Right, and we could still be using 1.4MB floppies, as most daily documents can fit on there. We don't for the same issue as here. I don't want to lug around a dozen SD cards, even if they are cheap. I want a single card to stay in the Wii, so that there's less a chance of it becoming lost or damaged.
That's beating around the issue that the maximum SD card that the Wii accepts is 2GB. It doesn't support SDHC, which greatly limits its storage which, IMO, is a huge fault of the Wii. For a full life cycle, 2GB will not be enough for many users. There are already people who are hitting that ceiling, especially those that do not have regular Internet access, and thus can't afford the luxury of just deleting games to redownload later.
I've hit 2GB, however I have a lot of homebrew apps.
Not to mention other IPs that were proclaimed as series and have died out... such as Advent Rising (supposed to be a trilogy from the start, was killed after the first) and Xenosaga (supposed to be six games) was killed after the third, which was rushed to get the story summed up.
IMO, it's just marketing. People expect that great IPs will have sequels and trilogies. So, if the publisher goes ahead and says that it will be a trilogy, the masses will assume that it is a great IP before the first review even comes out.
In reviewing the site, I can see how it pisses people off. You get someone mad and they'll find some way to attack. The site canvasses the real estate market in a few large cities and makes not of prominent people that buy or sell property. It then does a mini-bio on the person, sometimes with their picture example. The site is fully within their rights to do so, but I can understand the feelings of a person suddenly showing up on there with their life story just because they bought a house. So, they find loop holes to get it taken down.
Actually, people are dumb enough to think just that. I see it whenever I help someone purchase a car. The price of the car will be, say, 14,950. In conversations when you ask them how much the car is they'll say "14... 14... 14,9 something". The more time goes by, the more the price mentally goes from 14950 to 14000. You focus on the big numbers up front, and the smaller ones diminish over time.
You see this all the time with home sales, too. And eBay. The big key there is to work your price within search boundaries. If a typical person is going to search for a house from 100,000 to 250,000, and you're priced at 250,000, the search engine may not pick up your item. If you price at 249,999.00, it definitely will be.
Just so people are aware, MediaSentry is owned by a greater company, SafeNet. SafeNet controls their operations and is headquartered in Belcamp, MD (1/2 mile from me, as it turns out). When attacks are lodged against one company, you should always be aware of that company's right hand operations that could go ignored.
Graphic arts is a wide-reaching field. Agreed, that shouldn't be listed on the requirements, but I think it should be delved into during the interview process. I don't mean someone who can create advanced portfolios, but someone who can make reasonably attractive buttons, layouts, and background images. At the very least someone who says "Oh, these images aren't lining up, instead of making a dozen div's or tables, I'll just edit the images to move them a few pixels." That very basic ability can be very powerful in the hands of a web developer, IMO.
When it comes time to really find a job, though, "Sure, I can learn that. See, I use this everyday, and have been teaching myself this, this, and this for the last 6 months" mixed in with a little "yeah, I've got some experience with that. I'm not an expert, but I've always been able to get what I need to done." doesn't seem to cut it.
I can't speak much for other organizations, but that's exactly who we look for. We have a very advanced group of people that work with extremely technical work across the board. We know that this stuff can't be trained into someone, and that there are very few companies that do what we do. We want people that can see a brand new technology coming out, then go out on their own to tear it down, learn it, then teach others how to use it. Typically, we hire people for that position, and this is the first time I've been involved in hiring for an outside position, so I just took those interview questions with me and made them work. I think we got lucky with our pick. I can also attest that there are places like mine out there, if you're lucky enough to find them.
Your experience is exactly the type that I looked for in a candidate. I'm more interested in what you do at home with that language. Did they design their own game for fun? Did they make a web-driven database for their DVD inventory? What problems do they run across on a daily basis, and what creative means and languages did they use to solve it. That's worth much more than "What project did your company lay out for you and what tools were you forced into using to develop it?"
I can see how other orgs, that have strict environments and strict management, would force candidates into niches. I'm also glad that my place doesn't do that:)
But, because I want to keep a modicum of anonymity, and because most of my coworkers also read/., I won't really say where I work. It's a customer-contract for CSC (one of a few thousand there).
You're absolutely right about HR singling out those skill sets, which seemed to be a bigger issue brought up in the article. We spread out, though, and worked through HR and directly ourselves to other sites, even Craigslist. The HR people scanned for PHP programmers (and mostly found ASP programmers who had used PHP once) and DreamWeaver users (since that is what we use... hold the "boo"s:)). We knew that HR would focus too singularly, so we were able to broaden it and pool candidates from all over.
My organization just started a unique online system, which was custom written by a vendor. The software is all PHP with a Linux/MySQL backend, and uses OSS software throughout. I took the reins to get the system up and running, but now, for the first time, we started looking for a dedicated web developer to publish works to this site, work on troubleshooting, and work with the vendor to design modifications to it. We went through over a dozen interviews over the past few weeks. It was bloody awful.
My (admittedly high) goals was a web developer that new PHP, could work with Linux (SSH), and had very basic client-side programming (C, Perl, whatever) to develop more tools for us down the road. Oh, and someone that could do some graphic art work would be a definite value-add.
Every single person that came in was an mainly ASP or ASP.NET programmer. Only two had Linux experience. Three or four had Photoshop experience. As a programmer myself, I ventured to the hopeful candidates on what languages they would like to learn next, or what skills they want to improve upon. Across the board, they were all happy staying with ASP, didn't want to learn PHP, and some inquired into when we would want to move from PHP to ASP. I had intentionally kept the field open to non-PHP people to try and find a true programmer that just didn't have those letters on their resume, but the majority were sticking themselves to a single language.
When all was said and done, we hired someone. He didn't know Linux, and didn't know PHP, but he was a definite "Active Learner". He was self-taught in nearly everything he knew, and was willing to learn any language we needed him to learn. He was one of the two candidates that had expressively mentioned that programming was just picking up a language and using it; all the rest were ASP specialists and thought that using another language wasn't worth their investment.
I'm actually a bit shocked; I live 1/4 mile from SafeNet's HQ in Belcamp, and even watched as it was being built. It wasn't until this article that I realized what the company is!
Don't worry, I'll come up with more;) And shame on the submitter for misrepresenting the article (which is on a domain blocked here).
OK... how's this. The study also doesn't include typical DVD sales and other methods of watching television shows (such as online through NBC.com, etc). Again, this is newer implementations of standard TV watching that older generations are slow to adopt. I, personally, don't have the patience to wait week by week for a show, so I'll wait until it comes out on DVD and watch it all in a month. I think the more tech-savvy are more accustomed to watching a show through an online site, on their dual display, while working.
That sums it all up. The younger generation have quickly adapted and taken advantage of time shifting and DVRs. The older generation is less likely to use new technology for watching television. Therefore, the studies are now skewed towards the higher age. Even my three year old knows to fast forward through commercials on our HTPC.
I definitely agree about teachers with common sense. The only real memorable moment I had was with my 9th grade computer teacher, after they put me into an Introduction to Computers course (even after explaining previous experience to guidance counselor). This teacher had me pushed into the advanced courses, then pushed me into the AP programming courses. There was a local, small trucking business that would contact him every few years, seeking an "intern" type position at their facility for computer work. He recommended me, and I worked for 3 years managing and administrating a Netware network, then converting it to NT Server. God bless him (or whoever, he was a Buddhist:)).
As far as writing the materials, on comments made by others here, I will disagree that I have ten times more time to work. Many of my exercises have to be made, from scratch, on the fly or the night before. A public education teacher just uses whatever is in the book. I'll agree with Aladrin here that the people who are writing the books need to have better staff writing the material. And that's where all the pressure is coming from. What is in the book is what is taught. If the book was geared for multiple audiences, then multiple audiences will be addressed in delivery. If the book is geared for a single audience, then that's all that will be delivered. We should be expecting more from the book writers first, and then expecting the teachers to follow suit in delivering the material.
Why? Your gas is nearly same price as ours. I'm so sick to death of brits bitching about gas prices when they're just paying taxes.
"The British government, for example, charges a $3.77-a-gallon fuel duty and a 17.5 percent consumption tax on top of that. " [source]. Average gas prices at that time were $8.61 USD per gallon.
Let's do the math. $8.61 - 3.77 - 17% = $4.14/gal for fuel
I'm paying about $4.10 for 87 now. $4.10 - 0.42 (MD+fed tax) = $3.68 for fuel
You're only paying $0.46 more per gallon than I am, and my state is fairly cheap. The spread is much less when compared to other states like California (which is actually only $0.10 more than here, once you take out CA taxes).
I'll put it out there, I'm an advanced learner, and here's what I've seen through my old learning "career". It was an excellent program at first, but over the years things really dropped off.
In the second grade, while attending John J Blair Elementary in Wilmington, NC, I was tested in the top percentile of the school. This allowed me to go every Tuesday on a bus to a special learning center downtown where we were taught logic puzzles (you find a dead body hanging from ceiling, pool of water under him, how did he die?) how to work with C64 computers and how to perform basic coding. That was 1987, and I was 8.
Then, a school restructuring took place in the districts. I was moved to Blunt Elementary, half an hour farther away. This was a very poor school, but due to the increase of advanced students coming in, they hired an A.G. (Academically Gifted) teacher. We met twice a week for a few hours to work on basic Latin, mind puzzles, logic, etc. I was in that program from 3rd to 5th grade.
I then moved to Leland Middle School, in Leland, NC. Things were dropped another notch. There was a similar A.G. structure there, but just for math and English. For Math, we basically met privately with the Math teacher of the next grade up and learned their topics. For English, we had a dedicated instructor that taught us in a outside structure next to the special-needs room. There we learned writing skills, more advanced Latin (and how to use it to break apart words and sentences). Budget cuts came along, so much so that the school implemented half days every other week. Instead of having a dedicated Math and English teacher, we simply attended the classes of the next grade up with those students. In 8th grade more budget cuts came. With no where to send us, they had us just sit through normal Math and English courses with the rest of our grade... relearning information we already knew. The administration was defensive and noted that it would help us build our skills by helping the others in the course - pure BS. We sat, bored, for the whole year.
Family issues arose, and I attended high school in Woodstown, NJ. There was no program in place here; it was a farming community. They had their 4-H, and that was it. There was no support for those who broke apart from the norm. As such, as a teenager, I rebelled and made life Hell for those around me. I was stuck, bored, relearning material I was taught years earlier. After three years of fighting, my parents and I convinced the administration to let me attend college courses at night. From what I hear, it's now an official part of their system for the advanced students.
Over the years I've seen how budget cuts and overall lack of caring has changed curriculum and delivery styles through the school systems. At the end, as the "smart" students, the administration felt that we were best left to our devices while they focused on getting everyone else up to par. Even worse was when they forced us to help them teach the other students, sometimes forcing us into mentorship programs, and buddy systems where we would have to call our buddies each night to ensure they did their homework correctly.
Luckily, I grew up to be a teacher... but not for schools. I develop and teach computer forensic techniques. But, I remembered my lessons from growing up. Every exercise I teach is built with multiple difficulty structures, and there are layers of hidden material that I push the advanced students to find. Having one single system to train all students will not work, as the teachers will just focus their attention on the students falling behind. There is a whole generation of very smart and advanced children, many of whom do not have the support they need at home (I was lucky to have a father that bought me QuickC for my 11th birthday). These kids will grow up bored and frustrated. They will lash out and adults will assume it just to be because of angst or the need for Ritalin, when the kid just wants to learn.
It's an abstract painting of hundreds of computer related terms and sayings. As the viewer, your goal is to find them all. You'll literally have hundreds of people gazing over the painting for hours trying to unravel it.
You don't have road rage if you are the one doing 45 in a 55
Actually, I think most of them do. I see a large number of people in the left lane doing under the speed limit that KNOW you're behind them. They see you in their mirror, close behind, and they just refuse to move over and allow traffic to pass. Some of the feeling that THEY'RE doing the limit, and they don't need to move or make any considerations for other people because they're within their legal right. That's a bad attitude, and that IS road rage.
Not a real secret lawsuit. They refused to disclosed its relevance to the current case, which kept it secret from the ruling judge. They were hoping to slip it through the cracks and basically start from scratch with another judge that they thought would be sympathetic to their needs.
Don't wait, contact the developers! Each add-on developer works independently from the rest of the system. I assumed my extension worked fine in 3.0 and was going to wait until FF3 became finalized, but I received enough comments and issues from beta users that I went and updated mine and continued to update the versions so that it would work with all of the betas and RCs. If there's an extension you need, email the authors and hound them to update it asap.
You know, that's why they have a "release candidate", which is now available. The betas are over and done with. And, I hope, as a beta user that you submitted your issues for them to be addressed and resolved.
So... instead of wondering if it will crash, why not find out?
Slashdot Mirror
Right, and we could still be using 1.4MB floppies, as most daily documents can fit on there. We don't for the same issue as here. I don't want to lug around a dozen SD cards, even if they are cheap. I want a single card to stay in the Wii, so that there's less a chance of it becoming lost or damaged.
That's beating around the issue that the maximum SD card that the Wii accepts is 2GB. It doesn't support SDHC, which greatly limits its storage which, IMO, is a huge fault of the Wii. For a full life cycle, 2GB will not be enough for many users. There are already people who are hitting that ceiling, especially those that do not have regular Internet access, and thus can't afford the luxury of just deleting games to redownload later.
I've hit 2GB, however I have a lot of homebrew apps.
Not to mention other IPs that were proclaimed as series and have died out... such as Advent Rising (supposed to be a trilogy from the start, was killed after the first) and Xenosaga (supposed to be six games) was killed after the third, which was rushed to get the story summed up.
IMO, it's just marketing. People expect that great IPs will have sequels and trilogies. So, if the publisher goes ahead and says that it will be a trilogy, the masses will assume that it is a great IP before the first review even comes out.
In reviewing the site, I can see how it pisses people off. You get someone mad and they'll find some way to attack. The site canvasses the real estate market in a few large cities and makes not of prominent people that buy or sell property. It then does a mini-bio on the person, sometimes with their picture example. The site is fully within their rights to do so, but I can understand the feelings of a person suddenly showing up on there with their life story just because they bought a house. So, they find loop holes to get it taken down.
1 Trillion yen (1,000,000,000,000.00) = £5,094,913,016.76 = $9,384,938,337.77 ($9.3 billion).
Now, let's start the flame fest of comparing this low value to other multi-billion dollar "investments" the US Government has made...
Actually, people are dumb enough to think just that. I see it whenever I help someone purchase a car. The price of the car will be, say, 14,950. In conversations when you ask them how much the car is they'll say "14... 14... 14,9 something". The more time goes by, the more the price mentally goes from 14950 to 14000. You focus on the big numbers up front, and the smaller ones diminish over time.
You see this all the time with home sales, too. And eBay. The big key there is to work your price within search boundaries. If a typical person is going to search for a house from 100,000 to 250,000, and you're priced at 250,000, the search engine may not pick up your item. If you price at 249,999.00, it definitely will be.
Just so people are aware, MediaSentry is owned by a greater company, SafeNet. SafeNet controls their operations and is headquartered in Belcamp, MD (1/2 mile from me, as it turns out). When attacks are lodged against one company, you should always be aware of that company's right hand operations that could go ignored.
Graphic arts is a wide-reaching field. Agreed, that shouldn't be listed on the requirements, but I think it should be delved into during the interview process. I don't mean someone who can create advanced portfolios, but someone who can make reasonably attractive buttons, layouts, and background images. At the very least someone who says "Oh, these images aren't lining up, instead of making a dozen div's or tables, I'll just edit the images to move them a few pixels." That very basic ability can be very powerful in the hands of a web developer, IMO.
When it comes time to really find a job, though, "Sure, I can learn that. See, I use this everyday, and have been teaching myself this, this, and this for the last 6 months" mixed in with a little "yeah, I've got some experience with that. I'm not an expert, but I've always been able to get what I need to done." doesn't seem to cut it.
I can't speak much for other organizations, but that's exactly who we look for. We have a very advanced group of people that work with extremely technical work across the board. We know that this stuff can't be trained into someone, and that there are very few companies that do what we do. We want people that can see a brand new technology coming out, then go out on their own to tear it down, learn it, then teach others how to use it. Typically, we hire people for that position, and this is the first time I've been involved in hiring for an outside position, so I just took those interview questions with me and made them work. I think we got lucky with our pick. I can also attest that there are places like mine out there, if you're lucky enough to find them.
Your experience is exactly the type that I looked for in a candidate. I'm more interested in what you do at home with that language. Did they design their own game for fun? Did they make a web-driven database for their DVD inventory? What problems do they run across on a daily basis, and what creative means and languages did they use to solve it. That's worth much more than "What project did your company lay out for you and what tools were you forced into using to develop it?"
I can see how other orgs, that have strict environments and strict management, would force candidates into niches. I'm also glad that my place doesn't do that :)
But, because I want to keep a modicum of anonymity, and because most of my coworkers also read /., I won't really say where I work. It's a customer-contract for CSC (one of a few thousand there).
You're absolutely right about HR singling out those skill sets, which seemed to be a bigger issue brought up in the article. We spread out, though, and worked through HR and directly ourselves to other sites, even Craigslist. The HR people scanned for PHP programmers (and mostly found ASP programmers who had used PHP once) and DreamWeaver users (since that is what we use... hold the "boo"s :)). We knew that HR would focus too singularly, so we were able to broaden it and pool candidates from all over.
My organization just started a unique online system, which was custom written by a vendor. The software is all PHP with a Linux/MySQL backend, and uses OSS software throughout. I took the reins to get the system up and running, but now, for the first time, we started looking for a dedicated web developer to publish works to this site, work on troubleshooting, and work with the vendor to design modifications to it. We went through over a dozen interviews over the past few weeks. It was bloody awful.
My (admittedly high) goals was a web developer that new PHP, could work with Linux (SSH), and had very basic client-side programming (C, Perl, whatever) to develop more tools for us down the road. Oh, and someone that could do some graphic art work would be a definite value-add.
Every single person that came in was an mainly ASP or ASP.NET programmer. Only two had Linux experience. Three or four had Photoshop experience. As a programmer myself, I ventured to the hopeful candidates on what languages they would like to learn next, or what skills they want to improve upon. Across the board, they were all happy staying with ASP, didn't want to learn PHP, and some inquired into when we would want to move from PHP to ASP. I had intentionally kept the field open to non-PHP people to try and find a true programmer that just didn't have those letters on their resume, but the majority were sticking themselves to a single language.
When all was said and done, we hired someone. He didn't know Linux, and didn't know PHP, but he was a definite "Active Learner". He was self-taught in nearly everything he knew, and was willing to learn any language we needed him to learn. He was one of the two candidates that had expressively mentioned that programming was just picking up a language and using it; all the rest were ASP specialists and thought that using another language wasn't worth their investment.
... Are you sure you watched the right trailer? I see many instances of bullet-time in it.
I'm actually a bit shocked; I live 1/4 mile from SafeNet's HQ in Belcamp, and even watched as it was being built. It wasn't until this article that I realized what the company is!
I feel like I need to move now ...
Don't worry, I'll come up with more ;) And shame on the submitter for misrepresenting the article (which is on a domain blocked here).
OK... how's this. The study also doesn't include typical DVD sales and other methods of watching television shows (such as online through NBC.com, etc). Again, this is newer implementations of standard TV watching that older generations are slow to adopt. I, personally, don't have the patience to wait week by week for a show, so I'll wait until it comes out on DVD and watch it all in a month. I think the more tech-savvy are more accustomed to watching a show through an online site, on their dual display, while working.
These totals exclude DVR users
That sums it all up. The younger generation have quickly adapted and taken advantage of time shifting and DVRs. The older generation is less likely to use new technology for watching television. Therefore, the studies are now skewed towards the higher age. Even my three year old knows to fast forward through commercials on our HTPC.
I definitely agree about teachers with common sense. The only real memorable moment I had was with my 9th grade computer teacher, after they put me into an Introduction to Computers course (even after explaining previous experience to guidance counselor). This teacher had me pushed into the advanced courses, then pushed me into the AP programming courses. There was a local, small trucking business that would contact him every few years, seeking an "intern" type position at their facility for computer work. He recommended me, and I worked for 3 years managing and administrating a Netware network, then converting it to NT Server. God bless him (or whoever, he was a Buddhist :)).
As far as writing the materials, on comments made by others here, I will disagree that I have ten times more time to work. Many of my exercises have to be made, from scratch, on the fly or the night before. A public education teacher just uses whatever is in the book. I'll agree with Aladrin here that the people who are writing the books need to have better staff writing the material. And that's where all the pressure is coming from. What is in the book is what is taught. If the book was geared for multiple audiences, then multiple audiences will be addressed in delivery. If the book is geared for a single audience, then that's all that will be delivered. We should be expecting more from the book writers first, and then expecting the teachers to follow suit in delivering the material.
Why? Your gas is nearly same price as ours. I'm so sick to death of brits bitching about gas prices when they're just paying taxes.
"The British government, for example, charges a $3.77-a-gallon fuel duty and a 17.5 percent consumption tax on top of that. " [source]. Average gas prices at that time were $8.61 USD per gallon.
Let's do the math. $8.61 - 3.77 - 17% = $4.14/gal for fuel
I'm paying about $4.10 for 87 now. $4.10 - 0.42 (MD+fed tax) = $3.68 for fuel
You're only paying $0.46 more per gallon than I am, and my state is fairly cheap. The spread is much less when compared to other states like California (which is actually only $0.10 more than here, once you take out CA taxes).
I'll put it out there, I'm an advanced learner, and here's what I've seen through my old learning "career". It was an excellent program at first, but over the years things really dropped off.
In the second grade, while attending John J Blair Elementary in Wilmington, NC, I was tested in the top percentile of the school. This allowed me to go every Tuesday on a bus to a special learning center downtown where we were taught logic puzzles (you find a dead body hanging from ceiling, pool of water under him, how did he die?) how to work with C64 computers and how to perform basic coding. That was 1987, and I was 8.
Then, a school restructuring took place in the districts. I was moved to Blunt Elementary, half an hour farther away. This was a very poor school, but due to the increase of advanced students coming in, they hired an A.G. (Academically Gifted) teacher. We met twice a week for a few hours to work on basic Latin, mind puzzles, logic, etc. I was in that program from 3rd to 5th grade.
I then moved to Leland Middle School, in Leland, NC. Things were dropped another notch. There was a similar A.G. structure there, but just for math and English. For Math, we basically met privately with the Math teacher of the next grade up and learned their topics. For English, we had a dedicated instructor that taught us in a outside structure next to the special-needs room. There we learned writing skills, more advanced Latin (and how to use it to break apart words and sentences). Budget cuts came along, so much so that the school implemented half days every other week. Instead of having a dedicated Math and English teacher, we simply attended the classes of the next grade up with those students. In 8th grade more budget cuts came. With no where to send us, they had us just sit through normal Math and English courses with the rest of our grade... relearning information we already knew. The administration was defensive and noted that it would help us build our skills by helping the others in the course - pure BS. We sat, bored, for the whole year.
Family issues arose, and I attended high school in Woodstown, NJ. There was no program in place here; it was a farming community. They had their 4-H, and that was it. There was no support for those who broke apart from the norm. As such, as a teenager, I rebelled and made life Hell for those around me. I was stuck, bored, relearning material I was taught years earlier. After three years of fighting, my parents and I convinced the administration to let me attend college courses at night. From what I hear, it's now an official part of their system for the advanced students.
Over the years I've seen how budget cuts and overall lack of caring has changed curriculum and delivery styles through the school systems. At the end, as the "smart" students, the administration felt that we were best left to our devices while they focused on getting everyone else up to par. Even worse was when they forced us to help them teach the other students, sometimes forcing us into mentorship programs, and buddy systems where we would have to call our buddies each night to ensure they did their homework correctly.
Luckily, I grew up to be a teacher... but not for schools. I develop and teach computer forensic techniques. But, I remembered my lessons from growing up. Every exercise I teach is built with multiple difficulty structures, and there are layers of hidden material that I push the advanced students to find. Having one single system to train all students will not work, as the teachers will just focus their attention on the students falling behind. There is a whole generation of very smart and advanced children, many of whom do not have the support they need at home (I was lucky to have a father that bought me QuickC for my 11th birthday). These kids will grow up bored and frustrated. They will lash out and adults will assume it just to be because of angst or the need for Ritalin, when the kid just wants to learn.
As seen here.
It's an abstract painting of hundreds of computer related terms and sayings. As the viewer, your goal is to find them all. You'll literally have hundreds of people gazing over the painting for hours trying to unravel it.
You don't have road rage if you are the one doing 45 in a 55
Actually, I think most of them do. I see a large number of people in the left lane doing under the speed limit that KNOW you're behind them. They see you in their mirror, close behind, and they just refuse to move over and allow traffic to pass. Some of the feeling that THEY'RE doing the limit, and they don't need to move or make any considerations for other people because they're within their legal right. That's a bad attitude, and that IS road rage.
Not a real secret lawsuit. They refused to disclosed its relevance to the current case, which kept it secret from the ruling judge. They were hoping to slip it through the cracks and basically start from scratch with another judge that they thought would be sympathetic to their needs.
Don't wait, contact the developers! Each add-on developer works independently from the rest of the system. I assumed my extension worked fine in 3.0 and was going to wait until FF3 became finalized, but I received enough comments and issues from beta users that I went and updated mine and continued to update the versions so that it would work with all of the betas and RCs. If there's an extension you need, email the authors and hound them to update it asap.
If you thought it was so good, wouldn't you have upgraded to the release candidate weeks ago instead of continuing to use the beta? :)
You may want to give Gmail Manager a try. I can't use Gmail Notifier as my accounts are all Google Apps accounts, which Notifier doesn't support.
You know, that's why they have a "release candidate", which is now available. The betas are over and done with. And, I hope, as a beta user that you submitted your issues for them to be addressed and resolved.
So... instead of wondering if it will crash, why not find out?