You are not quite correct. Firefox is tri-licensed under the MPL, GPL, and LGPL. Furthermore, the MPL is a free/open source licence (approved as such by the OSI and FSF).
Actually, the Firefox name and icon are trademarks of Mozilla. They are openly available, but you do not have rights to distribute non-official builds of Firefox carrying the trademark name and logo without permission from Mozilla. This is compatible with the GPL because (IANAL) the GPL does not care about trademarks, only copyright.
Actually you can't. Vista and 7 no longer have the 16-bit subsystem. (You can probably run them in XP mode, but that's just Windows XP in a VM) The earliest applications you might be able to run are from Windows 95.
You can also get 1 GB for 5 pounds with the Internet Monthly addon (which are taken from your topped-up money, so you essentially pay 10 pounds and get 1.15 GB + 5 pounds for calls or a few more MB). Or just top up 5 pounds online and get a decent 1 GB for 5 pounds, 0.5p/MB.
They are working on multi-process support which should get you exactly what you're looking for. The project is called Electrolysis. The first step will be that plugins (Flash, Java, etc) will be in separate processes, which will be added in a 3.6 security update supposedly.
And if you turn off the phone and use GPS, I assume there won't be any roaming charges since your phone is talking to the GPS satellite?
That's correct. Though it's not "talking" to the satellite - GPS is one-directional. It only receives signals from the GPS satellites and processes them.
As for the provider locking it - I doubt it. It's theoretically possible, I guess (the same way they could theoretically disable e.g. your camera unless you pay them a monthly fee, assuming the phone is running custom firmware supplied by the provider), but I really don't see why they would. The feature doesn't depend on anything network-specific, and you can use it entirely offline. (Disclaimer, however: I live in Europe and have only used unlocked phones, so I can't really speak for the situation in North America)
I'm sorry but I don't see anything that indicates this is the case, nor can I see how this would even be possible to accomplish. How would you know where some piece of JS will redirect you to without executing it?
At any rate, copying Google search result URLs works just fine for me in Firefox.
What they're selling is the ability to play the latest games on maximum settings without ever having to upgrade your computer (or even have one - did you miss the very cheap hardware version they have for TVs?). You can even e.g. play Crysis from your netbook (or iPhone, as shown). It sounds like it might be worth it, depending on the price.
That said, I'm still very sceptical about the technical feasibility of the whole thing.
How is that going to work? If each site uses a different salt, it will produce a different hash for the same email, thereby defeating the whole purpose of Gravatar.
That was my point - you have to do it manually. It's inconvenient, especially if it's more than one level deep. If there were "hierarchical labels" that could have parent labels, that would be fine.
To clarify, consider this folder hierarchy: leisure leisure/Slashdot leisure/Slashdot/reply-notifications leisure/Slashdot/comment-moderation
If I add something under comment-moderation, with folders it is automatically also filed under Slashdot and leisure. With labels, I would have to manually add them. Additionally, labels are unordered, whereas a folder path is ordered - "foo/bar" may have a different meaning than "bar/foo".
I'm not arguing labels are bad, just saying they're not strictly better than folders.
Folders can have a hierarchy though. If an email is in foo/bar, it's also in foo. You can't really make that automatic with labels - you'd have to create a label foo, a label foo/bar, and manually add everything that is labelled as foo/bar to foo as well.
You can program for Symbian in C++, Python and Perl, but in fact I don't think you can in Java (J2ME doesn't count, as it's not using any Symbian APIs).
Having compiled a Qt app for my Nokia 5800 just last night (on Windows though) I can confirm that the GCC toolchain and Carbide.c++ do work with S60 5th just fine.
While PC Suite is fairly bulky, it's more along the lines of 50 MB, not 450. And let's face it, this is 2009. Even if it really was 450 MB it would hardly matter.
That said, it is rather annoying, but no one's forcing you to install it. In fact, apart from maybe backups/syncing and sending messages through it, you can do just about anything PC Suite can do with your favourite tool for the job.
To be fair, the original game is now dirt cheap, and so is TBC. I imagine TBC and WotLK will drop in price further when Cataclysm is released so the full thing will probably not cost significantly more than a standard game. Plus you get a free month with the game.
It's still expensive, of course, but not as much as it sounds.
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But git is stored in git, so to sneak stuff into it in order to break git's security, you would have to break git's security first.
On the other hand, hiding malicious changes in otherwise legit-looking commits is a whole different issue that has nothing to do with github or git.
You are not quite correct. Firefox is tri-licensed under the MPL, GPL, and LGPL. Furthermore, the MPL is a free/open source licence (approved as such by the OSI and FSF).
Actually, the Firefox name and icon are trademarks of Mozilla. They are openly available, but you do not have rights to distribute non-official builds of Firefox carrying the trademark name and logo without permission from Mozilla. This is compatible with the GPL because (IANAL) the GPL does not care about trademarks, only copyright.
Actually you can't. Vista and 7 no longer have the 16-bit subsystem. (You can probably run them in XP mode, but that's just Windows XP in a VM) The earliest applications you might be able to run are from Windows 95.
That's not really possible. If you have filesystem access, you can install the add-ons the same way the browser does. How would Firefox stop that?
However, Firefox does show on startup if any new extensions have been installed - that's the way this thing was spotted.
You can also get 1 GB for 5 pounds with the Internet Monthly addon (which are taken from your topped-up money, so you essentially pay 10 pounds and get 1.15 GB + 5 pounds for calls or a few more MB). Or just top up 5 pounds online and get a decent 1 GB for 5 pounds, 0.5p/MB.
I have on two occasions submitted PDFs exported natively by OOo to turnitin with no problems whatsoever.
That said, turnitin needs to die a horrible death.
They are working on multi-process support which should get you exactly what you're looking for. The project is called Electrolysis. The first step will be that plugins (Flash, Java, etc) will be in separate processes, which will be added in a 3.6 security update supposedly.
Why?
And if you turn off the phone and use GPS, I assume there won't be any roaming charges since your phone is talking to the GPS satellite?
That's correct. Though it's not "talking" to the satellite - GPS is one-directional. It only receives signals from the GPS satellites and processes them.
As for the provider locking it - I doubt it. It's theoretically possible, I guess (the same way they could theoretically disable e.g. your camera unless you pay them a monthly fee, assuming the phone is running custom firmware supplied by the provider), but I really don't see why they would. The feature doesn't depend on anything network-specific, and you can use it entirely offline. (Disclaimer, however: I live in Europe and have only used unlocked phones, so I can't really speak for the situation in North America)
I'm sorry but I don't see anything that indicates this is the case, nor can I see how this would even be possible to accomplish. How would you know where some piece of JS will redirect you to without executing it?
At any rate, copying Google search result URLs works just fine for me in Firefox.
You're ignoring devices like netbooks, smart phones, etc. You can't just expect everyone to buy an i7 and ignore the problem.
What they're selling is the ability to play the latest games on maximum settings without ever having to upgrade your computer (or even have one - did you miss the very cheap hardware version they have for TVs?). You can even e.g. play Crysis from your netbook (or iPhone, as shown). It sounds like it might be worth it, depending on the price.
That said, I'm still very sceptical about the technical feasibility of the whole thing.
Even when they destroyed the great tree they didn't move in and start mining the unobtainium, they decided to try and destroy the soul tree instead.
They attacked the soul tree as a preemptive strike. They knew the Na'vi tribes would attack and severely outnumber them if they gave them more time.
How is that going to work? If each site uses a different salt, it will produce a different hash for the same email, thereby defeating the whole purpose of Gravatar.
That was my point - you have to do it manually. It's inconvenient, especially if it's more than one level deep. If there were "hierarchical labels" that could have parent labels, that would be fine.
To clarify, consider this folder hierarchy:
leisure
leisure/Slashdot
leisure/Slashdot/reply-notifications
leisure/Slashdot/comment-moderation
If I add something under comment-moderation, with folders it is automatically also filed under Slashdot and leisure. With labels, I would have to manually add them. Additionally, labels are unordered, whereas a folder path is ordered - "foo/bar" may have a different meaning than "bar/foo".
I'm not arguing labels are bad, just saying they're not strictly better than folders.
Folders can have a hierarchy though. If an email is in foo/bar, it's also in foo. You can't really make that automatic with labels - you'd have to create a label foo, a label foo/bar, and manually add everything that is labelled as foo/bar to foo as well.
I'm pretty sure 'libre' is exactly what he meant. See this.
Firefox is gratis software, but so is Opera. However, Firefox is also libre software, while Opera is not.
The test has a sort of animation of blocks appearing as the tests progress. This has to be smooth.
You can program for Symbian in C++, Python and Perl, but in fact I don't think you can in Java (J2ME doesn't count, as it's not using any Symbian APIs).
Having compiled a Qt app for my Nokia 5800 just last night (on Windows though) I can confirm that the GCC toolchain and Carbide.c++ do work with S60 5th just fine.
While PC Suite is fairly bulky, it's more along the lines of 50 MB, not 450. And let's face it, this is 2009. Even if it really was 450 MB it would hardly matter.
That said, it is rather annoying, but no one's forcing you to install it. In fact, apart from maybe backups/syncing and sending messages through it, you can do just about anything PC Suite can do with your favourite tool for the job.
To be fair, the original game is now dirt cheap, and so is TBC. I imagine TBC and WotLK will drop in price further when Cataclysm is released so the full thing will probably not cost significantly more than a standard game. Plus you get a free month with the game.
It's still expensive, of course, but not as much as it sounds.
You mean KDE's client. Konqueror is a browser and does not include an IM client :)
FWIW, Kopete is GPL, like Pidgin. Qt used to be GPL (until 4.5 when it was also released as LGPL) so you'll find all KDE software is GPL as well.
Wait, the iPhone doesn't? (This is a genuine question. I have a Symbian phone but have never even touched an iPhone)