I always thought in the Alphas and Betas, all the debugging code would slow it down over a release where that's been disabled. Certainly I've seen betas get faster for final release.
Yea, they dropped the Windows (or whatever) OS Standard windowing system to write their own, that does less in this Alpha. Stupid IMO. I wish someone would convince Opera that just because everyone else does it way X, they don't need to change how they've done it for ~13 years to way X (Which is often inferior or at least not obviously better!).
Have you tried contacting the sites? They might be able to fix it faster than Opera can. If we remember the big FF push to tell sites things don't work in the browser, then we know it's a two way street.
Am I the only one who thinks the Ribbon "perl" idea seems like a fix for a problem almost no one ever had (the old standard menu bar)? And generally is a worse implementation because it adds an extra click for no apparent reason?
Also, I must be the only one who got used to double clicking on the title bar to restore/maximize the window - how do you do that now? Have to hunt for a new button somewhere that is hidden in a drop down?
I know I'm a power user, but really, if I wanted a fisher-price OS and software, I'd go to Apple.
Now on to my Microsoft RANT: They are the reason for this abomination that is the ribbon. While everyone else is trying to save space, they're bloating things, except when they've decided to totally change all their interfaces so they screw everyone who *ever used Windows before*. I mean, at least Windows 95 was an improvement, but the best new thing in Win7 that I can see is the built in search in the start menu (if you can even call it that, because now it's some sort of pop-up explorer window that YET AGAIN behaves differently depending on where you're in the menu (Top level vs All Programs)). Why? I mean, I could teach myself and most users GNOME, KDE, ICEWM or OS X with the differences between Win95 - Win7 interface. AND unlike in XP, you can't get it back. Win 7 default interface gives me nightmares of some unholy union of KDE 4 and Final Fantasy 10.
And I have to say, in Firefox 3.5.x, it still can't get restoring the tabs back after a crash right some noticeable amount of the time on Windows XP. I go through more of the "This is embarrassing, I can't get your tabs back" (AND WTF, because they are listed in the little list) in one week that I have in Opera since I started using it in 2001.
I honestly don't know what the problem is with FF, but it seems laughable to me. I don't even think about tab restore in Opera anymore - and haven't in years. In fact, I never close pages because they just come back when I re-open the browser. I've had the same browsing "session" for years.
Except if you like MDI, you should head over to the Opera Beta Forum to vote to get it back in 10.5, because they are thinking of dropping it because no other browser does it. Which, IMO, is stupid.
I think the point here is you can either a) Know what you're doing b) have someone who knows what they are doing lock it down and make any changes for you. c) Hope nothing bad happens
Now, many many more individuals are OK with b) when it comes to their car, their house, etc, but not their computers.
Then again, there are many c)s as well, listen to NPR Car Talk sometime...
A crime is prevalent, punishment is not working, let's just make it legal! Depending on whether you think laws are a social contract or set down by some higher power (and this doesn't need to be supernatural), I suppose my following point may be interpreted differently.
In our current system, I think the idea anyway was to create a system by and for everyone so we can live together as best we can. Laws should be generally with the consent of those living under them (government by the consent of the governed). If enough people are breaking a law, whether it's via overt civil disobedience like during the civil rights movement or secretly like during prohibition and now with copying songs, perhaps it would make sense to re-evaluate the law in light of mass disagreement by the governed.
To clarify, occasionally, it seems to me that it would be a good idea to consider whether a specific act should be a crime, and the answer should be able to go both ways (from no to yes, and back). I don't mean that murder needs much thought, of course the vast majority of people feel it should (and I would bet will always feel this way) be a crime. But (almost) no one feels that PvP in a MMORPG should be murder. We hear about the "amusing" laws that are still on the books, like needing someone walking in front of a car driven by a woman waving flags in some localities. Why shouldn't we the people re-evaluate that? I'll bet we'd find that should be repealed for all sorts of good reasons.
I do think this consideration ought to take place via our legislative bodies. But I also think it almost begs for some sort of "time limits" on laws where some action needs to be takes to renew them, because legislators almost never go through old laws and see if they are even still relevant. That's another argument though.
Most credit card offers I've seen (in the USA) don't have yearly fees. Yes, if you don't pay your bill every month, you do pay interest, but if you overdraft your checking account (debit card), you often pay a big fee ($30-$40 dollars at the few banks I've checked out) vs some interest on a credit card...
+1. Seriously, just because you have a cell phone doesn't mean you have to answer it... Some people I really feel like asking them if they've ever heard of vibrate/silent setting on their phone. Hell, some people the only way to actually talk to them is to call them.
I don't think we changed the default on her camera, I know I didn't. I don't think she could. I originally would have worried about printing the images, but seeing as she hasn't done that, I'll look into this suggestion.
Well, yes. My mom fails at sharing photos by e-mail all the time because a) her camera takes photos that are ~ 4.5MB each b) she wants to send 5-10 photos out c) e-mail servers tend to cap at 10MB of attachments.
She has no idea how to compress photos, it's very confusing for her and she can't do it.
Now, whether she could set up or use unite is another question, but yes, I certainly know some users with problems e-mailing photos.
Yes. So far only on my Debit Card with HSBC, but I would figure it would work the same with a Credit Card. In my case, I've called up the 800 number, navigated to dispute a charge or operator help or whatever it was. I talked to them, got a call back the next day from security. Talked to that rep for about 5 minutes explaining exactly what happened. The money was credited back to my checking account then. In about a week I got a letter in the mail saying HSBC had closed the dispute and the money was mine.
Easy as pie, though I've only done it twice in 10 years, so if you're trying to scam anyone I expect it wouldn't work for long. I did recently look online for my Citibank credit card, and they had a full web based form right in where you view your account activity. However, in this case, the merchant issued a refund once I called them.
Well, there does need to be some sort of balance to bad professors. I'm recalling one art professor I had once. I'm not naturally good at art, and yet didn't want to drag down my GPA with a required course. So I talk to the professor right out, I go to all the classes, special meetings, museum visits etc. I frequently asked how I was doing, if there were any pointers, and such. We got no grades along the semester, so I kept asking how I was doing, was there anything I needed to work on, etc.
After feedback that I was doing OK, and getting no grades along the way, I get my final grade - D. So yes, I challenged that, little good that it did me. I wasted a semester and had to re-take a course because the professor couldn't be assed to give feedback, even assignment grades. She couldn't be bothered to let me know I was doing poorly, or even how I was doing poorly. Forget about any sort of idea about how she was going to determine grades.
For all I know, at the end of the semester the professor drew from a hat.
Yea. I'm more arguing against the selling out by authors like Tom Clancy and Clive Cussler... I'm ok with series (like Star Trek books or your Dr. Who) being written by different authors, but don't put an established authors name in huge letters, and somewhere else in tiny print note that it's written by authorx who can't sell his own book, and who's writing is often atrocious. It's just annoying to get excited that there's another book by an author you really like, and have to read the fine print to find out it's not true.
I figure it must be because the author figures they want money, and aren't going to write another book themselves, which is fine, but also (I think) hurts their reputation.
Of course, in that case, it's all their own choice, and one they certainly can make. I just think that totally separate from copyright you should not be worried about someone else claiming to be you - I generally fully support trademarks while being somewhat against copyright as currently formulated.
I mostly agree with the GPP, but do feel that while I'd be OK with an existing world becoming public domain, I don't think the new authors should be able to claim they are actually writing any sort of authorized editions or that the books are endorsed by the original author (unless, of course, they are).
I think for books this old (~60 years), certainly in an ideal world, the copyright should have expired. I figure that it ought to be fair game. I'm also fine with not considering it canonical as it's written by a different author, who I hope will at least sign his name to the work. I'd hope that would be true in a world with the work actually in the public domain - having stuff falsely attributed to you would suck, but I don't think that requires copyright to prevent.
I find it annoying when an established author like Tom Clancy or Clive Cussler spawns series like "Tom Clancey's Net Force" that have his name in huge letters at the top of the cover, but you realize that it was written by someone else. That seems scammy to me, and while it's obvious that copyright doesn't stop people from raking in money for using their names like that, it seems that even if copyright is gone, you shouldn't be forced to allow some other author/publisher to imply you promote/condone/whatever this new work that you had nothing to do with. But again, this seems simple enough even on public domain works...
That explains why when I tried to read it it seemed that every chapter was a new self contained story about entirely different people, and in many ways a different environment (though it's been quite a while, and I hated the format, so I could be wrong in my vague recollection). That probably worked ok in a series of short stories, but made IMO a really bad novel. Perhaps if it had been presented as an anthology it would have been ok, but as a novel it failed big time for me.
I've never really understood why Fantasy would necessarily be classed with Science Fiction. They are like Mystery and Techno-Thrillers. Or Romance and any other genre with a romatic sub-plot. There are some things that are similar, but even Space Opera isn't really the same as fantasy IMO. Star Wars isn't the same genre as Lord of the Rings to me.
What whole group? This was about a ruby conference? I may be part of OSS, or not (I use OSS a lot, but don't code, but do participate in the community to some extent), but I'd forgotten about ruby entirely till this post. The idea that a) there's a FOSS monolithic group b) this group somehow knows what happens within each subgroup around the entire planet seems ludicrous. It's the same thought process that thinks the Internet is actually on entity. I expect that, say, the Linux kernel developers, or the IBM linux devs or the ReactOS people don't any more feel they're part of the same "group" as the Ruby people than US citizens feel they're part of the same group as Chinese citizens. Sure, we're all human, and part of the huge group "people", but we don't watch every thing that happens anywhere in the world and feel like each citizen, or even a majority, needs to know about it or call it out.
I feel more like an outsider looking at the ruby conference thinking "WTH?". But if you say FOSS community, you include me (by some definitions).
What do you mean by "fairly recent"? I recall it being just one click on the padlock in Opera 5.12 ~ 2001, and being able to find it somewhat easily in Netscape 4 ~ 1999.
I still think that the main problem is that the certificate generally tells you that you're connecting to a specific site, and with EV perhaps who runs the site, but nothing about the security or trustworthiness of the site or company.
Long Term Con man (web version of Madoff?) could certainly get certified all the way to EV and still plan to sell off your CC# in, say, a year.
There are small local banks, like the one my family does business with (I don't, and not just because of this), that have their web banking run by some other company, with the cert to this other company, and nothing in the cert nor the URL is related to the bank name at all. I've contacted the bank about this, to be told "oh, yes, that's how it is, we outsourced the website". And you couldn't get a decent virtualhost or something at www.bankname.com with the SSL cert issued to BankName? Really.
"Normal" people just tell me I'm overly paranoid...
I'd also consider Comodo's Enterprise Endpoint Protection. It's quite reasonably priced, with a free 5 seat demo. It looks like it's basically a managed version of their CIS product, which can stop most malware installs via the HIPS. Failing that, I expect Software Restriction Policies via GP would be a good compromise vs some managed HIPS app. AV in general is going to be worthless to stop stuff like Zbot and future malware IMO.
Has no one ever used surun with XP? Much better than UAC, and doesn't break things. I see too many posts about installing stuff, and needing to disable UAC for it to work.
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I always thought in the Alphas and Betas, all the debugging code would slow it down over a release where that's been disabled. Certainly I've seen betas get faster for final release.
Yea, they dropped the Windows (or whatever) OS Standard windowing system to write their own, that does less in this Alpha. Stupid IMO. I wish someone would convince Opera that just because everyone else does it way X, they don't need to change how they've done it for ~13 years to way X (Which is often inferior or at least not obviously better!).
Have you tried contacting the sites? They might be able to fix it faster than Opera can. If we remember the big FF push to tell sites things don't work in the browser, then we know it's a two way street.
Am I the only one who thinks the Ribbon "perl" idea seems like a fix for a problem almost no one ever had (the old standard menu bar)? And generally is a worse implementation because it adds an extra click for no apparent reason?
Also, I must be the only one who got used to double clicking on the title bar to restore/maximize the window - how do you do that now? Have to hunt for a new button somewhere that is hidden in a drop down?
I know I'm a power user, but really, if I wanted a fisher-price OS and software, I'd go to Apple.
Now on to my Microsoft RANT:
They are the reason for this abomination that is the ribbon. While everyone else is trying to save space, they're bloating things, except when they've decided to totally change all their interfaces so they screw everyone who *ever used Windows before*. I mean, at least Windows 95 was an improvement, but the best new thing in Win7 that I can see is the built in search in the start menu (if you can even call it that, because now it's some sort of pop-up explorer window that YET AGAIN behaves differently depending on where you're in the menu (Top level vs All Programs)). Why? I mean, I could teach myself and most users GNOME, KDE, ICEWM or OS X with the differences between Win95 - Win7 interface. AND unlike in XP, you can't get it back. Win 7 default interface gives me nightmares of some unholy union of KDE 4 and Final Fantasy 10.
And I have to say, in Firefox 3.5.x, it still can't get restoring the tabs back after a crash right some noticeable amount of the time on Windows XP. I go through more of the "This is embarrassing, I can't get your tabs back" (AND WTF, because they are listed in the little list) in one week that I have in Opera since I started using it in 2001.
I honestly don't know what the problem is with FF, but it seems laughable to me. I don't even think about tab restore in Opera anymore - and haven't in years. In fact, I never close pages because they just come back when I re-open the browser. I've had the same browsing "session" for years.
Except if you like MDI, you should head over to the Opera Beta Forum to vote to get it back in 10.5, because they are thinking of dropping it because no other browser does it. Which, IMO, is stupid.
I think the point here is you can either
a) Know what you're doing
b) have someone who knows what they are doing lock it down and make any changes for you.
c) Hope nothing bad happens
Now, many many more individuals are OK with b) when it comes to their car, their house, etc, but not their computers.
Then again, there are many c)s as well, listen to NPR Car Talk sometime ...
A crime is prevalent, punishment is not working, let's just make it legal!
Depending on whether you think laws are a social contract or set down by some higher power (and this doesn't need to be supernatural), I suppose my following point may be interpreted differently.
In our current system, I think the idea anyway was to create a system by and for everyone so we can live together as best we can. Laws should be generally with the consent of those living under them (government by the consent of the governed). If enough people are breaking a law, whether it's via overt civil disobedience like during the civil rights movement or secretly like during prohibition and now with copying songs, perhaps it would make sense to re-evaluate the law in light of mass disagreement by the governed.
To clarify, occasionally, it seems to me that it would be a good idea to consider whether a specific act should be a crime, and the answer should be able to go both ways (from no to yes, and back). I don't mean that murder needs much thought, of course the vast majority of people feel it should (and I would bet will always feel this way) be a crime. But (almost) no one feels that PvP in a MMORPG should be murder. We hear about the "amusing" laws that are still on the books, like needing someone walking in front of a car driven by a woman waving flags in some localities. Why shouldn't we the people re-evaluate
that? I'll bet we'd find that should be repealed for all sorts of good reasons.
I do think this consideration ought to take place via our legislative bodies. But I also think it almost begs for some sort of "time limits" on laws where some action needs to be takes to renew them, because legislators almost never go through old laws and see if they are even still relevant. That's another argument though.
Most credit card offers I've seen (in the USA) don't have yearly fees. Yes, if you don't pay your bill every month, you do pay interest, but if you overdraft your checking account (debit card), you often pay a big fee ($30-$40 dollars at the few banks I've checked out) vs some interest on a credit card...
+1. Seriously, just because you have a cell phone doesn't mean you have to answer it... Some people I really feel like asking them if they've ever heard of vibrate/silent setting on their phone. Hell, some people the only way to actually talk to them is to call them.
I don't think we changed the default on her camera, I know I didn't. I don't think she could. I originally would have worried about printing the images, but seeing as she hasn't done that, I'll look into this suggestion.
Well, yes. My mom fails at sharing photos by e-mail all the time because
a) her camera takes photos that are ~ 4.5MB each
b) she wants to send 5-10 photos out
c) e-mail servers tend to cap at 10MB of attachments.
She has no idea how to compress photos, it's very confusing for her and she can't do it.
Now, whether she could set up or use unite is another question, but yes, I certainly know some users with problems e-mailing photos.
Yes. So far only on my Debit Card with HSBC, but I would figure it would work the same with a Credit Card. In my case, I've called up the 800 number, navigated to dispute a charge or operator help or whatever it was. I talked to them, got a call back the next day from security. Talked to that rep for about 5 minutes explaining exactly what happened. The money was credited back to my checking account then. In about a week I got a letter in the mail saying HSBC had closed the dispute and the money was mine.
Easy as pie, though I've only done it twice in 10 years, so if you're trying to scam anyone I expect it wouldn't work for long. I did recently look online for my Citibank credit card, and they had a full web based form right in where you view your account activity. However, in this case, the merchant issued a refund once I called them.
Well, there does need to be some sort of balance to bad professors. I'm recalling one art professor I had once. I'm not naturally good at art, and yet didn't want to drag down my GPA with a required course. So I talk to the professor right out, I go to all the classes, special meetings, museum visits etc. I frequently asked how I was doing, if there were any pointers, and such. We got no grades along the semester, so I kept asking how I was doing, was there anything I needed to work on, etc.
After feedback that I was doing OK, and getting no grades along the way, I get my final grade - D. So yes, I challenged that, little good that it did me. I wasted a semester and had to re-take a course because the professor couldn't be assed to give feedback, even assignment grades. She couldn't be bothered to let me know I was doing poorly, or even how I was doing poorly. Forget about any sort of idea about how she was going to determine grades.
For all I know, at the end of the semester the professor drew from a hat.
Yea. I'm more arguing against the selling out by authors like Tom Clancy and Clive Cussler... I'm ok with series (like Star Trek books or your Dr. Who) being written by different authors, but don't put an established authors name in huge letters, and somewhere else in tiny print note that it's written by authorx who can't sell his own book, and who's writing is often atrocious. It's just annoying to get excited that there's another book by an author you really like, and have to read the fine print to find out it's not true.
I figure it must be because the author figures they want money, and aren't going to write another book themselves, which is fine, but also (I think) hurts their reputation.
Of course, in that case, it's all their own choice, and one they certainly can make. I just think that totally separate from copyright you should not be worried about someone else claiming to be you - I generally fully support trademarks while being somewhat against copyright as currently formulated.
I mostly agree with the GPP, but do feel that while I'd be OK with an existing world becoming public domain, I don't think the new authors should be able to claim they are actually writing any sort of authorized editions or that the books are endorsed by the original author (unless, of course, they are).
I think for books this old (~60 years), certainly in an ideal world, the copyright should have expired. I figure that it ought to be fair game. I'm also fine with not considering it canonical as it's written by a different author, who I hope will at least sign his name to the work. I'd hope that would be true in a world with the work actually in the public domain - having stuff falsely attributed to you would suck, but I don't think that requires copyright to prevent.
I find it annoying when an established author like Tom Clancy or Clive Cussler spawns series like "Tom Clancey's Net Force" that have his name in huge letters at the top of the cover, but you realize that it was written by someone else. That seems scammy to me, and while it's obvious that copyright doesn't stop people from raking in money for using their names like that, it seems that even if copyright is gone, you shouldn't be forced to allow some other author/publisher to imply you promote/condone/whatever this new work that you had nothing to do with. But again, this seems simple enough even on public domain works...
That explains why when I tried to read it it seemed that every chapter was a new self contained story about entirely different people, and in many ways a different environment (though it's been quite a while, and I hated the format, so I could be wrong in my vague recollection). That probably worked ok in a series of short stories, but made IMO a really bad novel. Perhaps if it had been presented as an anthology it would have been ok, but as a novel it failed big time for me.
I've never really understood why Fantasy would necessarily be classed with Science Fiction. They are like Mystery and Techno-Thrillers. Or Romance and any other genre with a romatic sub-plot. There are some things that are similar, but even Space Opera isn't really the same as fantasy IMO. Star Wars isn't the same genre as Lord of the Rings to me.
Any good guides on doing this? What 3rd party programs do you recommend?
What whole group? This was about a ruby conference? I may be part of OSS, or not (I use OSS a lot, but don't code, but do participate in the community to some extent), but I'd forgotten about ruby entirely till this post. The idea that
a) there's a FOSS monolithic group
b) this group somehow knows what happens within each subgroup around the entire planet
seems ludicrous. It's the same thought process that thinks the Internet is actually on entity. I expect that, say, the Linux kernel developers, or the IBM linux devs or the ReactOS people don't any more feel they're part of the same "group" as the Ruby people than US citizens feel they're part of the same group as Chinese citizens. Sure, we're all human, and part of the huge group "people", but we don't watch every thing that happens anywhere in the world and feel like each citizen, or even a majority, needs to know about it or call it out.
I feel more like an outsider looking at the ruby conference thinking "WTH?". But if you say FOSS community, you include me (by some definitions).
What do you mean by "fairly recent"? I recall it being just one click on the padlock in Opera 5.12 ~ 2001, and being able to find it somewhat easily in Netscape 4 ~ 1999.
I still think that the main problem is that the certificate generally tells you that you're connecting to a specific site, and with EV perhaps who runs the site, but nothing about the security or trustworthiness of the site or company.
Long Term Con man (web version of Madoff?) could certainly get certified all the way to EV and still plan to sell off your CC# in, say, a year.
There are small local banks, like the one my family does business with (I don't, and not just because of this), that have their web banking run by some other company, with the cert to this other company, and nothing in the cert nor the URL is related to the bank name at all. I've contacted the bank about this, to be told "oh, yes, that's how it is, we outsourced the website". And you couldn't get a decent virtualhost or something at www.bankname.com with the SSL cert issued to BankName? Really.
"Normal" people just tell me I'm overly paranoid...
Yea, and basic Dell Precision Workstation T3400s are ~$650... Even less reason to deal with them out of warranty.
I'd also consider Comodo's Enterprise Endpoint Protection. It's quite reasonably priced, with a free 5 seat demo. It looks like it's basically a managed version of their CIS product, which can stop most malware installs via the HIPS. Failing that, I expect Software Restriction Policies via GP would be a good compromise vs some managed HIPS app. AV in general is going to be worthless to stop stuff like Zbot and future malware IMO.
Has no one ever used surun with XP? Much better than UAC, and doesn't break things. I see too many posts about installing stuff, and needing to disable UAC for it to work.