I know that this is off-topic, but I just want to address an issue I've been seeing in the tagging beta:
Why do people tag stories with keywords that are part of the headline? The only tag showing for this story is "siliconvalley," which is about a zero on the usefulness scale of 1-10. The whole point of tagging is to provide additional meta-data about a story, not just to take the nouns in the headline and turn them into tags. For goodness sake, you could at least play the Fark card and just tag stories as Interesting, Amusing, Asinine, etc. if you don't have anything better to go with.
Didn't you get the memo from Digg? Tech sites are to report all Google-related news, even in situations like these, where this Dell/Google alliance has apparently just gone from beta to stable.
I heard an interesting statistic yesterday regarding this method of advertising: eBay is the single largest buyer of search terms for these search engine ads; apparently they have bought ads for 15 million different search terms. (Although I'm not sure why they want to target people looking for outcasts...)
It's not the IT guys you have to worry about, it's the beancounters.
Exactly. My wife just called me from work (she's an accountant) and asked if I knew how to get around this error: "Spreadsheet is full." I asked her how many rows it had: "About 100,000." Apparently this isn't that uncommon...
I'm not too concerned with whether my HTML validates, but I make sure that any Javascript and CSS I use are correct (i.e. no warnings or errors in the Firefox Javascript console). There's nothing more annoying than trying to debug Javascript in a Firefox extension when I have my GMail open in a tab, as it spews out CSS and Javascript warnings and errors so fast that any extension related errors are lost in the flow.
But certainly if Bush states "No comment" on question whether he's an alien or not doesn't help the case.
Has the government publicly declared "No comment" when asked if they orchestrated the 9/11 attacks, or have they declined to comment at all based on the absurdity of the claim? Big difference there.
If the Government wants to disprove these theories
Regarding conspiracy theories, I believe the burden is on the conspiracy theorists to prove their theories, not for the targeted group to disprove all conspiracies directed towards them. If I say "George Bush is an alien," should he undergo a medical examination specifically to prove that he is human, or should I offer undeniable proof of his extra-terrestriality?
When confidential reports are released in this manner, sections are often blanked out. Will the same thing happen here?
No. You could have watched the video and seen this for yourself (although you can't even see the plane; the frames are just "normal, normal, normal, huge fireball.")
I think if Wii really sold 10 million units in the first year, any dev will 'get' it.
For the Wii to sell tons of units, there will probably need to be a good amount of third-party games. If no third-party games come out until many units are sold, then that would be a catch-22.
All users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
Shouldn't we just take this for granted by now?
Well, if the upgrade only added a feature that is useful to a very small segment of the user base, all users wouldn't be encouraged to upgrade, only those needing/wanting the new feature.
Well, I do. Mostly because I'm an extension developer and I like to make sure that all of my extensions work with the latest version of Firefox, but also because I just find Firefox to be interesting software and news about it is almost never unwelcome on my screen. Slashdot is reserved regarding posting about Firefox compared to Digg, where even articles about speculation about point-releases are promoted to the front page almost immediately.
I can't wait to see what passage we will have from the Book of Mozilla.
Maybe I'm missing a joke, but the Book of Mozilla passage doesn't change with every release. I don't think it has changed in the last several releases, but maybe I'm wrong.
You can digg a comment multiple times by quickly clicking multiple times on the green digg icon by the comment. This bug has been known for quite some time and still hasn't been fixed.
This is because the maxVersion in the extensions for 1.5.0.1 in the majority of cases is 1.5.0.*, so if your extensions work with 1.5.0.1 and 1.5.0.2, they'll be compatible with any future security upgrades for this branch.
There's got to be a better site for Firefox extensions.
There is. I'd also like to mention here that Slashdotter is at version 1.5 and now supports customizing the style for each Slashdot section separately.
Well, that's new. It wasn't there a few weeks ago when I wrote that feature of the extension, so I guess I can take it out. The Ponies CSS file was removed a few minutes ago too, so that's then end of that feature too.
Slashdot Mirror
I know that this is off-topic, but I just want to address an issue I've been seeing in the tagging beta:
Why do people tag stories with keywords that are part of the headline? The only tag showing for this story is "siliconvalley," which is about a zero on the usefulness scale of 1-10. The whole point of tagging is to provide additional meta-data about a story, not just to take the nouns in the headline and turn them into tags. For goodness sake, you could at least play the Fark card and just tag stories as Interesting, Amusing, Asinine, etc. if you don't have anything better to go with.
Didn't you get the memo from Digg? Tech sites are to report all Google-related news, even in situations like these, where this Dell/Google alliance has apparently just gone from beta to stable.
I heard an interesting statistic yesterday regarding this method of advertising: eBay is the single largest buyer of search terms for these search engine ads; apparently they have bought ads for 15 million different search terms. (Although I'm not sure why they want to target people looking for outcasts...)
I'm not too concerned with whether my HTML validates, but I make sure that any Javascript and CSS I use are correct (i.e. no warnings or errors in the Firefox Javascript console). There's nothing more annoying than trying to debug Javascript in a Firefox extension when I have my GMail open in a tab, as it spews out CSS and Javascript warnings and errors so fast that any extension related errors are lost in the flow.
See? I can be funny too!
This is because the maxVersion in the extensions for 1.5.0.1 in the majority of cases is 1.5.0.*, so if your extensions work with 1.5.0.1 and 1.5.0.2, they'll be compatible with any future security upgrades for this branch.
This is due to some changes made to Slashdot's HTML on March 31. The new version is compatible with the new HTML.
Well, that's new. It wasn't there a few weeks ago when I wrote that feature of the extension, so I guess I can take it out. The Ponies CSS file was removed a few minutes ago too, so that's then end of that feature too.
You can hide tagging, if you want to.