I think Thunderbird 3 has some pretty compelling features like account auto-setup, full-text search including integration with local search services (Windows Search/Spotlight) and some other guis. Sure, the world is moving to webmail, but Thunderbird 3 has some really nifty stuff that they do on a local client using some of the cool technologies in Firefox. It sure beats the crap out of Live Mail which is the only other "easy" option I've heard of for windows.
You do realize that Mozilla Messaging was created specifically as a steward for Thunderbird because it wasn't getting the love it deserved from the Mozilla Foundation right?
Indeed. On windows iTunes presents a COM interface that allows complete access to the library contents, including adding and removing your own elements. The only thing I can think of is that Palm was lazy and didn't want to have to handle synchronizing themselves. Lazy bums.
I think you missed the point. Apple switched to BSD because it gained them something in a reasonable term. From what I remember (I was very young at the time) OS 9 sucked. It didn't even have pre-emptive multitasking. So, Apple swapping things out for BSD on hardware they could control and even then it took a few iterations before OS X didn't suck.
On the other hand, Microsoft has a huge, widely deployed ecosystem. Sure, they could realease Windows 11/BSD or something in a few years, but that would involve changing all of their drivers (which I'm sure the hw mfrs. would love after the joy that was Vista) as well as delivering a perfect emulation layer or nothing will work.
Apples move made sense, because, in effect, the had hit rock bottom and could only stand to gain from such a move. Microsoft has everything to lose, since if they don't do it perfectly, their competitors can point and say, "Incompatible! You might as well migrate to our platform instead."
I know. That was the part that I found most compelling about All Good Things. I think whoever came up with that plot is a genius because he found a way of having Q simultaneously destroy and save the entire universe through the actions of Picard. It was extremely clever along with the added bonus of the whole "How all of the characters drifted apart in the future." arc.
Ok, thats well and good. However, I've seen estimates that suggest that multiple billions of song downloads have occurred over the p2p networks. While the impact is an order of magnitude less, a million lost sales is nothing to scoff at.
True, but on the flipside, when you price gouge, you make it really easy for a well funded new player or potentially another large company expanding from a different market to undercut you.
I would agree with the assertion that he no longer understands modern technologies since he appears to actively shun a great many of them. I can't find the link, but I remember reading an interview with him where he said he doesn't use web browsers but instead has some script that goes out and fetches a website he wants to see and e-mails it to him. If that isn't out of touch with modern technology usage, I don't know what is.
The flashbacks worked for me, and I think it makes sense. They need to tell 2 stories in the episode. By doing the time splits, they get to have rising action that matches together in each story line, instead of having a first hour that builds and is over followed by a second one. I think it was a great way of building tension across the entire hour.
Wow. Its the first episode where they have to introduce all the characters. They set up future episodes to show his motivations, i.e. why he is such a jackass and who's picture he was holding and being sad about. I think its a little bit early to judge him as having no definition when there hasn't been an opportunity to build any yet.
Really? Because I see parallels between the Ori and the Crusades. A backward and primitive people (Ori home galaxy residents vs. Peasants) are shuffled off far from their homes to make war against a socially and technology more advanced society (Humanity/Jaffah vs the Arabs) for the betterment of the Church (Ori vs the Catholic Church), where they are initially successful, but ultimately repulsed.
I can completely understand your viewpoint, but I don't think it necessarily what they are thinking. People doing bad things for the sake of religion is an age old problem as well as those few realizing that its not the right thing to do. I remember a great scene between Tolen and a Prior where Tolen starts to question the wisdom of the Ori's path.
Notice the energy weapons are traveling in the correct flow direction and likely have a great deal more energy associated with them than normal atmospheric pressure.
We already know the Ancients suffered from hubris since they failed against the Wraith only because they let the Wraith capture a bunch of their ZPMs. I think Todd described it in detail at some point. They probably assumed that since they can make a CO2 scrubber that works for 100,000 years, it would be no big deal. Instead, they never visited the ship, so they never replaced the scrubbers. The same thing with Ancient cities. Dr. Weir from alternate timeline had to manually cycle the ZPMs. The most advanced race in the Universe can't figure out how to enable basic power saving?
I think the problem is the Ancients knew how badass they were so they never bothered to think of the simple things to extend the lifetime of their creations since everything they built lasted so long anyway. Regardless, the Ancients have a track record of showing a remarkable lack of foresight when dealing with simple things.
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Which is funny, because I thought the ships looked more impressive in this than in any of the previous series. I thought the Destiny traveling through hyperspace shots from the outside were particularly beautiful. Its like they took the best ideas from Star Trek (stars streaming by and bright colors) and Babylon 5 (mists in hyperspace) to make something that looked awesome.
In Dallas at least I keep seeing TV adds for Windows 7. Some little asian girl using it to make a slideshow and talking about how more happy is coming.
I had to actually search for Windows 7 in order to get the RTM. It wasn't available in the normal navigation part. Kind of strange, but that was my experience.
The problem you point out is more a social problem felt back home than a fundamental failing of the unit. It sucks that a village would become essential broken when that happens, but are you pointing out any flaws with the units themselves?
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I think Thunderbird 3 has some pretty compelling features like account auto-setup, full-text search including integration with local search services (Windows Search/Spotlight) and some other guis. Sure, the world is moving to webmail, but Thunderbird 3 has some really nifty stuff that they do on a local client using some of the cool technologies in Firefox. It sure beats the crap out of Live Mail which is the only other "easy" option I've heard of for windows.
You do realize that Mozilla Messaging was created specifically as a steward for Thunderbird because it wasn't getting the love it deserved from the Mozilla Foundation right?
Am I the only one who wishes they would hurry up and finish TB 3, and integrate that will all the Web 2 goodness, instead of these random projects?
Indeed. On windows iTunes presents a COM interface that allows complete access to the library contents, including adding and removing your own elements. The only thing I can think of is that Palm was lazy and didn't want to have to handle synchronizing themselves. Lazy bums.
The question is; Could a normal user find the setting namespace and change their UA to report .NET without the autoinstall add-on. I didn't think so.
Shhh, you'll confuse the anti-MS trolls.
I think you missed the point. Apple switched to BSD because it gained them something in a reasonable term. From what I remember (I was very young at the time) OS 9 sucked. It didn't even have pre-emptive multitasking. So, Apple swapping things out for BSD on hardware they could control and even then it took a few iterations before OS X didn't suck. On the other hand, Microsoft has a huge, widely deployed ecosystem. Sure, they could realease Windows 11/BSD or something in a few years, but that would involve changing all of their drivers (which I'm sure the hw mfrs. would love after the joy that was Vista) as well as delivering a perfect emulation layer or nothing will work.
Apples move made sense, because, in effect, the had hit rock bottom and could only stand to gain from such a move. Microsoft has everything to lose, since if they don't do it perfectly, their competitors can point and say, "Incompatible! You might as well migrate to our platform instead."
I know. That was the part that I found most compelling about All Good Things. I think whoever came up with that plot is a genius because he found a way of having Q simultaneously destroy and save the entire universe through the actions of Picard. It was extremely clever along with the added bonus of the whole "How all of the characters drifted apart in the future." arc.
Ok, thats well and good. However, I've seen estimates that suggest that multiple billions of song downloads have occurred over the p2p networks. While the impact is an order of magnitude less, a million lost sales is nothing to scoff at.
I just had to congratulate you on making me laugh the hardest I can ever remember laughing while reading something on the internet.
True, but on the flipside, when you price gouge, you make it really easy for a well funded new player or potentially another large company expanding from a different market to undercut you.
Is it useful with the dynamic nature of most interesting pages on the web these days though?
I would agree with the assertion that he no longer understands modern technologies since he appears to actively shun a great many of them. I can't find the link, but I remember reading an interview with him where he said he doesn't use web browsers but instead has some script that goes out and fetches a website he wants to see and e-mails it to him. If that isn't out of touch with modern technology usage, I don't know what is.
The flashbacks worked for me, and I think it makes sense. They need to tell 2 stories in the episode. By doing the time splits, they get to have rising action that matches together in each story line, instead of having a first hour that builds and is over followed by a second one. I think it was a great way of building tension across the entire hour.
I thought he looked old more than anything. That was the most jarring part for me. Still, the classic O'Neil humor was there, which made me happy.
And here I was gonna go for bastard child of the Millenium Falcon and the Valdore from Star Trek: Nemesis.
Wow. Its the first episode where they have to introduce all the characters. They set up future episodes to show his motivations, i.e. why he is such a jackass and who's picture he was holding and being sad about. I think its a little bit early to judge him as having no definition when there hasn't been an opportunity to build any yet.
Really? Because I see parallels between the Ori and the Crusades. A backward and primitive people (Ori home galaxy residents vs. Peasants) are shuffled off far from their homes to make war against a socially and technology more advanced society (Humanity/Jaffah vs the Arabs) for the betterment of the Church (Ori vs the Catholic Church), where they are initially successful, but ultimately repulsed.
I can completely understand your viewpoint, but I don't think it necessarily what they are thinking. People doing bad things for the sake of religion is an age old problem as well as those few realizing that its not the right thing to do. I remember a great scene between Tolen and a Prior where Tolen starts to question the wisdom of the Ori's path.
Notice the energy weapons are traveling in the correct flow direction and likely have a great deal more energy associated with them than normal atmospheric pressure.
We already know the Ancients suffered from hubris since they failed against the Wraith only because they let the Wraith capture a bunch of their ZPMs. I think Todd described it in detail at some point. They probably assumed that since they can make a CO2 scrubber that works for 100,000 years, it would be no big deal. Instead, they never visited the ship, so they never replaced the scrubbers. The same thing with Ancient cities. Dr. Weir from alternate timeline had to manually cycle the ZPMs. The most advanced race in the Universe can't figure out how to enable basic power saving?
I think the problem is the Ancients knew how badass they were so they never bothered to think of the simple things to extend the lifetime of their creations since everything they built lasted so long anyway. Regardless, the Ancients have a track record of showing a remarkable lack of foresight when dealing with simple things.
Which is funny, because I thought the ships looked more impressive in this than in any of the previous series. I thought the Destiny traveling through hyperspace shots from the outside were particularly beautiful. Its like they took the best ideas from Star Trek (stars streaming by and bright colors) and Babylon 5 (mists in hyperspace) to make something that looked awesome.
In Dallas at least I keep seeing TV adds for Windows 7. Some little asian girl using it to make a slideshow and talking about how more happy is coming.
I had to actually search for Windows 7 in order to get the RTM. It wasn't available in the normal navigation part. Kind of strange, but that was my experience.
Are you sure, I looked at Skype's website and swore they had an x86_64 .deb for Ubuntu.
The problem you point out is more a social problem felt back home than a fundamental failing of the unit. It sucks that a village would become essential broken when that happens, but are you pointing out any flaws with the units themselves?