I was very happy with the actual computer scenes. I was impressed hollywood actually used a GREP and KILL Command correctly.
Really? Seriously? In a movie that is total fiction/fantasy about people living inside a computer, you're worried about the correct use of GREP and KILL? I'm so sick of people who watch a movie and go "LOL!! OMG!! Look at that command line he typed!! It's totally bogus!!"
I was in my 20's when the first Tron was released. Back then, computers were magical mysterious things. Today, your cell phone probably has more computing power than the computers used on the original Tron and amazing CGI is everywhere. Any kid with a cheap computer can do stuff that rivals the best movie effects of 30 years ago.. As a result, people aren't as impressed by fancy computer graphics as they used to be, and they notice that "hey, this story line and acting is pretty lame.
Pretty sure Stuxnet has got his attention. I assure you that the Free part is relevant, because the Open thing is part of the Free thing, and that means peer-reviewed software.
There's nothing to stop Russia from creating their own version of Linux that's just as closed as Windows. Want to trying suing them in a Russian court for violating the GPL? Let me know how that works out for you.
If Putin asked me (heh heh) how he could enhance the security of computing in Russia, I'd certainly suggest Linux, maybe even GNU/Linux.
How much malware originates in Russia? Quite a bit. If Windows goes away and is replaced by Russian Linux the Russian hackers will simply change to a new target.
Facebook and privacy are mutually exclusive. You can have one or the other but not both. Personally, I think all the worry about "privacy" is extremely exaggerated and overblown. What are they going to do? Show me targeted ads? That's what AdBlock is for.
Unless you're actually stupid enough to put all sorts of personal info on Facebook, like your real name, address, etc. In that case you're a moron who deserves to be ass-raped by every script kiddie hacker wannabe.. The bottom line is very simple. If you really care about privacy, you don't have a Facebook account in the first place.
Has Joel Spolsky done anything that's worth a damn?
Not really, but he seems to be an expert bullshitter who throws around the fact that he once worked at Microsoft every chance he gets. As for what he's done, let's see:
City Desk - some sort of program for creating and managing websites. Little or no mention of it on his website anymore and the City Desk forum is long gone from the website.
Fogbugz - The Forgbugz forum is also gone from his website. Here's a blurb from Joel this past September: "Thanks to the hard work of the Fog Creek team, including ten great summer interns, we have just released amazing new upgrades to FogBugz " Thank god for free labor.
Co-Pilot - a remote access program that was written entirely by summer interns. Really. Thank god for free labor.
Stack Overflow - Not an actual application but simply a website where people can ask questions.. This doesn't stop Joel from proclaiming "I’m the CEO of Stack Overflow".
From what I can see on his website, his main business now is ads for programmer jobs.
And completely misses the fact that several seconds before the first stage goes up in a fireball, the top of the rocket falls off and collides with the first stage.
Someone forgot to apply the indian version of lok-tite to some mating ring bolts.:)
Or maybe the problem was they DID apply the Indian version of lok-tite.
The failure of T. Boone Pickens has nothing to do with "market forces". It has to do with trying to solve the wrong problem. Or not even understanding what the problem is in the first place. Just because you're rich doesn't mean you know what you're talking about.
I keep hearing the phrase "reduce our dependence on foreign oil" associated with things like wind turbines and nuclear power. Maybe somebody should do a little research and discover that 1% of the electricity in the U.S. is generated using oil as fuel. Unless you're planning on cars, trucks, buses and trains powered by wind turbines or nuclear reactors, how exactly does this "reduce our dependence on foreign oil"?
Bonnie Lam of MegaUpload said, 'the vast majority of our revenue is coming from advertising.'
A quick check of Megaupload's website shows that their prices are about the same as all the other companies this same business. If the "vast majority" of their revenue comes from advertising then why aren't their prices significantly lower, undercutting the competition and bringing in even more customers? I have a feeling someone at MegaUpload has a big ego and is saying things they may regret later.
Thus this discussion is starting out on a false premise.
The claim that Net Neutrality is "government regulation of the Internet" is a lie perpetuated by politicians acting on behalf of the cable and telephone monopolies. The purpose of Net Neutrality is to prevent the cable and telephone monopolies from shutting out competitors (or people they don't like).
I know its up to the developers of each extension to make their product compatible with the latest (beta) build of firefox, therefore Mozilla is not entirely at fault but....
I strongly disagree. It is Mozilla's fault. Since the earliest days of the original Mozilla browser they have completely ignored backwards compatibility. Every new version breaks most extensions. Just going from FF4 beta 7 to beta 8 required me to update 2 extensions. Some of the major extensions (like Adblock) get updated quickly. Others get updated more slowly and many are abandoned and never updated at all, in which case, you're screwed. Sometimes you can hack the version number on an extension and get it to work, but not always.
But here's the point. Except for the occasional program that does low level stuff (typically anti-virus and disk defrag programs) I have very rarely had any problems with software not working when I move from one version of Windows to another. I have old software dating back to the days of Windows 95 and it runs just fine on Windows 7 x64 because Windows has a stable API for writing software and as long as you follow the rules your program will usually run on any version of Windows. And there's no reason why the Mozilla developers can't do the same thing. There's no reason why they can't create a stable API or framework for extensions so that any extension that follows the API will work across different versions of Firefox. For some reason they just have no interest in doing this.
You're either a machine or just resistant to change. Or you don't actually browse anything but static sites where you can memorize URLs (but then why return, nothing is new?).
I'm neither a machine nor resistant to change -- provided that the "change" actually makes sense.
Forgot the video id of that youtube video you want to show to a friend? Didn't bookmark or subscribe to that thread on a forum? Just type a few words in the Awesome Bar and you'll usually have it right there in the top ten results.
That's what the History panel is for. I type a word into the search box and I find that forum thread I was looking for. So, in other words, they eliminated a perfectly good and useful function (dropping down a list of manually typed URLs) so that they could duplicate the functionality of the History panel. This is a perfect example of a change that makes no sense.
and I'm sorry that some of our changes are not to your taste.
It's not a matter of "taste". Tabs on top versus tabs on bottom is a matter of taste. The orange Firefox button versus a regular menu bar is a matter of taste. Removing functionality, so that I can no longer do things that I used to be able to do is not a matter of "taste"..
The URL bar now drops down a list of random URLs that has absolutely no relation to anything I have recently entered manually.
They're not random, they're your most visited sites.
No they're not. I just dropped down the list and one of the the items is from about a week ago and all the rest are much older. It isn't showing recent browsing history, it isn't showing URLs I've recently typed in manually. It isn't showing anything even remotely useful.
But seriously. The answer is YES! Almost none of your extensions from FF 3.6 will work with FF4. If you are lucky, there might new new versions available. But that is not always the case. It is very common for people to create extensions, sometimes really nice useful ones, and then abandon them.
that's actually a positive for a lot of people including me, if I can't remember the full url to a page I visited but remember what was being discussed, I can normally find it. you can turn the awesomebar off as well iirc
Uh... no. You are not recalling correctly. The Awful Bar cannot be turned off. There is an extension which attempts to restore the URL bar to its previous functionality but it doesn't work.
Let's review. I used to be able to click on the URL bar and drop down a list of all the URLs I had manually typed in recently. This was a really nice feature. If I visited a website a few days ago, but forgot to bookmark it, I could just drop down the URL list and select it from there. But now we have this wonderful improvement. The URL bar now drops down a list of random URLs that has absolutely no relation to anything I have recently entered manually. What a load of crap.
If by "enhancements" they mean "throw the awesomebar out a window", I'm all for it.
As a long time Firefox user, this has been one of the most infuriating things, as they continually remove or fuck up useful features. The Mozilla developers seem obsessed with changing things just to make them different. The list of things they have eliminated or made less useful is almost endless. I'm sure they can give us all sorts of rationalizations for what they do, but it's all bullshit. Making things less useful is not an improvement.
1415 bugs in a mature release of a spec based media rendering engine? how is that possible?
How is it possible? Easy. Last month there was an entry in Bugzilla where they fixed a bug that was submitted in November 2000. That's right 10 years ago -- before Firefox even existed. It means that Firefox is still running old Mozilla code from a decade ago.
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I was very happy with the actual computer scenes. I was impressed hollywood actually used a GREP and KILL Command correctly.
Really? Seriously? In a movie that is total fiction/fantasy about people living inside a computer, you're worried about the correct use of GREP and KILL? I'm so sick of people who watch a movie and go "LOL!! OMG!! Look at that command line he typed!! It's totally bogus!!"
No, not enough imagination used.
I was in my 20's when the first Tron was released. Back then, computers were magical mysterious things. Today, your cell phone probably has more computing power than the computers used on the original Tron and amazing CGI is everywhere. Any kid with a cheap computer can do stuff that rivals the best movie effects of 30 years ago.. As a result, people aren't as impressed by fancy computer graphics as they used to be, and they notice that "hey, this story line and acting is pretty lame.
Pretty sure Stuxnet has got his attention. I assure you that the Free part is relevant, because the Open thing is part of the Free thing, and that means peer-reviewed software.
There's nothing to stop Russia from creating their own version of Linux that's just as closed as Windows. Want to trying suing them in a Russian court for violating the GPL? Let me know how that works out for you.
If Putin asked me (heh heh) how he could enhance the security of computing in Russia, I'd certainly suggest Linux, maybe even GNU/Linux.
How much malware originates in Russia? Quite a bit. If Windows goes away and is replaced by Russian Linux the Russian hackers will simply change to a new target.
This is probably politically motivated. Getting away from American-based Microsoft.
Governments around the world adopting Linux only care about 2 things:
(a) price - it's cheaper than Windows
(b) it's not from an American company.
Facebook and privacy are mutually exclusive. You can have one or the other but not both. Personally, I think all the worry about "privacy" is extremely exaggerated and overblown. What are they going to do? Show me targeted ads? That's what AdBlock is for.
Unless you're actually stupid enough to put all sorts of personal info on Facebook, like your real name, address, etc. In that case you're a moron who deserves to be ass-raped by every script kiddie hacker wannabe.. The bottom line is very simple. If you really care about privacy, you don't have a Facebook account in the first place.
What happened to IPv5?
Has Joel Spolsky done anything that's worth a damn?
Not really, but he seems to be an expert bullshitter who throws around the fact that he once worked at Microsoft every chance he gets. As for what he's done, let's see:
City Desk - some sort of program for creating and managing websites. Little or no mention of it on his website anymore and the City Desk forum is long gone from the website.
Fogbugz - The Forgbugz forum is also gone from his website. Here's a blurb from Joel this past September: "Thanks to the hard work of the Fog Creek team, including ten great summer interns, we have just released amazing new upgrades to FogBugz " Thank god for free labor.
Co-Pilot - a remote access program that was written entirely by summer interns. Really. Thank god for free labor.
Stack Overflow - Not an actual application but simply a website where people can ask questions.. This doesn't stop Joel from proclaiming "I’m the CEO of Stack Overflow".
From what I can see on his website, his main business now is ads for programmer jobs.
Or maybe the problem was they DID apply the Indian version of lok-tite.
The failure of T. Boone Pickens has nothing to do with "market forces". It has to do with trying to solve the wrong problem. Or not even understanding what the problem is in the first place. Just because you're rich doesn't mean you know what you're talking about.
I keep hearing the phrase "reduce our dependence on foreign oil" associated with things like wind turbines and nuclear power. Maybe somebody should do a little research and discover that 1% of the electricity in the U.S. is generated using oil as fuel. Unless you're planning on cars, trucks, buses and trains powered by wind turbines or nuclear reactors, how exactly does this "reduce our dependence on foreign oil"?
A quick check of Megaupload's website shows that their prices are about the same as all the other companies this same business. If the "vast majority" of their revenue comes from advertising then why aren't their prices significantly lower, undercutting the competition and bringing in even more customers? I have a feeling someone at MegaUpload has a big ego and is saying things they may regret later.
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The claim that Net Neutrality is "government regulation of the Internet" is a lie perpetuated by politicians acting on behalf of the cable and telephone monopolies. The purpose of Net Neutrality is to prevent the cable and telephone monopolies from shutting out competitors (or people they don't like).
I strongly disagree. It is Mozilla's fault. Since the earliest days of the original Mozilla browser they have completely ignored backwards compatibility. Every new version breaks most extensions. Just going from FF4 beta 7 to beta 8 required me to update 2 extensions. Some of the major extensions (like Adblock) get updated quickly. Others get updated more slowly and many are abandoned and never updated at all, in which case, you're screwed. Sometimes you can hack the version number on an extension and get it to work, but not always.
But here's the point. Except for the occasional program that does low level stuff (typically anti-virus and disk defrag programs) I have very rarely had any problems with software not working when I move from one version of Windows to another. I have old software dating back to the days of Windows 95 and it runs just fine on Windows 7 x64 because Windows has a stable API for writing software and as long as you follow the rules your program will usually run on any version of Windows. And there's no reason why the Mozilla developers can't do the same thing. There's no reason why they can't create a stable API or framework for extensions so that any extension that follows the API will work across different versions of Firefox. For some reason they just have no interest in doing this.
LOL. The "solution" in that link completely eliminates all items from the drop down URL list (ie, it sets it to zero). Not very useful.
That's odd. I downloaded beta 8 within minutes after this story was posted.
It's not a matter of "taste". Tabs on top versus tabs on bottom is a matter of taste. The orange Firefox button versus a regular menu bar is a matter of taste. Removing functionality, so that I can no longer do things that I used to be able to do is not a matter of "taste"..
Yes, that is what I was referring to. I may not have said it clearly.
No they're not. I just dropped down the list and one of the the items is from about a week ago and all the rest are much older. It isn't showing recent browsing history, it isn't showing URLs I've recently typed in manually. It isn't showing anything even remotely useful.
Does the Pope shit in the woods?
But seriously. The answer is YES! Almost none of your extensions from FF 3.6 will work with FF4. If you are lucky, there might new new versions available. But that is not always the case. It is very common for people to create extensions, sometimes really nice useful ones, and then abandon them.
Exactly. When some of your code is 10+ years old, it's not surprising that you can find lots of bugs.
Uh ... no. You are not recalling correctly. The Awful Bar cannot be turned off. There is an extension which attempts to restore the URL bar to its previous functionality but it doesn't work.
Let's review. I used to be able to click on the URL bar and drop down a list of all the URLs I had manually typed in recently. This was a really nice feature. If I visited a website a few days ago, but forgot to bookmark it, I could just drop down the URL list and select it from there. But now we have this wonderful improvement. The URL bar now drops down a list of random URLs that has absolutely no relation to anything I have recently entered manually. What a load of crap.
As a long time Firefox user, this has been one of the most infuriating things, as they continually remove or fuck up useful features. The Mozilla developers seem obsessed with changing things just to make them different. The list of things they have eliminated or made less useful is almost endless. I'm sure they can give us all sorts of rationalizations for what they do, but it's all bullshit. Making things less useful is not an improvement.
How is it possible? Easy. Last month there was an entry in Bugzilla where they fixed a bug that was submitted in November 2000. That's right 10 years ago -- before Firefox even existed. It means that Firefox is still running old Mozilla code from a decade ago.