In about:config, create a new boolean named
extensions.checkCompatibility.7.0 and set it to false, then restart. Working fine for me with last night's 7.0 beta.
Of course this turns off all compatibility checking, so the better solution would be for them to update their install package.
Disclaimer: I haven't tried installing without that boolean to see what happens.
You get a little 'Lock++' icon in the right corner (by default) that will tell you the verification status. For instance going to https://mail.google.com/ gets you a list of the current notaries and how they're 'voting'. You can add, edit, remove, or enable/disable notaries at will by providing host:port and a cert. It comes with 'notary.thoughtcrime.org' and 'notary2.thoughtcrime.org' by default, which gives you two entries to play with to start with.
The advanced options are the interesting ones - whether you want to anonymize your authentication requests, whether non-responsive notaries count as pass or fail, and the verification threshold: 'Require consensus', 'Require majority', or 'Require only one'.
There's also a separate download link for you to run as a notary yourself.
We'll see how this works out - this distributed trust thing isn't new, but the key bit is making it this easy, so people can choose who to trust or delegate that authority. And this seems pretty easy.
I would completely agree that Amazon wants to be a much bigger competitor to Apple in Apple's domain than they are at the moment. I guess Apple's willing to take that risk right now?
Amazon mp3 isn't really hurting iTunes, for instance.
Okay, that's it, I'm holding this thread open till someone seriously explains how the Bildberg group conspired to make sure it just LOOKED like Apple took any help from Microsoft because otherwise you'd just DIE of shame omigaw.
Lest you forget, MS kept Apple alive with a huge cash infusion when they were about to go under. They need each other. They're best frenemies.
MS may not quite have expected Apple to rebound as much as they did, but they need Apple to kick them in the ass, and Apple customers aren't really MS customers so they're not losing much. Apple needs Microsoft so their customers can keep pretending they're superior outsiders and not just too simple to figure out Windows's obtuse designed by engineers UI. And so they can keep painting Microsoft as Big Brother even when their own policies are far more totalitarian.
Apple can afford to go teehee at MS's pathetic attempts to stay relevant in the mobile phone sector, so no problem there, and Amazon is only a competitor as far as providing ebooks goes. Vexing, but not fatal.
Yes, Sony has a more open platform than Microsoft for online. Because it displaces the cost of bandwidth and servers to the publisher. That also lets the publisher enable cross-platform play if they want, but also means they don't have the sheer bandwidth MS has arranged for, so pluses and minuses.
Valve now loves PS3 for that reason. The PS3 hardware is a gigantic pain in the ass except for the capacity of the Blu-ray disk, which really made ports to PS3 like Orange Box awful. But Valve has craploads of bandwidth for Steam, so they can enable PS3/PC play and do other things on PS3 that MS won't allow because they're control freaks.
As for removed features, how about PS2 software emulation? Crippling the USB ports (since those could be used to hack the system and provide unlicensed peripherals)? OtherOS is obviously the Big One, but there are a whole lot of forced updates that are nothing but Sony trying to stop hackers by locking the system down further.
Some of us demand crackability, but it's such a pain in the ass for most people and normal use. Even when rooting iPad was trivial I was the only one I knew personally with a rooted iPad. For most people, why bother? There are a lot of people here in my office who bought the cheap TouchPads, but only a couple of them are excited about putting Android on them - mostly it's just' Heck, for $99, it's useful enough!'
If Amazon comes out with a $300 Ice Cream Sandwich tablet that's 10 inch, quad core, decent screen, etc. etc. I'd probably snag it even if it weren't crackable (it probably be cracked after a while, but I wouldn't require it). For $200, instantly.
Okay, maybe that was a bit harsh, I do generally like Windows 7 as my primary desktop, but c'mon, you can afford to hire some UI designers. Pay what you have to, and for gods sake don't let the programmers and engineers design anything.
Oh sure there are clear benefits. For people who have no idea what they're doing and don't realize you can ctrl-c/ctrl-v files.
And how can you possibly think that's a clear layout, even for those people? Maybe we should slap some more separators in there, the more separators you add the better it gets.
On the positive side, if you can collapse those tabs like you can in Office, at least you can hide the mess and do everything with keyboard controls.
Yeah, I did notice that (pull request), but I secretly love the idea of a braindead iphone type spell corrector running around automatically changing 'strcpy' to 'stripy', or 'unlk' to 'unlink'. And then thinking you can fix it with even more complex regexps.
For a 10 inch tablet with quad core CPU and Android 4, I would pay $300 in a trice. I have some Kindle books, so integrated Kindle and Amazon Marketplace are fine.
Assuming there isn't something stupidly defective with it like coming with no real Android Market and not being able to add it.
So since the 3D thing is an abject failure Sony's got something else lined up to sell us all new proprietary hardware with.
Honestly, I don't doubt reading basic emotions could be possible in 10 years, which is an eternity - we already can do it fairly well with crude emotions (fear is easy to recognize!). What I really worry about is what the people who brought you Playstation Home might try to do with it. Who are so tone deaf they don't realize that continually neutering the console they sold you for $600 might might make anyone annoyed. Who don't realize that pissing off hackers is a bad move. What are they going to do, if they see you frown pop up a biiiiiig yellow screen filling smiley face?
It's all about the convenience. Torrenting is far too complex and too much hassle. I've seen some of the interviews, and they're hard pressed to operate their phones, much less uTorrent. This is $5, no hassle.
This isn't aimed at the corporate blackberry users. BBM is the new pager (remember those?) - the messaging of choice for low class drug dealers and their customers. Think the London Rioters. They loooove them some BBM, and might go for $5/mo for 50 songs, which is 10 more than you need for the top 40 regurgitated R&B hits.
This is a very bad deal for anyone who would actually read slashdot, but I can't say it's completely a horrible idea for RIM.
And they're right. This debt ceiling deal did absolutely nothing to deal with the US's budget problems (except for 'Ohshi we need money to pay the rent this week, dude! Call your mom.') It's smoke and mirrors on imaginary future savings - one more way in which California blazes the way for the nation. The other rating agencies that are keeping the AAA are indulging in the same sort of wishful thinking that rated junk mortgages bundles AAA. S&P did too, maybe they learned.
At least they did the administration a favor and waited till Friday long after market close to announce it.
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In about:config, create a new boolean named
extensions.checkCompatibility.7.0
and set it to false, then restart. Working fine for me with last night's 7.0 beta.
Of course this turns off all compatibility checking, so the better solution would be for them to update their install package.
Disclaimer: I haven't tried installing without that boolean to see what happens.
You get a little 'Lock++' icon in the right corner (by default) that will tell you the verification status. For instance going to https://mail.google.com/ gets you a list of the current notaries and how they're 'voting'. You can add, edit, remove, or enable/disable notaries at will by providing host:port and a cert. It comes with 'notary.thoughtcrime.org' and 'notary2.thoughtcrime.org' by default, which gives you two entries to play with to start with.
The advanced options are the interesting ones - whether you want to anonymize your authentication requests, whether non-responsive notaries count as pass or fail, and the verification threshold: 'Require consensus', 'Require majority', or 'Require only one'.
There's also a separate download link for you to run as a notary yourself.
We'll see how this works out - this distributed trust thing isn't new, but the key bit is making it this easy, so people can choose who to trust or delegate that authority. And this seems pretty easy.
Troll? Troll? You goddamn stupid Apple fanboys. Everyone who doesn't agree with you is not a troll. I meant every single thing I said there.
(Forgive me for replying to myself, no edit)
Similarly, MS thinks they're a competitor to Apple for phones and tablets. But they're not.
I would completely agree that Amazon wants to be a much bigger competitor to Apple in Apple's domain than they are at the moment. I guess Apple's willing to take that risk right now?
Amazon mp3 isn't really hurting iTunes, for instance.
Okay, that's it, I'm holding this thread open till someone seriously explains how the Bildberg group conspired to make sure it just LOOKED like Apple took any help from Microsoft because otherwise you'd just DIE of shame omigaw.
'which is what led to Jobs returning and reforging the sword that was broken'
Well okay then.
Lest you forget, MS kept Apple alive with a huge cash infusion when they were about to go under. They need each other. They're best frenemies.
MS may not quite have expected Apple to rebound as much as they did, but they need Apple to kick them in the ass, and Apple customers aren't really MS customers so they're not losing much. Apple needs Microsoft so their customers can keep pretending they're superior outsiders and not just too simple to figure out Windows's obtuse designed by engineers UI. And so they can keep painting Microsoft as Big Brother even when their own policies are far more totalitarian.
Apple can afford to go teehee at MS's pathetic attempts to stay relevant in the mobile phone sector, so no problem there, and Amazon is only a competitor as far as providing ebooks goes. Vexing, but not fatal.
Yes, Sony has a more open platform than Microsoft for online. Because it displaces the cost of bandwidth and servers to the publisher. That also lets the publisher enable cross-platform play if they want, but also means they don't have the sheer bandwidth MS has arranged for, so pluses and minuses.
Valve now loves PS3 for that reason. The PS3 hardware is a gigantic pain in the ass except for the capacity of the Blu-ray disk, which really made ports to PS3 like Orange Box awful. But Valve has craploads of bandwidth for Steam, so they can enable PS3/PC play and do other things on PS3 that MS won't allow because they're control freaks.
As for removed features, how about PS2 software emulation? Crippling the USB ports (since those could be used to hack the system and provide unlicensed peripherals)? OtherOS is obviously the Big One, but there are a whole lot of forced updates that are nothing but Sony trying to stop hackers by locking the system down further.
Microsoft are being dicks here, but XBL is head and shoulders above PSN precisely because it is a fully walled and controlled garden.
Or perhaps PSN is just overwhelmed by all those mandatory system update downloads to remove more PS3 features?
Some of us demand crackability, but it's such a pain in the ass for most people and normal use. Even when rooting iPad was trivial I was the only one I knew personally with a rooted iPad. For most people, why bother? There are a lot of people here in my office who bought the cheap TouchPads, but only a couple of them are excited about putting Android on them - mostly it's just' Heck, for $99, it's useful enough!'
If Amazon comes out with a $300 Ice Cream Sandwich tablet that's 10 inch, quad core, decent screen, etc. etc. I'd probably snag it even if it weren't crackable (it probably be cracked after a while, but I wouldn't require it). For $200, instantly.
Okay, maybe that was a bit harsh, I do generally like Windows 7 as my primary desktop, but c'mon, you can afford to hire some UI designers. Pay what you have to, and for gods sake don't let the programmers and engineers design anything.
Oh sure there are clear benefits. For people who have no idea what they're doing and don't realize you can ctrl-c/ctrl-v files.
And how can you possibly think that's a clear layout, even for those people? Maybe we should slap some more separators in there, the more separators you add the better it gets.
On the positive side, if you can collapse those tabs like you can in Office, at least you can hide the mess and do everything with keyboard controls.
Yeah, I did notice that (pull request), but I secretly love the idea of a braindead iphone type spell corrector running around automatically changing 'strcpy' to 'stripy', or 'unlk' to 'unlink'. And then thinking you can fix it with even more complex regexps.
But at least it's just sticking to READMEs.
For me it loaded almost instantly... but would never run anything. Even just
print "hello"
would never enable the Run button.
Tried it in another browser and 'Oh sorry, that's not a supported browser.'
For a 10 inch tablet with quad core CPU and Android 4, I would pay $300 in a trice. I have some Kindle books, so integrated Kindle and Amazon Marketplace are fine.
Assuming there isn't something stupidly defective with it like coming with no real Android Market and not being able to add it.
First the earthquake, then this. And this is probably more frightening for them.
The stealing codes is semi-new. But opening the box and storing the disks somewhere else is something they've done for years.
The employees will even take the games home and play them, then they'll sell the games to you as 'new'. Except when activation codes don't allow that.
So since the 3D thing is an abject failure Sony's got something else lined up to sell us all new proprietary hardware with.
Honestly, I don't doubt reading basic emotions could be possible in 10 years, which is an eternity - we already can do it fairly well with crude emotions (fear is easy to recognize!). What I really worry about is what the people who brought you Playstation Home might try to do with it. Who are so tone deaf they don't realize that continually neutering the console they sold you for $600 might might make anyone annoyed. Who don't realize that pissing off hackers is a bad move. What are they going to do, if they see you frown pop up a biiiiiig yellow screen filling smiley face?
It's all about the convenience. Torrenting is far too complex and too much hassle. I've seen some of the interviews, and they're hard pressed to operate their phones, much less uTorrent. This is $5, no hassle.
This isn't aimed at the corporate blackberry users. BBM is the new pager (remember those?) - the messaging of choice for low class drug dealers and their customers. Think the London Rioters. They loooove them some BBM, and might go for $5/mo for 50 songs, which is 10 more than you need for the top 40 regurgitated R&B hits.
This is a very bad deal for anyone who would actually read slashdot, but I can't say it's completely a horrible idea for RIM.
... than Bing or Yahoo users, who will just click on anything, apparently. The Yahoo thing clinches it.
If it keeps you thinking about it instead of just taking your partner for granted, that might be plenty.
And they're right. This debt ceiling deal did absolutely nothing to deal with the US's budget problems (except for 'Ohshi we need money to pay the rent this week, dude! Call your mom.') It's smoke and mirrors on imaginary future savings - one more way in which California blazes the way for the nation. The other rating agencies that are keeping the AAA are indulging in the same sort of wishful thinking that rated junk mortgages bundles AAA. S&P did too, maybe they learned.
At least they did the administration a favor and waited till Friday long after market close to announce it.