Exactly. Of all these "standards" we should choose a non-proprietary open standard like Vulkan and never even give any thought to any of these other proprietary and platform bound standards. Please don't let Flash happen all over again. It took us so many years to finally get rid of it, and you can still find some websites using it. Keep Internet standards open and platform agnostic folks! WebGL is at least open and platform agnostic, but Vulkan definitely has less overhead and it's more modern.
You can kiss goodbye all the money that comes from tourism. People have lost interest in seeing the US anyway. Uganda and Zimbabwe looks more attractive and you don't have to go through a stripsearch and scorn to get there. The US is all yours "Americans".
Until next MS screw-up, and until next, and until next. The only question is how long will it took for you to understand that MS [whatever] has gone insane and that you should start looking for the OS alternatives?
Maybe because... what is Skype?? There are so many different programs and services to communicate with that Skype never really entered my mind. The thing is ordinary people use Skype because it is all they now. They are not aware of all the other programs you could use in the same manner. Your task is to inform them of these. Don't just lazily tell them "yeah, Skype". It is Internet ffs. There are so many ways of communication! Enjoy the freedom of choice!
Never give up. "We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France,
we shall fight on the seas and oceans,
we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be,
we shall fight on the beaches,
we shall fight on the landing grounds,
we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,
we shall fight in the hills;
we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.”
Simply ignore everything Microsoft and use whatever else is available. e.g. Google hangouts which works remarkably well. Yahoo chat is good too. I can't understand why people insist on Skype. Skype is essentially dead now.
Does it cost to get petrol for your car? Yep. Does it cost to buy food? Yep. So why does it matter that there is a cost involved in providing us with a better and healthier place to live? Why is it so annoying that it *costs something*? Of course it costs. All good things cost something, mate. Get over it. But yes, the best things in life will always be free. [or hopefully? like air, green parks etc.]
When you go straight to printer you can print into a PS [postscript] file that can be read by some programs like Ghostscript and printed into PDF but honestly I've never bothered with that.
Fine. Now can you explain to me why is Firefox 45 so laggy, a RAM and a CPU hog that you need a very expensive 8 core with 16GB of RAM to run it *reasonably well* with these days? Why wouldn't it run smoothly on an ARM CPU with 2GB of RAM? I remember Firefox 3 and 4 running smoothly on this AMD Phenom II 965 with 8GB of RAM but with version 45 it just works like it's been programmed in Spectrum basic or something. If that's the future it looks very, very bleak.
Yeah, people will always find something, some bad habit, to enjoy. It is in our blood. If they don't get cigarettes, they'll drink more, smoke more marijuana, or even harder drugs. You can't take life away from people. They are already forced to live only a couple of hours per day, 8 hours of sleep, 12 hours of work. All they need is to get even more oppressed. Thanks government.
Regarding printing in FF, I must say that under Linux it works great. I often print to PDF from FF. Well at least something works great in FF... and I'm so sorry to have to say that. No wonder not so many people use FF these days. Chrome really is a better browser, but I've got lots of other problems with it, not so much its speed... and with Microsoft browsers. An Open Soource browser is the only browser I will ever use, and if that means I should cope with FF's sluggishness, then so be it.
What I would do is give all the Firefox developers a 10 years old computer with 2 GB of memory and an old fashioned hard disk, and tell them to program a browser that works well on that. Simple. It is incredible how Firefox works now in comparison to Firefox 3 or 4. The code is terribly slow and inefficient. Opening tabs, new pages, and doing pretty much anything is lagging on a 4-core with 12 GB of RAM! I understand that the webpages are the culprit, too, but everything I do in Firefox now is just laggy. I would so like to say that it's working well, but I can't, and I'm using FF ESR in Linux which is at v45.6 currently. Reading this thread I'm not at all thrilled at what v51 brings to the table. What I'd like to hear is: we programmed it in C++ from ground up for efficiency and optimised the code kinda thing. Yes, I know that's not going to happen. We need a brand new open-source browser like FF but written differently-- that!
Yeah, Trump is such a great philanthropist I can bet he's going to replace Obamacare with something cheaper and better for sure. He loves having children in his lap, especially girls. Such a wonderful person.
Any imbecile can inherit a fortune and sustain the business with the knowledgeable team of people to help him, and have a rather stupid reality show series that loads of people actually hated, especially here in Europe. I personally don't know anyone who liked his horrific show. Regarding his business he is such a "great businessman" that even with the team of knowledgeable people he managed to ruin his business a couple of times and take it to the brink of bankruptcy. So yes, he is an imbecile, a complete one at that, too.
What way do you look at it then? Are you not a slave to the "elite" richest few? Are you not doing things the way they want you to? Still living the "American Dream"tm? I honestly want to know why do you think you are not their slave.
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Exactly. Of all these "standards" we should choose a non-proprietary open standard like Vulkan and never even give any thought to any of these other proprietary and platform bound standards. Please don't let Flash happen all over again. It took us so many years to finally get rid of it, and you can still find some websites using it. Keep Internet standards open and platform agnostic folks! WebGL is at least open and platform agnostic, but Vulkan definitely has less overhead and it's more modern.
You can kiss goodbye all the money that comes from tourism. People have lost interest in seeing the US anyway. Uganda and Zimbabwe looks more attractive and you don't have to go through a stripsearch and scorn to get there. The US is all yours "Americans".
Until next MS screw-up, and until next, and until next. The only question is how long will it took for you to understand that MS [whatever] has gone insane and that you should start looking for the OS alternatives?
Gosh man. Read your own posts and try to understand what you're saying.
Cos sheep. Simple. No brain, just following the leader no matter where it leads to.
Maybe because... what is Skype?? There are so many different programs and services to communicate with that Skype never really entered my mind. The thing is ordinary people use Skype because it is all they now. They are not aware of all the other programs you could use in the same manner. Your task is to inform them of these. Don't just lazily tell them "yeah, Skype". It is Internet ffs. There are so many ways of communication! Enjoy the freedom of choice!
Never give up. "We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.”
Simply ignore everything Microsoft and use whatever else is available. e.g. Google hangouts which works remarkably well. Yahoo chat is good too. I can't understand why people insist on Skype. Skype is essentially dead now.
In Albania taking a shit on the floor indicates that the meal was very satisfying. I shit you not.
People in your company should not swallow then. They should just spit it out in front of you instead?
Does it cost to get petrol for your car? Yep. Does it cost to buy food? Yep. So why does it matter that there is a cost involved in providing us with a better and healthier place to live? Why is it so annoying that it *costs something*? Of course it costs. All good things cost something, mate. Get over it. But yes, the best things in life will always be free. [or hopefully? like air, green parks etc.]
When you go straight to printer you can print into a PS [postscript] file that can be read by some programs like Ghostscript and printed into PDF but honestly I've never bothered with that.
Yep, that 's what I'm talking about.
Fine. Now can you explain to me why is Firefox 45 so laggy, a RAM and a CPU hog that you need a very expensive 8 core with 16GB of RAM to run it *reasonably well* with these days? Why wouldn't it run smoothly on an ARM CPU with 2GB of RAM? I remember Firefox 3 and 4 running smoothly on this AMD Phenom II 965 with 8GB of RAM but with version 45 it just works like it's been programmed in Spectrum basic or something. If that's the future it looks very, very bleak.
Yeah, people will always find something, some bad habit, to enjoy. It is in our blood. If they don't get cigarettes, they'll drink more, smoke more marijuana, or even harder drugs. You can't take life away from people. They are already forced to live only a couple of hours per day, 8 hours of sleep, 12 hours of work. All they need is to get even more oppressed. Thanks government.
You're being too generous with 5 years. I'd say a couple of years at the most.
Regarding printing in FF, I must say that under Linux it works great. I often print to PDF from FF. Well at least something works great in FF... and I'm so sorry to have to say that. No wonder not so many people use FF these days. Chrome really is a better browser, but I've got lots of other problems with it, not so much its speed... and with Microsoft browsers. An Open Soource browser is the only browser I will ever use, and if that means I should cope with FF's sluggishness, then so be it.
What I would do is give all the Firefox developers a 10 years old computer with 2 GB of memory and an old fashioned hard disk, and tell them to program a browser that works well on that. Simple. It is incredible how Firefox works now in comparison to Firefox 3 or 4. The code is terribly slow and inefficient. Opening tabs, new pages, and doing pretty much anything is lagging on a 4-core with 12 GB of RAM! I understand that the webpages are the culprit, too, but everything I do in Firefox now is just laggy. I would so like to say that it's working well, but I can't, and I'm using FF ESR in Linux which is at v45.6 currently. Reading this thread I'm not at all thrilled at what v51 brings to the table. What I'd like to hear is: we programmed it in C++ from ground up for efficiency and optimised the code kinda thing. Yes, I know that's not going to happen. We need a brand new open-source browser like FF but written differently-- that!
Yeah, Trump is such a great philanthropist I can bet he's going to replace Obamacare with something cheaper and better for sure. He loves having children in his lap, especially girls. Such a wonderful person.
Soon will be changed into "Do you want to go to prison?" :)
A few examples here: http://www.howtogeek.com/11351...
...and is he really to be applauded for being able to become a president? He's still an imbecile. Being a president doesn't change that fact.
Any imbecile can inherit a fortune and sustain the business with the knowledgeable team of people to help him, and have a rather stupid reality show series that loads of people actually hated, especially here in Europe. I personally don't know anyone who liked his horrific show. Regarding his business he is such a "great businessman" that even with the team of knowledgeable people he managed to ruin his business a couple of times and take it to the brink of bankruptcy. So yes, he is an imbecile, a complete one at that, too.
What about my freedom to be free from having to inhale car exhaust?
What way do you look at it then? Are you not a slave to the "elite" richest few? Are you not doing things the way they want you to? Still living the "American Dream"tm? I honestly want to know why do you think you are not their slave.