Some (Mandrake, Suse, etc) of the commercial desktop distros include Nvidia drivers and other non-free software. The only thing is that the gratis versions of these distros usually don't include anything non-free.
How will IBM effect Firefox? - How will IBM implement their Firefox rollout? How will IBM affect Firefox? - How will Firefox be changed because of the relationship?
The problem is that you're dealing with the wrong people. Their apparently lazy and/or incompetant IT department has no interest in supporting web standards. Talk to their CEO, and ask if they find it acceptable to turn away at least 10% of their potential customers.
I'm a web developer. All the sites I make are standards-compliant, meaning that they look great in modern browsers and degrade gracefully for old browsers and mobile devices, etc.
What bothers me greatly is that IE is holding back the web. Below is a partial list of great things developers could be using, but unfortunately cannot because 85% of visitors would have a negative experience. (some of these have workarounds, but they're generally more trouble than they're worth)
Does not support CSS position:fixed
Does not support PNG alpha transparency
Form elements such as OPTION cannot be styled
Only supports CSS hover on link elements
Does not support multiple CSS selectors
Interprets whitespace in HTML source literally (gaps around images, etc)
So not only do we have the problem of lazy developers who only test in IE, do not validate their code, and publish broken HTML, but the "good guys" are unable to use the advanced features of modern browsers because the market is currently dominated by an antiquated browser.
More likely the distro the GP uses has core dumps disabled by default. Which makes sense. For most users (ie, non-programmers) core dumps are useless and annoying.
It also works for conquerors, religions, etc. The trick is, a young malleable mind will believe most anything -- and probably won't question those beliefs even once adulthood (and logical reasoning) is reached.
I am pretty sure the president gets voted into office because of the votes of the People.
You underestimate the power of marketing. Sure, people cast the votes (assuming there's no voter fraud), but there's a vast number of people in this country incapable of thinking for themselves. Just like lambs to the slaughter.
It couldn't be worse than it is now. Few people outside of the Law profession understand all the rules on the books, yet we're told that "ignorance of the law is no excuse".
What we end up with is a system of selective enforcement -- I think we've all heard the phrase "DWB" (Driving While Black). This is not good for a country that claims to represent the free world.
Just like the "new" Bin Laden tape that appeared mere days before the presidential election.. I'm not saying the whole terrorism thing was an inside job, but the legislature is certainly milking it for all it's worth.
I would say about half the people I see with headphones are using an iPod. The others are mostly using portable CD players (how quaint), or even the rare cassette player. For the record, I use a Rio Karma (and have only seen one other person with the same).
The lightsaber combat in eps 4, 5 and 6 especially seem a little lacklustre compared with the excitement of the big fight in episode 1
There is actually a good reason for that. In episodes I-III the Jedi are well trained, at the height of their power. In the later episodes, the only Jedi left are an old man, a cripple, and a half-trained youth.
#IE has a very usable FTP 2-way client, Firefox has an FTP browser only.
I don't recommend anyone use IE's FTP system unless they enjoy corrupted transfers (doesn't it always use ASCII mode or something?) Anyway, a real FTP program is much better.
# IE has a better password-remembering system.
Debatable. I'm more than happy with the way Firefox handles passwords.
# Firefox's Ctrl-F doesn't seem to search input form fields.
A valid point. But how often is it necessary to search within a textarea?
# IE's "mouse select jumps to word boundaries" is not perfect but better than Firefox's character based model.
Again, debatable and depends on user preference.
# Ctrl-N in IE brings up a clone of the current window, complete with history. Firefox opens up my startpage...redundant, because I can easily launch it from the start menu.
This is something that I really despise about IE. Why would I want a duplicate of the page I already have open?! Anyway, I always start with a blank document, so no time is wasted waiting to load a page which will just be changed regardless.
# Ctrl-T in Firefox opens up a new and utterly blank tab...even more useless than the Ctrl-N behavior!
Again, depends on user preference. I see no point in loading a page by default.
# Tabbing in Firefox doesn't doesn't reset the cursor blink cycle, or something, so you don't get instant confirmation that you're typing in the correct box.
It seems to me that it resets the cursor blink cycle, at least in 1.0.3 which I'm currently using.
# IE has better drag and drop editing of the toolbars, including the "File Edit View" bar. (I like compressing that bar, 5 small buttons, and the address bar all on one line.)
Firefox also has pretty powerful GUI configuration. It's not very obvious, but you can right-click in a blank area of the menu and select "customize"..
# Ctrl-O in firefox is the normal file open dialog...not as useful as IE's URL-or-file-browse feature.
IE drives me crazy by not selecting the address bar on CTRL-L, but instead popping up a dialog. Sometimes I just want to edit the current URL from the keyboard, damnitt!
# I wish Firefox had an option to let each tab have its own close button...often I want to quickly close a bunch of tabs based on their title, but instead I have to switch to each one and close it seperately.
Right click on the tab and select "close". Or just middle-click it.
No, for 99% of the games out there you need an Xbox, PS2, or Gamecube. Just take a look at the persentage of space EB is committing to PC games these days, PC gaming is dying.
MS may be facing some unintended consequences from their success in the gaming market. Have you been to a videogame store lately? The PC section has shrunk dramatically, it's all console stuff now. Why does this matter? Because there are a lot of people who stick with Windows simply for gaming. If PC gaming is dead, that's one less reason to run Windows.
Just enable "allow websites to change status bar text" in the Javascript options in Firefox.
And open yourself up to all kinds of phishing possibilities.
Honestly, making the status bar scriptable was a TERRIBLE idea and IMHO should be disabled by default. (It's a relic of the browser wars, though I'm not sure who invented this cute little polyp)
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Bah, just further proof that Dvorak is a hack. His keyboard layout sucks, too. Pay him no a[tt]ention.
Did you ever see that episode of the Simpsons when it was decided that the most intelligent would lead? "Out utopia is more of a fruitopia"..
Some (Mandrake, Suse, etc) of the commercial desktop distros include Nvidia drivers and other non-free software. The only thing is that the gratis versions of these distros usually don't include anything non-free.
These "MS shops" will eventually pay for their lack of vision. Told them, we did. Listen, they did not. Now, screwed they will be.
It's not flamebait, it's a legitimate question.
How will IBM effect Firefox? - How will IBM implement their Firefox rollout?
How will IBM affect Firefox? - How will Firefox be changed because of the relationship?
That's great! By the way, what's a floppy?
(I keed)
The problem is that you're dealing with the wrong people. Their apparently lazy and/or incompetant IT department has no interest in supporting web standards. Talk to their CEO, and ask if they find it acceptable to turn away at least 10% of their potential customers.
Apparently people there live for ever.
Nah, it just seems that way. Kind of like 5 minutes of Carrot-top's stand-up routine.
I'm a web developer. All the sites I make are standards-compliant, meaning that they look great in modern browsers and degrade gracefully for old browsers and mobile devices, etc.
What bothers me greatly is that IE is holding back the web. Below is a partial list of great things developers could be using, but unfortunately cannot because 85% of visitors would have a negative experience. (some of these have workarounds, but they're generally more trouble than they're worth)
So not only do we have the problem of lazy developers who only test in IE, do not validate their code, and publish broken HTML, but the "good guys" are unable to use the advanced features of modern browsers because the market is currently dominated by an antiquated browser.
More likely the distro the GP uses has core dumps disabled by default. Which makes sense. For most users (ie, non-programmers) core dumps are useless and annoying.
It also works for conquerors, religions, etc. The trick is, a young malleable mind will believe most anything -- and probably won't question those beliefs even once adulthood (and logical reasoning) is reached.
No problem. For each provision on a bill, the sponsor must donate a pint of blood. That should cut down on the problem, eh?
I am pretty sure the president gets voted into office because of the votes of the People.
You underestimate the power of marketing. Sure, people cast the votes (assuming there's no voter fraud), but there's a vast number of people in this country incapable of thinking for themselves. Just like lambs to the slaughter.
As long as we're dreaming of changing things, how about banning riders on bills?
It couldn't be worse than it is now. Few people outside of the Law profession understand all the rules on the books, yet we're told that "ignorance of the law is no excuse".
What we end up with is a system of selective enforcement -- I think we've all heard the phrase "DWB" (Driving While Black). This is not good for a country that claims to represent the free world.
Just like the "new" Bin Laden tape that appeared mere days before the presidential election.. I'm not saying the whole terrorism thing was an inside job, but the legislature is certainly milking it for all it's worth.
I would say about half the people I see with headphones are using an iPod. The others are mostly using portable CD players (how quaint), or even the rare cassette player. For the record, I use a Rio Karma (and have only seen one other person with the same).
The lightsaber combat in eps 4, 5 and 6 especially seem a little lacklustre compared with the excitement of the big fight in episode 1
There is actually a good reason for that. In episodes I-III the Jedi are well trained, at the height of their power. In the later episodes, the only Jedi left are an old man, a cripple, and a half-trained youth.
If you uncheck "allow websites to install software," that should take care of the issue. Anyway, a server-side workaround is already in place.
#IE has a very usable FTP 2-way client, Firefox has an FTP browser only.
I don't recommend anyone use IE's FTP system unless they enjoy corrupted transfers (doesn't it always use ASCII mode or something?) Anyway, a real FTP program is much better.
# IE has a better password-remembering system.
Debatable. I'm more than happy with the way Firefox handles passwords.
# Firefox's Ctrl-F doesn't seem to search input form fields.
A valid point. But how often is it necessary to search within a textarea?
# IE's "mouse select jumps to word boundaries" is not perfect but better than Firefox's character based model.
Again, debatable and depends on user preference.
# Ctrl-N in IE brings up a clone of the current window, complete with history. Firefox opens up my startpage...redundant, because I can easily launch it from the start menu.
This is something that I really despise about IE. Why would I want a duplicate of the page I already have open?! Anyway, I always start with a blank document, so no time is wasted waiting to load a page which will just be changed regardless.
# Ctrl-T in Firefox opens up a new and utterly blank tab...even more useless than the Ctrl-N behavior!
Again, depends on user preference. I see no point in loading a page by default.
# IE shows undisplayable characters with box placeholders, Firefox uses question marks.
Boxes better than question marks? Debatable.
# Tabbing in Firefox doesn't doesn't reset the cursor blink cycle, or something, so you don't get instant confirmation that you're typing in the correct box.
It seems to me that it resets the cursor blink cycle, at least in 1.0.3 which I'm currently using.
# IE has better drag and drop editing of the toolbars, including the "File Edit View" bar. (I like compressing that bar, 5 small buttons, and the address bar all on one line.)
Firefox also has pretty powerful GUI configuration. It's not very obvious, but you can right-click in a blank area of the menu and select "customize"..
# Ctrl-O in firefox is the normal file open dialog...not as useful as IE's URL-or-file-browse feature.
IE drives me crazy by not selecting the address bar on CTRL-L, but instead popping up a dialog. Sometimes I just want to edit the current URL from the keyboard, damnitt!
# I wish Firefox had an option to let each tab have its own close button...often I want to quickly close a bunch of tabs based on their title, but instead I have to switch to each one and close it seperately.
Right click on the tab and select "close". Or just middle-click it.
Which is actually 15%, considering that Firefox, Mozilla, and Netscape all use the same rendering engine (NS4 notwithstanding).
No, for 99% of the games out there you need an Xbox, PS2, or Gamecube. Just take a look at the persentage of space EB is committing to PC games these days, PC gaming is dying.
MS may be facing some unintended consequences from their success in the gaming market. Have you been to a videogame store lately? The PC section has shrunk dramatically, it's all console stuff now. Why does this matter? Because there are a lot of people who stick with Windows simply for gaming. If PC gaming is dead, that's one less reason to run Windows.
Which i haven't installed for slashdot isn't broken in my Firefox rendering
Now that you mention it, I haven't seen the messed up Firefox/Slashdot rendering in quite some time. Perhaps it was fixed in 1.0.3?
Just enable "allow websites to change status bar text" in the Javascript options in Firefox.
And open yourself up to all kinds of phishing possibilities.
Honestly, making the status bar scriptable was a TERRIBLE idea and IMHO should be disabled by default. (It's a relic of the browser wars, though I'm not sure who invented this cute little polyp)