I was at a talk some time ago where people who run several european root domains were discussing the issue and all seemed to agree that TCP is not an option because it would greatly increase their load.
That said, I don't know how DNSSEC would be any more light on the CPU... I don't know the details but I assume you would have to sign every DNS packet that you send...
One needs to be aware of where the money is made. The actual phone manufacturer makes money by selling a locked version to a telecom, the telecom makes money by selling the phone and the phone service to retail clients.
If you get a free phone with a low monthly service charge and then you hack it, you could make expensive calls over IP and pay the telecom, nothing more than the monthly rent.
Thus the telecom needs the phone to be locked to make (more) money and the manufacturer has to lock the phone in order to please the telecom, who is, after all, its client.
I don't care what the telecom needs. God did not grant them the right to profit from any specific buisness-model. I never have, and never will, own a locked phone, it's as simple as that. All phones I have owned could be used on any GSM network with a prepaid card. And if some telco was dumb enough to subsidize me buying it, well, thanks for the freebies.
I know, what we are talking here is a different meaning for the word "locked".
Most phones I have owned were primitive enough that running arbitrary software on them was not a big issue in practice.
Now it is starting to be one. It is sad if the linux-based android is less open than my win mobile smartphone (where I can currently install anything I want).
This is one reason why I fully support the GPLv3. If linux had been GPLv3, android would have to give you root access to your device (or let you modify it to get it), unless the device was actually owned by the telco (which not all users would accept).
Interesting that it is a right-wing nation like Columbia that chooses to get it's OLPC laptops with Windows installed.
Colombia (not Columbia) made no such choice. This is a future pilot program of unspecified size that microsoft is at least partially paying for. In the meantime, 110000 sugar-base OLPCs are already scheduled for deployment in Colombia (according to TFA). Summary is totally misleading.
"...totally retarded"?
Right. Don't take your "decent education" for granted. Only about half the Colombians go to high school and it may not even be free down there.
I don't take decent education for granted. I just don't think "using *office" (microsoft's or any other version) should be anywhere near a kid's education, at all, except as a tool to write reports essays and stuff (and for that, OLPC-sugar offers abiword). Just like you don't teach them to operate a cash register, or
to build walls, just because that's the work they might end up doing. Education (especially early education) is NOT about giving pupils the tools for today's job market. It is about giving them the basic culture/mindset that allows them to become CITIZENS and learn the tools for tomorrow's job market, when they will need them.
And anyhow, by the time these kids will enter the workforce, windows will be on version 15 (we're talking primary school kids!) and anything specific they learn about the system would be totally useless.
Someone who learned how to use Office 95 13 years ago can probably work their way around the latest version of office.
And it's smart to target at the education level accessible to all children, which is different for each country.
Yeah, and someone who used lotus notes 15 years ago will also be able to wrap his head around excel, ribbon or no ribbon.
The groups did not say how many laptops would be handed out as part of the trial nor when it would start.
So it's an unspecified number of laptops at an unspecified point in the future. In the mean time,
the linux version of the OLPC is a step or two ahead, and will be deploying 110,000 laptops running sugar:
Last month, OLPC announced that several towns in Colombia were in the process of buying or deploying its XO laptops, most of which use a Red Hat Fedora Linux OS core customized by OLPC and a graphical user interface aimed at kids called Sugar.
An initial 20,000 laptops will be handed out at schools in the capital, Bogota, thanks to several Colombian foundations and private donors. Another 90,000 laptops will be deployed in Cartagena.
Why will this pilot use windows laptops? easy, because Microsoft is paying for a big chunk of it:
Microsoft and OLPC will donate the XO laptops
This is quite interesting, after Bill Gates said the OLPC project was the wrong thing to spend charity money on,
which should be spent on more fundamental things
like food and healthcare. Clearly, this is not charity, it is fighting for the marketshare of the future.
The official excuse:
The decision to put Windows on the laptops came about because officials in some countries feared a non-Windows laptop would ill prepare students for the real world, in which Microsoft software dominates.
..is totally retarded. Anyone who has had a decent education can learn to use basic office programs in a day if needed. And anyhow, by the time these kids will enter the workforce, windows will be on version 15 (we're talking primary school kids!) and anything specific they learn about the system would be totally useless.
It would depend on the judge understanding the issue in the first place, but this is hijacking an electronic comunication between two parties who did not agree to it. If it's not illegal, then the law should be fixed.
The reason the Fed fails is the same reason the U.R.S.S. failed; Central planning _does not work_, socialism _does not work_, price fixing ( including the price of money, i.e. interest rates ) _does not work_.
The fed does not fix the cost of money, or the interest rate. It fixes the NOMINAL interest rate. The market then decides the real interest rate, by adding inflation to that.
The article totally misses the point. The only really important feature (for me) git has over svn that I know of is better merge tracking, and this should be improving starting with subversion 1.5 (haven't tried it yet myself as our server hasn't been updated).
The "local copy of the repo" thing is good for certain environments, where there are a lot of developers using a very decentralized workflow. I'm sure it's optimal for the linux kernel but it's not everybody's piece of cake.
Also it seems the guy is really unfair on svn, so git can do diffs for you, well duh. Hell cvs can do that too.
..so long as you don't have to write your own classes/styles etc. I've never programmed in latex myself.
Most of the time you can just download a style file from the website of whatever you are writing for (or use one of the standard ones if no style is provided) and then start writing text.
Yes, you need to learn to write \chapter{Title} to get a new chapter but it really pays off when you cut 3 chapters out of a document and paste them into another one with totally different formatting and it all just works.
Try doing that with word. You either paste with formatting and it's all formatted wrong, or paste without formatting and it's all standard text. Either way you have to reformat everything.
Plus versioning inside the document format is just a bad idea, a simple text-based format like latex can be versioned with any standard versioning tool and really allows collaboration with any number of co-authors.
Yes, the man in the middle attack is very real. However, it takes a great deal more work to set up than a simple sniffer,
Bzzzt, wrong, thanks for playing. I written an app that makes the process as easy as starting a sniffer,
Really? and what kind of hardware does it require to play man in the middle to all connections on a multi-gigabit line?
This is what we are talking about. Whether it is illegal mass-surveillance from the government, or just your isp trying to inject targeted advertisement in the web pages you browse, man in the middle is just not an option for blanket surveillance at the moment.
Also, it is detectable, while sniffing is not. If all users are intercepted with a MITM attack, as soon as one of them verifies the key fingerprint through a side channel it will become public knowledge that everyone is being intercepted.
Their tests also say that the unpredictable lag only occurs in "extremely stressful lab conditions". Anyone believing CCP at their word at this point is flat out retarded. If it fixed it it does, but CCP saying they fixed it is as meaningful as if the CCCP said they did.
It's not just talk. These are real response-time measurements on the real server (tranquillity) in Jita, on sunday.
(...) It's not that the server lags out and stuff takes longer to happen, it's that it lags out in totally unpredictable ways. One person might find the server completely unresponsive for 30minutes and be able to do nothing but sit there and die. While another might have only a few seconds of extra delay. Who gets which is completely random.
The unpredictability of lag is precisely one of the things stacklessIO fixes, according to their tests. It seems the problem was somewhere in their network layer, not in the server itself. Just compare these 2 figures, which both measure lag over a couple hours on sunday in Jita:
When Stallman blasted "cloud computing", I'm fairly certain he wasn't referring to website hosting.
As for Gmail and other web-based email services, that's a bit of a compromise. Many people like or need to be able to access their email from different locations and computers (at home, at work, on their iphone, etc.). Web-based email makes that pretty easy. There's definitely a performance hit (but maybe not compared to Outlook...), and there's a disadvantage in having your data not stored on your own computer, but the remote-access aspect for many people more than makes up for that. Unfortunately, for most people, there's no easy way to remotely access their home machines and run their email clients there, so we use webmail. (Even if you're a Linux user like me, it may not be possible to access your home computer; for instance, my workplace won't allow me to do remote SSH connections outside the corporate intranet, so even though I use Linux both at home and at work, I can't access my home computer from work to remotely run applications using SSH forwarding.)
Sorry but which email account can you NOT access from anywhere? I mean whether it's your ISP or your employer or your privately paid hosting, any half-decent email account provides IMAP over SSL so you can access it from anywhere. Most also have a web interface if you're at an internet cafe which doesn't provide any email client for you, and you're not tech savvy enough to get around restrictions and run your own client without admin rights.
I'd have been SCREWED if I followed RMS's advice and just kept stuff locally. Oh yes, it's a fine idea in theory, but in Gmail, if I need to find serial numbes (something I've need to do several times in the last year) I can just search for the game name voila! There's my serial number.
To replicate that functionality I would have to backup my entire email pretty much every time I got any, which is completely impractical. Not to mention tedious. Yeah, shell scripts and all that crap, but why bother when Gmail does it all for me, and really, all they're going to learn is I'm signed up on several very dull mailing lists, have bought several games, get spammed by Apple on a regular basis, and apparently am going to be given a load of money by various Nigerian princes, priests, nuns etc...
Yes, people give up too much privacy online these days, but there is a happy medium between that and locking ourselves into a life of self sufficient tedium.
What are you talking about? you know it's not either gmail or PINE anymore. All emails I get from all of my email accounts are copied onto all the computers on which I use them, for easy access, and all can be searched very easily. And I didn't write any scripts for this. Just standard email programs. Under ubuntu evolution (but not thunderbird yet, unfortunately) is fully integrated into desktop search, so I can run a search and find that serial number/password whether it's saved in a text file or in some email.
I also have an online email account which I theoretically only use for non-private stuff, but honestly, I don't really stick to it. I think RMS is mostly right as usual, although he makes it all sound extreme and controversial (again, as usual).
We love you, we really do. But your delusional and increasingly demented ravings give all supporters of free software a bad name.
And if you're going to represent the opinions of a large group of users like you do, would it kill you to buy a nice shirt and a razor?
Yours
The free software community.
How is it your business whether he shaves, or washes? You're reading his opinions on the internet, which does not support virtual smell as far as I know. So express objections to his opinions if you have any, not to his private life. And remember, +5 funny does not improve your karma.
The same turbo 4 gets 263 hp if it runs on regular gas. That's one reason the US hasn't fallen in love with underpowered, stinky diesels yet. Maybe if gas were heading towards $5 a gallon instead of back to $3 a gallon, diesels might gain some traction.
It looks like you havn't seen a modern diesel car. Current diesel engines are the best technology around, at least if market prices are any indication. You pay extra to get the diesel engine on a car (1 or 2000 euros). And diesel prices have now reached and surpassed normal gasoline prices. All of this because the mpg is much higher, and there are no noticeable disadvantages anymore. And as to torque, basically any car you can buy in europe has more of it than is healthy for you.
Yes, there is a big controversy over the government wiretapping without a warrant, but that doesn't change (what the article is talking about) the ability to be anonymous. We still have free internet cafes and other points we can get to the internet anonymously and post dissident material, which is a bedrock of our society. The court even struck down a state anti-spam law because it removed the right to anonymity.
for me i consider privacy a right, but anonymity is purely dependant on the situation. should scammers have the right to post shit anonymously? of course they don't, hence it's not a "right".
I don't know where you're from, but in a number of jurstictions (including, I would assume all democracies), the right to privacy _is_ a right. It is in the US, and it is in the UK/EU.
In fact, I think that the right to anonymity (in terms of speech) is a fundamental right in a free and open society.
Unfortunately in Italy you cannot anonymously go into an internet caffee. At least according to the law, you need to show an ID. Besides being police-state bullshit, this has lots of annoying practical implications. For instance a cafee or hotel cannot simply leave an open wireless access point in it's premises for it's customer's convenience, it needs to have individual authentication for each user, and ID them all (which isn't big news for hotels, since you can't even check in at a hotel in Italy, without an ID!)
As a side note, there are some similar non compete restrictions when you buy Visual studio from Microsoft, so this isn't like its a new concept and they seem to be doing well with it.
I call bullshit. If I develop an application with visual studio, I do not need permission from microsoft to distribute it or sell it on any platform I want.
..please! The issue is pretty much settled from a scientific perspective. Dinosaurs were killed by a meteorite impact (something in the range of 10km in size), which can account for the iridium spike in clay deposits. A meteor which killed 70% of the biomass on earth, and all animals heavier than 20kg or so, which is obviously enough to reshuffle all the cards of evolution.
WTF, they even found the crater of the impact, which is in the gulf of mexico.
As far as I'm concerned, point 4 is the killer feature for me of Chrome. I won't use it as my default browser until several of my must-have extensions are availble for it (via Google Gears, I assume), but that's the kind of infrastructure planning that's hurting Firefox in a big way. Adobe's buggy Flash player shouldn't be ABLE to crash the browser, or even temporarily lock it up!
Sandboxing is about security (not allowing addons to do things they shouldn't be doing). If you RTFC (read the f***ing comic) you'd know that plugins cannot be sandboxed at the moment. So while adobe flash plugin can only crash one tab, a vulnerability in the flash plugin can still compromise your machine.
Not all good researchers are good teachers, but beyond introductory first or second year classes, being a good researcher is a REQUIREMENT for being a good teacher.
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I was at a talk some time ago where people who run several european root domains were discussing the issue and all seemed to agree that TCP is not an option because it would greatly increase their load.
That said, I don't know how DNSSEC would be any more light on the CPU... I don't know the details but I assume you would have to sign every DNS packet that you send...
One needs to be aware of where the money is made. The actual phone manufacturer makes money by selling a locked version to a telecom, the telecom makes money by selling the phone and the phone service to retail clients.
If you get a free phone with a low monthly service charge and then you hack it, you could make expensive calls over IP and pay the telecom, nothing more than the monthly rent.
Thus the telecom needs the phone to be locked to make (more) money and the manufacturer has to lock the phone in order to please the telecom, who is, after all, its client.
I don't care what the telecom needs. God did not grant them the right to profit from any specific buisness-model. I never have, and never will, own a locked phone, it's as simple as that. All phones I have owned could be used on any GSM network with a prepaid card. And if some telco was dumb enough to subsidize me buying it, well, thanks for the freebies.
I know, what we are talking here is a different meaning for the word "locked". Most phones I have owned were primitive enough that running arbitrary software on them was not a big issue in practice.
Now it is starting to be one. It is sad if the linux-based android is less open than my win mobile smartphone (where I can currently install anything I want).
This is one reason why I fully support the GPLv3. If linux had been GPLv3, android would have to give you root access to your device (or let you modify it to get it), unless the device was actually owned by the telco (which not all users would accept).
Interesting that it is a right-wing nation like Columbia that chooses to get it's OLPC laptops with Windows installed.
Colombia (not Columbia) made no such choice. This is a future pilot program of unspecified size that microsoft is at least partially paying for. In the meantime, 110000 sugar-base OLPCs are already scheduled for deployment in Colombia (according to TFA). Summary is totally misleading.
"...totally retarded"? Right. Don't take your "decent education" for granted. Only about half the Colombians go to high school and it may not even be free down there.
I don't take decent education for granted. I just don't think "using *office" (microsoft's or any other version) should be anywhere near a kid's education, at all, except as a tool to write reports essays and stuff (and for that, OLPC-sugar offers abiword). Just like you don't teach them to operate a cash register, or to build walls, just because that's the work they might end up doing. Education (especially early education) is NOT about giving pupils the tools for today's job market. It is about giving them the basic culture/mindset that allows them to become CITIZENS and learn the tools for tomorrow's job market, when they will need them.
Someone who learned how to use Office 95 13 years ago can probably work their way around the latest version of office. And it's smart to target at the education level accessible to all children, which is different for each country.
Yeah, and someone who used lotus notes 15 years ago will also be able to wrap his head around excel, ribbon or no ribbon.
The groups did not say how many laptops would be handed out as part of the trial nor when it would start.
So it's an unspecified number of laptops at an unspecified point in the future. In the mean time, the linux version of the OLPC is a step or two ahead, and will be deploying 110,000 laptops running sugar:
Last month, OLPC announced that several towns in Colombia were in the process of buying or deploying its XO laptops, most of which use a Red Hat Fedora Linux OS core customized by OLPC and a graphical user interface aimed at kids called Sugar.
An initial 20,000 laptops will be handed out at schools in the capital, Bogota, thanks to several Colombian foundations and private donors. Another 90,000 laptops will be deployed in Cartagena.
Why will this pilot use windows laptops? easy, because Microsoft is paying for a big chunk of it:
Microsoft and OLPC will donate the XO laptops
This is quite interesting, after Bill Gates said the OLPC project was the wrong thing to spend charity money on, which should be spent on more fundamental things like food and healthcare. Clearly, this is not charity, it is fighting for the marketshare of the future.
The official excuse:
The decision to put Windows on the laptops came about because officials in some countries feared a non-Windows laptop would ill prepare students for the real world, in which Microsoft software dominates.
..is totally retarded. Anyone who has had a decent education can learn to use basic office programs in a day if needed. And anyhow, by the time these kids will enter the workforce, windows will be on version 15 (we're talking primary school kids!) and anything specific they learn about the system would be totally useless.
It is a scummy thing to do, but hardly illegal
It would depend on the judge understanding the issue in the first place, but this is hijacking an electronic comunication between two parties who did not agree to it. If it's not illegal, then the law should be fixed.
If your wife keeps yelling "faster, FASTER!" in bed, maybe it doesn't mean you should attach a jet engine to your car...
Or at least don't count on her getting your life insurance after you crash...
The reason the Fed fails is the same reason the U.R.S.S. failed; Central planning _does not work_, socialism _does not work_, price fixing ( including the price of money, i.e. interest rates ) _does not work_.
The fed does not fix the cost of money, or the interest rate. It fixes the NOMINAL interest rate. The market then decides the real interest rate, by adding inflation to that.
The article totally misses the point. The only really important feature (for me) git has over svn that I know of is better merge tracking, and this should be improving starting with subversion 1.5 (haven't tried it yet myself as our server hasn't been updated).
The "local copy of the repo" thing is good for certain environments, where there are a lot of developers using a very decentralized workflow. I'm sure it's optimal for the linux kernel but it's not everybody's piece of cake.
Also it seems the guy is really unfair on svn, so git can do diffs for you, well duh. Hell cvs can do that too.
..so long as you don't have to write your own classes/styles etc. I've never programmed in latex myself.
Most of the time you can just download a style file from the website of whatever you are writing for (or use one of the standard ones if no style is provided) and then start writing text.
Yes, you need to learn to write \chapter{Title} to get a new chapter but it really pays off when you cut 3 chapters out of a document and paste them into another one with totally different formatting and it all just works.
Try doing that with word. You either paste with formatting and it's all formatted wrong, or paste without formatting and it's all standard text. Either way you have to reformat everything.
Plus versioning inside the document format is just a bad idea, a simple text-based format like latex can be versioned with any standard versioning tool and really allows collaboration with any number of co-authors.
Bzzzt, wrong, thanks for playing. I written an app that makes the process as easy as starting a sniffer,
Really? and what kind of hardware does it require to play man in the middle to all connections on a multi-gigabit line?
This is what we are talking about. Whether it is illegal mass-surveillance from the government, or just your isp trying to inject targeted advertisement in the web pages you browse, man in the middle is just not an option for blanket surveillance at the moment.
Also, it is detectable, while sniffing is not. If all users are intercepted with a MITM attack, as soon as one of them verifies the key fingerprint through a side channel it will become public knowledge that everyone is being intercepted.
Their tests also say that the unpredictable lag only occurs in "extremely stressful lab conditions". Anyone believing CCP at their word at this point is flat out retarded. If it fixed it it does, but CCP saying they fixed it is as meaningful as if the CCCP said they did.
It's not just talk. These are real response-time measurements on the real server (tranquillity) in Jita, on sunday.
(...) It's not that the server lags out and stuff takes longer to happen, it's that it lags out in totally unpredictable ways. One person might find the server completely unresponsive for 30minutes and be able to do nothing but sit there and die. While another might have only a few seconds of extra delay. Who gets which is completely random.
The unpredictability of lag is precisely one of the things stacklessIO fixes, according to their tests. It seems the problem was somewhere in their network layer, not in the server itself. Just compare these 2 figures, which both measure lag over a couple hours on sunday in Jita:
Before:
http://staff.ccpgames.com/explorer/devblogs/images/delta_jetbyte.png
and after:
http://staff.ccpgames.com/explorer/devblogs/images/delta_stacklessIO.png
..that has a real underground economy, and drug-dealing cartel.
http://www.massively.com/2008/09/24/outlaws-of-eve-online-masudi/
When Stallman blasted "cloud computing", I'm fairly certain he wasn't referring to website hosting.
As for Gmail and other web-based email services, that's a bit of a compromise. Many people like or need to be able to access their email from different locations and computers (at home, at work, on their iphone, etc.). Web-based email makes that pretty easy. There's definitely a performance hit (but maybe not compared to Outlook...), and there's a disadvantage in having your data not stored on your own computer, but the remote-access aspect for many people more than makes up for that. Unfortunately, for most people, there's no easy way to remotely access their home machines and run their email clients there, so we use webmail. (Even if you're a Linux user like me, it may not be possible to access your home computer; for instance, my workplace won't allow me to do remote SSH connections outside the corporate intranet, so even though I use Linux both at home and at work, I can't access my home computer from work to remotely run applications using SSH forwarding.)
Sorry but which email account can you NOT access from anywhere? I mean whether it's your ISP or your employer or your privately paid hosting, any half-decent email account provides IMAP over SSL so you can access it from anywhere. Most also have a web interface if you're at an internet cafe which doesn't provide any email client for you, and you're not tech savvy enough to get around restrictions and run your own client without admin rights.
I'd have been SCREWED if I followed RMS's advice and just kept stuff locally. Oh yes, it's a fine idea in theory, but in Gmail, if I need to find serial numbes (something I've need to do several times in the last year) I can just search for the game name voila! There's my serial number.
To replicate that functionality I would have to backup my entire email pretty much every time I got any, which is completely impractical. Not to mention tedious. Yeah, shell scripts and all that crap, but why bother when Gmail does it all for me, and really, all they're going to learn is I'm signed up on several very dull mailing lists, have bought several games, get spammed by Apple on a regular basis, and apparently am going to be given a load of money by various Nigerian princes, priests, nuns etc...
Yes, people give up too much privacy online these days, but there is a happy medium between that and locking ourselves into a life of self sufficient tedium.
What are you talking about? you know it's not either gmail or PINE anymore. All emails I get from all of my email accounts are copied onto all the computers on which I use them, for easy access, and all can be searched very easily. And I didn't write any scripts for this. Just standard email programs. Under ubuntu evolution (but not thunderbird yet, unfortunately) is fully integrated into desktop search, so I can run a search and find that serial number/password whether it's saved in a text file or in some email.
I also have an online email account which I theoretically only use for non-private stuff, but honestly, I don't really stick to it. I think RMS is mostly right as usual, although he makes it all sound extreme and controversial (again, as usual).
We love you, we really do. But your delusional and increasingly demented ravings give all supporters of free software a bad name.
And if you're going to represent the opinions of a large group of users like you do, would it kill you to buy a nice shirt and a razor?
Yours
The free software community.
How is it your business whether he shaves, or washes? You're reading his opinions on the internet, which does not support virtual smell as far as I know. So express objections to his opinions if you have any, not to his private life. And remember, +5 funny does not improve your karma.
The same turbo 4 gets 263 hp if it runs on regular gas. That's one reason the US hasn't fallen in love with underpowered, stinky diesels yet. Maybe if gas were heading towards $5 a gallon instead of back to $3 a gallon, diesels might gain some traction.
It looks like you havn't seen a modern diesel car. Current diesel engines are the best technology around, at least if market prices are any indication. You pay extra to get the diesel engine on a car (1 or 2000 euros). And diesel prices have now reached and surpassed normal gasoline prices. All of this because the mpg is much higher, and there are no noticeable disadvantages anymore.
And as to torque, basically any car you can buy in europe has more of it than is healthy for you.
Yes, there is a big controversy over the government wiretapping without a warrant, but that doesn't change (what the article is talking about) the ability to be anonymous. We still have free internet cafes and other points we can get to the internet anonymously and post dissident material, which is a bedrock of our society. The court even struck down a state anti-spam law because it removed the right to anonymity.
for me i consider privacy a right, but anonymity is purely dependant on the situation. should scammers have the right to post shit anonymously? of course they don't, hence it's not a "right".
I don't know where you're from, but in a number of jurstictions (including, I would assume all democracies), the right to privacy _is_ a right. It is in the US, and it is in the UK/EU.
In fact, I think that the right to anonymity (in terms of speech) is a fundamental right in a free and open society.
Unfortunately in Italy you cannot anonymously go into an internet caffee. At least according to the law, you need to show an ID. Besides being police-state bullshit, this has lots of annoying practical implications. For instance a cafee or hotel cannot simply leave an open wireless access point in it's premises for it's customer's convenience, it needs to have individual authentication for each user, and ID them all (which isn't big news for hotels, since you can't even check in at a hotel in Italy, without an ID!)
As a side note, there are some similar non compete restrictions when you buy Visual studio from Microsoft, so this isn't like its a new concept and they seem to be doing well with it.
I call bullshit. If I develop an application with visual studio, I do not need permission from microsoft to distribute it or sell it on any platform I want.
..please! The issue is pretty much settled from a scientific perspective. Dinosaurs were killed by a meteorite impact (something in the range of 10km in size), which can account for the iridium spike in clay deposits. A meteor which killed 70% of the biomass on earth, and all animals heavier than 20kg or so, which is obviously enough to reshuffle all the cards of evolution.
WTF, they even found the crater of the impact, which is in the gulf of mexico.
I'll start using Chrome the instant they have a plugin that blocks annoying flashing multi-colour favicons.
[for those who haven't read the links, just go to the second so-called 'review' link, which is really a review of reviews...]
Same here.. I was about to RTFA, but it was flashing so annoyingly I had to close the tab.
Honestly how often do you actually use the home button?
I can't remember the last time I clicked it.
Now you mention it, I noticed there is no Home button on my firefox browser. I wonder if I removed it myself or it wasn't there in the first place..
4. Sandboxed tabs.
As far as I'm concerned, point 4 is the killer feature for me of Chrome. I won't use it as my default browser until several of my must-have extensions are availble for it (via Google Gears, I assume), but that's the kind of infrastructure planning that's hurting Firefox in a big way. Adobe's buggy Flash player shouldn't be ABLE to crash the browser, or even temporarily lock it up!
Sandboxing is about security (not allowing addons to do things they shouldn't be doing).
If you RTFC (read the f***ing comic) you'd know that plugins cannot be sandboxed at the moment. So while adobe flash plugin can only crash one tab, a vulnerability in the flash plugin can still compromise your machine.
Not all good researchers are good teachers, but beyond introductory first or second year classes, being a good researcher is a REQUIREMENT for being a good teacher.