Personally, I see how this can only foster more competition, less monoculture and thus a better web.
To me, it is a little like switching from democrat to republican. There is no competition in this business. There is plenty of collusion though. All these people filter their products to serve the state and each other. We have a severe monoculture here. To me, if this wasn't about money, Mozilla would develop their own web crawlers, and if they were really cool, they would find a way for us to use our browsers as distributed web crawlers that we control. Something that can bypass all attempts at filtering and censorship by corp/govt.
By the way, that press release made my stomach a bit queasy (and so did the bit I pasted above. Sorry). So much pap about "choice and innovation" and the BS about do not track, please! Who wrote that? McMann and Tate? Switching to Yahoo is hardly innovative. Helping us circumvent their redirection, filtering and tracking (as opposed to just asking them not to), that would be innovative.
I'm sorry, but it looks like Mozilla has been fished in with their craving for market share. Which is a weird desire in itself for somebody supposedly not interested in profit. They should be happy just to be an alternative. But, BigCorp runs the show... Who am I to argue?
What used to be the cool, slim and fast new browser on the intarwebs has become a ridiculous moloch...
I don't even know why it exists anymore. It started out as a slimmed down Netscape/Seamonkey. Now it's just as fat, but with none of the features. And does anybody still use Thunderbird?
None of it matters to me as long as Seamonkey remains untouched. No other browser even compares.
Yeah, Well I guess you weren't in Alabama in the 50s (the feds acted like the good guys then), though your shot at Reagan is half true. The decline accelerated dramatically in the 80s, and the voters kept on asking for more of the same. I could sympathize if they were forced...
That's what everyone is saying here. Yeah, so they are... Big deal... You can thank the voters, for being, in a recently made famous word, "Stupid", stupid for willingly believing the lies. Tell me, what am I supposed to feel towards those people who did this?
Good thing I saw this. I almost posted the same thing. But I think Google cut Mozilla out of some revenue sharing thing. It doesn't look like there was much choice. They're gambling that Yahoo will bring in more. I say 'Good Luck'...
We have to learn to separate the waste products. These things aren't impossible. Let's not pretend we can't refine the tech. Our economic/political system is the only impediment to progress.
Silly goose. Restricting access to natural resources with your phony land deeds requires a great deal of amoral force. You describe nature, not morality. Nature is completely indifferent and amoral, just like capitalism, and that's why capitalism actually works. It's a purely animal thing. Nothing 'moral' about it.
Ah yes, monetary profit. The only reason to do anything. How else can we force a man to work if we can't ration his necessities?
Anyway, for maximum profit, learn to mechanize the process. Tunnel boring machines can be made in any size, and if you do it right, you can have it drag along a smelter, so only the pure shit comes out of the hole.
Why do you say that? The leadership is experiencing no difficulties. Their wealth is very secure. Rocking the boat would only jeopardize it. Majority rule only makes things very messy.
Please, the bickering is theater, the play has been running with the same actors for 150 years... and everything is progressing as planned. It hasn't stopped at all. In fact, it is accelerating. Somebody put a brick on the gas pedal 35 years ago.
What 'locking' issues are you talking about? Oh, you must mean locking out anybody who is not a republican or democrat. I'm pretty sure that the people financing the whole thing are getting their money's worth.The glitches you see on the TV are quite trivial. The machine is working very smoothly. The state's power remains unchallenged. The numbers of coders and gigolos in congress makes no difference. What do they bring to the campaign 'donors'? That is what will determine their position and power.
The cause of almost every human disaster is human error. The are few things where computers shine more dramatically than in the airline industry. All the way up through the 70s they were wrecking one somewhere in the world every month. Look at the numbers now. It is truly amazing when you consider the frailty and the raw physics of these contraptions and the conditions we operate them. I mean, no sane man will fly through a thunderstorm during peacetime.
In a bad situation, I would put much more faith in the computer to hit the right target at least. Humans are just too slow and fickle.
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Personally, I see how this can only foster more competition, less monoculture and thus a better web.
To me, it is a little like switching from democrat to republican. There is no competition in this business. There is plenty of collusion though. All these people filter their products to serve the state and each other. We have a severe monoculture here. To me, if this wasn't about money, Mozilla would develop their own web crawlers, and if they were really cool, they would find a way for us to use our browsers as distributed web crawlers that we control. Something that can bypass all attempts at filtering and censorship by corp/govt.
By the way, that press release made my stomach a bit queasy (and so did the bit I pasted above. Sorry). So much pap about "choice and innovation" and the BS about do not track, please! Who wrote that? McMann and Tate? Switching to Yahoo is hardly innovative. Helping us circumvent their redirection, filtering and tracking (as opposed to just asking them not to), that would be innovative.
I'm sorry, but it looks like Mozilla has been fished in with their craving for market share. Which is a weird desire in itself for somebody supposedly not interested in profit. They should be happy just to be an alternative. But, BigCorp runs the show... Who am I to argue?
What used to be the cool, slim and fast new browser on the intarwebs has become a ridiculous moloch...
I don't even know why it exists anymore. It started out as a slimmed down Netscape/Seamonkey. Now it's just as fat, but with none of the features. And does anybody still use Thunderbird?
None of it matters to me as long as Seamonkey remains untouched. No other browser even compares.
Yeah, Well I guess you weren't in Alabama in the 50s (the feds acted like the good guys then), though your shot at Reagan is half true. The decline accelerated dramatically in the 80s, and the voters kept on asking for more of the same. I could sympathize if they were forced...
No, actually it was fueled by post war reconstruction of Europe and Japan.
I sure hope he hasn't been compromised, by green paper 'malware', or *an offer he can't refuse*.
That's what everyone is saying here. Yeah, so they are... Big deal... You can thank the voters, for being, in a recently made famous word, "Stupid", stupid for willingly believing the lies. Tell me, what am I supposed to feel towards those people who did this?
This was a NASA project?
Mozilla still has Seamonkey. The far superior, all inclusive browser.
Good thing I saw this. I almost posted the same thing. But I think Google cut Mozilla out of some revenue sharing thing. It doesn't look like there was much choice. They're gambling that Yahoo will bring in more. I say 'Good Luck'...
We have to learn to separate the waste products. These things aren't impossible. Let's not pretend we can't refine the tech. Our economic/political system is the only impediment to progress.
And it's working like a charm... Good move fellas... You're guaranteed a packed house...
Western civilization and technology, much longer and healthier lives...yeah I can see all those ill effects.
Take a glance over the fence, you just might see...
Ah, but having *bills to pay* and *mouths to feed* is your free get out of hell and into heaven card.
Silly goose. Restricting access to natural resources with your phony land deeds requires a great deal of amoral force. You describe nature, not morality. Nature is completely indifferent and amoral, just like capitalism, and that's why capitalism actually works. It's a purely animal thing. Nothing 'moral' about it.
Ah yes, monetary profit. The only reason to do anything. How else can we force a man to work if we can't ration his necessities?
Anyway, for maximum profit, learn to mechanize the process. Tunnel boring machines can be made in any size, and if you do it right, you can have it drag along a smelter, so only the pure shit comes out of the hole.
If China was smart...
Why do you say that? The leadership is experiencing no difficulties. Their wealth is very secure. Rocking the boat would only jeopardize it. Majority rule only makes things very messy.
Why not?
You'd better listen to the noise. You definitely won't need a sireeen.
Please, the bickering is theater, the play has been running with the same actors for 150 years... and everything is progressing as planned. It hasn't stopped at all. In fact, it is accelerating. Somebody put a brick on the gas pedal 35 years ago.
What 'locking' issues are you talking about? Oh, you must mean locking out anybody who is not a republican or democrat. I'm pretty sure that the people financing the whole thing are getting their money's worth.The glitches you see on the TV are quite trivial. The machine is working very smoothly. The state's power remains unchallenged. The numbers of coders and gigolos in congress makes no difference. What do they bring to the campaign 'donors'? That is what will determine their position and power.
They're high enough. You just need a bigger condenser.
For dramatic effect, I should add that an itty-bitty virus or bacteria can kill a bear... The strong always win, by definition.
The past and future existed/will exist. Only your memories and anticipation exist now.
The cause of almost every human disaster is human error. The are few things where computers shine more dramatically than in the airline industry. All the way up through the 70s they were wrecking one somewhere in the world every month. Look at the numbers now. It is truly amazing when you consider the frailty and the raw physics of these contraptions and the conditions we operate them. I mean, no sane man will fly through a thunderstorm during peacetime.
In a bad situation, I would put much more faith in the computer to hit the right target at least. Humans are just too slow and fickle.
Yes, and suspend it from further duty, with power, or assign it to a desk job, until after the inquiry... Just like any other shooting.