Posts by Bob Gateaux 63 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Aug 2007
I cannot see what there is you complain about here. Microsoft are provide us with the system on which the Firefox Javs can run so it is up to them if they wish to correct them to run better. I think we should be thanking the Microsoft people who provide us with the extra .Net functions in the Firefox free of charge. They do not have to help the Firefox people but they do because they want the Windows to always keep being the best it can be.
"Those of you with iPhone envy just get a life. Whether you like it or not iPhone will come to dominate the mobile space for the next 10 years. Keep whining while I sit back and enjoy your fury! lol"
This is funny one. I think you live in the funny world with the drugs and everything but we can all laugh when you join us on the forums.
iPhone smells bad and looks out of date with the white on everything. It is the style which dates so quickly and they make you buy new ones to remain in the trends.
I laugh at all who have one of them and will laugh easier at them when they are lit up using the new battery more wastefully.
It is what Apples have always done though - they only sell them to trendy people who think Microsoft is not good because it make a success of it's job.
I am much rather having the machine which does the jobs properly - both for my computer and for my portable music. I save money without the iPhone and keep it in my pocket anyway so what is the difference? Except when I get it out to wave at the iPhone fool who has his white poor-quality earphones in my face on the trains.
We cannot be surprised to learn that Sun is having no money left to make it's computers. Many years ago now they launched the Javs which we use to make the popular applets.
They make two big mistakes when they make this.
First they do not charge any monies for the Javs. This means people have them free and must not pay for them. With Microsoft they did the C Sharp instead and for this we must pay with the Visual Studio. This way they keep it on an even keel and make the monies they need. With Sun they spend monies on the Javs and get none back. This is why Javs are now more broken because of decay from cheap maintenance over those few years.
Second mistake they make is the very promise of the Jav which is that it must work on each machine not just the Sun one. This mean that we just take their Jav and put it on the Windows where it runs best and not have to buy the big Sun box which take up more space.
Sun makes these mistakes in the early years but even then some of us would see the folly. Since then they do not change and they run out of the VC monies and must seek more.
IBM should write own new language and not buy the Javs. It will be better to have this as we can then have new features and not have the Entity Bean which slows me down.
"Given the amount of work involved in any desktop OS switch in terms requirements analysis, application selection, compatibility testing, integration with systems management processes, etc., you want to make sure that the horse you back represents a safe long-term bet."
Please to simply install Windows then no analysis or testing needed and we can all be sure to have backed the winning post horse.
Why to make work for himself with the Linux where my software will fail me?
This show the risk of using the fringe browsers. We must all take away the heed from this story and not spread using the insecure ones.
If you see on the Internet Explorer they have the padlock which tells you all is well. On the Jav ones they cannot do this with the full knowledge of our safety. Who is to know if a terrorist has my password once you have been on the web pages with a Javs browser like this Firefox one?
Where I worked on the Jav before we had to have the unix and much feared the root kit.
But solution is simple in new modern times. Now we use the Windows where it has no root user in the accounts so we must fear the root kit no further. It is most happy to make us all fear the security issues a little less so I commend the windows if you suffer root worry in your enterprises.
I think Microsoft make mistake to be like the other browsers. Internet Explorer is the best one and others should move instead to follow it and its good features.
Microsoft must not use Jav for their programs to slow them down. Instead it is better that they run the fastest and with more security - you see with the Javs being inside the JVM it is most possible for a spying program to see what runs and copy my password. This is why I am not using the ones like Firefoxes.
This is most correct Richard and it is as I say before - the Firfox will always run the much slowest because of the Javs. It is the price we pay for portability and the dream of write-once-run-most-times.
But for me the slowest cannot be my desire since I must have speed on my internet at all times, and for this I settle my choice with the free internet Explorer which I gratefully recieve.
"Its the duty which which makes it £2.90 a pint - government probably makes more money off a pint than than the brewery"
That's simply not true - although the breweries and most landlords would love you to believe it.
The duty in the UK in 2006 (sorry I don't have the 2007 figures to hand) on a 5% pint of beer was just 38p per pint (there's VAT too but that applies to most things).
The breweries and landlords use any minor budgetary increase to smack a load more on top to increase their margins. It has become standard practice in the UK to increase the price of a pint of beer by at least 5, and quite often 10 pence whenever the chancellor puts a penny on a pint. That's where the real rip-off is going on.
Paul F states that the SRBs "will still be reusable".
Shuttle SRB reusability is one of the great myths of the Shuttle program.
In order to "reuse" an SRB it first has to be dismantled right down to component level, and every component retested. Those that pass will then be used in building new SRBs.
The entire process costs just about the same as bulding new SRBs from scatch.
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