I was excited when i first read about the new Yahoo beta mail, but now that it appears it doesn't support threaded views, i'm having second thoughts.
It doesn't? And he complains about Gmail lacks that customizability, when Yahoo doesn't either, only the other way? Well... I'd rather have threaded with no option to turn them off than unthreaded with no option to turn them on.:-p
I guess most average CD brands would have deteriorated beyond rescue long before 2045 anyway.
Heck, that's something I have to remind people using CD's for digital photography even now: never buy CD-RW's, always burn new ones. They're so cheap anyway, and you get some redundancy, and there's less risk of them simply going bad from a brand of worse quality than you expected.
As for the article, yes, it's quite important to make the transitions and not miss out more than say 3-4 generations!
Gmail doesn't allow folders, only color-coded labels, as an organizing technique
But Gmail's labels *are* its "folders", just done slightly differently to allow a unique mail to exist in more than one place.
I also notice it fails to mention Gmail's free POP3 support, a key feature for many users.
I assume Yahoo Mail does not support that service for free, and that's why he tries to hide it.
And what about Yahoo Mail's filters? Are they at least as powerful as Gmail's, or is he yet again avoiding to mention things because it's a place Yahoo would be worse off?
Overall, I don't like the slight bias in this article, also leading to him calling Google arrogant for making simple interfaces, instead of giving the possibility it's their goal to be simple. I agree he's correct Gmail isn't too customizable, but on the other hand I'm pretty sure it was done to simplify their service, like all other Google services. Google has shown they can make advanced services code-wise if they want to (see e.g. Google Maps), so when they don't, I believe it's for a reason. In that regard, Google seems to be much like Apple but on the web service market. They don't hesitate much before cutting features, if they feel the reduced complexity / speed would give their users more.
And although I admit I haven't checked out the Yahoo Mail UI closely, replicating a client application on the web sure sound like a hell of a complex UI. But props for Yahoo if they manage to pull it off and make very quick and as browser independent as Gmail with a static HTML version for fallback reasons.
To override CSS rules in Opera, go to Tools -> Preferences -> Advanced -> View -> View options (translating from a localized version, sorry if it's not exactly what it says in the english version). Over there, just fill in a User CSS override file in the text box and set "author mode" to use your style sheet in addition to the author's (author = webmaster in this case).
You can alternatively configure the options so the site use its own settings + your overrides for the "user mode". If you do this, you can later easily flip back & forth via the author/user options under the View -> Style Sheets menu.
I agree. I can see this being useful for sensitive questions, but do a teacher have to ask the students sensitive questions in public like that? Why?? I can't recall a time I've been, and I recall my education being pretty good. And if they really must do it -- anonymous questionnaires? One can cover what you're writing with your hand and then fold a piece of paper before you throw it in a box... It's over with within minutes.
This just looks like throwing money on a non-existant problem to me.
For starters, why not make a trackerless bittorrent-like network? Oh well, back to the land of unicorns and castles in the air.:(
Trackerless torrents are already supported, even in the official client.
If you're asking for a eDonkey-like thing with BitTorrent as the underlying protocol instead of the FastTrack network, that already exist too in the form of eXeem.
However, from my experiences, it's about as good as eDonkey in efficiency. That's the problem with less centralized networks. Since it's so easy to just seed yourself, people start seeding 20 copies of seemingly the same thing, where half of them were maybe misnamed torrents, and the rest 10 are forming groups of 5 instead of one group of 50, causing the speed to be about 10% of that on a centralized and more controlled tracker.
Also because such UI's basically encourages seeding and downloading from multiple sources, a lot of users may seed 5 things at once and leech from 10, and you run into eDonkey's problems with unfocused transfers. You think "yay, I found something with 20 sources", and then you see each source had about 2 kbps to spare for that specific torrent, since it's so easy for those to just start a lot of different downloads at once.
These days, if people have to run MS Office, I suggest 2003 though, just for Outlook 2003. As for the rest, I couldn't really care, but I think Outlook in former versions were just too insecure and having too few safety nets.
Just search for the section titled Outlook 2003 Securityhere and you might be shocked by the stuff former editions didn't have. The executable attachment blocks and address book protections can be invaluable in new virus outbreaks.
Of course, a virus shouldn't even *get there* if the users were "educated" and servers filtering malicious mails, but I still think this final frontier for viruses should really be well armed as well in this day and age.
Isn't this the earlier Google Print project, just now restarted again? Didn't they just let the users search the text, but only preview about the 3-4 first pages or so? If that's the case, I can't see how this would possibly do anything beyond increasing sales as customers get more aware of the books.
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built-in IRC client built-in email client built-in bit torrent client
With a total size at around 5 MB, by the way.
And also a smaller memory footprint it seems from some quick testing.
Imagine that - not wanting to pay money to a corrupt industry that wants payment from everybody both innocent and guilty, just in case thery do something wrong.
This is actually not a piracy levy, but a privacy levy. It's a fee taken to compensate artists from the legal rights you have to make personal copies.
IMHO, that only makes it even more freaky. It's a legal right we have, and they seek compensation for that right, and the gov't blindly think they can do so? I don't understand how they can have legal support to do this. Note this is not about the gov't collecting levies, it's about a commercial organization. They call themselves a "co-operative economic association".
But regardless the intent, it's ridiculous to put a levy on... blank records... in my opinion. They have no clue what I do with them, which ones I use to backup work on, to send digital photos to my family on, etc. Am I supposed to pay for my own copyright here? Get rid of your hands on my work!
Very true, and those 'artists' that feel that way will end up without any fans.
What's worse, I'm not quite sure that's true... Don't we have several mainstream artists already with those protected pseudo-CD's sold in stores? I can't say for 100% sure though; it was a hell of a time since I last purchased a CD from a store.:-p
I'm sure we have thousands of artists out there that puts record company deals before their fans abilities to use iPods. I wouldn't even be surprised if it's more the rule than the exception.
Hmm, are you saying you're using PeerGuardian's blacklists against spam? Or just giving another example of blacklist usage?
If PeerGuardian doesn't block spam, just connections to you via IP ranges, I'm interested in an open source e-mail client independent solution (i.e. like a proxy?) for spam blocking via common blacklists. Anyone know such a product?:-)
In related news, Steve Ballmer has pledged to make changes inside Microsoft to avoid the embarrassingly long development cycle of Vista, including a 'revamping of the engineering and the processes.' Is it too late?"
I actually don't think Vista would've been so delayed if it wasn't for Microsoft suddenly, sometime between build 4083 and 5048, decided: "OK, let's throw this XP SP2 kernel out of here and base Windows Vista on Windows 2003 SP1 instead!", essentially forcing them to start from scratch in many areas, which the public build 5112 showed. Lots of interesting stuff previously in was suddenly gone, and it was curiosly looking much like XP/2003 Server again. The look of that build was what made even Windows and OS X evangelist Paul Thurott say the Longhorn project had the markings of a shipwreck.
This, and that XP SP2 development took a lot of developer time from the team that should've been working of Vista, and that SP2 became delayed, probably forms at least about a year of delays.
As usual, there are two sides of the coin with things like this -- it's not simply bad for a Windows user; it's good that they take their time to not rush things out.
Interestingly, if Microsoft had done a less of a sloppy work with Windows XP so it wouldn't need a supersized SP2, Vista would probably have been able to be released earlier. And they can hardly hide behind that the age when XP was released wasn't a virus-infected Internet age, so it should've been predictable XP would've needed a strong security given its audience and being a major hacker target. In hindsight, that should've been the focus of XP, not a fancier UI. Instead, only now is Microsoft understanding this, and are pushing for e.g. a stronger firewall in Vista, and a new account system *nix always had. Their first clearly security-oriented OS is arriving in 2006. It's hard to stop yourself from laughing.
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I was excited when i first read about the new Yahoo beta mail, but now that it appears it doesn't support threaded views, i'm having second thoughts.
:-p
It doesn't? And he complains about Gmail lacks that customizability, when Yahoo doesn't either, only the other way? Well... I'd rather have threaded with no option to turn them off than unthreaded with no option to turn them on.
I guess most average CD brands would have deteriorated beyond rescue long before 2045 anyway.
Heck, that's something I have to remind people using CD's for digital photography even now: never buy CD-RW's, always burn new ones. They're so cheap anyway, and you get some redundancy, and there's less risk of them simply going bad from a brand of worse quality than you expected.
As for the article, yes, it's quite important to make the transitions and not miss out more than say 3-4 generations!
Gmail doesn't allow folders, only color-coded labels, as an organizing technique
But Gmail's labels *are* its "folders", just done slightly differently to allow a unique mail to exist in more than one place.
I also notice it fails to mention Gmail's free POP3 support, a key feature for many users.
I assume Yahoo Mail does not support that service for free, and that's why he tries to hide it.
And what about Yahoo Mail's filters? Are they at least as powerful as Gmail's, or is he yet again avoiding to mention things because it's a place Yahoo would be worse off?
Overall, I don't like the slight bias in this article, also leading to him calling Google arrogant for making simple interfaces, instead of giving the possibility it's their goal to be simple. I agree he's correct Gmail isn't too customizable, but on the other hand I'm pretty sure it was done to simplify their service, like all other Google services. Google has shown they can make advanced services code-wise if they want to (see e.g. Google Maps), so when they don't, I believe it's for a reason. In that regard, Google seems to be much like Apple but on the web service market. They don't hesitate much before cutting features, if they feel the reduced complexity / speed would give their users more.
And although I admit I haven't checked out the Yahoo Mail UI closely, replicating a client application on the web sure sound like a hell of a complex UI. But props for Yahoo if they manage to pull it off and make very quick and as browser independent as Gmail with a static HTML version for fallback reasons.
wxWindows is a well-known very easy to use cross-platform UI API for Windows, among others.
And besides the people, OS X itself has NeXT inspirations, for example its Finder application based on the one in the NextStep OS.
To override CSS rules in Opera, go to Tools -> Preferences -> Advanced -> View -> View options (translating from a localized version, sorry if it's not exactly what it says in the english version). Over there, just fill in a User CSS override file in the text box and set "author mode" to use your style sheet in addition to the author's (author = webmaster in this case).
You can alternatively configure the options so the site use its own settings + your overrides for the "user mode". If you do this, you can later easily flip back & forth via the author/user options under the View -> Style Sheets menu.
More information can be found here, for example:
http://nontroppo.org/wiki/OperaUserCSS
This is true in both Firefox and IE. ... and Opera, claimed the Opera user proudly. ;-)
Eh, who cares if they do?
What matters is if they start connecting info to private profiles.
I agree. I can see this being useful for sensitive questions, but do a teacher have to ask the students sensitive questions in public like that? Why?? I can't recall a time I've been, and I recall my education being pretty good. And if they really must do it -- anonymous questionnaires? One can cover what you're writing with your hand and then fold a piece of paper before you throw it in a box... It's over with within minutes.
This just looks like throwing money on a non-existant problem to me.
For starters, why not make a trackerless bittorrent-like network? Oh well, back to the land of unicorns and castles in the air. :(
Trackerless torrents are already supported, even in the official client.
If you're asking for a eDonkey-like thing with BitTorrent as the underlying protocol instead of the FastTrack network, that already exist too in the form of eXeem.
However, from my experiences, it's about as good as eDonkey in efficiency. That's the problem with less centralized networks. Since it's so easy to just seed yourself, people start seeding 20 copies of seemingly the same thing, where half of them were maybe misnamed torrents, and the rest 10 are forming groups of 5 instead of one group of 50, causing the speed to be about 10% of that on a centralized and more controlled tracker.
Also because such UI's basically encourages seeding and downloading from multiple sources, a lot of users may seed 5 things at once and leech from 10, and you run into eDonkey's problems with unfocused transfers. You think "yay, I found something with 20 sources", and then you see each source had about 2 kbps to spare for that specific torrent, since it's so easy for those to just start a lot of different downloads at once.
Some people might switch to OO.org just to keep the old macros alive but still read the new .doc files.
Until OO.org rips off MS Office once Version 12 has become familiar to users.
These days, if people have to run MS Office, I suggest 2003 though, just for Outlook 2003. As for the rest, I couldn't really care, but I think Outlook in former versions were just too insecure and having too few safety nets.
Just search for the section titled Outlook 2003 Security here and you might be shocked by the stuff former editions didn't have. The executable attachment blocks and address book protections can be invaluable in new virus outbreaks.
Of course, a virus shouldn't even *get there* if the users were "educated" and servers filtering malicious mails, but I still think this final frontier for viruses should really be well armed as well in this day and age.
Isn't this the earlier Google Print project, just now restarted again? Didn't they just let the users search the text, but only preview about the 3-4 first pages or so? If that's the case, I can't see how this would possibly do anything beyond increasing sales as customers get more aware of the books.
built-in IRC client
built-in email client
built-in bit torrent client
With a total size at around 5 MB, by the way.
And also a smaller memory footprint it seems from some quick testing.
Open source means you have the freedom and the information required to solve the problem yourself.
If you're a developer with deep insight in the Mozilla codebase.
Imagine that - not wanting to pay money to a corrupt industry that wants payment from everybody both innocent and guilty, just in case thery do something wrong.
This is actually not a piracy levy, but a privacy levy. It's a fee taken to compensate artists from the legal rights you have to make personal copies.
Here's the deal: Copyswede's Blank Tape Levy [english]
IMHO, that only makes it even more freaky. It's a legal right we have, and they seek compensation for that right, and the gov't blindly think they can do so? I don't understand how they can have legal support to do this. Note this is not about the gov't collecting levies, it's about a commercial organization. They call themselves a "co-operative economic association".
But regardless the intent, it's ridiculous to put a levy on... blank records... in my opinion. They have no clue what I do with them, which ones I use to backup work on, to send digital photos to my family on, etc. Am I supposed to pay for my own copyright here? Get rid of your hands on my work!
Very true, and those 'artists' that feel that way will end up without any fans.
:-p
What's worse, I'm not quite sure that's true... Don't we have several mainstream artists already with those protected pseudo-CD's sold in stores? I can't say for 100% sure though; it was a hell of a time since I last purchased a CD from a store.
Artists dont want it.
You're extrapolating a bit. In this case:
Artist dont want it.
I'm sure we have thousands of artists out there that puts record company deals before their fans abilities to use iPods. I wouldn't even be surprised if it's more the rule than the exception.
I personally think the TLD should be reserved for porn sites. ;-)
Hmm, are you saying you're using PeerGuardian's blacklists against spam? Or just giving another example of blacklist usage?
:-)
If PeerGuardian doesn't block spam, just connections to you via IP ranges, I'm interested in an open source e-mail client independent solution (i.e. like a proxy?) for spam blocking via common blacklists. Anyone know such a product?
It's easy to believe it's just about the UI, since that's the most apparent change so far from screenshots alone.
v iew_2005.asp
t ions.asp
Here's a guide to some currently planned features:
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvista_pre
Here's a list of differences between the Vista editions:
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvista_edi
When WPF/E becomes available, it will be in the form of an Active X control that can be embedded in applications or as browser plug-in.
*pictures Bill Gates screaming "lalalala!" when presented with report like these*
In related news, Steve Ballmer has pledged to make changes inside Microsoft to avoid the embarrassingly long development cycle of Vista, including a 'revamping of the engineering and the processes.' Is it too late?"
I actually don't think Vista would've been so delayed if it wasn't for Microsoft suddenly, sometime between build 4083 and 5048, decided: "OK, let's throw this XP SP2 kernel out of here and base Windows Vista on Windows 2003 SP1 instead!", essentially forcing them to start from scratch in many areas, which the public build 5112 showed. Lots of interesting stuff previously in was suddenly gone, and it was curiosly looking much like XP/2003 Server again. The look of that build was what made even Windows and OS X evangelist Paul Thurott say the Longhorn project had the markings of a shipwreck.
This, and that XP SP2 development took a lot of developer time from the team that should've been working of Vista, and that SP2 became delayed, probably forms at least about a year of delays.
As usual, there are two sides of the coin with things like this -- it's not simply bad for a Windows user; it's good that they take their time to not rush things out.
Interestingly, if Microsoft had done a less of a sloppy work with Windows XP so it wouldn't need a supersized SP2, Vista would probably have been able to be released earlier. And they can hardly hide behind that the age when XP was released wasn't a virus-infected Internet age, so it should've been predictable XP would've needed a strong security given its audience and being a major hacker target. In hindsight, that should've been the focus of XP, not a fancier UI. Instead, only now is Microsoft understanding this, and are pushing for e.g. a stronger firewall in Vista, and a new account system *nix always had. Their first clearly security-oriented OS is arriving in 2006. It's hard to stop yourself from laughing.
"We demand that you immediately cease-and-desist from enabling and inducing the infringement of RIAA member sound recordings."
When did supporting/enabling downloads to any data == encouraging illegal downloads?
Funny, when DRM techs seem to encourage piracy more than anything else.
Observe their restrictions and even RIAA should understand why.
Whoa, antivirus tools in GIMPShop sure sounds like bloat to me!!