Do you work for a casino or something? Your "argument" is crap. Any casino has no problem taking money from someone that is losing money. However, if someone wins "too much", the casino will kick you out.
How the fark is that fair? "Oh, if we can take your money, you can stay as long as you want.... if you take our money we can kick you out".
Screw the casinos. They are nothing more than legalized mafia because they have bribed our so called "representatives" with millions.
How the hell can you even try to defend a casino? They are scum and they should be brought down. Of course they will do well since they bribe all of our "representatives" with millions.
Taking money from "consumers" is a "good thing". Letting "consumers" take money from a big corp..... holly shiat bat-man, we have to stop that. Put people in jail, destroy their lives, anything... just don't let them take OUR money. Though it is "OK" if we take their money.
You run in to problems with slow changes to the spec with that approach. Take XFree for example. Dog slow changes, it became stagnant and didn't let much community contributions. X.Org changed all that. If OpenGL had more frequent changes that implemented features that game developers wanted, it might become the standard game development target instead of DirectX which is sadly MS-Only.
Why in the world do you have to recompile your kernel just for the NVidia driver? If this is true, then SuSE 10.1 is really broken. You only need to recompile the _small_ NVidia wrapper kernel module when you change your kernel version. The whole process should take only about 30 seconds and is done automatically for you by the NVidia installer.
The process is simple, log out from and stop X, run the newer NVidia installer, start and log back in to X. Most real distros will have a method to do this for you. Then it is just a matter installing the newer NVidia package, log out from X and at the X login screen pressing CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE then log in. No reboot required.
Exaggerating a little bit are we? I certainly would not say it is "far more advanced". That sounds like MS-Speak (tm). The differences between Win2k server and Win2k3 server are equivalent to about 2 service packs of updates. Nothing major, just some incremental improvements.
Funny, as you don't have to install it. It comes as a Automatic update, I uncheck the box to tell it not to install, then I check another box telling me not to bother me again. Haven't heard from it since.
Until you need to install certain Microsoft software. I have an MSDN account and to download anything, the stupid Windows Genuine Spyware Disadvantage(TM) activex junk runs if I use IE or it wants to install some plugin for Firefox/Mozilla. Oh, and then there is the fact that after the last three reboots, windows update has re-installed WGA, even though each time it says the install was successful.
How much longer until Blair can be removed from office? At least here in the USA, we only have to deal with Bush until 2008 and then the Constitution prevents the dummy from being able to be president ever again!
Ok, now to talk about the only 3 browsers that mean anything being IE, Firefox, and Opera.
Opera? Why not Konqueror(KHTML) and Safari? I am sure Safari has a bigger market share than Opera. Not that I am bashing Opera, it is a very well done program.
You can install any of those on WinXP. Sure you might have to do it after the initial install but its not that big of a deal, I prefer it that way since then I will get the latest version of Opera instead of wasting time installing some outdated version that is on the Windows install disc. Even if there was a choice at install time about which browser to install it would make a very small difference since an overwelming majority of people could care less what browser they use as long as it displays web pages for them. If they had that choice it would just be one more step to confuse them. I do not think installing all 3 is an option either since most users will only use one so having all of them installed right from the bat is a waste. If you decide you want to install more browsers later on nothing is stopping you.
You can install those, however can you _really_ uninstall IE? Nope. I personally don't have a problem with Microsoft including a web browser. That is not big deal. My beef has and will always be how Microsoft intentionally breaks standards to require usage of IE which requires usage of MS Windows. If there was never any proprietary MS only crap out there, then I would not care at all about market share numbers.
Now on to what Microsoft did that was really wrong, they effectively did not allow OEM distributers to install Netscape initially. THAT is wrong, resellers should be allowed to bundle whatever the hell they want as well. It is one thing to control your own products, it is quite another to force control on products that others own.
And that is exactly what caused most of the current web mess now. Once MS got the majority share and the momentum was rolling for IE, MS just released proprietary extentions, document.all and other crap that was not standard and the lock-in began. Oh, and MS didn't only do this crap with Netscape. They did the same thing to their OEM's about offering any other operating system. Dr. Dos was just as good as MS-DOS, so why didn't it go any where? Because no OEM would be able to sell MS-DOS which was then dominant DOS. Then there was that other application where MS put code in MS-DOS to make sure it didn't run well, I think it was Lotus 1-2-3 or something.
For over a decade Microsoft has been doing things to prevent choice, to further lock-in, to prevent competition and to break standards. Capitalism is all about competition.
I used NoScript for a little while. However it became a pain to always allow JavaScript. I personally do more of a blacklist approach than a whitelist approach. I don't care about JavaScript running from most sites. I just want to block sites like doubleclick.net, falkag.net and the other trash advertisers. So I just use AdBlock+ and add *.doubleclick.net/*, etc.
Thus, it's surprising that 10 percent of we non-IE browser users still permit them to track us via WebSideStory.
That is not how WebSideStory works. The company I work for uses WebSideStory to track our corporate intranet usage (we have 150,000+ employees). Basically JavaScript runs on the main site and in that JavaScript you set up parameters of the page, such as the category for reporting, your account ID, etc. that then gets sent to WebSideStory. So even if you block cookies from WebSideStory, your usage will still be tracked. I guess the only thing that would not work is tracking your session so your not counted as multiple users or something. Now if you turn JavaScript off completely, then no stats will be sent to WebSideStory.
Seeing a 7%+ decrease in IE usage from WebSideStory is huge IMO. WebSideStory tracks a lot of average Joe-User type sites. If I read about a 7%+ decrease in IE usage from mostly tech-oriented sites, it wouldn't be that big of a surprise. However seeing that big of a drop from WebSideStory is pretty cool IMO. I wonder why Google and Yahoo! do not post their browser stats? Heck, what about slashdot? Why would slashdot not post browsers stats? Did slashdot make a deal with the devil to not show stats for ad dollars?
Well, "better" is very subjective. Would you always choose the product you think is better, regardless of other factors? Personally I look at more factors than just the performance/features/etc of the product. For example, I won't buy Nike shoes because they layoff American workers to replace them with poorly paid shop workers in horrid conditions. There are a lot of products I won't buy because of the corporate greed behind the product and how that greed has exploited something.
I think some of Microsoft's products are good and others are really crappy like IE. However, I try not to use any of Microsoft's products because Microsoft's business practices of the last 1 1/2 decades have been detestable to me.
See my post here. With Linux I have a choice a many different competitng browsers. With Microsoft, I get one poor quality browser that severly lacks any modern features.
I think if IE was a decent standards compliant browser with good features like Firefox, most people wouldn't care about it being bundled in with MS Windows or having a large user share. But the fact is that IE 6 and IE 7 are both crappy browsers with very few features and break W3C standards which has created a fragmented Internet. The WHOLE point of the creation of hypertext is the displaying of documents. No where in the definition does it say that you have to become a customer of Microsoft to enjoy the World Wide Web. However that has always been the focus of Microsoft. To make the web only usable with their products by breaking standards. There is nothing I hate more then someone trying to force me to a decision by taking away my options.
With Firefox I have access to hundreds of great FREE plugins that really makes the browser shine. When I try to do web development work with IE, I pull my hair out over how basic of a browser it is. IE doesn't meet my needs. IE 7 is not any better IMO. Adding tabs doesn't make it any better. Where are all the great FREE plugins that let me do things like view the HTTP headers or modify the cookies or control whether a form remembers my user name or not, or something great like GreaseMonkey? Oh, and by FREE I mean free as in freedom. I don't want a closed sourced browser plugin for IE. How do I know that the plugin is not sending back my browsing history?
Where I hit the firefox icon then go get a cup of coffee and smoke a cigarette while I wait for the program to open. If I'm lucky it'll be done by the time I get back from my coffee break.
What kind of hardware are you running? What OS? I bet your system is bogged down with adware/spyware. FF pops open in < 4 seconds for me on my 1.7GHz Pentium M laptop (WinXP) with an average 5400 RPM drive. On my 3200+ AMD64 (Ubuntu Linux) with 2GB and SATA II, FF always opens in < 2 seconds.
How many programs do you have running and how many little icons do you have in your notification area of the task bar? The one thing I have always noticed on friends computers when they complain of slow boot times and slow app start times is thaty they have a million little "helper" applications running. They install Real Player and then they have a stupid real player process always running even if they are not using Real Player. They install iTunes and that really boggs down the system with an iPod "helper" process (even though you don't have an iPod) and some quicktime process always running. If you installed Java, you get some stupid Java scheduler that just checks for updates and the rest of the time wastes memory.
Check your registry to see what processes startup when you run your computer. I am not at a Windows box right now, but I think the registry path is:
HKLM -> Software -> Microsoft -> Windows -> Current Version -> Run
How many programs do you have listed?
I find myself bored with every project I start on my own.
So don't start your own. Go to sourceforge.net and browse by topic or language you like. There are tons of community based projects that could really benefit from someone like you who has free time and likes to code. Do you know C# or would you like to learn? Head over to the Monodevelop site and help out. It is a very nice Mono/C# IDE for Linux that is comming along well, though it still needs coders like you to jump in.
I agree. However, I think we need to expand on your statement a little. This guy didn't just come up with an idea on paper and patent it. He did the _inventing_. Through his direct efforts, society has benefited. A _limited_ patent is the perfect way for society to say "hey, thanks dude!" to people like Shuji Nakamura.
I don't know if he has any patents or not. I hope he does and I hope he makes a killing off of all the blue laser stuff coming out.
I don't see this system working at all. First, who would trust MS to provide accurate data? Does anyone really think MS will bit the hands that feed them? Maybe for small OEM's MS will release valid data about how bad a driver is. However I have my doubts that MS would publically release data about how crappy ATI drivers are, or how crappy some the drivers are for an HP All-in-one, or...
I agree about not wanting to waste time being a beta tester for MS. I don't mind testing, submitting bugs, etc for Linux because I own Linux just like everyone else owns Linux. When I buy a copy of MS Windows, I don't own that copy, I am only leasing that copy. So exactly why should I spend my time (which is worth $) to help MS when I don't get anything out of the deal?
Is it just me or does MS constantly mess up all thier community efforts? The corporate monkeys at MS really need to hire some geeks to teach them what drives a community effort. I can give MS a hint. Ownership. All of MS's community efforts that I know about do not allow any community ownership. So IMO, they will never reach their potential.
A better way to look at it IMO is: "there is no reason for me to lock my front door because a thief could still break in".
You are also comparing Apples (no pun) to Oranges. There is a big difference between real-world physical security and trying to keep code "secret". I could spend tons of money and really lock down my house. I could have no windows, 6 feet thick concrete walls and a safe room made of steel. One can create a pretty secure safe zone.
Things are very different with trying to keep code secret/proprietary. If the code runs on my system, I can disassemble it, reverse engineer it, snoop protocols, etc. To date, there has not been one fool proof way to prevent someone getting at the code if they are determined. Take Jon Lech Johansen as an example.
Yeah right, Apple's lock-in formats like.jpg,.pdf, DV,.zip, mpeg4, etc. are real dead ends.
A mac wouldn't be very useful if it didn't support the above standards. Pretty much every modern OS supports all of the ones you listed.
You DO realize that Apple is going to great effort and expense to use industry standards
What are you talking about? Industry standards reduce efforts and costs. What "great effort and expense" has Apple experienced because they used an industry standard? The only reason to not use an industry standard is for lock in.
You still have to pay Microsoft to write programs for windows unless it's a batch file.
What? 5 seconds of research would have kept you from looking ignorant. You can download all the needed SDK's from MS without cost. You can even get the free (as in cost, not Freedom) versions of Visual Studio 2005 along with the free (cost) version of Sql Express.
The Visual Studio Express editions allow you to do development with C#, J#, C++ and unfortunately VB.Net.
I am not an MS fanboy, however if you are going to take a jab at MS, at least do it for a valid reason.
It protects that commercial investment of the company and the security of the product
Huh? That is the dumbest thing I have heard on/. in a long time. Has being closed and proprietary helped Microsoft with security holes and to protect their commercial investment from "piracy"? Nope.
what is MS trying to accomplish with this moving-target definition of WinFX and.NET? They should just hold all announcements until they ship a product, IMHO.
MS is the spoiled child that always needs all the attention. MS will always tell customers that the next "great" version is coming. However, once that time comes, the date always slips. When was the last time MS released one of its core products on time with all promised features? MS only makes these "announcements" because they want to keep their customers eyes on them instead of having them possibly look to Linux or Mac or some other company.
I have done C#/.Net under MS for a while now. I recently started using Mono/C#/Gtk# under Linux and find it very solid for C#, ASP.NET v1.1 work. Mono's.Net 2.0 support is almost complete. Monodevelop has a new Gui builder named Stetic that is usable. Stetic is still very new and certaily needs more work. However I was able to use it to do my Gui building without issues. As you build the Gui, you just click on a widget/control and click the "Bind to field" button to have Stetic create the widget/gui instances for you. Then you can get to doing all your coding like you would with Visual Studio. Pretty nice so far and with more people from the community getting involved, Monodevelop/Stetic will be a great C#, VB.Net, and ASP.Net development IDE.
The searching function will often point you some random topic like Windows Mobile when you're looking for something related to SQL Server.
Just search MSDN with Google! The first thing that should be done with this MSDN-Wiki thing is someone should make a Javascript created search box on MSDN that uses Google to search MSDN.;-)
I have Road Runner through Bright House Networks here in Central Florida. I have had cable modem with them for the past 5 years and I have always gotten pretty close to the advertised speed. I use to have 5 Mbps. However, Bright House/Road Runner just upped the speed to 7Mbps for "free" and now I usually get close to 7Mbps. If I download from a site with a fat pipe, I actually get 10 Mbps (business class speed for $60/month) for the first few seconds and then I see it throttled down to 7Mbps.
The only thing I don't like about the deal is that instead of lowering the price to compete with DSL prices, they upped the speed which most people won't take advantage of. I wish I could pay less for a little less bandwidth. The only pricing options I can get are $45/month for 7Mbps or $30/month for 512K. That is a HUGE speed gap for only $15/month difference. If they dropped the price by $15 shouldn't that equate to about 2Mbps? Why can't I get half the speed for half the price?
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Do you work for a casino or something? Your "argument" is crap. Any casino has no problem taking money from someone that is losing money. However, if someone wins "too much", the casino will kick you out.
How the fark is that fair? "Oh, if we can take your money, you can stay as long as you want.... if you take our money we can kick you out".
Screw the casinos. They are nothing more than legalized mafia because they have bribed our so called "representatives" with millions.
How the hell can you even try to defend a casino? They are scum and they should be brought down. Of course they will do well since they bribe all of our "representatives" with millions.
Taking money from "consumers" is a "good thing". Letting "consumers" take money from a big corp..... holly shiat bat-man, we have to stop that. Put people in jail, destroy their lives, anything... just don't let them take OUR money. Though it is "OK" if we take their money.
Why in the world do you have to recompile your kernel just for the NVidia driver? If this is true, then SuSE 10.1 is really broken. You only need to recompile the _small_ NVidia wrapper kernel module when you change your kernel version. The whole process should take only about 30 seconds and is done automatically for you by the NVidia installer.
The process is simple, log out from and stop X, run the newer NVidia installer, start and log back in to X. Most real distros will have a method to do this for you. Then it is just a matter installing the newer NVidia package, log out from X and at the X login screen pressing CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE then log in. No reboot required.
Until you need to install certain Microsoft software. I have an MSDN account and to download anything, the stupid Windows Genuine Spyware Disadvantage(TM) activex junk runs if I use IE or it wants to install some plugin for Firefox/Mozilla. Oh, and then there is the fact that after the last three reboots, windows update has re-installed WGA, even though each time it says the install was successful.
For over a decade Microsoft has been doing things to prevent choice, to further lock-in, to prevent competition and to break standards. Capitalism is all about competition.
I used NoScript for a little while. However it became a pain to always allow JavaScript. I personally do more of a blacklist approach than a whitelist approach. I don't care about JavaScript running from most sites. I just want to block sites like doubleclick.net, falkag.net and the other trash advertisers. So I just use AdBlock+ and add *.doubleclick.net/*, etc.
Seeing a 7%+ decrease in IE usage from WebSideStory is huge IMO. WebSideStory tracks a lot of average Joe-User type sites. If I read about a 7%+ decrease in IE usage from mostly tech-oriented sites, it wouldn't be that big of a surprise. However seeing that big of a drop from WebSideStory is pretty cool IMO. I wonder why Google and Yahoo! do not post their browser stats? Heck, what about slashdot? Why would slashdot not post browsers stats? Did slashdot make a deal with the devil to not show stats for ad dollars?
I think some of Microsoft's products are good and others are really crappy like IE. However, I try not to use any of Microsoft's products because Microsoft's business practices of the last 1 1/2 decades have been detestable to me.
See my post here. With Linux I have a choice a many different competitng browsers. With Microsoft, I get one poor quality browser that severly lacks any modern features.
I think if IE was a decent standards compliant browser with good features like Firefox, most people wouldn't care about it being bundled in with MS Windows or having a large user share. But the fact is that IE 6 and IE 7 are both crappy browsers with very few features and break W3C standards which has created a fragmented Internet. The WHOLE point of the creation of hypertext is the displaying of documents. No where in the definition does it say that you have to become a customer of Microsoft to enjoy the World Wide Web. However that has always been the focus of Microsoft. To make the web only usable with their products by breaking standards. There is nothing I hate more then someone trying to force me to a decision by taking away my options.
With Firefox I have access to hundreds of great FREE plugins that really makes the browser shine. When I try to do web development work with IE, I pull my hair out over how basic of a browser it is. IE doesn't meet my needs. IE 7 is not any better IMO. Adding tabs doesn't make it any better. Where are all the great FREE plugins that let me do things like view the HTTP headers or modify the cookies or control whether a form remembers my user name or not, or something great like GreaseMonkey? Oh, and by FREE I mean free as in freedom. I don't want a closed sourced browser plugin for IE. How do I know that the plugin is not sending back my browsing history?
- Firefox
- Mozilla
- Epipany
- Konqueror
- elinks
- lynx
- Opera
- Chimera2
- Dillo
I am sure there are some that I missed. Let me do a quick browser check of WinXP SP2:- Internet Explorer 6
Pretty small list. Nothing like choice, eh Microsoft?How many programs do you have running and how many little icons do you have in your notification area of the task bar? The one thing I have always noticed on friends computers when they complain of slow boot times and slow app start times is thaty they have a million little "helper" applications running. They install Real Player and then they have a stupid real player process always running even if they are not using Real Player. They install iTunes and that really boggs down the system with an iPod "helper" process (even though you don't have an iPod) and some quicktime process always running. If you installed Java, you get some stupid Java scheduler that just checks for updates and the rest of the time wastes memory.
Check your registry to see what processes startup when you run your computer. I am not at a Windows box right now, but I think the registry path is:
HKLM -> Software -> Microsoft -> Windows -> Current Version -> Run
How many programs do you have listed?
Don't you just love corporate greed? I know I do :-)
I agree. However, I think we need to expand on your statement a little. This guy didn't just come up with an idea on paper and patent it. He did the _inventing_. Through his direct efforts, society has benefited. A _limited_ patent is the perfect way for society to say "hey, thanks dude!" to people like Shuji Nakamura.
I don't know if he has any patents or not. I hope he does and I hope he makes a killing off of all the blue laser stuff coming out.
I don't see this system working at all. First, who would trust MS to provide accurate data? Does anyone really think MS will bit the hands that feed them? Maybe for small OEM's MS will release valid data about how bad a driver is. However I have my doubts that MS would publically release data about how crappy ATI drivers are, or how crappy some the drivers are for an HP All-in-one, or...
I agree about not wanting to waste time being a beta tester for MS. I don't mind testing, submitting bugs, etc for Linux because I own Linux just like everyone else owns Linux. When I buy a copy of MS Windows, I don't own that copy, I am only leasing that copy. So exactly why should I spend my time (which is worth $) to help MS when I don't get anything out of the deal?
Is it just me or does MS constantly mess up all thier community efforts? The corporate monkeys at MS really need to hire some geeks to teach them what drives a community effort. I can give MS a hint. Ownership. All of MS's community efforts that I know about do not allow any community ownership. So IMO, they will never reach their potential.
You are also comparing Apples (no pun) to Oranges. There is a big difference between real-world physical security and trying to keep code "secret". I could spend tons of money and really lock down my house. I could have no windows, 6 feet thick concrete walls and a safe room made of steel. One can create a pretty secure safe zone.
Things are very different with trying to keep code secret/proprietary. If the code runs on my system, I can disassemble it, reverse engineer it, snoop protocols, etc. To date, there has not been one fool proof way to prevent someone getting at the code if they are determined. Take Jon Lech Johansen as an example.
I wonder why this was not modded up? I find it well said and spot-on.
What? 5 seconds of research would have kept you from looking ignorant. You can download all the needed SDK's from MS without cost. You can even get the free (as in cost, not Freedom) versions of Visual Studio 2005 along with the free (cost) version of Sql Express.
The Visual Studio Express editions allow you to do development with C#, J#, C++ and unfortunately VB.Net.
I am not an MS fanboy, however if you are going to take a jab at MS, at least do it for a valid reason.MS is the spoiled child that always needs all the attention. MS will always tell customers that the next "great" version is coming. However, once that time comes, the date always slips. When was the last time MS released one of its core products on time with all promised features? MS only makes these "announcements" because they want to keep their customers eyes on them instead of having them possibly look to Linux or Mac or some other company.
I have done C#/.Net under MS for a while now. I recently started using Mono/C#/Gtk# under Linux and find it very solid for C#, ASP.NET v1.1 work. Mono's .Net 2.0 support is almost complete. Monodevelop has a new Gui builder named Stetic that is usable. Stetic is still very new and certaily needs more work. However I was able to use it to do my Gui building without issues. As you build the Gui, you just click on a widget/control and click the "Bind to field" button to have Stetic create the widget/gui instances for you. Then you can get to doing all your coding like you would with Visual Studio. Pretty nice so far and with more people from the community getting involved, Monodevelop/Stetic will be a great C#, VB.Net, and ASP.Net development IDE.
The only thing I don't like about the deal is that instead of lowering the price to compete with DSL prices, they upped the speed which most people won't take advantage of. I wish I could pay less for a little less bandwidth. The only pricing options I can get are $45/month for 7Mbps or $30/month for 512K. That is a HUGE speed gap for only $15/month difference. If they dropped the price by $15 shouldn't that equate to about 2Mbps? Why can't I get half the speed for half the price?