Firebird and its brothers Thunderbird, Waterbird, and Monkeybird (OK, I made up those last two) will eventually be the components that make up the Mozilla suite (check the Mozilla roadmap) and thus, unless AOL decides to pull the plug, will be the next version of Netscape as well. So yes, eventually this will happen.
Firebird is great, but it still has quite a few crashers and trivial bugs that need to be ironed out before it's thrown out to the non-geek masses. It is only at version 0.6, after all.
Certainly true, but Debian far moreso than others. Actually, fanaticism isn't so much the problem (having an obsession over your Linux distro is A-OK with me) as is the general negativity of the Debian community. There are certainly some great people using Debian. Likewise, I know for a fact that there are a number of terrible troll-like creatures using Red Hat, Mandrake, Gentoo, Slack, etc. However, whether it's perception or reality, Debian seems to have a monopoly on unhelpful, pissed-off, hippy users in the Linux community.
This is often one of the primary reasons (if not the single primary reason) people give up on Debian and never bother to try it again. First impressions are immensely important, and unfortunately many people get a negative first impression with Debian. It's even worse since it's the community, not the distro, that creates that negative impression. It's far more difficult to change a thousand people's behavior than it is to modify a thousand lines of code.
This isn't restricted to mathematicians. There are people working in every field who are motivated by things other than furthering society or understanding the world. Money, of course, is the primary one, but there are certainly others.
Despite being pleased with the ESRB's rating system, the senator had some rather harsh words for the video game industry.
"I am, however, absolutely disgusted by the material our children are subjected to in some of these games. Not only the violence, gore, and sexuality, but also the realism or, more importantly, the blatant lack of realism depicted in these games. I mean, seriously, what kind of world is this if a fat Italian guy won't shoot a hooker?" Lieberman said.
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Firebird and its brothers Thunderbird, Waterbird, and Monkeybird (OK, I made up those last two) will eventually be the components that make up the Mozilla suite (check the Mozilla roadmap) and thus, unless AOL decides to pull the plug, will be the next version of Netscape as well. So yes, eventually this will happen.
Firebird is great, but it still has quite a few crashers and trivial bugs that need to be ironed out before it's thrown out to the non-geek masses. It is only at version 0.6, after all.
Every distro has it's fanatics [...]
Certainly true, but Debian far moreso than others. Actually, fanaticism isn't so much the problem (having an obsession over your Linux distro is A-OK with me) as is the general negativity of the Debian community. There are certainly some great people using Debian. Likewise, I know for a fact that there are a number of terrible troll-like creatures using Red Hat, Mandrake, Gentoo, Slack, etc. However, whether it's perception or reality, Debian seems to have a monopoly on unhelpful, pissed-off, hippy users in the Linux community.
This is often one of the primary reasons (if not the single primary reason) people give up on Debian and never bother to try it again. First impressions are immensely important, and unfortunately many people get a negative first impression with Debian. It's even worse since it's the community, not the distro, that creates that negative impression. It's far more difficult to change a thousand people's behavior than it is to modify a thousand lines of code.
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This isn't restricted to mathematicians. There are people working in every field who are motivated by things other than furthering society or understanding the world. Money, of course, is the primary one, but there are certainly others.
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Despite being pleased with the ESRB's rating system, the senator had some rather harsh words for the video game industry.
"I am, however, absolutely disgusted by the material our children are subjected to in some of these games. Not only the violence, gore, and sexuality, but also the realism or, more importantly, the blatant lack of realism depicted in these games. I mean, seriously, what kind of world is this if a fat Italian guy won't shoot a hooker?" Lieberman said.