And here's a man trying to BUY THEM BACK. Get off your asses and HELP HIM.
But that's the problem. This isn't happening in a vacuum.
At the same time Lessig is trying to buy politicians, a few other organizations who have far more money than Lessig could ever hope to raise, are also buying politicians to do what THEY want.
Microsoft lost a few hundred million on the Surface tablet. Twitter has never made money lost $500 Million in the most recent quarter.
So what?
Episode VII is the movie they should have made years ago. Instead, we got the godawful prequels and now all the original cast is a hundred years old and will be lucky to get through filming without needing paramedics standing by at all times.
It's a fork of FF engine with the older interface (from around version 26 I believe).
I think Palemoon is based on version 24 which is the latest Extended Service Release, and he is selectively patching in bug fixes and security updates but leaving out the big UI changes. I've been using it for a couple of months now and it works fine.
After "pushing out their CEO" for political / free speach reasons
Free speach [sic], you say? Obligatory xkcd. The CEO has a Constitution-enshrined right to say whatever he wants without fear of criminal prosecution, but Mozilla also has a right to boot him out of the company for it.
When you can have your ability to earn a living taken away from you, even though you have done nothing that violates any law, then you have effectively created a society where there is no free speech.
Why should I have to use an add-on to get the classic theme back? This should be an option out of the box!
Exactly right.
The bigger problem with the Classic Theme Restorer extension is that it only works with the default Firefox theme. Since the default Firefox them has sucked shit since sometime around version 4, it doesn't really solve most of the problems with the new Assholio version of Firefox.
I would, if Chrome supported a NoScript type plugin.
Actually Chrome allows you to selectively disable Javascript by domain. Chrome's only good feature and a feature that I wish Firefox would copy.
NoScript blocks all Javascript by default and forces you to manually whitelist everything. Unfortunately, that's now the exact opposite of what we need. NoScript was created back in the old days when you could completely disable Javascript and most websites would still mostly work. Now, more and more sites won't load at all -- you literally get a blank page -- without Javascript.
According to the video you can select the icons and menus you want to display in the toolbar... that include all the addons/plugins/extensions too. What customization has been dropped?
The video is deliberately misleading and the claim of "a powerful customization mode where you can add or move any feature" is a complete lie.
A few examples:
Tabs On Top -- No thanks, I want my tabs below the URL bar, where God intended them to be. First, they removed the menu item a while back. No problem, I can just go into about:config and change it. But just removing the menu item and burying the setting in about:config isn't enough. With Australis, even if you go into about:config and change the setting, it does nothing. Firefox says: Fuck You. You're getting Tabs On Top whether you like it or not.
There are only 2 toolbars - Menu bar and Bookmarks toolbar. No more Add-On Bar, which means the Status Bar Extension doesn't work because there's no place to put it. Firefox says: You want a Status Bar? Fuck You. Sure there's probably some hidden fiddling you can do to work around the problem, but that just proves my point -- A user should not have to spend copious amounts of effort just to restore the standard and expected UI.
In Australis the Back and Forward buttons are now glued to the URL Bar, so you can't arrange your buttons any way you like. The Reload Button has been replaced with a swirly arrow that is glued to the far right side of the URL Bar and can't be moved, and the Stop Button is gone completely. Want text labels with your buttons? Firefox says: Fuck you.
There's a lot more, but I give up. If I wanted a browser with a lousy UI that can't be changed, I would use Internet Explorer or Chrome.
Just as I feared -- Firefox has joined the growing list of applications that can never be updated because the new version sucks.
"a comedy-adventure about a misfit group of space travelers who stumble onto an alternate universe"
Who better to produce this than a company that has no clue what it is doing and historically has wasted billions of dollars on pointless crap.
What about Uranus?
By the way, I always thought that URIs were supposed to handle precisely this - that they were supposed to be unique, universally accessible identifiers for contents and resources - identifiers that, once assigned, wouldn't need to be changed to access the same contents or resources in the future.
What happens when you want to access something on fubar.com but the domain fubar.com no longer exists?
Colbert is funny, so that makes him a comedian.
But is letterman funny or a comedian? Not at all.
Letterman is pants.
Letterman is WORLDWIDE PANTS
Their best proposed solution is to ban Yahoo email users from mailing lists and encourage them to switch to other ISPs
What the fuck? Since when is Yahoo an ISP?
A lot of people use Yahoo's shitty webmail but only because they are too brain dead to use a real email client sending/receiving email via their ISP's servers.
Although I have to admit, i do like the idea of banning anyone who uses Yahoo mail.
1) He resigned, he wasn't fired.
2) There was pressure to resign, or else be fired, sure, but the fundamental reason is that users were throwing tantrums and threatening a boycott. That seems like a legit reason to fire someone to me.
No, that's coercion.
What's been lost in all this is the fact that in 2008, the same year that Brendan Eich made that campaign contribution, Barack Obama went on national television in a debate with John McCain, and said that he believes marriage should only be between a man and a woman.
Where is the outrage over that? Why is it that Obama was elected president of the United States, twice, and Eich was forced to resign from the company he helped start?
I won't bother reciting all the things that are wrong with Windows 8, many other people have already done that in great detail. When the new "Update 1" leaked onto the Internet a few weeks ago I decided to give it a try.
The Update does make quite a few improvements and results in a system that is closer to what Windows 8 should have been in the first place. Closer, but not there. After installing the Update and doing a bit of wrangling, what you have is a system that looks and works very similar to Windows 7 except for:
(a) Uglier, shittier color scheme
(b) A "Start Screen" that takes up your entire desktop instead of a proper Start Menu that only uses the lower left quadrant, and you still don't have one of the best features that were introduced in Windows XP 12 years ago -- keeping a list of most recently used programs.
(3) Windows Explorer (now apparently renamed to File Explorer) now has the godawful "ribbon" abomination that makes it 10 times harder to use.
(d) All the other things that are wrong with Windows 8, such as installing a dozen useless "apps" on your desktop.
In other words, what's the point? Windows 8.1 Update 1 is just a shittier version of Windows 7.
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
