Comment Re:Doughnuts? (Score 1) 535
Who knows, gobal warming may be good for world peace.
Submission + - Space Shuttle was expensive and dangerous vehicle (in-other-news.com)
RStonR writes: The Space Shuttle is an engineering masterpiece but at the same time an example of incredible waste, stupidity and decadence.
The combination of completely senseless requirements (for example horizontal landing — why?) with a naive-romantic basic concept (apparently the Space Shuttle should have become a "miniature Enterprise" from Star Trek: Commanders, pilots, chain-of-command, etc.) lead to a much too expensive and dangerous vehicle for space tourism.
The combination of completely senseless requirements (for example horizontal landing — why?) with a naive-romantic basic concept (apparently the Space Shuttle should have become a "miniature Enterprise" from Star Trek: Commanders, pilots, chain-of-command, etc.) lead to a much too expensive and dangerous vehicle for space tourism.
Comment The Trouble is that NASA has become a PR-outfit (Score 1) 131
In pretty much every NASA press release I read buzzwords and phrases like "applications on earth", etc.
Some pundits even argue that the Space Shuttle was only a wasteful form of space tourism. (I.e.: What is "payload specialist" and political science major Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud doing on the Space Shuttle?)
Now, after the Space Shuttle is history and one probe after another gets cancelled, it's not even space tourism anymore, it's purely PR.
Comment Re:Im confused (Score 1) 305
Mozilla foundation has become crazy, maybe IceCat can become a full fork of Firefox?
After reading this article I think maybe they want to destroy Firefox on purpose.
Submission + - Firefox 7 delayed, Fork proposed (in-other-news.com)
RStonR writes: Firefox 7 has been delayed (Article in german), and there are already proposals to fork Firefox
Comment Firefox 7 delayed (Score 1) 309
Mozilla-Foundation failed again: (sorry, in German)
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Update-auf-Firefox-7-verschoben-1351616.html
There are also desperate cries for a fork:
http://in-other-news.com/2011/The_problem_with_Firefox_and_how_it_could_be_fixed
Comment Let's dump the Mozilla-foundation (Score 2) 452
Firefox is open-source, if debian/Icecat or someone else takes over, the problems can be fixed - and fixed easily.
Firefox is pretty much a finished product (I don't care what Mozilla says) and we need at least one stable browser.
Comment Debian should take over (Score 1) 452
Exactly, but fortunately there is something that can be done:
http://in-other-news.com/2011/The_problem_with_Firefox_and_how_it_could_be_fixed
Submission + - Why debian/Icecat should take over Firefox (in-other-news.com)
RStonR writes: When you combine the release-policy of Chrome with Firefox, you gain not a single advantage, but the extension-system no longer works reliably, because when Firefox gets updated from a major revision to the next, all extensions have to be retested and released anew. Therefore a lot of things break even when Firefox-management refuses to admit it.
The good news is that Firefox is free software, which means that Firefox management does not own the codebase, but only the name "Firefox" (plus artwork, etc.). For example the "IceCat" browser from the debian project (which is a Linux-distribution) is a rebranded version of Firefox with some minor changes which could grow into a real fork, if the IceCat-developers want (and also put out a version for Windows).
The good news is that Firefox is free software, which means that Firefox management does not own the codebase, but only the name "Firefox" (plus artwork, etc.). For example the "IceCat" browser from the debian project (which is a Linux-distribution) is a rebranded version of Firefox with some minor changes which could grow into a real fork, if the IceCat-developers want (and also put out a version for Windows).
