Radio drama set the stage and carried the action through the use of dialog, music and sound effects.
Producers of a series might use a popular host to frame their stories, much as Hitchcock and Rod Serling did in television. But the intrusion of an omniscient narrator within a story carries the listener out of the story. That is why the best never used them: "Gunsmoke" is a particularly good example.
As a long-time Linux user, why would I feel a need for the masses to join me?
Because it is a hell of a lot easier to draw money and talent to the development of client applications --- programs ---- that have a reasonable prospect of running on the systems used by 99% of their potential market.
Netflix cannot comply with the ADA in this case, because doing so would create a derivative work of the original, without the permission of the copyright holder.
Closed Captioning in the states was launched in 1980 with a set-top box distributed through the Sears, Roebuck catalog. The integrated decoder for analog receivers became mandatory on all sets sold or manufactured after July 1, 1993,
Closed Captioning is 32 years old, people, and a striking example of how technology can enlarge and enrich the life of the disabled. Thirty years ago my father needed this tech, thirty years on, we both need this tech. It is only the geek that never ages.
In our reply comments, PK explained why captioning a video is a ''fair use'' that does not qualify as copyright infringement under section 107 of the Copyright Act. Section 107 lists four factors that go into a fair use analysis, three of which favor captioning as a fair use. The nature of the copyrighted work (here, video programming) is probably highly creative, and so it enjoys a fair amount of copyright protection. However, captioning is a non-commercial use that is simply intended to make the programming accessible to individuals with disabilities, and to legally comply with the CVAA. Captioning uses as little of the copyrighted work as possible because it only conveys exactly what a person with a hearing disability would need to understand the video: the words being spoken. Finally, captioning actually has a positive effect upon the market value of the work for the copyright owner. When more people can access the programming, the audience for the video programming will grow. This is a perfect example of how the fair use doctrine serves the overall goal of copyright law: promoting the progress of art and knowledge.
Even if captioning infringed copyright, the CVAA explicitly orders the FCC to âoerevise its regulations to require the provision of closed captioning on video programming delivered using Internet protocol....â If captioning does indeed violate copyright, then the FCC has statutory authority to create a limited exception to copyright protection for the purposes of implementing the CVAA. Copyright law is not a shield against all other legal obligations. The FCC has even reached this conclusion before, when it required cable companies to make copyright-protected programming available to competitors under the program access rules.
The most striking and bizarre aspect of the thing is to see the geek stand in lock-step with the corporate giants who have framed this debate in terms of SOPA.
I don't recall if he ever considered malicious usurpation of the laws by humans (guess I'll have to reread).
Of course he did.
In "The Naked Sun" a murderer chains commands to robots that are blind to their cumulative danger and true intent.
Command Robot A to mix a chemist's favorite alcoholic drink and leave it as always in an stylish flask on his laboratory table.
Command Robot B to mix a lethal poison with the unknown contents of the chemical flask he'll find on the laboratory table. Command Robot C to retrieve the drink that on the laboratory table and put on his master's desk in his study.
No, he was not.
Read 'Liar!' or 'Reason' for example.
But the Laws fail to prevent the harm in "Liar" and only by chance in "Reason."
The truth is that Powell and Donovan luck out --- and
allowing the robots to continue in blind obedience to the machine they believe to be their god is not a permanent solution. It is a single point of failure.
I can't believe their wasting their time to go after these teenage kids. There's plenty more where they came from, and ruining their future is only going to give the pro-lulzsec crowd ammunition.
At eighteen and nineteen they are no longer kids.
It's time the geek stopped making excuses when any of his own are looking at hard time.
Anonymous's very nature is that it is anyone and everyone, there is no centralized network. LulzSec does not elect presidents, and they do not have a chain of command.
It is not anyone and everyone.
The mob has its leaders.
Those who start the ball rolling and those who keep it in motion.
Patterns emerge over time. People talk too much. Never more so than when they are in it for lulz. The kick. The drug-like high.
You are always more exposed, never as anonymous on the Internet, as you think you are,
I wonder what drove them to choose the Tegra 3 for a "Nexus" branded device, which supposedly would mean a "developer friendly" device with all the features and hackability that the Nexus devices have come to be known for.
Sales.
The tablet is a mass market consumer product.
You could lock the hacker out completely and his departure would count for less than a rounding error in the stats,
Johnny Appleseed was actually one of the, who believed that grafting was against the will of God, or some nonsense like that.
On the practical level, securing and carrying scions from established orchards on the East Coast over frontier roads posed real problems. Keeping the scions moist and viable over the long periods needed to make the trek was difficult, and they required far more space than seeds. It had, however, been done. In the first years of the nineteenth century, General Rufus Putnam had brought scions from the famous Putnam Orchards of Connecticut and developed a substantial quantity of grafted trees at the mouth of the Muskingum River near Marietta, Ohio. By 1808 the area boasted 774 acres of apple orchards made up largely of grafted trees
Despite the criticism, there was still practical merit in Chapman's technique. Most apples in the frontier settlements wound up as cider, and the apples produced by ordinary seedlings were perfectly adequate for this purpose. Cider was drunk in huge quantities by the early settlers. Some of it went on to become hard cider, or apple brandy, which also enjoyed widespread popularity. For such purposes, wild apples --- the kind produced by trees grown from seeds ---were fully adequate, and occasionally the throw of the genetic dice would produce a tree bearing outstanding apples.
The result of Chapman's efforts was that an apple orchard existed on virtually every new farm created in the Ohio wilderness. The apples were used for cider, dried to make fruit that could last through the winter, or turned into apple butter. Those who had cold cellars could keep some apples fresh through the winter. The part of the crop that wound up as apple brandy was drunk throughout the region, and some even found its way down the Ohio River to New Orleans, Louisiana, where it had commercial value.
Pull the story. Get your facts straight. This farmer needs education from a local co-op extention.
Cyanide poisoning in veterinary medicine:
Cyanides are found in plants, fumigants, soil sterilizers, fertilizers, and rodenticides (eg, calcium cyanomide). Toxicity can result from improper or malicious use, but in the case of livestock, the most frequent cause is ingestion of plants that contain cyanogenic glycosides. These include Triglochin maritima (arrow grass), Hoecus lunatus (velvet grass), Sorghum spp (Johnson grass, Sudan grass, common sorghum), Prunus spp (apricot, peach, chokecherry, pincherry, wild black cherry), Sambucus canadensis (elderberry), Pyrus malus (apple), Zea mays (corn), and Linum spp (flax). The seeds (pits) of several plants such as the peach have been the source of cyanogenic glycosides in many cases. Eucalyptus spp , kept as ornamental houseplants, have been implicated in deaths of small animals.
The cyanogenic glycosides in plants yield free hydrocyanic acid (HCN), otherwise known as prussic acid, when hydrolyzed by Î-glycosidase or when other plant cell structure is disrupted or damaged, eg, by freezing, chopping, or chewing. Microbial action in the rumen can further release free cyanide.
Apple and other fruit trees contain prussic acid glycosides in leaves and seeds but little or none in the fleshy part of the fruits. In Sorghum spp forage grasses, leaves usually produce 2-25 times more HCN than do stems; seeds contain none. New shoots from young, rapidly growing plants often contain high concentrations of prussic acid glycosides. The cyanogenic glycoside potential is slow to decrease in drought-stricken plants containing mostly leaves. Grazing stunted plants during drought is the most common cause of poisoning of livestock by plants that produce prussic acid.
Frozen plants may release high concentrations of prussic acid for several days. After wilting, release of prussic acid from plant tissues declines. Dead plants have less free prussic acid. When plant tops have been frosted, new shoots may regrow at the base; these can be dangerous because of glycoside content and because livestock selectively graze them.
Ruminants are more susceptible than monogastric animals, and cattle slightly more so than sheep. Hereford cattle have been reported to be less susceptible than other breeds.
A history of cyanide poisoning generally, and a good read: Cyanide Poisoning
Some common cyanogenic edible plants
reported to cause cyanide poisoning include cassava, sorghum, sweet potatoes, yams, maize, millet, bamboo, sugarcane, peas, lima beans, soybeans, almond kernels, lemons, limes, apples, pears, peach, chokecherries,
apricots, prunes, and plums. Cassava (manioc)
and sorghum are staple foods for hundreds of millions of people in many tropical countries and are blamed in part for the high incidence of central and peripheral neuropathies in those areas.
Since the time of ancient Egypt, plants containing
cyanide derivatives, such as bitter almonds, cherry laurel leaves, peach pits, and cassava, have been used as lethal poisons. Peach pits used in judicial executions by the ancient Egyptians are on display in the Louvre
Museum, Paris, and an Egyptian papyrus refers to the "penalty of the peach."
they really need to be worried about giving up the home users because $99 for Student is just too high.
MS Office Home and Student for Windows and OSX consistently tops the software bestseller lists at Amazon.com, Walmart.com, etc., etc., etc. The price of the Home edition has never been an obstacle to sales.
OneNote is one of the overlooked gems in recent versions of Microsoft Office. OneNote makes it simple to take notes and keep track of everything with integrated search, and offers more features than its popular competitor Evernote. One way it is better is its high quality optical character recognition (OCR) engine. One of Evernote's most popular features is that you can search for anything, including text in an image, and you can easily find it. OneNote takes this further, and instantly OCRs any text in images you add. Then, you can use this text easily and copy it from the image.
Free speech is a human right, the speech of corporations can be limited.
You cannot act collectively if you are not free to speak collectively.
Your reasoning endangers everyone who seeks safety and effectiveness in numbers --- whatever their reason.
The business corporation speaks to --- and often for --- many constituencies: its employees, investors, customers, suppliers and so on. These are not phantoms. These are people with legitimate interests at stake and they have earned the right to be heard.
But the core of the thing is that you cannot silence one form of corporate entity and expect others to remain free to speak.
The weakest go first. That is the nature of power.
The native population of Lanai was all but erased by King Kamehameha I in his conquest of the islands. (ca. 1790)
By the 1870s, Walter M. Gibson had acquired most of the land on the island for ranching. In 1922, James Dole, the president of Hawaiian Pineapple Company (later renamed Dole Food Company), bought the entire island of Lanai and developed a large portion of it into the world's largest pineapple plantation.
Oddly enough, I've just been watching a few of the first episodes on Netflix - I'd really forgotten how well-done they were, dramatically.
William Windon's turn as Commodore Matt Decker in "The Doomsday Machine" is as persuasive and memorable a performance as anything you will find in the long history of the Star Trek franchise.
The reality is that those numbers don't really matter if you already have a website.
You can easily run stats on YOUR OWN WEBSITE and get the browser breakdown that you should be worried about.
If only life were that simple.
You need to know the breakdown for sites which compete for the same audience.
If your big budget news site is going head-to-head against CNN and Fox you have a serious problem if your top-ranking browser is Konquerer.
Personally I don't know why we don't have a rail type system that transports people from any point to any other point.
Maintainance and operation. In all seasons.
That includes cars, tracks and switches. Overheads or third rail for power.
All a bus or automobile really needs is a reasonably dry and flat surface. Beneath the asphalt surface here you will still find traces of the original wood and brick paving blocks.
Usenet is still alive and still a popular place for technical and political discussions. There are several free Usenet servers out there.
The problem here is that the target audience is the owner of a small hardware store --- who will almost certainly find a Usenet client unfamiliar, awkward and intimidating.
Why you people are discussing the performance when that is not at issue, I have no idea.
NVIDIA's graphics drivers for Linux are full-featured and rock solid.
In this less than perfect world, users will have needs and values and a willingness to compromise which will come into conflict with the loftier
"goals and vision" of your project.
"Had I asked my customers what they wanted, they'd have answered stronger horses". (Henry Ford)
Which isn't that far off the mark.
What Ford delivered, after all, was a tough little beast that could cruise the dirt and gravel roads of its era at 35 to 45 mph without complaint, while hauling a family of four plus dog and cargo.
If they don't trust you, you shouldn't trust them.
Trust has to be earned.
But trust is not always possible.
Your supervisor may trust you --- but your employer is a multinational corporation with 30,000 employees in the U.S. alone, with all the financial and legal obligations that implies.
It doesn't know you. It will never know you. That is why there are rules.
Slashdot Mirror
We announced last November that we are focusing our work with Flash on PC browsing and mobile apps packaged with Adobe AIR.
An Update on Flash Player and Android
Flash isn't going away.
It is Flash in the mobile browser that is going away.
Adobe is focused on the app store because the app store is the future of mobile, not the browser.
You can see the same thing happening in Metro and Windows 8.
The start page tiles are dynamic, they draw your attention away from the browser.
But the browser has been one of the few unqualified success stories for FOSS on the mass market platforms.. *
Supporting Flash was a small price to pay for that.
____
"Round up the usual suspects!"
Your list will be different from mine, but both should number about a dozen.
It can be a bit of a stretch:
"Filezilla: Solid podcasting client." Open Source Windows
Once upon a time, those were called radio shows.
Not true.
Radio drama set the stage and carried the action through the use of dialog, music and sound effects.
Producers of a series might use a popular host to frame their stories, much as Hitchcock and Rod Serling did in television. But the intrusion of an omniscient narrator within a story carries the listener out of the story. That is why the best never used them: "Gunsmoke" is a particularly good example.
As a long-time Linux user, why would I feel a need for the masses to join me?
Because it is a hell of a lot easier to draw money and talent to the development of client applications --- programs ---- that have a reasonable prospect of running on the systems used by 99% of their potential market.
Netflix cannot comply with the ADA in this case, because doing so would create a derivative work of the original, without the permission of the copyright holder.
Closed Captioning in the states was launched in 1980 with a set-top box distributed through the Sears, Roebuck catalog. The integrated decoder for analog receivers became mandatory on all sets sold or manufactured after July 1, 1993,
Closed Captioning is 32 years old, people, and a striking example of how technology can enlarge and enrich the life of the disabled. Thirty years ago my father needed this tech, thirty years on, we both need this tech. It is only the geek that never ages.
In our reply comments, PK explained why captioning a video is a ''fair use'' that does not qualify as copyright infringement under section 107 of the Copyright Act. Section 107 lists four factors that go into a fair use analysis, three of which favor captioning as a fair use. The nature of the copyrighted work (here, video programming) is probably highly creative, and so it enjoys a fair amount of copyright protection. However, captioning is a non-commercial use that is simply intended to make the programming accessible to individuals with disabilities, and to legally comply with the CVAA. Captioning uses as little of the copyrighted work as possible because it only conveys exactly what a person with a hearing disability would need to understand the video: the words being spoken. Finally, captioning actually has a positive effect upon the market value of the work for the copyright owner. When more people can access the programming, the audience for the video programming will grow. This is a perfect example of how the fair use doctrine serves the overall goal of copyright law: promoting the progress of art and knowledge.
Even if captioning infringed copyright, the CVAA explicitly orders the FCC to âoerevise its regulations to require the provision of closed captioning on video programming delivered using Internet protocol....â If captioning does indeed violate copyright, then the FCC has statutory authority to create a limited exception to copyright protection for the purposes of implementing the CVAA. Copyright law is not a shield against all other legal obligations. The FCC has even reached this conclusion before, when it required cable companies to make copyright-protected programming available to competitors under the program access rules.
Copyright Does Not Trump Disability Rights Law
The most striking and bizarre aspect of the thing is to see the geek stand in lock-step with the corporate giants who have framed this debate in terms of SOPA.
I don't recall if he ever considered malicious usurpation of the laws by humans (guess I'll have to reread).
Of course he did.
In "The Naked Sun" a murderer chains commands to robots that are blind to their cumulative danger and true intent.
Command Robot A to mix a chemist's favorite alcoholic drink and leave it as always in an stylish flask on his laboratory table. Command Robot B to mix a lethal poison with the unknown contents of the chemical flask he'll find on the laboratory table. Command Robot C to retrieve the drink that on the laboratory table and put on his master's desk in his study.
No, he was not. Read 'Liar!' or 'Reason' for example.
But the Laws fail to prevent the harm in "Liar" and only by chance in "Reason."
The truth is that Powell and Donovan luck out --- and allowing the robots to continue in blind obedience to the machine they believe to be their god is not a permanent solution. It is a single point of failure.
I can't believe their wasting their time to go after these teenage kids. There's plenty more where they came from, and ruining their future is only going to give the pro-lulzsec crowd ammunition.
At eighteen and nineteen they are no longer kids.
It's time the geek stopped making excuses when any of his own are looking at hard time.
Anonymous's very nature is that it is anyone and everyone, there is no centralized network. LulzSec does not elect presidents, and they do not have a chain of command.
It is not anyone and everyone.
The mob has its leaders.
Those who start the ball rolling and those who keep it in motion.
Patterns emerge over time. People talk too much. Never more so than when they are in it for lulz. The kick. The drug-like high.
You are always more exposed, never as anonymous on the Internet, as you think you are,
I wonder what drove them to choose the Tegra 3 for a "Nexus" branded device, which supposedly would mean a "developer friendly" device with all the features and hackability that the Nexus devices have come to be known for.
Sales.
The tablet is a mass market consumer product.
You could lock the hacker out completely and his departure would count for less than a rounding error in the stats,
Johnny Appleseed was actually one of the, who believed that grafting was against the will of God, or some nonsense like that.
On the practical level, securing and carrying scions from established orchards on the East Coast over frontier roads posed real problems. Keeping the scions moist and viable over the long periods needed to make the trek was difficult, and they required far more space than seeds. It had, however, been done. In the first years of the nineteenth century, General Rufus Putnam had brought scions from the famous Putnam Orchards of Connecticut and developed a substantial quantity of grafted trees at the mouth of the Muskingum River near Marietta, Ohio. By 1808 the area boasted 774 acres of apple orchards made up largely of grafted trees
Despite the criticism, there was still practical merit in Chapman's technique. Most apples in the frontier settlements wound up as cider, and the apples produced by ordinary seedlings were perfectly adequate for this purpose. Cider was drunk in huge quantities by the early settlers. Some of it went on to become hard cider, or apple brandy, which also enjoyed widespread popularity. For such purposes, wild apples --- the kind produced by trees grown from seeds ---were fully adequate, and occasionally the throw of the genetic dice would produce a tree bearing outstanding apples.
The result of Chapman's efforts was that an apple orchard existed on virtually every new farm created in the Ohio wilderness. The apples were used for cider, dried to make fruit that could last through the winter, or turned into apple butter. Those who had cold cellars could keep some apples fresh through the winter. The part of the crop that wound up as apple brandy was drunk throughout the region, and some even found its way down the Ohio River to New Orleans, Louisiana, where it had commercial value.
Early Nineteenth Century: Johnny Appleseed Introduces Apple Trees to the Ohio River Valley
The FSF should sue Microsoft for loss of donations and ask for punitive damages for monopolistic anti-competitive behavior.
Because the ever-paranoid geek couldn't wait to make his charitable donation from home after working hours?
But was more than willing to risk a donation to the EFF being exposed to his employer?
Pull the story. Get your facts straight. This farmer needs education from a local co-op extention.
Cyanide poisoning in veterinary medicine:
Cyanides are found in plants, fumigants, soil sterilizers, fertilizers, and rodenticides (eg, calcium cyanomide). Toxicity can result from improper or malicious use, but in the case of livestock, the most frequent cause is ingestion of plants that contain cyanogenic glycosides. These include Triglochin maritima (arrow grass), Hoecus lunatus (velvet grass), Sorghum spp (Johnson grass, Sudan grass, common sorghum), Prunus spp (apricot, peach, chokecherry, pincherry, wild black cherry), Sambucus canadensis (elderberry), Pyrus malus (apple), Zea mays (corn), and Linum spp (flax). The seeds (pits) of several plants such as the peach have been the source of cyanogenic glycosides in many cases. Eucalyptus spp , kept as ornamental houseplants, have been implicated in deaths of small animals.
The cyanogenic glycosides in plants yield free hydrocyanic acid (HCN), otherwise known as prussic acid, when hydrolyzed by Î-glycosidase or when other plant cell structure is disrupted or damaged, eg, by freezing, chopping, or chewing. Microbial action in the rumen can further release free cyanide.
Apple and other fruit trees contain prussic acid glycosides in leaves and seeds but little or none in the fleshy part of the fruits. In Sorghum spp forage grasses, leaves usually produce 2-25 times more HCN than do stems; seeds contain none. New shoots from young, rapidly growing plants often contain high concentrations of prussic acid glycosides.
The cyanogenic glycoside potential is slow to decrease in drought-stricken plants containing mostly leaves. Grazing stunted plants during drought is the most common cause of poisoning of livestock by plants that produce prussic acid.
Frozen plants may release high concentrations of prussic acid for several days. After wilting, release of prussic acid from plant tissues declines. Dead plants have less free prussic acid. When plant tops have been frosted, new shoots may regrow at the base; these can be dangerous because of glycoside content and because livestock selectively graze them.
Ruminants are more susceptible than monogastric animals, and cattle slightly more so than sheep. Hereford cattle have been reported to be less susceptible than other breeds.
Cyanide Poisoning: Introduction
A history of cyanide poisoning generally, and a good read: Cyanide Poisoning
Some common cyanogenic edible plants reported to cause cyanide poisoning include cassava, sorghum, sweet potatoes, yams, maize, millet, bamboo, sugarcane, peas, lima beans, soybeans, almond kernels, lemons, limes, apples, pears, peach, chokecherries, apricots, prunes, and plums. Cassava (manioc) and sorghum are staple foods for hundreds of millions of people in many tropical countries and are blamed in part for the high incidence of central and peripheral neuropathies in those areas.
Since the time of ancient Egypt, plants containing cyanide derivatives, such as bitter almonds, cherry laurel leaves, peach pits, and cassava, have been used as lethal poisons. Peach pits used in judicial executions by the ancient Egyptians are on display in the Louvre Museum, Paris, and an Egyptian papyrus refers to the "penalty of the peach."
Simple solution, point out that this includes ownership of any malware I might write.
Security will have you on the sidewalk in five minutes.
Try arguing in court that ownership of the malware you produced has passed to your employer will end in a judge handing you your head back on a plate.
they really need to be worried about giving up the home users because $99 for Student is just too high.
MS Office Home and Student for Windows and OSX consistently tops the software bestseller lists at Amazon.com, Walmart.com, etc., etc., etc. The price of the Home edition has never been an obstacle to sales.
OneNote is one of the overlooked gems in recent versions of Microsoft Office. OneNote makes it simple to take notes and keep track of everything with integrated search, and offers more features than its popular competitor Evernote. One way it is better is its high quality optical character recognition (OCR) engine. One of Evernote's most popular features is that you can search for anything, including text in an image, and you can easily find it. OneNote takes this further, and instantly OCRs any text in images you add. Then, you can use this text easily and copy it from the image.
OCR anything with OneNote 2007 and 2010
Most buy the three-seat version of Office Home, retail boxed.
Office University Edition is $99 at Walmart,com (Word. Excel. Publisher. OneNote. Outlook. Publisher. Access.) Student ID required.
If you use Office at work the chances are quite good that MS Office Pro can be yours for $9.95. Microsoft Home Use Program
MS Office Home will ship with every WinRT tablet.
The truth is that the real cost of an office suite is in consumables. Ink, toner and paper.
Free software saves you next to nothing.
The fact that windows has this feature isn't a problem, its the fact that it requires it on nearly every dll update.
Is that really true anymore?
Free speech is a human right, the speech of corporations can be limited.
You cannot act collectively if you are not free to speak collectively.
Your reasoning endangers everyone who seeks safety and effectiveness in numbers --- whatever their reason.
The business corporation speaks to --- and often for --- many constituencies: its employees, investors, customers, suppliers and so on. These are not phantoms. These are people with legitimate interests at stake and they have earned the right to be heard.
But the core of the thing is that you cannot silence one form of corporate entity and expect others to remain free to speak.
The weakest go first. That is the nature of power.
By the 1870s, Walter M. Gibson had acquired most of the land on the island for ranching. In 1922, James Dole, the president of Hawaiian Pineapple Company (later renamed Dole Food Company), bought the entire island of Lanai and developed a large portion of it into the world's largest pineapple plantation.
Lanai
The pineapples are gone. What remains is a tourist trade focused on two luxury resorts and a resident population of about 3200.
Lanai
Oddly enough, I've just been watching a few of the first episodes on Netflix - I'd really forgotten how well-done they were, dramatically.
William Windon's turn as Commodore Matt Decker in "The Doomsday Machine" is as persuasive and memorable a performance as anything you will find in the long history of the Star Trek franchise.
On the other hand, if you DO buy it, nothing should stop you from at least trying to unlock it and load some other OS...
But not one in a hundred will have the slightest interest in trying.
The fear that stories like this play to is that FOSS in the consumer market will die of neglet.
The reality is that those numbers don't really matter if you already have a website.
You can easily run stats on YOUR OWN WEBSITE and get the browser breakdown that you should be worried about.
If only life were that simple.
You need to know the breakdown for sites which compete for the same audience.
If your big budget news site is going head-to-head against CNN and Fox you have a serious problem if your top-ranking browser is Konquerer.
Personally I don't know why we don't have a rail type system that transports people from any point to any other point.
Maintainance and operation. In all seasons.
That includes cars, tracks and switches. Overheads or third rail for power.
All a bus or automobile really needs is a reasonably dry and flat surface. Beneath the asphalt surface here you will still find traces of the original wood and brick paving blocks.
Does it run linux?
The geek's dependence on hardware built for other operating systems is truly pathetic.
Usenet is still alive and still a popular place for technical and political discussions. There are several free Usenet servers out there.
The problem here is that the target audience is the owner of a small hardware store --- who will almost certainly find a Usenet client unfamiliar, awkward and intimidating.
Why you people are discussing the performance when that is not at issue, I have no idea.
NVIDIA's graphics drivers for Linux are full-featured and rock solid.
In this less than perfect world, users will have needs and values and a willingness to compromise which will come into conflict with the loftier "goals and vision" of your project.
"Had I asked my customers what they wanted, they'd have answered stronger horses". (Henry Ford)
Which isn't that far off the mark.
What Ford delivered, after all, was a tough little beast that could cruise the dirt and gravel roads of its era at 35 to 45 mph without complaint, while hauling a family of four plus dog and cargo.
If they don't trust you, you shouldn't trust them.
Trust has to be earned.
But trust is not always possible.
Your supervisor may trust you --- but your employer is a multinational corporation with 30,000 employees in the U.S. alone, with all the financial and legal obligations that implies.
It doesn't know you. It will never know you. That is why there are rules.