The only two (nonconsole) games I play anymore (StarCraft and Unreal Tournament) run fine in linux. The latest games don't work, I'll grant you that, but most of them aren't fun for very long, and you just end up going back to the tried and true fun games.
Yeah, I remember a few years back playing Duke Nukem at the University labs my friend administered. After gathering a bunhc of weapons, I ran out and recieved a rocket up the butt. With out thinking I proclaimed "That's a SPICY meatball" (The Mask was arecently playing film). Everyone just started laughing too hard to play.
The British acting to give Saudi Arabia independance was very different than the U.S. supporting Israel's spontaneous declaration of independance from the U.N.
It's really too bad you were modded down. I fear a large amount of the good moderators have been $rbtl'ed for posting in decenting thread. Here's my response:
I don't have your first problem. The main reason I switched to Mozilla is the same reason I switched to IE from Netscape, IE takes too ling to load. I get a new mozilla window with homepage rendered in 3 seconds, whereas the same for IE is 10 seconds. Bringing up a new tab is even faster: too fast to time, much faster tha a second, although it doesn't get the homepage (a desirable trait). My machine is a 700MHz Intel with 256M RAM, though, so YMMV
I had never noticed the toolbar doesn't have a home button until now. Checking my wife's computer, even the default theme doesn't (I'm using pinball). Because I'm using gestures, I just gesture an H, but it isn't in the default install, which is kinda odd. I do like the IE toolbar better, but you would hate how I set it up. I put on "selective text w small buttons". My toolbar is only one line, with navigation up to the "Favorites", then File through View, then address/go". It cuts down on the verticle space used, but I find the Pinball theme is good enought to cut down the verticle space used.
I had the issue the textarea when I was on 0.9.9. For example, pressing right at the end of the textarea would bring to the top of the area (very annoying), and the last character would always be cut off. I don't have that problem in 1.0, though. PgUp/Down do not work properly however.
I'm not running IE6 because I have to support IE5.5 in the applications I work on because many of our corporate customers haven't switched from Win 95 and 5.5 is the highest browser for 5.5. That said, I think it's still true under IE5.5 that you cannot middle or ctrl-click a link to open the page in a new tab. This feature isn't perfect in Mozilla (for example it often work when middle-clicking a javascript link, since the javascript runs in the new tab's context), but at least it is present. Working without tabs is annoying because it becomes too difficult to alt-tab to the applications I want. In addition, tab also popup in the location I want my webbrowser to be. IE's new windows do not.
One really annoying thing about IE, especially on/. with the crap filter, it the whole, write a nice post short post, hit submit, have it tell you to wait, go back and poof, the post is gone. Mozilla handles this well. I know about the F5 trick, but hitting back and then looking at the story while waiting works better for me.
Another problem I have with IE is that it crashes. don't get me wrong, Mozilla crashes too, but I've never had mozilla crash to the point of bringing the machine down. I've had this happen on Win95, Win2K, ME with IE5.5, and my wife has had it happen on Win98 with IE5.5 and WinXP with IE6. I'll chalk this mostly up to luck, but IE seems too close to the metal. Mozilla, on the otherhand, is as protected as you can get running is windows.
I actually have to go to google or open the search panel (with the google search applet installed), rather than just typing the keywords in the address bar. Maybe there's a mod for this (maybe the google applet does this now, even. Last time I tried this in IE, it would go to a microsoft search site with typically poor results).
As a programmer, Mozilla has more better javscript error messages that help you debug. It also has a DOM inspector built in. Select fields are also kind of weird, it's like they sit in a layer on top of everything.
Mozilla has a good plugin architecture with a supportive modding community. Gestures were very nice (once I lowered the timing threshold) and easy to install. IE may be as good, though. I've never gotten seriously into modding IE, since there's no menu function to take me to the mods. This doesn't count for very much.
Is it easier to manage cookies in IE6? As easy as mozilla, including the functions in Tools|Cookie Manager? How about form data?
In general, I find myself browsing with ease in Mozilla and getting frustrated in IE because it doesn't behave like mozilla. My wife is the same way, and she used to use IE6. I attribute most of it to the tabs, althought the reduction in popups is nice, as is the speedy startup. I really used to love IE, but it's just not good enough anymore.
Those two versions of IE are the best browsers running, plain and simple.
A year ago, I would have agreed with you, but, IMO, Mozilla is, plain and simple, the best browser now. I agree that IE 5 was better than Netscape 4.x and 6. I do disagree that the operating system monopoly didn't have a hand in getting people to shift over to quickly, but at that time the browser wars were very strong.
But what I do feel is that Microsoft's OS monopoly will help them keep the #1 browser spot, even though Mozilla is much better (in terms of speed and most features [the history is not as good as IEs, but the other features are much more must have)
One of the things I love about JavaScript is how easy it is to introspect the objects. You don't really need code forking, in the sense of two files, but instead you can just do things like
var obj; if (document.getElementById) obj=document.getElementById('x'); else if (x) obj=x;
obj.value='foo';
For the most part, you can use the objects available in the browser to figure out what methods you have available and act accordingly.
For the 5% of the time I need to do separate things and can't do that, 90% of the time you can just do both and it'll work out.
We got our rings at an estate jeweler, basically meaning they are all at least second hand. Not only were they super cheap, but being second hand don't have the full guilt of a new diamond.
Even under these strict laws, I don't see a problem, since Mozilla doesn't contain and screen captures of any Godzilla movies.
I agre with the previous poster that this is a trademark issue, and they will have problems applying their trademark so many years after a brand has been established.
This has reminded me of a question I wanted to ask here but didn't think warrented a whole "Ask/.". I have a standalone MP3 player that goes into my amp, and I have an intercom system in my house that can be tuned to AM and FM. The stereo isn't close to the the receiver for the speaker system, it's about 30 feet (9 meters) away. I've found FM transmitters for cars that allow you to listen to portable CD or MP3 players (or anything that has a phono jack), but none that have the range I'm looking for. Does anyone know of a model that does this, or are there FCC type problems?
the housekeeper is the way to go. I can make in 1 hour, after taxes, more than it costs to hire a housekeeper for 3 hours (the minimum for agency housekeepers here), and that housekeeper does in 3 hours what it would take me 8 hours to do.
The only real pain is the turnover and then having some things go missing and not knowing if they were taken and by whom. Even considering that, it does make economical sense.
webservices has a little more to it than that. For example, it has directories that allow you to say "I want a calendar service, where is it at".
That being said, it is just a webification of previous architectures that never worked because you can't realistically say "I want a remote calendar service, give me one" without building the expected interface into the request and then ensuring that the webservice implements the interface the way your client expects it too (and then have the services genericised). I also don't know if I buy that "half the industry is oohing and aahing over it" but that may be my biased viewpoint.
People put too much emphasis on what they do for the firs 8 hours of the day. I agree with the obituary test, but to me, that just means I should enjoy my life outside of work, and that work is there to get me the money to help me to enjoy that life.
uh, what do you think that means? Java provides synchronization in the language, but it only applies where you code it to be. If you don't put in syncronization, your thread can do dangerous things to each other.
IE 5.0 and 5.5 don't check anything at all whereas IE6 checks if certain fields are present in the certificate. Since Verisign rarely includes the fields, it means you can exploit IE5 5.5 and 6 with their certs. Since Thawte includes the fields, you can only exploit IE5 and 5.5.
Thus IE5 and 5.5 are quite vulnerable because even after all the certs out there expire and Verisign puts in the fields needed to get IE6 to check, IE5 and 5.5 are still vulnerable.
In addition, it's not clear that Mozilla doesn't fall for the trap because the error may be related to the fact that the site name and the issued-to name aren't the same. If www.amazon.com were DNS spoofed to 168.100.185.227 (www.thoughtcrime.com, where the example attack is), then it may work. I've modified my hosts file to check this, but now I can't connect to www.thoughtcrime.com at all.
Regardless of whether you could give a shit, when you try the demo of the exploit with mozilla it just looks like a bug (it says "Error Code:-8183"), so I'd say the reporter was pretty even handed when he said he didn't know if it was a bug or by design that mozilla wasn't vulnerable.
Not to mention that IE5 and IE5.5 have had several security updates. While they aren't the most recent version of the software, they are still supported products. Not to mention the fact that IE5.5 is the highest browser a Windows 95 user can and will ever be allowed to use (the reason why our web application supports IE5.5, many corporate customers in our domain haven't moved from 95).
The reason this is a problem is because certification is there to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks. If I can issue a cert that IE and Konq believe are for your site, then I can sit between your site and your clients and listen in on the conversation by taking what you say, intercepting it, reencoding it to my key and then taking what the clients say, intecepting it and reencoding it to your key.
Self signing is a terribly bad idea because a man in the middle can always intercept your authority key and replace it with his own. This can happen too when you used standard keys, like Verisign, and download your browser on the web but it is less likely and you can check Versign's local public key in many ways to reduce the change you are being spoofed to near 0. Every encryption system in existance involves an inital trusted event, but I don't want to have to have an initial trusted even with each site I want to do business with.
Still, for simple crap (e.g. anonymous message boards), self signig is probably ok by me. I just wouldn't bank or purchase with it.
There's much more anti-ms sentiment than pro-ms sentiment in the general populace. It isn't surprising that that is reflected here. I don't know a single person who doesn't have a "windows fucked me over big time" story, from my aunt-in-law who kept having to reinstall win 98 because her programs would stop working to our MIS department who, after being unable to fix our corrupted exchange DB, attempted to get the messages from the monthly backup and were completely unable to.
It doesn't matter the tech level, everyone who has used MS products for a medium amount of time has had problems with them.
This does have me thinking: weight is only a function of your mass and density relative to the medium you're in. A human powered plane with a helium ballon above it could have more than 204.55Kg mass but still weigh less than 450lbs. Or, if the balloon was big enough and the craft light enough, you could get it to the point where you would only have to create enough lift for yourself and maybe a few pounds on the plane so it doesn't float off when grounded.
One of the problems with the two helium chair incidents was that the craft+pilot were lighter than air and thus were difficult to control. With being close to lighter than air and the ability to decide to generate enough lif tor not, the flights would be more successful.
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There are still some messages that have height tags or otherwise don't fit the regexp.
Why not use
]* src="http://\d{2,3}\.
instead, then?
The only two (nonconsole) games I play anymore (StarCraft and Unreal Tournament) run fine in linux. The latest games don't work, I'll grant you that, but most of them aren't fun for very long, and you just end up going back to the tried and true fun games.
Yeah, I remember a few years back playing Duke Nukem at the University labs my friend administered. After gathering a bunhc of weapons, I ran out and recieved a rocket up the butt. With out thinking I proclaimed "That's a SPICY meatball" (The Mask was arecently playing film). Everyone just started laughing too hard to play.
Good times.
The British acting to give Saudi Arabia independance was very different than the U.S. supporting Israel's spontaneous declaration of independance from the U.N.
It's really too bad you were modded down. I fear a large amount of the good moderators have been $rbtl'ed for posting in decenting thread. Here's my response:
/. with the crap filter, it the whole, write a nice post short post, hit submit, have it tell you to wait, go back and poof, the post is gone. Mozilla handles this well. I know about the F5 trick, but hitting back and then looking at the story while waiting works better for me.
I don't have your first problem. The main reason I switched to Mozilla is the same reason I switched to IE from Netscape, IE takes too ling to load. I get a new mozilla window with homepage rendered in 3 seconds, whereas the same for IE is 10 seconds. Bringing up a new tab is even faster: too fast to time, much faster tha a second, although it doesn't get the homepage (a desirable trait). My machine is a 700MHz Intel with 256M RAM, though, so YMMV
I had never noticed the toolbar doesn't have a home button until now. Checking my wife's computer, even the default theme doesn't (I'm using pinball). Because I'm using gestures, I just gesture an H, but it isn't in the default install, which is kinda odd. I do like the IE toolbar better, but you would hate how I set it up. I put on "selective text w small buttons". My toolbar is only one line, with navigation up to the "Favorites", then File through View, then address/go". It cuts down on the verticle space used, but I find the Pinball theme is good enought to cut down the verticle space used.
I had the issue the textarea when I was on 0.9.9. For example, pressing right at the end of the textarea would bring to the top of the area (very annoying), and the last character would always be cut off. I don't have that problem in 1.0, though. PgUp/Down do not work properly however.
I'm not running IE6 because I have to support IE5.5 in the applications I work on because many of our corporate customers haven't switched from Win 95 and 5.5 is the highest browser for 5.5. That said, I think it's still true under IE5.5 that you cannot middle or ctrl-click a link to open the page in a new tab. This feature isn't perfect in Mozilla (for example it often work when middle-clicking a javascript link, since the javascript runs in the new tab's context), but at least it is present. Working without tabs is annoying because it becomes too difficult to alt-tab to the applications I want. In addition, tab also popup in the location I want my webbrowser to be. IE's new windows do not.
One really annoying thing about IE, especially on
Another problem I have with IE is that it crashes. don't get me wrong, Mozilla crashes too, but I've never had mozilla crash to the point of bringing the machine down. I've had this happen on Win95, Win2K, ME with IE5.5, and my wife has had it happen on Win98 with IE5.5 and WinXP with IE6. I'll chalk this mostly up to luck, but IE seems too close to the metal. Mozilla, on the otherhand, is as protected as you can get running is windows.
I actually have to go to google or open the search panel (with the google search applet installed), rather than just typing the keywords in the address bar. Maybe there's a mod for this (maybe the google applet does this now, even. Last time I tried this in IE, it would go to a microsoft search site with typically poor results).
As a programmer, Mozilla has more better javscript error messages that help you debug. It also has a DOM inspector built in. Select fields are also kind of weird, it's like they sit in a layer on top of everything.
Mozilla has a good plugin architecture with a supportive modding community. Gestures were very nice (once I lowered the timing threshold) and easy to install. IE may be as good, though. I've never gotten seriously into modding IE, since there's no menu function to take me to the mods. This doesn't count for very much.
Is it easier to manage cookies in IE6? As easy as mozilla, including the functions in Tools|Cookie Manager? How about form data?
In general, I find myself browsing with ease in Mozilla and getting frustrated in IE because it doesn't behave like mozilla. My wife is the same way, and she used to use IE6. I attribute most of it to the tabs, althought the reduction in popups is nice, as is the speedy startup. I really used to love IE, but it's just not good enough anymore.
Those two versions of IE are the best browsers running, plain and simple.
A year ago, I would have agreed with you, but, IMO, Mozilla is, plain and simple, the best browser now. I agree that IE 5 was better than Netscape 4.x and 6. I do disagree that the operating system monopoly didn't have a hand in getting people to shift over to quickly, but at that time the browser wars were very strong.
But what I do feel is that Microsoft's OS monopoly will help them keep the #1 browser spot, even though Mozilla is much better (in terms of speed and most features [the history is not as good as IEs, but the other features are much more must have)
One of the things I love about JavaScript is how easy it is to introspect the objects. You don't really need code forking, in the sense of two files, but instead you can just do things like
var obj;
if (document.getElementById) obj=document.getElementById('x');
else if (x) obj=x;
obj.value='foo';
For the most part, you can use the objects available in the browser to figure out what methods you have available and act accordingly.
For the 5% of the time I need to do separate things and can't do that, 90% of the time you can just do both and it'll work out.
We got our rings at an estate jeweler, basically meaning they are all at least second hand. Not only were they super cheap, but being second hand don't have the full guilt of a new diamond.
The lizard is in turn suing the Mozilla group for trademark infringment on the naming of their rendering engine.
Actually, a Z is worth 10 points. The whole word would be 14 point unmodified by tile placement.
Even under these strict laws, I don't see a problem, since Mozilla doesn't contain and screen captures of any Godzilla movies.
I agre with the previous poster that this is a trademark issue, and they will have problems applying their trademark so many years after a brand has been established.
This has reminded me of a question I wanted to ask here but didn't think warrented a whole "Ask /.". I have a standalone MP3 player that goes into my amp, and I have an intercom system in my house that can be tuned to AM and FM. The stereo isn't close to the the receiver for the speaker system, it's about 30 feet (9 meters) away. I've found FM transmitters for cars that allow you to listen to portable CD or MP3 players (or anything that has a phono jack), but none that have the range I'm looking for. Does anyone know of a model that does this, or are there FCC type problems?
Why wouldn't they reverse split. Yeah it sucks, but so does getting delisted.
the housekeeper is the way to go. I can make in 1 hour, after taxes, more than it costs to hire a housekeeper for 3 hours (the minimum for agency housekeepers here), and that housekeeper does in 3 hours what it would take me 8 hours to do.
The only real pain is the turnover and then having some things go missing and not knowing if they were taken and by whom. Even considering that, it does make economical sense.
webservices has a little more to it than that. For example, it has directories that allow you to say "I want a calendar service, where is it at".
That being said, it is just a webification of previous architectures that never worked because you can't realistically say "I want a remote calendar service, give me one" without building the expected interface into the request and then ensuring that the webservice implements the interface the way your client expects it too (and then have the services genericised). I also don't know if I buy that "half the industry is oohing and aahing over it" but that may be my biased viewpoint.
People put too much emphasis on what they do for the firs 8 hours of the day. I agree with the obituary test, but to me, that just means I should enjoy my life outside of work, and that work is there to get me the money to help me to enjoy that life.
uh, what do you think that means? Java provides synchronization in the language, but it only applies where you code it to be. If you don't put in syncronization, your thread can do dangerous things to each other.
IE 5.0 and 5.5 don't check anything at all whereas IE6 checks if certain fields are present in the certificate. Since Verisign rarely includes the fields, it means you can exploit IE5 5.5 and 6 with their certs. Since Thawte includes the fields, you can only exploit IE5 and 5.5.
Thus IE5 and 5.5 are quite vulnerable because even after all the certs out there expire and Verisign puts in the fields needed to get IE6 to check, IE5 and 5.5 are still vulnerable.
Or Netscape 4.7 or 6.0.
Do you admire Netscape as well. According to bugtraq, they aren't vulnerable (can't test on my own, unfortunately).
In addition, it's not clear that Mozilla doesn't fall for the trap because the error may be related to the fact that the site name and the issued-to name aren't the same. If www.amazon.com were DNS spoofed to 168.100.185.227 (www.thoughtcrime.com, where the example attack is), then it may work. I've modified my hosts file to check this, but now I can't connect to www.thoughtcrime.com at all.
Regardless of whether you could give a shit, when you try the demo of the exploit with mozilla it just looks like a bug (it says "Error Code:-8183"), so I'd say the reporter was pretty even handed when he said he didn't know if it was a bug or by design that mozilla wasn't vulnerable.
Not to mention that IE5 and IE5.5 have had several security updates. While they aren't the most recent version of the software, they are still supported products. Not to mention the fact that IE5.5 is the highest browser a Windows 95 user can and will ever be allowed to use (the reason why our web application supports IE5.5, many corporate customers in our domain haven't moved from 95).
The reason this is a problem is because certification is there to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks. If I can issue a cert that IE and Konq believe are for your site, then I can sit between your site and your clients and listen in on the conversation by taking what you say, intercepting it, reencoding it to my key and then taking what the clients say, intecepting it and reencoding it to your key.
Self signing is a terribly bad idea because a man in the middle can always intercept your authority key and replace it with his own. This can happen too when you used standard keys, like Verisign, and download your browser on the web but it is less likely and you can check Versign's local public key in many ways to reduce the change you are being spoofed to near 0. Every encryption system in existance involves an inital trusted event, but I don't want to have to have an initial trusted even with each site I want to do business with.
Still, for simple crap (e.g. anonymous message boards), self signig is probably ok by me. I just wouldn't bank or purchase with it.
There's much more anti-ms sentiment than pro-ms sentiment in the general populace. It isn't surprising that that is reflected here. I don't know a single person who doesn't have a "windows fucked me over big time" story, from my aunt-in-law who kept having to reinstall win 98 because her programs would stop working to our MIS department who, after being unable to fix our corrupted exchange DB, attempted to get the messages from the monthly backup and were completely unable to.
It doesn't matter the tech level, everyone who has used MS products for a medium amount of time has had problems with them.
This does have me thinking: weight is only a function of your mass and density relative to the medium you're in. A human powered plane with a helium ballon above it could have more than 204.55Kg mass but still weigh less than 450lbs. Or, if the balloon was big enough and the craft light enough, you could get it to the point where you would only have to create enough lift for yourself and maybe a few pounds on the plane so it doesn't float off when grounded.
One of the problems with the two helium chair incidents was that the craft+pilot were lighter than air and thus were difficult to control. With being close to lighter than air and the ability to decide to generate enough lif tor not, the flights would be more successful.