Not true. Install "Little Snitch" and you'll have full knowledge of what program is trying to call home. Anyway root access (or even user's password) is asked for only when installing something new, so even the dumbest Mac user will know when not to enter a password for an known program.
This is why endeavors like dataportability.com are important, because they put the control in the hands of the users, where the ownership of private data belongs in the first place.
Re:Firefox Damage Control Is More Than Enough
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Chrome Vs. IE 8
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· Score: 5, Insightful
Firefox gives me themes. Let's talk when Chrome offers them.
Firefox allows me to specify fonts and minimum font size for all websites.
And Firefox extensions actually make life comfortable:
1. PDF Download 2. Downthemall (increases download speeds up to 4 times, may not matter to most people but does significantly to many of us) 3. Web Developer Bar (nothing like this on ANY other browser) 4. FireBug (nothing like this on ANY other browser, not even Safari's inbuilt "Develop" menu options comes close for debugging) 5. Better Gmail 6. Better GReader (yes, not useful for common joes) 7. Tabmix Plus 8. Speed Dial 9. Foxmarks which makes sure all my bookmarks (and their keyboard shortcuts) are exactly the same in my office, on my three home machines (XP, Leopard, Ubuntu)
So, sure, you may find all this functionality "uninspiring" if your needs are simply to browse. You'll do just fine with ANY browser in that case, and you probably represent 80% of the browsing community -- but you're a small tip of that iceberg as you know what a browser option means. Most of that 80% doesn't know or care, they simply want to check their hotmail and read BBC. They're hardly going to be swayed away from IE for that precise reason. So for this group, Chrome is immaterial anyway.
To recap:
FOR GEEKS AND PEOPLE WHO KNOW: Firefox or Opera, depending on whom you ask
FOR THOSE WHO REALLY WANT TO USE WEBKIT: Safari will do, thank you
FOR THOSE WHO JUST WANT TO BROWSE: Their platform's default browser will be it.
See, Chrome doesn't really make a dent in any of those camps.
Re:Firefox Damage Control Is More Than Enough
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Chrome Vs. IE 8
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· Score: 2, Informative
Firefox's set of extensions and features are very, very important to a "Web 2.0" user for whom the Chrome is meant. As it stands today, Chrome is a bloody useless browser, and it looks butt-ugly to boot. If I wanted Webkit and its semblance of speed, I'd just get myself a Safari, no?
And yet, can you name ANY big Finnish company? Can you name any big Finnish guy or gal in any other country in the world (presuming Finland is too small to make a difference) who has contributed in a rich way to our lives?
How delightful a "system" ends up being is sadly a direct byproduct of the methodology used to study the systems. WSJ piece was stupid in the kind of things it brought up. (Teachers as entrepreneurs? Great. What's the system?)
America is sucking rocks because of its society and mores. You cannot have teen movies talking about underage sex and kissing and then expect the same kids to go to peer environments such as a school and be focused on their studies. Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, those annoying twin sisters in movies and perfumes..look at the icons of American kids.
Asian countries contribute high quality students because there's stringent discipline, which is exactly what is needed at school age. Not a discussion of all the bleeding "freedoms" of a kid.
Guys, firstly this guy was a mentally disturbed child. It is clear from his parentage and background that life was tough for him, period. He was disenfranchised by the rich not because some sundry kids were being overly harsh with him, but because he had issues in his own family.
In addition to that, google for the rate of suicides in South Korea and Japan. Both are inexplicable economies where the social hierarchies are so suffocating that kids are forming suicide circles. Weird to say the least. This guy comes from the same lineage, having lived in abject poverty in the basement of a condominium complex in Seoul. Of course he was unhappy.
Thirdly, his best friend, an American, was the one who went on a shooting rampage just five years ago, at the police station in the SAME town. Not with a gun, but with an AK-47! Earlier this month, that friend's father was arrested by the Virginia police. Is this is a coincidence?
To all those who argue for no gun control by citing other countries, cultures are different. In the US, there is undeniably a "gangsta" culture that's considered cool by many kids who do not have an appropriate framework to put that in perspective because their parents are out getting divorced. Snoop Doggy Dog shows up at an MTV awards with women on a leash, and no one takes him to task (poor Imus, one is wont to say). Are you kidding me? Try something like that in Japan or China or India and you will be ridiculed to bits. Social civilities vary.
A school imposes a ban on Wikipedia because the bustling "scholarly" works (including definitions of semen and such) may not be conducive to the education of a child of any age, and it becomes a national debate about "Freedoms". Heck, what freedom does a child need when he doesn't have half a mind to choose for himself yet? Mind you, these kids and their parents are free to do whatever they want when the kid is back home in the evening.
People going after gun control will cite examples of other paraphernalia, such as knives, or gasoline and fire, and say "Should we ban those too just because one lunatic abuses them"? It's a fair point, but incomplete in thought. Knives, gasoline, and other such stuff have other social uses. Just like cars, which can also be used to kill. A gun on the other hand has no real use than to kill other beings, including animals.
Plus, there is a syllogism in the defence that "Oh if other kids had guns they could have defended themselves". BS. They wouldn't have had to, as there wouldn't have been any "shooter" (guns are unavailable, remember?).
Which brings me to the bigger point about gun control. No civilian needs an AK-47 for a legitimate purpose, but you can buy one online in the US for US$400. Why? Guns can and should be made much safer, with legally mandatory fitting of child-proof locks, among other things. A system of required registration for guns and gun-owners, as exists in most other rich countries, threatens no one but the criminal. Cooling-off periods, a much more open flow of intelligence, tighter rules on the trading of guns and a wider blacklist of those ineligible to buy them would all help.
As for what could have been done to prevent this particular psycho from running amok, how about having given him some 'treatment' for his mental illness? Yes, we can go into endless discussions about how we do not get to decide what constitutes the aberration from the norm, but if society had him certified mentally sick in 2005 and a potential threat, I wonder why no one checked when he bought a gun (across from the university campus).
1. Use Opera or Firefox [Free] 2. Use ZoneAlarm [Free] 3. Use AVG antivirus [Free] 4. Pay 30 quid for Webroots Spysweeper.
I've still to see a worm/virus on my PC, or those of my family. Plus, anyone who spots the US$400 Dell in the real world, please give me a gingle will ya?
I sure hope Newspaper wins because this is a silly objection. There is such thing as "fair use" you know (http://fairuse.stanford.edu/, for the curious) which allows you to monitor content for research reasons.
To give you a real example. Assume I am a GE or a P&G. I pay NBC, NYT or Fox top dollars to air my commercials. I *need* to know that these were played at the proper time, with the proper frequency etc that I have paid for. Now, this kind of monitoring is neither CNN's/NYT's business nor is it mine. I would like a third party to do this stuff for me. ONLY for research & monitoring purposes.
I don't see what is wrong with Newsbooster's business principle. They are not in any way replication IP-protected content material, they are merely informing you when something relevant is published!
My 20 yen.
"Faster than Oracle" seems to be so cliched, its painful. Heck, almost all databases I have worked with are faster than Oracle - including M$ $QL $erver and MySQL for the right size. So lets recap. You had an accounting application for 30 people working in your restaurant, done in technology XYZ, which you found to your surprise was "better than oracle". Now, does it mean that this technology XYZ is indeed the way to go -
1. Above all databases, other than oracle?
2. In all situations?
3. Even if people have never heard of it?
Slashdot Mirror
Not true. Install "Little Snitch" and you'll have full knowledge of what program is trying to call home. Anyway root access (or even user's password) is asked for only when installing something new, so even the dumbest Mac user will know when not to enter a password for an known program.
LOL!
Keep talking. This is useful skinny.
This is why endeavors like dataportability.com are important, because they put the control in the hands of the users, where the ownership of private data belongs in the first place.
Firefox gives me themes. Let's talk when Chrome offers them.
Firefox allows me to specify fonts and minimum font size for all websites.
And Firefox extensions actually make life comfortable:
1. PDF Download
2. Downthemall (increases download speeds up to 4 times, may not matter to most people but does significantly to many of us)
3. Web Developer Bar (nothing like this on ANY other browser)
4. FireBug (nothing like this on ANY other browser, not even Safari's inbuilt "Develop" menu options comes close for debugging)
5. Better Gmail
6. Better GReader (yes, not useful for common joes)
7. Tabmix Plus
8. Speed Dial
9. Foxmarks which makes sure all my bookmarks (and their keyboard shortcuts) are exactly the same in my office, on my three home machines (XP, Leopard, Ubuntu)
So, sure, you may find all this functionality "uninspiring" if your needs are simply to browse. You'll do just fine with ANY browser in that case, and you probably represent 80% of the browsing community -- but you're a small tip of that iceberg as you know what a browser option means. Most of that 80% doesn't know or care, they simply want to check their hotmail and read BBC. They're hardly going to be swayed away from IE for that precise reason. So for this group, Chrome is immaterial anyway.
To recap:
FOR GEEKS AND PEOPLE WHO KNOW:
Firefox or Opera, depending on whom you ask
FOR THOSE WHO REALLY WANT TO USE WEBKIT:
Safari will do, thank you
FOR THOSE WHO JUST WANT TO BROWSE:
Their platform's default browser will be it.
See, Chrome doesn't really make a dent in any of those camps.
Firefox's set of extensions and features are very, very important to a "Web 2.0" user for whom the Chrome is meant. As it stands today, Chrome is a bloody useless browser, and it looks butt-ugly to boot. If I wanted Webkit and its semblance of speed, I'd just get myself a Safari, no?
"go to there schools"?
Dude I am not surprised you are impressed with your kids' schools.
And yet, can you name ANY big Finnish company? Can you name any big Finnish guy or gal in any other country in the world (presuming Finland is too small to make a difference) who has contributed in a rich way to our lives?
How delightful a "system" ends up being is sadly a direct byproduct of the methodology used to study the systems. WSJ piece was stupid in the kind of things it brought up. (Teachers as entrepreneurs? Great. What's the system?)
America is sucking rocks because of its society and mores. You cannot have teen movies talking about underage sex and kissing and then expect the same kids to go to peer environments such as a school and be focused on their studies. Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, those annoying twin sisters in movies and perfumes..look at the icons of American kids.
Asian countries contribute high quality students because there's stringent discipline, which is exactly what is needed at school age. Not a discussion of all the bleeding "freedoms" of a kid.
FF is much better than IE even in its basic incarnation.
The addons that do provide great utility even if they don't "excite", which is not their job anyway:
- AdBlock
- Speed Dial
- Better Gmail 2
- Better GReader
- OpenBook (for keyword shortcuts for bookmarks)
- PDF Download
- Tab Mix Plus
- FireBug and Web Developer (excellent tools for developers)
Of course, the real comparison for FF is not IE itself, but Maxthon.
Guys, firstly this guy was a mentally disturbed child. It is clear from his parentage and background that life was tough for him, period. He was disenfranchised by the rich not because some sundry kids were being overly harsh with him, but because he had issues in his own family.
In addition to that, google for the rate of suicides in South Korea and Japan. Both are inexplicable economies where the social hierarchies are so suffocating that kids are forming suicide circles. Weird to say the least. This guy comes from the same lineage, having lived in abject poverty in the basement of a condominium complex in Seoul. Of course he was unhappy.
Thirdly, his best friend, an American, was the one who went on a shooting rampage just five years ago, at the police station in the SAME town. Not with a gun, but with an AK-47! Earlier this month, that friend's father was arrested by the Virginia police. Is this is a coincidence?
To all those who argue for no gun control by citing other countries, cultures are different. In the US, there is undeniably a "gangsta" culture that's considered cool by many kids who do not have an appropriate framework to put that in perspective because their parents are out getting divorced. Snoop Doggy Dog shows up at an MTV awards with women on a leash, and no one takes him to task (poor Imus, one is wont to say). Are you kidding me? Try something like that in Japan or China or India and you will be ridiculed to bits. Social civilities vary.
A school imposes a ban on Wikipedia because the bustling "scholarly" works (including definitions of semen and such) may not be conducive to the education of a child of any age, and it becomes a national debate about "Freedoms". Heck, what freedom does a child need when he doesn't have half a mind to choose for himself yet? Mind you, these kids and their parents are free to do whatever they want when the kid is back home in the evening.
People going after gun control will cite examples of other paraphernalia, such as knives, or gasoline and fire, and say "Should we ban those too just because one lunatic abuses them"? It's a fair point, but incomplete in thought. Knives, gasoline, and other such stuff have other social uses. Just like cars, which can also be used to kill. A gun on the other hand has no real use than to kill other beings, including animals.
Plus, there is a syllogism in the defence that "Oh if other kids had guns they could have defended themselves". BS. They wouldn't have had to, as there wouldn't have been any "shooter" (guns are unavailable, remember?).
Which brings me to the bigger point about gun control. No civilian needs an AK-47 for a legitimate purpose, but you can buy one online in the US for US$400. Why? Guns can and should be made much safer, with legally mandatory fitting of child-proof locks, among other things. A system of required registration for guns and gun-owners, as exists in most other rich countries, threatens no one but the criminal. Cooling-off periods, a much more open flow of intelligence, tighter rules on the trading of guns and a wider blacklist of those ineligible to buy them would all help.
As for what could have been done to prevent this particular psycho from running amok, how about having given him some 'treatment' for his mental
illness? Yes, we can go into endless discussions about how we do not get to decide what constitutes the aberration from the norm, but if society had him certified mentally sick in 2005 and a potential threat, I wonder why no one checked when he bought a gun (across from the university campus).
Agreed. One need just use something like Sidekiq -
http://www.sidekiq.com/
to see the best engines.
Do the following and spend 30 bucks:
1. Use Opera or Firefox [Free]
2. Use ZoneAlarm [Free]
3. Use AVG antivirus [Free]
4. Pay 30 quid for Webroots Spysweeper.
I've still to see a worm/virus on my PC, or those of my family. Plus, anyone who spots the US$400 Dell in the real world, please give me a gingle will ya?
for the benefit of posterity, can you list any specific plusses and minuses u found while testing the two? thanks..
I sure hope Newspaper wins because this is a silly objection. There is such thing as "fair use" you know (http://fairuse.stanford.edu/, for the curious) which allows you to monitor content for research reasons. To give you a real example. Assume I am a GE or a P&G. I pay NBC, NYT or Fox top dollars to air my commercials. I *need* to know that these were played at the proper time, with the proper frequency etc that I have paid for. Now, this kind of monitoring is neither CNN's/NYT's business nor is it mine. I would like a third party to do this stuff for me. ONLY for research & monitoring purposes. I don't see what is wrong with Newsbooster's business principle. They are not in any way replication IP-protected content material, they are merely informing you when something relevant is published! My 20 yen.
Go figure. Korea and Japan have residential lines of 1.5 MB to 8 MB (the latter is most popular due to negligible cost differentials).
-S.
"Faster than Oracle" seems to be so cliched, its painful. Heck, almost all databases I have worked with are faster than Oracle - including M$ $QL $erver and MySQL for the right size. So lets recap. You had an accounting application for 30 people working in your restaurant, done in technology XYZ, which you found to your surprise was "better than oracle". Now, does it mean that this technology XYZ is indeed the way to go -
1. Above all databases, other than oracle?
2. In all situations?
3. Even if people have never heard of it?