Not really. A modem can certainly count how many bytes you sent or received. "Theres nothing like an odometer to measure..." Yes there is. Right there on my screen there's a little icon of two computers talking. It tells me that in the last 30 days I've sent 45 gigabytes and received 89 gigabytes.
On my laptop that total is reset every time I reconnect to my network, and that's quite often. On top of that, that's traffic through my network, which includes big backups. There's no information about traffic to and from the internet there.
I'm not aware of a simple way to determine how much traffic has passed through my ADSL modem from the internet.
It's on dell.co.uk. Only one model listed, the XP SP3 1 Gb ram 16 Gb SSD version, for £299 ($530 equivalent).
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You miss the point. Chrome is designed to enable more advanced web apps, of a nature that Firefox and Opera, as they are, will handle badly or not at all.
Chrome's open source nature means that other browsers can also move with it, if they want. Even if they don't, Chrome is also the first browser in a long time to move the UI design forwards. That means that everyone, including "mom and pop", will be able to make full use of more advanced versions of Google Docs, PicasaWeb, Zoho Office, Facebook, etc.
Reading through the comic it's pretty obvious what Chrome is about. Google clearly feel that web apps have hit something of a wall running on existing browsers, and that they need to take the drastic action of releasing a new browser with a new architecture to move things on. The V8 javascript engine is clearly to enable larger and more complex applications, and the thread-per-tab architecture means larger and more complex apps can be run without risking the whole browser.
Microsoft either got wind of what Google were planning or came to the same conclusions, thus the new architecture in IE8 (and the IE javascript engine is not as bad as it's made out to be, it just underperforms badly with string processing).
Mozilla (and maybe Opera) may well struggle to compete with Microsoft and Google here. Opera have shown that they do have the resources to develop new rendering and javascript engines, but Mozilla are still using a Gecko that has changed little in years apart from tweaking. It may well be the case that in a year or two we'll be seeing much more advanced web apps which Mozilla browsers handle poorly.
If solar output was so significant, we wouldn't just be having a year a little cooler than the last ten or so but still above the long-term average, we'd be having glaciers in Texas.
There is natural variation in the climate. There's also a better than 90% chance that man's activities have increasing the global average temperature for the last 150 years and are continuing to do so.
Interesting that their proposed UI is similar to Opera's. Opera already places the address bar below the tabs, where it does make more sense -- the address is part of the page, and it brings things like the back and refresh buttons closer to the content, so they can be accessed quicker.
Google is also including Speed Dial, the ability to search your history through the address bar, and the launching of address bar-less seperate windows, all of which are standard Opera features. (Though you can easily force windows to always open with the full UI, or to only open as new tabs, not new windows.)
For the engine, they seem to be borrowing the best bits of webkit and Gecko and rolling their own javascript engine and adding in Google Gears.
So the total will be something quite similar to the Opera UI running on the best open source code. This could be the best of all worlds.
How many of this stuff can be recovered by recycling? In the EU, companies now have to recycle old electronic equipment, which will surely extend the availability of these materials.
Google closed down Hello, which I used a lot, a few days ago. Now GBS, which I also used (afaik no other system can sync sessions which is why I used it), is being wound up too. What's next? I'm pretty sure Gmail is safe, but I'm wondering if Picasaweb is going to be binned soon. Not that popular but I'm heavily invested.
This is why online webapps have no future. If someone shuts down the service you're using, you're completely screwed.
OpenOffice is a dead end for a FOSS competitor to MS Office. I've used OOo since before it was bought by Sun, back when it was product of the German company StarDivision and had a funky "workspace" faux desktop thing going on. I used it at uni because it was free, but it was crap and ended up doing all my work on uni workstations as they ran MS Office.
I've tried using OOo on and off since, including quite a major project recently. It's just so buggy! Write would never apply my user-defined styles properly, seemingly forgetting changes I'd made at random.
KOffice has much more potential. It's cleaner, faster, and with the new version based on Qt4, cross-platform.
This is version 3 and one of main new features is "a new zoom control on the status bar"?? The other big "improvement" seems to be shiney new icons. That's pathetic.
So obviously the solution is to teach users to click on Accept every time a box comes up. Because that's all that the Vista UAC has done, is train hundreds of thousands of users that when a box pops up, you hit accept to do what you were trying to do.
And that differs from having to type in a password every so often on OSX, Ubuntu etc. how?
Close, but not quite. Now it means that companies can indeed upgrade, and upgrade to the lastest Microsoft software with no fear of not being able to read ISO standard documents.
Yeah... and what happens when the sun goes down. I doubt that even in the Rockies there are enough suitable valleys that people wouldn't mind being flooded (on top of the destruction of the beautiful desert) for sufficient pumped storage to run North America overnight.
This is not disimilar to the ESA's approach. Their Rosetta probe is a development of a Matra Marconi (now part of Astrium) geostationary communications satellite bus. In turn, the Mars and Venus Express probes both used a design derived from Rosetta, with many subsystems (e.g. power) also shared.
Whenever software or a service wants my e-mail address, I simply give them a mailinator address. Mailinator has dozens of aliases, so there's no problem with sites that try to reject "free" e-mail accounts.
To measure the thickness of something, you need to know where it ends. The Milky Way isn't a solid object, so there must be some arbitary definition of the "edge" where the average density drops below a certain value.
Perhaps the differences in quoted thicknesses are the result of different definitions of the edge?
But I do a lot of traveling and vacationing in AMPS-only country - nearby that site and otherwise. In those areas the new handset is just a paperweight, while a car breakdown can be a death sentence if help can't be called.
If you are travelling in areas where reduced mobility could have serious consequences, you should be carrying a 406 MHz SARSAT-COSPAS Personal Locator Beacon, not a cell. These devices, when activated, send a distress signal with your GPS location digitally encoded to a fleet of LEO satellites. These then relay your signal to a Local User Terminal at the appropriate emergency services who can affect rescue. Even if the signal is too weak for the GPS data to be read, the satellites can perform Doppler ranging on you signal to get a rough (few kilometers) position fix.
Relying on a cell, on any type of network, is likely to be a death sentence. Phones have small batteries and weak transmitters -- if you can't get a signal, or your battery dies, you're toast. The batteries in PLBs can be stored for months (though of course they should be tested regularly!) and can transmit for weeks.
But for all its size and ambition, the bid has not been greeted with enthusiasm. That may be because Silicon Valley favors bottom-up innovation instead of growth by acquisition. The region's investment money and brain power are tuned to start-ups that can anticipate the next big thing rather than chase the last one.
Enthusiasm in "the valley" seems to chase pageviews more than money. Google makes money from one thing: advertising. It's advertising income is leveraged off search (both pageviews to put ads on, and technology for relevant ad-serving). It bought Doubleclick to reinforce that. Otherwise, Google may have splashed the cash but it's not got a lot back for it (I'm thinking if Youtube here, in particular, as well as smaller services such as Feedburner).
Microsoft wants the advertising dollar. Right now the very low usage of their search engine means they're a long ways behind Google. Add Yahoo's services to their own and expand their advert network across both, and it might start proving attractive to advertisers.
People aren't buying Windows Vista and Office 2007 because they have Windows XP and Office 2003 that does the job just fine, and possibly better, and it costs nothing to continue using it.
Please folks, RTFA. To quote:
[Last year] The Office division alone had quarterly revenue of $4.8 billion equal to Google and an astronomical $3.2 billion in operating profits. The Windows unit is even more profitable.
Microsoft stunned Wall Steet with its latest financial results, based on the success of Windows Vista, Office 2007 and the Halo 3 game. First quarter revenues jumped by 27% to $13.76 billion, and profits by 23% to $4.29 billion. Sales beat expectations by more than $1bn.
Microsoft dwarfs Google in both revenue and profit. It's just lost out in the online services market (where despite rising revenues it still makes a loss), and wants to catch up. To do so, it can afford to make investments nobody else can, such as buying out another huge company with a big (if not terribly profitable) portfolio of online services. Together, the "network effect" would make both much more profitable than they are operating seperately.
And what about eGroups? Utterly destroyed by Yahoo.
Can't say I'm familiar with eGroups.
Not sure many original Flickr users would concur with your position.
I was in the first 10,000 users of Flickr and still use it today. The Yahoo buy-out did nothing except give them the money they needed to invest in the service.
Yahoo has always been the one of the "big three" I like. They've bought up the only two "web 2.0" startups I use -- Flickr and del.icio.us -- and barely changed them. Yeah, there was a hoohaa over the switch to using Yahoo IDs for Flickr, but that was pretty minor and everyone got over it soon enough. Del.icio.us is completely unchanged. I only used their email briefly but it wasn't total crap (unlike what Hotmail became), and recently got better with a good ajax interface.
Yahoo's search might suck but they've always had the right attitude to business. If they're bought by MS, I fear all that will be lost.
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On my laptop that total is reset every time I reconnect to my network, and that's quite often. On top of that, that's traffic through my network, which includes big backups. There's no information about traffic to and from the internet there.
I'm not aware of a simple way to determine how much traffic has passed through my ADSL modem from the internet.
It's on dell.co.uk. Only one model listed, the XP SP3 1 Gb ram 16 Gb SSD version, for £299 ($530 equivalent).
You miss the point. Chrome is designed to enable more advanced web apps, of a nature that Firefox and Opera, as they are, will handle badly or not at all.
Chrome's open source nature means that other browsers can also move with it, if they want. Even if they don't, Chrome is also the first browser in a long time to move the UI design forwards. That means that everyone, including "mom and pop", will be able to make full use of more advanced versions of Google Docs, PicasaWeb, Zoho Office, Facebook, etc.
Going to be some interesting advances ahead...
Reading through the comic it's pretty obvious what Chrome is about. Google clearly feel that web apps have hit something of a wall running on existing browsers, and that they need to take the drastic action of releasing a new browser with a new architecture to move things on. The V8 javascript engine is clearly to enable larger and more complex applications, and the thread-per-tab architecture means larger and more complex apps can be run without risking the whole browser.
Microsoft either got wind of what Google were planning or came to the same conclusions, thus the new architecture in IE8 (and the IE javascript engine is not as bad as it's made out to be, it just underperforms badly with string processing).
Mozilla (and maybe Opera) may well struggle to compete with Microsoft and Google here. Opera have shown that they do have the resources to develop new rendering and javascript engines, but Mozilla are still using a Gecko that has changed little in years apart from tweaking. It may well be the case that in a year or two we'll be seeing much more advanced web apps which Mozilla browsers handle poorly.
You miss the point.
If solar output was so significant, we wouldn't just be having a year a little cooler than the last ten or so but still above the long-term average, we'd be having glaciers in Texas.
There is natural variation in the climate. There's also a better than 90% chance that man's activities have increasing the global average temperature for the last 150 years and are continuing to do so.
Interesting that their proposed UI is similar to Opera's. Opera already places the address bar below the tabs, where it does make more sense -- the address is part of the page, and it brings things like the back and refresh buttons closer to the content, so they can be accessed quicker.
Google is also including Speed Dial, the ability to search your history through the address bar, and the launching of address bar-less seperate windows, all of which are standard Opera features. (Though you can easily force windows to always open with the full UI, or to only open as new tabs, not new windows.)
For the engine, they seem to be borrowing the best bits of webkit and Gecko and rolling their own javascript engine and adding in Google Gears.
So the total will be something quite similar to the Opera UI running on the best open source code. This could be the best of all worlds.
How many of this stuff can be recovered by recycling? In the EU, companies now have to recycle old electronic equipment, which will surely extend the availability of these materials.
This is why online webapps have no future. If someone shuts down the service you're using, you're completely screwed.
I've tried using OOo on and off since, including quite a major project recently. It's just so buggy! Write would never apply my user-defined styles properly, seemingly forgetting changes I'd made at random.
KOffice has much more potential. It's cleaner, faster, and with the new version based on Qt4, cross-platform.
http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/announcementbeta.html
This is version 3 and one of main new features is "a new zoom control on the status bar"?? The other big "improvement" seems to be shiney new icons. That's pathetic.
No mention of performance improvements at all.
Jesus, 145 mb for Windows? Good to see that the OOo code bloat is alive, well, and growing...
And that differs from having to type in a password every so often on OSX, Ubuntu etc. how?
Close, but not quite. Now it means that companies can indeed upgrade, and upgrade to the lastest Microsoft software with no fear of not being able to read ISO standard documents.
Yeah... and what happens when the sun goes down. I doubt that even in the Rockies there are enough suitable valleys that people wouldn't mind being flooded (on top of the destruction of the beautiful desert) for sufficient pumped storage to run North America overnight.
This is not disimilar to the ESA's approach. Their Rosetta probe is a development of a Matra Marconi (now part of Astrium) geostationary communications satellite bus. In turn, the Mars and Venus Express probes both used a design derived from Rosetta, with many subsystems (e.g. power) also shared.
He was being sarcastic, but somehow got modded insightful...
Whenever software or a service wants my e-mail address, I simply give them a mailinator address. Mailinator has dozens of aliases, so there's no problem with sites that try to reject "free" e-mail accounts.
Perhaps the differences in quoted thicknesses are the result of different definitions of the edge?
If you are travelling in areas where reduced mobility could have serious consequences, you should be carrying a 406 MHz SARSAT-COSPAS Personal Locator Beacon, not a cell. These devices, when activated, send a distress signal with your GPS location digitally encoded to a fleet of LEO satellites. These then relay your signal to a Local User Terminal at the appropriate emergency services who can affect rescue. Even if the signal is too weak for the GPS data to be read, the satellites can perform Doppler ranging on you signal to get a rough (few kilometers) position fix.
Relying on a cell, on any type of network, is likely to be a death sentence. Phones have small batteries and weak transmitters -- if you can't get a signal, or your battery dies, you're toast. The batteries in PLBs can be stored for months (though of course they should be tested regularly!) and can transmit for weeks.
Microsoft wants the advertising dollar. Right now the very low usage of their search engine means they're a long ways behind Google. Add Yahoo's services to their own and expand their advert network across both, and it might start proving attractive to advertisers.
How can a company that can afford to pony up $44.6 bn possibly be described as being "on the ropes"?!
Yahoo has always been the one of the "big three" I like. They've bought up the only two "web 2.0" startups I use -- Flickr and del.icio.us -- and barely changed them. Yeah, there was a hoohaa over the switch to using Yahoo IDs for Flickr, but that was pretty minor and everyone got over it soon enough. Del.icio.us is completely unchanged. I only used their email briefly but it wasn't total crap (unlike what Hotmail became), and recently got better with a good ajax interface. Yahoo's search might suck but they've always had the right attitude to business. If they're bought by MS, I fear all that will be lost.
Read the full text of the letter to the Yahoo board.