You can get the text of almost any book at Project Gutenberg (http://promo.net/pg/)
Yeah, but they won't take anything first published on or after 1923 because of the Bono Act. You'll have to request it in one of the alt.binaries.e-book groups.
About the only time Mozilla 0.9.recent crashes for me is when I run into Windows ME's 64 KB user.exe and gdi.exe heap limits. (No, I haven't bothered "upgrading" to XP yet.) Internet Explorer can run out of resources too, and it sometimes hits the limit with fewer pages open because Mozilla supports more than one page per window through Opera-style tabbed browsing.
Oh sure you could let it preload and take up 50MB ram where as IE does not.
According to Wintop (part of Kernel Toys), my preloaded Mozilla instance takes only 15 (not 50) MB, and much of IE (namely MSHTML) is preloaded in Explorer.exe anyway, so you can't easily get away from that.
A release usually included binaries, and the 4.2.0 ones are where?
As other fellows have commented, the binaries are created on your hard disk after you 'make world'. Compilation has become much easier since the 3.x series.
Could the guy possibly be more obnoxious about posting his name all over the review?
What you're seeing in those JPEGs is part of a copyright notice. Give the fellow a break; would you want credit if somebody else used JPEG images that you created in his own review?
This is because corporations must protect their intellectual property otherwise it will be deemed to be in the public domain
Note that this applies only to the trademarks on "Star Wars," the movie titles, and the character names and likenesses. Copyrights on the expression of the movie and patents on the methods used to make the movie need not be defended as rigorously to maintain their validity; not pursuing infringers effectively amounts to granting an implicit license that can be pulled at any time.
you can buy domain-based E-mail redirection [dnscentral.com] for about $20 per year.
Even cheaper: At Gandi.net, you can get your own domain name for €12/domain/yr. If you turn on Gandi's free mail and web forwarding, it redirects http://www.foobar4.org/rest/of/URL to http://you.your.isp/rest/of/URL or http://your.isp/you/rest/of/URL and forwards *@foobar4.org to you@your.isp with up to five exceptions going to other addresses.
Wrong. Mozilla 0.9.7 starts faster than Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 if you leave Mozilla resident in memory (Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Enable Quick Launch). Because Windows Explorer uses IE components, Windows keeps much of IE resident in memory all the time; turning on Quick Launch levels the playfield. It loads pages faster than IE 6 because unlike IE 6, Mozilla can display a partially downloaded table; simply right-click to force a reflow. View a Slashdot article with lots of comments in nested mode on IE 6 and Mozilla to see what I mean.
On older machines (less CPU speed, less memory) Netscape 6 cannot touch the performance of I.E. 5+.
IE 5, yes, but not 6. Performance of IE on machines with 64 MB of RAM has decreased dramatically from IE 5.x to 6.0, requiring the system to swap heavily more often.
A whole bunch of pages that say if( !navigator ) { doSomeReallyCoolDHTMLStuff(); } Even though netscape 6.2 can do most of them.
These are the sites that need evangelizing to. Learn about Mozilla Evangelism, get a recent Mozilla build (mozillaZine reviewed builds are a middle ground between milestones and the latest nightly), and then begin filing bugs in Bugzilla's Tech Evangelism product.
but the DOM better be the same.
Repeat after me: "document.all" is not part of the HTML DOM.
Have you filed a Bugzilla bug to this effect? If it's a problem with Mozilla, file it under Browser, in whatever component it looks like it's under. If it's IE-specific markup, file it under Tech Evangelism/USA. In fact, file Tech Evangelism bugs for all sites you know of that use IE-specific markup.
My webpage is Fully Compliant XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Sure, the pages might be (and so are mine), but the site isn't. Your web server returns this HTTP response header:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Content-Location: http://www.25hoursaday.com/index.html
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 08:44:07 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Last-Modified: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 21:40:57 GMT
ETag: "08b4fc7a9cc11:970"
Content-Length: 5313
"text/html" is the content type for 1. HTML 4.01, and 2. XHTML that conforms to Appendix C (HTML 4 back compatibility). When you send it as "application/xhtml+xml" as the W3C suggests, IE will give you a tree instead of a page.
A spell checker in the mail client? (Assuming you installed office)
Granted at the moment, but IE + legitimate general-audience full version of Microsoft Office costs $300. Mozilla costs $0. What do you expect? Even then, I've read that they're working on getting Pspell to work in the open source builds.
I hope the new build of both will let me add the NS spell checker to my Mozilla client.
Somebody ought to write a spell checker that operates on the Windows clipboard, placing asterisks around ***misplet*** words. Copy, click spell-check shortcut in Quick Launch, paste, and you know where your potential errors are.
We support standards. The standard for browsing web pages is not Netscape, it's not W3XXX, it is IE(4,5,6).
Can you provide a reference to publicly available (even for a nominal fee) official documentation in the English language as to what constitutes a conforming implementation of such a standard? (In other words, where can I obtain docs about the IE DOM?)
We will degrade gracefully on the other platforms
In order to degrade gracefully, you will have to make all content reasonably accessible to all users. Frown on framesets and unnecessary ECMAScript. Frown on images without appropriate alt text. Frown on sites mostly made in Flash because the visually impaired cannot use Flash content, whereas they can use HTML through a screenreader or Braille display and a text-mode browser such as Lynx, Links, or w3m.
and freely distribute IE (free to distribute after all) to those poor users who don't have IE today.
IE for x86 architecture is part of Microsoft Windows. Where can I pick up my free copy of Windows? And how can I make sure that my copy of IE won't catch Son of Nimda from your server?
In a straight comparison, IE kicks Netscape's ass now.
Netscape 4's perhaps, but with regard to IE 6 vs. Mozilla 0.9.8 (effectively Netscape 6.3; 0.9.8 is due to be released in a week), I have to hand this round to Mozilla. Mozilla starts faster than IE, supports more CSS, supports XHTML (as opposed to IE just bailing and dumping the XML tree), allows for Opera-style tabbed browsing (which saves Windows user and gdi resources compared to the one window per page paradigm of IE, especially on Win9x/ME where user and gdi heaps are only 64 KB), works on platforms other than IE's Windows, Mac OS, Solaris, and HPUX, and even comes with a rudimentary IRC client (which IE+Outhouse does not).
What does IE 6 have that Mozilla lacks (other than market share, which can change once the next version of Concept Virus hits)?
I'm not going to pretend the GIMP is as powerful as Photoshop. (It isn't.)
What does Photoshop Elements do that GIMP doesn't? Photoshop Elements is Photoshop without high-end prepress and without the expensive PANTONE royalties that prepress brings, but retaining all the ability to photoshop "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US" onto a road sign.
But lots of people buy (or copy) Photoshop who don't need all that, and the GIMP would suit their needs.
You're right. GIMP for Windows doesn't compete with $600 Photoshop. It competes with $100 Photoshop Elements (successor to Photoshop LE and PhotoDeluxe) and with $100 Paint Shop Pro. Why people who would be happy with $100 Photoshop Elements or with GIMP go and pirate $600 Photoshop Professional beats me.
The question is how lack of an Asian version of the product will affect the market. Will Chinese users, for example, start to use English or Japanese versions?
What's the Chinese word for "gimp"? Seriously, many people who have learned both GIMP and Photoshop Elements have commented that GIMP has a shorter learning curve than Photoshop Elements unless you already know Photoshop Elements. (Photoshop Elements is Photoshop 6 minus prepress.)
Does this mean that Chinese OS X users will be, literally, up the creek?
English or European language software cannot cope with the double-byte characters for Japanese, Korean, and Chinese.
You mean "Poorly written English or European language software cannot cope with the double-byte characters for Japanese, Korean, and Chinese." For example, the Mozilla browser I'm typing this comment into supports Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, and several other languages that have their own scripts. Windows 2000 and Windows XP include full support for Unicode text processing, input methods for the double-byte languages are just a Windows Update away, and it's trivial to hack localized resource strings into an application.
Release the non-trade-secret parts of the application as free software. That'll help a bit. Splitting the most proprietary parts into modules priced at $49.95 a piece might help further.
and the support costs
"No support except to registered users." That's one of the proposed models for making money off open source.
and the bandwidth costs
If they can get their install down to 10 megabytes (perhaps by not including all that d*rn clip-art), bandwidth becomes relatively cheap.
if they don't make any money on top of the distribution costs?
For downloadable software, bandwidth costs == distribution costs.
Wouldn't it be more efficient to provide a couple of different binary packages for each package a'la mandrake (i586 and i486) ?
That would cost more for the CDs and for download bandwidth, especially when you take into account Alpha, Sparc, MIPS, and all the other PC-class-or-higher architectures that Linux runs on. See also my Everything 2 article about making Linux distributions smaller.
Look, if a law that restrictive was ever passed, Police officers would be breaking it.
According to page 5 of this PDF from the Library of Congress, law enforcement officers acting in official duty are exempt from the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Remember Prohibition?
The current crop of Republicrat legislators don't seem to; otherwise, they would have repealed the anti-recreational-drug laws a long time ago.
Any politician who would vote for such a thing better hope the donation from the media companies can buy him a ticket to Rio and keep him fed for the rest of his life
Find how much your politician got from Di$ney at Open Secrets.
because his public "service" career would end at the next election
Where would Adobe be today without the rampant piracy of Photoshop by tens of thousands of graphic art students (don't tell me this is not happening).
Probably selling a lot of copies of Photoshop Elements (that is, Photoshop minus the prepress engine) at $100 a piece (not $600) and making a wad of dough.
Photoshop has a HUGE learning-curve to do anything but the most basic operations.
How does it compare to GIMP's? Is GIMP 1.2 easier or harder than Photoshop Elements?
they exaggerate the extent to which it hurts them but IT STILL DEPRIVES THEM OF PROFITS
In some cases, piracy can potentially increase profits by increasing the size of the market for the legitimate software. Piracy on the part of poor individuals doesn't cost any profits because poor individuals aren't able to pay $600 for Photoshop anyway, and it increases the mindshare of a product. Mindshare translates to market share, especially when businesses site-license software. This is part of how Photoshop, Flash, 3DS Max, and Windows became so popular: by granting implicit licenses to individual pirates, the publishers made their programs more popular among those who would want to join companies that would legitimately license expensive software. It's the same reason companies give out "free trial" copies of software, except that the missing feature in this case is the ability to use the software in a commercial setting.
Napster was a search engine though; how did people become exposed to music they wouldn't otherwise have been if they didn't know to search for it.
Three ways:
Chat rooms. Napster servers had about 50 or so chat rooms, typically one for each major genre of music. Like rap? Find new rap acts in #Rap.
Hot list. If you like the kind of music that another user has, you can browse her shared folder. For example, user 'yerricde' had a few dozen remixes of the song "Korobeyniki" (i.e. the theme from Tetris).
Path searching. The Napster client displayed the name of the folder that contained each shared file, and it searched folder names in addition to filenames. (Yes, this made it difficult to look for songs about "AOL" or "Windows".) From there, after seeing a term pop up (such as "goa" or "acid" or "gabber")... the user thinks "i don't know what that word means, but i like that music." This leads to more discussion in the chat rooms and more hotlisting.
Slashdot Mirror
You can get the text of almost any book at Project Gutenberg (http://promo.net/pg/)
Yeah, but they won't take anything first published on or after 1923 because of the Bono Act. You'll have to request it in one of the alt.binaries.e-book groups.
Umm no crashes for one
About the only time Mozilla 0.9.recent crashes for me is when I run into Windows ME's 64 KB user.exe and gdi.exe heap limits. (No, I haven't bothered "upgrading" to XP yet.) Internet Explorer can run out of resources too, and it sometimes hits the limit with fewer pages open because Mozilla supports more than one page per window through Opera-style tabbed browsing.
Oh sure you could let it preload and take up 50MB ram where as IE does not.
According to Wintop (part of Kernel Toys), my preloaded Mozilla instance takes only 15 (not 50) MB, and much of IE (namely MSHTML) is preloaded in Explorer.exe anyway, so you can't easily get away from that.
A release usually included binaries, and the 4.2.0 ones are where?
As other fellows have commented, the binaries are created on your hard disk after you 'make world'. Compilation has become much easier since the 3.x series.
Could the guy possibly be more obnoxious about posting his name all over the review?
What you're seeing in those JPEGs is part of a copyright notice. Give the fellow a break; would you want credit if somebody else used JPEG images that you created in his own review?
Yeah, BTW, check out the Political Compass
LP.org has a much shorter (10 questions) version of the quiz that has the same left/right and libertarian/totalitarian axes but uses a different scale.
This is because corporations must protect their intellectual property otherwise it will be deemed to be in the public domain
Note that this applies only to the trademarks on "Star Wars," the movie titles, and the character names and likenesses. Copyrights on the expression of the movie and patents on the methods used to make the movie need not be defended as rigorously to maintain their validity; not pursuing infringers effectively amounts to granting an implicit license that can be pulled at any time.
you can buy domain-based E-mail redirection [dnscentral.com] for about $20 per year.
Even cheaper: At Gandi.net, you can get your own domain name for €12/domain/yr. If you turn on Gandi's free mail and web forwarding, it redirects http://www.foobar4.org/rest/of/URL to http://you.your.isp/rest/of/URL or http://your.isp/you/rest/of/URL and forwards *@foobar4.org to you@your.isp with up to five exceptions going to other addresses.
Netscape loads so s...l...o...w.
Wrong. Mozilla 0.9.7 starts faster than Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 if you leave Mozilla resident in memory (Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Enable Quick Launch). Because Windows Explorer uses IE components, Windows keeps much of IE resident in memory all the time; turning on Quick Launch levels the playfield. It loads pages faster than IE 6 because unlike IE 6, Mozilla can display a partially downloaded table; simply right-click to force a reflow. View a Slashdot article with lots of comments in nested mode on IE 6 and Mozilla to see what I mean.
On older machines (less CPU speed, less memory) Netscape 6 cannot touch the performance of I.E. 5+.
IE 5, yes, but not 6. Performance of IE on machines with 64 MB of RAM has decreased dramatically from IE 5.x to 6.0, requiring the system to swap heavily more often.
You have a link for [the XHTML mime type]?
See Bug 94759 and Bug 65848.
A whole bunch of pages that say if( !navigator ) { doSomeReallyCoolDHTMLStuff(); } Even though netscape 6.2 can do most of them.
These are the sites that need evangelizing to. Learn about Mozilla Evangelism, get a recent Mozilla build (mozillaZine reviewed builds are a middle ground between milestones and the latest nightly), and then begin filing bugs in Bugzilla's Tech Evangelism product.
but the DOM better be the same.
Repeat after me: "document.all" is not part of the HTML DOM.
I can't log into netscape webmail with mozilla
Have you filed a Bugzilla bug to this effect? If it's a problem with Mozilla, file it under Browser, in whatever component it looks like it's under. If it's IE-specific markup, file it under Tech Evangelism/USA. In fact, file Tech Evangelism bugs for all sites you know of that use IE-specific markup.
My webpage is Fully Compliant XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Sure, the pages might be (and so are mine), but the site isn't. Your web server returns this HTTP response header:
"text/html" is the content type for 1. HTML 4.01, and 2. XHTML that conforms to Appendix C (HTML 4 back compatibility). When you send it as "application/xhtml+xml" as the W3C suggests, IE will give you a tree instead of a page.
A spell checker in the mail client? (Assuming you installed office)
Granted at the moment, but IE + legitimate general-audience full version of Microsoft Office costs $300. Mozilla costs $0. What do you expect? Even then, I've read that they're working on getting Pspell to work in the open source builds.
I hope the new build of both will let me add the NS spell checker to my Mozilla client.
Somebody ought to write a spell checker that operates on the Windows clipboard, placing asterisks around ***misplet*** words. Copy, click spell-check shortcut in Quick Launch, paste, and you know where your potential errors are.
We support standards. The standard for browsing web pages is not Netscape, it's not W3XXX, it is IE(4,5,6).
Can you provide a reference to publicly available (even for a nominal fee) official documentation in the English language as to what constitutes a conforming implementation of such a standard? (In other words, where can I obtain docs about the IE DOM?)
We will degrade gracefully on the other platforms
In order to degrade gracefully, you will have to make all content reasonably accessible to all users. Frown on framesets and unnecessary ECMAScript. Frown on images without appropriate alt text. Frown on sites mostly made in Flash because the visually impaired cannot use Flash content, whereas they can use HTML through a screenreader or Braille display and a text-mode browser such as Lynx, Links, or w3m.
and freely distribute IE (free to distribute after all) to those poor users who don't have IE today.
IE for x86 architecture is part of Microsoft Windows. Where can I pick up my free copy of Windows? And how can I make sure that my copy of IE won't catch Son of Nimda from your server?
In a straight comparison, IE kicks Netscape's ass now.
Netscape 4's perhaps, but with regard to IE 6 vs. Mozilla 0.9.8 (effectively Netscape 6.3; 0.9.8 is due to be released in a week), I have to hand this round to Mozilla. Mozilla starts faster than IE, supports more CSS, supports XHTML (as opposed to IE just bailing and dumping the XML tree), allows for Opera-style tabbed browsing (which saves Windows user and gdi resources compared to the one window per page paradigm of IE, especially on Win9x/ME where user and gdi heaps are only 64 KB), works on platforms other than IE's Windows, Mac OS, Solaris, and HPUX, and even comes with a rudimentary IRC client (which IE+Outhouse does not).
What does IE 6 have that Mozilla lacks (other than market share, which can change once the next version of Concept Virus hits)?
I'm not going to pretend the GIMP is as powerful as Photoshop. (It isn't.)
What does Photoshop Elements do that GIMP doesn't? Photoshop Elements is Photoshop without high-end prepress and without the expensive PANTONE royalties that prepress brings, but retaining all the ability to photoshop "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US" onto a road sign.
But lots of people buy (or copy) Photoshop who don't need all that, and the GIMP would suit their needs.
You're right. GIMP for Windows doesn't compete with $600 Photoshop. It competes with $100 Photoshop Elements (successor to Photoshop LE and PhotoDeluxe) and with $100 Paint Shop Pro. Why people who would be happy with $100 Photoshop Elements or with GIMP go and pirate $600 Photoshop Professional beats me.
The question is how lack of an Asian version of the product will affect the market. Will Chinese users, for example, start to use English or Japanese versions?
What's the Chinese word for "gimp"? Seriously, many people who have learned both GIMP and Photoshop Elements have commented that GIMP has a shorter learning curve than Photoshop Elements unless you already know Photoshop Elements. (Photoshop Elements is Photoshop 6 minus prepress.)
Does this mean that Chinese OS X users will be, literally, up the creek?
No.
English or European language software cannot cope with the double-byte characters for Japanese, Korean, and Chinese.
You mean "Poorly written English or European language software cannot cope with the double-byte characters for Japanese, Korean, and Chinese." For example, the Mozilla browser I'm typing this comment into supports Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, and several other languages that have their own scripts. Windows 2000 and Windows XP include full support for Unicode text processing, input methods for the double-byte languages are just a Windows Update away, and it's trivial to hack localized resource strings into an application.
how does Adobe afford the production costs
Release the non-trade-secret parts of the application as free software. That'll help a bit. Splitting the most proprietary parts into modules priced at $49.95 a piece might help further.
and the support costs
"No support except to registered users." That's one of the proposed models for making money off open source.
and the bandwidth costs
If they can get their install down to 10 megabytes (perhaps by not including all that d*rn clip-art), bandwidth becomes relatively cheap.
if they don't make any money on top of the distribution costs?
For downloadable software, bandwidth costs == distribution costs.
Wouldn't it be more efficient to provide a couple of different binary packages for each package a'la mandrake (i586 and i486) ?
That would cost more for the CDs and for download bandwidth, especially when you take into account Alpha, Sparc, MIPS, and all the other PC-class-or-higher architectures that Linux runs on. See also my Everything 2 article about making Linux distributions smaller.
Your thinking of something else... KaZaa has a curses based ui.
I guess I was thinking of eDonkey and Freenet.
Look, if a law that restrictive was ever passed, Police officers would be breaking it.
According to page 5 of this PDF from the Library of Congress, law enforcement officers acting in official duty are exempt from the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Remember Prohibition?
The current crop of Republicrat legislators don't seem to; otherwise, they would have repealed the anti-recreational-drug laws a long time ago.
Any politician who would vote for such a thing better hope the donation from the media companies can buy him a ticket to Rio and keep him fed for the rest of his life
Find how much your politician got from Di$ney at Open Secrets.
because his public "service" career would end at the next election
Not with our ovine electorate.
Where would Adobe be today without the rampant piracy of Photoshop by tens of thousands of graphic art students (don't tell me this is not happening).
Probably selling a lot of copies of Photoshop Elements (that is, Photoshop minus the prepress engine) at $100 a piece (not $600) and making a wad of dough.
Photoshop has a HUGE learning-curve to do anything but the most basic operations.
How does it compare to GIMP's? Is GIMP 1.2 easier or harder than Photoshop Elements?
they exaggerate the extent to which it hurts them but IT STILL DEPRIVES THEM OF PROFITS
In some cases, piracy can potentially increase profits by increasing the size of the market for the legitimate software. Piracy on the part of poor individuals doesn't cost any profits because poor individuals aren't able to pay $600 for Photoshop anyway, and it increases the mindshare of a product. Mindshare translates to market share, especially when businesses site-license software. This is part of how Photoshop, Flash, 3DS Max, and Windows became so popular: by granting implicit licenses to individual pirates, the publishers made their programs more popular among those who would want to join companies that would legitimately license expensive software. It's the same reason companies give out "free trial" copies of software, except that the missing feature in this case is the ability to use the software in a commercial setting.
Napster was a search engine though; how did people become exposed to music they wouldn't otherwise have been if they didn't know to search for it.
Three ways: