Well, I can't speak for the other 2, but I have been using Slimbrowser for some time, and it has no spyware. And I'm not sure that the term add-on is appropriate, I think it would be more accurate to call it a "shell" for IE (but that's just semantics). I'm quite pleased with it. That doesn't mean I'm not going to try out FireFox when I get back to a broadband connection (I can't stand waiting for downloads on dialup), though. People say so many good things about it, its worth downloading to try it, even if I decide to stick with my current setup.
I have been reading a lot about FireFox (and Opera, to be fair) here on Slashdot lately. Everyone who uses one of these alternative browsers has nothing but good things to say about them, and if someone says something bad about one then they are either attacked as being MS sheep or assaulted by a series of suggestions on how to fix the situation.
My question is this: aside from the obvious security-through-diversity advantage, and the fact that the IE HTML engine is a bit on the slow side, what are the benefits of using FireFox or Opera over, say, Slimbrowser, Crazybrowser, or MyIE2? These IE-based browsers have tabbed browsing, built-in pop-up blocking, mouse gestures, and a host of other features that they probably borrowed (read: stole) from the "geekier" browsers out there. I'm not saying that the 2 advantages I mentioned aren't enough, but if I'm running a firewall and antivirus program, and I don't notice the speed difference between them, why should I switch?
That fact that you have a backup is not at issue here. That is fair use.
The fact that, in exercising your rights to create that backup, you probably decrypted the video stream, THAT is where you broke the law. The DMCA classifies that as circumvention of a protection method, and that's the issue that we have with the DMCA (well, one of them, anyways): We retain our fair use rights, but if we want to exercise them, we break the law.
At least, that's how I remember it being explained to me from my Intellectual Property class...
It would appear that my attempt to poke fun at the open source movement was actually taken seriously. I apologize for the misunderstanding, and promise to make my future posts use smaller words and require less thought. Please note now that, while I poke fun at the OS movement, I do not have strong feelings about it one way or the other.
On a serious note, your rabid defense of OS, while admirable, seems to be a bit over-zealous. One could easily counter-accuse you of being equally immature in your immediate rebuttal of a post which, on the surface, may appear to be a blatant attack on OS (I admit, in retrospect, it looks a bit harsh), even though its intent was simply to be funny.
I am flattered that you appear to be following my posts, as I am a fairly infrequent poster (compared to some slash-whores), and the majority of my posts are made with the intent to be humerous. I am only rarely moved to post something with any intellectual significance, as my mind is firmly embedded in the gutter, where teh funny strikes first. Some people tend to take me seriously though, and for that I apologize.
Oh wonderful, so when I'm watching CSI and it crashes, I'll have to go to some obscure Outer Mongolian forum to look up a fix that works for my particular TV/Cable box/Cable provider/Channel combination, take 3 hours to recompile the kernel, and when I'm done I'll have missed my show!
Seriously, it seems like lately you can tack on the phrase "Open source" to anything and it will get/.'ed (see previous months articles about open source life, medicine, etc)
"Hey, I got a brilliant idea! Open source bridges! People drive across these things all the time, and pay tolls! That's just giving money to the MAN, lets give them a free alternative! Upkeep be damned!"
People still use punch cards, but not for their original purpose. They use them as bookmarks and conversation pieces. In that vein, you are correct; as soon as a superior format is accepted, I'll be putting my rum & coke down on a 5th Element 5" silver drink coaster, as opposed to my current silver drink coaster, which is just a failed "backup" of TIE Fighter from back in the day.
Ah yes, the old original Pentiums... The things had terrible heat issues, and couldn't even do simple math! Despite all this, however, I still have my first Pentium chip (p150) sitting on a shelf at home. Some day I'll get sick of looking at it and take it out to the shooting range to "put it down".
No problem, when we release the final version you can replace those parts with parts of your choice. Or, if you'd like to get in on the project, you could help us by designing alternative genus mixes or by perfecting the "vanilla" pure-human model.
This is not high esteem for a man who does well on a game show.
This is high esteem for a man who does well on a game show by showing of his gargantuan brain. This is high esteem for a man who has probably forgotten more trivia than most of us currently know. This is high esteem for a geek pressing his advantage in an arena suited to his forte.
With his track record on Jeapordy, there is no way they would allow him anywhere near the set of Millionaire. I mean, if you knew that having this guy on your game would make you lose $1 million, would you do it?
Its exposing you to radiation, to be sure, but its a form of radar, so its just radio signals. Probably no more harmful than a few minutes on a cell phone. Start worrying when you feel yourself heating up from exposure (microwaves are in this frequency range!).
Damn you all, you're ruining my business model... I guess I'll have to try one of those other Get Rich Quick schemes... like going to this place called "Work".
Step 1: Buy dead iPods from eBay
Step 2: Buy crappy Dell player from Dell w/ rebate
Step 3: Sell crappy Dell player on eBay for more than purchase price of dead iPod + crappy Dell player
Step 4: Profit!!!
And we bitch when our CounterStrike match lags 300ms?!
That's because the probe doesn't have to worry about trying to get a headshot on a moving target at 100 yards using a P90 while avoiding the wall-hacking n00bs trying to AWP you from across the map.
I find myself curious what compression algorithms they are using... is it lossless? Are we using anything similar for current network or archiving purposes? Could either NASA or the private sector benefit from using the other's algorithm(s) of choice?
I mean, hell, they gave us Tang, so if we can help them out in some way, I'd love to give back.
This is why you should encrypt your email. Further, if they can read it, then they can probably store it, and after 180 days, it is no longer considered private information, and thus all it takes is a subpoena to get at them.
At least with a disk this big, you can't apply any of the "limited viewing window" technologies to it. When you have 60-some hours of video on the disk, there's no way to watch it all before the disk degrades to an un-watchable state.
I'm not saying that it would be CHEAP, I just like the idea of having all this on 1-2 disks, instead of taking up a whole shelf.
As for the special features, I'm firmly in favor of including gigabytes of the stuff. Only putting 3 movies on the disk? Fill the rest up with all the concept art for each character, outtakes, "The Making Of" TV specials, promotional videos, music videos, movie posters, TV spoofs, and outer-Mongolian language options.
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Well, I can't speak for the other 2, but I have been using Slimbrowser for some time, and it has no spyware. And I'm not sure that the term add-on is appropriate, I think it would be more accurate to call it a "shell" for IE (but that's just semantics). I'm quite pleased with it. That doesn't mean I'm not going to try out FireFox when I get back to a broadband connection (I can't stand waiting for downloads on dialup), though. People say so many good things about it, its worth downloading to try it, even if I decide to stick with my current setup.
I have been reading a lot about FireFox (and Opera, to be fair) here on Slashdot lately. Everyone who uses one of these alternative browsers has nothing but good things to say about them, and if someone says something bad about one then they are either attacked as being MS sheep or assaulted by a series of suggestions on how to fix the situation.
My question is this: aside from the obvious security-through-diversity advantage, and the fact that the IE HTML engine is a bit on the slow side, what are the benefits of using FireFox or Opera over, say, Slimbrowser, Crazybrowser, or MyIE2? These IE-based browsers have tabbed browsing, built-in pop-up blocking, mouse gestures, and a host of other features that they probably borrowed (read: stole) from the "geekier" browsers out there. I'm not saying that the 2 advantages I mentioned aren't enough, but if I'm running a firewall and antivirus program, and I don't notice the speed difference between them, why should I switch?
That fact that you have a backup is not at issue here. That is fair use.
The fact that, in exercising your rights to create that backup, you probably decrypted the video stream, THAT is where you broke the law. The DMCA classifies that as circumvention of a protection method, and that's the issue that we have with the DMCA (well, one of them, anyways): We retain our fair use rights, but if we want to exercise them, we break the law.
At least, that's how I remember it being explained to me from my Intellectual Property class...
It would appear that my attempt to poke fun at the open source movement was actually taken seriously. I apologize for the misunderstanding, and promise to make my future posts use smaller words and require less thought. Please note now that, while I poke fun at the OS movement, I do not have strong feelings about it one way or the other.
On a serious note, your rabid defense of OS, while admirable, seems to be a bit over-zealous. One could easily counter-accuse you of being equally immature in your immediate rebuttal of a post which, on the surface, may appear to be a blatant attack on OS (I admit, in retrospect, it looks a bit harsh), even though its intent was simply to be funny.
I am flattered that you appear to be following my posts, as I am a fairly infrequent poster (compared to some slash-whores), and the majority of my posts are made with the intent to be humerous. I am only rarely moved to post something with any intellectual significance, as my mind is firmly embedded in the gutter, where teh funny strikes first. Some people tend to take me seriously though, and for that I apologize.
Oh wonderful, so when I'm watching CSI and it crashes, I'll have to go to some obscure Outer Mongolian forum to look up a fix that works for my particular TV/Cable box/Cable provider/Channel combination, take 3 hours to recompile the kernel, and when I'm done I'll have missed my show!
/.'ed (see previous months articles about open source life, medicine, etc)
Seriously, it seems like lately you can tack on the phrase "Open source" to anything and it will get
"Hey, I got a brilliant idea! Open source bridges! People drive across these things all the time, and pay tolls! That's just giving money to the MAN, lets give them a free alternative! Upkeep be damned!"
Surely this is some kind of hobby thing... I mean, you can't POSSIBLY create and/or sell commercial products on punchcards nowadays...
Can you?
*curls up into a little ball and hides in the corner*
People still use punch cards, but not for their original purpose. They use them as bookmarks and conversation pieces. In that vein, you are correct; as soon as a superior format is accepted, I'll be putting my rum & coke down on a 5th Element 5" silver drink coaster, as opposed to my current silver drink coaster, which is just a failed "backup" of TIE Fighter from back in the day.
Ah yes, the old original Pentiums... The things had terrible heat issues, and couldn't even do simple math! Despite all this, however, I still have my first Pentium chip (p150) sitting on a shelf at home. Some day I'll get sick of looking at it and take it out to the shooting range to "put it down".
No problem, when we release the final version you can replace those parts with parts of your choice. Or, if you'd like to get in on the project, you could help us by designing alternative genus mixes or by perfecting the "vanilla" pure-human model.
In that case, I think it would be best if we open-sourced this project, get it under GPL, etc.
Anyone out there good at splicing feline/human genes?
Finally, my dream of having a large-breasted subservient cat-girl sex-drone can be a reality!
Maybe I'm sharing too much with you people...
This is not high esteem for a man who does well on a game show.
This is high esteem for a man who does well on a game show by showing of his gargantuan brain. This is high esteem for a man who has probably forgotten more trivia than most of us currently know. This is high esteem for a geek pressing his advantage in an arena suited to his forte.
With his track record on Jeapordy, there is no way they would allow him anywhere near the set of Millionaire. I mean, if you knew that having this guy on your game would make you lose $1 million, would you do it?
At least the tech support will be a local call for them...
Its exposing you to radiation, to be sure, but its a form of radar, so its just radio signals. Probably no more harmful than a few minutes on a cell phone. Start worrying when you feel yourself heating up from exposure (microwaves are in this frequency range!).
Railguns + Wallhacks = those spiffy guns from Eraser...
Oh, so now they can tell me WHICH city my luggage went to, instead of just telling me its not there (I can SEE that, asshole!)
(No, I didn't RTFA, because then this joke might not work...)
Damn you all, you're ruining my business model... I guess I'll have to try one of those other Get Rich Quick schemes... like going to this place called "Work".
Step 1: Buy dead iPods from eBay
Step 2: Buy crappy Dell player from Dell w/ rebate
Step 3: Sell crappy Dell player on eBay for more than purchase price of dead iPod + crappy Dell player
Step 4: Profit!!!
Lather, rinse, repeat
And we bitch when our CounterStrike match lags 300ms?!
That's because the probe doesn't have to worry about trying to get a headshot on a moving target at 100 yards using a P90 while avoiding the wall-hacking n00bs trying to AWP you from across the map.
I find myself curious what compression algorithms they are using... is it lossless? Are we using anything similar for current network or archiving purposes? Could either NASA or the private sector benefit from using the other's algorithm(s) of choice?
I mean, hell, they gave us Tang, so if we can help them out in some way, I'd love to give back.
Sure, the ping times aren't bad, but what about the bandwidth? If it can't get at least 50k/s, I don't want to hear about it.
This is why you should encrypt your email. Further, if they can read it, then they can probably store it, and after 180 days, it is no longer considered private information, and thus all it takes is a subpoena to get at them.
At least with a disk this big, you can't apply any of the "limited viewing window" technologies to it. When you have 60-some hours of video on the disk, there's no way to watch it all before the disk degrades to an un-watchable state.
I'm not saying that it would be CHEAP, I just like the idea of having all this on 1-2 disks, instead of taking up a whole shelf.
As for the special features, I'm firmly in favor of including gigabytes of the stuff. Only putting 3 movies on the disk? Fill the rest up with all the concept art for each character, outtakes, "The Making Of" TV specials, promotional videos, music videos, movie posters, TV spoofs, and outer-Mongolian language options.