Google is not really interested in the platforms where alternative (to IE) browsers exist and are thriving. In the Windows world that's not the case, hence Chrome.
If you were wondering how to force an update to 2.0, that's how.
So I am now at 2.0.172.28. There doesn't seem to be any difference in the UI at all whatsoever, but pages render slightly differently. For one thing, Slashdot (with its broken slashcode) looks better, now.
Google only targets the platform where IE is predominant - that is, Windows. On the other platforms, Firefox or Safari will do the job that Chrome is doing on Windows. Either way, it suits Google's strategy.
I understand very well what you are saying, and for the longest time I was always irritated by movies about time travel. But "Primer" takes a different slant. You will allow that the only way we can travel in time (if it is at all possible) should be by creating parallel universes. This was implied in "Primer", but as I am writing this, I became aware of just how masterfully the movie was made: the thing about parallel universes is never explicitly mentioned. And yet, if you follow the movie carefully (not an easy task, I must say), you'll see that the writer was very methodic and paid a lot of attention to avoid the time travel paradox.
By the way, I like your treatment of absolute determinism. Not many slashdotters are this logical!
And anyone who knows timetravel knows you don't just go back and kill everything in sight.
The cold green tea just went through my nose when I read this. But then I realized that it's more pathetic than humorous, that you take your science clues from bad SF.
Talking about bad SF: very few SF movies have approached the question of time travel in any meaningful way - a fantastic exception to this is "Primer". Excellent hard-SF that takes into consideration time travel paradoxes.
For most people, sound in Linux works, but it doesn't work well for anyone. By "work well", I mean MIDI and sound stream control. Windows, MacOS X and even (and especially) BeOS have the sound sewn down and are viable platforms for music creation. Linux definitely isn't and ALSA has inherent flaws that guarantee it never will.
But, since most Linux users aren't interested in making music, this is not an issue and is why Linux's sound model won't ever improve. It will make Linux a non-starter for a number of users, though.
Thank you very much - sounds like going by train can be a good way to travel! And you reminded me of the name of the town I was visiting in Britain: Reading.
Now, regarding those frequent repairs on the rail lines: is this a flurry of activity that will slowly die down to a much lesser intensity level, or do you think this is going to persist? Better rails should also mean somewhat faster journeys - here's hoping.
Here in Helsinki, my favoursite means of local transportation is the local train. Fast as an arrow! My only complaint is that it's not as capillary in the coverage of the city, as I'd like it. But with it, you can get from the furthest suburbs to the very heart of Helsinki in no time at all. Oh, and we have unified tickets across all buses, local trains, metro, trams and even the local ferries, for Helsinki, Espoo and Vantaa. These three comprise the so-called metropolitan area.
We are aware. And we are aware that all the previous ones were genuine Ulrich abuse. I think the ones where he talks about paychecks are especially offensive.
So how would you describe the situation with the british railways currently? I remember that I felt public transportation was rather expensive, when I was in britain 5 years ago, but I didn't use trains.
Here in Finland trains are relatively expensive but still quite pleasant to use. Very reliable/accurate, too.
Google's strategy was brilliant: fund Mozilla in order to hurt Microsoft. Then, once the damage was done, launch their own competitor to gain market share.
Their next step: Google products will work with any browser, but there will be special features only Chrome can support.
Sound familiar? Apple's doing it with Safari, and it's how Microsoft marketed IE initially. History repeats itself.
I am going to continue to use Firefox. Opera is the best solution but like a BMW it's high-maintenance with frequent crashes. Safari is a neurotic product by a neurotic company, so even if it's ahead this round, in the long term I don't want to be a user. Chrome is out because I don't want to be part of someone's marketing strategy until it's clear what the end goal is. But Firefox is stable, does 90% of what I want 90% correctly 90% of the time, so for a browser it's awesome.
You are forgetting that Chrome is open-source. There is and never will be any special feature in it that another browser couldn't adopt.
More money is currently spent on research into skin treatments, breast augmentation, and penile enlargement/enhancement treatments, than neurodegenerative disease (like alzheimer's) treatments.
While I'm an inveterate cynic, I challenge your assertion, because I know that there's a lot of research in Alzheimer's Disease cures and diagnosis. I am following the various drug tests - and sadly, although there are dozens going on, none of them is producing anything beyond placebo-equivalent results. I have a very dear friend who is going through the hell of progressive AD, so I have personal interest in the subject.
Besides, do you really think people are more interested in having an erection than to save their cognitive capabilities?
(2) He uses photographs that are probably copyrighted as backdrops for his lecture
I'm no lawyer, but I know that's common practice in academia - to use copyrighted material in lectures. So I guess it's legal, because every prof and assistant prof is doing it.
They also have the deck stacked against them, since they own so little of the track they must run on. Nearly all the heavy rail in the USA is owned by the various heavy frieght companies. The company that owns a particular stretch of rail gets to influence its scheduling priorities. This isn't abused too much because most companies have to run on each-others' rails often enough to make a round of punative scheduling bad for everyone.
In contrast, Amtrak only owns a relatively small amount of rails in the Northeast with non-Amtrak alternates available to frieght, so none of the frieght companies cares very much about offending Amtrak by forcing their trains to work around everyone-elses' traffic. Is it really a surprise that the only area where Amtrak service is high in quality, on-time, and potentially profitable, is also where they own the majority of track they use?
Thanks, that's interesting! You should post non-anonymously, this is good stuff.
During the formal defense of the project, one high-ranking official skeptical of the rocket-cushioned approach to landing reportedly used an unprintable expletive to describe what was going to happen to crew members unlucky enough to encounter a rocket engine failure a few seconds before touchdown."
I can't help but think of the space pen (beacause regular pens don't write in zero-g) that NASA invented at great expense. The Russians (allegedly) just used a pencil instead.
That myth/urban legend has been busted long time ago, tovarish:o)
Amtrack, Postal Service, Social Security... Nope, they all suck.
Because your right-wing governments don't fund them properly.
While your general point stands, I just want to point out 2 things: Amtrack sucks, but it's not for a lack of funding - it's the direction, priorities and technologies of Amtrack that make it sucky.
And the second thing I'd like to point out: USPS is an excellent company, looking at the end product, and that is delivered letters and parcels. USPS is cheaper than UPS but they won't destroy the contents of your package (while UPS, for some odd reason, just seems to enjoy to make some, at least little, damage to your shipment/parcel). And USPS is the only postal service that has proven to be 100% reliable - and I have received more than a thousand parcels through them. My opinion of the Finnish post is good, but not as good. Canadian Post resulted to be awful. Egyptian postal service is pure scam - you'll be lucky if every third parcel gets through, fucking bunch of criminals. Croatian post is halfway decent, actually (on par with Deutsche Post/DHL), but nothing like USPS or Finnish post. Royal Mail: too little experience to make a judgement, but their ParcelForce is expensive like hell. For that money they should wrap every parcel in gold foil.
Your post answers the question you asked, so it's rendundant and not interesting. The only mildly interesting thing is that you use Google Documents while in the city morgue.
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Google is not really interested in the platforms where alternative (to IE) browsers exist and are thriving. In the Windows world that's not the case, hence Chrome.
If you were wondering how to force an update to 2.0, that's how.
So I am now at 2.0.172.28. There doesn't seem to be any difference in the UI at all whatsoever, but pages render slightly differently. For one thing, Slashdot (with its broken slashcode) looks better, now.
Google only targets the platform where IE is predominant - that is, Windows. On the other platforms, Firefox or Safari will do the job that Chrome is doing on Windows. Either way, it suits Google's strategy.
I understand very well what you are saying, and for the longest time I was always irritated by movies about time travel. But "Primer" takes a different slant. You will allow that the only way we can travel in time (if it is at all possible) should be by creating parallel universes. This was implied in "Primer", but as I am writing this, I became aware of just how masterfully the movie was made: the thing about parallel universes is never explicitly mentioned. And yet, if you follow the movie carefully (not an easy task, I must say), you'll see that the writer was very methodic and paid a lot of attention to avoid the time travel paradox.
By the way, I like your treatment of absolute determinism. Not many slashdotters are this logical!
And anyone who knows timetravel knows you don't just go back and kill everything in sight.
The cold green tea just went through my nose when I read this. But then I realized that it's more pathetic than humorous, that you take your science clues from bad SF.
Talking about bad SF: very few SF movies have approached the question of time travel in any meaningful way - a fantastic exception to this is "Primer". Excellent hard-SF that takes into consideration time travel paradoxes.
yeah, but nobody uses Vista :o)
mod parent way up!! This is EXACTLY what we need! It would definitely fix my biggest problem with browsing!
For most people, sound in Linux works, but it doesn't work well for anyone. By "work well", I mean MIDI and sound stream control. Windows, MacOS X and even (and especially) BeOS have the sound sewn down and are viable platforms for music creation. Linux definitely isn't and ALSA has inherent flaws that guarantee it never will.
But, since most Linux users aren't interested in making music, this is not an issue and is why Linux's sound model won't ever improve. It will make Linux a non-starter for a number of users, though.
I wholeheartedly agree. Angelina Jolie for me is in that same category that contains also Madonna and a few other over-hyped (looks-wise) celebs.
Also, my wife does happen to be very hot. And no, I have no clue what she found in me. Will have to put that on my T-shirt one day.
they have flown their trajectory
Nice one!
"Have Rockets Run Their Course?"
I recently got married.
The sex is still great :)
Is there something special about SPARC that would make it remarkably good at some specific application that Oracle uses?
8 cores per CPU with 4 hardware threads each, for one.
Thank you very much - sounds like going by train can be a good way to travel! And you reminded me of the name of the town I was visiting in Britain: Reading.
Now, regarding those frequent repairs on the rail lines: is this a flurry of activity that will slowly die down to a much lesser intensity level, or do you think this is going to persist? Better rails should also mean somewhat faster journeys - here's hoping.
Here in Helsinki, my favoursite means of local transportation is the local train. Fast as an arrow! My only complaint is that it's not as capillary in the coverage of the city, as I'd like it. But with it, you can get from the furthest suburbs to the very heart of Helsinki in no time at all. Oh, and we have unified tickets across all buses, local trains, metro, trams and even the local ferries, for Helsinki, Espoo and Vantaa. These three comprise the so-called metropolitan area.
We are aware. And we are aware that all the previous ones were genuine Ulrich abuse. I think the ones where he talks about paychecks are especially offensive.
So how would you describe the situation with the british railways currently? I remember that I felt public transportation was rather expensive, when I was in britain 5 years ago, but I didn't use trains.
Here in Finland trains are relatively expensive but still quite pleasant to use. Very reliable/accurate, too.
Google's strategy was brilliant: fund Mozilla in order to hurt Microsoft. Then, once the damage was done, launch their own competitor to gain market share.
Their next step: Google products will work with any browser, but there will be special features only Chrome can support.
Sound familiar? Apple's doing it with Safari, and it's how Microsoft marketed IE initially. History repeats itself.
I am going to continue to use Firefox. Opera is the best solution but like a BMW it's high-maintenance with frequent crashes. Safari is a neurotic product by a neurotic company, so even if it's ahead this round, in the long term I don't want to be a user. Chrome is out because I don't want to be part of someone's marketing strategy until it's clear what the end goal is. But Firefox is stable, does 90% of what I want 90% correctly 90% of the time, so for a browser it's awesome.
You are forgetting that Chrome is open-source. There is and never will be any special feature in it that another browser couldn't adopt.
More money is currently spent on research into skin treatments, breast augmentation, and penile enlargement/enhancement treatments, than neurodegenerative disease (like alzheimer's) treatments.
While I'm an inveterate cynic, I challenge your assertion, because I know that there's a lot of research in Alzheimer's Disease cures and diagnosis. I am following the various drug tests - and sadly, although there are dozens going on, none of them is producing anything beyond placebo-equivalent results. I have a very dear friend who is going through the hell of progressive AD, so I have personal interest in the subject.
Besides, do you really think people are more interested in having an erection than to save their cognitive capabilities?
(2) He uses photographs that are probably copyrighted as backdrops for his lecture
I'm no lawyer, but I know that's common practice in academia - to use copyrighted material in lectures. So I guess it's legal, because every prof and assistant prof is doing it.
They also have the deck stacked against them, since they own so little of the track they must run on. Nearly all the heavy rail in the USA is owned by the various heavy frieght companies. The company that owns a particular stretch of rail gets to influence its scheduling priorities. This isn't abused too much because most companies have to run on each-others' rails often enough to make a round of punative scheduling bad for everyone.
In contrast, Amtrak only owns a relatively small amount of rails in the Northeast with non-Amtrak alternates available to frieght, so none of the frieght companies cares very much about offending Amtrak by forcing their trains to work around everyone-elses' traffic. Is it really a surprise that the only area where Amtrak service is high in quality, on-time, and potentially profitable, is also where they own the majority of track they use?
Thanks, that's interesting! You should post non-anonymously, this is good stuff.
During the formal defense of the project, one high-ranking official skeptical of the rocket-cushioned approach to landing reportedly used an unprintable expletive to describe what was going to happen to crew members unlucky enough to encounter a rocket engine failure a few seconds before touchdown."
It would accidentally the whole crew!
I can't help but think of the space pen (beacause regular pens don't write in zero-g) that NASA invented at great expense. The Russians (allegedly) just used a pencil instead.
That myth/urban legend has been busted long time ago, tovarish :o)
Amtrack, Postal Service, Social Security... Nope, they all suck.
Because your right-wing governments don't fund them properly.
While your general point stands, I just want to point out 2 things: Amtrack sucks, but it's not for a lack of funding - it's the direction, priorities and technologies of Amtrack that make it sucky.
And the second thing I'd like to point out: USPS is an excellent company, looking at the end product, and that is delivered letters and parcels. USPS is cheaper than UPS but they won't destroy the contents of your package (while UPS, for some odd reason, just seems to enjoy to make some, at least little, damage to your shipment/parcel). And USPS is the only postal service that has proven to be 100% reliable - and I have received more than a thousand parcels through them. My opinion of the Finnish post is good, but not as good. Canadian Post resulted to be awful. Egyptian postal service is pure scam - you'll be lucky if every third parcel gets through, fucking bunch of criminals. Croatian post is halfway decent, actually (on par with Deutsche Post/DHL), but nothing like USPS or Finnish post. Royal Mail: too little experience to make a judgement, but their ParcelForce is expensive like hell. For that money they should wrap every parcel in gold foil.
So, anyhow, you can tell I'm a big fan of USPS.
Your post answers the question you asked, so it's rendundant and not interesting. The only mildly interesting thing is that you use Google Documents while in the city morgue.
Thanks. You in Finland, too?