Honestly, stop with the Debian bullshit already. Mozilla doesn't want others altering their software and still keeping their trademarks intact (which is what Debian wants to do). Debian places the *EXACT* same restrictions on their own trademarks.
A few years ago I switched from using my handle to using my real name. I encourage other contributors to PortableApps.com to also use their real name. When companies are considering bundling your software on commercial products they like to see that an app is maintained by "Joe Thomas" rather than Ko0lDude23.
It will be interesting to see how quickly Google fixes this compared to how long it took Apple to fix the security issues in Safari on the iPhone (a couple months, I believe, was their slowest).
You can try out 3 Beta 4 without disrupting your Firefox 2 install on Windows by using Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 3 Beta 4. It's designed for portable devices (USB flash drives, iPods, portable hard drives), but you can also just run it from your desktop.
Hehe, I love when fanboys discount logical arguments because they think it's being made by someone who doesn't like their 'thing' (game system, disc format, operating system, etc).
Of course I'm a bit disappointed HD DVD lost because I bought some hardware and discs. I bought it because it was done and ready for consumer adoption. It lost, sucks for me. So, I stopped buying HD DVDs as soon as Warner announced their exclusivity. But I won't be buying Blu-Ray any time soon because it just isn't ready. It's still too expensive. It's still way too slow. And, unless you buy a PS3, your player won't handle all the features on the newer discs. So, even though I'm an early adopter and own a nice 42" 1080p LCD hooked up to my PC, HD DVD player and HD DVR cable box, I don't plan on buying Blu-Ray until they work their kinks out. And, by work their kinks out, I mean when they have a feature-complete (profile 2.0) player with enough power to boot up in under 30 seconds and load all BD discs in under 30 seconds for under $200. That's when I bought into HD DVD and that's when I'll buy into Blu-Ray.
The only problem is that they may not work out their kinks before the cable companies or Netflix or Amazon or Apple gets HD downloads working well enough for Joe 6 pack. So we'll all be stuck with renting content.
Yeah. And the current glut of Profile 1.0 players can't even play picture in picture content. So Blu-Ray discs don't even have it on them. Unlike HD DVD which did from the very beginning, so my Matrix and 300 discs have tons of fun extras like that.
Blu-Ray was rushed to market to compete with HD DVD and it shows. It won, so HD DVD is dead. Now we just have to wait about a year or so for Blu-Ray to catch up to where HD DVD was feature-wise over a year ago.
And part of wanting to watch a movie is being able to play it, not wait 2 minutes for it to load a silly Disney disc.
The format war is over, unfortunately, Blu-Ray is far from ready for general consumer adoption. Profile 2.0 players, the players that actually do everything they are supposed to (and everything that even low-end HD DVD players did), are few and far between... not to mention very expensive when they are found. The standalone Blu-Ray players pretty much universally suck. They're woefully underpowered to do things like load the Java VM which is required for viewing many newer Blu-Ray discs (Disney's newer discs like Pirates of the Caribbean and Ratatouille take a full 2 minutes just to load on most standalone players). And the machines by some companies are so buggy that there's already been a class action lawsuit.
The only Blu-Ray player even worth considering for consumers is the PS3. But then you're stuck with a big game console instead of just a standalone movie player, which is what many people really want.
I had bought a Toshiba HD-A3 HD DVD player for $159. Feature complete. Booted to drawer open in under 30 seconds. Loaded all movies in under 30 seconds. Did everything I needed (my TV has fine 3:2 pulldown so 1080i out is all I needed). And it came with 10 movies. Even now, there's really no equivalent on the Blu-Ray side. No standalone 2.0 player that isn't dog-slow.
When Warner switched, I simply stopped buying HD content. Most of my friends that were buying HD DVDs did the same thing. Sure, I may buy into Blu-Ray eventually. But it looks like it's gonna be a while before it's capable of doing what it should.
Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 3 Beta 3 was released a few hours after the announcement. It's packaged with a launcher so it runs self-contained so you can use it from a flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive, etc. But it's also handy for trying out the current beta without affecting your local install. You can even run it from your desktop to try it out and then delete it.
Isn't that statement essentially an admission that KDE purposely linked GPL licensed code to the older, proprietary Qt code (thus violating copyright law)? In that case, yes, the original copyright holder can revoke their privileges under GPL 2. This is one of the things that was changed in GPL 3.
Wikipedia seems to be having some issues with admins deleting articles in connection to their notability guidelines lately. PortableApps.com, the website that makes available portable software that runs from removable media (like a portable version of Firefox) was recently deleted under the notability guidelines with very little notice (aka speedy deletion). This despite the fact that it's the most popular portable platform (more popular than the commercial ones), in the top 10 on SourceForge, in the top 5,000 websites in the world and has been extensively covered in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, LA Times, PC Magazine, PC World, Wired, etc.
I've had a number of people using both PowerPoint and OpenOffice.org Impress presentations that bring OpenOffice.org Portable with them as a backup. One found OpenOffice.org wasn't installed and was fine. Another found that their PowerPoint presentation, for some reason, wouldn't open on the copy of PowerPoint on the desktop hooked up to the A/V system. Luckily, OpenOffice.org Portable could open it just fine.
I believe the reference is to how well Windows 98 (and 98 SE) was received by Windows 95 users (98 offered lots of good fixes and new features over 95) as opposed to how poorly Windows Vista is being received by Windows XP users (since it doesn't really offer any must-have features or bug fixes).
Eudora 8 is just a customized version of Thunderbird and not a different app in any way shape or form. If you install and run it on a machine that already has Thunderbird installed, it *WILL* mess up your existing Thunderbird profile.
I checked out Drupal and Mambo/Joomla for a large site I setup and went with Drupal. Joomla's URL aliasing setup was awful compared to Drupal. It makes sense since Mambo (on which Joomla is based) originally only supported it as a commercial add-on created by one of its core developers. With Drupal, friendly URLs were built in from the beginning.
Basically, Joomla is easier to setup and add modules... but nowhere near as customizable or as extensible as Drupal. If you don't mind doing a little bit more learning up front, you can do far more with Drupal.
MojoPac only works on admin-level accounts on Windows XP. No guest or limited accounts (so no libraries, net cafes, offices, schools, hotel business centers, etc). No Windows 2000 or Vista. So, it's pretty limited.
Just use PortableApps.com today. It has better compatibility, working with most Windows OSes (95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista) as well as Wine under *nix. It's open so you can add any software that's already portable to it. And it's much more popular than U3 ever was, with over 20,000,000 apps downloaded. Plus it works from any drive you'd like: USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive, network share, etc... so you're never tied down.
I live in New York City and I routinely have large files to upload to servers. As an example, I'm in the process of publishing OpenOffice.org Portable 2.1 (a package of OpenOffice.org that runs from USB flash drives, iPods, etc). OpenOffice.org's source code is nearly 200MB. I've been trying to upload it to SourceForge for the past 6 hours. Hiccup in the line... and start over.
I currently have service from Time Warner. It's about 8M down and a bit under 500K up at any given time. It's the fastest they offer, and it's the only cable company I can use in my building. I could get DSL access, but the fastest available would be 6M down and 768K up for $115 a month. And Verizon's FIOS service that will offer 15M down and 2M up for $50 a month isn't available here yet.
Morons is the only word I can think of to properly classify:
- the people who reported "suspicious devices" with a cartoon character flipping them off (would they react the same to fred flintstone or pacman in LEDs?) - the people who thought they were bombs ("OMG D batteries!!!!11`1!") - the endless media pundits saying they were suspicious (maybe we can frighten people into watching our channel longer) - the prosecutors that went after the marketers (well, we know this is stupid, but we have to now that the ball is rolling) - all the people who spout things like "in a post-9/11 world, we have to be vigilant" (there's a coca-cola sign that looks suspicious near me... it's all glowing and red) there's a difference between being cautious and being stupid, especially once you realize you're wrong - and now, the folks at Cartoon Network that gave in and paid 2 million dollars and then sacked people
For anyone that can't seem to think clearly, let me make this really easy: LITE BRITE IS NOT A BOMB
"I go to a council for a distinctly different experience then a PC"
Would that be the Council of Console Gamers? I hear they have a pretty good counseling center that can help console you if your pre-order was cancelled.
I'd be willing to bet that with this change, the APSL is no longer free enough to be considered a Free license. As such, it'll be removed from the OSI-approved list. That means that any projects using it can't be hosted on SourceForge, Google Code, etc.
This shouldn't really be surprising to anyone. Apple never really intended to truely open up their stuff and allow others to fully use it without their blessing.
One thing that many still don't realize is the lock-in aspect. Those DRMed files you buy^H^H^H license through the iTunes Music Store for your iPod can't come with you to any other music player. They'll only work with an iPod. Some iPod owners are going to be in for a rude awakening if they decide to buy a Zune (or any other player).
(And, yes, I know that there are illegal-in-the-US-even-though-it-shouldn't-be ways to remove the protection on the AAC files... though other players don't play AACs... and please don't give me an example... most don't... and most consumers have no idea what an AAC is. And, yes, I know you can burn it to CD and then rip it to standard MP3s... with the resulting loss in quality from going from one lossy format to another. But the average consumer isn't gonna know how to do either of those things.)
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Honestly, stop with the Debian bullshit already. Mozilla doesn't want others altering their software and still keeping their trademarks intact (which is what Debian wants to do). Debian places the *EXACT* same restrictions on their own trademarks.
A few years ago I switched from using my handle to using my real name. I encourage other contributors to PortableApps.com to also use their real name. When companies are considering bundling your software on commercial products they like to see that an app is maintained by "Joe Thomas" rather than Ko0lDude23.
It will be interesting to see how quickly Google fixes this compared to how long it took Apple to fix the security issues in Safari on the iPhone (a couple months, I believe, was their slowest).
You can try out 3 Beta 4 without disrupting your Firefox 2 install on Windows by using Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 3 Beta 4. It's designed for portable devices (USB flash drives, iPods, portable hard drives), but you can also just run it from your desktop.
Hehe, I love when fanboys discount logical arguments because they think it's being made by someone who doesn't like their 'thing' (game system, disc format, operating system, etc).
Of course I'm a bit disappointed HD DVD lost because I bought some hardware and discs. I bought it because it was done and ready for consumer adoption. It lost, sucks for me. So, I stopped buying HD DVDs as soon as Warner announced their exclusivity. But I won't be buying Blu-Ray any time soon because it just isn't ready. It's still too expensive. It's still way too slow. And, unless you buy a PS3, your player won't handle all the features on the newer discs. So, even though I'm an early adopter and own a nice 42" 1080p LCD hooked up to my PC, HD DVD player and HD DVR cable box, I don't plan on buying Blu-Ray until they work their kinks out. And, by work their kinks out, I mean when they have a feature-complete (profile 2.0) player with enough power to boot up in under 30 seconds and load all BD discs in under 30 seconds for under $200. That's when I bought into HD DVD and that's when I'll buy into Blu-Ray.
The only problem is that they may not work out their kinks before the cable companies or Netflix or Amazon or Apple gets HD downloads working well enough for Joe 6 pack. So we'll all be stuck with renting content.
Yeah. And the current glut of Profile 1.0 players can't even play picture in picture content. So Blu-Ray discs don't even have it on them. Unlike HD DVD which did from the very beginning, so my Matrix and 300 discs have tons of fun extras like that.
Blu-Ray was rushed to market to compete with HD DVD and it shows. It won, so HD DVD is dead. Now we just have to wait about a year or so for Blu-Ray to catch up to where HD DVD was feature-wise over a year ago.
And part of wanting to watch a movie is being able to play it, not wait 2 minutes for it to load a silly Disney disc.
The format war is over, unfortunately, Blu-Ray is far from ready for general consumer adoption. Profile 2.0 players, the players that actually do everything they are supposed to (and everything that even low-end HD DVD players did), are few and far between... not to mention very expensive when they are found. The standalone Blu-Ray players pretty much universally suck. They're woefully underpowered to do things like load the Java VM which is required for viewing many newer Blu-Ray discs (Disney's newer discs like Pirates of the Caribbean and Ratatouille take a full 2 minutes just to load on most standalone players). And the machines by some companies are so buggy that there's already been a class action lawsuit.
The only Blu-Ray player even worth considering for consumers is the PS3. But then you're stuck with a big game console instead of just a standalone movie player, which is what many people really want.
I had bought a Toshiba HD-A3 HD DVD player for $159. Feature complete. Booted to drawer open in under 30 seconds. Loaded all movies in under 30 seconds. Did everything I needed (my TV has fine 3:2 pulldown so 1080i out is all I needed). And it came with 10 movies. Even now, there's really no equivalent on the Blu-Ray side. No standalone 2.0 player that isn't dog-slow.
When Warner switched, I simply stopped buying HD content. Most of my friends that were buying HD DVDs did the same thing. Sure, I may buy into Blu-Ray eventually. But it looks like it's gonna be a while before it's capable of doing what it should.
Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 3 Beta 3 was released a few hours after the announcement. It's packaged with a launcher so it runs self-contained so you can use it from a flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive, etc. But it's also handy for trying out the current beta without affecting your local install. You can even run it from your desktop to try it out and then delete it.
It's available from the Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 3 Beta 3 homepage.
This is a bug that only affects Windows Vista (defective DRM is prevalent). Upgrading to Windows XP will solve the problem.
Isn't that statement essentially an admission that KDE purposely linked GPL licensed code to the older, proprietary Qt code (thus violating copyright law)? In that case, yes, the original copyright holder can revoke their privileges under GPL 2. This is one of the things that was changed in GPL 3.
Wikipedia seems to be having some issues with admins deleting articles in connection to their notability guidelines lately. PortableApps.com, the website that makes available portable software that runs from removable media (like a portable version of Firefox) was recently deleted under the notability guidelines with very little notice (aka speedy deletion). This despite the fact that it's the most popular portable platform (more popular than the commercial ones), in the top 10 on SourceForge, in the top 5,000 websites in the world and has been extensively covered in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, LA Times, PC Magazine, PC World, Wired, etc.
I've had a number of people using both PowerPoint and OpenOffice.org Impress presentations that bring OpenOffice.org Portable with them as a backup. One found OpenOffice.org wasn't installed and was fine. Another found that their PowerPoint presentation, for some reason, wouldn't open on the copy of PowerPoint on the desktop hooked up to the A/V system. Luckily, OpenOffice.org Portable could open it just fine.
You don't need to install or compile it. Just plug in your flash drive with GIMP Portable on it. :-)
I believe the reference is to how well Windows 98 (and 98 SE) was received by Windows 95 users (98 offered lots of good fixes and new features over 95) as opposed to how poorly Windows Vista is being received by Windows XP users (since it doesn't really offer any must-have features or bug fixes).
Eudora 8 is just a customized version of Thunderbird and not a different app in any way shape or form. If you install and run it on a machine that already has Thunderbird installed, it *WILL* mess up your existing Thunderbird profile.
I checked out Drupal and Mambo/Joomla for a large site I setup and went with Drupal. Joomla's URL aliasing setup was awful compared to Drupal. It makes sense since Mambo (on which Joomla is based) originally only supported it as a commercial add-on created by one of its core developers. With Drupal, friendly URLs were built in from the beginning.
Basically, Joomla is easier to setup and add modules... but nowhere near as customizable or as extensible as Drupal. If you don't mind doing a little bit more learning up front, you can do far more with Drupal.
MojoPac only works on admin-level accounts on Windows XP. No guest or limited accounts (so no libraries, net cafes, offices, schools, hotel business centers, etc). No Windows 2000 or Vista. So, it's pretty limited.
Just use PortableApps.com today. It has better compatibility, working with most Windows OSes (95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista) as well as Wine under *nix. It's open so you can add any software that's already portable to it. And it's much more popular than U3 ever was, with over 20,000,000 apps downloaded. Plus it works from any drive you'd like: USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive, network share, etc... so you're never tied down.
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Am I the only one that saw "hot ice" and thought "ice-nine"? .... ah-whoom.
I live in New York City and I routinely have large files to upload to servers. As an example, I'm in the process of publishing OpenOffice.org Portable 2.1 (a package of OpenOffice.org that runs from USB flash drives, iPods, etc). OpenOffice.org's source code is nearly 200MB. I've been trying to upload it to SourceForge for the past 6 hours. Hiccup in the line... and start over.
I currently have service from Time Warner. It's about 8M down and a bit under 500K up at any given time. It's the fastest they offer, and it's the only cable company I can use in my building. I could get DSL access, but the fastest available would be 6M down and 768K up for $115 a month. And Verizon's FIOS service that will offer 15M down and 2M up for $50 a month isn't available here yet.
Morons is the only word I can think of to properly classify:
- the people who reported "suspicious devices" with a cartoon character flipping them off (would they react the same to fred flintstone or pacman in LEDs?)
- the people who thought they were bombs ("OMG D batteries!!!!11`1!")
- the endless media pundits saying they were suspicious (maybe we can frighten people into watching our channel longer)
- the prosecutors that went after the marketers (well, we know this is stupid, but we have to now that the ball is rolling)
- all the people who spout things like "in a post-9/11 world, we have to be vigilant" (there's a coca-cola sign that looks suspicious near me... it's all glowing and red) there's a difference between being cautious and being stupid, especially once you realize you're wrong
- and now, the folks at Cartoon Network that gave in and paid 2 million dollars and then sacked people
For anyone that can't seem to think clearly, let me make this really easy:
LITE BRITE IS NOT A BOMB
"I go to a council for a distinctly different experience then a PC"
Would that be the Council of Console Gamers? I hear they have a pretty good counseling center that can help console you if your pre-order was cancelled.
I'd be willing to bet that with this change, the APSL is no longer free enough to be considered a Free license. As such, it'll be removed from the OSI-approved list. That means that any projects using it can't be hosted on SourceForge, Google Code, etc.
This shouldn't really be surprising to anyone. Apple never really intended to truely open up their stuff and allow others to fully use it without their blessing.
One thing that many still don't realize is the lock-in aspect. Those DRMed files you buy^H^H^H license through the iTunes Music Store for your iPod can't come with you to any other music player. They'll only work with an iPod. Some iPod owners are going to be in for a rude awakening if they decide to buy a Zune (or any other player).
(And, yes, I know that there are illegal-in-the-US-even-though-it-shouldn't-be ways to remove the protection on the AAC files... though other players don't play AACs... and please don't give me an example... most don't... and most consumers have no idea what an AAC is. And, yes, I know you can burn it to CD and then rip it to standard MP3s... with the resulting loss in quality from going from one lossy format to another. But the average consumer isn't gonna know how to do either of those things.)