And it's no longer true. Europe offers numerous ways to get onto the net and I doubt any are more expensive than their US counterparts.
For example, some ISPs have a low-call or local number but charge a subscription, some have unlimited access (i.e. free calls) for a subscription and some others have a free sub but claw back some of the call charge. If you're a light net user you can save a fortune with the last option.
Not just competitive but a mature and proven technology with broad industry support for the standard and numerous heterogenous solutions for customers and networks. Not to mention roaming and SMS.
That CDMA isn't used boils down to common sense. GSM is used everywhere with few exceptions (even the US has GSM) so that is the baseline. It would be just stupid to choose some other standard and miss out on those lucrative roaming charges not to mention pissing off your customers at the same time.
Not much good I'm afraid, since a HUD is only useful if the instruments are projected into the space in front of you to minimise having to change focus to read them. Luxury cars and jets use a series of mirrors and optics to achieve that effect and the projector will be somewhere inside the dash. The effect of all this is that the image appears to be a few metres in front so you can have your eyes on the road and still see the speed with little focus changing required.
Obviously you couldn't do that with a transparent screen, making it kind of pointless. You might as well stick with a normal speedo and save your money for all the difference it would make. In fact, a transparent screen would likely impair visibility which might make it more dangerous than a normal dash.
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Following up on myself... I should also state that I wouldn't touch a form filler / wallet / password program from a spyware outfit with a ten foot bargepole. You simply have no idea of the quality of security within the product, and the FAQ on their site hardly inspires confidence either. For example, there is no mention of what encryption is used, and the password appears to be stored on their site so they can mail it to you if you forget.
I would best classify this security as minimal or even dangerous since it instills a false sense of security.
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No, but as I mentioned it is much better for things such as storing cc numbers. If you want basic form fill or wallet then Mozilla does it perfectly well. In fact I use it for just that on the various trivial accounts sites require I maintain.
However when it comes to sensitive information which, if stolen means a lot of grief for me, I'd rather not enter it into the browser anyway. It's no big deal to fire up password safe and cut and paste values if I have to. Frankly I just don't think it is a good idea to store stuff like that in the browser anyway. Browsers are exploited all the time. I would rather the straightforward and well designed standalone password safe for that kind of thing, especially as it has a comment field so I can add extra notes such as challenge codes, expiry dates, pin numbers etc.
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Yes Mozilla has a perfectly acceptable password manager and form filler. It does the job quite well and can even be protected by a master password if you like.
Personally however I'd recommend Password Safe for storing things like credit card numbers, bank details etc. It's not that I don't trust Mozilla to do the job, but I just prefer a standalone and simple program for that kind of thing. It also lets you add comments and notes and it's easy to copy it onto a keyring USB device and carry it around with the database.
It's only a record to do with hiring if you recognize it as such. Obviously if you are not hiring, the position doesn't exist, is by invitation only, or by application form then it doesn't matter what unsolicited crap you receive. It can all go straight into the bin.
A resume isn't an application form any way. Make it company policy that all applications are by invitation only and must be mailed in on original application forms, not print outs. Then divert unsolicited resumes straight into the bit bucket.
It's hard to explain in laymens terms, but essentially mozilla.exe is just a launch pad for a bunch of XPCOM components and chrome. It doesn't care what those components or chrome are at all and in fact you can make mozilla.exe run something completely differnt from a browser just by pointing it at some other chrome.
So you could either run two mozilla.exe's, one with just the browser components / chrome and one with just the mail components / chrome, or you can run them in a single mozilla.exe where all the components are lumped together. This boils down to a configuration / packaging issue and either is possible right now. With careful design, the chrome and components in either case would be identical, but the config would determine how they were installed.
In my case, I prefer the tighter integration and therefore I'd take a hit on stability if need be, but someone who isn't could package the apps to run seperately. It should make no difference if the chrome is designed to run either way.
Now at a technical level, you would have to concern yourself with whether these two apps share a profile or have a seperate one, but profile sharing is in the code now so it's just a matter of fleshing out how these apps install and run and sticking to it.
The thing is they don't all live in one big binary. Mozilla.exe is little more than a launch pad which starts up XPCOM, registers XPCOM components and loads all the chrome specified in the rdf. The only difference between Firebird / Mozilla is *what* chrome & XPCOM components are there to be loaded, but they run on top of the same framework.
The mail/news, composer, irc, js debugger, browser components in Mozilla may run in the same address space, but they are seperate on disk. Overlays are used to tie them all together. There isn't much spaghetti code at all, though there are places where the seperation between parts could be greater.
The intent of Mozilla Mail / Firebird will achieve that but it should still be possible if so desired to run the apps as a single executable. This is the difference between run the XPCOM components / jar files in two seperate processes or a single one, nothing more. So it should be possible to satisfy everyone.
Firebird has less chrome / overlays than the entire Mozilla, less XPCOM components and.xpt files and a simpler UI. This makes it start up a bit quicker, and run a bit better. That means that if you're just browsing, or intend to use a third party mail application it would be better than Mozilla.
Personally I just take the hit on startup for Mozilla since I have it running all day so a few seconds startup makes no odds. I also reckon that aside from a few annoyances the mail/news component is second to none (and miles better than Outlook Express) and needless to say I use that all the time too. So in my case, it makes sense to use Mozilla.
Obviously Firebird has it's uses but when you spend all day reading mail, news and browsing there is much to be said for an integrated all in one solution. It's the little things that you miss when you run seperate apps, for example middle-clicking on a link in a mail window and having a tab open in the browser, having a single password manager and so on. Mozilla is generally so rock solid, I'd be prepared to take a hit in stability for the better performance / footprint a single app brings.
Firebird obviously is useful if you want to use some other mail application but I think it is unwise to split the apps out without good reason, especially for the large number of people who love the integration of Mozilla.
I would much prefer this - design the apps so they can run seperately if desired, but also allow them to run in the same address space using chrome overlays. That is pretty much all Moz is doing right now, but it could be done much more cleanly so that you could mix and match the bits. This is quite feasible to do and it means the best of both worlds for everyone.
They can't be as bad as Kirby for hawking their vacuum cleaners though can they? In Britain they managed to make the headlines in several newspapers and consumer programmes for pressure sales tactics which ended up with people buying massively expensive cleaners that they didn't want and could ill afford. Now obviously some people are dumb to pay for something this way, but it doesn't excuse this behaviour especially when applied to old people.
Personally I think Dysons are expensive so I really can't fathom what mindset you must be in to stump up the cash for something costing three or four times as much again.
It is bad, because the APIs are ancient, extensions seem to be the answer (i.e. hack) for every deficiency these days, clipboard / drag & drop + other desktop protocols are primitive or entirely absent, the drivers suck and configuration in GNOME / KDE is hobbled because X has its own ideas about mice, monitors and keyboards.
I'm not saying all these issues would magically disappear if XFree86 was dumped, but there is something to be said for considering porting GTK / QT to either a native fb, or some sexy SDL layer that completely negating the need to have X or a WM there at all. Clean GNOME apps (i.e. those with no X at all), shouldn't care if GTK is compiled for fb or X, the same way as OpenGL apps don't care if they're running in software, hardware, X or fb. If people wanted remote desktops, they could run X rootless on top, which is what OS X does quite well.
Now find how much they occur in the same context (discounting this particular spat).
If the answer is not at all, I think both names are quite capable of coexisting. And if by chance they do occur in the same context, a simple prefix of IB or Mozilla will make it clear what is being referred to. Anyway, it is stated in the MZ article that Firebird is the codename, so it's not likely to come into widespread usage outside of the Mozilla community anyway.
Frankly this story really is a storm in a teacup but the flames are being fanned by hacks like Festa who go angling for negative stories about Mozilla and don't let trivalities such as the facts get in the way. It tells that no one close to Mozilla "could be reached for comment" because everyone knows there are a couple of jerks with chips on their shoulder that right the most negative and distorted crap about the project.
Hence the reason MozillaZine felt it necessary to present their own view. I suspect most people, even in the database side know this is all rather silly.
Sorry by legal tender, I was referring to the "I promise to pay the bearer" part which obligates the Bank of England to accept them, not for anyone else to.
Coming from the Euro zone where every note has a hologram, I can assure you that the paper falls apart way before the hologram. So such concerns are not relevant. With that said, the 5 notes do become very tattered after being circulated for a while.
It is my understanding that British currency and presumably most other countries is legal tender forever. Possibly not the coins, but notes can be exchanged at the Bank of England or wherever at face value for new ones even twenty years on. In the euro zone it is still possible to get rid of old notes but you have to turn up at a central bank to do it.
Lucas got it wrong because he thought he'd bake a cake that was advertised as delicious marzipan and sprinkles, not telling anyone that it had a dog turd baked into the centre of it.
That was the problem with the prequels. Great CGI used excessively and lousy script, acting, direction and everything else. I don't blame the actors for their wooden performances, after all it must be be impossible to deliver a natural performance when nearly the entire film is shot on bluescreen. Perhaps if Lucas bothered to spend more time on the other things he might make a better film for once. I don't hold out much hope for episode three. I wonder if people will even bother queueing for it it this time.
All this is great I'm sure, but I reckon a lot people are never going to use Xine while it ships as a zillion RPMs with mind boggling configuration options and other intimidating features.
And I thought getting codecs and random AVIs to work on Windows was bad...
The Gameboy Advance has a shitty screen, it has no touch sensitive capabilities, no built in memory, no operating system - nada.
It can play games for sure, but to make it into a decent PDA you may as well toss the thing away and start from scratch.
I have seen some companies produce MP3 players and cameras for the GBA, but frankly these things are so laughably clunky and so close to a better dedicated unit pricewise that you may as well not bother.
Hell, someone was mentioning doing a GBA organizer cartridge not long back, but for the amount of money it would cost you could almost pick up a Zire, and certainly afford cheaper organizer from Casio or Oregon Scientific. Not only do you get a tap screen, or at least a full keyboard, but the thing probably offers considerably better functionality.
The computing power of PDAs these days is fast approaching the speed needed to emulate GBA carts, so if anything things are likely to happen the other way around. I see no reason that a Palm based device couldn't emulate the GBA in software. Throw in a little DRM and perhaps Nintendo would let you set up a store where people could download games to play on it.
Quite. In fact Everquest complete with various expansion packs graced the cover of a UK computer magazine recently. Thus proving that it is quite possible to give out the game like candy and still make money from the subscription. This is the way MMPORGs should go, since they ultimately make their money from the subscriptions. Do an AOL and practically force people to take your CDs and you'll make a shitload more money than you would otherwise.
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For example, some ISPs have a low-call or local number but charge a subscription, some have unlimited access (i.e. free calls) for a subscription and some others have a free sub but claw back some of the call charge. If you're a light net user you can save a fortune with the last option.
That CDMA isn't used boils down to common sense. GSM is used everywhere with few exceptions (even the US has GSM) so that is the baseline. It would be just stupid to choose some other standard and miss out on those lucrative roaming charges not to mention pissing off your customers at the same time.
This sounds like a wonderful device and well worth the money. Let's hope the assailant hasn't thought to wear rubber soled shoes and gloves.
Obviously you couldn't do that with a transparent screen, making it kind of pointless. You might as well stick with a normal speedo and save your money for all the difference it would make. In fact, a transparent screen would likely impair visibility which might make it more dangerous than a normal dash.
I would best classify this security as minimal or even dangerous since it instills a false sense of security.
However when it comes to sensitive information which, if stolen means a lot of grief for me, I'd rather not enter it into the browser anyway. It's no big deal to fire up password safe and cut and paste values if I have to. Frankly I just don't think it is a good idea to store stuff like that in the browser anyway. Browsers are exploited all the time. I would rather the straightforward and well designed standalone password safe for that kind of thing, especially as it has a comment field so I can add extra notes such as challenge codes, expiry dates, pin numbers etc.
Personally however I'd recommend Password Safe for storing things like credit card numbers, bank details etc. It's not that I don't trust Mozilla to do the job, but I just prefer a standalone and simple program for that kind of thing. It also lets you add comments and notes and it's easy to copy it onto a keyring USB device and carry it around with the database.
It's only a record to do with hiring if you recognize it as such. Obviously if you are not hiring, the position doesn't exist, is by invitation only, or by application form then it doesn't matter what unsolicited crap you receive. It can all go straight into the bin.
A resume isn't an application form any way. Make it company policy that all applications are by invitation only and must be mailed in on original application forms, not print outs. Then divert unsolicited resumes straight into the bit bucket.
So you could either run two mozilla.exe's, one with just the browser components / chrome and one with just the mail components / chrome, or you can run them in a single mozilla.exe where all the components are lumped together. This boils down to a configuration / packaging issue and either is possible right now. With careful design, the chrome and components in either case would be identical, but the config would determine how they were installed.
In my case, I prefer the tighter integration and therefore I'd take a hit on stability if need be, but someone who isn't could package the apps to run seperately. It should make no difference if the chrome is designed to run either way.
Now at a technical level, you would have to concern yourself with whether these two apps share a profile or have a seperate one, but profile sharing is in the code now so it's just a matter of fleshing out how these apps install and run and sticking to it.
The mail/news, composer, irc, js debugger, browser components in Mozilla may run in the same address space, but they are seperate on disk. Overlays are used to tie them all together. There isn't much spaghetti code at all, though there are places where the seperation between parts could be greater.
The intent of Mozilla Mail / Firebird will achieve that but it should still be possible if so desired to run the apps as a single executable. This is the difference between run the XPCOM components / jar files in two seperate processes or a single one, nothing more. So it should be possible to satisfy everyone.
Personally I just take the hit on startup for Mozilla since I have it running all day so a few seconds startup makes no odds. I also reckon that aside from a few annoyances the mail/news component is second to none (and miles better than Outlook Express) and needless to say I use that all the time too. So in my case, it makes sense to use Mozilla.
Firebird obviously is useful if you want to use some other mail application but I think it is unwise to split the apps out without good reason, especially for the large number of people who love the integration of Mozilla.
I would much prefer this - design the apps so they can run seperately if desired, but also allow them to run in the same address space using chrome overlays. That is pretty much all Moz is doing right now, but it could be done much more cleanly so that you could mix and match the bits. This is quite feasible to do and it means the best of both worlds for everyone.
The Mozilla browser is based on XUL. So is Firebird.
Personally I think Dysons are expensive so I really can't fathom what mindset you must be in to stump up the cash for something costing three or four times as much again.
I'm not saying all these issues would magically disappear if XFree86 was dumped, but there is something to be said for considering porting GTK / QT to either a native fb, or some sexy SDL layer that completely negating the need to have X or a WM there at all. Clean GNOME apps (i.e. those with no X at all), shouldn't care if GTK is compiled for fb or X, the same way as OpenGL apps don't care if they're running in software, hardware, X or fb. If people wanted remote desktops, they could run X rootless on top, which is what OS X does quite well.
If the answer is not at all, I think both names are quite capable of coexisting. And if by chance they do occur in the same context, a simple prefix of IB or Mozilla will make it clear what is being referred to. Anyway, it is stated in the MZ article that Firebird is the codename, so it's not likely to come into widespread usage outside of the Mozilla community anyway.
Frankly this story really is a storm in a teacup but the flames are being fanned by hacks like Festa who go angling for negative stories about Mozilla and don't let trivalities such as the facts get in the way. It tells that no one close to Mozilla "could be reached for comment" because everyone knows there are a couple of jerks with chips on their shoulder that right the most negative and distorted crap about the project.
Hence the reason MozillaZine felt it necessary to present their own view. I suspect most people, even in the database side know this is all rather silly.
Sorry by legal tender, I was referring to the "I promise to pay the bearer" part which obligates the Bank of England to accept them, not for anyone else to.
Coming from the Euro zone where every note has a hologram, I can assure you that the paper falls apart way before the hologram. So such concerns are not relevant. With that said, the 5 notes do become very tattered after being circulated for a while.
It is my understanding that British currency and presumably most other countries is legal tender forever. Possibly not the coins, but notes can be exchanged at the Bank of England or wherever at face value for new ones even twenty years on. In the euro zone it is still possible to get rid of old notes but you have to turn up at a central bank to do it.
What's your point, that you can't say a movie sucks unless you to produce one yourself? I hope not because that would be an idiotic statement.
That was the problem with the prequels. Great CGI used excessively and lousy script, acting, direction and everything else. I don't blame the actors for their wooden performances, after all it must be be impossible to deliver a natural performance when nearly the entire film is shot on bluescreen. Perhaps if Lucas bothered to spend more time on the other things he might make a better film for once. I don't hold out much hope for episode three. I wonder if people will even bother queueing for it it this time.
And I thought getting codecs and random AVIs to work on Windows was bad...
It can play games for sure, but to make it into a decent PDA you may as well toss the thing away and start from scratch.
I have seen some companies produce MP3 players and cameras for the GBA, but frankly these things are so laughably clunky and so close to a better dedicated unit pricewise that you may as well not bother.
Hell, someone was mentioning doing a GBA organizer cartridge not long back, but for the amount of money it would cost you could almost pick up a Zire, and certainly afford cheaper organizer from Casio or Oregon Scientific. Not only do you get a tap screen, or at least a full keyboard, but the thing probably offers considerably better functionality.
The computing power of PDAs these days is fast approaching the speed needed to emulate GBA carts, so if anything things are likely to happen the other way around. I see no reason that a Palm based device couldn't emulate the GBA in software. Throw in a little DRM and perhaps Nintendo would let you set up a store where people could download games to play on it.
Quite. In fact Everquest complete with various expansion packs graced the cover of a UK computer magazine recently. Thus proving that it is quite possible to give out the game like candy and still make money from the subscription. This is the way MMPORGs should go, since they ultimately make their money from the subscriptions. Do an AOL and practically force people to take your CDs and you'll make a shitload more money than you would otherwise.