But with all the work and effort and resources going into this, how is it that operations a tiny fraction of this can generate fast, reliable and standards complaint browsers better than MSIE?
And with more features, too!
It's 2012 and IE9 still doesn't have a built-in spellchecker for text areas! Among many other must-have features that are suspiciously absent.
Microsoft is still impressively thoroughly evil. This is just more of the same.
You can't even stream Netflix with your Xbox 360 without subscribing to Xbox Live.
There is no good reason for this, except Microsoft being greedy, evil bastards.
Slashdot moderation simply hasn't evolved to the point where you can.
Good joke, but you've actually hit on a fundamental flaw with Slashdot's moderation system.
Once in a while, I have mod points. I dig really deep, and look really hard, for those comments that are truly insightful and informative. But I get punished for trying to do a really good job: many of my mod points expire before I can use them.
I've always wondered what the justification is for Slashdot mod points to have an arbitrary and artificial expiration date. Here's to hoping that, some day, the moderation system will evolve!
I have 8gb of memory on my main computer. I want firefox to use up as much of it as it can to improve my browsing experience.
I don't, because I do other things on my computer, too. If any given application is using all the memory it possibly can, the rest of the system will behave more poorly as a result. Once you start swapping, your performance drops like a rock.
Ah, good old Slashdot. Pro GPL comments always go +5, Insightful and anti GPL comments always go -1, Troll, no matter what. This will be no exception, but I feel compelled to respond in case there is anyone left on Slashdot that is not completely brainwashed.
To be on the safe side we should all probably always use AGPL and/or GPLv3 for everything. We can always go less restrictive...
No. No, no, no. A thousand times no. GPL source code tends to attract more and more contributors. Over time, you have so many contributors that "going back" to another license becomes practically impossible, because at some point you can't successfully contact them all and get them all to agree to a license change. This was RMS's plan from the start -- for GPL to spread in this fashion. If you don't believe me, go look it up.
When that happens, you can't "go back" to a less restrictive license. To do something as simple as change the license... you have to do a full rewrite.
This is one reason why I'm not a fan of the GPL -- it becomes increasingly unlikely to ever be able make a license change over time, and I think that's an awfully bad thing for people.
See LGPL 2.1 section 6.a or LGPL 3.0 section 4.d.0.
Ah, that's interesting, thanks. I don't personally use any GPL or LGPL source code because I don't like the requirements, but it's nice to know there's a way to work-around supplying your source code when you want to statically link LGPL code.
You can static link with LGPL code if you provide your
I've never heard such a thing. Can you provide a reference?
Why? IE9 is a completely good browser. It's on par with Chrome, but in fact it offers even more features and security than Firefox does currently, like sandboxing. It's also standards compliant and supports HTML5. There's nothing to hate about IE9.
IE9 has no spellchecker in text areas.
The fact that people -- even technology geeks -- have to work so hard to research an Android device (whether smartphone or tablet) that is decent is why I keep recommending Apple to friends and relatives.
Google really needs to put their foot down and demand a reasonable set of minimum requirements to ensure people don't end up having a crappy Android experience (which is currently all too likely).
The Wii has a pretty good Netflix client/interface.
You mean HAD a pretty good Netflix client/interface.
A recent update to the Netflix client on the Wii turned it into a huge pile of slow, laggy, ugly crap.
Also, since the "upgrade", I often (maybe 20% of the time) can't get streams to start at all. Sigh.
Netflix is increasingly losing their way.
If you flaunt it, expect to have it trashed.