Firefox will only get a single shot with most users. If they download Firefox and have any problems with it at all they will go back to IE and never consider Firefox again.
That's correct, but if we don't try to change that, it'll remain like that forever. If more people are aware of Firefox and actually using it for their daily webbrowising experience, it'll lead to more open-standards complient pages and more awareness of what open-standards mean: no single vendor is able to lock you into their proprietary tools.
It may be better to wait a little longer and let Firefox muture a bit more before trying to convert the general masses with this type of advertising campaign.
Firefox won't ever "muture" to the point of supporting the old IE proprietary "standards of on e vendor alone", so it won't ever handle old pages designed specifically for IE quite right.
So please, don't come with this "let's wait and see" while Microsoft tries to lock the web with XAML and other sickness...
The time is now to change that. We have a kick-ass modern, slick web browser which is open-standards compliant and comes shock-full of great usability appliances and is also secretely comes with a fine smart-client technology which futurely will see much better use: XUL GUIs.
Did you place the word "muture" in quotes to secretely poke fun at the parent poster's spelling? Maybe his webbrowiser doesn't have a good spell-checker built in like yours.
Right... because if it's shown in a John Carrey movie that obviously means it'll be the first thing to happen in real life. That's precisely why John Carrey is a specialist in infantile slapstick comedy.
"Bruce Almighty" is a Jim Carrey movie. You probably wrote John Carrey because you were thinking of the similar-sounding John Kerry, a different specialist in infantile slapstick comedy.
Does AMD count as one of the "niche guys"? Granted, they're not as big as Intel but I've always thought of them as the chip to buy when you don't want to buy Intel.
I think the author was lamenting that, given Intel's dominance of the microprocessor market, it seems truer than ever that niche guys finish last.
Yeah, and I'd like to know how you're going to get it [Paypal's side of the story] out of them.
All kidding aside, Slashdot is a pretty well-recognized web site in the geek world. If the Slashdot crew approached the powers-that-be at PayPal and asked for an explanation (with the understanding that Slashdot was going to report their reply to the thousands of readers of/.) they might get some explanation that you or I wouldn't.
Well, I'm glad you took this opportunity to advertise for Pivot, but it doesn't really address my question. I can't install Pivot, or any other software, on the web server I have access to; I can only upload web pages (and images, etc). It is a pretty restricted setup.
The kind of software I am thinking about would be something that I can run locally on my PC, with an interface similar to Blogger (or Pivot, or whatever). It would manage the database of blog entries on my local PC. It would let me edit posts, preview, play around with different templates, etc. all locally. None of this portion would even require internet access. However, when I'm ready to publish the blog, I'd click the "Publish" button and the software would upload those (static) pages to the remote web space.
Granted, this would be only a few steps in complexity above a Front Page-like web site development system (or even creating the HTML "by hand"); but it would be more specifically designed as a blogging tool.
I am not seriously into blogging, but so far I've been using Blogger's free service to edit Blog posts on-line and then publish them to my free web storage at my ISP. This works well for me because I have limited storage space (about 10 Mb) at my ISP and I'm not able to upload software to run on their server. I could of course pay some other business for web site hosting, but hey, this is still just a hobby for me at this point.
So my question for the Slashdot community is, do any of these free and open source blogging packages (like WordPress) let you edit posts, etc. on your PC and then publish the (static) pages to a remote web site? I understand that this isn't the ideal setup, that one would prefer that the blogging system would be running on the web site, but that's not really an option for me.
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I don't think you read the article. That's $5 per month INCLUDING full support. Not just software licensing - support.
Well, I did read the article, and no, it doesn't say that at all. The only quote in the article that even mentions support has this to say:
"[Red Hat Desktop] will cost on average about $5 a month per machine, with additional support services available, [Szulik] said."
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I have never really cared for D&D at all... it never sounded interesting to me. I'm almost done reading the LOTR books, and was just wondering if the D&D world was based off Tolkien's world? I know there's some overlap, atleast as far as such things as elves, dworves, etc, right?
Can someone explain the connection, if there is one?
Dungeons and Dragons drew inspiration from a number of different sources, including Tolkien's work. But I remember (for example) references to a number of different mythologies (e.g. in Deities and Demigods), H.P. Lovecraft's characters, Arthurian legends, etc. The great thing about D&D was that it provided the framework for the game but left a lot of details of the "campaign" -- such as the setting, the challenges, etc. -- up to the players.
I ordered my iPod mini about two weeks after the iPods were available (about 6 weeks ago-ish), was told 3-5 weeks delivery, and it arrived at the 5 week point. A friend ordered his last week, and they told him 4-6 weeks.
I've read a lot of horror stories about long waits to get an iPod mini, and so I guess we just got lucky. When my wife wanted to get me one of these for my birthday in mid-March, she just went to the local CompUSA and bought one. It sounds as though they had plenty of them on hand (at the time, anyways).
Is the shortage just for certain colors, or something like that? Or are people simply unable to get them at all without long delays?
"... our lack of a sexy version at times..." Mmm...sexy indeed.
Actually, Contorer's memo cited Microsoft's lack of a sexy vision, not lack of a sexy version. Although that is a funny slip-up for Reuters to make. The News.com story got the quote right.
Yep, guess so. Isn't it funny how people who study the very thing which makes civilization, science, culture, education, government, journalism, literacy, etc. possible is usually the subject of ridicule and derision for the worthlessness of their studies?
Easy there, big fella, time to switch to decaf. Just making a little joke. Some of my best friends are liberal arts majors.
The epistolary form requires the reader to put additional effort into understanding the author's intent. It died out as a viable form more than a hundred years ago as authors realized their readers didn't want to put that much effort into reading. So they came up with the "omniscient narrator."
So you finally get a chance to put that English Lit. major to use, eh?;)
Personally I think it would have been less impactful if the girls were dressed. It went to show how he'd ended up in the strip club but really wasn't interested - that his mind was elsewhere as he completely ignored the girls rigth in front of him. Most people would expect most guys to be more distracted in that situation;)
I do see your point. I guess I just got to thinking, after the movie was over, that other than that scene there wasn't anything that would warrant an "R" rating. It seemed very out of place to me. But of course, not my movie;)
So many Hollywood movies are gratuitously sprinkled with unnecessary swear words or the obligatory topless chick shot, just to get the R (or at least PG-13) rating.
I didn't get around to seeing "Lost in Translation" at the movie theater, so I rented it a few weeks ago. Was there some deeper meaning to the strip club scene, or am I right that this was another example of gratuitous nudity for the purpose of securing an "R" rating?
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Yes, this is exactly the kind of thing I had in mind. Looks interesting and I think I'll check it out this weekend. Thanks very much!
Well, I'm glad you took this opportunity to advertise for Pivot, but it doesn't really address my question. I can't install Pivot, or any other software, on the web server I have access to; I can only upload web pages (and images, etc). It is a pretty restricted setup.
The kind of software I am thinking about would be something that I can run locally on my PC, with an interface similar to Blogger (or Pivot, or whatever). It would manage the database of blog entries on my local PC. It would let me edit posts, preview, play around with different templates, etc. all locally. None of this portion would even require internet access. However, when I'm ready to publish the blog, I'd click the "Publish" button and the software would upload those (static) pages to the remote web space.
Granted, this would be only a few steps in complexity above a Front Page-like web site development system (or even creating the HTML "by hand"); but it would be more specifically designed as a blogging tool.
I am not seriously into blogging, but so far I've been using Blogger's free service to edit Blog posts on-line and then publish them to my free web storage at my ISP. This works well for me because I have limited storage space (about 10 Mb) at my ISP and I'm not able to upload software to run on their server. I could of course pay some other business for web site hosting, but hey, this is still just a hobby for me at this point.
So my question for the Slashdot community is, do any of these free and open source blogging packages (like WordPress) let you edit posts, etc. on your PC and then publish the (static) pages to a remote web site? I understand that this isn't the ideal setup, that one would prefer that the blogging system would be running on the web site, but that's not really an option for me.
Is the shortage just for certain colors, or something like that? Or are people simply unable to get them at all without long delays?