"After seeing Opera's claim to 'Fastest Browser on Earth' after their most recent release, Tom's Hardware put Apple Safari 4.04, Google Chrome 4.0, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, Mozilla Firefox 3.6, and Opera 10.50 through a gauntlet of speed tests and time trials to find out which Web browser is truly the fastest. How does your favorite land in the rankings?"
I use Lynx you insensitive clod!
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The link was in the original submission. ScuttleMonkey apparently is too much of an idiot to remember to have copied that along when posting.
In C, memory management is hard, but that means that people think about it.
So then how do you explain the countless C programs that have had and might still have memory leaks? Oh and all the buffer overflow errors. Or null pointer dereferencing. Most people tend to think that anyone writing C is actually thinking hard about these things, but in my professional experience and through the years of using many applications written in C, either open source or proprietary, I'd really beg to differ.
So the OP wasn't saying that lawyers shouldn't defend people accused of murder, just those that are clearly (known to the lawyer himself) guilty.
You mean like a number of easily found examples where people thought someone was clearly guilty but those same defendants were later exonerated? Everyone deserves legal defense otherwise we might as well have no legal system at all and just throw anyone accused of a crime straight in jail.
My point is that you'd have to completely overhaul the US justice system to allow attorneys to be punished for representing guilty clients.
And how do you know if someone is guilty without an actual fair trial? Who also gets to be the arbiter of who is truly guilty and not? Considering how many people have been wrongly accused you propose a system that hardly would ever dispense justice.
We throw out trials because defendants WITH legal counsel didn't get a proper defense afterall.
Red Star cannot be called modest in terns if system requirements. You will need at least a Pentium III 800 Mhz with 256 Mb RAM and astounding 3Gb hard drive space!
Oh noes! Not a PIII 800 mhz and all of 256 megs of RAM!!! zOMG SUCH HUGE REQUIREMENTS!! Oh and 3 whole gigs of HD space? Golly how will I ever be able to fit that even on my ancient 80 gig hard drive that just sits collecting dust!
Pitting one cellphone against another cellphone does not seem like cross platform. Looking at the specs the hardware is almost totally identical on many.
Why is it not cross-platform? Android phones and the iPhone run completely different OSes and software platforms. You seem to be incorrectly limiting the term "cross-platform" to mean only with respect to the hardware. If that were so software that could run on Windows/Mac/Linux wouldn't really be "cross-platform" since you can run all three of those OSes on identical hardware.
If that were really the case why didn't it effect the PS3 Slim? Also why didn't this manifest itself for people playing games without trophies? Oh yeah, because you're spewing bullshit.
The whole "issue" gets one report in the evening news, without its own movie, just a still and some anchor talking for 30 seconds, once in a blue moon. You get about the same kind of coverage for pretty much every halfway important trojan hitting the fan.
What the fuck are you talking about? The story has been widespread on CNN, CBS News, Fox News, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, etc etc one can go on. To claim that it was only ever reported in a single 30 second news report is completely bullshit. Secondly, as I said at the end, if he goes in to get the mat changed, he's going to be required to be informed of the software issue. It will be trivially easy at that point to show that he knew about it and refused it.
Except if he goes in to get the mat changed, as he says he will do, the person at the service desk will be required to mention the software update. So there is no way he will be able to claim ignorance.
Yeah, considering how much public visibility this whole issue has you would be hard-pressed to claim you were ignorant of the patch. Especially if documentation comes out that you went in for the mat change because they will be required to also mention the software patch. Basically, he would lose.
Yes but the difference between OSS and proprietary software is that if the main OSS developers just lose interest in the project, the project can be forked/development work taken over by another part of the OSS community.
Sure in an ideal world. In the real world, though, it just means the project stagnates and dies.
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"After seeing Opera's claim to 'Fastest Browser on Earth' after their most recent release, Tom's Hardware put Apple Safari 4.04, Google Chrome 4.0, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, Mozilla Firefox 3.6, and Opera 10.50 through a gauntlet of speed tests and time trials to find out which Web browser is truly the fastest. How does your favorite land in the rankings?"
I use Lynx you insensitive clod!
The link was in the original submission. ScuttleMonkey apparently is too much of an idiot to remember to have copied that along when posting.
No, more like this man.
In C, memory management is hard, but that means that people think about it.
So then how do you explain the countless C programs that have had and might still have memory leaks? Oh and all the buffer overflow errors. Or null pointer dereferencing. Most people tend to think that anyone writing C is actually thinking hard about these things, but in my professional experience and through the years of using many applications written in C, either open source or proprietary, I'd really beg to differ.
who says that when iphone+4 comes out or the next android device comes out your apps will be compatible there?
And how much did apps break between the original and the 3G version? And then between 3G and 3GS versions?
So the OP wasn't saying that lawyers shouldn't defend people accused of murder, just those that are clearly (known to the lawyer himself) guilty.
You mean like a number of easily found examples where people thought someone was clearly guilty but those same defendants were later exonerated? Everyone deserves legal defense otherwise we might as well have no legal system at all and just throw anyone accused of a crime straight in jail.
My point is that you'd have to completely overhaul the US justice system to allow attorneys to be punished for representing guilty clients.
And how do you know if someone is guilty without an actual fair trial? Who also gets to be the arbiter of who is truly guilty and not? Considering how many people have been wrongly accused you propose a system that hardly would ever dispense justice.
We throw out trials because defendants WITH legal counsel didn't get a proper defense afterall.
For a lucky few, maybe, but certainly not all.
If the patents were truly bogus a company like Amazon wouldn't have licensed them. Amazon would have readily filed suit to get them invalidated.
Red Star cannot be called modest in terns if system requirements. You will need at least a Pentium III 800 Mhz with 256 Mb RAM and astounding 3Gb hard drive space!
Oh noes! Not a PIII 800 mhz and all of 256 megs of RAM!!! zOMG SUCH HUGE REQUIREMENTS!! Oh and 3 whole gigs of HD space? Golly how will I ever be able to fit that even on my ancient 80 gig hard drive that just sits collecting dust!
Except most consumers don't care about something being "open".
Oh and there is this article called OpenOffice.org 3.0 The Cross-Platform Office. Yeah, clearly no one thinks it's cross-platform.
Software that can run on Windows/Mac/Linux IS NOT cross platform.
Because you say so contrary to the numerous people who say otherwise?
Nobody thinks of OpenOffice.ORG as cross platform.
Really? So then why is it listed as cross-platform on wikipedia?
Apparently the rest of the world disagrees considering the widespread nature of flash video that has always used proprietary audio and video codecs.
Pitting one cellphone against another cellphone does not seem like cross platform. Looking at the specs the hardware is almost totally identical on many.
Why is it not cross-platform? Android phones and the iPhone run completely different OSes and software platforms. You seem to be incorrectly limiting the term "cross-platform" to mean only with respect to the hardware. If that were so software that could run on Windows/Mac/Linux wouldn't really be "cross-platform" since you can run all three of those OSes on identical hardware.
But then that doesn't explain how the non-slim models in which you played games without trophies didn't have the issue either.
If that were really the case why didn't it effect the PS3 Slim? Also why didn't this manifest itself for people playing games without trophies? Oh yeah, because you're spewing bullshit.
No, the point was that no one browser got unfairly pushed to the top all the time
Chrome?
And yet the C programmers writing Java code are the ones most likely to be writing among the worst Java code one can find.
Neat project, but I wouldn't call this project "open source hardware".
Why? "Open source hardware" means all the specs are available to be seen. How does that not describe this project?
So, how can you create open source hardware by using non-open source software?
The same way you can create open source software in an non-open source IDE like Visual Studio?
It is hard to "mess" with CAD/PCB/schematic files that cannot be edited with open source software.
Boohoo.
The phrase "open source hardware" is being slowly hijacked to mean something completely else. :-(
Since when did it mean anything other than access to the hardware schematics? You seem to be redefining the term.
"Public visibility?"
The whole "issue" gets one report in the evening news, without its own movie, just a still and some anchor talking for 30 seconds, once in a blue moon. You get about the same kind of coverage for pretty much every halfway important trojan hitting the fan.
What the fuck are you talking about? The story has been widespread on CNN, CBS News, Fox News, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, etc etc one can go on. To claim that it was only ever reported in a single 30 second news report is completely bullshit. Secondly, as I said at the end, if he goes in to get the mat changed, he's going to be required to be informed of the software issue. It will be trivially easy at that point to show that he knew about it and refused it.
"I don't like news, so I don't watch it."
Bam, problem solved.
Except if he goes in to get the mat changed, as he says he will do, the person at the service desk will be required to mention the software update. So there is no way he will be able to claim ignorance.
Yeah, considering how much public visibility this whole issue has you would be hard-pressed to claim you were ignorant of the patch. Especially if documentation comes out that you went in for the mat change because they will be required to also mention the software patch. Basically, he would lose.
Yes but the difference between OSS and proprietary software is that if the main OSS developers just lose interest in the project, the project can be forked/development work taken over by another part of the OSS community.
Sure in an ideal world. In the real world, though, it just means the project stagnates and dies.
Given that this is Slashdot, the most likely form of revolution would be a cyber revolution.
So they'll download a syn flooder and an email bomber and think they're 1337 h4x0r5 sticking it to the man?
For a couple of decades?