Interestingly enough, I still know of at least one datacenter around here that still uses those oldschool tape machines with the huge reels that you sometimes see in old movies.
But, really none of this is particularly relevant to the notion that a browser uses over 200MB of RAM.
$250m for all you can pirate music doesn't seem like a very good deal for the recording industry. You may very well be right, but it just surprises me that they would allow it after all the fight they've had over such things previously.
In other words, there's some side benefit to allowing Apple to create a monopoly in that particular market. I wonder what would have happened if instead we told Apple to stop abusing their monopoly and actually allow owners of competing products to buy from the ITMS early on.
Which is why I wonder how they could possibly have gotten approval from the labels to do that. They have shut down similar services in the past that provided less service.
It's not as user friendly, but you can use sed and awk to do a lot of the heavy lifting for you.
It's not as user friendly as Dreamweaver, but you can create templates of pages, transform an XML page into something that's supported under HTML and do so efficiently. What's more once you've got it set up, the amount of time it takes to update the site is quite small and you can even completely change the formatting without too much effort once you've done a new set of templates.
Yes, and I bet if I went back to using Lynx I could probably get RAM consumption under 1MB. The point is that of the browsers that people are likely to use, Fx tends to do a lot better than the competition.
It's trivial to create a low RAM browser if you don't implement anything beyond that absolute bare minimum.
Yes and I remember starting out on computers where I would have killed to have even the 1.44MB capacity of a High Density 3.5" floppy. Of course that was over 25 years ago and I'm not sure what relevance this has when you have to look hard to buy a computer with less than a gig of RAM. Handhelds and phones not withstanding.
I'm pretty sure what they're dropping is the ability of the filesystem to take a long filename and interpret it as a short filename the way that FAT32 did. You'll still be able to have files that are named in the 8.3 format, you just won't have that as a fallback if the filesystem doesn't support it. Which really doesn't make anysense at this point.
I mean even UFS supports 8.3 filenames, it's just not required for the OS to know what kind of a file it's dealing with. Perhaps MS is finally implementing something that will allow programs to identify a file type without using the extension.
That thought crossed my mind, there are legitimate reasons for ditching NTFS, but I can't help but wonder if this has anything to do with Win 8 being the first release in a long time where they weren't under DoJ supervision. Also, at this point, NTFS support on other OSes is pretty good. Seems like a really convenient way of making it inconvenient to interoperate or multiboot.
I agree, I like the idea of OpenStreetMaps, but I'm not really sure that it's at the point where it can compete with Google Maps. Which is why if this article were true it would be so stupid. Or perhaps brilliant, sabotage the competition before anybody thinks they're competitive.
Newton was crediting those that came before him, and sometimes contemporary to him, Apple OTOH seems to believe that they invented all sorts of things that they didn't.Smartphones existed prior to the iPhone and database driven UI existed in MP3 players prior to the iPod, but Apple believes in both cases to have invented them, or at least that's what their public face says.
Ultimately, Apple is with MS and any number of other patent trolls out there, trying to get a buck for something which they have no right to charge for.
It depends which ones you're talking about. Some of them are already in their own separate process and you can kill those processes without having too much trouble. The bigger problem right now is all the freezing that goes on. I'm not sure what the problem is, but it gets a lot worse when I also have thunderbird open.
250ish MB or RAM is hardly unreasonable and is significantly better than the alternatives. If you don't like the RAM use with Firefox then you sure as hell aren't going to be happy with the competition. I haven't seen a benchmark or other comparison in a long time where Firefox didn't trounce the competition by a significant margin.
TFA does raise an important point that the memory consumption problems are mostly with certain add ons. The vanilla install itself doesn't have those issues.
That's not true. Staggered overdosing is a real problem despite what you and that person with itchy mod points might think. The fact of the matter is that tylenol doesn't do anything, and taking medications which don't do anything is pointless. On top of that, because it's so ineffectual staggered overdosing is a real risk that hasn't been properly appreciated.
Apple ought to have known better, I still remember the days when they were all "think different." Then they got those lame Mac vs., PC ads where all I wanted to do was beat the crap out of the Mac and probably steal his lunch money.
Apple used to mean something to people, but at this point you'd have to be a cultist to think there's anything special going on. There are a few things like Time machine that are kind of cool, but most of it is derivative and at best a refinement of things that have come before.
If you can't see other civilization there are additional risks as a result. The real question is how they compare with other living situations. Not all of them are equally risky. I spent some time living on an island without any reliable means of getting off it on short notice. It was perfectly fine as long as you didn't do anything stupid like split your head open or otherwise need immediate emergency care.
I don't know, perhaps if Apple would actually innovate and create something new they wouldn't have to resort to patent trolling and could afford to buy judges.
I was just thinking something along those lines. The silver lining in being mugged is knowing how to report a mugging. Doesn't really sound particularly helpful and definitely not helpful enough to justify being mugged. And unless you're new to the country you should already know how to report the crime.
Likewise, all those RSA officers ought to be terminated for incompetence. It doesn't take somebody with credentials to realize that it was going to happen eventually. Making somebody physically take a disc or registration data to a machine that creates the certs and a disc back and they would have been in the clear from that attack. It's not that expensive to do that.
Assuming my calculations are correct, they can get over 2bn address just using Class A addresses. So internally they have enough to give every resident up to 2 IP addresses. Now they have a couple ISPs that operate and so they would presumably have their own pool of IPs that they'd be using on their networks so they shouldn't have any trouble doubling or more those addresses.
When all is said and done, I don't see any particular reason why they would be any more NATed up than the rest of the world.
What's more there's still a bunch of folks on dial up connections or without any connection at all. Of course I could be off in my figures and I could be underestimating broadband penetration in China.
It's a solid point, but by the same token, nobody ought to be taking acetaminophen at this point in history. The stuff is both dangerous and ineffectual. What's worse is that even mild overdoses can lead to a fatal overdose if one isn't careful. Prescribing large doses of Acetaminophen really isn't good practice as there's folks like me that don't react to it at all. I used to take it occasionally, but found that in the doses recommended it didn't do anything and overdosing on it even minimally is quite dangerous, for people in general.
Personally, I don't take pain relievers except quite rarely and I've found that most of the time it's better to just deal with the pain as the consequences are a lot worse. Most pain relievers damage the stomach if used more than a couple times a month. Acetaminophen doesn't, but then again it does have liver effects if taken improperly.
The problem is that e85 has less energy than standard gas does and typically you don't see a corresponding drop in price per gallon. Ethanol itself has less energy than gasoline does so you end up with less gas mileage than you would with regular gas. Claiming otherwise is just plain ignorant and requires one to ignore the laws of thermodynamics.
Slashdot Mirror
Interestingly enough, I still know of at least one datacenter around here that still uses those oldschool tape machines with the huge reels that you sometimes see in old movies.
But, really none of this is particularly relevant to the notion that a browser uses over 200MB of RAM.
$250m for all you can pirate music doesn't seem like a very good deal for the recording industry. You may very well be right, but it just surprises me that they would allow it after all the fight they've had over such things previously.
In other words, there's some side benefit to allowing Apple to create a monopoly in that particular market. I wonder what would have happened if instead we told Apple to stop abusing their monopoly and actually allow owners of competing products to buy from the ITMS early on.
Which is why I wonder how they could possibly have gotten approval from the labels to do that. They have shut down similar services in the past that provided less service.
It's not as user friendly, but you can use sed and awk to do a lot of the heavy lifting for you.
It's not as user friendly as Dreamweaver, but you can create templates of pages, transform an XML page into something that's supported under HTML and do so efficiently. What's more once you've got it set up, the amount of time it takes to update the site is quite small and you can even completely change the formatting without too much effort once you've done a new set of templates.
Yes, and I bet if I went back to using Lynx I could probably get RAM consumption under 1MB. The point is that of the browsers that people are likely to use, Fx tends to do a lot better than the competition.
It's trivial to create a low RAM browser if you don't implement anything beyond that absolute bare minimum.
Yes and I remember starting out on computers where I would have killed to have even the 1.44MB capacity of a High Density 3.5" floppy. Of course that was over 25 years ago and I'm not sure what relevance this has when you have to look hard to buy a computer with less than a gig of RAM. Handhelds and phones not withstanding.
I'm pretty sure what they're dropping is the ability of the filesystem to take a long filename and interpret it as a short filename the way that FAT32 did. You'll still be able to have files that are named in the 8.3 format, you just won't have that as a fallback if the filesystem doesn't support it. Which really doesn't make anysense at this point.
I mean even UFS supports 8.3 filenames, it's just not required for the OS to know what kind of a file it's dealing with. Perhaps MS is finally implementing something that will allow programs to identify a file type without using the extension.
That thought crossed my mind, there are legitimate reasons for ditching NTFS, but I can't help but wonder if this has anything to do with Win 8 being the first release in a long time where they weren't under DoJ supervision. Also, at this point, NTFS support on other OSes is pretty good. Seems like a really convenient way of making it inconvenient to interoperate or multiboot.
I probably should have been more clear about that being plug ins rather than extensions.
I agree, I like the idea of OpenStreetMaps, but I'm not really sure that it's at the point where it can compete with Google Maps. Which is why if this article were true it would be so stupid. Or perhaps brilliant, sabotage the competition before anybody thinks they're competitive.
Newton was crediting those that came before him, and sometimes contemporary to him, Apple OTOH seems to believe that they invented all sorts of things that they didn't.Smartphones existed prior to the iPhone and database driven UI existed in MP3 players prior to the iPod, but Apple believes in both cases to have invented them, or at least that's what their public face says.
Ultimately, Apple is with MS and any number of other patent trolls out there, trying to get a buck for something which they have no right to charge for.
It depends which ones you're talking about. Some of them are already in their own separate process and you can kill those processes without having too much trouble. The bigger problem right now is all the freezing that goes on. I'm not sure what the problem is, but it gets a lot worse when I also have thunderbird open.
250ish MB or RAM is hardly unreasonable and is significantly better than the alternatives. If you don't like the RAM use with Firefox then you sure as hell aren't going to be happy with the competition. I haven't seen a benchmark or other comparison in a long time where Firefox didn't trounce the competition by a significant margin.
TFA does raise an important point that the memory consumption problems are mostly with certain add ons. The vanilla install itself doesn't have those issues.
That's not true. Staggered overdosing is a real problem despite what you and that person with itchy mod points might think. The fact of the matter is that tylenol doesn't do anything, and taking medications which don't do anything is pointless. On top of that, because it's so ineffectual staggered overdosing is a real risk that hasn't been properly appreciated.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/27/tylenol-overdose-staggered-health-risk_n_1110802.html
As long as people keep underestimating the dangers of acetaminophen we're gong to have these unfortunate fatalities.
Apple ought to have known better, I still remember the days when they were all "think different." Then they got those lame Mac vs., PC ads where all I wanted to do was beat the crap out of the Mac and probably steal his lunch money.
Apple used to mean something to people, but at this point you'd have to be a cultist to think there's anything special going on. There are a few things like Time machine that are kind of cool, but most of it is derivative and at best a refinement of things that have come before.
If you can't see other civilization there are additional risks as a result. The real question is how they compare with other living situations. Not all of them are equally risky. I spent some time living on an island without any reliable means of getting off it on short notice. It was perfectly fine as long as you didn't do anything stupid like split your head open or otherwise need immediate emergency care.
I don't know, perhaps if Apple would actually innovate and create something new they wouldn't have to resort to patent trolling and could afford to buy judges.
Well, better than changing companies that new company might not be trustworthy.
I was just thinking something along those lines. The silver lining in being mugged is knowing how to report a mugging. Doesn't really sound particularly helpful and definitely not helpful enough to justify being mugged. And unless you're new to the country you should already know how to report the crime.
Likewise, all those RSA officers ought to be terminated for incompetence. It doesn't take somebody with credentials to realize that it was going to happen eventually. Making somebody physically take a disc or registration data to a machine that creates the certs and a disc back and they would have been in the clear from that attack. It's not that expensive to do that.
Assuming my calculations are correct, they can get over 2bn address just using Class A addresses. So internally they have enough to give every resident up to 2 IP addresses. Now they have a couple ISPs that operate and so they would presumably have their own pool of IPs that they'd be using on their networks so they shouldn't have any trouble doubling or more those addresses.
When all is said and done, I don't see any particular reason why they would be any more NATed up than the rest of the world.
What's more there's still a bunch of folks on dial up connections or without any connection at all. Of course I could be off in my figures and I could be underestimating broadband penetration in China.
It's a solid point, but by the same token, nobody ought to be taking acetaminophen at this point in history. The stuff is both dangerous and ineffectual. What's worse is that even mild overdoses can lead to a fatal overdose if one isn't careful. Prescribing large doses of Acetaminophen really isn't good practice as there's folks like me that don't react to it at all. I used to take it occasionally, but found that in the doses recommended it didn't do anything and overdosing on it even minimally is quite dangerous, for people in general.
Personally, I don't take pain relievers except quite rarely and I've found that most of the time it's better to just deal with the pain as the consequences are a lot worse. Most pain relievers damage the stomach if used more than a couple times a month. Acetaminophen doesn't, but then again it does have liver effects if taken improperly.
The problem is that e85 has less energy than standard gas does and typically you don't see a corresponding drop in price per gallon. Ethanol itself has less energy than gasoline does so you end up with less gas mileage than you would with regular gas. Claiming otherwise is just plain ignorant and requires one to ignore the laws of thermodynamics.
Visa? That's dumb, obviously it's going to be Bitcoins.
Yes, but when we subsequently invade them and bring Democracy we'll be greeted as liberators.