No he isn't missing the point. He is using hyperbole to make a point. The fact is that cell phones make contacting people in an emergency faster. As a result, if can and does save lives.
The answer to how people managed without cell phones is pretty simple. Sometimes they died when they might not have had they been able to contact help more quickly.
Gah, clearly you have spent very little time actually using firefox:
You can get rid of the seperate search box, though many people really like the seperation.
You can do all your searches from the URL bar, and it is very configurable. (see: FireFox Keywords)
You want a lot of config options? (type: about:config into the URL bar)
Overall, I"m surprised that so many people are so ignorant about Firfox. There are legitimate complaints about firefox, but the ones I keep seeing are complete invalid.
>One thing I like is searching or entering URLs in a single large bar. By default, Firefox has separate search and URL bars on the same line, which mean you can see less of the search term/url you're entering.
I don't get this at all. I do all my searching from the URL bar. I got rid of the seperate search bar, and I have used firefox keywords to add searches for anything that has a search bar that I user regularly. Just right click on any text input and select Add a keyword for this search and now you all you have to do is type keyword "what you are looking for" in the URL bar and hit enter.
So what am I missing here? Is there something magic about the Mozilla search that I don't know about?
Obviously you don't use NetBSD. I have my primary mail/file/firewall/web/zope server at home running on a celeron 300a with 128M of ram, and it is zippy as can be.
I know this is the age of ever growing ram usage, but for a lot of things it isn't really needed. You can go a remarkably long way on 128M of ram. In fact, my machine never even swaps.
Assuming you are talking about dependencies, then you obviously haven't spent much time in the *BSD camps. NetBSD has had this forever, and I know that both FreeBSD and OSX have this sort of system. It originates in *BSD land.
I think gentoo does a lot of good things, and if it can keep from spinning out of control due to the sheer mass of users I see a bright future for it, but it owes much of the nice things in its design to *BSD world.
A subject that really hits close to home for me right now since I am about to move back to the states from Tokyo. I'll tell you what getting rid of old stuff here is very expensive undertaking.
Its hard to sell stuff because since most of us here don't own cars transportation to would be buyers is a difficult proposition. I have a perfectly good 27" TV, washer/dryer, fridge, stereo, air conditioning unit (air conditioning is almost always wall mounted in Japan and generally speaking even if one is included with the apartment it isn't stong enough to cool/heat the whole place), 5 computers, and various shelving. It will cost me about $500 per cubic meter to ship stuff back so I'm obviously not going to ship the older/bigger stuff back. Unfortunately unless I can sell it to someone who is willing to pick it up, I am going to have to pay a fair amount of money to throw it away.
I figure everything said, and done it will cost me about $300-$500 to throw out the stuff I can't ship. This situation leads to a lot of illegal dumping, and I really think this built in recycle tax is the way to go.
Actually, you can get flat rate for dialup also. I know I had it for a couple years before DSL and FTTH became widely available in Tokyo. A better explanation is:
1. Phone lines cost money here (to the tune of $500 or so). 2. You can get ADSL without actually buying a phoneline. 3. value adds like free VOIP between those on the service, and cheaper than regular phone rates to everyone else. 4. They have a huge marketing push. (Its true every day someone tries to give me a ADSL modem) 5. There has been a huge push by the government modernize the infrastructure, and it is really starting to pay off. 6. obviously the last mile problem is pretty much non-existant here.
umm... sure. You most certainly can't get a p4 2.4 with 512mb of ram for less than an eMac. As for the speed issue have you actually tried 10.2? Nope, didn't think so.
That said, the desktop is not where apple is cleaning
house right now. It is in the notebook department. As pretty as OSX is the Apple desktop is hard to justify. The iBooks, and the Powerbooks are oh so sexy though.
Japan launched 3G phones first, and broadband is equally prevasive here. Obviously, the author didn't check their facts. I probably just sounds better to say Korea, which has a back water image for some reason, than to compare to Japan. Still its more accurate to say large parts of asia (taiwan, korea, singapore, japan) are now significantly ahead of the west as far as being wired goes. Its easy here because due to population density the last mile problem disappears.
How does this compete with pay-per-view?
The main selling point of pay-per-view is
not price, but convenience/live broadcasts.
You will have to go, and buy this only to
turn around, and throw it away. This isn't
just incovenient it is wasteful, and doesn't
even touch the live performance aspect of
pay-per-view. Money would be better spent
on working out a broadband streaming solution.
Look guys. Its not a free ride, someone has to pay for all that bandwidth. You have three choices:
1. keep the low cost high bandwidth until the provider goes bankrupt leaving you with nothing.
2. You raise prices across the board, and let the low bandwidth users subsidize the high end user.
3. You let the highend users pay for their heavy usage.
People in N. America have more or less been spoiled by their broad choices up to this point. Now its time to actually pay for the services you use. It is a free market. If they are actually overcharging then the situation should naturally right itself, but I suspect we will findout that this is just market normalization.
The number of people overlooking this one very important fact amaze me.
Everyone is.0 this or bleeding edge that. Here is a clue stick for
all of you. It maybe unstable, but it isn't supposed to be. It isn't
supposed to bleeding edge either. That stuff should be for the 2.5
series. The fact is by releasing an unstable kernel, and then ripping
out the _entire_ VM system midstream they have made a mess of things
this go around. A mess that all you people defending the Linux
would be boiling M$ alive for. Linux is supposed to be about stability.
I guess I will have to go to *BSD for that now.
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No he isn't missing the point. He is using hyperbole to make a point. The fact is that cell phones make contacting people in an emergency faster. As a result, if can and does save lives.
The answer to how people managed without cell phones is pretty simple. Sometimes they died when they might not have had they been able to contact help more quickly.
--Matt
Overall, I"m surprised that so many people are so ignorant about Firfox. There are legitimate complaints about firefox, but the ones I keep seeing are complete invalid.
--wyn
>One thing I like is searching or entering URLs in a single large bar. By default, Firefox has separate search and URL bars on the same line, which mean you can see less of the search term/url you're entering.
I don't get this at all. I do all my searching from the URL bar. I got rid of the seperate search bar, and I have used firefox keywords to add searches for anything that has a search bar that I user regularly. Just right click on any text input and select Add a keyword for this search and now you all you have to do is type keyword "what you are looking for" in the URL bar and hit enter.
So what am I missing here? Is there something magic about the Mozilla search that I don't know about?
--wyn
Before or after the hot grits?
So move to Texas put what ever money you can into a house, and then declare yourself bankrupt. Then you get to keep the house, and are debt free.
--wyndigo
Obviously you don't use NetBSD. I have my primary mail/file/firewall/web/zope server at home running on a celeron 300a with 128M of ram, and it is zippy as can be.
I know this is the age of ever growing ram usage, but for a lot of things it isn't really needed. You can go a remarkably long way on 128M of ram. In fact, my machine never even swaps.
--wyn
Assuming you are talking about dependencies, then you obviously haven't spent much time in the *BSD camps. NetBSD has had this forever, and I know that both FreeBSD and OSX have this sort of system. It originates in *BSD land.
I think gentoo does a lot of good things, and if it can keep from spinning out of control due to the sheer mass of users I see a bright future for it, but it owes much of the nice things in its design to *BSD world.
--wyn
A subject that really hits close to home for me right now since I am about to move back to the states from Tokyo. I'll tell you what getting rid of old stuff here is very expensive undertaking.
Its hard to sell stuff because since most of us here don't own cars transportation to would be buyers is a difficult proposition. I have a perfectly good 27" TV, washer/dryer, fridge, stereo, air conditioning unit (air conditioning is almost always wall mounted in Japan and generally speaking even if one is included with the apartment it isn't stong enough to cool/heat the whole place), 5 computers, and various shelving. It will cost me about $500 per cubic meter to ship stuff back so I'm obviously not going to ship the older/bigger stuff back. Unfortunately unless I can sell it to someone who is willing to pick it up, I am going to have to pay a fair amount of money to throw it away.
I figure everything said, and done it will cost me about $300-$500 to throw out the stuff I can't ship. This situation leads to a lot of illegal dumping, and I really think this built in recycle tax is the way to go.
--wyn
Actually, you can get flat rate for dialup also. I know I had it for a couple years before DSL and FTTH became widely available in Tokyo. A better explanation is:
1. Phone lines cost money here (to the tune of $500 or so).
2. You can get ADSL without actually buying a phoneline.
3. value adds like free VOIP between those on the service, and cheaper than regular phone rates to everyone else.
4. They have a huge marketing push. (Its true every day someone tries to give me a ADSL modem)
5. There has been a huge push by the government modernize the infrastructure, and it is really starting to pay off.
6. obviously the last mile problem is pretty much non-existant here.
--wyn
umm. ctrl-alt-(+|-) are your friend. Unless you secretly like leaving X to change resolutions.
--wyn
umm... sure. You most certainly can't get a p4 2.4
with 512mb of ram for less than an eMac. As for the
speed issue have you actually tried 10.2? Nope, didn't think so.
That said, the desktop is not where apple is cleaning
house right now. It is in the notebook department. As pretty as OSX is the Apple desktop is hard to justify. The iBooks, and the Powerbooks are oh so sexy though.
--wyn
Japan launched 3G phones first, and broadband is equally prevasive here. Obviously, the author didn't check their facts. I probably just sounds better to say Korea, which has a back water image for some reason, than to compare to Japan. Still its more accurate to say large parts of asia (taiwan, korea, singapore, japan) are now significantly ahead of the west as far as being wired goes. Its easy here because due to population density the last mile problem disappears.
--wyn
Simple, people who are trying to decide what to
use for streaming audio. Internet broadcasts anyone?
--Matt
Is the learning curve to high or do you just not value your privacy enough to learn it. Everything has a price, and some of us are willing to pay it.
--wyn
>The DOJ was supposed to come down on Microsoft, but they went down on them instead
Makes you rethink the "pretzel" incident doesn't it.
;)
--wyn
How does this compete with pay-per-view?
The main selling point of pay-per-view is
not price, but convenience/live broadcasts.
You will have to go, and buy this only to
turn around, and throw it away. This isn't
just incovenient it is wasteful, and doesn't
even touch the live performance aspect of
pay-per-view. Money would be better spent
on working out a broadband streaming solution.
--wyn
Look guys. Its not a free ride, someone has to pay for all that bandwidth. You have three choices:
1. keep the low cost high bandwidth until the provider goes bankrupt leaving you with nothing.
2. You raise prices across the board, and let the low bandwidth users subsidize the high end user.
3. You let the highend users pay for their heavy usage.
People in N. America have more or less been spoiled by their broad choices up to this point. Now its time to actually pay for the services you use. It is a free market. If they are actually overcharging then the situation should naturally right itself, but I suspect we will findout that this is just market normalization.
--wyn
The number of people overlooking this one very important fact amaze me. .0 this or bleeding edge that. Here is a clue stick for
Everyone is
all of you. It maybe unstable, but it isn't supposed to be. It isn't
supposed to bleeding edge either. That stuff should be for the 2.5
series. The fact is by releasing an unstable kernel, and then ripping
out the _entire_ VM system midstream they have made a mess of things
this go around. A mess that all you people defending the Linux
would be boiling M$ alive for. Linux is supposed to be about stability.
I guess I will have to go to *BSD for that now.
--wyn