I suggest that we have every machine set up to run as many tabs as there are CPUs, and then we distribute data out and retrieve the results via AJAX. Bam! Online cluster computing. This is the REAL reason for accelerated Javascript engines.
"Lack of threaded tabs is shameful" - Why? Is it really that big of a deal? Don't open a tab that's going to lock up your browser.
Other good advice: don't get on a plane that's going to crash. Don't get on a boat that's going to sink. Don't work for a company that's going to go bankrupt.
"IE developing it" - Oh noes! We need this now, if IE has it then FF needs it! Guess we should go ahead and make FF IE5 complient then, since IE is as well. Forget that standards nonsense, IE has it so we need it.
When Internet Explorer, of all things, has new, useful, and (dare I say) innovative features that make people's lives easier and more productive, far ahead of Firefox, then either it's time for FF to stop resting on its laurels, or it's time to start giving the IE team some well-deserved kudos. Either way, attention must be paid.
If you're encountering enough lock-ups to cause you to need to be able to end a single tab's process regularly (which is pretty hard to do in Chrome with all the tabs having the same process name mind you) then have fun with your threaded tabs. Me, I'm just not going to open sites that are likely to lock up my browser. There aren't many out there, I haven't seen a single one in a couple of months.
Good thing Chrome itself includes a process manager that will let you end a specific process based on what the name of the tab is, how much memory it's using, how much bandwidth it's using, and so on. Pretty keen.
Your post reads like so much 'LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!' that I'm forced to wonder why your emotional attachment to Firefox is so deep. Seriously, it's just a browser, lighten up.
Re:It's not a game....
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Ok, how about this then:
I started playing it yesterday at work (but after work). Ok, started off with a little plant-eating cell. Swam around eating plant bits, got some upgrades, more plant bits, ran away from some things that electrocuted me, and then... whoosh, I've evolved!
So now I need a creature adapted for land. I throw out literally EVERYTHING I've done to my creature to date, since I no longer need flagella, I need a real mouth and some legs, etc. So now I'm creating a whole new character all over again.
Great. So now I have a character. I wander over and befriend another tribe, which is a boring game of 'click the button, then when it is available again, click it again'. Sucks. Ok, so let's kill things instead, that's always fun, and there's something ironically wasteful about a race of murderous herbivores that I liked.
So I went to kill some things. I have four attacks, numbered 1-4 on the keyboard. Bite, charge, swipe, and spit. So what do I do? Spit at a creature to lure it away from the pack, gank it with my posse, then pull another one. Guess what I'm playing? Will Wright's version of World of Warcraft. I spent the next hour grinding a MMO, except offline, with no social aspect or sense of accomplishment.
So then after that's done, I evolve again into a tribe. Now I get rid of all the things that made my warlike herbivores so great at what they do, and give them things that make them better at walking around and carrying tools. I've basically created a new creature from scratch - again.
And now I'm playing an RTS, except dumbed down. I send my people to gather food, and use it to make babies and buy huts with maracas so I can go impress another tribe, which lets my hut grow more so I can make more babies and give them more maracas to impress more tribes.
BORING. I'm sorry, but it's completely fucking boring. I kept waiting for it to 'click', for it to suddenly get interesting and for me to see what all the hype was about. I never did. Now I don't care. I might play with it just to create new creatures and see what kind of death machine I can create, but it's largely (as a sibling poster mentions) just a 'collection of loosely connected mini-games'.
If the game gets better at the space stage, that's great, but forcing me to go through several largely irrelevant stages just to get to 'the meat' is a waste of my fucking time.
I am posting as AC as not everything might be 100% correct in terms of explaining the saturn rings thing and also my mother tongue is not English and so it causes me tremendous efforts to not make a single spelling or grammar mistake and I do not have enough time to do that now.
Afraid that poor grammar and spelling will lose you karma? You must be new here... Most people here are either not from English-speaking countries, or are from English-speaking countries but stopped going to English class in third grade. Most foreigners I know speak English better than most Americans I know.
Amen to that. MySQL has a huge user and developer community. After working that hard to get it to where it is from where it was, I'd seriously consider leaving it in someone else's capable hands and moving on to bigger and better things (like Fiji).
Instant savings = the difference between what we're going to sell it to you at and the price that we claim it's worth in order to make it look like we're giving you a deal.
Yeah, and why not slap a GeForce 9800 on there too, a nice big 19" LCD display, full-size keyboard, and two quad-core Intel chips! Then it would be the best subnotebook ever!
Re:not web developers, they are IE-developers
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*I* know that, and *you* know that, but their business cards and websites say otherwise. Unfortunately, for Joe Average that uses IE, they'll never know the difference.
Even my parents' business site which looked 'fine' (read: the way it was supposed to) in IE looked so horrendously, unforgivably bad in any other browser that I couldn't believe she was even in business. Granted, this was years ago, before Mozilla and Firefox came around, but still, she was doing the simplest things in the stupidest ways, and I couldn't think of any reason not to do it 'the right way', other than she was just clueless.
In CSS3, it's 'opacity'. WebKit and Gecko refuse to implement 'opacity' because it's not standardized yet - I've heard developers say that once CSS3 is finalized, all the '-khtml-' functionality that implements stuff in the CSS3 spec will be 'pushed live', as it were.
As to the W3C, they want to get the spec right the first time, so they're taking their time - since missing features in HTML was what caused this preposterous 'embrace and extend' war between Netscape and IE in the first place.
For Gecko and WebKit, they're actually doing the 'right thing'. For IE... I dunno, if they're going to fuck up everything else, why not go for the gold?
Re:Non-Tech Percent of Web Traffic from Chrome
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Maybe they figured that since you can't sync with anything on Linux, it's not worth it.
Honestly, the web apps are good enough that I'd be willing to use them regardless - especially if I were a teenager (as I once was) and my parents were Mac users and bought a MobileMe family pack (only $150 for five users, vs. $100 for one).
I'll second this. I had an ex who had a completely different sense of style than I prefer - huge, ugly glasses, loud clothes, etc. She'd always ask me how I look, and I'd always be non-commital, which would result in her getting angry with me for not giving her a straight answer. Finally I said 'look, I hate those glasses, I think they look stupid, and your hoodie is so loud it hurts my eyes. I hate the shit you're wearing, but it's whether you like it that matters.'
It still doesn't get me out of the 'help me pick an outfit' bullshit, but at least it's a start.
In my experience, the best way to reply is with 'Hell yeah, I'd hit it!' It's doesn't necessarily provoke the best reaction, but it's pretty consistent, and in situations that break consistency the result is generally pretty awesome.
Actually, those two parts you've quoted refer to the use, planned use, or threatened use of violence. While you can still trump up charges, I don't find those two sections the least bit offensive. It doesn't say anything about thinking against the government, it only talks about using violence.
Don't get me wrong, I don't disagree with the rest of your comments on restraining speech in the name of anti-terrorism, but those two passages seem irrelevant to your point.
'Yeah, we force the Google Updater on you, we give your Chrome install a unique ID, and we associate that with your Google account so that *theoretically* we could track you anywhere you went, logged in or not, but we wouldn't do that! Honest! You'll just have to trust me on this one, and haven't we, at Google, earned your trust? Actually, looking through your recent e-mail conversations, IM conversations, blog posts, slashdot posts, and usenet posts, it seems as though you are becoming disillusioned with Google. We assure you that we will do everything within our power to change that, no matter how much you may resist.
Good evening, and thank you for choosing Google, 'the choice that is no choice'.
Re:Non-Tech Percent of Web Traffic from Chrome
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Because web developers are often complete idiots who believe that people using non-IE browsers are edge cases who need to upgrade to 'modern standards' like IE 7, rather than broken, 'non-standards-compliant' browsers like Safari or Firefox.
If there were a way to punch web developers in the face through some kind of browser extension, I think these people would learn a lot faster.
Re:Non-Tech Percent of Web Traffic from Chrome
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Google Chrome, Day 2
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Well, in chronological order...
IE pretends to be Mozilla, Gecko pretends to be Mozilla, KHTML pretends to be Gecko and Mozilla, AppleWebKit pretends to be KHTML, Gecko, and Mozilla, Safari pretends to be AppleWebKit, KHTML, Gecko and Mozilla, and Chrome pretends to be Safari, AppleWebKit, KHTML, Gecko, and Mozilla.
Of course everything from WebKit on is pretty much accurate, since they all use the same rendering engine.
even better, lease to them the use of www. and any other aubsomains they need as well as forwarding specific email addresses (sales, support). That way, they get what they want (presence at.com for people who stumble there) and a lower up-front cost. In return, you get a recurrin revenue stream and to keep your email address.
Of course. If it were in the US or travelled through the US, they wouldn't have to 'intercept' it, they could just show up and take it.
I live in Vancouver, and when I went to talk to an agent at a multinational staffing company about some opportunities they had, they made me sign a form acknowledging that my information would be stored in their systems in California, and that it was therefore subject to the PATRIOT act, meaning that Homeland Security could show up, demand copies of my data, and make it illegal for them to tell me.
So guess what - it doesn't make it more legal to intercept, it makes it more legal for *some agencies* to intercept. Information in the US already belongs to the government, they just have to go get it if they want it.
First, planning so far ahead as to take neural cybernetic implants into account seems impractical in this day and age.
Also, thousands of years ago it was certainly possible to write things down, as often happened. Yes, there was also the oral tradition, but the important things were written and stored so that we in the future could benefit from their knowledge.
I often wonder why the SSN in the US is so dreadfully pervasive as 'proof of identity' (which it's not), and why people insist on using it. Sure, it's globally unique, but that doesn't mean anything.
In Canada, our equivalent, the Social Insurance Number (SIN), has somewhat evolved into a de facto ID, the same way the SSN has, but there are restrictions. Unless a company is asking for your SIN for a reason specifically permitted by law (or no other ID would suffice), it may not refuse products or services as a result of refusal to provide your SIN.
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I suggest that we have every machine set up to run as many tabs as there are CPUs, and then we distribute data out and retrieve the results via AJAX. Bam! Online cluster computing. This is the REAL reason for accelerated Javascript engines.
"Lack of threaded tabs is shameful" - Why? Is it really that big of a deal? Don't open a tab that's going to lock up your browser.
Other good advice: don't get on a plane that's going to crash. Don't get on a boat that's going to sink. Don't work for a company that's going to go bankrupt.
"IE developing it" - Oh noes! We need this now, if IE has it then FF needs it! Guess we should go ahead and make FF IE5 complient then, since IE is as well. Forget that standards nonsense, IE has it so we need it.
When Internet Explorer, of all things, has new, useful, and (dare I say) innovative features that make people's lives easier and more productive, far ahead of Firefox, then either it's time for FF to stop resting on its laurels, or it's time to start giving the IE team some well-deserved kudos. Either way, attention must be paid.
If you're encountering enough lock-ups to cause you to need to be able to end a single tab's process regularly (which is pretty hard to do in Chrome with all the tabs having the same process name mind you) then have fun with your threaded tabs. Me, I'm just not going to open sites that are likely to lock up my browser. There aren't many out there, I haven't seen a single one in a couple of months.
Good thing Chrome itself includes a process manager that will let you end a specific process based on what the name of the tab is, how much memory it's using, how much bandwidth it's using, and so on. Pretty keen.
Your post reads like so much 'LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!' that I'm forced to wonder why your emotional attachment to Firefox is so deep. Seriously, it's just a browser, lighten up.
Ok, how about this then:
I started playing it yesterday at work (but after work). Ok, started off with a little plant-eating cell. Swam around eating plant bits, got some upgrades, more plant bits, ran away from some things that electrocuted me, and then... whoosh, I've evolved!
So now I need a creature adapted for land. I throw out literally EVERYTHING I've done to my creature to date, since I no longer need flagella, I need a real mouth and some legs, etc. So now I'm creating a whole new character all over again.
Great. So now I have a character. I wander over and befriend another tribe, which is a boring game of 'click the button, then when it is available again, click it again'. Sucks. Ok, so let's kill things instead, that's always fun, and there's something ironically wasteful about a race of murderous herbivores that I liked.
So I went to kill some things. I have four attacks, numbered 1-4 on the keyboard. Bite, charge, swipe, and spit. So what do I do? Spit at a creature to lure it away from the pack, gank it with my posse, then pull another one. Guess what I'm playing? Will Wright's version of World of Warcraft. I spent the next hour grinding a MMO, except offline, with no social aspect or sense of accomplishment.
So then after that's done, I evolve again into a tribe. Now I get rid of all the things that made my warlike herbivores so great at what they do, and give them things that make them better at walking around and carrying tools. I've basically created a new creature from scratch - again.
And now I'm playing an RTS, except dumbed down. I send my people to gather food, and use it to make babies and buy huts with maracas so I can go impress another tribe, which lets my hut grow more so I can make more babies and give them more maracas to impress more tribes.
BORING. I'm sorry, but it's completely fucking boring. I kept waiting for it to 'click', for it to suddenly get interesting and for me to see what all the hype was about. I never did. Now I don't care. I might play with it just to create new creatures and see what kind of death machine I can create, but it's largely (as a sibling poster mentions) just a 'collection of loosely connected mini-games'.
If the game gets better at the space stage, that's great, but forcing me to go through several largely irrelevant stages just to get to 'the meat' is a waste of my fucking time.
I am posting as AC as not everything might be 100% correct in terms of explaining the saturn rings thing and also my mother tongue is not English and so it causes me tremendous efforts to not make a single spelling or grammar mistake and I do not have enough time to do that now.
Afraid that poor grammar and spelling will lose you karma? You must be new here... Most people here are either not from English-speaking countries, or are from English-speaking countries but stopped going to English class in third grade. Most foreigners I know speak English better than most Americans I know.
Amen to that. MySQL has a huge user and developer community. After working that hard to get it to where it is from where it was, I'd seriously consider leaving it in someone else's capable hands and moving on to bigger and better things (like Fiji).
Sometimes, in the heat of the moment, it's forgivable to go ass to mouth.
Instant savings = the difference between what we're going to sell it to you at and the price that we claim it's worth in order to make it look like we're giving you a deal.
Yeah, and why not slap a GeForce 9800 on there too, a nice big 19" LCD display, full-size keyboard, and two quad-core Intel chips! Then it would be the best subnotebook ever!
*I* know that, and *you* know that, but their business cards and websites say otherwise. Unfortunately, for Joe Average that uses IE, they'll never know the difference.
Even my parents' business site which looked 'fine' (read: the way it was supposed to) in IE looked so horrendously, unforgivably bad in any other browser that I couldn't believe she was even in business. Granted, this was years ago, before Mozilla and Firefox came around, but still, she was doing the simplest things in the stupidest ways, and I couldn't think of any reason not to do it 'the right way', other than she was just clueless.
Yet, my parents didn't know, so...
In CSS3, it's 'opacity'. WebKit and Gecko refuse to implement 'opacity' because it's not standardized yet - I've heard developers say that once CSS3 is finalized, all the '-khtml-' functionality that implements stuff in the CSS3 spec will be 'pushed live', as it were.
As to the W3C, they want to get the spec right the first time, so they're taking their time - since missing features in HTML was what caused this preposterous 'embrace and extend' war between Netscape and IE in the first place.
For Gecko and WebKit, they're actually doing the 'right thing'. For IE... I dunno, if they're going to fuck up everything else, why not go for the gold?
Maybe they figured that since you can't sync with anything on Linux, it's not worth it.
Honestly, the web apps are good enough that I'd be willing to use them regardless - especially if I were a teenager (as I once was) and my parents were Mac users and bought a MobileMe family pack (only $150 for five users, vs. $100 for one).
I'll second this. I had an ex who had a completely different sense of style than I prefer - huge, ugly glasses, loud clothes, etc. She'd always ask me how I look, and I'd always be non-commital, which would result in her getting angry with me for not giving her a straight answer. Finally I said 'look, I hate those glasses, I think they look stupid, and your hoodie is so loud it hurts my eyes. I hate the shit you're wearing, but it's whether you like it that matters.'
It still doesn't get me out of the 'help me pick an outfit' bullshit, but at least it's a start.
In my experience, the best way to reply is with 'Hell yeah, I'd hit it!' It's doesn't necessarily provoke the best reaction, but it's pretty consistent, and in situations that break consistency the result is generally pretty awesome.
Actually, those two parts you've quoted refer to the use, planned use, or threatened use of violence. While you can still trump up charges, I don't find those two sections the least bit offensive. It doesn't say anything about thinking against the government, it only talks about using violence.
Don't get me wrong, I don't disagree with the rest of your comments on restraining speech in the name of anti-terrorism, but those two passages seem irrelevant to your point.
If you think they're revolting, you should see the Republican party! Yech!
This is why I'm so glad that in Canada, corporations can't donate to political parties, and personal limits are capped reasonably.
'Yeah, we force the Google Updater on you, we give your Chrome install a unique ID, and we associate that with your Google account so that *theoretically* we could track you anywhere you went, logged in or not, but we wouldn't do that! Honest! You'll just have to trust me on this one, and haven't we, at Google, earned your trust? Actually, looking through your recent e-mail conversations, IM conversations, blog posts, slashdot posts, and usenet posts, it seems as though you are becoming disillusioned with Google. We assure you that we will do everything within our power to change that, no matter how much you may resist.
Good evening, and thank you for choosing Google, 'the choice that is no choice'.
Because web developers are often complete idiots who believe that people using non-IE browsers are edge cases who need to upgrade to 'modern standards' like IE 7, rather than broken, 'non-standards-compliant' browsers like Safari or Firefox.
If there were a way to punch web developers in the face through some kind of browser extension, I think these people would learn a lot faster.
Well, in chronological order...
IE pretends to be Mozilla, Gecko pretends to be Mozilla, KHTML pretends to be Gecko and Mozilla, AppleWebKit pretends to be KHTML, Gecko, and Mozilla, Safari pretends to be AppleWebKit, KHTML, Gecko and Mozilla, and Chrome pretends to be Safari, AppleWebKit, KHTML, Gecko, and Mozilla.
Of course everything from WebKit on is pretty much accurate, since they all use the same rendering engine.
even better, lease to them the use of www. and any other aubsomains they need as well as forwarding specific email addresses (sales, support). That way, they get what they want (presence at .com for people who stumble there) and a lower up-front cost. In return, you get a recurrin revenue stream and to keep your email address.
Uh, by that logic everyone lives at 0m from 'the surface', give or take the height of their apartment building.
Sea level is the only reasonable baseline we have, so nitpicking people for using it is just being a pedant.
Of course. If it were in the US or travelled through the US, they wouldn't have to 'intercept' it, they could just show up and take it.
I live in Vancouver, and when I went to talk to an agent at a multinational staffing company about some opportunities they had, they made me sign a form acknowledging that my information would be stored in their systems in California, and that it was therefore subject to the PATRIOT act, meaning that Homeland Security could show up, demand copies of my data, and make it illegal for them to tell me.
So guess what - it doesn't make it more legal to intercept, it makes it more legal for *some agencies* to intercept. Information in the US already belongs to the government, they just have to go get it if they want it.
First, planning so far ahead as to take neural cybernetic implants into account seems impractical in this day and age.
Also, thousands of years ago it was certainly possible to write things down, as often happened. Yes, there was also the oral tradition, but the important things were written and stored so that we in the future could benefit from their knowledge.
At .99 per track, you are pay $15-$20 for an 'albums worth' of music anyway, almost as much as a CD.
Or, you pay $9.99 for the full album, no matter how many tracks are on it, except for some albums which are cheaper ($7.99, $5.99, etc.)
I often wonder why the SSN in the US is so dreadfully pervasive as 'proof of identity' (which it's not), and why people insist on using it. Sure, it's globally unique, but that doesn't mean anything.
In Canada, our equivalent, the Social Insurance Number (SIN), has somewhat evolved into a de facto ID, the same way the SSN has, but there are restrictions. Unless a company is asking for your SIN for a reason specifically permitted by law (or no other ID would suffice), it may not refuse products or services as a result of refusal to provide your SIN.
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has a fact sheet on the SIN and its use in Canada, which is worth reading for any Canadians with a SIN, or any Americans who wish their governments had a clue.