Standard mode follows the behavior of standard calculators. Get a non TI-85/86/92 etc calculator that is just basic, and you will see the same standard behavior.
Another funny thing about Windows is the calculator. Try to calculate 1+2*3 in standard mode and the repeat the process in scientific mode. Different results:)
Hmm, apparently standard mode is for normal users that don't want the order of operations to matter.
It's doing 1+2 = 3 * 3 = 9
where as scientific is using the standard mathematical order of operations where multiplication is more important.
ie:
1 + (2*3) = 7
This sort of makes sense as math dudes might want to enter their stuff in real quick like in scientific mode.
On behalf of the IE programming team, let me be the first to say "Neener neener neener!"
On behalf of the Microsoft customers, let me be the first to say: "Thanks for taking so long to get an actual patch out for your software! The Mozilla team always tries to get me patched up soon and it's ridiculous!";)
. It seems that people here are really inclined to think in conspiratorial terms except when the government wants to help OSS or do something "cool" like provide internet access.
Yeah.:) I think most people here do want the government to stay hands off as you said. However, in this case I think a lot of people consider the internet to be more of an information resource that everyone should have access to from everywhere. Also, I've read a few stories about companies not wanting to go into certain areas, or charging huge fees, so it doesn't bother me so much if the gov't wants to do an extensive system. (Also, I would like to see a vote by the citizens of the local gov't first, and for them to pay for it.) If the government has a bad system, private industry will take over. I could babble on about this forever, but like you said, it's sort of confusing. For some reason this just doesn't pop up my gov't warning flag.:) Maybe it's the mind control chip they implanted in me.;)
It's not often that I'm surprised when posting on the internet, but this is one time.:) You've completely redeemed yourself in my eyes, and I salute you for proving there are actually brains here.:)
I agree, paying taxes is crappy(TM) when you know everyone isn't pulling their weight.:( Sadly, I doubt we'll ever see the day where everyone will do their share, though.
And just FYI: The government doesn't exist to guarantee cheap WiFi. Or cheap anything else you feel is overpriced.
Perhaps not, but I see no problem with them going ahead and trying. If they can't do it, then a company is more than welcome to go in and try to do it cheaper. If the citizens end up not liking the gov't solution then they can slash the budget. They should be allowed to take the risk if they want to.
If you don't like the ISP choices, move elsewhere. If the rural lifestyle is more your style, why should the tax payers subsidize your lack of ISP choices.
This kind of talk is just crazy. You want someone to move just because they don't like their ISP? What's next? Should I move because I can't get the cable or satellite channels I'd like? While an ISP is important to me, there is more to life than that. BTW, I'm pretty happy with my current ISP. However, I've had previous experiences with high costs, before competition moved in here.
Without a doubt this should only be done if the local citizens want it, and vote for it. If you read my previous post you'll notice I mentioned the vote portion, and meant that they would be paying for it implicitly. (I should have just said it.)
I have no problem with a group of people coming together and having their local gov't provide them the service with their tax money if companies aren't providing them with what they need.
Damn, that sucks.:( I'm sure there are plenty of projects with this same problem, too. It's amazing the pathetic qualities of many humans these days. Not only can they get away with stealing your code, but they can get away with being a bitch to you about doing it as well. It's like someone stealing your car, repainting it, and then telling you to fuck off, and it's their car.
I hope the company is defunct now. I think the GPL needs to add a clause that requires payment of one million dollars for any GPL violations. Then a lawyer might take up the case for free if there was a blatant violation, as he could get part of the payout.
In what nanny-state, commie pipe dream is it the government's responsibility to provide internet access to people who can almost certainly get it cheapy from commercial ISPs?
I don't think you've ever lived in a rural area. Often times there will be one ISP provider who can charge whatever they want to, and often do. I don't know what pipe dream you live in, but in the pipe dream I call the United States, businesses are here to make as much money as possible, not to provide cheap internet. (Despite their claims to the contrary.)
That fact aside, and on a slightly differnet note, I don't see too much of a problem with providing Internet. The government already provides roads/highways, libraries and water. I say let the people of the local gov't vote on it.
Still, if any comely lasses from the future are seeking DNA samples from a robust and not-unattractive example of an early 21st century homo sapien male, I'd be happy to contribute. In the interest of science, of course.
I say we send in the Rock! Imagine the evil henchman thinking they have the open source geeks all together and go into beat the living hell out of them. Then the Rock comes out of nowhere and pummels them! **CAN YOU SMELLL.....* Then after that, he saves the sorceress princess and lives as ruler of the might empire of Microsoft. It's brilliant I tell ya!
LOL! I saw this, and thought I'd hurry in here and post "It's a trap". Low and behold about 50 people beat me to it. You're the first I saw, though, so congrats.;)
Apparently their is some uneasiness about Microsoft extending an olive branch.:) I predict a long term trap unlike most of the posts here suggesting short term death for everyone in the room. It's sort of like Internet Explorer. Get everyone to think you are making the best browser, and that it's fast, and will support standards. Then as soon as you have killed the competition, stop working on it, so people are locked into it by your bugs. So now the goal is to figure out how they plan on using open standards/formats to kill open source. Hmmm.
I think Zack was just making a point that Apple is not partners with the KHTML developers, despite some misguided facts being thrown around. I didn't read the article, though, but that's the impression I got from the summary.
I think providing huge ass diff's isn't really a partnership at all, hence the comment about no cooperation.
Read above. There are plenty of comments explaining why your post is moronic. Taking a diff is easy when it's small, but large diffs are impractical in large projects as you can't really test it, and can't tell how all the code associates with each other. A revision history provides much more information and helps to bundle patches together in a coherent fashion. If you think it's only going to take a few hours for a few days you are VERY mistaken. There have been posts above suggesting the diff is 6mb. I'm not sure whether that's true, but if it is, that's just a totally crazy amount to try and put together.
The patches probably are very hard to implement if they haven't been including Safari's code into the browser.
You try taking a 6mb diff file and try to figure out what the hell is going on. (As well as keeping stability and code quality that Apple may not be following very well.) It's no simple matter, and it's probably easier to implement the features manually.
Catwoman was hot, what's wrong with you?:)
Not sure why you are getting mod'd down as flame bait. She was hot, and you were clearly not posting in a serious manner.:) My guess is that there are some die-hard Halle Berry / Catwoman haters on Slashdot.:)
Slashdot Mirror
Standard mode follows the behavior of standard calculators. Get a non TI-85/86/92 etc calculator that is just basic, and you will see the same standard behavior.
Another funny thing about Windows is the calculator. Try to calculate 1+2*3 in standard mode and the repeat the process in scientific mode. Different results :)
Hmm, apparently standard mode is for normal users that don't want the order of operations to matter.
It's doing 1+2 = 3 * 3 = 9
where as scientific is using the standard mathematical order of operations where multiplication is more important.
ie:
1 + (2*3) = 7
This sort of makes sense as math dudes might want to enter their stuff in real quick like in scientific mode.
Mmmm...Empress Sato.
Amen!
On behalf of the IE programming team, let me be the first to say "Neener neener neener!"
;)
On behalf of the Microsoft customers, let me be the first to say: "Thanks for taking so long to get an actual patch out for your software! The Mozilla team always tries to get me patched up soon and it's ridiculous!"
. It seems that people here are really inclined to think in conspiratorial terms except when the government wants to help OSS or do something "cool" like provide internet access.
:) I think most people here do want the government to stay hands off as you said. However, in this case I think a lot of people consider the internet to be more of an information resource that everyone should have access to from everywhere. Also, I've read a few stories about companies not wanting to go into certain areas, or charging huge fees, so it doesn't bother me so much if the gov't wants to do an extensive system. (Also, I would like to see a vote by the citizens of the local gov't first, and for them to pay for it.) If the government has a bad system, private industry will take over. I could babble on about this forever, but like you said, it's sort of confusing. For some reason this just doesn't pop up my gov't warning flag. :) Maybe it's the mind control chip they implanted in me. ;)
Yeah.
It's not often that I'm surprised when posting on the internet, but this is one time. :) You've completely redeemed yourself in my eyes, and I salute you for proving there are actually brains here. :)
:( Sadly, I doubt we'll ever see the day where everyone will do their share, though.
I agree, paying taxes is crappy(TM) when you know everyone isn't pulling their weight.
And just FYI: The government doesn't exist to guarantee cheap WiFi. Or cheap anything else you feel is overpriced.
Perhaps not, but I see no problem with them going ahead and trying. If they can't do it, then a company is more than welcome to go in and try to do it cheaper. If the citizens end up not liking the gov't solution then they can slash the budget. They should be allowed to take the risk if they want to.
If you don't like the ISP choices, move elsewhere. If the rural lifestyle is more your style, why should the tax payers subsidize your lack of ISP choices.
This kind of talk is just crazy. You want someone to move just because they don't like their ISP? What's next? Should I move because I can't get the cable or satellite channels I'd like? While an ISP is important to me, there is more to life than that. BTW, I'm pretty happy with my current ISP. However, I've had previous experiences with high costs, before competition moved in here.
Without a doubt this should only be done if the local citizens want it, and vote for it. If you read my previous post you'll notice I mentioned the vote portion, and meant that they would be paying for it implicitly. (I should have just said it.)
I have no problem with a group of people coming together and having their local gov't provide them the service with their tax money if companies aren't providing them with what they need.
Damn, that sucks. :( I'm sure there are plenty of projects with this same problem, too. It's amazing the pathetic qualities of many humans these days. Not only can they get away with stealing your code, but they can get away with being a bitch to you about doing it as well. It's like someone stealing your car, repainting it, and then telling you to fuck off, and it's their car.
I hope the company is defunct now. I think the GPL needs to add a clause that requires payment of one million dollars for any GPL violations. Then a lawyer might take up the case for free if there was a blatant violation, as he could get part of the payout.
In what nanny-state, commie pipe dream is it the government's responsibility to provide internet access to people who can almost certainly get it cheapy from commercial ISPs?
I don't think you've ever lived in a rural area. Often times there will be one ISP provider who can charge whatever they want to, and often do. I don't know what pipe dream you live in, but in the pipe dream I call the United States, businesses are here to make as much money as possible, not to provide cheap internet. (Despite their claims to the contrary.)
That fact aside, and on a slightly differnet note, I don't see too much of a problem with providing Internet. The government already provides roads/highways, libraries and water. I say let the people of the local gov't vote on it.
Yeah, whoops! I posted too quickly. I meant second PICK of the future lasses. ;) I can already here the SUREEE's. ;)
Still, if any comely lasses from the future are seeking DNA samples from a robust and not-unattractive example of an early 21st century homo sapien male, I'd be happy to contribute. In the interest of science, of course.
;)
Dibs on seconds!
THe mod system doesn't allow you to post to the same article, and mod someone insightful. Do you date one of the slashdot editors?
Sorry, I don't know. :P I mainly made this because I use Trillian, and I wanted it. :) If I used MSN, I might be inclined to make a version for it. :)
I say we send in the Rock! Imagine the evil henchman thinking they have the open source geeks all together and go into beat the living hell out of them. Then the Rock comes out of nowhere and pummels them! **CAN YOU SMELLL.....* Then after that, he saves the sorceress princess and lives as ruler of the might empire of Microsoft. It's brilliant I tell ya!
;)
Sorry, it's been a long day.
LOL! I saw this, and thought I'd hurry in here and post "It's a trap". Low and behold about 50 people beat me to it. You're the first I saw, though, so congrats. ;)
:) I predict a long term trap unlike most of the posts here suggesting short term death for everyone in the room. It's sort of like Internet Explorer. Get everyone to think you are making the best browser, and that it's fast, and will support standards. Then as soon as you have killed the competition, stop working on it, so people are locked into it by your bugs. So now the goal is to figure out how they plan on using open standards/formats to kill open source. Hmmm.
Apparently their is some uneasiness about Microsoft extending an olive branch.
I'm not saying it's anybody's job. I just think Zack is justified in dispelling the myth that Apple is cozy with them.
I think Zack was just making a point that Apple is not partners with the KHTML developers, despite some misguided facts being thrown around. I didn't read the article, though, but that's the impression I got from the summary.
I think providing huge ass diff's isn't really a partnership at all, hence the comment about no cooperation.
Thank you for posting that. :) It's amazing how many people here have no clue about coding.
Read above. There are plenty of comments explaining why your post is moronic. Taking a diff is easy when it's small, but large diffs are impractical in large projects as you can't really test it, and can't tell how all the code associates with each other. A revision history provides much more information and helps to bundle patches together in a coherent fashion. If you think it's only going to take a few hours for a few days you are VERY mistaken. There have been posts above suggesting the diff is 6mb. I'm not sure whether that's true, but if it is, that's just a totally crazy amount to try and put together.
The patches probably are very hard to implement if they haven't been including Safari's code into the browser.
You try taking a 6mb diff file and try to figure out what the hell is going on. (As well as keeping stability and code quality that Apple may not be following very well.) It's no simple matter, and it's probably easier to implement the features manually.
I think you summed up everything I was thinking about saying to the grandparent. Thanks. :)
I think I liked her better when she wasn't in the suit, and I'm pretty sure she wasn't a guy then. Right? ;)
Catwoman was hot, what's wrong with you? :) :) My guess is that there are some die-hard Halle Berry / Catwoman haters on Slashdot. :)
Not sure why you are getting mod'd down as flame bait. She was hot, and you were clearly not posting in a serious manner.
I've cranked off a few to Jaye Davidson in The Crying Game. Doesn't bother me none.
:) That was awesome. In the hetero-sexual manly awesome way of course ;)
LOL! You would've gotten my funny mod points for that one. (If I had them.)