I want a smartphone just like this but WITHOUT A *&!*&@ CAMERA! I go in and out of courtrooms and secure facilities all the time.
Just a thought. If you're willing to forgo the warranty, buy the cheapest phone you can and visibly break the lens on the camera, and cover whats left with epoxy or cement. You should be able to demonstrate that there is no camera on the phone to security quite easily.
The cameras are mostly marginal to almost useless, etc
They are getting better though. I have a Nokia 6220c. There are a couple of things I hate about it (like the keyboard) but the 5 megapixel camera's probably better than my 2 megapixel canon camera of about 6 years ago. (Granted 5MP still isn't standard) I still have pictures on that old 2MP camera that I've printed A4 (though they aren't spectacular, they're irreplaceable). I think you're also forgetting that a generation ago you had to pay through the nose for a good camera. I recently digitized some pics for my father in law (and also some of my own) from slide and film and I have to say the optics on older point and shoot cameras were awful.
I picked up a car for my wife and had to drive 4 hours through some picturesque country to do that. I didn't have my SLR with me. I used the 5MP camera on the phone and i'm glad I have those pics. They won't end up printed large, and I still wish I had my SLR but they're not the blurry smudges the 1MP cameras of 3 years ago give.
The real issue as I see it is that it's not an easy process to do things with photos from your phone. until you can directly connect your mobile very simply to a photo processing machine people aren't going to set up computers, fiddle with different kinds of cards etc. It needs to be as simple as taking it to the shop, plugging it in and printing.
I know responding to a signature is lame, but yours id oddly appropriate to this discussion.
I don't think it's lame at all. In fact being modded down for saying unpopular things, especially about Apple, Google and Firefox is something that often happens to me. Actually if you look at the moderation often I get modded right up then modded down into oblivion. I'm not going to stop speaking my mind, but I do find it annoying, especially on a site that's suppose to be for the IT elite.
Which is awesome, because every time they're about to fire it up we can use the "come on baby, tomorrow could be the end of the world... they're firing up the LHC..." line....to which the girl responds, the large what you freaky nerd? Go away! I wouldn't even let you sniff my panties.
Ideology Trumps Facts...if you're a closed minded prejudiced moron who can't face reality.
The ability to learn, grow and change your opinion is something we all possess. If we choose to close our eyes and pray instead of looking at the facts, it's our own fault. It may be easier from an emotional perspective to deal with our limited existence and the hardships life throws at us by subscribing to a belief system handed down to us, or that we've found in a "time of need" but if you actively ignore reality you're doomed to end up destroying yourself.
The trouble with studies like this is that they tell us we can justify our own stupidity. Sure, go ahead, but you'll face the consequences.
My favourite error message is when the Linux kernel encounters an NMI error (can be due to bad memory) on boot: "Dazed and confused, but trying to continue"
There use to be something about bad chips in the messages about 10 years ago when I encountered it, but the error messages have been changed in the kernel since then.
A 5 year old machine would be a P-IV 2++ GHz with 512Meg RAM. Up the RAM to 2Gig, and doing the whole shebang you just mentioned is perfectly possible. I've done it....
Climbing mount Everest is also perfectly possible for a lot of us. It won't help the business get its software delivered on time either.
I have even done such things (albeit for smaller projects) on a P-III 600MHz with 512Meg
You may use similar tools but I guarantee you our build environments and code base are very different.
The machine you're talking about would certainly not compile our environment. I pass ant -Xmx512M to avoid out of memory errors. If you added 4GB RAM you'd still probably need about 1-1 1/2 hours to compile something that takes me 6-8 minutes on our current Core 2's.
The point here being is that the CPU can handle this just fine, the bloat eats RAM. That's it....
No, when you have ant taking 20 minutes to do a compile in the background on a single processor, and in turn invoking EJBs, you'd be lucky to be able to do anything else.
. Okay, when compiling you go for a coffee, but you wanted that coffee anyway.
Usually when compiling I'm dealing with a support issue or looking at the next task or doing admin. Yes we do get breaks but not every time we compile. Often I'll be given the task of doing a build, testing and tagging and the business is waiting on the tagged files so the final build can be done (by a separate group) and the result can be released. They wouldn't appreciate waiting an extra half day.
As for older testing machines... You're right, that's the ideal situation, if the developers actually cared to test on them. Often they don't, do one run, say "boa, it's a bit slower", and shrug it off.
Testing on a minimal spec machine should always be part of the formal test plan. If performance is important timing should be reported. The fact that this isn't done isn't fixed by giving a developer a crap machine. In that case it's 2 wrongs definitely not making a right!
t any rate, we just need to scrap all this grading scale granularity and assign pass/fail grades: Either you have subject mastery, or you don't.
That's simply not true, and it's not consistent with what you were saying earlier about being fair to a student who does well vs one that doesn't.
Without assigning a grade how do you differentiate between a student that understands only some portion of the work (the basics) vs one that's done advanced additional work. Are you honestly saying that both should be on equal footing to do further study and/or work in a field requiring the subject???
Why not simply discard the first semester result if they do well in the second semester?
Or if you're worried about kids doing no work then catching up in the second semester, work on a formula that weights the second semester more highly if they do badly in the first. Say 1st sem = 25% and second sem = 75% but only if kid fails first sem. Kids that want to approach 100% still can't afford to just sit on their hands in the first sem. Those that just want to pass, let them if they can do the work
I've always been/for/ the idea on giving developers 5-year old machines so they start to care a bit for performance. Heck, and I am a developer....
Yeah, don't make room for the oversized, buggy and CPU intensive dev software, then wonder why your dev staff's productivity goes through the floor. As well as the apps I develop I tend to run Weblogic, IIS, Eclipse, TOAD, Excel, Word, and SSH terminals as well as the app I'm developing. Then there's repository software for CVS/SVN. When I'm building there's also ant or maven. Fast dev machines with plenty of memory are no luxury. Give me a 5 year old dev machine and I'll sit at my desk writing you emails explaining why I can't do my job because my builds fail with out of memory, and my Weblogic dev server won't start. You can keep paying me while I do nothing for you. When I find other work or you reprimand me, I'll be happy to walk away.
Do the right thing. Give your devs underpowered and/or old test machines, but DO NOT supply them with underpowered garbage tools and make their life hell in some misguided attempt at making the product better.
And you decided to spend the rest of your life with this woman, and mingle your genes with hers, and have her raise your children????
It ain't stupidity. When it comes to the computer, she knows hubby will clean up after her. Same sort of behaviour as the bloke who eats dinner but won't help wash up. The solution in both cases: Stop cleaning up after your partner, and insist they're more self-reliant.
Maybe because most people find installing an extension a lot less intimidating than monkeying with about:config?
You're kidding right? Installing 2 extensions you have to find, vs "monkeying" around with about:config. Lets see. One requires you're online and hunt down the extension, and requires the extension to be compatible with the particular version of firefox you use, and the other requires you know it exists and have a rough idea what the setting to modify is. You have to be trolling. No one could seriously be stupid enough to suggest that installing an extension is easier than "monkeying" with about:config. Some of us aren't monkeys. Some of us aren't trolls. What's worse there use to be a config option in the betas but they removed it for final release.
Sounds like changephobic language to me - especially the "how it was done for years" part.
"Changephobic"? You're either a stupid self righteous teenager or doing your best impression of one. I've explained my position. You can continue to throw around stupid words (if you can call "changephobic" a word) until you go blue, but it doesn't make what you say any more true. If you're going to try to abuse me, you might want to look up a real word like Luddite so you don't sound so damn stupid.
Personally, I love the "awesome bar" (though its name is a tad silly). I visit tons of websites, I can't always remember part of the url, and don't want my bookmarks all cluttered up. The "awesome bar" solves the problem.
As I said, you're welcome to awesome bar. I don't have a problem with you using it. I don't even have a problem with it being the default (though that is silly). What I have a problem with is the forced change and no way to turn it off. You want all these things because it's your own preference but don't seem to want to accomodate someone else's preferences. Much easier to abuse them than to acknowledged that they have different needs. I visit tons of websites too and I don't have a problem remembering URLs. I do have a problem with advertising every site I've visited to any passer by.
Regarding your "VERY strong case for why Awesomebar is about as awesome as week old garbage", make it if you can. Most of us don't really give a rats ass if people are seeing what websites we've visited when we're at the coffee shop.
I see. Make your case. I'll ignore or ridicule it because I have my own agenda. Plenty of incentive for me to make my case there. You're a childish idiot.
Honestly, I doubt all the people coming and going with their $4 cups of coffee really care to look. If I was visiting shady sites, I'd just use Distrust (but God forbid I have to install an extension)
So the only use case you can think of for a browser is some troll sitting at a coffee shop drinking overpriced coffee? Moron.
I thought the Internet I'll be using in 10 years will be called the RIAA distribution network and that I'd be using it from a jail cell because I once hummed "Happy Birthday" at a children's birthday party sometime in the 90s without paying the piper.
I knew a former employee that left a piece of code in an app that when a user entered a certain search string, it would give Chuck Norris facts. Leave your employer laughing, not disgruntled.
I've seen code that recites silly conversations between Kirk and Spock and for an April fools day joke tells the user their hard disk is being wiped. NOT funny.
How funny do you think any of this is when someone's literally paid millions for the piece of code in question?
You get what you pay for, I suppose... never take the lowball bid.
Correction: At most you get what you pay for. It's quite possible to pay through the nose and still get crap service. Paying good money is usually a necessary but not sufficient condition.
No one else is going to have your best interests at heart the way you do. If you want it done right you do it yourself (providing you have the expertise). If you don't have the expertise you hire the best you can afford. If you don't care you get someone cheap and deal with whatever you get.
This is why outsourcing key business makes no sense. No one else has as much at stake as you, and there's only so much you can compensate for with a contract.
Verbally bashing people (labelling them changephobes) who don't like a change to software that you happen to like is immature, destructive and just plain asinine. I dont mind change at all. If I did I wouldn't be using a web browser to begin with let alone updating my browser. Don't let that get in the way of your long troll.
You like the idea of every site you've visited being seen by any user looking over your shoulder. You like big pretty print. That's fine with me. I'd just like the ability to turn it off because I like neither of these things. Why I have to download an extension to do it, and still not have standard behaviour shared by every other web browser in existence when this had been how it was done for years is beyond me. Sure plenty of users like it. Leave it as an option. Even the default. But let me turn it off at least with the config editor.
Furthermore change for the sake of change is a waste of time, particularly when it's disruptive. A forced change is going to have to be very clearly a good one before I agree with it. Yet I can make a VERY strong case for why Awesomebar is about as awesome as week old garbage.
The irony is you tell me that you don't use Windows because it annoys you. How would you like it if that choice were taken away from you?
By the way your pedantic rant about my signature just proves you're an immature troll. Nothing more. You say you understand what I'm trying to say then dismiss it because it won't pass a compiler test. If I changed the && to || you'd have some other meaningless complaint. It's meant to compact and to be read by people, not a compiler.
I would venture to suggest that the difference is that there was little to no support from the userbase for adding in the EULA. A lot of people (but admittedly not all) quite like the Awesomebar. Heck, I think it's the best thing about FF3.
You like the idea of every site you've visited being seen by any user looking over your shoulder. You like big pretty print. That's fine with me. I'd just like the ability to turn it off because I like neither of these things. Why I have to download an extension to do it, and still not have standard behaviour shared by every other web browser in existence when this had been how it was done for years is beyond me. Sure plenty of users like it. Leave it as an option. Even the default. But let me turn it off at least with the config editor.
This isn't DRM. All this is is a limit on the number of times you can download the file. Even if the file had no DRM at all, you'd only be able to download it once. Get your terminology straight.
DRM = Digital Rights Management
You pay for a movie and secure the right to download it. This is a technological mechanism that limits your ability to access the movie you paid for. It is in every sense DRM. How about you get your terminology straight.
They tried this shite out in Australia first, and had the Australian consumer watchdog and the Reserve Bank weigh in with an opinion.
In the end the only time I've ever needed Paypal, it offered exactly what the fine print suggested, but this was of no use to me. I was a buyer had received a damaged repackaged low value item (about $30). The item was shipped within Australia but I was forced to send correspondence to the US and was directed to send an international fax and make international phone calls during overseas business hours. I was also told the matter would not be pursued unless I was able to fax a statement by an expert on a company letter head outlining why the goods were not as described. This is before they'd even persue the matter. Tell me where I can get an official unbiased evaluation and report on an item for under $30. Not their problem they said. Fine. I had bought by credit card so I issued a chargeback, closed my Paypal account and informed my bank that further charges from Paypal were not to be processed.
Now they may have honoured the terms of the fine print, but they also claim to cover low value goods, so as far as I'm concerned they offered me something which in practical terms was of no use to me. It's like insuring a car for $5000 where the excess is $6000. I'd be a fool to accept that deal even if they honoured the letter of the law. Bottom line: If I can't feel secure with Paypal for small payments, I sure as hell won't trust them with large sums of money.
I've made one Ebay purchase in the last 3-4 years. It was C.O.D.
Users can complain, but distros can do something about it by ganging up and shipping it rebranded only?
Perhaps we can get Canonical to complain about Awesomebar. If it weren't for hideunvisited and oldbar extensions I'd have ditched FF or stayed with 2.0 but the devs just don't care no matter how many users complain.
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I want a smartphone just like this but WITHOUT A *&!*&@ CAMERA! I go in and out of courtrooms and secure facilities all the time.
Just a thought. If you're willing to forgo the warranty, buy the cheapest phone you can and visibly break the lens on the camera, and cover whats left with epoxy or cement. You should be able to demonstrate that there is no camera on the phone to security quite easily.
The cameras are mostly marginal to almost useless, etc
They are getting better though. I have a Nokia 6220c. There are a couple of things I hate about it (like the keyboard) but the 5 megapixel camera's probably better than my 2 megapixel canon camera of about 6 years ago. (Granted 5MP still isn't standard) I still have pictures on that old 2MP camera that I've printed A4 (though they aren't spectacular, they're irreplaceable). I think you're also forgetting that a generation ago you had to pay through the nose for a good camera. I recently digitized some pics for my father in law (and also some of my own) from slide and film and I have to say the optics on older point and shoot cameras were awful.
I picked up a car for my wife and had to drive 4 hours through some picturesque country to do that. I didn't have my SLR with me. I used the 5MP camera on the phone and i'm glad I have those pics. They won't end up printed large, and I still wish I had my SLR but they're not the blurry smudges the 1MP cameras of 3 years ago give.
The real issue as I see it is that it's not an easy process to do things with photos from your phone. until you can directly connect your mobile very simply to a photo processing machine people aren't going to set up computers, fiddle with different kinds of cards etc. It needs to be as simple as taking it to the shop, plugging it in and printing.
I know responding to a signature is lame, but yours id oddly appropriate to this discussion.
I don't think it's lame at all. In fact being modded down for saying unpopular things, especially about Apple, Google and Firefox is something that often happens to me. Actually if you look at the moderation often I get modded right up then modded down into oblivion. I'm not going to stop speaking my mind, but I do find it annoying, especially on a site that's suppose to be for the IT elite.
Which is awesome, because every time they're about to fire it up we can use the "come on baby, tomorrow could be the end of the world... they're firing up the LHC..." line. ...to which the girl responds, the large what you freaky nerd? Go away! I wouldn't even let you sniff my panties.
Renaming a street just because its name is no longer politically fashionable is akin to rewriting history, no better than what the Soviets were doing.
BUT Would YOU want to live on Hitler street?
Don't bother replying. I just Godwined the conversation.
Ideology Trumps Facts...if you're a closed minded prejudiced moron who can't face reality.
The ability to learn, grow and change your opinion is something we all possess. If we choose to close our eyes and pray instead of looking at the facts, it's our own fault. It may be easier from an emotional perspective to deal with our limited existence and the hardships life throws at us by subscribing to a belief system handed down to us, or that we've found in a "time of need" but if you actively ignore reality you're doomed to end up destroying yourself.
The trouble with studies like this is that they tell us we can justify our own stupidity. Sure, go ahead, but you'll face the consequences.
My favourite error message is when the Linux kernel encounters an NMI error (can be due to bad memory) on boot:
"Dazed and confused, but trying to continue"
There use to be something about bad chips in the messages about 10 years ago when I encountered it, but the error messages have been changed in the kernel since then.
A 5 year old machine would be a P-IV 2++ GHz with 512Meg RAM. Up the RAM to 2Gig, and doing the whole shebang you just mentioned is perfectly possible. I've done it....
Climbing mount Everest is also perfectly possible for a lot of us. It won't help the business get its software delivered on time either.
I have even done such things (albeit for smaller projects) on a P-III 600MHz with 512Meg
You may use similar tools but I guarantee you our build environments and code base are very different.
The machine you're talking about would certainly not compile our environment. I pass ant -Xmx512M to avoid out of memory errors. If you added 4GB RAM you'd still probably need about 1-1 1/2 hours to compile something that takes me 6-8 minutes on our current Core 2's.
The point here being is that the CPU can handle this just fine, the bloat eats RAM. That's it....
No, when you have ant taking 20 minutes to do a compile in the background on a single processor, and in turn invoking EJBs, you'd be lucky to be able to do anything else.
. Okay, when compiling you go for a coffee, but you wanted that coffee anyway.
Usually when compiling I'm dealing with a support issue or looking at the next task or doing admin. Yes we do get breaks but not every time we compile. Often I'll be given the task of doing a build, testing and tagging and the business is waiting on the tagged files so the final build can be done (by a separate group) and the result can be released. They wouldn't appreciate waiting an extra half day.
As for older testing machines... You're right, that's the ideal situation, if the developers actually cared to test on them. Often they don't, do one run, say "boa, it's a bit slower", and shrug it off.
Testing on a minimal spec machine should always be part of the formal test plan. If performance is important timing should be reported. The fact that this isn't done isn't fixed by giving a developer a crap machine. In that case it's 2 wrongs definitely not making a right!
t any rate, we just need to scrap all this grading scale granularity and assign pass/fail grades: Either you have subject mastery, or you don't.
That's simply not true, and it's not consistent with what you were saying earlier about being fair to a student who does well vs one that doesn't.
Without assigning a grade how do you differentiate between a student that understands only some portion of the work (the basics) vs one that's done advanced additional work. Are you honestly saying that both should be on equal footing to do further study and/or work in a field requiring the subject???
Why not simply discard the first semester result if they do well in the second semester?
Or if you're worried about kids doing no work then catching up in the second semester, work on a formula that weights the second semester more highly if they do badly in the first. Say 1st sem = 25% and second sem = 75% but only if kid fails first sem. Kids that want to approach 100% still can't afford to just sit on their hands in the first sem. Those that just want to pass, let them if they can do the work
I've always been /for/ the idea on giving developers 5-year old machines so they start to care a bit for performance. Heck, and I am a developer....
Yeah, don't make room for the oversized, buggy and CPU intensive dev software, then wonder why your dev staff's productivity goes through the floor. As well as the apps I develop I tend to run Weblogic, IIS, Eclipse, TOAD, Excel, Word, and SSH terminals as well as the app I'm developing. Then there's repository software for CVS/SVN. When I'm building there's also ant or maven. Fast dev machines with plenty of memory are no luxury. Give me a 5 year old dev machine and I'll sit at my desk writing you emails explaining why I can't do my job because my builds fail with out of memory, and my Weblogic dev server won't start. You can keep paying me while I do nothing for you. When I find other work or you reprimand me, I'll be happy to walk away.
Do the right thing. Give your devs underpowered and/or old test machines, but DO NOT supply them with underpowered garbage tools and make their life hell in some misguided attempt at making the product better.
I just fucking told it I don't want any cute animated characters in my OS, so why should disabling it be animated?
What you say makes lots of sense, but I'm just so relieved to see the arse end of that dog that i don't care.
Slashdot is not the place to ask this question, when there are many excellent forums that specialize in hosting.
In 2008, failing to Google should be a felony.
Sir, you're under arrest for failing to google those many excellent forums. Sir, don't make me taser you.
And you decided to spend the rest of your life with this woman, and mingle your genes with hers, and have her raise your children????
It ain't stupidity. When it comes to the computer, she knows hubby will clean up after her. Same sort of behaviour as the bloke who eats dinner but won't help wash up. The solution in both cases: Stop cleaning up after your partner, and insist they're more self-reliant.
Maybe because most people find installing an extension a lot less intimidating than monkeying with about:config?
You're kidding right? Installing 2 extensions you have to find, vs "monkeying" around with about:config. Lets see. One requires you're online and hunt down the extension, and requires the extension to be compatible with the particular version of firefox you use, and the other requires you know it exists and have a rough idea what the setting to modify is. You have to be trolling. No one could seriously be stupid enough to suggest that installing an extension is easier than "monkeying" with about:config. Some of us aren't monkeys. Some of us aren't trolls. What's worse there use to be a config option in the betas but they removed it for final release.
Sounds like changephobic language to me - especially the "how it was done for years" part.
"Changephobic"? You're either a stupid self righteous teenager or doing your best impression of one. I've explained my position. You can continue to throw around stupid words (if you can call "changephobic" a word) until you go blue, but it doesn't make what you say any more true. If you're going to try to abuse me, you might want to look up a real word like Luddite so you don't sound so damn stupid.
Personally, I love the "awesome bar" (though its name is a tad silly). I visit tons of websites, I can't always remember part of the url, and don't want my bookmarks all cluttered up. The "awesome bar" solves the problem.
As I said, you're welcome to awesome bar. I don't have a problem with you using it. I don't even have a problem with it being the default (though that is silly). What I have a problem with is the forced change and no way to turn it off. You want all these things because it's your own preference but don't seem to want to accomodate someone else's preferences. Much easier to abuse them than to acknowledged that they have different needs. I visit tons of websites too and I don't have a problem remembering URLs. I do have a problem with advertising every site I've visited to any passer by.
Regarding your "VERY strong case for why Awesomebar is about as awesome as week old garbage", make it if you can. Most of us don't really give a rats ass if people are seeing what websites we've visited when we're at the coffee shop.
I see. Make your case. I'll ignore or ridicule it because I have my own agenda. Plenty of incentive for me to make my case there. You're a childish idiot.
Honestly, I doubt all the people coming and going with their $4 cups of coffee really care to look. If I was visiting shady sites, I'd just use Distrust (but God forbid I have to install an extension)
So the only use case you can think of for a browser is some troll sitting at a coffee shop drinking overpriced coffee? Moron.
Grow the fuck up.
I thought the Internet I'll be using in 10 years will be called the RIAA distribution network and that I'd be using it from a jail cell because I once hummed "Happy Birthday" at a children's birthday party sometime in the 90s without paying the piper.
I knew a former employee that left a piece of code in an app that when a user entered a certain search string, it would give Chuck Norris facts. Leave your employer laughing, not disgruntled.
I've seen code that recites silly conversations between Kirk and Spock and for an April fools day joke tells the user their hard disk is being wiped. NOT funny.
How funny do you think any of this is when someone's literally paid millions for the piece of code in question?
You get what you pay for, I suppose... never take the lowball bid.
Correction: At most you get what you pay for. It's quite possible to pay through the nose and still get crap service. Paying good money is usually a necessary but not sufficient condition.
No one else is going to have your best interests at heart the way you do. If you want it done right you do it yourself (providing you have the expertise). If you don't have the expertise you hire the best you can afford. If you don't care you get someone cheap and deal with whatever you get.
This is why outsourcing key business makes no sense. No one else has as much at stake as you, and there's only so much you can compensate for with a contract.
Verbally bashing people (labelling them changephobes) who don't like a change to software that you happen to like is immature, destructive and just plain asinine. I dont mind change at all. If I did I wouldn't be using a web browser to begin with let alone updating my browser. Don't let that get in the way of your long troll.
You like the idea of every site you've visited being seen by any user looking over your shoulder. You like big pretty print. That's fine with me. I'd just like the ability to turn it off because I like neither of these things. Why I have to download an extension to do it, and still not have standard behaviour shared by every other web browser in existence when this had been how it was done for years is beyond me. Sure plenty of users like it. Leave it as an option. Even the default. But let me turn it off at least with the config editor.
Furthermore change for the sake of change is a waste of time, particularly when it's disruptive. A forced change is going to have to be very clearly a good one before I agree with it. Yet I can make a VERY strong case for why Awesomebar is about as awesome as week old garbage.
The irony is you tell me that you don't use Windows because it annoys you. How would you like it if that choice were taken away from you?
By the way your pedantic rant about my signature just proves you're an immature troll. Nothing more. You say you understand what I'm trying to say then dismiss it because it won't pass a compiler test. If I changed the && to || you'd have some other meaningless complaint. It's meant to compact and to be read by people, not a compiler.
I would venture to suggest that the difference is that there was little to no support from the userbase for adding in the EULA. A lot of people (but admittedly not all) quite like the Awesomebar. Heck, I think it's the best thing about FF3.
You like the idea of every site you've visited being seen by any user looking over your shoulder. You like big pretty print. That's fine with me. I'd just like the ability to turn it off because I like neither of these things. Why I have to download an extension to do it, and still not have standard behaviour shared by every other web browser in existence when this had been how it was done for years is beyond me. Sure plenty of users like it. Leave it as an option. Even the default. But let me turn it off at least with the config editor.
This isn't DRM. All this is is a limit on the number of times you can download the file. Even if the file had no DRM at all, you'd only be able to download it once. Get your terminology straight.
DRM = Digital Rights Management
You pay for a movie and secure the right to download it. This is a technological mechanism that limits your ability to access the movie you paid for. It is in every sense DRM. How about you get your terminology straight.
So if i scratch up my cd or dvd, I'm entitled to a new one? Interesting..
Yes. Why not. Perhaps for a small fee. 50c should about cover manufacturing and shipping costs.
Did you pay $20 for the 50c disk or for the right to view it's contents whenever you like?
They tried this shite out in Australia first, and had the Australian consumer watchdog and the Reserve Bank weigh in with an opinion.
In the end the only time I've ever needed Paypal, it offered exactly what the fine print suggested, but this was of no use to me. I was a buyer had received a damaged repackaged low value item (about $30). The item was shipped within Australia but I was forced to send correspondence to the US and was directed to send an international fax and make international phone calls during overseas business hours. I was also told the matter would not be pursued unless I was able to fax a statement by an expert on a company letter head outlining why the goods were not as described. This is before they'd even persue the matter. Tell me where I can get an official unbiased evaluation and report on an item for under $30. Not their problem they said. Fine. I had bought by credit card so I issued a chargeback, closed my Paypal account and informed my bank that further charges from Paypal were not to be processed.
Now they may have honoured the terms of the fine print, but they also claim to cover low value goods, so as far as I'm concerned they offered me something which in practical terms was of no use to me. It's like insuring a car for $5000 where the excess is $6000. I'd be a fool to accept that deal even if they honoured the letter of the law. Bottom line: If I can't feel secure with Paypal for small payments, I sure as hell won't trust them with large sums of money.
I've made one Ebay purchase in the last 3-4 years. It was C.O.D.
Yes I know they're not working on a joint system but did anyone else think of names a joint Unbuntu-Mandriva Linux might use?
Users can complain, but distros can do something about it by ganging up and shipping it rebranded only?
Perhaps we can get Canonical to complain about Awesomebar. If it weren't for hideunvisited and oldbar extensions I'd have ditched FF or stayed with 2.0 but the devs just don't care no matter how many users complain.