> Don't want to remember all your passwords? Don't use sites that require passwords.
Or more specificly: Don't use internet. How many webmails you know that don't use password? You couldn't even write to Slashdot, except anonymously.
> Do you trust the your real life keys to be managed by a third party, then wonder how someone broke in your house without forced entry?
Yes, 3rd party has keys to our home. It is quite common with the apartment houses where I live. It is however quite unlikely that they would steal from us, as they would be number one suspects. So far I have never been robbed by they key holders, nor have I ever heard of a case that someone else had been.
> Having something "remember" your passwords defeats the purpose of having passwords.
Not really. It just makes the password behave more like client sertificates that automatically identify client to the server.
I got the perfect solution for Microsoft. They should call their next version of Windows a "Sheep". What kind of a criminal would risk getting cought and ending up in news articles that have titles like "Mr X got cought exploiting a hole in Sheep". How would you explain that to your parents?
Try wxWidgets library. You get native GUI on any platform because it uses the native GUI components. Yet you can compile the same code for Windows, Mac, Linux, etc. It doesn't have the problems you would have when developing Linux programs with C# or developing on Linux.
> My point is, the obsessive public giving a crap about meaningless percentages is not helpfull to a project. Apache never did that, they just got on with the job.
That is where you are wrong. Apache and Firefox are in different gategories. Apache is used by people who actually know about different alternatives. Web browsers on the other hand are usually used by people who don't even know that there are alternatives. This is why marketing is everything, if you want to be popular. Being just 1000 times better than anyone else is not enough. You must have marketing. Be that on newspaper, tv or mouth to mouth marketing, but without that, you can't have even 10% market share.
With browsers there is also another obstacle. That is ActiveX. If you can't use the browser, it doesn't matter how perfect it is. To overcome the ActiveX problem, you need to have a very big market share to get webmasters fix their websites so that they are usable with any other browser than IE. Writing almost any other kind of software is easier, because you don't have the ActiveX problem with them.
Firefox's goal is to make the web use standards, so that you could select what browser you want to use. How many websites you have seen that work only with Firefox? And how many that work only with IE? That is they key difference.
So once Firefox has majority of the global market share, the web has already been converted to work with any browser and we (users, companies, developers, anyone except Microsoft) have won.
Apache has largest market share on web server market. Are they haunted?
You have to understand the difference between propriety software and FOSS software. It is much easier to fix problems in FOSS software than it is for propriety software. That is because with FOSS, I can just fix a problem if I like to. With propriety software, I need permission from the management and a very good money-related reason to do so.
And even if Firefox would fail badly after gaining remarkable market share. At that point world's web sites would have already been fixed to work with any browser. So at that point you could really choose the browser you want to use. Firefox is changing the world for the better. It has already done a lot in the country where I live in (2nd in the Xiti monitor). We also used to have some nasty ActiveX websites, but those are history now.
It is no wonder if you see low statistics in UK. That is because it is one of the worst countries in Firefox market share:
Slovenia 47.9% Finland 45.4% Slovakia 40.4%
6 nations 35-40% ( Ireland jumped here (55% more users since last monitoring 4 months ago) and now has 38.6% share ) 6 nations 30-35% 0 nations 25-30% 8 nations 20-25% 8 nations 15-20% ( UK is here with 18.7% )
That is true. It is really easy for the newbies, because you can really just go there and submit a bug report and "they" will find out who is responsible for the problem and provide them a detailed bug report so the problem can be fixed.
> We have abandoned windows as a development platform, but it wasn't linux that replaced it, > it was OSX. Linux's lack of a standard GUI layer in the OS
Don't do software for Linux, Mac or Linux. Do cross platform software. Use wxWidgets if you want to write normal desktop applications and want to have native look. wxWidgets is basicly a wrapper around native GUI components, which makes the end result look as if you have written it using the native API directly. License shouldn't be a problem either.
If you write games, use Irrlicht or Crystal Space or some other cross platform library.
There really isn't any reason to write a software for a single OS nowadays. The cross platform libraries are so advanced that it is easier to write cross platform applications than native ones.
Operating systems are "hard" to install. Maintenance can be automated and using is something what even a 1 year old can do. People don't actually use the operating system, they use the programs installed on it. I know people who don't even know what a kernel is and yet they have been quite succesfull on using Linux after I have installed it for them.
> I'm not even gonna question whether it is possible/feasible/... I only want to know "Why?".
If you would like to take 1 kg to the space, that would cost about 3000 dollars. With space elevator that would cost about 3 dollars. Because the price is so cheap, this would basicly allow us to build something what is called a "mother ship" and execute 1000 times more space programs and basicly speed up the space investigation and commercializing.
The goal of the Firefox is to support standards also and they are improving on that area with ener new Gecko release. In the current versions Firefox already has better html/xhtml and css3 support than Opera. IE is far behind in everything:
> If there is a God, why does he/she allow disasters like earthquakes and Microsoft?
Are you comparing a disaster that causes billions of dollars finansial losses and thousands of people to lose their home every year, to a natural movement of tectonic plates? That's low.
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."--Charles H. Duell, Commissioner of the U.S. Office of Patents, 1899. This has been debunked as apocryphal by librarian Samuel Sass
"640KB ought to be enough for anybody."--attributed to Bill Gates (Gates denies ever saying it, and no source has ever emerged)
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> Don't want to remember all your passwords? Don't use sites that require passwords.
Or more specificly: Don't use internet. How many webmails you know that don't use password? You couldn't even write to Slashdot, except anonymously.
> Do you trust the your real life keys to be managed by a third party, then wonder how someone broke in your house without forced entry?
Yes, 3rd party has keys to our home. It is quite common with the apartment houses where I live. It is however quite unlikely that they would steal from us, as they would be number one suspects. So far I have never been robbed by they key holders, nor have I ever heard of a case that someone else had been.
> Having something "remember" your passwords defeats the purpose of having passwords.
Not really. It just makes the password behave more like client sertificates that automatically identify client to the server.
I got the perfect solution for Microsoft. They should call their next version of Windows a "Sheep". What kind of a criminal would risk getting cought and ending up in news articles that have titles like "Mr X got cought exploiting a hole in Sheep". How would you explain that to your parents?
Walking on the water is easy. Just wait for the winter or find a bridge or go standing on your toilet seat.
Try wxWidgets library. You get native GUI on any platform because it uses the native GUI components. Yet you can compile the same code for Windows, Mac, Linux, etc. It doesn't have the problems you would have when developing Linux programs with C# or developing on Linux.
> Why would you want to cure fear? Fear keeps me from giving in to a friend's bet and swallowing a live hamster.
Isn't that obvious? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_Factor
> My point is, the obsessive public giving a crap about meaningless percentages is not helpfull to a project. Apache never did that, they just got on with the job.
That is where you are wrong. Apache and Firefox are in different gategories. Apache is used by people who actually know about different alternatives. Web browsers on the other hand are usually used by people who don't even know that there are alternatives. This is why marketing is everything, if you want to be popular. Being just 1000 times better than anyone else is not enough. You must have marketing. Be that on newspaper, tv or mouth to mouth marketing, but without that, you can't have even 10% market share.
With browsers there is also another obstacle. That is ActiveX. If you can't use the browser, it doesn't matter how perfect it is. To overcome the ActiveX problem, you need to have a very big market share to get webmasters fix their websites so that they are usable with any other browser than IE. Writing almost any other kind of software is easier, because you don't have the ActiveX problem with them.
Firefox's goal is to make the web use standards, so that you could select what browser you want to use. How many websites you have seen that work only with Firefox? And how many that work only with IE? That is they key difference.
So once Firefox has majority of the global market share, the web has already been converted to work with any browser and we (users, companies, developers, anyone except Microsoft) have won.
Apache has largest market share on web server market. Are they haunted?
You have to understand the difference between propriety software and FOSS software. It is much easier to fix problems in FOSS software than it is for propriety software. That is because with FOSS, I can just fix a problem if I like to. With propriety software, I need permission from the management and a very good money-related reason to do so.
And even if Firefox would fail badly after gaining remarkable market share. At that point world's web sites would have already been fixed to work with any browser. So at that point you could really choose the browser you want to use. Firefox is changing the world for the better. It has already done a lot in the country where I live in (2nd in the Xiti monitor). We also used to have some nasty ActiveX websites, but those are history now.
Lynx might not have known threats at the moment, but Lynx has had it's share of them also. At least two (highly critical) of them listed here:
http://secunia.com/product/5883/?task=advisories
It is no wonder if you see low statistics in UK. That is because it is one of the worst countries in Firefox market share:
v igateurs/firefox-juillet-2007/index-1-1-3-102.html
Slovenia 47.9%
Finland 45.4%
Slovakia 40.4%
6 nations 35-40% ( Ireland jumped here (55% more users since last monitoring 4 months ago) and now has 38.6% share )
6 nations 30-35%
0 nations 25-30%
8 nations 20-25%
8 nations 15-20% ( UK is here with 18.7% )
http://www.xitimonitor.com/fr-fr/barometre-des-na
> I don't even think PCI-Express is that quick, and that's only for graphics cards isn't it?
There are already network cards for PCI-Express. I suggest that find yourself a good article about PCI-Express and read it.
> Try explaining anything scientific to your friends -- you soon won't have any.
I have friends?
That is true. It is really easy for the newbies, because you can really just go there and submit a bug report and "they" will find out who is responsible for the problem and provide them a detailed bug report so the problem can be fixed.
Everybody uses Google, right?
Google runs on Linux, right?
So everybody uses Linux, right?
Problem solved, right?
There is no such thing as Open Office format. Perhaps you mean OpenDocument Format, which is used by several different applications ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_applications_ supporting_OpenDocument ), including OpenOffice.org.
> We have abandoned windows as a development platform, but it wasn't linux that replaced it,
> it was OSX. Linux's lack of a standard GUI layer in the OS
Don't do software for Linux, Mac or Linux. Do cross platform software. Use wxWidgets if you want to write normal desktop applications and want to have native look. wxWidgets is basicly a wrapper around native GUI components, which makes the end result look as if you have written it using the native API directly. License shouldn't be a problem either.
If you write games, use Irrlicht or Crystal Space or some other cross platform library.
There really isn't any reason to write a software for a single OS nowadays. The cross platform libraries are so advanced that it is easier to write cross platform applications than native ones.
Operating systems are "hard" to install. Maintenance can be automated and using is something what even a 1 year old can do. People don't actually use the operating system, they use the programs installed on it. I know people who don't even know what a kernel is and yet they have been quite succesfull on using Linux after I have installed it for them.
> How am I supposed to cheat now?
Use hardware emulator?
- "The article (yes, I RTFA)"
- "I have 20+ friends"
- "...with 360s"
- "...none of them have experienced problems"
And you seriously expect us to bulieve all that?
They give it a computer and monitor does it go to slahdot.org or to myspace.com.
> I'm not even gonna question whether it is possible/feasible/... I only want to know "Why?".
If you would like to take 1 kg to the space, that would cost about 3000 dollars. With space elevator that would cost about 3 dollars. Because the price is so cheap, this would basicly allow us to build something what is called a "mother ship" and execute 1000 times more space programs and basicly speed up the space investigation and commercializing.
The goal of the Firefox is to support standards also and they are improving on that area with ener new Gecko release. In the current versions Firefox already has better html/xhtml and css3 support than Opera. IE is far behind in everything:
http://www.webdevout.net/browser-support-summary
> If there is a God, why does he/she allow disasters like earthquakes and Microsoft?
Are you comparing a disaster that causes billions of dollars finansial losses and thousands of people to lose their home every year, to a natural movement of tectonic plates? That's low.
That video has several errors in it's facts:
a rcasm)
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."--Charles H. Duell, Commissioner of the U.S. Office of Patents, 1899. This has been debunked as apocryphal by librarian Samuel Sass
"640KB ought to be enough for anybody."--attributed to Bill Gates (Gates denies ever saying it, and no source has ever emerged)
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famous_last_words_(s
> Most of the species that have lived on this planet are now extinct, and it's entirely possible that some day we will join this majority.
There is one key difference between us and the extincted races. They didn't have Slashdot.