Rather than feed the trolls here, I am going to ask the reader to please see Christopher Finke's comment below. Christopher Finke is the lead developer for Netscape 9.
I'm not sure why the cryptic title was chosen, of course Netscape 9 will be better than Netscape 8. *smile* The new browser will be integrated with our social news system that has been live on Netscape.com since July 2006, and yes, the browser will run on Linux (as well as Windows and Mac).
I am one of the Anchors on Netscape http://www.netscape.com/about, and not directly part of the dev team, but I am sure members of our dev team will have plenty to comment on this thread once they are awake.
i recommend you encode mpeg or quicktime, but most anyone can get a good wmv decoder for free with mplayer or vlc (videolan). these players work mac/windows/da penguin and are free. yes, mplayer is a pain to install for a non geek user, but once it's running, you can even read real player streams and windows media streams and other such fun things.
on the encoding side, mplayer can encode mpeg for you for free if you're thinking of ditching wmv.
i agree. i've had kernel panics, weird gui treatment (little pixel "snow" jiggles on the edge of windows), and really strange audio anomolies being written into audio files, all due to:
BAD RAM.
all examples were running mac os x on g4 procs. once was a 1gb chip in a powerbook g4, once was a 512 chip in a g4 agp tower. i highly recommend name brand, or at least a reseller that will replace ram in a timely and cost efficient manner.
that new zaurus is tasty, but i'm holding out for an oqo with debian. that would be delicious... anyone working on porting the stylus drivers or the screen sizing with x11 (or any drivers for that matter) for the oqo to deb yet?
well in france we have this little thing called the 35 hr work week... (i'm actually at 37) so when my boss said he didn't want me to do presentations on multichannel audio to the acoustics group (loosely translated: "it will eat time out of your schedule!") for which i already had powerpoint slides prepared from my master's degree, i decided to stop pushing for it at work. i do my side projects on the side. with a 37 hr week i don't have to try very hard to have enough hours to do my side work...
yes you're right about girls getting attention at a young age in the social realms. luckily (or unluckily?) i was not interested in my peers or even adults really and much prefered the library and playing classical music to social interaction. my sis on the other hand was popular all through junior high and high school and had a tough time with math...at first. but now she's finishing her undergrad in architecture at calpoly (lots of engineering classes and such). so isn't all of this awfully anecdotal?
anyone can learn with the right teachers and the time...
As a woman that majored in mathematics (pure math, not applied) I must say that he has dug himself into a bit of a hole. Even if he doesn't release his speech, I would find it professional of him to at least release the specific sources and studies he was "discussing":
Summers told the Globe he was discussing hypotheses based on the scholarly work assembled for the conference, not expressing his own views.
If he was discussing work for the conference, he certainly must have twisted some of the evidence because "Five other participants in the National Bureau of Economic Research conference...also said they were offended by the comments."
Personally, math education before the college level in the united states has suffered greatly in the past ten years. Some teachers don't know how to teach basic proof-based logic for any gender let alone girls. Luckily I had a slew of fantastic teachers who encouraged me even when I was doubling in classical music performance and had half as much time to devote to mathematics at university.
actually it wasn't a GUY that built this project but a woman, gal, chick, person of the female persuasion.
and something tells me that grad students at the media lab aren't in charge of the web servers...
~fab
japan only country w/ ageless adoration animation?
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New Yorker on Miyazaki
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· Score: 2, Informative
In the article./ linked with an interview of the author Margaret Talbot answers:
Are there countries other than Japan where animation is as popular across different age groups?
I think that Japan is unusual, if not unique, in its animation and comic-book culture.
I think france is another country where animation and comic books are consumed at all ages. One can find grown men reading hard cover and paperback comics on the metro in paris and the average age of movie goers for animated films is definitely not 10. Japan is not unique in its passion for animation and comic books...
the local call with voip is not that arbitrary. in clauses for both vonage and packet 8 they note that if they deem you are using your voip from a non-US or canada IP addy they can and will switch you to a more costly plan than the unlimited plan. i have been the victim of this because i live half and half in nyc and paris. my use of non-US based IPs for calls was against their policy, but you must know that they CHANGED their policy to include the non-US IP clause after i already had service with them for five months.
therefore, local to anywhere does not apply if you are outside the US or canada.
yes you're right i didn't do my homework. please negate my first statement if you want a canadian area code. i just called packet 8 and a customer service agent said "we will probably *never* offer canadian area codes". bleh.
i've spoken to friends who have vonage on the other end of my non-voip POTS and the audio quality imho is not that lovely. maybe give it a try with people that use it?
also re: 911 service. 911 vonage service to the states comes with many clauses. Vonage notes at the end of the lengthy section on 911 calls: "You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Vonage and its third party provider from any claim or action arising out of misroutes of 911 calls". That said, most cellphones in the US allow you to dial 911 even if there is no longer a phone service provider associated with that particular cell phone. is that rule of thumb applicable in canada? maybe one could just keep a well-labeled non-paying cellphone in the house for emergencies instead of relying on a voip provider to patch one through to the local 911 dispatch.
just a thought: packet 8 already offers a much cheaper solution for canadians (and americans). unlimited calls to canada and the us for 19.95 USD a month. includes caller id, 3 way calling, etc. cheaper and probably better solution than A-Oh-hell....
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Rather than feed the trolls here, I am going to ask the reader to please see Christopher Finke's comment below. Christopher Finke is the lead developer for Netscape 9.
I'm not sure why the cryptic title was chosen, of course Netscape 9 will be better than Netscape 8. *smile* The new browser will be integrated with our social news system that has been live on Netscape.com since July 2006, and yes, the browser will run on Linux (as well as Windows and Mac).
I am one of the Anchors on Netscape http://www.netscape.com/about, and not directly part of the dev team, but I am sure members of our dev team will have plenty to comment on this thread once they are awake.
Fabienne Serriere
Netscape Anchor
oooh my precious. will you sssssshow me that galaxssssssy? hmmmmm?
move to france? /ducks
you can get quicktime codecs for reading quicktime with mplayer. i use it to read quicktime files and/or convert to mpg on my debian box.
You CAN therefore read qt on linux.
~fabs
i recommend you encode mpeg or quicktime, but most anyone can get a good wmv decoder for free with mplayer or vlc (videolan). these players work mac/windows/da penguin and are free. yes, mplayer is a pain to install for a non geek user, but once it's running, you can even read real player streams and windows media streams and other such fun things.
on the encoding side, mplayer can encode mpeg for you for free if you're thinking of ditching wmv.
~fab
i agree. i've had kernel panics, weird gui treatment (little pixel "snow" jiggles on the edge of windows), and really strange audio anomolies being written into audio files, all due to:
BAD RAM.
all examples were running mac os x on g4 procs. once was a 1gb chip in a powerbook g4, once was a 512 chip in a g4 agp tower. i highly recommend name brand, or at least a reseller that will replace ram in a timely and cost efficient manner.
~fab
bluetooth modded handset here:
6 6/Yoshis_Mod_Tips_Project_OldSchool_Bluetooth.html
http://www.g4techtv.com/screensavers/features/479
from yoshi at tech tv
~fabz
that new zaurus is tasty, but i'm holding out for an oqo with debian. that would be delicious... anyone working on porting the stylus drivers or the screen sizing with x11 (or any drivers for that matter) for the oqo to deb yet?
~fabienne
yeah i work 37, i work for a french govt funded research institute. the 35 hr week only really applies to "fonctionnaires."
*smile* i grew up with canadian tv in california with a french dad and an american mom that spoke perfect french. so that makes me...framericanadian?
~fabz
lol actually i'm a woman. go figure.
---fabienne
*laughing* actually i'm half american too. but thanks for the low blows, made me laugh.
i just think that a work week under 50 hrs might be a consideration for some tech employers (no matter where they might be).
i miss new york city, but i don't miss the 70 hr work weeks average i was putting in at my main job...
~f
well in france we have this little thing called the 35 hr work week... (i'm actually at 37) so when my boss said he didn't want me to do presentations on multichannel audio to the acoustics group (loosely translated: "it will eat time out of your schedule!") for which i already had powerpoint slides prepared from my master's degree, i decided to stop pushing for it at work. i do my side projects on the side. with a 37 hr week i don't have to try very hard to have enough hours to do my side work...
*grin* ~fabs
yes you're right about girls getting attention at a young age in the social realms. luckily (or unluckily?) i was not interested in my peers or even adults really and much prefered the library and playing classical music to social interaction. my sis on the other hand was popular all through junior high and high school and had a tough time with math...at first. but now she's finishing her undergrad in architecture at calpoly (lots of engineering classes and such). so isn't all of this awfully anecdotal?
anyone can learn with the right teachers and the time...
~f
and obviously my lack of rigour in un-italics proves me to be a complete and utter moron ... at html.
hah.
As a woman that majored in mathematics (pure math, not applied) I must say that he has dug himself into a bit of a hole. Even if he doesn't release his speech, I would find it professional of him to at least release the specific sources and studies he was "discussing":
Summers told the Globe he was discussing hypotheses based on the scholarly work assembled for the conference, not expressing his own views.
If he was discussing work for the conference, he certainly must have twisted some of the evidence because "Five other participants in the National Bureau of Economic Research conference...also said they were offended by the comments."
Personally, math education before the college level in the united states has suffered greatly in the past ten years. Some teachers don't know how to teach basic proof-based logic for any gender let alone girls. Luckily I had a slew of fantastic teachers who encouraged me even when I was doubling in classical music performance and had half as much time to devote to mathematics at university.
~f
More likely the guy built a $50 webserver also
actually it wasn't a GUY that built this project but a woman, gal, chick, person of the female persuasion.
and something tells me that grad students at the media lab aren't in charge of the web servers...
~fab
In the article ./ linked with an interview of the author Margaret Talbot answers:
Are there countries other than Japan where animation is as popular across different age groups? I think that Japan is unusual, if not unique, in its animation and comic-book culture.
I think france is another country where animation and comic books are consumed at all ages. One can find grown men reading hard cover and paperback comics on the metro in paris and the average age of movie goers for animated films is definitely not 10. Japan is not unique in its passion for animation and comic books...
~f()bz
here are a few pertinent pics of diagrams and flow charts from the tokyo institute of technology:
l es/072a3.jpg
2 a.html
http://www.nanonet.go.jp/japanese/mailmag/2004/fi
http://www.nanonet.go.jp/japanese/mailmag/2004/07
the local call with voip is not that arbitrary. in clauses for both vonage and packet 8 they note that if they deem you are using your voip from a non-US or canada IP addy they can and will switch you to a more costly plan than the unlimited plan. i have been the victim of this because i live half and half in nyc and paris. my use of non-US based IPs for calls was against their policy, but you must know that they CHANGED their policy to include the non-US IP clause after i already had service with them for five months.
therefore, local to anywhere does not apply if you are outside the US or canada.
yes you're right i didn't do my homework. please negate my first statement if you want a canadian area code. i just called packet 8 and a customer service agent said "we will probably *never* offer canadian area codes". bleh. i've spoken to friends who have vonage on the other end of my non-voip POTS and the audio quality imho is not that lovely. maybe give it a try with people that use it? also re: 911 service. 911 vonage service to the states comes with many clauses. Vonage notes at the end of the lengthy section on 911 calls: "You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Vonage and its third party provider from any claim or action arising out of misroutes of 911 calls". That said, most cellphones in the US allow you to dial 911 even if there is no longer a phone service provider associated with that particular cell phone. is that rule of thumb applicable in canada? maybe one could just keep a well-labeled non-paying cellphone in the house for emergencies instead of relying on a voip provider to patch one through to the local 911 dispatch.
just a thought: packet 8 already offers a much cheaper solution for canadians (and americans). unlimited calls to canada and the us for 19.95 USD a month. includes caller id, 3 way calling, etc. cheaper and probably better solution than A-Oh-hell....