They shouldn't exit the market. That's just a stupid idea. They should, instead just make hardware that really is better than your average Dell Precision (which is pretty darn good, I use them). They need to seriously justify their prices. The Mac(Book?) Pros need to use m-audio or e-mu chipsets for audio with decent DACs, Quadros and FireGLs for video, offer 10k RPM Seagate drives on desktops with some nice HW RAID devices and setups, offer better screens (700USD for a...20"??? I can get a 24" dell for 100 USD more!!!). Then offer better laptop quality, I've owned an Apple in the past and it was a mistake. TiBook construction was terrible. Maybe put some paste on your heatsinks...or silver paste would be even better!
It won't cost you much more Apple, and if you start making Really Decent Boxen, you'd earn real kudos with a number of audiences. And then we could all prance around knowing that being an Apple Fanboi isn't a sin anymore.
Well, of course it does. So does any other browsing application that uses tabs and supports graphical CSS rendering. Firefox's cached history --the feature which makes going back and forward with pages really fast-- stores much of it's cache in memory, it does this for all tabs that you have open. The more tabs you have open, the more memory it will consume. Dare I say it, this is a feature, not a bug! Opera and IE both get about the same size, which is slightly less than firefox usually with the same sites.
The tweaking you're talking about just turns off the memory caching, reducing FF's memory usage by about 10%-20%. This feature has been around since 1.5 I believe.
Exactly. COPA is stupid because politicians don't understand technology, or don't care to understand. The entire COPA thing was a ploy by politicians to claim they had done something "for the children." It's a classic attempt by politicians to, A) Spread FUD to the ignorant, B) Propose fake solution that in some cases gets them elected (gains power) or helps their CEO buddies (Profit!!!). Politicians survive by fabricating problems or by making existing problems seem worse. It's their bread and butter.
Free, or gratis? There's some really nice OS X software out there, it's all Shareware though. I'd love to see some really high-quality, OS X native (F?)OSS. There a few out there though. Some goodies include, Adium, Colloquy, Smultron and Cyberduck. I just wish skEdit were Free though.
Have you done any serious web design? I mean hand coding, XHTML 1.0 valid code, using CSS/Divs? You're pulling out the same excuse that all the MS funded studies about Windows being more secure because it has less vulnerabilities. It's not the amount of vulnerabilities that are acknowledges or that get fixed, it's the seriousness and size of the problems that matter. There are some very serious short-comings in the way IE5 and IE6 addressed standards, and to a large degree een IE7. They are far more serious, and far more vile in nature than the bugs that Gecko/Firefox/Mozilla, Opera, Safari etc. have.
Let's imagine for a moment that all browsers support only 50% of XHTML/CSS standards. If that's true it still isn't a real indicator of the problem, because the other 50% that IE doesn't support is where a lot of basics might be. Even then it's not to say IE's "50% support" isn't horribly broken.
Proprietary or not, software used in something so critical as our democratic process *should* be under the scrutiny of some sort of bipartisan government software auditing group. Whether or not its completely open, doesn't matter. The fact that democrats haven't attacked this issue further convinces me of their incompetence.
Wow, you're an idiot. How about the studios that use NVIDIA Gelato for rendering? The 3d professionals running Maya, Softimage, Blender or another 3d application that *requires* OpenGL. People bash the nvidia driver quite often, yet very few of them realize how mission critical it is to certain industries. I'm sure that a large portion of the nvidia *nix driver userbase/market is involved in some sort of professional use of 3D graphics. It's not all fluff.
Frames are evil and are on their way out. Flash is evil and requires a closed source plugin to be able to play, it doesn't work on 64-bit browsers under *nix and worse off *nix doesn't even have the latest version. "older javascript apps"...Like what?
However decompression would likely drain your battery much faster. If you've got an 80gb iPod, 10gb is fine, especially if it increases your battery life by a substantial amount.
You mean all of us fat/.'rs are much smarter than we already are? Hmmm, I have an even greater reason than woman to go on a diet now...still...that donut looks pretty %$#@ hot right now.
No, nerds don't use terms like 'pwned.' Lame World of Warcraft players who think, just because they've touched a RPG of sorts, that they now classify as 'nerd' use the word.
Haha. Sorry but I don't like Mac either. Restricting my use of the OS to their hardware is, IMO, worse than Microsoft not allowing more than two computer moves. Otherwise, I would.
Funny. I installed my copy of XP 1 year ago (almost exactly). I've done the following since, over time, without having to reactivate: Swapped 1gb of Crucial ram for 2gb of Corsair, changed video card from a 6600gt to 7900gt, added a second hard drive, changed CPU from Athlon64 3200+ Venice to a Athlon X2 4200+ Manchester, and changed my sound card from Hercules Game Theater XP to Creative Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS platinum. No reactivation since. Still, this "buy a new license" bullshit has me wondering about switching to Linux for good. If only Photoshop and Illustrator were on *nix. (and please don't tell me I need to use GIMP and Inkscape, or that they're the same thing. If you do, then you've obviously never used either one professionally.)
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Nope. Wrongo. The way the media --who, if I may remind you, is big content themselves-- will portray it is that the big bad evil teenagers with their video mixing software and bad lipsyncing and their wholesale copying of small portions of television shows that might garner us viewers against the innocent and do no wrong, upstanding copyright owners. This is one area where we're going to get very, very screwed from all the media outlets being owned by, what...4 people?
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They shouldn't exit the market. That's just a stupid idea. They should, instead just make hardware that really is better than your average Dell Precision (which is pretty darn good, I use them). They need to seriously justify their prices. The Mac(Book?) Pros need to use m-audio or e-mu chipsets for audio with decent DACs, Quadros and FireGLs for video, offer 10k RPM Seagate drives on desktops with some nice HW RAID devices and setups, offer better screens (700USD for a...20"??? I can get a 24" dell for 100 USD more!!!). Then offer better laptop quality, I've owned an Apple in the past and it was a mistake. TiBook construction was terrible. Maybe put some paste on your heatsinks...or silver paste would be even better!
It won't cost you much more Apple, and if you start making Really Decent Boxen, you'd earn real kudos with a number of audiences. And then we could all prance around knowing that being an Apple Fanboi isn't a sin anymore.
Well, of course it does. So does any other browsing application that uses tabs and supports graphical CSS rendering. Firefox's cached history --the feature which makes going back and forward with pages really fast-- stores much of it's cache in memory, it does this for all tabs that you have open. The more tabs you have open, the more memory it will consume. Dare I say it, this is a feature, not a bug! Opera and IE both get about the same size, which is slightly less than firefox usually with the same sites.
The tweaking you're talking about just turns off the memory caching, reducing FF's memory usage by about 10%-20%. This feature has been around since 1.5 I believe.
No, no, no. We want sling-shots. That way we keep the irony contemporary with his current tripe.
Exactly. COPA is stupid because politicians don't understand technology, or don't care to understand. The entire COPA thing was a ploy by politicians to claim they had done something "for the children." It's a classic attempt by politicians to, A) Spread FUD to the ignorant, B) Propose fake solution that in some cases gets them elected (gains power) or helps their CEO buddies (Profit!!!). Politicians survive by fabricating problems or by making existing problems seem worse. It's their bread and butter.
Free, or gratis? There's some really nice OS X software out there, it's all Shareware though. I'd love to see some really high-quality, OS X native (F?)OSS. There a few out there though. Some goodies include, Adium, Colloquy, Smultron and Cyberduck. I just wish skEdit were Free though.
Have you done any serious web design? I mean hand coding, XHTML 1.0 valid code, using CSS/Divs? You're pulling out the same excuse that all the MS funded studies about Windows being more secure because it has less vulnerabilities. It's not the amount of vulnerabilities that are acknowledges or that get fixed, it's the seriousness and size of the problems that matter. There are some very serious short-comings in the way IE5 and IE6 addressed standards, and to a large degree een IE7. They are far more serious, and far more vile in nature than the bugs that Gecko/Firefox/Mozilla, Opera, Safari etc. have.
Let's imagine for a moment that all browsers support only 50% of XHTML/CSS standards. If that's true it still isn't a real indicator of the problem, because the other 50% that IE doesn't support is where a lot of basics might be. Even then it's not to say IE's "50% support" isn't horribly broken.
Another question I have is related to this: Do you realize that with IE5 and IE6 you've made many web designer's lives a living hell?
If it's not purposeful, does that mean you're all entirely incompetent?
The new tagging system is cool. Diebold gets my "wretchedhiveofscumandvillainy" tag.
Don't you mean nonpartisan?
Dude, we didn't need to know that!
Sounds like a 419 scam to me. I don't trust it.
The title certainly does. When I first read the header/title, I thought it said "Robot Swarm Shits Heavy Objects."
I just use AdBlock Plus under Firefox, works like a charm. http://adblockplus.org/en/
Wow, you're an idiot. How about the studios that use NVIDIA Gelato for rendering? The 3d professionals running Maya, Softimage, Blender or another 3d application that *requires* OpenGL. People bash the nvidia driver quite often, yet very few of them realize how mission critical it is to certain industries. I'm sure that a large portion of the nvidia *nix driver userbase/market is involved in some sort of professional use of 3D graphics. It's not all fluff.
They used to say that about supporting Mozilla when IE was so big...
Frames are evil and are on their way out. Flash is evil and requires a closed source plugin to be able to play, it doesn't work on 64-bit browsers under *nix and worse off *nix doesn't even have the latest version. "older javascript apps"...Like what?
However decompression would likely drain your battery much faster. If you've got an 80gb iPod, 10gb is fine, especially if it increases your battery life by a substantial amount.
You mean all of us fat /.'rs are much smarter than we already are? Hmmm, I have an even greater reason than woman to go on a diet now...still...that donut looks pretty %$#@ hot right now.
Will there still be booth babes?
No, nerds don't use terms like 'pwned.' Lame World of Warcraft players who think, just because they've touched a RPG of sorts, that they now classify as 'nerd' use the word.
Haha. Sorry but I don't like Mac either. Restricting my use of the OS to their hardware is, IMO, worse than Microsoft not allowing more than two computer moves. Otherwise, I would.
Funny. I installed my copy of XP 1 year ago (almost exactly). I've done the following since, over time, without having to reactivate: Swapped 1gb of Crucial ram for 2gb of Corsair, changed video card from a 6600gt to 7900gt, added a second hard drive, changed CPU from Athlon64 3200+ Venice to a Athlon X2 4200+ Manchester, and changed my sound card from Hercules Game Theater XP to Creative Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS platinum. No reactivation since. Still, this "buy a new license" bullshit has me wondering about switching to Linux for good. If only Photoshop and Illustrator were on *nix. (and please don't tell me I need to use GIMP and Inkscape, or that they're the same thing. If you do, then you've obviously never used either one professionally.)
I <3 dead lawyers.
Nope. Wrongo. The way the media --who, if I may remind you, is big content themselves-- will portray it is that the big bad evil teenagers with their video mixing software and bad lipsyncing and their wholesale copying of small portions of television shows that might garner us viewers against the innocent and do no wrong, upstanding copyright owners. This is one area where we're going to get very, very screwed from all the media outlets being owned by, what...4 people?