ease of use and user experience to the Windows desktop
Oh, you mean the desktop where apps implement features in a "standard" way. Win 95 is decent. XP is horrible, especially on a network. I find the windows desktop is too much crap stuffed in an inherently very simple interface. The result is bloat and stuff is just too hard to find.
The most important feature in 1.0 is that the api will now be stable for the 1.0.x series. This means a lot to galeon & co. Nobody is saying that 1.0 will be perfect, but since mozilla is a good browser suite already, the 1.0.x series is liiking very promising.
Re:You are Violating the DMCA
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Since hammers have been here a while longer than any painstation, shouldn't this be the other way around?
Imagine cellphones with scripting abilities... You could send an SMS which would forward itself to every number in your phonebook. It would probably bounce back and forth between a large number of people owning phones with wounerable scripting abilities and effectively flood entire GSM networks. Let's just hope M$ never makes a cellphone...
Actaully, the BSD license is nothing more than a university license to assure university research is free to use for *all* (including corporations) to use as they see fit. Where would the web be today if Mosaic was not licensed under a BSD-style license? Since a BSD-style license can require credit to be given to the original project, how about a "for original source see www.winehq.com"- style message. Not that I think it's better than LGPL. It's just not worse either.
You should try this for yourself. Once you do what you suggest, go check out some applets. Yes, the news ticker at java.sun.com works. But try almonst _anything_ more complicated.
I'ts time to start writing bug reports to Sun then. I have Linux with Blackdown's port of JDK 1.3.1 installed (it has the plugin too) and over 90% of all applets work nicely. Many old "Java 1.1" applets use deprecated java 1.0 API:s that might break without warning in newer JDKs. Applet writers should really start using Java2... (JRE => 1.2)
Right. Accidentaly touch the enter-key and there you go...Hrmm..as I was saying, this probably means hardware acceleration for the most used parts of the XP code, like the one generating GPF-messages and the 'trash HDD unnessecarily because the manufacturers pay us to do this so they can sell more expensive 7200 rpm HDDs'- feature.
It's not a double standard when you're discussing different things.
The Mac/Linux/*BSD crowd, overall, just tries to point out that the emperor has no clothes.
The emperor being Linux..?
These are *not* different things. Why can't they know they have the better OS the same way we know we have the better OS? Suppose an M$dot site would be discussing a M$-bashing letter from, say slashdot by bashing linux? Wouldn't such a discussion be just as much of a double standard as this one? Remember: we are not nessecarily better, just our OS!
Fact: Good turntables cost much more than good CD-players and there are maitainance costs.
Myth 4. Equalizers are bad.
This is *not* true in automotive audio, where s/n ratios are bad anyway (road noise). The car is not unlike a studio with near-field monitors as speakers, and thus and eq does not need to compensate (much) for acoustics, but just tweak the tonal balance for the speakers instead, which is often too bright, with uneven bass.
Myth 3. CD doesn't have a low enough signal to noise ratio
Sure its not low enough, it should be so low that it would be measured as a noise to signal ratio instead..:=)
But what about rumble, mechanical feedback from the the speakers (that varies with amp volume) and stylus wear? Since you can't emulate these with a CD player, but you can place digital data on a vinyl and read it with a laser, one might argue that vinyl is better...
I think the idea of CDs sounding "worse" is because there are a lot of analog recordings that were issued as CDs without any real digital mastering. These same recordings *were* carefully mastered for vinyl originally to preserve the sound of the master tapes. Only recently have CDs began to have proper mastering as a norm. On the other hand, all (non-cheapo) currently manufactured vinyls are high-quality "audiophile" vinyls as well. I'm rambling. My point is that getting an analog recording to sound good when transferred to CD is hard, hence the myth that vinyl sounds "better". Better is, after all, just a matter of taste.
On the issue of CDs being "good enough": studios use 20bit+ resolutions. DVD-Audio is 24bit. SACD gets rid of the PCM chunk encoding and does real bit streaming at a higher resolution. Do you really mean these are all marketing tricks and 16/44 is enough? When the CD was introduced in.. eerr.. sometime between 1979 and 1982 . there were other alternatives with higher resolution. The CD won because it's handy size (= not 12") and low-cost manufacuring, but even back then the CD was considered a compromise by some. No, I think digital audio *can* and will get better. Besides the new formats offer multi-channel audio with lossless packing as well.
Or maybe you can download a sun's JRE. You get the java plugin and can run real java applications as well. Some people (like me) already have this installed, so why include this with mozilla and add another 5-10MB to the download?
Why, oh why did I have moderator points *last* week?!? Look at me, I just spilled orange juice over my keyboard. I guess there is no such thing as a free laugh.
You can also, at least in hotmail, "attempt to continue", in which case you have to press "yes" a lot to accept broken cookies. It works, but it ain't pretty.
Re:Kernel 2.4.13 is out..yay....
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*Every* release of Linux has bugs. It's just a matter of which bugs apply to you. Check the Changelog - if there are updates to the subsystems you are using, upgrade. If not, wait.
It is. Just define several video modes as active for your display and alternate between them using software (fullscreen software often does this, like xawtv) or ctrl-alt-+ and ctrl-alt--. You can try ctrl-alt-del as well.
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Oh, you mean the desktop where apps implement features in a "standard" way. Win 95 is decent. XP is horrible, especially on a network. I find the windows desktop is too much crap stuffed in an inherently very simple interface. The result is bloat and stuff is just too hard to find.
The most important feature in 1.0 is that the api will now be stable for the 1.0.x series. This means a lot to galeon & co. Nobody is saying that 1.0 will be perfect, but since mozilla is a good browser suite already, the 1.0.x series is liiking very promising.
Since hammers have been here a while longer than any painstation, shouldn't this be the other way around?
Great! Now we are just waiting for (north) americans to discover the rest of the world!
Imagine cellphones with scripting abilities... You could send an SMS which would forward itself to every number in your phonebook. It would probably bounce back and forth between a large number of people owning phones with wounerable scripting abilities and effectively flood entire GSM networks. Let's just hope M$ never makes a cellphone...
Aahh, get a portable computer and throw it around all you want.
Actaully, the BSD license is nothing more than a university license to assure university research is free to use for *all* (including corporations) to use as they see fit. Where would the web be today if Mosaic was not licensed under a BSD-style license? Since a BSD-style license can require credit to be given to the original project, how about a "for original source see www.winehq.com"- style message. Not that I think it's better than LGPL. It's just not worse either.
I'ts time to start writing bug reports to Sun then. I have Linux with Blackdown's port of JDK 1.3.1 installed (it has the plugin too) and over 90% of all applets work nicely. Many old "Java 1.1" applets use deprecated java 1.0 API:s that might break without warning in newer JDKs. Applet writers should really start using Java2... (JRE => 1.2)
Hey! That sounds just like a news site/discussion forum for nerds I sometimes post at! I just can't remember what its name right now..
>Uhm. What does 2.95.3, or 2.95.4 offer that 2.95.2 doesn't? (And don't even try telling me about 3.0.x.) And how often to you use those features?
Uhm. Over a years worth of bugfixes?
>OK, so that might be just a little out of date.
A little? How about the 2.4 kernel and XFree 4.x for DRI?
>Since when is glibc 2.2.2 horribly out of date?
Why use 2.2.2 when newer versions are source and binary compatible and contain bugfixes?
Right. Accidentaly touch the enter-key and there you go...Hrmm..as I was saying, this probably means hardware acceleration for the most used parts of the XP code, like the one generating GPF-messages and the 'trash HDD unnessecarily because the manufacturers pay us to do this so they can sell more expensive 7200 rpm HDDs'- feature.
Yeah! Now I can
Who cares? *Humans* don't listen to that kind of "music" anyway. Only clones and drones do.
It's not a double standard when you're discussing different things.
The Mac/Linux/*BSD crowd, overall, just tries to point out that the emperor has no clothes.
The emperor being Linux..?
These are *not* different things. Why can't they know they have the better OS the same way we know we have the better OS? Suppose an M$dot site would be discussing a M$-bashing letter from, say slashdot by bashing linux? Wouldn't such a discussion be just as much of a double standard as this one? Remember: we are not nessecarily better, just our OS!
Fact: Good turntables cost much more than good CD-players and there are maitainance costs.
Myth 4. Equalizers are bad.This is *not* true in automotive audio, where s/n ratios are bad anyway (road noise). The car is not unlike a studio with near-field monitors as speakers, and thus and eq does not need to compensate (much) for acoustics, but just tweak the tonal balance for the speakers instead, which is often too bright, with uneven bass.
Myth 3. CD doesn't have a low enough signal to noise ratioSure its not low enough, it should be so low that it would be measured as a noise to signal ratio instead.. :=)
But what about rumble, mechanical feedback from the the speakers (that varies with amp volume) and stylus wear? Since you can't emulate these with a CD player, but you can place digital data on a vinyl and read it with a laser, one might argue that vinyl is better...
I think the idea of CDs sounding "worse" is because there are a lot of analog recordings that were issued as CDs without any real digital mastering. These same recordings *were* carefully mastered for vinyl originally to preserve the sound of the master tapes. Only recently have CDs began to have proper mastering as a norm. On the other hand, all (non-cheapo) currently manufactured vinyls are high-quality "audiophile" vinyls as well. I'm rambling. My point is that getting an analog recording to sound good when transferred to CD is hard, hence the myth that vinyl sounds "better". Better is, after all, just a matter of taste.
On the issue of CDs being "good enough": studios use 20bit+ resolutions. DVD-Audio is 24bit. SACD gets rid of the PCM chunk encoding and does real bit streaming at a higher resolution. Do you really mean these are all marketing tricks and 16/44 is enough? When the CD was introduced in .. eerr .. sometime between 1979 and 1982 . there were other alternatives with higher resolution. The CD won because it's handy size (= not 12") and low-cost manufacuring, but even back then the CD was considered a compromise by some. No, I think digital audio *can* and will get better. Besides the new formats offer multi-channel audio with lossless packing as well.
Or maybe you can download a sun's JRE. You get the java plugin and can run real java applications as well. Some people (like me) already have this installed, so why include this with mozilla and add another 5-10MB to the download?
As pointed out by someone whose name I can't recall on the lkml, the best vm is no vm. If you want to be immune to vm bugs do this
This is not a good approach for desktop machines, but a useful one for dedicated servers.
Why, oh why did I have moderator points *last* week?!? Look at me, I just spilled orange juice over my keyboard. I guess there is no such thing as a free laugh.
You can also, at least in hotmail, "attempt to continue", in which case you have to press "yes" a lot to accept broken cookies. It works, but it ain't pretty.
*Every* release of Linux has bugs. It's just a matter of which bugs apply to you. Check the Changelog - if there are updates to the subsystems you are using, upgrade. If not, wait.
It is. Just define several video modes as active for your display and alternate between them using software (fullscreen software often does this, like xawtv) or ctrl-alt-+ and ctrl-alt--. You can try ctrl-alt-del as well.
Imagine Bill Gates at the Router of Death, demanding "What is your favourite OS!?".
I hope it will have that calm, cold voice and call everybody "Dave".