Phoenix isn't SUPPOSED to do that! Phoenix is just a browser. Mozilla is a suite of internet applications that includes HTML authoring. Phoenix is just the browsing components of Mozilla stripped out and refined to provide a smaller, faster, simpler interface.
Correct, and right now if I mosey up the street to Brown University and look at what they're using I'll see doctors looking at bumpmapped glossy human hearts jerking around on screens. Stippling will allow them to get what they want with a LOT less computer horsepower than they currently have to use (also, I bet stippled graphics are easier to pipe over the Internet2 pipe than full-color rendered 3D)
That doesn't seem like proper behavior, you're right. File a bug at bugzilla.mozillla.org. That's the best way to get things changed in most open source projects (besides fixing it yourself)
This isn't how version numbers work here in MozillaWorld. any release without an alpha/beta/nightly on it is 'stable'. 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2 are all 'stable' 'branches' off the unstable 'trunk'. right now the trunk is moving towards 1.3, after some things get settled in stone, they will make a copy of the trunk and start hacking out the bugs and getting it ready for prime-time, after it's reasonably well fixed it will be released as 'stable'. 1.0x are stable, yes, but they are no more stable (and possibly less so) than the 1.1 and 1.2 releases as the focus of most recent development has been on these more feature-filled releases.
Except it's not STEALING by LAW if it's just for my own personal use. Yes we're getting it without paying for it, but it's not the same as getting it without paying for it and then SELLING it. When you don't have a license to it all you can do is look/listen and pass it on, not make money off it. This is what the laws are all about, they were made under the assumption that the citizens have the right to access ALL the information and the copyright holder has the right to SELL it.
Ahh, but there is a point to having very small PCs like this. I have an EPIA here that I use to clone hard drives at client's sites (so I don't build monsters out of their machines while cloning). I also take it to sites where I know I'll be bored, I plug it into the customer's 'net connection and surf all day while I wait for the phone to ring. Sometimes I use it to show off a product, like a drop-in replacement to an aging 486 server, just to prove to clients that when I run a Linux server they won't notice a thing on their Windows workstations. I paid $400 for the thing, it's got 512MB RAM and a 5GB drive (which is plenty for what I do with it). I don't need to pay $1000 for a laptop with similar specs (and much less durable case). I'm not using it 'on the go' I'm using it 'there'.
Nineteen year olds DO have the time and enthusiasm needed to do this sort of thing. They also have fewer distractions and the tech runs deeper in them as they have been using it their ENTIRE lives. I wish my employers would take me seriously and not think of me as 'the kid', I can run circles around most of their Systems Engineers.
I would rethink that. I'm not sure HOW astrology works, but it seems to have a better-than-average way of predicting people's behavior. I always try to get my coworker's birthdays so I can run them past my girlfriend. I would read "Dancing Naked in the Mind Field", besides being a great book (by a nobel-prize winning biochemist) it has an interesting chapter on accuracy of astrology.
You think the Luna UI is professional? I think using XP is like eating a lollipop. I find XP amazingly frustrating, it's always trying to tell me something, or have me sign up for something, or install something, or hide something I want to get at. A professional UI would be one that lets me get what I do done without any B.S. I use WindowMaker (which I think any smart individual can figure out in about 5 minutes) because it doesn't present me with screen clutter and I get to work without a file manager sitting in the background. As for easy to use? The windows GUI has been the same since '95, so everyone is familiar with it, XP is just the same GUI 'dressed' in puffy pixmaps, just because everyone is already comfortable with it doesn't make it easy to use or professional.
It's not theft because the costs to make it are fixed. The first CD cost 2 million dollars, every other CD after that cost about $1, and every time somebody who WOULDN'T have BOUGHT it listened to it it cost NOTHING. You can't apply the same rules to information as you do to physical goods, they are too different in nature.
AFAIK 'Gravity Waves' are not bound by the speed of light, they are instantaneous. This is coming from a dark corner in the back of my mind which I haven't visited in some time. I think I remembered something about gravity being above-and-beyond light and time in the cosmic pecking order. Also bear in mind that this collision would be nothing as the effect of it will decrease on the square of the radius (another dark corner of my mind) like light; Don't buy earthquake insurance yet folks.
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I've used MyNapster (free, GPL, Win32, no spyware) for a long time now, the latest version is comparable to LimeWire, without the java-ickyness. MyNapster has a down-to-business interface and some cool tools to visualize the parts of the Gnutella network you can see. Give it a whirl if you can. On Linux I run GTK-Gnutella, because it has geeky features and I dig the interface.
The big deal to me is that the GM strains are 'owned' by the companies that make them. The companies that make these strains (which are probably healthy and harmless) have every legal right to enforce ownership of their Intellectual Property. The IP in this case is a plant that has an unnatural advantage over competitors AND is grown alongside them. What happens when Monsanto sends you a cease-and-desist for growing corn you never planted, or never wanted? What realistic recourse do you have when a multi-billion dollar company with close political connections clamps down on you for violating IP laws? See Napster for an example, all they did was tell us where to get the songs.
I live in Providence, RI. It's too small a community to not help people out around here. I do work for ex employers all the time, they pay me, the job gets done, and I get excellent references when I look for better opportunities.
I keep trying to tell this to my employer. My company pays it's technicians 1/4th what the guys installing TVs at job sites get, we don't get benefits, often our shifts change from day to night (one day's notice), and most of us travel three hours daily to get to obscure school construction projects. Our managers wonder why we seem despondent and inattentive, I tell them that they would be too if they did a professional's work and got paid $12/hr, especially if the company was getting $140/hr for each of us to be onsite. There's only so long you can whip your workers before production starts DROPPING.
But filesystems are designed for single-host access. You need to have an advanced database-like FS to connect multiple hosts, I currently don't know of any consumer-available file systems that can do this. Perhaps it could be hacked into linux with a 'token' for writing, bigger buffers, message passing between hosts (locking and cache concurrency), and a bevy of other things to make it work. A better solution IMO is to build a databaseFS layer or module and rework an advanced filesystem (reiserFS?) for multiple access. You'd still need a FS daemon running on each host to broker transactions without hosing the disk. I am not a developer, but this seems like a reasonable way to handle it.
I don't know why, but my school (metcenter.org) switched to wintel after Gates threw money at us through the Gates Foundation. I think he donates the money for COMPUTERS, the schools can spen it however they want, but I think Gates has a strategy in Maine: Chip in a few million/year until the system relies on it and then attempt strong-arming them with the 'power of the purse'.
Probably it was heroin or something that did him in. Played through some withdrawl, then attempts to overcompensate in the crapper, takes too much and ends up dead.
Hmm, would it be possible for IBM or AMD to make a PowerPC chip on a ZIF riser and then Apple can buy an AltiVec unit (like an FPU in the old days, a seperate chip) from MOTO and stick it on the backside or next to the main CPU. Hell, you could order a mac with 1 CPU and 2 AVUs (AltiVec Units), 2 CPUs and 1 AVU, whatever the daughtercard can fit on it. That would be cool because file/DB/print/web servers don't need AltiVec, but workstations do. It would allow apple to fine-tune the tool for the job.
So look at Apple's documentation for OSX APIs, write code to provide similar functionality to Apple's APIs, and vendors will be able to recompile their OSX apps and sell them to the linux folks. Hell, I bet most of the functionality of the apple APIs could be provided using wrappers around existing linux-available libraries. Watch all sorts of games and other software from OSX come to linux. Call the project SOXwet please.
Well I drove like a decent human being from day one, as did many of my friends. Maybe it's because I got to borrow my grampa's old fold escort instead of having a sports car, maybe it's becuase I was a bike rider first and a driver second, or maybe I'm one of the many but invisible 'good' teenagers (excepting narcotic intake). I see asshole soccer moms, midlife crisis dads and ghetto superstars doing most of the dangerous driving around here (Providence, RI). Police need to be really proactive about nailing that guy who 'slips through' the light two seconds after it turns red and the lady that decides to cut through three lanes with little clearance and no warning. I wish the cops would keep themselves busy giving tickets and enforcing traffic decency instead of nailing hard-working kids with dimesacks or ecstasy rolls in their pockets.
All of my friends who rode bikes (the non-motorized breeds) regularly avoided getting in any accidents their first year of driving, almost everybody else hit someone. I think that most teenagers make bad drivers because they don't know how to 'feel' the road, make quick decisions, dodge trouble, and concentrate on their own accelerated motion. Wrecking a bike in traffic will teach you how to drive/ride defensively REAL quick. Not having a radio on the bike solidified the idea that the 'frills' or driving (cup-holders, radio, AC, all the knicknacks) are all secondary to driving.
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Phoenix isn't SUPPOSED to do that! Phoenix is just a browser. Mozilla is a suite of internet applications that includes HTML authoring. Phoenix is just the browsing components of Mozilla stripped out and refined to provide a smaller, faster, simpler interface.
Correct, and right now if I mosey up the street to Brown University and look at what they're using I'll see doctors looking at bumpmapped glossy human hearts jerking around on screens. Stippling will allow them to get what they want with a LOT less computer horsepower than they currently have to use (also, I bet stippled graphics are easier to pipe over the Internet2 pipe than full-color rendered 3D)
That doesn't seem like proper behavior, you're right. File a bug at bugzilla.mozillla.org. That's the best way to get things changed in most open source projects (besides fixing it yourself)
This isn't how version numbers work here in MozillaWorld. any release without an alpha/beta/nightly on it is 'stable'. 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2 are all 'stable' 'branches' off the unstable 'trunk'. right now the trunk is moving towards 1.3, after some things get settled in stone, they will make a copy of the trunk and start hacking out the bugs and getting it ready for prime-time, after it's reasonably well fixed it will be released as 'stable'. 1.0x are stable, yes, but they are no more stable (and possibly less so) than the 1.1 and 1.2 releases as the focus of most recent development has been on these more feature-filled releases.
Except it's not STEALING by LAW if it's just for my own personal use. Yes we're getting it without paying for it, but it's not the same as getting it without paying for it and then SELLING it. When you don't have a license to it all you can do is look/listen and pass it on, not make money off it. This is what the laws are all about, they were made under the assumption that the citizens have the right to access ALL the information and the copyright holder has the right to SELL it.
Ahh, but there is a point to having very small PCs like this. I have an EPIA here that I use to clone hard drives at client's sites (so I don't build monsters out of their machines while cloning). I also take it to sites where I know I'll be bored, I plug it into the customer's 'net connection and surf all day while I wait for the phone to ring. Sometimes I use it to show off a product, like a drop-in replacement to an aging 486 server, just to prove to clients that when I run a Linux server they won't notice a thing on their Windows workstations. I paid $400 for the thing, it's got 512MB RAM and a 5GB drive (which is plenty for what I do with it). I don't need to pay $1000 for a laptop with similar specs (and much less durable case). I'm not using it 'on the go' I'm using it 'there'.
Nineteen year olds DO have the time and enthusiasm needed to do this sort of thing. They also have fewer distractions and the tech runs deeper in them as they have been using it their ENTIRE lives. I wish my employers would take me seriously and not think of me as 'the kid', I can run circles around most of their Systems Engineers.
I would rethink that. I'm not sure HOW astrology works, but it seems to have a better-than-average way of predicting people's behavior. I always try to get my coworker's birthdays so I can run them past my girlfriend. I would read "Dancing Naked in the Mind Field", besides being a great book (by a nobel-prize winning biochemist) it has an interesting chapter on accuracy of astrology.
Damn straight it's not supported anymore, and now it's pissed. Congress should have passed the unemployment extensions, now we're all gonna get DOSed.
You think the Luna UI is professional? I think using XP is like eating a lollipop. I find XP amazingly frustrating, it's always trying to tell me something, or have me sign up for something, or install something, or hide something I want to get at. A professional UI would be one that lets me get what I do done without any B.S. I use WindowMaker (which I think any smart individual can figure out in about 5 minutes) because it doesn't present me with screen clutter and I get to work without a file manager sitting in the background. As for easy to use? The windows GUI has been the same since '95, so everyone is familiar with it, XP is just the same GUI 'dressed' in puffy pixmaps, just because everyone is already comfortable with it doesn't make it easy to use or professional.
I think I have one here... on my wrist.
It's not theft because the costs to make it are fixed. The first CD cost 2 million dollars, every other CD after that cost about $1, and every time somebody who WOULDN'T have BOUGHT it listened to it it cost NOTHING. You can't apply the same rules to information as you do to physical goods, they are too different in nature.
AFAIK 'Gravity Waves' are not bound by the speed of light, they are instantaneous. This is coming from a dark corner in the back of my mind which I haven't visited in some time. I think I remembered something about gravity being above-and-beyond light and time in the cosmic pecking order. Also bear in mind that this collision would be nothing as the effect of it will decrease on the square of the radius (another dark corner of my mind) like light; Don't buy earthquake insurance yet folks.
I've used MyNapster (free, GPL, Win32, no spyware) for a long time now, the latest version is comparable to LimeWire, without the java-ickyness. MyNapster has a down-to-business interface and some cool tools to visualize the parts of the Gnutella network you can see. Give it a whirl if you can. On Linux I run GTK-Gnutella, because it has geeky features and I dig the interface.
The big deal to me is that the GM strains are 'owned' by the companies that make them. The companies that make these strains (which are probably healthy and harmless) have every legal right to enforce ownership of their Intellectual Property. The IP in this case is a plant that has an unnatural advantage over competitors AND is grown alongside them. What happens when Monsanto sends you a cease-and-desist for growing corn you never planted, or never wanted? What realistic recourse do you have when a multi-billion dollar company with close political connections clamps down on you for violating IP laws? See Napster for an example, all they did was tell us where to get the songs.
I live in Providence, RI. It's too small a community to not help people out around here. I do work for ex employers all the time, they pay me, the job gets done, and I get excellent references when I look for better opportunities.
I keep trying to tell this to my employer. My company pays it's technicians 1/4th what the guys installing TVs at job sites get, we don't get benefits, often our shifts change from day to night (one day's notice), and most of us travel three hours daily to get to obscure school construction projects. Our managers wonder why we seem despondent and inattentive, I tell them that they would be too if they did a professional's work and got paid $12/hr, especially if the company was getting $140/hr for each of us to be onsite. There's only so long you can whip your workers before production starts DROPPING.
But filesystems are designed for single-host access. You need to have an advanced database-like FS to connect multiple hosts, I currently don't know of any consumer-available file systems that can do this. Perhaps it could be hacked into linux with a 'token' for writing, bigger buffers, message passing between hosts (locking and cache concurrency), and a bevy of other things to make it work. A better solution IMO is to build a databaseFS layer or module and rework an advanced filesystem (reiserFS?) for multiple access. You'd still need a FS daemon running on each host to broker transactions without hosing the disk. I am not a developer, but this seems like a reasonable way to handle it.
I don't know why, but my school (metcenter.org) switched to wintel after Gates threw money at us through the Gates Foundation. I think he donates the money for COMPUTERS, the schools can spen it however they want, but I think Gates has a strategy in Maine: Chip in a few million/year until the system relies on it and then attempt strong-arming them with the 'power of the purse'.
Probably it was heroin or something that did him in. Played through some withdrawl, then attempts to overcompensate in the crapper, takes too much and ends up dead.
Hmm, would it be possible for IBM or AMD to make a PowerPC chip on a ZIF riser and then Apple can buy an AltiVec unit (like an FPU in the old days, a seperate chip) from MOTO and stick it on the backside or next to the main CPU. Hell, you could order a mac with 1 CPU and 2 AVUs (AltiVec Units), 2 CPUs and 1 AVU, whatever the daughtercard can fit on it. That would be cool because file/DB/print/web servers don't need AltiVec, but workstations do. It would allow apple to fine-tune the tool for the job.
So look at Apple's documentation for OSX APIs, write code to provide similar functionality to Apple's APIs, and vendors will be able to recompile their OSX apps and sell them to the linux folks. Hell, I bet most of the functionality of the apple APIs could be provided using wrappers around existing linux-available libraries. Watch all sorts of games and other software from OSX come to linux. Call the project SOXwet please.
Well I drove like a decent human being from day one, as did many of my friends. Maybe it's because I got to borrow my grampa's old fold escort instead of having a sports car, maybe it's becuase I was a bike rider first and a driver second, or maybe I'm one of the many but invisible 'good' teenagers (excepting narcotic intake). I see asshole soccer moms, midlife crisis dads and ghetto superstars doing most of the dangerous driving around here (Providence, RI). Police need to be really proactive about nailing that guy who 'slips through' the light two seconds after it turns red and the lady that decides to cut through three lanes with little clearance and no warning. I wish the cops would keep themselves busy giving tickets and enforcing traffic decency instead of nailing hard-working kids with dimesacks or ecstasy rolls in their pockets.
All of my friends who rode bikes (the non-motorized breeds) regularly avoided getting in any accidents their first year of driving, almost everybody else hit someone. I think that most teenagers make bad drivers because they don't know how to 'feel' the road, make quick decisions, dodge trouble, and concentrate on their own accelerated motion. Wrecking a bike in traffic will teach you how to drive/ride defensively REAL quick. Not having a radio on the bike solidified the idea that the 'frills' or driving (cup-holders, radio, AC, all the knicknacks) are all secondary to driving.
Whoops, You're right, replace 'BSD' with 'Mach' in my comment for correct reading :-)