I've posted this before, and was modded down as a troll, but I'm glad someone else has noticed this too. Doesn't the fact that "there are already so many standards" imply that there is actually very little about Linux that is, in fact, standard?
Doesn't the fact that you were "modded down as a troll" imply that there is actually very little about your argument that is, in fact, intelligent?
I don't know about Mozilla, but a lot of these parties don't look release-quality! Take the London party, which has 31 attendees signed up (some of whom may even be real people), and is taking place at an undecided location on an undecided date (probably at somebody's house or something). Or the New Zealand party, where the attendees won't necessarily know that they're at a Mozilla party (allegedly because they're all on drugs).
I guess that's just another thing that will be fixed for 1.1.
I hope you mean like "http://www.google.com/search?q=foo+bar". The URL bar should be for URLs and nothing else.
I'm afraid I have to disagree with you there. The URL bar is too useful as a user-interface element to restrict to just URLs. In Konqueror I could type "imdb:Big Trouble in Little China" to lookup a movie directly. Sadly, Mozilla doesn't go that far, but typing "<Ctrl-T> saiokuji temple <Tab> <Enter>" to do a Google search is still spectacularly quick (this requires you to change your default search engine to Google, which is a really good idea IMHO).
Arguably, this functionality could equally well be provided by popup windows without polluting the purity of the URL bar, but overloading the URL bar makes this functionality more accessable to people who don't know the keyboard shortcuts.
In fact, even www.google.com will automatically select the Japanese language if you're browsing from Japan (not sure if they're going off browser settings, IP address, or DNS).
All this talk about how the DNS desperately needs to be internationalised overlooks one vital fact: the DNS intentionally uses a limited character set. a-z, 0-9 and -, that's it. This allows hostnames to be used in all kinds of useful places without quoting (like URLs!). And it means they have a single, unambiguous, canonical representation.
If I can register ".com", shouldn't someone else be able to register "/.org"? How about "slashdot.org"? If not, why not?
DNS names are mnemonics, not keywords. Their purpose is to be easy to remember, not to provide a human-language description of the domain. If you want to search for something, please use a search engine. That's what they're there for. Any reasonable browser will let you search from the URL bar.
But I am an American, and without being too jingoistic, I think we get this one right: Allow a free market of ideas. Don't allow the government, or the moral minority, or "the People" to legislate that some ideas are "wrong".
I'm damn well suggesting that a drive shouldn't fail when you put in something that is PHYSICALLY COMPATIBLE with a CD. Sure, I don't expect it to be able to handle a cheese sandwich or a sanding disc, but a correctly-sized piece of plastic should be fine.
I've stuck a DVD disc in an iMac CDR drive before now, and it correctly rejected it, so there's certain precedence for your point of view. But computers simply aren't designed to cope with actively hostile media... a CD could have an autorun program on it that would wipe the hard disk of any computer it was placed in. As the system doesn't have any way to defend against that, it's arguably pointless to run around fixing the multitude of other ways that removable media can be hostile.
I'm running it now, and my laptop is on its knees like a contact-lens wearer at a disco. Sitting here looking at a grey box where the window should be is frighteningly reminiscent of when I used to surf the web with Netscape. Wasn't multithreading supposed to liberate us from unresponsive interfaces? What happened with that?
Yup, like I said, I have a log full of lame server entries for wwws1.com -> translation, the program was sending her to wwws1.com and my DNS server when doing the resolving was reporting the fact that the DNS for wwws1.com is not setup correctly.
Specifically, wwws1.com has two nameservers, ns1.zonesnow.net and ns2.zonesnow.net. But only ns2.zonesnow.net actually knows about the domain. If your nameserver goes to ns1 first, it will report "lame server" then try the other.
Amusingly, the whois information (and hence top-level DNS servers) contain two completely different nameservers, NS1.QUIK-NET.NET and NS2.QUIK-NET.NET. Again only NS2 knows about the domain. This is common with badly configured DNS.
I can't believe this got moderated 4! This is barking mad! I realise most Americans have been brainwashed with anti-communist propaganda from birth, but surely any reasonably intelligent person can see the absurdity of the above comment? Anyone? Anyone at all?
The article is not even clear on whether this development is supposed to be replacing RAM or hard disks. But either way, it cannot eliminate the need for rebooting. The primary reasons for rebooting are either to reset the operating system to a known state, or to upgrade low-level software (such as the kernel in Linux, or your web browser in Windows). Neither of these necessities go away with non-volatile RAM, regardless of how fast, cheap, or capacious it may be. These are software issues, and they need software solutions.
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I guess that's just another thing that will be fixed for 1.1.
Come to think of it, that'd be a pretty good consolation prize. But bearded kids would frighten the neighbours.
Of course it's necessary, where would we be without Freshdot?
Arguably, this functionality could equally well be provided by popup windows without polluting the purity of the URL bar, but overloading the URL bar makes this functionality more accessable to people who don't know the keyboard shortcuts.
See bug #56141.
Great, you've ruined Doom III for me!
:-)
Oh well, at least I won't have to buy a machine to play it on now
In fact, even www.google.com will automatically select the Japanese language if you're browsing from Japan (not sure if they're going off browser settings, IP address, or DNS).
All this talk about how the DNS desperately needs to be internationalised overlooks one vital fact: the DNS intentionally uses a limited character set. a-z, 0-9 and -, that's it. This allows hostnames to be used in all kinds of useful places without quoting (like URLs!). And it means they have a single, unambiguous, canonical representation.
If I can register ".com", shouldn't someone else be able to register "/.org"? How about "slashdot.org"? If not, why not?
DNS names are mnemonics, not keywords. Their purpose is to be easy to remember, not to provide a human-language description of the domain. If you want to search for something, please use a search engine. That's what they're there for. Any reasonable browser will let you search from the URL bar.
Roughly as dangerous as sending them to the average high school.
Note to self: proof-read the subject.
I'm running it now, and my laptop is on its knees like a contact-lens wearer at a disco. Sitting here looking at a grey box where the window should be is frighteningly reminiscent of when I used to surf the web with Netscape. Wasn't multithreading supposed to liberate us from unresponsive interfaces? What happened with that?
Depends which version of the song you're listening to :-)
Ok, I realise they have pretty poor sanitation, but I wouldn't call Spain, France, Italy and Portugal third world countries!
Even better, it says "see Uranus"! Folk were queer back in the 20th...
Amusingly, the whois information (and hence top-level DNS servers) contain two completely different nameservers, NS1.QUIK-NET.NET and NS2.QUIK-NET.NET. Again only NS2 knows about the domain. This is common with badly configured DNS.
I can't believe this got moderated 4! This is barking mad! I realise most Americans have been brainwashed with anti-communist propaganda from birth, but surely any reasonably intelligent person can see the absurdity of the above comment? Anyone? Anyone at all?
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perl -MMOD::Desktop -e 'desktop_app() while 1'
The article is not even clear on whether this development is supposed to be replacing RAM or hard disks. But either way, it cannot eliminate the need for rebooting. The primary reasons for rebooting are either to reset the operating system to a known state, or to upgrade low-level software (such as the kernel in Linux, or your web browser in Windows). Neither of these necessities go away with non-volatile RAM, regardless of how fast, cheap, or capacious it may be. These are software issues, and they need software solutions.