I thought version numbers in open source projects don't matter?
Evens are stable, odds are not. Point-point releases are bugfixes, and point releases add functionality. Major version releases include major UI changes and break backwards compatibility.
FOSS versioning is important, but Mozilla does not follow it.
3.1 is badly needed! Firefox 3.0 is crashing left and right. I guess they were too eager to get it out the door.
P.S: I don't have any add-ons installed.
On what OS? How much memory? What processor (and how overclocked is it?)? What else is crashing on your system? Please provide a link to the bugzilla report too. With no addons, this should be easy to diagnos.
OpenOffice.org is a descendant of Star Office, originally released in 1984 (according to Wikipedia anyway). They have plenty of their own legacy spaghetti code:)
I was given to understand that OO being Open Source meant that hundreds of developers with unlimited free time would magically fix all of that for us and/or spin some straw into gold.:)
the "license" conditions no doubt will contain several pitfalls for anyone who actually wants to use it to implement a file input/output filter in conjunction with free software...
and the other problem is once having seen the specification, you'll never be able to safely work on other free software projects again...
That's why one set of engineers looks at the documents, and another set translates the spec to something that _can_ be used by FOSS software. Reverse engineering is often done this way, but this time the first set of engineers will have an MS spec to work with, as opposed to decompiling the binaries.
The engineer who disassembles MS binaries, or who looks at MS specs, should not write FOSS code but write FOSS specs.
Not trying to troll, but why is it that only Microsoft products get "corrupted"? Seriously, I use three platforms (Windows, Solaris, and OSX) and I don't ever recall a corrupted file in anything that was NOT made by Microsoft.
I had bad corruption in my KDE-PIM database moving from 3.5.8 to 3.5.9. Although, as a text file (VCF) I was able to repair it in a text editor.
Note that the file was ~300kb at the time. I have since added photos to many of my contacts, and that made the file grow to about 5 Mb. I'd hate to have to fix that by hand. I don't think that storing binary data in a database or a text file is a good idea, but I need some more professional opinions. Can anyone give me other arguments for keeping the photos (and other binary data) out of the VCF file? I will file a KDE bug with the knowledge gained here. Thanks.
If someone came out with a development IDE similar to Visual Studio (circa 2002) that handled python, javascript, and HTML, I would lay down some cash.
You don't even need to lay out the cash. Go try out Kdevelop, and file bugs. KDE 4.1 is around the corner, and they are seriously fixing bugs like crazy. I filed probably 20 in the past week, and five or so are already closed. Now's the time.
I don't use it for gaming at all. Truth is, I don't really use the mouse much. I bought the keyboard originally because it was the lowest-price wireless keyboard available. I suppose they had a hard time selling it with the keypad on the left. It was an A4-brand, not known for quality. Turns out, it was a dream to type on, with the keys registering long before they ran out of throw. I don't know how they did that with a silicon-dome design.
Making a bad decision is one thing. Recognizing that bad decision and listening to your customer base is another, and admirable in this day and age when fewer and fewer companies seem to care at all about the people they service.
Yes, today listening to your customers is so rare that it is front page news. Look! Netflix listened to it's customers! Hurrah to Netflix!
This is sad. I stay away from anything without a public bugtracker nowadays as much as I can.
On second thought, Netflix got some free publicity and public goodwill out of this. Every company should deliberately announce that they are going to ruin their service, just to 'listen to their customers' and get some nice PR.
Mouse in the right hand, numpad on the left. It's pretty natural. I filed the F, J, Esc, and Del keys so that I could find them easily without looking at the keyboard. I did that even before I painted it black.
Preorder is $99, full price $129. A new in the box late 90s Model M can be had for $70 even with the USB adapter it would not break $80. Plus you get a durable piece of computing history, and no god forsaken windows keys.
Still it took balls for Taco to be as honest as he was considering that he got the keyboard for free. Not many companies are going to line up to send him free stuff now. Although, when you see him talking good about a product in the future, you will know that he means it.
Where is the form for Europe? In that link it sais that this contact form is for US only. They have a link for wow-europe.com but it leads to a Support website, not contact form for European customers.
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Any suggestions?
Let them come and get you. As annoying as it will be, you have the rare opportunity to make a laughing stock of them.
Don't forget to send a copy of the letter to your local (or national) newspaper.
Funny, you are not the first person to lick my ass to say that.
I thought version numbers in open source projects don't matter?
Evens are stable, odds are not. Point-point releases are bugfixes, and point releases add functionality. Major version releases include major UI changes and break backwards compatibility.
FOSS versioning is important, but Mozilla does not follow it.
Seriously, the whole summary is lifted straight from the original article at ComputerWorld
You wouldn't know that if you didn't read the fucking article, noob.
Nah, just kidding. Don't take it seriously. :-)
Fuck, and I was already registering the domain names to squat...
After reading the article (a novel concept for slashdot I know), the answer to both your questions is "Yes".
Which both of his three questions?
3.1 is badly needed! Firefox 3.0 is crashing left and right. I guess they were too eager to get it out the door.
P.S: I don't have any add-ons installed.
On what OS? How much memory? What processor (and how overclocked is it?)? What else is crashing on your system? Please provide a link to the bugzilla report too. With no addons, this should be easy to diagnos.
Let's hope the Mozilla devs get the Acid3 test to work with Firefox 3.1.
Well, I can dream, can't I?
And how does that help normal browsing? The acid3 test was made just so that Opera could scream Fr1st P0st again.
Err, release dates, maybe?
Release dates, what's that? Firefox2 didn't even make it to 2.1 after a year and a half, and Firefox1 jumped right up to 1.5.
What is with Mozilla and their versioning?
OpenOffice.org is a descendant of Star Office, originally released in 1984 (according to Wikipedia anyway). They have plenty of their own legacy spaghetti code :)
I was given to understand that OO being Open Source meant that hundreds of developers with unlimited free time would magically fix all of that for us and/or spin some straw into gold. :)
Like they did with nutscrape?
I think MS knows that in the mind of the average computer user is deeply entrenched the idea that Gates==Evil Monster.
Quite the opposite, Bill is known as a philanthropist. It's his business practices (well, Ballmer's business practices, really) that are Evil.
the "license" conditions no doubt will contain several pitfalls for anyone who actually wants to use it to implement a file input/output filter in conjunction with free software...
and the other problem is once having seen the specification, you'll never be able to safely work on other free software projects again...
That's why one set of engineers looks at the documents, and another set translates the spec to something that _can_ be used by FOSS software. Reverse engineering is often done this way, but this time the first set of engineers will have an MS spec to work with, as opposed to decompiling the binaries.
The engineer who disassembles MS binaries, or who looks at MS specs, should not write FOSS code but write FOSS specs.
Not trying to troll, but why is it that only Microsoft products get "corrupted"? Seriously, I use three platforms (Windows, Solaris, and OSX) and I don't ever recall a corrupted file in anything that was NOT made by Microsoft.
I had bad corruption in my KDE-PIM database moving from 3.5.8 to 3.5.9. Although, as a text file (VCF) I was able to repair it in a text editor.
Note that the file was ~300kb at the time. I have since added photos to many of my contacts, and that made the file grow to about 5 Mb. I'd hate to have to fix that by hand. I don't think that storing binary data in a database or a text file is a good idea, but I need some more professional opinions. Can anyone give me other arguments for keeping the photos (and other binary data) out of the VCF file? I will file a KDE bug with the knowledge gained here. Thanks.
Just like there are some people that like wasabi flavored ice cream. There are freaks everywhere.
I _am_ wasabi flavored ice cream, you insensitive clod! Nobody likes me...
1) If we're limiting this to specific cities, then yes.
1) Are we limiting this to specific cities?
Are Google and Microsoft building new headquarters in the city of your choice?
If someone came out with a development IDE similar to Visual Studio (circa 2002) that handled python, javascript, and HTML, I would lay down some cash.
You don't even need to lay out the cash. Go try out Kdevelop, and file bugs. KDE 4.1 is around the corner, and they are seriously fixing bugs like crazy. I filed probably 20 in the past week, and five or so are already closed. Now's the time.
I don't use it for gaming at all. Truth is, I don't really use the mouse much. I bought the keyboard originally because it was the lowest-price wireless keyboard available. I suppose they had a hard time selling it with the keypad on the left. It was an A4-brand, not known for quality. Turns out, it was a dream to type on, with the keys registering long before they ran out of throw. I don't know how they did that with a silicon-dome design.
I even cut the silicon domes on the pinky keys to soften them up, like on the Das Keyboard:
http://dotancohen.com/images/examples/silicon-dome.jpg
It was a dream to type on, and quiet too. I miss that keyboard.
Making a bad decision is one thing. Recognizing that bad decision and listening to your customer base is another, and admirable in this day and age when fewer and fewer companies seem to care at all about the people they service.
Yes, today listening to your customers is so rare that it is front page news. Look! Netflix listened to it's customers! Hurrah to Netflix!
This is sad. I stay away from anything without a public bugtracker nowadays as much as I can.
On second thought, Netflix got some free publicity and public goodwill out of this. Every company should deliberately announce that they are going to ruin their service, just to 'listen to their customers' and get some nice PR.
Mouse in the right hand, numpad on the left. It's pretty natural. I filed the F, J, Esc, and Del keys so that I could find them easily without looking at the keyboard. I did that even before I painted it black.
What do _I_ want? HTML and CSS compliance. That's it. Get that done first then worry about the 'features'.
There are other errors and 404's on that site as well. Write to the US address to let them know about the website errors.
Preorder is $99, full price $129. A new in the box late 90s Model M can be had for $70 even with the USB adapter it would not break $80. Plus you get a durable piece of computing history, and no god forsaken windows keys.
Still it took balls for Taco to be as honest as he was considering that he got the keyboard for free. Not many companies are going to line up to send him free stuff now. Although, when you see him talking good about a product in the future, you will know that he means it.
Why don't they sell keyboards without these stupid windows-keys?
Do you mean the Tux key?
Where is the form for Europe? In that link it sais that this contact form is for US only. They have a link for wow-europe.com but it leads to a Support website, not contact form for European customers.
Here you go:
http://eu.blizzard.com/support/splash.xml
Really, dual boot or wine. Stop this incessant nagging for linux support, it's getting old, boring and tedious.
Dual boot: Pay $200 for another operating system.
Wine: does not work from version to version.
That's why I mention to ask them to compile against Wine 1.0 if they cannot provide native Linux support.