Over 3 years ago, Slashdot ran an article on these lab created diamonds; it was a great story on Wired.com. The difference there was that it was an independent piece, a solid read, and offered a glimpse into the future of computing (i.e. using diamonds as semiconductors).
This current story, however, is just a link to a damn press release, with no mention What was the point of it, aside from giving free press to this company?
Mr. Costikyan's assertion that software, games in particular, are not like fruit, in that they do not have an "expiration date", is flat-out wrong. I think they have a very definite shelf-life, which directly corresponds to both the platform they run on and the available hardware.
A game written for DOS should not still sell for the same price it did when it first came out. A game that only plays on a console that hasn't been sold in years should not be the original price. If one extrapolates Mr. Costikyan's comments to other industries, such as automobiles, it's akin to saying that an 82 Pontiac should be the same price now as it was then. That, despite the engine, braking system, interior pieces, safety systems, etc., all being subpar by today's standards. If you apply it to the electronics industry, it's like saying an 8086 should still cost $2000.
That's nonsense. If a game doesn't work under XP/Vista/OS X/whatever OS you run, doesn't work with your fancy new gaming controller, doesn't play on the current consoles, then why should it's value not be reduced? Sure, the gameplay itself hasn't changed, but if you can't run it, then it's intrinsic value depreciates. Whether or not that's fair to developers is another issue, but everything gets outdated. I wouldn't spend as much for a copy of Windows 3.1 as I would for a copy of XP, and it's the same thing with games.
If you're like me and want to see a return to paper ballots, or at least a move to a system that leaves a paper trail, then contact Governor Ehrlich and tell him "Thank you!" for trying to get rid of these machines!
Either send his office an email or give him a call. Non-MD residents can call his office at 800-811-8336, local residents can call 410-974-3591.
I'm not from Maryland, nor do I live there, but I just called and wrote Mr. Ehrlich's office to show my support for eliminating these machines from use. An insecure system that leaves no paper trail borders on insanity; it's nice to see someone stand up against them.
Agreed completely. What really kills me about this is the fact that everyone, from the students to the parents, seems to be under the impression that Microsoft is footing the bill for the entire school, which is not the case. This is tax-payer money, and this school is going to keep sucking it down for years to come. Yet every story I've heard about this features an audio clip from a student or parent thanking Microsoft & Bill Gates for the amazing new facility. Ugh.
We had a blackout when I was in high school, and I walked right up to my locker, entered my combination into the master lock, and got my books. What's going to happen with these lockers when the power goes out? Are they on redundant power supplies? Do they have a UPS system just for the lockers? I will laugh myself silly if the power goes out and these kids can't get their books; it would be very similar to what happened with all of those hotels in NYC during the blackout. No one could get into their rooms because of the electronic locks.
Isn't that a little shortsighted? Wouldn't the appropriate thing to do is punish the student? Because if they don't copy wikipedia, they same student will just copy another website or perhaps a book which is harder to track.
I actually did bring this up to him, but apparently the school figured that if they were at least going to the library and getting a book out, and then retyping the material, maybe they would actually wind up doing the work. It's a lot easier to just copy something from Wikipedia than it is to find an appropriate reference book in a library and plagarize that. Hey, if it gets kids back into libraries...;)
Anyway, on the issue of tech in the classroom - it's actually good in areas where technology just works. Think, for instance, about Graphing Calculators. Aren't they pretty good? I know I probably checked out a lot more functions than if I had to draw it by hand. Of course, I still know how to draw it by hand..... (thinking of all the cashier in places who can't add/subtract change w/o the register). Technology tends to break down in the classroom when it stops being a pretty focused tool that's simply convenient and turns into some ill-defined and ill-focused panacea and prevent the student from thinking on their own.
I'm in absolute 100% agreement with you here. In-class movies that are relevant to the subject matter, graphic calculators for trig/calc, etc., those are cases of tech being used to supplement the existing curriculum. When you remove that and instead just throw tons of tech at students, they're not going to turn into scientists and mathematicians overnight. It still comes down to having good teachers, not just good tech. And in this case, having wireless everywhere and laptops in front of every student, the tech isn't focused, the potential for abuse is very high, and you can be damn sure that kids are going to take advantage of that.
What I foresee happening here is that the school will perform on-par with every other public high school in Philadelphia (which is to say, not all that spectacular), and people will immediately start to wonder why it's not working out the way they thought it would. After all, for such a big investment of tax-payer dollars, people are going to expect a big return on the test scores, etc., from this school. Aside from the fact that the students of this school are required to apply to at least one college, which is not a requirement at any other public HS in Philadelphia, I highly doubt interactive whiteboards and debit cards for school lunches are going to make these kids the best and brightest.
That's a lot of resources thrown at very few students.
Exactly. Speaking as someone who lives in Philadelphia, this has not been very well received here. The school system in this city is grossly underfunded, but now we suddenly have this new $63 million school, where all the freshmen get laptops and the lockers open with smart cards. The entire building is wireless, the students don't even have textbooks. A commentator on NPR this morning declared the school to be, in regards to money well spent, "a total waste"
Just the other day, there was a/. story about opposition to HS students having laptops, which pointed out the obvious: the students are using the technology to send IMs and play on networking sites like myspace. The laptops get beat to the ground and loaded full of spyware, the kids don't learn, and it becomes a giant waste of money. My brother-in-law, who is a teacher in Philadelphia, mentioned that they had to block Wikipedia on their school computers because kids would just copy the articles verbatim for book reports, make up a few sources, and hand them in. Having instant access to the answers isn't making students study harder...
Perhaps I'm sounding like a luddite, but I fail to understand how having interactive whiteboards & plasma TV screens all over the building are going to make kids learn calculus or a foreign language. I find this entire thing a bit ridiculous. Mind you, the students seem to love it, but apparently they're more interested in the bathrooms than the classrooms:
"They have those sinks that you just put your hands like that and the water comes out," said Sandra Nelson, 14.
"Toilets flush by themselves. It's all just so nice," agreed Bianca Gibson, 14. "I want to give a shout out to Bill Gates and tell him, 'Thank you, so much.' "
Where's that emoticon of the head banging against a brick wall?
Many people, including Howard Stern, have been predicting indecency charges to ramp up this year, as (primarily but not exclusively right-wing) congressmen look for an issue to base their platform around. Expect much, much more of this nonsense.
Yep, this is the problem. Even with an updated version of AdBlock, Flash doesn't play when the extension is enabled. Disabling AdBlock and restarting Firefox fixes the issue immediately.
I mean, that's why this is a beta, clearly something is wrong. Shame though, I was hoping to use this on a daily basis to QA. No flash means I can't, I do too much work in flash to not have it load.
Instead of throwing billions at a problem that will occur again it might be best to treat the city as we treated people along the Miss.
Firstly, tell that to the people of the Netherlands. Their largest cities all lie below sea level, and they're doing just fine. Of course, they invest money in making sure that they are, in fact, able to prevent flooding.
Which conveniently segues me to my next point: funding.
From the article I just linked:
The administration of President George W Bush cut the $27.1 million budget requested by the Corps of Engineers for improving the levees in 2005 by more than 80% to $3.9 million, although Congress finally raised the grant to $5.7 million, compared to $10 million in 2001.
The $100 million 2005 budget requested by the Southeast Louisiana Flood control project was slashed to $16.5 million by Bush and Congress finally awarded $34 million to the scheme, compared to $69 million in 2001.
So there's a major problem right there. This was identified back in 2001 was a major problem. Hell, I have a copy of Scientific American sitting right next to me from 2001 talking about how New Orleans was a disaster waiting to happen. We should have been upgrading their pumps & levees in preparation for this kind of natural disaster. Instead, the Bush Administration cut funding from that area and redirected it towards the war in Iraq. This addresses the last thing you said, about how you'd prefer the US to spend our tax dollars. I personally would have preferred them to be spent preventing this disaster, instead of going towards Halliburton and Iraq.
And, a third point. Let's say, for sake of argument, that I agree with you (which I do, to an extent). New Orleans will be rebuilt, not for closure or a feat of triumph, but for yet another word: shipping.
New Orleans is one of the largest seaports in the world. In fact, it's also the 4th busiest, and receives over 130 metric tons of cargo per year. The companies who use it and depend on it will make sure that New Orleans, at least part of it, returns in some way, shape, or form. And where there is business, there are people. It might be months or years, but people will return to New Orleans, even if the city itself is never the same again.
Sometimes, the hallucination was obvious, designed to make you laugh (walls bleeding, walking on the celing, strange noises, etc).
You forgot the best/funniest one...
You're in the middle of the game, your sanity meter gets low, and then all of a sudden, BOOM...you get a Blue Screen of Death! HA!
I was laughing my ass off the first time I saw that.
That said, I too was fooled by the MUTE insanity, as well as the Respawn insanity (where all villians that you've killed come back to life and attack you at once.). Scared the crap out of me the first time both happened.
E.g. with a group of tabs on the tab bar
Mozilla: click on tab, all tabs open & start loading
Firefox: you get dropdown; for maximum hassle, the choice I want(Open in tabs) is always at bottom. Nor have I found way to set "add tabs" versus "replace tabs" preference.
To get a group of bookmarked tabs to open in addition to your already opened tabs in Firefox, do the following:
1) Open a new tab, type about:config, hit enter.
2) Find the entry called browser.tabs.loadFolderAndReplace, and double click it.
3) Change the value from true to false.
Tada! Now Firefox will open your bookmarked groups in new tabs, not replace your existing ones.
Additionally, you can simply middle-click on the bookmark folder name, and it will open all of the tabs contained in it. This way you don't have to go down to the "Open in Tabs" item at the bottom of the list.
Firefox & Seamonkey still use OS 9 event codes, which is why it doesn't work. There is a patch on that bug, but it didn't make it into 0.9, from what I can tell. See also Bug 106692 -- Rewrite mouse events to use CarbonEvents.
Well, if you remember the Simpsons episode where they parodied VH1's Behind the Music, called "Behind The Comedy" or something, near the end they say "this small family from northern Kentucky". Granted, Kentucky doesn't have an ocean like Springfield does, but there is a Springfield, Kentucky.
And just to throw people off, when this episode made it to syndication, the state where the Simpsons were from was changed! It's now Missouri in syndication!:)
Of course, the whole episode was about as serious as a Halloween episode, so you can't take it as Simpsons "lore" anyway. Plus, in the episode where Homer winds up as a submarine captain, they go into the sub and go west into Russian territory; that would imply they are in the Pacific ocean, so Springfield would have to be on the West Coast. Except that it isn't; in the episode where Apu is studying for his citizenship, Bart blocks the map of the US while Lisa is pointing to where Springfield is, but both coasts can be seen plainly, so Springfield isn't on the coasts, despite having an ocean!
It's not in ANY state, that's the key, it's just Anytown, USA.
Thank you, I did actually know that. 106692 is linked from 151249, and I've seen it before. I was hurriedly trying to write my reply up at work, and I said something incorrect.
You're right, it's not that Carbon can't handle the buttons, it's that Mozilla doesn't use Carbon Events to do so. This is what I meant to say, and had I gotten more sleep last night, I probably would have gotten it right the first time:)
I'm using Firefox for Linux and that doesn't work for me; I've tried to fix that, but as far as I can tell it just doesn't work.
It does work, but not by default. By default, Firefox for Linux has ContentLoadURL turned on in about:config.
Kindly see the following article I wrote about Firefox Middle Click behavior, and how to make the Linux client work exactly as it does on Windows.
The only differences I see when I switch from Mozilla-Linux to Mozilla-MacOSX is the middle-click issue and that tabs move between the URL bar and the main window(instead of between elements). You can fix these two issues by setting middle-click to command-click, and setting tab to move between elements in the preferences. Firefox's preference panel lacks the option to change tabs behavior, but regular Mozilla for OSX has it.
Setting middle-click to command click is a hack to get around a bug, not a real solution. Under Linux & Windows, using Firefox, if I middle click on a link, I get a new tab. If I middle click on a tab, the tab closes. Command click will open a tab, but it won't close it. So now I'm only half-way towards my usual usage.
As for the tab key, those options shouldn't even be necessary. The problem is Bug 187508, Mozilla doesn't respect keyboard preferences in OS X. You should just be able to turn on full keyboard navigation in System Preferences. Instead, in Mozilla Seamonkey, you have to set a preference. In Firefox, you have to use about:config, and set the tabfocus preference to 7, which will let you tab between all fields, links, etc.
I hadn't ever heard of ctrl-enter auto-complete before, but it seems worthless considering Mozilla assumes http:// for any URL lacking a protocol and you rarely need www before a domain. CTRL-ENTER in Linux Mozilla opens links in new Tabs, Command-Enter in OSX Mozilla does the same thing
It's not worthless at all. For one thing, if you just type "google", and hit enter, Mozilla will take a second or two to resolve it to www.google.com, and then take you there. Control+Enter will get you there faster. Additionally, there are keyboard shortcuts for.net &.org, which I use frequently. Moz for Mac has none of these shortcuts. Also, under Firefox, Control+Enter does not open a link in a new tab, it's a different behavior than Seamonkey.
I appreciate the link to Side Track; I actually don't need it, as my logitech wireless mouse came with software that lets me customize the middle-click button to command-click. My point, however, is that I shouldn't need a piece of 3rd party software to get Mozilla to function correctly. At least Mike Pinkerton (Camino Dev) approved a patch for Firefox to work around the lack of middle-click events in Carbon. Hopefully this will land for 0.9. If not, I'll build my own copies of Firefox.
And of course, there are other problems with Mac Mozilla, like Bug 137523, Command+M doesn't minimize Mozilla, or that always annoying bug where plugin content is z-indexed above the tabs, so if you switch tabs, you still see the plugin contents. I can't seem to find the bug for that, but it drives me crazy. My bank uses a java stock ticker on their home page, and if I switch to another browser tab, that ticker is still there, floating on top of the tab content.
Also, there is no way to get Single-Window mode on the Mac, as TBE and Tabbrowser Preferences both completely fail on Firefox for Mac. Also, plugins like MiniT (which let you rearrange tabs) fail on the Mac as well. Very frustrating.
After one of the first times Microsoft broke MSN for Opera, Opera released a Bork Edition of their browser.
"The Bork edition behaves differently on one Web site: MSN. Users accessing the MSN site will see the page transformed into the language of the famous Swedish Chef from the Muppet Show: Bork, Bork, Bork!"
Microsoft was purposely serving up broken style sheets for Opera; changing the user agent to something other that Opera would cause MSN to render correctly. For more on that, see the Opera article Why doesn't MSN work with Opera?
Unfortunately, Carbon doesn't have the ability to recognize a middle mouse click, so Mozilla (Seamonkey) and Firefox can't do anything on a middle click. Camino, on the other hand, is built with Cocoa, so middle-clicking works on a default build.
Combine this with the lack of Ctrl+Enter URL autocomplete, and I don't enjoy my Mozilla experience on OS X. I use Firefox on a daily basis on both Windows & Linux; the second I go over to my Powerbook, Firefox doesn't behave even close to the same way, and it drives me crazy. I still use it, because I really dislike Safari's interface, and it's still missing too many features, but Mozilla on OS X needs a chunk of work before it will act like it does on other OSes.
It looks like these cars are more hype than help in the battle against pollution and foreign fuel reliance.
If these results are accurate, then this is true, and it's quite sad. What I don't understand is why we aren't promoting Diesel engines more often.
For example, a VW Jetta TDI gets 50+ MPG on the highway. Unlike the Prius or the Civic Hybrid, diesel engines are cheap, highly reliable, have low maintenance costs, and can easily run on BioDiesel without a performance loss. Even with BioDiesel and Petroleum blends, you're still talking very little pollution in comparison to a similar unleaded gasoline engine. A full tank on a TDI will get you almost 800 miles before you need a refill.
So why as a society (I'm referring to the US here, the EU is very much ahead of us with biodiesel) don't we promote this more often? Let's reduce our foreign oil dependence, and not have a need to drill ANWR. Use Diesel & Biodiesel!
Personally, I have had to remove this plague from the computers of several friends and family members.
Not to sound snide, but this is exactly why all my family & close friends run Macs now. It's easier on them, and it's a hell of a lot easier on me, since now I don't have to stop over, run Adaware, and clean their systems for them.
Slashdot Mirror
Over 3 years ago, Slashdot ran an article on these lab created diamonds; it was a great story on Wired.com. The difference there was that it was an independent piece, a solid read, and offered a glimpse into the future of computing (i.e. using diamonds as semiconductors).
This current story, however, is just a link to a damn press release, with no mention What was the point of it, aside from giving free press to this company?
Mr. Costikyan's assertion that software, games in particular, are not like fruit, in that they do not have an "expiration date", is flat-out wrong. I think they have a very definite shelf-life, which directly corresponds to both the platform they run on and the available hardware.
A game written for DOS should not still sell for the same price it did when it first came out. A game that only plays on a console that hasn't been sold in years should not be the original price. If one extrapolates Mr. Costikyan's comments to other industries, such as automobiles, it's akin to saying that an 82 Pontiac should be the same price now as it was then. That, despite the engine, braking system, interior pieces, safety systems, etc., all being subpar by today's standards. If you apply it to the electronics industry, it's like saying an 8086 should still cost $2000.
That's nonsense. If a game doesn't work under XP/Vista/OS X/whatever OS you run, doesn't work with your fancy new gaming controller, doesn't play on the current consoles, then why should it's value not be reduced? Sure, the gameplay itself hasn't changed, but if you can't run it, then it's intrinsic value depreciates. Whether or not that's fair to developers is another issue, but everything gets outdated. I wouldn't spend as much for a copy of Windows 3.1 as I would for a copy of XP, and it's the same thing with games.
If you're like me and want to see a return to paper ballots, or at least a move to a system that leaves a paper trail, then contact Governor Ehrlich and tell him "Thank you!" for trying to get rid of these machines!
Either send his office an email or give him a call. Non-MD residents can call his office at 800-811-8336, local residents can call 410-974-3591.
I'm not from Maryland, nor do I live there, but I just called and wrote Mr. Ehrlich's office to show my support for eliminating these machines from use. An insecure system that leaves no paper trail borders on insanity; it's nice to see someone stand up against them.
Because they were $5+ each? :)
Agreed completely. What really kills me about this is the fact that everyone, from the students to the parents, seems to be under the impression that Microsoft is footing the bill for the entire school, which is not the case. This is tax-payer money, and this school is going to keep sucking it down for years to come. Yet every story I've heard about this features an audio clip from a student or parent thanking Microsoft & Bill Gates for the amazing new facility. Ugh.
We had a blackout when I was in high school, and I walked right up to my locker, entered my combination into the master lock, and got my books. What's going to happen with these lockers when the power goes out? Are they on redundant power supplies? Do they have a UPS system just for the lockers? I will laugh myself silly if the power goes out and these kids can't get their books; it would be very similar to what happened with all of those hotels in NYC during the blackout. No one could get into their rooms because of the electronic locks.
That's a pretty decent ascii representation of it. Here's the animated gif to which I was referring.
Isn't that a little shortsighted? Wouldn't the appropriate thing to do is punish the student? Because if they don't copy wikipedia, they same student will just copy another website or perhaps a book which is harder to track.
;)
I actually did bring this up to him, but apparently the school figured that if they were at least going to the library and getting a book out, and then retyping the material, maybe they would actually wind up doing the work. It's a lot easier to just copy something from Wikipedia than it is to find an appropriate reference book in a library and plagarize that. Hey, if it gets kids back into libraries...
Anyway, on the issue of tech in the classroom - it's actually good in areas where technology just works. Think, for instance, about Graphing Calculators. Aren't they pretty good? I know I probably checked out a lot more functions than if I had to draw it by hand. Of course, I still know how to draw it by hand..... (thinking of all the cashier in places who can't add/subtract change w/o the register). Technology tends to break down in the classroom when it stops being a pretty focused tool that's simply convenient and turns into some ill-defined and ill-focused panacea and prevent the student from thinking on their own.
I'm in absolute 100% agreement with you here. In-class movies that are relevant to the subject matter, graphic calculators for trig/calc, etc., those are cases of tech being used to supplement the existing curriculum. When you remove that and instead just throw tons of tech at students, they're not going to turn into scientists and mathematicians overnight. It still comes down to having good teachers, not just good tech. And in this case, having wireless everywhere and laptops in front of every student, the tech isn't focused, the potential for abuse is very high, and you can be damn sure that kids are going to take advantage of that.
What I foresee happening here is that the school will perform on-par with every other public high school in Philadelphia (which is to say, not all that spectacular), and people will immediately start to wonder why it's not working out the way they thought it would. After all, for such a big investment of tax-payer dollars, people are going to expect a big return on the test scores, etc., from this school. Aside from the fact that the students of this school are required to apply to at least one college, which is not a requirement at any other public HS in Philadelphia, I highly doubt interactive whiteboards and debit cards for school lunches are going to make these kids the best and brightest.
Exactly. Speaking as someone who lives in Philadelphia, this has not been very well received here. The school system in this city is grossly underfunded, but now we suddenly have this new $63 million school, where all the freshmen get laptops and the lockers open with smart cards. The entire building is wireless, the students don't even have textbooks. A commentator on NPR this morning declared the school to be, in regards to money well spent, "a total waste"
Just the other day, there was a
Perhaps I'm sounding like a luddite, but I fail to understand how having interactive whiteboards & plasma TV screens all over the building are going to make kids learn calculus or a foreign language. I find this entire thing a bit ridiculous. Mind you, the students seem to love it, but apparently they're more interested in the bathrooms than the classrooms:
Where's that emoticon of the head banging against a brick wall?
That's an excellent idea, I'd be very into it.
Election year.
Many people, including Howard Stern, have been predicting indecency charges to ramp up this year, as (primarily but not exclusively right-wing) congressmen look for an issue to base their platform around. Expect much, much more of this nonsense.
Yep, this is the problem. Even with an updated version of AdBlock, Flash doesn't play when the extension is enabled. Disabling AdBlock and restarting Firefox fixes the issue immediately.
Works just fine if you go directly to the swf, but attempting to load it in a webpage does nothing.
For example:
This swf loads.
Its containing web page shows nothing. Works in 1.0.6
I mean, that's why this is a beta, clearly something is wrong. Shame though, I was hoping to use this on a daily basis to QA. No flash means I can't, I do too much work in flash to not have it load.
Firstly, tell that to the people of the Netherlands. Their largest cities all lie below sea level, and they're doing just fine. Of course, they invest money in making sure that they are, in fact, able to prevent flooding.
Which conveniently segues me to my next point: funding.
From the article I just linked:
So there's a major problem right there. This was identified back in 2001 was a major problem. Hell, I have a copy of Scientific American sitting right next to me from 2001 talking about how New Orleans was a disaster waiting to happen. We should have been upgrading their pumps & levees in preparation for this kind of natural disaster. Instead, the Bush Administration cut funding from that area and redirected it towards the war in Iraq. This addresses the last thing you said, about how you'd prefer the US to spend our tax dollars. I personally would have preferred them to be spent preventing this disaster, instead of going towards Halliburton and Iraq.
And, a third point. Let's say, for sake of argument, that I agree with you (which I do, to an extent). New Orleans will be rebuilt, not for closure or a feat of triumph, but for yet another word: shipping.
New Orleans is one of the largest seaports in the world. In fact, it's also the 4th busiest, and receives over 130 metric tons of cargo per year. The companies who use it and depend on it will make sure that New Orleans, at least part of it, returns in some way, shape, or form. And where there is business, there are people. It might be months or years, but people will return to New Orleans, even if the city itself is never the same again.
Sometimes, the hallucination was obvious, designed to make you laugh (walls bleeding, walking on the celing, strange noises, etc).
You forgot the best/funniest one...
You're in the middle of the game, your sanity meter gets low, and then all of a sudden, BOOM...you get a Blue Screen of Death! HA!
I was laughing my ass off the first time I saw that.
That said, I too was fooled by the MUTE insanity, as well as the Respawn insanity (where all villians that you've killed come back to life and attack you at once.). Scared the crap out of me the first time both happened.
Off Topic. Just wanted to mention that I love your signature. PoS has been a favorite of mine for a long time.
E.g. with a group of tabs on the tab bar Mozilla: click on tab, all tabs open & start loading Firefox: you get dropdown; for maximum hassle, the choice I want(Open in tabs) is always at bottom. Nor have I found way to set "add tabs" versus "replace tabs" preference.
To get a group of bookmarked tabs to open in addition to your already opened tabs in Firefox, do the following:
1) Open a new tab, type about:config, hit enter.
2) Find the entry called browser.tabs.loadFolderAndReplace, and double click it.
3) Change the value from true to false.
Tada! Now Firefox will open your bookmarked groups in new tabs, not replace your existing ones.
Additionally, you can simply middle-click on the bookmark folder name, and it will open all of the tabs contained in it. This way you don't have to go down to the "Open in Tabs" item at the bottom of the list.
Enjoy!
Kindly see Bug 151249 -- Middle click on links does nothing in OS X (You'll have to copy that link, bugzilla has a referrer check to block links from slashdot.)
Firefox & Seamonkey still use OS 9 event codes, which is why it doesn't work. There is a patch on that bug, but it didn't make it into 0.9, from what I can tell. See also Bug 106692 -- Rewrite mouse events to use CarbonEvents.
Well, if you remember the Simpsons episode where they parodied VH1's Behind the Music, called "Behind The Comedy" or something, near the end they say "this small family from northern Kentucky". Granted, Kentucky doesn't have an ocean like Springfield does, but there is a Springfield, Kentucky.
:)
And just to throw people off, when this episode made it to syndication, the state where the Simpsons were from was changed! It's now Missouri in syndication!
Of course, the whole episode was about as serious as a Halloween episode, so you can't take it as Simpsons "lore" anyway. Plus, in the episode where Homer winds up as a submarine captain, they go into the sub and go west into Russian territory; that would imply they are in the Pacific ocean, so Springfield would have to be on the West Coast. Except that it isn't; in the episode where Apu is studying for his citizenship, Bart blocks the map of the US while Lisa is pointing to where Springfield is, but both coasts can be seen plainly, so Springfield isn't on the coasts, despite having an ocean!
It's not in ANY state, that's the key, it's just Anytown, USA.
Thank you, I did actually know that. 106692 is linked from 151249, and I've seen it before. I was hurriedly trying to write my reply up at work, and I said something incorrect.
:)
You're right, it's not that Carbon can't handle the buttons, it's that Mozilla doesn't use Carbon Events to do so. This is what I meant to say, and had I gotten more sleep last night, I probably would have gotten it right the first time
I'm using Firefox for Linux and that doesn't work for me; I've tried to fix that, but as far as I can tell it just doesn't work.
It does work, but not by default. By default, Firefox for Linux has ContentLoadURL turned on in about:config. Kindly see the following article I wrote about Firefox Middle Click behavior, and how to make the Linux client work exactly as it does on Windows.
The only differences I see when I switch from Mozilla-Linux to Mozilla-MacOSX is the middle-click issue and that tabs move between the URL bar and the main window(instead of between elements). You can fix these two issues by setting middle-click to command-click, and setting tab to move between elements in the preferences. Firefox's preference panel lacks the option to change tabs behavior, but regular Mozilla for OSX has it.
.net & .org, which I use frequently. Moz for Mac has none of these shortcuts. Also, under Firefox, Control+Enter does not open a link in a new tab, it's a different behavior than Seamonkey.
Setting middle-click to command click is a hack to get around a bug, not a real solution. Under Linux & Windows, using Firefox, if I middle click on a link, I get a new tab. If I middle click on a tab, the tab closes. Command click will open a tab, but it won't close it. So now I'm only half-way towards my usual usage.
As for the tab key, those options shouldn't even be necessary. The problem is Bug 187508, Mozilla doesn't respect keyboard preferences in OS X. You should just be able to turn on full keyboard navigation in System Preferences. Instead, in Mozilla Seamonkey, you have to set a preference. In Firefox, you have to use about:config, and set the tabfocus preference to 7, which will let you tab between all fields, links, etc.
I hadn't ever heard of ctrl-enter auto-complete before, but it seems worthless considering Mozilla assumes http:// for any URL lacking a protocol and you rarely need www before a domain. CTRL-ENTER in Linux Mozilla opens links in new Tabs, Command-Enter in OSX Mozilla does the same thing
It's not worthless at all. For one thing, if you just type "google", and hit enter, Mozilla will take a second or two to resolve it to www.google.com, and then take you there. Control+Enter will get you there faster. Additionally, there are keyboard shortcuts for
I appreciate the link to Side Track; I actually don't need it, as my logitech wireless mouse came with software that lets me customize the middle-click button to command-click. My point, however, is that I shouldn't need a piece of 3rd party software to get Mozilla to function correctly. At least Mike Pinkerton (Camino Dev) approved a patch for Firefox to work around the lack of middle-click events in Carbon. Hopefully this will land for 0.9. If not, I'll build my own copies of Firefox.
And of course, there are other problems with Mac Mozilla, like Bug 137523, Command+M doesn't minimize Mozilla, or that always annoying bug where plugin content is z-indexed above the tabs, so if you switch tabs, you still see the plugin contents. I can't seem to find the bug for that, but it drives me crazy. My bank uses a java stock ticker on their home page, and if I switch to another browser tab, that ticker is still there, floating on top of the tab content.
Also, there is no way to get Single-Window mode on the Mac, as TBE and Tabbrowser Preferences both completely fail on Firefox for Mac. Also, plugins like MiniT (which let you rearrange tabs) fail on the Mac as well. Very frustrating.
Microsoft was purposely serving up broken style sheets for Opera; changing the user agent to something other that Opera would cause MSN to render correctly. For more on that, see the Opera article Why doesn't MSN work with Opera?
Ok, im no 'zilla expert here, but ever since I can remember Mozilla (or at least Firefox) has supported opening tabs on middle click.
Well, you're mostly right. Tabs were added prior to the 1.0 release, and middle-click to open the tabs was turned on then...except on OS X.
Kindly see Bug 151249 -- Middle click on links does nothing in OS X (You'll have to copy that link, bugzilla has a referrer check to block links from slashdot.)
Unfortunately, Carbon doesn't have the ability to recognize a middle mouse click, so Mozilla (Seamonkey) and Firefox can't do anything on a middle click. Camino, on the other hand, is built with Cocoa, so middle-clicking works on a default build.
Combine this with the lack of Ctrl+Enter URL autocomplete, and I don't enjoy my Mozilla experience on OS X. I use Firefox on a daily basis on both Windows & Linux; the second I go over to my Powerbook, Firefox doesn't behave even close to the same way, and it drives me crazy. I still use it, because I really dislike Safari's interface, and it's still missing too many features, but Mozilla on OS X needs a chunk of work before it will act like it does on other OSes.
It looks like these cars are more hype than help in the battle against pollution and foreign fuel reliance.
If these results are accurate, then this is true, and it's quite sad. What I don't understand is why we aren't promoting Diesel engines more often.
For example, a VW Jetta TDI gets 50+ MPG on the highway. Unlike the Prius or the Civic Hybrid, diesel engines are cheap, highly reliable, have low maintenance costs, and can easily run on BioDiesel without a performance loss. Even with BioDiesel and Petroleum blends, you're still talking very little pollution in comparison to a similar unleaded gasoline engine. A full tank on a TDI will get you almost 800 miles before you need a refill.
So why as a society (I'm referring to the US here, the EU is very much ahead of us with biodiesel) don't we promote this more often? Let's reduce our foreign oil dependence, and not have a need to drill ANWR. Use Diesel & Biodiesel!
Personally, I have had to remove this plague from the computers of several friends and family members.
Not to sound snide, but this is exactly why all my family & close friends run Macs now. It's easier on them, and it's a hell of a lot easier on me, since now I don't have to stop over, run Adaware, and clean their systems for them.