Someone needs to let you and the other people around here know that a properly written addon that does not require changes (SPI calls it uses that are not changed between versions), that is hosted on addons.mozilla.org, are AUTOMATICALLY updated by MOZILLA to work with new version of Firefox.
Stop spreading nonsense. Google Firefox API changes and educate yourself.
I don't know if this is over reaching or not, but there was at least one death and a number of serious injuries back in 2008 in these mass water fight events.
If every time one of these events happened, there were serious injuries, I can see the logic behind trying to prevent the gatherings in the first place.
Well then by that logic you must be in favour of banning sports clubs, churches, mother's clubs, and schools for that matter. How often do interactions in those places lead to violence?
I'm not a luddite by any means but I still don't understand people's will spend money on virtual property. I understand buying a game outright to play it. I understand renting one. I don't understand the willingness to pay real money for fictional in game articles. I think it's a form of insanity. In fact after contributing in game content for free in my younger days and watching games fade out of existence - even games with a rock solid user base like Microsoft Flight Simulator - I'm less willing to spend my limited time creating free content. Gaming is suppose to be fun. It shouldn't require substantial spends in time and effort. Same goes for simulation, unless you're training for a real world job.
Normally, I'm very reluctant to be negative about anything that requires a lot of effort and is offered for free. But I am seriously tempted to just abuse ALL Firefox developers. The arrogance means you deserve to have your product die, and the way you're going it certainly will. The main reason I and most users make Firefox their usual browser is the wonderful extensions. But you keep breaking them with each release, and you are taking a sane interface and adding idiotic mimicry of horrible web 2.0-isms. The awesomebar is not and never will be awesome. Searching through and displaying my bookmarks whenever I search makes me uncomfortable using the browser with anyone looking (and no, I don't have any porn bookmarks, I just don't like advertising). I now need extensions just to undo the stupidity. You guys have collectively lost the plot. I'm past the point of reasoning with you and I now just wish Firefox would hurry the fuck up and die already so something else less SHIT can take over. In the meantime I'm writing this on Firefox 3.6, and I normally like to keep up with software.
There is a big tradeoff here, with downsides both ways. You correctly point out that some people are having problems with the new fast release schedule. That's a fact, and we are doing all we can, but the problems are hard (addons, enterprise users, etc.).
SOME people? SOME? Are you dense. READ the fucking comments.
On the other hand, the alternative is to continue with a slow release schedule, which we feel has bigger problems and would annoy more users. For example, FF8 will have much better memory usage than Firefox 4. Releasing new versions quickly lets users get that benefit quicker - fewer users will have memory problems because we ship the fixes faster.
STOP with the bullshit!!!! Seriously! Just cut it the fuck out. You do NOT need to screw up the version numbers and increment by 1.0 each time to release new features and bug fixes. That is just BULLSHIT. You guys have been promising to fix memory issues and leaks for years now. Stop drinking the fucking coolaid.
Cars crash. It's a fact of life. I would much rather use that thorium in a reactor somewhere, then transfer the power from the reactor to the car. You know, on account of the fact that stationary reactors are much less likely to crash and spew parts everywhere.
Well they can design black boxes to withstand aircraft impacts at 10x the speed a normal passenger car travels on any restricted speed highway on the planet. It wouldn't be that hard. The hard parts are 1) Is this real or just a scam? (I'd bank on scam) and 2) If it is real try to get this past the petrol giants.
What the fuck has happened to all the western governments and what do they think they'll be able to achieve with increasingly draconian police state style laws? It boggles the mind. What will the puppet masters do once they've finished stringing up the puppets. It's not as if they don't have all the power they need to do all sorts of nasty things as it is. Why do they keep pushing for more? It makes no sense. It'd be like Bill Gates with all his billions scheming to mug people on the way home from work to increase his wealth. Meanwhile they let the economy fail and public infrastructure, education and health crumble.Gated communities aren't much good to you if there's no one left to buy things from. Idiots.
And the goddamn tech-bashing? What the fuck? On the one hand money frittered away on Internet services no one needs (see Australia for a prime example) and on the other lock down the net with fucked up filters that make it useless and stifle the very freedoms that have made it a success. What have these people been smoking?
It's a shame, really. My wife's 4 year old Nokia E65 is still doing its thing, with an OK web browser, wifi etc., and the battery life is roughly 5x what my LG Optimus gets. Nokia used to make some great kit if you weren't the type that had to have "Apps" that were just repackaging of websites or farting noises.
Nokia also use to let you install apps without having to buy certificates until Symbian Signed came along. The apps just weren't as sophisticated. A change in June means even getting a dev cert costs $$$, so they can go to hell now. There are some very useful applications for customising your phone out there - it's not just fart apps. For example Nokia doesn't do an auto answer to speakerphone app (which would essentially do away with the need for a hands free unit). But you can get an app for that. Before they killed off the freeware community there use to be a lot of good stuff for free for their candybar phones.
Nokia have turned Symbian OS into a joke. Every application you install including any freeware must be signed or your phone must be hacked. You also need a developer certificate - specific to the phone's IMEI to hack your phone. Ever since this June when Nokia changed Symbian Signed so that getting a developer certificate software for free is no longer possible, Way to turn a smart phone into a dumb phone. I'm locked into a contract until November. After that I'll never buy anything Nokia or Microsoft again. I am not big on brand loyalty but I have been using Nokia phones exclusively since 1998, and now I can't wait to ditch them. Up until a couple of years ago I was able to get good battery life and install the odd app to customise my phone without too much drama. Sure PC suite was buggy and made teathering difficult when it crashed (requiring phone or PC or both to be rebooted) and instead of fixing it it seemed to get buggier with every generation but I could live with that. For the most part the phones were just the right balance of smart phone at a good price. Now they are overpriced pieces of junk - you'd almost be better off with one of those crappy throwaway GSM only phones for all the capability the latest gen of phone give you. Bye bye Nokia, don't let the door hit your arse on the way out and take Symbian Signed with you.
The problem isn't porn. It's the quality of TV. There has been a steady decline in the quality of television since the 80s. As if 80s TV was great to begin with. Free Internet porn has been around for about a decade, but Sy-Fi (pronounced sy-phi-lus) has only been around for a little while. Watching people in cooking, renovating, buying real-estate, singing and dance competitions eliminate each other off the "reality" tv landscape as they act like selfish twats is getting old just as "talk shows" like Jerry Springer did once the shock factor wore off. Not to mention the stupid reality TV shows that follow around self-proclaim no-talent know-nothing bimbo "stars" like the Krapdashians So you cable execs need to take a bit of responsibility for your own stupidity in creating and buying bad TV instead of trying to blame people who already have their hand on their genitals and are openly admitting it by watching your crappy porn. You know you have trouble when you've managed to alienate even seasoned wankers!
Anyway who seriously needs or wants HD at $10 a pop to get aroused? Sometimes less detail is better. ASCII porn was popular back in the day and I remember idiotic strip poker on the Apple IIe back in the early 80s. But I guess having an imagination is so yesterday.
Come on fanboys, tell me again how intuitive and stylish Apple is and how "it just works". "Think different".
This will get modded troll or flame bait but it isn't - it drives me INSANE that otherwise intelligent people fall for such marketing BS. All companies have problems, and if you're expecting everything made by one company with moving parts or electronics to "just work" you need to get off the sauce.
"When asked how they would deal with ten thousand students, Professor Thrun replied, 'We'll let Skynet handle the sorting and choose the best questions'"
So if you ask a mundane, typical question you get no answer?
No, Skynet sends a Terminator to the past to kill your mum for wasting Professor Thrun's time.
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Nah I think it's fair enough. This turd thinks Internet Anonymity should go away. I think he should go away and take the abomination that is Facebook with him. If Facebook is people behaving much better, I'm a chimp.
The Firefox developers are well off the rails. I suspect their offices have been contaminated with toxic levels or marijuana. It's time to fork the browser and take it out of their hands. Ever since Firefox 2 all they've done is rework things that were not broken.
Yeah thanks Apple, and here's a brick for that walled garden. I bet you know just where to stick it, but so that you don't infringe on any patents, be sure to stick it SIDEWAYS.
Really? Then what's the motivation to cure cancer if there's no profit in it? I mean, Pasteur, Salk and Fleming all retired multi-billionaires, right?
What a narrow mind you must have to imagine that the only way to profit is to restrict others from moving forward. It should be possible to seek to profit. It should not be possible to seek to stop others producing what you refuse to just so you can price gouge.
If people could demand a cut of the profits when other companies use their invention or discovery but could not prevent them from producing it in the first place, we'd be so much better off!!!
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I start to find small print on 1080p usable on my 55 inch Sony TV, but then you have to move around in front of the screen. My home screens are 24 inch.
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The whole 1080p thing has obliterated decent computer monitor resolutions. I don't give a rat's buttock about TVs and BluRays and home theater setups and all that crap, but the faster the mainstream media tech goes beyond 1080p, the faster I can have cheap high resolution computer monitors again.
1080 is low resolution garbage when it comes to desktop displays.
What the fuck are you using those resolutions for? You must have ASTOUNDINGLY good eyesight. I'm still legal to drive without glasses (just checked this month by an optometrist) and I still find i have to go BELOW 1920x1080. If anything I'm annoyed by blurries at non-native resolution on most LCD rather than by the lack of resolution.
Find the developers and beat the ever living shit out of them. How you can fail at Java that hard I will never understand.
That's some interesting pay and benefits you're offering for your support developer team. Where do I sign up?
No seriously, I could do with a multi-million dollar law suit and an early retirement. I should be able to make a deal with a lawyer where we both get rich.
This is just another in a long trend of stuffing more and more nonsense into cars, which is the opposite of what we need. What we need are light, simple, effecient cars. What they try to build instead is cars with touchscreen windows.
That is because the IAU passed an IDIOTIC politically motivated definition defined by a committee of washed out has-been scientists, that made absolutely no sense neither scientifically nor in the lay vernacular.
By this definition - no extra-solar planet is actually a planet, since they don't orbit the Sun (aka Sol, OUR star). Why they couldn't replace "sun" with "parent star" or "primary graviationally bound star" is beyond me. - a dwarf planet is not a planet either. (They needed to use another name for what they called dwarf planet...but no lets make it sound like a subclass even though it's not) - you need further explanation to say how spherical is spherical - you need further explanation things like what "cleared out it's orbit" means
I HATE the definition. It's just gibberish and does no credit to the science of Astronomy.
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...it's an addon write problem.
Someone needs to let you and the other people around here know that a properly written addon that does not require changes (SPI calls it uses that are not changed between versions), that is hosted on addons.mozilla.org, are AUTOMATICALLY updated by MOZILLA to work with new version of Firefox.
Stop spreading nonsense. Google Firefox API changes and educate yourself.
I don't know if this is over reaching or not, but there was at least one death and a number of serious injuries back in 2008 in these mass water fight events.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1499810.ece
If every time one of these events happened, there were serious injuries, I can see the logic behind trying to prevent the gatherings in the first place.
Well then by that logic you must be in favour of banning sports clubs, churches, mother's clubs, and schools for that matter. How often do interactions in those places lead to violence?
I'm not a luddite by any means but I still don't understand people's will spend money on virtual property. I understand buying a game outright to play it. I understand renting one. I don't understand the willingness to pay real money for fictional in game articles. I think it's a form of insanity. In fact after contributing in game content for free in my younger days and watching games fade out of existence - even games with a rock solid user base like Microsoft Flight Simulator - I'm less willing to spend my limited time creating free content. Gaming is suppose to be fun. It shouldn't require substantial spends in time and effort. Same goes for simulation, unless you're training for a real world job.
Hi, I'm a Firefox dev. Yes, we read Slashdot :)
Normally, I'm very reluctant to be negative about anything that requires a lot of effort and is offered for free. But I am seriously tempted to just abuse ALL Firefox developers. The arrogance means you deserve to have your product die, and the way you're going it certainly will. The main reason I and most users make Firefox their usual browser is the wonderful extensions. But you keep breaking them with each release, and you are taking a sane interface and adding idiotic mimicry of horrible web 2.0-isms. The awesomebar is not and never will be awesome. Searching through and displaying my bookmarks whenever I search makes me uncomfortable using the browser with anyone looking (and no, I don't have any porn bookmarks, I just don't like advertising). I now need extensions just to undo the stupidity. You guys have collectively lost the plot. I'm past the point of reasoning with you and I now just wish Firefox would hurry the fuck up and die already so something else less SHIT can take over. In the meantime I'm writing this on Firefox 3.6, and I normally like to keep up with software.
There is a big tradeoff here, with downsides both ways. You correctly point out that some people are having problems with the new fast release schedule. That's a fact, and we are doing all we can, but the problems are hard (addons, enterprise users, etc.).
SOME people? SOME? Are you dense. READ the fucking comments.
On the other hand, the alternative is to continue with a slow release schedule, which we feel has bigger problems and would annoy more users. For example, FF8 will have much better memory usage than Firefox 4. Releasing new versions quickly lets users get that benefit quicker - fewer users will have memory problems because we ship the fixes faster.
STOP with the bullshit!!!! Seriously! Just cut it the fuck out. You do NOT need to screw up the version numbers and increment by 1.0 each time to release new features and bug fixes. That is just BULLSHIT. You guys have been promising to fix memory issues and leaks for years now. Stop drinking the fucking coolaid.
Cars crash. It's a fact of life. I would much rather use that thorium in a reactor somewhere, then transfer the power from the reactor to the car. You know, on account of the fact that stationary reactors are much less likely to crash and spew parts everywhere.
Well they can design black boxes to withstand aircraft impacts at 10x the speed a normal passenger car travels on any restricted speed highway on the planet. It wouldn't be that hard. The hard parts are 1) Is this real or just a scam? (I'd bank on scam) and 2) If it is real try to get this past the petrol giants.
What the fuck has happened to all the western governments and what do they think they'll be able to achieve with increasingly draconian police state style laws? It boggles the mind. What will the puppet masters do once they've finished stringing up the puppets. It's not as if they don't have all the power they need to do all sorts of nasty things as it is. Why do they keep pushing for more? It makes no sense. It'd be like Bill Gates with all his billions scheming to mug people on the way home from work to increase his wealth. Meanwhile they let the economy fail and public infrastructure, education and health crumble.Gated communities aren't much good to you if there's no one left to buy things from. Idiots.
And the goddamn tech-bashing? What the fuck? On the one hand money frittered away on Internet services no one needs (see Australia for a prime example) and on the other lock down the net with fucked up filters that make it useless and stifle the very freedoms that have made it a success. What have these people been smoking?
It's a shame, really. My wife's 4 year old Nokia E65 is still doing its thing, with an OK web browser, wifi etc., and the battery life is roughly 5x what my LG Optimus gets. Nokia used to make some great kit if you weren't the type that had to have "Apps" that were just repackaging of websites or farting noises.
Nokia also use to let you install apps without having to buy certificates until Symbian Signed came along. The apps just weren't as sophisticated. A change in June means even getting a dev cert costs $$$, so they can go to hell now. There are some very useful applications for customising your phone out there - it's not just fart apps. For example Nokia doesn't do an auto answer to speakerphone app (which would essentially do away with the need for a hands free unit). But you can get an app for that. Before they killed off the freeware community there use to be a lot of good stuff for free for their candybar phones.
Nokia have turned Symbian OS into a joke. Every application you install including any freeware must be signed or your phone must be hacked. You also need a developer certificate - specific to the phone's IMEI to hack your phone. Ever since this June when Nokia changed Symbian Signed so that getting a developer certificate software for free is no longer possible, Way to turn a smart phone into a dumb phone. I'm locked into a contract until November. After that I'll never buy anything Nokia or Microsoft again. I am not big on brand loyalty but I have been using Nokia phones exclusively since 1998, and now I can't wait to ditch them. Up until a couple of years ago I was able to get good battery life and install the odd app to customise my phone without too much drama. Sure PC suite was buggy and made teathering difficult when it crashed (requiring phone or PC or both to be rebooted) and instead of fixing it it seemed to get buggier with every generation but I could live with that. For the most part the phones were just the right balance of smart phone at a good price. Now they are overpriced pieces of junk - you'd almost be better off with one of those crappy throwaway GSM only phones for all the capability the latest gen of phone give you. Bye bye Nokia, don't let the door hit your arse on the way out and take Symbian Signed with you.
And I just now found my copy. He left me everything.
I found you! Your the one who owes us for 60 years of storage of one large wooden aircraft!
The problem isn't porn. It's the quality of TV. There has been a steady decline in the quality of television since the 80s. As if 80s TV was great to begin with. Free Internet porn has been around for about a decade, but Sy-Fi (pronounced sy-phi-lus) has only been around for a little while. Watching people in cooking, renovating, buying real-estate, singing and dance competitions eliminate each other off the "reality" tv landscape as they act like selfish twats is getting old just as "talk shows" like Jerry Springer did once the shock factor wore off. Not to mention the stupid reality TV shows that follow around self-proclaim no-talent know-nothing bimbo "stars" like the Krapdashians So you cable execs need to take a bit of responsibility for your own stupidity in creating and buying bad TV instead of trying to blame people who already have their hand on their genitals and are openly admitting it by watching your crappy porn. You know you have trouble when you've managed to alienate even seasoned wankers!
Anyway who seriously needs or wants HD at $10 a pop to get aroused? Sometimes less detail is better. ASCII porn was popular back in the day and I remember idiotic strip poker on the Apple IIe back in the early 80s. But I guess having an imagination is so yesterday.
Come on fanboys, tell me again how intuitive and stylish Apple is and how "it just works". "Think different".
This will get modded troll or flame bait but it isn't - it drives me INSANE that otherwise intelligent people fall for such marketing BS. All companies have problems, and if you're expecting everything made by one company with moving parts or electronics to "just work" you need to get off the sauce.
"When asked how they would deal with ten thousand students, Professor Thrun replied, 'We'll let Skynet handle the sorting and choose the best questions'"
So if you ask a mundane, typical question you get no answer?
No, Skynet sends a Terminator to the past to kill your mum for wasting Professor Thrun's time.
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Nah I think it's fair enough. This turd thinks Internet Anonymity should go away. I think he should go away and take the abomination that is Facebook with him. If Facebook is people behaving much better, I'm a chimp.
The Firefox developers are well off the rails. I suspect their offices have been contaminated with toxic levels or marijuana. It's time to fork the browser and take it out of their hands. Ever since Firefox 2 all they've done is rework things that were not broken.
Wait, I thought the Tea Partiers were being blasted as "terrorists"
Everyone knows real patriots drink coffee and like the smell mixed with Napalm.
Thanks for the review Apple!
Yeah thanks Apple, and here's a brick for that walled garden. I bet you know just where to stick it, but so that you don't infringe on any patents, be sure to stick it SIDEWAYS.
Really? Then what's the motivation to cure cancer if there's no profit in it? I mean, Pasteur, Salk and Fleming all retired multi-billionaires, right?
What a narrow mind you must have to imagine that the only way to profit is to restrict others from moving forward. It should be possible to seek to profit. It should not be possible to seek to stop others producing what you refuse to just so you can price gouge.
If people could demand a cut of the profits when other companies use their invention or discovery but could not prevent them from producing it in the first place, we'd be so much better off!!!
I start to find small print on 1080p usable on my 55 inch Sony TV, but then you have to move around in front of the screen. My home screens are 24 inch.
The whole 1080p thing has obliterated decent computer monitor resolutions. I don't give a rat's buttock about TVs and BluRays and home theater setups and all that crap, but the faster the mainstream media tech goes beyond 1080p, the faster I can have cheap high resolution computer monitors again.
1080 is low resolution garbage when it comes to desktop displays.
What the fuck are you using those resolutions for? You must have ASTOUNDINGLY good eyesight. I'm still legal to drive without glasses (just checked this month by an optometrist) and I still find i have to go BELOW 1920x1080. If anything I'm annoyed by blurries at non-native resolution on most LCD rather than by the lack of resolution.
Find the developers and beat the ever living shit out of them. How you can fail at Java that hard I will never understand.
That's some interesting pay and benefits you're offering for your support developer team. Where do I sign up?
No seriously, I could do with a multi-million dollar law suit and an early retirement. I should be able to make a deal with a lawyer where we both get rich.
I'd advise Ted. The short films are quite comprehensible.
TED was great but it's not what it use to be. Nor are most of the podcasts I use to listen to like Astronomy Cast and Radiolab.
And it costs $4000 to replace.
Goodie.
This is just another in a long trend of stuffing more and more nonsense into cars, which is the opposite of what we need. What we need are light, simple, effecient cars. What they try to build instead is cars with touchscreen windows.
Here'a an article with a picture of the design:
http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/The_Homer
That is because the IAU passed an IDIOTIC politically motivated definition defined by a committee of washed out has-been scientists, that made absolutely no sense neither scientifically nor in the lay vernacular.
By this definition
- no extra-solar planet is actually a planet, since they don't orbit the Sun (aka Sol, OUR star). Why they couldn't replace "sun" with "parent star" or "primary graviationally bound star" is beyond me.
- a dwarf planet is not a planet either. (They needed to use another name for what they called dwarf planet...but no lets make it sound like a subclass even though it's not)
- you need further explanation to say how spherical is spherical
- you need further explanation things like what "cleared out it's orbit" means
I HATE the definition. It's just gibberish and does no credit to the science of Astronomy.
A scientist telling an uncomfortable truth being silenced by conservatives. It's preposterous.
Go on then. Let her tell aboot the feesh. Thankyou kindly.
You are a lazy shit, Use the right tools and partition correctly..
...and you are an anonymous coward. Now please let the grownups speak.
Not everyone get to start at the start of a project or determine the team's tools, build process or repository structure.