the tech surfer
There is now overwhelming visual evidence that Apple supports Windows.
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I picked up this funny piece from Digg this morning. The link was entitled “Woke up this morning and found that my wife finally found a use for the Apple Laptop.” I found out while reading the comments section that the image originally appeared on Reddit 10 days ago.
Funny. I thought that was worth a share.
Firefox specialist and consultant Mike Kaply questioned Firefox’s rapid release scheduling and its negative impact on businesses:
Case in point: Firefox 4 was only released in March. Now, three months later Firefox 5.0 is out in stable release. Hence, Mozilla has ceased supporting Firefox 4.
Kaply points out that this breakneck update schedule may “work for the average user” but “it doesn’t fly in [a] corporate environment, especially places like banks”. “Expecting a company to go through a full deployment cycle of their web browser every six week is simply ludicrous.”
It’s a valid point. Banks and corporate businesses should stay with version 3.6 then, while the rest of us get the latest and greatest Firefox. It just shows that it is difficult to make everyone happy. They say development was too slow. Now, it’s too fast. What gives.
Rapid development and releases will be the norm going forward. Businesses just have to adapt to them.
Linus Torvalds wrote:
Well, so far I haven’t really seen any suggestions on how to improve
it much further.3.0 will still be noticeably faster than 2.6.39 due to the other
changes made (ie the read-ahead), so yes, the regression itself is
fixed.But performance on that particular benchmark with that particular
machine is clearly not optimal, in that there are known setups that
would be faster still.Of course, the reason for the mutex conversion was _other_ loads,
where the spinlocks had bad behavior. So it’s a balancing act. And I
suspect we’ve reached a reasonable point in that balancing, yes.Linus
Here’s the original thread.
