Of course you assume that there is some unobjectionable reason to maintain the current grouping system. The system of species sorting is centered around differences in gross anatomy isn't it? That is pretty much arbitrary.
Why not classify entities (living and non-living) along the lines of cognitive ability, or moral agency? In those scenarios it would be pretty accurate to assume that humans aren't animals.
Go take a high school Philosophy course. (See how ending posts with sentences like that is not at all constructive? At best you look like a know-it-all jerk at worst you are actually wrong and you look like a moron who thinks, mistakenly, that he is a know-it-all jerk.)
I had Windows 2000 running smoothly on three different machines and it hardly ever crashed. After upgrading to Windows XP, I seem to have at least one annoying crash a day. Is it just me, or are other heavy Windows users noticing this sort of behavior?
I don't think World of Warcraft and Everquest 2 are going to seriously affect City of Heroes. The kind of quick-easy action, no crafting game-play that CoH exemplifies is pretty much unique in the MMO sphere.
I hope that WoW isn't going to be one of those games where negative posts aren't allowed.
*cough*sony*cough* That kind of censorship never helps anyone.
I think Google is going to regret not including Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird in their search features by default. I just don't understand their thinking on this, it's not like Mozilla, et al., use some kind of proprietary/obscure file format. How hard can it be to search what is basically nothing more than a text file?
How long will it take Google to back pedal after Mozilla provides its own solution (or has an extension.)
--Sunbird, the real reason we will all stop running MS somday.
Download sizes: Firefox - 4.5MB Opera - 3.5MB Safari - 7.2MB Internet Explorer 6 for Xp - 12MB (this is actually the install size the download size varies)
It seems that you have no right to say Firefox is bloated if we measure download size. And I don't think you could possibly mean that it is suffering from feature bloat.
Did you mean to say that the Mozilla suite is bloated?
Get a PhD. if you love your field. The process is very demanding in just about every way there is to be demanding. You get paid next to nothing, you teach only the course professors don't want to teach and the work is considerably more difficult than anything else you've done in school by orders of magnitude.
Even in a field like mine, Philosophy, where a PhD. is required just to get interviewed for a position getting the degree is incredibly difficult and often tedious. In a field where you can get a good job without one there is little incentive to get a PhD. beyond personal desire.
Succinctly, if someone where to ask you, "Why are you in the doctoral program?" Your first answer should be, "Because I can't imagine myself doing anything else." If that isn't your first answer then you should probably do something else.
School ID. Driver's License. 2 Credit Cards. 2 ATM Cards (differen accounts). Various store punch cards (you know the type, by X number get one free.)
And the most important thing in my wallet....
My lucky green #2 UNO card. I found it in a parking lot years ago and decided that given the incredibly small chance of finding a single UNO card in a random parking lot it must be lucky.
It's accompanied me through half a dozen wallets over two decades.
There is a great little helper application named Suntray. That lets you minimize Sunbird to your system tray (windows obviously.) Once I got I was amazed that I ever ran Suntray without it.
If you are using Mozilla products in the pre-1.0 release you should be backing-up your files. In Sunbird its very easy to open your profile and copy your calendar file to a nice safe location (like your desktop.) Then whenever you hose Sunbird because it is only at 0.2 you can just reinstall and import your calendar. No loss data, much less stress, super easy.
No matter what the media or MS claims, this is not an OS that is meant to be used by single end-users.
Instead this release is meant to do two things.
First, it is an attempt to look concerned and responsive, thus generating goodwill from the governments in question. This, will give MS a more friendly reception when it attempts to lobby those same governments for restrictive DRM, abusable patent law and denial of fair-use. MS is effectively saying "Hey look we've gone to great lengths to do our part now you do your part."
Second, this cheaper release is a good whip to use against medium and small companies. It allows MS to go after them and argue in court that there is no good reason for these companies to have unlicensed MS copies. Currently the companies might be able to argue on grounds of inflated prices and monopoly abuse. But it is more insidious than that. By effectively removing an legal claims that the smaller companies could put forward and offering only a crippled OS at the low price-point MS is effectively forcing them to buy the full-featured expensive OS. Voila, nice fat revenue stream.
More pain in developing webpages/sites, since there will be yet another browser in the market, and the yuppies in marketing and sales will scream their throats off for "compatibility" with it
Mozilla/Firefox/Netscape are all standards compliant browsers you don't have to design your website with any special code to achieve full compatibility with them. You would only have a problem if you have a non-standards compliant website, then you *would* have to rewrite it. But hey if you decided to have a non-standard site, you deserve to have to do extra work.
You are committing the fallacy of presenting a false dichotomy. Specifically you suggest that in a scenario where "Microsoft doesn't include ANY sort of browser in the default Windows install. Only the technically literate will be able to get a browser using commandline FTP tools. This limits people's access to other browsers more than the current situation."
The dichotomy stems from the implied premise that Microsoft will either provide a fully featured graphical browser or none at all. But this is disingenuous. Why couldn't Microsoft provide a very stripped down browser, it might be unable to accept plug-ins, understand anything except basic HTML, etc. This would be sufficient for any emergency use, windows update, and to allow you to download the more fully-featured browser of your choice. Further you could easily go to a local software store and buy the browser of your choice.
This is exactly the model that they use with word processing software. They provide Notepad and Wordpad two barebones text/word editors that suffice for simple/emergency use. Then they expect you to go and get the Office Suite of your choice. So it is clearly a viable and feasible tactic. And it does not result in your doomsday scenario.
"I don't want a richer web experience, I want a lightweight (less animation, video, audio, system and network overhead), free from annoying ads that control my browser"
You realize that in any decent browser, like Firefox, you can just turn off animations and images right? I'm fairly certain that there is also an extension to prevent java and flash unless you want them to work in a particular website. Neither of which are you forced to download and install in any case.
In other words, if you want a non-standard web-experience, like your medie-lite preference, a good browser will let you have it with a small amount of work.
I think its important to realize that the author of the story *is not missing the point* of Open/Free software. He clearly sees it for what it is (at least partially,) an attack on corporate models along the lines of Microsoft (and Sun and IBM before they started to come around.)
GNU/Linux is that! It is true that GNU/Linux advocates want proprietary, closed-source models to fail. The author gets this. In his opinion that is a really bad idea because a huge chunk of US GNP is based on that closed model.
Now whether or not you agee with the conclusion drawn is one thing, but you should not be accusing them of being unaware of the realities.
... Windows had a huge marketing budget we could draft off of. We made our goal, and having Word95 as the only 32-bit application in the Japanese market just as Win95 hit really helped us too. Now Just Systems, makers of Ichitaro, also knew that Win95 was a big deal (they knew the WP story), and they also tried to hit the same date (which was widely known for more than a year), but they couldn't quite get it together, and shipped several months later.... We hit 40% market share of new sales in the year after launch of Word95 for Japan....
Gee I wonder if his team had an unfair advantage over Just Systems?
1) AntiVir Gaurd (a great, free (as in beer) anti-virus program) 2) FireFox 3) Thunderbird 4) Open Office (why hasn't anyone said this yet?) 5) WinAmp 6) Trillian 7) Kazaalite 8) Bit Torrent (not picky about the specific client) 9) Ad-Aware 10) Cdex
I'm sorry I don't fully understand this statement: a "small but non-zero chance of incorrectly storing documents that get sent to potential customers and investors." Obvioulsy you want to claim that there is a small chance that important people will get some inappropriate materials, I'm just not sure how this would happen.
I think that you mean there is a chance that the users will save files in the.sxw format instead of the more common.doc format. And this might result in a loss of standing in the customers eyes. (As you are using "poor" software that is somehow "lacking"?) But this doesn't have to happen at all. OpenOffice allows you to set.doc as the default save format; resulting in a zero percent chance of files being saved incorrectly and your customers ever receiving unreadable documents.
Exactly what is it about delivering pizza that makes it something that you need to "swallow your pride" in order to do it? It is lawful, gainful employment.
Is it glamorous? No. Is it challenging and stimulating? Yes, but necesarilly in a way you'd like. Is it high paying? Not really.
But none of these facts makes it shameful or somehow dehumanizing. In fact one might argue that the refusal to take a job in maunal labor or service (food delivery is both) is shameful. You should never consider yourself too good to take a job, if you are unemployed.
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Of course you assume that there is some unobjectionable reason to maintain the current grouping system. The system of species sorting is centered around differences in gross anatomy isn't it? That is pretty much arbitrary.
Why not classify entities (living and non-living) along the lines of cognitive ability, or moral agency? In those scenarios it would be pretty accurate to assume that humans aren't animals.
Go take a high school Philosophy course. (See how ending posts with sentences like that is not at all constructive? At best you look like a know-it-all jerk at worst you are actually wrong and you look like a moron who thinks, mistakenly, that he is a know-it-all jerk.)
-Civility, it's a good thing.
The website you are looking for is mozillazine.org. Not slashdot!
I had Windows 2000 running smoothly on three different machines and it hardly ever crashed. After upgrading to Windows XP, I seem to have at least one annoying crash a day. Is it just me, or are other heavy Windows users noticing this sort of behavior?
I don't think World of Warcraft and Everquest 2 are going to seriously affect City of Heroes. The kind of quick-easy action, no crafting game-play that CoH exemplifies is pretty much unique in the MMO sphere.
I hope that WoW isn't going to be one of those games where negative posts aren't allowed.
*cough*sony*cough*
That kind of censorship never helps anyone.
I think Google is going to regret not including Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird in their search features by default. I just don't understand their thinking on this, it's not like Mozilla, et al., use some kind of proprietary/obscure file format. How hard can it be to search what is basically nothing more than a text file?
How long will it take Google to back pedal after Mozilla provides its own solution (or has an extension.)
--Sunbird, the real reason we will all stop running MS somday.
Wait... Firefox is bloated? Since when?
Download sizes:
Firefox - 4.5MB
Opera - 3.5MB
Safari - 7.2MB
Internet Explorer 6 for Xp - 12MB (this is actually the install size the download size varies)
It seems that you have no right to say Firefox is bloated if we measure download size. And I don't think you could possibly mean that it is suffering from feature bloat.
Did you mean to say that the Mozilla suite is bloated?
Get a PhD. if you love your field. The process is very demanding in just about every way there is to be demanding. You get paid next to nothing, you teach only the course professors don't want to teach and the work is considerably more difficult than anything else you've done in school by orders of magnitude.
Even in a field like mine, Philosophy, where a PhD. is required just to get interviewed for a position getting the degree is incredibly difficult and often tedious. In a field where you can get a good job without one there is little incentive to get a PhD. beyond personal desire.
Succinctly, if someone where to ask you, "Why are you in the doctoral program?" Your first answer should be, "Because I can't imagine myself doing anything else." If that isn't your first answer then you should probably do something else.
School ID.
Driver's License.
2 Credit Cards.
2 ATM Cards (differen accounts).
Various store punch cards (you know the type, by X number get one free.)
And the most important thing in my wallet....
My lucky green #2 UNO card. I found it in a parking lot years ago and decided that given the incredibly small chance of finding a single UNO card in a random parking lot it must be lucky.
It's accompanied me through half a dozen wallets over two decades.
There is a great little helper application named Suntray. That lets you minimize Sunbird to your system tray (windows obviously.) Once I got I was amazed that I ever ran Suntray without it.
http://users.dart.net.au/~srgeorg/
Well...
If you are using Mozilla products in the pre-1.0 release you should be backing-up your files. In Sunbird its very easy to open your profile and copy your calendar file to a nice safe location (like your desktop.) Then whenever you hose Sunbird because it is only at 0.2 you can just reinstall and import your calendar. No loss data, much less stress, super easy.
No matter what the media or MS claims, this is not an OS that is meant to be used by single end-users.
Instead this release is meant to do two things.
First, it is an attempt to look concerned and responsive, thus generating goodwill from the governments in question. This, will give MS a more friendly reception when it attempts to lobby those same governments for restrictive DRM, abusable patent law and denial of fair-use. MS is effectively saying "Hey look we've gone to great lengths to do our part now you do your part."
Second, this cheaper release is a good whip to use against medium and small companies. It allows MS to go after them and argue in court that there is no good reason for these companies to have unlicensed MS copies. Currently the companies might be able to argue on grounds of inflated prices and monopoly abuse. But it is more insidious than that. By effectively removing an legal claims that the smaller companies could put forward and offering only a crippled OS at the low price-point MS is effectively forcing them to buy the full-featured expensive OS. Voila, nice fat revenue stream.
More pain in developing webpages/sites, since there will be yet another browser in the market, and the yuppies in marketing and sales will scream their throats off for "compatibility" with it
Mozilla/Firefox/Netscape are all standards compliant browsers you don't have to design your website with any special code to achieve full compatibility with them. You would only have a problem if you have a non-standards compliant website, then you *would* have to rewrite it. But hey if you decided to have a non-standard site, you deserve to have to do extra work.
Standards are your friends.
the download stream is down to 0.5 KB/sec, or just under 2 hours to download.
Anyone have a torrent?
You are committing the fallacy of presenting a false dichotomy. Specifically you suggest that in a scenario where "Microsoft doesn't include ANY sort of browser in the default Windows install. Only the technically literate will be able to get a browser using commandline FTP tools. This limits people's access to other browsers more than the current situation."
The dichotomy stems from the implied premise that Microsoft will either provide a fully featured graphical browser or none at all. But this is disingenuous. Why couldn't Microsoft provide a very stripped down browser, it might be unable to accept plug-ins, understand anything except basic HTML, etc. This would be sufficient for any emergency use, windows update, and to allow you to download the more fully-featured browser of your choice. Further you could easily go to a local software store and buy the browser of your choice.
This is exactly the model that they use with word processing software. They provide Notepad and Wordpad two barebones text/word editors that suffice for simple/emergency use. Then they expect you to go and get the Office Suite of your choice. So it is clearly a viable and feasible tactic. And it does not result in your doomsday scenario.
"I don't want a richer web experience, I want a lightweight (less animation, video, audio, system and network overhead), free from annoying ads that control my browser"
You realize that in any decent browser, like Firefox, you can just turn off animations and images right? I'm fairly certain that there is also an extension to prevent java and flash unless you want them to work in a particular website. Neither of which are you forced to download and install in any case.
In other words, if you want a non-standard web-experience, like your medie-lite preference, a good browser will let you have it with a small amount of work.
I think its important to realize that the author of the story *is not missing the point* of Open/Free software. He clearly sees it for what it is (at least partially,) an attack on corporate models along the lines of Microsoft (and Sun and IBM before they started to come around.)
GNU/Linux is that! It is true that GNU/Linux advocates want proprietary, closed-source models to fail. The author gets this. In his opinion that is a really bad idea because a huge chunk of US GNP is based on that closed model.
Now whether or not you agee with the conclusion drawn is one thing, but you should not be accusing them of being unaware of the realities.
... Windows had a huge marketing budget we could draft off of. We made our goal, and having Word95 as the only 32-bit application in the Japanese market just as Win95 hit really helped us too. Now Just Systems, makers of Ichitaro, also knew that Win95 was a big deal (they knew the WP story), and they also tried to hit the same date (which was widely known for more than a year), but they couldn't quite get it together, and shipped several months later. ... We hit 40% market share of new sales in the year after launch of Word95 for Japan. ...
Gee I wonder if his team had an unfair advantage over Just Systems?
1) AntiVir Gaurd (a great, free (as in beer) anti-virus program)
:)
2) FireFox
3) Thunderbird
4) Open Office (why hasn't anyone said this yet?)
5) WinAmp
6) Trillian
7) Kazaalite
8) Bit Torrent (not picky about the specific client)
9) Ad-Aware
10) Cdex
and then come the games.
I think that you mean there is a chance that the users will save files in the .sxw format instead of the more common .doc format. And this might result in a loss of standing in the customers eyes. (As you are using "poor" software that is somehow "lacking"?) But this doesn't have to happen at all. OpenOffice allows you to set .doc as the default save format; resulting in a zero percent chance of files being saved incorrectly and your customers ever receiving unreadable documents.
Exactly what is it about delivering pizza that makes it something that you need to "swallow your pride" in order to do it? It is lawful, gainful employment.
Is it glamorous? No. Is it challenging and stimulating? Yes, but necesarilly in a way you'd like. Is it high paying? Not really.
But none of these facts makes it shameful or somehow dehumanizing. In fact one might argue that the refusal to take a job in maunal labor or service (food delivery is both) is shameful. You should never consider yourself too good to take a job, if you are unemployed.
why they won't even let you see the site if you don't accept their cookies....