"Illegal immigrants are human beings. That alone doesn't give them a right to enter America."
I miss the days when potential slashdotters would have argued something like "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness."
Hooray for freedom.
That's not insightful, and it doesn't make a lick of sense. If someone is willing to trade a PS3 for a Wii + cash, it is essentially the same as wanting to return the PS3 to the store and use the return money to buy a Wii. However, it is impossible to get a Wii at stores right now, and presumably most of these people are unable to return their PS3's for anything other than store credit.
If they were trading PS3's for money (i.e. selling) then yes, your cynicism would be warranted. But the idea here is - people are trying to get rid of PS3's and looking to instead try a Wii. The existence of a cash difference doesn't mean anything - other than trying to recoup the losses incurred from buying a $600 console.
First of all, the bloat is not an issue. A couple of thousand names being written into the source code will NOT increase the memory footprint by more than a few hundred kilobytes. That's assuming they were even going to code it into the program at all - which they won't, no one will be able to see that. They'll put it on a website somewhere, most likely.
Second of all, I for one think this is brilliant. I put my name up with my lady of choice, she thought it was adorable. (She's been using Firefox for years, ever since I told her she should.) I guarantee lots of people will do this with others that already use the program - much in the same spirit that a petition rallies support, so will this Wall of Firefox bit.
Finally, I'm seeing complaints that reflect the idea that as Firefox usage increases, its usefulness decreases. That's just silly. The furthering of OSS's stature in the world will see nothing but benefits. IF OSS can become a household term one day, maybe one day Firefox won't have a memory bloat problem?
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Because that hasn't happened yet.
I'll be here all week folks, try the veal.
"Illegal immigrants are human beings. That alone doesn't give them a right to enter America." I miss the days when potential slashdotters would have argued something like "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness." Hooray for freedom.
That's not insightful, and it doesn't make a lick of sense. If someone is willing to trade a PS3 for a Wii + cash, it is essentially the same as wanting to return the PS3 to the store and use the return money to buy a Wii. However, it is impossible to get a Wii at stores right now, and presumably most of these people are unable to return their PS3's for anything other than store credit. If they were trading PS3's for money (i.e. selling) then yes, your cynicism would be warranted. But the idea here is - people are trying to get rid of PS3's and looking to instead try a Wii. The existence of a cash difference doesn't mean anything - other than trying to recoup the losses incurred from buying a $600 console.
First of all, the bloat is not an issue. A couple of thousand names being written into the source code will NOT increase the memory footprint by more than a few hundred kilobytes. That's assuming they were even going to code it into the program at all - which they won't, no one will be able to see that. They'll put it on a website somewhere, most likely. Second of all, I for one think this is brilliant. I put my name up with my lady of choice, she thought it was adorable. (She's been using Firefox for years, ever since I told her she should.) I guarantee lots of people will do this with others that already use the program - much in the same spirit that a petition rallies support, so will this Wall of Firefox bit. Finally, I'm seeing complaints that reflect the idea that as Firefox usage increases, its usefulness decreases. That's just silly. The furthering of OSS's stature in the world will see nothing but benefits. IF OSS can become a household term one day, maybe one day Firefox won't have a memory bloat problem?