The problem is that this company is assigning itself an unreasonable, unnecessary and unethically expansive set of rights to other people's intellectual property - essentially every right short of actual ownership.
I don't see how. Most other commercial webhosting providers I have used have the same babble. I would assume the reason why this even exists is because of dropbox's 'Public' folder.
But this kind of clause is still poisonous and abusive and should condemned by everyone.
It's likely due to the public folder in dropbox which acts as webhosting functionality that brought this on. If you've ever looked at other webhosting providers, they tend to have that same bit of babble in their ToS.
3. I actually find it takes more mouse clicks when I'm working in the Ribbon than it does with my aforementioned custom toolbars.
I find the opposite, it takes me at most 4 clicks to get anywhere as opposed to some menu items in office 2003 that took me nine due to sub dialogs and such.
4. #3 wouldn't be so bad if you could customize the Ribbon, but you can't.
But you can. You can create your own tab with the custom stuff you want on the ribbon (quick access toolbar). The entire reason why you can't customize the other tabs is intentional, it's so users don't have to relearn the interface on every machine, this is a good thing.
6. No next labels for most things means people who are text-oriented rather than picture-oriented have a harder time navigating.
I don't know what you're talking about, looking in Microsoft Word 2007, Microsoft Excel 2007 and there is almost a text label on every single icon?
9. No option to go back to the old style. In Vista you can still elect to use the menu from Windows 95, if that's what you want. But not Office, no, that would be too good for them. They can make it compatible with file formats from 15 years ago, but they can't make it compatible with human beings!
I've seen plenty of office addons do that, so while it may not be built in, it is still an option.
10. Behind the Ribbon icons, you still frequently encounter the same old tired, confusing, cluttered, mixed-up, poorly-documented dialog boxes that have been in Word for years. Some dialogs still mix settings for Word-as-a-whole vs the-current-document, for example.
The only one I can even think of which you've mentioned is "paste special".
11. Instead of dick-twiddling around with UI conventions, they could have been doing something more productive, like making lists in Word sane, or fixing the fscking "Page 1 of 1", "Page 2 of 2" bug that's been in Word since *at least* Word 97. A decade and a half later, and Microsoft still hasn't managed to teach a computer how to count.
Isn't that only an issue for people who don't know how to format their documents properly? I believe the Office alternatives experience the same issues too with improper formatting.
The performance issues I see are when a rogue javascript locks up the UI in some sort of busy loop. On chrome it locks up a tab, and the rest of my browser carries on unaffected.
The only time I had javascript issues like that on Firefox was when I briefly ran Adblock plus and the Skype toolbar. Never had any javascript lock ups otherwise on Chrome or Firefox.
read server security/compromise cases you can find from google. its something trivial. i cant be bothered to provide eloquent summaries for someone so far off the field.
Nothing I can find involving DDoS being "the foremost method to break into servers is DDoSing them", honestly.
I used to do this with other applications when I had problems... Considered backing up your bookmarks, passwords and such over Firefox sync and then uninstalling firefox and wiping your firefox application data directory and making sure the firefox program files directory was deleted, then reinstalling and resynching the data back?
That would restore Firefox to a 'clean' condition and likely resolve any issues caused by conflicting extensions and settings.
Well, I noticed an even higher memory consumption and it seemed slower overall.
I've been seeing the opposite. But that might be because I don't count the memory plugin-container.exe takes towards it usually.
In my experience, it was constantly "lagging".
On both my netbook and desktop systems, they're pretty much on par, not really experiencing any slowness in the UI. Maybe it's because I have Aero enabled or something?
or maybe you dont know shit about server administration/security ? are you aware that the foremost method to break into servers is ddosing them, causing normally unexploitable bugs and exploits become vulnerable ? and no server, even the most secure oses and cluster balanced servers are impervious to this ?
Can we have some citations on this matter, please? I'm failing to find them myself on Google.
Firefox has been going downhill since version 2.0, and been totally blown out of the water in terms of performance and reliability since the release of Chrome.
Just my personal experience here, but I really can't tell the difference in performance between Chrome or Firefox on my netbook or my desktop system (I use both browsers regularly). Reliability wise, I looked in my event viewer crash log on my desktop system. This past month alone, I have had 39 crashes from Chrome.exe, 0 from Firefox 4. On my netbook, I have 9 crashes from Chrome, 0 from Firefox 4.
Saying that, when Chrome crashes, it usually only takes out like 20 tabs, as opposed to the whole browser (I use an excessive amount of tabs). If Firefox were to crash, the whole browser would lose everything. Although, plugins are handled by a seperate process called plugin-container.exe (crashes: 2 on desktop, 1 on netbook) which won't take out the browser if it crashes.
I'm honestly not seeing the performance and reliability issues you speak of.
For added information, I use the following extensions on Firefox:
British English dictionary Flashblock HTTPS-everywhere
Chrome: FlashBlock
The only plugin both browsers have is Adobe Flash (I manually remove all the other crap like silverlight, java, adobe reader).
Do you have any idea why I would not be seeing what your observations are?
ever since the update half my plugins don't work, and I've lost some of what I thought was basic built in functionality (for example when I right click on a picture, "view image" is no longer an option)
Not experienced these problems, honestly. I even still have "view image" in Firefox 5.
The WebGL is buggy and most of Mozilla's demo's wont run and the aquarium webGL experiment does not render properly.
I downgraded back to Firefox 4.01 and the problems went away. I have an ATI 5750 with the latest drivers under Windows 7.
They work fine on both my netbook and desktop. Both systems run windows 7 ultimate. Desktop system has a nVidia 9800 with latest drivers, netbook has a ATi mobility Radeon 4200, with the latest drivers from ATi.
I was considering an update to Firefox 4 but I was expecting the major bugs and issues to be ironed out before upgrading.
I've not been experiencing any on Firefox 4, now I'm running on Firefox 5 and I'm still not experiencing any?
If it's any help. The only plugin I have enabled is Adobe Flash and the only extensions I have installed is: British English dictionary, HTTPS-everywhere and Flashblock.
To be honest... Your comment sounds like you're generalizing on stereotypes, since you won't provide any proper sources or even give any sort of specific event these people did as an example.
I'm still using skype 3.8 because of the horrible chat interface of skype 4 and 5, for example these days everyone has a widescreen, so why the fuck they waste vertical space by putting a huge contact list on the top instead of leaving it to the right? the chat content doesn't automatically resize with the window, you have to drag it, also there is no big visual difference between your and others text, with skype 3 you get a big blue/gray bar before the text, with skype 4-5 it's very subtle since it's only the nickname that changes color
What's wrong with compact view again? I don't understand your problem, it seems easily resolved with one click.
are you saying that phone bombing fbi and taking down cia.gov(website) isn't newsworthy?
CIA's website is working fine for me. They're not really good at it apparently. I've seen better attacks against Dalnet that took them out for over a month and that was with ISP supported systems with numerous black holes put in place to prevent the attacks.
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How quaint. How is mosaic 1.0 working out for you these days?
I don't see how. Most other commercial webhosting providers I have used have the same babble. I would assume the reason why this even exists is because of dropbox's 'Public' folder.
This clause even existed in the 90s on Geocities.
It's likely due to the public folder in dropbox which acts as webhosting functionality that brought this on. If you've ever looked at other webhosting providers, they tend to have that same bit of babble in their ToS.
Changing to vulgarity is often an indication that one does not have any worthwhile counter argument.
I do.
Now, where is this more sinister citations?
Care to follow up with information on more sinister stuff than the Halloween documents, patent trolling and the numerous anti-competitive practices to lock out alternatives, as I am unable to find them in search.
I look forward to reading your sources.
I find the opposite, it takes me at most 4 clicks to get anywhere as opposed to some menu items in office 2003 that took me nine due to sub dialogs and such.
But you can. You can create your own tab with the custom stuff you want on the ribbon (quick access toolbar). The entire reason why you can't customize the other tabs is intentional, it's so users don't have to relearn the interface on every machine, this is a good thing.
I don't know what you're talking about, looking in Microsoft Word 2007, Microsoft Excel 2007 and there is almost a text label on every single icon?
I've seen plenty of office addons do that, so while it may not be built in, it is still an option.
The only one I can even think of which you've mentioned is "paste special".
Isn't that only an issue for people who don't know how to format their documents properly? I believe the Office alternatives experience the same issues too with improper formatting.
The only time I had javascript issues like that on Firefox was when I briefly ran Adblock plus and the Skype toolbar. Never had any javascript lock ups otherwise on Chrome or Firefox.
Nothing I can find involving DDoS being "the foremost method to break into servers is DDoSing them", honestly.
I used to do this with other applications when I had problems... Considered backing up your bookmarks, passwords and such over Firefox sync and then uninstalling firefox and wiping your firefox application data directory and making sure the firefox program files directory was deleted, then reinstalling and resynching the data back?
That would restore Firefox to a 'clean' condition and likely resolve any issues caused by conflicting extensions and settings.
I've been seeing the opposite. But that might be because I don't count the memory plugin-container.exe takes towards it usually.
On both my netbook and desktop systems, they're pretty much on par, not really experiencing any slowness in the UI. Maybe it's because I have Aero enabled or something?
Take a look at 9/11 at Buckingham Palace.
Can we have some citations on this matter, please? I'm failing to find them myself on Google.
Honestly, I would have expected more corruption from an organisation the size of Sony, they've done pretty well considering.
Just my personal experience here, but I really can't tell the difference in performance between Chrome or Firefox on my netbook or my desktop system (I use both browsers regularly). Reliability wise, I looked in my event viewer crash log on my desktop system. This past month alone, I have had 39 crashes from Chrome.exe, 0 from Firefox 4. On my netbook, I have 9 crashes from Chrome, 0 from Firefox 4.
Saying that, when Chrome crashes, it usually only takes out like 20 tabs, as opposed to the whole browser (I use an excessive amount of tabs). If Firefox were to crash, the whole browser would lose everything. Although, plugins are handled by a seperate process called plugin-container.exe (crashes: 2 on desktop, 1 on netbook) which won't take out the browser if it crashes.
I'm honestly not seeing the performance and reliability issues you speak of.
For added information, I use the following extensions on Firefox:
British English dictionary
Flashblock
HTTPS-everywhere
Chrome:
FlashBlock
The only plugin both browsers have is Adobe Flash (I manually remove all the other crap like silverlight, java, adobe reader).
Do you have any idea why I would not be seeing what your observations are?
Not experienced these problems, honestly. I even still have "view image" in Firefox 5.
They work fine on both my netbook and desktop. Both systems run windows 7 ultimate. Desktop system has a nVidia 9800 with latest drivers, netbook has a ATi mobility Radeon 4200, with the latest drivers from ATi.
I've not been experiencing any on Firefox 4, now I'm running on Firefox 5 and I'm still not experiencing any?
If it's any help. The only plugin I have enabled is Adobe Flash and the only extensions I have installed is: British English dictionary, HTTPS-everywhere and Flashblock.
To be honest... Your comment sounds like you're generalizing on stereotypes, since you won't provide any proper sources or even give any sort of specific event these people did as an example.
What's wrong with compact view again? I don't understand your problem, it seems easily resolved with one click.
Because average Joe really cares about similar sounding Latin words, right?
Don't know where you got that from. I understood that in the US, rights were actually granted to you in bills. Such as "The bill of rights".
But, as I'm apparently wrong on this, could provide more precise information on the matter?
Google isn't being very helpful on finding your source material for me.
CIA's website is working fine for me. They're not really good at it apparently. I've seen better attacks against Dalnet that took them out for over a month and that was with ISP supported systems with numerous black holes put in place to prevent the attacks.
I'm not experiencing this.
I'm not getting this either.
I always have.
With SafeSearch set to strict? Probably not many, if any at all.
Because you can switch SafeSearch to strict filtering? Duh.