I think a possible explanation might be in the words of a friend of mine: he's an avid Firefox hater. But he installed Chrome and likes it.
I know there are some IE users out there that don't like Firefox and either don't like or unaware of Opera.
Although, it is a bit hard to accept that explanation for a good 2-3% of the user base. It is one possibility.
I was a Firefox user. Now, I like Chrome. Chrome is slower on some sites than Fx. However, it's the memory efficiency I like most. Chrome's memory management for tabs and plugins reminds me of BeOS's memory protection. I like it. And I've definitely seen a different. No more >150mg memory footprint after a day or two of browsing. And run away flash sites are no longer a worry.
Microsoft, for their part, think that if they could buy Yahoo, then this merger would increase the value of MSFT
Sure it would, but it would kill the value of Yahoo!. Sure, it would add a real competitor to Google, but it would inevitably be bad for the web as a whole.
Sometimes a company needs to think what's better for its community than its pockets.
Yahoo! management has a fiduciary responsibility to me, the shareholder, to maximize the value of my investment.
Yeah .... Please the shareholders or please the community? I think Yahoo! made the right choice. Not everything is about money here.
MS buying out Yahoo! would be the end to Yahoo!'s community support. I'm sorry to say, as a shareholder, bugger off. Community is more important than earning a quick buck.
I'm definitely gonna have to disagree with Tim's views here.
I didn't read the linked article, however, I do want to say if the guy that controls the game is smart, he would find a way to decrease the currency production. He would then essentially exploiting the game to increase profits. I don't know if that has any legal implications, but it is a way to make some serious, serious money.
Couldn't you relate IP addresses to Postal addresses? They are the same thing: they identify your location. One is based on which computer you're accessing, the other is your place residence. Both information is publicly available (try and stop somebody from walking up to your house and writing down your address). And both of them even "announce" their location (numbers on houses vs ip address sent to server).
In a way, I can see how EU is right. Even though it is a public number, it is very much as much a private number as your physical postal address. Only difference between the two is electronic transmission vs physical transmission. Am I seeing things wrong here? I know I'm crossing the internet world with real world, but I feel in this specific instance, it validates.
This post is a translated version, which explains copyright was created because of the printing press and was designed as a system to hinder copying of books (ie: cannot copy without the church's permission).
I'm now curious, how much of it is correct?
I understand it's a biased source and some details might be exaggerated, but the general idea would remain the same.
You do realize that they are enforcing the law on the wrong party? That's the whole issue here. YouTube is not breaking the law, only that one "inept and ignorant moron." Putting the blame on YouTube only makes Ataturk look like the "inept and ignorant moron."
When a company attempts to ban sites at work, I spend more time getting around the filters than I did when there weren't any. haha
I remember spending an entire day working on a remote proxy to allow me to use IM while at work, getting around the firewall they had 'tracking' conversations.
But it is the AT&T lock in and price tag that hurt the phone the most. Before AT&T too back Cingular, there were more people all for it. Once AT&T took over, their hopes diminished. Then you have to factor in all the troubles AT&T had activating the phones.
Before AT&T took over, I was debating on switching to Cingular. Now that they are apart of A&T, I decided not to follow suit. I'm sure I'm not the only one with this mind set.
Technically, Y2K was a real concern that was prepared for. The issue really had to do with the years either getting changed to 00 instead 100 or computers crashing due to buffer overflow errors when attempting to put 100 within a 2 digit slot.
The daylight saving time issue was a complete over blown. There was absolutely nothing to fear from it. So, your PCs might be an hour behind. Big deal. It would be no different than setting your time. Hell, most PCs auto-set themselves these days against a central time db.
DST was over blown. Y2K was made more of a deal than it was; however, there was a concern with that.
Well, story after story after story, it's quite evident, regardless of all the security issues, these machines will be making it into a live production voting environment. After all these stories, it's guaranteed they'll be hacked. I wonder now, how will the state or even Diebold handle that? Makes one wonder...
Personally, I like it just the way it is. I don't want chatters up the wazzo on the plane. My noice cancellation headsets work well for overall plane noice, but it lets the vocals in. I don't want to hear chatter. ;)
If somebody needs to get ahold of me, they can wait until I land and turn on my phone back on.
And to the guy who doesn't care about invisible germs, it doesn't matter if you can see them or not, they'll still get you sick sometimes.
This I know, that's why I built up my immune system. Concidering I hadn't been sick in 10 years (never taking any meds), I think I did rather well.
Thus why it doesn't bother me. The more germs I come in contact with, the greater my immunity will be. I understand how the body works, so I've tought it to improve itself internally. It does work, you should try. ;)
There's two types of dirty: (1) the germ type, you can't see or small which I don't care about. (2) the stench type which you can smell and see which I DO care about.
I have no problems with the first type. The second type is where I draw the line, reguardless how "sanitary" it is.
These studies are really stupid. They really don't understand what the underlining reason people call things dirty. It's not cause it's infested with load of bacteria (many folks are immune to majority of them anyway), it's the sight and stench of it. If it looks bad or smells bad it's "dirty" reguardless the number of bacteria that may or may not be on it.
Is it just me, or does this sound like another overly blown study trying to spread fear in the spread of germs?
While I can understand some caution, but if people keep things SOOOOO clean, the human body will never be able to naturally build the resitances against these diseases and viruses that are spreading around. And this is speaking from experience as somebody that doesn't concern about overly steralizing everything and has yet to be sick in 10 years.
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Love it.
I know there are some IE users out there that don't like Firefox and either don't like or unaware of Opera.
Although, it is a bit hard to accept that explanation for a good 2-3% of the user base. It is one possibility.
I was a Firefox user. Now, I like Chrome. Chrome is slower on some sites than Fx. However, it's the memory efficiency I like most. Chrome's memory management for tabs and plugins reminds me of BeOS's memory protection. I like it. And I've definitely seen a different. No more >150mg memory footprint after a day or two of browsing. And run away flash sites are no longer a worry.
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Re: #38 Is Right
Sure it would, but it would kill the value of Yahoo!. Sure, it would add a real competitor to Google, but it would inevitably be bad for the web as a whole.
Sometimes a company needs to think what's better for its community than its pockets.
On the post: Isn't Yahoo! Management Supposed To Work For Its Shareholders?
Yeah .... Please the shareholders or please the community? I think Yahoo! made the right choice. Not everything is about money here.
MS buying out Yahoo! would be the end to Yahoo!'s community support. I'm sorry to say, as a shareholder, bugger off. Community is more important than earning a quick buck.
I'm definitely gonna have to disagree with Tim's views here.
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Re: How about with Wind Turbines?
(ps: Sorry for the dble post! The ajax reply to comment box confused me when the submit button didn't show up)
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How about with Wind Turbines?
http://www.symscape.com/blog/flying-wind-turbines-blog-action-day
I can very much see Google looking into that. Heck, even I thought about that. ^_^
However, there are some practicality hurdles and it's very weather centric.
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How about with Wind Turbines?
http://www.symscape.com/blog/flying-wind-turbines-blog-action-day
I can very much see Google looking into that. Heck, even I thought about that. ^_^
However, there are some practicality hurdles and it's very weather centric.
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On the post: Is Your IP Address Your Personal Information?
Postal Addresses?
In a way, I can see how EU is right. Even though it is a public number, it is very much as much a private number as your physical postal address. Only difference between the two is electronic transmission vs physical transmission. Am I seeing things wrong here? I know I'm crossing the internet world with real world, but I feel in this specific instance, it validates.
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This anywhere true?
http://www.p2pconsortium.com/index.php?showtopic=9500
This post is a translated version, which explains copyright was created because of the printing press and was designed as a system to hinder copying of books (ie: cannot copy without the church's permission).
I'm now curious, how much of it is correct?
I understand it's a biased source and some details might be exaggerated, but the general idea would remain the same.
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Re: woe to ignorance of law
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I remember spending an entire day working on a remote proxy to allow me to use IM while at work, getting around the firewall they had 'tracking' conversations.
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Hype was there
Before AT&T took over, I was debating on switching to Cingular. Now that they are apart of A&T, I decided not to follow suit. I'm sure I'm not the only one with this mind set.
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Re: Re: Connecting to Comedy Central
The daylight saving time issue was a complete over blown. There was absolutely nothing to fear from it. So, your PCs might be an hour behind. Big deal. It would be no different than setting your time. Hell, most PCs auto-set themselves these days against a central time db.
DST was over blown. Y2K was made more of a deal than it was; however, there was a concern with that.
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Digimon!
Does that mean Japan already has this implemented? Or was this something just made up for the anime movie?
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Wonder what will happen...
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No talky .. I happy
If somebody needs to get ahold of me, they can wait until I land and turn on my phone back on.
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Re: No Subject Given
And to the guy who doesn't care about invisible germs, it doesn't matter if you can see them or not, they'll still get you sick sometimes.
This I know, that's why I built up my immune system. Concidering I hadn't been sick in 10 years (never taking any meds), I think I did rather well.
Thus why it doesn't bother me. The more germs I come in contact with, the greater my immunity will be. I understand how the body works, so I've tought it to improve itself internally. It does work, you should try. ;)
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Types of dirty
I have no problems with the first type. The second type is where I draw the line, reguardless how "sanitary" it is.
These studies are really stupid. They really don't understand what the underlining reason people call things dirty. It's not cause it's infested with load of bacteria (many folks are immune to majority of them anyway), it's the sight and stench of it. If it looks bad or smells bad it's "dirty" reguardless the number of bacteria that may or may not be on it.
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Always the case
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omg, a hand can contain over 1000 germs
While I can understand some caution, but if people keep things SOOOOO clean, the human body will never be able to naturally build the resitances against these diseases and viruses that are spreading around. And this is speaking from experience as somebody that doesn't concern about overly steralizing everything and has yet to be sick in 10 years.
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