minute ago". And then Microsoft make the menus collapse if they're not frequently used. That one really makes people's eyes spin. The combination is a match made in the Vogosphere.
I see that you have no clue how KDE works.
The khtml client is a component which when invoked from the Konqueror framework and joined to an HTTP request as a kioslave looks like a web browser. You can use any other component in its place.
The Konqueror framework can just as easily invoke an ssh kioslave (type fish://user@server) to manage files or a CD-reading kioslave (type audiocd:/) to display and rip CDs. So the "web browser" doesn't have to be a web browser.
Konqueror will also run under GNOME, BlackBox, xfce or RatPoison instead of KDE. So the web browser is not dependent on the window manager.
Konqueror runs on practically any OS, including MS-Windows, so the web browser is not dependent on the OS.
When Microsoft "ported" MSIE to the Mac, the had to rewrite the sucker form the ground up and in many ways did a much better job. I wish they'd port it back rather than continue using the "it works everywhere except here"/"it only works here" engine. If wishes were fishes, etc.
KDE can use any web browser, including as a default, so the window manager is not dependent upon the web browser.
Linux can run without a video card, in fact without any kind of default screen or keyboard IO hardware at all, so the OS is not dependent upon the web browser.
So far we haven't come across any way in which your statement could be true.
...and then does it - at least twice (MS-DOS and OS/2) - is someone to be watched. Preferably from behind something solid, a fair distance away from ground zero.
Anyone who whines about piracy and about clones while they're still using the very same piracy as a market invasion tool and copying (e.g. from Apple and Lotus) for all they're worth is pretty much guaranteed to screw you over too, no matter how much (or little) you're worth.
Anyone who promises to flood the world with quality software and then actually tries to sell you things like MS-DOS 4, Blackbird and MS-Bob is going to be right at home with Matilda's dad.
Anyone who prates on about standards and then ships first FrontPage and then MS-Word as HTML editors is pretty much guaranteed to be as two-faced about money as well. "OK, boys, buy him out!"
...listed as an employee has my attention. (-:
...and I got fired, too.
Er, no, wait...
Well, you know: ocean, vapours rising...
If so, the Japanese can leave the Chinese islands to the south of them alone, and have this shiny new one instead. Problem solved.
"My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." Read the next verse, too.
Nobody has ever observed the Big Bang (nor something unequivocally attributable to it), nor a superstring. You could argue about quantum physics, but it would be an uphill battle. Embryology... hmmm... we still have Earnst Haeckel's frauds being touted as truth in textbooks after more than a century. That doesn't bode well.
Not only is "founded on mathematics" about as much snake-oil as "contains herbs" (what herbs? parsley? spinach? lawn clippings? banana leaves? and does an 0.01% inclusion have in impact on the nutritional value?), you'll have woken up all of the mathematicians, now, so the whole thread'll degenerate into painstakingly exact and clever proofs of stuff which has no conceivable physical application. (-:
Including multiple images (ctrl-click to select).
...Pentium M (I'm typing this on one) is a P3 derivative, not P4.
...is cable losses. 93 million miles, you do the math.
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Even (or especially) if the actual implementation sucks. Just so long as it's enough to break the patent. Pick someone on the other side of the planet. If you're in Norway, pick someone in Brasil; if Japan, maybe Zimbabwe tickles your fancy.
Then when a patent is effectively unenforceable due to prior art (give it at least a month or so), you tell the university that since the code cannot be patented, you will release it under the GPL, never letting on that you discussed the concept with J Random Khazakstani or whomever, admin of the patentsuck.sf.net project. Then "merge" your project with patentsuck.sf.net once the Uni has accepted that fait accompli in order to avoid duplication of effort.
Think about it.
The belief that hydrogen will eventually self-assemble into philosophers has me LMAO. So...
...energy + hydrogen + time => you.
How unlikely is that? Do the maths one day. The big sugar daddy in the sky is quite reasonable by comparison.
Robert Lull Forward and some of Larry Niven's stuff.
...between actions scenes would have somethign to do with it. (-:
And if you're talking about mere rockets, it takes how long to fly to Mars these days?
Yes, much good SciFi has been written withing these limitations (Podkayne of Mars, anybody? The Moon is a Harsh Mistress? The Fountains of Paradise? Footfall? Protector? Flight of the Dragonfly? Dragon's Egg? etc), but they do narrow the field a lot.
On a (slightly) more serious note, because the speed of light is relative, the light will stream away ahead of the ship from your perspective, but because your ship has somehow managed to get to FTL in einsteinian space, time will be running backwards for you relative to the rest of the universe and so your headlights will appear to be sucking light out of space ahead of you.
You will also weigh a negative amount, and if you're only just FTL, a very massive negative amount. I interpret that to mean that you briefly turn into a white hole, but I could be wrong. Either way, the results are pretty much guaranteed to be spectacular. (-: