And while it won't seriously dent their cash reserves, it will look bad on spreadsheets and to investors and make the whole process more vulnerable to pressures to quit.
The Netscape codebase that would have become version 5 was released under the MPL and became Mozilla. After two years of work Mozilla 1.0 was released, upon which a new Netscape product was based. Because so much change had happened from the 5.0 codebase it was proper to version it 6.
Netscape 5 did exist, but was never released as a product.
Actually, the way I've installed most programs on my iBook (The Gimp, Firefox, CyberDuck, OmniGraffle, PulpFiction, SubEthaEdit, and on and on) has been by mounting a disk image and draging the application icon to my Applications folder. Done deal. I don't know what PS is like becuase quite frankly, I have better things to spend my money on.
In particular, the person who submitted the story used the example of attaching a picture by e-mail. I guess I find him wierd because I've never used cut/paste to attach a file, not even when I used to use Windows. When I'm using a GUI mail client, I always drag and drop it. When I'm using mutt of course, I don't, but even with Mac OS X's d&d integration with the terminal I can drag a file to to the term and it pasts the path to the file.
Maybe people just live much more sheltered lives than I do. This isn't the first time that the "next hottest technology" presented on/. was something that I've been doing for years.
Really, what is kdeinit for? Why do I need a gnome-settings-daemon? Can't the settings be written to a file like every other program on the planet? Does your file manager need to run 24/7?
While I admit that I've been evaluating Gnome 2.6 the past few days, and I've tried out XFCE, my consistent favorite is WindowMaker.
Let's face it. Our computing devices are going faster year after year. But our laptop batteries don't show the same performance improvement.
Last year I had an 800mhz AMD Duron Sony Vaio that lasted about 45 minutes on battery (if I was lucky). This year I have an iBook G4 with a battery that lasts 4-7 hours. I'd call that a performance improvement.
What's even wierder is that when I saw this story there were 13 comments posted.
I'd like to know who the brain surgeon is who modded my previous post redundant. Offtopic? yes. Overrated? probably. Stupid? Most definately. But redundant? There were only 13 previous posts! I mean come on people? How many people before me posted "there were 13 comments to this story"?
Not until the 3rd one did it really get any attention and even then it was mainly the unwashed masses...which in the late 70's were abundant.
You aparently weren't around when they came out. The release of Star Wars was one of the biggest events of the 70's. People stood in line in pouring rain for 3 hours to see it. People went to see it 10 or more times in the theaters. It was all people talked about. It was huge. Everyone saw it. Cinematic quality aside, you can debate this all you like, but it was a monumental event in American culture.
You also seem to be unaware that only one of the three movies was released in the 70's. Empire was in 1980 and Jedi was in '83. Were you even born when Jedi came out?
I'ts the animated giggly ads that piss me off, not the extra buttons on the toolbar. I don't need a 480x60 block chopped out of my toolbar and getting in my way just so Opera can make $.01 per view, especially when the Mozillas are free.
I use Firefox because it has awesome ad blocking capabilities. And if its built in ad blocking isn't enough for you there's the AdBlock extension which gives the user maximum control over ads. I can't remember the last time I saw one (yes, I steal web pages).
Opera can't have this feature because it is by its very nature "ad supported" software. Ads are visual clutter and noise. They have to be to draw your attention, that's what they're for. I want them out of my way because I'm trying to get work done dammit. Opera loses on this point alone because there's nothing you can say that will justify me having to look at that crap or shelling out thirty bucks to hide it.
Game, set, match. It's been nice debating with you.
If there were 200,000 people in 2003 and 120,000 didn't care, then in 100,000 people in 2004 and 60,000 didn't care, you still work out with the same percentage of 60%.
I'd be interested in seeing the raw numbers on this. In particular, I'd like to know the differential number on the "didn't cares" to see how many of those switched to broadband.
Many years ago when Win95 first came out I bought a program called "Uninstaller Pro" or something like that. Basically, it inventoried every file on the system, and copied the registry before every program installation. Then after the install it would take another file/registry inventory and diff the results. Anything changed is what the installer did.
Then when you wanted to dump the program you use it to eradicate everything in the diff file.
IIRC, it was a Symantec product, but you know it's pushing 10 years here, and I honestly can't remember. Maybe you can look for something that works similar.
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I say we encourage them in this direction!
The Atari 2600 had a console lifespan of 20 years.
I and my grandma both still play our favs via emulation.
I don't know the answer to this, but I do know that I bought my PS2 on the day the XBOX came out (yes, on purpose).
Interestingly enough, DOS doesn't support aliases.
The Netscape codebase that would have become version 5 was released under the MPL and became Mozilla. After two years of work Mozilla 1.0 was released, upon which a new Netscape product was based. Because so much change had happened from the 5.0 codebase it was proper to version it 6.
Netscape 5 did exist, but was never released as a product.
Actually, the way I've installed most programs on my iBook (The Gimp, Firefox, CyberDuck, OmniGraffle, PulpFiction, SubEthaEdit, and on and on) has been by mounting a disk image and draging the application icon to my Applications folder. Done deal. I don't know what PS is like becuase quite frankly, I have better things to spend my money on.
/. was something that I've been doing for years.
In particular, the person who submitted the story used the example of attaching a picture by e-mail. I guess I find him wierd because I've never used cut/paste to attach a file, not even when I used to use Windows. When I'm using a GUI mail client, I always drag and drop it. When I'm using mutt of course, I don't, but even with Mac OS X's d&d integration with the terminal I can drag a file to to the term and it pasts the path to the file.
Maybe people just live much more sheltered lives than I do. This isn't the first time that the "next hottest technology" presented on
It seems like this is what I've been doing for years upon years with my mouse.
Macintosh in particular has had universal drag and drop for at least as long as I remember.
Really, what is kdeinit for? Why do I need a gnome-settings-daemon? Can't the settings be written to a file like every other program on the planet? Does your file manager need to run 24/7?
While I admit that I've been evaluating Gnome 2.6 the past few days, and I've tried out XFCE, my consistent favorite is WindowMaker.
Just write a UNIX compatible OS like Linus did. He's got 3 kids and handles it very well.
Last year I had an 800mhz AMD Duron Sony Vaio that lasted about 45 minutes on battery (if I was lucky).
This year I have an iBook G4 with a battery that lasts 4-7 hours. I'd call that a performance improvement.
I'd like to know who the brain surgeon is who modded my previous post redundant. Offtopic? yes. Overrated? probably. Stupid? Most definately. But redundant? There were only 13 previous posts! I mean come on people? How many people before me posted "there were 13 comments to this story"?
Hint for moderators: This post is offtopic.
What's even wierder is that when I saw this story there were 13 comments posted.
Wierd!
You aparently weren't around when they came out. The release of Star Wars was one of the biggest events of the 70's. People stood in line in pouring rain for 3 hours to see it. People went to see it 10 or more times in the theaters. It was all people talked about. It was huge. Everyone saw it. Cinematic quality aside, you can debate this all you like, but it was a monumental event in American culture.
You also seem to be unaware that only one of the three movies was released in the 70's. Empire was in 1980 and Jedi was in '83. Were you even born when Jedi came out?
I'ts the animated giggly ads that piss me off, not the extra buttons on the toolbar. I don't need a 480x60 block chopped out of my toolbar and getting in my way just so Opera can make $.01 per view, especially when the Mozillas are free.
I use Firefox because it has awesome ad blocking capabilities. And if its built in ad blocking isn't enough for you there's the AdBlock extension which gives the user maximum control over ads. I can't remember the last time I saw one (yes, I steal web pages).
Opera can't have this feature because it is by its very nature "ad supported" software. Ads are visual clutter and noise. They have to be to draw your attention, that's what they're for. I want them out of my way because I'm trying to get work done dammit. Opera loses on this point alone because there's nothing you can say that will justify me having to look at that crap or shelling out thirty bucks to hide it.
Game, set, match. It's been nice debating with you.
Now all I need is faad to support Apple Lossless codec and I can listen to everything I own on Linux.
No, I was using an iMac
On Apple Input Peripherals: They're okay, I guess, but I was really hoping for a one-key keyboard and a 109-button mouse
No, you set them on the wrong side of the desk. The little round thing is the keyboard and the big long flat thing is the mouse.
What? I was using the DVD player that came with OS X ever since it was in beta.
If there were 200,000 people in 2003 and 120,000 didn't care, then in 100,000 people in 2004 and 60,000 didn't care, you still work out with the same percentage of 60%.
I'd be interested in seeing the raw numbers on this. In particular, I'd like to know the differential number on the "didn't cares" to see how many of those switched to broadband.
Acutally, I was rounding down :-(
To be exact, today is the 15th day. I wonder though if they'll just give me my $200 back.
And now I feel even more stupid for clicking submit two seconds after I realize I can't spell the word two.
This day is not starting out well.
I bought my 1.0ghz iBook for $1499 to weeks ago!
Many years ago when Win95 first came out I bought a program called "Uninstaller Pro" or something like that. Basically, it inventoried every file on the system, and copied the registry before every program installation. Then after the install it would take another file/registry inventory and diff the results. Anything changed is what the installer did.
Then when you wanted to dump the program you use it to eradicate everything in the diff file.
IIRC, it was a Symantec product, but you know it's pushing 10 years here, and I honestly can't remember. Maybe you can look for something that works similar.
I didn't realize netcat was a network sniffer. Oh wait, that's because it's not.
Don't forget the eternally useful.