Hmm... 64bit isn't everything. Why does a browser need to be 64 bit at all? Does it need to be able to access 4GB of memory? (Other than if it has a massive memory leak.)
A 32 bit binary is smaller as well and the x86_64 architecture can runs 32 bit user-land applications when running the OS in 64 bit mode. So, where's the problem?
So, which other architectures would you like the browser to run on these days? SPARC, PowerPC, DEC Alpha, m68k, VAX, 6502, Z80 or IBM System 360 maybe?
Let's face it, the x86 processors won the battle on the desktop and ARM has pretty well cleaned up in small pocket devices.
If the idea of "property" is that you can control it then surely this means that you don't "own" your mobile phone which is locked to a provider or any other device where a vendor or manufacturer has ultimate control over how you use it.
i.e. The vendors and/or manufacturers was to have their cake and eat it.
Yes I do. In fact things that I'm only interested in for a couple of days and then want to forget forever.
I don't want to have to open a new window, open a new panel, use the keyboard. I merely want to use the same URL I typed in a while ago via a couple of clicks of the mouse.
The awsomebar clutter is merely noise which just gets in the way of the job at hand for me.
It should be an option as there are some people who love it but it should be easily removed. After all searching and entering an address (URL) are very different things. (And yes, I do always type in protocol type before an address. I know what I want and I expect the browser to just be my slave.)
Because the device doesn't store one? Or maybe a manager of the dev team decided that he wasn't going to assign programming resources to implement it?
Us users have no say over what the embedded firmware of devices does. Arguing about what should be is pointless as it won't change anything.
Unfortunately, if Firefix doesn't allow me to switch back to the old behaviour by the time they stop supporting FF2 I will be forced to change bowsers.
Of course if it uses a fixed seed then your encryption is stuffed 'cos it's easily cracked if you can determine the seed. However, it's up to the sysadmin to know the address of the embedded device. Most of the time you use a numeric address anyway as the address of the device is part of a non-routable address range, often on a non-standard port. (The awsome bar gets in the way of this as well)
Apparently, it can be mostly disabled if you delve into about:config somewhere. However, why not just have a tick-box in the configuration panel? It's not rocket science.
Of course, there may be another issue of ego and/or idealism getting in the way as well. Open source projects *never* have those though, so it can't be!;-)
It does so because it has to probably. And seeing as the device is on a private network usig a private address range there's very little probability of spoofing. (It's not man in the middle attacking as such that the "certified" certificate is guarding against as both are equally invulnerable once the encrypted connection has been established.)
I'm sure that it's not really Slashdot he's talking about, merely using it as an example.
The drop-down menu history is VERY useful as a temporary set of bookmarks which you will only need for a short period (say a month) and don't want to litter your real bookmarks with.
I do hope that they've made optional the terrible self-signed certificate warnings as well. They make Firefox 3 totally unusable with embedded software/devices which generate self-signed certificates every time they start up.
Fine, by default have the current set-up but allow users to revert to the old pop-up system so that they can keep their sanity if they know what they're doing!
It doesn't help that the EU condone the monopolies by making "grey" imports from outside the EU illegal, if the companies whose products they are wish them not to be imported.
Hence, the consumer has no control of the market, they are forced to buy at the inflated prices and there's no competitive force to lower the prices available.
Well, I suppose it depends upon, for OS suppliers, being able to have the person who actually wrote the driver or other internal part of the kernel on the other end of a conference call and/or creating the hotfix there and then.
Actually, with the top of the range Sun support contract you get (or at least got, with all the layoffs and out-sourcing this may no-longer be the case) straight through to a dev team if there was a software problem. A hotfix would be yours within hours, possibly with a software engineer ON-SITE.
This is/was probably the case for IBM as well. They know where their bread is buttered.
I very much doubt that this would be the case for tiny outfits such as Redhat.
For your information.... the House of Lords is not an elected body, it consists of members who have been given the priviledge (with a very few now who have inhereted it).
Some might say that this is a problem because it's not representative. However, unlike an elected body it's free to make decisions on their merit without the worry of being popular. i.e. it doesn't have to pander to the current tabloid whims.
Also, it has the advantage of having a large number of non-partisan members who aren't on the political party leash, many of which are experts in the fields of business, science and the law.
The main purpose of the House of Lords these days is to put a brake on all those stupid, popularist, knee-jerk bills the current encumbent party tries to force through. Of course, they don't like this and are hence trying to "reform" the house and make it weaker.
The only real problem with the Treo is the battery life. Even with an extended battery I can hardly get it to run for 24 hours before the battery runs out without even making calls or sending text messages.
This makes it impractical for most people (including myself).
It's very disappointing when my previous Treo, the 600, runs for a full 10 days under the same conditions (and 100 days as a PDA with the phone switched off).
By support I mean such things as helpdesk and front-line support.
Maintaining two versions of PHP means extra resources are required to keep them up to date. It probably also means two servers (or at least VMs) to run and the problems of moving users from one to the other once their applications are compatible with the new version. This costs money.
Yes, I know it's been a couple of years since PHP5 came out and PHP told everyone to port their code 'cos PHP4 would be disappearing. It's also 5 months since PHP stopped supporting PHP4.
i.e. Some commercial operations have only now started porting their applications because they've been forced to.
This is very similar to Adobe and their porting of their applications to Apple's Cocao framework from the old, depreciated, Carbon on MacOS X.
Many commercial PHP-based systems are only now just changing over to PHP5 from PHP4. (Yes, I know...)
That's the way life is, I'm afraid. Most people who are depending upon these sites and software have no control over the vendors and definitely don't have the ability of fixing the code themselves.
Changing the API so greatly and so often in a non-backwardly compatible fashion does cause genuine problems.. and hosting sites can't afford to support multiple versions. Well, not unless they charge their customers too higher price for hosting their pages.
Oops! The referred article made most of my points. Oh well. At least the reporter talked to the two main researchers who have generated the best synthesis of data so far.
Hmm.. I wonder if they'll be using the Smith & Sandwell satellite derived bathymetry or ship-track data....
Anything better than 5 degree per pixel would be scientifically useful.. but I doubt that they'll have very high definition coverage... and I also doubt they'll be filling in the huge holes in the ship-track coverage.
The surface of Mars has been mapped in higher detail than the depths of the ocean and we are still guessing at the numbers of sea-mounts in the Pacific.
Well, the 2700 series at least run a version of BSD Unix. The firewall/router is ipf, a well used packet filter.
What they have added is there own DNS server, which is a bit rubbish.
In defence of 2Wire, the grandparent's problems sound like a hardware problem to me. The flash memory seems to have been dying.
The one thing about the 2700 series is that they *WILL* get you about a 1Mb/s increase in ADSL connection speed over other modems and with long lines this can make a real difference.
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Hmm... 64bit isn't everything. Why does a browser need to be 64 bit at all? Does it need to be able to access 4GB of memory? (Other than if it has a massive memory leak.)
A 32 bit binary is smaller as well and the x86_64 architecture can runs 32 bit user-land applications when running the OS in 64 bit mode. So, where's the problem?
So, which other architectures would you like the browser to run on these days? SPARC, PowerPC, DEC Alpha, m68k, VAX, 6502, Z80 or IBM System 360 maybe?
Let's face it, the x86 processors won the battle on the desktop and ARM has pretty well cleaned up in small pocket devices.
If the idea of "property" is that you can control it then surely this means that you don't "own" your mobile phone which is locked to a provider or any other device where a vendor or manufacturer has ultimate control over how you use it.
i.e. The vendors and/or manufacturers was to have their cake and eat it.
Yes I do. In fact things that I'm only interested in for a couple of days and then want to forget forever.
I don't want to have to open a new window, open a new panel, use the keyboard. I merely want to use the same URL I typed in a while ago via a couple of clicks of the mouse.
The awsomebar clutter is merely noise which just gets in the way of the job at hand for me.
It should be an option as there are some people who love it but it should be easily removed. After all searching and entering an address (URL) are very different things. (And yes, I do always type in protocol type before an address. I know what I want and I expect the browser to just be my slave.)
P.S. The way to fix this without affecting other users is to make an option in about:config to switch to the old FF2 behaviour.
Because the device doesn't store one? Or maybe a manager of the dev team decided that he wasn't going to assign programming resources to implement it?
Us users have no say over what the embedded firmware of devices does. Arguing about what should be is pointless as it won't change anything.
Unfortunately, if Firefix doesn't allow me to switch back to the old behaviour by the time they stop supporting FF2 I will be forced to change bowsers.
Of course if it uses a fixed seed then your encryption is stuffed 'cos it's easily cracked if you can determine the seed. However, it's up to the sysadmin to know the address of the embedded device. Most of the time you use a numeric address anyway as the address of the device is part of a non-routable address range, often on a non-standard port. (The awsome bar gets in the way of this as well)
Apparently, it can be mostly disabled if you delve into about:config somewhere. However, why not just have a tick-box in the configuration panel? It's not rocket science.
Of course, there may be another issue of ego and/or idealism getting in the way as well. Open source projects *never* have those though, so it can't be! ;-)
It does so because it has to probably. And seeing as the device is on a private network usig a private address range there's very little probability of spoofing. (It's not man in the middle attacking as such that the "certified" certificate is guarding against as both are equally invulnerable once the encrypted connection has been established.)
I'm sure that it's not really Slashdot he's talking about, merely using it as an example.
The drop-down menu history is VERY useful as a temporary set of bookmarks which you will only need for a short period (say a month) and don't want to litter your real bookmarks with.
I do hope that they've made optional the terrible self-signed certificate warnings as well. They make Firefox 3 totally unusable with embedded software/devices which generate self-signed certificates every time they start up.
Fine, by default have the current set-up but allow users to revert to the old pop-up system so that they can keep their sanity if they know what they're doing!
Where as currently, with Firefox 2 I get to them without any key presses at all, it's all with two clicks of the mouse.
It doesn't help that the EU condone the monopolies by making "grey" imports from outside the EU illegal, if the companies whose products they are wish them not to be imported.
Hence, the consumer has no control of the market, they are forced to buy at the inflated prices and there's no competitive force to lower the prices available.
It's even worse with embedded controllers which generate a new, self-signed certificate (and other credentials) with every reboot!
You may add an exemption this time but far a reboot you have to do it all again. It makes FF3 totally unusable for this use.
Well, I suppose it depends upon, for OS suppliers, being able to have the person who actually wrote the driver or other internal part of the kernel on the other end of a conference call and/or creating the hotfix there and then.
No, it's the sort of thing that merchant banks can afford. :-)
Actually, with the top of the range Sun support contract you get (or at least got, with all the layoffs and out-sourcing this may no-longer be the case) straight through to a dev team if there was a software problem. A hotfix would be yours within hours, possibly with a software engineer ON-SITE.
This is/was probably the case for IBM as well. They know where their bread is buttered.
I very much doubt that this would be the case for tiny outfits such as Redhat.
For your information.... the House of Lords is not an elected body, it consists of members who have been given the priviledge (with a very few now who have inhereted it).
Some might say that this is a problem because it's not representative. However, unlike an elected body it's free to make decisions on their merit without the worry of being popular. i.e. it doesn't have to pander to the current tabloid whims.
Also, it has the advantage of having a large number of non-partisan members who aren't on the political party leash, many of which are experts in the fields of business, science and the law.
The main purpose of the House of Lords these days is to put a brake on all those stupid, popularist, knee-jerk bills the current encumbent party tries to force through. Of course, they don't like this and are hence trying to "reform" the house and make it weaker.
The only real problem with the Treo is the battery life. Even with an extended battery I can hardly get it to run for 24 hours before the battery runs out without even making calls or sending text messages.
This makes it impractical for most people (including myself).
It's very disappointing when my previous Treo, the 600, runs for a full 10 days under the same conditions (and 100 days as a PDA with the phone switched off).
By support I mean such things as helpdesk and front-line support.
Maintaining two versions of PHP means extra resources are required to keep them up to date. It probably also means two servers (or at least VMs) to run and the problems of moving users from one to the other once their applications are compatible with the new version. This costs money.
Yes, I know it's been a couple of years since PHP5 came out and PHP told everyone to port their code 'cos PHP4 would be disappearing. It's also 5 months since PHP stopped supporting PHP4.
i.e. Some commercial operations have only now started porting their applications because they've been forced to.
This is very similar to Adobe and their porting of their applications to Apple's Cocao framework from the old, depreciated, Carbon on MacOS X.
Many commercial PHP-based systems are only now just changing over to PHP5 from PHP4. (Yes, I know...)
That's the way life is, I'm afraid. Most people who are depending upon these sites and software have no control over the vendors and definitely don't have the ability of fixing the code themselves.
Changing the API so greatly and so often in a non-backwardly compatible fashion does cause genuine problems.. and hosting sites can't afford to support multiple versions. Well, not unless they charge their customers too higher price for hosting their pages.
Oops! The referred article made most of my points. Oh well. At least the reporter talked to the two main researchers who have generated the best synthesis of data so far.
Hmm.. I wonder if they'll be using the Smith & Sandwell satellite derived bathymetry or ship-track data....
Anything better than 5 degree per pixel would be scientifically useful.. but I doubt that they'll have very high definition coverage... and I also doubt they'll be filling in the huge holes in the ship-track coverage.
The surface of Mars has been mapped in higher detail than the depths of the ocean and we are still guessing at the numbers of sea-mounts in the Pacific.
The security aspect for wireless and all the other parts of the system are determined not by 2Wire but by the OEMs who are specifying the firmware.
2Wire don't sell retail, they only sell to ISPs and produce custom firmware for them (which, in some cases can tie the modem to the ISP).
Well, the 2700 series at least run a version of BSD Unix. The firewall/router is ipf, a well used packet filter.
What they have added is there own DNS server, which is a bit rubbish.
In defence of 2Wire, the grandparent's problems sound like a hardware problem to me. The flash memory seems to have been dying.
The one thing about the 2700 series is that they *WILL* get you about a 1Mb/s increase in ADSL connection speed over other modems and with long lines this can make a real difference.