I think the point has always been that it was easier to fix those leaks in the add-ons than to implement draconian quotas on add-ons in the browser.
They were able to fix it to some degree, but all it's doing is preventing poorly-written addons from leaking memory. I think protecting the user from his addons is a superior technical solution, but it isn't Firefox's "fault" that the addons were written poorly.
And I would in fact apply the same argument to IE and extend it to Windows: plugins to IE causing problems? Disable the plugins, not IE. Drivers making windows bluescreen? Blame the drivers, not Windows.
But still try to sandbox things a little better so buggy extension code doesn't kill the experience.
This is not how copyright works. If they are in the public domain, the reproduction doesn't matter. In fact, reproduction never changes copyright status, otherwise your copy of Civilization 2008 is illegal but your copy of your copy of Civilization 2008 is legal, which makes no fucking sense, I think you'll agree.
Actually, I just thought of another one: how about a visualization of the ways Congress and the President are spending their time. Group the time spent in various ways ("Bookkeeping", "military issues", "energy policy", "inappropriately texting interns"...) and allow us input on how the group as a whole spends its time. They work for us, goddammit, and we should get a say in what they focus on. I'm a boss at work, and when I think one of my engineers is spending too much time on a particular trivial task, I'll let them know what I think they should work on instead.
How about we include people under the CTO office that are specialized in data visualization. Very dry, tedious data can be made both more accessible and more interesting if we had a few people in the government who knew how to make useful graphics. For example, a graphic illustrating the size of "earmarks" in government vs. the size of the 850 billion dollar bailout we just passed, the Iraq war, or just about any other pick-your-favorite-wasteful-spending demon, would have very quickly ended discussion about the earmarks and focused it on the various more gruesome ways we have our budgetary thumbs up our asses.
Similarly, I think visualizations of the length of some bills being passed would draw attention very quickly to which ones were being buried under a pile of dangerous and unrelated riders, and which ones were too complex to be useful.
And I'm not particularly creative - someone with access to the raw data feed and experience in this field could make visualizations that actually informed the public about what's going on.
That just doesn't matter. Don't prosecute things that are benefitting you. To make an analogy: Suppose you were standing on your front lawn with your wife when she collapsed, unable to breathe. When you ran inside to call an ambulance, someone off the street ran up and successfully administered the Heimlich, saving her life. Do you prosecute him for trespassing? Do you quibble about whether the law is on your side?
Android does have voice recognition, and it's marginally useful. I was able to call my wife and a few of my favorite contacts on day 1 without training it. However, it cheats a little by strongly favoring your most-used contacts, which it knows because I've been a gmail user for a long time.
It doesn't seem to apply to any other part of the OS, not that I'd particularly want it to.
Google define:delusion: "(psychology) an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary"
The only thing we are quibbling over is whether or not it is "erroneous". The concept of "faith" regards the "held in the face of evidence to the contrary" part to be a virtue. Obviously, my comment is intentionally barbed because I am an atheist, but yes, I think religion is a delusion. That's not the same as saying religious people are mentally ill, which I have thoroughly discussed in my other comments in this thread.
I'm ready to buy a G1, just for the sheer novely of it, and I'll deal with having to buy/download apps from the store unless/until it is jailbroken. I might, might run Debian on it for a lark, but I don't run Debian on my mail server... I might wait for Ubuntu...:-)
Well, good news for you: you don't have to jailbreak it (or wait for it to be jailbroken (again)). You can install apps from a plain old URL, you don't have to go through the (already mostly $0) Market.
On day 1, I installed an SVN build of ConnectBot onto my G1, from the connectbot website, and have been using it almost daily since then.
With Android being an open platform, though, there's an extra wrinkle. Google isn't making (much, if any) money from HTC installing Android on their phone. So T-Mobile isn't really Google's client. Google has to sorta play ball so they can keep wireless vendors from blacklisting android, but they have a lot more leeway.
Also, there's another reason: regulatory. With a certain level of access to the phone hardware, you can change signal strength and frequency and do things that the FCC doesn't like. So everyone involved has to take reasonable steps to prevent that from happening.
Because a delusion is not sufficient to render a diagnosis of schizophrenia. There are adults who believe in lucky four-leaf clovers. If delusion were sufficient, all children who believe in Santa Claus would be in rubber rooms.
There are other symptoms which must be present to diagnose mental illness, and it's important that the symptoms point to a pattern of malfunctioning in society. Nearly all of us are perfectly functional within society despite our respective delusions.
The definition exists because people who are religious are not generally mentally ill. Just deluded. So what we really need to change is the definition of particular mental illnesses that depend on delusions. For example, instead of saying "transubstantiation is not a delusion", we should say "Schizophrenia is characterized by delusions, other than the delusions of religious faith."
So what are you saying, that we need to disband price-fixing corporations, put their board members in front of a firing squad, and scatter the ashes to the wind?
Thirdly, dogs probably have vastly different ability levels for tracking by smell vs. tracking by fingerprint due to the two leaving different amounts of trail material.
Yeah, they can't even get open the little tube of superglue.
Nah, suing them is pretty good too. Boycotts take a long time to work, if they ever work. A nonstop barrage of expensive lawsuits can have an effect very quickly.
Nobody lined Obama's pockets except me and thirty million of my fellow Americans, 25 bucks at a time. Can't you cynics keep it to a dull roar for even the two months it'll take to get him sworn in? Wait and see what happens.
Prop 8 is passing. As we mark one positive change in civil rights, we throw another one down the well. It'll be another generation before enough homophobes die out to make civil rights something that applies to sexual orientation as well as race and gender.
Interestingly, I read your post, went back over the links in the summary, and was shocked that they didn't link to the program's website there.
There is starting to become an actual set of grammar rules for these things, which are implicitly recognized by Internet-literates, and broken only at the risk of seeming illiterate. Linking incorrectly is becoming as obvious as using the wrong tense of a verb: "Yesterday he goes to the store." And done incorrectly for the same reasons: some people can't bother to learn grammar.
This stuff will end up in Strunk & White in a couple of years, mark my words.
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Jesus Christ, all you people need a sarcasm detector adjustment. If you thought the parent was serious, you may in fact be a retard.
I think the point has always been that it was easier to fix those leaks in the add-ons than to implement draconian quotas on add-ons in the browser.
They were able to fix it to some degree, but all it's doing is preventing poorly-written addons from leaking memory. I think protecting the user from his addons is a superior technical solution, but it isn't Firefox's "fault" that the addons were written poorly.
And I would in fact apply the same argument to IE and extend it to Windows: plugins to IE causing problems? Disable the plugins, not IE. Drivers making windows bluescreen? Blame the drivers, not Windows.
But still try to sandbox things a little better so buggy extension code doesn't kill the experience.
This is not how copyright works. If they are in the public domain, the reproduction doesn't matter. In fact, reproduction never changes copyright status, otherwise your copy of Civilization 2008 is illegal but your copy of your copy of Civilization 2008 is legal, which makes no fucking sense, I think you'll agree.
They did sue. Good thing you thought of it 9 months later, though, right? Maybe you should be Yahoo's CEO.
Hans Rosling was exactly the person I was thinking about, actually.
Fool! It would be completely irresponsible to attach a car analogy to a story about cars!
Actually, I just thought of another one: how about a visualization of the ways Congress and the President are spending their time. Group the time spent in various ways ("Bookkeeping", "military issues", "energy policy", "inappropriately texting interns"...) and allow us input on how the group as a whole spends its time. They work for us, goddammit, and we should get a say in what they focus on. I'm a boss at work, and when I think one of my engineers is spending too much time on a particular trivial task, I'll let them know what I think they should work on instead.
How about we include people under the CTO office that are specialized in data visualization. Very dry, tedious data can be made both more accessible and more interesting if we had a few people in the government who knew how to make useful graphics. For example, a graphic illustrating the size of "earmarks" in government vs. the size of the 850 billion dollar bailout we just passed, the Iraq war, or just about any other pick-your-favorite-wasteful-spending demon, would have very quickly ended discussion about the earmarks and focused it on the various more gruesome ways we have our budgetary thumbs up our asses.
Similarly, I think visualizations of the length of some bills being passed would draw attention very quickly to which ones were being buried under a pile of dangerous and unrelated riders, and which ones were too complex to be useful.
And I'm not particularly creative - someone with access to the raw data feed and experience in this field could make visualizations that actually informed the public about what's going on.
My analogy holds, because you also have the legal right to post pictures of Toyota's cars, as long as Toyota didn't take them.
Bam!
That just doesn't matter. Don't prosecute things that are benefitting you. To make an analogy: Suppose you were standing on your front lawn with your wife when she collapsed, unable to breathe. When you ran inside to call an ambulance, someone off the street ran up and successfully administered the Heimlich, saving her life. Do you prosecute him for trespassing? Do you quibble about whether the law is on your side?
Think about it. Yeah.
Android does have voice recognition, and it's marginally useful. I was able to call my wife and a few of my favorite contacts on day 1 without training it. However, it cheats a little by strongly favoring your most-used contacts, which it knows because I've been a gmail user for a long time.
It doesn't seem to apply to any other part of the OS, not that I'd particularly want it to.
Google define:delusion: "(psychology) an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary"
The only thing we are quibbling over is whether or not it is "erroneous". The concept of "faith" regards the "held in the face of evidence to the contrary" part to be a virtue. Obviously, my comment is intentionally barbed because I am an atheist, but yes, I think religion is a delusion. That's not the same as saying religious people are mentally ill, which I have thoroughly discussed in my other comments in this thread.
I'm ready to buy a G1, just for the sheer novely of it, and I'll deal with having to buy/download apps from the store unless/until it is jailbroken. I might, might run Debian on it for a lark, but I don't run Debian on my mail server... I might wait for Ubuntu...:-)
Well, good news for you: you don't have to jailbreak it (or wait for it to be jailbroken (again)). You can install apps from a plain old URL, you don't have to go through the (already mostly $0) Market.
On day 1, I installed an SVN build of ConnectBot onto my G1, from the connectbot website, and have been using it almost daily since then.
With Android being an open platform, though, there's an extra wrinkle. Google isn't making (much, if any) money from HTC installing Android on their phone. So T-Mobile isn't really Google's client. Google has to sorta play ball so they can keep wireless vendors from blacklisting android, but they have a lot more leeway.
Also, there's another reason: regulatory. With a certain level of access to the phone hardware, you can change signal strength and frequency and do things that the FCC doesn't like. So everyone involved has to take reasonable steps to prevent that from happening.
Because a delusion is not sufficient to render a diagnosis of schizophrenia. There are adults who believe in lucky four-leaf clovers. If delusion were sufficient, all children who believe in Santa Claus would be in rubber rooms.
There are other symptoms which must be present to diagnose mental illness, and it's important that the symptoms point to a pattern of malfunctioning in society. Nearly all of us are perfectly functional within society despite our respective delusions.
"... except for sometimes."
The definition exists because people who are religious are not generally mentally ill. Just deluded. So what we really need to change is the definition of particular mental illnesses that depend on delusions. For example, instead of saying "transubstantiation is not a delusion", we should say "Schizophrenia is characterized by delusions, other than the delusions of religious faith."
So what are you saying, that we need to disband price-fixing corporations, put their board members in front of a firing squad, and scatter the ashes to the wind?
All right. I'm on board.
Thirdly, dogs probably have vastly different ability levels for tracking by smell vs. tracking by fingerprint due to the two leaving different amounts of trail material.
Yeah, they can't even get open the little tube of superglue.
Nah, suing them is pretty good too. Boycotts take a long time to work, if they ever work. A nonstop barrage of expensive lawsuits can have an effect very quickly.
Nobody lined Obama's pockets except me and thirty million of my fellow Americans, 25 bucks at a time. Can't you cynics keep it to a dull roar for even the two months it'll take to get him sworn in? Wait and see what happens.
http://dir.salon.com/story/comics/tomo/2004/03/01/tomo/print.html
Your kind has a long and proud tradition.
Be nice to see them all move to Mexico, I guess. And fitting, since they wall they wanted built will be there to keep them from coming back.
Prop 8 is passing. As we mark one positive change in civil rights, we throw another one down the well. It'll be another generation before enough homophobes die out to make civil rights something that applies to sexual orientation as well as race and gender.
Interestingly, I read your post, went back over the links in the summary, and was shocked that they didn't link to the program's website there.
There is starting to become an actual set of grammar rules for these things, which are implicitly recognized by Internet-literates, and broken only at the risk of seeming illiterate. Linking incorrectly is becoming as obvious as using the wrong tense of a verb: "Yesterday he goes to the store." And done incorrectly for the same reasons: some people can't bother to learn grammar.
This stuff will end up in Strunk & White in a couple of years, mark my words.