Browsers are hard. I remember the early days of Firefox, then "Firebird." It was terrible, crashy alpha software and completely unusable for years. [...] The "browser" problem today is an order of magnitude more difficult because a browser is vastly more complex than it was 15+ years ago
You insinuate that they wrote a whole new rendering engine for Firefox alone.
The rendering engine, the largest part of a browser, had already many years under its belt under the Mozilla Suite. You know, the browser/mailagent/newsreader Mozilla were known for before they reprioritised and started drumming up public awareness of Firefox with ads at around version 1.0.
I was a user of Phoenix, which later became Firebird, and after that Firefox.
I've had zealots declare me a liar while cleaning "There is no BSOD any more!" with great conviction. It stil happens, even as documented on Microsoft pages.
Oh, but the BSoD went away with Windows XP.
The default behaviour in the case of a BSoD for XP was to automatically reboot the computer, you see. People no longer saw any BSoDs, so Microsoft obviously must've fixed them.
(The submissions link is in the 'Related Links' section right below the article summary, but for some reason, the Submission link doesn't show up unless you have JavaScript and even then you can't right-click and 'copy link location' on it. Come on, does nobody know basic HTML any more?)
The GWX Control Panel (an early popular solution at 2.4 megabytes) was a useful first step. But it was wrong in too many ways. Its design and operation seemed ill suited to the simple task of preventing upgrades to Windows 10. It was confusing and offered an array of actions, options and status reports, when all anyone really wanted was simply for Windows to not upgrade itself and to leave us alone. Instead, the GWX Control Panel makes itself the center of attention. It needs to be "installed", is resident and persistent afterward, and it pops up all the time to tell us what a great job it's doing... which is exactly the kind of nonsense most people are fed up with in this era where "your attention" is what commercial interests all want to obtain more of. But more than anything, none of that was necessary . ..
Never10 seems a lot less obnoxious than that control panel. I chose the manual registry route myself though.
The bot has a copypaste feature. Someone says "repeat after me", and it repeats whatever the user says to it.
I'm betting that there were people who asked the bot to repeat the bush-hitler-trump phrase, and then deleted their repeat-after-me tweet to make the phrase look original.
Or that's what I think. I don't use Twitter and trying to follow conversations there after-the-fact (while making sense of them) is very hard.
Heartbleed would've been caught much much faster if they hadn't insisted on using their homegrown memory allocator. Basically, they weren't even using malloc() calls, much less calloc() calls.
OpenBSD's malloc implementation clears the memory on unallocation, for example.
I never got the point of Debian/kFreeBSD (which UbuntuBSD seems to be about). Surely you want more than just the kernel of FreeBSD? They have nice userlands. They have a decent libc. They have good manual pages.
Getting away from coreutils and glibc is why I'd choose to run BSD. I don't care one bit about whether the kernel can provide me with ZFS or not.
I have a small idea about moderation that would make ACs a bit more visible:
If an AC gets moderated up, give the post a +1 bonus. In other words, an AC post that gets modded to +1 will get its AC penalty nullified and display at +2.
That way, more mods will see the post (which causes more moderations to happen) and good ACs only need 4 points to reach +5.
Currently I sometimes hesitate to moderate a +0 AC post because I know it needs at least three other mods to see it for it to become 'visible', and that doesn't really happen too often.
I also see some registered folks that choose to restate the AC's post just to give it some visibility.
(I think this could be expanded to users with negative karma, i.e. people who post at +0 or -1 by default.)
Also, could you please make the default article view so that all posts get loaded by default? Preferably server-side, i.e. no AJAX or anything. I hate having to click "Load all comments" button once or twice just to get all the comments visible. Especially when the button takes 5-10 seconds to run. Thanks.
Also, please make the web site display OK without Javascript. There's been increasing brokenness especially during the last year or so. For example, in the reply view, the post subject text is supposed to say "Open to Questions (Score:5, Informative)" except that the "Open to Questions" and "Score:5" parts are rendered white on white. The poll on the sidebar renders really strange too.
Sorry, I'm not terribly eloquent but I hope you understand what I'm getting at.
I wouldn't rule out that it's just a couple of individuals (mind you, most of these are ACs) who are trying to influence public opinion for the negative.
The strange part is that these posts keep getting modded up -- they never even reference the article in question, much less the actual edit they made. They just make nebulous references to PR firms on the news if pressed.
(Indeed, I edit without a username and I've never had these instant reverts happen. The closest I've gotten to one is that I once put up a cleanup tag and a couple of months later someone removed it, even though it was still valid. I restored the tag and it stayed.)
Incidentally, I did come across one username belonging to someone likely being paid to add links. I have no clue where to report such a user though. The user hasn't had a contribution since 2014, so it's not really pressing.
Slashdot Mirror
Eh, Maxthon was pretty popular back in the IE6 days. It was one of the IE shells that added tabbed browsing.
Also, quoth Wikipedia:
Maxthon won CNET WebWare 100 Awards in 2008 and 2009, and was #97 in PCWorld's list of the 100 Best Products of 2011
Browsers are hard. I remember the early days of Firefox, then "Firebird." It was terrible, crashy alpha software and completely unusable for years. [...] The "browser" problem today is an order of magnitude more difficult because a browser is vastly more complex than it was 15+ years ago
You insinuate that they wrote a whole new rendering engine for Firefox alone.
The rendering engine, the largest part of a browser, had already many years under its belt under the Mozilla Suite. You know, the browser/mailagent/newsreader Mozilla were known for before they reprioritised and started drumming up public awareness of Firefox with ads at around version 1.0.
I was a user of Phoenix, which later became Firebird, and after that Firefox.
It's certainly not like Windows 95, 98, Mistake Edition, or 2000 where they were an integral part of the experience.
Win2k does not belong in that list.
I've had zealots declare me a liar while cleaning "There is no BSOD any more!" with great conviction. It stil happens, even as documented on Microsoft pages.
Oh, but the BSoD went away with Windows XP.
The default behaviour in the case of a BSoD for XP was to automatically reboot the computer, you see. People no longer saw any BSoDs, so Microsoft obviously must've fixed them.
Nah, they're broken with or without JS.
The submission is here: https://news.slashdot.org/subm...
So yes, it was added by BeauHD.
(The submissions link is in the 'Related Links' section right below the article summary, but for some reason, the Submission link doesn't show up unless you have JavaScript and even then you can't right-click and 'copy link location' on it. Come on, does nobody know basic HTML any more?)
That's funny -- IMDB has that too.
Yeah, but you might want to see what GRC has to say about that:
The GWX Control Panel (an early popular solution at 2.4 megabytes) was a useful first step. But it was wrong in too many ways. Its design and operation seemed ill suited to the simple task of preventing upgrades to Windows 10. It was confusing and offered an array of actions, options and status reports, when all anyone really wanted was simply for Windows to not upgrade itself and to leave us alone. Instead, the GWX Control Panel makes itself the center of attention. It needs to be "installed", is resident and persistent afterward, and it pops up all the time to tell us what a great job it's doing... which is exactly the kind of nonsense most people are fed up with in this era where "your attention" is what commercial interests all want to obtain more of. But more than anything, none of that was necessary . . .
Never10 seems a lot less obnoxious than that control panel. I chose the manual registry route myself though.
If you can't even tell the difference between 24 Hz and 60 Hz ....
OWE my eyes @ 24 fps !
Silky smooth @ 60 fps !
That comparison is faulty, since the most common monitor refresh rate is 60 Hz, which is not evenly divisible by 24 Hz. This will add judder.
It should be a comparison between 30 and 60, or 20 and 60 Hz to make some sense.
ImageMagick isn't a company, last I checked.
Perl is just right except for the multiple ways of returning an error. Is it undefined? Or zero? Or a null?
There's no null in Perl (5). Well, 'undef' is technically a null, but that's covered by your 'undefined'.
Both zero and undefined are false when evaluated in a boolean manner. So return either. It doesn't really matter most of the time.
I prefer to return an empty list: just a plain return; does that.
I'd take her words more seriously if she didn't spend the time trademarking half of them.
Another feature Apple had way before Microsoft!
Oh, cool. I'll just store all the contraband I have on IDE disks then.
Here's what the interface looked like:
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GYn... ...That's not a 'bad user interface', that's an awful user interface.
The bot has a copypaste feature. Someone says "repeat after me", and it repeats whatever the user says to it.
I'm betting that there were people who asked the bot to repeat the bush-hitler-trump phrase, and then deleted their repeat-after-me tweet to make the phrase look original.
Or that's what I think. I don't use Twitter and trying to follow conversations there after-the-fact (while making sense of them) is very hard.
Heartbleed would've been caught much much faster if they hadn't insisted on using their homegrown memory allocator. Basically, they weren't even using malloc() calls, much less calloc() calls.
OpenBSD's malloc implementation clears the memory on unallocation, for example.
https://security.stackexchange...
I never got the point of Debian/kFreeBSD (which UbuntuBSD seems to be about). Surely you want more than just the kernel of FreeBSD? They have nice userlands. They have a decent libc. They have good manual pages.
Getting away from coreutils and glibc is why I'd choose to run BSD. I don't care one bit about whether the kernel can provide me with ZFS or not.
11000 feet is the cruising altitude for most propeller aircraft.
Or disable web fonts. No attack vector that way.
gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled = false
Courier is way better than Courier New
Courier New looks anaemic on paper.
Comparison
(Posting in monospace just to make a point.)
I have a small idea about moderation that would make ACs a bit more visible:
If an AC gets moderated up, give the post a +1 bonus. In other words, an AC post that gets modded to +1 will get its AC penalty nullified and display at +2.
That way, more mods will see the post (which causes more moderations to happen) and good ACs only need 4 points to reach +5.
Currently I sometimes hesitate to moderate a +0 AC post because I know it needs at least three other mods to see it for it to become 'visible', and that doesn't really happen too often.
I also see some registered folks that choose to restate the AC's post just to give it some visibility.
(I think this could be expanded to users with negative karma, i.e. people who post at +0 or -1 by default.)
Also, could you please make the default article view so that all posts get loaded by default? Preferably server-side, i.e. no AJAX or anything. I hate having to click "Load all comments" button once or twice just to get all the comments visible. Especially when the button takes 5-10 seconds to run. Thanks.
Also, please make the web site display OK without Javascript. There's been increasing brokenness especially during the last year or so. For example, in the reply view, the post subject text is supposed to say "Open to Questions (Score:5, Informative)" except that the "Open to Questions" and "Score:5" parts are rendered white on white. The poll on the sidebar renders really strange too.
Sorry, I'm not terribly eloquent but I hope you understand what I'm getting at.
He invented JavaScript, because he couldn't figure out how to make text display otherwise.
he doesn't even know how to display text without requiring JavaScript.
That must be why he invented it.
I wouldn't rule out that it's just a couple of individuals (mind you, most of these are ACs) who are trying to influence public opinion for the negative.
The strange part is that these posts keep getting modded up -- they never even reference the article in question, much less the actual edit they made. They just make nebulous references to PR firms on the news if pressed.
(Indeed, I edit without a username and I've never had these instant reverts happen. The closest I've gotten to one is that I once put up a cleanup tag and a couple of months later someone removed it, even though it was still valid. I restored the tag and it stayed.)
Incidentally, I did come across one username belonging to someone likely being paid to add links. I have no clue where to report such a user though. The user hasn't had a contribution since 2014, so it's not really pressing.