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Who knew?
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Actually, I believe Firefox 1 was used, albeit with hacks in order to work around the known CSS bugs. Sorry I can't find any corroborating source; I don't remember where I read this (if I did at all), and Googling only turns up a recent post on Reddit that goes undisputed by "Hixie", who seems to be Ian Hickson.
For the case of Acid3, calculations were probably easier this time around, since Javascript is simpler to compute separately. I'm not intimately familiar with the tests, but it seems like their calculation would require far less coordination with a corrected rendering engine.
No offense or anything, but you're not explaining this well at all.
DISCLAIMER: I am not a physicist. I'm only any good with kinematics, because I like intuition. I could easily get something wrong here, but here's my understanding.
The reason velocity is relative is because any inertial frame of reference "works". That is, no matter what you define the "actual" resting state is, the universe works the same way: all the forces are the same, all movement is the same, and nobody could tell the difference. That's why there's no center of the universe, because as far as we know, it makes no difference where it is.
Acceleration is not relative because you can't do the same with an accelerating frame of reference. Let's say Person A is in the "actual" resting state, and Person B is accelerating away. Thus, there must be some constant force acting on Person B causing the acceleration. Additionally, person B can feel this force. Now try to establish Person B as the resting frame. Now Person A is accelerating away, but there is no force acting on him. There is a force acting on Person B, but he's not accelerating. This makes no sense. In order for an accelerating frame of reference to work, all of the literal forces of the universe must change.
Try that scenario with just velocity and convince yourself that the swap would work in that case. Hence, velocity is relative, but acceleration is not.
That's not quite true. Your moderations get erased if you post AC by checking the "Anonymous Coward" checkbox, but if you manually logout before posting, your mod points remain intact.
Look, if you're not checking what's in the URL of your browser, or are in the habit of clicking on links in email blindly, you get the phishing you deserve.
You're an ass.
If you are not in the habit of checking all open ports and immediately downloading updates, would you deserve the theft of your ID private information and loss of data that could ensue?
If you are in the habit of leaving your doors unlocked, would you deserve the devastating destruction and theft that could ensue?
If you are in the habit of not getting your brakes checked, would you deserve the highway pileup that could ensue?
If you are not in the habit of meticulously checking your condoms for poked holes, would you deserve the unwanted baby and life-ruining court battles that could ensue?
As they say, the loudest critics are usually the worst offenders. I'm sure a few scenarios could knock some perspective into your thick skull.
There's even less to see here as all the security programs have updates.
Bitdefender AV - A supported version (2008 or a later version) is now available. Jiangmin KV AV v10 - A supported version is now available. Jiangmin KV AV v2008 - A supported version is now available. Trend Micro Internet Security - A supported version (16.1 or a later version) is now available. Zone Alarm Security Suite - A supported version (7.1.218.0 or a later version) is now available. Rising Personal Firewall - A supported version (2008 version) is now available.
What is this "half an anti-virus solution" FUD crap in the summary?
teachers would have plenty to discuss: rising levels of carbon dioxide, how temperatures are measured globally, and what is known and not known about global warming.'"
Good God! They might... GASP... learn about the scientific processes involved? And what we actually know and don't know??
Sorry, I'm not seeing any religion here. Unless you're referring to a religion involving summary dismissal.
"Decimated" means "killed every tenth," in other words, "lined everyone up and killed every tenth person in line."
That's the ancient, root definition, referring to the killing of every one man in ten of a mutinous Roman legion. The current English definition has been generalized to the destruction of some percentage of something.
But it's still inappropriately used in the summary. Commence the "!decimated" tagging...
Why? Because the government knows accountability (when it matters to them, anyway). Macs have a large corporation backing them. With the partial exception of Red Hat, any given flavor of *nix doesn't. Despite all the "it's good enough for government work" jokes, the government requires a well-known model of support for times when stuff breaks down. A large corporation backing their products fits the bill nicely. The community-driven open-source model doesn't.
And as to your Redmond comment... nobody in Washington gives a rat's ass about sticking it to a corporation, especially when said corporation is still relied upon heavily for products and services.
Psh, yeah. That 8% of Macs -- only a few tens of millions? All with no anti-virus software whatsoever? And the fame/infamy of being the first to write a self-replicating virus for Macs?
Imagine the outrage and press if the database hadn't gotten the offender's entry wrong.
Oh, right. There wouldn't be any.
In my opinion, that's sick. Because of a government agency's screwup, it's suddenly not A-OK to murder a released convict? If the man actually HAD been a child molester, you would never have heard of this story. Everyone would have shrugged it off. Eh, the murderer was twisted, but at least he was protecting his kid. The murdered guy was a sick child molester, so he deserved it anyway, right?
The sex offender list isn't any more wrong because of this. The murder isn't any more wrong because of the list's screwup (and the victim isn't any less of a sick person because of it). All this is is just another example why a sex offender list is stupid and unconstitutional -- it's just that it wouldn't be noticed if somebody hadn't screwed up.
As a regular Farker, I think it's safe to assume that there's no malicious intent behind this. Seriously, read the linked blog entry:
About the NSFW Trademark Application, I can say three things:
1) Yes, we applied for it.
2) Can't comment on the prank angle other than "stay tuned."
3) Muhahaha.
Does that sound remotely serious to you?
One of two things will happen. One: the trademark is granted, Drew gets some laughs, lawsuits, and the TM gets taken away. Or two: the trademark is denied from the beginning. Either way, this TM is not going to hold up for obvious reasons already cited in the summary.
I don't think this is opening up any sort of Pandora's box. With or without this development, trolls will TM random shit regardless. We just have to hope that the system corrects itself -- which, in general, it has.
No. You cannot have a trademark just by virtue of owning a domain name. A "trademark" is one's distinctive mark within a trade, and since this person has no product, there is no trade. Trademark laws exist to protect consumers from purchasing or using one product when they meant to purchase or use another. You would have a problem if you tried to imitate the other site. Obviously, this isn't the case, so you're in the clear.
I think so, I think it really is an age thing. I grew up with the SNES and N64. I think Super Mario Kart and Mario Kart 64 were the best of the series, Super Mario World 2 and Super Mario 64 go unmatched, and Star Fox 64 was THE game to have in '96. And games after that just seemed to lose focus. Games in the N64 era were 3D, all right, but it was obvious as hell that looks weren't the focus, seeing as hands were created with all of 5 vertices. Devs got creative with 3D then, but in later years they just stuck to the same rehashed formulas.
Of course, after the N64 came the Gamecube, so I may actually be objectively justified.
Yet another case of a company treating customers like criminals.
What? Are you an idiot? How in hell does this treat customers like criminals?
Perhaps you don't understand why most/.ers think the RIAA treat their customers like criminals. The RIAA use DRM to restrict users such that their Fair Use rights are impeded. Further, they explain their actions away by claiming to thwart piracy. Further, they sue their customers with no initial proof that the defendant did anything illegal, and instead abuse the courts and demand to invade their property in order to then determine any wrongdoing. And further, they do all this solely for their own profit and not for the profit of the licensed musicians.
Nintendo does none of this. They encrypt savefiles. So what? This does not impede on your right to do anything. You can play any given game on as many Wiis as you wish. Nintendo is also not suing people to force hackers to halt breaking their savefile encryption. Game developers generally don't want players artificially advancing within games. Perhaps there are statistics stored within the savefile used online. Whatever's in the savefile is up to the game devs, and Nintendo is simply hiding that.
In other words, Nintendo is completely within their rights to encrypt savefiles. In turn, AFAIK, you are completely within your rights to attempt to break that encryption. And in turn again, Nintendo is completely within their rights to push out any updates to change or otherwise enforce their encryption. It's really that simple.
And the question on everyone's mind is "Would this have happened had the plight not been so well discussed on the internet?"
Hardly. I think pretty much everyone here realizes that the reason for the change of heart was the publicity on the Internet. If you're an idealistic optimist, you might try to believe that the higher-ups heard about it through the Internet and righted the wrong simply from hearing about it, but the rest of us have enough experience with these Internet-spread stories of fuckups that it's the bad publicity that causes the higher-ups to take a correctional course of action.
This isn't about Linux. It never was. Linux just happened to serve as an excuse for denial of service. This regularly happens to non-techie customers who don't install alternate OSs. To consumers of all sorts of electronic products. They STILL get denied service. They get convinced by customer "service" that the product is not eligible for free or low-cost repair.
The thing is, American customer service is much like American insurance -- it's nothing but a financial black hole in the eyes of the bean counters. It's about saving a little money now. Every payment, every reimbursement, every repair denied is a few bucks saved. Who cares if the customer is unsatisfied? The corporations certainly don't... until the customer's story makes it big on the intarwebs and thousands of people start talking about it. Oops, bad publicity causes loads of lost sales! So they better fix it so the plebians don't switch brands!
It's all about the numbers. Denying service to customers saves a little bit each time. If the rate of lost sales because of individual angry customers is less than the money saved from denial of service, it's a win. It's only in their interest -- or rather, the interest of their bottom line -- to service the customer if the angry customer breeds anger among many more customers, say via the Internet, and causes many lost sales that far exceed the costs of the simple customer care they should have provided in the first place.
This is capitalist shortsightedness at its worst. Bad word of mouth hurts more in the long run. Satisfaction leads to good word of mouth which leads to more sales. As a personal example, I always make a note to people about how phenomenal Nintendo customer service is. I tell them about a problem, they fix it immediately. I know for a fact that my advice has caused a few more sales of Wiis rather than (usually) PS2s. See, since Nintendo didn't penny-pinch with the cost of repairs for my system, they indirectly made more money through my satisfaction. This is foresight that I wish American companies had. I think we'd all be happier for it.
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What? A large government contracts large corporations?
Who knew?
Actually, I believe Firefox 1 was used, albeit with hacks in order to work around the known CSS bugs. Sorry I can't find any corroborating source; I don't remember where I read this (if I did at all), and Googling only turns up a recent post on Reddit that goes undisputed by "Hixie", who seems to be Ian Hickson.
For the case of Acid3, calculations were probably easier this time around, since Javascript is simpler to compute separately. I'm not intimately familiar with the tests, but it seems like their calculation would require far less coordination with a corrected rendering engine.
As a sister comment hinted, they don't know there are no bugs in the test. Development of Safari yielded a bug in Acid2 that was subsequently submitted and corrected (scroll to the bottom).
No offense or anything, but you're not explaining this well at all.
DISCLAIMER: I am not a physicist. I'm only any good with kinematics, because I like intuition. I could easily get something wrong here, but here's my understanding.
The reason velocity is relative is because any inertial frame of reference "works". That is, no matter what you define the "actual" resting state is, the universe works the same way: all the forces are the same, all movement is the same, and nobody could tell the difference. That's why there's no center of the universe, because as far as we know, it makes no difference where it is.
Acceleration is not relative because you can't do the same with an accelerating frame of reference. Let's say Person A is in the "actual" resting state, and Person B is accelerating away. Thus, there must be some constant force acting on Person B causing the acceleration. Additionally, person B can feel this force. Now try to establish Person B as the resting frame. Now Person A is accelerating away, but there is no force acting on him. There is a force acting on Person B, but he's not accelerating. This makes no sense. In order for an accelerating frame of reference to work, all of the literal forces of the universe must change.
Try that scenario with just velocity and convince yourself that the swap would work in that case. Hence, velocity is relative, but acceleration is not.
That's not quite true. Your moderations get erased if you post AC by checking the "Anonymous Coward" checkbox, but if you manually logout before posting, your mod points remain intact.
If you are not in the habit of checking all open ports and immediately downloading updates, would you deserve the theft of your ID private information and loss of data that could ensue?
If you are in the habit of leaving your doors unlocked, would you deserve the devastating destruction and theft that could ensue?
If you are in the habit of not getting your brakes checked, would you deserve the highway pileup that could ensue?
If you are not in the habit of meticulously checking your condoms for poked holes, would you deserve the unwanted baby and life-ruining court battles that could ensue?
As they say, the loudest critics are usually the worst offenders. I'm sure a few scenarios could knock some perspective into your thick skull.
Sorry, I'm not seeing any religion here. Unless you're referring to a religion involving summary dismissal.
The definition of "easy" seems to have changed since last I checked.
But it's still inappropriately used in the summary. Commence the "!decimated" tagging...
Why? Because the government knows accountability (when it matters to them, anyway). Macs have a large corporation backing them. With the partial exception of Red Hat, any given flavor of *nix doesn't. Despite all the "it's good enough for government work" jokes, the government requires a well-known model of support for times when stuff breaks down. A large corporation backing their products fits the bill nicely. The community-driven open-source model doesn't.
... nobody in Washington gives a rat's ass about sticking it to a corporation, especially when said corporation is still relied upon heavily for products and services.
And as to your Redmond comment
Psh, yeah. That 8% of Macs -- only a few tens of millions? All with no anti-virus software whatsoever? And the fame/infamy of being the first to write a self-replicating virus for Macs?
Yeah. Totally not worth it.
Stop perpetuating simple-minded myths.
I don't want to toss flamebait, but are we talking games or politics here?
Imagine the outrage and press if the database hadn't gotten the offender's entry wrong.
Oh, right. There wouldn't be any.
In my opinion, that's sick. Because of a government agency's screwup, it's suddenly not A-OK to murder a released convict? If the man actually HAD been a child molester, you would never have heard of this story. Everyone would have shrugged it off. Eh, the murderer was twisted, but at least he was protecting his kid. The murdered guy was a sick child molester, so he deserved it anyway, right?
The sex offender list isn't any more wrong because of this. The murder isn't any more wrong because of the list's screwup (and the victim isn't any less of a sick person because of it). All this is is just another example why a sex offender list is stupid and unconstitutional -- it's just that it wouldn't be noticed if somebody hadn't screwed up.
One of two things will happen. One: the trademark is granted, Drew gets some laughs, lawsuits, and the TM gets taken away. Or two: the trademark is denied from the beginning. Either way, this TM is not going to hold up for obvious reasons already cited in the summary.
I don't think this is opening up any sort of Pandora's box. With or without this development, trolls will TM random shit regardless. We just have to hope that the system corrects itself -- which, in general, it has.
RIAA fudges numbers, exaggerates case, claims huge losses; no plans to reimburse the artists in question. News at 11.
It's not Apple's fault if Microsoft can't display fonts correctly.
*gets modded down by ignorant Windows users*
The bolded "Burma Shave" should have tipped you off, whether you're familiar with the old ad or not. Either way, please edumacate yourself on the Burma Shave American phenomenon, uncultured heathen.
Also, off my lawn.
No. You cannot have a trademark just by virtue of owning a domain name. A "trademark" is one's distinctive mark within a trade, and since this person has no product, there is no trade. Trademark laws exist to protect consumers from purchasing or using one product when they meant to purchase or use another. You would have a problem if you tried to imitate the other site. Obviously, this isn't the case, so you're in the clear.
The troll is just being a troll. Don't give in.
I think so, I think it really is an age thing. I grew up with the SNES and N64. I think Super Mario Kart and Mario Kart 64 were the best of the series, Super Mario World 2 and Super Mario 64 go unmatched, and Star Fox 64 was THE game to have in '96. And games after that just seemed to lose focus. Games in the N64 era were 3D, all right, but it was obvious as hell that looks weren't the focus, seeing as hands were created with all of 5 vertices. Devs got creative with 3D then, but in later years they just stuck to the same rehashed formulas.
Of course, after the N64 came the Gamecube, so I may actually be objectively justified.
So, now that the unwashed masses again will have access, will their importance, erm, un-evaporate?
I think there's a good chance of that, and I, for one, will be furiously refreshing the opinion page come midnight.
Perhaps you don't understand why most
Nintendo does none of this. They encrypt savefiles. So what? This does not impede on your right to do anything. You can play any given game on as many Wiis as you wish. Nintendo is also not suing people to force hackers to halt breaking their savefile encryption. Game developers generally don't want players artificially advancing within games. Perhaps there are statistics stored within the savefile used online. Whatever's in the savefile is up to the game devs, and Nintendo is simply hiding that.
In other words, Nintendo is completely within their rights to encrypt savefiles. In turn, AFAIK, you are completely within your rights to attempt to break that encryption. And in turn again, Nintendo is completely within their rights to push out any updates to change or otherwise enforce their encryption. It's really that simple.
This isn't about Linux. It never was. Linux just happened to serve as an excuse for denial of service. This regularly happens to non-techie customers who don't install alternate OSs. To consumers of all sorts of electronic products. They STILL get denied service. They get convinced by customer "service" that the product is not eligible for free or low-cost repair.
The thing is, American customer service is much like American insurance -- it's nothing but a financial black hole in the eyes of the bean counters. It's about saving a little money now. Every payment, every reimbursement, every repair denied is a few bucks saved. Who cares if the customer is unsatisfied? The corporations certainly don't
It's all about the numbers. Denying service to customers saves a little bit each time. If the rate of lost sales because of individual angry customers is less than the money saved from denial of service, it's a win. It's only in their interest -- or rather, the interest of their bottom line -- to service the customer if the angry customer breeds anger among many more customers, say via the Internet, and causes many lost sales that far exceed the costs of the simple customer care they should have provided in the first place.
This is capitalist shortsightedness at its worst. Bad word of mouth hurts more in the long run. Satisfaction leads to good word of mouth which leads to more sales. As a personal example, I always make a note to people about how phenomenal Nintendo customer service is. I tell them about a problem, they fix it immediately. I know for a fact that my advice has caused a few more sales of Wiis rather than (usually) PS2s. See, since Nintendo didn't penny-pinch with the cost of repairs for my system, they indirectly made more money through my satisfaction. This is foresight that I wish American companies had. I think we'd all be happier for it.