It's a 65MB install, but only a 24MB download. From TFA:
the actual size of the.NET framework to download is around 23MB, though this is still a lot of bandwidth to use up without asking. In addition, the size of the.NET framework to download can vary drastically depending on what extras you have - don't forget the service packs, SP1 is an extra 10 or so MB in size.
So once it's done its thing and installed.NET, it takes up 65MB.
They did more than take a position in the record books - they made a new record altogether. This sort of thing doesn't happen that often anymore, so it's nice to see someone trying something new as opposed to doing something old better. Congratulation!
Freakin' Kansas has lots of unpopulated areas where it's easy to land a plane on without hitting anything. If he landed anywhere else, there could have been accidents - he hadn't slept for 67 hours, his landing would've been a little rusty.
I highly doubt he managed to escape the atmosphere; he still had his momentum from the Earth moving him. When you jump, you aren't suddenly free from the Earth and fly off somewhere, do you?
they're starting to have success with automatic clustering of concepts, so that pages can match even if none of the words in your query actually appear on the page.
Even if they do bundle the anti-spyware or virus tools with Windows (which is unlikely, as people are noticing antitrust more now) it should still be good enough to allow other companies' products. For an example, look at the SP2 Firewall, which is good enough for home users but lacks a few features (extensibility, outbound connection blocking, stuff not blocked by default, etc) that allows companies like Kerio and Zone Labs to make better ones.
Downloads is a measure of popularity, just a very vague one. The download count is currently 26 887 811. Even giving or taking a few million, you cannot deny Firefox has a large user base.
Anyway, I disagree that it is more of a hype. You are speaking as though Windows is the only platform in existence - it isn't. The Fedora I am typing this from had Firefox set up as the default browser from the start. I believe Ubuntu does the same.
Also there are millions of geeks who would use Firefox (or Mozilla) over any version of IE any day. Its standards-compliantness is not coming any day soon, for one thing. I use the Web Developer extension a lot, which is something I would never trust IE with (too unsafe). I can even look at its source and verify that it properly clears my cache, something which IE has been shown to not do. And with millions of geeks backing it, it isn't going to go away soon.
You sound like someone with a serious grudge against the education system. I wonder what it is.
Leaning stuff from books and Internet is boring. Learning stuff from a teacher with other pupils can be fun. I have been reading Dive Into Python for about two months, and although I could probably complete it all in a day I am only about a third through, because I get bored and play some games instead. However, I have been doing maths for about 13 of the 16 years I have been alive, and I enjoy it. All taught by a teacher, with other people.
Not to mention you do not make any friends.
If learning from library and Internet is so good, why are schools still here?
Of course it is a fake. Even without running strings on the image (which turns up nothing by the way), Microsoft are not as stupid as to do something like this. Courts have learned about their anticompetitive methods, so doing something like this is just asking to be sued.
If Microsoft wanted to break Firefox, they'd look at the source and change the API so it doesn't work in Longhorn.
"Journey to the (Revoltionary, Evil-Hating, Cash-Crazy, and Possibly Self-Destructive) Center of Google" quoth the article headline.
Revol(u)tionary? Well, the original Google was just a very slender search engine. Nothing revolutionary, just a basic idea that people liked.
Evil-Hating? If you search for "Do no evil" you get their philosophy page. As the article states, "Evil is what Sergey says is evil", and I think they know how not to piss off their users.
Cash-Crazy? They have to be cash-crazy; they're a company, and as a company making money is their only aim. Being happy and good just seem to be side-effects for Google.
The only interesting one is "Possibly self-destructive". Skimming the article, I don't think this is what they are really saying - it says that Google has become so big that Microsoft cannot cut off their air supply à la Netscape, and the only thing that could ever possibly stop them is themselves. And by the looks of things, that does not look likely to happen any time soon.
TFA is interesting, and is quite good to read if you have the time (very long) but I was not really sure what it was getting at.
It is not answering any criticisms - there is no point in seeing the code if you cannot do anything with it. In fact, seeing the code counts against you, as I said above.
The Govt OSS Advocate should have said "But OSS software is better because everyone can see and adapt the source code". MS just says "You can see ours as well, but don't you dare try to accomplish anything with it."
Then what's the point? You cannot change it for your needs, or compile it at all; You cannot put bits of it into your own projects to make them work more efficiently; You cannot even send patches to Microsoft (not that you could compile them to see if they worked anyway). All you can do is say "yes, this is good code" or "no, this is very unsafe" about it, which doesn't get you anywhere. And you can do that from using the product anyway.
It can't be for the curious either, as many curious hackers would then be 'tainted' as people have said, and unable to continue with their own projects in case they get sued for copying Microsoft's code.
'Shared Source' must be doing something correct, otherwise it wouldn't still be here. What is it doing right?
Of course they were not based off the kilogram *originally* but if you look anywhere, you'll find their value in kilograms. I couldn't find how their original value came about.
I made the day equal in both systems, as I can't change how long the Earth takes to rotate. There are 100000 metric seconds compared to 86400 usual seconds, so the metric seconds are slightly shorter (more in a day). The missing seconds are there, just not being shown due to the limitations of JavaScript.
My friend and I tried to use metric time once. It is a lot harder than it looks (7.50 o'clock news anyone? Church mass at 3.75?) Metric time is useless if not enough numbers divide into ten. Attempts of a JavaScript clock are here if anyone is interested.
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And if you don't drink it within four minutes, spammers will hack into it, drink it for you, then display advertisements on the coaster. Drink up!
And I thought C# and .NET are less susceptible to buffer overruns... so in the end, this download makes you safer!
It's a 65MB install, but only a 24MB download. From TFA:
.NET framework to download is around 23MB, though this is still a lot of bandwidth to use up without asking. In addition, the size of the .NET framework to download can vary drastically depending on what extras you have - don't forget the service packs, SP1 is an extra 10 or so MB in size.
.NET, it takes up 65MB.
the actual size of the
So once it's done its thing and installed
It's (very) probably a windows-only piece of adware, so if you were running it under Linux (under wine) it would install in fake_windows, I guess.
They did more than take a position in the record books - they made a new record altogether. This sort of thing doesn't happen that often anymore, so it's nice to see someone trying something new as opposed to doing something old better. Congratulation!
Freakin' Kansas has lots of unpopulated areas where it's easy to land a plane on without hitting anything. If he landed anywhere else, there could have been accidents - he hadn't slept for 67 hours, his landing would've been a little rusty.
I highly doubt he managed to escape the atmosphere; he still had his momentum from the Earth moving him. When you jump, you aren't suddenly free from the Earth and fly off somewhere, do you?
I heard (on the TV, no source) that the flight completed with only "a thimbleful of fuel remaining". I guess he got lucky, just making it like that.
Appending "+" just ensures the word is seen, as Google rejects 'I' and 'from' etc. It doesn't affect things like this.
"allintext:" before everything works. Thanks to a helpful AC.
You should have used Google ;)
From the summary:
they're starting to have success with automatic clustering of concepts, so that pages can match even if none of the words in your query actually appear on the page.
From the help guide:
By default, Google only returns pages that include all of your search terms.
Which of these is correct? If it's the summary, is there any way to turn this behaviour off? I find it immensely annoying.
Even if they do bundle the anti-spyware or virus tools with Windows (which is unlikely, as people are noticing antitrust more now) it should still be good enough to allow other companies' products. For an example, look at the SP2 Firewall, which is good enough for home users but lacks a few features (extensibility, outbound connection blocking, stuff not blocked by default, etc) that allows companies like Kerio and Zone Labs to make better ones.
Fedora has the graphical boot by default (it looks a lot nicer in my opinion) but you can turn it off easily.
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You could also uninstall the rpm, I think it is called 'rhgb'.
Downloads is a measure of popularity, just a very vague one. The download count is currently 26 887 811. Even giving or taking a few million, you cannot deny Firefox has a large user base.
Anyway, I disagree that it is more of a hype. You are speaking as though Windows is the only platform in existence - it isn't. The Fedora I am typing this from had Firefox set up as the default browser from the start. I believe Ubuntu does the same.
Also there are millions of geeks who would use Firefox (or Mozilla) over any version of IE any day. Its standards-compliantness is not coming any day soon, for one thing. I use the Web Developer extension a lot, which is something I would never trust IE with (too unsafe). I can even look at its source and verify that it properly clears my cache, something which IE has been shown to not do. And with millions of geeks backing it, it isn't going to go away soon.
You sound like someone with a serious grudge against the education system. I wonder what it is.
Leaning stuff from books and Internet is boring. Learning stuff from a teacher with other pupils can be fun. I have been reading Dive Into Python for about two months, and although I could probably complete it all in a day I am only about a third through, because I get bored and play some games instead. However, I have been doing maths for about 13 of the 16 years I have been alive, and I enjoy it. All taught by a teacher, with other people.
Not to mention you do not make any friends.
If learning from library and Internet is so good, why are schools still here?
It is true! I searched, and couldn't find anything!
Of course it is a fake. Even without running strings on the image (which turns up nothing by the way), Microsoft are not as stupid as to do something like this. Courts have learned about their anticompetitive methods, so doing something like this is just asking to be sued.
If Microsoft wanted to break Firefox, they'd look at the source and change the API so it doesn't work in Longhorn.
"Journey to the (Revoltionary, Evil-Hating, Cash-Crazy, and Possibly Self-Destructive) Center of Google" quoth the article headline.
Revol(u)tionary? Well, the original Google was just a very slender search engine. Nothing revolutionary, just a basic idea that people liked.
Evil-Hating? If you search for "Do no evil" you get their philosophy page. As the article states, "Evil is what Sergey says is evil", and I think they know how not to piss off their users.
Cash-Crazy? They have to be cash-crazy; they're a company, and as a company making money is their only aim. Being happy and good just seem to be side-effects for Google.
The only interesting one is "Possibly self-destructive". Skimming the article, I don't think this is what they are really saying - it says that Google has become so big that Microsoft cannot cut off their air supply à la Netscape, and the only thing that could ever possibly stop them is themselves. And by the looks of things, that does not look likely to happen any time soon.
TFA is interesting, and is quite good to read if you have the time (very long) but I was not really sure what it was getting at.
It is not answering any criticisms - there is no point in seeing the code if you cannot do anything with it. In fact, seeing the code counts against you, as I said above.
The Govt OSS Advocate should have said "But OSS software is better because everyone can see and adapt the source code". MS just says "You can see ours as well, but don't you dare try to accomplish anything with it."
Then what's the point? You cannot change it for your needs, or compile it at all; You cannot put bits of it into your own projects to make them work more efficiently; You cannot even send patches to Microsoft (not that you could compile them to see if they worked anyway). All you can do is say "yes, this is good code" or "no, this is very unsafe" about it, which doesn't get you anywhere. And you can do that from using the product anyway.
It can't be for the curious either, as many curious hackers would then be 'tainted' as people have said, and unable to continue with their own projects in case they get sued for copying Microsoft's code.
'Shared Source' must be doing something correct, otherwise it wouldn't still be here. What is it doing right?
Of course they were not based off the kilogram *originally* but if you look anywhere, you'll find their value in kilograms. I couldn't find how their original value came about.
I made the day equal in both systems, as I can't change how long the Earth takes to rotate. There are 100000 metric seconds compared to 86400 usual seconds, so the metric seconds are slightly shorter (more in a day). The missing seconds are there, just not being shown due to the limitations of JavaScript.
My friend and I tried to use metric time once. It is a lot harder than it looks (7.50 o'clock news anyone? Church mass at 3.75?) Metric time is useless if not enough numbers divide into ten.
Attempts of a JavaScript clock are here if anyone is interested.
Sadly, both pounds and stones (and all masses thanks to the SI system) are based off kilograms.
1 pound is 453.59 grams
1 stone is 6.35 kilograms
Something like those, anyway. So going back to pounds and stones won't help you, I'm afraid.
I wish we had more stories done exactly like this one.
It'll be posted again within the next week or so, don't worry.