Comment They were called "Applications" ... (Score 1) 343
"program" is a more generic term - see Application Software on Wikipdia
On the other hand, they're still doing good stuff - paying Mozilla[...]
Assange chose to flee from the prosecution because he knows better, he knows every well what would be the result if he chose to face the trial.
Yeah, he probably feels like he really raped that girl called USA
Funny how tourists aren't interested in any places or buildings that were built during the last 60 years.
That's wrong for Vienna (e.g. Hundertwasserhaus) and it's probably just as wrong for Graz. The most prominent architecture was always novel and radical and just because some examples were simply not good, you cannot discredit modern architecture in general. Would we have the buildings like the Secession if we had always stuck to preserving traditional styles? In a few decades, we'll wish we had built more buildings like the new Sofitel (Jean Nouvel!). Sadly, people are more keen on preserving ugly 1950's buildings on the other side of the Wienkanal than having great modern architecture like the French for example.
Instead, it is a combination of the extra time needed to load Javascript from advertisers (whether it is to spy on you or just to rotate ads around), and programming defects in that Javascript (doesn't play well with others). Browsers have to stop and wait for scripts to finish loading before allowing everything to run or even be rendered. You can have a page freeze in a blank state when some advertiser's Javascript request isn't connecting or loading.
It is also a result of plain stupidity of some (major) ad server operating companies - here in Austria, we've heard things like "we try to disable caching for served media [images, swf etc.]" and we've actually seen images, animations, 200KB+ flash being loaded at every request because of this. Needless to say, the slow document.write() method of displaying ads is also still the norm
Somehow all of that content needs to be coalesced into fewer connections.
We did use fewer connections before CDNs, CDN-hosted JS libraries and cookie-less content domains became the norm and before web developers were advised by PageSpeed and other "authorities" to put content on multiple hosts to facilitate parallel access by browsers. Yes, it was a stupid idea to fix a minor implementation problem of browsers on the web server side.
Also, what contributes most to web page slowdown is ads and tracking code, both areas dominated by Google - who pretends to be somehow interested in speeding up the web (haha!).
>slippery slope argument
You're right, slippery slopes do not exist and we should go down that road
at our peril
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There are a lot of people who will tell you that they will not move to Linux until Photoshop or Solidworks works on Linux.
No problem for me, Linux doesn't get better or worse (well, more likely worse if the past 10 years have been any indication) if more people (esp. like those - who usually prefer pirating Photoshop over using free alternatives) use it. WINE should be improved to support more commercial software though.
Without getting major companies to start moving their paid, closed source software to Linux first, you/re
Which is why we have GIMP even though Adobe hasn't ported Photoshop to Linux?
The next step after major companies declaring to port stuff to Linux is demand for a non-removable DRM component for Linux. I think the intention of Open Source was to pollute closed-source habitats with (viral) Open Source software, not the other way round. Closed source / DRM isn't magically going to become open when it's a perfectly valid and undisputedly supported option for Linux, why should it?
IMHO, the way to go is the way of the Humble Indie Bundle V - it's astonishing how little attention the Linux port got
"An organization dries up if you don't challenge it with growth." -- Mark Shepherd, former President and CEO of Texas Instruments
