``Instead of mainly text, they add pictures so there are fewer stories per page.''
And when you drill down into a story, the images at the top of the article--which, in most cases, aren't really all that necessary--are usually so large that unless you're reading the page via a huge monitor, you have to scroll down to find the text.
... Wall Street awarded companies with higher stock prices based on whether they helped bettors^Wanalysts quarterly bets^Wpredictions and not whether the companies were being well managed.
I thought the 2x4 dimension was the size of the lumber as it was initially cut at the mill. The shrinkage occurred as the lumber dries out after the cutting process and that all lumber goes through that drying process. That means that 4x4 posts, 1x10 boards, etc. are all going to be slightly smaller than the labelled size. At least that's what I remember from wood shop (remember that?) in junior high and high school.
Anyone else find it odd that Hair Trump always pulls the figure $1T out of his ass when announcing these initiatives? A trillion for infrastructure... A trillion savings for IT... That tells me that he (or his staff) hasn't put much thought into these announcements.
Will we be able to reduce--or eliminate--the use of things like NoScript to keep FF's awful Javascript interpreter (IMHO) from hosing up the browser? Other browsers seem to handle some web pages that cause FF to crash and burn.
See above. The only application that I allow to access my phone's camera (knowingly, anyway) is the camera application.
Does Facebook even realize that many companies don't allow camera on the premises? Heck, I can recall it was nearly ten years ago sitting in company meetings where sensitive business plans were to be discussed and everyone was asked to turn off their phones and put them away. And it wasn't because of the potential for an annoying ringtone interrupting the meeting. Corporate espionage aside, the invasion of privacy that something like this potentially opens up is mind boggling. It sure seems to me that they're not thoroughly thinking through these ideas before making them public.
I'm not against finding new ways to communicate. I just can't see something like Facebook being that mechanism. A technological means is not necessarily inclusive. And if you've spent any time on FB you know how ugly the communications can get. How these tools would keep that sort of thing under control--if that's even possible--is not known. And you brought up something I never touched on: the commercial aspect of it. I think the whole idea of FB--or any other company being the forum for political communications (Google wouldn't be any better)--is just daft. I'd be much more interested in finding a way for more frequent face-to-face town halls without all the screwing around that politicians engage in nowadays to limit the audiences to friendly ones only. I can't see how FB or any other electronic forum manages to improve that. Maybe public campaign financing to eliminate the effect of huge campaign donations that result in the pay-to-play system we have today. We haven't really tried that yet.
Ri-i-ight... all that's ailing the American political scene is fixable with a web site and the right software.
I think what we need is for politicians to get off their butts and travel home to their districts and have real meetings with real people---instead of using their recesses to go on junkets paid for by the billionaires funding their re-election campaigns. Why don't they go home? Because they're afraid that their constituents are going to subject them to some well-deserved anger for the piss-poor job they're doing.
It's laughable to think that the solution to the disconnect between politicians and their constituents is some ridiculous social media platform. They already hide from their constituents--pulling stunts like holding "town halls" at 10:30 AM on a weekday in a diner that seats 50 and requiring tickets to even attend and then only responding to pre-screened questions--and Zuckerberg wants to make that even easier to do by letting them hide behind a web page. Facebook needs to learn that they aren't the solution to everything.
``I doubt you'd have much luck getting a full sized wireless keyboard and a display on board, as both are electronic devices greater than the allowed size.''
I doubt you'd have much luck being able to even use a full sized keyboard, seeing how cramped seats are now. I gave up after only a few minutes trying to use my laptop on my last flight; too little space to use comfortably. Heck, there was barely enough space to open up a magazine for reading. Maybe trans-oceanic flights are roomier but trying to use a laptop on domestic flights was a waste of time.
That's one of my Opera annoyances. LinkedIn often has links to articles on forbes.com and you're forced to copy the link to another browser to read it.
I thought Chrome was going to give me a better `browsing experience' than I'd been getting from Firefox which still seems to refuse to work well with the majority of the Javascript it encounters. Alas, Chrome was actually worse than Firefox. Javascript seemed to be less of a problem but memory utilization was through the roof with my 8GB desktop swapping all the time and grinding the whole system to a halt while that was happening. What has made Chrome much better is `The Great Suspender' add-on. It's nothing less than a damned Godsend. Set it up to suspend tabs after five minutes (even pinned tabs) and auto-unsuspend when you switch back to them and waiting for memory swapping is almost a think of the past. The only drawback is that the back button acts oddly when you unsuspend a tab--it'll take you back the `click to unsuspend this tab' screen.
Opera on the other hand... well I've been mainly using Opera for LinkedIn as it seemed to run that site better than most other browsers. I still find that it's a bit of memory pig though I admit that I haven't explored whether there are add-ons that can control this a bit. I haven't bothered to switch to using LI with Chrome. Yet. I might be abandoning Opera if that test goes well.
Yep... It's why a commute that I used to have to make was taking over an hour -- about 45m on the local expressways plus about 15m-20m on the surface streets -- could easily have been under an hour. It should have taken only about 5-10 minutes of total travel on the surface streets but that time was at least doubled because the idjits whose attention was on their effing phone instead of on the road and, as a result, only about four cars were making it through each green light. (Wanna bet that when they all were late to work they blamed it on the traffic lights?)
Heh... when that first came out, the wife and I saw it in a drive-in and it actually rained a bit while the movie was showing--perfect since it was raining in most of the exterior scenes. Great special effect you can't get at a cineplex.
Heh... now that you mention it, I did have that pocket circular slide rule we had to buy in high school. I still have a plastic "regular" slide rule (the kind you could buy in the "school supplies" section of the grocery store back then) and the Post we had to buy freshman year of college.
I was nearly tempted to jump into the TI-99 when the prices plummeted. Software availability for the TIs dried up shortly after that. A friend talked me into getting a CDP 1600-4 instead. Pricier but tons more useful since we were using IBM PCs at work.
Does it still work? I had saved my old ALR 386/2 for years--thinking I'd bring it back to life to do some retro gaming--and found that the capacitors had deteriorated (the infamous bulging caps). That was the end of that project.
Hardly Firefox's fault. You're not the first to notice that web site developers have gotten incredibly lazy over the years. The practices like you just described seem to the norm now. Adding more Firefox (or any other browser, for that matter) user controls isn't going to do much of anything to solve that problem.
Question: Is it Firefox's Javascript engine that sucks like a tornado or is it NoScript? The majority of the time that Firefox has to recover from a crash, I get a tab announcing a new version of NoScript. I could live with allowing Javascript to run in my browser if it didn't perform so badly when using Firefox. Enabling Javascript in other browsers doesn't seem to be the problem that it is in Firefox.
When the gig economy fires up? It seems to be here. Now. I never bothered to disable the emails I was receiving from a variety of job aggregation sites when I was last in a job search because I figured that, as imperfect a barometer as job ads are, it was good to read through them occasionally to keep on top of how things are going out there. What I've been seeing is that more and more of the job listings are for straight contracts. CTH is showing up less and less than a few years ago and companies looking for FTEs seem to be few and far between. So implanted chips for everybody, eh? If you ever have an autopsy done upon your death, the coroner will be able to tell what companies you worked for.
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And when you drill down into a story, the images at the top of the article--which, in most cases, aren't really all that necessary--are usually so large that unless you're reading the page via a huge monitor, you have to scroll down to find the text.
"gray60" text on a white background. Contrast is for wimps.
... Wall Street awarded companies with higher stock prices based on whether they helped bettors^Wanalysts quarterly bets^Wpredictions and not whether the companies were being well managed.
I thought the 2x4 dimension was the size of the lumber as it was initially cut at the mill. The shrinkage occurred as the lumber dries out after the cutting process and that all lumber goes through that drying process. That means that 4x4 posts, 1x10 boards, etc. are all going to be slightly smaller than the labelled size. At least that's what I remember from wood shop (remember that?) in junior high and high school.
Anyone else find it odd that Hair Trump always pulls the figure $1T out of his ass when announcing these initiatives? A trillion for infrastructure... A trillion savings for IT... That tells me that he (or his staff) hasn't put much thought into these announcements.
Will we be able to reduce--or eliminate--the use of things like NoScript to keep FF's awful Javascript interpreter (IMHO) from hosing up the browser? Other browsers seem to handle some web pages that cause FF to crash and burn.
See above. The only application that I allow to access my phone's camera (knowingly, anyway) is the camera application.
Does Facebook even realize that many companies don't allow camera on the premises? Heck, I can recall it was nearly ten years ago sitting in company meetings where sensitive business plans were to be discussed and everyone was asked to turn off their phones and put them away. And it wasn't because of the potential for an annoying ringtone interrupting the meeting. Corporate espionage aside, the invasion of privacy that something like this potentially opens up is mind boggling. It sure seems to me that they're not thoroughly thinking through these ideas before making them public.
I'm not against finding new ways to communicate. I just can't see something like Facebook being that mechanism. A technological means is not necessarily inclusive. And if you've spent any time on FB you know how ugly the communications can get. How these tools would keep that sort of thing under control--if that's even possible--is not known. And you brought up something I never touched on: the commercial aspect of it. I think the whole idea of FB--or any other company being the forum for political communications (Google wouldn't be any better)--is just daft. I'd be much more interested in finding a way for more frequent face-to-face town halls without all the screwing around that politicians engage in nowadays to limit the audiences to friendly ones only. I can't see how FB or any other electronic forum manages to improve that. Maybe public campaign financing to eliminate the effect of huge campaign donations that result in the pay-to-play system we have today. We haven't really tried that yet.
Ri-i-ight... all that's ailing the American political scene is fixable with a web site and the right software.
I think what we need is for politicians to get off their butts and travel home to their districts and have real meetings with real people---instead of using their recesses to go on junkets paid for by the billionaires funding their re-election campaigns. Why don't they go home? Because they're afraid that their constituents are going to subject them to some well-deserved anger for the piss-poor job they're doing.
It's laughable to think that the solution to the disconnect between politicians and their constituents is some ridiculous social media platform. They already hide from their constituents--pulling stunts like holding "town halls" at 10:30 AM on a weekday in a diner that seats 50 and requiring tickets to even attend and then only responding to pre-screened questions--and Zuckerberg wants to make that even easier to do by letting them hide behind a web page. Facebook needs to learn that they aren't the solution to everything.
I doubt you'd have much luck being able to even use a full sized keyboard, seeing how cramped seats are now. I gave up after only a few minutes trying to use my laptop on my last flight; too little space to use comfortably. Heck, there was barely enough space to open up a magazine for reading. Maybe trans-oceanic flights are roomier but trying to use a laptop on domestic flights was a waste of time.
That brought back some memories...
That's one of my Opera annoyances. LinkedIn often has links to articles on forbes.com and you're forced to copy the link to another browser to read it.
I thought Chrome was going to give me a better `browsing experience' than I'd been getting from Firefox which still seems to refuse to work well with the majority of the Javascript it encounters. Alas, Chrome was actually worse than Firefox. Javascript seemed to be less of a problem but memory utilization was through the roof with my 8GB desktop swapping all the time and grinding the whole system to a halt while that was happening. What has made Chrome much better is `The Great Suspender' add-on. It's nothing less than a damned Godsend. Set it up to suspend tabs after five minutes (even pinned tabs) and auto-unsuspend when you switch back to them and waiting for memory swapping is almost a think of the past. The only drawback is that the back button acts oddly when you unsuspend a tab--it'll take you back the `click to unsuspend this tab' screen.
Opera on the other hand... well I've been mainly using Opera for LinkedIn as it seemed to run that site better than most other browsers. I still find that it's a bit of memory pig though I admit that I haven't explored whether there are add-ons that can control this a bit. I haven't bothered to switch to using LI with Chrome. Yet. I might be abandoning Opera if that test goes well.
There are so many reruns on now what's a few more? I'd bet most people won't even know there's a strike.
Yep... It's why a commute that I used to have to make was taking over an hour -- about 45m on the local expressways plus about 15m-20m on the surface streets -- could easily have been under an hour. It should have taken only about 5-10 minutes of total travel on the surface streets but that time was at least doubled because the idjits whose attention was on their effing phone instead of on the road and, as a result, only about four cars were making it through each green light. (Wanna bet that when they all were late to work they blamed it on the traffic lights?)
That `ring' from the Death Star explosion has always bothered me. To this day I keep thinking they should have made that a spherical blast effect.
Heh... when that first came out, the wife and I saw it in a drive-in and it actually rained a bit while the movie was showing--perfect since it was raining in most of the exterior scenes. Great special effect you can't get at a cineplex.
Heh... now that you mention it, I did have that pocket circular slide rule we had to buy in high school. I still have a plastic "regular" slide rule (the kind you could buy in the "school supplies" section of the grocery store back then) and the Post we had to buy freshman year of college.
We had one of these in college. I liked using it more than the Altair. Unfortunately, it always seemed to be down with a power supply problem.
I was nearly tempted to jump into the TI-99 when the prices plummeted. Software availability for the TIs dried up shortly after that. A friend talked me into getting a CDP 1600-4 instead. Pricier but tons more useful since we were using IBM PCs at work.
Does it still work? I had saved my old ALR 386/2 for years--thinking I'd bring it back to life to do some retro gaming--and found that the capacitors had deteriorated (the infamous bulging caps). That was the end of that project.
Columbia Data Products MPC 1600-4 -- An XT-clone.
That was followed by an ALR 386/2.
Everything since has been a homebrew built from components. (Well, except for the Dell Inspiron laptop.)
Hardly Firefox's fault. You're not the first to notice that web site developers have gotten incredibly lazy over the years. The practices like you just described seem to the norm now. Adding more Firefox (or any other browser, for that matter) user controls isn't going to do much of anything to solve that problem.
Question: Is it Firefox's Javascript engine that sucks like a tornado or is it NoScript? The majority of the time that Firefox has to recover from a crash, I get a tab announcing a new version of NoScript. I could live with allowing Javascript to run in my browser if it didn't perform so badly when using Firefox. Enabling Javascript in other browsers doesn't seem to be the problem that it is in Firefox.
When the gig economy fires up? It seems to be here. Now. I never bothered to disable the emails I was receiving from a variety of job aggregation sites when I was last in a job search because I figured that, as imperfect a barometer as job ads are, it was good to read through them occasionally to keep on top of how things are going out there. What I've been seeing is that more and more of the job listings are for straight contracts. CTH is showing up less and less than a few years ago and companies looking for FTEs seem to be few and far between. So implanted chips for everybody, eh? If you ever have an autopsy done upon your death, the coroner will be able to tell what companies you worked for.