Firefox 10 Released 364
Taco Cowboy writes "It's time to upgrade again. Firefox 10 is out and here's a list of bugs fixed in the new version."
Comment Re:My 1/2 gig PC cried (Score 2) 106
gig 1 |gig| noun
1 chiefly a light two-wheeled carriage pulled by one horse.
2 a light, fast, narrow boat adapted for rowing or sailing.
I too would like to know if it is half a boat or half a carriage.
Comment Re:Bribes? (Score 1) 106
Newton resolved this flamewar coupla hundreds of years ago, apparently said something about standing, shoulders, giants. And it was not Apple's Newton, mind you.
My point exactly!
Comment Re:Bribes? (Score 1, Interesting) 106
Thankfully, their model is a failure.
Record profits each year for the last seven years in a row. I wish I made failures like that!
Comment Re:Bribes? (Score -1, Redundant) 106
I don't know, perhaps if Apple would actually innovate and create something new they wouldn't have to resort to patent trolling and could afford to buy judges.
Oh my, and so spins the wheel and we are back at the seven hundredth flamebait thread about whether Apple invents or not... *sigh*
Comment Re:Robots (Score 1) 69
Apparently he had pains for three weeks and could not work during that period.
Comment Re:Robots (Score 1) 69
I can't speak for Australia, but in Sweden as recently as dec 2, 2011 a co-pilot had to be taken to the ER after his plane was hit by green laser.
LG To Pay Licensing Fees To Microsoft For Using Android 359
PerlJedi writes "InformationWeek reports that LG is the latest in a string of companies who have been bullied into paying 'license fees' to Microsoft for the use of Android on their products. 'Microsoft said the deal with LG means that 70% of Android-based smartphones sold in the U.S. are now covered by its licensing program. ... Microsoft does not disclose how much revenue it's obtaining from Android, Chrome, and Linux licenses, but some analysts believe it may be substantial, to the point where the company is making significant profits from the mobile revolution even though its own offering, Windows Phone, commands a market share of less than 2%, according to Gartner.'"
Comment Re:Queue the screams of hysteria (Score 3, Informative) 195
The results of the research, performed by the government agency for fisheries (not the nuclear industry) actually indicates that, on balance, fish growth is actually promoted, as are many other species of birds etc.
In fact that very report says that in the short term opportunistic species will rise at the cost of the more vulnerable species and in the long run all species (biomass) will decrease
Firefox 9 Released, JavaScript Performance Greatly Improved 330
MrSeb writes "Firefox 9 is now available — but unlike its previous rapid release forebears where not a lot changed, a huge feature has landed with the new version: the JavaScript engine now has type inference enabled. This simple switch has resulted in a 20-30% JS execution speed increase (PDF), putting JaegerMonkey back in line with Chrome's V8 engine, and even pulling ahead in some cases. If you switched away from Firefox to IE or Chrome for improved JS performance, now is probably the time to give Firefox another shot."
Comment Re:Why now? (Score 1) 422
You do of course realise my point was not that Apple should help you for free, not at all. My point was that your statement that Apple's technical support is equivalent to them helping upgrade your apps to their latest mandate is completely false, and your followup post proved my point most spectacularly. And by the way, having experienced DTS, it's not all it's cracked up to be. A quite frequent response is "It shouldn't be doing that. Our engineers have asked if you can please log a bug" (and I've reported stuff three years ago that still hasn't even been acknowledged). At work, we have an off-the-shelf product and some customisations done to it by a third party. Somewhere, buried deep in the contract, is a rider clause saying that if we ever upgrade that off-the-shelf product, the third party must upgrade all of our customisations for free. And I'm told this is fairly common.
O'rly? You wrote "You get two DTS calls. That's it. After that, it's incredibly expensive. I don't call that "help"."
I realize not that I was trolled
Comment Re:Why now? (Score 1) 422
You made no indication of who the owner of the was, I assumed it was either a company that does not exists anymore or some other abandonware. How do you expect me to know it was Blizzard you meant about when you did not even hint that is was a game you were talking about when you used the generic term "app"? Especially when you wrote "I have an app that doesn't work anymore under Lion. How do I get them to upgrade it? Sure, they'll help Adobe upgrade their apps, but the rest of us don't get anything." You also hint that the company you so perfectly obscured in your non-description is not of a similar or greater economic/political impact like that of Adobe one can only assume they are a smaller shop and therefore would be more welcoming for a licensing deal or even purchase. Next time, can you please be more up-front about it and you will not be irritated when people misunderstand you?
Comment Re:Why now? (Score 1) 422
That may be a problem, but if the application is important to you perhaps you could work out a licensing deal with the owners?
Comment Re:Why now? (Score 1) 422
You get two DTS calls. That's it. After that, it's incredibly expensive. I don't call that "help".
What kind of blatant entitlement is this? Seriously!? If you go to a tailor you never expect to help you get your seems fixed for free, especially not twice before paying. Never, ever, would they accept any argument along the line "but it would make you look good if I wore a my suit sewn by you".
If you go to a a doctor to help diagnose your medical problem the doctor would just laugh at you and point to the door if you insist he should not be reimbursed for his time and knowledge and service to you because it might somehow be in his interest to have you healthy or somehow able to "spread the word around about what great guy he is".
If you take your computer to Geek Squad you pay for their service. You never get two technical support incidents fixed by for free by them.
It is the same thing, there is nothing inherent in a service that warrants it being provided for free. Only those who think that everyones time and knowledge is worth free (nothing) thinks that way.
Apple is quite reasonable in giving you a limited number of free technical support calls for something that is not a warranty (or similar issue) and then asking for about the price of a haircut (under $50 per incident) for something that could be looked at for days worth of billable hours if it was pure consulting.
Apple should not fix someone else's broken code, they have extensive documentation on their API:s, they have developer forums that are frequented by their own engineers. They promise will help you twice per year, for free, in addition they may help you an unlimited number of times on the developer forums. In addition they offer cheap DTS at a cheap fixed rate.
Comment Re:Why now? (Score 1) 422
Apple will help companies upgrade apps.
Oh yeah? I have an app that doesn't work anymore under Lion. How do I get them to upgrade it? Sure, they'll help Adobe upgrade their apps, but the rest of us don't get anything.
"Apple Developer Program members may contact Developer Technical Support for code-level technical assistance." At developer.apple.com/contact (under the Mac section) you can request an Apple engineer to look at your code and respond to your request. They have the same deal for every iOS developer as well.
