While it is good for some reason I don't really get:), what is the future of Wikipedia as such in China? Especially when Wikipedia itself hardly manages to stop Vandalism, how will it stop the content addition of controversial subjects? Won't that prompt China to have a say in Wikipedia content?
Why is it so hard to make a captcha that a bot can't read but a human can?
Numerous times there is confusion between I and L. Since every site uses its own set of images and its own 'set of rules to obfuscate', the user has all the reasons to be confused. Then there is 3 coupled with something that makes it look like B etc.
Ofcourse, you will fail one time only, as on next reload you will get a new image to read, but as the article says, user response drops. People want to help you and you are making it, kind of, harder.
No Shutter Lag: Shutter lag is that awful delay between the time that you click the shutter on a digicam and the time that an image is actually taken. With DSLRs, there is virtually no delay between the time that you click the shutter and the image is taken. How many times have you missed a great photo opportunity because the camera didn't focus fast enough and then didn't take the shot fast enough once it was focused?
If it is not point-and-shoot, how can you focus your image at the right 'moment' and take picture?
A co-operative is often a below the radar operation, generating wealth with out too much of recognition. Most opensource projects (the way I see them) work the other way round
Well, This is my first submission so all I can say is, it is easy to submit on digg because you have to give 2-3 sentence long statement. It took me a lot time to find all this stuff and make it readable by reformatting it (though it was changed heavily before getting accepted).
What is the first thing you would like to do in a graphic editing software? Draw some line, circles, test all the buttons etc.
I understand that The Gimp is a photo-editing software, so answer should rather be editing photos, but remember: for FOSS, users are the developers. More users = more developers.
There SVN commits are to 483 unique files. (cat kdebase.txt|grep branches|sed 's/*//g'|uniq|wc), Otherwise there are 485 (cat kdebase.txt|grep branches -c)
But total number of lines are 1586 (wc kdebase.txt)
Europe doesn't says that throwing around human sexuality is ok, but saying offensive things is not. It says that even considering something like colour or number of people in a community for anything other than statistics is retarded; and that people should rather have fun. I don't think that is bad.
I personally find that one cannot just go and pour in all the information in as much as 1000 of pages. Anywhere on the internet. Wikipedia is no exception. Any serious editor who wants to contribute positively knows that most of our knowledge is prejudiced (received-knowledge). Most of us when get down to write something which needs accountability, we just write what we are absolutely sure of. Of course there are different levels of how-much-surety-means-i-am-correct for every individual, but that is why one cannot have 1000 edit counts (let alone edits on 1000 different pages) all referring to content addition. Those edits include spelling corrections, reversions after vandalism, discussions and many other things.
Number of edit counts do show one thing though: your obsession with Wikipedia - to stay there and do something. Having higher priority in discussions, becoming an admin, etc. are all rewards for that, and come on guys, it is nothing unexpected! Wikipedia has long passed the point of just being a site anyone can edit, it is more of a community.
PS: Slashdot is different because it demotes accountability and promotes heated discussions. Wikipedia is just opposite of it.
"Congratulations! You've downloaded or compiled a copy of Firefox 2 Beta 2. This means that you've volunteered to become part of the testing community. Helping out won't take much of your time, doesn't require special skills, and will help make the next version of Firefox even better.
Note: The Firefox 2 Beta 2 build you are using is NOT A FINAL VERSION of Firefox, it has been made available for testing purposes only, with no end-user support. If that sounds scary, you'd probably be better off with the latest version of Firefox that you can download here: http://www.getfirefox.com/"
But no one complains when they use their browser history to go back to a page they were on 2 hours ago and it pops out instantly out of cache do they?
Before you quote the procedure of setting it into about:config and call it a feature, the thing is, it is a *feature* with which Firefox is shipped and it takes insane amount of memory. And this makes the first impression bad, and you loose your potential user for a long looooong time.
And yes, Firefox eats memory even after turning this feature off.
1. Linux is not advertised as much as Windows or Mac. There is no public hype except within geeks.
and it's spin-off: 2. Linux is not pre-installed. People don't get to know XGL and how beautiful it looks! OSX or Windows XP are not sold beside latest KDE with XGL support.
But that was for desktops. For servers, for Linux, there is(are) only one competition: BSD(s) - Better performance and better security.
Currently I am using Firefox 2.0beta1, on a 256 mb ram computer and every now and then it HANGS! You read it correct, and I then have to xkill and restart it.
Oops!
Currently I am using Firefox 2.0beta1. On a 256 mb ram computer and every now and then it HANGS! You read it correct, and I then have to xkill and restart it
On the other hand, Firefox still uses up memory like it's got some birthright to as much as it can horde. And it doesn't have as large a viewing area as IE 7.
That's it! You hit the nail. Because only 10% of the real world people are zealots. I am a firefox fanboy (I admit it) and I use it whenever I have chance, with or without extension, because it is open source. I have been using it from when it was firebird. And since then I have seen all of my friends first start using it, and then change to either Netscape, or Opera, or back to Internet Explorer.
And the reason is simple: Firefox takes too much memory. Currently I am using Firefox 2.0beta1, on a 256 mb ram computer and every now and then it HANGS! You read it correct, and I then have to xkill and restart it. Right now I am running it from sshing to a 2gb ram computer. Then there are cache issues. Every now and then it starts to crawl and my harddisk starts to roar for about 5 mintues and then everything is back to normal.
What Firefox needs is to save its base. If it is better, and it has got fanboys to promote it, it will eventually catch up. Afterall, not everyone in the world will become a fanboy
That's all good and another plus point for Konqueror is that it passes the Acid2 Test, which is a great point.
But there are two main points why I keep returning to Firefox:
1. Extensions! I love all the things people can add into there Firefox. Most of them don't even make sense, but they make browsing fun and wonderful experience. Konqueror, on the other hand, has always been one that implements it into the main application. KPart technology is not as extensive and easy to use that XUL.
2. Support! Firefox is the new buzz. All good sites support Firefox, just like all other of them IE. Konqueror is still having problems handling GMail (read Google Talk in it), orkut, blogger etc.
3. Last but not the least, kdelibs. You can download Firefox, untar/unzip it, and use it right away. Who wants to install kde-libs and n number of other things for Konqueror? How feasible it is to ship Konqueror with a disto which is, for example, Gnome based?
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While it is good for some reason I don't really get :), what is the future of Wikipedia as such in China? Especially when Wikipedia itself hardly manages to stop Vandalism, how will it stop the content addition of controversial subjects? Won't that prompt China to have a say in Wikipedia content?
Numerous times there is confusion between I and L. Since every site uses its own set of images and its own 'set of rules to obfuscate', the user has all the reasons to be confused. Then there is 3 coupled with something that makes it look like B etc.
Ofcourse, you will fail one time only, as on next reload you will get a new image to read, but as the article says, user response drops. People want to help you and you are making it, kind of, harder.
If it is not point-and-shoot, how can you focus your image at the right 'moment' and take picture?
Well, This is my first submission so all I can say is, it is easy to submit on digg because you have to give 2-3 sentence long statement. It took me a lot time to find all this stuff and make it readable by reformatting it (though it was changed heavily before getting accepted).
I have another opinion:
What is the first thing you would like to do in a graphic editing software?
Draw some line, circles, test all the buttons etc.
I understand that The Gimp is a photo-editing software, so answer should rather be editing photos, but remember: for FOSS, users are the developers. More users = more developers.
There change-log lists only about 182 changes.
/g'|uniq|wc), Otherwise there are 485 (cat kdebase.txt|grep branches -c)
;) )
There SVN commits are to 483 unique files. (cat kdebase.txt|grep branches|sed 's/*/
But total number of lines are 1586 (wc kdebase.txt)
Draw your own conclusions. (I have mine
My 2 cents:
Europe doesn't says that throwing around human sexuality is ok, but saying offensive things is not. It says that even considering something like colour or number of people in a community for anything other than statistics is retarded; and that people should rather have fun. I don't think that is bad.
I personally find that one cannot just go and pour in all the information in as much as 1000 of pages. Anywhere on the internet. Wikipedia is no exception. Any serious editor who wants to contribute positively knows that most of our knowledge is prejudiced (received-knowledge). Most of us when get down to write something which needs accountability, we just write what we are absolutely sure of. Of course there are different levels of how-much-surety-means-i-am-correct for every individual, but that is why one cannot have 1000 edit counts (let alone edits on 1000 different pages) all referring to content addition. Those edits include spelling corrections, reversions after vandalism, discussions and many other things.
Number of edit counts do show one thing though: your obsession with Wikipedia - to stay there and do something. Having higher priority in discussions, becoming an admin, etc. are all rewards for that, and come on guys, it is nothing unexpected! Wikipedia has long passed the point of just being a site anyone can edit, it is more of a community.
PS: Slashdot is different because it demotes accountability and promotes heated discussions. Wikipedia is just opposite of it.
We have been to moon many times, since as long as 1969. That place is not good for living! What is the timeline for Mars?
Btw, how many of you think that 2020 coincides with President Bush's 'promise'?
Here: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/
"Congratulations! You've downloaded or compiled a copy of Firefox 2 Beta 2. This means that you've volunteered to become part of the testing community. Helping out won't take much of your time, doesn't require special skills, and will help make the next version of Firefox even better.
Note: The Firefox 2 Beta 2 build you are using is NOT A FINAL VERSION of Firefox, it has been made available for testing purposes only, with no end-user support. If that sounds scary, you'd probably be better off with the latest version of Firefox that you can download here: http://www.getfirefox.com/"
I don't know exactly but 'Check for Updates...' gives me 'update to Firefox 2.0b2'
/. should wait for the official announcement. sigh...
But yeah,
But do you REALLY THINK SO?
Sorry, couldn't resist.
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:-)
Oh... I can see your hard drive just caught fire!
Ok, I dont know what you are talking about. When I have 20 tabs open and they are so for 2 days, I *do* kill firefox-bin
So, I still dont know.
But no one complains when they use their browser history to go back to a page they were on 2 hours ago and it pops out instantly out of cache do they?
Before you quote the procedure of setting it into about:config and call it a feature, the thing is, it is a *feature* with which Firefox is shipped and it takes insane amount of memory. And this makes the first impression bad, and you loose your potential user for a long looooong time.
And yes, Firefox eats memory even after turning this feature off.
That is because of two immediate reasons:
1. Linux is not advertised as much as Windows or Mac. There is no public hype except within geeks.
and it's spin-off:
2. Linux is not pre-installed. People don't get to know XGL and how beautiful it looks! OSX or Windows XP are not sold beside latest KDE with XGL support.
But that was for desktops. For servers, for Linux, there is(are) only one competition: BSD(s) - Better performance and better security.
Currently I am using Firefox 2.0beta1, on a 256 mb ram computer and every now and then it HANGS! You read it correct, and I then have to xkill and restart it.
Oops!
Currently I am using Firefox 2.0beta1. On a 256 mb ram computer and every now and then it HANGS! You read it correct, and I then have to xkill and restart it
On the other hand, Firefox still uses up memory like it's got some birthright to as much as it can horde. And it doesn't have as large a viewing area as IE 7.
That's it! You hit the nail. Because only 10% of the real world people are zealots. I am a firefox fanboy (I admit it) and I use it whenever I have chance, with or without extension, because it is open source. I have been using it from when it was firebird. And since then I have seen all of my friends first start using it, and then change to either Netscape, or Opera, or back to Internet Explorer.
And the reason is simple: Firefox takes too much memory. Currently I am using Firefox 2.0beta1, on a 256 mb ram computer and every now and then it HANGS! You read it correct, and I then have to xkill and restart it. Right now I am running it from sshing to a 2gb ram computer. Then there are cache issues. Every now and then it starts to crawl and my harddisk starts to roar for about 5 mintues and then everything is back to normal.
What Firefox needs is to save its base. If it is better, and it has got fanboys to promote it, it will eventually catch up. Afterall, not everyone in the world will become a fanboy
I like this comparison.
What I don't understand is the attempt to make it all look like China vs. ethical us!
Am I the only geek to doubt this?
FEMALE MOUSE 1 to (No TREK-1) Mouse: You are so cool, always cheerful, lets have sex!
FEMALE MOUSE 2 to others: That mouse has no self-respect!
That's all good and another plus point for Konqueror is that it passes the Acid2 Test, which is a great point. But there are two main points why I keep returning to Firefox: 1. Extensions! I love all the things people can add into there Firefox. Most of them don't even make sense, but they make browsing fun and wonderful experience. Konqueror, on the other hand, has always been one that implements it into the main application. KPart technology is not as extensive and easy to use that XUL. 2. Support! Firefox is the new buzz. All good sites support Firefox, just like all other of them IE. Konqueror is still having problems handling GMail (read Google Talk in it), orkut, blogger etc. 3. Last but not the least, kdelibs. You can download Firefox, untar/unzip it, and use it right away. Who wants to install kde-libs and n number of other things for Konqueror? How feasible it is to ship Konqueror with a disto which is, for example, Gnome based?
Wow, did GPL run over your dog or something?
I mean, no one is forcing you to use GPL. Just if you decide not to, DON'T use GPL.