Well, seeing as it's a total of 3 mp3s (soon to be 4! Wow!) they'd probably get more of a chuckle out of it than wholehearted gratefulness. I've put most of my friends on OGGs, too, and I get most of my music from them rather than random people off the 'net.
Pretty much the same here. Don't bother with Anti-virus if you're smart enough not to need them. Firewalls, though, are a must if you're on Windows, as network security holes don't require any stupidity on your part at all to exploit.
The.torrent problem is a server misconfiguration. The server is sending the data with a MIME type of text/plain, and Mozilla is obeying. The best way to fix this is to email the webmaster--if that's not an option, I hear you can save the data when it finishes loading and everything works, or you can right-click the original link and choose save as. I never use them, because I hardly ever have that problem, but I've recommended it to lots of people before and never had anyone tell me it doesn't work.
I've never seen or heard of your problem with highlighting before (and I spend lots of time on the netscape.public.mozilla.* newsgroups). It could be a profile issue, but I doubt it... maybe a reflow issue? If you find a way to reproduce it on demand, report it to bugzilla (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org).
Mozilla renders more accurately and has better features than IE,
but runs slower...
MOZILLA IS NOT SLOWER THAN IE!!!
Mozilla startup takes more time than IE, IF and only if you don't consider the time it takes to start IE at system startup. Other than that, Mozilla, and Firefox especially, literally kick the pants off of IE. There was a wonderful page I found that simply drew images and removed them repeatedly that demonstrated this, IIRC IE took about 10 times as long as Mozilla.
MS has what, $56bil on hand? That's 560,000,000,000 dimes. A normal install of Windows is at most, say, 5 gigabytes (haven't done it in a while). That comes out to 42,949,672,960 bits. In other words, they have more than 10 times as many dimes as bits.
You give a command to do something (e.g., move a file from directory to another) and then you have to give a command to see the results (ls).
This has to be done for a GUI, too, it's just that the gui normally does it for you. It would be easy enough to add a little thing on to the end of the mv command so ls got done right afterwards, it's just that most people trust their computers enough that it would be more of an annoyance than a help.
Direct Manipulation:...
This whole comparison is stupid. You simply don't use a CLI to do graphical manipulation, in the same way you don't use words to make a painting. You find the right tool for the job.
Pathnames:
With a GUI, I have to take the time to stop, read the whole screen to find which icon I need, move the mouse to it, and double click. If I know where I'm going, it's much quicker on a CLI, if I don't, it's still faster to just hit an extra ls.
Because if your employer can just hire someone else, that makes the strike worse than useless. The point of the strike is that you're not getting paid, but your employer isn't getting any work done and therefore isn't getting any money either. If they can hire someone else, they still get the work done--and you, because of that, have lost your right to strike.
It's called your right to strike, it has a lot to do with unions and the like, and it's one of the few things that (attempts to) keep capitalism from degrading into an awful muck of worker exploitation, decreasing middle classes, and huge poverty rates.
Or at least, that's what numerous trips through history tell us.
What, just because I have some things called morals and ethics and I care about more than simply propogating my own genes, I'm not worth your time? Because after all, I am the most important being in the universe, obviously my genes are more important that anything else that exists, right?
I think you need to realize that humans are not gods, they're just another living creature, and they should be treated as just another living creature.
Excuse me? I don't kill any animal above an insect, or eat any above fish or poultry (and then very rarely). Suggesting that I consider infanticide okay just because I consider killing other things worse is just stupid.
Well, no. Babies up to a couple years old have about the same mental capabilities as most other mammals, and less than some. It's not until several years have gone by that a human becomes one of the most intelligent species on the planet, and therefore, it's worse to kill the animal than the baby.
This was in Discover or Scientific American a while back, I'm too lazy to look it up.
If the amount of free software increased to say, 50%, software, as a profession, would disappear.
No, it would just move to fill niche markets. True, once Mozilla starts coming pre-installed on PCs, nothing's going to ever challenge it (unless it kills itself from inside), but there are plenty of things that there just aren't enough people interested in to create an Free version of.
For example, at my library, we have a computerized system for keeping track of what books are checked out to who, etc., all the standard library-type stuff. AFAIK, there isn't any Free software that does that, and unless we transition to a Socialist government and have government employees writing Free software, there never will be, because there just isn't enough demand.
Another--large--market that will almost certainly always stay non-Free is the games market, especially RPGs. A community development model just doesn't work for these--they have to have a plot, specific items, etc., and a community developing those would become hopelessly deadlocked. The closest the games market could ever come to Free is a Free back engine with proprietary fronts--which would probably, thinking about it, be GOOD for the industry, since they would spend less time on writing the engine, and could probably still charge the same for the game.
But as spam accounts for only around half of all email sent, that hits legetimate users just as hard as spammers. Think of how many emails are sent each day--100 million? 10 million? Let's say 10 million to be conservative. Assuming it takes about 1 minute for your message to go through, the replying computer to send a response puzzle, you to do it, and send your result, (which is definetly underestimating it, average would probably be a few minutes or more, in congestion even higher) that's still over 15000 hours a day at a very conservative estimate that could be being spent productively that are instead wasted.
Well, you can always set your client to filter everything in that category to the trash... It uses the bandwidth, yeah, but that's not too big a problem.
Yes, I can just see Bush and his advisors sitting around a table...
Advisor 1: Why don't we go drop a whole ton of bombs all over the place on Baghdad to frighten Saddam's army? Even though Bagdhad is almost completely civilian, and our bombs only have at the very best a 90% accuracy rate, I don't think we'll blow up too many buildings accidentally.
Bush: And I'm sure the populace will be overjoyed that we liberators are blowing things up right outside their windows and not afraid at all, because after all, if they get blasted into millions of little tiny bits and drops of blood, they're just a casualty of war, and no one's afraid of being a casualty of war! That sounds like a great plan!
Advisor 2: And if we frighten the crap out of the entire population so they stay out of our way while we blow more things up, and then submit to our every "request" when we're done, that's just an unintended consequence, not what we meant to do at all.
Bush: Yes, I understand!
Advsior 1: Well done, Mr. President, a first!
Thank goodnes the Iraqis are tougher than all the stupid, paranoid people we have in this country...
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Well, seeing as it's a total of 3 mp3s (soon to be 4! Wow!) they'd probably get more of a chuckle out of it than wholehearted gratefulness. I've put most of my friends on OGGs, too, and I get most of my music from them rather than random people off the 'net.
The "gif tax" hurt me--I had to download an entire extra file to write gifs in GIMP for those backwards sites that don't let me upload pngs.
And personally, I use OGG for all my own stuff, and when I get around to it I'm going to reencode all the mp3s that other people gave me into FLAC.
Pretty much the same here. Don't bother with Anti-virus if you're smart enough not to need them. Firewalls, though, are a must if you're on Windows, as network security holes don't require any stupidity on your part at all to exploit.
The .torrent problem is a server misconfiguration. The server is sending the data with a MIME type of text/plain, and Mozilla is obeying. The best way to fix this is to email the webmaster--if that's not an option, I hear you can save the data when it finishes loading and everything works, or you can right-click the original link and choose save as. I never use them, because I hardly ever have that problem, but I've recommended it to lots of people before and never had anyone tell me it doesn't work.
I've never seen or heard of your problem with highlighting before (and I spend lots of time on the netscape.public.mozilla.* newsgroups). It could be a profile issue, but I doubt it... maybe a reflow issue? If you find a way to reproduce it on demand, report it to bugzilla (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org).
Happy surfing! :-)
You've recounted "many" times... is that 5? So you count at 1293.5 icons/minute or ~200 per second. All I can say is wow.
MOZILLA IS NOT SLOWER THAN IE!!!
Mozilla startup takes more time than IE, IF and only if you don't consider the time it takes to start IE at system startup. Other than that, Mozilla, and Firefox especially, literally kick the pants off of IE. There was a wonderful page I found that simply drew images and removed them repeatedly that demonstrated this, IIRC IE took about 10 times as long as Mozilla.
As much as I hate to say it...
MS has what, $56bil on hand? That's 560,000,000,000 dimes. A normal install of Windows is at most, say, 5 gigabytes (haven't done it in a while). That comes out to 42,949,672,960 bits. In other words, they have more than 10 times as many dimes as bits.
This has nothing to do with Free software and freedom. This is anti-trust legislation, and is about keeping the free market free.
Gaaah, I used "free" too many times in that post.
The playback of audio and video notifications/alerts is NOT the same as a media player.
And more importantly, what parts of WiMP could be useful for other OS things?
Um, no, because they're not (ab)using a monopoly position to get their own software on there.
Duh.
This has to be done for a GUI, too, it's just that the gui normally does it for you. It would be easy enough to add a little thing on to the end of the mv command so ls got done right afterwards, it's just that most people trust their computers enough that it would be more of an annoyance than a help.
This whole comparison is stupid. You simply don't use a CLI to do graphical manipulation, in the same way you don't use words to make a painting. You find the right tool for the job.
With a GUI, I have to take the time to stop, read the whole screen to find which icon I need, move the mouse to it, and double click. If I know where I'm going, it's much quicker on a CLI, if I don't, it's still faster to just hit an extra ls.
(would be more, but class is starting)
w00t, free mod points!
Because if your employer can just hire someone else, that makes the strike worse than useless. The point of the strike is that you're not getting paid, but your employer isn't getting any work done and therefore isn't getting any money either. If they can hire someone else, they still get the work done--and you, because of that, have lost your right to strike.
It's called your right to strike, it has a lot to do with unions and the like, and it's one of the few things that (attempts to) keep capitalism from degrading into an awful muck of worker exploitation, decreasing middle classes, and huge poverty rates. Or at least, that's what numerous trips through history tell us.
Go to the character map!!!
What, just because I have some things called morals and ethics and I care about more than simply propogating my own genes, I'm not worth your time? Because after all, I am the most important being in the universe, obviously my genes are more important that anything else that exists, right?
I think you need to realize that humans are not gods, they're just another living creature, and they should be treated as just another living creature.
Excuse me? I don't kill any animal above an insect, or eat any above fish or poultry (and then very rarely). Suggesting that I consider infanticide okay just because I consider killing other things worse is just stupid.
Well, no. Babies up to a couple years old have about the same mental capabilities as most other mammals, and less than some. It's not until several years have gone by that a human becomes one of the most intelligent species on the planet, and therefore, it's worse to kill the animal than the baby. This was in Discover or Scientific American a while back, I'm too lazy to look it up.
No, it would just move to fill niche markets. True, once Mozilla starts coming pre-installed on PCs, nothing's going to ever challenge it (unless it kills itself from inside), but there are plenty of things that there just aren't enough people interested in to create an Free version of.
For example, at my library, we have a computerized system for keeping track of what books are checked out to who, etc., all the standard library-type stuff. AFAIK, there isn't any Free software that does that, and unless we transition to a Socialist government and have government employees writing Free software, there never will be, because there just isn't enough demand.
Another--large--market that will almost certainly always stay non-Free is the games market, especially RPGs. A community development model just doesn't work for these--they have to have a plot, specific items, etc., and a community developing those would become hopelessly deadlocked. The closest the games market could ever come to Free is a Free back engine with proprietary fronts--which would probably, thinking about it, be GOOD for the industry, since they would spend less time on writing the engine, and could probably still charge the same for the game.
But as spam accounts for only around half of all email sent, that hits legetimate users just as hard as spammers. Think of how many emails are sent each day--100 million? 10 million? Let's say 10 million to be conservative. Assuming it takes about 1 minute for your message to go through, the replying computer to send a response puzzle, you to do it, and send your result, (which is definetly underestimating it, average would probably be a few minutes or more, in congestion even higher) that's still over 15000 hours a day at a very conservative estimate that could be being spent productively that are instead wasted.
First time I've ever heard of a military base with a population of 5.6 million.
Only in a few limited respects, and in nearly all cases they do not support us as the "liberators."
Well, you can always set your client to filter everything in that category to the trash... It uses the bandwidth, yeah, but that's not too big a problem.
Yes, I can just see Bush and his advisors sitting around a table...
Thank goodnes the Iraqis are tougher than all the stupid, paranoid people we have in this country...
How about "Shock and Awe?" Heck, that's so obviously terrorism that they didn't even bother naming it something else.