For this problem I have made use of the MRTech Local Install plugin:
Download all the exensions you like into one folder; install the Local Install plugin; then use it to select all the extensions you have downloaded for installation. It installs all at once.
So archive that directory with the downloaded plugins and keep it with you for future Firefox installs, and so long as the extension.xpi's are compatible with the latest version of Firefox, you just have to install them and let Firefox update them to the newest version.
It isn't as good as what Firefox COULD do, like something where you carry a list of extensions around (a la the Info Lister plugin) whereby Firefox actually re-installs that list automatically, on-demand, and with the newest version of the plugin. Now THAT would be a useful feature of Firefox.
Oh yeah, and I agree it is a HUGE pain in the ass to do the extension download from their site. Really crude interface considering there are so many plugins already; it can take a long time to go through the entire list, the search feature is poor, and installation requires too many clicks.
"What I would like to know is what does the open source community get out of this? I mean, yeah, it would be cool to have an OSS MS Windows competitor, but if it still costs me $800 for a computer, even though I helped write the software, what's the point?"
Remember, different target platforms for different folks. You want to play with a desktop and laptop? Sombebody else wants to play with a microcontroller, someone with a PDA, and somebody out there wants to play with hardware tailored for media recording and playback. It'd be cool to be able to play with digital watch firmware, also....
But I digress. Note that in all cases, somebody paid for hardware somewhere along the line. As a matter of fact, I haven't found any man-made electronic object that is free, although hardware "source code" redistribution is doable. But that isn't quite the panacea that it is in software as "compiling" hardware is a bit more involved than doing so for software.
Did I miss something? Who is Edwards? I thought that Roberts was appointed as the new Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the USA. Is he on a State Supreme Court? Google didn't seem to show anything... Lemme know who is smoking crack here, jeblucas or me...?
You would be amazed by how much money is thrown away from public school budgets on miracle-cure snake-oil programs, shyster solve-all-your-problems "experts" to provide consultation, and educational fads all around.
So $50 million (or whatever) on laptops realistically may be spent because it is for something that will not really improve education but is seen as the "in" thing to do.
"The following year, Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney plans to start buying them for all 500,000 middle and high school pupils in the state."
Can someone please tell these people that computers are, barring a massive paradigm shift in how they are used for education, merely 90% distraction from the real learning that must go on in schools at these ages?
(That is, unless you want to make a society of mindless forum posters.)
That's right. Never give up. Instead, you should form a group of people with enough buzzwords and bs to attract investors, like this organization (http://www.liftport.com/about.php) has done.
Hit the PR machine really hard; if you get published in blogs and the NYTimes and speculative stories in PopSci and IEEE Spectrum, then you will attract even more investors.
Then profit, and get out of the business when enough knowledgeable people discredit your 'vaporware' technology.
Although I admit that there is an increased time window in which objects can strike this elevator, why is this not "the big problem" limiting any other kind of vehicle that goes into orbit?
I have an external amp driving my speakers... so the head unit has line-out and the amp has line-in. I just needed to get a splitter to put at the 'line-in' and attached a 3.5mm cable long enough to deliver to me in the driver's seat. Works pretty well, though a pre-amp section would be ideal; this was a cheap solution (splitter+cable+negligible labor) given I already had the amp.
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Mod parent up; this is not due to 'digital transfer' or quality in that sense (which is BS anyway), as higher-rated speculators have suggested. I agree: it is so that the user has a good interface for the car... which is the car's stereo. This is a 'keep your eyes on the road' type of thing; NOT an analog-vs-digital thing. There are portable players that are very difficult to use without really deliberately looking at them.
Trigonometry as a disconnected subject, or any disconnected subject, can be taught in a manner in which students can better solve a given set of problems. But when you take a subject in a larger context, such as you have done, then the story certainly changes as far as understanding and conceptual comprehension.
In math, if one were solving an optimization problem in three dimensions, this is like taking just two dimensions and finding a minimum.
No one said anything "scathing," that's your interpretation. On the contrary, I appreciate the government doing stuff. And I didn't rejoin anything, either.
What I did do was make a parallel statement; America isn't libertarian, Europe isn't socialist. America lets you go deaf if you damn well please and Europe pays medical bills.
saving the taxpayer from unnecessary expenditure
Oh, but you missed the point entirely; if we had a truly libertarian state, the government wouldn't be paying medical bills at all; no cost to me if Bud Noweiser loses his hearing!
Of course there is insurance here, so that's how the expenses get "collectivized." It's privatized collectivization...
So I am pointing out the perspective difference, and why that is: A government that has to pay medical bills tries to keep the medical bills down. A government that doesn't, focuses on different legislation, like how to kill others.
Call it good, call it bad, I don't care. But you're sounding a lot like a religious fanatic here in a logical discussion. Save your religious zeal for discussions with Osama and GW.
The mayor, in this trascript, begs for buses from the Federal government, asks that Greyhound buses be sent from across the country and refuses public school buses because... well... it's the federal government, and now we're talking coaches, not public school buses! (No consideration of what is fastest; the Fed is NOT omnipotent and Greyhound buses may well be further away than the school buses.) He lays a great deal of blame on others for their response... and so I feel that he also invites criticism if he shows hypocrisy. That's one thing, no matter what side of an issue you are on, that you are always vulnerable to attack for.
And it is rather sad that you would say "Snopes to the rescue again!" and then simply quote Snopes, as if this alleviated the need to actually analyze the situation for yourself.
The Snopes quote you give is completely inconclusive, has no greater insight into the situation, and raises certain irrelevant doubts with -less- evidence than the picture gives. Some of the questions asked are valid... but none are answered by Snopes, which is necessary to evaluate the validity of the criticism offered by the picture. Just raising a question goes nowhere.
While assumptions are necessary to both condemn the city's efforts or to assume the city was powerless (as well as condemning/approving of the Fed's response), it is a reasonable assumption to believe that the school systems had working buses with which to transport children to the various schools across N.O.. That happens in every city across the US and it was time, at least where I live, for school to start again.
Next, there was opportunity enough for the vehicle-owning population to get in their cars and go to higher ground. Why would buses on the same roads be especially risky?
In all, I think there were a lot of opportunities missed, and this was likely one of those opportunities. Hopefully all will learn from the situation and especially people will understand better, rather than blame, those people who actually CAN NOT leave in the same manner as healthy, vehicled, and moneyed folks can.
For more discussion on the buses, check out the following link:
Not all encryption is rock solid, either. One of the most common methods called WEP, or Wired Equivalent Privacy, is better than nothing but still can be cracked using a program available on the Web.
You might as well inplant cell phones in all members of technological societies today. More convenient to talk to people not physically present... done deal.
I would use a flash drive in addition to a hard drive.
Make my primary boot drive (OS & certain programs) the flash, and store documents on a traditional magnetic hard drive with loads of space.
Document access is rarer but requires more space; OS and program access is more frequent but less space. Best of both worlds, and really not much extra space required. And the primary boot drive seems to crash most frequently on me, so my documents, I feel, are a little bit safer in this configuration.
Fair enough; I saw your comment getting ripped, and in your spirit I agree, but I have to agree with the logic of your parent.
But I believe you were just a little off of correct, and people saw this and have little ability/desire to assess it in context; they jump the other way... and they end up completely off the mark of "correct."
And now to gloat about the ridiculousness of your detractors, who cited, essentially:
"C# and.net"
"techniques and models for understanding programs"
"Rigorous location of phase transitions in hard optimization problems"
Symposium on Operating Systems Principles ("advance the science and technology in operating systems")
More operating systems
"networks, systems, algorithms, and applications that support the symbiosis of mobile computers and wireless networks"
More wireless networking insignificance
"computer graphics and interactive techniques"
IEEE/something Transactions on Networking
somebody from MS Scaleable Servers Research Group
A guy with this brief bio
A guy with this pub list (with some math stuff)
And another fellow, but who cares by now?
What foolishness! Anyone who argues these above the importance of the following firsts and contributions is delusional:
Radio astronomy
The transistor
Information theory
Photovoltaic cell
The Laser
Laser cooling (& optical trapping)
Optical communications (fiber)
Cathode Ray Tube
UNIX (for those OS-is-everything losers out there)
Stereo sound
Facsimile
and that's just Bell labs, and that's just part of their list....
I see a lot of replies saying the parent post is bunk, but for all the wrong reasons.
The parent-parent poster only said that
MSR:MS:: (BELL:AT&T & TJW:IBM & PARC:XEROX)
Which seems perfectly valid.
No need to say how significant either's research is relative to the real world because the parent-parent made the comparison to the research division's relative place in the company.
The other replies seem to take the position that
MSR:real_world:: BELL(etc.):real_world
Which is NOT valid. Sorry kids, software research is by and large not as significant as physics research.
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For this problem I have made use of the MRTech Local Install plugin:
Download all the exensions you like into one folder; install the Local Install plugin; then use it to select all the extensions you have downloaded for installation. It installs all at once.
So archive that directory with the downloaded plugins and keep it with you for future Firefox installs, and so long as the extension .xpi's are compatible with the latest version of Firefox, you just have to install them and let Firefox update them to the newest version.
It isn't as good as what Firefox COULD do, like something where you carry a list of extensions around (a la the Info Lister plugin) whereby Firefox actually re-installs that list automatically, on-demand, and with the newest version of the plugin. Now THAT would be a useful feature of Firefox.
Oh yeah, and I agree it is a HUGE pain in the ass to do the extension download from their site. Really crude interface considering there are so many plugins already; it can take a long time to go through the entire list, the search feature is poor, and installation requires too many clicks.
That is like saying:
Remember, different target platforms for different folks. You want to play with a desktop and laptop? Sombebody else wants to play with a microcontroller, someone with a PDA, and somebody out there wants to play with hardware tailored for media recording and playback. It'd be cool to be able to play with digital watch firmware, also....
But I digress. Note that in all cases, somebody paid for hardware somewhere along the line. As a matter of fact, I haven't found any man-made electronic object that is free, although hardware "source code" redistribution is doable. But that isn't quite the panacea that it is in software as "compiling" hardware is a bit more involved than doing so for software.
Did I miss something? Who is Edwards? I thought that Roberts was appointed as the new Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the USA. Is he on a State Supreme Court? Google didn't seem to show anything... Lemme know who is smoking crack here, jeblucas or me...?
I'm glad you caught the irony!!! I was afraid it would be lost on all the mindless forum readers.
'nuff said.
You would be amazed by how much money is thrown away from public school budgets on miracle-cure snake-oil programs, shyster solve-all-your-problems "experts" to provide consultation, and educational fads all around.
So $50 million (or whatever) on laptops realistically may be spent because it is for something that will not really improve education but is seen as the "in" thing to do.
Can someone please tell these people that computers are, barring a massive paradigm shift in how they are used for education, merely 90% distraction from the real learning that must go on in schools at these ages? (That is, unless you want to make a society of mindless forum posters.)
A merger of the buzzwords that drive the investors of today.
That's right. Never give up. Instead, you should form a group of people with enough buzzwords and bs to attract investors, like this organization (http://www.liftport.com/about.php) has done.
Hit the PR machine really hard; if you get published in blogs and the NYTimes and speculative stories in PopSci and IEEE Spectrum, then you will attract even more investors.
Then profit, and get out of the business when enough knowledgeable people discredit your 'vaporware' technology.
Although I admit that there is an increased time window in which objects can strike this elevator, why is this not "the big problem" limiting any other kind of vehicle that goes into orbit?
I have an external amp driving my speakers... so the head unit has line-out and the amp has line-in. I just needed to get a splitter to put at the 'line-in' and attached a 3.5mm cable long enough to deliver to me in the driver's seat. Works pretty well, though a pre-amp section would be ideal; this was a cheap solution (splitter+cable+negligible labor) given I already had the amp.
Mod parent up; this is not due to 'digital transfer' or quality in that sense (which is BS anyway), as higher-rated speculators have suggested. I agree: it is so that the user has a good interface for the car... which is the car's stereo. This is a 'keep your eyes on the road' type of thing; NOT an analog-vs-digital thing. There are portable players that are very difficult to use without really deliberately looking at them.
Agreed!
Trigonometry as a disconnected subject, or any disconnected subject, can be taught in a manner in which students can better solve a given set of problems. But when you take a subject in a larger context, such as you have done, then the story certainly changes as far as understanding and conceptual comprehension.
In math, if one were solving an optimization problem in three dimensions, this is like taking just two dimensions and finding a minimum.
Why not publish immediately after getting a whiff as to an idea?
Because the scientific community tries to hold itself to higher standards than posters in the Slashdot community.
It's too bad that in Europe amps now only go up to 6.
They used to go all the way to 11.
No one said anything "scathing," that's your interpretation. On the contrary, I appreciate the government doing stuff. And I didn't rejoin anything, either.
What I did do was make a parallel statement; America isn't libertarian, Europe isn't socialist. America lets you go deaf if you damn well please and Europe pays medical bills.
Oh, but you missed the point entirely; if we had a truly libertarian state, the government wouldn't be paying medical bills at all; no cost to me if Bud Noweiser loses his hearing!
Of course there is insurance here, so that's how the expenses get "collectivized." It's privatized collectivization...
So I am pointing out the perspective difference, and why that is: A government that has to pay medical bills tries to keep the medical bills down. A government that doesn't, focuses on different legislation, like how to kill others.
Call it good, call it bad, I don't care. But you're sounding a lot like a religious fanatic here in a logical discussion. Save your religious zeal for discussions with Osama and GW.
And it's European-socialists who expect the government to pay to fix their hearing loss.
"...could deliver movies or medical records at speeds hundreds of times faster than current Internet connections"
What do they really mean by "medical records"?
I think some context is important:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/02/nagin.transcript/
The mayor, in this trascript, begs for buses from the Federal government, asks that Greyhound buses be sent from across the country and refuses public school buses because... well... it's the federal government, and now we're talking coaches, not public school buses! (No consideration of what is fastest; the Fed is NOT omnipotent and Greyhound buses may well be further away than the school buses.) He lays a great deal of blame on others for their response... and so I feel that he also invites criticism if he shows hypocrisy. That's one thing, no matter what side of an issue you are on, that you are always vulnerable to attack for.
And it is rather sad that you would say "Snopes to the rescue again!" and then simply quote Snopes, as if this alleviated the need to actually analyze the situation for yourself.
The Snopes quote you give is completely inconclusive, has no greater insight into the situation, and raises certain irrelevant doubts with -less- evidence than the picture gives. Some of the questions asked are valid... but none are answered by Snopes, which is necessary to evaluate the validity of the criticism offered by the picture. Just raising a question goes nowhere.
While assumptions are necessary to both condemn the city's efforts or to assume the city was powerless (as well as condemning/approving of the Fed's response), it is a reasonable assumption to believe that the school systems had working buses with which to transport children to the various schools across N.O.. That happens in every city across the US and it was time, at least where I live, for school to start again.
Next, there was opportunity enough for the vehicle-owning population to get in their cars and go to higher ground. Why would buses on the same roads be especially risky?
In all, I think there were a lot of opportunities missed, and this was likely one of those opportunities. Hopefully all will learn from the situation and especially people will understand better, rather than blame, those people who actually CAN NOT leave in the same manner as healthy, vehicled, and moneyed folks can.
For more discussion on the buses, check out the following link:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Controversy_over_wheth er_New_Orleans_Mayor_failed_to_follow_hurricane_pl an
RTWFA (w=whole)...
You might as well inplant cell phones in all members of technological societies today. More convenient to talk to people not physically present... done deal.
Copying the Bible on CD is "1/10th the effort" of hand-copying it?
Wow, are you using a laser pointer to write your CD-R's?
I would use a flash drive in addition to a hard drive.
Make my primary boot drive (OS & certain programs) the flash, and store documents on a traditional magnetic hard drive with loads of space.
Document access is rarer but requires more space; OS and program access is more frequent but less space. Best of both worlds, and really not much extra space required. And the primary boot drive seems to crash most frequently on me, so my documents, I feel, are a little bit safer in this configuration.
Fair enough; I saw your comment getting ripped, and in your spirit I agree, but I have to agree with the logic of your parent.
But I believe you were just a little off of correct, and people saw this and have little ability/desire to assess it in context; they jump the other way... and they end up completely off the mark of "correct."
And now to gloat about the ridiculousness of your detractors, who cited, essentially:
What foolishness! Anyone who argues these above the importance of the following firsts and contributions is delusional:
and that's just Bell labs, and that's just part of their list....
I see a lot of replies saying the parent post is bunk, but for all the wrong reasons.
The parent-parent poster only said that
Which seems perfectly valid.
No need to say how significant either's research is relative to the real world because the parent-parent made the comparison to the research division's relative place in the company.
The other replies seem to take the position that
Which is NOT valid. Sorry kids, software research is by and large not as significant as physics research.