Really? Firefox 7 to 8 changed all those things? Or Firefox 9 to 10? Some releases had noticable performance improvements, but not all of them, yet all of them have the annoying upgrade phase. I haven't had firefox crash in years, so I don't think they've close any serious CRASH issues lately either.
Care to share where those stats come from? In any case, why do 100% of the features in version X have to been windows-centric, and not shared? There plenty of stuff that needs fixing and affects all OSs, that is, 100% of their userbase.
Also, a great mayority of non-windows users where Firefox users. A great deal have moved over to chrome, and not because Chrome appeals to them, but because FF has chased them off since FF4.0.
I turn on my laptop to quickly check something on the internet, and I get a "Please wait, updating your settings/profile" dialog. After that, I'm notified X or Y addons will be disabled until it's updated (this didn't happend no ff13 or ff14, but always did up to ff12). After that whole wizard updates some addons and tells me I'll have to wait to use the rest, I'm ready to use the internet.
On my laptop (which has a very-degraded battery), the battery might run out in the process if I wanted to quickly check something online.
The problem is when you use lots of windows, with lots of tabs, and you end up with DOZENS of processes, and even worse, some use up to 90% of a cpu, so chromium will lag your entire PC until you close certain specific tab.
The initial idea was ok, but it doesn't scale to have dozens and dozens of chrome processes all using up CPU.
Most users don't notice the upgrade, while it firefox, it's quite painful; makes a wait a couple of minutes while your profile is upgraded, sometimes disables plugins, etc.
It's not like a non-transparent proxy adds any real value over transparent proxies
Yes, they do - transparent proxies cant authenticate users. We do use transparent proxying in situations where authentication isn't required (or to provide restricted network access to certain broken software that can't handle proxies correctly)
My point is: what's the use of authenticating proxies? Why do you need them? What value do they provide?
if you want to filter out people from your network, just use 802.1X.
802.1x largely provides per-machine auth rather than per-user, requires a much more complex setup and more hardware. A proxy is a more drop-in-and-go solution that tends to Just Work with most software.
802.11+802.1X isn't per-machine. The same username+password can be used simultaneously on different devices. We use this at work/university/home. I fail to see how it requires more hardware than an authenticating proxy.
My final point is: what value does an authenticating proxy add to the network? Do you give some users internet acces and not others? Do you need to account internet traffic (excluding intranet traffic)?
A proxy isn't "drop-in-and-go" solution; this thread started on that very specific point: you need every application to support it, and for all application to somehow share settings. While 802.1X is done at an OS level, so you don't need to verify each app to make sure it works properly. The each-application-authenticates-using-shared-credentials is simply bad design if you can have the computer authenticate once.
Plenty of upgrades have had pure windows-centric upgrades. For example, background updating of the user profile, an update service for windows, windows-specific UI, a plenty of others.
I find it annoying that there's some versions bring almost no changes to the browser itself, but bring plenty to windows-integrations, sometimes even to compensate for the OS's lackings. Meanwhile, I have an OS that has already solved many of those issues, and to me, firefox X.Y has not a single change.
The same applies if you want a high end processor, and SSD, a non-tiny screen, and no optical media. Only now is intel pushing the ultrabooks which might get to a similar point in future, but in the meantime, apple hardware if still pretty unique.
Basically, all that can be cut down to "Bad support for authenticated proxies". Maybe you need to re-evaluate why you need that proxy in the first place. It's not like a non-transparent proxy adds any real value over transparent proxies, and if you want to filter out people from your network, just use 802.1X.
Only corporations buy Dell or HP desktops. Stores normally sell clone desktops, and I haven't seen a single branded desktop even having works as tech support for years. I do believe, however, that the situation is different in USA; where clone desktops are rather less common.
I don't think it's a good idea to start developing a new business idea which involves optical drives nowadays, because you're investing in dying technology, even if it still has some time until it completely vanishes.
How would you use those games in a year or two, if you have no optical drive?
I own several PCs, my main is a quad-core with around 5TB storage, the others from the same generation. None of them have optical drives. I have no optical disks at home. I have no need for them. Some coworkers have Macbook Airs, those don't have Optical drives either, so it's not just me in the linux world.
If I wanted to buy a game on DVD, I'd have to pay extra shipping, plus customs, and get an optical drive. It'd take up space at home, and the CD could get scratched, etc. Optical drives are dying. Intel's ultrabooks don't have any. Some high end computers have blu-ray, some don't have nay optical drives.
There's no need for optical drives anymore, they have no use in 2012. People are just used to having them, that's all.
Because burning a 16GiB USB drive every time I want to play a game sound fine, right? And how would I keep my settings (ie: wireless lan) every time I burn a different game onto a USB drive?
It's ridiculous to have a OS-and-game-on-USB model, when you could just have the user run a decent OS on his PC, you know, on his huge hard-drive.
I sort-of-did. When I moved out of my parents house a few years ago to live on my own, I never hired pay tv at all. I'm guessing nobody's counting those figures; new homes that don't hire pay tv ever. Up to now, it must have been a constantly expanding business, merely stalling at bad times.
And where do I put a CD on a modern computer? Valve sells games mainly through the internet, physical mediums are fading away (except for collector's editions and such).
2006 was a long time ago. It was hard to see any non-geek use anything but windows back then, it was even hard to make one's gf/mom use some linux distro easily back them. Thing have changed a lot. I can send an Ubuntu DVD to anyone who can install windows, and that same persona can install Ubuntu. The same was not true back then. Hardware support has changed a lot. And, on top of all that, Windows 8 is coming along, and it's driving more and more users/developers away.
No, this looks more like a "Ooops, connection timeout error", and then clicking again. If it says error, you'd expect the transaction to not-have-completed.
That's why they're sueing, a judge decide whether those terms are really applicable or not. I'm not very familiary with US law, but on plenty of countries, there are terms that, even if both parties accepted them, have no actual value.
The only trust that is required is between a user and his/her OpenID Provider, no-one else. Please, read how OpenID works. I can log into slashdot with my OpenID, and slashdot doesn't need to trust ANYONE. NO-ONE else has to trust my OpenID provider.
It takes me about 2 minutes to learn how use new gamepads, or joysticks on racing video games. It took a full hour of explanation how to start and use a car (excluding everything that includes rules of transit, etc).
There's someting clearly non-intuitive about how cars are driven, and, as I said before, applying differente levels of pressure with a foot isn't something humans are used to nowadays.
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A DVD-DL costs a fortune (about 15x a normal DVD). No-one really uses them, except for 360 games, and stuff like that where you don't have a choice.
Really? Firefox 7 to 8 changed all those things? Or Firefox 9 to 10?
Some releases had noticable performance improvements, but not all of them, yet all of them have the annoying upgrade phase. I haven't had firefox crash in years, so I don't think they've close any serious CRASH issues lately either.
Care to share where those stats come from? In any case, why do 100% of the features in version X have to been windows-centric, and not shared? There plenty of stuff that needs fixing and affects all OSs, that is, 100% of their userbase.
Also, a great mayority of non-windows users where Firefox users. A great deal have moved over to chrome, and not because Chrome appeals to them, but because FF has chased them off since FF4.0.
I turn on my laptop to quickly check something on the internet, and I get a "Please wait, updating your settings/profile" dialog. After that, I'm notified X or Y addons will be disabled until it's updated (this didn't happend no ff13 or ff14, but always did up to ff12). After that whole wizard updates some addons and tells me I'll have to wait to use the rest, I'm ready to use the internet.
On my laptop (which has a very-degraded battery), the battery might run out in the process if I wanted to quickly check something online.
The problem is when you use lots of windows, with lots of tabs, and you end up with DOZENS of processes, and even worse, some use up to 90% of a cpu, so chromium will lag your entire PC until you close certain specific tab.
The initial idea was ok, but it doesn't scale to have dozens and dozens of chrome processes all using up CPU.
The real problem is that each upgrade is painfull, while plenty have no user-visible changes, so it doesn't look good, especially for average-joe.
Most users don't notice the upgrade, while it firefox, it's quite painful; makes a wait a couple of minutes while your profile is upgraded, sometimes disables plugins, etc.
It's not like a non-transparent proxy adds any real value over transparent proxies
Yes, they do - transparent proxies cant authenticate users. We do use transparent proxying in situations where authentication isn't required (or to provide restricted network access to certain broken software that can't handle proxies correctly)
My point is: what's the use of authenticating proxies? Why do you need them? What value do they provide?
if you want to filter out people from your network, just use 802.1X.
802.1x largely provides per-machine auth rather than per-user, requires a much more complex setup and more hardware. A proxy is a more drop-in-and-go solution that tends to Just Work with most software.
802.11+802.1X isn't per-machine. The same username+password can be used simultaneously on different devices. We use this at work/university/home.
I fail to see how it requires more hardware than an authenticating proxy.
My final point is: what value does an authenticating proxy add to the network? Do you give some users internet acces and not others? Do you need to account internet traffic (excluding intranet traffic)?
A proxy isn't "drop-in-and-go" solution; this thread started on that very specific point: you need every application to support it, and for all application to somehow share settings. While 802.1X is done at an OS level, so you don't need to verify each app to make sure it works properly. The each-application-authenticates-using-shared-credentials is simply bad design if you can have the computer authenticate once.
Plenty of upgrades have had pure windows-centric upgrades. For example, background updating of the user profile, an update service for windows, windows-specific UI, a plenty of others.
I find it annoying that there's some versions bring almost no changes to the browser itself, but bring plenty to windows-integrations, sometimes even to compensate for the OS's lackings. Meanwhile, I have an OS that has already solved many of those issues, and to me, firefox X.Y has not a single change.
The honestly little difference between sony and apple in regards to propietary connectors/corporate bullishit, and everything else mentioned above.
The same applies if you want a high end processor, and SSD, a non-tiny screen, and no optical media. Only now is intel pushing the ultrabooks which might get to a similar point in future, but in the meantime, apple hardware if still pretty unique.
I think any corporation that picks Android would only give their employees on or two models to pick from, such a huge variety.
Basically, all that can be cut down to "Bad support for authenticated proxies". Maybe you need to re-evaluate why you need that proxy in the first place. It's not like a non-transparent proxy adds any real value over transparent proxies, and if you want to filter out people from your network, just use 802.1X.
Only corporations buy Dell or HP desktops. Stores normally sell clone desktops, and I haven't seen a single branded desktop even having works as tech support for years.
I do believe, however, that the situation is different in USA; where clone desktops are rather less common.
I don't think it's a good idea to start developing a new business idea which involves optical drives nowadays, because you're investing in dying technology, even if it still has some time until it completely vanishes.
How would you use those games in a year or two, if you have no optical drive?
I own several PCs, my main is a quad-core with around 5TB storage, the others from the same generation.
None of them have optical drives. I have no optical disks at home. I have no need for them.
Some coworkers have Macbook Airs, those don't have Optical drives either, so it's not just me in the linux world.
If I wanted to buy a game on DVD, I'd have to pay extra shipping, plus customs, and get an optical drive. It'd take up space at home, and the CD could get scratched, etc.
Optical drives are dying. Intel's ultrabooks don't have any. Some high end computers have blu-ray, some don't have nay optical drives.
There's no need for optical drives anymore, they have no use in 2012. People are just used to having them, that's all.
Because burning a 16GiB USB drive every time I want to play a game sound fine, right?
And how would I keep my settings (ie: wireless lan) every time I burn a different game onto a USB drive?
It's ridiculous to have a OS-and-game-on-USB model, when you could just have the user run a decent OS on his PC, you know, on his huge hard-drive.
I sort-of-did.
When I moved out of my parents house a few years ago to live on my own, I never hired pay tv at all. I'm guessing nobody's counting those figures; new homes that don't hire pay tv ever. Up to now, it must have been a constantly expanding business, merely stalling at bad times.
And where do I put a CD on a modern computer?
Valve sells games mainly through the internet, physical mediums are fading away (except for collector's editions and such).
2006 was a long time ago.
It was hard to see any non-geek use anything but windows back then, it was even hard to make one's gf/mom use some linux distro easily back them. Thing have changed a lot. I can send an Ubuntu DVD to anyone who can install windows, and that same persona can install Ubuntu. The same was not true back then. Hardware support has changed a lot.
And, on top of all that, Windows 8 is coming along, and it's driving more and more users/developers away.
I'm quite sure they meant the HP Touchpad
No, this looks more like a "Ooops, connection timeout error", and then clicking again. If it says error, you'd expect the transaction to not-have-completed.
That's why they're sueing, a judge decide whether those terms are really applicable or not.
I'm not very familiary with US law, but on plenty of countries, there are terms that, even if both parties accepted them, have no actual value.
TwinView is the name of nvidia's implementation of multimonitor support.
If you need multiple monitores, nouveau supports this.
Anyway, my point was that users needing monochrome/EGA/CGA have no need for nvidia's binary blob.
The only trust that is required is between a user and his/her OpenID Provider, no-one else. Please, read how OpenID works. I can log into slashdot with my OpenID, and slashdot doesn't need to trust ANYONE. NO-ONE else has to trust my OpenID provider.
It takes me about 2 minutes to learn how use new gamepads, or joysticks on racing video games.
It took a full hour of explanation how to start and use a car (excluding everything that includes rules of transit, etc).
There's someting clearly non-intuitive about how cars are driven, and, as I said before, applying differente levels of pressure with a foot isn't something humans are used to nowadays.