WTF? Ok... I realize I'm wrong in suggesting that IE doesn't support alpha-transparency. But what on earth made them go down this path?
The support in Mozilla (and newer Opera) is just
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I just cannot see any reason why this extreme awkwardness is necessary. Microsoft have been reasonably good at providing "ease of use" lately. Some people may argue that some of the "ease of use" is to lock you in to using them, but this just puzzles me.
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Speak for yourself. I'm heavily using PNG right now. Why is it important that everyone should use new standards? As long as they are supported in browsers (*) and I am free to use them, I don't care what everyone else is using.
Sure, shorter download time would be nice, but PNG isn't really providing that. PNG however makes the job of the web developer easier.
(*) I'm still annoyed that IE doesn't support alpha-transparency though.
It is not open source. It is shared source, with a very restrictive license.
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"Now, I don't think Apple should sue anyone over this software. But this isn't the excellent news most people think it is. Apple will be making less money per iPod sold because of this. The iPod's reputation of no-brainer ease of use might be tarnished.
In the end, hopefully Apple will sell more units, make more money, and get positive exposure to new customers."
Eeeh.. you are sort of suggesting that financial concerns of Apple is any of our business. Why should I care that Apple makes less money? This is excellent news for the consumer, because it brings choice, and a very fine product to the Windows world as well as the Mac-world.
In the end Apple will hopefully make enough money to keep creating good products, anything else I seriously don't care about.
The News and History errors are annoying. However, you can turn off the sidebar or individual panels, and you won't experience these things again. Nautilus will also go down in memory consumption if you do.
Of course, a large part of the problem lies with Nautilus, which is (if this is in fact possible) slightly slower than Mozilla on my system. Seeing as Mozilla is constantly getting faster and Nautilus is no longer actively maintained, I see this as a potential problem.
This is just untrue. Nautilus is very actively maintained. Darin Adler, former Eazel-employee are maintainer on his spare time, now together with Alex Larsson.
Lots of the slowness in Nautilus 1.0.x seems to come from general slowness in the immature Gnome-libraries that only Nautilus exposed fully in Gnome 1.x. Nautilus for Gnome 2 got a lot faster for "free", when shifting to the Gnome 2 platform. In addition, lots of other speed improvements have been made.
I can happily say that Nautilus 1.1.x (The Gnome 2 development platform) is very fast. Opening a new window is about twice as fast. Changing directories is almost instantanious. Even large image-dirs with thumbnailing turned on is acceptably fast. This is on a Pentium III 550 with 256MB of ram.
I'm going to try this out on a lower end machine, but the huge speed increases is reported to have a nice effect here as well. Nautilus should be usable on reasonably low end machines now, if you turn off the latest bells and whistles.
For me, it is also nice that the SVG-rendering in Nautilus 2 is a lot faster. I'm unable to "feel" a speed difference between a regular theme and a vector-icon (SVG) theme.
First. It is not just $5. It is $5 each month. That is $60 a year. This is fine if you have just ONE such subscription, but not if you've got 50.
Frankly, I try out Mandrake everytime there is a major release, and I leave back for Red Hat or Debian every time.
I think there are enough distributions as it is. I'm sure Mandrake has contributed nice things to the community, but let the people who actually care about Mandrake to support it.
I think there is a market for about 2 generic world-wide commercial Linux distributions [1]. The others will just make it harder for the "fittest" to survive, and will sooner or later die. Keeping one of them alive artificially can actually just hurt the progress of the others.
If you think Mandrake is one of the distributions that should survive, then help them out, but don't call me a hypocrite because I won't.
[1] There are of course room for as many non-commercial distributions as people care to develop. [2] Red Hat seems a given. The other may be SuSE, Mandrake, Slackware etc. I don't think of for instance Caldera as "generic"
Why isn't this about MacOS X? This means GNU gcc might finally be an option for PowerPC-processors. What Operating systems they run should probably not matter. Currently GNU gcc isn't really viable for other architectures than x86 because of pretty slow code generated.
Interesting choice of words. It is strange that the BSD-license is mostly promoted as "business friendly" when this would have been impossible through the BSD-license. The same goes for Qt for instance.
There is nothing wrong with GPLed apps. If you desperately need a closed source version, you can either program it yourself, or get another license from the copyright holder.
I just *hated* the way he used arguments like "others having to use your computer" or that "in my group I encorage every one to leave things at default".
Isn't this exactly what multi-user environments are about?
It is just plain arrogant to have everyone do things exactly the same way. People have different tastes. Perhaps one person needs larger fonts because they have poor eyesight, but the larger fonts just annoy the hell out of everyone else?
The "right way" is just to set up a multiuser enironment and a networked file-system, so that all machines are equal, but all users can do what they want. Almost all current operating systems are multi-user in some way or another.
If you do not want mozilla-mail or editors, just don't install them. It is that easy. All distributions AFAIK split them up into several packages. Besides. Konqueror is a file-manager as well as a browser, so it is certainly not "just a web browser". Personally I don't mind the integration, but facts are always nice.
.. but the consequenses could be severe. As someone else stated, the tsetse are very important for preserving wild life in Africa. Why? Because wild life is more resistant to the tsetse than a horde of genetically very uniform cattle. This makes sure that wild life get some breathing space in areas of africa, where farmers just have to give up.
"It's not clear what illegal exclusionary and anticompetitive acts Be is talking about, but if it's JUST signing agreements to allow one OS to be the sole OS that you deploy, that's not illegal at all."
You didn't understand me then. What makes this illegal, is that the OEMs does not have a choice in this case. They have to sign exclusive agreements, or be put out of business. This makes this highly uncompetitive, and thus illegal under anti-trust laws, since Microsoft is counted as a monopoly.
I see this sort of argument ALL the time. Of course it is legal to sign exclusive agreements. The whole thing becomes different when you have a monopoly and is using that to strong-arm out the remainder of the competition.
Microsoft could pressure OEMs because no OEMs could ever afford to loose the goodwill of MS. If they didn't sign exclusive agreements, they'd very well be out of business because of the fierce competition in the PC-business.
The fact is that Microsoft have been PROVEN to be abusing monopoly power in a parallell case.
Be most surely has a case. But what will probably happen, is that this is all settled out of court with a pretty sum that enriches a few Be-investors, and doesn't really affect Microsoft.
"I'm sorry, but Mozilla just hasn't grown up, look at the latest milestone. Hit add bookmark and it won't give the current page as default values. That's so basic broken as can be. "
I just tried. It works. Perhaps you have run into the feature of it not double-bookmarking? It won't bookmark a page that is already bookmarked in that folder.
This is certainly NOT my experience. I've used all Mozilla editions from M14 to 0.9.8 on Linux, some (including 0.9.8) on Windows.
Mozilla have run all applets I've tried. Including a couple of swing-applets used at school, RiksJotto and a very CPU-intensive and threaded 3d-menu using real physics jotto.no.
I think you should back up your claims with some real examples.
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"This kind of setup would not effect most users at all, but would limit the worst offenders to 1/10th or 1/100th the bandwith usage."
Did you actually mean to use the word "offenders"? Is it a offense to use the bandwidth one has purchased?
WTF? Ok... I realize I'm wrong in suggesting that IE doesn't support alpha-transparency. But what on earth made them go down this path?
The support in Mozilla (and newer Opera) is just
<img src="whatever.png">
I just cannot see any reason why this extreme awkwardness is necessary. Microsoft have been reasonably good at providing "ease of use" lately. Some people may argue that some of the "ease of use" is to lock you in to using them, but this just puzzles me.
Speak for yourself. I'm heavily using PNG right now. Why is it important that everyone should use new standards? As long as they are supported in browsers (*) and I am free to use them, I don't care what everyone else is using.
Sure, shorter download time would be nice, but PNG isn't really providing that. PNG however makes the job of the web developer easier.
(*) I'm still annoyed that IE doesn't support alpha-transparency though.
bit for bit copying process?
How can it not be copied trough standard UNIX "cp"? What is it about these watermarks that makes it "disappear" in copied files?
Or will all software have to be rewritten as to understand and ignore the watermark when copying a file?
It is not open source. It is shared source, with a very restrictive license.
"Now, I don't think Apple should sue anyone over this software. But this isn't the excellent news most people think it is. Apple will be making less money per iPod sold because of this. The iPod's reputation of no-brainer ease of use might be tarnished.
In the end, hopefully Apple will sell more units, make more money, and get positive exposure to new customers."
Eeeh.. you are sort of suggesting that financial concerns of Apple is any of our business. Why should I care that Apple makes less money?
This is excellent news for the consumer, because it brings choice, and a very fine product to the Windows world as well as the Mac-world.
In the end Apple will hopefully make enough money to keep creating good products, anything else I seriously don't care about.
"As a fan of pen-n-paper, without the geekiness, Neverwinter Nights solves my dilemma!"
;)
Aaaarggh... we've been invaded by jocks!!
The News and History errors are annoying. However, you can turn off the sidebar or individual panels, and you won't experience these things again. Nautilus will also go down in memory consumption if you do.
Especially Nautilus is a speed-demon in the latest Gnome2-versions.
This should mean that most people having trouble with Nautilus slowness should now be able to use it fine.
This also means that Gnome 2 is not a huge and bloated upgrade.
Of course, a large part of the problem lies with Nautilus, which is (if this is in fact possible) slightly slower than Mozilla on my system. Seeing as Mozilla is constantly getting faster and Nautilus is no longer actively maintained, I see this as a potential problem.
This is just untrue. Nautilus is very actively maintained. Darin Adler, former Eazel-employee are maintainer on his spare time, now together with Alex Larsson.
Lots of the slowness in Nautilus 1.0.x seems to come from general slowness in the immature Gnome-libraries that only Nautilus exposed fully in Gnome 1.x. Nautilus for Gnome 2 got a lot faster for "free", when shifting to the Gnome 2 platform. In addition, lots of other speed improvements have been made.
I can happily say that Nautilus 1.1.x (The Gnome 2 development platform) is very fast. Opening a new window is about twice as fast. Changing directories is almost instantanious. Even large image-dirs with thumbnailing turned on is acceptably fast. This is on a Pentium III 550 with 256MB of ram.
I'm going to try this out on a lower end machine, but the huge speed increases is reported to have a nice effect here as well. Nautilus should be usable on reasonably low end machines now, if you turn off the latest bells and whistles.
For me, it is also nice that the SVG-rendering in Nautilus 2 is a lot faster. I'm unable to "feel" a speed difference between a regular theme and a vector-icon (SVG) theme.
The Celeron/Pentium III wasn't a fiasco. Just because some enthusiasts bought celerons and used them in dual-boards, does not mean most people did.
Does he mean companies like IBM? They are a pretty major software company as well as a hardware-pusher.
First. It is not just $5. It is $5 each month. That is $60 a year. This is fine if you have just ONE such subscription, but not if you've got 50.
Frankly, I try out Mandrake everytime there is a major release, and I leave back for Red Hat or Debian every time.
I think there are enough distributions as it is. I'm sure Mandrake has contributed nice things to the community, but let the people who actually care about Mandrake to support it.
I think there is a market for about 2 generic world-wide commercial Linux distributions [1]. The others will just make it harder for the "fittest" to survive, and will sooner or later die.
Keeping one of them alive artificially can actually just hurt the progress of the others.
If you think Mandrake is one of the distributions that should survive, then help them out, but don't call me a hypocrite because I won't.
[1] There are of course room for as many non-commercial distributions as people care to develop.
[2] Red Hat seems a given. The other may be SuSE, Mandrake, Slackware etc. I don't think of for instance Caldera as "generic"
Why isn't this about MacOS X? This means GNU gcc might finally be an option for PowerPC-processors. What Operating systems they run should probably not matter.
Currently GNU gcc isn't really viable for other architectures than x86 because of pretty slow code generated.
Interesting choice of words. It is strange that the BSD-license is mostly promoted as "business friendly" when this would have been impossible through the BSD-license. The same goes for Qt for instance.
There is nothing wrong with GPLed apps. If you desperately need a closed source version, you can either program it yourself, or get another license from the copyright holder.
I just *hated* the way he used arguments like "others having to use your computer" or that "in my group I encorage every one to leave things at default".
Isn't this exactly what multi-user environments are about?
It is just plain arrogant to have everyone do things exactly the same way. People have different tastes. Perhaps one person needs larger fonts because they have poor eyesight, but the larger fonts just annoy the hell out of everyone else?
The "right way" is just to set up a multiuser enironment and a networked file-system, so that all machines are equal, but all users can do what they want. Almost all current operating systems are multi-user in some way or another.
Actually. The point is that the system should understand that red fonts on red background is a crash, and not do that.
Customize all you like, but the interface should be smart enough to recognize that certain cases is a "no no".
If you do not want mozilla-mail or editors, just don't install them. It is that easy. All distributions AFAIK split them up into several packages.
Besides. Konqueror is a file-manager as well as a browser, so it is certainly not "just a web browser".
Personally I don't mind the integration, but facts are always nice.
.. but the consequenses could be severe. As someone else stated, the tsetse are very important for preserving wild life in Africa. Why? Because wild life is more resistant to the tsetse than a horde of genetically very uniform cattle.
This makes sure that wild life get some breathing space in areas of africa, where farmers just have to give up.
It should still smack it at floating point, but that isn't perhaps what you need?
Itanium will finally get a 64-bit competitor?
</sarcasm>
Seriously, the way some people write about the Itanium, you would think nobody had every created a 64-bits processor before.
"It's not clear what illegal exclusionary and anticompetitive acts Be is talking about, but if it's JUST signing agreements to allow one OS to be the sole OS that you deploy, that's not illegal at all."
You didn't understand me then. What makes this illegal, is that the OEMs does not have a choice in this case. They have to sign exclusive agreements, or be put out of business. This makes this highly uncompetitive, and thus illegal under anti-trust laws, since Microsoft is counted as a monopoly.
I see this sort of argument ALL the time. Of course it is legal to sign exclusive agreements. The whole thing becomes different when you have a monopoly and is using that to strong-arm out the remainder of the competition.
Microsoft could pressure OEMs because no OEMs could ever afford to loose the goodwill of MS. If they didn't sign exclusive agreements, they'd very well be out of business because of the fierce competition in the PC-business.
The fact is that Microsoft have been PROVEN to be abusing monopoly power in a parallell case.
Be most surely has a case. But what will probably happen, is that this is all settled out of court with a pretty sum that enriches a few Be-investors, and doesn't really affect Microsoft.
"I'm sorry, but Mozilla just hasn't grown up, look at the latest milestone. Hit add bookmark and it won't give the current page as default values. That's so basic broken as can be. "
I just tried. It works. Perhaps you have run into the feature of it not double-bookmarking? It won't bookmark a page that is already bookmarked in that folder.
This is certainly NOT my experience. I've used all Mozilla editions from M14 to 0.9.8 on Linux, some (including 0.9.8) on Windows.
Mozilla have run all applets I've tried. Including a couple of swing-applets used at school, RiksJotto and a very CPU-intensive and threaded 3d-menu using real physics jotto.no.
I think you should back up your claims with some real examples.