Dillo is nice, I use it when I want to quickly peak at a link or snag a file from a URL given to me in an e-mail. But what else could I "possibly" want? Here are my main requests, which I don't think are too unreasonable:
Frames support (c'mon, even Links can render frames!)
Proper rendering of &#n in HTML files. If I go to the Google main page, I see a nice set of •'s, where there should be bullets.
Decent cookie support (i.e. so I can log in to Slashdot)
When these things are implemented, I'll probably use Dillo a lot more often. If I could code C worth crap, I'd try to add them myself...
Not only is this a dupe posting, but it doesn't even credit the source. It's bad enough this thing gets modded up to +5 every time there's a moon story. Sheesh.
I'm not picking on the person who originally submitted it, I'm picking on the Slashdot editors who posted it. The internet is an international community, yes, but Slashdot is an English-language site, and they should put some effort into making it not look like a POS thrown together by a couple of 14 year olds in their parents' basement. Especially if they want businesses to take them seriously enough to buy ads.
I don't think Mozilla has this in any accessible form, but Galeon does (View->Stylesheet->None). It came in really handy last night when I was viewing a site with an extremely poorly-written stylesheet obviously not tested in anything but IE (frame/table backgrounds would turn bright yellow when you moved your mouse into them, yuck).
I had wondered for a long time where Perl Journal had vanished too. Perhaps that is also part of the problem -- if even Perl zealots don't know where to find the journal, what hope does it have?
Can they even do this? I wasn't aware you could sue someone for using a mark that was partially similar to your own trademark.
Secondly, there have been a lot of -zilla named things in the past. Did the owner of this trademark try to enforce it then? Or when Davezilla.com was registered back in 1999? Or when the Mozilla name first came into use by Netscape and, later, the Mozilla project? It seems to me that "zilla" is pretty diluted and was not enforced in a timely fashion.
I'm certainly no trademark law expert, but this whole thing just screams of silliness to me... But then again, most trademark suits do.
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Mars? Venus? How in the universe are we able to tether a cable onto another planet?!? There isn't even a fixed distance in that senario!
Aside from this bit, I thought your comment was reasonably rational. But then you make a statement like this, and it makes me wonder if the purpose of your whole post was not so much to be informative, but to be sensationalist.
If you took three seconds to think about it, you would come to the conclusion that they probably mean they would lift things away from the Earth, to a point where they could be transported by other means to the Moon, Mars, Venus, or wherever. Granted, they could have worded that a lot better...
I'm more interested in seeing someone write a strong Go opponent. It's pretty obvious that chess is rather simple for a powerful computer to brute force, but even the most sophisticated hardware and software can be beaten by an amateur Go player. The strongest Go programs rate at around the 8-kyu level (Go ratings start at 30-kyu for complete beginners, on up to 1-kyu, then from 1-dan to 9-dan for pro players).
There have been cash awards (on the order of a million dollars in at least one instance) put out on the table for developers who could write a Go program capable of beating a certain level player. So far, nobody's succeeded. MindZine has a nice (albeit a bit dated) article explaining why this is.
When a computer can play a really strong game of Go, I'll be impressed.:)
End the untrusted binary problem. Viruses will be blacklisted by a remote server - no more email viruses, ever
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End the trojan horse/worm problem
Oh please. "Untrusted" binaries being banished from the face of the earth will not help much. I'm sure Outlook will be a "trusted" program, and it is still dangerous even when functioning properly. Trusted binaries could still be exploited, my friend.
If you want something like pcAnywhere, try VNC. There are servers and clients available for a variety of platforms, all free. I used this for a presentation on Linux at my school (had a VNC server running at home, and brought the client in on a floppy so I could show them Linux on the projector). Worked rather well, even with the limited upstream bandwidth of my home connection.
A company is a single entity. Your sentence should be phrased, "I think Microsoft was hoping..."
I don't know about the original poster, but British convention seems to be that companies are plural nouns. "Microsoft are", "Borland have", and so forth, are all common sights in British English. It annoys the hell out of me, because it's not logical, but then again, how much of English (British or otherwise) is?
Whether or not some/most people use bnetd for piracy (which I don't buy - most people get a key from the net and use that to play on Battle.Net) is not the point. bnetd has a right to exist because it is a legimate reverse-engineering hack. Your argument is like saying we should ban knives, because some people may use them to stab other people or slash their wrists. Nevermind that people can legitimately use a knife to cut bread and meats for their meals!
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cookies are there, you jut have to edit the cookierc to enable them.
Well here's what I'm talking about specifically, when I try to log in to Slashdot:
HTTP/1.1 302 Found Date: Tue 08 Oct 2002 23:15:44 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) mod_gzip/ blah blah blah Set-Cookie: user=blahblahblah
Pardon my not including the whole message here, seeing as Dillo doesn't have text copying, as you mentioned. :)
When these things are implemented, I'll probably use Dillo a lot more often. If I could code C worth crap, I'd try to add them myself...
That does not make any bussiness sense and it would make more sense to port to Windows and macosx first and linux last if ever.
Keep in mind that at least Windows and x86 Linux have the same core hardware architecture.
So, I'm paying $10 a month for no tangible product?
Yeah, what idiots. I'm not paying a monthly fee for something that's only streamed to me. *goes back to watching cable TV*
Not only is this a dupe posting, but it doesn't even credit the source. It's bad enough this thing gets modded up to +5 every time there's a moon story. Sheesh.
I'm not picking on the person who originally submitted it, I'm picking on the Slashdot editors who posted it. The internet is an international community, yes, but Slashdot is an English-language site, and they should put some effort into making it not look like a POS thrown together by a couple of 14 year olds in their parents' basement. Especially if they want businesses to take them seriously enough to buy ads.
Have you ever thought why does your graphics card has so much memory?
No, I haven't. That's probably because I think in proper English. "Why does your graphics card has so much..."
How 'bout this? "Have you ever thought, 'why does my graphics card have so much memory?'"
... since us guys are pigs anyway, there should be minimal compatibility issues. :)
I don't think Mozilla has this in any accessible form, but Galeon does (View->Stylesheet->None). It came in really handy last night when I was viewing a site with an extremely poorly-written stylesheet obviously not tested in anything but IE (frame/table backgrounds would turn bright yellow when you moved your mouse into them, yuck).
I challange comment posters to post only Haiku in this discussion
I "challange" Slashdot editors to post only proper spelling on this web site.
I had wondered for a long time where Perl Journal had vanished too. Perhaps that is also part of the problem -- if even Perl zealots don't know where to find the journal, what hope does it have?
Can they even do this? I wasn't aware you could sue someone for using a mark that was partially similar to your own trademark.
Secondly, there have been a lot of -zilla named things in the past. Did the owner of this trademark try to enforce it then? Or when Davezilla.com was registered back in 1999? Or when the Mozilla name first came into use by Netscape and, later, the Mozilla project? It seems to me that "zilla" is pretty diluted and was not enforced in a timely fashion.
I'm certainly no trademark law expert, but this whole thing just screams of silliness to me... But then again, most trademark suits do.
Mars? Venus? How in the universe are we able to tether a cable onto another planet?!? There isn't even a fixed distance in that senario!
Aside from this bit, I thought your comment was reasonably rational. But then you make a statement like this, and it makes me wonder if the purpose of your whole post was not so much to be informative, but to be sensationalist.
If you took three seconds to think about it, you would come to the conclusion that they probably mean they would lift things away from the Earth, to a point where they could be transported by other means to the Moon, Mars, Venus, or wherever. Granted, they could have worded that a lot better...
(DOS 1.0 was released 21 years ago today.)
So, does this mean DOS can legally purchase alcohol in the states now?
For law-abiding minors and those who dislike alcohol, there is a simpler solution. ;)
Their marketing people must be extremely happy!
Yeah, but I bet their server admins aren't. ;)
Slightly OT, but...
:)
I'm more interested in seeing someone write a strong Go opponent. It's pretty obvious that chess is rather simple for a powerful computer to brute force, but even the most sophisticated hardware and software can be beaten by an amateur Go player. The strongest Go programs rate at around the 8-kyu level (Go ratings start at 30-kyu for complete beginners, on up to 1-kyu, then from 1-dan to 9-dan for pro players).
There have been cash awards (on the order of a million dollars in at least one instance) put out on the table for developers who could write a Go program capable of beating a certain level player. So far, nobody's succeeded. MindZine has a nice (albeit a bit dated) article explaining why this is.
When a computer can play a really strong game of Go, I'll be impressed.
I deduce that the majority of replies will come from AC's and be composed of nonsense.
So, how does that make this any different from the usual Slashdot story? :)
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End the untrusted binary problem. Viruses will be blacklisted by a remote server - no more email viruses, ever
...
End the trojan horse/worm problem
Oh please. "Untrusted" binaries being banished from the face of the earth will not help much. I'm sure Outlook will be a "trusted" program, and it is still dangerous even when functioning properly. Trusted binaries could still be exploited, my friend.
Jesus Christ, timothy... You don't even proofread the headline anymore?!
Linux Games WIth Guns
Yeah, that looks really professional.
both formally of ION Storm
No, they're both formerly of ION Storm. [insert usual rant about how ./ editors never proofread peoples' news postings]
If you want something like pcAnywhere, try VNC. There are servers and clients available for a variety of platforms, all free. I used this for a presentation on Linux at my school (had a VNC server running at home, and brought the client in on a floppy so I could show them Linux on the projector). Worked rather well, even with the limited upstream bandwidth of my home connection.
A company is a single entity. Your sentence should be phrased, "I think Microsoft was hoping..."
I don't know about the original poster, but British convention seems to be that companies are plural nouns. "Microsoft are", "Borland have", and so forth, are all common sights in British English. It annoys the hell out of me, because it's not logical, but then again, how much of English (British or otherwise) is?
Whether or not some/most people use bnetd for piracy (which I don't buy - most people get a key from the net and use that to play on Battle.Net) is not the point. bnetd has a right to exist because it is a legimate reverse-engineering hack. Your argument is like saying we should ban knives, because some people may use them to stab other people or slash their wrists. Nevermind that people can legitimately use a knife to cut bread and meats for their meals!