Let's say the lawyers put in 8000 hours and he put about 2 minutes into writing his post. If we equate the time as equal, which you will object to ("courtroom"), then he is owed about $83.33 for his two minutes (*).
I agree with your mainpoint about victims but don't you think the amount lawyers are able to get encourages these kind of law suits solely for fiscal reward? It is sort of a modern day bounty hunters association that operates under the guise of looking out for the common guy.
* hey you, yeah you, the guy that reads foot notes (that is everyone here, we're geeks), this is just a silly example that is so stupid it could be toppled by a small puff of air out of a straw, my point is merely to relate $20 mil to semi-reality
I'm into digital photography and image resizing just blows chunks. I'm sure the Mozilla gods have blessed us with a config option to disable this "feature."
I brought the first DVD for $6 shipped when it first came out. Were you not on the net at the time or something? It was a huge push to encourage the final hump of mass consumer adoption of DVDs. While, not only that release but others at the time. Maybe you should spend a bit of that waiting time over at dvdtalk.com. Considering $6 is the price of renting it a couple times I consider it a worthwhile purchase.
So why have insurance costs risen over the last couple years? These companies are passing on their costs to their customers. Why would McDonalds be any different?/me starts looking for the insurance settlement paying fairy
I'm on his mailing list so I read the thing last night. I wasn't surprised to see it here on/. since he won't take feedback on it at his site. All of his criticisms were the compelling issues of each area 5 years ago. I found his comment about the quoting characters most laughable as, while the whole thing is way overblown, there are valid reasons for the style. Think Joel got flamed on usenet and never returned?
I can understand the pragmatic approach but with his outdated "world view" the whole email/post comes off as half-baked.
Same thing but on an XGA Dell Inspiron 4000 with same video chip (ATI Rage-M). I can also hear the same things on heavy memory operations like kernel compiling (of course the hard drive has to be somewhat silent).
Well I for one sometimes forget I'm using tabs and hit Ctrl-Tab in X/KDE to switch between pages. If I were able to choose to switch between all applications and all tabs of applications using Ctrl-Tab I would probably choose to do so(*). Those shrill screams you just heard was the UI guys having a nervous breakdown after reading that last sentence;).
* to spell it out in detail: Hitting Ctrl-Tab in X/KDE would have a choice for all the open applications (if the application has tabs, then the first one would be the first tab) and all tabs of those applications (besides the first tab of course). In KDE maybe the current scheme of program icons could be copied with a bunch of icons of the same application below each main program icon if the program has tabs. Yes, I realize that tabs are created in aps so there is no universal way of getting what windows have tabs and making that application switch to the tab you want but...
The first part was supposed to mention that Galeon & Phoenix embed or reuse Mozilla stuff, not the IE engine as it reads now... I'm on my 3rd cup of joe too so no excuse!
Just to point out CrazyBrowser is a new web browser in the same way as Galeon or the browser-formerly-known-as-phoenix-yet-not-renamed- yet. They use the IE engine.
From the FAQ page: Crazy Browser is not IE plug-in or add-on, it just uses IE rendering engine to render the Web pages. Programming is not so easy, I have been developing Crazy Browser for two years.
I tried CrazyBrowser in the lab at school and it was pretty sweet. I did find the multiple close buttons a little odd, non-intuitive, and put in a poor location.
What exactly is wrong with using absolute statements? The whole "in my opinion", "most likely", yadda yadda just makes more dribble. Any rational person has to assume that the person they are talking to is full of BS and work UP from there using their judgement and information gathered. Why assume the person isn't full of BS and then work down when pushed?
Contrary to a lot of/. posts, I'm actually interested in a rational opposing view. I just don't see one (yeah, this is your cue to reply).
It would be really sweet if it had wireless ethernet built in. The PCMCIA cards seem to suck a lot of juice. I don't have any numbers to back this up but my Orinoco card definately cuts into my Dell Inspiron 4000 battery life.
Anyone got some links to power usage on PCMCIA 802.11 cards?
Well if you use a recent version of Mozilla that can't run the java plugin from Sun's JDK (1.4.01), maybe Blackdown's version will have a plugin that works?
I'm hoping for that at least..
Maybe Sun will get with the program and release a JDK/JRE compiled with a recent version of GCC.
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Where have you been living?
Probably outside of academia. Nobody has time for navel gazing beyond the lunatic fringe.
Let's say the lawyers put in 8000 hours and he put about 2 minutes into writing his post. If we equate the time as equal, which you will object to ("courtroom"), then he is owed about $83.33 for his two minutes (*).
I agree with your mainpoint about victims but don't you think the amount lawyers are able to get encourages these kind of law suits solely for fiscal reward? It is sort of a modern day bounty hunters association that operates under the guise of looking out for the common guy.
* hey you, yeah you, the guy that reads foot notes (that is everyone here, we're geeks), this is just a silly example that is so stupid it could be toppled by a small puff of air out of a straw, my point is merely to relate $20 mil to semi-reality
Ah! That makes sense and I would tend to agree with you. Thank you for pointing out the difference.
The nightly builds support AA but it isn't enabled by default. I'm using this in my user.js:
pref("font.FreeType2.enable", true);
pref("font.FreeType2.autohinted", false);
pref("font.FreeType2.unhinted", false);
pref("font.antialias.min", 0);
Looks good to me!
me too!
I'm into digital photography and image resizing just blows chunks. I'm sure the Mozilla gods have blessed us with a config option to disable this "feature."
Or for $80/month you could have one account for unlimited usage and one account for that 1MB of data you want to serve.
What does a clueless tech support person have to do with restrictions?
JDK 1.4.1 patchset 3 on FreeBSD (daemonnews.org)
t ml
points to:
JDK 1.4.1 patchset 3 on FreeBSD (at freebsdforums.org)
the patches:
http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk14.h
Note they are ALPHA! But this is good news for native jdk on freebsd.
I brought the first DVD for $6 shipped when it first came out. Were you not on the net at the time or something? It was a huge push to encourage the final hump of mass consumer adoption of DVDs. While, not only that release but others at the time. Maybe you should spend a bit of that waiting time over at dvdtalk.com. Considering $6 is the price of renting it a couple times I consider it a worthwhile purchase.
So why have insurance costs risen over the last couple years? These companies are passing on their costs to their customers. Why would McDonalds be any different? /me starts looking for the insurance settlement paying fairy
I'm on his mailing list so I read the thing last night. I wasn't surprised to see it here on /. since he won't take feedback on it at his site. All of his criticisms were the compelling issues of each area 5 years ago. I found his comment about the quoting characters most laughable as, while the whole thing is way overblown, there are valid reasons for the style. Think Joel got flamed on usenet and never returned?
I can understand the pragmatic approach but with his outdated "world view" the whole email/post comes off as half-baked.
I don't think even the overclockers want to read lame forums (see forums.anandtech.com, HardOCP's www.hardforums.com, etc).
Same thing but on an XGA Dell Inspiron 4000 with same video chip (ATI Rage-M). I can also hear the same things on heavy memory operations like kernel compiling (of course the hard drive has to be somewhat silent).
Well I for one sometimes forget I'm using tabs and hit Ctrl-Tab in X/KDE to switch between pages. If I were able to choose to switch between all applications and all tabs of applications using Ctrl-Tab I would probably choose to do so(*). Those shrill screams you just heard was the UI guys having a nervous breakdown after reading that last sentence ;).
* to spell it out in detail:
Hitting Ctrl-Tab in X/KDE would have a choice for all the open applications (if the application has tabs, then the first one would be the first tab) and all tabs of those applications (besides the first tab of course). In KDE maybe the current scheme of program icons could be copied with a bunch of icons of the same application below each main program icon if the program has tabs. Yes, I realize that tabs are created in aps so there is no universal way of getting what windows have tabs and making that application switch to the tab you want but...
The first part was supposed to mention that Galeon & Phoenix embed or reuse Mozilla stuff, not the IE engine as it reads now... I'm on my 3rd cup of joe too so no excuse!
Just to point out CrazyBrowser is a new web browser in the same way as Galeon or the browser-formerly-known-as-phoenix-yet-not-renamed- yet. They use the IE engine.
From the FAQ page:
Crazy Browser is not IE plug-in or add-on, it just uses IE rendering engine to render the Web pages. Programming is not so easy, I have been developing Crazy Browser for two years.
I tried CrazyBrowser in the lab at school and it was pretty sweet. I did find the multiple close buttons a little odd, non-intuitive, and put in a poor location.
What exactly is wrong with using absolute statements? The whole "in my opinion", "most likely", yadda yadda just makes more dribble. Any rational person has to assume that the person they are talking to is full of BS and work UP from there using their judgement and information gathered. Why assume the person isn't full of BS and then work down when pushed?
/. posts, I'm actually interested in a rational opposing view. I just don't see one (yeah, this is your cue to reply).
Contrary to a lot of
Is giving this front page coverage on slashdot.org going to help things?
The look on the author's face when he reads the replies to his piece:
P r i c e l e s s
Well you could at least be realistic and point out you weren't going to buy anything from them anyway!
It would be really sweet if it had wireless ethernet built in. The PCMCIA cards seem to suck a lot of juice. I don't have any numbers to back this up but my Orinoco card definately cuts into my Dell Inspiron 4000 battery life.
Anyone got some links to power usage on PCMCIA 802.11 cards?
So Fischer walks in wearing his own clothes? Why exactly does this need to be pointed out? I suspect I'm missing something...
Well if you use a recent version of Mozilla that can't run the java plugin from Sun's JDK (1.4.01), maybe Blackdown's version will have a plugin that works?
I'm hoping for that at least..
Maybe Sun will get with the program and release a JDK/JRE compiled with a recent version of GCC.
eDonkey has had download throttling in past versions and likely still does.
Looks like a great logo for a new feminine product--not a processor... Logo within logo! What next?
Gotta copy and past that URL. If it sees a /. refer(r)er it goes to:
t ml
http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/slashhole.sh