Firefox 1.5 has/had release support of a year and a half. Firefox 2 will undoubtedly be even longer, since they are dropping platforms. Firefox isn't abandoning you, they will still support you until 2008 and beyond (a good 8 years after your OS was released, much better than IE's ~5).
The new Firefox relies on the Cairo project to achieve much better rendering, especially with SVG content that more directly maps to the Cairo model. Cairo isn't available for ME. Firefox doesn't want to drop support for you, but it has to. This is the way applications work.
A computer newer than 8 years old is not "cutting edge"
Besides the non web-2.0 versions at Amazon/NetFlix/the like,
Spout has been doing this for awhile with full tagging, community features, and everything else that screams web 2.0. Furthermore, Spout has a stronger developer base and a more flushed-out featureset. While I think it's great that a 15-year-old can put together a neat website incorporating many of these newer interface and social networking rules, I prefer to use a really well made website. Flickr, digg, and the rest aren't just popular because of pretty colors and tags... they're popular because they use these user experience technologies on top of a well-built system.
Brian is writing a slogan on a wall, oblivious to the Roman patrol approaching from behind. The slogan is "ROMANES EUNT DOMUS".
Centurion: What's this thing? "ROMANES EUNT DOMUS"? "People called Romanes they go the house?" Brian: It... it says "Romans go home". Centurion: No it doesn't. What's Latin for "Roman"?
Brian hesitates
Centurion: Come on, come on! Brian: (uncertain) "ROMANUS". Centurion: Goes like? Brian: "-ANUS". Centurion: Vocative plural of "-ANUS" is? Brian: "-ANI". Centurion: (takes paintbrush from Brian and paints over) "RO-MA-NI". "EUNT"? What is "EUNT"? Brian: "Go". Centurion: Conjugate the verb "to go"! Brian: "IRE". "EO", "IS", "IT", "IMUS", "ITIS", "EUNT". Centurion: So "EUNT" is...? Brian: Third person plural present indicative, "they go". Centurion: But "Romans, go home!" is an order, so you must use the...?
He lifts Brian by his short hairs
Brian: The... imperative. Centurion: Which is? Brian: Um, oh, oh, "I", "I"! Centurion: How many Romans? (pulls harder) Brian: Plural, plural! "ITE".
Centurion strikes over "EUNT" and paints "ITE" on the wall
Centurion: "I-TE". "DOMUS"? Nominative? "Go home", this is motion towards, isn't it, boy? Brian: (very anxious) Dative?
Centurion draws his sword and holds it to Brian's throat
Brian: Ahh! No, ablative, ablative, sir. No, the, accusative, accusative, ah, DOMUM, sir. Centurion: Except that "DOMUS" takes the...? Brian:... the locative, sir! Centurion: Which is? Brian: "DOMUM". Centurion: (satisfied) "DOMUM"...
He strikes out "DOMUS" and writes "DOMUM"
Centurian:..."-MUM". Understand? Brian: Yes sir. Centurion: Now write it down a hundred times. Brian: Yes sir, thank you sir, hail Caesar, sir. Centurion: (saluting) Hail Caesar. If it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off. Brian: (very relieved) Oh thank you sir, thank you sir, hail Caesar and everything, sir!
I don't think these will ever become popular until they incorporate these types of screens into traditional laptops--or, more likely, tablets. People do not want a $400 device that only replaces traditional books.
They want to be able to bring these devices on the go and keep them with them. With something like an iPod that's easy enough, since it's very small. However, with ebook readers, they need to be somewhat large to have good readability, and I don't think Sony et al. are going to have an easy time marketing them for that price unless they have other features to make them necessities to keep around.
If I (I don't... but people do) already have a PDA, cell phone, and iPod with me all the time, where's the room for one of these?
The AmaroK team is working on it, last I read. It's going to be a monumental task though... the way I read it, they are stripping out UNIX-specific code slowly during their current releases, and sometime in the future they will begin actually working on porting it.
I use a combination of Linux and Windows (and Solaris, but not by choice) systems, and I have to say AmaroK is one of the most impressive pieces of software that I regularly use on any of them. I don't know how well written it is, but it's beautiful.
I don't know exactly how large, but I think college students are a very large market for laptops, and college students like to think they need a desktop in a small case.
Also, I know many executives at the hospital at which I worked preferred to use laptops and use a docking station, so that when they went home they could bring their computer with them exactly as it was at work.
I certainly expect this to significantly increase adoption in commercial and educational institutions. Firefox can no longer live under the guise of being a "preview" to new technology. They've put their money where their mouth is, and now have a good browser to promote.
I have had a similar lack of success getting the Bayesian filters in Thunderbird to "learn" my spam.
I have found mixed results with other users: Slashdot recently linked [slashdot.org] Shuttleworth's Software Development Bounties [markshuttleworth.com] where he says "Bayesian filtering of junk mail has worked really well for me in Mozilla." This is, of course, after a long time of training. Binary Bonsai has similar things to say.
At least, as eWeek concludes, it's better than Outlook 2003. I switched over at 0.3, and 0.4's been running smoothly for me so far. *crosses fingers*
Despite the fact that I'm sure the server's just having some "normal" difficulties, you could always try one of the thousands of other mirror googles for each country.
The Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox 3 has 48khz and 44.1khz sampling abilities, and records directly to wave files on its hard disk. In addition, because it comes in such large sizes (10-40 GB), it can store well beyond what any DAT or MD could. This is what I have been using for my concert recording as of late, and it has worked like a charm. I don't know much about the sensitivity of the line input, but I'm sure this could be found on Creative's site.
I would never support an e-stamp for sending e-mail. What about the guy who goes down to the library once a week to e-mail his relatives? Are you telling me he has to pay something, even if it's only a couple pennies, to use this feature? He'd still have to send those pennies somewhere.
Personally, I like *gasp* Microsoft's idea better. (see previous Slashdot post that I can't seem to find right now). Charging computer cycles, while wasting some processing power, would not hurt any user sending a reasonably limited amount of spam. But it would make it impossible to flood1,000 "Free pr0n! No Credit Card Required!" messages to inboxes in less than an hour.
Pardon the cliche, but keep the Internet free.
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Firefox 1.5 has/had release support of a year and a half. Firefox 2 will undoubtedly be even longer, since they are dropping platforms. Firefox isn't abandoning you, they will still support you until 2008 and beyond (a good 8 years after your OS was released, much better than IE's ~5).
The new Firefox relies on the Cairo project to achieve much better rendering, especially with SVG content that more directly maps to the Cairo model. Cairo isn't available for ME. Firefox doesn't want to drop support for you, but it has to. This is the way applications work.
A computer newer than 8 years old is not "cutting edge"
Besides the non web-2.0 versions at Amazon/NetFlix/the like, Spout has been doing this for awhile with full tagging, community features, and everything else that screams web 2.0. Furthermore, Spout has a stronger developer base and a more flushed-out featureset. While I think it's great that a 15-year-old can put together a neat website incorporating many of these newer interface and social networking rules, I prefer to use a really well made website. Flickr, digg, and the rest aren't just popular because of pretty colors and tags... they're popular because they use these user experience technologies on top of a well-built system.
We do, however, need more Lessigs in the world. Not all lawyers dealing in IP deal in corporate litigation.
Brian is writing a slogan on a wall, oblivious to the Roman patrol approaching from behind. The slogan is "ROMANES EUNT DOMUS".
...? ...?
... imperative.
...? ... the locative, sir!
..."-MUM". Understand?
Centurion: What's this thing? "ROMANES EUNT DOMUS"? "People called Romanes they go the house?"
Brian: It... it says "Romans go home".
Centurion: No it doesn't. What's Latin for "Roman"?
Brian hesitates
Centurion: Come on, come on!
Brian: (uncertain) "ROMANUS".
Centurion: Goes like?
Brian: "-ANUS".
Centurion: Vocative plural of "-ANUS" is?
Brian: "-ANI".
Centurion: (takes paintbrush from Brian and paints over) "RO-MA-NI". "EUNT"? What is "EUNT"?
Brian: "Go".
Centurion: Conjugate the verb "to go"!
Brian: "IRE". "EO", "IS", "IT", "IMUS", "ITIS", "EUNT".
Centurion: So "EUNT" is
Brian: Third person plural present indicative, "they go".
Centurion: But "Romans, go home!" is an order, so you must use the
He lifts Brian by his short hairs
Brian: The
Centurion: Which is?
Brian: Um, oh, oh, "I", "I"!
Centurion: How many Romans? (pulls harder)
Brian: Plural, plural! "ITE".
Centurion strikes over "EUNT" and paints "ITE" on the wall
Centurion: "I-TE". "DOMUS"? Nominative? "Go home", this is motion towards, isn't it, boy?
Brian: (very anxious) Dative?
Centurion draws his sword and holds it to Brian's throat
Brian: Ahh! No, ablative, ablative, sir. No, the, accusative, accusative, ah, DOMUM, sir.
Centurion: Except that "DOMUS" takes the
Brian:
Centurion: Which is?
Brian: "DOMUM".
Centurion: (satisfied) "DOMUM"...
He strikes out "DOMUS" and writes "DOMUM"
Centurian:
Brian: Yes sir.
Centurion: Now write it down a hundred times.
Brian: Yes sir, thank you sir, hail Caesar, sir.
Centurion: (saluting) Hail Caesar. If it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off.
Brian: (very relieved) Oh thank you sir, thank you sir, hail Caesar and everything, sir!
I don't think these will ever become popular until they incorporate these types of screens into traditional laptops--or, more likely, tablets. People do not want a $400 device that only replaces traditional books.
They want to be able to bring these devices on the go and keep them with them. With something like an iPod that's easy enough, since it's very small. However, with ebook readers, they need to be somewhat large to have good readability, and I don't think Sony et al. are going to have an easy time marketing them for that price unless they have other features to make them necessities to keep around.
If I (I don't... but people do) already have a PDA, cell phone, and iPod with me all the time, where's the room for one of these?
The AmaroK team is working on it, last I read. It's going to be a monumental task though... the way I read it, they are stripping out UNIX-specific code slowly during their current releases, and sometime in the future they will begin actually working on porting it. I use a combination of Linux and Windows (and Solaris, but not by choice) systems, and I have to say AmaroK is one of the most impressive pieces of software that I regularly use on any of them. I don't know how well written it is, but it's beautiful.
... the emphasis just allows it to sound right for a second, but I don't think that's grammatically correct at all.
However, those features can be implemented using standard javascript and CSS, people just choose not to: http://nocturne.net.nz/webdev/imgfade.php
At least they mention which Indian it is this time
I don't know exactly how large, but I think college students are a very large market for laptops, and college students like to think they need a desktop in a small case. Also, I know many executives at the hospital at which I worked preferred to use laptops and use a docking station, so that when they went home they could bring their computer with them exactly as it was at work.
I certainly expect this to significantly increase adoption in commercial and educational institutions. Firefox can no longer live under the guise of being a "preview" to new technology. They've put their money where their mouth is, and now have a good browser to promote.
I have a torrent of both this and the animated short pfffirate up at http://147.126.53.117:6969/ Enjoy :)
Keep in mind this will only ever apply to the new Japenese models since American Clie is dead.
404 on the /. link
Maybe he meant this article.
Instead of linking to a mirror you made of the 92 byte hacked page...
Why not link to something useful, like a mirror of the original?
I have found mixed results with other users: Slashdot recently linked [slashdot.org] Shuttleworth's Software Development Bounties [markshuttleworth.com] where he says "Bayesian filtering of junk mail has worked really well for me in Mozilla." This is, of course, after a long time of training. Binary Bonsai has similar things to say.
At least, as eWeek concludes, it's better than Outlook 2003. I switched over at 0.3, and 0.4's been running smoothly for me so far. *crosses fingers*
That first quoted sentence is, well, not a sentence. Not a sentence at all.
Despite the fact that I'm sure the server's just having some "normal" difficulties, you could always try one of the thousands of other mirror googles for each country.
The Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox 3 has 48khz and 44.1khz sampling abilities, and records directly to wave files on its hard disk. In addition, because it comes in such large sizes (10-40 GB), it can store well beyond what any DAT or MD could. This is what I have been using for my concert recording as of late, and it has worked like a charm. I don't know much about the sensitivity of the line input, but I'm sure this could be found on Creative's site.
I would never support an e-stamp for sending e-mail. What about the guy who goes down to the library once a week to e-mail his relatives? Are you telling me he has to pay something, even if it's only a couple pennies, to use this feature? He'd still have to send those pennies somewhere. Personally, I like *gasp* Microsoft's idea better. (see previous Slashdot post that I can't seem to find right now). Charging computer cycles, while wasting some processing power, would not hurt any user sending a reasonably limited amount of spam. But it would make it impossible to flood1,000 "Free pr0n! No Credit Card Required!" messages to inboxes in less than an hour. Pardon the cliche, but keep the Internet free.