8) Never, ever incorporate popular extensions into the core product for efficiency. Blocking ads and better security should be the end users task to learn about, decide, and implement. If you *must* implement something like the "do not track" button, be sure to be extremely careful not to piss off advertizers: implement it by default "off", so that users can choose.
One word: Pocket.
It might have been popular, but its addition to the core browser was not well received here...
...because, of course, Thunderbird == Unix/Linux.
That having been said, it would be nice to see Thunderbird handed off to someone willing to handle bugs that have been around for almost SEVEN YEARS. (See also, Deleting the last read message opens the previous message.)
As for Michigan, it might as well as be non-existent. Rural and suburban areas are always poorly serviced.
In my experience with Michigan's public transportation systems, even urban areas are poorly serviced. I used to work in downtown Detroit--I saw more buses operated by Transit Windsor than by the City of Detroit. And don't get me started on the AATA (sorry, "TheRide")...
I'm afraid I can't answer this, since I'm not part of the design team. I will ask them to share their thoughts on design choices, but I can't promise anything.
You are here. They are not (which is a major part of the problem, IMO). Be convincing, please.
And please, post any responses IN BAND. That is, on the front page. NOT on the Slashdot beta blog. For the type of communication you need to have with Slashdot users if you want the beta to be a success, that communication needs to be in a place where it's right in front of us, rather than being hidden behind a link.
Alas, yes, and that's been the case for 20+ years. ISTR getting contacts from military recruiters back in the early '90s when I'd never expressed any kind of interest in the US military.
That would be why I have the "Google Searches Exactly What You Type" and "gooverbatim" Greasemonkey scripts. They mitigate a lot of the general crappiness of Google search these days.
(I started using them after I tried searching for a way to convert from a WPF Visual to a Windows Metafile, and Google kept insisting that I must mean to be searching for 'wmf' and 'metafile' instead of 'wpf' and 'metafile'.)
How much do you want to bet that sometime in the very near future, under Tools | Options (yes, I still use the menus, f*** off), under Advanced, the Update tab will vanish, and all meaningful ability to control Firefox updates will vanish?
If Firefox had had some actual innovative ideas recently, I wouldn't (necessarily) have a problem, but they seem to have been copying Opera and especially Chrome, without actually thinking about WHY Opera and Chrome did what they did. Cargo cult, anyone?
42.3261 N, 83.039 W, or thereabouts. Enough to get my attention, but not enough to seriously alarm anyone. Some of my cow-orkers didn't even notice. We didn't even get anything over the RenCen intercom.
The essential implication seems to be that your longevity in employment has absolutely nothing to do with your actual work. Rather, it has everything to do with someone else's perception of you, and said perception doesn't necessarily need to have any honest or factual relationship with your work output whatsoever.
Yep.
In fact, I was outright told that by a former manager.
The problem is, WHO OWNS MOST COPYRIGHT TODAY?!?!?!
It isn't the old goat who wrote a book, a song, or a software. It's the CORPORATIONS!
And, what, precisely, is the lifetime of any given corporation? In effect, we have non-expiring copyright law today. Even if a corporation goes bankrupt, someone, somewhere BUYS their assets, becoming the new corporate owner of the copyright.
Cornell University Law School is your friend when you want to find out about things like this--they have the U.S. Code available online.
In particular, 17 USC 302 is edifying. Copyright in works for hire persists for 95 years from first publication, or 120 years from creation, whichever comes first. If it's not a work for hire, then it's life of the author + 70 years. Older works (first published prior to 1978) are covered under different provisions.
Are there any plans for fixing bugs introduced by the updates? The last several times I've reported bugs via the sourceforge page for slash, they've sat there and been ignored--the last one was only fixed after I emailed Rob and reported that the bug had been reported as long as three months previously and still hadn't been fixed.
Thomson alleges that GMU's Center for History and New Media reverse engineered Endnote and that the beta version of Zotero can convert (in violation of the Endnote EULA) the proprietary style files that are used by Endnote to format citations into the open CSL file format.
Thomson Reuters has a major division that develops tax and accounting software. The important thing to know about the tax and accounting software market is that it's saturated. Every accountant who wants software has it. If you want customers, you've got two choices: either get new accountants just coming into the market (which is balanced out by accountants retiring or otherwise leaving the market), or take them from your competitors.
And how do you take customers from your competitors, you ask?
First, by making better software. Second, by making sure that your prospective new customers don't have to re-enter every bit of information. You develop conversion software. Yes, that's right. You develop software--most likely in violation of the competitor's software's EULA--that extracts the data and digests it into a format that your software can handle.
And Thomson Reuters does this on a regular basis.
I used to work for them. I did exactly that for seven years. I think they may have just opened a can of worms that they really don't want to have open.
Because when I negotiate my salary, I do so with the understandin that I will be working a 40-hour week, with overtime an occasional, intermittent possibility. If overtime becomes a regular thing, then yes, I do believe I should get paid for it.
I don't work for free; that's not professional, and employers don't value your work if you do.
I assure you that multiple choice is not the same thing as "low demand". Multiple choice questions, when well designed, can be fiendishly difficult tests of whatever abstract concept you wish to examine. The national medical board exams, for one thing, are multiple choice.
Oh, my yes. I'm now reminded of my high school's "advanced math" (pre-calculus) class, where the teacher would give multiple choice tests.
He was fond of putting in:
(E) None of the above.
If you answered that, you had to (a) give the correct answer, and (b) show your work.
ITS STILL RATED M.... ITS STILL NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN UNDER 17 AND IF YOU BUY IT FOR THEM YOUR A BAD PARENT
If I, as a parent, evaluate a game (let's say it's hypothetically rated "M") and its content, then evaluate my children and their probable response to that content, and decide to get it for them anyway, am I still "A BAD PARENT"?
After working for a tax and accounting software company for almost 9 years now, I know far more about what you file on what form than is really good for me.
Anyway, nitpick here: you report income and expenses from your own business, assuming you're the only owner, on a Schedule C that you file with your Form 1040. Just because you have your own business doesn't mean you have to file a Schedule SE (note that I'm assuming that the Schedule SE is what you meant by "1040SE")--you only have to do that if your net income exceeds a certain fairly low amount each year ($400, if memory serves).
When I was incarcerated in... er, attending, yeah, that's the word, attending... high school, we got a number of Macs, which were set up with a fairly basic AppleTalk network.
The server password was "serVer". No, I am not joking.
My brother is almost 9 years younger than I am, and attended the same high school. I told him about that, and he checked. Not only was the password still "serVer", it was case-insensitive.
Mind you, that level of cluelessness doesn't surprise me; these are the same people who thought they could get away without having antivirus software. (I know this, because I inadvertently introduced the first virus to the network.)
Admittedly, this is only my particular case. However...
In January 2004, I received roughly 1,020 spams. Last month (December 2004), I received over 3300 spams. And the number has not decreased in any month since March 2004.
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One word: Pocket. It might have been popular, but its addition to the core browser was not well received here...
Good thing you don't want to switch back to Eudora - last time I checked, it was basically a customized Thunderbird.
...because, of course, Thunderbird == Unix/Linux. That having been said, it would be nice to see Thunderbird handed off to someone willing to handle bugs that have been around for almost SEVEN YEARS. (See also, Deleting the last read message opens the previous message.)
In my experience with Michigan's public transportation systems, even urban areas are poorly serviced. I used to work in downtown Detroit--I saw more buses operated by Transit Windsor than by the City of Detroit. And don't get me started on the AATA (sorry, "TheRide")...
You are here. They are not (which is a major part of the problem, IMO). Be convincing, please.
Not quite.
Try this, instead:
LET US KNOW WHY YOU ARE DOING WHAT YOU ARE DOING BEFORE YOU START DOING IT!
And please, post any responses IN BAND. That is, on the front page. NOT on the Slashdot beta blog. For the type of communication you need to have with Slashdot users if you want the beta to be a success, that communication needs to be in a place where it's right in front of us, rather than being hidden behind a link.
Alas, yes, and that's been the case for 20+ years. ISTR getting contacts from military recruiters back in the early '90s when I'd never expressed any kind of interest in the US military.
That would be why I have the "Google Searches Exactly What You Type" and "gooverbatim" Greasemonkey scripts. They mitigate a lot of the general crappiness of Google search these days. (I started using them after I tried searching for a way to convert from a WPF Visual to a Windows Metafile, and Google kept insisting that I must mean to be searching for 'wmf' and 'metafile' instead of 'wpf' and 'metafile'.)
The only "secure" screw head is one that is custom made for you.
What makes you think that? I work for a company that could not only make the screws for you, but also the bits to remove them for someone else.
(Okay, it'd be a heck of a lot more expensive than some of the other solutions, but...)
Nah. 0xDECAFBAD.
I'd like to see all sections added to the "Exclusions" preferences – TV in particular.
Response to bug reports in a reasonable amount of time would also be nice, particularly if you're going to be adding new features.
How much do you want to bet that sometime in the very near future, under Tools | Options (yes, I still use the menus, f*** off), under Advanced, the Update tab will vanish, and all meaningful ability to control Firefox updates will vanish?
If Firefox had had some actual innovative ideas recently, I wouldn't (necessarily) have a problem, but they seem to have been copying Opera and especially Chrome, without actually thinking about WHY Opera and Chrome did what they did. Cargo cult, anyone?
Me. (I'm 37 years old.)
I had a friend (now 42) who showed me how to make interesting things that explode with it. :)
42.3261 N, 83.039 W, or thereabouts. Enough to get my attention, but not enough to seriously alarm anyone. Some of my cow-orkers didn't even notice. We didn't even get anything over the RenCen intercom.
Yep.
In fact, I was outright told that by a former manager.
Cornell University Law School is your friend when you want to find out about things like this--they have the U.S. Code available online.
In particular, 17 USC 302 is edifying. Copyright in works for hire persists for 95 years from first publication, or 120 years from creation, whichever comes first. If it's not a work for hire, then it's life of the author + 70 years. Older works (first published prior to 1978) are covered under different provisions.
Are there any plans for fixing bugs introduced by the updates? The last several times I've reported bugs via the sourceforge page for slash, they've sat there and been ignored--the last one was only fixed after I emailed Rob and reported that the bug had been reported as long as three months previously and still hadn't been fixed.
Thomson Reuters has a major division that develops tax and accounting software. The important thing to know about the tax and accounting software market is that it's saturated. Every accountant who wants software has it. If you want customers, you've got two choices: either get new accountants just coming into the market (which is balanced out by accountants retiring or otherwise leaving the market), or take them from your competitors.
And how do you take customers from your competitors, you ask?
First, by making better software. Second, by making sure that your prospective new customers don't have to re-enter every bit of information. You develop conversion software. Yes, that's right. You develop software--most likely in violation of the competitor's software's EULA--that extracts the data and digests it into a format that your software can handle.
And Thomson Reuters does this on a regular basis.
I used to work for them. I did exactly that for seven years. I think they may have just opened a can of worms that they really don't want to have open.
Because when I negotiate my salary, I do so with the understandin that I will be working a 40-hour week, with overtime an occasional, intermittent possibility. If overtime becomes a regular thing, then yes, I do believe I should get paid for it.
I don't work for free; that's not professional, and employers don't value your work if you do.
Oh, my yes. I'm now reminded of my high school's "advanced math" (pre-calculus) class, where the teacher would give multiple choice tests.
He was fond of putting in:
(E) None of the above.
If you answered that, you had to (a) give the correct answer, and (b) show your work.
If I, as a parent, evaluate a game (let's say it's hypothetically rated "M") and its content, then evaluate my children and their probable response to that content, and decide to get it for them anyway, am I still "A BAD PARENT"?
After working for a tax and accounting software company for almost 9 years now, I know far more about what you file on what form than is really good for me.
Anyway, nitpick here: you report income and expenses from your own business, assuming you're the only owner, on a Schedule C that you file with your Form 1040. Just because you have your own business doesn't mean you have to file a Schedule SE (note that I'm assuming that the Schedule SE is what you meant by "1040SE")--you only have to do that if your net income exceeds a certain fairly low amount each year ($400, if memory serves).
Don't count on it.
When I was incarcerated in... er, attending, yeah, that's the word, attending... high school, we got a number of Macs, which were set up with a fairly basic AppleTalk network.
The server password was "serVer". No, I am not joking.
My brother is almost 9 years younger than I am, and attended the same high school. I told him about that, and he checked. Not only was the password still "serVer", it was case-insensitive.
Mind you, that level of cluelessness doesn't surprise me; these are the same people who thought they could get away without having antivirus software. (I know this, because I inadvertently introduced the first virus to the network.)
Admittedly, this is only my particular case. However...
In January 2004, I received roughly 1,020 spams. Last month (December 2004), I received over 3300 spams. And the number has not decreased in any month since March 2004.
Effective law, my a**.