What the summary doesn't mention, but is worth noting, is that they were already using open source programs where possible---Firefox, Thunderbird, OOo. Now I think their migration is wonderful, but I suspect it might have been somewhat more difficult if users were asked to adjust to new programs, as well.
The only insightful comment so far, and I don't have any mod points.:(
Oh well. Yes, that is what is meant by "nothing changes but the icons".
So can we now call Linux the Allies coming to save France? I didn't want to 'call' the other side of that.....
No! No, way! You absolutely, positively are NOT going to trick me into saying that Microsoft is the Axis of Evil! Do you have any idea how fast I'd be modded down by the Microsoft fanboys? Forget it! I'm not doing it!
Some people are still in college and only have enough money to eat ramen, let alone upgrade their machines.
Sell the microwave you're using to cook the Ramen noodles and any hotplates you have and get one of the MacBook Pros with the Nvidia 9600M graphics chips in there. That way, you'll have a new computer and you'll still be able to cook your Ramen noodles on the MBP near the graphics chip!
Good point. Firefox 3.1 Beta is based on Gecko 1.9.1, which has various improvements in rendering performance, alongside compatibility with new tech such as the W3C Geolocation stuff
Yes. One of the reasons that people claimed to make the switch from Firefox starting from when it was called 'Phoenix' two name changes ago, was that it was faster than IE, even considering the added features (tabbed browsing, customizable toolbar)
Well, thanks for the vote of confidence.;) Not to pick nits, but:
the same engine as chrome, firefox and Safari
<singing voice="sessamestreet"> One of these things, just doesn't belong here. One of these things is not the same. One of these things doesn't belong here, now it's time to play our game! </singing>
GrandCentral doesn't require you to subscribe to a VoiP service, and it's free.
Well, yeah, that part is obvious.;) I'm looking to use Google Voice in place of SimulRing, but I'll still be keeping my Vonage account.
I have DSL, which requires a landline.
Your no ILECs or CLECs in your area offer DSL over dry copper pair? I had DSL over dry copper pair and it was fast. Too bad the company that offered it went out of business.:(
The phone number aggregation thing is not exactly new. If you have a Vonage account, you can already do that. Vonage calls this feature 'SimulRing'. When someone calls your Vonage phone, it will simultaneously ring up to 5 phone numbers of your choosing (home, work, cell, etc.).
What I want to know is, is GrandCentral/Google Voice better?
For example, one problem I have with SimulRing is that if my cell phone is turned off (dead battery, just turned it off, whatever), Sprint's voicemail will grab the call, preventing it from ringing into Vonage, which also means that voicemails intended for my Vonage voicemail end up in my Sprint voicemail.
Furthermore, is there any way to customize where calls get routed, which phone numbers get routed and which ones don't, etc.?
What do I do if I am already a GrandCentral user? To upgrade to Google Voice, sign in to your GrandCentral account and follow the instructions at the top of your inbox.
Well, I'd have to access what version of IE you're using on what version of Windows and what's the rest of your config look like. Because in my experience, with no plugins or other addons installed on either browser and starting from a clean start, with the default configs for each browser, IE6 starts faster on Windows XP. IE8 seems atrociously slow to start on XP, although I've not measured its performance on a tuned Vista configuration.
IE always has been faster. And I'm a firefox fanboy. Even with the bulk of add-ons stripped out, FF is still sluggish. IE is practically part of the OS, and that's a competitive advantage that FF can't beat. It just beats IE in every category other than speed.
No. On Windows, IE starts faster than Firefox, much the same way Safari starts faster on Mac OS X (big surprise). However, even on Windows, the latest versions of Firefox beat IE in rendering and Javascript performance benchmarks.
Sounds like Microsoft has been taking lessons from the NVidia and ATI/AMD School of Benchmarking. Lesson one at that school: pick some subset of data and "optimize" your benchmarks until they make your product look faster.
Well, okay, but here's the simple fact: DHS pulls aside for additional questioning or searches fewer than 10% of all passengers. If you don't want to be searched or questioned, simply don't give them a reason to do so.
In this case, there is plenty you can to alter your body odor. For example, wear a body powder containing baking soda. Baking soda absorbs odors, thereby giving them less odor to measure.
There are so many political, social, economic, environmental and safety concerns with a space elevator, along with the fact that in order to build one, we'd need some pretty big advances in engineering and manufacturing to make one: I don't know, I just don't see us building a space elevator anytime soon.
It seems to me that courts have a history of not ruling on issues that they feel might not be substantive to the case at hand. For instance, his privacy rights as relating to the First Amendment or the procedural problems with ex parte requests themselves might cause the 2nd Court to ignore the scope of copyright as insubstantial to the case at hand.
Do you think there's any chance at all the 2nd Circuit Appeals court will actually rule on some of the other issues at hand, such as the scope of the distribution right in copyright law?
For example, I personally think the RIAA's interpretation of the law being that every copy is a distribution is really very harmful to fair use. IMHO, if I purchase content, then it is my right to convert that content to any convenient medium of my choosing -- IOW, if I buy a CD at a music store, then I also believe that I have the right to rip that CD so that I can listen to it on my portable MP3 player. Seems like the recording industry would beg to differ.
And that only scratches the surface of the scope problems. Can I loan my CD to a friend? What if the friend wants to rip it to listen on his MP3 player?
To my knowledge, mone of these issues have ever been substantially resolved in court.
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Actually, it's a reference the Virgin Mary, for whom the color blue is sacred.
What the summary doesn't mention, but is worth noting, is that they were already using open source programs where possible---Firefox, Thunderbird, OOo. Now I think their migration is wonderful, but I suspect it might have been somewhat more difficult if users were asked to adjust to new programs, as well.
The only insightful comment so far, and I don't have any mod points. :(
Oh well. Yes, that is what is meant by "nothing changes but the icons".
So can we now call Linux the Allies coming to save France? I didn't want to 'call' the other side of that.....
No! No, way! You absolutely, positively are NOT going to trick me into saying that Microsoft is the Axis of Evil! Do you have any idea how fast I'd be modded down by the Microsoft fanboys? Forget it! I'm not doing it!
Jesus Christ! Windows was killing millions of people in France?!?!
Why do you think they call it the 'Blue Screen of Death'?
Nothing at all. What's the incentive for people to use an OS from an manufacturer who deems them worthy of crapware?
Masochism.
Some people are still in college and only have enough money to eat ramen, let alone upgrade their machines.
Sell the microwave you're using to cook the Ramen noodles and any hotplates you have and get one of the MacBook Pros with the Nvidia 9600M graphics chips in there. That way, you'll have a new computer and you'll still be able to cook your Ramen noodles on the MBP near the graphics chip!
Good point. Firefox 3.1 Beta is based on Gecko 1.9.1, which has various improvements in rendering performance, alongside compatibility with new tech such as the W3C Geolocation stuff
Yes. One of the reasons that people claimed to make the switch from Firefox starting from when it was called 'Phoenix' two name changes ago, was that it was faster than IE, even considering the added features (tabbed browsing, customizable toolbar)
Well, thanks for the vote of confidence. ;) Not to pick nits, but:
the same engine as chrome, firefox and Safari
<singing voice="sessamestreet">
One of these things, just doesn't belong here. One of these things is not the same. One of these things doesn't belong here, now it's time to play our game!
</singing>
(Hint: Firefox is based on Gecko.)
GrandCentral doesn't require you to subscribe to a VoiP service, and it's free.
Well, yeah, that part is obvious. ;) I'm looking to use Google Voice in place of SimulRing, but I'll still be keeping my Vonage account.
I have DSL, which requires a landline.
Your no ILECs or CLECs in your area offer DSL over dry copper pair? I had DSL over dry copper pair and it was fast. Too bad the company that offered it went out of business. :(
Pffft. Amateur. I run FF typically for a week or more at a time. Sometimes with hundreds of pages open.
Must be nice having a system with 32 GB of RAM. ;)
The phone number aggregation thing is not exactly new. If you have a Vonage account, you can already do that. Vonage calls this feature 'SimulRing'. When someone calls your Vonage phone, it will simultaneously ring up to 5 phone numbers of your choosing (home, work, cell, etc.).
What I want to know is, is GrandCentral/Google Voice better?
For example, one problem I have with SimulRing is that if my cell phone is turned off (dead battery, just turned it off, whatever), Sprint's voicemail will grab the call, preventing it from ringing into Vonage, which also means that voicemails intended for my Vonage voicemail end up in my Sprint voicemail.
Furthermore, is there any way to customize where calls get routed, which phone numbers get routed and which ones don't, etc.?
No need to wait:
Or aget. They're both extremely similar.
Well, I'd have to access what version of IE you're using on what version of Windows and what's the rest of your config look like. Because in my experience, with no plugins or other addons installed on either browser and starting from a clean start, with the default configs for each browser, IE6 starts faster on Windows XP. IE8 seems atrociously slow to start on XP, although I've not measured its performance on a tuned Vista configuration.
IE always has been faster. And I'm a firefox fanboy. Even with the bulk of add-ons stripped out, FF is still sluggish. IE is practically part of the OS, and that's a competitive advantage that FF can't beat. It just beats IE in every category other than speed.
No. On Windows, IE starts faster than Firefox, much the same way Safari starts faster on Mac OS X (big surprise). However, even on Windows, the latest versions of Firefox beat IE in rendering and Javascript performance benchmarks.
Sounds like Microsoft has been taking lessons from the NVidia and ATI/AMD School of Benchmarking. Lesson one at that school: pick some subset of data and "optimize" your benchmarks until they make your product look faster.
Our government has always paid for pseudoscience. See polygraph, particularly the section on reliability of such.
99999 - "*I* *did* *not* *have* sexual relations with *that* *woman*!"
Well, okay, but here's the simple fact: DHS pulls aside for additional questioning or searches fewer than 10% of all passengers. If you don't want to be searched or questioned, simply don't give them a reason to do so.
In this case, there is plenty you can to alter your body odor. For example, wear a body powder containing baking soda. Baking soda absorbs odors, thereby giving them less odor to measure.
Or hold it hostage. For *pinky raised to mouth* 1 Billion dollars! I'll use raptors -- with friggin' LASERS attached their heads!
The space shuttle isn't even 30 years old yet. They still fly airline jets older than that.
There are so many political, social, economic, environmental and safety concerns with a space elevator, along with the fact that in order to build one, we'd need some pretty big advances in engineering and manufacturing to make one: I don't know, I just don't see us building a space elevator anytime soon.
It seems to me that courts have a history of not ruling on issues that they feel might not be substantive to the case at hand. For instance, his privacy rights as relating to the First Amendment or the procedural problems with ex parte requests themselves might cause the 2nd Court to ignore the scope of copyright as insubstantial to the case at hand.
Do you think there's any chance at all the 2nd Circuit Appeals court will actually rule on some of the other issues at hand, such as the scope of the distribution right in copyright law?
For example, I personally think the RIAA's interpretation of the law being that every copy is a distribution is really very harmful to fair use. IMHO, if I purchase content, then it is my right to convert that content to any convenient medium of my choosing -- IOW, if I buy a CD at a music store, then I also believe that I have the right to rip that CD so that I can listen to it on my portable MP3 player. Seems like the recording industry would beg to differ.
And that only scratches the surface of the scope problems. Can I loan my CD to a friend? What if the friend wants to rip it to listen on his MP3 player?
To my knowledge, mone of these issues have ever been substantially resolved in court.
Mod parent up. Listen to a CD with a slower/softer violin solo on it. You can actually hear the aliasing.