What I really care about open source is that you are practically guaranteed that the bugs will be fixed. You just have to report them (except in rare cases where the actual project is obsolete or it simply sucks).
You're being quite optimistic. There are plenty of bugs in projects that haven't gotten fixed for years, and still haven't.
Yeah, damn those politicians. No side wants to admit on anything.
The primary difference is that here each party gets two chances. If you lose your case and disagree with the outcome, you can have it heard again a second time in another court. If you win, the other side can have it heard one last time if he/she thinks it can still be won. If you lose again, you'll have to accept it. It won't be heard again.
In the US you can get it heard over and over as long as you have money to pay your lawyers.
I have run Mozilla (suite) with as little as 32 MB of RAM for at least a year. Apart from taking a bit longer to start up, it worked fine. Also notice how the recommended minimum amount of RAM is 64 MB.
Even if Firefox used threaded tabs, it wouldn't stop the browser from crashing if one tab screwed up. If one thread in a process crashes, the entire process crashes.
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I use SeaMonkey. Maybe you'd like that better than Firefox, too. It's more complete, and has a better tabbed browsing implementation. And many popular Firefox extensions are compatible with it.
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Opera's user agent strings are not entirely cruft-free, but they come pretty close:
Opera/9.52 (Windows NT 6.0; U; en)
Opera/9.52 (X11; Linux i686; U; en)
Opera/9.52 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X; U; en)
There was an interesting thread about this at MozillaZine. Eventually we settled on the following for SeaMonkey (example):
SeaMonkey/1.1.11 (Windows NT 5.1; en-US) Gecko/1.8.1.16
Browser with version, platform, language, and the rendering engine (to account for a web browser that allows switching of rendering engines).
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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1
Let's dissect that, okay?
Mozilla/5.0
This is a relic from the Netscape days. The open-source web browser was going to be Netscape 5, which was going to be represented by this string. But history turned out differently, and today it doesn't mean anything. The version number never changes.
Windows
We already know it's Windows because of the mention of "Windows NT 5.1" further on.
U
This is a relic from back in the 90s when there were restrictions in the US for implementation of cryptography.
Gecko/2008070208
The date is redundant because the revision is already noted earlier.
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The Mozilla prefix is cruft. It doesn't mean anything, as its version number never changes, and is only a relic from the Netscape days. Furthermore, we already know it's a Mozilla browser because of the mention of Gecko as the rendering engine.
I agree, except for item #4. Why would you need an FTP client installed in the web browser? It's a separate application, really, while the other items interact with what's shown in the web browser.
And my lawyer will be contacting you shortly about the loss of brain cells I experienced upon reading your post as well as the breach of proper computer conduct. Drinking near a PC is bad!
For example, I didn't find Mega Man Zero 1 and 2 to be that hard. Challenging, yes, but not that hard. Yet almost every review of the games will tell you that they're hard as nails, extremely difficult to the point of utter frustration.
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Which is hardly surprising. Nintendo never comments on rumors.
The keyword is "accessory". It was not a built-in function, and thus not part of the GameCube product.
Then yours is as well. PARADOX.
You're being quite optimistic. There are plenty of bugs in projects that haven't gotten fixed for years, and still haven't.
You have to pay extra for an extra feature. The logic is mind-blowing!
What you heard is false. Proto Man only costs $2, and you can't buy sliding and charging. The fact is that Proto Man can slide and charge.
Is the FBI allowed to post on SlashDot?
I guess college simplified what Napoleon did for the court system. Who's responsible for the "two strikes and you're out" system then?
Hey, I never pretended it was perfect. But at least it's not a case of whoever has the most money wins by having the case heard again and again.
Yeah, damn those politicians. No side wants to admit on anything.
The primary difference is that here each party gets two chances. If you lose your case and disagree with the outcome, you can have it heard again a second time in another court. If you win, the other side can have it heard one last time if he/she thinks it can still be won. If you lose again, you'll have to accept it. It won't be heard again.
In the US you can get it heard over and over as long as you have money to pay your lawyers.
Napoleon wasn't all bad, though. Thanks to him our Belgian courts (among others) don't suck as bad as the Americans'!
Just because it doesn't do HD doesn't mean it's a generation behind.
Nonsense. I run SeaMonkey 1.1 (equivalent to Firefox 2) on 160 MB of RAM fine. The bottleneck is the CPU speed for XUL and JavaScript.
I have run Mozilla (suite) with as little as 32 MB of RAM for at least a year. Apart from taking a bit longer to start up, it worked fine. Also notice how the recommended minimum amount of RAM is 64 MB.
He got SARRRRRRRRS.
Since when was it mandatory to be on a social networking site to be deemed social?
Even if Firefox used threaded tabs, it wouldn't stop the browser from crashing if one tab screwed up. If one thread in a process crashes, the entire process crashes.
I use SeaMonkey. Maybe you'd like that better than Firefox, too. It's more complete, and has a better tabbed browsing implementation. And many popular Firefox extensions are compatible with it.
Opera's user agent strings are not entirely cruft-free, but they come pretty close:
There was an interesting thread about this at MozillaZine. Eventually we settled on the following for SeaMonkey (example):
SeaMonkey/1.1.11 (Windows NT 5.1; en-US) Gecko/1.8.1.16
Browser with version, platform, language, and the rendering engine (to account for a web browser that allows switching of rendering engines).
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1
Let's dissect that, okay?
Mozilla/5.0 This is a relic from the Netscape days. The open-source web browser was going to be Netscape 5, which was going to be represented by this string. But history turned out differently, and today it doesn't mean anything. The version number never changes. Windows We already know it's Windows because of the mention of "Windows NT 5.1" further on. U This is a relic from back in the 90s when there were restrictions in the US for implementation of cryptography. Gecko/2008070208 The date is redundant because the revision is already noted earlier.The Mozilla prefix is cruft. It doesn't mean anything, as its version number never changes, and is only a relic from the Netscape days. Furthermore, we already know it's a Mozilla browser because of the mention of Gecko as the rendering engine.
I agree, except for item #4. Why would you need an FTP client installed in the web browser? It's a separate application, really, while the other items interact with what's shown in the web browser.
And my lawyer will be contacting you shortly about the loss of brain cells I experienced upon reading your post as well as the breach of proper computer conduct. Drinking near a PC is bad!
Don't worry; I played those too. Same experience. Challenging, but not extremely hard.
Every person has different skill in video games.
For example, I didn't find Mega Man Zero 1 and 2 to be that hard. Challenging, yes, but not that hard. Yet almost every review of the games will tell you that they're hard as nails, extremely difficult to the point of utter frustration.