Troll? Strawman? I don't know. Either way, completely wrong.
IE9 is a completely good browser.
Users said the same thing about IE6, so you're obviously not a web developer.
It's on par with Chrome, but in fact it offers even more features and security than Firefox does currently, like sandboxing. It's also standards compliant and supports HTML5.
IE9 is nowhere near Chrome or Firefox. You should be modded down for misinformation.
IE9's performance is also way behind - It barely wins on Sunspider and then loses badly on Kraken and V8 being up to 400% slower. Their 64bit build is even worse and the author didn't bother posting the results because they're so bad.
Sure there are. Besides not being as fast and not supporting standards as well as the others, it also only runs on Windows Vista and Windows 7. You're out of luck if you're running Windows XP, Linux or OS X. IE9 also has a new but buggy rendering engine. Here's one that I ran into a few days ago. http://www.ncf.ca/ncf/support/ie9_issue/index.html. Here's another http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6392826/mobile-table-crashes-ie9. There are more of these types of bugs in IE than all the other browsers combined. I still hate IE.
I was under the impression that the Boxee Box was going to be an open platform only to find out that it wasn't so I sold it about a month later and got two AppleTV2's, for the same price and installed XBMC on them. I've never been happier with this combo. ATV2 is just enough hardware to play 720p smoothly which is all I want. You don't need 1080p unless you have a 60" set and you're watching it within 8 feet which I don't. http://s3.carltonbale.com/resolution_chart.html It uses about 8 Watts, has 8GB of solid state versus the 1GB on the Boxee Box. Content metadata, playback settings and thumbnails are all stored in a central location along with all my media. I can also watch my PVR content because of the MythTV support. I haven't seen any media centre come close to doing what XBMC does.
If Windows is so easy to configure then why is it misconfigured so horribly? I don't think that's the case. I think Windows was configured as designed and it probably worked great in the beginning but over time the performance degregaded. This performance degredation is something that I've yet to witness on a Linux system.
Looks like we've got a Google hater on our hands here folks so put your critical thinking caps on and let's review.
They're using their huge market share to unfairly promote their other products left and right.
Do you always talk gibberish or are you trying something new today? Google can promote all they want, there are no laws against promotion. If Google forced you to use Chrome to access their sites, then we would have a problem but there not so let's move on.
They have the most dominant position to do this too - the largest search engine on planet.
Good for them. They did it fair and square.
They can put out anyone they want out of business.
So can anyone else. As long as the competition laws are followed.
For years they have scraped smaller websites and then returning their own sites higher in search engine results.
Do you have any proof of this? If not, your just making shit up.
They push Google+ to every that comes to Google.
See first answer.
How is Diaspore or other smaller social networks ever going to challenge that?
The same way Google did it against the giants of the time. Yahoo, Alta Vista, Lycos, Microsoft MSN Search. They provided a better product.
They push Chrome to every IE user in a very spammy way, and they always do it in YouTube too.
See first answer. In addition, IE less than 10 is such crap that they're doing everyone a favour. And, it's not spam. I've never gotten anything in my inbox from Google promoting Chrome.
Recently all the flight ticket search engines started fearing as Google introduced their own one and embedded the results directly in search results.
Afraid that Google might offer a better service? Who's side are you on anyway? Consumer's or do you work for the flight ticket search engines'?
Now with Google+, they're tieing all their products together too. YouTube just got a much more "social" and google+'ish look, and in one of their recent videos they show how search results, maps, calendar, news, music, video and every other Google service will integrate with Google+.
I love it. It's a great feature. And you know, Google provides an open API to almost all of their products. You're free to use them and tie them to your own products. So they're actually helping you compete with them by letting you use their services via on open API! This is cooperation which is the opposite of anti-competition. http://code.google.com/more/
Because of their market share that is blatant monopoly abuse and I'm good to see that EU is finally doing something about it. US is still investigating Google, but with Google having bought so many politicans in Washington and friends in NSA and FBI I'd be more surprised to see if they did something.
You obviously don't know what monopoly abuse is and you obviously don't use Google enough to find the information so here's the link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competition_law
So... I'm running Chromium 15, Linux 3.0.4, Firefox 9, LibreOffice 3.4.4, libc 2.13, nVidia 290.10 and Ubuntu 11.10. What does that tell ya? Nothing!
The version number indicate different things for different products. Some indicate stability, some indicate when it was released and some simply indicate an incremented release number - nothing else. There are no rules or standards on versionning. The only thing in common that I've noticed is that later releases have larger numbers but even that isn't a given.
Seriously, you need to quit and start your own company. I just did that after working for the same place for 15 years. Good pay, awful environment. It's the best decision I've ever made. There's work for people who have a clue so don't be scared. Once someone knows you can do the work, you won't be able to keep up with the requests.
Actually, I waited a couple of weeks after it launched too. I had been reading Rob's Chips & Dips religiously and knew months before that it would become Slashdot. My UID really should be -42 or something.
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Sadly, you'll need to install the hardware vendor drivers for best performance. Nouveau isn't quite ready yet.
The new shell is absolutely fantastic. The flow between the apps and tasks is incredibly smooth. It's really too bad that Ubuntu didn't see the potential and decided to go their own way. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for competition but it would be really nice to see Ubuntu join the GNOME shell effort. Unity is just getting in the way when it's trying to get out of the way ironically. If you haven't tried the new GNOME shell, you're missing out on a really cool experience. I haven't this happy with my desktop since I ran a very customized AfterStep about 10 years ago.
Adrenaline is released during races and key workouts in competitive athletes.
Adrenaline is a hormone produced by the adrenal gland in the body of many animals. When it is produced in the body it stimulates the heart-rate, contracts blood vessels, dilates air passages, and has a number of more minor effects. Adrenaline is naturally produced in high-stress or physically exhilarating situations.
Their project management is clearly in focus and doing the right thing. They're not breaking new ground here, the Linux kernel has been doing it this way for many years with great success. Google obviously thinks it's a good idea, they've been doing it with Chrome and it seems to work well for them too. I can't see why this new release cycle won't work for the Mozilla folks too.
What version would Chrome be at? I'm using version 14 right now. What about Windows when it jumped to version 95 or was that supposed to be 1995 and then to 2000 and now back to version 7. The version numbers don't mean very much when they jump around like it does with Windows but at least with Chrome and Firefox, you know that the bigger number is a newer release. More numbers just means more granularity.
The new Firefox development model is about a steady stream of new features, more evolutionary than revolutionary which I think is great because in the end it will be a better fitted and more stable product.
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You didn't read the article, did you?
Watch the video and then let me know how you've been doing this for years on Windows and Linux because I'm really curious now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=w_WW-DHqR3c
I also use the new developer tools in Firefox 10 which are very nice.
http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/11/developer-tools-in-firefox-aurora-10/
Chrome has a multi-process architecture.
http://blog.chromium.org/2008/09/multi-process-architecture.html
Firefox does not but they're working on it.
http://blog.mozilla.com/products/2011/07/15/goals-for-multi-process-firefox/
They originally planed to implement a multi-process architecture with the Electrolysis project but they've since put it on the back burner.
http://lawrencemandel.com/2011/11/15/update-on-multi-process-firefox-electrolysis-development/
It's the opposite for me. I use Firefox for development and other browsers to browse. Firebug is the killer addon.
How about a 1 vs 50,000 consensus?
It turns out that the 1 was right in this situation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasparov_versus_the_World
A consensus doesn't change reality and a democracy will never be as good a true expert.
Troll? Strawman? I don't know. Either way, completely wrong.
Users said the same thing about IE6, so you're obviously not a web developer.
IE9 is nowhere near Chrome or Firefox. You should be modded down for misinformation.
In terms of features, here's a quick comparison.
IE9 vs Firefox 9
http://caniuse.com/#compare=y&b1=ie+9&b2=firefox+9
IE9 vs Chrome 16
http://caniuse.com/#compare=y&b1=ie+9&b2=chrome+16
IE9's performance is also way behind - It barely wins on Sunspider and then loses badly on Kraken and V8 being up to 400% slower. Their 64bit build is even worse and the author didn't bother posting the results because they're so bad.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/the-big-browser-benchmark-chrome-1615-vs-opera-11-vs-ie9-vs-firefox-98-vs-safari-5/17367
Sure there are. Besides not being as fast and not supporting standards as well as the others, it also only runs on Windows Vista and Windows 7. You're out of luck if you're running Windows XP, Linux or OS X. IE9 also has a new but buggy rendering engine. Here's one that I ran into a few days ago. http://www.ncf.ca/ncf/support/ie9_issue/index.html. Here's another http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6392826/mobile-table-crashes-ie9. There are more of these types of bugs in IE than all the other browsers combined. I still hate IE.
I was under the impression that the Boxee Box was going to be an open platform only to find out that it wasn't so I sold it about a month later and got two AppleTV2's, for the same price and installed XBMC on them. I've never been happier with this combo. ATV2 is just enough hardware to play 720p smoothly which is all I want. You don't need 1080p unless you have a 60" set and you're watching it within 8 feet which I don't. http://s3.carltonbale.com/resolution_chart.html It uses about 8 Watts, has 8GB of solid state versus the 1GB on the Boxee Box. Content metadata, playback settings and thumbnails are all stored in a central location along with all my media. I can also watch my PVR content because of the MythTV support. I haven't seen any media centre come close to doing what XBMC does.
Bonus points for the logic gates diagram on the whiteboard.
If Windows is so easy to configure then why is it misconfigured so horribly? I don't think that's the case. I think Windows was configured as designed and it probably worked great in the beginning but over time the performance degregaded. This performance degredation is something that I've yet to witness on a Linux system.
Looks like we've got a Google hater on our hands here folks so put your critical thinking caps on and let's review.
They're using their huge market share to unfairly promote their other products left and right.
Do you always talk gibberish or are you trying something new today? Google can promote all they want, there are no laws against promotion. If Google forced you to use Chrome to access their sites, then we would have a problem but there not so let's move on.
They have the most dominant position to do this too - the largest search engine on planet.
Good for them. They did it fair and square.
They can put out anyone they want out of business.
So can anyone else. As long as the competition laws are followed.
For years they have scraped smaller websites and then returning their own sites higher in search engine results.
Do you have any proof of this? If not, your just making shit up.
They push Google+ to every that comes to Google.
See first answer.
How is Diaspore or other smaller social networks ever going to challenge that?
The same way Google did it against the giants of the time. Yahoo, Alta Vista, Lycos, Microsoft MSN Search. They provided a better product.
They push Chrome to every IE user in a very spammy way, and they always do it in YouTube too.
See first answer. In addition, IE less than 10 is such crap that they're doing everyone a favour. And, it's not spam. I've never gotten anything in my inbox from Google promoting Chrome.
Recently all the flight ticket search engines started fearing as Google introduced their own one and embedded the results directly in search results.
Afraid that Google might offer a better service? Who's side are you on anyway? Consumer's or do you work for the flight ticket search engines'?
Now with Google+, they're tieing all their products together too. YouTube just got a much more "social" and google+'ish look, and in one of their recent videos they show how search results, maps, calendar, news, music, video and every other Google service will integrate with Google+.
I love it. It's a great feature. And you know, Google provides an open API to almost all of their products. You're free to use them and tie them to your own products. So they're actually helping you compete with them by letting you use their services via on open API! This is cooperation which is the opposite of anti-competition. http://code.google.com/more/
Because of their market share that is blatant monopoly abuse and I'm good to see that EU is finally doing something about it. US is still investigating Google, but with Google having bought so many politicans in Washington and friends in NSA and FBI I'd be more surprised to see if they did something.
You obviously don't know what monopoly abuse is and you obviously don't use Google enough to find the information so here's the link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competition_law
So... I'm running Chromium 15, Linux 3.0.4, Firefox 9, LibreOffice 3.4.4, libc 2.13, nVidia 290.10 and Ubuntu 11.10. What does that tell ya? Nothing!
The version number indicate different things for different products. Some indicate stability, some indicate when it was released and some simply indicate an incremented release number - nothing else. There are no rules or standards on versionning. The only thing in common that I've noticed is that later releases have larger numbers but even that isn't a given.
Seriously, you need to quit and start your own company. I just did that after working for the same place for 15 years. Good pay, awful environment. It's the best decision I've ever made. There's work for people who have a clue so don't be scared. Once someone knows you can do the work, you won't be able to keep up with the requests.
And that's the way I like it. Lots of options and the freedom to choose the hardware that I want, not that Apple wants me to have.
Absolutely. Chromium is already being ported and I would love to see Mozilla's Azure optimized for Wayland. I'm anxiously waiting for the speed boost.
Actually, I waited a couple of weeks after it launched too. I had been reading Rob's Chips & Dips religiously and knew months before that it would become Slashdot. My UID really should be -42 or something.
Livna is Nvidia's binary driver packaged for Fedora//RH.
Sadly, you'll need to install the hardware vendor drivers for best performance. Nouveau isn't quite ready yet.
The wow factor is nice, but I still haven't seen anything that makes want to switch over.
You won't see anything because it's an experience. You need to try it to realize how good it is.
The new shell is absolutely fantastic. The flow between the apps and tasks is incredibly smooth. It's really too bad that Ubuntu didn't see the potential and decided to go their own way. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for competition but it would be really nice to see Ubuntu join the GNOME shell effort. Unity is just getting in the way when it's trying to get out of the way ironically. If you haven't tried the new GNOME shell, you're missing out on a really cool experience. I haven't this happy with my desktop since I ran a very customized AfterStep about 10 years ago.
Adrenaline is released during races and key workouts in competitive athletes.
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-adrenaline.htm
Quality of life is more important to me. I don't exercise for the extra three years, that's just a bonus.
How does this work when the teacher/principal is a parent/grand parent of the student?
Their project management is clearly in focus and doing the right thing. They're not breaking new ground here, the Linux kernel has been doing it this way for many years with great success. Google obviously thinks it's a good idea, they've been doing it with Chrome and it seems to work well for them too. I can't see why this new release cycle won't work for the Mozilla folks too.
What version would Chrome be at? I'm using version 14 right now. What about Windows when it jumped to version 95 or was that supposed to be 1995 and then to 2000 and now back to version 7. The version numbers don't mean very much when they jump around like it does with Windows but at least with Chrome and Firefox, you know that the bigger number is a newer release. More numbers just means more granularity.
The new Firefox development model is about a steady stream of new features, more evolutionary than revolutionary which I think is great because in the end it will be a better fitted and more stable product.
You're about to dump Firefox because you don't like the way they set version numbers? Now that's fucking retarded.