You know, the browser that focused on rendering web pages fast and securely but left all the fancy schmancy UI and features where they belong: extensions.
Browsers are already gigantic and bloated as it is (all of them). You want to win me back as a customer? Start there. You want to fix the pulseaudio/alsa debacle? Make the sound server an extension so people can write a better one without having to fork all of Firefox. People get pissed off at your stupid UI decisions? Extension. People moved to Firefox because they were starved for choices, stop taking those away and you'll be relevant again. If we wanted a clone of Chrome, we'd use Chrome.
Damn right they aren't capitalists. Capitalists vote with their money, would take none of this bullshit and go shop elsewhere. Consumers will gladly take it up the bum if you hand them a treat afterwards and promise that some day, if they're good and compliant, you'll regulate all their problems away.
You shall not infringe on the sacred subscription model of big pharma lest you be regulated out of existence. Curing people is a sin against the holy drain of capital. A life that goes on without buying the divine treatment is a life lost and crime against the revenue-stream gods.
In "about:config" change "fayout.frame_rate" from -1 to 60 (or whatever your monitor runs at). For some stupid reason, Firefox renders as fast as your CPU can handle 100% of the time. Even at 60 FPS, it uses ~1% CPU when idle so I'm guessing it was going like 6000FPS when unrestrained.
A centralized source of information also means a fair bit of power/control over which information comes out. Couple this with the big push to protect the unwashed masses from 'fake news' and you have a pretty nasty result. No matter how good the initial intentions are, in the end, there's always an asshole (or a group of them) taking charge of that control.
Pffft, simple system with a 'complicated' interface. This is the age of lowest common denominator: 'simple' interface with a over-complicated, bloated system to drive it is the name of the game. Abstraction for the sake of abstraction in an ever-increasing number of layers.
Isn't the US a net CO2 *sink*? A far more sensible policy would be for the US to demand payment from the rest of the world for all the CO2 it takes out of the atmosphere. Way more in line with the general attitude too!
1- Fraud is illegal. 2- Theft is illegal. 3- Destruction of property is illegal.
The issue is that since they have friends in government, those basic laws do not apply to what most people call 'capitalists'. Let's start applying the laws that exist before we start begging for more regulations.
That said, I'm pretty sure exploration isn't the first reason governments would want to put giant lasers in space. They might also want to cook some popcorn, if you get my drift.
Pharmaceuticals consider a subscription model to be far more valuable than a one-shot sale. Finding a cure that really works would be pretty harmful to business unless cancer became something you had to cure it over and over.
Just imagine what would happen if car manufacturers went the same route with their 'interface'. Seat? Nope, that's old and outdated, you must now hang from a harness. Steering wheel? What is this, 1920? Have our new kinect-like steering control.
... until the 'social network interaction' bit. For a moment there, I thought they were getting rid of the bloat that has been plaguing these drivers for years.
You have to employ your superior knowledge into actual competing projects in order to be taken seriously.
OpenRC already exists, does everything we want it to do and (more importantly) nothing we *don't* want it to do.
As such our superior knowledge can be spent in direct and vocal opposition to systemd because everything it claims to solve are issues none of its opponents consider to be actual problems.
I was thinking, what if 50 000 or 100 000 people all got caught for this on purpose? The prison system is already strained to its limit in most places.
Back in the NT4 days, if you wanted to download service pack 6 off the Microsoft web site, there was a specific javascript that looked for Netscape and then ran a for loop for some huge number (of doing nothing) before loading the page. It took a couple minutes to run and wasn't even well hidden. Right in the source of the page itself.
Thankfully the script was removed shortly after the issue was reported but as far as I'm concerned, it shows that being a mega-corporation does not make you immune to petty or childish behaviour.
I think a good point is being made that corporations are a lot better at telling the government what to do than the citizenry. Interestingly, that also boils down to corporations caring a lot more about protecting their interests. Maybe they understand what the masses do not: Ultimately, your very existence depends on it.
and climate research are among the application areas on the table.
See, they already know the magic words that get millions of dollars squandered on very silly research. Chances of success or usefulness are irrelevant, they'll get the grants and avoid starvation until the next crackpot idea springs up.
There's a lot of money spent on pretending to care about climate change in both government and industry.
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You know, the browser that focused on rendering web pages fast and securely but left all the fancy schmancy UI and features where they belong: extensions.
Browsers are already gigantic and bloated as it is (all of them). You want to win me back as a customer? Start there. You want to fix the pulseaudio/alsa debacle? Make the sound server an extension so people can write a better one without having to fork all of Firefox. People get pissed off at your stupid UI decisions? Extension. People moved to Firefox because they were starved for choices, stop taking those away and you'll be relevant again. If we wanted a clone of Chrome, we'd use Chrome.
Come on. Somebody had to...
Damn right they aren't capitalists. Capitalists vote with their money, would take none of this bullshit and go shop elsewhere. Consumers will gladly take it up the bum if you hand them a treat afterwards and promise that some day, if they're good and compliant, you'll regulate all their problems away.
You shall not infringe on the sacred subscription model of big pharma lest you be regulated out of existence. Curing people is a sin against the holy drain of capital. A life that goes on without buying the divine treatment is a life lost and crime against the revenue-stream gods.
In "about:config" change "fayout.frame_rate" from -1 to 60 (or whatever your monitor runs at). For some stupid reason, Firefox renders as fast as your CPU can handle 100% of the time. Even at 60 FPS, it uses ~1% CPU when idle so I'm guessing it was going like 6000FPS when unrestrained.
A centralized source of information also means a fair bit of power/control over which information comes out. Couple this with the big push to protect the unwashed masses from 'fake news' and you have a pretty nasty result. No matter how good the initial intentions are, in the end, there's always an asshole (or a group of them) taking charge of that control.
It must be the code they use to print infinite money/debt!
Pffft, simple system with a 'complicated' interface. This is the age of lowest common denominator: 'simple' interface with a over-complicated, bloated system to drive it is the name of the game. Abstraction for the sake of abstraction in an ever-increasing number of layers.
Isn't the US a net CO2 *sink*? A far more sensible policy would be for the US to demand payment from the rest of the world for all the CO2 it takes out of the atmosphere. Way more in line with the general attitude too!
Everything it provides will be integrated into systemd anyway, they need it as part of the upcoming systemd web browser.
They probably linked some of the money to the Clinton Foundation and don't want to get in trouble.
I say the fed is just mad because he killed its grandad.
You don't need capitalist-specific laws.
1- Fraud is illegal.
2- Theft is illegal.
3- Destruction of property is illegal.
The issue is that since they have friends in government, those basic laws do not apply to what most people call 'capitalists'. Let's start applying the laws that exist before we start begging for more regulations.
It's *space* shark overlord to you, chum.
That said, I'm pretty sure exploration isn't the first reason governments would want to put giant lasers in space. They might also want to cook some popcorn, if you get my drift.
It's valuable *to the consumer*.
Pharmaceuticals consider a subscription model to be far more valuable than a one-shot sale. Finding a cure that really works would be pretty harmful to business unless cancer became something you had to cure it over and over.
Just imagine what would happen if car manufacturers went the same route with their 'interface'. Seat? Nope, that's old and outdated, you must now hang from a harness. Steering wheel? What is this, 1920? Have our new kinect-like steering control.
... until the 'social network interaction' bit. For a moment there, I thought they were getting rid of the bloat that has been plaguing these drivers for years.
It seems they've been doing this for a little while now. Basically, you build and mill the casted part in the same operation.
You have to employ your superior knowledge into actual competing projects in order to be taken seriously.
OpenRC already exists, does everything we want it to do and (more importantly) nothing we *don't* want it to do.
As such our superior knowledge can be spent in direct and vocal opposition to systemd because everything it claims to solve are issues none of its opponents consider to be actual problems.
OpenRC already exists, why would we go and write a new one?
I was thinking, what if 50 000 or 100 000 people all got caught for this on purpose? The prison system is already strained to its limit in most places.
Back in the NT4 days, if you wanted to download service pack 6 off the Microsoft web site, there was a specific javascript that looked for Netscape and then ran a for loop for some huge number (of doing nothing) before loading the page. It took a couple minutes to run and wasn't even well hidden. Right in the source of the page itself.
Thankfully the script was removed shortly after the issue was reported but as far as I'm concerned, it shows that being a mega-corporation does not make you immune to petty or childish behaviour.
I think a good point is being made that corporations are a lot better at telling the government what to do than the citizenry. Interestingly, that also boils down to corporations caring a lot more about protecting their interests. Maybe they understand what the masses do not: Ultimately, your very existence depends on it.
Wiki says deterministic so I imagine it's more on the 'hard' side.
and climate research are among the application areas on the table.
See, they already know the magic words that get millions of dollars squandered on very silly research. Chances of success or usefulness are irrelevant, they'll get the grants and avoid starvation until the next crackpot idea springs up.
There's a lot of money spent on pretending to care about climate change in both government and industry.