It sometimes screws up things if the extension uses deprecated features and stuff, but as far as Firesomething's concerned it runs without any issue on Firefox 1.5.0.7
BTW you should switch from Adblock to Adblock Plus, whitelisting is good and you don't need to manually bump the extension.
If the Mozilla foundation is insisting that modified versions can't be called "Firefox", then Debian can't distribute a modified Firefox at all (whether or not it's in non-free).
They aren't saying that at all.
What they're saying is that:
You have to get your patches for Firefox officially accepted by Moz Corp to call the product Firefox
And you have to include all of the official branding if you want to name the product Firefox, the branding is all-or-nothing, no cherrypicking allowed
While the first part is doable, the second one isn't doable at all for debian: the official branding includes the official logo (fox hugging the earth) which is non-free. This means that the official logo can't be included in a free package according to the DFSG (which is why the current packages have the official logo and some other non-free stuff stripped out and use the free-use "blue planet" logo). This means that now either the Debian project has to include the official logo and move the Firefox package to non-free, or they have to stop using the Firefox name.
Reality check: only two browsers conform to the HTML standard (render HTML correctly)
Reality check 1: the ACID test is mainly a CSS test, most web browsers have extremely good implementations of HTML itself (except MSIE, which lacks a pair of elements and attributes, and if we forget about some corner-case uses of comments). You are an idiot.
Opera and Safari
Which have other issues, and whose main problems come from glaringly incoherent and annoying Javascript engines (this is mainly a problem with Safari whose Javascript engine is a fucking mess, even working with MSIE's better)
The reality is that web devs have to apply many tweaks and hacks in their work to make the web sites you take for granted look good on most browsers.
Actually, the reality is that web devs mostly fall in two categories:
They develop only for MSIE, and the website rendering at all in other browsers is mostly a question of chance
They develop for non-MSIE browsers, and they apply fixes for MSIE which is usually the only one fucking everything up due to it's countless rendering and interpretation bugs. "Most browsers" usually work well, only one of them is an issue.
Except that you fail for not reading the article, not having a clue, and not understanding the issue at hand:
Debian does use the open-use Firefox logo, it has been using it for a very long time, part of Debian's build process for firefox strips any non-free content (including the non-free official-use logo) from the package and sets the open-use logo as the only one.
The issue at hand is that:
The Mozilla branding guidelines require that you may only use the Firefox brand whole, which means that you have to include the official-use Firefox logo
The Debian maintainers had struck a deal with a Mozilla spokeperson quite a long time ago in which they were dispensed to include the logo and could still use the official name
But the Mozilla Corporation seems to have changed it's way of seeings things and decided to enforce it's trademarks and stuff much more aggressively
Which lead to a guy from the Mozilla Corp in charge of branding and stuff declaring the old agreement void and giving the Debian distribution the choice of either including the official (non-free) logo in the debian package or stop using the Firefox name/brand, with non-compliance leading to potential legal action
Since they couldn't include the logo unless they wanted to move Firefox to non-free, they decided to drop the name.
So why should they expect FireFox to be any different?
They don't, part of Debian's build process for Firefox strips the logo (and some other things, anything considered "non-free" actually). They had striked a deal with some Mozilla spokeperson some time ago about that, and were allowed to use the Firefox name without the Firefox logo (the Mozilla branding usually requires you to have them together, and probably imposes some other things, if you want to use the Mozilla Firefox brand), but it looks like that policy has changed and they can't anymore.
Which means that now they can either include the logo (which they can't, since it's non-free, unless they move Fx to non-free packages) or stop using the name.
I guess you probably misunderstood his post (or are just trolling him), but what he meant is that Debian considers that everything bundled in Debian and out of "non-free" should be freely modifiable by the users, and that this includes both the source and the images.
In a word, you can take any image bundled in a Debian "free" package and do whatever you want with it, no one will have anything to say about it.
I think it excludes the Debian logo itself though, and this is considered a bug.
Just more proof that some Linux users are far too elitist.
It's not an eliticism issue, it's a philosophical issue: Debian's goal and base is freedom, if something's not free then they can't accept it, or they're not debian anymore.
That, or they can betray their "contract" with the users of the distro...
Who cares if the firefox logo is trademarked?
Well, the Debian maintainers obviously do.
Now we'll have two distros of firefox.
You already have you frigging retard, you have the official package, and you have the Debian package without the non-free logos and stuff.
Too many daughter projects spin off the main one and the original project becomes less focused.
Yeah, because rebuilding the same software stripping out a few images is obviously a fork...
if Square-Enix leaves Sony, well... where else are they gonna go?
I suggest you check the handheld market and you'll see where Squenix went when they stopped scheduling good games for the PSP (which was about 2 hours after the release of FF3/DS in Japan, when they realized that they could've put twice as many copies on the market and woud've been sold out all the same)
Can't speak for the DS', but I can for that one: since the DS doesn't have link cables in the first place (it's all 'bout WiFi bro!) that will never happen.
France is heavily regulated, but as opposed to the US not all of the recent regulations are hand-tailored for corps (which sadly doesn't mean that all of the regulations are consumer-oriented).
For example on the subject of DSL, service awfully sucked in France up until about 7 years ago (~1999): the only phone provider was the state monopoly (France Telecom) who also had a virtual monopoly on DSL (which meant that you either got slow, expensive -- though reliable -- DSL, or you went for cable). Then the government passed a law that forced FT to let anyone else use their phone lines, including the local loop (which meant that your DSL provider could either get rid of FT for the main lines, the "partial degrouping", or could get completely rid of FT all the way to the client's plugs ("complete degrouping"). As a result, prices dramatically dropped (mainly thanks to the ISP "Free", crappy customer service and under-average reliability but very high speeds and low prices, and drivers of many DSL innovations in france such as phone over IP, free phone to landlines, TV over IP and more recently HDTV over IP), the number of alternate DSL providers soared (right now, I think you can pick between 6 or 7 providers anywhere in fairly big cities, and in small villages -- if you happen to have DSL available -- you usually can choose between 2-3 providers) and the packs are usually fairly nice (in cities, you can get up to 10Mb+ for 20/mo, and up to 24Mb + phone + TV for about 30/mo)
There is no way I, or any non jewish person, should make a joke about it.
Some french "indie" artist once said "Better laugh about it than not care."
I'd much better have comedians cracking jokes about the holocaust, or the inquisition, or terrorist bombings (cracking jokes about terrorists is much more effectives than destroying sovereing nations in the guise of looking for them by the way) than people who just don't care, or try to deny facts.
Perhaps you do have comedians doing this. I've not heard any.
All signs point to Nintendo making a huge profit on each Wii, I wouldn't be surpised with a sub $100 manufacturing cost of the Wii. All of the controllers included probably adds another $50 or so.
No onne knows how much profit they make, but it'd be surprising if they made "a huge profit on each Wii". A profit yes, they said so and they did it with every console of theirs, but if their profit was so huge they wouldn't risk their market by princing the pack at $250/250
An add-on controller which not all gamers will have
There's one with the console, and quite a few people consider that the complete controller means 'mote + nunchuck.
So yes, developers CAN make games which completely depend on it. Severals do already, including Nintendo (I'm pretty sure Wii Sports' Wii Boxing requires each player to have both a nunchuck and a 'mote)
how the PSP may be losing some 3rd party developers while the DS is good games and better sales.
Well Squeenix very recently refocused it's handheld strategy due to FF3/DS: they tried to boss nintendo around so that they'll have a big batch of DS Lites ready fearing that low DS availability would cripple FF3 sales.
They readied themselves for sales of 300.000 on the first week...
FF3 sold 330.000 copies on the first day, the whole japan was out of stock within 4 days (with an initial shipment of 500.000).
The next week or so, squeenix announced 3 games in the making for NDS.
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It sometimes screws up things if the extension uses deprecated features and stuff, but as far as Firesomething's concerned it runs without any issue on Firefox 1.5.0.7
BTW you should switch from Adblock to Adblock Plus, whitelisting is good and you don't need to manually bump the extension.
Dude, the fix is trivial, i'll even walk you through it:
They aren't saying that at all.
What they're saying is that:
While the first part is doable, the second one isn't doable at all for debian: the official branding includes the official logo (fox hugging the earth) which is non-free. This means that the official logo can't be included in a free package according to the DFSG (which is why the current packages have the official logo and some other non-free stuff stripped out and use the free-use "blue planet" logo). This means that now either the Debian project has to include the official logo and move the Firefox package to non-free, or they have to stop using the Firefox name.
Reality check 1: the ACID test is mainly a CSS test, most web browsers have extremely good implementations of HTML itself (except MSIE, which lacks a pair of elements and attributes, and if we forget about some corner-case uses of comments). You are an idiot.
Which have other issues, and whose main problems come from glaringly incoherent and annoying Javascript engines (this is mainly a problem with Safari whose Javascript engine is a fucking mess, even working with MSIE's better)
Actually, the reality is that web devs mostly fall in two categories:
Except that you fail for not reading the article, not having a clue, and not understanding the issue at hand:
Debian does use the open-use Firefox logo, it has been using it for a very long time, part of Debian's build process for firefox strips any non-free content (including the non-free official-use logo) from the package and sets the open-use logo as the only one.
The issue at hand is that:
Since they couldn't include the logo unless they wanted to move Firefox to non-free, they decided to drop the name.
They don't, part of Debian's build process for Firefox strips the logo (and some other things, anything considered "non-free" actually). They had striked a deal with some Mozilla spokeperson some time ago about that, and were allowed to use the Firefox name without the Firefox logo (the Mozilla branding usually requires you to have them together, and probably imposes some other things, if you want to use the Mozilla Firefox brand), but it looks like that policy has changed and they can't anymore.
Which means that now they can either include the logo (which they can't, since it's non-free, unless they move Fx to non-free packages) or stop using the name.
They picked the later.
In a word, you can take any image bundled in a Debian "free" package and do whatever you want with it, no one will have anything to say about it.
I think it excludes the Debian logo itself though, and this is considered a bug.
It's not an eliticism issue, it's a philosophical issue: Debian's goal and base is freedom, if something's not free then they can't accept it, or they're not debian anymore.
That, or they can betray their "contract" with the users of the distro...
Well, the Debian maintainers obviously do.
You already have you frigging retard, you have the official package, and you have the Debian package without the non-free logos and stuff.
Yeah, because rebuilding the same software stripping out a few images is obviously a fork...
Yes! And let's start fucking for virginity too!
Nope, because the constitution is just a goddamned piece of paper ©King George the First, Nov. 2005
I suggest you check the handheld market and you'll see where Squenix went when they stopped scheduling good games for the PSP (which was about 2 hours after the release of FF3/DS in Japan, when they realized that they could've put twice as many copies on the market and woud've been sold out all the same)
Mario, Link and Pikachu say hello
Can't speak for the DS', but I can for that one: since the DS doesn't have link cables in the first place (it's all 'bout WiFi bro!) that will never happen.
and the nunchuck by itself is a pointless useless gimmick.
You nearly nailed it, just complete the thought process.
Hah, you completely missed the point, the PS3 controller is really a nunchuck with more buttons.
France is heavily regulated, but as opposed to the US not all of the recent regulations are hand-tailored for corps (which sadly doesn't mean that all of the regulations are consumer-oriented).
For example on the subject of DSL, service awfully sucked in France up until about 7 years ago (~1999): the only phone provider was the state monopoly (France Telecom) who also had a virtual monopoly on DSL (which meant that you either got slow, expensive -- though reliable -- DSL, or you went for cable). Then the government passed a law that forced FT to let anyone else use their phone lines, including the local loop (which meant that your DSL provider could either get rid of FT for the main lines, the "partial degrouping", or could get completely rid of FT all the way to the client's plugs ("complete degrouping"). As a result, prices dramatically dropped (mainly thanks to the ISP "Free", crappy customer service and under-average reliability but very high speeds and low prices, and drivers of many DSL innovations in france such as phone over IP, free phone to landlines, TV over IP and more recently HDTV over IP), the number of alternate DSL providers soared (right now, I think you can pick between 6 or 7 providers anywhere in fairly big cities, and in small villages -- if you happen to have DSL available -- you usually can choose between 2-3 providers) and the packs are usually fairly nice (in cities, you can get up to 10Mb+ for 20/mo, and up to 24Mb + phone + TV for about 30/mo)
Addendum: this link doesn't split between european deaths against germany and deaths on then pacific front against japan.
A fair comparison would be french body count vs (american body count versus germany).
Why yes, because it's well known that no american individual nor any american corporation collaborated with the nazis...
Oh well... how about actually learning history instead of just spouting off lies about things you don't know jack shit about?
Some french "indie" artist once said "Better laugh about it than not care."
I'd much better have comedians cracking jokes about the holocaust, or the inquisition, or terrorist bombings (cracking jokes about terrorists is much more effectives than destroying sovereing nations in the guise of looking for them by the way) than people who just don't care, or try to deny facts.
Look harder
Money, or Georges Walker "Enlightened Leader" Bush.
No onne knows how much profit they make, but it'd be surprising if they made "a huge profit on each Wii". A profit yes, they said so and they did it with every console of theirs, but if their profit was so huge they wouldn't risk their market by princing the pack at $250/250
Oh, look, we still don't know anything about the hardware...
Any and everyone as long as the game can be played in short burst of 5-10 minutes.
There's one with the console, and quite a few people consider that the complete controller means 'mote + nunchuck.
So yes, developers CAN make games which completely depend on it. Severals do already, including Nintendo (I'm pretty sure Wii Sports' Wii Boxing requires each player to have both a nunchuck and a 'mote)
Well playing Ouendan in the subway like me feel pretty nerdy...
The game's fun enough that I don't care though, and it's always fun feeling people peeking on your screen envying you.
Well Squeenix very recently refocused it's handheld strategy due to FF3/DS: they tried to boss nintendo around so that they'll have a big batch of DS Lites ready fearing that low DS availability would cripple FF3 sales.
They readied themselves for sales of 300.000 on the first week...
FF3 sold 330.000 copies on the first day, the whole japan was out of stock within 4 days (with an initial shipment of 500.000).
The next week or so, squeenix announced 3 games in the making for NDS.