Even then, trading San Francisco for NK is not such a bad deal.
Any loss of civilian life should be held in contempt, regardless of what nationality, religion or race. Are you really advocating that the lives of people in San Fransico are more important than the lives in North Korea?
Ironically, the United States which incidentally signed the NPT (Non-Proliferation Treaty) and also signed against testing nuclear weapons, questions the very non-proliferation treaty and then criticizes Iran for wanting to produce nuclear weapons when Israel is allowed to have them? Considering the US is the only country to use nuclear weapons in combat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_we apons_of_mass_destruction) it seems a tad bit hypocritical if you ask me.
Second of all, if you have the regional superpower (Israel) and the global superpower (US) breathing down your neck would you not want a bargaining chip or do you just remain as their pawn? It does change the geopolitical make-up of the Middle East and that is what the US is really concerned about; the amount of control the US has in the region (military dominance is control). The odds of Iran actually using a nuclear weapon is about nil since they would be obliterated in response.
By the way, I am absolutely not condoning Iran having nuclear weapons as I believe all stockpiled nuclear weapons and weapons of mass-destruction should be disposed of properly. My main fear of this is another arms race.
Now I do believe that the Iranian government is guilty of crimes against humanity (stoning and executions for example) and should be prosectued for such; however, the government of the United States is also guilty of crimes against humanity (torture) and such is not one to be critisizing the actions of another government in such a matter. Nor should they be marching the wardrums against Iran for this unless they renounce the use of all crimes against humanity.
I think the majority want jobs that pay the traditionally high American wages, and cheap consumer goods.
Maybe the two are mutually exclusive, and maybe not. If they are, it will be a tough lesson to learn the hard way.
Unfortunately, I think time will tell that you can't get both high "American" wages and "cheap" consumer goods and still have enough left over for the shareholders. Somebody has to pay for the cheap consumer goods, it's going to come at the expense of someone. Personally, consumption is the prime issue, people are trying to live beyond their means. Should you really be buying all that McDonalds when you owe the bank how much and do you need to be buying downloadble ringtunes?
Right now, we keep talking about pollution and ways to resolve the issues with the environment, than perhaps locally producing instead of using lots of energy to transport a product might be part of the solution to this issue. There is a money issue to transportation as well, is it ultimately cheaper to ship -everything-? Someone has to pay for the transportation and considering the price of energy keeps rising, that price will keep getting higher. To keep low prices on consumer goods than there are going to have to be costs cut somewhere else, in all likelyness, manufacturing.
In my area, we've had 2500 recently laid off because they were getting paid "too much", now where are these people supposed to find comparable jobs and what impact will it have on my local economy? Does it have a role in my company not getting a raise this year? Quite likely. Now I have less money to spend this year than last, if you factor in inflation. That would suggest, I should cut spending that much to avoid debt, however if people do this in a great magnitude we will end up in a recession. To avoid that, I guess I'm just supposed to go further into debt, unless someone else has an explanation. Which, other than my house I do not owe much currently, however I'm a miser so I'm much more inclined to spend less. =)
Perhaps, evolving is an answer and I'm not going to completely blow this off. But if good paying jobs are going to be replaced with poor paying jobs unless you have a good education, than shouldn't making affordable education be a priority?
Right now the total debt in Canada (including personal, municipal, corporate, provincial, and federal) exceeds $2 trillion dollars. So how is sending money away to someone working in China helping my country? So yes, I may get an item slightly cheaper than the counterpart produced in country, but at what cost? Wouldn't I be better investing my money in a Canadian product, seeing as that money would than stay in my country.
Honestly, in my life I do without many convienence's (mostly small - no dishwasher, microwave, no cable television, no cellphone, no fastfood) and I am quite content with this. Actually, not having the distractions leads to more time, ironically. Honestly, I think the three R's should apply more than just to garbage.
You mean the first bombing of the world trade towers, where they just didn't make them fall, or the Timothy Mcveigh thing don't count?
Yes the parent of the comment of prior to 2001 is wrong, however note, Oklahoma City bombing was in 1995, so there was 6 years since that when 9/11/01 happened and over 8 years since the World Trade Center had been bombed. So bragging that there hasn't been a terrorist attack since 2001 isn't much of something to brag about.
Everybody has basic rights, being a citizen of a country or not. So may I assume torturing of a human being is alright as long as they are not a US citizen? Remember they are a citizen of another country.
Getting infected by a virus usually means some stupid user action (opening an attachment) or not having your patches up to date, both of which are influenced by computer knowledge.
The time of actually downloading all the patches would also be a factor for a lot of computers not being up-to-date with patches, especially if they are on dial-up.
Ideally, a system would be secure when released and honestly I think vendors need to work on this, obviously this may be a daunting task and not even plausible but every effort should be taken. That being said, ideally, there would be no need for security, just as ideally, there would be no need for police or government. =)
A dumb example of this comes from the latest release of Ubuntu where the developers completely randomly decided to ship Nautilus with default settings that are so mind-bogglingly awful (think ordinary spatial nautilus with all of the "benefits" removed) it simply... well... boggles the mind! There's a huge thread on the forums where about 100 people criticised the move saying it was dumb and *not one* non-developer voiced any support for it at all. The GNOME devs, of course, said "fuck you" to the users and carried on with their utterly retarded plan.
You are confusing Ubuntu devs with GNOME devs, the change of which you are talking about, closing the previous window when you select a new directory (completely missing the purpose of spatial) was implemented by Ubuntu developers and not GNOME developers and yes I agree completely retarded.
Personally, I prefer GNOME over KDE and like spatial file management, moving files is quick and simple. Beyond that, I find GNOME cleaner looking than KDE and I have less libraries loaded up at run-time since I don't use any QT applications. If I were using KDE I would still use Firefox, Thunderbird, and OpenOffice and would have to have two graphical toolkits libraries loaded up.
Actually, given how superior KDE is to GNOME in virtually every way (from developing for it to easy integration with KParts to the file manager to... well... ervything, really!), I wouldn't shed a tear if GNOME just died off completely leaving KDE as the One True Desktop. Plus, the GNOME developers seem to be arrogant, insular cocks
Feeling a little arrogant yourself, perhaps? There is probably lots of people that feel that Windows is the one true OS and wouldn't care if everything else died off.... To each their own, however, competetion is a good thing - it inspires innovation and GNOME/KDE are no exception. Watch for what you wish for....
It's not like it's somehow better for the environment to throw compost in the trash than it is to pitch banana peels - they will decompose in the landfill just as nicely as they decomposed in your kitchen, and without you having to harm the environment by purchasing a large lump of plastic and burning some electricity.
Except for the nicely decomposed banana will likely be setting it in a grocery bag than into another larger plastic bag (I don't personally use a grocery bag for garbage, however lots of people do - my garbage goes directly into the larger bag; nor do I get grocery bags from the grocery store, I tell them I don't want them). If you seperate everything you can compost from being garbage, you will no longer be throwing it in a plastic bag into another plastic bag. Reducing the number of plastic bags thrown out (which is truly wasteful). However, I do fail to see how many apartment dwellers would need this much soil. You could try to sell it...;-) It's worth a bunch.
Another tip, if you want to save money (nothing to do with garbage) and you drink lots of tea/instant coffee. Do yourself a favour get a good thermos and put the hot water from the kettle into a thermos, keeps the water warm all day...;)
Keep in mind that most of the US lives much, much more sparsely than Europeans. They are not (for the most part) crowded into dense polluted cities. They are spead out over rual areas with clean air, clean water, and blue skies.
The prevailant wind direction in rural America must be drastically different than that of rural Southern Ontario? I guess it's all the moisture from the Great Lakes, must create a basin for air pollution to get trapped. We were just issued our first winter air quality warning and are regularly issued them in the summer (we issue a warning when we have an index value of greaten than 50ppm, http://www.airqualityontario.com/science/aqi_descr iption.cfm)
It isn't a start. Cutting energy production is always tough on the economy. The US went through this in the late 70's, and most people remember how miserable that was.
In the future there is going to be an energy crisis, oil production is not going to be able to meet demand. We could heed that now and start investing in more alternative cleaner burning fuels.
I just don't think they'd work well in today's climate. 911 changed too much, and whether or not you support the Iraq war, nobody questions whether we have real terrorist enemies out there somewhere that want to kill us on a grand scale.
To the contrary, the American public have never been more paranoid! Except this time make the aliens look like Osama and you'll have a box office blockbuster... And the smoking guy (whatever his name is in the X-Files show) can be Saddam Hussein.;-)
How much is the cost of producing the average movie versus the average video game? In a movie production, they pay the cast & crew millions of dollars... How much does the crew (video game developers/artists, etc...) get paid for making a video game? I would expect dramatically less.
Everybody is looking at this the wrong way, it's not the jobs that would be lost, but where the jobs will be lost. Right where the Bush family has most of their money invested and where President Bush get his campaign money - oil.
Then perhaps in detail you can explain how Saddam Hussein was a threat to your country? May I remind you, there is not one single ounce of hard evidence linking Iraq to 9/11 or Al-Queda. Nor have ANY weapons of mass destruction been found. The UN backed down after finding no signs of weapons, something your country has been unable to find either As of right now, the United States has killed more people in their quest to rid the world of terrorism than was killed in the 9/11 attacks. This is the exact foreign policy that got your country into this mess in the first place.
My family (wife and three kids) supported Bush this year. Not because he's the magic bullet which will fix America's problems, but because he's much less dangerous than Kerry. Last night at dinner, the kids were watching the early returns, and were worried that Kerry might win. I told them, "Kerry might win. If he does, he's going to be our president for four years, and we'll do our best to support him. Everything will be all right."
Now the rest of the world has to wonder if the barrel of the gun will be facing in their direction.. It's sad to me that a "war monger" is considered less dangerous.
Is that not what all buisnesses try to accomplish, to beat their competition?
Obviously, as long as it is -sustainable-... However, lower prices will not continure once their is no competetion and that is my point. Consumers need to have some foresight, putting all your eggs in one basket will come back to harm you.
Now, while 2 billion bucks is a load of cash, 58 billion was spent in search of it. That's a margin of only 3.3%.
Well if you had a cash inflow of $58billion, you could afford a 3.3% margin? This is all relative. Plus, if you are continually squeezing your competetion out-of-business you will be able to set your profit margin quite readily once you've killed them off, that time is coming. Right now, they are trying to pressure the record labels so that bulk prices are cheaper, the only stores that will benefit out of this are Wal*Mart's. Thus putting a little more pressure on the competetion. That is exactly what Wal*Mart is about, it's not about low prices for the consumer, it's about squeezing the competetion.
1) Switching tabs does not update the window title. WTF?! I don't want my window to have the wrong title! It isn't the first tab or anything like that. Just whichever one it likes.
I can't repeat this on my installation on Linux. Switching tabs changes the window title text.
2) I don't want a fucking top bar every time a popup is blocked. What was wrong with the icon at the bottom? Oh yeah, SP2 added their "Information Bar" crap, so Firefox has to have it! What if the popup comes up after a few seconds? Does all the page content move down to allow for their Information Bar thing? (I don't know, somebody tell)
This I agree can be annoying, should be a configurable option. Didn't find any option for it while I looked through the preferences to turn it off (for those people who may not want the plugin)
4) I don't know why, but the automated installing extensions thing doesn't work (for Shockwave at least). Looked cool though.
I think you said it yourself...;-) Automated extension updating, shockwave is a plugin. Perhaps, this should be automatically updated too. Make a bug report, don't just bitch on Slashdot.
The find-as-you-type thing, works perfectly the way I would expect it too. ie... If I have two tabs open, I can perform seperate searches in each.
All in all, this is one of the better releases that I've used and I've been using it now since about 0.7.
I agree with you that this is third and fourth hand stories. However, I've never seen CNN and the word credible used in the same line....;-) Beyond that, it's fun to watch American's say blast em.... We can see who will the November election in the US... (which unfortunately is looking scary)
Maybe you're memory is clouded going further back. Saddam has always pushed the US to the brink of military action by not letting inspectors in, then backed down at the last second to avoid a strike.
Maybe, you mean that it has pushed the UN to the brink of war. This was never a unilateral war until the US made it one. Second of all, now where are those supposed weapons? The US looked like the bad guy because it went in without UN approval.
I believe that was Slashdot's idea of sarcasm. Judging from the comments I've skimmed so far, U2 is not well liked here.
Which is kind of odd, given that the approximate age group that would read slashdot would be fans of U2. Maybe, it's because U2 fans don't see the point in acting stark raving mad about their own opinions of the band..;)
Now the real question is, will U2 feel the Slashdot Effect?
Except for the fact they have albums remaining to be produced. In what is called a binding contract, yes you can change names and release under something else (Prince did this successfully - some may not say successfully, however I don't think he was aiming for the success he had in the '80's.) But should you have to change your identity? Some bands may not and I'll respect their decision, doesn't me I will buy the disc. Trent Reznor had a hell of a time splitting from TVT Records, Interscope ending up buying TVT's contract (you'll still see the TVT logo on NIN discs). I was looking forward to the Beastie Boys album coming out and was going to buy it, but I guess not now... Unless I can find an import without copy-controlled measures.
Don't tell me that if this really bothered them, they couldn't start their own damn label and find their own distribution channels.
This is exactly what Pearl Jam has done, Lost Dogs was the last album you'll see on Sony/Epic from Pearl Jam. They have now started their own label and far as I know they are going to distribute themselves (I could be wrong on the latter part). Personally, I think bands need to join together and send a message to the record labels that they don't need them anymore. It's the bands that need to do this, however remember the real culprit is the record label and not the band. Trust me I'll probably cry when the first U2 copy-controlled albun comes out (that is going to be a sad day)
I wouldn't doubt it. One of the biggest problems I see with open source is that if you have a legit product, you can be taken advantage of very easily.
? If you are developing for anybody/everybody to use freely than how can someone using it for free be taking advantage of the orgranization? Considering if they didn't want anybody and everybody to be able to use it they would've licensed it differently.
Nokia may be investing in Mozilla because they can give donations and then get the product with no strings attached. Giving donations and entering into contracts are two very different things and it's a lot easier to have your way with an organization that you donate to than dealing with contracts.
Investing? A donation is not an investment. The only investment out of this, is that it will help the Mozilla Foundation stay alive, which is an investment if you plan on using their product. But this is not an investment in a traditional sense. It gives Nokia no leverage on the foundation or on the product it produces. They would need to create a binding contract to be able to legally force the Mozilla Foundation to have their way.
Windows Firefox download is 4.7MB, however for Linux it's still around 8.0MB, which is a little high. What's the size of Opera on Linux? To me the version doesn't really feel any faster the nightly Firebird build I was using in January. But that's in my perception, by no means a benchmark, but really what matters more the benchmark or user's perception (in the terms of a browser)?
Personally, I'm happy with Firefox so I haven't checked Opera out. I'll stick with the open-source browser (even if I can't have the nice logo's when using an un-official build (which seems a little restrictive to me for an open-source project, but that's being nitpicky))
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Ironically, the United States which incidentally signed the NPT (Non-Proliferation Treaty) and also signed against testing nuclear weapons, questions the very non-proliferation treaty and then criticizes Iran for wanting to produce nuclear weapons when Israel is allowed to have them? Considering the US is the only country to use nuclear weapons in combat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_we apons_of_mass_destruction) it seems a tad bit hypocritical if you ask me.
Second of all, if you have the regional superpower (Israel) and the global superpower (US) breathing down your neck would you not want a bargaining chip or do you just remain as their pawn? It does change the geopolitical make-up of the Middle East and that is what the US is really concerned about; the amount of control the US has in the region (military dominance is control). The odds of Iran actually using a nuclear weapon is about nil since they would be obliterated in response.
By the way, I am absolutely not condoning Iran having nuclear weapons as I believe all stockpiled nuclear weapons and weapons of mass-destruction should be disposed of properly. My main fear of this is another arms race.
Now I do believe that the Iranian government is guilty of crimes against humanity (stoning and executions for example) and should be prosectued for such; however, the government of the United States is also guilty of crimes against humanity (torture) and such is not one to be critisizing the actions of another government in such a matter. Nor should they be marching the wardrums against Iran for this unless they renounce the use of all crimes against humanity.
I think the majority want jobs that pay the traditionally high American wages, and cheap consumer goods.
Maybe the two are mutually exclusive, and maybe not. If they are, it will be a tough lesson to learn the hard way.
Unfortunately, I think time will tell that you can't get both high "American" wages and "cheap" consumer goods and still have enough left over for the shareholders. Somebody has to pay for the cheap consumer goods, it's going to come at the expense of someone. Personally, consumption is the prime issue, people are trying to live beyond their means. Should you really be buying all that McDonalds when you owe the bank how much and do you need to be buying downloadble ringtunes?
Right now, we keep talking about pollution and ways to resolve the issues with the environment, than perhaps locally producing instead of using lots of energy to transport a product might be part of the solution to this issue. There is a money issue to transportation as well, is it ultimately cheaper to ship -everything-? Someone has to pay for the transportation and considering the price of energy keeps rising, that price will keep getting higher. To keep low prices on consumer goods than there are going to have to be costs cut somewhere else, in all likelyness, manufacturing.
In my area, we've had 2500 recently laid off because they were getting paid "too much", now where are these people supposed to find comparable jobs and what impact will it have on my local economy? Does it have a role in my company not getting a raise this year? Quite likely. Now I have less money to spend this year than last, if you factor in inflation. That would suggest, I should cut spending that much to avoid debt, however if people do this in a great magnitude we will end up in a recession. To avoid that, I guess I'm just supposed to go further into debt, unless someone else has an explanation. Which, other than my house I do not owe much currently, however I'm a miser so I'm much more inclined to spend less. =)
Perhaps, evolving is an answer and I'm not going to completely blow this off. But if good paying jobs are going to be replaced with poor paying jobs unless you have a good education, than shouldn't making affordable education be a priority?
Right now the total debt in Canada (including personal, municipal, corporate, provincial, and federal) exceeds $2 trillion dollars. So how is sending money away to someone working in China helping my country? So yes, I may get an item slightly cheaper than the counterpart produced in country, but at what cost? Wouldn't I be better investing my money in a Canadian product, seeing as that money would than stay in my country.
Honestly, in my life I do without many convienence's (mostly small - no dishwasher, microwave, no cable television, no cellphone, no fastfood) and I am quite content with this. Actually, not having the distractions leads to more time, ironically. Honestly, I think the three R's should apply more than just to garbage.
Yes the parent of the comment of prior to 2001 is wrong, however note, Oklahoma City bombing was in 1995, so there was 6 years since that when 9/11/01 happened and over 8 years since the World Trade Center had been bombed. So bragging that there hasn't been a terrorist attack since 2001 isn't much of something to brag about.
Everybody has basic rights, being a citizen of a country or not. So may I assume torturing of a human being is alright as long as they are not a US citizen? Remember they are a citizen of another country.
Ideally, a system would be secure when released and honestly I think vendors need to work on this, obviously this may be a daunting task and not even plausible but every effort should be taken. That being said, ideally, there would be no need for security, just as ideally, there would be no need for police or government. =)
You are confusing Ubuntu devs with GNOME devs, the change of which you are talking about, closing the previous window when you select a new directory (completely missing the purpose of spatial) was implemented by Ubuntu developers and not GNOME developers and yes I agree completely retarded.
Personally, I prefer GNOME over KDE and like spatial file management, moving files is quick and simple. Beyond that, I find GNOME cleaner looking than KDE and I have less libraries loaded up at run-time since I don't use any QT applications. If I were using KDE I would still use Firefox, Thunderbird, and OpenOffice and would have to have two graphical toolkits libraries loaded up.
Feeling a little arrogant yourself, perhaps? There is probably lots of people that feel that Windows is the one true OS and wouldn't care if everything else died off.... To each their own, however, competetion is a good thing - it inspires innovation and GNOME/KDE are no exception. Watch for what you wish for....
Another tip, if you want to save money (nothing to do with garbage) and you drink lots of tea/instant coffee. Do yourself a favour get a good thermos and put the hot water from the kettle into a thermos, keeps the water warm all day... ;)
I just don't think they'd work well in today's climate. 911 changed too much, and whether or not you support the Iraq war, nobody questions whether we have real terrorist enemies out there somewhere that want to kill us on a grand scale.
;-)
To the contrary, the American public have never been more paranoid! Except this time make the aliens look like Osama and you'll have a box office blockbuster... And the smoking guy (whatever his name is in the X-Files show) can be Saddam Hussein.
How much is the cost of producing the average movie versus the average video game? In a movie production, they pay the cast & crew millions of dollars... How much does the crew (video game developers/artists, etc...) get paid for making a video game? I would expect dramatically less.
Oops - it pays to actually read replies... ;-) Mod that as redundant if you like...
We also have a lot more than 4.6% of the land While you are correct that you have more land that 4.6%, though it's only a whopping 6.15%. ;-)
Everybody is looking at this the wrong way, it's not the jobs that would be lost, but where the jobs will be lost. Right where the Bush family has most of their money invested and where President Bush get his campaign money - oil.
Then perhaps in detail you can explain how Saddam Hussein was a threat to your country? May I remind you, there is not one single ounce of hard evidence linking Iraq to 9/11 or Al-Queda. Nor have ANY weapons of mass destruction been found. The UN backed down after finding no signs of weapons, something your country has been unable to find either As of right now, the United States has killed more people in their quest to rid the world of terrorism than was killed in the 9/11 attacks. This is the exact foreign policy that got your country into this mess in the first place.
My family (wife and three kids) supported Bush this year. Not because he's the magic bullet which will fix America's problems, but because he's much less dangerous than Kerry. Last night at dinner, the kids were watching the early returns, and were worried that Kerry might win. I told them, "Kerry might win. If he does, he's going to be our president for four years, and we'll do our best to support him. Everything will be all right."
Now the rest of the world has to wonder if the barrel of the gun will be facing in their direction.. It's sad to me that a "war monger" is considered less dangerous.
Is that not what all buisnesses try to accomplish, to beat their competition? Obviously, as long as it is -sustainable-... However, lower prices will not continure once their is no competetion and that is my point. Consumers need to have some foresight, putting all your eggs in one basket will come back to harm you.
Now, while 2 billion bucks is a load of cash, 58 billion was spent in search of it. That's a margin of only 3.3%.
Well if you had a cash inflow of $58billion, you could afford a 3.3% margin? This is all relative. Plus, if you are continually squeezing your competetion out-of-business you will be able to set your profit margin quite readily once you've killed them off, that time is coming. Right now, they are trying to pressure the record labels so that bulk prices are cheaper, the only stores that will benefit out of this are Wal*Mart's. Thus putting a little more pressure on the competetion. That is exactly what Wal*Mart is about, it's not about low prices for the consumer, it's about squeezing the competetion.
1) Switching tabs does not update the window title. WTF?! I don't want my window to have the wrong title! It isn't the first tab or anything like that. Just whichever one it likes.
;-) Automated extension updating, shockwave is a plugin. Perhaps, this should be automatically updated too. Make a bug report, don't just bitch on Slashdot.
I can't repeat this on my installation on Linux. Switching tabs changes the window title text.
2) I don't want a fucking top bar every time a popup is blocked. What was wrong with the icon at the bottom? Oh yeah, SP2 added their "Information Bar" crap, so Firefox has to have it! What if the popup comes up after a few seconds? Does all the page content move down to allow for their Information Bar thing? (I don't know, somebody tell)
This I agree can be annoying, should be a configurable option. Didn't find any option for it while I looked through the preferences to turn it off (for those people who may not want the plugin)
4) I don't know why, but the automated installing extensions thing doesn't work (for Shockwave at least). Looked cool though.
I think you said it yourself...
The find-as-you-type thing, works perfectly the way I would expect it too. ie... If I have two tabs open, I can perform seperate searches in each.
All in all, this is one of the better releases that I've used and I've been using it now since about 0.7.
I agree with you that this is third and fourth hand stories. However, I've never seen CNN and the word credible used in the same line.... ;-) Beyond that, it's fun to watch American's say blast em.... We can see who will the November election in the US... (which unfortunately is looking scary)
Maybe you're memory is clouded going further back. Saddam has always pushed the US to the brink of military action by not letting inspectors in, then backed down at the last second to avoid a strike.
Maybe, you mean that it has pushed the UN to the brink of war. This was never a unilateral war until the US made it one. Second of all, now where are those supposed weapons? The US looked like the bad guy because it went in without UN approval.
Wal-Mart does not need anymore bad publicity
:) I'd love to watch Walmart sink...
I beg to differ, they need all the bad publicity they can get....
Which is kind of odd, given that the approximate age group that would read slashdot would be fans of U2. Maybe, it's because U2 fans don't see the point in acting stark raving mad about their own opinions of the band.. ;)
Now the real question is, will U2 feel the Slashdot Effect?
Don't tell me that if this really bothered them, they couldn't start their own damn label and find their own distribution channels.
This is exactly what Pearl Jam has done, Lost Dogs was the last album you'll see on Sony/Epic from Pearl Jam. They have now started their own label and far as I know they are going to distribute themselves (I could be wrong on the latter part). Personally, I think bands need to join together and send a message to the record labels that they don't need them anymore. It's the bands that need to do this, however remember the real culprit is the record label and not the band. Trust me I'll probably cry when the first U2 copy-controlled albun comes out (that is going to be a sad day)
? If you are developing for anybody/everybody to use freely than how can someone using it for free be taking advantage of the orgranization? Considering if they didn't want anybody and everybody to be able to use it they would've licensed it differently.
Nokia may be investing in Mozilla because they can give donations and then get the product with no strings attached. Giving donations and entering into contracts are two very different things and it's a lot easier to have your way with an organization that you donate to than dealing with contracts.
Investing? A donation is not an investment. The only investment out of this, is that it will help the Mozilla Foundation stay alive, which is an investment if you plan on using their product. But this is not an investment in a traditional sense. It gives Nokia no leverage on the foundation or on the product it produces. They would need to create a binding contract to be able to legally force the Mozilla Foundation to have their way.
Windows Firefox download is 4.7MB, however for Linux it's still around 8.0MB, which is a little high. What's the size of Opera on Linux? To me the version doesn't really feel any faster the nightly Firebird build I was using in January. But that's in my perception, by no means a benchmark, but really what matters more the benchmark or user's perception (in the terms of a browser)?
Personally, I'm happy with Firefox so I haven't checked Opera out. I'll stick with the open-source browser (even if I can't have the nice logo's when using an un-official build (which seems a little restrictive to me for an open-source project, but that's being nitpicky))