jira - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Comments on the browser itself? (Score 1) 415

by jira on Sunday August 14, 2011 @02:56PM (#37087654) Attached to: Mozilla Firefox 6 Released Ahead of Schedule

It's like people have forgotten that they can actually poke around and figure things out for themselves. If it's not readily apparent, they assume it can't be done.

I think you got it wrong. The software should adjust to its users not the other way round. Even if you think that your users are lazy and not willing to invest few minutes of their time to learn the new great features you have for them then you should try to force yourself to listen to them. Because, well, otherwise they will just stop being interested in you at all. Well, in the end there will be an adjustment and Mozilla will have the sort of users it wants - somewhere around 5-10% market share would be my guess.

Comment Re:Enough with the version number inflation! (Score 1) 247

by jira on Saturday August 13, 2011 @04:30AM (#37077648) Attached to: Firefox 6 Ships Next Week, 8 Blocks Sneaky Add-Ons

I think what he means as I was frustrated by it too. So I want to go to say www.google.com or google analytics etc. As I type google the first hundred suggestion will be some articles I red via google reader during past few years.

Comment Re:I'll rather wait for FF7 (Score 1) 247

by jira on Saturday August 13, 2011 @04:22AM (#37077642) Attached to: Firefox 6 Ships Next Week, 8 Blocks Sneaky Add-Ons

You rather be careful, not sure if Mozilla people have any sense of irony. They could take it as inspiration. "Outdated back button" is going away soon (version 26).

Submission + - Does physics really undestand the nature? (project-syndicate.org)

Submitted by jira on Saturday August 06, 2011 @08:10AM

jira writes: "Physicists are justly proud of the many ways that their achievements have benefited humankind. But building a light bulb or a telephone doesn’t mean that you understand its basic principles (Thomas Edison and Alexander Bell certainly didn’t), and many physicists seem to have forgotten that distinction."

"And so, despite headline-grabbing advances such as string theory, it goes to this very day. One can hardly challenge the predictive success of modern physics, but one should remember that one is describing nature, and not always understanding it."

Comment Re:The problem is still "free trade", not regulati (Score 1) 138

by jira on Tuesday August 02, 2011 @11:30AM (#36960346) Attached to: Detroit Maker Faire Was Kinda Awesome

It's ironic that a poster child of the right wing - free trade - has done more for re-distribution of wealth from rich to poor counties than all the socialist ideals put together.

It's not that much ironic as it redistributed wealth from the lower classes in the west. During the last 30 years real wages for middle and lower income workers stagnated. But the top 1% are making much more.

Comment Re:How do you protect your mobile phone (Score 1) 238

by jira on Friday July 29, 2011 @04:35AM (#36918842) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Do You Protect Data On Android?

Yes but let's assume we aren't asking the question for the 0.00001% of humanity with no interest in being a part of society.

He was writing for the slashdotters, not humanity

Comment Re:nice try (Score 1) 99

by jira on Tuesday July 19, 2011 @03:39AM (#36808778) Attached to: Microsoft Offers $250,000 Reward For Botnet Info

Well, they can always "Ask Slashdot". There seems to be a lot of experts (at least on what MS should/should not do).

Comment Re:Sad, but interesting (Score 1) 227

by jira on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @05:16AM (#36669950) Attached to: WebOS Chief: Don't Fret Over TouchPad Reviews

Right, and it's much easier to do so when you control a huge percentage of the mobile space. Again, my post was wondering if Apple would be able to resist that temptation.

Well, in the past they did not accept into their store apps that offered alternative to they own products and services.

In the early days of its App Store, Apple rejected two Google applications - Voice and Latitude.

The company said that, in the case of Voice, it replicated one of the iPhone's core functions - something which broke the App Store's terms of use.

Apple's rules were later relaxed, following an investigation by the US Federal Communications Commission.

Source http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14027466

Comment Re:Recent convert from Firefox (Score 1) 308

by jira on Saturday July 02, 2011 @04:44PM (#36643434) Attached to: Chrome Hits 20% Share As IE Continues Slide

It could be related to NoScript since I don't see the permanent spinner when using Opera.

Yes, if I do "Allow all of this page" the spinner goes away

Comment Re:Embracing a New Enemy (Score 1) 308

by jira on Saturday July 02, 2011 @01:18PM (#36642212) Attached to: Chrome Hits 20% Share As IE Continues Slide

Microsoft was a bland bureaucracy that produced the worst sort of bloated corporate junkware. They were monopolistic pigs with contemptible table manners (think Ballmer here).

Do you seriously want to broaden MS critisism to Ballmers table manners? Somewhat weird on Slashdot ;)

Submission + - Chess Champion Rybka plagiarized GPL programs (ilk.uvt.nl)

Submitted by jira on Saturday July 02, 2011 @01:03PM

jira writes: The former Computer Chess Champion has been stripped of its title, as its programmer Vasik Rajlich has been convicted of plagiarizing two open source chess programs: Crafty and Fruit.

Rybka has been disassemled and its algorithms compared to those of Crafty and Fruit. The International Computer Games Association found the evidence strong enough to disqualify and ban Rybka from World Computer Chess Championships

Comment Re:Recent convert from Firefox (Score 1) 308

by jira on Saturday July 02, 2011 @08:19AM (#36640830) Attached to: Chrome Hits 20% Share As IE Continues Slide

> Upsized font - are you using a trackpad (e.g. on a laptop) and you happen to be holding the control key when the font blows up?

Nope. It's just started to happen with FF5. For example: You start FF - the page loads with larger fonts. You restart and it displays normally.

https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/843109

Comment Re:Recent convert from Firefox (Score 1) 308

by jira on Saturday July 02, 2011 @05:07AM (#36640196) Attached to: Chrome Hits 20% Share As IE Continues Slide

Taking the opportunity to whine about Firefox.

Does anybody else have a problem with FF5 displaying pages in upsized font randomly? And sometimes it displays pages as without css styles applied. Also seemingly randomly.

Comment Re:Better than IE (Score 2) 308

by jira on Saturday July 02, 2011 @04:51AM (#36640142) Attached to: Chrome Hits 20% Share As IE Continues Slide

> The __only__ positive thing about IE is that they have gotten better at supporting web standards.

But is is a pretty important one, no?

Comment Fonts messed up - as in FIrefox (Score 1) 154

by jira on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @04:20PM (#36615124) Attached to: Mozilla Releases Thunderbird 5

So they have caught up with Firefox having the fonts messed up. One has to manually set gfx.direct2d to false in config editor to have readable fonts (at least on Windows).

The whole Mozilla suite seems to go downhill.

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