Say this is true. What does it prove? Would it surprise you that the army is thinking a few steps ahead when they know that a theocratic dictatorship in the region is quite possibly capable and interested in building nuclear weapons that could trigger a new nuclear arms race?
and has been for at least 5 years. A theoretical 10% performance boost? Gimme a break. I upgraded from a Core2Duo E6600 @ 2.4GHz to a quad core i5 2600k which runs at an overclocked 4.5GHz on air... Day to day, the new rig delivers a *mostly* perceptible performance advantage, but nothing earth shattering... I give you several recent changes that felt bigger:
1. Moving from hard drive to SSD 2. Moving from a DirectX9 class GPU to a DirectX 11 GPU (at least in games). 3. Move from pre-JIT JS browser engine to a JIT-engined browser.
As far as desktop CPU development goes, I think the future is largely about optimizing software for the multi-core architectures, not adding Gigahertz.
I tried 3.0, got tired of losing data, and downgraded back to 2.0. I tried 3.5, got tired of losing data, downgraded back to 2.0
Pray do tell what this mysterious critical data losing bug was that has you scared in a corner clinging to FFx 2.0 while tens of millions of other people have somehow managed to use every version since without a problem?
An example of "the right kinds of things", which would make me WANT to upgrade, would be something like,
Does "the right kind of thing" include not being vulnerable to exploits that were discovered after December 18, 2008?
Love the idea of video features, however this is all I took away from that piece: * the trunk has rear-facing child seats * the battery has 4 bolts for quick exchange * someone with functioning ears could help improve the "robot seizure" intro and outro clips
Perhaps a stupid question, but how does ethanol raise octane content? If I remember back to high school chemistry class, ethanol is an alcohol with 2 carbons, whereas octane is an 8 carbon chain.
Seeing as this alien world would be at least a handful of light years away, I imagine that the setting of our sun looks like any other distant star setting across the horizon.;-)
I'm a sucker for this kind of stuff. His comedy is fresh and brutally honest and he took a fairly large risk producing and distributing this himself. This is what the commercial Internet was supposed to turn out when we used to dream of its potential back in those heady days of the early 90s.
He's earned my $5. I will probably do it again next time. Hopefully other entertainers recognize and follow suit.
The Slashdot bandwagon immediately sees the opportunity to point out that "Firefox sucks because 8.0 should be called 5.0.3" and you reveal the real reason that Chrome is everywhere: They're bundling it with bloody well everything but the kitchen sink and the same lemmings that used IE6 until recently are now finding Chrome icons on their desktops.
It's only a matter of time before GRPN and their fancy IPO are dead in the water.
The vast majority of these Groupon deals are good for Groupon and no one else. Combine that with the fact that there are no obvious barriers to entry for their business model and there's a limited window for them to prey on idiot small business owners before word spreads that Groupon deals are not good for business and their company will be reeling soon enough.
Oh and yes, I really do emphasize *idiot* small business owners... You don't need a PhD in Economics to figure out that if you offer a discount in which you lose money on each transaction and don't set an upper limit to the number of transactions, your risk is not bounded.
And yet in all the months I've been running into these damn X-ray machines, I think I've only seen one other person opt out in favor of a pat down/groping session.
The rest of this country seems to be full of sheep.
What kind of massive development effort do you think it takes for Mozilla to set the default search provider to Bing that it will literally take away from fixing "massive" memory leaks and "technical issues"? Should they just say to hell with it and take whatever scraps Google offers them and lay off half their developers because Google doesn't want to pay them much for the next contract?
You must live in some kind of utopian version of reality to think that they shouldn't have to run their organization like a business.
And for the record, every piece of complex software has issues, but all in all, as a user of Firefox since the pre-1.0 days, I can say without a doubt that Ffx 7 is the most stable, capable and highest performing release to date. Maybe you should consider upgrading from 3.5 at some point...
I have to agree. I bought a Linksys E4200, and while it more or less works in DD-WRT with some manual config edits and in very specific configurations (only 2.4GHz N, only 10MHz channels, and only on the default channel numbers), it has dozens of bugs. OpenDNS updates don't work, I had to write my own fix for loopback operation, the router has to be rebooted daily to prevent wireless drop-off, etc...
None of these bugs ever seem to get fixed, but instead I see the couple developers who do write code fixing lots of "typos" on a daily basis. There's may 30-60 minutes of development going into DD-WRT on a daily basis, when it basically needs about 10x that amount to make any kind of progress against the massive list of hardware they sorta-kinda support. I think if they would maybe focus their efforts on a handful of targets, they might get somewhere, but as is, it's resulted in haphazard support for newer hardware.
Have you ever heard of indexing? The market's not tilted against you unless you're like most people and try to actively beat it. Read "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", then invest passively, long-term with appropriate diversification across world economies and an appropriate allocation of fixed income and equities to meet your investing goals and time horizon. You'll be humming along well above the fray of day-traders, stock pickers, hedge funds and other gamblers that wipe themselves out with management fees, turnover and taxes in a race to beat each other to the bottom.
Is it really necessary to attribute human emotions to corporations? Some people who work at Comcast probably care very deeply and others couldn't care less. The point is, they're doing it. The end result is what I think we'd all identify as a 'good thing'.
And it's the reason I won't switch to an iPhone. With the Blackberry Storm, RIM simply put a microswitch behind the keyboard and called it tactile feedback. The fact that they did that leads me to believe that either they didn't understand the basic mechanics of what they were trying to accomplish or that it was some marketing genius who came up with the idea to try to steal some mindshare away from the iPhone, even though there was no realistic way to make it happen at the time.
What I would like is something that tells my finger that it's right above the button i need to press. If you look at a traditional Blackberry Bold or Torch keyboard, it has subtly raised ridges and even a slight tilt to each key, designed to provide feedback to your thumbs about exactly where to press down to hit each key accurately. If I'm going to use an on-screen keyboard to hit keys one by one, that's what tactile feedback needs to emulate for it to work for me. I know there are other input techniques out there like swype, but I'm mostly just talking about the traditional onscreen keyboard implementations found on iPhone and other devices.
By getting this thinly veiled "viral" advertisement onto Slashdot, some small percentage of Slashdotters with Domino's fucking pizza freshly on their minds will probably go out and order one tonight. Sad, but this is what it comes down to folks -- any publicity is good publicity in the game to drive more revenue. Thanks for whoring us out/.
Well then perhaps you'd also be interested to know that I have contracted with a construction company to build a women's shoe store on Jupiter's moon Io. Nevermind the fact that the half trillion dollars I will be borrowing to build it will be earned back by selling a pair of shoes at a time to the approximately half a dozen space tourists we expect to see in the next 150 years or so. Now, barrel of monkeys who've evidently replaced all rational human beings at Slashdot, where's my front page headline?
Installer size... really? That's the best argument showing that Firefox is bloated? A download that takes approximately 4 seconds on my cable connection, is within easy reach of even the slowest 28.8 dial-up users, is smaller than many Flash websites, supports HTML5 support, a JS JIT engine, GPU accelerated rendering and we look at the growth in installer size versus a slew of old releases that can't even be used effectively on the web today?
Perhaps you, like everyone else on the Goog-bandwagon would prefer Chrome, whose 'lightweight' 587KB installer hides the actual ~32MB zip file in a download manager.
Honestly, i don't get this complaint. The belief that Firefox has progressively gotten slower and more bloated over the years is an outright falsehood that keeps getting recycled over and over again on Slashdot and elsewhere. Go ahead and install Firebird 0.7, Firefox 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 and 5.0, then explain to me where you believe the bloat has crept in... Yes Firefox 4.0 is more feature-rich than previous versions, but if you don't want to use things like sync, you don't have to use them. With a clean comparable profile, each successive Ffx release has delivered some combination of:
* greater stability * better memory management * faster javascript * faster DOM rendering * faster startup time * support for new standards/technologies
Frankly, I don't think anyone remembers how rough around the edges Firebird was, because it was comparatively so much better than it's only real competition at the time (IE6).
Now select Harvard, Yale or whatever you think are actual good schools and do the comparison... Well, whaddaya know! Cooley comes out first overall, as well first in such important metrics as:
* Foreign National Enrollment * Part-Time Faculty * First-Year Section Size * Library Hours per Week with Professional Staff * Library Seating Capacity * Law School Square Footage Excluding Library * Total Law School Square Footage * Number of States in which Graduates Employed
Here's the kicker: Percentage of Graduates Employed is only 78.8%, meaning you are roughly twice as likely as the average person in this country to be unemployed after having graduated from their program! But the median of all their useless metrics puts them at number one, because their ranking system gives equal weight to Library Seating Capacity as Percentage of Graduates Employed.
Slashdot Mirror
Ok, but then you have to watch it alone because while I'm focusing on the tree in the background, you're focusing on the foreground...
Say this is true. What does it prove? Would it surprise you that the army is thinking a few steps ahead when they know that a theocratic dictatorship in the region is quite possibly capable and interested in building nuclear weapons that could trigger a new nuclear arms race?
and has been for at least 5 years. A theoretical 10% performance boost? Gimme a break. I upgraded from a Core2Duo E6600 @ 2.4GHz to a quad core i5 2600k which runs at an overclocked 4.5GHz on air... Day to day, the new rig delivers a *mostly* perceptible performance advantage, but nothing earth shattering... I give you several recent changes that felt bigger:
1. Moving from hard drive to SSD
2. Moving from a DirectX9 class GPU to a DirectX 11 GPU (at least in games).
3. Move from pre-JIT JS browser engine to a JIT-engined browser.
As far as desktop CPU development goes, I think the future is largely about optimizing software for the multi-core architectures, not adding Gigahertz.
If I could, I would moderate you +1 'weird'.
Nah, they're protected by a very powerful union.
I tried 3.0, got tired of losing data, and downgraded back to 2.0. I tried 3.5, got tired of losing data, downgraded back to 2.0
Pray do tell what this mysterious critical data losing bug was that has you scared in a corner clinging to FFx 2.0 while tens of millions of other people have somehow managed to use every version since without a problem?
An example of "the right kinds of things", which would make me WANT to upgrade, would be something like,
Does "the right kind of thing" include not being vulnerable to exploits that were discovered after December 18, 2008?
Love the idea of video features, however this is all I took away from that piece:
* the trunk has rear-facing child seats
* the battery has 4 bolts for quick exchange
* someone with functioning ears could help improve the "robot seizure" intro and outro clips
Perhaps a stupid question, but how does ethanol raise octane content? If I remember back to high school chemistry class, ethanol is an alcohol with 2 carbons, whereas octane is an 8 carbon chain.
Seeing as this alien world would be at least a handful of light years away, I imagine that the setting of our sun looks like any other distant star setting across the horizon. ;-)
I'm a sucker for this kind of stuff. His comedy is fresh and brutally honest and he took a fairly large risk producing and distributing this himself. This is what the commercial Internet was supposed to turn out when we used to dream of its potential back in those heady days of the early 90s.
He's earned my $5. I will probably do it again next time. Hopefully other entertainers recognize and follow suit.
The Slashdot bandwagon immediately sees the opportunity to point out that "Firefox sucks because 8.0 should be called 5.0.3" and you reveal the real reason that Chrome is everywhere: They're bundling it with bloody well everything but the kitchen sink and the same lemmings that used IE6 until recently are now finding Chrome icons on their desktops.
Rock solid combo that I use:
Cisco E4200 refurb for $99: http://homestore.cisco.com/en-us/Routers/Linksys-Refurbished-E4200-MaximumPerformance-Wirelessn-router_stcVVproductId133604734VVviewprod.htm
Shibby's Tomato build (use AIO for most complete featureset):
http://tomato.groov.pl/index.php?dir=K26RT-N%2Fbuild5x-079V-EN%2FE4200
Do not use DD-WRT with this router as it's a mess (been there done that.)
It's only a matter of time before GRPN and their fancy IPO are dead in the water.
The vast majority of these Groupon deals are good for Groupon and no one else. Combine that with the fact that there are no obvious barriers to entry for their business model and there's a limited window for them to prey on idiot small business owners before word spreads that Groupon deals are not good for business and their company will be reeling soon enough.
Oh and yes, I really do emphasize *idiot* small business owners... You don't need a PhD in Economics to figure out that if you offer a discount in which you lose money on each transaction and don't set an upper limit to the number of transactions, your risk is not bounded.
And yet in all the months I've been running into these damn X-ray machines, I think I've only seen one other person opt out in favor of a pat down/groping session.
The rest of this country seems to be full of sheep.
No, I'm pretty sure it's Rendition Verite.
What kind of massive development effort do you think it takes for Mozilla to set the default search provider to Bing that it will literally take away from fixing "massive" memory leaks and "technical issues"? Should they just say to hell with it and take whatever scraps Google offers them and lay off half their developers because Google doesn't want to pay them much for the next contract?
You must live in some kind of utopian version of reality to think that they shouldn't have to run their organization like a business.
And for the record, every piece of complex software has issues, but all in all, as a user of Firefox since the pre-1.0 days, I can say without a doubt that Ffx 7 is the most stable, capable and highest performing release to date. Maybe you should consider upgrading from 3.5 at some point...
I have to agree. I bought a Linksys E4200, and while it more or less works in DD-WRT with some manual config edits and in very specific configurations (only 2.4GHz N, only 10MHz channels, and only on the default channel numbers), it has dozens of bugs. OpenDNS updates don't work, I had to write my own fix for loopback operation, the router has to be rebooted daily to prevent wireless drop-off, etc...
None of these bugs ever seem to get fixed, but instead I see the couple developers who do write code fixing lots of "typos" on a daily basis. There's may 30-60 minutes of development going into DD-WRT on a daily basis, when it basically needs about 10x that amount to make any kind of progress against the massive list of hardware they sorta-kinda support. I think if they would maybe focus their efforts on a handful of targets, they might get somewhere, but as is, it's resulted in haphazard support for newer hardware.
Have you ever heard of indexing? The market's not tilted against you unless you're like most people and try to actively beat it. Read "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", then invest passively, long-term with appropriate diversification across world economies and an appropriate allocation of fixed income and equities to meet your investing goals and time horizon. You'll be humming along well above the fray of day-traders, stock pickers, hedge funds and other gamblers that wipe themselves out with management fees, turnover and taxes in a race to beat each other to the bottom.
Is it really necessary to attribute human emotions to corporations? Some people who work at Comcast probably care very deeply and others couldn't care less. The point is, they're doing it. The end result is what I think we'd all identify as a 'good thing'.
And it's the reason I won't switch to an iPhone. With the Blackberry Storm, RIM simply put a microswitch behind the keyboard and called it tactile feedback. The fact that they did that leads me to believe that either they didn't understand the basic mechanics of what they were trying to accomplish or that it was some marketing genius who came up with the idea to try to steal some mindshare away from the iPhone, even though there was no realistic way to make it happen at the time.
What I would like is something that tells my finger that it's right above the button i need to press. If you look at a traditional Blackberry Bold or Torch keyboard, it has subtly raised ridges and even a slight tilt to each key, designed to provide feedback to your thumbs about exactly where to press down to hit each key accurately. If I'm going to use an on-screen keyboard to hit keys one by one, that's what tactile feedback needs to emulate for it to work for me. I know there are other input techniques out there like swype, but I'm mostly just talking about the traditional onscreen keyboard implementations found on iPhone and other devices.
By getting this thinly veiled "viral" advertisement onto Slashdot, some small percentage of Slashdotters with Domino's fucking pizza freshly on their minds will probably go out and order one tonight. Sad, but this is what it comes down to folks -- any publicity is good publicity in the game to drive more revenue. Thanks for whoring us out /.
Well then perhaps you'd also be interested to know that I have contracted with a construction company to build a women's shoe store on Jupiter's moon Io. Nevermind the fact that the half trillion dollars I will be borrowing to build it will be earned back by selling a pair of shoes at a time to the approximately half a dozen space tourists we expect to see in the next 150 years or so. Now, barrel of monkeys who've evidently replaced all rational human beings at Slashdot, where's my front page headline?
Installer size... really? That's the best argument showing that Firefox is bloated? A download that takes approximately 4 seconds on my cable connection, is within easy reach of even the slowest 28.8 dial-up users, is smaller than many Flash websites, supports HTML5 support, a JS JIT engine, GPU accelerated rendering and we look at the growth in installer size versus a slew of old releases that can't even be used effectively on the web today?
Perhaps you, like everyone else on the Goog-bandwagon would prefer Chrome, whose 'lightweight' 587KB installer hides the actual ~32MB zip file in a download manager.
Honestly, i don't get this complaint. The belief that Firefox has progressively gotten slower and more bloated over the years is an outright falsehood that keeps getting recycled over and over again on Slashdot and elsewhere. Go ahead and install Firebird 0.7, Firefox 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 and 5.0, then explain to me where you believe the bloat has crept in... Yes Firefox 4.0 is more feature-rich than previous versions, but if you don't want to use things like sync, you don't have to use them. With a clean comparable profile, each successive Ffx release has delivered some combination of:
* greater stability
* better memory management
* faster javascript
* faster DOM rendering
* faster startup time
* support for new standards/technologies
Frankly, I don't think anyone remembers how rough around the edges Firebird was, because it was comparatively so much better than it's only real competition at the time (IE6).
For a good laugh, have a look at the blatantly cherry-picked ranking system they built for themselves:
http://www.cooley.edu/rankings/search/report-byschool.php
Now select Harvard, Yale or whatever you think are actual good schools and do the comparison... Well, whaddaya know! Cooley comes out first overall, as well first in such important metrics as:
* Foreign National Enrollment
* Part-Time Faculty
* First-Year Section Size
* Library Hours per Week with Professional Staff
* Library Seating Capacity
* Law School Square Footage Excluding Library
* Total Law School Square Footage
* Number of States in which Graduates Employed
Here's the kicker: Percentage of Graduates Employed is only 78.8%, meaning you are roughly twice as likely as the average person in this country to be unemployed after having graduated from their program! But the median of all their useless metrics puts them at number one, because their ranking system gives equal weight to Library Seating Capacity as Percentage of Graduates Employed.