"Compare: someone who polishes turds. Should he get paid for the hard work he does?"
If there's a demand for polished turds, yes. But if The Market says "We want turds, but we don't want to pay for them" while the Turd Polisher #1 says "My turds are $3" then The Market needs to find Turd Polisher #2, who's giving them away for free, instead of subverting Turd Polisher #1's business... and let him instead realize that he's pricing himself out of the market.
"That said, I have read where even Firefox isn't yet 100% compliant."
Nobody is 100% compliant. (Don't start about ACID*...) In fact, I don't think anyone's demanding that IE7 be 100% compliant, just that it at least correctly implement the features they choose to give it. That alone would put it miles above IE6.
"It has a relatively small memory footprint for what it does of course."
But does it even have that? I hate to sound like a troll (and God knows that's how I'll get modded)... but I've been browsing with FF for about an hour and it's currently at about 68MB. I opened up Opera just now... opened up a few tabs, browsed to a few of my "usuals" and after a bit of clicking around it's right up there at 53MB. A couple big Digg threads and it's in the 60's. To its cretit, however, it does seem to release much more memory than FF does when I close a tab.
It's a LOTR DVD/HD-DVD comparison. The page I linked to containes DVD captures compared with downsampled HD-DVD captures. You can click on each one to see an upsampled DVD capture compared with a 'native' HD-DVD capture.
Not quite the same as having FMV side-by-side, but it's the next best thing.
"If they stored only the hash, how does a password get exposed?"
I'm pretty sure there are rather large PW->Hash dictionaries out there. While that doesn't guarantee exposure either, it's entirely possible that a large number could still have been compromised.
Far from it, dude. If you 1) keep your computer patched and 2) don't do stupid shit then there's practically zero need for AV, and if you're behind a decent router there's no need for a firewall.
I, too, went many years without a single virus/malware incident... and the only reason I use AV now is because it's mandated if I want to use my laptop on the the LAN at work.
I think Vista's trying to do something like this. There's a benchmark utility that gives your system a score based on components, and MS is encouraging vendors to use that score as a replacement for system requirements. Whether this proves to be somewhat flawed, like artificial benchmarks tend to be, is another story.
Isn't that e-paper's big selling point, that it'd retain its image without having to constantly be refreshed?
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Then again, the developers the author's complaining about are probably the same ones that, when approached with a problem in the code, say "Well, submit a patch then."
"BTW, I know of no DRM'ed guitars, drums, basses, horns, etc."
Don't give 'em any ideas! "You appear to be playing Stairway to Heaven. Please enter your Performance License Code or turn your amp below volume level '3.' Thank you."
Ability does not flexibility make... sure, you can twist the mess of tables to different colors, but you're lucky if you have 1) background 2) table-body and 3)table-border colors. The result is indeed a circus, but the ringmaster's been trampeled by angry elephants.
... isn't "play[ing] three-dimensional games while encoding music or scanning for viruses" going to muck things up as the cores both fight for L2 cache access? All those things are pretty intensive processes...
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Give 'em $10 in person and 80% of it will probably go to the label anyway.
"Compare: someone who polishes turds. Should he get paid for the hard work he does?"
... and let him instead realize that he's pricing himself out of the market.
If there's a demand for polished turds, yes. But if The Market says "We want turds, but we don't want to pay for them" while the Turd Polisher #1 says "My turds are $3" then The Market needs to find Turd Polisher #2, who's giving them away for free, instead of subverting Turd Polisher #1's business
"That said, I have read where even Firefox isn't yet 100% compliant."
Nobody is 100% compliant. (Don't start about ACID*...) In fact, I don't think anyone's demanding that IE7 be 100% compliant, just that it at least correctly implement the features they choose to give it. That alone would put it miles above IE6.
*Passing ACID2 != 100% CSS spec compliance
"It has a relatively small memory footprint for what it does of course."
... but I've been browsing with FF for about an hour and it's currently at about 68MB. I opened up Opera just now ... opened up a few tabs, browsed to a few of my "usuals" and after a bit of clicking around it's right up there at 53MB. A couple big Digg threads and it's in the 60's. To its cretit, however, it does seem to release much more memory than FF does when I close a tab.
But does it even have that? I hate to sound like a troll (and God knows that's how I'll get modded)
... to be proactive in protecting other people's copyrights? Especially considering that they don't host the content? What a disturbin precedent.
"All these idiots had to do was make their demo disc show the movies side by side with the DVD version and it would make the difference clear."
http://www.cornbread.org/FOTRCompare/index.html
It's a LOTR DVD/HD-DVD comparison. The page I linked to containes DVD captures compared with downsampled HD-DVD captures. You can click on each one to see an upsampled DVD capture compared with a 'native' HD-DVD capture.
Not quite the same as having FMV side-by-side, but it's the next best thing.
"If they stored only the hash, how does a password get exposed?"
I'm pretty sure there are rather large PW->Hash dictionaries out there. While that doesn't guarantee exposure either, it's entirely possible that a large number could still have been compromised.
Far from it, dude. If you 1) keep your computer patched and 2) don't do stupid shit then there's practically zero need for AV, and if you're behind a decent router there's no need for a firewall.
... and the only reason I use AV now is because it's mandated if I want to use my laptop on the the LAN at work.
I, too, went many years without a single virus/malware incident
"because sometimes I get spam for stuff I actually want."
What kind of spam are you getting? All the spam I get is penis enlargement and medi-- oh. Oh, I see.
"Please do not compare OSS to a nude beach. It brings to mind thoughts of nude OSS programmers, and that way lies madness."
... GNUde beaches?
Hmmm
"you're not going to expose anything on the web directly"
;)
Not going to and not supposed to are two entirely different things.
I think Vista's trying to do something like this. There's a benchmark utility that gives your system a score based on components, and MS is encouraging vendors to use that score as a replacement for system requirements. Whether this proves to be somewhat flawed, like artificial benchmarks tend to be, is another story.
Heh ... please tell me I wasn't the only one to read " Wombat Crawls Through Your Intestines."
Pricegrabber lists some up in the range of several thousand dollars ... like this Itanium, for just over $5k and this Dual Core Xeon for $3,700.
Isn't that e-paper's big selling point, that it'd retain its image without having to constantly be refreshed?
Then again, the developers the author's complaining about are probably the same ones that, when approached with a problem in the code, say "Well, submit a patch then."
"BTW, I know of no DRM'ed guitars, drums, basses, horns, etc."
Don't give 'em any ideas! "You appear to be playing Stairway to Heaven. Please enter your Performance License Code or turn your amp below volume level '3.' Thank you."
Heh ... and 20 million other people will say 'DR-what?' as they're handed the free phone that comes with their shiny new cell plan.
"Wii don't know what Nintendo was smoking, but Wii want some."
"IE's (at least version 6's) XHTML support sucks."
As will IE7's. They confirmed a while back (on the IEBlog, I believe) that there won't be any support for the application/xml+xhtml MIME type.
I've never tried it, but I'm pretty sure the Dell CD's only install on computers with a Dell BIOS in it...
I dunno, I was just going off the Wikipedia article ...
Ability does not flexibility make ... sure, you can twist the mess of tables to different colors, but you're lucky if you have 1) background 2) table-body and 3)table-border colors. The result is indeed a circus, but the ringmaster's been trampeled by angry elephants.
... isn't "play[ing] three-dimensional games while encoding music or scanning for viruses" going to muck things up as the cores both fight for L2 cache access? All those things are pretty intensive processes...