Yes, but the ordinary user (exactly the type of user that is likely to have file extensions hidden) will probably not realize this. They have seen extensions in some places, and none in others - they'll simply ignore this potential giveaway.
That's a great idea, but it still doesn't seem to fully work with non-spammy mass mailings, like opt-in daily/weekly newsletters and such. Your web site has to send an email with a major announcement to 100 000 addresses? If we assume it takes 0.01 sec to calculate a hashcash, there go nearly 20 minutes of CPU time.
(something I haven't killed yet) - the entirely superfluous usage of the apostrophe button to bring up another method of search. No, I don't care if it's handier for vi users.
I, for one, find it very useful. And I don't see how this can annoy you - what else would you rather the apostrophe do? What I mean is, if you don't want the links-only search, then just don't press the apostrophe. Your other points may be valid, but this one seems to me completely out of place.
I do remember I had to put my credit card details when I signed up for the trial, but that's on the euro side. Maybe it's different on the US side.
Actually, no. I've registered a trial account on the European servers without providing any credit card details. You can provide them, but it's not obligatory.
Though trial accounts are somewhat limited - you can't write to the in-game chat channels, for instance. And now with 2.1, it seems you won't be able to whisper random people from a trial account, either. Along with the other measures, this will get rid of at least 50% of all spam, in my opinion. Thank you, Blizzard!
img is deprecated, and certainly shouldn't be overridden to apply to video as well.
While I agree img is a bad idea for video (particularly when I think about the fact that this would be usable in message boards to complement the wonders of animated GIFs), what gave you the idea that img is deprecated?
1 It might be hard to know what you can safely leave out of a compile and not break anything
Everything, that's why they're USE flags, they're optional. And if something requires something else built with a specific flag, it tells you so (it is an entirely different matter that the way of it telling you sucks)
2 It's difficult to foresee every function you are going to want in a program at compile-time, even if you're familiar with it
True, though USE flags have descriptions, and you can always recompile.
3 There are so many programs on a typical Linux box that to hand-choose modules for them all would take ages.
I fully agree. But that is exactly where USE flags come into play, since many of them are quite general. Don't want X? Disable flags like X, qt, gtk. Don't want sound? Disable alsa, oss, esd, arts, jack. Don't ever work with SVGs? -svg. Rarely do you have to actually hand-pick every single USE-flag, provided you've set sensible global ones.
I'll surely be modded redundant, but the EU didn't do anything, the title is misleading. The three countries do so independently of their EU membership (in fact, Norway isn't part of the EU)
Icons line up on the left by default (??): Win: Yes, KDE: Yes, GNOME: Yes, OS X: Probably*
Implements icon grab in the same way (???): Not really a Yes/No, but all four implement dragging in the same way (with a few exceptions for OS X), provided this is what you meant
Right click for desktop properties: Win: Yes, KDE: No (or you have not explained this point clear enough), GNOME/OS X: Probably*
What do we have, then? Almost all of the features you list are matched by Windows, KDE and GNOME, many by OS X as well. This does not make KDE a "Windows clone", and you are just trolling.
*Probably = haven't used it enough, but I find it highly likely (and my point still stands if it's untrue)
Uhm, no, as it says on both of the links you provided, only the ActionScript engine is open. While I suppose it is indeed an important part of Flash, it is nowhere near the whole thing. I guess this would provide some help for the Gnash project, though.
Er.. how do you configure a microphone? Provided sound works (and you would need that in order to talk to anyone), I just plug mine in and it works. Even in Linux. As a matter of fact, the connector is the same color as the jack, so I don't even have to figure out where I should be plugging it in.
As for the other arguments, I agree. It is trivial, however, to make the web page show a dialog via JS if you attempt to leave/close the page.
Extensions have not been renamed to add-ons. Add-ons is simply a combining name for extensions, themes, and language packs - it's just the name of the window that displays them. Click Tools -> Add-ons. Look at the puzzle-piece icon. It says extensions, not add-ons.
I know I may be too pedantic, but every second person talking about FF2 complains about how extensions have been renamed.
Try the newer versions of eix, they can search in layman overlays (also, eix is much quicker than emerge -s)
$ eix democracy * media-tv/democracy
Available versions: ~0.9.0.2[1] ~0.9.1[1] ~0.9.1[2]
Homepage: http://www.getdemocracy.com/
Description: Democracy is a free and open internet TV platform.
* media-video/democracy [3]
Available versions: ~0.8.2
Homepage: http://www.getdemocracy.com/
Description: Democracy is a free and open internet TV platform.
You right-clicked on it, chose "Customize...", and dragged it off. This won't work with FF2, since it's tied to the location bar. Open about:config, and set browser.urlbar.hideGoButton to "true" to hide it.
I haven't ever used Galeon, but come on, that's exactly what extensions are for! If it's anything like the clear button by most search boxes in KDE (incl. Konqueror's location bar), I know of at least two extensions that provide such functionality. I am certain at least one of the two is compatible with FF 2. Here are some I found just with one search just now:
As for the rendering, from what I understand, the rendering engine is nearly (if not fully) untouched for 2.0. There will be major changes to it for FF 3, including possible Acid2 compliance (a reflow branch build has been passing it from long ago). I do not know about Indian writing systems, but if there will be any changes regarding that soon, I would expect them there.
KDE 4 is based on Qt 4, which is significantly faster and lighter than 3. Additionally, KDE is so customizable, that you can strip it down to only what you need as far as eye-candy goes.
It is often erroneously assumed that the name Ogg comes from the character of Nanny Ogg in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. Rather, it derives from ogging, jargon that arose in the computer game, Netrek. Originally meaning a kamikaze attack and later, more generally, to do something forcefully possibly without consideration of the drain on future resources. At its inception, the Ogg project was thought to be somewhat ambitious given the power of the PC hardware of the time.
Vorbis, on the other hand, is indeed named after a Terry Pratchett character.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, but the ordinary user (exactly the type of user that is likely to have file extensions hidden) will probably not realize this. They have seen extensions in some places, and none in others - they'll simply ignore this potential giveaway.
That's a great idea, but it still doesn't seem to fully work with non-spammy mass mailings, like opt-in daily/weekly newsletters and such. Your web site has to send an email with a major announcement to 100 000 addresses? If we assume it takes 0.01 sec to calculate a hashcash, there go nearly 20 minutes of CPU time.
- (something I haven't killed yet) - the entirely superfluous usage of the apostrophe button to bring up another method of search. No, I don't care if it's handier for vi users.
I, for one, find it very useful. And I don't see how this can annoy you - what else would you rather the apostrophe do? What I mean is, if you don't want the links-only search, then just don't press the apostrophe. Your other points may be valid, but this one seems to me completely out of place.Qt Open Source Edition for all platforms is GPLed for several years now. If you don't believe me, it says so here.
Though trial accounts are somewhat limited - you can't write to the in-game chat channels, for instance. And now with 2.1, it seems you won't be able to whisper random people from a trial account, either. Along with the other measures, this will get rid of at least 50% of all spam, in my opinion. Thank you, Blizzard!
In a post-doomsday scenario, I think we'll have more pressing issues than building a spaceship. Getting them from Earth would be much more feasible.
I'll surely be modded redundant, but the EU didn't do anything, the title is misleading. The three countries do so independently of their EU membership (in fact, Norway isn't part of the EU)
Actually Flash Player 7 is the highest version for Linux, though a beta of 9 is available (and there will be no 8)
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_onlin etools.html
- Start button/menu: Win: Yes, KDE: Yes, GNOME: Yes, two of them, OS X: No
- Control panel: Win: Yes, KDE: Yes, GNOME: Yes, OS X: Probably*
- Task bar: Win: Yes, KDE: Yes, GNOME: Yes, OS X: Yes, dock
- Clickable icons: Win: Yes, KDE: Yes, GNOME: Yes, OS X: Yes
- Icons line up on the left by default (??): Win: Yes, KDE: Yes, GNOME: Yes, OS X: Probably*
- Implements icon grab in the same way (???): Not really a Yes/No, but all four implement dragging in the same way (with a few exceptions for OS X), provided this is what you meant
- Right click for desktop properties: Win: Yes, KDE: No (or you have not explained this point clear enough), GNOME/OS X: Probably*
What do we have, then? Almost all of the features you list are matched by Windows, KDE and GNOME, many by OS X as well. This does not make KDE a "Windows clone", and you are just trolling.*Probably = haven't used it enough, but I find it highly likely (and my point still stands if it's untrue)
Er.. how do you configure a microphone? Provided sound works (and you would need that in order to talk to anyone), I just plug mine in and it works. Even in Linux. As a matter of fact, the connector is the same color as the jack, so I don't even have to figure out where I should be plugging it in. As for the other arguments, I agree. It is trivial, however, to make the web page show a dialog via JS if you attempt to leave/close the page.
I like this one better. (at least it contains something)
Extensions have not been renamed to add-ons. Add-ons is simply a combining name for extensions, themes, and language packs - it's just the name of the window that displays them. Click Tools -> Add-ons. Look at the puzzle-piece icon. It says extensions, not add-ons.
I know I may be too pedantic, but every second person talking about FF2 complains about how extensions have been renamed.
Try the newer versions of eix, they can search in layman overlays (also, eix is much quicker than emerge -s)
$ eix democracy
* media-tv/democracy
Available versions: ~0.9.0.2[1] ~0.9.1[1] ~0.9.1[2]
Homepage: http://www.getdemocracy.com/
Description: Democracy is a free and open internet TV platform.
* media-video/democracy [3]
Available versions: ~0.8.2
Homepage: http://www.getdemocracy.com/
Description: Democracy is a free and open internet TV platform.
[1] (layman/sabayon)
[2] (layman/sunrise)
[3] (layman/zugaina)
Found 2 matches.
The page being slashdotted, I try to open a mirror, and am greeted by the following:a 7.png
http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/7893/theironyw
(Note the "link" in blue)
You right-clicked on it, chose "Customize...", and dragged it off. This won't work with FF2, since it's tied to the location bar. Open about:config, and set browser.urlbar.hideGoButton to "true" to hide it.
- https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2819/
- https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3003/
- https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2342/
As for the rendering, from what I understand, the rendering engine is nearly (if not fully) untouched for 2.0. There will be major changes to it for FF 3, including possible Acid2 compliance (a reflow branch build has been passing it from long ago). I do not know about Indian writing systems, but if there will be any changes regarding that soon, I would expect them there.KDE 4 is based on Qt 4, which is significantly faster and lighter than 3. Additionally, KDE is so customizable, that you can strip it down to only what you need as far as eye-candy goes.
Vorbis, on the other hand, is indeed named after a Terry Pratchett character.