Your experiences do not speak for everyone's. I do use Firefox 7, and occasionally test aurora (nightly). I have not had memory leaks until 6, now it takes over a gig of ram to display 5 tabs after a few days. It's also grown crashier, and the general quality is declining. I too, have used firefox since before it was called firefox, and I can say without a doubt that you're wrong. Either that, or you're not running a *nix based OS, where the memory leaks seem more prevalent.
As for the bing thing, I think it's totally pointless as it's already an option that you can change in under a second, and that much more time should be devoted to bugfixes and css3 implementation.
The only reason why I still use firefox is that it's still, by a wide margin, the best damn browser out there, but the quality is declining at each release.
Firefox is suffering from a decline in market share, over fixable technical issues, massive memory leaks, and you spend your time making firefox with bing? Not to mention that the last few releases have been nothing but cheap knock offs of chrome. I want my browser back!
It's OK, from the sound of it he was captured by marketing. It'll either be better in a few days or... out here in the real world, he'll be lobotomized!
Clarke hates FTL- the monoliths had no such capabilities. Anyway, as for the rest, I think that a civilization could easily master bending space before leaving the planet. Hell, looks like the way we're going. Antigravity is just speculation. Moot since clarke apparently stated they were type III though.
As for the second:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale#Definition It uses as a definition, the ability to harness the power of a galaxy approximating the milky way, to address variability. But I didn't know they had been named as a type III. I still think that you'd need to be barley beyond Type I to start a monolith program.
What? That makes little sense. Besides the fact that a type III civilization would need to have built a Dyson sphere around Sol to reach that classification (or some other way of extracting an harnessing every last drop of energy from our solar system), nowhere near that level of technology is needed for the monolith. Besides, the aliens controlling it had no presence within 450 light years of Sol, so that leaves out a huge chunk of the galaxy that they're not harnessing. They might, MIGHT be type II.
Type III means harnessing every last bit of energy in a galaxy, type II is only a single star, which is in fact, foreseeable, even if it's just harnessing enough of whatever power source to be equal to a star's output. Anyway, an advanced Class I civilization could easily build monoliths and ship them out to developing world. Stupid scale to measure civilizations by, anyway, it penalizes being energy efficient.
Stupid thing to assume. Semantically incorrect also. Technically it runs on electric current, drawn from the battery. My battery would be charged by hydroelectric power. It wouldn't be economically unfeasible where I live to set up a separate solar charging system in the garage, either.
Well, if they're just CPU cycles being wasted at this point, why not join SETI@Home.... 3D modeling comes up as an alternative, I think it's fun being able to see things as soon as you make them:)
Do the scientific community and the world a favor, and donate spare cpu cycles to some BOINC cluster project. Bonus points for GPU number crunching in conjunction. Probably the top two projects I'd recommend are SETI@Home and folding@home, the former is searching for patterns in radio telescopes indicating the presence of extraterrestrial intelligence, the latter simulates the folding of proteins, opening up superior knowledge of the human body, and particularly cancer.
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All we need to do is build a pump and tube out of a magma safe material, like adamantine. Solving super volcanoes, like a dwarf.
...just use FLAC?
Oi, I don't have the time to maintain a goddamn browser! Firefox probably has at least half a million lines of poorly documented code.
Indeed... I thought it was something the FSF had named it, hilarious that it's official. Sad though, Really sad.
No, but it couldn't have been drastically wrong, Winston was about 39, and he had pre-revolution childhood memories.
I use firefox as well, it's just getting irritating.
Your experiences do not speak for everyone's. I do use Firefox 7, and occasionally test aurora (nightly). I have not had memory leaks until 6, now it takes over a gig of ram to display 5 tabs after a few days. It's also grown crashier, and the general quality is declining. I too, have used firefox since before it was called firefox, and I can say without a doubt that you're wrong. Either that, or you're not running a *nix based OS, where the memory leaks seem more prevalent.
As for the bing thing, I think it's totally pointless as it's already an option that you can change in under a second, and that much more time should be devoted to bugfixes and css3 implementation.
The only reason why I still use firefox is that it's still, by a wide margin, the best damn browser out there, but the quality is declining at each release.
You say that as if a real estate job is worth using internet explorer.
Firefox is suffering from a decline in market share, over fixable technical issues, massive memory leaks, and you spend your time making firefox with bing? Not to mention that the last few releases have been nothing but cheap knock offs of chrome. I want my browser back!
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It's OK, from the sound of it he was captured by marketing. It'll either be better in a few days or... out here in the real world, he'll be lobotomized!
You think legislators follow the will of the people that elect them? Oh, how cute!
0.1% lightspeed would be 4300 years. And if we ever got project orion off the ground, I think we could manage around 5-10% lightspeed.
Clarke hates FTL- the monoliths had no such capabilities. Anyway, as for the rest, I think that a civilization could easily master bending space before leaving the planet. Hell, looks like the way we're going. Antigravity is just speculation. Moot since clarke apparently stated they were type III though.
Did not know of the first in the beginning.
As for the second:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale#Definition
It uses as a definition, the ability to harness the power of a galaxy approximating the milky way, to address variability. But I didn't know they had been named as a type III. I still think that you'd need to be barley beyond Type I to start a monolith program.
Damn, I'm sure the monkeys take offense to that you insensitive clod!
Can't tell if trolling or just religious.
What? That makes little sense. Besides the fact that a type III civilization would need to have built a Dyson sphere around Sol to reach that classification (or some other way of extracting an harnessing every last drop of energy from our solar system), nowhere near that level of technology is needed for the monolith. Besides, the aliens controlling it had no presence within 450 light years of Sol, so that leaves out a huge chunk of the galaxy that they're not harnessing. They might, MIGHT be type II.
Type III means harnessing every last bit of energy in a galaxy, type II is only a single star, which is in fact, foreseeable, even if it's just harnessing enough of whatever power source to be equal to a star's output. Anyway, an advanced Class I civilization could easily build monoliths and ship them out to developing world. Stupid scale to measure civilizations by, anyway, it penalizes being energy efficient.
Stupid thing to assume. Semantically incorrect also. Technically it runs on electric current, drawn from the battery. My battery would be charged by hydroelectric power. It wouldn't be economically unfeasible where I live to set up a separate solar charging system in the garage, either.
Woah, Europe is that inhospitable? /sarcasm
You could give it to me, and I'll ship you my Pentium D.
Well, if they're just CPU cycles being wasted at this point, why not join SETI@Home.... 3D modeling comes up as an alternative, I think it's fun being able to see things as soon as you make them :)
Ok..
Do the scientific community and the world a favor, and donate spare cpu cycles to some BOINC cluster project. Bonus points for GPU number crunching in conjunction. Probably the top two projects I'd recommend are SETI@Home and folding@home, the former is searching for patterns in radio telescopes indicating the presence of extraterrestrial intelligence, the latter simulates the folding of proteins, opening up superior knowledge of the human body, and particularly cancer.
I know plenty of teachers who do love teaching. Such blanket statements are insulting.