Obviously because the new (15 and later) Opera isn't comparable to the older one. It's not the engine that matters but what the developers do with it. Presto Opera had a lot of built-in features (vertical tabs, resource blocker, configuration of the UI via drag&drop, notes, etc...) that can only be found via unsatisfying extensions that often break with updates in other major browsers.
I'm in the same mindset as you are about this whole affair it seems.
I think at some point the Hugos were a great aid to discover SF of quality. And it still is if you're looking for old works.
But nowadays, this type of awards has lost much of its weight in promoting new authors/novels. If you're interested in SF you're probably better off checking reader reviews, not the list of Hugo/Nebula Awards.
While it does add some Opera features, Vivaldi is based on the Blink rendering engine, exactly like the new Opera (15+) So don't expect a lean browser : 35 MB for the 32-bit Windows installer... A far cry from old Opera which as you said and contrary to all the people criticizing it because of all those "useless" features, still was much lighter than any major modern browser.
I think the extension framework is a great way to add obscure or uncommon features to a browser BUT there's a tendency today to cut on built-in features. Extensions are often not as well maintained or of professional quality, they often break when the browser is updated, and might be considered a security risk by many. That's why having a browser with power user features (vertical tabs, tab stacking, domain blocker, developer tools, etc...) built-in is very interesting for me.
A lot of your Firefox extensions (Ghostery, NoScript, AdBlock, FlashBlock, CookieManager, referrer disabled, cache management) and more (disable CSS, disable HTML5 audio/video/plugins, Strict HTTPS, User Agent spoofing, etc..) can be replaced by one extension on Chrome : uMatrix.
Hell, you can even simulate Lynx like you want by disabling everything and only plain text will show up with only one click (All square in the matrix).
All of that with the added security of Chrome's built-in sandbox...
No crashes here with this update (41.0.2272.76-1).
I've been using Chrome for at least 3 years on Linux and it never crashed for me on. YMMV though because I disable all plugins, only have one extension running and filter Javascript via uMatrix.
But this update did bring a rather annoying bug : it doesn't save/restore the maximized state from the previous session...
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Not to criticize lightweight distros but if you want are concerned about disk space you might be better off with a minimal install of a major distro then adding whatever you need (DE, apps, etc...).
In my case I'm using a minimal Debian (netinstall or small ISO works, then disable all tasks in advanced configuration) with XFCE and it's as "lightweight" as I need it to be. Just be sure to disable automatic installation of the recommended dependencies when installing the DE and you should be fine. (--no-install-recommends parameter if using apt-get).
...while no security in any OS is perfect, OpenBSD comes the closest due to their audits.
Or maybe, just maybe... The more obscure the OS the less bugs are discovered.
Not saying OpenBSD security policy and practices isn't a good thing, but it might be less of a factor than its low market share (Security through minority).
The old Opera (based on Presto) had vertical tabs without the need for any extension. It was one of the things that kept me using it for years even after it was dropped by its company.
In my mind it still is the best and simplest implementation of vertical tabs in any browser I've tried. I've since switched to Chrome. I use bookmarks in a temporary folder instead of vertical tabs with the Bookmark All tabs feature. It's not as efficient but is enough most of the time. One of the benefits is that this system is less resource intensive (having a lot of tabs opened can be a serious memory hog).
With widescreen monitors becoming the norm I have difficulties understanding why vertical tabs aren't becoming at least a standard option of modern browsers. You shouldn't need an extension for something so basic.
The real successor to HTTP Swictboard isn't really uBlock but uMatrix.
It still features the option of blacklisting via Host files, but is mainly focused on content blocking via the matrix UI. Honestly I don't even bother with any ad blocking extension anymore, it's just that powerful. And I always prefer the whitelist approach (block everything, allow a few), it makes much better sense on the long run.
My extensions on Chrome comes down to only two : * uMatrix (only using custom rules, not hosts files) * custom Speed Dial-like extension to replace the useless default new tab
Sigh... Your comparison doesn't make sense at all.
ReactOS is at best in an alpha state and will probably stay this way for a long time. So there's no way it could have that many users... It doesn't work decently for any application.
PC-BSD is simply a branch of FreeBSD which has been around for much longer and is definitely in a much better state. It is productive.
Actually while preserving "tweets" might seem pointless to you, in hundreds of years it will give an insight in our culture that might be pretty interesting.
For example did you know that one of the most numerous finds from antique Greece are http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_tablet ? They were pretty much at the level of the "crap" you find on Internet and they are found almost everywhere : temples, burial sites, tombs, etc..
And the greeks back then seemed to be as vain as we are : sex, money, power.
I think it's amazing that through pointless stuff such as this (compared to say an original of The Republic), we get so much information on the daily life and preocupations of people so long gone.
There is only one worth mentioning (the others simply don't block JS all the time) : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/%C2%B5matrix/ogfcmafjalglgifnmanfmnieipoejdcf?hl=en
I haven't checked it on the mobile version but it's worth checking. It can block everything from plugins, CSS, Images to Javascript or even HTML5 video/audio. Can enforce HTTPS on all sites, and allows the use of pre-defined hosts lists. And it has a much cleaner and easier GUI than NoScript.
Learning isn't always work, it can be fun too. In fact, it's IMO the best way to learn.
A lot of activities outside school can supplement formal knowledge without being boring. The problem is as parents you have to give your kids some freedom, or forcing knowlege on them might indeed feel no different from the "prison" like school.
Hell, even introducing your kids to the town's library (you'd be surprised how much of an oddity it is for a kid to really like reading today) , can be a big boon to his education.
The problems with real space exploration are speed and payload mass limitations. Nuclear energy solved both of these problems decades ago.
In my opinion, the real obstacle to space exploration isn't technology... It is motivation. If there's a strong enough need, innovation will follow.
Until now the main motivation has been political : we go to space to prove we can do it to our neighbors. Very human, very short-sighted and it loses steam quickly.
And no, advancement of science has never really been the main goal... Politicians give the money, science is just a pretext.
The only viable motivation that could possibly lead us to explore space on a long-term basis is economics : I'm thinking asteroid mining or something similar. In one word : Money. And I very much doubt it will involve space exploration as most dream of it, it will be machines/robots. Sending humans in space is just too wasteful and costly.
When the annoying, music playing, flashing punch the monkey ads were in flash, it was trivial to block them using something like flashblock because you simply stopped the plugin from running.
I agree completely. Ad networks tend to go HTML5 too instead of Flash and it is actually much more annoying because it's not affected by Click To Play.
Video or Audio ads auto-play is a pain. It almost make me regret good ol' animated gifs.
I'm not a professional programmer but Ada always seemed to me much more readable than say C, which is definitely an advantage for projects you had to maintain long-term.
You are talking about how the French admire historical figures, like every country does.
Actually I wasn't.
In this case the FN claims Jeanne d'Arc as their symbol to advance a political agenda. Specifically to oust all foreigners from french soil like Jeanne d'Arc did with the English.
Anyway I do understand your point but it seems you are generalizing way too much to my taste. All extremists like to invoke past figures from a supposedly better time in their country/state. And I seriously doubt Muslims in general are better or worse than anyone else.
There ARE people in Germany actually nostalgic of the glory of the Third Reich, just like there are some people in France nostalgic of their colonial empires. And politicans do take advantage of that even there.
As you point out, that's not how today's Europeans would look at things. The French wouldn't try and re-invoke Charlemagne or Napoleon, the Macedonians aren't trying to get back an Alexander, the Spaniards aren't trying to get back a Ferdinand or Isabella, and so on. The only European country that looks even close to what the Muslims want is Russia, which looks like it misses the days of Tsar Peter I.
Not sure I can agree with you.
Linking your country/ideology to some historical figures even back to the middle age isn't at all something that can be limited to muslims countries.
To go back to France, the FN party which is the leading right-extremist party today and has increasing popular support, take Jeanne d'Arc as their symbol... They celebrate her every year with all the press following the event.
So yeah... I don't buy how backwards Muslims are because they want invoke some historical figure.
Yes.
Yahoo search was powered by Google circa 2000.
It then changed to Inktomi a few years after.
I remember switching to Google from Yahoo back then since it cut back on ads, I didn't use the web directory feature anymore and Inktomi's results format wasn't to my liking.
Bad move on the part of Yahoo at the time I think, they only realized too late they had given a taste of a simpler/less cluttered competitor to most of their users...
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Obviously because the new (15 and later) Opera isn't comparable to the older one. It's not the engine that matters but what the developers do with it. Presto Opera had a lot of built-in features (vertical tabs, resource blocker, configuration of the UI via drag&drop, notes, etc...) that can only be found via unsatisfying extensions that often break with updates in other major browsers.
I'm in the same mindset as you are about this whole affair it seems.
I think at some point the Hugos were a great aid to discover SF of quality. And it still is if you're looking for old works.
But nowadays, this type of awards has lost much of its weight in promoting new authors/novels. If you're interested in SF you're probably better off checking reader reviews, not the list of Hugo/Nebula Awards.
If your daughter knows how to install Linux, which nowadays isn't very hard depending on the distro, you can always check their site.
:
Most major distros provide a list of hardware that should be compatible, to avoid having to mess with drivers and such.
Here are a couple of links
http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/desktop/
http://community.linuxmint.com/hardware
https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn
While it does add some Opera features, Vivaldi is based on the Blink rendering engine, exactly like the new Opera (15+) So don't expect a lean browser : 35 MB for the 32-bit Windows installer... A far cry from old Opera which as you said and contrary to all the people criticizing it because of all those "useless" features, still was much lighter than any major modern browser.
I think the extension framework is a great way to add obscure or uncommon features to a browser BUT there's a tendency today to cut on built-in features. Extensions are often not as well maintained or of professional quality, they often break when the browser is updated, and might be considered a security risk by many. That's why having a browser with power user features (vertical tabs, tab stacking, domain blocker, developer tools, etc...) built-in is very interesting for me.
A lot of your Firefox extensions (Ghostery, NoScript, AdBlock, FlashBlock, CookieManager, referrer disabled, cache management) and more (disable CSS, disable HTML5 audio/video/plugins, Strict HTTPS, User Agent spoofing, etc..) can be replaced by one extension on Chrome : uMatrix.
Hell, you can even simulate Lynx like you want by disabling everything and only plain text will show up with only one click (All square in the matrix).
All of that with the added security of Chrome's built-in sandbox...
No crashes here with this update (41.0.2272.76-1).
I've been using Chrome for at least 3 years on Linux and it never crashed for me on. YMMV though because I disable all plugins, only have one extension running and filter Javascript via uMatrix.
But this update did bring a rather annoying bug : it doesn't save/restore the maximized state from the previous session...
Not to criticize lightweight distros but if you want are concerned about disk space you might be better off with a minimal install of a major distro then adding whatever you need (DE, apps, etc...).
In my case I'm using a minimal Debian (netinstall or small ISO works, then disable all tasks in advanced configuration) with XFCE and it's as "lightweight" as I need it to be. Just be sure to disable automatic installation of the recommended dependencies when installing the DE and you should be fine. (--no-install-recommends parameter if using apt-get).
...while no security in any OS is perfect, OpenBSD comes the closest due to their audits.
Or maybe, just maybe... The more obscure the OS the less bugs are discovered.
Not saying OpenBSD security policy and practices isn't a good thing, but it might be less of a factor than its low market share (Security through minority).
The old Opera (based on Presto) had vertical tabs without the need for any extension. It was one of the things that kept me using it for years even after it was dropped by its company.
In my mind it still is the best and simplest implementation of vertical tabs in any browser I've tried. I've since switched to Chrome. I use bookmarks in a temporary folder instead of vertical tabs with the Bookmark All tabs feature. It's not as efficient but is enough most of the time. One of the benefits is that this system is less resource intensive (having a lot of tabs opened can be a serious memory hog).
With widescreen monitors becoming the norm I have difficulties understanding why vertical tabs aren't becoming at least a standard option of modern browsers. You shouldn't need an extension for something so basic.
The real successor to HTTP Swictboard isn't really uBlock but uMatrix.
It still features the option of blacklisting via Host files, but is mainly focused on content blocking via the matrix UI. Honestly I don't even bother with any ad blocking extension anymore, it's just that powerful. And I always prefer the whitelist approach (block everything, allow a few), it makes much better sense on the long run.
My extensions on Chrome comes down to only two :
* uMatrix (only using custom rules, not hosts files)
* custom Speed Dial-like extension to replace the useless default new tab
Sigh... Your comparison doesn't make sense at all.
ReactOS is at best in an alpha state and will probably stay this way for a long time. So there's no way it could have that many users... It doesn't work decently for any application.
PC-BSD is simply a branch of FreeBSD which has been around for much longer and is definitely in a much better state. It is productive.
Actually while preserving "tweets" might seem pointless to you, in hundreds of years it will give an insight in our culture that might be pretty interesting.
For example did you know that one of the most numerous finds from antique Greece are http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_tablet ? They were pretty much at the level of the "crap" you find on Internet and they are found almost everywhere : temples, burial sites, tombs, etc.. And the greeks back then seemed to be as vain as we are : sex, money, power.
I think it's amazing that through pointless stuff such as this (compared to say an original of The Republic), we get so much information on the daily life and preocupations of people so long gone.
So yeah let's save the tweets too !
There is only one worth mentioning (the others simply don't block JS all the time) : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/%C2%B5matrix/ogfcmafjalglgifnmanfmnieipoejdcf?hl=en
I haven't checked it on the mobile version but it's worth checking. It can block everything from plugins, CSS, Images to Javascript or even HTML5 video/audio. Can enforce HTTPS on all sites, and allows the use of pre-defined hosts lists. And it has a much cleaner and easier GUI than NoScript.
Learning isn't always work, it can be fun too. In fact, it's IMO the best way to learn.
A lot of activities outside school can supplement formal knowledge without being boring. The problem is as parents you have to give your kids some freedom, or forcing knowlege on them might indeed feel no different from the "prison" like school.
Hell, even introducing your kids to the town's library (you'd be surprised how much of an oddity it is for a kid to really like reading today) , can be a big boon to his education.
The problems with real space exploration are speed and payload mass limitations. Nuclear energy solved both of these problems decades ago.
In my opinion, the real obstacle to space exploration isn't technology... It is motivation. If there's a strong enough need, innovation will follow.
Until now the main motivation has been political : we go to space to prove we can do it to our neighbors. Very human, very short-sighted and it loses steam quickly.
And no, advancement of science has never really been the main goal... Politicians give the money, science is just a pretext.
The only viable motivation that could possibly lead us to explore space on a long-term basis is economics : I'm thinking asteroid mining or something similar. In one word : Money. And I very much doubt it will involve space exploration as most dream of it, it will be machines/robots. Sending humans in space is just too wasteful and costly.
When the annoying, music playing, flashing punch the monkey ads were in flash, it was trivial to block them using something like flashblock because you simply stopped the plugin from running.
I agree completely. Ad networks tend to go HTML5 too instead of Flash and it is actually much more annoying because it's not affected by Click To Play.
Video or Audio ads auto-play is a pain. It almost make me regret good ol' animated gifs.
Readability ?
I'm not a professional programmer but Ada always seemed to me much more readable than say C, which is definitely an advantage for projects you had to maintain long-term.
You are talking about how the French admire historical figures, like every country does.
Actually I wasn't.
In this case the FN claims Jeanne d'Arc as their symbol to advance a political agenda. Specifically to oust all foreigners from french soil like Jeanne d'Arc did with the English.
Anyway I do understand your point but it seems you are generalizing way too much to my taste. All extremists like to invoke past figures from a supposedly better time in their country/state. And I seriously doubt Muslims in general are better or worse than anyone else.
There ARE people in Germany actually nostalgic of the glory of the Third Reich, just like there are some people in France nostalgic of their colonial empires. And politicans do take advantage of that even there.
As you point out, that's not how today's Europeans would look at things. The French wouldn't try and re-invoke Charlemagne or Napoleon, the Macedonians aren't trying to get back an Alexander, the Spaniards aren't trying to get back a Ferdinand or Isabella, and so on. The only European country that looks even close to what the Muslims want is Russia, which looks like it misses the days of Tsar Peter I.
Not sure I can agree with you.
Linking your country/ideology to some historical figures even back to the middle age isn't at all something that can be limited to muslims countries.
To go back to France, the FN party which is the leading right-extremist party today and has increasing popular support, take Jeanne d'Arc as their symbol... They celebrate her every year with all the press following the event.
So yeah... I don't buy how backwards Muslims are because they want invoke some historical figure.
Yes. Yahoo search was powered by Google circa 2000. It then changed to Inktomi a few years after. I remember switching to Google from Yahoo back then since it cut back on ads, I didn't use the web directory feature anymore and Inktomi's results format wasn't to my liking. Bad move on the part of Yahoo at the time I think, they only realized too late they had given a taste of a simpler/less cluttered competitor to most of their users...