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Because when Firefox crashes people will send the bug reports to Microsoft. There is no incentive for Microsoft to bundle Firefox, and a very real cost if they do. It just doesn't make sense.
I personally like how I can close all of the windows and keep the app open. I found it to be really dumb until I started using a mac. I can have Mail.app running and checking my mail, but not have any window for it at all. Very nice. Also, it's not a behavior that was introduced with Mac OS X. AFAIK close window and quit being two separate functions goes all the way back to the first Mac that supported multi-tasking.
Also, I think you'll have to dive deep into the realm of Mac appologists before you find someone willing to defend Finder. It's a piece of crap. Many in the Mac community are calling for Apple to ditch it and either re-write it, or just buy the rights to PathFinder and replace it.
I think a lot of it is the Mac felt like a lot more effort was put into the usability of the GUI. Dialog boxes are a prime example, instead of something like "Save document? OK, No, Cancel" you'd get "Save document? Save, Don't Save, Cancel". So just looking at the button you were clicking would tell you exactly what was going to happen, even if you didn't read the text of the dialog box. It also used to have a very consitent look throughout, unfortunately that's not the case any more, but a lot of us have our fingers crossed for 10.5.
Also, as weird as it sounds, I feel a lot of the eye candy on the Mac serves a purpose. Windows on the Mac have little to no border around them, so the drop shadow on the active window really makes it stand out. Transparency in Terminal can let you read what's behind it and is really helpful for following instructions off of web pages. In Vista it looks like the transparency also comes with a bluring effect which reduces it to nothing but eye candy, and pretty dirty looking eye candy in my opinion (especially when you start piling windows on top of each other).
In the end I think it mostly comes down to personal preference. I had been mainly a Windows user for years after giving up on Linux on my desktop. After I got my Powerbook I can't stand using Windows machines at work anymore, they just feel clunky.
ID isn't a theory, it's a hypothesis and a really bad one at that. Gravity is a theory, germ theory of disease is a theory, cellular structure is a theory. These are all things that are accepted as facts by most everyone with some degree of scientific education. ID makes no predictions, it offers no way to test it, and has no evidence to support it. It doesn't belong is science class. Maybe in a social studies or world religion class, and then presented along side other creation myths.
Don't bother with the source. Look at the file history.dat in the Firefox user profile. Guess what it contains. After hours of work I wrote a program to decipher the data:
cat history.dat | grep '=http://'
Hard work! Yes there is a lot of data other than strict URLs in there, and some of them span lines, so a simple grep isn't perfect, but it's not hard to get a basic list, and like other people have said, Firefox is open source it would be easy to write a program to pull all of this data.
I think we also need an Apache module for it. Something so you can just drop your file into a directory and Apache will automatically act as a tracker for it and seed it to a predefined list of mirrors. Instead of having a list of mirrors to download from, you could download from all of the mirrors at once and spread the load out far more evenly.
Copyright infringement is theft, at least in the US. Like it or not that's how the law is currently written. If you don't agree with it, try to get the law changed, but simply saying it's not theft won't make it true.
My co-worker has an IBM laptop that has been sent in more times than my PowerBook. OMG IBM is a horrible company. WAAAAAH! For the record IBM actually did a damn good job with the replacement. He shipped it out Friday, it was back Monday and has been working fine since. My PowerBook has been trucking along just fine since I got it. No company has perfect quality control, no one could afford the products if they did.
Mac OS X, Linux, Darwin, a number of other BSDs. If you fish out an old copy of PPC NT4 you can probably install Windows on it. Just because it doesn't run Windows XP doesn't make it any less open.
Honestly I think there is just less desire for people to install other OSes on their Macs. I wouldn't give up OS X for anything. It has all of the UNIX bits that I actually want, a kickass GUI that just works, and most of the apps I need. I keep a Windows box around for the few apps that I need that don't run on OS X (4 to be exact, and two of them are made by Microsoft).
Sure I could run Linux on my G5, but what would it solve? The apps I need Windows for still need Windows. The Mac apps I have are gone, unless I run Mac on Linux, and I'm stuck with a vastly inferior UI. What's the point?
Shouldn't feed the trolls.....The Intel Macs are pre-release hardware that require an NDA to obtain. If you don't agree with those restrictions, don't sign the NDA. This isn't uncommon, nor is it unreasonable. It's business.
But if you leave your front door open you are partially to blame. The person who breaks in is still ultimately responsible, but you have to take some basic responsibility.
And that's if you actually live near the store. My old house was about 20 minutes from the local *shudder* Blockbuster. So right there you're looking at 45 minutes alone in travel time, plus the time spent browsing through the new release section that contains movies from the past 3 years.
I could see the jumping as just a way to get a few more seconds to come up with a way out. Say you jump off a cliff and there just happens to be a tree branch that you can grab, you live. If not, you die, but you would have died anyway.
The study says you should get about 10 to 15 minutes of sun exposure a day. Sun screen is still good for you, and it's not an excuse to lay on the beach for hours tanning. Basically you just need to go for a short walk outside every day, which is good for you for other reasons, and you'll be ok.
Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't the charge much, much lower (somewhere around a couple hundred dollars), and at the time tape was the most effective way to distribute the source code.
That's great and all, but it in no way addresses what the parent said. Netscape 8 uses IE to render "trusted" sites and Gecko to render "non-trusted" sites. It has nothing at all to do with filtering content, just how it renders content.
I'm sorry but you did not got 640x480@60fps using a TV Wonder. You have 640x480@59.94fps interlaced. That translates to either 640x240@59.94fps or 640x480@29.97fps.
The way things work in a demo and the real world are really much different. Video conferencing is still at a point where you need a tech at each end of the call, and you need time to do a dry run before hand to make sure that everything works ok. There is nothing more annoying than having the PHB complain that the video is chopy due to the poor upstream bandwith on the other side, while you're trying to figure out why they can't hear the audio.
The Linux man page (last updated 2001-04-18) states that all data should be written to stable storage. To me stable means that if power is pulled that data is still there. It does however, give a warning in the NOTES section that if write cache is enabled on the drive, "the data may not really be on permanent storage." I don't know if that warning is just there because of observed behavior, or if the various specs allow said behavior.
No iPod has ever (officially) supported USB 1.1. You can buy USB 2.0 or FireWire PCI cards for about $30. Honestly for the absurd speed increase you get going from USB 1.1 to 2.0 or FireWire, it's not worth even trying to make an iPod play nice with USB 1.1. My guess though is that it will work, just very very slowly.
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Because when Firefox crashes people will send the bug reports to Microsoft. There is no incentive for Microsoft to bundle Firefox, and a very real cost if they do. It just doesn't make sense.
I personally like how I can close all of the windows and keep the app open. I found it to be really dumb until I started using a mac. I can have Mail.app running and checking my mail, but not have any window for it at all. Very nice. Also, it's not a behavior that was introduced with Mac OS X. AFAIK close window and quit being two separate functions goes all the way back to the first Mac that supported multi-tasking.
Also, I think you'll have to dive deep into the realm of Mac appologists before you find someone willing to defend Finder. It's a piece of crap. Many in the Mac community are calling for Apple to ditch it and either re-write it, or just buy the rights to PathFinder and replace it.
I think a lot of it is the Mac felt like a lot more effort was put into the usability of the GUI. Dialog boxes are a prime example, instead of something like "Save document? OK, No, Cancel" you'd get "Save document? Save, Don't Save, Cancel". So just looking at the button you were clicking would tell you exactly what was going to happen, even if you didn't read the text of the dialog box. It also used to have a very consitent look throughout, unfortunately that's not the case any more, but a lot of us have our fingers crossed for 10.5.
Also, as weird as it sounds, I feel a lot of the eye candy on the Mac serves a purpose. Windows on the Mac have little to no border around them, so the drop shadow on the active window really makes it stand out. Transparency in Terminal can let you read what's behind it and is really helpful for following instructions off of web pages. In Vista it looks like the transparency also comes with a bluring effect which reduces it to nothing but eye candy, and pretty dirty looking eye candy in my opinion (especially when you start piling windows on top of each other).
In the end I think it mostly comes down to personal preference. I had been mainly a Windows user for years after giving up on Linux on my desktop. After I got my Powerbook I can't stand using Windows machines at work anymore, they just feel clunky.
ID isn't a theory, it's a hypothesis and a really bad one at that. Gravity is a theory, germ theory of disease is a theory, cellular structure is a theory. These are all things that are accepted as facts by most everyone with some degree of scientific education. ID makes no predictions, it offers no way to test it, and has no evidence to support it. It doesn't belong is science class. Maybe in a social studies or world religion class, and then presented along side other creation myths.
Man, you are full of yourself and a moron. Good job!
Don't bother with the source. Look at the file history.dat in the Firefox user profile. Guess what it contains. After hours of work I wrote a program to decipher the data:
cat history.dat | grep '=http://'
Hard work! Yes there is a lot of data other than strict URLs in there, and some of them span lines, so a simple grep isn't perfect, but it's not hard to get a basic list, and like other people have said, Firefox is open source it would be easy to write a program to pull all of this data.
I think we also need an Apache module for it. Something so you can just drop your file into a directory and Apache will automatically act as a tracker for it and seed it to a predefined list of mirrors. Instead of having a list of mirrors to download from, you could download from all of the mirrors at once and spread the load out far more evenly.
Copyright infringement is theft, at least in the US. Like it or not that's how the law is currently written. If you don't agree with it, try to get the law changed, but simply saying it's not theft won't make it true.
My co-worker has an IBM laptop that has been sent in more times than my PowerBook. OMG IBM is a horrible company. WAAAAAH! For the record IBM actually did a damn good job with the replacement. He shipped it out Friday, it was back Monday and has been working fine since. My PowerBook has been trucking along just fine since I got it. No company has perfect quality control, no one could afford the products if they did.
Mac OS X, Linux, Darwin, a number of other BSDs. If you fish out an old copy of PPC NT4 you can probably install Windows on it. Just because it doesn't run Windows XP doesn't make it any less open.
Honestly I think there is just less desire for people to install other OSes on their Macs. I wouldn't give up OS X for anything. It has all of the UNIX bits that I actually want, a kickass GUI that just works, and most of the apps I need. I keep a Windows box around for the few apps that I need that don't run on OS X (4 to be exact, and two of them are made by Microsoft).
Sure I could run Linux on my G5, but what would it solve? The apps I need Windows for still need Windows. The Mac apps I have are gone, unless I run Mac on Linux, and I'm stuck with a vastly inferior UI. What's the point?
Shouldn't feed the trolls.....The Intel Macs are pre-release hardware that require an NDA to obtain. If you don't agree with those restrictions, don't sign the NDA. This isn't uncommon, nor is it unreasonable. It's business.
But if you leave your front door open you are partially to blame. The person who breaks in is still ultimately responsible, but you have to take some basic responsibility.
And that's if you actually live near the store. My old house was about 20 minutes from the local *shudder* Blockbuster. So right there you're looking at 45 minutes alone in travel time, plus the time spent browsing through the new release section that contains movies from the past 3 years.
I could see the jumping as just a way to get a few more seconds to come up with a way out. Say you jump off a cliff and there just happens to be a tree branch that you can grab, you live. If not, you die, but you would have died anyway.
The study says you should get about 10 to 15 minutes of sun exposure a day. Sun screen is still good for you, and it's not an excuse to lay on the beach for hours tanning. Basically you just need to go for a short walk outside every day, which is good for you for other reasons, and you'll be ok.
I got high score on Photoshop CS 2 Hyper Extreme Fighting Edition.
Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't the charge much, much lower (somewhere around a couple hundred dollars), and at the time tape was the most effective way to distribute the source code.
That's great and all, but it in no way addresses what the parent said. Netscape 8 uses IE to render "trusted" sites and Gecko to render "non-trusted" sites. It has nothing at all to do with filtering content, just how it renders content.
I'm sorry but you did not got 640x480@60fps using a TV Wonder. You have 640x480@59.94fps interlaced. That translates to either 640x240@59.94fps or 640x480@29.97fps.
The way things work in a demo and the real world are really much different. Video conferencing is still at a point where you need a tech at each end of the call, and you need time to do a dry run before hand to make sure that everything works ok. There is nothing more annoying than having the PHB complain that the video is chopy due to the poor upstream bandwith on the other side, while you're trying to figure out why they can't hear the audio.
Video conferencing is just plain not worth it.
Or you could buy a Smart Board which does this job a lot better. Pointing a camera at a white board really doesn't work very well.
Because he asked for a camera, not a way to show his monitor? Or maybe because he mentioned face-to-face comunication? Just a thought...
I remember most floppies being advertised as 1.4Megabytes, which is accurate (actually I think it's .0625MB less than the actual capacity).
The Linux man page (last updated 2001-04-18) states that all data should be written to stable storage. To me stable means that if power is pulled that data is still there. It does however, give a warning in the NOTES section that if write cache is enabled on the drive, "the data may not really be on permanent storage." I don't know if that warning is just there because of observed behavior, or if the various specs allow said behavior.
No iPod has ever (officially) supported USB 1.1. You can buy USB 2.0 or FireWire PCI cards for about $30. Honestly for the absurd speed increase you get going from USB 1.1 to 2.0 or FireWire, it's not worth even trying to make an iPod play nice with USB 1.1. My guess though is that it will work, just very very slowly.