(this is on XP): I open up FireFox and have no bookmarks, even though I have hundreds in Mozilla. Oh, I mean I don't have none. I have some basic ones they give you to start with. And my imported IE bookmarks, of which there are none, because I don't use IE. But no Mozilla bookmarks.
So I close Firebird, go into my Mozilla profile, copy the "bookmarks.html" file from it to the FireFox profile(still in a folder called "Phoenix"), and bam, there's all my bookmarks. Why the damn browser can't do that for me is beyond comprehension.
Same with all my preferences. No option to inherit these things from Mozilla.
Overall it is quite a nice browser, and I'd recommend it to people whose computers are too slow/low on memory for the real thing. I still prefer Mozilla, mainly because I think the Modern theme looks better than FireFox's default, because I can't see an easy way to keep FireFox in memory like I do with Mozilla, and because FireFox lacks the wonderful Mozilla ability to simply type text into the URL bar, hit the up key and then enter, and run a Google search. I find the separate Google search field an annoying complication of Mozilla's search ability.
As others have sort of pointed out, this is in fact quite different. A 6 megapixel consumer digicam has something like 3 million green sensors, 1.5 million blue, and 1.5 million red(IIRC). This is far different than Spirit, which has 1 million sensors and takes the picture three times(getting an effective 3MP shot)
So, one of the reasons that the pictures are so good is that the images don't have to be blown up as much because the surface area is larger
How does this honestly work. What if I have a sensor 1 foot x 1 foot, with 4 pixels. Is it going to produce a better image than a 4 megapixel Sony consumer cam?
Just a small corretion. iTunes does not convert the music you have during the synch. Everything is left in the original format. If you have AIFF/WAV files, your little iPod will fill up fast.
First off it isn't my job. Secondly, the reason why is that it is ultimately better to have a nation doing skilled, productive tasks than unskilled, low-productivity tasks.
If the entire country winds up working at McDonalds and WalMart, we will have no money to buy anything we want or need. Ultimately money comes from the goods and services we produce, and if those goods and services are near worthless, we are in a very bad situation as a nation.
The government should give corporations a motivation, by refusing to allow these corporations to sell their products in the US if they are not going to hire US workers. It's fine if you want to get rid of the unskilled minimum-wage jobs and ship them overseas, but IT jobs are the type of skilled, valuable labor that the US should be trying to keep here.
Instead we're just shipping our future overseas so we can get rich CEOs and cheap gadgets in the present.
Yeah, and the end result will be that India will have hi-tech jobs that pay as well as the ones in the US used to, and the US will be an economic shithole. Glad we're all so happy to sell out our country so a few corporate robber barons can temporarily collect even more obscene amounts of money.
Macs use mostly standard parts, yes. Honestly though, get a new Dell and a new G5. Look at them on the outside. Open them up. There is no comparison. The parts are the same, but the design of the machines is completely different. Starting with the case... Dell - cheap plastic Apple - anodized aluminum alloy
So how does the US get away with telling Brazil and other 3rd world countries that they can't distribute to their citizens their own generic versions of AIDS drugs that are under US patents?
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So, in other words, Nye did do it in software, didn't add weight, and the parent is a complete troll?
You're crazy if you think I'm giving Katina a computer running Windows or Mac OSX. She, like her sister, is getting good ol' reliable Linux...
Yes I am crayz, but why isn't she being given a Mac? - as stable as Linux...check - easier to use than Linux...check - nicer looking than Linux...check - more support by major software/hardware vendors...check
So I forgot - why was it again that you wanted to give your mom a Linux box vs. OS X? Oh yes, that whole open source ideology, which Apple only partly adheres to. Other than that, Linux has 0 advantages over OS X in a novice home desktop environment, and countless disadvantages.
New Macs don't even support OS 9, and if these people are so damn non-technical, they probably would have no idea how to wipe their HD and go back to OS 9.
I'm on Mozilla 1.5 on Windows and it most certainly does not exhibit the same behavior. Mozilla goes to Barnes & Noble, yes, but when you look in the URL bar you get a completely fucked-up looking thing that makes it obvious you are not at amazon.com. IE just displays http://www.amazon.com
Right. Most people use computers for e-mail, word processing, web browsing...yeah lots of HD access there
all running right off the HD. Please. I have used: - G4/400 - P3/500 - P4/2.4GHz
All with 120->160GB Western Digital 7200 RPM/8MB cache HDs. There are massive speed differences between the the three. IMO RAM is the biggest cause of underperforming computers for most people. People using WinXP or OS X(or Linux/KDE) w/ fast computers and 256MB RAM are screwing themselves.
Unfortunately not available anymore. Anyway, here's my machine. Please tell me how you'll build one just as good for the same price(and BTW I got slightly screwed on some of these component prices, mainly because I need the stuff "now" and couldn't wait for deals):
- 2.4GHz P4 HT - 512MB PC3200 DDR - 200GB Western Digital 7200RPM/8MB - 160GB Western Digital 7200RPM/8MB - 8X AGP slot - 4 PCI slots - 6 USB/USB2 ports - Gigabit Ethernet - SATA support - nVidia Ti4200 - Turtle Beach Santa Cruz 5.1 - decent Dell keyboard - shitty Dell mouse
Oh, and no OS included, so that makes your job a bit easier
Please don't tell me you actually believe all that crap. Dell will ship you a very nice and balanced machine if you want it.
There's no way in hell your 500MHz wonderbox is going to beat a new Dell w/ an 800MHz bus. Which can be had extremely cheaply. And I paid $20 for my last HD, a 200GB, 7200RPM Western Digital w/ 8MB cache. So I hope you didn't blow your whole wad of computing $$$ on some stupid hard drive that you think is going to let the special ed PC beat a modern machine.
Also, when you buy outdated crap like that, the RAM is going to much more expensive than DDR, which everyone and their dog is now using.
P.S. I am fairly sure Dell does not ship 4200rpm drives on anything but laptops
Brand name & AMD is going to be tough. Good luck. I would recommend something like this if you can wait for it to be available again, or something like this if you have the money and want the quality.
Note: Macs are quality. I have a Dell and I have a Mac. Dells are fast, and they are cheap, but its basically just a motherboard and some components shoved into a cheap plastic case. This isn't a bad thing, it's just a choice.
- get a cheap Dell 400sc server and upgrade the hell out of it - get a cheap, decked-out Dell 4600 when they're on sale big time
Either way, you can end up w/ a 2.4->2.6GHz P4 w/ HT and all the goodies you want, and a graphics card far better than a Radeon 9100, for $600
The fact is, Dell sells machines below cost. They do this with a fair amount of frequency. If you jump at the right time, you can get a Dell far cheaper than something you build yourself
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(this is on XP): I open up FireFox and have no bookmarks, even though I have hundreds in Mozilla. Oh, I mean I don't have none. I have some basic ones they give you to start with. And my imported IE bookmarks, of which there are none, because I don't use IE. But no Mozilla bookmarks.
So I close Firebird, go into my Mozilla profile, copy the "bookmarks.html" file from it to the FireFox profile(still in a folder called "Phoenix"), and bam, there's all my bookmarks. Why the damn browser can't do that for me is beyond comprehension.
Same with all my preferences. No option to inherit these things from Mozilla.
Overall it is quite a nice browser, and I'd recommend it to people whose computers are too slow/low on memory for the real thing. I still prefer Mozilla, mainly because I think the Modern theme looks better than FireFox's default, because I can't see an easy way to keep FireFox in memory like I do with Mozilla, and because FireFox lacks the wonderful Mozilla ability to simply type text into the URL bar, hit the up key and then enter, and run a Google search. I find the separate Google search field an annoying complication of Mozilla's search ability.
...instead of having hail fall on your car, 747s do.
As others have sort of pointed out, this is in fact quite different. A 6 megapixel consumer digicam has something like 3 million green sensors, 1.5 million blue, and 1.5 million red(IIRC). This is far different than Spirit, which has 1 million sensors and takes the picture three times(getting an effective 3MP shot)
So, one of the reasons that the pictures are so good is that the images don't have to be blown up as much because the surface area is larger
How does this honestly work. What if I have a sensor 1 foot x 1 foot, with 4 pixels. Is it going to produce a better image than a 4 megapixel Sony consumer cam?
Just a small corretion. iTunes does not convert the music you have during the synch. Everything is left in the original format. If you have AIFF/WAV files, your little iPod will fill up fast.
First off it isn't my job. Secondly, the reason why is that it is ultimately better to have a nation doing skilled, productive tasks than unskilled, low-productivity tasks.
If the entire country winds up working at McDonalds and WalMart, we will have no money to buy anything we want or need. Ultimately money comes from the goods and services we produce, and if those goods and services are near worthless, we are in a very bad situation as a nation.
Because they are only gaining jobs because we are losing them. Next?
The government should give corporations a motivation, by refusing to allow these corporations to sell their products in the US if they are not going to hire US workers. It's fine if you want to get rid of the unskilled minimum-wage jobs and ship them overseas, but IT jobs are the type of skilled, valuable labor that the US should be trying to keep here.
Instead we're just shipping our future overseas so we can get rich CEOs and cheap gadgets in the present.
Yeah, and the end result will be that India will have hi-tech jobs that pay as well as the ones in the US used to, and the US will be an economic shithole. Glad we're all so happy to sell out our country so a few corporate robber barons can temporarily collect even more obscene amounts of money.
Macs use mostly standard parts, yes. Honestly though, get a new Dell and a new G5. Look at them on the outside. Open them up. There is no comparison. The parts are the same, but the design of the machines is completely different. Starting with the case...
Dell - cheap plastic
Apple - anodized aluminum alloy
Patents currently work on a per-country basis.
So how does the US get away with telling Brazil and other 3rd world countries that they can't distribute to their citizens their own generic versions of AIDS drugs that are under US patents?
So, in other words, Nye did do it in software, didn't add weight, and the parent is a complete troll?
I know. That god damn "Anonymous Coward" guy is always wrong. What an idiot
You're crazy if you think I'm giving Katina a computer running Windows or Mac OSX. She, like her sister, is getting good ol' reliable Linux...
Yes I am crayz, but why isn't she being given a Mac?
- as stable as Linux...check
- easier to use than Linux...check
- nicer looking than Linux...check
- more support by major software/hardware vendors...check
So I forgot - why was it again that you wanted to give your mom a Linux box vs. OS X? Oh yes, that whole open source ideology, which Apple only partly adheres to. Other than that, Linux has 0 advantages over OS X in a novice home desktop environment, and countless disadvantages.
What an excellent reason for choosing your gift
OS X, don't know enough about cars or have enough money to care, '89 Chevy Celebrity ;)
New Macs don't even support OS 9, and if these people are so damn non-technical, they probably would have no idea how to wipe their HD and go back to OS 9.
Besides....*shudder*
I'm on Mozilla 1.5 on Windows and it most certainly does not exhibit the same behavior. Mozilla goes to Barnes & Noble, yes, but when you look in the URL bar you get a completely fucked-up looking thing that makes it obvious you are not at amazon.com. IE just displays http://www.amazon.com
Hollllly shit. MS needs to patch this like...two weeks ago.
Someone is going to make a lot of money with this. For an example of this in action(harmlessly):
http://crayz.dyndns.org/test.html
Isn't web browsing supported in a fair number of the major GUI shells at this point? I guess Moz should just close up shop...
Right. Most people use computers for e-mail, word processing, web browsing...yeah lots of HD access there
all running right off the HD. Please. I have used:
- G4/400
- P3/500
- P4/2.4GHz
All with 120->160GB Western Digital 7200 RPM/8MB cache HDs. There are massive speed differences between the the three. IMO RAM is the biggest cause of underperforming computers for most people. People using WinXP or OS X(or Linux/KDE) w/ fast computers and 256MB RAM are screwing themselves.
$20 HD
Unfortunately not available anymore. Anyway, here's my machine. Please tell me how you'll build one just as good for the same price(and BTW I got slightly screwed on some of these component prices, mainly because I need the stuff "now" and couldn't wait for deals):
- 2.4GHz P4 HT
- 512MB PC3200 DDR
- 200GB Western Digital 7200RPM/8MB
- 160GB Western Digital 7200RPM/8MB
- 8X AGP slot
- 4 PCI slots
- 6 USB/USB2 ports
- Gigabit Ethernet
- SATA support
- nVidia Ti4200
- Turtle Beach Santa Cruz 5.1
- decent Dell keyboard
- shitty Dell mouse
Oh, and no OS included, so that makes your job a bit easier
Total price: $515
Please don't tell me you actually believe all that crap. Dell will ship you a very nice and balanced machine if you want it.
There's no way in hell your 500MHz wonderbox is going to beat a new Dell w/ an 800MHz bus. Which can be had extremely cheaply. And I paid $20 for my last HD, a 200GB, 7200RPM Western Digital w/ 8MB cache. So I hope you didn't blow your whole wad of computing $$$ on some stupid hard drive that you think is going to let the special ed PC beat a modern machine.
Also, when you buy outdated crap like that, the RAM is going to much more expensive than DDR, which everyone and their dog is now using.
P.S. I am fairly sure Dell does not ship 4200rpm drives on anything but laptops
Brand name & AMD is going to be tough. Good luck. I would recommend something like this if you can wait for it to be available again, or something like this if you have the money and want the quality.
Note: Macs are quality. I have a Dell and I have a Mac. Dells are fast, and they are cheap, but its basically just a motherboard and some components shoved into a cheap plastic case. This isn't a bad thing, it's just a choice.
Best deals on the marketplace:
- get a cheap Dell 400sc server and upgrade the hell out of it
- get a cheap, decked-out Dell 4600 when they're on sale big time
Either way, you can end up w/ a 2.4->2.6GHz P4 w/ HT and all the goodies you want, and a graphics card far better than a Radeon 9100, for $600
The fact is, Dell sells machines below cost. They do this with a fair amount of frequency. If you jump at the right time, you can get a Dell far cheaper than something you build yourself