Yes it would be great if the Mozilla team would copy one of the useful features of Chrome: multi-process browsing. I'm sick and tired of the monolithic Firefox process consuming vast gobs of memory and excessive CPU that means my laptop's fan is constantly kicking (and probably shortening it's life through overheating), and giving me no way to manage it other than constantly closing the browser. I've seen it behaving poorly on several computers, so I doubt it's anything to do with an individual installation.
I've heard all the bullshit excuses about why it's hard to break out in to a multi-process application. These excuses seem to be a regurgitation of the ones used by the Netscape Communicator/Seamonkey Suite people back in their day - I guess the Mozilla devs just aren't very good.
After recently reading that the Electrolysis project was on hold, I started using Chrome. It had a few annoyances that I've got used to, but all my plugins/extensions work that would apparently fail in multi-process Mozilla. Most importantly, when a tab/page uses too much memory or CPU, I can easily see which it is and close it, although Chrome hasn't been a bad system hog in the same way as Firefox.
I knew an Aussie living in Edinburgh in 1995 who "watched" the Ashes on Ceefax. I can't remember why he didn't have the radio on... maybe he didn't want to hear pomme commentators:) Ceefax was replaced by the internet for me, listening along with the radio (I hate you Rupert Murdoch for putting our national sport on pay tv; give it back!)
You can't even get Americans to collectively pay for a sane first world health care system. How can you justify forcing them to pay for space exploration? It's all about the individual and doing things your own way, not about society functioning as a whole for a greater good. This is where China really differs, where the government has long term goals instead of the next election or tomorrow's headlines.
The Netscape/Mozilla approach is to defend to the death the single monolithic app approach, until undermined by a small continent who forked it off. Look at Firefox now... unwieldy as Seakmonkey ever was, and the Electrolysis project on-hold with some BS excuses, just the same as when they resisted splitting browser and mail app.
But today, the toxic waste of success cripples iTunes: increasingly non-sensical complexity, inconsistencies, layers of patches over layers of patches ending up in a structure so labyrinthine no individual can internalize it any longer.
Errr, didn't use it in the early days did you? iTunes has always been a godawful UI that violates all of Apple's own UI standards, then ported to Windows where it made no attempt to fit in. It's been terrible from day one, along with the QuickTime player.
Of course. It's up to the individual company to decide whether it's worth the cost. Companies don't have a right to conduct business in another country, and pick and choose which whose rules they'll trade. If they want the money, they'll have to comply. What makes an internet-based company think they get an opt-out clause? They can opt out of the money if they want.
The UK is free to block Google entirely if they so choose. And good riddance to them
The UK is also free to legislate how Google conducts business in the UK. Google is free not to conduct business in the UK if they so choose. And good riddance to them, and any other company that doesn't respect local laws.
I would rather [...] bring a sandwich and an apple in my backpack.
That's one step below enabling mobile phones on planes with regards to the annoyance scale. When I fly in N. America, it's already unbelievable how much crap people try to bring on as hand luggage. People sitting around with meals at boarding time are incredibly irritating. And then they have more crap and mess floating around. Most of my flying is long-haul though, and I really don't want to have to bring multiple meals on with me, especially as there's already insufficient space for storing things, or even to place feet and legs. Thankfully I don't have to fly on US airlines very often, and can still get a few complimentary bottles of wine and reasonable food service.
Ginger ale has no flavour to begin with, least of all any ginger content. On the occasions I want a fizzy sugar loaded drink, I do quite like a ginger beer though.
The real issue with the early air bags is that they were designed to protect unbelted adult males (the group least likely to wear belts), with no consideration for safety for any other groups. Had they been designed for belted adult females, the deaths caused by airbags would have been much much lower.
That's a particularly American problem. I remember seeing something on TV in Canada about this ten years ago. They were talking about this issue and how it was negatively impacting Canadians. I think seat belt compliance was at about 65% in the US, and 98% in Canada. Compliance in most of the big western European countries is almost complete too.
I'm constantly finding T-Mobile blocking innocuous websites here in the UK on my iPhone. When I check the site later, I see no reasons why it doesn't work. I've seen similar issues with Orange, before my employer moved contracts to T-Mobile (the problems with Orange were before the companies merged).
They're totally frustrating, and that's not just because they charge £7.50/MB when I'm on business trips to US or China. Taking Eurostar to Germany, I find tethering doesn't work in France, it works in Belgium, and then stops working in Germany, even if I'm connected to Orange.fr or T-Mobile.de. Of course, on those business trips I rarely have time to call them before I'm back in my hotel at 10pm, by which point support calls go to a call centre in the Philippines. The last couple of times my call has been answered by some chap who sounds like he's from the American deep south, and seems to have no ability to help (oh sorry sir, all computer systems seem to be down now).
T-Mobile, an utterly shit company,/Rant over
And P.S. Why is/. so shit and still unable to display the GBP symbol correctly after all this time? I see a capital A with a circumflex over it before the currency symbol. Bah, time to go and enjoy this lovely spring weather.
Forget about America. The BBC is just trying to reach out to a broader audience at home. The ambiguous romance angle allows them to appeal to the less nerdy.
You're welcome. It was actually meant a little tongue-in-cheek:). But yes, a pretty important part of British history. If you wish to read more, I recommend Sieze the Fire. You'll be truly amazed that she could still float after the Battle of Trafalgar. At the time, it seems the core strategy of naval warfare was to pump as many canon balls as possible through the other ships to obliterate the other crew in some primitive form of the maritime equivalent of trench warfare.
No need to focus on the negative old chap. Mind you, China will do the same to the US in a few years if they keep things up. Nobody stays on top forever.
Puh: that's nothing. HMS Victory was launched in 1765, and is still in commission. She's even older than the United States! You guys have some catching up to do.
When I was there six months ago, and several other times in the last four years, there were no ID checks when checking in for domestic departures, and (IIRC) no complaints about water bottles.
A scrum team's stand-up meeting shouldn't go beyond 15 minutes. They're a "stand-up" meeting to encourage people to be brief. They should preferably happen at the beginning, or possibly end of the day, and encourage communication and awareness amongst peers working on the same project. Are you telling me that your time management skills are so poor or your bladder so small that you can't time your toilet breaks or non-work related YouTube viewing to avoid a 15 minute meeting?
Freedom of expression as defined in the First Amendment is irrelevant in Europe. It wouldn't matter if EU data protection laws violated that amendment. At the end of the day, US companies have to decide if they want access to the market in the EU area or not.
One of the coolest things I saw when I was living in RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus, in the early 80's was a U-2 being chased down the runway. i guess they have another pilot on the ground talking the plane down.
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Yes it would be great if the Mozilla team would copy one of the useful features of Chrome: multi-process browsing. I'm sick and tired of the monolithic Firefox process consuming vast gobs of memory and excessive CPU that means my laptop's fan is constantly kicking (and probably shortening it's life through overheating), and giving me no way to manage it other than constantly closing the browser. I've seen it behaving poorly on several computers, so I doubt it's anything to do with an individual installation.
I've heard all the bullshit excuses about why it's hard to break out in to a multi-process application. These excuses seem to be a regurgitation of the ones used by the Netscape Communicator/Seamonkey Suite people back in their day - I guess the Mozilla devs just aren't very good.
After recently reading that the Electrolysis project was on hold, I started using Chrome. It had a few annoyances that I've got used to, but all my plugins/extensions work that would apparently fail in multi-process Mozilla. Most importantly, when a tab/page uses too much memory or CPU, I can easily see which it is and close it, although Chrome hasn't been a bad system hog in the same way as Firefox.
Ignorant devs, poor performance, moronic release cycle that seems to add nothing for users - no wonder Chrome is eating Firefox's lunch, and is now the most popular browser
Nah, that's a way of life. Maybe it's a sport for the amateurs who come out on St. Patrick's day.
Became irrelevant with modern Freeview/Freesat devices and their superior (and faster) EPG.
What? There's another country outside London? Is there anything worth seeing there?
I knew an Aussie living in Edinburgh in 1995 who "watched" the Ashes on Ceefax. I can't remember why he didn't have the radio on... maybe he didn't want to hear pomme commentators :) Ceefax was replaced by the internet for me, listening along with the radio (I hate you Rupert Murdoch for putting our national sport on pay tv; give it back!)
You can't even get Americans to collectively pay for a sane first world health care system. How can you justify forcing them to pay for space exploration? It's all about the individual and doing things your own way, not about society functioning as a whole for a greater good. This is where China really differs, where the government has long term goals instead of the next election or tomorrow's headlines.
The Netscape/Mozilla approach is to defend to the death the single monolithic app approach, until undermined by a small continent who forked it off. Look at Firefox now... unwieldy as Seakmonkey ever was, and the Electrolysis project on-hold with some BS excuses, just the same as when they resisted splitting browser and mail app.
Errr, didn't use it in the early days did you? iTunes has always been a godawful UI that violates all of Apple's own UI standards, then ported to Windows where it made no attempt to fit in. It's been terrible from day one, along with the QuickTime player.
They used a Narcotics Store to shut-down Tor? Wow.
Of course. It's up to the individual company to decide whether it's worth the cost. Companies don't have a right to conduct business in another country, and pick and choose which whose rules they'll trade. If they want the money, they'll have to comply. What makes an internet-based company think they get an opt-out clause? They can opt out of the money if they want.
The UK is also free to legislate how Google conducts business in the UK. Google is free not to conduct business in the UK if they so choose. And good riddance to them, and any other company that doesn't respect local laws.
You got it. I do find it incredibly bland. :)
That's one step below enabling mobile phones on planes with regards to the annoyance scale. When I fly in N. America, it's already unbelievable how much crap people try to bring on as hand luggage. People sitting around with meals at boarding time are incredibly irritating. And then they have more crap and mess floating around. Most of my flying is long-haul though, and I really don't want to have to bring multiple meals on with me, especially as there's already insufficient space for storing things, or even to place feet and legs. Thankfully I don't have to fly on US airlines very often, and can still get a few complimentary bottles of wine and reasonable food service.
Ginger ale has no flavour to begin with, least of all any ginger content. On the occasions I want a fizzy sugar loaded drink, I do quite like a ginger beer though.
That's a particularly American problem. I remember seeing something on TV in Canada about this ten years ago. They were talking about this issue and how it was negatively impacting Canadians. I think seat belt compliance was at about 65% in the US, and 98% in Canada. Compliance in most of the big western European countries is almost complete too.
I'm constantly finding T-Mobile blocking innocuous websites here in the UK on my iPhone. When I check the site later, I see no reasons why it doesn't work. I've seen similar issues with Orange, before my employer moved contracts to T-Mobile (the problems with Orange were before the companies merged).
They're totally frustrating, and that's not just because they charge £7.50/MB when I'm on business trips to US or China. Taking Eurostar to Germany, I find tethering doesn't work in France, it works in Belgium, and then stops working in Germany, even if I'm connected to Orange.fr or T-Mobile.de. Of course, on those business trips I rarely have time to call them before I'm back in my hotel at 10pm, by which point support calls go to a call centre in the Philippines. The last couple of times my call has been answered by some chap who sounds like he's from the American deep south, and seems to have no ability to help (oh sorry sir, all computer systems seem to be down now).
T-Mobile, an utterly shit company, /Rant over
And P.S. Why is /. so shit and still unable to display the GBP symbol correctly after all this time? I see a capital A with a circumflex over it before the currency symbol. Bah, time to go and enjoy this lovely spring weather.
Forget about America. The BBC is just trying to reach out to a broader audience at home. The ambiguous romance angle allows them to appeal to the less nerdy.
You're welcome. It was actually meant a little tongue-in-cheek :). But yes, a pretty important part of British history. If you wish to read more, I recommend Sieze the Fire. You'll be truly amazed that she could still float after the Battle of Trafalgar. At the time, it seems the core strategy of naval warfare was to pump as many canon balls as possible through the other ships to obliterate the other crew in some primitive form of the maritime equivalent of trench warfare.
No need to focus on the negative old chap. Mind you, China will do the same to the US in a few years if they keep things up. Nobody stays on top forever.
Puh: that's nothing. HMS Victory was launched in 1765, and is still in commission. She's even older than the United States! You guys have some catching up to do.
Adobe use the splash screen to advertise all of their patents. Makes this story rather ironic.
When I was there six months ago, and several other times in the last four years, there were no ID checks when checking in for domestic departures, and (IIRC) no complaints about water bottles.
Seems like a radical step up.
A scrum team's stand-up meeting shouldn't go beyond 15 minutes. They're a "stand-up" meeting to encourage people to be brief. They should preferably happen at the beginning, or possibly end of the day, and encourage communication and awareness amongst peers working on the same project. Are you telling me that your time management skills are so poor or your bladder so small that you can't time your toilet breaks or non-work related YouTube viewing to avoid a 15 minute meeting?
Freedom of expression as defined in the First Amendment is irrelevant in Europe. It wouldn't matter if EU data protection laws violated that amendment. At the end of the day, US companies have to decide if they want access to the market in the EU area or not.
One of the coolest things I saw when I was living in RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus, in the early 80's was a U-2 being chased down the runway. i guess they have another pilot on the ground talking the plane down.