GRID PC is a really nice game but it's one of the games which were abandoned the moment they went gold. Very little support was given, the developer and publisher kept promising patches and fixes that they never delivered, so it comes as no surprise that multiplayer servers had such short lifespan, actually it's 2 years more than i would give it. And it isn't really big loss, because the multiplayer was broken from start, it was really painful to navigate through the menu system to connect to a server, and when you did, often the request would just time out and you'd be thrown at the beggining of the whole process. Ranked servers sometimes counted your progress, sometimes not, no idea why. On servers with enabled player collisions, half of the people would try to grief by driving in opposite way, trying to crash other players, on servers with collisions off cheating was widespread, in every race there was always someone using speed hacks where you would see the cars simply teleporting long distances forward. There was very little point to multiplayer, so everybody playing it pretty much just stick with the singleplayer mode which was really nice.
When stable Moonlight 1.0 was released as stable version about a year ago i tried it, only to be greeted by 'Silverlight 2.0 required, won't work with 1.0' on most non-demo pages. This christmas someone posted me a photosynth link, i saw that Moonlight finally reached 2.0 stable release, so i again tried it, only to be greeted with 'Silverlight 3.0 required, won't work on 2.0' on photosynth and most other pages. Maybe someday in future there will be at least few day window when the silverlight app requirements match the available moonlight version, but it's not today.
It is, unfortunately, frustrating to write performant GL these days. While we would like to think that you can do what you want in GL, and the driver will magically make it go fast, the fact remains that some ways of drawing are slow and some are fast. Games are written for specific cards, and drivers get app-specific code. It's a mess, but a necessary mess.
Yes, but that is true for any bleeding-edge performance programming. It is true for Direct3D drivers, it is also true for general x86 programming - i remember having to fine-tune core loop of one app for specific CPUs distincted only by L2/L3 cache sizes - cache misses kill performance better than anything else.
The other problem is that the majority of available hardware and drivers don't support GL 3.x. No open-source driver does, and in fact most Intel, Radeon, and nVidia hardware already in use can only do GL 2.x. The Red Book is doing what it should. It's providing a transitional viewpoint for writing apps that will work with GL 1.5-2.1 stacks, discussing both the fixed-function and shaderful pipelines. It talks about the maths needed to make things happen, and shows both the old and new ways of accelerating those maths on hardware.
The major addition of GL 3.x series is *deprecating* stuff (and streamlining and integrating some stuff that was already available through extensions). You don't need the deprecated stuff for transition, as GL 2.1 will give you everything you need to drop the fixed function entirely, and code that you write against 2.1 with deprecation in mind will work under 3.0 profiles without problems. Seriously it's time to force change to fully programmable API as the hardware don't have any fixed function for several years now. Every time you use fixed function the drivers will just compile custom shader, and that is something you (or high-level library) can do as well, without the need to complicate the drivers.
Remember back in the 90s when everyone was jizzing in their pants about Bruce Sterling and Neal Stephenson's writing, dreaming of actually implementing the ideas therein? Data havens, crypto-anarchism, impregnable anonymity, hackers making a decent living by a life of crime, and so forth? Well, now the future is here. Kind of sucks, doesn't it? Careful what you wish for, you just might get it.
In those cyberpunk visions the world, political and judicals systems are tightly controlled by corrupt mega-corporations and the net is anything but open. The very act of accessing the network or tampering with it may land you in prison, criticizing the rulers means you're dead and so on. Every piece of hardware is registered, so if you want to get any hacking done you have to turn in to black market (for stuff) and criminals (to get money for stuff), out of pure necessity. (it's the classical tale of occupied country's resistance movement working together with organized crime, right?)
Compare that to the reality we got: cheap ubiquitous internet, cheap ubiquitous hardware to access it, the net is *by default* free and open, and all attempts to any large-scale censoring has failed miserably. Anonymity is just one unsecured wifi hotspot away on every corner (so you don't need to pay a hacker to get you online), and any attempts at uncovering corruption and truth are met with public support. So the traditional heroes of cyberpunk stories can operate publicly or semi-publicly (think wikileaks), the worst that can happen to them is someone pulling the DMCA on the copied/leaked documents, which rarely results even in fines, much less prison time. The hackers are working on cool engineering projects instead of breaking into companies networks, and the criminals are, well, criminals - since they are no longer needed for the goals of the freedom fighters, all they do is disrupt the free information exchange (ddosing sites for greed, decreasing signal-to-noise ratio by spamming the hell out of everyone etc.), and so are frowned upon even by the neo-anarchists.
The advantage with a bus is that its much easier to add new stops and routes. You only have to build up the charging station, whereas with a trolley, one has to tear up the road, put in tracks, and build stations.
This is, I think, a general reaction from a lot of people, but it doesn't really line up with the history of the prize. In 1987, for example the prize was awarded to Óscar Arias, a Costa Rican president, for making some strong gestures that he would stop the Nicaraguan war that had been raging for a decade, fueled by the United States. This raised Arias' profile, and gave him the political capital to broker a peace deal in 1988.
Yes, i too hope this prize will help raise Barrack Obama from the relative unpopularity of being president of the USA and supreme commander of world's largest and most technologically sophisticated armed forces. This should give him worldwide fame and may even ignite 'Obamamania', giving him opportunity to meet world leaders and broke deals with them. In addition the prize include a hefty cheque, which no doubt can help to fund his bold reform plans to save world from yet another economic crisis.
One of the problems with LCDs is that even if you find one that has truly good parameters and shines in reviews, you have no guarantee that the monitor you buy will perform at any similar level, due to manufacturers selling different revisions with different panels under the same name. Like the infamous Samsung 226BW.
Here is image of the flash cd utility crashed (fortunately my drive survived). Here is seagate page with affected models list and links to firmware downloads (if it wasn't posted by 1000 people already)
Since the scientist did the (almost) creating here, what questions would this raise? The biggest question of all ages: Given that God created all life as we know it, and that this scientist also created life, would you like a toasted tea-cake?
This has however everything to with ATI and nothing really with OpenGL, as it is the hardware manufacturer who ultimately decides which capabilities will they expose in the drivers. ATI's OpenGL drivers was *always* bad, buggy, and badly performing (go on, search for some old benchmarks, you will see that ATI cards that easily outperform their NVidia counterparts in DirectX falls heavily behind when it comes to OpenGL apps and games).
The developers' expectations here was that if OpenGL 3.0 will include all the newest stuff in core spec, ATI (and Intel and others) will be forced to support them (so they can pass the certification and be able to call their products compliant), however the same expectation for improved OpenGL drivers was there when ATI was bought by AMD, and that too never really materialized. ATI simply doesn't care enough about OpenGL, their main focus was always DirectX, and i don't see that changing in nearby future.
As for OpenGL 3.0, the rage is that Khronos group promised us moisty delicious cake (whole new API, yay!), but after long long wait delivered only small biscuit. I didn't expect much so i'm not disappointed and overall the spec is good step (deprecation model for lots of old stuff, FBO finally promoted to core, direct access extension), but just like KDE 4.0, it is only first step, and it *really* depends on where it will go from now.
One of the problems i have after going from FF2 to FF3beta on linux is that some specific pages (eg. http://www.pragprog.com/titles/ruby/programming-ruby) takes ages to render, hogging all CPU, and again when you switch to other tab and back (or simply overdraw the FF window). Now this may as well be problem in the Xorg or nvidia drivers, but other browsers and FF2 seems unaffected.
Another problem is the occasional flash freezing on 64bit, but that is problem of the flash plugin itself, not FF.
You do realize that crash happened during manual docking trial ? i.e. that Progress dockings were always automatic, but they wanted to train emergency manual docking procedure and failure was indeed human factor ? (Murphy's laws in action i'd say).
Foale's Increment proceeded fairly normally until June 25, when during the second test of the Progress manual docking system, TORU, the resupply ship collided with solar arrays on the Spektr module and crashed into the module's outer shell, holing the module and causing a depressurisation of the station, the first ever on-orbit depressurisation in the history of spaceflight. Only quick actions on the part of the crew, cutting cables leading to the module and closing Spektr's hatch, prevented the crew abandoning the station in their Soyuz lifeboat.
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I agree, i've seen the term abused throughout both business and open-source scene alike. My favourite is Dovecot which managed to get 32 release candidates throughout whole year, completely changing module/plugin API and major data structures somewhere inbetween. Well at least they followed the release cycle - just week ago one salesman told me that his company's product successfully progressed from gamma to beta stadium.
Congress passes a law to protect US citizens from unscrupulous gambling operations that are not subject to the same kind of regulations that Casinos in the U.S. must meet
How is this so ? As you say, this is US law and so applies only to US companies, which are *already* subject to these regulations and standards. Last time i checked internet was full of non-US gambling sites, and this law doesn't do a shit to protect US citizens from any of them (unless such site operators are stupid enough to put their feet on US soil).
Because both OS and browser market are in state of huge vendor lock-in. Any small change in there is indication of bigger things to come. But the main thing is interoperability. Users doesn't care about what OS or browser they're using (unless it sucks horribly), all they care is if they can run their apps or display their favourite internet pages. My bank's page was IE-only until last year and they introduced firefox-compatible site only after major news ran story about firefox getting 10% browser market share.
MP3 player market however is different thing. You don't run apps on your player (yet), there is no connection with other devices (well not counting zune's wifi 'sharing'), so there is no vendor lock-in. If the player i have has 0.001% or 99% marketshare i can't care less, it doesn't affect me, or my ability to use it. The important thing is whether i can transfer my music to it, and whether it can play the formats. Yes, this may change with DRM in the future, but for now, there is no lock-in.
Applets, and Java in general, are notorious for long startup times. It has been found that people give a web site about 2 seconds to respond before they determine it is not going to load and surf away.
Yes, this has been fixed for some time - for example on my linux machine surfing to page with java applet freezes the whole browser for seconds, leaving the applet enough time to load all the stuff, without the danger of me surfing away. It has also the added benefit of me remembering the name of your page, even saying it aloud, with lots of.. urm.. "superlatives".
Seriously though, competition is always welcome, although JavaFX seems to be aimed more at embedded/mobile devices (where java has its foothold, and flash or ajax are rarely seen).
And whether you do or don't use english as primary language, how much of _text_ are you really typing ? The world of IDEs is largery dominated by auto-completion related features and every professional coder i know uses them heavily. Even when i'm writing in self-descriptive languages as ruby, i'm using way more special characters and numbers (and tabulator for autocompletion) than the alphabet. QWERTY as well as DVORAK has most of them accesible only by little finger - not good. It's the one reason i'll probably never learn the proper touchtyping.
I'd say that most people that will go through the lengthy process of learning and trying DVORAK will stay with it not because it's substantially better, but because it's basically the same, and they don't want to repeat the process to go back to QWERTY. (Plus, there's the placebo factor and the uber-geekiness feeling of using input method that is totally inaccessible to commoners:) ). Thats not to say that there aren't any improvement - there is, if you're writing long english texts, but as i said, i don't think most of coders will fall into this category.
Well most of them aren't really 'must-have' at all, and half of them are tied to some specific service. Anyway, as everybody will be posting they're favourite extensions, i'll add few less popular ones, that i found really useful for daily work:
DownThemAll! 0.9.9.7 - can download all files from page (both links and directly embeddeded) with settable filter, custom renaming and all other features you'd expect form download accelerator
Image Zoom 0.2.7 - zooming images (and only images) - i found it very needed for high-dpi displays, or where the OS-specific zoom-tool isn't enough.
MR Tech Local Install 5.3.2.3 - nice tool for managing extensions - can make any older extension compatible on one click (simple change of required firefox version), also can generate installed extension list like this one you're reading now, either in text, HTML or BBcode
Remove It Permanently 1.0.6.3 - more useful version of NukeIt - shows you what content is actually being removed in red outline, can remove parent widget of what you're hovering over, or 'all similar items', on per-page,per-domain,per-website basis;useful for pages heavily infested with ads
Tiny Menu 1.4.2 - the whole menu is compacted to one button 'Menu' which you can drag on your address toolbar (it's actually the other way round), saving needed screen space
Unread Tabs 0.3 - shows opened-but-yet-unread tabs with Italics
And as everyone knows, that is good theory, but falls completely short when it comes to teenagers. We are talking about kids which already spent (or better said they parents spent) lots of money for their xbox, and _much_ more for the tons of games. When they'll be faced with offer like this, they probably say something along 'hey, he's spending all day playing games, and now for the price of one, he could do something really productive, or at least get somewhat creative ? why not!' - i definitely remember my parents were like this when i've got my atari 800.
Oh, and plus the fact that i've never seen so much 14yo whelps in my life as i've seen in one week trying out one of the most expensive MMROPGs.
Don't give AMD too much credit though - there was also Socket 940 for server market, and now it will be Socket AM2 for desktop, Socket F for servers and Socket S1 for mobile.
Still the same hopeless page ranking. For example searching for spyware gets the same spaming site on the first 8(!) results, while the most popular removers - spybot and ad-aware are nowhere to be found. Compare with Google or Yahoo. Working on GUI and look'n'feel is good for users, but when the underlying application sucks, there is really no help.
Less of the elitism please. While it's very simple to confirm that they are sending malformed headers, that's not to say that the headers are the origin of the problem.
And in fact it is not even that simple to confirm that. Goddady is blaming their ISP's servers and looking at the communication posted here i'd believe them. I could write a book about how much "fun" i had with transparent hardware proxy that my ISP installed and forgot to notify me about.
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GRID PC is a really nice game but it's one of the games which were abandoned the moment they went gold. Very little support was given, the developer and publisher kept promising patches and fixes that they never delivered, so it comes as no surprise that multiplayer servers had such short lifespan, actually it's 2 years more than i would give it. And it isn't really big loss, because the multiplayer was broken from start, it was really painful to navigate through the menu system to connect to a server, and when you did, often the request would just time out and you'd be thrown at the beggining of the whole process. Ranked servers sometimes counted your progress, sometimes not, no idea why. On servers with enabled player collisions, half of the people would try to grief by driving in opposite way, trying to crash other players, on servers with collisions off cheating was widespread, in every race there was always someone using speed hacks where you would see the cars simply teleporting long distances forward. There was very little point to multiplayer, so everybody playing it pretty much just stick with the singleplayer mode which was really nice.
Here's a review showing the whole run through PC demo, including intro http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6MjzgTZriw
I bet the replacement will be 2-way switch with labels "Terror" and "More Terror" glued shut in the latter position.
Try Moonlight.
When stable Moonlight 1.0 was released as stable version about a year ago i tried it, only to be greeted by 'Silverlight 2.0 required, won't work with 1.0' on most non-demo pages.
This christmas someone posted me a photosynth link, i saw that Moonlight finally reached 2.0 stable release, so i again tried it, only to be greeted with 'Silverlight 3.0 required, won't work on 2.0' on photosynth and most other pages. Maybe someday in future there will be at least few day window when the silverlight app requirements match the available moonlight version, but it's not today.
It is, unfortunately, frustrating to write performant GL these days. While we would like to think that you can do what you want in GL, and the driver will magically make it go fast, the fact remains that some ways of drawing are slow and some are fast. Games are written for specific cards, and drivers get app-specific code. It's a mess, but a necessary mess.
Yes, but that is true for any bleeding-edge performance programming. It is true for Direct3D drivers, it is also true for general x86 programming - i remember having to fine-tune core loop of one app for specific CPUs distincted only by L2/L3 cache sizes - cache misses kill performance better than anything else.
The other problem is that the majority of available hardware and drivers don't support GL 3.x. No open-source driver does, and in fact most Intel, Radeon, and nVidia hardware already in use can only do GL 2.x.
The Red Book is doing what it should. It's providing a transitional viewpoint for writing apps that will work with GL 1.5-2.1 stacks, discussing both the fixed-function and shaderful pipelines. It talks about the maths needed to make things happen, and shows both the old and new ways of accelerating those maths on hardware.
The major addition of GL 3.x series is *deprecating* stuff (and streamlining and integrating some stuff that was already available through extensions). You don't need the deprecated stuff for transition, as GL 2.1 will give you everything you need to drop the fixed function entirely, and code that you write against 2.1 with deprecation in mind will work under 3.0 profiles without problems. Seriously it's time to force change to fully programmable API as the hardware don't have any fixed function for several years now. Every time you use fixed function the drivers will just compile custom shader, and that is something you (or high-level library) can do as well, without the need to complicate the drivers.
Remember back in the 90s when everyone was jizzing in their pants about Bruce Sterling and Neal Stephenson's writing, dreaming of actually implementing the ideas therein? Data havens, crypto-anarchism, impregnable anonymity, hackers making a decent living by a life of crime, and so forth?
Well, now the future is here. Kind of sucks, doesn't it? Careful what you wish for, you just might get it.
In those cyberpunk visions the world, political and judicals systems are tightly controlled by corrupt mega-corporations and the net is anything but open. The very act of accessing the network or tampering with it may land you in prison, criticizing the rulers means you're dead and so on. Every piece of hardware is registered, so if you want to get any hacking done you have to turn in to black market (for stuff) and criminals (to get money for stuff), out of pure necessity. (it's the classical tale of occupied country's resistance movement working together with organized crime, right?)
Compare that to the reality we got: cheap ubiquitous internet, cheap ubiquitous hardware to access it, the net is *by default* free and open, and all attempts to any large-scale censoring has failed miserably. Anonymity is just one unsecured wifi hotspot away on every corner (so you don't need to pay a hacker to get you online), and any attempts at uncovering corruption and truth are met with public support. So the traditional heroes of cyberpunk stories can operate publicly or semi-publicly (think wikileaks), the worst that can happen to them is someone pulling the DMCA on the copied/leaked documents, which rarely results even in fines, much less prison time. The hackers are working on cool engineering projects instead of breaking into companies networks, and the criminals are, well, criminals - since they are no longer needed for the goals of the freedom fighters, all they do is disrupt the free information exchange (ddosing sites for greed, decreasing signal-to-noise ratio by spamming the hell out of everyone etc.), and so are frowned upon even by the neo-anarchists.
The advantage with a bus is that its much easier to add new stops and routes. You only have to build up the charging station, whereas with a trolley, one has to tear up the road, put in tracks, and build stations.
Maybe trolleybus then?
This is, I think, a general reaction from a lot of people, but it doesn't really line up with the history of the prize. In 1987, for example the prize was awarded to Óscar Arias, a Costa Rican president, for making some strong gestures that he would stop the Nicaraguan war that had been raging for a decade, fueled by the United States. This raised Arias' profile, and gave him the political capital to broker a peace deal in 1988.
Yes, i too hope this prize will help raise Barrack Obama from the relative unpopularity of being president of the USA and supreme commander of world's largest and most technologically sophisticated armed forces. This should give him worldwide fame and may even ignite 'Obamamania', giving him opportunity to meet world leaders and broke deals with them. In addition the prize include a hefty cheque, which no doubt can help to fund his bold reform plans to save world from yet another economic crisis.
One of the problems with LCDs is that even if you find one that has truly good parameters and shines in reviews, you have no guarantee that the monitor you buy will perform at any similar level, due to manufacturers selling different revisions with different panels under the same name. Like the infamous Samsung 226BW.
In related news, D&D is also getting new class, the Witchaloks, designed by the Penny Arcade crew.
Here is image of the flash cd utility crashed (fortunately my drive survived).
Here is seagate page with affected models list and links to firmware downloads (if it wasn't posted by 1000 people already)
Since the scientist did the (almost) creating here, what questions would this raise?
The biggest question of all ages: Given that God created all life as we know it, and that this scientist also created life, would you like a toasted tea-cake?
This has however everything to with ATI and nothing really with OpenGL, as it is the hardware manufacturer who ultimately decides which capabilities will they expose in the drivers. ATI's OpenGL drivers was *always* bad, buggy, and badly performing (go on, search for some old benchmarks, you will see that ATI cards that easily outperform their NVidia counterparts in DirectX falls heavily behind when it comes to OpenGL apps and games).
The developers' expectations here was that if OpenGL 3.0 will include all the newest stuff in core spec, ATI (and Intel and others) will be forced to support them (so they can pass the certification and be able to call their products compliant), however the same expectation for improved OpenGL drivers was there when ATI was bought by AMD, and that too never really materialized. ATI simply doesn't care enough about OpenGL, their main focus was always DirectX, and i don't see that changing in nearby future.
As for OpenGL 3.0, the rage is that Khronos group promised us moisty delicious cake (whole new API, yay!), but after long long wait delivered only small biscuit. I didn't expect much so i'm not disappointed and overall the spec is good step (deprecation model for lots of old stuff, FBO finally promoted to core, direct access extension), but just like KDE 4.0, it is only first step, and it *really* depends on where it will go from now.
One of the problems i have after going from FF2 to FF3beta on linux is that some specific pages (eg. http://www.pragprog.com/titles/ruby/programming-ruby) takes ages to render, hogging all CPU, and again when you switch to other tab and back (or simply overdraw the FF window). Now this may as well be problem in the Xorg or nvidia drivers, but other browsers and FF2 seems unaffected.
Another problem is the occasional flash freezing on 64bit, but that is problem of the flash plugin itself, not FF.
You do realize that crash happened during manual docking trial ? i.e. that Progress dockings were always automatic, but they wanted to train emergency manual docking procedure and failure was indeed human factor ? (Murphy's laws in action i'd say).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttle-Mir_Program#Priroda.2C_fire_and_collision_.281996.E2.80.931997.29
Foale's Increment proceeded fairly normally until June 25, when during the second test of the Progress manual docking system, TORU, the resupply ship collided with solar arrays on the Spektr module and crashed into the module's outer shell, holing the module and causing a depressurisation of the station, the first ever on-orbit depressurisation in the history of spaceflight. Only quick actions on the part of the crew, cutting cables leading to the module and closing Spektr's hatch, prevented the crew abandoning the station in their Soyuz lifeboat.
I agree, i've seen the term abused throughout both business and open-source scene alike. My favourite is Dovecot which managed to get 32 release candidates throughout whole year, completely changing module/plugin API and major data structures somewhere inbetween. Well at least they followed the release cycle - just week ago one salesman told me that his company's product successfully progressed from gamma to beta stadium.
Congress passes a law to protect US citizens from unscrupulous gambling operations that are not subject to the same kind of regulations that Casinos in the U.S. must meet
How is this so ? As you say, this is US law and so applies only to US companies, which are *already* subject to these regulations and standards. Last time i checked internet was full of non-US gambling sites, and this law doesn't do a shit to protect US citizens from any of them (unless such site operators are stupid enough to put their feet on US soil).
Because both OS and browser market are in state of huge vendor lock-in. Any small change in there is indication of bigger things to come. But the main thing is interoperability. Users doesn't care about what OS or browser they're using (unless it sucks horribly), all they care is if they can run their apps or display their favourite internet pages. My bank's page was IE-only until last year and they introduced firefox-compatible site only after major news ran story about firefox getting 10% browser market share.
MP3 player market however is different thing. You don't run apps on your player (yet), there is no connection with other devices (well not counting zune's wifi 'sharing'), so there is no vendor lock-in. If the player i have has 0.001% or 99% marketshare i can't care less, it doesn't affect me, or my ability to use it. The important thing is whether i can transfer my music to it, and whether it can play the formats. Yes, this may change with DRM in the future, but for now, there is no lock-in.
Yes, this has been fixed for some time - for example on my linux machine surfing to page with java applet freezes the whole browser for seconds, leaving the applet enough time to load all the stuff, without the danger of me surfing away. It has also the added benefit of me remembering the name of your page, even saying it aloud, with lots of
Seriously though, competition is always welcome, although JavaFX seems to be aimed more at embedded/mobile devices (where java has its foothold, and flash or ajax are rarely seen).
And whether you do or don't use english as primary language, how much of _text_ are you really typing ? The world of IDEs is largery dominated by auto-completion related features and every professional coder i know uses them heavily. Even when i'm writing in self-descriptive languages as ruby, i'm using way more special characters and numbers (and tabulator for autocompletion) than the alphabet. QWERTY as well as DVORAK has most of them accesible only by little finger - not good. It's the one reason i'll probably never learn the proper touchtyping.
:) ). Thats not to say that there aren't any improvement - there is, if you're writing long english texts, but as i said, i don't think most of coders will fall into this category.
I'd say that most people that will go through the lengthy process of learning and trying DVORAK will stay with it not because it's substantially better, but because it's basically the same, and they don't want to repeat the process to go back to QWERTY. (Plus, there's the placebo factor and the uber-geekiness feeling of using input method that is totally inaccessible to commoners
DownThemAll! 0.9.9.7 - can download all files from page (both links and directly embeddeded) with settable filter, custom renaming and all other features you'd expect form download accelerator
Image Zoom 0.2.7 - zooming images (and only images) - i found it very needed for high-dpi displays, or where the OS-specific zoom-tool isn't enough.
MR Tech Local Install 5.3.2.3 - nice tool for managing extensions - can make any older extension compatible on one click (simple change of required firefox version), also can generate installed extension list like this one you're reading now, either in text, HTML or BBcode
Remove It Permanently 1.0.6.3 - more useful version of NukeIt - shows you what content is actually being removed in red outline, can remove parent widget of what you're hovering over, or 'all similar items', on per-page,per-domain,per-website basis;useful for pages heavily infested with ads
Tiny Menu 1.4.2 - the whole menu is compacted to one button 'Menu' which you can drag on your address toolbar (it's actually the other way round), saving needed screen space
Unread Tabs 0.3 - shows opened-but-yet-unread tabs with Italics
And as everyone knows, that is good theory, but falls completely short when it comes to teenagers. We are talking about kids which already spent (or better said they parents spent) lots of money for their xbox, and _much_ more for the tons of games. When they'll be faced with offer like this, they probably say something along 'hey, he's spending all day playing games, and now for the price of one, he could do something really productive, or at least get somewhat creative ? why not!' - i definitely remember my parents were like this when i've got my atari 800.
Oh, and plus the fact that i've never seen so much 14yo whelps in my life as i've seen in one week trying out one of the most expensive MMROPGs.
Don't give AMD too much credit though - there was also Socket 940 for server market, and now it will be Socket AM2 for desktop, Socket F for servers and Socket S1 for mobile.
Still the same hopeless page ranking. For example searching for spyware gets the same spaming site on the first 8(!) results, while the most popular removers - spybot and ad-aware are nowhere to be found. Compare with Google or Yahoo. Working on GUI and look'n'feel is good for users, but when the underlying application sucks, there is really no help.
Less of the elitism please. While it's very simple to confirm that they are sending malformed headers, that's not to say that the headers are the origin of the problem.
And in fact it is not even that simple to confirm that. Goddady is blaming their ISP's servers and looking at the communication posted here i'd believe them. I could write a book about how much "fun" i had with transparent hardware proxy that my ISP installed and forgot to notify me about.