No, it has nothing to do with his job performance, but he is now the public face and representative of a corporation.
I think this is a convenient, facile excuse. How many people, when they want to look at the values of Mozilla, will Google Brendan Eich? How many will look at the wider group of people that form Mozilla, and how many will look at the Mozilla website?
The idea that one guy at the top of a company is seen as representing the *whole* company and all its values is pretty dumb, and just not true.
Either the government gets the hell out of marriage entirely, or it must be available to any and all, regardless of who is sticking what in which holes.
What about dogs' "holes"? What about the "holes" of 10 women? Marriage has not traditionally been defined as between man and animal, or man and multiple women. I support gay marriage, but I can definitely see where people like Eich are coming from in not wanting to redefine marriage away from its traditional meaning.
Amen to that. I've had to install the old Maps to get the old Navigate back again. Combining Navigate into the Maps interface was a HORRIBLE decision. If Google had a fucking clue about UI design they'd reverse the decision and separate them out again. It's 2 separate things god damnit!!
Yeah, your rather hostile attitude isn't doing much to change my opinion of people who generally like to call themselves "UX experts". I'm a programmer, but I wouldn't have the gall to call myself an "expert developer".
Anyway, my specific question about FF is, why do UX "experts" think that it's OK to run roughshod over those of us who prefer a fuller browser chrome (even if we are a minority) and want tabs-on-bottom? Why is it OK for UX people to just force their mockups down everyone's throat? Because that seems to be exactly the attitude of the Firefox UX people, and the reason I switched to SeaMonkey and created a Firefox 3-like theme for it a while ago.
I have always found self-professed "UX experts" to be people who completely ignore what large numbers of users want and change GUIs for the sake of being trendy. Tell me, what do you think of Firefox's drastic UI changes since Firefox 3?
It's a shame; I wish more businesses would go down the Postgres/Mono/MonoDevelop route, but generally they'll always go down the all-Microsoft route with.NET development.
OKC asked people to consider stopping using Firefox as long as Eich is the CEO. They haven't asked people to attempt to have Eich's marriage annulled, put money into a fund to pass laws that abrogate his fundamental human rights, or indeed to take any action against him at all.
No, but they neglect to take into account that Eich is one man at the top, and has done precisely zero development work on the Mozilla codebase. The vast majority of Mozilla contributors and supporters have nothing to do with this guy's opinion so asking people to boycott the whole of Mozilla (Firefox) because of one fucking man is really puerile.
Data says that Federation vessls encountered Tamarian vessels 7 times over 100 years, each meeting without incident, but that communication "was not possible". Captain Silvestri called them "incomprehensible", and other accounts were similar. So, it seems that the Federation does know about them.
So the idea that the black plague was primarily spread among humans enzootically is hardy groundbreaking epidemiology. It certainly doesn't mean that it's not dangerous to live in a place infested with plague-ridden rats. But the shift to enzootic transmission is something that's a bit different from the mosquito or tick borne diseases or occasional, isolated epizootic plague infections we're largely familiar with today.
What I don't quite get is, if the plague was spread from human to human, how anyone survived. It seems to have spready readily, and killed pretty much everyone who got it, so how did anyone live past it? They didn't know about micro-organisms back then so presumably quarantining wasn't an idea they had; they probably just thought God was striking a bunch of people down. Or did 30% of the population just have immunity to it?
Yeah, Darmok is a fun ep to watch, the the plot is a joke.
1) If the universal translator can translate certain things as nouns, verbs, and adjectives ("Shaka, when the walls fell", "Temba, his arms wide"), then their language must surely contain nouns, verbs, and adjectives. The whole plot is supposed to be that it doesn't, and that they use proper nouns for everything. 2) Even if they did use proper nouns as a byword/metaphor for everything, those proper nouns would quickly become improper nouns. Hell may have been considered an actual place, but nowadays a saying like "This place is hell" indicates that it is simply interpreted as an improper noun or an adjective, no matter its etymological roots. The universal translator frequently picks up new alien languages and translates them to perfect English instantly, but it can't figure this out? 3) The viewer figures out full well that the aliens are using proper nouns (along with "when the walls fell" *AHEM*) as metaphors for sadness, failure, generosity, etc. after 5 minutes. Picard figures it out after 10. Apparently, this had all the Federations top scientists perplexed for years. Yeah, right.
Populous wasn't "extremely tedious", at least not until you'd played it for a long time, after which most games become tedious. It was fun gaming for its time, with hundreds of worlds to try and win.
I agree, this is a serious cop-out on Carter's part. Either you think the info shouldn't have been released and Snowden should be prosecuted, or you think it's good that it was and therefore he shouldn't be. It's inconsistent and pathetic to take the benefit of the data leak and yet support the punishment of the person(s) who gave you that benefit anyway.
In my mind both of these 'artists' are disgusting and are serving no purpose to promoting beneficial forward progress in our society.
The freedom to express oneself how one wants despite people thinking that it "serves no purpose to promoting beneficial forward progress in our society" IS a benefit in and of itself. It's a good thing for society that people are allowed to do that.
Duke Nukem only has one fucking character you can play as. What are they supposed to do, have a "Duke's sexual preference selection" screen before starting and design a storyline that can totally change based on that? Give me a break.
Yeah. I dunno who developed that Classic Theme Restorer, but good luck to 'em. They'll need it. I gave up on FF and switched to SeaMonkey's browser ages ago because that addon is basically having to overhaul the entire UI to restore what was there before - the UX people don't give a shit about what long-term users want, or customizability. If the developer of that addon wants to plow their life into maintaining it through all the constant changes that Firefox gets, against the will of the Firefox UX people, I don't know where they get their time.:-)
I have to say, it still puzzles me that Google offer all this stuff for free (as in beer). Getting information on you doesn't seem like enough of a payback for all the time and money invested in development and infrastructure needed for a reliable service like Google Docs.
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No, it has nothing to do with his job performance, but he is now the public face and representative of a corporation.
I think this is a convenient, facile excuse. How many people, when they want to look at the values of Mozilla, will Google Brendan Eich? How many will look at the wider group of people that form Mozilla, and how many will look at the Mozilla website?
The idea that one guy at the top of a company is seen as representing the *whole* company and all its values is pretty dumb, and just not true.
I dunno if you mean because his cam caught the meteorite, or because he didn't get hit by it. ;-)
Either the government gets the hell out of marriage entirely, or it must be available to any and all, regardless of who is sticking what in which holes.
What about dogs' "holes"? What about the "holes" of 10 women? Marriage has not traditionally been defined as between man and animal, or man and multiple women. I support gay marriage, but I can definitely see where people like Eich are coming from in not wanting to redefine marriage away from its traditional meaning.
Amen to that. I've had to install the old Maps to get the old Navigate back again. Combining Navigate into the Maps interface was a HORRIBLE decision. If Google had a fucking clue about UI design they'd reverse the decision and separate them out again. It's 2 separate things god damnit!!
Yeah, your rather hostile attitude isn't doing much to change my opinion of people who generally like to call themselves "UX experts". I'm a programmer, but I wouldn't have the gall to call myself an "expert developer".
Anyway, my specific question about FF is, why do UX "experts" think that it's OK to run roughshod over those of us who prefer a fuller browser chrome (even if we are a minority) and want tabs-on-bottom? Why is it OK for UX people to just force their mockups down everyone's throat? Because that seems to be exactly the attitude of the Firefox UX people, and the reason I switched to SeaMonkey and created a Firefox 3-like theme for it a while ago.
I'm an Graphics + UI + UX expert
I have always found self-professed "UX experts" to be people who completely ignore what large numbers of users want and change GUIs for the sake of being trendy. Tell me, what do you think of Firefox's drastic UI changes since Firefox 3?
It's a shame; I wish more businesses would go down the Postgres/Mono/MonoDevelop route, but generally they'll always go down the all-Microsoft route with .NET development.
How is it even unethical if someone is happy to go on a one-way space mission? So much discussion around "ethics" today is fucking bullshit.
OKC asked people to consider stopping using Firefox as long as Eich is the CEO. They haven't asked people to attempt to have Eich's marriage annulled, put money into a fund to pass laws that abrogate his fundamental human rights, or indeed to take any action against him at all.
No, but they neglect to take into account that Eich is one man at the top, and has done precisely zero development work on the Mozilla codebase. The vast majority of Mozilla contributors and supporters have nothing to do with this guy's opinion so asking people to boycott the whole of Mozilla (Firefox) because of one fucking man is really puerile.
Data says that Federation vessls encountered Tamarian vessels 7 times over 100 years, each meeting without incident, but that communication "was not possible". Captain Silvestri called them "incomprehensible", and other accounts were similar. So, it seems that the Federation does know about them.
The last one of those was destroyed some time ago.
So the idea that the black plague was primarily spread among humans enzootically is hardy groundbreaking epidemiology. It certainly doesn't mean that it's not dangerous to live in a place infested with plague-ridden rats. But the shift to enzootic transmission is something that's a bit different from the mosquito or tick borne diseases or occasional, isolated epizootic plague infections we're largely familiar with today.
What I don't quite get is, if the plague was spread from human to human, how anyone survived. It seems to have spready readily, and killed pretty much everyone who got it, so how did anyone live past it? They didn't know about micro-organisms back then so presumably quarantining wasn't an idea they had; they probably just thought God was striking a bunch of people down. Or did 30% of the population just have immunity to it?
Yeah, Darmok is a fun ep to watch, the the plot is a joke.
1) If the universal translator can translate certain things as nouns, verbs, and adjectives ("Shaka, when the walls fell", "Temba, his arms wide"), then their language must surely contain nouns, verbs, and adjectives. The whole plot is supposed to be that it doesn't, and that they use proper nouns for everything.
2) Even if they did use proper nouns as a byword/metaphor for everything, those proper nouns would quickly become improper nouns. Hell may have been considered an actual place, but nowadays a saying like "This place is hell" indicates that it is simply interpreted as an improper noun or an adjective, no matter its etymological roots. The universal translator frequently picks up new alien languages and translates them to perfect English instantly, but it can't figure this out?
3) The viewer figures out full well that the aliens are using proper nouns (along with "when the walls fell" *AHEM*) as metaphors for sadness, failure, generosity, etc. after 5 minutes. Picard figures it out after 10. Apparently, this had all the Federations top scientists perplexed for years. Yeah, right.
Yeah, and Yahoo! are the perfect guys to be less abusive.
Populous wasn't "extremely tedious", at least not until you'd played it for a long time, after which most games become tedious. It was fun gaming for its time, with hundreds of worlds to try and win.
I agree, this is a serious cop-out on Carter's part. Either you think the info shouldn't have been released and Snowden should be prosecuted, or you think it's good that it was and therefore he shouldn't be. It's inconsistent and pathetic to take the benefit of the data leak and yet support the punishment of the person(s) who gave you that benefit anyway.
In my mind both of these 'artists' are disgusting and are serving no purpose to promoting beneficial forward progress in our society.
The freedom to express oneself how one wants despite people thinking that it "serves no purpose to promoting beneficial forward progress in our society" IS a benefit in and of itself. It's a good thing for society that people are allowed to do that.
To try to pretend that it does not exist is foolish and will not send a message other than "look how PC".
To be fair, there is a whole category of gaming called "PC gaming".
Duke Nukem only has one fucking character you can play as. What are they supposed to do, have a "Duke's sexual preference selection" screen before starting and design a storyline that can totally change based on that? Give me a break.
There's no crocoduck. You can't explain that!
Not really a desirable compromise, because how many people actually watch those bullshit preaching channels compared to primetime TV?
Equal time for scientific views in church sermons and preachings, now that would be a sweet deal.
Install SeaMonkey and use my theme and addon to get it looking and Feeling like Firefox 3.
Yeah. I dunno who developed that Classic Theme Restorer, but good luck to 'em. They'll need it. I gave up on FF and switched to SeaMonkey's browser ages ago because that addon is basically having to overhaul the entire UI to restore what was there before - the UX people don't give a shit about what long-term users want, or customizability. If the developer of that addon wants to plow their life into maintaining it through all the constant changes that Firefox gets, against the will of the Firefox UX people, I don't know where they get their time. :-)
I have to say, it still puzzles me that Google offer all this stuff for free (as in beer). Getting information on you doesn't seem like enough of a payback for all the time and money invested in development and infrastructure needed for a reliable service like Google Docs.
I hate to be snarky, but did it ever wind up?
That was how you charged the battery, wasn't it?