As an early Gmail user I can say that Gmail has always worked fine in Firefox. I think the main reason opera wasn't initially supported was either a lack of support for XMLhttprequest (or whatever it's called) or substandard support for it.
Anyway, both Opera and Google eventually made improvements so that Gmail would run under opera. What's annoying is that Google still treat opera as lower priority when launching new apps, but for their AJAX type stuff they've always seemed to support IE and Firefox from the very beginning, Firefox is not tret as a lower priority.
CIFS is just another name for SMB. I think Microsoft started using the name CIFS rather than SMB for a while but the SMB name stuck (probably due to Samba).
Let's just hope the Russians don't decide to accept a deal from Microsoft for cheap software, ultimately if they do that they're just setting themselves up for future problems down the line. When funds are tight it is very useful to be able to have software where it's legal and encouraged to copy it. The amount of piracy that goes on with Microsoft products just shows how much that people consider Windows the only option, once they have other choices then more people are going to go for free and legal over free and illegal.
Back when I was a student Linux was a great way to free and easily get all the tools needed to learn Perl and C. The documentation on the internet provided most you'd need but I still bought a few O'Reilly books for reference, I learned a lot more using Linux in the 90's and using Linux gave me the skills to get a better paid job when I left university, people coming out with only Windows skills do not get the same salaries.
Some people say that teaching Linux in schools is a bad thing as the commerical world is all Microsoft on the desktop. That's total rubbish too, people should not be taught 'Word' they should be taught general word processing skills and preferably be exposed to a few alternative apps so they don't think there's only one way to do it. Versions of Microsoft applications change the UI between versions so even if they do end up working at a Microsoft shop they'll adapt better to the changing UI's between versions. Also a better all round education will open up alternatives to businesses, if the staff are better trained then switching to alternatives will be easier, it can save the economy a fortune in the future.
Firefox 2 is still an optional upgrade so is not pushed through auto-update, the 1.5 series is still supported. Once 1.5 gets closer to end of life then 2.0 will be offered.
And actually studying different languages is quite fun.
Well, from what I've heard, in Western Europe it is de rigueur to speak at least three languages. It's not even admirable in countries like Switzerland and Germany, it's a standard requirement. In the UK those three languages are usually en-gb, en-us and en-au
Not very good that when the prosecutors couldn't convict him for the porn they still wanted to stick some conviction on him! What's the idea that someone handing copies of playboy to their friends be convicted of a crime? There's nothing illegal in that magazine. The US have some weird attitudes to tits and nudity (playboy ain't really porn).
As for computers, things like this show why we need better education. Make sure people know to keep things updated. Tell them about Firefox, suggest that they get a Mac next time. They're not going to be 100% safe this way, but at least when you add it together with common sense safety measures then they're going to be significantly safer. Like it or not, the fact is all these people who get computers have been given the impression that it's so easy but they get the least secure system out of the box. People need educating about the dangers plus knowledge of the alternative choices.
There'll still be firefox 2 which will have updates a while after 3.0 is released. That's still a major improvement over IE6 which is their only option.
It's because cairo is not compatible with win9x they decided that it wasn't worth the effort to support this platform any more (they still support Win2k - they only dropped support because supporting win9x was holding them back). If anyone is able to contibute coding skills to make it work they have no problem accepting it. It's a technical rather than a political decision.
If you have a team of developers, and the all need access to one MAC, you can have multiple users logged into a single computer, each with their own VNC session, which means that multiple developers can use the same computer at the same time. Basically you log in each user with fast user switching, and each user starts a VNC Process on a different port. The only downside is that the users have to be logged in again and the VNC process restarted each time the computer is restarted. But I find that if you're just testing Websites, you don't need to restart your computer very much. That's what a Mac Mini is very useful for. It's a nice relatively cheap way to ensure that an office has a mac to test websites on.
No the IE tab extension is not specific to IE6 and will therefore run IE7 in a Firefox tab if IE6 is installed. There's various hacks to run IE6 and IE7 side by side and they're not approved by MS so it's possible that you could be running IE6 with some IE7 libraries and then the result would not be a perfect IE6 install and some things may differ.
KLM also has supposedly the worst record of losing luggage in Europe that's why they introduced RFID in order to improve this (one of the reasons they had such a bad record was that they have a lot more people transferring through Amsterdam rather than using it as a start or end point). However, despite that, I've flown KLM on average twice a month for the past two years and my luggage always arrives. I've even tried short connections and awkward routings and my luggage has still arrived fine. I feel ripped off, my Amex card has excellent luggage loss protection (£750 if gone missing for at least 6 hours plus a further £1000 is it's lost) - my luggage goes missing and I have loads to spend on new clothes. Damn you KLM, you're supposed to be the worst in Europe for baggage handling but not once do you lose my luggage, not a nice way to reward my frequent travelling:(
As I understood it, the artists never earned a penny from sales through this site, so it might be great for the consumers, but why on earth would you expect the music industry to embrace this? The RIAA might be bastards, but if they championed a model where the artists got zero, as opposed to 'not very much', you'd hate them even more.I don't think they have to support AllOfMP3 but they needed to offer an equivalent but legit service first before killing it. AllOfMP3 showed it was possible to sell loads with this model, in theory people didn't have to pay anything (P2P) but were willing to pay for the conveneince of AllOfMP3. I think people would be willing to pay more than the AllOfMP3 price if the royalties are being distributed. As long as the format is unemcumbered.
These sites are robbing the artists and companies of the revenue they are entitled to. Because they don't get this, they raise prices to cover what they lose...and so the spiral continues upward. If you bothered to buy the music from real stores (online, or at a shop), then maybe we'd be seeing some cheaper prices for CD's etcIt's been said many times but I might as well repeat it back before most people had internet access then buying on CD, tape, etc was the only real option. Effectively at least one person in a group of friends had to buy the CD, but as CD often had more benefits than tape then people would often still buy their own.
So back then more people had to buy a CD if they wanted music but did the price ever go down? NO! What people forget is money doesn't magically appear, if someone has no money then them downloading 10,000 illegal tracks online doesn't mean any loss of revenue as they wouldn't be able to purchase the songs legit. Most people tend to be honest when they can and tend to support things that they like, so if the RIAA embraced a legal store on the AllOfMP3 model then it'd be popular as it would provide convenience. People are paying for AllOfMP3.com right now (when they could get it for free on P2P), a similarly priced legit store would make a fortune for the RIAA.
Although I've never used it I would have to say this site was the real Plays for Sure of the music world. It's a shame the record companies did not embrace this model as a lot of people would be willing to pay iTunes prices for DRM-free audio in a choice of formats. Instead the only site that offered consumers choice is being closed down which would be fair enough if a viable legal alternative would spring up, but until the RIAA start embracing technology that won't happen.
And I know that everyone here hates it, but the Microsoft Zune...Of course we don't hate it, we just think it's crap:)
...has wireless networking built in, thus allowing you access to unlimited video, right now. And all for a few dollars from Movielink and Cinemanow or free from the web.No it doesn't, it's peer to peer only and squirting videos is not possible.
This article is typical corporate exec boilerplate used to beef up name recognition. When they don't have anything better to say they spout stuff about how much growth there is in storage capacity. It's been going on for 20 years, duh.This I do agree with, there's little substance in this article.
What's REALLY interesting about this article is a Senior Google person mentioning their fellow Silicon Valley neighbors with $50+ BIL in cash, Apple Computer. The AppleGooTube, Gapple, Gooooople anybody chime in here at any timeAs well as the Google CEO on the Apple board this also makes sense from the point of view that it's better for a company that's friendly towards Google (Apple in this case) do well against the company that wants to destroy Google by throwing chairs at it (Ballmersoft).
How low can they go? What does calling someones employer have to benefit the RIAA? The only thing it can do is give this persons boss a bad impression which may see him put last on any promotion shortlist and first on any planned redundancies as no doubt the RIAA would create the impression that this person is a full scale pirate (yarr).
What's worse is that it's not even the accused, it's the accused's son.
I doubt that there'll ever be an iPod that can hold everything, but then again I doubt the author truly believes it. The more space we have the more we make use of it. 15 years ago a 4GB hard drive would be seen as enormous, now for many people 100GB ain't enough.
New content is produced all the time, content is also likely to be stored at a better quality as long as space keeps increasing. I'm looking forward to the day of 80GB nanos, to me the nano is the ideal size, any smaller and it'd be awkward to control.
The foot icon is meant to indicate humour and also look at the heading of the article: Posted by ScuttleMonkey on 9:22 Tuesday 28 November 2006 from the jokes-that-some-people-just-wont-get dept.So I'd say you had been warned, if they made it too obvious that it was satire then it'd be less funny (whether it was funny to begin with is subjective of course).
It's a disgrace that the MPAA are doing this, who says it's up to them to control what we do in our own home. Does it matter if we're watching it on a 14" screen or a 40" screen or even on an iPod?? The MPAA have gone too far with this, I'm packing up and moving to a country where this can't happen. I bet Microsoft will support this move.
Oh wait, it's satire:) Still, these sites shouldn't give the MPAA any ideas.
It's to be expected, durning the holidays people have more time on their hands. Online sales trends in the UK always look positive around Christmas (we don't celebrate thanksgiving so using xmas as the example), it's a combination of people looking for bargains on eBay when people auction off their unwanted presents, people looking at selling their unwanted presents and spending the money they make on it in advance, people spending the money they were given as gifts and those that want to run out and get the first after Christmas bargains.
A lot of the reason for the online growth is that people tend to be an impatient lot and as just about everywhere is shut Christmas day and many also on the 26th, people can't wait for the stores to open, also add to the people who got their first computer as a gift (hopefully a mac unless they're comfortable with Linux) may be keen to make their first online purchase.
In the UK open plan offices are very common but cubes are virtually unheard of. I've heard very few complaints about open plan offices in the UK, as long as there's a decent amount of space between people then it's fine and can create a good atmosphere, too crowded and then it can be a pain.
However, people who are used to their own private office will find the extra noise disturbing and there's a problem where you can't just close a door when you don't want disturbed.
Where I work the next two levels of management are also in the open plan office. Not sure about the people above them, they're on a different floor and I've never needed to visit them.
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As an early Gmail user I can say that Gmail has always worked fine in Firefox. I think the main reason opera wasn't initially supported was either a lack of support for XMLhttprequest (or whatever it's called) or substandard support for it.
Anyway, both Opera and Google eventually made improvements so that Gmail would run under opera. What's annoying is that Google still treat opera as lower priority when launching new apps, but for their AJAX type stuff they've always seemed to support IE and Firefox from the very beginning, Firefox is not tret as a lower priority.
CIFS is just another name for SMB. I think Microsoft started using the name CIFS rather than SMB for a while but the SMB name stuck (probably due to Samba).
Let's just hope the Russians don't decide to accept a deal from Microsoft for cheap software, ultimately if they do that they're just setting themselves up for future problems down the line. When funds are tight it is very useful to be able to have software where it's legal and encouraged to copy it. The amount of piracy that goes on with Microsoft products just shows how much that people consider Windows the only option, once they have other choices then more people are going to go for free and legal over free and illegal.
Back when I was a student Linux was a great way to free and easily get all the tools needed to learn Perl and C. The documentation on the internet provided most you'd need but I still bought a few O'Reilly books for reference, I learned a lot more using Linux in the 90's and using Linux gave me the skills to get a better paid job when I left university, people coming out with only Windows skills do not get the same salaries.
Some people say that teaching Linux in schools is a bad thing as the commerical world is all Microsoft on the desktop. That's total rubbish too, people should not be taught 'Word' they should be taught general word processing skills and preferably be exposed to a few alternative apps so they don't think there's only one way to do it. Versions of Microsoft applications change the UI between versions so even if they do end up working at a Microsoft shop they'll adapt better to the changing UI's between versions. Also a better all round education will open up alternatives to businesses, if the staff are better trained then switching to alternatives will be easier, it can save the economy a fortune in the future.
Firefox 2 is still an optional upgrade so is not pushed through auto-update, the 1.5 series is still supported. Once 1.5 gets closer to end of life then 2.0 will be offered.
Well, from what I've heard, in Western Europe it is de rigueur to speak at least three languages. It's not even admirable in countries like Switzerland and Germany, it's a standard requirement. In the UK those three languages are usually en-gb, en-us and en-au
Not very good that when the prosecutors couldn't convict him for the porn they still wanted to stick some conviction on him! What's the idea that someone handing copies of playboy to their friends be convicted of a crime? There's nothing illegal in that magazine. The US have some weird attitudes to tits and nudity (playboy ain't really porn).
As for computers, things like this show why we need better education. Make sure people know to keep things updated. Tell them about Firefox, suggest that they get a Mac next time. They're not going to be 100% safe this way, but at least when you add it together with common sense safety measures then they're going to be significantly safer. Like it or not, the fact is all these people who get computers have been given the impression that it's so easy but they get the least secure system out of the box. People need educating about the dangers plus knowledge of the alternative choices.
It has now been fixed.
There'll still be firefox 2 which will have updates a while after 3.0 is released. That's still a major improvement over IE6 which is their only option.
It will in alpha 2.
It's because cairo is not compatible with win9x they decided that it wasn't worth the effort to support this platform any more (they still support Win2k - they only dropped support because supporting win9x was holding them back). If anyone is able to contibute coding skills to make it work they have no problem accepting it. It's a technical rather than a political decision.
No the IE tab extension is not specific to IE6 and will therefore run IE7 in a Firefox tab if IE6 is installed. There's various hacks to run IE6 and IE7 side by side and they're not approved by MS so it's possible that you could be running IE6 with some IE7 libraries and then the result would not be a perfect IE6 install and some things may differ.
KLM also has supposedly the worst record of losing luggage in Europe that's why they introduced RFID in order to improve this (one of the reasons they had such a bad record was that they have a lot more people transferring through Amsterdam rather than using it as a start or end point). However, despite that, I've flown KLM on average twice a month for the past two years and my luggage always arrives. I've even tried short connections and awkward routings and my luggage has still arrived fine. I feel ripped off, my Amex card has excellent luggage loss protection (£750 if gone missing for at least 6 hours plus a further £1000 is it's lost) - my luggage goes missing and I have loads to spend on new clothes. Damn you KLM, you're supposed to be the worst in Europe for baggage handling but not once do you lose my luggage, not a nice way to reward my frequent travelling :(
As I understood it, the artists never earned a penny from sales through this site, so it might be great for the consumers, but why on earth would you expect the music industry to embrace this? The RIAA might be bastards, but if they championed a model where the artists got zero, as opposed to 'not very much', you'd hate them even more.I don't think they have to support AllOfMP3 but they needed to offer an equivalent but legit service first before killing it. AllOfMP3 showed it was possible to sell loads with this model, in theory people didn't have to pay anything (P2P) but were willing to pay for the conveneince of AllOfMP3. I think people would be willing to pay more than the AllOfMP3 price if the royalties are being distributed. As long as the format is unemcumbered.
If you bothered to buy the music from real stores (online, or at a shop), then maybe we'd be seeing some cheaper prices for CD's etcIt's been said many times but I might as well repeat it back before most people had internet access then buying on CD, tape, etc was the only real option. Effectively at least one person in a group of friends had to buy the CD, but as CD often had more benefits than tape then people would often still buy their own.
So back then more people had to buy a CD if they wanted music but did the price ever go down? NO! What people forget is money doesn't magically appear, if someone has no money then them downloading 10,000 illegal tracks online doesn't mean any loss of revenue as they wouldn't be able to purchase the songs legit. Most people tend to be honest when they can and tend to support things that they like, so if the RIAA embraced a legal store on the AllOfMP3 model then it'd be popular as it would provide convenience. People are paying for AllOfMP3.com right now (when they could get it for free on P2P), a similarly priced legit store would make a fortune for the RIAA.
Although I've never used it I would have to say this site was the real Plays for Sure of the music world. It's a shame the record companies did not embrace this model as a lot of people would be willing to pay iTunes prices for DRM-free audio in a choice of formats. Instead the only site that offered consumers choice is being closed down which would be fair enough if a viable legal alternative would spring up, but until the RIAA start embracing technology that won't happen.
And I know that everyone here hates it, but the Microsoft Zune...Of course we don't hate it, we just think it's crap :)
...has wireless networking built in, thus allowing you access to unlimited video, right now. And all for a few dollars from Movielink and Cinemanow or free from the web.No it doesn't, it's peer to peer only and squirting videos is not possible.
This article is typical corporate exec boilerplate used to beef up name recognition. When they don't have anything better to say they spout stuff about how much growth there is in storage capacity. It's been going on for 20 years, duh.This I do agree with, there's little substance in this article.
What's REALLY interesting about this article is a Senior Google person mentioning their fellow Silicon Valley neighbors with $50+ BIL in cash, Apple Computer. The AppleGooTube, Gapple, Gooooople anybody chime in here at any timeAs well as the Google CEO on the Apple board this also makes sense from the point of view that it's better for a company that's friendly towards Google (Apple in this case) do well against the company that wants to destroy Google by throwing chairs at it (Ballmersoft).
What's worse is that it's not even the accused, it's the accused's son.
New content is produced all the time, content is also likely to be stored at a better quality as long as space keeps increasing. I'm looking forward to the day of 80GB nanos, to me the nano is the ideal size, any smaller and it'd be awkward to control.
Still has a long way to go before it beats my favourite satire site
There are some really stupid people in this world...like really stupid.Yes we know you are :)
The foot icon is meant to indicate humour and also look at the heading of the article: Posted by ScuttleMonkey on 9:22 Tuesday 28 November 2006
from the jokes-that-some-people-just-wont-get dept.So I'd say you had been warned, if they made it too obvious that it was satire then it'd be less funny (whether it was funny to begin with is subjective of course).
It's a disgrace that the MPAA are doing this, who says it's up to them to control what we do in our own home. Does it matter if we're watching it on a 14" screen or a 40" screen or even on an iPod?? The MPAA have gone too far with this, I'm packing up and moving to a country where this can't happen. I bet Microsoft will support this move.
:) Still, these sites shouldn't give the MPAA any ideas.
Oh wait, it's satire
A lot of the reason for the online growth is that people tend to be an impatient lot and as just about everywhere is shut Christmas day and many also on the 26th, people can't wait for the stores to open, also add to the people who got their first computer as a gift (hopefully a mac unless they're comfortable with Linux) may be keen to make their first online purchase.
In the UK open plan offices are very common but cubes are virtually unheard of. I've heard very few complaints about open plan offices in the UK, as long as there's a decent amount of space between people then it's fine and can create a good atmosphere, too crowded and then it can be a pain.
However, people who are used to their own private office will find the extra noise disturbing and there's a problem where you can't just close a door when you don't want disturbed.
Where I work the next two levels of management are also in the open plan office. Not sure about the people above them, they're on a different floor and I've never needed to visit them.