I have to say I have installed FF on more than a few computers for friends. They almost always try it out of curiosity, but I often find them back using explorer again. Mostly, because they are familiar with MS layouts and they aren't into diddling with software as a hobby. Especially true with people my parents age. They don't like different.
I try to use FF, but if I have a complaint, it is not the memory thing (got lots of that), but it is that often FF just seems to stops loading pages and I have to restart it. I think it is more of an adblock thing, but that is speculation on my part. It could also be the plethora of badly coded sites out there.
The numbers are probably accurate. Not even Mozilla is disputing them.
I would be after the markets too. Also video, audio and whatever else I could get at. Some plans will pan out and some won't, but it is irresponsible (as far as the company goes) to not try to dominate such markets. It' about the money. Last time I checked, Adobe was not a registered charity.
What pisses us off most is that for a lot of computing, MS has suceeded.
It is good, but it is just a peek into what I think the scene will be like in three or four years. I hope the project grows and thrives. There are hacking tools now, but they will get much better and extend across all phones.
that cell phone hacking will be the next big wave. Of course, this will start a whole new round of DCMA shenanigans and the chase will be on between the phone companies and their customers.
Bad consumer, bad!!
Really, in the end, all the article says is that Mac OSX is great if you want the prepackaged experience, and that Linux (Ubuntu) is great if you like to tinker and completely personalize your machine. So... 10 pages to say what everybody already knew.
I think we have to acknowledge once and for all that for too many companies the purpose of a patent is to hide in a blind and wait for someone who has brains to make a go of something similar enough and resources to sue rather than make a product of their own.
I can see to this thing is that it will sell like hotcakes and spur copycats, which all really will be disposable items. If they bust in service, most will be landfilled as not worth fixing and most of the guts are toxic.
If you consider that AMD owns ATI and that AMD needs (considering how they have been hemorrhaging money) Dell to buy their CPUs, Dell just may be able to get what the Linux community has been asking wanted for quite a while.
While Dell doesn't have a lot of fans on Slashdot, they may also be able to get a lot more hardware supported as well.
As XP is the dominant OS out there, I point out that Vista so far is selling better than XP at the same point into XP's life. XP also had most of the same complaints now leveled at vista. I suspect by the time windows 7 (with the inevitiable delays) comes out, most will have an attitude of I'll buy 7 when you pry vista out of my cold dead hands.
Otherwise, kids might think it is okay to swear, and think of the chaos if the curse word is accompanied by a nipple. Surely we can't have this as it will lead to all kinds of promiscuity etc.
Catastrophe!
Better the kids see people getting their legs etc blown off. It's good clean wholesome fun that will prepare them for living in the modern world.
If this is the start of a run of viruses attacking macs, it's not funny or good for pc users. It shows an increasing skill in virus writers that indicates that in the future, every machine (even linux boxes) will need security and anti-virus software. And if the virus writers get good enough, that software won't be much of a comfort
Nintendo wants to tap into the casual market for the same reason nVidia and AMD (ATI) make all those low and mid range video cards. You make a heckuva lot more money and get your product into more people's hand.
And a necessity in modern society. If you want to give a biological imperative, I think it would be the opposite. We are wired to be communal. Humans are social beings, pack animals as it were... we banded together, lived together, fought together etc so we wouldn't be eaten by the bigger, faster and stronger. In modern society we have to pursue privacy. Desmond Morris in the Human Animal explained it better than I, but one of the things is that is it very hard for one human to ignore another human. We have to work at it. Cities force us to seek anonymity, otherwise we would be overwhelmed acknowledging each other.
That said, one of the aspects of living in a polite society is that we work to respect each other's privacy. That is why, in my opinion, that violations of privacy, especially by people we don't know, is offensive to us.
People think the PS3 is trash or the best thing ever, it is plain that the Sony braintrust has to do a serious rethink as to their marketing, packaging, partnerships and PR in regards to their console. A $100 price drop isn't going to help their cause much. They gave Nintendo a lesson back in PS1 vs N64 days, a lesson they seem to have forgotten.
That the "experts" think methods like these (filtering) work when it comes to stopping and slowing piracy when history shows that they do not. In fact, pretty much any shutdown/slowdown ever achieved created or accelerated development of newer, stealthier, more robust methods of piracy and distribution. At best it seems a scam to sell filtering software.
HDTV penetration has to be much higher in all markets. VHS and Beta both worked on all TV's made at the time. These only work on HDTVs (to get any benefit from the formats). The majority of TVs out there are still SD.
Likely by the time HDTV penetration is high enough, another format will emerge, or hybrid players will be very common.
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I have to say I have installed FF on more than a few computers for friends. They almost always try it out of curiosity, but I often find them back using explorer again. Mostly, because they are familiar with MS layouts and they aren't into diddling with software as a hobby. Especially true with people my parents age. They don't like different.
I try to use FF, but if I have a complaint, it is not the memory thing (got lots of that), but it is that often FF just seems to stops loading pages and I have to restart it. I think it is more of an adblock thing, but that is speculation on my part. It could also be the plethora of badly coded sites out there.
The numbers are probably accurate. Not even Mozilla is disputing them.
I would be after the markets too. Also video, audio and whatever else I could get at. Some plans will pan out and some won't, but it is irresponsible (as far as the company goes) to not try to dominate such markets. It' about the money. Last time I checked, Adobe was not a registered charity.
What pisses us off most is that for a lot of computing, MS has suceeded.
It is good, but it is just a peek into what I think the scene will be like in three or four years. I hope the project grows and thrives. There are hacking tools now, but they will get much better and extend across all phones.
that cell phone hacking will be the next big wave. Of course, this will start a whole new round of DCMA shenanigans and the chase will be on between the phone companies and their customers. Bad consumer, bad!!
The guy is jerking your chain, but:
hypothesis = what or may not be, speculation
theory = how something works
Not the same thing. Or as other put it, you use that word but I think you do not know what it means. Tired of the misuse of the word
Really, in the end, all the article says is that Mac OSX is great if you want the prepackaged experience, and that Linux (Ubuntu) is great if you like to tinker and completely personalize your machine. So... 10 pages to say what everybody already knew.
I think we have to acknowledge once and for all that for too many companies the purpose of a patent is to hide in a blind and wait for someone who has brains to make a go of something similar enough and resources to sue rather than make a product of their own.
It is sheer parasitism.
I can see to this thing is that it will sell like hotcakes and spur copycats, which all really will be disposable items. If they bust in service, most will be landfilled as not worth fixing and most of the guts are toxic.
EA exec says "D'oh!"
Seriously, even Nintendo didn't plan for the Wii's level of sell-through
If you consider that AMD owns ATI and that AMD needs (considering how they have been hemorrhaging money) Dell to buy their CPUs, Dell just may be able to get what the Linux community has been asking wanted for quite a while.
While Dell doesn't have a lot of fans on Slashdot, they may also be able to get a lot more hardware supported as well.
Strange bedfellows, but...
As XP is the dominant OS out there, I point out that Vista so far is selling better than XP at the same point into XP's life. XP also had most of the same complaints now leveled at vista. I suspect by the time windows 7 (with the inevitiable delays) comes out, most will have an attitude of I'll buy 7 when you pry vista out of my cold dead hands.
Otherwise, kids might think it is okay to swear, and think of the chaos if the curse word is accompanied by a nipple. Surely we can't have this as it will lead to all kinds of promiscuity etc. Catastrophe! Better the kids see people getting their legs etc blown off. It's good clean wholesome fun that will prepare them for living in the modern world.
It's cheap and it will minimize thrashing on your hard drive. Perhaps it will make it last a little longer.
Actually, for the speed it operates at and amount of use, the hard drive is probably one of the most reliable things in a computer.
If this is the start of a run of viruses attacking macs, it's not funny or good for pc users. It shows an increasing skill in virus writers that indicates that in the future, every machine (even linux boxes) will need security and anti-virus software. And if the virus writers get good enough, that software won't be much of a comfort
Because it take no courage to do something you are not afraid of doing (or saying)...
Nintendo wants to tap into the casual market for the same reason nVidia and AMD (ATI) make all those low and mid range video cards. You make a heckuva lot more money and get your product into more people's hand.
It smells like self-interest. Could it be that AT&T sees a chance to gouge consumers potentially fleeing?
And a necessity in modern society. If you want to give a biological imperative, I think it would be the opposite. We are wired to be communal. Humans are social beings, pack animals as it were... we banded together, lived together, fought together etc so we wouldn't be eaten by the bigger, faster and stronger. In modern society we have to pursue privacy. Desmond Morris in the Human Animal explained it better than I, but one of the things is that is it very hard for one human to ignore another human. We have to work at it. Cities force us to seek anonymity, otherwise we would be overwhelmed acknowledging each other.
That said, one of the aspects of living in a polite society is that we work to respect each other's privacy. That is why, in my opinion, that violations of privacy, especially by people we don't know, is offensive to us.
Have the urge to go take a leak?
People think the PS3 is trash or the best thing ever, it is plain that the Sony braintrust has to do a serious rethink as to their marketing, packaging, partnerships and PR in regards to their console. A $100 price drop isn't going to help their cause much. They gave Nintendo a lesson back in PS1 vs N64 days, a lesson they seem to have forgotten.
That the "experts" think methods like these (filtering) work when it comes to stopping and slowing piracy when history shows that they do not. In fact, pretty much any shutdown/slowdown ever achieved created or accelerated development of newer, stealthier, more robust methods of piracy and distribution. At best it seems a scam to sell filtering software.
Yeah, you're outmoded and stubborn. I bet you read books printed on paper too
SDTVs can only do 480i.
That's a drop in the bucket. World wide figures: 1,416,338,245 televisions.
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http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/med_tel-media-t
HDTV penetration has to be much higher in all markets. VHS and Beta both worked on all TV's made at the time. These only work on HDTVs (to get any benefit from the formats). The majority of TVs out there are still SD. Likely by the time HDTV penetration is high enough, another format will emerge, or hybrid players will be very common.