I think a separate add-in is still not what I'm looking for. I would want to be able to run Composer without running the browser. I don't want to run the browser and then add in Composer. But maybe you're saying that is what they're doing. If so, I hope you're right!
Superdrive, so what? I had one of these plugged into my Mac Plus. It let me burn 800K floppies and 1.4M floppies. Big deal, so they made a faster one; who uses floppies anymore anyway?
What I meant by separate is that you can run Composer without Navigator/Mozilla/Phoenix or whatever. So you can have your preferred browser (in my case Camino) open but can edit in Moz Composer. The modular addon is basically what it is now, and it seems inelegant, at best.
Ummm, no; according to the roadmap, Composer's status is uncertain. But I hope they do! The relevant quote: "The other integrated components of the Mozilla application suite, Calendar, Chatzilla, and Composer (the HTML editor application), are not going away, either. We're not sure yet how they'll evolve -- whether they'll become standalone toolkit applications (and if so, based on which XUL toolkit), or popular add-ons to Phoenix (if so, they will need to use its new toolkit). But we're committed to supporting them to the fullest extent required by their owners, including providing daily and milestone builds of them for community testing and feedback."
It's a Palestinian boy throwing a rock at an Israeli tank. It happens all the time, and it is hardly news. It's certainly not worth forging to discredit the Israelis, or the US, since anyone looking for propaganda photos to use for that purpose can find thousands of real photos that make much more devastating political points than "Israel is so mean that Palestinian boys throw rocks at their tanks."
There are some days I would pay to not be able to read slashdot at all! Subscribers could pay to have the "evil" bit set so their traffic is filtered out and all requests to slashdot.org result in a 404....
No one wants war, but at this juncture it is the only way to truly help the Iraqi people.
I'd be a little more likely to believe this if the Iraqi people were actually asking for our help. Many of the few Iraqis who did -- for example, the exiled Iraqi opposition group -- are now begging us to get out of Iraq. And many Iraqis who escaped Saddam's tyranny are now running back to Iraq to fight alongside his forces.
Al Qaeda loses a possible state sponsor whom even the CIA considers marginal at best, especially when compared to the members of the state apparatuses of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Yemen, Pakistan who have been funding and training al Qaeda all along. Al Qaeda will not go broke without Saddam Hussein's money. And Iraq under Saddam is hardly bin Laden's vision of an ideal Islamic state.
In exchange, they gain the kind of instability, chaos, and corruption that such extremists thrive on. If anything, Iraq without Saddam is probably more attractive to al Qaeda, since they can exploit the resulting disorder. They also get the benefit of a lot more anti-Western sentiment to exploit for their cause, and a lot more potential terrorist recruits. And as you can see this doesn't just affect the immediate theater. The suicide bombing in Israel was a "gift" to the Iraqis. Not al Qaeda linked of course, but the point is I think it helps al Qaeda if other Arab groups find common cause with them, as they are now doing (e.g. the Syrian Mufti declaring jihad on Americans).
It gets worse. If the Iraqis (and the Arab world in general, not just its corrupt venal leaders) perceive that the US is hitting lots of civilians, al Qaeda also gains an incredible amount of free advertising in the form of propaganda run on state TVs in Syria, Egypt, etc., not to mention Al-Jazeera. It doesn't matter if the US really didn't hit this market or that bus full of women and children. It doesn't matter that Saddam Hussein, miserable cretinous thug that he is, is putting Iraqi civilians in harm's way. All that will matter is that Arabs everywhere, especially those whose only media is state TV, will be seeing a parade of civilian bodies blamed on America.
If this war brings democracy to Iraq, you're right, it will be bad for al Qaeda in the long run, and I will be only too thrilled to eat my words. Honestly. I think some form of democratization of the Middle East will be its only hope for survival.
you guys crack me up. Does it really matter who is right here? The fact that the Americans are bombing Iraq, and that a market in Baghdad exploded, is enough "evidence" for most of the Iraqi people, as well as for most of the world. Whether or not it was an American bomb (which seems a lot more likely than the alternatives suggested here), the fact is that from a public relations viewpoint, the US is blamed for this whether we like it or not. And it is being used by Arab state TV stations throughout the Middle East to inflame Muslims against the US. And it's working. The big winner from this war is al Qaeda and other Islamist extremists. What is really just unconscionable is that American war planners didn't see this coming before getting us into this mess.
Actually the more accurate figure was around 200,000. And of course that says nothing about the many who died after as a result of sanctions (the figure often heard is at least 500,000 Iraqi children alone, that according to the UN) or those who died after the war as a result of the intentional bombing of Iraqi water supplies.
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Can anyone name ONE thing that "Anonymous Coward" invented?
Screw that. If I can't do it with ed, I don't need to do it.
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Busted. SE. you're right. I take my hat off to your superior knowledge of obsolete hardware :) I still have that old thing in the garage somewhere....
I think a separate add-in is still not what I'm looking for. I would want to be able to run Composer without running the browser. I don't want to run the browser and then add in Composer. But maybe you're saying that is what they're doing. If so, I hope you're right!
Superdrive, so what? I had one of these plugged into my Mac Plus. It let me burn 800K floppies and 1.4M floppies. Big deal, so they made a faster one; who uses floppies anymore anyway?
What I meant by separate is that you can run Composer without Navigator/Mozilla/Phoenix or whatever. So you can have your preferred browser (in my case Camino) open but can edit in Moz Composer. The modular addon is basically what it is now, and it seems inelegant, at best.
Fuck that. It's all about ed. Vi is bloated. And it doesn't have the cool question mark.
Ummm, no; according to the roadmap, Composer's status is uncertain. But I hope they do! The relevant quote: "The other integrated components of the Mozilla application suite, Calendar, Chatzilla, and Composer (the HTML editor application), are not going away, either. We're not sure yet how they'll evolve -- whether they'll become standalone toolkit applications (and if so, based on which XUL toolkit), or popular add-ons to Phoenix (if so, they will need to use its new toolkit). But we're committed to supporting them to the fullest extent required by their owners, including providing daily and milestone builds of them for community testing and feedback."
When I want a pure text editor for HTML, I use BBEdit, like everyone should. I have a notepad and a pencil but I don't want to use it for HTML
It's a Palestinian boy throwing a rock at an Israeli tank. It happens all the time, and it is hardly news. It's certainly not worth forging to discredit the Israelis, or the US, since anyone looking for propaganda photos to use for that purpose can find thousands of real photos that make much more devastating political points than "Israel is so mean that Palestinian boys throw rocks at their tanks."
Well that answers the grandparent's question; at least one anonymous slashdot reader thinks O'Reilly is an intellectual genius.
ummmm, this doesn't really exist, now, does it?
I just wish they'd also separate out Mozilla Composer and make the basic no frills standalone HTML editor the world needs.
Did I tell you about this "evil" bit already? Sorry about that. See, I've got this condition....
There are some days I would pay to not be able to read slashdot at all! Subscribers could pay to have the "evil" bit set so their traffic is filtered out and all requests to slashdot.org result in a 404....
We need real evidence here. How many posts to Usenet mentioned "America"?
Kentucky isn't in Turkey!
Even funnier if it was 5 months old.
that's "fowl."
I'm going to sit back and post dupes of comments from the duped story and collect duplicitous karma.
I'd be a little more likely to believe this if the Iraqi people were actually asking for our help. Many of the few Iraqis who did -- for example, the exiled Iraqi opposition group -- are now begging us to get out of Iraq. And many Iraqis who escaped Saddam's tyranny are now running back to Iraq to fight alongside his forces.
Al Qaeda loses a possible state sponsor whom even the CIA considers marginal at best, especially when compared to the members of the state apparatuses of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Yemen, Pakistan who have been funding and training al Qaeda all along. Al Qaeda will not go broke without Saddam Hussein's money. And Iraq under Saddam is hardly bin Laden's vision of an ideal Islamic state.
In exchange, they gain the kind of instability, chaos, and corruption that such extremists thrive on. If anything, Iraq without Saddam is probably more attractive to al Qaeda, since they can exploit the resulting disorder. They also get the benefit of a lot more anti-Western sentiment to exploit for their cause, and a lot more potential terrorist recruits. And as you can see this doesn't just affect the immediate theater. The suicide bombing in Israel was a "gift" to the Iraqis. Not al Qaeda linked of course, but the point is I think it helps al Qaeda if other Arab groups find common cause with them, as they are now doing (e.g. the Syrian Mufti declaring jihad on Americans).
It gets worse. If the Iraqis (and the Arab world in general, not just its corrupt venal leaders) perceive that the US is hitting lots of civilians, al Qaeda also gains an incredible amount of free advertising in the form of propaganda run on state TVs in Syria, Egypt, etc., not to mention Al-Jazeera. It doesn't matter if the US really didn't hit this market or that bus full of women and children. It doesn't matter that Saddam Hussein, miserable cretinous thug that he is, is putting Iraqi civilians in harm's way. All that will matter is that Arabs everywhere, especially those whose only media is state TV, will be seeing a parade of civilian bodies blamed on America.
If this war brings democracy to Iraq, you're right, it will be bad for al Qaeda in the long run, and I will be only too thrilled to eat my words. Honestly. I think some form of democratization of the Middle East will be its only hope for survival.
you guys crack me up. Does it really matter who is right here? The fact that the Americans are bombing Iraq, and that a market in Baghdad exploded, is enough "evidence" for most of the Iraqi people, as well as for most of the world. Whether or not it was an American bomb (which seems a lot more likely than the alternatives suggested here), the fact is that from a public relations viewpoint, the US is blamed for this whether we like it or not. And it is being used by Arab state TV stations throughout the Middle East to inflame Muslims against the US. And it's working. The big winner from this war is al Qaeda and other Islamist extremists. What is really just unconscionable is that American war planners didn't see this coming before getting us into this mess.
Actually the more accurate figure was around 200,000. And of course that says nothing about the many who died after as a result of sanctions (the figure often heard is at least 500,000 Iraqi children alone, that according to the UN) or those who died after the war as a result of the intentional bombing of Iraqi water supplies.