Much of the mainstream media coverage of the Firefox 1.0 release has been surprisingly good so far. For example, here's a pretty good article from the front page of The Guardian website introducing the politics of wider Firefox adoption to a mainstream audience. It's going to be harder and harder for Microsoft to counter this positive reporting.
I'm not sure what good it would do to report it to citi since there's nothing they can do about it except maybe send out emails to everyone in the world telling them not to believe emails claiming to be from them.
There's just a slight flaw in that logic...
Great. So now your terrorist just has to find a route their target regularly follows, grab their plate RFID, and park a van full of fertiliser somewhere on this route. Create a detonator using an PDA and RFID reader and leave the country. Could be a week later (or more) that the victim drives past for the last time...
You raise an interesting point there. There's no doubt Windows is where it is today because of all the pirated copies of Windows and Office people use at home. Now Microsoft are attempting to chase these users through product activation it will get interesting when Longhorn eventually comes out. If Palladium really works, it will be tempting to use it to secure the product activation process, at which point all the pirate home users will be locked out. Without this market share how can they really expect XAML to take over the web? If Microsoft can be shown to deliberately allow piracy in order to grab market share again, presumably they risk severe anti-monopoly legal implications (at least in the EU!).
Where did they get that theme from? Gtk2 actually looks quite nice with the standard theme. The Sun theme looks like something someone with no artistic talent created in their bedroom. The handles on the toolbars are the worst I've seen in a long time.
I'm suprised the desktop doesn't have a default Natalie Portman backdrop...
'Qtopia Desktop is a Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux-based PIM center for storing information, entering data, loading applications, and transferring documents to Qtopia-based devices. Qtopia Desktop features include: A unique synchronization algorithm that provides rapid information back-up and document transfer to Qtopia-based devices; A Palm(tm) Desktop import tool for PIM information; and provide "conduits" for custom plug-in of 3rd party applications.'
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Much of the mainstream media coverage of the Firefox 1.0 release has been surprisingly good so far. For example, here's a pretty good article from the front page of The Guardian website introducing the politics of wider Firefox adoption to a mainstream audience. It's going to be harder and harder for Microsoft to counter this positive reporting.
Am I the only one that misread that URL? I was expecting a collection of Donald Rumsfeld's favourite recipes.
I'm not sure what good it would do to report it to citi since there's nothing they can do about it except maybe send out emails to everyone in the world telling them not to believe emails claiming to be from them.
There's just a slight flaw in that logic...
Great. So now your terrorist just has to find a route their target regularly follows, grab their plate RFID, and park a van full of fertiliser somewhere on this route. Create a detonator using an PDA and RFID reader and leave the country. Could be a week later (or more) that the victim drives past for the last time...
Bleurgh. Wouldn't want to eat that nasty icing or marzipan would you ;-)
You raise an interesting point there. There's no doubt Windows is where it is today because of all the pirated copies of Windows and Office people use at home. Now Microsoft are attempting to chase these users through product activation it will get interesting when Longhorn eventually comes out. If Palladium really works, it will be tempting to use it to secure the product activation process, at which point all the pirate home users will be locked out. Without this market share how can they really expect XAML to take over the web? If Microsoft can be shown to deliberately allow piracy in order to grab market share again, presumably they risk severe anti-monopoly legal implications (at least in the EU!).
No, it takes real flair and hard work to make Gnome look that bad.
You're not from round here, are you?
Lunokhod was just a RC car more or less. But still a bold craft for its time. I read that it took 5 guys to drive it.
You forget: in Soviet Russia the rover drives you!
Those Blade2500's are pretty nice machines though, we have a couple internally.
Ouch! That must have hurt.
Where did they get that theme from? Gtk2 actually looks quite nice with the standard theme. The Sun theme looks like something someone with no artistic talent created in their bedroom. The handles on the toolbars are the worst I've seen in a long time.
I'm suprised the desktop doesn't have a default Natalie Portman backdrop...
Bzzt. Wrong.
'Qtopia Desktop is a Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux-based PIM center for storing information, entering data, loading applications, and transferring documents to Qtopia-based devices. Qtopia Desktop features include: A unique synchronization algorithm that provides rapid information back-up and document transfer to Qtopia-based devices; A Palm(tm) Desktop import tool for PIM information; and provide "conduits" for custom plug-in of 3rd party applications.'