[Info-vax] OT: Chrome bug with Applet and threading

[Neil Rieck]

On May 24, 9:24 pm, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <jpmdbs$h6... at speranza.aioe.org>, "Richard Maher" <maher... at hotspamnotmail.com> writes:
> >Hi,
>
> >I think it's gonna be a long, long time before we see Java7 on VMS but
> >anyway: -
>
> >Please see Chrome bug report: -
> >http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=129528
>
> >If you can identify a bug in my code that is causing the hang on Chrome then
> >please let me know. Otherwise please vote for this issue by ticking the
> >star. SSCCE provided and behaviour very easy to reproduce.
>
> >Cheers Richard Maher
>
> >PS. If you can get it to work or fail with other OS/Browser combinations not
> >mentioned in the report (forget Safari on Windows) then please let me know.
>
> Fuck Chrome and fuck Google too.  On Wednesday, the Google doodle was a
> pseudo-Mini-Moog synthesizer to honor the birthday of Robert Moog.  It
> was also used to push Chrome -- especially, after reports had it besting
> M$IE -- and it did so by crippling the doodle on a number of browsers.
>
> I'm glad to see M$IE go but if Google is going to play the same games as
> the evil Redmond empire then, it's only a bittersweet victory.
>
> I will see Michelle Moog (Bob's daughter) in a couple of weeks and I will
> ask her to voice a complaint (hers will carry more clout) about using her
> father's legacy to promote this sort of sleezy marketing push by Google.
>
> --
> VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker    VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG
>
> Well I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.

Maybe it's just me but I think Google is cool. You've got to love when
a bunch of techies keep asking "why not?" then producing cool
technology like Android, Chrome, Google Maps, etc. After Apple
wouldn't let Google put GV on Apple's iPhone, Google threw down the
gauntlet then produced the gPhone. What other company could send a big
F-you to Apple? Getting back to Chrome for a minute, it's not perfect
but a lot of people like it because it is not a bloated as IE. Hell,
Google and Firefox (my favorite) changed the browser industry for the
better in a very small period of time while Microsoft's main claim to
fame in this area was killing Netscape then doing virtually nothing
with browsers for the next 10 years. Microsoft's other main claim to
fame is trying to do the same thing to Sun with C# which appears to
everyone to be a line-for-line ripoff of Java (with many function name
changes)

Nope, Google reminds me of a very young DEC successfully taking on
other companies who have run out of ideas.

Just my 2-cents worth

NSR