Yup, IE9 is decent. No maybe it is not the fastest browser out there. But as a baseline that you know will be installed sooner or later by most Windows users, it is good. It renders things fast enough, has hardware accelerated graphics, can be secured fairly well.
I have no major problems using IE9 on PC, Safari on my Mac, and Firefox on my *nix installs. They're all "good enoough".
What he said basically. I used Firefox since it was called Phoenix, and they totally lost the plot several years ago. There are plenty of other better options out there than both Chrome OR firefox, it's a shame people don't bother with them.
Chrome works just fine on my Pentium D from 2004. In Windows 7. It works just fine in virtual machines with 512mb of RAM running XP. Snappy, in fact. If chrome doesn't work for you either your hardware is WAY out of date, under spec or you have malware.
I don't run it any more due to the total lack of trust I have in Google, but the browser performs well, regardless.
Giving up IE, which is merely insecure, for Chrome which actively tracks you. Sigh.
In a post-webkit (and Opera!) world, there are plenty of other really great options out there, and I really think it is important that we push other browsers, other search engines, other blog services etc to prevent Google cementing their strangehold on virtually all facets of the online experience.
Go experiment with other search engines. Go try a different browser. Try living without google for a day. Because otherwise if they ever turn evil (whether or not they already are is open to debate), we're fucked.
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History has shown that CPU speed scales much faster than programmer speed. History has also shown that people can't write secure code, thus giving up ASLR is a bad thing.
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I very much doubt the former "wins" at all. Code is far, far smaller than data it operates on, which has nothing to do with pointer size or register size causing increased footprint. 2 systems is ambiguous and enables applications to be written for the wrong security model. Just compile everything for x64 and be done with it.
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You've seen the prices of 16+ GB of ram recently, right? Shaving a few bytes here and there in your CODE (not in your data, which is far and away larger) by writing for 32 bit pointer use in the days where 16GB of ram is under a hundred bucks is retarded.
I don't think you can call it "rock solid" just yet, it hasn't even been out a week, let alone the few months to be considered even "stable"... Rock solid = years of uptime.
Why do you need audio playback on a typical desktop? For laptop users like me, saving all audio related watts by using my portable music player means better battery life.
This sort of application thinking is retarded. If the OS crashes, it is an OS problem. Firefox (which being a browser stores SFA that needs to be permanent) should not be forcing sync in the fear that the OS crashes. Let the cache work as intended, don't cripple it because the user is retarded or the underlying OS is crap.
If the underlying OS is crap and causing data corruption due to crashing with outstanding cached writes, then the OS is broken and needs to be fixed. NOT the browser.
Email, IRC, HTTP, HTTPS, NNTP and DNS all need to be banned, as they can be used to distribute illegal content!
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Torchlight held my interest for about 2 hrs, tops. It doesn't look anywhere near as good as D3, and the character classes just didn't engage me at all.
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Blizzard go belly up? Hah. If they put only 5-10% of their monthly WOW income in the bank they'll have a war-chest able to sustain them for a very long time. Never mind any new products they produce.
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... plus any countries that have bought into the "free trade agreement" BS.
I agree to an extent. But for me, gigabit ethernet is something I (as a minority) really do want, without needing a dongle (irrespective of whether it is thunderbolt or USB3, it is still another thing to get lost/forgotten/etc).
But, as you say, thunderbolt opens up all sorts of possibilities - fibre channel, 10gig-e, etc. And I'd certainy understand the reasoning, if they were to drop as an internal connector.
I'm hoping they keep gig-e on the pro machines, but realistically most of the time it is ever used is when you're at your desk. i.e., plugged into your thunderbolt display, which has gig-e. Why carry the port around all the time when you're away from your desk.
At least no doubt that is the theory, if it disappears.
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Yup, IE9 is decent. No maybe it is not the fastest browser out there. But as a baseline that you know will be installed sooner or later by most Windows users, it is good. It renders things fast enough, has hardware accelerated graphics, can be secured fairly well.
I have no major problems using IE9 on PC, Safari on my Mac, and Firefox on my *nix installs. They're all "good enoough".
As do I. Sadly though, people see "Apple" and think "iTunes on the PC is shithouse" and ignore it. Safari is good.
Outsourcing to india is so last decade. It will be india outsourcing phone support to the US before too long.
What he said basically. I used Firefox since it was called Phoenix, and they totally lost the plot several years ago. There are plenty of other better options out there than both Chrome OR firefox, it's a shame people don't bother with them.
Chrome works just fine on my Pentium D from 2004. In Windows 7. It works just fine in virtual machines with 512mb of RAM running XP. Snappy, in fact. If chrome doesn't work for you either your hardware is WAY out of date, under spec or you have malware.
I don't run it any more due to the total lack of trust I have in Google, but the browser performs well, regardless.
Giving up IE, which is merely insecure, for Chrome which actively tracks you. Sigh.
In a post-webkit (and Opera!) world, there are plenty of other really great options out there, and I really think it is important that we push other browsers, other search engines, other blog services etc to prevent Google cementing their strangehold on virtually all facets of the online experience.
Go experiment with other search engines. Go try a different browser. Try living without google for a day. Because otherwise if they ever turn evil (whether or not they already are is open to debate), we're fucked.
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History has shown that CPU speed scales much faster than programmer speed. History has also shown that people can't write secure code, thus giving up ASLR is a bad thing.
Ditti. We started with LOGO...
I very much doubt the former "wins" at all. Code is far, far smaller than data it operates on, which has nothing to do with pointer size or register size causing increased footprint. 2 systems is ambiguous and enables applications to be written for the wrong security model. Just compile everything for x64 and be done with it.
You've seen the prices of 16+ GB of ram recently, right? Shaving a few bytes here and there in your CODE (not in your data, which is far and away larger) by writing for 32 bit pointer use in the days where 16GB of ram is under a hundred bucks is retarded.
I don't think you can call it "rock solid" just yet, it hasn't even been out a week, let alone the few months to be considered even "stable"... Rock solid = years of uptime.
FreeBSD already did. OSS. One day Linux will dump the pulse related crap and things will come full circle.
Why do you need audio playback on a typical desktop? For laptop users like me, saving all audio related watts by using my portable music player means better battery life.
Try FreeBSD instead. Or PC-BSD, which is essentially FreeBSD with a fancy installer.
This sort of application thinking is retarded. If the OS crashes, it is an OS problem. Firefox (which being a browser stores SFA that needs to be permanent) should not be forcing sync in the fear that the OS crashes. Let the cache work as intended, don't cripple it because the user is retarded or the underlying OS is crap.
If the underlying OS is crap and causing data corruption due to crashing with outstanding cached writes, then the OS is broken and needs to be fixed. NOT the browser.
Email, IRC, HTTP, HTTPS, NNTP and DNS all need to be banned, as they can be used to distribute illegal content!
Torchlight held my interest for about 2 hrs, tops. It doesn't look anywhere near as good as D3, and the character classes just didn't engage me at all.
Blizzard go belly up? Hah. If they put only 5-10% of their monthly WOW income in the bank they'll have a war-chest able to sustain them for a very long time. Never mind any new products they produce.
... plus any countries that have bought into the "free trade agreement" BS.
Newsflash: You don't purchase software. You purchase a LICENSE to run software which may be revoked by violating the terms of the license.
Running third party software on your hardware is entirely different to running software on third party unlicensed hardware.
Due to licensing changes, apple are unable/unwilling to bundle newer versions. So maybe it is too much?
I agree to an extent. But for me, gigabit ethernet is something I (as a minority) really do want, without needing a dongle (irrespective of whether it is thunderbolt or USB3, it is still another thing to get lost/forgotten/etc).
But, as you say, thunderbolt opens up all sorts of possibilities - fibre channel, 10gig-e, etc. And I'd certainy understand the reasoning, if they were to drop as an internal connector.
I'm hoping they keep gig-e on the pro machines, but realistically most of the time it is ever used is when you're at your desk. i.e., plugged into your thunderbolt display, which has gig-e. Why carry the port around all the time when you're away from your desk.
At least no doubt that is the theory, if it disappears.