If the ice pack is indeed thinning "Profoundly" there should be other noticeable effects. I chalk this one up to sensationalist summary, not sensationalist comments.
I figure they just picked a number arbitrarily that isn't completely unreasonable. Probably a little on the high side, but I still think it is believable.
I don't think they could replace trident since other things depend on that, but I'm stilll surprised they were able to do this at all. In my readings of the IE add-on they provide a much more restrictive model than say Firefox where you they extensions patch the browser at runtime however they feel like it.
Its not that simple. You also get vulnerabilities added at the interface between chrome and IE 8, since what the chrome frame is doing is highly invasive.
p.s. they are not actually using the ribbon, they are removing things seldom used from taking up so much space. I can't remember the last time I used the file, view, edit, or history menus in firefox, but they are always there, taking up space. This is about re-organizing the browser menu to be more minimalistic. If you look at the mockups what they have is nothing like the ribbon.
That's like saying predictive behavior in lemmings is a bad thing, because the experience of watching all of them jump off the cliff because one did is more preferrable...
Ah the old yank the power cord. Also known as the typical AOL users fix all. Please note that different programs have different interfaces. Yes you will have to learn to click different buttons to do the same things you're used to. Also known as USE YOUR FUCKING BRAIN.
He stated a legitimate use case. Just because the DE is to stupid to not forkbomb itself trying to comply is no excuse. Firefox warns you when opening a ton of tabs might strain your computer to hard, why can't the shell.
You forgot WMP and Media Center, which are kind of a big deal for people who use their computer for entertainment. Also, OEMs can install flash (even the Dell specific Ubuntu builds to this), so that is a big chunk of internet entertainment browsing as well.
So, basically, an out of the box experience for Windows allows leisure activities. Can the same be said of Ubuntu?
I count this as a tie. Windows can do basic entertainment out of the box. Linux can do productivity.
How much of that is download time? Microsoft has the fact going for it that if you are upgrading, you already have everything you need locally on the dvd. I would be interested to see what would happen performing an upgrade from a locally mirrored repository on a fast lan or from a cd (not sure if that is even possible with ubuntu).
You don't have a problem when you have powers of focus greater than a mental midget and an easy going attitude. Sure, its harsh, but its really not that hard to tune out the ads. The only ones that bug me are the pop-overs with floating boxes that you generally can't do anything about. They displease me, so I don't go to those sites. Amusingly, the only times I ever see ads such as those are when following links from slashdot.
So, here is the question. If you have 3 screens, why on earth are you maximizing?! Seriously, because I dream of nothing more than to have to turn my head a full 90 degrees in order to read a full line of text.
The advantage of a stable api is that even though the drivers may be crappy blobs that get no support from the parent company I'm still convinced the parent company is more likely to fork over engineers for the driver in the first place. If a company (for whatever reason) is unwilling to merge a driver into the mainline, the would probably see a stable ABI as a chance to write a driver once and then not have to worry about maintaining it aside from bug fixes. With a moving target of an ABI, companies probably see maintaining a linux driver as a continue expenditure.
By some (admittedly conspiracy theorist nuts) there are several fields on/near alaska besides ANWR that could sustain all of America at 2000 consumption levels for 100 years. Clearly not sustainable, but that would definitely buy us plenty of time to make the transition. I always thought it makes more sense to have a long term plan about it. Drill for oil and then slowly ratched up a tax on it to fund investement in other energy sources and de-incentivize its use. If you have 50 - 100 years, the price increases aren't going to be painful for the average consumer and there should be plenty of people working on alternatives since everyone knows whats coming. Unfortunately, that is probably too long for the US gov't to make plans by a factor of about 50/4 (6 or 8).
My undergrad cs department was effectively entirely OS X. The used to use Fedora but apparently switched a few years before I matriculated due to the simplicity of administering OS X. Not that they claimed OS X was easier to administer, but the chemistry department apparently had a lab full of Macs for some chemical analysis package and by switching to Macs they got Unix and got neat things like Xgrid to play with as an added bonus.
Really, the rest of us know that copying a car key is easy. Hell you don't even need a copy if you can pick the lock. I could only hope for DRM schemes that pathetically weak...
IE 8's multiprocess architecture hurt its tab opening responsiveness. Most of the plugins apparently have to be reloaded for each tab and some of them take forever. I discovered that if I turned off some stuff like Macfee scriptproxy and Java SSV helper, I could make new tabs open.5 sec. Still, if Chrome can do it fast, I have no clue why IE 8 can't do just as well.
Because Apple is all about the integrated slick experience. If they don't think you will always have a slick experience running on slower machines they don't want to risk the PR hit for "not working out of the box" when people try it anyway and it sucks for certain use cases.
Perhaps is more a corporate mindset. There is much more room for improvement if your goal is to be the best as opposed to being better than someone else.
Wow, that one flew right over your head. I didn't say we shouldn't do anything to prevent global warming. I'm just saying we can't solve everything at once, maybe we should focus on the things that are destroying ecosystems now.
In the meantime, feel free to continue spewing baseless vitriol at anyone who doesn't fit nicely into your worldview. I'm sure that will do wonders to win over the conservolibertarian little girls, although, taken literally, that's a pretty small demographic.
I'm just angry that everyone is so damn caught up with climate change. There are other problems that exist now like heavy metal buildup in the food chain and red tides. Maybe we should worry about things that are having environmental effects here and now as opposed to things that may have effects at some unspecified time in the future.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say they re-used the license that was initially written with higher-level languages in mind. It prohibits 2 things they wanted to prohibit and prohibits a 3rd action that isn't possible. Why mess with a license that already says what you want.
Even if she doesn't know who it is, libel is still libel. However, considering how low traffic the blog supposedly is, I'm surprised she was away of the statements at all.
UAC does sit in the background until dealt with if you change focus and pops up a Notification Request on its window. This was the standard behavior in Vista. I don't know why you are bringing up sudo as an example of security done right what with it remembering passwords by default for a specified amount of time and odd kludges like cookies needed to make it work in X sessions. Even Linux is moving towards policykit for authentication and os x, which also has sudo btw doesn't actually ever use it. In fact, the only time I've ever seen sudo used on os x was for messing with fink.
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If the ice pack is indeed thinning "Profoundly" there should be other noticeable effects. I chalk this one up to sensationalist summary, not sensationalist comments.
I figure they just picked a number arbitrarily that isn't completely unreasonable. Probably a little on the high side, but I still think it is believable.
I don't think they could replace trident since other things depend on that, but I'm stilll surprised they were able to do this at all. In my readings of the IE add-on they provide a much more restrictive model than say Firefox where you they extensions patch the browser at runtime however they feel like it.
Its not that simple. You also get vulnerabilities added at the interface between chrome and IE 8, since what the chrome frame is doing is highly invasive.
p.s. they are not actually using the ribbon, they are removing things seldom used from taking up so much space. I can't remember the last time I used the file, view, edit, or history menus in firefox, but they are always there, taking up space. This is about re-organizing the browser menu to be more minimalistic. If you look at the mockups what they have is nothing like the ribbon.
That's like saying predictive behavior in lemmings is a bad thing, because the experience of watching all of them jump off the cliff because one did is more preferrable...
Ah the old yank the power cord. Also known as the typical AOL users fix all. Please note that different programs have different interfaces. Yes you will have to learn to click different buttons to do the same things you're used to. Also known as USE YOUR FUCKING BRAIN.
He stated a legitimate use case. Just because the DE is to stupid to not forkbomb itself trying to comply is no excuse. Firefox warns you when opening a ton of tabs might strain your computer to hard, why can't the shell.
You forgot WMP and Media Center, which are kind of a big deal for people who use their computer for entertainment. Also, OEMs can install flash (even the Dell specific Ubuntu builds to this), so that is a big chunk of internet entertainment browsing as well.
So, basically, an out of the box experience for Windows allows leisure activities. Can the same be said of Ubuntu? I count this as a tie. Windows can do basic entertainment out of the box. Linux can do productivity.
How much of that is download time? Microsoft has the fact going for it that if you are upgrading, you already have everything you need locally on the dvd. I would be interested to see what would happen performing an upgrade from a locally mirrored repository on a fast lan or from a cd (not sure if that is even possible with ubuntu).
You don't have a problem when you have powers of focus greater than a mental midget and an easy going attitude. Sure, its harsh, but its really not that hard to tune out the ads. The only ones that bug me are the pop-overs with floating boxes that you generally can't do anything about. They displease me, so I don't go to those sites. Amusingly, the only times I ever see ads such as those are when following links from slashdot.
Well they are obviously pretty sure they can do it, or they wouldn't try.
So, here is the question. If you have 3 screens, why on earth are you maximizing?! Seriously, because I dream of nothing more than to have to turn my head a full 90 degrees in order to read a full line of text.
The advantage of a stable api is that even though the drivers may be crappy blobs that get no support from the parent company I'm still convinced the parent company is more likely to fork over engineers for the driver in the first place. If a company (for whatever reason) is unwilling to merge a driver into the mainline, the would probably see a stable ABI as a chance to write a driver once and then not have to worry about maintaining it aside from bug fixes. With a moving target of an ABI, companies probably see maintaining a linux driver as a continue expenditure.
By some (admittedly conspiracy theorist nuts) there are several fields on/near alaska besides ANWR that could sustain all of America at 2000 consumption levels for 100 years. Clearly not sustainable, but that would definitely buy us plenty of time to make the transition. I always thought it makes more sense to have a long term plan about it. Drill for oil and then slowly ratched up a tax on it to fund investement in other energy sources and de-incentivize its use. If you have 50 - 100 years, the price increases aren't going to be painful for the average consumer and there should be plenty of people working on alternatives since everyone knows whats coming. Unfortunately, that is probably too long for the US gov't to make plans by a factor of about 50/4 (6 or 8).
My undergrad cs department was effectively entirely OS X. The used to use Fedora but apparently switched a few years before I matriculated due to the simplicity of administering OS X. Not that they claimed OS X was easier to administer, but the chemistry department apparently had a lab full of Macs for some chemical analysis package and by switching to Macs they got Unix and got neat things like Xgrid to play with as an added bonus.
Really, the rest of us know that copying a car key is easy. Hell you don't even need a copy if you can pick the lock. I could only hope for DRM schemes that pathetically weak...
IE 8's multiprocess architecture hurt its tab opening responsiveness. Most of the plugins apparently have to be reloaded for each tab and some of them take forever. I discovered that if I turned off some stuff like Macfee scriptproxy and Java SSV helper, I could make new tabs open .5 sec. Still, if Chrome can do it fast, I have no clue why IE 8 can't do just as well.
Because Apple is all about the integrated slick experience. If they don't think you will always have a slick experience running on slower machines they don't want to risk the PR hit for "not working out of the box" when people try it anyway and it sucks for certain use cases.
Perhaps is more a corporate mindset. There is much more room for improvement if your goal is to be the best as opposed to being better than someone else.
Wow, that one flew right over your head. I didn't say we shouldn't do anything to prevent global warming. I'm just saying we can't solve everything at once, maybe we should focus on the things that are destroying ecosystems now.
In the meantime, feel free to continue spewing baseless vitriol at anyone who doesn't fit nicely into your worldview. I'm sure that will do wonders to win over the conservolibertarian little girls, although, taken literally, that's a pretty small demographic.
I'm just angry that everyone is so damn caught up with climate change. There are other problems that exist now like heavy metal buildup in the food chain and red tides. Maybe we should worry about things that are having environmental effects here and now as opposed to things that may have effects at some unspecified time in the future.
All I have to say is...
Strawman FTW!
I think there are some New Hampshire(? somewhere up there) firefighter's who might disagree with you, and a judge who took their side.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say they re-used the license that was initially written with higher-level languages in mind. It prohibits 2 things they wanted to prohibit and prohibits a 3rd action that isn't possible. Why mess with a license that already says what you want.
Even if she doesn't know who it is, libel is still libel. However, considering how low traffic the blog supposedly is, I'm surprised she was away of the statements at all.
UAC does sit in the background until dealt with if you change focus and pops up a Notification Request on its window. This was the standard behavior in Vista. I don't know why you are bringing up sudo as an example of security done right what with it remembering passwords by default for a specified amount of time and odd kludges like cookies needed to make it work in X sessions. Even Linux is moving towards policykit for authentication and os x, which also has sudo btw doesn't actually ever use it. In fact, the only time I've ever seen sudo used on os x was for messing with fink.