Yeah, the Yemeni's don't need free speech. Their culture and social heritage simply don't require western concepts such as freedom. The idea that individuals should be free is really just evil western oppression, if you think really hard about it. Different races and cultures obviously have different levels of optimal liberty.
No; there's lots of you. Aren't you glad you are able to express your opinion? I hope, someday, that everybody's opinion on the matter will someday be able to be heard. Even the ones, like yours, that are worthy of contempt.
You're confusing the legal system with reality. They aren't the same, and aren't intended to be. O. J. Simpson, for instance, is legally innocent of murder, but is obviously guilty. Individuals are in no way beholden to the legal system to form their own opinions. They would be idiots to always do so.
"Innocent til proven guilty" doesn't mean you and I have to think a man is innocent, when we know they're guilty. Just the state.
Troll. My Karma's excellent, I'm not worried about the hit. I'm worried about the future of Firefox, if anything other than praise for every feature is deemed a troll.
The "awesomebar" is terrible design, and the option to retain the sensible behavior from 2.0 should never have been removed. It existed in beta; it was removed for the final. No good reason for that. Things like the "awesomebar" should have always been add-ons.
However, they can't. That's an example of a company arbitrarily asserting they have a right that they don't, legally, have. If they change the terms, you have valid cause to cancel the contract with no penalty. It doesn't matter what the contract says, you can't give up a right that legally they can't demand you give up. Call them; they'll let you do it, after a bout of transfers intended to make you give up.
That's good. From looking at the page, it seems the relevant bit is:
"If you want the location bar to only match URLs of pages you've visited like Firefox 2, set browser.urlbar.default.behavior to 17 (1 for visited pages + 16 for URLs)."
"Similarly, if you want to additionally restrict results to pages you've typed in, add in an extra 32 for "typed" -- 49 for matching URLs of typed, visited pages."
Still a pisspoor design decision to not have a simple checkbox in the options that lets you restore sensible FF2.0 behavior. Smacks of marketing and steering committees.
I haven't messed with this yet. I hope it fixes the dreadful mix of font styles that is in the "awesomebar" popup.
2) Not sour grapes. This didn't happen to me. I know better, I was just using myself as an example. Still, I would have to spend significant time comparing researching models before buying a new PS3.
That's a bit disingenuous. I see an ad for a PS3 with BC. Later, I go to the store, buy a PS3, and it doesn't have BC. I understand that Sony never advertised BC with that model, and that I should have done my homework better, and so on... but still, it's not an uncommon or unreasonable error for a consumer to make. A number of slashdotters made that error, and they're FAR more tech-aware than the average consumer. Not enough to make Sony legally liable for false advertising, but it's not unreasonable to get irritated with a company for shenanigans like that.
The number of slightly different models that both Sony and MS have of their current consoles is a real strike against both companies, and another thing that Nintendo did right.
If I had neither a PS3 nor a PS2, and somebody offered to give me one or the other for free, I would pick the PS2. The PS2's library is far superior to any current console, and the games sell for $5 to $20 dollars a pop.
Lack of backward compatibility is the worst missing feature on the PS3, and removing it was one of the worst decisions Sony made. (And they've made some BAD decisions.)
If you're concerned about the United States, though, the discrepancy between the two consoles is much more exaggerated. Still, Sony's done a lot of catching up over the last year or 18 months; for a while after launch, it seemed like the PS3 would be an absolutely tragedy. It's managed to stay competitive and gain some ground.
I think this is more likely. Isn't there still a massive backlog of unsold fat PS3s? If a slim model was announced that was cheaper, the millions of units of old inventory will never sell. I'm sure the slim version, if released, would be the premium model, even though it would cost less to manufacture.
Corporations can and often are corrupt, so I'm not defending them; I have all sorts of issues with the legal fictions surrounding corporate rights.
But still, it is moral clarity, not weakness or foolishness, that would lead somebody to defend the right of someone else even though it's detrimental to themselves. It's a good thing that I support the right of somebody to compete with me, even though that takes away my sales; the right of an employer to fire me, even though it might hurt me. The right of somebody to criticize me, even though that may hurt me.
It may suck that a corporation can move. But it might still be wrong to forbid it from moving.
Firefox, Opera, Safari will show a standards compliant page in its all glory with complete functionality. If they don't, file a bug report. I can guarantee you it will be the second important issue to fix after a critical security flaw.
I like Firefox quite a bit, but that's blatantly untrue.
About the MS puppets... Slashdot user for a long time here, we know who is who and all their tricks.
The overwhelming majority of so-called 'ms shills' are just normal people posting their honest opinions. There might be real ms puppet accounts on Slashdot; but most accusations of such are just irrational paranoia.
I'm waiting for something with a reasonably decent screen, a decent flash drive, a few buttons. No subscription services, no wireless, no connectivity at all, no note taking or annotation features, no voice or recording... Just a thumbdrive hooked to a screen. That hardware should be WELL under $100. The extra features turn me off more than incentivize me.
Currently, I'm using my DS, and it's adequate. It can scroll text, html, and pdf. Good return on a $7 cartridge, since I already had a DS.
I have VLC, also, and it's a good piece of software. Seems to have a little better support for a variety of media.
But I still like MPC's controls a little better. VLC has some weird interface decisions... keys don't do what you'd expect, and so on. Good, but it's still my 'backup' player if MPC doesn't cut it for some reason.
I'm a bit surprised at the negativity towards Apple, lately. Every day for weeks, there seems to be a story about how Apple is screwing its customers or developers. That's fine; I really don't like them or their products. But I wonder if there is now a buzz-driven backlash against the company?
I suppose that a company that lives on trendiness, is particularly vulnerable to trends, as well. I would have thought that corporate management at apple would understand that the moment Apple begins being viewed as 'corporate' by American hopsters, their rapid ascension would come to a screeching halt. They need to loosen up a bit... or at least SEEM to loosen up. I know they won't ever open up their hardware, but they need to do something to stop the flood of stories portraying Apple as a vicious, tyrannical censorer of applications and information. The easiest way would be to STOP being a vicious, tyrannical censorer of applications and information.
I love adblock, of course; browsing would be unbearable without it. But it's no panacea. Advertisers have lots of ways around it. Some sites still manage to get popups past it; that's with adblock, flashblock, and a few other blockers installed. Distributing adblock around further will cause some advertisers to go away, and the remainder to get worse and more pervasive.
It seems that a lot of people are viewing this as a way to get rid of flash. I don't think that will work. The only way it will dispense with flash, is if can be made to do all the annoying things that people hate flash for. 99% of the use for this will be annoying web apps that shouldn't be using all these features, advertisements, the occasional game, some streaming video...
Flash isn't that bad, it's just used very often for irritating purposes. Just as anything that could replace it will be.
There's lots of kids (or kid equivalents) on Slashdot today. I've noticed a flood of similar postings in several stories, more than normal. Sadly, I'm lacking mod points, so I can't help bury them.
Instead, I'm just doing the internet version of pointing and laughing.
Media Player Classic is such a lifesaver. It ranks up with Firefox as "immediate install on every machine I touch", just in order to make the pc bearable. Most mediaplayers, commerical (MS & Apple, for instance) or free, have unbearable interfaces. Absolutely unbearable, with irregular window borders, pretend mechanical knobs, bizarre menus structures...
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Yeah, the Yemeni's don't need free speech. Their culture and social heritage simply don't require western concepts such as freedom. The idea that individuals should be free is really just evil western oppression, if you think really hard about it. Different races and cultures obviously have different levels of optimal liberty.
No; wait; you're an ass.
No; there's lots of you. Aren't you glad you are able to express your opinion? I hope, someday, that everybody's opinion on the matter will someday be able to be heard. Even the ones, like yours, that are worthy of contempt.
You're confusing the legal system with reality. They aren't the same, and aren't intended to be. O. J. Simpson, for instance, is legally innocent of murder, but is obviously guilty. Individuals are in no way beholden to the legal system to form their own opinions. They would be idiots to always do so.
"Innocent til proven guilty" doesn't mean you and I have to think a man is innocent, when we know they're guilty. Just the state.
Troll. My Karma's excellent, I'm not worried about the hit. I'm worried about the future of Firefox, if anything other than praise for every feature is deemed a troll.
The "awesomebar" is terrible design, and the option to retain the sensible behavior from 2.0 should never have been removed. It existed in beta; it was removed for the final. No good reason for that. Things like the "awesomebar" should have always been add-ons.
However, they can't. That's an example of a company arbitrarily asserting they have a right that they don't, legally, have. If they change the terms, you have valid cause to cancel the contract with no penalty. It doesn't matter what the contract says, you can't give up a right that legally they can't demand you give up. Call them; they'll let you do it, after a bout of transfers intended to make you give up.
It's hilarious that the ones always calling for an end to "class warfare nonsense" are those that identify with the minority upper class.
Not true. I'm calling for the end to that class warfare nonsense, and I'm not upper class. Currently lower, probably.
Now that your generality has been disproved, it would be intellectually dishonest of you to EVER make that claim again. You agree, of course?
And wealth and education. Those are more pleasant ways to reduce birthrates.
That's good. From looking at the page, it seems the relevant bit is:
"If you want the location bar to only match URLs of pages you've visited like Firefox 2, set browser.urlbar.default.behavior to 17 (1 for visited pages + 16 for URLs)."
"Similarly, if you want to additionally restrict results to pages you've typed in, add in an extra 32 for "typed" -- 49 for matching URLs of typed, visited pages."
Still a pisspoor design decision to not have a simple checkbox in the options that lets you restore sensible FF2.0 behavior. Smacks of marketing and steering committees.
I haven't messed with this yet. I hope it fixes the dreadful mix of font styles that is in the "awesomebar" popup.
1) Several examples IN THIS THREAD.
2) Not sour grapes. This didn't happen to me. I know better, I was just using myself as an example. Still, I would have to spend significant time comparing researching models before buying a new PS3.
Now, print twenty million copies of this letter...
That's a bit disingenuous. I see an ad for a PS3 with BC. Later, I go to the store, buy a PS3, and it doesn't have BC. I understand that Sony never advertised BC with that model, and that I should have done my homework better, and so on... but still, it's not an uncommon or unreasonable error for a consumer to make. A number of slashdotters made that error, and they're FAR more tech-aware than the average consumer. Not enough to make Sony legally liable for false advertising, but it's not unreasonable to get irritated with a company for shenanigans like that.
The number of slightly different models that both Sony and MS have of their current consoles is a real strike against both companies, and another thing that Nintendo did right.
If I had neither a PS3 nor a PS2, and somebody offered to give me one or the other for free, I would pick the PS2. The PS2's library is far superior to any current console, and the games sell for $5 to $20 dollars a pop.
Lack of backward compatibility is the worst missing feature on the PS3, and removing it was one of the worst decisions Sony made. (And they've made some BAD decisions.)
If you're concerned about the United States, though, the discrepancy between the two consoles is much more exaggerated. Still, Sony's done a lot of catching up over the last year or 18 months; for a while after launch, it seemed like the PS3 would be an absolutely tragedy. It's managed to stay competitive and gain some ground.
Of course, the Wii blows both away.
I think this is more likely. Isn't there still a massive backlog of unsold fat PS3s? If a slim model was announced that was cheaper, the millions of units of old inventory will never sell. I'm sure the slim version, if released, would be the premium model, even though it would cost less to manufacture.
Corporations can and often are corrupt, so I'm not defending them; I have all sorts of issues with the legal fictions surrounding corporate rights.
But still, it is moral clarity, not weakness or foolishness, that would lead somebody to defend the right of someone else even though it's detrimental to themselves. It's a good thing that I support the right of somebody to compete with me, even though that takes away my sales; the right of an employer to fire me, even though it might hurt me. The right of somebody to criticize me, even though that may hurt me.
It may suck that a corporation can move. But it might still be wrong to forbid it from moving.
And any connected with academia, by which I mean anybody with family members aged 5-18 at the minimum.
Firefox, Opera, Safari will show a standards compliant page in its all glory with complete functionality. If they don't, file a bug report. I can guarantee you it will be the second important issue to fix after a critical security flaw.
I like Firefox quite a bit, but that's blatantly untrue.
About the MS puppets... Slashdot user for a long time here, we know who is who and all their tricks.
The overwhelming majority of so-called 'ms shills' are just normal people posting their honest opinions. There might be real ms puppet accounts on Slashdot; but most accusations of such are just irrational paranoia.
No, I'm not an ms puppet, nor a shill.
If you had used decent grammar, sure. Your points are quite insightful.
I'm waiting for something with a reasonably decent screen, a decent flash drive, a few buttons. No subscription services, no wireless, no connectivity at all, no note taking or annotation features, no voice or recording... Just a thumbdrive hooked to a screen. That hardware should be WELL under $100. The extra features turn me off more than incentivize me.
Currently, I'm using my DS, and it's adequate. It can scroll text, html, and pdf. Good return on a $7 cartridge, since I already had a DS.
I have VLC, also, and it's a good piece of software. Seems to have a little better support for a variety of media.
But I still like MPC's controls a little better. VLC has some weird interface decisions... keys don't do what you'd expect, and so on. Good, but it's still my 'backup' player if MPC doesn't cut it for some reason.
Don't buy Apple products?
I'm a bit surprised at the negativity towards Apple, lately. Every day for weeks, there seems to be a story about how Apple is screwing its customers or developers. That's fine; I really don't like them or their products. But I wonder if there is now a buzz-driven backlash against the company?
I suppose that a company that lives on trendiness, is particularly vulnerable to trends, as well. I would have thought that corporate management at apple would understand that the moment Apple begins being viewed as 'corporate' by American hopsters, their rapid ascension would come to a screeching halt. They need to loosen up a bit... or at least SEEM to loosen up. I know they won't ever open up their hardware, but they need to do something to stop the flood of stories portraying Apple as a vicious, tyrannical censorer of applications and information. The easiest way would be to STOP being a vicious, tyrannical censorer of applications and information.
I love adblock, of course; browsing would be unbearable without it. But it's no panacea. Advertisers have lots of ways around it. Some sites still manage to get popups past it; that's with adblock, flashblock, and a few other blockers installed. Distributing adblock around further will cause some advertisers to go away, and the remainder to get worse and more pervasive.
It seems that a lot of people are viewing this as a way to get rid of flash. I don't think that will work. The only way it will dispense with flash, is if can be made to do all the annoying things that people hate flash for. 99% of the use for this will be annoying web apps that shouldn't be using all these features, advertisements, the occasional game, some streaming video...
Flash isn't that bad, it's just used very often for irritating purposes. Just as anything that could replace it will be.
And it's still wrong! and you're still a moron!
There's lots of kids (or kid equivalents) on Slashdot today. I've noticed a flood of similar postings in several stories, more than normal. Sadly, I'm lacking mod points, so I can't help bury them.
Instead, I'm just doing the internet version of pointing and laughing.
Media Player Classic is such a lifesaver. It ranks up with Firefox as "immediate install on every machine I touch", just in order to make the pc bearable. Most mediaplayers, commerical (MS & Apple, for instance) or free, have unbearable interfaces. Absolutely unbearable, with irregular window borders, pretend mechanical knobs, bizarre menus structures...
Thank you, heartfelt, to the team behind MPC.