As far as I read it, the Supreme Court declared that you can't pass a law forcing people to teach creationism. That is different from declaring it is unconstitutional to teach creationism, which is what the great-grandparent says.
I was able to download the release by going to the Google cache of the mirrors list. A little navigation required, but at least the server wasn't dead.
Then it would seem that Comcast would loose a lot of customers. I would think that to maximize customer satisfaction, they would offer both G rated and non-filtered internet. That seems like a good solution to me.
The government has no business rating ISPs based on its arbitrary standards.
Then by the same standard, the government should stop rating movies, television shows, games, etc. Maybe the government should step out of this completely and let the market handle it, but given the choice I would rather know the content of what I am buying than not know.
It IS the parents who are doing the job when they chose an ISP that will help them filter the content they don't want from entering their home. I don't see how the company or the government is forcing this on anyone. If you don't want an ISP that filters, choose a different ISP, ie. one that doesn't have a "G" rating per this bill (assuming it passes). If parents want an ISP that filters, let them have one. Just because a company provides a service doesn't mean that everyone needs to use that service. Sure, this could be done by installing a filtering program on the client computer, but that's not foolproof either. Sure, ISP filtering isn't foolproof, but if it isn't working enough to the customer's satisfaction, then they aren't obligated to continue using the service, and they aren't limited to only use the ISP filtering.
This is what capitalism is all about. The ISP is providing a service that is of value to the customer, who in turn gives them money, which is of value to the ISP. As long as there isn't coercion or deception, it sounds like a win-win to me. If the service is not of value to you, don't buy the service. Just don't complain and say that it isn't of value to anyone.
If you like that, you should try this:
http://nightskylive.net/software/apod/
It takes the Astonomy Picture of the Day, and puts it on your desktop, along with a description.
Very nice.
Parent seems like the best solution presented thus far which fits the backup strategy asked for in the posting. If you are backing up a lot of pictures and movies, I would suggest using Picasa from Google, which does the same basic thing, but for pictures and movies, and it also keeps track of those pictures which you have backed up already so incremental backups are easy.
I haven't heard of a similar free option which works like this for all data.
Yeah, I find that the tools at sysinternals.com are among the best for figuring out what is going on on your system. My favorites are Process Explorer and AutoRuns (how to figure out *everything* that runs when you start up and log into Windows).
As far as I can tell, this is something Real is initiating, and not something Mozilla searched out. Don't blame Mozilla for that. I can see that if Mozilla was approached by Real with a deal to bundle the browser with Real, it would be like free advertisement and would be a great potential boost for exposure. I can only see this as a good thing for Mozilla.
The change in installation date indicates that the system was upgraded to include more processors and memory since the last time the system was on the list. See similar changes to installation date for the number 1 BlueGene/L here, here and here.
Compare Purple from November 2005 to the system from June 2006. Why they don't have them linked together as the same system is beyond me.
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As far as I read it, the Supreme Court declared that you can't pass a law forcing people to teach creationism.
That is different from declaring it is unconstitutional to teach creationism, which is what the great-grandparent says.
I just installed from this binary, and I'm showing Firefox 3.0 in "About Mozilla Firefox". No RC3 there.
If you go to the parent directory, you will see that the links pointing to the latest-3.0 were updated today.
Usually, the last release candidate is the same as the release, so I'm not surprised that they cut the final binary a week early.
Direct links to win32, en-US, from the official mirrors:
http://mozilla.isc.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest-3.0/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%203.0.exe
http://pv-mirror01.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest-3.0/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%203.0.exe
http://mozilla2.mirrors.tds.net/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest-3.0/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%203.0.exe
http://pv-mirror02.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest-3.0/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%203.0.exe
http://mozilla.mirrors.easynews.com/mozilla/firefox/releases/latest-3.0/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%203.0.exe
Other international sites (navigate to appropriate OS and lang)
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest-3.0/
http://mozilla.ftp.iij.ad.jp/pub/mozilla/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest-3.0/
http://mozmirror01.true.nl/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest-3.0/
For more, see google cache of mirror list here:
http://209.85.141.104/search?q=cache:_PnqbgP1GpIJ:www.mozilla.org/mirrors.html+firefox+3+download+mirror&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
I was able to download the release by going to the Google cache of the mirrors list. A little navigation required, but at least the server wasn't dead.
http://209.85.141.104/search?q=cache:_PnqbgP1GpIJ:www.mozilla.org/mirrors.html+firefox+3+download+mirror&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
The download from ISC - San Francisco for me was lightning fast.
Here's the link at ISC for the en-US release:
http://pv-mirror01.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest-3.0/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%203.0.exe
Then it would seem that Comcast would loose a lot of customers. I would think that to maximize customer satisfaction, they would offer both G rated and non-filtered internet. That seems like a good solution to me.
Then by the same standard, the government should stop rating movies, television shows, games, etc. Maybe the government should step out of this completely and let the market handle it, but given the choice I would rather know the content of what I am buying than not know.
I don't see how it is unworkable, as long as in the terms of service they make it clear that it is impossible to filter all offensive content.
It IS the parents who are doing the job when they chose an ISP that will help them filter the content they don't want from entering their home. I don't see how the company or the government is forcing this on anyone. If you don't want an ISP that filters, choose a different ISP, ie. one that doesn't have a "G" rating per this bill (assuming it passes). If parents want an ISP that filters, let them have one. Just because a company provides a service doesn't mean that everyone needs to use that service. Sure, this could be done by installing a filtering program on the client computer, but that's not foolproof either. Sure, ISP filtering isn't foolproof, but if it isn't working enough to the customer's satisfaction, then they aren't obligated to continue using the service, and they aren't limited to only use the ISP filtering.
This is what capitalism is all about. The ISP is providing a service that is of value to the customer, who in turn gives them money, which is of value to the ISP. As long as there isn't coercion or deception, it sounds like a win-win to me. If the service is not of value to you, don't buy the service. Just don't complain and say that it isn't of value to anyone.
If you like that, you should try this: http://nightskylive.net/software/apod/ It takes the Astonomy Picture of the Day, and puts it on your desktop, along with a description. Very nice.
Is this what you were looking for? InformationWeek | Galleries: Inside AMD's Phenom And Opteron Quad-Core Architectures
Eh, just slap on a few million transistors to make the ISA translation, and you are good to go.
How long before there is a worm developed which will hammer the Microsoft servers from zombie machines to grab license keys?
Can we stop tagging as "itsatrap" anything in the topic of Microsoft? Or maybe we should just rename the Microsoft topic?
. . . and then reverse a quarter turn.
Parent seems like the best solution presented thus far which fits the backup strategy asked for in the posting. If you are backing up a lot of pictures and movies, I would suggest using Picasa from Google, which does the same basic thing, but for pictures and movies, and it also keeps track of those pictures which you have backed up already so incremental backups are easy. I haven't heard of a similar free option which works like this for all data.
Yeah, I find that the tools at sysinternals.com are among the best for figuring out what is going on on your system. My favorites are Process Explorer and AutoRuns (how to figure out *everything* that runs when you start up and log into Windows).
As far as I can tell, this is something Real is initiating, and not something Mozilla searched out. Don't blame Mozilla for that. I can see that if Mozilla was approached by Real with a deal to bundle the browser with Real, it would be like free advertisement and would be a great potential boost for exposure. I can only see this as a good thing for Mozilla.
The change in installation date indicates that the system was upgraded to include more processors and memory since the last time the system was on the list. See similar changes to installation date for the number 1 BlueGene/L here, here and here. Compare Purple from November 2005 to the system from June 2006. Why they don't have them linked together as the same system is beyond me.
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Isn't it the number of erase cycles that is the problem?
Ad Beta Statusum Infinitum.
I was wodering the same thing. Maybe they thought I said "Does it run linux?"
Anyone have a torrent, or has downloaded the ISO and can make one?
Did anyone else picture Roger Rabbit bursting through their front door when they knock it?