But how much power does it use? 5 watts is unparalleled as far as I'm concerned. I think I just might move my email and files over to one of these hooked up to a usb drive.
Then I'll be free of storing my things on Google, and using almost no power to do it.
They're trying to protect all of us against IE6 and 7 sponsored botnets. (Possibly IE8, we'll see how that goes.)
We need two to three browsers with roughly equal market share to ensure a secure web.
The same goes for things like Silverlight or Flash (which should probably be built into the browser in the form of better Java or JavaScript or things like the HTML5 video tag.)
This is not coddling users. It's an attempt to reverse a dangerous security problem that has plagued us for over 5 years.
Open Source zealots still use IE to post to Slashdot. Why? They still edit their documents using MS Office. They still create video files using Flash and cannot agree (read implement) a "standard" for file locations on Linux and versions.
Firefox, AbiWord / Emacs, Don't make videos, and I'm quite happy with where my files on Linux are.
Here comes the worst...OpenOffice file formats are 100% open for years now, i.e., free to implement but there is not a single open source office suite that implements them with 100% fidelity!
Source? I'll counter your unsourced BS with some of my own: despite MS submitting OOXML as a standard, their own implementation is noncompliant with their standard.
This is not true of odf (whatever rendering problems you may complain about.)
Same story on browsers and so on.
You already mentioned browsers, and I think you're out of ideas.
As a growing business model, internet purchases should not be taxed.
I call BS. In the past year, I have spent more money on retail internet purchases than in stores. I am not alone in this. That's not a growing market, that's an established market that does not need to keep getting a free ride.
No, I still play 5 or 6 games that I bought over 4 years years ago. Why?
1) Cost - new games are expensive. 2) Compatability - I use Linux now. I do dual boot, but don't like to. 3) Compatability - I have a shitty Integrated graphics card and a 3 year old Celeron. 4) Value - My shitty integrated graphics and celeron are adequate to make a good game, deveolopers are just packing on more crap. This wastes power.
Granted, there are exceptions. Something like spore (done right) would need a large CPU. How do I know about Spore? My roommate bought it, got tired of it.
Video games are failing because they're putting too much money into barely perceptible increases in graphics, made all the more imperceptible by the fact that graphics all look alike once you start enjoying the game.
Let's be honest, IE needs to be a good browser before they will ever be anything but unpopular in the long term. IE8 is so far behind FF, Opera, Safari, and Chrome (to speak nothing of the myriad other Webkit/Gecko derivatives) that it will probably never become a good browser. It is obsolete technology, and Microsoft should put it out of its misery.
Unless they're planning on doubling the IE team's managing budget for a few years. (And for any meaningful results, they should start... yesterday. They've been behind, and marking time for years.)
That is why, as some earlier poster has noted, MS is likely to have systems in place to identify copyrighted works, and notify the copyright holders of the abuse.
I'm sticking with FTP that I pay for. Honestly, a computer costs at minimum $100/Year, not counting software or an overpriced OS like Windows. I'll take that Windows tax and plop it down on a few hundred gigs of backed-up hosting with a company that is constantly taking my money, and therefore has a clear incentive not to piss me off. As opposed to Microsoft, who took my money 3 years ago, and still thinks it has the right to more, even though it's been degrading the services offered for the past 6 years.
It now has the old behavior, though it retains the acknowledgement that archived copies may still exist on Facebook's servers (which is more than reasonable, just so they don't claim a license to use those archived copies for anything they please.)
End of story for now.
Though sooner or later they're going to abuse their monopoly in a substantial way. Oh well.
What kind of hardware are you running on? I'm running 2.4 under Ubuntu 8.10 with a 2.8 ghz Celeron, and it sucks ass. I use Abiword, because I don't want to wait 15 seconds for it to load, only to have it freeze for a few seconds every time I scroll.
The thing is, a space debris field is looking increasingly inevitable. I'd rather have it incapacitated now, before we become severely dependent on orbital satellites.
Really, we're very dependent on them already, but if we ever make advances in wireless that match fiber optics, it would be conceivable that we could move all transmission to wireless. Better that we deal with these issues before that happens.
I assume they'll be doing exactly what Ubuntu does with Debian (and what Red Hat does with Fedora for that matter.)
They'll be rolling the system out of the Fedora branch annually or biannually. I don't know what got it into your head that they would use unmodified Fedora. Red Hat, I would imagine, is just fine, especially with the Russians behind it.
We need a branch is all. Gecko is still a good rendering engine, and the XUL platform has such fantastic things as Flashblock, Firebug, and Link Widgits, none of which could I live without. (Even Firebug, while ostensibly a developer tool, is fantastic for finding my way through obnoxious pages.
IE on the other hand, is just shoddy coding, and remained at least a year and a half out of date last I saw. I'll have to try the new IE8 beta at some point, but from when I looked at it last time, I'd rather be using Dillo for most things.
I do a lot of ballroom dance, and it's a pretty common occupation for engineers to be fantastic at.
Really, who would be fantastic at a social skill that hasn't truly been in vogue in half a century except nerds?
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I wouldn't know about it either, except my brother's university had signed a deal so everyone was required to use Ruckus. So I think it was less targeted at individual users, and more targeted at universities looking for a reasonable way to let their students have music, but still be able to enforce a strict policy on filesharing.
And looked at it that way, it's kind of like a less sketchy version of the filesharing tax.
I think you're having some trouble with overflow. Try 64 bit: [bishop@cluster ~]$ perl -e 'print scalar localtime(3151592653),"\n"' Wed Nov 13 12:24:13 2069
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But how much power does it use? 5 watts is unparalleled as far as I'm concerned. I think I just might move my email and files over to one of these hooked up to a usb drive.
Then I'll be free of storing my things on Google, and using almost no power to do it.
They're trying to protect all of us against IE6 and 7 sponsored botnets. (Possibly IE8, we'll see how that goes.)
We need two to three browsers with roughly equal market share to ensure a secure web.
The same goes for things like Silverlight or Flash (which should probably be built into the browser in the form of better Java or JavaScript or things like the HTML5 video tag.)
This is not coddling users. It's an attempt to reverse a dangerous security problem that has plagued us for over 5 years.
I hate to feed a troll, but here goes:
Firefox, AbiWord / Emacs, Don't make videos, and I'm quite happy with where my files on Linux are.
Source? I'll counter your unsourced BS with some of my own: despite MS submitting OOXML as a standard, their own implementation is noncompliant with their standard.
This is not true of odf (whatever rendering problems you may complain about.)
You already mentioned browsers, and I think you're out of ideas.
Dude, you should really be careful. I don't think you realize who you're talking to.
Posting AC is only going to keep you safe for so long.
That also goes for everyone who modded her down.
I call BS. In the past year, I have spent more money on retail internet purchases than in stores. I am not alone in this. That's not a growing market, that's an established market that does not need to keep getting a free ride.
Pay attention now.
Developer status != publishing rights.
The only way to publish something on the iPhone is if the Apple allows it. Sure you can write code, but only you can run it unless Apple gives the OK.
That's why most MS apps don't make it on. Apple doesn't allow it. Same goes for a host of others.
That's like saying a BMW is certainly a lot more compliant and powerful than a 5 year old moped.
And we will be getting enough sapphire for more than a few hundred of your uber-discs from... ?
No, I still play 5 or 6 games that I bought over 4 years years ago. Why?
1) Cost - new games are expensive.
2) Compatability - I use Linux now. I do dual boot, but don't like to.
3) Compatability - I have a shitty Integrated graphics card and a 3 year old Celeron.
4) Value - My shitty integrated graphics and celeron are adequate to make a good game, deveolopers are just packing on more crap. This wastes power.
Granted, there are exceptions. Something like spore (done right) would need a large CPU. How do I know about Spore? My roommate bought it, got tired of it.
Video games are failing because they're putting too much money into barely perceptible increases in graphics, made all the more imperceptible by the fact that graphics all look alike once you start enjoying the game.
What paid developer at Microsoft owns the copyright to their software after it enters the MS code base?
What developer can continue to use said code after being fired from MS?
I use MS as an example, but any FOSS license insures that you have the right to use your code and profit by it in perpetuity.
Working on proprietary code means that corporations have that right, and can fire you at will, keeping the fruits of your labor.
Let's be honest, IE needs to be a good browser before they will ever be anything but unpopular in the long term. IE8 is so far behind FF, Opera, Safari, and Chrome (to speak nothing of the myriad other Webkit/Gecko derivatives) that it will probably never become a good browser. It is obsolete technology, and Microsoft should put it out of its misery.
Unless they're planning on doubling the IE team's managing budget for a few years. (And for any meaningful results, they should start... yesterday. They've been behind, and marking time for years.)
That is why, as some earlier poster has noted, MS is likely to have systems in place to identify copyrighted works, and notify the copyright holders of the abuse.
I'm sticking with FTP that I pay for. Honestly, a computer costs at minimum $100/Year, not counting software or an overpriced OS like Windows. I'll take that Windows tax and plop it down on a few hundred gigs of backed-up hosting with a company that is constantly taking my money, and therefore has a clear incentive not to piss me off. As opposed to Microsoft, who took my money 3 years ago, and still thinks it has the right to more, even though it's been degrading the services offered for the past 6 years.
Because this is so much less secure than AIM...
Because shallow men pay no attention whatsoever to trends.
It now has the old behavior, though it retains the acknowledgement that archived copies may still exist on Facebook's servers (which is more than reasonable, just so they don't claim a license to use those archived copies for anything they please.)
End of story for now.
Though sooner or later they're going to abuse their monopoly in a substantial way. Oh well.
What kind of hardware are you running on? I'm running 2.4 under Ubuntu 8.10 with a 2.8 ghz Celeron, and it sucks ass. I use Abiword, because I don't want to wait 15 seconds for it to load, only to have it freeze for a few seconds every time I scroll.
Or I just use emacs.
The thing is, a space debris field is looking increasingly inevitable. I'd rather have it incapacitated now, before we become severely dependent on orbital satellites.
Really, we're very dependent on them already, but if we ever make advances in wireless that match fiber optics, it would be conceivable that we could move all transmission to wireless. Better that we deal with these issues before that happens.
I assume they'll be doing exactly what Ubuntu does with Debian (and what Red Hat does with Fedora for that matter.)
They'll be rolling the system out of the Fedora branch annually or biannually. I don't know what got it into your head that they would use unmodified Fedora. Red Hat, I would imagine, is just fine, especially with the Russians behind it.
Well, that too, obviously.
We need a branch is all. Gecko is still a good rendering engine, and the XUL platform has such fantastic things as Flashblock, Firebug, and Link Widgits, none of which could I live without. (Even Firebug, while ostensibly a developer tool, is fantastic for finding my way through obnoxious pages.
IE on the other hand, is just shoddy coding, and remained at least a year and a half out of date last I saw. I'll have to try the new IE8 beta at some point, but from when I looked at it last time, I'd rather be using Dillo for most things.
I do a lot of ballroom dance, and it's a pretty common occupation for engineers to be fantastic at.
Really, who would be fantastic at a social skill that hasn't truly been in vogue in half a century except nerds?
I wouldn't know about it either, except my brother's university had signed a deal so everyone was required to use Ruckus. So I think it was less targeted at individual users, and more targeted at universities looking for a reasonable way to let their students have music, but still be able to enforce a strict policy on filesharing.
And looked at it that way, it's kind of like a less sketchy version of the filesharing tax.
I take it you've never drunk well water.
I think you're having some trouble with overflow. Try 64 bit:
[bishop@cluster ~]$ perl -e 'print scalar localtime(3151592653),"\n"'
Wed Nov 13 12:24:13 2069
32 bit:
bishop@home $ perl -e 'print scalar localtime(3141592653),"\n"'
Wed Jun 14 13:09:17 1933
Well that doesn't mean you need a long...