It's only at 0.2 - I'm sure once it reaches a reasonable level of functionality and stability they'll start including it with all of their other products on the front page.
Despite the zeal with which Firefox advocates push it, I still prefer Mozilla. I don't like Firefox. It lacks features I use like encrypted password storage and it's buggier than Mozilla. I've tried every milestone since 0.6 and it still hasn't won me over.
People seem locked in this belief that Mozilla Browser (Seamonkey) = Mozilla Suite and therefore it's bad if you don't want email et al.
OK, so the download is larger - big whoop - I've got broadband and it doesn't bother me. The browser components are essentially indentical performance-wise, at least on my PC.
Finally, everyone I know who pushes Firefox always add the caveat "Oh, and download these 20 extensions too so that you can do what you used to be able to in IE". Mozilla just works - the only plugins I install are adblock (because it's essential) and prefbar (because I'm lazy - although the latest build breaks Seamonkey because it's designed for Firefox, bastards).
This is only their first prototype. The fact that it took some time for the magnetic properties to exhibit themselves may be a property of the polymer or it could simply be a result of what amounts to guesswork in producing the stuff in the first place.
Now that they know they can get magnetic properties from the polymer they can work on refining it - making it stronger, more uniform and possibly "faster".
Also, there's no real detail about the methods behind the creation of the magnets - for all you know it might cost them 50p to make each magnet, which would make mass-produced children's toys perfectly possible.
and other such anti-theft devices is that when you stumble home drunk at 2 in the morning and decide to check your emails or listen to some music you begin to regret balancing that bucket of flourescent dye above your desk.
No, I don't know all of those things (although I know some of them) but then my livelihood isn't largely dependant on not pissing off entire countries who might otherwise buy my products.
I would presume (or at least hope) that all the ISP's made CacheLogic sign contracts stating that they would not record, store or disclose to 3rd parties any information pertaining to packet contents, origin or destination other than that which might reasonably be expected to come out as part of "traffic" analysis anyway.
They hardly track my every move - they're primarily used after the fact to identify people or to follow people attempting to evade the police.
They're all in public places, I have no expectation of privacy in a public place and I'm not committing any offences, it really doesn't bother me.
The nation ID card, OTOH, is a minor problem for the government - at last count almost 80% of population were against them and 30% said that they would go to prison rather than carry the card (Numbers subject to statistics).
Actually, the reason I usually get given by Hotmail users, when asked why they don't switch to something decent, is that they don't want to have to change their email address.
It's a fair bit of hassle notifying all your contacts, updating mailing list subscriptions, changing account details at online retailers and soforth.
Especially as AFIAK Hotmail doesn't allow you to forward your emails to another account - besides, it's just be shut down after a month of "inactivity" anyway, so it's far from a sensible option.
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No problems here using IE6/SP1
Obviously I'm not *using* IE - I just fired it up to check the page.
Well you'd hope so.
It's only at 0.2 - I'm sure once it reaches a reasonable level of functionality and stability they'll start including it with all of their other products on the front page.
Despite the zeal with which Firefox advocates push it, I still prefer Mozilla. I don't like Firefox. It lacks features I use like encrypted password storage and it's buggier than Mozilla. I've tried every milestone since 0.6 and it still hasn't won me over.
People seem locked in this belief that Mozilla Browser (Seamonkey) = Mozilla Suite and therefore it's bad if you don't want email et al.
OK, so the download is larger - big whoop - I've got broadband and it doesn't bother me. The browser components are essentially indentical performance-wise, at least on my PC.
Finally, everyone I know who pushes Firefox always add the caveat "Oh, and download these 20 extensions too so that you can do what you used to be able to in IE". Mozilla just works - the only plugins I install are adblock (because it's essential) and prefbar (because I'm lazy - although the latest build breaks Seamonkey because it's designed for Firefox, bastards).
This is only their first prototype. The fact that it took some time for the magnetic properties to exhibit themselves may be a property of the polymer or it could simply be a result of what amounts to guesswork in producing the stuff in the first place.
Now that they know they can get magnetic properties from the polymer they can work on refining it - making it stronger, more uniform and possibly "faster".
Also, there's no real detail about the methods behind the creation of the magnets - for all you know it might cost them 50p to make each magnet, which would make mass-produced children's toys perfectly possible.
and other such anti-theft devices is that when you stumble home drunk at 2 in the morning and decide to check your emails or listen to some music you begin to regret balancing that bucket of flourescent dye above your desk.
Yeah, but deep down we know they want a 2Tb RAID array.
Even assuming that every member of the hub had 1Tb of shared material, which is unlikely at best, you're still looking at 40,000 people on each hub.
I think, as some people have already said, that Ashcroft's PR people got a little confused between Petabytes and Terabytes.
Find me somewhere I can download a hardware DVD player and I'll be a happy man :)
If you want to look at naked sims just go play Singles instead.
It's just as crappy but it has naked people in it!
No, I don't know all of those things (although I know some of them) but then my livelihood isn't largely dependant on not pissing off entire countries who might otherwise buy my products.
So, you use the Browser, Email & Calendar functions, but instead of downloading them all in one package, you like to download three, larger packages?
Give them a break - it's the first Beta release of the client. It's only at 0.2, there's a long way to go yet.
I mean I know that Mozilla is great, but you can't expect them to be outdoing Outlook/Evolution/Notepad & Pen on the first try.
This is Slashdot - not RTFA and talking out of your ass is a way of life.
I think the same can be said of a lot of Democracies these days.
I don't think that the people you need to be concerned about gaining access to the system are really going to care about prison sentences.
The only reason the usage has gone up is that everyone's using WAP to cheat on pub quizzes by using Google.
IE losing 1% of the market share may not be that significant, but Mozilla et al gaining 1% of the market share *is* significant.
If IE was at 97% and is now at 96%, that's 33% increase in the number of people not using IE.
It's only the 5th, I'm sure IE will have caught up and overtaken Mozilla by the end of the month.
Let's see:
1. Virtually every child in the country receives MMR vaccine.
2. Some children develop autism.
Of Course! Must be the MMR vaccine causing the autism.
I would presume (or at least hope) that all the ISP's made CacheLogic sign contracts stating that they would not record, store or disclose to 3rd parties any information pertaining to packet contents, origin or destination other than that which might reasonably be expected to come out as part of "traffic" analysis anyway.
And really, how the fuck is the grandparent comment Insightful?
Stereotyped - probably, Flamebait - yes, but Insightful - barely.
They hardly track my every move - they're primarily used after the fact to identify people or to follow people attempting to evade the police.
They're all in public places, I have no expectation of privacy in a public place and I'm not committing any offences, it really doesn't bother me.
The nation ID card, OTOH, is a minor problem for the government - at last count almost 80% of population were against them and 30% said that they would go to prison rather than carry the card (Numbers subject to statistics).
Actually, the reason I usually get given by Hotmail users, when asked why they don't switch to something decent, is that they don't want to have to change their email address.
It's a fair bit of hassle notifying all your contacts, updating mailing list subscriptions, changing account details at online retailers and soforth.
Especially as AFIAK Hotmail doesn't allow you to forward your emails to another account - besides, it's just be shut down after a month of "inactivity" anyway, so it's far from a sensible option.
My .co.uk account was upgraded a couple of days ago.