Why, oh why, did they have to specifically aim this at all the apps I don't use?
You think you've got it bad? Not only do I not use any of the products they index, I don't even use the OS they run on! Supposing that they do add firefox, thunderbird, gaim, and openoffice.org functionality, it's still useless to me if it's windows-only.
Yeah, but the pollution from building cars and producing hydrogen is centralised in large factories that make it easy to collect and control the pollution; cars just drive around and spit pollution all into the air that you breathe.
I'd rather live in the pollutionless, hydrogen-powered car world.
I dunno, they could adopt chat and then focus on searching the chat logs... just like they did for email. I never delete my gaim logs, but hell if I can ever find anything in it (grep only goes so far).
I'm not sure exactly what you're asking when you want a "HOWTO"... are you trying to set up a server?
Because if you just want to figure out how to use jabber as a client, just use gaim (or any other multi-protocol client), and then register a jabber account at jabber.org, and start looking for other people with jabber accounts. Not sure what you mean by "a server with lots of like-minded folks on it", any jabber server can talk to any other jabber server.
Jabber is basically the same as email, except that it uses XML instead of RFC822, and it's much, much faster.
Wouldn't it also mean that you can't see the "illusion" at all? I'd be interested to know if the images still appear to wobble and roll and such when you look at them.
Good point. If the USA hadn't funded Saddam in the first place, they wouldn't be in the mess they're in. It's tempting to say that Bush is cleaning up his daddy's mess, but it looks like he's just making the mess bigger, really.
Well, she never uses bookmarks or favorites. Only what I give to her on the link toolbar (both IE and mozilla have it in the same place, so she didn't really notice the change).
As for the icons, well, it says "Mozilla" in the titlebar and she hasn't noticed that, either. I could probably give her firefox with a mozilla theme and she wouldn't notice. If she asks I'll just say there was an important system update or something.
1.0PR is definitely a high quality release, I would suggest you try it. Many bugs that bothered me in 0.9.3 have been fixed.
But, the name "1.0PR" is purely a marketing thing. The actual version number is 0.10, as you can see in the "Help -> About Firefox" screen where it says this:
"Firefox version 1.0 preview release"
followed by:
"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10.1"
That about sealed the deal there. The HTTP_USERAGENT string says 0.10.1, but the fancy-schmancy title says 1.0PR. That tells me, basically, 0.10 is the actual technical version number, "1.0PR" is marketing fluff.
My mom did a similar thing when I tried to switch her over to mozilla a while back (pre firefox days). "What's a mozilla? I want the internet!"
Now when she clicks on the big blue 'e', it launches mozilla. She hasn't complained once.
I should try showing her the firefox promotional materials that show how bad IE is, to try and get her to switch. Sure, she's using mozilla, but she thinks it's IE, and if I can convince her how bad IE is, maybe she'll switch to firefox.
Ok, but how do you pirate linux? Are you suggesting that all these windows pirates are going to download the linux kernel, make some modifications, and then only distribute the binaries without the sourcecode? That's about the only way I can think to actually violate the GPL.
If I buy a CD and lend it to you, and you burn yourself a copy, and then give me my CD back, that's legal. If I burn a backup copy of my own CD for myself, that's legal. If I burn a backup copy of my own CD and then give you the backup, that's illegal.
And with its full 35mm CMOS it is the first camera to effectively reproduce the image quality of 35mm film
I highly doubt that the CMOS chip's resolution even approaches the analogue quality of real film. What the "full frame" 35mm CMOS chip really means is that you can use all your old lenses from your 35mm film SLRs, and there is no conversion factor for the zoom rating.
Basically, if you had a wide angle lens for a film SLR, and you put it onto a Digital Rebel (which has a less than full-frame chip), it would become less of a wide angle lens because the sensor is smaller and it's effectively "cropping" the image relative to what you'd expect of the lens from 35mm film. This camera doesn't do that.
Yep, it's good to be a Canadian. Thanks to the CDR levy, it's perfectly legal to download all the MP3s you want. I think it's implied that you ought to be burning the CDs, since I suspect most people just download the mp3s and get around the levy by simply not buying CDs.
(and yes, it is outrageous that when I buy a spindle of CDRs for backing up my irreplacable self-created data (photos, programs, etc), I pay a levy that helps support the corrupt music industry).
You are exactly right. The purpose of copyright is that old music falls into the public domain, allowing any schmuck to utilize their own individual creative juices with these works to create new, interesting works. If they're remixing old music to make new hits, then that new music has a new 50 year copyright on it, and they can make money on that instead of on the old stuff, which should rightfully be in the public domain.
I dunno, maybe so that you don't have to type your login information into gmail every time you click on a link? How else were you expecting them to maintain session data? Also, there's that little "remember login for 2 weeks" checkbox, that requires cookies.
What kind of themes are you referring to? Aside from GTK2 themes, that affect ALL the GTK2 apps you're running, the only gaim themes that I can think of are the smiley themes. Not a huge deal.
But I agree, I prefer un-themable apps in general. It just makes them ugly and stand out like a sore thumb, no matter how cool the theme is. I used to like xmms for it's simplicity, but I switched to rhythmbox mostly because it's a standard GTK2 app that looks like the rest of the apps I use. In "Small Display" mode it's even more screen-efficient than XMMS. plus it has a nicer playlist, which is a bonus.;)
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Nah, it's probably better for him if he kept his TV turned off.
I am running 2.8.1 now
Are you from the mysterious future? What's it like there?
Why, oh why, did they have to specifically aim this at all the apps I don't use?
You think you've got it bad? Not only do I not use any of the products they index, I don't even use the OS they run on! Supposing that they do add firefox, thunderbird, gaim, and openoffice.org functionality, it's still useless to me if it's windows-only.
Yeah, but the pollution from building cars and producing hydrogen is centralised in large factories that make it easy to collect and control the pollution; cars just drive around and spit pollution all into the air that you breathe.
I'd rather live in the pollutionless, hydrogen-powered car world.
I dunno, they could adopt chat and then focus on searching the chat logs... just like they did for email. I never delete my gaim logs, but hell if I can ever find anything in it (grep only goes so far).
metamods must be doing their jobs, because this is the second time I've seen somebody complain about a +5 post being modded as a troll. Relax.
I'm not sure exactly what you're asking when you want a "HOWTO"... are you trying to set up a server?
Because if you just want to figure out how to use jabber as a client, just use gaim (or any other multi-protocol client), and then register a jabber account at jabber.org, and start looking for other people with jabber accounts. Not sure what you mean by "a server with lots of like-minded folks on it", any jabber server can talk to any other jabber server.
Jabber is basically the same as email, except that it uses XML instead of RFC822, and it's much, much faster.
Didn't occur to me until after I hit submit ;)
Wouldn't it also mean that you can't see the "illusion" at all? I'd be interested to know if the images still appear to wobble and roll and such when you look at them.
I love the quotes around "mouse", as if it were a steaming pile of crap or something.
Good point. If the USA hadn't funded Saddam in the first place, they wouldn't be in the mess they're in. It's tempting to say that Bush is cleaning up his daddy's mess, but it looks like he's just making the mess bigger, really.
Well, she never uses bookmarks or favorites. Only what I give to her on the link toolbar (both IE and mozilla have it in the same place, so she didn't really notice the change).
As for the icons, well, it says "Mozilla" in the titlebar and she hasn't noticed that, either. I could probably give her firefox with a mozilla theme and she wouldn't notice. If she asks I'll just say there was an important system update or something.
1.0PR is definitely a high quality release, I would suggest you try it. Many bugs that bothered me in 0.9.3 have been fixed.
But, the name "1.0PR" is purely a marketing thing. The actual version number is 0.10, as you can see in the "Help -> About Firefox" screen where it says this:
"Firefox version 1.0 preview release"
followed by:
"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10.1"
That about sealed the deal there. The HTTP_USERAGENT string says 0.10.1, but the fancy-schmancy title says 1.0PR. That tells me, basically, 0.10 is the actual technical version number, "1.0PR" is marketing fluff.
My mom did a similar thing when I tried to switch her over to mozilla a while back (pre firefox days). "What's a mozilla? I want the internet!"
Now when she clicks on the big blue 'e', it launches mozilla. She hasn't complained once.
I should try showing her the firefox promotional materials that show how bad IE is, to try and get her to switch. Sure, she's using mozilla, but she thinks it's IE, and if I can convince her how bad IE is, maybe she'll switch to firefox.
Most of the fake studies that make windows out to be better than linux we've seen here on slashdot, are from Gartner.
Paid shills, basically.
Ok, but how do you pirate linux? Are you suggesting that all these windows pirates are going to download the linux kernel, make some modifications, and then only distribute the binaries without the sourcecode? That's about the only way I can think to actually violate the GPL.
Our copyright law is kinda weird, as well.
If I buy a CD and lend it to you, and you burn yourself a copy, and then give me my CD back, that's legal. If I burn a backup copy of my own CD for myself, that's legal. If I burn a backup copy of my own CD and then give you the backup, that's illegal.
And with its full 35mm CMOS it is the first camera to effectively reproduce the image quality of 35mm film
I highly doubt that the CMOS chip's resolution even approaches the analogue quality of real film. What the "full frame" 35mm CMOS chip really means is that you can use all your old lenses from your 35mm film SLRs, and there is no conversion factor for the zoom rating.
Basically, if you had a wide angle lens for a film SLR, and you put it onto a Digital Rebel (which has a less than full-frame chip), it would become less of a wide angle lens because the sensor is smaller and it's effectively "cropping" the image relative to what you'd expect of the lens from 35mm film. This camera doesn't do that.
Yep, it's good to be a Canadian. Thanks to the CDR levy, it's perfectly legal to download all the MP3s you want. I think it's implied that you ought to be burning the CDs, since I suspect most people just download the mp3s and get around the levy by simply not buying CDs.
(and yes, it is outrageous that when I buy a spindle of CDRs for backing up my irreplacable self-created data (photos, programs, etc), I pay a levy that helps support the corrupt music industry).
You don't want to know what buffer-overflow exploits would be called...
I dunno what you were thinking, but it probably has something to do with dumping core...
You are exactly right. The purpose of copyright is that old music falls into the public domain, allowing any schmuck to utilize their own individual creative juices with these works to create new, interesting works. If they're remixing old music to make new hits, then that new music has a new 50 year copyright on it, and they can make money on that instead of on the old stuff, which should rightfully be in the public domain.
I dunno, maybe so that you don't have to type your login information into gmail every time you click on a link? How else were you expecting them to maintain session data? Also, there's that little "remember login for 2 weeks" checkbox, that requires cookies.
What kind of themes are you referring to? Aside from GTK2 themes, that affect ALL the GTK2 apps you're running, the only gaim themes that I can think of are the smiley themes. Not a huge deal.
;)
But I agree, I prefer un-themable apps in general. It just makes them ugly and stand out like a sore thumb, no matter how cool the theme is. I used to like xmms for it's simplicity, but I switched to rhythmbox mostly because it's a standard GTK2 app that looks like the rest of the apps I use. In "Small Display" mode it's even more screen-efficient than XMMS. plus it has a nicer playlist, which is a bonus.
I was making a joke. As far as I know, my way is impossible. Unless you enjoy the patented "Guess And Check" method. ;)
You could also argue that you would be helped by the nurse who cares least about money, and cares most about helping people.