yeah, makes sense. at least, let them start selling laptops/desktops with linux. then when demand picks up let amd step in as a natural course. these are the tentative steps, they will slowly come out after testing the waters. besides, AMD is only 20% of the market still - only natural that they cater to the 80% first.
also how many multiple installs from a single download ? i usually download the browser, and include it the "handy software cd". i have installed firefox at - at least 6 places, from the same file - i do the same for the upgrades. this might be a minority. but the real picture however is suspect. since even i am guilty of downloading the upgrades that adds up to the big number. why can't firefox have patch management that does it automatically. so much for thier much touted 'safe browser' - when thier first priority is to fix thier patch management scheme. this might not a safe practice to add patches - and rather go for an entire new browser increment. most of the people who have firefox are early adopters and hence dont think of downloading the new browser as an additional chore - for everyone else, the non-tech savvy - they see it as yet another buggy software.hmmm, i hope they address all these issues sometime soon.
isnt it about time that someone like osdl funded by linux supporting companies - pay and have the developers working fulltime on it? at least the core technologies. there should be some support system and also decent pay packets for linux programmers, okay - not something like MS, but some money flowing in so that the core technologies, say kernel, X, and some core apps can be supported. linux isnt developed by "hippies" - as ms & thier cohorts would like to fancy it. but it ought to be partially securely structured, and partially open (-as it is now). freedom to explore, fork and whatever. somehow have the feeling that there's some structure lacking and that instead of apps taking directions - its the distributions with idealogical & labels that are forking.
...and now to switch the damn thing off. i am on the other coast, days aways from california. my girlfriends' mum's pretty crossed with me for taking her girl for a ride:), my best friend has gone out for his honeymoon, my neighbours are hostile, can't ask my boss or collegeaues - i lied to come over here. dang! this technology doesnt change a thing!
am i paying for the media or the quota of the media ? if i buy 'x' amount of storage, why not associate it with the amount of space? since, in case if the ipod or whatever goes phut or stolen, my tax money goes waste. so why not pay it for the 'x' number of gbs. create a license for the same. that ways - i buy 200 gbs of quota from the government. and the tax stays for whatever number of years. or does it ? it opens up new avenues. what if the storage becomes cheaper ? does the tax stay uniform ? one of these days samsung or such volume players, decide that holographic storage is the way to go, and offers 150 terabytes on disk space from, say, the coming xmas season. how much tax do i pay then? this whole tax thing is crazy. this whole tax scene for something intangible as this is really, really crazy!!!
probably getting the price of each dvd/ vcd/ "whatever form" down will be a realistic start. few years back they would cite that they need to pay the artiste's royalty, stockist, dealers, wearhouse, transport, associates to be paid off the Marked price of the movie on sale. but now they do not see the same - nor cite the reasons where the money is spent on - in online sales. they sell the same tunes/ movies online for the full cost they previously used to sel the same minus the infrastructure and associate payoffs! well, they are fully responsible for the piracy themselves!
nicely summed up there. now, which way will adobe lean towards? they might probably come with a better range of packages that suit each profile of users - they already have done that. photoshop, flash and dreamweaver would be a web studio, maybe the other range would be for graphics works for the print studio(they can play around more than adobe's own golive and livemotion). there's also some talks abt adobe not favouring linux. well, i see it this way. recent MS talks about browser being obsolete in longhorn might have blown the fuse at macromedia and adobe - and adobe relies on thier acrobat heavily too. its safer for them to invest in linux in the longer run. only problem with linux is the proliferation of desktops, when they see the numbers, they will come in.
i saved my 3 year old keyboard recently from being garbage after being "diagnosed" by my vendor as dead - the fix, open the board, get some moisture out from near the power button where the wire exits. i also saved my logitech mouse - the left clikc button was worn out after overusage and again "diagnosed" by the vendor as dead and replaceable - the fix? a fraction of a millimeter in height of glue placed on contacts of the left click button and the sensor inside. both work like a treat. however - i couldnt get my lousy samsung cdrom drive tray from getting stuck, nor could i stp my old hp drive fromg going phut after years of using it, while samsung was a clear case of cheap plastic works, Hp drive wasnt. after all samsung pioneered the art of making products with a timer - that timesout just after the warranty period. well, almost! my hp drive had fits of getting misaligned. probably its a case of vendors thes days wanting to make products that last a few years say - 3-5 years everything depending on price. either ways - the product would get outdated, along with the particular standard! (vcd, supervcd, ld, dvd, minidisc, flash storage, digital tapes, the list goes on...whew!)
since the OSS is not a coherent unit to be targetted, there's strength in it being a fast, evolutionary business model(?) without parallels. or else, MS would've known where the jugular is and promptly throttled the whole venture. there in lies the catch for OSS too. there's no single headquarter or mouthpiece. any opensource consortitium is at best a collection of individuals - either strong or weak, and in no way a comprehensive unit that can be held responsible. so the OSS voice can't be heard from a single microphone - there's no single voice - its always the group. so, maybe the corporates and the governments have to get used to this. in a capitalistic world where everyone wants it as simple as possible to identify a target/competition - here's one that notoriously difficult. the governments have tended to notice it first and respect it too for socio-economic reasons, corporate being purely money-making machines cannot "see" through the OSS scheme unless it is the make or break stage for them - novell for example. my take - the status quo should prevail.
i say its most important, because this will help desktop users use the linux box for regular home usage. i used to find this an impediment. being able to use the webcam will help me move to linux completely for communication purposes. this has been the case for many people. for the average home user - not being able to access the webcam is a major impediment, i hope all the open-source communication sfwares, use the same! this will help change the perception for average joes and janes that linux is indeed user friendly and works as well as ms stuff
1) who decides how much pain is enough for most people ? 2) how conclusive is the study of pain for different persons, its all in the mind anyways, or the way one is brought up for pain perception. 3) cant someone be killed over a massive multiplayer network game? (people have hacked sims massively and some disease is also supposed to be spereading, so what stops people from hacking these?) 4) skynet can start from here;) - first kill the gamers 5) what abt shock addiction, new kind of pleasure for gamer junkies. 6) whats the legal age for gamers to experience such shocks! 7) what about disabled persons. 8) will the game creators include a fineprint that they arent responsible for any damages such as heart attacks, paralysis... and other possibilities mentioned in the forum.
where's mine, where's mine.... err, where's the mine ? wanna dig some gold too. they say you need quicksilver to catch the gold. so, where are the cracks ? the pyrites, the coppers, tin...or just plain steel? i can see the gold diggers flocking for the booty, while uncle-gates is busy chasing them!
without trying to sound too mush of an a***licker of the corporation. they have done a good job over the years. best of all, they arent as evil as the devil at redmond. the application has been stable over the years that i have worked on it. the usability has been good, & although it had plenty of features (not all)that have been provided by lesser cheaper, lesser known alternatives - for eg - jasc paintshop pro, or the soupedup acdsee. gimp is a good free alternative. there are artist like novell/ ximian's jimmac who work wonders with gimp and inkscape, and sodipodi, i believe he still uses illustrator. the open source apps are just about crossing the making guys like adobe, sweat - not bleed - as yet.
well, in the movie they cross a trex dna and one of the frog. what if it turns out to be a trex the size of a frog ? so everyone can finally have a personal trex as a pet. at its worst it might take a bite out of your little finger:)
actually, i did not explain the part of the problem bothering me. while i setup thunderbird - i did not do a clean job - i defined my inbox in another folder of my local disk - not the default one that thunderbird usually uses. also i defined many folders to reside in different locations - as in attachments and stuff. i did this for each of my multiple pop3 accounts personal and business use. which is why i required a mbox import utility. otherwise - i should say thunderbird is a fairly straight forward and neat software. i would still recomend users to thunderbird, since operamail is a bit complicated for the average 'joe' user. this is where thunderbird scores - its has nice spamfilters and stuff. and also - legoburner thanx for the idea - i had tried some of it out, but as i mentioned above - i couldnt not overwrite the "inbox" mbox, since i had split and localised the mail into different folders - being over-enthusiastic about sorting mail. my mistake actually, i shouldve understood the way the software generally works before going abt such customisations. anyways - i am sure the folks at thunderbird arent going to wait for long before providing me a solution!
actually, the kmail does a great job of importing the mail, unfortunately i need 'windows' for my business needs. couldnt quite manage to move lock stock and barrel to linux, however i intend to so sometime soon, courtesy wine/ sedega/ crossover. or, better still would be to do it without any proprietary sfware - that would be the day ! though that might not be a cakewalk exactly. lemme see.
sadly thunderbird isnt capable of importing *.mbox formats. i mean, its pretty much stuck with replacing the mbox or the profile from the previous thunderbird profile. i could not do a straight mbox import - which is really sad - this drove me to check all the various mail clients, and finally settled with opera mail. the operamail had to be setup properly - none of them - hughin & muvin or whatever served my purpose. but opera does give ptions to set it up acc. t what you wish to. it works fabulously now. its able to import ANY kind of mbox - which is what i was looking at squarely. besides, there are tons of shortkeys that are so helpful. the workflow was a bit complicated - like the opera mail doesnt actually have folders - but has a good search facility which indexes you email much like google does, it works well - but not exactly like gmail - which is fair enough for me - thus i moved from thunderbird to operamail - because of lack of mbox import. very disappointed with thunderbird, but, maybe it was meant to be - i like opera mail better, and opera isnt evil.
nope indonesia doesnt..., india has the highest muslim population. indian muslims enjoy the most freedom almost akin to the USA which is why india is a democracy that pretty close to USA, the rest of the muslim countries have the sharia law interpreted to a lesser extent or rather harshly . whatever it is, indian muslims have it the best. at the other end is hardline regimes like saudi and te worst of them all taliban.
pakistan is a moderate and young muslim country with facilities almost similar to india, its just the instability and lack of will on the part of the people of pakistan not to get on with thier business - which is getting forward with thier business. too much corruption, no democracy/ free thinking etc. they are a talented lot too - handicraft, textiles, many things which the race is gifted with - too bad - they are frittering it on frivoulous thinking. of late they have been making advances in many a field. how i wish both countries would make peace!
anyways, there has been terrorism in these parts for sometime now - jihadis from kashmir/ naxalites-maoists who are quite low tech (comparitively). somehow they further thier cause from the original line of thinking - which is why terrorism always is dangerous and never the answer.
why are we obsessed with firefox being too perfect! c'mon this is a community based product and even though they strive for perfection and do quite a good job at it. they are humans and bound to be prone to problems. and we arent paying them. its our fault that we raise them to some levels and then expect them to be there just because we praise them and raise them to exhalted levels and get a free download of our favourite browser!
things can only get complicated with sfware. if i am not wrong - people have always relaxed with more precessing power- if i can refer to quakr 3. with quake 3 it was isae level of optimisation so that the game could run better with a slow internet connection , as the connects improved, as with the time doom 3 got released - ID relaxed thier stringent optimisation - and adrian's even stated that for doom 3 - he's not working that hard, just asking users to upgrade thier connection. while this might sound unfair - i know the effort needed for optimisations - it speaks the truth - albeit, the 'generic' truth. you give better resources and a better environment to work with - we tend to relax. i am sure, we will live to consume more and more powerful cpus. despite none of the legion of software not adapting the x86 64 platform - people continue to buy for the hope of upgrading to the latest and the greatest - fighting obsolescence(...heck, even me). so whats with the dual cores? plenty!! why? dont ask me! i run an amd 64, hope to use a linux 64 bit ditro sometime soon. but does it really matter? everyone is pushed to the next level automatically! everyone ugrades despite the fact that people can do plenty with a 1-2 ghz machine.
before i start my argument, here's my disclaimer: - i use firefox for all my browsing needs, on both linux and windows, been using firefox since it was in all its previous avatars - firebird, phoenix, mozilla, netscape...yawn, and the umpteen names. happy the way it handles things. - i switched from thunderbird to opera 'cos thunderbird doesnt have a decent mbox import utility, and although complicated - opera mail is really cool - with plenty of shortkeyys to work with. - i have a relatively decent config - amd 64 3000+, asus k8n, 512mb pc3200 ddr, geforce 2 gfx, soundblaster, 160 gb sata hdd - so its not like the machine might be an impediment for smooth running of firefox ------------------------here goes---------- - i have praised firefox enough to many people, i have evangelised firefox in browsing centres, replaced IE on many desktops at my friends and relatives' place. so why always, only talk good about firefox? there should be a fair share of critical reviews too! i have a few grouses to air, although, this is not the firefox forum. 1. the extensions management is really bad in firefox, i have been persistently having troubles with management of extensions - some of them refuse to get installed. changing versions - the plugins do not work on upgrading to the latest and the greatest release. the plugin/ extension writers are way too slow many times to upgrade. question of holes left by the extensions - lack of validity/ checks on the third party extensions. the recent inclusion of auto extension updation doesnt always work. 2. bookmarks - why does the bookmark disappear when the browser crashes occasionally ? this is really hopeless. yes, i know there's an extension to fix it , bookmark backup - but why isnt it built in ? while browsing with multiple tabs, sometimes, the bookmarks in the toolbar act strange, and loads in a corner. the bookmark bugs have made many people go back to IE or switch to opera. 3. java is a pain - as it loads - is persistent. sometimes an impediment while opening multiple tabs. slows down the whole experience. the cache is like a giant leak. as you adblock many ads along the way - after a period the ad block management gets heavier, and confused sort of. (not really a firefox's fault)
these three have been a thorn in the flesh since ages. i will not be switching to any other browser, but its like - firefox isnt the undisputed king, nor is it enough to wish IE away. i hope that firefox writers will concentrate on fixing the issues - small number of manageable extensions, better plugin management, it has to be consistent even with point releases - apparently a large part of thier user-base - i am sure is an "intelligent" user - who upgrades with every point release - as shown by the large number of people who upgraded from preview release to final release. i hope mitch is listening!
... can any MS product be connected to a dsl connection - without any third party firewall, anti-spyware, or antivirus ? this is the important question.
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yeah, makes sense. at least, let them start selling laptops/desktops with linux. then when demand picks up let amd step in as a natural course. these are the tentative steps, they will slowly come out after testing the waters. besides, AMD is only 20% of the market still - only natural that they cater to the 80% first.
also how many multiple installs from a single download ? i usually download the browser, and include it the "handy software cd". i have installed firefox at - at least 6 places, from the same file - i do the same for the upgrades. this might be a minority. but the real picture however is suspect. since even i am guilty of downloading the upgrades that adds up to the big number. why can't firefox have patch management that does it automatically. so much for thier much touted 'safe browser' - when thier first priority is to fix thier patch management scheme. this might not a safe practice to add patches - and rather go for an entire new browser increment. most of the people who have firefox are early adopters and hence dont think of downloading the new browser as an additional chore - for everyone else, the non-tech savvy - they see it as yet another buggy software.hmmm, i hope they address all these issues sometime soon.
isnt it about time that someone like osdl funded by linux supporting companies - pay and have the developers working fulltime on it? at least the core technologies. there should be some support system and also decent pay packets for linux programmers, okay - not something like MS, but some money flowing in so that the core technologies, say kernel, X, and some core apps can be supported. linux isnt developed by "hippies" - as ms & thier cohorts would like to fancy it. but it ought to be partially securely structured, and partially open (-as it is now). freedom to explore, fork and whatever. somehow have the feeling that there's some structure lacking and that instead of apps taking directions - its the distributions with idealogical & labels that are forking.
...and now to switch the damn thing off. i am on the other coast, days aways from california. my girlfriends' mum's pretty crossed with me for taking her girl for a ride :), my best friend has gone out for his honeymoon, my neighbours are hostile, can't ask my boss or collegeaues - i lied to come over here. dang! this technology doesnt change a thing!
am i paying for the media or the quota of the media ? if i buy 'x' amount of storage, why not associate it with the amount of space? since, in case if the ipod or whatever goes phut or stolen, my tax money goes waste. so why not pay it for the 'x' number of gbs. create a license for the same. that ways - i buy 200 gbs of quota from the government. and the tax stays for whatever number of years. or does it ?
it opens up new avenues. what if the storage becomes cheaper ? does the tax stay uniform ? one of these days samsung or such volume players, decide that holographic storage is the way to go, and offers 150 terabytes on disk space from, say, the coming xmas season. how much tax do i pay then? this whole tax thing is crazy. this whole tax scene for something intangible as this is really, really crazy!!!
probably getting the price of each dvd/ vcd/ "whatever form" down will be a realistic start. few years back they would cite that they need to pay the artiste's royalty, stockist, dealers, wearhouse, transport, associates to be paid off the Marked price of the movie on sale. but now they do not see the same - nor cite the reasons where the money is spent on - in online sales. they sell the same tunes/ movies online for the full cost they previously used to sel the same minus the infrastructure and associate payoffs! well, they are fully responsible for the piracy themselves!
nicely summed up there. now, which way will adobe lean towards? they might probably come with a better range of packages that suit each profile of users - they already have done that. photoshop, flash and dreamweaver would be a web studio, maybe the other range would be for graphics works for the print studio(they can play around more than adobe's own golive and livemotion). there's also some talks abt adobe not favouring linux. well, i see it this way. recent MS talks about browser being obsolete in longhorn might have blown the fuse at macromedia and adobe - and adobe relies on thier acrobat heavily too. its safer for them to invest in linux in the longer run. only problem with linux is the proliferation of desktops, when they see the numbers, they will come in.
i saved my 3 year old keyboard recently from being garbage after being "diagnosed" by my vendor as dead - the fix, open the board, get some moisture out from near the power button where the wire exits. i also saved my logitech mouse - the left clikc button was worn out after overusage and again "diagnosed" by the vendor as dead and replaceable - the fix? a fraction of a millimeter in height of glue placed on contacts of the left click button and the sensor inside. both work like a treat. however - i couldnt get my lousy samsung cdrom drive tray from getting stuck, nor could i stp my old hp drive fromg going phut after years of using it, while samsung was a clear case of cheap plastic works, Hp drive wasnt. after all samsung pioneered the art of making products with a timer - that timesout just after the warranty period. well, almost! my hp drive had fits of getting misaligned. probably its a case of vendors thes days wanting to make products that last a few years say - 3-5 years everything depending on price. either ways - the product would get outdated, along with the particular standard! (vcd, supervcd, ld, dvd, minidisc, flash storage, digital tapes, the list goes on ...whew!)
since the OSS is not a coherent unit to be targetted, there's strength in it being a fast, evolutionary business model(?) without parallels. or else, MS would've known where the jugular is and promptly throttled the whole venture. there in lies the catch for OSS too. there's no single headquarter or mouthpiece. any opensource consortitium is at best a collection of individuals - either strong or weak, and in no way a comprehensive unit that can be held responsible. so the OSS voice can't be heard from a single microphone - there's no single voice - its always the group. so, maybe the corporates and the governments have to get used to this. in a capitalistic world where everyone wants it as simple as possible to identify a target/competition - here's one that notoriously difficult. the governments have tended to notice it first and respect it too for socio-economic reasons, corporate being purely money-making machines cannot "see" through the OSS scheme unless it is the make or break stage for them - novell for example. my take - the status quo should prevail.
i say its most important, because this will help desktop users use the linux box for regular home usage. i used to find this an impediment. being able to use the webcam will help me move to linux completely for communication purposes. this has been the case for many people. for the average home user - not being able to access the webcam is a major impediment, i hope all the open-source communication sfwares, use the same! this will help change the perception for average joes and janes that linux is indeed user friendly and works as well as ms stuff
1) who decides how much pain is enough for most people ? ;) - first kill the gamers
... random thoughts.
2) how conclusive is the study of pain for different persons, its all in the mind anyways, or the way one is brought up for pain perception.
3) cant someone be killed over a massive multiplayer network game? (people have hacked sims massively and some disease is also supposed to be spereading, so what stops people from hacking these?)
4) skynet can start from here
5) what abt shock addiction, new kind of pleasure for gamer junkies.
6) whats the legal age for gamers to experience such shocks!
7) what about disabled persons.
8) will the game creators include a fineprint that they arent responsible for any damages such as heart attacks, paralysis... and other possibilities mentioned in the forum.
where's mine, where's mine.... err, where's the mine ? wanna dig some gold too. they say you need quicksilver to catch the gold. so, where are the cracks ? the pyrites, the coppers, tin...or just plain steel? i can see the gold diggers flocking for the booty, while uncle-gates is busy chasing them!
without trying to sound too mush of an a***licker of the corporation. they have done a good job over the years. best of all, they arent as evil as the devil at redmond. the application has been stable over the years that i have worked on it. the usability has been good, & although it had plenty of features (not all)that have been provided by lesser cheaper, lesser known alternatives - for eg - jasc paintshop pro, or the soupedup acdsee. gimp is a good free alternative. there are artist like novell/ ximian's jimmac who work wonders with gimp and inkscape, and sodipodi, i believe he still uses illustrator. the open source apps are just about crossing the making guys like adobe, sweat - not bleed - as yet.
(i love the new version of gimp though)
well, in the movie they cross a trex dna and one of the frog. what if it turns out to be a trex the size of a frog ? so everyone can finally have a personal trex as a pet. at its worst it might take a bite out of your little finger :)
actually, i did not explain the part of the problem bothering me. while i setup thunderbird - i did not do a clean job - i defined my inbox in another folder of my local disk - not the default one that thunderbird usually uses. also i defined many folders to reside in different locations - as in attachments and stuff. i did this for each of my multiple pop3 accounts personal and business use. which is why i required a mbox import utility. otherwise - i should say thunderbird is a fairly straight forward and neat software. i would still recomend users to thunderbird, since operamail is a bit complicated for the average 'joe' user. this is where thunderbird scores - its has nice spamfilters and stuff. and also - legoburner thanx for the idea - i had tried some of it out, but as i mentioned above - i couldnt not overwrite the "inbox" mbox, since i had split and localised the mail into different folders - being over-enthusiastic about sorting mail. my mistake actually, i shouldve understood the way the software generally works before going abt such customisations. anyways - i am sure the folks at thunderbird arent going to wait for long before providing me a solution!
actually, the kmail does a great job of importing the mail, unfortunately i need 'windows' for my business needs. couldnt quite manage to move lock stock and barrel to linux, however i intend to so sometime soon, courtesy wine/ sedega/ crossover. or, better still would be to do it without any proprietary sfware - that would be the day ! though that might not be a cakewalk exactly. lemme see.
sadly thunderbird isnt capable of importing *.mbox formats. i mean, its pretty much stuck with replacing the mbox or the profile from the previous thunderbird profile. i could not do a straight mbox import - which is really sad - this drove me to check all the various mail clients, and finally settled with opera mail. the operamail had to be setup properly - none of them - hughin & muvin or whatever served my purpose. but opera does give ptions to set it up acc. t what you wish to. it works fabulously now. its able to import ANY kind of mbox - which is what i was looking at squarely. besides, there are tons of shortkeys that are so helpful. the workflow was a bit complicated - like the opera mail doesnt actually have folders - but has a good search facility which indexes you email much like google does, it works well - but not exactly like gmail - which is fair enough for me - thus i moved from thunderbird to operamail - because of lack of mbox import. very disappointed with thunderbird, but, maybe it was meant to be - i like opera mail better, and opera isnt evil.
207.46.156.156....honeypot by bill G.'s croonies and perhaps testing his new windows for supercomputer wares ? :-P
http://www.islamicpopulation.com/asia_general.html
yeah - lucidus, you are right there. i quickly checked it and found the link there.
nope indonesia doesnt..., india has the highest muslim population. indian muslims enjoy the most freedom almost akin to the USA which is why india is a democracy that pretty close to USA, the rest of the muslim countries have the sharia law interpreted to a lesser extent or rather harshly . whatever it is, indian muslims have it the best. at the other end is hardline regimes like saudi and te worst of them all taliban.
pakistan is a moderate and young muslim country with facilities almost similar to india, its just the instability and lack of will on the part of the people of pakistan not to get on with thier business - which is getting forward with thier business. too much corruption, no democracy/ free thinking etc. they are a talented lot too - handicraft, textiles, many things which the race is gifted with - too bad - they are frittering it on frivoulous thinking. of late they have been making advances in many a field. how i wish both countries would make peace!
anyways, there has been terrorism in these parts for sometime now - jihadis from kashmir/ naxalites-maoists who are quite low tech (comparitively). somehow they further thier cause from the original line of thinking - which is why terrorism always is dangerous and never the answer.
why are we obsessed with firefox being too perfect! c'mon this is a community based product and even though they strive for perfection and do quite a good job at it. they are humans and bound to be prone to problems. and we arent paying them. its our fault that we raise them to some levels and then expect them to be there just because we praise them and raise them to exhalted levels and get a free download of our favourite browser!
yeah, i got carried away, i was just posting some messages with other hardware forums. culprit here.
things can only get complicated with sfware. if i am not wrong - people have always relaxed with more precessing power- if i can refer to quakr 3. with quake 3 it was isae level of optimisation so that the game could run better with a slow internet connection , as the connects improved, as with the time doom 3 got released - ID relaxed thier stringent optimisation - and adrian's even stated that for doom 3 - he's not working that hard, just asking users to upgrade thier connection. while this might sound unfair - i know the effort needed for optimisations - it speaks the truth - albeit, the 'generic' truth. you give better resources and a better environment to work with - we tend to relax. i am sure, we will live to consume more and more powerful cpus. despite none of the legion of software not adapting the x86 64 platform - people continue to buy for the hope of upgrading to the latest and the greatest - fighting obsolescence(...heck, even me). so whats with the dual cores? plenty!! why? dont ask me! i run an amd 64, hope to use a linux 64 bit ditro sometime soon. but does it really matter? everyone is pushed to the next level automatically! everyone ugrades despite the fact that people can do plenty with a 1-2 ghz machine.
before i start my argument, here's my disclaimer: .
- i use firefox for all my browsing needs, on both linux and windows, been using firefox since it was in all its previous avatars - firebird, phoenix, mozilla, netscape...yawn, and the umpteen names. happy the way it handles things.
- i switched from thunderbird to opera 'cos thunderbird doesnt have a decent mbox import utility, and although complicated - opera mail is really cool - with plenty of shortkeyys to work with.
- i have a relatively decent config - amd 64 3000+, asus k8n, 512mb pc3200 ddr, geforce 2 gfx, soundblaster, 160 gb sata hdd - so its not like the machine might be an impediment for smooth running of firefox
------------------------here goes----------
- i have praised firefox enough to many people, i have evangelised firefox in browsing centres, replaced IE on many desktops at my friends and relatives' place. so why always, only talk good about firefox? there should be a fair share of critical reviews too! i have a few grouses to air, although, this is not the firefox forum.
1. the extensions management is really bad in firefox, i have been persistently having troubles with management of extensions - some of them refuse to get installed. changing versions - the plugins do not work on upgrading to the latest and the greatest release. the plugin/ extension writers are way too slow many times to upgrade. question of holes left by the extensions - lack of validity/ checks on the third party extensions. the recent inclusion of auto extension updation doesnt always work
2. bookmarks - why does the bookmark disappear when the browser crashes occasionally ? this is really hopeless. yes, i know there's an extension to fix it , bookmark backup - but why isnt it built in ? while browsing with multiple tabs, sometimes, the bookmarks in the toolbar act strange, and loads in a corner. the bookmark bugs have made many people go back to IE or switch to opera.
3. java is a pain - as it loads - is persistent. sometimes an impediment while opening multiple tabs. slows down the whole experience. the cache is like a giant leak. as you adblock many ads along the way - after a period the ad block management gets heavier, and confused sort of. (not really a firefox's fault)
these three have been a thorn in the flesh since ages. i will not be switching to any other browser, but its like - firefox isnt the undisputed king, nor is it enough to wish IE away. i hope that firefox writers will concentrate on fixing the issues - small number of manageable extensions, better plugin management, it has to be consistent even with point releases - apparently a large part of thier user-base - i am sure is an "intelligent" user - who upgrades with every point release - as shown by the large number of people who upgraded from preview release to final release. i hope mitch is listening!
... can any MS product be connected to a dsl connection - without any third party firewall, anti-spyware, or antivirus ? this is the important question.