Wait, am I to understand that IE used to allow installation and execution of arbitrary binaries? From the web!? How did any one ever think that this was a good idea?
Doesn't matter, the MS Windows software ecosystem nearly entirely consists of x86 binaries. Linux software for the most part is open source. A transition to a new instruction set would only make sense if MS Windows was a superior OS by itself. The things that keep people on Windows will not exist on ARM.
Not necessarily. While some of the tests rely on javascript, others don't. In my case both my user agent and HTTP_ACCEPT Headers are unique. Now I am far from a typical user, what with Ubuntu, nightly firefox builds, and japanese enabled. A more typical user, say Win7 and latest stable Firefox would of course be much more common. So yes, noscript is very helpful, but YMMV.
They are not going to be messing with the linux scheduler (Nor the are they even allowed touching the windows or mac one for that matter). The only way for them to achieve that goal is to level work load. This might mean optimizations or caching. You'd have to look at specifics to know which interactions are currently taking longer than 50ms to determine what exactly needs to be done.
I'll guaranty you that it was not the Magazine publisher how financed the ad, typically the person who is advertising the product will pay for ads.
Now as to if Bayer is making a mistake here, I would say no. When you think about it the modern farmer is a very lucrative target market. They make their own buying decisions, most of their expenses are in consumables (Pesticides being a major one) and capital (vs labour as in most other industries) and like all business owners are always willing to buy a product capable of increasing yield.
Bayer also gets a very high yield per ad unit, after all how many people do you know subscribe to farming magazines without owning a farm? This isn't your average magazine where most units will sit on shelfs until being sent back to the publisher.
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Ah, thank you that does make much more sense. I certainly don't envy Microsoft's legacy commitments.
Wait, am I to understand that IE used to allow installation and execution of arbitrary binaries? From the web!? How did any one ever think that this was a good idea?
Whoooooosh
That makes soo much more sense now. I thought "(" was supposed to be a smiley.
You mean, previlege?
Doesn't matter, the MS Windows software ecosystem nearly entirely consists of x86 binaries. Linux software for the most part is open source. A transition to a new instruction set would only make sense if MS Windows was a superior OS by itself. The things that keep people on Windows will not exist on ARM.
Not necessarily. While some of the tests rely on javascript, others don't. In my case both my user agent and HTTP_ACCEPT Headers are unique. Now I am far from a typical user, what with Ubuntu, nightly firefox builds, and japanese enabled. A more typical user, say Win7 and latest stable Firefox would of course be much more common. So yes, noscript is very helpful, but YMMV.
Thank you. You've elaborated my thoughts perfectly which does make me feel a bit better.
I disagree.
They are not going to be messing with the linux scheduler (Nor the are they even allowed touching the windows or mac one for that matter). The only way for them to achieve that goal is to level work load. This might mean optimizations or caching. You'd have to look at specifics to know which interactions are currently taking longer than 50ms to determine what exactly needs to be done.
This is a major reason why I use firefox, chrome may be open source but firefox extends that to open governance.
I would encourage everyone to read through the full roadmap: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Roadmap you shouldn't be disapointed.
Edit: Ugh, slashdot ol means ordered list, stop styling it like a ul.
Fixed it.
~Steve Jobs
Seven words? I can't even make a seven word comment without screwing up.
And it would still not unicode.
"success fucking a tar baby."
That was a shock. I'm surprised a comment with THAT got rated up at all.
In case any one is wondering "tarbaby" is a derogative term for a black person. Like Ni*ga only more offensive.
I'm canadian eh so I'm allowed to make these jokes eh, its in our constitution or something eh.
eh.
Actually it was the 2008, "USA is bankrupt", version.
At first I was going to use the clbuttic version butt It wasn't ass funny.
Don't worry that only works out to about twelve Canadian dollars.
Oracle should use their Java related patents to stop this from happening,
Oh wait...
Yeah, sorry about that guys.
~English Person
For some odd reason people who call children "crotchspawn" never quite sound like authoritative child rearing experts.
I'll guaranty you that it was not the Magazine publisher how financed the ad, typically the person who is advertising the product will pay for ads.
Now as to if Bayer is making a mistake here, I would say no. When you think about it the modern farmer is a very lucrative target market. They make their own buying decisions, most of their expenses are in consumables (Pesticides being a major one) and capital (vs labour as in most other industries) and like all business owners are always willing to buy a product capable of increasing yield.
Bayer also gets a very high yield per ad unit, after all how many people do you know subscribe to farming magazines without owning a farm? This isn't your average magazine where most units will sit on shelfs until being sent back to the publisher.
Well actually that is not quite true, there have been a few forks over the years, Mormonism and Islam come to mind.
He's right, real men don't look at explosions.
My name is not clod you insensitive Shirley!