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Firefox Lite And Old PCs Could Crush IE
Eatfrank writes "A recent CNet article suggests that Mozilla should pipe a lite version of Firefox into older PCs to further attack IE's dominance: 'Firefox supporters, take note. A bare-bones Firefox will get the browser into more houses, increasing the Fox's market share and keeps it in novice users' eyes for when they get a new PC ... a truly great super-lightweight browser would have the security of Firefox, without the add-ons, without the tabs, yes, even without favourites, history lists and customisability. The Firefox name is synonymous with security and Web-browsing vigilance. Why not give this to the processing lightweights of the PC world?'"
The GNOME people are probably salivating as they read that. If Mozilla actually did this, they'd probably make it their desktop's default web browser. Hell, they'd probably make it their fucking king.
Oh wait, no they wouldn't, because they like their feature-starved apps to perform just as badly as their feature-rich counterparts. Fuck knows how they manage that.
You'll spend more than $280 for your connection over a relatively short period of time.
I don't care who you are, $280 is hardly "made of money" status.
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What you wrote is a blog entry. An article would be published by someone else, of course you could republish on your website.
Of course, article sounds more impressive than blog entry, which is why you wrote it.
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So your definition of a blog entry is something that is written in a blog, and an article is something published by "someone else"? Not very useful definitions at all.
I don't know how one would define "blog entry" and "article" for the purposes of saying what is and is not one or the other. However, I think it is safe to say that while this is a blog entry, this certainly is not. They are both only published in my blog.
Personally, I think that the difference between "blog entry" and "article" can only be defined relative to each other, in respect of their content and in the context of the vernacular use of the two terms. A blog entry is just an online public diary of events or anecdotes, whereas an article would be an in depth discussion of a particular subject. Of course, that distinction is highly subjective. What one man considers an article could be just a blog entry to another. Nonetheless, I feel that calling all entries in a blog "blog entries" is just as silly as calling all parts of a newspaper "articles". I'm aware of my apparent violation of the strict definitions of the words, but I'm *hoping* you're insightful enough to see the contextual distinction I am making.
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