Be sure to write to the band and their management to let them know. Ask "So, what's the business model in pissing off the fans who actually buy your records?"
"Case in point has been 16/9 TV in Europe. It has been around for 10 years now and the adoption rate is still about 1%."
16:9 is getting much more popular in the UK, because of 1. free digital broadcasts, which anyone can get with a 100 free-view decoder (which also gives you digital radio); 2. even the five terrestrial networks on the digital being routinely broadcast in 16:9.
It made it worth the trouble for me to buy a 16:9 television when I went telly-shopping last month. And not at any enormous price, either.
The advantage of running Windows apps on Unix is that the app is very unlikely to take the damn OS - and hence, all your other running apps - with it when it goes down!
It's amazing watching Windows users get their first taste of reliability... and realise what sort of crap they've been putting up with all this time, and that they don't have to any more.
Key marketing point for Unix over Windows: A STABLE, RELIABLE DESKTOP. That doesn't fall over once a day.
India (the entirety of vsnl.in, which was the national backbone at the time) got unplugged from the net for a few days a few years ago because of Usenet spam. If some countries (e.g. the US!) legislate against spam, it will provide a tool to pressure other countries into it.
"I've been trying out the Mozilla nightly builds which have the Mozilla spam filtering features... I'm hoping for 1.3, but I think that's little optimistic."
That's three months of daily beatings, and people are loving Bayesian filtering already - I think it'll be just dandy by 1.3:-)
On Windows, to check if you have talkback (the 'quality feedback' thing) installed, go to the 'components' subdirectory of your Mozilla program directory, and look for 'talkback'. I assume the Linux version has something very similar.
If it's really falling over that much, use the Talkback builds and send them in. They're stack traces from crashes, and they do get taken VERY seriously.
And if you can cause crashes consistently, with talkbacks, file a bug report with the Talkback IDs included.
This really doesn't match with my experience of Mozilla on Linux or FreeBSD, with the Linux plugins. If you have something reproducible, and are using a Talkback-enabled build of Mozilla (which provides crash dumps to mozilla.org), please do report it as a bug.
Remember that at the time of the Betamax case, they were not in fact a content company. That came when they bought CBS in 1989?90?. The two sections are still not integrated, over a decade later.
mozilla.org is still right into the performance obsession with the Mozilla trunk. A 3% regression gets your code backed out within a few hours, and you are sent away to do better.
People harp on about 'mozilla is so slow', but I remember getting an old Debian with M18 (late 2000) and putting 0.9.8 (early 2002) on it. I think it was honestly about twice as fast. And that comes from 1% here, 3% there, 2% there, week after week after week.
Slow and steady will indeed win the race. Certainly as long as Microsoft developers have a stated policy of "Performance? Throw more hardware at it."
And, of course, Phoenix will be tremendously instructive to the Mozilla trunk:-)
XSLT is a 'mostly-works' thing in Mozilla. It still needs a lot of testing and beating-on.
Basically, it'll get better in proportion to people's interest level. Get it to crash and file talkbacks and stacktraces. Publish performance benchmarks. File performance bugs. Get to know the developers. Look into the code, if you dare.
I would be profoundly happy if XSLT in Mozilla can be improved:-)
No, you can do it the easy way in Windows too - find your profile directory, create a folder called 'plugins' and put 'em in there. The only way to live for someone like me who gets a new nightly every three or four days:-)
"Essentially Phoenix is trying to acheive the same goals as Galeon, so they are in some sense competitors"
Not really. They're both part of the Mozillaverse, so it's all good.
Even Konqueror isn't a competitor as such with Mozilla - both are open-source and aiming to do a great standards-based browser.
They are only 'competition' insofar as it's good to have multiple independent streams of development, to allow fresh ideas room to grow. Which is why mozilla.org blatantly encourages two of its key developers (Blake and Hyatt) to go haring off after Phoenixes.
"and the fact i can crash mozilla with some legacy IE4 code is annoying too - but i'm sure that will get fixed at some point."
If you can really cause a reliable, or even slightly repeatable crash, file a bug with Talkback-ID numbers. It will get attention! And be sure to attach your test code to the bug.
(Serious attention to crashers over the last couple of years has sent Mozilla's MTBF up by leaps and bounds. VERY LITTLE kills Mozilla dead these days, and that's why. Crashers are important.)
"I think Phoenix is doing it this way just because it's a good idea, not specifically because Mozilla does it... but most people will attribute this to Mozilla.:P."
And entirely fairly:-) Most projects you can pull from CVS any time you like between releases, but I don't know of any others that routinely make daily test binaries available. "Release early, release often" taken to its greatest reasonable end point.
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Be sure to write to the band and their management to let them know. Ask "So, what's the business model in pissing off the fans who actually buy your records?"
16:9 is getting much more popular in the UK, because of 1. free digital broadcasts, which anyone can get with a 100 free-view decoder (which also gives you digital radio); 2. even the five terrestrial networks on the digital being routinely broadcast in 16:9.
It made it worth the trouble for me to buy a 16:9 television when I went telly-shopping last month. And not at any enormous price, either.
It's amazing watching Windows users get their first taste of reliability ... and realise what sort of crap they've been putting up with all this time, and that they don't have to any more.
Key marketing point for Unix over Windows: A STABLE, RELIABLE DESKTOP. That doesn't fall over once a day.
Financial institutions and browsers:
Financial Shames (Mozilla)
Online Banking with Konqueror
Banks and Browsers
Although it's now owned by Red Hat, Cygnus embraced the GPL before Linux existed.
http://www.scientology.org/oca.htm/ /cchr.org/freepub.htm
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This paper spam list is one that no-one gets off.
India (the entirety of vsnl.in, which was the national backbone at the time) got unplugged from the net for a few days a few years ago because of Usenet spam. If some countries (e.g. the US!) legislate against spam, it will provide a tool to pressure other countries into it.
That's three months of daily beatings, and people are loving Bayesian filtering already - I think it'll be just dandy by 1.3 :-)
Actually, Westpac does a Visa debit card pretty much for the asking. Their online banking also works in any browser that does 128-bit SSL.
Mecha-Streisand!
On Windows, to check if you have talkback (the 'quality feedback' thing) installed, go to the 'components' subdirectory of your Mozilla program directory, and look for 'talkback'. I assume the Linux version has something very similar.
Same way you block people from transcluding images - only allow certain pages to be loaded when the referrer is on the same site.
And if you can cause crashes consistently, with talkbacks, file a bug report with the Talkback IDs included.
This really doesn't match with my experience of Mozilla on Linux or FreeBSD, with the Linux plugins. If you have something reproducible, and are using a Talkback-enabled build of Mozilla (which provides crash dumps to mozilla.org), please do report it as a bug.
Remember that at the time of the Betamax case, they were not in fact a content company. That came when they bought CBS in 1989?90?. The two sections are still not integrated, over a decade later.
Er, it doesn't. Gecko is faster than IEHTML.
"Ya don't run GUI's on data center equipment :)"
Oh, how I wish that were true >X-(
People harp on about 'mozilla is so slow', but I remember getting an old Debian with M18 (late 2000) and putting 0.9.8 (early 2002) on it. I think it was honestly about twice as fast. And that comes from 1% here, 3% there, 2% there, week after week after week.
Slow and steady will indeed win the race. Certainly as long as Microsoft developers have a stated policy of "Performance? Throw more hardware at it."
And, of course, Phoenix will be tremendously instructive to the Mozilla trunk :-)
Basically, it'll get better in proportion to people's interest level. Get it to crash and file talkbacks and stacktraces. Publish performance benchmarks. File performance bugs. Get to know the developers. Look into the code, if you dare.
I would be profoundly happy if XSLT in Mozilla can be improved :-)
No, you can do it the easy way in Windows too - find your profile directory, create a folder called 'plugins' and put 'em in there. The only way to live for someone like me who gets a new nightly every three or four days :-)
Not really. They're both part of the Mozillaverse, so it's all good.
Even Konqueror isn't a competitor as such with Mozilla - both are open-source and aiming to do a great standards-based browser.
They are only 'competition' insofar as it's good to have multiple independent streams of development, to allow fresh ideas room to grow. Which is why mozilla.org blatantly encourages two of its key developers (Blake and Hyatt) to go haring off after Phoenixes.
Considering you can get it as a zip file, and just install it to the directory your symlink points to, that's really pretty easy.
Um ...
If you can really cause a reliable, or even slightly repeatable crash, file a bug with Talkback-ID numbers. It will get attention! And be sure to attach your test code to the bug.
(Serious attention to crashers over the last couple of years has sent Mozilla's MTBF up by leaps and bounds. VERY LITTLE kills Mozilla dead these days, and that's why. Crashers are important.)
And entirely fairly :-) Most projects you can pull from CVS any time you like between releases, but I don't know of any others that routinely make daily test binaries available. "Release early, release often" taken to its greatest reasonable end point.