While there are extensions out there that need work to be brought up to speed to work with Firefox 3, a lot of them simply need to have their maxversion updated in the XPI file's install manifest - install.rdf. Obviously, it'd be better for the original developer to do this, but if you don't feel like waiting and aren't afraid of editing a configuration file, you can always do it yourself.
Yeah, the standard. If your shitty http engine is too shitty to process html without having to look up the DTD on the w3c's website every single page, your shitty http engine shouldn't be allowed out on the internet.
Good and jolly bacon bits, please mod parent up. I realize that their comment might come off as harsh, but crap, come on. If one is building an application, would one really want to have to connect to a website to get instructions on how to read a filetype? Especially when all it would take it a single wget and including those instructions with the application to avoid all of this.
Furthermore, it would seem that the process of reading a file would be far faster if the processing instructions were on the local file system rather than on a remote host. If one were really worried about changes to the instructions, one could code a routine to update the DTD whenever the application is updated; if the app isn't such that *would* be updated, one could always have it run a diff against the W3C's DTD every few months - after it's been standardized, it's not like the DTD is going to change on a daily basis. While not a complete cure, it'd still be far more considerate to the W3C's bandwidth than hitting it every request, or even every time a program is started.
Honestly, I wouldn't blame them if they 302'd the file to a page that, upon CAPTCHA'd request, made the file temporarily available for download, so that vendors could fix their broken software. They're obviously far more considerate and forgiving people than I - and, I suspect, many of you fellow Slashdotters - tend to be.
As long as you're only sending email - you'll have a great comcast experience.
No, you won't. They block port 25, forcing you to use them for mail relays. This affects those who don't want Comcast to see their mails, and where the recipient can't receive encrypted email but is behind a mail server that supports TLS, so the emails will be sent encrypted over the internet. That won't work -- Comcast forces you to relay through them, and they get to copy and read your outgoing mail (and hand it over to who knows).
We are all just average people. With a little bit of shitcock syndrome now or then, but still. I have to disagree here:/b/-tards are many things, but "average" is not one of them.:D
god damn it i hate poor people
If the above is correct, then I honestly pity you. Being born into a low-income family, regardless of race or religion, does not prevent one from having common sense, nor does it prevent one from being intelligent. The smart ones? They generally find a way to escape poverty, once they have a chance to. And they are often better people for having done so.
and the people who make excuses for them.
Now this I can get behind, admittedly with less anger, as excuses don't fix things. Actions do.
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? if you can figure out how to use your dick, you can figure out how to put on a condom.
Have you stopped to consider that the issue might not be figuring out how to use protection, so much as being taught - in no uncertain terms - exactly why it's necessary in the first place? And if they are teaching it, maybe they need to step it up a bit - even if that means subjecting students to viewing the results of the typical safe=off google image search. After viewing something like (NSFW!) this (NSFW!), they might understand that they're not being lectured for the fun of it.
Granted, I might be feeding a troll, but since it's completely possible you weren't just snarking off to pour gas on a fire, I figured replying would be a better use of my time than just selecting "-1 Flamebait".
Delicious.
Good point. If Microsoft does wind up owning them, those who use del.icio.us might want to consider hosting their own bookmarks. The basic functionality is not that difficult to write, especially using a high-level framework. Django and django-tagging spring to mind, but the concept would be the same for any language or framework.
Would you like to buy one of my patented tinfoil nightcaps? Nah, I'll stick with velostat headgear for now - it appears to still be working, since I haven't been abducted by grey people while wearing it. (:
Shh! This could wind up as yet another way for companies to get their pound of flesh - if you let everyone know, soon it'll be common for employment contracts to lay claim to (the other?) 90% of their employees' dreams.
Hopefully 3.0 will fix that, but for the meantime I'll stick with Safari.
I'm using Firefox 3.0 Beta 2 right now, and thus far, it's way, way snappier than 2.0.x. Perhaps a better example of the improved performance and memory handling: this particular process has been up for 11 days, and is still quite responsive.:D
common as Macs continue to grow in popularity. Malicious code tends to gravitate towards the largest user base (more targets), and Apple's market share (or perhaps, more importantly, positive PR) is growing at a decent rate. I'm surprised that it hasn't happened sooner.
The same could happen to Linux, (Free|Open|Net)BSD, etc. All it takes is an uneducated* user behind the console, and Linux's drive to take on the desktop makes that all the more likely.
* I mean uneducated in the security sense. You can be highly intelligent, have 3 PhD's, and still not know a thing about what downloads to avoid. We can't know everything about everything, after all.
It's ashame the PS3 is so much a lame duck. Every part of it seems like it was invented by someone who either isn't human or doesn't live in human society. The menus and hardware doodads are so counterintuitive even the biggest geeks I know have to ask for the manual. I have to disagree with that. Their menus and configuration screens seem plenty intuitive to me, and snagging an IP from my wireless router was a breeze. I didn't touch the manual until I'd finished setting up, as I wanted to make certain that I hadn't missed anything.
Only certain versions of Firefox are that bad. I've had this copy of FF 3 beta 2 open for half an hour and it's still under 40 MB. I've even had other tabs open and closed them, and the extra memory went back to the OS. But yes, the 2.0.0.x line, especially from.8 to.10, hoard memory like squirrels storing nuts for winter. Agreed. This copy of FF 3 beta 1 has been open for like 34 hours, and is hovering at around an average of 16 MB. They're definitely well on their way to fixing the most annoying FF bug I've experienced.:D
Why isn't Google pushing a billion dollars into Croquet development, or building something better? They could be waiting for someone to build something better, so that they can buy it and / or hire the developers. Google has been known to do that, in the past.
Wow, I think you came up with a replacement for the Three Laws. With those 10 rules, no man will ever be harmed again.
Right up until a jealous woman figures out how to hack the thing and replace the "compliment male's equipment" subroutine with the "emergency! close all entrances." function call. (:
Right on. Don't put up with too crap. Especially if you are younger, they'll bully you into bending over for them. Also live your real life without Office on your computer.
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No Office, No Open Office even, no remote desktop, VNC, or other workarounds.
Right, because it's more hip to track your income and purchases using sticky notes. Does Leopard come with overdraft protection? (;
In short, I don't think Windows' footprint and mediocre (or negative) performance gains is due to bad coding as much as it's a direct result of institutional culture. It's a good example of what can happen to any product or project if performance isn't a key consideration, and particularly if it takes a back seat to featuritis.
I agree. One should also consider the potential repercussions that this has for Linux users. If Microsoft pushes the purchase of newer, faster hardware, and consumers react to this goad and buy the crap out of it, this eventually lowers the price of the hardware, not to mention that of slightly less beefy hardware that runs perfectly fine with *nix on top of it.
So, in a way, aren't those of us who are *nix only actually benefiting from this practice?
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That's why I'm curious as to why Django (Python framework) doesn't get more press. It's fast and, unlike Rails, it's been proven to scale (ie washingtonpost.com). The languages have more similarities than differences, so it can't be that. Better marketing/hype, maybe?
I think you hit the nail on its head. Django fricken rocks, in my experience, in both speed and usability.
It just doesn't have the hype engine going for it the way RoR does. It's for this reason that I'm hoping the Perl on Rails thing that the BBC wrote gets some momentum - the MCV/MTV approach is a Good Thing, for web-based development. It's not a change in language, so much as a change in how it's laid out. One must note that CGI::Application (found here) has existed for Perl for quite some time, and yet very few people (even Perl programmers) know about it, in comparison to RoR.
I do have to note that, having had experience with both Perl and Python, Ruby isn't bad at all. It's different in some ways, yeah, but so is Java, or C++, or C#. It's more a matter of taste, for a developer.
Or rather, since I haven't been keeping up with the development process, perhaps I should ask, is there a viable apache 2.x module for ruby that allows one to run RoR sites without relying on mongrel/other web servers?
Because, frankly, if it can't be run on apache 2.x, I (and the company I work for) won't touch it. We have already seen the scalability nightmare that RoR was, of course, so obviously we're a bit skeptical about performance optimizations. (:
Note: I have nothing against using new technology, even if it requires learning a new language, but when one has a hundreds of sites that require web server A, and a framework requires the shoehorning of web server B, well, the aforementioned framework loses its appeal.
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While there are extensions out there that need work to be brought up to speed to work with Firefox 3, a lot of them simply need to have their maxversion updated in the XPI file's install manifest - install.rdf. Obviously, it'd be better for the original developer to do this, but if you don't feel like waiting and aren't afraid of editing a configuration file, you can always do it yourself.
More information can be found here.
Yeah, the standard. If your shitty http engine is too shitty to process html without having to look up the DTD on the w3c's website every single page, your shitty http engine shouldn't be allowed out on the internet.
Good and jolly bacon bits, please mod parent up. I realize that their comment might come off as harsh, but crap, come on. If one is building an application, would one really want to have to connect to a website to get instructions on how to read a filetype? Especially when all it would take it a single wget and including those instructions with the application to avoid all of this.
Furthermore, it would seem that the process of reading a file would be far faster if the processing instructions were on the local file system rather than on a remote host. If one were really worried about changes to the instructions, one could code a routine to update the DTD whenever the application is updated; if the app isn't such that *would* be updated, one could always have it run a diff against the W3C's DTD every few months - after it's been standardized, it's not like the DTD is going to change on a daily basis. While not a complete cure, it'd still be far more considerate to the W3C's bandwidth than hitting it every request, or even every time a program is started.
Honestly, I wouldn't blame them if they 302'd the file to a page that, upon CAPTCHA'd request, made the file temporarily available for download, so that vendors could fix their broken software. They're obviously far more considerate and forgiving people than I - and, I suspect, many of you fellow Slashdotters - tend to be.
*puts on flame-resistant suit*
No, you won't. They block port 25, forcing you to use them for mail relays. This affects those who don't want Comcast to see their mails, and where the recipient can't receive encrypted email but is behind a mail server that supports TLS, so the emails will be sent encrypted over the internet. That won't work -- Comcast forces you to relay through them, and they get to copy and read your outgoing mail (and hand it over to who knows).
Luckily, gmail still uses 587/TLS.
If the above is correct, then I honestly pity you. Being born into a low-income family, regardless of race or religion, does not prevent one from having common sense, nor does it prevent one from being intelligent. The smart ones? They generally find a way to escape poverty, once they have a chance to. And they are often better people for having done so. and the people who make excuses for them.
Now this I can get behind, admittedly with less anger, as excuses don't fix things. Actions do.
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? if you can figure out how to use your dick, you can figure out how to put on a condom.
Have you stopped to consider that the issue might not be figuring out how to use protection, so much as being taught - in no uncertain terms - exactly why it's necessary in the first place? And if they are teaching it, maybe they need to step it up a bit - even if that means subjecting students to viewing the results of the typical safe=off google image search. After viewing something like (NSFW!) this (NSFW!), they might understand that they're not being lectured for the fun of it.
Granted, I might be feeding a troll, but since it's completely possible you weren't just snarking off to pour gas on a fire, I figured replying would be a better use of my time than just selecting "-1 Flamebait".
Good point. If Microsoft does wind up owning them, those who use del.icio.us might want to consider hosting their own bookmarks. The basic functionality is not that difficult to write, especially using a high-level framework. Django and django-tagging spring to mind, but the concept would be the same for any language or framework.
Shh! This could wind up as yet another way for companies to get their pound of flesh - if you let everyone know, soon it'll be common for employment contracts to lay claim to (the other?) 90% of their employees' dreams.
Good point, there. Does anyone recall which BBS software did this?
Well, wouldn't you be? It's a giant bird!
Best. Cannon fodder. Ever.
I'm using Firefox 3.0 Beta 2 right now, and thus far, it's way, way snappier than 2.0.x. Perhaps a better example of the improved performance and memory handling: this particular process has been up for 11 days, and is still quite responsive.
I bet they'd feel really silly after finding out all they needed was a better pair of shoes. (:
common as Macs continue to grow in popularity. Malicious code tends to gravitate towards the largest user base (more targets), and Apple's market share (or perhaps, more importantly, positive PR) is growing at a decent rate. I'm surprised that it hasn't happened sooner.
The same could happen to Linux, (Free|Open|Net)BSD, etc. All it takes is an uneducated* user behind the console, and Linux's drive to take on the desktop makes that all the more likely.
* I mean uneducated in the security sense. You can be highly intelligent, have 3 PhD's, and still not know a thing about what downloads to avoid. We can't know everything about everything, after all.
Honestly, I'm not that much of a hermit. (:
Right up until a jealous woman figures out how to hack the thing and replace the "compliment male's equipment" subroutine with the "emergency! close all entrances." function call. (:
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No Office, No Open Office even, no remote desktop, VNC, or other workarounds.
Right, because it's more hip to track your income and purchases using sticky notes. Does Leopard come with overdraft protection? (;
I agree. One should also consider the potential repercussions that this has for Linux users. If Microsoft pushes the purchase of newer, faster hardware, and consumers react to this goad and buy the crap out of it, this eventually lowers the price of the hardware, not to mention that of slightly less beefy hardware that runs perfectly fine with *nix on top of it.
So, in a way, aren't those of us who are *nix only actually benefiting from this practice?
Food for thought.
:D
I think you hit the nail on its head. Django fricken rocks, in my experience, in both speed and usability.
It just doesn't have the hype engine going for it the way RoR does. It's for this reason that I'm hoping the Perl on Rails thing that the BBC wrote gets some momentum - the MCV/MTV approach is a Good Thing, for web-based development. It's not a change in language, so much as a change in how it's laid out. One must note that CGI::Application (found here) has existed for Perl for quite some time, and yet very few people (even Perl programmers) know about it, in comparison to RoR.
I do have to note that, having had experience with both Perl and Python, Ruby isn't bad at all. It's different in some ways, yeah, but so is Java, or C++, or C#. It's more a matter of taste, for a developer.
And scalability. (:
Or rather, since I haven't been keeping up with the development process, perhaps I should ask, is there a viable apache 2.x module for ruby that allows one to run RoR sites without relying on mongrel/other web servers?
Because, frankly, if it can't be run on apache 2.x, I (and the company I work for) won't touch it. We have already seen the scalability nightmare that RoR was, of course, so obviously we're a bit skeptical about performance optimizations. (:
Note: I have nothing against using new technology, even if it requires learning a new language, but when one has a hundreds of sites that require web server A, and a framework requires the shoehorning of web server B, well, the aforementioned framework loses its appeal.
Wow I wish I had mod points... Mod parent up, please!