--Submitting personal experience, Palemoon on Linux 64-bit is beating Firefox all hollow WITH THE SAME PLUGINS running.
--In my work environment, Xubuntu 64-bit, Firefox would regularly use ~2GB+ of my 6GB of laptop RAM - and become extremely slow. I open and close tabs all night. Palemoon is *much* more memory efficient - and I haven't noticed the same slowdown effect.
--Right now I have 15 Palemoon windows open and God knows how many tabs, but one of the best changes they made to the Firefox base code is not loading all tabs on browser launch - only when they're active. That said, Palemoon is the better browser in my experience.
--You should try switching to the palemoon browser. Nice replacement for firefox, based on the same code base, and WITHOUT all the stupid new UX crappiness (i.e. Australis.) Mostly trivial to copy your settings over but you have to know where the cache dir/files live, they don't have an Import coded yet(?) for FF.
--No offense to him, but Tory was IMHO the most expendable of the 3. Kari is attractive, easy on the eyes, intelligent, and made for good TV. Grant is a pretty good scientific thinker and made the explanations easy to understand, but he was kind of limited to a "hey let's build a ROBOT to do this" mentality for most of the projects. Granted I haven't watched the show for a while, but I will really miss Kari the most.
It would be nice if someone posted where we (the customers) can protest this sale... I'm OK with TWC right now, but Comcast is the devil. Really don't want them combining.
--This. Yet more reason to switch to Palemoon, since I neither want nor need a full development IDE in my freaking daily web browser. It's code bloat, and the vast majority of users DO NOT NEED it.
--Mozilla should be make this a separate download/package. Things are continuing to go downhill after Australis...
--Thanks for that. I switched to Palemoon on Windows as soon as I saw the idiotic Australis look-and-feel. Firefox developers or Tone-deaf morans, you decide...
--Sorry, I know Mint is one of the most popular distros and I'm a longtime user - but if you take a proper Debian base and modify it to the point where it can't be *upgraded* properly, YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG. I stopped using RPM-based distros exactly because of the upgrade headaches a long time ago.
--I went with Xubuntu this time around and haven't noticed the difference much - altho it appears to be much more stable than the last Mint(15/Olivia) I had on this laptop.
--What, are you kidding? I can go to a CMD prompt in Win7 and type in ' ftp ' and it works. It's crappy and basic, but it's there. However, googling for " Winscp " and installing it is dead simple.
--Some of us evidently care more than others. When I was playing Fallout 2 and one of my companions (especially Sulik) got killed, I would reload from the last save because 1) I felt bad for him and 2) he was a great companion to have in the game. Also 3) because had was carrying a truckload of extra stuff that was too heavy for me alone.
--This carries on to other games as well - if I'm playing solo in Halo 4 and my disposable squad from the Infinity gets killed off, I feel slightly bad that I wasn't able to arm them effectively and protect them. It's called empathy. You also see it in some sci-fi novels - it costs you nothing to be polite, respectful and thankful to an AI that you're interacting with, and that attitude unconsciously carries over towards other people as well. It's a good trait to develop.
--Wow, small world.:) I just started playing F:NV about a week ago and it's really addicting.
--I ended up killing Vulpes Inculta and his troops early on (in Nipton) with the Incinerator that I looted from the NCR prison complex, after demolishing the Powder Gangers. It was an interesting interaction - I gained fame with the Legion after agreeing with him, then killed him in a sneak attack. Now I'm supposedly "neutral" to the Legion according to the Pipboy.;-)
--I usually play along the same lines as you indicated (although the Bloody Mess perk can be fun) and didn't realize the Legion was sending assassins after me. I was shooting up a random Bighorn herd south of Novac and these 2 Legionaires came out of nowhere and started attacking me. Thought be there was a Legion base nearby but there didn't seem to be anything on the map.
--Best hack so far: I was low on health and more than halfway Irradiated, but had just found 2 suits of Brotherhood of Steel armor and killed a bunch of centaurs. Ended up grabbing 1 of the Armor, taking Buffout for strength and fast-traveling all the way back to Goodsprings to get healed by the doc. Amazed it worked:)
Protip: Easiest way I've found to kill a Nightkin is to use 10MM submachine gun on full auto;-)
--You make a very good point. I remember thinking about this when I saw Star Trek First Contact (i.e. the Borg movie) where Data mentions he considered the Borg Queen's proposal for "0.68 seconds sir. For an android, that is nearly an eternity."
--It should be fairly easy to include subprocessors in an android to handle body movements (walk, run, sit, etc) while the "main brain" is off designing universes (or whatever) and thinking at android-normal speed. Android brain wants to say something or interact with a slower lifeform, it offloads whatever is needed to the subprocessor for speech/listening - and then returns to the discussion (subjectively a LONG time afterward) when it has enough input. Wash, rinse, repeat.
--Trying to edit with vi in 2014 makes me think of EDLIN. Srsly?
--Nice to know I have something in common with a famous author - my favorite editor to this day is jstar (joe package in Linux.) Typed in my COBOL programs using Wordstar back in the late 80's. Powerbasic and Turbo Basic both came with an IDE compiler that used Wordstar key combos. It's really nice once you get used to it.
--That should arguably have made the news. I read something similar recently - the fining/punishments stopped after the story hit the papers, as it was embarrassingly bad PR for the cops.
--PROTIP for anyone who has to delete a directory from the command prompt (not using a script):
** USE MIDNIGHT COMMANDER. **
--The #1 cause of unexpected system crashes was determined to be ' rm ' typos or misuse.
--I login as root on a near-daily regular basis. I don't delete *anything* more than a few files without using MC, and the only root-caused crash I've had was back in the 90's - when I accidentally typed/dev/sda in a dd command (on a family PC) instead of/dev/fd0.
--MC lets you use Insert to tag files, * to tag by wildcards, and then F8 to delete files and directories safely.
--Good on ya. Try Sheffield's " Between The Strokes of Night " to start with. I do tend to agree with you to a certain extent on the cultural baggage, but hopefully that can be mitigated with determination and education.
> On the flip side, billions of humans on earth need food, shelter, clean water, and education right fucking now. Once we get our house in order I could see wasting a few trillion dollars on a cosmic vanity project, but not until then.
--The thing is though, we have had THOUSANDS OF YEARS to "get our house in order", and things are as bad (or worse) as they have ever been. We deserve a chance to start over in a new territory at this point. Charles Sheffield has some good stories that illustrate why doing this is a Good Idea, if you're interested.
--I'm with you 99%. The prospect of a new "space race" to the Moon is exciting for me, for the same reasons that you listed. We need to get Mankind into space in a big way.
--Anyone who hasn't already read "The Moon is a harsh mistress" turn in your geek card - it should be required reading. And if you get a chance, go visit the Saturn V rockets on display in Houston and Cape Canaveral.
--My greatest fear is that the US will treat this as rhetoric, and fail to get the fire lit under the space program again (that badly needs a cash infusion, as well as buy-in from the general public - hearts and minds help train future astronauts.)
--There's too many people as it is on this damn f'd up ball of rock+water, and we have a single point of failure. If we expand into space, eventually that will mean less congestion on the roads and in the cities. I may already be too old to live the dream of going into space in my lifetime and staying at the Space Hilton, but dammit I would support it financially for the future of the species.
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--Submitting personal experience, Palemoon on Linux 64-bit is beating Firefox all hollow WITH THE SAME PLUGINS running.
--In my work environment, Xubuntu 64-bit, Firefox would regularly use ~2GB+ of my 6GB of laptop RAM - and become extremely slow. I open and close tabs all night. Palemoon is *much* more memory efficient - and I haven't noticed the same slowdown effect.
--Right now I have 15 Palemoon windows open and God knows how many tabs, but one of the best changes they made to the Firefox base code is not loading all tabs on browser launch - only when they're active. That said, Palemoon is the better browser in my experience.
--But what about second breakfast???
/ po-tay-to
--You should try switching to the palemoon browser. Nice replacement for firefox, based on the same code base, and WITHOUT all the stupid new UX crappiness (i.e. Australis.) Mostly trivial to copy your settings over but you have to know where the cache dir/files live, they don't have an Import coded yet(?) for FF.
--No offense to him, but Tory was IMHO the most expendable of the 3. Kari is attractive, easy on the eyes, intelligent, and made for good TV. Grant is a pretty good scientific thinker and made the explanations easy to understand, but he was kind of limited to a "hey let's build a ROBOT to do this" mentality for most of the projects. Granted I haven't watched the show for a while, but I will really miss Kari the most.
--Interesting if true; do you have a citation/reference article?
Hodor!
--I'll give you an AMEN on that!!
--Agreed, except when the glass is hit by a laser, or covered with ice/snow/birdsplat/debris...
--Don't get me wrong, I prefer glass windows in the cockpit and agree that there should be a failsafe in case the display gets hosed.
It would be nice if someone posted where we (the customers) can protest this sale... I'm OK with TWC right now, but Comcast is the devil. Really don't want them combining.
--This. Yet more reason to switch to Palemoon, since I neither want nor need a full development IDE in my freaking daily web browser. It's code bloat, and the vast majority of users DO NOT NEED it.
--Mozilla should be make this a separate download/package. Things are continuing to go downhill after Australis...
--Thanks for that. I switched to Palemoon on Windows as soon as I saw the idiotic Australis look-and-feel. Firefox developers or Tone-deaf morans, you decide...
--Sorry, I know Mint is one of the most popular distros and I'm a longtime user - but if you take a proper Debian base and modify it to the point where it can't be *upgraded* properly, YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG. I stopped using RPM-based distros exactly because of the upgrade headaches a long time ago.
--I went with Xubuntu this time around and haven't noticed the difference much - altho it appears to be much more stable than the last Mint(15/Olivia) I had on this laptop.
--What, are you kidding? I can go to a CMD prompt in Win7 and type in ' ftp ' and it works. It's crappy and basic, but it's there. However, googling for " Winscp " and installing it is dead simple.
--Some of us evidently care more than others. When I was playing Fallout 2 and one of my companions (especially Sulik) got killed, I would reload from the last save because 1) I felt bad for him and 2) he was a great companion to have in the game. Also 3) because had was carrying a truckload of extra stuff that was too heavy for me alone.
--This carries on to other games as well - if I'm playing solo in Halo 4 and my disposable squad from the Infinity gets killed off, I feel slightly bad that I wasn't able to arm them effectively and protect them. It's called empathy. You also see it in some sci-fi novels - it costs you nothing to be polite, respectful and thankful to an AI that you're interacting with, and that attitude unconsciously carries over towards other people as well. It's a good trait to develop.
--Wow, small world. :) I just started playing F:NV about a week ago and it's really addicting.
--I ended up killing Vulpes Inculta and his troops early on (in Nipton) with the Incinerator that I looted from the NCR prison complex, after demolishing the Powder Gangers. It was an interesting interaction - I gained fame with the Legion after agreeing with him, then killed him in a sneak attack. Now I'm supposedly "neutral" to the Legion according to the Pipboy. ;-)
--I usually play along the same lines as you indicated (although the Bloody Mess perk can be fun) and didn't realize the Legion was sending assassins after me. I was shooting up a random Bighorn herd south of Novac and these 2 Legionaires came out of nowhere and started attacking me. Thought be there was a Legion base nearby but there didn't seem to be anything on the map.
--Best hack so far: I was low on health and more than halfway Irradiated, but had just found 2 suits of Brotherhood of Steel armor and killed a bunch of centaurs. Ended up grabbing 1 of the Armor, taking Buffout for strength and fast-traveling all the way back to Goodsprings to get healed by the doc. Amazed it worked :)
Protip: Easiest way I've found to kill a Nightkin is to use 10MM submachine gun on full auto ;-)
The cake is a LIE!!
--You make a very good point. I remember thinking about this when I saw Star Trek First Contact (i.e. the Borg movie) where Data mentions he considered the Borg Queen's proposal for "0.68 seconds sir. For an android, that is nearly an eternity."
--It should be fairly easy to include subprocessors in an android to handle body movements (walk, run, sit, etc) while the "main brain" is off designing universes (or whatever) and thinking at android-normal speed. Android brain wants to say something or interact with a slower lifeform, it offloads whatever is needed to the subprocessor for speech/listening - and then returns to the discussion (subjectively a LONG time afterward) when it has enough input. Wash, rinse, repeat.
--Trying to edit with vi in 2014 makes me think of EDLIN. Srsly?
--Nice to know I have something in common with a famous author - my favorite editor to this day is jstar (joe package in Linux.) Typed in my COBOL programs using Wordstar back in the late 80's. Powerbasic and Turbo Basic both came with an IDE compiler that used Wordstar key combos. It's really nice once you get used to it.
--I'm with you 99%. I would personally rather use upstart over systemd(which needs to die.)
--That should arguably have made the news. I read something similar recently - the fining/punishments stopped after the story hit the papers, as it was embarrassingly bad PR for the cops.
--PROTIP for anyone who has to delete a directory from the command prompt (not using a script):
** USE MIDNIGHT COMMANDER. **
--The #1 cause of unexpected system crashes was determined to be ' rm ' typos or misuse.
--I login as root on a near-daily regular basis. I don't delete *anything* more than a few files without using MC, and the only root-caused crash I've had was back in the 90's - when I accidentally typed /dev/sda in a dd command (on a family PC) instead of /dev/fd0.
--MC lets you use Insert to tag files, * to tag by wildcards, and then F8 to delete files and directories safely.
--Still has pretty good writing, and it's fun to read the weather predictions and compare them against reality.
Also worth mentioning - AMA (American Motorcyclist)
Consumer Reports
--Good on ya. Try Sheffield's " Between The Strokes of Night " to start with. I do tend to agree with you to a certain extent on the cultural baggage, but hopefully that can be mitigated with determination and education.
> On the flip side, billions of humans on earth need food, shelter, clean water, and education right fucking now. Once we get our house in order I could see wasting a few trillion dollars on a cosmic vanity project, but not until then.
--The thing is though, we have had THOUSANDS OF YEARS to "get our house in order", and things are as bad (or worse) as they have ever been. We deserve a chance to start over in a new territory at this point. Charles Sheffield has some good stories that illustrate why doing this is a Good Idea, if you're interested.
--I'm with you 99%. The prospect of a new "space race" to the Moon is exciting for me, for the same reasons that you listed. We need to get Mankind into space in a big way.
--Anyone who hasn't already read "The Moon is a harsh mistress" turn in your geek card - it should be required reading. And if you get a chance, go visit the Saturn V rockets on display in Houston and Cape Canaveral.
--My greatest fear is that the US will treat this as rhetoric, and fail to get the fire lit under the space program again (that badly needs a cash infusion, as well as buy-in from the general public - hearts and minds help train future astronauts.)
--There's too many people as it is on this damn f'd up ball of rock+water, and we have a single point of failure. If we expand into space, eventually that will mean less congestion on the roads and in the cities. I may already be too old to live the dream of going into space in my lifetime and staying at the Space Hilton, but dammit I would support it financially for the future of the species.