I got an iPhone, not primarily for the iPhone feature, but for the iPod. I have gotten rid of my iPod nano (gave it to my mom) and now use my iPhone as my iPod. The phone part of it is just a nice feature. Honestly, I'm not surprised at the battery issue at all. I had a 4G iPod and I went through the same issues; it really isn't that bad. Now if the battery was $150, I think we'd have reason to complain. I think apple is being very reasonable. If anyone bought an iPhone without knowing this is how Apple functions, I feel sorry for you. This is Apple, not Sandisk.
If you bought an iPhone without being familiar with Apple, and without doing preliminary research, and can't accept this battery replacement policy, you need to understand something: it's entirely your fault. No one forced you to buy the iPhone. Anyone that plops down $670 for a product without doing preliminary research on the company deserves what they get.
For instance, searching for "apple battery life" on google, gives this as the first non-apple result: iPod and iPhone Battery FAQ. This site was updated with information the day of the launch of the iPhone.
Personally, my iPhone keeps on growing on me every day. I feel that it's going to just get better over time. If I hadn't bought one, I would definitely get one of the 2nd gens and I may upgrade to that anyway, and sell my used one on ebay or give it to my sister.
I downloaded Safari when it was announced, and it's a really slick browser in windows. It's got a little quirks that are reminiscent of mac os x features that might be confusing to PC users, but honestly it's great being able to test safari, firefox, opera and IE all in windows now. It makes my job much easier as a web dev.
I'm really glad that apple released this, and I hope it does well at establishing a good sized customer base. Competition is _always_ good, even if it draws market share from firefox.
I've been wondering the same thing, I've been reading this entire article thinking "What, don't people just use mplayerplugin?"
I guess not very many people have heard of this. This makes me wonder. Are there other people that simply don't know about applications in linux and therefore think that linux isn't capable of some functionality when a very suitable app exists that does it?
You know, I think linux needs a centralized application that says "Here's what you can do in linux" and allows a user to explore all the beta or mature projects that exist. That would be insanely useful for raising awareness of applications. Most distros do a good job with default installs but there's no way they can include everything that might be useful to everyone, and honestly the names of applications are so obscure and don't really related to it's functionality that users would have a hard time.
There's always google and the Linux OSS equivalents to Windows programs, but I think an app that's part of the linux desktop would be really helpful.
OS X is the slowest mainstream OS on the market. Heck, Vista on an old ~500Mhz P3 laptop is snappier than OS X on my 1Ghz iBook. Windows XP or 2003 even more so. XP or 2003 on a 1Ghz iBook-era PC laptop absolutely trounces it. I beg to differ. I worked at a part time job at my college in University Relations and they had an old 400mhz clunker with OS X on it. I didn't even know it was a 400mhz Mac. OS X was very responsive and pretty much the only thing that took a long time was the disk load time. Having run Vista personally I am wondering if you have even run Vista. The idea of running Vista, even Windows XP, on a 500mhz PC and trying to get anything done makes me shudder in fear and terror.
Well, that depends entirely on how much value you assign to Apple's software bundle and small hardware footprints. I assign little, since most of the functionality it bundles I'm not particularly interested in and I have loads of empty space under my desk. Add in the significant expense to get any sort of decent hardware flexibility and the comparison is even worse. Yeah, that's why I build my own PC and use linux;) I agree with you there.
but a Mac that's X years old will be slower in an absolute sense than a PC of equivalent age, and in a relative sense (how fast the whole package is) it will be slower still. You need a G5 class Mac with a gig of RAM or more for OS X to deliver the kind of responsiveness Windows XP can on ~1Ghz PCs with half as much memory. Windows XP on a 1ghz PC is fine if you just browse the web and edit word documents, but it's sluggishly slow, especially if you have an antivirus agent and are trying to do multiple things at once. A G5 Mac is incredibly powerful and responsive. Some guys at my part time work had one and I was blown away by how smooth everything was (they use a lot of multimedia apps like Photoshop, the Macromedia suite, etc.) I've had direct experience of both of those types of hardware and IME at any rate, I found the opposite to be true.
For most of the things *I* care about, Windows does them better and has been doing them for longer. I fail to see where the "knockoff" is in this equation. I'm not sure that's the issue here. We're talking about Vista. The eyecandy in Vista is the part of the product that is being marketed to customers, and appears to be the only interesting feature that Microsoft was interested in completing. Personally, *I* don't care about anything in Vista either. That's why I'm sticking with Windows 2000 and Windows XP on my parents' machines. Windows XP just got pretty stable. After the horrors Microsoft brought with Windows XP I really don't think I'm going to upgrade to Vista for a long time. Say, 5 years.
with Macs being distinct losers (largely due to an incredibly rigid and uncustomisable hardware lineup). Wait wait, wouldn't uncustomizable hardware be a lower cost of ownership, because you don't spend money on upgrades every 6 months?
I can tell you right now that I will likely never have a mac for a desktop. I know I can get more value if I build it myself, since Intel's offerings for desktops are pretty affordable now and I enjoy having more control over my desktop. However, if I get a new laptop, it will probably be a Macbook Pro. Those things are really sweet. I would get it for the screen alone. I hope they can get the graphics drivers for linux on the macbook fully working, because that's what I really want on there.
It's a lot of money, so you need to give him a show, and we're just here to deliver the show.
Well, no wonder it costs so much. EA has the complete wrong idea of what a game should be. I don't want a show, If I wanted that I could turn on my TV and choose from a gazillion shows. I play a game to have fun. Just make fun games instead of throwing millions of dollars at a franchise knowing enough gamers will buy it because it's the next iteration.
I'm not holding my breath though. The day EA tries to just make something fun rather than generating eyecandy demos I will be amazed.
5. This deal does not violate GPLv2.
Eben Moglen read our agreement and hasn't said a thing about GPLv2
violation. It's abundantly clear that he doesn't think there is any.
Instead, he and Richard are using the community energy to try to get
people to adopt the previously-controversial GPLv3 (which we support
also)
Hey, this is actually a cool way to get GPLv3 accepted. Reading over the log, and seeing their responses, I feel a bit better about the deal. I'm still suspicious but I'm no longer at the point where I am ready to remove openSuSE from my system and install debian.
I really hope this works out, Novell has done a lot of great things in the past and I would like to see them continue their good work.
It's doubtful whether the author ever actually played World of Warcraft, but coming from a veteran of 1 and 3/4 years World of Warcraft basically has lost all fun that it initially had. The only point of the game is to get the next upgrade. A game that's entirely focused around gear upgrades and the next new shiny is appealing at first but after a year it gets really, really old. As a healer in numerous raids in MC, BWL and AQ40 the game requires a great deal of attention and energy to keep everyone alive. The fact that the game becomes like a job is also a factor in what makes the game lose a great deal of fun. I play games to get away from work not create a job which I am not even paid for.
I feel Blizzard did a lot right with the game but there is one major flaw: they did not create end-game content for the solo player or for small groups outside of PvP (which I don't really consider "content")
I am a casual player in theory but when I would get involved with my guild in raid groups, the only way I could get a possibility of an upgrade was to go to every raid every night, which often lasted 4+ hours. I eventually got very sick and was unable to work or go to school and this made me realize how ridiculous a game World of Warcraft is. When it requires that you spend 4+ hours in order to accomplish anything, you know something is wrong.
I want a game where I can spend 30 minutes playing and feel like I've accomplished something. And pretty much the only games that satisfy that are single player games at this point.
I want to see what games are available at launch for a console. I don't want to see what some marketer thinks the effect of a PS3 should be on people. I don't buy a new console for the overwhelming effect it has on me (pffffffft) but for the GAMES. And, strangely enough I am quite impressed with some of the games they have lined up. Why would they think that an ad for say, White Knight wouldn't be more effective than a silly ad cooked up by some markedroid?
If Sony thinks the console is going to sell itself, they have a problem. The games are what matter. What is odd in this case is that many of the games are good, so I don't know why Sony doesn't just go with the games.
I remember back when I played WoW in Cedega on linux that if I played the game in fullscreen mode but put in managed mode and set the desktop to a value less than my desktop resolution, then World of Warcraft would essentially run in a windowed screen but think it was fullscreen. This was immensely useful if I wanted to read something while grinding for instance. However, I distinctly remember that if I held down the right click button while inside the game and didn't release it and moved my mouse really quickly to the side, the game would slow down immensely, and then send me back to the login screen. I believe something about how cedega sends signals to the client when it is in managed mode made the World of warcraft client freak out and think something weird was happening.
Can anyone who got banned comment on this? Were you playing the game in managed mode rather than fullscreen in Cedega, or was it unmanaged and in fullscreen mode?
If the defendant never downloaded this hypothetical song, it would make no difference on the number of times it was downloaded by everyone else. If a song is up on the network, it's going to be downloaded regardless of one individual's efforts. It doesn't make sense to blame one person for an entire file sharing network.
The main advantage of having the close button on the tab itself is to allow you to close tabs without viewing them first. This is a great advantage especially when you have a site you don't really want to look at right now but want to close. It's handy sometimes, believe me.
This is the behavior of Opera and since I came from Opera I have always been annoyed by the fact that the close tab was in the upper right instead of on the tab itself. Thankfully you can change the position of the close button using about:config hacks, by using handy keyboard shortcut, or by using mouse gestures (which I use anyway).
I had the exact same thing happen to me. I actually probably didn't log as many hours as you (maybe a month in the course of a year of playing) but I went through periods of very intense playing followed by breaks. I just came off of a very intense period (where I was playing every raid that was scheduled for every night, AQ40, BWL, MC, AQ20, ZG...) Since I was a healer they always needed one so I felt needed. The game lost all the fun it used to have after a few weeks of this; my family was pissed that I wasn't talking to anyone else in the evening, that I wasn't doing anything at night to help around... and eventually I just said, sod it, and didn't log in. I followed my guilds raid status for a while. A week after I left they had a replacement for me. So at least I don't feel guilty for leaving.
I think the social aspect of World of Warcraft is what keeps so many people playing. They are so used to the people there that they can't imagine what it's like without them.
Nah it's not just you, I feel the same way. I left WoW for the same reason; I just can't handle the 5 hour raid time that I needed to put in. Basically it's come home from work, eat while playing WoW, sleep, work etc. and I just didn't like it.
I'm trying to find games that I can play for short periods of time and still get enjoyment. FPS drains me too much (it requires a lot of attention). One day I'll find the perfect game. Or maybe make it myself.
Yes, I agree. Commander Keen has all the cool stuff: the pogo stick, the awesome gun and the l33t jumping skills.
I think he would fit right in. I think it would be a really good selling point if they allow people to create their own custom characters and upload to the game.
Why can't I view the calendar while I'm still in gmail?? I hate having to switch between two windows! Are they going to have an option to merge the calendar onto the gmail nav bar? I would love that. I notice that there is no longer an option to submit feature requests like there was for gmail. A pity, I wish google could do this.
All in all the calendar is a nice feature. I might even try putting up some events in there. I notice it lets you get notifications via cell phone, I wonder if I get charged for incoming SMS messages. I don't see a tick box for getting notified via email. That would be nice.
Just a question: Why did this get modded troll? I'm trying to provide my experience on the WoW servers and no one wants to hear it? All right... but could someone please explain why this post was a troll?
I have continuous 34ms latency to Blizzard's servers (I must live next door to them... sometimes it's as low as 14, lowest latency I've seen. That's lower than I get to google!)
The problem is with Blizzard's servers. I play on Kargath, and we have experienced intermittent "character retrieving" issues for the past 3 months, ever since the 1.9x patch. There were times when the server would just crash, even a day after the "weekly scheduled maintenance" on Tuesdays. The problem does not lie with the ISP. Blizzard needs to fix their servers. They are taking a lot of people's money and they have taken forever to make the game experience enjoyable.
The past week has actually not been that bad as it has been in a long time, but last night we had the "retrieving character" take about 23 minutes minumum to show up (no queue, just saying "retrieving character list" for 23 minutes), and due to that we couldn't finish Vael due to people getting dropped by Blizzard.
It's been really irritating. Blizzard has promised to fix the issues for the past 2 months, and has done nothing. Hopefully with the new patch, their promised "new hardware" will arrive, but I'm not holding my breath.
When I read this headline I immediately thought "Hmm, is this hosted on Symantec's site?" Symantec has been harping on this idea for some time, and they will use anything to get what they think people should do with their macs out to the media. It makes sense because Symantec would like to make as much money as they can. If they get enough favorable stories out in the media, customers will start buying their software, regardless of how terrible it is. However, right now this is all smoke and mirrors on the part of Symantec. When Macs get trojans that are passed without user interaction between machines, then they will have worms. But honestly, the days of those kind of exploits are over for Mac and Windows alike, due to the default of having firewalls turned on.
As long as you don't go to dodgy sites you'll be fine. I was kind of shocked the other day when I looked at a Windows computer that had everything, virus protection, spyware protection, and there was a mywebsearch bar installed on _firefox_. No one knew how it got there.
In my opinion, it's stuff like this that make Windows such a hassle: not Viruses/Worms, but Spyware/Malware which target the Windows platform.
I like my OSS the way it is. I think this is one weakness of OSS. We can't really say as a community that we don't want a company to buy out a project, because we don't really have any "share" so to speak in the project. The only thing we can do is annoy people, but those people are facing a very large paycheck, and are very unlikely to listen to what we say, even if they do care about our concerns.
Thank god for licensing, at least we still have the ability to fork GPL codebases. Someone should make a list of current popular OSS programs, what their licensing is, and what we can do if that project is bought out.
Google chat in https mode is working now for me (not sure if it's for everyone but I assume it is), so you might be able to go back to using it. I did, I much prefer having a https connection to gmail.
Make sure you're not connected to the https://mail.google.com/ version of gmail. You want to connect to http://mail.google.com/ You may need to clear your cache/cookies as well, but I didn't need to. I have connected to the SSL version of gmail for a long time and I thought the same as you. Then I read the googlem mail discussion list and they had a few posts about how google chat doesn't work under https mode.
Agreed. I still use firefox on windows, as it is incredibly fast and I don't keep my laptop up for too long. But on my linux workstation, which is up for weeks without reboots, firefox is a major issue. It leaks RAM like crazy. I'm not sure if it's the extensions, or firefox which is doing it. But it will routinely take up 300 megs after being up for 5 days. (this is firefox 1.5 btw).
Another odd thing is that after being up for a few days, if I close firefox, it will take about 15 seconds to actually close and end the process. I guess it's doing garbage collection or something, but it's a little annoying. Right now I use Opera on my linux workstation because it has the functionality I want and doesn't leak memory all over the place.
I don't want new features in firefox. I just want resource usage improved and speed in linux increased! Firefox is slightly slower on my laptop in linux when I compare it to firefox in windows, and it'd be really nice if firefox on linux was as fast as it is in windows. Does anyone else observe this, or is it just me?
When you're talking about the real world, Religion can't be proven wrong, while Science can. And if you're proven wrong in Science, it doesn't mean it's the end of your career, you were just wrong. In Religion, you're always right; and that makes it real hard to have any kind of discourse.
This is only when you're in the realm of Science. Religion and Science are really two different ways of explaining the universe. I don't think either can be crossed, because they both have fundamental rules that you must accept which conflict with each other. I'm not saying Religion is wrong, or Science is the right way to view the universe.
That being said, I really don't feel like the slashdot article is science. It seems to be bordering on religion to me, with no real scientific evidence. Maybe that's because it's just a fluff piece advertising his book. But I'm no closer to believing this theory because of this article. Maybe if there was some kind of summary article of the book, it would be easier.
I would say about 80% of the comments on this site tend to be pretty evenhanded in their treatment of windows security. If you actually read comments on stories about windows flaws, you would see that the people that get modded up are those that say "really, this isn't that serious, this is just Anti-MS stuff." You don't see people saying "OSS RULES MS SUCKS" getting modded up. Sure, people making jokes get +5 funny, but so do the people making jokes on the firefox articles about firefox vulnerabilities. Jokes get modded up not necessarily because they're true, but because they identify with a common recurring theme.
The fact is, the impression that slashdot is anti-MS and pro-linux is wrong. We just like to know about vulnerabilities in an operating system that 90% of computer users have installed on their systems, and utilize every day. Not many people care about vulnerabilities in gqview for gnome (to take a random app for example). There are just so many apps that are not core to the system. Now, if there was a vulnerability in PHP or Apache that had an exploit in the wild, then that would make the news I'm sure.
Honestly, I think someone should go through all the windows vulnerability stories and count the number of anti-ms, pro-ms, and the smart people posts (i.e., those who realize that simply bashing an OS because of a discovered security flaw is silly, because all Operating Systems have flaws). In the end I think you would see that the majority of people on slashdot do not see Microsoft Windows as the Ultimate Evil. I could be wrong of course. I'm not exactly an authority on the subject. I haven't gone through counting the number of posts.
BTW where on slashdot does it say it's geared towards linux users?
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If you bought an iPhone without being familiar with Apple, and without doing preliminary research, and can't accept this battery replacement policy, you need to understand something: it's entirely your fault. No one forced you to buy the iPhone. Anyone that plops down $670 for a product without doing preliminary research on the company deserves what they get.
For instance, searching for "apple battery life" on google, gives this as the first non-apple result: iPod and iPhone Battery FAQ. This site was updated with information the day of the launch of the iPhone.
Personally, my iPhone keeps on growing on me every day. I feel that it's going to just get better over time. If I hadn't bought one, I would definitely get one of the 2nd gens and I may upgrade to that anyway, and sell my used one on ebay or give it to my sister.
I downloaded Safari when it was announced, and it's a really slick browser in windows. It's got a little quirks that are reminiscent of mac os x features that might be confusing to PC users, but honestly it's great being able to test safari, firefox, opera and IE all in windows now. It makes my job much easier as a web dev.
I'm really glad that apple released this, and I hope it does well at establishing a good sized customer base. Competition is _always_ good, even if it draws market share from firefox.
I guess not very many people have heard of this. This makes me wonder. Are there other people that simply don't know about applications in linux and therefore think that linux isn't capable of some functionality when a very suitable app exists that does it?
You know, I think linux needs a centralized application that says "Here's what you can do in linux" and allows a user to explore all the beta or mature projects that exist. That would be insanely useful for raising awareness of applications. Most distros do a good job with default installs but there's no way they can include everything that might be useful to everyone, and honestly the names of applications are so obscure and don't really related to it's functionality that users would have a hard time.
There's always google and the Linux OSS equivalents to Windows programs, but I think an app that's part of the linux desktop would be really helpful.
I can tell you right now that I will likely never have a mac for a desktop. I know I can get more value if I build it myself, since Intel's offerings for desktops are pretty affordable now and I enjoy having more control over my desktop. However, if I get a new laptop, it will probably be a Macbook Pro. Those things are really sweet. I would get it for the screen alone. I hope they can get the graphics drivers for linux on the macbook fully working, because that's what I really want on there.
Well, no wonder it costs so much. EA has the complete wrong idea of what a game should be. I don't want a show, If I wanted that I could turn on my TV and choose from a gazillion shows. I play a game to have fun. Just make fun games instead of throwing millions of dollars at a franchise knowing enough gamers will buy it because it's the next iteration.
I'm not holding my breath though. The day EA tries to just make something fun rather than generating eyecandy demos I will be amazed.
Hmm maybe I need to re-evaluate my position then. I .. think I may be installing some debian later.
Eben Moglen read our agreement and hasn't said a thing about GPLv2 violation. It's abundantly clear that he doesn't think there is any.
Instead, he and Richard are using the community energy to try to get people to adopt the previously-controversial GPLv3 (which we support also)
Hey, this is actually a cool way to get GPLv3 accepted. Reading over the log, and seeing their responses, I feel a bit better about the deal. I'm still suspicious but I'm no longer at the point where I am ready to remove openSuSE from my system and install debian.
I really hope this works out, Novell has done a lot of great things in the past and I would like to see them continue their good work.
It's doubtful whether the author ever actually played World of Warcraft, but coming from a veteran of 1 and 3/4 years World of Warcraft basically has lost all fun that it initially had. The only point of the game is to get the next upgrade. A game that's entirely focused around gear upgrades and the next new shiny is appealing at first but after a year it gets really, really old. As a healer in numerous raids in MC, BWL and AQ40 the game requires a great deal of attention and energy to keep everyone alive. The fact that the game becomes like a job is also a factor in what makes the game lose a great deal of fun. I play games to get away from work not create a job which I am not even paid for.
I feel Blizzard did a lot right with the game but there is one major flaw: they did not create end-game content for the solo player or for small groups outside of PvP (which I don't really consider "content")
I am a casual player in theory but when I would get involved with my guild in raid groups, the only way I could get a possibility of an upgrade was to go to every raid every night, which often lasted 4+ hours. I eventually got very sick and was unable to work or go to school and this made me realize how ridiculous a game World of Warcraft is. When it requires that you spend 4+ hours in order to accomplish anything, you know something is wrong.
I want a game where I can spend 30 minutes playing and feel like I've accomplished something. And pretty much the only games that satisfy that are single player games at this point.
I want to see what games are available at launch for a console. I don't want to see what some marketer thinks the effect of a PS3 should be on people. I don't buy a new console for the overwhelming effect it has on me (pffffffft) but for the GAMES. And, strangely enough I am quite impressed with some of the games they have lined up. Why would they think that an ad for say, White Knight wouldn't be more effective than a silly ad cooked up by some markedroid?
If Sony thinks the console is going to sell itself, they have a problem. The games are what matter. What is odd in this case is that many of the games are good, so I don't know why Sony doesn't just go with the games.
I remember back when I played WoW in Cedega on linux that if I played the game in fullscreen mode but put in managed mode and set the desktop to a value less than my desktop resolution, then World of Warcraft would essentially run in a windowed screen but think it was fullscreen. This was immensely useful if I wanted to read something while grinding for instance. However, I distinctly remember that if I held down the right click button while inside the game and didn't release it and moved my mouse really quickly to the side, the game would slow down immensely, and then send me back to the login screen. I believe something about how cedega sends signals to the client when it is in managed mode made the World of warcraft client freak out and think something weird was happening.
Can anyone who got banned comment on this? Were you playing the game in managed mode rather than fullscreen in Cedega, or was it unmanaged and in fullscreen mode?
If the defendant never downloaded this hypothetical song, it would make no difference on the number of times it was downloaded by everyone else. If a song is up on the network, it's going to be downloaded regardless of one individual's efforts. It doesn't make sense to blame one person for an entire file sharing network.
This is the behavior of Opera and since I came from Opera I have always been annoyed by the fact that the close tab was in the upper right instead of on the tab itself. Thankfully you can change the position of the close button using about:config hacks, by using handy keyboard shortcut, or by using mouse gestures (which I use anyway).
I think the social aspect of World of Warcraft is what keeps so many people playing. They are so used to the people there that they can't imagine what it's like without them.
IMHO, real life is a hell of a lot better. YMMV.
(BTW: 30 days today of no WoW :) )
I'm trying to find games that I can play for short periods of time and still get enjoyment. FPS drains me too much (it requires a lot of attention). One day I'll find the perfect game. Or maybe make it myself.
Yes, I agree. Commander Keen has all the cool stuff: the pogo stick, the awesome gun and the l33t jumping skills.
I think he would fit right in. I think it would be a really good selling point if they allow people to create their own custom characters and upload to the game.
All in all the calendar is a nice feature. I might even try putting up some events in there. I notice it lets you get notifications via cell phone, I wonder if I get charged for incoming SMS messages. I don't see a tick box for getting notified via email. That would be nice.
Just a question: Why did this get modded troll? I'm trying to provide my experience on the WoW servers and no one wants to hear it? All right... but could someone please explain why this post was a troll?
The problem is with Blizzard's servers. I play on Kargath, and we have experienced intermittent "character retrieving" issues for the past 3 months, ever since the 1.9x patch. There were times when the server would just crash, even a day after the "weekly scheduled maintenance" on Tuesdays. The problem does not lie with the ISP. Blizzard needs to fix their servers. They are taking a lot of people's money and they have taken forever to make the game experience enjoyable.
The past week has actually not been that bad as it has been in a long time, but last night we had the "retrieving character" take about 23 minutes minumum to show up (no queue, just saying "retrieving character list" for 23 minutes), and due to that we couldn't finish Vael due to people getting dropped by Blizzard.
It's been really irritating. Blizzard has promised to fix the issues for the past 2 months, and has done nothing. Hopefully with the new patch, their promised "new hardware" will arrive, but I'm not holding my breath.
As long as you don't go to dodgy sites you'll be fine. I was kind of shocked the other day when I looked at a Windows computer that had everything, virus protection, spyware protection, and there was a mywebsearch bar installed on _firefox_. No one knew how it got there.
In my opinion, it's stuff like this that make Windows such a hassle: not Viruses/Worms, but Spyware/Malware which target the Windows platform.
Thank god for licensing, at least we still have the ability to fork GPL codebases. Someone should make a list of current popular OSS programs, what their licensing is, and what we can do if that project is bought out.
Google chat in https mode is working now for me (not sure if it's for everyone but I assume it is), so you might be able to go back to using it. I did, I much prefer having a https connection to gmail.
Make sure you're not connected to the https://mail.google.com/ version of gmail. You want to connect to http://mail.google.com/ You may need to clear your cache/cookies as well, but I didn't need to. I have connected to the SSL version of gmail for a long time and I thought the same as you. Then I read the googlem mail discussion list and they had a few posts about how google chat doesn't work under https mode.
Another odd thing is that after being up for a few days, if I close firefox, it will take about 15 seconds to actually close and end the process. I guess it's doing garbage collection or something, but it's a little annoying. Right now I use Opera on my linux workstation because it has the functionality I want and doesn't leak memory all over the place.
I don't want new features in firefox. I just want resource usage improved and speed in linux increased! Firefox is slightly slower on my laptop in linux when I compare it to firefox in windows, and it'd be really nice if firefox on linux was as fast as it is in windows. Does anyone else observe this, or is it just me?
This is only when you're in the realm of Science. Religion and Science are really two different ways of explaining the universe. I don't think either can be crossed, because they both have fundamental rules that you must accept which conflict with each other. I'm not saying Religion is wrong, or Science is the right way to view the universe.
That being said, I really don't feel like the slashdot article is science. It seems to be bordering on religion to me, with no real scientific evidence. Maybe that's because it's just a fluff piece advertising his book. But I'm no closer to believing this theory because of this article. Maybe if there was some kind of summary article of the book, it would be easier.
The fact is, the impression that slashdot is anti-MS and pro-linux is wrong. We just like to know about vulnerabilities in an operating system that 90% of computer users have installed on their systems, and utilize every day. Not many people care about vulnerabilities in gqview for gnome (to take a random app for example). There are just so many apps that are not core to the system. Now, if there was a vulnerability in PHP or Apache that had an exploit in the wild, then that would make the news I'm sure.
Honestly, I think someone should go through all the windows vulnerability stories and count the number of anti-ms, pro-ms, and the smart people posts (i.e., those who realize that simply bashing an OS because of a discovered security flaw is silly, because all Operating Systems have flaws). In the end I think you would see that the majority of people on slashdot do not see Microsoft Windows as the Ultimate Evil. I could be wrong of course. I'm not exactly an authority on the subject. I haven't gone through counting the number of posts.
BTW where on slashdot does it say it's geared towards linux users?