It's not so much about processing speed - It's about memory hogging. I don't have much of a problem with that concerning Chrome or FF, but depending on what you have open using just a few tabs under IE can quickly eat a half-gig of RAM. With a couple of GB in the computer that may or may not be an issue, but it seems rude and makes me feel a little violated and dirty...
At work, I'm only allowed IE or FF. I use both depending on what I'm doing, but FF as my primary. At home I'm typically a Chrome user, but I have all three installed and use them all, again depending on what I'm doing. IE is the only way I can remote in to work. Chrome is light-weight and great for browsing or Netflix. Some applications (excuse me for admitting that I'm a Facebook user, but primarily Facebook apps) are much more reliable under Firefox than under IE or especially Chrome. I haven't used Opera for many years - Ever since they started using ad-support, even though I realize that's long gone. I've never bothered with Safari.
So, even though I usually live in Chrome, I see no reason to completely ditch the alternatives - They all have their place. Can't we all just get along?
And... how many people, need that? To store 12 TB nightly? Few thousand businesses, perhaps? Not even your super-geekiest nerd is storing 1,800 tapes a year.
Well, of course - Pretty much nobody needs this for home use. But you're forgetting that, beyond those several thousand businesses, there's also the government. We have to back up nightly and retain stuff for a VERY long time. And the government, in case you haven't noticed, is big. And we have to back up everything, even if it's completely redundant it has to be a complete snap-shot. We use tape here because, for our needs, it makes practical and financial sense. I realize that most people don't associate government with being practical or financially responsible, but every once in a while there's a sensible nerd who can make a pretty chart with colorful lines representing $$ spent that's able to persuade the powers that be.
Tape's not dead, it just has limited situations where it makes sense. Home is rarely one of them.
The U.S. government doesn’t hack its way into Airbus and give Airbus the secrets to Boeing
Actually, I don't see why anyone would hack into Airbus to give them secrets from Boeing. I'd hack into Boeing and then just openly give them to Airbus. Hacking into Airbus to give them secrets just seems redundant.
Dropping $30 on one of these for my girlfriend has more than paid itself off in saved time searching. For myself, yes I use the "put it in the same place" method. The remote on the other hand is left in the hands of teens and got lost to the point of replacement - Even after we moved...
Yes - unfounded roomers. Those are tenants in your house that can't be located. And if you're not even good enough to locate everyone living there, you may be unqualified for many jobs.
The idea of the company taking care of you died in about, er... the 1950s. Deal with it.
Right. That's because the companies taking care of themselves drove the others out of the market or forced them to adapt. Now we're seeing more of the same.
And that maximizes profit and that's what the shareholders want, so I don't see that changing until... ever.
The purpose it to make a web browser. No more no less. Preferably one people will actually use.
Maybe that's what you want the purpose to be, but the reality is that for many of its developers (and users), Mozilla is about half browser and half "damn the man" movement demanding that everything be open. We'll see who wins. My guess is that the top echelons will just ignore the "movement" people and keep going after the best market share using the rational that they're giving the user what he wants.
Actually it is... When you ask a question like this, it just publicizes suspicion. I think it's likely that there's a relationship there, but if you asked the NSA, something preposterous like "Is gnick collaborating with you to collect information about slashdot users?" Their response would be identical to this one.
At the same time, there *are* in fact real pedophiles, scammers, and other criminals that use Facebook, in which case it's probably not really productive (or even legal) to notify a suspect they are investigating.
That's why the gods gave us warrants. But if it's just some guys with a badge, forget it.
Much better than car analogies. Long live restaurant buffet analogies!
Agreed - This sounds exactly like a chain-restaurant all-you-can-eat crab night. "You'd like more? I'll be back in 30 minutes w/ 2 more legs and 30 minutes after that to ask you if you'd like another 2."
Let's try cars: How about "A full tank of gas for as long as you can drive - With a free sheet to use as a sail for any miles after that!"
You ALWAYS have the right say you disagree with the arbitration. You will be required to go through the motions of arbitration, but that doesn't mean you have to live with the outcome.
Right - Hire a lawyer, take a dozen man-hours off of work, travel to wherever the "motions" are taking place, listen to non-sense, and then hope that you get your $850 back to recover part of your costs. It's noble, but only makes sense for the big game, not for the small rip-offs where the fat cats make their money.
What, seriously? It's going pretty well. Although I was shocked to see it happen, consumers won the DRM fight against music companies.
We're talking about streaming content here. Are you saying that you found a music service that allows you to stream whatever song you'd like on-demand with no DRM and then permit you to save a digital copy on your hard drive without paying a premium to "buy" the song? I've seen it done, but not without a work-around (e.g. grabbing the audio stream.)
Music companies want protections for their streaming content too and I don't know of any that offer all of the things you're demanding of video.
There are just as many scammers that live in the USA or anywhere else for that matter.
[citation needed]
That would be nice to believe and ideally there would be an even distribution. Do you believe that crime rates are the same in every city and every neighborhood too? I think you'll find the statics to show a heavily skewed demographic of scammers in Nigeria vs the US. Cultural and economic differences come into play quite heavily when you're figuring out the odds of a person being willing to commit crimes.
...it wouldn't be much fun to be running a mine in the middle of the desert.
There are many, many mines that are unpleasant to run or work in. But if the resource you're mining is valuable enough you can attract the people you need (for the right price). If it's profitable, they will come.
Slashdot Mirror
It's not so much about processing speed - It's about memory hogging. I don't have much of a problem with that concerning Chrome or FF, but depending on what you have open using just a few tabs under IE can quickly eat a half-gig of RAM. With a couple of GB in the computer that may or may not be an issue, but it seems rude and makes me feel a little violated and dirty...
At work, I'm only allowed IE or FF. I use both depending on what I'm doing, but FF as my primary. At home I'm typically a Chrome user, but I have all three installed and use them all, again depending on what I'm doing. IE is the only way I can remote in to work. Chrome is light-weight and great for browsing or Netflix. Some applications (excuse me for admitting that I'm a Facebook user, but primarily Facebook apps) are much more reliable under Firefox than under IE or especially Chrome. I haven't used Opera for many years - Ever since they started using ad-support, even though I realize that's long gone. I've never bothered with Safari.
So, even though I usually live in Chrome, I see no reason to completely ditch the alternatives - They all have their place. Can't we all just get along?
And... how many people, need that? To store 12 TB nightly? Few thousand businesses, perhaps? Not even your super-geekiest nerd is storing 1,800 tapes a year.
Well, of course - Pretty much nobody needs this for home use. But you're forgetting that, beyond those several thousand businesses, there's also the government. We have to back up nightly and retain stuff for a VERY long time. And the government, in case you haven't noticed, is big. And we have to back up everything, even if it's completely redundant it has to be a complete snap-shot. We use tape here because, for our needs, it makes practical and financial sense. I realize that most people don't associate government with being practical or financially responsible, but every once in a while there's a sensible nerd who can make a pretty chart with colorful lines representing $$ spent that's able to persuade the powers that be.
Tape's not dead, it just has limited situations where it makes sense. Home is rarely one of them.
I think it takes more than clever marketing to declare yourself a prophet. However, being a prophet can be very profitable.
So if they're too overzealous, does that imply that there's an appropriate level of overzealousness?
If they're somehow imaging the drive it's easy - Just run every attempt against the same image instead of the one counting fails.
Exactly.
1) Buy a device
2) Figure out what it's doing
3) Coincidentally discover a bug in your phone and offer a patch
Yes, but they have The Right Stuff.
The U.S. government doesn’t hack its way into Airbus and give Airbus the secrets to Boeing
Actually, I don't see why anyone would hack into Airbus to give them secrets from Boeing. I'd hack into Boeing and then just openly give them to Airbus. Hacking into Airbus to give them secrets just seems redundant.
Dropping $30 on one of these for my girlfriend has more than paid itself off in saved time searching. For myself, yes I use the "put it in the same place" method. The remote on the other hand is left in the hands of teens and got lost to the point of replacement - Even after we moved...
Search Settings->Never show instant results, not so difficult.
I tried that, but for some reason it didn't have any effect on the computer in the HR department that I mailed my resume to...
Roomers, seriously?
Yes - unfounded roomers. Those are tenants in your house that can't be located. And if you're not even good enough to locate everyone living there, you may be unqualified for many jobs.
The idea of the company taking care of you died in about, er... the 1950s. Deal with it.
Right. That's because the companies taking care of themselves drove the others out of the market or forced them to adapt. Now we're seeing more of the same.
And that maximizes profit and that's what the shareholders want, so I don't see that changing until... ever.
The purpose it to make a web browser. No more no less. Preferably one people will actually use.
Maybe that's what you want the purpose to be, but the reality is that for many of its developers (and users), Mozilla is about half browser and half "damn the man" movement demanding that everything be open. We'll see who wins. My guess is that the top echelons will just ignore the "movement" people and keep going after the best market share using the rational that they're giving the user what he wants.
...things like Viagra, which are completely optional.
Describe it as optional to some aging men. Optional as in:
1) Get hard
2) Go to bed frustrated only to meet your wife's boyfriend
Sure, people lived without it for a long time, but expectations have 'risen'.
Actually it is... When you ask a question like this, it just publicizes suspicion. I think it's likely that there's a relationship there, but if you asked the NSA, something preposterous like "Is gnick collaborating with you to collect information about slashdot users?" Their response would be identical to this one.
North Korea still the best Korea!
No way - North Korea has no Seoul.
I could mention Alabama, but I won't.
I think you forgot how not to mention Alabama...
At the same time, there *are* in fact real pedophiles, scammers, and other criminals that use Facebook, in which case it's probably not really productive (or even legal) to notify a suspect they are investigating.
That's why the gods gave us warrants. But if it's just some guys with a badge, forget it.
The perfect slashdoter analogy.
Much better than car analogies. Long live restaurant buffet analogies!
Agreed - This sounds exactly like a chain-restaurant all-you-can-eat crab night. "You'd like more? I'll be back in 30 minutes w/ 2 more legs and 30 minutes after that to ask you if you'd like another 2."
Let's try cars: How about "A full tank of gas for as long as you can drive - With a free sheet to use as a sail for any miles after that!"
You ALWAYS have the right say you disagree with the arbitration. You will be required to go through the motions of arbitration, but that doesn't mean you have to live with the outcome.
Right - Hire a lawyer, take a dozen man-hours off of work, travel to wherever the "motions" are taking place, listen to non-sense, and then hope that you get your $850 back to recover part of your costs. It's noble, but only makes sense for the big game, not for the small rip-offs where the fat cats make their money.
No, but it would be nice if FB told ME that a request was being made for my information.
Hell, let's go crazy here and say FB ASKED me if they could release my information to the requester w/o a warrant.
What, seriously? It's going pretty well. Although I was shocked to see it happen, consumers won the DRM fight against music companies.
We're talking about streaming content here. Are you saying that you found a music service that allows you to stream whatever song you'd like on-demand with no DRM and then permit you to save a digital copy on your hard drive without paying a premium to "buy" the song? I've seen it done, but not without a work-around (e.g. grabbing the audio stream.)
Music companies want protections for their streaming content too and I don't know of any that offer all of the things you're demanding of video.
There are just as many scammers that live in the USA or anywhere else for that matter.
[citation needed]
That would be nice to believe and ideally there would be an even distribution. Do you believe that crime rates are the same in every city and every neighborhood too? I think you'll find the statics to show a heavily skewed demographic of scammers in Nigeria vs the US. Cultural and economic differences come into play quite heavily when you're figuring out the odds of a person being willing to commit crimes.
...it wouldn't be much fun to be running a mine in the middle of the desert.
There are many, many mines that are unpleasant to run or work in. But if the resource you're mining is valuable enough you can attract the people you need (for the right price). If it's profitable, they will come.