There are lots of extensions that I use (tabbed browsing stuff, for instance) that I use all the time. On the other hand, that functionality isn't needed to make Firefox usable, so it isn't part of the core browser.
Oh, I wouldn't say that... have you tried using tabs in Firefox without any extensions? It's practically pointless for it to even be a tabbed browser when they're as half-assed as they are without installing at least one of the tab-oriented extensions to fix it.
I'm of the opinion that the functionality added by Tab Clicking Options and Tabbrowser Preferences should be integrated into Firefox out-of-the-box, because without one or the both, tabbed browsing in Firefox is broken, plain and simple.
While I'm bitching about Firefox, how about a check box to turn off that stupid inline auto-complete and dropdown in the address bar? That drives me nuts, and every other graphical browser out there has an option for it but Firefox.
Honestly... I wish I could somehow combine the things I like about Firefox and the things I like about Opera into one browser with NONE of the things I hate about either of them.
You forgot to mention that the Gmini 400 doesn't require any special programs to "load" it.
Plug it in, it's mounted as a USB hard drive, copy+paste, you're ready to go, whether it's a video, a bunch of photos, or music files.
I've gotten a ton of use out of mine since I got it. 20 gigs of space, great sound quality, intuitive interface, and it cost about $100 less than an iPod, and does more.
So why do you think it is that Linux gets a bad rap for hardware support when Windows has exactly the same problem?
Probably because in most "normal users'" experience, Windows comes already set up and configured on a new computer.
Whereas, if they want to try some flavor of Linux, they have to set it up themselves, and any problems they are going to run into automatically look like a failing of Linux.
Because they didn't get the opportunity to see how awful it can be to get Windows working with all the hardware by comparison.
As for more advanced users who do their own Windows setups as well, I can't explain that.
On my laptop (a Toshiba Satellite A75-S2112), it took me around 4 hours to get everything working in Windows, including lots and lots of trial and error with really flaky drivers that I had to search all over creation for.
Contrast that with my Slackware 10.1 install on the other partition on the same laptop... 20 minutes for the install itself, and the only "special" thing I had to do anything with was download the Madwifi source for the Atheros chipset that's in this particular laptop, follow the idiot-proof instructions for installing it, and voila, everything was working.
In my limited experience (two different laptops and maybe a dozen different desktop machines), Slackware sets up with far less trouble than Windows 2000 or XP.
That's not to say that I haven't had my share of interesting challenges where getting everything to work is concerned... but most of that has been with trying to get some really crappy oddball hardware to work (like D-Link's DWL-G650 pcmcia wifi card under Linux... just try and tell me that's "simple"). For the most part, after installing Windows, I spend the next couple of hours going down the laundry list of question marks in the Device Manager and hunting down drivers for basic things like sound, DVD ROM drives, network cards, video cards.
And Slackware is almost always on top of those things right out of the box.
I think a more accurate analogy would be like blatantly and without even a hint of discretion making great motions to lock your refrigerator and cupboards and drawers and rooms of your house any time you have ANYONE over. And doing it right in front of them.
How would that make most people feel?
I'll tell you. It'd make most people feel like they probably won't bother coming over to your house anymore after being treated like that.
It can be disabled, but it'll pester you to re-enable it every time you open a document.
Which is precisely why I won't use this. Aside from that really big annoyance, the Adobe Reader 7 for Linux seems to work really well, and looks a lot nicer than 5.
However, until they get rid of that nag message, I won't have it on any of my machines, Windows, Linux, or otherwise.
Apparently it bugs you every time you start the program to re-enable it, though.
It was that stupid nag-message that caused me to uninstall Adobe Reader 7 and reinstall Adobe Reader 6 on my Windows machines.
I would pop up the "This document contains Javascripts. Do you want to enable Javascripts from now on? The document may not behave correctly if they're disabled." message even on PDFs that I created that I know don't have Javascripts in them.
Okay, now one that doesn't suck in a Gimp-like "let's have have 27,000 different windows that aren't connected so if you change to another program you have to activate all of them in order to keep working again" way?
Office 2003 Standard Edition: $399 ($239 if you're upgrading from another version) for Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook. If you would also like to get programs like Access (included in the Professional edition: $499 ($339 if you're upgrading from another version). Now, let's see... OpenOffice... Oh, look. It's free!
Wait... maybe he meant over a larger deployment of it.
MS Office 2003 Professional at $499 per workstation x say for our purposes 50 workstations == $24,950
OpenOffice.org at $0.00 per workstation x 50 workstations == Huh.
But no, you get linux with patches already installed, and even if you had to download them that's better than the 20 unpatched known holes that Windows XP Pro has.
Or worse yet... If you prefer to stick with Windows 2000 instead of XP, MS has blatantly said that the fundamental problems they've acknowledged with Win2K will simply never be fixed, and they have no plans to address them.
Chernobyl happened because of two main things. Extremely poor design (graphite as a moderator? what lunatic thought of that?) and operator error.
No reactor will ever be built in the United States that has that design.
And as for Three Mile Island, do you know the details of that "disaster"? Just how much radioactive material was released? Just how many people were killed by it?
As you just showed us, the vast majority of the "fears" about nuclear power come from a fundamental lack of understanding about what it is, how it works, and the "incidents" that have heppened and how they relate to the rest of us.
When it comes down to it, a heck of a lot more people have been killed by conventional power generation methods than by nuclear power, particularly in the US.
I've discovered that everything that I want to buy I can usually find USED on Amazon for less than $7-$8 a CD, and most of the time more like $5 or $6. Likewise, I frequent two local used music shops in my area.
Both ways of buying used music have resulted in my ending up with dozens of CDs that are in almost perfect condition, for less than HALF what they cost new, and no additional money is going to the RIAA when I buy them used, so I don't feel bad about buying them.
Uh, guys, I think I need some help here. I read the article and cloned myself, but now he keeps signing me up for mailing lists I don't want. Is it morally wrong to throttle your own clone?
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There are lots of extensions that I use (tabbed browsing stuff, for instance) that I use all the time. On the other hand, that functionality isn't needed to make Firefox usable, so it isn't part of the core browser.
Oh, I wouldn't say that... have you tried using tabs in Firefox without any extensions? It's practically pointless for it to even be a tabbed browser when they're as half-assed as they are without installing at least one of the tab-oriented extensions to fix it.
I'm of the opinion that the functionality added by Tab Clicking Options and Tabbrowser Preferences should be integrated into Firefox out-of-the-box, because without one or the both, tabbed browsing in Firefox is broken, plain and simple.
While I'm bitching about Firefox, how about a check box to turn off that stupid inline auto-complete and dropdown in the address bar? That drives me nuts, and every other graphical browser out there has an option for it but Firefox.
Honestly... I wish I could somehow combine the things I like about Firefox and the things I like about Opera into one browser with NONE of the things I hate about either of them.
Maybe I should just write my own browser.
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You forgot to mention that the Gmini 400 doesn't require any special programs to "load" it.
Plug it in, it's mounted as a USB hard drive, copy+paste, you're ready to go, whether it's a video, a bunch of photos, or music files.
I've gotten a ton of use out of mine since I got it. 20 gigs of space, great sound quality, intuitive interface, and it cost about $100 less than an iPod, and does more.
"Closer To The Heart" is from A Farewell To Kings, not 2112. :-)
Which is why at my table, we now play HackMaster.
It's what 3rd Edition D&D should have been.
So why do you think it is that Linux gets a bad rap for hardware support when Windows has exactly the same problem?
Probably because in most "normal users'" experience, Windows comes already set up and configured on a new computer.
Whereas, if they want to try some flavor of Linux, they have to set it up themselves, and any problems they are going to run into automatically look like a failing of Linux.
Because they didn't get the opportunity to see how awful it can be to get Windows working with all the hardware by comparison.
As for more advanced users who do their own Windows setups as well, I can't explain that.
On my laptop (a Toshiba Satellite A75-S2112), it took me around 4 hours to get everything working in Windows, including lots and lots of trial and error with really flaky drivers that I had to search all over creation for.
Contrast that with my Slackware 10.1 install on the other partition on the same laptop... 20 minutes for the install itself, and the only "special" thing I had to do anything with was download the Madwifi source for the Atheros chipset that's in this particular laptop, follow the idiot-proof instructions for installing it, and voila, everything was working.
In my limited experience (two different laptops and maybe a dozen different desktop machines), Slackware sets up with far less trouble than Windows 2000 or XP.
That's not to say that I haven't had my share of interesting challenges where getting everything to work is concerned... but most of that has been with trying to get some really crappy oddball hardware to work (like D-Link's DWL-G650 pcmcia wifi card under Linux... just try and tell me that's "simple"). For the most part, after installing Windows, I spend the next couple of hours going down the laundry list of question marks in the Device Manager and hunting down drivers for basic things like sound, DVD ROM drives, network cards, video cards.
And Slackware is almost always on top of those things right out of the box.
You have to have faith that is in fact pink. ;)
I like Mandrivoris, myself. :-)
I think a more accurate analogy would be like blatantly and without even a hint of discretion making great motions to lock your refrigerator and cupboards and drawers and rooms of your house any time you have ANYONE over. And doing it right in front of them.
How would that make most people feel?
I'll tell you. It'd make most people feel like they probably won't bother coming over to your house anymore after being treated like that.
Somebody mod this up some more!
That worked like a charm! Thanks!
It can be disabled, but it'll pester you to re-enable it every time you open a document.
Which is precisely why I won't use this. Aside from that really big annoyance, the Adobe Reader 7 for Linux seems to work really well, and looks a lot nicer than 5.
However, until they get rid of that nag message, I won't have it on any of my machines, Windows, Linux, or otherwise.
Apparently it bugs you every time you start the program to re-enable it, though.
It was that stupid nag-message that caused me to uninstall Adobe Reader 7 and reinstall Adobe Reader 6 on my Windows machines.
I would pop up the "This document contains Javascripts. Do you want to enable Javascripts from now on? The document may not behave correctly if they're disabled." message even on PDFs that I created that I know don't have Javascripts in them.
Feh.
But that is the case if you're running Linux.
Okay, now one that doesn't suck in a Gimp-like "let's have have 27,000 different windows that aren't connected so if you change to another program you have to activate all of them in order to keep working again" way?
*grinds teeth*
I hate that.
Office 2003 Standard Edition: $399 ($239 if you're upgrading from another version) for Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook.
If you would also like to get programs like Access (included in the Professional edition: $499 ($339 if you're upgrading from another version).
Now, let's see... OpenOffice...
Oh, look. It's free!
Wait... maybe he meant over a larger deployment of it.
MS Office 2003 Professional at $499 per workstation x say for our purposes 50 workstations == $24,950
OpenOffice.org at $0.00 per workstation x 50 workstations == Huh.
Still free.
Oh.
Uh.... sorry?
I think the correct term is "fucking furvert", actually.
But no, you get linux with patches already installed, and even if you had to download them that's better than the 20 unpatched known holes that Windows XP Pro has.
Or worse yet... If you prefer to stick with Windows 2000 instead of XP, MS has blatantly said that the fundamental problems they've acknowledged with Win2K will simply never be fixed, and they have no plans to address them.
Kopera? :-)
Or, if you don't like registering to read NY Times articles, just go here.
Careful. You just posted instructions on how to circumvent a copy protection scheme.
You are a dirty, feelthy pirate-lover and you will end up in federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison with all the rest of the hardcore criminals.
As well you should.
Chernobyl happened because of two main things. Extremely poor design (graphite as a moderator? what lunatic thought of that?) and operator error.
No reactor will ever be built in the United States that has that design.
And as for Three Mile Island, do you know the details of that "disaster"? Just how much radioactive material was released? Just how many people were killed by it?
As you just showed us, the vast majority of the "fears" about nuclear power come from a fundamental lack of understanding about what it is, how it works, and the "incidents" that have heppened and how they relate to the rest of us.
When it comes down to it, a heck of a lot more people have been killed by conventional power generation methods than by nuclear power, particularly in the US.
Ditto here on buying new CDs.
I've discovered that everything that I want to buy I can usually find USED on Amazon for less than $7-$8 a CD, and most of the time more like $5 or $6. Likewise, I frequent two local used music shops in my area.
Both ways of buying used music have resulted in my ending up with dozens of CDs that are in almost perfect condition, for less than HALF what they cost new, and no additional money is going to the RIAA when I buy them used, so I don't feel bad about buying them.
Uh, guys, I think I need some help here. I read the article and cloned myself, but now he keeps signing me up for mailing lists I don't want. Is it morally wrong to throttle your own clone?