Except you know, I've been waiting ten years and it's not improved and yet I used nightly versions UP TO 54,.... the article clearly says that things all changed around 51,....
I've been using it for over a decade, I've made easily over twenty posts on Slashdot about the performance maybe double that.
I used it exclusively including 64 bit nightly editions, up to I think version 54?
I reduced my plugins significantly to about 4 or so. I'm an extreme browser (although I peek around 400 tabs around once or twice Year, not 1600) and I can assure you at least up until 2/3 months ago, it still ran like crap compared to chrome (and again, I don't even like chrome)
I simply do not believe this, period. It's bloated crap and needs a MASSIVE fundamental rewrite to fix the disaster it's become. Very unlikely they finally got this all magically fixed after many many years of me being patient.
Not coming back Mozilla, nope
(Check my post history, I'm convinced I was one of the last die hards for it )
Go look up the Nov 2016 Chinese changes to getting money out of the country, it's significantly more difficult now. Then go look up the value of bitcoin from that period until now.
I'm from Melbourne, although I imagine anyone observant from London, Sydney, Vancouver, New York could confirm though, that there's an almost endless supply or Chinese housing investors hitting the big cities of the world and they're having more and more difficulty getting money out.
Honestly, I can't see the value of bitcoin dropping in the short term, but I imagine if you own any, it may be wise to offload at some point, since it's being just artificially pumped to traffic Chinese cash into Western housing. From a goods and services perspective, I think it's EXTREMELY unlikely that a lot more retail stores or wholesalers have started offering it as a payment method, over the small handful who already had.
SJWs have a tendency of infiltrating a community and then suddenly pointing out to everyone how bad the community is, often making wild claims of a completely inappropriate environment.
While the concepts of the normal left are quite fine (equality is not a bad thing) the methodology and the levels of what triggers the extreme left is utterly insane, as usual.
These people have become a laughing stock across the internet and are slowly losing respect. This is a good thing, we may see a resurgence of common sense soon at this rate.
It's a confusing jumble of inconsistencies and it's potentially dangerous with the plethora of bad cables there, EVEN from previously reputable sellers. The spec requires a resistor (??) or something mildly fancy in it, instead of just a raw cable. Look at this. http://blog.fosketts.net/2016/... It's a really good idea which needs some cleanup work, right now I'm avoiding it like the plague until it's 'final'
Nor has anyone I know or help or am related to etc.
Android has other problems, I think Google should simply pull a full halt on feature development for 3 months solid and have a "quarter of optomisation" period where they damn well try to speed the things up. 3 year old iphones still 'feel' snappier due to clever tricks and better code.
Check my post history, I've been posting about that browser for a decade. I was THE diehard, I loathed Chrome. I fought tooth and nail to keep Firefox, I hate many things Chrome does, which FF does better. It looks better, the plugins (I use) are much better, it's a great browser with a little work.
EXCEPT IT IS IMMENSELY SLOW. and I don't mean "oh golly, that's not snappy" I mean it's SLOW, frequently delays, lag, lockups, freezes, script errors (slow, then error), more slow, lag, it's just atrocious, it's awful. They should stop coding for a YEAR and just optomise it.
I really feel horrible even posting this from Chrome, the thought breaks my heart, but guess what? IT'S NOT INCREDIBLY OMG HOLY....... god damn slow,.....
Sorry Mozilla, it's over - I had my say on the reddit firefox site and that's it, I'm out - no more. I can not endure that performance any longer - it's been 2 years and I tried every god damn thing. So long. Sorry.
I had no idea. Also that's some criminally fast memory, shame they are only 8GB sticks and shame it's about 70% more expensive than it was 7 months ago.
I'm literally not upgrading anything due to this, I can take 20% but this has become ridiculous. Count me out of the upgrade game.
I re-watched that film only 6 months ago and besides some weak CGI man does it REALLY hold up. It's nice to see a film that's more than just action scenes, flashy CGI and generally poorly written characters and script.
If you're thinking of re-watching the movie and concerned it'll be dated trash. Don't, much like WarGames it very very much holds up, recommended.
Yep, that makes sense, if you didn't buy a house in the 90s "fuck you" response. Very typical and unsurprising whatsoever.
Also, not all of the Chinese investors come here, where did I claim that? Quite a few buy here and don't come, the unoccupied house is simply, effectively used as a "physical bank" to keep cash out of China.
You people are never ending. "Fuck the losers who don't have a house", who cares if they are only 18 or 23 or 25 or even 35. Nope fuck em "should've got one sooner, this boom is great!!!! "
Bear in mind the subject of this Slashdot article, it's not so much about the prices only, it's about the lack of a recession.
Rising property prices with no external influx of money wouldn't shield us from a recession, selling all our resources and allowing huge amounts of foreign investment however would grow or at least reduce stagnation of the economy.
Totally agree about negative gearing, it's disgusting, no other word for it. None the less the foreign investment thing is huge.
Also general overall massive immigration, my understanding is that this boosts our overall economic figures each year as we've got more 'turnover' for lack of a better word. Not looking at the overall average wealth / buying power of a typical middle class Australian, which is infact slowly eroding and has been for a while.
One particular race is by far the most common, because they are now, a) rich b) there's over a billion of them c) in a country which has inferior health care, schools, breathable air d) in a country where the government can take their money at will (historically)
The problem is *primarily* Chinese investment. You could re-word my post to say "foreign investment" and remove all elements of race in it, it wouldn't change the fact it's *by far* Chinese investment and even the pro housing blogs, news articles, cite the Chinese as "keeping us going, yay!"
At the end of the day *as stated in my damn post* huge swathes of money coming in from another country, into housing is extremely detrimental to the locals, period.
I no longer care, I couldn't care less. Fuck them all, a generation (or 3!) have been fucked by the Australian government policies and I want to see it all crumble horrifically. There's far too many "interest only loan" investors with 2,3,4 properties, reducing their taxable income (google: "negative gearing" a true scam for the rich).
Nope the middle class, the young and a small handful of the cautious middle aged (me) have been ruined. Let it fall to utter pieces.
It has to do with economics, not race. It's not logical to sell out property and land to foreigners, period.
However I've triggered some kind of angry extreme leftist rant, which I'm not surprised, there's still a couple of you guys left coming here. I used to be one of you!
Anyhow, good day, I'm not even going to waste my time replying to the points in your post, if you can't understand what I wrote the first time, you'll hardly understand the second.
I've posted this maybe dozens of times across the internet, I'm tired of shouting it and I'm tired of making lengthy posts with links and evidence.
The country is selling all it's gas, minerals at rock bottom prices to anyone and everyone for a start. In a huge massive way. The mining boom is finally slowing down significantly, at least so I hear.
We are also pretty lax with stopping people buying property. There's arguments why shouldn't we stop them, but seriously, I'm sick of debating it. If you can't see how someone vastly wealthier than the common local, bidding for houses isn't going to mess up the cost for the locals,..... well I don't know what to say. There's a reason Thailand, Indonesia, other smaller second class countries don't let foreigners buy.
We're getting 'Vancouvered'. It ain't about race, it's about economics and the locals (who don't own yet, you know, a LOT of people) are getting destroyed, totally by this.
That's the facts, it's as simple as that. Furthermore, as long as the Chinese can still buy property (and they do it legally and illegally) then I suspect the 'crash' which I've hoped for, for a decade, simply won't come. They'll just see a cheaper place to store their money they want to hide from China.
We're boned. Best benefit to all this would be a property developer in the last 20 years. Rest of us? Well I've held off using expletives but to say I'm white hot raging angry would be an understatement. @$#%^ our governments.
Great job doing what the whiners said, the whiners who don't buy your phones.
"We want metal" - now they're heavier, less flexible, more prone to break. (Apple, HTC fans) "We hate the home button" - finally removed. "Make it flashy" (forced curved screen)
Excellent job. You've added all the shit which NON SAMSUNG CUSTOMERS whined about, meanwhile alienating Samsung customers.
I can deal with the transition to a metal case, but the home button and especially the curved display? Great job. You lost a long time customer if you force this shit on the next model.
I literally LITERALLY said "What the fuck!" when I read that paragraph.
Not because it's not untrue, but because it was on Vice? What the fuck? I assume the writer who produced that has been fired from such an establishment, no doubt.
Slashdot Mirror
Really slashdot? Aren't we over this phase? It's 2017, it's an interesting article. The "but but but Micro$hit!" stuff isn't needed.
Mac, Windows and Linux users are all coming here and always have.
These are basically my 'critical' addons (in order of importance)
Tab Mix Plus
Lastpass
Xmarks
Ad blocker of some kind
"Tabs Menu"
Without those, the browser is effectively worthless to me.
If you hit CTRL TAB, what's your time to switch?
I found a general lag, anything from 200, to even 1500ms in previous builds.
(When exceeding 100/150 tabs)
Except you know, I've been waiting ten years and it's not improved and yet I used nightly versions UP TO 54,.... the article clearly says that things all changed around 51,....
So yeah, no.
That word would be bullshit.
I've been using it for over a decade, I've made easily over twenty posts on Slashdot about the performance maybe double that.
I used it exclusively including 64 bit nightly editions, up to I think version 54?
I reduced my plugins significantly to about 4 or so.
I'm an extreme browser (although I peek around 400 tabs around once or twice Year, not 1600) and I can assure you at least up until 2/3 months ago, it still ran like crap compared to chrome (and again, I don't even like chrome)
I simply do not believe this, period. It's bloated crap and needs a MASSIVE fundamental rewrite to fix the disaster it's become. Very unlikely they finally got this all magically fixed after many many years of me being patient.
Not coming back Mozilla, nope
(Check my post history, I'm convinced I was one of the last die hards for it )
But I'll be damned if I'd ever consider replacing a laptop with an iPad. I know people who have, but their workflow is very very different to mine.
Personally as a geek / nerd, it's just not viable. So his review is a bit harsh, but from the laptop replacement perspective, can't say he's wrong.
Users are uploading their entire media library for Plex or Kodi, up to 50TB etc, then they wonder why this happens.
Should Amazon list it with false advertising? If course not, but a little common sense people, please.
Hi Slashdot,
Go look up the Nov 2016 Chinese changes to getting money out of the country, it's significantly more difficult now.
Then go look up the value of bitcoin from that period until now.
I'm from Melbourne, although I imagine anyone observant from London, Sydney, Vancouver, New York could confirm though, that there's an almost endless supply or Chinese housing investors hitting the big cities of the world and they're having more and more difficulty getting money out.
Honestly, I can't see the value of bitcoin dropping in the short term, but I imagine if you own any, it may be wise to offload at some point, since it's being just artificially pumped to traffic Chinese cash into Western housing. From a goods and services perspective, I think it's EXTREMELY unlikely that a lot more retail stores or wholesalers have started offering it as a payment method, over the small handful who already had.
SJWs have a tendency of infiltrating a community and then suddenly pointing out to everyone how bad the community is, often making wild claims of a completely inappropriate environment.
While the concepts of the normal left are quite fine (equality is not a bad thing) the methodology and the levels of what triggers the extreme left is utterly insane, as usual.
These people have become a laughing stock across the internet and are slowly losing respect. This is a good thing, we may see a resurgence of common sense soon at this rate.
It's a confusing jumble of inconsistencies and it's potentially dangerous with the plethora of bad cables there, EVEN from previously reputable sellers.
The spec requires a resistor (??) or something mildly fancy in it, instead of just a raw cable.
Look at this.
http://blog.fosketts.net/2016/...
It's a really good idea which needs some cleanup work, right now I'm avoiding it like the plague until it's 'final'
Nor has anyone I know or help or am related to etc.
Android has other problems, I think Google should simply pull a full halt on feature development for 3 months solid and have a "quarter of optomisation" period where they damn well try to speed the things up. 3 year old iphones still 'feel' snappier due to clever tricks and better code.
Slashot on top of basically breaking news. A rare moment.
Explains several issues for me today.
Check my post history, I've been posting about that browser for a decade. I was THE diehard, I loathed Chrome.
I fought tooth and nail to keep Firefox, I hate many things Chrome does, which FF does better. It looks better, the plugins (I use) are much better, it's a great browser with a little work.
EXCEPT IT IS IMMENSELY SLOW.
and I don't mean "oh golly, that's not snappy" I mean it's SLOW, frequently delays, lag, lockups, freezes, script errors (slow, then error), more slow, lag, it's just atrocious, it's awful. They should stop coding for a YEAR and just optomise it.
I really feel horrible even posting this from Chrome, the thought breaks my heart, but guess what? IT'S NOT INCREDIBLY OMG HOLY ....... god damn slow,.....
Sorry Mozilla, it's over - I had my say on the reddit firefox site and that's it, I'm out - no more. I can not endure that performance any longer - it's been 2 years and I tried every god damn thing.
So long. Sorry.
To have a device in your home, 'listening' and you wonder why stuff like this happens, it's your own fault.
Seriously, I have less than 0 sympathy.
Burger King were if anything, ingenious. Enjoy that Whopper folks!
(The burgers are better at Hungry Jacks,.....)
I had no idea.
Also that's some criminally fast memory, shame they are only 8GB sticks and shame it's about 70% more expensive than it was 7 months ago.
I'm literally not upgrading anything due to this, I can take 20% but this has become ridiculous. Count me out of the upgrade game.
Just a note on this post:
I re-watched that film only 6 months ago and besides some weak CGI man does it REALLY hold up. It's nice to see a film that's more than just action scenes, flashy CGI and generally poorly written characters and script.
If you're thinking of re-watching the movie and concerned it'll be dated trash. Don't, much like WarGames it very very much holds up, recommended.
I totally agree with you, but bear in mind the subject of this particular article.
I covered this here.
https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...
Yep, that makes sense, if you didn't buy a house in the 90s "fuck you" response. Very typical and unsurprising whatsoever.
Also, not all of the Chinese investors come here, where did I claim that? Quite a few buy here and don't come, the unoccupied house is simply, effectively used as a "physical bank" to keep cash out of China.
http://boingboing.net/2017/03/...
You people are never ending. "Fuck the losers who don't have a house", who cares if they are only 18 or 23 or 25 or even 35. Nope fuck em "should've got one sooner, this boom is great!!!! "
Just stop.
Bear in mind the subject of this Slashdot article, it's not so much about the prices only, it's about the lack of a recession.
Rising property prices with no external influx of money wouldn't shield us from a recession, selling all our resources and allowing huge amounts of foreign investment however would grow or at least reduce stagnation of the economy.
Totally agree about negative gearing, it's disgusting, no other word for it. None the less the foreign investment thing is huge.
Also general overall massive immigration, my understanding is that this boosts our overall economic figures each year as we've got more 'turnover' for lack of a better word. Not looking at the overall average wealth / buying power of a typical middle class Australian, which is infact slowly eroding and has been for a while.
One particular race is by far the most common, because they are now,
a) rich
b) there's over a billion of them
c) in a country which has inferior health care, schools, breathable air
d) in a country where the government can take their money at will (historically)
The problem is *primarily* Chinese investment. You could re-word my post to say "foreign investment" and remove all elements of race in it, it wouldn't change the fact it's *by far* Chinese investment and even the pro housing blogs, news articles, cite the Chinese as "keeping us going, yay!"
At the end of the day *as stated in my damn post* huge swathes of money coming in from another country, into housing is extremely detrimental to the locals, period.
I no longer care, I couldn't care less.
Fuck them all, a generation (or 3!) have been fucked by the Australian government policies and I want to see it all crumble horrifically.
There's far too many "interest only loan" investors with 2,3,4 properties, reducing their taxable income (google: "negative gearing" a true scam for the rich).
Nope the middle class, the young and a small handful of the cautious middle aged (me) have been ruined. Let it fall to utter pieces.
It has to do with economics, not race. It's not logical to sell out property and land to foreigners, period.
However I've triggered some kind of angry extreme leftist rant, which I'm not surprised, there's still a couple of you guys left coming here. I used to be one of you!
Anyhow, good day, I'm not even going to waste my time replying to the points in your post, if you can't understand what I wrote the first time, you'll hardly understand the second.
I'll let the moderators deal with the problem.
I've posted this maybe dozens of times across the internet, I'm tired of shouting it and I'm tired of making lengthy posts with links and evidence.
The country is selling all it's gas, minerals at rock bottom prices to anyone and everyone for a start. In a huge massive way. The mining boom is finally slowing down significantly, at least so I hear.
We are also pretty lax with stopping people buying property. There's arguments why shouldn't we stop them, but seriously, I'm sick of debating it. If you can't see how someone vastly wealthier than the common local, bidding for houses isn't going to mess up the cost for the locals,..... well I don't know what to say. There's a reason Thailand, Indonesia, other smaller second class countries don't let foreigners buy.
We're getting 'Vancouvered'. It ain't about race, it's about economics and the locals (who don't own yet, you know, a LOT of people) are getting destroyed, totally by this.
That's the facts, it's as simple as that. Furthermore, as long as the Chinese can still buy property (and they do it legally and illegally) then I suspect the 'crash' which I've hoped for, for a decade, simply won't come. They'll just see a cheaper place to store their money they want to hide from China.
We're boned. Best benefit to all this would be a property developer in the last 20 years. Rest of us? Well I've held off using expletives but to say I'm white hot raging angry would be an understatement. @$#%^ our governments.
Great job doing what the whiners said, the whiners who don't buy your phones.
"We want metal" - now they're heavier, less flexible, more prone to break. (Apple, HTC fans)
"We hate the home button" - finally removed.
"Make it flashy" (forced curved screen)
Excellent job. You've added all the shit which NON SAMSUNG CUSTOMERS whined about, meanwhile alienating Samsung customers.
I can deal with the transition to a metal case, but the home button and especially the curved display? Great job. You lost a long time customer if you force this shit on the next model.
I literally LITERALLY said "What the fuck!" when I read that paragraph.
Not because it's not untrue, but because it was on Vice? What the fuck?
I assume the writer who produced that has been fired from such an establishment, no doubt.