Outside contributors are now greater than the ones within Netscape. Everyone has a chance to be involved. Even me, and I'm not a C++ coder. I can check in graphics, patches, report bugs, and file testcases to help speed up development.
Mozilla's bug system is fantastic. Mozilla is fantastic.
No matter how you slice it, Napster included a license agreement IN THE INSTALLER that required the end-user to completely accept its terms, or not install the application. The license agreement that David Weekly accepted told him he could not reverse engineer.
I have only seen "YAY OPEN SOURCE FOREVER" threads, and no discussions on the legalities of this.
I wouldn't call it hope. If its a false signal, it still is lost/crashed. If its an extremely weak signal, it means that the antenna (and most likely other components) have been heavily damaged.
Although Octanitrocubane is 30% more powerful than HMX (high explosive used in detonating nuclear implosion devices), scientists can only make enough to emulate a string of Black Cat firecrackers.
As evident from this page and several other sources:
Polynitrocubances are still at the molecule level of development at this time and it is not expected that multigram quantities will be available anytime in the immediate future.
So for now, we are only seeing a few molecules at a time. However, 50 pounds of CL-20, which is about 20% more powerful than HMX, has been produced, and the government appears to have just finished the testing of warheads with CL-20.
Who the hell cares how they decide to label a new version of Windows? I mean, Windows is Windows, stuff is stuff, and a logical person will read a review instead of saying "ooh, 2001 > 2000, must buy!"
We know that judge Jackson believes MS has monopoly power. We've known for a while what options there are should MS be punished (it is my opinion that they will be).
My question to you guys is, what punishments, if any, should be layed upon Microsoft? Some say a complete breakup could affect consumers, confusion, etc. Others want Billy Gates to be shot.
Hopefully this can be an intelligent thread about what should be done with MS.
Certain processes are vital to the computer's operation and should not be killed. For example, after I took the screenshot of myself being attacked by csh, csh was shot by friendly fire from behind, possibly by tcsh or xv, and my session was abruptly terminated.
Anybody remember those toxic little barrels that cleared the room when shot? Nuff said.
"Linux clearly has a long way to go to be competitive with Windows"
But, look at this press release: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/doj/10-13record .htm towards the bottom of the page. There MS states:
"And, of course, Microsoft is not in a monopoly position in the software market, however narrowly that market is defined. In operating systems it faces competition from IBM OS/2, PC-DOS, Caldera OpenDOS, Apple Mac, Linux, Novell NetWare...."
Personally, I think that these changes (created im sure with good intentions), are bound to just complicate things. I didn't really see a problem with the old system, but I'll give the changes a shot.
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I imagine these Moz dudes got their hands full of bugs they've found themselves and plain old things-to-be-done. Do they really need and have time to work on my bug reports?
Yes. I've had all of my submitted bugs addressed. Every one is looked at and will always get some kind of resolution for the problem. I also imagine hundreds of people all finding and reporting the same bugs that the Moz dudes found themselves. Do I have to read through and understand bunches of bug reports to avoid entering a duplication?
Naw. The worst they can do is mark it as a duplicate of an existing bug, and that's the end of that. Then you just go over to the other website for the bug and add your comments (if you want) to help aide in fixing it. I went to the Moz web site and nothing encouraged me to think that my time wouldn't be wasted. It seems that many testers would need some form of good feedback which would make them believe they weren't wasting their time. Like lists of feature that need testing and which have been tested and which have how many bug reports already filed on them, etc.
I agree that for people not already familiar with the project, it's hard to know how to "jump in". The website needs to do a better job in communicating with new voulenteers. I would recommend jumping to irc.mozilla.org, #mozilla, and asking if there are any jobs that a newbie can do. The Netscape folk are busy, but are nice guys. In the long run it's worth it. The Netscape engineers email you to thank you and better yet, you somehow contributed to a promising browser.
As of the 19th, the engineers found a butt ugly nasty memory leak that grew at the rate of 3.6 megs an hour. As far as I can tell they haven't fixed this yet.
Because the transition of M9 to M10 is a big one (finishing implementing all the features), there has been a whole slew of problems and "breakage" in the source tree.
Slashdot Mirror
Easy choice.
Outside contributors are now greater than the ones within Netscape. Everyone has a chance to be involved. Even me, and I'm not a C++ coder. I can check in graphics, patches, report bugs, and file testcases to help speed up development.
Mozilla's bug system is fantastic. Mozilla is fantastic.
No matter how you slice it, Napster included a license agreement IN THE INSTALLER that required the end-user to completely accept its terms, or not install the application. The license agreement that David Weekly accepted told him he could not reverse engineer.
I have only seen "YAY OPEN SOURCE FOREVER" threads, and no discussions on the legalities of this.
I wouldn't call it hope. If its a false signal, it still is lost/crashed. If its an extremely weak signal, it means that the antenna (and most likely other components) have been heavily damaged.
I agree. Yet people still have a hard time fathoming the power of a nuclear weapon, finding something to compare it to.
Antimatter would be even harder to comprehend to someone who hasn't read up on it. 100% conversion from mass to energy is not something to pass by.
As evident from this page and several other sources:
So for now, we are only seeing a few molecules at a time. However, 50 pounds of CL-20, which is about 20% more powerful than HMX, has been produced, and the government appears to have just finished the testing of warheads with CL-20.
About.com has links and information:
HMX and RDX
Another resource:
Cub ane Applications
Does this deserve to be under a "humor" topic? Many people consider it to be a very serious concept, yet Slashdot slaps it with "It's funny. Laugh".
Not leaning one way or anothr.
The ultimate toilet has leather padded seats, what appears to be broadband, a phone, a fax, and a computer, but where the hell is the TP?
NT5 = Windows 2000
NT6 = Windows 2000's successor
NT7 = NT6 for Intel's 64-bit Merced (er, "Itanium") processor
Who the hell cares how they decide to label a new version of Windows? I mean, Windows is Windows, stuff is stuff, and a logical person will read a review instead of saying "ooh, 2001 > 2000, must buy!"
I'd settle for any sex, actually.
I'd take carpal-tunnels ANY day.
...that nuclear fusion can either be the ultimate in helping human civilization, or the ultimate in destroying human civilization.
We know that judge Jackson believes MS has monopoly power. We've known for a while what options there are should MS be punished (it is my opinion that they will be).
My question to you guys is, what punishments, if any, should be layed upon Microsoft? Some say a complete breakup could affect consumers, confusion, etc. Others want Billy Gates to be shot.
Hopefully this can be an intelligent thread about what should be done with MS.
I agree that you need a penguin on the cover, but why not go with something other than the "generic" penguin that linux is recognized by?
Just a thought, I'm getting tired of that same old bird over and over.
Anybody remember those toxic little barrels that cleared the room when shot?
Nuff said.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was my very own central wisconsin... yay, we get DSL in 3 years.
Seriously, what area of the United States is the "least wired"?
And I quote, from the article:
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"Linux clearly has a long way to go to be competitive with Windows"
But, look at this press release: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/doj/10-13recor
towards the bottom of the page. There MS states:
"And, of course, Microsoft is not in a monopoly position in the software market, however narrowly that market is defined. In operating systems it faces competition from IBM OS/2, PC-DOS, Caldera OpenDOS, Apple Mac, Linux, Novell NetWare...."
Interesting, eh?
Personally, I think that these changes (created im sure with good intentions), are bound to just complicate things. I didn't really see a problem with the old system, but I'll give the changes a shot.
I imagine these Moz dudes got their hands full of bugs they've found themselves and plain old things-to-be-done. Do they really need and have time to work on my bug reports?
Yes. I've had all of my submitted bugs addressed. Every one is looked at and will always get some kind of resolution for the problem. I also imagine hundreds of people all finding and reporting the same bugs that the Moz dudes found themselves. Do I have to read through and understand bunches of bug reports to avoid entering a duplication?
Naw. The worst they can do is mark it as a duplicate of an existing bug, and that's the end of that. Then you just go over to the other website for the bug and add your comments (if you want) to help aide in fixing it. I went to the Moz web site and nothing encouraged me to think that my time wouldn't be wasted. It seems that many testers would need some form of good feedback which would make them believe they weren't wasting their time. Like lists of feature that need testing and which have been tested and which have how many bug reports already filed on them, etc.
I agree that for people not already familiar with the project, it's hard to know how to "jump in". The website needs to do a better job in communicating with new voulenteers. I would recommend jumping to irc.mozilla.org, #mozilla, and asking if there are any jobs that a newbie can do. The Netscape folk are busy, but are nice guys.
In the long run it's worth it. The Netscape engineers email you to thank you and better yet, you somehow contributed to a promising browser.
Submit it to bugzilla. No bug is too small, they may be aware of it, but they may not be.
It certainly can't hurt!
Glib 2.0 and lower support has been put on hold, not dropped!
You are taking the attitude of a person who thinks that this is a finished web browser. No, it's not. It's just a step in the right direction.
Maybe you haven't said anything?
Go to bugzilla.mozilla.org and submit a detailed bug report, and I will guarentee that they will read it and probably fix it.
-Andrew
Yes.
M11 at the latest.
As of the 19th, the engineers found a butt ugly nasty memory leak that grew at the rate of 3.6 megs an hour. As far as I can tell they haven't fixed this yet.
Because the transition of M9 to M10 is a big one (finishing implementing all the features), there has been a whole slew of problems and "breakage" in the source tree.
Real nasty stuff, but hey, it's the home stretch.
Netscape will release the official communicator 5.0 release with the "netscape" look to it, in addition to a "mozilla" release.
Communicator 5 wont be much different from Mozilla 5, except that it will include copyrighted code that can't be included in the source such as RSA.
You should be able to download both.
-andrew