In case you didn't know, Windows doesn't BSOD by default anymore. Instead, it just instantly reboots. MS did this so that people would be more likely to blame something else and not the OS. You can turn the BSOD back on somewhere in Control Panel.
And Firefox used to have slogan "Firefox is the most customizable browser on the planet" or something. That's so not true.
Of course it is true. No other Web browser (including Opera) has an extensions system with as many extensions available. With a few extensions, Firefox can easily surpass Opera in features.
If you want speed, you should try other Gecko (Mozilla) based browsers, like Galeon, Epiphany and Camino. The KHTML based browsers (like Konqueror and Safari) are great as well.
I hate to say it, but Opera feels like a bloated mess. There are far too many buttons and options. Firefox (and even Galeon for that matter) gives a much cleaner look. For newbies this presents a less confusing interface, for power users it presents a minimalist interface that doesn't get in the way of browsing. If you want another feature in Firefox (like mouse gestures), you can add an extension. Opera throws in everything including the kitchen sink and looks messy as a result.
Under the terms of the US-Australia free trade agreement, Australia accepted several US laws regarding copyright, patents and trademarks wholesale. Yes, that includes the DMCA and the corrupt patent system.
I should also add that we have already covered a significant portion of our landscape with roads and buildings. What if we could put solar panels on top of some of those buildings, and use the roads for heat production (roads can get very hot during the day)? This is already being done in some countries.
The project's Web site gives the impression that they're still planning and trying to secure funding. That is to be expected; a $700 million tower isn't built overnight.
The problem with the radioactive waste from nuclear power is that it is all concentrated in a small space. Radiation from coal is released continually in small quantities, making it tolerable.
The flaw in this argument is that nobody is saying that 100% of our energy should come from photovoltaic cells. Solar panels are only one source of energy.
Nobody is saying that coal is clean, but when you consider the entire life cycle of the fuel, it is safer and cleaner than nuclear eneregy. Nuclear fuel is environmentally damaging to extract (often more so than coal), and the waste needs to be reprocessed and stored securely for thousands of years.
Today we have technologies which can filter out most of the pollutants which plagued Britain during the Industrial Revolution. I certainly don't like coal, but I'd prefer to use it over being lulled into thinking that nuclear energy is somehow clean.
Xbox has better graphics, PS2 has more good games, not so hot on the graphics. Personally, I'm more interested in good games and gameplay than I am in polygon count.
Polygons aren't everything, either. Halo 2 actually has fewer polygons than the original, yet the graphics look better. A group of smart PS2 developers could probably make graphics which come close to the graphics in a standard Xbox title.
Nintendo know that they cannot compete head-to-head with the 'big boys' (Sony and MS) and they have smartly planned their business strategy around this. They are targeting a niche market that neither MS or Sony service adequately (children's entertainment), and they are profiting from it. In contrast, MS have made hundreds of millions of dollars (maybe billions?) in losses with the Xbox.
Sony has much greater control over the specs of their consoles than MS, having played a part in their design. The Xbox specs are mostly the property of Intel and Nvidia. Since neither are involved in Xbox2 (or whatever it's called) development, I find it hard to believe that MS's next-gen console will be backwards-compatible.
Of course, I could be wrong. Maybe their VirtualPC team made some astonishing breakthrough in hardware emulation and they haven't told us yet. But it's unlikely.
The parent said "Your PC without Windows", not "Your PC without an OS". The system could easily come with another OS (GNU/Linux, BSD, a BeOS variant/clone or even something else) preinstalled, and it'd still be cheaper than if it came with Windows.
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They're likely using a helluva lot of BSD code.
I think if people can trust Microsoft, they can be convinced to trust the Chinese government, at least when it comes to software.
Maybe it has something like an NSAkey?
Grep the source for GPL code!
I achieve a similar effect by overdosing on vitamins.
In case you didn't know, Windows doesn't BSOD by default anymore. Instead, it just instantly reboots. MS did this so that people would be more likely to blame something else and not the OS. You can turn the BSOD back on somewhere in Control Panel.
Of course it is true. No other Web browser (including Opera) has an extensions system with as many extensions available. With a few extensions, Firefox can easily surpass Opera in features.
If you want speed, you should try other Gecko (Mozilla) based browsers, like Galeon, Epiphany and Camino. The KHTML based browsers (like Konqueror and Safari) are great as well.
Why do you have to remember them? You only need to install them once. Afterwards, they can be managed via the Tools -> Extensions menu.
Konqueror handles this brilliantly, in Web browsing and file management modes (and probably other modes as well).
I hate to say it, but Opera feels like a bloated mess. There are far too many buttons and options. Firefox (and even Galeon for that matter) gives a much cleaner look. For newbies this presents a less confusing interface, for power users it presents a minimalist interface that doesn't get in the way of browsing. If you want another feature in Firefox (like mouse gestures), you can add an extension. Opera throws in everything including the kitchen sink and looks messy as a result.
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Under the terms of the US-Australia free trade agreement, Australia accepted several US laws regarding copyright, patents and trademarks wholesale. Yes, that includes the DMCA and the corrupt patent system.
Where did you get those figures? Australia has about 20 million, and the UK has around 60 million.
I should also add that we have already covered a significant portion of our landscape with roads and buildings. What if we could put solar panels on top of some of those buildings, and use the roads for heat production (roads can get very hot during the day)? This is already being done in some countries.
The project's Web site gives the impression that they're still planning and trying to secure funding. That is to be expected; a $700 million tower isn't built overnight.
The problem with the radioactive waste from nuclear power is that it is all concentrated in a small space. Radiation from coal is released continually in small quantities, making it tolerable.
The flaw in this argument is that nobody is saying that 100% of our energy should come from photovoltaic cells. Solar panels are only one source of energy.
Nobody is saying that coal is clean, but when you consider the entire life cycle of the fuel, it is safer and cleaner than nuclear eneregy. Nuclear fuel is environmentally damaging to extract (often more so than coal), and the waste needs to be reprocessed and stored securely for thousands of years.
Today we have technologies which can filter out most of the pollutants which plagued Britain during the Industrial Revolution. I certainly don't like coal, but I'd prefer to use it over being lulled into thinking that nuclear energy is somehow clean.
Nintendo know that they cannot compete head-to-head with the 'big boys' (Sony and MS) and they have smartly planned their business strategy around this. They are targeting a niche market that neither MS or Sony service adequately (children's entertainment), and they are profiting from it. In contrast, MS have made hundreds of millions of dollars (maybe billions?) in losses with the Xbox.
Sony has much greater control over the specs of their consoles than MS, having played a part in their design. The Xbox specs are mostly the property of Intel and Nvidia. Since neither are involved in Xbox2 (or whatever it's called) development, I find it hard to believe that MS's next-gen console will be backwards-compatible.
Of course, I could be wrong. Maybe their VirtualPC team made some astonishing breakthrough in hardware emulation and they haven't told us yet. But it's unlikely.
The parent said "Your PC without Windows", not "Your PC without an OS". The system could easily come with another OS (GNU/Linux, BSD, a BeOS variant/clone or even something else) preinstalled, and it'd still be cheaper than if it came with Windows.