SuSe is a KDE distribution and SuSE customers want KDE.
Really? Who elected you to speak for all of SuSE customers?
I've been using SuSE for a few years now, and I really don't care which one is the main UI, KDE or GNOME, but I strongly agree with Novell that they should focus on one or the other.
It's not always hidden pranks. Sometimes map makers put fake details in to catch copyright violations when someone uses their data for their own maps.
Yippers. Those details are usually in obscure parts of the maps, like a fake street at the end of an isolated dead-end road.
The intentional bad information on Yahoo's map goes beyond that, in the name of tweaking a competitor. I wonder what else Yahoo plans to do to play a prank on google, and how will that subsequent bad information affect my usage of Yahoo.
Personally, I'd much rather the Yahoo engineers spend the time to make their servers more reliable. For the past few months I've been seeing frequent (nearly daily) server outage error messages when I try to use their message boards. Or maybe that's just another prank on google....
Microsoft just wants to assure that any privacy law is beneficial to Microsoft, and the easiest way to do that is to sponsor a federal law. That way, they only have to lobby one legislative body.
Just wait until IE7 is released with the next version of Microsoft Windows. There will be a barrage of advertisements, such as:
Tabbed browsing - it's nothing new, Internet Explorer has had it since version 7!
Browse for Sure - Internet Explorer is the only browser that can render all the websites that are written to accommodate Internet Explorer rendering bugs!
Your underlying assumption is that Microsoft's core competency is software development, however, I think that's debatable. Over the years they've demostrated that they are a better Marketing company than a software development company.
One could also debate that the core competency is legalities, i.e., pushing the limits of the law to leverage an illegal monopoly.:-)
Yes, this is really that bad. Software development is supposed to be Microsoft's core competency. That they are not knowledgeable enough to patch the root cause instead of the symptom speaks volumes of their incompetence in their supposed core competence.
The first question I'd now ask is what other symptoms have been patched which have left other vulnerabilities open for exploit via other attack vectors?
The problem is people who believe everything they read in blogs.
Now before everyone jumps all over me, there are many excellent blogs out there on the net. However, the bell curve rules, meaning that there are also some blogs that are not so good. The problem starts when the readers of the blogs are unable or unwanting to distinguish the difference.
'll be the first to admit that I don't know much about economics, but Microsoft apparently had a 24% higher profit this quarter than the same one last year, can this really be a bad result?
PC industry revenue grew at a rate of 17%. Microsoft Windows and Office revenue grew at a rate of 6%. First indication is that Microsoft may be losing marketshare.
Exactly. All this would be is a short-term pain for South Korea. In the long-term, however, it would convince companies in South Korea and elsewhere not to place strategic reliance upon a proprietary operating system that can be pulled off the market on a whim.
I have to wonder, is Microsoft's future sales of Windows starting to look so bleak that Microsoft needs to play poker with their customers? I know that yesterday's quarterly report was not the greatest, but I didn't think it was bad enough to start warranting this type of chair-throwing behavior with South Korea.
On a side note, since this news broke, if any CIO manager who is dependent upon Windows is not starting to look for strategic alternatives, that IT mangaer is not doing his or her job.
Yes, that one has been corrected, but how many others are still out there? Or will be out there in the future when it is convenient for Microsoft to do so?
If you look at the measurements that HomePower did, you will see that they used LED spotlights, and compared them to a CFL without a reflector. They did not even try to use a CFL with a reflector. No wonder their results were so good in favor of the LED lights.
HomePower said the experiment was performed to compare lights suitable for task lighting, as opposed to room lighting; then they avoid using a CFL with a reflector that is suitable for task lighting. In other words, they lit up the entire room with the CFL, but concentrated the light output of the LED bulb only onto the measuring photocell.
Makes you wonder about the results of anything else in that magazine.....
The hands down winner is the light emitting diode (LED) which makes three times more light per watt than a compact fluorescent and 30 times more than a standard incandescent.
Then you have to wonder why a research article published under the website of Vanderbilt University says of LED lights that "they are capable of producing about twice as much light per watt as incandescent bulbs".
Don't you think that a Vanderbilt University laboratory would be able to discern a 30-to-1 difference, especially since a random website on the web sees that 30-to-1 difference?
I mean, it's on the internet, homepower.com must be correct, right? The pictures in that pdf file sure do look profession and scientific.
The problem with patent-law violation reasoning is that it seems to be without regard to the future.
I would change that to:
The problem with patent-law violation reasoning is that it seems to be without regard to the unforeseeable future.
I am not concerned with businesses earning a profit for the normal course of events. However, when the normal course of events no longer applies, then I feel that the patent laws need to be relaxed.
The big question is when the normal becomes the non-normal, and who answers that question.
Looks like my skepticism was correct. A quick run through google found this
Although they are considerably more expensive than ordinary lights, they are capable of producing about twice as much light per watt as incandescent bulbs
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Really? Who elected you to speak for all of SuSE customers?
I've been using SuSE for a few years now, and I really don't care which one is the main UI, KDE or GNOME, but I strongly agree with Novell that they should focus on one or the other.
I'd still rather the Yahoo engineers concentrate on making their servers exhibit at least a modicum of reliability.
Yippers. Those details are usually in obscure parts of the maps, like a fake street at the end of an isolated dead-end road.
The intentional bad information on Yahoo's map goes beyond that, in the name of tweaking a competitor. I wonder what else Yahoo plans to do to play a prank on google, and how will that subsequent bad information affect my usage of Yahoo.
Personally, I'd much rather the Yahoo engineers spend the time to make their servers more reliable. For the past few months I've been seeing frequent (nearly daily) server outage error messages when I try to use their message boards. Or maybe that's just another prank on google....
Where else in Yahoo's new map service are there hidden pranks (a.k.a., bad information) that only the Yahoo insiders know about?
Microsoft just wants to assure that any privacy law is beneficial to Microsoft, and the easiest way to do that is to sponsor a federal law. That way, they only have to lobby one legislative body.
Tabbed browsing - it's nothing new, Internet Explorer has had it since version 7!
Browse for Sure - Internet Explorer is the only browser that can render all the websites that are written to accommodate Internet Explorer rendering bugs!
I'd much rather google's efforts be focused on run-time efficiency issues, rather than the one-time only download size.
Reducing start up time is big on my list. Very big.
One could also debate that the core competency is legalities, i.e., pushing the limits of the law to leverage an illegal monopoly. :-)
I agree with your comment.
The first question I'd now ask is what other symptoms have been patched which have left other vulnerabilities open for exploit via other attack vectors?
Now before everyone jumps all over me, there are many excellent blogs out there on the net. However, the bell curve rules, meaning that there are also some blogs that are not so good. The problem starts when the readers of the blogs are unable or unwanting to distinguish the difference.
PC industry revenue grew at a rate of 17%. Microsoft Windows and Office revenue grew at a rate of 6%. First indication is that Microsoft may be losing marketshare.
I have to wonder, is Microsoft's future sales of Windows starting to look so bleak that Microsoft needs to play poker with their customers? I know that yesterday's quarterly report was not the greatest, but I didn't think it was bad enough to start warranting this type of chair-throwing behavior with South Korea.
On a side note, since this news broke, if any CIO manager who is dependent upon Windows is not starting to look for strategic alternatives, that IT mangaer is not doing his or her job.
Is it logical to expect a writer to know how to spell or, at a minimum, know how to use a spell checker?
Yes, that one has been corrected, but how many others are still out there? Or will be out there in the future when it is convenient for Microsoft to do so?
So long as Microsoft search returns intentionally incorrect answers google will not have too much to worry about.
The Thunderbird email client also takes a loooooong time to start up.
[without Visual Studio] It's just me and the code, and for awhile, I feel like a real programmer again.
Thanks for the follow-up.
HomePower said the experiment was performed to compare lights suitable for task lighting, as opposed to room lighting; then they avoid using a CFL with a reflector that is suitable for task lighting. In other words, they lit up the entire room with the CFL, but concentrated the light output of the LED bulb only onto the measuring photocell.
Makes you wonder about the results of anything else in that magazine.....
Must be a quiet Sunday, er... Saturday, er..., whatever...
Then you have to wonder why a research article published under the website of Vanderbilt University says of LED lights that "they are capable of producing about twice as much light per watt as incandescent bulbs".
Don't you think that a Vanderbilt University laboratory would be able to discern a 30-to-1 difference, especially since a random website on the web sees that 30-to-1 difference?
I mean, it's on the internet, homepower.com must be correct, right? The pictures in that pdf file sure do look profession and scientific.
I would change that to:
The problem with patent-law violation reasoning is that it seems to be without regard to the unforeseeable future.
I am not concerned with businesses earning a profit for the normal course of events. However, when the normal course of events no longer applies, then I feel that the patent laws need to be relaxed.
The big question is when the normal becomes the non-normal, and who answers that question.
It's the only number they give. I've no reason to doubt it, other than it is lower than I would like to see.
They also say "could become", not "is", the successor to the venerable light bulb. To me that means that much work needs to be done.
One benefit of this technology over compact fluorescent bulbs is a better emission spectrum.
Although they are considerably more expensive than ordinary lights, they are capable of producing about twice as much light per watt as incandescent bulbs
That's the part that bothers me. :-)
I'd rather the wattages be stated explicitly.