I hope the close button on tabs is an option because I hate that feature in browsers like Opera. Some other programs, like Azureus, do it that way too. It makes it to easy to accidently close a tab and it makes you keep moving your mouse to remove multiple tabs. In general it's just not a good UI choice. You make it slightly easier for newbies but make it harder for everyone who actually uses tabs.
If you want to copy a good idea from Opera instead why not make pop-up windows open as virtual sub-windows or tabs. There are existing FF extensions that do this and it's such an obvious good idea that FF would be better off using that than making some extension to add close buttons to tabs mainstream. And make the extension that suppresses loading new pages/tabs for blank pages (such as happen with some downloads) a default. I've yet to see any reason anyone would want those blank pages to appear. Oh, and the extension that opens downloads in your choice of a tab or a sidebar would be a good mainstream change if you polished it up a little.
What's annoying is the number of these sites that are ending up indexed in search engines. It's becomming popular for low profit high traffic sites to get either bought out to be turned into a squat site or else the original owners just give up and turn it into the same kind of spam site. It makes it hard for legit users to buy domains they want to put real site's on when every dictionary word, trademarks, obvious combination of words, and typos are all registered to squat sites. It also makes it hard for users to find real sites with real information because often the real sites come up after the squatting sites in search results.
I hope somebody who's a Firefox coder will get it together and create an extension, similar to Adblock, that lets users blacklist sites and keeps you from going to those sites. It'd be best if, again like Adblock, it can share the blacklist between users. Call it the Bad Karma extension or something like that. If possible go beyond and have it grey out results in popular search engines that go to those site's.
I agree. A lot of kids are taking to web creation ranging from site's that let them create content to actual HTML, CS, Javascript, Java, PHP, etc.
I think a lot of these coding kids get involved in opensource projects too and it'll increase as web programming gets more powerful. Firefox, Thunderbird, etc and even AJAX web-based apps.
I think what's declined is the number of kids writing C, assembly, Basic, etc. Projects that require those kind of tools have gotten to big and complex to jump into so easily and the tools required to make these projects managable have gotten very expensive. It's to much to do just for fun. The thing is that the kids have it right. These new technologies are going to mostly kill off the use of older tech like C. Programs that don't need to be written in C/Asm won't be written in C/Asm.
It'd seem it could be really interesting if they could have commercials generated based on real-time factors or even from live interaction with viewers. It could even be a canned commercial with a transparent background that shows something like people posing in the background of live cams (hi mom!), showing online games going on, etc. I think the key is to not just be live but to interact.
I rebranded our spa company to 'Tub Monkey' and got a lot of crap for that. The owner wanted 'American Best Discount Spa Supply'. C'mon though. That is so incredibly not friendly to web search and it's not easy to remember if you hear or see it somewhere. I like the name Revolution better but from an online branding point of view I'd have to go with Wii. Searching for 'Nintendo Revolution' could come up with tons of unrelated stuff where as 'Nintendo Wii' will mostly come up with related stuff.
I'm going to call the new console 'Revolution Wii'. That sounds more fun.
For a period I had my systems set-up to require dual passwords to access root. The root account password I had but the password needed to gain local access, and be able to use root at all, I gave to someone else. That way I kept myself out during drunken depressed fits.
It makes me wonder if your signature would change in this system though if you underwent some severe mental trauma or were put on Prozac or something like that.
Microsoft 'secure' server. That just seems wrong to me. Is that even possible? Maybe if you unplug it and bury it in concrete. In my experience that's the only way to keep a Windows machine secure.
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I'd like to see this system compared with some of the better systems for storing power used with solar, wind, etc. Alternative power would be quite a bit cheaper if more of the components were mass produced products used by the average consumer. Most average people aren't up to monitoring and caring for batteries and oddities like that. In theory, if they sell their systems to a wider range of people then they can offer lower prices over the more niche companies offering similar stuff.
Of course my favorite systems are the more interesting ones that store energy in non-battery methods such as with compressed air, winding a spring, or by creating and storing hydrogen.
I like the color and icons! I've been seeing it daily for almost a decade. Besides, it's more fun to make something beautiful out of odds and ends than to make something beautiful with your choice of bits to start with. It's like beer bottles melted down into wonderful works of glass art.
Here in California it's insane. It seems that at least half the population drives a big truck or SUV and given that I'm the only person in the carpool lane I'll assume most of them have a single person in them most of the time. To go with all the SUVs it appears that every parking space in San Diego is a compact space so you end up wedged in between a couple SUVs with some kind of teleportation device needed to get into your car. And I'm paying $3.15/gallon for gas because all the SUVs are sucking it down so much. A friend of mine who always drives a huge full size truck was complaining at having to pay $70 every couple days in gas. Well duh mister, maybe it's time to get something that gets a little bit better gas effeciency.
Freaking people who drive 60 miles a day, by themselves, in their friggen big vehicles. The rest of us appreciate the gas prices and damage to the enviroment for your need to fulfill some macho need. How long until some clever company creates a civilian version of a tank and sells it as 'the really safe' commute vehicle. Sure it only gets 2 mpg but it's a block of solid metal that'll survive just about any crash! If you wanna feel safe then stop driving like an idiot.:p
It's pretty fscked up that I'm thinking of moving to Mexico (from San Diego) to have more freedom and less corrupt government. That's just wrong. I shouldn't even be able to wonder if I'd be better off moving to Mexico or some other such place.
Actually something Caribbean sounds really good but I haven't decided yet.
I'm pretty sure that when I tested it it was slow even without the CSS linked in though (it was a while ago) which would mean it'd have no backgrounds of any kind since all styling is in CSS. Either way though I consider it a browser bug and not especially likely to hurt my business so I'll leave it that way for the time being. I've reported the bug so it's someone elses job to fix it. I refuse to workaround crappy browsers even in the case of it being my favorite, Firefox.
What about the number of busineeses brilliant enough to put network ports in places that are open to the public? I've been able to jack in my laptop in hallwalls, waiting areas, and even outside of many businesses and government offices. What about fully wired PC's running Windows that get infected, hacked, or otherwise owned?
It seems to me that busybody laws about specific technical choices aren't a good thing. Better to just make a general law about liability of businesses for leaked personal or financial information. Make them fully liable for all damages and throw in a hefty fine. Who cares how the information is leaked? If your lack of security hurts someone else then you should be liable. Maybe limit their liability and fines if they can document a good effort at securing that information. Not just having a security policy either - something solid such as daily security patches, virus scans, having proper firewalls, etc. I'd be tempted to fine anyone running Windows but I imagine Microsoft would use their money to kepe that from becoming law.
Using Firefox on Linux? I've complained to the Firefox developers about that. It seems to work fine in Windows and OS X on Firefox. Page validates and it does that CPU killing even if I remove the Javascript and CSS. Very odd.
I love the FF family of games but was disappointed at FF Online. I find it just as boring as I find EQ, EQ2, WoW, and every other game of the type. Essentially they are fancy IM programs with a sucky boring game attached. Only the chat gives any purpose to playing at all. Wake me when somebody invents a MMORPG that isn't frustrating, dull, and essentially plotless.
The only fun things about FF Online (and EQ2, etc) was checking out the almost-nude girls (woo that was xciting for about 2 seconds) and the interesting effects they have such as fireworks on the 4th of July, Halloween costumes, etc. It's all just to formulated to be fun.
I'd probably agree but take the other opinion - that patroling is a waste of time and money. How many serious crimes are stopped by cops that just happen to be wandering by? It might help cut down on some petty crimes but I would doubt it'd help stop murders, kidnapping, drug deals, etc.
It sounds like a marketing problem to me. Does he know his audience and market to them? His games seem interesting to me but I run Linux and it looks like his games don't run on Linux. Thus the type of customer that would buy his games, a geek that uses Linux, won't because he has excluded them. I'm sure there are people besides Linux geeks that'd be interested but is he targeting them any better than he is targeting me? If you're doing something a little different than the usual then you really have to let the people that like things out of the norm know about it if you want to PROFIT!
I've been thinking of buying one. I have an NGage QD and TMobile and have used my phone as a bluetooth modem for my laptop many times and it works great. I assume that it'd also work with the 770. The laptop is big and a pain to pull out just to check something quickly. I don't want Flash, embeded video and Java, etc (in any browser, but especially in a mini-browser). What I do want is a standards compliant browser that lets me check my webmail, PayPal, status of the sites I run, etc.
I really don't think the problem is that these small portable devices have bad input methods so much as that people keep trying to use them as PCs when obviously they are not. I'm still in favor of a keypad friendly domain (I suggest.pad under my Apt Pad system) that treats all the letters and number assigned to a keypad button as a single entity. ie If I have apt.pad registered then 278.pad, csv.pad, and every other possible combination for those buttons would also be mine. Then you could go to the apt.pad site just by pressing 278 and enter. Essentially using phone number like numbers for websites as obviously that is the easiest thing to enter on a phone keypad. The laser projected keyboard is an interesting development for mobile devices. It'd be a great add-on to the 770.
The crashes do bother me though. I'll wait to buy one til they have that fixed.
If the police are notified that this information is online at such and such place I'm okay with them using it but I don't like them spending time just searching random sites like Facebook and MySpace. To me that smacks of tax payer money being spent so that cops can look at porn and blogs all day just so that now and then they can catch some petty criminals. Let the cops spend their time doing real police work instead of hanging out and just watching for America's dumbest criminals.
From a privacy point of view I'm not sure what to think. On the one hand public forums are obviously in the public. On the other hand this is like sending someone undercover into a bar and having them sit there and wait for random people to brag about stupid things they've done. That's just a little bit underhanded (and still seems a waste of taxpayer dollars).
I've used the Internet to discuss mistakes I made in my earlier life with like minded people. I'd hate to think that all of that was going to be used against me. Usually I don't use my real name but a clever person, especially with the right legal force, could track down my real identity easily enough - especially as I've gotten older and started doing business online. I don't think that's a good reason for people to feel they can't talk about things on their blogs or in discussion forums.
So what, I can't run for President because on a blog when I was a kid I did usual teenage things and admitted to it. I guess smart kids have to plan ahead and keep all their skeletons well hidden.
I want a Firefox plugin that blacklists parking domains the way Adblock blacklists ads. So that if I try to go to one of those pages it just warns me that it's a parked ad trap and allows me to choose not to go. Better yet, let the search engines screen the blacklisted sites out for you.
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I hope the close button on tabs is an option because I hate that feature in browsers like Opera. Some other programs, like Azureus, do it that way too. It makes it to easy to accidently close a tab and it makes you keep moving your mouse to remove multiple tabs. In general it's just not a good UI choice. You make it slightly easier for newbies but make it harder for everyone who actually uses tabs.
If you want to copy a good idea from Opera instead why not make pop-up windows open as virtual sub-windows or tabs. There are existing FF extensions that do this and it's such an obvious good idea that FF would be better off using that than making some extension to add close buttons to tabs mainstream. And make the extension that suppresses loading new pages/tabs for blank pages (such as happen with some downloads) a default. I've yet to see any reason anyone would want those blank pages to appear. Oh, and the extension that opens downloads in your choice of a tab or a sidebar would be a good mainstream change if you polished it up a little.
What's annoying is the number of these sites that are ending up indexed in search engines. It's becomming popular for low profit high traffic sites to get either bought out to be turned into a squat site or else the original owners just give up and turn it into the same kind of spam site. It makes it hard for legit users to buy domains they want to put real site's on when every dictionary word, trademarks, obvious combination of words, and typos are all registered to squat sites. It also makes it hard for users to find real sites with real information because often the real sites come up after the squatting sites in search results.
I hope somebody who's a Firefox coder will get it together and create an extension, similar to Adblock, that lets users blacklist sites and keeps you from going to those sites. It'd be best if, again like Adblock, it can share the blacklist between users. Call it the Bad Karma extension or something like that. If possible go beyond and have it grey out results in popular search engines that go to those site's.
I agree. A lot of kids are taking to web creation ranging from site's that let them create content to actual HTML, CS, Javascript, Java, PHP, etc.
I think a lot of these coding kids get involved in opensource projects too and it'll increase as web programming gets more powerful. Firefox, Thunderbird, etc and even AJAX web-based apps.
I think what's declined is the number of kids writing C, assembly, Basic, etc. Projects that require those kind of tools have gotten to big and complex to jump into so easily and the tools required to make these projects managable have gotten very expensive. It's to much to do just for fun. The thing is that the kids have it right. These new technologies are going to mostly kill off the use of older tech like C. Programs that don't need to be written in C/Asm won't be written in C/Asm.
It'd seem it could be really interesting if they could have commercials generated based on real-time factors or even from live interaction with viewers. It could even be a canned commercial with a transparent background that shows something like people posing in the background of live cams (hi mom!), showing online games going on, etc. I think the key is to not just be live but to interact.
I rebranded our spa company to 'Tub Monkey' and got a lot of crap for that. The owner wanted 'American Best Discount Spa Supply'. C'mon though. That is so incredibly not friendly to web search and it's not easy to remember if you hear or see it somewhere. I like the name Revolution better but from an online branding point of view I'd have to go with Wii. Searching for 'Nintendo Revolution' could come up with tons of unrelated stuff where as 'Nintendo Wii' will mostly come up with related stuff.
I'm going to call the new console 'Revolution Wii'. That sounds more fun.
How a company can take a cool product name like Revolution and change it to something lame like Wii I dunno.
That'd be like changing from Helix Code to Ximian to Novell something or other. Umm different thread there.. I have some naming anger.
For a period I had my systems set-up to require dual passwords to access root. The root account password I had but the password needed to gain local access, and be able to use root at all, I gave to someone else. That way I kept myself out during drunken depressed fits.
It makes me wonder if your signature would change in this system though if you underwent some severe mental trauma or were put on Prozac or something like that.
Microsoft 'secure' server. That just seems wrong to me. Is that even possible? Maybe if you unplug it and bury it in concrete. In my experience that's the only way to keep a Windows machine secure.
I'd like to see this system compared with some of the better systems for storing power used with solar, wind, etc. Alternative power would be quite a bit cheaper if more of the components were mass produced products used by the average consumer. Most average people aren't up to monitoring and caring for batteries and oddities like that. In theory, if they sell their systems to a wider range of people then they can offer lower prices over the more niche companies offering similar stuff.
Of course my favorite systems are the more interesting ones that store energy in non-battery methods such as with compressed air, winding a spring, or by creating and storing hydrogen.
I like the color and icons! I've been seeing it daily for almost a decade. Besides, it's more fun to make something beautiful out of odds and ends than to make something beautiful with your choice of bits to start with. It's like beer bottles melted down into wonderful works of glass art.
Here in California it's insane. It seems that at least half the population drives a big truck or SUV and given that I'm the only person in the carpool lane I'll assume most of them have a single person in them most of the time. To go with all the SUVs it appears that every parking space in San Diego is a compact space so you end up wedged in between a couple SUVs with some kind of teleportation device needed to get into your car. And I'm paying $3.15/gallon for gas because all the SUVs are sucking it down so much. A friend of mine who always drives a huge full size truck was complaining at having to pay $70 every couple days in gas. Well duh mister, maybe it's time to get something that gets a little bit better gas effeciency.
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Freaking people who drive 60 miles a day, by themselves, in their friggen big vehicles. The rest of us appreciate the gas prices and damage to the enviroment for your need to fulfill some macho need. How long until some clever company creates a civilian version of a tank and sells it as 'the really safe' commute vehicle. Sure it only gets 2 mpg but it's a block of solid metal that'll survive just about any crash! If you wanna feel safe then stop driving like an idiot.
It's pretty fscked up that I'm thinking of moving to Mexico (from San Diego) to have more freedom and less corrupt government. That's just wrong. I shouldn't even be able to wonder if I'd be better off moving to Mexico or some other such place.
Actually something Caribbean sounds really good but I haven't decided yet.
I'm pretty sure that when I tested it it was slow even without the CSS linked in though (it was a while ago) which would mean it'd have no backgrounds of any kind since all styling is in CSS. Either way though I consider it a browser bug and not especially likely to hurt my business so I'll leave it that way for the time being. I've reported the bug so it's someone elses job to fix it. I refuse to workaround crappy browsers even in the case of it being my favorite, Firefox.
What about the number of busineeses brilliant enough to put network ports in places that are open to the public? I've been able to jack in my laptop in hallwalls, waiting areas, and even outside of many businesses and government offices. What about fully wired PC's running Windows that get infected, hacked, or otherwise owned?
It seems to me that busybody laws about specific technical choices aren't a good thing. Better to just make a general law about liability of businesses for leaked personal or financial information. Make them fully liable for all damages and throw in a hefty fine. Who cares how the information is leaked? If your lack of security hurts someone else then you should be liable. Maybe limit their liability and fines if they can document a good effort at securing that information. Not just having a security policy either - something solid such as daily security patches, virus scans, having proper firewalls, etc. I'd be tempted to fine anyone running Windows but I imagine Microsoft would use their money to kepe that from becoming law.
You should anyway. Anything worthwhile that you create is a threat to somebody somewhere. Be paranoid.
Using Firefox on Linux? I've complained to the Firefox developers about that. It seems to work fine in Windows and OS X on Firefox. Page validates and it does that CPU killing even if I remove the Javascript and CSS. Very odd.
Try Opera 9.
I work for Tub Monkey as a Tech Monkey so this song is perfect for me. :)
I love the FF family of games but was disappointed at FF Online. I find it just as boring as I find EQ, EQ2, WoW, and every other game of the type. Essentially they are fancy IM programs with a sucky boring game attached. Only the chat gives any purpose to playing at all. Wake me when somebody invents a MMORPG that isn't frustrating, dull, and essentially plotless.
The only fun things about FF Online (and EQ2, etc) was checking out the almost-nude girls (woo that was xciting for about 2 seconds) and the interesting effects they have such as fireworks on the 4th of July, Halloween costumes, etc. It's all just to formulated to be fun.
I'd probably agree but take the other opinion - that patroling is a waste of time and money. How many serious crimes are stopped by cops that just happen to be wandering by? It might help cut down on some petty crimes but I would doubt it'd help stop murders, kidnapping, drug deals, etc.
It sounds like a marketing problem to me. Does he know his audience and market to them? His games seem interesting to me but I run Linux and it looks like his games don't run on Linux. Thus the type of customer that would buy his games, a geek that uses Linux, won't because he has excluded them. I'm sure there are people besides Linux geeks that'd be interested but is he targeting them any better than he is targeting me? If you're doing something a little different than the usual then you really have to let the people that like things out of the norm know about it if you want to PROFIT!
I've been thinking of buying one. I have an NGage QD and TMobile and have used my phone as a bluetooth modem for my laptop many times and it works great. I assume that it'd also work with the 770. The laptop is big and a pain to pull out just to check something quickly. I don't want Flash, embeded video and Java, etc (in any browser, but especially in a mini-browser). What I do want is a standards compliant browser that lets me check my webmail, PayPal, status of the sites I run, etc.
.pad under my Apt Pad system) that treats all the letters and number assigned to a keypad button as a single entity. ie If I have apt.pad registered then 278.pad, csv.pad, and every other possible combination for those buttons would also be mine. Then you could go to the apt.pad site just by pressing 278 and enter. Essentially using phone number like numbers for websites as obviously that is the easiest thing to enter on a phone keypad. The laser projected keyboard is an interesting development for mobile devices. It'd be a great add-on to the 770.
I really don't think the problem is that these small portable devices have bad input methods so much as that people keep trying to use them as PCs when obviously they are not. I'm still in favor of a keypad friendly domain (I suggest
The crashes do bother me though. I'll wait to buy one til they have that fixed.
It's the same as listening to someones private conversation in a public place. It may be legal but it's still rude.
If the police are notified that this information is online at such and such place I'm okay with them using it but I don't like them spending time just searching random sites like Facebook and MySpace. To me that smacks of tax payer money being spent so that cops can look at porn and blogs all day just so that now and then they can catch some petty criminals. Let the cops spend their time doing real police work instead of hanging out and just watching for America's dumbest criminals.
From a privacy point of view I'm not sure what to think. On the one hand public forums are obviously in the public. On the other hand this is like sending someone undercover into a bar and having them sit there and wait for random people to brag about stupid things they've done. That's just a little bit underhanded (and still seems a waste of taxpayer dollars).
I've used the Internet to discuss mistakes I made in my earlier life with like minded people. I'd hate to think that all of that was going to be used against me. Usually I don't use my real name but a clever person, especially with the right legal force, could track down my real identity easily enough - especially as I've gotten older and started doing business online. I don't think that's a good reason for people to feel they can't talk about things on their blogs or in discussion forums.
So what, I can't run for President because on a blog when I was a kid I did usual teenage things and admitted to it. I guess smart kids have to plan ahead and keep all their skeletons well hidden.
I want a Firefox plugin that blacklists parking domains the way Adblock blacklists ads. So that if I try to go to one of those pages it just warns me that it's a parked ad trap and allows me to choose not to go. Better yet, let the search engines screen the blacklisted sites out for you.