I guess I should expand on my last comment. I mean to say that Apple comes out with this new browser but no where in Jobs' keynote does he give KHTML or the KDE team any credit. They way he talks, it would seem that Apple wrote this from scratch. He makes it seem that they (Apple) are responsible for the quick load times as well as the page rendering performance when KHTML should be given some credit for the work. Open source is free to use as you please, but I think that credit should be given where credit is due.
I would like to have seen a comparison of load times for mozilla running on say linux or a windows box in Jobs' keynote speach, just for comparison's sake. I'm sure I could find these numbers with a little googling, but I'm much too lazy for that.
That may be true, but I was going by the original post on/. which states that it is fully integrated. I just watched the part of the keynote speach on the browser and Jobs didn't mention anything about this. Anyway, IMO Mozilla seems like a better browser. It still has some features that aren't in Safari. Plus Safari is basically the KDE browser with an Apple made skin. Apple sure is taking this whole take open source projects and use them for their own benefit idea to the max.
There's nothing especially great about it -- it's a web browser -- except that, unlike most other browsers, it is expected to be fast and work properly, as well as be fully integrated into Mac OS X.
Hummm...everyone on earth complained about IE being fully integrated into Windows, but when Apple gets the bright idea to do it with their next browser, people seem to think its a good idea. Makes you think...doesn't it?
Example: John Doe doesn't own a computer. John Doe buys a PS2 with all the accessories - and can now surf the web, send email, code, run nix apps, and play video games - exactly what the average computer home user does (with the linux exception of course)
Somehow I don't think that "John Doe" will be doing much coding or running nix apps if he already doesn't own a computer. Any person who is that into code or linux would most likely already have a computer at home.
that offer an accredited CS degree you can usually maintain a focus or concentration in different areas within CS, and usually 3D graphics is one of those concentrations.
Games appeal to the most antisocial element of society, because that's all their creators know.
I would have to say that, today, games appeal to as large a market as movies. Many people of all types enjoy video games, at least in the teenage group. I know that my friends (save one) all really enjoy games, and they are all not as geeky as I am.
This is true. I would venture to say that it has no affect on anyone's mind. All of my friends and I play this game, and it seems to have no affect (other than all of us singing A Flock of Seagulls - "I Ran" randomly throughout the day) what-so-ever.
these "tools" have been up and running for some time now...about a year or more to my knowledge. Its known as the "Echelon" project. The main idea is that incredibly powerful (KH-11) satellites are able to pick up digital signals on earth (mostly cell phone coversations). However, a CIA contact that I have spoken with has stated (as of last fall) the system was still in an early stage. He implied that it was able to pick up the data, but had difficulty in sorting the data and creating whole conversations. The contact stated that it was like going into a busy restaurant. You can hear all the conversations going on around you, but to your brian it sounds like noise. It is almost impossible to piece together a conversation on the other side of the room, yet you are still able to hear it. But, it is possible that, by now, they have solved this problem.
I've got nothing to hide. If the government wants to waste their time reading my emails, then let them. If you are really that worried about what you send, then encrypt your data. Most online purchases are also encrypted so it doesn't really matter anyway.
Whatever you do, don't give in to the establishment! I can't see how an ISP can adverstise high speeds (10 mbps or whatever each different company says) and then when every user actually tries to use this amount of bandwidth, they complain and send out letters. If they offer these speeds to each user, then their network should be able to sustain the amount of bandwidth that they advertise. I have Comcast cable which is rated at 1.5 mbps down and 128 k up. That is usually what I get too. All this crap about limiting P2P services really ticks me off. Users should be able to do whatever they want with their connection and the ISP shouldn't be responsible for what they do. If someone brings down a website through their connection or uses their email service to sell illegal drugs, the ISP isn't held responsible to block this. Why, then, should they be held responsible to block the trading of copy-righted files? One might argue that they are asked to block P2P programs because it is easy to block that kind of traffic. But that would be like blocking email because one person uses it to sell drugs. P2P apps have legal uses...ISP just tend to ignore this fact when they make blanket statements like the one in this article.
Is it probable then that if I was to have a 802.11 signal mysteriously eminating from my car that it would interfere with police radar allowing me to speed as much as I want?
Yea...the XP recovery consol has saved my butt a few times. Mostly because if your XP with NTFS system goes head over heals and the only computer you can access is a win98 box, its nearly impossible to get a boot-disk that does all the stuff u want it to (without much rummaging on the net).
Well for older LCDs this is true. I am using an old HP Pavilion N3310 and the screen is some older cheap HDA (or something) type and its ghosts a lot. However, from what I have seen on the newer LCDs, they don't ghost at all. I don't think that the screen on a laptop is something to worry about.
I would think so...especially since the cable modem is usually owned by the client and not the ISP. Techically it is my hardware and if I choose to set it to not abide by their rules then that is my right. I only say this because I don't remember seeing in my service agreement a section that mentions speed caps being placed on my personal hardware. If they really want to keep people from increasing speeds, then they need to institue some kind of device on their end of the line...not ours.
Hacking is not illegal and punishable...Hacking is simply completing a skill taks quickly in an area of expertise(usually the computer field). Cracking is what you are thinking of...don't get them confused.
This is simply a case of corporate greed. These guys uncapped their modems and the company sends in the FBI. The article stated that at least $250,000 in damages have to be incurred before they FBI can be invoked in local affairs. I don't see how a handful of people can possibly cause that much damage in such a little time. The article states that the one man only uncapped his modem to 2.5 mbps. That is a reasonable speed for a cable modem. If someone simply utilizes a service that they are given to a greater potential, I don't see how this is a "crime" worthy of FBI agents arresting you as well as confiscating your computers. As far as damages incurred, that is total BS. The ISP has a certain amount of bandwidth availiable no matter if 100 people share it or one person hogs it. It may be wrong to use it all for youself, but it doesn't cause any monitary damages to the company. If you are using up something that would be accounted for under normal conditions, you shouldn't be arrested by the FBI. Perhaps disconnected, but not arrested. This is a simple case of the ISP showing their greed as well as their corporate muscle to use the political system as they see fit. Corporate control of our government is, IMO, what plauges our political system the most. This is America...we are better than this.
that when I read this I was in my C++ class and I actually was laughing out loud for about 5 minutes. I stated that "Microsoft sure does suck." Not that I hate all microsoft stuff (XP = god-like). But, in this instance they sure do suck. Then I just thought about how lucky I am that Mozilla exists.
Man...you must write some crazy code to get your XP box to crash that much. I run xp along w/ apache and mysql services and code in PHP and have had my box up for weeks. (Yea I know, the potential of PHP code crashing the box is much less than java). Plus I use beta releases of Mozilla which I run constantly, along with other various CPU intensive software. My box is as stable as a rock!
I use Windows for one primary reason and a bunch of secondary reasons. Primarily, I was raised to use Windows. The first PC I used had Windows on it and its been that way ever since. I have tried linux, but I just can't seem to get it running great on my hardware. Without the funds to build a linux box and certaintly not buy a Mac, I'm stuck with the windows box. However, I guess I shouldn't really say stuck. With XP, I really don't have any reasons to switch OSes. XP is stable like unix, is already something that I understand completely, and (for special people like me:-P) was free. Why would I want anything else?
Thats because the entertainment industry is based on capitalist pig corporations only concerned with making money and using entertainment as the means to do so.
that if there is data that is provided to legitimate users be accessed, then nothing will keep unwanted parties from accessing it. The only way to truely copy protect something is to lock it into a vault. No matter how many cheesy copy-right protection schemes the music or movie industry comes up with, someone will always find a way around it if they are determined enough. I think they should just give up on the whole idea and think of alternative ways to ensuring that people will only buy the CD or DVD. I believe that lowering prices would be one way. CDs more so than DVDs. Fifteen dollars for around 10 songs just doesn't seem logical, especially when you consider that most of the songs are more than likely just filler. To me, music should be lower in price than movies. Also, I haven't purchased a CD in many years while I continue to buy DVDs for one simple reason: the quality that I get from a DVD is much greater than what I could ever hope to download. Plus the fact that my home theater setup is much better than watching video on my PC.
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I guess I should expand on my last comment. I mean to say that Apple comes out with this new browser but no where in Jobs' keynote does he give KHTML or the KDE team any credit. They way he talks, it would seem that Apple wrote this from scratch. He makes it seem that they (Apple) are responsible for the quick load times as well as the page rendering performance when KHTML should be given some credit for the work. Open source is free to use as you please, but I think that credit should be given where credit is due.
I would like to have seen a comparison of load times for mozilla running on say linux or a windows box in Jobs' keynote speach, just for comparison's sake. I'm sure I could find these numbers with a little googling, but I'm much too lazy for that.
That may be true, but I was going by the original post on /. which states that it is fully integrated. I just watched the part of the keynote speach on the browser and Jobs didn't mention anything about this. Anyway, IMO Mozilla seems like a better browser. It still has some features that aren't in Safari. Plus Safari is basically the KDE browser with an Apple made skin. Apple sure is taking this whole take open source projects and use them for their own benefit idea to the max.
There's nothing especially great about it -- it's a web browser -- except that, unlike most other browsers, it is expected to be fast and work properly, as well as be fully integrated into Mac OS X.
Hummm...everyone on earth complained about IE being fully integrated into Windows, but when Apple gets the bright idea to do it with their next browser, people seem to think its a good idea. Makes you think...doesn't it?
Example: John Doe doesn't own a computer. John Doe buys a PS2 with all the accessories - and can now surf the web, send email, code, run nix apps, and play video games - exactly what the average computer home user does (with the linux exception of course)
Somehow I don't think that "John Doe" will be doing much coding or running nix apps if he already doesn't own a computer. Any person who is that into code or linux would most likely already have a computer at home.
that offer an accredited CS degree you can usually maintain a focus or concentration in different areas within CS, and usually 3D graphics is one of those concentrations.
Games appeal to the most antisocial element of society, because that's all their creators know.
I would have to say that, today, games appeal to as large a market as movies. Many people of all types enjoy video games, at least in the teenage group. I know that my friends (save one) all really enjoy games, and they are all not as geeky as I am.
This is true. I would venture to say that it has no affect on anyone's mind. All of my friends and I play this game, and it seems to have no affect (other than all of us singing A Flock of Seagulls - "I Ran" randomly throughout the day) what-so-ever.
can you find in GTA that you can't find of the 6 o'clock news?
these "tools" have been up and running for some time now...about a year or more to my knowledge. Its known as the "Echelon" project. The main idea is that incredibly powerful (KH-11) satellites are able to pick up digital signals on earth (mostly cell phone coversations). However, a CIA contact that I have spoken with has stated (as of last fall) the system was still in an early stage. He implied that it was able to pick up the data, but had difficulty in sorting the data and creating whole conversations. The contact stated that it was like going into a busy restaurant. You can hear all the conversations going on around you, but to your brian it sounds like noise. It is almost impossible to piece together a conversation on the other side of the room, yet you are still able to hear it. But, it is possible that, by now, they have solved this problem.
I've got nothing to hide. If the government wants to waste their time reading my emails, then let them. If you are really that worried about what you send, then encrypt your data. Most online purchases are also encrypted so it doesn't really matter anyway.
the P2P app downloads you!
Whatever you do, don't give in to the establishment! I can't see how an ISP can adverstise high speeds (10 mbps or whatever each different company says) and then when every user actually tries to use this amount of bandwidth, they complain and send out letters. If they offer these speeds to each user, then their network should be able to sustain the amount of bandwidth that they advertise. I have Comcast cable which is rated at 1.5 mbps down and 128 k up. That is usually what I get too. All this crap about limiting P2P services really ticks me off. Users should be able to do whatever they want with their connection and the ISP shouldn't be responsible for what they do. If someone brings down a website through their connection or uses their email service to sell illegal drugs, the ISP isn't held responsible to block this. Why, then, should they be held responsible to block the trading of copy-righted files? One might argue that they are asked to block P2P programs because it is easy to block that kind of traffic. But that would be like blocking email because one person uses it to sell drugs. P2P apps have legal uses...ISP just tend to ignore this fact when they make blanket statements like the one in this article.
I've already thought of that in my earlier post.
Is it probable then that if I was to have a 802.11 signal mysteriously eminating from my car that it would interfere with police radar allowing me to speed as much as I want?
Yea...the XP recovery consol has saved my butt a few times. Mostly because if your XP with NTFS system goes head over heals and the only computer you can access is a win98 box, its nearly impossible to get a boot-disk that does all the stuff u want it to (without much rummaging on the net).
Well for older LCDs this is true. I am using an old HP Pavilion N3310 and the screen is some older cheap HDA (or something) type and its ghosts a lot. However, from what I have seen on the newer LCDs, they don't ghost at all. I don't think that the screen on a laptop is something to worry about.
I would think so...especially since the cable modem is usually owned by the client and not the ISP. Techically it is my hardware and if I choose to set it to not abide by their rules then that is my right. I only say this because I don't remember seeing in my service agreement a section that mentions speed caps being placed on my personal hardware. If they really want to keep people from increasing speeds, then they need to institue some kind of device on their end of the line...not ours.
"HACKING is illegal and punishable"
Hacking is not illegal and punishable...Hacking is simply completing a skill taks quickly in an area of expertise(usually the computer field). Cracking is what you are thinking of...don't get them confused.
This is simply a case of corporate greed. These guys uncapped their modems and the company sends in the FBI. The article stated that at least $250,000 in damages have to be incurred before they FBI can be invoked in local affairs. I don't see how a handful of people can possibly cause that much damage in such a little time. The article states that the one man only uncapped his modem to 2.5 mbps. That is a reasonable speed for a cable modem. If someone simply utilizes a service that they are given to a greater potential, I don't see how this is a "crime" worthy of FBI agents arresting you as well as confiscating your computers. As far as damages incurred, that is total BS. The ISP has a certain amount of bandwidth availiable no matter if 100 people share it or one person hogs it. It may be wrong to use it all for youself, but it doesn't cause any monitary damages to the company. If you are using up something that would be accounted for under normal conditions, you shouldn't be arrested by the FBI. Perhaps disconnected, but not arrested. This is a simple case of the ISP showing their greed as well as their corporate muscle to use the political system as they see fit. Corporate control of our government is, IMO, what plauges our political system the most. This is America...we are better than this.
that when I read this I was in my C++ class and I actually was laughing out loud for about 5 minutes. I stated that "Microsoft sure does suck." Not that I hate all microsoft stuff (XP = god-like). But, in this instance they sure do suck. Then I just thought about how lucky I am that Mozilla exists.
Man...you must write some crazy code to get your XP box to crash that much. I run xp along w/ apache and mysql services and code in PHP and have had my box up for weeks. (Yea I know, the potential of PHP code crashing the box is much less than java). Plus I use beta releases of Mozilla which I run constantly, along with other various CPU intensive software. My box is as stable as a rock!
I use Windows for one primary reason and a bunch of secondary reasons. Primarily, I was raised to use Windows. The first PC I used had Windows on it and its been that way ever since. I have tried linux, but I just can't seem to get it running great on my hardware. Without the funds to build a linux box and certaintly not buy a Mac, I'm stuck with the windows box. However, I guess I shouldn't really say stuck. With XP, I really don't have any reasons to switch OSes. XP is stable like unix, is already something that I understand completely, and (for special people like me :-P) was free. Why would I want anything else?
Thats because the entertainment industry is based on capitalist pig corporations only concerned with making money and using entertainment as the means to do so.
that if there is data that is provided to legitimate users be accessed, then nothing will keep unwanted parties from accessing it. The only way to truely copy protect something is to lock it into a vault. No matter how many cheesy copy-right protection schemes the music or movie industry comes up with, someone will always find a way around it if they are determined enough. I think they should just give up on the whole idea and think of alternative ways to ensuring that people will only buy the CD or DVD. I believe that lowering prices would be one way. CDs more so than DVDs. Fifteen dollars for around 10 songs just doesn't seem logical, especially when you consider that most of the songs are more than likely just filler. To me, music should be lower in price than movies. Also, I haven't purchased a CD in many years while I continue to buy DVDs for one simple reason: the quality that I get from a DVD is much greater than what I could ever hope to download. Plus the fact that my home theater setup is much better than watching video on my PC.