I agree, it is odd that they don't provide a configuration setting to restore the old behavior of the location bar.
I'm not trying to write off your complaint with "it works for me", I'm trying to understand what your complaint is. In your earlier post you mentioned that it annoyed you because it forced to you use your mouse to correct something. When I tried to do what I thought you had described (^L is the only way I know to access the location bar without using a mouse), it did not require me to use my mouse at all. I'm clearly not duplicating your issue.
Please, humor me and describe the steps required to duplicate the behavior that you find unacceptable. I would love to have a demonstrable example of why some people dislike the "awesomebar" so much.
I still don't understand. If I hit ^L and start typing a web address, it doesn't interfere. It might offer me a list of suggestions that I can choose from, but it never hijacks the text field that I'm typing in. It never forces me to reach for my mouse.
Could you give a more detailed explanation of how it interferes with your browser use?
Yeah, about the awesomebar, it works just fine for me. Honestly, I don't see how it's enough different than the previous location bar to upset so many people. I was using it for days before I even realized that it was functionally different from the location bar in v3.0.
Even for those of you who don't like it, how can it be more than just a minor annoyance, anyways?
So you think the firefox team should just quit and that the people currently using firefox should switch to another browser? Just like that?
Clearly, your opinion of what counts as a "fatal flaw" is not widely held or firefox's market share wouldn't continue to grow as it has. People will continue to use firefox until they find another browser that is more appealing to them and as long as there's enough users to justify further development, the firefox team will continue to work on the code-base.
Out of curiosity, what are the "fatal flaws" as you see them?
Sure, one could make that argument, but for now, let's just assume that as long as FF market share continues to grow in the presence of its competitors (IE, Opera, Safari, Chrome, etc), that it must still be a relevant browser which answers the question in the post I was responding to.
Just because marketing puts a higher priority on new features than it does fixing bugs doesn't mean that that is a better allocation of developer resources.
Of course, even if the bug is in the wild, if they're sure it's not exploitable, they can ignore it to continue working on new features. All they're really risking in that case is their reputation.
No, the vast majority of electricity use ends up as waste heat pretty quickly, electronics, lighting,motors, heating (obviously), cooling etc. Comparatively little is stored long term and doing that usually involves a lot of waste anyway.
Don't forget that any electromagnetic radiation that escapes the atmosphere never gets absorbed and converted to heat within the Earth's thermodynamic system. I have no idea how significant a chunk of electric power usage that represents.
I can think of at least two counter examples to your statement.
Light (or any other form of electromagnetic radiation) that leaves the atmosphere without being absorbed removes energy from the system.
Any energy used to promote one form of matter to a relatively stable higher energy state form of matter (like the creation of aluminum metal) will never be released as or converted to heat within our lifetimes.
Anyone who can do the math might do it once they realize that it might be cheaper to buy the phone outright rather than committing to a two year contract
Out of curiosity, what are the "alleged shortcommings" or PostgreSQL?
I've never used PostgreSQL on any large project, but I'd like to eventually. If there are serious issues with PostgreSQL, I'd like to know about them beforehand.
To start using Postgres, you install postgres, initialize the DB, set up the user, verify your code can connect, and you're off. How is that any different or more confusing than MySQL?
It's my understanding that the issue isn't AT&T's network so much as it's poor design in the iPhone. Of course, since the iPhone is making AT&T so much money, they'd rather take the black eye and not risk their relationship with Apple.
Do AT&T's 3G customers who aren't using an iPhone have similar "congestion" issues? 3rd parties are saying no. There's even been some/. stores to that effect recently.
Huh... Even the synthetic stuff that works ends up by the wayside eventually as slightly altered and currently-patentable versions are created and pushed.
Not true. If people still want them, they become generics and cost less than your herbal remedies do. The more expensive, still under patent, drugs are either clearly better in some regard (like reduced side-effects or increased potency/duration), or they fail to displace the cheaper generics in the market.
The active ingredients in Aspirin, Tylenol, and Advil are cheap and widely available even though there's been no patent protection on them for a very long time.
Why do you believe that these remedies are effective?
How do these remedies compare to the drugs that target the same complaints in both cost and effectiveness?
What qualifies you to be making medicinal recommendations to others? Do you have relevant training?
Over-reliance on synthetics created by for-profit organizations is itself basically a disease. If, say, your first choice for addressing depression is an SSRI prescription, you've been infected by advertising.
What would your first choice be for treating depression? And what, exactly, is your decision based on?
This whole herbs thing doesn't make any sense to me.
People eat "herbs" because they think some chemical in the "herb" offers some medicinal benefit. If that chemical can be extracted (or synthesized) in a more pure form and put in a pill, then why would you eat the plant instead? The plant might have the chemical you want, but it also has lots of other (possibly harmful) stuff in it that the pill is free of. Also, with the pill, you know how much of the active ingredient you're getting. There's no way to know how much you're really getting if you eat your "herb".
If the chemical can't be extracted or isolated, that probably means that the medicinal benefit is really the placebo effect. Another possibility is that a chemical was found, but rigorous testing indicated significant side-effects.
Maybe I'm preaching to the choir, but the results of a preliminary test aren't useful for drawing any conclusion beyond whether or not a larger, more expensive, better designed test is justified.
According to the folks at the evidence based medicine blog, this test is the first real study of the medicinal effects of Ginko.
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I agree, it is odd that they don't provide a configuration setting to restore the old behavior of the location bar.
I'm not trying to write off your complaint with "it works for me", I'm trying to understand what your complaint is. In your earlier post you mentioned that it annoyed you because it forced to you use your mouse to correct something. When I tried to do what I thought you had described (^L is the only way I know to access the location bar without using a mouse), it did not require me to use my mouse at all. I'm clearly not duplicating your issue.
Please, humor me and describe the steps required to duplicate the behavior that you find unacceptable. I would love to have a demonstrable example of why some people dislike the "awesomebar" so much.
I still don't understand. If I hit ^L and start typing a web address, it doesn't interfere. It might offer me a list of suggestions that I can choose from, but it never hijacks the text field that I'm typing in. It never forces me to reach for my mouse.
Could you give a more detailed explanation of how it interferes with your browser use?
Yeah, about the awesomebar, it works just fine for me. Honestly, I don't see how it's enough different than the previous location bar to upset so many people. I was using it for days before I even realized that it was functionally different from the location bar in v3.0.
Even for those of you who don't like it, how can it be more than just a minor annoyance, anyways?
Please enlighten us on how firefox has gotten worse.
From where I sit, v3.5 is a huge improvement over what came before. I'm optimistic that v3.6 will be an improvement over v3.5.
So you think the firefox team should just quit and that the people currently using firefox should switch to another browser? Just like that?
Clearly, your opinion of what counts as a "fatal flaw" is not widely held or firefox's market share wouldn't continue to grow as it has. People will continue to use firefox until they find another browser that is more appealing to them and as long as there's enough users to justify further development, the firefox team will continue to work on the code-base.
Out of curiosity, what are the "fatal flaws" as you see them?
Sure, one could make that argument, but for now, let's just assume that as long as FF market share continues to grow in the presence of its competitors (IE, Opera, Safari, Chrome, etc), that it must still be a relevant browser which answers the question in the post I was responding to.
But we'll be getting more from that energy, so it's still a win.
That's an odd question considering that Firefox continues to gain market share.
Perhaps you should ask yourself if "smaller" and "faster" are really the dominant factors driving users to switch browsers.
Features != Bugs
Just because marketing puts a higher priority on new features than it does fixing bugs doesn't mean that that is a better allocation of developer resources.
Of course, even if the bug is in the wild, if they're sure it's not exploitable, they can ignore it to continue working on new features. All they're really risking in that case is their reputation.
So why bother with removable media?
Off-site storage.
Optical discs are far more convenient than external hard drives for shipping and storing data.
What did they say when you called them on it?
If the glass is transparent to the wavelengths required by the solar panels, then it'll work just fine.
No, the vast majority of electricity use ends up as waste heat pretty quickly, electronics, lighting,motors, heating (obviously), cooling etc. Comparatively little is stored long term and doing that usually involves a lot of waste anyway.
Don't forget that any electromagnetic radiation that escapes the atmosphere never gets absorbed and converted to heat within the Earth's thermodynamic system. I have no idea how significant a chunk of electric power usage that represents.
I can think of at least two counter examples to your statement.
Light (or any other form of electromagnetic radiation) that leaves the atmosphere without being absorbed removes energy from the system.
Any energy used to promote one form of matter to a relatively stable higher energy state form of matter (like the creation of aluminum metal) will never be released as or converted to heat within our lifetimes.
I'm sure other examples abound.
Anyone who can do the math might do it once they realize that it might be cheaper to buy the phone outright rather than committing to a two year contract
Out of curiosity, what are the "alleged shortcommings" or PostgreSQL?
I've never used PostgreSQL on any large project, but I'd like to eventually. If there are serious issues with PostgreSQL, I'd like to know about them beforehand.
I don't understand your concern.
To start using Postgres, you install postgres, initialize the DB, set up the user, verify your code can connect, and you're off. How is that any different or more confusing than MySQL?
It's my understanding that the issue isn't AT&T's network so much as it's poor design in the iPhone. Of course, since the iPhone is making AT&T so much money, they'd rather take the black eye and not risk their relationship with Apple.
Do AT&T's 3G customers who aren't using an iPhone have similar "congestion" issues? 3rd parties are saying no. There's even been some /. stores to that effect recently.
Sadly, you can be right and still not win the argument.
Huh... Even the synthetic stuff that works ends up by the wayside eventually as slightly altered and currently-patentable versions are created and pushed.
Not true. If people still want them, they become generics and cost less than your herbal remedies do. The more expensive, still under patent, drugs are either clearly better in some regard (like reduced side-effects or increased potency/duration), or they fail to displace the cheaper generics in the market.
The active ingredients in Aspirin, Tylenol, and Advil are cheap and widely available even though there's been no patent protection on them for a very long time.
What herbal remedies do you recommend?
Why do you believe that these remedies are effective?
How do these remedies compare to the drugs that target the same complaints in both cost and effectiveness?
What qualifies you to be making medicinal recommendations to others? Do you have relevant training?
Over-reliance on synthetics created by for-profit organizations is itself basically a disease. If, say, your first choice for addressing depression is an SSRI prescription, you've been infected by advertising.
What would your first choice be for treating depression? And what, exactly, is your decision based on?
This whole herbs thing doesn't make any sense to me.
People eat "herbs" because they think some chemical in the "herb" offers some medicinal benefit. If that chemical can be extracted (or synthesized) in a more pure form and put in a pill, then why would you eat the plant instead? The plant might have the chemical you want, but it also has lots of other (possibly harmful) stuff in it that the pill is free of. Also, with the pill, you know how much of the active ingredient you're getting. There's no way to know how much you're really getting if you eat your "herb".
If the chemical can't be extracted or isolated, that probably means that the medicinal benefit is really the placebo effect. Another possibility is that a chemical was found, but rigorous testing indicated significant side-effects.
Maybe I'm preaching to the choir, but the results of a preliminary test aren't useful for drawing any conclusion beyond whether or not a larger, more expensive, better designed test is justified.
According to the folks at the evidence based medicine blog, this test is the first real study of the medicinal effects of Ginko.
Can you divulge the legal reasons that were used to justify the purging of OpenSource software in your company?
It's also something you might do with your steady sweetie if she agrees.