Firefox does support multithreading, what it doesn't support is multiprocessing. Firefox runs as a single process, whereas Chrome has a separate process for every site, plugin and extension.
Burj Dubai wasn't built nor designed by Arabs. The architect was Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, structural engineer was Bill Baker, and it was built by cheap labor from South Asian countries like India and Bangladesh. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Dubai
No need for invading our privacy. It's my body, I decide what to do with it!
Plus, you'll get rid of the middleman, legalize drugs and there will be no need for dealers or drug gangs. The government WILL be the sole dealer of drugs, and due to economies of scales, they'll be able to sell them for far less than any dealer while making a good sum of money thanks to all the taxes.
I personally prefer IBM Lotus Symphony, it is based off OO.o 1.x but with what I consider a more usable UI. On the Mac I use NeoOffice, also based off OO.o, but with better Mac integration.
Go-OO is a yet another set of patches on OO.o. This comes default on my Linux distros.
Sometimes I wish there were less fragmentation and duplicated effort, but this is not always a negative given by how I chose OO.o based alternatives.
Baby steps. It wasn't so long ago when IE had +90% of the worldwide browser usage share. I would have had nothing against IE, if it weren't for its incompatible implementation of web standards and being Windows-only. I believe it is a crime to limit a web site access to users of a certain browser and a certain OS. Probably this is what Microsoft wanted all along, to make the WWW an extension of Windows. I experienced this first hand when some sites, like my bank, were IE-only. Luckily, for me, Wine helped a lot in breaking that barrier. This is less of an issue now, IE8 is better with standards, and the usage share of alternative browsers grew to a point that they can't be ignored. Also the EU's latest legislation should help level the playing field. I especially like the interoperability bit, and I hope it extends to ensuring IE complies with standards and doesn't introduce proprietary extensions.
Don't get me wrong, I love Unix. Maybe "stuck" was the wrong term. I never claimed to be an English major. If you read my whole post, you'd have got the message that I believe x86 and Unix are more than good enough and will continue to be for the foreseeable future.
Seems to me we're stuck with Windows
"The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you." -- Ken Thompson
I wonder if Ken has ever seen Vista?
Yeah, I'm stuck with Windows at work. I go home to Mac OS X and Linux/X/GNU goodness, my main machine runs BlackBox on top of Debian.
My signature is a tongue-in-cheek comment, I don't expect people to take it too seriously. Just like x86 and Unix, X is not perfect but good enough, and will continue to be in use for a long time.
Since we are still stuck with Unix 40 years later and still will be 40 years from now, I can see that we could be still stuck with x86 for a long time. To the Computer Science graduate, they are flawed designs, but in the real world they work and work good enough not to merit a costly change.
Yes there are CPU architectures, but are they significantly better to warrant a change? Even Apple after touting the merits of PowerPC succumbed to the x86 train. Even Intel tried multiple times to bring an alternative to its x86 line (iAPX, i860, i960, Itanium), but without success. RHEL abandoning Itanium is one more example. Sun offers x86 hardware in addition to its SPARC line, so does IBM and HP, and every other server vendor. There were a time when x86 was laughed at and not considered server-class. Now most servers and super computers use x86 processors.
In the Unix-haters handbook, the refer to the original Macintosh OS as a better OS with better GUI than Unix and X, now Mac OS X is Unix, and if you jailbreak and ssh into your iPhone you'll find a familiar Unix under all the eye candy. Most servers either run Unix or Linux, so does most super computers. All assumed flaws of the Unix architecture accounted for nothing in the real world.
It is their product they are free to control it. You are not forced to use OS X. You can freely use Windows, Linux/X/GNU, OpenSolaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, etc... Exercise your right and choose the OS that suits you best. Heck, Apple wont come after you if you build a Hackintosh, just don't try to profit out of it. Which brings me to an interesting question, instead of cloning Mac (hardware) why not clone OS X? huge portions of the OS are already open source and under permissive licenses. That would be more interesting.
Plus why wont I just use Safari instead of Firefox to access web apps? Firefox isn't gonna be faster than Safari in Javascript anytime soon. They also forgot that the iPhone already has web apps that can be accessed using Safari.
Firefox Mobile wont have the fastest Javascript engine, and when developing for web why would I want Firefox Mobile instead of Safari Mobile? WebKit implements more standards than Gecko, and is constantly faster in all benchmarks. Plus the iPhone already has web apps. Firefox sucks, and Firefox Mobile wont be any better.
This got me wondering, how long before Samsung abandons Bada? Samsung should of stayed with Android, they are a founding member of the Open Handset Alliance, and from your post they are in control of the software. I've had a Samsung feature-phone before. I wont call it smart because the thing was too complicated to use. I don't trust Samsung when it comes to UI design, they don't seem to have it in them.
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Firefox does support multithreading, what it doesn't support is multiprocessing. Firefox runs as a single process, whereas Chrome has a separate process for every site, plugin and extension.
lol what?
Burj Dubai wasn't built nor designed by Arabs. The architect was Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, structural engineer was Bill Baker, and it was built by cheap labor from South Asian countries like India and Bangladesh.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Dubai
Anyone else suspicious of this? Intel trying to use its CPU monopoly to gain a GPU monopoly?
No need for invading our privacy.
It's my body, I decide what to do with it!
Plus, you'll get rid of the middleman, legalize drugs and there will be no need for dealers or drug gangs. The government WILL be the sole dealer of drugs, and due to economies of scales, they'll be able to sell them for far less than any dealer while making a good sum of money thanks to all the taxes.
I personally prefer IBM Lotus Symphony, it is based off OO.o 1.x but with what I consider a more usable UI.
On the Mac I use NeoOffice, also based off OO.o, but with better Mac integration.
Go-OO is a yet another set of patches on OO.o. This comes default on my Linux distros.
Sometimes I wish there were less fragmentation and duplicated effort, but this is not always a negative given by how I chose OO.o based alternatives.
Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
I LOVE it!
I'd rather Csh myself. If this iTablet runs Vim, count me in.
Have you seen a stripper (in action)? of course it is insigt ful.
Chrome now has extension, including for blocking ads.
I'm waiting for an extension similar to NoScript. You can never be too safe or too sure.
GM started working on the Volt before going into bankruptcy.
China did block Wikipedia before. I can see them doing it again, and maybe this time permanently. Unless Wikipedia makes a China-friendly version.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_of_Wikipedia_by_the_People's_Republic_of_China
http://shanghaiist.com/archives/2005/10/20/you_bastards_wi.php
http://www.itworld.com/040614wikipedia
http://angrychineseblogger.blog-city.com/china_blocks_wikipedia_again.htm
Baby steps.
It wasn't so long ago when IE had +90% of the worldwide browser usage share. I would have had nothing against IE, if it weren't for its incompatible implementation of web standards and being Windows-only. I believe it is a crime to limit a web site access to users of a certain browser and a certain OS. Probably this is what Microsoft wanted all along, to make the WWW an extension of Windows. I experienced this first hand when some sites, like my bank, were IE-only. Luckily, for me, Wine helped a lot in breaking that barrier. This is less of an issue now, IE8 is better with standards, and the usage share of alternative browsers grew to a point that they can't be ignored.
Also the EU's latest legislation should help level the playing field. I especially like the interoperability bit, and I hope it extends to ensuring IE complies with standards and doesn't introduce proprietary extensions.
The market that could very well turn to ARM?
I don't see much of a future for Via. I'm not being a troll, it is just my observation.
Don't get me wrong, I love Unix. Maybe "stuck" was the wrong term. I never claimed to be an English major. If you read my whole post, you'd have got the message that I believe x86 and Unix are more than good enough and will continue to be for the foreseeable future.
Seems to me we're stuck with Windows
"The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you." -- Ken Thompson
I wonder if Ken has ever seen Vista?
Yeah, I'm stuck with Windows at work. I go home to Mac OS X and Linux/X/GNU goodness, my main machine runs BlackBox on top of Debian.
My signature is a tongue-in-cheek comment, I don't expect people to take it too seriously. Just like x86 and Unix, X is not perfect but good enough, and will continue to be in use for a long time.
Since we are still stuck with Unix 40 years later and still will be 40 years from now, I can see that we could be still stuck with x86 for a long time. To the Computer Science graduate, they are flawed designs, but in the real world they work and work good enough not to merit a costly change.
Yes there are CPU architectures, but are they significantly better to warrant a change? Even Apple after touting the merits of PowerPC succumbed to the x86 train. Even Intel tried multiple times to bring an alternative to its x86 line (iAPX, i860, i960, Itanium), but without success. RHEL abandoning Itanium is one more example. Sun offers x86 hardware in addition to its SPARC line, so does IBM and HP, and every other server vendor. There were a time when x86 was laughed at and not considered server-class. Now most servers and super computers use x86 processors.
In the Unix-haters handbook, the refer to the original Macintosh OS as a better OS with better GUI than Unix and X, now Mac OS X is Unix, and if you jailbreak and ssh into your iPhone you'll find a familiar Unix under all the eye candy. Most servers either run Unix or Linux, so does most super computers. All assumed flaws of the Unix architecture accounted for nothing in the real world.
Cell has no Altivec. It uses the SPEs instead.
Forgot to add that in the server and mainframe world it is common practice to tie software to hardware, I don't see anyone throwing a fit over it.
It is their product they are free to control it.
You are not forced to use OS X. You can freely use Windows, Linux/X/GNU, OpenSolaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, etc...
Exercise your right and choose the OS that suits you best.
Heck, Apple wont come after you if you build a Hackintosh, just don't try to profit out of it.
Which brings me to an interesting question, instead of cloning Mac (hardware) why not clone OS X? huge portions of the OS are already open source and under permissive licenses. That would be more interesting.
Apple just did.
Plus why wont I just use Safari instead of Firefox to access web apps? Firefox isn't gonna be faster than Safari in Javascript anytime soon. They also forgot that the iPhone already has web apps that can be accessed using Safari.
Firefox Mobile wont have the fastest Javascript engine, and when developing for web why would I want Firefox Mobile instead of Safari Mobile? WebKit implements more standards than Gecko, and is constantly faster in all benchmarks. Plus the iPhone already has web apps.
Firefox sucks, and Firefox Mobile wont be any better.
She will be reimbursed on her shot MacBook.
This got me wondering, how long before Samsung abandons Bada? Samsung should of stayed with Android, they are a founding member of the Open Handset Alliance, and from your post they are in control of the software.
I've had a Samsung feature-phone before. I wont call it smart because the thing was too complicated to use. I don't trust Samsung when it comes to UI design, they don't seem to have it in them.
Then get a Droid :-)