At the risk of sounding like a troll, is this not a sign of how far behind the rest of the Linux world Debian has let itself fall? An installation GUI touted as a "major new feature"?
Correct me if I'm wrong (it happens!) but wasn't a graphical installer one of the major features of Ubuntu's last release, way back in June?
In a shocking development, all of the sites mentioned in the slashdot article are working just fine... except pornotube.com.
Except YouTube, you mean. The site has been down for the last couple of hours at least, with a lesser example of those Web 2.0 cutesy messages that El Reg has been known to rage against.
We're currently putting out some new features, sweeping out the cobwebs and zapping a few gremlins.
We'll be back later. In the meantime, please enjoy a layman's explanation of our website...
I assume they specifically mean "Firefox is using Coverity software to detect flaws in Firefox's source code."
And I'm assuming that they mean "Mozilla is using Coverity..." or "Firefox developers are using Coverity...". After all you don't hear about what Internet Explorer is doing, but rather what MS are doing with it.
Wouldn't it be great if the summary was clearer and neither of us had to make mental amendments?:(
So if it's 180B light-years wide, but 15B years old, does that mean that on average, if it started as a singularity, it has expanded at 10x the speed of light since the beginning of time?(tm) Do I get the Nobel prize in physics now?
Only if you can show how the Big Bang in your model occurred on the "left-hand" side of the universe and ejaculated all matter 180B light-years to the "right". Call me a traditionalist, but I prefer the concept of the universe expanding 90B light-years in all directions from a single, central point.
I'm going to start using a totally fictitious term that sounds like it might be related to the Internet, like iWebby or something like that, and then see how long before the businessweeks start naming 'players', 'moguls', and 'leaders'.
Talk about form over substance.
As long as our Total Enterprise WebFrontispiece leverages Blue-skyRuby Outside THE Rails in order to grow its self-contentizing stakeholder model I don't care about the details. Send for the code monkeys!
Wikipedia's article on ASBOs provides interesting reading on the subject. The article is a bit of a mess, but there is decent info in it, and the links list at the end is well worth perusing. These things are used against everything from vandals and thieves to hat-wearers.
That's suspected hat-wearers. No point taking risks, eh?
I like the idea...simply because it would rid of us snobbery that people with higher education have over the uneducated as spelling would not have to be an exquisite skill anymore. Why should we have one more barrier between the rich/poor or educated/uneducated?
You don't think it likely that the rich might get to learn both methods and the poor find themselves distanced, if not severed, from the majority of previously published English text then?
I remember Inky charging down the corridor after me, his hot ghost/monster breath on my neck. In the distance was the glow of the power pill, promising heavenly salvation. Nearly there. Nearly there. Only have to get past this last, dark side-corridor... Clyde, nooooo!
Hell, the horror of just thinking about it now makes me want to shrivel up and die.
"[...] it is unlikely that individual online gamblers will be targeted for arrest"
- That was my first question, too. So who is this law targeted at?
Simple. People under investigation for unrelated crimes for which there is insufficient evidence to charge or detain, political candidates and anyone the media chooses to highlight breaking it.
Dissatisfied with a perceived dearth of philosophical content in the computer sciences, Johannes Climacus sought to provoke debate on Slashdot. Upon reading the discussion however all he found were "frist psots", GNAA trolls and unfounded accusations that he was a Usenet kook.
"Try browsing the site at 4 or 5," suggested a friend.
Can someone explain the YouTube business model? It neither directly charges its users nor sells ad space, and streaming video takes a ton of storage and bandwidth.
I can't explain their business model, but thanks to leaked, highly-confidential YouTube documents, I can reveal it to you:
"2. ???"
Note to Moderators: I'm accepting both +1 Funny and +1 Insightful mods today!
Seems like theyre trying to clone the success of Smallville, except Superman found out his powers on his own-- Luke didn't know about them until taught. [emphasis mine]
I hope you enjoyed voicing that opinion as it's the last time you'll be able to safely do so online without being corrected by some snot-nosed kid citing the series as evidence that you're wrong.
Actually, scratch that, if previous form is anything to go by it'll probably be Lucas putting you straight personally:(
Am I the only one that read that as an A1-based search engine?
Not at all. I myself was caught out thinking someone had implemented a low-tech search engine based primarily upon cheap labour and the scribbling of notes onto an inconveniently large* piece of paper.
* or inconveniently small, depending on your perspective.
I've seen this story complete with diagram in a UK newspaper before, a good 5-10 years ago. The Reg article mentions finding the story in The Guardian, but doesn't go so far as to link to it. I wonder in what context it was originally reported, since this certainly isn't news in the "newly discovered" sense. Perhaps as a 2-page piece on "Amazing Inventions That Never Got Off The Ground"?;)
No problem with the story turning up on Slashdot though. Hell, how could it not? It involves patents and flying saucers, the only thing it lacks is definitve information on whether or not the saucer runs Linux.
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Correct me if I'm wrong (it happens!) but wasn't a graphical installer one of the major features of Ubuntu's last release, way back in June?
Except YouTube, you mean. The site has been down for the last couple of hours at least, with a lesser example of those Web 2.0 cutesy messages that El Reg has been known to rage against.
(MS Paint diagram here, chortle!)
And I'm assuming that they mean "Mozilla is using Coverity..." or "Firefox developers are using Coverity...". After all you don't hear about what Internet Explorer is doing, but rather what MS are doing with it.
Wouldn't it be great if the summary was clearer and neither of us had to make mental amendments?
Wikipedia descibes endonyms and exonyms as terms synonymous with yours. Either/or, I guess, but I do prefer the symmetry. Easier to remember!
"I love you, you love Free,
We're best friends as friends should be!"
- Richard M. Stallman
Only if you can show how the Big Bang in your model occurred on the "left-hand" side of the universe and ejaculated all matter 180B light-years to the "right". Call me a traditionalist, but I prefer the concept of the universe expanding 90B light-years in all directions from a single, central point.
Mitchell Baker, Mozilla's "Chief Lizard Wrangler" cited the company's install base at 40m-50m in an interview a couple of months ago.
link
As long as our Total Enterprise WebFrontispiece leverages Blue-skyRuby Outside THE Rails in order to grow its self-contentizing stakeholder model I don't care about the details. Send for the code monkeys!
Our money.
It also blocks the attribute, something which won't be introduced until Firefox 2 and for which it's possible to set a pref in about:config. Also, it doubles as an egg timer!
Seriously, NoScript is great, but if I want to block flash I'll install Adblock or Flashblock. If I want to whitelist sites for javascript then I'll use NoScript. Whatever happened to the concept of simply doing one thing well?
That's suspected hat-wearers. No point taking risks, eh?
Tip: Don't swallow everything you find on the internet.
You don't think it likely that the rich might get to learn both methods and the poor find themselves distanced, if not severed, from the majority of previously published English text then?
Sure, MS could abide by local laws and not drag out a case where they know they're in the wrong.
Oh, unless you were asking if there was any way for them to to avoid it now?
WORST. JAPH. EVER.
I remember Inky charging down the corridor after me, his hot ghost/monster breath on my neck. In the distance was the glow of the power pill, promising heavenly salvation. Nearly there. Nearly there. Only have to get past this last, dark side-corridor... Clyde, nooooo!
Hell, the horror of just thinking about it now makes me want to shrivel up and die.
Does this version have a proper uninstaller on Windows? 0.43 didn't.
...she just happens to be in beta.
"[...] it is unlikely that individual online gamblers will be targeted for arrest"
- That was my first question, too. So who is this law targeted at?
Simple. People under investigation for unrelated crimes for which there is insufficient evidence to charge or detain, political candidates and anyone the media chooses to highlight breaking it.
Dissatisfied with a perceived dearth of philosophical content in the computer sciences, Johannes Climacus sought to provoke debate on Slashdot. Upon reading the discussion however all he found were "frist psots", GNAA trolls and unfounded accusations that he was a Usenet kook.
"Try browsing the site at 4 or 5," suggested a friend.
In that moment Johannes was enlightened.
Just looking at a face? You sure women didn't look down also?
Only as far as the wallet in a guys' pocket. Apparently women get a lot from that too.
Can someone explain the YouTube business model? It neither directly charges its users nor sells ad space, and streaming video takes a ton of storage and bandwidth.
I can't explain their business model, but thanks to leaked, highly-confidential YouTube documents, I can reveal it to you:
"2. ???"
Note to Moderators: I'm accepting both +1 Funny and +1 Insightful mods today!
Seems like theyre trying to clone the success of Smallville, except Superman found out his powers on his own-- Luke didn't know about them until taught. [emphasis mine]
:(
I hope you enjoyed voicing that opinion as it's the last time you'll be able to safely do so online without being corrected by some snot-nosed kid citing the series as evidence that you're wrong.
Actually, scratch that, if previous form is anything to go by it'll probably be Lucas putting you straight personally
Am I the only one that read that as an A1-based search engine?
Not at all. I myself was caught out thinking someone had implemented a low-tech search engine based primarily upon cheap labour and the scribbling of notes onto an inconveniently large* piece of paper.
* or inconveniently small, depending on your perspective.
I've seen this story complete with diagram in a UK newspaper before, a good 5-10 years ago. The Reg article mentions finding the story in The Guardian, but doesn't go so far as to link to it. I wonder in what context it was originally reported, since this certainly isn't news in the "newly discovered" sense. Perhaps as a 2-page piece on "Amazing Inventions That Never Got Off The Ground"? ;)
No problem with the story turning up on Slashdot though. Hell, how could it not? It involves patents and flying saucers, the only thing it lacks is definitve information on whether or not the saucer runs Linux.