The solar spectrum is not the most intense at the visible part of the spectrum, it's actually slightly more powerful in the infrared part of the spectrum. Infrared is what we should be doing our best to reflect, it's the part of the spectrum which actually heats objects up the most.
They would much rather your phone become so unusable as time goes on due to advances in software, that you have to buy a new phone every 18 months. This is why Verizon never carried the Nexus One. Another good example is that Samsung Galaxy S 2; it's not available in the United States yet because of the stranglehold the US carriers have on the market.
Can you tell me, please, what evidence we have - what laws exist, and what records we have - that prove that short of some kind of miraculous intervention, we are doomed based on our current course of action?
The universe is basically one big shooting gallery. It's pretty much guaranteed at some point or another we're going to get hit. Not that I believe that it means we should all just throw our hands up, stop investigating every inch of life and yell "We're doomed!" though. But you asked.
I have a theory that he's not a Windows nut, but rather a Microsoft nut (and still is). His article seems to conform quite nicely with what Microsoft released regarding the issue.
Yeah, because saturating an 802.11n connection is a COMMON thing, right? Please, spare me. Even Verizon Fios, which is practically the fastest thing you can get in the united states right now, couldn't saturate 802.11n.
How many people seriously use 100% of that 54mbps of wireless...constantly? It's just like ISPs overselling bandwidth; most of the time it goes underutilized. It would be fine to have 20 devices on a 20mpbs wifi connection...they aren't going to be saturating it in a normal household.
But why hasn't somebody developed some low-frequency wireless that is suitable for internet speeds? (Other than the obvious licensing restrictions?) Sure, wifi is great and getting 100+ mbps is awesome and all, but most US residents really only use wifi for the internet, not transferring huge files back and forth. Someone needs something that's limited to 20mbps or so, but at a lower frequency for increased range/penetration.
On top of that they need to implement some sort of penalty system for people who regularly post things that are downvoted. If out of 10 posts, the amount of downvotes you've gotten is higher than 80% then implement a week long "cool-off" period in which it resets to 0
Everybody keeps saying this: "A proper adblock" -- It's been 2 months now since the Chrome version of Adblock actually BLOCKS advertisements, and not just hides them. It was a bug, they fixed it, chrome has a proper Adblock. Could we please quit spewing this junk?
I thought this was the whole POINT of OSS in the first place. Not to be "for-profit" but to be *USED* to make your profit in whatever field you desire. TFA is basically one big troll, OSS' goal isn't about direct profit, it's always been about secondary profit by the money saved.
When was the last time you tried Chrome? -- Chrome 5 has addons, has a fully featured AdBlock, FlashBlock, (Not sure about noscript, but I bet it's there too), and Greasemonkey scripts get converted and used as addons just fine. From what I've run across they have a perfectly fine set of tools for web-development built into the browser as well.
That doesn't stop local software-based keyloggers from just logging the keys someone punches on their keyboard introduced by some virus/trojan/malware and then later just logging into the account.
This. Exactly. They are looking for every excuse they can to NOT put things on windows XP. What will happen though is that they will claim 'new features'...and 2 months down the line some hacker somewhere is going to find out that it's just a string or something somewhere that has to be changed in a DLL and Microsoft will be caught.
They do this shit for their server software, why not a web browser?
Care to explain why I don't see symbian or rim browsers on that list at all? It's because those are WEB BROWSER STATISTICS...Oh, yeah, that's why you posted as AC.
The mobile phone market in regards to *web page statistics* is a horribly inaccurate way to measure penetration of said devices. Sure, I can pull up any damn statistic I want and say that it means what I want it to mean, but it doesn't mean that it holds water.
I'd guess there is some very close competition in terms of sales of *NEW* devices, between iPhone and Android. The benefit android has is that you can chose ANY carrier you wish. iPhone your just stuck with AT&T (in the USA) and my own anecdotal evidence amongst friends shows that they're ditching iPhone in droves. But that's just anecdotal evidence. Linux is indeed a contender.
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The solar spectrum is not the most intense at the visible part of the spectrum, it's actually slightly more powerful in the infrared part of the spectrum. Infrared is what we should be doing our best to reflect, it's the part of the spectrum which actually heats objects up the most.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared#Heating
They would much rather your phone become so unusable as time goes on due to advances in software, that you have to buy a new phone every 18 months. This is why Verizon never carried the Nexus One. Another good example is that Samsung Galaxy S 2; it's not available in the United States yet because of the stranglehold the US carriers have on the market.
They could have just gone after 4.66920 the Feigenbaum constant
Can you tell me, please, what evidence we have - what laws exist, and what records we have - that prove that short of some kind of miraculous intervention, we are doomed based on our current course of action?
The universe is basically one big shooting gallery. It's pretty much guaranteed at some point or another we're going to get hit. Not that I believe that it means we should all just throw our hands up, stop investigating every inch of life and yell "We're doomed!" though. But you asked.
He'll forget about it in a couple of minutes.
Samsung did no such thing. All of Samsungs Android devices have been freely modifiable.
I have a theory that he's not a Windows nut, but rather a Microsoft nut (and still is). His article seems to conform quite nicely with what Microsoft released regarding the issue.
Earth to Khyber; to the home internet user...THAT IS NOT COMMON.
Yeah, because saturating an 802.11n connection is a COMMON thing, right? Please, spare me. Even Verizon Fios, which is practically the fastest thing you can get in the united states right now, couldn't saturate 802.11n.
How many people seriously use 100% of that 54mbps of wireless...constantly? It's just like ISPs overselling bandwidth; most of the time it goes underutilized. It would be fine to have 20 devices on a 20mpbs wifi connection...they aren't going to be saturating it in a normal household.
But why hasn't somebody developed some low-frequency wireless that is suitable for internet speeds? (Other than the obvious licensing restrictions?) Sure, wifi is great and getting 100+ mbps is awesome and all, but most US residents really only use wifi for the internet, not transferring huge files back and forth. Someone needs something that's limited to 20mbps or so, but at a lower frequency for increased range/penetration.
On top of that they need to implement some sort of penalty system for people who regularly post things that are downvoted. If out of 10 posts, the amount of downvotes you've gotten is higher than 80% then implement a week long "cool-off" period in which it resets to 0
Everybody keeps saying this: "A proper adblock" -- It's been 2 months now since the Chrome version of Adblock actually BLOCKS advertisements, and not just hides them. It was a bug, they fixed it, chrome has a proper Adblock. Could we please quit spewing this junk?
Actually, even jailbroken iPhones have a Python interpreter.
I thought this was the whole POINT of OSS in the first place. Not to be "for-profit" but to be *USED* to make your profit in whatever field you desire. TFA is basically one big troll, OSS' goal isn't about direct profit, it's always been about secondary profit by the money saved.
We all know that trolls exist as well.
When was the last time you tried Chrome? -- Chrome 5 has addons, has a fully featured AdBlock, FlashBlock, (Not sure about noscript, but I bet it's there too), and Greasemonkey scripts get converted and used as addons just fine. From what I've run across they have a perfectly fine set of tools for web-development built into the browser as well.
That doesn't stop local software-based keyloggers from just logging the keys someone punches on their keyboard introduced by some virus/trojan/malware and then later just logging into the account.
This. Exactly. They are looking for every excuse they can to NOT put things on windows XP. What will happen though is that they will claim 'new features'...and 2 months down the line some hacker somewhere is going to find out that it's just a string or something somewhere that has to be changed in a DLL and Microsoft will be caught.
They do this shit for their server software, why not a web browser?
You couldn't even be bothered to read up on what ANT actually was, could you...
"Ant is a Java-based build tool. In theory, it is kind of like Make, without Make's wrinkles and with the full portability of pure Java code."
And here I thought sprinkling 'self.' throughout my Python classes made me egotistical...
It's called "Learning Python: Powerful Object-Oriented Programming."
Or for short: Learning Python: POOP.
Maybe that's why the rodent is there.
Chrome has extensions now with adblock/flashblock, etc... So yeah...chrome is definitely a competitor now.
Why risk copying when you can just buy them outright and then sue anyone that comes near you?
Care to explain why I don't see symbian or rim browsers on that list at all? It's because those are WEB BROWSER STATISTICS...Oh, yeah, that's why you posted as AC.
The mobile phone market in regards to *web page statistics* is a horribly inaccurate way to measure penetration of said devices. Sure, I can pull up any damn statistic I want and say that it means what I want it to mean, but it doesn't mean that it holds water.
I'd guess there is some very close competition in terms of sales of *NEW* devices, between iPhone and Android. The benefit android has is that you can chose ANY carrier you wish. iPhone your just stuck with AT&T (in the USA) and my own anecdotal evidence amongst friends shows that they're ditching iPhone in droves. But that's just anecdotal evidence. Linux is indeed a contender.