Well apparently they thought it was the one true way at some point, because it was their interface. Then they abandoned their established interface for Chrome's.
"I did not ask for your name, Richard" can be argued to be a response. It points out that one of the parties in the conversation is making a big deal about naming and should just drop it; it's just a bit tongue-in-cheek about it. There are other ways to respond to a question than with the "correct" answer.
I could if I wanted to be particularly dickish point out the GP's sentence:
Lack consistent self narrative and replies with nonsense and randomly makes up a name for me.
...I could question whether he is in fact a person:) That entire three-clause sentence is completely missing a subject.
30% is still slightly under the odds of straight guessing. You need at least 33.4% to demonstrate any improvement over random chance. (assuming perfect accuracy)
Um, isn't Netflix pretty specifically the only major provider that ISN'T owned/run by the Big X? Which is why the ISPs who are owned by the same/similar people are trying to shut them down so hard?
While I can sympathize with that viewpoint, if we waited to work on new things until we solved all our current problems, we would still be stuck in the middle ages.
The answer is to work on both at the same time. And you can't just funnel all the spare money into poverty relief...throwing more money at it doesn't help after a certain point. How about we halve the military budget, divert 3/4 of that to your programs, and 1/4 to space and energy stuff. Everybody'd be swimming in money.
I fully expect that if the human race gets wiped out, it'll most likely be because some bureaucrat decides that the nanobots don't need to be tested any more or some official cuts nuclear safety budgets to save money, something with that amount of black humor.
Or, yes, an asteroid or something gets us while we're all bickering about funding space programs and we'd need six months to build the necessary equipment to intercept it only it's just two weeks away by the time we spot it. Although Russia could probably duct tape something together and just launch about four of them to make sure one works.
I like XFCE because it's pretty close to the classic Windows desktop but you can still twaddle around with the bars a little without it getting in your face (KDE). That it's pseudolightweight is just an added bonus.
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They have to break things in order to give us features we don't want, duh. How dare you complain!
and I can hand it confidently to other users.
Well, that makes one of us, then.
For the longest time, I consoled myself with "well, at least the old option can be reenabled in about:config..."
You know Firefox is really circling the drain when they start taking that out.
Extrapolating from the 1.0-4.0 era, we'd be at version 6.
1.0 - Nov 2004
4.0 - Feb 2010
So 3 major-version-number releases in 6 years, or 0.5 MVNR per year. ~4.3 years since = 4 * 0.5 = 2
2 + 4 = 6
The other 4 are Ubuntu related (2x Ubuntu, 2x Unity).
Well there you go. Your system has been tainted by evil. You'll have to cleanse it with fire :)
Do you also have 47 add-ons running simultaneously?
I would love to see video of this supposed occurrence.
The Alt key to access topmenus has been a universal thing (in Windows at least) since...95? Maybe?
Which kind of makes me wonder why Mozilla hasn't decided to kill it.
Shit, it's times like this that I'm glad I'm not a Firefox user.
TL;DR: Ignore me ranting, I have no idea what I'm talking. Pot; kettle. Only maybe the kettle *isn't* black.
Well apparently they thought it was the one true way at some point, because it was their interface. Then they abandoned their established interface for Chrome's.
Pale Moon
(they have a Linux version now, too)
"I did not ask for your name, Richard" can be argued to be a response. It points out that one of the parties in the conversation is making a big deal about naming and should just drop it; it's just a bit tongue-in-cheek about it. There are other ways to respond to a question than with the "correct" answer.
I could if I wanted to be particularly dickish point out the GP's sentence:
Lack consistent self narrative and replies with nonsense and randomly makes up a name for me.
...I could question whether he is in fact a person :) That entire three-clause sentence is completely missing a subject.
The AI is not required to obey your every command, squishy human meat-sack.
You: What's your name?
Me: TangoMargarine.
You: Can you repeat that?
Me: No. Just read it on my profile.
30% is still slightly under the odds of straight guessing. You need at least 33.4% to demonstrate any improvement over random chance. (assuming perfect accuracy)
Um, isn't Netflix pretty specifically the only major provider that ISN'T owned/run by the Big X? Which is why the ISPs who are owned by the same/similar people are trying to shut them down so hard?
BMO Harris is short for Bank of Montreal, and they seem to have acquired about half the local banks in my neck of the (U.S.) woods, so no.
Like how we don't seem able to get out of bed in the morning without taking out a few billion-dollar deficit spending loans?
It's the same problem with almost every movie that gets made these days. They're all relicensings, reimaginings, or sequels.
I don't think I'm being curmudgeonly. Back a decade or two ago, they actually produced original ideas. This is verifiable fact.
I actually remember way back when, when Lego had their own ideas instead of licensing every bestselling movie franchise they can get their hands on.
Lego pirates that weren't Pirates of the Caribbean branded! Lego space stuff that wasn't Star Wars branded! What madness!
Reign in our ridiculous military budget. Boom: No tax increase necessary.*
* let me know how I'm oversimplifying
You want a driver for the 20th century? WWII.
Umm...nearly half the 20th century was past by the time WWII ended.
Space welfare. Just redistribute the wealth without the shenanigans and we could have the leisure society that was speculated about.
Wow. Give a man a fish...
While I can sympathize with that viewpoint, if we waited to work on new things until we solved all our current problems, we would still be stuck in the middle ages.
The answer is to work on both at the same time. And you can't just funnel all the spare money into poverty relief...throwing more money at it doesn't help after a certain point. How about we halve the military budget, divert 3/4 of that to your programs, and 1/4 to space and energy stuff. Everybody'd be swimming in money.
and the greed of our fellow human beings.
I fully expect that if the human race gets wiped out, it'll most likely be because some bureaucrat decides that the nanobots don't need to be tested any more or some official cuts nuclear safety budgets to save money, something with that amount of black humor.
Or, yes, an asteroid or something gets us while we're all bickering about funding space programs and we'd need six months to build the necessary equipment to intercept it only it's just two weeks away by the time we spot it. Although Russia could probably duct tape something together and just launch about four of them to make sure one works.
I like XFCE because it's pretty close to the classic Windows desktop but you can still twaddle around with the bars a little without it getting in your face (KDE). That it's pseudolightweight is just an added bonus.
Why not? As a Slashdot user, you're really going to criticize the naming of Soylent? Really?
I especially love those "The program crashed. There's nothing you can do to fix this." popups you occasionally get.