I get beachballs daily on a G4/1.33 GHz with 1.25 GB of RAM. I don't know what Safari is doing, but make it stop so it can render my web pages without stalling every few seconds. (I agree that the OS shouldn't lock up, but if you're using JavaScript for everything you notice the lockups more.)
...and to get Gmail Wireless, all you have to do is provide your Gmail username and password to a service that is "not affiliated with or endorsed by google." Considering how many services are/will be tied into your Google Account, I'd consider that a pretty big leap of faith.
I used to use IE 5/Mac on Mac OS 9 on a daily basis. It looked wonderful, of course, but it was extremely slow. Where a 500 MHz Pentium II (III?) would take 3 seconds to render a nested Slashdot discussion, it took minutes on a "comparable"* G3 300 MHz with IE 5/Mac. I got quite familiar with the black-and-white spinner cursor, which is good because I see its rainbow-colored descendant every day in Safari.
* If Photoshop runs faster, it must be comparable.
Thank you for the kind words.:) Growing up Jewish in New York I too heard about the "Chanukah bush," but nobody ever actually had one. Maybe in the future people could just put up "holiday foliage" to avoid potentially offending anyone ever.
In my opinion, Gates wants to be seen as the 21st century equivalent to a Carnegie. Carnegie and Rockefeller had a ton of money because taxes were so low back then (0-1% of income) that the money just piled up. I read the book Titan about Rockefeller in which the author claimed that Rockefeller would be worth $900 BILLION in modern dollars when you adjust his wealth for inflation. He gave nearly all his fortune to charity, starting hospitals, universities, and foundations left and right.
If you're going to compare Mr. Gates to the robber barons in terms of generosity, at least take into consideration the fact that Gates is considerably poorer than Rockefeller was at Rockefeller's peak.
I think the RIAA will love this. Most of the links that "Google Music" sends you are to buy brand-new CDs of the artist you searched for, putting plenty of money in the RIAA's hands.
If you want just search, you can get just search. Besides, why aren't you using the search box in Firefox or a QuIcKs1l\/3r plugin for all your searching? That's even more compact.
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Thanks!
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Can you fold up your SFF PC, throw it into a bag, throw it into the car, and be able to fire it up at your next destination in under a minute?
That's the difference between buying a SFF and buying a desktop-replacement notebook. Low-end desktop replacements are CHEAP, too... acceptable specs for under $1000 from Dell, versus gamer specs for $3000 from this company.
So if I have 100 employees working on a product, and that product is "beta," I can just write off their salaries without counting them as a liability? Cool! Mind showing me the SEC regulation that treats beta software differently from gamma/production software?
I don't want to start up the whole "ugly games are automatically better than pretty games" argument, but as an HDTV owner I'd like to buy a console that's actually capable of high definition graphics. Nintendo lost me as a customer when they chose to omit HDTV support. At least the Xbox 360* and PS3 will have support for one of the HD movie disc formats; Nintendo will not support either one.
* in the HD-DVD version slated to come out at some point next year, as opposed to the current DVD-ROM version
Kid: Take me to McDonald's please Mom: No Kid: But I can get a movie Mom: No go bittorrent a movie Kid: Okay Mom: And eat your healthy food Kid: Okay mom Mom: thx
The PlayStation 3 will be made by Sony, a company which distributes software that renders a personal computer quite unstable and open to attack by malfeasant users from across the Internet.
The Xbox 360, on the other hand, is made by Microsoft.
I still don't see how this makes Wikinews any better of a news source, considering how little of an improvement you make when you paraphrase AP stories (if anything, you lose integrity by making assumptions about facts stated in the original).
Slashdot Mirror
I get beachballs daily on a G4/1.33 GHz with 1.25 GB of RAM. I don't know what Safari is doing, but make it stop so it can render my web pages without stalling every few seconds. (I agree that the OS shouldn't lock up, but if you're using JavaScript for everything you notice the lockups more.)
...and to get Gmail Wireless, all you have to do is provide your Gmail username and password to a service that is "not affiliated with or endorsed by google." Considering how many services are/will be tied into your Google Account, I'd consider that a pretty big leap of faith.
I used to use IE 5/Mac on Mac OS 9 on a daily basis. It looked wonderful, of course, but it was extremely slow. Where a 500 MHz Pentium II (III?) would take 3 seconds to render a nested Slashdot discussion, it took minutes on a "comparable"* G3 300 MHz with IE 5/Mac. I got quite familiar with the black-and-white spinner cursor, which is good because I see its rainbow-colored descendant every day in Safari.
* If Photoshop runs faster, it must be comparable.
You clearly have never used IE for Mac. The browser renders pages so slowly that it'd take years for a hack to come through.
Thank you for the kind words. :) Growing up Jewish in New York I too heard about the "Chanukah bush," but nobody ever actually had one. Maybe in the future people could just put up "holiday foliage" to avoid potentially offending anyone ever.
In my opinion, Gates wants to be seen as the 21st century equivalent to a Carnegie. Carnegie and Rockefeller had a ton of money because taxes were so low back then (0-1% of income) that the money just piled up. I read the book Titan about Rockefeller in which the author claimed that Rockefeller would be worth $900 BILLION in modern dollars when you adjust his wealth for inflation. He gave nearly all his fortune to charity, starting hospitals, universities, and foundations left and right.
If you're going to compare Mr. Gates to the robber barons in terms of generosity, at least take into consideration the fact that Gates is considerably poorer than Rockefeller was at Rockefeller's peak.
(Score: -1, Does not blindly fantasize about Google becoming the benevolent dictator of the Web 2.0 world)
Google cease-and-desisted a user for creating RSS feeds of Google News a year before doing the same thing themselves.
I think the RIAA will love this. Most of the links that "Google Music" sends you are to buy brand-new CDs of the artist you searched for, putting plenty of money in the RIAA's hands.
http://search.yahoo.com/
http://search.msn.com/
http://www.av.com/
If you want just search, you can get just search. Besides, why aren't you using the search box in Firefox or a QuIcKs1l\/3r plugin for all your searching? That's even more compact.
From: jane@microsoft.com
To: john@mozilla.org
Subject: RE: Re: RSS Icon
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From: john@mozilla.org
To: jane@microsoft.com
Subject: Re: RSS icon
Sure.
-John
That's because it's in beta, free space. Don't worry. It's just a legal thing.
Can you fold up your SFF PC, throw it into a bag, throw it into the car, and be able to fire it up at your next destination in under a minute?
That's the difference between buying a SFF and buying a desktop-replacement notebook. Low-end desktop replacements are CHEAP, too... acceptable specs for under $1000 from Dell, versus gamer specs for $3000 from this company.
So if I have 100 employees working on a product, and that product is "beta," I can just write off their salaries without counting them as a liability? Cool! Mind showing me the SEC regulation that treats beta software differently from gamma/production software?
If you use an 8x8 character cell for your terminal, a 1080i display can render a 240 x 135 terminal. The panoramic views are simply breathtaking.
Remember when Google bought Deja News? Hint: they didn't call it "Google Deja" or "Deja" for too long.
Keyhole became Google Earth.
Deja News (Deja.com) became Google Groups.
Urchin Log Analyzer became Google Analytics . (More on this change)
Sprinks became wholly subsumed into Google AdWords, not even as its own sub-brand.
There are nowhere near as many Googles as there are Yahoo!s, but Google's making a clear move toward matching Yahoo! as far as brands go.
I don't want to start up the whole "ugly games are automatically better than pretty games" argument, but as an HDTV owner I'd like to buy a console that's actually capable of high definition graphics. Nintendo lost me as a customer when they chose to omit HDTV support. At least the Xbox 360* and PS3 will have support for one of the HD movie disc formats; Nintendo will not support either one.
* in the HD-DVD version slated to come out at some point next year, as opposed to the current DVD-ROM version
Kid: Take me to McDonald's please
Mom: No
Kid: But I can get a movie
Mom: No go bittorrent a movie
Kid: Okay
Mom: And eat your healthy food
Kid: Okay mom
Mom: thx
Not true. The little shield means Windows is protected. Mine is green. I bet yours is yellow or red.
The PlayStation 3 will be made by Sony, a company which distributes software that renders a personal computer quite unstable and open to attack by malfeasant users from across the Internet.
The Xbox 360, on the other hand, is made by Microsoft.
The choice is yours.
A group of people tried to make an open-source-friendly, Linux-based game console called the Indrema. They failed.
The seller violated eBay's policy of Don't Fuck With Microsoft.
You forgot Portugal. They speak Portuguese in Portugal, too. :)
I still don't see how this makes Wikinews any better of a news source, considering how little of an improvement you make when you paraphrase AP stories (if anything, you lose integrity by making assumptions about facts stated in the original).