"However it is VERY smart to throw all their weight and resources into making mozilla so killer it blows IE out of the water."
More 'features'. Yeah, that's just what Mozilla needs. It's already a 12MB download and has a HUGE memory footprint.
Google is the last thing that Mozilla needs. It's a shame that Google has managed to infiltrate Firefox (Google search bar) already. I was under the impression that Firefox was supposed to be lean and mean.
"Isn't this similar to the way OO languages are doing, create an object, use it and dispose it."
If that's the case, I'd hate to see the biological equivalent of dependency hell.
"When the average turnover rate for a Dell is two years and the average turnover rate for Mac's is several years it's not to hard to figure out which platform is cheaper in the long run."
The only thing that might prove is that Dell has a better marketing team that can convince people they need a new machine every two years.
Keep in mind that with a Mac, you're still locked in to a single vendor.
It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)
Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, Byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors... the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt.45 and a.38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.
Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed, "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Astronaut Gordon Cooper was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to space exploration. Truly an American icon.
"A highly-componentized system is great for flexibility, but a nightmare for usability and developers."
Which is why I believe the "desktop Linux" is doomed to fail, ultimately.
For servers, you want all of the customizability you can get. You want users who can tweak the most minute of details, because the system's performance and security depends on it.
On the other hand, that doesn't bode well for desktop applications, which rely on certain system assumptions in order to work properly. Microsoft's OS model makes for weak security, in this, but when you buy an application made for Windows, you can be pretty certain it's going to work out of the box.
"High performance gaming on Linux certainly isn't for everyone. We spent weeks preparing for this analysis and we still ran into problems that we could not correct. So many times, we came to a solution for a problem only to find our Linux distribution had some files in a slightly different place or our file dependency tree was completely broken. These are the things that scare away people from Linux."
That is the 100% gospel truth. I couldn't have said it better myself. How then will the Linux community and game publishers overcome this (IMHO) enormous obstacle?
Those numbers are all well and good, but I'd be interested in seeing them side-by-side with the same tests performed (on the same machines, of course) running Windows.
I meant the difference in power consumption of this AMD processor and it's Intel counterpart. The difference between the two is relatively negligible, compared to the horses needed to power the rest of the system.
"Leaving the PC on overnight is probably not a good idea with these new Pentium 4s."
It' snot going to make THAT much of a difference on your electric bill.
Now what I want to see is an analysis of the possible benefits to notebooks, specifically in extending battery life. Intel's Centrino seems to be doing fairly well in that department, but where is AMD's response?
Score 1 for the good guys! I don't know where the First Amendment guaranteed advertising and intrusive solicitation to corporations, and I'm glad the Supreme Court didn't find it buried in fine print either.
Perhaps this will start a trend of defining (and more importantly, further limiting) this "Corporate Free Speech" assumed and abused by those who believe it is their right to harass us for the sake of profits.
Well what is considered "critical" and "emergency" is pretty relative, especially when you put it in context with 9/11. In such a light, the urgency of an OS security patch is somewhat diminished.
"Specifically, it has received patents on things such as player league tables, voice communications and online gaming host services."
I suspect that Microsoft will have something to say about all this. Can you say "X-Box Live"? Hell, it even came with the damn McDonald's drive-thru headset! How can Nintendo claim no prior art?
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"However it is VERY smart to throw all their weight and resources into making mozilla so killer it blows IE out of the water."
More 'features'. Yeah, that's just what Mozilla needs. It's already a 12MB download and has a HUGE memory footprint.
Google is the last thing that Mozilla needs. It's a shame that Google has managed to infiltrate Firefox (Google search bar) already. I was under the impression that Firefox was supposed to be lean and mean.
So "G" now constitutes a brand? I thought it was "Google". By any chance, did you defend "Lindows"?
So would this make Google more Evil or less Evil? Who's keeping track this week?
"Isn't this similar to the way OO languages are doing, create an object, use it and dispose it." If that's the case, I'd hate to see the biological equivalent of dependency hell.
But I thought the very nature of OSS makes this sort of thing impossible. What did I miss?
Would "fackweh" be an acceptable alternative? Some of our more senior co-workers here (they don't hear so good) may think we are uttering profanities.
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The only thing that might prove is that Dell has a better marketing team that can convince people they need a new machine every two years.
Keep in mind that with a Mac, you're still locked in to a single vendor.
It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)
.45 and a .38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.
Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, Byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors... the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt
Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed, "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Astronaut Gordon Cooper was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to space exploration. Truly an American icon.
If God doesn't exist, what is this "hell" you speak of? ;-)
Yup, I mean think of how good an energy source that nuclear energy could be! But NOOOOO, they had to go make a BOMB out of it!!
Wait, you mean to say we have nuclear energy today largely because of prior nuclear weapons research?
But what I really want to know is how many Libraries of Congress it could contain.
Which is why I believe the "desktop Linux" is doomed to fail, ultimately.
For servers, you want all of the customizability you can get. You want users who can tweak the most minute of details, because the system's performance and security depends on it.
On the other hand, that doesn't bode well for desktop applications, which rely on certain system assumptions in order to work properly. Microsoft's OS model makes for weak security, in this, but when you buy an application made for Windows, you can be pretty certain it's going to work out of the box.
"High performance gaming on Linux certainly isn't for everyone. We spent weeks preparing for this analysis and we still ran into problems that we could not correct. So many times, we came to a solution for a problem only to find our Linux distribution had some files in a slightly different place or our file dependency tree was completely broken. These are the things that scare away people from Linux."
That is the 100% gospel truth. I couldn't have said it better myself. How then will the Linux community and game publishers overcome this (IMHO) enormous obstacle?
Those numbers are all well and good, but I'd be interested in seeing them side-by-side with the same tests performed (on the same machines, of course) running Windows.
I meant the difference in power consumption of this AMD processor and it's Intel counterpart. The difference between the two is relatively negligible, compared to the horses needed to power the rest of the system.
It' snot going to make THAT much of a difference on your electric bill.
Now what I want to see is an analysis of the possible benefits to notebooks, specifically in extending battery life. Intel's Centrino seems to be doing fairly well in that department, but where is AMD's response?
Of course, it was the same Supreme Court that declared parts of the Patriot Act unconstitutional. The SC is being VERY consistent here.
The system works. Sometimes it just takes a little more time.
Score 1 for the good guys! I don't know where the First Amendment guaranteed advertising and intrusive solicitation to corporations, and I'm glad the Supreme Court didn't find it buried in fine print either.
Perhaps this will start a trend of defining (and more importantly, further limiting) this "Corporate Free Speech" assumed and abused by those who believe it is their right to harass us for the sake of profits.
Is it just me, or did that summary read like one big FREE advertisement for Canon?
Well what is considered "critical" and "emergency" is pretty relative, especially when you put it in context with 9/11. In such a light, the urgency of an OS security patch is somewhat diminished.
I'd be willing to wager that, had they still been alive today, anyone whose parachutes didn't open would take issue with that statement.
IIRC, the subscription service didn't start until sometime in 2002. There goes your analogy.
I suspect that Microsoft will have something to say about all this. Can you say "X-Box Live"? Hell, it even came with the damn McDonald's drive-thru headset! How can Nintendo claim no prior art?