Modern browsers do not demand more resources than Mosaic because of how powerful they are, they demand more resources because memory is inexpensive, and it's cheaper to eat up resources than it is to refine our methods.
Modern browsers are running entire apps inside themselves. As platforms, they are considerably more resource-intensive than Mosaic, which displayed static content.
Al Gore started a carbon credits company a couple of years before releasing his movie and starting his environmental campaign. When people pointed out how much electricity his house uses, he said he pays carbon credits to offset it.
He pays them to his own company. He pays himself. He's another greedy politician. Please stop deifying him.
FUCK artists, and FUCK their rights. We deserve to have everything they work on without paying them for it. Any kind of industry representative group trying to prevent the violation of artist rights is obviously "harassment."
It's so funny seeing artists trying to prevent people from ripping them off. Screw you, losers! Go on a tour or sell t-shirts--I'm sure somebody else will buy 'em and justify my piracy. Stop "harassing" me for freeloading off your work!
(expecting to get modded into oblivion for this sarcastic post, but who knows?)
While many pirates often make good general points about the reasons for the widespread pirating of PC games
I have never, EVER heard a good point made by a pirate that justified piracy. No matter what you say, you're ripping people off who worked on the product that you're not paying for. People worked late nights to develop that thing so they could feed their families.
I'm going to base my prediction of its success on the comments to this article, since Slashdot mocked both the original iPod and the iPod nano before they went on to become huge sellers and icons of our pop culture.
What will it be, Slashdotters? Do you hate it? If you do, does that mean I should buy more Apple stock?
A decent default font would be, for instance, Helvetica/Lucida in any default OS X screenshot. The fonts in those KDE screenshots are enormously wide. Words look uneven because many letters are much wider than others.
Frankly, I don't see how anyone could not understand the claim, but I guess we're all just throwing out opinions here. I'm certainly not the only person to say this--just do a Google search for "linux fonts suck." The font Sans just looks so huge and garish to me, and I've never been able to stand it. It has an odd, amateurish, almost cartoon-like quality that has always made me dislike KDE screenshots.
Which would be why Microsoft has been getting a lot of bad publicity recently (just joking!)
Well, yeah. A lot of people didn't upgrade to Vista. They stuck with XP. So now, Microsoft trying to fix both the technical and PR issues with Windows 7 to gain those customers back.
You see, Microsoft or Apple don't really have an obligation to fix your bugs, as when you buy the OS you've handed over the only bargaining counter you held. Companies that support GNU/Linux, on the other hand, live and die by the quality of their support, and ability to retain customers in support contracts.
You're just wrong. Microsoft and Apple do have an obligation to fix bugs, because they have a financial interest. To put it bluntly, their employees don't get money to feed their families with if you're not buying their products. The higher-ups have obligations to shareholders to deliver quality products, and if they don't, bad things happen.
The fundamental difference is that of responsibility. These open source developers don't have a responsibility to anyone. They're scratching an itch and working on whatever they want to. A company has customers, contracts, and shareholders they are beholden to which requires that they deliver quality products, because if they don't, they are hurt financially, and their public image is damaged.
Microsoft in particular has a lot of power to force people into upgrading, they can leverage the other software they produce: Office, DirectX, games etc. to force you to upgrade by tying them to new versions of Windows.
No, because if paying customers (such as those who have not upgraded to Vista) do not follow the upgrade path because a particular upgrade was bad, Microsoft will be required to address that because they have to make a living. That's why Windows XP support was extended to 2014.
When people criticized KDE4, they get told by a public relations guy that KDE isn't obligated to please them and that they don't need them. In contrast, Microsoft employees do need you because they need your dollars to feed their families, so if you are an unhappy customer, they will be obligated to please you.
If I buy a Microsoft or Apple product, they have an obligation to fix my bugs, or they lose my money and get bad publicity. I like having that power. It's why WIndows and OS X still make desktop Linux look like a joke (I'm sorry, but that's my opinion).
How can this article claim modern gamers don't like puzzles when a recent smash hit like Portal is based solely around environment puzzles? What about big-selling games like Zelda and its mind-bending temples?
Valve has a big thing about puzzles being an emotional cooldown for the gamer before the next action sequence.
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In the last two years, we had another Spider-man movie, another Hulk movie, another Hellboy movie, an Iron Man movie, a Batman movie, and soon a Wolverine movie. I am not selectively reinforcing my biases. Hollywood is squeezing out superhero movies like an infinite turd, and a mindless public swallows it up.
Isn't anyone else sick and tired of comic book movie after comic book movie after comic book movie? If it's not a comic book movie, it's a sequel to some other film or a rare original from a studio like Pixar. This trend is going to burn itself out fast.
It's like Hollywood just shrugged its shoulders and said "fuck it" when it comes to producing original films anymore.
I also enjoyed that there wasn't any silly microwave/waterborn silliness.
Instead, there was silly Daredevil-vision cell phone sonar silliness while Batman spends five minutes fighting SWAT team members in a sloppily-edited action sequence instead of just calling Gordon and telling him not to shoot.
Nolan seems to have a real problem with the third act in these Batman flicks. Begins was also very sloppy in its conclusion.
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It was a memorable Batman villain performance, but it wasn't Oscar-worthy. For crying out loud, people.
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We're going to see a lot of this from people assigning some morbid mystique to this performance in the film. One of the reasons the film is doing so well, and the Joker portrayal is getting praised, is Ledger's death appeal. It was a fun performance, but it wasn't that amazing.
In reality, Ledger always had trouble sleeping, and he messed up with his pills. He didn't "become" the Joker...
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Modern browsers are running entire apps inside themselves. As platforms, they are considerably more resource-intensive than Mosaic, which displayed static content.
Al Gore started a carbon credits company a couple of years before releasing his movie and starting his environmental campaign. When people pointed out how much electricity his house uses, he said he pays carbon credits to offset it.
He pays them to his own company. He pays himself. He's another greedy politician. Please stop deifying him.
FUCK artists, and FUCK their rights. We deserve to have everything they work on without paying them for it. Any kind of industry representative group trying to prevent the violation of artist rights is obviously "harassment."
It's so funny seeing artists trying to prevent people from ripping them off. Screw you, losers! Go on a tour or sell t-shirts--I'm sure somebody else will buy 'em and justify my piracy. Stop "harassing" me for freeloading off your work!
(expecting to get modded into oblivion for this sarcastic post, but who knows?)
I have never, EVER heard a good point made by a pirate that justified piracy. No matter what you say, you're ripping people off who worked on the product that you're not paying for. People worked late nights to develop that thing so they could feed their families.
I'm going to base my prediction of its success on the comments to this article, since Slashdot mocked both the original iPod and the iPod nano before they went on to become huge sellers and icons of our pop culture.
What will it be, Slashdotters? Do you hate it? If you do, does that mean I should buy more Apple stock?
I acknowledge your complete lack of a counterargument.
Multiple hardware architectures didn't stop Apple from retaining binary compatibility. Windows still runs stuff from the early 90s.
Why is it Linux that has such a problem with this?
Do you keep your money in a box at home? Is your name not in the phone book along with your address? Are the windows of your car painted black?
It just seems silly and almost backwards to automatically assign distrust to everything to the detriment of modern convience.
A decent default font would be, for instance, Helvetica/Lucida in any default OS X screenshot. The fonts in those KDE screenshots are enormously wide. Words look uneven because many letters are much wider than others.
Frankly, I don't see how anyone could not understand the claim, but I guess we're all just throwing out opinions here. I'm certainly not the only person to say this--just do a Google search for "linux fonts suck." The font Sans just looks so huge and garish to me, and I've never been able to stand it. It has an odd, amateurish, almost cartoon-like quality that has always made me dislike KDE screenshots.
Yes. Yes, they do. 100% absolutely.
It's called capitalism.
Well, yeah. A lot of people didn't upgrade to Vista. They stuck with XP. So now, Microsoft trying to fix both the technical and PR issues with Windows 7 to gain those customers back.
You're just wrong. Microsoft and Apple do have an obligation to fix bugs, because they have a financial interest. To put it bluntly, their employees don't get money to feed their families with if you're not buying their products. The higher-ups have obligations to shareholders to deliver quality products, and if they don't, bad things happen.
The fundamental difference is that of responsibility. These open source developers don't have a responsibility to anyone. They're scratching an itch and working on whatever they want to. A company has customers, contracts, and shareholders they are beholden to which requires that they deliver quality products, because if they don't, they are hurt financially, and their public image is damaged.
No, because if paying customers (such as those who have not upgraded to Vista) do not follow the upgrade path because a particular upgrade was bad, Microsoft will be required to address that because they have to make a living. That's why Windows XP support was extended to 2014.
When people criticized KDE4, they get told by a public relations guy that KDE isn't obligated to please them and that they don't need them. In contrast, Microsoft employees do need you because they need your dollars to feed their families, so if you are an unhappy customer, they will be obligated to please you.
Don't forget that atrocious font that nearly every Linux distro has been using by default for the last ten years. It's so big and wide and ugly.
Welcome to Linux on the desktop, where technical terminology and endless blame are the only responses you get to flaws in the product.
Imagine telling your grandma to "just change the user agent." Linux on the desktop fails again.
If I buy a Microsoft or Apple product, they have an obligation to fix my bugs, or they lose my money and get bad publicity. I like having that power. It's why WIndows and OS X still make desktop Linux look like a joke (I'm sorry, but that's my opinion).
After all these years, release after release, the default font still completely, utterly sucks. Are they ever going to change fonts?
http://www.linux.com/var/uploads/Image/articles/142661.png
Yuck.
How can this article claim modern gamers don't like puzzles when a recent smash hit like Portal is based solely around environment puzzles? What about big-selling games like Zelda and its mind-bending temples?
Valve has a big thing about puzzles being an emotional cooldown for the gamer before the next action sequence.
So?
In the last two years, we had another Spider-man movie, another Hulk movie, another Hellboy movie, an Iron Man movie, a Batman movie, and soon a Wolverine movie. I am not selectively reinforcing my biases. Hollywood is squeezing out superhero movies like an infinite turd, and a mindless public swallows it up.
God, I'm sick of overused internet cliches.
Isn't anyone else sick and tired of comic book movie after comic book movie after comic book movie? If it's not a comic book movie, it's a sequel to some other film or a rare original from a studio like Pixar. This trend is going to burn itself out fast.
It's like Hollywood just shrugged its shoulders and said "fuck it" when it comes to producing original films anymore.
Did you actually justify the actions of the vandals and then refer to people who buy SUVs as "sociopathic?"
Get some perspective. Please.
Gee golly, Wired decided not to capitalize it anymore! What an authority!
Instead, there was silly Daredevil-vision cell phone sonar silliness while Batman spends five minutes fighting SWAT team members in a sloppily-edited action sequence instead of just calling Gordon and telling him not to shoot.
Nolan seems to have a real problem with the third act in these Batman flicks. Begins was also very sloppy in its conclusion.
It was a memorable Batman villain performance, but it wasn't Oscar-worthy. For crying out loud, people.
We're going to see a lot of this from people assigning some morbid mystique to this performance in the film. One of the reasons the film is doing so well, and the Joker portrayal is getting praised, is Ledger's death appeal. It was a fun performance, but it wasn't that amazing.
In reality, Ledger always had trouble sleeping, and he messed up with his pills. He didn't "become" the Joker...