The great thing about the BSD license, is that when people do contribute back (and they do, even big companies like Apple), you know its because they *want* to, not because they *have* to.
What good is that, newfound brand loyalty and a shiny new pedestal to put Megacorp-X on? Really, why shouldn't a company contribute after exploiting the efforts of the crowd?
the few bugs are totally worth the better memory management, IMO
Statements like this were exactly why I decided to switch to FF3 a month ago. Personally, I saw no improvement in regards to memory leaks; I'd end up with it clinging on to 200-300MB or so after an hour or two of normal activity (a dozen Wikipedia articles, a YouTube link or two, and perhaps messing around with one of those addictive sand games). Making it trim on minimize (something it should do by default) helped somewhat, but then it would slowly make its way back up to 70-100MB without me doing anything, with only one page, even about:blank, open. That and little annoyances like the new URL bar showing page history, rather than *gasp* URLs convinced me to drop FF entirely two weeks ago and switch to K-meleon.
Somehow, I just don't see FF getting any better in the near future.
Yahoo! users would migrate either into Google services or Microsoft ones. MS has the most popular desktop OS, has its browser as the default on the most popular desktop OS, and has its search engine as the default homepage on the default browser of the most popular desktop OS, but they're still having trouble with Google/Yahoo. Something tells me it wouldn't be worth that much to just buy and get rid of Yahoo. Rather than removing it entirely, I imagine MS finding ways to beat Google in the adspace game after getting two of the top search engines.
Or you could just simulate it all and save several trillion dollars and shave off a few millennia, then build the most successful design every 2-5 years.
14 years is just about as ridiculous as what the RIAA is proposing, the only difference is that it hurts people on the other side. Say what you will about riding a single work for a lifetime, but if someone's buying what you spent time to make, I'm sure you'd want a chunk of it, too. I'd rather see it reduced to ~70 years or the artist's lifetime (whichever is shorter), with (significantly) derivative works expiring at the same time. This wouldn't fix the current mess, or the dystopian future of shotgun lawsuits the whitepaper paints, but at least it would add some sanity to the currently broken system.
Only when used to lock down media. Allowing one to read locked down media...not so much.
it results in higher hardware requirements which boost the requirements even more then it already needs to be and I am sure that you have noticed it, not just in not being able to copy but in slower performance and higher hardware costs.
After installing Vista on an old crapbox, I have to respond with a nice, loud 'bullshiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit'. RAM whorery isn't really an issue (except for that damn sidebar). Really, just *cough* 'borrow Vista from the Internet' and and give it 512MB of RAM, a 2.0GHz P4 and some shitty onboard video - like XP. After disabling the sidebar and a few useless services, it's back to using ~150MB...idle. It's not ideal, but considering how cheap a gig is now, it's hardly the disaster you're making it out to be.
The only slow parts so far have been installing it (the better part of an hour) and using the archive manager packaged with it (It would estimate the remaining time for extracting a 200MB archive to be several hours. Installing 7-zip got around that.)
You think we have air conditioners, cars, computers, etc. because of a few blind altruists? We have all of these conveniences because at some time, there were people who wanted money, recognition, or the convenience their inventions provided. Same goes for manufacturers. Do you think they're constantly trying to lower production costs for the sake of the consumers? If anything, teaching people that it's damaging to seek more material wealth will hurt the economy more. Greed isn't the problem, hyper-consumption is; all things in moderation and all that gab.
Why put embryos on a pedestal? No one gets mad when someone has liposuction. Won't somebody please think of the poor fat cells being slaughtered? What makes a cell unique enough to get this kind of attention, is it that the cell's DNA differs from that of the host? Then I suppose it's our duty to inform all those oncologists that what they're doing is wrong. (Really, what do you think would happen to most of the embryos being used for stem cell research? At least they're going to something useful.)
With telecommuting becoming more popular, why would you care if your job was three cities away?
But you'll have to make a case for hiring you, rather than someone two cities over, someone three miles away, or someone in another country with a lower minimum wage.
I seriously doubt that; intent means quite a bit in many countries. General search engines have quite a legitimate purpose with the hundreds of millions (billions?) of websites currently up. Trying to take one of the engines down would be like destroying a city map to keep people out of a single building, rather than taking it up with the owner of said building. On the other hand, TPB is quite clearly intended to be used to help people find copyrighted content and I've heard no claims to the contrary. The responses in the 'legal threats' section of the site are akin to mooning people from airplanes. Definitely unlike any general-purpose search engine, wouldn't you say?
Why not just use one of those free dial-up services? A lot of them only give you a few hours a month (or ads, in the case of NetZero/Juno), but it's only for emergencies, right?
I seriously doubt one could patent a single base. It's too obvious; everyone has one or two lying around somewhere. The process for inserting bases, on the other hand...
If you have a good job, good healthcare, retirement plan, managable mortgage, a car you like, 2.5 kids and a wife, why rock the boat? I don't know about you, but I think I'd want another half of a kid. That good healthcare's only going to help for so long.
So, essentially, a computer is an extension of my body? Doesn't seem too much of a stretch. Though, I'd assume the association only works as far as you can understand the tool (the movements required to operate the tool).
It's news on Slashdot... because it's news on Slashdot?Of course! The more something's posted on Slashdot, the greater the chance of it being posted on Slashdot. All original content is due to error on the part of the editors.
While many enjoy (even 3) shiny objects, many don't wish to go back to the operating system, a browser, and a mail client using almost all available RAM and CPU time. Less likely (planets aligning, blue moon, lightning striking twice in the same place) some people have had Vista forced on them by OEMs, don't want to spend another $100 for an XP disc and also equate downloading to theft; those impoverished, non-technical moral absolutists who just bought a shiny new machine. (They're everywhere, you know.)
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Somehow, I just don't see FF getting any better in the near future.
Rather than removing it entirely, I imagine MS finding ways to beat Google in the adspace game after getting two of the top search engines.
Or you could just simulate it all and save several trillion dollars and shave off a few millennia, then build the most successful design every 2-5 years.
(But still, what about the passengers?)
14 years is just about as ridiculous as what the RIAA is proposing, the only difference is that it hurts people on the other side. Say what you will about riding a single work for a lifetime, but if someone's buying what you spent time to make, I'm sure you'd want a chunk of it, too.
I'd rather see it reduced to ~70 years or the artist's lifetime (whichever is shorter), with (significantly) derivative works expiring at the same time. This wouldn't fix the current mess, or the dystopian future of shotgun lawsuits the whitepaper paints, but at least it would add some sanity to the currently broken system.
The only slow parts so far have been installing it (the better part of an hour) and using the archive manager packaged with it (It would estimate the remaining time for extracting a 200MB archive to be several hours. Installing 7-zip got around that.)
If anything, teaching people that it's damaging to seek more material wealth will hurt the economy more. Greed isn't the problem, hyper-consumption is; all things in moderation and all that gab.
Why put embryos on a pedestal? No one gets mad when someone has liposuction. Won't somebody please think of the poor fat cells being slaughtered? What makes a cell unique enough to get this kind of attention, is it that the cell's DNA differs from that of the host? Then I suppose it's our duty to inform all those oncologists that what they're doing is wrong.
(Really, what do you think would happen to most of the embryos being used for stem cell research? At least they're going to something useful.)
Why? With a natural monopoly, you only need to be good enough to keep people from moving away.
That, or babies would be a lot...thinner. (Damn, just thinking about it hurts.)
It's not just for Linux.
I don't think I'd want to be made out of these nanobots. Just imagine what it would be like to lose an arm in mid-handshake.
This has nothing to do with trucks; it's a series of tubes!
I seriously doubt that; intent means quite a bit in many countries. General search engines have quite a legitimate purpose with the hundreds of millions (billions?) of websites currently up. Trying to take one of the engines down would be like destroying a city map to keep people out of a single building, rather than taking it up with the owner of said building.
On the other hand, TPB is quite clearly intended to be used to help people find copyrighted content and I've heard no claims to the contrary. The responses in the 'legal threats' section of the site are akin to mooning people from airplanes. Definitely unlike any general-purpose search engine, wouldn't you say?
Why not just use one of those free dial-up services? A lot of them only give you a few hours a month (or ads, in the case of NetZero/Juno), but it's only for emergencies, right?
There's a massive ball of fire floating up there in plain view and you want me to go outside? Of course, right after you.
Oh, new bases. Well, I suppose that is rather novel. (*Cough* Mod parent down.)
I seriously doubt one could patent a single base. It's too obvious; everyone has one or two lying around somewhere. The process for inserting bases, on the other hand...
While many enjoy (even 3) shiny objects, many don't wish to go back to the operating system, a browser, and a mail client using almost all available RAM and CPU time.
Less likely (planets aligning, blue moon, lightning striking twice in the same place) some people have had Vista forced on them by OEMs, don't want to spend another $100 for an XP disc and also equate downloading to theft; those impoverished, non-technical moral absolutists who just bought a shiny new machine. (They're everywhere, you know.)