I've been toying around with the new alpha, and it has some interesting additions. But heck, the changes made do not warrant a jump in major version numbering in my books. But I guess that's because I'm used to how version numbers are in the Free Software world, where a jump in a major version number usually means there was a rewrite, or ABI was broken in favour of some fundamental changes.
I'm definitely not seeing that here with Bon Echo.
Not that this is a bad thing -- heck, I'm as much against featuritis as the next guy. But frankly I see less change here than from 1.0 to the Deer Park alphas.
IMHO the #1 thing the guys should have focused on for the 2.0 release was to make Firefox a XULRunner application.
Well, irony is defined as contrary or opposite to what is or might be expected. One would probably expect that a signature with a 'grammar tip' would at least use correct grammar itself. It is stretching it though, since his spelling, and not his grammar, was incorrect.
Video, no -- but check out BitWise [www.bitwisechat.com] which offers whiteboard and voip, and is for Windows, OS X, and Linux. I've tried it on my Linux box -- it's a very polished app and it works great.
As a graduate (victim?;-) of the French Immersion program of Canada (I live in Ontario, Greater Toronto Area) and a current French Minor -- here's my point of view on the whole idea of the separist movement...
First off, that guy was an asshole for what he said. My comment has nothing to do with yours as a response to his, but for some reason your comment triggered this one.
You guys obviously like to be 'different.' There's no argument there. Not that being different is a bad thing -- it's great that we have such a flourishing culture in our country, and going to Québec is a lot like stepping in to a new country with a whole other culture, and a whole other way of living.
However, in some parts of the province, I've noticed a kind of 'elite' attitude that really bothers me. The whole attitude is summed up in one recurring experience: I walk into a restaurant, I order in French. They respond in English. To me that is probably one of the rudest things a Québecois can do to a Canadian in my position who has spent almost all of his life learning French. I guess my accent was slightly 'off' or something (admittedly we learn "French French" in our schools, not the Québecois dialect) -- but the least you guys can do is try to take some consideration into the fact that many people in English Canada want to embrace your culture, and don't appreciate it being shoved back up our asses like that.
Hopefully my experiences at McGill (where I hope to attend in two years) will be a little more pleasant than my awkward ventures through Québec (city).
Great! We give an undesirable product to the consumers, *and* we create more waste for our communities! Two birds with one stone! Thank you, Microsoft, once again you've come up with a practical, *innovative* solution that works well for everyone. More power to the consumer.
For those of you who are going to start bitching about Firefox's alleged insecurity ("OMG! Firefox isn't as secure as everyone thought, so many vulnerabilities are being reported!"), here's 3 words for you:
This is just Microsoft stretching the truth to spread FUD.
For people who have never used a word processing program that supports OpenDocument (OpenOffice.org being the predominant contender here) -- they would read these claims as "OpenOffice.org cannot put pictures, audio, video, etc. into its documents" which is certainly not true.
My high school (graduated two years ago) had Corel WordPerfect Office installed on all of its PCs. Could you not make the same argument against that, or any other "alternative" office suite?
The fact is, pretty much all office suites are pretty much the same. Most people at my school had MS Office installed at home, but they were still able to pick up WP just fine. No one ever had any problems with it.
I think the same thing would be true for OOo. Sure, it won't be able to deal with MS Office macros or VBA script, but is that really a reason for high schools to spend all that money on MS Office? Not in my eyes. I'd rather see the extra money saved, used on things that are much more important than little disputes about differences in office suites.
"By modifying a Prius so that it can be plugged in...
The 180 miles per gallon must be some extremely tough-to-calculate average since a car that's plugged in can only go as far as the power cord (unless they got a really , really, really long power cord;-)
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I feel he makes a really good point. Arbitrary induction is evil and must die!
...We've been able to have viruses on computers for many years now.
But we've got dibs on the single-click.
I've been toying around with the new alpha, and it has some interesting additions. But heck, the changes made do not warrant a jump in major version numbering in my books. But I guess that's because I'm used to how version numbers are in the Free Software world, where a jump in a major version number usually means there was a rewrite, or ABI was broken in favour of some fundamental changes.
I'm definitely not seeing that here with Bon Echo.
Not that this is a bad thing -- heck, I'm as much against featuritis as the next guy. But frankly I see less change here than from 1.0 to the Deer Park alphas.
IMHO the #1 thing the guys should have focused on for the 2.0 release was to make Firefox a XULRunner application.
What's ironic is that I go to this school, and I'm probably one of the last Slashdotters to hear of this. Oh well.
Well, irony is defined as contrary or opposite to what is or might be expected. One would probably expect that a signature with a 'grammar tip' would at least use correct grammar itself. It is stretching it though, since his spelling, and not his grammar, was incorrect.
Grammer tip: 'Effect' is used as a noun. 'Affect' is used as a verb.
Ironically, you misspelled 'grammar' here.
"No, the history hasn't been cleared because I've been looking at porn! It's the exploit, I tells ya! The exploit!"
Evidently this 24-hour deal will employ some form of DRM. And when I think DRM, a few things come to mind:
1) Non-free format
2) Won't work with Linux
So, I'll just continue to use zip.ca, or, *gasp* physically *go* to the *video store*!
Video, no -- but check out BitWise [www.bitwisechat.com] which offers whiteboard and voip, and is for Windows, OS X, and Linux. I've tried it on my Linux box -- it's a very polished app and it works great.
I doubt I'll have the libraries required to run this worm.
As a graduate (victim? ;-) of the French Immersion program of Canada (I live in Ontario, Greater Toronto Area) and a current French Minor -- here's my point of view on the whole idea of the separist movement...
First off, that guy was an asshole for what he said. My comment has nothing to do with yours as a response to his, but for some reason your comment triggered this one.
You guys obviously like to be 'different.' There's no argument there. Not that being different is a bad thing -- it's great that we have such a flourishing culture in our country, and going to Québec is a lot like stepping in to a new country with a whole other culture, and a whole other way of living.
However, in some parts of the province, I've noticed a kind of 'elite' attitude that really bothers me. The whole attitude is summed up in one recurring experience: I walk into a restaurant, I order in French. They respond in English. To me that is probably one of the rudest things a Québecois can do to a Canadian in my position who has spent almost all of his life learning French. I guess my accent was slightly 'off' or something (admittedly we learn "French French" in our schools, not the Québecois dialect) -- but the least you guys can do is try to take some consideration into the fact that many people in English Canada want to embrace your culture, and don't appreciate it being shoved back up our asses like that.
Hopefully my experiences at McGill (where I hope to attend in two years) will be a little more pleasant than my awkward ventures through Québec (city).
Forgive me if I'm wrong -- but don't you mean the Business Software Alliance (BSA)?
Heh, nice going -- I bet you're on the brink of a Slashdotting right about now.
Great! We give an undesirable product to the consumers, *and* we create more waste for our communities! Two birds with one stone! Thank you, Microsoft, once again you've come up with a practical, *innovative* solution that works well for everyone. More power to the consumer.
By the way, I'm *being* sarcastic... (well duh!)
For those of you who are going to start bitching about Firefox's alleged insecurity ("OMG! Firefox isn't as secure as everyone thought, so many vulnerabilities are being reported!"), here's 3 words for you:
No one cares.
No, it is not available for Linux. Windows and Macintosh only.
Actually this is one of those times where 'hackers' would have been correct.
No. The dinosaurs have died out, silly.
This is just Microsoft stretching the truth to spread FUD.
For people who have never used a word processing program that supports OpenDocument (OpenOffice.org being the predominant contender here) -- they would read these claims as "OpenOffice.org cannot put pictures, audio, video, etc. into its documents" which is certainly not true.
You must be new here...
My high school (graduated two years ago) had Corel WordPerfect Office installed on all of its PCs. Could you not make the same argument against that, or any other "alternative" office suite?
The fact is, pretty much all office suites are pretty much the same. Most people at my school had MS Office installed at home, but they were still able to pick up WP just fine. No one ever had any problems with it.
I think the same thing would be true for OOo. Sure, it won't be able to deal with MS Office macros or VBA script, but is that really a reason for high schools to spend all that money on MS Office? Not in my eyes. I'd rather see the extra money saved, used on things that are much more important than little disputes about differences in office suites.
"By modifying a Prius so that it can be plugged in...
;-)
The 180 miles per gallon must be some extremely tough-to-calculate average since a car that's plugged in can only go as far as the power cord (unless they got a really , really, really long power cord
What next? An update to linuxconf? An update to fvwm95?
Linuxconf: Last release: 1.34r3 2005-01-18 12:08:47
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