If you think you can design a superior UI, why nto do it?
As members of the OSS community, we have to stop using this argument. This is a complete cop out. As designers of software we need to understand what is less than perfect about our UI and do something about it. This person has a legitimate complaint, and telling him/her what amounts to, "fix it yourself", is not an acceptable answer for either the user or the developer. It reflects badly on the developers of the project as a whole.
The Mozilla/Firefox source is there for you to do it with, ain't nothing stoping you.
There are several reasons stopping most users from working on the Mozilla codebase:
Skill - most users do not have the skills necessary to make even the smallest code change to a project of this size. Mozilla is no longer a project that was just knocked together. It has become a complex highly-managed development project. As developers we need to understand that we are the ones that have the skills necessary to engineer our products and that not every user can be expected to do what we do.
Time - most users do not have the time to spend to learn how to develop, learn specifically the development methods used on the Mozilla project, learn the Mozilla codebase, create the code, test it, and integrate it into the system. It's a fact that time is both valuable and finite. This is why people keep personal schedules and why the Mozilla project keeps its own schedule. It is unacceptable for us as developers to tell people to make time to fix our program's deficiencies, when we ourselves have not taken the time to look at what the deficiencies are.
Competiton - There are several other browsers and useability enhancements that are far easier for most users to install than it is for them to develop new code. In addition, these products already do what the user wants them to do. If we as developers want our products to be used, we need to find ways to emulate (i.e. both equal and excel) the design of the competing products, so that users see our products as a nicer upgrade.
Documentation - It is difficult to both find and comprehend the developer documentation for Mozilla and its APIs. Locating the exact method to use for a certain application can be a daunting task, as the module desctiptions do not tell the developer enough to understand what many of the modules are for. Many of the descriptions in the functional specification describe the API function by simply stating the name of the function. Futhermore, even the documentation for XUL, the most heavily documented API is difficult to understand, inaccurate, and contains incomplete examples. The developer documentation will continue to evolve and get better, but we need to realize that the documentation as it stands right now is cryptic even for us to use.
Where a color screen would be useful is if the iPod could double as a digital photo album (to off-load photos from a compact flash, or other format, card).
I'm surprised that Apple hasn't jumped on this one. Archos has had this for a few years now.
My gripe with Olympics coverage in the US is that you never get to see any event which does not involve some US team/athlete. So I'm assuming that this would likely be 1200 something hours of US athletes-only fest. Entirely goes against the spirit of the Olympics itself.
Specifically, it will be 1210 hours of BEACH VOLLEYBALL!!!! All the other events will be ignored, even if they include U.S. athletes.
Of course, you can get around this by just using "throws Exception" everywhere, but that's defeating the whole purpose of checking the exceptions.
Some people have claimed that you shouldn't use checked exceptions. From the January 2001 issue of Java Report:
To Check or Not to Check? - Todd Lauinger
Checked exceptions introduce redundant error handling in code. People ignore significant error handling in code with a catch-all-do-nothing block. Todd discusses how unchecked exceptions remove the redundancies in code, fix the inconsistencies, and handle errors more reliably.
This is no direct link to the article, but interestingly enough, the code is
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The language of choice for the 200 year old software project will be COBOL. Hey, if you want your software to last, you obviously need to use a language that, despite the best efforts of trained professionals everywhere, just won't die.
But without a scheduler specifically written for hyperthreading, you might not get that great of performance. Hyperthreading and true SMP just act differently.
So what you're saying is that BSD doesn't do hyperthreading?
They're running Netscape Enterprise 6.0 with a Java servlet container installed. The "jsessionid" is generated by the servlet server to track the user session in case the user's browser doesn't accept cookies. Changing it won't do much to affect their whois application.
If someone is choking and you give them the heimlich maneuver, save their life, but in the process you break one of their ribs they can turn around and sue you. Sucks being the good samaritin.
That's why there are Good Samaritan laws to protect life savers. It's also one of the reasons why you ask the person first if they are choking.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Apple CEO Steven Paul Jobs was found dead in his red-brick home in Palo Alto, California this morning. There weren't any more details, but Open Source is rumored to be a contributing factor. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
I'm currently using a Farallon PN595 hooked up to a wireless ethernet bridge, so I have access to my contacts and notes through NPDS using a web browser.
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As members of the OSS community, we have to stop using this argument. This is a complete cop out. As designers of software we need to understand what is less than perfect about our UI and do something about it. This person has a legitimate complaint, and telling him/her what amounts to, "fix it yourself", is not an acceptable answer for either the user or the developer. It reflects badly on the developers of the project as a whole.
The Mozilla/Firefox source is there for you to do it with, ain't nothing stoping you.
There are several reasons stopping most users from working on the Mozilla codebase:
No, but we did switch to Acme Lightninggecko. Well, at least until one of us restarts our browser or pops up a new window, anyway.
It's not difficult at all. How do you think so many idiots end up with children?
I'm surprised that Apple hasn't jumped on this one. Archos has had this for a few years now.
*gasp* You saw that?
I'll have you know that this is perfectly acceptable behavior for a grown man.
It's not the only city named Berlin. In the U.S. there is a Berlin, MA and a Berlin, PA. These are are pronounced differently, though.
Specifically, it will be 1210 hours of BEACH VOLLEYBALL!!!! All the other events will be ignored, even if they include U.S. athletes.
Well, I found a loophole in that plan.
*main screen turn on*
Some people have claimed that you shouldn't use checked exceptions. From the January 2001 issue of Java Report:
This is no direct link to the article, but interestingly enough, the code is here).Yes, because everyone though it was stupid for getenv() to be deprecated in the first place. This method didn't even work in 1.4, BTW.
Zope is a much better example than Bittorrent!
The Python Bittorrent client is a bad cross platform app...
Dasani is tap water.
The language of choice for the 200 year old software project will be COBOL. Hey, if you want your software to last, you obviously need to use a language that, despite the best efforts of trained professionals everywhere, just won't die.
It's an acronym for the descriptive name:
So, not only does the name of the act describe it, but it one ups other lesser acts by being an acronym!Thanks, now I have to change my root password, you incestuous clod!
So what you're saying is that BSD doesn't do hyperthreading?
Does any of your friends have a CPU with Hyperthreading? That uses an SMP kernel, doesn't it?
Maybe others would like to chip in here.
Ha! I get it!
There's something wrong with your system, then. I had to open 20 windows and 23 tabs to get even close to that (145MB).
They're running Netscape Enterprise 6.0 with a Java servlet container installed. The "jsessionid" is generated by the servlet server to track the user session in case the user's browser doesn't accept cookies. Changing it won't do much to affect their whois application.
If you like what you ate, you say, "Yum!", otherwise you involuntarily make a noise like, "urpmi".
That's why there are Good Samaritan laws to protect life savers. It's also one of the reasons why you ask the person first if they are choking.
Damn campers.
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I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Apple CEO Steven Paul Jobs was found dead in his red-brick home in Palo Alto, California this morning. There weren't any more details, but Open Source is rumored to be a contributing factor. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
It didn't come with it, but the good news is, you can run a Newton with WiFi!
You can do it two ways:
- Use a card that is compatible with Hirochi's drivers.
- Use a Newton compatible ethernet card and a wireless ethernet bridge.
I'm currently using a Farallon PN595 hooked up to a wireless ethernet bridge, so I have access to my contacts and notes through NPDS using a web browser.