It's quicker than FF, handles profiles better and is generally well built. The only bone to pick is the lack of extension update checking. Other than that Seamonkey is better than FF/T-Bird.
Don't argue as in you should take it up with the people who are actually expressing these opinions. Convincing me or them that everything we perceive to be an advantage is really not, is, from your point of view a colossal waste of your time. Sorry.
My kids are college students and always prefer Mac laptops to Windows machines every single time.
1) They don't care about the internals at all. Makes zero difference 2) They see Macs as an integrated whole without having to dick around with things 3) They see the hardware itself as being more solid 4) They see the integrated whole as being more compatible with their iPods, cameras and whatnot 5) When or if something breaks they walk it in to the Apple store, where that is the ONLY thing they fix and drop it off for repair or upgrade 6) Most college courses are online not installed so it makes little if any difference what the machine runs on its own 7) They look cooler
Don't argue with me about this. This is what people who look at a PC as an appliance like a microwave or a TV see when they see a Mac.
I am a laggard. When my XP Home machines eventually become worthless I will replace them either with miniMacs or whatever is what those are at the time, and/or Ubuntu or equivalent machines at that time. I expect this to happen in the next 3-4 years if not sooner. I have no intention of moving to Vista. Not for ideological reasons but because there will be cheaper better alternatives by then.
Yes I understand only goat farmers in Kenya are entitled to cheap usable hardware whereas poor people in the US are not. Moreover, middle class people in the US should be grateful at having to spend $2000 for a VistaBloat machine because, well that's the White Man's Burden.
What I don't understand is how they think this is going to get manufacturing efficiencies in volume working for them? I mean, couldn't they swallow their liberal guilt a little bit and at least charge Bwana $300? I think we'd be willing to do that. Because let's face reality here. I know of no school in the US that's going to gut their Windows infrastructure for these, no matter what they say about selling these units to governments to 'give' to schools.
Otherwise I guess we can go out and buy a bunch of old used laptops for $200-400 each and put Ubuntu on them and tell OLPC to got jump in the lake. At least here in the US where we don't have to worry about electricity and whatnot.
Circuit City, Best Buy, all the rest aren't interested and won't and can't help you with anything you want unless you're buying a big ticket item anyway. They could eliminate most of their floor space and most of their employees outright by pushing everything except flat screen TV's, car stereos, and appliances to the web. They don't need retail floor space for PC's, cameras, game consoles or any of the add-ons' like multifunction printers, scanners, drives and networking equipment. And racks of software, DVDs, CDs and games is just stupid. In other words, they should just brand all that stuff, stick on the web like CDW and leave the retail space for the high margin items.
Large companies have a very difficult time supporting more than one OS. It's about depth of staffing and skill. Of course if one assumes that Linux won't require as much support than I suppose there's an opening there. But if you imagine that Dell will preload any of your 20 favorite distros you are tripping. It will be SuSE and Red Hat. Period. And after some time they will eliminate one of them. Another year or two they'll discover that they're spending 20% as much as Windows to support 5% the customer base of Windows and then they will pull the plug on this.
In every survey about every subject under the sun the Nordics always claim they are #1 in everything. Best countries, best political system, best economies, most freedom, best education, best technology, most innovation, and on and on and on and on.
Music companies would love to see the end of 'artists' struggling to produce 15 tracks. Pound out a single, move on to the next 'artist'. Does anyone think 50cent didn't make 99% of his money and the record company's money from 'In Tha Club' and whole rest of the 'album' was just filler?
Hmmm maybe 500 or so if you're lucky. Ok so 500 is pretty good but let's have a little truth in advertising.
Secondly, my $9 mp3 player has 1GB so let's not make a huge deal out of a whopping 2GB.
Third, the Samsung A900-MM has bluetooth anyway so you get mate it to wireless headphones, to your iPod now and have the phone interrupt the iPod, answer the call, hang up, resume the iPod.
Fourth, do you really want the screen on the back the phone where it's bound to get scratched?
Fifth, and this is based on being a long term 'customer' of Sprint; do we REALLY REALLY want to hand over all this device and service control to the phone company? Are you REALLY REALLY that happy with all of the wonderful things you phone company does for you, the level of wonderful customer service they provide and all of the transparency they they have on their 40 or 50 page monthly bills? How will you feel when you discover a whole bunch of crippled features and services that don't work as is typically the case?
No in terms of a client only solution it's a dead end. Any of you are relying whether you recognize it or not on, a desktop firewall, an AV scanner, a spyware scanner, a local router, an ISP that scans 'something' or maybe a corporate LAN with its own perimeter and/or email protection. The fact that you are not egregiously harmed on any one day is indicative of all the other work and horsepower that goes on behind the scenes.
And in case no one's been noticing, scheduled batch scans of AV or spyware tools nowadays are becoming EXTREMELY long. Avast running an 'average' scan on a 17GB partition takes about 25 minutes give or take. Spybot takes 9-11 minutes on the same partition (60,000+ checks) The writing is on the wall - eventually these bulk approach tools are either going to take too much time or take much heuristic horsepower. Better we all convert to a BSD or *Nix core before it's too late. At least we'll have a few years head start.
Screw AV it's dead end. Take all that time and resource and brainpower and focus on making the OS stronger and hackproof. Windows has become a titanium armored soldier with seriously bad heart disease. Making the armor stronger isn't going to help anything in the end.
I have this and it works fine. A BT dongle on the iPod that talks to my headset. The headset also talks to my BT phone. When the phone rings the iPod pauses, I answer the phone. When I hang up the iPod resumes. To me at least it's a better alternative than relying on the PHONE COMPANY for a multi gigabyte MP3 player.
I supposed if I were motivated I'd use the PDA functions on my iPod. In theory those PDA functions are also supported on my phone but as we all know the software to connect that with your PC either doesn't actually exist, does't actually work, or costs a fortune. So again, why be beholden to the phone company.
I think the thing that most people are ignoring is that phone companies really don't and don't want to support phone hardware and will do everything they can to compel you to use a phone company service, like picture mail is lieu of shuttling pictures between your phone and you PC. I'd much rather have as many of the day to day functions I use on any non-phone device so at least I had some control over them. If we hand over that to the phone company, we are of course screwed 8 ways to Sunday.
If I get this right the secret is to insert the goo into a radiator shaped slot between the radiator and the top of the chip. Basically put more surface area between the goo and the radiator.
Isn't there a solid material someone can invent to transfer the heat from the chip to the radiator? Like a thin gold foil material that conducts the heat from the top of the CPU to the bottom of the aluminum heat sink? Maybe we start to need to make heatsinks out of something better than the cheapest shlock we have on hand? Maybe we need to cast heatpipes right into the top of the chip?
It's not that Global Warming is a particularly real or interesting problem or not. It's just an example. But the fact remains that the public, and their government are no longer interested in manned spaceflight, there is no wider mission. Republicans and their ilk as well as trust fund liberals all love to point to NASA as the biggest waste of money in the world, as if 40% of the cost of one B-2 bomber is going to save all the white/brown straight/gay rich/poor people. No - face facts - when the ISS ends we will be left listening to people tell us that manned spaceflight is still and always a new 10 years in the future and the public will hate it and abandon it.
This is a boondoggle in search of a problem because let's face facts, kids, manned spaceflight will come to an end with the end of the ISS program. We're not going back to the moon, we're not going to Mars. End of story. They might as well spend their effort building protective shelters for the 140 degree earth we'll have to live on soon.
50% of you voted for this. Don't tell me you're shocked now that they're doing exactly what they told you they would. Youre' allowed to be outraged that the vote you sold your souls for is now being used against you. But you're not allowed to whine that it's being used against someone.
No I think that corporate entities do exactly that. I don't look to public companies to specifically provide a public good. Capitalism is neither good nor bad as we should never look to them to provide social engineering.
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It's quicker than FF, handles profiles better and is generally well built. The only bone to pick is the lack of extension update checking. Other than that Seamonkey is better than FF/T-Bird.
Don't argue as in you should take it up with the people who are actually expressing these opinions. Convincing me or them that everything we perceive to be an advantage is really not, is, from your point of view a colossal waste of your time. Sorry.
My kids are college students and always prefer Mac laptops to Windows machines every single time.
1) They don't care about the internals at all. Makes zero difference
2) They see Macs as an integrated whole without having to dick around with things
3) They see the hardware itself as being more solid
4) They see the integrated whole as being more compatible with their iPods, cameras and whatnot
5) When or if something breaks they walk it in to the Apple store, where that is the ONLY thing they fix and drop it off for repair or upgrade
6) Most college courses are online not installed so it makes little if any difference what the machine runs on its own
7) They look cooler
Don't argue with me about this. This is what people who look at a PC as an appliance like a microwave or a TV see when they see a Mac.
I am a laggard. When my XP Home machines eventually become worthless I will replace them either with miniMacs or whatever is what those are at the time, and/or Ubuntu or equivalent machines at that time. I expect this to happen in the next 3-4 years if not sooner. I have no intention of moving to Vista. Not for ideological reasons but because there will be cheaper better alternatives by then.
On the other hand she has to 'run' about 60000 miles. They should have made it walkathon they could made up NASA's whole budget for the year.
Yes I understand only goat farmers in Kenya are entitled to cheap usable hardware whereas poor people in the US are not. Moreover, middle class people in the US should be grateful at having to spend $2000 for a VistaBloat machine because, well that's the White Man's Burden.
What I don't understand is how they think this is going to get manufacturing efficiencies in volume working for them? I mean, couldn't they swallow their liberal guilt a little bit and at least charge Bwana $300? I think we'd be willing to do that. Because let's face reality here. I know of no school in the US that's going to gut their Windows infrastructure for these, no matter what they say about selling these units to governments to 'give' to schools.
Otherwise I guess we can go out and buy a bunch of old used laptops for $200-400 each and put Ubuntu on them and tell OLPC to got jump in the lake. At least here in the US where we don't have to worry about electricity and whatnot.
It was a rhetorical question which clearly zoomed right over your head.
Circuit City, Best Buy, all the rest aren't interested and won't and can't help you with anything you want unless you're buying a big ticket item anyway. They could eliminate most of their floor space and most of their employees outright by pushing everything except flat screen TV's, car stereos, and appliances to the web. They don't need retail floor space for PC's, cameras, game consoles or any of the add-ons' like multifunction printers, scanners, drives and networking equipment. And racks of software, DVDs, CDs and games is just stupid. In other words, they should just brand all that stuff, stick on the web like CDW and leave the retail space for the high margin items.
Seriously, who is this guy?
Large companies have a very difficult time supporting more than one OS. It's about depth of staffing and skill. Of course if one assumes that Linux won't require as much support than I suppose there's an opening there. But if you imagine that Dell will preload any of your 20 favorite distros you are tripping. It will be SuSE and Red Hat. Period. And after some time they will eliminate one of them. Another year or two they'll discover that they're spending 20% as much as Windows to support 5% the customer base of Windows and then they will pull the plug on this.
No, Northern France is the best, everyone knows that 8>)
In every survey about every subject under the sun the Nordics always claim they are #1 in everything. Best countries, best political system, best economies, most freedom, best education, best technology, most innovation, and on and on and on and on.
Music companies would love to see the end of 'artists' struggling to produce 15 tracks. Pound out a single, move on to the next 'artist'. Does anyone think 50cent didn't make 99% of his money and the record company's money from 'In Tha Club' and whole rest of the 'album' was just filler?
Hmmm maybe 500 or so if you're lucky. Ok so 500 is pretty good but let's have a little truth in advertising.
Secondly, my $9 mp3 player has 1GB so let's not make a huge deal out of a whopping 2GB.
Third, the Samsung A900-MM has bluetooth anyway so you get mate it to wireless headphones, to your iPod now and have the phone interrupt the iPod, answer the call, hang up, resume the iPod.
Fourth, do you really want the screen on the back the phone where it's bound to get scratched?
Fifth, and this is based on being a long term 'customer' of Sprint; do we REALLY REALLY want to hand over all this device and service control to the phone company? Are you REALLY REALLY that happy with all of the wonderful things you phone company does for you, the level of wonderful customer service they provide and all of the transparency they they have on their 40 or 50 page monthly bills? How will you feel when you discover a whole bunch of crippled features and services that don't work as is typically the case?
what next? blogging on myspace about how you feel about other people's YouTube activism?.....oh wait....
With the harvested tears of virgins from Compton. Which is why it's so rare.
No in terms of a client only solution it's a dead end. Any of you are relying whether you recognize it or not on, a desktop firewall, an AV scanner, a spyware scanner, a local router, an ISP that scans 'something' or maybe a corporate LAN with its own perimeter and/or email protection. The fact that you are not egregiously harmed on any one day is indicative of all the other work and horsepower that goes on behind the scenes.
And in case no one's been noticing, scheduled batch scans of AV or spyware tools nowadays are becoming EXTREMELY long. Avast running an 'average' scan on a 17GB partition takes about 25 minutes give or take. Spybot takes 9-11 minutes on the same partition (60,000+ checks) The writing is on the wall - eventually these bulk approach tools are either going to take too much time or take much heuristic horsepower. Better we all convert to a BSD or *Nix core before it's too late. At least we'll have a few years head start.
MANNED spaceflight. Decreasing interest is obvious. Too expensive and not enough nationalistic pride generated as a result.
Screw AV it's dead end. Take all that time and resource and brainpower and focus on making the OS stronger and hackproof. Windows has become a titanium armored soldier with seriously bad heart disease. Making the armor stronger isn't going to help anything in the end.
I have this and it works fine. A BT dongle on the iPod that talks to my headset. The headset also talks to my BT phone. When the phone rings the iPod pauses, I answer the phone. When I hang up the iPod resumes. To me at least it's a better alternative than relying on the PHONE COMPANY for a multi gigabyte MP3 player.
I supposed if I were motivated I'd use the PDA functions on my iPod. In theory those PDA functions are also supported on my phone but as we all know the software to connect that with your PC either doesn't actually exist, does't actually work, or costs a fortune. So again, why be beholden to the phone company.
I think the thing that most people are ignoring is that phone companies really don't and don't want to support phone hardware and will do everything they can to compel you to use a phone company service, like picture mail is lieu of shuttling pictures between your phone and you PC. I'd much rather have as many of the day to day functions I use on any non-phone device so at least I had some control over them. If we hand over that to the phone company, we are of course screwed 8 ways to Sunday.
If I get this right the secret is to insert the goo into a radiator shaped slot between the radiator and the top of the chip. Basically put more surface area between the goo and the radiator.
Isn't there a solid material someone can invent to transfer the heat from the chip to the radiator? Like a thin gold foil material that conducts the heat from the top of the CPU to the bottom of the aluminum heat sink? Maybe we start to need to make heatsinks out of something better than the cheapest shlock we have on hand? Maybe we need to cast heatpipes right into the top of the chip?
It's not that Global Warming is a particularly real or interesting problem or not. It's just an example. But the fact remains that the public, and their government are no longer interested in manned spaceflight, there is no wider mission. Republicans and their ilk as well as trust fund liberals all love to point to NASA as the biggest waste of money in the world, as if 40% of the cost of one B-2 bomber is going to save all the white/brown straight/gay rich/poor people. No - face facts - when the ISS ends we will be left listening to people tell us that manned spaceflight is still and always a new 10 years in the future and the public will hate it and abandon it.
This is a boondoggle in search of a problem because let's face facts, kids, manned spaceflight will come to an end with the end of the ISS program. We're not going back to the moon, we're not going to Mars. End of story. They might as well spend their effort building protective shelters for the 140 degree earth we'll have to live on soon.
This is where the Titan V/Phoenix rocket will come from.
50% of you voted for this. Don't tell me you're shocked now that they're doing exactly what they told you they would. Youre' allowed to be outraged that the vote you sold your souls for is now being used against you. But you're not allowed to whine that it's being used against someone.
No I think that corporate entities do exactly that. I don't look to public companies to specifically provide a public good. Capitalism is neither good nor bad as we should never look to them to provide social engineering.