And what's to stop a script from getting the ID of that popup window and sending it the click-on-OK-button event before the user has a chance to even SEE the window?
No one is saying you have to change your world view, it's just that Microsoft has a poor track record of doing something `good' even when they've claimed before. In writing. And speech.
I can point you to all the `standards' that they have taken and bastardized only to have it Microsoftified. I can show you what they have done in the past when they claimed when they are doing something `for the good of the users/citizens/etc'. But if that's not good enough, what is?
Point is, when Microsoft says ``we'll give you '' that DOESN'T mean they'll just give you something to turn you away from their platform, they want to keep you using their products, it's just plain business sense. Look at the HTML produced by Word. That's not something anyone would post to the web (well, reasonable people wouldn't). Now, if their XML exporter is just as good, what use is it if it's Microsoft-XML?
Note that it's an IF. When DOC2XML comes out and I see the beautiful output of XML That I can view in $EDITOR without any problems, then sure. However, in the past, Microsoft has not lived up to my expectations, nor what they've claimed. So they have to actually produce some quality this time, and before they ever do, all they say is moot.
Why do we need to stifle innovation of the entire society by granting a patent to an interested party, when said party usually does not implement their `idea' but really waits for someone else to do the hard work just so that they can sue them later?
Why even have patents? Call 'em trade secrets. If someone can figure out what you did and do it better, faster, cheaper, and easier, tough luck, it's their achievement.
But I see it as a very easy way to get more linux users and better software for linux. As well as bringing much needed revenue into the open source community.
huh? bring "revenue into the open source community"? what? the only people getting the revenue would be adobe. and photoshop isn't open source. so how's the "community" getting the "revenue"?
you should require all the products (source, ie negatives, digital hi-res images, etc) in addition to high-quality prints from the start. negotiation that into your contract once you've agreed to the basic service ain't gonna work.
before news surfaces that Bill Gates is on his way to exchange gifts with someone high-up in Venezuela?
Is this a true conversion to Open-source or are they playing the game someone suggested in the last Peru article:
Claim you're going open source
Have Microsoft notice
??
Profit!!
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OK, that's a cute theory for the conspiracy theorist, and I do think too many liberties are being bought/sold by congresscritters, but what do you want to do about it? What can you do? Let's see:
write to your congresscritter? cute, but money talks, and you writing does not have as much effect as $30,000 in campaign contributions
protest? most likely will be misunderstood by the majority of the public, and you'll be the laughing stock on the 5 o'clock news
educate the unwashed masses? after all they don't understand. and don't want to hear about it, because it doesn't affect the majority in their day-to-day life, because they don't criticize the gov-t, they let the media and others do it. they just observe the news like sheep and go along with it, because they've got other concerns in the immediate future.
your questions are valid, but what exactly do you propose be done? btw, i mean something more constructive than "donate X dollars to ACLU/EFF/etc, sit back, and hope for the best".
Here's how you have people share ACADEMIC materials: if it's papers, then start an OFFICIAL publications page. For each department. See as an example any "tech reports" section of any CS website of any research-oriented university.
If it's project files, then each project should have a website and enough webspace to provide that content to all interested people with a WEB BROWSER, not more unnecessary software.
Finally, if you just use a distributed file system such as AFS which is in use at MANY universities, people can just say: read/afs/uni/~user/public/file.pdf and it's that simple!
No need for P2P, V2Z, or any other buzzwords. No need to restrict porn, mp3, people post it under their accounts, and not anonymously!! They're responsible for what appears under their account.
Tests of his initial samples suggest that, structurally, translucent concrete is just as good as the traditional kind. But it would cost around five times as much.
According to Dr. Price, of course.
I guess as long as the price is right, we can go for it.
I don't use java in Mozilla - I refuse to install the java plugin.:)
Javascript slow? Really? Can't tell, I haven't noticed. And I don't use IMAP.:)
But... I can tell you what *really* annoys me: the newsgroup server I use requires authentication. Mozilla doesn't have options for user/pass in server properties. The thing is, it's push authentication - the client has to send info, server never asks for it. If client doesn't present credentials, server doesn't show you any groups! It's as good as a useless server. The bug claimed to have been fixed, but it's not! I have no clue what's wrong over there, other than coding it up myself, which I am tempted to attempt, but it's a LOT of code to understand.
Why this is annoying is simply because Outlook Express handles it just fine. I'm guessing there are other newsreaders which would be fine, maybe even Evolution et al, I was just hoping Mozilla would do it all for me -- I don't feel like installing the whole Ximian desktop and I can't seem to connect to ftp.ximian.com to try to steal individual packages...
Just as it was with KDE/QT, if it ain't GPL'd, someone will work hard and fast on their own version, in that case - Gnome, in this case - dotGNU , IIRC.
In the mean time, Microsoft is free to embrace and extend a free implementation (as in BSD-licensed, cross-platform version) of their spec. Well, their classes. Which isn't nothing. But for free.
Conspiracy theory: maybe MS paid Intel and HP to hustle Ximian to change license?
Dude! This is beautiful!! Using prefs.js it didn't work, but now, in user.js it works like a charm! Sweet! No more windows popping up like crazy? Now I can tell everyone why Mozilla rocks!:)
Thanks a lot.
Sometimes, it feels like Cygwin (Unix on Windows) and all the windows-compatibility, and running windows apps on Linux... It's like giving in. Say you're dependent on Windows, so instead of being *completely* dependent on Windows-y things of the way the world works, you install Cygwin, which I've done, and it's nicer than cmd.exe, true! But it's tying you closer to Windows, because now you "sort of" have unix tools such as grep et al, and you can pipe stuff around.
Yeah, you can run Windows apps eg. browser, office, etc on Linux - but what that's saying is that Linux doesn't have the apps. True, it may not have the games, but games aren't emulated well often anyway. Code should be ported, not emulated. It's a great idea, I love the concept, and I'm grateful for their work, but it just feels like.... well, a sacrifice. I like Linux for the openness and the philosophy, I wouldn't be advocating anyone to switch to it because "DUDE!!! it has 'WINE' - it can run Windows apps!!" -- because Windows can run Windows apps as it is. Linux can run Linux apps. And a lot of UNIX apps. And a lot of open-source that gets written every day, and not for Windows.
Sure, it's about choice. Choose your OS, choose your apps, or emulation layer + apps. It's up to you. If I were to switch to a Linux-only solution instead of a dual-boot, I'd love a pure-Linux solution and wouldn't mind working towards it. This makes it easier for us dual-users to slack off on that front.
The moral of the story - we proliferate and extend the life of Windows with this, no offense, just my 2 $(MONETARY_UNIT)s.
Nope, sorry, doesn't work. As a test, I tried the no-pop-ups-on-load with this site: http://astalavista.box.sk/
The end result? Four (4) new windows in addition to the actual page. So... what am I missing?
Yes, I closed Mozilla, edited the file, and restarted. What now?
``Users should be in control of how their data is used,'' Gates wrote. ``It should be easy for users to specify appropriate use of their information including controlling the use of e-mail they send.''
... and the email gets leaked to Associated Press. I guess it's a little too early before we can control who can and who can't read our emails.
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Just making what they said in the 50's come to life again.
Man I wish I had some mod points right now, that is awesome! Thanks for the laughs.
Programs click faster than humans. Game over.
I can point you to all the `standards' that they have taken and bastardized only to have it Microsoftified. I can show you what they have done in the past when they claimed when they are doing something `for the good of the users/citizens/etc'. But if that's not good enough, what is?
Point is, when Microsoft says ``we'll give you '' that DOESN'T mean they'll just give you something to turn you away from their platform, they want to keep you using their products, it's just plain business sense. Look at the HTML produced by Word. That's not something anyone would post to the web (well, reasonable people wouldn't). Now, if their XML exporter is just as good, what use is it if it's Microsoft-XML?
Note that it's an IF. When DOC2XML comes out and I see the beautiful output of XML That I can view in $EDITOR without any problems, then sure. However, in the past, Microsoft has not lived up to my expectations, nor what they've claimed. So they have to actually produce some quality this time, and before they ever do, all they say is moot.
Why even have patents? Call 'em trade secrets. If someone can figure out what you did and do it better, faster, cheaper, and easier, tough luck, it's their achievement.
you should require all the products (source, ie negatives, digital hi-res images, etc) in addition to high-quality prints from the start. negotiation that into your contract once you've agreed to the basic service ain't gonna work.
Would the real Leonard Kleinrock please stand up?
Is this a true conversion to Open-source or are they playing the game someone suggested in the last Peru article:
- write to your congresscritter?
- protest?
- educate the unwashed masses?
your questions are valid, but what exactly do you propose be done? btw, i mean something more constructive than "donate X dollars to ACLU/EFF/etc, sit back, and hope for the best".cute, but money talks, and you writing does not have as much effect as $30,000 in campaign contributions
most likely will be misunderstood by the majority of the public, and you'll be the laughing stock on the 5 o'clock news
after all they don't understand. and don't want to hear about it, because it doesn't affect the majority in their day-to-day life, because they don't criticize the gov-t, they let the media and others do it. they just observe the news like sheep and go along with it, because they've got other concerns in the immediate future.
Here's how you have people share ACADEMIC materials: if it's papers, then start an OFFICIAL publications page. For each department. See as an example any "tech reports" section of any CS website of any research-oriented university.
If it's project files, then each project should have a website and enough webspace to provide that content to all interested people with a WEB BROWSER, not more unnecessary software.
Finally, if you just use a distributed file system such as AFS which is in use at MANY universities, people can just say: read /afs/uni/~user/public/file.pdf and it's that simple!
No need for P2P, V2Z, or any other buzzwords. No need to restrict porn, mp3, people post it under their accounts, and not anonymously!! They're responsible for what appears under their account.
According to Dr. Price, of course.
I guess as long as the price is right, we can go for it.
Javascript slow? Really? Can't tell, I haven't noticed. And I don't use IMAP.
But... I can tell you what *really* annoys me: the newsgroup server I use requires authentication. Mozilla doesn't have options for user/pass in server properties. The thing is, it's push authentication - the client has to send info, server never asks for it. If client doesn't present credentials, server doesn't show you any groups! It's as good as a useless server. The bug claimed to have been fixed, but it's not! I have no clue what's wrong over there, other than coding it up myself, which I am tempted to attempt, but it's a LOT of code to understand.
Why this is annoying is simply because Outlook Express handles it just fine. I'm guessing there are other newsreaders which would be fine, maybe even Evolution et al, I was just hoping Mozilla would do it all for me -- I don't feel like installing the whole Ximian desktop and I can't seem to connect to ftp.ximian.com to try to steal individual packages...
In the mean time, Microsoft is free to embrace and extend a free implementation (as in BSD-licensed, cross-platform version) of their spec. Well, their classes. Which isn't nothing. But for free.
Conspiracy theory: maybe MS paid Intel and HP to hustle Ximian to change license?
Dude! This is beautiful!! Using prefs.js it didn't work, but now, in user.js it works like a charm! Sweet! No more windows popping up like crazy? Now I can tell everyone why Mozilla rocks! :)
Thanks a lot.
Sometimes, it feels like Cygwin (Unix on Windows) and all the windows-compatibility, and running windows apps on Linux... It's like giving in. Say you're dependent on Windows, so instead of being *completely* dependent on Windows-y things of the way the world works, you install Cygwin, which I've done, and it's nicer than cmd.exe, true! But it's tying you closer to Windows, because now you "sort of" have unix tools such as grep et al, and you can pipe stuff around.
Yeah, you can run Windows apps eg. browser, office, etc on Linux - but what that's saying is that Linux doesn't have the apps. True, it may not have the games, but games aren't emulated well often anyway. Code should be ported, not emulated. It's a great idea, I love the concept, and I'm grateful for their work, but it just feels like.... well, a sacrifice. I like Linux for the openness and the philosophy, I wouldn't be advocating anyone to switch to it because "DUDE!!! it has 'WINE' - it can run Windows apps!!" -- because Windows can run Windows apps as it is. Linux can run Linux apps. And a lot of UNIX apps. And a lot of open-source that gets written every day, and not for Windows.
Sure, it's about choice. Choose your OS, choose your apps, or emulation layer + apps. It's up to you. If I were to switch to a Linux-only solution instead of a dual-boot, I'd love a pure-Linux solution and wouldn't mind working towards it. This makes it easier for us dual-users to slack off on that front.
The moral of the story - we proliferate and extend the life of Windows with this, no offense, just my 2 $(MONETARY_UNIT)s.
Nope, sorry, doesn't work. As a test, I tried the no-pop-ups-on-load with this site: http://astalavista.box.sk/ The end result? Four (4) new windows in addition to the actual page. So... what am I missing? Yes, I closed Mozilla, edited the file, and restarted. What now?