That's odd. I was just reading the Apple Safari 4 page, and it very very clearly had graphs comparing Safari 4 with Chrome, Firefox (3.0 and 3.1 alpha), IE7 and IE8.
Also, for you Safari-Is-Brushed-Metal moaners:
Windows Native Look and Feel If youâ(TM)re using Safari on a PC with Windows Vista or Windows XP, youâ(TM)ll feel right at home. Thatâ(TM)s because Safari features a native look â" just like other Windows applications â" including a native title bar, borders, and toolbars. To provide a consistent Windows experience, Safari now uses Windows standard fonts, but you can choose to use Appleâ(TM)s crisp anti-aliased fonts if you prefer. Of course, Safari in Windows delivers the same lightning-fast performance provided by the Mac version.
Yes, media player is a good one to also include. That also costs money to develop, and as Microsoft are a convicted monopolist they shouldn't be allowed free reign to hijack their Windows monopoly to gain monopolies in client software applications by bundling these for free - web browsers, media players, etc.
Also they should look pro-actively at Silverlight before we're talking about how Microsoft got a lock in on the web by getting more and more websites to use a Silverlight client for functionality.
None of the OEMs are bundling other browsers because IE has a zero cost to them to include, despite it being a non-zero cost to Microsoft to create. I.e., Microsoft are using their Windows monopoly to distribute their web client.
If the Windows OEM license fee was broken out into a Windows fee and an IE fee, then more OEMs would decide to skip the IE aspect and install Firefox, Chrome or Opera.
"here are two sets of rules, those for Microsoft, and those for Apple."
No, there is the set of rules for the convicted monopolist Microsoft, and then no rules for anybody else, including Apple, Linux (distributions thereof), BSD (distributions thereof), Sun,...
Are you basing that on the Windows or Mac OS X implementation?
It is pretty bad on Windows (although preferable to IE, which I guess is the point of the story), but it does have an excellent renderer. In terms of an OS-provided UI element WebKit is a much nicer possibility than IE's renderer. The only problem is the interface, which doesn't work nicely on Windows, but is okay on Mac OS X. Hopefully this will become 'good' with Snow Leopard. It might become irrelevant if Mac OS X Chrome is solid.
And what does this ruling mean with regards to UI elements? Should there be a clear, documented API that any browser can write an interface to so that they can replace that component? What about centralising bookmarks, history, cache, cookies, etc?
9 people can choose to take a 10% pay cut in order to save a tenth person's job.
Personally I would also be asking for every other Friday or Monday off in that situation to keep the hourly rate the same. I could do minor contracting in that other day, or see my other friends, or grow some veg in the garden, or finally play those games, etc. If the amount of work to be done hasn't gone down then there is no need for redundancy, the main problem these days is that there is less work to be done because less people are buying, etc.
Remember in the 70s people thought we would be working 3 day weeks by now because of computers and automation. Instead we just work more because of it!
If only Ford, Chrysler and GM could compile a list of car salesrooms that are damaging their business!
If the list was compiled by a disinterested party then it's one thing. But this is just an industry lobby group compiling a list of what it doesn't like, i.e., what the companies it represents doesn't like. Legitimate uses or not, surely it is only a matter of time before bittorrent traffic is filtered out at the network level, whether it is carrying a Linux ISO or a Project Gutenberg Archive.
Yes, but a proper database replication scheme isn't a backup. It's the actual commands on the database being replicated. It wasn't the SQL that messed the database up, it was the backup solution that copied the files, even as MySQL was altering the internal structure due to being a live running database.
Of course a real database would also have database replay logs as well, that you can even delete the "delete from xyz" fuckups when rebuilding your database from a backup and rerunning up until the point of fuckup.
So I guess that when you MySQL based business is running a nice profit, you should be looking at maybe moving to a solution that has all the above, even if it costs money.
Yes, I found reviews of the Netbook Pro 4 years old, and even Ars Technica's Jon Stokes was talking about them *as new products* in September 2005.
The only claim that any of these people have is that it is a generic term, and to be honest it isn't (most people won't know what one is), and there's plenty of time to stop it being generic if companies that currently use 'netbook' desist from using that term. The fact that some companies used "mininote", etc, shows that they were aware of the trademarked term, or that 'netbook' wasn't a common term even a year ago.
"Psion has not marketed, sold, developed, or even intended to develop a product called "netbook" in about ten years"
Except they were selling Netbook Pros in 2005 (originally released in October 2003, based upon XScale). They clearly replaced or augmented the Netbook line that was sold up until that date (based upon the StrongARM, announced June 1999). That's well within 10 years, and indeed within 5 years. It's likely that Psion sold the plain old Netbooks until they ran out of stock, and the accessories sales that are still ongoing really doesn't help the anti-trademark-claim people either.
If the "netbook" trademark also applies to Psions "netbook pro" device, that was still on sale in late 2005, as this post by one of the Ars Technica editors says: http://arstechnica.com/staff/carthage/2005/09/1389.ars
That pretty much destroys all of the five year arguments regarding the trademark term (there are also reviews online newer than 5 years old, e.g., late 2004, so it isn't just a one-off). Never mind that in the UK it is 10 years, so companies selling netbooks (in the name, documentation, etc) will still be infringing in the UK and other countries where it is longer than 5 years.
I see that the Wikipedia article on netbooks has been altered by the anti-Psion people to argue their side of the story. Apparently the Psion Netbook was discontinued in November 2003 (what a convenient time), the Psion Netbook Pro was released to completely replace the Netbook range which Psion never sold a single device, not even refurb, after that. It appears that the Psion Netbook Pro is not a use of their Netbook trademark in any form or matter, etc.
It is really sad that people aren't aware of the truly great products Psion came out with in the '90s. I used to desire a Psion 5, then the 5mx or Revo, so damn much. It was simply that much superior to anything else on the market at the time. Many people swear by the old Psion 3 series as well. The Psion Netbook / Psion 7 didn't really reach the same heights.
"As soon as" in legal terms could be around about the same time period as it has taken Psion to go through discovering the use of the term, writing some legal letters, writing another round of letters, and then taking it further.
It might mean that Psion get stuck with a trademark that everyone uses, but which none of the companies involved can use unless they license the trademark, which they may just decide to do.
People seem to think it's been a generic term for years. It hasn't. Netbooks (as a term) were virtually unknown a year ago, I think it was the MSI Wind Netbook that brought it back into common use - the EeePC didn't use the term IIRC.
Hmm, I don't recall seeing the word "netbook" in a dictionary, unlike "tower", "desk", "pen" or "screen".
I don't think the term is a problem. I don't think the age of the trademark is a problem. I don't think it's been out of use long enough (indeed Psion apparently still sell spares for their original Epoc and Windows CE netbooks) to suggest it is abandoned. I don't think that very long has passed since other people started using the term (2007/2008) and now for non-defence to work.
To be honest I don't think that we're going to avoid global climate change. I don't want it to happen, but I don't think there is the will to do anything worthwhile about it. A few cars and wind turbines emitting less CO2 won't help in a global view of things, and even if it did, the consensus is that it will only delay the inevitable. The cleaner air is nice though, that's a good reason to have cleaner cars and energy regardless of your viewpoint on climate change.
Therefore should we be investing now, or soon, to minimise the effects of the inevitable? Sea wall building, stopping planning permission on low lying land, etc.
The other aspect is that cutting down emissions might limit the damage, and it appears that cutting down sooner rather than later will have a major effect. It could be the difference between a 1 metre sea level rise and a 10 metre sea level rise. As I'm 10 to 15 metres above sea level, 50 miles inland, the latter would annoy me (although I'll probably be too old to care by then).
But I don't know everything, and I read up and keep abreast of the general situation. I will side with the consensus scientific viewpoint (because I don't fear science and believe that people that commit their life to research for what is a pitiful salary should get some respect, and amongst climate scientists the consensus is around 20:1 in favour of climate change), and argue against those who argue against that viewpoint if they aren't a climate scientist, or who get backing from entities that stand to lose now if things change now.
On the other hand, I do want to find a bookmakers that is run by a climate change denier... could get some good odds on things like artic ice being clear by 2030, etc.
I said that those that were wrong should be made to pay.
If there isn't global warming, there are no damages anyway, hurrah!
If there is global warming, then there will be damages. Booo! But why should those people that actually did their bit to help pay again? Therefore the people that were irresponsible should be made to pay.
A lot of them infect techy websites like dailytech for no apparent reason apart from one of "their kind" posts carefully selected anti-global-climate-change stuff. Mostly single data points, rather than overall trends of course. They don't have science on their side.
Of course it is good if they exist to ensure that the science is rigourous. Sadly they go beyond that, to actually trying to recruit believers to their cause - all too easy in a world addicted to cars - like a religion. They come up with alternate theories which the science doesn't support, much like intelligent design, creationism, etc. Considering the eventual outcome of being wrong in all this, it is highly irresponsible of them, and I hope that if things do go tits up in a pear shaped bowl that they are the ones made to pay.
Not that the extremists on the other side help. Doom-mongering damages your cause, all in the name of sensationalism. Just let the science speak for itself.
I was expecting a wire and a microswitch at least, maybe attached to a serial port with a custom driver that sent a fake space keypress back to the operating system:(
If you are under 35, then you can uncomfortably retire on $2.6 million. I think to comfortably retire, you need $5m. Unless you want to live in some outback hick town, or are happy to still have to worry about money. Never mind monetary devaluation, when the government prints more money to fix its problems.
I wouldn't say no to it however. A good means to bring retirement forward to before 50, or to take a year off work every 3 years, or to work on what you really enjoy doing. Also you'll have decent cars and a decent house, no mortgage (and this is why you can't live off of interest on the remaining money, the things you buy immediately reduce your cash a lot).
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They do compare it to Chrome.
http://www.apple.com/safari/whats-new.html#performance
Next.
That's odd. I was just reading the Apple Safari 4 page, and it very very clearly had graphs comparing Safari 4 with Chrome, Firefox (3.0 and 3.1 alpha), IE7 and IE8.
Also, for you Safari-Is-Brushed-Metal moaners:
Windows Native Look and Feel
If youâ(TM)re using Safari on a PC with Windows Vista or Windows XP, youâ(TM)ll feel right at home. Thatâ(TM)s because Safari features a native look â" just like other Windows applications â" including a native title bar, borders, and toolbars. To provide a consistent Windows experience, Safari now uses Windows standard fonts, but you can choose to use Appleâ(TM)s crisp anti-aliased fonts if you prefer. Of course, Safari in Windows delivers the same lightning-fast performance provided by the Mac version.
Yes, media player is a good one to also include. That also costs money to develop, and as Microsoft are a convicted monopolist they shouldn't be allowed free reign to hijack their Windows monopoly to gain monopolies in client software applications by bundling these for free - web browsers, media players, etc.
Also they should look pro-actively at Silverlight before we're talking about how Microsoft got a lock in on the web by getting more and more websites to use a Silverlight client for functionality.
None of the OEMs are bundling other browsers because IE has a zero cost to them to include, despite it being a non-zero cost to Microsoft to create. I.e., Microsoft are using their Windows monopoly to distribute their web client.
If the Windows OEM license fee was broken out into a Windows fee and an IE fee, then more OEMs would decide to skip the IE aspect and install Firefox, Chrome or Opera.
"here are two sets of rules, those for Microsoft, and those for Apple."
No, there is the set of rules for the convicted monopolist Microsoft, and then no rules for anybody else, including Apple, Linux (distributions thereof), BSD (distributions thereof), Sun, ...
Are you basing that on the Windows or Mac OS X implementation?
It is pretty bad on Windows (although preferable to IE, which I guess is the point of the story), but it does have an excellent renderer. In terms of an OS-provided UI element WebKit is a much nicer possibility than IE's renderer. The only problem is the interface, which doesn't work nicely on Windows, but is okay on Mac OS X. Hopefully this will become 'good' with Snow Leopard. It might become irrelevant if Mac OS X Chrome is solid.
And what does this ruling mean with regards to UI elements? Should there be a clear, documented API that any browser can write an interface to so that they can replace that component? What about centralising bookmarks, history, cache, cookies, etc?
Some people make friends at work.
9 people can choose to take a 10% pay cut in order to save a tenth person's job.
Personally I would also be asking for every other Friday or Monday off in that situation to keep the hourly rate the same. I could do minor contracting in that other day, or see my other friends, or grow some veg in the garden, or finally play those games, etc. If the amount of work to be done hasn't gone down then there is no need for redundancy, the main problem these days is that there is less work to be done because less people are buying, etc.
Remember in the 70s people thought we would be working 3 day weeks by now because of computers and automation. Instead we just work more because of it!
If only Ford, Chrysler and GM could compile a list of car salesrooms that are damaging their business!
If the list was compiled by a disinterested party then it's one thing. But this is just an industry lobby group compiling a list of what it doesn't like, i.e., what the companies it represents doesn't like. Legitimate uses or not, surely it is only a matter of time before bittorrent traffic is filtered out at the network level, whether it is carrying a Linux ISO or a Project Gutenberg Archive.
Yes, but a proper database replication scheme isn't a backup. It's the actual commands on the database being replicated. It wasn't the SQL that messed the database up, it was the backup solution that copied the files, even as MySQL was altering the internal structure due to being a live running database.
Of course a real database would also have database replay logs as well, that you can even delete the "delete from xyz" fuckups when rebuilding your database from a backup and rerunning up until the point of fuckup.
So I guess that when you MySQL based business is running a nice profit, you should be looking at maybe moving to a solution that has all the above, even if it costs money.
A company's data is its lifeblood.
Argh, why not just add a backup or replication database on one of the spare Mac Minis?
That way you would have needed a complete server farm disaster to mess things up irretrievably.
Yes, I found reviews of the Netbook Pro 4 years old, and even Ars Technica's Jon Stokes was talking about them *as new products* in September 2005.
The only claim that any of these people have is that it is a generic term, and to be honest it isn't (most people won't know what one is), and there's plenty of time to stop it being generic if companies that currently use 'netbook' desist from using that term. The fact that some companies used "mininote", etc, shows that they were aware of the trademarked term, or that 'netbook' wasn't a common term even a year ago.
"Psion has not marketed, sold, developed, or even intended to develop a product called "netbook" in about ten years"
Except they were selling Netbook Pros in 2005 (originally released in October 2003, based upon XScale). They clearly replaced or augmented the Netbook line that was sold up until that date (based upon the StrongARM, announced June 1999). That's well within 10 years, and indeed within 5 years. It's likely that Psion sold the plain old Netbooks until they ran out of stock, and the accessories sales that are still ongoing really doesn't help the anti-trademark-claim people either.
If the "netbook" trademark also applies to Psions "netbook pro" device, that was still on sale in late 2005, as this post by one of the Ars Technica editors says: http://arstechnica.com/staff/carthage/2005/09/1389.ars
That pretty much destroys all of the five year arguments regarding the trademark term (there are also reviews online newer than 5 years old, e.g., late 2004, so it isn't just a one-off). Never mind that in the UK it is 10 years, so companies selling netbooks (in the name, documentation, etc) will still be infringing in the UK and other countries where it is longer than 5 years.
I see that the Wikipedia article on netbooks has been altered by the anti-Psion people to argue their side of the story. Apparently the Psion Netbook was discontinued in November 2003 (what a convenient time), the Psion Netbook Pro was released to completely replace the Netbook range which Psion never sold a single device, not even refurb, after that. It appears that the Psion Netbook Pro is not a use of their Netbook trademark in any form or matter, etc.
I think the closest you can get today is the Nokia Communicator series...
I remember an old Sony-Ericcson GSM phone that ran EPOC - the R380 I think it was called. That was a neat little device for the time (1999/2000).
They really should work with nvidia to release a compact (as in Psion 5 sized) Tegra based netbook running Android.
Maybe port some of their software across for compatibility reasons and to give themselves a market with their current business clients.
It is really sad that people aren't aware of the truly great products Psion came out with in the '90s. I used to desire a Psion 5, then the 5mx or Revo, so damn much. It was simply that much superior to anything else on the market at the time. Many people swear by the old Psion 3 series as well. The Psion Netbook / Psion 7 didn't really reach the same heights.
"As soon as" in legal terms could be around about the same time period as it has taken Psion to go through discovering the use of the term, writing some legal letters, writing another round of letters, and then taking it further.
It might mean that Psion get stuck with a trademark that everyone uses, but which none of the companies involved can use unless they license the trademark, which they may just decide to do.
People seem to think it's been a generic term for years. It hasn't. Netbooks (as a term) were virtually unknown a year ago, I think it was the MSI Wind Netbook that brought it back into common use - the EeePC didn't use the term IIRC.
Hmm, I don't recall seeing the word "netbook" in a dictionary, unlike "tower", "desk", "pen" or "screen".
I don't think the term is a problem. I don't think the age of the trademark is a problem. I don't think it's been out of use long enough (indeed Psion apparently still sell spares for their original Epoc and Windows CE netbooks) to suggest it is abandoned. I don't think that very long has passed since other people started using the term (2007/2008) and now for non-defence to work.
To be honest I don't think that we're going to avoid global climate change. I don't want it to happen, but I don't think there is the will to do anything worthwhile about it. A few cars and wind turbines emitting less CO2 won't help in a global view of things, and even if it did, the consensus is that it will only delay the inevitable. The cleaner air is nice though, that's a good reason to have cleaner cars and energy regardless of your viewpoint on climate change.
Therefore should we be investing now, or soon, to minimise the effects of the inevitable? Sea wall building, stopping planning permission on low lying land, etc.
The other aspect is that cutting down emissions might limit the damage, and it appears that cutting down sooner rather than later will have a major effect. It could be the difference between a 1 metre sea level rise and a 10 metre sea level rise. As I'm 10 to 15 metres above sea level, 50 miles inland, the latter would annoy me (although I'll probably be too old to care by then).
But I don't know everything, and I read up and keep abreast of the general situation. I will side with the consensus scientific viewpoint (because I don't fear science and believe that people that commit their life to research for what is a pitiful salary should get some respect, and amongst climate scientists the consensus is around 20:1 in favour of climate change), and argue against those who argue against that viewpoint if they aren't a climate scientist, or who get backing from entities that stand to lose now if things change now.
On the other hand, I do want to find a bookmakers that is run by a climate change denier... could get some good odds on things like artic ice being clear by 2030, etc.
I said that those that were wrong should be made to pay.
If there isn't global warming, there are no damages anyway, hurrah!
If there is global warming, then there will be damages. Booo! But why should those people that actually did their bit to help pay again? Therefore the people that were irresponsible should be made to pay.
A lot of them infect techy websites like dailytech for no apparent reason apart from one of "their kind" posts carefully selected anti-global-climate-change stuff. Mostly single data points, rather than overall trends of course. They don't have science on their side.
Of course it is good if they exist to ensure that the science is rigourous. Sadly they go beyond that, to actually trying to recruit believers to their cause - all too easy in a world addicted to cars - like a religion. They come up with alternate theories which the science doesn't support, much like intelligent design, creationism, etc. Considering the eventual outcome of being wrong in all this, it is highly irresponsible of them, and I hope that if things do go tits up in a pear shaped bowl that they are the ones made to pay.
Not that the extremists on the other side help. Doom-mongering damages your cause, all in the name of sensationalism. Just let the science speak for itself.
I was expecting a wire and a microswitch at least, maybe attached to a serial port with a custom driver that sent a fake space keypress back to the operating system :(
Not cardboard over keyboard.
I only have 12000 odd. Shame that half of them are conmen :(
"As Mr Hattig funds a life of expensive boats and cars, his elderly victims are having to sell up and face difficult years ahead.
Hattig has been on the run for months, but Inside Out tracks him down to a marina in southern Spain."
Where are my expensive boats and cars :( I demand he gives me one for using my name.
Oooh, two of the others are CEOs and senior partners, I might put them on my resume.
Good point. I hope those applications let you use the landscape keyboard option.
Um, have you seen interest rates recently?
If you are under 35, then you can uncomfortably retire on $2.6 million. I think to comfortably retire, you need $5m. Unless you want to live in some outback hick town, or are happy to still have to worry about money. Never mind monetary devaluation, when the government prints more money to fix its problems.
I wouldn't say no to it however. A good means to bring retirement forward to before 50, or to take a year off work every 3 years, or to work on what you really enjoy doing. Also you'll have decent cars and a decent house, no mortgage (and this is why you can't live off of interest on the remaining money, the things you buy immediately reduce your cash a lot).