the problem with boycotting sony is that if you want the best of any electronic product, you just can't ignore them. they have the best mp3 players, the best laptops, the better gaming consoles, the best handheld gaming consoles, the best tvs, one of the better ebook readers, one of the best sounding audio shit (earphones, speaker systems), one of the best cameras, the best video cameras, decent cellphones. now you can disagree with me that sony products are usually better, but you can't ignore them. if you boycott sony completely, its your loss. maybe you'd have a better deal in a specific product (eg, game console), but then you'd have to buy shitty earphones.
no, if i call someone on skype, my voice is streamed to my friend directly. not through a central skype server. to complete this trip, packets containing my voice have to hop from server to server, without any connection to any central server. this is as p2p as it can get. the whole thing works beautifully.
chrome has made the version numbers a thing for the 'coders' to worry about. if you are a normal user, you are supposed to use 'chrome'. you don't think about the number. it updates silently in the background and there are rarely any jarring ui changes. in fact i installed chrome 5, and after a few months, i thought, 'maybe i should update this thing'. i clicked the about thing and was surprised to learn that it was now 9! this approach is also kinda ok, i guess. the last thing anyone wants to mess with is version numbers.
ironical that in the browser case, msie is the only one in which version numbers actually mean significant improvement. i dunno if i'm the only one who thinks so, but i prefer ie9 over chrome (whatever the latest number). and of course firefox (3 & 4) is the undisputed king of browsers.
get the compatibility reporter extension. tree style works fabulously on ff4b10. i 3 tree style tabs. it can single-handedly keep me stuck on firefox till the end of time.
Other have proposed that idea, and still others have rejected it because each hop adds round trip delay. So while peer-to-peer is great for message passing, it sucks for real-time audio. SMS texting, on the other hand, would do fine on a peer-to-peer network.
for me, risk-reward logic gets skewed if i have to do something that i consider wrong( whatever that means). even if presented with great rewards and low risk i might choose not to do something if i find it immoral. i expect the majority of people to think likewise.
whenever i need to use the 'p' mode, i just fire up ie9, whose shortcut i've modified to always open in inprivate mode. its much better than firefox's close-everything-that-is-open-and-start-afresh approach.
whatever value they choose, it will be something like 1kg=x number of something defined in terms of planck's constant. so, the number of zeroes at the end does matter.
ditto. firefox is anyway fast enough for me. also, chrome tends to suffer from a slower startup. but in the end it always comes down to tree-style tabs for me. it utilizes the widescreen on my laptop and i can have 50+ tabs open grouped together according to topics and subtopics. also, when you close firefox, it remembers your position on each page (great for reading html ebooks) and remembers all the history of every tab. in chrome, when you undo close tab, all the history is missing. and the position is lost too.
OMG!! how many centuries in the future do you live? because right now, linux is shit when it comes to drivers. wifi will not work without downloading stuff(!), bluetooth just forget about it, video might work out-of-the-box, but only if you have integrated intel shit. and this is the state of ubuntu, which is the easiest to setup linux distro. otoh, when you buy a computer from a vendor with os pre-installed (dell, hp, apple, acer, toshiba) there's never any problem. everything just works. people here complain about drivers because they like to buy cutting edge graphic cards and put them into their pcs. sometimes they face problems related to drivers. i'd like to see you open up your apple products and put in a new nvidia.
if you move to chrome, you won't even have the OPTION to have tree-style tabs. i don't think chrome allows extensions to alter the chrome (unintended pun).
then why did they switch to tablets? i thought these machines were meant to assist in education, not for them to waste time doing worthless crap? can any of YOU imagine using a touchscreen tablet for school work? because i sure can't, not without a proper keyboard. it seems to me that the money spent on the touchscreen would have been better used in putting in a better processor or more memory. or just lower the price.
The only reason Ipads cost so much is they use under-clocked top of the line CPU's, IPS displays with lots of SSD space and a capacitive touchscreen in an expensive aluminum case.
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the problem with boycotting sony is that if you want the best of any electronic product, you just can't ignore them. they have the best mp3 players, the best laptops, the better gaming consoles, the best handheld gaming consoles, the best tvs, one of the better ebook readers, one of the best sounding audio shit (earphones, speaker systems), one of the best cameras, the best video cameras, decent cellphones.
now you can disagree with me that sony products are usually better, but you can't ignore them. if you boycott sony completely, its your loss. maybe you'd have a better deal in a specific product (eg, game console), but then you'd have to buy shitty earphones.
no, if i call someone on skype, my voice is streamed to my friend directly. not through a central skype server. to complete this trip, packets containing my voice have to hop from server to server, without any connection to any central server. this is as p2p as it can get. the whole thing works beautifully.
opera has been disqualified. for cheating.
chrome has made the version numbers a thing for the 'coders' to worry about. if you are a normal user, you are supposed to use 'chrome'. you don't think about the number. it updates silently in the background and there are rarely any jarring ui changes. in fact i installed chrome 5, and after a few months, i thought, 'maybe i should update this thing'. i clicked the about thing and was surprised to learn that it was now 9!
this approach is also kinda ok, i guess. the last thing anyone wants to mess with is version numbers.
i agree. i haven't seen a single person who really thinks chrome 9 is better than firefox 3.6 because 9>3.6.
ironical that in the browser case, msie is the only one in which version numbers actually mean significant improvement. i dunno if i'm the only one who thinks so, but i prefer ie9 over chrome (whatever the latest number). and of course firefox (3 & 4) is the undisputed king of browsers.
get the compatibility reporter extension. tree style works fabulously on ff4b10. i 3 tree style tabs. it can single-handedly keep me stuck on firefox till the end of time.
Other have proposed that idea, and still others have rejected it because each hop adds round trip delay. So while peer-to-peer is great for message passing, it sucks for real-time audio. SMS texting, on the other hand, would do fine on a peer-to-peer network.
skype.
i think your page is slashdotted.
for me, risk-reward logic gets skewed if i have to do something that i consider wrong( whatever that means). even if presented with great rewards and low risk i might choose not to do something if i find it immoral.
i expect the majority of people to think likewise.
i think they fixed aliased ui text in b10?
and anyway the content is beautifully anti-aliased.
whenever i need to use the 'p' mode, i just fire up ie9, whose shortcut i've modified to always open in inprivate mode. its much better than firefox's close-everything-that-is-open-and-start-afresh approach.
whatever value they choose, it will be something like 1kg=x number of something defined in terms of planck's constant. so, the number of zeroes at the end does matter.
Instead, I have to play the jailbreak game, dodging update bullets and ignoring new app updates that aren't compatible with 3.1.2.
no, you just need to stop following the herd and buy an android phone.
yeah, what the fuck is the use of directwrite if they don't use cleartype?
ditto.
firefox is anyway fast enough for me. also, chrome tends to suffer from a slower startup.
but in the end it always comes down to tree-style tabs for me. it utilizes the widescreen on my laptop and i can have 50+ tabs open grouped together according to topics and subtopics.
also, when you close firefox, it remembers your position on each page (great for reading html ebooks) and remembers all the history of every tab.
in chrome, when you undo close tab, all the history is missing. and the position is lost too.
guess what, for most people the web browser is the most important piece of software on their pc. so why should it not use the most resources?
OMG!!
how many centuries in the future do you live? because right now, linux is shit when it comes to drivers. wifi will not work without downloading stuff(!), bluetooth just forget about it, video might work out-of-the-box, but only if you have integrated intel shit. and this is the state of ubuntu, which is the easiest to setup linux distro.
otoh, when you buy a computer from a vendor with os pre-installed (dell, hp, apple, acer, toshiba) there's never any problem. everything just works.
people here complain about drivers because they like to buy cutting edge graphic cards and put them into their pcs. sometimes they face problems related to drivers. i'd like to see you open up your apple products and put in a new nvidia.
if you move to chrome, you won't even have the OPTION to have tree-style tabs. i don't think chrome allows extensions to alter the chrome (unintended pun).
i thought 3 turned out to be much faster and better than 2. its a matter of opinion.
my highly unoptimized c code can do that in milliseconds. on a fucking ancient 800mhz core duo.
then why did they switch to tablets?
i thought these machines were meant to assist in education, not for them to waste time doing worthless crap? can any of YOU imagine using a touchscreen tablet for school work? because i sure can't, not without a proper keyboard.
it seems to me that the money spent on the touchscreen would have been better used in putting in a better processor or more memory. or just lower the price.
The only reason Ipads cost so much is they use under-clocked top of the line CPU's, IPS displays with lots of SSD space and a capacitive touchscreen in an expensive aluminum case.
and don't forget the 200% apple tax.
yes it is. i'm not surprised at&t imposes a 5gb limit.
no, if apple wanted vlc on their phones, they'd have changed the way the store works. they did not, and so its their fault.