Well, actually, property rights aren't absolute, and most of us are ok with that. If you buy a knife, does that imply that you can do with it what you want: say, stab somebody?
Obviously that's a silly example, but there are tons of others, not all of which involve the criminal law.
Actually, nothing stops you from stabbing people with your knife, or your pitchfork for that matter
The issue here is that you've threatened one's liberty (and life, for that matter), and this is what you'll be tried upon, not upon doing what you want with your knife
No, they are releasing only Linux version because the current PyMusique needs a C++-coded library (linked to the base Python code) and since they're dev'ing under Linux they don't want to bother making it compile under windows (looks like the guy who's doing that lib didn't manage to).
So they're basically telling everyone "we're not releasing a Windows version, if a Windows hacker finds what we did wrong with our C++ code, no problem with us and more power to him"
There is no antagonization issue here, they just don't care about that
Keep in mind that if music is to be treated like software, then your copy can only be played on one player at a time. If you loan the CD to a friend, you can't technically use the MP3 you made on your computer when the CD is lent out.
While i'll accept that as true (i don't exactly know how it'd work out in Europe right now), while i can lend my CDs to my friends if i don't play my personnal copies (for them to check it out for example) i still can't lend them my DRM-ridden files.
My point still stands.
(and as a minor issue, it'd be "legally", not "technically", there is no technical issue in me playing my ripped copies while lending the CDs, there are legal ones)
1- With your CD, you can do whatever pleases you and are not as such restricted in the destination media (for example i can use my CDs to fill my computer, my iRiver and my car sound system)
2- You own your CD, i can lend my CDs to my friends, i can't lend my DRM-infected media files
3- My CD has a very good quality that i can choose to use or degrade on the different medias i use my music from, whereas online music usually uses already crappy codecs (mp3, WMA) with low qualities (~128k?) and can only be degraded even more by transcoding (transcoding my WMAs to OGG gets me both OGG and WMA artifacts... yay).
They could use lossless codecs (MonkeyAudio, FLAC, Lossless WMA,...) but they don't...
Result? the music i buy online is much lower quality than the one i get from CDs
4- Downloaded files are currently as expensive as CDs versions, while you don't get the rights and you don't even get the physical media...
Sooo, no, you don't get the same deal when you buy music online as when you buy a CD/DVD.
as it stands atm, online mp3/WMA/whatever blows. The only advantage it has over CDs is that you don't have to wait or move your lazy ass out of your shack.
that's all there is to it
every page I visit seems to increases the Working Set by a couple of megs of ram.
It doesn't just "seem to", your impression is right, it does. There's been a nice bug for quite a few years (3? 4?) in the engine which causes the browser to not release most of the memory it consumes, and just use more and more.
It's very clear on some machines, less on others, it's worse when you use tabbed browsing a lot (the memory leak happens when you close a tab, the memory it used isn't always released)
The good thing is that this bug has been fixed in Mozilla 1.8 (the one that'll never get released, you know...)
The slightly less good one is that the fix will only land in Firefox when said firefox'll fuse with Gecko 1.8 (the current trunk), and thats Firefox 1.1
Summary: there is a memory leak bug in Firefox tabs, it's been known for years, it blows and can cause sever instabilities on some computers, it's completely random (aka you can be lucky and run FF np with 64Mb RAM, and you can be unlucky and have it hog 500Mb every time you use it) and worsens if you keep the same browser window (not tab, window) for extended periods of time. That bug still exists in Firefox 1.0.1 and will still be in 1.0.2, it'll be fixed in Firefox 1.1 which is supposed to be released in 2-3 months.
Recommandation: if you happen to get hit by the "CrappySlowMemoryHogFirefox" and can't bear it, don't switch back to MSIE, use Opera instead, it runs fine, is fast, has a quite low memory foot print and a quite good support of HTML and CSS.
Additional Informations: one of the great strengths of Firefox is the XUL extensions system, but it's also (obviously) it's biggest weakness: some extensions can have memory leaks on their own or cause slowness or crashs. One of the most well know "unstable" extension is "Tabbrowser Extension", which is arguably the best Tabbed Browsing extension feature wise, but is also the most bloated and dangerous one (and one of the worst and most random Firefox extensions, even the author himself says so).
If your firefox is unstable/slow and you use TBE, uninstall it or create a new "clean" profile before dissing FF...
Oh, BTW, about the extensions, do pay visits to websites like The Extensions Mirror, one can get true wonders and squeeze the best out of Firefox with the good extensions plugged in
I find that changing the behaviour of the browser (the way it handles what you feed him) is much more sensible in this case than feeding him different display rules.
Perhaps it's because Apache and PHP do the job adequately and they're the cheapest?
While it's probably true for PHP (along with the ease of "developping" and integrating into web pages) it's clearly not for Apache, which bests IE's IIS in most if not every single field...
Well, i'll admit it's free too...
They aren't, quite a lot of HTML4.01 elements are absolutely not understood by MSIE (, , table's ,...)
And IE6 has no understanding whatsoever of XHTML, be it 1.0 or 1.1, the only thing it can understand is XHTML served as HTML (aka relying on interpretation bugs to get your XHTML parsed as if it was HTML).
Or previous CSS versions?
They aren't either, even though MS claims full compatibility with CSS1 they only implemented CSS1 Core (and not even correctly), leaving out or misimplementing things like fixed backgrounds or:hover pseudo class (allowing it only in associations with anchor elements while it's supposed to work with any element), or plain and simply releasing a bug-ridden support as a rule of thumb...
yeah, CSS support indeed...
Is it alright then to buy a DVD, take it home, copy it, and then return the original for a full refund?
fyi a previous ruling (in france) a few month ago stated that you could go to the rental booth, get your DVDs, go back home, rip them/copy them, bring back the originals and voila, perfectly legal (as long as you don't distribute/share your copies, since they're supposed to be "private copies") way to get DVD rips.
Finding 5Mpx cameras which could spend 7years in space and still be able to take pictures while being between -100C and -200C (-148F to -328F) was...
If you add the fact that scientists don't care that much about pictures (pictures are for public and funding, while they can be useful the interresting part for NASA/ESA are the other datas, the ones that ain't pretty but are actually useful), you get average (at best) pictures.
The # of multiple downloads is more than likely not much higher than the # of "hidden" downloads (optimized windows builds such as Moox, distribution-specific build/package such as the debian ones, admins/corps only downloading 1 package for a full network,...), so in the end it probably averages out, more or less.
The 10millions figure is not exact, but it's more than likely a good indication.
AOL never did, but for example Justin released Waste's source code
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They stopped publishing it because although it's THE best tabbed-browsing expansion avaible it's also the most bloated and unstable expansion ever released in firefox.
Roughly 30% of the crashes and other various problems with firefox i've seen come from TBE.
So even though i'm using it and i love it, first thing to do when your Firefox is acting funny is disable/uninstall TBE and see if it gets better.
that's because the news appeared on/. around 3 or 4 hours after Firefox was actually put online.
when/. got it, all the asian and euro geeks had been raping the servers for 3 hours non stop (the release was put online at around 10AM GMT)
perfectly true, the torrent tracker has some hashing informations and the IPs of the clients currently connected to it period
(oh well maybe it has some more informations, sharing ratios, i'm not sure for that)
(but it clearly has 0 file data)
legal != accepted
Japanese companies usually don't mind, but ask any self-respecting anime subbing team and they'll tell you:
it's illegal, accepted but illegal, and the reason why these teams tell you to buy the anime when it's licensed&released in your country (if you liked it) is to keep the current statu-quo.
If japanese companies start being bothered by subbers, they'll have hard time (already happened for a manga scanlating team i know, they were threatened by Kodansha for hosting Kodansha mangas they had scanlated, had to pull all the scans from webbie [even though they 'were allowed' to keep on translating])
Are the ads asking for clics on page, ads loading or clics or ads?
Because i know i haven't seen nor loaded an ad in quite a long time, thanks to the Mozilla - AdBlock combo;)
After a rooting the security admin can proclaim "All the press and the community said it was the greatest thing since sliced bread...I don't know what went wrong!"
The very point is that he can't
because if the system itself cannot fail (or has a hard time failing), then the one who operates it is the failure, hence the admin.
There are those folks who would like to try even an ub3r unstable version of everything risking system failures(either software or hardware)...
As brother pointed out, you can already do that through extensions, hence the reason why I used the term "officially" and said that you'd see it as extensions
Security problems? Absolutly no problem on my HOME computer.
1- the fact that YOU never had problems doesn't mean that the issue doesn't exist (i've never starved, but i'm not dumb enough to think no one starves on earth)
2- ActiveX based security vulnerabilities over the ages: http://secunia.com/search/?search=ActiveX
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or there is OpenOffice and the native PDF export feature (also avaible with Windows, why bother with MS Word?)
The issue here is that you've threatened one's liberty (and life, for that matter), and this is what you'll be tried upon, not upon doing what you want with your knife
No, they are releasing only Linux version because the current PyMusique needs a C++-coded library (linked to the base Python code) and since they're dev'ing under Linux they don't want to bother making it compile under windows (looks like the guy who's doing that lib didn't manage to).
So they're basically telling everyone "we're not releasing a Windows version, if a Windows hacker finds what we did wrong with our C++ code, no problem with us and more power to him"
There is no antagonization issue here, they just don't care about that
My, my, my, some mods are seriously lacking "teh irony" to mod parent troll ...
I mean worst case he should be modded funny, not troll
My point still stands.
(and as a minor issue, it'd be "legally", not "technically", there is no technical issue in me playing my ripped copies while lending the CDs, there are legal ones)
1- With your CD, you can do whatever pleases you and are not as such restricted in the destination media (for example i can use my CDs to fill my computer, my iRiver and my car sound system) ...) but they don't...
2- You own your CD, i can lend my CDs to my friends, i can't lend my DRM-infected media files
3- My CD has a very good quality that i can choose to use or degrade on the different medias i use my music from, whereas online music usually uses already crappy codecs (mp3, WMA) with low qualities (~128k?) and can only be degraded even more by transcoding (transcoding my WMAs to OGG gets me both OGG and WMA artifacts... yay).
They could use lossless codecs (MonkeyAudio, FLAC, Lossless WMA,
Result? the music i buy online is much lower quality than the one i get from CDs
4- Downloaded files are currently as expensive as CDs versions, while you don't get the rights and you don't even get the physical media...
Sooo, no, you don't get the same deal when you buy music online as when you buy a CD/DVD.
as it stands atm, online mp3/WMA/whatever blows. The only advantage it has over CDs is that you don't have to wait or move your lazy ass out of your shack.
that's all there is to it
It's very clear on some machines, less on others, it's worse when you use tabbed browsing a lot (the memory leak happens when you close a tab, the memory it used isn't always released)
The good thing is that this bug has been fixed in Mozilla 1.8 (the one that'll never get released, you know...)
The slightly less good one is that the fix will only land in Firefox when said firefox'll fuse with Gecko 1.8 (the current trunk), and thats Firefox 1.1
Summary: there is a memory leak bug in Firefox tabs, it's been known for years, it blows and can cause sever instabilities on some computers, it's completely random (aka you can be lucky and run FF np with 64Mb RAM, and you can be unlucky and have it hog 500Mb every time you use it) and worsens if you keep the same browser window (not tab, window) for extended periods of time. That bug still exists in Firefox 1.0.1 and will still be in 1.0.2, it'll be fixed in Firefox 1.1 which is supposed to be released in 2-3 months.
Recommandation: if you happen to get hit by the "CrappySlowMemoryHogFirefox" and can't bear it, don't switch back to MSIE, use Opera instead, it runs fine, is fast, has a quite low memory foot print and a quite good support of HTML and CSS.
Additional Informations: one of the great strengths of Firefox is the XUL extensions system, but it's also (obviously) it's biggest weakness: some extensions can have memory leaks on their own or cause slowness or crashs. One of the most well know "unstable" extension is "Tabbrowser Extension", which is arguably the best Tabbed Browsing extension feature wise, but is also the most bloated and dangerous one (and one of the worst and most random Firefox extensions, even the author himself says so).
If your firefox is unstable/slow and you use TBE, uninstall it or create a new "clean" profile before dissing FF...
Oh, BTW, about the extensions, do pay visits to websites like The Extensions Mirror, one can get true wonders and squeeze the best out of Firefox with the good extensions plugged in
The point is that it could be done in JS, which is probably one of the less powerful languages you can get...
And IE CSS hacks are a Bad Thing ©, because it's not strongly hidden from other browsers, because your CSS makes less sense,
I find that changing the behaviour of the browser (the way it handles what you feed him) is much more sensible in this case than feeding him different display rules.
elements in (, , table's , ...) were supposed to be:
abbr
q
table's caption
Well, i'll admit it's free too...
And IE6 has no understanding whatsoever of XHTML, be it 1.0 or 1.1, the only thing it can understand is XHTML served as HTML (aka relying on interpretation bugs to get your XHTML parsed as if it was HTML). They aren't either, even though MS claims full compatibility with CSS1 they only implemented CSS1 Core (and not even correctly), leaving out or misimplementing things like fixed backgrounds or
yeah, CSS support indeed...
CSS 2.0 (or even 2.1) being *so* unbelievably tough to implement is probably the reason why no one managed to create IE5.x and IE6 CSS "patches"...
oh wait, it's been done, and with only Javascript
Rewrite large parts of the browser, yeah, right...
Price was not a problem.
Finding 5Mpx cameras which could spend 7years in space and still be able to take pictures while being between -100C and -200C (-148F to -328F) was...
If you add the fact that scientists don't care that much about pictures (pictures are for public and funding, while they can be useful the interresting part for NASA/ESA are the other datas, the ones that ain't pretty but are actually useful), you get average (at best) pictures.
and as you mentionned, the installation may be detected
But the unzipped software sure is not
Way to go
The # of multiple downloads is more than likely not much higher than the # of "hidden" downloads (optimized windows builds such as Moox, distribution-specific build/package such as the debian ones, admins/corps only downloading 1 package for a full network, ...), so in the end it probably averages out, more or less.
The 10millions figure is not exact, but it's more than likely a good indication.
AOL never did, but for example Justin released Waste's source code
They stopped publishing it because although it's THE best tabbed-browsing expansion avaible it's also the most bloated and unstable expansion ever released in firefox. Roughly 30% of the crashes and other various problems with firefox i've seen come from TBE. So even though i'm using it and i love it, first thing to do when your Firefox is acting funny is disable/uninstall TBE and see if it gets better.
that's because the news appeared on /. around 3 or 4 hours after Firefox was actually put online.
when /. got it, all the asian and euro geeks had been raping the servers for 3 hours non stop (the release was put online at around 10AM GMT)
perfectly true, the torrent tracker has some hashing informations and the IPs of the clients currently connected to it period (oh well maybe it has some more informations, sharing ratios, i'm not sure for that) (but it clearly has 0 file data)
legal != accepted Japanese companies usually don't mind, but ask any self-respecting anime subbing team and they'll tell you: it's illegal, accepted but illegal, and the reason why these teams tell you to buy the anime when it's licensed&released in your country (if you liked it) is to keep the current statu-quo. If japanese companies start being bothered by subbers, they'll have hard time (already happened for a manga scanlating team i know, they were threatened by Kodansha for hosting Kodansha mangas they had scanlated, had to pull all the scans from webbie [even though they 'were allowed' to keep on translating])
Are the ads asking for clics on page, ads loading or clics or ads? Because i know i haven't seen nor loaded an ad in quite a long time, thanks to the Mozilla - AdBlock combo ;)
Yes it is, you can still contribute to the Mozilla Foundation (through donations), but your name won't be in the NYT ad.