There are also dealer and manufacturer plates which are not assigned to a vehicle: I wonder if they are in the database?
I've often wondered why I see dealer plates on cars that are obviously private vehicles and not cars for sale from a dealership. The idea some car dealer is too cheap to pay the once-a-year car tag fee so he "borrows" a tag from work was the original idea. But if a dealer plate lets them get off scot-free from automated traffic ticket systems I can really see the lure.
Because if you use regular search and an article of that name isn't there (or a redirect taking you somewhere else from your term) you end up on a page telling you nothing was found for your query, and asking if you want to create a new article on the topic.
Special search will display the results that closely match what you were looking for, in case it's not quite listed the way you thought, or is covered by a subsection of a different article, etc.
At least that's how it was when I set up the Quick Search (many years ago). Maybe Wikipedia has changed the behavior of the search box since then.
Not only does DDG put that "helpful" wikipedia excerpt/link at the top of their search results, but if you install the "DuckDuckGo Plus" Firefox extension, they will intercept your Google search, and cram that box in your Google search results as well. I get that some people may want that functionality (I don't -- if I use Google, it's because I want to see exactly what Google returns), but it's questionable to have this sort of content injection enabled at all in an extension whose primary purpose is to add a search engine to the search-bar, search completions, etc. lists, not to perform content injection.
Why not set up Quick Search bookmarks for every engine and get rid of the search bar (and those extensions)?
If be "navigating" you mean typing "wiki (search term)" in my address bar, causing the Quick Search I have set up in Firefox to automatically run it through Wikipedia and take me straight to the results, then yes.
It's about as good as a google search [b]and it gives the wikipedia article for any topic at the top[/b]. My opinion is better than your opinion.
Don't know about you, but when I want to look up something on Wikipedia, I look for it on Wikipedia. Having Wikipedia info displayed automatically for a search isn't really a "feature" as far as I'm concerned.
Most people use Windows because they've been using Windows.
Windows 8 isn't really "Windows" as they knew it, it requires change. People hate change and if they're going to change, maybe they'll look at alternatives. If they have the cash, they might go for Macs (look at the sales figures lately).
If they don't... what's cheaper than Windows 8?
They'll look for Windows 7.
Seriously, this idea people are going to abandon Redmond and go with Linux because they don't like the Start Screen is so far fetched, and the main reason is we're talking about a group of people that for the most part doesn't know how to do anything on their computers except double-click the big blue E (or the Firefox logo, or Google logo) or open their email client to do what they want to do. The first time they run into an issue with their Internet connection, or printer, or maybe even their mouse they're going to be looking for someone they can call up and talk to to resolve the issue, and most of the people they can talk to (especially the ones they can talk to for free), don't provide support for Linux. Or if they do, they expect the user to know how to do most common tasks on their own and their support goes as far as supplying the correct settings needed (the caller has to know where to find the blanks to fill in).
...despite Snowden's stated wish for his revelations to spark transformative and wide-ranging debate, it doesn't seem as if anyone's taking to the streets to protest the NSA's reported monitoring of Americans' emails and phone-call metadata.
Of course french people should be concerned, but it is worth noting that this is not PRISM: There is no access to Gmail mailboxes for instance. And as a proof the scope is much smaller than NSA's spying is the size of the datacenter, which fits in a building inside Paris.
And I'm sure the U.S. having almost five times the population of France, and being such a major hub for world Internet activity, has nothing to do with that...
I know you mean this as a joke but I personally have touched an elephant. It had a wrinkly, brown skin. And while I wouldn't call it "furry", it was covered in stiff inch-long hairs (not sure the exact species). Baby elephants are small. And yes, they do swim.
You don't pitch it - you use the built-in media box until it becomes obsolete, and then you hook up an external box and use it like a dumb TV. At the end of the day, you've spent money on one less media box.
If you take a look at TV set feature/pricing levels, you'll notice that the smart-TV features add an excess to the TV set price that is far higher than the separate media boxes run for. Also, if you buy the first media box built into your TV you can't eBay it when you get the successor.
It's really smarter to just buy dumb HDTV/Monitors and then purchase the media box separately to start with.
I'd rather live in a world where I make $10 an hour with my lunch costing only $4 than live in a world where I make $20 an hour and the same lunch costs $20. And as time goes on, this is the reality we live in.
I work for ordinary folks and its hard enough to teach them to watch what they type or click on and only stick to.com,.net, and.org
Idea a domain shouldn't be trusted just because it's from a foreign country sounds like something the DHS would say.
Maybe you should be teaching these people that a domain doesn't stop at the dot and to learn the entire domain name for something to recognize it properly, instead of following a (rather ethnocentric sounding) maxim.
I don't know all use cases, but I personally use Firefox to browse. Why do I want 3D gaming and video conferencing integrated into it? What next, preparing taxes?
I do my taxes every year in Firefox... on the TurboTax website.
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I'd like to know how a chat room worked on a telegraph.
There are also dealer and manufacturer plates which are not assigned to a vehicle: I wonder if they are in the database?
I've often wondered why I see dealer plates on cars that are obviously private vehicles and not cars for sale from a dealership. The idea some car dealer is too cheap to pay the once-a-year car tag fee so he "borrows" a tag from work was the original idea. But if a dealer plate lets them get off scot-free from automated traffic ticket systems I can really see the lure.
Because if you use regular search and an article of that name isn't there (or a redirect taking you somewhere else from your term) you end up on a page telling you nothing was found for your query, and asking if you want to create a new article on the topic.
Special search will display the results that closely match what you were looking for, in case it's not quite listed the way you thought, or is covered by a subsection of a different article, etc.
At least that's how it was when I set up the Quick Search (many years ago). Maybe Wikipedia has changed the behavior of the search box since then.
Oh, I agree, but it's worse than that.
Not only does DDG put that "helpful" wikipedia excerpt/link at the top of their search results, but if you install the "DuckDuckGo Plus" Firefox extension, they will intercept your Google search, and cram that box in your Google search results as well. I get that some people may want that functionality (I don't -- if I use Google, it's because I want to see exactly what Google returns), but it's questionable to have this sort of content injection enabled at all in an extension whose primary purpose is to add a search engine to the search-bar, search completions, etc. lists, not to perform content injection.
Why not set up Quick Search bookmarks for every engine and get rid of the search bar (and those extensions)?
Try bookmarking this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/%25s ...and then make "wiki" the bookmark's keyword.
Now start typing your search in the address bar and make "wiki" the first word.
That's a feature Firefox has had built-in since version 2.something.
If be "navigating" you mean typing "wiki (search term)" in my address bar, causing the Quick Search I have set up in Firefox to automatically run it through Wikipedia and take me straight to the results, then yes.
Actually, I have a Quick Search set up on Firefox for it.
It's about as good as a google search [b]and it gives the wikipedia article for any topic at the top[/b]. My opinion is better than your opinion.
Don't know about you, but when I want to look up something on Wikipedia, I look for it on Wikipedia. Having Wikipedia info displayed automatically for a search isn't really a "feature" as far as I'm concerned.
This just in: people who suck at gaming look for excuses for their performance.
Most people use Windows because they've been using Windows.
Windows 8 isn't really "Windows" as they knew it, it requires change. People hate change and if they're going to change, maybe they'll look at alternatives. If they have the cash, they might go for Macs (look at the sales figures lately).
If they don't... what's cheaper than Windows 8?
They'll look for Windows 7.
Seriously, this idea people are going to abandon Redmond and go with Linux because they don't like the Start Screen is so far fetched, and the main reason is we're talking about a group of people that for the most part doesn't know how to do anything on their computers except double-click the big blue E (or the Firefox logo, or Google logo) or open their email client to do what they want to do. The first time they run into an issue with their Internet connection, or printer, or maybe even their mouse they're going to be looking for someone they can call up and talk to to resolve the issue, and most of the people they can talk to (especially the ones they can talk to for free), don't provide support for Linux. Or if they do, they expect the user to know how to do most common tasks on their own and their support goes as far as supplying the correct settings needed (the caller has to know where to find the blanks to fill in).
If a project that was projected to fit within a $400,000 budget can't be completed with $3.3 million the issue is a lot bigger than bad estimation.
Google Nose is real?
Don't forget the new NSA Knows enhancement.
...despite Snowden's stated wish for his revelations to spark transformative and wide-ranging debate, it doesn't seem as if anyone's taking to the streets to protest the NSA's reported monitoring of Americans' emails and phone-call metadata.
Really? Maybe the submitter needs to learn to use the Internet better.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/ellievhall/40-best-signs-from-the-restore-the-fourth-rallies
Of course french people should be concerned, but it is worth noting that this is not PRISM: There is no access to Gmail mailboxes for instance. And as a proof the scope is much smaller than NSA's spying is the size of the datacenter, which fits in a building inside Paris.
And I'm sure the U.S. having almost five times the population of France, and being such a major hub for world Internet activity, has nothing to do with that...
This is total bullshit.
Signed, a non-Obama loving Jay-Z fan.
If I was a Jay-Z fan I'd post anonymously, too.
I know you mean this as a joke but I personally have touched an elephant. It had a wrinkly, brown skin. And while I wouldn't call it "furry", it was covered in stiff inch-long hairs (not sure the exact species). Baby elephants are small. And yes, they do swim.
You don't pitch it - you use the built-in media box until it becomes obsolete, and then you hook up an external box and use it like a dumb TV. At the end of the day, you've spent money on one less media box.
If you take a look at TV set feature/pricing levels, you'll notice that the smart-TV features add an excess to the TV set price that is far higher than the separate media boxes run for. Also, if you buy the first media box built into your TV you can't eBay it when you get the successor.
It's really smarter to just buy dumb HDTV/Monitors and then purchase the media box separately to start with.
...investing in Zeppelin futures was a sure fire win.
A Freudian slip?
I'd rather live in a world where I make $10 an hour with my lunch costing only $4 than live in a world where I make $20 an hour and the same lunch costs $20. And as time goes on, this is the reality we live in.
So you'd rather make $76 a day than $140?
I work for ordinary folks and its hard enough to teach them to watch what they type or click on and only stick to .com,.net, and .org
Idea a domain shouldn't be trusted just because it's from a foreign country sounds like something the DHS would say.
Maybe you should be teaching these people that a domain doesn't stop at the dot and to learn the entire domain name for something to recognize it properly, instead of following a (rather ethnocentric sounding) maxim.
Can't necessarily say I''m "sad" to see them go, but it does raise a little ping of nostalgia.....
FTFY.
Looks like they can already confirm the death of TFA's bandwidth allotment.
Any "life support" from Yahoo so we can read it?
All your base belong to us!
I don't know all use cases, but I personally use Firefox to browse. Why do I want 3D gaming and video conferencing integrated into it? What next, preparing taxes?
I do my taxes every year in Firefox... on the TurboTax website.