Great. By releasing this newwer version of Opera, they are helping them get themselves more credit in the browser market. This will make it harder for designers to make the point that IE is the most used browser, so we will target only them, an idea of the past. Its hurting the Microsoft monopoly. I support this move all the way. It will make content more execessable to Linux users, but in the process will force people to make their information accessable to everyone without IE by weaning away from their IE only technologies (like VBScript, ActiveX controls, ASP.NET objects designed just for IE, and a number of other MS only techs). I don't personally like Opera but I use Mozilla (mostly the Firebird/Phonix version).
I guess I will just have to copy them faster. Ohh well... doesn't effect me. Just a waste of money for them is my opion. Havn't come acrossed one that I haven't been able to copy. You make my stuff expire that I paid for and I will make it less profitable for you in the long run evil companies. Hehehe
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I don't to sound like I'm not open to opions, but you are ranting.
What are you talking about anyways? This has nothing to do with the subject.
Where do you get your "facts"? At least you could of given us a link. This is all sounds like here-say and conjecter. Linux is not dying out. Its bigger then its ever been. In this economic downfall we are in companies are turning to Linux to take the strain off having to purchase MS licences and be constrained to using their technologies. BSD is nice, but you can't say that Linux hasn't helped the UNIX market. With products that binary compatiable with UNIX, Linux apps add to the UNIX world too.
Your statment on IIS vs apache just makes you sound even more dumb. IIS is slow and nonconforming. Compiling means CONTROL. You could never do as much as you could in Apache on IIS. Forging host headers is so gay and useless anyways. Your statment on Perl and C is unfounded..NET has problems you can't even fix. Perl and C are not nearly as slow as an MS technology and even more simple then they have to be with MS technologys.
You are the biggest retard I have ever seen on/. !
Yet another way windows can useless tax the entire systems resources. It seems as computers get faster, windows gets more uselessly taxing. We never get to experience something new in how fast windows load and apear because windows adds so much to take advantage of everything we have.
I was a UNIX head 10 years ago, then I was a mac head about 7 years ago, and finnaly I moved to windows when windows 3.1 came out. Now I am going back to UNIX/Linux/Mac. I would like to redefine windows use as a proff of concept platform. When a new tech comes out it seems like it only works for windows for a while, then it moves to Mac and later UNIX/Linux. Windows is so restrictive and not very powerful. It forces me to things their way and conform my system to them and their products and technologies. Unfortunatly they have a software and hardware dominace in the market place. I think thats what they call a monopoly. Well I hope this will change with the new release of the Mac OS. The new MacOS already does things that Microsoft says it will include or be able to do later. Maybe this will end the monopoly that they hold if more companies switch. Go Apple!
This proves that the claim that protecting media will help profits was signifatly true. Maybe Napster really wasn't hurting the recording industry as bad as the RIAA claimed? Maybe Microsoft sould remove its right managment software from its media players now. I dunno just a guess.
Blackholes. Just another thing for spammers to get around, just to sell you penis enlargment products, prime morgage rates, and how to make $50,000 in 5 days. How about a new email system all together. Solve all these dang problems.
The Christmas before last I (17 years old) got an XBOX, my sister (13) got a PS2 and my bother (11) got a GameCube. We had a smaller version of the console wars in our house. We fought all the time over who has the best system. My sister would brag about her massive title selection. I bragged about my awsome graphics and internal harddrive. My bother really did have much to say expect his was small and lite with a handle to take to his friends house.
Well now that we have had them for about a year, the real test comes into play: Which console was played the most. The XBOX won with the addition of the XBOX Live (and the mod chip with Linux). The PS is still used all the time to play GTA or some old classics and we ended up saleing the GameCube to buy a new XBOX game. The PS2 is getting older and doesn't seem to be getting any better, but the XBOX seems just a bit more useful everyday.
And I can't forget to mention, my old Dreamcast is now an apache webserver. Just amazing.
I remember when Yahoo.com flauted all of the place how it would load in under 3 secs on a 28.8 modem. Now you visit them and you get big images, flash, java, and other massive bandwidth eatters.
Does it really matter anymore? More and more users seem to be using broadband, and if they don't, they have at least a 56k (that can only go up to 53k because of the all wonderful FCC want to be able to decode it if they tap your line).
Does it really matter though. Google is fast and simple so it loads on any kind of browser on the planet (even Lynx and PalmOS). Most searches for me come up in under 2.3 secs (1/2 is spent searching and the other is downloading). Anyone who can't wait that long really needs to learn some patients.
Zac
Amazing that Linux and UNIX are so close in design that the code is so interchangeable. Now I wonder where they got the evidence that it was the same code. If it was the same programmers, then the code might progress in the same matter if it does the same thing. I have written two drivers from scratch that do the same exact thing and the source code is almost identical. When a program understands it, he will do things the same if not better most of the time if he started from scratch the first time.
Anyways, its hurting us to fight between are selves. UNIX and Linux don't even compare to the market share of Windows machines. Lets put down the bickering between us, come together, because we are scaring prosepctive companies who might buy UNIX/Linux instead of Windows. If Linux has something that UNIX could use, then put it in and vise-versa. We need to make stronger and more versitile OSs and make it looking stronger and powerful then windows in the long run if we are going to beat Micro$oft.
Zac
LOL! A funny refrence, but has a relevant unintened meaning. Apple is know for making things simple and user-friendly but really powerful. Tivo is overly user-friendly that they sacrafice functionality and control for ease.
The idea is a very exciting to think about. With Apple's track record with working with Unix based products (Tivo being Linux based) and very great history of graphics processing (I haven't worked at a TV station yet that could say that haveing Windows machines is better then having a majority of Macs in the graphics and video departments) the match would be perfect.
Apple also has a histroy of being the underdog with the more soild product and bug free product. I could see Tivo really changing with support from Apple, and maybe a bunch of new features. Apple would benifit in fighting the OS wars again if it owned Tivo. As it has done with products in the past, (such as the I-POD) make them intergrate with only their product (at least at first). I don't know anyone who can't say that the I-POD being only useable on Mac at first didn't help sales of the Mac in at least the smallest bit.
A down side you might see is a change in the policy to allow commerical skipping. Being a larger company with its own active interest in commericals might be compailed to retract some of the ease of this feature. On the other hand it might not because of the competition from SonicBlue's ReplayTV which from what I hear alread has better commerical skipping technology that detects commericals and automaticly skips them. (I own a ReplayTV 4500, which has this feature. From what I have heard, Tivo allows you to manually skip.)
I would buy a Tivo if Apple bought them. I'm a dedicated UNIX/Linux (former Mac user as of 1994), who programs for Windows at work. My interest in Mac is comming back now with their dedication to designing such a soild product.
I'm for an Apple owned Tivo. Its better for everyone (expect Micro$oft, hehehe).
With all this talk about spam, I wondered the legitimacy of using email. I rarely ever get an email from hand-written from anyone anymore, and I ussally send about 1 email a month at most. I mostly use it to register for websites now. I must be wrong though. According to this artical on PCWorld, more IT people prefer using email over calling someone.
"80 percent [of IT professionals surveyed] said they see e-mail as a more valuable communications method than the telephone, and 74 percent said they would have more difficulty if they lost e-mail access for five days than if they lost phone access... E-mail is apparently more important [to users] than some companies think"
According to this artical on PCWorld 1/3 of the email on the internet is spam and the rest is mostly person-to-person communications.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,105525,0 0.asp
I support anti-spam legisitlation.
Spam and telemarketing calls to a persons cell phone (or any system where the person that is being called has to pay for the call) is currently illegal in the states under telecommunications act of 1989. Its the same act that allows us to ask to be put on a company's not calling list and sue if they call back. Do a google for it. Some cool ways to protect yourself using the law.
Under the icann roles you can use an Alias. It all came about when record artists where lossing their screenname alias to squaters. You can use an uncommon alias of your name. Like Mike if you go by Michall. Just something you can prove is you to get a domain back, but not something that people you know to know it is you when they do Whois lookups.
I wrote a web app that allowed me to search+download mp3s from my webserver at work. It took me two hours to write in PHP. It just looks for keywords in the title of the song and list them. Then about 2 weeks later I set it up to stream MP3 layered music by whatever i selected. It took me 2 days to write that app. Its not a hard tech to create. Just ask Live365. They basicly had the same idea.
Ohh yah... The server software I wrote even links up to Shoutcast.com and lists it self.
It really all depends on what you want to do.
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Kids at the nearby school, still have a room of apple 2s with this still running on them. They still use it for basic spreadsheet training too. Amazing that some schools are so poor the can't afford new PCs. At least this one picked something powerful for its time.
Thank god. I get 200 messages every hour in my dump on random user names tried on my server before my computer bans that sender ("ZacBowling.com"). Its getting anoying. Maybe I could sue?
I hope they support it as well as they did with the pentium 64 chips. I hope they used basicly the same concepts with it as they did the pentium when it comes to programing for it too. I hate having to learn a whole bunch of new things for a product.
I used to live in Indiana and still service people there. (Yet my customers there are so small in comparison to the rest of my work, it is not even worth it to worry for me) There really could be a lot of loop holes so I dunno what to tell you. Lots of people do it, I'm sure. I would check Google and do a search for "out-of-state" "Indiana" and "tax issues".
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Great. By releasing this newwer version of Opera, they are helping them get themselves more credit in the browser market. This will make it harder for designers to make the point that IE is the most used browser, so we will target only them, an idea of the past. Its hurting the Microsoft monopoly. I support this move all the way. It will make content more execessable to Linux users, but in the process will force people to make their information accessable to everyone without IE by weaning away from their IE only technologies (like VBScript, ActiveX controls, ASP.NET objects designed just for IE, and a number of other MS only techs). I don't personally like Opera but I use Mozilla (mostly the Firebird/Phonix version).
I guess I will just have to copy them faster. Ohh well... doesn't effect me. Just a waste of money for them is my opion. Havn't come acrossed one that I haven't been able to copy. You make my stuff expire that I paid for and I will make it less profitable for you in the long run evil companies. Hehehe
I don't to sound like I'm not open to opions, but you are ranting.
.NET has problems you can't even fix. Perl and C are not nearly as slow as an MS technology and even more simple then they have to be with MS technologys.
/. !
What are you talking about anyways? This has nothing to do with the subject.
Where do you get your "facts"? At least you could of given us a link. This is all sounds like here-say and conjecter. Linux is not dying out. Its bigger then its ever been. In this economic downfall we are in companies are turning to Linux to take the strain off having to purchase MS licences and be constrained to using their technologies. BSD is nice, but you can't say that Linux hasn't helped the UNIX market. With products that binary compatiable with UNIX, Linux apps add to the UNIX world too.
Your statment on IIS vs apache just makes you sound even more dumb. IIS is slow and nonconforming. Compiling means CONTROL. You could never do as much as you could in Apache on IIS. Forging host headers is so gay and useless anyways. Your statment on Perl and C is unfounded.
You are the biggest retard I have ever seen on
Yet another way windows can useless tax the entire systems resources. It seems as computers get faster, windows gets more uselessly taxing. We never get to experience something new in how fast windows load and apear because windows adds so much to take advantage of everything we have.
I was a UNIX head 10 years ago, then I was a mac head about 7 years ago, and finnaly I moved to windows when windows 3.1 came out. Now I am going back to UNIX/Linux/Mac. I would like to redefine windows use as a proff of concept platform. When a new tech comes out it seems like it only works for windows for a while, then it moves to Mac and later UNIX/Linux. Windows is so restrictive and not very powerful. It forces me to things their way and conform my system to them and their products and technologies. Unfortunatly they have a software and hardware dominace in the market place. I think thats what they call a monopoly. Well I hope this will change with the new release of the Mac OS. The new MacOS already does things that Microsoft says it will include or be able to do later. Maybe this will end the monopoly that they hold if more companies switch. Go Apple!
This proves that the claim that protecting media will help profits was signifatly true. Maybe Napster really wasn't hurting the recording industry as bad as the RIAA claimed? Maybe Microsoft sould remove its right managment software from its media players now. I dunno just a guess.
Blackholes. Just another thing for spammers to get around, just to sell you penis enlargment products, prime morgage rates, and how to make $50,000 in 5 days. How about a new email system all together. Solve all these dang problems.
The Christmas before last I (17 years old) got an XBOX, my sister (13) got a PS2 and my bother (11) got a GameCube. We had a smaller version of the console wars in our house. We fought all the time over who has the best system. My sister would brag about her massive title selection. I bragged about my awsome graphics and internal harddrive. My bother really did have much to say expect his was small and lite with a handle to take to his friends house.
Well now that we have had them for about a year, the real test comes into play: Which console was played the most. The XBOX won with the addition of the XBOX Live (and the mod chip with Linux). The PS is still used all the time to play GTA or some old classics and we ended up saleing the GameCube to buy a new XBOX game. The PS2 is getting older and doesn't seem to be getting any better, but the XBOX seems just a bit more useful everyday.
And I can't forget to mention, my old Dreamcast is now an apache webserver. Just amazing.
I remember when Yahoo.com flauted all of the place how it would load in under 3 secs on a 28.8 modem. Now you visit them and you get big images, flash, java, and other massive bandwidth eatters.
Does it really matter anymore? More and more users seem to be using broadband, and if they don't, they have at least a 56k (that can only go up to 53k because of the all wonderful FCC want to be able to decode it if they tap your line). Does it really matter though. Google is fast and simple so it loads on any kind of browser on the planet (even Lynx and PalmOS). Most searches for me come up in under 2.3 secs (1/2 is spent searching and the other is downloading). Anyone who can't wait that long really needs to learn some patients. Zac
Amazing that Linux and UNIX are so close in design that the code is so interchangeable. Now I wonder where they got the evidence that it was the same code. If it was the same programmers, then the code might progress in the same matter if it does the same thing. I have written two drivers from scratch that do the same exact thing and the source code is almost identical. When a program understands it, he will do things the same if not better most of the time if he started from scratch the first time. Anyways, its hurting us to fight between are selves. UNIX and Linux don't even compare to the market share of Windows machines. Lets put down the bickering between us, come together, because we are scaring prosepctive companies who might buy UNIX/Linux instead of Windows. If Linux has something that UNIX could use, then put it in and vise-versa. We need to make stronger and more versitile OSs and make it looking stronger and powerful then windows in the long run if we are going to beat Micro$oft. Zac
LOL! A funny refrence, but has a relevant unintened meaning. Apple is know for making things simple and user-friendly but really powerful. Tivo is overly user-friendly that they sacrafice functionality and control for ease.
The idea is a very exciting to think about. With Apple's track record with working with Unix based products (Tivo being Linux based) and very great history of graphics processing (I haven't worked at a TV station yet that could say that haveing Windows machines is better then having a majority of Macs in the graphics and video departments) the match would be perfect.
Apple also has a histroy of being the underdog with the more soild product and bug free product. I could see Tivo really changing with support from Apple, and maybe a bunch of new features. Apple would benifit in fighting the OS wars again if it owned Tivo. As it has done with products in the past, (such as the I-POD) make them intergrate with only their product (at least at first). I don't know anyone who can't say that the I-POD being only useable on Mac at first didn't help sales of the Mac in at least the smallest bit.
A down side you might see is a change in the policy to allow commerical skipping. Being a larger company with its own active interest in commericals might be compailed to retract some of the ease of this feature. On the other hand it might not because of the competition from SonicBlue's ReplayTV which from what I hear alread has better commerical skipping technology that detects commericals and automaticly skips them. (I own a ReplayTV 4500, which has this feature. From what I have heard, Tivo allows you to manually skip.)
I would buy a Tivo if Apple bought them. I'm a dedicated UNIX/Linux (former Mac user as of 1994), who programs for Windows at work. My interest in Mac is comming back now with their dedication to designing such a soild product.
I'm for an Apple owned Tivo. Its better for everyone (expect Micro$oft, hehehe).
With all this talk about spam, I wondered the legitimacy of using email. I rarely ever get an email from hand-written from anyone anymore, and I ussally send about 1 email a month at most. I mostly use it to register for websites now. I must be wrong though. According to this artical on PCWorld, more IT people prefer using email over calling someone.
9 ,0 0.asp
... E-mail is apparently more important [to users] than some companies think"
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,11040
"80 percent [of IT professionals surveyed] said they see e-mail as a more valuable communications method than the telephone, and 74 percent said they would have more difficulty if they lost e-mail access for five days than if they lost phone access
According to this artical on PCWorld 1/3 of the email on the internet is spam and the rest is mostly person-to-person communications. http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,105525,0 0.asp
I support anti-spam legisitlation.
Spam and telemarketing calls to a persons cell phone (or any system where the person that is being called has to pay for the call) is currently illegal in the states under telecommunications act of 1989. Its the same act that allows us to ask to be put on a company's not calling list and sue if they call back. Do a google for it. Some cool ways to protect yourself using the law.
Under the icann roles you can use an Alias. It all came about when record artists where lossing their screenname alias to squaters. You can use an uncommon alias of your name. Like Mike if you go by Michall. Just something you can prove is you to get a domain back, but not something that people you know to know it is you when they do Whois lookups.
I wrote a web app that allowed me to search+download mp3s from my webserver at work. It took me two hours to write in PHP. It just looks for keywords in the title of the song and list them. Then about 2 weeks later I set it up to stream MP3 layered music by whatever i selected. It took me 2 days to write that app. Its not a hard tech to create. Just ask Live365. They basicly had the same idea.
Ohh yah... The server software I wrote even links up to Shoutcast.com and lists it self.
It really all depends on what you want to do.
Kids at the nearby school, still have a room of apple 2s with this still running on them. They still use it for basic spreadsheet training too. Amazing that some schools are so poor the can't afford new PCs. At least this one picked something powerful for its time.
Thank god. I get 200 messages every hour in my dump on random user names tried on my server before my computer bans that sender ("ZacBowling.com"). Its getting anoying. Maybe I could sue?
WHAT? LOL... like he is the one that makes linux ship... maybe u heard about a directX copycat with support for it...
Like the differences with 32 bit apps and 64 bit apps. Anything on the same lines is what I ment.
I hope they support it as well as they did with the pentium 64 chips. I hope they used basicly the same concepts with it as they did the pentium when it comes to programing for it too. I hate having to learn a whole bunch of new things for a product.
I don't realy know but that is something...
Thanks yahoo.
Some people shouldn't be allowed to speak.
I used to live in Indiana and still service people there. (Yet my customers there are so small in comparison to the rest of my work, it is not even worth it to worry for me) There really could be a lot of loop holes so I dunno what to tell you. Lots of people do it, I'm sure. I would check Google and do a search for "out-of-state" "Indiana" and "tax issues".