Is there an ironic tag for posting this on Slashdot?
Slashdot's comment section is invaluable; when browsing at +2 (or even +1), you'll find that 95%+ of the comments are from well-educated, literate users who have useful (or at least humorous) information about the subject at hand. Possibly 0.5% of Digg's commenters could comment at Slashdot without appearing out of place; the other 99.5% will have to wait until they graduate from middle school at the very least.
For the most part, yes. There is not much difference (that I've seen, anyway), behind the scenes of Flock and Firefox. Most of the extensions that I've written work in Flock without modification, but they would need to have Flock listed in their install.rdf file for Flock to allow you to install it.
So, developers, check your extensions in Flock and once you have them working, add this to your install.rdf:
Additionally, this site: http://outraged-artists.com/flockd/list.php converts FF extensions to work in Flock, which usually probably just consists of adding the above code to install.rdf.
That bill, and one that may come up for a key vote in the Senate in the next few weeks, would give the big phone and cable companies the power to pick and choose what you will be able to see and do on the Internet.
Perhaps I have a misunderstanding of the bill, but I don't believe telecom companies will be able to stop a company's website from being seen, only from having faster and more bandwidth available.
Either way, it's still a crap piece of legislation.
You obviously didn't peruse the rest of the guy's site.
No kidding. I figured that this was some teenager's site, based on the grammar and spelling on the Sidekick page, but when I browsed to the main site, it turns out it belongs to some 28-year old tech-consultant, porn photographer wannabe who appears to be so full of himself that he has this question in his FAQ:
Question: Are you dating anyone now?
Answer: Why? You interested?
This just reinforces my belief that 99% of FAQ pages aren't actually for Frequently Asked Questions, but for questions the author wishes was frequently asked (e.g., "How can I donate money to your project??").
If they're content using an old operating system, then they will probably be content using an older browser. It's not like they can't use Firefox at all; they just won't be able to use 3.0, which won't come out for at least another year.
I mean, does anyone really run A/V signals between rooms as it is (except, of course, cable or satellite runs from a dish or the street)?
Perhaps no one is running A/V signals between rooms because it hasn't been easily doable, and this technology will greatly increase the number of people doing so.
All I know is that this would have been great to have when I was retrofitting my home for cable last year. That was a pain...
I'm always online and logged into my Google account; GMail is my homepage. (Jesus is my homeboy?) So yes, it's quicker for me to launch an AJAX app than to start up OO.org (which isn't that slow, but it still ain't fast.)
I was saying that if possible privacy violations by Google are that big of a concern to you, why use GMail at all? Given Google's track record, I wouldn't be surprised if they could be persuaded to turn over the contents of an e-mail account to the government (but probably only to a foreign communist one).
I often have to generate a spreadsheet (custom reports from a database of insurance information) that will be deleted anyway after I e-mail it to the person who requested it. I will be so happy not to have to fire up OpenOffice just to do a copy-paste of CSV data so I can save it in Excel format. If this is even basically functional, it will give me great joy.
Having two monopolies (one heavy native and one light web based) isn't much better than having one.
But it is better. I, for one, can't wait until I can use this, as I'm often asked at my job to generate Excel reports of insurance claim data to send off to insurance company employees, and it'll be nice not to have to open up OO.org just to copy and paste the CSV data from the DB just to convert it to XLS, as the recipients of the spreadsheet wouldn't know what to do with comma-separated data.
I'll just have to make sure that Google allows for adequate privacy; although with the normally sensitive information stored in spreadsheets, I'd be surprised if they didn't.
she learned how to convert decimal to hexadecimal.
Well, duh, doesn't everyone know that you just open up Windows Calculator in scientific mode, type in your number, and then click the Hex radio button? That's what they done taught me in my MCSE courses...
Hmmm. Which category does slashdot fit into? That's what I thought...
Depending on your line of work, Slashdot can contain a lot of work-related information: software reviews, security notices, polls on whether ninjas could defeat monkey robots... It's all very pertinent to my daily job functions.
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This isn't Digg; if an article doesn't interest you, you don't need to let the world know - just don't read it.
For the most part, yes. There is not much difference (that I've seen, anyway), behind the scenes of Flock and Firefox. Most of the extensions that I've written work in Flock without modification, but they would need to have Flock listed in their install.rdf file for Flock to allow you to install it.
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So, developers, check your extensions in Flock and once you have them working, add this to your install.rdf:
<!-- Flock -->
<em:targetApplication>
<Description>
<em:id>{a463f10c-3994-11da-9945-000d60ca027b}</em
<em:minVersion>0.5.13.2</em:minVersion>
<em:maxVersion>1.0</em:maxVersion>
</Description>
</em:targetApplication>
Additionally, this site: http://outraged-artists.com/flockd/list.php converts FF extensions to work in Flock, which usually probably just consists of adding the above code to install.rdf.
Plogger is nice too.
I don't think nano needs to be desalinized; it's pretty good the way it is. It could use syntax highlighting though...
Either way, it's still a crap piece of legislation.
Question: Are you dating anyone now?
Answer: Why? You interested?
This just reinforces my belief that 99% of FAQ pages aren't actually for Frequently Asked Questions, but for questions the author wishes was frequently asked (e.g., "How can I donate money to your project??").
All I know is that this would have been great to have when I was retrofitting my home for cable last year. That was a pain...
I'm always online and logged into my Google account; GMail is my homepage. (Jesus is my homeboy?) So yes, it's quicker for me to launch an AJAX app than to start up OO.org (which isn't that slow, but it still ain't fast.)
I was saying that if possible privacy violations by Google are that big of a concern to you, why use GMail at all? Given Google's track record, I wouldn't be surprised if they could be persuaded to turn over the contents of an e-mail account to the government (but probably only to a foreign communist one).
I often have to generate a spreadsheet (custom reports from a database of insurance information) that will be deleted anyway after I e-mail it to the person who requested it. I will be so happy not to have to fire up OpenOffice just to do a copy-paste of CSV data so I can save it in Excel format. If this is even basically functional, it will give me great joy.
If you're concerned about Google invading your privacy, maybe you shouldn't be storing your e-mail on their servers.
I'll just have to make sure that Google allows for adequate privacy; although with the normally sensitive information stored in spreadsheets, I'd be surprised if they didn't.