here its just middle click. Does a typical laptop's built-in pointing device have enough buttons for UNIX-style copy and paste? Someone should make a BuckyBits USB HID device. It would look a bit like a external numeric keypad, except you could program it to generate all the funny meta characters.
Oh yeah, and it would have ePaper displays on each key too. You'd provide some open source software to customise the layout and keytops.
You could sell it on ThinkGeek. Though I'd worry that there weren't enough people interested to make it worthwhile. ePaper displays are a bit hard to find too, and hence probably rather expensive.
The phenomenon of expertise produces two problems for liberal democratic theory: the first is whether it creates inequalities that undermine citizen rule or make it a sham; the second is whether the state can preserve its neutrality in liberal 'government by discussion' while subsidizing, depending on, and giving special status to, the opinions of experts and scientists. A standard Foucauldian critique suggests that neutrality is impossible, expert power and state power are inseparable, and that expert power is the source of the oppressive, inegalitarian effects of present regimes. Habermas argues that expert cultures make democratic discussion impossible. Analogous problems arise with 'cognitive authority', understood in Mertonian terms. Cognitive authority, as Merton sees it, allows us to ask about the democratic legitimacy of this authority, which appears to solve the problem (or part of the problem) because it returns ultimate 'authority' to the people, who reject or accept the experts' claims. And many claims to expertise in fact do fail to gain acceptance. Through an examination of the type of expert that appears to evade the demands of legitimation, it is shown that expertise and liberal democracy can in principle co-exist, contrary to the claims of the critics.
You also have to release to source to any code you link to GPL code. Since most companies use a mixture of in house developed code and code they licensed from third parties the they don't have the right to release the source code to, that means they can't use GPL code.
Correct. Cunning, huh? Thus the path to critical mass is blazed.
The company retains the right to buy out or replace those 3rd parties if they wanted to use the GPL code badly enough.
Right! So the average mobile phone vendor just needs to buy out their OS vendor and the people like Real that license closed source codecs to them. And then give all that code away by putting it under GPL, thereby ensuring that they have little chance of making money out of their investment.
And they have to do that just because they hired some zealot and he checked in a bunch of GPL code without telling them.
And before we get off on the tangent of "stolen" and "goods" remember that IP is the lifeblood of Atari and any other software company. That can't be right. I was just reading the other day that the future for software companies is to release both the source code and binaries of their games to the public and charge for tech support.
I know you're joking, but section 6 of the GPL prevents this most commonly by using the phrase: "on a durable physical medium customarily used for software interchange."
You can do what whatever you like with GPL software, just if you distribute copies of it to your customers (modified or not), you must grant them the same right to see, modify, and distribute the source code as you were given. That's all.
You also have to release to source to any code you link to GPL code. Since most companies use a mixture of in house developed code and code they licensed from third parties the they don't have the right to release the source code to, that means they can't use GPL code.
No licensed electrician would advocate such irresponsible and potentially hazardous course of conduct.
That's what the surgeon at the hospital said. They wanted $20K to remove a small brain tumour. But I read up on DIY and did it myself for a couple of hundred bucks and I'm.
I'm ok man. Did I tell you I fixed my own brain? The hospital said it would cost $30K but I did it myself. Only cost.
Only cost $2000 for some second hand brain surgery tools and some anaesthetic I ordered on the Internet from some guy in China.
That's true. But I also think that software can hide behind being extensible and customisable. E.g. with Firefox I needed to fiddle around customising it for ages and installing extensions to make it usable. It's the same with Linux - very extensible but not really usable out of the box.
With Opera, I download it and it works the way I want. It's faster too, and it doesn't leak memory. Now I've never really used Macs but people that do tell me that it's the same there, not very customisable but you don't need to because it just works in a consistent way by default. Once you know what that way is, it all makes sense. But Linux doesn't have a way, or rather it's a miss mash of lots of ways.
It's like the differnce between buying a meal in restaurant you like and cooking yourself. Saying the restaurant doesn't offer as much choice misses the point. Or buying The Economist vs reading a bunch of RSS feeds. In some ways it's what choice the Economist leaves out that makes it a good read. Essentially open source, community generated stuff doesn't have an author or an editorial policy. Commercial stuff does.
Ok, I suppose you could say that Linux does have an author and an editorial policy on the importance of being GPL. But when you use a Linux machine it can have one of a dozen window managers chosen by the user. Every GUI app has its own user interface chosen by the developer. Macs and Windows are much more consistent since there is one UI and one set of rules, chosen by Apple or Microsoft. Once again it's an editorial policy as to what goes in and what stays out.
Actually I pretty much hated awesome bar as soon as I installed FF3 beta. It has, however, grown on me and I quite like it now. Yes, it was annoying at first, but it's not as bad as it first seems People say that about Vista.
I've never had the chance to use opera, but I'd consider switching if I knew it would load Gmail properly. ARgh! Firefox 3 STILL requires you to occasionally delete all cookies, cache, forms, etc. for gmail to load proper.
And don't tell me "all you have to do is select 'clear private data' and it loads fine." Sure that works for 2 or 3 days max, then you gmail starts screwing up again. "Just clear your private data" is a temporary fix AT BEST. It's really annoying to have to wait while all my sites re-download cookies, and having re-enter my passwords for the myriad log-in sites I uses.
There...
But yeah, does gmail load properly on Opera?
Yes it does. Opera occasionally screws up when you use Google's RichEdit mode for email - pressing delete makes the cursor jump to the end of the mail for mail from a Taiwanese webmail service one of my friends uses. So I need to select Plan Text mode before I start typing. Other than that it works fine.
http://feed.feedsky.com/danweirss10 Danwei, who are a bunch of pompous self-important Beijing residents, but have some good articles and translations that aren't available anywhere else. http://www.danwei.org/internet/president_hu_jintao_talks_to_n.php
China's President Hu Jintao had a brief online chat with members of the People's Daily's 'Strong Country' online forum this morning....
- Are you angry with the harsh questions posted on the forum? - What do think of the 93% support rate for your government? - What is your comment on the performance of the Chinese people in the face of disasters this year?
It could be that modern computer systems are simply too complex for such treatment. I recall having a complete memory map and assembly language tutorial in the manual that came with my Acorn Electron - such a thing would be preposterous for my MacBook Pro. Its inner workings described to the same level as that 1980s manual would probably occupy a shelf.
That's disingenuous though. Most of the MacBook is a standard PC. What advocates of open systems want is for Apple and others to document the non standard bits. You wouldn't get a shelf of paper, Apple would say "you have a NVidia XYZ" card and you'd go to the NVidia site and download a datasheet as a PDF file. It won't happen though. NVidia provide drivers and no documentation to anyone because they don't want some guy with a factory in China to clone their hardware.
1) Tibet 2) inherent right to free speech 3) right to decide how many children you have 4) rights inherent to human beings.
5) Taiwan
I don't think I'm going to trust China on what it says does or does not exist.
I don't trust them either. But I think they're telling the truth here. The leaked that there would be an antitrust probe. Microsoft contacted them and made some sort of concession. Then they denied the rumours. It's a negotiating tactic.
He's saying Microsoft doesn't have servers for its Instant Messenger or Email services inside China, not that there are no Windows servers inside China.
The point being that your data won't be snarfed, at least in the absence of a court order from the government.
FT: Microsoft announced a policy last week to only remove blogs from its services in China if it receives a proper legal order. By in the absence of the rule of law, surely you're not going to get a proper court order?
BG: We're going to get a government order before we do anything. It's actually very clear who gives these orders. They haven't authorised us to be a news service, so the information departments say that is a news/information thing that is not within the writ of your activities. We're not the first media-related entity to have some activity in China.
FT: Do you keep information on servers inside China?
BG: Our servers are all outside China. This whole thing of inside versus outside China, I never understand that, it somehow comes up in the Google discussion. I don't get that at all. This is not about where the servers are. We don't have servers inside China, we just don't. It may be that for responsiveness at some point we'll do that, but that's not the way we work today.
Maybe his site is an evil plot by the Chinese government to produce lots of random gibberish in English and make web surfers in the decadent west read it. Sooner or later he by sheer luck he is bound to hit on some English specific Gödel Sentence that causes the evil Americans to have a simultaneous brainstorm. Then China can take over the world.
I would continue posting, but there's a good documentary I've just finished downloading off conspiracytorrents.net, and I really should watch it.
A 5-year-old notebook is worth $350? I don't think so. Hard for me to pay much attention to the rest of any article that begins that far off base... I quite agree. I wouldn't sell my faithful 5 year old notebook to a stranger like a slave. When she dies I'll give her a Christian burial, mourn for a few years and then start to use a smartphone. It will never be the same though.
When I visited Tokyo in March I was amazed just how much more advanced the basic mobile phones are in Japan compared to the top level phones available in Western societies.
Almost all Japanese mobiles have large screens, built in dictionaries for translating between English and Japanese, and have cameras that can 1) read in universal square barcodes that represent web addresses and 2) can read text from a distance.
I wonder if the study also takes into account the different ways societies as a whole use their phone - from the tightly networked gang cultures, to the highly individualistic.
What I thought was striking about Japan is the way that user interfaces are more complex, but there are more features. People use phones as PC substitutes so they want email, MSN, web access and so on. Also compared to the UK how the typical consumer is a 25-35, female and quite willing to learn to use geeky, user unfriendly phone features if that is the price to find a boyfriend.
I do not understand what cost savings Netflix would achieve by this reduction in service. FEAR. Customer relations is about causing FEAR in the customer. Confident customers will call the hotline all day and whine about shit. Scared customers will be grateful that some feature they like hasn't been DELETED, that the service is up and their credit card information hasn't been posted on a Russian credit card scammers mailing list.
By deleting features, FEAR is inspired in the customers. FEAR makes them easier to handle. It's the same at home. My dog used to bark all the time and shit in the house but since I started beating it ruthless whenever I get snake eyes on my daily dice roll or see a SIGN in the shape of the clouds, it's been all sweetness and light. It's FEAR that made it better. FEAR that a fickle, heartless being with Godlike power will punish it.
As the firedemon Machiavelli said when he was in foul human form "Let them hate, so long as they FEAR". Or the Dark Lord himself in the Language of Dark Power "Xsasoqdwho ascasfwef fhhdjso wewadsfaafop asoasocdszzzzzzzz...." I can't make the sounds in this puny human body. How I wish to be back amongst creatures of my own order.
Hal "YHWH" Porter Customer Relations Manager Verizon
They certainly provide a full service. Not only do they flame the 'lusers' on the bug tracking tool, they follow them outside and flame them on forums.
"The memory leak was not fixed, but it was finally addressed it seems. The memory usage still creeps up very high, but it takes much longer to reach the point of a performance hit than before."
It's actually not just a memory leak. It is a CPU hogging bug, also.
Since that bug is now 7 years old, and still not fully fixed, I suppose I should post my list of Firefox developer excuses again. The list is not complete. There have been other excuses that I haven't had time to add to the list.
Firefox Developer Top 20 Excuses
for Not Fixing the Firefox Memory
and CPU Hogging bugs.
These are actual excuses given at one time or another.
Maybe this bug is fixed in the nightly build. [The same memory and CPU hogging bug has been reported many, many times over a period of seven years.]
Yes, this bug exists, but other things are more important. [The bug eventually takes 100% of CPU power, and makes Windows XP unusable, even after Firefox is killed. The bug affects the heaviest users of Firefox.]
Yes, this bug exists, but it is not a common occurrence. [Numerous users have reported the bug. See the links.]
Works for me. [The bug is complicated to reproduce, so the developers did a simplified test, which didn't show the bug.]
No one has posted a TalkBack report. [If they had read the bug report, they would know that there is never a TalkBack report, because the bug crashes TalkBack, too, or a TalkBack report is not generated. TalkBack does not generate a report if Firefox is hogging the CPU. TalkBack cannot generate a report if the bug takes 100% of the CPU time.]
If you would just give us more information, we would fix this bug. [They didn't bother to reproduce the bug using the detailed information provided.]
This bug report is a composite of other bugs, so this bug report is invalid. [The other bugs aren't specified.]
You are using Firefox in a way that would crash any software. [But the same use does not crash any version of Opera.]
I don't like the way you worded your bug report. [So, he didn't read it or think about it.]
You should run a debugger and find what causes this problem yourself. [Then when you have done most of the work, tell us what causes the problem, and we may fix it.]
Many bugs that are filed aren't important to 99.99% of the users.
If you are saying bad things about Mozilla and Firefox, you must be trolling. [They say this even though Firefox and Mozilla instability is beginning to be reported in media such as Information Week. See the links to magazine articles in this Slashdot comment: Firefox is the most unstable program in common use.]
Your problem is probably caused by using extensions. [These are extensions advertised on the Firefox and Mozilla web site, and recommended.]
Your problem is probably caused by a corrupt profile. [The same bug has been reported many times over a period of five years. One of the reports discusses an extensive test in both Linux and Windows that used a completely clean installation of the operating systems, not just a clean profile. The CPU hogging bug and instability was just as severe.]
If you are technically knowledgeable, you can spend several hours (or days) trying to discover the problem: Standard diagnostic - Firefox. [Firefox has "Standard Diagnostics". It has become accepted that some users will have severe problems. !!! ]
I won't actually read the (many) bug reports, but I will give you some complicated technical speculation. [This pretends to be helpful but, on investigation, is shown to have nothing to do with the bugs.]
It's understandable that Firefox developers become defensive when
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Oh yeah, and it would have ePaper displays on each key too. You'd provide some open source software to customise the layout and keytops.
You could sell it on ThinkGeek. Though I'd worry that there weren't enough people interested to make it worthwhile. ePaper displays are a bit hard to find too, and hence probably rather expensive.
Maybe g-mail was bought by Microsoft and they asked for $171 Billion dollars to license the trademark to Google. Muhahaha.
The aptly named sage publications has this to say
http://sss.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/31/1/123
What is the Problem with Experts?
The phenomenon of expertise produces two problems for liberal democratic theory: the first is whether it creates inequalities that undermine citizen rule or make it a sham; the second is whether the state can preserve its neutrality in liberal 'government by discussion' while subsidizing, depending on, and giving special status to, the opinions of experts and scientists. A standard Foucauldian critique suggests that neutrality is impossible, expert power and state power are inseparable, and that expert power is the source of the oppressive, inegalitarian effects of present regimes. Habermas argues that expert cultures make democratic discussion impossible. Analogous problems arise with 'cognitive authority', understood in Mertonian terms. Cognitive authority, as Merton sees it, allows us to ask about the democratic legitimacy of this authority, which appears to solve the problem (or part of the problem) because it returns ultimate 'authority' to the people, who reject or accept the experts' claims. And many claims to expertise in fact do fail to gain acceptance. Through an examination of the type of expert that appears to evade the demands of legitimation, it is shown that expertise and liberal democracy can in principle co-exist, contrary to the claims of the critics.Correct. Cunning, huh? Thus the path to critical mass is blazed.
Right! So the average mobile phone vendor just needs to buy out their OS vendor and the people like Real that license closed source codecs to them. And then give all that code away by putting it under GPL, thereby ensuring that they have little chance of making money out of their investment.The company retains the right to buy out or replace those 3rd parties if they wanted to use the GPL code badly enough.
And they have to do that just because they hired some zealot and he checked in a bunch of GPL code without telling them.
Sounds totally fair to me.
Hmm, it works fine in Opera 9.5
Absolutely! Why would that even come into question?
So you could send a 500MB source code archive split across 350 1.4MB floppies?I know you're joking, but section 6 of the GPL prevents this most commonly by using the phrase: "on a durable physical medium customarily used for software interchange."
Floppy disks would be ok then?You can do what whatever you like with GPL software, just if you distribute copies of it to your customers (modified or not), you must grant them the same right to see, modify, and distribute the source code as you were given. That's all.
You also have to release to source to any code you link to GPL code. Since most companies use a mixture of in house developed code and code they licensed from third parties the they don't have the right to release the source code to, that means they can't use GPL code.No licensed electrician would advocate such irresponsible and potentially hazardous course of conduct.
That's what the surgeon at the hospital said. They wanted $20K to remove a small brain tumour. But I read up on DIY and did it myself for a couple of hundred bucks and I'm.
I'm ok man. Did I tell you I fixed my own brain? The hospital said it would cost $30K but I did it myself. Only cost.
Only cost $2000 for some second hand brain surgery tools and some anaesthetic I ordered on the Internet from some guy in China.
That's true. But I also think that software can hide behind being extensible and customisable. E.g. with Firefox I needed to fiddle around customising it for ages and installing extensions to make it usable. It's the same with Linux - very extensible but not really usable out of the box.
With Opera, I download it and it works the way I want. It's faster too, and it doesn't leak memory. Now I've never really used Macs but people that do tell me that it's the same there, not very customisable but you don't need to because it just works in a consistent way by default. Once you know what that way is, it all makes sense. But Linux doesn't have a way, or rather it's a miss mash of lots of ways.
It's like the differnce between buying a meal in restaurant you like and cooking yourself. Saying the restaurant doesn't offer as much choice misses the point. Or buying The Economist vs reading a bunch of RSS feeds. In some ways it's what choice the Economist leaves out that makes it a good read. Essentially open source, community generated stuff doesn't have an author or an editorial policy. Commercial stuff does.
Ok, I suppose you could say that Linux does have an author and an editorial policy on the importance of being GPL. But when you use a Linux machine it can have one of a dozen window managers chosen by the user. Every GUI app has its own user interface chosen by the developer. Macs and Windows are much more consistent since there is one UI and one set of rules, chosen by Apple or Microsoft. Once again it's an editorial policy as to what goes in and what stays out.
I feel the same way with Opera vs. Firefox.
I think Opera vs Firefox is a bit like Apple vs Linux.
Opera is less open that Firefox - I can't download the source code and I can't install extensions. But like Apple, it Just Works out of the box.
I've never had the chance to use opera, but I'd consider switching if I knew it would load Gmail properly. ARgh! Firefox 3 STILL requires you to occasionally delete all cookies, cache, forms, etc. for gmail to load proper.
And don't tell me "all you have to do is select 'clear private data' and it loads fine." Sure that works for 2 or 3 days max, then you gmail starts screwing up again. "Just clear your private data" is a temporary fix AT BEST. It's really annoying to have to wait while all my sites re-download cookies, and having re-enter my passwords for the myriad log-in sites I uses.
There...
But yeah, does gmail load properly on Opera?
Yes it does. Opera occasionally screws up when you use Google's RichEdit mode for email - pressing delete makes the cursor jump to the end of the mail for mail from a Taiwanese webmail service one of my friends uses. So I need to select Plan Text mode before I start typing. Other than that it works fine.Danwei, who are a bunch of pompous self-important Beijing residents, but have some good articles and translations that aren't available anywhere else. http://www.danwei.org/internet/president_hu_jintao_talks_to_n.php China's President Hu Jintao had a brief online chat with members of the People's Daily's 'Strong Country' online forum this morning.
- Are you angry with the harsh questions posted on the forum?
Next!- What do think of the 93% support rate for your government?
- What is your comment on the performance of the Chinese people in the face of disasters this year?
How do you reconcile the fact that anybody who calls their production "The Art of Manliness" is almost guaranteed to be a 92 pound douche?
I'll take the Red Green Show.
That's not true. They might be a >200 pound douche.It could be that modern computer systems are simply too complex for such treatment. I recall having a complete memory map and assembly language tutorial in the manual that came with my Acorn Electron - such a thing would be preposterous for my MacBook Pro. Its inner workings described to the same level as that 1980s manual would probably occupy a shelf.
That's disingenuous though. Most of the MacBook is a standard PC. What advocates of open systems want is for Apple and others to document the non standard bits. You wouldn't get a shelf of paper, Apple would say "you have a NVidia XYZ" card and you'd go to the NVidia site and download a datasheet as a PDF file. It won't happen though. NVidia provide drivers and no documentation to anyone because they don't want some guy with a factory in China to clone their hardware.1) Tibet
5) Taiwan2) inherent right to free speech
3) right to decide how many children you have
4) rights inherent to human beings.
I don't think I'm going to trust China on what it says does or does not exist.
I don't trust them either. But I think they're telling the truth here. The leaked that there would be an antitrust probe. Microsoft contacted them and made some sort of concession. Then they denied the rumours. It's a negotiating tactic.He's saying Microsoft doesn't have servers for its Instant Messenger or Email services inside China, not that there are no Windows servers inside China.
The point being that your data won't be snarfed, at least in the absence of a court order from the government.
FT: Microsoft announced a policy last week to only remove blogs from its services in China if it receives a proper legal order. By in the absence of the rule of law, surely you're not going to get a proper court order?
BG: We're going to get a government order before we do anything. It's actually very clear who gives these orders. They haven't authorised us to be a news service, so the information departments say that is a news/information thing that is not within the writ of your activities. We're not the first media-related entity to have some activity in China.
FT: Do you keep information on servers inside China?
BG: Our servers are all outside China. This whole thing of inside versus outside China, I never understand that, it somehow comes up in the Google discussion. I don't get that at all. This is not about where the servers are. We don't have servers inside China, we just don't. It may be that for responsiveness at some point we'll do that, but that's not the way we work today.
Maybe his site is an evil plot by the Chinese government to produce lots of random gibberish in English and make web surfers in the decadent west read it. Sooner or later he by sheer luck he is bound to hit on some English specific Gödel Sentence that causes the evil Americans to have a simultaneous brainstorm. Then China can take over the world.
I would continue posting, but there's a good documentary I've just finished downloading off conspiracytorrents.net, and I really should watch it.
When I visited Tokyo in March I was amazed just how much more advanced the basic mobile phones are in Japan compared to the top level phones available in Western societies.
Almost all Japanese mobiles have large screens, built in dictionaries for translating between English and Japanese, and have cameras that can 1) read in universal square barcodes that represent web addresses and 2) can read text from a distance.
I wonder if the study also takes into account the different ways societies as a whole use their phone - from the tightly networked gang cultures, to the highly individualistic.
What I thought was striking about Japan is the way that user interfaces are more complex, but there are more features. People use phones as PC substitutes so they want email, MSN, web access and so on. Also compared to the UK how the typical consumer is a 25-35, female and quite willing to learn to use geeky, user unfriendly phone features if that is the price to find a boyfriend.
And they are slim and basically fucking hot too.
God I miss Japan.
By deleting features, FEAR is inspired in the customers. FEAR makes them easier to handle. It's the same at home. My dog used to bark all the time and shit in the house but since I started beating it ruthless whenever I get snake eyes on my daily dice roll or see a SIGN in the shape of the clouds, it's been all sweetness and light. It's FEAR that made it better. FEAR that a fickle, heartless being with Godlike power will punish it.
As the firedemon Machiavelli said when he was in foul human form "Let them hate, so long as they FEAR". Or the Dark Lord himself in the Language of Dark Power "Xsasoqdwho ascasfwef fhhdjso wewadsfaafop asoasocdszzzzzzzz...." I can't make the sounds in this puny human body. How I wish to be back amongst creatures of my own order.
Hal "YHWH" Porter
Customer Relations Manager
Verizon
They certainly provide a full service. Not only do they flame the 'lusers' on the bug tracking tool, they follow them outside and flame them on forums.
"The memory leak was not fixed, but it was finally addressed it seems. The
memory usage still creeps up very high, but it takes much longer to reach the
point of a performance hit than before."
It's actually not just a memory leak. It is a CPU hogging bug, also.
Since that bug is now 7 years old, and still not fully
fixed, I suppose I should post my list of Firefox developer excuses again. The list
is not complete. There have been other excuses that I haven't had time to add to the list.
Firefox Developer Top 20 Excuses
for Not Fixing the Firefox Memory
and CPU Hogging bugs.
These are actual excuses given at one time or
another.
hogging bug has been reported many, many times over a period of seven
years.]
eventually takes 100% of CPU power, and makes Windows XP unusable, even after
Firefox is killed. The bug affects the heaviest users of Firefox.]
have reported the bug. See the links.]
a simplified test, which didn't show the bug.]
they would know that there is never a TalkBack report, because the bug crashes
TalkBack, too, or a TalkBack report is not generated. TalkBack does not
generate a report if Firefox is hogging the CPU. TalkBack cannot generate a
report if the bug takes 100% of the CPU time.]
didn't bother to reproduce the bug using the detailed information
provided.]
invalid. [The other bugs aren't specified.]
same use does not crash any version of Opera.]
think about it.]
[Then when you have done most of the work, tell us what causes the problem,
and we may fix it.]
trolling. [They say this even though Firefox and Mozilla instability is
beginning to be reported in media such as Information Week. See the links to
magazine articles in this Slashdot comment: Firefox is the most unstable program in common
use.]
advertised on the Firefox and Mozilla web site, and recommended.]
been reported many times over a period of five years. One of the reports
discusses an extensive test in both Linux and Windows that used a completely
clean installation of the operating systems, not just a clean profile. The CPU
hogging bug and instability was just as severe.]
days) trying to discover the problem: Standard diagnostic - Firefox.
[Firefox has "Standard Diagnostics". It has become accepted that some users
will have severe problems. !!! ]
complicated technical speculation. [This pretends to be helpful but, on
investigation, is shown to have nothing to do with the bugs.]