They'd be stealing market share, people would be more willing to host on Windows boxes over linux boxes if the performance was comparable/better. Right now the performance isn't as good as a linux box.
Leave it running for more than a day. I don't have any plugins installed and it will eat over 500 MB of RAM with less than 10 tabs opened. They don't even have to be intensive (gmail / school webmail / google news / slashdot / digg / slashdot / etc ). The machine can take it - modern dual core with 2 gigs of RAM - but still, the browser shouldn't need 500 megs of RAM to do that, theres a flaw somewhere in the design.
What politicians and the general public should not accept is if NASA were to lie to their employees about the risks of what they do. Frankly, I don't think it's possible to convince well-educated engineers, scientists, and pilots working in a field where several percent of their colleagues have died on the job that there are not significant risks to their job.
Agree. I have several friends in NASA and there is no misconception of the dangers involved. But the motivations from the 60's are not there anymore, like I said, so more precautions are made.
And a nitpick, the examples you cited are personal choices, mostly hobbies. Spaceflight (NASA) is a government agency. Now the astronauts are volunteers (a personal choice) but the endeavor is sanctioned and those politicians have to vote each year on the budget to keep spaceflight alive. That is the succinct difference here.
For the 20-30 pages I visit regularly, I haven't noticed a rendering difference between IE7 and Firefox.
I suspect the same holds for 80% of the internet population. The 80/20 rule.
So why would the 80% try out a "slower" browser? And before you say Mozilla doesn't care about the 80%... they do, they are a corporation complete with a board of directors and chairman.
50 years ago we were fighting for dominance over the russians. Now we are just exploring space. Human lives can be lost in the fight for dominance over another country (see: war) but for the peaceful pursuit of space? Politicians and the general public say no.
Some of us have a wife and kids, a full time job, working on a masters/Ph. D, other commitments outside the daily grind. We don't have time to sit down and scrutinize every bit that enters our computers (I could - I'm a compotent programmer. That's not the point.). If I choose to download something I trust the developer. I have a level enough head on my shoulder to figure out what looks fishy and what doesn't. And if, for some reason, something bad does happen? Takes but 10 minutes to reimage a drive. Big deal.
That being said the primary machine at home for gaming/surfing is a windows box. Between me, my wife and my kids I don't think I've had to reformat it since it was built.
We almost used them for our first son, but we still lived in an apartment so the cost of doing them in a laundromat outweighed the cost savings of cloth over diapers. Now that we have a house and our own place we are seriously considering cloth diapers for kid #2. You wouldn't believe how much money you can save. $20 for a few weeks worth of diapers (and we purchase the cheap, Sam's Club, knockoff diapers in the 200 packs), versus 2 extra loads of laundry a week? You have to be kidding me, the cloth diapers FTW.
When you make people pony up for instant access to ads?
When people want to watch them as badly as they seem to want to. Normally advertisements are a parasitic thing. Apparently this is more than just your run-of-the-mill ad (as Tycho concedes himself)
I make over 50k a year and pay just under 25% of my paycheck to taxes/health insurance/401k/etc. I will also get a good double-digit percentage of that back on my tax return next year (I didn't set my allocations up properly... and we had a child and purchased a house. There are lots of ways in the US to mitigate taxes and build wealth.)
Parent made the point of how "its interesting that Americans find happiness in wealth"... I wouldn't say that, what I would say however is that money is a freedom, the freedom to pursue things.
I'm a long time EQ player and I only have half the expansions. I got in on most of the betas (or a friend did) and if I didn't like where it was going, I didn't purchase it. Simple as that. If you don't have the balls to hang on to your $30 over a game you don't need then you have problems. Not getting a new expansion doesn't stop you from doing what you were already doing.
The year was like, 1997 (I know, I was trying to teach myself in high school). We were all still in dialup. That was half the problem right there. The other problem is the language isn't that great. VRML proved nothing, it was before its time. Ubiquitous broadband, faster computers with hardware acceleration, we are now at the point in time where if 3D makes sense as an online platform, said platform will emerge.
Probably not, when you are editing 2D images or text which is inherantly 2 dimensional. But think beyond making pictures and text and yeah, it is out there.
so why should it for online applications
Because a lot of us are interested in things that aren't pictures and text. Simple example, a DNA molecule marked up in VRML (although, I hope to God they come up with a better markup language, I learned VRML in high school and yea, it isn't pretty) with metadata (text, images) drawn from the web (our current internet). That would make excellent use of a 3D interface with 2D support material interleaved. That's just a simple example. Another one is distributed simulation (either real work, or something like a MMORPG...)
And the country's health care quality and affordability for everyone (not just the fortunate few that can afford if) may improve towards that which people in most other developed countries enjoy.
very few government regulated things (there are exceptions but they are exceedingly rare) are more efficient and cost-effective than things run by the private sector. This includes health care. You get what you pay for, and guess how much taxes will go up to subsidize this new health care?
No thanks, I'm very happy with my very low (relative to other costs of living) copay for insurance and the ability to see a doctor on a whim. I have canadian friends and they tell me about waiting in line to see a doctor. No thank you.
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They'd be stealing market share, people would be more willing to host on Windows boxes over linux boxes if the performance was comparable/better. Right now the performance isn't as good as a linux box.
Doesn't stop you from burning out and quitting six months latter, and cashing out your Google stock to invest in something a little more diverse.
Would also make some interesting implications for family time, if the account is in your name and your kids are playing on it ...
Leave it running for more than a day. I don't have any plugins installed and it will eat over 500 MB of RAM with less than 10 tabs opened. They don't even have to be intensive (gmail / school webmail / google news / slashdot / digg / slashdot / etc ). The machine can take it - modern dual core with 2 gigs of RAM - but still, the browser shouldn't need 500 megs of RAM to do that, theres a flaw somewhere in the design.
Too bad you're not a competent speller.
:)
Too much work to do to give a damn about spelling, did you read my post?
What politicians and the general public should not accept is if NASA were to lie to their employees about the risks of what they do. Frankly, I don't think it's possible to convince well-educated engineers, scientists, and pilots working in a field where several percent of their colleagues have died on the job that there are not significant risks to their job.
Agree. I have several friends in NASA and there is no misconception of the dangers involved. But the motivations from the 60's are not there anymore, like I said, so more precautions are made.
And a nitpick, the examples you cited are personal choices, mostly hobbies. Spaceflight (NASA) is a government agency. Now the astronauts are volunteers (a personal choice) but the endeavor is sanctioned and those politicians have to vote each year on the budget to keep spaceflight alive. That is the succinct difference here.
For the 20-30 pages I visit regularly, I haven't noticed a rendering difference between IE7 and Firefox.
... they do, they are a corporation complete with a board of directors and chairman.
I suspect the same holds for 80% of the internet population. The 80/20 rule.
So why would the 80% try out a "slower" browser? And before you say Mozilla doesn't care about the 80%
The Fat Man
50 years ago we were fighting for dominance over the russians. Now we are just exploring space. Human lives can be lost in the fight for dominance over another country (see: war) but for the peaceful pursuit of space? Politicians and the general public say no.
Some of us have a wife and kids, a full time job, working on a masters/Ph. D, other commitments outside the daily grind. We don't have time to sit down and scrutinize every bit that enters our computers (I could - I'm a compotent programmer. That's not the point.). If I choose to download something I trust the developer. I have a level enough head on my shoulder to figure out what looks fishy and what doesn't. And if, for some reason, something bad does happen? Takes but 10 minutes to reimage a drive. Big deal.
That being said the primary machine at home for gaming/surfing is a windows box. Between me, my wife and my kids I don't think I've had to reformat it since it was built.
control panel, system, hardware, device manager ... ( i dont know, but it would make sense if they wanted to make a failsafe default )
Its the price of being an early adopter, just like purchasing a 1st gen Nintendo DS or a 1st gen MacBook... except with your body.
We almost used them for our first son, but we still lived in an apartment so the cost of doing them in a laundromat outweighed the cost savings of cloth over diapers. Now that we have a house and our own place we are seriously considering cloth diapers for kid #2. You wouldn't believe how much money you can save. $20 for a few weeks worth of diapers (and we purchase the cheap, Sam's Club, knockoff diapers in the 200 packs), versus 2 extra loads of laundry a week? You have to be kidding me, the cloth diapers FTW.
When you make people pony up for instant access to ads?
When people want to watch them as badly as they seem to want to. Normally advertisements are a parasitic thing. Apparently this is more than just your run-of-the-mill ad (as Tycho concedes himself)
He wasn't talking about Firefox, he was talking about the Slashdotters [that] find [it] a little confusing...
(which is valid... have you read some of the threads here?
I make over 50k a year and pay just under 25% of my paycheck to taxes/health insurance/401k/etc. I will also get a good double-digit percentage of that back on my tax return next year (I didn't set my allocations up properly... and we had a child and purchased a house. There are lots of ways in the US to mitigate taxes and build wealth.)
... I wouldn't say that, what I would say however is that money is a freedom, the freedom to pursue things.
Parent made the point of how "its interesting that Americans find happiness in wealth"
...and the supreme ruler of all heck has not been getting his fair share of the strip :P
Meant real games like World of Warcrap or Everquest or KOTOR... you know, stuff linux can't handle. Doom/ET is so old...
Anyways, I *do* have a 64 bit OS that can handle it and MS word and the engineering work I do... WinXP 64 bit... works wonderfully.
Might wanna take a good hard look at them sometime :)
Democrats will be democrats, and they tend to be their own worst enemy...
Unless, of course, the Democrats, being Democrats, somehow fuck it up.
I'm a long time EQ player and I only have half the expansions. I got in on most of the betas (or a friend did) and if I didn't like where it was going, I didn't purchase it. Simple as that. If you don't have the balls to hang on to your $30 over a game you don't need then you have problems. Not getting a new expansion doesn't stop you from doing what you were already doing.
Arena Net's Guild Wars costs money to buy but no monthly subscriptions
Guildwars is compirable to Diablo 2, which also cost money to buy, no monthly subscriptions. Not really a MMO in the truest sense.
EVE Online costs only a monthly subscription, updates are included (OK, it is a bit more expensive per month)
Looks like you answered your own question.
The year was like, 1997 (I know, I was trying to teach myself in high school). We were all still in dialup. That was half the problem right there. The other problem is the language isn't that great. VRML proved nothing, it was before its time. Ubiquitous broadband, faster computers with hardware acceleration, we are now at the point in time where if 3D makes sense as an online platform, said platform will emerge.
Photoshop or Microsoft Word
Probably not, when you are editing 2D images or text which is inherantly 2 dimensional. But think beyond making pictures and text and yeah, it is out there.
so why should it for online applications
Because a lot of us are interested in things that aren't pictures and text. Simple example, a DNA molecule marked up in VRML (although, I hope to God they come up with a better markup language, I learned VRML in high school and yea, it isn't pretty) with metadata (text, images) drawn from the web (our current internet). That would make excellent use of a 3D interface with 2D support material interleaved. That's just a simple example. Another one is distributed simulation (either real work, or something like a MMORPG...)
And the country's health care quality and affordability for everyone (not just the fortunate few that can afford if) may improve towards that which people in most other developed countries enjoy.
very few government regulated things (there are exceptions but they are exceedingly rare) are more efficient and cost-effective than things run by the private sector. This includes health care. You get what you pay for, and guess how much taxes will go up to subsidize this new health care?
No thanks, I'm very happy with my very low (relative to other costs of living) copay for insurance and the ability to see a doctor on a whim. I have canadian friends and they tell me about waiting in line to see a doctor. No thank you.