How important are JavaScript times to the overall speed of rendering pages?
Try (ab)using Konqueror/KHTML as your primary/only browser for a month and you will soon get frustrated by simple things like the What You See Is What You Get on your blog software not working.
I personally do not give a damn about JavaScript performance. It matters zero to me. JS runs "fast enough" in all browsers.
It does matter a whole lot to me that the JavaScript on sites runs as expected.
I do not care if a piece of JavaScript does not work slow or fast.
It must be noted that the WebKit support in Konqueror is very limited in many ways, and this may matter more to many people than a JavaScript speedboost. It does NOT, for example, allow you to run Java applets.
http://websvn.kde.org/*checkout*/trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kdewebkit/ISSUES
My personal opinion is that all other written-for-WebKit browsers are better choices compared to Konqueror+kpart for those who want a browser with WebKit rendering at this point.
I was just reading on wikipedia last night that OpenOffice.org is a "limited" version of the office suite, and that most Linux installs (like Ubuntu) actually come with Go O-O instead because it offers full *.docx functionality that OpenOffice.org does not. Is that true?
Go O-O really is a patched version of OpenOffice.org which has more features thanks to these patches. And yes, many GNU/Linux distributions give you Go O-o when you install "OpenOffice.org". The Gentoo ebuild for app-office/openoffice is, for example, the Go O-o version. OpenOffice.org is "limited" in the sense that you can get more features by applying patches who give more features, which is a result of it being very hard to get patches into this project.
A global law against spamming with punishment of death by axe in the face for proved involvement with spam e-mail would probably frighten many spammers enough to make them stop. Just a thought.
Norway also requires you to provide your real name when buying a mobile phone GSM SIM-card, this even applies to cash-cards -- Just like China. Norway also covertly tortures people, just like China, if they talk about NATOs false-flag terrorism or other issues the government wants the population to stay quitet about.
In Sweden you can buy a pay-as-you-go SIM-card for $6 (49 SEK) with no questions asked. The only issue with these cards is that the service provider is in theory able to store what SIM card number was abused in what phone using the phones IMEI, so do remember to never use the same phone to abuse both a SIM-card with a monthly fee and subscriber data and an anonymous pay-as-you go SIM-card. Also remember to change both phone the phone and the SIM-card when they compromize your phone.
It is also possible to point a device against a building and get a nice list of all phones active in it and find out what SIM-card you are using that way, but if someone like Norwegian goverment terrorist are watching you that closely because you say something bad about NATO or something like that then you're screwed anyway and it's probably time to move to slightly more free country like Sweden.
There is a standard called SIP for Internet voicecalls and a vast number of softphone programs, and hardphones, which support it. Call me using Twinkle, Linphone, Ekiga or whatever softphone you want, they all support SIP like my wireless Siemens SIP phone and they all make my phone ring when you dial it.
Dave Airlie denies being under Red Hat mind-control in http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2010-July/001855.html
It's good to see that the Red Hat drones working on the kernel are allowed (or atleast claim) to be kernel developers first and corporate slaves second.
Why would you want to use a limited and broken protocol only implemented by one company, and which specifications aren't even published?
I use SIP and my mother uses SIP because I gave her a pre-configured hardware SIP phone and even plugged it in for her. Everyone else wants me to install Skype NOW. That's why you would want to implement the broken protocol.
Nobody but my mother calls me using SIP, even though SIP:*8967100@sip.kristinehamnk1.com is published numerous places on the Internets (don't need the after @ part if you abuse SipBroker), everyone wants me to start using Facebook & install Skype. That's what the world has come to. You don't need SIP to talk to yourself and that's about all you can do with it, if you have friends then you'll find they all use Facebook and Skype and other evil.
The Skype corporation are NOT about to let us have free GNU/Linux software withing with Skype. Their inherantly evil website states that:
What are the fees for using SkypeKit?
To get started, we will charge a nominal membership fee -- less than $20 US -- for access to the program and SkypeKit. Once a third-party product is ready for commercialization, there is an add-on fee for user experience and audio/video testing and certification, which we require to make sure products are ready and qualified for our plugged into Skype descriptor that is awarded to approved products.
They might as well have not released it for GNU/Linux at all. I am not about to install some binary blob application based on SkypeShit and pay $20 for (ab)using it. btw, SIP ftw.
Simple. You run the CPU at a higher clock speed than what it was designed for. It works, and this will give you a higher clock speed, draw more power and produce more heat. The price different really isn't that big these days and nobody really cares about overclocking anymore, but it used to be a big thing back in the day.
Last week we were running out of IPv4 and now it's BGP hijacking and next week who knows. The sky will not be falling and the Internet(s) is not going to die. I actually read the whole article and omg Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agencys Peiter Zatko claims he can take the Internet(s) down in a few hours. I say BS.
This "hijacking" happens all the time, people immediately see it and fix it and nobody notices.
I see this "We need flash so advertisements will still be flash and blockable" argument a whole lot. I have a browser profile for personal use and a profile for non-personal use (general browsing) which uses privoxy. It will still be possible to use a filtering proxy with HTML5. Perhaps a few more advertisements will get thorugh, but it will still be possible to block ads.*.* and example.com/ads/* and so on with HTML5, just like filtering proxies remove most non-flash junk today.
I don't think I've heard of a consumer connection that does over 100mbps let alone 1000mbps.
My appartement building has fiber to the basement from Telia and we can all go ahead and have a consumer 100mbps connection. Now, it must be mentioned that I only get full 100mbps downstream when downloading linux distro packages from a local univerisity mirror, you can forget downloading anywhere near max speed from overseas, but still, 100mbps really is nothing strange here in Sweden anymore. If you live in or close to a city then that's a very real option now.
My "AMD Phenom(tm) II X3 720 Processor" does not work with the fourth core enabled. This is to be expected, X3 is sometimes sold as that because the fourth core is just broken and sometimes it's just got a diabled fourth core.
I live in Sweden. The apartment building I live in got fiber to the basement last year. There are standard cat6 Ethernet cables going from there to every apartment. 10mbit is affordable, 100mbit is very expensive right now, but still.. if you are willing to pay $110/month for a 100mbit Internet connection then you can have that. If 100 megabits 10 years from now is unrealistic in the US then I feel sorry for those who live there.
It's not that hard to put "climategate" into a search-engine and find out that it's a scam. It's actually been getting colder every year the last decade. The UN "scientists" even admit that they actively falsify data and discredit those who tell the truth in leaked e-mails. "Global warming" is all about getting a global UN tax, it's got nothing to do with reality. I find it funny and sad that people seem to believe this myth due to the medias constant bombardment of "omg there will be global warming and the sky is falling and if we don't give the UN unlimited powers then the world is going to die"
Where do you get those CDs? I haven't seen those being sold anywhere since the 90s. Stores do offer something which has the same size and shape and look very similar. Too similar. I thought the last "CD" I bought was a real CD, I didn't realize it was not until I did a close-up inspection after being devastated by the fact that my CD-player refused to play the brand new "CD".
DRM does not work on some operating systems such as the one I (ab)use. It is so very strange that those who can not use legally purchased DRM content, and in most cases can't even do the legal purchase, look elsewhere.. isn't it?
I've tried both Midori and Arora and I loved using them both until they decided to crash and burn with an hour of (my) normal (ab)usage. Firefox doesn't crash, and it hasn't for many versions. Webkit may rule the web some day, but that day won't come until browsers based upon it stop crashing all day long.
flash expl0its just don't work with the free software Gnash flash player. I even submitted a bug report regarding one of them (yes, actually, it's listed at savannah). If you know C/C++ then please help hacking gnash so we free software users don't miss out on getting robbed by the apparently evil "criminal hackers".
Only the NATO alliance and then primarily it's biggest member, the USA, carries out false-flag terrorist attacks against it's own citizens using aircraft. Don't travel to the US and you're pretty much safe, stay out of the NATO alliance and you're flying with no chance of being killed by your government in a false-flag terror attack.
In Palm's case, they would never sell any phones, not because the software is Open Source but because no US carrier would let it on their network.
fixed that for ya, in EU you can buy any phone (at a higher price) and 3 pay as you go sim cards from different carriers and use whichever card you want when you want. The US is the only country I am aware of with a phone-tied-to-carrier system.
Just another example of why the industry is moving to BSD-style licenses. Face it, the GPL is dead and Stallman's socialist dream along with it.
The LGPL, notice the L, will do just fine in those cases where software authors find that the GPL is too restrictive. And the GPL does a great job at protecting real people, if some corporation has a problem with releasing their code under GPL then that is their problem. The GPL says that you can not take free code and make it non-free, I do not see the lack of being able to take freedom away as a problem. But then again, I am not a evil corporation.
I'd love to know what's going to become of all of the servers/networking gear that used to power yahoo search. Doubt they'll reformat and install windows/BING on them.
TFA story is:
Microsoft and Yahoo have finalized and executed their Web-search agreement after five months of deliberation, (..)
The servers and networking gear is already obsolete and will likely soon cause major amounts of pollution when it is burned in order to extract gold, copper, aluminum and other raw materials.
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How important are JavaScript times to the overall speed of rendering pages?
Try (ab)using Konqueror/KHTML as your primary/only browser for a month and you will soon get frustrated by simple things like the What You See Is What You Get on your blog software not working.
I personally do not give a damn about JavaScript performance. It matters zero to me. JS runs "fast enough" in all browsers.
It does matter a whole lot to me that the JavaScript on sites runs as expected.
I do not care if a piece of JavaScript does not work slow or fast.
It must be noted that the WebKit support in Konqueror is very limited in many ways, and this may matter more to many people than a JavaScript speedboost. It does NOT, for example, allow you to run Java applets. http://websvn.kde.org/*checkout*/trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kdewebkit/ISSUES
My personal opinion is that all other written-for-WebKit browsers are better choices compared to Konqueror+kpart for those who want a browser with WebKit rendering at this point.
I was just reading on wikipedia last night that OpenOffice.org is a "limited" version of the office suite, and that most Linux installs (like Ubuntu) actually come with Go O-O instead because it offers full *.docx functionality that OpenOffice.org does not. Is that true?
Go O-O really is a patched version of OpenOffice.org which has more features thanks to these patches. And yes, many GNU/Linux distributions give you Go O-o when you install "OpenOffice.org". The Gentoo ebuild for app-office/openoffice is, for example, the Go O-o version. OpenOffice.org is "limited" in the sense that you can get more features by applying patches who give more features, which is a result of it being very hard to get patches into this project.
A global law against spamming with punishment of death by axe in the face for proved involvement with spam e-mail would probably frighten many spammers enough to make them stop. Just a thought.
Norway also requires you to provide your real name when buying a mobile phone GSM SIM-card, this even applies to cash-cards -- Just like China. Norway also covertly tortures people, just like China, if they talk about NATOs false-flag terrorism or other issues the government wants the population to stay quitet about.
In Sweden you can buy a pay-as-you-go SIM-card for $6 (49 SEK) with no questions asked. The only issue with these cards is that the service provider is in theory able to store what SIM card number was abused in what phone using the phones IMEI, so do remember to never use the same phone to abuse both a SIM-card with a monthly fee and subscriber data and an anonymous pay-as-you go SIM-card. Also remember to change both phone the phone and the SIM-card when they compromize your phone.
It is also possible to point a device against a building and get a nice list of all phones active in it and find out what SIM-card you are using that way, but if someone like Norwegian goverment terrorist are watching you that closely because you say something bad about NATO or something like that then you're screwed anyway and it's probably time to move to slightly more free country like Sweden.
Name a decent alternative?
There is a standard called SIP for Internet voicecalls and a vast number of softphone programs, and hardphones, which support it. Call me using Twinkle, Linphone, Ekiga or whatever softphone you want, they all support SIP like my wireless Siemens SIP phone and they all make my phone ring when you dial it.
Dave Airlie denies being under Red Hat mind-control in http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2010-July/001855.html It's good to see that the Red Hat drones working on the kernel are allowed (or atleast claim) to be kernel developers first and corporate slaves second.
Why would you want to use a limited and broken protocol only implemented by one company, and which specifications aren't even published?
I use SIP and my mother uses SIP because I gave her a pre-configured hardware SIP phone and even plugged it in for her. Everyone else wants me to install Skype NOW. That's why you would want to implement the broken protocol.
Nobody but my mother calls me using SIP, even though SIP:*8967100@sip.kristinehamnk1.com is published numerous places on the Internets (don't need the after @ part if you abuse SipBroker), everyone wants me to start using Facebook & install Skype. That's what the world has come to. You don't need SIP to talk to yourself and that's about all you can do with it, if you have friends then you'll find they all use Facebook and Skype and other evil.
What are the fees for using SkypeKit? To get started, we will charge a nominal membership fee -- less than $20 US -- for access to the program and SkypeKit. Once a third-party product is ready for commercialization, there is an add-on fee for user experience and audio/video testing and certification, which we require to make sure products are ready and qualified for our plugged into Skype descriptor that is awarded to approved products.
They might as well have not released it for GNU/Linux at all. I am not about to install some binary blob application based on SkypeShit and pay $20 for (ab)using it. btw, SIP ftw.
Simple. You run the CPU at a higher clock speed than what it was designed for. It works, and this will give you a higher clock speed, draw more power and produce more heat. The price different really isn't that big these days and nobody really cares about overclocking anymore, but it used to be a big thing back in the day.
Last week we were running out of IPv4 and now it's BGP hijacking and next week who knows. The sky will not be falling and the Internet(s) is not going to die. I actually read the whole article and omg Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agencys Peiter Zatko claims he can take the Internet(s) down in a few hours. I say BS.
This "hijacking" happens all the time, people immediately see it and fix it and nobody notices.
I see this "We need flash so advertisements will still be flash and blockable" argument a whole lot. I have a browser profile for personal use and a profile for non-personal use (general browsing) which uses privoxy. It will still be possible to use a filtering proxy with HTML5. Perhaps a few more advertisements will get thorugh, but it will still be possible to block ads.*.* and example.com/ads/* and so on with HTML5, just like filtering proxies remove most non-flash junk today.
I don't think I've heard of a consumer connection that does over 100mbps let alone 1000mbps.
My appartement building has fiber to the basement from Telia and we can all go ahead and have a consumer 100mbps connection. Now, it must be mentioned that I only get full 100mbps downstream when downloading linux distro packages from a local univerisity mirror, you can forget downloading anywhere near max speed from overseas, but still, 100mbps really is nothing strange here in Sweden anymore. If you live in or close to a city then that's a very real option now.
My "AMD Phenom(tm) II X3 720 Processor" does not work with the fourth core enabled. This is to be expected, X3 is sometimes sold as that because the fourth core is just broken and sometimes it's just got a diabled fourth core.
I live in Sweden. The apartment building I live in got fiber to the basement last year. There are standard cat6 Ethernet cables going from there to every apartment. 10mbit is affordable, 100mbit is very expensive right now, but still.. if you are willing to pay $110/month for a 100mbit Internet connection then you can have that. If 100 megabits 10 years from now is unrealistic in the US then I feel sorry for those who live there.
It's not that hard to put "climategate" into a search-engine and find out that it's a scam. It's actually been getting colder every year the last decade. The UN "scientists" even admit that they actively falsify data and discredit those who tell the truth in leaked e-mails. "Global warming" is all about getting a global UN tax, it's got nothing to do with reality. I find it funny and sad that people seem to believe this myth due to the medias constant bombardment of "omg there will be global warming and the sky is falling and if we don't give the UN unlimited powers then the world is going to die"
Call me old fashioned, but I buy CDs
Where do you get those CDs? I haven't seen those being sold anywhere since the 90s. Stores do offer something which has the same size and shape and look very similar. Too similar. I thought the last "CD" I bought was a real CD, I didn't realize it was not until I did a close-up inspection after being devastated by the fact that my CD-player refused to play the brand new "CD".
DRM does not work on some operating systems such as the one I (ab)use. It is so very strange that those who can not use legally purchased DRM content, and in most cases can't even do the legal purchase, look elsewhere.. isn't it?
I've tried both Midori and Arora and I loved using them both until they decided to crash and burn with an hour of (my) normal (ab)usage. Firefox doesn't crash, and it hasn't for many versions. Webkit may rule the web some day, but that day won't come until browsers based upon it stop crashing all day long.
flash expl0its just don't work with the free software Gnash flash player. I even submitted a bug report regarding one of them (yes, actually, it's listed at savannah). If you know C/C++ then please help hacking gnash so we free software users don't miss out on getting robbed by the apparently evil "criminal hackers".
Only the NATO alliance and then primarily it's biggest member, the USA, carries out false-flag terrorist attacks against it's own citizens using aircraft. Don't travel to the US and you're pretty much safe, stay out of the NATO alliance and you're flying with no chance of being killed by your government in a false-flag terror attack.
There is some difference between setting a speed record once and running a regular train service which is actually used by people on a daily basis.
In Palm's case, they would never sell any phones, not because the software is Open Source but because no US carrier would let it on their network.
fixed that for ya, in EU you can buy any phone (at a higher price) and 3 pay as you go sim cards from different carriers and use whichever card you want when you want. The US is the only country I am aware of with a phone-tied-to-carrier system.
Just another example of why the industry is moving to BSD-style licenses. Face it, the GPL is dead and Stallman's socialist dream along with it.
The LGPL, notice the L, will do just fine in those cases where software authors find that the GPL is too restrictive. And the GPL does a great job at protecting real people, if some corporation has a problem with releasing their code under GPL then that is their problem. The GPL says that you can not take free code and make it non-free, I do not see the lack of being able to take freedom away as a problem. But then again, I am not a evil corporation.
I'd love to know what's going to become of all of the servers/networking gear that used to power yahoo search. Doubt they'll reformat and install windows/BING on them.
TFA story is:
Microsoft and Yahoo have finalized and executed their Web-search agreement after five months of deliberation, (..)
The servers and networking gear is already obsolete and will likely soon cause major amounts of pollution when it is burned in order to extract gold, copper, aluminum and other raw materials.