Just to point out that your country has the highest incarceration rates in the world, and is without a doubt not even a contender for the safest place in the world to live.
Perhaps the social issues in America don't have to do with the system, but with those who govern.
Really, touch shit for Google IMO. That's the nature of the beast. How can you, in any clear, decisive fashion, determine that the click-through ratio is too high, and need to suspend the account?
I mean, I had google ads on my wedding web site, and google determined all the/. visitors clicking ads was too high, and deactivated my account. The bastards.
Granted no one bought anything, but still... Bastards... Well I took them for a couple checks at least.
But still, through some work they can tell when you've visited the site from google at all, and when you've made your purchase.
If ever there's an http_referrer of google it'd be up to the web site to track that and link it to a purchase.
Webmasters know where the referrers come from. Whether they chose to disclose it to Google OTOH is a much different story. I'd bet most web stores track from the referrer to the purchase, they just won't disclose that to anyone.
That's why I love choice. I love the tabbed browing in FF. Middle click to open in new tab. Middle click the tab to close it. The rest of the features seem moot IMO.
But hey, that's what choice is all about I s'ppose.
Brand loyalty. It's strong with Opera. It's also the only reason I can think of.
And opera users are as annoying as Mac users. Feel that they use the best, and that the whole world should switch.
And if it weren't true, the zealots wouldn't be modding this post down.
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The real question every firefox user has is does it have an adblock replacement yet.
Doesn't Opera nail you with a godaweful banner ad at the top of the browser unless you pay for it? IMO that automatically makes it inferior to all the competition out ther.
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lol I think the GP was taking a stab at FF for not rendering/. correctly sometimes.
When I said bad programming, I meant having a program consume more RAM than it needs is bad - DW and FF are both guilty, and there's many other apps out there that consume more than they require. Really, it abuses the system that the program's running on. That's JMO though... I don't like how some programs take
Thing is, many other apps don't have those kind of restore times either... Word takes but a moment.
IMO I think it's that philosophy of consuming as much RAM as possible that's the problem. It's similar in Dreamweaver as well... Just running FF and DW can consume over 100MB of RAM. If every program was written like that we'll pass the 1 gig requirement in no time.
JMO, but that's really bad that FF does that. IMO that's bad programming, and many seem to be doing it.
I just viewed my resource usage, and FF is reporting 44MB of RAM, IE is consuming 3. Now I KNOW I don't have 44MB worth of web pages open. WTF's all the other RAM going towards? I love FF, it's awesome, but the memory consumption issue really pisses me off.
Yes that's a valid explaination. However I'd just point out though that IE doesn't suffer the same fate, and users don't see that technological difference. While I'm comfortable explaining it to users, they generally don't care. They only see that their program takes what appears to be forever to restore after some idle time.
Just to point out though, for the most part when any site that reads the http_user_agent header and rejects me, I just change my user agent using the user agent switcher extension, and most of those sites look quite fine.
Even www.quicktaxweb.ca rejected my firefox on Linux install, but accepted firefox on Windows. Just change the user agent to appear like FF on Win and it was almost perfect.
What pisses me off most about FF is that there still appears to be a memory leak if you leave it running for a while. I frequently leave my PC on overnight, and when I get it in the morning it takes a ltime for FF to maximize in XP. Both work and home PC's show the same symptoms. That doesn't occur on my Linux boxen though.
I'd still take a program that leaks memory to 64MB, rather than soemthing that starts off by using 64MB like DW:)
I just wish they'd at least open source Homesite seeing as though they don't really actively promote it any more - it's just bundled with DW now, to appeal to people like me who think that DW really sucks donkey ass.
I actually just want to see Homesite running natively on Linux. IMO that was way better than DW. It had a much smaller footprint and just generally ran better.
Right now, the closest I can find is Zend PHP studio - that's a pretty rad IDE. IMO one of the best out there, at least for PHP anyway.
up2date in my FC3 installation had 37 updates last I checked. I'm sick of the amount of updates that come out for that... It's started to get annoying.
Even as a kid I felt I was having my inteligence insulted by things like the people who were half black, half white.
Actually, that was one of the best episodes, and the beauty of TOS. Take it in context. It was an episode about racism, and showing the nature of hate for no reason other than hate.
There was some episodes that made beautiful moral statements, and IMO this episode was the single best example of that.
I'm curious though about that one. I mean, it's a show that you've already purchased the rights to watch. They can't feed BS about the commercials, bcuz there's some appliances that allow you to skip commercials. I wonder if the right to download television has ever been tested.
I mean, the television network broadcasts something to my home. I miss it. I obtain a copy of it so I can watch it. Really, what's the difference between downloading a TV show and recording one to watch later for your own personaly use?
I can't understand the merits of their lawsuit. You weren't hosting the tracker, and you were just trying to get something that you've really already paid for the rights to see. It would be a fun one to test.
I would send the a picture of my ass and ask them to sue it.
It's good for everyone if money is spent rather than sat upon.
That all depends on the state of the economy. It's not good for everyone if you're in demand driven inflation. Then you want everyone to save and not spend.
But given the fact that Americans really enjoy their right to consume I doubt you could steer many towards not consuming.
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Then maybe rapists should get more time.
Just to point out that your country has the highest incarceration rates in the world, and is without a doubt not even a contender for the safest place in the world to live.
Perhaps the social issues in America don't have to do with the system, but with those who govern.
Yeah, but I didn't violate it. My banner read "help me pay for my wedding by clicking here"
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There was a paypal donate page, although the google-ads were kinda there too.
Really, I never violated the terms of use. They were just being bastards.
Oh, and I got over $600 in six months... Thanks
Really, touch shit for Google IMO. That's the nature of the beast. How can you, in any clear, decisive fashion, determine that the click-through ratio is too high, and need to suspend the account?
/. visitors clicking ads was too high, and deactivated my account. The bastards.
I mean, I had google ads on my wedding web site, and google determined all the
Granted no one bought anything, but still... Bastards... Well I took them for a couple checks at least.
lol true that... FF users are a bit of a zealous bunch too haha =D
But still, through some work they can tell when you've visited the site from google at all, and when you've made your purchase.
If ever there's an http_referrer of google it'd be up to the web site to track that and link it to a purchase.
Webmasters know where the referrers come from. Whether they chose to disclose it to Google OTOH is a much different story. I'd bet most web stores track from the referrer to the purchase, they just won't disclose that to anyone.
I still find it odd that a DOM inspector comes bundled with the package but not something way more benificial like AdBlock.
Maybe I'm missing something, but it appears that the DOM inspetor is gone from the latest FF release.
That's why I love choice. I love the tabbed browing in FF. Middle click to open in new tab. Middle click the tab to close it. The rest of the features seem moot IMO.
But hey, that's what choice is all about I s'ppose.
Brand loyalty. It's strong with Opera. It's also the only reason I can think of.
And opera users are as annoying as Mac users. Feel that they use the best, and that the whole world should switch.
And if it weren't true, the zealots wouldn't be modding this post down.
The real question every firefox user has is does it have an adblock replacement yet.
Doesn't Opera nail you with a godaweful banner ad at the top of the browser unless you pay for it? IMO that automatically makes it inferior to all the competition out ther.
lol I think the GP was taking a stab at FF for not rendering /. correctly sometimes.
When I said bad programming, I meant having a program consume more RAM than it needs is bad - DW and FF are both guilty, and there's many other apps out there that consume more than they require. Really, it abuses the system that the program's running on. That's JMO though... I don't like how some programs take
Good idea - I also heard you can reduce the memory footprint in about:config, but I haven't been able to figure exactly where yet...
I figured Microsux added their hooks into IE to make the memory management appear more efficient...
Still, that's an uphill battle that FF faces IMO.
Thing is, many other apps don't have those kind of restore times either... Word takes but a moment.
IMO I think it's that philosophy of consuming as much RAM as possible that's the problem. It's similar in Dreamweaver as well... Just running FF and DW can consume over 100MB of RAM. If every program was written like that we'll pass the 1 gig requirement in no time.
JMO, but that's really bad that FF does that. IMO that's bad programming, and many seem to be doing it.
I just viewed my resource usage, and FF is reporting 44MB of RAM, IE is consuming 3. Now I KNOW I don't have 44MB worth of web pages open. WTF's all the other RAM going towards? I love FF, it's awesome, but the memory consumption issue really pisses me off.
Yes that's a valid explaination. However I'd just point out though that IE doesn't suffer the same fate, and users don't see that technological difference. While I'm comfortable explaining it to users, they generally don't care. They only see that their program takes what appears to be forever to restore after some idle time.
Just to point out though, for the most part when any site that reads the http_user_agent header and rejects me, I just change my user agent using the user agent switcher extension, and most of those sites look quite fine.
;)
Even www.quicktaxweb.ca rejected my firefox on Linux install, but accepted firefox on Windows. Just change the user agent to appear like FF on Win and it was almost perfect.
What pisses me off most about FF is that there still appears to be a memory leak if you leave it running for a while. I frequently leave my PC on overnight, and when I get it in the morning it takes a ltime for FF to maximize in XP. Both work and home PC's show the same symptoms. That doesn't occur on my Linux boxen though.
And no, I didn't RTFA
I'd still take a program that leaks memory to 64MB, rather than soemthing that starts off by using 64MB like DW :)
I just wish they'd at least open source Homesite seeing as though they don't really actively promote it any more - it's just bundled with DW now, to appeal to people like me who think that DW really sucks donkey ass.
I actually just want to see Homesite running natively on Linux. IMO that was way better than DW. It had a much smaller footprint and just generally ran better.
Right now, the closest I can find is Zend PHP studio - that's a pretty rad IDE. IMO one of the best out there, at least for PHP anyway.
okay I deserve an overrated karma bitch-slap... That's what I was thinking of.
True that. X10 would still be in business if that marketing plan was successful.
up2date in my FC3 installation had 37 updates last I checked. I'm sick of the amount of updates that come out for that... It's started to get annoying.
That's JMO, YMMV
Even as a kid I felt I was having my inteligence insulted by things like the people who were half black, half white.
Actually, that was one of the best episodes, and the beauty of TOS. Take it in context. It was an episode about racism, and showing the nature of hate for no reason other than hate.
There was some episodes that made beautiful moral statements, and IMO this episode was the single best example of that.
I'm curious though about that one. I mean, it's a show that you've already purchased the rights to watch. They can't feed BS about the commercials, bcuz there's some appliances that allow you to skip commercials. I wonder if the right to download television has ever been tested.
I mean, the television network broadcasts something to my home. I miss it. I obtain a copy of it so I can watch it. Really, what's the difference between downloading a TV show and recording one to watch later for your own personaly use?
I can't understand the merits of their lawsuit. You weren't hosting the tracker, and you were just trying to get something that you've really already paid for the rights to see. It would be a fun one to test.
I would send the a picture of my ass and ask them to sue it.
according to the RIAA it's a crime ;) And they own congress. Ergo it's a crime ;)
Finally it's finally final.
Netcraft confirms it!
=D
It's good for everyone if money is spent rather than sat upon.
That all depends on the state of the economy. It's not good for everyone if you're in demand driven inflation. Then you want everyone to save and not spend.
But given the fact that Americans really enjoy their right to consume I doubt you could steer many towards not consuming.