FM simply offers more flexibility. IMAP lets me access my mail in a variety of email clients, or using the web interface, and always see the same mail in the same folders. I could use POP to access it if I wanted. Same thing with the server-side filtering. I routinely access my mail from Mail.app, Thunderbird, the web interface, and sometimes Outlook, using a variety of computers. For some things the web interface works better. For others a mail client is better. FM gives me the option to work with my mail as I want.
I have a Full account at FM, so I'm paying a yearly fee. This gives me much better spam filtering. I find the gmail and FM spam filters roughly equal. Dealing with about 30-100 pieces of spam a day, both go through phases of letting up to 20/day through, but usually catch about 90% or more.
The gmail interface bugs me. It takes forever to load. By the time my mailbox appears I've already read half my mail in FM. It's designed to work in a single window, but I prefer to open everything in tabs and then work my way through them. FM offers me that option.
That said, I have all my incoming mail at FM forwarded to a gmail account for backup, and then I use the gmail notifier on that account to let me know when I have new mail at FM. Kind of backwards, but it works.
And in this day and age, should a government-chosen domain registry be allowed to enforce their own moral code on the public?
I sure hope so. The government is supposed to be seeking the good of its people. How could it possibly do so without reference to any sense of right and wrong? Just because you disagree with a particular choice doesn't mean they shouldn't be doing what they believe is morally right.
No, this would be more like the chef telling you a certain food combination won't work well, and recommending another.
More like the chef putting it on your plate and sending it to your table without asking you, just because he knows better. Sure, you can send it back, but he shouldn't have done that in the first place.
... seems to confuse one issue (collaborate research and somebody trying to take all of the credit) with copyright law...
Not exactly. Read it again. "The years of resrearch [sic], the writing..." (emphasis added). They claim to have wrote it together as well. That part would be copyright infringement and plaigarism. The spelling mistake is pretty funny though.
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Benefit offset entirely by the fact that you have to live in Saskatchewan.
Just one little point (in case you're curious): the main reason the bible was translated into Latin (the version done by Jerome sometime around the year 400 is the most well-known) was primarily so that it would be accessible to the people. The Vulgate is named for being "vulgar", i.e. in the language of the people. In many areas at the time, the people spoke Latin and did not really understand the original languages.
It's really kind of funny how the translation that was made so that the people could understand it remained the standard long after the people moved on to other languages. A lot of history in there. Anyway.
The best way I've found for reading RSS feeds is using an RSS-to-email gateway. This way any new articles are automatically delivered to my inbox, and filters put them in their own folders. Whatever computer I'm on, I check my mail (IMAP; using either webmail or a client) and I get all my mail and all my news. One stop for everything. Articles remain unread until I've dealt with them.
This works great. If I visit a site I find interesting, I subscribe to its feed. If it's ever updated, I get the update (or at least notification of the update) sent to me. And I can read it all from the comfort of my chosen mail client.
Abiword has an export/import support, though 'does not have a single native format'.
2 points:
Abiword does have import/export support for OpenOffice files, but it is currently rather poor. It'll pull in the basic text and a bit more, but it needs a lot of work. The developers would love some extra help here.
Abiword does have a native format -.abw files. They also have extremely good support for RTF files (far better than OpenOffice.org does), but.abw is the only format they really guarantee will work perfectly.
Yes and no. I got a little excited about the OASIS format a few months ago, and I love Abiword, so I picked through the archives fairly thoroughly.
IIRC, the basic stance of the main Abiword developers was: it'd be great to have good/perfect support for OASIS, but it's not going to be a high priority in the near future.
As I read more I began to agree with them. One of the main concerns is compatibility. At this point in time, that means compatibility with Word. RTF is much better suited for that. The RTF spec is available, and RTF is fairly well supported in most programs (WordPerfect, OpenOffice.org, Ted, etc.) so it is the better choice to focus on for compatibility right now.
That said, they would love to have good support for OASIS. The current OpenOffice.org import/export plugin needs a lot of love. It was written several years ago and never worked really spectacularly. If anyone is willing to hack on it (or rewrite it) and help make it better we would be ecstatic. Really. Send a message to the developers list and they'll point you in the right direction (probably to the OpenOffice Writer Filter plugin in CVS). Add constructive comments or patches to the bug report. Stop by on IRC (#abiword on irc.gnome.org) and ask for pointers where to get started.
Alternatively, if anyone is willing to sponsor (pay) one of the developers to implement this feature they would be more than willing to do so. Offer up a bounty or something like that. I've thought about chipping in (financially) on such an effort.
Abiword can support OASIS. This would help make it a true standard and a viable alternative to RTF and DOC files. But they do need some help to do so.
For a lot of people, Ubuntu offers a better distro than plain ol' Debian.
I've got a question for you (or anyone else willing to answer): What do people find better about Ubuntu?
I'm genuinely curious. I currently use GNOME on Debian. I tried the Ubuntu Live CD a couple days ago, and I really didn't see much that was different from a general Debian install of GNOME. A different theme (that I didn't like as much), a slightly cleaner desktop (not much different), etc. Nothing really seemed to stand out to me as being really better than vanilla Debian+GNOME./P
Could this be the end of lazy IE-only scripted webpages?
Slashdot is not the place to ask. Their site constantly displays incorrectly in Firefox. They'd do well to take heed of their own articles.
Just a couple points:
As someone else has pointed out, the incorrect rendering of/. is a Firefox bug, and its fix will be in future releases.
The article you point to is about using valid (X)HTML and CSS, while the statement you quoted refers to sites that use IE-only scripting. That would be referring to things like JavaScript and VBScript, not the actual page markup. While both have to do with standards and cross-platform accessibility, they're not the same thing, and I don't think it's really fair to bring/. bashing into this conversation like that.
IMAP gives the best of both worlds. I can use Thunderbird (or mutt for your terminal-types:-) to access my mail at my main computer, and a webmail interface whenever I'm elsewhere. I have access to all my messages anywhere without losing the power a good mail client provides.
Seriously, try a good IMAP provider. FastMail.fm offers IMAP support on their free accounts. I've been a full member for a couple years. Once I tried IMAP I never looked back.
Abiword.com used to work (in addition to abisource.com). I believe they were having some DNS issues of some sort a while ago. I forget when it stopped working - sometime in the last 2-3 months or so, I think. There has been mention on the developer list of getting it going again, but abisource.com has always been the main website.
It would not be nearly enough to equal Macintosh hardware sales. Apple grosses about 1.8 billion per quarter selling hardware. To equate that with just selling OS X at $129, they would need to sell 14 million units a quarter. Even if a lot of people would switch, that is an unrealistic expectation.
Yes, it is. But rather than having the expectation to match/replace their hardware profits, they could simply hope to increase their profits somewhat, supplementing them by expanding into a new market. Some people would still pay a premium to get the whole "Mac experience" (hardward and software). Selling OS X for x86 would not kill off all their hardware sales. It would reduce it somewhat, but it would also bring in the potential for many more customers (some of whom may switch to the "one true Mac" at a later date).
which one, if offered to you, would you fly in; the da Vinci rocket, or Rutan's SpaceShipOne?
Honestly. I'd probably take either if they were offering. Unfortunately, they're not. At least not to me. Which would I prefer? Well, that might be another issue.
Ah, who am I fooling? I'd take the Da Vinci. Go Canada!
Agreed. I have an IBM Thinkpad 380D. One time I wanted to see how long I could leave it running before it became unstable (running Win95). Because the processor was not doing much, it did not generate enough heat to turn on the fan. Without the processor fan, it had no active cooling. The next morning it was already powered off. I'm guessing something overheated. It's just not designed for that sort of use.
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I was looking for this over four years ago!
I have both, and I strongly prefer FM over gmail.
FM simply offers more flexibility. IMAP lets me access my mail in a variety of email clients, or using the web interface, and always see the same mail in the same folders. I could use POP to access it if I wanted. Same thing with the server-side filtering. I routinely access my mail from Mail.app, Thunderbird, the web interface, and sometimes Outlook, using a variety of computers. For some things the web interface works better. For others a mail client is better. FM gives me the option to work with my mail as I want.
I have a Full account at FM, so I'm paying a yearly fee. This gives me much better spam filtering. I find the gmail and FM spam filters roughly equal. Dealing with about 30-100 pieces of spam a day, both go through phases of letting up to 20/day through, but usually catch about 90% or more.
The gmail interface bugs me. It takes forever to load. By the time my mailbox appears I've already read half my mail in FM. It's designed to work in a single window, but I prefer to open everything in tabs and then work my way through them. FM offers me that option.
That said, I have all my incoming mail at FM forwarded to a gmail account for backup, and then I use the gmail notifier on that account to let me know when I have new mail at FM. Kind of backwards, but it works.
I sure hope so. The government is supposed to be seeking the good of its people. How could it possibly do so without reference to any sense of right and wrong? Just because you disagree with a particular choice doesn't mean they shouldn't be doing what they believe is morally right.
More like the chef putting it on your plate and sending it to your table without asking you, just because he knows better. Sure, you can send it back, but he shouldn't have done that in the first place.
At what point does "Informative" become "Too Much Information"?
One bit of feedback: the site can't be viewed if cookies are disabled. It just constantly redirects to http://www.beta.netscape.com/
Not exactly. Read it again. "The years of resrearch [sic], the writing..." (emphasis added). They claim to have wrote it together as well. That part would be copyright infringement and plaigarism. The spelling mistake is pretty funny though.
You misspelled "get". :-)
Just one little point (in case you're curious): the main reason the bible was translated into Latin (the version done by Jerome sometime around the year 400 is the most well-known) was primarily so that it would be accessible to the people. The Vulgate is named for being "vulgar", i.e. in the language of the people. In many areas at the time, the people spoke Latin and did not really understand the original languages.
It's really kind of funny how the translation that was made so that the people could understand it remained the standard long after the people moved on to other languages. A lot of history in there. Anyway.
The best way I've found for reading RSS feeds is using an RSS-to-email gateway. This way any new articles are automatically delivered to my inbox, and filters put them in their own folders. Whatever computer I'm on, I check my mail (IMAP; using either webmail or a client) and I get all my mail and all my news. One stop for everything. Articles remain unread until I've dealt with them.
This works great. If I visit a site I find interesting, I subscribe to its feed. If it's ever updated, I get the update (or at least notification of the update) sent to me. And I can read it all from the comfort of my chosen mail client.
I have. I don't like that screen. It scares me. Not a happy thing to see after a kernel upgrade.
2 points:
Yes and no. I got a little excited about the OASIS format a few months ago, and I love Abiword, so I picked through the archives fairly thoroughly.
IIRC, the basic stance of the main Abiword developers was: it'd be great to have good/perfect support for OASIS, but it's not going to be a high priority in the near future.As I read more I began to agree with them. One of the main concerns is compatibility. At this point in time, that means compatibility with Word. RTF is much better suited for that. The RTF spec is available, and RTF is fairly well supported in most programs (WordPerfect, OpenOffice.org, Ted, etc.) so it is the better choice to focus on for compatibility right now.
That said, they would love to have good support for OASIS. The current OpenOffice.org import/export plugin needs a lot of love. It was written several years ago and never worked really spectacularly. If anyone is willing to hack on it (or rewrite it) and help make it better we would be ecstatic. Really. Send a message to the developers list and they'll point you in the right direction (probably to the OpenOffice Writer Filter plugin in CVS). Add constructive comments or patches to the bug report. Stop by on IRC (#abiword on irc.gnome.org) and ask for pointers where to get started.
Alternatively, if anyone is willing to sponsor (pay) one of the developers to implement this feature they would be more than willing to do so. Offer up a bounty or something like that. I've thought about chipping in (financially) on such an effort.
Abiword can support OASIS. This would help make it a true standard and a viable alternative to RTF and DOC files. But they do need some help to do so.
I thought it was Found On Road Dead.
I've got a question for you (or anyone else willing to answer): What do people find better about Ubuntu?
I'm genuinely curious. I currently use GNOME on Debian. I tried the Ubuntu Live CD a couple days ago, and I really didn't see much that was different from a general Debian install of GNOME. A different theme (that I didn't like as much), a slightly cleaner desktop (not much different), etc. Nothing really seemed to stand out to me as being really better than vanilla Debian+GNOME./P
Also it doesn't work when searching from a one of the localized googles, such as google.ca. The search needs to be done at google.com.
FastMail.FM uses Sieve. They're a great free (for basic service) IMAP/webmail provider.
They do, but they also admit that it needs work. If anyone is willing to work on it, they would love the help.
Just a couple points:
IMAP gives the best of both worlds. I can use Thunderbird (or mutt for your terminal-types :-) to access my mail at my main computer, and a webmail interface whenever I'm elsewhere. I have access to all my messages anywhere without losing the power a good mail client provides.
Seriously, try a good IMAP provider. FastMail.fm offers IMAP support on their free accounts. I've been a full member for a couple years. Once I tried IMAP I never looked back.
Abiword.com used to work (in addition to abisource.com). I believe they were having some DNS issues of some sort a while ago. I forget when it stopped working - sometime in the last 2-3 months or so, I think. There has been mention on the developer list of getting it going again, but abisource.com has always been the main website.
Yes, it is. But rather than having the expectation to match/replace their hardware profits, they could simply hope to increase their profits somewhat, supplementing them by expanding into a new market. Some people would still pay a premium to get the whole "Mac experience" (hardward and software). Selling OS X for x86 would not kill off all their hardware sales. It would reduce it somewhat, but it would also bring in the potential for many more customers (some of whom may switch to the "one true Mac" at a later date).
GRRR!!!
Not enough? Here, I'll try again.
ROAR!! GROWL!! AAARRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!
(grumble grumble lameness filter grumble)
Honestly. I'd probably take either if they were offering. Unfortunately, they're not. At least not to me. Which would I prefer? Well, that might be another issue.
Ah, who am I fooling? I'd take the Da Vinci. Go Canada!
Agreed. I have an IBM Thinkpad 380D. One time I wanted to see how long I could leave it running before it became unstable (running Win95). Because the processor was not doing much, it did not generate enough heat to turn on the fan. Without the processor fan, it had no active cooling. The next morning it was already powered off. I'm guessing something overheated. It's just not designed for that sort of use.