We need next generation webGL and CSS 3D. If Mozilla wants to contribute they should make an alternative to DirectWrite as non exists in Linux. OpenGL has some features of Direct3D, but it lacks in many areas outside of 3D rendering for accelerated 2D.
The dying of flash also shows the market is moving to pen standards.
You setup the macs and walk away and they will work for a very long time. TCO is important as they do not have the budget for a large and compentent I.T. department. They get special macs that cost $800 that are not available to consumers. The equilevnt is a $1200 imac. 30% discount. Educational software is mac based still so compatibility is not as important. Powerpc macs are harder to get infections which add more bonus and costs.
Macs are really good in that when they get obsolete they graceful degrade in performance. They last longer for simple tasks which means longer life cycles than PCs. Punk teenage kids who try to bring in worms to put up goatse.cx and meatspin on the desktops find life harder on macs. Yes, they really do that and think its funny.
Also it is much easier to add a child account to a school network for non-IT users. I substitute taught, and the principal just added a new child as they enrolled and the account rolled per mac at the school. All their settings and work files went with them. Pretty cool as IT would not feel comfortable giving an administrative Windows server password to an administrator, but it is different in an Apple network.
Macs have wonderful benefits and are cheaper than wintel pcs with support staff and reliability.Anchorage school district just this year finally pulled the last 2003/2004 eMac and upgraded. That is a very long time those machines lasted
Macs have much lower TCO than PC counterparts and are more reliable and secure. Sharepoint and other proprietary software is holding Windows in but that is rapidly changing. Newer demand for VPs to access IE 6 only intranet sites are causing many companies to update. Updated intranet sites which work with IE 8 more than likely will work with Safari too.
Many business internet sites now support Safari as well as IE for supported browsers so this is changing. Apple is still too scared to support business and that is a shame. Small business owners use Macs a lot outside and sometimes inside the US where they do not have legacy requirements.
As things move to the cloud Windows will be less relevant. Small business is where it is at
Mac or PC. Like I mentioned above I worked for the Anchorage School District, so I was inclined to pick a mac. I checked them out and borrowed a ibook from work to play with for a weekend a head of time to see if I could get used to it.
I did not like using it after 10 minutes. I kept having to click the menus and it was hard to find things. Macs are so click dependent on the menus. I do not know if I am used to Windows or if the explorer shell was simply better?
Anyway I compared. An Asus PC was on sale for $700 and only 15% slower than the $1600 iMac. CHEAP!!... right? Well, shoot need a monitor. I found a 24 inch HP brightview with 1:10,000 contrast and 2 ms delay for $379. Ouch. Now I need wireless? Found netgera powerline ethernet adapters $90. Keyboard and mouse? $125. Yes I went expensive because I wanted high end. Add them up? That is $1350
Cost savings only $150. The Mac does have wifi and probably an even better monitor. But lacks blu ray, HDMI, Windows, and Office. If I want to install Office and Windows the cost is now $2,000! Not to mention I can't install a hauge pauge card for TV later on.
So, my exwife explained it as you want one to last for 5 years, but if there is a problem you need to upgrade it. My PC is lasting pretty well except that the USB cable on the keyboard is dying and it is noisier in which I plan to replace the PSU and fans soon.
Looks like I stand corrected too and retract.I am not a troll, but rather I see bad signs and a less powerful mindshare wise from 10 years ago while clients refusing to upgrade. MS has more and bigger competitors now in many areas. I am surprised actual sales growth is occurring, as Asia is mostly pirated and life cycles are much longer than a decade ago. I wonder where its new revenue is coming from? I know they sell sharepoint and a few other newer things but Id ont know how much they cost.
Oh and if a website/cloud provider says you can't run their software? Well, how is that different from them saying no flash you are not a subscriber! Or you do not have a license to run my program!... etc
3 companies that may have incompatible implementations? How about one company with a crappy version for all non Windows platforms? Mac has support but is behind. Linux... HA ya right.
The browser battles are tame compared to the inequalities of trying to get flash to work on niche platforms like NetBSD or 64-bit Linux with hardware acceleration. However, Firefox and Chrome work fine with NetBSD and 64-bit Linux.
Numbers I see from www.cnn.com and others show PC sales lagging. Offices have been cutting back on upgrades and using older versions of software. I have not seen a single article stating that sales are actually increasing from MS in a long time. That was true 10 years ago, but not today.
In 2000 and earlier people upgraded WIndows and Office every 2-3 years. Now the standard life cycle is well over 5-7 years with people hanging on to Windows XP for life. The cost accountants in these organizations have noticed and they like it. Windows 3.0 did not have anything near 40% of the market when XP came out, likewise 10 years later 40% still have XP etc. Those numbers say a lot and equal lost sales.
Also please do not count the sales of new pcs as proof that Windows Vista is catching on, when corporations wipe them and use their old Windows XP volume license. Even if you include those numbers desktops and notebooks are on a big decline. The Ipad is part of that reason and so are some smart phones.
That was 2 years ago. Client has lots of older software and probably refuses to upgrade as the old one aint broke so why fix it. I was told back in 2009 that Oracle had no intention of leaving IE 6 right when WIndows 7 was coming out. I was shocked as I knew businesses would be upgrading quickly. The recession hit delaying that, but statistics show Windows 7 already overtook XP in the US and businesses have either upgraded, upgrading, or plan to upgrade in the next 6 months from what I seen. Bad time to keep supporting IE 6.
Macs are professional machines. The Power macs cost about $3,000 and are used as scientific workstations, and advanced video editing. Smaller businesses use Macs in Europe and run Office on them. Especially businesses that do design.
True they are leaving their roots but Macs are popular in business and where I used to work at the Anchorage School District, they have like 30,000 macs in use in both servers and classrooms.
They boasted how they were the little guys and how they beat Apple and even IBM can not be sustained to such a powerhosue monopoly and awesome company.
Apple's market cap is now bigger and so is their rival IBM. MS needs to increase its sales to survive. Offices still using Windows XP, IE 7, and Office 2003 many years later and refusing to upgrade is hurting sales and their venue big time. MS entertainment finally made a profit after losing billions and Bing is still losing money.
MS is in trouble. They are a shadow of themselves and can't compete with themselves of MS old as their older products are good enough with so much tie in that customers can't leave.
The Samsung Galaxy is an awesome and a very competitive tablet. Infact, it is too good. SO good that Apple will sue you and everyone out of existence for competing and that is the cause of failures.
Samsung may even leave the Andriod tablet market and focus on Windows 8 tablets if rumors are correct from an earlier slashdot article. Apple is being an asshole, making it too expensive through excessive litigation to compete agaisnt. I think they wished they were this aggresive with Microsoft and if they could have banned Windows, we would all be using macs right now as DOS wouldn't last forever.
THings are just nasty as Apple is more evil than MS ever was. My prediction is Andriod will fade on the tablets as Windows is a safer legal bet. It is not worth it if you are a medium electronics maker to make a tablet as Apple can eat you for breakfast and simply remove your product from the market.
NO they are firing the employees because the CEO needs to update his 3rd vacation home in the grand caymen islands. Those hurricanes damaged the tennis courts. God how aweful and poor guy.
... in all seriousness, Nokia is not doing that well and is dying while it blows hundreds of millions and maybe even billions into Windows development and Wall Street is not happy. You need to have good debt to assets ratio through crooked cost accounting by firing people to make your ratios look better to day traders and flash computers that rate your share price. I wonder what it is going, but if the slashdotters comments are correct then the CEO needs to keep his job anyway possible by cost cutting.
Nokia‘s new superphones will offer a superior user interface and a better, cloud-enabled experience than its chief competitors, the company’s top U.S executive told VentureBeat.
The reliance by Apple and Android phones on the “app” as the central metaphor is “outdated,” he said.
The rest of what he said [venturebeat.com]
He doesn't get it. The board should sack him now and save time."
Unfortunately, it would be too little too late.
They already committed probably a billion or more on Windows 7 mobile development, plus they have a contract they need to honor with Microsoft. Similarly, look at how the HP shareholders reacted with a sudden change in direction with a new CEO? 40% share price loss and a sacking of the CEO who changed direction. I hope in an ideal world the new HP CEO would decide to stick with HPs expensive assets and go back to its strengths, but the new CEO would be canned too and so would the share price if they all of the sudden wanted WebOS and its consumer PCs.
Nokia would have a similar fate, and now be another year behind its rivals. They can't just go with WebOS (I wish they could buy it), or go with Android and risk being sued by Apple and be indistinguishable between 5 other makers, or decide to waste another year transitioning Mego, etc.
On the positive side, Windows phone 7 has great reviews! I know this is slashdot and we all want to hate it and set it on fire and burn it, but it is a redesign from the ground up from Windows Phone 6.5 and the ill fated Windows CE. Mago now has multitasking since it is a redesign and non anti-ms sites like www.arstechnica.com have some details and interesting reviews. If there products suck less then it is better. Its at least improving.
One thing I do wonder is does Nokia make money off the Windows app store for its phones? Owning your own OS does have its benefits and the CEO did say he wanted his products to not be clones and be unique, but if Windows phones catches on then he is another clone maker who has just a different OS from the Andriod players out there now. The apps for Windows 7 will come as it gains popularity thanks to Visual Studio.
Last time I checked the cloud was a fancy term for clustered internet/intranet portals.
Ironically the last time I have seen Oracle reporting software, it required IE 6 and not even IE 7 would work even though the backend was unix based. SOme very proprietary activeX controls too. Last I heard that requirement was still there. Sounds like a crappy and poorly engineered products they have that wont work with their own operating system and platforms. Or even any platform younger than 10 years old, in which in 2001 still didn't support all of the 1998 standards of CSS 1.0 13 years ago.
Does Oracle even care if Java is multiplatform? I guess it doesn't matter as it is all but dead on anything but the high end servers.
No because 90% of coding is working with pre-existing frameworks in code.
70% of the job is working around bugs in IE 6/7, MFC, and Win32 for all software development in the real world. Believe it or not people need to memorize race conditions in IE 6 as sometimes code will work in a test release but in real life it wont work randomly etc.
Sure, this is slashdot and someone may may reply they code in C, but that is niche 3% of all programmers. No one designs things from scratch all by themselves from the ground up like a real engineer
Now if the IE 6 only site fails I can be held liable? Fuck that as the bug probably has nothing to do with me at all and is hidden in 12 year old buggy code.
CIOs may just move to India and have all the coders and IT professionals sell cars and serve coffee at Starbucks, where I.T. company owners do not have to worry about liabilities, regulations, and other things that these 3rd world countries become so attractive. In the end you are the one then who loses out.
I use IE 9 for Windows and use Chrome under Linux. Firefox for Linux is even worse than Firefox for Windows. Chrome is ok under Linux. I doubt IE would perform well at all since OpenGL lacks many things DirectWrite and Direct3d have in Windows like hardware font rasterization and smooth scrolling which makes IE 9 appealing to consumers
"What UI features does Chrome lack relative to IE9?"
What drives me up the wall with Chrome is that I can't click on the address bar to select a frequent site. I have to a. Hit the new tab button b. Then type the address in manually... every single time. wtf Example, I like to just click the arrow in the addressbar and select www.slashdot.org rather than typing it manually every single time. Chrome has a weird way to hide bookmarks and when you launch them they replace of your current page instead of opening them in a new tab. That is also annoying. IE 9 has smooth fluid graphics too if you have a great GPU which is really nice. Slashdot flickers on my desktop under Chrome if I hit up or down on my arrow keys.
I hate IE, but I use it because I dislike it the least rather than like it the most. Some still use Firefox for the reasons I have above. Too me if I have a 24 inch screen I do not care about losing pixels to a few more features. I run a desktop and not a cell phone or Dell min netbook.
We hated IE having 90% marketshare and was seeing the internet die to an MS only platform was frieghtening and killed the spirit of having it there for everyone. Firefox was a savior and a great fast product when it was new.
Without Firefox we would not be able to browse the web on our phones or Ipad as sites would still to this day only work with IE 6 & 7. IE 8 would never come out, as MS admitted it was to play catchup.
If IE takes over again it would be a return to 2004, where those of us who ran Linux back then had to dual boot to Windows to fill out job apps and goverment paperwork on the so called "open" web and that was insane.
So Firefox does something so stupid and insande that it turns the tides backwards after so much work and then makes us look incompentent at work when we have just finally got Firefox in our corporate images of browsers is offensive.
I do not care anymore. I run IE again because it is the best browser again on Windows 7 if you have verison 9. I do not like to, but Chrome's UI is too minimal and lacks too many features for me. If Firefox fixes the bugs and slows releases again I would consider going back.
The CEO has no balls. That person you talk about is Asa Doltzer who actually things we can get 1 billion users by just having more html 5 support in the browser and this is why he thinks people have switched to Chrome.
Firefox has an enterprise working group, but the mouthpiece and project manager, Asa says he doesn't want to support enterprise users and that never was a goal and that they should use IE 8 instead. Gee, such great confidence in your product.
If the CEO of Mozilla had balls, I or 90% of us here on slashdot would fire anyone saying stuff like that immediately! In my opinion they are gone and wont touch this computer I am typing on again. What a shame. Firefox 7 is much faster and better but there are over 6,000 bugs in Firefox unaddressed. Its too unreliable and I find IE more stable, secure, and reliable.
In essence IE 9/Chrome is what firefox was, and current Firefox is what IE 7 was. Crappy, slow, and very buggy.
Actually Microsoft is now doing the same release standards.... except newer versions come out every year in March instead of every 3.5 to 5 years previously.
IE 10 is usable already and after more QA will be released in March. IE 11 will be out March of 2013 and IE 12 March 2014 and so on.
MS has the most sense here as HTML 5 we all want but securities issues and uh I do not know, not having 6k bugs is a big deal! I hated IE for years so it kills me to even type this. If IE sucks a lot less and follows standards where webmasters do not have to use different hacks for each version of IE then I am for it. IE 9 is a very much step in the right direction from what I am told.
Still that is illegal and highly unethical to not follow GAAP accounting principles. Yes they cleared it which would prevent legal action, but any accountant there with Groupon on their resume will have difficulty finding another job. Accountants lose their CPA for that shit.
Revenue and sales are very different. I vew it as promising to pay vendors 60 days later so they can report and give the impression of double earnings and sales growth! They counted money owed to customers which is not sales and now 2 months later that money is due and they can't hide it anymore.
Sadly, in college they do teach you these things to boast the share price at all cost in finance 101. The difference is in accounting and finance is that we marked it clearly in the books. The goal was to fool the stay at home day trader and investor who didn't look too hard into the books.
I am praying. We need one and the word was not out and free speech zones were too far awy from Wall Street or the cameras of the media.
If the unemployed got together and rioted 1960s style we would see some real changes. The media's constant attention to it changed society and the country and we need that today
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We do not need plugins.
We need next generation webGL and CSS 3D. If Mozilla wants to contribute they should make an alternative to DirectWrite as non exists in Linux. OpenGL has some features of Direct3D, but it lacks in many areas outside of 3D rendering for accelerated 2D.
The dying of flash also shows the market is moving to pen standards.
Here is what the school gets.
You setup the macs and walk away and they will work for a very long time. TCO is important as they do not have the budget for a large and compentent I.T. department. They get special macs that cost $800 that are not available to consumers. The equilevnt is a $1200 imac. 30% discount. Educational software is mac based still so compatibility is not as important. Powerpc macs are harder to get infections which add more bonus and costs.
Macs are really good in that when they get obsolete they graceful degrade in performance. They last longer for simple tasks which means longer life cycles than PCs.
Punk teenage kids who try to bring in worms to put up goatse.cx and meatspin on the desktops find life harder on macs. Yes, they really do that and think its funny.
Also it is much easier to add a child account to a school network for non-IT users. I substitute taught, and the principal just added a new child as they enrolled and the account rolled per mac at the school. All their settings and work files went with them. Pretty cool as IT would not feel comfortable giving an administrative Windows server password to an administrator, but it is different in an Apple network.
Macs have wonderful benefits and are cheaper than wintel pcs with support staff and reliability.Anchorage school district just this year finally pulled the last 2003/2004 eMac and upgraded. That is a very long time those machines lasted
They are opening up in all but large companies.
Macs have much lower TCO than PC counterparts and are more reliable and secure. Sharepoint and other proprietary software is holding Windows in but that is rapidly changing. Newer demand for VPs to access IE 6 only intranet sites are causing many companies to update. Updated intranet sites which work with IE 8 more than likely will work with Safari too.
Many business internet sites now support Safari as well as IE for supported browsers so this is changing. Apple is still too scared to support business and that is a shame. Small business owners use Macs a lot outside and sometimes inside the US where they do not have legacy requirements.
As things move to the cloud Windows will be less relevant. Small business is where it is at
I had a dilemma last fall.
Mac or PC. Like I mentioned above I worked for the Anchorage School District, so I was inclined to pick a mac. I checked them out and borrowed a ibook from work to play with for a weekend a head of time to see if I could get used to it.
I did not like using it after 10 minutes. I kept having to click the menus and it was hard to find things. Macs are so click dependent on the menus. I do not know if I am used to Windows or if the explorer shell was simply better?
Anyway I compared. An Asus PC was on sale for $700 and only 15% slower than the $1600 iMac. CHEAP!! ... right? Well, shoot need a monitor. I found a 24 inch HP brightview with 1:10,000 contrast and 2 ms delay for $379. Ouch. Now I need wireless? Found netgera powerline ethernet adapters $90. Keyboard and mouse? $125. Yes I went expensive because I wanted high end. Add them up? That is $1350
Cost savings only $150. The Mac does have wifi and probably an even better monitor. But lacks blu ray, HDMI, Windows, and Office. If I want to install Office and Windows the cost is now $2,000! Not to mention I can't install a hauge pauge card for TV later on.
So, my exwife explained it as you want one to last for 5 years, but if there is a problem you need to upgrade it. My PC is lasting pretty well except that the USB cable on the keyboard is dying and it is noisier in which I plan to replace the PSU and fans soon.
Looks like I stand corrected too and retract.I am not a troll, but rather I see bad signs and a less powerful mindshare wise from 10 years ago while clients refusing to upgrade. MS has more and bigger competitors now in many areas. I am surprised actual sales growth is occurring, as Asia is mostly pirated and life cycles are much longer than a decade ago. I wonder where its new revenue is coming from? I know they sell sharepoint and a few other newer things but Id ont know how much they cost.
Oh and if a website/cloud provider says you can't run their software? Well, how is that different from them saying no flash you are not a subscriber! Or you do not have a license to run my program! ... etc
3 companies that may have incompatible implementations? How about one company with a crappy version for all non Windows platforms? Mac has support but is behind. Linux ... HA ya right.
The browser battles are tame compared to the inequalities of trying to get flash to work on niche platforms like NetBSD or 64-bit Linux with hardware acceleration. However, Firefox and Chrome work fine with NetBSD and 64-bit Linux.
Numbers I see from www.cnn.com and others show PC sales lagging. Offices have been cutting back on upgrades and using older versions of software. I have not seen a single article stating that sales are actually increasing from MS in a long time. That was true 10 years ago, but not today.
In 2000 and earlier people upgraded WIndows and Office every 2-3 years. Now the standard life cycle is well over 5-7 years with people hanging on to Windows XP for life. The cost accountants in these organizations have noticed and they like it. Windows 3.0 did not have anything near 40% of the market when XP came out, likewise 10 years later 40% still have XP etc. Those numbers say a lot and equal lost sales.
Also please do not count the sales of new pcs as proof that Windows Vista is catching on, when corporations wipe them and use their old Windows XP volume license. Even if you include those numbers desktops and notebooks are on a big decline. The Ipad is part of that reason and so are some smart phones.
That was 2 years ago. Client has lots of older software and probably refuses to upgrade as the old one aint broke so why fix it. I was told back in 2009 that Oracle had no intention of leaving IE 6 right when WIndows 7 was coming out. I was shocked as I knew businesses would be upgrading quickly. The recession hit delaying that, but statistics show Windows 7 already overtook XP in the US and businesses have either upgraded, upgrading, or plan to upgrade in the next 6 months from what I seen. Bad time to keep supporting IE 6.
Macs are professional machines. The Power macs cost about $3,000 and are used as scientific workstations, and advanced video editing. Smaller businesses use Macs in Europe and run Office on them. Especially businesses that do design.
True they are leaving their roots but Macs are popular in business and where I used to work at the Anchorage School District, they have like 30,000 macs in use in both servers and classrooms.
They boasted how they were the little guys and how they beat Apple and even IBM can not be sustained to such a powerhosue monopoly and awesome company.
Apple's market cap is now bigger and so is their rival IBM. MS needs to increase its sales to survive. Offices still using Windows XP, IE 7, and Office 2003 many years later and refusing to upgrade is hurting sales and their venue big time. MS entertainment finally made a profit after losing billions and Bing is still losing money.
MS is in trouble. They are a shadow of themselves and can't compete with themselves of MS old as their older products are good enough with so much tie in that customers can't leave.
I disagree.
The Samsung Galaxy is an awesome and a very competitive tablet. Infact, it is too good. SO good that Apple will sue you and everyone out of existence for competing and that is the cause of failures.
Samsung may even leave the Andriod tablet market and focus on Windows 8 tablets if rumors are correct from an earlier slashdot article. Apple is being an asshole, making it too expensive through excessive litigation to compete agaisnt. I think they wished they were this aggresive with Microsoft and if they could have banned Windows, we would all be using macs right now as DOS wouldn't last forever.
THings are just nasty as Apple is more evil than MS ever was. My prediction is Andriod will fade on the tablets as Windows is a safer legal bet. It is not worth it if you are a medium electronics maker to make a tablet as Apple can eat you for breakfast and simply remove your product from the market.
NO they are firing the employees because the CEO needs to update his 3rd vacation home in the grand caymen islands. Those hurricanes damaged the tennis courts. God how aweful and poor guy.
Is it a Windows 7 phone or a 6.5 or earlier?
There is a big difference between the 2, as Windows 7 and 7.5 Mango are rewrites.
"Damning words:
Nokia‘s new superphones will offer a superior user interface and a better, cloud-enabled experience than its chief competitors, the company’s top U.S executive told VentureBeat.
The reliance by Apple and Android phones on the “app” as the central metaphor is “outdated,” he said.
The rest of what he said [venturebeat.com]
He doesn't get it. The board should sack him now and save time."
Unfortunately, it would be too little too late.
They already committed probably a billion or more on Windows 7 mobile development, plus they have a contract they need to honor with Microsoft. Similarly, look at how the HP shareholders reacted with a sudden change in direction with a new CEO? 40% share price loss and a sacking of the CEO who changed direction. I hope in an ideal world the new HP CEO would decide to stick with HPs expensive assets and go back to its strengths, but the new CEO would be canned too and so would the share price if they all of the sudden wanted WebOS and its consumer PCs.
Nokia would have a similar fate, and now be another year behind its rivals. They can't just go with WebOS (I wish they could buy it), or go with Android and risk being sued by Apple and be indistinguishable between 5 other makers, or decide to waste another year transitioning Mego, etc.
On the positive side, Windows phone 7 has great reviews! I know this is slashdot and we all want to hate it and set it on fire and burn it, but it is a redesign from the ground up from Windows Phone 6.5 and the ill fated Windows CE. Mago now has multitasking since it is a redesign and non anti-ms sites like www.arstechnica.com have some details and interesting reviews. If there products suck less then it is better. Its at least improving.
One thing I do wonder is does Nokia make money off the Windows app store for its phones? Owning your own OS does have its benefits and the CEO did say he wanted his products to not be clones and be unique, but if Windows phones catches on then he is another clone maker who has just a different OS from the Andriod players out there now. The apps for Windows 7 will come as it gains popularity thanks to Visual Studio.
Last time I checked the cloud was a fancy term for clustered internet/intranet portals.
Ironically the last time I have seen Oracle reporting software, it required IE 6 and not even IE 7 would work even though the backend was unix based. SOme very proprietary activeX controls too. Last I heard that requirement was still there. Sounds like a crappy and poorly engineered products they have that wont work with their own operating system and platforms. Or even any platform younger than 10 years old, in which in 2001 still didn't support all of the 1998 standards of CSS 1.0 13 years ago.
Does Oracle even care if Java is multiplatform? I guess it doesn't matter as it is all but dead on anything but the high end servers.
Just drop them off the roof from work. Very cheap
No because 90% of coding is working with pre-existing frameworks in code.
70% of the job is working around bugs in IE 6/7, MFC, and Win32 for all software development in the real world. Believe it or not people need to memorize race conditions in IE 6 as sometimes code will work in a test release but in real life it wont work randomly etc.
Sure, this is slashdot and someone may may reply they code in C, but that is niche 3% of all programmers. No one designs things from scratch all by themselves from the ground up like a real engineer
Now if the IE 6 only site fails I can be held liable? Fuck that as the bug probably has nothing to do with me at all and is hidden in 12 year old buggy code.
CIOs may just move to India and have all the coders and IT professionals sell cars and serve coffee at Starbucks, where I.T. company owners do not have to worry about liabilities, regulations, and other things that these 3rd world countries become so attractive. In the end you are the one then who loses out.
I use IE 9 for Windows and use Chrome under Linux. Firefox for Linux is even worse than Firefox for Windows. Chrome is ok under Linux. I doubt IE would perform well at all since OpenGL lacks many things DirectWrite and Direct3d have in Windows like hardware font rasterization and smooth scrolling which makes IE 9 appealing to consumers
"What UI features does Chrome lack relative to IE9?"
What drives me up the wall with Chrome is that I can't click on the address bar to select a frequent site. I have to ... every single time. wtf
a. Hit the new tab button
b. Then type the address in manually
Example, I like to just click the arrow in the addressbar and select www.slashdot.org rather than typing it manually every single time. Chrome has a weird way to hide bookmarks and when you launch them they replace of your current page instead of opening them in a new tab. That is also annoying. IE 9 has smooth fluid graphics too if you have a great GPU which is really nice. Slashdot flickers on my desktop under Chrome if I hit up or down on my arrow keys.
I hate IE, but I use it because I dislike it the least rather than like it the most. Some still use Firefox for the reasons I have above. Too me if I have a 24 inch screen I do not care about losing pixels to a few more features. I run a desktop and not a cell phone or Dell min netbook.
Not even IE uses the same crappy, security weak MS javascript interpreter anymore.
It just pisses everyone off.
We hated IE having 90% marketshare and was seeing the internet die to an MS only platform was frieghtening and killed the spirit of having it there for everyone. Firefox was a savior and a great fast product when it was new.
Without Firefox we would not be able to browse the web on our phones or Ipad as sites would still to this day only work with IE 6 & 7. IE 8 would never come out, as MS admitted it was to play catchup.
If IE takes over again it would be a return to 2004, where those of us who ran Linux back then had to dual boot to Windows to fill out job apps and goverment paperwork on the so called "open" web and that was insane.
So Firefox does something so stupid and insande that it turns the tides backwards after so much work and then makes us look incompentent at work when we have just finally got Firefox in our corporate images of browsers is offensive.
I do not care anymore. I run IE again because it is the best browser again on Windows 7 if you have verison 9. I do not like to, but Chrome's UI is too minimal and lacks too many features for me. If Firefox fixes the bugs and slows releases again I would consider going back.
The CEO has no balls. That person you talk about is Asa Doltzer who actually things we can get 1 billion users by just having more html 5 support in the browser and this is why he thinks people have switched to Chrome.
Firefox has an enterprise working group, but the mouthpiece and project manager, Asa says he doesn't want to support enterprise users and that never was a goal and that they should use IE 8 instead. Gee, such great confidence in your product.
If the CEO of Mozilla had balls, I or 90% of us here on slashdot would fire anyone saying stuff like that immediately! In my opinion they are gone and wont touch this computer I am typing on again. What a shame. Firefox 7 is much faster and better but there are over 6,000 bugs in Firefox unaddressed. Its too unreliable and I find IE more stable, secure, and reliable.
In essence IE 9/Chrome is what firefox was, and current Firefox is what IE 7 was. Crappy, slow, and very buggy.
Actually Microsoft is now doing the same release standards. ... except newer versions come out every year in March instead of every 3.5 to 5 years previously.
IE 10 is usable already and after more QA will be released in March. IE 11 will be out March of 2013 and IE 12 March 2014 and so on.
MS has the most sense here as HTML 5 we all want but securities issues and uh I do not know, not having 6k bugs is a big deal! I hated IE for years so it kills me to even type this. If IE sucks a lot less and follows standards where webmasters do not have to use different hacks for each version of IE then I am for it. IE 9 is a very much step in the right direction from what I am told.
Still that is illegal and highly unethical to not follow GAAP accounting principles. Yes they cleared it which would prevent legal action, but any accountant there with Groupon on their resume will have difficulty finding another job. Accountants lose their CPA for that shit.
Revenue and sales are very different. I vew it as promising to pay vendors 60 days later so they can report and give the impression of double earnings and sales growth! They counted money owed to customers which is not sales and now 2 months later that money is due and they can't hide it anymore.
Sadly, in college they do teach you these things to boast the share price at all cost in finance 101. The difference is in accounting and finance is that we marked it clearly in the books. The goal was to fool the stay at home day trader and investor who didn't look too hard into the books.
I am praying. We need one and the word was not out and free speech zones were too far awy from Wall Street or the cameras of the media.
If the unemployed got together and rioted 1960s style we would see some real changes. The media's constant attention to it changed society and the country and we need that today