If I email you a shell script named "Click me.sh" than runs "rm -Rf ~/", is that a virus too? If you listened to some of the people here, you would begin to think so.
Still, I put up with it because it's far better than IE6. I don't like Opera, so I don't have a lot of choice.
Exactly my reasoning except jam 'Firefox' in there instead of 'Opera'. My experience with Firefox is that I really have to search to find the options I want to change and after using it for a while, as you pointed out, it starts to eat memory. Opera is now up for the 4th day straight and it's used an extra 4 meg of memory since then.
As I always do, I'll try 3.0 when it comes out - I just don't expect to change:)
AdBlock. There's a good chance they've fixed the leak by now (I say a lot about OSS but there's usually good turnaround times on fixes), but it's worth testing before you rely on it.
And who cares if you are not able to play those FULL SCREEN games and have your browser open at the same time? I care.
Also, it's not a troll ifit'strue. That last one was a result of one single extension that's still listed as one of the 5 most popular on Mozilla's website.
Firefox is and always has been faster (uses less CPU) and more efficient (uses less memory) compared to IE and even compared to Opera.
Maybe more so than IE but not Opera. Search "Firefox Opera speed test" on Google. A good selection of links, especially this one, showing Opera's speed. I also challenge the memory usage - someone up the page mentioned having Firefox on all day and using 103 meg. I have 15 tabs open right now, it's been open all day and my memory usage has barely exceeded 50 meg. No memory leaks, nothing.
Wow. You posted that little gem as a reply to a post marked 'Re: ad hominem' because you tried to say that you should make a good argument rather than attack the person. Not only that, but you actually had to wait until I personally admitted that I have my weaknesses before you tried to use it against me. Do you wait until your wife asks you if she's fat to launch into her about her weight problems too?
It's also good to see that you've stopped pretending you're not Twitter again. It was always the most futile of your pathetic attempts to attain relevance, shilling your own sad points of view. And then, get this, you post a link to an argument you had with me where once again you couldn't answer a single point I made except to lie even further and once again attack me personally.
How was this supposed to make you look good or prove a point?
Point one: It's ad hominem, not hominum. I would figure that you should know that considering that a good 9/10 of your posts or more are ad hominem attacks on Microsoft... but hey, let's not let hypocrisy stop you, right?
Point two: You know as well as I do that anecdotal evidence means precisely bull. You want numbers, they're right there for you. However, you won't read them or believe them because it doesn't fit into your own personal little worldview. So why bother?
Point three: To answer your question, I have seen 4 copies of Vista in the group of friends I have, and I don't have many friends because I'm a pretty hard guy to get along wit most times. Now, I would say that if I had 30 friends (a generous estimate) and 4 of those friends have Vista, then that makes a 13% rate of take up for Vista. There are 6 billion people on the planet so that makes the current potential market for Vista to be somewhere in the region of 780 million copies.
Oh look at that! I can take my experience and bullshit together propaganda that fits my point of view too.
The problem is now you've saturated/. with your pointless crap, even the Linux zealots don't believe you any more. You might well be telling the truth, but like the boy who cried wolf you've lied so many times that I can't be bothered to waste my time working out whether this particular line of your stink is invented or merely observation.
Either way, it's still not worth the paper it's printed on.
It was actually kind of a joke, but obviously it whooshed over the heads of, well, everyone. I mean, people complain that poor people want to enter America and there's a bloody advert to do so etched into one of your most famous landmarks.
You can say that, but seeing as the US treats copyright infringement as theft nowadays (and apparently Australia agrees), if someone steals a lot of money off an American company it would make more sense to try that person in America.
Please note I'm not going to get into an argument about whether it really is theft or not. There's plenty of places to have that discussion.
people are starting to think that because they are poorer than us, and less fortunate than us, that that gives them some kind of right to enter the U.S. Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
Emma Lazarus - "The New Colossus". Inscribed at the base of the Statue of Liberty.
A number is to software as paint is to a device... Not really. The colour of the paint, or even the use of paint at all, is completely arbitrary. The number is an unlocking key and is crucial to the operation of the device. A better analogy would be that this number is to software as a pin code is to a credit card.
I'm not supporting AACS-LA in any way (decrypting HD-DVDs for your own benefit is fair use, it's only distributing them that's legally dodgy) but at the same time that's most likely the stance they take.
To play Devil's advocate here, it's more like Disney suing Xerox because people are distributing illegal copies of a copyrighted Disney book on Xerox's property, and Xerox are denying they can do anything about it.
"People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in."
Nice comparison. Would you like to know the difference?
Information is a thing. It doesn't think. It doesn't breathe. If you cut it into bits, it doesn't die - you can just put it back together again. Information doesn't want or need anything.
Oh of course, I should have known that your massive experience with DOS equips you perfectly to comment on Vista, as does you watching it from a distance. I can only assume the person you were watching was a ham-fisted recovering cocaine addict with Parkinson's in a cold room.
Ah, you have reached perfect empathy with my situation. I now understand that you know nothing about Windows on the desktop and wish you would shut up about it. I've been using Windows since 1993, exclusively at home since 1996 or so, and could tell you things if you were not so busy FUDing up the place.
If you had asked, I'd have told you that Mepis or Xandros are easier and more vetted than a student script run as root. And yet it was still easier than the offical way of doing things provided on the Ubuntu website, and it was a top 3 search on Google. What's the point in giving the layman this level of operating system when the official way of doing things is so complicated, and the 'easy' ways are buried in the brains of sociopathic idiots?
Of course, I'd also ask why you thought you needed such a thing and probably learned that you did not. Of course! I wouldn't need any kind of graphics acceleration to use Linux! Thanks for opening my eyes. Nobody would ever want to use Beryl or Compiz, and they certainly wouldn't want to try and use Wine or Cedega to emulate WoW.
Ignorance and malice are often linked. I tend to refrain from 'I know you are but what am I' defenses, but seriously, the only way that I could fathom you would know that is by reading your own comment history.
Thanks for the update, Macthorpe. No problem - you looked like you needed it, seeing as I have far more experience of using Ubuntu than you do of Vista, which when you think that I've only used Ubuntu for 2 hours in my life really puts your comments into perspective.
Oh yeah, do you smoke? Only cocks! Seriously, that's a pretty stupid and irrelevant question, but nevertheless the answer is truthful. Remember what truth is?
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Curses! Foiled AGAIN!
I think it's satire.
I hope it's satire.
I thought the MS employees hunted you down, Twit?
What's up? Not enough attention? You seem to have to stooped to poking at them so you can start claiming they stalk you again.
Still, I put up with it because it's far better than IE6. I don't like Opera, so I don't have a lot of choice.
:)
Exactly my reasoning except jam 'Firefox' in there instead of 'Opera'. My experience with Firefox is that I really have to search to find the options I want to change and after using it for a while, as you pointed out, it starts to eat memory. Opera is now up for the 4th day straight and it's used an extra 4 meg of memory since then.
As I always do, I'll try 3.0 when it comes out - I just don't expect to change
AdBlock. There's a good chance they've fixed the leak by now (I say a lot about OSS but there's usually good turnaround times on fixes), but it's worth testing before you rely on it.
Also, it's not a troll if it's true. That last one was a result of one single extension that's still listed as one of the 5 most popular on Mozilla's website.
Firefox is and always has been faster (uses less CPU) and more efficient (uses less memory) compared to IE and even compared to Opera.
Maybe more so than IE but not Opera. Search "Firefox Opera speed test" on Google. A good selection of links, especially this one, showing Opera's speed. I also challenge the memory usage - someone up the page mentioned having Firefox on all day and using 103 meg. I have 15 tabs open right now, it's been open all day and my memory usage has barely exceeded 50 meg. No memory leaks, nothing.
Wow. You posted that little gem as a reply to a post marked 'Re: ad hominem' because you tried to say that you should make a good argument rather than attack the person. Not only that, but you actually had to wait until I personally admitted that I have my weaknesses before you tried to use it against me. Do you wait until your wife asks you if she's fat to launch into her about her weight problems too?
It's also good to see that you've stopped pretending you're not Twitter again. It was always the most futile of your pathetic attempts to attain relevance, shilling your own sad points of view. And then, get this, you post a link to an argument you had with me where once again you couldn't answer a single point I made except to lie even further and once again attack me personally.
How was this supposed to make you look good or prove a point?
Point one: It's ad hominem, not hominum. I would figure that you should know that considering that a good 9/10 of your posts or more are ad hominem attacks on Microsoft... but hey, let's not let hypocrisy stop you, right?
/. with your pointless crap, even the Linux zealots don't believe you any more. You might well be telling the truth, but like the boy who cried wolf you've lied so many times that I can't be bothered to waste my time working out whether this particular line of your stink is invented or merely observation.
Point two: You know as well as I do that anecdotal evidence means precisely bull. You want numbers, they're right there for you. However, you won't read them or believe them because it doesn't fit into your own personal little worldview. So why bother?
Point three: To answer your question, I have seen 4 copies of Vista in the group of friends I have, and I don't have many friends because I'm a pretty hard guy to get along wit most times. Now, I would say that if I had 30 friends (a generous estimate) and 4 of those friends have Vista, then that makes a 13% rate of take up for Vista. There are 6 billion people on the planet so that makes the current potential market for Vista to be somewhere in the region of 780 million copies.
Oh look at that! I can take my experience and bullshit together propaganda that fits my point of view too.
The problem is now you've saturated
Either way, it's still not worth the paper it's printed on.
I think the fact that you can't see any Vista boxes is more to do with your eyes-shut, fingers-in-ears style of OS assessment.
It is unfortunate, isn't it? I think it's the lack of dollar signs that did it for me this time.
Why is the $3 OS suite supposed to compete with OLPC, seeing as OLPC will now run Windows and the suite?
You know, it's perfectly possible for them to *shock* CO-EXIST?!
It was actually kind of a joke, but obviously it whooshed over the heads of, well, everyone. I mean, people complain that poor people want to enter America and there's a bloody advert to do so etched into one of your most famous landmarks.
I find it funny anyway.
You can say that, but seeing as the US treats copyright infringement as theft nowadays (and apparently Australia agrees), if someone steals a lot of money off an American company it would make more sense to try that person in America.
Please note I'm not going to get into an argument about whether it really is theft or not. There's plenty of places to have that discussion.
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
Emma Lazarus - "The New Colossus".
Inscribed at the base of the Statue of Liberty.
I'm not supporting AACS-LA in any way (decrypting HD-DVDs for your own benefit is fair use, it's only distributing them that's legally dodgy) but at the same time that's most likely the stance they take.
To play Devil's advocate here, it's more like Disney suing Xerox because people are distributing illegal copies of a copyrighted Disney book on Xerox's property, and Xerox are denying they can do anything about it.
Slightly less ridiculous, but still pretty bad.
"People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in."
Rosa Parks, from her autobiography My Story.
Nice comparison. Would you like to know the difference?
Information is a thing. It doesn't think. It doesn't breathe. If you cut it into bits, it doesn't die - you can just put it back together again. Information doesn't want or need anything.
Human beings have all of those things and more.
Yes, of course, using terms like "Ali Baba", "jihad" and "terrorism" all in one neat little package isn't racist at all.
You actually have no clue at all, do you?
So a throwaway 'Homer' reference isn't funny, but blatant racism is?
What a sense of humour you have.
Let's face it, Twit, it's better for someone to be silenced by the sheer stupidity of the comment they're reading.
The best way to silence you I've found is to take your lies, point by point, and then tell the truth. You don't respond to that well.
Oh of course, I should have known that your massive experience with DOS equips you perfectly to comment on Vista, as does you watching it from a distance. I can only assume the person you were watching was a ham-fisted recovering cocaine addict with Parkinson's in a cold room.