...thats just exclusive reporting, not a lack of bias. To report that Microsoft find the fine unjust is to report that they have been fined. Good for MSNBC.
They don't have to open the OS to avoid the fines, just provide a bundle of information on it to keep the EU happy. I doubt even after this bundle is delivered it'll be enough
If what you're saying is true this is most likely because extensions by their nature need to be able to manipulate UI data structures such as UI javascript and XUL. I suspect making that process entirely thread safe is anything but trivial or could be even accomplished without co-operation from extension writers, making the API far more complex.
Now i've never looked at the Firefox code but I have done multithreaded programming and I suspect that might just stifle the great selection of extensions users currently enjoy a bit.
Actually there was a screenshot on OSNews a few days to a week ago of a full Gnome desktop utilising only 50MB of RAM (according to Gnome System Monitor). Here is the screenshot and the full review of Arch Linux it belongs to...it's a little baffling.
..yep, thats why I said "plan to". These organised finance managing types have plans you know, unlike the rest of us who like to buy shiney things and think about it later.
Gnumeric (spreadsheets), Abiword (word processing) and GnuCash (financing) are all excellent programs that the Gnome project collectively call Gnome Office. Anyone know if this is co-operative in any manner?..good 'competition' to Open Office, even if they are not in the same class. It'd be great if these apps had a certain level of integration, although I can't think in what way off the top of my head.
Most of, and all of the best, 'Linux software' is available on Win32. Ports are made much more likely by open sourced code. So I think you made a bad assumption there:P
The problem is, in this universe things with potential tend to dump their energy into places of a lower potential, like how a hot substance will always warm cooler surroundings. I suspect working against that natural flow to transport zero-point energy somewhere which, by definition is going to have a higher energy potential, is probably going to require more energy to function than you get out of the procedure.
If the vacuum of space was a big battery waiting to be tapped I think something would have naturally exploited it by now and we'd have come across some bastard hogging all this energy and flogging it to us with an obscene markup...
Perhaps they need to add a prompt for the first-time user that says "Hey! Not digging our curves? Checkout the communities wide selection of Opera skins!"
...nuff said, the theme engine in Opera is very capable at hiding most of the QT ugliness for GTK users (especially those on AMD64 who have even more problems with GTK/QT matching) but it leaves out all the menu's (menubar and right click popup menus).
Obviously Opera can't recode the whole thing in GTK, but perhaps if possible they could extend Opera's existing themeing engine to incorporate the menu's so Linux distro's can produce Gnome friendly themes.
This may seem nitpicky, but Firefox manages to look good on both Gnome and KDE without being tied to a single toolkit.
BTW check out NSpluginwrapper - 32bit plugins in 64bit browser....the latest version of which is very stable, the only glitches left are things like YouTube videos not working (Google video seems to work for me but crashes when I resize the window)
...it's the equivalent of giving the local police a copy of your house keys. It could and would be abused by some dirty coppers, their partners in crime or anyone who can get access to them. Would you trust the police to keep your house safe? Do you trust the FBI to keep your network safe?
The right for law enforcement agencies to access this data is not what is dubious, it's the backdoors being in place at all which has extra security implications and the fact they have to be protected to a certain extent from those who ARE NOT legitimate law enforcement agents.
Linux NTFS write support is further along than you realise, unfortunately the developers are dragging their heals a bit. To quote Anton Altaparmakov of the Linux NTFS project:
New version. Written from scratch. Does full B+tree addition operations. I created tens of thousands of files today and not one corruption. (-:
But before you get excited: You will have to wait till next summer to see the code. Sorry. My hope is to give the world full read-write, open source, kernel NTFS driver on both OSX and Linux by the time the next major Mac OSX release is released (it should be in the next OSX major release).
In theory yes, but just like the shared hosting deals about offering the likes of 20GB of storage, a terabyte of bandwidth and a plethora of features all for $7 a month (yes, Dreamhost) you would have to convince the customer they're better off spending their pittance on a 'smaller' package (a virtual server instead of a dedi). How do you convince somebody that going with a virtual server is worthwhile when more generous shared hosting and quite low dedicated server prices are pushing from both sides?
At the moment virtualised 'mini servers' seem to still be mostly targeting people wanting to step-up from shared 'prey the resources are there when you want them' hosting, not those with a dedi's looking for better value for their money. Some providers try to push virtual servers onto customers who have outgrown their shared hosting account, but I doubt you'd find those same providers approaching their dedicated server customers and saying "Hey, you're really not using the resources you have, you could save some cash by downscaling to a virtual server. Interested?"
On top of this,I would wager squeezing hundreds of customers onto a shared server for $7/month still beats sticking 4-32 virtualised customers on a single server in terms profitability (Yes, sure, you have to deal with the top few percentile who are outgrowing the system to keep everyone happy).
This is just my viewpoint from a consumer, but it seems to me the gap between shared and dedicated hosting is somewhat awkward to sell.
Why would you need to load balance virtual machines? One of the biggest advantages of Xen is they allow you to strictly control, guarentee and slice up resources. The only time you would want to move one to another host is if the customer wants to upgrade?
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...thats just exclusive reporting, not a lack of bias. To report that Microsoft find the fine unjust is to report that they have been fined. Good for MSNBC.
...next they'll be fining car manufacturers for selling cars with a specific brand of stereo/sound system and being anti-competitive.
They don't have to open the OS to avoid the fines, just provide a bundle of information on it to keep the EU happy. I doubt even after this bundle is delivered it'll be enough
link?
Neatness is irrelevent, but the validity of the HTML is pretty close to the mark.
IE 7 comes out, hmm better update, something important, good God!, never trusting version numbers again...
Maybe there will be a compile time option for it? Good for gentoo users
If what you're saying is true this is most likely because extensions by their nature need to be able to manipulate UI data structures such as UI javascript and XUL. I suspect making that process entirely thread safe is anything but trivial or could be even accomplished without co-operation from extension writers, making the API far more complex.
Now i've never looked at the Firefox code but I have done multithreaded programming and I suspect that might just stifle the great selection of extensions users currently enjoy a bit.
Actually there was a screenshot on OSNews a few days to a week ago of a full Gnome desktop utilising only 50MB of RAM (according to Gnome System Monitor). Here is the screenshot and the full review of Arch Linux it belongs to ...it's a little baffling.
...X forwarding forwards what you see on screen and events, how the hell is that effected by host side software?
..yep, thats why I said "plan to". These organised finance managing types have plans you know, unlike the rest of us who like to buy shiney things and think about it later.
Gnumeric (spreadsheets), Abiword (word processing) and GnuCash (financing) are all excellent programs that the Gnome project collectively call Gnome Office. Anyone know if this is co-operative in any manner? ..good 'competition' to Open Office, even if they are not in the same class. It'd be great if these apps had a certain level of integration, although I can't think in what way off the top of my head.
...unless of course you plan to use it on Windows.
:P
Most of, and all of the best, 'Linux software' is available on Win32. Ports are made much more likely by open sourced code. So I think you made a bad assumption there
The problem is, in this universe things with potential tend to dump their energy into places of a lower potential, like how a hot substance will always warm cooler surroundings. I suspect working against that natural flow to transport zero-point energy somewhere which, by definition is going to have a higher energy potential, is probably going to require more energy to function than you get out of the procedure.
If the vacuum of space was a big battery waiting to be tapped I think something would have naturally exploited it by now and we'd have come across some bastard hogging all this energy and flogging it to us with an obscene markup...
Yeah, because FreeBSD's logo is so damn cool...no wait it's not it's just a shiney round thing. It sucks
The FreeBSD project should have given the daemon a redraw and a hip new 2000's look, instead they have a shiney..thing.
Perhaps they need to add a prompt for the first-time user that says "Hey! Not digging our curves? Checkout the communities wide selection of Opera skins!"
I think what you're basically proposing is support for Dijjer. I can actually see that working well for Opera
...nuff said, the theme engine in Opera is very capable at hiding most of the QT ugliness for GTK users (especially those on AMD64 who have even more problems with GTK/QT matching) but it leaves out all the menu's (menubar and right click popup menus).
Obviously Opera can't recode the whole thing in GTK, but perhaps if possible they could extend Opera's existing themeing engine to incorporate the menu's so Linux distro's can produce Gnome friendly themes.
This may seem nitpicky, but Firefox manages to look good on both Gnome and KDE without being tied to a single toolkit.
BTW check out NSpluginwrapper - 32bit plugins in 64bit browser. ...the latest version of which is very stable, the only glitches left are things like YouTube videos not working (Google video seems to work for me but crashes when I resize the window)
...it's the equivalent of giving the local police a copy of your house keys. It could and would be abused by some dirty coppers, their partners in crime or anyone who can get access to them. Would you trust the police to keep your house safe? Do you trust the FBI to keep your network safe?
The right for law enforcement agencies to access this data is not what is dubious, it's the backdoors being in place at all which has extra security implications and the fact they have to be protected to a certain extent from those who ARE NOT legitimate law enforcement agents.
I should add when I said dragging heals I meant "taking their time and proceeding with care". I mean no criticism of Anton.
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In theory yes, but just like the shared hosting deals about offering the likes of 20GB of storage, a terabyte of bandwidth and a plethora of features all for $7 a month (yes, Dreamhost) you would have to convince the customer they're better off spending their pittance on a 'smaller' package (a virtual server instead of a dedi). How do you convince somebody that going with a virtual server is worthwhile when more generous shared hosting and quite low dedicated server prices are pushing from both sides?
At the moment virtualised 'mini servers' seem to still be mostly targeting people wanting to step-up from shared 'prey the resources are there when you want them' hosting, not those with a dedi's looking for better value for their money. Some providers try to push virtual servers onto customers who have outgrown their shared hosting account, but I doubt you'd find those same providers approaching their dedicated server customers and saying "Hey, you're really not using the resources you have, you could save some cash by downscaling to a virtual server. Interested?"
On top of this,I would wager squeezing hundreds of customers onto a shared server for $7/month still beats sticking 4-32 virtualised customers on a single server in terms profitability (Yes, sure, you have to deal with the top few percentile who are outgrowing the system to keep everyone happy).
This is just my viewpoint from a consumer, but it seems to me the gap between shared and dedicated hosting is somewhat awkward to sell.
Why would you need to load balance virtual machines? One of the biggest advantages of Xen is they allow you to strictly control, guarentee and slice up resources. The only time you would want to move one to another host is if the customer wants to upgrade?