"I wonder why it took hours for/. to in essence "retract" the original story. It was being refuted all over the web and/. was still 'sticking to thier guns' per se."
But alas, I won't think out loud. I'd not want to upset a mod or anything.:-P
I've used computers for the past 10 years and I know more than most people I know (slashdotters being an exception to that rule). I know the difference between a megabyte and a gigabyte and I know a kilobyte is smaller than both, but I don't know how big a kilobyte is (wich I also often confuse with some other metric-based unit starting with a "k" that escapes me now...
Oh and SI prefix? Beats me...
Oh wait! nfl.si.com! There ya go!;-)
Oh and I didn't finish high school and hated math.
When it comes right down to it, who cares who's in the lead? Everybody has their fave and that's what matters. I like both GNOME and KDE. I can't pick a favorite. There are features GNOME has that I wish KDE did and vice-versa.
But as far as "who's in the lead" goes, does it really matter?
I'm sorry I dared mentione that I'd read (several times, a year or so ago) that KDE was ahead. I didn't know it would incite a riot....
Record companies have been screwing the public for years and artists for even longer.
Long before the original Napster took off (when mp3 sharing was non-existant) the record companies were making obscene profits on CDs. They were actually charging more for them then they did in the early days of CDs (mid 1980s) and yet their cost to produce them had dropped considerably (it's a "volume" thing).
So frankly while not legal and ethical, I think they got what they deserved.
There are artists who have contracts with RIAA labels who in fact *support* "illegal" file sharing of thier works. Yes, I'm sure they are in a minority, but nevertheless.....
Recently I caved and purchased about 50 songs online via Buy.com and MSN music. It was an enjoyable experience, getting just the songs I want, without trying to hunt them down on a P2P network and waiting 3 hours for a download from someone with a 56k modem and 8 connections......
However, while the reliability factor is a frustration in P2P downlads, this DRM crap is something else.
You now have to memorise just what you can (and cannot) do with your downloaded music (no I'm not speaking of sharing it). Can I burn this to a CD? To a DVD? Can I burn it to CD as a file vs it converting to regular CD-format? Oh and now oftgen can I do all of this?
The answer could literally be different for every one of the files I downloaded based on all the terms I glanced over on each site.
This is bullshit. I cap play my CDs in any CD player I want as many times as I want. I can bring them to you place and play them on your CD player (or the CD drive in your computer).
Oh and I can also rip them on any computer and save them to any number of file formats (well save for some of the newer ones with that nasty copy-protection - another peeve).
If labels are going to continue to alienate the public with all this BS, then the public is bound to fight back in some way or other.
Illegal file sharing was one of those ways.
Yes it's illegal. I don't deny that. But what do they expect?
I recall reading an article in the past year about how IT people need to learn to communicate with and not talk down to "everyone else".
I'm guilty of "talking down" to a lof of people who I feel should know better. But the fact is, they don't. It's wrong of me (or anyone else) to behave this way (even if you are right....).
Mozilla needs to somehow snag a deal with someone like Dell or HP to be preinstalled on their new computers.
That is probably the best way for Firefox to snag any significant market share.
Being that Mozilla.org is nonprofit, I can't see that happening and that's too bad.
Netscape did it for while, a few years a while back. They even still have the default home page on new HP desktops (in Internet Explorer, interestingly enough).
My sentiments exactly. The majority of users aren't geeks (nor have they ever heard of/.). They are generally perfectly content with the defaults on thier computer.
Heck part of the reason they'd never switch to Firefox is because they would actually have to install software.
I've seen this statistic all over the web for quite some time now. I don't know the exact number, but I recall it was between 40% and 50% of the X desktop market. It's been that way for years. Just look at the bigger names in Linux distros. Most of them ship with KDE as the default desktop (SuSE, Mandriva, Slackware, Xandros....).
GNOME has alwyas been #2, although I'd not be surprised if they have gained in market share in recent years.
"Anyone else use BofA? I personally enjoy having to select Espanol or English every time I use a terminal...even though I've been an English-only customer since 1990 or so."
Since the mods seem to be OK with this off topic divergence here, I'll throw in my $.02.
I've been with BofA for the past 10 years and have been (overall) happy with them. It took them forever and a day to get their online (web-based) banking up to snuff but when they finally did, it was equal to or better than the competition.
As far as their ATMs asking you if you'd like to transact in English or Spanish is concerned, I can only say that they are hardly the only bank around with ATMs that ask this question.
I have a novel idea!;-) If you don't like BofA, I'm sure the competition will welcome your business....
Ditto here. Although I'm one of the crazies who actually like (and use) both GNOME and KDE. Ubuntu intrigued me from it's first release last fall, but since it was "GNOME only" I stuck with Fedora Core.
I've been playing with both the Ubuntu and Kubuntu Hoary live CDs for the past week and I'll be installing the Ubuntu release and then doing an apt-get kubuntu-desktop.
I'm familliar with the plugin, but have no desire to infect Firefox w/ActiveX, thank you....
Launch is a site I truet, so I don't have qualms about ActiveX there (other than wondering why they don't dump it). I seem to recall Yahoo! is a BSD shop...
Slashdot Mirror
Next time, do a bit of research. Many of us knew when the release date was and wouldn't have dreamed of downloading the RC the day beforehand. ;-)
:-)
Oh and you could use a better internet connection too.
"I wonder why it took hours for /. to in essence "retract" the original story. It was being refuted all over the web and /. was still 'sticking to thier guns' per se."
:-P
But alas, I won't think out loud. I'd not want to upset a mod or anything.
I guess they don't count....
Who said they were scientists?
;-)
;-)
I've used computers for the past 10 years and I know more than most people I know (slashdotters being an exception to that rule). I know the difference between a megabyte and a gigabyte and I know a kilobyte is smaller than both, but I don't know how big a kilobyte is (wich I also often confuse with some other metric-based unit starting with a "k" that escapes me now...
Oh and SI prefix? Beats me...
Oh wait! nfl.si.com! There ya go!
Oh and I didn't finish high school and hated math.
But, I'm lovin' Linux!
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050929 Firefox/1.0.7 (Ubuntu package 1.0.7)
I'm not sure how they are "FUD".
When it comes right down to it, who cares who's in the lead? Everybody has their fave and that's what matters. I like both GNOME and KDE. I can't pick a favorite. There are features GNOME has that I wish KDE did and vice-versa.
But as far as "who's in the lead" goes, does it really matter?
I'm sorry I dared mentione that I'd read (several times, a year or so ago) that KDE was ahead. I didn't know it would incite a riot....
Record companies have been screwing the public for years and artists for even longer.
Long before the original Napster took off (when mp3 sharing was non-existant) the record companies were making obscene profits on CDs. They were actually charging more for them then they did in the early days of CDs (mid 1980s) and yet their cost to produce them had dropped considerably (it's a "volume" thing).
So frankly while not legal and ethical, I think they got what they deserved.
There are artists who have contracts with RIAA labels who in fact *support* "illegal" file sharing of thier works. Yes, I'm sure they are in a minority, but nevertheless.....
Recently I caved and purchased about 50 songs online via Buy.com and MSN music. It was an enjoyable experience, getting just the songs I want, without trying to hunt them down on a P2P network and waiting 3 hours for a download from someone with a 56k modem and 8 connections......
However, while the reliability factor is a frustration in P2P downlads, this DRM crap is something else.
You now have to memorise just what you can (and cannot) do with your downloaded music (no I'm not speaking of sharing it). Can I burn this to a CD? To a DVD? Can I burn it to CD as a file vs it converting to regular CD-format? Oh and now oftgen can I do all of this?
The answer could literally be different for every one of the files I downloaded based on all the terms I glanced over on each site.
This is bullshit. I cap play my CDs in any CD player I want as many times as I want. I can bring them to you place and play them on your CD player (or the CD drive in your computer).
Oh and I can also rip them on any computer and save them to any number of file formats (well save for some of the newer ones with that nasty copy-protection - another peeve).
If labels are going to continue to alienate the public with all this BS, then the public is bound to fight back in some way or other.
Illegal file sharing was one of those ways.
Yes it's illegal. I don't deny that. But what do they expect?
So then, what about the artists (with big label contracts) who favor and/or encourage file sharing?
There are alternatives to Adobe Reader for Windows.....
Just so you'll know, I'm writing this with the help of Firefox and Ubuntu 5.10....
OpenOffice.org is great for the money, but if and when Codeweavers CrossOver Office supports Office 2003, I'm there.
I have OpenOffice.org on the Windows side too, but the fact is Office 2003 is better (even without PDF support).
I always thought that was just a TIFF file that it output.
Well considering most magainze are about to put out (or have put out) their November issue, it might as well be.
It's normal for best-of-the-year stuff to come out now.
As far advertiser incentives, thatg's a question. Personally, I doubt it.
And?
Falcon Northwest, ABS, Velocity Micro (and to a lesser extent, Dell, Gateway, Sys, Systemax, mpc) do the same thing.
Not everyone wanting a high-end box also wants to build it themselves. 8 months ago I bought a "gaming" box from ABS for $2600.00 (no Monitor).
I don't have the aptitude to build any computer, but I stitl lilke a kick-ass box.
I seriously considered Alienware but I just find thier cases ugly AND I saved a few hundred with similar components from ABS.
I have no doubt that the Alienware model PCWorld put in it's top 100 is a kick-ass box and that's why it got there.
20+ long character passwords? Holy Sh**!
I'll settle for my 10-character ones like S82b*%eU9j, which is a vast impovement over past ones like "Michelle75"...
I recall reading an article in the past year about how IT people need to learn to communicate with and not talk down to "everyone else".
I'm guilty of "talking down" to a lof of people who I feel should know better. But the fact is, they don't. It's wrong of me (or anyone else) to behave this way (even if you are right....).
And more power to her!
Mozilla needs to somehow snag a deal with someone like Dell or HP to be preinstalled on their new computers.
That is probably the best way for Firefox to snag any significant market share.
Being that Mozilla.org is nonprofit, I can't see that happening and that's too bad.
Netscape did it for while, a few years a while back. They even still have the default home page on new HP desktops (in Internet Explorer, interestingly enough).
But then, Time Warner can afford such deals.
My sentiments exactly. The majority of users aren't geeks (nor have they ever heard of /.). They are generally perfectly content with the defaults on thier computer.
Heck part of the reason they'd never switch to Firefox is because they would actually have to install software.
I've seen this statistic all over the web for quite some time now. I don't know the exact number, but I recall it was between 40% and 50% of the X desktop market. It's been that way for years. Just look at the bigger names in Linux distros. Most of them ship with KDE as the default desktop (SuSE, Mandriva, Slackware, Xandros....).
GNOME has alwyas been #2, although I'd not be surprised if they have gained in market share in recent years.
Personally, I like (and alternate between) both.
Interesting. I've never had a problem with this.
:-)
First of all, Firefox will continually check for updates not only to the program itself, but to any extensions and themses you may have installed.
You do need to turn on this preference howerver. Go into Options-->Advanced-->Update and check the appropriate boxes.
So you don't need to manually check, it does it for you.
You could also subscribe by email to Mozilla.org Press Releases. Any updates to Firefox would be mentioned in a press release. There is also a RSS feed of the Press Releases.
Since the mods seem to be OK with this off topic divergence here, I'll throw in my $.02.
I've been with BofA for the past 10 years and have been (overall) happy with them. It took them forever and a day to get their online (web-based) banking up to snuff but when they finally did, it was equal to or better than the competition.
As far as their ATMs asking you if you'd like to transact in English or Spanish is concerned, I can only say that they are hardly the only bank around with ATMs that ask this question.
I have a novel idea!
a) It's convenient and
b)the OpenCD Project is sponsored by Canonical Ltd, who in turn brings us Ubuntu.
Ditto here. Although I'm one of the crazies who actually like (and use) both GNOME and KDE. Ubuntu intrigued me from it's first release last fall, but since it was "GNOME only" I stuck with Fedora Core.
:-)
I've been playing with both the Ubuntu and Kubuntu Hoary live CDs for the past week and I'll be installing the Ubuntu release and then doing an apt-get kubuntu-desktop.
So long, Fedora.
I'm familliar with the plugin, but have no desire to infect Firefox w/ActiveX, thank you....
Launch is a site I truet, so I don't have qualms about ActiveX there (other than wondering why they don't dump it). I seem to recall Yahoo! is a BSD shop...
Actually what I think he meant was something more like...
& t=1
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=281
The UA switcher is worthless on sites that rely on ActiveX controls (http://launch.yahoo.com strangely being one of them).