Google doesn't tell you when they are listening, aka Google Analytics.
You mean your browser doesn't tell you when they're listening. Install RequestPolicy and/or NoScript and Analytics will never run. Along with those retarded "eyeblaster" ads.
Why do FF developers hate their own extension framework dammit!?
Be careful what you ask for...
Let's imagine for a second that you're writing a HTML web page with some scripting. If this were Chrom(e|ium) you could stop reading here; this is how their extensions work. But as a FF extension writer, you don't get the luxury of preserving your sanity.
Take away all the HTML you know and replace it with XUL, a completely different XML language with a different box model. Actually, you can keep the HTML in addition. You can keep your CSS too - along with getting to learn a metric assload of browser extensions to the syntax and creative ways to hack the existing vocabulary to get results. Want to display an image? XUL doesn't have the <img> tag, or a box model with sufficient control to embed a background image, but hey you can use "list-style-image"! Oh and since it's XUL you get to have fun with overlays, which are like includes except they work in an XML/XSLT way.
At this point, I'd like to mention the average human brain can only hold 7 items in short term memory at once. So far I've only named the bare minimum necessary to make a UI that does nothing. Now to make that clusterfuck do anything, you have to use a dialect of Javascript that makes COBOL look terse. Still not scared? Then you might survive extension-writing long enough to get around to the RDF stuff...
Asus is now sticking its head in the sand hoping the avalanche it started will go away, after realising backstabbing Xandros with a FUD campaign for the sake of getting a few dollars more discount on their XP OEM licenses was only successful in driving customers to other brands.
You may be horrified to learn that the power supply coming into your house is rated for about 15 THOUSAND watts! And the number never changes! OH MY GOD!!!
Gee, for just 100 more than I paid for my current, year-old PC I could have a gimped Apple-branded computer with 1/3 the RAM, 1/2 the cores, a video driver nobody can audit that runs as root and 1/8 the disk space!
Indeed. There is even an active scientific research project that's trying to figure out how Cuil achieves such a unique level of search result accuracy.~
Oh, and since I know you've got absolutely no industry experience, "POS" stands for point-of-sale. We're talking about the software you see running on cash registers.
I have got experience in that field, and the type of software you're talking about invariably is a piece of shit.
Be grateful you've never used it long enough to understand why.
I must've missed something... when did Nintendo switch over to using standard HID protocols instead of their proprietary wiimote one which has never worked on any OS's standard input driver?
if you don't want to view wired's website under wired's conditions, then don't visit their website.
Where in Wired's conditions or privacy policy do I agree to let them track which text I copy and paste off their site? Come on, you should have this answer since you're the one bringing it up.
So you have this great browser, but you can't script the install, can't manage update distribution (ie. autoupdate is not appropriate in many use cases), and manage config in a sane way.
It doesn't have special provisions for Linux either, yet every distro seems to manage to do what you described without a problem. Maybe Windows administrative tools are the inadequate software here?
When I want to set a light color I want to call SetLightColor(Color), not setSomeParamater(12, 15); It makes for unreadable and unmaintainable code.
You're too lazy to even write a function to translate a colour name into a numerical value? Too lazy to do a google search for something as simple as an OpenGL abstraction layer?
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Google doesn't tell you when they are listening, aka Google Analytics.
You mean your browser doesn't tell you when they're listening. Install RequestPolicy and/or NoScript and Analytics will never run. Along with those retarded "eyeblaster" ads.
Time for Mozilla to face reality and pay up the license
Yeah, that'll happen right after you start paying $5.99 to install the browser.
They're doing that now, via (drumroll)... another extension! Which is going to be built into the browser!
Why do FF developers hate their own extension framework dammit!?
Be careful what you ask for...
Let's imagine for a second that you're writing a HTML web page with some scripting. If this were Chrom(e|ium) you could stop reading here; this is how their extensions work. But as a FF extension writer, you don't get the luxury of preserving your sanity.
Take away all the HTML you know and replace it with XUL, a completely different XML language with a different box model. Actually, you can keep the HTML in addition. You can keep your CSS too - along with getting to learn a metric assload of browser extensions to the syntax and creative ways to hack the existing vocabulary to get results. Want to display an image? XUL doesn't have the <img> tag, or a box model with sufficient control to embed a background image, but hey you can use "list-style-image"! Oh and since it's XUL you get to have fun with overlays, which are like includes except they work in an XML/XSLT way.
At this point, I'd like to mention the average human brain can only hold 7 items in short term memory at once. So far I've only named the bare minimum necessary to make a UI that does nothing. Now to make that clusterfuck do anything, you have to use a dialect of Javascript that makes COBOL look terse. Still not scared? Then you might survive extension-writing long enough to get around to the RDF stuff...
I really don't blame them for hating it.
But on the other hand, neither do you.
So where were you all the times Ballmer was calling FOSS a cancer, a virus and other we-don't-want-to-compete names?
Ignorant prick.
Asus is now sticking its head in the sand hoping the avalanche it started will go away, after realising backstabbing Xandros with a FUD campaign for the sake of getting a few dollars more discount on their XP OEM licenses was only successful in driving customers to other brands.
VHS didn't exist 95 years ago, so he seems well within his rights to say no.
Hmm, waste time fighting with ignorant customer support for a windows licence refund or "waste" money by funding free software. Tough choice, yeah.
You're an idiot.
You may be horrified to learn that the power supply coming into your house is rated for about 15 THOUSAND watts! And the number never changes! OH MY GOD!!!
Gee, for just 100 more than I paid for my current, year-old PC I could have a gimped Apple-branded computer with 1/3 the RAM, 1/2 the cores, a video driver nobody can audit that runs as root and 1/8 the disk space!
Indeed. There is even an active scientific research project that's trying to figure out how Cuil achieves such a unique level of search result accuracy.~
Oh, and since I know you've got absolutely no industry experience, "POS" stands for point-of-sale. We're talking about the software you see running on cash registers.
I have got experience in that field, and the type of software you're talking about invariably is a piece of shit.
Be grateful you've never used it long enough to understand why.
Broken Wiimote Support in the evdev driver.
I must've missed something... when did Nintendo switch over to using standard HID protocols instead of their proprietary wiimote one which has never worked on any OS's standard input driver?
Ah, the sight of an ignorant audiophile attempting to justify their ridiculous wastes of money when faced with reality... truly a sight to behold.
Electronic Arts actually made good, original, fun games and didn't shovel out shit year after year. This "EA Games" is the polar opposite.
You'd use a piece of trash software just for the sake of getting one piece of pointless eye-candy?
You can also use the "reiser" combination which kills everything and also leaves your disks in a vulnerable state
if you don't want to view wired's website under wired's conditions, then don't visit their website.
Where in Wired's conditions or privacy policy do I agree to let them track which text I copy and paste off their site? Come on, you should have this answer since you're the one bringing it up.
Routers don't know whether your data is encrypted or not.
Neither does your browser, or the server. HTTP is a stateless protocol. Every encrypted request requires setting up the encryption all over again.
Asus' eee laptops do:
0 is overclock, 1 is normal, 2 is powersave.
So you have this great browser, but you can't script the install, can't manage update distribution (ie. autoupdate is not appropriate in many use cases), and manage config in a sane way.
It doesn't have special provisions for Linux either, yet every distro seems to manage to do what you described without a problem. Maybe Windows administrative tools are the inadequate software here?
When I want to set a light color I want to call SetLightColor(Color), not setSomeParamater(12, 15); It makes for unreadable and unmaintainable code.
You're too lazy to even write a function to translate a colour name into a numerical value? Too lazy to do a google search for something as simple as an OpenGL abstraction layer?
No wonder that project of yours is not finished.
He'll just have to kick ass instead.
Unix existed when MS wrote and sold DOS.
McDonalds' $0.99 turds-in-a-box are a relatively new concept too. Instant gratification at any cost is what sells these days.