Ugh I forgot all about that shit. EVERY FUCKING year, it's such a stupid holiday, seriously - when you hit your 30's years fly by like months do when you're younger.
This holiday is funny about once every 5 years, do we need to do this stupid shit EVERY goddamned year?
I have no issue with the microsim (although I think it's lunacy to make it even smaller) but really you'd think they'd wait for everyone to adopt the microsim before pushing.
Most people I know with microsims are using theirs in adapters. I think apple only thinks of the US shores, there's countries like China and India will hundreds of millions of devices, a switchc isn't an easy thing to do.
To be brutally honest, American accents are ghastly things and most of us cringe when we hear them in real life (It's the loudness)
Oddly enough, Australia has a heap of US media playing on the idiot box, yet there the American accents are fine. It's just in person they make us homicidal.
English accents are revered though as they sound classy.
Yep, I've already replied so I can't moderate here. Please mod this up, the "wifi will save us" people are embarassing to deal with. It's.... mind boggling how dense those people are.
I'm surprised one of them made it here to slashdot, I'd expect them to be on yahoo answers or something.
I've become accustomed to Americans reacting like this in regards to warranty comments. They have no concept of decent support, sure they get the cheapest prices in the world but the cheapest shit too. When it breaks down - tough.
Australia thank goodness has a 1 year warranty on items, too, PERIOD. If something breaks it should be looked after. I recall Americans claiming they only got 3 month warranties on the Xbox 360 (initially) - I don't know if this is true or just misinformation but it seems many customers were convinced if it died after then, tough - on a 500$ item
As I originally mentioned though, I'd like to see some kind of genetic manipulation to very very slowly reduce it over the course of X amount of years, whatever seems sensible by smarter men. Furthermore, while the US may not be interested in legally enforcing strict rules and I do tire of Australia doing such things, in this instance it seems logical to me.
We already ban tabacco advertising (and drug company advertising, thank fuck) - mandating nicotine restricted cigarettes simply seems logical. I suspect we'd reduce cigarette related deaths by 90% within 50 years.
You're not looking at the long term picture, making the product not addictive could result in millions upon millions less smokers. Frankly I don't give a shit if 10,000 people die a year from smoking out of only 15,000 smokers. I do care about 10,000,000 people dying a year out of 1,500,000,000 smokers,.............. I believe this would be the END result of doing this.
The goal is to remove the chemically addictive drug from the product. I strongly suspect without the nicotine you would see a significant percentage of people give up smoking over the proposed time period, furthermore you would see less people take the habit up.
Also, yes I know the nicotine isn't the killing part, it's generally smoking burning 'stuff' is pretty dumb in the first place. You're missing the point.
I would like to see over the course of the next 20 years tobacco decrease in nicotine content by 10% a year, ever so slowly reducing it to nothing. At least smokers then would be addicted to a habit and not a damn chemical.
I've been whining about this for years and years. I'm a messy slob with my files but damnit I'd love a filesystem which does a full CRC check per file and the second I go to record a duplicate file - BAM instant link created. I want tags and filtering to the point that I don't need to worry about subfolders anymore. I mean it'll be painful at first, not being in control of subfolders, terrifying for a disk nazi like myself but when done properly eventually finding data would be as easy as a search and FAST
This whole file system as it is feels like it's something from the 1950's (it probably is) It's GOT to change and the 'libraries' in Windows 7 are not a solution.
Drug advertisements are BANNED here in Australia and it's how it should be. We don't need people who don't have any ailments thinking they need X or Y because of a bloody television commercial.
They fact they are LEGAL actually astounds me, I didn't even know about the commercials until I saw some American television, just the conept is evil.
How dare you fuck with this post, have you SEEN the new gmail interface? The bullshit fancy white design with absoloutely no lines or shading to differentiate data? the UI with huge backlash over how shitty it is?
You either don't know what satire is or you have fucking awful taste in web design usability, one of the two. Morons.
That's the fascinating thing, Google chose some excellent colours and design for their old products but you're using the old google maps silly! From the era of good, workable, logical google. Just wait for the new refreshed arty maps, re-envisioned just like gmail is now!
Look for maps to be mostly one colour and washed out, forget lines representing streets and seperating data easily? Who needs good defining lines or shading to make things easy to distingguish. Look for more buttons with less text defining what they are and single colour icons. It might be more difficult to use but it'll look good!
Please supply me your google username so we can put you on the new, washed out but arty google maps today!
One of the worst video players I've ever used, it seemed almost as if mouse movement alone was enough to reset it back to reloading the video from scratch. I had to FF that at least 6 times just to watch about half of it because of the constant resets.
Beard turns ginger, hair is brown, English / Scottish / Irish heritage back a way. I can confirm my love for chili but my personal pain tolerance is probably one of the worst for any living adult male in existence. I can't take the most basic pain, excercise hurts too much, everything hurts too much. I have incredibly sentive ribs and hate being jabbed in them. The simplest of bumps hurt and I'm sure things shouldn't hurt this much.
Although stability and performance are the only 2 issues for me, not website rendering issues at all, specifically performance. I don't get many memory leaks but the browser (infact no browser) is fast enough for me. I have 4/8 (HT) cores, 8gb of ram and an SSD and goddamn if no browser is quick enough, they all feel too sluggish.
Anyhow,.. I stick with 3.6 because the user interface fits precisely and utterly what I want in a web browser. The tabs are below the address bar, the awesomebar is included. All of the addins I want and need are supported. (Adblock Plus, LastPass, Xmarks but most importantly Tabs Menu and Tab Mix Plus)
Furthermore there are some subtle but stupid changes in Firefox 4 and onwards (correct me if I'm wrong please, I refuse to use it) - Example the back and forward buttons in Firefox 3 has a small downarrow, showing you a quick convienient history of the last 10 pages per tab. (I hear that's removed in 4 onwards) Also quite importantly 3.6 is NOT fucking updated every month breaking my goddamn addins. (There are several more issues but those 2 are the first which comes to mind)
So to summarise, yes I completely agree with the OP asking the question, as for the answer on what to do, I'm utterly stumped. Firefox seems finished to me, they have gone 'drunk' on versions and lost their way. I simply do not have faith in them anymore. IE, well a lot of people give IE shit but it's improved a lot - but not even half as good as FF 3.6 Chrome annoys the shit out of me, one of the google guys who has something to do with it to my knowledge posts on shacknews, he's a nice enough guy but he has made it clear how stubborn google are regarding the UI, it's simply not going to be customisable to the levels I want, they are convinced that tabs on top is how it should be, period. The browser itself is quite fast - although my Xmarks bookmarks sync from FF to Chrome sucks too, because quicksearches (keywords) break (%s in a url, if you don't know what it is, go look it up, extremely handy)
I genuinely don't know what to do, for the time being I'm sticking with 3.6 - people don't realise it but for some reason that branch keeps getting updates. I think they split at 3.6.16 or so about 12 months ago and now we're up to 3.6.25 I think. It continues to be graphically and input wise PRECISELY what I want in a browser, utterly 100%, every behaviour, hotkey, etc - I can customise it exactly how I want it (Thanks TabMixPlus)
So, I sit and wait for someone to fix Chrome so it's usable full time or,.. well I don't know what.
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Hold the dressing, I've gained three yoctograms this week!
Ugh I forgot all about that shit.
EVERY FUCKING year, it's such a stupid holiday, seriously - when you hit your 30's years fly by like months do when you're younger.
This holiday is funny about once every 5 years, do we need to do this stupid shit EVERY goddamned year?
I have no issue with the microsim (although I think it's lunacy to make it even smaller) but really you'd think they'd wait for everyone to adopt the microsim before pushing.
Most people I know with microsims are using theirs in adapters.
I think apple only thinks of the US shores, there's countries like China and India will hundreds of millions of devices, a switchc isn't an easy thing to do.
A post from the technically incompetent people, (very technically incompetent infact) take note slashdotters, the commoners have found us.
Also it's bloody YOUR not you're
To be brutally honest, American accents are ghastly things and most of us cringe when we hear them in real life (It's the loudness)
Oddly enough, Australia has a heap of US media playing on the idiot box, yet there the American accents are fine. It's just in person they make us homicidal.
English accents are revered though as they sound classy.
Yep, I've already replied so I can't moderate here. Please mod this up, the "wifi will save us" people are embarassing to deal with. It's .... mind boggling how dense those people are.
I'm surprised one of them made it here to slashdot, I'd expect them to be on yahoo answers or something.
Several issues but the key word would have to be
"jesus"
Please don't, I don't browse Digg or Reddit for a reason. I'm quite happy with 95% of slashdot articles just as they are thank you very much.
You in Australia? Our big supermarket chains have started that. I think it's anything under 35$ does not require a signature or a pin at all.. wtf?
I've become accustomed to Americans reacting like this in regards to warranty comments.
They have no concept of decent support, sure they get the cheapest prices in the world but the cheapest shit too. When it breaks down - tough.
Australia thank goodness has a 1 year warranty on items, too, PERIOD. If something breaks it should be looked after. I recall Americans claiming they only got 3 month warranties on the Xbox 360 (initially) - I don't know if this is true or just misinformation but it seems many customers were convinced if it died after then, tough - on a 500$ item
Madness.
That last sentence I can't tell if you're also going for some kind of NZ accent double whammy too,... :)
As I originally mentioned though, I'd like to see some kind of genetic manipulation to very very slowly reduce it over the course of X amount of years, whatever seems sensible by smarter men. Furthermore, while the US may not be interested in legally enforcing strict rules and I do tire of Australia doing such things, in this instance it seems logical to me.
We already ban tabacco advertising (and drug company advertising, thank fuck) - mandating nicotine restricted cigarettes simply seems logical. I suspect we'd reduce cigarette related deaths by 90% within 50 years.
My speculation, of course.
You're not looking at the long term picture, making the product not addictive could result in millions upon millions less smokers. Frankly I don't give a shit if 10,000 people die a year from smoking out of only 15,000 smokers. I do care about 10,000,000 people dying a year out of 1,500,000,000 smokers,.............. I believe this would be the END result of doing this.
(Figures exaggerated to get my point across)
The goal is to remove the chemically addictive drug from the product. I strongly suspect without the nicotine you would see a significant percentage of people give up smoking over the proposed time period, furthermore you would see less people take the habit up.
Also, yes I know the nicotine isn't the killing part, it's generally smoking burning 'stuff' is pretty dumb in the first place. You're missing the point.
I would like to see over the course of the next 20 years tobacco decrease in nicotine content by 10% a year, ever so slowly reducing it to nothing. At least smokers then would be addicted to a habit and not a damn chemical.
Score 5 insightful? Score 500 more like it.
I've been whining about this for years and years. I'm a messy slob with my files but damnit I'd love a filesystem which does a full CRC check per file and the second I go to record a duplicate file - BAM instant link created. I want tags and filtering to the point that I don't need to worry about subfolders anymore. I mean it'll be painful at first, not being in control of subfolders, terrifying for a disk nazi like myself but when done properly eventually finding data would be as easy as a search and FAST
This whole file system as it is feels like it's something from the 1950's (it probably is)
It's GOT to change and the 'libraries' in Windows 7 are not a solution.
"They can take a 97% decrease in price and still remain profitable? What other industry can possibly have that level of markup and keep customers?"
Sounds like Apple to me.
Fucking rubbish.
Drug advertisements are BANNED here in Australia and it's how it should be. We don't need people who don't have any ailments thinking they need X or Y because of a bloody television commercial.
They fact they are LEGAL actually astounds me, I didn't even know about the commercials until I saw some American television, just the conept is evil.
Who on EARTH moderated this down? WHO?
How dare you fuck with this post, have you SEEN the new gmail interface? The bullshit fancy white design with absoloutely no lines or shading to differentiate data? the UI with huge backlash over how shitty it is?
You either don't know what satire is or you have fucking awful taste in web design usability, one of the two.
Morons.
That's the fascinating thing, Google chose some excellent colours and design for their old products but you're using the old google maps silly! From the era of good, workable, logical google. Just wait for the new refreshed arty maps, re-envisioned just like gmail is now!
Look for maps to be mostly one colour and washed out, forget lines representing streets and seperating data easily? Who needs good defining lines or shading to make things easy to distingguish. Look for more buttons with less text defining what they are and single colour icons. It might be more difficult to use but it'll look good!
Please supply me your google username so we can put you on the new, washed out but arty google maps today!
One of the worst video players I've ever used, it seemed almost as if mouse movement alone was enough to reset it back to reloading the video from scratch. I had to FF that at least 6 times just to watch about half of it because of the constant resets.
Going from disliking, to hating, to detesting fucking Apple.
This company disgusts me, they need to be seriously dropped several pegs.
Never buying another Apple product, ever - working on convincing others, simply not interested in their shit and their attitude.
Beard turns ginger, hair is brown, English / Scottish / Irish heritage back a way.
I can confirm my love for chili but my personal pain tolerance is probably one of the worst for any living adult male in existence. I can't take the most basic pain, excercise hurts too much, everything hurts too much. I have incredibly sentive ribs and hate being jabbed in them. The simplest of bumps hurt and I'm sure things shouldn't hurt this much.
Although stability and performance are the only 2 issues for me, not website rendering issues at all, specifically performance. I don't get many memory leaks but the browser (infact no browser) is fast enough for me. I have 4/8 (HT) cores, 8gb of ram and an SSD and goddamn if no browser is quick enough, they all feel too sluggish.
Anyhow,.. I stick with 3.6 because the user interface fits precisely and utterly what I want in a web browser. The tabs are below the address bar, the awesomebar is included. All of the addins I want and need are supported.
(Adblock Plus, LastPass, Xmarks but most importantly Tabs Menu and Tab Mix Plus)
Furthermore there are some subtle but stupid changes in Firefox 4 and onwards (correct me if I'm wrong please, I refuse to use it) - Example the back and forward buttons in Firefox 3 has a small downarrow, showing you a quick convienient history of the last 10 pages per tab. (I hear that's removed in 4 onwards)
Also quite importantly 3.6 is NOT fucking updated every month breaking my goddamn addins. (There are several more issues but those 2 are the first which comes to mind)
So to summarise, yes I completely agree with the OP asking the question, as for the answer on what to do, I'm utterly stumped. Firefox seems finished to me, they have gone 'drunk' on versions and lost their way. I simply do not have faith in them anymore.
IE, well a lot of people give IE shit but it's improved a lot - but not even half as good as FF 3.6
Chrome annoys the shit out of me, one of the google guys who has something to do with it to my knowledge posts on shacknews, he's a nice enough guy but he has made it clear how stubborn google are regarding the UI, it's simply not going to be customisable to the levels I want, they are convinced that tabs on top is how it should be, period. The browser itself is quite fast - although my Xmarks bookmarks sync from FF to Chrome sucks too, because quicksearches (keywords) break (%s in a url, if you don't know what it is, go look it up, extremely handy)
I genuinely don't know what to do, for the time being I'm sticking with 3.6 - people don't realise it but for some reason that branch keeps getting updates. I think they split at 3.6.16 or so about 12 months ago and now we're up to 3.6.25 I think. It continues to be graphically and input wise PRECISELY what I want in a browser, utterly 100%, every behaviour, hotkey, etc - I can customise it exactly how I want it (Thanks TabMixPlus)
So, I sit and wait for someone to fix Chrome so it's usable full time or ,.. well I don't know what.
Sounds like we need one of those incredibly dangerous tribble harvesters.
http://419eater.com/html/tope.htm
(worth reading)