Unfortunatly, you won't be able to run apps directly off the memory stick. There is however, an easy to use memory management tool to move data around. Too bad they don't auto load the apps like Handspring.
You are obviously not a web page creator or you'd know that the standards are about a year behind what is actually going on. If I try developing by the standards, what do you think will happen in NS4? Not much that's what. Try developing for that nightmare, and you'll see what I mean. Until then, keep your creator remarks to yourself.
Has anyone been able to log in to Yahoo Mail? I've tried it in both PR2 and Moz17 and neither will work. I just get brought back to the same login screen. I know this worked in previous versions. Oh well, one more thing.
I hate to say it, but if you're comparing Mozilla's performance to Netscape, you've missed the boat. We should be comparing it to IE5.x. I know, I know. Open source rules, who needs windows, M$ sucks. Guess what! Most of the world needs Windows! Like it or not, that's the way it is and if Mozilla wants to compete for the market, they have to be evaluated in that arena. When people talk about market share do you think they're referreing to the Linux community? They are talking about all users, and most users use Windows. This may not be the right forum, and I'll probably get flamed to death on this, but Mozilla has to realize that it must develop for Windows and it must release a stable product to the public now! The Netscape commericals on TV present this as if it's perfect now. "Come see the new Netscape!" No, don't. It's not ready. Please, make this stable for real users now before you lose more ground. Nate
Re:Why both Echelon and Carnivore?
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"We have been prohibited by executive order since 1978 from having any person or government agency, whether foreign or U.S., conduct any activity on our behalf that we are prohibited from conducting ourselves." So, according to that NSA cannot spy on an American citizen either by itself or via a foreign agency. So you're saying that because the NSA says it won't spy on us, it won't?!? Then why are we having this discussion, we should just trust the NSA and leave it at that. The fact is that if the technology that allows Echelon to collect information from the wired and wireless mediums without connecting to the actual network or ISP has been around for at least 20 years, the FBI should be able to come up with something similar to achieve it's own goals. That would lead me to think that the claims about Echelon are overblown and that they are not able to do what is being claimed.
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But if the NSA is willing to share with other countires, surely they will share with another domestic agency. Besides, if NSA can do it, why can FBI use the same technology?
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If Echelon is as all seeing as he is claiming, why is Carnivore needed? If they can tap lines of communication so easily, why not tap the feed into the ISP instead of setting a physical box inside the network. Something seems to be amiss. Either we're being led on a wild goose chase with Carnivore, or the Echelon rumers are grossly exagerated. Nate
Isn't creating their own standards what Netscape did when they had the lead in market share? I think this game will always be a case of follwo the leader, but when you nap for 2 years, you get passed.
I just finished designing some web page screens for the diminutive Palm screens that exist currently. How can they possibly see a benefit in making them smaller? I was so looking forward to a slim (Palm V), color (Palm IIIc), rechargable(Pick one), wireless(Palm VII or OmniSky) palm. Why can't they take all of the great things they have now and combine them. And leave the dopey, bulbous color pads out. Nate
Do you know how subsidised mass tranist is? If we were all to switch to mass transit, 1) the subsidies would have to be increased 2) the decrease in gas purchases would lower the taxs received to pay for the roads that the busses drive and damage more than the cars 3) the average commute time would triple. I say think it through a little longer. Nate Baxley
I agree 100%. Mozilla, as revolutionary as it may be is taking way to long to complete. It has been over 2 years since Netscape released a major version upgrade. In the Internet time that Netscape helped create, that is forever. I've been doing work on an intranet where IE is the standard, and recently I tried to do a public site. When I tried to take the DHTML stuff I've been doing on the intranet and apply it to NS4, it was a nightmare. I've done what I can for Mozilla, testing mostly, but they are losing the war. If AOL doesn't embed Mozilla as their default browser, it could be lights out. And if I were AOL, do I want to lose a spot on the desktop of the most popular OS? Nate Baxley
Yea, give me the good old days of fear and over spending on military budgets. I long for that feeling of ever present dread that the Soviets, or the Chinese, or Fidel is going to "drop the big one" on us at any time. Romantisize it all you like, give me freedom and peace over competition and fear any day. Nate Baxley
I wonder what the power usage on something like this? Without a backlit display, I would think the drain would be pretty low. This kind of technology will have huge implications on laptop design. Batteries that can be used for years instead of hours. Our we all run our laptops off of a couple of tripple A's like the Palm. And speaking of Palm. A more affordable color display would seem to follow from this. Nate Baxley
When you buy your VCR, do you own the program that controls the programming of it? Do you own the program that drives your stereo? Do you own the OS for psx, dreamcast or nintendo64? Do you own the program to the CPU that drives your car? Nope, Nope, NOPE, NOPE!!! When was the last time that your VCR stopped working because of the software? When was the last time your car drove off the road because the computer crashed? The reason you don't need access to these systems is that they are reliable, and unchangeable. Windows is less than reliable, and it is always dealing with new features being added to the system that it is running. I do use Windows, and for the most part am happy with it. But, I quite regularly have to have the install disk handy to add files, repair files, and to install features I didn't need when I first installed the app. I've also upgraded my hardware since the first time I bought windows. What happens when I need a bigger harddrive, and don't have room to keep the old one in? Is MS telling me that I have to buy another copy of their software just because I got a bigger drive? Half the time, the drives in new, inexpenisive machines are so small, that you have to upgrade them. When MS makes an OS that doesn't need my maintenance to keep it running correclty, then I'll be a lot less concerned by this type of thing.
Someone made a good point that griping about it on/. won't get us anywhere. Does anyone have an email address we can contact to speak out about this? I don't like the way that MS does business, but I do use their products, and I don't want to change. But I will if this sort of thing continues. How can we let MS know this? Help us communicate our concerns in a reasonable manner to MS. sig's are silly Nate Baxley
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I agree, if you take away the AC, you'll just have people registering bogus accounts just to keep the anonymity
Here is eBay's prompt (12 hours) reply to my inquiry about users with negative feedback, and why the msoft users comments, which were clearly not neutral, were listed as such. Hello Nate, Thanks for using eBay. I'll be happy to help. Even though a member may have a multiple number of negative feedback comments, we are unable to take any action against them unless their overall feedback rating is a -4. Since like to give everybody the benefit of the doubt, we believe that members deserve more than one chance to prove themselves worthy of participating on our site. I have taken a look at the member's feedback profile and have found that these transactions are not actually associated to an eBay transaction. Before mid March, our feedback forum was not transaction related only. However, in order to leave a negative comment, the item number was required. Since these comments did not actually apply to eBay transactions, they could only be left as neutrals. When leaving feedback, you have the choice of positive, negative, or neutral. I hope this information will be helpful and apologize for any inconvenience. Please let us know if we can be of further assistance. Regards, Angela W. A. eBay Customer Support ______________________________ eBay Your Personal Trading Community (tm)
To me, it seems that just the opposite it happening. More and more people are offering free information, products, software, and ideas across the web than they have before. Sure the established companies are balking at it. Did you expect them to roll over? The fact that many of these cases, like etoy, are being won, or at least settled in freedom's favor. I think this could be a turning point for the web, but a turn for the better.
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Maybe I'm cynical, but this could open a whole new market for collaboration sites. The entire class gets could log into a site, and get the answers. If some enterprising person who knows the material well could pull it off, he(or she) could charge people to log into his site and get all the answers he had. There are, of course the normal ethical issues and the problem with people feeding the wrong answers. I love that:) But it does raise some questions.
Does this story sound familiar to anyone? Heavy competition between MS and company X. MS gives their version away for free. The press mentions that company X charges for theirs. Although most people just use the free version from company X. The market share of company X begins to slide. The stock price of company X begins to slide. Soon company X is bought by another company and their product quietly shipped into oblivion. Can RealNetworks stay around much longer. Maybe I'm jumping to conclusions. I hope that Judge Jackson hears about this. Textbook example of Microsoft's so called "competition",
You're forgetting that there are a few additional costst that the local merchant has to accomodate. While you can open an iStore from your bedroom, and get server space for $100 a month, the BM store has to 1) find a location to setup shop, 2) get enough investment to open the shop 3) pay much more in rent than you do on your server, 4) Pay the additional overhead that comes with opening a building and operating a business from it. Poor, poor net business. He has such a rough life. It's business, learn to live with it and quite your whining.
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Unfortunatly, you won't be able to run apps directly off the memory stick. There is however, an easy to use memory management tool to move data around. Too bad they don't auto load the apps like Handspring.
Nate
You are obviously not a web page creator or you'd know that the standards are about a year behind what is actually going on. If I try developing by the standards, what do you think will happen in NS4? Not much that's what. Try developing for that nightmare, and you'll see what I mean. Until then, keep your creator remarks to yourself.
Nate
Has anyone been able to log in to Yahoo Mail? I've tried it in both PR2 and Moz17 and neither will work. I just get brought back to the same login screen. I know this worked in previous versions. Oh well, one more thing.
Nate
Of course Unreal was released. Nuff Said.
I hate to say it, but if you're comparing Mozilla's performance to Netscape, you've missed the boat. We should be comparing it to IE5.x. I know, I know. Open source rules, who needs windows, M$ sucks. Guess what! Most of the world needs Windows! Like it or not, that's the way it is and if Mozilla wants to compete for the market, they have to be evaluated in that arena. When people talk about market share do you think they're referreing to the Linux community? They are talking about all users, and most users use Windows. This may not be the right forum, and I'll probably get flamed to death on this, but Mozilla has to realize that it must develop for Windows and it must release a stable product to the public now! The Netscape commericals on TV present this as if it's perfect now. "Come see the new Netscape!" No, don't. It's not ready. Please, make this stable for real users now before you lose more ground. Nate
"We have been prohibited by executive order since 1978 from having any person or government agency, whether foreign or U.S., conduct any activity on our behalf that we are prohibited from conducting ourselves."
So, according to that NSA cannot spy on an American citizen either by itself or via a foreign agency.
So you're saying that because the NSA says it won't spy on us, it won't?!? Then why are we having this discussion, we should just trust the NSA and leave it at that. The fact is that if the technology that allows Echelon to collect information from the wired and wireless mediums without connecting to the actual network or ISP has been around for at least 20 years, the FBI should be able to come up with something similar to achieve it's own goals.
That would lead me to think that the claims about Echelon are overblown and that they are not able to do what is being claimed.
Nate
But if the NSA is willing to share with other countires, surely they will share with another domestic agency. Besides, if NSA can do it, why can FBI use the same technology?
Nate
If Echelon is as all seeing as he is claiming, why is Carnivore needed? If they can tap lines of communication so easily, why not tap the feed into the ISP instead of setting a physical box inside the network. Something seems to be amiss. Either we're being led on a wild goose chase with Carnivore, or the Echelon rumers are grossly exagerated. Nate
Isn't creating their own standards what Netscape did when they had the lead in market share? I think this game will always be a case of follwo the leader, but when you nap for 2 years, you get passed.
I just finished designing some web page screens for the diminutive Palm screens that exist currently. How can they possibly see a benefit in making them smaller? I was so looking forward to a slim (Palm V), color (Palm IIIc), rechargable(Pick one), wireless(Palm VII or OmniSky) palm. Why can't they take all of the great things they have now and combine them. And leave the dopey, bulbous color pads out. Nate
How about if he crippled his whole company for spite? Maybe pit half the company against the other half? That would never happen. Oops
Do you know how subsidised mass tranist is? If we were all to switch to mass transit, 1) the subsidies would have to be increased 2) the decrease in gas purchases would lower the taxs received to pay for the roads that the busses drive and damage more than the cars 3) the average commute time would triple. I say think it through a little longer. Nate Baxley
I agree 100%. Mozilla, as revolutionary as it may be is taking way to long to complete. It has been over 2 years since Netscape released a major version upgrade. In the Internet time that Netscape helped create, that is forever. I've been doing work on an intranet where IE is the standard, and recently I tried to do a public site. When I tried to take the DHTML stuff I've been doing on the intranet and apply it to NS4, it was a nightmare. I've done what I can for Mozilla, testing mostly, but they are losing the war. If AOL doesn't embed Mozilla as their default browser, it could be lights out. And if I were AOL, do I want to lose a spot on the desktop of the most popular OS? Nate Baxley
Yea, give me the good old days of fear and over spending on military budgets. I long for that feeling of ever present dread that the Soviets, or the Chinese, or Fidel is going to "drop the big one" on us at any time. Romantisize it all you like, give me freedom and peace over competition and fear any day. Nate Baxley
I wonder what the power usage on something like this? Without a backlit display, I would think the drain would be pretty low. This kind of technology will have huge implications on laptop design. Batteries that can be used for years instead of hours. Our we all run our laptops off of a couple of tripple A's like the Palm. And speaking of Palm. A more affordable color display would seem to follow from this. Nate Baxley
When you buy your VCR, do you own the program that controls the programming of it? Do you own the program that drives your stereo? Do you own the OS for psx, dreamcast or nintendo64? Do you own the program to the CPU that drives your car? Nope, Nope, NOPE, NOPE!!! When was the last time that your VCR stopped working because of the software? When was the last time your car drove off the road because the computer crashed? The reason you don't need access to these systems is that they are reliable, and unchangeable. Windows is less than reliable, and it is always dealing with new features being added to the system that it is running. I do use Windows, and for the most part am happy with it. But, I quite regularly have to have the install disk handy to add files, repair files, and to install features I didn't need when I first installed the app. I've also upgraded my hardware since the first time I bought windows. What happens when I need a bigger harddrive, and don't have room to keep the old one in? Is MS telling me that I have to buy another copy of their software just because I got a bigger drive? Half the time, the drives in new, inexpenisive machines are so small, that you have to upgrade them. When MS makes an OS that doesn't need my maintenance to keep it running correclty, then I'll be a lot less concerned by this type of thing.
Someone made a good point that griping about it on /. won't get us anywhere. Does anyone have an email address we can contact to speak out about this? I don't like the way that MS does business, but I do use their products, and I don't want to change. But I will if this sort of thing continues. How can we let MS know this? Help us communicate our concerns in a reasonable manner to MS. sig's are silly Nate Baxley
I agree, if you take away the AC, you'll just have people registering bogus accounts just to keep the anonymity
Here is eBay's prompt (12 hours) reply to my inquiry about users with negative feedback, and why the msoft users comments, which were clearly not neutral, were listed as such. Hello Nate, Thanks for using eBay. I'll be happy to help. Even though a member may have a multiple number of negative feedback comments, we are unable to take any action against them unless their overall feedback rating is a -4. Since like to give everybody the benefit of the doubt, we believe that members deserve more than one chance to prove themselves worthy of participating on our site. I have taken a look at the member's feedback profile and have found that these transactions are not actually associated to an eBay transaction. Before mid March, our feedback forum was not transaction related only. However, in order to leave a negative comment, the item number was required. Since these comments did not actually apply to eBay transactions, they could only be left as neutrals. When leaving feedback, you have the choice of positive, negative, or neutral. I hope this information will be helpful and apologize for any inconvenience. Please let us know if we can be of further assistance. Regards, Angela W. A. eBay Customer Support ______________________________ eBay Your Personal Trading Community (tm)
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To me, it seems that just the opposite it happening. More and more people are offering free information, products, software, and ideas across the web than they have before. Sure the established companies are balking at it. Did you expect them to roll over? The fact that many of these cases, like etoy, are being won, or at least settled in freedom's favor. I think this could be a turning point for the web, but a turn for the better.
Maybe I'm cynical, but this could open a whole new market for collaboration sites. The entire class gets could log into a site, and get the answers. If some enterprising person who knows the material well could pull it off, he(or she) could charge people to log into his site and get all the answers he had. There are, of course the normal ethical issues and the problem with people feeding the wrong answers. I love that :) But it does raise some questions.
Does this story sound familiar to anyone? Heavy competition between MS and company X. MS gives their version away for free. The press mentions that company X charges for theirs. Although most people just use the free version from company X. The market share of company X begins to slide. The stock price of company X begins to slide. Soon company X is bought by another company and their product quietly shipped into oblivion. Can RealNetworks stay around much longer. Maybe I'm jumping to conclusions. I hope that Judge Jackson hears about this. Textbook example of Microsoft's so called "competition",
You're forgetting that there are a few additional costst that the local merchant has to accomodate. While you can open an iStore from your bedroom, and get server space for $100 a month, the BM store has to 1) find a location to setup shop, 2) get enough investment to open the shop 3) pay much more in rent than you do on your server, 4) Pay the additional overhead that comes with opening a building and operating a business from it. Poor, poor net business. He has such a rough life. It's business, learn to live with it and quite your whining.
It looks like there was a problem on our server and it's fixed now. I guess I'll just have to stop beating the tech guys to work.