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It's a slashvertisement; the page linked to in the article is just the front page for the product. No news, no editorial, no review, no discussion (as you pointed out) of what it is. Nothing.
FTFS: "The numbers indicate that Titan's moment of inertia can only be explained if it is a solid body that is denser near the surface than it is at its centre"
FTFA: "It's also worth pointing out that there is another explanation for Titan's strange moment of inertia. The calculations assume that the moon's orbit is in a steady state but it's also possible that Titan's orbit is changing, perhaps because it has undergone a recent shift due to some large object passing nearby, a comet or asteroid, for example."
My understanding is that the wrote J++ with the specific intent to not allow JVM compatibility, but only with their own JVM implementation. That's a fair bit more than just adding language extensions, y'know? From the EU's research on this stuff
“[W]e should just quietly grow j++ share and assume that people will take more advantage of our classes without ever realizing they are building win32-only java apps.”
—Microsoft’s Thomas Reardon
Microsoft also licensed Java from Sun in 1996, but later began adding modifications to the code. The resulting Microsoft version of Java is tailored to run only on Windows, which negates the cross-platform purpose of Java. Sun has a civil suit pending against Microsoft on this issue, charging contract violation and unfair business practices.
I always assumed they were using an S3 backend, in which case it'd be the S3 public/secret key combination that wasn't being updated. There's an API to regenerate the key, but I know dropbox encrypts all of your files. I had always assumed that the simplest way to do that securely would be using the S3 secret key. If that's what they did, then regenerating the keys would become less trivial.
You're correct in just about everything you're saying:) The article is about the branding change that was calling "Free Software" by a different name. Software released under licenses compatible with the Open Source definition, though, is much older.
If you're ever looking for further information on this stuff, the book "Free as in Freedom" has a little on the further history of Free Software from the RMS viewpoint.
"mm, you can fork and license under additional licenses that do not require or allow source code to be available."
Sure, but you still have to redistribute the BSD code *with the BSD license attached*. Nothing you do to BSD code removes your legal requirement to attach the required copyright notice. Ignoring that legal requirement is just as illegal as redistributing GPL'd code without adhering to the license. Just read the license, it's pretty clear on this.
Is this really surprising? I mean, no shit people were aware that material violating copyright was being uploaded to youtube, and that they were aware of it. Do we really imagine that google bought youtube and then had to do a double-take and say "Wait a minute, there's COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL here? Oh my!"
No, I am not. I was replying to the parent message;) This is a pretty nasty little system, and I think you're dead right that modal boxes for errors is design error.
Try clicking on the dialog box, hitting ctrl-c, then opening notepad and hitting ctrl-v. It's non-intuitive that you don't have to highlight the text, but it normally works.
It's an open source project. The old saw about supporting the code yourself if you don't like what's happening is entirely applicable here.
The folks at Mozilla have decided to spend their money elsewhere. You can stand on the shoulders of their last release if you'd like to.
I'm responding to this because earlier posts from you have seemed to be on the level.
Firefox stores the history of each tab in RAM. So if you reopen a tab with ctrl-alt-T (presumably, it's command-alt-T in Mac OS) then to maintain this behaviour the tab has to reopen with its history intact. Because that history is stored in RAM, this means that merely closing a Firefox tab does little to minimise its memory usage. There's an about::config flag to alter this behaviour, but I don't know it offhand.
Sensible questions, reasonable responses. Pleasure to see.
Firefox is the preeminent open source browser; k-meleon, konqueror, all those are much less feature rich. I would have thought opera would be your best choice.
If your primary goal is lightweight browsing, though, nothing beats links. It's a text mode only browser, launchable from the command line. links2 has a graphical mode, too, which might meet your goal. If you're using one of the ubuntu based linuxes, you're looking at aptitude install links2 to install it and then links2 -g google.com to launch in graphical mode.
Good luck!
As far as lightweight OSes go, thinking about it, OpenBSD is very, very lightweight. FreeBSD is, too. According to the handbook, FreeBSD requires a minimum of 24 megs of RAM and 150 megs of hard drive space. Might be worth investigating, though it's worth bearing in mind that that's probably a non-X11 installation of FreeBSD.
Man, I remember back in the day before Windows Vista when Windows XP was, quite rightly, called a resource hog and compared to Windows 2000. Windows XP isn't low resource by any reasonable standard; it's not a very good SMP OS at all, so modern processors aren't being used effectively by it. It was thought heavyweight when it was released, it's still heavyweight compared to the server OS line that MS puts out.
Not that this is relevant to the article, just it bugs me when folks say XP is lightweight. Sure, next to Vista it is, but that's like saying that an elephant is lightweight compared to the continent of Africa.
I use git, never have used anything else. It was just being developed when I started thinking about using CVS, but I liked the name, so I started with git.
Given that, and given that I haven't used another tool, what're you thinking of with "sane merges"? I'm asking through genuine ignorance here.
See, I think the difference in perspective here is that we disagree upon the value of abstraction. My aim is to say that solid tools abstract the difficulty away by handling it for us, and that makes an apparently difficult problem simple. Of course the difficulty doesn't vanish somewhere, it's still there, but we have something to handle it.
Which you seem to understand; you're stating that the difficulty is still there, but it's just abstracted away. But whereas I think that's a valuable thing, to abstract difficulty away by, in code for example, writing the solution correctly and building the right tools for the job, I'm not certain whether you're saying that's valuable or not.
In either case, it seems like a more academic debate than anything else. Just a lifting a heavy item with a crane doesn't alter the law of gravity but is nonetheless useful, I'm sure we can agree that there is utility in making tools that can handle complexity transparently. A calculator which is capable of drawing a sin curve doesn't replace an understanding of how the sin curve is derived from the circle, but it does make it simpler to manipulate.
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You can track the mini-installer.exe inside the Chromium windows repository manually (http://build.chromium.org/f/chromium/snapshots/Win_Webkit_Latest/) or use the helpful mini-updater provided by Dirhael to have an auto-tool (http://dirhael.dcmembers.com/cnu/)
It's a slashvertisement; the page linked to in the article is just the front page for the product. No news, no editorial, no review, no discussion (as you pointed out) of what it is. Nothing.
FTFS: "The numbers indicate that Titan's moment of inertia can only be explained if it is a solid body that is denser near the surface than it is at its centre"
FTFA: "It's also worth pointing out that there is another explanation for Titan's strange moment of inertia. The calculations assume that the moon's orbit is in a steady state but it's also possible that Titan's orbit is changing, perhaps because it has undergone a recent shift due to some large object passing nearby, a comet or asteroid, for example."
My understanding is that the wrote J++ with the specific intent to not allow JVM compatibility, but only with their own JVM implementation. That's a fair bit more than just adding language extensions, y'know? From the EU's research on this stuff
“[W]e should just quietly grow j++ share and assume that people will take more
advantage of our classes without ever realizing they are building win32-only java
apps.”
—Microsoft’s Thomas Reardon
And from the NYTimes article on this:
Microsoft also licensed Java from Sun in 1996, but later began adding modifications to the code. The resulting Microsoft version of Java is tailored to run only on Windows, which negates the cross-platform purpose of Java. Sun has a civil suit pending against Microsoft on this issue, charging contract violation and unfair business practices.
I always assumed they were using an S3 backend, in which case it'd be the S3 public/secret key combination that wasn't being updated. There's an API to regenerate the key, but I know dropbox encrypts all of your files. I had always assumed that the simplest way to do that securely would be using the S3 secret key. If that's what they did, then regenerating the keys would become less trivial.
You're correct in just about everything you're saying :) The article is about the branding change that was calling "Free Software" by a different name. Software released under licenses compatible with the Open Source definition, though, is much older.
If you're ever looking for further information on this stuff, the book "Free as in Freedom" has a little on the further history of Free Software from the RMS viewpoint.
Off the top of my head: How about no visibly defined function parameters
I might be totally misreading you here, but are you saying that you can't put a function prototype into a function definition?
"mm, you can fork and license under additional licenses that do not require or allow source code to be available."
Sure, but you still have to redistribute the BSD code *with the BSD license attached*. Nothing you do to BSD code removes your legal requirement to attach the required copyright notice. Ignoring that legal requirement is just as illegal as redistributing GPL'd code without adhering to the license. Just read the license, it's pretty clear on this.
Right, exactly. The use cases on the website are even all things like offices, schools, the kinds of places that aren't inhabited at night.
Is this really surprising? I mean, no shit people were aware that material violating copyright was being uploaded to youtube, and that they were aware of it. Do we really imagine that google bought youtube and then had to do a double-take and say "Wait a minute, there's COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL here? Oh my!"
No, I am not. I was replying to the parent message ;) This is a pretty nasty little system, and I think you're dead right that modal boxes for errors is design error.
Try clicking on the dialog box, hitting ctrl-c, then opening notepad and hitting ctrl-v. It's non-intuitive that you don't have to highlight the text, but it normally works.
It's an open source project. The old saw about supporting the code yourself if you don't like what's happening is entirely applicable here. The folks at Mozilla have decided to spend their money elsewhere. You can stand on the shoulders of their last release if you'd like to.
I'm responding to this because earlier posts from you have seemed to be on the level.
Firefox stores the history of each tab in RAM. So if you reopen a tab with ctrl-alt-T (presumably, it's command-alt-T in Mac OS) then to maintain this behaviour the tab has to reopen with its history intact. Because that history is stored in RAM, this means that merely closing a Firefox tab does little to minimise its memory usage. There's an about::config flag to alter this behaviour, but I don't know it offhand.
How does that respond to the offer of buying it for someone, the other part of the post? A pack of 5 is less than ten bucks.
I drink vodka martinis exclusively. Dirty.
Which isn't to say you're wrong; if you ask for a martini, it will be made with gin. You have to ask for a vodka martini.
Sensible questions, reasonable responses. Pleasure to see.
Firefox is the preeminent open source browser; k-meleon, konqueror, all those are much less feature rich. I would have thought opera would be your best choice.
If your primary goal is lightweight browsing, though, nothing beats links. It's a text mode only browser, launchable from the command line. links2 has a graphical mode, too, which might meet your goal. If you're using one of the ubuntu based linuxes, you're looking at aptitude install links2 to install it and then links2 -g google.com to launch in graphical mode.
Good luck! As far as lightweight OSes go, thinking about it, OpenBSD is very, very lightweight. FreeBSD is, too. According to the handbook, FreeBSD requires a minimum of 24 megs of RAM and 150 megs of hard drive space. Might be worth investigating, though it's worth bearing in mind that that's probably a non-X11 installation of FreeBSD.
Man, I remember back in the day before Windows Vista when Windows XP was, quite rightly, called a resource hog and compared to Windows 2000. Windows XP isn't low resource by any reasonable standard; it's not a very good SMP OS at all, so modern processors aren't being used effectively by it. It was thought heavyweight when it was released, it's still heavyweight compared to the server OS line that MS puts out. Not that this is relevant to the article, just it bugs me when folks say XP is lightweight. Sure, next to Vista it is, but that's like saying that an elephant is lightweight compared to the continent of Africa.
What did that anonymous coward misspell?
Dicking no, fuckhead!
Try using visual mode. It's a good compromise between swipe and counting words.
I use git, never have used anything else. It was just being developed when I started thinking about using CVS, but I liked the name, so I started with git.
Given that, and given that I haven't used another tool, what're you thinking of with "sane merges"? I'm asking through genuine ignorance here.
replying because I accidentally modded you troll. Sorry!
See, I think the difference in perspective here is that we disagree upon the value of abstraction. My aim is to say that solid tools abstract the difficulty away by handling it for us, and that makes an apparently difficult problem simple. Of course the difficulty doesn't vanish somewhere, it's still there, but we have something to handle it.
Which you seem to understand; you're stating that the difficulty is still there, but it's just abstracted away. But whereas I think that's a valuable thing, to abstract difficulty away by, in code for example, writing the solution correctly and building the right tools for the job, I'm not certain whether you're saying that's valuable or not.
In either case, it seems like a more academic debate than anything else. Just a lifting a heavy item with a crane doesn't alter the law of gravity but is nonetheless useful, I'm sure we can agree that there is utility in making tools that can handle complexity transparently. A calculator which is capable of drawing a sin curve doesn't replace an understanding of how the sin curve is derived from the circle, but it does make it simpler to manipulate.