Sacrificed for speed, I think. Sure, you're probably used to IE4-6 smooth scrolling, but it's slow on loaded machines, and painful over a remote connection. Also, it steals focus for the time that it's scrolling, reducing responsiveness. Some people (myself included) can't stand that.
As for scroll-on-middle click, well, Google hasn't decided what to do with that key. Most people just use the scroll wheel or Page up/down.
I think you've described where you surf in your free time aptly.
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79/100 with a link fail test on Acid3. The V8 crew has some work if they care about passing the Acid3 test (which may not be a huge priority...).
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I've got some buckets of paint that are going up on walls soon. Want to buy some tickets for the drying?
Only if the Blue Man Group is doing the painting. Remember their Intel P3 ad spot involving a roller, a catapult, paint balloons and a bucket?
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dissapearing auto download to who-knows-where Try looking at the page whence the download originated. If you closed it, well, it's gone; that's a bug report to file.
Ack. I went horribly off-topic, but my point is: The only thing that can change the government's ways by force is the standing military that we've had post-Vietnam. Even that may not be enough; Blackwater isn't alone in the armed security business.
It seems one of the lessons that the current administration learned from Vietnam is, "don't let the soldiers talk to the civilians", because once they interface, the civilians know what horrible things we're doing to people of another country, and the soldiers know that the citizens aren't 110% behind the war like the Pentagon and the politicians say we are. The sad thing is, the power structure in Washington as it is will never learn the real lesson, "pick your battles wisely." This is because they are all to willing to use war as a device to boost the economy, spread pro-American sentiment worldwide, and strengthen pro-American interests in strategic regions.
All of the GOP trolls insisting on "staying on the offensive" are living in 1945, when a big conflict historically accomplished all of these things. They don't understand that wars are like polar bears: they do great things for you if they maul your enemy, but you cannot prevent them from doing the same to you. They don't understand that WW2 brought some of the worst bigotry in establishment America unashamedly to the surface, ushered in the nuclear arms race, and ultimately strengthened Stalin and Mao, at least as much as it strengthened the US. A solid, unbiased examination of history should be required for every PAC, aide, assistant, and official in Washington, but sadly, such scholarly things are apparently beneath them.
There is only the right to your life and your property, the protection of which is the function of the government. The problem with this assertion is the omission of the right to liberty. Fascist states probably had limited rights to life and property, but liberty was always destroyed completely for the populace.
The debt can easily be handled if the government shuts down the services that it does not have the right to run, and sells off the infrastructure and equipment used to maintain and facilitate those services. We tried this already: We gave billions of dollars to Verizon and other former Bell companies when they marketed their bold plan to cover this land in fiber optics. We're still out a few billion dollars, and only select regions under Verizon's explicit control-- and even then, at their whim-- have fiber-to-the-premises.
Or how about deregulating the financial, housing, and energy markets to "encourage private industry growth"? That Phil Gramm model of Reaganomics gave us Enron, Worldcom, and the current financial crunch.
Just as you cannot have total faith in the government, you cannot have total faith in private enterprise. Give the US infrastructure to the American market, and they can bring it to ruin faster than the US Government can. When done correctly, public services are incredibly efficient, albeit a huge target for libertarians' barbs and political corruption.
I really hope that Google won't become like the telecom companies or any other company where the desire for cash outweighs common sense. Everyone online is jaded because of all the bullshit that the big companies pull on us, and we all expect Google to somehow perfectly live up to its "do no evil" ideal, even though we perfectly know that it is impossible. Why else do we pounce on Google or anyone who tries to do good in a world where evil is the expected norm from the wealthy and powerful?
For once I'd like to see online people do what they do best: mine for trustworthy information and verify whether the bullshit is real, and then start the flamethrowers.
I bet the editors of this site never intended the tag system to be used primarily as a mechanism for drawing attention to their own incompetence. It's probably a matter of priorities. For whatever reason, Taco and the other admins like what kdawson's doing, even if he'd be fired as an editor in a more traditional news publication... 15 years ago.
You know, actually sensationalism like kdawson's may simply be a sign of the times. Pity that slashdot's editors have to tweak and bend the truth to get attention.
The older computer argument is a quick and easy rebuttal, but more to the point, why encourage resource inefficiency? "A megabyte here, a few hundred K there, no one's going to know the difference," you say, but compound that with hard-to-find memory leaks and tens of tabs and it adds up fast. It can conceivably get worse with DOM manipulation and heavy JavaScript use.
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search application... I'm sorry, but I must have missed the memo where Google Desktop was supposedly installed alongside Chrome.
You were probably better off reading the comic rather than watching a bunch of Mac-style videos. The key stuff Chrome brings to the table are: (1) Process isolation per open tab and plugin, with a task manager to kill processes that misbehave, (2) new Javascript engine complete with JIT precompiler. Now if you're browsing with FF nightlies, you might already have a snazzy new JS engine. But a crashed tab still brings down your session with it. I've read blog posts and commentary about how you can type in some obscure remote mode Firefox command to get the multiprocess benefits, but unless Firefox makes that standard-- and that's a pretty fundamental design change-- Chrome has an advantage in terms of stability.
At least, until people start spamming Chrome users through Gears.
Kids, not much is worse in a customer sense, than a telco who sells you DSL and then moves some equipment around the central office such that you are now further from the central office than they rate DSL for. You're not actually farther from the CO, but the wiring inside the CO is now long enough that you are outside the CO's radius. And then they don't tell you. Fortunately, Verizon did the right thing and finagled something so that they returned my DSL. Part of me is pretty sure I wasn't the only one who had this happen to.
Yikes. I think we should moneybomb some bounties for engineers in Verizon and AT&T to blow the whistle.
Yes, and #4 can land you in court facing assault charges or a civil complaint, if the customer summons his lawyer or the police. Only the ones determined to get a piece of you will press charges and drain you of time and resources, so you got lucky when you employed the threat.
A better threat would be informing them they would be committing false arrest.
Regardless of whether Google sanctions an ad blocker (and they may, to force better ways of advertising online), everything you list is probably going to be delegated to Gears.
True, but if China can take advantage of all the hard lessons England and the US learned in the 19th and 20th centuries, they get a massive boost to their international image (which, given their behavior leading up to and during the Olympics, seems paramount over environmental and economic concerns).
Yes I'm Australian, don't start the whole "OMG WE'RE SICK OF AUSTRALIANS IN SLASHDOT" BS.
For what it's worth, there's no slashdot*.uk, slashdot*.au, slashdot*.nz, slashdot*.ca, etc. So unless those are actual region-specific Slashdot sites, anyone complaining about non-US English-speaking commenters on Slashdot is:
1. A troll, and a particularly unsophisticated and stupid one. 2. A nationalistic bigot, which is worse. 3. A political mole, which is highly unlikely, but not past the evils of the power structures in play. 4. Any combination of the above.
Oh, I'm not sure the OP was pointing to the Cold War. He may have been referring to the silent coup d'etat of Russia by one man, who turned its Parliament into his personal Politburo. I wonder if the Russians who cheer him on the streets and in mass media are really afraid of being killed like all the other dissidents were.
I'm thinking (and I suspect the OP thinks this as well) that Russia is back to the days of Joseph Stalin.
Kind of reminds you of the Simpsons episode where Homer finds himself in command of a nuke submarine, and the Russians at the UN flip their nation placards to "USSR", snickering at the world. Vlad Putin just found a way to make that scary instead of humorous.
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For starters, where's my smooth scrolling?
Sacrificed for speed, I think. Sure, you're probably used to IE4-6 smooth scrolling, but it's slow on loaded machines, and painful over a remote connection. Also, it steals focus for the time that it's scrolling, reducing responsiveness. Some people (myself included) can't stand that.
As for scroll-on-middle click, well, Google hasn't decided what to do with that key. Most people just use the scroll wheel or Page up/down.
If you take their comic at face value, that was their intent all along-- spur innovation through more competition.
annoying flashing multi-colour favicons.
I think you've described where you surf in your free time aptly.
79/100 with a link fail test on Acid3. The V8 crew has some work if they care about passing the Acid3 test (which may not be a huge priority...).
I've got some buckets of paint that are going up on walls soon. Want to buy some tickets for the drying?
Only if the Blue Man Group is doing the painting. Remember their Intel P3 ad spot involving a roller, a catapult, paint balloons and a bucket?
dissapearing auto download to who-knows-where
Try looking at the page whence the download originated. If you closed it, well, it's gone; that's a bug report to file.
Ack. I went horribly off-topic, but my point is: The only thing that can change the government's ways by force is the standing military that we've had post-Vietnam. Even that may not be enough; Blackwater isn't alone in the armed security business.
It seems one of the lessons that the current administration learned from Vietnam is, "don't let the soldiers talk to the civilians", because once they interface, the civilians know what horrible things we're doing to people of another country, and the soldiers know that the citizens aren't 110% behind the war like the Pentagon and the politicians say we are. The sad thing is, the power structure in Washington as it is will never learn the real lesson, "pick your battles wisely." This is because they are all to willing to use war as a device to boost the economy, spread pro-American sentiment worldwide, and strengthen pro-American interests in strategic regions.
All of the GOP trolls insisting on "staying on the offensive" are living in 1945, when a big conflict historically accomplished all of these things. They don't understand that wars are like polar bears: they do great things for you if they maul your enemy, but you cannot prevent them from doing the same to you. They don't understand that WW2 brought some of the worst bigotry in establishment America unashamedly to the surface, ushered in the nuclear arms race, and ultimately strengthened Stalin and Mao, at least as much as it strengthened the US. A solid, unbiased examination of history should be required for every PAC, aide, assistant, and official in Washington, but sadly, such scholarly things are apparently beneath them.
There is only the right to your life and your property, the protection of which is the function of the government.
The problem with this assertion is the omission of the right to liberty. Fascist states probably had limited rights to life and property, but liberty was always destroyed completely for the populace.
The debt can easily be handled if the government shuts down the services that it does not have the right to run, and sells off the infrastructure and equipment used to maintain and facilitate those services.
We tried this already: We gave billions of dollars to Verizon and other former Bell companies when they marketed their bold plan to cover this land in fiber optics. We're still out a few billion dollars, and only select regions under Verizon's explicit control-- and even then, at their whim-- have fiber-to-the-premises.
Or how about deregulating the financial, housing, and energy markets to "encourage private industry growth"? That Phil Gramm model of Reaganomics gave us Enron, Worldcom, and the current financial crunch.
Just as you cannot have total faith in the government, you cannot have total faith in private enterprise. Give the US infrastructure to the American market, and they can bring it to ruin faster than the US Government can. When done correctly, public services are incredibly efficient, albeit a huge target for libertarians' barbs and political corruption.
I'll lay you ten to one that in the case of Venezuela, Chavez simply wanted another means to piss off the corporation-friendly Republican Party.
Or "Google Chromes YOU!" for the privacy nuts out there.
I really hope that Google won't become like the telecom companies or any other company where the desire for cash outweighs common sense. Everyone online is jaded because of all the bullshit that the big companies pull on us, and we all expect Google to somehow perfectly live up to its "do no evil" ideal, even though we perfectly know that it is impossible. Why else do we pounce on Google or anyone who tries to do good in a world where evil is the expected norm from the wealthy and powerful?
For once I'd like to see online people do what they do best: mine for trustworthy information and verify whether the bullshit is real, and then start the flamethrowers.
I bet the editors of this site never intended the tag system to be used primarily as a mechanism for drawing attention to their own incompetence.
It's probably a matter of priorities. For whatever reason, Taco and the other admins like what kdawson's doing, even if he'd be fired as an editor in a more traditional news publication... 15 years ago.
You know, actually sensationalism like kdawson's may simply be a sign of the times. Pity that slashdot's editors have to tweak and bend the truth to get attention.
"Chrome Googles YOU!" would've been more apropos...
The older computer argument is a quick and easy rebuttal, but more to the point, why encourage resource inefficiency? "A megabyte here, a few hundred K there, no one's going to know the difference," you say, but compound that with hard-to-find memory leaks and tens of tabs and it adds up fast. It can conceivably get worse with DOM manipulation and heavy JavaScript use.
search application...
I'm sorry, but I must have missed the memo where Google Desktop was supposedly installed alongside Chrome.
You were probably better off reading the comic rather than watching a bunch of Mac-style videos. The key stuff Chrome brings to the table are: (1) Process isolation per open tab and plugin, with a task manager to kill processes that misbehave, (2) new Javascript engine complete with JIT precompiler. Now if you're browsing with FF nightlies, you might already have a snazzy new JS engine. But a crashed tab still brings down your session with it. I've read blog posts and commentary about how you can type in some obscure remote mode Firefox command to get the multiprocess benefits, but unless Firefox makes that standard-- and that's a pretty fundamental design change-- Chrome has an advantage in terms of stability.
At least, until people start spamming Chrome users through Gears.
Yikes. I think we should moneybomb some bounties for engineers in Verizon and AT&T to blow the whistle.
Yes, and #4 can land you in court facing assault charges or a civil complaint, if the customer summons his lawyer or the police. Only the ones determined to get a piece of you will press charges and drain you of time and resources, so you got lucky when you employed the threat.
A better threat would be informing them they would be committing false arrest.
Would you fork Google's code and build your own browser with adblocker, etc. etc.?
I mean, come on. One of the main points of open source is to build your own damn software if you don't like the official build.
Regardless of whether Google sanctions an ad blocker (and they may, to force better ways of advertising online), everything you list is probably going to be delegated to Gears.
I don't see it in my Services applet, so maybe you're one of the lucky ones.
Maybe it's not "Look at the new stuff we've built!", but "Here's the stuff that we think is cool and useful!"
Often, innovation isn't the newness of a feature, but the way it is combined with other features.
True, but if China can take advantage of all the hard lessons England and the US learned in the 19th and 20th centuries, they get a massive boost to their international image (which, given their behavior leading up to and during the Olympics, seems paramount over environmental and economic concerns).
Yes I'm Australian, don't start the whole "OMG WE'RE SICK OF AUSTRALIANS IN SLASHDOT" BS.
For what it's worth, there's no slashdot*.uk, slashdot*.au, slashdot*.nz, slashdot*.ca, etc. So unless those are actual region-specific Slashdot sites, anyone complaining about non-US English-speaking commenters on Slashdot is:
1. A troll, and a particularly unsophisticated and stupid one.
2. A nationalistic bigot, which is worse.
3. A political mole, which is highly unlikely, but not past the evils of the power structures in play.
4. Any combination of the above.
Oh, I'm not sure the OP was pointing to the Cold War. He may have been referring to the silent coup d'etat of Russia by one man, who turned its Parliament into his personal Politburo. I wonder if the Russians who cheer him on the streets and in mass media are really afraid of being killed like all the other dissidents were.
I'm thinking (and I suspect the OP thinks this as well) that Russia is back to the days of Joseph Stalin.
Kind of reminds you of the Simpsons episode where Homer finds himself in command of a nuke submarine, and the Russians at the UN flip their nation placards to "USSR", snickering at the world. Vlad Putin just found a way to make that scary instead of humorous.