Firefox has the problem of not supporting corporate management (MSIs and all that jazz). Chrome would be an option for this, though, as it has password sync and Google is adding support for MSIs or whatever the corporate types need.
Your post is interesting but it misses a key point: Selection bias is everywhere, but in the US and most other countries you do not get run over by a truck if you watch Fox News, run your own blog or decide to make fun of politicians.
Yes. It's a long, well thought out post that's entirely non-sequitur. The poster doesn't understand the difference between true propaganda and spin.
The NYTimes has its own opinion, but it is definitely not an instrument of the US Government.
He also implies that because China has clunky methods which are obvious they don't have any subtle ones. Having clunky methods doesn't rule out having subtle ones. I don't speak Chinese, but I find it exceedingly hard to believe that China doesn't employ both clunky and subtle forms of propaganda.
Having clunky and detectable methods isn't better, either, as you claim, it's worse, because they're more invasive. That's the whole point. That's why we don't want censorship, or the great firewall, or our non-violent dissenters rotting in jail.
Anyway, maybe you live in a relativistic world where everybody's country is only as good as they're told, but I'm smart enough to discount my own bias, and I know that the US is a freer place to live than China.
Yes, on occasion. We've combatted this in a couple of different ways:
1) Rewriting code to make fewer memory allocations or, in some cases, allocate memory for shorter periods of time (so it doesn't get promoted to a longer lived heap)
2) Garden variety GC tuning. Tune the various heap sizes, and GC algorithms used.
I have a paid subscription for international calls and my voicemail, my dear friend. Do you? If not, then stop mocking people you don't know. If you do, preferably also stop mocking people you don't know.
Having said that, I have important business calls to do today and I'm certainly not going to throw money at my iPhone carrier. I hope Skype is coming back online for me, soon. But I have not yet started complaining anywhere, because Skype has offered me a great service and lots of savings in the last two years.
