Trillian competes poorly with free (beer) apps
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Even if you don't even consider that it's closed source, it still competes poorly. It has neither any plugin support in the free version (not that it matters much since it barely have any plugins compared to e.g. Miranda), nor a history browser (what?!). You'll have to browse your message log as plaintext in e.g. Notepad... Oh, and did I mention they will give future updates priority only for paying users? I definitely recommend Miranda or GAIM instead unless you want video conferencing, but there are other free apps for that.
I get the feeling the only reason Trillian is still used by quite a lot of people is because it was among the first multi-protocol IM's.
Besides, for well established major packages like GTK there's Google. Heck, you don't even need to click the link as what GTK is, is in the link summary.:-p
I get the same impression... by dropping the media levy on devices that support MP3's the Canadian RIAA can start going after Canadian MP3 file traders.
Hmm, I thought that in Canada it was always illegal to share/trade copyrighted music over e.g. P2P networks. Isn't the only thing allowed being downloading copyrighted music, and not uploading?
"Something happened back at this time and it was monumental," Thompson said
"The evidence clearly points back to this point in history and to some event that occurred. It also points to similar changes occurring in today's climate as well," he said.
Uhh... The word you're seeking, Mr. Thompson, is "recurring ice age".
But it was missing one special clip for me to really give it two thumbs up.
Hmm... The opposite happens if I search for my profession. Aiiiee! Way too much information! Please assassinate that guy, he's giving us a worse name than we've already got.:-(
Windows XP users have had such a utility for years by now (search for Microsoft BootVis).
Automatic profile generation and optimization by reording the boot sequence to make optimal use of idle CPU and hard drive time. And yeah, it's graphical so you can manually analyze what's taking a long time to do as well.
Yay, even more redundancy. Just what the domain name system needed... for even more confusion and costs for those who wish to register, and work for domain nappers.
Is there any research being done to replace this mess with something better, maybe a 1:1 system for domain names, which would make things tidy again? Some other domain "format" / system?
With the system of today, IMHO even.com should be controlled to only allow international commercial sites,.net for networks, and so on. What's the point if they're all uncontrolled? They could just as well just have TLD's like.1,.2,.3 and so on as it is now. It's not like they mean anything, it's just for extra address space.
At this moment, the article is pretty complete, and protected against vandalism, like they use to do when these kind of things happen. Yes, they have routines they apply for these kind of articles.
I wonder if FireFox' crashes have to do with stupid web pages with embedded active X controls, dumb implementations of Java because they have been DESIGNED to be used on IE.
Is this a reason for Firefox to crash?
It's a security problem if Firefox crashes on a special web page design.
This code is said to crash Firefox, and is reported as "working" on as late as Mozilla 1.8 alpha 4.
<HTML> <SCRIPT> a = new Array(); while (1) { (a = new Array(a)).sort(); } </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT> a = new Array(); while (1) { (a = new Array(a)).sort(); } </SCRIPT> </HTML>
My crashes so far with Firefox has unfortunately not been reproductible. Makes it harder to know what to report, besides letting it give talkback data.:-/
Here's a HTML page that's said to crash Firefox and all Mozilla browsers though:
a = new Array(); while (1) { (a = new Array(a)).sort(); }
a = new Array(); while (1) { (a = new Array(a)).sort(); }
it is aggravating to have a single, badly-coded web page take out that browser window and everything else I was tabbing to at that moment
I agree about this, despites what anyone might try to say and regardless how much/less stable IE is, Firefox has still got crash bugs. At least Opera admits their program might occasionally crash despite them trying their best to avoid that, and have implemented a feature so when you launch the browser after a crash, you're presented with a dialog essentially saying "Opera crashed, do you wish to restore the tabs?"
Do you work noticeably faster via that 3D interface than in a 2D interface?
I've found that most 3D interfaces fail already on this point (since you have to for example spend time manipulating and moving around stuff more than in a 2D interface). It doesn't help that both the input device (mouse) and output device (monitor) usually are 2D and inefficient at navigating in and visualizing a 3D environment well. But if you indeed get the job done much faster in that interface, it sounds interesting, and I think it would be the first I've heard of.
They include the December statistics, and it has already increased more than in the past month, and it's still only 12th of December...
It's interesting to compare to the usage in e.g. January 2004.
Of course, W3Schools is a web site not really representing the Internet population at large, but it is a community that consists of a whole lot of web masters teaching themselves to code for the web we'll see tomorrow. I hope these are signs of what to come and we'll have less incompatible web sites in the future.
2004 has truly been a year the Mozilla Foundation has been doing great, and it will be very interesting to see what will happen in 2005!
to hold up a case in court they have to actually *prove* the person is sharing the file.
But aren't RIAA getting a lot of their money from lawsuit by out-of-court settlements? I mean, few people have the lot of money they wish to spend on getting a lawyer and fighting in court.
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Even if you don't even consider that it's closed source, it still competes poorly. It has neither any plugin support in the free version (not that it matters much since it barely have any plugins compared to e.g. Miranda), nor a history browser (what?!). You'll have to browse your message log as plaintext in e.g. Notepad... Oh, and did I mention they will give future updates priority only for paying users? I definitely recommend Miranda or GAIM instead unless you want video conferencing, but there are other free apps for that.
I get the feeling the only reason Trillian is still used by quite a lot of people is because it was among the first multi-protocol IM's.
Besides, for well established major packages like GTK there's Google. Heck, you don't even need to click the link as what GTK is, is in the link summary. :-p
It would be interesting to see lists like these for the past year, the year before and so on to summarize scientific advances over the years.
Anyone know a site for that?
I get the same impression ... by dropping the media levy on devices that support MP3's the Canadian RIAA can start going after Canadian MP3 file traders.
Hmm, I thought that in Canada it was always illegal to share/trade copyrighted music over e.g. P2P networks. Isn't the only thing allowed being downloading copyrighted music, and not uploading?
"Something happened back at this time and it was monumental," Thompson said
"The evidence clearly points back to this point in history and to some event that occurred. It also points to similar changes occurring in today's climate as well," he said.
Uhh... The word you're seeking, Mr. Thompson, is "recurring ice age".
This video search is just based on filename?
Nope. Search for "slashdot" for example.
But it was missing one special clip for me to really give it two thumbs up.
:-(
Hmm... The opposite happens if I search for my profession. Aiiiee! Way too much information! Please assassinate that guy, he's giving us a worse name than we've already got.
So this (disable safe search) is how a karma whore looks. Wow...
Bah... So common and boring concept. :-D
Bring back your pinball series!
Back to practicing, I suppose...
2K laptop takes 5 minutes to boot..
;-)
Maybe you should run BootVis once after installing XP and compare with a 30 second bootup instead.
Is this news among *nix operating systems??
Windows XP users have had such a utility for years by now (search for Microsoft BootVis).
Automatic profile generation and optimization by reording the boot sequence to make optimal use of idle CPU and hard drive time. And yeah, it's graphical so you can manually analyze what's taking a long time to do as well.
wtf?
Yay, even more redundancy. Just what the domain name system needed... for even more confusion and costs for those who wish to register, and work for domain nappers.
.com should be controlled to only allow international commercial sites, .net for networks, and so on. What's the point if they're all uncontrolled? They could just as well just have TLD's like .1, .2, .3 and so on as it is now. It's not like they mean anything, it's just for extra address space.
Is there any research being done to replace this mess with something better, maybe a 1:1 system for domain names, which would make things tidy again? Some other domain "format" / system?
With the system of today, IMHO even
I doubt that would work, however www.mobi would be perfectly valid. :-) .mobi registrar will reserve that one for themselves)
(although I assume the
I just wouldn't believe a word of it until it passes through some kind of editorial review.
It has now, and no more flaming there:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sollog
Wikipedia can be exploited for all sorts of reasons
Yes, but not for very long. Again, see link above.
This article explores just how successful one troll can be
Exactly.
At the moment, the article is blank.
At this moment, the article is pretty complete, and protected against vandalism, like they use to do when these kind of things happen. Yes, they have routines they apply for these kind of articles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sollog
I wonder if FireFox' crashes have to do with stupid web pages with embedded active X controls, dumb implementations of Java because they have been DESIGNED to be used on IE.
Is this a reason for Firefox to crash?
It's a security problem if Firefox crashes on a special web page design.
Sorry... Trying again.
This code is said to crash Firefox,
and is reported as "working" on as late as Mozilla 1.8 alpha 4.
<HTML>
<SCRIPT> a = new Array(); while (1) { (a = new Array(a)).sort(); } </SCRIPT>
<SCRIPT> a = new Array(); while (1) { (a = new Array(a)).sort(); } </SCRIPT>
</HTML>
My crashes so far with Firefox has unfortunately not been reproductible. Makes it harder to know what to report, besides letting it give talkback data. :-/
Here's a HTML page that's said to crash Firefox and all Mozilla browsers though:
a = new Array(); while (1) { (a = new Array(a)).sort(); }
a = new Array(); while (1) { (a = new Array(a)).sort(); }
it is aggravating to have a single, badly-coded web page take out that browser window and everything else I was tabbing to at that moment
I agree about this, despites what anyone might try to say and regardless how much/less stable IE is, Firefox has still got crash bugs. At least Opera admits their program might occasionally crash despite them trying their best to avoid that, and have implemented a feature so when you launch the browser after a crash, you're presented with a dialog essentially saying "Opera crashed, do you wish to restore the tabs?"
Do you work noticeably faster via that 3D interface than in a 2D interface?
I've found that most 3D interfaces fail already on this point (since you have to for example spend time manipulating and moving around stuff more than in a 2D interface). It doesn't help that both the input device (mouse) and output device (monitor) usually are 2D and inefficient at navigating in and visualizing a 3D environment well. But if you indeed get the job done much faster in that interface, it sounds interesting, and I think it would be the first I've heard of.
The whole point with these search engines is the speed.
Are we getting a bit off topic here?
Firefox is not only still increasing in usage, but has been accelerating this entire year.
See their statistics here.
They include the December statistics, and it has already increased more than in the past month, and it's still only 12th of December...
It's interesting to compare to the usage in e.g. January 2004.
Of course, W3Schools is a web site not really representing the Internet population at large, but it is a community that consists of a whole lot of web masters teaching themselves to code for the web we'll see tomorrow. I hope these are signs of what to come and we'll have less incompatible web sites in the future.
2004 has truly been a year the Mozilla Foundation has been doing great, and it will be very interesting to see what will happen in 2005!
to hold up a case in court they have to actually *prove* the person is sharing the file.
But aren't RIAA getting a lot of their money from lawsuit by out-of-court settlements? I mean, few people have the lot of money they wish to spend on getting a lawyer and fighting in court.