Well, if I only need to check my email on the go, then I'd buy a smartphone and carry it in my pocket. I wouldn't need to carry that bulky laptop with me just to check another batch of spam.
Yes, almost anyone buys things based on his need. All I mean is - don't compare sedan to a truck, if all you need is a sedan.
Are you seriously comparing Intel Celeron based $200 laptop against Core 2 Duo based $800-1000 Sony laptop? I think with the same specs Sony (and any other brand) laptop would cost $200 or less. i think people are eager to compare apples to oranges, if the latter runs linux. Sony Vaio also runs Linux, although much faster than Eee.
The main reason for securing the browsers is to protect the users from malicious software coming from the server side. I'm not sure your online banking site is going to inject an adware or a trojan through a vulnerability in your browser. I'm pretty sure that the SSL/TLS implementation is secure enough on all the popular browsers - IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari - which is OK for online banking.
If you're using an insecure browser for "ordinary" browsing expect to have your PC filled with adware, trojans, trojan downloaders, keyloggers and the rest of the family. Then you switch to your "more prudish" browser and feed your banking data to the keyloggers & trojans downloaded with the insecure browser.
I regularly check the public blacklists for the IP of my server, it's not there (I might as well be very lucky).
When I had problems with the backscatter spam a couple of years ago, applying netqmail patches didn't help. I fixed the problem by employing mailfront and checking if the recipient exists in vmailmgr database.
qmail has been running on my mail server for 5 years without a single crash or need to "fix the code". Maybe that's because it wasn't maintained and didn't grow into a bloated super mail server.
I have two ADSL lines from two different ISPs at the office and one beats another on various pages. Why? Completely different routing, bandwidth sharing policy, squid caching policy, packet loss, etc. There are so many variables, that simple loading a page through different ISPs and counting seconds doesn't make a benchmark of the channel between you and the carrier. Try loading something from the carrier's internal network, both through EDGE and 3G. That'll make it somewhat closer to reality.
Apple has already issued nice "Original iPod" stickers for those of you who paid much more back in 70s... very classy, black on black, made of high quality plastic... Apple loves you too.
that's what i hate about python - when you do a major upgrade, most of the older python scripts cease to work. that creates a bigger problem in redhat linux es, where most of the system administration tools are written in python. the language itself might be great, but the administration/maintenance is a pain in the neck.
so, microsoft is not competing, it's just buying off major open-source figures. and it's not funny. a "duopoly" basically means to become partners and play by the same rules.
unfortunately, this is not the case in the real world. you spend time writing a pure XHTML+CSS but:
1. The client wants eye-candy effects, look&feel or page design which cannot be implemented with pure XHTML+CSS. do some workarounds.
2. One of the popular browsers does not support one or more CSS selectors, do some workarounds (more often)
so, unless the browsers stop interpreting the standards their own way, it's easier to come up with a quick & dirty HTML markup with tables and stuff, which will work and look as needed. the web browsers currently are too permissive - they try hard to render a lot of broken HTML+CSS which is spoiling. because they need to sell, need to dominate the market. make them all restrictive and people will start optimizing/rebuilding their pages.
The most important thing is the time between you pressing a key and the changed game state being reflected on your screen and how consistent that delay is.
afaik, physics/ai/movement is always linked to FPS. the better your FPS, the more responsive is the game.
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Well, if I only need to check my email on the go, then I'd buy a smartphone and carry it in my pocket. I wouldn't need to carry that bulky laptop with me just to check another batch of spam. Yes, almost anyone buys things based on his need. All I mean is - don't compare sedan to a truck, if all you need is a sedan.
Are you seriously comparing Intel Celeron based $200 laptop against Core 2 Duo based $800-1000 Sony laptop? I think with the same specs Sony (and any other brand) laptop would cost $200 or less. i think people are eager to compare apples to oranges, if the latter runs linux. Sony Vaio also runs Linux, although much faster than Eee.
The main reason for securing the browsers is to protect the users from malicious software coming from the server side. I'm not sure your online banking site is going to inject an adware or a trojan through a vulnerability in your browser. I'm pretty sure that the SSL/TLS implementation is secure enough on all the popular browsers - IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari - which is OK for online banking. If you're using an insecure browser for "ordinary" browsing expect to have your PC filled with adware, trojans, trojan downloaders, keyloggers and the rest of the family. Then you switch to your "more prudish" browser and feed your banking data to the keyloggers & trojans downloaded with the insecure browser.
I regularly check the public blacklists for the IP of my server, it's not there (I might as well be very lucky). When I had problems with the backscatter spam a couple of years ago, applying netqmail patches didn't help. I fixed the problem by employing mailfront and checking if the recipient exists in vmailmgr database.
qmail has been running on my mail server for 5 years without a single crash or need to "fix the code". Maybe that's because it wasn't maintained and didn't grow into a bloated super mail server.
I have two ADSL lines from two different ISPs at the office and one beats another on various pages. Why? Completely different routing, bandwidth sharing policy, squid caching policy, packet loss, etc. There are so many variables, that simple loading a page through different ISPs and counting seconds doesn't make a benchmark of the channel between you and the carrier. Try loading something from the carrier's internal network, both through EDGE and 3G. That'll make it somewhat closer to reality.
Isn't Dell paying Microsoft for every non-Windows based PC it sells?
...everyone spies on you.
More credible benchmarks from Anandtech: http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=3099&p=1 Harpertown is the clear leader in performance. Barcelona leads the performance/watt bencmarks.
Apple has already issued nice "Original iPod" stickers for those of you who paid much more back in 70s... very classy, black on black, made of high quality plastic... Apple loves you too.
that's what i hate about python - when you do a major upgrade, most of the older python scripts cease to work. that creates a bigger problem in redhat linux es, where most of the system administration tools are written in python. the language itself might be great, but the administration/maintenance is a pain in the neck.
the start of the Big Bubble Burst? (panicking)
so, microsoft is not competing, it's just buying off major open-source figures. and it's not funny. a "duopoly" basically means to become partners and play by the same rules.
unfortunately, this is not the case in the real world. you spend time writing a pure XHTML+CSS but: 1. The client wants eye-candy effects, look&feel or page design which cannot be implemented with pure XHTML+CSS. do some workarounds. 2. One of the popular browsers does not support one or more CSS selectors, do some workarounds (more often) so, unless the browsers stop interpreting the standards their own way, it's easier to come up with a quick & dirty HTML markup with tables and stuff, which will work and look as needed. the web browsers currently are too permissive - they try hard to render a lot of broken HTML+CSS which is spoiling. because they need to sell, need to dominate the market. make them all restrictive and people will start optimizing/rebuilding their pages.
or surrounded both by ultrasmart and ultrastupid people