In future news, Microsoft has released a patch to correct a remote code-execution vulnerability that exists due to the way the browser handles ASCII art.
Heh; I had to read it forwards and backwards, too, but what he's saying is that compiling code, being a process that's not really parallelizable(?), is going to really bog down without powerful single-thread processing available.
See, I avoided this nicely by hooking up with a paladin geek to begin with. The relationship is wonderful, and there aren't any problems about spending time on WoW, because we spend it together (in fact, due to the fact that she lives a thousand miles away, WoW+TeamSpeak tends to be the only way we get to spend time together). All in all, we're both very satisfied, and I couldn't be happier. >8)
Oh darn, I laughed at it. See, I thought the poster was being facetious, and it therefore struck me as humorous in that it exemplefied the irony of a huge American megacorporation being sued by a small Latin American business on basically their own turf by exaggerating the extent to which Microsoft's own GDP tends to rival entire nations. I feel so dumb now.
# Apple will offer a Developer Kit, which includes 3.6GHz Pentium 4. OS X 10.4.1 for Intel (preview release). Order today; available in two weeks. [10:48 am]
Could be because Fedora has practically gone from non-existence all the way through 3 releases and nearly a 4th since Debian last saw a release. Different focus, different communities.
Of course not; but there's been times that I've had problems getting Firefox to run the extension install--it seems to prefer downloading it. This is just a handy way to install extensions that I know has been in the works, but I didn't notice it mentioned anywhere in the release notes. As for the unzip for version bump stuff, it was just an example that was somewhat relevant to the situation, so I used it.
I was just teasing; no offense intended to the original poster. I was just pointing out that this is exactly the situation that this release is meant to address in a way that I hoped would make an impression. I apologize for any offense taken.
Something I haven't seen mentioned that has quietly slipped in is the new extension-installation support. You can place.xpi files directly in the 'extensions' directory of either the program or your profile, and the next time you start it, Deer Park will automatically recognize and install the new one. This would seem especially noteworthy at this point in time, since many "broken" extensions can be hand-updated by bumping the version numbers in the extension's install.rdf and re-zipping the.xpi. You can just stick a manually-bumped.xpi directly in one of the above-mentioned 'extensions' directories and restart the program. You no longer need to use a web installer, make a dummy webpage, or drag-and-drop the file to the Extension Manager (something that I've found--at least under Linux--to be reliably unreliable most of the time).
Perhaps they should put out a sort of "alpha release". This release would be basically a semi-official in-development build for "testing purposes only" on which extension authors and developers can "test" their code to see if there are any problems. This way, they will have time to prepare their extensions before the next release. Furthermore, to avoid confusion and prevent everyone from jumping on an unstable product and generating negative publicity, it would probably be best not to brand it with the Firefox name; maybe they could just use whatever the current code-name happens to be (like, for example, "Deer Park", a random name that I just happened to come up with).
And how exactly do you propose to fight them back? In courts? You will be buried instantly under paperwork and litigation costs (see Bruce Almighty for example)
Ah, yes. How often life imitates Jim Carrey movies! I, for one, welcome their extreme relevance to everyday life to serve as solid reference material for any argument in which I find myself.
--or--
Dude, I've heard of trying to justify the plausibility of bizarre movie plots with obscure real-life examples...but justifying real life with obscure movie plots? That's a new one on me!
Two sides to that coin, however. Where I work, I was put in the position of doing the technical background work of a briefing for a visit by a certain high-ranking General. I get called on to do this from time to time, and it basically consists of me sitting at the briefing room computer, reading a book, and advancing PowerPoint slides at the appropriate times.
On this occasion, however, when the PowerPoint presentation was given to me (about 30 minutes beforehand), I was quite disconcerted to see that the act of merely opening the file quite rudely caused PowerPoint to crash compeletely on every single computer I tried it on (nonsensical as it sounds, it seems as if the problem was an issue with there being some speech recognition program on the computer it was originally created on that it wasn't able to find on our computers, or something; the error message wasn't very helpful).
Anyways, 5 minutes before the General arrives, I dash across the building to my workspace and, in a final, fleeting effort, stuff the thumbdrive into my Linux box. I mount it, fire up openoffice.org, open the file, and behold! Nary a glitch--and certainly not a crash! Click "Save", run back, and ta-da! General waltzes in and gives his briefing, oblivious to any trouble, and I sit back and smugly read my book.
But given how late [.Net Framework 2.0] is, and how new it would be, [Microsoft chairman] Bill Gates realized it would be foolish to build important pieces of Longhorn on top of.Net."
Not that building critical elements upon instabilities has ever stopped them before, of course.
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In future news, Microsoft has released a patch to correct a remote code-execution vulnerability that exists due to the way the browser handles ASCII art.
My friend Mark said that he saw a zealot totally format C: some kid just because the kid opened up Windows.
You registered a new account just for that post, didn't you?
Heh; I had to read it forwards and backwards, too, but what he's saying is that compiling code, being a process that's not really parallelizable(?), is going to really bog down without powerful single-thread processing available.
Managing the cooling system and blue case LEDs.
I believe the reply was a joke and not an actual correction. I don't mean to nitpick.
See, I avoided this nicely by hooking up with a paladin geek to begin with. The relationship is wonderful, and there aren't any problems about spending time on WoW, because we spend it together (in fact, due to the fact that she lives a thousand miles away, WoW+TeamSpeak tends to be the only way we get to spend time together). All in all, we're both very satisfied, and I couldn't be happier. >8)
Ok ok, its not an exact quote but I am at work and can't excatly go googling for the line!
You don't need to; just look up at one of the 60-70 other recitations of the same line in the comments here.
Well, you can't anymore!
Oh darn, I laughed at it. See, I thought the poster was being facetious, and it therefore struck me as humorous in that it exemplefied the irony of a huge American megacorporation being sued by a small Latin American business on basically their own turf by exaggerating the extent to which Microsoft's own GDP tends to rival entire nations. I feel so dumb now.
From TFA:
From Engadget's Coverage:
(I made sure to include the times)
Amen, brother. Amen.
Could be because Fedora has practically gone from non-existence all the way through 3 releases and nearly a 4th since Debian last saw a release. Different focus, different communities.
What a bunch of hosers, eh.
Of course not; but there's been times that I've had problems getting Firefox to run the extension install--it seems to prefer downloading it. This is just a handy way to install extensions that I know has been in the works, but I didn't notice it mentioned anywhere in the release notes. As for the unzip for version bump stuff, it was just an example that was somewhat relevant to the situation, so I used it.
'Chose' is the past tense of the present-tense 'Choose'. 'Lose' is present-tense already; the past tense is 'lost'.
'Loose' is a different word, completely unrelated, to 'lose'. In its verb form, it is present-tense; the past tense of 'loose' is 'loosed'.
Every time I've done that, it has tried to download the file instead of installing it. Perhaps I have a preference set badly; my profile is ancient.
I'll be sure to check it out again, though. Thanks!
cant even find "browser.sessionhistory.max_viewers" on about:config
I found it by right-clicking, selecting "New->Integer" and typing in "browser.sessionhistory.max_viewers" in about:config.
Unregrettably, Opera's ad-spam feature wasn't quite able to make it for this release.
I was just teasing; no offense intended to the original poster. I was just pointing out that this is exactly the situation that this release is meant to address in a way that I hoped would make an impression. I apologize for any offense taken.
Something I haven't seen mentioned that has quietly slipped in is the new extension-installation support. You can place .xpi files directly in the 'extensions' directory of either the program or your profile, and the next time you start it, Deer Park will automatically recognize and install the new one. This would seem especially noteworthy at this point in time, since many "broken" extensions can be hand-updated by bumping the version numbers in the extension's install.rdf and re-zipping the .xpi. You can just stick a manually-bumped .xpi directly in one of the above-mentioned 'extensions' directories and restart the program. You no longer need to use a web installer, make a dummy webpage, or drag-and-drop the file to the Extension Manager (something that I've found--at least under Linux--to be reliably unreliable most of the time).
Perhaps they should put out a sort of "alpha release". This release would be basically a semi-official in-development build for "testing purposes only" on which extension authors and developers can "test" their code to see if there are any problems. This way, they will have time to prepare their extensions before the next release. Furthermore, to avoid confusion and prevent everyone from jumping on an unstable product and generating negative publicity, it would probably be best not to brand it with the Firefox name; maybe they could just use whatever the current code-name happens to be (like, for example, "Deer Park", a random name that I just happened to come up with).
And how exactly do you propose to fight them back? In courts? You will be buried instantly under paperwork and litigation costs (see Bruce Almighty for example)
Ah, yes. How often life imitates Jim Carrey movies! I, for one, welcome their extreme relevance to everyday life to serve as solid reference material for any argument in which I find myself.
--or--
Dude, I've heard of trying to justify the plausibility of bizarre movie plots with obscure real-life examples...but justifying real life with obscure movie plots? That's a new one on me!
Two sides to that coin, however. Where I work, I was put in the position of doing the technical background work of a briefing for a visit by a certain high-ranking General. I get called on to do this from time to time, and it basically consists of me sitting at the briefing room computer, reading a book, and advancing PowerPoint slides at the appropriate times.
On this occasion, however, when the PowerPoint presentation was given to me (about 30 minutes beforehand), I was quite disconcerted to see that the act of merely opening the file quite rudely caused PowerPoint to crash compeletely on every single computer I tried it on (nonsensical as it sounds, it seems as if the problem was an issue with there being some speech recognition program on the computer it was originally created on that it wasn't able to find on our computers, or something; the error message wasn't very helpful).
Anyways, 5 minutes before the General arrives, I dash across the building to my workspace and, in a final, fleeting effort, stuff the thumbdrive into my Linux box. I mount it, fire up openoffice.org, open the file, and behold! Nary a glitch--and certainly not a crash! Click "Save", run back, and ta-da! General waltzes in and gives his briefing, oblivious to any trouble, and I sit back and smugly read my book.
Not that building critical elements upon instabilities has ever stopped them before, of course.