An easy fix to the bug would be to not change filenames at all when transferring them from server to client. I know the Mozilla team really, really wants to tell a file what type of file it is based on what the server's MIME stuff says (because MIME info is never wrong, and we all know that the world would come crashing to an abrupt end if Mozilla didn't rename half the files it downloads); but I strongly feel this behavior does more harm than good in the user-friendliness department.
I'm a big boy now -- if I want a downloaded file to have a different extension, I can change it myself. Really, I can... I've been studying up on it and practicing endlessly. Seriously, though; at the very least, the user should be able to select whether or not they want Mozilla to assign file extensions based on MIME info. I don't see how one could argue against letting the user decide.
This isn't a pet peeve of mine... no.... not at all... [twitch]
(-1, Offtopic)? I beg to differ -- my reply was completely relevant to the thread in which I replied. If something is to be marked offtopic, it should be the initial post by that elusive, yet popular, "Anonymous Coward."
Oh, and yes, this post should probably be marked 'offtopic' aswell.
Please; you really should read an article before commenting on it in such an aggressively forward manner. I was going to write about how the questions you ask are completely irrelevant, but I see somebody else beat me to it.
whose -- the possesive form of "who" or "which"
"who's" is the same thing as "who is," which makes no sense in the sentence.
"... the same federal agency who is supposed purpose is to..."
See? Doesn't really work.
"A witch! A witch! We've found a witch!"
"We have found a witch. May we burn her?"
"Burn her! Buuuuuurn her!"
"How do you know she is a witch?"
"She looks like one!"
Long story short: all 51 Democrats from the Texas State Legislature ran to Oklahoma for 4 days to prevent the State from addressing some redistricting issue (there wouldn't be a quorum of legislators, and thus nothing could be voted on). Anyway, pretty much all the Republican legislators shit a brick, and somehow it seems the Department of Homeland Security got dragged into the search for the missing Democrats (yes, the same federal agency supposed purpose is to protect the entire U.S.A. from terrorists). Oh, and if that isn't enough, it seems that all Texas Department of Public Safety documents regarding the Department of Homeland Security's involvement in this fiasco were ordered destroyed.
So, forgive me if I take a wee bit of convincing on this whole "TIA will only be used on foreigners" thing...
P.S.: Seriously, folks, it scares the shit out of me that the big news organizations aren't picking this story up and running with it.
... some rich guy's AIBO starts going completely nuts when its email address ends up on a few dozen spam mailing lists. Maybe it'll even maul an old lady in the process.
If you want to keep an ancient computer (working order or not), you need a home for it. Somehow, I don't think that keeping spare parts for everything should be the main priority if they want to still have their collection six weeks from now.
Is there any way to mod this entire story as (-1, Overrated)?
Seriously, this has to be one of the most useless and uninteresting items to appear on Slashdot in the recent past. A real history of the internet? Maybe that would be an interesting read. But this garbage from The Lemon is completely worthless, not even funny (it tries, yet fails miserably), and unworthy of even a mention on Fark.
I wish they got rid of Saturday morning cartoons back when I was a little tyke. I could never wake up in time to watch any of the ones I wanted to. Believe me, I tried... but it just wasn't happening. Saturday afternoons or evenings would've been much better. =)
Or, you could wait for a few days and just download the new Mozilla Firebird 0.6 release when it's... umm... released.
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You should check out the new Mozilla branding strategy. It should answer your questions. In particular:
Before defining how we talk about something and how we want to present
it to the world, we should talk about what we're actually
producing. Right now we have two basic projects:
SeaMonkey: The SeaMonkey project is also called the
Application Suite or "App Suite." It's largely the same as the old
Netscape 4.x Communicator brand. It has more or less the same
functionality and branding as that the old 4.x product and we've done
little to counter that association.
Firebird/Thunderbird: These are the basis for the second
generation mozilla products. They split our application into two
separate applications with separate identities: a web browser and an
email program. In talking about these projects, we should allow
them to have their own identities.
According to Yahoo! Movies, "this project [Kaena] claims to be the first European CGI feature." I said 'supposedly' because I figured something had probably come before (despite what the studio may say). Anyway, thanks for the correction.
You are seriously comparing Kaena to Final Fantasy and Spider-Man?! Yes, the animation in Kaena looks, as you put it, "very ghetto" in relation. But I think you need to consider the following.
Spider-Man budget: $139 million
Final Fantasy budget: $137 million
Kaena budget: $27 million
Kaena is also (supposedly) the first European CGI feature. You really shouldn't expect animation perfection in a first release like this.
And, to be honest, a lot of the animation in "Spidey" wasn't that good either...
Finally; why won't the story be the draw? What about Toy Story or Monsters, Inc.? I found the stories for those CGI features (among others) to be quite well done and entertaining. Just because a film is 100% CGI does not mean that it has no story. I'm not saying there will be a great story in Kaena; just that the two factors are unrelated.
I'd have to say that Quake 2, Half Life, and to some degree, Unreal had the greatest impact on my life. In my second semester of college (4 years ago), my eyes were openned to the wonders of multiplayer games over the LAN. These games deftly stole 1.0-1.5 points from my GPA; and I consider myself lucky it was only that much! =)
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Holy crap! You're a geek here on /. and you've got a wife?!?!
Folks, we now have proof that it can indeed be done! (huzzah)
An easy fix to the bug would be to not change filenames at all when transferring them from server to client. I know the Mozilla team really, really wants to tell a file what type of file it is based on what the server's MIME stuff says (because MIME info is never wrong, and we all know that the world would come crashing to an abrupt end if Mozilla didn't rename half the files it downloads); but I strongly feel this behavior does more harm than good in the user-friendliness department.
I'm a big boy now -- if I want a downloaded file to have a different extension, I can change it myself. Really, I can... I've been studying up on it and practicing endlessly. Seriously, though; at the very least, the user should be able to select whether or not they want Mozilla to assign file extensions based on MIME info. I don't see how one could argue against letting the user decide.
This isn't a pet peeve of mine... no.... not at all... [twitch]
(-1, Offtopic)?
I beg to differ -- my reply was completely relevant to the thread in which I replied. If something is to be marked offtopic, it should be the initial post by that elusive, yet popular, "Anonymous Coward."
Oh, and yes, this post should probably be marked 'offtopic' aswell.
"... ACGT pairs - which puts information density of our most hardcore RAM at a great shame."
Perhaps; but we can write and rewrite to our "most hardcore RAM" much faster than genetic information in ACGT pairs can mutate.
Fie on you, evil article non-reader! =)
Please; you really should read an article before commenting on it in such an aggressively forward manner. I was going to write about how the questions you ask are completely irrelevant, but I see somebody else beat me to it.
Yeah, good point. I should've been more careful with my word selection.
whose -- the possesive form of "who" or "which" ..."
"who's" is the same thing as "who is," which makes no sense in the sentence.
"... the same federal agency who is supposed purpose is to
See? Doesn't really work.
"A witch! A witch! We've found a witch!"
"We have found a witch. May we burn her?"
"Burn her! Buuuuuurn her!"
"How do you know she is a witch?"
"She looks like one!"
OH CRAP, they're after me -- they stole my "whose" right from under my nose!
..."
It should read: "... the same federal agency whose supposed purpose is to
'You're a terrorist' in the US is starting to carry the same weight as 'You're a Jew' in Nazi Germany.
Or, my personal favorite:
"You're a Communist," in the McCarthy era.
Right....
I don't suppose anyone's heard of the events this week surrounding Texas Democrats and the Department of Homeland Security, eh?
Long story short: all 51 Democrats from the Texas State Legislature ran to Oklahoma for 4 days to prevent the State from addressing some redistricting issue (there wouldn't be a quorum of legislators, and thus nothing could be voted on). Anyway, pretty much all the Republican legislators shit a brick, and somehow it seems the Department of Homeland Security got dragged into the search for the missing Democrats (yes, the same federal agency supposed purpose is to protect the entire U.S.A. from terrorists). Oh, and if that isn't enough, it seems that all Texas Department of Public Safety documents regarding the Department of Homeland Security's involvement in this fiasco were ordered destroyed.
So, forgive me if I take a wee bit of convincing on this whole "TIA will only be used on foreigners" thing...
P.S.: Seriously, folks, it scares the shit out of me that the big news organizations aren't picking this story up and running with it.
Ok, so the powers that be decided to add a link in the main text (yay)....
... but it's a bad link (boo).
... some rich guy's AIBO starts going completely nuts when its email address ends up on a few dozen spam mailing lists.
Maybe it'll even maul an old lady in the process.
If you want to keep an ancient computer (working order or not), you need a home for it. Somehow, I don't think that keeping spare parts for everything should be the main priority if they want to still have their collection six weeks from now.
"Beggars can't be choosers," and what-not.
Is there any way to mod this entire story as (-1, Overrated)?
Seriously, this has to be one of the most useless and uninteresting items to appear on Slashdot in the recent past. A real history of the internet? Maybe that would be an interesting read. But this garbage from The Lemon is completely worthless, not even funny (it tries, yet fails miserably), and unworthy of even a mention on Fark.
I wish they got rid of Saturday morning cartoons back when I was a little tyke. I could never wake up in time to watch any of the ones I wanted to. Believe me, I tried... but it just wasn't happening. Saturday afternoons or evenings would've been much better. =)
Or, you could wait for a few days and just download the new Mozilla Firebird 0.6 release when it's ... umm ... released.
Before defining how we talk about something and how we want to present it to the world, we should talk about what we're actually producing. Right now we have two basic projects:
According to Yahoo! Movies, "this project [Kaena] claims to be the first European CGI feature."
I said 'supposedly' because I figured something had probably come before (despite what the studio may say). Anyway, thanks for the correction.
You are seriously comparing Kaena to Final Fantasy and Spider-Man?! Yes, the animation in Kaena looks, as you put it, "very ghetto" in relation. But I think you need to consider the following.
Spider-Man budget: $139 million
Final Fantasy budget: $137 million
Kaena budget: $27 million
Kaena is also (supposedly) the first European CGI feature. You really shouldn't expect animation perfection in a first release like this.
And, to be honest, a lot of the animation in "Spidey" wasn't that good either...
Finally; why won't the story be the draw? What about Toy Story or Monsters, Inc.? I found the stories for those CGI features (among others) to be quite well done and entertaining. Just because a film is 100% CGI does not mean that it has no story. I'm not saying there will be a great story in Kaena; just that the two factors are unrelated.
You have to be kidding me...
I admit I'm not the best comedian around, but I see much worse stuff get modded up on a daily basis around here.
At the very least, I beg to differ that (Score: 1) was overrated.
Who wants a gyro gun?
I'm holding out for a gyno gun!
Combine that with mood altering audio signals, and then you've got something *truly* interesting and controversial. =)
the US military used their larger HERF gun to deactivate his HERF gun.
Also known as the HERF Buster.
Good thing he's got the HERF Buster Buster.
Yet, the military has the HERF Buster Buster Buster.
(The Big Hit reference, for those who are unfamiliar with this great movie.)
I'd have to say that Quake 2, Half Life, and to some degree, Unreal had the greatest impact on my life. In my second semester of college (4 years ago), my eyes were openned to the wonders of multiplayer games over the LAN. These games deftly stole 1.0-1.5 points from my GPA; and I consider myself lucky it was only that much! =)