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They sent a cake while FF3 release too ! http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/256292 http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/256292
by Vipsy 16y ago
They sent a cake while FF3 release too !
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/256292 http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/256292
- nopassrecover 16y agoIt's a long-standing tradition between Mozilla and Microsoft I believe.
- joshd 16y agoThis probably explains Mozilla's target of reaching Firefox 7 by end of 2011. They just really like cake.
- cygwin98 16y agoI thought you were joking about Firefox 7. From version 4 to 7 in one year, are you kidding? It turns out you're right. For some reasons, I really dislike software companies jack up version numbers: how can you have FOUR MAJOR releases within one year for a relatively complex software? That gives me an impression that they feel insecure of becoming irrelevant, instead of competing on features and usability, they choose to compete on version numbers. I could be wrong, but I just don't feel like they fall into the same trap Netscape did a decade ago.
- ryanwatkins 16y agoThey've need to do it to reach version number parity with IE and Chrome. 9 and 11 > 4.
- mey 16y agoIs this important? Do customers actually care? Do you care?
- ryanwatkins 16y agoI could care less, but companies have done it several times. Netscape skipped version 5 (a doomed project). Microsoft ditched version numbers for years (95, 98, 2000), and then just names -- due to how version number increments on an existing product appear to end users. To technically savvy it doesnt really matter "is it 5.0 or 4.5?" But the version number or name is about trying to position the product as a "new one" or even just "mature" to the more typical end user.
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago> I could care less, ... I don't want to be "that guy" and I'm not trying to be a grammar Nazi. I know this is now an idiom in the USA, and therefore it doesn't have to make sense. However ... I've now heard it said, in four different countries, that this phrase makes the speaker sound like an idiot. I know it's now just "the norm" in the USA, but I wanted to let people here know that saying this makes a bad impression. If you don't care how you sound to non USAians then don't bother. But if you're wondering what I'm talking about, David Mitchell does an excellent job of explaining "I couldn't care less" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw#t=0m56s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw#t=0m56s I now return you to your normal programming.
- tsuipen 16y agoLet me play devil's advocate (which might actually play in your favor, seeing as you've used that neologism). How do you think new words and phrases make it into the dictionary? It's by a proportionate amount of people using it for a specific meaning. Meaning is an abstract concept. Contrary to popular belief, language is not always logical or literal. It's an ever-changing organism: elastic and metamorphic. The phrase you quote is not "now just" the norm. It has always been ever since I can remember living in North America. It's nobody's fault the British-speaking world has just discovered it. This reminds me a little of when the Europeans first discovered "America." This is why Jorge Luis Borges once said, "Todas las palabras fueron alguna vez un neologismo" (All words were once a neologism).
- kmfrk 16y agoIt's in the bloody article. (Unless the author just added it.) (Two paragraphs!)