It wasn't broken for a subset of Windows users. It may have been broken for another subset and - in accordance with Vista's focus on Multimedia - fixed for those users (which creates a disadvantage for the former subset, but since Microsoft's main target audience (I'd guess something like "Joe Average and Business/Enterprise Customers") won't notice and/or care about.
This reminds me of the "half-open tcp connection limit" problems in XPSP2. A problem for some users (I think back then it was about security concerns) is "fixed" only to become a problem for another (smaller, less significant) group of users.
I can only guess here, but I'd say it does so to make really, really sure not to negatively effect Vista's multimedia functions - even at the cost of network performance. Joe Average doesn't care about his 3 mbps dsl link being limited by vista to 12 mbps, he probably wont even notice it during operations on the local network. However, if his mp3s or movies skip, he WILL notice and he WILL be annoyed.
Google caches only the page itself, without changing anything in there (except for the "You're looking at this page thru the Google Cache" box and the text highlight). If the original server's down or has changed it's directory structure, you'll usually get to see a plain, css-less, image-less, (external-)script-less hunk of text and tables. If it has changed the contents but not names of files, you'll see the new ones.
Bush has never accused members of the government of being terrorists.
Dude would you please stop being so mean to George? It's pretty obvious he's not too much of a good reader/pronouncer and putting TWO ten-letter words into ONE sentence would be a bit too much, don't you think?
Great, that may just be the reason why Opera on Windows allows you to seamlessy drag tabs out of the main window (and get 'em back in there by using Ctrl + Z while focusing the main window).
I hope that I've gotten this really, really wrong. After reading the article I seem have read something like...
Problem: 75% of downloaders don't use Firefox due to lack of quality, not liking it, unusefulness, whatever.
Solution: Ads. Change Firefox Icon's label. Hide other Apps' Icons. Nag user to make Fx default browser. Change start page. Make the web feel more human (by using a windows-style alt-tab menu...)
The first thing I did after reading the linked mozwiki page was check if I was reading theonion.com (Apparently not, but it really looks like real life satire). I may not be too good with marketing, but if I was selling product X and would get 75% of my sales returned because the buyers thought they sucked, I'd probably think about improving my product, not advertise more or package it nicer (they don't use it because they don't like the product, not the packaging).
Here in Australia, at least, it is quite common for banks to use Java [...]
Dude, get yourself a swiss bank account. Out of the 4 banks I tried, none used any Java/Flash/ActiveX/whatever but just simple [X]HTML + JavaScript over HTTPS.
If by "Dinosaur" you mean quick, lightweight and small animals like those raptors(?) in the opening sequence of Jurassic Park III, I agree to the AKA...:p
I didn't say it "destroys" three or four times the energy it consumes, I said it "pumps" that amount of energy from one end point to another.
If the temperature outside is higher than inside, using an air conditioner to heat your home makes perfect sense, but I don't think it's very probable that the desire to heat your home coincides with that condition.
...what about calling it "Phoenix"?
During the first few major version bumps they could rename it to Firebird and later on (after renaming the current FireFox to FireDog -> FireHorse -> FireElephant -> FireWhale) to FireFox which would be the starting point of a brand new idea: Phoenix - a completely new, never been-there browsing experience with less of (the new) FireFox's bloat, memory leaks and everything.
Firefox 1.0 used quite a bit of memory The latest version eats up hundreds of Megabytes just for fun. Opera uses less memory than firefox. IE7 uses less memory than firefox. Safari uses less memory than firefox.
Firefox is at the huge-ass-memory-footprint end of current web browsers. It has grown by hundreds of memory leaks in the past three years. To put that in perspective, none of the other major browsers has worsened so bad in the same period.
There's an agenda here, and it's not understanding what TFS is about. Somebody (ozmanjusri) wants to distract from Firefox's bloated memory usage when it's clearly there. The whole thing stinks of not even reading TFS.
Yeah, you'd just keep a del.icio.us tab open at all times to... wait, no tabs. So you'd just open up a del.icio.us window whenever you feel like adding something to your bookmarks. Thanks to your nice broadband connection adding a bookmark won't take half a minute -- except that if you're still running a computer too slow for firefox, you probably won't have broadband.
But I really like the whole idea - actually they could just transform Firefox to Firefox Lite and we'd be ridded of the whole Firefox hype in a matter of weeks.
The AMD system will be obsolete before you realize any "cost savings".
You sir are so wrong.
After a mere 24 years*, the additional cost for the more expensive AMD will already be absorbed by the huge amount of saved power. Additionally, at the end of the 24th year, you'll have saved up another $43 towards the purchase of your next server. Oh and the nicest thing about it: the 8222 will be almost as old as the 80386 is now - and Intel is still producing more of those!
Unfortunately for AMD, you could also do it the other way round - buy Intel, save $1298, invest those savings at an average 5%, pay off $56 per year and end up with $1694 at the end of year 24...
* = Assuming average direct savings of $28 plus air conditioning costs of another $28 p.a.
Most of this does sound pretty logical to me, however you make one point I don't understand at all...
for every watt of power , which ends up heat, we have to expend at least 1.5 watts, on air conditioning.
To my (somewhat limited) knowledge, an Airconditioner should cool about three to four times as much energy as it uses up (Wikipedia says a SEER-13 aircon (which is the minimum level for newly installed air conditioners in the U.S.) ought to pump "3.43 units of heat energy [...] per unit of work energy".). Even if this isn't the case and it'd only pump twice the heat energy it uses up, that would still be a $64 difference to your calculations.
Did I get something wrong or just calculate with horribly over-efficient air conditioning?
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It wasn't broken for a subset of Windows users. It may have been broken for another subset and - in accordance with Vista's focus on Multimedia - fixed for those users (which creates a disadvantage for the former subset, but since Microsoft's main target audience (I'd guess something like "Joe Average and Business/Enterprise Customers") won't notice and/or care about.
This reminds me of the "half-open tcp connection limit" problems in XPSP2. A problem for some users (I think back then it was about security concerns) is "fixed" only to become a problem for another (smaller, less significant) group of users.
Google caches only the page itself, without changing anything in there (except for the "You're looking at this page thru the Google Cache" box and the text highlight). If the original server's down or has changed it's directory structure, you'll usually get to see a plain, css-less, image-less, (external-)script-less hunk of text and tables. If it has changed the contents but not names of files, you'll see the new ones.
...and in office. Just like Prezeldent Bush who was definitely elected and re-elected by the majority of the U.S. population.
I, for one, welcome your new E-Mail sending chinese red communist seagate lenovo overlords.
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo1973 :)
have fun
Great, that may just be the reason why Opera on Windows allows you to seamlessy drag tabs out of the main window (and get 'em back in there by using Ctrl + Z while focusing the main window).
I hope that I've gotten this really, really wrong. After reading the article I seem have read something like...
Problem: 75% of downloaders don't use Firefox due to lack of quality, not liking it, unusefulness, whatever.
Solution: Ads. Change Firefox Icon's label. Hide other Apps' Icons. Nag user to make Fx default browser. Change start page. Make the web feel more human (by using a windows-style alt-tab menu...)
The first thing I did after reading the linked mozwiki page was check if I was reading theonion.com (Apparently not, but it really looks like real life satire). I may not be too good with marketing, but if I was selling product X and would get 75% of my sales returned because the buyers thought they sucked, I'd probably think about improving my product, not advertise more or package it nicer (they don't use it because they don't like the product, not the packaging).
In conclusion: wtf?
I haven't used a ~250 mW DVD laser yet, but using my ~100 mW laser, killing a fly took quite a long time. It started smoking, too.
You can run it on devices /with/ actual buttons so you /have/ tactile feedback?
Um could you point me to whatever Blackberry has a touchscreen or isn't able to process more than one simultaneously pressed key?
45 Patents you say? So that's why they call it RJ-45!
If by "Dinosaur" you mean quick, lightweight and small animals like those raptors(?) in the opening sequence of Jurassic Park III, I agree to the AKA... :p
I didn't say it "destroys" three or four times the energy it consumes, I said it "pumps" that amount of energy from one end point to another.
If the temperature outside is higher than inside, using an air conditioner to heat your home makes perfect sense, but I don't think it's very probable that the desire to heat your home coincides with that condition.
...what about calling it "Phoenix"?
During the first few major version bumps they could rename it to Firebird and later on (after renaming the current FireFox to FireDog -> FireHorse -> FireElephant -> FireWhale) to FireFox which would be the starting point of a brand new idea: Phoenix - a completely new, never been-there browsing experience with less of (the new) FireFox's bloat, memory leaks and everything.
Your whole comment is wrong.
Firefox 1.0 used quite a bit of memory
The latest version eats up hundreds of Megabytes just for fun.
Opera uses less memory than firefox.
IE7 uses less memory than firefox.
Safari uses less memory than firefox.
Firefox is at the huge-ass-memory-footprint end of current web browsers. It has grown by hundreds of memory leaks in the past three years. To put that in perspective, none of the other major browsers has worsened so bad in the same period.
There's an agenda here, and it's not understanding what TFS is about. Somebody (ozmanjusri) wants to distract from Firefox's bloated memory usage when it's clearly there. The whole thing stinks of not even reading TFS.
Yeah, you'd just keep a del.icio.us tab open at all times to... wait, no tabs. So you'd just open up a del.icio.us window whenever you feel like adding something to your bookmarks. Thanks to your nice broadband connection adding a bookmark won't take half a minute -- except that if you're still running a computer too slow for firefox, you probably won't have broadband.
But I really like the whole idea - actually they could just transform Firefox to Firefox Lite and we'd be ridded of the whole Firefox hype in a matter of weeks.
If he had just one iPod, he'd be an expert.
I'm sure he has an iPod and a Zune!
We'll get to that in 6 more years with Service Pack 7 of (Windows) 9 :D
Unfortunately for AMD, you could also do it the other way round - buy Intel, save $1298, invest those savings at an average 5%, pay off $56 per year and end up with $1694 at the end of year 24...
* = Assuming average direct savings of $28 plus air conditioning costs of another $28 p.a.
Did I get something wrong or just calculate with horribly over-efficient air conditioning?
Slashdotters measuring their porn collection in GB? Either you spelled TB wrong or must be new here.
(I checked and apparently may use this meme even if my user id is higher than his.)