It's kind of hypocritical to talk about sites that just don't work in Mozilla and other browsers, and that you shouldn't support companies that make sites like that but when a site like this works only in Mozilla it's just fine
Oh what a load of troll-scented crap. This isn't a "site", it is a silly easter egg built into the program. This is not a page with actual information, it's not meant for consumption by the general public (i.e. my grandfather is not going to search on Google for "kitchen sink", find this, and be disappointed that it does not work in IE). It is a "feature" specifically for Mozilla users.
Would you complain the same way if a Mozilla skin or XUL extension didn't work with IE? Of course not. It's not meant to.
The UI should be appropriate to the task. Some tasks will benefit greatly from flexibility, some will not.
Exactly! I use Adobe Illustrator, and one of the great things about it (and indeed, all of the recent Adobe apps) is that you can do things multiple ways, and set up your environment to suit you. After installing it and playing around for a bit, I spent about 45 minutes grouping, positioning, sizing, etc. all my palettes and toolbars I knew I would need all the time. The end result is that I have all my tools readily accessible, and the less-used stuff is out of the way unless I explicitly call it forth. I use the layers palette a lot, but you may not -- that's great, just close it and never see it again if you don't want to. It's your interface.
With an app such as Illustrator, the last thing you need is a UI that gets in your way. So you get a flexible (albeit initially intimidating) UI that adapts to your work style, instead of the reverse. Compare this to something like a web browser, where you really don't care for features like "ooh, I can put my location text box on the top or bottom of the window!" You just want a place to type your URL, a bar for your favorite bookmarks, and a nice clean interface.
Doctor Sbaitso writes "CNN reports that a hacker bypassed the security system
That is NOT a hacker! C'mon, this is Slashdot. The "Doc" should know better, and the editors should too. Just because CNN calls them hackers doesn't mean we should within our community, as well. Doing so only validates their misuse of the term. We may not be able to change the mainstream, but we should set a better example and choose our wording more carefully within our own communities. Sheesh.
Another thought: is my mozilla vulnerable to this sort of action because it blocks ads -- essentially repackaging the server output for display to me? Now I'm really depressed.
I imagine it'd be pretty hard for you to make that kind of case against Mozilla. Mozilla doesn't really "repackage" anything, it simply denies a request. The page requests to open a window, Mozilla refuses. And indeed, Mozilla is refusing a request to make a request (to fetch an ad).
If you don't like my browser refusing to pop up an ad, then put it on the page itself and stop trying to hijack my desktop with your flashy Windows-lookalike-animated-GIF crap. And if you don't like the fact that I can ask my browser to block certain images/servers as well, then get off the web. I shed no tears for people who resort to annoying me (pop-ups) or trying to strong arm me (legislating how I access content through a public protocol on a public network on public servers).
?HEROES? you must be kidding. This people are not heroes
These men and women, and indeed all who journey into space, are heroes in my eyes. They have more bravery than most of the human race combined, and they are taking extreme risks to further the boundaries of science and humanity. Just as a "hero" who saves a person from a burning building took a risk by going in and retrieving them, so do our astronauts and cosmonauts.
As Columbia demonstrated, there are great risks involved in space travel. The fact that these seven people were willing to risk their lives to further humanity's knowledge makes them heroic in my book. Maybe they didn't race through gunfire to save fallen soldiers in a battle, but they are still heroes.
These were not some nobodies that were flying around in a Cessna that fell apart and caught a "bad break". They were men and women of great courage and determination. Do you have the guts to do what they do? To take the risk that you might not come back in one piece? I doubt it.
I always thought the handwriting systems in general were pretty stupid for most things. Some people here on slashdot may remember the "Avigo" handheld that Texas Instruments had out there for a while. I owned an Avigo (still do, actually), and its alternative to handwriting recognition was really great.
The idea is simple: you have an on-screen keyboard with letters grouped together. ABC, DEF, etc. You tap the button that has the letter you need on it, then the next, etc. As you go along, the Avigo references a dictionary and the context to try and figure out which word you're typing from the combination of letters. I found that about 90% of the time, its guess was right-on with what I was trying to type. And when it wasn't, the alternatives were listed right on-screen, so all I had to do was tap.
It's a shame that Palm et al haven't implemented something like this on modern handhelds. The Avigo had very little power, very little memory, and it managed to pull off word-recognition really well. It was a lot faster than Graffiti, and a lot more accurate. C'mon, Palm! You need something to propel you ahead of the PocketPCs, and this is it! Give the people something faster and more accurate than scribbling on a plastic screen for God's sake.
Bart: I could sure use that flying motorcycle now..
Frink: You had your chance! Glayven!
Re:This doesn't sound like a very good simulator
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Well how come my finacee's grandmother cycles 4 miles per day most days?
Yeah, that is a pretty crappy simulator. My grandfather is in his late 70s, and he bikes 12 miles every day. And get this - he's missing half of one leg. He bikes more in a day than most Americans do in a span of 6 months (or 6 years, for the especially lazy ones).
Any history buff can tell you just how far a few, determined, idealistic men can go in changing history.
This is related to a point that I think is very important when looking at the "failures" of NASA and humanity's space programs in general. It can be summed up quite simply: we are too cowardly.
It sickens me that in the space program (and indeed, in many things) we don't take a chance with human lives anymore. "Oh no! There's a 0.02% chance that someone could get hurt. Even though this could be a huge breakthrough, we can't risk it!" That's not the attitude we had about getting to the moon - we took the gambles, and at times paid for it with human lives. But those people knew the risks, and they knew that the potential gains far outweighed the potential losses. They dove head first into it knowing they very possibly might not survive - but that was a risk they were willing to take, and it paid off.
If we are ever to move beyond this gigantic blue marble of ours, we need to stop being chickens and start taking some risks. I don't mean stupid risks, but calculated ones - the same ones that we took some decades ago that let us set foot on the moon. Without that same attitude, we won't get anywhere. And I bet you that the astronauts of yesteryear, who paved the way for what is now a weakling NASA, would agree with me.
Actually, as Phoenix is a cut-down version of Mozilla, it means we shall soon "type ahead" with it too.
Err, actually, Phoenix has had type-ahead find for quite a while. I think early builds had it in basic form, but the 0.4 release has it working very well right out of the box. It's in the release notes.
I've been using bogofilter (a Bayesian spam filter) for a while now, and I must say I'm very pleased. Since installing it, not a single spam has slipped through. And more importantly, it only miscategorized one "ham" message so far. But that was understandable, since the message was from a.jp domain and had a subject that, at first glance, fit into the typical spam profile.
One thing to keep in mind, though - with these sorts of filters, you have to "train" them for them to work effectively. I saved up 1100 spam e-mails and ran them through bogofilter when I set it up, to teach it what spam looks like. I also ran all my legit e-mail folders through it to show it some ham as well. This is probably why I've gotten such great results so quickly. If you install something like bogofilter, be prepared to slowly train it as your spam trickles/flows in normally, or save up a bunch of spams to train it with all at once.
The stupid ARP traffic coming into my cable modem every second.
Repeated Nimda/other attacks on my system
Idiots that try to port scan me or otherwise probe/attack me
These are just the first things that come to mind - will Comcast make me pay for the privilege of receiving this garbage that I neither want nor really use? If I come close to the limit, I don't want pay for the ARP sh*t and [insert favorite Windows virus/trojan here] that I don't ask for or have any control over.
You can get the 'personal learning edition' of Maya for free from the Alias|Wavefront web site. I can't direct-link it, because Slashcode is being a jerk about the ultra long link. But it's there under "Free Downloads" on the left side.
It watermarks your renderings, if I recall correctly, but as far as I know it's otherwise fully featured. This should be enough to give you an idea of whether or not it suits the work you need to do.
You do have a point, except that you (and the news posters) neglect to keep in mind that you need Crossover to play Sorenson encoded Quicktime movies. There are indeed "other sourceforge projects that will play Quicktime movies" but good luck finding much online that uses an open codec compatible with those players.
Unfortunately that only changes the HTTP USERAGENT reply that Mozilla sends. Some companies like Capital One use JavaScript to obtain the browser version, which Mozilla doesn't (yet?) allow you to spoof easily.
This only works if the page you're viewing is specifically set up so that Mozilla can prefetch. So sayeth the FAQ:
A web page provides a set of prefetching hints to the browser, and after the browser is finished loading the page, it begins silently prefetching specified documents and stores them in its cache.
...
The browser looks for a HTML tag or HTTP Link: header with a relation type of either next or prefetch.
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Subject line: Two things would get me to use this. (Score:4)
1. No DRM [...]
2. Catalog choices [...]
3. Previews, allowing me [...]
Maybe Apple could sweeten the deal by throwing in a copy of Sesame Street: Learn To Count for the Mac. :)
Oh the irony... :)
may hold many promising Linux users what they have been waiting for
Slashdot may hold many promising trolls what they have been flamebaiting for.
It's kind of hypocritical to talk about sites that just don't work in Mozilla and other browsers, and that you shouldn't support companies that make sites like that but when a site like this works only in Mozilla it's just fine
Oh what a load of troll-scented crap. This isn't a "site", it is a silly easter egg built into the program. This is not a page with actual information, it's not meant for consumption by the general public (i.e. my grandfather is not going to search on Google for "kitchen sink", find this, and be disappointed that it does not work in IE). It is a "feature" specifically for Mozilla users.
Would you complain the same way if a Mozilla skin or XUL extension didn't work with IE? Of course not. It's not meant to.
The UI should be appropriate to the task. Some tasks will benefit greatly from flexibility, some will not.
Exactly! I use Adobe Illustrator, and one of the great things about it (and indeed, all of the recent Adobe apps) is that you can do things multiple ways, and set up your environment to suit you. After installing it and playing around for a bit, I spent about 45 minutes grouping, positioning, sizing, etc. all my palettes and toolbars I knew I would need all the time. The end result is that I have all my tools readily accessible, and the less-used stuff is out of the way unless I explicitly call it forth. I use the layers palette a lot, but you may not -- that's great, just close it and never see it again if you don't want to. It's your interface.
With an app such as Illustrator, the last thing you need is a UI that gets in your way. So you get a flexible (albeit initially intimidating) UI that adapts to your work style, instead of the reverse. Compare this to something like a web browser, where you really don't care for features like "ooh, I can put my location text box on the top or bottom of the window!" You just want a place to type your URL, a bar for your favorite bookmarks, and a nice clean interface.
Doctor Sbaitso writes "CNN reports that a hacker bypassed the security system
That is NOT a hacker! C'mon, this is Slashdot. The "Doc" should know better, and the editors should too. Just because CNN calls them hackers doesn't mean we should within our community, as well. Doing so only validates their misuse of the term. We may not be able to change the mainstream, but we should set a better example and choose our wording more carefully within our own communities. Sheesh.
Repeat after me: hackers create, crackers break. Hackers create, crackers break.
the kids can play the latest incarnation of Tomb raider or Quake then all is just dandy.
Yes, 1996 is a fine year to be alive, isn't it?
Another thought: is my mozilla vulnerable to this sort of action because it blocks ads -- essentially repackaging the server output for display to me? Now I'm really depressed.
I imagine it'd be pretty hard for you to make that kind of case against Mozilla. Mozilla doesn't really "repackage" anything, it simply denies a request. The page requests to open a window, Mozilla refuses. And indeed, Mozilla is refusing a request to make a request (to fetch an ad).
If you don't like my browser refusing to pop up an ad, then put it on the page itself and stop trying to hijack my desktop with your flashy Windows-lookalike-animated-GIF crap. And if you don't like the fact that I can ask my browser to block certain images/servers as well, then get off the web. I shed no tears for people who resort to annoying me (pop-ups) or trying to strong arm me (legislating how I access content through a public protocol on a public network on public servers).
?HEROES? you must be kidding. This people are not heroes
These men and women, and indeed all who journey into space, are heroes in my eyes. They have more bravery than most of the human race combined, and they are taking extreme risks to further the boundaries of science and humanity. Just as a "hero" who saves a person from a burning building took a risk by going in and retrieving them, so do our astronauts and cosmonauts.
As Columbia demonstrated, there are great risks involved in space travel. The fact that these seven people were willing to risk their lives to further humanity's knowledge makes them heroic in my book. Maybe they didn't race through gunfire to save fallen soldiers in a battle, but they are still heroes.
These were not some nobodies that were flying around in a Cessna that fell apart and caught a "bad break". They were men and women of great courage and determination. Do you have the guts to do what they do? To take the risk that you might not come back in one piece? I doubt it.
You might want to tell them history is being made, and it would be worthwhile to change the channel for 2 damn minutes. :)
I always thought the handwriting systems in general were pretty stupid for most things. Some people here on slashdot may remember the "Avigo" handheld that Texas Instruments had out there for a while. I owned an Avigo (still do, actually), and its alternative to handwriting recognition was really great.
The idea is simple: you have an on-screen keyboard with letters grouped together. ABC, DEF, etc. You tap the button that has the letter you need on it, then the next, etc. As you go along, the Avigo references a dictionary and the context to try and figure out which word you're typing from the combination of letters. I found that about 90% of the time, its guess was right-on with what I was trying to type. And when it wasn't, the alternatives were listed right on-screen, so all I had to do was tap.
It's a shame that Palm et al haven't implemented something like this on modern handhelds. The Avigo had very little power, very little memory, and it managed to pull off word-recognition really well. It was a lot faster than Graffiti, and a lot more accurate. C'mon, Palm! You need something to propel you ahead of the PocketPCs, and this is it! Give the people something faster and more accurate than scribbling on a plastic screen for God's sake.
Try to spread the truth, not biased lies desgined to skew public opinion.
You're new to slashdot, aren't you? :)
I got laid a bit before Thanksgiving
Jeez, all I got was turkey and mashed potatoes. I was happy with that until today... :\
Oblig. Simpsons reference
Bart: I could sure use that flying motorcycle now..
Frink: You had your chance! Glayven!
Well how come my finacee's grandmother cycles 4 miles per day most days?
Yeah, that is a pretty crappy simulator. My grandfather is in his late 70s, and he bikes 12 miles every day. And get this - he's missing half of one leg. He bikes more in a day than most Americans do in a span of 6 months (or 6 years, for the especially lazy ones).
In no time, your hearing capabilities get reduced fenomenaly
Apparently your spelling capabilities do, too. :)
Any history buff can tell you just how far a few, determined, idealistic men can go in changing history.
This is related to a point that I think is very important when looking at the "failures" of NASA and humanity's space programs in general. It can be summed up quite simply: we are too cowardly.
It sickens me that in the space program (and indeed, in many things) we don't take a chance with human lives anymore. "Oh no! There's a 0.02% chance that someone could get hurt. Even though this could be a huge breakthrough, we can't risk it!" That's not the attitude we had about getting to the moon - we took the gambles, and at times paid for it with human lives. But those people knew the risks, and they knew that the potential gains far outweighed the potential losses. They dove head first into it knowing they very possibly might not survive - but that was a risk they were willing to take, and it paid off.
If we are ever to move beyond this gigantic blue marble of ours, we need to stop being chickens and start taking some risks. I don't mean stupid risks, but calculated ones - the same ones that we took some decades ago that let us set foot on the moon. Without that same attitude, we won't get anywhere. And I bet you that the astronauts of yesteryear, who paved the way for what is now a weakling NASA, would agree with me.
Actually, as Phoenix is a cut-down version of Mozilla, it means we shall soon "type ahead" with it too.
Err, actually, Phoenix has had type-ahead find for quite a while. I think early builds had it in basic form, but the 0.4 release has it working very well right out of the box. It's in the release notes.
I've been using bogofilter (a Bayesian spam filter) for a while now, and I must say I'm very pleased. Since installing it, not a single spam has slipped through. And more importantly, it only miscategorized one "ham" message so far. But that was understandable, since the message was from a .jp domain and had a subject that, at first glance, fit into the typical spam profile.
One thing to keep in mind, though - with these sorts of filters, you have to "train" them for them to work effectively. I saved up 1100 spam e-mails and ran them through bogofilter when I set it up, to teach it what spam looks like. I also ran all my legit e-mail folders through it to show it some ham as well. This is probably why I've gotten such great results so quickly. If you install something like bogofilter, be prepared to slowly train it as your spam trickles/flows in normally, or save up a bunch of spams to train it with all at once.
Do I end up having to pay for the following?
These are just the first things that come to mind - will Comcast make me pay for the privilege of receiving this garbage that I neither want nor really use? If I come close to the limit, I don't want pay for the ARP sh*t and [insert favorite Windows virus/trojan here] that I don't ask for or have any control over.
You can get the 'personal learning edition' of Maya for free from the Alias|Wavefront web site. I can't direct-link it, because Slashcode is being a jerk about the ultra long link. But it's there under "Free Downloads" on the left side.
It watermarks your renderings, if I recall correctly, but as far as I know it's otherwise fully featured. This should be enough to give you an idea of whether or not it suits the work you need to do.
You do have a point, except that you (and the news posters) neglect to keep in mind that you need Crossover to play Sorenson encoded Quicktime movies. There are indeed "other sourceforge projects that will play Quicktime movies" but good luck finding much online that uses an open codec compatible with those players.
Unfortunately that only changes the HTTP USERAGENT reply that Mozilla sends. Some companies like Capital One use JavaScript to obtain the browser version, which Mozilla doesn't (yet?) allow you to spoof easily.
This only works if the page you're viewing is specifically set up so that Mozilla can prefetch. So sayeth the FAQ:
A web page provides a set of prefetching hints to the browser, and after the browser is finished loading the page, it begins silently prefetching specified documents and stores them in its cache.
...
The browser looks for a HTML tag or HTTP Link: header with a relation type of either next or prefetch.
For my fellow Debian users, you have to install the xscreensaver-gl package to get Atlantis, not just the xscreensaver package.