I genuinely don't understand why I can't get a power reading from every single light AND socket in the house
Current utilisation, total utilisation this month / week etc Ability to turn off and on, timing Total house usage
I understand it should cost more to do and it's more complicated but again, 2016! It's madness. I'm actually kind of glad I'm not well off enough to afford a house, because it would frustrate me to own my own place or build my own place and not be able to easily do that yet.
I looked into these a couple of years back and I couldn't find a single one which didn't wantto dial home to a server, which could be shutdown at any time.
I want something with a web interface and I can just remap a port on my router to present that (secure) web interface, then I can control it myself. Perhaps some kind of secure access would be nice, so you could build a basic server which can control all the power points, monitor usage, set timers etc.
It's 2016 (!!) and most of us still have very little control or monitoring over the power sockets around our homes, it's kind of crazy, considering what technology is capable of.
Regardless of features, I thought DD kind of struggled on that thing and it's why it was ported to many other devices? 11 year old hardware, considering the bandwidth people have nowadays, amount of devices connected, seems like they might just be better off buying a more modern router which can run DD?
I just skimmed the article, I didn't get the impression it will be replacing the engine in Firefox.
Why run the two products? If Firefox is so fundamentally broken (?) then move development over to this new thing? If not, then continue to work on improving Firefox and implimenting the same features.
Software companies show us exactly WHY users want physical versions of software, why they want DRM removed. The fact the console companies have the audacity to charge more for the download versions only makes things worse.
"Toby Coppel, the co-founder of venture capital firm Mosaic, said: "The next entrepreneur who's 22 years old, graduating from a technical university in Germany may, instead of moving to London to do their Fintech startup, decide to go to Berlin instead."
GOOD! Go to bloody Berlin and allow some of the locals to have a job!? Globalisation is fan-tastic for a small portion of very highly skilled people. If you're mid-skilled or lower, you are _boned_. Unemployment is up, wages are down.
Sure we can buy a $6 toaster from China and have a website built in India for $300 but your average person is NOT better off. Globalisation is screwing a heap of people.
Who cares? Perhaps the industry can move forward with a new cabled standard. No DRM issues, smaller profile, adapters easily available, no need to be wireless, no charging?
Initial transition won't be fun, however neither was Mini USB to Micro. At least this way most of the issues are alleviated and an adapter can work in the meantime.
The whole state is frequently the most backwards in many ways. Want to know where the source of the majority of the anti-video game bills for Australia come from? Adelaide "city of churches", indeed.
Why can't money or development time be put towards existing open solutions and fixing them up?
I am using ZFS on my FreeNAS machine and from what I understand BTRFS has some features superior to ZFS (but also some stability issues) It's really super frustrating as a geek that there isn't a single "be all and end all" file system out there yet. Something definitively powerful, reliable, fast.
I know there's been some improvements over the years to these file systems but damn if progress doesn't seem slow. Also Apple creating their own? How long until it's reliable? It takes forever to make a filesystem good.
The #$%^ing calculator should come AS STOCK on the bloody ipad! Is this a big deal? Not really! Is it stupid, annoying and a complete waste of my time? YES
For goodness sakes they are obstinate, it kills me.
What else is improved? Power consumption? Ease of connection? Can it now finally, reliably be used as a GOOD audio transmission protocol for music (Apple... are hoping, I bet....) ?
What about maximum devices in a room? Can you have 42 of these in a small hall like a university lecturing room? What about 90 of them?
Basically I open a new tab, it's DIRECTLY RIGHT of my current tab (how I prefer my workflow) I start to type a URL, awesomebar confirms, I do infact already have what I'm after open, great. I down arrow but I want it to *move* from current location (god knows where, 400 tabs open) into the new slot I just opened.
I imagine, if I could code, it would be one of the easiest plugins to make ever. I nearly posted on the Mozilla addons forums about it.
Thanks for that, I'll have a play around. I saw your other reply and wasn't sure if you knew your stuff but I think from this post it's evident.
I use power close a lot (try it out) - it's quite handy when you're 400 deep in tabs and not sure what dupes you have open. You don't develop by any chance do you? I have a cracker suggestion someone said they liked for the awesome bar but sadly hasn't gone anywhere.
Performance is by FAR their biggest problem, you haven't even outlined what security issues you have. You've just thrown a dead cat on the table and walked away. Ugh
Switched to nightlies about 3 months ago to try and get more performance, you'd be extremely surprised just how stable the experience has been. Current tabs open : 399
It still has issues switching from tab to tab to tab and once you have a certain amount open, opening more isn't ideal either, delays can exceed a second or two, super bad times, up to 10 seconds... I guess about once a week I do see a crashed tab not take out the browser, so that's good but I'm still not happy with the perf to be honest. (for some reason, the 48 nightlies felt faster than 49, not sure why)
Sometimes in really bad moments it can take over a second to switch tabs, scrolling is slow, clicking in boxes is slow, the whole thing lags up. If you're going to go multi-core at least give me 1 full core for my current tab, entirely independent of the others, furthermore, the 2 tabs directly to my left and right of my position should be prioritised too. (16gb, quad core machine here)
I use Firefox nightly to try and alleviate performance issues (believe it or not, stability is almost flawless (!?)) It's a little bit quicker than stock Firefox but not by a whole lot.
" Most people have all the apps they want and/or need. They're not looking for new ones."
Not much more to say. Galaxy Note 2, only 2GB of ram and 2012 tech, runs totally fine, quite happy with it, considering I paid $100 a year ago for it used... but I don't see the need to get a heap of pointless apps. I probably regularly use no more than 10, including the ones that come on the phone.
Sounds like you're as cynical about Chrome as I am. Christ I hate the inability to customise much with it and the staunch "our way or no way" attitude of Google on it.
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Very much this, some of the articles have been outright ridiculous. Infact most of the articles have been ridiculous.
I genuinely don't understand why I can't get a power reading from every single light AND socket in the house
Current utilisation, total utilisation this month / week etc
Ability to turn off and on, timing
Total house usage
I understand it should cost more to do and it's more complicated but again, 2016! It's madness. I'm actually kind of glad I'm not well off enough to afford a house, because it would frustrate me to own my own place or build my own place and not be able to easily do that yet.
I looked into these a couple of years back and I couldn't find a single one which didn't wantto dial home to a server, which could be shutdown at any time.
I want something with a web interface and I can just remap a port on my router to present that (secure) web interface, then I can control it myself.
Perhaps some kind of secure access would be nice, so you could build a basic server which can control all the power points, monitor usage, set timers etc.
It's 2016 (!!) and most of us still have very little control or monitoring over the power sockets around our homes, it's kind of crazy, considering what technology is capable of.
Regardless of features, I thought DD kind of struggled on that thing and it's why it was ported to many other devices?
11 year old hardware, considering the bandwidth people have nowadays, amount of devices connected, seems like they might just be better off buying a more modern router which can run DD?
I just skimmed the article, I didn't get the impression it will be replacing the engine in Firefox.
Why run the two products? If Firefox is so fundamentally broken (?) then move development over to this new thing? If not, then continue to work on improving Firefox and implimenting the same features.
Working on 2 seems counterproductive.
Software companies show us exactly WHY users want physical versions of software, why they want DRM removed.
The fact the console companies have the audacity to charge more for the download versions only makes things worse.
"Toby Coppel, the co-founder of venture capital firm Mosaic, said: "The next entrepreneur who's 22 years old, graduating from a technical university in Germany may, instead of moving to London to do their Fintech startup, decide to go to Berlin instead."
GOOD!
Go to bloody Berlin and allow some of the locals to have a job!?
Globalisation is fan-tastic for a small portion of very highly skilled people. If you're mid-skilled or lower, you are _boned_. Unemployment is up, wages are down.
Sure we can buy a $6 toaster from China and have a website built in India for $300 but your average person is NOT better off. Globalisation is screwing a heap of people.
Are young people so fucking cool and hip that calling a fucking taxi is seen as passé? Seriously?
We get it uber is cooler and easier or some other bullshit, ok fine, you prefer it but hey TAXIS STILL EXIST?
WTF
Who cares?
Perhaps the industry can move forward with a new cabled standard. No DRM issues, smaller profile, adapters easily available, no need to be wireless, no charging?
Initial transition won't be fun, however neither was Mini USB to Micro. At least this way most of the issues are alleviated and an adapter can work in the meantime.
Controversial opinion:
Switch to the 2.5mm jack, instead of 3.5mm? - The one used on the older blackberry? It's significantly smaller, despite it only being 1mm smaller.
Something something, nuclear wessles.
The whole state is frequently the most backwards in many ways. Want to know where the source of the majority of the anti-video game bills for Australia come from?
Adelaide "city of churches", indeed.
With RealVNC - can I remote into a machine which is still at the bios / boot stage?
Why can't money or development time be put towards existing open solutions and fixing them up?
I am using ZFS on my FreeNAS machine and from what I understand BTRFS has some features superior to ZFS (but also some stability issues)
It's really super frustrating as a geek that there isn't a single "be all and end all" file system out there yet. Something definitively powerful, reliable, fast.
I know there's been some improvements over the years to these file systems but damn if progress doesn't seem slow.
Also Apple creating their own? How long until it's reliable? It takes forever to make a filesystem good.
Simple and easy starter stuff? Ideally in a language which is going to stick around? (or the lessons are adaptable in another language)
The #$%^ing calculator should come AS STOCK on the bloody ipad!
Is this a big deal? Not really!
Is it stupid, annoying and a complete waste of my time? YES
For goodness sakes they are obstinate, it kills me.
What else is improved? Power consumption? Ease of connection? Can it now finally, reliably be used as a GOOD audio transmission protocol for music (Apple... are hoping, I bet....) ?
What about maximum devices in a room? Can you have 42 of these in a small hall like a university lecturing room? What about 90 of them?
I see some app developers got some moderator points this week.
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/4c1i5k/i_need_pull_to_location_to_replace_switch_to_tab/
Basically I open a new tab, it's DIRECTLY RIGHT of my current tab (how I prefer my workflow)
I start to type a URL, awesomebar confirms, I do infact already have what I'm after open, great. I down arrow but I want it to *move* from current location (god knows where, 400 tabs open) into the new slot I just opened.
I imagine, if I could code, it would be one of the easiest plugins to make ever. I nearly posted on the Mozilla addons forums about it.
Thanks for that, I'll have a play around. I saw your other reply and wasn't sure if you knew your stuff but I think from this post it's evident.
I use power close a lot (try it out) - it's quite handy when you're 400 deep in tabs and not sure what dupes you have open.
You don't develop by any chance do you? I have a cracker suggestion someone said they liked for the awesome bar but sadly hasn't gone anywhere.
Performance is by FAR their biggest problem, you haven't even outlined what security issues you have. You've just thrown a dead cat on the table and walked away. Ugh
Ultra extreme loony browser guy here again...
Switched to nightlies about 3 months ago to try and get more performance, you'd be extremely surprised just how stable the experience has been.
Current tabs open : 399
It still has issues switching from tab to tab to tab and once you have a certain amount open, opening more isn't ideal either, delays can exceed a second or two, super bad times, up to 10 seconds...
I guess about once a week I do see a crashed tab not take out the browser, so that's good but I'm still not happy with the perf to be honest. (for some reason, the 48 nightlies felt faster than 49, not sure why)
Sometimes in really bad moments it can take over a second to switch tabs, scrolling is slow, clicking in boxes is slow, the whole thing lags up. If you're going to go multi-core at least give me 1 full core for my current tab, entirely independent of the others, furthermore, the 2 tabs directly to my left and right of my position should be prioritised too.
(16gb, quad core machine here)
I use Firefox nightly to try and alleviate performance issues (believe it or not, stability is almost flawless (!?))
It's a little bit quicker than stock Firefox but not by a whole lot.
" Most people have all the apps they want and/or need. They're not looking for new ones."
Not much more to say. Galaxy Note 2, only 2GB of ram and 2012 tech, runs totally fine, quite happy with it, considering I paid $100 a year ago for it used... but I don't see the need to get a heap of pointless apps. I probably regularly use no more than 10, including the ones that come on the phone.
Sounds like you're as cynical about Chrome as I am. Christ I hate the inability to customise much with it and the staunch "our way or no way" attitude of Google on it.