Comment OK. (Score 1) 25
Noted
Comment Re:WE've won! (Score 1) 330
There is not enough emacs users for such survey to be statistically significant.
Comment Re:Why I use Firefox (Score 1) 272
I'm stuck with FF, because of tree style tabs.
Comment Re:Chrome is fastest (Score 1) 272
The relatively new Vivaldi browser (an Opera fork) is even faster.
It is still missing couple of features - I'd make it my default browser if it supported settings sync.
Once its there I think its a winner.
Submission + - The JavaScript phenomenon is a mass psychosis (medium.com)
jira writes: We know how bad language Javascript is. But why its use still spreading.
Know we know: "The JavaScript phenomenon is a mass psychosis"
Ok, its a rant but with a kernel of truth.
Know we know: "The JavaScript phenomenon is a mass psychosis"
Ok, its a rant but with a kernel of truth.
Comment Similar number of launches as Internet Explorer (Score 1) 202
"Similar number of daily launches as Edge and Internet Explorer."
Well, if that is so, then cmd really is dying...
Comment Context menu screwed up (Score 1) 181
Right clicking anything brings up EVERY option for the context menu. I'm seeing items like "Play", "Pause", "Mute", "Email Audio, "Email Video", etc, even right clicking on plain HTML pages.
Comment Re:Comments on the browser itself? (Score 1) 415
It's like people have forgotten that they can actually poke around and figure things out for themselves. If it's not readily apparent, they assume it can't be done.
I think you got it wrong. The software should adjust to its users not the other way round. Even if you think that your users are lazy and not willing to invest few minutes of their time to learn the new great features you have for them then you should try to force yourself to listen to them. Because, well, otherwise they will just stop being interested in you at all. Well, in the end there will be an adjustment and Mozilla will have the sort of users it wants - somewhere around 5-10% market share would be my guess.
Comment Re:Enough with the version number inflation! (Score 1) 247
I think what he means as I was frustrated by it too.
So I want to go to say www.google.com or google analytics etc. As I type google the first hundred suggestion will be some articles I red via google reader during past few years.
Comment Re:I'll rather wait for FF7 (Score 1) 247
You rather be careful, not sure if Mozilla people have any sense of irony. They could take it as inspiration. "Outdated back button" is going away soon (version 26).
Submission + - Does physics really undestand the nature? (project-syndicate.org)
jira writes: "Physicists are justly proud of the many ways that their achievements have benefited humankind. But building a light bulb or a telephone doesn’t mean that you understand its basic principles (Thomas Edison and Alexander Bell certainly didn’t), and many physicists seem to have forgotten that distinction."
"And so, despite headline-grabbing advances such as string theory, it goes to this very day. One can hardly challenge the predictive success of modern physics, but one should remember that one is describing nature, and not always understanding it."
"And so, despite headline-grabbing advances such as string theory, it goes to this very day. One can hardly challenge the predictive success of modern physics, but one should remember that one is describing nature, and not always understanding it."
Comment Re:The problem is still "free trade", not regulati (Score 1) 138
It's ironic that a poster child of the right wing - free trade - has done more for re-distribution of wealth from rich to poor counties than all the socialist ideals put together.
It's not that much ironic as it redistributed wealth from the lower classes in the west. During the last 30 years real wages for middle and lower income workers stagnated. But the top 1% are making much more.
Comment Re:How do you protect your mobile phone (Score 1) 238
Yes but let's assume we aren't asking the question for the 0.00001% of humanity with no interest in being a part of society.
He was writing for the slashdotters, not humanity
Comment Re:nice try (Score 1) 99
Well, they can always "Ask Slashdot". There seems to be a lot of experts (at least on what MS should/should not do).
Comment Re:Sad, but interesting (Score 1) 227
Right, and it's much easier to do so when you control a huge percentage of the mobile space. Again, my post was wondering if Apple would be able to resist that temptation.
Well, in the past they did not accept into their store apps that offered alternative to they own products and services.
In the early days of its App Store, Apple rejected two Google applications - Voice and Latitude.
The company said that, in the case of Voice, it replicated one of the iPhone's core functions - something which broke the App Store's terms of use.
Apple's rules were later relaxed, following an investigation by the US Federal Communications Commission.
