I believe it has to do with what sites you browse, especially those that use tons of Javascript.
I've had the memory hogging issues since Firefox 2.0, resulting in massive pauses that last for 2-10 seconds at a time, and they've driven me crazy. They are all related to the Javascript heap and garbage collection cycles. Image-heavy sites that use JS tend to build up the most garbage. I can navigate my own web site all day, but even 5 minutes on DeviantArt will reduce Firefox to a whimpering crawl, using 1.5+ GB of memory and forcing me to restart.
It's painful to hear people telling me constantly that the memory leaks/GC issues don't exists when they simply don't visit web sites that trigger the problems. I love art, and visit a lot of image-heavy sites, and for that kind of browsing Firefox is simply painful.
I switched to PaleMoon a long time ago and it has none of these issues, despite being based on similar code (and far more modern than Firefox 2.0). The pauses and freezes must be related to some kind of "optimization" settings that the PaleMoon developers had the good sense to shut off or remove.
MS does this to their own hardware, for crying out loud.
I had an MS Internet Keyboard Pro that refused to work with the Windows7 version of the driver, despite the fact that the entire rest of their keyboard range is supported. Turns out, the driver just blacklists that one particular model because it was originally an OEM device and MS dropped support for those devices in newer versions of the driver. I mean, despite the fact that it's their own product, sold under their own brand name, and with their own logo painted on the fascia.
It's easy to add support by editing the main INI file and adding the appropriate hardware ID number. Then the keyboard works fine with no lacking functionality.
As much as I hate web technology, let's not fool ourselves. It's all about them getting their code on our devices so they can more easily mine all the data they want.
When was the last time you put an ad blocker on an app? How many apps refuse to work unless you give them carte blanch permissions?
Ever since UFI came into being, I've come across an awful lot of PCs that will instantly lock up if a USB thumb drive is plugged in upon power-on. Thus, it's impossible to boot off USB. I specifically remember HP machines and several Gigabyte motherboards that have this problem.
The real problem is that profit is very much a part of human nature we can't seem to conquer.
FOSS developers and projects aren't known for making money, but they manage to gain profit other ways. Most notably, fame, ego, and the thrill of power. It's sad how many "libre" projects are run by power freaks that will actively tell the community that their complaints shall fall on deaf ears. They like to tell you that if you don't like it you can change it, but that's not practical when things are hard-coded to work certain ways to make sure you'll use it only as the developers intended... because they're right and the users are idiots.
Having tried to switch to Linux for 12 years, I've found FOSS isn't much different than commercial software development, except without all the cash and marketing muscle. They can't design worth a damn, but good luck trying to convince them of that.
Tell me about it. My (now ex) medical insurance provider actually printed my online account password on each invoice -- for my convenience.
The really stupid thing is that they automatically signed me up for online billing, despite the fact I sent in my application via mail, so I couldn't even send my first payment. Naturally this meant I had no password set for my account, so I had to call them over the phone to activate it. Then I got my first invoice on paper through the mail and nearly hit the roof.
Somewhat off topic, but increasingly I've found the back button (and shift-clicking) doesn't work at all. To much Javascript and proprietary navigation prevents any browser's built-in navigation from doing its job.
Lots of UI failure all over the web, really. It's almost like we're heading back to the 90's and Flash sites all over again.
On the test system I set up, my problem with Win10 is not that it runs slowly, per-se, but that it runs inconsistently.
I've heard a lot of stories about the spinning beachball on OSX, but haven't seen that on my main Win7 system. Win10, on the other hand, seems to lock up every few minutes thrashing the storage device in bursts that last from a few seconds to minutes at a time, making the system unresponsive. "Only uses idle time" my ass. It be doing scary stuff in the background.
Obviously, I haven't seen the device, but just listening to the part about detachable controllers makes me skeptical.
A console needs everything built-in, or else it doesn't become standard. Having options is nice, but optional attachments aren't going to have any significant positive impact on usability, as it always the case for consoles. The drawbacks are obvious, though. Extra cost, extra material that makes it bulky, less room for a battery, less durability, and so on. It's not a good idea. This also assumes the controllers will be included, as they'll have to be so NX is not just another tablet. If you lose a controller, will replacements be easy to get, given that this setup won't be for multiplayer? You can't buy a replacement/second Wii U controller, for example (last I heard).
I won't even bother commenting on trying to get a portable playing on a TV. Let's just hope that Nintendo doesn't forget what made the Gameboy and their following portable consoles: terrific battery life. I have a feeling Nintendo is aiming at those phone gamers who have gotten used to running to look for a power plug and charging every chance they get... assuming the thing comes bundled with an actual charger, unlike some Nintendo hardware.
At this point, it's useless to argue that data collection harms the public. They don't care.
We should be arguing that not all businesses or professionals can afford (or even qualify to buy) Windows Enterprise, and therefore business assets and confidential customer data are at risk. If the majority of people won't stick up for the rights of the minority, then you just have to appeal to the "right" minority to make a problem a proper legal issue.
What's wrong with having Pale Moon and Firefox installed side-by-side? Yes, it's a pain, but it's what I deal with to prevent the likes of Google and friends from reading over my shoulder in ways they refuse to disclose.
I use Pale Moon as my main browser, and Firefox for development. The only extensions I need for my main browser are my ad blocker and script blocker, and I'm pretty sure those will work well with Pale Moon for many years to come. Since I don't have to restart Pale Moon every 10 minutes due to memory hogging, like I do with Firefox, I don't even need Session Manager anymore.
Hate on it all you like, but I for one am very glad that Pale Moon exists, and not everyone is willing to jump on the latest shiny (and generally untested) technology. I'll use it as long as it works for me. If Mozilla is more interested in adding yet more features to enhance my experience and force me to use social tie-ins I don't need, then I don't consider it to be more secure at all.
Or will they allow existing licenses to continue in perpetuity?
For a very long time, MS has done a good job of keeping KB archives active. Since the release of Windows10, I've noticed a large number of KB articles disappearing without a trace. It's getting very difficult to look up technical information on Windows7, let alone WinXP or earlier. In many cases, trying to find tech articles for Windows7 just redirects you to a page advertising an upgrade to Windows10.
MS doesn't need to officially revoke licenses. These days a product doesn't even need to be labeled "unsuppoted" to become a real PITA to use.
If any company manages to reduce their workforce by 94% in one swoop and still manage to produce, I'd say the real problem all along was corporate mismanagement. Perhaps the bankruptcy was due to too many management bonuses, poor quality, and failure to market properly.
Also, it's entirely possible that they do need that many workers, and the company has merely shifted its focus on short-term profits. They may be celebrating now, but what if things go sour in 6-12 months because they don't keep up with machine maintenance and cleaning? What if the move to automation causes quality to tank [even more]? What if the market changes and they need to produce a new product, but the machines can't be retooled in a way they need?
I doubt you have enough information to determine that bumping the price of a Twinkie to $10 is the only alternative. Sounds like the usual corporate scare tactics to me.
Sweet. Audio RAM scans were pretty popular, too. It was always fun to play back memory and listen for certain patterns and guess what kind of data it was, which was easy in the days before everything was compressed (or encrypted).
Closest thing I've heard that was similar to what you were doing is when engineers would put an AM radio next to a PDP-11 computer, and listen to the CPU working. By programming the CPU with differently timed loops, they could produce music over the radio.
The LEDs are the coolest part. I've had trouble seeing the video on his site since it's downloading very slowly, but I love what I'm seeing so far.
Stuff like this reminds me of RAM scanning and memory ripping back in my Amiga days. Since the Amiga had no MMU and the video chip could address the entire range of the machine's main "chip" RAM, it was popular to fiddle with the screen display and scan through system memory. You could actually watch your computer running programs in realtime. The Amiga also used planar graphics, so you could see individual bits, rather than bytes, as pixels, allowing you to identify which memory locations were used for counters, timers, disk control logic, mouse pointer coordinates, and more. I wrote a whole bunch of programs in AMOS Basic that let me directly edit memory by drawing on the screen, bubble sort graphics, visually highlight specific memory addresses used by games, and do all kinds of cool nonsense.
I miss those days when you could read any memory address without needing signed drivers and such. I've always wondered why memory visualization has totally disappeared. It might make for some interesting lessons in how modern programs actually use memory and how memory leaks happen.
Perhaps the technology allows it to be more customizable, but there's an awful lot of features and config settings that have been removed in recent versions of Firefox to make sure you can't customize it in ways that make sense.
Firefox lost a whole lot of market share for a reason. I switched to Pale Moon (using Firefox as a backup) a long time ago.
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I believe it has to do with what sites you browse, especially those that use tons of Javascript.
I've had the memory hogging issues since Firefox 2.0, resulting in massive pauses that last for 2-10 seconds at a time, and they've driven me crazy. They are all related to the Javascript heap and garbage collection cycles. Image-heavy sites that use JS tend to build up the most garbage. I can navigate my own web site all day, but even 5 minutes on DeviantArt will reduce Firefox to a whimpering crawl, using 1.5+ GB of memory and forcing me to restart.
It's painful to hear people telling me constantly that the memory leaks/GC issues don't exists when they simply don't visit web sites that trigger the problems. I love art, and visit a lot of image-heavy sites, and for that kind of browsing Firefox is simply painful.
I switched to PaleMoon a long time ago and it has none of these issues, despite being based on similar code (and far more modern than Firefox 2.0). The pauses and freezes must be related to some kind of "optimization" settings that the PaleMoon developers had the good sense to shut off or remove.
MS does this to their own hardware, for crying out loud.
I had an MS Internet Keyboard Pro that refused to work with the Windows7 version of the driver, despite the fact that the entire rest of their keyboard range is supported. Turns out, the driver just blacklists that one particular model because it was originally an OEM device and MS dropped support for those devices in newer versions of the driver. I mean, despite the fact that it's their own product, sold under their own brand name, and with their own logo painted on the fascia.
It's easy to add support by editing the main INI file and adding the appropriate hardware ID number. Then the keyboard works fine with no lacking functionality.
As much as I hate web technology, let's not fool ourselves. It's all about them getting their code on our devices so they can more easily mine all the data they want.
When was the last time you put an ad blocker on an app? How many apps refuse to work unless you give them carte blanch permissions?
Can you name a single browser that does not show the URL of a link that you're pointing to when you point at it?
To be fair, most pages use Javascript to handle links, so even the damn Back button doesn't work anymore, let alone the status bar.
Another innovation of modern "apps."
I meant UEFI. I'm not sure if it's my typing or my proofreading that's getting worse as of late.
Ever since UFI came into being, I've come across an awful lot of PCs that will instantly lock up if a USB thumb drive is plugged in upon power-on. Thus, it's impossible to boot off USB. I specifically remember HP machines and several Gigabyte motherboards that have this problem.
The real problem is that profit is very much a part of human nature we can't seem to conquer.
FOSS developers and projects aren't known for making money, but they manage to gain profit other ways. Most notably, fame, ego, and the thrill of power. It's sad how many "libre" projects are run by power freaks that will actively tell the community that their complaints shall fall on deaf ears. They like to tell you that if you don't like it you can change it, but that's not practical when things are hard-coded to work certain ways to make sure you'll use it only as the developers intended... because they're right and the users are idiots.
Having tried to switch to Linux for 12 years, I've found FOSS isn't much different than commercial software development, except without all the cash and marketing muscle. They can't design worth a damn, but good luck trying to convince them of that.
Tell me about it. My (now ex) medical insurance provider actually printed my online account password on each invoice -- for my convenience.
The really stupid thing is that they automatically signed me up for online billing, despite the fact I sent in my application via mail, so I couldn't even send my first payment. Naturally this meant I had no password set for my account, so I had to call them over the phone to activate it. Then I got my first invoice on paper through the mail and nearly hit the roof.
Why make a simple script when you can have another "app"?
Somewhat off topic, but increasingly I've found the back button (and shift-clicking) doesn't work at all. To much Javascript and proprietary navigation prevents any browser's built-in navigation from doing its job.
Lots of UI failure all over the web, really. It's almost like we're heading back to the 90's and Flash sites all over again.
On the test system I set up, my problem with Win10 is not that it runs slowly, per-se, but that it runs inconsistently.
I've heard a lot of stories about the spinning beachball on OSX, but haven't seen that on my main Win7 system. Win10, on the other hand, seems to lock up every few minutes thrashing the storage device in bursts that last from a few seconds to minutes at a time, making the system unresponsive. "Only uses idle time" my ass. It be doing scary stuff in the background.
The Wii U hasn't done so well clutching on to 1st-party exclusives.
Obviously, I haven't seen the device, but just listening to the part about detachable controllers makes me skeptical.
A console needs everything built-in, or else it doesn't become standard. Having options is nice, but optional attachments aren't going to have any significant positive impact on usability, as it always the case for consoles. The drawbacks are obvious, though. Extra cost, extra material that makes it bulky, less room for a battery, less durability, and so on. It's not a good idea. This also assumes the controllers will be included, as they'll have to be so NX is not just another tablet. If you lose a controller, will replacements be easy to get, given that this setup won't be for multiplayer? You can't buy a replacement/second Wii U controller, for example (last I heard).
I won't even bother commenting on trying to get a portable playing on a TV. Let's just hope that Nintendo doesn't forget what made the Gameboy and their following portable consoles: terrific battery life. I have a feeling Nintendo is aiming at those phone gamers who have gotten used to running to look for a power plug and charging every chance they get... assuming the thing comes bundled with an actual charger, unlike some Nintendo hardware.
At this point, it's useless to argue that data collection harms the public. They don't care.
We should be arguing that not all businesses or professionals can afford (or even qualify to buy) Windows Enterprise, and therefore business assets and confidential customer data are at risk. If the majority of people won't stick up for the rights of the minority, then you just have to appeal to the "right" minority to make a problem a proper legal issue.
What's wrong with having Pale Moon and Firefox installed side-by-side? Yes, it's a pain, but it's what I deal with to prevent the likes of Google and friends from reading over my shoulder in ways they refuse to disclose.
I use Pale Moon as my main browser, and Firefox for development. The only extensions I need for my main browser are my ad blocker and script blocker, and I'm pretty sure those will work well with Pale Moon for many years to come. Since I don't have to restart Pale Moon every 10 minutes due to memory hogging, like I do with Firefox, I don't even need Session Manager anymore.
Hate on it all you like, but I for one am very glad that Pale Moon exists, and not everyone is willing to jump on the latest shiny (and generally untested) technology. I'll use it as long as it works for me. If Mozilla is more interested in adding yet more features to enhance my experience and force me to use social tie-ins I don't need, then I don't consider it to be more secure at all.
Or will they allow existing licenses to continue in perpetuity?
For a very long time, MS has done a good job of keeping KB archives active. Since the release of Windows10, I've noticed a large number of KB articles disappearing without a trace. It's getting very difficult to look up technical information on Windows7, let alone WinXP or earlier. In many cases, trying to find tech articles for Windows7 just redirects you to a page advertising an upgrade to Windows10.
MS doesn't need to officially revoke licenses. These days a product doesn't even need to be labeled "unsuppoted" to become a real PITA to use.
If any company manages to reduce their workforce by 94% in one swoop and still manage to produce, I'd say the real problem all along was corporate mismanagement. Perhaps the bankruptcy was due to too many management bonuses, poor quality, and failure to market properly.
Also, it's entirely possible that they do need that many workers, and the company has merely shifted its focus on short-term profits. They may be celebrating now, but what if things go sour in 6-12 months because they don't keep up with machine maintenance and cleaning? What if the move to automation causes quality to tank [even more]? What if the market changes and they need to produce a new product, but the machines can't be retooled in a way they need?
I doubt you have enough information to determine that bumping the price of a Twinkie to $10 is the only alternative. Sounds like the usual corporate scare tactics to me.
Sweet. Audio RAM scans were pretty popular, too. It was always fun to play back memory and listen for certain patterns and guess what kind of data it was, which was easy in the days before everything was compressed (or encrypted).
Closest thing I've heard that was similar to what you were doing is when engineers would put an AM radio next to a PDP-11 computer, and listen to the CPU working. By programming the CPU with differently timed loops, they could produce music over the radio.
The LEDs are the coolest part. I've had trouble seeing the video on his site since it's downloading very slowly, but I love what I'm seeing so far.
Stuff like this reminds me of RAM scanning and memory ripping back in my Amiga days. Since the Amiga had no MMU and the video chip could address the entire range of the machine's main "chip" RAM, it was popular to fiddle with the screen display and scan through system memory. You could actually watch your computer running programs in realtime. The Amiga also used planar graphics, so you could see individual bits, rather than bytes, as pixels, allowing you to identify which memory locations were used for counters, timers, disk control logic, mouse pointer coordinates, and more. I wrote a whole bunch of programs in AMOS Basic that let me directly edit memory by drawing on the screen, bubble sort graphics, visually highlight specific memory addresses used by games, and do all kinds of cool nonsense.
I miss those days when you could read any memory address without needing signed drivers and such. I've always wondered why memory visualization has totally disappeared. It might make for some interesting lessons in how modern programs actually use memory and how memory leaks happen.
The only thing that disturbs me more than a computer that makes decisions for me, is a computer that learns on its own.
I sure hope Tesla cars learn traffic patterns better than web pages do.
Not patented at all, as apparently he never paid the filing fee.
When I test drove my car (which has this shifter), I complained about it straight away, I find it hard to believe no one voiced concerns.
You still bought it. Why should they listen to complaints?
...if you know how to use them.
To me, that means the same thing as, "I'll just be careful."
he acts as if he invented the concept of a 90-day free trial
He apparently thinks of it in the same way as a design patent:
"Of course it's a new invention! We invented the 90-day free trial... for an ssl."
Perhaps the technology allows it to be more customizable, but there's an awful lot of features and config settings that have been removed in recent versions of Firefox to make sure you can't customize it in ways that make sense.
Firefox lost a whole lot of market share for a reason. I switched to Pale Moon (using Firefox as a backup) a long time ago.