Really, Republicans have been doing this for the last hundred years so as not to count the black vote? Do you have any idea who was president 100 years ago? Do you know who was president a short time later? Any idea which party was the self-proclaimed "white man's party" well in to the 20th century? It's standard issue to paint your enemies as not only being evil now, but as have always been evil, but historical fact proves your claim is about as accurate as a defaced Wikipedia article.
Atari 2600 was woefully slow; NES was inferior to Sega Master System. PS1 was only 32-bit but still trumped the faster N64. PS2 was weaker than Xbox or Cube, but still came out #1.
Let's not forget the current first-place in this generations console wars: the Wii. As has been said elsewhere, it's like two GameCubes taped together.
Both the DS and Wii are winning against superior hardware--it's the interface and games that make the difference.
Of course, the openness of the Pandora, compared to the extremely locked-down nature of everything else on the market, will likely help it's adoption.
You're the second or third person I've heard this from. I can't find the other places I've read it at the moment.
However, having used Chrome on several Windows machines (including co-workers), I can say without a doubt Chrome has always rendered much faster than Firefox (and even more so than IE) for every page I've seen.
Could it be something different/wrong about the few computers that are having the slow rendering issues?
And do you honestly think the Firefox, IE, Opera and Safari zealots on Slashdot would possibly not point out that Chrome was incredibly slow every time it was mentioned if that was the case for everyone?
I think you might be a little confused. The AT&T today is one of the pieces that broke off. However, it is also the piece that owns all the other pieces, except Verizon.
To summarize: DOJ breaks AT&T up, FTC let's them get back together.
In this case, the FTC let's Google and Yahoo get together, now the DOJ is considering breaking them up.
Or ISPs could stop over-selling their capacity, then no one would need to "police" themselves by making sure they use less than the bandwidth they're paying for.
ISPs either need to take on less customers (I know at least one DSL provider in my area is taking this path, actually refusing new customers and their money because they've oversold) or actually tell their customers how much bandwidth they're getting.
Instead, they sell, sell, sell accounts with "unlimited" bandwidth at X speed; add something in their ToS that some unknown amount of usage is too much; and then blame their infrasture problems on those that use BitTorrent and the like (whether they are used for legal or illegal purposes) rather than on their own irresponsibility and money-grabbing.
For the last six months I've been using paid email hosting because I absolutely needed IMAP. Now that hosting is up for renewal at the end of this week, and here Google is finally giving us that killer feature.
Once this actually gets rolled out to my main account on Gmail, I'll be switching back there full time.
At the moment, of my accounts only my old, original account has IMAP. It's been my least active for a long time, and it's also the one that all the invites for my other accounts (and various friends' accounts) came from. That's really the only difference I can think of between that account and my others.
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Really, Republicans have been doing this for the last hundred years so as not to count the black vote?
Do you have any idea who was president 100 years ago? Do you know who was president a short time later?
Any idea which party was the self-proclaimed "white man's party" well in to the 20th century? It's standard issue to paint your enemies as not only being evil now, but as have always been evil, but historical fact proves your claim is about as accurate as a defaced Wikipedia article.
Atari 2600 was woefully slow; NES was inferior to Sega Master System. PS1 was only 32-bit but still trumped the faster N64. PS2 was weaker than Xbox or Cube, but still came out #1.
Let's not forget the current first-place in this generations console wars: the Wii. As has been said elsewhere, it's like two GameCubes taped together.
Both the DS and Wii are winning against superior hardware--it's the interface and games that make the difference.
Of course, the openness of the Pandora, compared to the extremely locked-down nature of everything else on the market, will likely help it's adoption.
When I saw this story, I tried to guess what the top post would be: a far joke or a pro/anti-global-warming theorist.
Glad to see I guessed correctly.
WHOOSH
BluRay is having a tough enough time without slashdot airing repeated hit pieces.
Wait, I thought you said BluRay was doing great?
I would hate to find out that my FOSS trading platform had a bug. If it's bad enough, it could be devastating and totally wipe you out.
Because you programs don't have bugs in the closed-source world.
a day late,a dollar short,and unable to do anything but rip off the Mac.
Yep, that's Microsoft.
a fat scoutmaster who "was exhausted from having 60 scouts last night"
You're the second or third person I've heard this from. I can't find the other places I've read it at the moment.
However, having used Chrome on several Windows machines (including co-workers), I can say without a doubt Chrome has always rendered much faster than Firefox (and even more so than IE) for every page I've seen.
Could it be something different/wrong about the few computers that are having the slow rendering issues?
And do you honestly think the Firefox, IE, Opera and Safari zealots on Slashdot would possibly not point out that Chrome was incredibly slow every time it was mentioned if that was the case for everyone?
I think you might be a little confused. The AT&T today is one of the pieces that broke off. However, it is also the piece that owns all the other pieces, except Verizon.
To summarize: DOJ breaks AT&T up, FTC let's them get back together.
In this case, the FTC let's Google and Yahoo get together, now the DOJ is considering breaking them up.
Someone is finally doing something about this horrible monopoly! We can only hope Google is put in their place, just like Microsoft and AT&T.
Or ISPs could stop over-selling their capacity, then no one would need to "police" themselves by making sure they use less than the bandwidth they're paying for.
ISPs either need to take on less customers (I know at least one DSL provider in my area is taking this path, actually refusing new customers and their money because they've oversold) or actually tell their customers how much bandwidth they're getting.
Instead, they sell, sell, sell accounts with "unlimited" bandwidth at X speed; add something in their ToS that some unknown amount of usage is too much; and then blame their infrasture problems on those that use BitTorrent and the like (whether they are used for legal or illegal purposes) rather than on their own irresponsibility and money-grabbing.
I will call it a Hawking Hole.
It couldn't be because Microsoft has a history of doing this sort of thing maliciously, could it?
No, of course not. It has to be Slashdot group-think automatically bashing Microsoft, right?
P.S. As a person whose browser of choice has moved first to Opera, then to Konqueror, I have to say I hate people that do UA sniffing.
Just to test a theory, I created another account on Gmail, and it had IMAP right from the get to.
For the last six months I've been using paid email hosting because I absolutely needed IMAP. Now that hosting is up for renewal at the end of this week, and here Google is finally giving us that killer feature. Once this actually gets rolled out to my main account on Gmail, I'll be switching back there full time. At the moment, of my accounts only my old, original account has IMAP. It's been my least active for a long time, and it's also the one that all the invites for my other accounts (and various friends' accounts) came from. That's really the only difference I can think of between that account and my others.
Ah, that explains it. I guess I haven't been paying much attention to DRM crap, since I avoid that like the plague.
So, Canada is setting up to lose a right we still have here in the U.S. ... Yet somehow it's the U.S.'s fault? What am I am missing here?