How deeply were the frames nested when you tested that? Again, this only applies to deeply nested frames. It crashes for me when I reach level 3 or 4. There are many factors that apply to this situation, however, and it's entirely possible that you have not reproduced the exact scenario that causes the behavior. Factors that may be significant include document types, language settings, document encoding, and document validity for it's HTML version. To answer your question, I'm using MDK 10, although that shouldn't matter. I noticed the problem under MDK 9.2 also.
Another example of it's incompleteness/bugginess is the handling of the sidebar. Although you can add any bookmark as a sidebar (great feature, IMO) you can't open your sidebar and choose that bookmark from the tab list, you have to do it through the bookmarks menu. I don't mean to denigrate the Firefox team as they are doing an outstanding job, I just pointing out that Firefox has not reached 1.0 status, and for good reason.
Since I use Mozilla as a primary development tool, I depend on many features that most people will never use or even know about. I have every reason to think that most, if not all, of these issues will be resolved by the time 1.0 is released. Until then, I choose to run the Mozilla Suite.
your comment reminds me of a sig I've seen around here somewhere. Something to the effect of "Open source is about communism as much as is the phase 'for the people, by the people, and of the people'".
1. Firefox is NOT ready for prime time. While it is perfectly usable for normal web browsing, many features are still lacking, incomplete, and/or buggy. For instance, if you right click on a deeply nested frame and choose 'this frame -> view frame info', the browser will crash. Well, it does in Linux, I haven't checked it in Windows.
2. The Thunderbird and Firefox products are not meant to replace the Mozilla Suite, despite early announcements to the contrary. Enough people have shown interest in continuing development of the suite that it is unlikely to go away. Similarly, there are many people that like using the suite because of it's greater stability and integration between componants.
MS need to be given a disincentive to abuse their monopoly power again (IE, WMP, what's next?).
It's poorly phrased, but that's a very interesting question. In the fight for the desktop, Microsoft has two big guns, MS Windows and MS Office. These two products enable them to sell all sorts of server stuff to support them - things like Exchange Server and MS SQL Server and, to a lesser extent, other types of collaborative software. Open Source companies have correctly identified this situation, so you see a lot of development taking place in the OS/Desktop and office productivity realms. You also see a lot of activity in the backoffice support technologies.
This competition is not going to just go away. Microsoft's competitors have realized that competing on level ground with Microsoft is damn near impossible. Very few corporations are capable of it. In this climate open source technologies provide a way to compete that Microsoft cannot defend against effectively. In the past, Microsoft would simply buy out the competition or use their muscle to compete unfairly (embrace and extend). They can't do that any longer because part of the equation has been broken. Microsoft cannot buy it's competition without endangering it's own business model. Even if they were to buy an open source company, another one would spring up immediately with an identical product. Without that leverage, embrace and extend doesn't work because the number of competitors (who effectively can't be bought) is simply too great.
Faced with these pressures, Microsoft is doing all they can to increase customer lock-in so that customers are less likely to take advantage of open source alternatives. They are also doing all they can to undermine the open source movement without looking like an Ogre, or at least not like too much of one. One of the classic ways to increase customer lock-in is to bundle applications with the desktop that operate only on that desktop. Windows Media Player is an excellent example, as is MSN Messenger. They also offer cut rates on premium items like MS Money to computer retailers so that they will bundle the product. With all of these products bundled on the computer, customers are less likely to switch to alternatives because none of the applications they use on a regular basis will run. This means that they must re-learn all of their skills instead of just a couple new applications.
But now they are facing competition that is entrenched, nearly unassailable, and getting better every day. Microsoft's monopoly days are numbered and they know it. All they can do is try to forstall the inevitable for as long as possible, and they will do this by tightening customer lock-in more and more until there is a major sea-change in the market. Specifically, they will continue to bundle more applications. I think you can expect to see PhotoPaint (or whatever it's called) from the Office suite to soon be bundled with Windows. MS Money may be a good candidate. MS Word will certainly come in at some point, perhaps with reduced functionality. In they end, Microsoft will have to either bundle nearly everthing, as it's open source competitors do now, or start porting it's applications to alternative platforms in order to compete in it's competitors' space.
That, my friends, is capitalism in action. It doesn't necessarily mean death to Microsoft, but it does mean more diversity in the market, and that is a good thing.
It would have been nice to see Tom's do some more follow-up. The article says that Gonzales claimed to have a store front just blocks away from the mail box location. I would have liked to see the author verify that claim, and if true, buy a computer and run benchmarks on it. At that point he would have all the information he needed to take a strong stand on whether or not this guy is a shyster. He might even have gathered enough information to present to a federal fraud investigator.
They are also contributing to trademark dilution. The Mozilla Foundation is very concerned about trademark, as well they should be. If they allow their trademark to be diluted, their users will not be able to be certain they have an official product. People who create and/or sell unofficial Mozilla products are (perhaps unkowingly) causing significant harm to the foundation.
To play the devil's advocate, the guy is 45 years old. It's quite possible he's had the same apartment for will over ten years. Perhaps he has a cheaper rent than most in the area, or even owns it outright. Maybe it's a really small shithole apartment two levels below the street. That would be appropriate.
The card essentially is a modem, and a 'software modem' at that. Although it is not for a phone network, it still must negotiate a connection much like a phone, so hence the dial-up networking. Theoretically speaking, there is nothing preventing someone from writing a driver for Linux, but as a practical matter, noone will unless the manufacturer releases the specs.
It also means that Verizon always know who is connected where and when. It is not at all like war-driving.
Come to think of it, the network protocol is probably based on wireless phone networks. Verizon has lots of experience with those. So yeah, dial-up networking.
The real threat is having thousands of poorly administered machines all connected directly to the same high speed network at the same time and for long periods of time. Open shares, insecure services, you name it, it could all be open to anyone that cared to look.
With normal high speed you get a lot of people using NAT boxes on personal networks, which at least offers some measure of security, but that's not possible with an access device that must be run from the connecting machine.
That's a pretty slick PC, but for 3,500 bucks, I think I'll just use a decent fan cooler. There are plenty on the market that deliver good cooling at low noise and energy levels. Combine that with a few similar fans for the case, and almost any PC can run at barely perceptible noise levels for a very modest cost.
On the other hand, if I ever win the lottery, I'll be first in line over at Voodoo.
I think it's likely that it's just SOP, that they just want to take the weekend off like everyone else. Besides, if they call the press conference for monday, they are more likely to reach a wider audience.
The real question though, is why are they calling a press conference for something that is not very interesting in itself? I don't think the fact that there is another planet or planetissimal is news to anybody. I mean, that's a no-brainer. Maybe NASA will address directly the question of what is and what is not a planet.
If the robot could be made small enough to get there, it could use local materials and create far more durable structures than inflatables. It could also make more of them because it wouldn't be limited by materials.
I particularly liked this part: "Generally, if an IP holder is able to demonstrate that others in the industry have taken a license, thereby respecting the IP holder's claims, that can be used as evidence that is persuasive to a jury,"
You must complete a lawsuit before you can say you have sued. The suit does not have to be successful, merely complete. The specific outcome does not matter in that respect.
I agree that computers should be easy to use, but since they are powerful machines in some senses, there still must be some level of awareness from everyone that uses them.
Take your example of the microwave. One does, in fact, need a minimal understanding of how microwave works before one should use it. By minimal, I mean knowing that putting metal in a microwave is bad. That it works by heating up the water in the food, not the food itself (that absorbs heat from the water). What happens when the water supply is exhausted (fire). That sort of knowledge can save one from some serious accidents, not to mention heating food properly.
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Hehe. So who's Biggus Dickus?
How deeply were the frames nested when you tested that? Again, this only applies to deeply nested frames. It crashes for me when I reach level 3 or 4. There are many factors that apply to this situation, however, and it's entirely possible that you have not reproduced the exact scenario that causes the behavior. Factors that may be significant include document types, language settings, document encoding, and document validity for it's HTML version. To answer your question, I'm using MDK 10, although that shouldn't matter. I noticed the problem under MDK 9.2 also.
Another example of it's incompleteness/bugginess is the handling of the sidebar. Although you can add any bookmark as a sidebar (great feature, IMO) you can't open your sidebar and choose that bookmark from the tab list, you have to do it through the bookmarks menu. I don't mean to denigrate the Firefox team as they are doing an outstanding job, I just pointing out that Firefox has not reached 1.0 status, and for good reason.
Since I use Mozilla as a primary development tool, I depend on many features that most people will never use or even know about. I have every reason to think that most, if not all, of these issues will be resolved by the time 1.0 is released. Until then, I choose to run the Mozilla Suite.
your comment reminds me of a sig I've seen around here somewhere. Something to the effect of "Open source is about communism as much as is the phase 'for the people, by the people, and of the people'".
1. Firefox is NOT ready for prime time. While it is perfectly usable for normal web browsing, many features are still lacking, incomplete, and/or buggy. For instance, if you right click on a deeply nested frame and choose 'this frame -> view frame info', the browser will crash. Well, it does in Linux, I haven't checked it in Windows.
2. The Thunderbird and Firefox products are not meant to replace the Mozilla Suite, despite early announcements to the contrary. Enough people have shown interest in continuing development of the suite that it is unlikely to go away. Similarly, there are many people that like using the suite because of it's greater stability and integration between componants.
Don't talk about Fight Club.
MS need to be given a disincentive to abuse their monopoly power again (IE, WMP, what's next?).
It's poorly phrased, but that's a very interesting question. In the fight for the desktop, Microsoft has two big guns, MS Windows and MS Office. These two products enable them to sell all sorts of server stuff to support them - things like Exchange Server and MS SQL Server and, to a lesser extent, other types of collaborative software. Open Source companies have correctly identified this situation, so you see a lot of development taking place in the OS/Desktop and office productivity realms. You also see a lot of activity in the backoffice support technologies.
This competition is not going to just go away. Microsoft's competitors have realized that competing on level ground with Microsoft is damn near impossible. Very few corporations are capable of it. In this climate open source technologies provide a way to compete that Microsoft cannot defend against effectively. In the past, Microsoft would simply buy out the competition or use their muscle to compete unfairly (embrace and extend). They can't do that any longer because part of the equation has been broken. Microsoft cannot buy it's competition without endangering it's own business model. Even if they were to buy an open source company, another one would spring up immediately with an identical product. Without that leverage, embrace and extend doesn't work because the number of competitors (who effectively can't be bought) is simply too great.
Faced with these pressures, Microsoft is doing all they can to increase customer lock-in so that customers are less likely to take advantage of open source alternatives. They are also doing all they can to undermine the open source movement without looking like an Ogre, or at least not like too much of one. One of the classic ways to increase customer lock-in is to bundle applications with the desktop that operate only on that desktop. Windows Media Player is an excellent example, as is MSN Messenger. They also offer cut rates on premium items like MS Money to computer retailers so that they will bundle the product. With all of these products bundled on the computer, customers are less likely to switch to alternatives because none of the applications they use on a regular basis will run. This means that they must re-learn all of their skills instead of just a couple new applications.
But now they are facing competition that is entrenched, nearly unassailable, and getting better every day. Microsoft's monopoly days are numbered and they know it. All they can do is try to forstall the inevitable for as long as possible, and they will do this by tightening customer lock-in more and more until there is a major sea-change in the market. Specifically, they will continue to bundle more applications. I think you can expect to see PhotoPaint (or whatever it's called) from the Office suite to soon be bundled with Windows. MS Money may be a good candidate. MS Word will certainly come in at some point, perhaps with reduced functionality. In they end, Microsoft will have to either bundle nearly everthing, as it's open source competitors do now, or start porting it's applications to alternative platforms in order to compete in it's competitors' space.
That, my friends, is capitalism in action. It doesn't necessarily mean death to Microsoft, but it does mean more diversity in the market, and that is a good thing.
I think there's a special place in hell for anybody that would send an .iso image through email.
And remember that any effect on a pace-maker is significant, no matter how small.
Greetings from the DoJ. Please remain where you are. We would like to, as you say, m337 w1T j00.
What better resume than a good virus or trojan?
One without a prison time disclaimer.
It would have been nice to see Tom's do some more follow-up. The article says that Gonzales claimed to have a store front just blocks away from the mail box location. I would have liked to see the author verify that claim, and if true, buy a computer and run benchmarks on it. At that point he would have all the information he needed to take a strong stand on whether or not this guy is a shyster. He might even have gathered enough information to present to a federal fraud investigator.
They are also contributing to trademark dilution. The Mozilla Foundation is very concerned about trademark, as well they should be. If they allow their trademark to be diluted, their users will not be able to be certain they have an official product. People who create and/or sell unofficial Mozilla products are (perhaps unkowingly) causing significant harm to the foundation.
A corrolary to this, and one we should remember, is that venerable quip "If voting could change anything, it would be illegal." IOW, watch your back.
To play the devil's advocate, the guy is 45 years old. It's quite possible he's had the same apartment for will over ten years. Perhaps he has a cheaper rent than most in the area, or even owns it outright. Maybe it's a really small shithole apartment two levels below the street. That would be appropriate.
So what's wrong with a little roadside entertainment? I mean, who wants to be reasonable when there is blind revenge to be had.
The card essentially is a modem, and a 'software modem' at that. Although it is not for a phone network, it still must negotiate a connection much like a phone, so hence the dial-up networking. Theoretically speaking, there is nothing preventing someone from writing a driver for Linux, but as a practical matter, noone will unless the manufacturer releases the specs.
It also means that Verizon always know who is connected where and when. It is not at all like war-driving.
Come to think of it, the network protocol is probably based on wireless phone networks. Verizon has lots of experience with those. So yeah, dial-up networking.
The real threat is having thousands of poorly administered machines all connected directly to the same high speed network at the same time and for long periods of time. Open shares, insecure services, you name it, it could all be open to anyone that cared to look.
With normal high speed you get a lot of people using NAT boxes on personal networks, which at least offers some measure of security, but that's not possible with an access device that must be run from the connecting machine.
That's a pretty slick PC, but for 3,500 bucks, I think I'll just use a decent fan cooler. There are plenty on the market that deliver good cooling at low noise and energy levels. Combine that with a few similar fans for the case, and almost any PC can run at barely perceptible noise levels for a very modest cost.
On the other hand, if I ever win the lottery, I'll be first in line over at Voodoo.
I think it's likely that it's just SOP, that they just want to take the weekend off like everyone else. Besides, if they call the press conference for monday, they are more likely to reach a wider audience.
The real question though, is why are they calling a press conference for something that is not very interesting in itself? I don't think the fact that there is another planet or planetissimal is news to anybody. I mean, that's a no-brainer. Maybe NASA will address directly the question of what is and what is not a planet.
If the robot could be made small enough to get there, it could use local materials and create far more durable structures than inflatables. It could also make more of them because it wouldn't be limited by materials.
... none of the non-server applications work or look as good as they do on Macintosh or Windows.
By "non-server", you mean applications like Mozilla and OpenOffice.org? Yeah, I'm dying for smooth Linux versions of those.
I particularly liked this part: "Generally, if an IP holder is able to demonstrate that others in the industry have taken a license, thereby respecting the IP holder's claims, that can be used as evidence that is persuasive to a jury,"
Heh. Especially in a civil case tried by a Judge.
You must complete a lawsuit before you can say you have sued. The suit does not have to be successful, merely complete. The specific outcome does not matter in that respect.
Nope, that's my club and he's not invited. Perhaps the chicken fucker's club would take him.
I agree that computers should be easy to use, but since they are powerful machines in some senses, there still must be some level of awareness from everyone that uses them.
Take your example of the microwave. One does, in fact, need a minimal understanding of how microwave works before one should use it. By minimal, I mean knowing that putting metal in a microwave is bad. That it works by heating up the water in the food, not the food itself (that absorbs heat from the water). What happens when the water supply is exhausted (fire). That sort of knowledge can save one from some serious accidents, not to mention heating food properly.