If you look you'll see that the Google logo is at 1:1 resolution. That's because the gecko renderer doesn't support "true" zoom of text + images (yet), so until that's fixed it'll only be useful if you've got a nice big screen (and/or you like to scroll). Of course the Opera engine has been able to do this for years.. The relevant mozilla bug is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4821 (copy & paste to your browser)
Lots of people (esp. outside the US) don't and for those who take public transport (or just plain walk) to work, an mp3 player is a very convenient way of staying entertained while you are on the bus/train etc.
Besides all that, building your own MP3 player is just plain cool. This is Slashdot isn't it?
is because it is a way to compress (some types of) file that are ALREADY compressed. If you've ever zip'd (or RAR's or 7Zip'd or Gzip'd etc) a jpeg, a gif, a png or even another zip file - ie. any other type of already compressed file - you'll be lucky to get any savings, or if you do it will be a few % at most. That's because most of the redundancy (ie. compressibility) has already been removed from the data in the file.
This method can compress jpg files significantly, and that is NEW, in fact it was previously though to be something that was more or less impossible (or at least, extremely difficult with little to gain).
Of course it is slow, but it works and it will find practical uses.
.. it's that they get off their butts and actually fix all the annoying bugs that have been around for YEARS, many of which affect huge numbers of users, yet seem to get ignored in favour of new features... (sound familiar?)
Just look at the age (and popularity) of most of the bugs off tracking bug 163993 (Mozilla bugs with large community interest):
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16399 3 (cut & paste into your browser - no linking from/. to mozilla!)
No, I don't use firefox, because it seems too much like IE to me (you know, but without most of the security holes). Of course, maybe thats's why it's so popular...
Most people significantly overestimate the steepness of hills, often by 3-6 times. What you percieve as "30 degrees" was probably 5 or maybe 10 degrees at worst. Most councils restrict roads to an incline of about 10 degrees maximum!
The best prices we have is AU$50/month (~US$39) for 256/64 adsl (PPPoE), BUT you have to sign up for at least 6 months as well as pay in advance, and that's only if you can actually get it where you live. Also that only very recently (the past month or so) became unlimited - before it was bandwidth throttled for that price. Cable is around $70/month but it's bandwidth capped or limited and the contracts are even longer (24 months in some cases!!)
Anything that brings "spam" and "viruses" closer together in the public eye is bad for spammers in the long run.
And fortunately for the rest of us (or unfortunately depending on your point of view), this type of behaviour just makes spammers more of a target for legislation and law enforcement.
.. and you won't have problems with telemarketers.
With the current US system (correct me if I'm wrong), you pay when someone CALLS YOU, whether you want the call or not. Personally I don't understand this, but it's a system that's been in place there for ages so will probably never change.
In Australia (and many other countries), the dialer pays for the call, and we get maybe 1 or 2 telemarketing calls a month, and then usually from a charity or market research survey. Our phone number is not even unlisted.
(note, we pay a fixed monthly price for the privelidge of having a phone - fixed or cell - so owning a phone is not "free" if you don't make any calls, but the cost is minimal).
> For one thing, it assumes free bandwidth; not such a hot idea in a lot of places (e.g., Australia, where you pay per Mb).
I really don't like this, and won't touch Moz 1.2 because of this "feature", which not only defaults to on (bad), there is no easy way to disable it (worse!) - (read "easy way to disable" as "a way that my mom could figure out").
Nobody should have to dig through a preferences file to turn off a "feature" that will cost them money.
In Australia where I live (and many other countries) you pay for every byte that you download.
Mozilla also isn't any good for browing with images disabled - all of the image placeholders and the alt text that goes with them become invisible if you turn images off, and this makes browsing most sites difficult if not impossible with images turned off.
These things make Moz harder to use (esp. for people on low bandwidth or pay-per-byte) which is the last thing any of us need or want...
.. at least the stuff they sell in Australia doesn't (last time I looked).
If you take it to keep you awake then you're barking up the wrong tree. Unless the sugar rush is what works for you..
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Opera now includes SVG in it's latest beta (SVG 1.1 Tiny).
:)
http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2005/03/16/
Maybe that might kick Mozilla along a bit with SVG support
I bet it's 1,000,000,000 bytes, not 2^30 (1,073,741,824).
Google's is 1000 MB, but they don't say what their version of a "MB" is (whether it's 1,000,000 bytes or 2^20). I would guess the former.
Standard marketing based fraud in IT.
Sigh.
If you look you'll see that the Google logo is at 1:1 resolution.
That's because the gecko renderer doesn't support "true" zoom of text + images (yet), so until that's fixed it'll only be useful if you've got a nice big screen (and/or you like to scroll). Of course the Opera engine has been able to do this for years..
The relevant mozilla bug is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4821
(copy & paste to your browser)
is that ANYONE can contribute to a project.
Only if the developers think you're good enough of course.
If Google is now paying his salary, then mozilla can use what they were paying him to pay someone new.
So there will now be one more full time paid person working on Mozilla.
Good.
Lots of people (esp. outside the US) don't and for those who take public transport (or just plain walk) to work, an mp3 player is a very convenient way of staying entertained while you are on the bus/train etc.
Besides all that, building your own MP3 player is just plain cool. This is Slashdot isn't it?
is because it is a way to compress (some types of) file that are ALREADY compressed. If you've ever zip'd (or RAR's or 7Zip'd or Gzip'd etc) a jpeg, a gif, a png or even another zip file - ie. any other type of already compressed file - you'll be lucky to get any savings, or if you do it will be a few % at most. That's because most of the redundancy (ie. compressibility) has already been removed from the data in the file.
This method can compress jpg files significantly, and that is NEW, in fact it was previously though to be something that was more or less impossible (or at least, extremely difficult with little to gain).
Of course it is slow, but it works and it will find practical uses.
.. it's that they get off their butts and actually fix all the annoying bugs that have been around for YEARS, many of which affect huge numbers of users, yet seem to get ignored in favour of new features... (sound familiar?)9 3 /. to mozilla!)
Just look at the age (and popularity) of most of the bugs off tracking bug 163993 (Mozilla bugs with large community interest):
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1639
(cut & paste into your browser - no linking from
No, I don't use firefox, because it seems too much like IE to me (you know, but without most of the security holes). Of course, maybe thats's why it's so popular...
Yes, and I'm surprised that the mozilla group didn't think of something like this first, though I'm sure we'll see it implemented shortly :)
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Some more info (screenshots etc) on the Eudora system can be found at:
http://www.eudora.com/email/features/scamwatch.ht
So if we block all port 25 traffic from America (where most spam comes from), China and Korea we fix the spam problem!
No, wait...
.. instead of pushing out new features/products.
No wait, it's _Microsoft_ that ignores long standing bugs and just pushes out new features/products.
I'm sorry.
Sigh.
.. than the health of the entire planet and every creature living on it.
Sigh.
Nothing novel about it - Microsoft have been doing it for years!
and hellava lot cheaper too!
Most people significantly overestimate the steepness of hills, often by 3-6 times.
What you percieve as "30 degrees" was probably 5 or maybe 10 degrees at worst.
Most councils restrict roads to an incline of about 10 degrees maximum!
(google for "overestimate hills")
"centre" even..
(I love preview, shame I don't use it)
Damn right, it should be spelt ! :)
They had it first.. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns999 94591
The best prices we have is AU$50/month (~US$39) for 256/64 adsl (PPPoE), BUT you have to sign up for at least 6 months as well as pay in advance, and that's only if you can actually get it where you live. Also that only very recently (the past month or so) became unlimited - before it was bandwidth throttled for that price.
Cable is around $70/month but it's bandwidth capped or limited and the contracts are even longer (24 months in some cases!!)
Just upgrade to Windows ME which is still supported.
Umm, no, wait.. never mind...
Anything that brings "spam" and "viruses" closer together in the public eye is bad for spammers in the long run.
And fortunately for the rest of us (or unfortunately depending on your point of view), this type of behaviour just makes spammers more of a target for legislation and law enforcement.
.. and you won't have problems with telemarketers.
With the current US system (correct me if I'm wrong), you pay when someone CALLS YOU, whether you want the call or not. Personally I don't understand this, but it's a system that's been in place there for ages so will probably never change.
In Australia (and many other countries), the dialer pays for the call, and we get maybe 1 or 2 telemarketing calls a month, and then usually from a charity or market research survey. Our phone number is not even unlisted.
(note, we pay a fixed monthly price for the privelidge of having a phone - fixed or cell - so owning a phone is not "free" if you don't make any calls, but the cost is minimal).
I really don't like this, and won't touch Moz 1.2 because of this "feature", which not only defaults to on (bad), there is no easy way to disable it (worse!) - (read "easy way to disable" as "a way that my mom could figure out").
Nobody should have to dig through a preferences file to turn off a "feature" that will cost them money.
In Australia where I live (and many other countries) you pay for every byte that you download.
Mozilla also isn't any good for browing with images disabled - all of the image placeholders and the alt text that goes with them become invisible if you turn images off, and this makes browsing most sites difficult if not impossible with images turned off.
These things make Moz harder to use (esp. for people on low bandwidth or pay-per-byte) which is the last thing any of us need or want...
.. with a supermodel!
.. at least the stuff they sell in Australia doesn't (last time I looked).
If you take it to keep you awake then you're barking up the wrong tree. Unless the sugar rush is what works for you..