The Mozilla Foundation is a California non-profit corporation exempt from Federal income taxation under IRC 501(c)(3). It is governed by its Board of Directors.
I am not sure about US usage, but in the UK and many other countries a corporation created by registration (with the registrar of companies - Companies House in the UK) is correctly referred to as a company, regardless of whether it is a profit making or non-profit company.
Bear in mind that a lot of the lower income South Asian workers are systematically defrauded by by the Emiratis. They are often promised much higher pay than they receive, their passports are stolen by their employers to prevent them leaving, and they work under terrible conditions.
A good many would never have gone their if they knew how it would work out.
But I do have to say that Gates doesn't usually appear to be a stupid little upstart that got lucky or something like that.
I don't think many people believe that Gates is stupid and merely got lucky. The criticism more likely to be leveled at him is that he got where he is more through business acumen than through producing high-quality products.
But I do have to say that Gates doesn't usually appear to be a stupid little upstart that got lucky or something like that.
I don't think many people believe that Gates is stupid and merely got lucky. The criticism more likely to be leveled at him is that he got where he is more through business acumen than through producing high-quality products.
Business acumen, and through inherited money and influence: he had enough money to risk dropping out to start a business, and a few years later his business got a huge boost when they got the contract to supply DOS to IBM, the decision to award that contract being taken by a man who knew BIll Gates; mother.
He is undoubtedly smart (lots of people start by inheriting millions, very few of them turn it into billions), but he he would never have made the same amount of money if he came from an average family however smart he was.
There's also half a chance that the OS will be user-friendly enough for the average end user not to run screaming from, unlike most Linux distros. Hell, they may even be able to use it without ever having to see a command prompt.
Pure FUD. The only things I have used the command prompt for in the last few months (running Linux Mint, at the machine):
1) ping and dig - and both of those can be done from the GUI, I just prefer the command line. 2) Django manage.py commands 3) ssh into a remove server 4) Restarting lighttpd
Now, how many of those are things the average user would need to do? All my average user stuff (installing desktop apps, web browsing, email, etc.) gets done without a command prompt in site.
Just because the sort of people who read Slashdot need to use the command prompt to get stuff done - stuff that most people have never heard of - does not mean the average user will ever see one.
Snopes posted a couple of purposefully incorrect things once, in order to prove a point about not blindly trusting people. The fake stories backfired (or worked, depending on your view) and became real urban legends. Hilarious.
I heard that too, but I checked and it turned out to be just an urban legend.
Since when is the point of open source was to kill big companies. That sounds like the sort of thing MS would say ("its communist").
Surely Google, Amazon and others use open source, so we are talking about one open source vendor based platform competing against another. The question then becomes, can open source somehow magically make the economies of scale involved in running infrastructure disappear, at which point the question answers itself.
To put the GP;s point in another way, the government does not listen to the people, so the people are willing to listen to fascists, and that might shock the politicians into listening to the people again.
Yes, the chavs are a problem. It is a deep seated one. You are talking about areas where we are entering the second or third generation of most people living off the dole, with teenage pregancy and petty crime a way of life. How do you break people out of that - just despising them is not going to solve the problem.
Having grown up in the fairly pleasant surroundings of Wimbledon, and spent most of my life on OK areas, I got a huge culture shock when I spent two years living in Salford (supposedly one of the regenerated bits) - far more of a culture shock than I got from moving to another country.
Incidentally I am non-white British, currently re-emigrated to my country of origin (where I am now living in a town that seems to be full of British immigrants).
I am planning to register as an overseas voter just tog et rid of them. Mind you, I last lived in Britain in a safe labour seat so how much good it will do is questionable.
There are all kinds of things they want to do apart from the publicised issues: forcing home educating parents to teach a government approved curriculum, centralising the running of schools (because that has works so well so far), tracking cars, ISP data gathering, random stop and search, persecution of photographers (because you might just be taking a photograph because you are a terrorist doing reconnaissance). The list just goes on and on.
I agree. If people do not need to edit your document a PDF looks MUCH better, and it will always look the same - no worrying about different versions etc.
Linux has a lot less malware. The effect on TCO of counting it would be negligible. That is not true of Windows. Therefore, ignoring it favour Windows.
If we are going to pick and choose what to ignore, lets ignore retraining costs and one-off transition costs. I wonder who will have the lower TCO then?
don't view non-geeks as "mundane". The "meatspace" will earn the "weird" label, but the "mundane" will earn the "motherfucking asshole" label, and justifiably so.
Fine, go head. You either increase import duties, have import quotas, or have complete bans on imports. You might like to consider a few consequences:
1) inflation: everything that is cheaper to import becomes more expensive, often a lot more expensive. 2) Lack of competition. A single domestic market is far more likely to become a monopoly or oligopoly. 3). Falls in exports. Other countries will either retaliate and stop buying your stuff, or your currency will appreciate making your exports uncompetitive.
Oh, you only meant lets forget free markets in your industry. Adam Smith got people like you right a long time ago.
What flood of returns? MSI reported higher returns for Linux (on the net books they shipped with Linux without drivers for the hardware), but Asus said return rates were similar.
1) IE8 passes more W3C compliance CSS 2.1 test cases than any other browser.
Is that against the 2006 "pre alpha release" or the current woefully incompleteACID3 is not an official test
It is still a good thing, and has been accepted as such by all the other browser vendors/developers.
to claim that IE8 is not customizable is just as silly, especially when you pick and choose only those addins that matter to you.
I claim that IE8 is not as customizable as Firefox, not that it is not customizable at all. There is a repositary of IE addons, and it is fairly empty. I am picking addons I use as examples, not as a comprehensive list.
If a vulnerability in a plugin is exploited in Firefox on Linux that exploit can trash the user's profile.
Any examples of it actually happening? I would prefer theoretical risk with no exploits in the wild, to theoretical security and exploits in the wild. You do realise that Linux has security mechanisms as pointed out on other replies?
Tab isolation is better than no isolation, and it is better for one or two tabs to crash than the entire browser.
I agree, but it is better not to crash in the first place, something that MS do not attempt to measure.
Its even wider than that. Here are a few examples of corporations that do not maximise profits:
1) Oxfam 2) the Mozilla Foundation 3) bishops of the Church of England 4) cities 5) some cooperatives and mutuals 6) some professional associations (some are unincorporated associations) 7) educational institutions such as schools and universities
It is also perfectly possible for a profit making corporation to have other objectives (such a guaranteeing editorial independence at Thompson Reuters), or to sacrifice profits in ways that the members approve of (e.g. by giving money to charity) in spite of the stated objectives being purely profit oriented.
Can we know put this stupid, ignorant Slashdot meme to death? Yes , I know,no chance.
If Pulse Audio really sucks, then Linux Audio really is in a sorry state
No, because you do not have to use Pulseaudio.
He says pulse sucks for games . Although he is exaggerating the latencies, I can believe it.
It is so, so for video (you can get occasional lack of sync)
It does audio very nicely - mixing works fine, you can play different streams to different cards (yes, I do that), you can play streams on remote servers, you can combine all local sound cards into a single virtual device etc.
So the problem is not that we do not have good solutions. It is that we have different solutions with different strengths and it is not clear which should be the default. He thinks pulse should not be the default. I like pulse although I would like the latency and reliabliity issues dealt with.
1) IE8 does much worse at ACID3, so it is less standards compliant. 2) What IE8 does out of the box covers what a few Firefox extensions do, out of thousands available. Where are Tree Style Tabs? No squint? No Script? Its All text? (to pick a few I like) 3) Compatibility not that good because there are sure to be lots of sites around that still serve IE7 CSS workarounds to IE 8. 4) Performance does matter for very javascript heavy pages, which are now quite common 5) IE8 developer tools cannot match Firefox + Web developer Toolbar + Firebug + YSlow etc... 6) The others have malware protection. What about MS's generally bad track record. 7) tab isolation and recovery are not the be all and end all of reliability: how reliable is the rendering engine for example? It is better not to crash than to recover. 8) Firefox has some terrific ease of use features, as does Opera. The search in the FF location bar, and Opera quick dial come to mind, but there are a lot more. 9) IE is Windows only, which is also bad for security.
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The Mozilla Foundation's about page says:
The Mozilla Foundation is a California non-profit corporation exempt from Federal income taxation under IRC 501(c)(3). It is governed by its Board of Directors.
I am not sure about US usage, but in the UK and many other countries a corporation created by registration (with the registrar of companies - Companies House in the UK) is correctly referred to as a company, regardless of whether it is a profit making or non-profit company.
Bear in mind that a lot of the lower income South Asian workers are systematically defrauded by by the Emiratis. They are often promised much higher pay than they receive, their passports are stolen by their employers to prevent them leaving, and they work under terrible conditions.
A good many would never have gone their if they knew how it would work out.
But I do have to say that Gates doesn't usually appear to be a stupid little upstart that got lucky or something like that.
I don't think many people believe that Gates is stupid and merely got lucky. The criticism more likely to be leveled at him is that he got where he is more through business acumen than through producing high-quality products.
But I do have to say that Gates doesn't usually appear to be a stupid little upstart that got lucky or something like that.
I don't think many people believe that Gates is stupid and merely got lucky. The criticism more likely to be leveled at him is that he got where he is more through business acumen than through producing high-quality products.
Business acumen, and through inherited money and influence: he had enough money to risk dropping out to start a business, and a few years later his business got a huge boost when they got the contract to supply DOS to IBM, the decision to award that contract being taken by a man who knew BIll Gates; mother.
He is undoubtedly smart (lots of people start by inheriting millions, very few of them turn it into billions), but he he would never have made the same amount of money if he came from an average family however smart he was.
The record company has sued the computer company....
I hope we hear from Ptolemy V's lawyers soon.
There's also half a chance that the OS will be user-friendly enough for the average end user not to run screaming from, unlike most Linux distros. Hell, they may even be able to use it without ever having to see a command prompt.
Pure FUD. The only things I have used the command prompt for in the last few months (running Linux Mint, at the machine):
1) ping and dig - and both of those can be done from the GUI, I just prefer the command line.
2) Django manage.py commands
3) ssh into a remove server
4) Restarting lighttpd
Now, how many of those are things the average user would need to do? All my average user stuff (installing desktop apps, web browsing, email, etc.) gets done without a command prompt in site.
Just because the sort of people who read Slashdot need to use the command prompt to get stuff done - stuff that most people have never heard of - does not mean the average user will ever see one.
Maybe it is just that Flash sucks - not Flash on any particular platform.
I thought that Gnash could handle Youtube? That is what most of us use Flash for.
Chrome OS is going to be available for ARM, so Google presumably wants Flash there as well.
Snopes posted a couple of purposefully incorrect things once, in order to prove a point about not blindly trusting people. The fake stories backfired (or worked, depending on your view) and became real urban legends. Hilarious.
I heard that too, but I checked and it turned out to be just an urban legend.
Do you have any evidence of snopes.com being incorrect? I've never heard of anyone challenging their credulity.
I certainly challenge it. They are not at all credulous, which is why they are credible.
Since when is the point of open source was to kill big companies. That sounds like the sort of thing MS would say ("its communist").
Surely Google, Amazon and others use open source, so we are talking about one open source vendor based platform competing against another. The question then becomes, can open source somehow magically make the economies of scale involved in running infrastructure disappear, at which point the question answers itself.
To put the GP;s point in another way, the government does not listen to the people, so the people are willing to listen to fascists, and that might shock the politicians into listening to the people again.
Yes, the chavs are a problem. It is a deep seated one. You are talking about areas where we are entering the second or third generation of most people living off the dole, with teenage pregancy and petty crime a way of life. How do you break people out of that - just despising them is not going to solve the problem.
Having grown up in the fairly pleasant surroundings of Wimbledon, and spent most of my life on OK areas, I got a huge culture shock when I spent two years living in Salford (supposedly one of the regenerated bits) - far more of a culture shock than I got from moving to another country.
Incidentally I am non-white British, currently re-emigrated to my country of origin (where I am now living in a town that seems to be full of British immigrants).
I am planning to register as an overseas voter just tog et rid of them. Mind you, I last lived in Britain in a safe labour seat so how much good it will do is questionable.
There are all kinds of things they want to do apart from the publicised issues: forcing home educating parents to teach a government approved curriculum, centralising the running of schools (because that has works so well so far), tracking cars, ISP data gathering, random stop and search, persecution of photographers (because you might just be taking a photograph because you are a terrorist doing reconnaissance). The list just goes on and on.
I agree. If people do not need to edit your document a PDF looks MUCH better, and it will always look the same - no worrying about different versions etc.
Linux has a lot less malware. The effect on TCO of counting it would be negligible. That is not true of Windows. Therefore, ignoring it favour Windows.
If we are going to pick and choose what to ignore, lets ignore retraining costs and one-off transition costs. I wonder who will have the lower TCO then?
10% have switched to Linux, but 60% have switched to Open Office.
They are also using a custom Linux distro, which must slow things down somewhat.
It is not fast, but lots of big IT changes take longer.
don't view non-geeks as "mundane". The "meatspace" will earn the "weird" label, but the "mundane" will earn the "motherfucking asshole" label, and justifiably so.
At least he did not call them muggles.....
Fine, go head. You either increase import duties, have import quotas, or have complete bans on imports. You might like to consider a few consequences:
1) inflation: everything that is cheaper to import becomes more expensive, often a lot more expensive.
2) Lack of competition. A single domestic market is far more likely to become a monopoly or oligopoly.
3). Falls in exports. Other countries will either retaliate and stop buying your stuff, or your currency will appreciate making your exports uncompetitive.
Oh, you only meant lets forget free markets in your industry. Adam Smith got people like you right a long time ago.
Finally, this should stop perennial "firefox is a memory hog" trolls. Hopefully.
No it will just start "Chrome is a memory hog" as well.
Am I right in thinking that Chrome's process per tab approach would use less memory on Linux/Unix than it does on Windows?
I have 14 installed an enabled, despite making an effort to disable or remove anything I do not use regularly.
What flood of returns? MSI reported higher returns for Linux (on the net books they shipped with Linux without drivers for the hardware), but Asus said return rates were similar.
1) IE8 passes more W3C compliance CSS 2.1 test cases than any other browser.
Is that against the 2006 "pre alpha release" or the current woefully incompleteACID3 is not an official test
It is still a good thing, and has been accepted as such by all the other browser vendors/developers.
to claim that IE8 is not customizable is just as silly, especially when you pick and choose only those addins that matter to you.
I claim that IE8 is not as customizable as Firefox, not that it is not customizable at all. There is a repositary of IE addons, and it is fairly empty. I am picking addons I use as examples, not as a comprehensive list.
If a vulnerability in a plugin is exploited in Firefox on Linux that exploit can trash the user's profile.
Any examples of it actually happening? I would prefer theoretical risk with no exploits in the wild, to theoretical security and exploits in the wild. You do realise that Linux has security mechanisms as pointed out on other replies?
Tab isolation is better than no isolation, and it is better for one or two tabs to crash than the entire browser.
I agree, but it is better not to crash in the first place, something that MS do not attempt to measure.
Don't go FOSS because it's FOSS. Go FOSS because it's superior.
One major reason FOSS is superior is that it avoids lock-in,. which it does because it is FOSS.
Open formats with proprietary software can do the same, but leave room for sneakiness.
Its even wider than that. Here are a few examples of corporations that do not maximise profits:
1) Oxfam
2) the Mozilla Foundation
3) bishops of the Church of England
4) cities
5) some cooperatives and mutuals
6) some professional associations (some are unincorporated associations)
7) educational institutions such as schools and universities
It is also perfectly possible for a profit making corporation to have other objectives (such a guaranteeing editorial independence at Thompson Reuters), or to sacrifice profits in ways that the members approve of (e.g. by giving money to charity) in spite of the stated objectives being purely profit oriented.
Can we know put this stupid, ignorant Slashdot meme to death? Yes , I know,no chance.
Yes, I can compile it again from source
Or you could just ada third party repo that has it.
If Pulse Audio really sucks, then Linux Audio really is in a sorry state
No, because you do not have to use Pulseaudio.
He says pulse sucks for games . Although he is exaggerating the latencies, I can believe it.
It is so, so for video (you can get occasional lack of sync)
It does audio very nicely - mixing works fine, you can play different streams to different cards (yes, I do that), you can play streams on remote servers, you can combine all local sound cards into a single virtual device etc.
So the problem is not that we do not have good solutions. It is that we have different solutions with different strengths and it is not clear which should be the default. He thinks pulse should not be the default. I like pulse although I would like the latency and reliabliity issues dealt with.
1) IE8 does much worse at ACID3, so it is less standards compliant.
2) What IE8 does out of the box covers what a few Firefox extensions do, out of thousands available. Where are Tree Style Tabs? No squint? No Script? Its All text? (to pick a few I like)
3) Compatibility not that good because there are sure to be lots of sites around that still serve IE7 CSS workarounds to IE 8.
4) Performance does matter for very javascript heavy pages, which are now quite common
5) IE8 developer tools cannot match Firefox + Web developer Toolbar + Firebug + YSlow etc...
6) The others have malware protection. What about MS's generally bad track record.
7) tab isolation and recovery are not the be all and end all of reliability: how reliable is the rendering engine for example? It is better not to crash than to recover.
8) Firefox has some terrific ease of use features, as does Opera. The search in the FF location bar, and Opera quick dial come to mind, but there are a lot more.
9) IE is Windows only, which is also bad for security.