I don't want to read this kind of stuff on Slashdot. I come here for tech news that has some bearing on the world. This story is specifically about American politics and should have no place on this site.
Is Microsoft slowly changing it's business model ? Selling Microsoft Office licenses is one of the major sources of revenue.
And at what point will there be a free windows version ?
YES, Microsoft is changing their business model big time. Steve Ballmer announced in his recent University of Washington speech that Microsoft is dedicating 70% fo their software engineers to creating cloud-based versions of their local software, and by next year it will increase to 90%. They were slow to adopt the cloud but plan to become a big contender in a short amount of time.
The speech is about 90 minutes long and is very interesting, for those who care to watch. He's quite a good speaker with a very good knowledge of the industry, and he handles people's questions directly and in detail. What impressed me most was that he openly praises other companies and their cloud apps like Salesforce and Google.
This is double plus funny as Steam doesnt let you own anything, you merely borrow software and Steam can take it away at any moment.
Yeah, I know. The Steam EULA refers to me as a "subscriber" not a "customer". Goes to show how good Steam is, since I'd rather be one of their subscribers than an owner of a physical medium.
I stopped pirating PC games when Steam came out. The convenience of ownership outweighed the convenience of piracy.
I have a few pirated games on my DSi XL because I hate lugging cartridges around. I own several DSiware titles because shopping was convenient and I don't need cartridges. Beef up the DS's storage and make games intangible and they'll have sold me.
Is informing Google of my private, internal staging server at some random IP address really infringing on my privacy?
Moreover, if you really don't like it, you can disable suggestions. If you then want suggestions, you can simply go to Google and start typing there. I think the point is that as you start typing, it is genuinely helpful to have relevant stuff randomly pop up, even if you are just typing into the URL bar.
I agree with your alternatives, but I still attest that your privacy is unquestionably comporomised to some degree by joining the address and search bars. Other browsers have the same functionality while retaining your privacy by breaking these bars apart. All I'm saying is that there are some URLs people will not want to share with Google.
I made this conclusion based on the Windows task manager. It showed Chrome using upwards of 300MB of RAM or even more, seconds after starting up with 7 or 8 tabs open. This is in stark contrast with Firefox which sometimes gets as high as 250MB with the same number of tabs open, but drops considerably if I close and restart the browser.
Your analogy fails. Both a tiger and a shark want to steal your steak.
Thanks for correcting me. I mean, my analogy was about a tiger and a lion, and that your steak would be safe with neither, but you cleverly inferred my hidden implication that a shark would deftly steal your steak and place it in the nearest freezer.
I trust Google infinitely more than I trust Microsoft.
So you trust a tiger infinitely more with your steak than a lion?
Seriously though, between Microsoft and Google, which company's revenue is more reliant upon user profiling for advertising networks? If I were to make a rash (and perhaps outdated) generalization I'd say that Google is more dangerous to individual privacy, whereas Microsoft is more dangerous to ethical competition with other businesses.
Every keystroke in the address bar is sent to google by default according to microsoft. How else are they supposed to do google-suggest?
Obviously, by separating search from the address bar. That's how IE and every other browser does Google and Bing suggest. Do you really want to inform Google every time you test your private, internal web staging server at 127.0.0.1 or 192.168.11.22? How does that add value to the user?
Your browsing history doesn't get sent to Google, but every keystroke you type into the address bar gets sent to Google, even if you don't press Enter to submit it. This applies even to internal addresses and IP addresses typed, character by character, into the address bar.
pitdingo's previous comment is absolutely correct. What he implies but doesn't say outright as that even with AdBlock from Chrome enabled you still have to wait for ad banners and scripts to do their thing, so you often must wait and wait for the last pixels of an ad to show before you can start downloading the actual content. Firefox's AdBlock+ is superior in many ways.
For me, the only actual temptation to use Chrome is to get the independent processes in each tab
My only problem with this is that, with several tabs open, Chrome uses 2-3 times more memory than other browsers. There's a huge footprint to enable its performance.
I haven't RTFA (this is slashdot) - but it strikes me that it's the plaintiff (and not the defendant) - that's clueless. This is confirmed by the fact that he doesn't like people saying nasty things about him - but went into politics anyway.
They're both clueless, then. The defendent is claiming that removing hyperlinking will make the web less interesting, when in fact hyperlinking is the only thing defining it as a web!
130 mb of ram while sitting idle? Then it's perfect for windoze and osx....
So what are the alternatives for *nix users now?
dn grep this: s/$your_beliefs/$common_sense/i;
My wife is using Foobar2000 for Windows which uses 12MB of resident memory. I used it for years as well but the browser is clunky so I switched back to Windows Media Player (30MB resident while viewing a list of album cover thumbnails).
Songbird is a music player and library organizer similar to iTunes or Winamp. It's based on the Mozilla Firefox Gecko framework. It inexplicably uses about 130MB of RAM while idle.
[blockquote]Hyperlinking is what the web is all about, says p2pnet founder Jon Newton. 'Without it, the Internet would become a drab and pale facsimile of the exciting news, data and information medium it is today. [/blockquote]
Um, without hyperlinking it wouldn't be much of a "web" at all, would it? Why is the defendent so clueless about his own case? This isn't a matter of something interesting becoming drab, it's a matter of whether Canada chooses to exclude itself from the civilized world.
If you go to your CIO saying "if we took less than half the money we spend on licensing Microsoft's software alone and invested that in training users for an open source system, we would be far better off in the long run" you will be ignored. Rip and replace never goes as smoothly as the pamphlets promise. Fine one application with measurable improvements over your existing system and make an ROI case for that one small change. Earn the credibility by being sympathetic to your CIO or IT Director's objectives.
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I just watched it and it drags on a while. I wish there was a transcript.
A quick Bing search could have saved you a /. post.
I don't want to read this kind of stuff on Slashdot. I come here for tech news that has some bearing on the world. This story is specifically about American politics and should have no place on this site.
The URL I posted had a download link. I hope your favourite video player supports WMV.
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Is Microsoft slowly changing it's business model ? Selling Microsoft Office licenses is one of the major sources of revenue.
And at what point will there be a free windows version ?
YES, Microsoft is changing their business model big time. Steve Ballmer announced in his recent University of Washington speech that Microsoft is dedicating 70% fo their software engineers to creating cloud-based versions of their local software, and by next year it will increase to 90%. They were slow to adopt the cloud but plan to become a big contender in a short amount of time.
The speech is about 90 minutes long and is very interesting, for those who care to watch. He's quite a good speaker with a very good knowledge of the industry, and he handles people's questions directly and in detail. What impressed me most was that he openly praises other companies and their cloud apps like Salesforce and Google.
This is double plus funny as Steam doesnt let you own anything, you merely borrow software and Steam can take it away at any moment.
Yeah, I know. The Steam EULA refers to me as a "subscriber" not a "customer". Goes to show how good Steam is, since I'd rather be one of their subscribers than an owner of a physical medium.
I stopped pirating PC games when Steam came out. The convenience of ownership outweighed the convenience of piracy.
I have a few pirated games on my DSi XL because I hate lugging cartridges around. I own several DSiware titles because shopping was convenient and I don't need cartridges. Beef up the DS's storage and make games intangible and they'll have sold me.
Bad example.. the memory consumption gets closer as you open more tabs.
Is informing Google of my private, internal staging server at some random IP address really infringing on my privacy?
Moreover, if you really don't like it, you can disable suggestions. If you then want suggestions, you can simply go to Google and start typing there. I think the point is that as you start typing, it is genuinely helpful to have relevant stuff randomly pop up, even if you are just typing into the URL bar.
I agree with your alternatives, but I still attest that your privacy is unquestionably comporomised to some degree by joining the address and search bars. Other browsers have the same functionality while retaining your privacy by breaking these bars apart. All I'm saying is that there are some URLs people will not want to share with Google.
I made this conclusion based on the Windows task manager. It showed Chrome using upwards of 300MB of RAM or even more, seconds after starting up with 7 or 8 tabs open. This is in stark contrast with Firefox which sometimes gets as high as 250MB with the same number of tabs open, but drops considerably if I close and restart the browser.
Your analogy fails. Both a tiger and a shark want to steal your steak.
Thanks for correcting me. I mean, my analogy was about a tiger and a lion, and that your steak would be safe with neither, but you cleverly inferred my hidden implication that a shark would deftly steal your steak and place it in the nearest freezer.
I trust Google infinitely more than I trust Microsoft.
So you trust a tiger infinitely more with your steak than a lion?
Seriously though, between Microsoft and Google, which company's revenue is more reliant upon user profiling for advertising networks? If I were to make a rash (and perhaps outdated) generalization I'd say that Google is more dangerous to individual privacy, whereas Microsoft is more dangerous to ethical competition with other businesses.
Every keystroke in the address bar is sent to google by default according to microsoft. How else are they supposed to do google-suggest?
Obviously, by separating search from the address bar. That's how IE and every other browser does Google and Bing suggest. Do you really want to inform Google every time you test your private, internal web staging server at 127.0.0.1 or 192.168.11.22? How does that add value to the user?
Your browsing history doesn't get sent to Google, but every keystroke you type into the address bar gets sent to Google, even if you don't press Enter to submit it. This applies even to internal addresses and IP addresses typed, character by character, into the address bar.
pitdingo's previous comment is absolutely correct. What he implies but doesn't say outright as that even with AdBlock from Chrome enabled you still have to wait for ad banners and scripts to do their thing, so you often must wait and wait for the last pixels of an ad to show before you can start downloading the actual content. Firefox's AdBlock+ is superior in many ways.
For me, the only actual temptation to use Chrome is to get the independent processes in each tab
My only problem with this is that, with several tabs open, Chrome uses 2-3 times more memory than other browsers. There's a huge footprint to enable its performance.
Just because they're talented and successful, doesn't mean I can't hold a grudge against them forever.
Monolith doesn't do charming games with intelligent dialogue anymore. They only do scary games for 12 year olds now. R.I.P. NOLF and TRON 2.0.
I haven't RTFA (this is slashdot) - but it strikes me that it's the plaintiff (and not the defendant) - that's clueless. This is confirmed by the fact that he doesn't like people saying nasty things about him - but went into politics anyway.
They're both clueless, then. The defendent is claiming that removing hyperlinking will make the web less interesting, when in fact hyperlinking is the only thing defining it as a web!
130 mb of ram while sitting idle? Then it's perfect for windoze and osx....
So what are the alternatives for *nix users now?
dn
grep this: s/$your_beliefs/$common_sense/i;
My wife is using Foobar2000 for Windows which uses 12MB of resident memory. I used it for years as well but the browser is clunky so I switched back to Windows Media Player (30MB resident while viewing a list of album cover thumbnails).
Songbird is a music player and library organizer similar to iTunes or Winamp. It's based on the Mozilla Firefox Gecko framework. It inexplicably uses about 130MB of RAM while idle.
I confused PHPBB code by accident. I'm not in the habit of entering HTML in a form textarea.
As you can plainly see, web standards are very important to me!
[blockquote]Hyperlinking is what the web is all about, says p2pnet founder Jon Newton. 'Without it, the Internet would become a drab and pale facsimile of the exciting news, data and information medium it is today. [/blockquote]
Um, without hyperlinking it wouldn't be much of a "web" at all, would it? Why is the defendent so clueless about his own case? This isn't a matter of something interesting becoming drab, it's a matter of whether Canada chooses to exclude itself from the civilized world.
If you go to your CIO saying "if we took less than half the money we spend on licensing Microsoft's software alone and invested that in training users for an open source system, we would be far better off in the long run" you will be ignored. Rip and replace never goes as smoothly as the pamphlets promise. Fine one application with measurable improvements over your existing system and make an ROI case for that one small change. Earn the credibility by being sympathetic to your CIO or IT Director's objectives.
Are you calling a Pentium 4 a "Crysis ready machine"?