I've lost a few, but (aside from NoScript) not anything important.
"Sorry, this can't work with 57 because the WebExtensions infrastructure can't do it".
I really hope that the plugin developers whose extensions are no longer supported make writeups of what they need so the FF team can implement the WebExtensions features that are needed.
Indeed. The default should be disabled, so that it is possible for experts, e.g. the IT department, to enable the specific parts of it that they want to use.
That has been tried. The result is droves of people being denied access, possibly because the same ticket was sold to multiple people, none of whom was the person whose name was on the ticket. If it happens enough, it might dissuade a number of people to not buy tickets from scalpers. Maybe.
When CERN scientists discovered that the Universe could indeed not exist, the Universe got so embarrased that it blinked out of existence, only to be replaced by something even more inexplicable, but probably more likely to actually exist.
Well, we did manage to cross the Atlantic and find a number of civilizations filled to the brim with gold that could not withstand the battlehardned European soldiers, armed with steel, gunpowder, disease and full of religious zeal. This gave Europe an unprecedented option to conquer and expand, first to the Americas, and later Africa, Asia and then the Islamic world (when the Ottoman Empire was collapsing). The profits from the transatlantic conquests and subsequent triangular trade and colonies is what launched and fueled the Renaissance and the Industrial revolution.
To alleviate that, we have received a badass white alpha male security officer that totally banged a klingon woman and lived to tell the tale! I wonder if that counts double?
Previous Star Treks have been episodic, with the situation being reset after each one.
Ummm... no. TOS and TNG were episodic. Voyager was episodic with a semi-continued story arc. DS9 was a continued story with some episodic episodes. Enterprise was a long story arc with many episodic episodes.
> You're kind of proving yourself wrong there by including DS9. DS9 was horrible.
Excuse me, you spelled FANTASTIC incorrectly.
Star Trek is intended to be an optimistic vision of the future. This is the one trait that sets it appart from most (all?) other TV SF. In DS9, the show runners tried to show the Federation going towards the dark side, essentially blowing the most important part of Star Trek out the air lock. DS9 had some outstanding individual episodes though, e.g. Trials and Tribble-ations is among my all-time favorite Star Trek episodes.
All of a sudden 20 years before Kirk and the Enterprise (reboot or not) they have a drive that teleports the ship to any known sector, and the technology is based on a network of mushroom spores that permeates the entire universe, and they first were using a GIANT TARDIGRADE as a supercomputer to control the drive
It is a pretty weird technology, but also a huge bloody hint that the technology is going to blow up in their faces with devastating effects.
the notion that differently-coloured people were inferior was going away by 1800
No, it was not. I saw a Danish encyclopedia from 1910s that was filled to the brim with racist stereotypes, and a lot of books and comic books from the 1950s had the same view of non-Europeans, e.g. Tintin in the Congo.
That and our ancestors needed some sort of moral justification when enslaving millions of people and forcing them to work under pain of terrible torture. Calling them sub-human and making up all sorts of myths about their weak, evil and childish nature that needed a "firm" hand to be happy supplied that.
If you are craving trek, you could also take a look at some of the fan productions. Star Trek Continues is a pretty good take on 4th season of The Original Series.
Holodeck Pre-TOS: It was supposed to be new in the Era of TNG.
Yeah, that puzzled me as well. On the other hand, it was shown in use by friendly aliens in ST:Enterprise, and it has IIRC only been used once (for tactical training). I also suspect that the main reason that it was not in TOS was that the special effects technology of the time did not make it feasible for them. What irked me more about that was their kill count. If klingons are so bad fighters, it is surprising that the Klingon empire haven't been overwhelmed by fiercer fighters... like maybe the vulcans?
Transporters like they're safe! [snip] I mean beaming them off a small fast moving fightcraft being fired on by the Klingons?
Dangerous? Yes. More dangerous than trying to get the fighter to board? Maybe not.
The Admiral sleeping with the Captain just felt like something out of The Orville
Assuming that the two was an item before they became senior officers and that the Federation is not as uptight about sex as modern American culture, it makes some sense that an admiral unsure of the sanity of an important and driven captain could take unorthodox measures to get him to let down his guard so that his actual mental state shone through. Rubbing in his nose, however, was rather stupid on her part.
Having said that, the Captain, the gay scientist, the doctor, and a few other characters have all been top notch, if not what you'd expect of Trek figures.
The captain is an interesting character. I just hope that they stop making him the superman-action star who can kill 1,000 klingons with his bare hands before breakfast while chewing bubble-gum and curing cancer.
There is a difference between distracting and hurting reading comprehension vs being unable to read something. I agree that footnotes are also a distraction. In particular when informational footnotes are grouped with citations and placed at the end of the book (or chapter or article). To the degree that informational footnotes are needed, they should be short, on the same page that they reference and easily distinguishable from citations that should be placed at the end of the book. And the writer should strongly consider rewriting the text so the footnote is not needed.
If you can't read an article because some of the text is tinted blue you have bigger problems.
A few years back, I read a piece from a researcher (IIRC) that argued that the presence of a link caused you to break your reading flow to decide if you wanted to follow the link or not. As I recall, the researcher backed it up with reading retention tests of the same text with and without links, where test subjects had better retention if they had read the text without the links. From TFA:
A 2005 study suggested that “increased demands of decision-making and visual processing” in text with links reduced reading comprehension
Hardly ever does something appear about a European startup, or how such-and-such out of Europe is transforming an industry
Spotify and Deezer as music steaming. SoundCloud for music sharing. Skype for communications. MineCraft in computer games. A fast duckduckgo search found this if you are interested in more examples of European tech (the article is from 2013). I suspect that the reason that you do not hear so much about European tech companies is that slashdot is US based and, surprise, surprise, also US centric in its reporting.
True. Socialism is Communism-lite. The difference is merely in the degree. The (glorious) Collective is more important and trumps the Individual. And, as Karl Marx taught us, Socialism is merely a stepping stone to Communism.
No, he did not. He considered most of the socialists of his time to be dreamers and utopists who spent their time making up elaborate societies, but failed to consider how to get from the current status quo to the better society. In order to distance themselves from the dreamers and solidarize themselves with the workers movement who they saw as the vehicle of change, Marx and Engels opted to call themselves communists. But they saw socialism and communism as pretty much synonyms, which probably also explains why they called their theory for scientific socialism and not scientific communism.
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It works like that in Denmark.
"Sorry, this can't work with 57 because the WebExtensions infrastructure can't do it".
I really hope that the plugin developers whose extensions are no longer supported make writeups of what they need so the FF team can implement the WebExtensions features that are needed.
I'm totally rooting for FireFox. I just saw the notification, downloaded it, and yes, the gaps were the first thing I noticed.
I did the same thing ... except that it took me a bit to figure out what the fuss with "the gaps" was all about. Personally, I think it looks fine.
Indeed. The default should be disabled, so that it is possible for experts, e.g. the IT department, to enable the specific parts of it that they want to use.
That has been tried. The result is droves of people being denied access, possibly because the same ticket was sold to multiple people, none of whom was the person whose name was on the ticket. If it happens enough, it might dissuade a number of people to not buy tickets from scalpers. Maybe.
This is Netflix we're talking about. If a story can be told in 8 episodes they'll make 16.
No, it is Amazon ;-)
When CERN scientists discovered that the Universe could indeed not exist, the Universe got so embarrased that it blinked out of existence, only to be replaced by something even more inexplicable, but probably more likely to actually exist.
Well, we did manage to cross the Atlantic and find a number of civilizations filled to the brim with gold that could not withstand the battlehardned European soldiers, armed with steel, gunpowder, disease and full of religious zeal. This gave Europe an unprecedented option to conquer and expand, first to the Americas, and later Africa, Asia and then the Islamic world (when the Ottoman Empire was collapsing). The profits from the transatlantic conquests and subsequent triangular trade and colonies is what launched and fueled the Renaissance and the Industrial revolution.
Oh, noes, my world crumbles! CRUMBLES, I say!
To alleviate that, we have received a badass white alpha male security officer that totally banged a klingon woman and lived to tell the tale! I wonder if that counts double?
Previous Star Treks have been episodic, with the situation being reset after each one.
Ummm ... no. TOS and TNG were episodic. Voyager was episodic with a semi-continued story arc. DS9 was a continued story with some episodic episodes. Enterprise was a long story arc with many episodic episodes.
> You're kind of proving yourself wrong there by including DS9. DS9 was horrible.
Excuse me, you spelled FANTASTIC incorrectly.
Star Trek is intended to be an optimistic vision of the future. This is the one trait that sets it appart from most (all?) other TV SF. In DS9, the show runners tried to show the Federation going towards the dark side, essentially blowing the most important part of Star Trek out the air lock. DS9 had some outstanding individual episodes though, e.g. Trials and Tribble-ations is among my all-time favorite Star Trek episodes.
All of a sudden 20 years before Kirk and the Enterprise (reboot or not) they have a drive that teleports the ship to any known sector, and the technology is based on a network of mushroom spores that permeates the entire universe, and they first were using a GIANT TARDIGRADE as a supercomputer to control the drive
It is a pretty weird technology, but also a huge bloody hint that the technology is going to blow up in their faces with devastating effects.
the notion that differently-coloured people were inferior was going away by 1800
No, it was not. I saw a Danish encyclopedia from 1910s that was filled to the brim with racist stereotypes, and a lot of books and comic books from the 1950s had the same view of non-Europeans, e.g. Tintin in the Congo.
That and our ancestors needed some sort of moral justification when enslaving millions of people and forcing them to work under pain of terrible torture. Calling them sub-human and making up all sorts of myths about their weak, evil and childish nature that needed a "firm" hand to be happy supplied that.
Most likely it is. You could (re)watch the Space Seed episode of The Original Series for more information.
If you are craving trek, you could also take a look at some of the fan productions. Star Trek Continues is a pretty good take on 4th season of The Original Series.
I also noticed that Pike was there, so we know that it is shortly before TOS.
Holodeck Pre-TOS: It was supposed to be new in the Era of TNG.
Yeah, that puzzled me as well. On the other hand, it was shown in use by friendly aliens in ST:Enterprise, and it has IIRC only been used once (for tactical training). I also suspect that the main reason that it was not in TOS was that the special effects technology of the time did not make it feasible for them. What irked me more about that was their kill count. If klingons are so bad fighters, it is surprising that the Klingon empire haven't been overwhelmed by fiercer fighters ... like maybe the vulcans?
Transporters like they're safe! [snip] I mean beaming them off a small fast moving fightcraft being fired on by the Klingons?
Dangerous? Yes. More dangerous than trying to get the fighter to board? Maybe not.
The Admiral sleeping with the Captain just felt like something out of The Orville
Assuming that the two was an item before they became senior officers and that the Federation is not as uptight about sex as modern American culture, it makes some sense that an admiral unsure of the sanity of an important and driven captain could take unorthodox measures to get him to let down his guard so that his actual mental state shone through. Rubbing in his nose, however, was rather stupid on her part.
Having said that, the Captain, the gay scientist, the doctor, and a few other characters have all been top notch, if not what you'd expect of Trek figures.
The captain is an interesting character. I just hope that they stop making him the superman-action star who can kill 1,000 klingons with his bare hands before breakfast while chewing bubble-gum and curing cancer.
There is a difference between distracting and hurting reading comprehension vs being unable to read something. I agree that footnotes are also a distraction. In particular when informational footnotes are grouped with citations and placed at the end of the book (or chapter or article). To the degree that informational footnotes are needed, they should be short, on the same page that they reference and easily distinguishable from citations that should be placed at the end of the book. And the writer should strongly consider rewriting the text so the footnote is not needed.
If you can't read an article because some of the text is tinted blue you have bigger problems.
A few years back, I read a piece from a researcher (IIRC) that argued that the presence of a link caused you to break your reading flow to decide if you wanted to follow the link or not. As I recall, the researcher backed it up with reading retention tests of the same text with and without links, where test subjects had better retention if they had read the text without the links. From TFA:
A 2005 study suggested that “increased demands of decision-making and visual processing” in text with links reduced reading comprehension
Hardly ever does something appear about a European startup, or how such-and-such out of Europe is transforming an industry
Spotify and Deezer as music steaming. SoundCloud for music sharing. Skype for communications. MineCraft in computer games. A fast duckduckgo search found this if you are interested in more examples of European tech (the article is from 2013). I suspect that the reason that you do not hear so much about European tech companies is that slashdot is US based and, surprise, surprise, also US centric in its reporting.
True. Socialism is Communism-lite. The difference is merely in the degree. The (glorious) Collective is more important and trumps the Individual. And, as Karl Marx taught us, Socialism is merely a stepping stone to Communism.
No, he did not. He considered most of the socialists of his time to be dreamers and utopists who spent their time making up elaborate societies, but failed to consider how to get from the current status quo to the better society. In order to distance themselves from the dreamers and solidarize themselves with the workers movement who they saw as the vehicle of change, Marx and Engels opted to call themselves communists. But they saw socialism and communism as pretty much synonyms, which probably also explains why they called their theory for scientific socialism and not scientific communism.
Hmm, twice the number of electric cars at 60% of the GDP. I'm not seeing your argument ;-)
And more to the point: Can a contract legally be used to force someone to not divulge knowledge of illegal activity?