I don't see anything unique to Firebird there; in fact, Mozilla had those features for quite some time now. But either are quite an improvement over IE.
You think nature is so smart. Bah! Nature can't destroy, pollute, and decimate the planet as fast as we can, so there. What took 500+ million years to develop, we can eradicate and wipe out in decades. Barring an outside influence such as a nearby supernova or a 30 km asteroid impact, let's see mother nature match that!
Let's say this together now....
The buttons are all in the same corner so the user doesn't have to go hunting all over the place for them. Whether he wants to minimize, maximize/restore, or close he knows where to find them.
Umm....close analogy, but not quite. There is a major distinction:
Americans consider their countryman to be "Americans", no matter what your ancestry is. Doesn't matter where you came from or if you immigrated to the US last year or your great*4 grandfather immigrated here 200 years ago. If you take the POA and get your citizenship, you are looked at as American.
OTOH, if you are an Anglophone in Quebec, from the Francophones POV, you are not a real Quebecer. Doesn't matter if you're a 5th generation Anglophone, you are still looked down on and thought as 'not one of us'
For the last six years I have been living two miles from Quebec and one thing I notice is that from the french people's POV, no matter what country you are from, either your "one of us" (French) or "one of them" (non-French).
It would be like me calling myself German eventhough my ancestry in the new world dates back four generations.
I agree, if this guy wasn't stealing satellite then he copped out. If it was a few hundred dollars then I could see someone paying up to avoid any future hassles, but $3500? Who the hell has $3500 to throw away for nothing at the drop of a hat, yet not have the time or money to fight back?
That is frustrating, but not suprising. A significant percentage, into the double digits if I remember correctly, of people in industrialized countries still think the world is flat, so it I am not suprised that there are ppl out there that think the moon landings are fake,
Everybody knows European MPs (Member of Parliament) are next to useless anyway.
Unlike Canadian MP's, Australilan MP's, and members of the US Congress, which always represent the people that elected them and never ignore the little guy in favor of big business, lobbyists, and their own political interests.
who moved his taskbar to the top, is using a high-contrast flourescent color scheme, and is using 2mb wav files for every stinking windows event, has a screensaver that kicks on after 1 minute of idle time and features that guy saying "Hey Vern!" over and over,
Man, if those changes confuse you, switching from a two-button to a three-button mouse must completely baffle you.
that is the ugliest car I have ever seen. I find the design very bold and intimidating. US manufacturers are finally getting ahead of the europeans and japanese in the styling department, especially Cadillac & Chrysler. I mean, the Mini? $30 grand for a car that has less space than my closet? I'm sure it will sell well, like the atrocious beetle, but WTF are they thinking when it comes to style?
but in the grand scheme of things, it's irrelevant.
Well if you want to carry it that far then everyones lives and accomplishments are pretty irrelevent in the grand scheme of things. Two centuries from now Bill Gates will be just a name in an encyclopedia with a three line description, as will 9/11, George Bush jr. will be just a picture amongst dozens of presidents, and you and I will be completely forgotten except for the times our great-great-great-grandkids do their family tree.
But in the day-to-day events of my 75 years of life on this planet those 2-3 minutes per day are very relevent, important, and precious to me and I have better things to do than spend an hour a week or 50 hours a year deleting email for garbage that I did not request, would never request, and will never buy.
The problem with spam is that it interferes with your entire day. Junk snail mail is only a once a day problem since you get your mail once a day, and you can immediately recognize the fliers from your actual mail and get rid of the crap. But most of those fliers are useful to many people because they advertise events, announce upcoming sales, and somtimes introduce you to activities that you did not know existed in your area. Imagine how annoying junk snail mail would be if each piece arrived every 50 minutes and you were interrupted from what you were doing and had to answer your door to get the junk mail.
Spam on the other hand is getting more difficult to recognize and you often have to read the message to know it is spam. Send out a million messages with "Hi from Barbara" or "Hey dude it's John" and invaribly they will make their way to someone who is expecting an email for Barbara or John, so they think it is an NB msg but instead waste their time to open it up. If all spam occured just once a day like snail junk email it would not be so annoying, but it's something ppl have to deal with all day long.
Also spam is always selling useless crap that 99.9% of the population never would use and takes advantage of the.1% that are gullible and have low self-esteem or self confidence and think "wow, 3 extra inches in 2 weeks will get me any woman I want", or "wow, I want to work from home so I can make $10000 a week".
My install of Mandrake 9.1,which comes with XFree4.3, works out of the box with a 9700 Pro. It says so on the Mandrake site, which is one of the main reasons I use a 9700 pro and Mandrake.
I think you need to poke around a bit more to find what you need.
Hackers do it for the fun, achievement, and knowledge. It is like a sport for them. They do not do it to cause harm.
In this instance since they are doing it for fun and the end result of their quest is knowledge, and don't indend on causing any harm or havok with their code, they are hackers and not crackers.
Yeah, now that it seems everyone except Clark's parents and Lana turned evil, and Lex looks like he is totally fscked, Sept. is too long to wait for new episodes.
If you want a sheeplike country, look towards Canada (of which I am a citizen). The government can do *anything* and Canadians will sit back and say "Well, what can we do? Raise taxes? Okay. Add the GST? Okay. What can we do?"
Oh I agree with you. I am a citizen of canada and as much as I hate the naivity, moral superiority, and complacency of Canadians, there is a good reason why it is so; it is called winter, which unless you are in BC we all get 8 months of it! Who the hell wants to protest outside from October to May? And when the four months of summer comes, most people would rather be at the beach, gardening, hiking, golfing, and doing summer stuff than picketing and yelling 'down with this, down with that".
Canada has the higest number of golfers per capita of any nation, so I guess we know were our priorities are.
Because noone in their right mind is going to take their tried and true C++ office suite that runs find and dandy and rewrite it from scratch in another language. We all know how sucessful Corel was at this.
BTW, I did a search and immediately found office suites and apps written in java. And no, I never heard of these products but the reason you don't hear about them is the same reason you hear very little about Corel office or Smartsuite nowadays-most people have tunnel vision and don't even notice the others as they run for MS Office, or in the case of slashdotters, Openoffice.
Righto! Eclipse doesn't even feel or behave like the java apps we have come to know and love-it's fast, responsive, doesn't slow the rest of the system down. What is it doing that other apps aren't?
"Schmeiser barely had heard of Monsanto before 1998,". What? A 72 year old farmer? He said that?
Why is that so hard to believe? Almost all family farmers use their own grain for planting so they won't interact with Monsanto in that situation. When they buy weed spray they buy products like Roundup, Treflan, and Avadex and they don't look at the label just to memorize that it was made by Monsanto. And when they buy fertlizer they want the cheapest 24-24-30 fertilizer and they don't care if it comes form the Wheat Pool, Cargil, or Co-Op.
Most, if not all, of the reasons listed on that page are features already present in Mozilla. The one thing I hear over and over is that Phoenix/firebird loads faster than mozilla and displays pages faster than mozilla, yet I have seen very little difference in speed on a 2Gig or 0.7 Gig machine. And unless you're still using a 850 MB HD, application size issues are irrelevent.
The only one unique advantage on the page is Mozilla Firebird offers 2% more space to web pages than Mozilla, 4% more than Internet Explorer, and a whopping 10% more than Opera, which doesn't seem like much reason to switch over. Change the fonts and any savings can be wiped out.
Now what I have seen of firebird I like, but I still don't see any advantage to switching over, not that switching over would be a monumental task, but I am happy with Mozilla. (please, no 'well it's about choice' replies. We all understand that.)
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I don't see anything unique to Firebird there; in fact, Mozilla had those features for quite some time now. But either are quite an improvement over IE.
All of mine from the 80's and 90's still work.
You think nature is so smart. Bah! Nature can't destroy, pollute, and decimate the planet as fast as we can, so there. What took 500+ million years to develop, we can eradicate and wipe out in decades. Barring an outside influence such as a nearby supernova or a 30 km asteroid impact, let's see mother nature match that!
We got mother nature by the balls...er...titties!
Let's say this together now.... The buttons are all in the same corner so the user doesn't have to go hunting all over the place for them. Whether he wants to minimize, maximize/restore, or close he knows where to find them.
It most likely would result in closer judicial scrutiny of MS and a revisiting of the DOJ settlement.
In other words, MS has nothing to worry about.
they have an absolute legal right to do this.
they still have a legal right to do this,
America. The only country in the world where suing someone is a right.
Whatever happened to good judgement, fairness, and common sense?
Umm....close analogy, but not quite. There is a major distinction:
Americans consider their countryman to be "Americans", no matter what your ancestry is. Doesn't matter where you came from or if you immigrated to the US last year or your great*4 grandfather immigrated here 200 years ago. If you take the POA and get your citizenship, you are looked at as American.
OTOH, if you are an Anglophone in Quebec, from the Francophones POV, you are not a real Quebecer. Doesn't matter if you're a 5th generation Anglophone, you are still looked down on and thought as 'not one of us'
That's the difference!
For the last six years I have been living two miles from Quebec and one thing I notice is that from the french people's POV, no matter what country you are from, either your "one of us" (French) or "one of them" (non-French).
It would be like me calling myself German eventhough my ancestry in the new world dates back four generations.
I agree, if this guy wasn't stealing satellite then he copped out. If it was a few hundred dollars then I could see someone paying up to avoid any future hassles, but $3500? Who the hell has $3500 to throw away for nothing at the drop of a hat, yet not have the time or money to fight back?
As Humpty-Dumpty said "When I use a word, it means exactly what I mean it to mean, no more and no less."
Someone in 2003 using a quote from Humpty Dumpty-now that's irony.
That is frustrating, but not suprising. A significant percentage, into the double digits if I remember correctly, of people in industrialized countries still think the world is flat, so it I am not suprised that there are ppl out there that think the moon landings are fake,
Everybody knows European MPs (Member of Parliament) are next to useless anyway.
Unlike Canadian MP's, Australilan MP's, and members of the US Congress, which always represent the people that elected them and never ignore the little guy in favor of big business, lobbyists, and their own political interests.
who moved his taskbar to the top, is using a high-contrast flourescent color scheme, and is using 2mb wav files for every stinking windows event, has a screensaver that kicks on after 1 minute of idle time and features that guy saying "Hey Vern!" over and over,
Man, if those changes confuse you, switching from a two-button to a three-button mouse must completely baffle you.
When I first read it earlier, I was sure it said "build"
that is the ugliest car I have ever seen.
I find the design very bold and intimidating. US manufacturers are finally getting ahead of the europeans and japanese in the styling department, especially Cadillac & Chrysler. I mean, the Mini? $30 grand for a car that has less space than my closet? I'm sure it will sell well, like the atrocious beetle, but WTF are they thinking when it comes to style?
but in the grand scheme of things, it's irrelevant.
.1% that are gullible and have low self-esteem or self confidence and think "wow, 3 extra inches in 2 weeks will get me any woman I want", or "wow, I want to work from home so I can make $10000 a week".
Well if you want to carry it that far then everyones lives and accomplishments are pretty irrelevent in the grand scheme of things. Two centuries from now Bill Gates will be just a name in an encyclopedia with a three line description, as will 9/11, George Bush jr. will be just a picture amongst dozens of presidents, and you and I will be completely forgotten except for the times our great-great-great-grandkids do their family tree.
But in the day-to-day events of my 75 years of life on this planet those 2-3 minutes per day are very relevent, important, and precious to me and I have better things to do than spend an hour a week or 50 hours a year deleting email for garbage that I did not request, would never request, and will never buy.
The problem with spam is that it interferes with your entire day. Junk snail mail is only a once a day problem since you get your mail once a day, and you can immediately recognize the fliers from your actual mail and get rid of the crap. But most of those fliers are useful to many people because they advertise events, announce upcoming sales, and somtimes introduce you to activities that you did not know existed in your area. Imagine how annoying junk snail mail would be if each piece arrived every 50 minutes and you were interrupted from what you were doing and had to answer your door to get the junk mail.
Spam on the other hand is getting more difficult to recognize and you often have to read the message to know it is spam. Send out a million messages with "Hi from Barbara" or "Hey dude it's John" and invaribly they will make their way to someone who is expecting an email for Barbara or John, so they think it is an NB msg but instead waste their time to open it up. If all spam occured just once a day like snail junk email it would not be so annoying, but it's something ppl have to deal with all day long.
Also spam is always selling useless crap that 99.9% of the population never would use and takes advantage of the
My install of Mandrake 9.1,which comes with XFree4.3, works out of the box with a 9700 Pro. It says so on the Mandrake site, which is one of the main reasons I use a 9700 pro and Mandrake.
I think you need to poke around a bit more to find what you need.
Hackers do it for the fun, achievement, and knowledge. It is like a sport for them. They do not do it to cause harm.
In this instance since they are doing it for fun and the end result of their quest is knowledge, and don't indend on causing any harm or havok with their code, they are hackers and not crackers.
Yeah, now that it seems everyone except Clark's parents and Lana turned evil, and Lex looks like he is totally fscked, Sept. is too long to wait for new episodes.
If you want a sheeplike country, look towards Canada (of which I am a citizen). The government can do *anything* and Canadians will sit back and say "Well, what can we do? Raise taxes? Okay. Add the GST? Okay. What can we do?"
Oh I agree with you. I am a citizen of canada and as much as I hate the naivity, moral superiority, and complacency of Canadians, there is a good reason why it is so; it is called winter, which unless you are in BC we all get 8 months of it! Who the hell wants to protest outside from October to May? And when the four months of summer comes, most people would rather be at the beach, gardening, hiking, golfing, and doing summer stuff than picketing and yelling 'down with this, down with that".
Canada has the higest number of golfers per capita of any nation, so I guess we know were our priorities are.
Because noone in their right mind is going to take their tried and true C++ office suite that runs find and dandy and rewrite it from scratch in another language. We all know how sucessful Corel was at this.
BTW, I did a search and immediately found office suites and apps written in java. And no, I never heard of these products but the reason you don't hear about them is the same reason you hear very little about Corel office or Smartsuite nowadays-most people have tunnel vision and don't even notice the others as they run for MS Office, or in the case of slashdotters, Openoffice.
Righto! Eclipse doesn't even feel or behave like the java apps we have come to know and love-it's fast, responsive, doesn't slow the rest of the system down. What is it doing that other apps aren't?
"Schmeiser barely had heard of Monsanto before 1998,". What? A 72 year old farmer? He said that?
Why is that so hard to believe? Almost all family farmers use their own grain for planting so they won't interact with Monsanto in that situation. When they buy weed spray they buy products like Roundup, Treflan, and Avadex and they don't look at the label just to memorize that it was made by Monsanto. And when they buy fertlizer they want the cheapest 24-24-30 fertilizer and they don't care if it comes form the Wheat Pool, Cargil, or Co-Op.
Most, if not all, of the reasons listed on that page are features already present in Mozilla. The one thing I hear over and over is that Phoenix/firebird loads faster than mozilla and displays pages faster than mozilla, yet I have seen very little difference in speed on a 2Gig or 0.7 Gig machine. And unless you're still using a 850 MB HD, application size issues are irrelevent.
The only one unique advantage on the page is Mozilla Firebird offers 2% more space to web pages than Mozilla, 4% more than Internet Explorer, and a whopping 10% more than Opera, which doesn't seem like much reason to switch over. Change the fonts and any savings can be wiped out.
Now what I have seen of firebird I like, but I still don't see any advantage to switching over, not that switching over would be a monumental task, but I am happy with Mozilla. (please, no 'well it's about choice' replies. We all understand that.)
The force will be with you, always, you hoser!