No, the key is to have a background of black and white stars, that inverts every second. That way, people can read the alternate words on the alternate seconds.
Moving away from that original intent, it's become ingrained in most casual user's minds that this is the obligatory suffix of a typical web address..net and.org are only sightly as recognizable as additional suffixes.
Exactly. That's why I always visit slashdot.com, I know it's the real Slashdot. That.org site is an obvious scam, filled with pointless 'news' links and inane comments.
bad boys get the most girls. "The finding may help explain why a nasty suite of antisocial personality traits known as the 'dark triad' persists in the human population, despite their potentially grave cultural costs. [...] People with these personalities risk being shunned by others and shut out of relationships, leaving them without a mate, hungry and vulnerable to predators."
Mozilla never pretend that extensions magically never have to be maintained to stay working. Maybe a few people on Slashdot do. I'm an editor on addons.mozilla.org, and there are a huge number of updates sitting in the queue right now to be reviewed. Maybe not all extensions get maintained, but most do. Whatsmore, AMO is very reasonable. If an extension isn't maintained and you really like it, learn some XUL, and Javascript, grab its sourcecode (most don't have binary components and are released under some kind of OSS licence), and maintain it yourself under a different name, giving credit to the original author.
But don't whinge about people's free work you're using not being maintained for you as if you were paying for it.
The Sarkozy government is about as corrupt and authoritarian as the Bush administration, and similarly incompetent. (Even Chirac, who didn't have the most spotless of records to say the least, had at least surrounded himself with competent and well meaning people.)
This starts to make sense when you realise they were/are comparing Sarkozy to Blair.
No, it changes the old functionality significantly, especially for people who would use the first few letters of (sub)domain names to identify a URL. For example, I used to access Wikipedia links by typing 'en'; it would ALWAYS come up with a Wikipedia URL. Now, typing 'en' comes up with an AMO URL, and numerous other URLs with 'en' in the name. And just now, I wanted to visit the Wimbledon tennis champs website so I typed 'wim'; with the previous URLbar, that would give me wimbledon.org as the first address. Now, it comes up with 3 before it, like a Wikipedia entry on Wimbledon.
I'd say it's better in some ways, and worse in some ways. I kinda preferred the old bar. But anyone who says the new bar is always better is wrong.
In fact, the organisers are probably relying on the fact that we won't. If a record-breaking number of downloads for a 24 hour period occurred all starting within a few minutes of each other, I don't think even mozilla.org's servers would survive for long.
They haven't. mozilla.com is dead as a dodo. Why didn't they host the FF3 downloads on Google's gear? Seems that would be sensible.
Are you shitting me? IP rights are one thing (we don't expect people not to respect IP rights, we may disagree a bit on how extensive those rights should be), but SIM locks are an anticompetitive abomination, and this guy is a moron if he expects intelligent developers ever to like them. They're all about vendor lock-in, and removal of consumer choice. I bought my phone independently of a contract. It cost more but means I just put in whatever company's SIM I want and I switch providers that easily. Nokia, if you don't like that, fuck off. (It's a Nokia phone)
They did and we call it "The 14th Amendment" [wikipedia.org].
Wasn't that one added by the victors of a major civil war, the losers of whom would not have supported it? How can that reasonably be called 'all states coming to an agreement'?
That's still better than the Big Two's candidates, who support intrusive federal AND local government. Local government was always meant to have more power to intrude, from the day the Constitution was finished.
The most efficient forms of democratic government have lots of smaller parties in which none have enough power to filibuster each other. The english have a much more efficient government than we do, so do the Japanese.
Whilst I'm sure there are more effective democracies than the US one, please don't include the English/UK in that category.
I really think that you should only send carrige return in your mail if you want to start a new paragraph. Sending an entire paragraph as a single line is good, because then my mail program, can wrap the lines acording to my window size.
That's being very thoughtless and is bad netiquette. How is he supposed to print the e-mail out looking nice on his dot matrix printer if you do this?
I keep getting junk mail in the post to come to Virgin because of their 'blazing fast' internet speeds and cool cable TV. I stick with Be Unlimited, and Sky. I am happy.:-)
I do use Virgin Mobile for my mobile phone, though, because of its simple PAYG tariff. Maybe I'll reconsider that one...
I know they like it, but that favourites star on the right of the URLbar is very annoying. Several times I've found myself accidentally clicking it and bookmarking the page, then you have to click twice to remove the damn bookmark. That's why in my extension, there's an option to remove it.
Apart from that, yeah FF3 is mostly improvements over FF2, and noticable faster to load too which is great. They should've left a pref in to get the old URLbar dropdown behaviour back, though.:-(
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No, the key is to have a background of black and white stars, that inverts every second. That way, people can read the alternate words on the alternate seconds.
But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
So, you have an idea that I thought up... for FREE!!! Evil commie. </Reagan>
Moving away from that original intent, it's become ingrained in most casual user's minds that this is the obligatory suffix of a typical web address. .net and .org are only sightly as recognizable as additional suffixes.
Exactly. That's why I always visit slashdot.com, I know it's the real Slashdot. That .org site is an obvious scam, filled with pointless 'news' links and inane comments.
I would suspect .con would see some value for typosquatters as well.
But, at least that TLD would be an accurate description...
bad boys get the most girls.
"The finding may help explain why a nasty suite of antisocial personality traits known as the 'dark triad' persists in the human population, despite their potentially grave cultural costs. [...]
People with these personalities risk being shunned by others and shut out of relationships, leaving them without a mate, hungry and vulnerable to predators."
Does it help you get laid, or what??
In WW2, if Germans were using a 1000-year-old cathedral tower for observation or sniping, we blew it up. For some reason, we don't shoot at mosques.
In WW2, we carpet bombed cities, and eventually just nuked the Japanese. Now we use "smart bombs" and are affraid of "collateral damage."
Ya ever think that maybe we learn a thing or two from the horrific events of WW2?
What complete bollocks.
Mozilla never pretend that extensions magically never have to be maintained to stay working. Maybe a few people on Slashdot do. I'm an editor on addons.mozilla.org, and there are a huge number of updates sitting in the queue right now to be reviewed. Maybe not all extensions get maintained, but most do. Whatsmore, AMO is very reasonable. If an extension isn't maintained and you really like it, learn some XUL, and Javascript, grab its sourcecode (most don't have binary components and are released under some kind of OSS licence), and maintain it yourself under a different name, giving credit to the original author.
But don't whinge about people's free work you're using not being maintained for you as if you were paying for it.
If they're pirating NIN, I really am having a problem figuring it out.
The Sarkozy government is about as corrupt and authoritarian as the Bush administration, and similarly incompetent.
(Even Chirac, who didn't have the most spotless of records to say the least, had at least surrounded himself with competent and well meaning people.)
This starts to make sense when you realise they were/are comparing Sarkozy to Blair.
You don't have a wife and children; you are a pirate.
I thought the plan was to export democracy, free speech, human rights and other such goodies
It makes sense. To export something, you have to remove it whence it came.
No, it changes the old functionality significantly, especially for people who would use the first few letters of (sub)domain names to identify a URL. For example, I used to access Wikipedia links by typing 'en'; it would ALWAYS come up with a Wikipedia URL. Now, typing 'en' comes up with an AMO URL, and numerous other URLs with 'en' in the name. And just now, I wanted to visit the Wimbledon tennis champs website so I typed 'wim'; with the previous URLbar, that would give me wimbledon.org as the first address. Now, it comes up with 3 before it, like a Wikipedia entry on Wimbledon.
I'd say it's better in some ways, and worse in some ways. I kinda preferred the old bar. But anyone who says the new bar is always better is wrong.
In fact, the organisers are probably relying on the fact that we won't. If a record-breaking number of downloads for a 24 hour period occurred all starting within a few minutes of each other, I don't think even mozilla.org's servers would survive for long.
They haven't. mozilla.com is dead as a dodo. Why didn't they host the FF3 downloads on Google's gear? Seems that would be sensible.
Are you shitting me? IP rights are one thing (we don't expect people not to respect IP rights, we may disagree a bit on how extensive those rights should be), but SIM locks are an anticompetitive abomination, and this guy is a moron if he expects intelligent developers ever to like them. They're all about vendor lock-in, and removal of consumer choice. I bought my phone independently of a contract. It cost more but means I just put in whatever company's SIM I want and I switch providers that easily. Nokia, if you don't like that, fuck off. (It's a Nokia phone)
They did and we call it "The 14th Amendment" [wikipedia.org].
Wasn't that one added by the victors of a major civil war, the losers of whom would not have supported it? How can that reasonably be called 'all states coming to an agreement'?
That's still better than the Big Two's candidates, who support intrusive federal AND local government. Local government was always meant to have more power to intrude, from the day the Constitution was finished.
The most efficient forms of democratic government have lots of smaller parties in which none have enough power to filibuster each other. The english have a much more efficient government than we do, so do the Japanese.
Whilst I'm sure there are more effective democracies than the US one, please don't include the English/UK in that category.
I really think that you should only send carrige return in your mail if you want to start a new paragraph. Sending an entire paragraph as a single line is good, because then my mail program, can wrap the lines acording to my window size.
That's being very thoughtless and is bad netiquette. How is he supposed to print the e-mail out looking nice on his dot matrix printer if you do this?
I keep getting junk mail in the post to come to Virgin because of their 'blazing fast' internet speeds and cool cable TV. I stick with Be Unlimited, and Sky. I am happy. :-)
I do use Virgin Mobile for my mobile phone, though, because of its simple PAYG tariff. Maybe I'll reconsider that one...
One exception.
:-(
I know they like it, but that favourites star on the right of the URLbar is very annoying. Several times I've found myself accidentally clicking it and bookmarking the page, then you have to click twice to remove the damn bookmark. That's why in my extension, there's an option to remove it.
Apart from that, yeah FF3 is mostly improvements over FF2, and noticable faster to load too which is great. They should've left a pref in to get the old URLbar dropdown behaviour back, though.
I know you're being facetious, but try € (€)
How is this a critical bug
To be fair, it is marked as critical in Bugzilla. God knows why.
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It's hard to dance when you're a few years away from your last breath and have trouble moving from war injuries.
You don't need to look that far away from conventional war.