Guy moves to microsoft, article explains how this manages to be the ultimate proof Microsoft is better than google. I guess it qualifies as stuff that matters...
Quite substandard for slashdot (and that's quite an statement).
Really, what article is the summary about? I was afraid that after reading all that gibberish it could lead me to a rick roll...
However, it turned out that this was not intentional, but the result of a set of unrelated circumstances that are the direct result of using open source and Web 2.0 frameworks carelesslytools carelessly and do ZERO TESTING.
So, even assuming the story is real, quite it could actually not be real, it has nothing to do with open source, I'll tag it FUD, thanks.
May I say who cares about running friking 'full hotmail'? The people that still use hotmail don't really care about getting the full widgets or whatever stunt MS invented here, I'd say they are more interested in MSN.
It is a web browser, not a random app, you use it every day, and even though opera could appear to be a decent alternative to firefox 3.0, it remains not good enough, plus you add the fact that it is proprietary, using it over firefox truly is non-sense. So with firefox3 you got a better quality browser, that is FOSS, while with opera you get what? full hotmail? Sorry, but I pass.
I could be 15 or 23, would you care? I'd say that your attachment on age is quite immature, my conclussion is that you probably are a 40 years old that's still behaving as a teenager trying to use age to make a point.
All this talk about openness vs. Nokia, brings bad memories to me. Has anyone tried to use a Nokia(or sony) provided USB cable to transfer data from a PC to a non-memory-expansible cell phone? "Hellish nightmare" is the least I can call it, really, where the cell phone makers trying hard to make our lives as hard as heck?
API can be used in any language supported by the Microsoft.Net Framework
In other words, the API barely works in.net only. A document format specification that is so hard to support that you need a platform dependent API in order to use, sounds about MSish enough.
"We like open source, as a way for us to get free cake, but please Linux devs, change your licenses and forget about all that freedom, transparency and competition stuff, let us have our free cake without having to risk our monopolies, this will allows us to be the only who profit from Linux, in exchange, I promise not to say you are not ready for business, thanks."
1) I always use Dejavu sans for font, so the fact I didn't notice this could be related to that, so no opinion.
2) I can say beta 5 was a little regressional speed wise, a situation that has improved with rc1. But overall to me firefox 3 feels to bring a level of performance I did not notice before.
3-4) Get used to it, it is truly awesome. I really was inept at using the history before, it was always very hard to find stuff, now I am able to find that page I visited 2 hours ago by just remembering something about the title. It just simplified things a lot. Regarding clutter, I disagree, it is good that it shows icons, titles and URLs, mostly because sites like slashdot have URLS like http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=581753&cid=23767373 , also, RC1 seems to have improved the bar's look so it is not as bad as before.
While none of these annoyances by themselves are deal breakers, I have yet to notice any changes (from an end-user standpoint - I understand the rendering engine has been significantly improved, which is great, but doesn't really help me all that much) that really make me want to upgrade.
Well, in my case , the performance has improved a lot, and the "awesomebar" has made me more effective at navigation, so I swithced to firefox 3 ever since beta 4.
This is a deal, not a merger. So, there are still three players here. Which means option-variety-wise this situation is healthier than the "clash of titans" one MS wanted to accomplish after eating yahoo.
I was unable to find any comment that was negative to google, so, are you a clairvoyant who decided to make that rant before the anti google comments came?
I am not a good fan of OLPC anymore, but really, this is ridiculous. I guess later we'll see a take of children laptops' contribution to global warming.
giving the kids machines without a corresponding level of parental supervision just resulted in distractions which ultimately damaged academic performance. By contrast, allowing children access to machines in a supervised setting, say an after school program via school labs, might mitigate some of the negative effects
Bullshit. Of course self-learning has a negative effect in that you cannot indoctrinate children as easy as before, call it "a disruption in academic performance" if you wish, but really, the kids are probably doing things that are more interesting and helpful than the stuff they were doing in school. Not really the laptop's fault, at least not entirely...
I do think flash gives adobe too much control of the web.
However, PDF being an ISO standard (though that got easy to achieve recently) And getting multiple implementations that run in multiple platforms, does not look like that much of an issue, nevertheless I would prefer people just tried to keep good standard usage on their pages, the whole flash, silverlight stuff might be awesome for games, but you get to see some pages that were supposed to be informative yet are filled with flash. Silverlight is not an exception with Microsoft getting so many deals with things like hospitals to get silverlight attached to them, kind of lame...
Looks like these guys are trying to make web developers 10 years of efforts to make the web portable and accessible.
It can really be a serious vulnerability, most default windows setups hide the.exe of executable filenames, with this I could easily place a bogus "My computer" icon that executes my favorite rootkit.
Novell attributes it to the MS-FUD deal, yeah of course, if you receive big large amounts of money from another company so you paid them for every purchase done to you, and you would also use this fact to advertise yourself as more legal and "more interoperable" than other distros, it probably will put you in a high spot. However, that doesn't make you less of a rat.
Smearing other Linux bussiness and using false advertising to climb and steal their market, it makes you a rat in a book.
Oh, sorry slashdot, I forgot "Novell contributes a lot to free software", so it is untouchable and I cannot make a bad commentary about them or what they are doing to exploit a deal that should have never been made. Sorry for criticizing Novell, uh oh.
Yeah, really, look at those comments. Apparently now giving a crap about the long term effectiveness of a system and not having to depend on some company that might go broke one day in order to use the hardware you actually paid for has become 'zealotry' or being a purist or taking it as a religion.
While simultaneously, people who put blind faith on corporations - that they will still want to give you updated binary blobs, that they will actually survive the years to come, etc - get the title of being pragmatists.
Oh and to they guys that are ranting about it ruining ubuntu, etc. Please notice it is just an alternative, you don't have to use it if you don't want to.
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Interesting.
Guy moves to microsoft, article explains how this manages to be the ultimate proof Microsoft is better than google. I guess it qualifies as stuff that matters...
Really, what article is the summary about? I was afraid that after reading all that gibberish it could lead me to a rick roll...
So, even assuming the story is real, quite it could actually not be real, it has nothing to do with open source, I'll tag it FUD, thanks.May I say who cares about running friking 'full hotmail'? The people that still use hotmail don't really care about getting the full widgets or whatever stunt MS invented here, I'd say they are more interested in MSN.
It is a web browser, not a random app, you use it every day, and even though opera could appear to be a decent alternative to firefox 3.0, it remains not good enough, plus you add the fact that it is proprietary, using it over firefox truly is non-sense. So with firefox3 you got a better quality browser, that is FOSS, while with opera you get what? full hotmail? Sorry, but I pass.
I could be 15 or 23, would you care? I'd say that your attachment on age is quite immature, my conclussion is that you probably are a 40 years old that's still behaving as a teenager trying to use age to make a point.
It is still proprietary crap. And who cares about running friking hotmail?
All this talk about openness vs. Nokia, brings bad memories to me. Has anyone tried to use a Nokia(or sony) provided USB cable to transfer data from a PC to a non-memory-expansible cell phone? "Hellish nightmare" is the least I can call it, really, where the cell phone makers trying hard to make our lives as hard as heck?
"We like open source, as a way for us to get free cake, but please Linux devs, change your licenses and forget about all that freedom, transparency and competition stuff, let us have our free cake without having to risk our monopolies, this will allows us to be the only who profit from Linux, in exchange, I promise not to say you are not ready for business, thanks."
The "Jefferson software license" ? That sounds interesting for some new kind of license... bleh.
1) I always use Dejavu sans for font, so the fact I didn't notice this could be related to that, so no opinion.
2) I can say beta 5 was a little regressional speed wise, a situation that has improved with rc1. But overall to me firefox 3 feels to bring a level of performance I did not notice before.
3-4) Get used to it, it is truly awesome. I really was inept at using the history before, it was always very hard to find stuff, now I am able to find that page I visited 2 hours ago by just remembering something about the title. It just simplified things a lot. Regarding clutter, I disagree, it is good that it shows icons, titles and URLs, mostly because sites like slashdot have URLS like http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=581753&cid=23767373 , also, RC1 seems to have improved the bar's look so it is not as bad as before.
Well, in my case , the performance has improved a lot, and the "awesomebar" has made me more effective at navigation, so I swithced to firefox 3 ever since beta 4.Oh no. Somebody call mozilla to stop they from releasing firefox before fixing such a critical issue!
Why the urge to hijack this? Could have just made another news bit. Also has Opera stopped being proprietary yet? If not, I don't really care.
This is a deal, not a merger. So, there are still three players here. Which means option-variety-wise this situation is healthier than the "clash of titans" one MS wanted to accomplish after eating yahoo.
I don't think the "US governments" are open source.
The real question is: Can US actually afford it this time?
I was unable to find any comment that was negative to google, so, are you a clairvoyant who decided to make that rant before the anti google comments came?
If you want them to get to the main page, yeah.
However, PDF being an ISO standard (though that got easy to achieve recently) And getting multiple implementations that run in multiple platforms, does not look like that much of an issue, nevertheless I would prefer people just tried to keep good standard usage on their pages, the whole flash, silverlight stuff might be awesome for games, but you get to see some pages that were supposed to be informative yet are filled with flash. Silverlight is not an exception with Microsoft getting so many deals with things like hospitals to get silverlight attached to them, kind of lame...
Looks like these guys are trying to make web developers 10 years of efforts to make the web portable and accessible.
Help them recover it, use silverlight.
It can really be a serious vulnerability, most default windows setups hide the .exe of executable filenames, with this I could easily place a bogus "My computer" icon that executes my favorite rootkit.
So, was the rats' table full?
Novell attributes it to the MS-FUD deal, yeah of course, if you receive big large amounts of money from another company so you paid them for every purchase done to you, and you would also use this fact to advertise yourself as more legal and "more interoperable" than other distros, it probably will put you in a high spot. However, that doesn't make you less of a rat.
Smearing other Linux bussiness and using false advertising to climb and steal their market, it makes you a rat in a book.
Oh, sorry slashdot, I forgot "Novell contributes a lot to free software", so it is untouchable and I cannot make a bad commentary about them or what they are doing to exploit a deal that should have never been made. Sorry for criticizing Novell, uh oh.
Yeah, really, look at those comments. Apparently now giving a crap about the long term effectiveness of a system and not having to depend on some company that might go broke one day in order to use the hardware you actually paid for has become 'zealotry' or being a purist or taking it as a religion.
While simultaneously, people who put blind faith on corporations - that they will still want to give you updated binary blobs, that they will actually survive the years to come, etc - get the title of being pragmatists.
Oh and to they guys that are ranting about it ruining ubuntu, etc. Please notice it is just an alternative, you don't have to use it if you don't want to.