Seriously... this isn't flame bait or trolling... Does it really matter what they do? Netscape as anything other than a service name doesn't exist any more. That brings the only significant source of exposure for any of Mozilla's stuff to an end. AOL isn't rolling out Gecko, nor are any other major ISPs.
Coding web applications that support IE (which virtually everyone has in a commercial or home environment) that also work with identical capability that customers have grown to expect in Mozilla can more than double the cost of a project. I know a bunch of major web-enabled applications that are in the process of removing Netscape 7.x+/Mozilla as required support platforms, because its just not seen as a platform that has any growth potential (unlike even six months ago).
The one place Mozilla could've gotten a significant exposure to the general public might've been the Mac, but its still an inferior browser in nearly every way to Safari/KHTML.
And don't get me wrong, Mozilla is all I use here, but I could care less how well it integrates into the OS, or how the general public views it, because I know perfectly well the general public could care less, and won't ever particularly care about it. Sucks, but Mozilla and Netscape took too long building a buggy bloated browser, and missed their chance once again.
We had a Sun server that kept hard hanging on us here, that turned out to be a problem when the Windows system running some terminal program used as the console went to sleep. Something about the ancient Thinkpad going to sleep cause the Sun to break back to the system monitor.
A big post-it note saying "Don't close this screen!" made the problem go away.
Flamebait, for sure, but its worth a response because you're probably not the only person thinking it.
Name another site, anywhere online, that supports that concept. Its a brilliant idea, and if it was that obvious it would've been replicated 100x during the dot com boom.
Same here... 2.4ghz machine at work, 1 gig RAM, nothing open. iTunes takes 10-15 seconds to open, and at least once a minute it hangs for 5-10 seconds. Music won't play smoothly at all, and even during the times it is playing, processor usage is so high I can't do any other work.
Its bizarre. I assume there's something really bad about some interaction on the system that some people have no problems and some do. Of four guys at work I know who installed it, two work fine, and two of us can't use it at all, which is a shame because I'd finally be able to share my music from home easily.
Um, no. Some of us are old enough to remember being able to play video games on an old hand-me-down black and white TV from our grandmother because the game didn't support color anyway.
Yeah right, like the thought of a woman on/. by itself doesn't catch the interest of half the people on here, much less one who can talk their ear off about solar electric propulsion.
Why? Its a word-processor standard (and most people still use word-processors) that can be opened by virtually every other serious word processing package.
Just for the hell of it, even though I could care less what the doc says, I downloaded it. I had three programs on my Mac that could open it, and logging into my mail server and running the programs back to X on here, I had no problem with Abiword, or OpenOffice (as the post said), although KWord kept crashing. I blame that more on a bad KDE install.
So if every program I tried to open it with worked, except one which won't run for more than a few clicks either way, how exactly is that not a net standard?
What those companies do is not web development, its software development with a web interface. Its *very* different. You can't reasonably do software development with languages like PHP.
Web development is not software development. The only people who think so are pseudo 3133t h4x0r kids who've never written real software before.
Real software development isn't about how fast you bang out unplanned, undocumented, and untested code to throw out to the customer and hope you can fix before they find the problems.
Not that I'm a big fan of the uber-weathy, since I'm not one of them, but in most cases these people *are* shareholders of the corporation in question. They're wealthy *because* they are shareholders. Do you think Gates has $55bn in cash? No, he's got gobs of stock.
Well the written rule is that you're never supposed to use more power than you need to get the intended communication through.
That said, I believe the 2ghz range limits are 1500w. Its been a while since I had to memorize those charts, though, so it might be less than that. Most frequencies seem to be 1500w, though.
Thats twice the power and nearly the same frequency as your microwave oven, though. You probably don't really want to be doing that.
Funny, maybe. But unless these moderators know a way to stop photons in their tracks a few feet from where they were emitted, this post is perhaps intentionally funny, perhaps accidentally funny, but not in any way, shape, or form interesting.
No but if they choose to support the idea that such harassment of myself is constitutionally protected, I could care less if I'm a direct victim of their phone attacks.
Now, I assume you were trying to be funny, but clearly some tool on here took you seriously and modded your post interesting instead of funny, so I'll reply.
Good. Let people lose their jobs. Interfere with their attempt at making a living. If they inconvenience me one iota, I couldn't care less in the slightest if every last person there lost their job. Its a job. They can get other ones. If they can't, well our government has shown we'll bend over backwards to support people with no ability or desire to support themselves.
They choose to call me, they choose to inconvenience me and you or they claim their ability to make a living should matter? Thats funny beyond words. What if these were ignorant asshats sending 50 million spam messages a day? Would shutting them down be bad because its going to put some people out of work?
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Seriously... this isn't flame bait or trolling... Does it really matter what they do? Netscape as anything other than a service name doesn't exist any more. That brings the only significant source of exposure for any of Mozilla's stuff to an end. AOL isn't rolling out Gecko, nor are any other major ISPs.
Coding web applications that support IE (which virtually everyone has in a commercial or home environment) that also work with identical capability that customers have grown to expect in Mozilla can more than double the cost of a project. I know a bunch of major web-enabled applications that are in the process of removing Netscape 7.x+/Mozilla as required support platforms, because its just not seen as a platform that has any growth potential (unlike even six months ago).
The one place Mozilla could've gotten a significant exposure to the general public might've been the Mac, but its still an inferior browser in nearly every way to Safari/KHTML.
And don't get me wrong, Mozilla is all I use here, but I could care less how well it integrates into the OS, or how the general public views it, because I know perfectly well the general public could care less, and won't ever particularly care about it. Sucks, but Mozilla and Netscape took too long building a buggy bloated browser, and missed their chance once again.
We had a Sun server that kept hard hanging on us here, that turned out to be a problem when the Windows system running some terminal program used as the console went to sleep. Something about the ancient Thinkpad going to sleep cause the Sun to break back to the system monitor.
A big post-it note saying "Don't close this screen!" made the problem go away.
Flamebait, for sure, but its worth a response because you're probably not the only person thinking it.
Name another site, anywhere online, that supports that concept. Its a brilliant idea, and if it was that obvious it would've been replicated 100x during the dot com boom.
This isn't one-click shopping...
Same here... 2.4ghz machine at work, 1 gig RAM, nothing open. iTunes takes 10-15 seconds to open, and at least once a minute it hangs for 5-10 seconds. Music won't play smoothly at all, and even during the times it is playing, processor usage is so high I can't do any other work.
Its bizarre. I assume there's something really bad about some interaction on the system that some people have no problems and some do. Of four guys at work I know who installed it, two work fine, and two of us can't use it at all, which is a shame because I'd finally be able to share my music from home easily.
Or just delete the playlist and recreate it.
Or, perhaps, you just don't have a clue what you're talking about. But this is slashdot and everyone here's an expert right?
Funny, though, how I've got a fully recognized 160 in one of mine right now. Or the 200 going in the other one.
But clearly doing thirty seconds of google searching and following simple step-by-step directions is too complicated for you, huh?
Seems to me your comment could be true if by "true" you meant "completely false".
That'd work great in my Tivo, for example.
Just because its not the latest and greatest doesn't mean its specs aren't very useful for current applications.
If you think Bose has ever made a consumer level quality speaker, you haven't heard good speaker!
:)
But that doesn't change the fact that he's a smart guy.
thats pretty simple, from now ON ALL MY capital latters WiLl Be EnTeReD USING nothing but the CAPS LOCK key.
Most theaters these days load the whole movie onto a single reel and you won't see the end-of reel marks.
They drive me nuts when they ARE there though.
This would not allow you to run Windows under Linux... it would allow you to run Windows and Linux under Xen, which is not nearly the same thing.
Contrary to the submitter's comments, this product is nothing like VMWare.
Um, no. Some of us are old enough to remember being able to play video games on an old hand-me-down black and white TV from our grandmother because the game didn't support color anyway.
Yeah right, like the thought of a woman on /. by itself doesn't catch the interest of half the people on here, much less one who can talk their ear off about solar electric propulsion.
Looks like IBM gets first dibs on that task...
At least the RIAA doesn't sent me a subpoena when I'm trying to eat dinner or get busy with my girlfriend.
Why? Its a word-processor standard (and most people still use word-processors) that can be opened by virtually every other serious word processing package.
Just for the hell of it, even though I could care less what the doc says, I downloaded it. I had three programs on my Mac that could open it, and logging into my mail server and running the programs back to X on here, I had no problem with Abiword, or OpenOffice (as the post said), although KWord kept crashing. I blame that more on a bad KDE install.
So if every program I tried to open it with worked, except one which won't run for more than a few clicks either way, how exactly is that not a net standard?
What those companies do is not web development, its software development with a web interface. Its *very* different. You can't reasonably do software development with languages like PHP.
Use the right tool for the right task.
Web development is not software development. The only people who think so are pseudo 3133t h4x0r kids who've never written real software before.
Real software development isn't about how fast you bang out unplanned, undocumented, and untested code to throw out to the customer and hope you can fix before they find the problems.
Not that I'm a big fan of the uber-weathy, since I'm not one of them, but in most cases these people *are* shareholders of the corporation in question. They're wealthy *because* they are shareholders. Do you think Gates has $55bn in cash? No, he's got gobs of stock.
So who exactly did he steal the money from?
Well the written rule is that you're never supposed to use more power than you need to get the intended communication through.
That said, I believe the 2ghz range limits are 1500w. Its been a while since I had to memorize those charts, though, so it might be less than that. Most frequencies seem to be 1500w, though.
Thats twice the power and nearly the same frequency as your microwave oven, though. You probably don't really want to be doing that.
Interesting? INTERESTING?
/. moderators?
What the hell is wrong with
Funny, maybe. But unless these moderators know a way to stop photons in their tracks a few feet from where they were emitted, this post is perhaps intentionally funny, perhaps accidentally funny, but not in any way, shape, or form interesting.
When my car stops leaking, I start worrying that my oil tank might be empty. :)
No but if they choose to support the idea that such harassment of myself is constitutionally protected, I could care less if I'm a direct victim of their phone attacks.
If you actually read the article, you'd know they had a picture of what a window looks like! ;)
Now, I assume you were trying to be funny, but clearly some tool on here took you seriously and modded your post interesting instead of funny, so I'll reply.
Good. Let people lose their jobs. Interfere with their attempt at making a living. If they inconvenience me one iota, I couldn't care less in the slightest if every last person there lost their job. Its a job. They can get other ones. If they can't, well our government has shown we'll bend over backwards to support people with no ability or desire to support themselves.
They choose to call me, they choose to inconvenience me and you or they claim their ability to make a living should matter? Thats funny beyond words. What if these were ignorant asshats sending 50 million spam messages a day? Would shutting them down be bad because its going to put some people out of work?