I think Opera makes most of their money from licensing their browser code for embedded devices (like mobile phones and setup boxes). I bet their desktop browser is just a loss leader to get some PR.
Welcome to the internet. The physical layer is ALWAYS insecure (unless you have armed guards watching every inch of fiber between you and your mail server).
A simple tax system that many people might accept would be a flat-tax plus a "Citizen's Dividend". For example, you might have a 15% flat tax and a $10,000/year "Citizen's Dividend" payout to each tax payer. This makes the flat-tax system progressive because $10,000 is nothing when you are taxed on your million dollar income. Plus you can reduce many government welfare services (and their huge hidden costs and political battles) because low-income people now have at least $10,000/year to buy food/etc.
Maybe those people can do something with their lives besides read Slashdot. I think Slashdot is very rarely a good thing in anyone's life. Possibly it will encourage these people to go out, get better jobs, be more social, get more exercise, work in their garden, anything but read Slashdot. Slashdotis not a necessity. People can (and have) lived without it. There are many reasonable alternatives to Slashdot. Books, newspapers, libraries, clubs, local events, radio.
If globalization simply means a gross reduction of wages and transfer of assets to the wealthy, capitalism will lose popular support. How many former IBM employees are going to be praising outsourcing?
but it also means an INCREASE in wages for IBM's new Indian employees. I have a feeling they might praise outsourcing.
This LA Times fiasco was so preditable and the problem is not Slashdot. Yahoo News lets people post comments on news stories and, inevitably, the comments are flooded with rascist trolls. This is to be expected. Look at what people do when MTV turns their camera to Times Square.
I think you have a very good point, for PHB companies. As a counterpoint, Microsoft LOVES to hire fresh graduates. They can get them cheap and easily mold them into the Microsoft corporate culture. And it pays off very well for Microsoft.
The day OS X came out Linux GUI developers should have instantly shifted focus to being as much like the Mac as possible rather than as much like Windows as possible.
Why wait for Mac OS X? Many usability gurus hailed Mac OS 9. GNOME and KDE should have been emulating a known, successful standard: Mac OS 9. Shucks, even though it's rather dated, Mac OS 9 is more usable than GNOME/KDE today. GNOME and KDE should have copied something good (then Mac OS 9, now Mac OS X), not something popular (Windows).
You only have to hang out on the kde-usability mailing lists (and I am sure the gnome equivalent) to realise that this subject really is important to some developers and they get their kicks by making a very usable desktop.
I can't wait to use it. When will it be available?
People have been saying Linux will replace Windows on the desktop since 1995. That never happened. I think saying Linux will beat the usability of Mac OS X desktops is a bit premature.
I am paranoid but lazy, so I use Firefox's "Allow sites to set cookies for the originating site only." This allows me to browse and shop online (at sites that I already trust) without third-party marketers sending me cookies through banner ads.
I tried Firefox's "Load images for originating sites only" to avoid third-party banner ads, but it was painful. Too many sites (like Yahoo and Slashdot) offload their image serving to a separate servers, such as yimg.com or akamai.com. I guess I could whitelist the exceptions, but (as I mentioned early) I'm lazy.
anyone caught selling or manufacturing so much as a stick faces a fine of up to $5,600 and one year in jail. But last-second negotiations on a U.S.-Singapore Free Trade agreement could bring bubbles back. In a compromise, sugarless gum prescribed by doctors and dentists will be legal for sale by pharmacists--although to get your fix, you'll have to wait until the free trade agreement takes effect in 2004.
Using a public toilet without flushing still carries a $284 fine.
Drive into Malaysia with a tank of gas less than three-quarters full: $1,136.
No. It's hidden behind an i2C bus at an unknown address and is not discoverable. Even within the same model of card, even using the same PCI vendor and product codes, the manufacturers have changed tuner chips and i2c addresses.
but how is Joe User supposed to answer these same questions? Trial and error? If there are any instructions or checklists for the user to answer these configuration questions, the device installer could programatically answer those same questions.
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I think PHP's success is mostly due to being Perl-like, not CGI, and (most importantly) easy to install. I hate PHP, but I kept using it because my web hosting company had already installed PHP. I just needed to create.php files and scripting Just Worked(tm). I've since sobered up and use Python.
I bet many Mac developers will turn off PPC "fat binary" support because they don't want to DOUBLE their QA effort. They would rather just test x86 Macs (if/when that is the largest Mac market) than BOTH x86 and PPC Macs.
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I think Opera makes most of their money from licensing their browser code for embedded devices (like mobile phones and setup boxes). I bet their desktop browser is just a loss leader to get some PR.
Welcome to the internet. The physical layer is ALWAYS insecure (unless you have armed guards watching every inch of fiber between you and your mail server).
A simple tax system that many people might accept would be a flat-tax plus a "Citizen's Dividend". For example, you might have a 15% flat tax and a $10,000/year "Citizen's Dividend" payout to each tax payer. This makes the flat-tax system progressive because $10,000 is nothing when you are taxed on your million dollar income. Plus you can reduce many government welfare services (and their huge hidden costs and political battles) because low-income people now have at least $10,000/year to buy food/etc.
BANANA = "Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything"
Maybe those people can do something with their lives besides read Slashdot. I think Slashdot is very rarely a good thing in anyone's life. Possibly it will encourage these people to go out, get better jobs, be more social, get more exercise, work in their garden, anything but read Slashdot. Slashdotis not a necessity. People can (and have) lived without it. There are many reasonable alternatives to Slashdot. Books, newspapers, libraries, clubs, local events, radio.
and I thought DOOM 3 had serious graphics card requirements! Now Oracle database servers will require NVIDIA graphics cards?!
the UK does not have the same protections for free speech and a free press that the U.S. has
Bollocks, matey. If anything we have more.
If you exclude the BBC's journalistic restrictions.
IndyMedia: where socialist authoritarians like to call themselves "anarchists".
Funny, that Wikipedia page did load rather slowly! Of course, they would probably blame "software upgrades" for the performance slowdown..
If globalization simply means a gross reduction of wages and transfer of assets to the wealthy, capitalism will lose popular support. How many former IBM employees are going to be praising outsourcing?
but it also means an INCREASE in wages for IBM's new Indian employees. I have a feeling they might praise outsourcing.
This LA Times fiasco was so preditable and the problem is not Slashdot. Yahoo News lets people post comments on news stories and, inevitably, the comments are flooded with rascist trolls. This is to be expected. Look at what people do when MTV turns their camera to Times Square.
I think you have a very good point, for PHB companies. As a counterpoint, Microsoft LOVES to hire fresh graduates. They can get them cheap and easily mold them into the Microsoft corporate culture. And it pays off very well for Microsoft.
Macintel is a much more clever than Mactel.
The day OS X came out Linux GUI developers should have instantly shifted focus to being as much like the Mac as possible rather than as much like Windows as possible.
Why wait for Mac OS X? Many usability gurus hailed Mac OS 9. GNOME and KDE should have been emulating a known, successful standard: Mac OS 9. Shucks, even though it's rather dated, Mac OS 9 is more usable than GNOME/KDE today. GNOME and KDE should have copied something good (then Mac OS 9, now Mac OS X), not something popular (Windows).
You only have to hang out on the kde-usability mailing lists (and I am sure the gnome equivalent) to realise that this subject really is important to some developers and they get their kicks by making a very usable desktop.
I can't wait to use it. When will it be available?
People have been saying Linux will replace Windows on the desktop since 1995. That never happened. I think saying Linux will beat the usability of Mac OS X desktops is a bit premature.
I am paranoid but lazy, so I use Firefox's "Allow sites to set cookies for the originating site only." This allows me to browse and shop online (at sites that I already trust) without third-party marketers sending me cookies through banner ads.
I tried Firefox's "Load images for originating sites only" to avoid third-party banner ads, but it was painful. Too many sites (like Yahoo and Slashdot) offload their image serving to a separate servers, such as yimg.com or akamai.com. I guess I could whitelist the exceptions, but (as I mentioned early) I'm lazy.
Fascist indeed:
"Singapore's Bubble Bursts: Singapore is called the "Nanny State"":
I'm at work, but even I know the IP address of my Comcast cable modem is 127.0.0.1. Bring the the script kiddieZ!!1!
I wonder if the Sun Studio 10 Compilers can be used to compile Linux? Sun went out of their way to make Solaris compile with gcc.
No. It's hidden behind an i2C bus at an unknown address and is not discoverable. Even within the same model of card, even using the same PCI vendor and product codes, the manufacturers have changed tuner chips and i2c addresses.
but how is Joe User supposed to answer these same questions? Trial and error? If there are any instructions or checklists for the user to answer these configuration questions, the device installer could programatically answer those same questions.
I think PHP's success is mostly due to being Perl-like, not CGI, and (most importantly) easy to install. I hate PHP, but I kept using it because my web hosting company had already installed PHP. I just needed to create
Maybe someone should create a blacklist blacklist?
That's a good point. Why didn't Apple just buy AMD and keep the AMD64 processors for its Macs?
No, NeXT acquired Apple.
I bet many Mac developers will turn off PPC "fat binary" support because they don't want to DOUBLE their QA effort. They would rather just test x86 Macs (if/when that is the largest Mac market) than BOTH x86 and PPC Macs.