The reality is that we're back to where we were a decade ago; two big browsers (IE and Firefox) and a bunch of relatively meaningless small players. I can't imagine any reason that anyone would want to actually use Safari. There's barely an excuse for it in OSX, and certainly none in any other environment.
Firefox ain't perfect, but it does the job fine for me, substantially better than Safari. maybe because safari has a lighter open source engine that exists on multiple platforms.
seriously this is why zealots should not review products. The author starts off by saying i'm a MS hater but is going to try to keep this objective. Then he proceeds to say since mythtv cant do HDTV and Media center can, he is going to hold off on HDTV. WTF that alone makes MythTV totally useless for a huge number of techies. That is a huge minus. Its like saying I am going to compare GUIs in windows and linux. However, since linux cant do color yet, we are just going to compare the monochrome GUI.
You already know what the outcome is given the featureset and yet you continue to review it. He doesnt even mention the complete lack of HDTV as a minus. Even with all that he picks vista at the end.
What is funny though, it that he compares myth tv to media center instead of beyondtv which is by far the best media center application on any platform. Its light, fast and natively supports DivX. It it also incredibly polished and in my own trials had competely blown away every other application (i eventually went out and bought it). Oh yeah, and it supports HDTV.
Is it just me or is the new Office UI AND incompatible format coupled with the requirement of 3D cards to run Vista creating a perfect storm of backlash. If any one of these things were to come alone it would not have been this bad, but judging by the reaction from several companies including my own, this i driving people to look at OSX as a viable option.
Thanks, well, I only use this alias to post. The method I use is the following: 1. post in correct English 2. start by posting the truth 3. continue by injecting facts into the post where people were expecting something else 4. conclude by presenting a choice that is something other than the black and white that is expected
wait for replies when you get bites, continue with the discussion by 1. defending your position 2. using facts to back up what you say
the GPL3 fiasco should serve as a wake up call to companies which are trying to shift to GPL software either for development or use. The fact is you can't make a business model based around the current GPL version because once you switch to GPL software you become the bitch of the FSF. What is to say the FSF will not add other restrictions on the software you use? It is entirely usage clause will be added that limits what you can do with GPL software. In addition when there is a licence change like this eveyone needs to get legal involvd again to make sure GPL software is still usable. The parts where GPL infects patent deals is really disturbing. As each day goes by it really does seem like MS might have a point about the GPL being a viral licence. In this case it has mutated to infect unrelated areas of business after entering the host.
This has got me seriously looking at BSD instead of GPL stuff. At least BSD will not change on you like this. We will probably shift to Macs at work. I see the release of GPL3 as the beginning of the end.
I believe Windows NT will be the most important operating system of all time.
It's widely adopted, that's true. But, if someone wants to learn what computer science issues are addressed by an operating system, do they crack open some NT code? Nope. Unix was then and is now the most important operating system: it provides a standard and it may be adapted into places where only the insane would put NT or its descendants.
We do on occasion look at the NT code to see how MS did things (its not always wrong) on. You do know that some academic institutions are allowed to see the NT and CE code right? check your CS dept you probably have to sign NDA and stuff, but yeah, you can see the NT source.
"I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time."
If you are laughing at that, you need to brush up on your operating systems. It is one thing to laugh at something because the other guy is wrong. It is another thing to laugh at someone because YOU don't know what you are talking about and think he is wrong.
NT4, win2000, XP, win2003 and vista are descendants of OS/2. The win 9x line is dead and all we have are the bastard sons of OS/2. I would say that win2000 and XP were pretty significant operating systems for good or for bad.
Stop trying to hamstring your sellers. Your costs were exponentially lower when you were born, making more money doesn't entitle you to start charging more money for no real reason. um yes they have a reason. They want more profits. That is a valid and real reason. They also have every right to raise rates as they like. It is private business.
this might not go well with the people on slashdot, but DRM has been a way of getting companies to get video online. Things like netflix watch now which lets you watch netflix DVDs online or AOLs in2tv which has tons and tons of WB programming for free would not be around with out DRM. Its not unbreakable but it prevents the casual copying that they really fear. I can continue this with the list of american tv networks that broadcast full primetime shows in high quality online for free as soon as they air.
itunes store wouldnt be aroudn without DRM. Sure we are getting rid of it now, but it has gone a long way to changing the napster era mentatlity of expecting everything for free.
the war on terror is a very very small part of the conflict with islam. To understand it you need to look at what muslims have been doing in asia for the past few hundred years up until the present. Look at the islamic conquest of india and the assault on the existing cultures and more so nearly all of south east asia where. In places like malaysia and indonesia it is called arabization where the existing culture and religion is replaced by force. Is this like western colonization? yes? but does the west still do that? no. Muslims still do that.
For example in indonesia, there is an island called bali it is the one of the last places in the area where the people are still hindus. It has been bombed twice. This was before the war in iraq. There was a point where i used to defend islam by pointing out that indonesia was the largest muslim state and they were peaceful. I cant say that anymore.
the common thread among the populations that were ravaged is that they were mostly hindu and buddhist and tended to be pacifist or too trusting. I believe this is the error many in the west are making too. I am not aware of any culture that has been able to co-exist with islam on a long term scale without major conflict.
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Firefox ain't perfect, but it does the job fine for me, substantially better than Safari. maybe because safari has a lighter open source engine that exists on multiple platforms.
do you realize konqueror and safari are the same open source engine right?
Oddly enough the default does not have the debug menu enabled. To get the debug menu for testing do this
/key true/
/dict and restart safari
in C:\Documents and Settings\USER\Application Data\Apple Computer\Safari
there is a file Preferences.plist
open that in notepad and add the line : (rememebr to include brackets, which i cant show in the post)
key IncludeDebugMenu
right before the last
The main FF series is already multi platform FFXI is already on the 360.
Step 1. reduce price to $249
step 2: change controller to a longer shape
step 3: add waggle
step 4: profit.
come on you need to get these headlines right it is called "iPhone killer" and i predict many more will come out.
ah so the GPL actually is a EULA now...
There are people here asking what the big deal about OSX is. This thread is a good example of why i switched from linux to a mac
Ad was just shown on ESPN during the Sox, yankees game
almost all business desktops and laptops do not have harware accelerations. They come with intel GMA integrated graphics.
GPL3 will be the bullet that hits the foot of open source. This is going to do more damage to commerical adoption than anything MS could have done.
seriously this is why zealots should not review products. The author starts off by saying i'm a MS hater but is going to try to keep this objective. Then he proceeds to say since mythtv cant do HDTV and Media center can, he is going to hold off on HDTV. WTF that alone makes MythTV totally useless for a huge number of techies. That is a huge minus. Its like saying I am going to compare GUIs in windows and linux. However, since linux cant do color yet, we are just going to compare the monochrome GUI.
You already know what the outcome is given the featureset and yet you continue to review it. He doesnt even mention the complete lack of HDTV as a minus. Even with all that he picks vista at the end.
What is funny though, it that he compares myth tv to media center instead of beyondtv which is by far the best media center application on any platform. Its light, fast and natively supports DivX. It it also incredibly polished and in my own trials had competely blown away every other application (i eventually went out and bought it). Oh yeah, and it supports HDTV.
Is it just me or is the new Office UI AND incompatible format coupled with the requirement of 3D cards to run Vista creating a perfect storm of backlash. If any one of these things were to come alone it would not have been this bad, but judging by the reaction from several companies including my own, this i driving people to look at OSX as a viable option.
Thanks, well, I only use this alias to post. The method I use is the following:
1. post in correct English
2. start by posting the truth
3. continue by injecting facts into the post where people were expecting something else
4. conclude by presenting a choice that is something other than the black and white that is expected
wait for replies when you get bites, continue with the discussion by
1. defending your position
2. using facts to back up what you say
well, it seems the slashbot group think only sees GPL and MS. Lets ignore Macs and the BSDs. Even though i explicitly mention that as my other choice.
the GPL3 fiasco should serve as a wake up call to companies which are trying to shift to GPL software either for development or use. The fact is you can't make a business model based around the current GPL version because once you switch to GPL software you become the bitch of the FSF. What is to say the FSF will not add other restrictions on the software you use? It is entirely usage clause will be added that limits what you can do with GPL software. In addition when there is a licence change like this eveyone needs to get legal involvd again to make sure GPL software is still usable. The parts where GPL infects patent deals is really disturbing. As each day goes by it really does seem like MS might have a point about the GPL being a viral licence. In this case it has mutated to infect unrelated areas of business after entering the host.
This has got me seriously looking at BSD instead of GPL stuff. At least BSD will not change on you like this. We will probably shift to Macs at work. I see the release of GPL3 as the beginning of the end.
Okay. Let's make the substitution:
It's widely adopted, that's true. But, if someone wants to learn what computer science issues are addressed by an operating system, do they crack open some NT code? Nope. Unix was then and is now the most important operating system: it provides a standard and it may be adapted into places where only the insane would put NT or its descendants.
We do on occasion look at the NT code to see how MS did things (its not always wrong) on. You do know that some academic institutions are allowed to see the NT and CE code right? check your CS dept you probably have to sign NDA and stuff, but yeah, you can see the NT source."I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time."
If you are laughing at that, you need to brush up on your operating systems. It is one thing to laugh at something because the other guy is wrong. It is another thing to laugh at someone because YOU don't know what you are talking about and think he is wrong.
NT4, win2000, XP, win2003 and vista are descendants of OS/2. The win 9x line is dead and all we have are the bastard sons of OS/2. I would say that win2000 and XP were pretty significant operating systems for good or for bad.
Dont laugh Gates was right.
sadly i dont think it will take that long. With people like Barak Hussein and Congressman Keith X running the US probably wont help
you forgot communism and socialism. I dont think anything in human history can compare to the millions killed by the nazis, soviets and chinese
Stop trying to hamstring your sellers. Your costs were exponentially lower when you were born, making more money doesn't entitle you to start charging more money for no real reason. um yes they have a reason. They want more profits. That is a valid and real reason. They also have every right to raise rates as they like. It is private business.
I though the virus sponge already existed. We always called it Paris Hilton...
this might not go well with the people on slashdot, but DRM has been a way of getting companies to get video online. Things like netflix watch now which lets you watch netflix DVDs online or AOLs in2tv which has tons and tons of WB programming for free would not be around with out DRM. Its not unbreakable but it prevents the casual copying that they really fear. I can continue this with the list of american tv networks that broadcast full primetime shows in high quality online for free as soon as they air.
itunes store wouldnt be aroudn without DRM. Sure we are getting rid of it now, but it has gone a long way to changing the napster era mentatlity of expecting everything for free.
you think thats bad? communism is screwed even more now
the war on terror is a very very small part of the conflict with islam. To understand it you need to look at what muslims have been doing in asia for the past few hundred years up until the present. Look at the islamic conquest of india and the assault on the existing cultures and more so nearly all of south east asia where. In places like malaysia and indonesia it is called arabization where the existing culture and religion is replaced by force. Is this like western colonization? yes? but does the west still do that? no. Muslims still do that.
For example in indonesia, there is an island called bali it is the one of the last places in the area where the people are still hindus. It has been bombed twice. This was before the war in iraq. There was a point where i used to defend islam by pointing out that indonesia was the largest muslim state and they were peaceful. I cant say that anymore.
the common thread among the populations that were ravaged is that they were mostly hindu and buddhist and tended to be pacifist or too trusting. I believe this is the error many in the west are making too. I am not aware of any culture that has been able to co-exist with islam on a long term scale without major conflict.