There's two issues, performance and the user interface.
As far as the UI is concerned, what it looks like is Mozilla has opted to support people with a very linear lifestyle. They want a few pages, they want to look at them one at a time, and they want them available everywhere. If the world had started out on cell-phones, all browsers might look like this. To my mind, this is a step backwards. It’s like the browsers of the 90’s, only with synch. If you look at the links on a new tab, in a revived speed dial (only one tab, not multiple), on the library menu, all of them are pushing pages you looked at recently. It's no longer easy to open multiple tabs, which lowers my productivity -- at least until I get some new workarounds.
As far as performance is concerned, it's a mixed bag. Yes, single pages load faster. Yes, the memory footprint is lower (but I haven't stressed it yet). However, I used to be able to open 20+ tabs at one time, and when I try that now, FF hangs. I get all the pages, but they are blank. So I'm working my way through the process....3 pages?....5 pages?.... The thing is, raw performance was never an issue with me (not that they asked). I'll have pages open for 15-20 minutes, and if they take an extra minute to load, that's OK
My biggest gripe is, they didn't ask. They decided, and forced their decision on me. Am I going to ragequit? Not....yet.
I think it was Robert X. Cringely who compared personal user data to toxic waste. You don't ever want to produce it. If you do produce it, it's your responsibility forever because you don't know where an undiscovered drum of it is hiding. If it touches something, that something becomes toxic also. Finally, the legal implications of it getting out into public are capable of destroying your company.
One of the photos is of an active test at the site (seen from a distance), and there's a link to a Russian news release that says (google translation):
" The engine number A165 has been successfully fire tested: December 8th, 2011 at booth number 1-751 NEC JSC "NPO Energomash them. Academician VP Glushko "took LPS engine RD171M number A165 for" Zenit ". The test is successful, the comments on the process of testing have arisen. This was the last fire-LPS in the past year. "
So, it's an active test facility
When I went there with my Opera browser, it said it couldn't rate it. So I used Opera's site preferences to lie to the site and tell it I was using IE (version unspecified). I then got a rating of 4/4. So even a fake IE is better than none.
Roughly 16,000 people were killed by automobiles in the first six months of this year. Roughly 22,000 were killed by preventable medical errors. If we crashed two or three 747s per week, we still wouldn't be at that level of deaths. If the money we waste on TSA were spent elsewhere, we'd be ahead of the game.
If my experience is any guide (two different PC's with OEM installs flagged as pirated), the false positive rate on the WGA is so high that a significant number of legal users will be blocked. It's OK to be hard-nosed, with zero tolerance, as long as you make zero mistakes. WGA isn't even close.
This is just a restatement of Ashbey's Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ross_Ashby
which can also be restated as "Every Good Regulator of a System Must be a Model of that System"
Here's a link to extracts from one of the original studies:
http://downlode.org/Etext/WIPP/.
Beck mentions them, but only gives a trivial example.
On the other hand, if I recall correctly, one of the local Native American tribes said something like: "You don't need signs. If people wander into the area 10K years from now, we will warn them for you."
Riding with passengers can easily add 600lb to the weight of the car. Cutting down on passengers, and providing special lanes for single-occupancy vehicles will do wonders for our mileage.
I understand some companies already make boxes with motherboards and hard drives in them and everything, and they sit on your desk like a big tower, and they're not portable so hardly anyone ever steals them. You could see if your notebook maker has a section that sells specialty items like that...
It gets worse. If you double up the word 'recovery' - data recovery solid state drives recovery - the first two google results point to this discussion.
In fact, when you compare the blog item with the Boston Globe article, you find that the Globe makes no mention of the linked.pdf with the "guidelines" in it. Those are from a document intended for government employees, and make no sense when you try to apply them to academia. What the Globe mentions are suggestions that profs secure their laptops when overseas, and that they know who they are talking when they talk about high tech work with defense applications.
This assumes you are carrying all your fuel/oxidizer from the start. Two proposals I have seen operate by (a) doing a standard takeoff and then air2air refueling (Black Horse?), or (b) using a turbine/scramjet/rocket combo and extracting liquid oxygen from the air to be used in the rocket phase (NASP).
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There's two issues, performance and the user interface. As far as the UI is concerned, what it looks like is Mozilla has opted to support people with a very linear lifestyle. They want a few pages, they want to look at them one at a time, and they want them available everywhere. If the world had started out on cell-phones, all browsers might look like this. To my mind, this is a step backwards. It’s like the browsers of the 90’s, only with synch. If you look at the links on a new tab, in a revived speed dial (only one tab, not multiple), on the library menu, all of them are pushing pages you looked at recently. It's no longer easy to open multiple tabs, which lowers my productivity -- at least until I get some new workarounds. As far as performance is concerned, it's a mixed bag. Yes, single pages load faster. Yes, the memory footprint is lower (but I haven't stressed it yet). However, I used to be able to open 20+ tabs at one time, and when I try that now, FF hangs. I get all the pages, but they are blank. So I'm working my way through the process....3 pages?....5 pages?.... The thing is, raw performance was never an issue with me (not that they asked). I'll have pages open for 15-20 minutes, and if they take an extra minute to load, that's OK My biggest gripe is, they didn't ask. They decided, and forced their decision on me. Am I going to ragequit? Not....yet.
Pop over to the Do the Math blog. With current energy growth, somewhere between 400 and 500 years from now, the oceans start to boil. http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/07/galactic-scale-energy/
I think it was Robert X. Cringely who compared personal user data to toxic waste. You don't ever want to produce it. If you do produce it, it's your responsibility forever because you don't know where an undiscovered drum of it is hiding. If it touches something, that something becomes toxic also. Finally, the legal implications of it getting out into public are capable of destroying your company.
One of the photos is of an active test at the site (seen from a distance), and there's a link to a Russian news release that says (google translation): " The engine number A165 has been successfully fire tested: December 8th, 2011 at booth number 1-751 NEC JSC "NPO Energomash them. Academician VP Glushko "took LPS engine RD171M number A165 for" Zenit ". The test is successful, the comments on the process of testing have arisen. This was the last fire-LPS in the past year. " So, it's an active test facility
When I went there with my Opera browser, it said it couldn't rate it. So I used Opera's site preferences to lie to the site and tell it I was using IE (version unspecified). I then got a rating of 4/4. So even a fake IE is better than none.
Oregon trail. Learn history and epidemiology.
....if only we can convert other cells to electrons, and link them up.
You're holding it wrong
Hundreds of rubles stolen from residents
Don't blur faces. Don't blur the top of NSA HQ, just stick an ad up there.
Roughly 16,000 people were killed by automobiles in the first six months of this year. Roughly 22,000 were killed by preventable medical errors. If we crashed two or three 747s per week, we still wouldn't be at that level of deaths. If the money we waste on TSA were spent elsewhere, we'd be ahead of the game.
Can we disable MS's internet access?
If my experience is any guide (two different PC's with OEM installs flagged as pirated), the false positive rate on the WGA is so high that a significant number of legal users will be blocked. It's OK to be hard-nosed, with zero tolerance, as long as you make zero mistakes. WGA isn't even close.
This is just a restatement of Ashbey's Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ross_Ashby which can also be restated as "Every Good Regulator of a System Must be a Model of that System"
...or file handling
I'd suggest pink leotards and toe shoes.
Here's a link to extracts from one of the original studies: http://downlode.org/Etext/WIPP/.
Beck mentions them, but only gives a trivial example.
On the other hand, if I recall correctly, one of the local Native American tribes said something like: "You don't need signs. If people wander into the area 10K years from now, we will warn them for you."
Or, as Justice Scalia said a couple days ago: "Today's decision will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed."
Riding with passengers can easily add 600lb to the weight of the car. Cutting down on passengers, and providing special lanes for single-occupancy vehicles will do wonders for our mileage.
I understand some companies already make boxes with motherboards and hard drives in them and everything, and they sit on your desk like a big tower, and they're not portable so hardly anyone ever steals them. You could see if your notebook maker has a section that sells specialty items like that...
It gets worse. If you double up the word 'recovery' - data recovery solid state drives recovery - the first two google results point to this discussion.
They must be talking about the Novell variant, because isn't BSD Unix FOSS?
In fact, when you compare the blog item with the Boston Globe article, you find that the Globe makes no mention of the linked .pdf with the "guidelines" in it. Those are from a document intended for government employees, and make no sense when you try to apply them to academia. What the Globe mentions are suggestions that profs secure their laptops when overseas, and that they know who they are talking when they talk about high tech work with defense applications.
This assumes you are carrying all your fuel/oxidizer from the start. Two proposals I have seen operate by (a) doing a standard takeoff and then air2air refueling (Black Horse?), or (b) using a turbine/scramjet/rocket combo and extracting liquid oxygen from the air to be used in the rocket phase (NASP).
...and what PEEK and POKE are to Windows.