You're right - flash plugin on IE is better than on anything else. This is not Mozilla's fault, they can't do any better as long as they depend on Adobe.
I've noticed that if you use full-screen video from Flash, it will take bigger CPU load on Firefox than on IE; and it often skips some frames on Firefox.
Entrepreneurship is what is cause of success in US. That made all big companies work in first place. As long as there are smart people in US and smart people with ideas and execution to create companies, we're fine.
Still it is not clear how clean installation using update copy of windows 7 can be achieved. Microsoft was quick to offer pre-order copies of Windows 7 upgrade without officially explaining what are the ways to perform upgrade. The issue is in validation of previous version of Windows. Some believe that previous version of Windows has to be installed and activated before performing update which is ridiculous in long run. In other words, it seems that EU people might have to install vista first, then Windows 7.
What happened is that people need to research how they can perform upgrade, but there's still no official word for it.
This doesn't sound like they learned all they could from Vista debacle.
that Java on desktop is not engaging to developers, because: 1. it takes forever to load, 2. it mostly looks different (read inferior) than native UI widgets, 3. takes forever to design UI of Java app to be competitive with other made using Gtk, Qt, Mono, etc., 4. severely lacks interfaces with operating system, which limits domain of apps made, 5. focus to desktop apps is lacking - widgets are limited, experts and user groups are almost non-existing
Finally, there are very few well-known Java apps with wide use, one of them is Vuze.
Otherwise, I agree with you that Java desktop app are hard to distribute and necessary hurdle and that Sun is directly responsible for. It seems that Java desktop app platform was never given full attention.
Java was brand 10 yrs ago, not anymore, today brand is Flash and PDF. Most people see Java as hurdle.
Only hard-core Java developers and users would care about this, and there's not billion of them.
Additionally, number of people who know how to (properly) use Swing in order to make user applications is very small. Number of people who use Java FX is even smaller.
Good luck to Sun, but if they have done this 10 yrs ago they would have great momentum now, and now they got nothing.
Sun should be begging Google to be bought by them, not this. Google gets OS, hardware, development platform and bunch of products it can use for themselves. And all of it for almost a pocket change.
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installing two macs in one place
no, that would be intel's state-of-the-art graphics chip Larrabee.
you think that some global company would rather "decrease their profits and shareholder value"?
Just use elinks
You're right - flash plugin on IE is better than on anything else. This is not Mozilla's fault, they can't do any better as long as they depend on Adobe. I've noticed that if you use full-screen video from Flash, it will take bigger CPU load on Firefox than on IE; and it often skips some frames on Firefox.
If there was no multi threading, your IE/Firefox would be frozen until it completely loads any webpage.
It does, sometimes on system startup; however it only installs updated plugin for Internet Explorer.
haha, most people will just manually visit google.com , or use Bing to search for Google.
I bet that most searched term on Bing is Google.
Entrepreneurship is what is cause of success in US. That made all big companies work in first place. As long as there are smart people in US and smart people with ideas and execution to create companies, we're fine.
Aliens were bored on their planet, so they decided to make it unique.
Last I heard about this OS is that it has been announced, not developed. At this point, it is their wish that it will be what they claim.
... whether there's any life on it. Not intelligent, but any kind.
Not even Microsoft has that many bugs? (not trolling, just asking)
...at least on my Dell.
There's option to enable it permanently, meaning it cannot be disabled again.
So number of affected laptops is far from 60%.
In other words, Microsoft service does not have solution. Microsoft asks users to provide results for themselves...
They could have used Alaska or N. Dakota instead and keep jobs in USA...
Still it is not clear how clean installation using update copy of windows 7 can be achieved. Microsoft was quick to offer pre-order copies of Windows 7 upgrade without officially explaining what are the ways to perform upgrade. The issue is in validation of previous version of Windows. Some believe that previous version of Windows has to be installed and activated before performing update which is ridiculous in long run. In other words, it seems that EU people might have to install vista first, then Windows 7.
What happened is that people need to research how they can perform upgrade, but there's still no official word for it.
This doesn't sound like they learned all they could from Vista debacle.
that Java on desktop is not engaging to developers, because:
1. it takes forever to load,
2. it mostly looks different (read inferior) than native UI widgets,
3. takes forever to design UI of Java app to be competitive with other made using Gtk, Qt, Mono, etc.,
4. severely lacks interfaces with operating system, which limits domain of apps made,
5. focus to desktop apps is lacking - widgets are limited, experts and user groups are almost non-existing
Finally, there are very few well-known Java apps with wide use, one of them is Vuze.
... this is very dumb on Microsoft's side.
activeX malware and exploitation worms made huge difference in our lives
Default location of newer JRE releases is
C:\Program Files\Java\jre6
As for native look and feel, Swing does have several Windows look and feels in which widgets have native looks:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/lookandfeel/plaf.html#available
Otherwise, I agree with you that Java desktop app are hard to distribute and necessary hurdle and that Sun is directly responsible for. It seems that Java desktop app platform was never given full attention.
Java was brand 10 yrs ago, not anymore, today brand is Flash and PDF. Most people see Java as hurdle.
Only hard-core Java developers and users would care about this, and there's not billion of them.
Additionally, number of people who know how to (properly) use Swing in order to make user applications is very small. Number of people who use Java FX is even smaller.
Good luck to Sun, but if they have done this 10 yrs ago they would have great momentum now, and now they got nothing.
They will need 6 more millions to make it work.
Sun should be begging Google to be bought by them, not this. Google gets OS, hardware, development platform and bunch of products it can use for themselves. And all of it for almost a pocket change.
..two days early.
Yest, it is that much ridiculous that I doubt we'll have something better for the Fool's day.