Sorry, where was I bigoted? A bigot is someone who is unreasonably intolerant of opinions different from his own. Show me where I meet that definition.
If there are three common browsers, "Foobank's special extra secure login" extension/plugin can only be written for some plugin api which exists in all three. This would mean that if I want to make the "super cool m50d browser", I can probably make it work with these propriety extensions fairly easily, because there are already three implementations, probably done completely differently. However, if the only common browser is firefox, then Foobank can write their login extension as a firefox extension, which may depend on the firefox architecture. Yes I do have the backend glue, but I might not be able to make it work without restructuring most of my browser engine to work like firefox. If my browser is written in Haskell and walks the DOM in reverse, it might not be possible at all. And that would stifle innovation.
I'm sorry but you're wrong about the processor. With that amount of RAM anything over 1GHz, even a Celeron, is overkill. And those specs are otherwise more-or-less the same as my 2-year old pc which runs win98 or gentoo perfectly happily. OK so I get about 0.2fps in the UT2004 demo with it, but for your typical grandmother, and probably for your typical office worker, those specs will be fine.
Actually, there's a simpler thing about openoffice documents that explains both these properties. It's simply that their zipped. I'm pretty sure there's some way to get it to use "archive" zips (an "uncompressed" option in the file formats?) and then saving becomes quick.
Are you sure there couldn't be a mesh? With a good enough antenna, all you need is almost-line-of-sight (diffraction can get you around a couple of hills before you lose all your signal). K5 is just talking about a new wireless standard that lets you signal 50km. Surely a mesh could form if the cells were that big?
Where this will become really interesting is when there are enough wireless networks that they all link up. Once that happens, there won't be any need for ISPs as we know them - just get your wireless box and join the big mesh that's out there. No connection fees, no censorship - then we will have a truly free internet. Transatlantic etc. links will be slower, but I'm sure that's a problem we'll overcome.
As I said to the guy above, it doesn't highlight groups with new watched messages, and iirc setting it up to watch threads with my own messages was a bit klunky, requiring me to write a rule to do so manually.
I tried it. It won't highlight groups with new messages in watched threads, and it's filtering support is a bit lacking (you have to reselect your filter for each newsgroup, rather than selecting a filter and using it for all newsgroups until you change the filter).
For XUL, it's simply a matter of time and effort. Now OK that's not as severe as the problems with ActiveX, but it's still there, and it's a problem. With the extensions there is a more serious issue though; a commercial company could create its own propriety extension, and require that you use it to view their website. Which would be a big problem. Making other browsers able to use the firefox extensions might be impossible without completely rewriting them. The extension system might make it impossible for me to alter firefox enough to get it how I like it. Which would make the web much less enjoyable for me.
However, the UK also has ballistic missile submarines. Not many, but enough, especially if France has a similar number (I'm not sure). 4 Vanguard classes, each has 16 missiles carrying 8 475Kt warheads (or 10 smaller warheads). 512 or 640 warheads may not sound much compared to the US arsenal, and indeed it isn't, but it's enough to put a big dent in anyone's day. Bottom line, any war between the US and the EU would be a bad idea, for both parties. However, the question is about *Europe*, which, last time I checked, included quite a bit of Russia. If the US goes to war with Europe it's toast, have no doubts about this.
They're mostly descended from criminals and other undesirables who were exported from europeans, thus the lower end of the bell curve for the same race when it comes to education.
Not that this makes you wrong, just saying.
Nope, I can login to my MSN account fine with Kopete. Can you login to your msn passport on msn websites? If not, looks like someone guessed your secret question.
It may well be only gui that's the trouble, and java's fine for number crunching, but for what I've tried programming gui responsiveness is important. But just concerning the compiler, it's not really a fair comparison. Compiling a java application to classes is a lot easier than compiling C++ to executables as the jit compiler will be doing the linking and a lot of what you might think of as compiling. Furthermore, have you ever tried comparing a non-optimizing C++ compiler? They can get very fast, remember the kernel in <10s story a few weeks back. So it might be just that your C++ compiler is doing more optimizing.
I think that activex extension someone pointed to earlier in the comments might do the trick. Of course then you'll have many of the security holes you would have using IE.
A future in which you cannot use a browser without XUL support would be just as bad as one in which you cannot use a browser without ActiveX support. Firefox has "extensions" to web standards too you know. We want to make sure there is nothing non-standard supported by more than, say, 70% of browsers, so that everything can be standard. And the best way for that to happen is for no browser to have more than 35% marketshare.
But mozilla's ones are open, not controlled by MS. Many people think web apps will be the next big thing. If they are in XUL they will work on all platforms. If they are in ActiveX or whatever they will help tie people to windows. So MS wants more people using IE so the web apps are written for it.
How useable is thunderbird for usenet now? I found that the filtering and watching support wasn't good enough for me to use it. I'm using knode but it's far from perfect. Anyone know of a linux newsreader that will let me set it up so it signs posts automatically, marks threads with my messages in as watched, marks my own messages as read, puts watched messages at the top of the list and the rest in date order below it, and, here's the killer, highlights in some way groups which have new watched messages? Or do I need to write a patch for knode?
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Sorry, where was I bigoted? A bigot is someone who is unreasonably intolerant of opinions different from his own. Show me where I meet that definition.
If there are three common browsers, "Foobank's special extra secure login" extension/plugin can only be written for some plugin api which exists in all three. This would mean that if I want to make the "super cool m50d browser", I can probably make it work with these propriety extensions fairly easily, because there are already three implementations, probably done completely differently. However, if the only common browser is firefox, then Foobank can write their login extension as a firefox extension, which may depend on the firefox architecture. Yes I do have the backend glue, but I might not be able to make it work without restructuring most of my browser engine to work like firefox. If my browser is written in Haskell and walks the DOM in reverse, it might not be possible at all. And that would stifle innovation.
I'm sorry but you're wrong about the processor. With that amount of RAM anything over 1GHz, even a Celeron, is overkill. And those specs are otherwise more-or-less the same as my 2-year old pc which runs win98 or gentoo perfectly happily. OK so I get about 0.2fps in the UT2004 demo with it, but for your typical grandmother, and probably for your typical office worker, those specs will be fine.
Actually, there's a simpler thing about openoffice documents that explains both these properties. It's simply that their zipped. I'm pretty sure there's some way to get it to use "archive" zips (an "uncompressed" option in the file formats?) and then saving becomes quick.
Yes, KOffice.
KOffice is in the process of switching to it.
Are you sure there couldn't be a mesh? With a good enough antenna, all you need is almost-line-of-sight (diffraction can get you around a couple of hills before you lose all your signal). K5 is just talking about a new wireless standard that lets you signal 50km. Surely a mesh could form if the cells were that big?
Maybe there's a good reason we're the most arrogant.
Where this will become really interesting is when there are enough wireless networks that they all link up. Once that happens, there won't be any need for ISPs as we know them - just get your wireless box and join the big mesh that's out there. No connection fees, no censorship - then we will have a truly free internet. Transatlantic etc. links will be slower, but I'm sure that's a problem we'll overcome.
Who also tend to be undereducated.
As I said to the guy above, it doesn't highlight groups with new watched messages, and iirc setting it up to watch threads with my own messages was a bit klunky, requiring me to write a rule to do so manually.
I tried it. It won't highlight groups with new messages in watched threads, and it's filtering support is a bit lacking (you have to reselect your filter for each newsgroup, rather than selecting a filter and using it for all newsgroups until you change the filter).
For XUL, it's simply a matter of time and effort. Now OK that's not as severe as the problems with ActiveX, but it's still there, and it's a problem. With the extensions there is a more serious issue though; a commercial company could create its own propriety extension, and require that you use it to view their website. Which would be a big problem. Making other browsers able to use the firefox extensions might be impossible without completely rewriting them. The extension system might make it impossible for me to alter firefox enough to get it how I like it. Which would make the web much less enjoyable for me.
However, the UK also has ballistic missile submarines. Not many, but enough, especially if France has a similar number (I'm not sure). 4 Vanguard classes, each has 16 missiles carrying 8 475Kt warheads (or 10 smaller warheads). 512 or 640 warheads may not sound much compared to the US arsenal, and indeed it isn't, but it's enough to put a big dent in anyone's day. Bottom line, any war between the US and the EU would be a bad idea, for both parties. However, the question is about *Europe*, which, last time I checked, included quite a bit of Russia. If the US goes to war with Europe it's toast, have no doubts about this.
They're mostly descended from criminals and other undesirables who were exported from europeans, thus the lower end of the bell curve for the same race when it comes to education. Not that this makes you wrong, just saying.
Nope, I can login to my MSN account fine with Kopete. Can you login to your msn passport on msn websites? If not, looks like someone guessed your secret question.
Higher? I'd have thought the natural equivalent would be boots. Asses are kissed, not licked, aren't they?
Dude, the European nuclear arsenal is more than enough to destroy the US several times over. People always seem to estimate how powerful nukes are.
It may well be only gui that's the trouble, and java's fine for number crunching, but for what I've tried programming gui responsiveness is important. But just concerning the compiler, it's not really a fair comparison. Compiling a java application to classes is a lot easier than compiling C++ to executables as the jit compiler will be doing the linking and a lot of what you might think of as compiling. Furthermore, have you ever tried comparing a non-optimizing C++ compiler? They can get very fast, remember the kernel in <10s story a few weeks back. So it might be just that your C++ compiler is doing more optimizing.
I think that activex extension someone pointed to earlier in the comments might do the trick. Of course then you'll have many of the security holes you would have using IE.
A future in which you cannot use a browser without XUL support would be just as bad as one in which you cannot use a browser without ActiveX support. Firefox has "extensions" to web standards too you know. We want to make sure there is nothing non-standard supported by more than, say, 70% of browsers, so that everything can be standard. And the best way for that to happen is for no browser to have more than 35% marketshare.
But mozilla's ones are open, not controlled by MS. Many people think web apps will be the next big thing. If they are in XUL they will work on all platforms. If they are in ActiveX or whatever they will help tie people to windows. So MS wants more people using IE so the web apps are written for it.
Or do you think IE must be copied from netscape since it's UA is "Mozilla/4.0 (compatiable...)"
How useable is thunderbird for usenet now? I found that the filtering and watching support wasn't good enough for me to use it. I'm using knode but it's far from perfect. Anyone know of a linux newsreader that will let me set it up so it signs posts automatically, marks threads with my messages in as watched, marks my own messages as read, puts watched messages at the top of the list and the rest in date order below it, and, here's the killer, highlights in some way groups which have new watched messages? Or do I need to write a patch for knode?
Some would call it "artistic". But yes, the graphics do suck.