2016-12-13 – Firefox 50.0.1 (5 week cycle, release for critical fixes as needed)
2017-01-24 – Firefox 51 (6 weeks from prior release)
They already know, 11 months in advanced, they'll need a critical fixes release then - and have planned ahead - so we can count on smoooooth sailing until December.
In fairness, with enough resources, Vista didn't suck nearly as bad as people said it did... I ran it on a quad core machine with 8GB of RAM until a year ago, and it was just fine.
Ya, as long as you don't need a Cray supercomputer to run Windows and Office... wait, you only mentioned Windows.
... an app cannot disrupt or interfere with devices, networks or other parties' apps and services.
I imagine these rules are meant to apply to unintentional/unknown actions, not ones by design for which the user specifically installed the app to perform. Otherwise, all those call/text/spam blocker apps (like Mr. Number) need to go, 'cause they're interfering with things too...
When the Apocalypse comes and you're frantically looking for something to charge your Kindle so you can read your digital copy of "Surviving the Apocalypse" I'll be sitting by the campfire, thumbing through my hard copy - which can *also* be used to start the campfire.
I would argue that if her net worth is actually $300 million then she doesn't really need *any* severance, especially for doing a bad job and/or bad company performance during (or because of) her tenure. These golden parachutes executives get are more about ego than anything else. They already make something like 500% more than their employees make. At most, they should get the same kind of severance other people in their company would get.
My younger brother asserted that computers have been smarter than humans for quite a while, but are smart enough to not let us know. His logic has been difficult to disprove.
Like simply passing through text enclosed in < and > that is not in the list of accepted HTML tags, so we don't have to explicitly type < and > all the time.
Like simply passing through text enclosed in < and > that is not in the list of accepted HTML tags, so we don't have to explicitly type < and > all the time.
VP of Storage at Barracuda gives the usual business doublespeak excuse.
That's just like a good clone.
Some of the doublespeak in question, from the first paragraph in TFA:
We are constantly evaluating our product portfolio in the context of our overall strategic goals. With that in mind, we have begun a process to focus our resources on our most strategic initiatives and to drive more innovation and faster growth within those products.
A plane traveling at 500 miles per hour, at an altitude of 40,000 feet, has to lose a huge amount of both kinetic and gravitational potential energy before it's stationary on the runway. If you can capture 1% of this, then you can taxi around the airport for quite an extended period.
Just add, "Calculate this extended period of time" and you'll have one of those math word problems I hated back in school. Will this be on future SATs:-)
@whipslash - can we get a fix to the submit button location on the mobile layout so that a double-tap on the spacebar on Android that's 2mm too far to the right doesn't hit ->| (close keyboard) and Submit?
No. There are valid use-cases for that and changing it might also break other applications, so for now there is no good solution to avoid potentially submitting unintentionally. [ Just getting ready for when/. is folded into systemd.:-) ]
Right? She "confirmed" they didn't. 100% honest to goodness. No way jose.
Except... turns out she lied.
Again.
No, not really. According to this NY Times article, and reports I heard on NPR earlier:
The State Department said it had “upgraded” the classification of the emails at the request of the nation’s intelligence agencies. Mr. Kirby said that none of the emails had been marked at any level of classification at the time they were sent through Mrs. Clinton’s computer server.
So, they're classified *now* after the fact but were not earlier. From what I know, and is noted in the article itself, this is not that uncommon. Furthermore:
“We understand that these emails were likely originated on the State Department’s unclassified system before they were ever shared with Secretary Clinton, and they have remained on the department’s unclassified system for years,” Mr. Fallon said.
Officials at the State Department have said the “upgrading” of the classification of Mrs. Clinton’s emails has been routine. Mr. Kirby said Friday that the classification review was “focused on whether they need to be classified today.”
Apparently, at least one of the emails was about a NY Times article about the US classified drone program. Hard to imagine why an email about an article in a public newspaper would be classified.
My Chrome browser recently started putting up an error page because python.org's certificate was a few days out of date.
I wasn't aware that browsers use fuzzy logic for a certificate expiration date? I thought it was either expired or not-expired. They're not milk where's there's a little wiggle room past the expiration date, but more like condoms - broken or not-broken.
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They already know, 11 months in advanced, they'll need a critical fixes release then - and have planned ahead - so we can count on smoooooth sailing until December.
Ya, I was a system programmer and admin on both a Cray 2 and Y-MP back in the late 1980s and early 90s at the NASA Langley Research Center.
In fairness, with enough resources, Vista didn't suck nearly as bad as people said it did ... I ran it on a quad core machine with 8GB of RAM until a year ago, and it was just fine.
Ya, as long as you don't need a Cray supercomputer to run Windows and Office ... wait, you only mentioned Windows.
... an app cannot disrupt or interfere with devices, networks or other parties' apps and services.
I imagine these rules are meant to apply to unintentional/unknown actions, not ones by design for which the user specifically installed the app to perform. Otherwise, all those call/text/spam blocker apps (like Mr. Number) need to go, 'cause they're interfering with things too...
Yes, because reading about Ubuntu is exactly kind of information one would need to survive when the apocalypse comes.
My comment was (obviously) in response to the general "Books are still going?" comment, not the Ubuntu book specifically.
People always say: "oh we will *just* build underground". With what? An excavator you bought at the Home Depot on Mars?
Obviously we first need to build a Home Depot on Mars - problems solved.
The Unleashed books are still going?
Correction: Books are still going?
When the Apocalypse comes and you're frantically looking for something to charge your Kindle so you can read your digital copy of "Surviving the Apocalypse" I'll be sitting by the campfire, thumbing through my hard copy - which can *also* be used to start the campfire.
I would argue that if her net worth is actually $300 million then she doesn't really need *any* severance, especially for doing a bad job and/or bad company performance during (or because of) her tenure. These golden parachutes executives get are more about ego than anything else. They already make something like 500% more than their employees make. At most, they should get the same kind of severance other people in their company would get.
That's exactly what an AI would say.
My younger brother asserted that computers have been smarter than humans for quite a while, but are smart enough to not let us know. His logic has been difficult to disprove.
You could improve the mod system a bit by having it detect "controversial" comments ...
That shouldn't be too difficult, just look for a few key words - Note: The actual commentary doesn't seem to matter.
I'll start: (and probably get modded Troll or Flamebait - because there's no +1 ironic)
Like simply passing through text enclosed in < and > that is not in the list of accepted HTML tags, so we don't have to explicitly type < and > all the time.
Yes this is on the way
Very cool - thank you. Can I have a pony? :-)
Like simply passing through text enclosed in < and > that is not in the list of accepted HTML tags, so we don't have to explicitly type < and > all the time.
make an electric horse carriage .
But then what would the horses do ?
Pretend of course !
Do you mean the electric horses or the other kind?
This is where hyphens come in handy: electric-horse carriage vs. electric horse-carriage.
VP of Storage at Barracuda gives the usual business doublespeak excuse.
That's just like a good clone.
Some of the doublespeak in question, from the first paragraph in TFA:
We are constantly evaluating our product portfolio in the context of our overall strategic goals. With that in mind, we have begun a process to focus our resources on our most strategic initiatives and to drive more innovation and faster growth within those products.
But if this really catches on, wonder what this will do to the industry as a whole, and the people put out of work.
Then, here in the US, we'll have Mexican robots sneaking into the country ... (sigh) the end is nigh. :-)
A plane traveling at 500 miles per hour, at an altitude of 40,000 feet, has to lose a huge amount of both kinetic and gravitational potential energy before it's stationary on the runway. If you can capture 1% of this, then you can taxi around the airport for quite an extended period.
Just add, "Calculate this extended period of time" and you'll have one of those math word problems I hated back in school. Will this be on future SATs :-)
@whipslash - can we get a fix to the submit button location on the mobile layout so that a double-tap on the spacebar on Android that's 2mm too far to the right doesn't hit ->| (close keyboard) and Submit?
No. There are valid use-cases for that and changing it might also break other applications, so for now there is no good solution to avoid potentially submitting unintentionally. [ Just getting ready for when /. is folded into systemd. :-) ]
Unfortunately, as we know, there's absolutely no ways known to man to texture glass that could be fitted onto a truck.
That's crazy talk. :-)
Yep, just like with concrete, you need to resurface.
No worries, that can just use those pavement milling machines - oh wait...
So basically the plan is to cover the pavement with glass, ...
Sounds like *bunches* of fun in rain, sleet, snow, and ice. Guess they don't have studded tires in France :-)
The people running our country should not be under different rules. That is how you get a hypocrisy.
Agreed, except sometimes the hypocrisy comes first.
Right? She "confirmed" they didn't. 100% honest to goodness. No way jose.
Except... turns out she lied.
Again.
No, not really. According to this NY Times article, and reports I heard on NPR earlier:
The State Department said it had “upgraded” the classification of the emails at the request of the nation’s intelligence agencies. Mr. Kirby said that none of the emails had been marked at any level of classification at the time they were sent through Mrs. Clinton’s computer server.
So, they're classified *now* after the fact but were not earlier. From what I know, and is noted in the article itself, this is not that uncommon. Furthermore:
“We understand that these emails were likely originated on the State Department’s unclassified system before they were ever shared with Secretary Clinton, and they have remained on the department’s unclassified system for years,” Mr. Fallon said.
Officials at the State Department have said the “upgrading” of the classification of Mrs. Clinton’s emails has been routine. Mr. Kirby said Friday that the classification review was “focused on whether they need to be classified today.”
Apparently, at least one of the emails was about a NY Times article about the US classified drone program. Hard to imagine why an email about an article in a public newspaper would be classified.
My Chrome browser recently started putting up an error page because python.org's certificate was a few days out of date.
I wasn't aware that browsers use fuzzy logic for a certificate expiration date? I thought it was either expired or not-expired. They're not milk where's there's a little wiggle room past the expiration date, but more like condoms - broken or not-broken.
Ah right, seems I was wrong.
Oh my God. Someone on /. (simply) admits he/she was wrong.
Thank you, dear poster. I can die now, to be whisked off to either a warn Heaven or very cold Hell.
How did your parents pick the name 'Logan'?
Perhaps they were big Michael York fans.