Clear your cache and then try loading something like digg The front page is so chocka with javascript files it takes an age to come up. As an example I can click digg into the first tab, click slashdot boingboing and gmail into others. I can glance at the front pages of all of them and most of the time clear out my spam before digg even appears, it sticks on the js files.
The cursor keys are an advantage for me as a lefty. I never understood the WSAD keyboard use when perfectly good cursor keys exist. Now my right hand does a good job at handling the cursor leaving my mouse hand free to look around.
In this regard, I would say lefties have a benefit:)
Actually, only one of them was. When you have side buttons on a mouse meant for your thumb, they become extremely difficult to avoid/use with your pinky when grasping the mouse. If you get on a machine configured to use them its a nightmare.
When every user has to teach the dictionary how to spell the name of its own host environment it shows a level of professionalism which is a bit rough. Additionally, if the word is added to your custom dictionary I believe it does not come up as a near miss and will not be listed as an alternative to an incorrect word.
I wonder if the dictionary coders have ever thought of allowing the additions be uploaded to the central server and merging the most used examples into the main version? Like picing out the big entries from a tag cloud. Sort of self fixing, but would require it to know the variations in error which the user types but intended to type something else.
I like the idea of what you suggest, but there isn't always another dictionary available. Perhaps in the future it can be consolidated into a single block of code, but I think the context sensitivity required would be quite bad. I type differently and use words here I would not consider using for a work related document.
The dictionary as it stands now is a VERY good start for windows Firefox users at least, am I right in my belief that a global dictionary is already available for every text field on the mac?
Best part about the spell checker is (at least in my English/United kingdom dictionary) it thinks Firefox is misspelt. It gives options for firebox and Fire fox.
There are other oddities in this dictionary which will no doubt be ironed out.
Unfortunately, it doesn't cover the application logs per the specific violation, CD burning logs to see if those files have been copied to CD, movie maker application log to see if you sang along to it, your internet logs to see if you posted it to your blog or youtube, your complete email log to see if you mailed it (or its lyrics) to anyone, a telnet log, your IM conversation logs and also your full paint.exe destination folder image files incase you took a screenshot of it in action and saved it.
I would guess its got something to do with the security and DRM authorisation side of things. It might not be as technically damaging as a filesystem bug, but with the DRM tied into everything if it fails the system will be left goosed. I remember the cryptographic service failing on Windows XP causing problems, but this was fixable because it wasn't at the core of the system.
And how exactly could google tweak against something just because it becomes popular? Its not a bad thing that certain key phrases chanted by the masses gains popularity, if people weren't saying it, google wouldn't uplink it - that is democracy in action: the voice of the people.
No its a public debate, you have an equal chance in this arena to do something similar. Stop whining and get yourselves active - calling it an attack now after google bombs have been around now for years is just petty. The opposition fired a nice viral volley and are riding the publicity wave, you are only pissed that its not your group. If as you say its a close contest then its time for your lot to respond.
You wouldn't be complaining if it was your partys' supporters which managed to pull off a publicity stunt like this.
And before you accuse me of bias, note I am from the UK and I don't even remotely care who is winning.
They haven't changed the algorithm just because pranksters have hijacked a couple of phrases and generally made people more aware of google (by advertising "have you tried going to google and typing...."), they have done it to stop link farms and spam from getting through.
Linking by keywords is a very important aspect of how google manages to return relevant results. The text a person uses to actually link to a site gives weight to the use of the destination site, to this end when linking we should always try to give a relevant phrase. Linking slashdot as this is less useful than something like Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters.
You use a service pack because you don't want to sit on the end of a modem for 4 hours whilst these updates drip in one at a time with separate reboots in-between and leaving yourself open and available to infection from being on the wild internet.
If the article is correct and the blogs themselves are breaking the terms, then shouldn't google close them down? Does it matter whether somebody is a serial telltale with an agenda or not if the end result is the same?
These technological wonders are rare and unique, they need to ramp production to even come close. from the website:
Only a handful of Adia diamonds are produced each month. To the contrary, natural diamonds have annual production rates of over 150,000,000 carats. Would you believe that they are rare?
I'm just reading a fascinating site packed with diamond color info.
Fascinating to see the histories of the famous natural diamonds, if they can get production close for clear ones it will be good. As a geek I cannot wait for a diamond processor.
damn submit button, missed a whole section out I had been looking around the prefs and changed all I could but didn't get anywhere. I hadn't bothered with about:config in this case because its as good as editing the registry and I don't want to mess things up by randomly changing values. There is only a few items within there that I feel comfortable enough changing.
Nope, since writing this comment I have been watching the homepage for the addin developer, on it he now states:
Everyone else: I am aware of several minor buglets with regards to the URL bar. I am researching all of them and will hopefully fix them all in the upcoming 1.3.2 release. For now, please be aware that I know about them and don't need more e-mails telling me about it;-)
Slashdot Mirror
Clear your cache and then try loading something like digg
The front page is so chocka with javascript files it takes an age to come up.
As an example I can click digg into the first tab, click slashdot boingboing and gmail into others.
I can glance at the front pages of all of them and most of the time clear out my spam before digg even appears, it sticks on the js files.
Then why was his home hard drive confiscated and not the site drive?
Other than that, I can't get any deeper cos I don't understand any of it - its all greek to me.
You know all the users with IE7, you can block their IP's at will ;)
I mean, it takes 39 people to say the same thing, thankfully I can't test it.
The cursor keys are an advantage for me as a lefty.
:)
I never understood the WSAD keyboard use when perfectly good cursor keys exist.
Now my right hand does a good job at handling the cursor leaving my mouse hand free to look around.
In this regard, I would say lefties have a benefit
Actually, only one of them was.
When you have side buttons on a mouse meant for your thumb, they become extremely difficult to avoid/use with your pinky when grasping the mouse.
If you get on a machine configured to use them its a nightmare.
It must have been slashdotted ;) try again later
When every user has to teach the dictionary how to spell the name of its own host environment it shows a level of professionalism which is a bit rough.
Additionally, if the word is added to your custom dictionary I believe it does not come up as a near miss and will not be listed as an alternative to an incorrect word.
I wonder if the dictionary coders have ever thought of allowing the additions be uploaded to the central server and merging the most used examples into the main version? Like picing out the big entries from a tag cloud.
Sort of self fixing, but would require it to know the variations in error which the user types but intended to type something else.
For future reference:
WARNING:
Do not stare at BLINK text with remaining eye.
We cannot have new HTML without upgrading the best part of the web.
Example of server side blink
Wonderful!?
I like the idea of what you suggest, but there isn't always another dictionary available.
Perhaps in the future it can be consolidated into a single block of code, but I think the context sensitivity required would be quite bad.
I type differently and use words here I would not consider using for a work related document.
The dictionary as it stands now is a VERY good start for windows Firefox users at least, am I right in my belief that a global dictionary is already available for every text field on the mac?
Best part about the spell checker is (at least in my English/United kingdom dictionary) it thinks Firefox is misspelt.
It gives options for firebox and Fire fox.
There are other oddities in this dictionary which will no doubt be ironed out.
Unfortunately, it doesn't cover the application logs per the specific violation, CD burning logs to see if those files have been copied to CD, movie maker application log to see if you sang along to it, your internet logs to see if you posted it to your blog or youtube, your complete email log to see if you mailed it (or its lyrics) to anyone, a telnet log, your IM conversation logs and also your full paint.exe destination folder image files incase you took a screenshot of it in action and saved it.
To read this TPS report you are required to insert blood sample into the slot provided and place your left eye on the scanner.
What I want to know is does this include downloading the updates to Office 2000 and other versions not requiring activation?
I would guess its got something to do with the security and DRM authorisation side of things.
It might not be as technically damaging as a filesystem bug, but with the DRM tied into everything if it fails the system will be left goosed.
I remember the cryptographic service failing on Windows XP causing problems, but this was fixable because it wasn't at the core of the system.
CmdrTaco must feel important that they got round to listening to his ideas. ;)
I wonder if they will increase capacity as well
No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
And how exactly could google tweak against something just because it becomes popular?
Its not a bad thing that certain key phrases chanted by the masses gains popularity, if people weren't saying it, google wouldn't uplink it - that is democracy in action: the voice of the people.
No its a public debate, you have an equal chance in this arena to do something similar.
Stop whining and get yourselves active - calling it an attack now after google bombs have been around now for years is just petty.
The opposition fired a nice viral volley and are riding the publicity wave, you are only pissed that its not your group. If as you say its a close contest then its time for your lot to respond.
You wouldn't be complaining if it was your partys' supporters which managed to pull off a publicity stunt like this.
And before you accuse me of bias, note I am from the UK and I don't even remotely care who is winning.
I noticed that "this" links to the flying spaghetti monster site.
People must be going "look at this" or similar.
They haven't changed the algorithm just because pranksters have hijacked a couple of phrases and generally made people more aware of google (by advertising "have you tried going to google and typing ...."), they have done it to stop link farms and spam from getting through.
Linking by keywords is a very important aspect of how google manages to return relevant results.
The text a person uses to actually link to a site gives weight to the use of the destination site, to this end when linking we should always try to give a relevant phrase.
Linking slashdot as this is less useful than something like Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters.
You use a service pack because you don't want to sit on the end of a modem for 4 hours whilst these updates drip in one at a time with separate reboots in-between and leaving yourself open and available to infection from being on the wild internet.
If the article is correct and the blogs themselves are breaking the terms, then shouldn't google close them down?
Does it matter whether somebody is a serial telltale with an agenda or not if the end result is the same?
These technological wonders are rare and unique, they need to ramp production to even come close.
:)
from the website:
Only a handful of Adia diamonds are produced each month. To the contrary, natural diamonds have annual production rates of over 150,000,000 carats. Would you believe that they are rare?
I'm just reading a fascinating site packed with diamond color info.
Fascinating to see the histories of the famous natural diamonds, if they can get production close for clear ones it will be good.
As a geek I cannot wait for a diamond processor.
Is this the startings of the diamond age
damn submit button, missed a whole section out
I had been looking around the prefs and changed all I could but didn't get anywhere.
I hadn't bothered with about:config in this case because its as good as editing the registry and I don't want to mess things up by randomly changing values. There is only a few items within there that I feel comfortable enough changing.
Nope, since writing this comment I have been watching the homepage for the addin developer, on it he now states:
;-)
Everyone else: I am aware of several minor buglets with regards to the URL bar. I am researching all of them and will hopefully fix them all in the upcoming 1.3.2 release. For now, please be aware that I know about them and don't need more e-mails telling me about it
from the tabbrowser prefs home page.
Shame its just about to finish.
Buddha mode off...