Well I could just go and talk to my friends and family about some new idea and they'll probably just dismiss me for a crackpot. Even if I did convince them, what are the chances that they'll be so convinced that they'll start talking to others too?
The protesters are doing exactly what they need to do - they're getting out in public, trying to make themselves seen by as many people as possible. And when you show that more and more people are following you, well that makes you more believable. 99% of people don't think for themselves - they need others to do it for them. If you just say hey, believe this, and I have a few thousand others that believe it too, then you'll start convincing a lot more people.
One voice, one audience isn't enough. You need many voices and a lot of people to make a point. They're doing exactly what they should be doing - let's hope it's not too late.
This is the same NSS that's funded by Microsoft. Also the same company that once tried to publish a study where they compared a development version of IE against a version of Chrome that was twice outdated.
What about stability? Firefox has been crashing quite a bit on my lately (though I think Pandora is mostly to blame - ever since they overhauled the UI, memory usage goes up by hundreds of MB). When will Firefox be able to run tabs in separate processes? Can it properly sandbox buggy plugins? I think these are the most pressing concerns right now and it seems that Firefox is a bit behind the curve.
That being said, I'm pretty impressed with its performance since upgrading to 6.0.2.
As a typical Slashdot reader, I've been myopic since childhood,
Hey now, that's uncalled for. Sure, there are some around here who are still expecting the next Year of the Linux Desktop, but you can't let them speak for all of us!
But more seriously, I've had great vision more or less for my whole life. I don't think it's entirely genetic either (though my father has never needed glasses either), and I have always done a lot of reading/computer in my time as well. I just make sure to look away every few minutes and focus on something far away so my eyes don't adjust too rigidly. So I wonder if it wouldn't be too difficult to prevent bad eyesight if other people did this too.
I don't see much that these DEs can do that XFCE can't. Maybe a few eye-candy tricks during window switching like Expose or zooming out on your desktop wall. Of course there are a few more eye candy hacks that you can't do. XFCE even has its own compositor, though it's not hugely useful. And in my experience, xfpanel is the most stable and full-featured panel out there (it's not a dock, but you could certainly add one).
But I guess, since it hasn't been endorsed by a major distro, it's always gonna be the perennial third-place competitor. Maybe it's time a big name picked it up and started making a distro that's by default simple, lightweight, stable and full-featured?
Your anecdote about the sewing machines explains why pretty well.
Cartels and imaginary property are two huge enemies of progress. What needs to happen is regulation of patent enforcement. If major show-stopper patents (or whatever legal mumbo-jumbo) like being a rectangle can be patented then you shouldn't be granted a monopoly on it. And that's no matter how long that monopoly lasts - technology these days moves forward exponentially faster than it used to.
What a dick response. Evidently, you opened the first page, and the only thing you looked at was the number of pages. Did you even read the last paragraph?
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If the multiple pages bothers you so much, then shell out for a subscription. If you don't want to do that, then just shut up and move on. Don't shit on someone else's hard work and complain that they don't give it to you totally for free.
And why would anyone besides a total sociopath mod something like this up?
You don't have to be a fanboy to wish good health for someone.
No matter who it is or who you are, you never celebrate another person's illness. And FWIW, I think Apple is the biggest threat to the software/technology world.
I just link ~/.macromedia and ~/.adobe to/tmp, which is mounted in a ramdisk on my machine. I reboot it fairly often enough that I feel reasonably safe from persistent tracking.
For ~/.mozilla, I have cookies saved only until reboot except for sites like/. which I use to save logins. Also, extremely judicious use of NoScript. Not sure if it's good enough, but I don't know of anything more that can be done that isn't too heavy-handed.
Exactly what I was thinking - another FUD attack on Google. The first thing I think now when I hear an attack on Google and Android is that there's a very good chance that it was written by a shill.
IMO, Apple doesn't have much of a reputation for hiring shills to do the dirty work for them - they have big enough mouths to spew FUD themselves.
Microsoft on the other hand has a deep-running history of hiring shills - and it wouldn't be the first time CNET's been on the receiving end either.
MS must be shitting bricks right now, cause they realize that they have to compete by making a legitimately good product rather than fighting with stupid lawsuits. OEMs know this and they are jumping for joy that they might now be able to kill the troll.
It's important because, while we know that ripping off GPL software is a rampant practice, it is not always so easy to bring the people who do that back into compliance. We've had numerous stories posted on/. about people who know that their code is being stolen, but they don't have the legal and/or financial resources to fight back.
What use is the GPL to people who don't have the resources to enforce it? That's why this is an important story.
But even if you buy Intel, install a cracked upgrade and don't pay them any money, you're STILL endorsing the practice by using their chips in the first place. If you really want to stick it to them, then you'll stop buying and supporting their products altogether.
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The only people, from the sound of it. Copyright harms far more real people than it helps.
Well I could just go and talk to my friends and family about some new idea and they'll probably just dismiss me for a crackpot. Even if I did convince them, what are the chances that they'll be so convinced that they'll start talking to others too?
The protesters are doing exactly what they need to do - they're getting out in public, trying to make themselves seen by as many people as possible. And when you show that more and more people are following you, well that makes you more believable. 99% of people don't think for themselves - they need others to do it for them. If you just say hey, believe this, and I have a few thousand others that believe it too, then you'll start convincing a lot more people.
One voice, one audience isn't enough. You need many voices and a lot of people to make a point. They're doing exactly what they should be doing - let's hope it's not too late.
Don't forget the linebreak.
I always forget the linebreak.
This is the same NSS that's funded by Microsoft. Also the same company that once tried to publish a study where they compared a development version of IE against a version of Chrome that was twice outdated.
http://www.google.com/search?q=nss+microsoft
Hard to trust a company with that kind of history....
Not only that, but blocking js also makes your computer run much faster. Not sure how that fits in with the analogy but Use Your Imagination
What about stability? Firefox has been crashing quite a bit on my lately (though I think Pandora is mostly to blame - ever since they overhauled the UI, memory usage goes up by hundreds of MB). When will Firefox be able to run tabs in separate processes? Can it properly sandbox buggy plugins? I think these are the most pressing concerns right now and it seems that Firefox is a bit behind the curve.
That being said, I'm pretty impressed with its performance since upgrading to 6.0.2.
Probably a Ford or GM after you've had it for a few months.
As a typical Slashdot reader, I've been myopic since childhood,
Hey now, that's uncalled for. Sure, there are some around here who are still expecting the next Year of the Linux Desktop, but you can't let them speak for all of us!
But more seriously, I've had great vision more or less for my whole life. I don't think it's entirely genetic either (though my father has never needed glasses either), and I have always done a lot of reading/computer in my time as well. I just make sure to look away every few minutes and focus on something far away so my eyes don't adjust too rigidly. So I wonder if it wouldn't be too difficult to prevent bad eyesight if other people did this too.
I don't see much that these DEs can do that XFCE can't. Maybe a few eye-candy tricks during window switching like Expose or zooming out on your desktop wall. Of course there are a few more eye candy hacks that you can't do. XFCE even has its own compositor, though it's not hugely useful. And in my experience, xfpanel is the most stable and full-featured panel out there (it's not a dock, but you could certainly add one).
But I guess, since it hasn't been endorsed by a major distro, it's always gonna be the perennial third-place competitor. Maybe it's time a big name picked it up and started making a distro that's by default simple, lightweight, stable and full-featured?
"If you ban my device, it will become far more powerful than you can possibly imagine."
Your anecdote about the sewing machines explains why pretty well.
Cartels and imaginary property are two huge enemies of progress. What needs to happen is regulation of patent enforcement. If major show-stopper patents (or whatever legal mumbo-jumbo) like being a rectangle can be patented then you shouldn't be granted a monopoly on it. And that's no matter how long that monopoly lasts - technology these days moves forward exponentially faster than it used to.
What a dick response. Evidently, you opened the first page, and the only thing you looked at was the number of pages. Did you even read the last paragraph?
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If the multiple pages bothers you so much, then shell out for a subscription. If you don't want to do that, then just shut up and move on. Don't shit on someone else's hard work and complain that they don't give it to you totally for free.
And why would anyone besides a total sociopath mod something like this up?
Are we going to see it released once ICS starts rolling out?
Jammed!
There's only one country would dare give the US the raspberry... North Korea!
Refreshed a few times and the Run button started to work for me. Sometimes the page doesn't fully load
You don't have to be a fanboy to wish good health for someone.
No matter who it is or who you are, you never celebrate another person's illness. And FWIW, I think Apple is the biggest threat to the software/technology world.
I just link ~/.macromedia and ~/.adobe to /tmp, which is mounted in a ramdisk on my machine. I reboot it fairly often enough that I feel reasonably safe from persistent tracking.
For ~/.mozilla, I have cookies saved only until reboot except for sites like /. which I use to save logins. Also, extremely judicious use of NoScript. Not sure if it's good enough, but I don't know of anything more that can be done that isn't too heavy-handed.
Nevermind. Ignore previous comment.
free phones, tools and training
Does one have to pay licensing costs to develop for WP7?
since their tools are free already.
Exactly what I was thinking - another FUD attack on Google. The first thing I think now when I hear an attack on Google and Android is that there's a very good chance that it was written by a shill.
IMO, Apple doesn't have much of a reputation for hiring shills to do the dirty work for them - they have big enough mouths to spew FUD themselves.
Microsoft on the other hand has a deep-running history of hiring shills - and it wouldn't be the first time CNET's been on the receiving end either.
See!? 2GB / 2 days = 12.13 kB/s. Netflix is barely better than dial-up!
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If you think about it, it's obvious that this is great for all OEMs...
http://www.google.com/press/motorola/quotes/
MS must be shitting bricks right now, cause they realize that they have to compete by making a legitimately good product rather than fighting with stupid lawsuits. OEMs know this and they are jumping for joy that they might now be able to kill the troll.
It's important because, while we know that ripping off GPL software is a rampant practice, it is not always so easy to bring the people who do that back into compliance. We've had numerous stories posted on /. about people who know that their code is being stolen, but they don't have the legal and/or financial resources to fight back.
What use is the GPL to people who don't have the resources to enforce it? That's why this is an important story.
But even if you buy Intel, install a cracked upgrade and don't pay them any money, you're STILL endorsing the practice by using their chips in the first place. If you really want to stick it to them, then you'll stop buying and supporting their products altogether.