I second that. I'd been avoiding it because it looked stupid, but I watched it for the first time last night (it was on between other things I was watching, which is how such shows get watched), and it was surprisingly funny. I actually laughed out loud more than once.
You missed thing I hate most about LCDs and color: The color is different depending on the angle you're viewing it at. This drives me bonkers. When I'm looking at a computer screen, I want to be able to see the same things in the same colors no matter where my head is in relation to the screen.
My God, I'd hate to work somewhere where HR took your risk management advice.
Now, read what I just said: I would hate to work there. I've worked with people who never really "checked in" to the job, people who were horrible to work with (bad attitude and unwilling to learn), and people who only stayed for six months. All of those things make for a very stressful work environment for those of us who are checked in and do want to stay.
FedEx Kinko's is on to you! Just last night I saw this very odd commercial they're running where six guys in business attire step into a shower (water turned off) for a very important meeting.
I do that too, and I find that I get the extra bonus of my coworkers (a) admiring my space age plastic containers and (b) commenting on how healthy I eat.
Or not seeing it. If I've blocked images from an ad serving server, there's a big white space on my screen where it used to be. Occasionally I'll hit that instead of the actually empty white space I wanted (to change focus to that window), and it'll send me through to whatever it was advertising.
I have clicked on banner ads on purpose, but only ones advertising merchandise for the site I'm already at, such as Penny Arcade or Television Without Pity.
In the past, I've bookmarked articles and other sites that I thought were really interesting and that I occasionally referred other people to. Many of them no longer exist. Even Googling finds nothing. But I have a bookmark. I know where it used to be. And that means I can (often; not everything gets cached) use the Internet Archive to find that content again.
When your ISP is local, you can physically go there and meet the people running it. You can be on a first name basis with the sysadmin.
When we had a problem with our DSL getting set up, the owner of our ISP (Stormnet, who we originally started using because they were hacker-friendly when my brother and his computer geek best friend were teenagers) drove out to our house, which is about as far away from their office as you can get and still be in the same town, at 7 o'clock at night to bring us a new modem. I'm going to trust him way more than some faceless minimum-wage customer service rep only accessible by 800 number.
I hope Amazon partners with Netflix. I'd love to be able to add to my queue from an Amazon page, but it would be even better to add to my queue from an IMDb page.
I'd like a way to use my colors on a tab by tab basis. For example, I'm going through a Buffy phase, and Buffy fans think it's really cool to put white text on a black background. This is very hard to read. When I hit one of those sites that looks bad but has information I want to read, I want some way to set the tab that site is open in to use only my colors, without having to go to Edit > Preferences (I'm actually using Mozilla and not Firefox, but extensions seem to work equally well). Changing the preferences not only takes too much time, it also changes it for all tabs, which is not what I want.
If such an extension already exists, please show off by telling me where it is! I'd love to download it.
While I don't doubt that BrainBoost works, heroin addict dublin into Google gets me "There are 13,000 heroin addicts in Dublin" in the first page of results.
Amen! I'm an editor for an organization that did not have any sort of style guide before I started compiling one for my own use. Figuring out whether the trend for any particular compound noun is to be two words, hyphenated, or one word would be a heck of a lot easier if Google had a search with punctuation option.
Actually, that's precisely why I don't use Opera. When I find a webpage hard to read, it's either because of the color scheme or the text size. Zoomed images are pixelated and look bad. Mozilla's Ctrl++, Ctrl+- to change font size is the best thing I know of for making things easier to read.
(The biggest improvement I can see for Mozilla would be a way to set the always use my colors on the fly. When I go to a page with content I actually want but a color scheme that's unreadable, it's a pain to have to set that preference, reload the page, then set it back to what it was because I don't want it set for the things I have open in other tabs.)
Huh. I hadn't noticed that since I don't usually try to navigate the front page with the keyboard.
Typing anything while on the page puts what you type into their search box, even if you click out of the search box first. However, ctrl+f and typing into the find box works (Mozilla 1.7.3, Windows XP). Luckily this is only true on the front page. You can still keyboard navigate other pages, if you can get to them.
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Now if only we could get Ben & Jerry's in on the deal...
I second that. I'd been avoiding it because it looked stupid, but I watched it for the first time last night (it was on between other things I was watching, which is how such shows get watched), and it was surprisingly funny. I actually laughed out loud more than once.
Oh, yeah, thanks for the image. "Are you happy to see me or are those explosives in your pants?"
Uh. Maybe I'm missing something about what you're saying, but isn't File > Page Setup > Shrink to Fit Page Width enabled by default in Firefox?
You missed thing I hate most about LCDs and color: The color is different depending on the angle you're viewing it at. This drives me bonkers. When I'm looking at a computer screen, I want to be able to see the same things in the same colors no matter where my head is in relation to the screen.
You forgot the missing options, you insensitive clod.
My God, I'd hate to work somewhere where HR took your risk management advice.
Now, read what I just said: I would hate to work there. I've worked with people who never really "checked in" to the job, people who were horrible to work with (bad attitude and unwilling to learn), and people who only stayed for six months. All of those things make for a very stressful work environment for those of us who are checked in and do want to stay.
FedEx Kinko's is on to you! Just last night I saw this very odd commercial they're running where six guys in business attire step into a shower (water turned off) for a very important meeting.
I do that too, and I find that I get the extra bonus of my coworkers (a) admiring my space age plastic containers and (b) commenting on how healthy I eat.
Or not seeing it. If I've blocked images from an ad serving server, there's a big white space on my screen where it used to be. Occasionally I'll hit that instead of the actually empty white space I wanted (to change focus to that window), and it'll send me through to whatever it was advertising.
I have clicked on banner ads on purpose, but only ones advertising merchandise for the site I'm already at, such as Penny Arcade or Television Without Pity.
What is the show about, anyways (now that it's been mentioned on Slashdot a couple of times)?
Uh, a bunch of high school kids.
In the past, I've bookmarked articles and other sites that I thought were really interesting and that I occasionally referred other people to. Many of them no longer exist. Even Googling finds nothing. But I have a bookmark. I know where it used to be. And that means I can (often; not everything gets cached) use the Internet Archive to find that content again.
I just read an interesting therapist-perspective article on that same point. Fun is how you define it, and the same things aren't fun for everyone.
Your trust is also based on C) Local.
When your ISP is local, you can physically go there and meet the people running it. You can be on a first name basis with the sysadmin.
When we had a problem with our DSL getting set up, the owner of our ISP (Stormnet, who we originally started using because they were hacker-friendly when my brother and his computer geek best friend were teenagers) drove out to our house, which is about as far away from their office as you can get and still be in the same town, at 7 o'clock at night to bring us a new modem. I'm going to trust him way more than some faceless minimum-wage customer service rep only accessible by 800 number.
I hope Amazon partners with Netflix. I'd love to be able to add to my queue from an Amazon page, but it would be even better to add to my queue from an IMDb page.
I'd like a way to use my colors on a tab by tab basis. For example, I'm going through a Buffy phase, and Buffy fans think it's really cool to put white text on a black background. This is very hard to read. When I hit one of those sites that looks bad but has information I want to read, I want some way to set the tab that site is open in to use only my colors, without having to go to Edit > Preferences (I'm actually using Mozilla and not Firefox, but extensions seem to work equally well). Changing the preferences not only takes too much time, it also changes it for all tabs, which is not what I want.
If such an extension already exists, please show off by telling me where it is! I'd love to download it.
So does the Secret Service.
I can just see Jeff Foxworthy now: "If you use duct tape to repair your space shuttle, you just might be a redneck."
Before I read your actual comment, I wondered why anyone would throw pie at a duck.
While I don't doubt that BrainBoost works, heroin addict dublin into Google gets me "There are 13,000 heroin addicts in Dublin" in the first page of results.
Amen! I'm an editor for an organization that did not have any sort of style guide before I started compiling one for my own use. Figuring out whether the trend for any particular compound noun is to be two words, hyphenated, or one word would be a heck of a lot easier if Google had a search with punctuation option.
An interesting read on this subject is Connie Willis' Remake.
Hell, who wants to put on pants, period?
Actually, that's precisely why I don't use Opera. When I find a webpage hard to read, it's either because of the color scheme or the text size. Zoomed images are pixelated and look bad. Mozilla's Ctrl++, Ctrl+- to change font size is the best thing I know of for making things easier to read.
(The biggest improvement I can see for Mozilla would be a way to set the always use my colors on the fly. When I go to a page with content I actually want but a color scheme that's unreadable, it's a pain to have to set that preference, reload the page, then set it back to what it was because I don't want it set for the things I have open in other tabs.)
Huh. I hadn't noticed that since I don't usually try to navigate the front page with the keyboard.
Typing anything while on the page puts what you type into their search box, even if you click out of the search box first. However, ctrl+f and typing into the find box works (Mozilla 1.7.3, Windows XP). Luckily this is only true on the front page. You can still keyboard navigate other pages, if you can get to them.