Any business owner will tell you that word of mouth is the best advertising you can get at any price - if you can get enough of it. That's why I think Windows is doomed to a slow painful death as more people adopt linux. As linux grows, as it improves, more people will use it, recommend it, and sometimes contribute back to it. This process will accelerate exponentially unless MS (or someone else) can find a way to stop it or slow it down.
You can't stop a train by standing in front of it, not even if your name is Bill Gates.
BTW, I don't want to start a Moz vs Konq discussion here. Both are good. And Opera is good too. I just happen to use Konqueror as my main browser at the moment...
Oh, I whole heartedly agree! All three are fine products, very mature, very stable.
I personally use (and love) Mozilla, but I would not disparage your choice. (Unless it's IE, of course;)
(A nifty feature is to have IE 5.5/Windows as user agent string for difficult sites like Hotmail only.)
Yeah, that's a pretty nifty feature. I've never had to use it, yet. Most sites are no longer blocking users based on user_agent strings since that is so unreliable. I guess I might have to in the future so it's nice to know konq can do that. Of course, Mozilla can to - just edit your prefs.js to include the line:
Or you can install the UA Toolbar. (doesn't play nice with Java)
BTW, Hotmail works fine in both Konqueror and Mozilla for Linux. And Mozilla blocks the pop-up ads. Actually, I wasn't even aware that there were any pop-ups until I tried it in Konqueror, since I also use Mozilla when in Windows (ugh). One of the first things I do on a new installation of Moz is configure pop-up blocking.
Surely that shoul have been at the top of the list? Standards support should come before everything else. If we don't have standards, its bloody hard for software to tak to other bits of software, let alone to humans.
Yeah, it should have. Sorry I didn't prioritize the list for you. And regardless of what you think of some of the innovations, surely you agree that they have significantly changed the way we view the web.
I think that the GRID might shake things up a bit in the next couple of years...
BUT- just for fun, have you tried surfing using Lynx lately?
I use it quite a bit for network programming because it is easier to control than a normal browser in that it doesn't do *anything* automatically - it won't even follow redirects unless you allow it explicitly. This is a very useful feature if you are trying to closely follow interactions with a web site.
I agree with you in that Lynx just doesn't cut the mustard for ordinary surfing (that's not really what it's designed to do). I just don't want folks to get the idea that it's outdated or otherwise useless.
I could go on, but you get the point. Browsers have progressed tremendously in the last 10 years, but mostly in ways that are not immediately visible to a layman - the progress has mostly been in enabling support for various things, although significant progress has also been made in design and usability.
According to the article quoted above, the Taliban had cut opium production by 95% of it's level before they took power. Since their removal, production has increased from 1,685 hectares in 2001 to 30,750 hectares today.
Well, the Taliban made a lot of the money that kept them in power in Afghanistan by growing and selling opium...
Uh.. The Taliban had very strict laws against opium production. In fact, poppy cultivation has increased by 95% in Afganistan since the Taliban were removed. While I have no sympathy for the Taliban (certainly a brutally repressive regime), U.S. claims that they used opium production to finance terrorism seem specious to say the least. If there were terrorist groups making money by growing opium in Afganistan, they were most probably doing so without Taliban approval.
A follow up question: how much spam gets past their filters and do they use a standard deviation accordingly to arrive at those numbers? It is conceivable that the actual figure is higher.
It's a shame they couldn't get this released in more cities. I'm gonna have to go all the way to Austin to see this, but go I will. Dallas is actually closer but, well, it's Dallas - so I'll go to Austin.
Anyone know if there are full length DVD releases available for this movie or other Cowboy Bebop titles?
Thanks for the tip. I went out and bought it last night, works great. Sounds good too, but then I use OSS and not ALSA anyway. I must say that the full version is way better than the demo.
I'd been putting off purchasing it because it did not mention linux on the box so I wasn't sure if I could run it. I'm much happier now, although many important things are just not going to get done because of this game;)
Google deserves a patent because I love Google and they are not Microsoft or Amazon. What better justification is there?
Seriously though, this is a valid patent because it documents a new, usefull, and unique idea. The patent makes no proprietary claims about any of the trivial processes Google may employ in delivering it's product, just the core, non-trivial, methods used to generate it. Although the patent does mention the site and the systems required to support it, it is clear that it is the unique search functionality that is patented and not the website or it's infrastructure. Quite unlike the Amazon patent I ranted about yesterday.
All you would need is a local database of vendor/server(s) to tell the local client which server to go to for your updates which could be ammended by any software during it's install process.
Uh, they just announced this particular device on the 18th. This is not just another LED application, it's a whole new way of using LEDs that results in smaller more powerful light sources.
No the link is correct. This is what happens with PHP and MySQL when you don't configure MySQL correctly (ie: set the max connections). The first line says it all.
Warning: Too many connections in/home/mobilemag/public_html/includes/connect.inc.p hp on line 3
Of course if you don't have enough resources in the first place....
Amazon provides a simple service. That service is mail order over the internet.
Their site is merely a medium to make that happen. Websites should not be patentable anymore than traditional paper (mail order) magazines. Amazon's business model relies on being the best in their business. Well, it should, but it seems Amazon doesn't want to compete on their merits. They just want to make it harder to others to compete with them by turning the business into a maze of patent law. There is nothing original about mail order and putting it on a web site does not constitute originality. Again, web sites should not be patentable. That's what copyright is for.
BTW, today in 1991, Tim Berners Lee presented the world with the first web browser. That means today is arguably the birthday of the world wide web.
Yeah, I sure wanted to see those pop-ups, but they wouldn't load. Damned slashdotters clogging the pipes.
I also noticed their 404 page loads just as slowly as their main page. That can't be good. Folks, 404 pages are supposed to be light and fast, so don't load them down with images and whatnot.
Thankfully I'm not really that interested in the Outlook screenshots since I won't use that stuff anyway.
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Any business owner will tell you that word of mouth is the best advertising you can get at any price - if you can get enough of it. That's why I think Windows is doomed to a slow painful death as more people adopt linux. As linux grows, as it improves, more people will use it, recommend it, and sometimes contribute back to it. This process will accelerate exponentially unless MS (or someone else) can find a way to stop it or slow it down.
You can't stop a train by standing in front of it, not even if your name is Bill Gates.
BTW, I don't want to start a Moz vs Konq discussion here. Both are good. And Opera is good too. I just happen to use Konqueror as my main browser at the moment...
;)
Oh, I whole heartedly agree! All three are fine products, very mature, very stable.
I personally use (and love) Mozilla, but I would not disparage your choice. (Unless it's IE, of course
(A nifty feature is to have IE 5.5/Windows as user agent string for difficult sites like Hotmail only.)
Yeah, that's a pretty nifty feature. I've never had to use it, yet. Most sites are no longer blocking users based on user_agent strings since that is so unreliable. I guess I might have to in the future so it's nice to know konq can do that. Of course, Mozilla can to - just edit your prefs.js to include the line:
user_pref("general.useragent.override", "fake agent string");
Or you can install the UA Toolbar. (doesn't play nice with Java)
BTW, Hotmail works fine in both Konqueror and Mozilla for Linux. And Mozilla blocks the pop-up ads. Actually, I wasn't even aware that there were any pop-ups until I tried it in Konqueror, since I also use Mozilla when in Windows (ugh). One of the first things I do on a new installation of Moz is configure pop-up blocking.
Hey, I was pulling for you. I actually wanted to see that, and thanks.
I didn't see your post as a troll. The moderators must've been high or something.
Well, let's just see when I get a screenshot of your comment using WorldWideWeb [w3.org]!
Please, let's. I'd love to see it.
> (imperfect) W3C Standards support
Surely that shoul have been at the top of the list? Standards support should come before everything else. If we don't have standards, its bloody hard for software to tak to other bits of software, let alone to humans.
Yeah, it should have. Sorry I didn't prioritize the list for you. And regardless of what you think of some of the innovations, surely you agree that they have significantly changed the way we view the web.
I think that the GRID might shake things up a bit in the next couple of years...
GRID? More info please.
Just for fun, here's a screenshot of your comment viewed in lynx.
BUT- just for fun, have you tried surfing using Lynx lately?
I use it quite a bit for network programming because it is easier to control than a normal browser in that it doesn't do *anything* automatically - it won't even follow redirects unless you allow it explicitly. This is a very useful feature if you are trying to closely follow interactions with a web site.
I agree with you in that Lynx just doesn't cut the mustard for ordinary surfing (that's not really what it's designed to do). I just don't want folks to get the idea that it's outdated or otherwise useless.
I love lynx.
I could go on, but you get the point. Browsers have progressed tremendously in the last 10 years, but mostly in ways that are not immediately visible to a layman - the progress has mostly been in enabling support for various things, although significant progress has also been made in design and usability.
So, if we drop another large body on it (like Europa) we could make the planet larger and therefore have more gravity.
Shouldn't be too hard, right? It's so simple nothing could possibilie go wrong.
A correction to my previous post:
According to the article quoted above, the Taliban had cut opium production by 95% of it's level before they took power. Since their removal, production has increased from 1,685 hectares in 2001 to 30,750 hectares today.
Big difference.
Well, the Taliban made a lot of the money that kept them in power in Afghanistan by growing and selling opium ...
Uh.. The Taliban had very strict laws against opium production. In fact, poppy cultivation has increased by 95% in Afganistan since the Taliban were removed. While I have no sympathy for the Taliban (certainly a brutally repressive regime), U.S. claims that they used opium production to finance terrorism seem specious to say the least. If there were terrorist groups making money by growing opium in Afganistan, they were most probably doing so without Taliban approval.
A follow up question: how much spam gets past their filters and do they use a standard deviation accordingly to arrive at those numbers? It is conceivable that the actual figure is higher.
Ummmm. Arizona?
Nope, getting drunk with me in a sleazy strip joint.
Then we're going to have wild sex with geckos.
It's a shame they couldn't get this released in more cities. I'm gonna have to go all the way to Austin to see this, but go I will. Dallas is actually closer but, well, it's Dallas - so I'll go to Austin.
Anyone know if there are full length DVD releases available for this movie or other Cowboy Bebop titles?
Hey man, just cause I'm fat and have a B.O. problem shouldn't be reason to exclude me.
Thanks for the tip. I went out and bought it last night, works great. Sounds good too, but then I use OSS and not ALSA anyway. I must say that the full version is way better than the demo.
;)
I'd been putting off purchasing it because it did not mention linux on the box so I wasn't sure if I could run it. I'm much happier now, although many important things are just not going to get done because of this game
Google deserves a patent because I love Google and they are not Microsoft or Amazon. What better justification is there?
Seriously though, this is a valid patent because it documents a new, usefull, and unique idea. The patent makes no proprietary claims about any of the trivial processes Google may employ in delivering it's product, just the core, non-trivial, methods used to generate it. Although the patent does mention the site and the systems required to support it, it is clear that it is the unique search functionality that is patented and not the website or it's infrastructure. Quite unlike the Amazon patent I ranted about yesterday.
I got a gopher server running on my trash 80. You could use some space there...
I've been wondering about this. If I purchase the UT2003 box from best buy, it'll run on linux? The box doesn't say so, as you pointed out.
All you would need is a local database of vendor/server(s) to tell the local client which server to go to for your updates which could be ammended by any software during it's install process.
We got that. Mandrake update, RedHat Updatate, apt-get.... oh wait, nevermind.
Uh, they just announced this particular device on the 18th. This is not just another LED application, it's a whole new way of using LEDs that results in smaller more powerful light sources.
I think it's way cool.
Of course if you don't have enough resources in the first place....
Amazon provides a simple service. That service is mail order over the internet.
Their site is merely a medium to make that happen. Websites should not be patentable anymore than traditional paper (mail order) magazines. Amazon's business model relies on being the best in their business. Well, it should, but it seems Amazon doesn't want to compete on their merits. They just want to make it harder to others to compete with them by turning the business into a maze of patent law. There is nothing original about mail order and putting it on a web site does not constitute originality. Again, web sites should not be patentable. That's what copyright is for.
BTW, today in 1991, Tim Berners Lee presented the world with the first web browser. That means today is arguably the birthday of the world wide web.
Yeah, I sure wanted to see those pop-ups, but they wouldn't load. Damned slashdotters clogging the pipes.
I also noticed their 404 page loads just as slowly as their main page. That can't be good. Folks, 404 pages are supposed to be light and fast, so don't load them down with images and whatnot.
Thankfully I'm not really that interested in the Outlook screenshots since I won't use that stuff anyway.