I'm guessing it has to do with the fact that I have a localized version of windows (Swedish). I did a little searching and saw on some blog that it didn't work with German either.
As to why a localized copy of windows should make any difference, I have no idea. It seems very strange. It does show you how little testing apple had done.
I agree. I don't think he was all that incendiary, and he made some very good points. Also, while it is true that no one person can speak for Linux (like Jobs can speak for Apple or Gates for Microsoft), Linus still has the most important job in the entire Linux community, perhaps for all of open source. He's the project coordinator for the kernel, and he has the final say on what goes into it. Like it or not, he wields a lot of power and influence.
I don't know if you've heard about this newfangled thing called "elections" were the people get to pick who runs the state and gets to decide its laws. Obviously this isn't going to change the government on its own, but of course bad press matters to the people in charge! Get enough of it, and yer out!
I can't help but notice that a user whose name is 'Applekid' is complaining about Slashdot reporting news that The Jobs himself delivered at the recent WWDC.
Maybe he just really likes apples. Like, in a pie, or something.
You know the usage of the term "revolution" to describe a cell phone device just makes me sad as a 21st century man. The fact that this is what we apply the term to nowadays shows our supreme lack of imagination or want for something better. If we could have the type of revolution our forefathers had for silly import taxes for health coverage, worker's rights,the ability for criminal corporations to poison our environment, politicians that adhere to big business's needs more than the will of the people, that'd be really doing somethin
You know the usage of the term "revolution" to describe political affairs just makes me sad as a 17th century man. The fact that this is what we apply the term to nowadays shows our supreme lack of imagination or want for something better. If we could have the type of revolution our forefathers had using timber logs, potter's wheels, the ability for criminal corporations roll their carriages, politicians that adhere to big business's needs for more mobile cannons, that'd be really doing somethin.
I think you've summed up the issue pretty well. I like Google a hell of a lot more than Microsoft, but this complaint is utterly ridiculous. It shouldn't be brought to the courts. If it does, Microsoft will win. As they should.
Hey, wait a minute! I know what's wrong! I guess if you actually look at the picture to figure out what's going wrong you might see it:) It's not rendering the bold type! Why the hell wont it render bold type? This is some weird shit, right here...
This is very strange, because I have a completely standard XP Home system and it can barely render a page for me (it renders the start-page from apple fine though). Here is Google and here is Wikipedia. I have no idea why it would work for you and not for me (though only major difference between my system and the average system is that I dual-boot Ubuntu, but I can't imagine that that would have any effect).
This is a beta product, after all. If it renders correctly for most people, I guess that means that the engine itself is fine, it's just that it has a few kinks on some systems. Maybe I was a little harsh. Still, that is some really bad rendering going on.
I would get excited about about Safari on the PC, it's a fine browser, but it seems that they've royally screwed up the rendering engine. Many pages show royally fucked up (including wikipedia, which is completely standards compliant). I realise that this is still beta (which is why I don't really mind it crashing), but if they've got THAT much work to do just to get a web page to render correctly, it has a LONG way to go.
"Exogeologist"? That doesn't sound right to me... If I remember my languages correct, "exo" means outside, "logist" comes from logos, meaning word or knowledge, but correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't the "geo" part mean earth? As in the geocentric model of the universe, for instance? That just doesn't make any sense. Shouldn't it be... I don't know... "exolithiology"? Maybe something involving tectonic, "astrotectonology"? "Astrolithiology"? I think "exolithiology" is the best one. At any rate, "exogeology" is just wrong, we should pick another one before this discipline gets much older.
I should clarify my position a little here I think:) I didn't mean that the general problem of spam has been solved, I was just pointing out that Google had solved in a very nice way. No doubt it is still rampant and a plague on the internet, however there are ways to ensure that you don't have to deal with it.
But... it doesn't cost me anything. I never check my spam folder any more, and I don't have to. It is as if spam didn't exist for me. Ergo, it has been solved.
You're actually wrong there, Mozilla Products (Firefox, at least), are triple-licensed using the MPL, GPL and LGPL. Originally, they were only licensed using the MPL, but they went to some trouble to add the GPL and LGPL. See their relicensing FAQ
Umm, that was his point. Google does a FANTASTIC job of sorting spam into your spam-folder so you never have to see it. I get virtually no spam in my main inbox and right now I have 556 mails in my spam-folder. I used to check occasionally to see if they had caught a false positive, but since that never happened, I stopped. Nowadays, I never even look. It's like having an email address in 1993!
I'm very proud to say that my home-land was the first country in the world to ban corporal punishment in the 70s. Today, it is universally accepted and there is not a single party that I know of that wishes to repeal it (not even the far right Christian Democrats). The text of the law itself is quite fantastic:
Children have a right to care, safety and a good upbringing. Children shall be treated with respect for their person and independence and shall not be subjected to corporal punishment or other demeaning treatment.
Dude, are you completely ignorant of basic security terminology? The bounty asked for "...a zero-day code execution hole...". What you are describing is a DoS attack. There is a vast, vast difference. Either stop blindly bashing microsoft, or put up and actual code execution hole.
I think the general principle is that the country where the vessel is registered is responsible for that vessel if you are in international waters. So, for instance, if you commit a murder in the middle of the Atlantic on a ship registered to France, the French police investigates it and locks up the offenders. I imagine the same thing is true for this kind of situation. It was an American boat that found it, which means that the American government can decide whether it's "historically significant" and should be put in a museum, or something.
No, GiB actually do stand for Gibibyte. The "bi" part obviously come from "binary", but if you are going to spell it out, Gibibyte is the correct way to do it. It sounds completely insane, which is why no one ever does spell it out, but there you are. Gigabinary doesn't make any sense, btw, in that case it should be Gigabinarybytes, and that's, if possible, even more confusing.
When I started messing around with BASIC, my older brother simply told me to never use GOTO. "Don't ask why, you won't understand, just don't use it". I rarely did, and I didn't miss it. People can absolutely be taught programming in BASIC (in fact, I'd argue that it is one of the best first languages to learn), just as long as they are cautioned against the monster that is GOTO.
That theory is called the tired light theory and has been thoroughly debunked. No scientist worth the name believes in it. I'm sorry to say it, but you're simply wrong on that one.
I'm sorry, but I don't know what you are smoking. Vector is entirely retrofitted to use generics, and it does it fine. And a comment like "ArrayList is a much better choice nowadays" is complete BS. They are virtually identical, with one important difference, spelled out in the documentation: "This class is roughly equivalent to Vector, except that it is unsynchronized". Meaning that if you ever plan to do anything with threads, stick with Vector. In fact, always stick with Vector. It's a better class, and there is no good reason not to do it. Vector is in no way deprecated, and it never will be.
Second, it's not hard at all to get a Foo[] array from a Vector. Just pass a Foo[] array to the toArray() function and it will fill it. It's dead easy. If you're really lazy you don't even have to size it correctly, the class will do that for you. Just tell it what type it should be in and it will do all the work. This is literally one line of code.
This is still really irrelevant though. If you do decide to impeach them both, you are doing a coup d'état against a democratically elected government.
Short of that government abolishing democracy, there is nothing that justifies that.
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I'm guessing it has to do with the fact that I have a localized version of windows (Swedish). I did a little searching and saw on some blog that it didn't work with German either.
As to why a localized copy of windows should make any difference, I have no idea. It seems very strange. It does show you how little testing apple had done.
I agree. I don't think he was all that incendiary, and he made some very good points. Also, while it is true that no one person can speak for Linux (like Jobs can speak for Apple or Gates for Microsoft), Linus still has the most important job in the entire Linux community, perhaps for all of open source. He's the project coordinator for the kernel, and he has the final say on what goes into it. Like it or not, he wields a lot of power and influence.
I don't know if you've heard about this newfangled thing called "elections" were the people get to pick who runs the state and gets to decide its laws. Obviously this isn't going to change the government on its own, but of course bad press matters to the people in charge! Get enough of it, and yer out!
Maybe he just really likes apples. Like, in a pie, or something.
You know the usage of the term "revolution" to describe political affairs just makes me sad as a 17th century man. The fact that this is what we apply the term to nowadays shows our supreme lack of imagination or want for something better. If we could have the type of revolution our forefathers had using timber logs, potter's wheels, the ability for criminal corporations roll their carriages, politicians that adhere to big business's needs for more mobile cannons, that'd be really doing somethin.
I think you've summed up the issue pretty well. I like Google a hell of a lot more than Microsoft, but this complaint is utterly ridiculous. It shouldn't be brought to the courts. If it does, Microsoft will win. As they should.
So google was right! It is unreliable!
But wait... if google is unreliable... how can it... hmm...
I wonder what the Gödel number for "Google is unreliable" is?
Hey, wait a minute! I know what's wrong! I guess if you actually look at the picture to figure out what's going wrong you might see it :) It's not rendering the bold type! Why the hell wont it render bold type? This is some weird shit, right here...
This is very strange, because I have a completely standard XP Home system and it can barely render a page for me (it renders the start-page from apple fine though). Here is Google and here is Wikipedia. I have no idea why it would work for you and not for me (though only major difference between my system and the average system is that I dual-boot Ubuntu, but I can't imagine that that would have any effect).
This is a beta product, after all. If it renders correctly for most people, I guess that means that the engine itself is fine, it's just that it has a few kinks on some systems. Maybe I was a little harsh. Still, that is some really bad rendering going on.
I would get excited about about Safari on the PC, it's a fine browser, but it seems that they've royally screwed up the rendering engine. Many pages show royally fucked up (including wikipedia, which is completely standards compliant). I realise that this is still beta (which is why I don't really mind it crashing), but if they've got THAT much work to do just to get a web page to render correctly, it has a LONG way to go.
"Exogeologist"? That doesn't sound right to me... If I remember my languages correct, "exo" means outside, "logist" comes from logos, meaning word or knowledge, but correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't the "geo" part mean earth? As in the geocentric model of the universe, for instance? That just doesn't make any sense. Shouldn't it be... I don't know... "exolithiology"? Maybe something involving tectonic, "astrotectonology"? "Astrolithiology"? I think "exolithiology" is the best one. At any rate, "exogeology" is just wrong, we should pick another one before this discipline gets much older.
I should clarify my position a little here I think :) I didn't mean that the general problem of spam has been solved, I was just pointing out that Google had solved in a very nice way. No doubt it is still rampant and a plague on the internet, however there are ways to ensure that you don't have to deal with it.
But... it doesn't cost me anything. I never check my spam folder any more, and I don't have to. It is as if spam didn't exist for me. Ergo, it has been solved.
You're actually wrong there, Mozilla Products (Firefox, at least), are triple-licensed using the MPL, GPL and LGPL. Originally, they were only licensed using the MPL, but they went to some trouble to add the GPL and LGPL. See their relicensing FAQ
Umm, that was his point. Google does a FANTASTIC job of sorting spam into your spam-folder so you never have to see it. I get virtually no spam in my main inbox and right now I have 556 mails in my spam-folder. I used to check occasionally to see if they had caught a false positive, but since that never happened, I stopped. Nowadays, I never even look. It's like having an email address in 1993!
I'm very proud to say that my home-land was the first country in the world to ban corporal punishment in the 70s. Today, it is universally accepted and there is not a single party that I know of that wishes to repeal it (not even the far right Christian Democrats). The text of the law itself is quite fantastic:
Things like this makes me proud to be a Swede.
Well, then, let me be the first one to say:
AWW, that's so cute! He's adorable! Who's my little CEO? Who's my little CEO?
Dude, are you completely ignorant of basic security terminology? The bounty asked for "...a zero-day code execution hole...". What you are describing is a DoS attack. There is a vast, vast difference. Either stop blindly bashing microsoft, or put up and actual code execution hole.
I think the general principle is that the country where the vessel is registered is responsible for that vessel if you are in international waters. So, for instance, if you commit a murder in the middle of the Atlantic on a ship registered to France, the French police investigates it and locks up the offenders. I imagine the same thing is true for this kind of situation. It was an American boat that found it, which means that the American government can decide whether it's "historically significant" and should be put in a museum, or something.
No, GiB actually do stand for Gibibyte. The "bi" part obviously come from "binary", but if you are going to spell it out, Gibibyte is the correct way to do it. It sounds completely insane, which is why no one ever does spell it out, but there you are. Gigabinary doesn't make any sense, btw, in that case it should be Gigabinarybytes, and that's, if possible, even more confusing.
I call BS. You're hanging around on slashdot, you can't possibly have convinced a woman to marry you!
When I started messing around with BASIC, my older brother simply told me to never use GOTO. "Don't ask why, you won't understand, just don't use it". I rarely did, and I didn't miss it. People can absolutely be taught programming in BASIC (in fact, I'd argue that it is one of the best first languages to learn), just as long as they are cautioned against the monster that is GOTO.
That theory is called the tired light theory and has been thoroughly debunked. No scientist worth the name believes in it. I'm sorry to say it, but you're simply wrong on that one.
I'm sorry, but I don't know what you are smoking. Vector is entirely retrofitted to use generics, and it does it fine. And a comment like "ArrayList is a much better choice nowadays" is complete BS. They are virtually identical, with one important difference, spelled out in the documentation: "This class is roughly equivalent to Vector, except that it is unsynchronized". Meaning that if you ever plan to do anything with threads, stick with Vector. In fact, always stick with Vector. It's a better class, and there is no good reason not to do it. Vector is in no way deprecated, and it never will be.
Second, it's not hard at all to get a Foo[] array from a Vector. Just pass a Foo[] array to the toArray() function and it will fill it. It's dead easy. If you're really lazy you don't even have to size it correctly, the class will do that for you. Just tell it what type it should be in and it will do all the work. This is literally one line of code.
This is still really irrelevant though. If you do decide to impeach them both, you are doing a coup d'état against a democratically elected government.
Short of that government abolishing democracy, there is nothing that justifies that.