I do this on ubuntu, and it seems to work: firefox -no-remote --ProfileManager
It's useful for me because I like to use non-standard color
settings, but there are sites that are unusable if you don't let
them set their own colors. (It'd be nice if there were a better
solution, but switching profiles as necessary is what I've been
living with.)
How do you feel about the new GNU emacs package manager? I understand there was some concern that a package manager could act as an end-run around your goal to keep emacs a pure GPL project.
Actually, you can make a case that the kids don't really get issues like modularity, consistent APIs, and backwards compatibility.
But really, of course, the trouble is that it's hard to con older programmers into working at half-pay with a promise of equity in a facenorth game app company targeting the slyFad 9.0 platform.
And remember back when "natural gas" was considered a relatively clean power supply? Fracking has changed that one... cheap natural gas at the price of trashed water supplies, and there's a theory that it's a nasty source of global warming as well (methane itself is a powerful greenhouse gas: it doesn't take a lot of methane leakage to overwhelm any savings in CO2 emissions).
Atmospheric simulations showed that materials that were vented into the air during the explosions and fires, definitely got into the jet stream, and fell-out in the US, particularly in the pacific northwest. Particles were detected in New York.
This I can easily believe: at this point, we can detect angels farting on the head of a pin, and radioactive elements are one of the easiest things to detect.
Furthermore, the core from Unit 1 (and probably 2-3) is burning through bedrock, and will soon hit the water table -
This sounds like total bring-back-the-70s "china syndrome" nonsense.
Dangerous levels of radioactivity has been detected not only in primary exported foods, but also in processed foods made from things like rice-flour, starches, beer, and beef from Japan.
My first guess would be that this is also complete nonsense, and I'd like to see some sources before I believe anything like this, even with a liberal definition of "dangerous levels".
Anti-nuclear activists are a good reminder that Republicans aren't the world's only source of lies and distortion.
Well, I feel like I'm responding seriously to a post that was intended as satire, but in any case...
Yeah, it's often seemed to me that "Social Text" was beaten up on for the wrong reasons... falling for Sokal's prank wasn't in itself that serious a problem, they could've just said "Hey, this just goes to show that author intent really is irrelevant".
Instead they waffled: they could tell the paper had problems, but they ran it anyway, because they thought they'd found a "new ally in the sciences".
Admitting that you'd published garbage because of who wrote it, that's what indicates a real problem there.
I think there's something wrong with this version of Firefox. I just updated, and not a single one of my plugins was disabled because of incompatibility!
Well, the behavior that I'm seeing is every third time I power up my laptop, firefox keeps me waiting while it wants to phones home to check my "addons", and my preferred theme keeps getting automatically disabled, so I have to manually re-enable it and re-start firefox again. To their credit, they haven't *completely broken* the theme, which they used to do on every upgrade, but then, I used to be in control over when I upgraded... It is not clear to me that all this is Progress.
Second, many popular combinations are never tested.
Are you sure that that's really it? Or could it be that the plugins are never tested, period, let alone in combination with each other?
I'm thinking about the case of the perl ecosystem, where CPAN packages all have automated test suites, and in effect make up an extended set of tests for the perl core.
To my knowledge, there isn't a lot of work put in on testing different permutations of package installations, but perl is still way ahead of most other software projects in maintaining backwards compatibility.
The copyright scholar (and sometime Ars contributor) James Grimmelmann called one of Posner's recent opinions in a copyright case "astonishingly slipshod, even by Judge Posnerâ(TM)s relaxed standards."
And not just anyone. RIchard Posner is the most-cited appellate judge in the USA.
He's also a really problematic "public intellectual" who, for example, was strongly in favor of the Iraq war, and has launched a number of what look like politically motivated attacks, often rather empty ones with just enough complex detail to confuse the unwary.
He's incredibly influential, and most of all on topics relating to law and the economy. To give you an idea, he has almost single-handedly convinced the antitrust bar that there is no such thing as monopoly power,
And this actually sounds like a good case in point: he's a free market ideologue who appears out-of-touch with most of the rest of us would recognize as "reality".
It's nice to have this guy on "our side" for once, but that also makes me stop and wonder if we're on the right side.
"Like most environmentally friendly alternatives, it's not even close to ready for mainstream."
I sometimes wonder where electric vehicles got the reputation for being environmentally friendly. That electricity comes from somewhere, you know? If your power is generated by something as nasty as burning coal (as is about half of the power in the US), then you're really better off burning gasoline.
(On the other hand, if you've got regenerative breaking as part of the deal, then there's some hope you've got an improvement there...)
...if ever, that you punched someone in the face? Was it a bar fight?
I think you have Woz confused with Gary Kildall... (you know, the guy who's code got pirated by Bill Gates, in Gates first step toward world conquest).
Last year there were 20,000 surveyed users of NetMason and 9,000 of OpenMason. Today that number has dwindled to just 200 and 90, respectively.
But on the other hand, Mason 2 is out, and it's being actively maintained: Mason. I don't have usage stats for you, but I'd seriously consider using it on new web projects, possibly via the
Poet framework.
(You can be the first on the block to start the MVC-backlash. )
And/or ventilation systems that actually work (as opposed to ones that are *supposed* to work, as in all other buildings constructed after WWII).
Some bike parking would be nice.
Think about where the trash is supposed to go.
A roof that doesn't leak is a good idea, too: that means you keep it simple, and probably don't try to do stuff like install skylights. Flat roofs are an extremely bad idea, but you're going to use them anyway, so pointing that out was a waste of time.
how about electric engines, which is available NOW, and that will solve your little pollution problem with or without drafting each other
Actually, of course, electric cars don't solve pollution problems, they just transfer them to wherever the power plants are. If the power is relatively clean (e.g. nuclear) than this is a win, if the power is dirty, i.e. like the half of our power that's still generated by coal, you'd be better off burning gasoline.
I wish the delusion that electric==clean was only confined to slashdot trolls like this, but it's clear that it exists in the wider populace as well. The electric buses they use in San Francisco proudly display "Zero Emissions" decals...
"Oh but the home button on the right is a far more logical layout when you consider the importance of grouping by global functionality to keep similar things near their point of action -- " Just kidding.
The "Alt + Home" keyboard command will jump you straight to your home page, without mousing around.
I've started disliking the "firefox experience" since everything has become flashed up... a page with a flash window always steals the keyboard controls, so I can't, for example, kill it with a control W.
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And change... always hate change!
I hate change when I feel like it's forced on me.
(And of late it seems like everyone out there feels like it's their right to slip in UI changes on you whenever they feel like it...)
And many monster movies have been set there. Monsters! What are they thinking? Do you want monsters on your desktop?
(I don't need saracsm tags on this, do I?)
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I do this on ubuntu, and it seems to work:
firefox -no-remote --ProfileManager
It's useful for me because I like to use non-standard color settings, but there are sites that are unusable if you don't let them set their own colors. (It'd be nice if there were a better solution, but switching profiles as necessary is what I've been living with.)
How do you feel about the new GNU emacs package manager? I understand there was some concern that a package manager could act as an end-run around your goal to keep emacs a pure GPL project.
You think an employer that's using mysql is going to turn up their nose at you because you've been using postgresql?
Actually, you can make a case that the kids don't really get issues like modularity, consistent APIs, and backwards compatibility. But really, of course, the trouble is that it's hard to con older programmers into working at half-pay with a promise of equity in a facenorth game app company targeting the slyFad 9.0 platform.
Okay. You're a real geek.
Postgresql gets by fine without a poster-boy (or even a name that anyone can pronounce).
Really? That's funny, I just tried a web search on this to see if I could find where you're getting this stuff from (since you don't like to provide sources...), and I turned up this: Thyroid tests for Fukushima children find no effects from accident
Oh wait, but there's also stuff like this: Japan hiding results of Fukushima children's thyroid cancer screenings in new information blackout Those bastards aren't releasing medical records for thousands of kids! (And yet, you have access to precise percentages quoted from somewhere or other...)
Spare us your fear-mongering.
And remember back when "natural gas" was considered a relatively clean power supply? Fracking has changed that one... cheap natural gas at the price of trashed water supplies, and there's a theory that it's a nasty source of global warming as well (methane itself is a powerful greenhouse gas: it doesn't take a lot of methane leakage to overwhelm any savings in CO2 emissions).
This I can easily believe: at this point, we can detect angels farting on the head of a pin, and radioactive elements are one of the easiest things to detect.
This sounds like total bring-back-the-70s "china syndrome" nonsense.
My first guess would be that this is also complete nonsense, and I'd like to see some sources before I believe anything like this, even with a liberal definition of "dangerous levels".
Anti-nuclear activists are a good reminder that Republicans aren't the world's only source of lies and distortion.
Well, I feel like I'm responding seriously to a post that was intended as satire, but in any case...
Yeah, it's often seemed to me that "Social Text" was beaten up on for the wrong reasons... falling for Sokal's prank wasn't in itself that serious a problem, they could've just said "Hey, this just goes to show that author intent really is irrelevant".
Instead they waffled: they could tell the paper had problems, but they ran it anyway, because they thought they'd found a "new ally in the sciences".
Admitting that you'd published garbage because of who wrote it, that's what indicates a real problem there.
THE_SO_CALLED_HOAX
For me, this doesn't turn up any obvious package for iceweasel on ubuntu: apt-cache search iceweasel
And yes, you have a point about ubuntu's direction, or lack thereof.
Well, the behavior that I'm seeing is every third time I power up my laptop, firefox keeps me waiting while it wants to phones home to check my "addons", and my preferred theme keeps getting automatically disabled, so I have to manually re-enable it and re-start firefox again. To their credit, they haven't *completely broken* the theme, which they used to do on every upgrade, but then, I used to be in control over when I upgraded... It is not clear to me that all this is Progress.
Are you sure that that's really it? Or could it be that the plugins are never tested, period, let alone in combination with each other?
I'm thinking about the case of the perl ecosystem, where CPAN packages all have automated test suites, and in effect make up an extended set of tests for the perl core.
To my knowledge, there isn't a lot of work put in on testing different permutations of package installations, but perl is still way ahead of most other software projects in maintaining backwards compatibility.
I've been wondering how the iceweasel fork is doing in Debian. It could be the thing that makes me switch back from Ubuntu.
Debian actually distinguishes between security fixes and UI changes. That's sounding better to me all the time.
And anyone who ignores them completely based on this sort of tribal prejudice is worse than ignorant.
And stopping to RTFM (from arstechnica):
He's also a really problematic "public intellectual" who, for example, was strongly in favor of the Iraq war, and has launched a number of what look like politically motivated attacks, often rather empty ones with just enough complex detail to confuse the unwary.
And this actually sounds like a good case in point: he's a free market ideologue who appears out-of-touch with most of the rest of us would recognize as "reality".
It's nice to have this guy on "our side" for once, but that also makes me stop and wonder if we're on the right side.
"Like most environmentally friendly alternatives, it's not even close to ready for mainstream."
I sometimes wonder where electric vehicles got the reputation for being environmentally friendly. That electricity comes from somewhere, you know? If your power is generated by something as nasty as burning coal (as is about half of the power in the US), then you're really better off burning gasoline.
(On the other hand, if you've got regenerative breaking as part of the deal, then there's some hope you've got an improvement there...)
I think you have Woz confused with Gary Kildall... (you know, the guy who's code got pirated by Bill Gates, in Gates first step toward world conquest).
But on the other hand, Mason 2 is out, and it's being actively maintained: Mason. I don't have usage stats for you, but I'd seriously consider using it on new web projects, possibly via the Poet framework.
(You can be the first on the block to start the MVC-backlash. )
You need windows that open.
And/or ventilation systems that actually work (as opposed to ones that are *supposed* to work, as in all other buildings constructed after WWII).
Some bike parking would be nice.
Think about where the trash is supposed to go.
A roof that doesn't leak is a good idea, too: that means you keep it simple, and probably don't try to do stuff like install skylights. Flat roofs are an extremely bad idea, but you're going to use them anyway, so pointing that out was a waste of time.
how about electric engines, which is available NOW, and that will solve your little pollution problem with or without drafting each other Actually, of course, electric cars don't solve pollution problems, they just transfer them to wherever the power plants are. If the power is relatively clean (e.g. nuclear) than this is a win, if the power is dirty, i.e. like the half of our power that's still generated by coal, you'd be better off burning gasoline.
I wish the delusion that electric==clean was only confined to slashdot trolls like this, but it's clear that it exists in the wider populace as well. The electric buses they use in San Francisco proudly display "Zero Emissions" decals...
The "Alt + Home" keyboard command will jump you straight to your home page, without mousing around.
I've started disliking the "firefox experience" since everything has become flashed up... a page with a flash window always steals the keyboard controls, so I can't, for example, kill it with a control W.