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Has this got anything to do with Tiny Core?

( >similar to XAML from MS...< Cough; XUL!)

Not really practical to manage a list of domains or IPs yourself, but the idea of using an opt-in filter on your DNS could offer a simple filter.

You'd need to make configuring such things a little easier. Under Vista just trying to conjure up the IPv4 control panel requires an act of magic.

Exactly. I thought we'd had the intelligent debates about censorship and the Internet over ten years ago!

Same old crap, wrapped in some slightly different packaging.

You could call a referendum on this one and get it through, just by asking a thinly veiled question like: 'Do you think our children should be protected from pornography?'. Just flash a picture of Jimmy Saville visiting a hospital while you ask it.

I feel this country is getting less and less progressive at every turn and u-turn.

Some furore over some phone hacking - remember that? Remember that eavesdropping is a bad, bad thing? Then a few months later, happily talk about eavesdropping/filtering the nation. Sickens me, even more than Mandy's mutterings.

Boxed into a corner - will be wiping ballot paper on arse at next election.

Sounds to me like you have a particular and isolated use case. You describe a web developers problem, rather than normal use case.

Reflowing to the window, as you drag a corner, seems computationally expensive and a waste of time IMHO. It can occasionally have it's uses. I've always thought the default should be resize and reflow on resize release.

If people really care about responsive design and window resizing then they would probably happily forgo tabs and instead use windows. I'd rather this, but the window manager needs to be competent. (I'm not sure how much lighter tabs are compared with windows - system use wise ?)

In Xfce I'm happy to have the browser not draw the window as I move it. Just outline the window.

You can resize and reflow under Gnome3. (Alt+F8 is the keyboard shortcut.) Can you really not resize windows under Unity?

As I said, I've used it. But it doesn't really give me much back (apart from the headache of rendering my computer useless.) Modern libraries (!?!), and 3D graphics and window transparancies isn't really a game changer. They uttered something about having a semantic desktop at first, but those ideas fell from the wayside. Synapse and Xfce give me easy application launch, I find it less jarring also. I hate that transition in Windows 8. I can get by with Gnome 3 though (when it works,) it's usable.

You can't even configure the appearance of your apps (colour scheme etc) that easily in Gnome 3, it was pretty sucky in Gnome 2. This was pretty much customisable in Windows 98!

Anyway you didn't rise my challenge of trying to summarise what Gnome 3 is! But thanks nonetheless.

Anything but to talk about the real matter. Reminds me of politicians in general. Distract you, and while you're not looking - get away with blue murder.

The annoying thing is, _they_ go on about it so much, and it just permeates your mind, and it becomes normalised.

I can't help but worry the whole thing is a fabrication, but to what gain? To normalise surveilance? To enforce good behaviour via fear - a panopticon? To shit stir your enemies - mine is bigger than yours? To hush dissent?

I do hope Edward is real, he gets asylum and that he'll further release some more gory details. I hope people are rightly shocked and debate the issues, and push back on this. I've yet to really meet anyone in the UK who gives a shit - that worries me.

Yes that sounds about right, it's horrible to not have space.

Thanks, can the Pi with Plex or XBMC, play straight from say a USB hard drive? What's the audio quality like on it?

Could you say why? Are you using it on a touch device?

Wonder if he needs it, as he has such a short drive to work.

I was quite jealous of the love he had for that thing.

Would you need to do at at all? As it wouldn't get cold.

What sort of power would the XboxOne hum along at? I figure it would be a power drain. I once considered getting a Wii to turn into a media centre as it is meant to sip rather than burn juice.

Electricity in the UK costs so much, that even leaving appliances on standby soon adds up, we worked out that turning the things off at the wall saves us £1.50 a week, and we don't even have many appliances.

Well you make it sound so easy! An issue with the technology is trying to keep up with it.

I have a basic HD tv (a samsung), it's not smart. It will play media from USB, and it plays a lot of formats - only it suffers with a few annoying quirks. I have sizing issues with the picture, and the media player doesn't let me turn the screen off. It almost works. DVD playback is pretty poor too with a separate LG player.

I don't want to run a separate media centre machine or NAS, all I want to do, is plug a drive into the TV. I don't even care for the IMDB stuff. Just the basics, easily locate file quickly, play it, play it from where I last paused etc. A Pi sounds promising - though I wonder how good the actual picture would be. Everytime I've tried XBMC or some such on a computer, the picture never appears that smooth.

Not everyone has a smart phone either. What I'd like is something like a Tablet, with HDMI out, and an SD card, and/or USB port - that I could quickly attach to the TV.

The basics feel neglected.

I want to like Gnome 3. Every now and then I give it a spin, but ultimately end up back with Xfce. It just doesn't really give me anything extra, (apart from better font rendering in Firefox for some reason, and touch pad clicking! ) Their browser (web) doesn't work for me. It also kept freezing my keyboard for some reason or another, so it isn't much use.

The biggest irritant other than the above is that a couple of the taskbar widgets were missing. What I take away from that is that one little feature can influence us quite heavily. And it's pretty much the same story for Opera. I totally relied on the fit-to-width button and I love their spatial navigation - but have found myself using Firefox - just because I can make it more readable with a couple of easy modifications (though I still have issues with that.)

Give me a one line or paragraph summary of what Gnome 3 is, and why you'd want to use it over Gnome 2! Then try the same with Opera vs Chrome.

If Opera do focus their attentions on the UI (not the rendering engine), then that's a good thing. And there's so many ways the web browser could be improved.

I used to like Opera's bells and whistles. I loved no image mode, tabs, fit to width, it's zoom, mouse gestures, url keywords, toolbar customisation and alternative stylesheets. And some of the keyboard shortcuts (which became confusing over time.)

But the menu system, and backend was klunky. The app didn't integrate well into the Linux desktop well either.

Unite was interesting (they should have waited for IPV6 to go mainstream...) Tab stacks didn't go far enough. Speed dial - really - What's the point? I'd rather they polish up the bookmarking and history interfaces. Stash looks like it's just a lifo ordered stack, which is good, but lends no context to the stashed page. Does a stashed page retain it's history? How do I group pages/bookmarks - why is this so shitty across browsers? A stash could just be a temporary/ephemeral bookmark.

Is their any point in having graphical snapshots of pages and thumbnails? These just take away screen real estate. They bring nothing for me.

I think there should be focus on: reading aids, bookmarking/tabs, privacy, developer tools, and a very clean configuration - with sensible defaults. An easy way to flip the browser into an intermediate/advanced mode would be nice.

Bring back a slice of innovation to the browser. It needs to be more than a Chrome clone. I can think of loads of nice features that could be roled into the browser rather than end up as a stray extension.

Anyway I hope the clean core and fresh start is a good jump off point for them, I'll be watching this space.

Where's the Linux version?

Downvote me then without reason. The arrogance! ;)

Sounds like you are a Facebook leech! Community involves active participation!

You just have to learn to ignore some posts - gloss over them.

If you swapped Facebook out for say a private email list - would you be more inclined to participate? And if that is the case - why don't people just use mailing lists?

The Firefox name is kind of catchy (and known) so I wouldn't go that far. ;)

I think the name started it started out as Phoenix, then Firebird - which they couldn't use as it was a database, and then was named Firefox. I quite like the transition. Not sure if it was Clint Eastwood inspired or not. I like the way that Firefox is the Red Panda - so it's nice that it kind of has that evolution. It so happens that the Firefox is rare and is totally cute. There was an icon floating around on Linux which was based on the panda that I liked - and the panda has loads of potential for a lovely icon.

Never really been a fan of the Firefox logo. Why not go for a revolution? Just use the Red Panda as inspiration for something very cutsey and recognisable. Bin the current logo.

I like the idea of the ship's wheel in the navigator logo, and the compass in Safari. As for the other logos they don't do anything for me (oh alright, IceWeasel is quite a funny knock off, and Nightly's is boringly okay.)

Oh well, get ready for a world of inconsistencies! Php is a bit of a mongrel (mongrels are great though,) don't expect a beautifully designed language. The language has been bolted together piecemeal, with a bit of this and that. Function naming style is inconsistant (some with underscores, some without), some parameter patterns feel back to front, in fact don't bother trying to learn too many - rely on your editor and the documentation.

The bulk of my php coding really sits, in foreach loops, if statements (and comparison operators), and the use of arrays. Get to know arrays, build them, loop through them, echo out values, mutate them, they're your friend.

Learn about namespacing, functions and classes. Avoid globals but use the superglobals!

And as with all web programming, understand the browser/server lifecycle of a request. Start with the basics of HTTP.

You still have to know what you're looking for. The way I work with the Php website - is something like - I kind of remember a function name and try and search for that through a search engine.

What I find difficult on the old site, and this beta site, is getting to the meat. I just can't grok the navigation.

I find the new site harder to read. I can't get to it in Chrome (not working), and it feels very amateurish. The only welcome addition - is being able to vote up comments and autocompletion/suggestions on the search.

Yuck.

Was looking for an email address for the author! And failed. Anyway just wanted to comment - that there's no publish date attached to the article - or one that is at least obvious. I have no idea when it was authored.

That's all well and true, but you could export and build, then use Git for deployment instead of Rsync (if you wanted to.)

What's wrong with exclude and exclude-from? Using git rm without file manager integration - can be a little thorny.

It's a shame really, I like the idea of digital distribution.

Couldn't there be a system where you pay for a license and still have the ability to sell that license on, and be able to order a physical copy at a slight premium. The copy is worth nothing without the license.

One license could still have the limitation of one active activation. Perhaps the license could link to a token - which could be passed about - so you could lend a game to a friend.

The license would allow you to download the latest version of the game ( assuming that the game has updates and bug fixes), and you are free to transfer your digital copy onto whatever medium.

Your tokens/licenses could then live on a portable keychain, so in theory you could carry your entire collection about.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5907999

Better store it all on site or they'll end up with a feedback loop; if they pump it back down the commoner's pipes. ;)