You're right, Thunderbird still has a ways to go with mail importing. Specifically, it should be able to easily import messages from Mozilla Mail and itself (for backups, etc). Messing around with mail store folders is too much to expect of the average user.
Having the ability to import individual.eml files would be nice too.
Perhaps Firefox's update notification could be adapted to give "Critical Update" warnings, for really nasty bugs.
Ie. when checking for updates, a dialog box pops up: "Your copy of Firefox has a critical security vulnerability. Click 'Next' to fix this problem."
Users will want it to stop bugging them, and choose to install the patch. Since the user hardly has to take any initiative at all, this could go a long way toward solving the hardest part of the process -- getting people to install the damn patch.
Blogs are doing a fair job of it on their own. They're updated more frequently, focus more on the issues you're interested in, and (for those tired of "even-handed" reporting) typically wear their biases on their sleeves. It's interesting that many online versions of print/TV news sources are now trying to cash in on the success with blogs for their own writers... Anyway, the way the world gets news is changing on its own, and I don't think helping it along will be necessary.
I would think that powering the hard disk is what sucks up most of the battery life. So if OGG has a better size/quality ratio than MP3, can't it actually extend the battery life, since it allows you to encode everything at low bitrates and not have to spin up the disk as much?
Or does the extra processing power required to decode OGG cancel out that benefit..?
The download size (for the Win32 installer builds, at least) has decreased dramatically over the last few months. Firefox 0.8 was 6.2MB, but 0.9 is only 4.7MB. Earlier builds were even larger.
Now I can grab the latest nightly build in only, oh, about an hour.. (damn dial-up)
If the Communist threat was fictional, why was the Communist Party of the United States directly controlled and funded by Moscow during the cold war years? Why were hundreds of its members in the American government funneling information to the KGB?
If you're interested, have a look at documents from the "Venona" operation, which was created to intercept KGB messages in the 1940s.
The Command Key Shortcuts outside of this cluster were partially implemented for printing and saving, but quitting programs or closing windows is still the archaic and unintuitive Alt-F4 on Windows.
I agree that Alt+F4 is stupid, but some Microsoft products (including Windows Explorer, dating back to Win98!) have implemented the Ctrl+W = "close window" feature. That still leaves a million third-party designers, but it's a start.
Speaking of which, I wish more developers would support Ctrl+Tab for jumping through tabs (or windows, if you're running a MDI application).
This "feature" annoyed me to no end. I'm fond of autoscrolling in Firefox by clicking the scroll wheel, and then clicking it again to stop. Unfortunately, doing this causes FF to try to surf to whatever's in the clipboard (usually not a valid URL), and pop up a modal error dialog in protest!
Fortunately, it can be remedied by setting the middlemouse.contentLoadURL, middlemouse.paste, and middlemouse.scrollbarPosition to false in Firefox's about:prefs menu.
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Will this new iPod have any other features? I picked up an iRiver iHP 120 last month for a good $50 (Canadian) less than the similar-capacity iPod, and the iRiver has optical in/out, direct encoding to MP3 or WAV, OGG Vorbis support, USB 2.0, and an FM tuner.
Does Apple have any plans to beef up their offerings, or are they counting on consumers to keep paying for the iPod's hipster image?
I think Mozilla has about 2, maybe 3, years to get on top of the Windows browser market. Beyond that, we're sunk.
After all, won't Longhorn be released with an updated IE that has popup-blocking, tabs, and ActiveX malware protection?..Effectively nullifying Firefox's most visible benefits?
And won't the Windows world suck up Longhorn right away, like they did with WinXP?
I put the blame more at 4.0. Netscape 3 was a fairly speedy, stable product. But with 4.0, the rendering speed went to hell, CSS support was arguably worse than before (at least 3.0 didn't try), and stability -- well, most people I knew had to kill the app every 20 minutes or so.
The whole 4.x series never recovered. Like you, I finally gave in and switched to IE.
And that, I guess, was the beginning of the end...
A big reason that Quake was such a hit was Id's release of the "QuakeC" code, and availability of all kinds of WAD/PAK expanders, model editors, level creators, etc. Quake lived solely through mods for years
What is Id doing to ensure Doom3 has longevity? I don't feel like plunking down $70 on a single player campaign that I can finish in 2 weeks. I don't want another Quake2.
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Has this happened to anyone else?
Having the ability to import individual .eml files would be nice too.
:P
Ie. when checking for updates, a dialog box pops up: "Your copy of Firefox has a critical security vulnerability. Click 'Next' to fix this problem."
Users will want it to stop bugging them, and choose to install the patch. Since the user hardly has to take any initiative at all, this could go a long way toward solving the hardest part of the process -- getting people to install the damn patch.MSN Messenger uses IE to open external links, regardless of your system's default browser setting.
And I was trying to wean my family off of IE...
:-(
Blogs are doing a fair job of it on their own. They're updated more frequently, focus more on the issues you're interested in, and (for those tired of "even-handed" reporting) typically wear their biases on their sleeves. It's interesting that many online versions of print/TV news sources are now trying to cash in on the success with blogs for their own writers...
Anyway, the way the world gets news is changing on its own, and I don't think helping it along will be necessary.
I mean, somebody who raps about clock cycles really deserves more acclaim from a community like this...
I would think that powering the hard disk is what sucks up most of the battery life. So if OGG has a better size/quality ratio than MP3, can't it actually extend the battery life, since it allows you to encode everything at low bitrates and not have to spin up the disk as much?
Or does the extra processing power required to decode OGG cancel out that benefit..?
Now I can grab the latest nightly build in only, oh, about an hour.. (damn dial-up)
Hats off to the Firefox team!
If you're interested, have a look at documents from the "Venona" operation, which was created to intercept KGB messages in the 1940s.
Speaking of which, I wish more developers would support Ctrl+Tab for jumping through tabs (or windows, if you're running a MDI application).
Fortunately, it can be remedied by setting the middlemouse.contentLoadURL, middlemouse.paste, and middlemouse.scrollbarPosition to false in Firefox's about:prefs menu.
Does Apple have any plans to beef up their offerings, or are they counting on consumers to keep paying for the iPod's hipster image?
After all, won't Longhorn be released with an updated IE that has popup-blocking, tabs, and ActiveX malware protection? ..Effectively nullifying Firefox's most visible benefits?
And won't the Windows world suck up Longhorn right away, like they did with WinXP?
You insensitive clod!!
Sigh.
The whole 4.x series never recovered. Like you, I finally gave in and switched to IE.
And that, I guess, was the beginning of the end...
A big reason that Quake was such a hit was Id's release of the "QuakeC" code, and availability of all kinds of WAD/PAK expanders, model editors, level creators, etc. Quake lived solely through mods for years
What is Id doing to ensure Doom3 has longevity? I don't feel like plunking down $70 on a single player campaign that I can finish in 2 weeks. I don't want another Quake2.
Neat idea nonetheless.
I ended up getting the bloody thing from a mirror, but in return, I will make sure to endorse anything in place of RealAudio -- even .wma.
Is this Real's business model? Drive people away from their technology because nobody can find the damn thing?
This is slashdot, guys! What are you trying to do, make me read the article??
The Wal-Mart Prank Part 1 and Part 2 .
Without giving too much away, it concerns a fellow who exacts sweet, sweet pornographic revenge for the loss of his job...
**pictures a spiky metal iPod swung on a chain..**