On my system, Mozilla seems to use even more resources than Navigator 4.x. The whole UI is ugly (No matter what people scream about "customisable", it's just a skinable UI.) It's also slow. Oh, and Java still crashes the whole thing.
It really does seem to me that the developers spent more time on "cool" additions to the code, than making it functional and stable. Maybe if someone took the rendering engine, striped out all of the cruft, and worked on optimising the code, something usable could come from the whole thing.
Oh but, please, for gods sake, get rid of that damn UI!
Most "True Geeks (tm)" would rather run Linux, *BSD, or something along those lines instead of Windows.
Actually, i wouldn't. Not that i would rather run Windows, which just annoys me, but i'd rather not be running Linux or any other *nix or *nix-a-like (Yes, that means BeOS too). The whole *nix idea is a PITA, and the current crop of OSS programers seem to want to hurt the user as much as possible...
No, what i want is an Open Source, free, easy to use, non-nix Operating System. Let me know if anyone ever finds a working one....
1) You really don't want to run UNIX as a desktop operating system, especially for newbies.
This is very true. But then if you just use the Linux (Or BSD, or whatever) kernel, the user doesn't need to know it's *nix as we all know and hate it.
2) Wine is flakier than Windows itself.
At the moment it is, yes. It still does a pretty good job, considering. And it can only get better.
3) Linux kernel doesn't natively support DOS/Windows binaries.
Yes it does:) Read the WINE doc's, you just add PE (Windows) binaries under "misc binaries", set it up so that the kernel knows to use the WINE loader, and recompile. Your Windows binaries now run in the same way as ELF binaries.
Try the Intel site, where they have documentation on almost everything, including segment register use etc. But be warned, this stuff is scary, and will give you headaches and nightmares:)
Every time I log on to my ISP I'm assigned a different IP address and I'm willing to bet that they don't keep a log of these.
How much are you betting? I could make some easy money here:)
Email your friendly ISP and ask them what connection details they keep, and how long they keep them. Hint: Your username & the IP assigned to it, date, time, and connection time, are all part of it...
No, +2 isn't yours (Or any other posters) default. Its a +1 Bonus (It even says so on the checkbox) that you can use for posts that you woulds like others to really, really, see. If your post is worthy of a +2, it can stay there, if it's just drival that doesn't deserve a +2, it gets moderated down. This is what happened. Go read the FAQ for more information.
I find these sorts of hoaxes amusing. As long as noone is hurt (Physically, emotionally or financially), and the hoaxer comes clean, then i can't see why people can't get a good laugh out of it all.
If you can't get a laugh from it, then you're probably far to uptight and need to relax. Go home, watch some good TV, leave the computer alone for a day or two.:)
But the poster of such information could be held liable as aiding and abetting to a crime. If DVD's start being pirated, couldn't MPAA start suing all the distributors of DeCSS?
I guess the various Gun manufactures must be in a lot of trouble then. And car manufactures. Hey, brick and bottle makers best watch out, people use them to smash things. Oh, and knife makers, tool makers (Hammers, crowbars). I could go on and on...
The point is, providing a tool to a person is not a crime. If that person then uses the tool to commit a crime, then thats their problem. I shouldn't be liable if i tell someone how to light a match, and they burn down a hospital.
Betamax was made by Sony, not Philips. Philips had their own (Even shorter lived) Video2000 format. JVC and a few others developed VHS (Now IIRC).
VHS won for a couple of reasons. One was that the VHS manufactures had their hands in the backpockets of the movie makers, another was (As another poster pointed out) the availability of porn on VHS, and yet another was that VHS was widly available in Video rental shops, due to various licensing deals that Sony couldn't match.
Yeah, but they still take ages to come out when compared to Region 1 disks. I have Fight Club Special Edition R1 waiting for me to watch tonight, yet it's only just available on VHS rental in Britian. That sucks.:)
Pah, nothing to do with it. People are still buying the disks, that is, the money is still going to the copyright owner. It just happens that we want to get some DVD's earlier than we would get them in say Region2.
Not only that, but Region 1 DVD's tend to have better features etc. that make buying the Region 1 over Region 2 a no-brainer. If the makers played fair and made the disks for Region 1 and Region 2 more alike, we wouldn't need to crack our players to play Region 1.
In theory, it's actually in a manufacturers interests to make a DVD player crackable. Think about it. If the coders "accidently" leave in a hidden menu that can be used to crack the player and make it region free, then someone in the company "leaks" how to do it, people take notice.
As a good example, i bought my Samsung player on the very basis that it was easy to crack so i could play the Region 1 DVD's in Region 2. Another good example is several well known UK supermarkets were selling players that could be easliy cracked, and told the buyers how do it. The players flew off of the shelves.
The easier it is to crack the player, the more people will want one.:)
Yes, at last someone else understands what i've been trying to tell people:)
People seem to have a major problem seperating computer operation and input devices. Command Lines are great for keyboard input, GUI's are great for mouse input. Voice Recognition does not fit into either the command line, or the GUI.
There are some posts above, which advocate using Voice Recognition to augment the exisiting input methods (Keyboards and Mice), and maybe that is a short term solution. But personally, i think that Voice Recognition and Hand Writing recognition will be far more pervasive in the long term, possibly replacing the entire GUI/CLI combo for everyday use.
Oh, and by they way, i think Ben Cisco may use a type of "Word Processor", but that seems to be a more Handwriting Recognition/Stylus input system than straight typing:)
Why should have to change MY words to not me misquoted?
They're not "changing your words" or misquoting you ffs, they're simply changing your word into a hyperlink. How does that change the way in which you read the post? What, people can't read a hyperlink text now?
I can see the day when they put in the wrong hyperlink, and someone sues them for libel/slander
Really? I can't. How can linking to a site be slanderous?
It still wouldn't matter. Even if the parser doesn't understand context, the reader does . Simply changing a name into a link doesn't change the text of the post in anyway. For example, if i write:
"The BBC have a news story about NASA on their website"
And the parser changes it to:
"The BBC has a news story about NASA on it's website"
Neither the text, nor the context, have changed.
This doesn't even cover the fact that with the Deja system, you can insert a flag into the article header, and have them ignore it completly.
If Slashdot inserted the hyperlink for me when i mentioned a recognised site, i wouldn't mind one bit. For example, if i mention Freshmeat, BBC, NASA etc. and it was parsed and automatically become a hyperlink, it would save me the trouble of having to add the stuff all the time. As far as i can tell, this is what Deja is (sortof) doing.
VA Linux inserts links to Freshmeat on Slashdot.org!
Honestly, i don't see what the big deal is. People will most probably find these links helpful. Add that to the fact that linking is a fundemental fact of the Internet, and you get a complete non-event.
Deja is a free service: are people going to complain next that Deja is using their Usenet posts to make money, because the Deja site has banner ads? I know i won't.
Hack an X Windows Manager? I would, but i have some hot coals to walk over first. Oh, then i have to cut off both my legs with a rusty penknife.;) If you havn't guessed, X programing is horrible:)
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Who in their right mind is going to use the built in IRC client?
:)
The sort of people who you don't want in your favourite irc channels?
You hit the nail on the head.
On my system, Mozilla seems to use even more resources than Navigator 4.x. The whole UI is ugly (No matter what people scream about "customisable", it's just a skinable UI.) It's also slow. Oh, and Java still crashes the whole thing.
It really does seem to me that the developers spent more time on "cool" additions to the code, than making it functional and stable. Maybe if someone took the rendering engine, striped out all of the cruft, and worked on optimising the code, something usable could come from the whole thing.
Oh but, please, for gods sake, get rid of that damn UI!
Most "True Geeks (tm)" would rather run Linux, *BSD, or something along those lines instead of Windows.
Actually, i wouldn't. Not that i would rather run Windows, which just annoys me, but i'd rather not be running Linux or any other *nix or *nix-a-like (Yes, that means BeOS too). The whole *nix idea is a PITA, and the current crop of OSS programers seem to want to hurt the user as much as possible...
No, what i want is an Open Source, free, easy to use, non-nix Operating System. Let me know if anyone ever finds a working one....
In reply:
:) Read the WINE doc's, you just add PE (Windows) binaries under "misc binaries", set it up so that the kernel knows to use the WINE loader, and recompile. Your Windows binaries now run in the same way as ELF binaries.
1) You really don't want to run UNIX as a desktop operating system, especially for newbies.
This is very true. But then if you just use the Linux (Or BSD, or whatever) kernel, the user doesn't need to know it's *nix as we all know and hate it.
2) Wine is flakier than Windows itself.
At the moment it is, yes. It still does a pretty good job, considering. And it can only get better.
3) Linux kernel doesn't natively support DOS/Windows binaries.
Yes it does
Try the Intel site, where they have documentation on almost everything, including segment register use etc. But be warned, this stuff is scary, and will give you headaches and nightmares :)
Every time I log on to my ISP I'm assigned a different IP address and I'm willing to bet that they don't keep a log of these.
:)
How much are you betting? I could make some easy money here
Email your friendly ISP and ask them what connection details they keep, and how long they keep them. Hint: Your username & the IP assigned to it, date, time, and connection time, are all part of it...
No, +2 isn't yours (Or any other posters) default. Its a +1 Bonus (It even says so on the checkbox) that you can use for posts that you woulds like others to really, really, see. If your post is worthy of a +2, it can stay there, if it's just drival that doesn't deserve a +2, it gets moderated down. This is what happened. Go read the FAQ for more information.
I find these sorts of hoaxes amusing. As long as noone is hurt (Physically, emotionally or financially), and the hoaxer comes clean, then i can't see why people can't get a good laugh out of it all.
:)
If you can't get a laugh from it, then you're probably far to uptight and need to relax. Go home, watch some good TV, leave the computer alone for a day or two.
But the poster of such information could be held liable as aiding and abetting to a crime. If DVD's start being pirated, couldn't MPAA start suing all the distributors of DeCSS?
I guess the various Gun manufactures must be in a lot of trouble then. And car manufactures. Hey, brick and bottle makers best watch out, people use them to smash things. Oh, and knife makers, tool makers (Hammers, crowbars). I could go on and on...
The point is, providing a tool to a person is not a crime. If that person then uses the tool to commit a crime, then thats their problem. I shouldn't be liable if i tell someone how to light a match, and they burn down a hospital.
Play 24/7 are briliant :)
No, you don't Remember Correctly :)
Betamax was made by Sony, not Philips. Philips had their own (Even shorter lived) Video2000 format. JVC and a few others developed VHS (Now IIRC).
VHS won for a couple of reasons. One was that the VHS manufactures had their hands in the backpockets of the movie makers, another was (As another poster pointed out) the availability of porn on VHS, and yet another was that VHS was widly available in Video rental shops, due to various licensing deals that Sony couldn't match.
So there we go.
Yeah, but they still take ages to come out when compared to Region 1 disks. I have Fight Club Special Edition R1 waiting for me to watch tonight, yet it's only just available on VHS rental in Britian. That sucks. :)
Pah, nothing to do with it. People are still buying the disks, that is, the money is still going to the copyright owner. It just happens that we want to get some DVD's earlier than we would get them in say Region2.
Not only that, but Region 1 DVD's tend to have better features etc. that make buying the Region 1 over Region 2 a no-brainer. If the makers played fair and made the disks for Region 1 and Region 2 more alike, we wouldn't need to crack our players to play Region 1.
In theory, it's actually in a manufacturers interests to make a DVD player crackable. Think about it. If the coders "accidently" leave in a hidden menu that can be used to crack the player and make it region free, then someone in the company "leaks" how to do it, people take notice.
:)
As a good example, i bought my Samsung player on the very basis that it was easy to crack so i could play the Region 1 DVD's in Region 2. Another good example is several well known UK supermarkets were selling players that could be easliy cracked, and told the buyers how do it. The players flew off of the shelves.
The easier it is to crack the player, the more people will want one.
Yes, at last someone else understands what i've been trying to tell people :)
:)
People seem to have a major problem seperating computer operation and input devices. Command Lines are great for keyboard input, GUI's are great for mouse input. Voice Recognition does not fit into either the command line, or the GUI.
There are some posts above, which advocate using Voice Recognition to augment the exisiting input methods (Keyboards and Mice), and maybe that is a short term solution. But personally, i think that Voice Recognition and Hand Writing recognition will be far more pervasive in the long term, possibly replacing the entire GUI/CLI combo for everyday use.
Oh, and by they way, i think Ben Cisco may use a type of "Word Processor", but that seems to be a more Handwriting Recognition/Stylus input system than straight typing
Yes, *clap clap* pointing out the mistake on my part...you know what i meant.
And, if and when we do need to start inserting 92 feilds into the headers of news postings, then i'll start complaining.
What's next? Copyrighting your conversations?
:) Information wants to be free. Apart from my stuff! Mine! Mine!
Yes.
I wonder whether most posts here are inspired by simple ignorance of technical basics involved or by advanced paranoia.
:)
Quoting Grandpa Simpson: "A little from column A, and a little from column B"
Oh PLEASE!
Why should have to change MY words to not me misquoted?
They're not "changing your words" or misquoting you ffs, they're simply changing your word into a hyperlink. How does that change the way in which you read the post? What, people can't read a hyperlink text now?
I can see the day when they put in the wrong hyperlink, and someone sues them for libel/slander
Really? I can't. How can linking to a site be slanderous?
It still wouldn't matter. Even if the parser doesn't understand context, the reader does . Simply changing a name into a link doesn't change the text of the post in anyway. For example, if i write:
"The BBC have a news story about NASA on their website"
And the parser changes it to:
"The BBC has a news story about NASA on it's website"
Neither the text, nor the context, have changed.
This doesn't even cover the fact that with the Deja system, you can insert a flag into the article header, and have them ignore it completly.
If Slashdot inserted the hyperlink for me when i mentioned a recognised site, i wouldn't mind one bit. For example, if i mention Freshmeat, BBC, NASA etc. and it was parsed and automatically become a hyperlink, it would save me the trouble of having to add the stuff all the time. As far as i can tell, this is what Deja is (sortof) doing.
VA Linux inserts links to Freshmeat on Slashdot.org!
Honestly, i don't see what the big deal is. People will most probably find these links helpful. Add that to the fact that linking is a fundemental fact of the Internet, and you get a complete non-event.
Deja is a free service: are people going to complain next that Deja is using their Usenet posts to make money, because the Deja site has banner ads? I know i won't.
Thanks :)
;) If you havn't guessed, X programing is horrible :)
Can you make fvwm2 do this?
Hack an X Windows Manager? I would, but i have some hot coals to walk over first. Oh, then i have to cut off both my legs with a rusty penknife.
Wow, i like that idea. Is it officaly open for use, or would you object if i borrow that idea for something i'm working on? :)
Yeah, but's whats obsfucated? Ever looked at the source for GCC? EEEEEKKK!