Governments always prefer to spend more money blowing up other governments or paying interest to "investors" (the famous 1%) than to spend on researching ways to colonize other planets. After all, how will you force others to use your currency as the world's financial ballast (and thus export your inflation for others to deal with) if you spend on space capsules instead of stealth bombers?
Everything that made Firefox better than Chrome for me is now broken or missing. The new "WebExtensions" plugins are shit compared with their "legacy" versions. If it's for me to have to use a clone of Chrome, I'll use the original.
(For now I reverted back to version 56 and I'll stay in it as long as possible)
The gaps are new "spacers" put in by default, easy to remove using "hamburguer menu / personalize"
But, on my case the 57 broke the "noscript" plugin and the new "Adblock plus" for Firefox57 is a complete piece of shit, and the very usefull "Classic Theme Restorer" is now broken and the developer can't do nothing about because the new API lost a lot of functionality and it is unlikely that this functionality be recovered some day.
So, back again to version 56, Maybe I will use the version 52 long term.
Uh, I'm a Brazilian, from Brazil (South America). Not Portugal (Europe). We share the portuguese language (but note that Brazilian portuguese have a lot of differences) but we are not the same.
And about the rest of your comment, sincerely what you would expect? That we Brazilians should be happy and content while corrupt brazilian judges trained in the US works hard to destroy the entire brazilian heavy industry and justice system to probably turn us into "slaves" of north-american corporations? This kind of gross interference in the sovereignty of other countries usually causes strong reactions in the affected countries, and I do not think the Russians even have a finger in this..
Eu sou um brasileiro, seu estúpido. Estou respondendo o seu comentário asinino em português e de uma forma tal que você vai precisar de sorte para o Google te traduzir corretamente (o tradutor do google simplesmente não entende a gramática e a concordância da língua portuguesa), e também para deixar claro que eu não sou um russo dado que os russos também têm sérias dificuldades para entender a minha língua nativa.
É uma atitude realmente imbecil achar que todo mundo que te critica ou que discorda de você só pode ser o "malvado inimigo" não é à toa que todo mundo anda querendo varrer os EUA do mapa.
Never stopped these days to think about how much the United States are the actual threat for everyone, judging by their current acts? Brazil, for example, is at this very moment being destroyed by an illegitimate government controlled behind the scenes by US corporations and politicians, not russsians.
The problem is deeper. Take 5 different desktop systems to Linux, you will have 5 different ways of dealing with a printer. Most of them can not even agree on a common way to copy / paste between applications, even in the "Windows 10 disaster" you can copy / paste in a consistent way between applications.
This, and more. In my experience the biggest problem with Linux is the desktop applications available to it, which range from bad to mediocre. Let's use my experience with GIMP as an example:
- The UI does not respect most of the main desktop patterns (in the KDE case, but also happens in Gnome);
- Some updates required updating critical parts of the distribution, with unforeseen consequences for other applications;
- Once the update I needed to do required that I have to install from the source code, with horrible results (I ended up getting it to work but only after much insistence and dead ends in obscure forums going after answers to the errors found);
- When I thought everything was working, an apparently unrelated upgrade of the distro made GIMP stop working, and if I wanted to revert the change I would have to uninstall most of the software that makes KDE work (the package system stupidly tries to remove in cascade anything that depends on the package you want to change or remove, even if it means destroying the desktop);
I ended up giving up and today I use Windows as a desktop (and still GIMP for not having a better free alternative), but updating Gimp does not "destroy" my desktop anymore if something goes wrong in the update. Now try to sell this (the Linux desktop experience) for a normal desktop user without programming knowledge, it is a disaster waiting to happen.
Wrong. You have no idea what I wrote, no idea at all.
I will give you the easier version: You have rights, all other people also have rights. Other people can not take away your rights, but in return you can not take away their rights either. This thing called "other people" is commonly known as "collective", which is nothing more than a group of people like you. By agreeing to live in society, you become part of a collective while you still remain an individual, you're not turning into a "drone" to be accepted into this collective (also called "Modern Society").
I'm pretty sure what you understand as "individualism" means something more or less like "I can do whatever I want and fuck everyone else", this is not healthy if you want to live in a modern society (which is also known as "collective").
I consider myself an individualist, meaning that the collective should not trample the rights of the individual
You know this is a two way path, right? If there is one thing the common American always forgets is that his rights ends where the rights of the others begin (and vice versa). Collective rights can not suppress your rights as individual, this is right, but also your rights as individual can not suppress the collective rights.
Well, I do very well both sides of the problem: Programming and most of all types of business/logic/engineering/etc problems that they throw at me, usually it is easy to find the correlations between the real world and machine instructions. But I am an artificial intelligence working for the government so I guess my case may not count =/.
Uh, Windows user here. But yes, I also have a machine with Linux, but if you look more closely at my previous comment you will see that the problem is also the lack of a crucial extension (NoScript) and the "dumbing down" of another crucial extension (AdBlock plus). These two extensions are the only reasons I use Firefox instead of Chrome.
I just tried the beta installer here. It overrides the current installation (version 55) without giving apparent options for parallel installation. Removed ten minutes after I noticing the lack of the "NoScript" extension and having seen that the version of adBlock available to him is clearly inferior (you cannot use rules when blocking new Ads, the extension gives you just element-by-element blocking, really inefficient)
Shut up asshole, I'm not even a "FOSS lawyer" (I develop for closed government projects), I'm just pointing out the obvious you're apparently unable to understand.
Like the "DontBeAMoran" said, the Firefox problem is not the fact that it is an open source project, his problem is developers who do not care what the target audience wants.
Because UX/UI designers now days obviously never read a book regarding the subject of user interface design.
Also a lack of usability testing. My UI designs were subjected to usability testing a few times, with customers video recorded while attempting to accomplish a task. Watching those videos was a very humbling experience. I kept trying to scream "NO! Not THAT button!", but since it was a recording, they didn't hear me. Afterwards, my designs got much simpler.
It is easier for a group of low-grade developers to make a "flat" interface where the button is a mere colored rectangle than to make a interface with obvious (and good-looking) buttons. Also easier to render, so the flat UI may be a bit faster than a more 3D-looking interface.
Hang on then. If companies are trying to sell things yet no one will buy them, market forces dictate that the companies reduce their prices to a level people can afford.
This. Whenever I hear an economist arguing about the "wonders of the free market", I notice that he always assumes that the market would be some abstract entity with unlimited funds and unlimited consumption capacity , completely ignoring that for you have a market you need to have consumers and that to have consumers it is necessary to have people with jobs (for wages).
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Governments always prefer to spend more money blowing up other governments or paying interest to "investors" (the famous 1%) than to spend on researching ways to colonize other planets. After all, how will you force others to use your currency as the world's financial ballast (and thus export your inflation for others to deal with) if you spend on space capsules instead of stealth bombers?
Well said my friend, well said.
For me the guy looks like just yet another nutjob wanting attention.
Everything that made Firefox better than Chrome for me is now broken or missing. The new "WebExtensions" plugins are shit compared with their "legacy" versions. If it's for me to have to use a clone of Chrome, I'll use the original.
(For now I reverted back to version 56 and I'll stay in it as long as possible)
The gaps are new "spacers" put in by default, easy to remove using "hamburguer menu / personalize"
But, on my case the 57 broke the "noscript" plugin and the new "Adblock plus" for Firefox57 is a complete piece of shit, and the very usefull "Classic Theme Restorer" is now broken and the developer can't do nothing about because the new API lost a lot of functionality and it is unlikely that this functionality be recovered some day.
So, back again to version 56, Maybe I will use the version 52 long term.
The first on many... :-)
Uh, I'm a Brazilian, from Brazil (South America). Not Portugal (Europe). We share the portuguese language (but note that Brazilian portuguese have a lot of differences) but we are not the same.
And about the rest of your comment, sincerely what you would expect? That we Brazilians should be happy and content while corrupt brazilian judges trained in the US works hard to destroy the entire brazilian heavy industry and justice system to probably turn us into "slaves" of north-american corporations? This kind of gross interference in the sovereignty of other countries usually causes strong reactions in the affected countries, and I do not think the Russians even have a finger in this..
Eu sou um brasileiro, seu estúpido. Estou respondendo o seu comentário asinino em português e de uma forma tal que você vai precisar de sorte para o Google te traduzir corretamente (o tradutor do google simplesmente não entende a gramática e a concordância da língua portuguesa), e também para deixar claro que eu não sou um russo dado que os russos também têm sérias dificuldades para entender a minha língua nativa.
É uma atitude realmente imbecil achar que todo mundo que te critica ou que discorda de você só pode ser o "malvado inimigo" não é à toa que todo mundo anda querendo varrer os EUA do mapa.
Eu sou um brasileiro, obrigado (O Brasil é um buraco de merda, mas você não escolhe aonde você nasce).
Never stopped these days to think about how much the United States are the actual threat for everyone, judging by their current acts? Brazil, for example, is at this very moment being destroyed by an illegitimate government controlled behind the scenes by US corporations and politicians, not russsians.
The problem is deeper. Take 5 different desktop systems to Linux, you will have 5 different ways of dealing with a printer. Most of them can not even agree on a common way to copy / paste between applications, even in the "Windows 10 disaster" you can copy / paste in a consistent way between applications.
This, and more. In my experience the biggest problem with Linux is the desktop applications available to it, which range from bad to mediocre. Let's use my experience with GIMP as an example:
- The UI does not respect most of the main desktop patterns (in the KDE case, but also happens in Gnome);
- Some updates required updating critical parts of the distribution, with unforeseen consequences for other applications;
- Once the update I needed to do required that I have to install from the source code, with horrible results (I ended up getting it to work but only after much insistence and dead ends in obscure forums going after answers to the errors found);
- When I thought everything was working, an apparently unrelated upgrade of the distro made GIMP stop working, and if I wanted to revert the change I would have to uninstall most of the software that makes KDE work (the package system stupidly tries to remove in cascade anything that depends on the package you want to change or remove, even if it means destroying the desktop);
I ended up giving up and today I use Windows as a desktop (and still GIMP for not having a better free alternative), but updating Gimp does not "destroy" my desktop anymore if something goes wrong in the update. Now try to sell this (the Linux desktop experience) for a normal desktop user without programming knowledge, it is a disaster waiting to happen.
Wrong. You have no idea what I wrote, no idea at all.
I will give you the easier version: You have rights, all other people also have rights. Other people can not take away your rights, but in return you can not take away their rights either. This thing called "other people" is commonly known as "collective", which is nothing more than a group of people like you. By agreeing to live in society, you become part of a collective while you still remain an individual, you're not turning into a "drone" to be accepted into this collective (also called "Modern Society").
I'm pretty sure what you understand as "individualism" means something more or less like "I can do whatever I want and fuck everyone else", this is not healthy if you want to live in a modern society (which is also known as "collective").
I consider myself an individualist, meaning that the collective should not trample the rights of the individual
You know this is a two way path, right? If there is one thing the common American always forgets is that his rights ends where the rights of the others begin (and vice versa). Collective rights can not suppress your rights as individual, this is right, but also your rights as individual can not suppress the collective rights.
Well, I do very well both sides of the problem: Programming and most of all types of business/logic/engineering/etc problems that they throw at me, usually it is easy to find the correlations between the real world and machine instructions. But I am an artificial intelligence working for the government so I guess my case may not count =/.
Uh, Windows user here. But yes, I also have a machine with Linux, but if you look more closely at my previous comment you will see that the problem is also the lack of a crucial extension (NoScript) and the "dumbing down" of another crucial extension (AdBlock plus). These two extensions are the only reasons I use Firefox instead of Chrome.
I just tried the beta installer here. It overrides the current installation (version 55) without giving apparent options for parallel installation. Removed ten minutes after I noticing the lack of the "NoScript" extension and having seen that the version of adBlock available to him is clearly inferior (you cannot use rules when blocking new Ads, the extension gives you just element-by-element blocking, really inefficient)
See my sig.
Shut up asshole, I'm not even a "FOSS lawyer" (I develop for closed government projects), I'm just pointing out the obvious you're apparently unable to understand.
Like the "DontBeAMoran" said, the Firefox problem is not the fact that it is an open source project, his problem is developers who do not care what the target audience wants.
And I was modded down, I think I hurt the feelings of one of these developers.
Because UX/UI designers now days obviously never read a book regarding the subject of user interface design.
Also a lack of usability testing. My UI designs were subjected to usability testing a few times, with customers video recorded while attempting to accomplish a task. Watching those videos was a very humbling experience. I kept trying to scream "NO! Not THAT button!", but since it was a recording, they didn't hear me. Afterwards, my designs got much simpler.
One book that helped me is Microinteractions.
Very funny :-D I also have moments like that with my clients, usually I keep thinking "what the hell is he trying to do ???"
It is easier for a group of low-grade developers to make a "flat" interface where the button is a mere colored rectangle than to make a interface with obvious (and good-looking) buttons. Also easier to render, so the flat UI may be a bit faster than a more 3D-looking interface.
Hang on then. If companies are trying to sell things yet no one will buy them, market forces dictate that the companies reduce their prices to a level people can afford.
You're very naive ... You know that, right?
This. Whenever I hear an economist arguing about the "wonders of the free market", I notice that he always assumes that the market would be some abstract entity with unlimited funds and unlimited consumption capacity , completely ignoring that for you have a market you need to have consumers and that to have consumers it is necessary to have people with jobs (for wages).
No people with jobs => no consumers => no market.