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Mozilla Rising ... As A Platform
ceswiedler writes "Salon is running a story about Mozilla's potential dominance as a platform for application development. They discuss the community development centering around Mozilla, and point out that its cross-plaform GUI environment is 'exactly the kind of thing Microsoft was trying to prevent when it launched its war against Netscape. It didn't want Netscape around, because Netscape was becoming a platform.' In what might be a Salon first, they even include a reference to a Slashdot comment by SkyShadow."
I wonder if this is Salon's attempt to /. Slashdot for all the times Slashdot has hammered Salon? ;)
"...you can steal my woman, but you ain't done nuthin' smart."
now only if salon would write an article about the comments posted on slashdot referring to the article on salon that referenced a slashdot comment. than, slashdot would have to post a story about the article on salon about the story on slashdot that arose from an article on salon that featured a slashdot comment...
sorry, its been a long day.
The Force is strong in this one.
Mozilla Rising ... As A Platform
You mean, like an elevator? Come back to Earth and just make it faster. Mozilla is bloated enough as it is.
"I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them." -- George H. W. Bush
Law of Software Envelopment jwz edition
``Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.''
Casual user A has a Mac running Linux and the Mozilla framework
No, by definition, a casual users is using what was on the PC when he bought it. (OSX or Windows). The term for the user above is 'geek'. So the scenario really plays out:
Geek A has a Mac running Linux and the Mozilla framework. User A finds a cool app on the framework and wants to share it with his buddy, User B. User B is running Windows, couldn't give a flying fuck about what some nerd thinks is 'neato', finishes reading his e-mail, and goes to play Buffy on XBox.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
This is where I do my little dance and feel special. Salon quotes me, *and* I get an article on the front page! Then I post this OT, worthless post and burn off my karma.
Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
No the real first:
In what might be a Slashdot first, Slashdot editors are aware of a previous post!
Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming:
"Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."
"Including Common Lisp."
- Robert Morris
(I love this one -- I found it on Graham's webpage, you know, the one developing the 'arc' programming language.)
-Billy
Now you tell me ! I've had a page that's been downloading for 7 years. Now I can finally stop it and reboot !
Skyshadow:
Why use Netscape (Score:6, Linked)
by Skyshadow on Thursday August 29, @02:56PM
"Why should/would I use Netscape instead of Mozilla? Not getting enough pop-up windows in my life? Feel the need for a more closed solution?"
Outdoor digital photography, mostly in New Engl
Here's the google cache for the Sky Shadow page... oh wait. heh.
So close and yet so far from the world's perfect ID number
That's fine, until you realize that any sufficiently complicated Lisp program has an ad-hoc, bug-ridden implementation of Prolog.
It stops with Prolog, though, since any sufficiently complicated Prolog program fails to work at all.
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