Our society is well on it's way to looking exactly like the movie Bladerunner. There are a few megacorps running everything and advertising is everywhere; the sky, smart billboards, ads that target you(personally) as you walk by them, etc.
Scary. The future seems pretty bleak if things continue as they are.
Probably for the DRM features. That way they can encrypt and hide their proprietary information and email. They will claim it is to improve corporate security and prevent corporate secrets from getting out (as well as any shady activities being discovered).
No more accidental leaks of Word files with revision history.
Whats the big deal with rendering speed? It's not that big a difference to me. Is everyone really THAT impatient that they notice the 1-1.5 second difference? The site is usually slower serving up content than my browser can render it anyhow. Big deal.
Everyone syas IE is faster but I just don't see it. Why does everyone say that IE is so much faster? WOW, it's like the difference of loading a page in 2.5 seconds instead of 2 seconds. Why does a lousy 1/2 second make that much of a difference, are people really that impatient? Most of the difference in load time come from either the connection speed or the site's speed.
Maybe if the site uses windows preloaded features (ms java or activeX) it has a greater impact on speed.
We bought the movie "Chicago" on DVD a month after it was released at the grocery store for $9. My wife wanted a CD to play in the car, the cheapest we could find it was for $18.99. Just the audio for twice the price of the audio+video is ridiculus.
You obviously never had to support hundreds of Windows clients in an enterprise setting. I know our corp. IT dept. struggles with Windows problems constantly. Blue screens happen just as often as ever around here with 3000 clients at this location, and many more worldwide. Just about everone has to reboot a couple times a month (XP SP2). I'm not privy to what goes on in the remote server rooms, but services are constantly going up and down (ADS, DNS, etc.). We have 65 Linux systems in our engineering cluster that maybe one or two ever go down in a year not due to hardware.
OK, then use 32-bit version of the stuff that calls it. I currently run 32-bit firefox, with 32-bit java and everything work fine. Except for our 64-bit engineering apps taht need massive RAM, everything else is done using 32-bit versions. Whats the problem?
Why does anyone need a 64-bit version anyhow? Will it need to use more than 4 Gb RAM? I don't get this when 32-bit versions will run perfectly fine on 64-bit systems. I always thought that 64-bit didn't mean faster, it just allows more memory addressing.
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That was one of the bugs supposedly fixed in Beta 2 and presumably in the final release.
Our society is well on it's way to looking exactly like the movie Bladerunner. There are a few megacorps running everything and advertising is everywhere; the sky, smart billboards, ads that target you(personally) as you walk by them, etc.
Scary. The future seems pretty bleak if things continue as they are.
Pushing an agenda? It seems to me that GPL v3 is designed top prevent companies from pushing their own agenda and over the spirit of the GPL.
Probably for the DRM features. That way they can encrypt and hide their proprietary information and email. They will claim it is to improve corporate security and prevent corporate secrets from getting out (as well as any shady activities being discovered). No more accidental leaks of Word files with revision history.
Whats the big deal with rendering speed? It's not that big a difference to me. Is everyone really THAT impatient that they notice the 1-1.5 second difference? The site is usually slower serving up content than my browser can render it anyhow. Big deal.
Everyone syas IE is faster but I just don't see it. Why does everyone say that IE is so much faster? WOW, it's like the difference of loading a page in 2.5 seconds instead of 2 seconds. Why does a lousy 1/2 second make that much of a difference, are people really that impatient? Most of the difference in load time come from either the connection speed or the site's speed.
Maybe if the site uses windows preloaded features (ms java or activeX) it has a greater impact on speed.
If they are just "clips", don't those fall under fair use? WTF??
We bought the movie "Chicago" on DVD a month after it was released at the grocery store for $9. My wife wanted a CD to play in the car, the cheapest we could find it was for $18.99. Just the audio for twice the price of the audio+video is ridiculus.
How does CA plan to prove that global warming is even happening and that it is caused by automobiles?
Why couldn't the gas just be hydrogen? Simple alternative to the hydrogen fuel cell?
You obviously never had to support hundreds of Windows clients in an enterprise setting. I know our corp. IT dept. struggles with Windows problems constantly. Blue screens happen just as often as ever around here with 3000 clients at this location, and many more worldwide. Just about everone has to reboot a couple times a month (XP SP2). I'm not privy to what goes on in the remote server rooms, but services are constantly going up and down (ADS, DNS, etc.). We have 65 Linux systems in our engineering cluster that maybe one or two ever go down in a year not due to hardware.
OK, then use 32-bit version of the stuff that calls it. I currently run 32-bit firefox, with 32-bit java and everything work fine. Except for our 64-bit engineering apps taht need massive RAM, everything else is done using 32-bit versions. Whats the problem?
Why does anyone need a 64-bit version anyhow? Will it need to use more than 4 Gb RAM? I don't get this when 32-bit versions will run perfectly fine on 64-bit systems. I always thought that 64-bit didn't mean faster, it just allows more memory addressing.