FB is hardly that much faster - it uses exactly the same rendering engine and set of libraries under the hood, so there is just a tiny speedup from the GUI that is unnoticable on modern fast computers. It does NOT support W3 better or worse, since it uses exactly the same Gecko engine. And it lacks many features of Mozilla that need to be brought back through extensions. And inflationary extensions can eventually cause severe security problems.
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no - on what grounds should this be a problem? Copyright applies to original work - no original work of MS was copied or used for implementing this. Also, no secret documentation was used and no animals were harmed. I do not see a problem.
Because IE is insecure, does not have popup blocking, lacks many other features Mozilla does have and supports W3C standards better. Plus, it comes with a mail client that is more secure than outlook and has a well working spam filter built in.
this looks as if the thief was simply attempting to log into the account of the *original owner*, which was preconfigured on the stolen laptop. Of course this is easily detectable and easy to trace back.
I love to see those bogus hits forced into the index by SE-optimizers to get flushed down the toilet. Even if this somewhat messes up the results at the moment it will hopefully help to get rid of search result spammers in the long run.
The example design uses way too many different font sizes and styles and could be made much cleaner and user friendly. The current slashdot design is alread pretty bad, but this is even worse.
The real problem of nuclear power plants is not the meltdown but what to do with nuclear waste. There is simply no method that can guarantee that mid- to highly radioactive waste with decay rates ranging to tens of thousands of years can be kept safe and contained for that period of time. Also, all the models calculating the cost of the energy simply ignore the cost of handling the waste.
The EU patent office has already deviated in its practise from already has been EU patent law before. The new proposal is even more specific of what is and what is not patentable. This does not mean of course that the EU rejects software patents alltogether (though I would certainly welcome that:) ). But at least it is a step in the right direction that probably renderes several of the "famous" patents invalid, should it get officially adopted. The bottom line is IMO that it is worth the effort to contact the politicians, sign petitions etc.
Obviously this is not something the Mozilla project invented, but the US government - why not go and complain to them? And obviously it will apply to any software that supports the same kind of encryption that Mozilla supports.
There is a bug on this ( http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=176382 ) that also gives an URL that has regular nightly builds ( http://www.hut.fi/~tontti/mozilla/ ). Mybe there will sometime be 1.5b buils (or there: http://www.scottbolander.com/mozilla-xft.html )
"The real difficulty comes with having to install it and give it its initial configuration, which requires an in-depth knowledge of PCs and of Linux."
This is simply not true. Depending on the distribution, installation and initial configuration can be as easy as with Windows - or easier. IMO SuSe has the most user-friendly and problem-free installation procedure of them all.
take art, for instance: pieces of art are copyrighted, but not patentable. You (luckily!) cannot patent the way you painted the shadow of the nose - this might be highly creative, but to make it patentable will have the same desastrous effect as making writing algorithms patentable has. I won't go into all of the reasons here, because they have been repeated over and over again. To come up with an algorithm or even just a purpose for an algorithm can be highly creative - but so can coming up with the formula for a physical law. There is not that much difference really, because in both situations there is a creative act, no matter if you write an algorithm to convert integers into a hex string or write down a physical law (or model) that describes the connection between certain measurable variables of a system.
Maybe the core problems really is that creating algorithms is what programmers do all the time - many of them reinventing the same algorithms for the 1000's time, simply because this is faster than looking up a solution. If you make software patentable it is hard to see what would NOT be patentable - any function or piece of code is a candidate. Software is different from zippers and technical machines. Very different.
It is amazing how an obvious idiocy like software patents can not only continue to exist in the US but actually get copied by other countries (e.g. the EU). What is next - patents on physical laws?
why is anybody taking this bullshit seriously? Outside of the US, everybody seems to chuckle and shrug that pathetic attempts to catch attention off - and if SCO gets too loud and insulting, they get sued. In the US, things seems to work differently - but how?
is a digital camera, that I can remotely control from a Linux app. I Have the Nikon Coolpix 4500 and apart from mounting the Flashcard in the camera as a filesystem I have no idea how to do anything like that - how to set exposure time, how to trigger taking a photograph, transmit the picture, then remove it. It seems that Nikon does not have software for this (not even under Windows), nor do they give out enought documentation for doing it yorself. I also do not know of any other digital camera that lets you do this. - am I the only one who wants that?
That bug has not even been confirmed and is probably a DUP of a bug that has been fixed in the meantime, since all this is working for me (using a recent nightly build).
Honestly, people constantly complaining about "bloat" are getting on my nerves. If you do not like featers, use lynx or IE4.
When I was last in the UK I was shocked from the number of cameras and CCTVs they use. There is not a spot without a camera. They seem to be obsessed about cameras and when you turn on the TV you see footage of robberies or other stuff captured with these cameras. The bottom line is: the majority of UK citizens seems to like that or at least not to care. They are a sick society, second only to the US. The rest of the world is struggling to catch up with the madness.
that too many people accept to get forced to buy the MS-OS with the hardware. With laptops, Windows is nearly always not an option, but something you simply cannot avoid. Too few people are asking for OS-less hardware or hardware with Linux preinstalled. Combine this with the fact that MS gives huge rebates on a presinstalled OS. The problem is that discussing this heatedly over a beer or at/. (or both) won't change anything. Creating demand and a market for Windows-less notebooks will. Bugging the salespeople everytime you buy a notebook will. Showing them that there is a real demand there and not just a small but irrelevant bunch of geeks with no money will.
True, there has not been much innovation since the NS 4.x days. However, this does not mean that there is no potential for innovation. I do believe that sooner or later, developers will realize that people want to be able to manage information instead of browse the web, read email, or enter appointments. Sooner or later, a program will appear that integrates web ressources, emails, PIM, local documents and other stuff in a way that enables people to manage those pieces of information that are needed to do their jobs. Let me give you an example: when you get an email from your boss telling you to do task X until some date, currently: you enter something in the calendar, marking it with some topic, you mark the email or put it in a folder related to the topic, you might need to use the web for research and put URLs in a bookmark folder related to the topic. You edit and manipulate local documents and data, stored in some directory related to the topic. But there is nothing except your brain that makes the connection between these different pieces of information that really should belong together. Instead of supporting work the way you need it, the programs support it the way it is easy to program. IMO, a browser suite like Mozilla could be a good starting point to integrate the web, email, PIM, document metainformation and other things in an innovative way, without becoming a monster like MS-Office/IE/Outlook that - although integrated on a technical level - does not integrate information and functionality (on a conceputal level).
Unfortunately, those who are motivated to contribute work prefer to add flashy features (that are not too hard to implement too). But even so, Mozilla has more to offer than IE, Opera, or Konqueror, is multi-platform, and is free (something that Opera or IE are not).
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FB is hardly that much faster - it uses exactly the same rendering engine and set of libraries under the hood, so there is just a tiny speedup from the GUI that is unnoticable on modern fast computers. It does NOT support W3 better or worse, since it uses exactly the same Gecko engine. And it lacks many features of Mozilla that need to be brought back through extensions. And inflationary extensions can eventually cause severe security problems.
no - on what grounds should this be a problem? Copyright applies to original work - no original work of MS was copied or used for implementing this. Also, no secret documentation was used and no animals were harmed. I do not see a problem.
Because IE is insecure, does not have popup blocking, lacks many other features Mozilla does have and supports W3C standards better. Plus, it comes with a mail client that is more secure than outlook and has a well working spam filter built in.
this looks as if the thief was simply attempting to log into the account of the *original owner*, which was preconfigured on the stolen laptop. Of course this is easily detectable and easy to trace back.
I love to see those bogus hits forced into the index by SE-optimizers to get flushed down the toilet. Even if this somewhat messes up the results at the moment it will hopefully help to get rid of search result spammers in the long run.
These fish are flourescent not glowing. It has been pointed out already several times, but why is the article not updated?
The example design uses way too many different font sizes and styles and could be made much cleaner and user friendly. The current slashdot design is alread pretty bad, but this is even worse.
The real problem of nuclear power plants is not the meltdown but what to do with nuclear waste. There is simply no method that can guarantee that mid- to highly radioactive waste with decay rates ranging to tens of thousands of years can be kept safe and contained for that period of time. Also, all the models calculating the cost of the energy simply ignore the cost of handling the waste.
... even if it definitely is spyware? Strange.
The EU patent office has already deviated in its practise from already has been EU patent law before. The new proposal is even more specific of what is and what is not patentable. This does not mean of course that the EU rejects software patents alltogether (though I would certainly welcome that :) ). But at least it is a step in the right direction that probably renderes several of the "famous" patents invalid, should it get officially adopted. The bottom line is IMO that it is worth the effort to contact the politicians, sign petitions etc.
This page has instructions how to download and use the dictionaries for OpenOffice: http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/installation.html
Obviously this is not something the Mozilla project invented, but the US government - why not go and complain to them? And obviously it will apply to any software that supports the same kind of encryption that Mozilla supports.
There is a bug on this ( http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=176382 ) that also gives an URL that has regular nightly builds ( http://www.hut.fi/~tontti/mozilla/ ). Mybe there will sometime be 1.5b buils (or there: http://www.scottbolander.com/mozilla-xft.html )
"The real difficulty comes with having to install it and give it its initial configuration, which requires an in-depth knowledge of PCs and of Linux."
This is simply not true. Depending on the distribution, installation and initial configuration can be as easy as with Windows - or easier. IMO SuSe has the most user-friendly and problem-free installation procedure of them all.
take art, for instance: pieces of art are copyrighted, but not patentable. You (luckily!) cannot patent the way you painted the shadow of the nose - this might be highly creative, but to make it patentable will have the same desastrous effect as making writing algorithms patentable has. I won't go into all of the reasons here, because they have been repeated over and over again. To come up with an algorithm or even just a purpose for an algorithm can be highly creative - but so can coming up with the formula for a physical law. There is not that much difference really, because in both situations there is a creative act, no matter if you write an algorithm to convert integers into a hex string or write down a physical law (or model) that describes the connection between certain measurable variables of a system. Maybe the core problems really is that creating algorithms is what programmers do all the time - many of them reinventing the same algorithms for the 1000's time, simply because this is faster than looking up a solution. If you make software patentable it is hard to see what would NOT be patentable - any function or piece of code is a candidate. Software is different from zippers and technical machines. Very different.
It is amazing how an obvious idiocy like software patents can not only continue to exist in the US but actually get copied by other countries (e.g. the EU). What is next - patents on physical laws?
why is anybody taking this bullshit seriously? Outside of the US, everybody seems to chuckle and shrug that pathetic attempts to catch attention off - and if SCO gets too loud and insulting, they get sued. In the US, things seems to work differently - but how?
is a digital camera, that I can remotely control from a Linux app. I Have the Nikon Coolpix 4500 and apart from mounting the Flashcard in the camera as a filesystem I have no idea how to do anything like that - how to set exposure time, how to trigger taking a photograph, transmit the picture, then remove it. It seems that Nikon does not have software for this (not even under Windows), nor do they give out enought documentation for doing it yorself. I also do not know of any other digital camera that lets you do this. - am I the only one who wants that?
Honestly, people constantly complaining about "bloat" are getting on my nerves. If you do not like featers, use lynx or IE4.
When I was last in the UK I was shocked from the number of cameras and CCTVs they use. There is not a spot without a camera. They seem to be obsessed about cameras and when you turn on the TV you see footage of robberies or other stuff captured with these cameras. The bottom line is: the majority of UK citizens seems to like that or at least not to care. They are a sick society, second only to the US. The rest of the world is struggling to catch up with the madness.
go on playing and dreaming, SCO, but for god's sakae do it quietly and stop the fucking noise. It is getting on our nerves.
that too many people accept to get forced to buy the MS-OS with the hardware. With laptops, Windows is nearly always not an option, but something you simply cannot avoid. Too few people are asking for OS-less hardware or hardware with Linux preinstalled. Combine this with the fact that MS gives huge rebates on a presinstalled OS. The problem is that discussing this heatedly over a beer or at /. (or both) won't change anything. Creating demand and a market for Windows-less notebooks will. Bugging the salespeople everytime you buy a notebook will. Showing them that there is a real demand there and not just a small but irrelevant bunch of geeks with no money will.
True, there has not been much innovation since the NS 4.x days. However, this does not mean that there is no potential for innovation. I do believe that sooner or later, developers will realize that people want to be able to manage information instead of browse the web, read email, or enter appointments. Sooner or later, a program will appear that integrates web ressources, emails, PIM, local documents and other stuff in a way that enables people to manage those pieces of information that are needed to do their jobs. Let me give you an example: when you get an email from your boss telling you to do task X until some date, currently: you enter something in the calendar, marking it with some topic, you mark the email or put it in a folder related to the topic, you might need to use the web for research and put URLs in a bookmark folder related to the topic. You edit and manipulate local documents and data, stored in some directory related to the topic. But there is nothing except your brain that makes the connection between these different pieces of information that really should belong together. Instead of supporting work the way you need it, the programs support it the way it is easy to program. IMO, a browser suite like Mozilla could be a good starting point to integrate the web, email, PIM, document metainformation and other things in an innovative way, without becoming a monster like MS-Office/IE/Outlook that - although integrated on a technical level - does not integrate information and functionality (on a conceputal level).
Unfortunately, those who are motivated to contribute work prefer to add flashy features (that are not too hard to implement too). But even so, Mozilla has more to offer than IE, Opera, or Konqueror, is multi-platform, and is free (something that Opera or IE are not).
Go to their competitor and let them do the job.