Because its impossible to predict what will break in tomorrows nightly build, let alone what will work 2 to 3 version in advance.
As is typical with most if not all OSS software, there is no plan, no concern for compatibility with existing software, its just 'we'll do what we want to do, don't like it?
Doesn't it seem a little fucked up that someone had to create an extension to turn off the checking because it got in the way so much? Does that not let you see the writing on the wall in perfect clarity? Do you need someone from Mozilla to come slap you in the face and scream at you until you get the point?
That extension is intended for beta/alpha testers to check whether the addons work or not. The reason I've got it was because I beta test. -
Also I found this interesting part in their roadmap:
"To ship smaller bundles of technology more quickly will require us to take a hard look at our existing systems and re-evaluate some of the assumptions we take as immutable, such as:
- we must provide binary compatibility for Add-ons "
Between 5.0 and 4.0 the differences are all underneath the hood except for about:memory. It would be 4.1 if they weren't going for a fast release.
Regarding plugins - if you get the "Addon compatibility checker" from mozilla (or modify the config), it'll skip version checking so you can try out stuff not designed for your version - which between 4.0 and 5 will work.
You either make players pay every month - which means they expect balance. Or you give players the ability to '1-up' their opponent by paying their way through it.
Doing both is silly, it just means that players will pay to win, and the others won't want to pay their monthly fee and enjoy the game less than the guy who bought his way in.
Doing it with just micropayments works, because if the players get tired of the heavy-users that's fine, they're not paying anything.
English public schools are and always have been full of faggotry.
Not sure whether you chose that word by accident - but "Fagging" (same root) was common in english public schools and it had nothing to do with homosexuality.
You mean that large companies can agree together to mutually do bad things to their customers without having any problems with the customers leaving them?
I'm so amazed, this wasn't written in my "Free Market 101: Why it works".
Thanks for the info. I was doing an assignment on this, and I found a lot of references to some EU patent discussion in 2005 or something like that, but I couldn't find out how it finished.
Its not just that which is making China powerful. China is playing both the capitalist game and the 'government controlled' game. You're free to open your own factory and employ chinese workers (which also means they get a look at your designs), while the government owns research facilities and that sort of thing.
So when you look at how China got its train designs, and you wonder how the 'fake iPhones' look just like the real thing...
Not all Linux users are 'nerdy' enough to want to play around with a different browser. Some just want to stay with the default. Same for other applications.
With your same argument I could say that IE is the best browser, because for many years it held more than 50-70% of internet users.
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Because its impossible to predict what will break in tomorrows nightly build, let alone what will work 2 to 3 version in advance.
As is typical with most if not all OSS software, there is no plan, no concern for compatibility with existing software, its just 'we'll do what we want to do, don't like it?
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Features/Release_Tracking
Doesn't it seem a little fucked up that someone had to create an extension to turn off the checking because it got in the way so much? Does that not let you see the writing on the wall in perfect clarity? Do you need someone from Mozilla to come slap you in the face and scream at you until you get the point?
That extension is intended for beta/alpha testers to check whether the addons work or not. The reason I've got it was because I beta test.
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Also I found this interesting part in their roadmap:
"To ship smaller bundles of technology more quickly will require us to take a hard look at our existing systems and re-evaluate some of the assumptions we take as immutable, such as:
- we must provide binary compatibility for Add-ons "
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Roadmap
Well it disables addon checking, so you can run anything.
I'm sure FF should put in a different sort of checking for addon things - especially since the UI might not change, but for now its a good enough fix.
If you notice its marked as valid till FF7 - which is rather interesting - why don't the add-on designers do the same?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compatibility-reporter/
You're welcome.
Between 5.0 and 4.0 the differences are all underneath the hood except for about:memory. It would be 4.1 if they weren't going for a fast release.
Regarding plugins - if you get the "Addon compatibility checker" from mozilla (or modify the config), it'll skip version checking so you can try out stuff not designed for your version - which between 4.0 and 5 will work.
Generally if it asks you it means its already downloaded it.
So all it does is install. You don't have to restart your computer ... where did that come from?
So once every few months you get a popup, press install, go through UAC (if you're on Windoze), and in 2 minutes you can use it again.
If you use Linux on the other hand it'll update silently with the update thingy, and you need to restart the browser.
No idea what its like on Macs
If the plugin will work anyway, disable add-on version checking and bob's your uncle.
Help > About > Check for updates.
Update Now.
Wait. Done.
Or just wait till it pops up an update on its own. Its not like you have to compile the code itself.
Cash they're already getting through the fact that players pay a monthly subscription already.
Playing two sides of the field = nono.
You either make players pay every month - which means they expect balance.
Or you give players the ability to '1-up' their opponent by paying their way through it.
Doing both is silly, it just means that players will pay to win, and the others won't want to pay their monthly fee and enjoy the game less than the guy who bought his way in.
Doing it with just micropayments works, because if the players get tired of the heavy-users that's fine, they're not paying anything.
Instead of "Open Source" for these sorts of things. Open Source makes me think of Source code, and not 'whats under the hood'
"Open Schematics" ?
Turing Test =/= Turing Machine =/= Turing Reduction
Guy certainly was prolific though.
English public schools are and always have been full of faggotry.
Not sure whether you chose that word by accident - but "Fagging" (same root) was common in english public schools and it had nothing to do with homosexuality.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Fagging
Thank you mister Turing. Sorry about the whole anti-gay thing.
Sent from my physical implementation of Turing Machine.
You mean that large companies can agree together to mutually do bad things to their customers without having any problems with the customers leaving them?
I'm so amazed, this wasn't written in my "Free Market 101: Why it works".
Just install a very lightweight linux distro. Install firefox on it. Set it to full screen mode.
Done. No need to reinvent the wheel.
Thanks for the info. I was doing an assignment on this, and I found a lot of references to some EU patent discussion in 2005 or something like that, but I couldn't find out how it finished.
"If you're innocent get a Judge, if you're guilty get a Jury"
In certain countries software patents aren't accepted. In my country there is a particular clause which says that you can't patent software.
However, in a country which is in the pocket of large corporations, do you think anyone is going to try to change that?
Put a sphere of annihilation in the statue's mouth.
Its not just that which is making China powerful. China is playing both the capitalist game and the 'government controlled' game. You're free to open your own factory and employ chinese workers (which also means they get a look at your designs), while the government owns research facilities and that sort of thing.
So when you look at how China got its train designs, and you wonder how the 'fake iPhones' look just like the real thing...
A multi-platform browser tightly coupling itself so that a certain subset of the users can't use some of the features. What a good idea.
They don't need a lawsuit. All they need is to attach those special apple IR transmitters to the cows and there's no problem at all.
Don't worry, as the title says:
"A patent application"
So nobody can copy them for around 17-20 years or how long the patent is. So we're safe for now.
This article is more than an hour old. Where's the lawsuit?
Argument is very flawed.
Not all Linux users are 'nerdy' enough to want to play around with a different browser. Some just want to stay with the default. Same for other applications.
With your same argument I could say that IE is the best browser, because for many years it held more than 50-70% of internet users.