Is there such a thing? It's still a child. It's not yet two years since the 1.0 release. I'd installed Firebird about a year before that. Before that it was the browser component of mozilla, and then way back it was netscape navigator! Essentially the interface is no different from it's ancestors. Much of what we like about Firefox is really the extensions (adblock, decent tab functionality) or disabled by default (find as you type) - and all this was upstream in Mozilla. The greatest distinction between Firefox/mozilla/etc and IE is the tabs, and frankly this is apalling "out the box" without any extensions. Multiple tabs, one window: fantastic. Multiple windows of IE = alright. Firefox "out the box" multiple tabs in multiple windows, new ones coming from nowhere all shapes and sizes = Confusing as hell. It's hardly surprising new users want to disable it, when they must guess at random what opens a window, what opens a tab.
The majority of the older mozilla userbase is on linux, think back to when mozilla was the default browser in debian, red hat, suse. only with firefox 1.0 did the development shift from this technical userbase to the hysterical evangelicals of firefox vs IE.
>This will no doubt fuel the debate about whether binary blob drivers should be allowed in Linux. This is the point. NVIDIA's driver is *NOT* part of Linux, but a loadable module distributed only in binary. Thus it is not subject to the scrutiny of quality, security and reliability testing that code must test before being official merged into the mainline kernel. Report recently: real-time support has arrived for linux 2.6.18, but the code has been useable for years if one were prepared to patch and compile their own kernel. Only now has the code been deemed satisfactory for introduction to the unpatched vanilla linux at kernel.org . The truth is, this policy works. How common is that you have kernel panic?
So the free nv driver in linux is certainly more secure and stable, as it is refined by hundreds of kernel developers. Yes NVIDIA can write a driver that gets better FPS - it is their hardware, for which they don't share the documentation. But this driver is the work of fewer developers, and to NVIDIA their linux drivers are of fractional importance to those for Windows. The binary is compiled on one machine for it's specific kernel, so can suffer incompatibility problems unless you run a fairly standard major version of the kernel.
Fucking ironic. A book will last as long as it's language, so anything published today, if preserved (just leave it somewhere DRY) should last a few hundred years years. Think Shakespeare's English makes good sense to us. The English we use is standardised and well documented, compared to Chaucer's varietie of spellings and meanings in a day without dictionaries. Global communication is leading to a convergence of British English, American English etc.
Now an eBook. Whatever technology they're tauting today as the future will be as obsolete as the telegraph by the next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Storing data anywhere for more than twenty years is difficult - think of NASA's trouble rescuing Apollo stuff from magnetic tape. (Propose solutions? CDs, tapes, are NOTHING to scratching inch deep letters in solid rock) Of course, regardless of which side of copyright hell we reach, I somehow doubt one would even possess the text of the book, but download it from the grandchild of our internet. So yes my children will inherit my first hardback edition of Harry Potter and not some joke of a device.
Now tell me your petrol engine will obsolete my bicycle.
- A facility to observe when a website has alternate stylesheets and allowing you to switch between them.
- The old history/bookmarks behaviour. You could select multiple entries in the list, so you wouldn't have to move them one at a time.
- Other fixes specifically introduced to make Firefox more like IE. Like that stupid green 'go' triangle attached to the address bar. Now my parents, having typed a URL at the keyboard with their finger on return think it's mandatory to find the mouse, the button and click it.
- Disabling useful functions by default. Find as you type. The greatest feature, enabled, new users find it instantly, ooh how handy. Disabled, who knows it's there to want?
- Underlining links by default. == IE.
You suggest that Google should deal with anyone who threatens their profits by removing them from their index, essentially a death sentence for any online business. (Google has a 54% market share [Wikipedia], probably the more web-savvy half that consume the most) This is an apalling suggestion. I very much hope they don't do anything like this - but how could we tell? Business go to any lengths to beat their competitors, I'd wager Google receive hundreds of emails offering ridiculous values of currency in return for bumping up one site past another on pagerank. Thousands of sites will offer to do this for you, and needless to say if they do work, then it's by spamming.
You can't assume Google will always act ethically. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Scandal is inevitable, be it privacy, corruption or censorship. The way we use Google has eeroded the web's greatest quality, that of the hyperlink to render all sites equal. The hierachy of pagerank means sites beyond the first ten results are often ignored. This influence is dangerous.
There's so much talk on Slashdot of Microsoft abusing their stolen monopoly. Yet we've handed Google one. People blindly swear allegiance to them, defending their more questionable actions that if another company perpretrated, they'd certainly condemn. Honestly, when did last use another search engine? When Google's broken, are you even able to find one?
Because it's so much faster and more responsive, and the interface is so much easier without being able to use that fiddly secondary click function to use menus, and because it integrates so smoothly with all your other applications, you can just drag and drop stuff between.. No really, because you can work it from *anywhere* yes work or home, providing it has internet access to google where your documents will remain forever property and copyright of. Can you change to competing service? Isn't that why we have file standards?
Immediately we have electrical interference at multiples of 50Hz. If this is supposed to be a delocalised system eg, SETI@home running in geeks' houses we're going to have much more interference: kicking your computer, bass speakers, fans..
Using Linux we're very lucky that we can build a kernel and applications optimised to our *specific* hardware utilising any special features and experience greater performance gains compared to users of most other operating systems say windows who are stuck with a generalised kernel that has to run on a majority of hardware from the last ten years and are stuck with a single set of binaries. Even with 64 bit windows most the applications you use will have to be run in emulation32 mode, so you won't get the same performance gains in the places you really need them, not explorer but video processing etc.
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>These results are being published in an upcoming issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters. Most scientists wouldn't discuss their results with the media until the paper has been subjected to peer-review and published to prevent the inevitable over-simplification and exageration of significance that we are here witnessing.
Aren't you reminded of the end of Orwell's Animal Farm?
"And the creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from man to pig again: but already it was impossible to say which was which".
We've fought so hard for the revolution, to spread our idealogy, to make software brighter for everyone. If we sell-out now, exchanging our values for perceived "success" as defined by only one index, profit, the "open-source" buzzword will come back and bite us in the teeth. Code we can look at but are legally prevented from adapting or redistributing is worth nothing to society. If businesses adopt "open-source" licenses that leave code only as open as a jail is for visitors, it shall be a bitter end. The movement will lose trust from the verge of true success. Remember: Freedom is fundamental.
> I want to know what agricultural practices I am supporting when I buy food. Labelling. Agricultural practice? This is of little importance, you can't say you know any level of detail about the origins of the most the non-edible products you consume. Justify your supposed concern for the environment, without a greater concern for labour practices. Much of the food we consume (see chocolate) is produced by people in conditions similar to the cotton plantations we abolished, with similar wages. Poverty is the world's worst problem, not climate change. The money wasted on the Kyoto protocol (futile, it has been shown it will may make 6 years difference over the next century) could have written off world debt. Rising sea levels are inevitable, but the people of Bangladesh need not be too poor to relocate. As natural disasters show us repeatedly, damage is always disproportionately on the poorest people.
> an issue of the freedom to choose Mr libertarian, this right will always be abused. Americans have proved that given a choice, they will shun the 'right' choice for what is worst for them (see obesity, alcohol, tobacco, drugs). If the consequences were limited to the individual this would not matter, but these are all serious issues for society: the obesely unhealthy burdening the health system so that those with diseases they did not bring upon themselves cannot receive treatment, alcohol-related crime means we cannot walk the streets alone at night, the majority of theft is perpitrated to fund drug addictions. The purpose of the state is to act in the best interests of its people, not as individuals, but for society. Anarchy is no solution, by choosing to live where we do, our state's laws and customs have improved our quality of life (what most strive for, you may debate why) beyond what we would receive if we were to 'go at it ourselves' in the badlands.
= on organic food Wealthy people in developed countries have disposable income and can afford to buy what they like for irrational reason. But please don't forget that the green revolution (intensive agriculture, a fantastic success in Asia, if not Africa) is responsible for sustaining the world's population of 6.5 billion. It is sad, but understandable how as most the population has become disconnected from science, now see science as the evil that is destroying our world. Science has put an end to infant mortality, infectious disease, tuberculosis, smallpox and polio (soon). The real evil is corporate business that acts solely for profit, with no regard for society, liberty or the environment. The privitasation of national services in the UK has been a disaster because while the state did try to act in the best interests of people or at least their votes, when businesses were handed monopolies to abuse they were left free to milk people for money, even after the government responsible (Thatcher, Major) was voted out. No-one can vote out Thames Water (the only supplier in my area) , who even when in a year of 'drought' (a consequence of their mismanagement, over half their water is lost to leakage) report record profits.
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Is there such a thing? It's still a child. It's not yet two years since the 1.0 release. I'd installed Firebird about a year before that. Before that it was the browser component of mozilla, and then way back it was netscape navigator! Essentially the interface is no different from it's ancestors. Much of what we like about Firefox is really the extensions (adblock, decent tab functionality) or disabled by default (find as you type) - and all this was upstream in Mozilla. The greatest distinction between Firefox/mozilla/etc and IE is the tabs, and frankly this is apalling "out the box" without any extensions. Multiple tabs, one window: fantastic. Multiple windows of IE = alright. Firefox "out the box" multiple tabs in multiple windows, new ones coming from nowhere all shapes and sizes = Confusing as hell. It's hardly surprising new users want to disable it, when they must guess at random what opens a window, what opens a tab.
The majority of the older mozilla userbase is on linux, think back to when mozilla was the default browser in debian, red hat, suse. only with firefox 1.0 did the development shift from this technical userbase to the hysterical evangelicals of firefox vs IE.
Firefox 2.0 RC3 Firefox 2.0
Shit you. Sex off and come back to post when releases are fucking released. This ain't news.
>This will no doubt fuel the debate about whether binary blob drivers should be allowed in Linux.
This is the point. NVIDIA's driver is *NOT* part of Linux, but a loadable module distributed only in binary. Thus it is not subject to the scrutiny of quality, security and reliability testing that code must test before being official merged into the mainline kernel. Report recently: real-time support has arrived for linux 2.6.18, but the code has been useable for years if one were prepared to patch and compile their own kernel. Only now has the code been deemed satisfactory for introduction to the unpatched vanilla linux at kernel.org . The truth is, this policy works. How common is that you have kernel panic?
So the free nv driver in linux is certainly more secure and stable, as it is refined by hundreds of kernel developers. Yes NVIDIA can write a driver that gets better FPS - it is their hardware, for which they don't share the documentation. But this driver is the work of fewer developers, and to NVIDIA their linux drivers are of fractional importance to those for Windows. The binary is compiled on one machine for it's specific kernel, so can suffer incompatibility problems unless you run a fairly standard major version of the kernel.
Do you regular reading would help? Separating the pages rather than letting them melt into each other.
Fucking ironic. A book will last as long as it's language, so anything published today, if preserved (just leave it somewhere DRY) should last a few hundred years years. Think Shakespeare's English makes good sense to us. The English we use is standardised and well documented, compared to Chaucer's varietie of spellings and meanings in a day without dictionaries. Global communication is leading to a convergence of British English, American English etc.
Now an eBook. Whatever technology they're tauting today as the future will be as obsolete as the telegraph by the next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Storing data anywhere for more than twenty years is difficult - think of NASA's trouble rescuing Apollo stuff from magnetic tape. (Propose solutions? CDs, tapes, are NOTHING to scratching inch deep letters in solid rock) Of course, regardless of which side of copyright hell we reach, I somehow doubt one would even possess the text of the book, but download it from the grandchild of our internet. So yes my children will inherit my first hardback edition of Harry Potter and not some joke of a device.
Now tell me your petrol engine will obsolete my bicycle.
- A facility to observe when a website has alternate stylesheets and allowing you to switch between them. - The old history/bookmarks behaviour. You could select multiple entries in the list, so you wouldn't have to move them one at a time. - Other fixes specifically introduced to make Firefox more like IE. Like that stupid green 'go' triangle attached to the address bar. Now my parents, having typed a URL at the keyboard with their finger on return think it's mandatory to find the mouse, the button and click it. - Disabling useful functions by default. Find as you type. The greatest feature, enabled, new users find it instantly, ooh how handy. Disabled, who knows it's there to want? - Underlining links by default. == IE.
A facility to observe when a website has alternate stylesheets and allowing you to switch between them.
Because OS X costs more than the laptop itself!
Oh come on, what perverted cracker wouldn't enjoy flashing "All your base are belong to us" across every child's laptop in Africa?
>The fact that a paper thinks this is newsworthy now suggest they just haven't been paying attention. :p
The same applies to Slashdot
You suggest that Google should deal with anyone who threatens their profits by removing them from their index, essentially a death sentence for any online business. (Google has a 54% market share [Wikipedia], probably the more web-savvy half that consume the most) This is an apalling suggestion. I very much hope they don't do anything like this - but how could we tell? Business go to any lengths to beat their competitors, I'd wager Google receive hundreds of emails offering ridiculous values of currency in return for bumping up one site past another on pagerank. Thousands of sites will offer to do this for you, and needless to say if they do work, then it's by spamming.
You can't assume Google will always act ethically. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Scandal is inevitable, be it privacy, corruption or censorship. The way we use Google has eeroded the web's greatest quality, that of the hyperlink to render all sites equal. The hierachy of pagerank means sites beyond the first ten results are often ignored. This influence is dangerous.
There's so much talk on Slashdot of Microsoft abusing their stolen monopoly. Yet we've handed Google one. People blindly swear allegiance to them, defending their more questionable actions that if another company perpretrated, they'd certainly condemn. Honestly, when did last use another search engine? When Google's broken, are you even able to find one?
Because it's so much faster and more responsive, and the interface is so much easier without being able to use that fiddly secondary click function to use menus, and because it integrates so smoothly with all your other applications, you can just drag and drop stuff between.. No really, because you can work it from *anywhere* yes work or home, providing it has internet access to google where your documents will remain forever property and copyright of. Can you change to competing service? Isn't that why we have file standards?
This post makes me want to subscribe to slashdot just so I can cancel my subscription to protest against whoever posts this shit.
Is the 2003 invasion of Iraq still considered too risqué to make a game of?
Maybe in 50 years we can play out the gulf war.
I don't think the horror of war should ever be reduced to a computer game.
If I'm going and using other people's machines, isn't that already anonymous?
"Everything that Mao Zedong says is the truth; every statement he utters is worth 10,000 sentences."
Rate: Double-plus-good.
Hot Jupiters May Indicate Hospitable Penis.
Seismic waves range between 40 and 200 Hz.
Immediately we have electrical interference at multiples of 50Hz. If this is supposed to be a delocalised system eg, SETI@home running in geeks' houses we're going to have much more interference: kicking your computer, bass speakers, fans..
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
128 megs of malware :)
Using Linux we're very lucky that we can build a kernel and applications optimised to our *specific* hardware utilising any special features and experience greater performance gains compared to users of most other operating systems say windows who are stuck with a generalised kernel that has to run on a majority of hardware from the last ten years and are stuck with a single set of binaries. Even with 64 bit windows most the applications you use will have to be run in emulation32 mode, so you won't get the same performance gains in the places you really need them, not explorer but video processing etc.
>These results are being published in an upcoming issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Most scientists wouldn't discuss their results with the media until the paper has been subjected to peer-review and published to prevent the inevitable over-simplification and exageration of significance that we are here witnessing.
"And the creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from man to pig again: but already it was impossible to say which was which".
We've fought so hard for the revolution, to spread our idealogy, to make software brighter for everyone. If we sell-out now, exchanging our values for perceived "success" as defined by only one index, profit, the "open-source" buzzword will come back and bite us in the teeth. Code we can look at but are legally prevented from adapting or redistributing is worth nothing to society. If businesses adopt "open-source" licenses that leave code only as open as a jail is for visitors, it shall be a bitter end. The movement will lose trust from the verge of true success. Remember: Freedom is fundamental.
When did you last hear a authoritative scientist quoted in the press, except to be lauded, misquoted or dumbed-sideways by a clueless journalist?
> I want to know what agricultural practices I am supporting when I buy food. Labelling.
Agricultural practice? This is of little importance, you can't say you know any level of detail about the origins of the most the non-edible products you consume. Justify your supposed concern for the environment, without a greater concern for labour practices. Much of the food we consume (see chocolate) is produced by people in conditions similar to the cotton plantations we abolished, with similar wages. Poverty is the world's worst problem, not climate change. The money wasted on the Kyoto protocol (futile, it has been shown it will may make 6 years difference over the next century) could have written off world debt. Rising sea levels are inevitable, but the people of Bangladesh need not be too poor to relocate. As natural disasters show us repeatedly, damage is always disproportionately on the poorest people.
> an issue of the freedom to choose
Mr libertarian, this right will always be abused. Americans have proved that given a choice, they will shun the 'right' choice for what is worst for them (see obesity, alcohol, tobacco, drugs). If the consequences were limited to the individual this would not matter, but these are all serious issues for society: the obesely unhealthy burdening the health system so that those with diseases they did not bring upon themselves cannot receive treatment, alcohol-related crime means we cannot walk the streets alone at night, the majority of theft is perpitrated to fund drug addictions. The purpose of the state is to act in the best interests of its people, not as individuals, but for society. Anarchy is no solution, by choosing to live where we do, our state's laws and customs have improved our quality of life (what most strive for, you may debate why) beyond what we would receive if we were to 'go at it ourselves' in the badlands.
= on organic food
Wealthy people in developed countries have disposable income and can afford to buy what they like for irrational reason. But please don't forget that the green revolution (intensive agriculture, a fantastic success in Asia, if not Africa) is responsible for sustaining the world's population of 6.5 billion. It is sad, but understandable how as most the population has become disconnected from science, now see science as the evil that is destroying our world. Science has put an end to infant mortality, infectious disease, tuberculosis, smallpox and polio (soon). The real evil is corporate business that acts solely for profit, with no regard for society, liberty or the environment. The privitasation of national services in the UK has been a disaster because while the state did try to act in the best interests of people or at least their votes, when businesses were handed monopolies to abuse they were left free to milk people for money, even after the government responsible (Thatcher, Major) was voted out. No-one can vote out Thames Water (the only supplier in my area) , who even when in a year of 'drought' (a consequence of their mismanagement, over half their water is lost to leakage) report record profits.