The reason I recommend Iron is because it's a build, not a fork.
Google keeps moving the Chromium builds around, sometimes doesn't even have a new Windows build at all, and generally makes getting it difficult. I can't link to a download. Iron is an easy-to-install executable.
Think of Chromium as a PC, and Iron as a Mac. Just because geeks hate "forks" doesn't mean they fully understand why other people use them and like them.
I dumped Chrome when I discovered it was reading 6+GB of data and writing 2+GB of data to my hard drive on [i]every[/i] cold start, before I even started looking at web pages. With that much data involved, I doubt it's just cleaning its caches.
What Apple has done, is polarise a significant portion of people against them. It's almost as if they modelled themselves on Microsoft...
With regards to this Christmas season, I doubt a significant portion of people even know Samsung makes a tablet, or that the Streisand Effect will kick in. Apple is still a media icon, and people don't even bother to check out what the competition has to offer.
Even today, just about every advertisement on the radio reminds you that they have an app "for your iPod or iPad". Hearing someone mention Android (at least) is a rare occasion. I assume non-tech magazines are in that same boat.
the pharmaceutical industry is one of the few areas left in the US consistently providing high paying jobs to smart, motivated and educated people.
I generally agree with your stance, but lines like this bother me. My sister used to work for a number of pharmaceutical companies. "High paying" doesn't really describe the positions very well, and the instant a breakthrough was made, management sold the company and the workers got their pink slips (hence, working for "a number of" companies). I find it amazing that anything gets done at all, when everyone knows an R&D breakthrough means everyone loses their job.
Another way of looking at it, is that it doesn't matter what the rules are, so long as everyone follows the same rules.
Shorter races allow people to run closer to the edge, longer races require conservative builds. In the end, all the teams have the same problems to overcome, so in theory, nobody has the competitive advantage.
This is a different situation than, say, international trade, where one country is forced to meet safety regulations and another is not. Now that's when you end up with "wrecks and broken parts" all over the "track".
Actually, it was pretty much everything. Flawed design, untested technology, substandard construction, cost cutting, politics galore, arrogant and overconfident leaders, nuclear cowboys with something to prove, unqualified staff, etc.
The disaster itself was huge, but I'm surprised that nuclear power has been as safe as it is given how badly humans are at coping with such enormous responsibilities. Looking bad at the the Communist years, having a culture driven by financial profit doesn't seem as bad as a culture driven purely by political power.
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Wait... dont' tell me. At the end of this joke, it's the dog that laughs.
I'm sorry, but I've never understood why people say the OSX desktop is so awesome. Window management is horrifically bad. The Dock is nice if you're switching between apps (application centric interface), but it is a nightmare if you're trying to manage multiple folder listings (document centric interface). Expose is useless because the windows keep shuffling around purely by aesthetics, so you can't keep track of where everything is by memorizing locations. A good interface should never automatically shuffle, sort, or arrange windows by size (ie, Windows 7 Start Menu), but rather by the order they were opened. Taskbars are way, way more useful, especially if you have custom navigation set up on your keyboard like I do.
Windows 7 now has the same issue, thanks to MS trying to cash in on the Dock craze. It's all about apps, now, and that makes workflow difficult. That might not be an issue for coders who do everything in an IDE, but it's a problem for, say, artists who need to shuffle work between multiple programs without wanting to "export" everything first.
PS - I've used Macs for 14 years, and currently own one for software testing. It's not like I don't understand how to use one, and haven't seen other people struggle to get their work done on one.
The omission of a window list or dock also reduces the amount of screen space occupied by the Shell, and therefore makes it better suited to devices with smaller screens.
This ranks right up there with, "We need to remove scroll bars!" and "Maximize must go, just because!" Yeah, I don't suppose they've ever heard of hidden panels, hotkeys, or just giving people an option to put it back.
Really. Of all the communities to buy into the idea of removing things for our own good, it just has to be the open source community?
Is this a misguided attempt to emulate the meteoric success of iOS and Android by just copying the Apple/Google/Microsoft corporate control over how users use the desktop?
Let me put it this way: when the Gnome team introduced marketing videos for the new Unity interface, the speakers wore black sweaters and talked with their hands while standing in front of stark white backgrounds. I am not making this up. They really and genuinely are trying to do everything like Apple.
Of course, I remember when early distros of Red Hat were pixel-for-pixel copies of the Win95 interface.
It's a damn shame. The "Blue Ocean Strategy" and the "Next Big Thing (Just Like Everyone Else)" has always been the staple of the tech industry. In manufacturing, you need to make your product stand out. With software, your product is just like familiar Windows/OSX... but better.
I'm not a hardcore geek, but I am a power user, and I can honestly say that Linux has been the biggest disappointment I've ever seen in the computer industry. Coming from an ex-Amiga user, that should mean a lot. It's either dumbed down or hardcore, with little in between. I try to like it and use it, but I just can't. Every distro I've tried over the last 10 years has let me down. The community just can't get its stuff together and venture into that large grey area.
Pff... sometimes they don't even want to sell you the game, let alone try it!
Take the Playstation Store, for example. Aside from having almost no demos, for the longest time they didn't show screenshots, game footage, trailers, or even helpful descriptions. Hell, to this day they don't even tell you the download size until you've already opted to download it. Do they expect me to drop out of the PS Store, fire up their shitty web browser, and do all the research myself on fan sites and YouTube? WTF?
Apparently Sony got the message, and now the Store graciously... uh, lets you watch trailers... that have buffering issues... for some games.
No surprise that I've bought almost no games from the Store. Hey, those screenshots are copyrighted! We can't let you have them for free!
I work at a huge, high-volume fulfillment center shipping medical supplies to hospitals. Despite being a fortune 500 company, our operation and conveyor belt system is extremely crude, though the interior of the building looks a lot like the NewEgg warehouse. Although most items shipped amount to plastic forks, can liners, and paper towels, we do ship a lot of expensive stuff, like surgical trays and airway interconnects.
I've always wondered how electronics distributors minimize damage to products, and it looks like the red totes are the answer. Don't put regular boxes on the mezzanine, where they can get jammed in the belt and crushed, but instead put them in a hard plastic tote that can slide easily on the rollers. We have grey totes with folding clamshell lids, but those are used rarely and only for items delivered to the shipping area by fork trucks, never off the belt. Even our incredibly expensive items ($1,000 a box, made in China), are packed in cardboard boxes -- without packing material -- and hand delivered to the trucking area. Needless to say, we suffer huge losses due to damaged product, to say nothing about mis-picks.
I feel bad about the quality of products we send to hospitals, but that's largely out of my hands since I work at the end of the line loading trucks, rather than picking product. As usual, man uses his highest technological standards mostly for amusement. Hospital supplies are treated poorly by comparison.
Not every warehouse is equal, and just from the few photos in the article, it's immediately obvious to a person like me how well the operation is run. Even though I do this stuff every day, I find it fascinating to see another facility.
A lot has been said about the rapid increase of version numbers, but that's not the real problem.
Problem: people don't want to update Firefox because they don't know if their extensions will work.
Solution: allow the updater to check if the extensions are compatible with the new version you are trying to install. If Firefox can check if extensions are compatible with the currently installed version and can check if updates to said extensions are available, why can't the updater do the check before an update?
Firefox: Great news! All your extensions will work! User: Great! Now I can update with confidence.
Think about how many political and PR issues would be solved with this one little feature. It can't possibly be that difficult to implement.
Have the managers at Mozilla lost their creative edge?
Sometimes it just has to work, and you don't care how fast it is. You might as well insist that Linux must have a swap partition instead of a swap file.
I wish Microsoft had put a DOS emulator into Windows a long time ago. Then we would have never gotten ME, and we wouldn't have XP Mode today.
What about that huge but invisible grey area between normal people and power users? I like to know what's going on under the hood, but that doesn't mean I want to do everything from the command line. There's hundreds of millions of people using computers these days, but it always feels like the whole industry is only binned into two types of people. It's like looking at the entire political scene and saying you're either a Democrat or a Republican. Why are the moderates always invisible?
I see this all the time on Slashdot. I ask about a simple tool that helps me with my small-time hobby project, and people are either telling me I should use a braindead GUI-driven toy, or get some huge enterprise-grade development system. Then, these two groups of people argue with each other about which solution is better, while both are completely oblivious to the fact that neither solution is viable.
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I hear a stuck valve can cause a lot of trouble.
I recall they did add something.
1) Buy WipeoutHD
2) Sony later pushes update that injects ads into game that was paid for with cash
3) ???
4) Outrage
The reason I recommend Iron is because it's a build, not a fork.
Google keeps moving the Chromium builds around, sometimes doesn't even have a new Windows build at all, and generally makes getting it difficult. I can't link to a download. Iron is an easy-to-install executable.
Think of Chromium as a PC, and Iron as a Mac. Just because geeks hate "forks" doesn't mean they fully understand why other people use them and like them.
Which subscription list are you using? I don't ever recall having a problem in all the years I've been using AdBlock.
Silly question, but... why can't it be both?
I dumped Chrome when I discovered it was reading 6+GB of data and writing 2+GB of data to my hard drive on [i]every[/i] cold start, before I even started looking at web pages. With that much data involved, I doubt it's just cleaning its caches.
What Apple has done, is polarise a significant portion of people against them. It's almost as if they modelled themselves on Microsoft...
With regards to this Christmas season, I doubt a significant portion of people even know Samsung makes a tablet, or that the Streisand Effect will kick in. Apple is still a media icon, and people don't even bother to check out what the competition has to offer.
Even today, just about every advertisement on the radio reminds you that they have an app "for your iPod or iPad". Hearing someone mention Android (at least) is a rare occasion. I assume non-tech magazines are in that same boat.
the pharmaceutical industry is one of the few areas left in the US consistently providing high paying jobs to smart, motivated and educated people.
I generally agree with your stance, but lines like this bother me. My sister used to work for a number of pharmaceutical companies. "High paying" doesn't really describe the positions very well, and the instant a breakthrough was made, management sold the company and the workers got their pink slips (hence, working for "a number of" companies). I find it amazing that anything gets done at all, when everyone knows an R&D breakthrough means everyone loses their job.
It's as dirty a business as any other.
Another way of looking at it, is that it doesn't matter what the rules are, so long as everyone follows the same rules.
Shorter races allow people to run closer to the edge, longer races require conservative builds. In the end, all the teams have the same problems to overcome, so in theory, nobody has the competitive advantage.
This is a different situation than, say, international trade, where one country is forced to meet safety regulations and another is not. Now that's when you end up with "wrecks and broken parts" all over the "track".
Actually, it was pretty much everything. Flawed design, untested technology, substandard construction, cost cutting, politics galore, arrogant and overconfident leaders, nuclear cowboys with something to prove, unqualified staff, etc.
The disaster itself was huge, but I'm surprised that nuclear power has been as safe as it is given how badly humans are at coping with such enormous responsibilities. Looking bad at the the Communist years, having a culture driven by financial profit doesn't seem as bad as a culture driven purely by political power.
Wait... dont' tell me. At the end of this joke, it's the dog that laughs.
Aren't LCD screen measurements done diagonally? 4" diagonal isn't much different than the existing iPhones.
Oh, wow... that was stupid. Sorry about that.
I'm sorry, but I've never understood why people say the OSX desktop is so awesome. Window management is horrifically bad. The Dock is nice if you're switching between apps (application centric interface), but it is a nightmare if you're trying to manage multiple folder listings (document centric interface). Expose is useless because the windows keep shuffling around purely by aesthetics, so you can't keep track of where everything is by memorizing locations. A good interface should never automatically shuffle, sort, or arrange windows by size (ie, Windows 7 Start Menu), but rather by the order they were opened. Taskbars are way, way more useful, especially if you have custom navigation set up on your keyboard like I do.
Windows 7 now has the same issue, thanks to MS trying to cash in on the Dock craze. It's all about apps, now, and that makes workflow difficult. That might not be an issue for coders who do everything in an IDE, but it's a problem for, say, artists who need to shuffle work between multiple programs without wanting to "export" everything first.
PS - I've used Macs for 14 years, and currently own one for software testing. It's not like I don't understand how to use one, and haven't seen other people struggle to get their work done on one.
Also from that link:
The omission of a window list or dock also reduces the amount of screen space occupied by the Shell, and therefore makes it better suited to devices with smaller screens.
This ranks right up there with, "We need to remove scroll bars!" and "Maximize must go, just because!" Yeah, I don't suppose they've ever heard of hidden panels, hotkeys, or just giving people an option to put it back.
Really. Of all the communities to buy into the idea of removing things for our own good, it just has to be the open source community?
The world really has gone mad.
Is this a misguided attempt to emulate the meteoric success of iOS and Android by just copying the Apple/Google/Microsoft corporate control over how users use the desktop?
Let me put it this way: when the Gnome team introduced marketing videos for the new Unity interface, the speakers wore black sweaters and talked with their hands while standing in front of stark white backgrounds. I am not making this up. They really and genuinely are trying to do everything like Apple.
Of course, I remember when early distros of Red Hat were pixel-for-pixel copies of the Win95 interface.
It's a damn shame. The "Blue Ocean Strategy" and the "Next Big Thing (Just Like Everyone Else)" has always been the staple of the tech industry. In manufacturing, you need to make your product stand out. With software, your product is just like familiar Windows/OSX... but better.
I'm not a hardcore geek, but I am a power user, and I can honestly say that Linux has been the biggest disappointment I've ever seen in the computer industry. Coming from an ex-Amiga user, that should mean a lot. It's either dumbed down or hardcore, with little in between. I try to like it and use it, but I just can't. Every distro I've tried over the last 10 years has let me down. The community just can't get its stuff together and venture into that large grey area.
Pff... sometimes they don't even want to sell you the game, let alone try it!
Take the Playstation Store, for example. Aside from having almost no demos, for the longest time they didn't show screenshots, game footage, trailers, or even helpful descriptions. Hell, to this day they don't even tell you the download size until you've already opted to download it. Do they expect me to drop out of the PS Store, fire up their shitty web browser, and do all the research myself on fan sites and YouTube? WTF?
Apparently Sony got the message, and now the Store graciously... uh, lets you watch trailers... that have buffering issues... for some games.
No surprise that I've bought almost no games from the Store. Hey, those screenshots are copyrighted! We can't let you have them for free!
Morons.
I think that makes you a wine slob.
Thank goodness you didn't mention Volkswagen, or I would have had to slap you telepathically. I'll give you a pass for Audi and Porsche.
I work at a huge, high-volume fulfillment center shipping medical supplies to hospitals. Despite being a fortune 500 company, our operation and conveyor belt system is extremely crude, though the interior of the building looks a lot like the NewEgg warehouse. Although most items shipped amount to plastic forks, can liners, and paper towels, we do ship a lot of expensive stuff, like surgical trays and airway interconnects.
I've always wondered how electronics distributors minimize damage to products, and it looks like the red totes are the answer. Don't put regular boxes on the mezzanine, where they can get jammed in the belt and crushed, but instead put them in a hard plastic tote that can slide easily on the rollers. We have grey totes with folding clamshell lids, but those are used rarely and only for items delivered to the shipping area by fork trucks, never off the belt. Even our incredibly expensive items ($1,000 a box, made in China), are packed in cardboard boxes -- without packing material -- and hand delivered to the trucking area. Needless to say, we suffer huge losses due to damaged product, to say nothing about mis-picks.
I feel bad about the quality of products we send to hospitals, but that's largely out of my hands since I work at the end of the line loading trucks, rather than picking product. As usual, man uses his highest technological standards mostly for amusement. Hospital supplies are treated poorly by comparison.
Not every warehouse is equal, and just from the few photos in the article, it's immediately obvious to a person like me how well the operation is run. Even though I do this stuff every day, I find it fascinating to see another facility.
Fire with fire.
Is my electric blanket killing me? No, but my soda addiction is giving me diabetes, and I'm driving in traffic while texting and smoking.
People aren't nancies. They're just terrible at risk assessment.
A lot has been said about the rapid increase of version numbers, but that's not the real problem.
Problem: people don't want to update Firefox because they don't know if their extensions will work.
Solution: allow the updater to check if the extensions are compatible with the new version you are trying to install. If Firefox can check if extensions are compatible with the currently installed version and can check if updates to said extensions are available, why can't the updater do the check before an update?
Firefox: Great news! All your extensions will work!
User: Great! Now I can update with confidence.
Think about how many political and PR issues would be solved with this one little feature. It can't possibly be that difficult to implement.
Have the managers at Mozilla lost their creative edge?
Sometimes it just has to work, and you don't care how fast it is. You might as well insist that Linux must have a swap partition instead of a swap file.
I wish Microsoft had put a DOS emulator into Windows a long time ago. Then we would have never gotten ME, and we wouldn't have XP Mode today.
Remember the Linux netbooks that drained their batteries?
People can't distinguish between bugs, design flaws, design oversights, and lack of testing.
What about that huge but invisible grey area between normal people and power users? I like to know what's going on under the hood, but that doesn't mean I want to do everything from the command line. There's hundreds of millions of people using computers these days, but it always feels like the whole industry is only binned into two types of people. It's like looking at the entire political scene and saying you're either a Democrat or a Republican. Why are the moderates always invisible?
I see this all the time on Slashdot. I ask about a simple tool that helps me with my small-time hobby project, and people are either telling me I should use a braindead GUI-driven toy, or get some huge enterprise-grade development system. Then, these two groups of people argue with each other about which solution is better, while both are completely oblivious to the fact that neither solution is viable.