it would have quickly looked stale to people not proficient enough to realize that version numbers are irrelevant if it is stable, yet current, and works.
Who are those people? Twelve year old girls? I am talking, of course, about the Mozilla Developers. I understood you to be talking about eleven year old girls.
We're blaming Mozilla for fixing something that isn't broken and breaking things that previously worked fine in the process. I'll be sure to send instructions to my grandmother so she can keep her.xpi files up-to-date
Don't let her download them with IE. My dad tried downloading the lightning xpi with IE(8?/9?), and IE _still_ munges xml files when downloaded. I had to have him download firefox just to download a tbird extension (because the old lightning wasn't updated with the update to tbird5, and the new lightning wasn't showing up in the addons search).
FDA likes to err on the side of caution. So much so that drug companies aren't allowed to use newly purchased computers for 4 years while they're vetted to make sure they don't have Intel chips with bugs. Because if the data's bad, the bug could cause the drug to have worse side effects than dry mouth and diarrhea.
"Asian American" is far more inappropriate when discussing whether someone natively lives in China. It's like that American anchorwoman who insisted on calling black people in the UK "African Americans".
On the other hand, the alternative is to continue with a slow release schedule, which we feel has bigger problems and would annoy more users. For example, FF8 will have much better memory usage than Firefox 4.
Then name "FF8" FF4.5 and be done with it. Are we really to believe that the better mallocs are tied to the new UI features?
When I needed the wasteful old interface to stop cluttering, I could hit F11 for a full screen view. Does F11 bring back the extremely useful clutter in FF4/5/6?
Has this self-check helped you in any way in the last 10 years, unless building the machine yourself? You'd think that at least the memory check would be good for something, but it isn't, otherwise we wouldn't need something like memtest.
One group I worked with had the annoying habit of turning on "quick POST" in the BIOS on our dells to improve boot times. The trade off was random program failures and data corruption so that when they finally called IT about it, they lost data, and I lost time trying to debug until I turned POST back on and replaced the RAM that POST said failed. After that I used DCCU to turn on POST on all the machines on a regular basis, so the support calls became "the boot POST says I have bad RAM in slot 1A" instead of "program FOO is acting funny"
No, GP's talking about inventory management software scheduled every 3 hours (and bootup), defragging scheduled for 1AM (postponed until next boot), software update scans scheduled for 4AM (postponed 'til next boot), virus and spyware scans scheduled for 6AM (postponed until next boot), not to mention full POST during boot (a minor pain compared to the others because it doesn't taunt you with an unusable windows login screen).
What if you felt that they were indeed a threat to your life, but couldn't kill them (either because you would feel bad, or because you simply didn't want to for some reason)? Why isn't that possible?
Because real life isn't the movies. Unless you're Annie Oakley, you're not shooting the knife out of a dangerous aggressor's hand or incapacitating him with a shot to the leg; training doesn't allow for that. If you've got enough time to carefully aim at the dude's leg and get off the four or five rounds it will take you to finally hit it, then you've got enough time to run away from him. BTW, Annie would have shot to kill if she weren't in show biz.
What a mistake! Firefox 5 hasn't improved at all. The memory leaks are still there, and they're far worse now. I used it for a couple of hours, and its memory use was over 7 GB. Luckily, I've got 16 GB, so 7 GB wasn't that painful. Still, it was totally unacceptable for a web browser to ever use that much memory.
The performance pales in comparison to Chrome, Safari, and even IE. It felt slow, while the others feel fast and responsive.
I notice you didn't mention konqueror. Does that mean you use (64bit) Windows? There is no 64bit windows version of FF5. Maybe you saw 7MB of RAM used and were confused? IIRC, a 32bit app can't address 7GB of RAM no matter how many bits the OS supports.
No true Scotsman is born and lives his entire life outside of the borders of Scotland.
So one who is the child of two Scottish people, and is born [and lives its entire life] 1 mile from the border is not a Scotsman?
An Englishman of Scottish descent perhaps (if born in days of yore), or a citizen of the UK, but he's no true Scotsman any more than my friend Brian is a true Chinaman (both his parents are Chinese immigrants, but he was born in America and has never been to China).
"No True Scotsman" isn't a fallacy when you're talking about defining characteristics of the set in question. i.e. No true Scotsman is born and lives his entire life outside of the borders of Scotland.
That's fairly irresponsible reporting. I'll bet a few cancer patients were thinking "sex with an AIDS patient beats another needle", not knowing that the strains differ. Hopefully the mainstream news doesn't make the same mistake.
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All I see is Mozilla purposely deciding to create problems by solving issues that don't exist.
If they can't solve the problems that do exist, they have to solve something.
it would have quickly looked stale to people not proficient enough to realize that version numbers are irrelevant if it is stable, yet current, and works.
Who are those people? Twelve year old girls? I am talking, of course, about the Mozilla Developers. I understood you to be talking about eleven year old girls.
We're blaming Mozilla for fixing something that isn't broken and breaking things that previously worked fine in the process. I'll be sure to send instructions to my grandmother so she can keep her .xpi files up-to-date
Don't let her download them with IE. My dad tried downloading the lightning xpi with IE(8?/9?), and IE _still_ munges xml files when downloaded. I had to have him download firefox just to download a tbird extension (because the old lightning wasn't updated with the update to tbird5, and the new lightning wasn't showing up in the addons search).
it's simply not important what version you're using as long as it's the latest version.
How do I know?
The version field with eventually just report "Firefox is up to date; this is the latest version."
Which will be a static text field. Yay for progress! We get a little dumber with every iteration.
In a game where you can pretend to be a vicious murdering pirate, is it okay to pretend to be a white collar criminal?
FDA likes to err on the side of caution. So much so that drug companies aren't allowed to use newly purchased computers for 4 years while they're vetted to make sure they don't have Intel chips with bugs. Because if the data's bad, the bug could cause the drug to have worse side effects than dry mouth and diarrhea.
They can't moderate the way they'd like. No permanent deletions. FB would keep a record of all posts.
"Asian American" is far more inappropriate when discussing whether someone natively lives in China. It's like that American anchorwoman who insisted on calling black people in the UK "African Americans".
Can we see your photography site?
I'd post a goatse link, but your sig makes me think the link might not have the shock intended. ;)
Obviously I was making a funny.
On the other hand, the alternative is to continue with a slow release schedule, which we feel has bigger problems and would annoy more users. For example, FF8 will have much better memory usage than Firefox 4.
Then name "FF8" FF4.5 and be done with it. Are we really to believe that the better mallocs are tied to the new UI features?
I could get a photo like that if I were an astronaut too. But really, bravo, excellent.
The old interface is cluttered and wasteful.
When I needed the wasteful old interface to stop cluttering, I could hit F11 for a full screen view. Does F11 bring back the extremely useful clutter in FF4/5/6?
If a pile of stuff has to change on an MS workstation you jump on it when the users leave and it's going to be finished by morning.
Unless they take the laptop home or turn the desktop off using the surge protector. Then it's back to boot-time as a known on-time.
Has this self-check helped you in any way in the last 10 years, unless building the machine yourself? You'd think that at least the memory check would be good for something, but it isn't, otherwise we wouldn't need something like memtest.
One group I worked with had the annoying habit of turning on "quick POST" in the BIOS on our dells to improve boot times. The trade off was random program failures and data corruption so that when they finally called IT about it, they lost data, and I lost time trying to debug until I turned POST back on and replaced the RAM that POST said failed. After that I used DCCU to turn on POST on all the machines on a regular basis, so the support calls became "the boot POST says I have bad RAM in slot 1A" instead of "program FOO is acting funny"
We could do that, if manufacturers followed a standard for WOL. Some totally power down the NIC if the machine is off, preventing WOL.
No, GP's talking about inventory management software scheduled every 3 hours (and bootup), defragging scheduled for 1AM (postponed until next boot), software update scans scheduled for 4AM (postponed 'til next boot), virus and spyware scans scheduled for 6AM (postponed until next boot), not to mention full POST during boot (a minor pain compared to the others because it doesn't taunt you with an unusable windows login screen).
Arab Spring, English Summer, and The Fall of America.
Now is the Winter of our Discontent?
What if you felt that they were indeed a threat to your life, but couldn't kill them (either because you would feel bad, or because you simply didn't want to for some reason)? Why isn't that possible?
Because real life isn't the movies. Unless you're Annie Oakley, you're not shooting the knife out of a dangerous aggressor's hand or incapacitating him with a shot to the leg; training doesn't allow for that. If you've got enough time to carefully aim at the dude's leg and get off the four or five rounds it will take you to finally hit it, then you've got enough time to run away from him. BTW, Annie would have shot to kill if she weren't in show biz.
What a mistake! Firefox 5 hasn't improved at all. The memory leaks are still there, and they're far worse now. I used it for a couple of hours, and its memory use was over 7 GB. Luckily, I've got 16 GB, so 7 GB wasn't that painful. Still, it was totally unacceptable for a web browser to ever use that much memory. The performance pales in comparison to Chrome, Safari, and even IE. It felt slow, while the others feel fast and responsive.
I notice you didn't mention konqueror. Does that mean you use (64bit) Windows? There is no 64bit windows version of FF5. Maybe you saw 7MB of RAM used and were confused? IIRC, a 32bit app can't address 7GB of RAM no matter how many bits the OS supports.
No true Scotsman is born and lives his entire life outside of the borders of Scotland.
So one who is the child of two Scottish people, and is born [and lives its entire life] 1 mile from the border is not a Scotsman?
An Englishman of Scottish descent perhaps (if born in days of yore), or a citizen of the UK, but he's no true Scotsman any more than my friend Brian is a true Chinaman (both his parents are Chinese immigrants, but he was born in America and has never been to China).
"No True Scotsman" isn't a fallacy when you're talking about defining characteristics of the set in question. i.e. No true Scotsman is born and lives his entire life outside of the borders of Scotland.
Just like anyone boating in international waters, intending to go to another country, but turning around and returning to port.
Inject Modified HIV, kill the cancer, then use DRACOs to clean up the virus. Easy peasy.
That's fairly irresponsible reporting. I'll bet a few cancer patients were thinking "sex with an AIDS patient beats another needle", not knowing that the strains differ. Hopefully the mainstream news doesn't make the same mistake.
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