Is it just me or are Google and Mozilla having a contest to see who can take their nice shiny browser and make the worst stinking piece of foul excrement possible in as few releases as possible? It's a fight to the bottom, i swear!
I've thought about it...and at first I thought it was really dumb and going too far. However, upon further consideration I would certainly enjoy the smidge of screen real estate it would afford me.
Learn to hit F11 and leave the STUPID ideas out of my browser.
Because kids who regularly skip school can be relied upon to willingly cooperate in keeping and activating their own personal tracking device.
I wonder what happens when the GPS device is accidentally dropped in the toilet, accidentally run over, accidentally set on fire, accidentally dropped from a great height? What about when the kid pays or bullies someone else into entering the codes for them? Vandalism and thuggery: You're teaching these kids the skills they need to become criminals.
Please, stop adding features to the browser what makes it more and more like a OS. (Firefox without a microkernel, or Firefox as monolithic OS without monolithic architecture).
Mozilla worked hard to produce a brilliant little browser - it had it's flaws, but it made it possible to do lots of cool things - but ever since 3.0 they've been working hard to DESTROY what they've done. Forcing changes on the users, adding bloat instead of fixing bugs. They've just lost their way. Within 5 years I'd say we'll be talking about Firefox the way we now talk about Netscape. IDIOTS.
Outlook is terrible. Don't believe me? Try getting a list of your next appointments INCLUDING RECURRING for the next 2 weeks. The only view that does it within Outlook is the clunky calendar itself. The list views do not. The only way to get around this that I know of is to export the data to Excel. And don't get me started on stability (though how much of that is plugins isn't clear to me since I don't run Outlook at home).
Outlook has to be one of the most over-rated pieces of software on the planet.
that they have a bad hand, and that they're playing a desperate game for the life of the company. Yes, they could do a bunch of other things...and none of them would be great for them. At this point, they do not have a winning hand. There is no winning move for them. The choice he made is a pragmatic one, to stay in the game.
It's a pragmatic one alright. A pragmatic move to bolster his Microsoft shares.
It's a bad article simply because someone who knows nothing about the subject of stellar lifetimes and volatility is trying to comment on the topic. The misuse of terminology just adds to that
That's always a problem, there's a balance, you can't give away something that expensive for every bug no matter how tiny. But you also do have to compensate researchers enough to make it worth their while for more important bugs.
So only guarantee small bounties, but then generously offer disgressionary rewards for important bugs then use the publicity when you do give away something of value to get more researchers interested. Still cheaper than highering a traditional test team.
You're right, but I think any tagging system is complex enough to create similar issues. Say you divorce "Joan" and decide late one night to delete all pictures tagged with "Joan."
Nothing is idiot proof. The problem with hard links is that they make it look like there are multiple copies at the file system level. You can intend to delete one copy and end up hosing the lot. In contrast, if you set out to delete everything on your filesystem related to a particular thing or person you can't blame the tool and there's nothing tricky about it here. Just don't delete drunk.
"Probably time is finally taking a toll on the benevolent star, which has been toiling hard for millennia!"
4.6 BILLION YEARS is 4.6 million millennia. Good work sounding completely foolish guys.
The only thing more foolish is an article on a nerd site pointing to it. Next up: Top 10 songs of the week announced, and Pink says something like really like totally cool. News for bimbos? Stuff that's drivel?
you must be new to this computing thing, so let us help you out, turn off automatic updates on your production servers and machines. RUn your own update server, test the patches before you release them to your corporate environment?
Yeah, I'll just let the know at work that I won't be requiring any patches and that I'll be running my own update server.
YOU must be new. End user doesn't always have control of the machine.
What exactly is wrong with calling lazy, sneaky, rude teenagers "lazy", "sneaky" and "rude"?
Nothing, unless you happen to have a duty of care to the lazy, sneaky, rude teenagers in which case it is your job to make their lives better by teaching them, and not to harm them by spreading gossip about them.
My wife's a teacher and she would never EVER disparage her kids in any public forum. Aside from the duty of care it's unprofessional to do so.
At some point the responsibility shifts from Microsoft to VMWare. Where the responsibility for alerting customers lies is maybe not clear yet.
The update has broken a few things for me. Half my desktop gadgets are not functioning properly. There are some other glitches that I noticed with my AV software, though I'm still confirming on other PCs.
You know what. I'm tired of running an experimental desktop. I have had enough things break that I view the patches as a greater security risk than the flaws they're meant to fix. I'm sick of it.
So it should be. Walking up to a complete stranger and empowering them with sensitive information about your wrongdoings is bone headed. An excellent way for the clergy to keep control of their...sheep.
You know that most practicing Catholics would know their priest personally, right? They'd probably see him more often than you do most of your friends.
You've seen the posts on this topic, right? Not everyone is a regular practising Catholic. And besides, seeing a man go through the rituals doesn't mean you know him.
The app in question was created to help people through the process of Confession. It's a little daunting if you haven't done it in a while.
So it should be. Walking up to a complete stranger and empowering them with sensitive information about your wrongdoings is bone headed. An excellent way for the clergy to keep control of their...sheep.
Who ever wrote the article has absolutely no idea what either side of this is talking about.
The article did exactly what it was meant to do - advertise the app and have people defend it.
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Is it just me or are Google and Mozilla having a contest to see who can take their nice shiny browser and make the worst stinking piece of foul excrement possible in as few releases as possible? It's a fight to the bottom, i swear!
I've thought about it...and at first I thought it was really dumb and going too far. However, upon further consideration I would certainly enjoy the smidge of screen real estate it would afford me.
Learn to hit F11 and leave the STUPID ideas out of my browser.
Thanks.
If you're actually prepared to sue, I'd say refuse to provide the login, and let them terminate you. Then go after them for wrongful dismissal.
Because kids who regularly skip school can be relied upon to willingly cooperate in keeping and activating their own personal tracking device.
I wonder what happens when the GPS device is accidentally dropped in the toilet, accidentally run over, accidentally set on fire, accidentally dropped from a great height? What about when the kid pays or bullies someone else into entering the codes for them? Vandalism and thuggery: You're teaching these kids the skills they need to become criminals.
I don't think they are "too" expensive. I just don't see why I would buy a tablet that does the same thing my HTC Evo already does...
From the article it just sounds like they're too heavy. "weight-for-weight, pure silver is cheaper "
So it's just like it is with real life friends then.
I have zero Facebook friends and zero stress about it. QED
I have you beat! I have zero friends. Period! ;-)
Please, stop adding features to the browser what makes it more and more like a OS. (Firefox without a microkernel, or Firefox as monolithic OS without monolithic architecture).
Mozilla worked hard to produce a brilliant little browser - it had it's flaws, but it made it possible to do lots of cool things - but ever since 3.0 they've been working hard to DESTROY what they've done. Forcing changes on the users, adding bloat instead of fixing bugs. They've just lost their way. Within 5 years I'd say we'll be talking about Firefox the way we now talk about Netscape. IDIOTS.
Neither has an equivalent to Outlook.
Outlook is terrible. Don't believe me? Try getting a list of your next appointments INCLUDING RECURRING for the next 2 weeks. The only view that does it within Outlook is the clunky calendar itself. The list views do not. The only way to get around this that I know of is to export the data to Excel. And don't get me started on stability (though how much of that is plugins isn't clear to me since I don't run Outlook at home).
Outlook has to be one of the most over-rated pieces of software on the planet.
Script kiddies. (They believe they are hackers)\
The real pros. (The ones you never hear about)
Probably some others.
No, no, no! It's Grumpy, Sleazy, Scammer, Pedant, NoLife, Recluse, and Doc aka The 7 Dwarves.
"The Haaretz" is redundant since the Hebrew prefix 'ha' means 'the'.
Just like pedantic slashdotter is redundant? ;-)
Or is that Ha!slashdotter!
that they have a bad hand, and that they're playing a desperate game for the life of the company. Yes, they could do a bunch of other things...and none of them would be great for them. At this point, they do not have a winning hand. There is no winning move for them. The choice he made is a pragmatic one, to stay in the game.
It's a pragmatic one alright. A pragmatic move to bolster his Microsoft shares.
It's a bad article simply because someone who knows nothing about the subject of stellar lifetimes and volatility is trying to comment on the topic. The misuse of terminology just adds to that
That's always a problem, there's a balance, you can't give away something that expensive for every bug no matter how tiny. But you also do have to compensate researchers enough to make it worth their while for more important bugs.
So only guarantee small bounties, but then generously offer disgressionary rewards for important bugs then use the publicity when you do give away something of value to get more researchers interested. Still cheaper than highering a traditional test team.
You're right, but I think any tagging system is complex enough to create similar issues. Say you divorce "Joan" and decide late one night to delete all pictures tagged with "Joan."
Nothing is idiot proof. The problem with hard links is that they make it look like there are multiple copies at the file system level. You can intend to delete one copy and end up hosing the lot. In contrast, if you set out to delete everything on your filesystem related to a particular thing or person you can't blame the tool and there's nothing tricky about it here. Just don't delete drunk.
Everything is nice, but it doesn't do network drives without running it on the network server. That makes it less useful at work.
"Probably time is finally taking a toll on the benevolent star, which has been toiling hard for millennia!"
4.6 BILLION YEARS is 4.6 million millennia. Good work sounding completely foolish guys.
The only thing more foolish is an article on a nerd site pointing to it. Next up: Top 10 songs of the week announced, and Pink says something like really like totally cool. News for bimbos? Stuff that's drivel?
you must be new to this computing thing, so let us help you out, turn off automatic updates on your production servers and machines. RUn your own update server, test the patches before you release them to your corporate environment?
Yeah, I'll just let the know at work that I won't be requiring any patches and that I'll be running my own update server.
YOU must be new. End user doesn't always have control of the machine.
What exactly is wrong with calling lazy, sneaky, rude teenagers "lazy", "sneaky" and "rude"?
Nothing, unless you happen to have a duty of care to the lazy, sneaky, rude teenagers in which case it is your job to make their lives better by teaching them, and not to harm them by spreading gossip about them.
My wife's a teacher and she would never EVER disparage her kids in any public forum. Aside from the duty of care it's unprofessional to do so.
Teacher should absolutely be suspended.
At some point the responsibility shifts from Microsoft to VMWare. Where the responsibility for alerting customers lies is maybe not clear yet.
The update has broken a few things for me. Half my desktop gadgets are not functioning properly. There are some other glitches that I noticed with my AV software, though I'm still confirming on other PCs.
You know what. I'm tired of running an experimental desktop. I have had enough things break that I view the patches as a greater security risk than the flaws they're meant to fix. I'm sick of it.
So it should be. Walking up to a complete stranger and empowering them with sensitive information about your wrongdoings is bone headed. An excellent way for the clergy to keep control of their...sheep.
You know that most practicing Catholics would know their priest personally, right? They'd probably see him more often than you do most of your friends.
You've seen the posts on this topic, right? Not everyone is a regular practising Catholic. And besides, seeing a man go through the rituals doesn't mean you know him.
The app in question was created to help people through the process of Confession. It's a little daunting if you haven't done it in a while.
So it should be. Walking up to a complete stranger and empowering them with sensitive information about your wrongdoings is bone headed. An excellent way for the clergy to keep control of their...sheep.
Who ever wrote the article has absolutely no idea what either side of this is talking about.
The article did exactly what it was meant to do - advertise the app and have people defend it.
That was some creation by an incredibly simplistic media headline which was always wrong.
The article did exactly what it was meant to do - advertise the app and have people defend it.
The guy is STATING THE OBVIOUS because the app has been sensationalized, hello! /. is better than this!
New here?
The article did exactly what it was meant to do - advertise the app and have people defend it.
FTA: The Vatican has warned that an app can never replace visiting a priest.
Oh, I don't know. An app is much easier on the ass.
Perhaps if you use an iPhone...but an iPad....ouch!!!