I suppose this spike in downloads is not at all related to the fact that a new version of firefox just came out. Perhaps IE security did play a part. My guess is that any part would have been very small.
Half the windows users don't even patch their systems. Why should they worry about an insecure browser?
Yeah, getting kids interested in other planets so they study science is a worthless endevor.
I didn't say anything about the planets in our solar system. Just the ones so far away that we don't know anything about anyway. I still say there is no practical reason for this.
That's pretty cool. I wonder how many planets children in today's current public education system learn about(?).
Oh please there are much more important things for people in education to focus on then some planet hundreds of light years away. What practical reason would they have for teaching (what little they know) about the contants of a planet's atmosphere in another galaxy.
And I hate it when people don't seem to understand that there is a difference between vaporware and software that has been in development for 5+ years.
I find it very useful. I often have 10-15 instances of notepad open on my screen along with other applications. Unfortunately I am using 2k which does not have the grouping.
I have three choices. I can either just click every icon in the taskbar, use ctrl-tab until I get the right one, or hover the mouse over every item in the taskbar. None of these are fast. I would love to be able to access the document with two clicks.
Yeah, I bought one of the 10GB models right before the 3Gs came out. I paid the extra $40 to get a warrenty from best buy. I'm waiting for the next generation to come out so I can take it back and say my battery is bad.
In this case you have a kid, who paid to see a movie, that is making a video tape. You have NO proof of intent to distribute or anything else. So you have someone, that already paid to see it, that is making a copy. Show me the harm in that.
The kid paid for a one time viewing, nothing more.
The fact is that it's illegal to copy the movie in this fashion. Just because you don't see the point of a law doesn't mean that the law doesn't apply to you. I'm sick and tired of these posts where people basically say the law doesn't apply to them because they don't like it. Newsflash. It doesn't work that way.
Well technically there is Darwin though I assume you are talking about a full environment along with the OS.
That would be nice but I wouldn't get your hopes up. If a full apple OS was on x86, it would remove any reason to buy apple hardware. Perhaps a cripled version of OSX might give x86 users a taste and an incentive to go to apple hardware as well. Who knows. I finally caved and bought a powerbook.
Well one problem with that is that there are no statistics to start with. I suppose they could start with no rate change but that doesn't seem like it would be in their best interests.
And what happens if it is the other way around. What if the cars have 27% more accidents? Do they raise the insurance of everyone whose car has this feature? But then you have people who have the feature on the car and don't use it and it becomes a driver safty issue and not a car feature.
I'm not arguing one way or another. I'm not even sure the above is coherent. I just think there's a long way to go before this is accepted.
I think it will be a while before it takes off in the states if it ever does. The biggest problem (assuming that it works correctly) is Insurance companies. Whose fault would it be if your car hit another car or person while it was automatically parking? Will insurance companies increase your rates just because you have this feature in your car?
This just seems like a huge can of worms that will take a lot of time (and law suits) to sort out.
Actually, I think there used to be one. I believe I remember seing one about a year ago, though I never tried it.
You might pose the question on the mozillazine forums.
Last I heard, Firfox and Thunderbird were the future of mozilla and there would be no more development on the Mozilla suite.
This was about a year ago that I heard this though, before the last Mozilla update so I'm not sure if it is still the case. They seem to be focusing a lot of time on FF and TB though and they are getting some positive press so perhaps it still is.
PS, i didn't really think it was funny in the first place
I'm really amazaed at most of the stuff listed as funny. I got tired of posts about beowulf clusters and Soviet Russia being at the top level so I browse at funny -3. Slashdot has been much more enjoyable since then.
I prefer the paid service of fastmail.fm. They have a free service, a service with a one time fee of $15, and services starting at $20 a year. If space is an issue, you can pay for it as your need it for the one time fee of $25 per 100 MB.
Their service is web-based but is strictly text-no images or ads so it is very fast. They also let you create and delete alias email accounts for spam.
I looked into the.Mac but it seemed overpriced for what it's offering though I'm still considering it for backup purposes.
I'm not a fastmail employee or anything like that. I just think it's an excellent free and paid email service.
Why doesn't Microsoft name their apps something easy to figure out just from the name
And grep, and gawk, and noatun, bison, konqueror, and nautalis are sooooo much more descriptive. I hate to disappoint you but this isn't a Microsoft only problem. In fact I don't really se it as a problem as long as there is some grouping to show what the apps do.
That being said, I don't see a problem with a company owning rights to the DNA. After a company spends millions of dollars to develop genetically superior modified wheat, they should have the rights to do whatever they want with it.
If it is completely open source, once they create it, everyone will have the right to produce this wheat and the company will get no profit from their investment. If there is no profit, they will have no incentive to do the R&D and it will never get made. The "closed-sourcenes" will encourage innovation.
Perhaps the best way would be in the middle somewhere, like they do with drugs. The company has exclusive rights for a certain number of years then other companies can make generic versions.
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I suppose this spike in downloads is not at all related to the fact that a new version of firefox just came out. Perhaps IE security did play a part. My guess is that any part would have been very small.
Half the windows users don't even patch their systems. Why should they worry about an insecure browser?
Yeah, getting kids interested in other planets so they study science is a worthless endevor.
I didn't say anything about the planets in our solar system. Just the ones so far away that we don't know anything about anyway. I still say there is no practical reason for this.
That's pretty cool. I wonder how many planets children in today's current public education system learn about(?).
Oh please there are much more important things for people in education to focus on then some planet hundreds of light years away. What practical reason would they have for teaching (what little they know) about the contants of a planet's atmosphere in another galaxy.
And I hate it when people don't seem to understand that there is a difference between vaporware and software that has been in development for 5+ years.
I find it very useful. I often have 10-15 instances of notepad open on my screen along with other applications. Unfortunately I am using 2k which does not have the grouping.
I have three choices. I can either just click every icon in the taskbar, use ctrl-tab until I get the right one, or hover the mouse over every item in the taskbar. None of these are fast. I would love to be able to access the document with two clicks.
Yeah, I bought one of the 10GB models right before the 3Gs came out. I paid the extra $40 to get a warrenty from best buy. I'm waiting for the next generation to come out so I can take it back and say my battery is bad.
That was 100+ years ago. It served a purpose. A purpose that is now better served by automobiles.
Quit your trolling.
Mine died because I dropped it while it was turning on. It was a year and a half old, but the batterty was still doing pretty good.
I thought I had killed mine by dropping several times. I was able to reset it each time though. If you still have it, did you try to reset it?
I don't know that I'd call it funny. I honestly don't have a good word for it other then insightful. Perhaps "insightfully ammusingly clever."
I'm sorry... But that is just about the most assine thing I have ever seen on slashdot. That's saying a lot too.
In this case you have a kid, who paid to see a movie, that is making a video tape. You have NO proof of intent to distribute or anything else. So you have someone, that already paid to see it, that is making a copy. Show me the harm in that.
The kid paid for a one time viewing, nothing more.
The fact is that it's illegal to copy the movie in this fashion. Just because you don't see the point of a law doesn't mean that the law doesn't apply to you. I'm sick and tired of these posts where people basically say the law doesn't apply to them because they don't like it. Newsflash. It doesn't work that way.
What's the harm though? To those who get the inside joke, they'll enjoy it and may be tempted to purchase it, if only for the novelty value.
To those who don't get it, it'll just be another meaningless mp3 player name along with the rio, muvo, yepp, etc.
Well technically there is Darwin though I assume you are talking about a full environment along with the OS.
That would be nice but I wouldn't get your hopes up. If a full apple OS was on x86, it would remove any reason to buy apple hardware. Perhaps a cripled version of OSX might give x86 users a taste and an incentive to go to apple hardware as well. Who knows. I finally caved and bought a powerbook.
No. That is one value of closed source. Another value is profit.
Well one problem with that is that there are no statistics to start with. I suppose they could start with no rate change but that doesn't seem like it would be in their best interests.
And what happens if it is the other way around. What if the cars have 27% more accidents? Do they raise the insurance of everyone whose car has this feature? But then you have people who have the feature on the car and don't use it and it becomes a driver safty issue and not a car feature.
I'm not arguing one way or another. I'm not even sure the above is coherent. I just think there's a long way to go before this is accepted.
Toyota demonstrated one several years ago.
I think it will be a while before it takes off in the states if it ever does. The biggest problem (assuming that it works correctly) is Insurance companies. Whose fault would it be if your car hit another car or person while it was automatically parking? Will insurance companies increase your rates just because you have this feature in your car?
This just seems like a huge can of worms that will take a lot of time (and law suits) to sort out.
Actually, I think there used to be one. I believe I remember seing one about a year ago, though I never tried it. You might pose the question on the mozillazine forums.
Last I heard, Firfox and Thunderbird were the future of mozilla and there would be no more development on the Mozilla suite.
This was about a year ago that I heard this though, before the last Mozilla update so I'm not sure if it is still the case. They seem to be focusing a lot of time on FF and TB though and they are getting some positive press so perhaps it still is.
PS, i didn't really think it was funny in the first place
I'm really amazaed at most of the stuff listed as funny. I got tired of posts about beowulf clusters and Soviet Russia being at the top level so I browse at funny -3. Slashdot has been much more enjoyable since then.
My guess is that the service provider is in Texas. We all know not to mess with Texas.
Well some of us have more respect for ourselves and others to lie about what internet browser they are using.
I prefer the paid service of fastmail.fm. They have a free service, a service with a one time fee of $15, and services starting at $20 a year. If space is an issue, you can pay for it as your need it for the one time fee of $25 per 100 MB.
.Mac but it seemed overpriced for what it's offering though I'm still considering it for backup purposes.
Their service is web-based but is strictly text-no images or ads so it is very fast. They also let you create and delete alias email accounts for spam.
I looked into the
I'm not a fastmail employee or anything like that. I just think it's an excellent free and paid email service.
It's sarcasm folks. Chill.
Why doesn't Microsoft name their apps something easy to figure out just from the name
And grep, and gawk, and noatun, bison, konqueror, and nautalis are sooooo much more descriptive. I hate to disappoint you but this isn't a Microsoft only problem. In fact I don't really se it as a problem as long as there is some grouping to show what the apps do.
I think the premise here is rediculous.
That being said, I don't see a problem with a company owning rights to the DNA. After a company spends millions of dollars to develop genetically superior modified wheat, they should have the rights to do whatever they want with it.
If it is completely open source, once they create it, everyone will have the right to produce this wheat and the company will get no profit from their investment. If there is no profit, they will have no incentive to do the R&D and it will never get made. The "closed-sourcenes" will encourage innovation.
Perhaps the best way would be in the middle somewhere, like they do with drugs. The company has exclusive rights for a certain number of years then other companies can make generic versions.