I wonder, has anyone on the FF team done any focus testing with "normal" users? I got my dad to switch over, and if not for me being there, he would have switched back to IE in 10 seconds. I had to download 3 extensions to make FF work like IE and to get the tabbed browsing working "as advertised", plus hit about:config once.
FF should do some extensive focus testing with normal IE users, then build a "consumer" download that includes a couple of extensions and some configurations set differently.
The publisher could get sued. Sure, he probably will (might?) win
No, he will not win, he will loose and have to pay damages. The law does not give anyone the right to take it upon themselves to publish someone for a crime.
Imagine if this was OK? How far can he go? Let's say he vandalizes your car? Is that OK? Burns your house down? Is that OK? What is OK? Nothing. That has to be the answer, unless if it backup up by the legal decision on *my* case.
If this guy deletes all my files, I got no opportunity to argue my side of the case before the *punishment* was handed down.
This would be like the police just killing someone they though has committed murder.
And when are you going to recognize the extreme effort and cost that goes into the creation of this "information"? Seems that you don't give anything value unless you can touch it and it can't be duplicated.
Actually, you're wrong. If you read the FCC regs very carefully, it's analog cell phones that are banned from the air, not digital ones. It's because the frequency that the analog phones run in put them in the banned category, while the digital ones are in a different category.
Keep in mind this is probably just a loop hole.
Also, my ex-girlfriend's brother was a 747 captain, he regularly saw interference from people using cell phones.
He was flying an older plane that used 70's technology, btw.
Thus you have a lot fewer morons flying than driving.
Tell that to the idiot in the pattern last weekend going the wrong way. No radio contact. Not sure how he knew the wind direction. Oh yeah, he didn't.
Moron.
If there are ever flying cars, they will mostly be controlled by computers. Flying is just too hard, plus you passengers will be motion sick real easy if everything is not perfectly coordinated.
Weather is also a huge issue. When it start raining, you get bounced around a lot, and most people are not willing to accept that is a small craft. Also, summer is a bitch for turbulence until you get above 3 or 4 thousand feet.
And I'm happy to say I can't wait for the whole corporatized entertainment "industry" to collapse on itself. The real winners here are the indy artists, who will continue to offer their music on un-encrypted plain jane CDs, or offer DRM-less to anyone who cares to listen.
You mean the indy artists that produce stuff that the vast majority of music buyers don't want to hear, which is why they are still indy artist?
Please don't kid yourself into thinking that many of the "indy" artists are not dying for a RIAA contract. It's easy for them to talk-the-talk, but when the big music company comes knocking, they fall all over themselves.
Open Office on the Mac is a joke. It runs under X and looks like crap. I used Open Office on Windows and loved it, but refuse to use it on the Mac.
I hope they plan on coming out with a "native" version sometime soon. I own a Mac because I love the interface, it's very hard to take 12 steps back and use this.
Sort of. If you code correctly, there is no risk to values being injected. Never assume that a variable is NULL to begin with and you'll never have a problem with register globals turned on. Turning it off is just helping you when you code silly.
They don't just do this in Arizona, it happens on ESPN (or maybe it was FOX) all the time (or did a few years ago).
But, this really misses the point of a good baseball game, and people who don't like baseball will never understand that the slowness of the game is a plus, there is a lot of stategy in baseball, and it gives you time to puzzle it all out.
There is also a wonderful antisipation that comes along with baseball. It is the only sport I follow. I used to watch the pitch-only games when I'd miss the full game on TV or could not attend in person.
Again, if you don't like baseball, you won't understand this, and that's fine.
I'm not saying this is worse or better, but games allow the viewer (player) to interact with the medium, and that creates a very different relationship between the two. Someone who plays a war game might think they know a lot more about it then someone that reads a book, or sees a movie.
I'm not saying that this is true or not, I'm just saying that allowing interaction really changes the dynamic. Think about small kids and how much more they learn if you let them try things, rather then just telling them about it.
>>Because the average CEO takes down $10 million a year.
Facts to back this up?
>>Anyone know what the CEO is making?
Before spouting your mouth off with "facts", why don't you spend 10 minutes looking up what he/she makes, it's all public record and can be found by clicking on the stock link in the story.
Oh, this is so true. I just started at a contract job and two recent CS graduate employees were *amazed* that I could code in C++ and ASM. It was like magic to them.
What are they being taught these days. And Yes, I do think CS students should program in Windows, and on the Mac and in Linux. They should see the differences in these, especially writing GUI apps.
>>Isn't filling country, state and city automatically nice when a user enters a zip code?
Show me a site that does this via JavaScript? The Zipcode database is HUGE, and I doubt anyone is downloading the whole thing on pageload just to auto fill in City/State via Zip.
Don't get me wrong, I love JavaScipt (used right), and I think it really gets a bad wrap because of the pop-up issue.
I don't mind seeing ads, what I hate is flashing crap that distracts me from reading the site. Much of this can be fixed by disabling.gif animation, but flash ads are a huge problem.
I don't mind ads in magazines or newspapers, because they just sit there.
I don't mind Google ads because they re usally colored to match the look and feel of the site and don't pull my eyes off anything.
I have had a GMail account for a couple of weeks, and the Spam filter is not up to the level of SpamAssassin running on my server.
I get around 2000 Spams a day (due to many of my email addresses being on websites), and using SpamAssassin, I get 1 or 2 Spams a week in my INBOX and an equal number of False-Positives.
I forwarded all my email to my GMail account to see how it would do. I can't really tell if it's getting any better from the first day. I get 10 or 20 Spams a day that are not caught by GMail. This number does not seem to be going down.
When I first installed and trained SpamAssassin, it only took a few days before it was catching just about everything, and a few weeks of training got it to the current level.
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George doesn't have to "ask the fans", it's his freaking movie, not yours, he can do anything he wants with it. If you don't like it, don't buy it.
Funny. The English say I'm doing my "Maths". Maybe mails is a legitimate word outside the U.S.
I don't know that if it is or not, but being an international grammar Nazi is dangerous.
Yeah, this thing is ready for prime-time...
I wonder, has anyone on the FF team done any focus testing with "normal" users? I got my dad to switch over, and if not for me being there, he would have switched back to IE in 10 seconds. I had to download 3 extensions to make FF work like IE and to get the tabbed browsing working "as advertised", plus hit about:config once.
FF should do some extensive focus testing with normal IE users, then build a "consumer" download that includes a couple of extensions and some configurations set differently.
Geek can still download the bare bones version.
The publisher could get sued. Sure, he probably will (might?) win
No, he will not win, he will loose and have to pay damages. The law does not give anyone the right to take it upon themselves to publish someone for a crime.
Imagine if this was OK? How far can he go? Let's say he vandalizes your car? Is that OK? Burns your house down? Is that OK? What is OK? Nothing. That has to be the answer, unless if it backup up by the legal decision on *my* case.
If this guy deletes all my files, I got no opportunity to argue my side of the case before the *punishment* was handed down.
This would be like the police just killing someone they though has committed murder.
This is just silly...
And when are you going to recognize the extreme effort and cost that goes into the creation of this "information"? Seems that you don't give anything value unless you can touch it and it can't be duplicated.
Actually, you're wrong. If you read the FCC regs very carefully, it's analog cell phones that are banned from the air, not digital ones. It's because the frequency that the analog phones run in put them in the banned category, while the digital ones are in a different category.
Keep in mind this is probably just a loop hole.
Also, my ex-girlfriend's brother was a 747 captain, he regularly saw interference from people using cell phones.
He was flying an older plane that used 70's technology, btw.
Give it a year or two and we'll be looking back at Doom3 and wondering what was so impressive.
I'm doing that right now.
Thus you have a lot fewer morons flying than driving.
Tell that to the idiot in the pattern last weekend going the wrong way. No radio contact. Not sure how he knew the wind direction. Oh yeah, he didn't.
Moron.
If there are ever flying cars, they will mostly be controlled by computers. Flying is just too hard, plus you passengers will be motion sick real easy if everything is not perfectly coordinated.
Weather is also a huge issue. When it start raining, you get bounced around a lot, and most people are not willing to accept that is a small craft. Also, summer is a bitch for turbulence until you get above 3 or 4 thousand feet.
Thunderstorms? You're flying car is grounded.
And I'm happy to say I can't wait for the whole corporatized entertainment "industry" to collapse on itself. The real winners here are the indy artists, who will continue to offer their music on un-encrypted plain jane CDs, or offer DRM-less to anyone who cares to listen.
You mean the indy artists that produce stuff that the vast majority of music buyers don't want to hear, which is why they are still indy artist?
Please don't kid yourself into thinking that many of the "indy" artists are not dying for a RIAA contract. It's easy for them to talk-the-talk, but when the big music company comes knocking, they fall all over themselves.
Open Office on the Mac is a joke. It runs under X and looks like crap. I used Open Office on Windows and loved it, but refuse to use it on the Mac.
I hope they plan on coming out with a "native" version sometime soon. I own a Mac because I love the interface, it's very hard to take 12 steps back and use this.
Sort of. If you code correctly, there is no risk to values being injected. Never assume that a variable is NULL to begin with and you'll never have a problem with register globals turned on. Turning it off is just helping you when you code silly.
They can help you fight this. If they turn you down, please post why.
(though they always clear it with the author)
Typical Slashdot ignorance. Please submit a list of the books your written where the publisher cleared the title with you.
They don't just do this in Arizona, it happens on ESPN (or maybe it was FOX) all the time (or did a few years ago).
But, this really misses the point of a good baseball game, and people who don't like baseball will never understand that the slowness of the game is a plus, there is a lot of stategy in baseball, and it gives you time to puzzle it all out.
There is also a wonderful antisipation that comes along with baseball. It is the only sport I follow. I used to watch the pitch-only games when I'd miss the full game on TV or could not attend in person.
Again, if you don't like baseball, you won't understand this, and that's fine.
I'm not saying this is worse or better, but games allow the viewer (player) to interact with the medium, and that creates a very different relationship between the two. Someone who plays a war game might think they know a lot more about it then someone that reads a book, or sees a movie.
I'm not saying that this is true or not, I'm just saying that allowing interaction really changes the dynamic. Think about small kids and how much more they learn if you let them try things, rather then just telling them about it.
>>Because the average CEO takes down $10 million a year.
Facts to back this up?
>>Anyone know what the CEO is making?
Before spouting your mouth off with "facts", why don't you spend 10 minutes looking up what he/she makes, it's all public record and can be found by clicking on the stock link in the story.
That post was not Insightful.
Oh, this is so true. I just started at a contract job and two recent CS graduate employees were *amazed* that I could code in C++ and ASM. It was like magic to them.
What are they being taught these days. And Yes, I do think CS students should program in Windows, and on the Mac and in Linux. They should see the differences in these, especially writing GUI apps.
>>Isn't filling country, state and city automatically nice when a user enters a zip code?
Show me a site that does this via JavaScript? The Zipcode database is HUGE, and I doubt anyone is downloading the whole thing on pageload just to auto fill in City/State via Zip.
Don't get me wrong, I love JavaScipt (used right), and I think it really gets a bad wrap because of the pop-up issue.
I don't mind seeing ads, what I hate is flashing crap that distracts me from reading the site. Much of this can be fixed by disabling .gif animation, but flash ads are a huge problem.
I don't mind ads in magazines or newspapers, because they just sit there.
I don't mind Google ads because they re usally colored to match the look and feel of the site and don't pull my eyes off anything.
I forward all my regular email to GMail, to test it out under heavy load.
I have had a GMail account for a couple of weeks, and the Spam filter is not up to the level of SpamAssassin running on my server.
I get around 2000 Spams a day (due to many of my email addresses being on websites), and using SpamAssassin, I get 1 or 2 Spams a week in my INBOX and an equal number of False-Positives.
I forwarded all my email to my GMail account to see how it would do. I can't really tell if it's getting any better from the first day. I get 10 or 20 Spams a day that are not caught by GMail. This number does not seem to be going down.
When I first installed and trained SpamAssassin, it only took a few days before it was catching just about everything, and a few weeks of training got it to the current level.
Good thing everyone on slashdot is running the same browser as you.
I run firefox 0.9, and right-click brings up a menu with three options, nothing to load the URL. I think the parent's post is dead on.
Create a freek-n-link.
128K? I find that even hard to believe. Most console games at that time had 8K or 16K.
Huh? I don't see Edit->Preferences in .9RC?
Maybe he was appending FIREFOX to YOU. Or at least that's how I read it.