And to be honest I'd encourage everyone else to do the same. I'm really not trying to troll, I just don't want to one day find a vulnerability or incompatibility in IceWeasel that's not in Firefox.
What if you find a vulnerability or incompatibility in Firefox that's not in IceWeasel? Hmm?
For every copy of Iceweasel that gets installed instead of Firefox, Firefox fails to gain mindshare. You just get a big pile of "those other confusing browsers" out there.
So people who install Opera on Linux are supporting IE? Whatever. IceWeasel isn't even going to be available for Windows, so they'll have to know about "those other confusing operating systems" before they learn about IceWeasel.
Does Iceweasel even send a different UserAgent string?
It does. I've been to a few sites that say "You have to have Firefox or Internet Explorer to use this site" (Rhapsody and Google Notebook). Changing it is really easy, though. Just go to "about:config", doubleclick on "general.useragent.extra.firefox" (yes, they did leave the config name to still say firefox, but for some reason had to change the setting...) and type firefox instead of iceweasel.
Debian comes up with a name, GNU applies that name to a browser, Ubuntu takes the name and makes spiffy logos for it, Debian takes the name and the browser and probably the logos and goes in a totally different direction from the other two.
Stop looking at me like I'm crazy.
What does this mean? This means that no one person or organization can have a trademark on the word IceWeasel. This Firefox mess has been because Debian is not able to do what it wants to do with Firefox because Mozilla has final say because they have the trademark. Mozilla's been demanding they break their own guidelines by including a non-free image with their distro and demanding that all patches be approved by them, even though they don't support the old versions that Debian does. The last thing anyone wants would be for the same thing to happen to IceWeasel. Happily, that looks like that's impossible, and IceWeasel will be the free Firefox.
Didn't Debian (TM) force people to stop using the word Debian (TM) ?
Another shining example of Debian (TM) pettiness.
So isn't Debian just doing for Mozilla what they would want done for them? No different than Cannonical calling their distro Ubuntu and not Debian? Sure it took Debian a long time to rename their forked version of Firefox, but considering that Mozilla told them they could use the name, I think they get a pass on that. I don't see anything petty about what Debian's doing.
Epiphany uses the same rendering engine as Firefox and, from my testing, loads much quicker than firefox, uses less memory and integrates with the desktop better.
Epiphany does you the same rendering engine, but I don't think that really makes them the same. Also, Epiph on my Ubuntu PC loads about as fast as Firefox or IceWeasel, and uses about the same memory, and IceWeasel with the Human theme integrates just fine. Although, you might want to take me with a grain of salt, because it seems I'm the only person on slashdot to never, ever experience the Firefox memory leak, and considering all the KDE apps I run in Gnome I am not the person to ask about desktop integration. Still, I think it's a little much to call Epiphany "Firefox lite".
Not everyone who has pirated Windows XP would purchase Vista if WGA locks them out. Many won't pay for it/can't afford it (which is why they're pirating in the first place) and not everyone's existing computer can run Vista. Some will, of course, but some will switch to Linux. Linux is usable enough now, and someone who's desperate/mad that they can't run Windows anymore without paying microsoft money will likely try the free option. Not everyone who gets lock ut with WGA will go to Linux, but enough that I think this is a stupid move by Microsoft. A person running pirated XP today might buy a new PC with Vista later, or might encourage friends/family to. A person running Linux today is very unlikely to purchase Vista in the future and will encourage friends/family to switch. Microsoft has all the big name shops (well, besides Apple) selling only Windows boxes. That's the only anti-piracy they need (not that I appreciate that), and the only kind that won't bite them in the ass. Of course, I'm a Linux user, so I'm not complaining.:-)
Real Player is indeed available for Linux. I have it installed. Unfortunately, Real did not bother adding the ability to actually play Real video formats. When I try I am told that I do not have the right plugin installed, and that I should go to Real's web site to install Real player.
I don't know why you can't get the video to play, but it does play it.
Flash is far easier to find and install. Also, the major browsers will download and install it automatically.
Firefox on Windows finds and installs Quicktime just like it does for Flash. OSX I'm pretty sure comes w/ Quicktime, and installing Quicktime codecs, Realplayer, and Flash are all pretty simular on Linux.
Helix is a pile of crap.
I didn't say it was good
2006 and still it doesn't use ALSA.
Flash didn't use ALSA until today's beta.
Also, there are unnoffical, open source Windows Media and Quicktime players for Linux.
None that can be distributed legally in a usable form--that is what I meant when I said they were patent-encumbered.
Legal or not, most Linux users have them because they're easy enough to install. And I'm pretty sure there are some legal ways to put it on Linux, since Linspire and Mepis both come with them.
I don't enjoy admitting it, but Flash *is* the only way to put movies on your web site so that the vast majority of the computing population is able to see them.
Until now, Linux users couldn't use the latest versions of Flash, and the old version has audio/video sync issues that are just too annoying for many people to bother watching. It's too early to see what issues Flash 9 is going to have, and many Linux users probably won't even have it until it goes in their distro's repository and/or it gets out of beta or whatever. If I was going to put a video on my website for people with different OSs to see, the last format I'd use is Flash.
If it is in a Microsoft format, people who aren't on Windows can't view it. If it is in a Real Player or Quicktime format, people who aren't on Windows or the Mac OS can't view it. Additionally, Real and Quicktime require your users to go to the effort of finding and installing the appropriate player software. Most can't be bothered.... Flash looks attractive because of these problems.
Also, all the above formats are patent-encumbered.
Real Player's available for Linux. While it requires finding and installing the appropriate player software, so does Flash, so I'm not sure Flash has a benefit there. Also, AFAIK, Real didn't upgrade their player for Windows and Mac leaving Linux in the dust for over a year, and with their open-source Helix project, they likely care enough about Linux to not. Also, there are unnoffical, open source Windows Media and Quicktime players for Linux. If you care about your Linux watchers, Flash has no benefits and only today has shed most of its drawbacks.
Jews tend to be much more of a community than say, those with shellfish allergies. I'm allergic to shellfish, and I can't name one other person I know with that allergy or web forum or anything else to meet and talk with other people with that allergy. I imagine few kosher keeping Jews would say they've never met another kosher keeping Jew and had no idea how to find one.
It wasn't a statistic. Anyways, people with allergies don't have the same allergies. If 10% of people have allergies, then maybe 2% are allergic to peanuts, 1% to shellfish,.25% to whey, or whatever. If the peanut allergy group researches 80 billion products for peanut residue, that doesn't help one who's allergic to whey.
Labels help A LOT. I had a friend growing up who was allergic to whey, corn, and milk. Did she go online and find lists of safe foods from message boards and hope the manufacturer didn't change the ingredients since the reported it? Well, she didn't have internet access then, so no. She read the labels. Now, I'm a vegetarian, and I read labels all the time to see if something has an obsure meat product in it. I don't want to have to read message boards or call companies before I buy any food. I just don't have the time to do that. I'm sorry labels don't cover your needs. They cover mine, and I sure don't want to give that up.
Right now, I _HAVE_ to call because the labeling laws make it difficult to know what I'm eating. In Spring I called 15 "Zero Trans Fats" producers who verified that their products contain trans fats, just levels lower than the law requires (0.5 grams per serving). You might buy those products thinking their safe -- BECAUSE OF THE LAW! I had to take a step because of the law. Ridiculous.
You didn't have to do that because of the law. If there was no law, they still wouldn't put the correct amount of trans fats, and you'd still have to call. If anything, you should be arguing that the law should be stricter and require them to put the exact amount, or at least " less than 1 gram" or something. That would at least save you some phone calls.
I don't think removing the laws would give us more or better labels. 90% of people don't read labels, so the companies would stop to save costs. But where would that leave people which obscure allegies, like whey? Not everyone with obscure allergies lives near a health food store that would continue labeling.
Not everyone has mailboxes at their house. The house I lived in growing up only had a slot in the wall for incoming mail; there was no place to put outgoing mail. Now, I live in an apartment, and there isn't an outgoing box. Some people balance outgoing mail on top of the inboxes, but those can fall and get lost, and you can't put packages there. For anything important I mail, I drive to the postoffice.
It isn't that hard to transfer Mp3s without iTunes installed. In fact you can do with the folowing command line in OS X terminal: cp -R/Volumes/ipodname/iPod_Control/Music local_music_path
Can't you just drag and drop with the file manager?
Who's going to determine that the channels are empty and they don't cross over into legit stations? Satellite radio have this little devices that broadcast to your existing stereo or car radio at channel 88.3 because I guess they thought that was empty. Well, it's not. Now when I try to listen to my local college radio, I get to hear Howard Stern say something offensive instead. Bah.
Everyone who owns and iPod uses iTunes to transfer music to it (well you can work around this but its a pain and pointless unless you a techie)
Doesn't the iPod just work like an external hard drive when you plug it in without iTunes? How would working with that be a pain and pointless? And aren't there like half a dozen other programs (like amarok) that do iPod syncing if you really want to go the iTunes way without iTunes? I really don't think everyone who has an iPod uses iTunes.
If Zelda, WarioWare, Wii Sports, Excite Truck, etc, haven't gotten you excited yet, then stick with your current console(s). Different people like different games, and you'll just be disappointed if you buy a console become other people say it's cool.
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Yeah. They should put weasels in the Frozen Bubble artwork. Maybe make a Super Weasel game.
I think it's perfect.
Debian comes up with a name, GNU applies that name to a browser, Ubuntu takes the name and makes spiffy logos for it, Debian takes the name and the browser and probably the logos and goes in a totally different direction from the other two.
Stop looking at me like I'm crazy.
What does this mean? This means that no one person or organization can have a trademark on the word IceWeasel. This Firefox mess has been because Debian is not able to do what it wants to do with Firefox because Mozilla has final say because they have the trademark. Mozilla's been demanding they break their own guidelines by including a non-free image with their distro and demanding that all patches be approved by them, even though they don't support the old versions that Debian does. The last thing anyone wants would be for the same thing to happen to IceWeasel. Happily, that looks like that's impossible, and IceWeasel will be the free Firefox.
Not everyone who has pirated Windows XP would purchase Vista if WGA locks them out. Many won't pay for it/can't afford it (which is why they're pirating in the first place) and not everyone's existing computer can run Vista. Some will, of course, but some will switch to Linux. Linux is usable enough now, and someone who's desperate/mad that they can't run Windows anymore without paying microsoft money will likely try the free option. Not everyone who gets lock ut with WGA will go to Linux, but enough that I think this is a stupid move by Microsoft. A person running pirated XP today might buy a new PC with Vista later, or might encourage friends/family to. A person running Linux today is very unlikely to purchase Vista in the future and will encourage friends/family to switch. Microsoft has all the big name shops (well, besides Apple) selling only Windows boxes. That's the only anti-piracy they need (not that I appreciate that), and the only kind that won't bite them in the ass. Of course, I'm a Linux user, so I'm not complaining. :-)
IceWeasel is not Firefox lite, it's Firefox w/o trademarks. And Epiphany isn't Firefox, and it's not all that lite.
Firefox on Windows finds and installs Quicktime just like it does for Flash. OSX I'm pretty sure comes w/ Quicktime, and installing Quicktime codecs, Realplayer, and Flash are all pretty simular on Linux.
I didn't say it was good
Flash didn't use ALSA until today's beta.
Legal or not, most Linux users have them because they're easy enough to install. And I'm pretty sure there are some legal ways to put it on Linux, since Linspire and Mepis both come with them.
Until now, Linux users couldn't use the latest versions of Flash, and the old version has audio/video sync issues that are just too annoying for many people to bother watching. It's too early to see what issues Flash 9 is going to have, and many Linux users probably won't even have it until it goes in their distro's repository and/or it gets out of beta or whatever. If I was going to put a video on my website for people with different OSs to see, the last format I'd use is Flash.
Would have been great to have this when I was trying to buy tickets.
Jews tend to be much more of a community than say, those with shellfish allergies. I'm allergic to shellfish, and I can't name one other person I know with that allergy or web forum or anything else to meet and talk with other people with that allergy. I imagine few kosher keeping Jews would say they've never met another kosher keeping Jew and had no idea how to find one.
It wasn't a statistic. Anyways, people with allergies don't have the same allergies. If 10% of people have allergies, then maybe 2% are allergic to peanuts, 1% to shellfish, .25% to whey, or whatever. If the peanut allergy group researches 80 billion products for peanut residue, that doesn't help one who's allergic to whey.
Labels help A LOT. I had a friend growing up who was allergic to whey, corn, and milk. Did she go online and find lists of safe foods from message boards and hope the manufacturer didn't change the ingredients since the reported it? Well, she didn't have internet access then, so no. She read the labels. Now, I'm a vegetarian, and I read labels all the time to see if something has an obsure meat product in it. I don't want to have to read message boards or call companies before I buy any food. I just don't have the time to do that. I'm sorry labels don't cover your needs. They cover mine, and I sure don't want to give that up.
Clones are no more reincarnations of their parent than twins are the same person.
I don't think removing the laws would give us more or better labels. 90% of people don't read labels, so the companies would stop to save costs. But where would that leave people which obscure allegies, like whey? Not everyone with obscure allergies lives near a health food store that would continue labeling.
Not everyone has mailboxes at their house. The house I lived in growing up only had a slot in the wall for incoming mail; there was no place to put outgoing mail. Now, I live in an apartment, and there isn't an outgoing box. Some people balance outgoing mail on top of the inboxes, but those can fall and get lost, and you can't put packages there. For anything important I mail, I drive to the postoffice.
Who's going to determine that the channels are empty and they don't cross over into legit stations? Satellite radio have this little devices that broadcast to your existing stereo or car radio at channel 88.3 because I guess they thought that was empty. Well, it's not. Now when I try to listen to my local college radio, I get to hear Howard Stern say something offensive instead. Bah.
If Zelda, WarioWare, Wii Sports, Excite Truck, etc, haven't gotten you excited yet, then stick with your current console(s). Different people like different games, and you'll just be disappointed if you buy a console become other people say it's cool.