There are many times that Bit Torrent is not the best solution, but when something like a Matrix Revolutions trailer comes out, the ftp site it's on becomes unresponsive after awhile--there's too many users downloading. Now, the more users who use Bit Torrent, the faster the download gets.
And Bit Torrent has given me 1MBps download speeds--I know from a Direct Connect hub last year that connections from computer to computer on campus maxed out around there, while external connections max out at about 300kBps. Bit Torrent takes advantage of internal connections, and FTP simply can't.
The difference is that MS Office may allow people to view the document, but not to edit or print it. It would take much more work to get OOo to do that. And then, if that code was released--and it has to be if the binaries are released--anybody could just undo the changes for printing and editing.
At my high school there's a trash can and recycling bin in nearly every room. After school lets out, the janitor comes around and dumps both into his trash bin.
Ok, bad example. I believe there was an earlier ruling giving nissan.com to Nissan Cars but it seems it's been given back. However, it's required to be used non-commercially.
And I'd hardly call what I see on nissan.com the "full story".
A trademark is an exclusive right to use a name, phrase or logo with regards to a specific market. It is not entirely impossible for two different companies to have the same trademark--remember the nissan.com debacle? The original owner of the nissan.com site (not the car manufacturer) had a trademark on the name "Nissan" and got there first. Another (more prominent) company with a trademark on "Nissan" sued to get the domain and won. However, the original owner still runs a business with the name "Nissan".
I think open source and Microsoft should stop copying the Mac UI.
Yeah! I hate how Microsoft only sells one-button mice.
I never said anything about mice. You can plug a three-button mouse into a Mac and select text merely by highlighting it, then use the middle button to paste it. Does the Windows UI support that?
I'm just annoyed that everybody claims KDE and GNOME are copying Windows, when all three are copying the Macintosh. There's not necessarily anything wrong with that.
There are many features Mozilla Firebird has that Mozilla doesn't, and there are some Mozilla has that Mozilla Firebird doesn't (I miss my download manager in a separate window). However, the main reason Mozilla is switching to standalone applications is that while the interaction between browser, email client, etc. was nice, there was too much of a price to pay for it: if one crashed it brought the others down, all had to be loaded into memory when starting, etc.
Many of you are asking for torrents, so I filed a bug report about them. Please do not comment on the bug unless you actually have something serious to add. If you're interested, add yourself to the CC list. Unfortunately, the mozilla.org component doesn't seem to allow votes.
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Maybe they want to include the abilities you're referring to, and believe that it will be done better by making their product open source.
I appended this to my signature in emails:
t ml for why.
Don't send me Word attachments. See http://www.goldmark.org/netrants/no-word/attach.h
There are many times that Bit Torrent is not the best solution, but when something like a Matrix Revolutions trailer comes out, the ftp site it's on becomes unresponsive after awhile--there's too many users downloading. Now, the more users who use Bit Torrent, the faster the download gets.
And Bit Torrent has given me 1MBps download speeds--I know from a Direct Connect hub last year that connections from computer to computer on campus maxed out around there, while external connections max out at about 300kBps. Bit Torrent takes advantage of internal connections, and FTP simply can't.
There have been numerous Slashdot stories on XForms.
The difference is that MS Office may allow people to view the document, but not to edit or print it. It would take much more work to get OOo to do that. And then, if that code was released--and it has to be if the binaries are released--anybody could just undo the changes for printing and editing.
If downloading is faster with Bit Torrent (like normal), I'm going to use it.
All they've done in that regard is make a viewer for these emails, but the viewer only works in 2000 and XP.
At my high school there's a trash can and recycling bin in nearly every room. After school lets out, the janitor comes around and dumps both into his trash bin.
A link for those lazy people.
I don't see it as informative. Maybe funny, but not informative.
Not as cool as this one.
Ok, bad example. I believe there was an earlier ruling giving nissan.com to Nissan Cars but it seems it's been given back. However, it's required to be used non-commercially.
And I'd hardly call what I see on nissan.com the "full story".
A trademark is an exclusive right to use a name, phrase or logo with regards to a specific market. It is not entirely impossible for two different companies to have the same trademark--remember the nissan.com debacle? The original owner of the nissan.com site (not the car manufacturer) had a trademark on the name "Nissan" and got there first. Another (more prominent) company with a trademark on "Nissan" sued to get the domain and won. However, the original owner still runs a business with the name "Nissan".
I'm just annoyed that everybody claims KDE and GNOME are copying Windows, when all three are copying the Macintosh. There's not necessarily anything wrong with that.
I was looking for Mozilla and VLC. But I guess it is pretty hard to limit the voting to 20 projects.
It's the same periodic table, they just put weird numbers on it. All the symbols are the same and are in the right spot.
Depends on who wrote it. Perl can be hard to maintain, but if you follow some coding practices it isn't that bad.
Perl seems to scale as well--it runs a very busy site I frequent with few problems.
Ahh yes--the link is broken. Right-click, select "Copy link location", paste to the address bar and hit enter.
Too bad bugzilla doesn't take referrals from slashdot.
There are many features Mozilla Firebird has that Mozilla doesn't, and there are some Mozilla has that Mozilla Firebird doesn't (I miss my download manager in a separate window). However, the main reason Mozilla is switching to standalone applications is that while the interaction between browser, email client, etc. was nice, there was too much of a price to pay for it: if one crashed it brought the others down, all had to be loaded into memory when starting, etc.
See Mozilla's opinion.
Many of you are asking for torrents, so I filed a bug report about them. Please do not comment on the bug unless you actually have something serious to add. If you're interested, add yourself to the CC list. Unfortunately, the mozilla.org component doesn't seem to allow votes.