I used FF and Chrome in parallel for a while until about a year ago, when I realized that I had almost completely switched to Chrome.
By this time, I had cut down my FF install to nearly the bare bones minimum. FF's strongest selling point, it's extensibility, was what was causing me most of my headaches.
Don't get me wrong. Chrome has a certain Apple attitude about things - Our Way is the Right Way. I've filed a lot of issue reports, usually over a lost feature in an update, only to be told that, no, that's the way it's supposed to be. I just got one back yesterday. Can't reorder the home/most visited screen anymore. I can delete any thumbnail to have the eight (and only eight) that I want on screen, so this is in fact NOT technically a "most visited" screen, but I can't have them in the order that I want them? I mind this much less than bizarre behavior in FF.
I've been dragged to the actual ceremony a couple times over the past couple years. A bunch of guys in funny hats and completely undeveloped senses of humor and timing = fucking boring. The timer girl wasn't funny the first time and it's not funny the fiftieth time.
The actual papers winning the prizes are often amusing. The presentation and the ceremony itself is not.
I'm one of the geeks who didn't really like Firefly. It drops pretty far into the uncanny valley for me.
Chinese is one of the things they got sorta right, then failed on. Ah, so the Chinese culture is so commonplace that Chinese words are sprinkled throughout everyone's lexicon and elements of Chinese culture are everywhere.
So, uhm, where are the Chinese characters?
Look, I understand the inherent limitations of network television and all that goes into casting a prime time show. There's a lot more white actors in Hollywood and if Fox doesn't want to take a risk, it's their money. The problem here is that Mr. Whedon is trying to sell me something that he can't actually produce. It's a visual medium. I can SEE that there aren't any Chinese on screen.
Every ten minutes, Joss opened another can of worms.
How many who are reading/. now believe that the patent system is actually functioning well and serving the public in the way it was supposed to? Anyone who keeps remotely abreast with tech and science trends knows that the current patent system (and for matter, intellectual property law in general) is massively broken.
Reform will only come when the waves get big enough that the public starts paying attention. That's not going to happen with the equivalent of small scale knife fights that get settled behind closed doors.
To make real reform happen, it needs to get to a point when high profile players with very deep pockets get to a point where neither will back down. Even better is if all parties involved start generating some real fear, uncertainly and doubt. Get the public to pay attention. Really make it seem like the nuclear options are on the table. Aka, "If we lose, we're going to have to disable X features on your device..."
Then we'll see some action. Then we might some serious attempts at reform.
Apple taking the hard line on this on so many fronts seems so nonsensical that I half believe that they're doing this on purpose. If you're Apple, I think you see the writing on the wall. Doing what Apple does best (other than making money) on the production side - putting together other people's ideas into a smart, well-designed, consumer-friendly package - is going to get harder and harder with these shackles and hillbilly armor that everyone's weighing themselves down with. If you think about it, Apple doesn't usually invent most of the tech in their products.
Really, is this absurdity that far-fetched? The level of Apple's aggression on so many fronts is mind-boggling.
I think Google's got a Plan, too. We already know that Google types think of massive patent bidding wars - they were submitting joke bids during the Nortel auctions.
That's my fantasy, anyway. In this fantasy, the world is Good & Just. Apple hasn't taken over the role of Evil Empire from Microsoft and Google's policy of do no evil actually means something.
The AEBS is a solid router. I have several of them scattered throughout mine and my parent's homes.
Upside - It's an Apple product. Just works. Easy to set up, maintain. Relatively reliable, good hardware, decent enough implementation.
The downside - It's an Apple product. It's inflexible and if there's a feature you want that's not available, you're not going to get it.
The one big, standard feature at this price level that you don't get is QoS. If you can live without it or have alternative means, the AEBS is a great choice. If you don't have such a fat pipe and/or feel the need to tinker or share the connection through work, with roommates or with family, you need to consider something else.
(RIM) has been in the labs cooking up a new software platform dubbed QNX, a central piece of its efforts to restore the company.
That's interesting and informative. And here I've been thinking for the past ten years that QNX was an underrated OS for some applications, overrated for others. Maybe a little redundant for RIM.
[blockquote](RIM) has been in the labs cooking up a new software platform dubbed QNX, a central piece of its efforts to restore the company.[/blockquote]
That's interesting and informative. And here I've been thinking for ten years that it's an underrated OS, maybe a little redundant for RIM.
I think to most religious people, science is essentially another form of magic, where the strength of belief overrules the weight of the evidence. They can't see it, they can't touch it, they can't really understand it, therefore, much like faith in a deity, it's just magic.
The 1/8 or 1/4 soldiers firing is an outdated statistic from the era of draftees. It's been noted that in the past ten years, this phenomena no longer exists in our all volunteer force.
I've seen such a steep and precipitous the decline of navigation skills in soldiers (and Marines) in the past ten years that this story is just about at the threshold of believability for me.
Modern soldiers and Marines are so dependent on Blue Force Tracker, such that most junior NCOs don't have a clue on how to navigate without it.
Built a bunch of Pringles Y-U in east Africa (believe it or not, Pringles are very popular there). Works, but you better have that shit sheltered. Falls apart in the rain or heavy winds. I ended up just getting Cisco to donate a bunch.
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I used FF and Chrome in parallel for a while until about a year ago, when I realized that I had almost completely switched to Chrome.
By this time, I had cut down my FF install to nearly the bare bones minimum. FF's strongest selling point, it's extensibility, was what was causing me most of my headaches.
Don't get me wrong. Chrome has a certain Apple attitude about things - Our Way is the Right Way. I've filed a lot of issue reports, usually over a lost feature in an update, only to be told that, no, that's the way it's supposed to be. I just got one back yesterday. Can't reorder the home/most visited screen anymore. I can delete any thumbnail to have the eight (and only eight) that I want on screen, so this is in fact NOT technically a "most visited" screen, but I can't have them in the order that I want them? I mind this much less than bizarre behavior in FF.
Pretty much.
I've been dragged to the actual ceremony a couple times over the past couple years. A bunch of guys in funny hats and completely undeveloped senses of humor and timing = fucking boring. The timer girl wasn't funny the first time and it's not funny the fiftieth time.
The actual papers winning the prizes are often amusing. The presentation and the ceremony itself is not.
It was better Hannibal wrote these articles.
Inevitability is the narrowing influence of the God of the gaps. Inevitability is that these people eventually ending up on the wrong side of history.
It frustrates me to no end to see how much drag these people create.
At least that's what I thought when I saw "Meg Whitman" and "HP."
In the CEO world, you can't fail down. Only upwards or sideways.
Don't get me wrong, I fully approve of cute, red-haired greasemonkies & engineers. (What is it about geeks and redheads?)
Chinese this, Chinese that and main cast is five white characters, a Magical Negro, a Gina Torres and a Morena Baccarin (Ethnicity: Smoking Hot).
I'm one of the geeks who didn't really like Firefly. It drops pretty far into the uncanny valley for me.
Chinese is one of the things they got sorta right, then failed on. Ah, so the Chinese culture is so commonplace that Chinese words are sprinkled throughout everyone's lexicon and elements of Chinese culture are everywhere.
So, uhm, where are the Chinese characters?
Look, I understand the inherent limitations of network television and all that goes into casting a prime time show. There's a lot more white actors in Hollywood and if Fox doesn't want to take a risk, it's their money. The problem here is that Mr. Whedon is trying to sell me something that he can't actually produce. It's a visual medium. I can SEE that there aren't any Chinese on screen.
Every ten minutes, Joss opened another can of worms.
Bro, your geek card needs to be suspended for a week if that's a head-scratcher.
We should be encouraging more behavior like this.
/. now believe that the patent system is actually functioning well and serving the public in the way it was supposed to? Anyone who keeps remotely abreast with tech and science trends knows that the current patent system (and for matter, intellectual property law in general) is massively broken.
How many who are reading
Reform will only come when the waves get big enough that the public starts paying attention. That's not going to happen with the equivalent of small scale knife fights that get settled behind closed doors.
To make real reform happen, it needs to get to a point when high profile players with very deep pockets get to a point where neither will back down. Even better is if all parties involved start generating some real fear, uncertainly and doubt. Get the public to pay attention. Really make it seem like the nuclear options are on the table. Aka, "If we lose, we're going to have to disable X features on your device..."
Then we'll see some action. Then we might some serious attempts at reform.
Apple taking the hard line on this on so many fronts seems so nonsensical that I half believe that they're doing this on purpose. If you're Apple, I think you see the writing on the wall. Doing what Apple does best (other than making money) on the production side - putting together other people's ideas into a smart, well-designed, consumer-friendly package - is going to get harder and harder with these shackles and hillbilly armor that everyone's weighing themselves down with. If you think about it, Apple doesn't usually invent most of the tech in their products.
Really, is this absurdity that far-fetched? The level of Apple's aggression on so many fronts is mind-boggling.
I think Google's got a Plan, too. We already know that Google types think of massive patent bidding wars - they were submitting joke bids during the Nortel auctions.
That's my fantasy, anyway. In this fantasy, the world is Good & Just. Apple hasn't taken over the role of Evil Empire from Microsoft and Google's policy of do no evil actually means something.
What are you babbling about? The condition being human is 100% fatal.
The AEBS is a solid router. I have several of them scattered throughout mine and my parent's homes. Upside - It's an Apple product. Just works. Easy to set up, maintain. Relatively reliable, good hardware, decent enough implementation. The downside - It's an Apple product. It's inflexible and if there's a feature you want that's not available, you're not going to get it. The one big, standard feature at this price level that you don't get is QoS. If you can live without it or have alternative means, the AEBS is a great choice. If you don't have such a fat pipe and/or feel the need to tinker or share the connection through work, with roommates or with family, you need to consider something else.
That's interesting and informative. And here I've been thinking for the past ten years that QNX was an underrated OS for some applications, overrated for others. Maybe a little redundant for RIM.
[blockquote](RIM) has been in the labs cooking up a new software platform dubbed QNX, a central piece of its efforts to restore the company.[/blockquote]
That's interesting and informative. And here I've been thinking for ten years that it's an underrated OS, maybe a little redundant for RIM.
Simple answer - most Americans are at the point where they can no longer distinguish science from magic.
Not that simple.
There was someone who "predicted" the earthquake - for a town 60km over that actually sustained little damage.
The seismologists on trial are the ones who called a special meeting to debunk the "alarmist" scientist.
I match your hyperbole with an anecdote!
I don't know of any day to day Amiga users. I know plenty of Linux users without TVs. Myself, for one.
I think there's a strong one.
I think to most religious people, science is essentially another form of magic, where the strength of belief overrules the weight of the evidence. They can't see it, they can't touch it, they can't really understand it, therefore, much like faith in a deity, it's just magic.
The 1/8 or 1/4 soldiers firing is an outdated statistic from the era of draftees. It's been noted that in the past ten years, this phenomena no longer exists in our all volunteer force.
Look at the date of the article! It's two years old.
No, it's a fucking terrible movie, cartoonish in it's portrayal of soldiers, war and combat.
It's terrible because it tries to be realistic and fails.
GI JOE is a better movie because it doesn't pretend to be something it's not.
Or maybe the guy served.
The Hurt Locker is movie only civilians can think is good.
Well.....
I've seen such a steep and precipitous the decline of navigation skills in soldiers (and Marines) in the past ten years that this story is just about at the threshold of believability for me.
Modern soldiers and Marines are so dependent on Blue Force Tracker, such that most junior NCOs don't have a clue on how to navigate without it.
Beer snobbery is for the young. Wait till your metabolism slows down and you start looking at beer on a caloric intake/alcohol efficiency scale.
Not that Stella or Asahi are anything to write home about anyway.
Nope.
Pringles can antennas are Yagi-Udas. This is not.
Built a bunch of Pringles Y-U in east Africa (believe it or not, Pringles are very popular there). Works, but you better have that shit sheltered. Falls apart in the rain or heavy winds. I ended up just getting Cisco to donate a bunch.
Well played, sir. Well played.