I don't want to get all Jamie Oliver on people but honestly, he's onto something. Cooking works, it's easy, it's fun and the food you can make is *way* better then junk food.
America could probably fix its economy and waistline problem just by doing this.
I promised myself I wouldn't become an old fart but when the suggestion is to upgrade a P4 in order to surf the net, I cringe. It's a fscking gigahertz processor, for crying out loud.
It's usually not the CPU that's the problem, it's the RAM. Old machines have less RAM. Less then 1Gb will cripple modern browsers (especially on Windows XP which has an *awful* RAM manager).
I regularly use a 900mHz Celeron, 2Gb RAM machine for web browsing and it's fine.
Yep, Go find a really nicely filtered LED UV torch that only emits 400nm light.
That would still make loads of stuff fluoresce unless you treated your entire house with special paint and hope the burglar isn't wearing any cotton and everybody keeps their mouth closed and hasn't washed their hair with certain brands of shampoo.
As opposed to goal post that shifts every other day, and any of these days may break your desired functionality.
If you're not following the standard then that's your problem, not Firefox's. If a minor release is going to break your website then it was going to break on the next major release anyway.
Under the old system you'd then have to support the old browser and the new one, I fail to see how that would be better....
I think all this hydrogen tech is very dangerous, we will start burning hydrogen and more of it will leak and escape from the earth since it is so light and before too long we will run out of water.
With rising oceans this might turn out to be a good thing...
Major releases were nice because it meant as someone publishing stuff to the web you could count on the major it of users having one of about three browsers, times one or two previous revisions of those. It made it relatively possible to test things.
As opposed to what...? Everybody having the exact same version as you since the updates became automated and invisible?
How you want to decide Google passed on continuing down this road is up to you. Frankly, I would surmise that the type I and type II errors become woefully problematic when applied to an entire population.
I dunno. I bet if you combine the location of a photo with what Google knows about where you live/hang out the results would be pretty good.
You're wasting your breath. You might as well ask people to stop making "First Post!" or say "Gobal warming? it's freezing outside!" every time there's a cold day.
and I'm seriously wondering why I don't run Opera or Chrome.
Have you checked out Chrome's release schedule? You get new versions weekly (more or less). The last updates were 18th and 21st of September (three days between them, tada!)
The only difference is that Firefox uses simple, consecutive integers and Chrome's version numbers look more like IP addresses.
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Or I could spend that hour it takes to prep, cook, serve, and clean doing something useful.
LIke what? Surfing the web or watching TV?
If I make 15/hr, working for an hour then going to eat somewhere like subway seems like the winner?
You spend every waking moment working?
...and that's only 2011.
As a company they don't seem to actually want any customers.
Clue: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/online_gaming
Summed up: Learn to cook.
I don't want to get all Jamie Oliver on people but honestly, he's onto something. Cooking works, it's easy, it's fun and the food you can make is *way* better then junk food.
America could probably fix its economy and waistline problem just by doing this.
...except gasoline.
...and that's subsidized, i.e. you're paying for it somewhere else and they use your money to keep the price down.
Try this: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling
It figures, yet the obsession with performance seemingly tied with the establishment of chrome seems out of place to me.
Google is betting that the future of computing is Javascript. /Excuse me while I throw up...
I promised myself I wouldn't become an old fart but when the suggestion is to upgrade a P4 in order to surf the net, I cringe. It's a fscking gigahertz processor, for crying out loud.
It's usually not the CPU that's the problem, it's the RAM. Old machines have less RAM. Less then 1Gb will cripple modern browsers (especially on Windows XP which has an *awful* RAM manager).
I regularly use a 900mHz Celeron, 2Gb RAM machine for web browsing and it's fine.
(and he might not be able to buy any more second hand cars ... )
Downside: He might find hotel rooms less appealing...
I thought all sunglasses had UV protection
Yep.
That's why you can buy $5 sunglasses with full UV certification.
Neither glass nor polycarbonates will let UV though. Anything else is bad science by sunglass salespeople.
Yep, Go find a really nicely filtered LED UV torch that only emits 400nm light.
That would still make loads of stuff fluoresce unless you treated your entire house with special paint and hope the burglar isn't wearing any cotton and everybody keeps their mouth closed and hasn't washed their hair with certain brands of shampoo.
I guess you'd be a good "natural" tracker now...
Wouldn't that be infra-red, not UV?
UV vision would let you see semen stains more easily but I'm not sure if that's a superpower or not.
3. Use this ability for a stealth motion detector. If a robber can't see in the dark, but you can, this would be a advantage.
That would be infra-red, not UV...
Maybe you could cite a "real world" example to back up your vague handwaving.
ie. A concrete example of how the new update system has made your life more difficult then the old system.
Until then you're just in the "talk is cheap" category of interviewees.
It's the end user's problem that you're not following the HTML standard?
I'm not sure I'd want to hire you.
As opposed to goal post that shifts every other day, and any of these days may break your desired functionality.
If you're not following the standard then that's your problem, not Firefox's. If a minor release is going to break your website then it was going to break on the next major release anyway.
Under the old system you'd then have to support the old browser and the new one, I fail to see how that would be better....
I think all this hydrogen tech is very dangerous, we will start burning hydrogen and more of it will leak and escape from the earth since it is so light and before too long we will run out of water.
With rising oceans this might turn out to be a good thing...
You think all those images on Google Earth were taken vertically downwards...?
That sort of image transform is everyday stuff to people who work in geomapping.
Major releases were nice because it meant as someone publishing stuff to the web you could count on the major it of users having one of about three browsers, times one or two previous revisions of those. It made it relatively possible to test things.
As opposed to what...? Everybody having the exact same version as you since the updates became automated and invisible?
If you are a Facebook user you can untag yourself. If you are not a Facebook users they can't tag you.
You think Facebook really throws that information away just because you clicked "untag"?
How you want to decide Google passed on continuing down this road is up to you. Frankly, I would surmise that the type I and type II errors become woefully problematic when applied to an entire population.
I dunno. I bet if you combine the location of a photo with what Google knows about where you live/hang out the results would be pretty good.
You're wasting your breath. You might as well ask people to stop making "First Post!" or say "Gobal warming? it's freezing outside!" every time there's a cold day.
... wait for "Firefox Ack(n+1)" to experience significant changes from version Ack(n)?
Um, Ackermann's Function takes two parameters.
and I'm seriously wondering why I don't run Opera or Chrome.
Have you checked out Chrome's release schedule? You get new versions weekly (more or less). The last updates were 18th and 21st of September (three days between them, tada!)
The only difference is that Firefox uses simple, consecutive integers and Chrome's version numbers look more like IP addresses.