What, you're not like all the other/.ers who are using XP or Windows 2000?
Seriously though, this thing is being blown out of proportion./.ers are in a minority. Firefox is a main stream browser (through choice), and most people don't care for these political shenanigans, and just want it to behave properly (no global blocking of a standard part of the Windows experience).
If you don't like this plug-in, don't install.Net. It's part of that package. You have a choice, which although you might argue you didn't know about before, you certainly do know. Or disable the plug-in yourself.
My experience of reporting bugs to Mozilla is that it is a waste of time. The devs are a bunch of prima donnas. I gave up supporting Mozilla in that way years ago. It's not worth the time nor effort. Do they still allow you to vote on bugs? They used to ignore that too.
This issue itself has been turned in to a politcal issue. They have implemented the wrong solution, but that doesn't matter to them.
A wholesale business was never enforced on the non-telcos. In some places, it's a choice of Rogers or DSL. If your lines aren't good enough, then tough, you don't have a choice and have to pick one of the crappest ISPs.
The first time I used it seriously was back in June (I've been using it lightly on my Mac for 12-18 mos). I went through my storage unit creating an inventory of every box (about 50 of them, and 2,000-2,500 items) in preparation to ship it all overseas. That was hours of work on top of a full time job. At one point the OO spreadsheet would not save. Not even under another file name. I was able to copy and paste each tab to a new spreadsheet and save that. That was almost hours of work lost, and not something I could have redone without taking a couple of days off work.
I updated the version the other day. My partner planned out three different itineraries for a holiday in Canada next week. It was several hours of work for her. That spreadsheet wouldn't save either, anywhere on the hard drive. Same error, whatever it was.
Therefore I can only conclude that OO is buggy and you risk data loss or many wasted hours. And they call this version 3!
Starting near Birmingham is like starting near LA or Chicago. Birmingham is the country's second biggest city and hence has plenty of other travel options. Try Exeter, or Keswick or Inverness, etc, or better, the Scilly Isles or Orkney.
London to Edinburgh by train, every time. It's faster, it's more convenient, and it's more comfortable. I can get to King's Cross faster than LHR, LGW, or any other London airport, I don't have to check in early, baggage is easier to deal with (even on the Tube and it's shockingly poor access) and I arrive in the centre of Edinburgh.
Why buy Office 2008 when it's crippled and buggy on the Mac? Might as well spend $60 for iWork '09. For occasional use, it seems that Open Office 3 runs many of the macros, but any more usage than that and you'll start having problems and using your work.
Or how about the government defines the word "marriage" to by synonymous with "civil union". That takes the fire out of the argument.
I don't see the religious people kicking up a fuss about hetro people calling their relationship marriage, even when neither are religious. Therefore the religious people are being bigoted and their argument is a form of hate speech.
Is ECC RAM really that important? I've found desktop computers to be extremely reliable these days, and typically any instability to be caused by bad device drivers.
The only time I've used ECC RAM is in a machine I built about nine years ago. I finally checked the Windows minidump files in a debugger and saw memory issues on the stack. But maybe I put the machine together incorrectly, or it was using unreliable components or something. These days I'm quite happy to buy a Dell off-the-shelf... they've already put hours of testing in to ensuring the systems are stable.
I read most of my Facebook communications in the notification emails they send. If I want to do more, I click the link in the email and go straight to it;)
... things like Facebook and Google Wave is that surely not everybody subscribes to them. I certainly don't want a million different accounts, and nor will bother with Google Wave. Everybody has email though.
Vista ain't bad, and really Win7 isn't as different as Vista was to XP. I tried very hard for 10 years to use Linux. Not any more; it's too much work. When I'm using my computer, I don't want to spend time fiddling with the OS and desktop environment. So I'm happy using Windows at work, and Mac OS X at home. Each to their own though.
Have you ever tried teaching yourself the basics behind SSL, such as PKI and X.509 certificates? In an industry full of jargon and technalese, the security people are some of the worst for explaining things. The documentation out there is poor and cryptic. Ever wonder why encrypted or signed email never took off? Look no further than GnuPG or the Enigmail plug-in for Mozilla. Try finding out what DER encoding is, or ASC.1, or what PKCS#7 means. None of it's straight-forward, even for technical people.
This isn't an issue looking for a fix. The answer is to install the latest VC5 redist when you install the new build of your software. It's backwardly compatible with the previous version, and fixes the massive security hole. The person who posted this story is totally missing the point and making a mountain out of a mole hill. The real issue is that people aren't patching their computers.
The train by itself is not enough to make it successful. A public transport network around each station and ticket costs will also be important. I have colleagues who fly SFO/SJC to BUR every week, and of course they won't switch if they can't get to the office easily when they arrive in LA.
Yes, aren't there treaties between some of these countries that mean decisions made in one country's courts are recognised in another's? So an ex-wife who sues successfully for support in an a Canadian court could expect a British court to uphold and impose the conditions on the ex-husband if he moves to the UK after the divorce. I have no idea of the legal terms, etc, etc, or even if it's the same context;)
My LaserJet 1100 lasted me nearly 10 years. I sold it because I moved from Canada to the UK, and just knew that I wouldn't have room in the shoebox-sized apartments here. The first toner cartridge lasted seven years, and printed more than 3,000 sheets (I think it's spec'ed for 2,000). There was a class action lawsuit against HP for this printer at one point to do with a paper feeding problem, but that was resolved with little effort my behalf. Drivers never an issue.
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1) You're in a minority, being technically savvy enough, and being willing to go through that effort
2) This should be easier and faster than ripping yourself. The masses want simplicity and convenience.
Surely this was rather predictable. Oracle need better lawyers who would have advised them. Where was their planning?
Have you compared AAC to OGG Vorbis? It requires a considerably higher bitrate than AAC for the same quality sound.
Technically your response is correct, but was it really worth being dick?
Isn't AAC @ 48kbs the same as OGG at 128kbs?
Very dumb comparison.
What, you're not like all the other /.ers who are using XP or Windows 2000?
Seriously though, this thing is being blown out of proportion. /.ers are in a minority. Firefox is a main stream browser (through choice), and most people don't care for these political shenanigans, and just want it to behave properly (no global blocking of a standard part of the Windows experience).
Does uninstalling .Net remove it?
If you don't like this plug-in, don't install .Net. It's part of that package. You have a choice, which although you might argue you didn't know about before, you certainly do know. Or disable the plug-in yourself.
My experience of reporting bugs to Mozilla is that it is a waste of time. The devs are a bunch of prima donnas. I gave up supporting Mozilla in that way years ago. It's not worth the time nor effort. Do they still allow you to vote on bugs? They used to ignore that too.
This issue itself has been turned in to a politcal issue. They have implemented the wrong solution, but that doesn't matter to them.
... to make it more effective.
Don't the telcos in the US wholesale their DSL business to third parties already? Yes, I realise that DSL isn't the only way to connect to the net.
A wholesale business was never enforced on the non-telcos. In some places, it's a choice of Rogers or DSL. If your lines aren't good enough, then tough, you don't have a choice and have to pick one of the crappest ISPs.
The first time I used it seriously was back in June (I've been using it lightly on my Mac for 12-18 mos). I went through my storage unit creating an inventory of every box (about 50 of them, and 2,000-2,500 items) in preparation to ship it all overseas. That was hours of work on top of a full time job. At one point the OO spreadsheet would not save. Not even under another file name. I was able to copy and paste each tab to a new spreadsheet and save that. That was almost hours of work lost, and not something I could have redone without taking a couple of days off work.
I updated the version the other day. My partner planned out three different itineraries for a holiday in Canada next week. It was several hours of work for her. That spreadsheet wouldn't save either, anywhere on the hard drive. Same error, whatever it was.
Therefore I can only conclude that OO is buggy and you risk data loss or many wasted hours. And they call this version 3!
I meant:
Open Office 3 [...], but any more usage than that and you'll start having problems and losing your work.
Starting near Birmingham is like starting near LA or Chicago. Birmingham is the country's second biggest city and hence has plenty of other travel options. Try Exeter, or Keswick or Inverness, etc, or better, the Scilly Isles or Orkney.
London to Edinburgh by train, every time. It's faster, it's more convenient, and it's more comfortable. I can get to King's Cross faster than LHR, LGW, or any other London airport, I don't have to check in early, baggage is easier to deal with (even on the Tube and it's shockingly poor access) and I arrive in the centre of Edinburgh.
Why buy Office 2008 when it's crippled and buggy on the Mac? Might as well spend $60 for iWork '09. For occasional use, it seems that Open Office 3 runs many of the macros, but any more usage than that and you'll start having problems and using your work.
Or how about the government defines the word "marriage" to by synonymous with "civil union". That takes the fire out of the argument.
I don't see the religious people kicking up a fuss about hetro people calling their relationship marriage, even when neither are religious. Therefore the religious people are being bigoted and their argument is a form of hate speech.
Is ECC RAM really that important? I've found desktop computers to be extremely reliable these days, and typically any instability to be caused by bad device drivers.
The only time I've used ECC RAM is in a machine I built about nine years ago. I finally checked the Windows minidump files in a debugger and saw memory issues on the stack. But maybe I put the machine together incorrectly, or it was using unreliable components or something. These days I'm quite happy to buy a Dell off-the-shelf... they've already put hours of testing in to ensuring the systems are stable.
I read most of my Facebook communications in the notification emails they send. If I want to do more, I click the link in the email and go straight to it ;)
... things like Facebook and Google Wave is that surely not everybody subscribes to them. I certainly don't want a million different accounts, and nor will bother with Google Wave. Everybody has email though.
Vista ain't bad, and really Win7 isn't as different as Vista was to XP. I tried very hard for 10 years to use Linux. Not any more; it's too much work. When I'm using my computer, I don't want to spend time fiddling with the OS and desktop environment. So I'm happy using Windows at work, and Mac OS X at home. Each to their own though.
Have you ever tried teaching yourself the basics behind SSL, such as PKI and X.509 certificates? In an industry full of jargon and technalese, the security people are some of the worst for explaining things. The documentation out there is poor and cryptic. Ever wonder why encrypted or signed email never took off? Look no further than GnuPG or the Enigmail plug-in for Mozilla. Try finding out what DER encoding is, or ASC.1, or what PKCS#7 means. None of it's straight-forward, even for technical people.
This isn't an issue looking for a fix. The answer is to install the latest VC5 redist when you install the new build of your software. It's backwardly compatible with the previous version, and fixes the massive security hole. The person who posted this story is totally missing the point and making a mountain out of a mole hill. The real issue is that people aren't patching their computers.
The train by itself is not enough to make it successful. A public transport network around each station and ticket costs will also be important. I have colleagues who fly SFO/SJC to BUR every week, and of course they won't switch if they can't get to the office easily when they arrive in LA.
Yes, aren't there treaties between some of these countries that mean decisions made in one country's courts are recognised in another's? So an ex-wife who sues successfully for support in an a Canadian court could expect a British court to uphold and impose the conditions on the ex-husband if he moves to the UK after the divorce. I have no idea of the legal terms, etc, etc, or even if it's the same context ;)
My LaserJet 1100 lasted me nearly 10 years. I sold it because I moved from Canada to the UK, and just knew that I wouldn't have room in the shoebox-sized apartments here. The first toner cartridge lasted seven years, and printed more than 3,000 sheets (I think it's spec'ed for 2,000). There was a class action lawsuit against HP for this printer at one point to do with a paper feeding problem, but that was resolved with little effort my behalf. Drivers never an issue.