The Linux on the DC was neat, Linux on the PS2 was surprising, given Sony's anal tendencies, but this is just not all that surprising. I want to see Linux on the GameCube, the N64 (with those flashable carts), the Saturn, and maybe even the X32 for the Genesis. THAT would be cool.
It'll save you money, and give you faster access and far more storage space, and if it's just docs, compress them for 3 times the space. You could store 300GB of documents on a 150GB single drive. A stack of DVDs equal in capacity alone would be larger than the HDD, not counting the DVD drive needed to read them.
As with comment #2984186, I agree 100% with including Homeworld. To me, it is one of the best games ever created. Right up there with the original Legend of Zelda (yes, I'm an NES junkie), Space Quest III, and Zorks 1-3. No contest. Yeah, I an an id fanatic, and love Wolf3D and Doom, and the Quakes, but if I were on a deserted island with a solar cell and rechargeable battery array to power my PC, I'd chose Homeworld as one of the 3 games I could have to while away the hours. No contest.
The X-Files should have ended 2 or 3 years ago. It was starting to strain it's own created credibility of continuity, and when Duchovny announced he wanted to leave that should have made it clear the show needed to end. People wanted Seinfeld to go another year, but Jerry knew that you go out on a high note. X-Files needed to do the same. It could have continued with a couple films, but the weekly show needed to wrap up when David left.
For reputation's sake, it's better to go out a season early than a season late.
Giving away the software of failed companies could turn every corporate failure into a disaster for everyone else.
That's silly. It can only help the community. If it's truly bad code, it'll either be fixed, or left to bit rot. While the "enriching the soil" thing is a nice metaphor, it fails when speaking of bad software. It's notsalt to good code's fertilizer, it's more likeplain dirt. It doesn't hurt, but without good things added to it, it won't help either. It's neutral. No one loses when code is GPLed.
The single comment that made me say this was his response that without extreme circumstances, a rewrite isn't needed. What he fails to realize is that the world OUTSIDE of your codebase changes, and even without a radical platform shift, a rewrite could become vital to the continued success of the product. If I was coding for a static system, I'd agree with him. Drastic code changes would be rarely needed. But the world doesn't work that way. I rarely use harsh words like "twit" when replying to interviews, especially when I've never heard of the person being interviewed before, but he doesn't seem to understand the scope of the real world, despite having a much firmer grasp on software market conditions and workings than most programmers. Of course, he seems to have les of a grasp on code dynamics than the average programmer, so maybe this is all just an indication of him being less suited to coding than maybe being an average manager.
I don't know about the PS2, and I don't believe the GameCube has fans, but the XBox having 2 fans isn't totally a good thing. We all know that fans are very unreliable in the long run, so unless MS sprang for some very nice (and expensive) all-ball-bearing sealed fans (which I doubt considering how much per box they're losing) I can see more than a few fans failing in a year and some nasty warranty issues. Dust and fans don't mix, and with no filters, and open vents to the outside, I wonder...
The free and legal exchange of information we need as citizens is slowly being eroded by pinheads in Washington. What scares me more and more is that this information is being taken from us NOT by people we elected, but people who were appointed, and I don't just mean Tom Ridge. For a moment I was glad that my state no longer had him as Governor, then I realized how much more damage he can do at a national level.
Tom Ridge also has a history of denying information to his citizens. As the former governor of PA, he made it illegal to have cellular phone programming information if you were not directly related to a cellular company, whether a seller of phones, repair shop, etc. The Black Crawling Systems BBS archives formerly for sale by l0pht could not be sent to PA because of my wonderful unconstitutional legislature and governor. I fear what else Tom Ridge will try to take away.
Yeah, I keep mine really cool and well ventilated. Of course, it's 68 degrees F in here right now, about 20.3 C. I like my living space cooler than average...
That's WAY too hot. Granted my Athlon's much slower, but it's the old Slot-A Athlon at 700, which can run pretty darn hot. With 1 intake and 1 exhaust case fan, and 3 processor fans blowing over the wide Aavid heat sink, I keep mine at around 30-35 C, in summer maybe it peaks at 38 without the AC on. Right now it's 29.5 C. Maybe going ultra quiet isn't the greatest thing to do for a heat sink fan, eh?
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That has nothing to do whith what I was talking about. That's a ZUL replication problem, currently being worked on. And it's progress is fairly good so far...
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I hate it when I forget the/a
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This is just another load of crap. YEs, Moz uses widgets internal to itself rather than native OS widgets, although you wouldn't know it to look at them. They're non-native for a few reasons. Using native widgets would seriously cut down on the number of supported platforms, since the few developers working on the project would be further taxed by translating for half a dozen platforms. This was a design choice made years ago now. it doesn't slow down rendering a bit, because they're not "hand drawn" (whatever that's supposed to mean to a computer) but generated using a set of GFX that can be styled on the fly. It's not drawing buttons and such, it merely puts together a set of "building blocks" to make them. There's almost zero impact on performance.
And lastly, just because it DOES use internal widgets, that does NOT mean that it can't outperform IE. Mozilla as a whole is slower than Gecko-based browsers because Mozilla DOES more than they do. The backends on Mozilla and K-Meleon and it's brethren are vastly different. It's like comparing a Yugo to an Aircraft carrier.
Slashdot = Ads = More Slashdot? Sounds good to me!
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Sure, I'm not FOND of ads, but I sure as hell an fond of my daily/. so I'm more than willing to put up with some ads. Maybe more readers should try to look at things from CmdrTaco's point of view. This place costs MONEY. Today, that money stuff is harder to come by. So we deal with some ads. We get the same thing on TV. We'll live with it.
Keep up the good work guys. Just ignore all the whiners.
Good tech turned into another RIAA thumbscrew.
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This will turn into nothing more than another way for RIAA to squeeze even higher profits from us, without having to pay the artists more. Here's an example. The article says:
For example, a record company could place five albums on a disc but keep four of them locked. Users may sample the additional material before buying it, at which point they would receive a key either through the phone or the Internet to unlock the albums.
This is a great idea, but in practice it doesn't work well. Take all those CDs that came out in the mid 90's using the TestDrive technology, such as the Quake shareware CD. It had the shareware version of Quake on it, and if you liked it, you could call a toll free number, give them a code number it generated, they'd give you a complimentary code number, and the CD would unlock Quake for you, and copy it to your HD. You could also choose to purchase many older id games like Wolf3D, several Doom packages, Hexen, etc. But, it was a very short time later that a tiny little program was widely available that would allow you to generate complimentary keys to the Test Drive program's code. This will happen with records on this disc, and the RIAA will keep prices artificially higher than they should be to "counteract" the "losses" via people cracking the disc.
Further, the paragraph goes on to say this:
The cost would be much lower than a typical purchase because the albums would be on the same disc.
But we have proof that record companies do not pass on saving in material costs to the comsumer. A cassette tape is much more costly to produce than a compact disc, yet you can buy new cassettes for about $10 while the same album on CD costs about $15. The CD is the much more popular format, so they charge more for it, and make a killing. If they can afford to sell cassettes at $10, then they should be able to sell the CD for $9 and make the same profit, but they do not. And they won't, unless we PRESSURE them to. They backed off the crap they tried to pull piggybacking their ideas on anti-terror bills because of public pressure.
Can I go to the store and buy a CD with Mozilla on it? Yes
Is that CD put out by Mozilla? No. Is mozilla.org responsible in any way shape or form for what is on that CD? No. Is mozilla.org connected in any way shape or form with whoever oput that CD out? No.
Can I buy a CD with Netscape 6 on it from the web? Yes
Is that CD put out by NS? Yes. Is NS responsible for the contents of that CD? Yes. Does NS provide support? Yes.
In the end, Mozilla is not shipping. Sorry.
Oh, by the way sparky, Mozilla is not Netscape!
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As a poster above poined out, it is shipping. It's in every Linux distribution you can find on a store shelf.
Just because Linux distros are including milestone builds, doesn't mean that Moilla is "shipping". As far as we're concerned, it's NOT. The community feels that 1.0 is "shipping", regardless fo what distros do. Mandrake is beta testing 8.1, so do you consider 8.1 to be "shipping"? What about Windows XP? It's been RTMed, and OEMs have it for systems, but it's not on shelves. Is it "shipping"? No, and no. Now Bugzilla, THAT'S "shpping" as 2.14 was just recently released. Great product there, btw...
Besides, what do you call Netscape 6.x
I call it Netscape 6.x, a product based on Mozilla. But, once again Netscape != Mozilla. How hard is it to follow that?
I went to my local BigHugeSuperMegaMart store, and bought one of those indoor/outdoor digital thermometers with the temp sensor with a nice long wire, secured it on the heatsink on the bottom between the fins so it would be as close to the CPU plate as possible. I hot-glued the little readout display to the bottom of my monitor, and it turns out it's dead on as far as being accurate relative to the thermistor built on to the main board.
It's only about 3cm by 6 cm by maybe 1.5 cm thick, so it's very unobtrusive, and the readout screen itself is nice and big. Very handy as well, as last week, my CPU fans weren't 100% failing, but were at that age where they need replaced as they are much slower and thus inefficient. I saw the temp go from about 34C to 48C over the course fo the day. I opened it up, replaced the fans, and I'm down below 34C most of the time now.
An ounce of prevention (or in this case a AAA battery of prevention) is worth a CPU in the trash can...
No. as far as we're concerned, it's not. Currently, the source is available, and that's it. Binaries are only made available for testing purposes. In the early days there were no binaries available at all from mozilla.org. Milestones are more stable releases that are made available so that a larger number of people than would normally DL a nightly will grab it and bang away, and hopefully shake out bugs.
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The Linux on the DC was neat, Linux on the PS2 was surprising, given Sony's anal tendencies, but this is just not all that surprising. I want to see Linux on the GameCube, the N64 (with those flashable carts), the Saturn, and maybe even the X32 for the Genesis. THAT would be cool.
Hmm. Add in Global Crossing and we have a pattern...
It'll save you money, and give you faster access and far more storage space, and if it's just docs, compress them for 3 times the space. You could store 300GB of documents on a 150GB single drive. A stack of DVDs equal in capacity alone would be larger than the HDD, not counting the DVD drive needed to read them.
As with comment #2984186, I agree 100% with including Homeworld. To me, it is one of the best games ever created. Right up there with the original Legend of Zelda (yes, I'm an NES junkie), Space Quest III, and Zorks 1-3. No contest. Yeah, I an an id fanatic, and love Wolf3D and Doom, and the Quakes, but if I were on a deserted island with a solar cell and rechargeable battery array to power my PC, I'd chose Homeworld as one of the 3 games I could have to while away the hours. No contest.
Yet another wonderful Mozilla related site. We'll have a review up in the next day or two, so visit. :)
For reputation's sake, it's better to go out a season early than a season late.
The single comment that made me say this was his response that without extreme circumstances, a rewrite isn't needed. What he fails to realize is that the world OUTSIDE of your codebase changes, and even without a radical platform shift, a rewrite could become vital to the continued success of the product. If I was coding for a static system, I'd agree with him. Drastic code changes would be rarely needed. But the world doesn't work that way. I rarely use harsh words like "twit" when replying to interviews, especially when I've never heard of the person being interviewed before, but he doesn't seem to understand the scope of the real world, despite having a much firmer grasp on software market conditions and workings than most programmers. Of course, he seems to have les of a grasp on code dynamics than the average programmer, so maybe this is all just an indication of him being less suited to coding than maybe being an average manager.
Collossal bitch or not, I want to do naughty things with her during naked-time. :)
I don't know about the PS2, and I don't believe the GameCube has fans, but the XBox having 2 fans isn't totally a good thing. We all know that fans are very unreliable in the long run, so unless MS sprang for some very nice (and expensive) all-ball-bearing sealed fans (which I doubt considering how much per box they're losing) I can see more than a few fans failing in a year and some nasty warranty issues. Dust and fans don't mix, and with no filters, and open vents to the outside, I wonder...
Tom Ridge also has a history of denying information to his citizens. As the former governor of PA, he made it illegal to have cellular phone programming information if you were not directly related to a cellular company, whether a seller of phones, repair shop, etc. The Black Crawling Systems BBS archives formerly for sale by l0pht could not be sent to PA because of my wonderful unconstitutional legislature and governor. I fear what else Tom Ridge will try to take away.
Yeah, I keep mine really cool and well ventilated. Of course, it's 68 degrees F in here right now, about 20.3 C. I like my living space cooler than average...
That's WAY too hot. Granted my Athlon's much slower, but it's the old Slot-A Athlon at 700, which can run pretty darn hot. With 1 intake and 1 exhaust case fan, and 3 processor fans blowing over the wide Aavid heat sink, I keep mine at around 30-35 C, in summer maybe it peaks at 38 without the AC on. Right now it's 29.5 C. Maybe going ultra quiet isn't the greatest thing to do for a heat sink fan, eh?
Score one for my idiot meter today.
That has nothing to do whith what I was talking about. That's a ZUL replication problem, currently being worked on. And it's progress is fairly good so far...
I hate it when I forget the /a
This reminds me of a troll that used to hanf around the mozilla newsgroups that in the end just made a joke of himself. I even wound up parodying him just for more laughs. The whole argument against XUL is stupid these days.
And lastly, just because it DOES use internal widgets, that does NOT mean that it can't outperform IE. Mozilla as a whole is slower than Gecko-based browsers because Mozilla DOES more than they do. The backends on Mozilla and K-Meleon and it's brethren are vastly different. It's like comparing a Yugo to an Aircraft carrier.
Keep up the good work guys. Just ignore all the whiners.
This is a great idea, but in practice it doesn't work well. Take all those CDs that came out in the mid 90's using the TestDrive technology, such as the Quake shareware CD. It had the shareware version of Quake on it, and if you liked it, you could call a toll free number, give them a code number it generated, they'd give you a complimentary code number, and the CD would unlock Quake for you, and copy it to your HD. You could also choose to purchase many older id games like Wolf3D, several Doom packages, Hexen, etc. But, it was a very short time later that a tiny little program was widely available that would allow you to generate complimentary keys to the Test Drive program's code. This will happen with records on this disc, and the RIAA will keep prices artificially higher than they should be to "counteract" the "losses" via people cracking the disc.
Further, the paragraph goes on to say this:
But we have proof that record companies do not pass on saving in material costs to the comsumer. A cassette tape is much more costly to produce than a compact disc, yet you can buy new cassettes for about $10 while the same album on CD costs about $15. The CD is the much more popular format, so they charge more for it, and make a killing. If they can afford to sell cassettes at $10, then they should be able to sell the CD for $9 and make the same profit, but they do not. And they won't, unless we PRESSURE them to. They backed off the crap they tried to pull piggybacking their ideas on anti-terror bills because of public pressure.
Thanks. It takes a big person to even admit they MIGHT be wrong. :)
Yes, I meant to have the word BEGIN after the word bits. It should have read "Today the bits begin to go in..."
Is that CD put out by Mozilla? No. Is mozilla.org responsible in any way shape or form for what is on that CD? No. Is mozilla.org connected in any way shape or form with whoever oput that CD out? No.
Can I buy a CD with Netscape 6 on it from the web? Yes
Is that CD put out by NS? Yes. Is NS responsible for the contents of that CD? Yes. Does NS provide support? Yes.
In the end, Mozilla is not shipping. Sorry.
Oh, by the way sparky, Mozilla is not Netscape!
Just because Linux distros are including milestone builds, doesn't mean that Moilla is "shipping". As far as we're concerned, it's NOT. The community feels that 1.0 is "shipping", regardless fo what distros do. Mandrake is beta testing 8.1, so do you consider 8.1 to be "shipping"? What about Windows XP? It's been RTMed, and OEMs have it for systems, but it's not on shelves. Is it "shipping"? No, and no. Now Bugzilla, THAT'S "shpping" as 2.14 was just recently released. Great product there, btw...
Besides, what do you call Netscape 6.x
I call it Netscape 6.x, a product based on Mozilla. But, once again Netscape != Mozilla. How hard is it to follow that?
It's only about 3cm by 6 cm by maybe 1.5 cm thick, so it's very unobtrusive, and the readout screen itself is nice and big. Very handy as well, as last week, my CPU fans weren't 100% failing, but were at that age where they need replaced as they are much slower and thus inefficient. I saw the temp go from about 34C to 48C over the course fo the day. I opened it up, replaced the fans, and I'm down below 34C most of the time now.
An ounce of prevention (or in this case a AAA battery of prevention) is worth a CPU in the trash can...
No. as far as we're concerned, it's not. Currently, the source is available, and that's it. Binaries are only made available for testing purposes. In the early days there were no binaries available at all from mozilla.org. Milestones are more stable releases that are made available so that a larger number of people than would normally DL a nightly will grab it and bang away, and hopefully shake out bugs.