Unless it has been implemented recently (which I believe it has not), there is still an useful component in Netscape that Mozilla lacks :
A spell checker.
I think developpers have said numerous times on Bugzilla that they didn't want to implement an "user friendly" browser spoofing feature because they believe it would hurt Mozilla in the long run.
The problem is that, if many people were using Mozilla spoofing (let's say) IE6, Mozilla "market share" would appear even lower in statistics than it already is, thus making even harder for Mozilla evangelists to do their job.
Who would want to support a browser that would seem to be used by 0.003% of web surfers ?
"As a general rule, those familiar with Linux have no problem running Windows."
Actually, you may be surprised that it's not true in every case.
I worked this year at a robotics / feeback control lab, where every workstation was running under *nix. In order to try a pedagogic robot, we had to install windows on a machine. It was quite a fun event, as we had the opportunity to see four reseachers around a windows box wondering "how the heck do you see the free disk space in windows".
However, I believe this is quite anecdotic.
Well, there might no point in "enforcing" several operating systems early in life.
Every people will have to deal with different languages in his life, but how many people on the whole will have to use linux ? Unless (and sometimes even if...) you're working in the IT or do scientific research, chances are that you'll never have to deal with linux. So I believe that learning unix-like OSes should be a personal choice. Most people are happy using MS Word, and thus I don't see myself anytime soon praising the benefits of early "latex editing in emacs" learning.
I'd rather see me children (which I don't have yet...) learn italian than linux early in life.
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Moreover, what the author seems to fail to get a grasp on is the fact that these "gadget" robots are hardly the result of years of research just in order to produce an automated vacuum cleaner, but are for the most part just mere applications of advances in robotic technologies made for the industry.
While the author says:
"We used to invent things not to satisfy idle whims, but to change our world.",
I believe that systems based on feedback control (which is the very base of modern robotics) have already changed our world.
"It seems that what you want is the benefits of IM (instant access to all your friends whenever you want) without the disadvantages (they have instant access to you)"
Mhh ?
Am I the only one not to find this a "disadvantage" to allow my friends to get in touch with me ?
Maybe we have different conceptions of friendship...
Soyouz-fregat rockets are exclusively run by Starsem, which is a joint European (Arianespace, EADS) and Russian (rosaviacosmos) venture. Actually, the european fundings for the modernized ikar, and then fregat stages have been essential for the completion of the program.
So technically, the ESA is not really phasing out Arianespace...
Mir did not exactely "crash back to Earth after maintenance ended". It was intentionally put out of its orbit in order to accelerate the process, and control the re-entry trajectory.
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You know that you can "easily" change you window manager in GNOME 2, right ?
As an example:
killall -9 metacity; sawfish
gnome-session-save
Unless it has been implemented recently (which I believe it has not), there is still an useful component in Netscape that Mozilla lacks :
A spell checker.
You don't seem to have heard about the new Mozilla roadmap.
Here is for you.
I think developpers have said numerous times on Bugzilla that they didn't want to implement an "user friendly" browser spoofing feature because they believe it would hurt Mozilla in the long run.
The problem is that, if many people were using Mozilla spoofing (let's say) IE6, Mozilla "market share" would appear even lower in statistics than it already is, thus making even harder for Mozilla evangelists to do their job.
Who would want to support a browser that would seem to be used by 0.003% of web surfers ?
"As a general rule, those familiar with Linux have no problem running Windows."
Actually, you may be surprised that it's not true in every case.
I worked this year at a robotics / feeback control lab, where every workstation was running under *nix. In order to try a pedagogic robot, we had to install windows on a machine. It was quite a fun event, as we had the opportunity to see four reseachers around a windows box wondering "how the heck do you see the free disk space in windows".
However, I believe this is quite anecdotic.
Well, there might no point in "enforcing" several operating systems early in life.
Every people will have to deal with different languages in his life, but how many people on the whole will have to use linux ? Unless (and sometimes even if...) you're working in the IT or do scientific research, chances are that you'll never have to deal with linux.
So I believe that learning unix-like OSes should be a personal choice. Most people are happy using MS Word, and thus I don't see myself anytime soon praising the benefits of early "latex editing in emacs" learning.
I'd rather see me children (which I don't have yet...) learn italian than linux early in life.
Moreover, what the author seems to fail to get a grasp on is the fact that these "gadget" robots are hardly the result of years of research just in order to produce an automated vacuum cleaner, but are for the most part just mere applications of advances in robotic technologies made for the industry.
While the author says:
"We used to invent things not to satisfy idle whims, but to change our world.",
I believe that systems based on feedback control (which is the very base of modern robotics) have already changed our world.
/me grabs in a relief his garbage collector.
"It seems that what you want is the benefits of IM (instant access to all your friends whenever you want) without the disadvantages (they have instant access to you)" Mhh ? Am I the only one not to find this a "disadvantage" to allow my friends to get in touch with me ? Maybe we have different conceptions of friendship...
Soyouz-fregat rockets are exclusively run by Starsem, which is a joint European (Arianespace, EADS) and Russian (rosaviacosmos) venture. Actually, the european fundings for the modernized ikar, and then fregat stages have been essential for the completion of the program.
So technically, the ESA is not really phasing out Arianespace...
Mir did not exactely "crash back to Earth after maintenance ended". It was intentionally put out of its orbit in order to accelerate the process, and control the re-entry trajectory.
"and turn to programming languages that have been available and proven sufficient for more than 30 years"
Hello, innovation.
There was indeed a PS/1 line of computers, they were the ancerstors of the "aptiva" line during the 386 - 486 area.
As long as Microsoft keeps on supporting projects such as this one, I'll be able to cope with its infamous commercial behaviour.