For those of you who aren't aware, Mozilla Composer's component owner, Daniel Glazman, has been employed by Lindows.com to continue work on Composer++ (a very good thing), which in turn will serve as the codebase for this new product, nvu. For those of you not believing that Lindows.com is serious about this (and I agree, this is easy to believe), let me remind you of the following:
Lindows.com is *paying* a developer to continue working on a current OSS product, Mozilla, which in turn will add to their product
nvu claims to be fully open source, which they seem to have every intention of following up on.
Lindows.com is paying.
This is a case of lindows putting their money where their mouth is. They're contributing to open source, while also trying to differentiate themselves in the market. Let's give em a chance here.
I would welcome you to try out Mozilla Firebird and switch away from IE. With the new 0.7 release, there are quickly becoming less and less reasons to stick with IE.
Mozilla now comes with the popup filter enabled by default. Only popups that are unrequested (eg, on load and exit, popup/under) will be blocked. Popups that are requested, such as links on a webpage, are allowed through, PROVIDED that the webpage has finished loading (if the webpage is still loading, how are we to know whether or not the page requested it or you requested it?).
Popups that are desirable but open when the page loads are unblocked with a simple mechanism. You just click the popup-blocked ("i" in FB and a '!' in MozillaSeamonkey) icon and select the server to unblock
I don't like to replace my Palm OS PDA every year or so. I do like to replace my cell phone as early as possible (read: when the contract expires). I always buy reasonably cheap phones (below $100). I would like to buy mid-range Palms ($200-300), but I want to buy them at a different time from my cell phone. More importantly, when I change cell phone providers, I don't want to change my PDA.
This is an example of one of those trends that might not necessarily be driven by the consumer (unless you're counting Blackberrys)
The only reason BT hasn't taken off greatly in the US is because of cell phone makers. As much as I love Handspring/Palm, you need look no farther than the Treo to see what I mean.
The cell phone makers are now all about pushing you to buy a "convergence device", or one that is an all-in-one cell phone/PDA/calculator/etc. Why? Because the profit margins are higher, and a convergence device encourages you to buy an expensive phone often. Most people get new phones every year or 2, for usually under $100. This costs cell phone makers a lot of money (hence the longterm contracts). BUT, if they can convince you to buy a $400 Treo and replace *that* in 2 years with *another* $400 Treo, then they've suddenly got themselves a money maker. Not so with bluetooth.
Bluetooth enables you to mix and match. Imagine for a moment that every phone out in the US has bluetooth. Now, you can pick up that $79 Samsung phone (somewhat middle-end) with a decent color screen, but nothing too fancy. Say you're a gadget fanatic, and you buy a brand new Palm Tungsten T3. So now you've got a top of the line Palm (which you may or may not need) but a middle-end cell phone (which you *know* is all you need), but with bluetooth, you can still surf the web on both, keep all your contacts on the palm and dial from the palm, and keep that phone in your pocket while you use a bluetooth headset. Best of all, you can upgrade to another $70 phone in 2 years but still keep that Tungsten T3 if it suits you. This way, your upgrade path is determined by what you want, when you want it. Not when the phone company contract is up.
For those of you wondering why the mozilla servers are swamped all of a sudden, it's because they just recently moved all the servers off of the AOL backbone onto a different host (one of the effects of AOL nixing Netscape), so we're no longer able to get oodles of bandwidth like we used to. Please be understanding while the servers undergo a slashdotting:)
Granted, that's got SVG in it too, but it does support XFT. Nightlies have been compiled with xft for quite a while, it might be worth poking around the mozilla FTP servers when they're not being slashdotted.
Well, if those extra laptops were running Linux or MacOSX, then you wouldn't need to worry about the security of thsoe other desktops, because you can be 90% assured about the security of those laptops, and almost sure that any problem affecting those laptops won't be affecting your windows boxes.
Now, if those were 20 imported Windows laptops, then we'd be talking a different story (blaster showed us how 1 laptop can wreak havoc behind the firewall) here.
If anything, this is a case for a heterogeneous environment, where practical.
As most everyone already knows, Safari/KHTML is very close to Gecko in terms of standards support. Yet, you say that "These users may have used IE in the past, but when they try Safari, they find they like it and that it supports the pages they need to use. No wonder they keep on with it." People have often stated that Mozilla is in fact more compatible and more standards-compliant Safari is, so your earlier statement of "Mozilla has trouble displaying pages" is a direct contradiction.
Fact of the matter is, only a small portion of the web actually breaks in mozilla or safari nowadays. I have been using Mozilla since May 2001 and, let me tell you, it is VERY capable on websites now. The few breakages I've seen tend to be where someone's trying some fancy DHTML thing and doesn't bother to check it in Mozilla.
No, the real problem with users is laziness. They're content, they don't want to change. That's why, as their resident guru, you should be slowly prodding them to switch away from the spyware-prone, bug infested, and stupid IE over to Mozilla, MozFirebird, or Safari, depending on what suits them best.:)
And you're right, users don't give a shit about standards. But web devs do. That's why more users with standards-compliant browsers (even if they're not aware of that 'feature') are still important.
When you install the software on the users' machine, please make sure that you explain to them, if at least briefly, on how to use ALL of them. This way, when the users start using Mozilla or OpenOffice, they won't immediately succumb to using IE or MSoffice again (not an option on Linux, but at least they won't feel confused:) ).
Sun J2RE 1.4.2 Probably not necessary, but best to get it installed and out there.
RealOne Player BASIC. Despite what you think about Real, RealOne isn't such a horrible player, and RV9 isn't a bad codec. Their marketing department needs to be hit with a giant stick though, so make sure you disable all the "automatic options" in realone. Link is to a direct download of the Realone basic player, no hunting for the free version:)
CDex Damn good ripping software for windows, and one of the easiest ways to get Ogg on windows.
Perhaps not to you, but imagine big corporations and what would happen if all their computers were suddenly unavailable.
Imagine if the NYSE and the NASDAQ suddenly couldn't work because all their computers won't turn on. Granted, they might (we hope) have better security than terrorists could easily exploit, but the potential still lies there.
If all the personal computers in the world suddenly wouldn't turn on, I wouldn't really lose any sleep (aside from the fact that I use it to watch some TV before I go to sleep:) )
Yep, Netscape used (and still continues to use, in the Mozilla project (no longer a part of Netscape)) Talkback software from Full Cirle Software (now SupportSoft it seems). It definitely detects a program crash, and then subsequently sends info on the crash back to netscape/mozilla servers. From all accounts, it's been instrumental in getting good data about Mozilla and improving the code. I remember a couple of incidents where talkback data was helpful in fixing crasher bugs and it's also being used to examine mean time between failure. SupportSoft might be very interested in contesting this patent.
For what it's worth, if anyone knows of an open-source solution that might replace Talkback, Mozilla would love to hear it.
No expandability? What the hell are you talking about?
"ADD EXPANSION CARDS
With built-in expansion slot, your Tungsten E handheld grows as your needs grow. Use stamp-sized expansion cards to back up your handheld or add more memory and applications like games, encyclopedias, dictionaries and more. Or, add peripherals such as a digital camera. (all sold separately)"
PALM EXPANSION SLOT
Supports SD, SDIO and MultiMediaCard expansion cards
If you mean the lack of the Palm Universal Connector, then yes, it is missing that (it only has a miniUSB port for syncing, much like the original zire).
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It's why they don't call them laptops anymore. Look on any major computer manufacturer webpage, you'd be hardpressed to find the word "laptop"
Dell - Notebook HPAQ - Notebook Alienware - mobile gaming VoodooPC- mobile
They don't call em laptops anymore because, as you've noticed, they often don't work well in your lap
"Let's also remember that once ATi was much bigger than nvidia in graphics, and charged exorbitant prices for crappy chips, with shocking driver support."
Old hat. ATI had great OEM deals back in the day, and they still have great OEM deals when it comes to server boards. RageIIc is more than enough to run your BW console.
"Let's also remember nvidia have much better performance so far in the more important (and independant) doom3 benchmarks (where 16bit floating point precision is used for nvidia cards, instead of 24 for ati and 32 for nvidia, as directx9 was originally going to specify before nvidia and microsoft fell out)."
How is doom3 much more important? HL2 and D3 are probably equal in terms of engine advances, and D3 has been pushed back until 2004, so the rumor goes. You'll notice that HL2 demos are slated for Sept30, and most shipping estimates put it at this year at least.
Any gaming enthusiast also knows that doom3 is an OGL game, whereas HL2 is DX9. HL2 is also a *very* shader intensive game, whereas doom3 pretty much isn't (there's a couple here and there). Pixel Shaders are where ATI cards flex their muscle (hence the numbers you're seeing today) and where nvidia nv3x cards collapse and wheeze. Since doom3 isn't pixel shader intensive, the nv30 comes out better off, whereas the ATI cards are expected to hold their own (don't get me started on making predictions off of games that have no solid release date and benchmarks that were made months in advance of said non-existant date on an uneven playing field).
I don't see how FP16 precision in doom3 is an "advantage" over FP24/32 in HL2. If anything, it's evidence how nv3x cards need help to hold their own against the competition.
Also, to stomp on your claims on doom3 being "independent," rumors put it as being a "The Way it's meant to be played" game, or in other words, part of the nvidia Marketing Machine. If you have no idea how bad this is, think of it as a "Designed for IE" button on a website. Valve also claims their alliance with ATI is purely a result of the performance numbers you are now getting a look at, not the other way around.
"Also remember that nvidia's cards offer better performance in most 3d rendering apps (where both cards use 32bit fp and almost all of ati's advantages evaporate), so driver tweaking on nv's part in games does not necessarily mean they have a lesser part for that."
ATI has publicly stated many times that the Radeon series is for consumers, FireGL for professional apps. The card performance in the pro apps reflects this. I can't tell you if the FireGL cards perform well, as I don't own one.
"Finally linux support is a no brainer, nvidia have been doing it well for years (with support as far back as tnt), ATi have made a recent attempt that is not user friendly, or even support all radeon chipsets, let alone rage 128."
nvidia has been historically better than ATI at linux support, but yet again ATI's making efforts. Give them time and we'll see what the fruits are.
And come on, 3d drivers for the rage128? I wouldn't put a 3d game anywhere near those cards nowadays. The XF86 drivers builtin should be more than enough.
"ATi are onto a good thing right now with the current directx9 spec giving them an advantage in games that stick to the spec instead of the optimum end user experience. That is about all they have going for them though. This battle has far from swung the other way, it's merely gotten closer than it used to be."
I hardly think cheating in benchmarks, cheating in screenshots (making your card look better than it really is), and releasing shoddy hardware is a *good* thing for nvidia. I think ATI sticking to the spec leads to a better end user experience. The war hasn't been decided, but ATI's sure been winning a lot of battles.
Let me preface by stating that I participated in the Office 2003 beta, so I can give a small description on how this feature works (no tomatoes please).
This feature can be activated by selecting "Document Permissions" from either the toolbar or the File menu. Documents are NOT created with this feature enabled by default, although there might be some random little option somewhere to make it the default option.
In Word, this feature enables you to specify which people can read it, and it automagically turns off Print Screen and Printing if I remember correctly, and maybe the clipboard too. In Outlook this prevents you from forwarding or copying the text to clipboard too.
As for home users being able to use it, for the purposes of the beta Microsoft allowed users to use their.net passport as the method of authenticating users, in addition to whatever 2k3 server they might have had. I'm not sure if they're going to allow.net passports after the Office 2003 launch, but only time will tell. Office 2003 users will have to download some additional program (will probably also be on the CD too) to gain access to restricted documents.
For what it's worth, here's what the microsoft help document has to say on the issue:
NoteYou
can create content with restricted
permission using Information Rights Management only in Microsoft Office
Professional Edition2003, Microsoft Office Word2003,
Microsoft
Office Excel2003, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint2003.
Today, sensitive
information can only be controlled by
limiting access to the networks or computers where the information is
stored.
Once access is given to users, however, there are no restrictions on
what can
be done with the content or to whom it can be sent. This distribution
of
content easily allows sensitive information to reach people who were
never
intended to receive it. Microsoft Office2003 offers a new
feature,
Information Rights Management (IRM), which helps you prevent sensitive
information
from getting into the hands of the wrong people, whether by accident or
carelessness. IRM essentially helps you control your files even after
they have
left your desktop!
Creating
content with restricted permission
IRM allows an
individual author to create a document,
workbook, or presentation with restricted permission for specific
people who
will access the content. Authors use the Permission dialog box (File
| Permission | Do Not Distribute or Permission
on
the Standard
toolbar) to give users Read and Change access, as well as to set
expiration
dates for content. For example, Bob can give Sally permission to read a
document but not make changes to it. Bob can then give John permission
to make
changes to the document, as well as allow him to save the document. Bob
may
also decide to limit both Sally and John's access to this document for
5 days.
Authors can remove restricted permission from a document, workbook, or
presentation by simply clicking Unrestricted Access on the Permission
submenu or by clicking Permission
again
on the Standard
toolbar.
Additionally,
administrators for companies can create
permission policies that are available in Microsoft Office
Word2003,
Microsoft Office Excel2003, and Microsoft Office
PowerPoint2003, on
the Permission submenu and define who can access information
and what
level of editing or Office capabilities users have for a document,
workbook, or
presentation. For example, a company administrator might define a
policy called
"Company Confidential," which specifies that documents, workbooks, or
presentations using that policy can be opened by users inside the
company
domain only. Up to 20 customized policies can be displayed (in
alphabetical
order) on the Permission submenu at one time so that individual
authors
can use them for the content they create.
The new name is characterized in two colors - deep red for the word "palm" and vibrant orange for "One," reflecting the subbrand colors for the company's Tungsten line of solutions for mobile professionals and business and its Zire line of solutions for consumers and multimedia enthusiasts, respectively. The lower-case treatment of the company name gives the word "palm" visual emphasis.
If you visit Palm's (whoops, palmOne's) product page you'll notice that they this is actually true, Zire is orange and Tungsten is red. It's too bad they look sorta garish when juxtaposed next to each other.
Zire 21, Tungsten E, and Tungsten T3 (that might be a spring release) are all lined up for release soon! At least palmone seems to be back on track.
Then you're in luck. Eudora, Mozilla, Netscape 4, and a fair bunch of Unix-based clients use something called "mbox format". It's not compressed very well, because it's basically ALL your messages in one giant text file, but it's more or less a Unix standard. Obviously, importing Microsoft mail is a little harder because, hell, they don't need no Unix standard. They'll just create something call PSTs and ignore everybody else.
Visiting the site in Mozilla breaks (firebird nightly and moz1.4), but Opera 7.11 on Win seems to work just fine, for those of you refusing to hit up IE.
For what it's worth, iRiver (the same people who make the original RioVolt line and the current SlimX and flashplayer things you find at Bestbuy) just made a news release detailing their Ogg efforts. http://www.iriver.com/company/news_view.asp?idx=34 7
Essentially what they're saying is that Tremor is too big for their embedded devices (read: CD players and flash players). I suppose this can be an excusable claim, depending on the device. However, I'm really disappointed their hard drive doesn't include Ogg support, as a hard drive is a bigger and heaver item, and it shouldn't hurt too much for them to include Ogg support on the ROM.
Oh get off your high horse. As if Microsoft never came up with stupid UI/program decisions. The second I start up OE6, MSN messenger decides that it's needed, for no reason, despite it being turned off in the options dialog. How is any reasonable person supposed to know that the "contacts" bar in OE opens up MSN messenger? Certainly isn't immediately obvious (my mail program should not be opening up my IM, particularly not one I don't ever use) to the end user. This took a question to the MSN newsgroups to solve.
And maybe in between your ranting you would've realized that Thunderbird is NOT Mozilla Mail 1.4. This program is geared for the masses, much like Firebird is supposed to be the common man's Mozilla. Maybe you would've even realized that Thunderbird fixes the very problem you're bitching about. No "my sidebar", no grippy to accidentally close the folder list with.
There ARE tangible benefits to moving over to Thunderbird, spam filtering among them. Intangible benefits include not being reliant on Microsoft for everything.
You my friend have absolutely no insight into Palm's business strategy. I'm not going to profess that I know all, but it's fairly obvious why Palm bought Handspring.
Handspring has transitioned themselves into a smartphone provider after moving away from the typical PDAs, and only now are they starting to catch on. palm has met only mild success with their smartphone/blackberry type device, the Tungsten W. If palm wanted to kill off handspring, why would they buy a company that makes nothing but smartphones? Handspring certainly isn't going after palm's core business, straight-up PDAs.
Furthermore, earlier reports of the Handspring buyout mentioned that Palm was particularly intrigued by the Treo 600, and that device is pretty much what clinched the deal (in other words, Handspring didn't just stop dead in their tracks). Why kill off the product that caused you to buy the company?
It's fairly apparent that Palm is planning to attack all markets. If I were a betting man, I would be expecting the Tungsten W to quietly go away, while the Treo will become Palm's super new smartphone. While it's true that the Tungsten W is more business oriented, it doesn't seem such a stretch for them to make a device and call it Tungsten Treo or something. The T|C is only offered in conjunction with AT&T. Handspring has agreements with Tmobile, Cingular, and Sprint. These are resources palm would enjoy to have.
The tungsten T isn't designed to have a builtin phone, or a builtin camera, or anything fancy. It's palm's business workhorse, and is priced accordingly.
Go look at the buymusic.com website (sorry, you'll have to have IE and WMV to laugh at this) and scroll down to "BuyMusic Commercials." You know, the kind that look eerily similar to the ones from apple (http://www.apple.com/music/ads/), right down to the people standing in front of a white background, holding a jukebox (creative zen in this case), and singing along to the song? Even the last screen where they both display their logos are similar (applemusic.com vs. BuyMusic.com).
Oh well. I suppose that imitation is the finest form of flattery.
if they lose? I mean, if they lose the case entirely to IBM, and it's found that their FUDmongering for the past [insert period of time here] is entirely off base (as many of us suspect), then can't anyone who bought a license from them turn around and sue them later for extortion? Or at least selling a license to which they have no rights to?
IANAL obviously (and hopefully someone who is can answer this question), but it seems to me that if you've paid a fee to SCO when their claims are bunk, then you should be able to at least extract that fee back from them.
It might be hard to argue why mozilla should be your standard email client. However, here's a list of good reasons to give if anyone's having a hard time coping:
Crossplatform capability (Mac, Win, Lin, and more as they become ported) Multi-mail account support (Not a huge issue anymore, but I much prefer Mozilla's method over Eudora's or Microsoft's) Topnotch browser (if using the kitchensink suite) Bayesian spam mail filtering.
You should save the Bayesian spam mail filtering point for last. That will be, I think, mozilla mail's killer feature, much like popup block and tabs is mozilla browser's killer feature(s).
While you're arguing for mozilla mail to be standardized across a network, you might as well pitch in a good word for mozilla as a browser. Take your pick of kitchensink suite, firebird, or camino on OSX. Isn't browser choice great?:)
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- Lindows.com is *paying* a developer to continue working on a current OSS product, Mozilla, which in turn will add to their product
- nvu claims to be fully open source, which they seem to have every intention of following up on.
- Lindows.com is paying.
This is a case of lindows putting their money where their mouth is. They're contributing to open source, while also trying to differentiate themselves in the market. Let's give em a chance here.I would welcome you to try out Mozilla Firebird and switch away from IE. With the new 0.7 release, there are quickly becoming less and less reasons to stick with IE.
Mozilla now comes with the popup filter enabled by default. Only popups that are unrequested (eg, on load and exit, popup/under) will be blocked. Popups that are requested, such as links on a webpage, are allowed through, PROVIDED that the webpage has finished loading (if the webpage is still loading, how are we to know whether or not the page requested it or you requested it?).
Popups that are desirable but open when the page loads are unblocked with a simple mechanism. You just click the popup-blocked ("i" in FB and a '!' in MozillaSeamonkey) icon and select the server to unblock
I don't like to replace my Palm OS PDA every year or so. I do like to replace my cell phone as early as possible (read: when the contract expires). I always buy reasonably cheap phones (below $100). I would like to buy mid-range Palms ($200-300), but I want to buy them at a different time from my cell phone. More importantly, when I change cell phone providers, I don't want to change my PDA.
This is an example of one of those trends that might not necessarily be driven by the consumer (unless you're counting Blackberrys)
The only reason BT hasn't taken off greatly in the US is because of cell phone makers. As much as I love Handspring/Palm, you need look no farther than the Treo to see what I mean.
The cell phone makers are now all about pushing you to buy a "convergence device", or one that is an all-in-one cell phone/PDA/calculator/etc. Why? Because the profit margins are higher, and a convergence device encourages you to buy an expensive phone often. Most people get new phones every year or 2, for usually under $100. This costs cell phone makers a lot of money (hence the longterm contracts). BUT, if they can convince you to buy a $400 Treo and replace *that* in 2 years with *another* $400 Treo, then they've suddenly got themselves a money maker. Not so with bluetooth.
Bluetooth enables you to mix and match. Imagine for a moment that every phone out in the US has bluetooth. Now, you can pick up that $79 Samsung phone (somewhat middle-end) with a decent color screen, but nothing too fancy. Say you're a gadget fanatic, and you buy a brand new Palm Tungsten T3. So now you've got a top of the line Palm (which you may or may not need) but a middle-end cell phone (which you *know* is all you need), but with bluetooth, you can still surf the web on both, keep all your contacts on the palm and dial from the palm, and keep that phone in your pocket while you use a bluetooth headset. Best of all, you can upgrade to another $70 phone in 2 years but still keep that Tungsten T3 if it suits you. This way, your upgrade path is determined by what you want, when you want it. Not when the phone company contract is up.
For those of you wondering why the mozilla servers are swamped all of a sudden, it's because they just recently moved all the servers off of the AOL backbone onto a different host (one of the effects of AOL nixing Netscape), so we're no longer able to get oodles of bandwidth like we used to. Please be understanding while the servers undergo a slashdotting :)
You might want to actually look around every once in a while.
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http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firebird/releases/0.
Granted, that's got SVG in it too, but it does support XFT. Nightlies have been compiled with xft for quite a while, it might be worth poking around the mozilla FTP servers when they're not being slashdotted.
Now, if those were 20 imported Windows laptops, then we'd be talking a different story (blaster showed us how 1 laptop can wreak havoc behind the firewall) here. If anything, this is a case for a heterogeneous environment, where practical.
Fact of the matter is, only a small portion of the web actually breaks in mozilla or safari nowadays. I have been using Mozilla since May 2001 and, let me tell you, it is VERY capable on websites now. The few breakages I've seen tend to be where someone's trying some fancy DHTML thing and doesn't bother to check it in Mozilla.
No, the real problem with users is laziness. They're content, they don't want to change. That's why, as their resident guru, you should be slowly prodding them to switch away from the spyware-prone, bug infested, and stupid IE over to Mozilla, MozFirebird, or Safari, depending on what suits them best. :)
And you're right, users don't give a shit about standards. But web devs do. That's why more users with standards-compliant browsers (even if they're not aware of that 'feature') are still important.
Software I think deserves to be on your list:
Perhaps not to you, but imagine big corporations and what would happen if all their computers were suddenly unavailable.
:) )
Imagine if the NYSE and the NASDAQ suddenly couldn't work because all their computers won't turn on. Granted, they might (we hope) have better security than terrorists could easily exploit, but the potential still lies there.
If all the personal computers in the world suddenly wouldn't turn on, I wouldn't really lose any sleep (aside from the fact that I use it to watch some TV before I go to sleep
For what it's worth, if anyone knows of an open-source solution that might replace Talkback, Mozilla would love to hear it.
It's why they don't call them laptops anymore. Look on any major computer manufacturer webpage, you'd be hardpressed to find the word "laptop"
Dell - Notebook
HPAQ - Notebook
Alienware - mobile gaming
VoodooPC- mobile
They don't call em laptops anymore because, as you've noticed, they often don't work well in your lap
Old hat. ATI had great OEM deals back in the day, and they still have great OEM deals when it comes to server boards. RageIIc is more than enough to run your BW console.
How is doom3 much more important? HL2 and D3 are probably equal in terms of engine advances, and D3 has been pushed back until 2004, so the rumor goes. You'll notice that HL2 demos are slated for Sept30, and most shipping estimates put it at this year at least.Any gaming enthusiast also knows that doom3 is an OGL game, whereas HL2 is DX9. HL2 is also a *very* shader intensive game, whereas doom3 pretty much isn't (there's a couple here and there). Pixel Shaders are where ATI cards flex their muscle (hence the numbers you're seeing today) and where nvidia nv3x cards collapse and wheeze. Since doom3 isn't pixel shader intensive, the nv30 comes out better off, whereas the ATI cards are expected to hold their own (don't get me started on making predictions off of games that have no solid release date and benchmarks that were made months in advance of said non-existant date on an uneven playing field).
I don't see how FP16 precision in doom3 is an "advantage" over FP24/32 in HL2. If anything, it's evidence how nv3x cards need help to hold their own against the competition.
Also, to stomp on your claims on doom3 being "independent," rumors put it as being a "The Way it's meant to be played" game, or in other words, part of the nvidia Marketing Machine. If you have no idea how bad this is, think of it as a "Designed for IE" button on a website. Valve also claims their alliance with ATI is purely a result of the performance numbers you are now getting a look at, not the other way around.
ATI has publicly stated many times that the Radeon series is for consumers, FireGL for professional apps. The card performance in the pro apps reflects this. I can't tell you if the FireGL cards perform well, as I don't own one. nvidia has been historically better than ATI at linux support, but yet again ATI's making efforts. Give them time and we'll see what the fruits are.And come on, 3d drivers for the rage128? I wouldn't put a 3d game anywhere near those cards nowadays. The XF86 drivers builtin should be more than enough.
I hardly think cheating in benchmarks, cheating in screenshots (making your card look better than it really is), and releasing shoddy hardware is a *good* thing for nvidia. I think ATI sticking to the spec leads to a better end user experience. The war hasn't been decided, but ATI's sure been winning a lot of battles.So, uh, where's my five nines of reliability again?
This feature can be activated by selecting "Document Permissions" from either the toolbar or the File menu. Documents are NOT created with this feature enabled by default, although there might be some random little option somewhere to make it the default option.
In Word, this feature enables you to specify which people can read it, and it automagically turns off Print Screen and Printing if I remember correctly, and maybe the clipboard too. In Outlook this prevents you from forwarding or copying the text to clipboard too.
As for home users being able to use it, for the purposes of the beta Microsoft allowed users to use their .net passport as the method of authenticating users, in addition to whatever 2k3 server they might have had. I'm not sure if they're going to allow .net passports after the Office 2003 launch, but only time will tell. Office 2003 users will have to download some additional program (will probably also be on the CD too) to gain access to restricted documents.
For what it's worth, here's what the microsoft help document has to say on the issue:
The new name is characterized in two colors - deep red for the word "palm" and vibrant orange for "One," reflecting the subbrand colors for the company's Tungsten line of solutions for mobile professionals and business and its Zire line of solutions for consumers and multimedia enthusiasts, respectively. The lower-case treatment of the company name gives the word "palm" visual emphasis.
If you visit Palm's (whoops, palmOne's) product page you'll notice that they this is actually true, Zire is orange and Tungsten is red. It's too bad they look sorta garish when juxtaposed next to each other.
Zire 21, Tungsten E, and Tungsten T3 (that might be a spring release) are all lined up for release soon! At least palmone seems to be back on track.
- Edit>Mail and Newsgroup Accounts (this is in a different location in tbird, try Tools)
- Select your account from the list on the left.
- Expand the options below it, and select "Offline and Disk Space"
- Under Offline, select either the Inbox or Other Folders option, depending on what you need.
You're on your own to find thunderbird compatible instructions, but it shouldnt be terribly different.Then you're in luck. Eudora, Mozilla, Netscape 4, and a fair bunch of Unix-based clients use something called "mbox format". It's not compressed very well, because it's basically ALL your messages in one giant text file, but it's more or less a Unix standard. Obviously, importing Microsoft mail is a little harder because, hell, they don't need no Unix standard. They'll just create something call PSTs and ignore everybody else.
For what it's worth, iRiver (the same people who make the original RioVolt line and the current SlimX and flashplayer things you find at Bestbuy) just made a news release detailing their Ogg efforts. http://www.iriver.com/company/news_view.asp?idx=34 7
Essentially what they're saying is that Tremor is too big for their embedded devices (read: CD players and flash players). I suppose this can be an excusable claim, depending on the device. However, I'm really disappointed their hard drive doesn't include Ogg support, as a hard drive is a bigger and heaver item, and it shouldn't hurt too much for them to include Ogg support on the ROM.
Oh get off your high horse. As if Microsoft never came up with stupid UI/program decisions. The second I start up OE6, MSN messenger decides that it's needed, for no reason, despite it being turned off in the options dialog. How is any reasonable person supposed to know that the "contacts" bar in OE opens up MSN messenger? Certainly isn't immediately obvious (my mail program should not be opening up my IM, particularly not one I don't ever use) to the end user. This took a question to the MSN newsgroups to solve.
And maybe in between your ranting you would've realized that Thunderbird is NOT Mozilla Mail 1.4. This program is geared for the masses, much like Firebird is supposed to be the common man's Mozilla. Maybe you would've even realized that Thunderbird fixes the very problem you're bitching about. No "my sidebar", no grippy to accidentally close the folder list with.
There ARE tangible benefits to moving over to Thunderbird, spam filtering among them. Intangible benefits include not being reliant on Microsoft for everything.
Handspring has transitioned themselves into a smartphone provider after moving away from the typical PDAs, and only now are they starting to catch on. palm has met only mild success with their smartphone/blackberry type device, the Tungsten W. If palm wanted to kill off handspring, why would they buy a company that makes nothing but smartphones? Handspring certainly isn't going after palm's core business, straight-up PDAs.
Furthermore, earlier reports of the Handspring buyout mentioned that Palm was particularly intrigued by the Treo 600, and that device is pretty much what clinched the deal (in other words, Handspring didn't just stop dead in their tracks). Why kill off the product that caused you to buy the company?
It's fairly apparent that Palm is planning to attack all markets. If I were a betting man, I would be expecting the Tungsten W to quietly go away, while the Treo will become Palm's super new smartphone. While it's true that the Tungsten W is more business oriented, it doesn't seem such a stretch for them to make a device and call it Tungsten Treo or something. The T|C is only offered in conjunction with AT&T. Handspring has agreements with Tmobile, Cingular, and Sprint. These are resources palm would enjoy to have.
The tungsten T isn't designed to have a builtin phone, or a builtin camera, or anything fancy. It's palm's business workhorse, and is priced accordingly.
Oh well. I suppose that imitation is the finest form of flattery.
if they lose? I mean, if they lose the case entirely to IBM, and it's found that their FUDmongering for the past [insert period of time here] is entirely off base (as many of us suspect), then can't anyone who bought a license from them turn around and sue them later for extortion? Or at least selling a license to which they have no rights to?
IANAL obviously (and hopefully someone who is can answer this question), but it seems to me that if you've paid a fee to SCO when their claims are bunk, then you should be able to at least extract that fee back from them.
It might be hard to argue why mozilla should be your standard email client. However, here's a list of good reasons to give if anyone's having a hard time coping:
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Crossplatform capability (Mac, Win, Lin, and more as they become ported)
Multi-mail account support (Not a huge issue anymore, but I much prefer Mozilla's method over Eudora's or Microsoft's)
Topnotch browser (if using the kitchensink suite)
Bayesian spam mail filtering.
You should save the Bayesian spam mail filtering point for last. That will be, I think, mozilla mail's killer feature, much like popup block and tabs is mozilla browser's killer feature(s).
While you're arguing for mozilla mail to be standardized across a network, you might as well pitch in a good word for mozilla as a browser. Take your pick of kitchensink suite, firebird, or camino on OSX. Isn't browser choice great?