A-frickin-men. I mean, why does Mozilla Foundation have such a push to PDA devices when Firefox/Thunderbird isn't exactly "perfect" yet for the desktop? There's lots of stuff that they can devote and focus on without worrying about devices that 95% of the populace dont use at all... as a personal anecdote: of the 100 people who were at our wedding reception, I'd say maybe 10 or so might own a PDA, and I'd bet only 2 or 3 of them actually use it even monthly... and this is in Silicon Valley! Seriously, MoFo struck gold with Firefox, and now they're going off into irrellevence with their quest for cutting edge again... why?
Personally, I feel that development of XUL into a premiere cross-platform development environment would be much more worthwhile (esp. since Firefox has so much recognition now) effort... the tools exist now, but the documentation and development environment just don't cut it yet.
Leave Opera alone to battle PocketIE in the PDA browser market... even Sony agrees that the PDA market is not worth their time. I'd honestly donate more knowing that my funds in Mozilla Foundation were going towards the right goal (maybe they could focus their donation efforts a la MandrakeClub?)
If I bought an IPod and bought a few albums through the music store, I'm pretty much stuck with my IPod unless I want to buy the music over again.
Sorry, this is a lame arguement. You should add "... and I am anal about not introducing artifacts into my purchased music..." or "... and I don't want to use Hymn to remove the protection". You see, you can always convert your AAC tracks into a CD/loseless and recompress the music into mp3/ogg/whatever, or just rip out the Fairplay protection and keep the music.
However, the argument that you're supportting still stands: iTMS really has no serious competitors... I wonder why no other players will team up their (good) player with a (good) site and at least make a good run at being 2nd in this market? I mean, almost all other pay-for-music services totally suck (except maybe allofmp3.com, but that's a whole 'nother story). Is there simply NOONE else out there with the guts and innovation enough to take on Apple? Jeez, it's not like they're Microsoft...
Seriously, I think this movie will rock, and the release timing is probably pretty good with the start of the pre-summer season (summer is too dominated by blockbusters and wanabees). The classic "science/tech is both good and evil" zen-type attitude is prevalent in this movie, as it was in other anime films, but I hope that it won't completely miss the average American moviegoer.
What does the platform the forum is built on have anything to do with whether or not it's "user friendly"?
One of the key marks of Usability is response speed (gmail's context switch speed as opposed to yahoo/hotmail is a good example). I can bet that the.NET is probably slower than ColdFusion, albeit easier to code for. However, we'll never know, since the GP post was so light on details (why does the usability suck?).
If everything will be back-ported to XP and Windows 2003, how does Microsoft plan to make any money off Longhorn, which has cost the company a lot in development time and money?
Simple... claim that Longhorn is *much* more secure (and actually deliver, by taking some advice and shutting off certain "features" in legacy windows). So if you *want* to keep using the insecure POS that is XP, sure go ahead... otherwise, pay up for Longhorn... oh, and btw, we have all these SW vendors that are releasing at the same time as we are!
to work on frickin Windows, when the MoFo has a hard time getting people to do work with sexy Firefox/Mozilla?
I think some things need to be funded, and if Mofo needs the cash, then Cashdot should be able to help out (maybe do a sidebar-fundraiser or something)... I'd pitch in a couple of bits for my fave browser! Hell make it a contest so people can win firefox/mozilla SWAG!
WiMAX has a theoretical bandwidth (warning: pdf, see pg 5) of about 4.5Mbps per 3.5Mhz channel (outdoors, range 15km)... so it will probably mean they utilize approximately 7 channels (= 31.5Mbps). Having 32Mbps per user would be an insane amount of bandwidth and channel usage. Of course it all depends on the details which are not provided...
If this does come into law, the easiest thing might be for ISPs to bundle a version of NetNanny or the like into its offering.
Sure, for ISPs, but what about (as the article talks about) wifi cafes? Should they give out free copies of netnanny to anyone who's browsing? Or should they have a netnanny installation (with a wholly seperate login server)?
I was sorta nodding along till you got to this flamebait statement:
... makes it impossible to remove Safari and difficult to use another browser...
Got any references? Who TF has problems using Firefox? or (shudder) Mac IE? Or Opera? My sister can use any browser on her iBook with very few problems... in fact to access certain sites, she needs Firefox (b/c Safari's CSS support isn't complete), and she's had no problems using what she needs to get her job done.
Frink: "You've got to listen to me. Elementary chaos theory tells us that all robots will eventually turn against their masters and run amok, in an orgy of blood and the kicking and the biting with the metal teeth and the hurting and shoving."
Scientist: "How much time do we have professor?"
Frink: Well, according to my calculations, the robots won't go berserk for at least 24 hours (all robots turn against the humans)...Oh. I forgot to carry the one.
At one time, Compaq, Dell, and even Microsoft could be expected to innovate. Just look at the original Armada. Visual Basic 3.0. the Pre-inspiron laptops. Ya, they weren't the best products ever, but they were very innovative, industry-changing ideas at the time.
And look how they were rewarded... when someone came out with something cheaper that had similar innovations, they stole the market. Thus the reward for innovation in a highly commoditized PC market is *much much* lower than for the Apple market. Thus it's reasonable why the PC market players have no motivation for innovation. However, it's not until now that they're paying the price for lack of innovation. We'll have to see if their response can keep people from moving away from the PC platform.
I hope you can return whatever ugly case you bought, because there are some pretty nice looking ones out there... you just have to look really really hard.
I've listed some prices of the things you specify below:
Cases:
Silverstone LC09 (Mini-ITX) prices Ahanix D4 prices Soldam Alphia (can't find prices on this one)
Most of these are not as cool looking as my Mac Mini, but then, you wouldn't be limited to 1.43GHz G4 and laptop hard drives.
As you can see, sure, you are limited to a selection of a fairly midgrade/slow processor + laptop hard drives, but this is what you need for a small, quiet, sexy box. Even VIA knows that.
BUT... even given that, the mini is a complete frickin bargain... at $150 for the case, or $350 for the barebones kit, you're still looking at about a $700+ job for a decently installed complete system that is tested and tuned.
The Birthday Boys claim that they are happy with the steady growth of their company, and expressed no regrets for their "once upon a time" decision to fund Google. "Competition is good," they said prior to the opening bell this morning."
Ballmer would get canned for saying something like this.
Slashdot rule #13: if the government does anything bad, make it degenerate into a republican/democrat mudslinging match.
This is bullshit. Of course, both sides are to blame, but it's pretty fucking clear based on TFA what the priorities of the current administration are. There are many hardworking people in the US government who just want to do their jobs well, but how can they with such PURE incompetence above them?
a small migration of my money, from US stocks, into MDKFF stock, came to prove to me, in time, that they also knew and know HOW to make money;)
Exactly. For those of you who are visually-oriented, A graph
I think Mandrakesoft knows it's core customers and treats them right. Connectiva could probably have found another bigger fish to latch onto, but probably not one so much inline with the core value of their customer base also.
Besides, why Chino, of all places... why not somewhere people might actually care to buy it, like say The People's Republic of Berkeley, of SF central?
i didnt know that there was a oregon / california feud! wow
It's probably because rich Californians go north to buy nice vacation real-estate in Oregon for (no pun intended) dirt cheap. The similar effect happens on a smaller scale with SF bay area residents moving out of the valley and tele/commuting into the valley... House prices skyrocket, and people who could afford to live there find it harder, and curse the rich bay area/californians.
Especially when a "relatively inexpensive" house in CA costs half a million.
House? Half a mil? are you serious? Where I am looking to move, you'd only get that if you happened to live right next to a landfill or toxic dump site. Take a look yourself. Just put a simple 2/1 HOUSE (ie, not condo/townhome) for $500... not much there.
You know, I read what that guy had to say... and I don't get one of the decisions made. If mixing languages and character sets causes such problems (as two sites having the same "look" but not being the same site)... simple things like phishing are tip of the iceberg. What happens when you have two legitimate sites that are vying for a popular "name", but one is IDN and the other is not? (ie, stupid example: ebay.com vs. ébay.com... some guy with that last name)?
I think the whole idea of a mixed character set is stupid and should be reconsidered. Sure, allow those who use cyrillic characters to use them... but FULLY. No western characters allowed in the string, so no namespace pollution. People aren't going to pay attention to a blinking site icon or some stupid thing. What is needed is to not allow pollution of the namespace by merging two seperate character sets when the need for that is totally bogus.
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A-frickin-men. I mean, why does Mozilla Foundation have such a push to PDA devices when Firefox/Thunderbird isn't exactly "perfect" yet for the desktop? There's lots of stuff that they can devote and focus on without worrying about devices that 95% of the populace dont use at all... as a personal anecdote: of the 100 people who were at our wedding reception, I'd say maybe 10 or so might own a PDA, and I'd bet only 2 or 3 of them actually use it even monthly... and this is in Silicon Valley! Seriously, MoFo struck gold with Firefox, and now they're going off into irrellevence with their quest for cutting edge again... why?
Personally, I feel that development of XUL into a premiere cross-platform development environment would be much more worthwhile (esp. since Firefox has so much recognition now) effort... the tools exist now, but the documentation and development environment just don't cut it yet.
Leave Opera alone to battle PocketIE in the PDA browser market... even Sony agrees that the PDA market is not worth their time. I'd honestly donate more knowing that my funds in Mozilla Foundation were going towards the right goal (maybe they could focus their donation efforts a la MandrakeClub?)
Sorry, this is a lame arguement. You should add "... and I am anal about not introducing artifacts into my purchased music..." or "... and I don't want to use Hymn to remove the protection". You see, you can always convert your AAC tracks into a CD/loseless and recompress the music into mp3/ogg/whatever, or just rip out the Fairplay protection and keep the music.
However, the argument that you're supportting still stands: iTMS really has no serious competitors... I wonder why no other players will team up their (good) player with a (good) site and at least make a good run at being 2nd in this market? I mean, almost all other pay-for-music services totally suck (except maybe allofmp3.com, but that's a whole 'nother story). Is there simply NOONE else out there with the guts and innovation enough to take on Apple? Jeez, it's not like they're Microsoft...
Seriously, I think this movie will rock, and the release timing is probably pretty good with the start of the pre-summer season (summer is too dominated by blockbusters and wanabees). The classic "science/tech is both good and evil" zen-type attitude is prevalent in this movie, as it was in other anime films, but I hope that it won't completely miss the average American moviegoer.
One of the key marks of Usability is response speed (gmail's context switch speed as opposed to yahoo/hotmail is a good example). I can bet that the .NET is probably slower than ColdFusion, albeit easier to code for. However, we'll never know, since the GP post was so light on details (why does the usability suck?).
Well, if
Simple... claim that Longhorn is *much* more secure (and actually deliver, by taking some advice and shutting off certain "features" in legacy windows). So if you *want* to keep using the insecure POS that is XP, sure go ahead... otherwise, pay up for Longhorn... oh, and btw, we have all these SW vendors that are releasing at the same time as we are!
is here. They talk about altivec on Page 3. IIRC, it's the best designed mass-market SIMD implementation there is out there.
I think some things need to be funded, and if Mofo needs the cash, then Cashdot should be able to help out (maybe do a sidebar-fundraiser or something)... I'd pitch in a couple of bits for my fave browser! Hell make it a contest so people can win firefox/mozilla SWAG!
WiMAX has a theoretical bandwidth (warning: pdf, see pg 5) of about 4.5Mbps per 3.5Mhz channel (outdoors, range 15km)... so it will probably mean they utilize approximately 7 channels (= 31.5Mbps). Having 32Mbps per user would be an insane amount of bandwidth and channel usage. Of course it all depends on the details which are not provided...
Sure, for ISPs, but what about (as the article talks about) wifi cafes? Should they give out free copies of netnanny to anyone who's browsing? Or should they have a netnanny installation (with a wholly seperate login server)?
Got any references? Who TF has problems using Firefox? or (shudder) Mac IE? Or Opera? My sister can use any browser on her iBook with very few problems... in fact to access certain sites, she needs Firefox (b/c Safari's CSS support isn't complete), and she's had no problems using what she needs to get her job done.
Frink: "You've got to listen to me. Elementary chaos theory tells us that all robots will eventually turn against their masters and run amok, in an orgy of blood and the kicking and the biting with the metal teeth and the hurting and shoving." ...Oh. I forgot to carry the one.
Scientist: "How much time do we have professor?"
Frink: Well, according to my calculations, the robots won't go berserk for at least 24 hours (all robots turn against the humans)
And look how they were rewarded... when someone came out with something cheaper that had similar innovations, they stole the market. Thus the reward for innovation in a highly commoditized PC market is *much much* lower than for the Apple market. Thus it's reasonable why the PC market players have no motivation for innovation. However, it's not until now that they're paying the price for lack of innovation. We'll have to see if their response can keep people from moving away from the PC platform.
I've listed some prices of the things you specify below:
Cases:
Silverstone LC09 (Mini-ITX) prices
Ahanix D4 prices
Soldam Alphia (can't find prices on this one)
Barebones:
Shuttle SB86i prices... look down
Complete PC:
Hush
Most of these are not as cool looking as my Mac Mini, but then, you wouldn't be limited to 1.43GHz G4 and laptop hard drives.
As you can see, sure, you are limited to a selection of a fairly midgrade/slow processor + laptop hard drives, but this is what you need for a small, quiet, sexy box. Even VIA knows that.
BUT... even given that, the mini is a complete frickin bargain... at $150 for the case, or $350 for the barebones kit, you're still looking at about a $700+ job for a decently installed complete system that is tested and tuned.
Ballmer would get canned for saying something like this.
This is bullshit. Of course, both sides are to blame, but it's pretty fucking clear based on TFA what the priorities of the current administration are. There are many hardworking people in the US government who just want to do their jobs well, but how can they with such PURE incompetence above them?
Exactly. For those of you who are visually-oriented, A graph
I think Mandrakesoft knows it's core customers and treats them right. Connectiva could probably have found another bigger fish to latch onto, but probably not one so much inline with the core value of their customer base also.
Hopefully it doesn't mean that if you drink it you won't be able to reproduce :-/
Actually, happens often in Florida... if the temperature is hot enough, you don't see the mist...
I always wondered when Floridites would evolve gills :-)
Besides, why Chino, of all places... why not somewhere people might actually care to buy it, like say The People's Republic of Berkeley, of SF central?
It's probably because rich Californians go north to buy nice vacation real-estate in Oregon for (no pun intended) dirt cheap. The similar effect happens on a smaller scale with SF bay area residents moving out of the valley and tele/commuting into the valley... House prices skyrocket, and people who could afford to live there find it harder, and curse the rich bay area/californians.
... namely that we should be treated like criminals? eh, I gotta talk to my state senator about this.
Are you serious? The avg life expectancy in the US is 77 years. That is, unless you're a rhesus momkey...
House? Half a mil? are you serious? Where I am looking to move, you'd only get that if you happened to live right next to a landfill or toxic dump site. Take a look yourself. Just put a simple 2/1 HOUSE (ie, not condo/townhome) for $500... not much there.
You know, I read what that guy had to say... and I don't get one of the decisions made. If mixing languages and character sets causes such problems (as two sites having the same "look" but not being the same site)... simple things like phishing are tip of the iceberg. What happens when you have two legitimate sites that are vying for a popular "name", but one is IDN and the other is not? (ie, stupid example: ebay.com vs. ébay.com... some guy with that last name)?
I think the whole idea of a mixed character set is stupid and should be reconsidered. Sure, allow those who use cyrillic characters to use them... but FULLY. No western characters allowed in the string, so no namespace pollution. People aren't going to pay attention to a blinking site icon or some stupid thing. What is needed is to not allow pollution of the namespace by merging two seperate character sets when the need for that is totally bogus.