I work for a sizable hosting firm (over 10k clients). Our entry level plans will set you back about 50 euro/yr. If you want some kind of yearlong data guarantee, add another 50 quid there to pay for the storage. Not to mention the writing of, or modification of the system that will keep these for you.
That 50 euro buys you 10GB of storage ; that's a lot of storage that these people seem to want providers to pony up for free. And the bandwidth to download the data from the held backup.
There is no free lunch in this game; the margains are small enough to begin with.
I dnrta ; but I'd imagine that's down to the filtering of mail..
The first x% make it through the filters; then they start getting flagged - be it by reports from the recipients (think AOL Scomp, etc), bouncebacks or by bayesian filters, etc - the spamtype is noted and starts getting blocked.
If my assumptions are correct; a bright spammer would run a mix on his list so they're not in alphabetical order.
The logic being - that those who receive lots of spam (the A's, B's, C's etc) have already started to take measures to block spam or have simply become desensitised to it. Mix it up and those in the M's, Q's, S's, etc start getting spam that previously never made it to their inbox.
Metered bandwidth is retarded. The lines are there, they dont' cost any more when they get used versus when they don't. Depends how high up the food chain you are. An ISP takes bandwidth from his upstream providers on a contracted minimum with X/Mbps thereafter.
If you're contracted for 100Mbps 95th percentile and one person leaves something seeding at xMbps for most of the month and takes you up an extra 1Mbps; that's 40-80 euro/month extra.
Admittedly; once it goes into the Gigabit range, price per extra Mbps goes down dramatically. But it's simply not true to say it doesn't cost more to use them vs not; all ISPs have to pay for bandwidth at some level.
I work for a hosting company, so I'm aware of the issues to some degree.
Firstly; you suck -- I was caught by your logout thing twice in a row before I had to pay enough attention to work out what was going on;P
As for a real reply; you'll be looking for a UML/VPS. NO shared hosting provider worth their salt is going to give you proper SSH access. If they do; I'd not go within a nautical mile of them.
A cheap virtual server will offer you limited memory/cpu/disk usage and your own root enviroment -- they go for anything from about 10 bucks a month upwards.
As someone who works in the hosting industry; prehaps my view is a little bias - however..
Joe Blogs may find this useful; someone running a high-profile blog or creative commons music download site -- but businesses want someone on the phone, someone who can explain whats happened to their email (blocked as spam, not getting to person X who's misconfigured their mail server, etc), why their PHP form isn't working as expected, how to configure outlook - etc.
Businesses want someone they can hold accountable - and they want an instant response. What they don't want is a faceless company that directs you to the relevant help page/tutorial in the first reply and makes you wait 24 hours before your followup support ticket is replied to.
A good hosting company gains and retains their reputation not just through reliability and quantity - but through quality technical support.
We may not offer crazy levels of storage or bandwidth per month ; but a good chunk of our business comes through referals from word of mouth after they've had the pleasure of dealing with our support or sales people.
If Yahoo managed to offer this -and- offer 'unlimited' space/bandwidth; then I'd be worried. I'm sure plenty of other people will handle the obvious arguments regarding 'unlimited' though.
I use opera before I'll touch firefox. There is the odd website that prefers firefox, but its pretty rare.
This is nothing more than the usual opera fan pouring his heart out about how wonderful the interface to opera is. I cant stand the tab implimentation in firefox, it's borked!
Tabs in opera work with proper focusing. If you have 5 notepad windows open, click number 1, then 5, then close 5 - you expect number 1 to be below it. If windows were firefox then you'd be presented with number 4. Not to mention the bare minimum of shortcut keys in firefox.
what can I say - I'm an opera fan, it does what I want it to, it does it quickly, it saves me time over the course of a day. And the email client rocks once you learn how to use it. I get ~300 emails a day that need my attention, and operas system of filters and views lets me manage it all with minimal hassle.
I also have some 30,000 emails in opera and it still searches the whole lot in real time. If I had to complain, I'd only ask for one more feature.
Nested tabs. Opera has a session manager ; when you close it, you can have it load excatly where you left off. All the tabs you had open are all waiting for you when you re-open the browser.
While this does do away with the need for bookmarks - it does leave you with 20-30 tabs constantly open sometimes. If I could sort these into catagorys - my torrents/anime go into one nested set of tabs, my tech news into another - all those pages could hide in the space it takes for just one tab until I need them.
I keep meaning to send this in as a feature request.
Thats enough rambling on the joys of opera ; free key, now you've got no excuse:)
I have a 6600GT passive cooled. Heatsink only - now it is a huge heatsink, and the card does run hot. Idles at 68c after its been on for a bit. Peaks at 110c, which is stupid-hot!
I spoke to gigabyte, who make the card - and they said that its good to 150c. Even fan cooled vers run at 70-80c peak - thats a lot of waste heat.
I am limited in oc'ing with it, but I may attach a silent 80mm fan. I have no objection to a quiet fan, but I do hate the whiney 60mm/6000rpm fans they use on most coolers.
Opera has a quick-change menu; hit F12 and you can select between opera/mozilla/IE - Although afaik it shows as IE/opera with the opera stats.
It'll be nice to see what the usage stats turn out like though; personally opera does everything I want better than any of the others.
Firefox is clunky by comparison, and I love the complete customisation of opera. Not to mention decent tabbed browsing (firefox tabbed browsing is horrible)
What about zippers? And the little metal whatchamacallems that apparently hold jeans togethers?
And as people have rightly pointed out ; yeah, like people are gonna be walking around without change in their pockets...
This shit scares the hell out of me ; and if it can be used against rioters then its obviously not going to be considered a torture weapon.. Think about that for a moment. Not a torture weapon. So its fine to use in an interogation, because its not torture right? 'We know you work for osama, now tell us where he is *zap* *screams*'
Whatever happened to the line of thinking that got congress or whoever it was to try and stop the production/research of plasma weapons (I vaugly remember this) as they could be used as torture devices. Unless this thing comes with huge restrictions on its use, and ofc it won't - then it will be overused. Just like tasers.
Protesters really need a rich benificator; somone who can rent rooms in buildings with windows facing protest areas at pre-organised protests, and can setup massive arrays of video monitoring to watch for police abuse. The last election proved that the police have no problem in employing excessive force - give them a toy that can take down whole crowds on a minor excuse and you better believe they'll use it. With the slanted media coverage on these things, the only way forward for protests now is to have cameras that record the whole thing from vantage points - in other words, something to hold the police accountable.
That I'm even having to make these points is a sad state of affairs. To the people who are complaining that this story hit slashdot - you'd better hope it keeps hitting slashdot, so when they try and deploy it in the US you can write to your representative and make your feelings known. The potential implications of this thing are horrific.
Try using 2 mons for a while; then try going back.. Within a week you'll be checking your credit card balance to get your 2nd monitor back.
I use a 19" hitachi crt, and a 17" iiyama 431s side by side. Viewable space between the two, there is 1cm or so difference in either direction. For all intents and purposes they are the same size - both running at 1280x1024.
I usually have irc open in one fullscreened (I work from home, so use it to keep in touch with the boss + co-workers) and my browser in the other. Often notepad and the like sitting over mirc with notes in it, for the work I'm doing in my browser.
When I'm not using it for work; mirc still stays open to keep in touch with friends, while I can play games in the other. Okay you might say - basically I'm just paying for having irc in a 2nd monitor, and you'd be mostly right; however when I've got work to do, irc in a 2nd monitor makes life a lot easier. That, and working from multiple documents - I just couldn't go back. I swapped my 9800 out to build a 2nd pc the other day, and used my old gf2 mx with only one monitor out - it was hellish;/
Benifits of dual mon aside; you'd have thought these guys would have gone for a model with a thinner bezel. After all; when they were picking which one to use - just pick one that doesn't have a half inch bezel. I don't really notice the ~2 1/2" bezel combo with mons sitting next to each other - but it'd be nice to not have one.
Opera has had this for as long as I can remember.. Middle click for open in background - shift-click for foreground. Ctrl-shift click for open in background if you want a keyboard version.
And besides.. Why is this news anyway? Wow, IE can do what all the other browsers have had for ages.
According to a well known ripped movies ratings site, RoTS is rated at 6.0/10 for video, and 6.2/10 for audio (may change as more ppl rate it) - and thats keeping in mind it's a pre-release workprint.
There is a version out with a large timer across the top, and there is a rerelease with it blurred out. Anything under 8/10 is usually pretty 'meh'. However, I have no doubt a dvd screener or some other form of release will be out sooner or later.
It's better than a cam by all accounts, but only the truely broke or people who can't be assed will dl this. I certainly don't imagine this crappy quality release will knock much off the initial ticket sales - by the time a decent release is out, the '2 weeks sales' or whatever they look at these days to determine initial success will have passed.
Indeed - but a lot of people are now distributing these files via bittorent instead, thus current caching systems get bypassed.
This just allows torrents, which supposedly account for much more bw than http - to also get cached. This has nothing to do with lazy web developers, etc. I think you missed the point:)
I was also interested to see they included 'Joltid Peer Cache (JPC)' - in their words "Joltid Peer Cache (JPC) is now integrated into Azureus. For users whose ISP support this, JPC should allow faster downloads, while helping the ISP reduce its bandwidth costs. The JPC Plugin is safe in the way that your ISP won't know what you are downloading, and can't use it to spy on you."
Given that torrents are supposed to account from anywhere between 30-70% of all internet traffic, depending on who you believe - this could go a long way towards easing bandwidth consumption issues. Of course, I have no idea how many ISPs are actually using this, the website http://www.joltid.com/index.php/peercache/ is rather limited in it's information, and a google for the name reveals that there is still some question over the legality, so a lot of ISPs are keeping their heads down and using it on the quiet.
For flash traffic, such as a new game demo being released - or even torrented anime, which often sees in excess of 10-20 thousand people downloading it within 48 hours for the more popular series, this could save ISPs a lot of money.
I've been using opera for several years now; I've also converted the parents over. About 2-3 days ago, I came across a rare site that didn't like opera (This happens maybe once a month tops - usually not even that), and downloaded firefox.
My first impressions were less than favourable. Immediatly off the bat it was obviously slower, but that I could live with. My main complaints lie in the usability of it.
In opera, I can hit 1/2 on either the number keys at the top, or on the numeric keypad - this jumps left/right one tab at a time; I couldn't find an equivilant in FF.
The tab implimentation: In opera, if I have multiple tabs open, and am say browsing tab 3 - if I click tab 10, then click it again - it minimises tab 10, and takes me back to tab 3. As you would expect of properly focusing windows. If I close tab 10 instead of minimising it - it goes back to tab 3. In FF I can't even minimise a tab - I have to click to another one. And if I close it instead, it doesn't take me back where I was before - silly implimentation.
Session managment: When you close opera and restart it - poof - I'm back where I left off, this changes browsing totally - you don't need to bookmark sites you only need for the afternoon/week - you just leave them open. If opera/pc crashes, or the power goes out - opera remembers where it was before, and starts from there. It also prompts you when it recovers from crashing, asking if you want to load all of your windows or start afresh - in case a page was killing it, and it gets into a loop cycle.
Ctrl-Z - Undo closing a website, simple yet so handy.
Opening new pages in a foreground/background tab with just a click+shortcut key; okay I've heard you can set a default action in FF - but in opera, I just hit shift for front, ctrl-shift for background. Middle mouse button click also dumps them in the background. All keyboard shortcuts are found next to the relevant mouse-click version.
These are just a couple of things; and I know a lot of them are available via plugins - but opera just feels more polished to me. Besides. Why should I have to bother fixing the borked tab implimentation??
In Opera, I can get around more easily, it saves me time and effort. This isn't supposed to be a critique of FF, merely a user who went to use FF and found a bunch of things he didn't much like.
I have some complaints with opera aswell; it also takes a couple of mins to trash some of the silly bars it includes, remove some of the less useful buttons, and stick my tabs back on the bottom of my screen - but it takes a lot less time than hunting for a plugin that does what I want. Even if I didn't use the mail client/rss feeds from within opera (Which 8 has completely sorted), until FF feels as polished - I have no real reason to move.
I'm just a Brit - Watching from overseas, looking at the US through the eyes of the internet. Of course, this means I don't see it through the eyes of big-media, aside from prehaps the BBC once in a while, and if I remember - the channel 4 news occasionally.
So from where I am looking, I see peoples rights being taken away daily, contradictions in every-day aspects of American life, conflicts of interest and unacceptable terms lain down in everything from voting to laws. And I have to ask - why is nothing being done about it?
Really... I'm not trolling, or trying to 'diss' America. I used to love the idea of coming over to live in America, it was one of my childhood dreams - land of the free - these days, I'm far too concerned about the state of democracy over there. And yet I see almost nothing being done about it.
Over here, if we stood up on the news and said 'There is a clear conflict of interest, due to the link between the companys doing the voting machines, and the current prime minister' - I honestly believe something would be done about it, and very quickly. And for people to be arrested for simply protesting, on the scale/obsurdity that appears to be happening over there, would provoke outrage, and instant responses - along with extreme critisism, both from the media, and the opposition party.
So how to finish up this post? Good question - It's just as much a rant on 'why is america not doing something?' as 'why is this happening in the first place?', and voting is only a small part of what seems to be an institutional corruption. I can only hope that at some point in the future, a president will have the foresight to look forward and put in place, restrictions and clauses to further protect the American people. Your constitution is apparently no longer up to the job, and your democracy has been truely corrupted.
(This is not a troll/flamebait post)
unsubstantiated? Are you american? If so, I really didn't realise that your media had left you so blind.. Heck, hang on a second - your posting on slashdot.. We've covered this issue before!
YES there is a no fly-list; I'm a Brit, and even I was aware of that! Theres some excelent wired.com articles regarding it aswell. If you are American, I suggest that you pay more attention to what is happening in your own country.
If not, then I suggest you pay more attention to what is happening in America. I'm waiting on these very same infringments of my rights to get proposed over here. The only catch; our rights arn't protected quite as well, so it's even easier for the laws to be passed.
*Personally, I wouldn't use any portable music player as a source for my home stereo, as there are so many compromises that any half decent stereo should show up easily, even if the source music was a lossless codec.*
actually afaik the ipod has a whatchimacallit stereo out jobbie, that bypasses the headphone socket - It was covered by a few audiophile mags, questioning the quality of the music player. Using AAC, the whatchimacallit out and several grands worth of speakers, they gave it the thumbs up.
If you want to be an audiophile, thats fine - but theres no need to be an asshole about it too:>
I'm sorry, but C&C was dune, with things named differently... Dune was out WELLLLL before C&C ever hit the market; dune 2000 was a re-do of Dune II, with cutscenes, and AFAIR - It even used the same shitty sound effects..
And in further news, trojan writers worldwide file a DMCA suit against linux users for circumventing there security and reverse compiling there intelectual property;)
They 'wanted to be down, so they bought keyboards too.'??
If they REALLY wanted to be 'down', they'd use direct neural connections! Only l00zerz uses keyboards on a pc! That is so 90's!;)
It gets a slow stream of hits over the course of a day or two. Slashdot throws thousands apon thousands of hits at it in a matter of mins, as we geeks have little better to do with our times than refresh./ every 5 mins to check for a new story..
Slashdot Mirror
I work for a sizable hosting firm (over 10k clients). Our entry level plans will set you back about 50 euro/yr. If you want some kind of yearlong data guarantee, add another 50 quid there to pay for the storage. Not to mention the writing of, or modification of the system that will keep these for you.
That 50 euro buys you 10GB of storage ; that's a lot of storage that these people seem to want providers to pony up for free. And the bandwidth to download the data from the held backup.
There is no free lunch in this game; the margains are small enough to begin with.
I dnrta ; but I'd imagine that's down to the filtering of mail..
The first x% make it through the filters; then they start getting flagged - be it by reports from the recipients (think AOL Scomp, etc), bouncebacks or by bayesian filters, etc - the spamtype is noted and starts getting blocked.
If my assumptions are correct; a bright spammer would run a mix on his list so they're not in alphabetical order.
The logic being - that those who receive lots of spam (the A's, B's, C's etc) have already started to take measures to block spam or have simply become desensitised to it. Mix it up and those in the M's, Q's, S's, etc start getting spam that previously never made it to their inbox.
If you're contracted for 100Mbps 95th percentile and one person leaves something seeding at xMbps for most of the month and takes you up an extra 1Mbps; that's 40-80 euro/month extra.
Admittedly; once it goes into the Gigabit range, price per extra Mbps goes down dramatically. But it's simply not true to say it doesn't cost more to use them vs not; all ISPs have to pay for bandwidth at some level.
I work for a hosting company, so I'm aware of the issues to some degree.
Firstly; you suck -- I was caught by your logout thing twice in a row before I had to pay enough attention to work out what was going on ;P
As for a real reply; you'll be looking for a UML/VPS. NO shared hosting provider worth their salt is going to give you proper SSH access. If they do; I'd not go within a nautical mile of them.
A cheap virtual server will offer you limited memory/cpu/disk usage and your own root enviroment -- they go for anything from about 10 bucks a month upwards.
As someone who works in the hosting industry; prehaps my view is a little bias - however..
Joe Blogs may find this useful; someone running a high-profile blog or creative commons music download site -- but businesses want someone on the phone, someone who can explain whats happened to their email (blocked as spam, not getting to person X who's misconfigured their mail server, etc), why their PHP form isn't working as expected, how to configure outlook - etc.
Businesses want someone they can hold accountable - and they want an instant response. What they don't want is a faceless company that directs you to the relevant help page/tutorial in the first reply and makes you wait 24 hours before your followup support ticket is replied to.
A good hosting company gains and retains their reputation not just through reliability and quantity - but through quality technical support.
We may not offer crazy levels of storage or bandwidth per month ; but a good chunk of our business comes through referals from word of mouth after they've had the pleasure of dealing with our support or sales people.
If Yahoo managed to offer this -and- offer 'unlimited' space/bandwidth; then I'd be worried. I'm sure plenty of other people will handle the obvious arguments regarding 'unlimited' though.
Why would they willingly give up their common carrier status? Because surely this would be doing as much...
Could they then be charged w/ not blocking ?
After firefox and safari? :)
:)
I use opera before I'll touch firefox. There is the odd website that prefers firefox, but its pretty rare.
This is nothing more than the usual opera fan pouring his heart out about how wonderful the interface to opera is. I cant stand the tab implimentation in firefox, it's borked!
Tabs in opera work with proper focusing. If you have 5 notepad windows open, click number 1, then 5, then close 5 - you expect number 1 to be below it. If windows were firefox then you'd be presented with number 4. Not to mention the bare minimum of shortcut keys in firefox.
what can I say - I'm an opera fan, it does what I want it to, it does it quickly, it saves me time over the course of a day. And the email client rocks once you learn how to use it. I get ~300 emails a day that need my attention, and operas system of filters and views lets me manage it all with minimal hassle.
I also have some 30,000 emails in opera and it still searches the whole lot in real time. If I had to complain, I'd only ask for one more feature.
Nested tabs. Opera has a session manager ; when you close it, you can have it load excatly where you left off. All the tabs you had open are all waiting for you when you re-open the browser.
While this does do away with the need for bookmarks - it does leave you with 20-30 tabs constantly open sometimes. If I could sort these into catagorys - my torrents/anime go into one nested set of tabs, my tech news into another - all those pages could hide in the space it takes for just one tab until I need them.
I keep meaning to send this in as a feature request.
Thats enough rambling on the joys of opera ; free key, now you've got no excuse
I have a 6600GT passive cooled. Heatsink only - now it is a huge heatsink, and the card does run hot. Idles at 68c after its been on for a bit. Peaks at 110c, which is stupid-hot!
I spoke to gigabyte, who make the card - and they said that its good to 150c. Even fan cooled vers run at 70-80c peak - thats a lot of waste heat.
I am limited in oc'ing with it, but I may attach a silent 80mm fan. I have no objection to a quiet fan, but I do hate the whiney 60mm/6000rpm fans they use on most coolers.
Opera has a quick-change menu; hit F12 and you can select between opera/mozilla/IE - Although afaik it shows as IE/opera with the opera stats. It'll be nice to see what the usage stats turn out like though; personally opera does everything I want better than any of the others. Firefox is clunky by comparison, and I love the complete customisation of opera. Not to mention decent tabbed browsing (firefox tabbed browsing is horrible)
What about zippers? And the little metal whatchamacallems that apparently hold jeans togethers?
And as people have rightly pointed out ; yeah, like people are gonna be walking around without change in their pockets...
This shit scares the hell out of me ; and if it can be used against rioters then its obviously not going to be considered a torture weapon.. Think about that for a moment. Not a torture weapon. So its fine to use in an interogation, because its not torture right? 'We know you work for osama, now tell us where he is *zap* *screams*'
Whatever happened to the line of thinking that got congress or whoever it was to try and stop the production/research of plasma weapons (I vaugly remember this) as they could be used as torture devices. Unless this thing comes with huge restrictions on its use, and ofc it won't - then it will be overused. Just like tasers.
Protesters really need a rich benificator; somone who can rent rooms in buildings with windows facing protest areas at pre-organised protests, and can setup massive arrays of video monitoring to watch for police abuse. The last election proved that the police have no problem in employing excessive force - give them a toy that can take down whole crowds on a minor excuse and you better believe they'll use it. With the slanted media coverage on these things, the only way forward for protests now is to have cameras that record the whole thing from vantage points - in other words, something to hold the police accountable.
That I'm even having to make these points is a sad state of affairs. To the people who are complaining that this story hit slashdot - you'd better hope it keeps hitting slashdot, so when they try and deploy it in the US you can write to your representative and make your feelings known. The potential implications of this thing are horrific.
Dakisha
Try using 2 mons for a while; then try going back.. Within a week you'll be checking your credit card balance to get your 2nd monitor back.
;/
I use a 19" hitachi crt, and a 17" iiyama 431s side by side. Viewable space between the two, there is 1cm or so difference in either direction. For all intents and purposes they are the same size - both running at 1280x1024.
I usually have irc open in one fullscreened (I work from home, so use it to keep in touch with the boss + co-workers) and my browser in the other. Often notepad and the like sitting over mirc with notes in it, for the work I'm doing in my browser.
When I'm not using it for work; mirc still stays open to keep in touch with friends, while I can play games in the other. Okay you might say - basically I'm just paying for having irc in a 2nd monitor, and you'd be mostly right; however when I've got work to do, irc in a 2nd monitor makes life a lot easier. That, and working from multiple documents - I just couldn't go back. I swapped my 9800 out to build a 2nd pc the other day, and used my old gf2 mx with only one monitor out - it was hellish
Benifits of dual mon aside; you'd have thought these guys would have gone for a model with a thinner bezel. After all; when they were picking which one to use - just pick one that doesn't have a half inch bezel. I don't really notice the ~2 1/2" bezel combo with mons sitting next to each other - but it'd be nice to not have one.
Opera has had this for as long as I can remember.. Middle click for open in background - shift-click for foreground. Ctrl-shift click for open in background if you want a keyboard version.
And besides.. Why is this news anyway? Wow, IE can do what all the other browsers have had for ages.
According to a well known ripped movies ratings site, RoTS is rated at 6.0/10 for video, and 6.2/10 for audio (may change as more ppl rate it) - and thats keeping in mind it's a pre-release workprint.
There is a version out with a large timer across the top, and there is a rerelease with it blurred out. Anything under 8/10 is usually pretty 'meh'. However, I have no doubt a dvd screener or some other form of release will be out sooner or later.
It's better than a cam by all accounts, but only the truely broke or people who can't be assed will dl this. I certainly don't imagine this crappy quality release will knock much off the initial ticket sales - by the time a decent release is out, the '2 weeks sales' or whatever they look at these days to determine initial success will have passed.
Indeed - but a lot of people are now distributing these files via bittorent instead, thus current caching systems get bypassed.
:)
This just allows torrents, which supposedly account for much more bw than http - to also get cached. This has nothing to do with lazy web developers, etc. I think you missed the point
I was also interested to see they included 'Joltid Peer Cache (JPC)' - in their words "Joltid Peer Cache (JPC) is now integrated into Azureus. For users whose ISP support this, JPC should allow faster downloads, while helping the ISP reduce its bandwidth costs. The JPC Plugin is safe in the way that your ISP won't know what you are downloading, and can't use it to spy on you."
Given that torrents are supposed to account from anywhere between 30-70% of all internet traffic, depending on who you believe - this could go a long way towards easing bandwidth consumption issues. Of course, I have no idea how many ISPs are actually using this, the website http://www.joltid.com/index.php/peercache/ is rather limited in it's information, and a google for the name reveals that there is still some question over the legality, so a lot of ISPs are keeping their heads down and using it on the quiet.
For flash traffic, such as a new game demo being released - or even torrented anime, which often sees in excess of 10-20 thousand people downloading it within 48 hours for the more popular series, this could save ISPs a lot of money.
I've been using opera for several years now; I've also converted the parents over. About 2-3 days ago, I came across a rare site that didn't like opera (This happens maybe once a month tops - usually not even that), and downloaded firefox.
My first impressions were less than favourable. Immediatly off the bat it was obviously slower, but that I could live with. My main complaints lie in the usability of it.
In opera, I can hit 1/2 on either the number keys at the top, or on the numeric keypad - this jumps left/right one tab at a time; I couldn't find an equivilant in FF.
The tab implimentation: In opera, if I have multiple tabs open, and am say browsing tab 3 - if I click tab 10, then click it again - it minimises tab 10, and takes me back to tab 3. As you would expect of properly focusing windows. If I close tab 10 instead of minimising it - it goes back to tab 3. In FF I can't even minimise a tab - I have to click to another one. And if I close it instead, it doesn't take me back where I was before - silly implimentation.
Session managment: When you close opera and restart it - poof - I'm back where I left off, this changes browsing totally - you don't need to bookmark sites you only need for the afternoon/week - you just leave them open. If opera/pc crashes, or the power goes out - opera remembers where it was before, and starts from there. It also prompts you when it recovers from crashing, asking if you want to load all of your windows or start afresh - in case a page was killing it, and it gets into a loop cycle.
Ctrl-Z - Undo closing a website, simple yet so handy.
Opening new pages in a foreground/background tab with just a click+shortcut key; okay I've heard you can set a default action in FF - but in opera, I just hit shift for front, ctrl-shift for background. Middle mouse button click also dumps them in the background. All keyboard shortcuts are found next to the relevant mouse-click version.
These are just a couple of things; and I know a lot of them are available via plugins - but opera just feels more polished to me. Besides. Why should I have to bother fixing the borked tab implimentation??
In Opera, I can get around more easily, it saves me time and effort. This isn't supposed to be a critique of FF, merely a user who went to use FF and found a bunch of things he didn't much like.
I have some complaints with opera aswell; it also takes a couple of mins to trash some of the silly bars it includes, remove some of the less useful buttons, and stick my tabs back on the bottom of my screen - but it takes a lot less time than hunting for a plugin that does what I want. Even if I didn't use the mail client/rss feeds from within opera (Which 8 has completely sorted), until FF feels as polished - I have no real reason to move.
Dakisha
I'm just a Brit - Watching from overseas, looking at the US through the eyes of the internet. Of course, this means I don't see it through the eyes of big-media, aside from prehaps the BBC once in a while, and if I remember - the channel 4 news occasionally.
So from where I am looking, I see peoples rights being taken away daily, contradictions in every-day aspects of American life, conflicts of interest and unacceptable terms lain down in everything from voting to laws. And I have to ask - why is nothing being done about it?
Really... I'm not trolling, or trying to 'diss' America. I used to love the idea of coming over to live in America, it was one of my childhood dreams - land of the free - these days, I'm far too concerned about the state of democracy over there. And yet I see almost nothing being done about it.
Over here, if we stood up on the news and said 'There is a clear conflict of interest, due to the link between the companys doing the voting machines, and the current prime minister' - I honestly believe something would be done about it, and very quickly. And for people to be arrested for simply protesting, on the scale/obsurdity that appears to be happening over there, would provoke outrage, and instant responses - along with extreme critisism, both from the media, and the opposition party.
So how to finish up this post? Good question - It's just as much a rant on 'why is america not doing something?' as 'why is this happening in the first place?', and voting is only a small part of what seems to be an institutional corruption. I can only hope that at some point in the future, a president will have the foresight to look forward and put in place, restrictions and clauses to further protect the American people. Your constitution is apparently no longer up to the job, and your democracy has been truely corrupted. (This is not a troll/flamebait post)
unsubstantiated? Are you american? If so, I really didn't realise that your media had left you so blind.. Heck, hang on a second - your posting on slashdot.. We've covered this issue before!
YES there is a no fly-list; I'm a Brit, and even I was aware of that! Theres some excelent wired.com articles regarding it aswell. If you are American, I suggest that you pay more attention to what is happening in your own country.
If not, then I suggest you pay more attention to what is happening in America. I'm waiting on these very same infringments of my rights to get proposed over here. The only catch; our rights arn't protected quite as well, so it's even easier for the laws to be passed.
*Personally, I wouldn't use any portable music player as a source for my home stereo, as there are so many compromises that any half decent stereo should show up easily, even if the source music was a lossless codec.* actually afaik the ipod has a whatchimacallit stereo out jobbie, that bypasses the headphone socket - It was covered by a few audiophile mags, questioning the quality of the music player. Using AAC, the whatchimacallit out and several grands worth of speakers, they gave it the thumbs up. If you want to be an audiophile, thats fine - but theres no need to be an asshole about it too :>
I'm sorry, but C&C was dune, with things named differently... Dune was out WELLLLL before C&C ever hit the market; dune 2000 was a re-do of Dune II, with cutscenes, and AFAIR - It even used the same shitty sound effects..
And in further news, trojan writers worldwide file a DMCA suit against linux users for circumventing there security and reverse compiling there intelectual property ;)
How about reading the appropriate NFO files.. To load a new game, goto console and type 'map e3\e3_X (Replace X with 1, 2 or 3)
They 'wanted to be down, so they bought keyboards too.'?? If they REALLY wanted to be 'down', they'd use direct neural connections! Only l00zerz uses keyboards on a pc! That is so 90's! ;)
It gets a slow stream of hits over the course of a day or two. Slashdot throws thousands apon thousands of hits at it in a matter of mins, as we geeks have little better to do with our times than refresh ./ every 5 mins to check for a new story..
Actually it makes perfect buisness sense - Just much good for the end user..