IE sucks for cookie options (weird.. the only area where IE is behind NS) but NS has the option to only accept cookies from the domain you are visiting. This is a major blockade for the "cookie tracker monsters".
Mozilla, NS6 has even better cookie blocking support. You can choose to block cookies from a domain. You can delete unwanted cookies and optionally refuse cookies from the deleted cookies domain, etc.
Blocking all cookies seems a bit stupid since they have such value when used properly.
Our company uses a huge LDAP database which has been nice for the auto-completed email's in both IE and Netscape 4.x's. It also let's me lookup users phone numbers, managers name, etc., etc.
It seems that the directory service box has been totally left out of NS6's preferences which seems a bit odd since Netscape is the creator of LDAP (right?).
OK, you're right. VA Linux (with whom I have close personal ties at least once every 2 hours) instructs me to disparage the variety of Linux they load on their own machines. VA owns Red Hat, I swear, but they've rubbed out anyone who's tried to make that public. Also, they tell me which floor of the book depository to wait on with the big rifle. Honest.
Wow, I didn't read him saying any of those things. All he said was the truth; that you slam Red Hat more and more and post remarks degrading it's users.
If anything, you guys are posting flame bait and this guy is not trolling.
No, no, no.. I believe all that I said but the ultimate point is that none of it even matters because this isn't going to stop.
As far as convincing myself it's OK to steal music, that really doesn't apply to me. See, I listen to punk (no, not blink182, or green day, or any those current current age "new wave" bands) and they don't copyright their music. You see they already realize what a joke the music industry is. --
I am so sick of this argument. Does this mean you can go to the local BurgerWop and steal a few burgers, but tip the underpaid frontline staff a few bucks. These poor underpaid artists are there because they signed contracts and wanted the marketting and distribution given by these bastard RIAA companies. See Harmony Central for an insiders view on why traditional RIAA approaches are good for quite a bit of artists.
That is just such a bad analogy.
What was mentioned means cutting out the middle man. Getting rid of the overhead that has been the only choice to make it big but leaves the artisits standing their w/ their preverbal balls in their hand.
If the artists leave the record company and start making their music digitally available, they stand to make much more money. Hell, they could probably make more money just off banner adds on their site.
The whole argument is irrelevant anyways. This is not going to stop. Not even for you clif. --
This is like the 4th article on/. in the last few months about the same thing. Instead of complaining and degrading gnutella, why doesn't anyone encourage people to help? --
If you actually bothered to read the article, you'd notice that the his opinion on directx is dated 12-99 and covers the topic of directx 7 being cleaned up a bit and being very up to date w/ current hardware, etc [1]. The overall viewpoint is that directx is still a horrible API (this would include directx 7).
Is it painful when you have to pull that big ass foot out of your mouth?
[1] - This is the only advantage I see over openGL but SGI will keep up. --
Also interesting to see how the latest revision of the document by Brian Hook is 0.46, which seems to be somewhere from the pre DX5 timeframe. I'm sure 3D programming on Linux was great fun 3 years ago. (Oh, oops, there wasn't even a single 3d driver out yet:)
The argument wasn't only that directx is a nightmare but that OpenGL was much easier to accomplish the same results.
Do you want to work to get this performance? No? Then get another job. Not smart enough to understand all the issues at play? Then get another job.
Or get a job working with a better API than the POS that is DirectX. Why would someone want to work w/ a non-portable, nightmare protocol like directx when there are simpler, portable solutions unless they are a masochist(or have some sort of 37337 complex)? It's a pretty obvious answer to me.
If you ask me, you're the one throwing out flame bait.
Slashdot needs to have the freedom to report things that even Andover.net doesn't like
That's funny that you're giving Slashdot the same credit as CNN as a news resource considering that the DVD CCA named Slashdot in a restraining order to keep them from linking to DeCSS --
IMHO the only real problem is that Google, also, continues to point to non-existent web pages.
That's actually good... you can see the cached page if you're searching directly from google.com but I don't think you see the cached page link from the yahoo searches. It's saved my ass a couple of times. --
Slashdot Mirror
Oh wow... it actually was a yuppie bastard!
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Mozilla, NS6 has even better cookie blocking support. You can choose to block cookies from a domain. You can delete unwanted cookies and optionally refuse cookies from the deleted cookies domain, etc.
Blocking all cookies seems a bit stupid since they have such value when used properly.
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It will be nice to be able to use the swing libraries (among others) without having the user download the jre (which they would almost never do).
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It seems that the directory service box has been totally left out of NS6's preferences which seems a bit odd since Netscape is the creator of LDAP (right?).
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Wow, I didn't read him saying any of those things. All he said was the truth; that you slam Red Hat more and more and post remarks degrading it's users.
If anything, you guys are posting flame bait and this guy is not trolling.
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As far as convincing myself it's OK to steal music, that really doesn't apply to me. See, I listen to punk (no, not blink182, or green day, or any those current current age "new wave" bands) and they don't copyright their music. You see they already realize what a joke the music industry is.
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That is just such a bad analogy.
What was mentioned means cutting out the middle man. Getting rid of the overhead that has been the only choice to make it big but leaves the artisits standing their w/ their preverbal balls in their hand.
If the artists leave the record company and start making their music digitally available, they stand to make much more money. Hell, they could probably make more money just off banner adds on their site.
The whole argument is irrelevant anyways. This is not going to stop. Not even for you clif.
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If you actually bothered to read the article, you'd notice that the his opinion on directx is dated 12-99 and covers the topic of directx 7 being cleaned up a bit and being very up to date w/ current hardware, etc [1]. The overall viewpoint is that directx is still a horrible API (this would include directx 7).
Is it painful when you have to pull that big ass foot out of your mouth?
[1] - This is the only advantage I see over openGL but SGI will keep up.
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Perhaps you have a snappy comeback for David Joffe's article which is up to date.
The argument wasn't only that directx is a nightmare but that OpenGL was much easier to accomplish the same results.
Do you want to work to get this performance? No? Then get another job. Not smart enough to understand all the issues at play? Then get another job.
Or get a job working with a better API than the POS that is DirectX. Why would someone want to work w/ a non-portable, nightmare protocol like directx when there are simpler, portable solutions unless they are a masochist(or have some sort of 37337 complex)? It's a pretty obvious answer to me.
If you ask me, you're the one throwing out flame bait.
/me bites
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That's funny that you're giving Slashdot the same credit as CNN as a news resource considering that the DVD CCA named Slashdot in a restraining order to keep them from linking to DeCSS
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Looks like they already did [1].. There's a
screenshot showing the link before it was removed [2].
[1] - Well, the link at least
[2] - assuming it wasn't photoshop'd in in the 1st place.
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That's actually good... you can see the cached page if you're searching directly from google.com but I don't think you see the cached page link from the yahoo searches. It's saved my ass a couple of times.
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Maybe they should sue themselves.
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Taken from the 2nd paragraph in the article.
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