The fact that people are reacting to this news is idiotic. How did/not/ expect Apple to go with a relatively hard-to-crack hardware solution to lock in their hardware? They make a respectable amount of money from their hardware business and anybody who's not a hippie would realize that that's worth protecting zealously. Everybody who says "Apple betrayed us" or "I'm not going to buy Apple stuff anymore" or tries to be glib about Apple vs. Microsoft is just deluding themselves in the first place. Apple will always try to lock you into their hardware until it no longer makes business sense. Get over it and get another OS.
Because calculators are an excellent tool for math even if they aren't a tool you should rely at all times. But it's entirely perfectly possible to test with a calculator. Take the AP Calculus BC exam. It has a/great/ calculator active section on the multiple choice part and on the calculator active free-response. Not all the questions require calculators, but when they do, it allows them to test more expansively. For example, you don't have to manually integrate by hand (sometimes you can't, anyway), but there's still a lot of area and volume theory you can test on without having to integrate by hand. Calculators are extremely useful there and other areas like that. Like any tool, it shouldn't be completely relied on, but it also shouldn't be completely ignored.
I don't really think Microsoft will ever abandon their C++ platform. After all, they've spent more than six years perfecting it (even though you could get lost in the Windows API without MSDN), it's more or less the de facto official language for Windows programming, and it's the only frequently used language, aside from C, that can do low-level stuff.
I'd also venture that it'd take Microsoft another five years to get.NET down right, what with abstracting the WinAPI, improving performance, getting the.NET languages to a stable feature-full plateau, and getting a large enough community.
It's the XUL. If you use Linux, GTK2 shouldn't take up that much. It's also poor memory management. There's several bugs in Bugzilla currently focusing on this issue. Some of the bugs have been indeed fixed, so you should see less of a memory hog from 0.7 to 0.8 and especially from 0.6 to 0.8. My RAM usage has always hovered around 60 MB. Still a lot, but I don't mind.
Google only targets IE because most users use IE. Hence, it would be a waste for Google to spend manhours, labor, money, development time, etc. to build one out of XUL. Shame, but good thing the brilliant community made their own Google counterpart: http://googlebar.mozdev.org/
I only need a bookmark keyword search, anyhoo. You know, the one where you type "g search" and it searches Google for "search".
The Brand Name FAQ specifically says that the name "Firefox" has been researched carefully and is currently in the process of getting a trademark. I don't think the devs would want to change the names anytime soon, now. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/fire fox-na me-faq.html
I remember how slow Phoenix and Mozilla started up several months ago when I first entered the foray that lead me to have this fanatical hobby of doing Mozilla-related things. It now loads up considerably faster on my computer.
Innovation in Mozilla/Firefox is evident, although I experience it less and less now, now that I use nightlies and new features are downloaded on a frequent basis and quietly absorbed. That's why I'm shocked to see all the lists of new features Firefox has over it's previous official release. It's a nice bubbly feeling, really.
"Webmasters DO use logs to see what percentage of their visitors are using what browsers, and this information is used to decide whether revamping the site to standards is worth it."
Well, I think you should put yourself in front of the popularity of the browser first. Anyhoo, you can always email the web administrator about the browser sniffing problem, which sort of allows him/her to learn about Firebird.
And how much of a performance hit is this? And does it really matter? Contrary to popular opinion, spam does originate from many, many different sources, not just a large group of megalo-spammers with furry, white, fat cats and their faces in the shadow.
What you can't and can say has been majorly widened by the advent of Internet and self-publishing services (weblogs, journals, free bandwidth, webspace, etc.) because, simply, of the anonymity. Because of the anonymity, it eventually spreads to where you can say it out loud in public and then spreads into becoming a cliche.
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I've never called Microsoft, either. I live and die by tweaking and Google.
Well, it's not going to get any better. Product Activation has worked fairly well for Microsoft in terms of piracy (but not 100%). Expect future versions to have more secure (and perhaps more oppressive) product activation schemes.
Windows 98 is *6* years old now and most software *still* works with it. This is only Microsoft. I can still live with Office 2000 (oh the horror, to use something that has "2000" in it). IE I definitely don't need. And..that's about it. There'll always be open-source and third-party software that'll still support Windows 98. It's about roughly 30% of computer users, which is still a decent size user base.
Agreed. I still use Windows 98 because of this. True, some aspects of WinXP draws me towards it, but until I need an entire new computer, I don't see the point in spending money on upgrades.
Although Microsoft support may stop, there's loads of third-party support on the net, and archives of old programs will always be avaiable via P2P, the Internet, FTP, etc.
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The fact that people are reacting to this news is idiotic. How did /not/ expect Apple to go with a relatively hard-to-crack hardware solution to lock in their hardware? They make a respectable amount of money from their hardware business and anybody who's not a hippie would realize that that's worth protecting zealously. Everybody who says "Apple betrayed us" or "I'm not going to buy Apple stuff anymore" or tries to be glib about Apple vs. Microsoft is just deluding themselves in the first place. Apple will always try to lock you into their hardware until it no longer makes business sense. Get over it and get another OS.
So everyone profitted from the Apple-Intel deal? That's not cool. There has to be a lawsuit somewhere. /Someone/ has to be revealed as a crossdresser.
Because calculators are an excellent tool for math even if they aren't a tool you should rely at all times. But it's entirely perfectly possible to test with a calculator. Take the AP Calculus BC exam. It has a /great/ calculator active section on the multiple choice part and on the calculator active free-response. Not all the questions require calculators, but when they do, it allows them to test more expansively. For example, you don't have to manually integrate by hand (sometimes you can't, anyway), but there's still a lot of area and volume theory you can test on without having to integrate by hand. Calculators are extremely useful there and other areas like that. Like any tool, it shouldn't be completely relied on, but it also shouldn't be completely ignored.
"I'm Santa!" / "No, I'm Santa!" / "No, /I'm/ Santa!" / "Dr. Zoidberg: And I am their friend, Jesus!"
I don't really think Microsoft will ever abandon their C++ platform. After all, they've spent more than six years perfecting it (even though you could get lost in the Windows API without MSDN), it's more or less the de facto official language for Windows programming, and it's the only frequently used language, aside from C, that can do low-level stuff.
.NET down right, what with abstracting the WinAPI, improving performance, getting the .NET languages to a stable feature-full plateau, and getting a large enough community.
/doesn't/ want to see Assembly .NET?
I'd also venture that it'd take Microsoft another five years to get
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If I could express the Hypnotoad's signature synthesized sound effect in ASCII, I would. Several times. But, failing that,
http://www.r33b.net/
But can it survive cat poo? Cat poo?!
CAT POO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is C++ going to have to choke a bitch?
Google just spidered your ass (as of writing).
It's the XUL. If you use Linux, GTK2 shouldn't take up that much. It's also poor memory management. There's several bugs in Bugzilla currently focusing on this issue. Some of the bugs have been indeed fixed, so you should see less of a memory hog from 0.7 to 0.8 and especially from 0.6 to 0.8. My RAM usage has always hovered around 60 MB. Still a lot, but I don't mind.
Google only targets IE because most users use IE. Hence, it would be a waste for Google to spend manhours, labor, money, development time, etc. to build one out of XUL. Shame, but good thing the brilliant community made their own Google counterpart:
http://googlebar.mozdev.org/
I only need a bookmark keyword search, anyhoo. You know, the one where you type "g search" and it searches Google for "search".
The Brand Name FAQ specifically says that the name "Firefox" has been researched carefully and is currently in the process of getting a trademark. I don't think the devs would want to change the names anytime soon, now.e fox-na me-faq.html
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/fir
I remember how slow Phoenix and Mozilla started up several months ago when I first entered the foray that lead me to have this fanatical hobby of doing Mozilla-related things. It now loads up considerably faster on my computer.
Innovation in Mozilla/Firefox is evident, although I experience it less and less now, now that I use nightlies and new features are downloaded on a frequent basis and quietly absorbed. That's why I'm shocked to see all the lists of new features Firefox has over it's previous official release. It's a nice bubbly feeling, really.
"Webmasters DO use logs to see what percentage of their visitors are using what browsers, and this information is used to decide whether revamping the site to standards is worth it."
Well, I think you should put yourself in front of the popularity of the browser first. Anyhoo, you can always email the web administrator about the browser sniffing problem, which sort of allows him/her to learn about Firebird.
And how much of a performance hit is this? And does it really matter? Contrary to popular opinion, spam does originate from many, many different sources, not just a large group of megalo-spammers with furry, white, fat cats and their faces in the shadow.
I'd like to see mine. Haven't seen it in quite some years, buried underneath all these windows.
Rupture all your internal hearing organs. Ahh, the silence.
What you can't and can say has been majorly widened by the advent of Internet and self-publishing services (weblogs, journals, free bandwidth, webspace, etc.) because, simply, of the anonymity. Because of the anonymity, it eventually spreads to where you can say it out loud in public and then spreads into becoming a cliche.
I've never called Microsoft, either. I live and die by tweaking and Google.
Well, it's not going to get any better. Product Activation has worked fairly well for Microsoft in terms of piracy (but not 100%). Expect future versions to have more secure (and perhaps more oppressive) product activation schemes.
Windows 98 is *6* years old now and most software *still* works with it. This is only Microsoft. I can still live with Office 2000 (oh the horror, to use something that has "2000" in it). IE I definitely don't need. And..that's about it. There'll always be open-source and third-party software that'll still support Windows 98. It's about roughly 30% of computer users, which is still a decent size user base.
I've seen a model of the bones of a MSDOS user at my local museum. It was fascinating.
Agreed. I still use Windows 98 because of this. True, some aspects of WinXP draws me towards it, but until I need an entire new computer, I don't see the point in spending money on upgrades.
Although Microsoft support may stop, there's loads of third-party support on the net, and archives of old programs will always be avaiable via P2P, the Internet, FTP, etc.
Size really does matter.
Didn't a group of people push processor limits to the max a while ago with liquid nitrogen too?