Although this is quite an interesting (and even humorous) idea I doubt if it will be used by many Linux users (unless it is quite simple with a few mouse gestures which are easy to make but not easy to make by mistake). I'm sure some people will like it, but, as has already been pointed out, it is probably quicker clicking the icon. Even if it does speed things up a bit, one has to learn all those gestures and make sure one does not make any by accident.
When I had mouse gestures enabled in my browsers (Mozilla, Opera and Phoenix), I found myself making them by accident and closing the window or something. Maybe they should make them customisable (choose your own gestures - that would be cool and people probably have their own personal gestures they find it is easier/harder for them to make;-) ) and also make it so one can choose which indivdual gestures you want installed (i.e.: not the kill the app one if your fingers slip sometimes).
If that was done they might be more useful and mainstream (and, maybe, used in many apps and OS's), but still I (like many others, probably) just couldn't be bothered learning all the damn things and they seemed like more pain than they were worth - I know how to user my browser/OS quickly and well by pointing and clicking or by the keyboard, and I do not really need a third harder-to-learn that is of questionable value and unlikely to speed up my browsing or OS use.
A very good point. It would seem to be in their best interests but maybe they're not that smart...uuh...this is AOL/TW we are talking about. Actually, no, wait, even though they own Netscape (who are a Good Thing), AOL (ISP) currently only works with M$ Wind*ze and they seem pretty much like M$.
The version you are talking about is 1.2.1 not 1.21 . It was released very very quickly after the release of 1.2 (which had the bug with DHTML (side-point: who needs DHTML anyway?)). Funny enough that is why it has an extra # at the end (i.e.: a sub-sub-version).
Since you bring up M$, everyone heard about this Mozilla bug because Mozilla is so well known for being a good bug-free browser unlike M$'s browsers. M$ Internet Exploiter is one big bug in the sense it does not display real valid HTML (as opposed to M$HTML) correctly, but this is considered by M$ to be a feature (to help them take over the WWW (and so help in their WDP (World Dom Plan);-) ) not to help the user).
I really do not understand why a dragon is socially-inept. It seems pretty much like any other corporate logo to me.
What makes it different?
How is it inept?
Where is the evidence?
Is the logo (or the introscreen) really that important? (it explains how to change the introscreen on MozDev btw)
I would not object to it being changed but why should it be?
Mozilla (the dragon) is a strong brand image with a long history and one that many seem to relate to and think of as positive (user friendly, open source, &c).
Giving out tax software is of course a very helpful and good thing and all governments should do it. It would be pretty cheap for governments to do (almost free when they have made the software). It also means that there is an offical, piece of software which uses the correct methods (and no arguments).
I am not sure what platforms the actual GETax program is available on and whether it is open source - IMO as offical software given out by the government it should be.
Mozilla and OpenOffice are, of course, really great additions, and should bring the wonders of good open source software to the public there (and a standards-compliant browser that actualy works and doesn't live in the Dark Ages)(although I guess people there are probably already quite open-minded).
If only the governments of other MEDC's would start doing this kind of thing (and werent in collusion with M$). It would be a start if they could start storing personal data we entrust them with in non-prorietary formats on open-source OS's - doing anything else seems crazy in a democratic society.
Kudos to the Swiss (who tend to be a more sensible European government).
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Maybe I'm missing some site, but I'm wondering why there aren't any big geek personals sites.
I asked myself the same question when I saw this story...not that I'm planning to use one...just out of academic interest (that wasnt a joke - these things interest me). Maybe when I'm bored one day I'll see if I can find some.
This/. thread, which I found quite funny, inspired to check out some of the sites and this made me ask why there is no geeks & nerds dating category at the ODP. There are a few sites on this in the ODP but no category specifically for it. So I decided to create one in my ODP bookmarks and add sites there if I notice any and/or when I have some of that strange concept, free time.
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There seem to be very few ISP's. Although I'd loved to see a large and quick take-up, the change-over will probably take many years and probably a decade or decades.
There is a good concise article summarising the advantages of IPv6, Understanding IPv6 from PC Network Advisor [PDF], which I think every1 should read. The Google cache has a HTML version .
I just thing of my name as just that a name for identification...like a phone number (or a bit like an email address) - yes like them it might be nice to have a cool one but who cares?
Uniqueness is the important thing. I think my full name is unique (which is handy) though there are other "Joe Blakesley"s - there is a famous one apparently in the Oxford Concise Dictionary of National Biography who was quite big in the church (thought I'm not religious).
That is debatable but it is to some extent dishonest. But is this really going to effect anyone? No, not really. Therefore M$ are just being dishonest for the hell of it (and to make their PR even worse if that is possible). They are the ones who look stupid and it is not advantageous to them. That is why it is childish.
Of course, Opera are being childish too but only as a parody of M$ (and maybe to make a serious point that any1 can play their games) and M$ started it. Also Opera are not being dishonest because they make it clear what they are doing.
No you are confused. Soviet Russia no longer exists. The truth is that:
In the Soviet USA, the DMCA violates YOU and YOUR constitutional rights (hey what happened to them and why do the undemocratic US government try their best to break them all the time) unless of course the more democratic non-Soviet Russia come to your rescue.
Yes. Go Opera! This is the best way to deal with this situation. Although this whole thing is a bit silly and probably quite unimportant, M$ started it (and it just goes to show how pathetically out-of-touch (and even childish) they are - do they care about bad PR any more?).
Not reall a great Opera usder myself but kudos to them. I used to use Opera a lot and I use it for some things still but I prefer Mozilla and Phoenix now (post-Moz-1.0) (tabbed browsing &c. are better, now as standards-compliant) more cool features and extensions and most importantly they are open source and ad-free).
It is 2^128 or 3(10^38). That is 6(10^23) or six hundred sextillion addresses per square metre of the Earth's surface. That's a... lot.
We should not run out soon with ipv6, though of course they need that many because they have to overkill for redundancy and to aid the creation of complex multi-level hierarchies of addresses, which should speed things up (and, of course, importantly, mean that IP addresses can be allocated automatically).
Also they do envisage every electronic device in the world (phone, smart card, washing machine, paper shreader (umm..not sure the use of the last one but i'm sure there is 1)) being connected to the net.
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When I had mouse gestures enabled in my browsers (Mozilla, Opera and Phoenix), I found myself making them by accident and closing the window or something. Maybe they should make them customisable (choose your own gestures - that would be cool and people probably have their own personal gestures they find it is easier/harder for them to make ;-) ) and also make it so one can choose which indivdual gestures you want installed (i.e.: not the kill the app one if your fingers slip sometimes).
If that was done they might be more useful and mainstream (and, maybe, used in many apps and OS's), but still I (like many others, probably) just couldn't be bothered learning all the damn things and they seemed like more pain than they were worth - I know how to user my browser/OS quickly and well by pointing and clicking or by the keyboard, and I do not really need a third harder-to-learn that is of questionable value and unlikely to speed up my browsing or OS use.
A very good point. It would seem to be in their best interests but maybe they're not that smart...uuh...this is AOL/TW we are talking about. Actually, no, wait, even though they own Netscape (who are a Good Thing), AOL (ISP) currently only works with M$ Wind*ze and they seem pretty much like M$.
Since you bring up M$, everyone heard about this Mozilla bug because Mozilla is so well known for being a good bug-free browser unlike M$'s browsers. M$ Internet Exploiter is one big bug in the sense it does not display real valid HTML (as opposed to M$HTML) correctly, but this is considered by M$ to be a feature (to help them take over the WWW (and so help in their WDP (World Dom Plan) ;-) ) not to help the user).
Mozilla (the dragon) is a strong brand image with a long history and one that many seem to relate to and think of as positive (user friendly, open source, &c).
I am not sure what platforms the actual GETax program is available on and whether it is open source - IMO as offical software given out by the government it should be.
Mozilla and OpenOffice are, of course, really great additions, and should bring the wonders of good open source software to the public there (and a standards-compliant browser that actualy works and doesn't live in the Dark Ages)(although I guess people there are probably already quite open-minded).
If only the governments of other MEDC's would start doing this kind of thing (and werent in collusion with M$). It would be a start if they could start storing personal data we entrust them with in non-prorietary formats on open-source OS's - doing anything else seems crazy in a democratic society.
Kudos to the Swiss (who tend to be a more sensible European government). Also
This /. thread, which I found quite funny, inspired to check out some of the sites and this made me ask why there is no geeks & nerds dating category at the ODP. There are a few sites on this in the ODP but no category specifically for it. So I decided to create one in my ODP bookmarks and add sites there if I notice any and/or when I have some of that strange concept, free time.
There seem to be very few ISP's. Although I'd loved to see a large and quick take-up, the change-over will probably take many years and probably a decade or decades. There is a good concise article summarising the advantages of IPv6, Understanding IPv6 from PC Network Advisor [PDF], which I think every1 should read. The Google cache has a HTML version .
Uniqueness is the important thing. I think my full name is unique (which is handy) though there are other "Joe Blakesley"s - there is a famous one apparently in the Oxford Concise Dictionary of National Biography who was quite big in the church (thought I'm not religious).
Of course, Opera are being childish too but only as a parody of M$ (and maybe to make a serious point that any1 can play their games) and M$ started it. Also Opera are not being dishonest because they make it clear what they are doing.
Some similar stuff at the ODP geek category.
Also see Sex Tips for Geeks (quite funny) by Eric S Raymond (of hacker fame).
In the Soviet USA, the DMCA violates YOU and YOUR constitutional rights (hey what happened to them and why do the undemocratic US government try their best to break them all the time) unless of course the more democratic non-Soviet Russia come to your rescue.
Yes. Go Opera! This is the best way to deal with this situation. Although this whole thing is a bit silly and probably quite unimportant, M$ started it (and it just goes to show how pathetically out-of-touch (and even childish) they are - do they care about bad PR any more?).
Not reall a great Opera usder myself but kudos to them. I used to use Opera a lot and I use it for some things still but I prefer Mozilla and Phoenix now (post-Moz-1.0) (tabbed browsing &c. are better, now as standards-compliant) more cool features and extensions and most importantly they are open source and ad-free).
It is called the internet stream protocol (SP) apparently (see RFC 1819).
We should not run out soon with ipv6, though of course they need that many because they have to overkill for redundancy and to aid the creation of complex multi-level hierarchies of addresses, which should speed things up (and, of course, importantly, mean that IP addresses can be allocated automatically).
Also they do envisage every electronic device in the world (phone, smart card, washing machine, paper shreader (umm..not sure the use of the last one but i'm sure there is 1)) being connected to the net.