Oh, I guess you mean that same kind of "support" that is offered to Debian users using the Linux kernel;)
So, err, Darwin doesn't count? Mach + BSD.. sounds like 2 kernels to me.
-- Watching Idiocracy and posting on Slashdot at the same time is, umm, spooky.
Ironically relevant to your sig, "BSD" in this instance is referring to userland, not kernel. You really can't have 2 kernels at the same time (virtualization aside), unless you code a new, hybrid kernel or something...in which case it would be appropriate to give it a completely new name.
I've seen a lot of these posts...are Slashdotters in general unable to tell the difference between the OS as a whole and the kernel? Scary...
Google notes that more than half (57%) of the takedown notices it has received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act 1998, were sent by business targeting competitors and over one third (37%) of notices were not valid copyright claims.
There are a lot of things that the folks at Google are capable of doing, and I believe "counting" is one of them.:-D
...statistics on how much traffic ramped UP in the days and weeks before April 1st. I imagine that some where afraid of the new laws, and they where getting in some last-minute downloads before they had to cut the line and look for new methods to hide their traffic.
Sorry if this goes against the typical Slashdot ideology against outsourcing, but the truth is I feel more sorry for workers in developing countries who might not have running water or electricity 24 hours a day, than I do for an American programmer making $80k a year who might have to look a little harder for a job (that includes me). Spread the wealth. There's enough to go around.
I'm sorry, could you repeat that? I was too busy filing for unemployment because there are no jobs left in America at all. how sorry will you feel for American s when WE don't have running water and electricity anymore?
No, seriously, at least give it a chance to be useful. Your prejudgment seems unwarranted, unfounded, and unnecessary. I know I'll at least try it out before either ignoring it or destroying it.
No, I'm sure it's great. I have a 100MHz system bus, however, so a page load from Google Maps do to a live preview of an incomplete address between each f'ing character I type is going to make Firefox unusable for me.
Most of the complaints about Firefox could be completely and totally eradicated if they would just make a fast, bare-bones browser and throw all these features that make it great into Add-Ons which are enabled by default. Don't want the Awesome Bar? Disable. Do you hate the Download Manager? Replace it. Want a screaming fast, bare-bones browser? Disable all the plug-ins.
Maybe in the process, they'll design a good way to allow themes to be universally applied across XUL windows in FF so that 3rd party plug-ins don't have to look ugly or use a custom style (or break under non-standard themes)
the Opera browser has had this for at least a couple versions already - if you enter ' g (search phrase here) ' it will google for you, e for ebay, etc etc.
This is old hat, no?
Mozilla has had this since it was Netscape Communicator, in the form of Keyword Searches. The new feature here is that the Awesome Bar will show a little pop up of your search results as you type. That's just what I need on my crusty old machine, a Google Maps page load between each keystroke.
Maybe my first Firefox Add-On will be something that allows you to disable the bloat features...
The idea is interesting, but wouldn't this be better served as an add-on? That would keep Firefox true to it's add-on roots, IMO.
I completely agree. Now that I see the pictures, it looks more like combining the Awesome Bar with Keyword Searches, both of which should ALSO be add-ons. I have an older machine and this looks like it will make my Firefox run like crap everytime I try to type in the address bar (which is a lot).
The thing about System 1 through System 7 and Mac OS 8 through Mac OS 9 was that you could actually control most functions with the keyboard (at least in the Finder) by typing what you wanted.
Starting from the desktop:
Type "Mac" (selects "Macintosh HD")
Cmd-"o" (opens it)
Type "Doc" (selects Documents)
Cmd-"o" (opens it)
Type <the first few letters of the document you want> (selects it)
Cmd-P (opens the document in it's native program and automatically prints it)
So you certainly could navigate it with the keyboard, and although there is no pipe or/dev/null, in the day it was certainly adequate for what the computer was designed to do. A Mac 512K was not a mainframe.
type "map cleveland street london" to bring up a Google Map of that location, or "amazon-search the great gatsby" to find that book on Amazon
Users can already do that with the search text field.
Actually, a feature which has been present since Communicator (I believe) does exactly this - right click on any input element on a page and select "Add a Keyword for this Search..."
Funny thing that this article talks about typing "map some address" in the bar to get to Google maps - I've been doing that for at least a year now. I don't even keep my Search Bar visible, I can just type "google <whatever I'm looking for>" in the Location Bar. I'm not even sure why this is news?
...I do this now with Keyword Search bookmarks. I actually have one called "map" which does exactly what is stated in the summary - searches google maps with the remainder of the input. "map 1 Infinite Loop Cupertino CA" takes me to Apple, for example.
It seems as though instead of educating people how to use certain features, the FF developers would rather take the time to completely re-create them in order to get them noticed.
How about a "new feature" where you migrate all these extra functions into XPIs and allow us to strip the browser bare if we so wish? Wasn't that the reason for the plug-in architecture to begin with?
umpteen ad links, crapromedia, and god knows what else. Seriously, the URL size is like complaining while you urinate into the sea then saying it's affecting the tide level.
Point taken, but it's certainly a metaphor. If we spend that much on the URL, imagine what the wasteful content with all the JavaScript comments and extra whitespace is taking up...
..if URLs are such a huge waste, image the bandwidth used by the rest of the data in the HTTP protocol alone, content excluded.
Since web applications are getting so advanced, isn't it time we moved beyond the "interactive document" paradigm and developed something a little more efficient for the internet applications of tommorow?
DISCLAIMER: I myself have no idea where to begin on such a task, but it does seem that we've just been patching on to a technology that isn't mean for what we do with it; HTTP/HTML has it's place for certain, but we could and should do better, don't you think? Is anyone working on an alternative? With service providers constantly screaming about bandwidth, there must be a way to tighten the belt, so to speak...
I use the libpurple-based Mac OS X client Adium, and there is a plug-in available called Challenge/Response. This plug-in will intercept any messages from users not already on my buddy list and ask any question I like; if the user gets it right, I am asked to block/allow the user as if the plug-in wasn't even there. I used to be flooded with spam whenever I used my old MSN/Windows Live! account, but now I never get one bit of spam.
Windows and Linux/*NIX users should check out Adium's sister project Pidgin, and you can use the Bot Sentry or pidgin-privacy-please plug-ins to the same effect.
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Pretty much like a centaur is a man with a horse's body AND a horse with a human head.
That's Two-Things-ism!
It would be interesting to know whether there are some practical reasons to want this.
Maybe the FreeBSD kernel has driver support you need that the Linux kernel doesn't... oh wait what am I saying? ;-)
Oh, I guess you mean that same kind of "support" that is offered to Debian users using the Linux kernel ;)
So, err, Darwin doesn't count? Mach + BSD .. sounds like 2 kernels to me.
--
Watching Idiocracy and posting on Slashdot at the same time is, umm, spooky.
Ironically relevant to your sig, "BSD" in this instance is referring to userland, not kernel. You really can't have 2 kernels at the same time (virtualization aside), unless you code a new, hybrid kernel or something...in which case it would be appropriate to give it a completely new name.
I've seen a lot of these posts...are Slashdotters in general unable to tell the difference between the OS as a whole and the kernel? Scary...
Google notes that more than half (57%) of the takedown notices it has received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act 1998, were sent by business targeting competitors and over one third (37%) of notices were not valid copyright claims.
There are a lot of things that the folks at Google are capable of doing, and I believe "counting" is one of them. :-D
But as FreeBSD comes with BSD license, wouldn't it make GNU/BSD Linux?
Erm, no. The Linux kernel is gone.
(GNU/Linux - Linux) + FreeBSD = GNU/FreeBSD
I have to admit, the fanbois are making me homicidal.
Welcome to how I've felt as a Mac user since 1998. *sigh*
...statistics on how much traffic ramped UP in the days and weeks before April 1st. I imagine that some where afraid of the new laws, and they where getting in some last-minute downloads before they had to cut the line and look for new methods to hide their traffic.
Sorry if this goes against the typical Slashdot ideology against outsourcing, but the truth is I feel more sorry for workers in developing countries who might not have running water or electricity 24 hours a day, than I do for an American programmer making $80k a year who might have to look a little harder for a job (that includes me). Spread the wealth. There's enough to go around.
I'm sorry, could you repeat that? I was too busy filing for unemployment because there are no jobs left in America at all. how sorry will you feel for American s when WE don't have running water and electricity anymore?
One-hundred forty;
that is all the space you get.
Haiku is covered...
Because new == bad
We know.
No, seriously, at least give it a chance to be useful. Your prejudgment seems unwarranted, unfounded, and unnecessary. I know I'll at least try it out before either ignoring it or destroying it.
No, I'm sure it's great. I have a 100MHz system bus, however, so a page load from Google Maps do to a live preview of an incomplete address between each f'ing character I type is going to make Firefox unusable for me.
Most of the complaints about Firefox could be completely and totally eradicated if they would just make a fast, bare-bones browser and throw all these features that make it great into Add-Ons which are enabled by default. Don't want the Awesome Bar? Disable. Do you hate the Download Manager? Replace it. Want a screaming fast, bare-bones browser? Disable all the plug-ins.
Maybe in the process, they'll design a good way to allow themes to be universally applied across XUL windows in FF so that 3rd party plug-ins don't have to look ugly or use a custom style (or break under non-standard themes)
the Opera browser has had this for at least a couple versions already - if you enter ' g (search phrase here) ' it will google for you, e for ebay, etc etc.
This is old hat, no?
Mozilla has had this since it was Netscape Communicator, in the form of Keyword Searches. The new feature here is that the Awesome Bar will show a little pop up of your search results as you type. That's just what I need on my crusty old machine, a Google Maps page load between each keystroke.
Maybe my first Firefox Add-On will be something that allows you to disable the bloat features...
Screenshot from article
The idea is interesting, but wouldn't this be better served as an add-on? That would keep Firefox true to it's add-on roots, IMO.
I completely agree. Now that I see the pictures, it looks more like combining the Awesome Bar with Keyword Searches, both of which should ALSO be add-ons. I have an older machine and this looks like it will make my Firefox run like crap everytime I try to type in the address bar (which is a lot).
Meanwhile, Safari gets faster every version...
The thing about System 1 through System 7 and Mac OS 8 through Mac OS 9 was that you could actually control most functions with the keyboard (at least in the Finder) by typing what you wanted.
Starting from the desktop:
So you certainly could navigate it with the keyboard, and although there is no pipe or /dev/null, in the day it was certainly adequate for what the computer was designed to do. A Mac 512K was not a mainframe.
Users can already do that with the search text field.
Actually, a feature which has been present since Communicator (I believe) does exactly this - right click on any input element on a page and select "Add a Keyword for this Search..."
Funny thing that this article talks about typing "map some address" in the bar to get to Google maps - I've been doing that for at least a year now. I don't even keep my Search Bar visible, I can just type "google <whatever I'm looking for>" in the Location Bar. I'm not even sure why this is news?
...I do this now with Keyword Search bookmarks. I actually have one called "map" which does exactly what is stated in the summary - searches google maps with the remainder of the input. "map 1 Infinite Loop Cupertino CA" takes me to Apple, for example.
It seems as though instead of educating people how to use certain features, the FF developers would rather take the time to completely re-create them in order to get them noticed.
How about a "new feature" where you migrate all these extra functions into XPIs and allow us to strip the browser bare if we so wish? Wasn't that the reason for the plug-in architecture to begin with?
So this genius argument continues with, I was just downloading the .torrent files, not the copyrighted material.
Well that might work if you weren't actually downloading the copyrighted material.
Which has been the argument since the great great grandparent post, you illiterate troll.
Win.
Two words: Proxy cache.
facebook.com/home.php != facebook.com/home.php?ref=logo
...and you have hit the nail on the head. Well put.
umpteen ad links, crapromedia, and god knows what else. Seriously, the URL size is like complaining while you urinate into the sea then saying it's affecting the tide level.
Point taken, but it's certainly a metaphor. If we spend that much on the URL, imagine what the wasteful content with all the JavaScript comments and extra whitespace is taking up...
..if URLs are such a huge waste, image the bandwidth used by the rest of the data in the HTTP protocol alone, content excluded.
Since web applications are getting so advanced, isn't it time we moved beyond the "interactive document" paradigm and developed something a little more efficient for the internet applications of tommorow?
DISCLAIMER: I myself have no idea where to begin on such a task, but it does seem that we've just been patching on to a technology that isn't mean for what we do with it; HTTP/HTML has it's place for certain, but we could and should do better, don't you think? Is anyone working on an alternative? With service providers constantly screaming about bandwidth, there must be a way to tighten the belt, so to speak...
I do something similar to this, I just ask the chatter if they understand the difference between .002 dollars and .002 cents.
BREAKING NEWS: Verizon Loses Thousands of Customers as No One Can Get Through to Tech Support; Anti-Spam Program Cited As Cause
I use the libpurple-based Mac OS X client Adium, and there is a plug-in available called Challenge/Response. This plug-in will intercept any messages from users not already on my buddy list and ask any question I like; if the user gets it right, I am asked to block/allow the user as if the plug-in wasn't even there. I used to be flooded with spam whenever I used my old MSN/Windows Live! account, but now I never get one bit of spam.
Windows and Linux/*NIX users should check out Adium's sister project Pidgin, and you can use the Bot Sentry or pidgin-privacy-please plug-ins to the same effect.
A system where each user is given a unique key with which to authenticate the game online in order to play?
Sounds familiar...
Oh, you mean this company is not going to pay me and I should work for free?
Read. The. Fucking. Article.
No, really.
Lower UIDs concur.