I'd go to the dentist with bad teeth, because they were probably looked after by the other dentist. Conversely, the dentist with good teeth was looked after by the "good dentist" with bad teeth.
I think it's quite a good alternative to IE5 at the moment, the only bad thing being it takes quite a bit longer to load. This is more to do with the fact that IE5 loads many of it's libraries at Windows startup, as it's very tightly integrated with Windows. In use though, Netscape (or Mozilla) is faster than IE5 and more standards compliant. Also, it doesn't seem to crash that often (I've only managed it once!) I use the Mozilla nightlies in place of IE5 whenever possible, as sometimes pages are laid out incorrectly, though this is probably more to do with bad HTML rather than a bug. HTH
By Digital Convergence saying that they 'like hackers' they're just to going to alienate the people involved in the reverse-engineering projects even more! Anyone who's been reading/. recently will know about the threats that they've made to those publishing alternative drivers etc, so I don't think they're fooling anyone. If only one of those hackers that they love so much could hack the Digital Convergence website, then see how well they get on!
There are many alternatives to Gnutella, which have similarly decentralised networks, but if the alternatives are unearthed by Napster users and then flooded by demand, they too will get discovered by the RIAA, or even just collapse under the immense load. This is why the development of gPulp and other similar protocols needs to progress, as they will be more efficient with bandwidth and hopefully at least as difficult to shut down as the current Napster protocol. If there weren't so many leeches on Gnutella though, the RIAA would have more of a job shutting it down. As it is, only a small percentage of users are providing the majority of files, and whatever the RIAA says, they'll soon start going after individuals and restricting the 'supply' of files on peer-to-peer networks such as Gnutella. I think I better go hide....
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Switzerland is not in the EU, so it probably doesn't have much of an effect.
I'd go to the dentist with bad teeth, because they were probably looked after by the other dentist. Conversely, the dentist with good teeth was looked after by the "good dentist" with bad teeth.
I think it's quite a good alternative to IE5 at the moment, the only bad thing being it takes quite a bit longer to load. This is more to do with the fact that IE5 loads many of it's libraries at Windows startup, as it's very tightly integrated with Windows. In use though, Netscape (or Mozilla) is faster than IE5 and more standards compliant. Also, it doesn't seem to crash that often (I've only managed it once!) I use the Mozilla nightlies in place of IE5 whenever possible, as sometimes pages are laid out incorrectly, though this is probably more to do with bad HTML rather than a bug. HTH
By Digital Convergence saying that they 'like hackers' they're just to going to alienate the people involved in the reverse-engineering projects even more! Anyone who's been reading /. recently will know about the threats that they've made to those publishing alternative drivers etc, so I don't think they're fooling anyone. If only one of those hackers that they love so much could hack the Digital Convergence website, then see how well they get on!
There are many alternatives to Gnutella, which have similarly decentralised networks, but if the alternatives are unearthed by Napster users and then flooded by demand, they too will get discovered by the RIAA, or even just collapse under the immense load. This is why the development of gPulp and other similar protocols needs to progress, as they will be more efficient with bandwidth and hopefully at least as difficult to shut down as the current Napster protocol. If there weren't so many leeches on Gnutella though, the RIAA would have more of a job shutting it down. As it is, only a small percentage of users are providing the majority of files, and whatever the RIAA says, they'll soon start going after individuals and restricting the 'supply' of files on peer-to-peer networks such as Gnutella. I think I better go hide....