Birds, having descended from reptilian stock, still show evidence of this; Thunderbird, being no exception, is closely related to a nearly extinct species, Mozilla suite;)
With 100M downloads, its not exactly a "little secret" anymore;)
As far as Adblock goes, even if they were to integrate it, it wouldn't do much good for the average user without pre-installed ad-blocking scripts. And I don't think they'd even do that for the simple fact that it would piss off quite a few website owners who in turn might simply block Firefox users from browsing their site.
It doesn't count when Firefox upgrades, only when someone goes and downloads a copy from the website on their own (it can somehow tell the difference). Same thing with the 1.5 beta; the patches don't count as full downloads.
"the way Captain Jack was written, it was pretty hard to forget, even for a moment, that he was continuously randy for anything vaguely warm and moving."
Sorry, for a second there I thought you meant "Kirk";)
"We were impressed. My wife ran it as her OS for a few months, but ultimately relented and switched back to windows. We simply run and play too many windows games for linux to be a real solution for us."
That's how I have my computer set up... but I'm not a gamer, so my Windows partition takes long naps (I boot Windows on Patch Tuesdays to make sure I'm up to date:)
[Mopping up Malware] Frankly, it's boring, and sometimes even tedious work.
My neighbor, a very nice older lady, bought a semi-functional computer at a garage sale. I reinstalled Windows and put Ad-Aware, Spybot Search & Destory, Spyware Blaster, AVG and Firefox on it to make sure it didn't get infected. But yah, the time required to scan for malicious software was terrible.
She wanted to upgrade to something newer, so I sold her a laptop I had that runs Ubuntu Linux. I set it up to look almost identical to Windows and for her purposes (basic internet, webmail and some music) its indistinguishable; she's really happy so far and I won't have to go over nearly as often since I also showed her how to click the update indicator;) My next visit over there will be in a couple days when ubuntu 5.10 is released, just to make sure the transition goes smoothly.
I'd strongly recommend that if you're helping computer novices who just want relatively-simple tasks from their computers (e.g. web surfing, e-mail, some text/document editing, maybe even the occasional spreadsheet, simple computer games (like the ones that come with Windows), playing CDs/MP3s; that sort of thing), that you steer them clear of Windows and onto one of the user-friendly GUI-based Linux distros, like Ubuntu:)
If you want to try a desktop Linux that 'just works' pretty much all the time, download an Ubuntu Live CD: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/
My computer is dual-boot Windows XP, Ubuntu Breezy but I rarely boot into Windows anymore.
Speaking of packaging, I have to say that a system like Synaptic is an amazing improvement over Windows installers. You want software? Find it in the list, mark it for installation, press apply. You want all of the software on your system kept up to date? Ubuntu periodically checks automatically and the upgrades are just as easy to install.
> If I were a Debian developer and read this, this would not make me rest easy. > His ambition appears to be THE core distribution, from which all others flow
Um... did you not pick up on the major theme of binary incompatability vs source compatability? The distro seems to be of secondary concern to Mr. Shuttleworth; what he really seems to care about is high quality source that improves ANY distro that uses it. To that end, the sharing and collective improving of source code becomes a top priority; hence Bazaar, etc.
There's a big difference between the two. Wildberger wants to make it easier for the average student to learn basic trig (which is the study of triangles, not circles, afterall).
Consider his analogy of his system being like switching from Roman to Arabic numerals. You can get right answers doing addition/subtraction/multiplication/division with Roman numerals, its just a pain in the ass;)
Wolfram... well, he's just nuts:) He'd probably tell you that he invented numbers and that they're alive and only he understands them properly or something to that effect 8-)
Oh good, its not just me thinking that ^_-; I'm fairly new to Linux (I use ubuntu) but one program I couldn't find a Linux replacement for was Irfanview (yes, simple little freeware Irfanview... and before anyone asks, I'd prefer to avoid using Wine, thank you though). Instead of cloning PS's interface, why not clone Irfanview's? That would be useful and they'd be far less likely to get sued ^_-
According to Asa:
Acid2 is not on the list of requirements for the next major Firefox release [... but] one of our Gecko experts [says] Asa, I think it's safe to promise that the next major Firefox release after [that] will pass Acid2:-)
"Two months ago, I installed Kubuntu onto my laptop. [...] First issue: Installing software. This blew ass."
I've been using ubuntu for about half a year now and I have to say that once you learn how to use Synaptic (it doesn't take that long), installing software is really easy; as a GUI for the apt-get and repository stuff you struggled with, its pretty nice. In fact, I've come to actually prefer the Synaptic method to generic Windows installers... O:)
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I had that too (though not all people do). Download and run the rc1 installer from http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/ That should fix things.
If I remember right, FFb2's upgrade function is accessible under "Help" in the regular menu.
Birds, having descended from reptilian stock, still show evidence of this; Thunderbird, being no exception, is closely related to a nearly extinct species, Mozilla suite ;)
See for example this article from when FF hit 50M: "the foundation says the 50 million is strictly version downloads and doesn't count upgrades."
With 100M downloads, its not exactly a "little secret" anymore ;)
As far as Adblock goes, even if they were to integrate it, it wouldn't do much good for the average user without pre-installed ad-blocking scripts. And I don't think they'd even do that for the simple fact that it would piss off quite a few website owners who in turn might simply block Firefox users from browsing their site.
That chair must have had wings, because Ballmer just said "I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life". Also, Linux is more expensive and less secure than Windows (who knew?!? ;)
It doesn't count when Firefox upgrades, only when someone goes and downloads a copy from the website on their own (it can somehow tell the difference). Same thing with the 1.5 beta; the patches don't count as full downloads.
"the way Captain Jack was written, it was pretty hard to forget, even for a moment, that he was continuously randy for anything vaguely warm and moving."
;)
Sorry, for a second there I thought you meant "Kirk"
"We were impressed. My wife ran it as her OS for a few months, but ultimately relented and switched back to windows. We simply run and play too many windows games for linux to be a real solution for us."
:)
The simple solution would be to dual-boot; Windows for games and Ubuntu for everything else. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WindowsDualBootHowTo
That's how I have my computer set up... but I'm not a gamer, so my Windows partition takes long naps (I boot Windows on Patch Tuesdays to make sure I'm up to date
We both use cable modems, so that's fortunately not a problem :)
[Mopping up Malware]
;) My next visit over there will be in a couple days when ubuntu 5.10 is released, just to make sure the transition goes smoothly.
:)
Frankly, it's boring, and sometimes even tedious work.
My neighbor, a very nice older lady, bought a semi-functional computer at a garage sale. I reinstalled Windows and put Ad-Aware, Spybot Search & Destory, Spyware Blaster, AVG and Firefox on it to make sure it didn't get infected. But yah, the time required to scan for malicious software was terrible.
She wanted to upgrade to something newer, so I sold her a laptop I had that runs Ubuntu Linux. I set it up to look almost identical to Windows and for her purposes (basic internet, webmail and some music) its indistinguishable; she's really happy so far and I won't have to go over nearly as often since I also showed her how to click the update indicator
I'd strongly recommend that if you're helping computer novices who just want relatively-simple tasks from their computers (e.g. web surfing, e-mail, some text/document editing, maybe even the occasional spreadsheet, simple computer games (like the ones that come with Windows), playing CDs/MP3s; that sort of thing), that you steer them clear of Windows and onto one of the user-friendly GUI-based Linux distros, like Ubuntu
>> precious few sound cards feature hardware acceleration for 3D audio.
;)
> Does that mean that all the others only accelerate 2D audio?
If you're old enough, you might remember software accelerated 1D audio
If you want to try a desktop Linux that 'just works' pretty much all the time, download an Ubuntu Live CD: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/
My computer is dual-boot Windows XP, Ubuntu Breezy but I rarely boot into Windows anymore.
Speaking of packaging, I have to say that a system like Synaptic is an amazing improvement over Windows installers. You want software? Find it in the list, mark it for installation, press apply. You want all of the software on your system kept up to date? Ubuntu periodically checks automatically and the upgrades are just as easy to install.
> If I were a Debian developer and read this, this would not make me rest easy.
> His ambition appears to be THE core distribution, from which all others flow
Um... did you not pick up on the major theme of binary incompatability vs source compatability? The distro seems to be of secondary concern to Mr. Shuttleworth; what he really seems to care about is high quality source that improves ANY distro that uses it. To that end, the sharing and collective improving of source code becomes a top priority; hence Bazaar, etc.
There's a big difference between the two. Wildberger wants to make it easier for the average student to learn basic trig (which is the study of triangles, not circles, afterall).
;)
:) He'd probably tell you that he invented numbers and that they're alive and only he understands them properly or something to that effect 8-)
Consider his analogy of his system being like switching from Roman to Arabic numerals. You can get right answers doing addition/subtraction/multiplication/division with Roman numerals, its just a pain in the ass
Wolfram... well, he's just nuts
Oh good, its not just me thinking that ^_-; I'm fairly new to Linux (I use ubuntu) but one program I couldn't find a Linux replacement for was Irfanview (yes, simple little freeware Irfanview... and before anyone asks, I'd prefer to avoid using Wine, thank you though). Instead of cloning PS's interface, why not clone Irfanview's? That would be useful and they'd be far less likely to get sued ^_-
According to Asa: Acid2 is not on the list of requirements for the next major Firefox release [... but] one of our Gecko experts [says] Asa, I think it's safe to promise that the next major Firefox release after [that] will pass Acid2 :-)
"Two months ago, I installed Kubuntu onto my laptop. [...] First issue: Installing software. This blew ass."
I've been using ubuntu for about half a year now and I have to say that once you learn how to use Synaptic (it doesn't take that long), installing software is really easy; as a GUI for the apt-get and repository stuff you struggled with, its pretty nice. In fact, I've come to actually prefer the Synaptic method to generic Windows installers... O:)