Springyness of the lower leg is based on function of tendons. It's a fairly well known feature in sports medicine, and we've been replacing/sewing tendons on sportsmen for a while to treat ruptures with materials that resemble original closely enough not to impair performance.
Proportional muscle power of any portion of the leg is measurable through equipping a harness that can measure all directional forces generated by the leg and split them by portion. With modern sensors and robotics, this should be constructable.
Process of running itself in all its complexity is widely studied, so we do have the knowledge base there.
Unfortunate because they didn't have enough reliable information to base their decision upon? You do realise that in the world of sports, you're excluded even on reasonable suspicion of using artificial enhancers.
Sad thing is, now that I think back there's quite a bit of evidence to support your hypotesis. From adding random crap and defaulting to it (awesomebar, personas, etc) to weird mixing around with settings and front-end, I spent quite a bit of time from 2.x up undoing the crap mozilla kept adding into FF, or adding back stuff that got axed.
It's just that post 4.x, there are things that can no longer be added back at their former full functionality anymore like status bar.
The reason, at least logically would be the fact that firefox+chrome have a much higher user base.
Remember, google's bread and butter is selling ads. Everything else is essentially slaved to that part of their business, which is why they support FF - they get a large portion of web users who get a google default search engine as well as google search hit every time they type something in the address bar that can't be translated into a proper DNS query or an ip address.
There is a far more simple and brutal reason for moving the credit rating. Earnings.
S&P (+Fitch and Moody's) ratings are hard wired into the system on legislative level, and WILL raise the costs of borrowing. This means better yields. Which in turn means a LOT of interested parties in such action.
This is just another act of "big capital going for maximum yield on investment, costs to macroeconomy be damned".
They are eliminating important interface elements to make it more small-screen worthy. That's not "unnecessary clutter", that's "optimizing for one scenario only used by a small portion of users, throwing everything else out of the window".
This may sound like a troll, but brainwashed or paid? Google is the one footing most of the mozilla foundation's bill with their priority placement in search, so they're bound to have a lot of say within the organisation and the direction it will take.
No, you're not. But between being google funded and being "developers have these GREAT ideas, and public not using them is WRONG, we will FORCE you to use these ideas by simply REMOVING old stuff and replacing it with this WONDERFUL new stuff" - idealistic bullshit, firefox is not the browser that unseated IE from #1 slot in so many countries. The newest version of firefox already is just a copy of chrome on a different engine. Chrome fans love it, rest avoid it like plague or tolerate it hoping for someone at mozilla foundation to regain enough sanity to hit the brakes. And by the way article talks, pedal is pressed to the metal and and the "wrong engine" part will be remedied shortly. New platform will be android I guess?
I'm really starting to wonder just how mozilla foundation is not just a corporate shell for google's second browser arm. Well, between noscript and adblock, 3.6 is bound to carry me for a couple of years until a reasonable replacement shows up.
3.6 is the last firefox. Everything beyond is a chromefox, a poor chrome copy. The only real difference is rendering engine - interface is essentially chasing chrome's.
I'm not saying they're good. I'm saying they're better then the alternative of giving the money to the top 1% earners who will invest in whatever gives them the highest yield, economy be damned. The lesser evil basically.
The best option would be to do what USA did in the 60s and 70s - heaviest taxes up to and over 90% on the highest earners, lightest on lowest, and limits on freedom of movement of capital that ensure that money that top earners to get is invested in a way that will benefit the economy even if that reduces the yields for investments.
I'm what you would call a "classic conservative" in this regard - someone who has actually studied history, and likes the model that won the biggest economic power showdown of the history - the Cold War. And as you can tell, I'm not a biggest fan of the model of completely unhindered free capital movement model that we're pretty close to now, which has caused problems throughout our history whenever it was implemented, and it's doing so again as we speak. The top earners will ALWAYS push for it as it allows them a maximum amount of control and profit within the system, and in the end it ALWAYS ends up killing the economy and causing massive upheavals when not held in check. And to halt our progress toward this model, we need higher taxes on highest earners to reduce their economic power and influence over the political system. TL;DR: imo it's necessary to reduce the massive corruption of democracy by major capital that is unchecked, uncontrolled and slowly taking economy to it's death by hunting for the maximum profit at the expense of everything else.
For the record: I don't mind people being rich, and I don't like people who skirt the rules or drive salaries down because they're illegally in the country. But I do think that the list you present is full of much lesser evils then that of ceding macroeconomic control to major capital with nothing to keep it from destroying the economy as it has done countless times in history and I also believe that we should handle important issues before getting stuck on the minutiae of lesser ones.
I hope that clears up the "brainwashed" part for you.
Even if money ends in hands of "illegal aliens", they'll spend most of it consuming local services and satisfying basic needs. That will create jobs and stimulate economy. When government workers get raises, private workers have to get raises as well as private workplace would become less competitive when hunting for workers. Also, government workers, like illegal aliens would spend it on services and basic needs, creating jobs and stimulating economy.
Your third claim, raising salaries of those who are already well off is what tax raises is supposed to PREVENT. Because wealthy rarely spend money locally, instead investing it into whatever brings them most return, which is rarely something in the local economy, and often is against local economy. Mortgage crisis and many similar ways to earn money from crashing or massively slowing economy down would like a word with you, as would investments in companies that simply outsource, eliminating local jobs and cutting local economy at its knees. Which is what is happening in the West (USA, Canada, EU region, Australia, Japan etc wealthy countries) - we're approaching the levels where capital controls so much power that its self-destructive potential is starting to overpower host country's ability to survive it.
This is basic economics: capitalism is functional as long as it's properly guided so that it's natural tendency to become self-destructive is kept in check while it's positive drive for more competitiveness is supported. For examples of self-destructive nature of capitalism when unguided, you should take a look at the biggest crises that occurred in twentieth century - most of them have roots in failure to control the aforementioned self-destructive nature resulting in capitalism simply self-destructing. From bank crashes to motions that led to starting of WW2, collapse of capitalist system due to it running out of control has traditionally been one of the root causes.
This is what strikes me as amazing about people who complain about this issue - the sheer amount of doublethink required to actually believe that things they spout are correct, when it's at conflict with basic economics which you really don't need a degree to understand.
Fanboys don't generate the complaints. Fanboys, by definition, are people who will complain/deny/scream at anyone complaining about the thing they're into, trying to shut them up at any cost and by any means necessary from pointless shouting to trying to make up intelligent-looking arguments that have no substance behind them. Because that's what fanboys are - the object of fandom can do no wrong, and when someone complains about the object of fandom, they are inherently stupid, evil and just plain need to be shut up.
On that note, your post above is a good example of relatively tame variant of fanboyism.
If that was true, Nokia's would have had touchscreen on most of its smartphones around 2005. But the pilot phone was buried as "too risky" by management
It may be worth noting that export status (for sensitive hardware and such) in Soviet Union had a classification category of "Warsaw Pact states and Finland".
For all bits and purposes Finland was regarded neutral enough to actually view it as a reasonably trustworthy diplomatically by both parties during peace time, resulting in many high-level negotiations, especially ones that needed to be done out of media sight between East and West being done there. Installing listening posts form EITHER party would have destroyed this unique status overnight - something leadership would not do under any circumstances. This balancing act between two giants hell bent on destroying each other was the only thing that allowed Finland to retain independence during Cold War.
Notably it was the same thing that allowed it to retain independence during WW2 in spite of being part of Axis, and being located in what Stalin called "strategic Leningrad defence zone". Why? Because finns successfully pulled off a very difficult balancing act between being part of Axis, staging a bloody enough defence to make Stalin think twice of the cost it would take to pacify the country vs letting it stay independent with land successions deciding in favor of latter (and we all know how high Stalin regarded human life cost).
Of course, the other side of the coin was that both East and West regarded the country as expendable in event of an actual war, and had plans to simply level the country with nukes to deny other the use of it. So from local point of view there were no "good guys" in Cold War - there were just two brutal murderous empires ready to wipe out about 5 million nation with tactical and strategic nuclear weapons just to deny other side use of its infrastructure. As a result, NATO isn't exactly loved by anyone other then right wing folks, and old school Russia haters drawing their hate from what happened during Winter War and WW2 who see NATO as the "enemy of my enemy".
The "world" hasn't moved on anywhere. Most people browse web, because they want to browse the web. If a web page has a game, or a similar application, it will work within the page. It does so NOW, with no problems on FF 3.6.x which when going by your logic is some outdated piece of crap since it hasn't "moved on with the world" and optimized for web apps only.
Issue is that some retarded ultra-hip designers who live in the world of "tomorrow is today" decided that there is nothing but web applications, and any and all features designed for myriad of other uses of web, that easily encompass 90% of worldwide web usage (I could reasonably argue 99%+ since most web applications nowadays are pages with certain active elements, that are optimized to be viewed as a WEB PAGE because that's what they are) should just be canned so that the hip stuff could look marginally better.
Mandatory car analogy: designers decide that gasoline and diesel cars can no longer have a standard fuel inlet standardized for a pump. Instead they should have a barrel-sized opening on top of the fuel tank, and user should fill the barrel at pump, then lift it and dump contents into the car tank. Reasoning being that electric cars don't need pumps either and electric cars are the future and so all pumps should be scrapped anyway as useless, and anyone using one "hasn't moved on with the world".
You just misspelled "designers". Users want consistency more then anything, and windows product line, including vista's failure due to too much change is a great example of that.
Designers on the other hand are the ones burning with desire to push their "great ideas" onto users.
"Web application" could be coded to work natively on my machine, thank you very much. Browser should first and foremost be exactly what the name suggests: a "browser", program to browse web pages. Not a software platform. We have windows/linux/max os/etc operating systems for that.
If you must run some application inside a browser, that's all fine and dandy. But that's just an additional feature, which should never overshadow the actual purpose of the program.
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Springyness of the lower leg is based on function of tendons. It's a fairly well known feature in sports medicine, and we've been replacing/sewing tendons on sportsmen for a while to treat ruptures with materials that resemble original closely enough not to impair performance.
Proportional muscle power of any portion of the leg is measurable through equipping a harness that can measure all directional forces generated by the leg and split them by portion. With modern sensors and robotics, this should be constructable.
Process of running itself in all its complexity is widely studied, so we do have the knowledge base there.
Unfortunate because they didn't have enough reliable information to base their decision upon? You do realise that in the world of sports, you're excluded even on reasonable suspicion of using artificial enhancers.
Reference: Doping.
Sad thing is, now that I think back there's quite a bit of evidence to support your hypotesis. From adding random crap and defaulting to it (awesomebar, personas, etc) to weird mixing around with settings and front-end, I spent quite a bit of time from 2.x up undoing the crap mozilla kept adding into FF, or adding back stuff that got axed.
It's just that post 4.x, there are things that can no longer be added back at their former full functionality anymore like status bar.
The reason, at least logically would be the fact that firefox+chrome have a much higher user base.
Remember, google's bread and butter is selling ads. Everything else is essentially slaved to that part of their business, which is why they support FF - they get a large portion of web users who get a google default search engine as well as google search hit every time they type something in the address bar that can't be translated into a proper DNS query or an ip address.
So, on one hand you want to be free, complain about the curfew as well as police having ability to enforce it.
On the other hand, you want police to take care of child criminals, absolving parents from responsibility.
Have you ever heard a saying "you can't have your cake and eat it too"?
There is a far more simple and brutal reason for moving the credit rating. Earnings.
S&P (+Fitch and Moody's) ratings are hard wired into the system on legislative level, and WILL raise the costs of borrowing. This means better yields. Which in turn means a LOT of interested parties in such action.
This is just another act of "big capital going for maximum yield on investment, costs to macroeconomy be damned".
They are eliminating important interface elements to make it more small-screen worthy. That's not "unnecessary clutter", that's "optimizing for one scenario only used by a small portion of users, throwing everything else out of the window".
This may sound like a troll, but brainwashed or paid? Google is the one footing most of the mozilla foundation's bill with their priority placement in search, so they're bound to have a lot of say within the organisation and the direction it will take.
There are people who are in love with the sound of their own voice.
No, you're not. But between being google funded and being "developers have these GREAT ideas, and public not using them is WRONG, we will FORCE you to use these ideas by simply REMOVING old stuff and replacing it with this WONDERFUL new stuff" - idealistic bullshit, firefox is not the browser that unseated IE from #1 slot in so many countries.
The newest version of firefox already is just a copy of chrome on a different engine. Chrome fans love it, rest avoid it like plague or tolerate it hoping for someone at mozilla foundation to regain enough sanity to hit the brakes. And by the way article talks, pedal is pressed to the metal and and the "wrong engine" part will be remedied shortly. New platform will be android I guess?
I'm really starting to wonder just how mozilla foundation is not just a corporate shell for google's second browser arm. Well, between noscript and adblock, 3.6 is bound to carry me for a couple of years until a reasonable replacement shows up.
3.6 is the last firefox. Everything beyond is a chromefox, a poor chrome copy. The only real difference is rendering engine - interface is essentially chasing chrome's.
I'm not saying they're good. I'm saying they're better then the alternative of giving the money to the top 1% earners who will invest in whatever gives them the highest yield, economy be damned. The lesser evil basically.
The best option would be to do what USA did in the 60s and 70s - heaviest taxes up to and over 90% on the highest earners, lightest on lowest, and limits on freedom of movement of capital that ensure that money that top earners to get is invested in a way that will benefit the economy even if that reduces the yields for investments.
I'm what you would call a "classic conservative" in this regard - someone who has actually studied history, and likes the model that won the biggest economic power showdown of the history - the Cold War. And as you can tell, I'm not a biggest fan of the model of completely unhindered free capital movement model that we're pretty close to now, which has caused problems throughout our history whenever it was implemented, and it's doing so again as we speak. The top earners will ALWAYS push for it as it allows them a maximum amount of control and profit within the system, and in the end it ALWAYS ends up killing the economy and causing massive upheavals when not held in check. And to halt our progress toward this model, we need higher taxes on highest earners to reduce their economic power and influence over the political system.
TL;DR: imo it's necessary to reduce the massive corruption of democracy by major capital that is unchecked, uncontrolled and slowly taking economy to it's death by hunting for the maximum profit at the expense of everything else.
For the record: I don't mind people being rich, and I don't like people who skirt the rules or drive salaries down because they're illegally in the country. But I do think that the list you present is full of much lesser evils then that of ceding macroeconomic control to major capital with nothing to keep it from destroying the economy as it has done countless times in history and I also believe that we should handle important issues before getting stuck on the minutiae of lesser ones.
I hope that clears up the "brainwashed" part for you.
Energy is renewable with sufficient mass.
First of all, we'd run out of planet to live on. NBC weapons take care of that really well.
Holy brainwashing batman!
Even if money ends in hands of "illegal aliens", they'll spend most of it consuming local services and satisfying basic needs. That will create jobs and stimulate economy.
When government workers get raises, private workers have to get raises as well as private workplace would become less competitive when hunting for workers. Also, government workers, like illegal aliens would spend it on services and basic needs, creating jobs and stimulating economy.
Your third claim, raising salaries of those who are already well off is what tax raises is supposed to PREVENT. Because wealthy rarely spend money locally, instead investing it into whatever brings them most return, which is rarely something in the local economy, and often is against local economy. Mortgage crisis and many similar ways to earn money from crashing or massively slowing economy down would like a word with you, as would investments in companies that simply outsource, eliminating local jobs and cutting local economy at its knees. Which is what is happening in the West (USA, Canada, EU region, Australia, Japan etc wealthy countries) - we're approaching the levels where capital controls so much power that its self-destructive potential is starting to overpower host country's ability to survive it.
This is basic economics: capitalism is functional as long as it's properly guided so that it's natural tendency to become self-destructive is kept in check while it's positive drive for more competitiveness is supported. For examples of self-destructive nature of capitalism when unguided, you should take a look at the biggest crises that occurred in twentieth century - most of them have roots in failure to control the aforementioned self-destructive nature resulting in capitalism simply self-destructing. From bank crashes to motions that led to starting of WW2, collapse of capitalist system due to it running out of control has traditionally been one of the root causes.
This is what strikes me as amazing about people who complain about this issue - the sheer amount of doublethink required to actually believe that things they spout are correct, when it's at conflict with basic economics which you really don't need a degree to understand.
Fanboys don't generate the complaints. Fanboys, by definition, are people who will complain/deny/scream at anyone complaining about the thing they're into, trying to shut them up at any cost and by any means necessary from pointless shouting to trying to make up intelligent-looking arguments that have no substance behind them. Because that's what fanboys are - the object of fandom can do no wrong, and when someone complains about the object of fandom, they are inherently stupid, evil and just plain need to be shut up.
On that note, your post above is a good example of relatively tame variant of fanboyism.
If that was true, Nokia's would have had touchscreen on most of its smartphones around 2005. But the pilot phone was buried as "too risky" by management
It may be worth noting that export status (for sensitive hardware and such) in Soviet Union had a classification category of "Warsaw Pact states and Finland".
For all bits and purposes Finland was regarded neutral enough to actually view it as a reasonably trustworthy diplomatically by both parties during peace time, resulting in many high-level negotiations, especially ones that needed to be done out of media sight between East and West being done there. Installing listening posts form EITHER party would have destroyed this unique status overnight - something leadership would not do under any circumstances. This balancing act between two giants hell bent on destroying each other was the only thing that allowed Finland to retain independence during Cold War.
Notably it was the same thing that allowed it to retain independence during WW2 in spite of being part of Axis, and being located in what Stalin called "strategic Leningrad defence zone". Why? Because finns successfully pulled off a very difficult balancing act between being part of Axis, staging a bloody enough defence to make Stalin think twice of the cost it would take to pacify the country vs letting it stay independent with land successions deciding in favor of latter (and we all know how high Stalin regarded human life cost).
Of course, the other side of the coin was that both East and West regarded the country as expendable in event of an actual war, and had plans to simply level the country with nukes to deny other the use of it. So from local point of view there were no "good guys" in Cold War - there were just two brutal murderous empires ready to wipe out about 5 million nation with tactical and strategic nuclear weapons just to deny other side use of its infrastructure. As a result, NATO isn't exactly loved by anyone other then right wing folks, and old school Russia haters drawing their hate from what happened during Winter War and WW2 who see NATO as the "enemy of my enemy".
The world is DEAD! The DRAMA!
"Never argue with an idiot: he'll take you down to his level and beat you with his experience".
You win.
So, to "fix" the problem that isn't really a problem, they should axe long term product support and screw many of their customers?
I mean it in the best possible way: sometimes applethink isn't the best thing since sliced bread.
The "world" hasn't moved on anywhere. Most people browse web, because they want to browse the web. If a web page has a game, or a similar application, it will work within the page. It does so NOW, with no problems on FF 3.6.x which when going by your logic is some outdated piece of crap since it hasn't "moved on with the world" and optimized for web apps only.
Issue is that some retarded ultra-hip designers who live in the world of "tomorrow is today" decided that there is nothing but web applications, and any and all features designed for myriad of other uses of web, that easily encompass 90% of worldwide web usage (I could reasonably argue 99%+ since most web applications nowadays are pages with certain active elements, that are optimized to be viewed as a WEB PAGE because that's what they are) should just be canned so that the hip stuff could look marginally better.
Mandatory car analogy: designers decide that gasoline and diesel cars can no longer have a standard fuel inlet standardized for a pump. Instead they should have a barrel-sized opening on top of the fuel tank, and user should fill the barrel at pump, then lift it and dump contents into the car tank. Reasoning being that electric cars don't need pumps either and electric cars are the future and so all pumps should be scrapped anyway as useless, and anyone using one "hasn't moved on with the world".
Driver nightmare of epic proportions.
You just misspelled "designers". Users want consistency more then anything, and windows product line, including vista's failure due to too much change is a great example of that.
Designers on the other hand are the ones burning with desire to push their "great ideas" onto users.
"Web application" could be coded to work natively on my machine, thank you very much. Browser should first and foremost be exactly what the name suggests: a "browser", program to browse web pages. Not a software platform. We have windows/linux/max os/etc operating systems for that.
If you must run some application inside a browser, that's all fine and dandy. But that's just an additional feature, which should never overshadow the actual purpose of the program.