Or use the "Read Easily" addon for Firefox - flip the bird at all those "designers".
Why is that better? That removes all styles, which replaces one problem with another.
The entire problem is stupid. Moronic designers who think trendy styles are better than true readability. I've used the Contact Us feature of many websites to complain about that trend. None have responded, and none have changed their sites.
I guess I'll keep reading the comments, hoping to find a real solution.
I don't understand why they should be "encouraged" to study computer science to just keep up some random statistic vs. encouraging them to do whatever their hearts tell them they should be doing? Stories like this {snip} cast women as unable to decide for themselves and we should be "correcting" their life choices. Whatever...
I came here to post the same thing, except for the "makes me angry" part.
yeah if u live in Arizona or Florida. not so good for northern states
Solar is also not an option for those of us who live in neighborhoods with a lot of trees, like mine. My rooftop gets very little direct sunlight because of the trees. I would need a huge price discount to make the cost of solar have a positive ROI.
Conventional wisdom says that everything about Europeans is always better than everything about Americans. You get socially rewarded by high-social-status people for saying so. So not working is better than working in this case, regardless of whether that makes sense or not.
Conventional wisdom also states that absolutes are absolutely wrong.
Who will go broke first - the performers or the venues?
So when I arrive an hour early to make sure that I'm not late because of traffic or the crowds, I can't pass the time until the event starts by playing games on my phone.
And parents can't check up on their kids by sending texts.
No, thanks.
Most already charge too much money for an evening's entertainment. If the price of admission didn't keep you away, then the price of food/snacks/drinks might. Now, if the total cost doesn't keep you away, this silly rule might. In my case, it definitely will.
The "50% HTTPS" figure is just a one-day snapshot, and it's from "only a subset of Firefox users who are running Mozilla's telemetry browser...not default switched on for most Firefox users (only for users of pre-release Firefox builds)." But the biggest caveat is it's only counting Firefox users, which in July represented just 7.7% of web surfers (according to Statista), behind both Chrome (49.5%) and Safari (13.68%) -- but also ahead of Internet Explorer (5.4%) and Opera (5.99%).
Translation: statistics are manipulated.
That's why I never believe any statistic, regardless of the source.
Yep. IBM Thinkpads started that years ago. A lot of people hate it but those track pads are just where the base of my thumbs are and I hit the damn thing and the focus goes somewhere else and it's so fast I don't where it went. I've blown away a lot of work because as I was typing away, the base of thumb grazed the damn pad.
At least with the 'clit' (I like that), if you nudge it, the cursor isn't too far away and the focus doesn't go somewhere else.
So just disable that feature.
Personally, I disable all trackpad features other than 2-finger scrolling. I don't want different behavior because of which side (or corner) of the trackpad I just touched, nor do I want a double-touch to become a double-click, nor do I want a single tap to move the focus.
Remember to collect your payment from Google, and do not pass Go.
Can we get some unbiased reporting, please?
Arguably the best browser, my ass.
{ rant }
1) Chrome sucks at tab management. In today's age of wide-screen monitors, tabs belong on the side of the browser, not the top. Although there are add-ins that try to work around Google's arrogance, they all suck.
2) Chrome was created to help put Google.com in front of user's faces. Why else would Google/Chrome refuse to do DNS lookups for one-word entries in the address bar?
3) The add-in choices are nowhere near as robust as those for Firefox. Thankfully, Pale Moon is keeping that option alive, since Mozilla is killing Firefox by becoming "just another shitty browser."
{/rant }
Here's another example: I'm a member of an online discussion group. That group switched to Facebook. So in order to read and write posts to that group, I have to use Facebook.
I wouldn't use Facebook unless I had to, but in this case I do have to.
No, you don't have to. You choose to.
You had two choices: 1) not use Facebook, and lose access to your online discussion group, or 2) use Facebook and continue to participate in your online discussion group.
Because I want to use grep. Because I want to run scripts and write them in Bash. Because I like the find command. Because...
You get the idea. I run OS X^H^H^HmacOS as my main operating system and use the shell frequently. I used Red Hat as my desk top in the late 90s and early 2000s. I like the idea that my knowledge and familiarity is portable across all the environments I may come across.
Most of those individual commands have been available in Windoze for a long time. Try installing UnxUtils or GnuWin32 to get grep and other *Nix commands in Windows.
I doubt if Earth will survive long enough for that to be an issue. One of the following is sure to have destroyed our world by then:
1) Trump will have caused World War III, or
2) Hillary will have caused World War III, or
3) Global warming will have progressed to the point that no plant life, and therefore no humans, can survive on this planet
This isn't a "bug". It's a case of an overloaded drum being spun at high speed creating forces that the drum cannot handle after some use.
Anyone who has used a top loader knows that it needs to be at least somewhat balanced when it goes into spin mode. The problem is certain kinds of "washables" that aren't distributing themselves around the drum and instead stay lumped up and heavy.
Try suing a centrifuge manufacturer when it self-destructs after you've put something in only one of the slots. That's that this is.
If it isn't a bug, as you claim, then it must be a mechanical limitation.
If it's a mechanical limitation, then every washing machine on the planet would have this problem.
Since that obviously is not the case, then your statement that it is not a bug is obviously wrong.
With most restaurants serving largely the same, there's little incentive to wait.
Really? Please tell us which Subway stores sell Big Macs, which Wendy's stores sell seafood, which Arby's sell bloomin' onions, or which Denny's sell sushi.
I filed the following complaint with the BBB over 5 years ago.
I bought a new HP office-quality printer from Sam's Club. When the ink ran out, I replaced it with used cartridges from Rapid Refill. The printer recognizes that non-HP ink has been installed, and refuses to print. If I replace the new cartridges with the almost-empty HP cartridges, it prints fine. I Googled the problem, and found that a "fix" is to open and close the ink access door. Every time I print a document, I have to open and close the ink access door. Even if I'm standing at the printer to copy or fax a document, I have to open and close the ink access door before it will process the request.
Last week, I ordered refillable ink cartridges from an Internet store. When those cartridges are installed, the printer refuses to print at all, even with the ink access door trick. It complains that the ink cartridges are "empty or missing."
HP now puts a small computer chip on every ink cartridge. That chip allows the printer to recognize non-HP ink cartridges.
This behavior is as unscrupulous as blackmail. "You must buy our overly-priced ink, or we will brick your $170 printer!"
HP's response was to send me a free ink cartridge. That satisfied the BBB, and they closed the case.
I haven't bought another HP product since, and encourage others to do the same.
People need to be accountable for their actions, heck even some teenagers know that what they post might prevent them from getting a good job one day. This is the age we live in and we have to control our 'media' that we create. Everything is remembered somewhere and the internet makes it findable.
I have never succeeded at training a Pandora station. Mine all inevitably turn into all Beatles all the time. The first time I did one, it turned into a Beatles station within a day. I'm not a big Beatles fan, but I don't mind an occasional track, so I hadn't been downvoting them. For my next try, I mercilessly downvoted Beatles songs whenever they came on. That station turned into solo projects from member of the Beatles, covers of Beatles songs by other artists, Beatles covering the music of other artists, and live performances from the Beatles. I tried variations on these methods on several stations. The last straw was when I had downvoted too many Beatles-related songs in an hour and Pandora punished me with a ukulele medley of What a Wonderful World and Over the Rainbow. That was the end of my time with Pandora.
You might want give Pandora another shot, but might I suggest that you not select a Beatles station next time?
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You know...having the TA be self driving would take 99% of the full out of it....
I'm not sure if you meant fun, fuel, or fdlsadjfaldskfj. Since none of them make sense, I guess it doesn't really matter.
"ctrl +" will fix websites by making the text bigger in most or all browsers. Just fyi in case someone didn't know that.
Bigger, yes, but that doesn't always fix the problem. I've used that on sites 5-10 times, and the (now huge) grey text is still difficult to read.
But for the majority of sites, I agree that it does help. Other programs often use the same shortcut, such as many PDF readers.
If you use Firefox or Pale Moon, the NoSquint add-on remembers the "ctrl +" settings for each individual site.
Or use the "Read Easily" addon for Firefox - flip the bird at all those "designers".
Why is that better? That removes all styles, which replaces one problem with another.
The entire problem is stupid. Moronic designers who think trendy styles are better than true readability. I've used the Contact Us feature of many websites to complain about that trend. None have responded, and none have changed their sites.
I guess I'll keep reading the comments, hoping to find a real solution.
I don't understand why they should be "encouraged" to study computer science to just keep up some random statistic vs. encouraging them to do whatever their hearts tell them they should be doing? Stories like this {snip} cast women as unable to decide for themselves and we should be "correcting" their life choices. Whatever...
I came here to post the same thing, except for the "makes me angry" part.
Being inflexible while IT moves forward is not a good solution. Regardless of the tech or problems.
It sounds like you are trying to say that regardless of the problems caused by change, all change is good.
I vehemently disagree.
yeah if u live in Arizona or Florida. not so good for northern states
Solar is also not an option for those of us who live in neighborhoods with a lot of trees, like mine. My rooftop gets very little direct sunlight because of the trees. I would need a huge price discount to make the cost of solar have a positive ROI.
Only standards non-compliant programs.
In other words, anything written by Google or Microsoft. Got it.
Conventional wisdom says that everything about Europeans is always better than everything about Americans. You get socially rewarded by high-social-status people for saying so. So not working is better than working in this case, regardless of whether that makes sense or not.
Conventional wisdom also states that absolutes are absolutely wrong.
Who will go broke first - the performers or the venues?
So when I arrive an hour early to make sure that I'm not late because of traffic or the crowds, I can't pass the time until the event starts by playing games on my phone.
And parents can't check up on their kids by sending texts.
No, thanks.
Most already charge too much money for an evening's entertainment. If the price of admission didn't keep you away, then the price of food/snacks/drinks might. Now, if the total cost doesn't keep you away, this silly rule might. In my case, it definitely will.
Not wasting a cent on any performer who engages in this nonsense.
Same here.
The "50% HTTPS" figure is just a one-day snapshot, and it's from "only a subset of Firefox users who are running Mozilla's telemetry browser...not default switched on for most Firefox users (only for users of pre-release Firefox builds)." But the biggest caveat is it's only counting Firefox users, which in July represented just 7.7% of web surfers (according to Statista), behind both Chrome (49.5%) and Safari (13.68%) -- but also ahead of Internet Explorer (5.4%) and Opera (5.99%).
Translation: statistics are manipulated.
That's why I never believe any statistic, regardless of the source.
Yep. IBM Thinkpads started that years ago. A lot of people hate it but those track pads are just where the base of my thumbs are and I hit the damn thing and the focus goes somewhere else and it's so fast I don't where it went. I've blown away a lot of work because as I was typing away, the base of thumb grazed the damn pad.
At least with the 'clit' (I like that), if you nudge it, the cursor isn't too far away and the focus doesn't go somewhere else.
So just disable that feature.
Personally, I disable all trackpad features other than 2-finger scrolling. I don't want different behavior because of which side (or corner) of the trackpad I just touched, nor do I want a double-touch to become a double-click, nor do I want a single tap to move the focus.
Hey, Joe Smith! Yes, You in the Blue Ford F150, This Bud's For You!
Remember to collect your payment from Google, and do not pass Go.
/rant }
Can we get some unbiased reporting, please?
Arguably the best browser, my ass.
{ rant }
1) Chrome sucks at tab management. In today's age of wide-screen monitors, tabs belong on the side of the browser, not the top. Although there are add-ins that try to work around Google's arrogance, they all suck.
2) Chrome was created to help put Google.com in front of user's faces. Why else would Google/Chrome refuse to do DNS lookups for one-word entries in the address bar?
3) The add-in choices are nowhere near as robust as those for Firefox. Thankfully, Pale Moon is keeping that option alive, since Mozilla is killing Firefox by becoming "just another shitty browser."
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Here's another example: I'm a member of an online discussion group. That group switched to Facebook. So in order to read and write posts to that group, I have to use Facebook.
I wouldn't use Facebook unless I had to, but in this case I do have to.
No, you don't have to. You choose to.
You had two choices: 1) not use Facebook, and lose access to your online discussion group, or 2) use Facebook and continue to participate in your online discussion group.
Either way, it was your choice.
Because I want to use grep. Because I want to run scripts and write them in Bash. Because I like the find command. Because... You get the idea. I run OS X^H^H^HmacOS as my main operating system and use the shell frequently. I used Red Hat as my desk top in the late 90s and early 2000s. I like the idea that my knowledge and familiarity is portable across all the environments I may come across.
Most of those individual commands have been available in Windoze for a long time. Try installing UnxUtils or GnuWin32 to get grep and other *Nix commands in Windows.
I doubt if Earth will survive long enough for that to be an issue. One of the following is sure to have destroyed our world by then:
1) Trump will have caused World War III, or
2) Hillary will have caused World War III, or
3) Global warming will have progressed to the point that no plant life, and therefore no humans, can survive on this planet
Please keep your hands off my Android!
This isn't a "bug". It's a case of an overloaded drum being spun at high speed creating forces that the drum cannot handle after some use.
Anyone who has used a top loader knows that it needs to be at least somewhat balanced when it goes into spin mode. The problem is certain kinds of "washables" that aren't distributing themselves around the drum and instead stay lumped up and heavy.
Try suing a centrifuge manufacturer when it self-destructs after you've put something in only one of the slots. That's that this is.
If it isn't a bug, as you claim, then it must be a mechanical limitation.
If it's a mechanical limitation, then every washing machine on the planet would have this problem.
Since that obviously is not the case, then your statement that it is not a bug is obviously wrong.
With most restaurants serving largely the same, there's little incentive to wait.
Really? Please tell us which Subway stores sell Big Macs, which Wendy's stores sell seafood, which Arby's sell bloomin' onions, or which Denny's sell sushi.
And yet none of those are worthy of the attention of Slashdot. Why?
Because this is being done by the biggest tech company in the world, that's why.
Bullshit.
Bullshit for sure. Apple isn't the biggest tech company in the world, Google is.
MS used to be the biggest tech company in the world, but the malware known as Win10 is changing that.
I bought a new HP office-quality printer from Sam's Club. When the ink ran out, I replaced it with used cartridges from Rapid Refill. The printer recognizes that non-HP ink has been installed, and refuses to print. If I replace the new cartridges with the almost-empty HP cartridges, it prints fine. I Googled the problem, and found that a "fix" is to open and close the ink access door. Every time I print a document, I have to open and close the ink access door. Even if I'm standing at the printer to copy or fax a document, I have to open and close the ink access door before it will process the request.
Last week, I ordered refillable ink cartridges from an Internet store. When those cartridges are installed, the printer refuses to print at all, even with the ink access door trick. It complains that the ink cartridges are "empty or missing."
HP now puts a small computer chip on every ink cartridge. That chip allows the printer to recognize non-HP ink cartridges.
This behavior is as unscrupulous as blackmail. "You must buy our overly-priced ink, or we will brick your $170 printer!"
HP's response was to send me a free ink cartridge. That satisfied the BBB, and they closed the case.
I haven't bought another HP product since, and encourage others to do the same.
People need to be accountable for their actions, heck even some teenagers know that what they post might prevent them from getting a good job one day. This is the age we live in and we have to control our 'media' that we create. Everything is remembered somewhere and the internet makes it findable.
FTFY.
I have never succeeded at training a Pandora station. Mine all inevitably turn into all Beatles all the time. The first time I did one, it turned into a Beatles station within a day. I'm not a big Beatles fan, but I don't mind an occasional track, so I hadn't been downvoting them. For my next try, I mercilessly downvoted Beatles songs whenever they came on. That station turned into solo projects from member of the Beatles, covers of Beatles songs by other artists, Beatles covering the music of other artists, and live performances from the Beatles. I tried variations on these methods on several stations. The last straw was when I had downvoted too many Beatles-related songs in an hour and Pandora punished me with a ukulele medley of What a Wonderful World and Over the Rainbow. That was the end of my time with Pandora.
You might want give Pandora another shot, but might I suggest that you not select a Beatles station next time?
And no, I don't pay attention to the International Fucking Association.