I find it interesting that voting machines can go out of calibration, but tablets are so accurate, you can draw with your finger, even with pressure sensitivity.
Maybe we just need decent technology, rather than exclusivity contracts given to companies with a history of making crap.
Just yesterday, I saw a crash video of a supercar made mostly from CF. The engineers said that the CF was actually reinforced with titanium fibers that allow the CF to deform and bend without breaking, as demonstrated in the crash footage.
Very, very impressive, and I assume that while your typical sedan won't be made out of that material any time soon, an aircraft can afford to be made out of similar stuff.
I think it has more to do with American culture. Take a look at bus travel, like Greyhound, and the conditions are the same. Horrible seats, overcrowded, lousy service, etc. Does the US bus industry have the same economic/labor/maintenance issues as the airline industry, or is that just the way that Americans tolerate transportation? Do we even have reasonable public transportation at all?
Americans are the people of personal transportation. We buy gigantic SUVs that get sub 20MPG to buy groceries because we can, and then demand to pay $5 for a seat on an airline.
I'm not sure why people recommend Micron so much. I've found that they smudge pretty badly compared to a decent rollerball. At the moment I'm using a Pentel Energel, which writes awesome and is great for cartooning, but the ink is slow to dry.
My favorite pen ever was the BIC Micro Metal pen. Absolutely perfect in every way. Which, of course, is why it was discontinued years ago and even BIC can't make one just as good today.
Some of us don't like FPS games. Consoles are generally really good at non-FPS games.
years behind PCs, low resolution, excessively slow loading times
I think you're confusing bad hardware with bad games. You don't buy a console to get a poorly ported PC game. You buy a console for the exclusives, which in many cases are not complete crap.
A more relevant example would be when early iPhone developers boosted their prices from $2 to $5 and saw a sales jump. A higher priced app is "worth" more than a cheap one.
Then why was everyone excited about SafeBrowsing being built into many web browsers? It works when Google/Mozilla does it, but not MS?
AV doesn't really work well with brand new threats, but it works pretty well once a threat has been around for a month or two (just when it starts to become a problem). Saying a baseline AV is utterly worthless is pretty harsh.
As someone who's actually had stuff break on every new major release, I can say that version numbers wouldn't be an issue if they were done correctly and Mozilla had an actual spec system in place.
That's the problem. The snarky remarks about version number marketing are a side effect. Yes, now that the mayhem has died down it's not as big a problem as it used to be, but there was no need to pull this stunt in the first place, and people aren't going to forgive and forget so easily, especially while the other problems, like memory usage, persist.
The first thing I thought when I saw an iPhones was, "That's horrifically stupid! People will get their face grease all over it. It's the dumbest phone design ever."
It never occurred to me that people would never use the iPhone as a phone.
So what's the proper procedure to make sure that they received my latter and actually recognize it?
Oh, sorry. Delivery Confirmation just means you sent a letter to us. It doesn't mean it was actually an opt-out, was signed correctly, was simply a blank piece of paper, etc.
Opting out of this Agreement to Arbitrate has no effect on any previous, other, or future arbitration agreements that you may have with us.
Thanks for letting me know you can add an arbitration agreement at any time at your discretion, because my opt-out only applies to the arbitration clause in this policy update.
The sad thing is that it usually works. I'm always amazed at how many fewer bugs there are in console games compared to PC titles... and I don't mean things like graphics glitches. I'm not saying it's a good thing, but console games genuinely do function better than PC games.
the xbox's walled garden makes a good statement about what MS does with walled gardens.
I was okay with that, because you don't buy a console to do general purpose stuff. You buy it for a very limited number of tasks (unlike a PC or potentially future tablets).
What drove me to stop using my XBox wasn't the walled garden, but the binding arbitration agreement for which there was no opt-out. Any idea if Windows 8 will pull that crap, too?
I've been keeping a very close eye on Firefox memory usage for quite a long time, and every release uses more memory than the previous version. I've done everything from disabling plugins and extensions, running in safe mode, and even uninstalling the browser, wiping out my profile, and re-installing with no plugins or extensions, and the results are the same. If I surf a Javascript heavy site like DeviantArt for 20 minutes, memory usage goes up to 600-800MB (Firefox 10 was about half of this). When I look at about:memory, the browser clearly shows that Javascript heaps are using about 80%+ of the total memory usage. Forcing garbage collection on about:memory doesn't clear anything. I have to restart the browser several times a day. The pauses every 10 seconds are still there, and they kick in after about 10 minutes of surfing, and only get worse after that (though the pauses have noticeably improved in 14 and 15).
All the while, nobody ever believes me when I tell them I have plugins and extensions disabled. Arguing with people over memory issues is like discussing politics. People either deny it's a problem, or think it's a huge issue. There's no middle ground, and there's no sensible discussion about what's going on or what to do about it.
The most memory I've ever seen Firefox use is 1.6GB, at least according to Process Explorer. That was after two days of surfing, then closing all but one window, and pointing the last open window to about:blank. I'm looking at a blank page and the browser still has more than a gig allocated? Go ahead and tell me about unsupported anecdotes. I am not making this up.
I have multiple browsers installed. Chromium causes no issues. Opera causes no issues. IE has no problems. Every other program in my machine from Photoshop to Goldwave has no issues whatsoever. Firefox runs like a pig, at least after it's been running for a while.
I'm getting a bit tired of people either telling me I'm a troll or agreeing with me completely. Such polarization over the issue suggests to me that Firefox memory usage is just some kind of geek taboo, with some people denying the problem and other people just having to suffer with it. It's just frustrating how passionate people get about the whole issue, all the while there's nothing I can do.
BTW, I have the same problems with PaleMoon as I do with Firefox, so it's not just one particular build of the browser that's giving me grief. Firefox does indeed have major issues with memory management, and people are just pointing to recent changelogs as proof that Firefox is just fine are outright ignoring the problems that are indeed real. Hell, I'm having problems right now. As I type this comment, the textbox is pausing occasionally and I can't even see what I'm typing for a second or two at a time.
The only thing I can think of is that I never use tabs. I always open links in new windows, because I prefer to use the Windows taskbar to switch between web pages rather than the tab bar. When people tell me they run Firefox for days with 50 tabs open and have no problems at all, that's what I refuse to believe. I have no idea how the browser can continue working in that state.
How much of a "competitive edge" is really in their driver?
Lots and lots and lots of math and x86 optimization? Isn't this a market where a 5% performance difference makes or breaks a product?
I'm not saying it's right, mind you. I gave up on AMD a while ago thanks to their sucky drivers and don't care much about performance. But, drivers most definitely do make a difference.
I tried PaleMoon, and alas is has all of the pausing and memory consumption problems of Firefox. With those issues still intact, 64-bit optimizations and other performance tweaks are meaningless.
Please, Mozilla, stop yelling at the plug-ins and fix the damn browser core, already!
I think it says a lot about today's fashion sense that you can look great in jeans. Really, it's just not that hard to look presentable, so what person outside the media stresses over getting dressed in the morning?
In short, I hate not having a start menu and I hate note being able to just start typing an application name to find it and run it
It's nice that you're yet another server guy that loves to type, but... am I the only one in the universe that sorely misses Quick Launch? If there was one feature of XP that needed to be killed off, that wasn't it.
No typing, no Start Menu, no specific input device needed. Just one selection and that's it. What was so wrong with that?
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I find it interesting that voting machines can go out of calibration, but tablets are so accurate, you can draw with your finger, even with pressure sensitivity.
Maybe we just need decent technology, rather than exclusivity contracts given to companies with a history of making crap.
Just yesterday, I saw a crash video of a supercar made mostly from CF. The engineers said that the CF was actually reinforced with titanium fibers that allow the CF to deform and bend without breaking, as demonstrated in the crash footage.
Very, very impressive, and I assume that while your typical sedan won't be made out of that material any time soon, an aircraft can afford to be made out of similar stuff.
I think it has more to do with American culture. Take a look at bus travel, like Greyhound, and the conditions are the same. Horrible seats, overcrowded, lousy service, etc. Does the US bus industry have the same economic/labor/maintenance issues as the airline industry, or is that just the way that Americans tolerate transportation? Do we even have reasonable public transportation at all?
Americans are the people of personal transportation. We buy gigantic SUVs that get sub 20MPG to buy groceries because we can, and then demand to pay $5 for a seat on an airline.
To someone who just needs to write notes, your suggestion is passable.
To an artist, your suggestion reminds me of that article about geek arrogance on /. a week or so ago.
I'm not sure why people recommend Micron so much. I've found that they smudge pretty badly compared to a decent rollerball. At the moment I'm using a Pentel Energel, which writes awesome and is great for cartooning, but the ink is slow to dry.
My favorite pen ever was the BIC Micro Metal pen. Absolutely perfect in every way. Which, of course, is why it was discontinued years ago and even BIC can't make one just as good today.
Some of us don't like FPS games. Consoles are generally really good at non-FPS games.
years behind PCs, low resolution, excessively slow loading times
I think you're confusing bad hardware with bad games. You don't buy a console to get a poorly ported PC game. You buy a console for the exclusives, which in many cases are not complete crap.
In the mainstream, geeks don't matter.
The price of the machine and its proprietary memory cards are what scared people away.
A more relevant example would be when early iPhone developers boosted their prices from $2 to $5 and saw a sales jump. A higher priced app is "worth" more than a cheap one.
Concerning teenagers, the phone might very well be the only reason they need a paycheck.
When I was a kid, teens only worked to pay for their car or fancy clothes. Now they have phones.
Then why was everyone excited about SafeBrowsing being built into many web browsers? It works when Google/Mozilla does it, but not MS?
AV doesn't really work well with brand new threats, but it works pretty well once a threat has been around for a month or two (just when it starts to become a problem). Saying a baseline AV is utterly worthless is pretty harsh.
As someone who's actually had stuff break on every new major release, I can say that version numbers wouldn't be an issue if they were done correctly and Mozilla had an actual spec system in place.
That's the problem. The snarky remarks about version number marketing are a side effect. Yes, now that the mayhem has died down it's not as big a problem as it used to be, but there was no need to pull this stunt in the first place, and people aren't going to forgive and forget so easily, especially while the other problems, like memory usage, persist.
And to think that some people consider just putting a video card into a server is sacrilege.
The first thing I thought when I saw an iPhones was, "That's horrifically stupid! People will get their face grease all over it. It's the dumbest phone design ever."
It never occurred to me that people would never use the iPhone as a phone.
call me when it's $100.
And people wonder why the PC industry is a race to the bottom.
So what's the proper procedure to make sure that they received my latter and actually recognize it?
Oh, sorry. Delivery Confirmation just means you sent a letter to us. It doesn't mean it was actually an opt-out, was signed correctly, was simply a blank piece of paper, etc.
Opting out of this Agreement to Arbitrate has no effect on any previous, other, or future arbitration agreements that you may have with us.
Thanks for letting me know you can add an arbitration agreement at any time at your discretion, because my opt-out only applies to the arbitration clause in this policy update.
lets discourage bug fixes and updates!
The sad thing is that it usually works. I'm always amazed at how many fewer bugs there are in console games compared to PC titles... and I don't mean things like graphics glitches. I'm not saying it's a good thing, but console games genuinely do function better than PC games.
the xbox's walled garden makes a good statement about what MS does with walled gardens.
I was okay with that, because you don't buy a console to do general purpose stuff. You buy it for a very limited number of tasks (unlike a PC or potentially future tablets).
What drove me to stop using my XBox wasn't the walled garden, but the binding arbitration agreement for which there was no opt-out. Any idea if Windows 8 will pull that crap, too?
No way in hell is my experience inaccurate.
I've been keeping a very close eye on Firefox memory usage for quite a long time, and every release uses more memory than the previous version. I've done everything from disabling plugins and extensions, running in safe mode, and even uninstalling the browser, wiping out my profile, and re-installing with no plugins or extensions, and the results are the same. If I surf a Javascript heavy site like DeviantArt for 20 minutes, memory usage goes up to 600-800MB (Firefox 10 was about half of this). When I look at about:memory, the browser clearly shows that Javascript heaps are using about 80%+ of the total memory usage. Forcing garbage collection on about:memory doesn't clear anything. I have to restart the browser several times a day. The pauses every 10 seconds are still there, and they kick in after about 10 minutes of surfing, and only get worse after that (though the pauses have noticeably improved in 14 and 15).
All the while, nobody ever believes me when I tell them I have plugins and extensions disabled. Arguing with people over memory issues is like discussing politics. People either deny it's a problem, or think it's a huge issue. There's no middle ground, and there's no sensible discussion about what's going on or what to do about it.
The most memory I've ever seen Firefox use is 1.6GB, at least according to Process Explorer. That was after two days of surfing, then closing all but one window, and pointing the last open window to about:blank. I'm looking at a blank page and the browser still has more than a gig allocated? Go ahead and tell me about unsupported anecdotes. I am not making this up.
I have multiple browsers installed. Chromium causes no issues. Opera causes no issues. IE has no problems. Every other program in my machine from Photoshop to Goldwave has no issues whatsoever. Firefox runs like a pig, at least after it's been running for a while.
I'm getting a bit tired of people either telling me I'm a troll or agreeing with me completely. Such polarization over the issue suggests to me that Firefox memory usage is just some kind of geek taboo, with some people denying the problem and other people just having to suffer with it. It's just frustrating how passionate people get about the whole issue, all the while there's nothing I can do.
BTW, I have the same problems with PaleMoon as I do with Firefox, so it's not just one particular build of the browser that's giving me grief. Firefox does indeed have major issues with memory management, and people are just pointing to recent changelogs as proof that Firefox is just fine are outright ignoring the problems that are indeed real. Hell, I'm having problems right now. As I type this comment, the textbox is pausing occasionally and I can't even see what I'm typing for a second or two at a time.
The only thing I can think of is that I never use tabs. I always open links in new windows, because I prefer to use the Windows taskbar to switch between web pages rather than the tab bar. When people tell me they run Firefox for days with 50 tabs open and have no problems at all, that's what I refuse to believe. I have no idea how the browser can continue working in that state.
and certainly the reduced memory use is very nice.
Is that because FF15 uses about twice as much memory as 10 did, so any change in 16 would be an improvement?
How much of a "competitive edge" is really in their driver?
Lots and lots and lots of math and x86 optimization? Isn't this a market where a 5% performance difference makes or breaks a product?
I'm not saying it's right, mind you. I gave up on AMD a while ago thanks to their sucky drivers and don't care much about performance. But, drivers most definitely do make a difference.
Usually things like radioactive cylinders are secured enough to not go flying off a truck.
Yeah, and nuclear reactors are maintained well enough so they don't have football-sized holes in their reactor vessels.
Not that I have zero faith in modern management, but I won't rule out any level of human stupidity these days.
I tried PaleMoon, and alas is has all of the pausing and memory consumption problems of Firefox. With those issues still intact, 64-bit optimizations and other performance tweaks are meaningless.
Please, Mozilla, stop yelling at the plug-ins and fix the damn browser core, already!
Unless I know it sucks, I just get the store brand.
Surprisingly, the store brand usually doesn't suck, BTW.
I think it says a lot about today's fashion sense that you can look great in jeans. Really, it's just not that hard to look presentable, so what person outside the media stresses over getting dressed in the morning?
Microsoft gave them the excuse to ignore the do-not-track feature.
As implemented in Microsoft's products.
"My excuse for ignoring DNT in every web browser is because one browser nobody cares about doesn't follow the standard."
Uh, what?
In short, I hate not having a start menu and I hate note being able to just start typing an application name to find it and run it
It's nice that you're yet another server guy that loves to type, but... am I the only one in the universe that sorely misses Quick Launch? If there was one feature of XP that needed to be killed off, that wasn't it.
No typing, no Start Menu, no specific input device needed. Just one selection and that's it. What was so wrong with that?