How long until Google or someone else hacks around this?
Given how often Microsoft updates IE for major changes *cough*, I'd say this won't be a problem, no.
IE 7 did minor but important changes, and IE 8 is something like an exception. Otherwise I think the lastr major engine/standards update was with, uh, IE 4?
For those who don't RTFA, this doesn't give the attacker access to the new, reset, password. That requires access to the admin's mailbox as well. So the link saying "lock an admin out" is a bit, well, not completely true. It could be true if his/her inbox is hacked, but not otherwise.
The way i4i's patent sounds, this would also affect other things like OpenOffice.org and anything else that uses XML formatted documents. That's like, the entire current generation of word processors, isn't it?
That's also how I interpreted it, and also that they're going after MS rather than OO.o for the money. It's a patent troll in my book.:-(
I'm pretty sure that Microsoft are *happy* that these websites are dropping support and guiding their users in the right direction. That'll make things easier for Microsoft to move forward too. They put their focus behind Internet Explorer 8 now, and of course want to do that. But I can understand their stance -- their customers would raise hell if they just plain made an exception from their product lifecycle policy for the web browser, that just happens to be among the most used products in Windows there is.
The music track will use the Ogg Vorbis format, included videos using Ogg Theora, liner notes and lyrics being XML formatted with various included XSLT stylesheets for 10 different attractive layouts as chosen by the artists, as opposed to the music label! The CMX sales will be supported by donations and revenue reaped from immense sales of concert tickets, thanks to naked girls performing in the pauses as they serve Ubuntu Cola!
No, and perhaps not even in the final Firefox 3.6 either. Perhaps the release afterwards. "Firefox.next" is the codename for a forthcoming "major" Firefox release (4.0?) and not 3.6.
build alpha 2 is already available, only a day after alpha 1
Hm.. You mean pre-alpha 2? That would at least be started pretty much immediately after alpha 1 release. But it also contains very few changes compared to alpha 1, and are the typical incremental nightly builds until the final alpha 2 is releaed.
Gahh, curse Slashdot for not allowing edits. Sure, Proxomitron is one, but Privoxy is the one that is kept being developed now.
BTW, this is coincidentally also a way to do efficient ad blocking in Safari 4 or Google Chrome. Granted, Safari has ad blocking as a plugin, I think, but I also think that plugin was Mac only.
Yes, I may switch from Firefox for work (Windows) and home (Mac) if they only got the Mac version more mature. I can still not even drag my bookmarks on the bookmarks bar, and such basic things. Besides, I find the touchpad scrolling much more sluggish in Chrome for Mac than Firefox for Mac, for some reason. It's a bit annoying, because it's a wonderful browser on Windows.
Not even that. It discovers nothing about life, and certainly not whether it's Earth-like or not, just signatures of life in an atmosphere. For all we know, if that would be due to life, it could very well be extremely non-Earth like, just sharing the characteristic of producing similar atmospheric signatures.
I like the Office 2007 ribbon now that I'm used to it, and the simplicity from tabbed toolbars over deep hierarchies in tall menus.
BUT... That "ribbon" in the article looks horrible! They've lost like ALL functionality but the buttons in them, and the design looks like a big step backwards. Note how Office 2007 ribbons add/remove rarely used commands as you resize the window, and crams in much more features in the space than OO.o there. I hope the end result will look nothing like in the preview. There are ribbons, and there are ribbons.:-(
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Hasn't every previous version of Windows been guilty (or at least accused) of these very same "sins"?
Not just Windows, but commercial products in general, at least when it comes to upgrades, "lock ins", and the licensing model.
How long until Google or someone else hacks around this?
Given how often Microsoft updates IE for major changes *cough*, I'd say this won't be a problem, no.
IE 7 did minor but important changes, and IE 8 is something like an exception. Otherwise I think the lastr major engine/standards update was with, uh, IE 4?
That's one of those things that is very easy to fix for yourself, but not all your friends.
Oh wait, maybe I used an unknown word on Slashdot now. ;-)
Sometimes, you guys are taking your geeky bitterness too far.
No, my economy would be ruined today if they were exactly the same. Of course.
For those who don't RTFA, this doesn't give the attacker access to the new, reset, password. That requires access to the admin's mailbox as well. So the link saying "lock an admin out" is a bit, well, not completely true. It could be true if his/her inbox is hacked, but not otherwise.
The way i4i's patent sounds, this would also affect other things like OpenOffice.org and anything else that uses XML formatted documents. That's like, the entire current generation of word processors, isn't it?
That's also how I interpreted it, and also that they're going after MS rather than OO.o for the money. It's a patent troll in my book. :-(
It's like patenting the ingredients in making a soup. :-(
I'm pretty sure that Microsoft are *happy* that these websites are dropping support and guiding their users in the right direction. That'll make things easier for Microsoft to move forward too. They put their focus behind Internet Explorer 8 now, and of course want to do that. But I can understand their stance -- their customers would raise hell if they just plain made an exception from their product lifecycle policy for the web browser, that just happens to be among the most used products in Windows there is.
So all in all, this feels like a non-story to me.
WAT! But what is the revenue in selling music and trusting your customers!!
The music track will use the Ogg Vorbis format, included videos using Ogg Theora, liner notes and lyrics being XML formatted with various included XSLT stylesheets for 10 different attractive layouts as chosen by the artists, as opposed to the music label! The CMX sales will be supported by donations and revenue reaped from immense sales of concert tickets, thanks to naked girls performing in the pauses as they serve Ubuntu Cola!
Hooray! It's not in this build, though.
No, and perhaps not even in the final Firefox 3.6 either. Perhaps the release afterwards. "Firefox.next" is the codename for a forthcoming "major" Firefox release (4.0?) and not 3.6.
build alpha 2 is already available, only a day after alpha 1
Hm.. You mean pre-alpha 2? That would at least be started pretty much immediately after alpha 1 release. But it also contains very few changes compared to alpha 1, and are the typical incremental nightly builds until the final alpha 2 is releaed.
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A dictionary corrects misspelled words, it doesn't write them.
But even 7 TeV is much higher than physicists have ever probed in the laboratory before.
This is true, but is that probable to lead to anything special? Can for example the Higgs particle be found at such low energies?
Gahh, curse Slashdot for not allowing edits. Sure, Proxomitron is one, but Privoxy is the one that is kept being developed now.
BTW, this is coincidentally also a way to do efficient ad blocking in Safari 4 or Google Chrome. Granted, Safari has ad blocking as a plugin, I think, but I also think that plugin was Mac only.
It doesn't have to be on a browser. Try Proxomitron as a proxy an organization is configured to use, and you have your organization-wide ad blocking.
They often already break up paragraphs to insert ads. That is also often the reason why articles are sometimes split up to, say, five pages.
Yes, I may switch from Firefox for work (Windows) and home (Mac) if they only got the Mac version more mature. I can still not even drag my bookmarks on the bookmarks bar, and such basic things. Besides, I find the touchpad scrolling much more sluggish in Chrome for Mac than Firefox for Mac, for some reason. It's a bit annoying, because it's a wonderful browser on Windows.
Only far more resource demanding this time.
Not even that. It discovers nothing about life, and certainly not whether it's Earth-like or not, just signatures of life in an atmosphere. For all we know, if that would be due to life, it could very well be extremely non-Earth like, just sharing the characteristic of producing similar atmospheric signatures.
Removing the ancient menu system altogether is more than a "shuffle" IMHO.
I like the Office 2007 ribbon now that I'm used to it, and the simplicity from tabbed toolbars over deep hierarchies in tall menus.
BUT... That "ribbon" in the article looks horrible! They've lost like ALL functionality but the buttons in them, and the design looks like a big step backwards. Note how Office 2007 ribbons add/remove rarely used commands as you resize the window, and crams in much more features in the space than OO.o there. I hope the end result will look nothing like in the preview. There are ribbons, and there are ribbons. :-(
It's disallowed by MS specifically for Office-like applications. (nothing else)
I have always assumed that clause was added to gain a usability edge over OpenOffice.
So this could be interesting. *grabs popcorn*
No wait, this isn't an ESA site, but ESO. :-S
And they claim that they're CC Attribution 3.0 compatible on the copyright page. Yay!
http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/press-rel/copyright.html