They'll be adding it to other platforms, they just finished the Windows one first. Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, there isn't ever going to be one for Win XP and I don't think OSX either. From what I gather, it isn't activated in Safari, so it's probably not going to be of much priority for Firefox either. Not sure why it wasn't activated in Safari though.
Which would be valid if Acid3 didn't include a lot of things which are deliberately broken. Beyond that the test tests things which aren't particularly useful.
It's also not a probability situation, if you're a competent dev, you know or can look up what is and is not supported across browsers and platforms. You're not supposed to routinely implement something only to have an oh shit that doesn't work with browser X moment.
Acid3 isn't a particularly useful test for real world performance and the folks doing the coding and development were right to push it down the list. It uses deliberately broken code to see how the browser handles it. Handling broken code is a bad idea, just make sure it fails without causing a vulnerability and let the web dev fix it. Most decent web devs would rather have a consistent properly functioning target than a browser that handles other browsers broken code.
Indeed, if we're going to Catholic bash, there's plenty of legitimately wonky beliefs to bash. Such as the widespread belief that people being molested by priests are responsible for the payments, rather than the church looking the other way and enabling the behavior.
It's not that tough, you define it as related to where all the matter is departing from. I'm sure the calculation is difficult in many ways, but it would make no sense to define it for an observer next to a Quasar. Or you can define it as where the center of mass for the entire universe is.
That's true, but what's surprising is that a relatively small amount of knowledge of quantum physics does change things significantly. That lecture by Feynman on the Heisenberg's uncertainty principle did wonders for my gambling ability.
To a certain extent it's OK to believe things which aren't correct, but some beliefs are so wrong that it's really not OK.
Which is precisely why I don't support literacy tests or poll taxes. I personally don't think that people who are disinterested in politics should be encouraged to vote. Make the voting accessible to all those that wish to do so, but don't encourage people who aren't going to bother being informed.
It's one thing to vote "wrong" because one is not right, and completely different to vote randomly. At least with people who are wrong, they'll be right from time to time and this is the situation which democracy was meant to handle. Idiocy and sloth are not something for which democracy has a solution.
That's a very good way of hanging yourself. Talking to any of those people without representation is a very serious mistake to make. Of course they're not going to be happy that you've got an attorney, all of a sudden you're not completely helpless.
At this point, even with help, he's in serious trouble. Without help, I can pretty much predict that it's not going to go well.
I used to be in security and it's extremely easy to get people to say stupid things and an attorney can at least make the process a bit more challenging. A skilled individual can usually get all of the information piece by piece. Helping is most likely going to result in the OP screwing himself guilty or not.
At this point though, they would have to prove it. They've gone the extra mile to make an accusation, and as such they damn well better be able to back it up. If the OP is innocent it shouldn't be too hard to show that none of his credit cards or accounts were used to pay for the registration.
But really, lawyering up is the only reasonable response regardless of planned response.
Indeed, if the cost were a couple grand, that's one thing, but even if the OP doesn't get sued, the damage to his professional reputation right now is enough to justify the attorney. The reality is that a single meeting with an attorney is not that expensive, and at least then the OP will have some idea what he's dealing with. And will probably make arrangements for further assistance.
Spoken like somebody that did poorly their IQ test. IQ tests despite popular opinion are very good at measuring what they measure, it's just a very small portion of the total range of intelligence.
Russian hackers aren't a demonstration of what you think. We could have that as well, it's just that in the US there's penalties involved for that sort of behavior and it's more likely that they'll have better options.
Even in the US, the BSA claims the right to raid your offices whenever they like on the pretense that you're violating the EULA. Doesn't matter if you've only got one copy and one license of a single application, they still want to be able to raid you for compliance.
LEDs have an advantage in that sense over incandescent and probably CFLs. With the latter two you get no energy savings. However one of the neat tricks with LED arrays is that a portion of the dimming function generally shuts off some of the LEDs completely, giving actual energy savings. As opposed to the normal dimmer switches which just lose the extra energy as heat.
That's a likely explanation. I've had trouble with that here, and we do have dirty power. Dirty enough to kill all kinds of storage devices were it not for the line conditioners.
I'd say that if that's the case, a relatively inexpensive line conditioner for the house is just the ticket. Unfortunately not realistic if you're not a home owner.
Technically speaking, we could just buy less cheap crap. That and require more testing be done to ensure that lead and other undesirables are kept out of the products. If people just stopped buying all the stuff that they don't really need or particularly want, a lot of these problems would go away.
It does happen. I was shocked when Germany closed it's last coal mine. Not that they were closing it, but that they were spending so much money to keep it running. They could literally have paid pretty much everybody in the supply chain to sit on their asses for what they were paying in subsidies.
Personally, I don't like CFLs, they've gotten better over the years, but there's a huge portion of the visible light spectrum which is missing.
It's mostly on account of "American exceptionalism" it's as rank and disgusting in the US as exceptionalism is in other places like Israel. Anybody that points out that we're not the best at something, used to be better at it or that we could be better at it is shouted down as un-American.
Then we cut taxes and balance the deficit by cutting job and education programs, duh. You act like it's going to take some actual consideration to look fora solution.
At which others have said, the publisher will order more printed until such a time as they stop selling like hotcakes. The only people harmed by this are the people that are paying for the books to be bought. And it had damn well not be the US tax payers. If these yahoos want to spend their own money, that's fine by me.
That's bullshit. The reason why scalpers exist is because the ticket sellers allow the tickets to be bought up in huge quantities before people have the chance to buy them. People pay it because they have little choice but to pay. With popular acts, the tickets are frequently sold out more or less immediately, leaving ordinary people with little chance to buy.
What you're suggesting is a little bit like buying up all the oil quickly, then gouging the hell out of it when the people without the means to get in early need it.
Until relatively recently MS allowed by way of the EULA the end user to install up to two copies of windows for every retail boxed version purchased. As long as one copy was on a desktop and the other copy was a laptop you were still legitimately licensed. I think they withdrew that provision sometime just before Win XP when they started to get semi serious with laptop support.
The big problem in that respect is that while Dell has been known to bundle FreeDOS to basically get you around the issue of refunds, most of the time you're at the mercy of MS to give you a fair refund. Or any at all, the amount is almost certainly a lot less than what they really make on the license and it's a pain in the ass to collect.
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They'll be adding it to other platforms, they just finished the Windows one first. Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, there isn't ever going to be one for Win XP and I don't think OSX either. From what I gather, it isn't activated in Safari, so it's probably not going to be of much priority for Firefox either. Not sure why it wasn't activated in Safari though.
Which would be valid if Acid3 didn't include a lot of things which are deliberately broken. Beyond that the test tests things which aren't particularly useful.
It's also not a probability situation, if you're a competent dev, you know or can look up what is and is not supported across browsers and platforms. You're not supposed to routinely implement something only to have an oh shit that doesn't work with browser X moment.
Acid3 isn't a particularly useful test for real world performance and the folks doing the coding and development were right to push it down the list. It uses deliberately broken code to see how the browser handles it. Handling broken code is a bad idea, just make sure it fails without causing a vulnerability and let the web dev fix it. Most decent web devs would rather have a consistent properly functioning target than a browser that handles other browsers broken code.
Indeed, if we're going to Catholic bash, there's plenty of legitimately wonky beliefs to bash. Such as the widespread belief that people being molested by priests are responsible for the payments, rather than the church looking the other way and enabling the behavior.
If it contains matter then it has to. It gets a bit more complicated with dark matter, but yes.
It's not that tough, you define it as related to where all the matter is departing from. I'm sure the calculation is difficult in many ways, but it would make no sense to define it for an observer next to a Quasar. Or you can define it as where the center of mass for the entire universe is.
Jesus.
I have chronic nasal congestion you insensitive clod!
That's true, but what's surprising is that a relatively small amount of knowledge of quantum physics does change things significantly. That lecture by Feynman on the Heisenberg's uncertainty principle did wonders for my gambling ability.
To a certain extent it's OK to believe things which aren't correct, but some beliefs are so wrong that it's really not OK.
Which is precisely why I don't support literacy tests or poll taxes. I personally don't think that people who are disinterested in politics should be encouraged to vote. Make the voting accessible to all those that wish to do so, but don't encourage people who aren't going to bother being informed.
It's one thing to vote "wrong" because one is not right, and completely different to vote randomly. At least with people who are wrong, they'll be right from time to time and this is the situation which democracy was meant to handle. Idiocy and sloth are not something for which democracy has a solution.
That's a very good way of hanging yourself. Talking to any of those people without representation is a very serious mistake to make. Of course they're not going to be happy that you've got an attorney, all of a sudden you're not completely helpless.
At this point, even with help, he's in serious trouble. Without help, I can pretty much predict that it's not going to go well.
I used to be in security and it's extremely easy to get people to say stupid things and an attorney can at least make the process a bit more challenging. A skilled individual can usually get all of the information piece by piece. Helping is most likely going to result in the OP screwing himself guilty or not.
At this point though, they would have to prove it. They've gone the extra mile to make an accusation, and as such they damn well better be able to back it up. If the OP is innocent it shouldn't be too hard to show that none of his credit cards or accounts were used to pay for the registration.
But really, lawyering up is the only reasonable response regardless of planned response.
Indeed, if the cost were a couple grand, that's one thing, but even if the OP doesn't get sued, the damage to his professional reputation right now is enough to justify the attorney. The reality is that a single meeting with an attorney is not that expensive, and at least then the OP will have some idea what he's dealing with. And will probably make arrangements for further assistance.
Spoken like somebody that did poorly their IQ test. IQ tests despite popular opinion are very good at measuring what they measure, it's just a very small portion of the total range of intelligence.
Russian hackers aren't a demonstration of what you think. We could have that as well, it's just that in the US there's penalties involved for that sort of behavior and it's more likely that they'll have better options.
Confirmation bias is a bitch.
Even in the US, the BSA claims the right to raid your offices whenever they like on the pretense that you're violating the EULA. Doesn't matter if you've only got one copy and one license of a single application, they still want to be able to raid you for compliance.
LEDs have an advantage in that sense over incandescent and probably CFLs. With the latter two you get no energy savings. However one of the neat tricks with LED arrays is that a portion of the dimming function generally shuts off some of the LEDs completely, giving actual energy savings. As opposed to the normal dimmer switches which just lose the extra energy as heat.
That's a likely explanation. I've had trouble with that here, and we do have dirty power. Dirty enough to kill all kinds of storage devices were it not for the line conditioners.
I'd say that if that's the case, a relatively inexpensive line conditioner for the house is just the ticket. Unfortunately not realistic if you're not a home owner.
Technically speaking, we could just buy less cheap crap. That and require more testing be done to ensure that lead and other undesirables are kept out of the products. If people just stopped buying all the stuff that they don't really need or particularly want, a lot of these problems would go away.
Well, in that case, we could mandate that knowledge workers use real light bulbs whenever having an idea. That would surely save those jobs.
It does happen. I was shocked when Germany closed it's last coal mine. Not that they were closing it, but that they were spending so much money to keep it running. They could literally have paid pretty much everybody in the supply chain to sit on their asses for what they were paying in subsidies.
Personally, I don't like CFLs, they've gotten better over the years, but there's a huge portion of the visible light spectrum which is missing.
It's mostly on account of "American exceptionalism" it's as rank and disgusting in the US as exceptionalism is in other places like Israel. Anybody that points out that we're not the best at something, used to be better at it or that we could be better at it is shouted down as un-American.
Then we cut taxes and balance the deficit by cutting job and education programs, duh. You act like it's going to take some actual consideration to look fora solution.
At which others have said, the publisher will order more printed until such a time as they stop selling like hotcakes. The only people harmed by this are the people that are paying for the books to be bought. And it had damn well not be the US tax payers. If these yahoos want to spend their own money, that's fine by me.
That's bullshit. The reason why scalpers exist is because the ticket sellers allow the tickets to be bought up in huge quantities before people have the chance to buy them. People pay it because they have little choice but to pay. With popular acts, the tickets are frequently sold out more or less immediately, leaving ordinary people with little chance to buy.
What you're suggesting is a little bit like buying up all the oil quickly, then gouging the hell out of it when the people without the means to get in early need it.
Until relatively recently MS allowed by way of the EULA the end user to install up to two copies of windows for every retail boxed version purchased. As long as one copy was on a desktop and the other copy was a laptop you were still legitimately licensed. I think they withdrew that provision sometime just before Win XP when they started to get semi serious with laptop support.
The big problem in that respect is that while Dell has been known to bundle FreeDOS to basically get you around the issue of refunds, most of the time you're at the mercy of MS to give you a fair refund. Or any at all, the amount is almost certainly a lot less than what they really make on the license and it's a pain in the ass to collect.