The Firefox team is probably the OSS group generating the most hot air in a close lead in front of the de Icaza dude. Take a look of their statements over the years and how they changed objectives as soon as they realised it's waaay over their might. Remember how they started with the smallest pack and quickest? By the next (they call it major) upgrade they turned back and bloated the code as with Mozilla, this time with the inconvenience of the add ons. Which add ons nobody seems to remark that they are not brought in a safe way and memory leaks are still an issue, well, for the Firefox developers it's something with no connection with their browser.
So their marketing tool, already proven to be very effective, is lie lie lie than forget.
Just like the teenage runaway who believes in fairies and that people would be nice and pay for sexual services just like that, the basement geek thrives in the same LaLaLand. Just because you can write a few lines of code in some scripting language doesn't mean they are fit for becoming a _programmer_ and start their own enterprise. There are a lot of costs involved, and patents and licencing are just a tiny part of this mix. Just because aunt Bunny gave this guy a shinny laptop and there is no rent to pay while living with the parents does not make the programming business a zero cost environment.
I believe that you can call that a good example of have the cake and eat it too. Either don't buy tempting stuff or risk them being stolen. Our guy has invented the "have the cake, eat it, but also keep as much as possible from the ingredients" by trying to be "safe, on a budget". This seems to be the rule of the modern western society - I'm a hippie and into giving stuff as long as I own nothing, yet once I start to accumulate I'm for the ownership rights and lower taxes.
Two decades ago a whole system would fit on a 1.2" floppy. A game as complex as Elite (8 galaxies) would fit in 48K of memory and would have mesh graphics. Nowadays, after what they believe is propper training and colege education every moron needs eye candy and sound themes that should change with the mood making a system able to fit on a DVD after making some of the multimedia content available online for free. We need Tb for what? For having duplicate copies of the google databases? A game supporting a number of hardware devices itself (and not through some other layer) designed to work on a 386 needs to be slowed down in order to make it playable, yet a Linux desktop with all the bells and wistles needs almost a minute till you enter some comands. On the current storage units you can do video processing, yet for a regular user "that's not enough". Oh, really?
I mean look at the sites around... every dork with an unlicensed dreamweaver installed computer becomes a "designer". Scripting 2-3 lines in JS or PHP also promotes you to "web programmer". How come?
What about performance? What about stability? What about less bloat and some more functionality? Is this really a browser for the monkeys? Flash (still, quite used as surprising as it might be to the developers) can crash it and take all the tabs with it. The addons (which they never fail to mention) can do a lot of things including memory leaks. How about that before going for the candy? Ooops, for that they need to get some programmers.
So weird to get reality checks like this post. I mean you assume the geeks were the smart, but socialy inept... yet you discover at any turn that the geeks aren't smart thus the social problems.
The CPU numbers were never clear. 486 100mHz it's not the same as Pentium 100mHz, which is not the same with 586 100mHz. And this is only in the same league. Enter different generations, different manufacturing processes, RISC vs CISC, different cores...
At least Intel is fair now and does not imply that there is a connection. And this just makes the stupidity surface - "I can't make any sense if there's no Hz count"
I mean what kind of sick fun is to watch a normal person run against a disabled and still win?
Firefox has the base of the oldest web browser still alive. It had it all and the best results were in competition with something like Internet Explorer 4.0 or something. After a few change of names it is still the same dated design with some extra bloat and hacks for the Acid test. The firefox fork started promising with the lightest pack... but by version 1.0 it was already about screwing people and getting the google money. At this point it was more than obvious that at a certain point in the future Google will cut the middle man and do things right.
Google Chrome has a not so long history and it is already waaay ahead of Firefox. And while Firefox is cheating the usage numbers by fetching pages ahead and other features like this: Chrome delivers. Some time ago there was no comparison between the two. Now Chrome has something more (the news is quite old) yet Firefox can't push the JS compiler yet. By the time Firefox will deliver their fixes Chrome would be further away with the usability. So... there is no competition/.
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The Church of/. You can be the last idiot - as long as you fail to your knees and renounce your sins (Windows especially) than you are welcome. Behold the one who left the OSS establishment. This oppinion is flamebait.
On the side, I also used to send reports to AppDB. At a point I discovered that I have wasted my time as with most OSS projects I have helped. Although I have software entered into the DB (both for the first time or new versions) some "volunteers" started deleting some entries for things like "printing not tested" in the case of PS.
Guys, realy, I used to feel your way of rating things is the norm, only to find out that the free software crowd is not only obtuze and rude, but also gone are the days when you can get an answer to your problem. It's either "in your face" like setting up the desktop wallpaper or nobody knows.
Went a couple of weeks ago and checked a few crowded places online - the open source groups/forums/whatever have by far the most unanswered issues. And the debated threads reach page 20+ and still have no solution. I witnesed the same with young or rarely used groups, but in the size range of say ubuntuforums ONLY members of your church can answer constantly with either something else or "read the docs" even after it's proven later on that there is nothing in the docs about that. But the mighty priest never bothered to check only increased his post count.
The fact that Wine 1.2 is somehow useful is not thanks to the OSS community or programmers. It's because Wine 1.2 can reach the equivalent of WinXP which is still alive and useful thanks to the community of XP users who pressed to prolong the life of this OS, thanks to the developers of closed source software who kept supporting it instead of migrating to Windows 7 which would be out of the league for Wine. Read the paragraph above: OSS comunity is ready to generate useless content and debate, turn in circles or let useful projects die and not really much else. With a few exceptions like Scribus or Inkscape useful projects become usable only after being integrated in the plans of some big corporation who pays real programmers to finish the product.
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After 15 years on Linux single boot I said enough it's enough and I'm not getting any younger waiting for script kiddie promises. So this year I moved to WinXP and surprise! all apps work as expected. It's still cute to follow the RSS with the updates and read the changelogs.
This poster is naive enough to dream the american dream. Wake up boy/girl! The surveillance tools (both phisical and legal) available today are not meant for the individual.
Firefox won't do a thing that is mildly original. They took the code base of some other browser, said they are going to make it smaller only to bring it to the same size the next version. Same goes for the features. Most OSS software goes the same way, the way of "hey, have you noticed that on that system they have this? cool, let's try to mimic it". So it's up to Safari, Chrome or Opera to implement something like this and Firefox will proudly label that as work in progress for the next major release.
On the other hand, English keeps borrowing words from other languages on a massive scale -- and this is one of reasons of its success.
Its success is due to the fact that 'everybody knows some english'. Hence every halfwit can try to make him/herself understood in English. In most European Languages you have to know some grammar and some vocabulary before trying to speak.
Hmm... it's quite easy. The 'mother' company or individuals wanted to screw somebody into working for them for tenth part of the pay. And it didn't work out. In a better world the outsourcing company could have participate freely to gain the project eliminating the parasite.
The idiotic laws of US of A. Yet, in California (other states too?) you can trial a minor as an adult. You can join the Army even before 18 and a lot before 21. So you are okay at 19 to murder people not even for your own will but because somebody told you so (gosh! by this reason Charlie Manson would be a US decorated Hero) and you are not able to drink legally or vote (which will give you a chance when it comes to on what desert you could die). Sick sick sick.
You say 1-2%... you should complete the idea and say 1-2% of the americans if you ignore the racial crimes, the heists and other criminal activities involving guns in the US. But for those 1-2% of americans there will be twice as much involved on the other side. And because they are also on the other side of the gun they will be involved in the ways of end of life.
So many times the Terorrist States of America blamed technology for targeting a hospital or a school instead of a military base which wasn't in the area anyway. Where are the famous Iraqi weapons of mass destruction by the way?
Now, how is this going to help the Iraqi nation? All the proof brought up in the last 10 years show that the United States are ready to receive a treatment close to what the natzy got half a century ago. Split the country, judge the leaders, long lasting embargo, the right to sell the minimum to buy _some_ of the medicine needed, chemical factories and anything large like a car manufacturing plant dismantled and finally every bearer of US passport bashed in the customs and treated like a common criminal.
Amazing how many losers around this site trying to appreciate 'smart' people (the smart people in the US culture don't seem to have any real life experience and have quired low social skills as well).
Relax geeks! It was just a trap. The life is full of those. So, the author finally managed to get out of that trap which was set nicely based on vanity. Wow! "The Specialist! I must be on TV! Look ma, I educate people".
As sick as I am of the glorification of "joe beerbut" I am also sick of most things people learn to glorify. And, face it, the US media is the worse. The geeks - people who just hide in a hole and lacking a better time-waster start learning things - are mentioned everywhere. Get real! A loser is still a loser. Being smart doesn't mean you have to be the last to get invited to a party. Or looking at the "human" side of some murderor. He/she killed for pleasure. There is no "let's forgive him/her as he/she used to plant nice flowers".
Bottom line I see nothing wrong to abuse people based on their sins. The same thing do the good salesmen - exploiting greed. This type of show exploits vanity. Vanity of smart people? Who's smart? Somebody who can't even control his/her life?
For every project like this there are individuals who start explaining that "we're doing it for you". Everywhere people are tagged and registered just for "their sake". Lots of expenses, unneeded people employed all to do something that isn't neccesary in the first place. In this particular case it is called natural selection. At least in the woods it should function. You aren't smart enough to keep on track than stay in the city with the guided tours. Besides, rescue missions used to be heroic. Now it's about to become a videogame.
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The Firefox team is probably the OSS group generating the most hot air in a close lead in front of the de Icaza dude. Take a look of their statements over the years and how they changed objectives as soon as they realised it's waaay over their might. Remember how they started with the smallest pack and quickest? By the next (they call it major) upgrade they turned back and bloated the code as with Mozilla, this time with the inconvenience of the add ons. Which add ons nobody seems to remark that they are not brought in a safe way and memory leaks are still an issue, well, for the Firefox developers it's something with no connection with their browser. So their marketing tool, already proven to be very effective, is lie lie lie than forget.
Just like the teenage runaway who believes in fairies and that people would be nice and pay for sexual services just like that, the basement geek thrives in the same LaLaLand. Just because you can write a few lines of code in some scripting language doesn't mean they are fit for becoming a _programmer_ and start their own enterprise. There are a lot of costs involved, and patents and licencing are just a tiny part of this mix. Just because aunt Bunny gave this guy a shinny laptop and there is no rent to pay while living with the parents does not make the programming business a zero cost environment.
I believe that you can call that a good example of have the cake and eat it too. Either don't buy tempting stuff or risk them being stolen. Our guy has invented the "have the cake, eat it, but also keep as much as possible from the ingredients" by trying to be "safe, on a budget". This seems to be the rule of the modern western society - I'm a hippie and into giving stuff as long as I own nothing, yet once I start to accumulate I'm for the ownership rights and lower taxes.
Interesting idea, very bad execution. Sure, next to a geek armed with Gimp they seem good, but this should not be the comparing standard.
Accepting such a software on your computer can lead to this kind of thing or worse. So why bother to report it?
Two decades ago a whole system would fit on a 1.2" floppy. A game as complex as Elite (8 galaxies) would fit in 48K of memory and would have mesh graphics. Nowadays, after what they believe is propper training and colege education every moron needs eye candy and sound themes that should change with the mood making a system able to fit on a DVD after making some of the multimedia content available online for free. We need Tb for what? For having duplicate copies of the google databases? A game supporting a number of hardware devices itself (and not through some other layer) designed to work on a 386 needs to be slowed down in order to make it playable, yet a Linux desktop with all the bells and wistles needs almost a minute till you enter some comands. On the current storage units you can do video processing, yet for a regular user "that's not enough". Oh, really?
I mean look at the sites around... every dork with an unlicensed dreamweaver installed computer becomes a "designer". Scripting 2-3 lines in JS or PHP also promotes you to "web programmer". How come?
Gee! Four computers and living in the partents' house? That would teach'm some independence and cut down on his time spent online!
What about performance? What about stability? What about less bloat and some more functionality? Is this really a browser for the monkeys? Flash (still, quite used as surprising as it might be to the developers) can crash it and take all the tabs with it. The addons (which they never fail to mention) can do a lot of things including memory leaks. How about that before going for the candy? Ooops, for that they need to get some programmers.
So weird to get reality checks like this post. I mean you assume the geeks were the smart, but socialy inept... yet you discover at any turn that the geeks aren't smart thus the social problems.
The CPU numbers were never clear. 486 100mHz it's not the same as Pentium 100mHz, which is not the same with 586 100mHz. And this is only in the same league. Enter different generations, different manufacturing processes, RISC vs CISC, different cores...
At least Intel is fair now and does not imply that there is a connection. And this just makes the stupidity surface - "I can't make any sense if there's no Hz count"
I guess it's time to change the laws in the light of the new tech developments and ban from driving anyone caught dirving comanded by a machine.
I mean what kind of sick fun is to watch a normal person run against a disabled and still win? Firefox has the base of the oldest web browser still alive. It had it all and the best results were in competition with something like Internet Explorer 4.0 or something. After a few change of names it is still the same dated design with some extra bloat and hacks for the Acid test. The firefox fork started promising with the lightest pack... but by version 1.0 it was already about screwing people and getting the google money. At this point it was more than obvious that at a certain point in the future Google will cut the middle man and do things right. Google Chrome has a not so long history and it is already waaay ahead of Firefox. And while Firefox is cheating the usage numbers by fetching pages ahead and other features like this: Chrome delivers. Some time ago there was no comparison between the two. Now Chrome has something more (the news is quite old) yet Firefox can't push the JS compiler yet. By the time Firefox will deliver their fixes Chrome would be further away with the usability. So... there is no competition/.
Hehehe /. You can be the last idiot - as long as you fail to your knees and renounce your sins (Windows especially) than you are welcome. Behold the one who left the OSS establishment. This oppinion is flamebait.
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On the side, I also used to send reports to AppDB. At a point I discovered that I have wasted my time as with most OSS projects I have helped. Although I have software entered into the DB (both for the first time or new versions) some "volunteers" started deleting some entries for things like "printing not tested" in the case of PS.
Guys, realy, I used to feel your way of rating things is the norm, only to find out that the free software crowd is not only obtuze and rude, but also gone are the days when you can get an answer to your problem. It's either "in your face" like setting up the desktop wallpaper or nobody knows.
Went a couple of weeks ago and checked a few crowded places online - the open source groups/forums/whatever have by far the most unanswered issues. And the debated threads reach page 20+ and still have no solution. I witnesed the same with young or rarely used groups, but in the size range of say ubuntuforums ONLY members of your church can answer constantly with either something else or "read the docs" even after it's proven later on that there is nothing in the docs about that. But the mighty priest never bothered to check only increased his post count.
The fact that Wine 1.2 is somehow useful is not thanks to the OSS community or programmers. It's because Wine 1.2 can reach the equivalent of WinXP which is still alive and useful thanks to the community of XP users who pressed to prolong the life of this OS, thanks to the developers of closed source software who kept supporting it instead of migrating to Windows 7 which would be out of the league for Wine. Read the paragraph above: OSS comunity is ready to generate useless content and debate, turn in circles or let useful projects die and not really much else. With a few exceptions like Scribus or Inkscape useful projects become usable only after being integrated in the plans of some big corporation who pays real programmers to finish the product.
After 15 years on Linux single boot I said enough it's enough and I'm not getting any younger waiting for script kiddie promises. So this year I moved to WinXP and surprise! all apps work as expected. It's still cute to follow the RSS with the updates and read the changelogs.
This poster is naive enough to dream the american dream. Wake up boy/girl! The surveillance tools (both phisical and legal) available today are not meant for the individual.
Firefox won't do a thing that is mildly original. They took the code base of some other browser, said they are going to make it smaller only to bring it to the same size the next version. Same goes for the features. Most OSS software goes the same way, the way of "hey, have you noticed that on that system they have this? cool, let's try to mimic it". So it's up to Safari, Chrome or Opera to implement something like this and Firefox will proudly label that as work in progress for the next major release.
On the other hand, English keeps borrowing words from other languages on a massive scale -- and this is one of reasons of its success.
Its success is due to the fact that 'everybody knows some english'. Hence every halfwit can try to make him/herself understood in English. In most European Languages you have to know some grammar and some vocabulary before trying to speak.
It's not the same government. It's the new one with that clown as Governor. How could californians even think about voting that Bozo?
In the list I find "FreeSBIE (based on Free BSD)"... but the article is named Linux LiveCD.
Hmm... it's quite easy. The 'mother' company or individuals wanted to screw somebody into working for them for tenth part of the pay. And it didn't work out. In a better world the outsourcing company could have participate freely to gain the project eliminating the parasite.
The idiotic laws of US of A. Yet, in California (other states too?) you can trial a minor as an adult. You can join the Army even before 18 and a lot before 21. So you are okay at 19 to murder people not even for your own will but because somebody told you so (gosh! by this reason Charlie Manson would be a US decorated Hero) and you are not able to drink legally or vote (which will give you a chance when it comes to on what desert you could die). Sick sick sick.
You say 1-2%... you should complete the idea and say 1-2% of the americans if you ignore the racial crimes, the heists and other criminal activities involving guns in the US. But for those 1-2% of americans there will be twice as much involved on the other side. And because they are also on the other side of the gun they will be involved in the ways of end of life.
So many times the Terorrist States of America blamed technology for targeting a hospital or a school instead of a military base which wasn't in the area anyway. Where are the famous Iraqi weapons of mass destruction by the way?
Now, how is this going to help the Iraqi nation? All the proof brought up in the last 10 years show that the United States are ready to receive a treatment close to what the natzy got half a century ago. Split the country, judge the leaders, long lasting embargo, the right to sell the minimum to buy _some_ of the medicine needed, chemical factories and anything large like a car manufacturing plant dismantled and finally every bearer of US passport bashed in the customs and treated like a common criminal.
Amazing how many losers around this site trying to appreciate 'smart' people (the smart people in the US culture don't seem to have any real life experience and have quired low social skills as well).
Relax geeks! It was just a trap. The life is full of those. So, the author finally managed to get out of that trap which was set nicely based on vanity. Wow! "The Specialist! I must be on TV! Look ma, I educate people".
As sick as I am of the glorification of "joe beerbut" I am also sick of most things people learn to glorify. And, face it, the US media is the worse. The geeks - people who just hide in a hole and lacking a better time-waster start learning things - are mentioned everywhere. Get real! A loser is still a loser. Being smart doesn't mean you have to be the last to get invited to a party. Or looking at the "human" side of some murderor. He/she killed for pleasure. There is no "let's forgive him/her as he/she used to plant nice flowers".
Bottom line I see nothing wrong to abuse people based on their sins. The same thing do the good salesmen - exploiting greed. This type of show exploits vanity. Vanity of smart people? Who's smart? Somebody who can't even control his/her life?
For every project like this there are individuals who start explaining that "we're doing it for you". Everywhere people are tagged and registered just for "their sake". Lots of expenses, unneeded people employed all to do something that isn't neccesary in the first place. In this particular case it is called natural selection. At least in the woods it should function. You aren't smart enough to keep on track than stay in the city with the guided tours. Besides, rescue missions used to be heroic. Now it's about to become a videogame.