1. maybe law was inspired by google's testing car which did have a driver. If not, it still seams reasonable until driverless cars are considered mostly infallable 2. just a guess - why not make the driverless car owner responsible? Plus given it's a driveless car something tells me law officers won't have to search for plate numbers anymore either.
I just heard their latest ep this afternoon which contains the 'announcement'. Finally I've got a decent iPod 'n all and they're calling it quits.
_WHY_:'(
Loved the humour, loved the topics, loved the discussions and loved it all. In short nothing but love!
Good luck to you all and something tells me we'll hear LugRadio again after the live event anyway:)
And of course there's still the linux action show, linux outlaws, tech link show & apparently the uk ubuntu podcast by (iirc) alan pope goes recommended by jono so I suppose there'll still be plenty to listen & subscribe to:)
This is total bullcrap. Both the article author &/. editor have no clue at all & I can only pray they've never had any responsability in any project in whatever environment. I'd write a rebuttal but it's just not worth the effort
Finally, justice one could say. But the big winner is still microsoft of course, no way the fine undoes the years taking advantage. I guess the software / IT market is still growing up slowly / steadily & things like this were bound to happen. Let's hope it never has to come to that again.
Actually, I do *exactly* that on an almost daily basis during the work week. And frankly I'm surprised as to what degree of the documents OOo actually gets right. Sure there's some animations not 100% correct, sure some things show least bit out of place and all in all they're not completely there yet. But the bottom line for me is, I don't spend a lot of time converting or correcting, because if I would, I'd just use powerpoint (getting things done > *). Furthermore, I've grown quite addicted to it's multi-platform character, it's price and it's feature set. Plus, in a way it reminds me of Word 5.1 for mac. And how can that be a bad thing?;-)
Concerning the pre-loading, isn't there a preload app(let) for at least *nix & windows ?
Okay, shouldn't have used unencoded and:-) It should read 'g searchterm' for i'm searching google & 'go searchterm' for feeling lucky @ google. I seem to be looking over the feature to edit my own comments..
Actually, I type 'g ' && 'go ', which takes longer than going to the searchbox but there's no changing providers involved. Got some wikipedia, imdb, javadoc etc keywords in there as well, lovely feature.
Although I don't think the OSS community should be making descisions based solely on Microsoft's heading, I don't think ignoring them is the way to go either. I do think the fact that something like mono exists makes one less argument *not* to make the switch to linux. If you support.net the Linux platform can attract developers which would otherwise be coding for and on Windows only. Just my 2ç
but besides company's and organizations i think most of the joe average windows users dont take the trouble of configuring their system with restricted users and such. (personally i find it hard to get it all configured right, for one how do i allow restricted users to define shares ??) "By convincing a victim to view an HTML document such as a web page or HTML email message, an attacker could execute script in a different security domain than the one containing the attacker's document." => let's hope outlook blocks scripts or lots of people will be an easy prey thanks to the 'great' preview pane! i don't think this will be msblast 2 but i do hope antivir's will catch up (wchich the undoubtably will) long live mozilla!
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i must say. i've been using gnome 2.6 since first release candidate and although there aren't an overwhelming number of new features i do find it to be a big improvement over 2.4 the new file selector for one is very nice, although it still has a few rough edges. personally i'm not too fond of the new 'spatial' nautilus even though i've been a mac user for many years. i miss (or missed) a shortcut to close all open windows for example. nautilus *is* blazingly fast though. also, browsing samba networks works very nicely. i'm very curious as to the final release. with it's shortcomings gnome remains my most used desktop environment. great going guys, keep up the good work.
i for one am quite fond of both gnome and kde and i do indeed agree they both have their own qualities. As far as i care this is just another choice added to the equation, and i don't really see any losers in this. actually i'm quite curious what they're gonna make of it:-) even if it just automates the process of trying to make gtk and qt apps all look alike than i say i'm all for it! respect to both the teams
well glassheart you're totally right bout the money stuff but alas (really) i'm but a poor student, i'm just happy i get around to bad my imac rev b broke down couple o weeks ago:(
excuse me but why exactly is this a troll ? i mean i agree from a developer's point of view but i guess that the proprietary part is the price you pay for the consitency and unified feel you get. i dont have enough bsd experience to add anything worthy bout that. i'm belgian -- i like freedom too:)
i totally agree the lack of consistency across operating systems is disappointing but it's a way of differentiating one's self i guess. i mean i think we hear 'they ripped it off from x' enough as it is. but i do indeed agree that (and we're getting there i think) a bit more standardized approaches to the basic functionality of the major distro's at least would be nice. the qt theme for gtk is a great step in that direction (tho i'm more of a gnome user myself but hey i love em all:))
but i think that thanks to these different approaches, in the end the best of 'em will be chosen and who doesn't like multiple alternatives to chose from?
i for one would like it if for example both kde and gnome ship with the +/- same default config (with the same shared Documents dir path, shared menu path etc)
i must admit that i admire apple's os x platform. for example one *can* use the command line as much as one likes but one doesnt't *have* to. i can't say that i love editing my xf86config for example. tho os x is far from perfect (it *is* after all proprietary) but it seems like an evolution of linux in ways of usability. i think however that the major OSS desktop environments aren't that far away from obtaining equally powerfull yet userfriendly operation (having only working knowledge of the gentoo distro) it's been a while since i used os x (10.1 in fact) and i must admit i regret lacking the funds to buy myself a peachy powermac g5 cuz i'm quite tempted by os x panther and the ilife bundle (man garageband look awesome!) sometimes i've wished linux was a bit more 'it just works' although i know huge progess is being made in that field every day (ie getting alsa to work has been a major pita for me)
i for one just think os x gives the user still a much smoother computer experience than linux can at the moment. i consider it to be a best of both worlds - operation system. only, personally, i think os x could do with decent skinning features as simple far from everybody likes apple's aqua interface.
way to go apple
Well of course it's about the users but it's for a fact i think microsoft just couldn't care less for the IE-users (i mean, i doubt they use it themselves to browse the internet) my point is most people professionally using the computer are running windows and it's just for work what do they care if its not up to date or insecure? They just want to get their work done asap and go home it's not about bashing microsoft, just simple facts and consequences of its marketshare you'd think in a timespan of two years they'd be able help users surf secure...
Well i guess it aint gonna stop until finally we start hearing stuff like 'Try Desktop Linux Now!' and people actually dare taking the step towards OSS If i just think about the lost productivity cuz of outdated unstable software which is way overpriced *without* the extra costs of fixing stuff Hell even lindows would be satisfactory:)
because many computer users i know simply don't care the least about keeping their machine clean. Why use another browser than IE which their so used to (they had a crash course of course). Outlook and word is all they use (perhaps even acrobat reader) and preferably as little as possible. I've spent countless hours removing blaster and the likes, removing spyware and viruses and trying people to get to use Moz Firebird or Opera. Of course, a month later they call me again with *exactly* the same problems. Alas for most people a computer is like a coffee machine it just has to fullfill its purpose. Companies can release all the fixes they want, it won't make a difference for a large part. My father for example has this Dell Laptop 2.4ghz P4 cpu. Runs on win98 (!) and office97 (no updates of course) because there's no money for upgrades or m$'s stupid licensing. The IT staff at his place doesnt have a clue bout spyware and the likes ('but we have a firewall') or vulnerabilities and i guess they wont ever care in this life. It's only gonna get messier i'm afraid. Thanks to Microsoft for exercising their right to innovate browsing
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Right, the fact that Google pushed Chrome on it's search page didn't factor into it at all.
Not to say Mozilla didn't/doesn't make any mistakes, but at least their users aren't the product
Second that.
1. maybe law was inspired by google's testing car which did have a driver. If not, it still seams reasonable until driverless cars are considered mostly infallable
2. just a guess - why not make the driverless car owner responsible?
Plus given it's a driveless car something tells me law officers won't have to search for plate numbers anymore either.
Argh,
I just heard their latest ep this afternoon which contains the 'announcement'.
Finally I've got a decent iPod 'n all and they're calling it quits.
_WHY_ :'(
Loved the humour, loved the topics, loved the discussions and loved it all. In short nothing but love!
Good luck to you all and something tells me we'll hear LugRadio again after the live event anyway :)
And of course there's still the linux action show, linux outlaws, tech link show & apparently the uk ubuntu podcast by (iirc) alan pope goes recommended by jono so I suppose there'll still be plenty to listen & subscribe to :)
This is total bullcrap. /. editor have no clue at all & I can only pray they've never had any responsability in any project in whatever environment.
Both the article author &
I'd write a rebuttal but it's just not worth the effort
I suppose that's talking semantics but then again, it is the more accurate translation.
Oh yea; ghost light, cool!!
but the road ahead is long! (isn't it everywhere?)
:)
What was that 'hidden' page again with the quote from the 'book of mozilla'? Ahh memories
Live long and prosper mozilla.
For those who havent seen him describe his 'way' :
:')
:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAWDYaWAVQQ
Love those tags
He _does_ get 400+ replies though, so who's the morons one might wonder (myself included obviously
Finally, justice one could say.
But the big winner is still microsoft of course, no way the fine undoes the years taking advantage.
I guess the software / IT market is still growing up slowly / steadily & things like this were bound to happen.
Let's hope it never has to come to that again.
Actually, I do *exactly* that on an almost daily basis during the work week. ;-)
And frankly I'm surprised as to what degree of the documents OOo actually gets right.
Sure there's some animations not 100% correct,
sure some things show least bit out of place and
all in all they're not completely there yet.
But the bottom line for me is, I don't spend a lot of time converting
or correcting, because if I would, I'd just use powerpoint (getting things done > *).
Furthermore, I've grown quite addicted to it's multi-platform character, it's price
and it's feature set. Plus, in a way it reminds me of Word 5.1 for mac.
And how can that be a bad thing?
Concerning the pre-loading, isn't there a preload app(let) for at least *nix & windows ?
Okay, shouldn't have used unencoded and :-)
It should read 'g searchterm' for i'm searching google & 'go searchterm' for feeling lucky @ google.
I seem to be looking over the feature to edit my own comments..
Actually, I type 'g ' && 'go ', which takes longer than going to the searchbox but there's no changing providers involved.
Got some wikipedia, imdb, javadoc etc keywords in there as well, lovely feature.
It's a typo.
Sorry.
I'd fix it if only I had the means to do so.
Although I don't think the OSS community should be making descisions based solely on Microsoft's heading, I don't think ignoring them is the way to go either. I do think the fact that something like mono exists makes one less argument *not* to make the switch to linux. If you support .net the Linux platform can attract developers which would otherwise be coding for and on Windows only.
Just my 2ç
but besides company's and organizations i think most of the joe average windows users dont take the trouble of configuring their system with restricted users and such. (personally i find it hard to get it all configured right, for one how do i allow restricted users to define shares ??)
"By convincing a victim to view an HTML document such as a web page or HTML email message, an attacker could execute script in a different security domain than the one containing the attacker's document." => let's hope outlook blocks scripts or lots of people will be an easy prey thanks to the 'great' preview pane!
i don't think this will be msblast 2 but i do hope antivir's will catch up (wchich the undoubtably will)
long live mozilla!
i must say. i've been using gnome 2.6 since first release candidate and although there aren't an overwhelming number of new features i do find it to be a big improvement over 2.4
the new file selector for one is very nice, although it still has a few rough edges.
personally i'm not too fond of the new 'spatial' nautilus even though i've been a mac user for many years. i miss (or missed) a shortcut to close all open windows for example. nautilus *is* blazingly fast though. also, browsing samba networks works very nicely.
i'm very curious as to the final release. with it's shortcomings gnome remains my most used desktop environment.
great going guys, keep up the good work.
i for one am quite fond of both gnome and kde and i do indeed agree they both have their own qualities. As far as i care this is just another choice added to the equation, and i don't really see any losers in this. :-) even if it just automates the process of trying to make gtk and qt apps all look alike than i say i'm all for it!
actually i'm quite curious what they're gonna make of it
respect to both the teams
you *are* hilarious :)
to bad you dont say why you disagree or provide an alternative view on the matter
well glassheart you're totally right bout the money stuff but alas (really) i'm but a poor student, i'm just happy i get around :(
to bad my imac rev b broke down couple o weeks ago
excuse me but why exactly is this a troll ? :)
i mean i agree from a developer's point of view but i guess that the proprietary part is the price you pay for the consitency and unified feel you get. i dont have enough bsd experience to add anything worthy bout that.
i'm belgian -- i like freedom too
i totally agree the lack of consistency across operating systems is disappointing but it's a way of differentiating one's self i guess. i mean i think we hear 'they ripped it off from x' enough as it is. but i do indeed agree that (and we're getting there i think) a bit more standardized approaches to the basic functionality of the major distro's at least would be nice. the qt theme for gtk is a great step in that direction (tho i'm more of a gnome user myself but hey i love em all :))
but i think that thanks to these different approaches, in the end the best of 'em will be chosen and who doesn't like multiple alternatives to chose from?
i for one would like it if for example both kde and gnome ship with the +/- same default config (with the same shared Documents dir path, shared menu path etc)
i must admit that i admire apple's os x platform. for example one *can* use the command line as much as one likes but one doesnt't *have* to. i can't say that i love editing my xf86config for example. tho os x is far from perfect (it *is* after all proprietary) but it seems like an evolution of linux in ways of usability. i think however that the major OSS desktop environments aren't that far away from obtaining equally powerfull yet userfriendly operation (having only working knowledge of the gentoo distro) it's been a while since i used os x (10.1 in fact) and i must admit i regret lacking the funds to buy myself a peachy powermac g5 cuz i'm quite tempted by os x panther and the ilife bundle (man garageband look awesome!) sometimes i've wished linux was a bit more 'it just works' although i know huge progess is being made in that field every day (ie getting alsa to work has been a major pita for me) i for one just think os x gives the user still a much smoother computer experience than linux can at the moment. i consider it to be a best of both worlds - operation system. only, personally, i think os x could do with decent skinning features as simple far from everybody likes apple's aqua interface. way to go apple
Well of course it's about the users but it's for a fact i think microsoft just couldn't care less for the IE-users (i mean, i doubt they use it themselves to browse the internet)
my point is most people professionally using the computer are running windows and it's just for work what do they care if its not up to date or insecure? They just want to get their work done asap and go home
it's not about bashing microsoft, just simple facts and consequences of its marketshare
you'd think in a timespan of two years they'd be able help users surf secure...
Well i guess it aint gonna stop until finally we start hearing stuff like 'Try Desktop Linux Now!' and people actually dare taking the step towards OSS :)
If i just think about the lost productivity cuz of outdated unstable software which is way overpriced *without* the extra costs of fixing stuff
Hell even lindows would be satisfactory
because many computer users i know simply don't care the least about keeping their machine clean. Why use another browser than IE which their so used to (they had a crash course of course). Outlook and word is all they use (perhaps even acrobat reader) and preferably as little as possible.
I've spent countless hours removing blaster and the likes, removing spyware and viruses and trying people to get to use Moz Firebird or Opera.
Of course, a month later they call me again with *exactly* the same problems.
Alas for most people a computer is like a coffee machine it just has to fullfill its purpose. Companies can release all the fixes they want, it won't make a difference for a large part. My father for example has this Dell Laptop 2.4ghz P4 cpu. Runs on win98 (!) and office97 (no updates of course) because there's no money for upgrades or m$'s stupid licensing. The IT staff at his place doesnt have a clue bout spyware and the likes ('but we have a firewall') or vulnerabilities and i guess they wont ever care in this life.
It's only gonna get messier i'm afraid.
Thanks to Microsoft for exercising their right to innovate browsing