Some of the time, I'm mostly a Konqueror user. I don't think the ads make it look too fractured personally, but I can see that. IIRC (it's a while since I've used it), the second back and forward buttons go a site at a time, which is handy. Like if you were searching for something, you can go to a result, have a look around the site, then go back to your search with one click. If you want to close a bunch of tabs you can use the x underneath the one for the whole window, then you can keep your mouse in place. I agree with you on search toolbars, I just get rid of them and use gg: foo or wp: foo. There's one thing I think opera's done far far better than anyone else and that's the status bar. It actually tells you what it's doing, and makes the browser feel so much more responsive.
Perhaps the point is that that price is significantly lower for poor Indian call centre workers? I'm sure if you offered someone in my office enough money they'd sell you personal details, but not for $4 each.
You normally give them your credit card and sometimes even let them take it out of your sight. At that point they can run it through a stripe reader and thus clone the card.
How long until someone makes a key generator? Which windows XP serials are valid is already known, and there's not much else the program could be using to make its key (there's no challenge/response element because it doesn't know which program download corresponts to which access, unless I'm mistaken), so surely the algorithm can be reverse engineered and there you are?
It's only one letter extra, and it helps you know what libraries you mean. I wouldn't go looking for a photo app, look for a photo app and then see what you need for it, if it starts with K you know it's kde wheras if it's just called PhotoEdit how would you know?
And if you want a kde app for something, just search for that thing on kde-apps.org.
The XML format is compatible as far as copyright goes, but there may be patent issues. It might not be GPL-3 compatible (it's not apache-compatible) and under the GPLv2 it might not be distributable in some countries. However, unless I've missed something that's still not going to be the default format for saving.
It's GPL, which arguably makes it more free than GTK, and certainly freer than Sun's funky licenses. The license issue that the harmony project and even gnome were meant to address is 4 years old, the only reason people still care is gnome keeps spreading FUD about it.
No, I think opera's is a better mechanism, just show the page you saw, not the page as it is now. If I go back to http://slashdot.org/comments.pl, I don't want an empty comments.pl, I definitely don't want it to POST my comment again, I just want to see the "submitted comment" page I originally got. Even when it's something like bbc news front page, I'd prefer to go back to the same page than back to whatever's now at that location.
You're right, of course. If there was just another implementation of swing that would probably be enough. But in order for there to be any advantage to using java, it would have to be swing, and it would have to be sun swing, so it would be incredibly slow
I don't think it solves "the hardest maths problems we have ever been able to think up as a species in mere seconds". QCs don't make much of an impact on factorial or even exponential time stuff, they're just handily nondeterministic.
I don't mind flash for sites that actually need it. Playing nanaca crash, watching weebl and bob, fine. Doing a flashy menu that is functionally identical to an ordinary one, no. It's a significant performance hit for me (not all of us have fast boxes) so don't use it without an actual reason.
Someone above said this launch was funded with the insurance from the previous one, so it seems the planetary society insures things. It's not always done, I remember when the first Arianne 5 exploded the irreplaceable satellites aboard were not insured.
It's not like breaking a window with a crowbar, because you don't break anything. It's more like climbing in through an unlocked window. Which, when people fall victim to it, they do get blamed for. There's a certain level after which you've done enough, but victims of thieves who left a key under the mat or something do get blamed - and that's how stupid a lot of user actions are when it comes to computers.
The difference is hackers don't do much damage wheras organized criminals do. It's sorta like you should be grateful if someone breaks into your house but doesn't take anything, because it shows you you need a better door wheras if you'd just waited for a real criminal you would have lost stuff.
Typefaces aren't copyrightable. However, programs which produce them (i.e. ttf files) are. Anyway, yes it's patents, compile your own freetype and ignore them.
If it were written in Java you'd need an 8-way machine to run it. And it would look like ass. And it wouldn't be free enough. Java only relies on the base runtime being ported, yes, but it can only really be ported by Sun, and they're in no hurry to port it to obscure systems. Look at the trouble the BeOS people are having with it.
The great advantage of free software is that you have the source, so you can compile it on any platform. That lets it run faster too.
For free software that works on multiple platforms without recompiling I use python and tkinter or qt for the gui. I think the community as a whole is going for mono though.
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As someone else has said, the free market only benefits the businesses, the rest is just propaganda.
Some of the time, I'm mostly a Konqueror user. I don't think the ads make it look too fractured personally, but I can see that. IIRC (it's a while since I've used it), the second back and forward buttons go a site at a time, which is handy. Like if you were searching for something, you can go to a result, have a look around the site, then go back to your search with one click. If you want to close a bunch of tabs you can use the x underneath the one for the whole window, then you can keep your mouse in place. I agree with you on search toolbars, I just get rid of them and use gg: foo or wp: foo. There's one thing I think opera's done far far better than anyone else and that's the status bar. It actually tells you what it's doing, and makes the browser feel so much more responsive.
Perhaps the point is that that price is significantly lower for poor Indian call centre workers? I'm sure if you offered someone in my office enough money they'd sell you personal details, but not for $4 each.
You normally give them your credit card and sometimes even let them take it out of your sight. At that point they can run it through a stripe reader and thus clone the card.
How do you it wasn't distributed without source?
How long until someone makes a key generator? Which windows XP serials are valid is already known, and there's not much else the program could be using to make its key (there's no challenge/response element because it doesn't know which program download corresponts to which access, unless I'm mistaken), so surely the algorithm can be reverse engineered and there you are?
And if you want a kde app for something, just search for that thing on kde-apps.org.
Remember that KOffice started before OOo did. Also, it's far more lightweight. To me it's worth using over OOo.
The XML format is compatible as far as copyright goes, but there may be patent issues. It might not be GPL-3 compatible (it's not apache-compatible) and under the GPLv2 it might not be distributable in some countries. However, unless I've missed something that's still not going to be the default format for saving.
It's in the works for when Qt4 is out, KDE4 is going to run natively on windows. Look how long it took OOo to get native support for OSX.
It's GPL, which arguably makes it more free than GTK, and certainly freer than Sun's funky licenses. The license issue that the harmony project and even gnome were meant to address is 4 years old, the only reason people still care is gnome keeps spreading FUD about it.
It's just good business sense. If you could cripple your competitors' OSes while acquiring things you wanted, wouldn't you do it?
Opera has a far cleaner interface, and the users seem to advocate it even more than firefox users.
No, I think opera's is a better mechanism, just show the page you saw, not the page as it is now. If I go back to http://slashdot.org/comments.pl, I don't want an empty comments.pl, I definitely don't want it to POST my comment again, I just want to see the "submitted comment" page I originally got. Even when it's something like bbc news front page, I'd prefer to go back to the same page than back to whatever's now at that location.
You're right, of course. If there was just another implementation of swing that would probably be enough. But in order for there to be any advantage to using java, it would have to be swing, and it would have to be sun swing, so it would be incredibly slow
I don't think it solves "the hardest maths problems we have ever been able to think up as a species in mere seconds". QCs don't make much of an impact on factorial or even exponential time stuff, they're just handily nondeterministic.
I don't mind flash for sites that actually need it. Playing nanaca crash, watching weebl and bob, fine. Doing a flashy menu that is functionally identical to an ordinary one, no. It's a significant performance hit for me (not all of us have fast boxes) so don't use it without an actual reason.
Oh, wait. Damn!
Someone above said this launch was funded with the insurance from the previous one, so it seems the planetary society insures things. It's not always done, I remember when the first Arianne 5 exploded the irreplaceable satellites aboard were not insured.
Is it me or does saying "ATI will beat it in a couple of months" sound awful like "Longhorn will be better than this though"?
It's not like breaking a window with a crowbar, because you don't break anything. It's more like climbing in through an unlocked window. Which, when people fall victim to it, they do get blamed for. There's a certain level after which you've done enough, but victims of thieves who left a key under the mat or something do get blamed - and that's how stupid a lot of user actions are when it comes to computers.
The difference is hackers don't do much damage wheras organized criminals do. It's sorta like you should be grateful if someone breaks into your house but doesn't take anything, because it shows you you need a better door wheras if you'd just waited for a real criminal you would have lost stuff.
Typefaces aren't copyrightable. However, programs which produce them (i.e. ttf files) are. Anyway, yes it's patents, compile your own freetype and ignore them.
The great advantage of free software is that you have the source, so you can compile it on any platform. That lets it run faster too.
For free software that works on multiple platforms without recompiling I use python and tkinter or qt for the gui. I think the community as a whole is going for mono though.
As I'm sure you know or at least could guess, khtml is a html rendering library developed by the kde project.