So what is your suggestion then? Give up doing what you were about to do entirely, because the software you would have absolutely needed only happens to run on Windows? And only continue using it after one year or so when it has been ported to some other platform?
Sorry, but your viewpoint is simply way too idealistic. It's sounds a bit like not using proprietary apps at all due to ideological reasons. Such an ideology just leads to situations, where you have to entirely give up doing something, which is otherwise technically possible.
True, but if you have to go with Windows anyway -- for software compatibility reasons, for example -- then every buck you give them helps their domination even more.
That said, my primary OS is legit. But it happens to be made by Apple...
Asa Dotzler writes: "Today we have our first Firefox 1.0 candidate builds available for testing. You can get these test builds from FTP. If you've already downloaded 1.0 PR (the "feature complete" preview) and you're not really interested in testing and bug reporting, then you should probably stick with 1.0 PR for a couple more weeks and upgrade when we release the official Firefox 1.0.
See the source -- they have different doctypes. Slashdot.org has HTML 3.2 Final (really uncommon nowadays), whereas slashdot.jp has HTML 4.01 Transitional (still the no. 2 doctype in popularity after the über-popular "undefined").
Not that either of them would actually be even close to valid code, but the existence of the doctype alone causes Firefox to use standards compliant rendering mode instead of quirks layout mode, so this affects the result.
You can tune XP's performance settings fairly well. I've installed XP on a P233MMX with 96 Mbytes of RAM. It is usable in running Firefox and writing with OO.org, and is actually more responsive than NT4 in an another box that has P133 and 64 MB of RAM, but has a HD accessible only in PIO mode.
Unfortunately I didn't have large enough SIMMs to upgrade its memory to 128 Mt - now you can actually only run two apps at the same time, and even switching between them causes little swap activity. But two apps is all that is necessary for many users, though.
Damn me for being a naive fool. I always believed what Linus said and kept waiting. And behold: now he's denying it. Do you think I should change my sig now?
Too bad this will probably be an U.S. only -deal. I couldn't care less about U2, but I've considered to finally buy an iPod next month, and my metal-weighted music library would deserve black covers around it.;)
Interesting. I'm running FF 1.0PR on Redhat EL3, and mozilla_dies 1 & 2 crached my browser. Third test only showed a broken applet placeholder, as expected.
...if you have over two candidates. I mean, democracy is meant for ordinary people, and choosing from two many options would get ordinary people too confused!
So, all third party candidates are to be arrested, as they're actually terrorists trying to disturb the democratic progress, right?
Good that the US is the land of the free that shows for everyone what democracy really means.
t took me 5 seconds to save an *empty* OO.o document. The same thing in word took Of course, the Word file is like 24k big, and the OO.o document is only 4...;)
But OOo XML files are zip compressed, when Word docs aren't. How much does the compression affect to those times and sizes?
I've said this on/. before, but can't find that post now, so I'll have to say it again:
For me the biggest fault are lacking certificate controls, i.e. the inability to install custom root CA's (except by creating a DB on Firefox and moving it to Camino's directory). When these are added, I'll drop Safari for Camino, but not before.
Preferably it should be done following Camino's "Mac-way" philosophy, which would mean using the certificates of X509Anchors system keychain instead of Mozilla's own cert.db.
I hate waiting in line at the bank. So instead of getting my cash from the bank I just steal it from old ladies.
Um, I hate waiting in the line at the bank too. That is why I like ATMs, debt cards, credit cards and online banking. That solves the problem well enough, that I only have to physically visit a bank once a year or so.
But grandparent truly has the problem, that (s)he can't simply go out and buy a DVD instead without waiting few months for its release first.
I actually really feel sympathic for the grandparent, if (s)he actually happens to live in one of those countries, where they have commercial breaks even in the middle of the movies. My own experience of that was from UK back in '96, when I went to movies and they really had a stupid intermission with commercials during a regular movie shooting! That was truly horrible, luckily not where I live...
The pre-movie ads instead a somewhat tolerable -- and if you have guts, you can always go ten to fifteen minutes late to avoid most of them, though you'll be likely to insult all the other people who have already sat down, when you rush to your seat. But you really see people doing that sometimes.
IMO, the Union should go further in the "Single market" idea, and get the EU Council to create directives which would uniformise the taxes for every country, that'd help a
IMO that too, but as this story (and TFA) is about the UK I'd like to emphasize that UK is one of the EU member states most heavily opposing any tax harmonisation.
That said, it is good to remember that for an average EU citizen the system is simple: The VAT rate you pay (as a consumer) is the VAT rate of the seller's state; for example, as I live in EU/Finland it makes sense to me to order stuff directly from EU/Germany if the stuff is similarly priced excl. VAT, as the generic VAT rate in Finland is 22%, but in Germany it is only 16% (IIRC).
Well, in hundred years the EU will probably look much more like a federation than it does now, but as the current political agendas in next to any member states seems to support the idiotic opinion that "federalism means giving up our independence" it will probably take some time before people here will finally come to their senses...
Higher (3x) fuel taxes will only put an even larger burden on the rural/suburban poor than already exists.
What a bullshit. I live in Finland, which is much more rural as a whole than the vast majority of the US, and there is no problem whatsoever to reach any town with >5000 or so relatively easily using the combination of trains and buses.
Just plan and build a good public traffic network, and you won't really need a car except for some rare cases when you actually need to go to countryside. Yes, people do use cars here even when they don't strictly have to --despite the high fuel and car taxes (high car taxes are not the EU in common but a a Finnish speciality) -- but that just complete laziness. It's just somewhat easier to use a car than walk few hundred meters to the nearest bus stop and generally plan your schedule following the timetables.
But despite the ruralness there is little real dependency of private cars, and especially the old people who are no longer able to drive can easily see the benefits of this. It just that you have to make driving expensive before people even really start looking at the alternatives.
Yes - we should give up our independence and freedom in order to secure (slightly) cheaper music.
Could you please tell me WTF your independence and especially your freedom has to do with your goddamned currency?! Can you tell any noticeable differences occured in any of the euro zone countries since 1.1.2002 (or since 1.1.1999, for that matter), except that the notes and coins look different and their nominal value differ from the former domestic currencies? No? Well, that's because there isn't any!
The only influence that joining the ERM2 (and thus, the euro) would have for UK would be that the other large EU countries wouldn't see UK as much as just a generic obstructionist against all possible changes -- as they do now -- and that UK-based business would take a greater advantage of the common EU market, as there would be no currency costs.
Sticking to pounds sterling is nothing but silly nationalism, which for sure is an easy target for the agendas of local political parties, but shouldn't really fool any people who are actually capable to think by themselves. If Brits still want want to imagine that British Islands do not actually belong to Europe you're of course free to do so, but that is just simple stupidity, nothing more.
First of all: following the pure/. style, I admit that I didn't RTFA this time. Besides, I'm currently drunk.
Media Center Edition 2004 is a boxed package that is easy to set up and configure, it looks amazingly beautiful, has great features such as On-Demand content, and is fully supported by Microsoft.
But I still have to say: just what I expect of home entertainment systems; easy to use, looks good, useful features and good vendor support.
This is exactly why my private laptop is a Macintosh. Yeah, sometimes I truly love playing with Linux. But at home, most of the time I want that things just work. Given the MS's reputation I truly hate to say this, but if this is what MCE 2004 really is, then I'm a potential customer -- supposing it has the features that somehow satisfy my needs.
Why would a search for "Harman Kardon" take me to HarmanKardon.com instead of showing me the Top 10 results which might include discount resellers of Harmon Kardon products? Instead, I, the websurfer, now must wade through informational content and somehow find my way to resellers officially listed at the HK site.
Perhaps because every other webshop in the world still seems to think that US == World, but HK wants their product also be known elsewhere?
Sheesh. This is not actually meant to be an anti-US troll. I just wonder WTF the zillions of webshops are thinking, who stubbornly refuse to ship outside US. Would it really be so hard to include international shipping rates, and just ship anyone??
Last time I tried to order physical products from US shop it was from www.rei.com (it was pretty hard to find exactly that equipment locally). After I had placed an order they sent me an email where they politely explained that "the following manufacturers do not want their products to be shipped outside the US...". The list included many rather well-known international brands, and unsurprisingly what I had ordered was among them. Every now and then I hope I'd have a friend living in the US who could just reship the goods I want to order to me... Yeah, I know that US is a lucrative market area because everyone speaks the same language there, but there are a lot of English speakers elsewhere too!
Btw, if you search for "harman kardon buy" instead of just "harman kardon", which would reflect better that you want to buy online immediately and not just check the specs, you'll get much more relevant results.
Hey, the only time I've even seen Wolf 3D was when my family was visiting our family friends near München, probably at the same time that game was rather new -- and at that time I knew next to nothing about computers yet. But I still remember those Nazis in the game...
Well, it is of course possible that the game was an illegal copy anyway. I don't really know. At that time I didn't really understand any copyright stuff as I do now, and I couldn't discuss with the boy who played it, as I was only something like 12-13 years old at that time, he was a year younger, and we didn't really have any common language, except what few words of English we both spoke.
Where is that option to change the location? I live in EU/Finland, I have a Finnish IP address, my system's (OS X) regional settings are set to Finnish, except the primary language to British English. And I get that insulting 14-day trial page -- though with a free player option too, but even that option requires registration and providing my email address. With no location option whatsoever.
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So what is your suggestion then? Give up doing what you were about to do entirely, because the software you would have absolutely needed only happens to run on Windows? And only continue using it after one year or so when it has been ported to some other platform?
Sorry, but your viewpoint is simply way too idealistic. It's sounds a bit like not using proprietary apps at all due to ideological reasons. Such an ideology just leads to situations, where you have to entirely give up doing something, which is otherwise technically possible.
True, but if you have to go with Windows anyway -- for software compatibility reasons, for example -- then every buck you give them helps their domination even more.
That said, my primary OS is legit. But it happens to be made by Apple...
From MozillaZine:
Asa Dotzler writes: "Today we have our first Firefox 1.0 candidate builds available for testing. You can get these test builds from FTP. If you've already downloaded 1.0 PR (the "feature complete" preview) and you're not really interested in testing and bug reporting, then you should probably stick with 1.0 PR for a couple more weeks and upgrade when we release the official Firefox 1.0.
See the source -- they have different doctypes. Slashdot.org has HTML 3.2 Final (really uncommon nowadays), whereas slashdot.jp has HTML 4.01 Transitional (still the no. 2 doctype in popularity after the über-popular "undefined").
Not that either of them would actually be even close to valid code, but the existence of the doctype alone causes Firefox to use standards compliant rendering mode instead of quirks layout mode, so this affects the result.
Btw, I wonder whether Apple has introduced any new Hymn-breaking updates in iTunes 4.7, like they did with 4.6? Has anyone tested this yet?
You can tune XP's performance settings fairly well. I've installed XP on a P233MMX with 96 Mbytes of RAM. It is usable in running Firefox and writing with OO.org, and is actually more responsive than NT4 in an another box that has P133 and 64 MB of RAM, but has a HD accessible only in PIO mode.
Unfortunately I didn't have large enough SIMMs to upgrade its memory to 128 Mt - now you can actually only run two apps at the same time, and even switching between them causes little swap activity. But two apps is all that is necessary for many users, though.
Damn me for being a naive fool. I always believed what Linus said and kept waiting. And behold: now he's denying it. Do you think I should change my sig now?
Too bad this will probably be an U.S. only -deal. I couldn't care less about U2, but I've considered to finally buy an iPod next month, and my metal-weighted music library would deserve black covers around it. ;)
Interesting. I'm running FF 1.0PR on Redhat EL3, and mozilla_dies 1 & 2 crached my browser. Third test only showed a broken applet placeholder, as expected.
...if you have over two candidates. I mean, democracy is meant for ordinary people, and choosing from two many options would get ordinary people too confused!
So, all third party candidates are to be arrested, as they're actually terrorists trying to disturb the democratic progress, right?
Good that the US is the land of the free that shows for everyone what democracy really means.
t took me 5 seconds to save an *empty* OO.o document. The same thing in word took Of course, the Word file is like 24k big, and the OO.o document is only 4... ;)
But OOo XML files are zip compressed, when Word docs aren't. How much does the compression affect to those times and sizes?
I've said this on /. before, but can't find that post now, so I'll have to say it again:
For me the biggest fault are lacking certificate controls, i.e. the inability to install custom root CA's (except by creating a DB on Firefox and moving it to Camino's directory). When these are added, I'll drop Safari for Camino, but not before.
Preferably it should be done following Camino's "Mac-way" philosophy, which would mean using the certificates of X509Anchors system keychain instead of Mozilla's own cert.db.
...nothing worse than your average PC case.
You mean a devil's incarnate on Earth?
I hate waiting in line at the bank. So instead of getting my cash from the bank I just steal it from old ladies.
Um, I hate waiting in the line at the bank too. That is why I like ATMs, debt cards, credit cards and online banking. That solves the problem well enough, that I only have to physically visit a bank once a year or so.
But grandparent truly has the problem, that (s)he can't simply go out and buy a DVD instead without waiting few months for its release first.
I actually really feel sympathic for the grandparent, if (s)he actually happens to live in one of those countries, where they have commercial breaks even in the middle of the movies. My own experience of that was from UK back in '96, when I went to movies and they really had a stupid intermission with commercials during a regular movie shooting! That was truly horrible, luckily not where I live...
The pre-movie ads instead a somewhat tolerable -- and if you have guts, you can always go ten to fifteen minutes late to avoid most of them, though you'll be likely to insult all the other people who have already sat down, when you rush to your seat. But you really see people doing that sometimes.
Financial reasons for them NOT doing it aside
Yeah -- in Soviet Russia, OS X runs your PC.
What woman? You forget what site you're posting on... ;)
But though I really was somewhat drunk yesterday (so that was a honest disclaimer), I meant what I said: If it has the features I want.
In other words: it may support some form of DRM, but if it is not capable of using non-DRM'd formats at all, then I definitely don't want it.
And no, I'm not drunk today.
IMO, the Union should go further in the "Single market" idea, and get the EU Council to create directives which would uniformise the taxes for every country, that'd help a
IMO that too, but as this story (and TFA) is about the UK I'd like to emphasize that UK is one of the EU member states most heavily opposing any tax harmonisation.
That said, it is good to remember that for an average EU citizen the system is simple: The VAT rate you pay (as a consumer) is the VAT rate of the seller's state; for example, as I live in EU/Finland it makes sense to me to order stuff directly from EU/Germany if the stuff is similarly priced excl. VAT, as the generic VAT rate in Finland is 22%, but in Germany it is only 16% (IIRC).
Well, in hundred years the EU will probably look much more like a federation than it does now, but as the current political agendas in next to any member states seems to support the idiotic opinion that "federalism means giving up our independence" it will probably take some time before people here will finally come to their senses...
Higher (3x) fuel taxes will only put an even larger burden on the rural/suburban poor than already exists.
What a bullshit. I live in Finland, which is much more rural as a whole than the vast majority of the US, and there is no problem whatsoever to reach any town with >5000 or so relatively easily using the combination of trains and buses.
Just plan and build a good public traffic network, and you won't really need a car except for some rare cases when you actually need to go to countryside. Yes, people do use cars here even when they don't strictly have to --despite the high fuel and car taxes (high car taxes are not the EU in common but a a Finnish speciality) -- but that just complete laziness. It's just somewhat easier to use a car than walk few hundred meters to the nearest bus stop and generally plan your schedule following the timetables.
But despite the ruralness there is little real dependency of private cars, and especially the old people who are no longer able to drive can easily see the benefits of this. It just that you have to make driving expensive before people even really start looking at the alternatives.
Yes - we should give up our independence and freedom in order to secure (slightly) cheaper music.
Could you please tell me WTF your independence and especially your freedom has to do with your goddamned currency?! Can you tell any noticeable differences occured in any of the euro zone countries since 1.1.2002 (or since 1.1.1999, for that matter), except that the notes and coins look different and their nominal value differ from the former domestic currencies? No? Well, that's because there isn't any!
The only influence that joining the ERM2 (and thus, the euro) would have for UK would be that the other large EU countries wouldn't see UK as much as just a generic obstructionist against all possible changes -- as they do now -- and that UK-based business would take a greater advantage of the common EU market, as there would be no currency costs.
Sticking to pounds sterling is nothing but silly nationalism, which for sure is an easy target for the agendas of local political parties, but shouldn't really fool any people who are actually capable to think by themselves. If Brits still want want to imagine that British Islands do not actually belong to Europe you're of course free to do so, but that is just simple stupidity, nothing more.
First of all: following the pure /. style, I admit that I didn't RTFA this time. Besides, I'm currently drunk.
Media Center Edition 2004 is a boxed package that is easy to set up and configure, it looks amazingly beautiful, has great features such as On-Demand content, and is fully supported by Microsoft.
But I still have to say: just what I expect of home entertainment systems; easy to use, looks good, useful features and good vendor support.
This is exactly why my private laptop is a Macintosh. Yeah, sometimes I truly love playing with Linux. But at home, most of the time I want that things just work. Given the MS's reputation I truly hate to say this, but if this is what MCE 2004 really is, then I'm a potential customer -- supposing it has the features that somehow satisfy my needs.
Ctrl-Alt-Nuke?
Sounds more like unplugging the power chord of a running planet to me...
Why would a search for "Harman Kardon" take me to HarmanKardon.com instead of showing me the Top 10 results which might include discount resellers of Harmon Kardon products? Instead, I, the websurfer, now must wade through informational content and somehow find my way to resellers officially listed at the HK site.
Perhaps because every other webshop in the world still seems to think that US == World, but HK wants their product also be known elsewhere?
Sheesh. This is not actually meant to be an anti-US troll. I just wonder WTF the zillions of webshops are thinking, who stubbornly refuse to ship outside US. Would it really be so hard to include international shipping rates, and just ship anyone??
Last time I tried to order physical products from US shop it was from www.rei.com (it was pretty hard to find exactly that equipment locally). After I had placed an order they sent me an email where they politely explained that "the following manufacturers do not want their products to be shipped outside the US...". The list included many rather well-known international brands, and unsurprisingly what I had ordered was among them. Every now and then I hope I'd have a friend living in the US who could just reship the goods I want to order to me... Yeah, I know that US is a lucrative market area because everyone speaks the same language there, but there are a lot of English speakers elsewhere too!
Btw, if you search for "harman kardon buy" instead of just "harman kardon", which would reflect better that you want to buy online immediately and not just check the specs, you'll get much more relevant results.
Hey, the only time I've even seen Wolf 3D was when my family was visiting our family friends near München, probably at the same time that game was rather new -- and at that time I knew next to nothing about computers yet. But I still remember those Nazis in the game...
Well, it is of course possible that the game was an illegal copy anyway. I don't really know. At that time I didn't really understand any copyright stuff as I do now, and I couldn't discuss with the boy who played it, as I was only something like 12-13 years old at that time, he was a year younger, and we didn't really have any common language, except what few words of English we both spoke.
No -- I do not mean during setup. I mean on Real's webpage, before it lets me to download anything.
Where is that option to change the location? I live in EU/Finland, I have a Finnish IP address, my system's (OS X) regional settings are set to Finnish, except the primary language to British English. And I get that insulting 14-day trial page -- though with a free player option too, but even that option requires registration and providing my email address. With no location option whatsoever.