That is also the exact same window used in Firefox, thus, I doubt they stole it, they adopted it from Firefox. You do need SOME WAY to control the toolbar, just because two apps use the same doesn't make it 'cribbed'.
Of course, I don't want to start a fight, so I'll back out now.:-)
The bit-torrent community is not dead, it is just changing, every time new technology comes out all the warez kiddies grab it up immediately and try to apply it to distributing their warez, clearly, BitTorrent is an amazingly well-designed, well-thought of protocol, and something we clearly needed with all the people starting their own websites, or wanting to distribute large files.
Of course, believe it or not, I also believe in adware, I believe to make movie (tv)/music distribution legal, all the clients to download them should be adwared, then using the money made from the ads, pay the record companies (just like TV and radio works). I think that is the ultimate solution. Discuss?
"my google-foo is not strong enough to get past the MP3 download sites..."
Nobody's is. However, other than being UNBELIEVABLY covered in advertisements, MP3Search.com is a music search engine of sorts, however, it doesn't allow you to enter an actual riff, just an musician or a title.
MSAS detects cookies used for common affiliate tracking programs such as Azoogleads and CommisionJunction as 'spyware', while all they really are is cookies that say that you were refered to the site from 'PUBLISHER_ID' and that 'PUBLISHER_ID' should get credit for your purchase.
If someone uses your affiliate link, runs MSAS, then goes back and buys the product, you will not get credit!
Firefox will not fizzle out as long as the developers keep on their toes and change. If you do not innovate you lose, we are in the technology world now, innovation is everything, see Google? Look how fast they became successful, and for what? Innovation. Microsoft, same thing: Innovation.
The FF devs need to balance innovation with security (something, I must say, Google does perfectly and Microsoft fails at) because that is Firefox's strong promotional point: Security, and because innovation is simply key to the tech world.
All I can say is, keep on promoting Firefox, donate, support them, and most of all, REPORT BUGS... Granted, they get a sh*t load of bug reports, so, only report the good/not already reported ones.
Opera was a good name in my opinion. Windows has been successful, and has a horrible, and completely irrelevant (other than the fact they call boxes windows) name... same with all other Microsoft products. Windows Calculator is an immensly successful product... err... uhh... never mind.
Definately, would you save an image as a JPEG if GIF (okay, fine PNG you silly copyright open-source crappy advocates) is around? Lossless compression for audio is no where near what lossy compression is. Clearly, with audio, if you cannot tell the difference between piece A and B (compressed) then if you aren't doing development, there is no big deal. But with hard-drives getting so big and cheap, we might as well go for the best quality possible.
"Suppose a movie has a cool, new fight scene everyone shares..."
I think that would be fair use (because it is such a small percent -- I am sure there is a clause about '5% or less can be freely used for non-commercial works' or something similar) actually, meaning his 0.013% could be compared to that and he MAY even be able to defend him self on fair use.
You know, that's really sad. There are some things that sure, these morons can try to scam people out of but, when you see the piles of bodies being pushed in to large ditches they call mass graves, I can't imagine how you could do something like this.
I don't even see how you could CONSIDER it, just considering it would make me sick... maybe I care about things too much? maybe they are just insensitive pieces of sh*t?
Unless you want to argue that Linux applications are inherently more secure, the main source of protection for Linux users is that it is not as common a target as Windows. All software has bugs, even open source.
Even Multics, which was designed to be secure and to run on hardware which supposedly was more secure had vulnerabilities. Just Google up the Air Force report on Multics holes."
Aha! Correct, you just hit the nerve of many Slashdotters, however, you are not completely right,
Maybe with Linux, but definately not with Firefox, critical/security-related bugs are dealt with quickly, and on a regular basis, granted, some seemingly critical Firefox bugs have sat in Bugzilla for a LONG time without being fixed, that is not the case with most of them, I am quite willing to say: Firefox has LESS bugs then Internet Explorer, even if it would appear the lack of problems comes from the fact Firefox is less used, I believe that is not the whole case.
I discovered this a few weeks ago, and I found one that had sound AND I COULD CONTROL in some crowded resurant somewhere in Japan.
I moved it back and forth, and finally got someones attention, they were talking to the camera, it was hilarious.
Well, compared to my 'lots' submitted, and all rejected.. I'd say that's a pretty high number. EVERYONE VIEW MY JOURNAL NOW! And, republish it in yours!
All I'd want is a proper MDI, all the windows in a main container, I hate having them all free, loose, and can fall behind everything else and.... ugh.
The amount of pointless crap in this article is pathetic. I have to state, Slashdotters just get dumber over the holidays or something, every day we get closer to the holidays the spam+crap gets worse.
That's all I really have to say, however, I wish you'd grow up, now to go set my rating cap so that nothing under 3 is shown....
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"Also, this is cribbed directly from Mac OS X. "
:-)
That is also the exact same window used in Firefox, thus, I doubt they stole it, they adopted it from Firefox. You do need SOME WAY to control the toolbar, just because two apps use the same doesn't make it 'cribbed'.
Of course, I don't want to start a fight, so I'll back out now.
Have they/are they planning on integrating it in to thunderbird? It looks a lot like Outlook's calendar, I think integrating it with Thunderbird (and even Firefox? Maybe let you add items through Firefox?) would be their greatest 'next' step.
The bit-torrent community is not dead, it is just changing, every time new technology comes out all the warez kiddies grab it up immediately and try to apply it to distributing their warez, clearly, BitTorrent is an amazingly well-designed, well-thought of protocol, and something we clearly needed with all the people starting their own websites, or wanting to distribute large files.
Of course, believe it or not, I also believe in adware, I believe to make movie (tv)/music distribution legal, all the clients to download them should be adwared, then using the money made from the ads, pay the record companies (just like TV and radio works). I think that is the ultimate solution. Discuss?
"my google-foo is not strong enough to get past the MP3 download sites..." Nobody's is. However, other than being UNBELIEVABLY covered in advertisements, MP3Search.com is a music search engine of sorts, however, it doesn't allow you to enter an actual riff, just an musician or a title.
It's still quite interesting.
MSAS detects cookies used for common affiliate tracking programs such as Azoogleads and CommisionJunction as 'spyware', while all they really are is cookies that say that you were refered to the site from 'PUBLISHER_ID' and that 'PUBLISHER_ID' should get credit for your purchase.
If someone uses your affiliate link, runs MSAS, then goes back and buys the product, you will not get credit!
In which the author said it was better than Adaware and Spybot combined?
By the way, after testing it out, I find it to be quite effective.
Yep. And when you read the article, you will understand this is about click fraud, and not crappy ads.
There is nothing more to it, a review is something written to express an opinion, Dictionary .com says something else.
Firefox will not fizzle out as long as the developers keep on their toes and change. If you do not innovate you lose, we are in the technology world now, innovation is everything, see Google? Look how fast they became successful, and for what? Innovation. Microsoft, same thing: Innovation.
The FF devs need to balance innovation with security (something, I must say, Google does perfectly and Microsoft fails at) because that is Firefox's strong promotional point: Security, and because innovation is simply key to the tech world.
All I can say is, keep on promoting Firefox, donate, support them, and most of all, REPORT BUGS... Granted, they get a sh*t load of bug reports, so, only report the good/not already reported ones.
Opera was a good name in my opinion. Windows has been successful, and has a horrible, and completely irrelevant (other than the fact they call boxes windows) name... same with all other Microsoft products. Windows Calculator is an immensly successful product... err... uhh... never mind.
Definately, would you save an image as a JPEG if GIF (okay, fine PNG you silly copyright open-source crappy advocates) is around? Lossless compression for audio is no where near what lossy compression is. Clearly, with audio, if you cannot tell the difference between piece A and B (compressed) then if you aren't doing development, there is no big deal. But with hard-drives getting so big and cheap, we might as well go for the best quality possible.
"Suppose a movie has a cool, new fight scene everyone shares..."
I think that would be fair use (because it is such a small percent -- I am sure there is a clause about '5% or less can be freely used for non-commercial works' or something similar) actually, meaning his 0.013% could be compared to that and he MAY even be able to defend him self on fair use.
of course, IANAL either...
You know, that's really sad. There are some things that sure, these morons can try to scam people out of but, when you see the piles of bodies being pushed in to large ditches they call mass graves, I can't imagine how you could do something like this.
I don't even see how you could CONSIDER it, just considering it would make me sick... maybe I care about things too much? maybe they are just insensitive pieces of sh*t?
"Ah, security through obscurity!
Unless you want to argue that Linux applications are inherently more secure, the main source of protection for Linux users is that it is not as common a target as Windows. All software has bugs, even open source.
Even Multics, which was designed to be secure and to run on hardware which supposedly was more secure had vulnerabilities. Just Google up the Air Force report on Multics holes."
Aha! Correct, you just hit the nerve of many Slashdotters, however, you are not completely right,
Maybe with Linux, but definately not with Firefox, critical/security-related bugs are dealt with quickly, and on a regular basis, granted, some seemingly critical Firefox bugs have sat in Bugzilla for a LONG time without being fixed, that is not the case with most of them, I am quite willing to say: Firefox has LESS bugs then Internet Explorer, even if it would appear the lack of problems comes from the fact Firefox is less used, I believe that is not the whole case.
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"What more should I patch?"
Well, this site seems to have a good solution to every problem you've ever had regarding Internet Explorer... but, I'unno.
"A worm that deletes everything. (Score:5, Insightful) "
+5 Insightful? Maybe +1 Funny....Meta-Mod's where are you?
I discovered this a few weeks ago, and I found one that had sound AND I COULD CONTROL in some crowded resurant somewhere in Japan. I moved it back and forth, and finally got someones attention, they were talking to the camera, it was hilarious.
Bits != Bytes Most of what is considered high-speed connections are around 2 mega BITS / second.
Well, compared to my 'lots' submitted, and all rejected.. I'd say that's a pretty high number. EVERYONE VIEW MY JOURNAL NOW! And, republish it in yours!
Yeah! Visual Studio.net style! That would be great! Ditch the entire MDI, and steal the interface from VS.net!
That's fine, but it should be built in... or at least an install time option.
All I'd want is a proper MDI, all the windows in a main container, I hate having them all free, loose, and can fall behind everything else and.... ugh.
Okay, so this doesn't answer what he was looking for, but the title reminded me of Koders... the search engine sucks, but it's a great idea.
The FragBox is a much better looking similar idea... IMO.
And, Falcon NW is a great company. They - unlike other computer manufactures - don't install all the extra shit, and their prices aren't horrible.
The amount of pointless crap in this article is pathetic. I have to state, Slashdotters just get dumber over the holidays or something, every day we get closer to the holidays the spam+crap gets worse.
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That's all I really have to say, however, I wish you'd grow up, now to go set my rating cap so that nothing under 3 is shown.