Yeah, Blogger has been stuck for a while...this release is kind of a "catch-up". IMO, google bougth blogger because of the programmers, not the product. The guys who implemented the origina blogger maybe working in other areas, not in blogger anymore.
Fixing it required adding a dialog with two buttons - "Yes | No".
I mean, how much time it took you the first time you added a dialog and two buttons to a program? It's understable that it took them 3-4 years to implement and test!
The various flavours of UNIX have come a long, long way since 1991.
In fact, lets remember that the first Internet worm, that could have brought down the whole Internet (a small network at that time), infected Unix systems and was 100% UNIX-based and used a fscking buffer overflow vulnerability. Still today there're tons of those buffer overflow vulnerabilities.
Duh. And why ID cards would avoid terrorism in any way? You can make a bomb regardless of having an ID card or not.
I can tell however that not having an ID card was one of the reasons it took so many time to know the identity of all the victims of UK bombings. I can also tell that it was probably much easier for the police to find the terrorists that did the 11-M bombings (since they probably had to use their IDs for so many things, getting internet connextion requires filling in your ID number). It also probably saves lots of money to the administration.
Again, I have nothing against it. Yes, the government knows who my fathers are, my age, where I was born and where I "oficially" live. So what? Do you really think you're more "free" by not having an ID card?
Well, it used to be the case that Ipod had some *real* technical and usability advantages over their competitors, not just "style" (which is a stupid reason to buy something, IMO). Competition is clearly catching up, and if Apple doesn't makes big innovative updates to the ipod, others will have the chance to do and steal market share from Apple.
It's not narcissism. The times person of the 2006 it's only *ME*!
It's so obvious, I'm so important they don't even need to write my name, just "you".
So this is not really aimed for a narcissistic society, it's aimed just at me. I'm sorry (well I'm not, it's just an expression), but you're wrong and I'm right.
Just check the Windows NT wikipedia page, which links at page, where you can find this quote from one of the original NT creators:
"We checked the first code pieces in around mid-December 1988," Lucovsky said, "and had a very basic system kind of booting on a simulator of the Intel i860 (which was codenamed "N-Ten") by January." In fact, this is where NT actually got its name, Lucovsky revealed, adding that the "new technology" moniker was added after the fact in a rare spurt of product marketing by the original NT team members. "Originally, we were targeting NT to the Intel i860, a RISC processor that was horribly behind schedule. Because we didn't have any i860 machines in-house to test on, we used an i860 simulator. That's why we called it NT, because it worked on the 'N-Ten.'"
So please, stop all those theories, the origins of the name are well documented.
Who doesn't? Even if they're always wrong (the people who can predict that kind of things are the same people who are behind of the $Big $Companies and know what products and strategies are they releasing in the next year) people don't seems to stop reading them.
It's like horoscope. There's always people wanting to hear what's going to happen in the future. It doesn't really matters what they say - we just want to be told what we want to hear. We love being lied. Some people wants to hear that nobody will be using java the next year, others C#, etc.
It looks to me that the Instruction Set War (CISC vs RISC) is pretty much lost. Nobody cares about the instruction set. Microsoft is not the culprit. CISC processors just got fast, much faster than many RISC processors. These days what makes a CPU fast is what there's inside, not the instruction set.
why the hell should he have to try and find hardware that runs on linux when the hardware he presently owns already does run...just not if they merge said patch into the tree
Because lots of lawyers consider such support illegal? If the linux license allowed such things then no kernel developer would oppose to propietary drivers, in the same way they don't oppose to running propietary userspace programs
Certainly you're not one of the brave hackers that didn't stop developing linux in the early days despite of the severe lack of drivers.
These days you can boot linux anywhere. But you know, there was a time (not that far ago) when Linux (and BSDs) didn't support almost anything. Those people really believed in open source, and they didn't mind spending many hours of their life reverse-engineering obscure hardware. They also didn't mind selling their incompatible hardware and buying linux-compatible hardware in order to run their wonderful open source OS.
And you plan to to switch windows if the linux developers plan to ban propietary modules. You aren't switching your graphics card and buying a linux-compatible one (something you can fix with money). You just plan to switch windows.
We're lucky that the early open source hackers weren't like you - if they had switched to windows every time they found a barrier we wouldn't have open source operative systems today. Linux has got big without the help of propietary drivers and despite of the ridiculous hardware support and the one way of getting even bigger is following the same path. We don't need propietary drivers, fuck them.
Nobody uses win 9x on the internet. The numbers are so small, and it will be even smaller when firefox 3 is released, and it has so few sense to run that bunch of crap (microsoft doesn't supports it and it has know security bugs) that I don't understand why firefox should try support a minority, instead of focusing in the majority.
In my blog, even Vista has already took more share than all the win9x/me equivalents
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This version is much faster and resource friendly - opening a test google spreadsheet page went from 52 MB of RSS to 43, and almost 4 seconds less to render it.
Lots of javascript benchmarks are faster too (depending on the benchmark - other parts are slower)
Gecko 1.9 has been being developed for a long time (the "reflow branch" is 2 years old it has been said!) so I guess it's expected that it improves things so much!
No, what is really odd is that people thinks that people is "scared" of Aero. Mac OS X was released on 2000, in 2001 the interface got hardware acceleration. Vista is being released....NOW.
In other words, while MS has player catch up, Apple has had plenty of time to think on the "Next big thing". Why wouldn't they improve Aqua? They've the lead for years so if someone can do it, that's apple.
It's a interesting thing that they're doing it but saying that they're "scared" is stupid. It's microsoft who should be scared of needing to play catch up with the next Mac OS interfaces.
The big difference is that Linux needs to implement what the hardware designers did, many of the drivers are reverse-engineered or poorly implemented because the lack of specs, and it needs to implement properly the ACPI spec, which is a spec totally broken that doesn't works in the real world (in fact the guys that take care of ACPI in Linux are INTEL employees: you know, Intel invented ACPI, isn't a bit shocking that the company that invented ACPI can't write a implementation that does work 100%? - although ACPI support is pretty good these days)
Windows, in the other hand, just designed all their power management features. It was the hardware designers who took care of making their devices work with Windows. It's not easy to do what the Linux people is doing - trying to make linux suspend work with all the windows-oriented hardware devices out there.
A full review inside slashdot and with images! Quick, delete those bits of evil innovation! What have all you done with my good old non-w3c compliant slashdot?
So wait, google needs to bias their search to advertise his own products?
If they wanted to bias people to use their products wouldn't they clutter instead their front page (the most visited frontpage on the internet) with advertising of their products?
Haven't you still realized that if google keeps their front page clean is because they want people to use their products based in how users like their products, not in how much google encourages people to use them?
I've never seen firefox advertising in google while I used it with IE. Just because they have a firefox-exclusive home page doesn't means they spam people to use firefox, like Yahoo is doing. Instead, they hire firefox developers and offer monetary incentives if a adsense user agrees to advertise firefox.
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Yeah, Blogger has been stuck for a while...this release is kind of a "catch-up". IMO, google bougth blogger because of the programmers, not the product. The guys who implemented the origina blogger maybe working in other areas, not in blogger anymore.
Fixing it required adding a dialog with two buttons - "Yes | No".
I mean, how much time it took you the first time you added a dialog and two buttons to a program? It's understable that it took them 3-4 years to implement and test!
The various flavours of UNIX have come a long, long way since 1991.
In fact, lets remember that the first Internet worm, that could have brought down the whole Internet (a small network at that time), infected Unix systems and was 100% UNIX-based and used a fscking buffer overflow vulnerability. Still today there're tons of those buffer overflow vulnerabilities.
Real men and real hackers write their programs in binary code, not in stupid and bloated assembler.
Duh. And why ID cards would avoid terrorism in any way? You can make a bomb regardless of having an ID card or not.
I can tell however that not having an ID card was one of the reasons it took so many time to know the identity of all the victims of UK bombings. I can also tell that it was probably much easier for the police to find the terrorists that did the 11-M bombings (since they probably had to use their IDs for so many things, getting internet connextion requires filling in your ID number). It also probably saves lots of money to the administration.
Again, I have nothing against it. Yes, the government knows who my fathers are, my age, where I was born and where I "oficially" live. So what? Do you really think you're more "free" by not having an ID card?
Well, it used to be the case that Ipod had some *real* technical and usability advantages over their competitors, not just "style" (which is a stupid reason to buy something, IMO). Competition is clearly catching up, and if Apple doesn't makes big innovative updates to the ipod, others will have the chance to do and steal market share from Apple.
I use Ubuntu's default theme, you insensitive clod!
Living in a country (Spain) where we've had ID cards for decades, I just can't understand all this paranoia about ID cards. Really.
It's not narcissism. The times person of the 2006 it's only *ME*!
It's so obvious, I'm so important they don't even need to write my name, just "you".
So this is not really aimed for a narcissistic society, it's aimed just at me. I'm sorry (well I'm not, it's just an expression), but you're wrong and I'm right.
Sight. This topic. Again.
Just check the Windows NT wikipedia page, which links at page, where you can find this quote from one of the original NT creators:
"We checked the first code pieces in around mid-December 1988," Lucovsky said, "and had a very basic system kind of booting on a simulator of the Intel i860 (which was codenamed "N-Ten") by January." In fact, this is where NT actually got its name, Lucovsky revealed, adding that the "new technology" moniker was added after the fact in a rare spurt of product marketing by the original NT team members. "Originally, we were targeting NT to the Intel i860, a RISC processor that was horribly behind schedule. Because we didn't have any i860 machines in-house to test on, we used an i860 simulator. That's why we called it NT, because it worked on the 'N-Ten.'"
So please, stop all those theories, the origins of the name are well documented.
Who doesn't? Even if they're always wrong (the people who can predict that kind of things are the same people who are behind of the $Big $Companies and know what products and strategies are they releasing in the next year) people don't seems to stop reading them.
It's like horoscope. There's always people wanting to hear what's going to happen in the future. It doesn't really matters what they say - we just want to be told what we want to hear. We love being lied. Some people wants to hear that nobody will be using java the next year, others C#, etc.
It looks to me that the Instruction Set War (CISC vs RISC) is pretty much lost. Nobody cares about the instruction set. Microsoft is not the culprit. CISC processors just got fast, much faster than many RISC processors. These days what makes a CPU fast is what there's inside, not the instruction set.
Yes, but due to the number of $$$ gointo into the flash memory bussines, it'll improve soon, just like the hard disks did.
why the hell should he have to try and find hardware that runs on linux when the hardware he presently owns already does run...just not if they merge said patch into the tree
Because lots of lawyers consider such support illegal? If the linux license allowed such things then no kernel developer would oppose to propietary drivers, in the same way they don't oppose to running propietary userspace programs
Certainly you're not one of the brave hackers that didn't stop developing linux in the early days despite of the severe lack of drivers.
These days you can boot linux anywhere. But you know, there was a time (not that far ago) when Linux (and BSDs) didn't support almost anything. Those people really believed in open source, and they didn't mind spending many hours of their life reverse-engineering obscure hardware. They also didn't mind selling their incompatible hardware and buying linux-compatible hardware in order to run their wonderful open source OS.
And you plan to to switch windows if the linux developers plan to ban propietary modules. You aren't switching your graphics card and buying a linux-compatible one (something you can fix with money). You just plan to switch windows.
We're lucky that the early open source hackers weren't like you - if they had switched to windows every time they found a barrier we wouldn't have open source operative systems today. Linux has got big without the help of propietary drivers and despite of the ridiculous hardware support and the one way of getting even bigger is following the same path. We don't need propietary drivers, fuck them.
Nobody uses win 9x on the internet. The numbers are so small, and it will be even smaller when firefox 3 is released, and it has so few sense to run that bunch of crap (microsoft doesn't supports it and it has know security bugs) that I don't understand why firefox should try support a minority, instead of focusing in the majority.
In my blog, even Vista has already took more share than all the win9x/me equivalents
This version is much faster and resource friendly - opening a test google spreadsheet page went from 52 MB of RSS to 43, and almost 4 seconds less to render it.
Lots of javascript benchmarks are faster too (depending on the benchmark - other parts are slower)
Gecko 1.9 has been being developed for a long time (the "reflow branch" is 2 years old it has been said!) so I guess it's expected that it improves things so much!
No, what is really odd is that people thinks that people is "scared" of Aero. Mac OS X was released on 2000, in 2001 the interface got hardware acceleration. Vista is being released....NOW.
In other words, while MS has player catch up, Apple has had plenty of time to think on the "Next big thing". Why wouldn't they improve Aqua? They've the lead for years so if someone can do it, that's apple.
It's a interesting thing that they're doing it but saying that they're "scared" is stupid. It's microsoft who should be scared of needing to play catch up with the next Mac OS interfaces.
The big difference is that Linux needs to implement what the hardware designers did, many of the drivers are reverse-engineered or poorly implemented because the lack of specs, and it needs to implement properly the ACPI spec, which is a spec totally broken that doesn't works in the real world (in fact the guys that take care of ACPI in Linux are INTEL employees: you know, Intel invented ACPI, isn't a bit shocking that the company that invented ACPI can't write a implementation that does work 100%? - although ACPI support is pretty good these days)
Windows, in the other hand, just designed all their power management features. It was the hardware designers who took care of making their devices work with Windows. It's not easy to do what the Linux people is doing - trying to make linux suspend work with all the windows-oriented hardware devices out there.
In other words, they create barbie programmers....
Just because yahoo didn't die years ago it means it's impossible for them to die?
I don't think yahoo is inmmortal, specially at this precise moment
A full review inside slashdot and with images! Quick, delete those bits of evil innovation! What have all you done with my good old non-w3c compliant slashdot?
So wait, google needs to bias their search to advertise his own products?
If they wanted to bias people to use their products wouldn't they clutter instead their front page (the most visited frontpage on the internet) with advertising of their products?
Haven't you still realized that if google keeps their front page clean is because they want people to use their products based in how users like their products, not in how much google encourages people to use them?
I've never seen firefox advertising in google while I used it with IE. Just because they have a firefox-exclusive home page doesn't means they spam people to use firefox, like Yahoo is doing. Instead, they hire firefox developers and offer monetary incentives if a adsense user agrees to advertise firefox.
http://finance.google.com/finance?q=SCOX