Here here. I gave up on firefox in the 3.0 days simply due to the UI lag that chrome just did not have. I too also ran firefox since it was called phoenix and now run both IE9 and safari (I have PCs and Macs). If i need to use a browser on Linux or BSD, i use chromium.
I'm sick of the lack of focus on bugs, and obsession with the shiny. A particular bug to do with proxy auto detect via DHCP causes problems for me at work with users who use firefox. Reported it to chrome, bug was fixed in a few months. Its been open in firefox since 2006.
It doesn't matter. Firefox updated and broke his shit. Therefore, it is firefox's "fault". If they don't want to be responsible for this, then quit the brain damaged 6 weekly auto update cycle that breaks people's shit, and go back to making releases that break things MAJOR updates that people need to manually upgrade to, complete with change logs that can be read before deciding to upgrade.
No other browser auto updates and breaks people's stuff like firefox does.
And this is why i use safari, on both PC and Mac. It is fast enough. it is native on the mac. It has reader view. it has the reading list. its not made by google, who i don't trust. And as far as user-facing features and add-ons go, i have had zero issues with compatibility in the past 4 years, except for an old version of adblock.
Tabs work in safari too. Also, in safari you can go back through your history and see page previews, rather than attempting to remember the site name or URL you were at.
Safari also has reader view which gets rid of all the sidebar ads, need to click from page to page, etc.
As far as i'm concerned, using firefox for research instead of safari is a pain in the arse. But, if you're a masochist, go for it.
... and no one cares. ZFS development has moved to FreeBSD. DTrace development has likewise moved on from Oracle, and again i suspect either being focused on Illumos or FreeBSD.
Unless you've got SPARC hardware and an oracle software stack, i suspect very few people are going to be excited by this at all.
Whether it is by your definition or not, it works the same as far as desktop use goes. Care to cite what security enhancements have been left out that matter for desktop use (which is what we're talking about here)?
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Oh, and as to unmanned drones - either they will only be able to strike pre-planned targets, or you will need some sort of comms link to them. Which means RF. Which can be detected, and jammed. So no, i don't think we're going to get rid of manned aircraft any time soon, at least not until AI is effective enough, and the politics allow us to rely soley on AI to make yes/no decisions regarding military action on the fly.
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If you have a stealth aircraft to take out their AWACS and ground radar infrastructure, then they can build/launch as many fighters as they like - their ability to intercept will be severely crippled as they will get minimal warning as to where you are.
You can have all the aircraft you like - if you don't where where to send them then they're just a liability, burning resources (fuel, man hours to service and repair, spare parts transport, etc) flying around on CAP missions in the hope of catching a glimpse of something by being in the right place at the right time.
And as far as energy weapons go - thats currently classified, but I don't believe it is a laser. I'm of the impression that it is something to do with focusing all the power in the AESA radar set it has into a directed beam weapon to fry electronics/jam radar/etc.
... and i say that as a current freebsd user, who has dealt with it on the desktop on a fairly regular basis up to 7.1.
The benefits you get from it are of limited importance to a desktop user, and if i need to test something on BSD before deploying it to servers, its small enough to run in a VM under Windows or OS X in any case. The drawbacks (3d hardware support, commercial software support, etc) outweigh the benefits for a desktop user. Most desktops are turning into laptops these days also, and this is not a focus of freebsd development.
If you want freebsd on the desktop with support for things like flash, hardware support, etc what you probably really want, is to let go of your bias and just get a mac.
This is what I did, and couldn't be happier. Most things "just work". If i want the unix shell, it is there. If i want GCC (or clang), it is there. Plus there is neat stuff like applescript and automator to boot.
Unfortunately, some people think that one OS should be capable of fulfilling all tasks, and unfortunately (or fortunately) that just isn't the case. But when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail....
Figure out what apps you want to run, determine what operating systems support those apps, and make your choice. For me, that works out to be FreeBSD for internet facing devices, Windows 2008R2 for stuff at work, and OS X at home. Yes, you can make choices outside of that and make it work, but the number of IT staff who are savvy enough to make things work, and support them when you go against the grain are a lot fewer. And personally i like the ability to take a holiday if i want and leave work behind to someone else.
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In a cold war when one participant has the reserve, fiat currency and can print their way out of any debt they incur, there can only be one "winner". However the USA is paying for those debts now, whilst the USSR fell apart and has recovered already.
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You're pretty misinformed:
harms are all well and good against ground targets, but they're no good against fighters and particularly, AWACS who can vector swarms of fighters to you
a number of the F35 systems are "classified". amongst them being directed energy weapons, 360 degree situational awareness via "sensor fusion", etc. on paper it isn't a rocket ship, but it doesn't need to be
the f22 doesn't have energy weapons. it is not built to land on carriers, does not have the level of situational awareness, and is not built for ground attack
Compared to current fighters, the F35 is no slouch. Couple that with the inevitable engine upgrades to improve power:weight, and I suspect it will hold its own in a similar manner to the F16 today.
Yes, the F22 in ground attack configuration may be a theoretically superior aircraft. But it hasn't been built and was never built for carrier use, energy weapons, etc.
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I've seen A-10s with frankly insane levels of damage that come home, and when you are ground pounding that is what you are gonna need if you are expecting anything worse than goat herders.
Does the US fight anyone worse than goat herders? Last couple of decades would indicate "no"....
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Not a lot of countries can afford to build pure air to air fighters. The US can.
Actually, one could argue the point that you can't afford shit lately, as you're broke due to decades of economic mis-management, going back to 2001 and prior. The only difference now is that the bean counters have run out of accounting tricks to hide the extent of the problem.
Just on this, our md dropped his iPhone 3G into a basin of water. It died.... For a few days until it dried out. Handed it out to one of oh accountants and it worked fine for another 12 months until he upgraded to a 4.
Android is not at fault here. It is the companies using cheap knock off parts to build cheap and badly made phones that look like similar to stuff that works. This is endemic in every industry these days. If you want hardware that is fairly well made you need to pay money for it.
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I'm sick of the lack of focus on bugs, and obsession with the shiny. A particular bug to do with proxy auto detect via DHCP causes problems for me at work with users who use firefox. Reported it to chrome, bug was fixed in a few months. Its been open in firefox since 2006.
IE has worked with DHCP WPAD since at least IE3.0
I don't need bullshit like that in my browser.
It doesn't matter. Firefox updated and broke his shit. Therefore, it is firefox's "fault". If they don't want to be responsible for this, then quit the brain damaged 6 weekly auto update cycle that breaks people's shit, and go back to making releases that break things MAJOR updates that people need to manually upgrade to, complete with change logs that can be read before deciding to upgrade.
No other browser auto updates and breaks people's stuff like firefox does.
And this is why i use safari, on both PC and Mac. It is fast enough. it is native on the mac. It has reader view. it has the reading list. its not made by google, who i don't trust. And as far as user-facing features and add-ons go, i have had zero issues with compatibility in the past 4 years, except for an old version of adblock.
The problem is when you benchmark them both, you affect the outcome.
modded funny, but it matches exactly what i've done since the bullshit with firefox 4. and i too was a user since phoenix 0.x.
Tabs work in safari too. Also, in safari you can go back through your history and see page previews, rather than attempting to remember the site name or URL you were at.
Safari also has reader view which gets rid of all the sidebar ads, need to click from page to page, etc.
As far as i'm concerned, using firefox for research instead of safari is a pain in the arse. But, if you're a masochist, go for it.
.. has anyone used this new version 4.9 yet?
In the past decade, my corporate email ssytem has had maybe 2 major outages (and by major, i mean >4 hrs).
Given that RIM do this shit for a living as their core business (we're a mining company, not a mail provider), they should be better than this.
... is google evil yet?
Well duh, maybe if the GPL wasn't hostile to NIH software, it would be in the kernel.
Unless you've got SPARC hardware and an oracle software stack, i suspect very few people are going to be excited by this at all.
after a few years, all day to day office jobs get boring. this is why they pay you to do them.
Whether it is by your definition or not, it works the same as far as desktop use goes. Care to cite what security enhancements have been left out that matter for desktop use (which is what we're talking about here)?
Oh, and as to unmanned drones - either they will only be able to strike pre-planned targets, or you will need some sort of comms link to them. Which means RF. Which can be detected, and jammed. So no, i don't think we're going to get rid of manned aircraft any time soon, at least not until AI is effective enough, and the politics allow us to rely soley on AI to make yes/no decisions regarding military action on the fly.
If you have a stealth aircraft to take out their AWACS and ground radar infrastructure, then they can build/launch as many fighters as they like - their ability to intercept will be severely crippled as they will get minimal warning as to where you are.
You can have all the aircraft you like - if you don't where where to send them then they're just a liability, burning resources (fuel, man hours to service and repair, spare parts transport, etc) flying around on CAP missions in the hope of catching a glimpse of something by being in the right place at the right time.
And as far as energy weapons go - thats currently classified, but I don't believe it is a laser. I'm of the impression that it is something to do with focusing all the power in the AESA radar set it has into a directed beam weapon to fry electronics/jam radar/etc.
The benefits you get from it are of limited importance to a desktop user, and if i need to test something on BSD before deploying it to servers, its small enough to run in a VM under Windows or OS X in any case. The drawbacks (3d hardware support, commercial software support, etc) outweigh the benefits for a desktop user. Most desktops are turning into laptops these days also, and this is not a focus of freebsd development.
If you want freebsd on the desktop with support for things like flash, hardware support, etc what you probably really want, is to let go of your bias and just get a mac.
This is what I did, and couldn't be happier. Most things "just work". If i want the unix shell, it is there. If i want GCC (or clang), it is there. Plus there is neat stuff like applescript and automator to boot.
Unfortunately, some people think that one OS should be capable of fulfilling all tasks, and unfortunately (or fortunately) that just isn't the case. But when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail....
Figure out what apps you want to run, determine what operating systems support those apps, and make your choice. For me, that works out to be FreeBSD for internet facing devices, Windows 2008R2 for stuff at work, and OS X at home. Yes, you can make choices outside of that and make it work, but the number of IT staff who are savvy enough to make things work, and support them when you go against the grain are a lot fewer. And personally i like the ability to take a holiday if i want and leave work behind to someone else.
In a cold war when one participant has the reserve, fiat currency and can print their way out of any debt they incur, there can only be one "winner". However the USA is paying for those debts now, whilst the USSR fell apart and has recovered already.
You're pretty misinformed:
Compared to current fighters, the F35 is no slouch. Couple that with the inevitable engine upgrades to improve power:weight, and I suspect it will hold its own in a similar manner to the F16 today.
Yes, the F22 in ground attack configuration may be a theoretically superior aircraft. But it hasn't been built and was never built for carrier use, energy weapons, etc.
Does the US fight anyone worse than goat herders? Last couple of decades would indicate "no"....
Actually, one could argue the point that you can't afford shit lately, as you're broke due to decades of economic mis-management, going back to 2001 and prior. The only difference now is that the bean counters have run out of accounting tricks to hide the extent of the problem.
The 'antenna debacle' was hugely overblown. We run a fleet of iPhones and I had zero complaints of reception issues with the 4.
Since when is android libre?
Maybe because they still like the phone and don't want to send it away and not have it while it still works? Wonder why that could be.
Just on this, our md dropped his iPhone 3G into a basin of water. It died.... For a few days until it dried out. Handed it out to one of oh accountants and it worked fine for another 12 months until he upgraded to a 4.
Android is not at fault here. It is the companies using cheap knock off parts to build cheap and badly made phones that look like similar to stuff that works. This is endemic in every industry these days. If you want hardware that is fairly well made you need to pay money for it.