Intensive Purposes, eg practical purposes, the purposes that most people use it for, eg, typing in a web address.

They arent trying to get rid of the URL bar, they are redesigning it. It will still behave the same for all intensive purposes. Most users wont know I would guess. But having the URL bar parse commands would allow power users to be able to do way more. Even right nwo your URL bar does more than just http and https. But what if you could do more? That is all that is being suggested here, a much more powerful white box at the top of your screen, not removing it completely.

Did you not read TFA? While the summary is trolling, the actual change Mozilla is suggesting is a space that could be used for more than just url's. Imagine if the url bar did more, what if it parsed regular expressions as well? What if it allowed ping, or tracert, or nslookup? The regular user would never know, but the tech user would have a very very useful piece of functionality included.

I have always thought the url bar was a waste of real estate as it stands, that could be made much more useful. Sure I still want to be able to enter an IP or a dns address, but being able to parse ftp and ssh commands would be awesome.

Hmmmm, you must be a Blackberry user :)

Except USB gave people something they wanted, although we had to install drivers for it, once it was installed, it sure as hell was better than fiddling with screws for serial ports and bent pins.

I was wondering how far down in the threads I would have to go until I found a "O.M.G. Thunderbolt is the shizz and whoever thinks otherwise is a uneducated jackass".

What is funny is that you are treating (maybe facetiously) USB3 the same way you see the author treating Thunderbolt.

USB, no matter how crappy will dominate the market over "superior" products because of a few reasons.

1. Familiarity to Joe Sixpack.

2. Legacy

3. Much like any jump in tech Joe thinks that a bigger number in the title means better. So it doesn't matter if the device has any adv on 2.0 or 3.0, it will feel faster to the consumer. (even though 3.0 supplied bi-directional transfers while 2.0 does not)

The problem with people here is that you have to read the consumer, what is it they want? What are they going to buy? Sure Thunderbolt has it's advantages, it wouldnt be included in a production system if it did not. But what it comes down to is the consumer and whether or not they care. Just like Firewire, there will be fans for Thunderbolt, but unless there is something glaringly obvious that Thunderbolt does that every consumer can understand, then no one is going to care. It just isn't worth it.

Bluetooth replacing USB, are you kidding me? Bluetooth is being replaced by wireless USB, not the other way around.

Sorry, that is a lie. BB no longer has a place in my enterprise environments. They are expensive, require additional data plans with Verizon (on top of the regular data plan). The devices themselves offer only basic functionality.

In the real world enterprises we are moving away from BB because they are not offering what Apple and Android can. Apple and Android have better word processing, far superior web capabillites, robust applications, and with servers like Good, we no longer have the dependency on BES.

So sorry, NO, in the real enterprise world we are tired of dealing with BB Battery pulls, expensive hardware and software, and a lack of innovation to give us what we want.

Yes, this whole situation is blown way out of proportion. This is just another case of the general public realizing that if you have a network connected device you can be tracked. I mean seriously, is it that ridiculous of a concept that a Mobile network provider tracks it's nodes? Seriously? You want to be anonymous on the network? Ok you can switch your own damn towers, manager your own private traffic and route it properly over your own routers spread through the world...

WTF would someone buy this unless they had a BB hard-on? I was one of the people eagerly anticipating a debut from BB that would allow efficient document sharing in a business via a private WAN. Instead we saw the death rattle of an industry who lost all sense of innovation and connection to the customer...

When you are late to a tech game you need to offer something extra, something the market share holders dont have already...this tablet..wow, BB missed a golden opportunity. All they needed to do was create a BB document center server/module for BES and a slate to pair with it just like BBs do. Voila you just won your market back, and securely placed sales for the next 5 years as the only provider of secure electronic documentations to a slate.

As well i can get used DVDs off of amazon for $2-4. When I am viewing movies at home why do I care? In our house we jumped straight from DVD to electronic copy. As well, most movies are still shot with the DVD frame in mind. Ever tried to watch a romantic comedy with the 120Mhz mode on? Creepy looking.

Umm the proper response would be, what noob set up the network in such a way that users can set up servers ad-hoc in a production environment. One of the problems here is that no one is noting this issue.

This cannot be a serious academic hospital...more likely a junior college with a nursing program, not Johns Hopkins...

In a professional network, this behavior would not be tolerated. Before the server would even be spun up a CM (Change Management) request would have to be filled out. Proper department buy off would have to occur and a cost center identified. Even if you buy it yourself, you would need to adhere to corporate policy, which even in the more relaxed environments require the item to be donated to the company.

I will put it out there that this is a network where the IT department barely exists, (not their fault just cost cutting by management), any HIPPA standards are loosely followed, and this is standard behavior. I applaud the IT person for at least asking the question but if this were my department I would be ashamed that the server even got on the production network without notice.

Good then I can still get my Banjo of Consternation from Woot.

What is interesting is that MS has to PAY people to use their software, vs Motorola CHOOSING to use Android. That is the heart of where MS needs to change things and they know it. They need to get away from the strategy of telling people what they want (apple is the only company good at that), and start really looking into what people actually want. I am a MS guy, I run windows 7 and support their products in a medium sized enterprise. Been doing this for over 10 years. it is amazing to me the useless crap that is packed into MS products because some guy in house decided he wanted to put the feature in there. You dont really catch on to this until you use a community driven product that competes with a MS one.

To this end MS has been doing better at asking people how they want things to work and how things should lay out. Thus the birth of the latest series of products, windows 7, windows server 2008, exchange 2007-10, office 2007-10, etc...

I am just worried with this plan that Nokia is going to become MS's bitch and when Nokia tanks because of this it will just be a blip on MS's radar. Whereas we as consumers will have lost a great manufacturer.

Now this is a mixed message because coming up through the IT field it was the old timers causing the security problems. "What? I have to clean my inputs? This is the way I have always done it and this is how I am going to keep doing it" as well as "bah, our company is not a target".

Now it is 10 years after I entered the field full time, things are FAR FAR FAR FAR FAR better. Yes there are still old sites out there, there are still companies that don't update their security because they are struggling to keep the lights on. But seriously as opposed to 10 years ago, Infosec is widespread, companies have security training seminars for employees, Pentests are a regular phenomenon. This increased security is largely because those of us who grew up with tech, intentionally went into the field, and really enjoy the work are now getting to the 10-15 year range on experience and fixing all the damn problems our predecessors set before us. All the while doing our best to defend against the up and comers who are trying to push out projects as fast as possible to pad their resume.