When Internet Explorer was at version 5, Netscape released version 6 of their browser. There never was a Netscape version 5. They jumped from v4 to v6 because they wanted to be newer than Microsoft. Apparently, Mozilla now feels they are "behind" Chrome which is currently at version 9, so instead of Firefox 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, etc., they will call them Firefox 5, 6, 11 and 23 so that they can be newer than Chrome.
It is sad how far off the rails the Firefox development process has gone.
The iPad is a cute toy, but its locked-down severely limited design makes it useless for too many things.. This is a great opportunity for competitors to produce something better. Unfortunately, all we are getting is cheap crap as companies rush to put out tablets that more or less look like an iPad and will hopefully be bought by people too stupid to know the difference and who only care that it's cheaper than an iPad.
It's not as if women are doing nothing while being blocked from doing things that are more open to men. Women are doing whatever it is women do and most of the time, it's whatever they WANT to do. It just so happens that what women want to do is often different from that which men want to do. Why is that wrong?
Equal participation and equal access are not the same. There is already equal access. My internet connection doesn't check for a penis before letting me route traffic. So what's the REAL issue here? What's the real goal?
The real goal is some sort of imaginary "equality". A few people suffer from the delusion that increasing the number of women will somehow magically make Wikipedia better. Sorry, but there are just as many stupid women as there are stupid men. Actually, there are probably more stupid women since women out number men.
The only thing Wikipedia should be concerned with is "are these articles any good". Period.
A Document Format that needs a sandbox. I don't have a sandbox around my text editor, nor my PNG viewer, nor my MP3 player... Tell me again, why do we need our document formats to be little programming languages?
The problem is Adobe Acrobat Professional, or whatever they call their expensive software for creating PDFs. In order to get people to keep buying new versions they have to keep adding more and more features. Which means that Adobe Reader has to be constantly updated so that it can read PDFs with all those new features. New features equals new bugs and security exploits.
Why would Apple want to publish a plan if they have one?.
Because the shareholders -- THE PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY OWN THE COMPANY -- say they want one. If Apple management doesn't like taking orders from the owners of the company they always have the option of working elsewhere.
Whenever a company gets complaints about a move that is controversial or unpopular, management's answer is always the same: "We have an obligation to our shareholders to ________ (whatever)".
So now, the shareholders, those people whom management cares about so deeply, are saying "We want to know what the succession plan is" and management's answer is "F.U. it's none of your business".
If they really want to prove this they'll need to operate some kind of traffic meter on the iPhone itself, and compare that to what is reported by the carrier - but I suspect you'd have to jailbreak the phone to make that work.
If an average non-technical user turns off everything they can find (update checking, email checking, etc) and doesn't use the phone and still gets billed for a few meg of data transfer then there's something wrong. If AT&T isn't inflating data transfers, as alleged in the lawsuit, then they should be required to inform customers that their phone does stuff "behind the scenes" and you will be billed for it, even if you aren't using the phone.
Steve Ballmer should have been fired immediately after his infamous DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS monkey dance. Seriously. This is the guy you want running the biggest software company in the world? However, all the articles I've read always say two disturbing things:
(1) Microsoft's Board of Directors thinks Steve Balmer is just wonderful because during the 10 years he has been CEO Microsoft's revenue has tripled and profits have doubled.
(B) Even if they wanted to get rid of Balmer, there's nobody who can replace him. Really? What happens if he dies suddenly tomorrow
This is a checkbox which adds a single static header to each request, it's too simple to delay FF4 in any way.
From TFA: "Currently, the feature shows up in the “Advanced” panel within Firefox Preferences. It pains me that it’s not under the “Privacy” panel, yet. This reflects our desire for speed in getting the feature into Firefox, as updating the “Privacy” UI and content will require additional engineering bandwidth. We’ll have more to say on this once we move the new feature into upcoming beta releases."
Translation: Even though we are already at Beta 11 and should be focused solely on fixing bugs for a final release, we are in a big hurry to cram in a new feature, of questionable value, and can't be arsed to implement it correctly because it would take too much "engineering bandwidth". (what the fuck is engineering bandwidth and who talks like that?)
You could accuse Mozilla of wasting time with Firefox 4 beta-testing, but this feature certainly has surfaced fast.
Actually, I'd rather accuse the Mozilla team of not understanding the purpose of a beta release. Adding support for shiny new features (and introducing, and then fixing, the inevitable bugs that follow) is great activity for a point release.
Unfortunately, this is what Firefox has become. Its development process has gone completely off the tracks. Instead of implementing a fixed feature set, and getting everything working properly, they are constantly adding new features. That's why they are up to Beta 11.
Maybe we can recycle Egypt's, they don't seem to want them...
Too bad nobody actually has the guts to do that. Take everything allocated to Egypt and give it to someone else. If they complain, just say "You shut down the Internet in your country, you obviously didn't want them anymore."
Why mod me down for Using Opera? It was the ONLY browser in which/. could render properly before the redesign fuck up.
Now inline commenting and moderation is fucked up, All they want to do is create a site for "people that use Safari browser".
Slashdot is death, suck it
Every since the "new design" displaying posts has been fucked up. In Firefox, my normal browser, a small bit of the far left of each post is cut off. Ironically, I decided to try Internet Explorer (v8) and I am writing this reply in IE which displays the "new" Slashdot better than Firefox.
Basically, here's what happens. You choose a celebrity which you want to be associated with. They perform a useless job, with some official sounding title. This then allows the company to say person X is with us. We then *might* get them to be apart of some ad campaigns, some marketing, and similar. Basically, anything that they couldn't fuck up too much, and that we could discard at a moments notice.
We have had "Director of Brand Engineering", "VP of Creative Development" and many other titles for these positions.
It doesn't mean shit, besides "Intel thinks Sam.I.Am is someone they want to associate their brand with".
EoS (End of Story)
Sort of like when Linus Torvalds was hired by Transmeta
Give it a chance, something really good could come of this.
An article about this at ZDNet points out the following:
"will.i.am isn’t going to be donning on a bunny suit and start clocking into Intel’s fab -- No, will.i.am is there to act as a conduit between Intel and the gadget-buying masses who don’t know or care about who made the silicon inside their newest love affair. Just as fans will flock out to buy Polaroid cameras, thinking that Lady Gaga had something to do with it (in case you’re not keeping up with things, Lady Gaga is Polaroid’s “Creative Director), fans will be on the lookout for the Intel brand when buying PCs and so on."
Email services and software vendors have tried for years to keep spam and other unwanted messages from showing up in users' viewing pane, but the crud keeps slipping through.
The company I work for used to use a company called Postini for spam filtering. They are now owned by Google. They do a really fantastic job of spam filtering. Over the past several years, with my employer and with GMail, zero spam has gotten thru and the number of false positives have been about 1 every few months (and even then it was never anything important).
OK. We run out of IPv4 addresses. So what? It's not like the 4 billion existing addresses are going to suddenly evaporate. Everything will continue to work just fine, and if you're late to the party, well, it sucks to be you.
Just put up a sign "The Internet is full, go home."
1. State that their metrics show that spam in results is decreasing,
Except that spam results have not decreased. Google's so-called "metrics" are wrong, or broken or measuring the wrong thing.
2. Identify recent steps they've taken to decrease spam
Except that they have only "decreased spam" by adopting a very narrow definition of spam. See #1
3. Acknowledge that they are aware of concerns about the quality of results
We're aware of your concerns. How nice. But meaningless.
4. they believe that the perception of a trend toward less satisfying results is a result of their improvements not matching the pace at which expectations of Google are increasing
Wrong, wrong, wrong, and bullshit. Quality of search results has deteriorated. It's not a perception, it's a reality.
5. Acknowledge that, despite the improvements they believe they have made, they "can and should do better",
More meaningless platitudes
6. Present steps they are in the process of implementing to decrease spam further
"decrease spam further" implies that they have already reduced spam, which they haven't.
7. Specifically deny that their algorithms and delisting policies for the search engine are friendly to spammy sites that have Google Ads.
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When Internet Explorer was at version 5, Netscape released version 6 of their browser. There never was a Netscape version 5. They jumped from v4 to v6 because they wanted to be newer than Microsoft. Apparently, Mozilla now feels they are "behind" Chrome which is currently at version 9, so instead of Firefox 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, etc., they will call them Firefox 5, 6, 11 and 23 so that they can be newer than Chrome.
It is sad how far off the rails the Firefox development process has gone.
The iPad is a cute toy, but its locked-down severely limited design makes it useless for too many things.. This is a great opportunity for competitors to produce something better. Unfortunately, all we are getting is cheap crap as companies rush to put out tablets that more or less look like an iPad and will hopefully be bought by people too stupid to know the difference and who only care that it's cheaper than an iPad.
It's not as if women are doing nothing while being blocked from doing things that are more open to men. Women are doing whatever it is women do and most of the time, it's whatever they WANT to do. It just so happens that what women want to do is often different from that which men want to do. Why is that wrong?
Equal participation and equal access are not the same. There is already equal access. My internet connection doesn't check for a penis before letting me route traffic. So what's the REAL issue here? What's the real goal?
The real goal is some sort of imaginary "equality". A few people suffer from the delusion that increasing the number of women will somehow magically make Wikipedia better. Sorry, but there are just as many stupid women as there are stupid men. Actually, there are probably more stupid women since women out number men.
The only thing Wikipedia should be concerned with is "are these articles any good". Period.
Does anybody know what UnXis is? Is it a real company or facade for something? Googling does not reveal much.
http://www.unxis.ca/
PDF reader... sandbox...
A Document Format that needs a sandbox. I don't have a sandbox around my text editor, nor my PNG viewer, nor my MP3 player... Tell me again, why do we need our document formats to be little programming languages?
The problem is Adobe Acrobat Professional, or whatever they call their expensive software for creating PDFs. In order to get people to keep buying new versions they have to keep adding more and more features. Which means that Adobe Reader has to be constantly updated so that it can read PDFs with all those new features. New features equals new bugs and security exploits.
Why would Apple want to publish a plan if they have one? .
Because the shareholders -- THE PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY OWN THE COMPANY -- say they want one. If Apple management doesn't like taking orders from the owners of the company they always have the option of working elsewhere.
Whenever a company gets complaints about a move that is controversial or unpopular, management's answer is always the same: "We have an obligation to our shareholders to ________ (whatever)".
So now, the shareholders, those people whom management cares about so deeply, are saying "We want to know what the succession plan is" and management's answer is "F.U. it's none of your business".
Because people hope that they can hold onto it juts long enough for it to get really, super expensive and then sell off for a huge payout.
Which is pretty much the exact definition of a Ponzi scheme.
If they really want to prove this they'll need to operate some kind of traffic meter on the iPhone itself, and compare that to what is reported by the carrier - but I suspect you'd have to jailbreak the phone to make that work.
If an average non-technical user turns off everything they can find (update checking, email checking, etc) and doesn't use the phone and still gets billed for a few meg of data transfer then there's something wrong. If AT&T isn't inflating data transfers, as alleged in the lawsuit, then they should be required to inform customers that their phone does stuff "behind the scenes" and you will be billed for it, even if you aren't using the phone.
Steve Ballmer should have been fired immediately after his infamous DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS monkey dance. Seriously. This is the guy you want running the biggest software company in the world? However, all the articles I've read always say two disturbing things:
(1) Microsoft's Board of Directors thinks Steve Balmer is just wonderful because during the 10 years he has been CEO Microsoft's revenue has tripled and profits have doubled.
(B) Even if they wanted to get rid of Balmer, there's nobody who can replace him. Really? What happens if he dies suddenly tomorrow
Dear Egypt,
All IP addresses previously assigned to you have been revoked and given to others, since you apparently don't want them anymore.
Thank you for helping us with the dwindling supply of IPv4 addresses.
Sincerely,
ARIN
This is a checkbox which adds a single static header to each request, it's too simple to delay FF4 in any way.
From TFA:
"Currently, the feature shows up in the “Advanced” panel within Firefox Preferences. It pains me that it’s not under the “Privacy” panel, yet. This reflects our desire for speed in getting the feature into Firefox, as updating the “Privacy” UI and content will require additional engineering bandwidth. We’ll have more to say on this once we move the new feature into upcoming beta releases."
Translation: Even though we are already at Beta 11 and should be focused solely on fixing bugs for a final release, we are in a big hurry to cram in a new feature, of questionable value, and can't be arsed to implement it correctly because it would take too much "engineering bandwidth". (what the fuck is engineering bandwidth and who talks like that?)
You could accuse Mozilla of wasting time with Firefox 4 beta-testing, but this feature certainly has surfaced fast.
Actually, I'd rather accuse the Mozilla team of not understanding the purpose of a beta release. Adding support for shiny new features (and introducing, and then fixing, the inevitable bugs that follow) is great activity for a point release.
Unfortunately, this is what Firefox has become. Its development process has gone completely off the tracks. Instead of implementing a fixed feature set, and getting everything working properly, they are constantly adding new features. That's why they are up to Beta 11.
Maybe we can recycle Egypt's, they don't seem to want them...
Too bad nobody actually has the guts to do that. Take everything allocated to Egypt and give it to someone else. If they complain, just say "You shut down the Internet in your country, you obviously didn't want them anymore."
I think its a sad commentary on somone who goes out of their way to search people who have removed them from their lists.
Almost as sad as having a Facebook account.
Why mod me down for Using Opera? It was the ONLY browser in which /. could render properly before the redesign fuck up.
Now inline commenting and moderation is fucked up, All they want to do is create a site for "people that use Safari browser".
Slashdot is death, suck it
Every since the "new design" displaying posts has been fucked up. In Firefox, my normal browser, a small bit of the far left of each post is cut off. Ironically, I decided to try Internet Explorer (v8) and I am writing this reply in IE which displays the "new" Slashdot better than Firefox.
How interesting.
Well, when Amazon decides to delete a book you aren't supposed to have, the people with the physical copy will still have it.
They've done it before, I have no doubt they'll do it again at some point.
Unless you have stolen the book, there is no such thing as "a book you aren't supposed to have".
As long as the Kindle has the ability to remotely delete books, they can go fuck themself.
Even if you have a dial-up modem, what are you going to connect to? Call the US and connect to AOL?
Basically, here's what happens. You choose a celebrity which you want to be associated with. They perform a useless job, with some official sounding title. This then allows the company to say person X is with us. We then *might* get them to be apart of some ad campaigns, some marketing, and similar. Basically, anything that they couldn't fuck up too much, and that we could discard at a moments notice.
We have had "Director of Brand Engineering", "VP of Creative Development" and many other titles for these positions.
It doesn't mean shit, besides "Intel thinks Sam.I.Am is someone they want to associate their brand with".
EoS (End of Story)
Sort of like when Linus Torvalds was hired by Transmeta
Give it a chance, something really good could come of this.
An article about this at ZDNet points out the following:
"will.i.am isn’t going to be donning on a bunny suit and start clocking into Intel’s fab -- No, will.i.am is there to act as a conduit between Intel and the gadget-buying masses who don’t know or care about who made the silicon inside their newest love affair. Just as fans will flock out to buy Polaroid cameras, thinking that Lady Gaga had something to do with it (in case you’re not keeping up with things, Lady Gaga is Polaroid’s “Creative Director), fans will be on the lookout for the Intel brand when buying PCs and so on."
Apparently the new design of Slashdot include even more pointless stories.
The company I work for used to use a company called Postini for spam filtering. They are now owned by Google. They do a really fantastic job of spam filtering. Over the past several years, with my employer and with GMail, zero spam has gotten thru and the number of false positives have been about 1 every few months (and even then it was never anything important).
OK. We run out of IPv4 addresses. So what? It's not like the 4 billion existing addresses are going to suddenly evaporate. Everything will continue to work just fine, and if you're late to the party, well, it sucks to be you.
Just put up a sign "The Internet is full, go home."
Except that spam results have not decreased. Google's so-called "metrics" are wrong, or broken or measuring the wrong thing.
Except that they have only "decreased spam" by adopting a very narrow definition of spam. See #1
We're aware of your concerns. How nice. But meaningless.
Wrong, wrong, wrong, and bullshit. Quality of search results has deteriorated. It's not a perception, it's a reality.
More meaningless platitudes
"decrease spam further" implies that they have already reduced spam, which they haven't.
OK.