I don't think I have used a stamp since the 90s and I could get by just fine if the USPS just made a monthly visit to my house, instead of daily. All they do is bring me crap I have to pay to dispose of (and it all DOES go into the trash on my way back from the mail box).
The reason extensions are irrelevant is that I can get the same type of functionality with Chrome's extensions, but sans the performance issues. Eventually, I could only make excuses for it for so long before I couldn't tolerate it.
As for Firefox's responsiveness - that is almost certainly a function of the browser. Perhaps I am a heavier user of it than most people, but it will inevitably grind to a halt the longer you run it. I don't use Firefox on Linux or Solaris, but I can speak to this being the way it behaves on OSX and Windows (XP, Vista, and 7) across multiple machines over multiple years, whether running on SSD or not. Chrome, on the other hand, has never behaved this way. No hitches, no hangups, no stalling, no "application is not responding" and no crashing. Firefox does this even when it is the only application operating. The longer it runs, the more memory it uses and the more likely it is to behave this way and only restarting the browser will resolve it.
And 3) memory management - whatever the excuse - continues to be shit all these years later, while the same browsing behavior on Chrome does not result in hanging and crashing.
It _is_ a problem on your average desktop. In fact, it's a problem on your high-end desktop.
I switched to Chrome, as of Firefox 9. I worked at Netscape in the 90s, so it was not a switch I made lightly, due to my Mozilla loyalty. The difference between the two (on multiple machines, across multiple versions, with multiple operating systems) is that on a system with 12gb of RAM and one to two dozen tabs (just averaging, here), Firefox grinds to a halt. It starts hanging/beach-balling. Eventually, it gets to the point where every action you take results in the OS saying the application isn't responding for ten to sixty seconds. Click a tab, hangs. Scroll. Hangs. Type in a text box. Hangs. Type in a new URL? Hangs. Click on a link? Hangs. Same type of surfing and extensions on Chrome? Never hangs. Never crashes.
All the "we don't have memory leaks" or "we have memory leaks, but *here is why*" or "well, it's because of evil extensions!" in the world is irrelevant, when _it_just_works_ for your competitor. Whatever the explanation or justification for Firefox's experienced problems, the counter is that _Chrome_works_.
I figure I gave Firefox enough time to get its shit together. It had problems in 3x (2x, too, probably - but that was so long ago I don't really even remember what my 2x experience was like). So I waited for 3.6. Then I waited for 4x. Then I waited for 5x. Then 6x. Then 7x. Then 8x. Then 9x. After like 8 major point releases over four years, I've stopped waiting and moved on.
It isn't a war on Osama. It's war (well, not actual war as we haven't had one since WWII) on terror. As soon as terror signs a peace treaty with us and surrenders, we'll get back to all that stupid freedom garbage. Any day now, surely. Pick an enemy that you can fight indefinitely and have all the time in the world to shape the country as you see fit under the threat of "terror".
That makes absolutely no sense. If they weren't caving to censorship, they wouldn't need to split it up by country. The only reason they need to do it this way is BECAUSE they are caving in to censorship, because it's more important to grow a company into more markets than to take a principaled stand on behalf of consumers and just plain people.
Also, I'm still having a hard time quite understanding how this is any different than the extra content you got if you bought Mass Effect 2, LA Noire or any other number of games in the last two or three years that come with a redeemable pass so that you get one or more pieces of DLC as part of the purchase that wouldn't be part of the resale?
If it's taking out actual parts of the game, then that is fucked. If it's just DLC that they said "hey, if you bought it brand new, here's a code so you get that first DLC for free" then, well, I don't like it, but it's nothing new at all.
Yes. Take it and like it or shut the hell up. Who do you think you are voicing your opinion to a business? A customer or potential customer? How dare you guys!
1) Is the content really and truly _additional_ or is it yoinked from the single player campaign in such a way that it's necessary to really have it for the experience?
2) What happens when you want to let someone else play it? I have enough of a problem short-circuiting the used market -- which is an entirely fair market to be allowed to exist like it does with every other product -- but preventing people from letting a spouse or another sibling or roommate play without putting up another $10 or $20 would seriously anger me, as a player.
Of course, this is all going to be irrelevant once we move to digital. If you have two kids in your household, you're going to have to buy two games. If you and your spouse both want to play a game, you're going to have to buy two of them. You know, kind of the way you have to buy four copies of the Monopoly board game at the store, if you want to play that with three other players....
News items based on something said or released on Twitter are a lot like news stories where your source is "people familiar with the matter" and I disregard them as such.
Twitter has two uses: Attention Whoring (by teens and by professional bloggers who care about bullshit like their "Klout score") and businesses that use it essentially as a press release mechanism.
In America, this is called SEE SOMETHING; SAY SOMETHING, where you report anything suspicious, like a brown person walking around. But you don't do it for money. You do it because the lady on the television and at the checkout stand at Wallmart on the little video monitor demands that you do it FOR ZE MOTHERLAND.
Three to five wasted years. What's the point of taking three to five years of French or German (usually the only two languages other than Spanish that are available in high school courses) so that you can speak the language for that one trip you save up for so you can spend two weeks in France in your entire life?
Being able to speak another language is terrific, but it's a real waste of time that could be spent on something else that you will actually use most of your life; not just forget by your mid twenties, because you never have a need to speak it.
Also, I'm pretty sure American high school students aren't required to take *five* years of a foreign language, since high school only consists of four grades (9th, 10th, 11th, 12th).
Kate Murphy writes that as cellphones have gotten smarter, they have become less like phones and more like computers,
Really? Did she come up with that all by herself? I don't think I've heard the "cell phones are becoming more like little computers" line before in the last ten years. Boy, they better keep this one on the payroll. Pulitzer, here she comes!
Yeah, since I'm neither a twelve year old girl nor a "professional blogger", I'll probably just continue to not use the shitty service. They can do what they like with it and those who don't like the changes will maybe get a clue and move on to something less fucking inane.
Actually, the START of the battle was two or three years ago. At the most lenient, the start of the battle was at least a YEAR ago, when the fact that ACTA was being worked on in secret (and partly by our president, who promised his would be the most open administration!) was exposed to the public.
It's great that people are all freaking out about this in the last few days before ACTA is being signed, but WHERE THE FUCK WAS EVERYONE FOR THE LAST 12+ MONTHS?! I'd been bringing ACTA up to people over most of this time and they just returned with dumb blank stares.
This isn't a mere issue of "we made a game in the same genre!" or "we evolved the idea sufficiently enough to be different". This is an issue of saying "we took The Office and changed Michael's name and called it The Workplace".
I believe Tiny Tower was the #1 official iPhone game of 2011. I don't really know that they needed the marketing. What they need is to take Zynga to court. And what needs to happen to Zynga is that they need to be held accountable, rather than being treated like valley innovators and having dinners at the whitehouse.
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I don't think I have used a stamp since the 90s and I could get by just fine if the USPS just made a monthly visit to my house, instead of daily. All they do is bring me crap I have to pay to dispose of (and it all DOES go into the trash on my way back from the mail box).
Instead of a strong space program pushing our species into space to fulfill that hope-filled drive to explore, we're going to give you a stamp.
The reason extensions are irrelevant is that I can get the same type of functionality with Chrome's extensions, but sans the performance issues. Eventually, I could only make excuses for it for so long before I couldn't tolerate it.
As for Firefox's responsiveness - that is almost certainly a function of the browser. Perhaps I am a heavier user of it than most people, but it will inevitably grind to a halt the longer you run it. I don't use Firefox on Linux or Solaris, but I can speak to this being the way it behaves on OSX and Windows (XP, Vista, and 7) across multiple machines over multiple years, whether running on SSD or not. Chrome, on the other hand, has never behaved this way. No hitches, no hangups, no stalling, no "application is not responding" and no crashing. Firefox does this even when it is the only application operating. The longer it runs, the more memory it uses and the more likely it is to behave this way and only restarting the browser will resolve it.
And 3) memory management - whatever the excuse - continues to be shit all these years later, while the same browsing behavior on Chrome does not result in hanging and crashing.
It _is_ a problem on your average desktop. In fact, it's a problem on your high-end desktop.
I switched to Chrome, as of Firefox 9. I worked at Netscape in the 90s, so it was not a switch I made lightly, due to my Mozilla loyalty. The difference between the two (on multiple machines, across multiple versions, with multiple operating systems) is that on a system with 12gb of RAM and one to two dozen tabs (just averaging, here), Firefox grinds to a halt. It starts hanging/beach-balling. Eventually, it gets to the point where every action you take results in the OS saying the application isn't responding for ten to sixty seconds. Click a tab, hangs. Scroll. Hangs. Type in a text box. Hangs. Type in a new URL? Hangs. Click on a link? Hangs. Same type of surfing and extensions on Chrome? Never hangs. Never crashes.
All the "we don't have memory leaks" or "we have memory leaks, but *here is why*" or "well, it's because of evil extensions!" in the world is irrelevant, when _it_just_works_ for your competitor. Whatever the explanation or justification for Firefox's experienced problems, the counter is that _Chrome_works_.
I figure I gave Firefox enough time to get its shit together. It had problems in 3x (2x, too, probably - but that was so long ago I don't really even remember what my 2x experience was like). So I waited for 3.6. Then I waited for 4x. Then I waited for 5x. Then 6x. Then 7x. Then 8x. Then 9x. After like 8 major point releases over four years, I've stopped waiting and moved on.
It isn't a war on Osama. It's war (well, not actual war as we haven't had one since WWII) on terror. As soon as terror signs a peace treaty with us and surrenders, we'll get back to all that stupid freedom garbage. Any day now, surely. Pick an enemy that you can fight indefinitely and have all the time in the world to shape the country as you see fit under the threat of "terror".
Yeah, your super-mega-corp-ISP will never cave!
That makes absolutely no sense. If they weren't caving to censorship, they wouldn't need to split it up by country. The only reason they need to do it this way is BECAUSE they are caving in to censorship, because it's more important to grow a company into more markets than to take a principaled stand on behalf of consumers and just plain people.
Same here. Why would anyone be surprised that a data center that serves about one billion people uses more power than a county with less than 20,000?
SEE SOMETHING; SAY SOMETHING
Also, I'm still having a hard time quite understanding how this is any different than the extra content you got if you bought Mass Effect 2, LA Noire or any other number of games in the last two or three years that come with a redeemable pass so that you get one or more pieces of DLC as part of the purchase that wouldn't be part of the resale?
If it's taking out actual parts of the game, then that is fucked. If it's just DLC that they said "hey, if you bought it brand new, here's a code so you get that first DLC for free" then, well, I don't like it, but it's nothing new at all.
Yes. Take it and like it or shut the hell up. Who do you think you are voicing your opinion to a business? A customer or potential customer? How dare you guys!
My main concerns would be:
1) Is the content really and truly _additional_ or is it yoinked from the single player campaign in such a way that it's necessary to really have it for the experience?
2) What happens when you want to let someone else play it? I have enough of a problem short-circuiting the used market -- which is an entirely fair market to be allowed to exist like it does with every other product -- but preventing people from letting a spouse or another sibling or roommate play without putting up another $10 or $20 would seriously anger me, as a player.
Of course, this is all going to be irrelevant once we move to digital. If you have two kids in your household, you're going to have to buy two games. If you and your spouse both want to play a game, you're going to have to buy two of them. You know, kind of the way you have to buy four copies of the Monopoly board game at the store, if you want to play that with three other players....
News items based on something said or released on Twitter are a lot like news stories where your source is "people familiar with the matter" and I disregard them as such.
Twitter has two uses: Attention Whoring (by teens and by professional bloggers who care about bullshit like their "Klout score") and businesses that use it essentially as a press release mechanism.
Neither of which hold any interest for me.
In America, this is called SEE SOMETHING; SAY SOMETHING, where you report anything suspicious, like a brown person walking around. But you don't do it for money. You do it because the lady on the television and at the checkout stand at Wallmart on the little video monitor demands that you do it FOR ZE MOTHERLAND.
Oh man. You are going to shit yourself when you find out about broadband and social networking.
Three to five wasted years. What's the point of taking three to five years of French or German (usually the only two languages other than Spanish that are available in high school courses) so that you can speak the language for that one trip you save up for so you can spend two weeks in France in your entire life?
Being able to speak another language is terrific, but it's a real waste of time that could be spent on something else that you will actually use most of your life; not just forget by your mid twenties, because you never have a need to speak it.
Also, I'm pretty sure American high school students aren't required to take *five* years of a foreign language, since high school only consists of four grades (9th, 10th, 11th, 12th).
I'm pretty sure English *IS* the native language of the Slashdot editors.
Kate Murphy writes that as cellphones have gotten smarter, they have become less like phones and more like computers,
Really? Did she come up with that all by herself? I don't think I've heard the "cell phones are becoming more like little computers" line before in the last ten years. Boy, they better keep this one on the payroll. Pulitzer, here she comes!
Yeah, since I'm neither a twelve year old girl nor a "professional blogger", I'll probably just continue to not use the shitty service. They can do what they like with it and those who don't like the changes will maybe get a clue and move on to something less fucking inane.
Actually, the START of the battle was two or three years ago. At the most lenient, the start of the battle was at least a YEAR ago, when the fact that ACTA was being worked on in secret (and partly by our president, who promised his would be the most open administration!) was exposed to the public.
It's great that people are all freaking out about this in the last few days before ACTA is being signed, but WHERE THE FUCK WAS EVERYONE FOR THE LAST 12+ MONTHS?! I'd been bringing ACTA up to people over most of this time and they just returned with dumb blank stares.
I have a reference book with every pill known to man listed in it, but that doesn't make me a pharmacist.
This isn't a mere issue of "we made a game in the same genre!" or "we evolved the idea sufficiently enough to be different". This is an issue of saying "we took The Office and changed Michael's name and called it The Workplace".
I believe Tiny Tower was the #1 official iPhone game of 2011. I don't really know that they needed the marketing. What they need is to take Zynga to court. And what needs to happen to Zynga is that they need to be held accountable, rather than being treated like valley innovators and having dinners at the whitehouse.
Except if you hate gay people, brown people, non-Christian people, science, people of a different political philosophy, or fat people.