any one notice the sudden surge of viruses on emule? Practically all searches return bogus results which really is malware, or virus infected executables.
Seems like a dumb and unnessary restriction considering that the iphone is ment to be a high end phone. All j2me enabled phones put the running midlet into the background when recieve call and this works without any problems even on low end phones
Did anyone notice that the lowest ranking Firefox countries (UK, Spain, Holland and Italy) are also the countries that supported Bush in the Iraq war? Always said there was something evil about IE, now we have proof;)
"Just silly. Note that OEMs can in fact add Opera's (or any other) browser they want." In fact there is some doubt about this. MS has a record of co-ercing OEMs against installing competitors products, though various schemes, such as "marking discounts". There are no checks to verify that MS is doing this currently. The previous US agreement expired in 2006 and besides that only applied in US. And the fact that none of the major OEMs install alternative browsers, despite the fact that they readly install a tonne of other 3rd party SW is a bit suspicious.
Maybe you should try actually reading Operas complaint: "...First, it requests the Commission to obligate Microsoft to unbundle Internet Explorer from Windows and/or carry alternative browsers pre-installed on the desktop. Second, it asks the European Commission to require Microsoft to follow fundamental and open Web standards accepted by the Web-authoring communities. The complaint calls on Microsoft to adhere to its own public pronouncements to support these standards, instead of stifling them with its notorious "Embrace, Extend and Extinguish" strategy. Microsoft's unilateral control over standards in some markets creates a de facto standard that is more costly to support, harder to maintain, and technologically inferior and that can even expose users to security risks."
I don't see any Dell or HP Windows machines with Firefox or openoffice, yet they have about a gigabyte of commercial software pre-installed. There must be some reason behind it. There is nothing preventing MS using their leverage to influence what software is installed - the previous US anti-trust case expired in 2006.
P.s. this is about browser choice on Windows, not Linux
Will this go the same way as Windows XP Home Edition N (ie.Windows sans WMP)? According to wikipedia: "Consumer interest has been low, with roughly 1,500 units shipped to OEMs, and no reported sales to consumers" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP#Windows_XP_Edition_N
Shouldn't the EU be going at the real problem? Like the secret agreements that MS have in place to prevent OEMs from installing non-approved software.
Yeah, I've always ran into hairy problems with multithreaded code. These people think it's easy to write multithreaded, just sprinkle in a few synchronisation blocks and bob's your uncle. Let's see them try to debug a complicated mutlthreaded algorithm and see how easy they think it is.
That's what the rest of the world was like circa 2000. Sounds like Chinese web development never went into the 21st century. But what happened in the rest of the world is that there was a significant user base using alternative browsers, then the companies suddenly cottoned on that they are loosing business by having IE only web site - even if it's only 5% of market it's worth fixing Even in the country where I live, Spain, which traditionaly has very poor web sites, 99% works on firefox
This is really all about Patrick Byrne and wheither his opinions about Naked short selling are correct or not. It's almost impossible to judge, becuase there are no unbiased opinions on the web. Even if you don't agree what he says is quite interesting: http://www.deepcapturethemovie.com/
Never really took online nicknames seriously. When I saw this story I did a google just out of curiousity. Amazingly, I found one forum where my email address is posted in clear text. Now that I see how easy it is to track somebody, I'm glad I never bothered entering any personal data.
Try reading some of the other posts here. Firefox *does* cause Windows XP to crash - or to freeze permentently to be more prescise. I've had this happen to me so many times that I've had to switch to Opera. It seems to be particularly bad coming back from hibernation.
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rather be a random idiot than a whinny twat with no sense of humour
Interestingly he also says the xbox is better than PS3... wonder if he accepts "gifts" for endorsing these products
any one notice the sudden surge of viruses on emule? Practically all searches return bogus results which really is malware, or virus infected executables.
Seems like a dumb and unnessary restriction considering that the iphone is ment to be a high end phone.
All j2me enabled phones put the running midlet into the background when recieve call and this works without any problems even on low end phones
Maybe better to keep the telephone cleaners... just in case
So what you're saying is that we should be searching for 100 dollar bills on mars?
and that comment smacks of dissent against our glorous ISP disconnecting overlords. Be careful what you say
Did anyone notice that the lowest ranking Firefox countries (UK, Spain, Holland and Italy) are also the countries that supported Bush in the Iraq war? ;)
Always said there was something evil about IE, now we have proof
"Just silly. Note that OEMs can in fact add Opera's (or any other) browser they want."
In fact there is some doubt about this. MS has a record of co-ercing OEMs against installing competitors products, though various schemes, such as "marking discounts". There are no checks to verify that MS is doing this currently. The previous US agreement expired in 2006 and besides that only applied in US. And the fact that none of the major OEMs install alternative browsers, despite the fact that they readly install a tonne of other 3rd party SW is a bit suspicious.
Maybe you should try actually reading Operas complaint:
"...First, it requests the Commission to obligate Microsoft to unbundle Internet Explorer from Windows and/or carry alternative browsers pre-installed on the desktop. Second, it asks the European Commission to require Microsoft to follow fundamental and open Web standards accepted by the Web-authoring communities. The complaint calls on Microsoft to adhere to its own public pronouncements to support these standards, instead of stifling them with its notorious "Embrace, Extend and Extinguish" strategy. Microsoft's unilateral control over standards in some markets creates a de facto standard that is more costly to support, harder to maintain, and technologically inferior and that can even expose users to security risks."
I don't see any Dell or HP Windows machines with Firefox or openoffice, yet they have about a gigabyte of commercial software pre-installed. There must be some reason behind it. There is nothing preventing MS using their leverage to influence what software is installed - the previous US anti-trust case expired in 2006.
P.s. this is about browser choice on Windows, not Linux
Will this go the same way as Windows XP Home Edition N (ie.Windows sans WMP)?
According to wikipedia:
"Consumer interest has been low, with roughly 1,500 units shipped to OEMs, and no reported sales to consumers"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP#Windows_XP_Edition_N
Shouldn't the EU be going at the real problem? Like the secret agreements that MS have in place to prevent OEMs from installing non-approved software.
Yes, it's ironicly right after the FTC rejected AMD's case against Intel http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/22/washington/22ftc.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Yeah, I've always ran into hairy problems with multithreaded code.
These people think it's easy to write multithreaded, just sprinkle in a few synchronisation blocks and bob's your uncle. Let's see them try to debug a complicated mutlthreaded algorithm and see how easy they think it is.
If you just get one more Wii you can make your own "I got 3 Wiis" video, like this guy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh1jB4hVJRg
That's what the rest of the world was like circa 2000.
Sounds like Chinese web development never went into the 21st century.
But what happened in the rest of the world is that there was a significant user base using alternative browsers, then the companies suddenly cottoned on that they are loosing business by having IE only web site - even if it's only 5% of market it's worth fixing
Even in the country where I live, Spain, which traditionaly has very poor web sites, 99% works on firefox
will they revoke the world domination patent?
http://pttbt.ca/2007/11/22/amazon-sneaks-world-domination-past-patent-office.html
This is really all about Patrick Byrne and wheither his opinions about Naked short selling are correct or not. It's almost impossible to judge, becuase there are no unbiased opinions on the web.
Even if you don't agree what he says is quite interesting:
http://www.deepcapturethemovie.com/
Never really took online nicknames seriously. When I saw this story I did a google just out of curiousity. Amazingly, I found one forum where my email address is posted in clear text. Now that I see how easy it is to track somebody, I'm glad I never bothered entering any personal data.
That was the conclusion from Clerks as well.
"Jedi was just a bunch of muppets."
In the case of Reality TV shows they would be doing everyone a favour by recording over them
So, that means there are 300+ memory leaks in Firefox 2.0?
That would make sense.
Try reading some of the other posts here. Firefox *does* cause Windows XP to crash - or to freeze permentently to be more prescise.
I've had this happen to me so many times that I've had to switch to Opera. It seems to be particularly bad coming back from hibernation.
Yeah, the command prompt in Linux runs faster than the command prompt in Windows
You think hard disk requirements will reduce? That's not what happened for xp sp2. The preview was 273.3MB and the final release 495 MB.