Second, the summary posted here is a bit surprising. The feedback we've seen so far is quite the opposite of this summary: most users are, in fact, reporting better performance, lower memory usage (we fixed some of the most egregious leaks), and an easier-to-use browser. Additionally, we fixed far more bugs, especially old, longstanding bugs, in this release than in any previous Firefox release. So even if none of the new features flotas your boat, this release *should* be a polished step forward, once you start poking around a bit.
Well, Mr. Firefox developer. The world we live in is full of irony. Firefox used to push itself onto users by demanding "revolution" and taking the web back. Revolution yet again ate its children.
It's impossible not to see how delightfully twisted the situation turned out:
- the community attacked IE6 - the community caused Firefox - Firefox caused IE7 - the community attacked Firefox
Sure, maybe you see overwhelmingly positive feedback, but don't fool yourself: if your early adopters and techies are attacking you for speed and RAM issues, or bloat... this is the beginning of the end. This is how the outrage against IE happened as a matter of fact.
Is Firefox 2 better? It could be, but that's largely irrelevant.
Mozilla was arrogant in the 1.x days about their speed/leak issues and this turned a large chunk of their advanced users against them. Now you're in a situation where making it somewhat better won't help, especially if you try and tell everybody how "FF2 is great and you're wrong".
Community psychology is a strange thing.
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and hopefully a new, working, css based threshold system soon
Yes I'm also looking forward to the times where I can load 400+ comments, have them hidden by CSS, so I can see the remaining 10 or so 4+ posts I care about.
That would be so much better.
In fact this is one of the biggest sins of CSS: people assume it's ok to just splatter everything in the code and then hide the offensive parts depending on situation and media. Especially insulting is the use of mobile media CSS, to generate huge pages, 80% of which is hidden on a mobile device. Mobile devices have unlimited supply of free bandwidth, so it makes total sense, right?
Well, I'd rather do what's a server-side job on the server.
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Seriously, all crap like this is, is a way to justify stupid expenditures based on some self-riteous asshole's personal opinions.
Only people with double-digit IQ or a severe case of money poisoning actually listen to these jackasses.
I vote this post "Irony of 2006". You rant for people who fall for easy scams based on personal opinion, and then refer to people's "IQ", otherwise known as "someone's totally subjective opinion of how intelligence should be measured".
Really, a huge bunch of those suckers paying for BS, you're talking about, are MENSA members, paying rightfully their membership fees so they can remain intelligent.
Ponder that.
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It lets too many marketing scams on its front page. I mean, why would Slashdot be offended by someone insults their design, and yet designs sites like this one.
This 1995 style homepage with terrible code in desparate need of a complete rewrite.
Yet, she/he (?) just said "Slashdot is out of balance" and you fall for it. I wouldn't post this obvious-things-your-already-know post, if it wasn't happening all the time.
Just few days ago we have a book review article here, of someone who believes good web design involves huge paragraphs of page text rendered as a huge tall GIF image.
Wikipedia can never be used in research work with an authoritative citation, since it is constantly changing.
That could be easily solved if Wikipedia provides easier facility to link to a specific version of an article. It's basically like citing a specific edition of a regular book encyclopedia, except you have more revisions. And that's not bad, in the fast world we live in.
If this technology gets good enough, none of us would ever need to learn a second language. That would be a bad thing, right?
I wouldn't worry about it. Our speech and phrasing ability, languages: they are not something you can isolate and reproduce in a program, without reproducing much of the rest of the intelligence of a human being.
Subtle phrasing, context.. We learn new ways to express ourselves all the time, and we can do so since we put what we hear to an intelligent analysis and processing. A computer can add words and phrases to its dictionary, compare how similar they are and so on, but eventually it not as intelligent as a human being..
So: we'll always have to learn other languages, until AI shows up. They we may need not to learn anything at all:D
As always. The point isn't to go out and start buying WinXP PC-s so to get free Vista. The point is if you need to buy a PC, you don't need to wait for Vista, but buy it now with XP, and get Vista later for free.
As you probably imagine, quite a lot of people are holding hardware purchases, waiting for Vista pre-installed machines. What Microsoft does is keep the market going versus stifle sales right during the Holiday season.
In fact, it's a very sweet deal if you ask me, since Vista is gonna be crap until SP1, and you get to enjoy worry free XP experience until Vista is stable: then upgrade for $0. Best of both worlds.
In other words, a new linux distro has failed to prevent someone with the root password from shooting themselves in the foot. NEWS AT 11
I'm freaking out, man! News at 11, news at 11. Everybody points to the news at 11, but where are they!? WHERE! I feel so desperately uninformed and news-deprived:(
Sure signs of being desperate for hype and VC cash:
- your service is like any other service, but attempts to differentiate by marketing same old same old, by giving it new names (not videos, but video instant messages..)
- your trademark needs (lame) "origin of" explanation, and tries to inject new words in your dictionary to induce word of mouth: "VEEKS are Video Peeks"... Veeks?! Zunes... YouTube that Meebo Orkuts, to hell and back.
- trying to be overly hip, energetic and youngster-ish (err...), by showing photos of punks and emos enjoying a nice commercial service for free. It all makes sense, don't question it.
Facial recognition software has been touted as one of the technologies that will change our future, particularly in law enforcement.
What a bunch of bull. Sure it will,... I can already aee it being implemented everywhere from everyone's home to the military and government entry security.... And then MythBusters coming and defeating it with a pencil drawing of a face done by a retarded kid in a hurry, just like that episode with the fingerprint readers.
I read most of the article and it discusses breaking drm on music purchased on iTunes. Can someone explain what this has to do with cracking the iPod?
Let me tell you what it has to do... Do you see those obnoxious flashing flash ads about Blu-Ray on right: "Are you ready for Blu?"; and HD DVD ad with "6 time the creeping crawler" between the comments and the summary?
But in the age of "CD quality" 128 kBit MP3s and crappy PC speakers, who cares about audio quality anyway...
Zealots? Freaks? Maniacs? They all care about quality a lot. Most people don't have time to care about quality they can barely hear the difference in. Doesn't make them idiots, just makes them having more fun to do, than over analyze the quality parameters of their background music.
"Where the line is drawn" is thinking like a kid would.
There's no line: there are business models, with different objectives and different strategies. There's different perceptions, and different fears.
Ultimately, if there IS a line, it's different for every single person/company and will change for every product in time due to a number of factors, even someone's current mood.
There's no point guessing, no one is THAT smart. Just let things balance our and wherever it goes, it goes.
The more productive thinking would be "where I draw the line for MY content" and "how I can use the current situation to profit with my content".
What? Do you even know what FUD is? Fear Uncertainty and Doubt.
If course he knows what FUD is. But why stop there.
This FUD about MS being open is nothing compared to the FUD that Vista is secure or the FUD that IE7 is a decent browser.
The worst FUD is that Microsoft isn't some evil empire of giggling mutants who want to take over the world: it's in fact lots of smart (and some not so) developers working on their designated products, some marketing guys, some clerks and some lawyers united under a common title.
This promotes doubt and uncertainty.
But it mostly promotes fear: be afraid, be really afraid!
The article links to the BRITISH version... Which sucks for all us American types.
So, don't just download that one and install it. It DOES matter, with the inline spell-checker.
Or else you'll end up doing your neighbour a favour by changing his tyre.
The link is off now, but it really says a lot about the kind of audience Slashdot gets... If you're not from Britain, why download the British version !?
I'll admit: I got FF 2.0 off the FTP, but I just browser a folder up, went to the US build, and got that instead. Is that so damn hard? No.
I suppose quite some people have problem reading/writing, and hence never noticed what they download. Such an irony that they get to use the wrong spell checked too.
Firefox 2.0 is soooooooo fast...It beat itself to the internet!
I wish it was. I was ready to believe the hype they fixed the speed and memory issues, alas: it feels exactly the same as before, which is quite a bit slower than Opera, IE6 or 7.
A filesize has lots of reasons to be measured in power-of-two quantities. If you don't think so, let us know which drives use powers-of-ten sector sizes and which filesystems read/write powers-of-ten block sizes.
That's not a good reason to use power-of-two quantities. We're past the time were user interface has to adapt to the computer so not to strain its CPU, versus the interface to adapt to the human, so not to strain him.
As I'm typing this to represent my thoughts, I am using Unicode sequence upon rendered vector fonts upon subpixel type rendering upon kerning, spacing and hinting, upon GUI layers mixing GDI, DirectX, upon application logic upon OS drivers, core, swapping and all chaos that keeps my machine running and looking relatively accessible to a human being, despite its cold computer internals.
I'm fairly sure my processor won't max out if, say, Windows starts displaying kilo/mega/giga etc. based on a widely accepted and universally understood decimal base.
You know, it's not karma "whoring" when you post a useful post. Don't try to put the moderating system up-side-down, because of some ill-understood posting moral considerations.
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Well, Mr. Firefox developer. The world we live in is full of irony. Firefox used to push itself onto users by demanding "revolution" and taking the web back. Revolution yet again ate its children.
It's impossible not to see how delightfully twisted the situation turned out:
- the community attacked IE6
- the community caused Firefox
- Firefox caused IE7
- the community attacked Firefox
Sure, maybe you see overwhelmingly positive feedback, but don't fool yourself: if your early adopters and techies are attacking you for speed and RAM issues, or bloat... this is the beginning of the end. This is how the outrage against IE happened as a matter of fact.
Is Firefox 2 better? It could be, but that's largely irrelevant.
Mozilla was arrogant in the 1.x days about their speed/leak issues and this turned a large chunk of their advanced users against them. Now you're in a situation where making it somewhat better won't help, especially if you try and tell everybody how "FF2 is great and you're wrong".
Community psychology is a strange thing.
and hopefully a new, working, css based threshold system soon
Yes I'm also looking forward to the times where I can load 400+ comments, have them hidden by CSS, so I can see the remaining 10 or so 4+ posts I care about.
That would be so much better.
In fact this is one of the biggest sins of CSS: people assume it's ok to just splatter everything in the code and then hide the offensive parts depending on situation and media. Especially insulting is the use of mobile media CSS, to generate huge pages, 80% of which is hidden on a mobile device. Mobile devices have unlimited supply of free bandwidth, so it makes total sense, right?
Well, I'd rather do what's a server-side job on the server.
I vote this post "Irony of 2006". You rant for people who fall for easy scams based on personal opinion, and then refer to people's "IQ", otherwise known as "someone's totally subjective opinion of how intelligence should be measured".
Really, a huge bunch of those suckers paying for BS, you're talking about, are MENSA members, paying rightfully their membership fees so they can remain intelligent.
Ponder that.
It lets too many marketing scams on its front page. I mean, why would Slashdot be offended by someone insults their design, and yet designs sites like this one.
This 1995 style homepage with terrible code in desparate need of a complete rewrite.
Yet, she/he (?) just said "Slashdot is out of balance" and you fall for it. I wouldn't post this obvious-things-your-already-know post, if it wasn't happening all the time.
Just few days ago we have a book review article here, of someone who believes good web design involves huge paragraphs of page text rendered as a huge tall GIF image.
Wikipedia can never be used in research work with an authoritative citation, since it is constantly changing.
That could be easily solved if Wikipedia provides easier facility to link to a specific version of an article.
It's basically like citing a specific edition of a regular book encyclopedia, except you have more revisions. And that's not bad, in the fast world we live in.
Don't reject, adapt.
So this coupon fixes XP?
Yes, it does. So what comeback do you have now?
Thank god I feel so much safer now...
NOT.
Wow... what an unexpected plot twist!
Pirate caught and hung, film at 11.
11 is an awful time for a film, I mean we already have about 2734 posts today asking us to watch news at 11.
If this technology gets good enough, none of us would ever need to learn a second language. That would be a bad thing, right?
:D
I wouldn't worry about it. Our speech and phrasing ability, languages: they are not something you can isolate and reproduce in a program, without reproducing much of the rest of the intelligence of a human being.
Subtle phrasing, context.. We learn new ways to express ourselves all the time, and we can do so since we put what we hear to an intelligent analysis and processing. A computer can add words and phrases to its dictionary, compare how similar they are and so on, but eventually it not as intelligent as a human being..
So: we'll always have to learn other languages, until AI shows up. They we may need not to learn anything at all
As always. The point isn't to go out and start buying WinXP PC-s so to get free Vista.
The point is if you need to buy a PC, you don't need to wait for Vista, but buy it now with XP, and get Vista later for free.
As you probably imagine, quite a lot of people are holding hardware purchases, waiting for Vista pre-installed machines. What Microsoft does is keep the market going versus stifle sales right during the Holiday season.
In fact, it's a very sweet deal if you ask me, since Vista is gonna be crap until SP1, and you get to enjoy worry free XP experience until Vista is stable: then upgrade for $0. Best of both worlds.
yes. Stick the CD in, reboot and select "Upgrade".
-- Sorry, that's too complicated. I need a CD that sticks itself in the slot.
---- I want an update doesn't require a CD or slot, or selecting anything.
In other words, a new linux distro has failed to prevent someone with the root password from shooting themselves in the foot. NEWS AT 11
:(
I'm freaking out, man! News at 11, news at 11. Everybody points to the news at 11, but where are they!? WHERE! I feel so desperately uninformed and news-deprived
Sure signs of being desperate for hype and VC cash:
- your service is like any other service, but attempts to differentiate by marketing same old same old, by giving it new names (not videos, but video instant messages..)
- your trademark needs (lame) "origin of" explanation, and tries to inject new words in your dictionary to induce word of mouth: "VEEKS are Video Peeks"... Veeks?! Zunes... YouTube that Meebo Orkuts, to hell and back.
- trying to be overly hip, energetic and youngster-ish (err...), by showing photos of punks and emos enjoying a nice commercial service for free. It all makes sense, don't question it.
Facial recognition software has been touted as one of the technologies that will change our future, particularly in law enforcement.
... I can already aee it being implemented everywhere from everyone's home to the military and government entry security. ... And then MythBusters coming and defeating it with a pencil drawing of a face done by a retarded kid in a hurry, just like that episode with the fingerprint readers.
What a bunch of bull. Sure it will,
Let me tell you what it has to do...
Do you see those obnoxious flashing flash ads about Blu-Ray on right: "Are you ready for Blu?"; and HD DVD ad with "6 time the creeping crawler" between the comments and the summary?
Click 'em.
Repeatedly.
It's fun, I promise.
But in the age of "CD quality" 128 kBit MP3s and crappy PC speakers, who cares about audio quality anyway...
Zealots? Freaks? Maniacs? They all care about quality a lot.
Most people don't have time to care about quality they can barely hear the difference in. Doesn't make them idiots, just makes them having more fun to do, than over analyze the quality parameters of their background music.
"Where the line is drawn" is thinking like a kid would.
There's no line: there are business models, with different objectives and different strategies. There's different perceptions, and different fears.
Ultimately, if there IS a line, it's different for every single person/company and will change for every product in time due to a number of factors, even someone's current mood.
There's no point guessing, no one is THAT smart. Just let things balance our and wherever it goes, it goes.
The more productive thinking would be "where I draw the line for MY content" and "how I can use the current situation to profit with my content".
This is Slashdot, and there's not even ONE anti-Microsoft post modded up!
If course he knows what FUD is. But why stop there.
This FUD about MS being open is nothing compared to the FUD that Vista is secure or the FUD that IE7 is a decent browser.
The worst FUD is that Microsoft isn't some evil empire of giggling mutants who want to take over the world: it's in fact lots of smart (and some not so) developers working on their designated products, some marketing guys, some clerks and some lawyers united under a common title.
This promotes doubt and uncertainty.
But it mostly promotes fear: be afraid, be really afraid!
Actually it's 45.6 Mb
Nope, it's in fact 1.36 Gb, after you decompress it, open it in a hex editor and save it as a text file with "1"-s and "0"-s.
The article links to the BRITISH version... Which sucks for all us American types.
So, don't just download that one and install it. It DOES matter, with the inline spell-checker.
Or else you'll end up doing your neighbour a favour by changing his tyre.
The link is off now, but it really says a lot about the kind of audience Slashdot gets... If you're not from Britain, why download the British version !?
I'll admit: I got FF 2.0 off the FTP, but I just browser a folder up, went to the US build, and got that instead. Is that so damn hard? No.
I suppose quite some people have problem reading/writing, and hence never noticed what they download. Such an irony that they get to use the wrong spell checked too.
Why should I take the Mozilla Org's expensive bandwidth when I can torrent it, and use the mostly free bandwidth of 100 other peers.
You could say that makes some sense, but there's something not right with it.
But flip it on its head and it's all clear:
"Why should Mozilla Org's team put out hundreds of binaries with public access which they don't want the public to use".
Firefox 2.0 is soooooooo fast...It beat itself to the internet!
I wish it was. I was ready to believe the hype they fixed the speed and memory issues, alas: it feels exactly the same as before, which is quite a bit slower than Opera, IE6 or 7.
A filesize has lots of reasons to be measured in power-of-two quantities. If you don't think so, let us know which drives use powers-of-ten sector sizes and which filesystems read/write powers-of-ten block sizes.
That's not a good reason to use power-of-two quantities. We're past the time were user interface has to adapt to the computer so not to strain its CPU, versus the interface to adapt to the human, so not to strain him.
As I'm typing this to represent my thoughts, I am using Unicode sequence upon rendered vector fonts upon subpixel type rendering upon kerning, spacing and hinting, upon GUI layers mixing GDI, DirectX, upon application logic upon OS drivers, core, swapping and all chaos that keeps my machine running and looking relatively accessible to a human being, despite its cold computer internals.
I'm fairly sure my processor won't max out if, say, Windows starts displaying kilo/mega/giga etc. based on a widely accepted and universally understood decimal base.
You know, it's not karma "whoring" when you post a useful post. Don't try to put the moderating system up-side-down, because of some ill-understood posting moral considerations.