I've spent enough time there to know that token respect bribes are just a part of how business gets done. I'm sure most of the large corporations are doing the same, it just seems Samsung slipped up and got caught.
I thought the whole point of firefox was a faster rewrite of the slow bloated old Mozilla browser? These days it's one of the worst examples of bloatware around, it's painfully slow and heavyweight, IE7 smokes it in this regard. If it weren't for firebug I'll bet lots of people would be using Safari/IE7 instead.
It's pretty bad and slow on it's own, but it gets far worse when you start to use extensions of course, some protections against all the painfully slow and memory-leaking extensions people are churning out would be great
Also, if so much attention is supposedly being paid to creating good cross-platform code and features, why has it never worked properly in Linux? Crashes, memory leaks, and dear god don't even try to install any extensions, it's a lost cause. I had to spend all day yesterday hacking out custom Linux FF CSS to get a simple, standards-compliant page that looked perfect in FF on Windows to render consistently when a FF on a couple of distros suddenly became a client requirement.
I hate to come across as flamebait, but sometimes I really think something is fundamentally dysfunctional among the decision making process with Firefox. It used to be terrific, but slowly became a prime example of bloatware, and it seems to be getting worse with every release.
Why is this date always three years off? I remember reading the exact same scare article in 1994, 1999, and 2003. Every time the "death of internet" was always publication date +3 years.
Yeah there no way Palm, HTC, or the Apple Phone come anywhere close to Blackberry. Funny how I've still yet to meet a BB owner who has bought an Apple Phone.
"Because the index is stored locally on the computer, users can access Gmail and Web history while offline."
Which is a good thing because despite Linux being 60 some years old now I still can't get this damn wireless card to work despite battling with drivers and make install for days.
Not really. It's only in the past 12 months that market share and earnings have really changed. AMD wasn't able to translate the superior performance and power efficiency of Athlon 64 & Opteron into actualy stolen market share for a couple eyars.
Of course it's all irrelevant since Conroe/Merom/Woodcrest is a huge leap over anything else either company offers, will easily ramp up to 5Ghz in a couple years, and since AMD has absolutlely nothing competitive on the horizon or beyond the horizon.
There is no special sauce. It's just the latest hyped toolkit that will be gone next week. Look for Jarva or D++ or whatever trendy new thing pops up in software next week that does absolutely nothing.
Listen kids, there is no silver bullet. For all you folks that dropped out of college/high school who generate the ad clickthroughs that make these stories submittable: Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month. Read it.
Film at 11.
Honestly how could people not anticipate these sorts of things based on the long-established pattern of problems with being among the first adopters of a new hardware/software system?
Nope, the investor's interests trump all others, in fact it's illegal to serve any other interests ahead of the shareholders.
Anything less is Socialism, pure and simple.
Ok that will convince the dozen people who liked halo and don't have an Xbox already to upgrade to Vista, but XP is still chugging along fine for the rest of us.
Flash ads and all animated gifs are inherently evil. Let me restate that.
Flash ads and all animated gifs - are - inherently evil.
Sound or no sound, flash is a resource hog, even on high-end systems. Don't even get me started on how many times a flash page crashed firefox either. Uninstalling flash has improved by browsing experience immensely.
Any animation in an ad is evil. I don't care if it's a 1x1 banner that switches between blue and light blue every 30 seconds, it's evil. There should be nothing moving or changing on my screen unless I direct it to. My eye is involuntarily drawn to movement, and it's just painful to try and ignore. Text ads or static images are an order of magnitude more tolerable than any animated gif.
I love how this boils down to the exact same thing as previous stories about companies creating a tiered internet, but those companies were derided as evil. When Google does it, we use words like "alternative" and "private", because they are a magical pixie dust company that rains sugar and lollipops across the whole world. I'm seriously starting to wonder if Slashdot editors hold stock in Google or something, this is just absurd.
How on Earth are all those white kids in the suburbs going to express their teen angst now?
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Anything that monitors my tastes and sends it back to a company for targeted advertising is malware. It doesn't matter if it's Apple or Google or any other sugar-coated pixie dust company that we're all supposed to love and praise, it's still abhorable.
Anyone else notice the growing trend of people finding a cute little way to troll in their submittal paragraphs? I'd think this sort of blatant trolling wouldn't be allowed by the editors, hopefully they notice this trend and start trying to reverse it.
"No, really. Please pick yourself up off the floor and stop laughing. Yes, there are good books on developing Windows software in a secure fashion."
With snippets like that starting off an article, you start to see why people have trouble taking Slashdot seriously. This is getting ridiclous, almost FOXNEWSesque.
Anyone else noticing Firefox getting more and more bloated and buggy with every release? I remember it being swift and stable about a year ago (0.7 days?), but now it takes years to load, downloads don't always work, and I simply can't use tabs as it leads to a crash within an hour. I thought the idea behind the Firefox fork was a lighter, speedy alternative to Mozilla, but now Firefix seems to have a pretty alarming rate of feature bloat.
I find myself wanting to know what the alternatives to the alternative are now.
Last I checked they had $40 billion in cash sitting around and are minting a billion in profit free and clear every month.
That's just an insane amount of money.
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I've spent enough time there to know that token respect bribes are just a part of how business gets done. I'm sure most of the large corporations are doing the same, it just seems Samsung slipped up and got caught.
I thought the whole point of firefox was a faster rewrite of the slow bloated old Mozilla browser? These days it's one of the worst examples of bloatware around, it's painfully slow and heavyweight, IE7 smokes it in this regard. If it weren't for firebug I'll bet lots of people would be using Safari/IE7 instead.
It's pretty bad and slow on it's own, but it gets far worse when you start to use extensions of course, some protections against all the painfully slow and memory-leaking extensions people are churning out would be great
Also, if so much attention is supposedly being paid to creating good cross-platform code and features, why has it never worked properly in Linux? Crashes, memory leaks, and dear god don't even try to install any extensions, it's a lost cause. I had to spend all day yesterday hacking out custom Linux FF CSS to get a simple, standards-compliant page that looked perfect in FF on Windows to render consistently when a FF on a couple of distros suddenly became a client requirement.
I hate to come across as flamebait, but sometimes I really think something is fundamentally dysfunctional among the decision making process with Firefox. It used to be terrific, but slowly became a prime example of bloatware, and it seems to be getting worse with every release.
Why is this date always three years off? I remember reading the exact same scare article in 1994, 1999, and 2003. Every time the "death of internet" was always publication date +3 years.
Do you really think we are that fucking stupid?
Yeah there no way Palm, HTC, or the Apple Phone come anywhere close to Blackberry. Funny how I've still yet to meet a BB owner who has bought an Apple Phone.
Exchange?
"Because the index is stored locally on the computer, users can access Gmail and Web history while offline."
Which is a good thing because despite Linux being 60 some years old now I still can't get this damn wireless card to work despite battling with drivers and make install for days.Google for Google, Google that Google. Google. I sure hope someone is at least getting paid well for the dozen daily Google stories.
Not really. It's only in the past 12 months that market share and earnings have really changed. AMD wasn't able to translate the superior performance and power efficiency of Athlon 64 & Opteron into actualy stolen market share for a couple eyars. Of course it's all irrelevant since Conroe/Merom/Woodcrest is a huge leap over anything else either company offers, will easily ramp up to 5Ghz in a couple years, and since AMD has absolutlely nothing competitive on the horizon or beyond the horizon.
I believe this is the most pretentiously-worded article blurb that has ever been seen on Slashdot.
There is no special sauce. It's just the latest hyped toolkit that will be gone next week. Look for Jarva or D++ or whatever trendy new thing pops up in software next week that does absolutely nothing.
Listen kids, there is no silver bullet. For all you folks that dropped out of college/high school who generate the ad clickthroughs that make these stories submittable: Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month. Read it.
Film at 11. Honestly how could people not anticipate these sorts of things based on the long-established pattern of problems with being among the first adopters of a new hardware/software system?
Nope, the investor's interests trump all others, in fact it's illegal to serve any other interests ahead of the shareholders. Anything less is Socialism, pure and simple.
Ok that will convince the dozen people who liked halo and don't have an Xbox already to upgrade to Vista, but XP is still chugging along fine for the rest of us.
Flash ads and all animated gifs are inherently evil. Let me restate that.
Flash ads and all animated gifs - are - inherently evil.
Sound or no sound, flash is a resource hog, even on high-end systems. Don't even get me started on how many times a flash page crashed firefox either. Uninstalling flash has improved by browsing experience immensely.
Any animation in an ad is evil. I don't care if it's a 1x1 banner that switches between blue and light blue every 30 seconds, it's evil. There should be nothing moving or changing on my screen unless I direct it to. My eye is involuntarily drawn to movement, and it's just painful to try and ignore. Text ads or static images are an order of magnitude more tolerable than any animated gif.
I love how this boils down to the exact same thing as previous stories about companies creating a tiered internet, but those companies were derided as evil. When Google does it, we use words like "alternative" and "private", because they are a magical pixie dust company that rains sugar and lollipops across the whole world. I'm seriously starting to wonder if Slashdot editors hold stock in Google or something, this is just absurd.
How on Earth are all those white kids in the suburbs going to express their teen angst now?
Anything that monitors my tastes and sends it back to a company for targeted advertising is malware. It doesn't matter if it's Apple or Google or any other sugar-coated pixie dust company that we're all supposed to love and praise, it's still abhorable.
Anyone else notice the growing trend of people finding a cute little way to troll in their submittal paragraphs? I'd think this sort of blatant trolling wouldn't be allowed by the editors, hopefully they notice this trend and start trying to reverse it.
What the hell is AIX? I've been in IT for 10 years now and never heard of it.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/15/165523 4&tid=154&tid=113&tid=95
I'm off to short 1000 shares of 3M.
"No, really. Please pick yourself up off the floor and stop laughing. Yes, there are good books on developing Windows software in a secure fashion." With snippets like that starting off an article, you start to see why people have trouble taking Slashdot seriously. This is getting ridiclous, almost FOXNEWSesque.
Seems to be offline but here's the google cache link if you're interested: http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:zQLM8Fs0lo8J:c a.geocities.com/infringements%40rogers.com/+Louise tte+Lanteigne&hl=en&client=firefox-a
Anyone else noticing Firefox getting more and more bloated and buggy with every release? I remember it being swift and stable about a year ago (0.7 days?), but now it takes years to load, downloads don't always work, and I simply can't use tabs as it leads to a crash within an hour. I thought the idea behind the Firefox fork was a lighter, speedy alternative to Mozilla, but now Firefix seems to have a pretty alarming rate of feature bloat. I find myself wanting to know what the alternatives to the alternative are now.
Last I checked they had $40 billion in cash sitting around and are minting a billion in profit free and clear every month. That's just an insane amount of money.
Now what are us mail-order bride seekers going to do?