IE is pretty much worthless to Microsoft, and always has been. They added it to make Windows better, in the fact that it had a browser for anybody who wanted to use it. Now that it's added, it's kinda like Disk Defragmenter. Sure, they COULD improve it loads... but why? It works. Working on it would bring down the wrath of Anti-trust people (Both cases. It would be 'using their market dominance to suppress other companies'). And in neither case would it bring in a single cent of extra revenue.
If they open sourced IE (And, to continue the analogy, Disk Defragmenter), they would gain a legion of coders who would improve the product, making the overall experience better for the end user, and at a far lower cost to themselves. Sure, it wouldn't bring in more revenue, but it'd make the customers happier...
Three Mile Island was America's worst commercial nuclear disaster ever (Note: Military Nuclear Disasters have had some worse fates). AND NOBODY DIED. Not even in the long term. Nuclear is RELATIVELY non-poluting.
All you trolls look at people driving electric cars with scorn, while the whole time increasing America's dependance on foreign oil.
I already split my time between two distributed computing projects on the same computer... Folding@home (Via the Google toolbar) and United Devices. Haven't run into any problems with it, so far.
Sharp, and enclosed. Unlike Roomba's exposed brushes... I imagine if this was built, it'd be with collision sensors design in, to stop the damn thing when it ran into something. Like a tree. Or a person. Or a pet.
You have to admit, though, that people DID seem to enjoy that Snail Treatment they gave... I shall bring it to the market under the Brand name Plah-See-Boh (I, uh... got that from the types of snails I use. Yeah. That's the ticket).
I got a gMail invite from somebody two days ago. It took a whopping 10 seconds to be delivered (I was talking to them as they sent it).
My college's e-mail can sometimes take hours, maybe days. Usually not. But it happens. With the sheer number of people using hotmail to get gMail invites, it doesn't surprise me in the slightest that some got slowed down in the aether.
I don't know about where you live, but around here my power company will actually do 'Power audits' if you ask them, and will send somebody to determine where your biggest power wastes are, and how to improve the efficiency of your home. They DON'T want you wasting electricity. It means bigger, more expensive plants to build.
Unless you're telling me Mac users also use Google less frequently (Pretty much a standard activity for ANY web-surfing computer these days), I don't buy it. Google's stats are about as close to you can get to which OS is used in what percentage by Web-surfing computers...
As a MINOR participant in one SF project, I'll gladly point out that I keep a local copy of the source. If SF went tits-up (God forbid), I'd be quite saddened, but I wouldn't blame SF if I also lost my copy of the source. It'd be MY damn fault for not taking precautions.
Sounds reasonable... my point was that the posited tenth planet was most likely Sedna, rather than a collective pull of the various Kuiper Belt bodies.
MP3 phones have only been out in America for, what, four years? I should know, as I debated between one of those and my current cell phone. (It does everything I need it to do, and quite well at that. Why update?)
Yeah. Poor Americans and our Clunky old phone tech indeed.
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Nah. The servers will get nuked in short order.
Then again, since nobody ever actually RTFA anyway, it's a moot point!
In related news, it has been discovered that the assassins of Gerald Bull was not, in fact, Mossad, but rather the Fab Five.
Another toy that I can't afford!
It wouldn't surprise me.
IE is pretty much worthless to Microsoft, and always has been. They added it to make Windows better, in the fact that it had a browser for anybody who wanted to use it. Now that it's added, it's kinda like Disk Defragmenter. Sure, they COULD improve it loads... but why? It works. Working on it would bring down the wrath of Anti-trust people (Both cases. It would be 'using their market dominance to suppress other companies'). And in neither case would it bring in a single cent of extra revenue.
If they open sourced IE (And, to continue the analogy, Disk Defragmenter), they would gain a legion of coders who would improve the product, making the overall experience better for the end user, and at a far lower cost to themselves. Sure, it wouldn't bring in more revenue, but it'd make the customers happier...
Three Mile Island was America's worst commercial nuclear disaster ever (Note: Military Nuclear Disasters have had some worse fates). AND NOBODY DIED. Not even in the long term. Nuclear is RELATIVELY non-poluting.
All you trolls look at people driving electric cars with scorn, while the whole time increasing America's dependance on foreign oil.
I hope to god you were trying to be funny.
I already split my time between two distributed computing projects on the same computer... Folding@home (Via the Google toolbar) and United Devices. Haven't run into any problems with it, so far.
Sharp, and enclosed. Unlike Roomba's exposed brushes... I imagine if this was built, it'd be with collision sensors design in, to stop the damn thing when it ran into something. Like a tree. Or a person. Or a pet.
You have to admit, though, that people DID seem to enjoy that Snail Treatment they gave... I shall bring it to the market under the Brand name Plah-See-Boh (I, uh... got that from the types of snails I use. Yeah. That's the ticket).
Except it's NOT happening. I've dealt out 3 invites to hotmail accounts, one to yahoo. I GOT one at MY hotmail account. Not a single one was filtered.
Update: Just sent two hotmail users invites. Both got 'em within minutes.
I got a gMail invite from somebody two days ago. It took a whopping 10 seconds to be delivered (I was talking to them as they sent it).
My college's e-mail can sometimes take hours, maybe days. Usually not. But it happens. With the sheer number of people using hotmail to get gMail invites, it doesn't surprise me in the slightest that some got slowed down in the aether.
I fear that to be the next "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of THESE" meme...
To be fair, it DID require them to hit the shift key... That's probably why it slowed them down a full .06 seconds!
Here comes the brigade of people complaning that they should have used the generic "Portable MP3 player" rather than "iPod"...
What about Windows users who, at work, have an Apple? I know more than a few who have that situation.
Like I said. It's AS CLOSE AS YOU CAN GET. Not perfect. Though I highly doubt there's a 7% difference like the great-great-grandparent claims...
I don't know about where you live, but around here my power company will actually do 'Power audits' if you ask them, and will send somebody to determine where your biggest power wastes are, and how to improve the efficiency of your home. They DON'T want you wasting electricity. It means bigger, more expensive plants to build.
You'd be able to imagine it properly if you had a beowulf cluster of quantum compu... oh, wait.
According to Google, 3% of the machines accesssing it's servers are Mac. 91% are Windows (Link goes to Google's Zeitgeist).
Unless you're telling me Mac users also use Google less frequently (Pretty much a standard activity for ANY web-surfing computer these days), I don't buy it. Google's stats are about as close to you can get to which OS is used in what percentage by Web-surfing computers...
As a MINOR participant in one SF project, I'll gladly point out that I keep a local copy of the source. If SF went tits-up (God forbid), I'd be quite saddened, but I wouldn't blame SF if I also lost my copy of the source. It'd be MY damn fault for not taking precautions.
Sounds reasonable... my point was that the posited tenth planet was most likely Sedna, rather than a collective pull of the various Kuiper Belt bodies.
Sedna's not a planet.
For that matter, a lot of people don't think of Pluto as a planet either.
Nope. Remember Sedna?
Not that Sedna's that big a deal. A lot of astronomers don't consider Pluto to be a true planet either...
Well... Do you need a paperweight?
Too clarify... by 'one of those' I meant "An MP3 phone", and not the specific phone model noted by the grandparent.
MP3 phones have only been out in America for, what, four years? I should know, as I debated between one of those and my current cell phone. (It does everything I need it to do, and quite well at that. Why update?)
Yeah. Poor Americans and our Clunky old phone tech indeed.