Because without a consistent GUI they wouldn't be able to basically throw the consistency to a garbage can and feel so warm inside after they do it.
Seriously, what's even remotely consistent in windows' chrome in relation to windows' theme and interface rules? I think google is bullshitting with this one.
Q. Will chrome ever work in OS/X / Linux / *BSD like real browsers tend to do?
A. Not really. However, in order to make it up to you, we are allowing you to download an install a chrome-themed webkit window that doesn't have any of the features, is unstable and does not integrate with your OS at all. Of course, as a precondition you first need to find it through a huge maze of links. Please ignore your OS currently got much better native browsers using webkit anyway...
Q. Is it true Chrome is open source software like some articles said?
A. No, Chrome is not open source software. It does not provide you any of the basic reassurances Open source software actually gives you. To make up for this, we invented Chromium, which you can find after diving to another maze of links and compile yourself. We designed Chromium as just a way to selectively get free code. Please, don't use it as it will give you the basic FOSS freedoms and we do not want that for our browser.
Q. Is it true that other non-IE browsers like Firefox, Opera and Safari are also working on javascript speed making the only important chrome feature worthless?
A. Definitely, as a matter of fact, since some of their new versions actually beat Chrome in memory usage and they have no problem in working in many platforms -integrating correctly with the OS, even windows' themes - , there's really no point in using Chrome unless you want a porn tab or want to follow hype. Ok, to be fair those browsers' new versions do have something like the porn tab and each have always had their fair amount of over-hyped fans... Of course, chrome might still be faster, but this is due to the fact we implemented the javascript VM using as much crazy, unmaintainable windows hack as possible. But don't worry, the only web site in which you might actually notice the difference is one we made in which we placed a bunch of demos designed to stress test javascript...
Well, I think they added it as a honorable mention just not to offend MS too much after doing it with vista, some sort of PC stuff... I don't think ubuntu could be qualified as a disappointment, maybe for Linux fan boys that expected it to magically turn the market share over.
What's marketshare good for anyway? Has ubuntu actually failed yet anyway? it is still a quite active product that keeps improving over and over and personally, with Jaunty, it was such awesomeness, I upgraded yearly for two years, once from feisty to hardy and another time from hardy to jaunty, this darn thing keeps improving... Also, to consider all sorts of effects ubuntu has had on the whole open source industry (I personally don't think Red Hat or Novell would bother with Fedora and OpenSuse if it wasn't for ubuntu) I am hardly dissappointed yet when I consider the whole story.
Sure monopoly isn't nearly over, but well, what do numbers really mean? I don't think it is up to ubuntu or Linux itself anymore and that ubuntu did a great job. In a lot of ways it is up to applications now, as the OS itself is really suitable for users now (And well, I know, whenever I lend my PC to non-geeks they get a little confused at first but they do manage to get their stuff done) The apps are now the biggest reason preventing migration.
Maybe it is really one of the most disappointing technologies, but just because of fan boys execting it do miracles. To have an OS market share switch by just releasing a good OS and doing some advertizing, is very hard and is more of a long term project, ubuntu is still way too young yet and has plenty of time to continue evolving and rob marketshare.
The assertion that the OS 'landscape is very much the same' now is completely absurd though. Linux computers ARE getting sold now. I actually come from a fair in my country in which a company was introducing them. Linux HAS gone mainstream already. The fear that the guys in MS and a 'community of partners' have shown to Linux going mainstream is clear if you take a look at the "itsbetterwithwindows.com" site, DO you think that if the OS landscape was the same now that some years ago MS would have had to make this stunt? I highly, highly doubt so. Just take a look at that site and all the fear they show, things like "We hope our users are too stupid to learn new things" and "Microsoft and a community of partners financially depend on you not picking an alternative to windows"...
Everybody notice that Gartner is Microsoft's 'voice' so, this is really what Microsoft wants to ensure people believe. That they reformed from the vista screwup, that it is suddenly better. People on the other hand would love to believe it, as after years and years of growing a huge windows dependence they need a good version - yes, even geeks do.
However, the truth is, that besides the new theme and a more responsive interface it really is the same as vista in the guts... Of course, compatibility got better, but that's because companies have had all these years to work in vista compatibility... I think MS should get used to longer betas or something like that. As for me, since windows 7 still has the stuff that made me dislike vista (the stronger DRM, WGA, and other restriction technologies) I have quit my hopes.
You "Should not" surf in porn. However, the place he was working at did never specify any policy on what sites you may access. And not filtering whatsoever. The photos were found later in cache by the boss, so it is likely the guy wasn't showing the pics or his activities to co-workers - no sexual harassment there - Then again, if it is not morally acceptable or proper to surf while you work... You get fired. Or you go to jail for sexual harassment/prostitution laws if it is shown that your broke them. However, going to jail for 'hacking' is non-sense in this case. Completely non-sense and a misuse of that law which is starting to get interpreted as "using a computer for something I don't like" . I don't think that's really what an anti-hacking law is supposed to be used for.
I think you are right and the TPB should do just as the music firms and play by the rules, trials are supposed to be win by getting a biased, friend judge on your half, not by finding loopholes. If we allow this 'loophole' idea to win, all our legal system of lobbying, bribing and manipulating is at risk, we shalt not let it happen!
Basically if this is Lenovo's vision about the future of netbooks, it seems to tell me to avoid buying any Lenovo netbook any time soon. As for windows 7, I am taking the story "nomorethan3appsatatimeyay".
It isn't exactly a 'feature' it is a design flaw. Specially because of the whole "double clicking something runs strange program" deal.
By the way, the security problem is not that much with hiding the extensions (though it is certainly VERY annoying) The real issue comes with the fact that executable files can be anywhere and all that is needed to [a) display an icon determined by the executable and b) being executable by double click] is to just change the extension to.exe , that's rather bad for security.
A similar misguidance was present in Linux, at least gnome and KDE desktops' support of the.desktop extension, if Linux had more users you can be sure that thing was going to have social engineered the heck of all people into installing rootkits in their systems. That's right, just like windows'.exe non-sense, just the.desktop file extension allowed you to have an icon that [ a)Had a bogus extension/name. b) Had a custom icon, in fact it was easier to use the system's icon for folder or doc file. and c) launched a script with double click. ] I personally was happily surprised to see that after my Jaunty Jackalope update, these.desktop monstrousities finally need an executable permission to work.
For people noticing how lame these things are in both windows and Linux, I am tagging the story as "suddenoutbreakofcommonsense".
While the GPL powers as much as 77% of all Sourceforge projects, Eric Raymond argues that the GPL is 'a confession of fear and weakness' that 'slows down open-source adoption' because of the fear and uncertainty the GPL provokes. Raymond's argument seems to be that if openness is the winning strategy, an argument Michael Tiemann advocates, wouldn't it make sense to use the most open license?
You do know that google docs are really much more of an online ODF viewer/quickfixer for when you are lost in some XP computer without any ODF compatibility installed than actual office software, right? Well, they are also great to read PPT emails without worrying of viruses or lame things like that.
Google docs are a great product as an auxiliary tool to aid your favorite office app, but they can't really replace it, I mean really...
I'm not saying Ubuntu does nothing. I'm saying Ubuntu gets almost all the credit for Linux development, when they do a very small portion of it.
That's not right, they only happen to get most of the credit in the desktop/home niche, and you got to accept that red hat/Novell/Sun never really made that a priority - which to their bussiness is a good thing. But in the desktop, Linux needed and needs a lot of polish, and canonical did exactly that, I mean can you believe X would just crash giving lame errors until you manually fixed xorg.conf before someone thought of "bulletproof X"? that's crazy shit...
And while I disagreed with the Novell/MS deal, it seems the community wants to hate on Novell, and not give them the credit they deserve.
It's not like they deserve much credit either. When they made the deal, Novell chose MS and corporate MS partners that need to feel protected over the community, it is hard to expect the community to like them much after such tragic blunder.
Soon we no longer need actors and we just need digitized versions of them.
So we may see new movies with Bogart, Wayne, Hepburn, Garbo and many others.
Alperxe's Law: "All discussions about an organization hurting IP-based corporations will eventually devolve into the target of the discussion being compared to The Pirate Bay".
Sorry but, "Alerxe's" ? I cannot picture myself remembering that name, the reason Godwin gets invoked so much is that it is such an incredibly easy name to remember "God-win!" .
It is interesting that copyright holders don't seem to think content purchasers are allowed to rent their stuff. And they take offense to it as if it was the same as piracy. Book publishers are not alone, see what game devs think of it : http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20041215/hook_01.shtml
Of course, maybe with all the piracy paranoia we allowed things to degenerate into a situation that companies want to be protected from ANYTHING that would hurt their sales. Not something I like.
Not sure if I am interested in THIS game, but after reading the tags. What's up with companies not making PS2 games lately? Afterall, isn't the wii just a PS2 with a funny controller? And they have already made the game work with PS controllers anyway as it works in the PS3, so what's going on?
As to languages, in the case of ICPC there are only C, C++ and Java. Other programming competitions allow more languages, most people use C/C++ in these contests anyway...
I am sorry, but I have been using...... err, I am not even sure what its name is, whatever PDF reader comes by default in ubuntu, and it works just great? All I need when reading a PDF is... zoom, page view, and table of contents... Rendering correctly? Maybe all the docens of ebooks I tried never used any complex PDF feature... I actually think that's a good thing though...
Actually, I think this is more of a netbook than most of those recent 600 USD power consuming-beasts running windows and with those noisy hard drives on them. A netbook != laptop with small screen for gawd's sake...
The Catholic church is one of those few churches that does not anymore charges 10% of all your salaries just because you are a sheep in the congregation. They accept donations, but know what? When I used to be a catholic the most money I gave in a voluntarily donation was about 20 cents of dollars a week. There are zillions of Catholics but most of them truly do nothing in regards to donations, and it has been this way in ages, compare to the rest of the Christian whacks, that ask forced 10% on all your profits or even time!.
Besides, that they are actually investing the donations instead of doing charity (a synonym of 'making sure the poor stay that way') they win even against certain states in North America and the EU.
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Seriously, what's even remotely consistent in windows' chrome in relation to windows' theme and interface rules? I think google is bullshitting with this one.
You know how we are starting to look like those moronic cultures that burned books?
A. Not really. However, in order to make it up to you, we are allowing you to download an install a chrome-themed webkit window that doesn't have any of the features, is unstable and does not integrate with your OS at all. Of course, as a precondition you first need to find it through a huge maze of links. Please ignore your OS currently got much better native browsers using webkit anyway...
Q. Is it true Chrome is open source software like some articles said?
A. No, Chrome is not open source software. It does not provide you any of the basic reassurances Open source software actually gives you. To make up for this, we invented Chromium, which you can find after diving to another maze of links and compile yourself. We designed Chromium as just a way to selectively get free code. Please, don't use it as it will give you the basic FOSS freedoms and we do not want that for our browser.
Q. Is it true that other non-IE browsers like Firefox, Opera and Safari are also working on javascript speed making the only important chrome feature worthless?
A. Definitely, as a matter of fact, since some of their new versions actually beat Chrome in memory usage and they have no problem in working in many platforms -integrating correctly with the OS, even windows' themes - , there's really no point in using Chrome unless you want a porn tab or want to follow hype. Ok, to be fair those browsers' new versions do have something like the porn tab and each have always had their fair amount of over-hyped fans... Of course, chrome might still be faster, but this is due to the fact we implemented the javascript VM using as much crazy, unmaintainable windows hack as possible. But don't worry, the only web site in which you might actually notice the difference is one we made in which we placed a bunch of demos designed to stress test javascript...
Well, I think they added it as a honorable mention just not to offend MS too much after doing it with vista, some sort of PC stuff... I don't think ubuntu could be qualified as a disappointment, maybe for Linux fan boys that expected it to magically turn the market share over.
What's marketshare good for anyway? Has ubuntu actually failed yet anyway? it is still a quite active product that keeps improving over and over and personally, with Jaunty, it was such awesomeness, I upgraded yearly for two years, once from feisty to hardy and another time from hardy to jaunty, this darn thing keeps improving... Also, to consider all sorts of effects ubuntu has had on the whole open source industry (I personally don't think Red Hat or Novell would bother with Fedora and OpenSuse if it wasn't for ubuntu) I am hardly dissappointed yet when I consider the whole story.
Sure monopoly isn't nearly over, but well, what do numbers really mean? I don't think it is up to ubuntu or Linux itself anymore and that ubuntu did a great job. In a lot of ways it is up to applications now, as the OS itself is really suitable for users now (And well, I know, whenever I lend my PC to non-geeks they get a little confused at first but they do manage to get their stuff done) The apps are now the biggest reason preventing migration.
Maybe it is really one of the most disappointing technologies, but just because of fan boys execting it do miracles. To have an OS market share switch by just releasing a good OS and doing some advertizing, is very hard and is more of a long term project, ubuntu is still way too young yet and has plenty of time to continue evolving and rob marketshare.
The assertion that the OS 'landscape is very much the same' now is completely absurd though. Linux computers ARE getting sold now. I actually come from a fair in my country in which a company was introducing them. Linux HAS gone mainstream already. The fear that the guys in MS and a 'community of partners' have shown to Linux going mainstream is clear if you take a look at the "itsbetterwithwindows.com" site, DO you think that if the OS landscape was the same now that some years ago MS would have had to make this stunt? I highly, highly doubt so. Just take a look at that site and all the fear they show, things like "We hope our users are too stupid to learn new things" and "Microsoft and a community of partners financially depend on you not picking an alternative to windows"...
Everybody notice that Gartner is Microsoft's 'voice' so, this is really what Microsoft wants to ensure people believe. That they reformed from the vista screwup, that it is suddenly better. People on the other hand would love to believe it, as after years and years of growing a huge windows dependence they need a good version - yes, even geeks do.
However, the truth is, that besides the new theme and a more responsive interface it really is the same as vista in the guts... Of course, compatibility got better, but that's because companies have had all these years to work in vista compatibility... I think MS should get used to longer betas or something like that. As for me, since windows 7 still has the stuff that made me dislike vista (the stronger DRM, WGA, and other restriction technologies) I have quit my hopes.
why would ANY study a parliament bases from to make decisions be secret to begin with?
You "Should not" surf in porn. However, the place he was working at did never specify any policy on what sites you may access. And not filtering whatsoever. The photos were found later in cache by the boss, so it is likely the guy wasn't showing the pics or his activities to co-workers - no sexual harassment there - Then again, if it is not morally acceptable or proper to surf while you work... You get fired. Or you go to jail for sexual harassment/prostitution laws if it is shown that your broke them. However, going to jail for 'hacking' is non-sense in this case. Completely non-sense and a misuse of that law which is starting to get interpreted as "using a computer for something I don't like" . I don't think that's really what an anti-hacking law is supposed to be used for.
I think you are right and the TPB should do just as the music firms and play by the rules, trials are supposed to be win by getting a biased, friend judge on your half, not by finding loopholes. If we allow this 'loophole' idea to win, all our legal system of lobbying, bribing and manipulating is at risk, we shalt not let it happen!
Let me see, more expensive, big, fast, windows... Sounds like a... laptop?
I'd dare to say that high return rates in Linux netbooks are dure to bad advertising/support, as it sure is possible to do it correctly.
Basically if this is Lenovo's vision about the future of netbooks, it seems to tell me to avoid buying any Lenovo netbook any time soon. As for windows 7, I am taking the story "nomorethan3appsatatimeyay".
It isn't exactly a 'feature' it is a design flaw. Specially because of the whole "double clicking something runs strange program" deal.
By the way, the security problem is not that much with hiding the extensions (though it is certainly VERY annoying) The real issue comes with the fact that executable files can be anywhere and all that is needed to [a) display an icon determined by the executable and b) being executable by double click] is to just change the extension to .exe , that's rather bad for security.
A similar misguidance was present in Linux, at least gnome and KDE desktops' support of the .desktop extension, if Linux had more users you can be sure that thing was going to have social engineered the heck of all people into installing rootkits in their systems. That's right, just like windows' .exe non-sense, just the .desktop file extension allowed you to have an icon that [ a)Had a bogus extension/name. b) Had a custom icon, in fact it was easier to use the system's icon for folder or doc file. and c) launched a script with double click. ] I personally was happily surprised to see that after my Jaunty Jackalope update, these .desktop monstrousities finally need an executable permission to work.
For people noticing how lame these things are in both windows and Linux, I am tagging the story as "suddenoutbreakofcommonsense".
If you think so, use the GPL.
Google docs are a great product as an auxiliary tool to aid your favorite office app, but they can't really replace it, I mean really...
That's not right, they only happen to get most of the credit in the desktop/home niche, and you got to accept that red hat/Novell/Sun never really made that a priority - which to their bussiness is a good thing. But in the desktop, Linux needed and needs a lot of polish, and canonical did exactly that, I mean can you believe X would just crash giving lame errors until you manually fixed xorg.conf before someone thought of "bulletproof X"? that's crazy shit...
It's not like they deserve much credit either. When they made the deal, Novell chose MS and corporate MS partners that need to feel protected over the community, it is hard to expect the community to like them much after such tragic blunder.
All right, I don't see the sense of making it more than 10 years... 20 is all right I guess. 30? Ok, maybe, but 50?!! And they extended it to 70???!
I wonder what VMWare, virtualbox and xen have to say about this?
successful troll is successful.
Wow I'd TOTALLY pay to see that terminator movie!
Sorry but, "Alerxe's" ? I cannot picture myself remembering that name, the reason Godwin gets invoked so much is that it is such an incredibly easy name to remember "God-win!" .
Of course, maybe with all the piracy paranoia we allowed things to degenerate into a situation that companies want to be protected from ANYTHING that would hurt their sales. Not something I like.
Not sure if I am interested in THIS game, but after reading the tags. What's up with companies not making PS2 games lately? Afterall, isn't the wii just a PS2 with a funny controller? And they have already made the game work with PS controllers anyway as it works in the PS3, so what's going on?
icpc-2009-world-finals.html
As to languages, in the case of ICPC there are only C, C++ and Java. Other programming competitions allow more languages, most people use C/C++ in these contests anyway...
I am sorry, but I have been using... ... err, I am not even sure what its name is, whatever PDF reader comes by default in ubuntu, and it works just great? All I need when reading a PDF is... zoom, page view, and table of contents... Rendering correctly? Maybe all the docens of ebooks I tried never used any complex PDF feature... I actually think that's a good thing though...
Actually, I think this is more of a netbook than most of those recent 600 USD power consuming-beasts running windows and with those noisy hard drives on them. A netbook != laptop with small screen for gawd's sake...
The Catholic church is one of those few churches that does not anymore charges 10% of all your salaries just because you are a sheep in the congregation. They accept donations, but know what? When I used to be a catholic the most money I gave in a voluntarily donation was about 20 cents of dollars a week. There are zillions of Catholics but most of them truly do nothing in regards to donations, and it has been this way in ages, compare to the rest of the Christian whacks, that ask forced 10% on all your profits or even time!.
Besides, that they are actually investing the donations instead of doing charity (a synonym of 'making sure the poor stay that way') they win even against certain states in North America and the EU.