okay this is off subject but the switch between OO as OpenOffice to Object-Oriented kind of threw me off for a bit there, despite being C++ programmer and a user of OpenOffice... anyways...
its a good idea and one i wish my state (and the feds, for that matter) would adopt; i get tired of opening.doc and.pdf files everytime i view a government document.
Technology and the modern age seem to mean more rights in the former Soviet Republics, while in the U.S. it tends to mean less rights. The government of a democratic country is supposed to represent the wants and desires of the people, therefore, one should be able to conclude we Americans want to lose our rights.
(This is something people should consider next election time btw.)
As usual the politicians are pointing at the mouse in the corner while an elephant is in middle of the room. Seems to be the method of politics these days.
OSS is the contrary of these arguments. Many OSS works lead in innovation and quality, the web would be a much smaller place if say, all of the Apache servers went down. Look at the numberous Linux distros, their competion with each other is strong force towards OS innovation.
It should be clear why NASA doesn't use new technology. Take for example warships. With have 30-40 year old ships that are still in condition (with a short amount of prep time) to go into combat. These cost $100 million when they were built (30-40 years ago). With that kind of investment you can't afford to only get 10 years use out of it. The same goes for the space shuttles, but they're only much, much, more expensive!
A good example of the advantage of open-source textbooks would be to compare it to an open-source encyclopedia/reference, or what's commonly called a wiki. the amount of overhead research can be cut down by having literally the whole world to edit it.
i wonder what this means for the future of OpenGL... if DirectX becomes the leader, will MS try to make it more compatible? i strongly doubt that...
wild idea here... google uses it, they tend to obtain things they like...
Whoops, an HTML renderer somehow allowed unauthorized executable content to run.
well worded. precisely describes the fact that MSIE (and many others at that) is not a safe browser.
by definition, a web browser (HTML on HTTP), needs to only be a program which connects to the servers required, gets the html code requested, and then displays it in a manner uniform with the W3C standards of the time.
but, then you get JS, then Java, and the next thing you know everyone wants a browser with ActiveX support, and the whole things becomes an "Active Death Trap".
if a browser was just that (which would require giving up a lot of the "flashy" stuff today's browsers' support) and running a firewall should greatly reduce chances of infection.
enable the sp2 firewall, always use firefox (get a cd so you don't have to use IE to download it) and get the adblock extension. these three things alone should keep you safe for at least an hour's worth of web browsing....
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okay this is off subject but the switch between OO as OpenOffice to Object-Oriented kind of threw me off for a bit there, despite being C++ programmer and a user of OpenOffice... anyways... its a good idea and one i wish my state (and the feds, for that matter) would adopt; i get tired of opening .doc and .pdf files everytime i view a government document.
Technology and the modern age seem to mean more rights in the former Soviet Republics, while in the U.S. it tends to mean less rights. The government of a democratic country is supposed to represent the wants and desires of the people, therefore, one should be able to conclude we Americans want to lose our rights. (This is something people should consider next election time btw.)
Democracy is closely followed by hypocrisy.
This is more like the clash of two money-hungry giants then a case of victim and the such.
As usual the politicians are pointing at the mouse in the corner while an elephant is in middle of the room. Seems to be the method of politics these days.
Big Brother thinks you are wrong, Big Brother will find you...
Talk about excessive, but I'm not surprised, it was going to happen one day.
It's about time, anyways, I find it to very good news as I wrote a jounral entry here about this subject not too long ago. http://slashdot.org/~tubapro12/journal/114128
OSS is the contrary of these arguments. Many OSS works lead in innovation and quality, the web would be a much smaller place if say, all of the Apache servers went down. Look at the numberous Linux distros, their competion with each other is strong force towards OS innovation.
It should be clear why NASA doesn't use new technology. Take for example warships. With have 30-40 year old ships that are still in condition (with a short amount of prep time) to go into combat. These cost $100 million when they were built (30-40 years ago). With that kind of investment you can't afford to only get 10 years use out of it. The same goes for the space shuttles, but they're only much, much, more expensive!
A good example of the advantage of open-source textbooks would be to compare it to an open-source encyclopedia/reference, or what's commonly called a wiki. the amount of overhead research can be cut down by having literally the whole world to edit it.
i wonder what this means for the future of OpenGL... if DirectX becomes the leader, will MS try to make it more compatible? i strongly doubt that... wild idea here... google uses it, they tend to obtain things they like...
... I'll sue her for creating a new topic that wastes my time. No court of law in the free world would allow her to win.
Whoops, an HTML renderer somehow allowed unauthorized executable content to run. well worded. precisely describes the fact that MSIE (and many others at that) is not a safe browser. by definition, a web browser (HTML on HTTP), needs to only be a program which connects to the servers required, gets the html code requested, and then displays it in a manner uniform with the W3C standards of the time. but, then you get JS, then Java, and the next thing you know everyone wants a browser with ActiveX support, and the whole things becomes an "Active Death Trap". if a browser was just that (which would require giving up a lot of the "flashy" stuff today's browsers' support) and running a firewall should greatly reduce chances of infection.
enable the sp2 firewall, always use firefox (get a cd so you don't have to use IE to download it) and get the adblock extension. these three things alone should keep you safe for at least an hour's worth of web browsing....