I don't believe any of us our shopping online in order to help save the planet in some small way.
I'm pretty sure we do it because it allows us to shop without getting off our ass.
Christ, they were reading Hemingway? I'd like to see the results of actually having "read" the story, electronic device or no. Did you ever try reading The Old Man and the Sea in high school? Ten fucking pages describing the crest of a wave. I guarantee you 50% of the pages in the survey were skimmed at best.
And the rest of us are patiently waiting for The Onion to write up an Area Man Constantly Mentioning He's Not on Facebook article that we can link to....
My coworkers and myself often work late, but we do not "stay" late. We have laptops and a VPN connection. So if we're working into the night, it's' generally in the comfort of our own home.
That said, when the team is working late, we sure as hell do expect to see our manager online (at least giving the appearance that he is "in the shit" with us).
I don't use drugs because they are illegal. My employer could terminate my employment, I could be jailed, etc.
If drugs were legalized, then there would be no barrier (however artificial) for me to start using drugs. Maybe I enjoy it and starts affecting my productivity, my way of life, I become addicted, etc.
So while this might be in the minority, there are a number of citizens who are not using drugs for the sole reason that they are NOT legal. Legalizing them would remove this barrier and actually cause more drug use. I am not saying that is horrible, but it is a side-effect that is seldom brought up.
What might be a good idea (for all extensions in general), when it opens up the NoScript page after an update, it there was a direct checkbox/link to "Don't show this page after updates" which would set the appropriate extension preference. Then the conspiracists would see a more visible mechanism to not show the NoScript page.
I personally, like an extension that is updated frequently. It means there is active development.
Thanks
Tom
Right. Though I like to have my calendar available from my email application and I personally don't like running a separate calendar app, I agree that they really are separate disparate applications that really have no reason to be merged. This is what extensions are all about. You can add the calendar to Thunderbird via an extension if you really want them integrated into a single app -- the lightning extension adds Sunbird, and ReminderFox (disclosure: I am a dev for this extension) adds a lighter-weight calendaring function.
Don't hate on the old dudes. Oldtimers be FUNDAMENTALLY SOUND, yo.
That's why they always dominate the young whippersnappers. The young dudes are out there running and gunning, and the old dudes are boxing out, not forcing shots, and posting defenders up underneath the basket.
Whereas I'm shooting turnaround fade-away jumpers from the three-point line. That's why I can't wait until I turn 45 or 50, and am suddenly awesome at basketball. At least I figure that's how it must work.
As a developer, there's always bugs in your inbox. If it has gone untouched for several years, it generally means that there are other priority bugs that are getting looked at instead of that one. The alternative to keeping bugs opened and unlooked at for years (which is not very useful) is to just blanket-close all of the low severity problems that have been opened for more than two years (for example). If the submitter finds it still important, they can just reopen. I think this is a fairly healthy thing to do, as some bugs truly are no longer relevant; and if a user reopens an old one, it at least has another chance of having a developer give it some attention.
Now, the dropdown arrow on the right side of the tab bar is pretty useless
Yeah, you must not look at massive quantities of internet porn. This feature does become more useful when you get a bunch of tabs open (15-20) and you have to start scrolling through all your tabs. At that point, it's much easier to select which tab you want from the dropdown.
- When debugging a problem, never ask, "how come it works on my box?"
Heh I do this all the time.:) Why do you say "never ask" this? Because it shows you don't thoroughly understand the code? I work on software with many different configurations across many different platforms, and very often it works on one person's setup but not another. I was just wondering why this bad - does it show a weakness?
-Tom
(Yes I realize this is weeks old, but I just came across this article as I was perusing back-stories on/.)
I thought the list of available shows was pretty dull until I saw that they got fuckin' Freddy's Nightmares! I was a huge Nightmare on Elm St fan and I would take all the Fredddy I could get. The first episode was really good in that it actually showed the backstory of how he came to be. Granted Freddy himself only appeared in a handful of episodes and the ones without him were pretty horrible, I'm still going to watch a couple of these for memory's sake.
And they got V too! Another Freddy/Robert England connection.
I always hear the argument from illegal downloaders about "I like to try before I buy". They don't want to waste money on crap, so they download it first, and if they like it, they buy it. While I"m sure that there's some people who actually do that, is this really the norm? How come we don't hear from people who download albums and never replace them with purchased CDs?
I know in the last couple of years, a buddy of mine has obtained over 25 complete downloaded albums, and has not went out and purchased a single one, though they are among his favorite bands. That's roughly $375 that did not go to the record companies or the artist. In this case, somebody is losing money somewhere. I'm sure that this is the more likely scenario than the usual music-lovers-just-want-to-try-it-first voices that I usually hear. I just want to hear some people admit that they download music illegally because they can, it's easy, and it's free. I bet that even if there was an iTunes-like service that contained the same un-DRM'd formats that people illegally download, it wouldn't matter to a lot of people when they could still get it for free.
I'm the guy who submitted that news to hackingnetflix. I actually just scraped that HTML by copying it from my account page and pasted it into my gmail that I sent to hackingnetflix. It wasn't a screenshot at all. The save button was probably below the stuff I grabbed.
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Very appreciate of your desire to help your fellow man. Though, maybe you don't want to call them "oldsters" as you're helping them. :)
I don't believe any of us our shopping online in order to help save the planet in some small way. I'm pretty sure we do it because it allows us to shop without getting off our ass.
Christ, they were reading Hemingway? I'd like to see the results of actually having "read" the story, electronic device or no. Did you ever try reading The Old Man and the Sea in high school? Ten fucking pages describing the crest of a wave. I guarantee you 50% of the pages in the survey were skimmed at best.
And the rest of us are patiently waiting for The Onion to write up an Area Man Constantly Mentioning He's Not on Facebook article that we can link to....
You only have to be accessible for 7 hours out of every 24 days?? I don't know, sounds pretty sweet to me....
My coworkers and myself often work late, but we do not "stay" late. We have laptops and a VPN connection. So if we're working into the night, it's' generally in the comfort of our own home. That said, when the team is working late, we sure as hell do expect to see our manager online (at least giving the appearance that he is "in the shit" with us).
In similar news I just won a million dollars, however I am not much of a consumer. Anyone know of any good ways to spend this cash?
I don't use drugs because they are illegal. My employer could terminate my employment, I could be jailed, etc. If drugs were legalized, then there would be no barrier (however artificial) for me to start using drugs. Maybe I enjoy it and starts affecting my productivity, my way of life, I become addicted, etc. So while this might be in the minority, there are a number of citizens who are not using drugs for the sole reason that they are NOT legal. Legalizing them would remove this barrier and actually cause more drug use. I am not saying that is horrible, but it is a side-effect that is seldom brought up.
What might be a good idea (for all extensions in general), when it opens up the NoScript page after an update, it there was a direct checkbox/link to "Don't show this page after updates" which would set the appropriate extension preference. Then the conspiracists would see a more visible mechanism to not show the NoScript page.
I personally, like an extension that is updated frequently. It means there is active development.
Thanks
Tom
Heh, that sport already existed. It was called Jarts.. It ended badly.
Wow, thanks. Now I'm depressed. :(
Dude, that wasn't you... Come on. That was totally Zack Morris in an episode of Saved By The Bell.
Right. Though I like to have my calendar available from my email application and I personally don't like running a separate calendar app, I agree that they really are separate disparate applications that really have no reason to be merged. This is what extensions are all about. You can add the calendar to Thunderbird via an extension if you really want them integrated into a single app -- the lightning extension adds Sunbird, and ReminderFox (disclosure: I am a dev for this extension) adds a lighter-weight calendaring function.
Don't hate on the old dudes. Oldtimers be FUNDAMENTALLY SOUND, yo. That's why they always dominate the young whippersnappers. The young dudes are out there running and gunning, and the old dudes are boxing out, not forcing shots, and posting defenders up underneath the basket. Whereas I'm shooting turnaround fade-away jumpers from the three-point line. That's why I can't wait until I turn 45 or 50, and am suddenly awesome at basketball. At least I figure that's how it must work.
As a developer, there's always bugs in your inbox. If it has gone untouched for several years, it generally means that there are other priority bugs that are getting looked at instead of that one. The alternative to keeping bugs opened and unlooked at for years (which is not very useful) is to just blanket-close all of the low severity problems that have been opened for more than two years (for example). If the submitter finds it still important, they can just reopen. I think this is a fairly healthy thing to do, as some bugs truly are no longer relevant; and if a user reopens an old one, it at least has another chance of having a developer give it some attention.
Tom
Now, the dropdown arrow on the right side of the tab bar is pretty useless
Yeah, you must not look at massive quantities of internet porn. This feature does become more useful when you get a bunch of tabs open (15-20) and you have to start scrolling through all your tabs. At that point, it's much easier to select which tab you want from the dropdown.
- When debugging a problem, never ask, "how come it works on my box?"
:) Why do you say "never ask" this? Because it shows you don't thoroughly understand the code? I work on software with many different configurations across many different platforms, and very often it works on one person's setup but not another. I was just wondering why this bad - does it show a weakness?
/.)
Heh I do this all the time.
-Tom
(Yes I realize this is weeks old, but I just came across this article as I was perusing back-stories on
I thought the list of available shows was pretty dull until I saw that they got fuckin' Freddy's Nightmares! I was a huge Nightmare on Elm St fan and I would take all the Fredddy I could get. The first episode was really good in that it actually showed the backstory of how he came to be. Granted Freddy himself only appeared in a handful of episodes and the ones without him were pretty horrible, I'm still going to watch a couple of these for memory's sake.
And they got V too! Another Freddy/Robert England connection.
That summary reads like any number one of my first attempts at writing:
I said "I'm hungry".
"How come?" Bill said.
"I didn't eat," I said.
Bill said, "That stinks."
I said "It sure does".
Though I said the same thing about "blogosphere", but that doens't appear to be going away anytime soon either.
Not sure if this will be of use, but there is a lightweight Firefox extension that displays reminders and ToDo's for you.
http://reminderfox.mozdev.org/
This extension was developed to fill this very need; it seems most calendar apps either don't do something that simple, or do more than I need.
-Tom
I know in the last couple of years, a buddy of mine has obtained over 25 complete downloaded albums, and has not went out and purchased a single one, though they are among his favorite bands. That's roughly $375 that did not go to the record companies or the artist. In this case, somebody is losing money somewhere. I'm sure that this is the more likely scenario than the usual music-lovers-just-want-to-try-it-first voices that I usually hear. I just want to hear some people admit that they download music illegally because they can, it's easy, and it's free. I bet that even if there was an iTunes-like service that contained the same un-DRM'd formats that people illegally download, it wouldn't matter to a lot of people when they could still get it for free.
I'm the guy who submitted that news to hackingnetflix. I actually just scraped that HTML by copying it from my account page and pasted it into my gmail that I sent to hackingnetflix. It wasn't a screenshot at all. The save button was probably below the stuff I grabbed.
I bet you're that guy who actually reports your Use Tax for all your internet purchases. I was wondering who that was...
Shut the fuck up and give me your lunch money, dork!