I just switched to Mozilla. Happy to be free of Microsoft for email. It's skinnable, and there are some cool skins--like one which sort of emulates Evolution. I noticed an annoying 'feature' though, which is still there from Netscrap days--if you send an email without a subject, a dialog pops up and goes blah blah blah. I asked the Mozilla newsgroup if there was a way around this, but all I got was the sort of adolescent yammerings that keep me out of unmoderated newsgroups. Nice to see it has a spamfilter now. The only major improvement remaining is to add a spell-check (the Netscrap one was licensed from a 3rd party, and can't be freely distributed).
thanks. I just tried Mozilla and while I still don't like the Netscrapish Browser, the email client, particularly when skinned, is very cool. I am off Outlook! And when I move to Linux, i'll use evolution. With Mozilla I just wish I could get rid of the netscapular problem that when sending emails with no subject line an annoying dialog box pops up about it. There doesn't seem to be a way to eliminate that.
as a bitter Outlook user, I want to move to something else. Don't talk to me about Netscape, that just sux. Evolution's gotten a lot of press lately, and the screenshots I've seen of it look great. So I have 2 questions: Does anyone know if Evolution will be ported to Windows? and otherwise, are there any good alternative email clients currently on windows? To avoid confusion let me specify that I mean good in an average-person sense, not an elite haxor command-line sense.
When this tech is invisible, I'll be able to buy a laptop, and it will just be online. No worrying about cards or areas, it'll just be omnipresent connectivity.
For once, I have to respond to the moderation on my post. I think there is merit in voicing approval or disapproval with a suggestion. Merely labeling it redundant is irrelevant when the point I wished to make was support, not elaboration.
space is a harsh place. Radiation, temperature extremes, enormous distances of nothingness. It'll be nice when it isn't almost senselessly prohibitive to go.
moving your hand from the keyboard to the mouse is annoying enough. Who wants to move, pick up, use, put down, and move back? Aside from specialty apps, this is DOA.
I've been awaiting the damage to WCPE for some time. Happy to see that they might not be affected so greatly. WCPE is a great station where they play classical music and DON'T just get money from the government, like PBS. It's a good example of how the market has demonstrated the ability to provide something people think it can't, more efficiently than the government.
It would be interesting to have greater variety between states, because more ideas could be tried, and you could (in theory) find a state which politically/economically you preferred. Customizeable surroundings, so to speak. On the flip side, if this were the case, the likelihood that some states would still have segregation, powerless women, creationism, mandatory prayer, is high. So it's not a clear call, I suppose.
Open source has a real opportunity to succeed because we're at a sort of equilibrium point where 95% of people use their computers to do well-defined tasks like browse, check email, word process. Because the goals are well understood, the chaotic development process of O.S. has a chance to create software which does these things without requiring expertise to use. If O.S. had to do these things and also really innovate, I don't think it would have the coherence to succeed. Because the requirements for success have known constraints, it might be possible for free software to do this, and I hope it can. I don't want to pay MSFT $300 just to do these simple tasks, but even Red Hat and Mandrake, the most consumer-friendly distros, have work to do before reaching this goal.
On a positive side, annoying bugs are fixed pretty quickly in O.S. By contrast, a bug in Outlook which causes the send-receive dialog box to repeatedly pop-up two or more times after the user kills it, has not been fixed by MSFT in the 5 years I've been using it. I can't imagine that would last more than, say, a year in Evolution before somebody fixed it.
whomever modded this should be able to distinguish negative from troll and offtopic. the train story was retarded, boring, and irrelevant, and should not have been accepted.
this shouldn't have been accepted by/. Trains are nearly obsolete. The circumstances of their locomotion substantially affect very few people. Let's have more cool stuff like space elevators, and less boring stuff, like train propulsion.
I can't see that this is a big deal. I'm a member of the ACLU, and don't see anything wrong with Acclaim making the game, or people buying it, but is it a big deal that a store doesn't want to sell a bmx game with naked chicks in it? No. I can't even remember the last time I was in a Wal-Mart.
On another note, this game might be just what it takes to get me into gaming. Final Fantasy didn't do it, but if Aki had been naked....
I frequently see articles like this on tech sites. Articles about 64-bit chips, 64-bit linux, 64-bit Windows. None of the articles explains how 64-bit equipment will benefit the user. Perhaps techies assume it's obvious; to them it might be. To the rest of us it isn't. And I don't think I'm speaking from a particularly uninformed position. So can someone please point me to info explaining not the availability of 64-bit processing, but the advantages, capabilities, tradeoffs, etc?
my thermo guy always loved sipping and spitting liquid nitrogen. But i wouldn't recommend it--you can crack a tooth. for a simple one, get a metal gas can, heat it up, cap it, and pour cold water on it. Then when you explain to people that the air that surrounds us is what crushed it, it's pretty amazing.
But how long to wait? I want to try it, but I'm sort of jaded from previous attempts, and don't want to be mired in new bugs. How does this work as far as versions? What should I wait for?
I tried rh4, it was unsatisfactory, i went back to windows. I tried again at rh 6, unsatisfactory, back to windows. I am willing to try again now that 8 is out. But since it Just came out, I assume there'll be a new slew of bugs, the most important of which'll now be worked out and patches will be released, and updates. I ask all of you, how long should I wait to try to get a stable, less buggy version of the new rh8?
I do some physics research with similar materials. I saw the papers involved, and the graphs. I have no idea how he thought he could get away with that. same noise patterns. It's nuts. funny when he said a week or so ago, "I'm having some trouble reproducing the results. It's not working for me now." I suppose he'll go teach high school physics now or something.
Patents are a good thing. But remember what Bob Metcalfe said. Paraphrasing, 'people have a great idea and they get a patent and think they're going to get rich and it doesn't happen. You have to then start a company to market your idea. otherwise it'll get stolen by people who have mucho lawyers and you'll see nothing.'
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I just switched to Mozilla. Happy to be free of Microsoft for email. It's skinnable, and there are some cool skins--like one which sort of emulates Evolution. I noticed an annoying 'feature' though, which is still there from Netscrap days--if you send an email without a subject, a dialog pops up and goes blah blah blah. I asked the Mozilla newsgroup if there was a way around this, but all I got was the sort of adolescent yammerings that keep me out of unmoderated newsgroups. Nice to see it has a spamfilter now. The only major improvement remaining is to add a spell-check (the Netscrap one was licensed from a 3rd party, and can't be freely distributed).
thanks.
When this tech is invisible, I'll be able to buy a laptop, and it will just be online. No worrying about cards or areas, it'll just be omnipresent connectivity.
biz dev and sales? Is this like div grad and curl? I hope not.
For once, I have to respond to the moderation on my post. I think there is merit in voicing approval or disapproval with a suggestion. Merely labeling it redundant is irrelevant when the point I wished to make was support, not elaboration.
'approval voting' where voters pick all the candidates they approve of for the position, would be a great improvement in our system.
space is a harsh place. Radiation, temperature extremes, enormous distances of nothingness. It'll be nice when it isn't almost senselessly prohibitive to go.
moving your hand from the keyboard to the mouse is annoying enough. Who wants to move, pick up, use, put down, and move back? Aside from specialty apps, this is DOA.
PBS gets $250 million per year from the federal government.
I've been awaiting the damage to WCPE for some time. Happy to see that they might not be affected so greatly. WCPE is a great station where they play classical music and DON'T just get money from the government, like PBS. It's a good example of how the market has demonstrated the ability to provide something people think it can't, more efficiently than the government.
It would be interesting to have greater variety between states, because more ideas could be tried, and you could (in theory) find a state which politically/economically you preferred. Customizeable surroundings, so to speak. On the flip side, if this were the case, the likelihood that some states would still have segregation, powerless women, creationism, mandatory prayer, is high. So it's not a clear call, I suppose.
On a positive side, annoying bugs are fixed pretty quickly in O.S. By contrast, a bug in Outlook which causes the send-receive dialog box to repeatedly pop-up two or more times after the user kills it, has not been fixed by MSFT in the 5 years I've been using it. I can't imagine that would last more than, say, a year in Evolution before somebody fixed it.
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whomever modded this should be able to distinguish negative from troll and offtopic. the train story was retarded, boring, and irrelevant, and should not have been accepted.
this shouldn't have been accepted by /. Trains are nearly obsolete. The circumstances of their locomotion substantially affect very few people. Let's have more cool stuff like space elevators, and less boring stuff, like train propulsion.
Due to friction, the rotation of orbiting bodies is diminishing, so in the end the system drifts apart. not that we'll be around then.
On another note, this game might be just what it takes to get me into gaming. Final Fantasy didn't do it, but if Aki had been naked....
that doesn't sound right.
I frequently see articles like this on tech sites. Articles about 64-bit chips, 64-bit linux, 64-bit Windows. None of the articles explains how 64-bit equipment will benefit the user. Perhaps techies assume it's obvious; to them it might be. To the rest of us it isn't. And I don't think I'm speaking from a particularly uninformed position. So can someone please point me to info explaining not the availability of 64-bit processing, but the advantages, capabilities, tradeoffs, etc?
my thermo guy always loved sipping and spitting liquid nitrogen. But i wouldn't recommend it--you can crack a tooth. for a simple one, get a metal gas can, heat it up, cap it, and pour cold water on it. Then when you explain to people that the air that surrounds us is what crushed it, it's pretty amazing.
But how long to wait? I want to try it, but I'm sort of jaded from previous attempts, and don't want to be mired in new bugs. How does this work as far as versions? What should I wait for?
I tried rh4, it was unsatisfactory, i went back to windows. I tried again at rh 6, unsatisfactory, back to windows. I am willing to try again now that 8 is out. But since it Just came out, I assume there'll be a new slew of bugs, the most important of which'll now be worked out and patches will be released, and updates. I ask all of you, how long should I wait to try to get a stable, less buggy version of the new rh8?
I do some physics research with similar materials. I saw the papers involved, and the graphs. I have no idea how he thought he could get away with that. same noise patterns. It's nuts. funny when he said a week or so ago, "I'm having some trouble reproducing the results. It's not working for me now." I suppose he'll go teach high school physics now or something.
Patents are a good thing. But remember what Bob Metcalfe said. Paraphrasing, 'people have a great idea and they get a patent and think they're going to get rich and it doesn't happen. You have to then start a company to market your idea. otherwise it'll get stolen by people who have mucho lawyers and you'll see nothing.'