If they have a culture where the developers are allowed to focus on code quality, then if it's "bad code" (as subjective as that term is) you'll have a shot at fixing it. Code quality is a result of developer experience and the required development pace; the worst situation you can be in is where 100% of engineering time is spent on feature development and bug fixes, with no time allotted for maintenance work.
But like a poster above said, if you really are just sick of legacy code, work for a startup; that's what I did.
"Adobe will continue to provide security updates to non-Pepper distributions of Flash Player 11.2 on Linux for five years from its release."
If we believe the (mainstream) migration from Flash to HTML5 will be accomplished in that timeframe, I don't see this being a big issue for Firefox or other Linux browsers not using the Pepper API
Admittedly, not much; most of it I wouldn't want to use (floppy disks, mice with physical trackers). Keyboards seem to be one of the few pieces of computer hardware that have gotten worse and not better over the years, though.
Quite a bit of Firefox memory usage is in the caching mechanism. You can get that under control by following some of the tips here: http://gnoted.com/3-hacks-for-firefox-double-internet-browsing-speed/. Most of the article focuses on speed improvements, but if you modify the "browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewer" setting, it will limit the amount of memory that firefox allocates for cache (the default is to use as much as it needs, based on available memory).
Actually, yes. Terry gives a police officer 'investigatory' discretion. Since they were called to the scene, they could have a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity (also potential and/or prior criminal activity). But, this is implicit upon a suspicion that the suspect might be armed, and so the justification for a "Terry stop" is one of personal safety of an officer. From the OP's account, it seems that there was no threat, but that's a subjective observation. The real intent of Terry was to redefine the Exclusionary rules of evidence, which doesn't appear to matter here. It's more dependent on state laws about self-identification to a police officer then it is on Terry vs. Ohio.
Once the OP was handcuffed, he was arrested and subject to laws outside the scope of Terry vs Ohio.
I too, have a friend who is currently deployed (again) in Iraq. From what I understand, he's able to bring his own computer. However, sand is the enemy, and can destroy a computer fairly fast. His communication options are fairly good, as he can chat through aim fairly easily. But bandwidth probably won't be good (he ended up getting Vista, since he couldn't grab the necessary drivers and service packs for XP reliably). For phone calls, he ends up buying a phone off Iraqi merchants and calls international back home. So as long as he people you are trying to talk to will pick up for random numbers routed through Virginia, you should be fine. Not cheap, but works well as long as you're not standing next to any concrete barriers:-P I had another friend in Afghanistan a couple years back and he seemed to do alright by the phones that the army provides, but your mileage may vary.
Canceling Usenet service is one more thing to tip me over to AT&T. It's not much to get a Giganews account for just reading a few groups ($8 for 2GB/mo) but it is a hassle to have to remember yet another bill. I do agree that Usenet is merely a shadow of its former self, but if Comcast just blocked binaries they could still provide the service without the legal complications created by the recent pornography legislation. And Spam is what killfiles were made for.
It has always been my experience that 3G service is spotty, no matter what phone you use. Personally, I'll stick with my Treo 755p; Palm OS may be a dinosaur, but at least I can make phone calls.
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If they have a culture where the developers are allowed to focus on code quality, then if it's "bad code" (as subjective as that term is) you'll have a shot at fixing it. Code quality is a result of developer experience and the required development pace; the worst situation you can be in is where 100% of engineering time is spent on feature development and bug fixes, with no time allotted for maintenance work.
But like a poster above said, if you really are just sick of legacy code, work for a startup; that's what I did.
Looks like they have an implementation of the PPAPI:
http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/pepper-plugin-implementation
From the press release:
"Adobe will continue to provide security updates to non-Pepper distributions of Flash Player 11.2 on Linux for five years from its release."
If we believe the (mainstream) migration from Flash to HTML5 will be accomplished in that timeframe, I don't see this being a big issue for Firefox or other Linux browsers not using the Pepper API
Admittedly, not much; most of it I wouldn't want to use (floppy disks, mice with physical trackers). Keyboards seem to be one of the few pieces of computer hardware that have gotten worse and not better over the years, though.
I didn't think alkaline batteries would last that long on the shelf, let alone in use.
Also, 10 years is nothing for a keyboard! I've got an IBM Model M that's at least from the mid 80's and works fine.
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Quite a bit of Firefox memory usage is in the caching mechanism. You can get that under control by following some of the tips here: http://gnoted.com/3-hacks-for-firefox-double-internet-browsing-speed/. Most of the article focuses on speed improvements, but if you modify the "browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewer" setting, it will limit the amount of memory that firefox allocates for cache (the default is to use as much as it needs, based on available memory).
Actually, yes. Terry gives a police officer 'investigatory' discretion. Since they were called to the scene, they could have a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity (also potential and/or prior criminal activity). But, this is implicit upon a suspicion that the suspect might be armed, and so the justification for a "Terry stop" is one of personal safety of an officer. From the OP's account, it seems that there was no threat, but that's a subjective observation. The real intent of Terry was to redefine the Exclusionary rules of evidence, which doesn't appear to matter here. It's more dependent on state laws about self-identification to a police officer then it is on Terry vs. Ohio. Once the OP was handcuffed, he was arrested and subject to laws outside the scope of Terry vs Ohio.
I too, have a friend who is currently deployed (again) in Iraq. From what I understand, he's able to bring his own computer. However, sand is the enemy, and can destroy a computer fairly fast. His communication options are fairly good, as he can chat through aim fairly easily. But bandwidth probably won't be good (he ended up getting Vista, since he couldn't grab the necessary drivers and service packs for XP reliably). For phone calls, he ends up buying a phone off Iraqi merchants and calls international back home. So as long as he people you are trying to talk to will pick up for random numbers routed through Virginia, you should be fine. Not cheap, but works well as long as you're not standing next to any concrete barriers :-P I had another friend in Afghanistan a couple years back and he seemed to do alright by the phones that the army provides, but your mileage may vary.
Canceling Usenet service is one more thing to tip me over to AT&T. It's not much to get a Giganews account for just reading a few groups ($8 for 2GB/mo) but it is a hassle to have to remember yet another bill. I do agree that Usenet is merely a shadow of its former self, but if Comcast just blocked binaries they could still provide the service without the legal complications created by the recent pornography legislation. And Spam is what killfiles were made for.
It has always been my experience that 3G service is spotty, no matter what phone you use. Personally, I'll stick with my Treo 755p; Palm OS may be a dinosaur, but at least I can make phone calls.