That's weird. Computers that I use at school have ridiculously underprivileged student accounts (I mean really- you can't delete your own files on the network drive -it's a joke), but I can install firefox without elevating myself. On XP, Vista and 7. Although it's highly probable that it's just an oversight.
Please don't let the only decent linux graphics card vendor (sorry, AMD's still not up to it and intel's not powerful enough) get too much in bed with microsoft.
Well firefox is holding steady, IE is losing huge. What I'm guessing is that around an equal amount of people are leaving firefox for chrome as are people leaving IE for firefox. Of course, plenty are leaving IE for chrome, too, so...
What are you trying to say? The writing of that post is... very poor. I think you're tying to defend firefox 4 which makes no sense because I didn't post about it and am in fact an obsessive firefox user who enjoys firefox 4. Not to mention that firefox is actually currently suffering from chrome syndrome. The problem is not bloat, it's anti-bloat. They're removing features left right and center.
The author took the time to port multiple OS emulators for the benefit of thousands of people who would never had access to them on their smartphones, charged a few bucks, and closed the source code illegally for the trouble.
life not lives. And sorry for the various typos and misspaces, slashdot comments are totally whited out for me due to theme conflicts and I'm too lazy to fix it, so I just blindly type.
In the US, everyone tells you how to live your lives. Conservatives want you to conform to a Christian lifestyle, plus war on drugs and shit like that. Not to mention blatant corporatocracy/facism. The other conservatives (Democrats) want you to accept government interference in every aspect of your life, more blatantly, and corporatocracy more subtly. Basically, they're two sides of the same coin that emphasize different points of the same philosophy. And people just keep voting them in. This comes to mind:
"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like to straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said ford. "It is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"
"What?"
"I said," said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, "have you got any gin?"
"I'll look. Tell me about the lizards."
Ford shrugged again.
"Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happened to them," he said. "They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it."
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Citation?
... which is why he said security only through obscurity is a bad idea, and it should be layered with encryption and stuff.
Paranoid much??
Yes.
That's weird. Computers that I use at school have ridiculously underprivileged student accounts (I mean really- you can't delete your own files on the network drive -it's a joke), but I can install firefox without elevating myself. On XP, Vista and 7. Although it's highly probable that it's just an oversight.
Please don't let the only decent linux graphics card vendor (sorry, AMD's still not up to it and intel's not powerful enough) get too much in bed with microsoft.
They run ubuntu 10.10. No unity required.
Chrome 27? Methinks you underestimate the severity of chrome syndrome. I'd be shocked if the version number is less than 50 by 2016
I have too.
Well firefox is holding steady, IE is losing huge. What I'm guessing is that around an equal amount of people are leaving firefox for chrome as are people leaving IE for firefox. Of course, plenty are leaving IE for chrome, too, so...
I know that most Chinese machines run pirated copies of windows, but wouldn't that make them not want to use IE? Or is there another factor?
What are you trying to say? The writing of that post is... very poor. I think you're tying to defend firefox 4 which makes no sense because I didn't post about it and am in fact an obsessive firefox user who enjoys firefox 4. Not to mention that firefox is actually currently suffering from chrome syndrome. The problem is not bloat, it's anti-bloat. They're removing features left right and center.
Yeah, wikipedia pegs it at median 43%.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
I've read elsewhere that it's already below 50% on weekends. Either way, good news for web designers everywhere.
30-40 on my 9600GT 512MB and Pentium D 2.8Ghz, arch linux.
'cause the same guy's been posting those links for a few days at least.
not to mention that the snes emulator specifically prohibited charging for redistributions.
The author took the time to port multiple OS emulators for the benefit of thousands of people who would never had access to them on their smartphones, charged a few bucks, and closed the source code illegally for the trouble.
Just playing devil's advocate.
FTFY
What? A gamecube emulator on a phone? I knew the hardware was underpowered, but damn!
Yeah, but the guy was withholding source code too.
Troll? Seriously?
Who needs a quantum computer for encryption cracking with people spewing their every thought on to facebook and twitter?
Me.
life not lives. And sorry for the various typos and misspaces, slashdot comments are totally whited out for me due to theme conflicts and I'm too lazy to fix it, so I just blindly type.
"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..." "You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?" "No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like to straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people." "Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy." "I did," said ford. "It is." "So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?" "It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want." "You mean they actually vote for the lizards?" "Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course." "But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?" "Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?" "What?" "I said," said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, "have you got any gin?" "I'll look. Tell me about the lizards." Ford shrugged again. "Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happened to them," he said. "They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it."
I knew that random guy on slashdot shouldn't have recommended a change to chrome versioning numbers! Guys, linus listens!