Wasn't this discussed enough the last time Opera had BT built into a tech preview? The target users for an integrated torrent client are very different than for a standalone client. If all web browsers had built-in torrent support then pretty much any file up for download on the internet could be switched to a torrent for distributed serving without any noticeable change to the end user.
Big time downloaders who want more features will obviously still use standalone clients. But it's hardly bloat to have it in the webbrowser.
Wait until someone else (Staples maybe?) starts doing that and they'll switch over to all instant rebates. The only reason they're dropping mail-in is because other retailers have and they're scared.
They already seem to be doing more instant rebates anyway. The final price is usually a bit higher than with the mail-in rebate though.
The amount of anti-American pseudo-thinking going on here is outrageous. How about you American haters go move to China or someplace you'd find more comfortable?
I have posted in the past in support of limited teaching of Intelligent Design and been moderated down as flamebait and troll.
This is become/. is missing a complementary negative mod for interesting or insightful. I'm sure if there was a -1 moron mod you wouldn't have gotten flamebait or troll.
I do what I love, just not at work. Work gives me the money I need to...
Sounds pretty good to me. A lot of people don't even get enough from their work to do waht they NEED, forget about what they love. And that's something that really is worth complaining about since it should *never* happen in the richest country on Earth.
Growth is the key to a strong economy. A strong economy without significant growth is not a very healthy economy.
Do you really believe that insane nonsense? Infinite growth in a closed system (ie THE EARTH) is IMPOSSIBLE. It's this kind of thinking that has doomed our economy to an unending cycle of booms and crashes.
Not to mention that they didn't bomb Hawaii to conquer it, but rather to cripple the Pacific fleet that was stationed there. But don't bother arguing with these idiots they are invincibly ignorant and you are just wasting your time on them.
The old GTK dialog was at least functional. You could clickedy clack on it if you really wanted to but it also provided a pretty solid commandline-style navigation that made clicking unnecessary. The new one is horrible for both clicking and typing.
Additionally, if you had any sense at all, you'd realize that Firefox NEVER used the GTK dialog in the first place. It used an XUL-based dialog that was pretty basic but did the job well.
There's no reason that Linux should be the odd man out by having an inferior version. Especially with all the idiots acting like Firefox is somehow a "Linux app" when clearly the Windows (and probably Mac, though I've never used it) version gets all the love.
Hopefully the Mozilla kids get their shit together and fix it or Konqueror steps up and fills the role it should already be playing as the dominant Linux web browser.
Come on, man. I use KDE exclusively. I LOVE KDE and the gnomification of Firefox drives me NUTS (whoever put the gnome file dialogs into 1.5 is first up against the wall in the revolution), but Konqueror is not ready to replace Firefox. It lacks the real world compatibility, the features (which admittedly vanilla Firefox sorely lacks) provided by an extensive library of Firefox extensions, and it suffers severely from the feeling that it just doesn't know what it wants to be.
The rendering technology is definitely there in most areas but it lags behind both Firefox and Opera as a full web browser.
Also, it doesn't work with gmail's standard mode. Which isn't really Konqueror's fault.
2) I thought 2006 was the year the American public would wake up to the way they're manipulated (can you remember having the same contempt for the french prior to their [justified] opposition to Iraq II?)
Yes, there's a long history of cheese eating, surrender monkey jokes in America. You must be new here.
The screen is only 320x240. It's an LCD, that doesn't change. If I remember right the video output hardware scales the image larger for display on televisions. This is where the 720x480 number comes from.
Maya's a lot easier to get into than 3DS, doubly so if you're a *nix user since it's very Unixie in a lot of ways. And speaking of 3DS, using a modifier stack in Blender is a HORRIBLE idea if it's anything like 3DS's. It's unwieldy and (even by v5 when I stopped using it) most of the modifiers screwed things up if you worked on the lower ones and wound up constantly having to collapse the stack. Copying Maya's construction history would have been a much better way to go for Blender.
Of course Blender's modifier stack could be great (I doubt it), and I guess I'll find out in a few minutes.
As for the interface, Blender's isn't really that bad. If you go through the tutorials on it (which are actually pretty good) it almost starts to make sense.
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Big time downloaders who want more features will obviously still use standalone clients. But it's hardly bloat to have it in the webbrowser.
Funniest post I've read all year. Thanks, I needed a good laugh.
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They already seem to be doing more instant rebates anyway. The final price is usually a bit higher than with the mail-in rebate though.
The amount of anti-American pseudo-thinking going on here is outrageous. How about you American haters go move to China or someplace you'd find more comfortable?
Does anyone like OUR way of running the government either?
I'm insensitive, you insensitive clod.
This is become /. is missing a complementary negative mod for interesting or insightful. I'm sure if there was a -1 moron mod you wouldn't have gotten flamebait or troll.
Also, Linux has a better name. HURD sounds retarded.
Sounds pretty good to me. A lot of people don't even get enough from their work to do waht they NEED, forget about what they love. And that's something that really is worth complaining about since it should *never* happen in the richest country on Earth.
Do you really believe that insane nonsense? Infinite growth in a closed system (ie THE EARTH) is IMPOSSIBLE. It's this kind of thinking that has doomed our economy to an unending cycle of booms and crashes.
No, but it does make you un-American and a communist.
Not to mention that they didn't bomb Hawaii to conquer it, but rather to cripple the Pacific fleet that was stationed there. But don't bother arguing with these idiots they are invincibly ignorant and you are just wasting your time on them.
Additionally, if you had any sense at all, you'd realize that Firefox NEVER used the GTK dialog in the first place. It used an XUL-based dialog that was pretty basic but did the job well.
There's no reason that Linux should be the odd man out by having an inferior version. Especially with all the idiots acting like Firefox is somehow a "Linux app" when clearly the Windows (and probably Mac, though I've never used it) version gets all the love.
Hopefully the Mozilla kids get their shit together and fix it or Konqueror steps up and fills the role it should already be playing as the dominant Linux web browser.
The rendering technology is definitely there in most areas but it lags behind both Firefox and Opera as a full web browser.
Also, it doesn't work with gmail's standard mode. Which isn't really Konqueror's fault.
Yes, there's a long history of cheese eating, surrender monkey jokes in America. You must be new here.
Good to see you doing your part to make it happen.
You meant to say, "those who can count in binary, those who can't, and those who think they can but really can't", right?
The screen is only 320x240. It's an LCD, that doesn't change. If I remember right the video output hardware scales the image larger for display on televisions. This is where the 720x480 number comes from.
You gnome trolls can now queue up the +troll moderation. My karma can take it.
They could try selling more PCs by not having crappy customer support.
I always call Linus "Fucking Sweet", but the FCC kept the media from picking up on that one.
Well you're half right.
In the good old days Firefox wasn't crippled by the gtk file dialogs and the insane gnome ui "design".
Of course Blender's modifier stack could be great (I doubt it), and I guess I'll find out in a few minutes.
As for the interface, Blender's isn't really that bad. If you go through the tutorials on it (which are actually pretty good) it almost starts to make sense.