Linus earlier said that there is no major change in this release. This version comes with the usual two thirds driver changes, and a lot of random fixes.
please tell me he isn't thinking about adopting firefox and chrome's release model...
in all seriousness, it still looks like this is more of a rumor than anything that is going to be done for a while.
Extensions that fail to work solely because they didn't set the max compatitibility setting to 5+ are by definition poorly programmed. Take a look at the release notes, they didn't screw with anything really major that should take down extensions. I'd understand if they just gutted the whole thing and replaced all sorts of things under the hood but this was the equivalent of a minor bug fix.
that is of absolutely no use to me when firefox is using 300 megs of ram with one tab open and still crashes whenever the Java plugin activates. those are big problems that are just being compeltely ignored.
maybe maybe not. firefox's new release schedule basically renamed minor bug fixes as major releases. they are not working any faster, they just changed how they name things more or less.
that's a bug fix not a major version. in any case, right now I'm sitting here in firefox with the browser using 340 megs of ram with one tab open. that's an operating system worth of ram being used while just sitting here. the other day after the update was out, java crashed firefox and took the OS with it somehow. there are huge gaping problems that are not being dealt with.
thank you! mozilla has been adding irrelevant features instead of fixing major problems. they're becomming rhe radioshack of internet browsers slowly widdling away the only reason for their existence just to be like chrome.
Please tell me what "technological advances" Firefox 5 actually brought us. I am curious.
poorly programmed extensions are not Mozilla's fault. The attitude that emulating browsers like Chrome's development cycle is a good idea is Mozilla's fault. They're working on features like having the tabs way up top rather than fixing trivial things like Java plugin incompatibility (which works fine in chrome but crashes firefox) or dealing with the massive memory leak problem that firefox has had for years and has yet to actually try to fix. they need to get their priorities straight or they're going to die.
It depends on what you consider a "positive effect" on society. If you consider dirt cheap labor that results in a high export to import ratio then no it certainly doesn't. But if you look at what percentage of the population is consistently below the poverty line, then social programs are very positive. If you combine that with the correllation between the financial desperation of the poor and crime rates, it looks even better.
I seriously doubt many atheists (myself included) would consider themselves socially conservative as most of the reasoning behind social conservatism is religious in nature but you may find a few atheists that are economically "conservative"/libertarian. The majority however, are likely secular humanists which are more often than not, liberal socially and economically speaking.
if someones' "morality" leads to bad consequences i.e. a higher crime rate and they *know* that this is the case, then I'd say they are definitely not being a moral person because their morals on the whole do not benefit anyone. I don't care what that book says, if what you believe inevitably causes more suffering than alternatives then what you believe isn't moral.
P.S. So in the next round I helped my friends actually cheat by hacking the game's database and producing written spy reports of enemy movements. Ha.
You weren't a cheater the first time but you are now.
cell phones, desktops, laptops, microwaves, any hand held device, dvrs, receivers, game consoles... although really a brain cell is a type of cpu each one being capable of performing (analog) calculations... humans have ~20-30 billion that aren't glial support cells, cats a few hundred million, dogs in the billion range, birds tens of millions etc.
So that makes a PS2, Sega, NES, an Mp3 player, 2 microwaves, 2 desktops, 2 dual core laptops, a satellite receiver, probably 3 or 4 calculators, 4 cell phones, a tivo, a gameboy, some random hand held game that is ancient which makes a total of 24 not counting that ancient apple in the basement, the child's toy 128k one embedded in a "keyboard" and other stuff that I can't find but I know are somewhere in the house...
It always amazed me how such an industrially worthless metal ever became as valued as it is. Now in so far as Gold being used to dodge inflation; not so much. Historically, it's been a poor choice for currency in that while it can sometimes be used to avoid inflation, it also has horrendous price shocks routinely reaching 10+ percent rates of inflation over the year with matching degrees of deflation later. What you'd really want is a basket of various commodities that tends to reduce the instability of any single commodity.
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn
