Re:Why are people still using IE? Firebird rocks.
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I'll check it out, never bothered with the extensions before but it's worth a shto now. Thanks for the info.
Re:Why are people still using IE? Firebird rocks.
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Firebird has a number of thigns that are good but the last time i tried it out (.6 iirc) it was still.. lacking in certain areas.
1.) When a link has a target=_blank it opens a new browser instead of a new tab. Cannot express how much this annoys me.
2.) You cannot save a series of tabs to always open everytime you restart the browser.
3.) Can't disable gif animation.
4.) Cannot turn on the tab bar by default or always have it on
5.) Doesn't have zoom feature or a "always use my stylesheet" feature like opera (this is incredibly handy when dealing with sites that insist on impossible-to-read-text)
6.) cannot change it's indentity like you can in Opera to, say, IE 6.xx -- this is becoming less and less of a deal as fewer websites I go to at least "require" IE 6.x.
Nit Picky things
-- no "validate source" context menu like opera has, useful for webdevelopment
-- Just does not seem as fast as opera on certain pages.
I'm sure there ar emore that i'm forgetting about but that's what comes to mind.I do believe, however, it to be a better browser than both mozilla and IE by far but it's still not up to Opera's standards.
As an aside, Anybody know when Moz will officially be branched off into firebird/thunderbird components? I thought this was supposed to happen around 1.6 apparently I was wrong.
THink of the possibilities! Hell the goddam porn industry could fund this entire exhibition. Zero-G pr0n with your favorite actress'! Sweet god almighty the amount of money that this could make just boggles the mind.
p.s.
Personally, it's always been my life long goal to go to space and have wild kinky sex. Specifically I want to launch my self from one end of the capsule and um.. "spear" my lady. Goddam. A thing of beauty. And don't pretend you haven't thought of it either.
Asking about where to get fairplay returns a "currently under development and not able to buy" webpage. I also find it extremely hard to believe that you can simply license fairplay from veridisc and then use it to play apple AAC's. If I had to guess each fairplay system you order is custom to the relative customer.
Err.. they license the tech but maybe each person has a unique key to decode their particular DRM content. Otherwise one of the major MP3 player manufactures would license fairplay and tout their player as being able to play AAC's and WMA's.
YOU CANNOT FUCKING PLAY APPLE AAC'S IN ANYTHING BUT THE IPOD. WHy? Because they use fairplay DRM which is a proprietary apple DRM format. It isn't licensed to anybody. It isn't an open DRM format. AAC - Open yes. Fairplay - not open apple proprietary.
Get that through your thick skull? Fucking excellent. Now try and actually not be an ignorant applefanboy.
yes but apple's fair play DRM is ONLY AVAILABLE through apple. you can ONLY LICENSE it through apple. YOU CANNOT PLAY APPLE AAC's BOUGHT THROUGH APPLE'S ITUNES MUSIC STORE ON ANYTHING ELSE BUT APPLE PRODUCTS. Why? Because it uses a proprietary DRM format.
I never said you were required to use AAC on an ipod. However, if you want to use your purchased music from apple you can (as of righ tnow) play it on exactly 1 portable device, the ipod. WMA's can be played on virutally any major mp3 player (except the ipod).
Note: those other devices you listed, while they can play AAC's, cannot -- I'm 99% sure -- play the DRM aac's that apple sells through iTunes.
AAC is a standard, fair play DRM is not. WMA can also be burned to a CD according to nearly ever single music service that sells it. A few don't allow it, some have restrictions on how many times you can burn it but for the most part the DRM are the exact same between iTunes/others selling WMA's.
Well they were talking about right now were they not? And right now MS offers the better product, maybe not in 2-3 year sbut who knows. Also why do you think apple would license AAC so readily? Remember they are making a *crap ton* of money of their iPods, i'm not so sure they'd want to license that technology so readily.
Jesus dude. MS is actually right here. Try to look past your "OMG LOL APPLE IS TEH BEST MS IS TEH SUXX0R" attitudes/preconceptions and realize what microsoft is saying actually makes some sense.
here's the deal. You buy a AAC you can play it on exactly (1) player -- the iPod. You can buy the music from exactly (1) source - iTunes music store. You get WMAs you can put them only nearly every single mp3 player out there (sans iPod) and you can buy them from damm near any store.
If you buy aac's you are LOCKED into the iPod (and the new hp music player). If you get WMA's you can put them on numerous devices and use numerous music services.
Guess what, as of right now MS is looking better than apple with regards to choice. MS freely believes in "choice" as long as your choice is their format;). Apple, otoh, wants you to use their format using their music store and their portable player. Kindof the definition of vendor lockin eh?
Same with windows wma file for nearly all the services i've looked into. To be fair, microsoft is actually right on this one. By getting apple's aac's you can ONLY play them on iPod's. With windows WMA's you can play them on (last I checked) damm near every single mp3 player out there.
In this case MS is actually right -- you get more choice by buying WMA files with regards to player choice.
Yeah, the reasons for open source drivers are, to be fair, good ones. Nonetheless, from a consumer standpoint they wouldn't care;). THat's what I was trying to get at in my original point. Technically it's probably a better solution but in the end it leads to alot of frustration from a end-user standpoint.
I think what he means is either more corprate structure or less corporate structure.
For example, currently driver support in linux is horribly broken. Worse yet, it is horribly broken *by design*. The kernel developers refuse to freeze a driver api for the kernel (like MS did with win95/98/me and win2k/xp) or make a DDK (to my knowledge) instead changing the api every major release and sometimes on point releases. They have a point -- doing so encourages the development of open source drivers instead of binary only drivers. Unfortunatley this is one area in which corporate interests might superceede the interests of the individual kernel developers. Possible.
Another area we might see is with regards to linux on the desktop. Progressing, yes, but not as fast as it might if - say - sun or ibm decided to make a serious commitment to linux and either extend kde/gnome/x or replace them entirely. If they come up with a desktop replacement that is far better than the current offerings they will win by default, thus placing the future of linux on the desktop in corporate hands, at least for a short while.
I think this is what cringley was getting at -- changing linux to reflect the fact that alot of the development is funded by major corporations now instead of hackers working on their free time.
Agreed. Not only that but this girl is dumber than a box of rocks. I live in lincoln, been to that bar. It's an upscale martini bar which -- most definately -- wasn't happy about this happening at their bar. It caters to upper middle class midwestern clientale, mostly conservative and christian (this is Lincoln after all).
Got to give her props though, she did get a ton of free publicity off this. I know the guy who runs nebraskacoeds.com and she's making a crap ton of money off all this.
While it might not seem like a reasonable law, note that this is *nebraska*. It's very republican and conservative. If you don't like it, move to another state;).
Well remember that scholars of that period, 16th century, could most likely read and speak 3-4 languages fluently, including latin, greek, and 1-2 local languages. Really good linguists could translate much more.
Heh, I have a friend that works at the tech bench at Best Buy and their "tune up" service largely consists of them removing all spyware, defraggin' the HD, and getting rid of anthing that loads on boot. People are always amazed at how fast their computer runs afterwards and happily bring it back in 3 months later when it starts running slow again. Then they fork over another $75.....
Yeah the fedora review was definately dumb. Christ I wouldn't try putting apt on a rpm distro... I mean, if you want apt use a distro that has apt natively.
Shrug. But still, most of her reviews you can be sure of she at least won't sugar coat anything.
Yeah this is flamebait but what the hell, I have plenty of karma to burn..
Why because she brings up things wrong with your precious linux distro's instead of lavishing praise all over them? She DARES to point out that something might be wrong with them? Every damm timee there's a OSnews review on slashdot people write about how much they hate ELQ largely, I think, because she tends to not write glowing reports abour their favorite distro.
ELQ might not be my favorite reviewer but one thing she does, and does well, is find any and all flaws in an OS. THat's what makes her a good reviewer.
Very informative - thanks. I figured it was used for letters since I've often come across nearly indecipharble letters, not just handwriting, written in wwI-wwII (history studies) and been told that they're using "shorthand." It must've just been a way to quickly write rather than a formal system like that geocities link provided.
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I'll check it out, never bothered with the extensions before but it's worth a shto now. Thanks for the info.
Firebird has a number of thigns that are good but the last time i tried it out (.6 iirc) it was still.. lacking in certain areas.
1.) When a link has a target=_blank it opens a new browser instead of a new tab. Cannot express how much this annoys me.
2.) You cannot save a series of tabs to always open everytime you restart the browser.
3.) Can't disable gif animation.
4.) Cannot turn on the tab bar by default or always have it on
5.) Doesn't have zoom feature or a "always use my stylesheet" feature like opera (this is incredibly handy when dealing with sites that insist on impossible-to-read-text)
6.) cannot change it's indentity like you can in Opera to, say, IE 6.xx -- this is becoming less and less of a deal as fewer websites I go to at least "require" IE 6.x.
Nit Picky things
-- no "validate source" context menu like opera has, useful for webdevelopment
-- Just does not seem as fast as opera on certain pages.
I'm sure there ar emore that i'm forgetting about but that's what comes to mind.I do believe, however, it to be a better browser than both mozilla and IE by far but it's still not up to Opera's standards.
Shudder. Ancient HTML 3 code... oh the horror.
As an aside, Anybody know when Moz will officially be branched off into firebird/thunderbird components? I thought this was supposed to happen around 1.6 apparently I was wrong.
Freakin' brilliant. Can you imagine the angles?
I think we could fund NASA for the next 10 years off this.
Shudders? SHUDDERS? ARE YOU INSANSE.
THink of the possibilities! Hell the goddam porn industry could fund this entire exhibition. Zero-G pr0n with your favorite actress'! Sweet god almighty the amount of money that this could make just boggles the mind.
p.s.
Personally, it's always been my life long goal to go to space and have wild kinky sex. Specifically I want to launch my self from one end of the capsule and um.. "spear" my lady. Goddam. A thing of beauty. And don't pretend you haven't thought of it either.
Asking about where to get fairplay returns a "currently under development and not able to buy" webpage. I also find it extremely hard to believe that you can simply license fairplay from veridisc and then use it to play apple AAC's. If I had to guess each fairplay system you order is custom to the relative customer.
Err.. they license the tech but maybe each person has a unique key to decode their particular DRM content. Otherwise one of the major MP3 player manufactures would license fairplay and tout their player as being able to play AAC's and WMA's.
herwise Microsoft is right... Oh wait you can just Burn a CD in iTunes and rip the CD into mp3 right in iTunes. Nevermind cary on nothing to see here.
You can do the exact same thing using microsoft's WMA as long as your music store allows it (napster does, nto sure about others).
Name calling eh?
It helps to not be ignorant.
YOU CANNOT FUCKING PLAY APPLE AAC'S IN ANYTHING BUT THE IPOD. WHy? Because they use fairplay DRM which is a proprietary apple DRM format. It isn't licensed to anybody. It isn't an open DRM format. AAC - Open yes. Fairplay - not open apple proprietary.
Get that through your thick skull? Fucking excellent. Now try and actually not be an ignorant applefanboy.
yes but apple's fair play DRM is ONLY AVAILABLE through apple. you can ONLY LICENSE it through apple. YOU CANNOT PLAY APPLE AAC's BOUGHT THROUGH APPLE'S ITUNES MUSIC STORE ON ANYTHING ELSE BUT APPLE PRODUCTS. Why? Because it uses a proprietary DRM format.
Get that through your head? Good. Excellent.
Nope. You can burn WMA's from napster and, I believe, the walmart music store thingy. Plus quite a few others allow you to burn WMA's.
When it comes to DRM restrictions AAC and WMA are nearly equal.
I never said you were required to use AAC on an ipod. However, if you want to use your purchased music from apple you can (as of righ tnow) play it on exactly 1 portable device, the ipod. WMA's can be played on virutally any major mp3 player (except the ipod).
Note: those other devices you listed, while they can play AAC's, cannot -- I'm 99% sure -- play the DRM aac's that apple sells through iTunes.
AAC is a standard, fair play DRM is not. WMA can also be burned to a CD according to nearly ever single music service that sells it. A few don't allow it, some have restrictions on how many times you can burn it but for the most part the DRM are the exact same between iTunes/others selling WMA's.
Well they were talking about right now were they not? And right now MS offers the better product, maybe not in 2-3 year sbut who knows. Also why do you think apple would license AAC so readily? Remember they are making a *crap ton* of money of their iPods, i'm not so sure they'd want to license that technology so readily.
Jesus dude. MS is actually right here. Try to look past your "OMG LOL APPLE IS TEH BEST MS IS TEH SUXX0R" attitudes/preconceptions and realize what microsoft is saying actually makes some sense.
;). Apple, otoh, wants you to use their format using their music store and their portable player. Kindof the definition of vendor lockin eh?
here's the deal. You buy a AAC you can play it on exactly (1) player -- the iPod. You can buy the music from exactly (1) source - iTunes music store. You get WMAs you can put them only nearly every single mp3 player out there (sans iPod) and you can buy them from damm near any store.
If you buy aac's you are LOCKED into the iPod (and the new hp music player). If you get WMA's you can put them on numerous devices and use numerous music services.
Guess what, as of right now MS is looking better than apple with regards to choice. MS freely believes in "choice" as long as your choice is their format
Same with windows wma file for nearly all the services i've looked into. To be fair, microsoft is actually right on this one. By getting apple's aac's you can ONLY play them on iPod's. With windows WMA's you can play them on (last I checked) damm near every single mp3 player out there.
In this case MS is actually right -- you get more choice by buying WMA files with regards to player choice.
Yeah, the reasons for open source drivers are, to be fair, good ones. Nonetheless, from a consumer standpoint they wouldn't care ;). THat's what I was trying to get at in my original point. Technically it's probably a better solution but in the end it leads to alot of frustration from a end-user standpoint.
I think what he means is either more corprate structure or less corporate structure.
For example, currently driver support in linux is horribly broken. Worse yet, it is horribly broken *by design*. The kernel developers refuse to freeze a driver api for the kernel (like MS did with win95/98/me and win2k/xp) or make a DDK (to my knowledge) instead changing the api every major release and sometimes on point releases. They have a point -- doing so encourages the development of open source drivers instead of binary only drivers. Unfortunatley this is one area in which corporate interests might superceede the interests of the individual kernel developers. Possible.
Another area we might see is with regards to linux on the desktop. Progressing, yes, but not as fast as it might if - say - sun or ibm decided to make a serious commitment to linux and either extend kde/gnome/x or replace them entirely. If they come up with a desktop replacement that is far better than the current offerings they will win by default, thus placing the future of linux on the desktop in corporate hands, at least for a short while.
I think this is what cringley was getting at -- changing linux to reflect the fact that alot of the development is funded by major corporations now instead of hackers working on their free time.
Yeah, once nice thing is cost of living is extremely low. I was in england the past year during study abroad and coming back to LNK was a delight.
Agreed. Not only that but this girl is dumber than a box of rocks. I live in lincoln, been to that bar. It's an upscale martini bar which -- most definately -- wasn't happy about this happening at their bar. It caters to upper middle class midwestern clientale, mostly conservative and christian (this is Lincoln after all).
;).
Got to give her props though, she did get a ton of free publicity off this. I know the guy who runs nebraskacoeds.com and she's making a crap ton of money off all this.
While it might not seem like a reasonable law, note that this is *nebraska*. It's very republican and conservative. If you don't like it, move to another state
As a lincolnite I resent that.
We are most definately right next to nowhere, a little south of boringville.
I hate this town.
Well remember that scholars of that period, 16th century, could most likely read and speak 3-4 languages fluently, including latin, greek, and 1-2 local languages. Really good linguists could translate much more.
Heh, I have a friend that works at the tech bench at Best Buy and their "tune up" service largely consists of them removing all spyware, defraggin' the HD, and getting rid of anthing that loads on boot. People are always amazed at how fast their computer runs afterwards and happily bring it back in 3 months later when it starts running slow again. Then they fork over another $75.....
Ahh the joys of spyware.
Yeah the fedora review was definately dumb. Christ I wouldn't try putting apt on a rpm distro... I mean, if you want apt use a distro that has apt natively.
Shrug. But still, most of her reviews you can be sure of she at least won't sugar coat anything.
Yeah this is flamebait but what the hell, I have plenty of karma to burn..
Why because she brings up things wrong with your precious linux distro's instead of lavishing praise all over them? She DARES to point out that something might be wrong with them? Every damm timee there's a OSnews review on slashdot people write about how much they hate ELQ largely, I think, because she tends to not write glowing reports abour their favorite distro.
ELQ might not be my favorite reviewer but one thing she does, and does well, is find any and all flaws in an OS. THat's what makes her a good reviewer.
Very informative - thanks. I figured it was used for letters since I've often come across nearly indecipharble letters, not just handwriting, written in wwI-wwII (history studies) and been told that they're using "shorthand." It must've just been a way to quickly write rather than a formal system like that geocities link provided.