Why do people talk about Netscape so much and forget that one person only, Tim Berners-Lee, invented the web? He code the first browser, the first web server, invented html, convinced CERN to keep it free and open. And yet, when you tell the average educated guy that there is one person that did all this, they find it hard to believe. I just can't understand why Andreesen is more popular than Berners-Lee.
I think the main problem in the bio/med field is that (La)TeX doesn't handle chemical structures very well. It's great for equation, and that is why everybody uses it from Math to Economics. But it is a tough sell for the chemistry crowds.
It is true that journals are just as expensive in the fields where Tex is popular, even in the cases (Economics being the most prominent example) where journals publish 2 or 3 year old papers, with research that is not frontier by the time it is printed. In those cases publication serves mereley as a certification of quality; I wouldn't be surprised if the next step will be to get rid of the journal altoghether, keep the Latex-formatted paper in some repository, and have editor certify the quality without the need for publishing.
Can any techie out there explain whether it is more efficient to use a gallon of oil to make gasoline, or to use half a gallon to make gas, use the other 1/2 gallon to make power, transfer this power to the prius, and then drive? I mean even electricity must come from somewhere; for all I know energy dispersion might burn all of the (potential) savings. Are hybrid cars saving anything to society? Are they saving any money to the driver?
More, unlimited TLD, please. There is no technical reason why we should restrict addresses to.com,.org, etc... just free up the whole thing and let people choose the name they want to associate to their ip.
I used to think like you did, and I think for a while there was no reason to switch to FF. I gave ff another try 2 days ago, and I am going to stick to it. The main reason is that the UI is much nicer. Sure you're going to need a bunch of extensions (also make sure you install it with the dev tools).
So far, I found one thing firefox can do that mozilla can't (there might be others but I don't need them): edit a page in NVU (use the viewsourcewith extension).
Look I liked the suite because it had chatzilla, the editor, the dom inspector and venkman. Yesterday I gave firefox another chance, I found out that you CAN install it with the dev tools, and that you CAN install chatzilla as an extension. You can also install an extension (viewsourcewith) so that when you view source it opens up in NVU or any editor of your choice.
What I am trying to say is: perhaps it's time to say goodbye to the suite. I can see no advantages to it. It has become an unmaneagable mess, especially the UI. Some people like the integration of the mail client with the browser, and that is fine. But why should MF resources be spent on it when there are better alternatives (even for developers)?
It depends on the project leaders attitude. I use a tetrinet client, and wrote a patch for it because i felt it was missing an obvious feature (the ability to map some keys that weren't mapped). Nothing fancy, just a few lines of code here and there.
Offered the devs to send them the patch, never heard from them.
You disagree? Then don't disattach. Nobody is forcing you. But there are enough people asking for this, it is compatible with standards, there is a semi-working patch... so I don't see what's stopping this
Somehow Thunderbird/mailnews devs can't get around convincing themselves that the separation of attachments, by whatever means, is a Good Thing that users want. The bug number tells it all: 2920 (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2920 ). It reminds me of the years long discussion about whether the signature should be above or below the quoted text. What a waste of time.
Other things Eudora does well and Thunderbird does not: - it sends text attachments as attachments and not inline by default: bug 65794 (Some attachments (like text/plain) get Content-Disposition: inline (incorrect) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65794 ) - it has manual filters: bug 183929 (Add "manual" option to filter https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18392 9)
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I believe his browser was the first, and was *NOT* graphical. The first graphical browser was probably mosaic.
Why do people talk about Netscape so much and forget that one person only, Tim Berners-Lee, invented the web? He code the first browser, the first web server, invented html, convinced CERN to keep it free and open. And yet, when you tell the average educated guy that there is one person that did all this, they find it hard to believe. I just can't understand why Andreesen is more popular than Berners-Lee.
There's got to be a way to quickly make a greasemonkey script that does just that
start/all programs/accessories/system tools/scheduled tasks
alternatively, you can install cygwin and cron as a service; it works well for me
Bibdb is a frontend gui for bibtex. The GUI bit outdated, but nonetheless...
Xaraya is extremely extensible and customizable. I would give it a try if I were you. www.xaraya.com
I think his point was more that the wiki might not be the right tool for this
...makes him a hypoctitical git
Nice choice of words.
The best desktop manager is Virtuawin. Open source, pretty stable, very configurable.
I think the main problem in the bio/med field is that (La)TeX doesn't handle chemical structures very well. It's great for equation, and that is why everybody uses it from Math to Economics. But it is a tough sell for the chemistry crowds.
It is true that journals are just as expensive in the fields where Tex is popular, even in the cases (Economics being the most prominent example) where journals publish 2 or 3 year old papers, with research that is not frontier by the time it is printed. In those cases publication serves mereley as a certification of quality; I wouldn't be surprised if the next step will be to get rid of the journal altoghether, keep the Latex-formatted paper in some repository, and have editor certify the quality without the need for publishing.
Can any techie out there explain whether it is more efficient to use a gallon of oil to make gasoline, or to use half a gallon to make gas, use the other 1/2 gallon to make power, transfer this power to the prius, and then drive? I mean even electricity must come from somewhere; for all I know energy dispersion might burn all of the (potential) savings.
Are hybrid cars saving anything to society? Are they saving any money to the driver?
what order? 95% of the domains end with .com; I am just proposing to remove the .com from their domain. The others can keep their .edu, .org if they wish.
More, unlimited TLD, please. There is no technical reason why we should restrict addresses to .com, .org, etc... just free up the whole thing and let people choose the name they want to associate to their ip.
Read TFA... try a search for Stanford
read the mozilla prefetch faq... you can turn it off.
AS for you missing the editor in FF, install the opensourcewith extension and configure it to open NVU with it. Then press ctrl_shift+u
composer: install viewsourcewith extension to ff and configure it to view the source with NVU. Much better than seamonkey's composer anyway.
... which forces you to install the editor, dom inspector, venkman, chatzilla. As far as I remember you can only exclude mailnews
I used to think like you did, and I think for a while there was no reason to switch to FF. I gave ff another try 2 days ago, and I am going to stick to it. The main reason is that the UI is much nicer. Sure you're going to need a bunch of extensions (also make sure you install it with the dev tools).
So far, I found one thing firefox can do that mozilla can't (there might be others but I don't need them): edit a page in NVU (use the viewsourcewith extension).
Look I liked the suite because it had chatzilla, the editor, the dom inspector and venkman. Yesterday I gave firefox another chance, I found out that you CAN install it with the dev tools, and that you CAN install chatzilla as an extension. You can also install an extension (viewsourcewith) so that when you view source it opens up in NVU or any editor of your choice.
What I am trying to say is: perhaps it's time to say goodbye to the suite. I can see no advantages to it. It has become an unmaneagable mess, especially the UI. Some people like the integration of the mail client with the browser, and that is fine. But why should MF resources be spent on it when there are better alternatives (even for developers)?
whatever, ULTRAvnc is better
It depends on the project leaders attitude. I use a tetrinet client, and wrote a patch for it because i felt it was missing an obvious feature (the ability to map some keys that weren't mapped). Nothing fancy, just a few lines of code here and there.
Offered the devs to send them the patch, never heard from them.
You disagree? Then don't disattach. Nobody is forcing you. But there are enough people asking for this, it is compatible with standards, there is a semi-working patch ... so I don't see what's stopping this
Somehow Thunderbird/mailnews devs can't get around convincing themselves that the separation of attachments, by whatever means, is a Good Thing that users want. The bug number tells it all: 2920 (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2920 ). It reminds me of the years long discussion about whether the signature should be above or below the quoted text. What a waste of time.
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Other things Eudora does well and Thunderbird does not:
- it sends text attachments as attachments and not inline by default: bug 65794 (Some attachments (like text/plain) get Content-Disposition: inline (incorrect) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6579
- it has manual filters: bug 183929 (Add "manual" option to filter https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1839
This is a shameless plug about my favorite mailnews bugs. Please vote for them or complain about them if you are an Eudora user.