So far it looks like it will be available to Windows 2000 users, as long as they decide to upgrade to XP.
With that being said, is there any reason why anyone would still want to use IE? I am not really a fanboy of any particular browser, but if I was going to set sail in a boat -- I would pick the one with a bottom.
Sure IIS is patched now. But that is like saying the titanic has been patched up and is ready to sail - the damage is done - too little too late. Most companies I do business with would never dream of using IIS again (or at all) because of the track record -- not the current patch level.
I am just saying that IE is now going down that path also. Sure JoeShmo home user is still going to be using it....but the bigboys with the deep pockets (big business) are the ones who are heading south to "anything but MS land". (A few more nights of panic patching thousands of desktops under the moonlight on the company dollar should do the trick....) I know these last few IE exploits have the CIO at my company willing to go down any other path.
I think this is just like the straw that broke IIS's back on the server side. Big holes, no solutions...The big boys say your only solution is to use a safe product - all of a sudden Apache is golden. And this is not like your neighbor geek saying "hey, check out this browser" -- next we just need gartner to say -- do not use IE....and then that will be all she wrote. RIP IE. With all of your popups, tabless browsing and thousand of security holes, good riddence. Rot in hell.
I think this is a good precedent. If I ever get sued by the RIAA for my occasional "sample" of music before purchase, then I at least know that I can pay my fines by sending them back all of the crap CD's that I had purchased before I had the internet to screen the CD's.
I guess I have a question since so many people are wondering if Apple is going to start offering file downloads in a lossless format. Apple has stated many times that the profit margin of 99 cent songs is very low to nothing. (They only use iTunes to pump up the sales of iPods which is where they make the big iMoney)
So how could they start offering a download format that averages around 45 megs per song and not loose even more money on the bandwidth?
I don't know about everyone else, but I have gotten use to being able to download a full album of audio, and have it take up less bandwidth and HD space than an MPEG2 movie.
So it averages 21 songs per Ipod sold. May be a low number if Ipods only played songs downloaded from Itunes....But fortunatlly they also play good old fashioned MP3's ripped from an existing CD collection.
But leave it to the Apple freaks to wonder why people are not paying iTunes for songs they have already purchased on CD.
The freedom and power to backport, sideport, crossport, etc...Is the reason why the Linux kernel is now running on everything from Tosters and Parking meters to Rocket Ships and Space Stations. How can that be a bad thing? Millions of devices are running on this stuff...how cool is that?
"....or some sort of engineering license to practice software development in the US"
Great point. I think people that expect to get paid like professionals should have to be tested and certified. Works great for Doctors and Lawyers. In the end evryone benefits...More money for the people...and less garbage in the workforce. I have seen lots of "con man" types bounce around in 3-6 month contracts making $70 an hour....
I have said many times that I would easily trade the fancy dancy UI's of Gnome and KDE for plain Jain MWM or even TWM if I could get universal hardware support (drivers) out of the box. However, the sound card is not the hill you want to die on buddy....You could buy 10 sound cards and 9 of them would work.
Save your frustration for 802.11G or A, USB PVR, MP3 players that are not mass storage compat., firewire video cams, or any number of devices that will be in museums or obsolete before they ever fully work under Linux.
I remember at one point I had done my homework and carfully purchased Vdeo Cards, Scanners, TV Cards, USB Card Readers, Joysticks, MP3 players, 802.11B, etc....that all worked perfect under Linux, I had the perfect system. All proven hardware that worked great (most likely because the people that had the talent to reverse engineer this stuff had a reason to because of one reason or another...).....The bottom line -- I spent the next year praying that none of this stuff broke, because I could not just go back to best buy and purchase hardware that was 4 generations obsolete.
Whining about the losers who are addicted to TV and how liberating life is without a TV is hipocracy if you smoke dope. And I am willing to bet a fairly high percentage of these people are all dope smokers.
The RIAA Must feel like the horse and buggy companies did when paved roads became a reality...and that evil pirate automobile started to overpower them.
That being said. Have they ever stopped to think maybe when you sale a product that can be variable based on quantity, that it will not always be a % increase each year. I mean very vew CD's were released in 2003 that I figured were worth my money....(had nothing to do with piracy). 2004 is looking better...As far as my taste goes.
When I first heard about StarRoms I naturally assumed that the rom images they provide would be obtained directly from Atari. After an email exchange with StarRoms, I was very dissapointed to find out that the roms they are selling were originally downloaded from the internet (i.e. the same images from the same illegal dumping activity that most of us have already).
It seems StarRoms are missing the most important point to emulation fans and missing a real benefit that only a legitimate source can provide: we'd like to be sure that the rom images are 100% accurate by having them provided by, or at least authenticated by the manufacturer. Atari should naturally be required to provide them if they are also making money by selling/licencing them.
Pretty sad when the Russian folks are able to send average Joe for a joy ride in space with a return journey...and we (here in the US) don't even have the ability to launch and return the pro's with the whole state of NASA these days. And we are looking to go back to the moon and Mars??
On one hand I despise Network TV. Most everything is thoughtless, mindless garbage. Very soon we will have more people who have been on reality TV than are watching it.
On the other hand I guess that is just my opinion because sometimes I think they get it right and have me by the balls. Take 24 away from me right now and I would be very sad. Usually when I latch onto a show it is bound to be cancelled -- Freaks and Geeks, The Pretender, Dark Angel, etc.
As far as news. When are they going to realize that in the age of the internet that "teaser news" is no longer the way to go. If you have something to say -- say it now....Don't run 10 minutes of "teaser ads" throughout the night telling me to tune it at 10...only to have 7 more minutes of teser ads during the news -- only to get a small blurb at 10:27, I already have looked it up online and am way past that.
Oh yea, and don't take away the History Channel from me. The single best thing going for cable.
Ok. Based on this article I am pretty sure this guy is shady and not very honest. Based on the website said article is hosted on "Toms Hardware", I am pretty sure reviews hardware (and pretty well at that).
So what is missing from this story you ask? Well you have a company that claims to have the fastest Desktop and Laptop PC known to man. And a website that reviews PC's and Laptops. What you don't have is any review in the story.
Not one piece of hardware was obtained and/or tested. I mean if you want to call the guy a fraud (which he most likely is) is not this story 90% incomplete without actually running any benchmarks on the hardware?
"What really stimies me is the difficulty in getting USB devices to work (uncommonly used things like Palm Pilots...) and the general difficulty in either updating or adding new programs to the system once installed.
Want to make Linux sell better? Stop developing the latest/greatest KDE, and start working on fixing these areas. Once fixed (and idiot proofed), you will have a distro that costs $50 instead of $39, but the added cost will be worth it."
Amen man. I would much rather go to my Linux desktop of 3 years ago, without all the bling bling eye candy and CPU guzzling...If only I could get todays (or hell even yesterdays) hardware working. I know that the hardware makers don't always help out very much...But it sucks not to be able to Sync my USB Palm (very well) or use my Hauppage USB PVR (at all) in Linux, don't even get me started on my 802.11G cards that may be working sometime when my kids go to college in 15 years and 802.11G is irrelevent.
Heck -- I would even go back to TWM if the hardware would just work.
Just goes to show you that a certain percentage of the consumer market prefers to make their online buying decisions based on "PUSH" marketing on the internet....(SPAM). While the majority claim or prefer the "PULL" method when purchasing online.
I have recentlly gotten back into the "Record TV to PC" world lately. The most ironic thing is that I worked so long getting all the CAT5 cable to go away by creating a completlly wireless LAN...Just in time to have a big fat TV Cable sticking out of the back of all my machines.
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So far it looks like it will be available to Windows 2000 users, as long as they decide to upgrade to XP.
With that being said, is there any reason why anyone would still want to use IE? I am not really a fanboy of any particular browser, but if I was going to set sail in a boat -- I would pick the one with a bottom.
Sure IIS is patched now. But that is like saying the titanic has been patched up and is ready to sail - the damage is done - too little too late. Most companies I do business with would never dream of using IIS again (or at all) because of the track record -- not the current patch level.
I am just saying that IE is now going down that path also. Sure JoeShmo home user is still going to be using it....but the bigboys with the deep pockets (big business) are the ones who are heading south to "anything but MS land". (A few more nights of panic patching thousands of desktops under the moonlight on the company dollar should do the trick....) I know these last few IE exploits have the CIO at my company willing to go down any other path.
I think this is just like the straw that broke IIS's back on the server side. Big holes, no solutions...The big boys say your only solution is to use a safe product - all of a sudden Apache is golden. And this is not like your neighbor geek saying "hey, check out this browser" -- next we just need gartner to say -- do not use IE....and then that will be all she wrote. RIP IE. With all of your popups, tabless browsing and thousand of security holes, good riddence. Rot in hell.
I think this is a good precedent. If I ever get sued by the RIAA for my occasional "sample" of music before purchase, then I at least know that I can pay my fines by sending them back all of the crap CD's that I had purchased before I had the internet to screen the CD's.
If swaret.conf is pointed to CURRENT then yes you are running Slack 10. (VERSION=current)
Cool hu?
Just point swaret.conf to CURRENT
and then
swaret --update;swaret --upgrade
Works great. Slakware IS Linux .
Everything has been downhill since the 200LX. It is funny that it had more features and a better form factor than anything that has come since.
Yea -- I heard a couple of yuppies complaining about the price of gas the other day as they both enjoyed the $1.50 bottles of (you guessed it) water.
How is it that we can pay $1.50 for a liter of the worlds most abundent resource (water) yet bitch about $2 a gallon for gas?
Sounds like the RIAA has found out that Apple users are more than willing to pay more than double of what something is worth.
Hell -- most of those fruits most likely want to pay more, so it's a more exclusive club.
They most likely have them going through a proxy located in the US. (Or a variety of proxies set up in other countries also.)
I guess I have a question since so many people are wondering if Apple is going to start offering file downloads in a lossless format. Apple has stated many times that the profit margin of 99 cent songs is very low to nothing. (They only use iTunes to pump up the sales of iPods which is where they make the big iMoney)
So how could they start offering a download format that averages around 45 megs per song and not loose even more money on the bandwidth?
I don't know about everyone else, but I have gotten use to being able to download a full album of audio, and have it take up less bandwidth and HD space than an MPEG2 movie.
So it averages 21 songs per Ipod sold. May be a low number if Ipods only played songs downloaded from Itunes....But fortunatlly they also play good old fashioned MP3's ripped from an existing CD collection.
But leave it to the Apple freaks to wonder why people are not paying iTunes for songs they have already purchased on CD.
The freedom and power to backport, sideport, crossport, etc...Is the reason why the Linux kernel is now running on everything from Tosters and Parking meters to Rocket Ships and Space Stations. How can that be a bad thing? Millions of devices are running on this stuff...how cool is that?
"....or some sort of engineering license to practice software development in the US"
Great point. I think people that expect to get paid like professionals should have to be tested and certified. Works great for Doctors and Lawyers. In the end evryone benefits...More money for the people...and less garbage in the workforce. I have seen lots of "con man" types bounce around in 3-6 month contracts making $70 an hour....
One-third of e-mail is spam? But nine out of ten of my e-mails are spam... Nobody loves me. :~(
Man I could only wish for 1 legit email out of 10. I am more in the 1 out of 100 range.
Good point...awful article.
I have said many times that I would easily trade the fancy dancy UI's of Gnome and KDE for plain Jain MWM or even TWM if I could get universal hardware support (drivers) out of the box. However, the sound card is not the hill you want to die on buddy....You could buy 10 sound cards and 9 of them would work.
Save your frustration for 802.11G or A, USB PVR, MP3 players that are not mass storage compat., firewire video cams, or any number of devices that will be in museums or obsolete before they ever fully work under Linux.
I remember at one point I had done my homework and carfully purchased Vdeo Cards, Scanners, TV Cards, USB Card Readers, Joysticks, MP3 players, 802.11B, etc....that all worked perfect under Linux, I had the perfect system. All proven hardware that worked great (most likely because the people that had the talent to reverse engineer this stuff had a reason to because of one reason or another...).....The bottom line -- I spent the next year praying that none of this stuff broke, because I could not just go back to best buy and purchase hardware that was 4 generations obsolete.
Whining about the losers who are addicted to TV and how liberating life is without a TV is hipocracy if you smoke dope. And I am willing to bet a fairly high percentage of these people are all dope smokers.
The RIAA Must feel like the horse and buggy companies did when paved roads became a reality...and that evil pirate automobile started to overpower them.
That being said. Have they ever stopped to think maybe when you sale a product that can be variable based on quantity, that it will not always be a % increase each year. I mean very vew CD's were released in 2003 that I figured were worth my money....(had nothing to do with piracy). 2004 is looking better...As far as my taste goes.
I found this interesting:
When I first heard about StarRoms I naturally assumed that the rom images they provide would be obtained directly from Atari. After an email exchange with StarRoms, I was very dissapointed to find out that the roms they are selling were originally downloaded from the internet (i.e. the same images from the same illegal dumping activity that most of us have already). It seems StarRoms are missing the most important point to emulation fans and missing a real benefit that only a legitimate source can provide: we'd like to be sure that the rom images are 100% accurate by having them provided by, or at least authenticated by the manufacturer. Atari should naturally be required to provide them if they are also making money by selling/licencing them.
Pretty sad when the Russian folks are able to send average Joe for a joy ride in space with a return journey...and we (here in the US) don't even have the ability to launch and return the pro's with the whole state of NASA these days. And we are looking to go back to the moon and Mars??
On one hand I despise Network TV. Most everything is thoughtless, mindless garbage. Very soon we will have more people who have been on reality TV than are watching it.
On the other hand I guess that is just my opinion because sometimes I think they get it right and have me by the balls. Take 24 away from me right now and I would be very sad. Usually when I latch onto a show it is bound to be cancelled -- Freaks and Geeks, The Pretender, Dark Angel, etc.
As far as news. When are they going to realize that in the age of the internet that "teaser news" is no longer the way to go. If you have something to say -- say it now....Don't run 10 minutes of "teaser ads" throughout the night telling me to tune it at 10...only to have 7 more minutes of teser ads during the news -- only to get a small blurb at 10:27, I already have looked it up online and am way past that.
Oh yea, and don't take away the History Channel from me. The single best thing going for cable.
Ok. Based on this article I am pretty sure this guy is shady and not very honest. Based on the website said article is hosted on "Toms Hardware", I am pretty sure reviews hardware (and pretty well at that).
So what is missing from this story you ask? Well you have a company that claims to have the fastest Desktop and Laptop PC known to man. And a website that reviews PC's and Laptops. What you don't have is any review in the story.
Not one piece of hardware was obtained and/or tested. I mean if you want to call the guy a fraud (which he most likely is) is not this story 90% incomplete without actually running any benchmarks on the hardware?
"What really stimies me is the difficulty in getting USB devices to work (uncommonly used things like Palm Pilots...) and the general difficulty in either updating or adding new programs to the system once installed.
Want to make Linux sell better? Stop developing the latest/greatest KDE, and start working on fixing these areas. Once fixed (and idiot proofed), you will have a distro that costs $50 instead of $39, but the added cost will be worth it."
Amen man. I would much rather go to my Linux desktop of 3 years ago, without all the bling bling eye candy and CPU guzzling...If only I could get todays (or hell even yesterdays) hardware working. I know that the hardware makers don't always help out very much...But it sucks not to be able to Sync my USB Palm (very well) or use my Hauppage USB PVR (at all) in Linux, don't even get me started on my 802.11G cards that may be working sometime when my kids go to college in 15 years and 802.11G is irrelevent.
Heck -- I would even go back to TWM if the hardware would just work.
Just goes to show you that a certain percentage of the consumer market prefers to make their online buying decisions based on "PUSH" marketing on the internet....(SPAM). While the majority claim or prefer the "PULL" method when purchasing online.
I have recentlly gotten back into the "Record TV to PC" world lately. The most ironic thing is that I worked so long getting all the CAT5 cable to go away by creating a completlly wireless LAN...Just in time to have a big fat TV Cable sticking out of the back of all my machines.