"Why did this not start on GMT so it was the 17th for the whole world at the normal time"
Exactly. This is pretty stupid if you ask me. Firstly, I go to download firefox 3 this morning (UK) and I was going to mention it to others too. When I go to the mozilla site it still shows firefox 2. At lunchtime, still firefox 2. After googling, I discover it is only available at 6pm local time... so much for download 'day'. Now, just after 6pm, it appears mozilla's servers have crashed. Great advert for you rock-solid browser. The whole thing is a pretty big screw-up if you ask me.
Unlikely Linus would agree to be interviewed on/. Judging from previous comments by Linus, he reads/., thinks it's kind of fun, but does not wish to be associated with the community.
I wonder what you mods are thinking when you mod the parent +5 interesting.
"This may look like flamebait..."
It is flamebait. You seriously think kernel devs have not thought of this? Anyone with the first clue about Linux has heard of the famous Linus/Tanenbaum discussion on this very topic. But clearly neither the parent or the mods have read this.
Agreed. These statistics are bullshit. Rather than having a stupid and false argument about American vs British culture with regard to this topic, let me make a suggestion as to how these statistics came about: Other posters have suggested that you can get the results that you want from a survey by asking a carefully-worded question. This is true and is very likely what happened. What I would add is that Horizon, for those who have not seen it, is indeed a serious science program. However, it has a constant theme of 'catastrophe': major virus outbreaks, genetic engineering scare stories and other 'end-of-the-world' stuff. Horizon producers know that British people don't generally believe in creationism and that there will therfore be a substantial "what is happening to my country?" reaction. In other words standard Horizon stuff.
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"Why did this not start on GMT so it was the 17th for the whole world at the normal time"
Exactly. This is pretty stupid if you ask me. Firstly, I go to download firefox 3 this morning (UK) and I was going to mention it to others too. When I go to the mozilla site it still shows firefox 2. At lunchtime, still firefox 2. After googling, I discover it is only available at 6pm local time... so much for download 'day'. Now, just after 6pm, it appears mozilla's servers have crashed. Great advert for you rock-solid browser. The whole thing is a pretty big screw-up if you ask me.
Amen to that.
"I hope you can tell it what the default format for Save should be"
In Word 2003: Tools > Options > Save > Save Word files As:
ODF shows up once you have installed the Sun plugin.
20,600
Interesting post, thanks.
Great post. That's the funniest thing I've read in a while.
Tidy works fine. Just have to edit the install.rdf.
No you don't. Just download the latest version from the developer's website:
http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/
works fine with 2.0rc2
Unlikely Linus would agree to be interviewed on /. Judging from previous comments by Linus, he reads /., thinks it's kind of fun, but does not wish to be associated with the community.
I wonder what you mods are thinking when you mod the parent +5 interesting.
"This may look like flamebait..."
It is flamebait. You seriously think kernel devs have not thought of this? Anyone with the first clue about Linux has heard of the famous Linus/Tanenbaum discussion on this very topic. But clearly neither the parent or the mods have read this.
Agreed. These statistics are bullshit. Rather than having a stupid and false argument about American vs British culture with regard to this topic, let me make a suggestion as to how these statistics came about: Other posters have suggested that you can get the results that you want from a survey by asking a carefully-worded question. This is true and is very likely what happened. What I would add is that Horizon, for those who have not seen it, is indeed a serious science program. However, it has a constant theme of 'catastrophe': major virus outbreaks, genetic engineering scare stories and other 'end-of-the-world' stuff. Horizon producers know that British people don't generally believe in creationism and that there will therfore be a substantial "what is happening to my country?" reaction. In other words standard Horizon stuff.