You know, this is the same argument we Opera fanboi's have all the time with people. The idea that some people want an internet suite.
And the fact that if you use the E-mail and Browser and IRC client in the suite, you get more efficient use of memory. They don't believe us though. I'm glad FF exists for those who like that development paradigm, but it would be sad if either of the internet suites dies IMHO. There are likely as many people who want ONE piece of software to update/maintain, and then have the internet experiance taken care of.
Well, some of its competition likes the suite interface. Opera. Size wise, it is smaller than just FF to download. One problem with having separate projects is that (at least on windows) they don't share any of the code that is basically the same. Hence why FF is 4.7MB and Thunderbird is ~8MB to download. Thunderbird has most of the gecko back end in it AGAIN for HTML e-mail, rather than hooking into the local HTML renderer (presumably FF).
If gun control doesn't meen gun banning, then what would be different compared to what we already have in the US? You already need licenses/permits for guns and or hunting. You already undergo background checks by law. I mean, what else is necessary to have gun control vs gun banning?
I hope the dual core chips start to make up for this, but I now worry, HT + Dual core for Intel would seem to indicate to me that AMD might want to look into HT style stuff also.
I personally do think AMD is hurting themselves with the price raise. It seems to me that if they can (maybe they cannot, hence the price raise) make a profit and undercut Intel's price by $100 that would be necessary to keep growing. They need to beat Intel in the Price/Performance ratio, not be equal to them.
I also think processors in the $600+ range are pretty much a dream for marketshare. Gamers usually look at $230 processors, either through building it, or via Alienware etc...
Everyone else is getting a Dell that costs $500 total. So they need to get the prices down. I remember with the Athlons you could buy the one gen old chip for $140 or so, that's where you start making sales.
I'm not a business major, but I also think the sempron is kind of risky to get budget chips. Why? Because the Athlon XP already did this niche, the fabs were in place, working, and the mobo's were pretty commodized also (nice ones for $40-$50). Good price points for budget chips at retail. However, the Semprons make sense as AMD wants to consolodate the chip fabs to 754. . . but the prices go up.
Sort of. I disagree that anyone should need to undergo some government or coporate blessing rite to become a jouranlist.
However, he can and has been compelled to testify (I think). Now we get into some problematic issues though. Not saying this is what happened in this case, but this does set precedent, so:
What if the identity info he has is foobar@myanon.net? If he gives that, is that enough? Should we expect [rumor mills] to have verifiable Names and Addresses for sources of anything they print?
And, how would anyone know if he actually had more than the above? Or if that was truly all the info he had?
Trade secrets are contigent on the company or person who has them keeping them a secret. If that company cannot do that, well boo hoo for them.
I mean, if I break into their headquarters or their servers to get the info to publish, that's a crime. But it's a crime because of the breaking and entering. Not the publishing.
If someone tells me info, or hands me a schematic - I don't agree that I should: a) know it's a trade secret b) feel any obligation to protect someone else's secret c) be liable in any way for the act of Publishing.
Also, has anyone thought that this could be a bad precednet when the blogger *doesn't know* the identity of the source? It's not hard to spoof e-mail indetities, and remailers aren't too difficult either. To the non-techinical identity online is not very concrete.
What, the right to freedom of the press? I fail to see how the founding fathers were very much different from many bloggers today aside from technology changes.
Personally I think people should be able to publish whatever they want as long as it is not becoming libel or slander (not a law student, one of those is writing).
This wasn't published to tarnish Apple's name, the information was true - what else should there be?
Trade Secrets legal protection should die - that's why there is copyright/patents. If you don't want people to know about something, the onus is on you to keep a secret! Personally I've seen too much good come from wistleblowing to have any support to clamp down on spreading rumors, or better yet the truth about what a company is doing.
Is that enough to legally identify some computer though? I mean, there are likely 100 million computers in the USA alone, not to mention another 100 million "computer like devices" such as cellphones or Xboxes.
If you are trying to track someone who is moving around the net, wouldn't that indicate you could likely have 200 distinct devices that would look the same to this?
For the same reason MYST, then Riven, then Uru got better and more realistic graphics. Because everyone expected it. Sure you could make Wolfenstein 3D X or something with the same level graphics, but I doubt you could sell it today without some nostalgia tie in. I mean, who want's crappy graphics when we can have photorealistic graphics, no matter what kind of game we are playing.
I agree. It certainly looks like it would be difficult to see what the heck you were typing in the address bar.
And, is there anyway to get the address bar to be part of the tab window and not the browser generic UI (as the address bar is really an aspect of the page, and not the UI)?
I must say I have thankfully never encountered this as I use Opera, but where is the vaunted OSS quick fix to bugs?
I mean, why isn't it out in 1.0.1, the first mainstream release that came out after the fix is in nightlys (IIRC anyway)???
I mean, being in nightlies is great, but that's as helpful to the average user as having bugs fixed in internal builds for propriatery software.
And using an extension like slashfix, which DOESN'T fix the code(unless I'm mistaken, it just really quickly does the zoom in/out) is like using proxomitron to fix Opera rendering bugs.
To me, I'm not seeing any of the supposed benefits of OSS right now. Why isn't there some patch you can download(that fixes the actual problem), or better yet, why isn't the official release fixed yet? This isn't something new. ..
I'm not seeing the mozilla foundation behaving any differently than say Opera has on several longstanding bugs, which to me as a user who likes final releases (most users, esp corps) is just as frustrating as the GMail (Fixed, in - Opera beta for fricken ever, but STILL no final release).
You know, this is one thing I really like Spybot's TeaTimer for, it lets you OPT OUT of any startup, browser etc ad on, IN REAL TIME as it tries to install. You can just block it. 99.99% of the time the thing you are installing, that you want finishes the install and works OK, just without running in the background or hooking into IE (which I don't use anyway, but why mess it up for when I have to?) IME.
I'm ok with this as long as the DVDs are free if they have commercials in the shows. If I pay $100 for a season of some show, there had better not be any commercials interspersed in the show.
The only problem is people will just rip the DVD, edit out the commercials, and reburn + distribute on P2P.
Well, there's also the issue of that if they CAN and DO enforce copyright on the network, they become Liable for anything that slips throught, with possibly huge fines.
Is it's basic concept good but the design bad, or is the whole thing fundamentally flawed? I do have to say, I've given up on it ever working, I've never seen anything take this much time to try and get working.
What about I2P? Better/Worse? Any chance of something that works in the near future?
And does TOR work currently? It never connects for me after v0.9.2... I think it might be my school's firewall/packetshaper (why gnutella/bittorrent don't work here). Is there any way to have TOR connect out on port 80?
It's people like that that give me violent urges. I mean, we shouldn't be able to say unpopular things? Do they realise that isn't exactly popular to a large portion of society?
The reason people don't understand the rights US Citizens have is because the whole legal system is akin to code that hasn't been cleaned up or rewritten in over 200 years! It's ungodly complex, and not only that, but the rules change as people work within them through precedent.
Also, the bill of rights doesn't apply to most of government they way most people think. They only directly apply to the Federal government, the States could do what they want (until the 14th ammendment and some activist judges) and now the constitution and bill of rights selectively apply to the states . . . Meaning, not all of it, not necessarily all the time. One ammendment that doesn't is the 2nd.(At least according to the lawyer teaching my intro to criminal justice class).
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You know, this is the same argument we Opera fanboi's have all the time with people. The idea that some people want an internet suite.
And the fact that if you use the E-mail and Browser and IRC client in the suite, you get more efficient use of memory. They don't believe us though. I'm glad FF exists for those who like that development paradigm, but it would be sad if either of the internet suites dies IMHO. There are likely as many people who want ONE piece of software to update/maintain, and then have the internet experiance taken care of.
Well, some of its competition likes the suite interface. Opera. Size wise, it is smaller than just FF to download. One problem with having separate projects is that (at least on windows) they don't share any of the code that is basically the same. Hence why FF is 4.7MB and Thunderbird is ~8MB to download. Thunderbird has most of the gecko back end in it AGAIN for HTML e-mail, rather than hooking into the local HTML renderer (presumably FF).
If gun control doesn't meen gun banning, then what would be different compared to what we already have in the US? You already need licenses/permits for guns and or hunting. You already undergo background checks by law. I mean, what else is necessary to have gun control vs gun banning?
If tabbed browsing is all you need, and FF crashes a lot for you, why don't you use either Maxathon(or other tabbed shell) or Opera?
I hope the dual core chips start to make up for this, but I now worry, HT + Dual core for Intel would seem to indicate to me that AMD might want to look into HT style stuff also.
I personally do think AMD is hurting themselves with the price raise. It seems to me that if they can (maybe they cannot, hence the price raise) make a profit and undercut Intel's price by $100 that would be necessary to keep growing. They need to beat Intel in the Price/Performance ratio, not be equal to them.
I also think processors in the $600+ range are pretty much a dream for marketshare. Gamers usually look at $230 processors, either through building it, or via Alienware etc...
Everyone else is getting a Dell that costs $500 total. So they need to get the prices down. I remember with the Athlons you could buy the one gen old chip for $140 or so, that's where you start making sales.
I'm not a business major, but I also think the sempron is kind of risky to get budget chips. Why? Because the Athlon XP already did this niche, the fabs were in place, working, and the mobo's were pretty commodized also (nice ones for $40-$50). Good price points for budget chips at retail. However, the Semprons make sense as AMD wants to consolodate the chip fabs to 754. . . but the prices go up.
Sort of. I disagree that anyone should need to undergo some government or coporate blessing rite to become a jouranlist.
However, he can and has been compelled to testify (I think). Now we get into some problematic issues though. Not saying this is what happened in this case, but this does set precedent, so:
What if the identity info he has is foobar@myanon.net? If he gives that, is that enough? Should we expect [rumor mills] to have verifiable Names and Addresses for sources of anything they print?
And, how would anyone know if he actually had more than the above? Or if that was truly all the info he had?
Trade secrets are contigent on the company or person who has them keeping them a secret. If that company cannot do that, well boo hoo for them.
I mean, if I break into their headquarters or their servers to get the info to publish, that's a crime. But it's a crime because of the breaking and entering. Not the publishing.
If someone tells me info, or hands me a schematic - I don't agree that I should:
a) know it's a trade secret
b) feel any obligation to protect someone else's secret
c) be liable in any way for the act of Publishing.
Also, has anyone thought that this could be a bad precednet when the blogger *doesn't know* the identity of the source? It's not hard to spoof e-mail indetities, and remailers aren't too difficult either. To the non-techinical identity online is not very concrete.
What, the right to freedom of the press? I fail to see how the founding fathers were very much different from many bloggers today aside from technology changes.
Personally I think people should be able to publish whatever they want as long as it is not becoming libel or slander (not a law student, one of those is writing).
This wasn't published to tarnish Apple's name, the information was true - what else should there be?
Trade Secrets legal protection should die - that's why there is copyright/patents. If you don't want people to know about something, the onus is on you to keep a secret! Personally I've seen too much good come from wistleblowing to have any support to clamp down on spreading rumors, or better yet the truth about what a company is doing.
Although I submit that if sufficentally motivated, an average slashdotter could find out how to solder things.
Is that enough to legally identify some computer though? I mean, there are likely 100 million computers in the USA alone, not to mention another 100 million "computer like devices" such as cellphones or Xboxes.
If you are trying to track someone who is moving around the net, wouldn't that indicate you could likely have 200 distinct devices that would look the same to this?
For the same reason MYST, then Riven, then Uru got better and more realistic graphics. Because everyone expected it. Sure you could make Wolfenstein 3D X or something with the same level graphics, but I doubt you could sell it today without some nostalgia tie in. I mean, who want's crappy graphics when we can have photorealistic graphics, no matter what kind of game we are playing.
IDK, my A64 3400+ for normal usage is around 90F or so. It's only under sustained full load that it hits 123F, and the mobo temp is still around 100F.
I only have one fan aside from the Power Supply fans.
Troll:
A rather ugly browser with slightly more features than IE?
I agree. It certainly looks like it would be difficult to see what the heck you were typing in the address bar.
And, is there anyway to get the address bar to be part of the tab window and not the browser generic UI (as the address bar is really an aspect of the page, and not the UI)?
I must say I have thankfully never encountered this as I use Opera, but where is the vaunted OSS quick fix to bugs?
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I mean, why isn't it out in 1.0.1, the first mainstream release that came out after the fix is in nightlys (IIRC anyway)???
I mean, being in nightlies is great, but that's as helpful to the average user as having bugs fixed in internal builds for propriatery software.
And using an extension like slashfix, which DOESN'T fix the code(unless I'm mistaken, it just really quickly does the zoom in/out) is like using proxomitron to fix Opera rendering bugs.
To me, I'm not seeing any of the supposed benefits of OSS right now. Why isn't there some patch you can download(that fixes the actual problem), or better yet, why isn't the official release fixed yet? This isn't something new. .
I'm not seeing the mozilla foundation behaving any differently than say Opera has on several longstanding bugs, which to me as a user who likes final releases (most users, esp corps) is just as frustrating as the GMail (Fixed, in - Opera beta for fricken ever, but STILL no final release).
Well, under that logic I'd really think a lot about using ActiveX, as most of the people who dislike flash also dislike IE.
You basically lose all greek cred if your web app doesn't work in anything but IE.
You know, this is one thing I really like Spybot's TeaTimer for, it lets you OPT OUT of any startup, browser etc ad on, IN REAL TIME as it tries to install. You can just block it. 99.99% of the time the thing you are installing, that you want finishes the install and works OK, just without running in the background or hooking into IE (which I don't use anyway, but why mess it up for when I have to?) IME.
How the heck does that work? RSS feeds to auto download shows? Please explain, or point me to info about it.
I'm ok with this as long as the DVDs are free if they have commercials in the shows. If I pay $100 for a season of some show, there had better not be any commercials interspersed in the show.
The only problem is people will just rip the DVD, edit out the commercials, and reburn + distribute on P2P.
Well, there's also the issue of that if they CAN and DO enforce copyright on the network, they become Liable for anything that slips throught, with possibly huge fines.
I'd actually like you to get started on freenet!
Is it's basic concept good but the design bad, or is the whole thing fundamentally flawed? I do have to say, I've given up on it ever working, I've never seen anything take this much time to try and get working.
What about I2P? Better/Worse? Any chance of something that works in the near future?
And does TOR work currently? It never connects for me after v0.9.2... I think it might be my school's firewall/packetshaper (why gnutella/bittorrent don't work here). Is there any way to have TOR connect out on port 80?
It's people like that that give me violent urges. I mean, we shouldn't be able to say unpopular things? Do they realise that isn't exactly popular to a large portion of society?
The reason people don't understand the rights US Citizens have is because the whole legal system is akin to code that hasn't been cleaned up or rewritten in over 200 years! It's ungodly complex, and not only that, but the rules change as people work within them through precedent.
Also, the bill of rights doesn't apply to most of government they way most people think. They only directly apply to the Federal government, the States could do what they want (until the 14th ammendment and some activist judges) and now the constitution and bill of rights selectively apply to the states . . . Meaning, not all of it, not necessarily all the time. One ammendment that doesn't is the 2nd.(At least according to the lawyer teaching my intro to criminal justice class).
Except MS is giving away their anti-spyware. Not that I trust it any given their past behavior.