No one is playing the holy wars game here. However, us Mac users and/. readers, are blaming this on a developer recently hired by Apple, on compassionate ground to support the developer and his family. Rumors have it that this developer used to work for MS, on the Windows.
... or any other single individual for that matter.
If so, then wouldn't one argue that the Abacuses created billions of jobs? How about the person(s) who invention the wheel -- didn't that create zillions and zillions of jobs?
When well we stop giving needless and total credit to one individual who merely happens to be at the right place at the right time. McNealy would not have been successful if many, and many, and many other individuals didn't do their parts directly or indirectly their part -- they too must be singled out if McNealy is.
I don't know what this guy is trying to show with what he wrote! If he decided to switch, fine, welcome and hope to see him contributing to FireFox, but if he is going to write about his "switch" with out real subsistent, I don't want to know about it.
His first 3 points in "Why I switched", he compares IE 5.0 to a FireFox (don't know which version of FF, but we can assume latest) -- is this a good comparison that add value to his readers? IE 5.0 is history; why not compare IE 6/7. Point #4 is just a complement about FireFox so it's value less. Point #5 is about IE's security holes -- but which version of IE is he talking about? The latest IE (when confirmed correctly) is as secure as FireFox.
After this, I didn't bother to read his "Problems with FireFox."
If this is study is correct, then India should be an all male county (think software, etc.) and the US an all female county (think health care, etc), no?!
1) IBM is NOT a product company. I.e.: they are a solution company.
2) IBM targets its bottom line like no other tech. company does. I.e.: they will kill anything that doesn't translated to $$$ and start things that do.
If tomorrow IBM sees less value in Linux, they will drop it too. If they see value in.NET they will pick it up in no time. Thus, this is why they are a successful company.
While Bonde may have the coolest gadgets of them all, the best are those used in the movie: "The Sum of All Fears" where our hero's c-phone and PDA just keeps on working fine in the middle of a radioactive explosion. Can Bonde beat that? I think not -- he is British not an American. Go figure.
After the buttons on a mouse, I find the mouse-wheel to be the most attractive and useful feature. Just think how much you save yourself by using the wheel to scroll up/down in your application and keep the arrow focused on the screen not to mention, using one finger.
You can take away all mouse-gestures and I won't complain, but I will get mad as hell if you give me a mouse without a wheel.
If you look deep into the installation of Lindows (striped down version of any major Linux distribution, running as root, etc.) you will see that it compares to Windows 3.1
Most consumers will think twice before buying one. I can see Joe consmer thinking: "Why is it so cheap? It must be junk. I am getting a Dell". Think about it, a decent Dell with Windows XP (which has a lot more functionality then Lindows does, multimedia, et. al.) is only few hundred $$ more then a Lindows box.
I have a Dell lattitude C600 with 512 Mb RAM and an 850 MHz PIII mobile processor. It runs a highly tweaked Win 98 version. I also have a TiBook with an 800 MHz G4 and 512 Mb RAM running OS X 10.2 (Jaguar). Let me say that the TiBook is MUCH more responsive.
Why of course. But have you tried Windows 2000/XP on your said Dell? You will see a BIG difference.
It's not fair to compare OSX or Linux to Win95/98/ME.
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No one is playing the holy wars game here. However, us Mac users and /. readers, are blaming this on a developer recently hired by Apple, on compassionate ground to support the developer and his family. Rumors have it that this developer used to work for MS, on the Windows.
This is an age old questions, was asked on /.s several times. Here is one from 2005: http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/01/2145223&tid=117&tid=98&tid=4
His research actually works! And the prof for it is this first post which was posted yesterday BEFORE this article showed up on /.
... Jar Jar? Please don't tell me *his* tears were Photoshopped too?!!!
... the world has lunched a case against China's near-monopoly on copyright abuse, human rights, cheap label, ...
... or any other single individual for that matter.
If so, then wouldn't one argue that the Abacuses created billions of jobs? How about the person(s) who invention the wheel -- didn't that create zillions and zillions of jobs?
When well we stop giving needless and total credit to one individual who merely happens to be at the right place at the right time. McNealy would not have been successful if many, and many, and many other individuals didn't do their parts directly or indirectly their part -- they too must be singled out if McNealy is.
-- George
New headline: "What is your age"
I don't know what this guy is trying to show with what he wrote! If he decided to switch, fine, welcome and hope to see him contributing to FireFox, but if he is going to write about his "switch" with out real subsistent, I don't want to know about it.
His first 3 points in "Why I switched", he compares IE 5.0 to a FireFox (don't know which version of FF, but we can assume latest) -- is this a good comparison that add value to his readers? IE 5.0 is history; why not compare IE 6/7. Point #4 is just a complement about FireFox so it's value less. Point #5 is about IE's security holes -- but which version of IE is he talking about? The latest IE (when confirmed correctly) is as secure as FireFox.
After this, I didn't bother to read his "Problems with FireFox."
If this is study is correct, then India should be an all male county (think software, etc.) and the US an all female county (think health care, etc), no?!
Title: "Are Mac Users Smarter than PC Users?" ....'"
Subject body: "arminw writes 'Maybe not smarter, but according
Now *THAT* is one heck of an eye catching, provocative way of getting your attention to read this smarty thing.
Hey arminw, did you consider working for a newspaper?
So for those who are /. subscribers, will they see the next design of he t-shirt before everyone else?
This is one of the best books I read in a while about .Net To give you some insight download and read
C# Coding Standard by Juval Lowy
... a full size remote control girlfriend for geeks.
With controls over our lives with MS's Home of Tomorrow -- all that you need to do is stay over at a hospital.
I said this before many times about IBM ...
.NET they will pick it up in no time. Thus, this is why they are a successful company.
1) IBM is NOT a product company. I.e.: they are a solution company.
2) IBM targets its bottom line like no other tech. company does. I.e.: they will kill anything that doesn't translated to $$$ and start things that do.
If tomorrow IBM sees less value in Linux, they will drop it too. If they see value in
While Bonde may have the coolest gadgets of them all, the best are those used in the movie: "The Sum of All Fears" where our hero's c-phone and PDA just keeps on working fine in the middle of a radioactive explosion. Can Bonde beat that? I think not -- he is British not an American. Go figure.
"Here are the links to the as-yet-unreleased judgement..."
/. editors can now claim a first-post themselves.
Wow! This puts a whole new meaning to "first-post".
The title is totaly wrong for this story. It need to change to: "Being interupted 24x7 Could Cost More".
Oh.. wait.. never mind, the page loaded.
/. effect. Go figure.
Nop. It has been Stealth'ed with a simple technology as
After the buttons on a mouse, I find the mouse-wheel to be the most attractive and useful feature. Just think how much you save yourself by using the wheel to scroll up/down in your application and keep the arrow focused on the screen not to mention, using one finger.
You can take away all mouse-gestures and I won't complain, but I will get mad as hell if you give me a mouse without a wheel.
My three advices
/. effect than make sure you put that down on your resume.
/. team: next time you may want to send a friendly reminder to the site that is about to be /. so that they can prepare.
Speaking of advices, here are mines:
1) Advice to IT people: if you can build me a website that can handle a
2) Advice to SAGEWire IT people: your website site needs some tune up.
3) Advice to Hemos and
If you look deep into the installation of Lindows (striped down version of any major Linux distribution, running as root, etc.) you will see that it compares to Windows 3.1
Most consumers will think twice before buying one. I can see Joe consmer thinking: "Why is it so cheap? It must be junk. I am getting a Dell". Think about it, a decent Dell with Windows XP (which has a lot more functionality then Lindows does, multimedia, et. al.) is only few hundred $$ more then a Lindows box.
I have a Dell lattitude C600 with 512 Mb RAM and an 850 MHz PIII mobile processor. It runs a highly tweaked Win 98 version. I also have a TiBook with an 800 MHz G4 and 512 Mb RAM running OS X 10.2 (Jaguar). Let me say that the TiBook is MUCH more responsive.
Why of course. But have you tried Windows 2000/XP on your said Dell? You will see a BIG difference.
It's not fair to compare OSX or Linux to Win95/98/ME.
With 3 front page post about MS in a day on /. it is easy to see that /. has already stomped on MS.
It would be a killer show if T'Pol and/or Seven-of-Nine end up on Firefly with yet another time-travel story.
Imagine T'Pol and Seven-of-Nine teaching those early immature earthen how to handle space the right way.