Excuse me, kind sirs, but MSN Search is in beta. I'm sure if you calmly file a bug report, they will address the matter before MSN Search is formally released to the public.
Honestly, the thought that anyone would rely on a beta service...
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At this point, Google might as well serve you only paid advertisements. Search for any product name/model-number and the word "review," expecting to read reviews, and you get thousands of hits from affiliate sites and Amazon.com cobranded sites exhorting you to "Be the first to review (product)!"
Choosing to trust certain sites more than others will improve the experience for almost everyone, but it makes Google an judge of content and quality. Any skeptic would be wise to question Google's motives here, especially considering that Google shareholders expect year-over-year revenue growth.
Re:more censorship, unimpressed
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Considering how much market share Google has, them not displaying a web page in their results (or dropping it a few hundred places) effectively removes it from the web.
Google's primary responsibility now is to its shareholders. Google makes money from advertising. If Google can encourage you to patronize its advertisers instead of trusting its index for everything (which right now is pretty easily gamed), then Google makes more ad revenue and shareholders are happy.
Or I could just read the newspaper, disregarding ads that are of no interest to me, like I always do.
You'd think that advertisers were trying to eat your children or something. Chill out. I can live with ads if they keep the web sites free for me.
Re:Image viewing and Gmail in FF/Opera
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Other folks in this thread suggest that Opera 8 now works with GMail. Personally, I'd think it better to just use GMail's POP access with Opera M2. The only thing you'd lose would be the GMail labels.
M2 was built for searching: it stores all your mail in a centralized database and eschews folders in favor of "access points" (essentially queries that you run against the database). It creates access points for contacts, threads, mailing lists, and date ranges automatically. It also supports labels for tagging messages. In other words, GMail took the idea and implemented it as a web application.
Of course, for this reason M2 is a POP-centric mail client. Dumping all your IMAP folders into a single database makes things quite unwieldy.
Re:No, I meant fitness for a particular purpose...
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Every game store does this, and it is to prevent piracy. EB lets you sell the game back to them for $5 or so. That's not a return, and it doesn't at all encourage piracy except among very stupid people.
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Opera 8 Released
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Opera: Download a 5MB program, don't use features you don't like.
Firefox: Download a 5MB program, download a 500KB extension, install, restart, download a 1MB extension, install, restart, download security update for extension 1, install, restart, lather, rinse, repeat.
Opera is better. Besides, I never trust Adblockers: they too often (read: more than zero times) throw out the baby with the bathwater. With an adblocker, you would never see any photos from my local newspaper.
Opera has all these features and still manages to be smaller and faster than Firefox+WebDeveloperExtension+GesturesExtension+wh ateverExtension.
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Opera 8 Released
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All the good features in Firefox (gestures, tabbed browsing) were around for a long time in Opera. Likewise, if you've ever used GMail, you have used an imitation of Opera's M2 mail client. Opera still does many things far better than Firefox (zoom, quick-change with the F12 menu) and you don't have to download a zillion extensions to match Opera's sub-10MB download.
Opera is an innovative company that puts out an outstanding and lightweight product. Google and the Firefox team have a lot to thank Opera for.
In Florida, a woman's video games were stolen and then returned by the thief to EB for store credit. EB then resold the games in violation of Florida state law, which requires at least a 30-day wait to resell used goods.
Ivan256, the original poster, used this one incident to imply that Electronics Boutique has a corporate directive to break the law.
Buttons don't have their usual halos around them when you tab to them, but aside from that Camino works great with keyboard access.
By the way, Firefox still subscribes to the Netscape4 model of "click-and-hold is the same thing as right/CTRL-click." The context menus it pulls up are Mozilla-specific, not Cocoa-based, so Mac OS X's navigation tools (i.e. speech nav) won't work with them either. Pathetic.
Firefox on the Mac is the second-ugliest browser ever produced for Mac OS X, better than only Opera (and at least Opera is fast and includes a mail client that Google decided to imitate). Thunderbird is pretty lousy too from a UI perspective. Some moron decided that preferences should be sheets, but then drilling down to a second preferences dialog should close the first sheet and open a new one.
This sort of crap is fine on platforms like Linux that have no UI standards, but on the Mac it's embarrassing. Plenty of programs (Garageband, QuickTime Player, etc) deviate from the Mac UI standards, but at least they still look good.
At least there's Camino. You get the Gecko renderer and real Cocoa look-and-feel. It also doesn't beach-ball as often as Safari does, though it has the same memory leaks that Firefox is legendary for.
Meetup.com is a stable service that doesn't rely on ActiveX and JavaScript for its user interface. I don't really think it fits the Google mold at this point.
Now if they could add some drop-down features, slap a BETA label on it, and temporarily shut out Safari users, that would be better.
Good news! Google allows people to abuse its groups service as much as they want. As long as you're willing to let your group rely on a beta service, you needn't worry about Google doing evil things.
Yahoo already owns Evite, which provides RSVP services for social gatherings. I'm sure Google can find someone to buy and innovatively tie in with all their other portal services.
I've seen it in plenty of stores: Best Buy, Gamestop, EB... they typically only have a few copies on the shelf, but that's true of any non-new PS2 game.
You should do a search on eBay for Katamari Damacy. The U.S. version sells for $16 brand new on eBay, if it sells at all.
I checked that box. It only synchronizes at startup or when I manually click "synchronize 'Account'." When I get mail, either by clicking "Get Mail" or by waiting N minutes for the mail check to run, only the inbox is checked.
I ended up downloading a program called MacBiff to check my folders because Mail.app is so foolish about folders.
Apple is all about choice. You can buy one copy, or you can buy five copies. The cost for 2 computers equals the cost for 3, 4, and 5 computers.
So the original poster assumed that families would otherwise buy one copy of the OS for each machine in the house. Since (as of 10.3) Apple doesn't require that you register each machine on which Mac OS X is installed, this is an Honor System thing anyway.
Unfortunately, Google Local sucks when compared with Yahoo! Yellow Pages because Google didn't bother to license any real Yellow Pages data. They instead rely on web pages to provide info. As a result, my company shows up with two addresses and the "more relevant" one is incorrect!
It's also useless for searching for most businesses. "Supermarket near X" just shows businesses near X with the word "Supermarket" in the name. Other keywords like "Chinese food" or "Pizza" neglect restaurants that simply name themselves after their proprietors.
In short, Google Local won't work until people start keyword-stuffing their business names and Google-bombing their correct contact info. What a shame.
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MM means "million" because M means "thousand." M times M = MM = 1,000,000.
Excuse me, kind sirs, but MSN Search is in beta. I'm sure if you calmly file a bug report, they will address the matter before MSN Search is formally released to the public.
Honestly, the thought that anyone would rely on a beta service...
At this point, Google might as well serve you only paid advertisements. Search for any product name/model-number and the word "review," expecting to read reviews, and you get thousands of hits from affiliate sites and Amazon.com cobranded sites exhorting you to "Be the first to review (product)!"
Choosing to trust certain sites more than others will improve the experience for almost everyone, but it makes Google an judge of content and quality. Any skeptic would be wise to question Google's motives here, especially considering that Google shareholders expect year-over-year revenue growth.
Considering how much market share Google has, them not displaying a web page in their results (or dropping it a few hundred places) effectively removes it from the web.
Google's primary responsibility now is to its shareholders. Google makes money from advertising. If Google can encourage you to patronize its advertisers instead of trusting its index for everything (which right now is pretty easily gamed), then Google makes more ad revenue and shareholders are happy.
A9 is a partner with Google. It doesn't "hijack" anything.
Or I could just read the newspaper, disregarding ads that are of no interest to me, like I always do.
You'd think that advertisers were trying to eat your children or something. Chill out. I can live with ads if they keep the web sites free for me.
Other folks in this thread suggest that Opera 8 now works with GMail. Personally, I'd think it better to just use GMail's POP access with Opera M2. The only thing you'd lose would be the GMail labels.
M2 was built for searching: it stores all your mail in a centralized database and eschews folders in favor of "access points" (essentially queries that you run against the database). It creates access points for contacts, threads, mailing lists, and date ranges automatically. It also supports labels for tagging messages. In other words, GMail took the idea and implemented it as a web application.
Of course, for this reason M2 is a POP-centric mail client. Dumping all your IMAP folders into a single database makes things quite unwieldy.
Every game store does this, and it is to prevent piracy. EB lets you sell the game back to them for $5 or so. That's not a return, and it doesn't at all encourage piracy except among very stupid people.
Opera: Download a 5MB program, don't use features you don't like.
Firefox: Download a 5MB program, download a 500KB extension, install, restart, download a 1MB extension, install, restart, download security update for extension 1, install, restart, lather, rinse, repeat.
Opera is better. Besides, I never trust Adblockers: they too often (read: more than zero times) throw out the baby with the bathwater. With an adblocker, you would never see any photos from my local newspaper.
Lots of geeks threatened to boycott EB. In other words, nothing.
On the legal front, I'm sure EB just threw money at the woman to get her to shut up.
Opera has all these features and still manages to be smaller and faster than Firefox+WebDeveloperExtension+GesturesExtension+wh ateverExtension.
All the good features in Firefox (gestures, tabbed browsing) were around for a long time in Opera. Likewise, if you've ever used GMail, you have used an imitation of Opera's M2 mail client. Opera still does many things far better than Firefox (zoom, quick-change with the F12 menu) and you don't have to download a zillion extensions to match Opera's sub-10MB download.
Opera is an innovative company that puts out an outstanding and lightweight product. Google and the Firefox team have a lot to thank Opera for.
In Florida, a woman's video games were stolen and then returned by the thief to EB for store credit. EB then resold the games in violation of Florida state law, which requires at least a 30-day wait to resell used goods.
Ivan256, the original poster, used this one incident to imply that Electronics Boutique has a corporate directive to break the law.
To fix:
1. Uninstall Firefox.
2. Install Camino.
Buttons don't have their usual halos around them when you tab to them, but aside from that Camino works great with keyboard access.
By the way, Firefox still subscribes to the Netscape4 model of "click-and-hold is the same thing as right/CTRL-click." The context menus it pulls up are Mozilla-specific, not Cocoa-based, so Mac OS X's navigation tools (i.e. speech nav) won't work with them either. Pathetic.
Firefox on the Mac is the second-ugliest browser ever produced for Mac OS X, better than only Opera (and at least Opera is fast and includes a mail client that Google decided to imitate). Thunderbird is pretty lousy too from a UI perspective. Some moron decided that preferences should be sheets, but then drilling down to a second preferences dialog should close the first sheet and open a new one.
This sort of crap is fine on platforms like Linux that have no UI standards, but on the Mac it's embarrassing. Plenty of programs (Garageband, QuickTime Player, etc) deviate from the Mac UI standards, but at least they still look good.
At least there's Camino. You get the Gecko renderer and real Cocoa look-and-feel. It also doesn't beach-ball as often as Safari does, though it has the same memory leaks that Firefox is legendary for.
Meetup.com is a stable service that doesn't rely on ActiveX and JavaScript for its user interface. I don't really think it fits the Google mold at this point.
Now if they could add some drop-down features, slap a BETA label on it, and temporarily shut out Safari users, that would be better.
Good news! Google allows people to abuse its groups service as much as they want. As long as you're willing to let your group rely on a beta service, you needn't worry about Google doing evil things.
Indeed, Yahoo Groups already has a "Calendar" feature that you can use to schedule meetings of import to a group. It even ties in with Yahoo Calendar.
Google Groups, the embraced-and-extended version of Usenet, doesn't offer this functionality yet.
Yahoo already owns Evite, which provides RSVP services for social gatherings. I'm sure Google can find someone to buy and innovatively tie in with all their other portal services.
I've seen it in plenty of stores: Best Buy, Gamestop, EB... they typically only have a few copies on the shelf, but that's true of any non-new PS2 game.
You should do a search on eBay for Katamari Damacy. The U.S. version sells for $16 brand new on eBay, if it sells at all.
I checked that box. It only synchronizes at startup or when I manually click "synchronize 'Account'." When I get mail, either by clicking "Get Mail" or by waiting N minutes for the mail check to run, only the inbox is checked.
I ended up downloading a program called MacBiff to check my folders because Mail.app is so foolish about folders.
Apple is all about choice. You can buy one copy, or you can buy five copies. The cost for 2 computers equals the cost for 3, 4, and 5 computers.
So the original poster assumed that families would otherwise buy one copy of the OS for each machine in the house. Since (as of 10.3) Apple doesn't require that you register each machine on which Mac OS X is installed, this is an Honor System thing anyway.
Unfortunately, Google Local sucks when compared with Yahoo! Yellow Pages because Google didn't bother to license any real Yellow Pages data. They instead rely on web pages to provide info. As a result, my company shows up with two addresses and the "more relevant" one is incorrect!
It's also useless for searching for most businesses. "Supermarket near X" just shows businesses near X with the word "Supermarket" in the name. Other keywords like "Chinese food" or "Pizza" neglect restaurants that simply name themselves after their proprietors.
In short, Google Local won't work until people start keyword-stuffing their business names and Google-bombing their correct contact info. What a shame.
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