Poor form to reply to your own comments, but an example of where Firefox does something very well.
I have a list of tech websites I check daily. A new feature in Firefox is the open on tabs option in the bookmarks. This just makes life a little bit easier.
Download the prefbar extension. One of the best things about the mozilla variants is the extensions.
* Inability to prompt me if I want scripts to run? * Prompted cookie setting control?
I'd be surprised if there isn't an option to set this. I'm not a serious firefox/mozilla geek so I wouldn't know.
* Inline images are either on or off. Eg, no ability to prevent animations (gif or otherwise) from running.
(This is frustrating. I want to see the original images, but I absolutely hate animations of any sort.)
* No Zones feature so that I can configure certain security options for certain sites.
I've never liked the zones model, but each to his own.
* Installed security is to save passwords, allow web sites to install software, save form information, and Java is enabled?
If you don't like it switch it off. Remebber this is a discussion comparing Firefox to IE. Features/problems they both share are irrelevant.
* Many other configuration options are missing that would allow me to be prompted if I want to execute or do something.
Name them.
I notice that tabbed browsing ends up using even more desktop real estate. I've never needed tabbed browsing before, all my windows appear on my Explorer task bar...just like tabs. I suppose tabs would be useful for people whos operating systems don't have a taskbar enabled shell.
I switch that 'feature' of XP off as soon as I install. Tabs offer some organisation. For example you can have a work window open and a play window, both with multiple tabs. Don't like it, don't use it.
I find that I don't think I'll be switching just yet because of the inability to actively control scripting and the in-line image problem. If those issues are taken care of in the future, I don't know why I would stay with IE. Until then.
Each to his or her own. I switched to mozilla a little while back and have found it a very pleasant experience. As I said earlier the extensions are one of the best things about the browser, but even without them the firefox is a better browser.
I suggest you do a google search for "School of the Americas" if you want to find out to what extent the US has supported unsavoury actions in the past. Heck I can do it for you.
from the original comment: (BTW, if anyone wants to attack this, you can't get away with just attacking FAIR: you need to attack *the content*).
from your comment: HAHA!!!! You point to *FAIR* as an unbiased news source???!! You might as well pull up Baghdad (there are no American tanks here) Bob!!!
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Excellent point.
Descent was a real innovator. It was also the first game that made me want to throw up from motion sickness.
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Doom 1 was revolutionary; everything in the FPS realm has been incremental improvements and regurgitation since.
But Doom 1 was just an incremental improvement on Wolfenstein.
That isn't totally true, but all games are incremental improvements. The question is just how large the improvement was.
I personally believe that there have been a few standout games in the FPS that are worth noting as milestones.
Wolfenstein Doom 1 Quake Half Life
I don't think we have had anything worthy to be called a milestone since Half Life. Maybe one of the UT series. I have some hopes that S.T.A.L.K.E.R might really introduce something new.
Anyone who posts AC for any reason other than for reasons of confidentiality is to be despised.
If you post AC for any other reason you are not willing to stand by your comments, which is beneath contempt. I have never posted AC and will not do so unless under an NDA, or I am posting information that is otherwise confidential.
From the Article all this means that you get an extra 3 days notice before the monthly release of security bulletins. What is the point of that?
The problem with the new MS regime of patching cycle is that they did not release information as it became available to them. Microsoft should release patches as soon as they are available, not on a monthly cycle. The current MS situation means that you arr vulernable for up to a month (if not more).
Microsoft's initial assumtion that virus's & scripts are released only when the patch is release is largely flawed.
I wrote some code for a product that was designed to work with Exchange 5.5 and later and Groupwise 5.5 and later.
The exchange stuff was a lot more pleasant. It was an interesting experience though.
I still consider that there is a design flaw in the way Exchange handles MAPI and SMTP emails.
Groupwise was another problem all together. The APIs were not terribly neat and a call to a particular function in the API caused things to crash. The word back from Novell was that partcular function was not designed to be used.
I think what you fail to understand is that the reason this makes the news in Australia is that it is unusual. The reasons this doesn't make the news in the states is that it is not unusual.
I've also had a long and rather interesting discussion on gun control in Australia vs gun control in the US.
All states demonstate some elemtents of facism, marxism etc. You have picked out a number of isolated and frankly insigifigant areas where your country conforms to Marxism.
I have studied the rise of Hitler in some detail. It parallels the current administration pretty closely. That should be a concern. A very big concern.
Soldiers have a very rigid idea of hierarchy. NCOs, Officers all the way to the top. And at the top is the President. Without support and repect all the way up the chain, it would collapse. In some ways this is the greatest crime in going to Iraq. Bush has taken this unquestioning support and gone to fight an unnecessary and unjust war. He has betrayed the American army.
The problems that Bush has created for himself in his first term are enormous. If he stays on course, and he has promised to, we can expect them to just get worse. In that case I have some hopes that that it will be clear the emperor has no clothes.
At this point it appears he couldn't have done much worse than Kerry:) Kerry was running against the one of the most incompetent and untruthful Presidents in American history and Kerry still managed to come out on the losing end.
It is very disappointing, although not terribly surprising.
What is interesting is that the election campaign was run largely on fear of terrorism (and associated issues). That appears to have been the tipping point for a lot of people. Our recent election (Australia) was also won on the back of a campaign of fear, except in this case it was Interest Rates. The incumbent was seen as a better choice for managing the economy and keeping interest rates down.
It is hard to fight against that sort of campaign. You can try to downplay the fears and say they aren't justified, but in your case that means Bush just points back to 9/11 to justify the fears. It is hard to run against.
Still look on the bright side, Bush now has to fix his own mistakes: Iraq, economy, bridge-building to the rest of the world, Osama. On his performance to date, it is still possible that he mayy mismanage these further, to the point that he takes his deserved position as one of the worst American presidents in history. Also the rest of the world will be a lot more cautious than it was before. In his first term, people couldn't believe that he would do the kinds of things he has done. Now they know.
When they aren't running for anything and have nothing to lose, they give gutsy, insightful, intelligent speeches
True enough. None the less, I am still very impressed with what he has had to say. Also I think whoever was in power after 9/11 would have had a huge boost in popularity. At that point one is free to do what you really want to do (as we have seen from Bush).
I'd agree that it is a real pity about Dean. If would have been great to see him run. The speech on Israel was particularly courageous.
Still I do wonder how he would have fared against Bush. I think is what is effectively a khaki election Dean might have had a harder run than Kerry, war veteran. Although Bush is not a veteran, he falls back on his leadership of the "war on terror", which for some strange reason is approved of by many Americans.
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I think that geeks often think of technology as an end in itself. Most other people see technology as a means to an end.
Poor form to reply to your own comments, but an example of where Firefox does something very well.
I have a list of tech websites I check daily. A new feature in Firefox is the open on tabs option in the bookmarks. This just makes life a little bit easier.
* Changing the temporary cache path?
I'm not sure I see a need, but fair enough.
* No option to clear cache when done?
Download the prefbar extension. One of the best things about the mozilla variants is the extensions.
* Inability to prompt me if I want scripts to run?
* Prompted cookie setting control?
I'd be surprised if there isn't an option to set this. I'm not a serious firefox/mozilla geek so I wouldn't know.
* Inline images are either on or off. Eg, no ability to prevent animations (gif or otherwise) from running.
(This is frustrating. I want to see the original images, but I absolutely hate animations of any sort.)
YOu can configure this
* No Zones feature so that I can configure certain security options for certain sites.
I've never liked the zones model, but each to his own.
* Installed security is to save passwords, allow web sites to install software, save form information, and Java is enabled?
If you don't like it switch it off. Remebber this is a discussion comparing Firefox to IE. Features/problems they both share are irrelevant.
* Many other configuration options are missing that would allow me to be prompted if I want to execute or do something.
Name them.
I notice that tabbed browsing ends up using even more desktop real estate. I've never needed tabbed browsing before, all my windows appear on my Explorer task bar...just like tabs. I suppose tabs would be useful for people whos operating systems don't have a taskbar enabled shell.
I switch that 'feature' of XP off as soon as I install. Tabs offer some organisation. For example you can have a work window open and a play window, both with multiple tabs. Don't like it, don't use it.
I find that I don't think I'll be switching just yet because of the inability to actively control scripting and the in-line image problem. If those issues are taken care of in the future, I don't know why I would stay with IE. Until then.
Each to his or her own. I switched to mozilla a little while back and have found it a very pleasant experience. As I said earlier the extensions are one of the best things about the browser, but even without them the firefox is a better browser.
This a pointless argument.
Only old unix heads and wanna be old unix heads indulge in this kind of argument.
A more relevant argument would be Eclipse vs VS.Net.
I find acetone works quite well in cases like this.
I suggest you do a google search for "School of the Americas" if you want to find out to what extent the US has supported unsavoury actions in the past. Heck I can do it for you.
from the original comment:
(BTW, if anyone wants to attack this, you can't get away with just attacking FAIR: you need to attack *the content*).
from your comment:
HAHA!!!! You point to *FAIR* as an unbiased news source???!! You might as well pull up Baghdad (there are no American tanks here) Bob!!!
HAAA!!! You can't read.
I use the googlebar to find stuff.
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Excellent point.
Descent was a real innovator. It was also the first game that made me want to throw up from motion sickness.
Doom 1 was revolutionary; everything in the FPS realm has been incremental improvements and regurgitation since.
But Doom 1 was just an incremental improvement on Wolfenstein.
That isn't totally true, but all games are incremental improvements. The question is just how large the improvement was.
I personally believe that there have been a few standout games in the FPS that are worth noting as milestones.
Wolfenstein
Doom 1
Quake
Half Life
I don't think we have had anything worthy to be called a milestone since Half Life. Maybe one of the UT series. I have some hopes that S.T.A.L.K.E.R might really introduce something new.
Anyone who posts AC for any reason other than for reasons of confidentiality is to be despised.
If you post AC for any other reason you are not willing to stand by your comments, which is beneath contempt. I have never posted AC and will not do so unless under an NDA, or I am posting information that is otherwise confidential.
Tool.
From the Article all this means that you get an extra 3 days notice before the monthly release of security bulletins. What is the point of that?
The problem with the new MS regime of patching cycle is that they did not release information as it became available to them. Microsoft should release patches as soon as they are available, not on a monthly cycle. The current MS situation means that you arr vulernable for up to a month (if not more).
Microsoft's initial assumtion that virus's & scripts are released only when the patch is release is largely flawed.
I wrote some code for a product that was designed to work with Exchange 5.5 and later and Groupwise 5.5 and later.
The exchange stuff was a lot more pleasant. It was an interesting experience though.
I still consider that there is a design flaw in the way Exchange handles MAPI and SMTP emails.
Groupwise was another problem all together. The APIs were not terribly neat and a call to a particular function in the API caused things to crash. The word back from Novell was that partcular function was not designed to be used.
I think what you fail to understand is that the reason this makes the news in Australia is that it is unusual. The reasons this doesn't make the news in the states is that it is not unusual.
I've also had a long and rather interesting discussion on gun control in Australia vs gun control in the US.
I don't understand.
Whether the 10000 people who actually paid the money are stupid or not isn't under scrutiny. They are stupid.
The question is to what proportion of the people who had a chance to respond (ie those who received the email) did respond.
Insults and hyperbole do not make an cogent argument.
All states demonstate some elemtents of facism, marxism etc. You have picked out a number of isolated and frankly insigifigant areas where your country conforms to Marxism.
I have studied the rise of Hitler in some detail. It parallels the current administration pretty closely. That should be a concern. A very big concern.
But I guess you are content in your viewpoint.
You are assuming that all 300,000,000 people in the US saw the email. I'm sure that isn't the case.
Soldiers have a very rigid idea of hierarchy. NCOs, Officers all the way to the top. And at the top is the President. Without support and repect all the way up the chain, it would collapse. In some ways this is the greatest crime in going to Iraq. Bush has taken this unquestioning support and gone to fight an unnecessary and unjust war. He has betrayed the American army.
I predict collapse. Collapse for the right.
The problems that Bush has created for himself in his first term are enormous. If he stays on course, and he has promised to, we can expect them to just get worse. In that case I have some hopes that that it will be clear the emperor has no clothes.
But we shall wait and see.
At this point it appears he couldn't have done much worse than Kerry :) Kerry was running against the one of the most incompetent and untruthful Presidents in American history and Kerry still managed to come out on the losing end.
It is very disappointing, although not terribly surprising.
What is interesting is that the election campaign was run largely on fear of terrorism (and associated issues). That appears to have been the tipping point for a lot of people. Our recent election (Australia) was also won on the back of a campaign of fear, except in this case it was Interest Rates. The incumbent was seen as a better choice for managing the economy and keeping interest rates down.
It is hard to fight against that sort of campaign. You can try to downplay the fears and say they aren't justified, but in your case that means Bush just points back to 9/11 to justify the fears. It is hard to run against.
Still look on the bright side, Bush now has to fix his own mistakes: Iraq, economy, bridge-building to the rest of the world, Osama. On his performance to date, it is still possible that he mayy mismanage these further, to the point that he takes his deserved position as one of the worst American presidents in history. Also the rest of the world will be a lot more cautious than it was before. In his first term, people couldn't believe that he would do the kinds of things he has done. Now they know.
SATA: ...
* Available spindle speeds: 7200 RPM
Some SATA drives run to 10,000
Exactly.
I've just ordered a rackmount server with 4 15K RPM 36GB SCSI drives in RAID 10 configuration. I need the speed, not the size.
In fact in this particular case the resulting size (72GB) of the array is an overkill for what I want.
I'm hardly likely to exchange my array for a single 300GB IDE drive.
When they aren't running for anything and have nothing to lose, they give gutsy, insightful, intelligent speeches
True enough. None the less, I am still very impressed with what he has had to say. Also I think whoever was in power after 9/11 would have had a huge boost in popularity. At that point one is free to do what you really want to do (as we have seen from Bush).
I'd agree that it is a real pity about Dean. If would have been great to see him run. The speech on Israel was particularly courageous.
Still I do wonder how he would have fared against Bush. I think is what is effectively a khaki election Dean might have had a harder run than Kerry, war veteran. Although Bush is not a veteran, he falls back on his leadership of the "war on terror", which for some strange reason is approved of by many Americans.