With all the ridiculous rendering bugs in Thunderbird, and the complete lack of response from anyone who may be "developing" it, how can they claim they are now ending development. TBird dev stopped years ago.
And yes, it would be nice if Firefox actually stabilized for more than a few months. I just love all the "This addon is incompatible..." messages.
So lets take an analogy for this one step further:
Should Mercedes Benz and BMW offer a "personal tech" for their Yuppie clients to find out that maybe they should check the air in the tires now and then? Or come to a full stop at that red light ahead of you? Just how far do we go with this kind of "coddling the monied incompetent" do we go? If you want to operate a car you have get training and demonstrate some basic level of competence. Why doesn't the same hold true for the ubiquitous machine?
More 1% elitism.
I've been using MS Security Essentails for a while and like it a lot (specially after going with nothing and having a nasty wake up on 1/1/2010). It is very lightweight, and seems to catch bad things. I also augment MSSE's capabilities with weekly MBAM and Spybot scans.
What a concept. A Chinese pirated copy of a "North Korean" OS.
The article does note that the system requirements to run this OS is "fairly heavy."
Yeah, like electric power. And a user who can read. Oops.
I totally agree. Linux has Balkanized, shoving anything that wants to run on all distros into the same problem. Anyone who has done an "upgrade" knows how maddening (and rediculous) this can be. But who (or what) is going to "standardize" Linux? Is FreeBSD the answer?
I am not a novice at this stuff, but neither am I an expert by any means. However, when I can't make heads-or-tails of all the config files it seems to take just to get sound working, it demonstrates to me why Windows is still leading the market. It figures out what hardware it has and configures it, period. Why is this so difficult for Linux developers to understand? Not all of us have the time nor expertise to mess with all these layers of audio crap. I just want to hear sounds from my computer! If people had to jump through these same hoops just to see an image on their monitor, I bet something would get done. Why not with soumd? Rediculous.
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Do it! But keep something to make you happy nearby. It can get very thick...
John Brunner's "The Sheep Look Up". Keep that old penicillin cold, folks. You may need it.
braiiiiins!
With all the ridiculous rendering bugs in Thunderbird, and the complete lack of response from anyone who may be "developing" it, how can they claim they are now ending development. TBird dev stopped years ago. And yes, it would be nice if Firefox actually stabilized for more than a few months. I just love all the "This addon is incompatible..." messages.
Sounds like a good reason for the existence of Napalm to me. I wonder how their browser exploits would work against that?
My thought, too. You'd think that after the Y2K madness coders would have learned to adopt more robust calendar implementations.
So lets take an analogy for this one step further: Should Mercedes Benz and BMW offer a "personal tech" for their Yuppie clients to find out that maybe they should check the air in the tires now and then? Or come to a full stop at that red light ahead of you? Just how far do we go with this kind of "coddling the monied incompetent" do we go? If you want to operate a car you have get training and demonstrate some basic level of competence. Why doesn't the same hold true for the ubiquitous machine? More 1% elitism.
Indeed. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.
This kind of junk will continue until the carriers realize the phone belongs to the customer, not them.
How far can that go? Can they get "101st Airborne"? How about "U.S. Army"? Seems pretty slippery...
Nice!
No, the NSA
It's all done with mirrors!
Oh. I thought they were saving us from MechaStreisand. Nvm.
More of this will come. It's wonderful.
I've been using MS Security Essentails for a while and like it a lot (specially after going with nothing and having a nasty wake up on 1/1/2010). It is very lightweight, and seems to catch bad things. I also augment MSSE's capabilities with weekly MBAM and Spybot scans.
It's not pining, it's passed on. This botnet is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet it's maker. This is a late botnet!
Strap the phone to a stray dog/cat/rat/monkey and let 'em follow that!
What a concept. A Chinese pirated copy of a "North Korean" OS. The article does note that the system requirements to run this OS is "fairly heavy." Yeah, like electric power. And a user who can read. Oops.
= controlled fall. Keep up!
D**n that Fudd! Foiled again. I knew he was a baddie...
Coming Soon from O'Reilly publishing "/. in a Nutshell"
No.
I totally agree. Linux has Balkanized, shoving anything that wants to run on all distros into the same problem. Anyone who has done an "upgrade" knows how maddening (and rediculous) this can be. But who (or what) is going to "standardize" Linux? Is FreeBSD the answer?
I am not a novice at this stuff, but neither am I an expert by any means. However, when I can't make heads-or-tails of all the config files it seems to take just to get sound working, it demonstrates to me why Windows is still leading the market. It figures out what hardware it has and configures it, period. Why is this so difficult for Linux developers to understand? Not all of us have the time nor expertise to mess with all these layers of audio crap. I just want to hear sounds from my computer! If people had to jump through these same hoops just to see an image on their monitor, I bet something would get done. Why not with soumd? Rediculous.