Firefox stores plugin information in memory long after the plugin is closed and done being used. Whether this problem can be attributed to Adobe's work or Mozilla's, it's still a problem.
When I used IE, Adobe's horrible Acrobat plugin was definitely the problem. Close a page that was a pdf and the Acrobat plugin would stay in memory (taking a huge chunk of it BTW). I would have to fire up Task Manager and kill the Acro plugin every time.
As to a better PDF reader, may I suggest Foxit PDF reader. Loads much faster, better memory usage etc.
Wait, a much smaller download than Opera?! Opera v8.51 was 3,843,584 bytes. Anything less than this can not seriously be considered as a notable feature.
The only people who would kill for speed are geeks. As a 22+ year computer user I think I qualify. I almost never use the back button as I can't stand how so many sites reload when I do that. So I shift-click (or middle-button-click in Opera). So Firefox is hogging my RAM (that I use and want to continue using for other things TYVM) for a feature I don't use?!
I don't agree with your trashing of the person who happened to fp on this thread. I think he had an original take on things, and that justifies his comment. Personally I agree with him and I predict that before this day is out his comment will have a better rating than "0, Offtopic".
I run a web site, and have run others in the past. Content is indeed everything. The opposite of this is spamming the indexes. And changing article titles is index keyword spamming. On the other hand, organizing online newspaper sections into titles that Google News can recognize makes sense IMHO. So I say both the article, and the FPer are on point.
FPer is also right that there is a long line for those trying to take over from a number one in any category. Closest thing to Amazon.com is bn.com, and outside of/. how many even know what bn stands for? Those who are first in a field get everyone linking to them. This ups their Google search rankings (usually to a ridiculous degree). How does a better site compete with that? I'd like to know because one of my areas is baby names. My site has 1.5M of them, more than the rest combined. But type "baby names" into Google and sites with a few thousand pepper the first page of hits. This is not justice, this is not what the end users want, but this is the way it is.
So, I tip my hat to the FPer on this thread, who happened to be right on the money, in my books.
I've heard that Firefox is a memory hog. I use Opera and like its lightweight design -- pages load fast, ads are blocked and ram usage is low. Does Firefox trump this?
I give zero credibility to wiki anything and specifically asked for non-wiki links.
If you take Wiki at face value...
Certainly no reason to do that.
If you read the second paragraph of the second article carefully you'll see it says Ford *adapted* conveyor belts and the assembly line for automotive production.
And I asked for proof that _Olds_ _invented_ the assembly line. This second paragraph doesn't say who invented it -- I think that people aren't giving Ford credit and most are furthering the urban legend.
I believe the royal navy invented the assembly line to manufacture the blocks used in their sailing ships...Here is a link to back that up. It is described in this article as an automated production line but I think that is as good a description of an assembly line as any. http://www.briontoss.com/education/archive/miscmay 03.htm
Automated production.NE. automated assembly line. That royal navy engineer invented a great many interesting devices to help make blocks. Ford's innovative idea to move the car instead of bringing parts to the car...and I have no proof that Olds did this, yet Olds and Olds backers like to claim this. (BTW, I drive an Olds Ciera).
Ok, look, I send out trivia and got called on saying Ford invented the assembly line. Then I go looking on Google, hunt down dozens of web pages (including the about.com link you mention that just says Olds invented it). I am looking for something that shows me _what_ Olds supposedly invented. Was it a moving line, for example? Wouldn't there be photos. After my prior research I just think the Olds claim is bogus, that's all.
Netflix could compete by actually delivering what they promise to deliver.
I tried Netthrottle^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hflix and after a month of good service, then a survey (talk about good timing), service went straight downhill.
How ironic is it that a company convicted of breaking the law (Netflix) is now trying to sue someone else who is copying their unworkable business model?
Agreed. And by the way, does anyone make anything from Amazon referral links any more? Quite a few years back I got a couple of paltry checks (close to the minimum before they will even cut a check) from them but lately I've got nada (for years now in fact) despite an average of 2,000 visitors a day to my web site (it has 2 pages with Amazon links out of about 1,600 pages).
It has been said that Olds invented the assembly line, but I have never seen any proof of this. Anyone got any links, besides wiki which is a glorified pointer system.
I think this is a good idea. Unfortunately I think that we live in unaccountable times. Groups as corrupt as today's politicians will just not support things that would make them more accountable. When a society will stoop to mass poisoning (i.e. fluoridation), they will do pretty much anything...as long as it is in their own self interest.
I have always enjoyed Jim Belushi (for example, "The Principal" or "Mr. Destiny") and Arnold is well suited to stiff talking muscle man roles.
To each their own. I can't stand things like the LotR series, HP, or Bond movies. That still leaves me with about 350 movies I consider rewatching: http://www.just-think-it.com/movies.htm
There is one other problem with the American system, maybe the worst of all.
Omnibus bills that ram through dozens of other bills with one main bill. If you like the main one, everyone assumes you will vote for that. Even if the other stuff is borderline criminal.
Omnibus bills suit most politicians of course, allowing them to ram through more legislation with as little thought as possible so that they can get back out on the golf course.
I think this would also provoke people who return to watch the movie a second time in the theater to buy the package on that second trip. They have found out the movie is a good one and are ready for buying that DVD at that time.
What about a package price (paid when you buy your ticket at the movie theater) that includes the cost of the big screen movie viewing, a DRM'd download AND the DVD when it comes out? Sales of the DVD will increase, especially if you buy the package before you see the movie. In return they could offer a good price on the bundle, say $25 for all three.
How ironic that the "great" American political system is such a shambles. Electoral College means unfair representation, something as simple as counting ballots gets messed up, and once you are elected you _must not_ represent your constituents but instead must follow what the party whip says. AND it is basically impossible to get a third party into the picture.
Oh well, time for a Bud and an extended session with the TV remote...
Am I the only one who finds that DVD prices are very much better these days? I just bought a special edition (Red Heat) for $7 from Amazon, for example. At these prices what is going to compete with DVDs? Certainly not HD DVDs. Certainly not DRM limited downloads, at any price.
It seems to me the whole movie downloading thing started because DVDs were over priced. Now it seems that they aren't.
Is it almost time to start a national lobby group? Citizens for Better Movies or something. The punch would be how many people we sign up for our weekly newsletter where we report things like the relative volume levels for dialog, action, trailers and commercials in the latest movie trash. Think of it like IMDB 2.0, Movie comments by anyone but movie flunkies.
On this subject each of us has a story to tell and we all have the same karma points.
If I may suggest something to the parent poster...
"Seemingly unimportant decisions" or SUDs. These are the triggers and early steps toward relapses. Learning what your's are and then building up a defense mechanism that avoids SUDs and deals quickly with them can help. Worked for me.
It is the same problem that is limiting Internet access control technology right now -- are you really who you say you are. Anyone can come up with some sure fire way to prove who they are, and these are either not ubiquitous (e.g. DNS sample from your finger) and/or can still be defeated by hackers.
I offer cold hard cash to the first person who really solves this problem and lets me in on it first.
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Yup, Apple routinely abandons their users, and the users fanatically love them.
Microsoft carefully tugs their users along with them, and the users almost universally despise them.
Do you actually think Microsoft WANTS their OS to be slow?
Ah, yes I do. In fact the term "Wintel" was coined for this because MS would deliberately bloat Windows in response to each new CPU from Intel. One thing sold the other --> duopoly --> Wintel.
Windows 3.x sucked due to System Resource design limits (quietly mostly fixed in Windows 9x) that forced everyone to upgrade if they wanted to run 2 or more applications at once.
Windows ME sucked because MS deliberately croaked it with System Restore & "Find Fast". Turn those off and you had 98SE. Or buy newer Intel hardware.
XP sucks due to unneeded services and super sucky(tm) disk caching (as has been mentioned several times above). SS disk caching = "I need a new Intel computer".
Vista will suck due to its ridiculous graphics layer and randomly changed UI. The day I need Vista is the day I start wearing a dress, lipstick and perfume -- and change my hair color daily.
...but in all cases these things were/are designed to suck/steal/use/hog CPU cycles.
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When I used IE, Adobe's horrible Acrobat plugin was definitely the problem. Close a page that was a pdf and the Acrobat plugin would stay in memory (taking a huge chunk of it BTW). I would have to fire up Task Manager and kill the Acro plugin every time.
As to a better PDF reader, may I suggest Foxit PDF reader. Loads much faster, better memory usage etc.
Wait, a much smaller download than Opera?! Opera v8.51 was 3,843,584 bytes. Anything less than this can not seriously be considered as a notable feature.
The only people who would kill for speed are geeks. As a 22+ year computer user I think I qualify. I almost never use the back button as I can't stand how so many sites reload when I do that. So I shift-click (or middle-button-click in Opera). So Firefox is hogging my RAM (that I use and want to continue using for other things TYVM) for a feature I don't use?!
I run a web site, and have run others in the past. Content is indeed everything. The opposite of this is spamming the indexes. And changing article titles is index keyword spamming. On the other hand, organizing online newspaper sections into titles that Google News can recognize makes sense IMHO. So I say both the article, and the FPer are on point.
FPer is also right that there is a long line for those trying to take over from a number one in any category. Closest thing to Amazon.com is bn.com, and outside of /. how many even know what bn stands for? Those who are first in a field get everyone linking to them. This ups their Google search rankings (usually to a ridiculous degree). How does a better site compete with that? I'd like to know because one of my areas is baby names. My site has 1.5M of them, more than the rest combined. But type "baby names" into Google and sites with a few thousand pepper the first page of hits. This is not justice, this is not what the end users want, but this is the way it is.
So, I tip my hat to the FPer on this thread, who happened to be right on the money, in my books.
I've heard that Firefox is a memory hog. I use Opera and like its lightweight design -- pages load fast, ads are blocked and ram usage is low. Does Firefox trump this?
I give zero credibility to wiki anything and specifically asked for non-wiki links.
If you take Wiki at face value...
Certainly no reason to do that.
If you read the second paragraph of the second article carefully you'll see it says Ford *adapted* conveyor belts and the assembly line for automotive production.
And I asked for proof that _Olds_ _invented_ the assembly line. This second paragraph doesn't say who invented it -- I think that people aren't giving Ford credit and most are furthering the urban legend.
Automated production .NE. automated assembly line. That royal navy engineer invented a great many interesting devices to help make blocks. Ford's innovative idea to move the car instead of bringing parts to the car...and I have no proof that Olds did this, yet Olds and Olds backers like to claim this. (BTW, I drive an Olds Ciera).
The big question is "Are they throttling as well?"
The best way we can protest the Netflix and Blockbuster scams is to use our local libraries instead.
Ok, look, I send out trivia and got called on saying Ford invented the assembly line. Then I go looking on Google, hunt down dozens of web pages (including the about.com link you mention that just says Olds invented it). I am looking for something that shows me _what_ Olds supposedly invented. Was it a moving line, for example? Wouldn't there be photos. After my prior research I just think the Olds claim is bogus, that's all.
I tried Netthrottle^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hflix and after a month of good service, then a survey (talk about good timing), service went straight downhill.
How ironic is it that a company convicted of breaking the law (Netflix) is now trying to sue someone else who is copying their unworkable business model?
Agreed. And by the way, does anyone make anything from Amazon referral links any more? Quite a few years back I got a couple of paltry checks (close to the minimum before they will even cut a check) from them but lately I've got nada (for years now in fact) despite an average of 2,000 visitors a day to my web site (it has 2 pages with Amazon links out of about 1,600 pages).
It has been said that Olds invented the assembly line, but I have never seen any proof of this. Anyone got any links, besides wiki which is a glorified pointer system.
I think this is a good idea. Unfortunately I think that we live in unaccountable times. Groups as corrupt as today's politicians will just not support things that would make them more accountable. When a society will stoop to mass poisoning (i.e. fluoridation), they will do pretty much anything...as long as it is in their own self interest.
To each their own. I can't stand things like the LotR series, HP, or Bond movies. That still leaves me with about 350 movies I consider rewatching: http://www.just-think-it.com/movies.htm
Omnibus bills that ram through dozens of other bills with one main bill. If you like the main one, everyone assumes you will vote for that. Even if the other stuff is borderline criminal.
Omnibus bills suit most politicians of course, allowing them to ram through more legislation with as little thought as possible so that they can get back out on the golf course.
I think this would also provoke people who return to watch the movie a second time in the theater to buy the package on that second trip. They have found out the movie is a good one and are ready for buying that DVD at that time.
What about a package price (paid when you buy your ticket at the movie theater) that includes the cost of the big screen movie viewing, a DRM'd download AND the DVD when it comes out? Sales of the DVD will increase, especially if you buy the package before you see the movie. In return they could offer a good price on the bundle, say $25 for all three.
Oh well, time for a Bud and an extended session with the TV remote...
It seems to me the whole movie downloading thing started because DVDs were over priced. Now it seems that they aren't.
Score one for the good guys.
Is it almost time to start a national lobby group? Citizens for Better Movies or something. The punch would be how many people we sign up for our weekly newsletter where we report things like the relative volume levels for dialog, action, trailers and commercials in the latest movie trash. Think of it like IMDB 2.0, Movie comments by anyone but movie flunkies.
If I may suggest something to the parent poster...
"Seemingly unimportant decisions" or SUDs. These are the triggers and early steps toward relapses. Learning what your's are and then building up a defense mechanism that avoids SUDs and deals quickly with them can help. Worked for me.
I offer cold hard cash to the first person who really solves this problem and lets me in on it first.
Yup, Apple routinely abandons their users, and the users fanatically love them.
Microsoft carefully tugs their users along with them, and the users almost universally despise them.
Ah, yes I do. In fact the term "Wintel" was coined for this because MS would deliberately bloat Windows in response to each new CPU from Intel. One thing sold the other --> duopoly --> Wintel.
Windows 3.x sucked due to System Resource design limits (quietly mostly fixed in Windows 9x) that forced everyone to upgrade if they wanted to run 2 or more applications at once.
Windows ME sucked because MS deliberately croaked it with System Restore & "Find Fast". Turn those off and you had 98SE. Or buy newer Intel hardware.
XP sucks due to unneeded services and super sucky(tm) disk caching (as has been mentioned several times above). SS disk caching = "I need a new Intel computer".
Vista will suck due to its ridiculous graphics layer and randomly changed UI. The day I need Vista is the day I start wearing a dress, lipstick and perfume -- and change my hair color daily.