It is about scope creep in the browser. They are re-implementing what Google, and other search engines, have done. This functionality belongs on a server somewhere, not in a browser.
It would have to be updated constantly based on what new information they want to make queryable. I don't want a Mozilla update every time somebody thinks it would be cool to add searches for bar codes or concert tickets or whatever.
Now, if the developers who are working on this want to make a cool thing like this, then they should go out on a venture and start a web site that does it. Maybe make a plug-in for various browsers. But search capabilities are NOT part of the browser, they are part of a search engine.
Is the problem that Firefox is just so good now that scope creep is the only way we can think of improving it? Maybe it is time to cool off for a while and just fix bugs. Not exciting, but this kind of creep is what leads to forks.
People who will sit and tell me with a straight face that Vista, in their experience, is stable are either very lucky, or Microsoft shills.
See? I can say the opposite, and provide just as much evidence? Do I get modded to 5 as well? Where's your statistics on the stability of Vista? Did it work well for you, therefore, it works well for everyone else?
I worked for a company that bought a laptop of every brand, so that when the higher-ups went into meetings with Dell, HP, Apple, etc. they had laptops that weren't made by a competitor. They have had problems like laptops not starting-up the first time due to incompatible software. That was a recent as 6 months ago. My mother-in-law bought a machine that has plenty of Vista-related problems (audio cutting out, USB devices not working, random crashes in explorer) on new mid-range hardware that came with Vista. But I have a neighbor who found it fixed lots of problems with gaming under XP.
There's plenty of issues. Vista's problems weren't just made-up because you didn't experience them.
Everybody's experience is different. Quit making blanket statements based on nothing.
This is akin to arguing if Han shot first, or how many turtles are holding-up the earth. The descriptions in Genesis are 1 not literal. And the descriptions in Genesis 2 are oversimplifications of something that isn't literal. There are far more important contradictions in the bible than this!
Yes, all liberals are that way. Thanks to whoever modded-up such a blanket political statement. Lets also mod-up replies such as "all Republicans are rich old men", "all Greens are hippies", and "all Slashdotters are male virgins who live at home."
Seriously though, I'm not sure why this surprises everyone. When I walk into my local AT&T store it shows two prices: $199 with contract, $599 without contract. My contract isn't up for another 2 months, so they told me to come back at that point, rather than pay the higher price now.
and the technical people are interested but management types are not.
Why do the management people think they should override a technical recommendation? Do they not trust their staff? Is the staff misrepresenting something?
Technical: Vendor X provides the best quality, most reliable screwdrivers. They come in all the sizes we need. Vendor Y does not provide the sizes we need. Therefore, we recommend Vendor X.
Management: No, use Vendor X.
I'll admit that this does happen sometimes. But usually the problem is either that the technical staff isn't providing a solution that meets the requirements, or they are not properly communicating.
In the case of OSS, I find that technical people often lump OSS into one set of options, and commercial software into another - which sets them up for failure. Ex:
BAD APPROACH: Mr. Boss, our options are Microsoft Exchange or Lotus Notes. Oh, but I like this nice open-source package called OpenGroupware that is totally free and open and...
Make a grid of requirements, list the options, and compare them. The fact that they are OSS might be considered a benefit that weights into the decision. But other than that, the management does not need to know who holds the source code.
BETTER APPROACH: Mr Boss, we have three options. They are: Microsoft Exchange: +1, -1, 0 OpenGroupware: +1, +1, +1 Lotus Notes: -1, -1, 0 -- Each column is a feature/requirement. One of those columns is "source code available" and another might be "community support"
I have enough family members and coworkers with problems, on brand new mid-range to high-end machines, both laptops and desktops, that I will not be switching.
Vista has a beautiful UI, but that UI has nothing to do with my purchase. Same with IE8. I didn't switch to FireFox because it looked better. I use an OS for stability, compatibility, etc. I use a browser for security.
I have yet to see an article headline like "Windows 7: Network and Sound performance problems resolved" or "Windows 7 beta crashes 1/10th as often as Vista" or "Windows 7 performs 47% better on mid-range hardware"
When I see headlines like that, I will be interested. Until then, I run Windows XP on my Macbook so I have an alternate migration path in case Windows 7 turns out to be Vista 1.1
Fuel consumption will be around 60mpg, and emissions around 100g/km;
I've been to India, and big cities like Delhi are so polluted it smells like you have your mouth around the back of a Mack truck. I went for a wedding, and the groom had to wear a face mask because his lungs couldn't handle it. Our flight out of Rajasthan was delayed because of "fog" - but this is desert. By "fog" they meant low-lying pollution.
I'm not sure if this will lead to more cars in India: But this car is much cleaner than the 20+ year old dilapidated taxis that are mainstream in india now. Those things blow visible smoke out of the back, so this might actually help the pollution problem.
I love the gyration mouse. I've used 2 of them and neither one had that problem. I think you had bad luck. People are always amazed with mine, since they seem to think that the Wii is the first thing to ever do that.
I predicted the ending... and I was totally wrong. But mine was better. They totally set it up, they went another direction.
First of all, Baltar has to be a Cylon. The fact that he is not can be nothing other than the writers making a mistake. That would explain how he:
- Shared visions with a Cylon
- Survived the nuclear blast on Caprica
- Why Caprica 6 told him something like "How can you pretend so well?"
- Knew intricacies of Cylon technology (Ex: Recognizing Cylon structures in the attack on the cylon base on the Asteroid - season 1 or 2 I think)
- Was inherently monotheistic
My ending would have involved time travel. They should have jumped into Earth, of the past, before the 12 colonies separated. I know, time travel is sorely overused, but it would totally have fit: - Explains why this has happened before and will happen again - How the 12 colonies were able to leave a marker about a Sun going supernova. - The "earth" in the end is the same Earth they found, only in the past. That is why Kara's body was found while she was still alive: She time traveled back to Earth of the past - The last episode involved a singularity and some magical coordinates - total time travel setup. She should have jumped them straight into the singularity and thus back in time.
That's how I'll try to remember the series. It ties things up quite well.
Many of these devices are already deployed and it would be too dangerous to make the bugs known.
and:
Should one of these security bugs be made public, it wouldn't just be dangerous, it would also be expensive, costing utility companies big money as they went back and retrofitted their buggy systems, Pennell said.
I love how they think that not releasing this information makes them safe. This is truly scary: Not like some Internet Explorer exploit on a user's desktop - this is the power grid! Someone is telling us that a remote hacker can take-over the entire power grid, and the companies are not going to stop everything and fix it? Holy crap that's negligent!!!
It will be a heck of a lot more expensive to NOT fix this, than to fix it.
Actually, he is saying the opposite. He is saying that by reducing the number of calculations per second, you create an unrealistic opponent. Instead, you must do additional calculations to model the mistakes that a human would make. Our problem is not that we don't do enough calculations, but that we make mistakes in our calculations. We are inaccurate, we jump to conclusions, we get excited, or calculate one branch of the tree very deeply while ignoring another one. Those types of things are tough for computers to do.
This is so important. There's no penalties for passing unconstitutional laws, violating oaths of office, or overstepping legal authority. It kinds defeats the purpose of having limitations on power, if there is no penalty for violating those limitations.
I know this reply isn't particularly exciting, but I can say I have not seen this happen. The grads I meet are excited, interested, and humble. Maybe we just hire the good ones?
"clean coal" is like saying that we can bury nuclear waste to make "clean nuclear" - Except it is probably safer and more feasible to bury the nuclear waste, than to try to bury CO2.
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It is about scope creep in the browser. They are re-implementing what Google, and other search engines, have done. This functionality belongs on a server somewhere, not in a browser.
It would have to be updated constantly based on what new information they want to make queryable. I don't want a Mozilla update every time somebody thinks it would be cool to add searches for bar codes or concert tickets or whatever.
Now, if the developers who are working on this want to make a cool thing like this, then they should go out on a venture and start a web site that does it. Maybe make a plug-in for various browsers. But search capabilities are NOT part of the browser, they are part of a search engine.
Is the problem that Firefox is just so good now that scope creep is the only way we can think of improving it? Maybe it is time to cool off for a while and just fix bugs. Not exciting, but this kind of creep is what leads to forks.
The reasoning behind the change probably doesn't match what the user base believes.
They could just make the comments page the default when you click on your own name.
People who will sit and tell me with a straight face that Vista, in their experience, is stable are either very lucky, or Microsoft shills.
See? I can say the opposite, and provide just as much evidence? Do I get modded to 5 as well? Where's your statistics on the stability of Vista? Did it work well for you, therefore, it works well for everyone else?
I worked for a company that bought a laptop of every brand, so that when the higher-ups went into meetings with Dell, HP, Apple, etc. they had laptops that weren't made by a competitor. They have had problems like laptops not starting-up the first time due to incompatible software. That was a recent as 6 months ago. My mother-in-law bought a machine that has plenty of Vista-related problems (audio cutting out, USB devices not working, random crashes in explorer) on new mid-range hardware that came with Vista. But I have a neighbor who found it fixed lots of problems with gaming under XP.
There's plenty of issues. Vista's problems weren't just made-up because you didn't experience them.
Everybody's experience is different. Quit making blanket statements based on nothing.
This is akin to arguing if Han shot first, or how many turtles are holding-up the earth. The descriptions in Genesis are 1 not literal. And the descriptions in Genesis 2 are oversimplifications of something that isn't literal. There are far more important contradictions in the bible than this!
Yes, all liberals are that way. Thanks to whoever modded-up such a blanket political statement. Lets also mod-up replies such as "all Republicans are rich old men", "all Greens are hippies", and "all Slashdotters are male virgins who live at home."
Seriously though, I'm not sure why this surprises everyone. When I walk into my local AT&T store it shows two prices: $199 with contract, $599 without contract. My contract isn't up for another 2 months, so they told me to come back at that point, rather than pay the higher price now.
and the technical people are interested but management types are not.
Why do the management people think they should override a technical recommendation? Do they not trust their staff? Is the staff misrepresenting something?
Technical: Vendor X provides the best quality, most reliable screwdrivers. They come in all the sizes we need. Vendor Y does not provide the sizes we need. Therefore, we recommend Vendor X.
Management: No, use Vendor X.
I'll admit that this does happen sometimes. But usually the problem is either that the technical staff isn't providing a solution that meets the requirements, or they are not properly communicating.
In the case of OSS, I find that technical people often lump OSS into one set of options, and commercial software into another - which sets them up for failure. Ex:
BAD APPROACH: Mr. Boss, our options are Microsoft Exchange or Lotus Notes. Oh, but I like this nice open-source package called OpenGroupware that is totally free and open and...
Make a grid of requirements, list the options, and compare them. The fact that they are OSS might be considered a benefit that weights into the decision. But other than that, the management does not need to know who holds the source code.
BETTER APPROACH: Mr Boss, we have three options. They are:
Microsoft Exchange: +1, -1, 0
OpenGroupware: +1, +1, +1
Lotus Notes: -1, -1, 0
-- Each column is a feature/requirement. One of those columns is "source code available" and another might be "community support"
I have enough family members and coworkers with problems, on brand new mid-range to high-end machines, both laptops and desktops, that I will not be switching.
Any suggestions if both of the ISPs in your area are doing this?
Not all time travel plot lines suck. Blame the later Trek years for that stigma.
Vista has a beautiful UI, but that UI has nothing to do with my purchase. Same with IE8. I didn't switch to FireFox because it looked better. I use an OS for stability, compatibility, etc. I use a browser for security.
I have yet to see an article headline like "Windows 7: Network and Sound performance problems resolved" or "Windows 7 beta crashes 1/10th as often as Vista" or "Windows 7 performs 47% better on mid-range hardware"
When I see headlines like that, I will be interested. Until then, I run Windows XP on my Macbook so I have an alternate migration path in case Windows 7 turns out to be Vista 1.1
Fuel consumption will be around 60mpg, and emissions around 100g/km;
I've been to India, and big cities like Delhi are so polluted it smells like you have your mouth around the back of a Mack truck. I went for a wedding, and the groom had to wear a face mask because his lungs couldn't handle it. Our flight out of Rajasthan was delayed because of "fog" - but this is desert. By "fog" they meant low-lying pollution.
I'm not sure if this will lead to more cars in India: But this car is much cleaner than the 20+ year old dilapidated taxis that are mainstream in india now. Those things blow visible smoke out of the back, so this might actually help the pollution problem.
I love the gyration mouse. I've used 2 of them and neither one had that problem. I think you had bad luck. People are always amazed with mine, since they seem to think that the Wii is the first thing to ever do that.
Haptics may solve that problem
I predicted the ending... and I was totally wrong. But mine was better. They totally set it up, they went another direction.
First of all, Baltar has to be a Cylon. The fact that he is not can be nothing other than the writers making a mistake. That would explain how he:
- Shared visions with a Cylon
- Survived the nuclear blast on Caprica
- Why Caprica 6 told him something like "How can you pretend so well?"
- Knew intricacies of Cylon technology (Ex: Recognizing Cylon structures in the attack on the cylon base on the Asteroid - season 1 or 2 I think)
- Was inherently monotheistic
My ending would have involved time travel. They should have jumped into Earth, of the past, before the 12 colonies separated. I know, time travel is sorely overused, but it would totally have fit:
- Explains why this has happened before and will happen again
- How the 12 colonies were able to leave a marker about a Sun going supernova.
- The "earth" in the end is the same Earth they found, only in the past. That is why Kara's body was found while she was still alive: She time traveled back to Earth of the past
- The last episode involved a singularity and some magical coordinates - total time travel setup. She should have jumped them straight into the singularity and thus back in time.
That's how I'll try to remember the series. It ties things up quite well.
Many of these devices are already deployed and it would be too dangerous to make the bugs known.
and:
Should one of these security bugs be made public, it wouldn't just be dangerous, it would also be expensive, costing utility companies big money as they went back and retrofitted their buggy systems, Pennell said.
I love how they think that not releasing this information makes them safe. This is truly scary: Not like some Internet Explorer exploit on a user's desktop - this is the power grid! Someone is telling us that a remote hacker can take-over the entire power grid, and the companies are not going to stop everything and fix it? Holy crap that's negligent!!!
It will be a heck of a lot more expensive to NOT fix this, than to fix it.
(Yeah, I know, "preaching to the choir")
I didn't think that needed an acronym.
I suppose a the transformer to hook to your home wiring could be a problem, but not the panels themselves.
There are many ways a bad solar panel setup could start a fire...
Such as...?
I have not heard that. I've heard the opposite: That good apps can't get in because apple polices things too much.
Actually, he is saying the opposite. He is saying that by reducing the number of calculations per second, you create an unrealistic opponent. Instead, you must do additional calculations to model the mistakes that a human would make. Our problem is not that we don't do enough calculations, but that we make mistakes in our calculations. We are inaccurate, we jump to conclusions, we get excited, or calculate one branch of the tree very deeply while ignoring another one. Those types of things are tough for computers to do.
This is so important. There's no penalties for passing unconstitutional laws, violating oaths of office, or overstepping legal authority. It kinds defeats the purpose of having limitations on power, if there is no penalty for violating those limitations.
I know this reply isn't particularly exciting, but I can say I have not seen this happen. The grads I meet are excited, interested, and humble. Maybe we just hire the good ones?
"clean coal" is like saying that we can bury nuclear waste to make "clean nuclear" - Except it is probably safer and more feasible to bury the nuclear waste, than to try to bury CO2.
Gah!
"gut-wrenching"
Did I just come to the horrible guy-wrenching realization that teachers are not paid based on their performance?