Well if the code was created in the United States there isn't any way to simply "release" it on a European server without transfering it somehow, and therefore breaking the export laws.
I see no advantages using Firebird over IE on windows
Let's see, Firebird has built-in pop-up blocking, IE doesn't. Firebird has *much* better support for CSS than IE (for Windows), IE Windows CSS support *laugh*. Firebird has built-in tabs support, IE doesn't. Firebird allows you to choose which JavaScript function to allow (e.g. Don't allow the status bar to be altered, etc...), IE doesn't, and I don't even think that Safari does. Firebird supports alpha transparencies for PNG, IE doesn't. Firebird supports MNG, err, wait, some stupid bastard decided to pull MNG support for Firebird... Firebird allows you to apply your own CSS styles to pages (useful for taking out annoying or obnoxious styles, and removing advertisements from pages), IE doesn't. Firebird lets you apply custom CSS styles to the interface itself and customize every single aspect of the UI imaginable, IE doesn't. Firebird has built in support for blocking advertisements, IE doesn't. Firebird does in fact have ActiveX support, as does IE obviously. (It was always an option for Mozilla, is just had to be compiled it. ActiveX is compiled in Firebird by default). You can customize the Firebird theme (icons and all, not just the Windows widgets), with IE you cannot. According to c|net's benchmarks the Gecko rendering engine used by Firebird is faster than IE's rendering engine. http://www.texturizer.net/firebird/features.html
IE has, uhh, eh.... a colorful Windows logo in the corner?
I figure it's a lot easier to ignore the occasional bad article then it is to ignore hundreds of comments coming from whiney little people bitching about how they don't like what was posted. You can at least block a particular poster if you don't like what they post, or a certain type of article (e.g. Ask Slashdot), but I cannot sit around all day putting a hundred different people on my enimies list in hopes that I won't have to hear their bitching again.
Wanna know what's worse than what some would consider a bad slashdot story? Having to listen to all the whiners piss and moan about it. If you don't like the story then move on for god sakes.
It's also noteable to mention that Trillian is closed source, and the cooler features aren't even free as in beer (e.g. Trillian "Pro"). Gaim supports Windows, and Linux out of the box, and every feature is both free as in beer and speech (including plugins). And I to can connect to multiple screen names of any medium and choose which to use to send messages to people with. Gaim also natively supports not only AIM, ICQ, MSN, IRC, and Yahoo, but Jabber as well, something the Trillian developers refuse to natively support. Gaim also has optional encryption abilities.
Thunderbird has a built-in autolearning spam filter. You just recieve your e-mail and when you see spam, mark it as such (by clicking the little 'Trash' Icon). And it is sent to the Junk folder and any future e-mail with similar structure will be blocked. As you mark e-mail as junk (or not junk) it learns and adapts. I have an almost 0% false-positive rate, and at least 95% catching rate. It uses the Bayesian algorythm.
But slapping TM to it - which actively claims the trademark - made the alarm bells go of at the Firebird database engine people.
They have a trademark to the name. They claimed it as such. Regardless of whether the FirebirdSQL people agree to that or not. They have every right to actively claim the trademark.
They now have FirebirdBBS as their trademark, while the db engine has Firebird.
One software is for browsing web pages (browser), the other is for storing, retreving, and organizing large amounts of information (database). Simple enough;)
No, Phoenix BIOS is developing, or has developed (not quite sure) a browser. It will reside in the BIOS in case your system dies and you need to download drivers or do whatever, you will be able to do it via the BIOS. Anyways, due to that, there was a legitimate reason to change the name. It's pretty easy to confuse two browsers with the exact same name. As far as confusing a browser with a database, if you do that then I don't think you deserve to use either heh.
On Windows Mozilla Firebird is the best browser available imho. Konqueror isn't an option on Windows:p even if I were to agree with you that Konqueror is better (which I don't hehe).
They are not changing the name. When it is ready to be integrated into the main Mozilla product it will replace Seamonkey. Seamonkey is the codename for the current browser component. It is officially refered to as "Mozilla Browser" but that does not mean that it was renamed from Seamonkey to Mozilla Browser, just as Firebird is not going to be renamed from Firebird to Mozilla Browser.
So let me get this straight: It is okay for the FirebirdSQL team to pick the same name as was chosen by the Firebird BBS developers, but it is 'unprofessional' and 'sploiled' of the Mozilla project to choose the name Firebird because the Firebird SQL project had choosen it first? Gotta love that logic...
No, what he is saying is if they had not mail bombed us we would have been able to communicate much easier with you. When you've got people sending you thousands of hatemail a day, any mail comming in from developers is going to be lost in the bunch and ignored. What he is saying is that they would not have been ignored if they were not lost in the mess of hatemail that was sent out, and encouraged to be sent out, out of maturity and sophistication on part of the FirebirdSQL team. *rolls his eyes*
Yeah because they're making so much money off of it now. It being freely downloadable, unsupported outside of the freely accessable Bugzilla, not purchasable through any means, and whos code can be freely used and implimented. *rolls his eyes*
First they choose the name Phoenix, which is kind of an inside joke if you know what a Phoenix is. That unexpectedly gets challenged legitimately by the Phoenix BIOS folks (as they were implimenting a BROWSER with the same name, obviously there would be confusion). So they change it to Firebird, something that is currently being used by countless other products, including those that were started before FirebirdSQL was created (e.g. FirebirdBBS). Since it is related to the Phoenix name, they choose that. Not being particularly picky as it is just the codename for the browser component, which will not even be widely used after it is integrated into the main product (as Seamonkey is not). Because the FirebirdSQL developers decided to exploit an opportunity for free publicity that is an indication that Mozilla is 'rapidly deteriorating into a farce"? I don't think I see the logic in that conclusion.
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Well if the code was created in the United States there isn't any way to simply "release" it on a European server without transfering it somehow, and therefore breaking the export laws.
I see no advantages using Firebird over IE on windows
Let's see, Firebird has built-in pop-up blocking, IE doesn't. Firebird has *much* better support for CSS than IE (for Windows), IE Windows CSS support *laugh*. Firebird has built-in tabs support, IE doesn't. Firebird allows you to choose which JavaScript function to allow (e.g. Don't allow the status bar to be altered, etc...), IE doesn't, and I don't even think that Safari does. Firebird supports alpha transparencies for PNG, IE doesn't. Firebird supports MNG, err, wait, some stupid bastard decided to pull MNG support for Firebird... Firebird allows you to apply your own CSS styles to pages (useful for taking out annoying or obnoxious styles, and removing advertisements from pages), IE doesn't. Firebird lets you apply custom CSS styles to the interface itself and customize every single aspect of the UI imaginable, IE doesn't. Firebird has built in support for blocking advertisements, IE doesn't. Firebird does in fact have ActiveX support, as does IE obviously. (It was always an option for Mozilla, is just had to be compiled it. ActiveX is compiled in Firebird by default). You can customize the Firebird theme (icons and all, not just the Windows widgets), with IE you cannot. According to c|net's benchmarks the Gecko rendering engine used by Firebird is faster than IE's rendering engine. http://www.texturizer.net/firebird/features.html
IE has, uhh, eh.... a colorful Windows logo in the corner?
I figure it's a lot easier to ignore the occasional bad article then it is to ignore hundreds of comments coming from whiney little people bitching about how they don't like what was posted. You can at least block a particular poster if you don't like what they post, or a certain type of article (e.g. Ask Slashdot), but I cannot sit around all day putting a hundred different people on my enimies list in hopes that I won't have to hear their bitching again.
They aren't editors, they are geeks who post random, generally tech related, stories and at times add some comentary. That is not an editor.
Wanna know what's worse than what some would consider a bad slashdot story? Having to listen to all the whiners piss and moan about it. If you don't like the story then move on for god sakes.
It's also noteable to mention that Trillian is closed source, and the cooler features aren't even free as in beer (e.g. Trillian "Pro"). Gaim supports Windows, and Linux out of the box, and every feature is both free as in beer and speech (including plugins). And I to can connect to multiple screen names of any medium and choose which to use to send messages to people with. Gaim also natively supports not only AIM, ICQ, MSN, IRC, and Yahoo, but Jabber as well, something the Trillian developers refuse to natively support. Gaim also has optional encryption abilities.
:)
I choose Gaim
Thunderbird has a built-in autolearning spam filter. You just recieve your e-mail and when you see spam, mark it as such (by clicking the little 'Trash' Icon). And it is sent to the Junk folder and any future e-mail with similar structure will be blocked. As you mark e-mail as junk (or not junk) it learns and adapts. I have an almost 0% false-positive rate, and at least 95% catching rate. It uses the Bayesian algorythm.
I happen to find Firebird a lot less combersome than Opera. But if you don't see any reasons to switch, then dont.
They have a trademark to the name. They claimed it as such. Regardless of whether the FirebirdSQL people agree to that or not. They have every right to actively claim the trademark.
And the browser has 'Mozilla Firebird'.
Sega Channel was the shiznat.
;(
RIP Sega Channel
One software is for browsing web pages (browser), the other is for storing, retreving, and organizing large amounts of information (database). Simple enough ;)
Eminem sold seven million full albums in 14 days.
rofl
No, Phoenix BIOS is developing, or has developed (not quite sure) a browser. It will reside in the BIOS in case your system dies and you need to download drivers or do whatever, you will be able to do it via the BIOS. Anyways, due to that, there was a legitimate reason to change the name. It's pretty easy to confuse two browsers with the exact same name. As far as confusing a browser with a database, if you do that then I don't think you deserve to use either heh.
Well for one because you can't buy Mozilla.
On Windows Mozilla Firebird is the best browser available imho. Konqueror isn't an option on Windows :p even if I were to agree with you that Konqueror is better (which I don't hehe).
They are not changing the name. When it is ready to be integrated into the main Mozilla product it will replace Seamonkey. Seamonkey is the codename for the current browser component. It is officially refered to as "Mozilla Browser" but that does not mean that it was renamed from Seamonkey to Mozilla Browser, just as Firebird is not going to be renamed from Firebird to Mozilla Browser.
It was named after the mystical animal (due to the irony), not the car.
So let me get this straight: It is okay for the FirebirdSQL team to pick the same name as was chosen by the Firebird BBS developers, but it is 'unprofessional' and 'sploiled' of the Mozilla project to choose the name Firebird because the Firebird SQL project had choosen it first? Gotta love that logic...
No, what he is saying is if they had not mail bombed us we would have been able to communicate much easier with you. When you've got people sending you thousands of hatemail a day, any mail comming in from developers is going to be lost in the bunch and ignored. What he is saying is that they would not have been ignored if they were not lost in the mess of hatemail that was sent out, and encouraged to be sent out, out of maturity and sophistication on part of the FirebirdSQL team. *rolls his eyes*
Yeah because they're making so much money off of it now. It being freely downloadable, unsupported outside of the freely accessable Bugzilla, not purchasable through any means, and whos code can be freely used and implimented. *rolls his eyes*
If this kind of spamming represents the *BSD community then I for one will watch it die with a smile on my face.
First they choose the name Phoenix, which is kind of an inside joke if you know what a Phoenix is. That unexpectedly gets challenged legitimately by the Phoenix BIOS folks (as they were implimenting a BROWSER with the same name, obviously there would be confusion). So they change it to Firebird, something that is currently being used by countless other products, including those that were started before FirebirdSQL was created (e.g. FirebirdBBS). Since it is related to the Phoenix name, they choose that. Not being particularly picky as it is just the codename for the browser component, which will not even be widely used after it is integrated into the main product (as Seamonkey is not). Because the FirebirdSQL developers decided to exploit an opportunity for free publicity that is an indication that Mozilla is 'rapidly deteriorating into a farce"? I don't think I see the logic in that conclusion.
I can play WMV on Linux just fine :) (e.g. Xine, Mplayer, etc...)
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So as you can see you are very wrong.