Its funny that you shoot people, hijack cars, drive over people and do all kinds of illegal things but when theres normal activities like sex that all people do, everyone goes "oh my god things like that shouldn't be allowed!" and bring in the lawsuits.
Get him to show some work example. Almost everyone of us coders have done games, random programs or other code in the past and as our teenage years. Now if they are hacker like, it still doesn't mean he's a bad worked. Best in the IT have always had the hacker mind, something that goes beyond what everyone else does. But make sure he likes your workplace too and do basic security audit;
But whatever you do, keep in mind that there's no really an easy, computer security answer - if they're hackers, they will get around it.
Luckily, unlimited 3G in phone here in scandinavia costs next to nothing (256kb/s at ~5e, up to 4MB/s at 29e monthly, unlimited transfer), so its quite clear that it makes much more sense to use that huge online library and stream than cache limited amount of songs on the small memory card on phone.
By having different UIs for each platform, life becomes more difficult for add-on designers. Anything that does more than add a new toolbar button suddenly becomes platform-specific.
And you really want to prefer addon designers in favor of user friendliness? You can keep your nerd card, but that is stupid.
Sony explained their decision on the Playstation 2 developer forum, in a post that has since been removed:
"The reasons are simple: The PS3 Slim is a major cost reduction involving many changes to hardware components in the PS3 design. In order to offer the OtherOS install, SCE would need to continue to maintain the OtherOS hypervisor drivers for any significant hardware changes--this costs SCE. One of our key objectives with the new model is to pass on cost savings to the consumer with a lower retail price. Unfortunately in this case the cost of OtherOS install did not fit with the wider objective to offer a lower cost PS3."
And this is understable, seeing how much PS3 price has come down from its launch.
Old PS3 owners still have the option, it just affects the 'slim' model.
Tabs on the side take *a lot* of space, for both that text goes horizontally and because monitors also have more space horizontally. You can argue that you can see more tabs, which is kind of firefox's fault; Opera shrinks them as much as possible, while you still find every tab quickly from the favicon and small amount of the title.
Another thing that also comes with Windows 7 and Chrome is that everyone tries to make interfaces *TOO* simplifistic and losing usability. Browser windows aren't like IM windows, you do not randomly open browser when you want to do something. Browser is always there on the background anyway and with today's tabbed browsing its usually just a one window. This is also why I dont really firefox (standard install anyways). Browser is probably the one program we use the most, it should be powerful but still customizable and *fast*. Gladly, Opera is that for me.
However it can be just me who wants that kind of "environment" from the browser and not just over-simplifistic window that looks like a small IM window. Or is it that Firefox also tries to go for majority, grandma-friendly browser? If you look at the pictures, it looks quite closely to IE too, not just chrome.
Simple interface is nice with programs you dont use lot, but for me browsers along with development tools work a lot as a complete environment.
What I mean is that "it works me at place x" is pretty useless. How is it interesting reading 300 posts like that? Theres more intelligent things to discuss about it than if it happens to work for you at this very minute at your random location. It's already established that things are broken.
It's the standards-breaking. MS has a rock-solid track record of not giving a care about web standards, making a browser that winds up being incompatible with many webpages and, in turn, webpages that are incompatible with any other browser.
You're not really seeing the larger picture either. Back in 1995 when Internet Explorer came out, there wasn't html/css standards like now (some history on wikipedia). IE and Netscape Navigator we're pretty much the most widely used browsers, which *both* developed new extensions that you would say now weren't standard compliant. Netscape pretty much died off at that point, and IE continued with huge marketshare and developing new stuff.
As time went by, they had two major problems: The huge userbase and by that reason the sites made for IE too, so they had to keep supporting their old engine and own 'standards' not to break everything. They also couldn't just jump into the new standards that we're being made, because it would break their old functionalities. They had to switch overtime, slowly, and thats taken a huge leap forward now with the latest version.
Yeah, I dont like IE either (I've always used Opera), but you have to account some history in too.
Good or bad Software, I hate being marketed-to during a software install.
Then stop using Firefox, Chrome, Opera or for that matter any browser. Google is already paying those browser makers to include themself as the default search engine, so Google gets you to use them and see their ads. You are already being marketed right after you've installed those. It doesn't even matter if its open or closed source, firefox and opera are on both ends.
As well as Google pays Firefox, Opera and other browsers to have Google as the default search engine. This is their main marketing method, to have their services as default. There has been occasional other ad's, but they're quite minority with google. And well, it seems to work great for them.
Could it be because the first sign that Mozilla is actively including a list of ads to block, they will be sued into the ground in the US and other places for interfering with other people's income? And while they might win such a lawsuit, don't they have better ways to spend their money?
And if they were to lose such a lawsuit, Mozilla might get off somewhat easy, as they are a non-profit organization. Opera on the other hand isn't.
Firstly, Opera Software is a Norwegian corporation. It would be Norwegian laws and court that would apply, not US ones. Secondly, theres really no law against "interfering with other people's income". All the other ad blocker software would get sued then. Hell, virus writers and criminals could sue you and police because they're interfering with their income:)
And if you want to be really pedantic, the one thing that Firefox still kind of needs is a built in ad blocker that's as good as Adblock.
Opera's way however is different than Firefox. They like to build all the features natively in. And its great because I dont have to go hunt for every random addon that might be sub-standard; everything you need is build in (and hence doesn't take resources as much either) and is consistent in both quality and in usage.
Actually the only thing Opera still kind of needs is as good ad blocker as adblock. While it does have its feature for blocking content, it doesn't have lists and it doesn't always work as good. I know you could find lists for it and put them in the config files, but it's not as comfortable and still doesn't work as good.
Thats why I've always used Ad Muncher tho, it does the ad blocking perfectly (and not just in Opera, but all browsers). But Opera should really fine tune their ad blocking features. Otherwise there's no really features I can come up thats missing in Opera.
Yes, Opera does have build-in blocking, but I've always preferred Ad Muncher myself. It comes with good lists and works easily - I've basically never seen ads anymore.
1) You can change that behaviour in preferences. Preferences -> Advanced -> Tabs When closing a tab - Activate the last active tab - Activate the next tab - Activate first tab opened from current tab
Personally I really prefer to go back to last active tab - it speeds up things a lot, atleast for me.
2) You could try emptying cache on exit always Preferences -> Advanced -> History -> Empty on exit On same page is always Check if document is updated on server, where I have "Always" and I think they do update when I start Opera.
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You can still reuse things like rendering engine and most of the system. Remember that Opera is also available for Mac OS and Linux and they obviously aren't using Win32 API there.
That is why he said code base, and that it lags behind because you obviously have to port some things.
Haven't noticed any problems with slashdot yet, and except for the same every browser had I didn't have any with Opera 9 either. Also, slashdot is *a lot* faster now, probably because of the new javascript engine.
It was released for all Windows, Mac OS and Linux.
Opera has always been my favourite browser. It has pretty much everything packed in that you want and need, and still its really lightweight and smooth. Even firefox doesn't get close, a lot of times it feels quite non-smooth. Responsiveness from the GUI and things like scrolling does *a lot*. And its consistent on every platform, and always has been *the browser* to push new things on browsers. Mouse gestures, speed dial, advanced browsers on Wii/Mobile phones etc.
The old "Next" page also has been updated with little bit of information about 10.10, which will include Opera Unite. So its not included in this version yet.
Another interesting thing about Opera is that its marketshare on CIS countries is more than IE/FF/Other browsers. Are they just technically more aware or whats the cause for that?
I actually have a great experience from these weird suffixes myself. iftop seems to report traffic amount like 39.6Kb. After years I've still never understood what it means exactly. I think its equivalent to kbit/s. But maybe its equivalent to KB/s. I've always just taken guess about the possibility at what it could mean. Other people also say iftop's reporting is retarted. Anyone know what Kb etc on it *actually* mean?
This is why its bad to have so many different close to each other suffixes.
Your example is bad because its the default one. 1 terabyte to 1024 gigabytes is easy. How quickly you calculate that to 4TB? 15TB? 492TB? Or for more better example, 405GB to MB's? Its just a lot easier to think 405GB = 405 000MB than start calculating it, while its kinda close anyway.
Is Apple's move the first major step in forcing computer science to adopt the more awkward binary prefixes, breaking decades of accepted (if technically inaccurate) usage of SI prefixes?
No, its not any first major step. HDD makers already went there years ago, its established and people know better what it means. And even if I'm quite a nerd myself, I never think that 1 terabytes = 1 048 576 megabytes. Yeah it would be great if I remembered that or as many decimals in PI as possible, but no one really cares. It's a lot easier to remember and think that 1 terabyte is 1 000 000 megabytes, even if its not technically so because of binary system and even if I know that - I still think so just for the easy of it.
And its a mac. What did you think? It's as far from a nerdy computer as possible. Obviously they are going to use terms and units that non-geeky people understand.
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Its funny that you shoot people, hijack cars, drive over people and do all kinds of illegal things but when theres normal activities like sex that all people do, everyone goes "oh my god things like that shouldn't be allowed!" and bring in the lawsuits.
Weird world, or should I say weird country.
Get him to show some work example. Almost everyone of us coders have done games, random programs or other code in the past and as our teenage years. Now if they are hacker like, it still doesn't mean he's a bad worked. Best in the IT have always had the hacker mind, something that goes beyond what everyone else does. But make sure he likes your workplace too and do basic security audit;
But whatever you do, keep in mind that there's no really an easy, computer security answer - if they're hackers, they will get around it.
Luckily, unlimited 3G in phone here in scandinavia costs next to nothing (256kb/s at ~5e, up to 4MB/s at 29e monthly, unlimited transfer), so its quite clear that it makes much more sense to use that huge online library and stream than cache limited amount of songs on the small memory card on phone.
By having different UIs for each platform, life becomes more difficult for add-on designers. Anything that does more than add a new toolbar button suddenly becomes platform-specific.
And you really want to prefer addon designers in favor of user friendliness? You can keep your nerd card, but that is stupid.
From the article
Sony explained their decision on the Playstation 2 developer forum, in a post that has since been removed:
"The reasons are simple: The PS3 Slim is a major cost reduction involving many changes to hardware components in the PS3 design. In order to offer the OtherOS install, SCE would need to continue to maintain the OtherOS hypervisor drivers for any significant hardware changes--this costs SCE. One of our key objectives with the new model is to pass on cost savings to the consumer with a lower retail price. Unfortunately in this case the cost of OtherOS install did not fit with the wider objective to offer a lower cost PS3."
And this is understable, seeing how much PS3 price has come down from its launch.
Old PS3 owners still have the option, it just affects the 'slim' model.
Tabs on the side take *a lot* of space, for both that text goes horizontally and because monitors also have more space horizontally. You can argue that you can see more tabs, which is kind of firefox's fault; Opera shrinks them as much as possible, while you still find every tab quickly from the favicon and small amount of the title.
Another thing that also comes with Windows 7 and Chrome is that everyone tries to make interfaces *TOO* simplifistic and losing usability. Browser windows aren't like IM windows, you do not randomly open browser when you want to do something. Browser is always there on the background anyway and with today's tabbed browsing its usually just a one window. This is also why I dont really firefox (standard install anyways). Browser is probably the one program we use the most, it should be powerful but still customizable and *fast*. Gladly, Opera is that for me.
However it can be just me who wants that kind of "environment" from the browser and not just over-simplifistic window that looks like a small IM window. Or is it that Firefox also tries to go for majority, grandma-friendly browser? If you look at the pictures, it looks quite closely to IE too, not just chrome.
Simple interface is nice with programs you dont use lot, but for me browsers along with development tools work a lot as a complete environment.
What I mean is that "it works me at place x" is pretty useless. How is it interesting reading 300 posts like that? Theres more intelligent things to discuss about it than if it happens to work for you at this very minute at your random location. It's already established that things are broken.
Before more users jump on the useless non-interesting "working for me"/"not working for me" posts, dont do it. No one really cares.
It's the standards-breaking. MS has a rock-solid track record of not giving a care about web standards, making a browser that winds up being incompatible with many webpages and, in turn, webpages that are incompatible with any other browser.
You're not really seeing the larger picture either. Back in 1995 when Internet Explorer came out, there wasn't html/css standards like now (some history on wikipedia). IE and Netscape Navigator we're pretty much the most widely used browsers, which *both* developed new extensions that you would say now weren't standard compliant. Netscape pretty much died off at that point, and IE continued with huge marketshare and developing new stuff.
As time went by, they had two major problems: The huge userbase and by that reason the sites made for IE too, so they had to keep supporting their old engine and own 'standards' not to break everything. They also couldn't just jump into the new standards that we're being made, because it would break their old functionalities. They had to switch overtime, slowly, and thats taken a huge leap forward now with the latest version.
Yeah, I dont like IE either (I've always used Opera), but you have to account some history in too.
For example, <a ... target="_blank"> doesn't work as expected and opens the link in the same window.
It works fine here, for both tabs and windows.
And besides that Opera is also the most slashdot oriented browser. Just type /. to address bar and off you go to slashdot.
Good or bad Software, I hate being marketed-to during a software install.
Then stop using Firefox, Chrome, Opera or for that matter any browser. Google is already paying those browser makers to include themself as the default search engine, so Google gets you to use them and see their ads. You are already being marketed right after you've installed those. It doesn't even matter if its open or closed source, firefox and opera are on both ends.
As well as Google pays Firefox, Opera and other browsers to have Google as the default search engine. This is their main marketing method, to have their services as default. There has been occasional other ad's, but they're quite minority with google. And well, it seems to work great for them.
Could it be because the first sign that Mozilla is actively including a list of ads to block, they will be sued into the ground in the US and other places for interfering with other people's income? And while they might win such a lawsuit, don't they have better ways to spend their money?
And if they were to lose such a lawsuit, Mozilla might get off somewhat easy, as they are a non-profit organization. Opera on the other hand isn't.
Firstly, Opera Software is a Norwegian corporation. It would be Norwegian laws and court that would apply, not US ones. :)
Secondly, theres really no law against "interfering with other people's income". All the other ad blocker software would get sued then. Hell, virus writers and criminals could sue you and police because they're interfering with their income
And if you want to be really pedantic, the one thing that Firefox still kind of needs is a built in ad blocker that's as good as Adblock.
Opera's way however is different than Firefox. They like to build all the features natively in. And its great because I dont have to go hunt for every random addon that might be sub-standard; everything you need is build in (and hence doesn't take resources as much either) and is consistent in both quality and in usage.
Someone (fanboy maybe ;) ) obviously is, because someone went thru the whole article comments and modded everyone troll.
Actually the only thing Opera still kind of needs is as good ad blocker as adblock. While it does have its feature for blocking content, it doesn't have lists and it doesn't always work as good. I know you could find lists for it and put them in the config files, but it's not as comfortable and still doesn't work as good.
Thats why I've always used Ad Muncher tho, it does the ad blocking perfectly (and not just in Opera, but all browsers). But Opera should really fine tune their ad blocking features. Otherwise there's no really features I can come up thats missing in Opera.
Yes, Opera does have build-in blocking, but I've always preferred Ad Muncher myself. It comes with good lists and works easily - I've basically never seen ads anymore.
1) You can change that behaviour in preferences.
Preferences -> Advanced -> Tabs
When closing a tab
- Activate the last active tab
- Activate the next tab
- Activate first tab opened from current tab
Personally I really prefer to go back to last active tab - it speeds up things a lot, atleast for me.
2) You could try emptying cache on exit always
Preferences -> Advanced -> History -> Empty on exit
On same page is always Check if document is updated on server, where I have "Always" and I think they do update when I start Opera.
You can still reuse things like rendering engine and most of the system. Remember that Opera is also available for Mac OS and Linux and they obviously aren't using Win32 API there.
That is why he said code base, and that it lags behind because you obviously have to port some things.
They also made a cool launch trailer. Now how cool is that Opera Mini Cooper ;) It's quick but I guess the guys had lots of fun making it.
Haven't noticed any problems with slashdot yet, and except for the same every browser had I didn't have any with Opera 9 either. Also, slashdot is *a lot* faster now, probably because of the new javascript engine.
But does it run on Linux?
It was released for all Windows, Mac OS and Linux.
Opera has always been my favourite browser. It has pretty much everything packed in that you want and need, and still its really lightweight and smooth. Even firefox doesn't get close, a lot of times it feels quite non-smooth. Responsiveness from the GUI and things like scrolling does *a lot*. And its consistent on every platform, and always has been *the browser* to push new things on browsers. Mouse gestures, speed dial, advanced browsers on Wii/Mobile phones etc.
The old "Next" page also has been updated with little bit of information about 10.10, which will include Opera Unite. So its not included in this version yet.
Another interesting thing about Opera is that its marketshare on CIS countries is more than IE/FF/Other browsers. Are they just technically more aware or whats the cause for that?
I actually have a great experience from these weird suffixes myself. iftop seems to report traffic amount like 39.6Kb. After years I've still never understood what it means exactly. I think its equivalent to kbit/s. But maybe its equivalent to KB/s. I've always just taken guess about the possibility at what it could mean. Other people also say iftop's reporting is retarted. Anyone know what Kb etc on it *actually* mean?
This is why its bad to have so many different close to each other suffixes.
Your example is bad because its the default one. 1 terabyte to 1024 gigabytes is easy. How quickly you calculate that to 4TB? 15TB? 492TB? Or for more better example, 405GB to MB's? Its just a lot easier to think 405GB = 405 000MB than start calculating it, while its kinda close anyway.
Is Apple's move the first major step in forcing computer science to adopt the more awkward binary prefixes, breaking decades of accepted (if technically inaccurate) usage of SI prefixes?
No, its not any first major step. HDD makers already went there years ago, its established and people know better what it means. And even if I'm quite a nerd myself, I never think that 1 terabytes = 1 048 576 megabytes. Yeah it would be great if I remembered that or as many decimals in PI as possible, but no one really cares. It's a lot easier to remember and think that 1 terabyte is 1 000 000 megabytes, even if its not technically so because of binary system and even if I know that - I still think so just for the easy of it.
And its a mac. What did you think? It's as far from a nerdy computer as possible. Obviously they are going to use terms and units that non-geeky people understand.