Exactly. Where are Opera or Chrome equivalents of Greasemonkey, Adblock Plus, Ghostery, FlashGot, NoScript, Torbutton etc? For that matter, where the hell is the SOURCE CODE?
Sounds like you're competing with Mozilla Navigator, not Firefox. If Opera comes out with a _web_browser_ without email, IRC and kitchen sink, yet with extensible addons like Firefox, then I'll consider it.
Perelman's picture in TFA looks just like Lazlo Hollyfeld (Jonathan Gries) from "Real Genius". They are actually the same person! I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this post is too small to contain.
I wonder if things are the same now as they were 10 years ago. In 1999, ADD/ADHD was a convenient cop-out diagnosis for any kind of childhood behavioral problem. Rather than suggest counseling or therapy (or addressing poor parenting), the medical establishment pushed ritalin and adderall.
I was one of those kids who skipped a year in school, but having finished high school back in 1994 (get off my lawn) I was a bit too old for the ADD drug craze. Even tried ritalin once in college and it didn't seem that beneficial for mental performance. Modafinil is the way to go for studying and performance, but it won't make hyper kids behave any differently.
Poor people are more likely to have mental illness than average-income people. Mental illness runs in families. Are poor children more likely to need antipsychotic meds than children in average-income? Yeah, probably.
Next up: Poorer Children More Likely to Get Free School Lunches. Film at 11!
Australians seem to be doing even better than Americans, then. They still drive on the proper side of the road, although they measure distances in kilometers rather than miles as god and the queen intended.
Well at least Australia is doing better than Canada. Those poor sods drive on the wrong side *and* use the metric system on their roads.
Well unless Microsoft steps up an provides the refund, this could mean that XP is finally abandonware. Free XP for all? Yeah... I can't imagine MS would go for that.
This article made me nostalgic for arcade machines with cigarette burns in certain locations on them. On some games, you'd balance your butt on the edge of the cabinet. Other games' ergonomics seemed to favor keeping the cig between your fingers and would get brown burn marks next to the most common buttons.
Yeah, sonny. In my day we had to walk to the arcade to play games. Sometimes through the snow. And when we got there, people SMOKED inside. So get off my lawn^H^H^H^Hgame.... didn't you see the quarter I put on it?
That is true. However, Samsung != the copyright holders. Samsung could, however, fork it and create their own thing, which would not be the same as Samsung developing the original unforked e.
Sorry. I stand corrected, being somewhat unfamiliar with the terms.
Just saying though, that the latest fast reactor designs are more than just high-burnup Uranium-fueled LWR's. Running on thorium and plutonium, and breeding fuel as you go while being resistant to poisoning, appears to be the right approach for sustainable nuclear power.
I'm not talking about reprocessing fuel for use in thermal reactors, although as long as there are still legacy nuke plants in good shape we might as well keep fueling them.
That's a very interesting point. If you look at how various countries have developed nuclear power, most went for plutonium-burning breeder reactors. The cold war superpowers, the UK, France and Israel all went with fast breeder reactors for "research" purposes. Only later did commercial thermal reactors for power generation come online.
Nowadays with the IAEA keeping an eye on things, any developing country pretty much has to target a traditional HEU-burning thermal reactor design.
Transmutation pretty much is alchemy. The shortage is merely of *enriched* uranium. There are metric assloads of thorium and depleted uranium just laying around and able to be used in fast reactors, if only such reactors were built.
So in the eyes of irrational politicians, weapons grade plutonium is worse than spent reactor fuel? I wouldn't want either material to be used for evil, but if they're willing to tolerate the security requirements and risk of a dirty bomb, they should no problem with the same for weapons grade materials.
Actually, I'd say that dirty bombs are a much greater risk due to the slacker security and greater availability of the materials. There are precious few organizations that actually can make a proper nuclear weapon.
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Exactly. Where are Opera or Chrome equivalents of Greasemonkey, Adblock Plus, Ghostery, FlashGot, NoScript, Torbutton etc? For that matter, where the hell is the SOURCE CODE?
This is Slashdot after all.
Sounds like you're competing with Mozilla Navigator, not Firefox. If Opera comes out with a _web_browser_ without email, IRC and kitchen sink, yet with extensible addons like Firefox, then I'll consider it.
If they all idled simultaneously nonstop, how many daily barrels of crude oil would it take to keep them running?
Perelman's picture in TFA looks just like Lazlo Hollyfeld (Jonathan Gries) from "Real Genius". They are actually the same person! I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this post is too small to contain.
I wonder if things are the same now as they were 10 years ago. In 1999, ADD/ADHD was a convenient cop-out diagnosis for any kind of childhood behavioral problem. Rather than suggest counseling or therapy (or addressing poor parenting), the medical establishment pushed ritalin and adderall.
I was one of those kids who skipped a year in school, but having finished high school back in 1994 (get off my lawn) I was a bit too old for the ADD drug craze. Even tried ritalin once in college and it didn't seem that beneficial for mental performance. Modafinil is the way to go for studying and performance, but it won't make hyper kids behave any differently.
Mentally ill people tend not to make as much money as healthy people. If you're sick it's harder to learn, get experience, and hold down a good job.
I'm not saying that poor people are nuts, but I would propose that people who are nuts are more likely to be poor.
Poor people and crazy people are both less likely to receive adequate medical care, so... yeah I guess I agree with you.
Poor people are more likely to have mental illness than average-income people. Mental illness runs in families. Are poor children more likely to need antipsychotic meds than children in average-income? Yeah, probably.
Next up: Poorer Children More Likely to Get Free School Lunches. Film at 11!
One person's clever, obscure trick is another person's common practice.
Communicate with the other coders in your project. Write decent comments. TALK to the other coders. Cooperate and share ideas.
Well I'm sure the robots that built your house could handle either measuring system with ease.
Oh wait... your house wasn't built by robots, was it?
If it was really French, you wouldn't have such bastardizations as "sous-marin de 12 pouces", cinq six boîtes de tomates vertes!
Australians seem to be doing even better than Americans, then. They still drive on the proper side of the road, although they measure distances in kilometers rather than miles as god and the queen intended.
Well at least Australia is doing better than Canada. Those poor sods drive on the wrong side *and* use the metric system on their roads.
It's still a decimal point. Europeans just put a little tail on it to be fancy.
It's just like in Superman III, but backwards!
Well unless Microsoft steps up an provides the refund, this could mean that XP is finally abandonware. Free XP for all? Yeah... I can't imagine MS would go for that.
This article made me nostalgic for arcade machines with cigarette burns in certain locations on them. On some games, you'd balance your butt on the edge of the cabinet. Other games' ergonomics seemed to favor keeping the cig between your fingers and would get brown burn marks next to the most common buttons.
Yeah, sonny. In my day we had to walk to the arcade to play games. Sometimes through the snow. And when we got there, people SMOKED inside. So get off my lawn^H^H^H^Hgame.... didn't you see the quarter I put on it?
I've seen more computers clogged with cat hair than I've seen clogged with cigarette ash.
That is true. However, Samsung != the copyright holders. Samsung could, however, fork it and create their own thing, which would not be the same as Samsung developing the original unforked e.
Sorry. I stand corrected, being somewhat unfamiliar with the terms.
Just saying though, that the latest fast reactor designs are more than just high-burnup Uranium-fueled LWR's. Running on thorium and plutonium, and breeding fuel as you go while being resistant to poisoning, appears to be the right approach for sustainable nuclear power.
Enlightment is BSD licensed. You can't just change it to LGPL-3.
I'm not talking about reprocessing fuel for use in thermal reactors, although as long as there are still legacy nuke plants in good shape we might as well keep fueling them.
Make. Power. With. Fast. Reactors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_cooled_fast_reactor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-cooled_fast_reactor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_cooled_fast_reactor
These aren't research or materials test reactors. They do reprocess fuel, but mainly for their own consumption.
That's a very interesting point. If you look at how various countries have developed nuclear power, most went for plutonium-burning breeder reactors. The cold war superpowers, the UK, France and Israel all went with fast breeder reactors for "research" purposes. Only later did commercial thermal reactors for power generation come online.
Nowadays with the IAEA keeping an eye on things, any developing country pretty much has to target a traditional HEU-burning thermal reactor design.
I was thinking more along the lines of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, but with nuclear warheads instead of rocks.
Transmutation pretty much is alchemy. The shortage is merely of *enriched* uranium. There are metric assloads of thorium and depleted uranium just laying around and able to be used in fast reactors, if only such reactors were built.
So in the eyes of irrational politicians, weapons grade plutonium is worse than spent reactor fuel? I wouldn't want either material to be used for evil, but if they're willing to tolerate the security requirements and risk of a dirty bomb, they should no problem with the same for weapons grade materials.
Actually, I'd say that dirty bombs are a much greater risk due to the slacker security and greater availability of the materials. There are precious few organizations that actually can make a proper nuclear weapon.