I also wonder how much code from the WINE [winehq.org] project (and probably DOSBox [sourceforge.net]) made it into Windows XP for backwards compatibility?;P I think DOSBox does a much better job of running old DOS games on XP than XP does.
Well, probably not much code was taken from DOSBox then.;-) And I don't see why they'd take code from Wine. Microsoft are the guys who have the source to their OS so it only makes sense they'd develop any backwards compatibility themselves instead of starting to port Wine code reverse-engineered from their own OS.;-)
It's only happening in the Linux version of Firefox to me, not on Windows 2000 or XP, for some reason. Same connection in both cases since I just dual-boot.
Many sound card drives (Echo Mia, Egosys Waveterminal, Emu series, to name a few) allow internal rerouting of a digital signal to and from various virtual ins and outs. Simply playback anything through the mme driver, route that to an asio or WDM input, record, and voila. But really people, just buy the music.
The people doing these things have probably already bought the music. What you mean to say might be "but really people, just agree to the terms set by the DRM".
I have to buy an entire OS AND a new system just to get the benefits of a 'secure' browsing environment?
Yes, it may come as shocking if not understanding how commercial companies usually work. Microsoft gets a hard time if they aren't selling any new products...
It's true. I think it was rated funny for MS "never doing anything good ever in computer software history", but even if IE 7 won't be better than Firefox (and let's hope it is on par! competition is good), it might still get a few new features that the Mozilla team can copy. If it weren't for IE, Firefox wouldn't have had identical yellow "info bars" instead of annoying popup boxes for example. Or maybe the functionality down to the color choice and identical look was a pure coincidence.;-)
"Gates Highlights Progress on Security, Outlines Next Steps for Continued Innovation"
(emphasis mine)
So they're going to innovate this time. Don't worry!
I think they'll innovative a new method of having third party "extenders" (no, not extensions/plugins!) and "styles" (no, not skins!) through a more open and documented API, maybe also a concept of "pages" (no, not "tabs"; this will be a completely different name!) and special mouse movements to trigger browser actions, as previously sneaked in in a patent by Microsoft...
Humans possess free-will. We can explore past and future; we can question right from wrong; love from hate. We can plan for the future and learn from our mistakes. We are not governed by instinct as animals are: We can learn an action, govern what we do by that and decide that it is no longer necessary and try something else.
Yes, humans are mammals with a lot of intelligence, relatively speaking.
So?
NO animal other than the human being can claim any of this.
No, other animals are less smart.
Now, how do intelligence set us apart from other mammals? Last time I looked, however intelligent you are, is no criteria for being a mammal or being "something else", at least as far as us humans have defined it.
The question becomes, would you rather companies not release their little pet projects at all?
No, but I'd wish them to tag them "Unsupported" instead of "Beta" in that case. To some people there's a big difference; the former not necessarily meaning it's bug-ridden, while the latter usually does, along with being feature incomplete.
Does release software even live up to the quality expected?
Well, in many cases it seems so, as there isn't outrages when e.g. Starcraft 1.12 is released, or when a Windows/Office Service Pack is released. Sometimes they cross the line though when people feel it's a bit too much, but it's hard to draw a line.
So, these sites can work. I think Orkut's problem is that it is just too big and unfocused.
Yes, that's what I thought too. I can certainly see the point of a community like the one you're member of, since you can both meet each other and has a system so you're more willing to leave out sensitive private details that can't be read by any freak in the world.:-) It makes a lot more sense than having a loosly knit community spread out all over the world like Orkut. That's when I stop seeing the point of it. I thought the idea of these communities was to be a community offering better abilities to get to know each other better than on regular forums, but you can't say that if you're invited to Orkut and instantly face hundreds of members around the world.
Actually, I'm also member of a quite large international community where many of us are meeting occasionally IRL as well as for yearly parties. It's open for anyone to join, but we've organized it so we have guild-only forums (it's actually a gaming community, but has expanded beyond that) which only guild members can read. This is where any party discussions take place, and more sensitive issues like if a member's spouse is ill in a hospital so that person can leave out the hospital phone number for supportive calls, and so on.
However, over here, anyone can read the other forums and participate in the same community. Guild members also post in non-guild forums of course. Non-guild members don't even need to be registered, unless they wish to post on the non-guild forums. And *we* don't invite them, but *they* post a request. I like that more since it makes us having guild member status feel less elitist, like "uh, which are worthy to be part of our exclusive club".;-) Instead it's more like "I'm starting to know people well around here, can you let me in"? If we then don't see him/her as a troll and have had gaming experience with that person and believe it's someone who don't cheat etc and generally act mature and social, we invite that person as a guild member so he/she can read those forums. I like this idea more than a totally sealed off community like Orkut since non-guild and guild members can mingle on most topics; it's only for private stuff we're restorting to the guild forums simply due to internet safety. Otherwise we're making a little deal of the guild membership as possible, and if a non-member would bring up concerns about us sealing ourselves off too much we'd really take it personally and try to solve the problem. We've already lifted out member threads to non-member because we've agreed we were foolish to have something member side when it didn't need to. We of course also have clear guidelines about what they need to do to become members and what we want of them. It's not supposed to be a mystery.
A cool bonus is we'll have a common interest, being a passion for computer games. And yes, we do have a lot of wonderful women here too, so it's no "geeky male club".;-)
Why would anyone want to become member of a small randomly put together community by invitations? What do they discuss? Won't the discussions get more feedback in more open communities? Is it because they feel the added privacy makes it easier to reveal private information? But then you need to trust all Orkut members, and many will have been invited by persons you don't even know.
Hmm, it just feels like a community for people who wish to be "cool" to me, but regardless how I look at it, I always end up as seeing it as a useless idea?:-)
I've heard reports of Firefox 1.1 being noticeably faster than 1.0. Have you checked Mozilla 1.8 against the Firefox trunk? Could be a more meaningful comparison, but I agree it would be really weird if Moz 1.8 would still be faster. After all, Firefox 1.1 nightlies should nowadays be on par with the latest 1.8 engine revisions if I understand things correctly.
I would normally agree with you since all they're doing is cutting a second here or there, right? However, something I really like in Opera is that it's back/forward feature is damn near instantaneous. The server speed doesn't matter, since everything seems to work in RAM.
I'm not an expert, but I heard it's because Opera caches the DOM (document object model) tree, so not only the document images and text, but also the state is saved down to the smallest detail so it doesn't even have to touch the server when you go back. This has also the advantage of having all form data saved across back/forward flips, and more. Unfortunately, Firefox does not do this and the reason for all those small but annoying delays, and sometimes even causing disadvantages to the user, beyond the slower speed.
There's a five year old Bugzilla bug about this by the way, so it has been discussed.
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With the ever growing wishes by some to get first posts, I think the little time to write a post may yield that kind of quality.
In other news, Slashdot readers has suffered from reposts 10,000 trillion trillion trillion times...
From site:
It requires a Mozila-based browser like Netscape, Camino, Mozilla or Firefox to run (for standard javascript compatibility).
No, it worked just fine on Opera too, a fairly common browser when speaking "alternative" non-IE browsers.
I also wonder how much code from the WINE [winehq.org] project (and probably DOSBox [sourceforge.net]) made it into Windows XP for backwards compatibility? ;P I think DOSBox does a much better job of running old DOS games on XP than XP does.
;-) And I don't see why they'd take code from Wine. Microsoft are the guys who have the source to their OS so it only makes sense they'd develop any backwards compatibility themselves instead of starting to port Wine code reverse-engineered from their own OS. ;-)
Well, probably not much code was taken from DOSBox then.
I hate parties with no Wine...
However, keep in mind too much Wine on a party might turn "it" Microsoft.
It's only happening in the Linux version of Firefox to me, not on Windows 2000 or XP, for some reason. Same connection in both cases since I just dual-boot.
Many sound card drives (Echo Mia, Egosys Waveterminal, Emu series, to name a few) allow internal rerouting of a digital signal to and from various virtual ins and outs. Simply playback anything through the mme driver, route that to an asio or WDM input, record, and voila. But really people, just buy the music.
The people doing these things have probably already bought the music. What you mean to say might be "but really people, just agree to the terms set by the DRM".
Thanks to Kyoto, China and India (who are unrestricted, being developing nations) will soon overtake the US for this honor.
No, it's rather "thanks to lack of restrictions set by Kyoto".
It will always be bad if you're
1. Restricted poorly by the Kyoto treaty
or
2. Not signing the Kyoto treaty
I think ROT-65536 would work even better, especially for Unicode.
I have to buy an entire OS AND a new system just to get the benefits of a 'secure' browsing environment?
Yes, it may come as shocking if not understanding how commercial companies usually work. Microsoft gets a hard time if they aren't selling any new products...
Funny? Why's that.
;-)
It's true. I think it was rated funny for MS "never doing anything good ever in computer software history", but even if IE 7 won't be better than Firefox (and let's hope it is on par! competition is good), it might still get a few new features that the Mozilla team can copy. If it weren't for IE, Firefox wouldn't have had identical yellow "info bars" instead of annoying popup boxes for example. Or maybe the functionality down to the color choice and identical look was a pure coincidence.
I wonder what MS has stolen from firefox
Didn't you see the title!
"Gates Highlights Progress on Security, Outlines Next Steps for Continued Innovation"
(emphasis mine)
So they're going to innovate this time. Don't worry!
I think they'll innovative a new method of having third party "extenders" (no, not extensions/plugins!) and "styles" (no, not skins!) through a more open and documented API, maybe also a concept of "pages" (no, not "tabs"; this will be a completely different name!) and special mouse movements to trigger browser actions, as previously sneaked in in a patent by Microsoft...
Why would they be "littered at random"?
;-)
I don't think Mono does that, does it?
And who cares which file format it is?
Do you fall in love with ELF executables?
So dolphins are also humans? :-)
I knew there was something fishy about these!
Humans possess free-will. We can explore past and future; we can question right from wrong; love from hate. We can plan for the future and learn from our mistakes. We are not governed by instinct as animals are: We can learn an action, govern what we do by that and decide that it is no longer necessary and try something else.
Yes, humans are mammals with a lot of intelligence, relatively speaking.
So?
NO animal other than the human being can claim any of this.
No, other animals are less smart.
Now, how do intelligence set us apart from other mammals? Last time I looked, however intelligent you are, is no criteria for being a mammal or being "something else", at least as far as us humans have defined it.
Well, not fully functional, quality software exactly, but there's way more than 2 GB worth!
Err, no? Not included in Windows XP at least.
Now when they click on a media file windows will prompt the user to download WMP
Or Winamp.
Windows XP RME suggest these two applications when clicking on these file types, from the screenshots I've seen.
The question becomes, would you rather companies not release their little pet projects at all?
No, but I'd wish them to tag them "Unsupported" instead of "Beta" in that case. To some people there's a big difference; the former not necessarily meaning it's bug-ridden, while the latter usually does, along with being feature incomplete.
Does release software even live up to the quality expected?
Well, in many cases it seems so, as there isn't outrages when e.g. Starcraft 1.12 is released, or when a Windows/Office Service Pack is released. Sometimes they cross the line though when people feel it's a bit too much, but it's hard to draw a line.
Let's PRAISE Microsoft instead.
;-)
Wouldn't that be off topic if done as comments to this article?
If the OS treats them as two individual processors then Oracle probably has a case.
;-)
Windows XP treats a current Pentium 4 with HyperThreading as two processors.
So, these sites can work. I think Orkut's problem is that it is just too big and unfocused.
:-) It makes a lot more sense than having a loosly knit community spread out all over the world like Orkut. That's when I stop seeing the point of it. I thought the idea of these communities was to be a community offering better abilities to get to know each other better than on regular forums, but you can't say that if you're invited to Orkut and instantly face hundreds of members around the world.
;-) Instead it's more like "I'm starting to know people well around here, can you let me in"? If we then don't see him/her as a troll and have had gaming experience with that person and believe it's someone who don't cheat etc and generally act mature and social, we invite that person as a guild member so he/she can read those forums. I like this idea more than a totally sealed off community like Orkut since non-guild and guild members can mingle on most topics; it's only for private stuff we're restorting to the guild forums simply due to internet safety. Otherwise we're making a little deal of the guild membership as possible, and if a non-member would bring up concerns about us sealing ourselves off too much we'd really take it personally and try to solve the problem. We've already lifted out member threads to non-member because we've agreed we were foolish to have something member side when it didn't need to. We of course also have clear guidelines about what they need to do to become members and what we want of them. It's not supposed to be a mystery.
;-)
Yes, that's what I thought too. I can certainly see the point of a community like the one you're member of, since you can both meet each other and has a system so you're more willing to leave out sensitive private details that can't be read by any freak in the world.
Actually, I'm also member of a quite large international community where many of us are meeting occasionally IRL as well as for yearly parties. It's open for anyone to join, but we've organized it so we have guild-only forums (it's actually a gaming community, but has expanded beyond that) which only guild members can read. This is where any party discussions take place, and more sensitive issues like if a member's spouse is ill in a hospital so that person can leave out the hospital phone number for supportive calls, and so on.
However, over here, anyone can read the other forums and participate in the same community. Guild members also post in non-guild forums of course. Non-guild members don't even need to be registered, unless they wish to post on the non-guild forums. And *we* don't invite them, but *they* post a request. I like that more since it makes us having guild member status feel less elitist, like "uh, which are worthy to be part of our exclusive club".
A cool bonus is we'll have a common interest, being a passion for computer games.
And yes, we do have a lot of wonderful women here too, so it's no "geeky male club".
Why would anyone want to become member of a small randomly put together community by invitations? What do they discuss? Won't the discussions get more feedback in more open communities? Is it because they feel the added privacy makes it easier to reveal private information? But then you need to trust all Orkut members, and many will have been invited by persons you don't even know.
:-)
Hmm, it just feels like a community for people who wish to be "cool" to me, but regardless how I look at it, I always end up as seeing it as a useless idea?
I've heard reports of Firefox 1.1 being noticeably faster than 1.0. Have you checked Mozilla 1.8 against the Firefox trunk? Could be a more meaningful comparison, but I agree it would be really weird if Moz 1.8 would still be faster. After all, Firefox 1.1 nightlies should nowadays be on par with the latest 1.8 engine revisions if I understand things correctly.
I would normally agree with you since all they're doing is cutting a second here or there, right? However, something I really like in Opera is that it's back/forward feature is damn near instantaneous. The server speed doesn't matter, since everything seems to work in RAM.
I'm not an expert, but I heard it's because Opera caches the DOM (document object model) tree, so not only the document images and text, but also the state is saved down to the smallest detail so it doesn't even have to touch the server when you go back. This has also the advantage of having all form data saved across back/forward flips, and more. Unfortunately, Firefox does not do this and the reason for all those small but annoying delays, and sometimes even causing disadvantages to the user, beyond the slower speed.
There's a five year old Bugzilla bug about this by the way, so it has been discussed.