Using Mozilla. 0.9.8. No problems at all with plugins.
But I'm using the flash plugin from the Debian package (netscape-base-477). Download the package from
packages.debian.org, unpack it on a temporal directory and copy libflashplayer.so to your mozilla plugins directory.
I have Java installed from autoinstall, not from the JDK. On Moz0.9.6 or something it gave lots of trouble; works fine now.
I found the hability of displaying images with a transparent background and smooth borders a big plus. Right now, the only browsers I know of fully supporting the alpha channel on.png images are Mozilla and Opera 6; Konqueror trims the borders of the image. I don't know if Galeon support png/alpha channel, but given that it uses the Mozilla renderer (Gecko) it maybe does.
That is the biggest grip that I have about Konqueror; some effects on my home page display somewhat broken.
"To every w-consistent recursive class k of formulas, there correspond recursive class-signs r such that neither (v Gen r) nor Neg(v Gen r) belongs to Flg( k), where v is the free variable of r"
I have a even better one, but this margin is too small to contain it.
I'll begin by telling that somewhat I agree with you. But there are lots of factors that you are ignoring, so please be patient with me if you disagree:
"much of the IP are done..." in the field of PC hardware, you say. But remember that a lot of the software is already done; the protocols used to connect and browse the internet, for example, have been here a long time.
"How can MS deliver for less than it cost to develop?" Maybe cutting on the multimillion publicity? Avoiding to spend so much programmer time in fixing bugs that should not have leaked into production? Cutting on the chrome and delivering the content faster and cheaper? OK, not delivering for less than it cost to develop, more like developing for less.
"Business and home users will choose a cheaper PC only if it can do what they want..." And what do they want? Web access and Email? Done. Multimedia? about 85-90%, if not better. Games? Yes, that is a down point, but there are some. And you get a lot of software tools that are not going to be used by the average: editors, compilers, lots of libraries for about every language ever created. The downside is on the propietary file formats; but even then there is some support, and remember: if you stop creating them, you'll stop having trouble with them.
About your inability to reconcile "free open source" with motivation from profit from hard work, that is at the very least a stingy subject. In the open source world, most frequently one does not become motivated by the possibility of gain; one produces first, because one wants, and then one is so happy with the results that one wants to share the creation with the world. It's a different process: one is motivated and creates, not creates because of the promise of reward. And I agree that is impossible to base an entire production model on this, but please notice that people is always going to do things because they like, and if that is shared everyone benefits. Do you think that I sat down a half an hour to write a reply because I'm being payed?
I hope not having been too rude. And, to the slashdot crowd: if that was reply to a troll I'm sorry, but I was getting inspired.
Is Joe Sixpack brain damaged, media poisoned, buzzword-compliant crazy, flock follower, FUD eater, naive promises believer, or maybe an innocent victim tied to file formats and/or specific apps not yet ported?
Dinamic hypertext markup language. It's a sort of application to javascrips and css, enabling access to the inner working of the browser, better know (I think) as DOM, and gives the resulting page capability to do weird stuff like funky tooltips or animated menues.
Somewhat overrated, slow on three year old hardware and non fully portable between browsers, this may be the way of tomorrow, but right now it is half a headache.
Or if you *really* meant DML, that is a functional language, as far as I know not related with the web.
Don't open any new windows, except in response to clicking links, and only do this very sparingly. Popups are annoying.
I'd add: if you open any windows in response to clicking links, don't open more than one at a time. Forking the attention of the user is not going to do good.
A vertex processor, fragment, pack and unpack are going to be supported.
Vertex processing is targeted to replace lighting, materials and coordinate transformations, all on hardware level using a high-level API.
Fragment processing will let a better access to texture memory, surely allowing some nifty effects like texture animation or pseudo-refraction on hot air.
The pack and unpack processors will allow a faster transmission of vertex data through the buses, hopefully reducing the bandwith bottleneck.
All of those can and are at the present being implemented on software, but will be nice to see them implemented on hardware.
A conventional mirror reflects about 95% of the light; a really good one reflects up to 98%. That 3-5% of absortion/transmission should be enough for the laser to blur the reflective capabilities on the mirror, setting the spot unreflective on seconds. A better defense is a thermal dissipator; a good heath transmitter can't be pierced by a laser because the point where the heat concentrates doesn't keep all the energy.
Now you'll know better to trust on the World Economic Forum. When some people has a lack of self confidence, specially that what derives from having an unset mind, ideas like 'being taken over by robots', aliens, evil gods, etc. arrive.
I'm not denying that on a extreme case that would happen, but please, put your priorities straight.
Mozilla is not Netscape. AOL didn't bought Mozilla. AOL pays to some Mozilla developers, but that's all. The fully Netscape product isn't a challenge to Internet Explorer from so long ago. Hence, the adquisition of Netscape by AOL _does_ show of a loss of quality on the product.
If I remember correctly, there were some SNES games that used this scheme before. I think that some FIFA game used arrows to represent passwords, and used the control pad to input them. Of course, the maximum combinations were 4^n being n the lenght of the string.
By other side, the alphanumeric characters are just the same that abstract symbols, only that they are limited by 36^n combinations, given only uppercase; there is not real difference on using kanji (4000+), hebrew (22-27) or abstract shapes (unlimited?) except for the fact that they may be easier or harder to remember.
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You'd say also that Newton didn't do anything because he was stepping on giants shoulders like Galileo.
And too that the invention of the telescope by the aforementioned Galileo was a scam because was based on previous research by chinese geniouses.
The inventor of the pen only produced another type pf pre-existing goose feather.
Of course they don't. That means Shakira and Shakira's evil clone created by Calvin Klein to take over the world.
Yep, and the point was just how to make the same thing on Mozilla. No offense attempted.
Using Mozilla. 0.9.8. No problems at all with plugins.
But I'm using the flash plugin from the Debian package (netscape-base-477). Download the package from packages.debian.org, unpack it on a temporal directory and copy libflashplayer.so to your mozilla plugins directory.
I have Java installed from autoinstall, not from the JDK. On Moz0.9.6 or something it gave lots of trouble; works fine now.
I found the hability of displaying images with a transparent background and smooth borders a big plus. Right now, the only browsers I know of fully supporting the alpha channel on .png images are Mozilla and Opera 6; Konqueror trims the borders of the image. I don't know if Galeon support png/alpha channel, but given that it uses the Mozilla renderer (Gecko) it maybe does.
That is the biggest grip that I have about Konqueror; some effects on my home page display somewhat broken.
I have a even better one, but this margin is too small to contain it.
- "much of the IP are done..." in the field of PC hardware, you say. But remember that a lot of the software is already done; the protocols used to connect and browse the internet, for example, have been here a long time.
- "How can MS deliver for less than it cost to develop?" Maybe cutting on the multimillion publicity? Avoiding to spend so much programmer time in fixing bugs that should not have leaked into production? Cutting on the chrome and delivering the content faster and cheaper? OK, not delivering for less than it cost to develop, more like developing for less.
- "Business and home users will choose a cheaper PC only if it can do what they want..." And what do they want? Web access and Email? Done. Multimedia? about 85-90%, if not better. Games? Yes, that is a down point, but there are some. And you get a lot of software tools that are not going to be used by the average: editors, compilers, lots of libraries for about every language ever created. The downside is on the propietary file formats; but even then there is some support, and remember: if you stop creating them, you'll stop having trouble with them.
- About your inability to reconcile "free open source" with motivation from profit from hard work, that is at the very least a stingy subject. In the open source world, most frequently one does not become motivated by the possibility of gain; one produces first, because one wants, and then one is so happy with the results that one wants to share the creation with the world. It's a different process: one is motivated and creates, not creates because of the promise of reward. And I agree that is impossible to base an entire production model on this, but please notice that people is always going to do things because they like, and if that is shared everyone benefits. Do you think that I sat down a half an hour to write a reply because I'm being payed?
I hope not having been too rude. And, to the slashdot crowd: if that was reply to a troll I'm sorry, but I was getting inspired.Is Joe Sixpack brain damaged, media poisoned, buzzword-compliant crazy, flock follower, FUD eater, naive promises believer, or maybe an innocent victim tied to file formats and/or specific apps not yet ported?
If so, Joe will most surely buy "Computer A".
Good luck getting those kids entertained with the "Welcome to macromedia. Do you want to download a plugin?" ritual.
You thinking dhtml?
Dinamic hypertext markup language. It's a sort of application to javascrips and css, enabling access to the inner working of the browser, better know (I think) as DOM, and gives the resulting page capability to do weird stuff like funky tooltips or animated menues.
Somewhat overrated, slow on three year old hardware and non fully portable between browsers, this may be the way of tomorrow, but right now it is half a headache.
Or if you *really* meant DML, that is a functional language, as far as I know not related with the web.
I'd add: if you open any windows in response to clicking links, don't open more than one at a time. Forking the attention of the user is not going to do good.
But please, don't open any windows.I am urged to agree. If you feel the sudden need to program, there is always PHP.
A vertex processor, fragment, pack and unpack are going to be supported.
- Vertex processing is targeted to replace lighting, materials and coordinate transformations, all on hardware level using a high-level API.
- Fragment processing will let a better access to texture memory, surely allowing some nifty effects like texture animation or pseudo-refraction on hot air.
- The pack and unpack processors will allow a faster transmission of vertex data through the buses, hopefully reducing the bandwith bottleneck.
All of those can and are at the present being implemented on software, but will be nice to see them implemented on hardware.Windows XP: Now with improved logging facilities!
So, are you telling that the cult of the dead cow is behind all this?
You conspirance theorist. :)
A conventional mirror reflects about 95% of the light; a really good one reflects up to 98%. That 3-5% of absortion/transmission should be enough for the laser to blur the reflective capabilities on the mirror, setting the spot unreflective on seconds. A better defense is a thermal dissipator; a good heath transmitter can't be pierced by a laser because the point where the heat concentrates doesn't keep all the energy.
Good idea but sort of self-defeating. The shortest connection between two sites that can be analized by that means is, of course, Google.
Those "6 new bugs introduced with this" make mischief on a mac. Bombs... Judge yourself.
Now you'll know better to trust on the World Economic Forum. When some people has a lack of self confidence, specially that what derives from having an unset mind, ideas like 'being taken over by robots', aliens, evil gods, etc. arrive.
I'm not denying that on a extreme case that would happen, but please, put your priorities straight.
apt-get install xscreensaver
/usr/lib/xscreensaver/phosphor
I won't say more.
What window manager are you using? The option to display the content of the window while dragging surely has something to do with it.
Mozilla is not Netscape. AOL didn't bought Mozilla. AOL pays to some Mozilla developers, but that's all. The fully Netscape product isn't a challenge to Internet Explorer from so long ago. Hence, the adquisition of Netscape by AOL _does_ show of a loss of quality on the product.
If I remember correctly, there were some SNES games that used this scheme before. I think that some FIFA game used arrows to represent passwords, and used the control pad to input them. Of course, the maximum combinations were 4^n being n the lenght of the string.
By other side, the alphanumeric characters are just the same that abstract symbols, only that they are limited by 36^n combinations, given only uppercase; there is not real difference on using kanji (4000+), hebrew (22-27) or abstract shapes (unlimited?) except for the fact that they may be easier or harder to remember.