While doing that, found a few bugs (not critical but def. needing some attention) in cookie and site data handling. Reported these through Chrome bug reporting site and was positively surprised by developers actually reading and responding (and, hopefully, fixing them soon). By comparison, never got Firefox developers to fix anything.
Whoa. You mean they didn't tell you it's all your fault, you don't know what you're doing, and it doesn't matter because it'll all be fixed after the next Great Scheme is implemented?
I quit filing mozilla bugs a long time ago.
(My favorite was the guy defending the unix installer's right to delete everything in the installation directory without warning... notably they eventually dropped that installer.)
Yes, I use Pale Moon a lot, too. I think the people who are really impressed with how fast Quantum is haven't been using anything else recently-- everything was faster than Austrailus, because it was a piece of garbage, and the UI ideas they inflicted on us around then were stupid, and the bold New Ideas it was connected to all flopped (remember the mozilla version of an app store? No one else does, either).
To answer the OP's question: I didn't "switch" because I don't just use one thing. I'm posting this with a Firefox Nightly (I think they call this 59 already, dunno how they figure), and it's OK but I need to jump through some hoops still to get a replacement for "It's All Text" working, and while the firefox shills-- I mean enthusiasts this is a minor annoyance, it's still an annoyance.
Yes, that was the sort of thing I was wondering about. ALl of a sudden, now, they're worried about privacy? They're okay with email being spyed on, they carry tracking devices everywhere they go, they don't blink at NSA backdoors into the phone system... but all of a sudden, a microphone "in my home!", that crosses a psychological barrier for them.
Google is one of few positive examples in this space. They collect data about you, they extract value from it, yet they keep it private from the advertisers and publishers involved in the transaction, never sell it to anyone like LexisNexis or the DMV,...
And if the NSA shows up with a secret, warrentless request, they proudly say "no", doing jail time if necessary.
No one can get information out of you if you don't keep it.
That's mozilla.org for you. Fastest finger pointers on the net.
(By the way, you know that story recently where Linus Torvalds was going ape-shit because someone broke third-party code and claimed it wasn't their problem to fix it? Ha, what a funny guy. Too bad he doesn't run a *real* software project, right?)
Blame the lazy add-on developers who haven't upgraded their
add-ons.
Let me enlighten you about a secret of software projects: if you
want to be taken seriously as a platform for third-party
developers, breakage-on-upgrade is never acceptable. And
accusing them of being lazy is an excellent way of driving them
away.
Alternatively, use an ESR release.
Which staves off the problem only temporarily. I would suggest
the waterfox fork, or possibly palemoon.
No, every article needs the biggest possible stock picture you
can find. How would I identify news about Trump without another
extreme closeup of his face making one of his characteristically intelligent
expressions?
Water ice has been found near the poles, there's no particular
reason there couldn't be more around buried deep: this is
speculation but not stupid speculation.
Otherwise known as mentioning something they didn't want to
hear.
I've seen Chomsky accused of "whataboutery" because he thinks US
allies should be held to the same standard as US official enemies.
But you no doubt are perfectly in tune with reddit's zeitgeist
and are far better suited to comment the discussions I was involved with
than I am. How dare I question the "wisdom of the crowds".
Also, "his wife" was the co-founder who handled legal aspects of the business. If you want to tell the story to make it sound like Gary Kildall's fault for being frivolous, then you say "his wife".
And the IBM folks felt so insulted that they'd refused to even schedule a second meeting? And then went with a different outfit that had never written an OS?
Your link to that source code analysis is interesting, it contradicts some other info I've seen-- as I remembered it the piracy had been established in court because of traces left in the code. (It's not clear to me that the DOS 1.1 source they looked at is far enough upstream... the version I've heard is that MS had to scrub the code at some point.)
I've heard that story too, if you dig into it further I think
you'll find none of these stories really hold up. There's a
reason I called it a mystery.
My usual line is something like "It was a new low for a
Democratic candidate when the Hillary campaign hired Brock
to release Brock-puppets on-line to demonize Bernie supporters."
The first few times that was hit I figured it was just Hillary
supporters. Now I'm wondering if the Brock puppets have really
all gone home.
But assuming good faith and intelligent moderation over at
reddit... that really would be moronic.
Windows was (and by my not so humble opinion, still is) a horrible GUI.
I'm not a fan of the Windows GUI, or GUIs in general, but your
un-humble opinion looks like Mac-fanboyism run rampant. Just as
an example, the most notable thing about the Mac GUI in that era
was when you switched between apps there was often very little
visual feedback that you'd done something-- the menu bar across
the top of the screen would mutate slighly. Is that supposed to
be design genius?
The Windows style of putting the menu bar on the app window was
often derided by Mac-fans as being less mouse-friendly (you can
over-shoot the menu bar with the mouse, whereas when it's up
againt the top of the screen that's not possible)-- but that's an
even better argument for not using a mouse, with keyboard
alternates you can just do it without checking for over/under
shoot... and that era of Windows had pretty good keyboard
alternates for everything (they didn't start to lose their way on
this until Windows 95, with a File-Open dialog that could take
ten minutes of tabbing/backtabbing to use without a mouse).
Yeah, I call this shipping "product placebos". Bought a mop
recently-- name brand and I've used their products before-- from a
housewares chain: it clearly didn't work and couldn't possibly
work (the handle was two snap together pieces that wouldn't stay
together after even a single use).
We're way beyond planned obsolesce into shipping things that are
broken as designed.
You hear stories like this all-too-frequently. Start-up
decides they need Serious Management, hires a guy from a famous
east coast company, then the guy turns out to be interested in using the
company as a stock scam-- do the IPO, cash-in, and let it crash.
It's almost as though there was some flaw with
capitalism-as-we-know-it.
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Whoa. You mean they didn't tell you it's all your fault, you don't know what you're doing, and it doesn't matter because it'll all be fixed after the next Great Scheme is implemented?
I quit filing mozilla bugs a long time ago.
(My favorite was the guy defending the unix installer's right to delete everything in the installation directory without warning... notably they eventually dropped that installer.)
Yes, I use Pale Moon a lot, too. I think the people who are really impressed with how fast Quantum is haven't been using anything else recently-- everything was faster than Austrailus, because it was a piece of garbage, and the UI ideas they inflicted on us around then were stupid, and the bold New Ideas it was connected to all flopped (remember the mozilla version of an app store? No one else does, either).
To answer the OP's question: I didn't "switch" because I don't just use one thing. I'm posting this with a Firefox Nightly (I think they call this 59 already, dunno how they figure), and it's OK but I need to jump through some hoops still to get a replacement for "It's All Text" working, and while the firefox shills-- I mean enthusiasts this is a minor annoyance, it's still an annoyance.
Yes, that was the sort of thing I was wondering about. ALl of a sudden, now, they're worried about privacy? They're okay with email being spyed on, they carry tracking devices everywhere they go, they don't blink at NSA backdoors into the phone system... but all of a sudden, a microphone "in my home!", that crosses a psychological barrier for them.
And if the NSA shows up with a secret, warrentless request, they proudly say "no", doing jail time if necessary.
No one can get information out of you if you don't keep it.
That's mozilla.org for you. Fastest finger pointers on the net.
(By the way, you know that story recently where Linus Torvalds was going ape-shit because someone broke third-party code and claimed it wasn't their problem to fix it? Ha, what a funny guy. Too bad he doesn't run a *real* software project, right?)
Provide one single example where a google web search does better than duckduckgo.
Yup. Is there an equivalent for "It's All Text" yet?
It sure doesn't help.
Let me enlighten you about a secret of software projects: if you want to be taken seriously as a platform for third-party developers, breakage-on-upgrade is never acceptable. And accusing them of being lazy is an excellent way of driving them away.
Which staves off the problem only temporarily. I would suggest the waterfox fork, or possibly palemoon.
You first.
No, every article needs the biggest possible stock picture you can find. How would I identify news about Trump without another extreme closeup of his face making one of his characteristically intelligent expressions?
Funny, the manga Skip Beat has an actress working a job like this on the side, and I thought it was just a made-up occupation.
(Of course, it'd be even funnier if the idea for the business came from reading Skip Beat.)
Um... I don't participate willingly, but I'd be surprised if facebook has no information about me. People keep posting pictures of me, for example.
What I'd actually like to hear about are alternate designs that could be used to create a net without vulnerability to denial-of-service.
Interesting analysis, except that the anti-perl snear campaign was in full-force long before Ruby on Rails became the latest fad.
It just goes to show, some people don't know what they're talking about, but they do know what to say.
Water ice has been found near the poles, there's no particular reason there couldn't be more around buried deep: this is speculation but not stupid speculation.
You fill the cave with air, and start a lunar tourism business, and rent people wings so they can fly around in it...
(Isn't anyone familiar with the classics any more?)
But of course *some* people would rather stay in New Jersey and play video games in the basement.
Otherwise known as mentioning something they didn't want to hear.
I've seen Chomsky accused of "whataboutery" because he thinks US allies should be held to the same standard as US official enemies.
But you no doubt are perfectly in tune with reddit's zeitgeist and are far better suited to comment the discussions I was involved with than I am. How dare I question the "wisdom of the crowds".
Well, I can't find any references to a court case that established QDOS piracy, so that could be one where my memory fails.
This write-up from 2004 looks pretty good. It's a really murky subject: https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
Also, "his wife" was the co-founder who handled legal aspects of the business. If you want to tell the story to make it sound like Gary Kildall's fault for being frivolous, then you say "his wife".
And the IBM folks felt so insulted that they'd refused to even schedule a second meeting? And then went with a different outfit that had never written an OS?
Your link to that source code analysis is interesting, it contradicts some other info I've seen-- as I remembered it the piracy had been established in court because of traces left in the code. (It's not clear to me that the DOS 1.1 source they looked at is far enough upstream... the version I've heard is that MS had to scrub the code at some point.)
I've heard that story too, if you dig into it further I think you'll find none of these stories really hold up. There's a reason I called it a mystery.
My usual line is something like "It was a new low for a Democratic candidate when the Hillary campaign hired Brock to release Brock-puppets on-line to demonize Bernie supporters."
The first few times that was hit I figured it was just Hillary supporters. Now I'm wondering if the Brock puppets have really all gone home.
But assuming good faith and intelligent moderation over at reddit... that really would be moronic.
I'm not a fan of the Windows GUI, or GUIs in general, but your un-humble opinion looks like Mac-fanboyism run rampant. Just as an example, the most notable thing about the Mac GUI in that era was when you switched between apps there was often very little visual feedback that you'd done something-- the menu bar across the top of the screen would mutate slighly. Is that supposed to be design genius?
The Windows style of putting the menu bar on the app window was often derided by Mac-fans as being less mouse-friendly (you can over-shoot the menu bar with the mouse, whereas when it's up againt the top of the screen that's not possible)-- but that's an even better argument for not using a mouse, with keyboard alternates you can just do it without checking for over/under shoot... and that era of Windows had pretty good keyboard alternates for everything (they didn't start to lose their way on this until Windows 95, with a File-Open dialog that could take ten minutes of tabbing/backtabbing to use without a mouse).
Yeah, I call this shipping "product placebos". Bought a mop recently-- name brand and I've used their products before-- from a housewares chain: it clearly didn't work and couldn't possibly work (the handle was two snap together pieces that wouldn't stay together after even a single use).
We're way beyond planned obsolesce into shipping things that are broken as designed.
You hear stories like this all-too-frequently. Start-up decides they need Serious Management, hires a guy from a famous east coast company, then the guy turns out to be interested in using the company as a stock scam-- do the IPO, cash-in, and let it crash.
It's almost as though there was some flaw with capitalism-as-we-know-it.