Despite your ridiculously low slashdot ID, your analysis is wrong.
First off (#25300915) is not low you are only 374 people apart from the GP....
Compare your number to mine if you want low (side note, I am not stating that my point is anymore valid then anybody else based on a number assigned to me when I joined slashdot.) we are 24,414,941 people apart.
I think he was referring to the user id. mfh is user id 56, whereas you are 886348, and the responder is AC so it's anybody's guess:(
But I digress. Can I mod myself off-topic now?
I find it rather counter-productive that it's been "officially" released (meaning it counts toward the countdown) for just over an hour now and the Firefox page at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ still lists 2.0.0.14 for download. Sure, there's a link for a "sneak peak" (i.e., 3.0 RC3), but nothing for the full release?
I used to work for a community college in Western Washington and I was in charge of the surplus management for several months. What WE did, and I'm assuming what many other colleges/universities do when we get new computers (for whatever reason) is give them to the department who requested/needs them, bump their old machines on down the line and so on and so forth, then pile the oldest machines into a surplus area. That's where my job came in -- I had to inventory all those machines (most were barcoded with a State Tag identifier), then turn in the spreadsheet to management, who then submitted it to the higher government level to get it taken off the books. After THAT, the computers were picked up by a local non-profit who used them for low-income families and training, etc.
So no, they're not being "wasted" and thrown into the dumpster. The ones which actually get discarded are more likely to be 5+ years old.
Looks like it's time to reformat the Internet. Sure, theoretically this shouldn't cause problems, but we all know (and many of us have probably been guilty of early in our development careers) that practice doesn't always follow theory.
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Despite your ridiculously low slashdot ID, your analysis is wrong.
First off (#25300915) is not low you are only 374 people apart from the GP ....
Compare your number to mine if you want low (side note, I am not stating that my point is anymore valid then anybody else based on a number assigned to me when I joined slashdot.) we are 24,414,941 people apart.
I think he was referring to the user id. mfh is user id 56, whereas you are 886348, and the responder is AC so it's anybody's guess :(
But I digress. Can I mod myself off-topic now?
I find it rather counter-productive that it's been "officially" released (meaning it counts toward the countdown) for just over an hour now and the Firefox page at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ still lists 2.0.0.14 for download. Sure, there's a link for a "sneak peak" (i.e., 3.0 RC3), but nothing for the full release?
I used to work for a community college in Western Washington and I was in charge of the surplus management for several months. What WE did, and I'm assuming what many other colleges/universities do when we get new computers (for whatever reason) is give them to the department who requested/needs them, bump their old machines on down the line and so on and so forth, then pile the oldest machines into a surplus area. That's where my job came in -- I had to inventory all those machines (most were barcoded with a State Tag identifier), then turn in the spreadsheet to management, who then submitted it to the higher government level to get it taken off the books. After THAT, the computers were picked up by a local non-profit who used them for low-income families and training, etc. So no, they're not being "wasted" and thrown into the dumpster. The ones which actually get discarded are more likely to be 5+ years old.
Looks like it's time to reformat the Internet. Sure, theoretically this shouldn't cause problems, but we all know (and many of us have probably been guilty of early in our development careers) that practice doesn't always follow theory.