you can't lock people into using your player and your store if there are plenty of other stored and players that support the format.
It's actually a rather clever and very Microsoft move. They'll just bite the losses they get until the Zune is entrenched, and once people have so much Zune music they can't possibly switch, they screw all their customers and reap the rewards!
why would Microsoft do that? If they did then why would you buy Zune music when you can just buy PlaysForSure? Then when Joe's Zune breaks he can buy a media player from another company, and buy their music from another store, and suddenly MS isn't getting as much money.
No matter how much they try to spin it, they simply had to do this in order to get the same vendor lock-in that Apple is enjoying with their iPod.
you're missing everyone elses point. that's not the official upgrade path. The official upgrade path is to run the regular update manager and it finds the upgrade for you. (Although in dapper they made you actually force it to look with the -c flag)
just because someone decides to do something with the command line doesn't suddenly mean that everyone's going to do it and suddenly grandma can't do anything
this is the strength of linux, almost everything can be done with either a terminal command or a gui
For Firefox, download the EditCSS extension. Then when you load a MySpace page, open the EditCSS sidebar and select all and hit delete. Then you will be able to see the actual content on the page. I do this quite a bit as usually I cannot read any text due to the background image having colors that match the font colors.
or you could just click view->page style->no style
actually, IE7 will be a very good test to see how quickly security updates propagate. we can view on all those "stats counter" websites just how quickly and how completely any update will move to users
Normal users are expected to stay with 6.06 because it's "long term support" and supposedly stable. This was a consious decision.
OK, sure, maybe grandma can't hit alt-F2 and type one single line but they're not meant to be upgrading operating systems. When was the last time Grandma upgraded her Wwindows install? Whether Linux is "ready for the desktop" or not is a different matter, but saying it's not because some clueless user can't do something that they shouldn't be doing and don't care about is just wasting poeople's time
well then isn't everything just moving freedom around? If I stop person A from killing person B, I'm just reducing person A's freedom (to kill) in order to increase person B's freedom (to live)
Someone's got to say that some freedoms are worth more than others. Not to say that Stallman is doing a perfect job of it, but he's doing what he believs in and many people agree with him. Of course, no one is forced to play by his rules, so the world will decide whether GPL v3 is acceptable or not
backspace as back was actually one of the most annoying features I found. Whenever I was typing in a form and wanted to delete some text, occasionally the browser would think the focus was elsewhere and cause the page to go back, usually requiring me to re-enter the form input.
If they got rid of that "feature" I'd be very happy, especially considering I hav a keyboard with a "back" button in the top left corner
if you are using gnome, try System->Preferences->Keyboard. You can change the mapping of all those keys, for instance, having Meta mapped as left alt and Super mapped as right alt, etc etc.
not particularly. The point the GP was attempting to make was that not half of the world are below average, because average doesn't mean median.
So while average is correct in the sense of "think how many people are average", it's not strictly correct in terms of "half of them are dumber than that"
of course, while average is a general term referring to one of the three averages (mean, median, mode), in general, when none is specified median is assumed to be the "average" that we are talking about.
So in reality, the GP was just being a smartarse and there was no problem with the OP;)
I just moved Google search box in firefox 1.5 on Ubuntu 6.06 10 seconds ago with no problems. I don't quite get what problems you are having. I even managed to put the search box next to the menu bar.
I don't have google toolbar, so I don't know about that
so then if you are relying on the program in question, since you have the source code you can perform a software audit. I don't see How this is ruling out deliberately painted backdoors. But the code is available and you are perfectly able to scrutinise it all you want, if you think the character of the maintainer has been called into question.
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three words:
vendor lock in
you can't lock people into using your player and your store if there are plenty of other stored and players that support the format.
It's actually a rather clever and very Microsoft move. They'll just bite the losses they get until the Zune is entrenched, and once people have so much Zune music they can't possibly switch, they screw all their customers and reap the rewards!
why would Microsoft do that? If they did then why would you buy Zune music when you can just buy PlaysForSure? Then when Joe's Zune breaks he can buy a media player from another company, and buy their music from another store, and suddenly MS isn't getting as much money.
No matter how much they try to spin it, they simply had to do this in order to get the same vendor lock-in that Apple is enjoying with their iPod.
I use rhythmbox on linux. it has every feature I want out of a media player and no feature I don't want.
;)
of course, if you're on windows it won't help
yeah I found it wouldn't let me install root to a reiser partition, no problem installing to ext3 though ... maybe they just don't trust it any more
you're missing everyone elses point. that's not the official upgrade path. The official upgrade path is to run the regular update manager and it finds the upgrade for you. (Although in dapper they made you actually force it to look with the -c flag)
just because someone decides to do something with the command line doesn't suddenly mean that everyone's going to do it and suddenly grandma can't do anything
this is the strength of linux, almost everything can be done with either a terminal command or a gui
firstly, I very much doubt many corporations are rolling out ie7 yet.
secondly, doesn't every copy of ie7 require a WGA check? and then wouldn't that WGA check let ms know another person has installed ie?
or you could just click view->page style->no style
actually, IE7 will be a very good test to see how quickly security updates propagate. we can view on all those "stats counter" websites just how quickly and how completely any update will move to users
it would be more fitting if they just sent them the ingredients and instructions on how to compile...
oh just shut up.
Normal users are expected to stay with 6.06 because it's "long term support" and supposedly stable. This was a consious decision.
OK, sure, maybe grandma can't hit alt-F2 and type one single line but they're not meant to be upgrading operating systems. When was the last time Grandma upgraded her Wwindows install?
Whether Linux is "ready for the desktop" or not is a different matter, but saying it's not because some clueless user can't do something that they shouldn't be doing and don't care about is just wasting poeople's time
sudo apt-get install network-manager-gnome doesn't seem too daunting to me
if you don't like the command line you can even install it through synaptic
from a web developers perspective, I find the DOM inspector and javascript console in firefox so useful that I couldn't go back to ie
try buying a different brand of laptop then. There are plenty of other brands that don't use Sony batteries
I have a Samsung laptop and it's been fantastic to me.
Sell to Google
well then isn't everything just moving freedom around? If I stop person A from killing person B, I'm just reducing person A's freedom (to kill) in order to increase person B's freedom (to live)
Someone's got to say that some freedoms are worth more than others. Not to say that Stallman is doing a perfect job of it, but he's doing what he believs in and many people agree with him. Of course, no one is forced to play by his rules, so the world will decide whether GPL v3 is acceptable or not
backspace as back was actually one of the most annoying features I found. Whenever I was typing in a form and wanted to delete some text, occasionally the browser would think the focus was elsewhere and cause the page to go back, usually requiring me to re-enter the form input.
If they got rid of that "feature" I'd be very happy, especially considering I hav a keyboard with a "back" button in the top left corner
I am Australian, you insensitive clod!
if you are using gnome, try System->Preferences->Keyboard. You can change the mapping of all those keys, for instance, having Meta mapped as left alt and Super mapped as right alt, etc etc.
damn why didn't Nintendo think of this? Who'd buy a Playstation 3 when they can get a Nintendo 5?
actually, the original post you replied to was talking about ies4linux. So (silly me) I figured that there was some context there...
not particularly. The point the GP was attempting to make was that not half of the world are below average, because average doesn't mean median.
;)
So while average is correct in the sense of "think how many people are average", it's not strictly correct in terms of "half of them are dumber than that"
of course, while average is a general term referring to one of the three averages (mean, median, mode), in general, when none is specified median is assumed to be the "average" that we are talking about.
So in reality, the GP was just being a smartarse and there was no problem with the OP
that's actually part of firefox 2. so no need to wait
then if microsoft released a sparc native binary of ie4, you wouldn't run it under ies4linux would you?
I just moved Google search box in firefox 1.5 on Ubuntu 6.06 10 seconds ago with no problems. I don't quite get what problems you are having. I even managed to put the search box next to the menu bar.
I don't have google toolbar, so I don't know about that
so then if you are relying on the program in question, since you have the source code you can perform a software audit. I don't see How this is ruling out deliberately painted backdoors. But the code is available and you are perfectly able to scrutinise it all you want, if you think the character of the maintainer has been called into question.