You could try switching distributions. I use debian unstable and konqueror is so rock solid it's not even funny anymore =P
I have currently 4 konqueror windows open with perhaps 75 tabs altogether (sites I check regularily, longer articles I'm reading in small chunks, etc). It's been a long time since one of those crashed (I do reboot though, they get restored on boot). I don't use Mozilla for Linux often enough to make a comparison but Firefox for Windows is worse, much worse.
"The only war the French have ever won was their revolutionary war... sad that it means that they also lost that one..."
Well, using a conservative starting point for the French state they've won the Hundred Years War, the 30yrs War and the wars against Spain in the 17th century, arguably the wars under Louis XIV (they were rather indecisive but France expanded in most of them), the American Independence War, the Crimea War (were they did a lot more than the British which were rather ineffective due to the lack of an enemy fleet to destroy), WW1, officially they were victorious in WW2, and a number of smaller wars I've overlooked.
I think it's FUD. In KDE 2.2 I used Galeon as web browser in 3.0 I needed Mozilla about once a day for pages that didn't work (versions can be slightly off, please don't start nitpicking =), nowadays I open Mozilla perhaps once a week, probably less (on Linux, on Windows it's my main browser but I mostly use Linux), he is feeling the hot breath of KDE on his neck and decided it was time to start flaming away. Perhaps there's schadenfreude now that the Apple-KDE relationship didn't work out because when Apple chose khtml over gecko it was specifically because khtml was lightweight and *clean* code. =)
You show the already expanded version. (And afaik it's not KDE 3.4 either. Seems like the screens are outdated)
Most of your "problems" sounds like minor nitpicking of someone desperate to find faults or someone who has never even used the program but finds that he can't figure out a complex tool (ais, it's the advanced dialog and the printing subsystem is complex on all systems) by just looking at a screenshot. The one problem you mentioned that I can agree with is that "Range" never seems to be grayed out, even if the option doesn't make any sense because there's only one page.
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The real problem is that Apple isn't willing to throw it in a plain brown box and send it via UPS ground to KDE, it isn't even willing to show it to the KDE developers when they knock on the door, they have to go to the haunted house, with the triple locks, broken lights and stairs and look for it in a closet in the basement with the sign "Beware of the Leopard" on the door. Oh and it's written in an ancient dialect of Swahili still spoken in some remote villages
All the KDE devs asked for was access to the logs of Apple's version control system; they even would have signed NDAs. But all Apple gives them are sporadical dumps of tens of MB of code which makes diffs completely useless. Reverse engineering the patches and applying them to the KHTML codebase is more work than writing a new patch from scratch and all the while there are the Apple fanboys bitching why KHTML doesn't have this patch or that patch even though the almighty Apple gave them the patch a zillion years ago.
It's more or less finished. The reason it opens in September and not now is that someone at Universal has some brains and noticed that putting Serenity in the Slot between Hitchhikers' Guide and Episode III is awfully like what Fox did with the "Friday 8PM when not preempted for Baseball"-Slot.
I can see dangers in this becoming an elitist thing though, i.e Trusted Sites only linking to other trusted sites, or creating perceptions in surfer's minds. It will be interested to see how Google develop this one, that's for sure.
Well, they've gotta learned something from the orkut (sp?) mess.
Well, the Airbus equivalent to the 7E7 will be out by 2010, two years after the Boeing Dreamliner. Someone else has already pointed out that many believe there's only enough demand for one really big plane, so the 380 had priority, while there are lots and lots of smaller planes so being two years late to the party won't be so decisive. I don't think that small jets are going to replace all of the big jets and with the 747 hoplessly out of date that means Airbus can sell planes for that segment with virtually no competition in the next decades.
IMHO that's the reasoning for the decision to develop the 380 (French pride probably played a role too =)
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You're right, Firefox copied many of the features of Opera but most simply don't work as well as they do in Opera. Most of the stuff the tabbrowser extension does for example, Opera's cookie/session management is more robust and seems to fail less. Also Opera may ship with lots of stuff included but it's still smaller, takes less system memory (if you open lots of tabs, i.e. 25+, at least, I don't know how it is if you only work with 1 or 2), has less memory leaks, and is simply faster.
Only problem: I *really, really, really* dislike the cookie management of Opera, so I use Mozilla instead (seems more stable than Firefox). I'd be grateful if someone could tell me whether they changed it for 8.0, thx.
This only helps if kill -9 works. My desktop Linux has been running for about a week now and currently there are three tasks that I can't kill with SIGKILL. One of them blocks a mounted file system I want to unmount.
AFAIK there's only one size for the thumbnails (you can get any size you want in kpdf, that's actually more useful than I'd thought it would be) and the search in kpdf seems more responsive and a bit faster (not so much that it's important). OTOH Evince supports dvi and ps which is rather cool. Kdvi and Kghostscript are good programs but there are some slight differences that can be very annoying (e.g. let's say you read a book and you resized the page so that the top and bottom margins are cut off. Now if you you go to the next page in Kdvi you stay where you were *on the page*, if you were half way down you're going to be scrolled to the same position on the next page and on the original when you switch back. In kpdf you end up at the top or the bottom - depends on how you changed pages). I hope they unify the behaviour where there's common functionality, I have no problem if they keep different apps (because it means better specialization. Kdvi can jump to the point in the output where latex had an error or you can choose a position in the dvi and jump to the corresponding point in the.tex, etc. - if they keep all the features they can do a kpdvis if they want), they could also make a kviewer framework and use the kparts like konqueror or kontact =)
the Google search is not really suitable for Wikipedia. Actually the Wikipedia search itself is rather bad. It's not fuzzy/error tolerant enough. One wrong letter (especially stupid in foreign names where there may be a number of different but correct spellings) or if you only search for a part of the word (Poisonpoisoning) and it fails (afaik).
One of the things I dislike about google is that they haven't improved this in the last 8 years (when did they start the beta?) and while it's a minor annoyance when you search the web (because someone somewhere probably used the terms you're searching for on his/her page); for an encyclopedia this is a much bigger problem
The problem is that afaik it's impossible for an *institution* to get federal funding if anyone of that institution does such research.
So you don't lose federal funding for a specific project but for everything. With very few exceptions almost any university, research institute etc. gets federal funding for something (could be the sports program, cleaning the toilets, other research projects...) so effectively it's a ban.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong (and you have proof =)
Was he a wiley sea captain with knowledge of the Americas (before Vespucci named it after himself)
Vespucci did nothing of that kind (afaik). IIRC some German geographer printed a rather popular map in the years after the discovery and called it America, he tried to correct his error some years later but it didn't work.
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If people really start using the psp for chatting something similar to flag signaling could really be useful. The d-pad offers 8 positions, if you use it to modify button events (or use the buttons to modifiy the d-pad signals) you get 48 possibilities. More than enough. Ok, it's going to take some time to learn the positions of the different letters but most here learned the regular keyboard and lots of people can touch-type on their cell-phone so one more gadget should be doable.
That's the new marketing ploy du jour. Expect to see more of it in the next weeks:
"Microsoft Longhorn and your productivity will by about 40%!!!"
"Buy Apple, now 100% than Redmond!"
"Forget the Prius, the new Hummer hummer offers 40"
No substance, no refutable statement you could be sued for and the internet made consumers error-tolerant so they'll read what the marketing boys want them to read.
better link (This link is actually from the article in my first post, should have read it before posting =)
Offers much more information, for example:
One much-repeated fallacy about the Librie is that power is used only for turning pages. While it is true that the "ink" particles stay in position without consuming power, the electronic innards do drain the juice, hence the inclusion of a standby mode. Nevertheless, the three AAA batteries used to power the Librie should stretch to an impressive 10,000 pages, enough for about 40 novels.
So sue me =P
"The average book in Japan weighs 309g; we designed the Librie to weigh 300g, including case and batteries."
just some funny trivia; and:
To keep a tight rein on the flow of ebooks, 15 major publishers and newspapers, including Kodansha, Asahi Shimbun and Yomiuri Shimbun, have teamed up with Sony to form a company called Publishing Link and to provide content through a website known as Timebook Town.
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Readers can choose texts from seven sections, or clubs, ranging from business books to novels and may either pay ¥315 (£1.65) for a single title or join that club and gain access to up to five books a month for ¥210 (£1.10) each.
This is important. I don't have a problem with DRM itself, I have a problem with content that costs more than physical mediums (i.e. you pay more for online renting than if you do it in real life, until Steve Jobs beat some sense into the RIAA heads they offered 64kbps WMAs that didn't allow you to do anything with them for $3, etc), that is restricted like hell. Digital files are cheaper for the publishers so I want to benefit from that.
Sony had some really cool electronic paper (there was a story on/.) that offers the best of both worlds (or at least could, would probably need a revision or two), it offers high resolution, you only need power to switch pages not to keep them displayed and IIRC it also had some nifty mechanism to fast forward through books.
Of course it's Sony, so it's locked down with DRM and a proprietary format noone else uses but as they apparently have changed their ways recently (They opened up Blu-Ray and it even supports MS's VC-1, their new harddisk player supports mp3 etc) there's still hope =)
Yes, you are right - you can thank DVD Jon, and others, for that, for
You are nuts. Sorry but it had to be said
a) complaining about DRM (yet doing absolutely NOTHING about Windows DRM),
WMV10 DRM is cracked. You need a valid license to remove the encryption but afaik it's the same with iTMS
and b) complaining that them hacking it is Apple's fault, for making it too easy....and then you're worried that Apple is forced to tighten their DRM (yet, still maintaining it as open for the consumer as they can)
But this doesn't make it any harder to crack. What Apple would need to do, is to improve the algorithm or method but they tightened the rule-set instead. That's something completely different. A more restrictive rule set doesn't improve the security of the drm in any way, it only pisses off users which helps DVD Jon.
I think it's a lack of buzz and advertising. I guess Sony loses too much money per unit and are still unfamiliar with handhelds so they try some sort of rolling release. They focus less on the first few weeks (they don't need to because they have enough aaa games for the next year lined up so they're not desperate to sell as many units as possible), delay GTA and GT4 until october and then start a big media blitz with the two system sellers. Not only will they lose less on manufacturing by then, they can also annoy Microsoft and rain on their Xbox 360 parade.
Wow, they use both lists grouped by item types. What a new idea. All hail Apple. I use the ls command daily what would I do if they hadn't invented lists.
If you look at the UI almost the only thing that looks even remotely similar is the list. The rest of the UI is arranged completely different. And the lists are different as well, in Longhorn you have more columns with information and you can sort by any of them, looking at your screen (it's rather small) that doesn't seem possible on Tiger
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You could try switching distributions. I use debian unstable and konqueror is so rock solid it's not even funny anymore =P
I have currently 4 konqueror windows open with perhaps 75 tabs altogether (sites I check regularily, longer articles I'm reading in small chunks, etc). It's been a long time since one of those crashed (I do reboot though, they get restored on boot). I don't use Mozilla for Linux often enough to make a comparison but Firefox for Windows is worse, much worse.
still has some weird rendering bugs.
yep.
unified is more flexible, otoh ram at 3.2GHz!!! Those 256MB are going to be incredibly fast.
Well, using a conservative starting point for the French state they've won the Hundred Years War, the 30yrs War and the wars against Spain in the 17th century, arguably the wars under Louis XIV (they were rather indecisive but France expanded in most of them), the American Independence War, the Crimea War (were they did a lot more than the British which were rather ineffective due to the lack of an enemy fleet to destroy), WW1, officially they were victorious in WW2, and a number of smaller wars I've overlooked.
I think it's FUD. In KDE 2.2 I used Galeon as web browser in 3.0 I needed Mozilla about once a day for pages that didn't work (versions can be slightly off, please don't start nitpicking =), nowadays I open Mozilla perhaps once a week, probably less (on Linux, on Windows it's my main browser but I mostly use Linux), he is feeling the hot breath of KDE on his neck and decided it was time to start flaming away. Perhaps there's schadenfreude now that the Apple-KDE relationship didn't work out because when Apple chose khtml over gecko it was specifically because khtml was lightweight and *clean* code. =)
You show the already expanded version. (And afaik it's not KDE 3.4 either. Seems like the screens are outdated)
Most of your "problems" sounds like minor nitpicking of someone desperate to find faults or someone who has never even used the program but finds that he can't figure out a complex tool (ais, it's the advanced dialog and the printing subsystem is complex on all systems) by just looking at a screenshot. The one problem you mentioned that I can agree with is that "Range" never seems to be grayed out, even if the option doesn't make any sense because there's only one page.
All the KDE devs asked for was access to the logs of Apple's version control system; they even would have signed NDAs. But all Apple gives them are sporadical dumps of tens of MB of code which makes diffs completely useless. Reverse engineering the patches and applying them to the KHTML codebase is more work than writing a new patch from scratch and all the while there are the Apple fanboys bitching why KHTML doesn't have this patch or that patch even though the almighty Apple gave them the patch a zillion years ago.
Apart from that gp was right, this is a 2004 survey, for most of that year Gentoo was still the hip distro du jour.
It's more or less finished. The reason it opens in September and not now is that someone at Universal has some brains and noticed that putting Serenity in the Slot between Hitchhikers' Guide and Episode III is awfully like what Fox did with the "Friday 8PM when not preempted for Baseball"-Slot.
Well, they've gotta learned something from the orkut (sp?) mess.
IMHO that's the reasoning for the decision to develop the 380 (French pride probably played a role too =)
Only problem: I *really, really, really* dislike the cookie management of Opera, so I use Mozilla instead (seems more stable than Firefox). I'd be grateful if someone could tell me whether they changed it for 8.0, thx.
Looks like I'm gonna have to reboot soon
AFAIK there's only one size for the thumbnails (you can get any size you want in kpdf, that's actually more useful than I'd thought it would be) and the search in kpdf seems more responsive and a bit faster (not so much that it's important). OTOH Evince supports dvi and ps which is rather cool. Kdvi and Kghostscript are good programs but there are some slight differences that can be very annoying (e.g. let's say you read a book and you resized the page so that the top and bottom margins are cut off. Now if you you go to the next page in Kdvi you stay where you were *on the page*, if you were half way down you're going to be scrolled to the same position on the next page and on the original when you switch back. In kpdf you end up at the top or the bottom - depends on how you changed pages). I hope they unify the behaviour where there's common functionality, I have no problem if they keep different apps (because it means better specialization. Kdvi can jump to the point in the output where latex had an error or you can choose a position in the dvi and jump to the corresponding point in the .tex, etc. - if they keep all the features they can do a kpdvis if they want), they could also make a kviewer framework and use the kparts like konqueror or kontact =)
Hey, don't insult Ft Livingroom, home of the 101st Keyboard Division under the command of General Twenty T. Hindsight. Best unit ever.
One of the things I dislike about google is that they haven't improved this in the last 8 years (when did they start the beta?) and while it's a minor annoyance when you search the web (because someone somewhere probably used the terms you're searching for on his/her page); for an encyclopedia this is a much bigger problem
So you don't lose federal funding for a specific project but for everything. With very few exceptions almost any university, research institute etc. gets federal funding for something (could be the sports program, cleaning the toilets, other research projects...) so effectively it's a ban.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong (and you have proof =)
Vespucci did nothing of that kind (afaik). IIRC some German geographer printed a rather popular map in the years after the discovery and called it America, he tried to correct his error some years later but it didn't work.
Ah, found a link =)
If people really start using the psp for chatting something similar to flag signaling could really be useful. The d-pad offers 8 positions, if you use it to modify button events (or use the buttons to modifiy the d-pad signals) you get 48 possibilities. More than enough. Ok, it's going to take some time to learn the positions of the different letters but most here learned the regular keyboard and lots of people can touch-type on their cell-phone so one more gadget should be doable.
"Microsoft Longhorn and your productivity will by about 40%!!!"
"Buy Apple, now 100% than Redmond!"
"Forget the Prius, the new Hummer hummer offers 40"
No substance, no refutable statement you could be sued for and the internet made consumers error-tolerant so they'll read what the marketing boys want them to read.
Profit!
Offers much more information, for example:
One much-repeated fallacy about the Librie is that power is used only for turning pages. While it is true that the "ink" particles stay in position without consuming power, the electronic innards do drain the juice, hence the inclusion of a standby mode. Nevertheless, the three AAA batteries used to power the Librie should stretch to an impressive 10,000 pages, enough for about 40 novels.
So sue me =P
"The average book in Japan weighs 309g; we designed the Librie to weigh 300g, including case and batteries."
just some funny trivia; and:
To keep a tight rein on the flow of ebooks, 15 major publishers and newspapers, including Kodansha, Asahi Shimbun and Yomiuri Shimbun, have teamed up with Sony to form a company called Publishing Link and to provide content through a website known as Timebook Town.
Readers can choose texts from seven sections, or clubs, ranging from business books to novels and may either pay ¥315 (£1.65) for a single title or join that club and gain access to up to five books a month for ¥210 (£1.10) each.
This is important. I don't have a problem with DRM itself, I have a problem with content that costs more than physical mediums (i.e. you pay more for online renting than if you do it in real life, until Steve Jobs beat some sense into the RIAA heads they offered 64kbps WMAs that didn't allow you to do anything with them for $3, etc), that is restricted like hell. Digital files are cheaper for the publishers so I want to benefit from that.
Of course it's Sony, so it's locked down with DRM and a proprietary format noone else uses but as they apparently have changed their ways recently (They opened up Blu-Ray and it even supports MS's VC-1, their new harddisk player supports mp3 etc) there's still hope =)
You are nuts. Sorry but it had to be said
a) complaining about DRM (yet doing absolutely NOTHING about Windows DRM),
WMV10 DRM is cracked. You need a valid license to remove the encryption but afaik it's the same with iTMS
and b) complaining that them hacking it is Apple's fault, for making it too easy. ...and then you're worried that Apple is forced to tighten their DRM (yet, still maintaining it as open for the consumer as they can)
But this doesn't make it any harder to crack. What Apple would need to do, is to improve the algorithm or method but they tightened the rule-set instead. That's something completely different. A more restrictive rule set doesn't improve the security of the drm in any way, it only pisses off users which helps DVD Jon.
It's more the lack of alternatives. Is there any other serious fighter for the GCN?
I think it's a lack of buzz and advertising. I guess Sony loses too much money per unit and are still unfamiliar with handhelds so they try some sort of rolling release. They focus less on the first few weeks (they don't need to because they have enough aaa games for the next year lined up so they're not desperate to sell as many units as possible), delay GTA and GT4 until october and then start a big media blitz with the two system sellers. Not only will they lose less on manufacturing by then, they can also annoy Microsoft and rain on their Xbox 360 parade.
If you look at the UI almost the only thing that looks even remotely similar is the list. The rest of the UI is arranged completely different. And the lists are different as well, in Longhorn you have more columns with information and you can sort by any of them, looking at your screen (it's rather small) that doesn't seem possible on Tiger