He claims to have blogged for several years about the good people in Microsoft trying to change the company's direction. In that case, he should be very aware of the fact that Microsoft is as it always has been, and that those attempts have failed. So he is either ignorant or dishonest when it comes to Microsoft.
I know that there are great people working for the company, and I know many people inside Microsoft that are steering the company towards being a community citizen. I have blogged about this for the last few years.
If you have blogged about this for several years, how on earth could you NOT get the fact that Microsoft always lies and deceives? That all they do is to try to lock people to their proprietary solutions? Look at their sabotage of ECMAScript 4 and stalling in the CSS Working Group. Look at their EU cases.
You are either ignorant or dishonest about Microsoft. Yes, a lot of awesome people work there. Sadly, they have no power to change the minds of the upper management!
Faith is not rational. Accepting evidence is. You are making the claim that all ideologies and philosophies are religious. They are not. Capitalism is not a religion, for example.
I'm not sure how you think I prove your point (what was your point?). I used to be a Christian. Then I started thinking for myself.
No, everyone is not religious. "Religion" has a clear definition. A lot of people are not religious. In fact, many believe in a god without being religious. But sadly, there's no arguing rationally with people like you. Proud of irrational, blind faith. Ugh.
I fail to see why people should not have rights, regardless of their citizenship.
Some rights are there regardless of citizenship. But those rights are not what are being discussed here. With citizenship comes rights and responsibilities. Non-citizens do not have those specific rights and responsibilities, but that doesn't mean that they have none what so ever.
I didn't say for everyone, I just said in my experience with the people I know this is the case. I could care less what you believe, what is true is all that matters. If you think my life experiences are nonsense that is your problem not mine.
I'm not talking about what I or you believe. I'm talking about actual facts. Your beliefs are caused by your own biases. I stick to verified facts.
You may not have an iPhone, but a lot of people do. Also, more and more phones will be capable of running more and more games. So since everyone has a phone already, the games can be aimed at that existing market, whereas actual game consoles will have to create the market and sell the console, making it more expensive.
Nintendo is slowly falling and has been for a few months - could the Wii's marketing be wearing off?
Just like the DS. And then they released the DS Lite. And then the DSi. And add some price drops. All of these made the sales pick up again. And Wii just dropped to $199, which will boost sales.
All this "Wii is failing" nonsense is getting annoying. It has been proclaimed "dead" since before it was even release, and is still selling like crazy.
But that's the point. Everyone owns a phone, so you can't really add the price of that phone to the calculation. The only additional cost will be the game. On the other hand, to get the games on a console, you have to buy a console.
Protecting their end users? I don't need Google's protection. If I download a third party mod, it's my risk, and mine alone. Only a tiny minority will have the knowledge to install this thing anyway.
They ran the SunSpider benchmark. Sadly, it only tests certain parts of JavaScript, and is intended to test whether the JS engine is optimized for the CPU it's running on. But just because your JS engine is optimized for the CPU doesn't mean that the whole browser is faster or that it renders pages faster. I'm sure it actually does, but this test does not show that at all. I wish people would stop blindly repeating Apple's marketing nonsense about SunSpider.
WebKit is not a browser. Nokia's browser is not the same as Safari even if it's based on WebKit. In fact, it's a fork. They may have recently merged in some recent WebKit stuff, but it has been its own forked version for a long time.
The iPhone is not ahead of Opera. Net Applications is useless, so you shouldn't trust them. They even admitted to having completely bogus stats recently.
Opera Mini is a 100-150K Java application. It can't really do much. The processing is done by the server, which handles stuff like JavaScript, the HTML, etc.
Personally, I prefer the older Slashdot where we didn't confuse "troll" with "legitimate criticism of Linux" or "Legitimate rebuttal of conservative idea".
Sorry to have say this, but "you must be new here";) (...waiting for a 3 or 4-digit user to chase me off the lawn...)
In all seriousness, moderation has never been much better than today. Not even through rose-tinted glasses. There were always problems, hence the meta moderation and such.
The Presto engine sits on a server and renders the pages, converts it into some tiny and proprietary binary format, and passes it on to the thin Opera Mini client on your phone. Opera Mini is more like an image viewer, kind of.
Uh yeah, that's the point of Opera Mini. It places the browser on the server so that you can use a "thin client" on just about any phone, including old and crappy ones.
People use Opera Mini because it's much faster and definitely much cheaper than a regular browser, or because it's the only browser their phone is capable of running. Opera is based in Norway, which has some of the world's strictest privacy laws so that shouldn't be a problem.
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He claims to have blogged for several years about the good people in Microsoft trying to change the company's direction. In that case, he should be very aware of the fact that Microsoft is as it always has been, and that those attempts have failed. So he is either ignorant or dishonest when it comes to Microsoft.
If you have blogged about this for several years, how on earth could you NOT get the fact that Microsoft always lies and deceives? That all they do is to try to lock people to their proprietary solutions? Look at their sabotage of ECMAScript 4 and stalling in the CSS Working Group. Look at their EU cases.
You are either ignorant or dishonest about Microsoft. Yes, a lot of awesome people work there. Sadly, they have no power to change the minds of the upper management!
I'm not sure how you think I prove your point (what was your point?). I used to be a Christian. Then I started thinking for myself.
No, everyone is not religious. "Religion" has a clear definition. A lot of people are not religious. In fact, many believe in a god without being religious. But sadly, there's no arguing rationally with people like you. Proud of irrational, blind faith. Ugh.
Some rights are there regardless of citizenship. But those rights are not what are being discussed here. With citizenship comes rights and responsibilities. Non-citizens do not have those specific rights and responsibilities, but that doesn't mean that they have none what so ever.
Ah, you are religious. Figures.
I'm not talking about what I or you believe. I'm talking about actual facts. Your beliefs are caused by your own biases. I stick to verified facts.
Nonsense. This is just another anti-porn myth.
You may not have an iPhone, but a lot of people do. Also, more and more phones will be capable of running more and more games. So since everyone has a phone already, the games can be aimed at that existing market, whereas actual game consoles will have to create the market and sell the console, making it more expensive.
Too bad there's no evidence for the insane 9/11 "gobirment dunnit" conspiracy theories. (Cue the Gish Gallop.)
Just like the DS. And then they released the DS Lite. And then the DSi. And add some price drops. All of these made the sales pick up again. And Wii just dropped to $199, which will boost sales.
All this "Wii is failing" nonsense is getting annoying. It has been proclaimed "dead" since before it was even release, and is still selling like crazy.
But that's the point. Everyone owns a phone, so you can't really add the price of that phone to the calculation. The only additional cost will be the game. On the other hand, to get the games on a console, you have to buy a console.
Protecting their end users? I don't need Google's protection. If I download a third party mod, it's my risk, and mine alone. Only a tiny minority will have the knowledge to install this thing anyway.
They ran the SunSpider benchmark. Sadly, it only tests certain parts of JavaScript, and is intended to test whether the JS engine is optimized for the CPU it's running on. But just because your JS engine is optimized for the CPU doesn't mean that the whole browser is faster or that it renders pages faster. I'm sure it actually does, but this test does not show that at all. I wish people would stop blindly repeating Apple's marketing nonsense about SunSpider.
Dead? It's up and running just fine as far as I can tell.
The iPhone is not ahead of Opera. Net Applications is useless, so you shouldn't trust them. They even admitted to having completely bogus stats recently.
You mean Opera?
You "bastardize nature" every time you put on a condom. Oooh, how terrible to "bastardize nature"!
Most people on TV are at least moderately attractive.
Opera Mobile comes with Opera Turbo these days, which also compresses and pre-processes sites.
Opera Mini is a 100-150K Java application. It can't really do much. The processing is done by the server, which handles stuff like JavaScript, the HTML, etc.
Sorry to have say this, but "you must be new here" ;) (...waiting for a 3 or 4-digit user to chase me off the lawn...)
In all seriousness, moderation has never been much better than today. Not even through rose-tinted glasses. There were always problems, hence the meta moderation and such.
I can't find anywhere to meta-moderate anymore. Weird.
The Presto engine sits on a server and renders the pages, converts it into some tiny and proprietary binary format, and passes it on to the thin Opera Mini client on your phone. Opera Mini is more like an image viewer, kind of.
People use Opera Mini because it's much faster and definitely much cheaper than a regular browser, or because it's the only browser their phone is capable of running. Opera is based in Norway, which has some of the world's strictest privacy laws so that shouldn't be a problem.