P.S. Learn to capitalize and spell properly. Otherwise, you come off as stupid and ignorant when trying to make some grand political point.
This is why I don't like Slashdot comments that much. All your comment was overall good, but you had to fuck it using this ad-hominem attack.
No, GP does not come off as stupid and ignorant just because he did not capitalize certain words, it just shows he does not know how to correctly spell in English.
You ask ask for references for GP's position, reject his premises and yet don't give any kind of reference yourself (i.e., in the spirit of Slashdot, you are just arguing, which is OK).
The fact that you disagree with GP's (or anyones) ideas does not give you the right to offend them (or shoot them for that matter) you know?
I have anonymously edited once or twice some obscure article of wikipedia (articles from Mexico and Spanish based stuff) which get "undone" after a couple of days just because some mod does not agree with the truth... or "just because".
After doing it several times it gets tyring and you just give up... wikipedia is just the encyclopedia of the hundred few to choose to spend their majority of time working the "politics" of such site.
That will just mean that the IT guys are incompenent.
The task of the IT is to solve technological problems for the people in the company who are actually working to make money. For example, I am in a research institute, I do research, I run simulations, I get grants. Such grants pay my salary AND the salaries of administration and IT.
Imagine if the secretarial/admin. staff were the same prima-donnas as the IT staff? Fuck it. I *know* about technology and I know it is possible to have a transparent secure environment. I don't like NO for an answer when I must install something for my work. That's the reason why everytime it happens, I just go to my "boss" (head of department) and magically, after he asks the IT if it is possible, then it becomes possible (e.g. WTF do you mean I cannot install Netbeans with the last Java SDK??? my groups' simulations are done using *that*!)
We are not talking about Google Ads but actual search results that are nothing more that ad-landing pages; the typical pages that have the same words which you searched inside the url and similar.
Google search is so bad that a lot of times all the results on the first page are nothing more that one paragraph "blogs" full of ads (well... full of blank spaces because I use Adblock)
hmmm well... I thought the same about MSN messenger (at least in my country), and nowadays the majority of people who were in MSN use Facebook to communicate instead.
Good ridance if you ask me... It was so bad to get 10 messenger windows opening just as you login, with messages of people that would *never* think of writing you an email and only say "hey hello how have you been, long time on see you" because you popped up online.
So, I expect something else will come in some years and everyone will migrate from Facebook to that...
Geocities had a load of interesting and insightful informaiton back in the day (electronics, programming, emulation, DIY, etc). Myspace has always been just a bunch of stupid teens.
Yeah, I am that old and yeah you are stepping into my lawn.
They should allow it, but charge per MB or per KB/s. That way the market of "mobile data tansfer" would sort by itself. People who want to download more will pay more. Companies that *can* afford the same bandwidth or speed for smaller price will provie a better price.
It is really funny. Not so long ago there was a IAmA (interview) in Reddit with some of the Hotmail engineers.
One of the main things people didn't like is that Hotmail deletes all your data if you do not login in some time (3 months IIRC). Well, after being confronted with that, the engineers answered "well, we incresaed the time from X to 3 months" or something like that...
That was exactly the reason I left hotmail (when Gmail became available). I had *everything* from the first days of the net there (I created my HM account in August, 1997) but the bastards deleted it all.
Call me "old fashioned" (shit, I'm only 29), but as I started getting into the internet before it was called "surfing" (back in the Gopher days) I am amazed at the amount of crap that appears when I *dare* to navigate the web using Internet Explorer (no adblock in there).
It is horrible to see how the WWW has become the equivalent of a "Mirror" magazine. Even when you use a search engine (ok... I have only used google in a long time, maybe others are better); their first results are mainly "click harvesters". Everybody wants to create a "SE Optimized" web site to get at the top of Google search results and get clicks so that their ads are displayed. Pretty much that sums the internet nowadays.
I guess today Freenet has the same Signal-to-noise ratio as the WWW at the beginning of the 1990s/rant Oh yeah, and get off my lawn.
I was surprised when you mentioned Chrome not eating RAM for add-ons
Oh now I never said that, in fact it is the contrary; in my experience Google Chrome uses quite a lot of more memory than Firefox exactly for the reasons you cite. Nevertheless Chrome *feels* really fast and snappy!
But then I saw it justified by you saying it can be enabled only when you need it.
Actually, some time ago I was experimenting to a Chrome extension that showed the "list of extensions" when you clicked the icon and let you enable/disable them. Unfortunately, the Chrome extension API does not allow you to access the special chrome.send() function to enable/disable extensions. Also, there is no keyboard-shortcut to the extension configuration page.
But the problem is actually the people who use the same password for Gawker, Email and Facebook... They definitely exist; even the admin of Gawker used the same password for several sites. That is a problem of the people.
Users should have to authenticate just ONCE using a secure method (TAN, time-synchronized pass, etc) and then do all following authentication using something like OpenID.
It would be so easy to allow TAN based authentication (with long TANs or one-time passwords) and would solve the password problem.
I myself have created a personal webmail client to access my GMAIL using TAN via IMAP (squirrelmail) and thus can login to my email in any place without fear of getting my password keylogged.
Even though it would be better if I could authenticate directly into Google services using this and once logged into Google accounts I could log in to other places via OpenID. The problem is that Google prevents automatic log-in with the GALX attribute.
Someone should make a Task Manager similar to Chrome's to see how much memory and CPU is each addon eating.
Also, why do I still need to RESTART the browser after installing, enabling or disabling an extension? Google Chrome should include some fairy dust because it is trivial to install, enable or disabling an extension.
Thus, in Chrome it is easy to have a lot of extensions installed (invisible hand, xmarks, tackynotes, sessionbuddy, etc) without eating ram and only enable them when you use them (without needing to restart the darn browser).
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P.S. Learn to capitalize and spell properly. Otherwise, you come off as stupid and ignorant when trying to make some grand political point.
This is why I don't like Slashdot comments that much. All your comment was overall good, but you had to fuck it using this ad-hominem attack.
No, GP does not come off as stupid and ignorant just because he did not capitalize certain words, it just shows he does not know how to correctly spell in English.
You ask ask for references for GP's position, reject his premises and yet don't give any kind of reference yourself (i.e., in the spirit of Slashdot, you are just arguing, which is OK).
The fact that you disagree with GP's (or anyones) ideas does not give you the right to offend them (or shoot them for that matter) you know?
p.s., no I am no mother Theresa :P
What's stopping you from fixing it?
The mods/editors?
I have anonymously edited once or twice some obscure article of wikipedia (articles from Mexico and Spanish based stuff) which get "undone" after a couple of days just because some mod does not agree with the truth ... or "just because".
After doing it several times it gets tyring and you just give up... wikipedia is just the encyclopedia of the hundred few to choose to spend their majority of time working the "politics" of such site.
That will just mean that the IT guys are incompenent.
The task of the IT is to solve technological problems for the people in the company who are actually working to make money. For example, I am in a research institute, I do research, I run simulations, I get grants. Such grants pay my salary AND the salaries of administration and IT.
Imagine if the secretarial/admin. staff were the same prima-donnas as the IT staff? Fuck it. I *know* about technology and I know it is possible to have a transparent secure environment. I don't like NO for an answer when I must install something for my work. That's the reason why everytime it happens, I just go to my "boss" (head of department) and magically, after he asks the IT if it is possible, then it becomes possible (e.g. WTF do you mean I cannot install Netbeans with the last Java SDK??? my groups' simulations are done using *that*!)
Ladies and gentelmen, the Bastard Operator From Hell !
Duh! everybody know that if you want to get answers to concrete questions you have to ask Jeeves!
We are not talking about Google Ads but actual search results that are nothing more that ad-landing pages; the typical pages that have the same words which you searched inside the url and similar.
Google search is so bad that a lot of times all the results on the first page are nothing more that one paragraph "blogs" full of ads (well... full of blank spaces because I use Adblock)
Tell that to Gary McKinnon .
Let me guess... MetalicA... ;-)
Fortunately you misspelled metallic , otherwise you could have been in breach of someones trademark
hmmm well... I thought the same about MSN messenger (at least in my country), and nowadays the majority of people who were in MSN use Facebook to communicate instead.
Good ridance if you ask me... It was so bad to get 10 messenger windows opening just as you login, with messages of people that would *never* think of writing you an email and only say "hey hello how have you been, long time on see you" because you popped up online.
So, I expect something else will come in some years and everyone will migrate from Facebook to that...
s/informaiton/information/g
Yes you are.
Geocities had a load of interesting and insightful informaiton back in the day (electronics, programming, emulation, DIY, etc). Myspace has always been just a bunch of stupid teens.
Yeah, I am that old and yeah you are stepping into my lawn.
THANK YOU! I hope I had mod points. A software "window" have been called a "window" much before Microsoft existed.
That's why I prefer Killer Sudoku, it introduces arithmetical complexity to the typical Sudoku game.
Weell... I remember back when I lived in the UK some newspapers gave free wine bottles to the first persons who solved Sudokus =o)...
They should allow it, but charge per MB or per KB/s. That way the market of "mobile data tansfer" would sort by itself. People who want to download more will pay more. Companies that *can* afford the same bandwidth or speed for smaller price will provie a better price.
Yeah, the "ban the guns" thought is so stupid...
In Mexico our government has banned guns... feel free to get any kind of statistics from there ;-)
It is really funny. Not so long ago there was a IAmA (interview) in Reddit with some of the Hotmail engineers.
One of the main things people didn't like is that Hotmail deletes all your data if you do not login in some time (3 months IIRC). Well, after being confronted with that, the engineers answered "well, we incresaed the time from X to 3 months" or something like that...
That was exactly the reason I left hotmail (when Gmail became available). I had *everything* from the first days of the net there (I created my HM account in August, 1997) but the bastards deleted it all.
Hotmail sucks so bad
I block ads because they are annoying.
Call me "old fashioned" (shit, I'm only 29), but as I started getting into the internet before it was called "surfing" (back in the Gopher days) I am amazed at the amount of crap that appears when I *dare* to navigate the web using Internet Explorer (no adblock in there).
It is horrible to see how the WWW has become the equivalent of a "Mirror" magazine. Even when you use a search engine (ok... I have only used google in a long time, maybe others are better); their first results are mainly "click harvesters". Everybody wants to create a "SE Optimized" web site to get at the top of Google search results and get clicks so that their ads are displayed. Pretty much that sums the internet nowadays.
I guess today Freenet has the same Signal-to-noise ratio as the WWW at the beginning of the 1990s /rant
Oh yeah, and get off my lawn.
I was surprised when you mentioned Chrome not eating RAM for add-ons
Oh now I never said that, in fact it is the contrary; in my experience Google Chrome uses quite a lot of more memory than Firefox exactly for the reasons you cite. Nevertheless Chrome *feels* really fast and snappy!
But then I saw it justified by you saying it can be enabled only when you need it.
Actually, some time ago I was experimenting to a Chrome extension that showed the "list of extensions" when you clicked the icon and let you enable/disable them. Unfortunately, the Chrome extension API does not allow you to access the special chrome.send() function to enable/disable extensions. Also, there is no keyboard-shortcut to the extension configuration page.
Yup, they actually removed it not made it "hidden" as a default.
There is an extension (status4evar) but it does not work very well.
Stupid move IMHO.
But the problem is actually the people who use the same password for Gawker, Email and Facebook... They definitely exist; even the admin of Gawker used the same password for several sites. That is a problem of the people.
Users should have to authenticate just ONCE using a secure method (TAN, time-synchronized pass, etc) and then do all following authentication using something like OpenID.
That's we should really standardize time-synchronized one time password tokens to login.
Just login into a "master site" like Google or Yahoo or whatever and use OpenID to log into any other sites.
EXACTLY!.
It would be so easy to allow TAN based authentication (with long TANs or one-time passwords) and would solve the password problem.
I myself have created a personal webmail client to access my GMAIL using TAN via IMAP (squirrelmail) and thus can login to my email in any place without fear of getting my password keylogged.
Even though it would be better if I could authenticate directly into Google services using this and once logged into Google accounts I could log in to other places via OpenID. The problem is that Google prevents automatic log-in with the GALX attribute.
For example, the status bar...
They just removed it because... uhm, Chrome did it.
Of course now when you hover your mouse over a link you only get HALF of the target URL showing in the address bar in a grayish color.
Seriously, I am with GP on this. Mozilla guys keep "fixing" things that aren't broken ...
Someone should make a Task Manager similar to Chrome's to see how much memory and CPU is each addon eating.
Also, why do I still need to RESTART the browser after installing, enabling or disabling an extension? Google Chrome should include some fairy dust because it is trivial to install, enable or disabling an extension.
Thus, in Chrome it is easy to have a lot of extensions installed (invisible hand, xmarks, tackynotes, sessionbuddy, etc) without eating ram and only enable them when you use them (without needing to restart the darn browser).