Well, it is your carrier that is overselling their bandwidth. It is really not Apple's fault.
It would be Apple's fault if your phone couldn't use a signal that was there, or if ou had to hold it in a funny way to not touch the antena. That problem you describe, it's really an AT&T problem.
If Apple signs and exclusive contract such that your only avenue to get their product is through a single carrier, it's Apple's fault for feeding you to that carrier if that carrier messes up. That's the trouble with walled garden with monopoly: No where else for the customer to turn when things go wrong, no competition, no incentive to get it right.
Seriously, stick with Excel. You and anyone who comes after you would need to learn whatever statistical package you introduce. That is either overkill for the kind of data you're collecting and analysing, or it's a full time job requiring specialist knowledge for which they should be hiring someone else.
Excel has a few bugs but for the most part it's very capable. Ensure you run the service packs and can install the addons that come with it (analysis pack). Get them to send you on advanced short courses for Excel and Statistics. If there isn't that kind of commitment there's no room for any statistical package.
Almost all ask slashdot stories that are work related can be answered the same way - bad idea: you're already out of your depth and if you can't be bothered to google for the information the project is doomed.
"The market value of the company's shares has mushroomed from about $5 billion at the end of 2000 to $351 billion now -- making Apple the second-most-valuable publicly traded U.S. business, after Exxon Mobil Corp. For a time last summer Apple had surpassed Exxon for the crown."
I have a lot of respect for the man, and I think he could have done exactly that, take on the telcos.
What have you done lately syousef?
What have I done? I've made sure I don't fall for the cult of Steve Jobs, that's what I've done. In any case, what does that have to do with anything? DId I at any point state that I could take on the telcos? No. So why the straw man? Why do you feel the need to belittle someone else in order to raise up your false idol?
No matter what you want to think Steve Jobs did not single handedly put Apple in this position. Last time he was on the board he was ousted. Apple's success had more to do with it's actual employees, it's ability to market (lie to customers) and an alignment of several unlikely bits of good luck, than it had to do with that arrogant man and his cult of followers.
Steve Jobs is one of the few people that could have pulled it off, I think this would have provided actually competition to occur and upset the current price fixing going on.
And he could have walked on water too!
Seriously associating yourself with the myth and cult of Steve Jobs is doing nothing but making you look naive!
Thank you for your application. We have an expedited need for astronauts for our current rocket test program, but have encountered inexplicable reluctance from our current candidates. We need people with your forethought, blind courage and determination at NASA. Therefore you have been summarily accepted into the Astronaught program. We would like you to start immediately. In fact so urgent is our need that we will not have time to train you. Also our rocket design keeps changing week to week based on which politician farts in congress that sitting, we have not had time to complete the internal design of the spacecraft. Therefore we would like you to accept the enclosed tickets. You will fly from the nearest airport to your home to Berlin and then on to LAX, and finally to Florida. There you will be suited up and duck taped to the top of the last stage of our test rocket. We aim to have your carcass...ahem...you in orbit by late Friday evening.
Yours,
NASA.
p.s. We are short on cash so we would appreciate it if you'd bring those kegs of beer you mentioned and a current credit card with sufficient funds to bill for 1 international, 1 domestic and 1 helicopter flight.
Still doesn't compare to FS2004. Nor does FSX which had more eyecandy and slightly improved feel, but more bugs and performance drains than you can poke a stick at. Pity....the addon community was the most vibrant I've ever seen!
It's leave from work for parenting responsibilities. Not "leave from work for a holiday". You know, somewhat like "sick leave" or personal leave for say, a funeral.
It is treated with envy by others as if you're asking for a free holiday because you dared to have children.
Children are not infants for most of their time as children and the portion of the population who are airline pilots is very small.
I fail to see your point,
Airline pilot was one example of a job that is dangerous if you don't give it 100% concentration. There are a wide variety of such jobs - Police and Fire, Truck driver, train driver, taxi driver, nurse, doctor, lab technician, electrician, plumber, carpenter, mechanic....lots of jobs. So you're clearly not seeing my point because you choose not to see my point, since your assertion that since airline pilot is a rare job my argument is invalid is clearly not reasonable.
other then a pleading that "we must recognize women as different". Sure, and no one is proposing that we don't. That's why parental leave is usually structured towards longer paid maternity leave for mothers, and shorter periods for fathers. But once you give birth to a child, parenting responsibilities can be handled by either gender after 6-12 months, and definitely past the 3-4.
Clearly you do not look after children. A very young child does not respond well to the parent who's out of the house 12 hours a day most days.
And this is feminism's failure how? The problem you have is with everyone, and very much a voting public who don't see child-rearing as an important duty. But it's hardly the responsibility of those in the oppressed class to fix the worldview of everyone else when they're just looking for equal pay for equal work and the right to vote.
Again, my point was clear and you're missing it on purpsoe. It's a failure because we're now all working full time jobs and it is no longer anyone's full time job to tend to a house and raise children. That work - which benefits all of society - is still uncompensated and still largely done by women.
No one deserves it. There are people who work 10 times as hard and create things that are of 100 times the value that aren't recognised that way. Most of them die poor and unrecognised. Popular Best.
Sounds like a spell from Harry Potter. "Obscruction!" he shouted. He pointed his wand at professor Umbridge, who fainted instantly.
Hey careful with that spell! It gave me a headache all the way over here. I'm pretty sure I lost brain cells just reading it! But JK Rolling-In-The-Money is happy....it increased her merchandise sales by 0.5%
Well I didn't say we were done with that area, and we aren't by a long shot.
That's what the issue with paid-parental leave is
Have you ever looked after very young children? I love my kids, but I would not call looking after them leave. We've got the language all wrong. It's work, and a small mistake can have deadly consequences. It's worthwhile and important work that must be done. As they get older and more self sufficient that aspect fades but you still have to supplement their education if you want to be a good parent. You still have to cook and clean for them at least until they are teenagers (though they can progressively help with that).
But recognizing women as fully equal persons is a very important step to recognizing parenting as (1) something both sexes should be sharing in equally in a relationship and (2) as an important and worthy task.
This pretence that we have to be the same to be equal is a big part of the problem.
Have you ever spent 5 hours with a child under 2 years of age screaming for their mummy? Mum and dad can't always be equal. Not possible. You can change all the nappies you like. You can be the one who stays home and feeds and sings and plays with them. Society will for the most part shun you for it, but it can be done if the male really does want to be the stay at home parent. What can't be done is that you can never give birth or breast feed your child (yes you can feed breast milk but that's not exactly the same). You can't bond with a child as it's mother. Part of recognising women as equals has to include recognising their differences. Trying to force fathers into "equal" parenting when it's not supported by society or nature is ridiculous. It leads to severely depressed fathers that are more likely to disengage.
Nor is it always possible to be raising an infant while working a full time job. I don't want any airline pilot flying an aircraft I'm on half asleep at the controls because he was up all night tending to his infant so his wife could get sleep. Nor do I want a woman doing that job for equal pay. I want someone staying at home with the child who recognises their partner is doing a dangerous job that requires full concentration at work, who then gets up during the night and feeds the child instead of worrying about equality.
We get no where if it's "women's labor" since the entire issue was that "women's labor" wasn't recognized as important.
In other words we have not addressed the problem at all. All the work traditionally done by a woman is expected to be done in your "spare" time now. It is still unpaid and still devalued. No amount of pressing for equality while this is the case is going to work because all it does is work both parents into the grave early as they try to keep a paid full time job and a 24/7 childrearing one too.
Java is NOT an upgrade to C++. There was a fork in the road, to the left went C++ to the right went Java. C++ took you through a swamp filled with poisonous snakes, quicksand and man eating spiders. Java took you through a haunted forest, with werewolves and zombies.
No matter which path you took, you died before reaching your goal.
Java's got it's weaknesses but there's nothing seriously wrong with the language. The problem is the libraries, especially the enterprise libraries, and I mean both the EJB monstrosity and the consultant hell that passes for light weight. Misuse of the idea of design patterns are to blame. Let's look for ways to tack on another layer of abstraction we'll never actually use, shall we?
Nonsense. C is simple and, while some smart programmers think it's necessary to over-use the preprocessor (even the Linux kernel is sometimes guilty), it's a language you can learn once and apply productively for the rest of your life.
Now, this doesn't really make immediate sense: without women's rights you've got an entire labor force who you don't have to pay. Surely, with all that free labor or low-cost labor, you'd expect an easy win over people who actually have to pay fair wages.
The reasons are complex, but the big one is this: cultural discrimination doesn't just effect the discriminated against group.
You're wrong. The Women's got equal rights completely wrong. We still don't value good parents. If you're a good parent you're seen as doing something for yourself and your family rather than giving anything to society. When's the last time you heard of a housewife being paid for properly raising her children or looking after a home? They still do the majority of the unpaid work. As for a man being paid for these things, if you bring it up you'll be laughed out of the room. Mr Mom is still a TV sitcom or film romcom joke. So instead of women being compensated for these things and that work then being shared to allow them a career, what you have is typically a situation where both parents work full time then struggle to do household chores and raise children in their "spare" time. And if they get any kind of break - financial or otherwise - people still whinge and whine that it is their choice to have kids and they should pay for it. We have an entire generation of kids that are raising themselves with some assistance from parents and live in houses that aren't as well kept as they should be, not to mention the increase in divorce etc. brought on by financial stress and the stress of running a household while exhausted. Women should have fought to get paid for what they already do as well as fighting to enter the workforce and be equally compensated. It benefits the whole of society when the children are raised properly and in a good environment.
That is the only way to truly innovate and be competitive.
Sometimes that can't be done - it costs what it costs. You can't build the Large Hadron Colider or the Voyager space probe in your basement with duct tape and Skittles, no matter how many episodes of MacGyver you've watched.
I'm replacing balconies right now. I can't do it for under about $20k....and that's with us doing the painting! I'd love to do it for $100, but I don't see anyone able to accommodate me at that price
All you need to protect yourself is genuine anonymity. Internet Cafe + Tor + Freenet perhaps? But gangsters are generally not too bright. They may just randomly kill people who they have heard work with that internet stuff.
Not all gangsters are completely stupid, and they can hire geeks just like anyone else.
If they were afraid of getting caught, they wouldn't be going after most of the targets they have hit already. They have already angered government agencies that probably have a much better chance of tracking them down
Government agencies are at least suppose to work within the law. Criminals have no such restrictions.
I somehow doubt that they would go to the effort of flying over to the UK and murdering someone. Besides, once their bank account had been drained how would their afford the airfare?
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You really think a flight is going to put them off? They could afford it by beating up or killing someone else, or selling some of their current drug stash.
Not sure why you are sad IE is a good browser. I work for Mozilla,
Well you won't for long. That is the message the devs at Mozilla seem to keep missing.
1. FIx your bugs. Printing long web pages hasn't worked correctly without hacking the distribution in several YEARS on FF. You have a fucking browser that can't fucking print a web page, and it's not even a priority.
2. Stop breaking addons on every release. Not at version 10 in 2 months time. RIGHT NOW.
My advice: Beef up your resume. FInd alternate work. Unless you're one of the jerkwads that is the cause of this mess, in which case, get knotted!
I'm fucking GOB SMACKED that those sanctimonious pricks backed off anything. Fuck 'em, fuck their awful bar (awesome my left nut), fuck changing version numbers every 5 minutes, fuck breaking addons, fuck removing status bar, fuck deleting http:/// from the URL bar and most of all FUCK 'EM for making me love their browser and then ruining it with their arrogance and posturing. At home my upgrade from 3.6 looks like it will be to Opera. I'm done with being arse raped with their stupidity. Their software might be free but my time trying to fix broken addons, time to fix browsers that become unstable due to enabling incompatible addons, and to find new addons that bring back functionality they ripped out - that time is not free. That is time out of my life their DICKING AROUND costs me. FUCK MOZILLA!!!
When the rapid version changes stops interfering with addons and other such things, then people will stop caring.
It has for me. Back on 7.0.1, all of my add-ons were already marked as compatible up to 9.x, and it's not like I've only got two or three, I currently have twenty-seven active extensions. Maybe I'm exceptionally lucky, but it's working for me so far.
You are exceptionally lucky. Between 7 and 8 about 5 broke for me. When I overrode compatibility I ended up with an unstable browser.
-- Along with the versioning scheme comes lack of support for older versions
Actually, 3.6.x gets security updates to this day.
I've tried 4, 5 and 8 at work. My next upgrade from 3.6 is to a different browser. Thanks for the free software, Mozilla, but you've gone senile and feral. Life's too short to bother trying to save a browser who's dev team thinks it knows better than the user community, and addons are only good if they aren't broken every 5 minutes.
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Care to name some of those bugs? I have not come across a single one!
You can't google Excel bugs???
http://it.slashdot.org/story/07/09/24/2339203/Excel-2007-Multiplication-Bug
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/09/26b.html
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/excel/thread/f2850183-e8f5-4a3e-a0b1-5a154347f3e9/
Well, it is your carrier that is overselling their bandwidth. It is really not Apple's fault.
It would be Apple's fault if your phone couldn't use a signal that was there, or if ou had to hold it in a funny way to not touch the antena. That problem you describe, it's really an AT&T problem.
If Apple signs and exclusive contract such that your only avenue to get their product is through a single carrier, it's Apple's fault for feeding you to that carrier if that carrier messes up. That's the trouble with walled garden with monopoly: No where else for the customer to turn when things go wrong, no competition, no incentive to get it right.
Seriously, stick with Excel. You and anyone who comes after you would need to learn whatever statistical package you introduce. That is either overkill for the kind of data you're collecting and analysing, or it's a full time job requiring specialist knowledge for which they should be hiring someone else.
Excel has a few bugs but for the most part it's very capable. Ensure you run the service packs and can install the addons that come with it (analysis pack). Get them to send you on advanced short courses for Excel and Statistics. If there isn't that kind of commitment there's no room for any statistical package.
Almost all ask slashdot stories that are work related can be answered the same way - bad idea: you're already out of your depth and if you can't be bothered to google for the information the project is doomed.
"The market value of the company's shares has mushroomed from about $5 billion at the end of 2000 to $351 billion now -- making Apple the second-most-valuable publicly traded U.S. business, after Exxon Mobil Corp. For a time last summer Apple had surpassed Exxon for the crown."
I have a lot of respect for the man, and I think he could have done exactly that, take on the telcos.
What have you done lately syousef?
What have I done? I've made sure I don't fall for the cult of Steve Jobs, that's what I've done. In any case, what does that have to do with anything? DId I at any point state that I could take on the telcos? No. So why the straw man? Why do you feel the need to belittle someone else in order to raise up your false idol?
No matter what you want to think Steve Jobs did not single handedly put Apple in this position. Last time he was on the board he was ousted. Apple's success had more to do with it's actual employees, it's ability to market (lie to customers) and an alignment of several unlikely bits of good luck, than it had to do with that arrogant man and his cult of followers.
Steve Jobs is one of the few people that could have pulled it off, I think this would have provided actually competition to occur and upset the current price fixing going on.
And he could have walked on water too!
Seriously associating yourself with the myth and cult of Steve Jobs is doing nothing but making you look naive!
Dear Mr O'Strit
Thank you for your application. We have an expedited need for astronauts for our current rocket test program, but have encountered inexplicable reluctance from our current candidates. We need people with your forethought, blind courage and determination at NASA. Therefore you have been summarily accepted into the Astronaught program. We would like you to start immediately. In fact so urgent is our need that we will not have time to train you. Also our rocket design keeps changing week to week based on which politician farts in congress that sitting, we have not had time to complete the internal design of the spacecraft. Therefore we would like you to accept the enclosed tickets. You will fly from the nearest airport to your home to Berlin and then on to LAX, and finally to Florida. There you will be suited up and duck taped to the top of the last stage of our test rocket. We aim to have your carcass...ahem...you in orbit by late Friday evening.
Yours,
NASA.
p.s. We are short on cash so we would appreciate it if you'd bring those kegs of beer you mentioned and a current credit card with sufficient funds to bill for 1 international, 1 domestic and 1 helicopter flight.
Still doesn't compare to FS2004. Nor does FSX which had more eyecandy and slightly improved feel, but more bugs and performance drains than you can poke a stick at. Pity....the addon community was the most vibrant I've ever seen!
It's leave from work for parenting responsibilities. Not "leave from work for a holiday". You know, somewhat like "sick leave" or personal leave for say, a funeral.
It is treated with envy by others as if you're asking for a free holiday because you dared to have children.
Children are not infants for most of their time as children and the portion of the population who are airline pilots is very small.
I fail to see your point,
Airline pilot was one example of a job that is dangerous if you don't give it 100% concentration. There are a wide variety of such jobs - Police and Fire, Truck driver, train driver, taxi driver, nurse, doctor, lab technician, electrician, plumber, carpenter, mechanic....lots of jobs. So you're clearly not seeing my point because you choose not to see my point, since your assertion that since airline pilot is a rare job my argument is invalid is clearly not reasonable.
other then a pleading that "we must recognize women as different". Sure, and no one is proposing that we don't. That's why parental leave is usually structured towards longer paid maternity leave for mothers, and shorter periods for fathers. But once you give birth to a child, parenting responsibilities can be handled by either gender after 6-12 months, and definitely past the 3-4.
Clearly you do not look after children. A very young child does not respond well to the parent who's out of the house 12 hours a day most days.
And this is feminism's failure how? The problem you have is with everyone, and very much a voting public who don't see child-rearing as an important duty. But it's hardly the responsibility of those in the oppressed class to fix the worldview of everyone else when they're just looking for equal pay for equal work and the right to vote.
Again, my point was clear and you're missing it on purpsoe. It's a failure because we're now all working full time jobs and it is no longer anyone's full time job to tend to a house and raise children. That work - which benefits all of society - is still uncompensated and still largely done by women.
Those people also deserve it but they do not get it. Life is unfair like that.
No body deserves enough wealth to stave off starvation in a small province for a decade.
Well, she deserves it, so good for her.
No one deserves it. There are people who work 10 times as hard and create things that are of 100 times the value that aren't recognised that way. Most of them die poor and unrecognised. Popular Best.
Sounds like a spell from Harry Potter. "Obscruction!" he shouted. He pointed his wand at professor Umbridge, who fainted instantly.
Hey careful with that spell! It gave me a headache all the way over here. I'm pretty sure I lost brain cells just reading it! But JK Rolling-In-The-Money is happy....it increased her merchandise sales by 0.5%
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Well I didn't say we were done with that area, and we aren't by a long shot.
That's what the issue with paid-parental leave is
Have you ever looked after very young children? I love my kids, but I would not call looking after them leave. We've got the language all wrong. It's work, and a small mistake can have deadly consequences. It's worthwhile and important work that must be done. As they get older and more self sufficient that aspect fades but you still have to supplement their education if you want to be a good parent. You still have to cook and clean for them at least until they are teenagers (though they can progressively help with that).
But recognizing women as fully equal persons is a very important step to recognizing parenting as (1) something both sexes should be sharing in equally in a relationship and (2) as an important and worthy task.
This pretence that we have to be the same to be equal is a big part of the problem.
Have you ever spent 5 hours with a child under 2 years of age screaming for their mummy? Mum and dad can't always be equal. Not possible. You can change all the nappies you like. You can be the one who stays home and feeds and sings and plays with them. Society will for the most part shun you for it, but it can be done if the male really does want to be the stay at home parent. What can't be done is that you can never give birth or breast feed your child (yes you can feed breast milk but that's not exactly the same). You can't bond with a child as it's mother. Part of recognising women as equals has to include recognising their differences. Trying to force fathers into "equal" parenting when it's not supported by society or nature is ridiculous. It leads to severely depressed fathers that are more likely to disengage.
Nor is it always possible to be raising an infant while working a full time job. I don't want any airline pilot flying an aircraft I'm on half asleep at the controls because he was up all night tending to his infant so his wife could get sleep. Nor do I want a woman doing that job for equal pay. I want someone staying at home with the child who recognises their partner is doing a dangerous job that requires full concentration at work, who then gets up during the night and feeds the child instead of worrying about equality.
We get no where if it's "women's labor" since the entire issue was that "women's labor" wasn't recognized as important.
In other words we have not addressed the problem at all. All the work traditionally done by a woman is expected to be done in your "spare" time now. It is still unpaid and still devalued. No amount of pressing for equality while this is the case is going to work because all it does is work both parents into the grave early as they try to keep a paid full time job and a 24/7 childrearing one too.
Java is NOT an upgrade to C++. There was a fork in the road, to the left went C++ to the right went Java. C++ took you through a swamp filled with poisonous snakes, quicksand and man eating spiders. Java took you through a haunted forest, with werewolves and zombies.
No matter which path you took, you died before reaching your goal.
Java's got it's weaknesses but there's nothing seriously wrong with the language. The problem is the libraries, especially the enterprise libraries, and I mean both the EJB monstrosity and the consultant hell that passes for light weight. Misuse of the idea of design patterns are to blame. Let's look for ways to tack on another layer of abstraction we'll never actually use, shall we?
Nonsense. C is simple and, while some smart programmers think it's necessary to over-use the preprocessor (even the Linux kernel is sometimes guilty), it's a language you can learn once and apply productively for the rest of your life.
An upgrade to C++ is a very good idea though.
I know, let's call it C# or maybe Java.
Now, this doesn't really make immediate sense: without women's rights you've got an entire labor force who you don't have to pay. Surely, with all that free labor or low-cost labor, you'd expect an easy win over people who actually have to pay fair wages.
The reasons are complex, but the big one is this: cultural discrimination doesn't just effect the discriminated against group.
You're wrong. The Women's got equal rights completely wrong. We still don't value good parents. If you're a good parent you're seen as doing something for yourself and your family rather than giving anything to society. When's the last time you heard of a housewife being paid for properly raising her children or looking after a home? They still do the majority of the unpaid work. As for a man being paid for these things, if you bring it up you'll be laughed out of the room. Mr Mom is still a TV sitcom or film romcom joke. So instead of women being compensated for these things and that work then being shared to allow them a career, what you have is typically a situation where both parents work full time then struggle to do household chores and raise children in their "spare" time. And if they get any kind of break - financial or otherwise - people still whinge and whine that it is their choice to have kids and they should pay for it. We have an entire generation of kids that are raising themselves with some assistance from parents and live in houses that aren't as well kept as they should be, not to mention the increase in divorce etc. brought on by financial stress and the stress of running a household while exhausted. Women should have fought to get paid for what they already do as well as fighting to enter the workforce and be equally compensated. It benefits the whole of society when the children are raised properly and in a good environment.
That is the only way to truly innovate and be competitive.
Sometimes that can't be done - it costs what it costs. You can't build the Large Hadron Colider or the Voyager space probe in your basement with duct tape and Skittles, no matter how many episodes of MacGyver you've watched.
I'm replacing balconies right now. I can't do it for under about $20k....and that's with us doing the painting! I'd love to do it for $100, but I don't see anyone able to accommodate me at that price
All you need to protect yourself is genuine anonymity. Internet Cafe + Tor + Freenet perhaps? But gangsters are generally not too bright. They may just randomly kill people who they have heard work with that internet stuff.
Not all gangsters are completely stupid, and they can hire geeks just like anyone else.
If they were afraid of getting caught, they wouldn't be going after most of the targets they have hit already. They have already angered government agencies that probably have a much better chance of tracking them down
Government agencies are at least suppose to work within the law. Criminals have no such restrictions.
I somehow doubt that they would go to the effort of flying over to the UK and murdering someone. Besides, once their bank account had been drained how would their afford the airfare?
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You really think a flight is going to put them off? They could afford it by beating up or killing someone else, or selling some of their current drug stash.
You've been watching too many movies.
Not sure why you are sad IE is a good browser. I work for Mozilla,
Well you won't for long. That is the message the devs at Mozilla seem to keep missing.
1. FIx your bugs. Printing long web pages hasn't worked correctly without hacking the distribution in several YEARS on FF. You have a fucking browser that can't fucking print a web page, and it's not even a priority.
2. Stop breaking addons on every release. Not at version 10 in 2 months time. RIGHT NOW.
My advice: Beef up your resume. FInd alternate work. Unless you're one of the jerkwads that is the cause of this mess, in which case, get knotted!
What I really love is that Mozilla wants to hide the version number from the end user.
They backed off on that, thankfully.
I'm fucking GOB SMACKED that those sanctimonious pricks backed off anything. Fuck 'em, fuck their awful bar (awesome my left nut), fuck changing version numbers every 5 minutes, fuck breaking addons, fuck removing status bar, fuck deleting http:/// from the URL bar and most of all FUCK 'EM for making me love their browser and then ruining it with their arrogance and posturing. At home my upgrade from 3.6 looks like it will be to Opera. I'm done with being arse raped with their stupidity. Their software might be free but my time trying to fix broken addons, time to fix browsers that become unstable due to enabling incompatible addons, and to find new addons that bring back functionality they ripped out - that time is not free. That is time out of my life their DICKING AROUND costs me. FUCK MOZILLA!!!
When the rapid version changes stops interfering with addons and other such things, then people will stop caring.
It has for me. Back on 7.0.1, all of my add-ons were already marked as compatible up to 9.x, and it's not like I've only got two or three, I currently have twenty-seven active extensions. Maybe I'm exceptionally lucky, but it's working for me so far.
You are exceptionally lucky. Between 7 and 8 about 5 broke for me. When I overrode compatibility I ended up with an unstable browser.
-- Along with the versioning scheme comes lack of support for older versions
Actually, 3.6.x gets security updates to this day.
I've tried 4, 5 and 8 at work. My next upgrade from 3.6 is to a different browser. Thanks for the free software, Mozilla, but you've gone senile and feral. Life's too short to bother trying to save a browser who's dev team thinks it knows better than the user community, and addons are only good if they aren't broken every 5 minutes.
They deserve one another, and we deserve to be free of them both. Let them destroy each other - I'll bring the beer.
Wow. I've heard of extreme, but you want the death penalty for signing up to Facebook? ;-)