I love the quicksearch function but have had difficulty getting a URL that worked for Amazon, most would stop working after a while and take me to a page suggesting there was a browser bug instead.
The Amazon one you have doesn't work on the U.S. (.com) site. Even if you bring up a plain search and then just substitute %s into the URL, Amazon just ignores what was put in when you try to use it afterwards.
I think I have found the search URL that works on the.com site
The idea is that there have been no issues with memory leaks and all current grousing about memory usage is just people who don't understand the kind of system resources necessary to make fast back/forward function supposedly.
The truth is there have been memory issues on people's minds since before FF 1.0 shipped and some of these issues have been somewhat ignored to focus attention on new features and keeping up on security standards.
Firefox was billed as being a streamlined, quick, secure browser back in the Firebird days. A program that worked effiecently and didn't pack a rats nest of features in like the old Netscape Communicator/Mozilla suites. That notion has somewhat gone out the window. Features are creeping in more because herd-mentality consumers don't want to bother with finding extensions to add the features they want (so if it's not there when they install, they simply think it's not available) and ideas (while innovative) are being implemented that require a lot of extra system resources.
As reported before, Firefox does not have memory problems - it has a feature that is very memory intensive.
And as mentioned before there are bugs for memory leaks that predate the fast back-forward feature. And to say that memory probelms are all becuase of this feature is revisionist history.
There's no legal reason they can't give you the information.
T-Mobile (I guess being a cellphone provider doesn't make this an even comparison) had no problem giving me a phone number. I just had to wait at least 8-12 hours (something like that) after the call came in for it to show up on their records.
Wasnt the goal of BSD to be secure and reliable, like debian, only moreso? How come now they're "competing with desktop Linux" ?
Because security and reliability aren't sexy. They don't gain you new users like features do. Same reason Microsoft keeps adding features to Windows rather than fixing security problems, and keeps adding features to Word instead of making the interface better so the features it has become more useful.
Do you mean Republican Congress' stance on Bush, or the Justice Dept's stance on Microsoft?
In two years there will no longer be a need for Congress to look the other way at the Bush adminitration's looking the other way at big business's looking the other way at customer security and the NSA looking for every way to look at you!
Ok, Porritt has screenshots posted now. I find his to be the weakest of the three. Maybe it's just the font choice that makes the stories/comments less readable. Especially compared to Lada's design.
I like Peter Lada's design. Unfortunately, it makes some of the current topic icons look like crap. I don't know if that means the design is really good and the icons suck or the design has issues. Micheal Johnson's design doesn't seem to do that. Maybe it's the size of some elements compared to Lada's. Jason Porritt's server is slashdotted so I haven't seen it.
The bill is intended to go after MySpace, but the actual text of the legislation covers sites that let users 'create profiles' and have a 'forum' for conversations -- which would include Slashdot and many blog sites.
It would also unwittingly include any education-related colaboration sites. I can't name any off the top of my head, but I'm sure the idea to messaging back and forth with other schools across the country is already done on some K-12 company's site.
When I saw this article title in the RSS feed, I figured it was about Microsoft trying to sell their Software Assurance program again after everyone who bought it last time got zilch for their investment.
Imagine my surprise when it was completely unrelated.
Not to be a troll, just Devils Advocate. What do you think would happen if Cox "blocked" Google. Do you think the vast majority of Cox users would care enough to switch ?
It would depend on how informed the customer's were. If the customers are actually told the site was being blocked, yeah, there would be a big hubbub and folks would switch. But if Google simply stopped working, unless they were told otherwise, many would believe it was a Google issue, and would eventually switch to a different search engine.
If Google blocked Cox, with a nice redirect to a page explaining why, this wouldn't be possible. It would be like when Cox is in dispute with a programming provider, the black bar and message that the station may soon be going off the air would go up, and the support lines would light up.
So this year's E3 could very well be a deciding factor in how you view your movie library for years to come.
Who says I have to buy into whatever HD format they choose? Last time I checked it was still the consumer who's in charge. If nobody buys the format, it will just turn into the next LaserDisc-drops-while-VHS-puffs-on story. If I don't have an HD TV (which I don't) is there any reason for me to upgrade to a differnet format, other than lots more DRM headache?
I have to say that apple has nice packaging but they are bum (to use a technical term). They don't support the software I want.
Can you elaborate on that? If you mean they don't support Windows software, well that's like saying the Apple orchard doesn't support orange juice production. If they don't support some specific piece MacOSX written software package then I would have to ask since when is it the OS maker's job to support the software? That's the software company's job. I don't complain to Microsoft when Firefox crashes on my XP machine.
"Given the way things are going now, there's no hint of any sort of catastrophic eruptions," USGS geologist Tom Pierson said. "At any time, however, things can change."
I hate quotes like that in news stories. They amount to "there's nothing happening right now, and I dont know if anything is going to happen, as the situation could change as soon as I finish telling you everything is fine". An eight-year-old could have offered us as much insight.
A local cop in Middletown, CT posed as a 17 year old. He just struck up a conversation with one girl. He then ask to be her "friend" (a MySpace term to be added to a buddy list).
Note that being added as somebody's "friend" is not some huge statement that she 100% trusts him or believes he is who he says he is. But the media treats it like MySpaceFriend = RealFriend
After the first addition, he just kept sending emails to the initial contact's friends asking to be put on their buddy list.
Well, there is a "block user" option. Why didn't the girls just block him if they found is messaging annoying? These are questions nobody ever asks.
The cop also pointed out that there was enough information on the web sites to actually find these girls.
Information the girls had to post themselves. It's like blaming the maker of glass bottles when someone finds poison in one.
When they finally met him, they were shocked to find out that he was this pounchy thirty something.
AND? What happened then? Did the girls go back and have wild sex with him because, ya know, the shock that he wasn't a 17 year old studmuffin must have made them lose all judgement? Did they choose to meet him in a secuded area, or out in a public place where he couldn't exactly just grab them and shove them in his black van?
That is the probelm with this MySpace hoopla. It's non-news. MySpace is no more or less dangerous than any other method of meeting new people. The dangers are simply different than a real life encounter.
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So does that mean AT&T was found dead on the side of the road?
Yeah, but not in a burlap sack. It was tied up with all this curly plastic insulated wire...
I agree the demo probably wasn't a complete phony like the original blog insists, but why a burned copy?
So they could go "Nah NahNah NaNAH Na! We can copy DVD's without legal repercussions!"
I love the quicksearch function but have had difficulty getting a URL that worked for Amazon, most would stop working after a while and take me to a page suggesting there was a browser bug instead.
.com site
/ ?field-keywords=%s&mode=blended&tag=mozilla-20&sou rceid=Mozilla-search
The Amazon one you have doesn't work on the U.S. (.com) site. Even if you bring up a plain search and then just substitute %s into the URL, Amazon just ignores what was put in when you try to use it afterwards.
I think I have found the search URL that works on the
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/external-search
It appears to be the one that the Amazon search on the Toolbar search field uses (it redirects fast somewhere else so getting it caught was tough).
Yes, and these are statements about the past.
The idea is that there have been no issues with memory leaks and all current grousing about memory usage is just people who don't understand the kind of system resources necessary to make fast back/forward function supposedly.
The truth is there have been memory issues on people's minds since before FF 1.0 shipped and some of these issues have been somewhat ignored to focus attention on new features and keeping up on security standards.
Firefox was billed as being a streamlined, quick, secure browser back in the Firebird days. A program that worked effiecently and didn't pack a rats nest of features in like the old Netscape Communicator/Mozilla suites. That notion has somewhat gone out the window. Features are creeping in more because herd-mentality consumers don't want to bother with finding extensions to add the features they want (so if it's not there when they install, they simply think it's not available) and ideas (while innovative) are being implemented that require a lot of extra system resources.
As reported before, Firefox does not have memory problems - it has a feature that is very memory intensive.
And as mentioned before there are bugs for memory leaks that predate the fast back-forward feature. And to say that memory probelms are all becuase of this feature is revisionist history.
There's no legal reason they can't give you the information.
T-Mobile (I guess being a cellphone provider doesn't make this an even comparison) had no problem giving me a phone number. I just had to wait at least 8-12 hours (something like that) after the call came in for it to show up on their records.
In Soviet Global Counterterrorism Effort:
U.S. gains access to EU!
Wasnt the goal of BSD to be secure and reliable, like debian, only moreso? How come now they're "competing with desktop Linux" ?
Because security and reliability aren't sexy. They don't gain you new users like features do. Same reason Microsoft keeps adding features to Windows rather than fixing security problems, and keeps adding features to Word instead of making the interface better so the features it has become more useful.
What about those two slackers from "My Science Project"?
Do you mean Republican Congress' stance on Bush, or the Justice Dept's stance on Microsoft?
In two years there will no longer be a need for Congress to look the other way at the Bush adminitration's looking the other way at big business's looking the other way at customer security and the NSA looking for every way to look at you!
Wow, I feel dumb. My school uses Blackboard, but it didn't even occur to me at the time I was posting that.
Ok, Porritt has screenshots posted now. I find his to be the weakest of the three. Maybe it's just the font choice that makes the stories/comments less readable. Especially compared to Lada's design.
I like Peter Lada's design. Unfortunately, it makes some of the current topic icons look like crap. I don't know if that means the design is really good and the icons suck or the design has issues. Micheal Johnson's design doesn't seem to do that. Maybe it's the size of some elements compared to Lada's. Jason Porritt's server is slashdotted so I haven't seen it.
The bill is intended to go after MySpace, but the actual text of the legislation covers sites that let users 'create profiles' and have a 'forum' for conversations -- which would include Slashdot and many blog sites.
It would also unwittingly include any education-related colaboration sites. I can't name any off the top of my head, but I'm sure the idea to messaging back and forth with other schools across the country is already done on some K-12 company's site.
When I saw this article title in the RSS feed, I figured it was about Microsoft trying to sell their Software Assurance program again after everyone who bought it last time got zilch for their investment.
Imagine my surprise when it was completely unrelated.
Not to be a troll, just Devils Advocate. What do you think would happen if Cox "blocked" Google. Do you think the vast majority of Cox users would care enough to switch ?
It would depend on how informed the customer's were. If the customers are actually told the site was being blocked, yeah, there would be a big hubbub and folks would switch. But if Google simply stopped working, unless they were told otherwise, many would believe it was a Google issue, and would eventually switch to a different search engine.
If Google blocked Cox, with a nice redirect to a page explaining why, this wouldn't be possible. It would be like when Cox is in dispute with a programming provider, the black bar and message that the station may soon be going off the air would go up, and the support lines would light up.
Exactly. Try misplacing 25000 floppy disks.
I'm sure it's possible, Enron lost a hundred or so boxes of documents.
So this year's E3 could very well be a deciding factor in how you view your movie library for years to come.
Who says I have to buy into whatever HD format they choose? Last time I checked it was still the consumer who's in charge. If nobody buys the format, it will just turn into the next LaserDisc-drops-while-VHS-puffs-on story. If I don't have an HD TV (which I don't) is there any reason for me to upgrade to a differnet format, other than lots more DRM headache?
Remove Apple's copyrighted picture and create a re-enactment picture using toothpaste or something awful like that.
(visualizing dog poop on a brick)
I have to say that apple has nice packaging but they are bum (to use a technical term). They don't support the software I want.
Can you elaborate on that? If you mean they don't support Windows software, well that's like saying the Apple orchard doesn't support orange juice production. If they don't support some specific piece MacOSX written software package then I would have to ask since when is it the OS maker's job to support the software? That's the software company's job. I don't complain to Microsoft when Firefox crashes on my XP machine.
The number of bugs. "Bug" is a countable noun, like "chair", not an uncountable noun, like "salt".
So I can't ask for an "amount" of M&M's. Since I can count them?
"Given the way things are going now, there's no hint of any sort of catastrophic eruptions," USGS geologist Tom Pierson said. "At any time, however, things can change."
I hate quotes like that in news stories. They amount to "there's nothing happening right now, and I dont know if anything is going to happen, as the situation could change as soon as I finish telling you everything is fine". An eight-year-old could have offered us as much insight.
It feels like old news, maybe just an extension of really old news.
A local cop in Middletown, CT posed as a 17 year old. He just struck up a conversation with one girl. He then ask to be her "friend" (a MySpace term to be added to a buddy list).
Note that being added as somebody's "friend" is not some huge statement that she 100% trusts him or believes he is who he says he is. But the media treats it like MySpaceFriend = RealFriend
After the first addition, he just kept sending emails to the initial contact's friends asking to be put on their buddy list.
Well, there is a "block user" option. Why didn't the girls just block him if they found is messaging annoying? These are questions nobody ever asks.
The cop also pointed out that there was enough information on the web sites to actually find these girls.
Information the girls had to post themselves. It's like blaming the maker of glass bottles when someone finds poison in one.
When they finally met him, they were shocked to find out that he was this pounchy thirty something.
AND? What happened then? Did the girls go back and have wild sex with him because, ya know, the shock that he wasn't a 17 year old studmuffin must have made them lose all judgement? Did they choose to meet him in a secuded area, or out in a public place where he couldn't exactly just grab them and shove them in his black van?
That is the probelm with this MySpace hoopla. It's non-news. MySpace is no more or less dangerous than any other method of meeting new people. The dangers are simply different than a real life encounter.
Changing it won't get you anything, as most people use 1, 6, and 11, and 13 isn't far enough from 11 to save you from other user inteference.
No, but 14 would be far enough from 11.
I operate mine on ch 9 since most people around me are using 6.