that's actually something completely different - it's meant for cases when somebody else has logged in using the same browser before (and thus cookies claim that person is still logged in)
well, yes, exactly:) a video of some 5 minutes can take up to 30 minutes to download on a bad day. it can have 10 or more connect resets inbetween. youtube player hears lots of curses from me if i _really_ want to see it - usually i just close it.
it's not killing them on purpose - sometimes i have an open connection for days. but sometimes it just sucks, resets connect (which means a new ip -> all ssh and related connections broken).
with a normal download option i could just leave wget nicely getting me the content and watch it later, without annoying interruptions.
ah, but with my gprs longer videos fail to download completely. if i then try to resume downloading by placing position marker near the location it has stopped, often it discards all the data before the marker (at least in the visual player).
If YouTube only offers HD content using the new codec, there will be significant impetus for users to switch to HTML5-compliant browsers, or install plugins that enable similar functionality.
that's a very good point. google seems to be trying hard to deal with msie, so that might be another nail in the nailgun (haha).
too bad the voting server did not survive slashdotting:) "Error contacting server"
another ideas i'd like to see are : + ability to download videos (i'm on a slow gprs and not being able to download them makes it almost impossible to watch); + more supported upload formats. i tried to upload videos encoded with several codecs to youtube, they all failed. ended up at blip.tv, they had no broblems decoding and converting the videos.
can't add/search for them on the site right now...
i'm having a pretty bad eyesight myself, and i fully support harsh measures against people who park in reserved spots (with common reasoning "but they still would be unused !").
still, the behaviour you are describing annoys me a lot. i don't mean "do not help me" attitude - i've several times tried to help people in wheelchair only to get rude reaction. while i think that discourages others from helping them ever, that's not that bad.
what's worse, people who not only feel entitled, but _special_, even better. this is especially evident in some parents, who believe their handicapped children are more special than others. that's doubly-disturbing because they sometimes even refuse to allow curing of some sympthoms because they would remove this "specialness" !
i'd really love to see extremely cheap eye, limb regrowing, fixing of broken spines etc, so if somebody on purpose would refuse to take such measures (not because treatment is not available or because they could not afford it) only to feel more special and entitled, we could make fun of them. as a bonus, it would help millions of people who actually want to regain their health.
i've used avidemux for simple editing, and it worked great - that is, stable version. i tried trunk before that, and yeah, it did crash often. but that's why it's trunk:)
while avidemux isn't piled with features, it mostly satisfied my needs. some fancy subtitle editor built-in would be nice.
hmm. maybe make also airlines responsible for the damage to the goods in transit ? it's somehow interesting how they have managed to get complete immunity to any damage they do to the goods you entrust them for transfer.
ok, so average speed for the chinese train is 349 km/h, and max speed for french is 574 km/h.
speed of sound, according to wikipedia, is ~ 1236 km/h, so that's pretty damn impressive for trains.
also, can somebody please tag the story with imperialunits, slashdot tagging isn't working for me for the last 6 months or so. not that it worked great before.
i do have brought wine in my baggage. but that requires actually having one with you (i'm often going with hand luggage only), and, as you mentioned, packing things up really carefully. while i've been lucky to have a bottle break only once (it was packed with clothes, but i suppose they were keen on football or something), i've also seen a hard casing with an expensive bottle in it completely smashed. you have to try _really_ hard to break it, but somehow the bastards did it.
now, what i am annoyed at - previously when traveling back from germany (or some other country with decent beers) i stuffed my hand luggage with bottles, did not have to pack them with three times volume of clothes - went through the security check, where people were smiling when seeing contents of the bag - and then bring it back home without breaking a single bottle. they didn't even blow up.
* Photos: All electronic equipment must be switched off. I bet it's a digital camera? * Music: Same goes. If you have the plugs in your ear you are most likely listening and you were not able to hear the attendants telling you ti switch it off.
right. and these devices were just fine for decades... the suddenly they became dangerous. i don't buy it.
* Blanket: If there is an emergency that blanket will cost lives. Try exiting a seat row in a hurry when the person next to the isle has a blanket.
that's a better point. although she was sitting by the window. and even if that is the real reason, it should be _explained_. i think the attitude contributes a lot to make all the measures seem incredibly silly (not that most of them aren't;) )
excellent, i wanted to propose bringing empty glass bottle, but was unsure whether that would work - getting it after the theater will work for sure.
just doing some wood work, any wood object might also do (walking stick etc) - make sure to get one that breaks in sharp, long remains, and you can equip whole party !
oh, right, when restrictions come in small amounts, people will get used to them. just like you have.
if i have to arrive an hour early for a 30 minute flight and waste half an hour of that on ridiculous procedures like taking off my boots (which is annoying as hell in winter, as i have to spend a minute to get them back on), walk over dirty floor in my socks, take out my belt, very often be touched by some man in uniform all over.
i had nail clippers taken from me. the pointy part was ~ 5 or 6 millimeters long. i had hunted for ones i like for several years and found them on lithuanian market - i still haven't found a replacement that's as good. fucking plastic forks they give out on the flight are more dangerous.
i'm not allowed to take any drinks with me that i like. more specifically, i'm not allowed to take beer back from germany:)
i'm not allowed to take photos of taking off or landing (which was just fine for decades before, and those times are when you are most likely to get a nice photo). i'm not allowed to FUCKING LISTED TO MUSIC. i've had flight attendants wake me up if i just as much as have headphones on my ears with the player off. i don't like being waken up unless necessary.
my girlfriend was denied a blanket because "we are taking off". the plane was awfully cold, even i might have preferred a blanket - and i'm the person who wears shorts at zero degrees.
now that's all europe only. for usa, so i hear, i have to fill forms where required level of stupidity to create them just is not comprehensible to me (do you plan to commit acts of terrorism ?), give fingerprints, subject oneself to arrogant and rude questioning, possibly give out all passwords for any it related devices and maybe even have them confiscated, without any compensation. i don't know firsthand, as i have refused to travel to usa several times in recent past because of this.
i suppose it all goes down to what level dignity you expect to have. unfortunately, that seems to be way low for too many people.
now let's see what all these measures help, if any. let's look at the plastic already inside the airplane - i'm sure most of it could be melted with a lighter to create damn efficient knife. talking about what improvised weapons one could bring on the airplane - let's see, it should be trivial to make legs of the glasses very sturdy and with pointy ends to create a very nice weapon. let's look at camera tripods. they already have decent diameter tube. take off the plastic/rubber cap, make the ending a bit sharper, replace the cap - that's an awfully scary weapon, it has a shallow ending to increase bleeding.
i'm sure slashdot crowd could come up with ways to transform majority of everyday items into weapons, and i'm sure skeery terrirists aren't as dumb and stone age as your media might want to portray them. there has to be some reason why every flight is not terrorised by some whacko with handmade pointy thing.
isn't this "circumvention of protection measures" ?:) if you don't plan to go to court, send them some nasty dmca letter (assuming you both are in usa).
that's a great advice. another - order some new functionality or changes.
basically, a procurement to implement some feature you might be missing in the software. maybe improve some functionality. it's a legitimate contract, and in the end you (and everybody else) gets some great feature.
sure. kernel is quite decent in some releases. latest thunderbird 2 releases are extremely stable. openoffice 1.1 series in the latest versions were _incredibly_ stable. kde3 is extremely nice. amarok 1.4 is great. i'd say apache is quite nice. you could probably find at least one opensource db that would fit such a description. aaaand so on. so, were you serious ?:)
i don't code at all, but source code would benefit me. you probably knew that and were trolling:)
both security fix backporting and long term reliability (imagine some evil company like ms purchasing opera) would benefit from source being available.
definitely. it's "packaged" vs "stick these pieces together yourself".
as a linux user i'm quite used to putting things together myself (using slackware for many years). on the other hand, if we are talking about a single software package, i prefer it to come with all the functionality. i don't have to rely on dozens of separate developers (many firefox plugins have single dev only) to keep on releasing new, compatible versions in an orchestrated manner - which almost never works that way.
looking at the ff plugins you mentioned :
abp : i've blocked most annoying ad sources in opera manually (it's damn easy to do), and i don't see the annoying ads. i do not block plaintext ads, unless i'm on a very slow gprs link, where any single connection takes several seconds, even if it's retrieving a couple of bytes. while having the list maintained for me might be easier, i'm fine by current approach. at least i don't have plugin developers try to sneak their own ads through...
forecastfox : i'm using kweather. i prefer keeping generic functionality out of single app, which is also why i'm not using any opera widgets.
noscript : while this is not as optimal in opera, there has been ability to quickly switch global js/plugin (including flash) and java status, as well as override it on a per site basis. noscript has this better, but current status in opera satisfies my needs.
imacros : that might be useful. opera has some functionality like that, but i never got to trying it out.
download stuff : i either use opera download manager, which is one of the best in browsers, or wget for longer downloads on servers.
febe : probably what opera link is (?). not using that.
now, what i'm getting to - it's all included. i don't have to search for these plugins to get this functionality (you didn't mention mouse gestures and probably a shitload of other functionality - i'm not browsing w/o mouse gestures anymore). it's all available right there, with a single download.
now, hunting down and installing plugins once might not be that bad. the problem is with _updating_.
i've been using thunderbird since version... 0.2 or 0.3. it crashed badly and ate my mails at least once (i had a backup). but it has improved a lot in that regard, and i still use it. but i use version 2. why ? i downloaded and run version 3. it said that it is incompatible with 4 of the plugins i use - out of 4. great. 3 went the rm way, 2 is here for a while.
plugins are the strength and weakness of firefox. many are great, many are unique or best - if they are maintained and if they are compatible and if they work for you. if not, they count as missing features.
it's global. and it's completely different from offline mode.
it basically means that when i go back in my history, my browser does not reload pages, but instead shows them as they were - which is perfect for me. as mentioned, i can recover comments if some error happens, see previous status messages in different systems etc.
this does not work across sessions, if i close and re-open browser, it reverts to page listing (which seems to be pretty much what firefox does).
this is not the default behaviour, i have set my history caching to the most aggressive option available, because i find it to be so massively useful. my biggest gripe, and one i have cursed opera developers about a lot - this does not work properly with https sites, even if i have unmarked "always reload https" option.
that's an extremely commercial software centric viewpoint. here's one way how most opensource projects would put it.
alpha : it's just what we are working on. nothing is set in stone, major features might appear or disappear.
beta : this has a chance to be next stable release. no major features will appear or disappear, but we will fix stuff and change detail here or there.
release candidate : this will be final release. UNLESS we find critical bug, like major functionality broken or a security bug.
some projects also include so called "string freeze" - this means that user visible strings - ui text - are "frozen" and not changed, unless some emergency happens. this is usually done to give translators enough time to translate everything, and present a nice, polished translated release. string freeze tends to happen in the time period before first beta and before first rc, depending on project focus.
all this is not required or inflexible - but it should serve as an illustration why calling alphas "internal only" is not appropriate.
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that's actually something completely different - it's meant for cases when somebody else has logged in using the same browser before (and thus cookies claim that person is still logged in)
well, yes, exactly :)
a video of some 5 minutes can take up to 30 minutes to download on a bad day. it can have 10 or more connect resets inbetween. youtube player hears lots of curses from me if i _really_ want to see it - usually i just close it.
it's not killing them on purpose - sometimes i have an open connection for days. but sometimes it just sucks, resets connect (which means a new ip -> all ssh and related connections broken).
with a normal download option i could just leave wget nicely getting me the content and watch it later, without annoying interruptions.
ah, but with my gprs longer videos fail to download completely. if i then try to resume downloading by placing position marker near the location it has stopped, often it discards all the data before the marker (at least in the visual player).
there is one thing preserving sanity, if i'm bothered enough, though : http://code.google.com/p/get-flash-videos/
If YouTube only offers HD content using the new codec, there will be significant impetus for users to switch to HTML5-compliant browsers, or install plugins that enable similar functionality.
that's a very good point. google seems to be trying hard to deal with msie, so that might be another nail in the nailgun (haha).
too bad the voting server did not survive slashdotting :)
"Error contacting server"
another ideas i'd like to see are :
+ ability to download videos (i'm on a slow gprs and not being able to download them makes it almost impossible to watch);
+ more supported upload formats. i tried to upload videos encoded with several codecs to youtube, they all failed. ended up at blip.tv, they had no broblems decoding and converting the videos.
can't add/search for them on the site right now...
i'm having a pretty bad eyesight myself, and i fully support harsh measures against people who park in reserved spots (with common reasoning "but they still would be unused !").
still, the behaviour you are describing annoys me a lot. i don't mean "do not help me" attitude - i've several times tried to help people in wheelchair only to get rude reaction. while i think that discourages others from helping them ever, that's not that bad.
what's worse, people who not only feel entitled, but _special_, even better. this is especially evident in some parents, who believe their handicapped children are more special than others. that's doubly-disturbing because they sometimes even refuse to allow curing of some sympthoms because they would remove this "specialness" !
i'd really love to see extremely cheap eye, limb regrowing, fixing of broken spines etc, so if somebody on purpose would refuse to take such measures (not because treatment is not available or because they could not afford it) only to feel more special and entitled, we could make fun of them. as a bonus, it would help millions of people who actually want to regain their health.
i've used avidemux for simple editing, and it worked great - that is, stable version. i tried trunk before that, and yeah, it did crash often. but that's why it's trunk :)
while avidemux isn't piled with features, it mostly satisfied my needs. some fancy subtitle editor built-in would be nice.
hmm. maybe make also airlines responsible for the damage to the goods in transit ?
it's somehow interesting how they have managed to get complete immunity to any damage they do to the goods you entrust them for transfer.
"printed" pdfs miss things like bookmarks, proper table of contents etc.
also, have you ever exported from a recent oo.org to pdf ?
if not, try that and take a look at the amount of available options...
actually, the article is about china. not what i'd call a "tiny country"
ok, so average speed for the chinese train is 349 km/h, and max speed for french is 574 km/h.
speed of sound, according to wikipedia, is ~ 1236 km/h, so that's pretty damn impressive for trains.
also, can somebody please tag the story with imperialunits, slashdot tagging isn't working for me for the last 6 months or so. not that it worked great before.
i do have brought wine in my baggage. but that requires actually having one with you (i'm often going with hand luggage only), and, as you mentioned, packing things up really carefully.
while i've been lucky to have a bottle break only once (it was packed with clothes, but i suppose they were keen on football or something), i've also seen a hard casing with an expensive bottle in it completely smashed. you have to try _really_ hard to break it, but somehow the bastards did it.
now, what i am annoyed at - previously when traveling back from germany (or some other country with decent beers) i stuffed my hand luggage with bottles, did not have to pack them with three times volume of clothes - went through the security check, where people were smiling when seeing contents of the bag - and then bring it back home without breaking a single bottle.
they didn't even blow up.
* Photos: All electronic equipment must be switched off. I bet it's a digital camera?
* Music: Same goes. If you have the plugs in your ear you are most likely listening and you were not able to hear the attendants telling you ti switch it off.
right. and these devices were just fine for decades... the suddenly they became dangerous. i don't buy it.
* Blanket: If there is an emergency that blanket will cost lives. Try exiting a seat row in a hurry when the person next to the isle has a blanket.
that's a better point. although she was sitting by the window. and even if that is the real reason, it should be _explained_. i think the attitude contributes a lot to make all the measures seem incredibly silly (not that most of them aren't ;) )
excellent, i wanted to propose bringing empty glass bottle, but was unsure whether that would work - getting it after the theater will work for sure.
just doing some wood work, any wood object might also do (walking stick etc) - make sure to get one that breaks in sharp, long remains, and you can equip whole party !
oh, right, when restrictions come in small amounts, people will get used to them. just like you have.
if i have to arrive an hour early for a 30 minute flight and waste half an hour of that on ridiculous procedures like taking off my boots (which is annoying as hell in winter, as i have to spend a minute to get them back on), walk over dirty floor in my socks, take out my belt, very often be touched by some man in uniform all over.
i had nail clippers taken from me. the pointy part was ~ 5 or 6 millimeters long. i had hunted for ones i like for several years and found them on lithuanian market - i still haven't found a replacement that's as good. fucking plastic forks they give out on the flight are more dangerous.
i'm not allowed to take any drinks with me that i like. more specifically, i'm not allowed to take beer back from germany :)
i'm not allowed to take photos of taking off or landing (which was just fine for decades before, and those times are when you are most likely to get a nice photo). i'm not allowed to FUCKING LISTED TO MUSIC. i've had flight attendants wake me up if i just as much as have headphones on my ears with the player off. i don't like being waken up unless necessary.
my girlfriend was denied a blanket because "we are taking off". the plane was awfully cold, even i might have preferred a blanket - and i'm the person who wears shorts at zero degrees.
now that's all europe only. for usa, so i hear, i have to fill forms where required level of stupidity to create them just is not comprehensible to me (do you plan to commit acts of terrorism ?), give fingerprints, subject oneself to arrogant and rude questioning, possibly give out all passwords for any it related devices and maybe even have them confiscated, without any compensation.
i don't know firsthand, as i have refused to travel to usa several times in recent past because of this.
i suppose it all goes down to what level dignity you expect to have. unfortunately, that seems to be way low for too many people.
now let's see what all these measures help, if any. let's look at the plastic already inside the airplane - i'm sure most of it could be melted with a lighter to create damn efficient knife.
talking about what improvised weapons one could bring on the airplane - let's see, it should be trivial to make legs of the glasses very sturdy and with pointy ends to create a very nice weapon.
let's look at camera tripods. they already have decent diameter tube. take off the plastic/rubber cap, make the ending a bit sharper, replace the cap - that's an awfully scary weapon, it has a shallow ending to increase bleeding.
i'm sure slashdot crowd could come up with ways to transform majority of everyday items into weapons, and i'm sure skeery terrirists aren't as dumb and stone age as your media might want to portray them. there has to be some reason why every flight is not terrorised by some whacko with handmade pointy thing.
isn't this "circumvention of protection measures" ? :)
if you don't plan to go to court, send them some nasty dmca letter (assuming you both are in usa).
i left windows around the time when far manager pretty much ruled windows file manager field, so i haven't used total commander.
what's wrong with mc overall, why can't you use it (that's what i am mostly doing) ?
too bad they still haven't answered to the highest-voted data liberation suggestion ;)
http://moderator.appspot.com/#15/e=43649&t=4364a
i'm not sure whether you could have chosen a worse example on /.
that's a great advice. another - order some new functionality or changes.
basically, a procurement to implement some feature you might be missing in the software. maybe improve some functionality.
it's a legitimate contract, and in the end you (and everybody else) gets some great feature.
sure. kernel is quite decent in some releases. latest thunderbird 2 releases are extremely stable. openoffice 1.1 series in the latest versions were _incredibly_ stable. kde3 is extremely nice. amarok 1.4 is great. i'd say apache is quite nice. you could probably find at least one opensource db that would fit such a description. :)
aaaand so on. so, were you serious ?
i don't code at all, but source code would benefit me. you probably knew that and were trolling :)
both security fix backporting and long term reliability (imagine some evil company like ms purchasing opera) would benefit from source being available.
definitely. it's "packaged" vs "stick these pieces together yourself".
as a linux user i'm quite used to putting things together myself (using slackware for many years). on the other hand, if we are talking about a single software package, i prefer it to come with all the functionality.
i don't have to rely on dozens of separate developers (many firefox plugins have single dev only) to keep on releasing new, compatible versions in an orchestrated manner - which almost never works that way.
looking at the ff plugins you mentioned :
abp : i've blocked most annoying ad sources in opera manually (it's damn easy to do), and i don't see the annoying ads. i do not block plaintext ads, unless i'm on a very slow gprs link, where any single connection takes several seconds, even if it's retrieving a couple of bytes. while having the list maintained for me might be easier, i'm fine by current approach. at least i don't have plugin developers try to sneak their own ads through...
forecastfox : i'm using kweather. i prefer keeping generic functionality out of single app, which is also why i'm not using any opera widgets.
noscript : while this is not as optimal in opera, there has been ability to quickly switch global js/plugin (including flash) and java status, as well as override it on a per site basis. noscript has this better, but current status in opera satisfies my needs.
imacros : that might be useful. opera has some functionality like that, but i never got to trying it out.
download stuff : i either use opera download manager, which is one of the best in browsers, or wget for longer downloads on servers.
febe : probably what opera link is (?). not using that.
now, what i'm getting to - it's all included. i don't have to search for these plugins to get this functionality (you didn't mention mouse gestures and probably a shitload of other functionality - i'm not browsing w/o mouse gestures anymore).
it's all available right there, with a single download.
now, hunting down and installing plugins once might not be that bad. the problem is with _updating_.
i've been using thunderbird since version... 0.2 or 0.3. it crashed badly and ate my mails at least once (i had a backup). but it has improved a lot in that regard, and i still use it. but i use version 2. why ? i downloaded and run version 3. it said that it is incompatible with 4 of the plugins i use - out of 4. great. 3 went the rm way, 2 is here for a while.
plugins are the strength and weakness of firefox. many are great, many are unique or best - if they are maintained and if they are compatible and if they work for you. if not, they count as missing features.
it's global. and it's completely different from offline mode.
it basically means that when i go back in my history, my browser does not reload pages, but instead shows them as they were - which is perfect for me. as mentioned, i can recover comments if some error happens, see previous status messages in different systems etc.
this does not work across sessions, if i close and re-open browser, it reverts to page listing (which seems to be pretty much what firefox does).
this is not the default behaviour, i have set my history caching to the most aggressive option available, because i find it to be so massively useful. my biggest gripe, and one i have cursed opera developers about a lot - this does not work properly with https sites, even if i have unmarked "always reload https" option.
that's an extremely commercial software centric viewpoint. here's one way how most opensource projects would put it.
alpha : it's just what we are working on. nothing is set in stone, major features might appear or disappear.
beta : this has a chance to be next stable release. no major features will appear or disappear, but we will fix stuff and change detail here or there.
release candidate : this will be final release. UNLESS we find critical bug, like major functionality broken or a security bug.
some projects also include so called "string freeze" - this means that user visible strings - ui text - are "frozen" and not changed, unless some emergency happens. this is usually done to give translators enough time to translate everything, and present a nice, polished translated release. string freeze tends to happen in the time period before first beta and before first rc, depending on project focus.
all this is not required or inflexible - but it should serve as an illustration why calling alphas "internal only" is not appropriate.