At the end, what pisses me off the most about this whole deal is not being able to revert to the old behavior. That kind of forced nurturing is what I'd expect from Microsoft, not Mozilla. I think that keeping old code around just to please users who are afraid of change is more the kind of behaviour I would expect from MS than Mozilla.
If you like the old interface you have a few good options: look for (or code) an extension that mymics the old behaviour; don't upgrade; adapt to the new behaviour; or, if all else fails, use another browser.
Well, you could always complain and try to convince the developers to revert to the old bar, but as you admitted yourself, there are many people who like AB and it's helpful to new users.
I found these phrases from your post funny/sad/scary: "TSA is constantly yelling", "another week or two before the nagging went away", "guy in the suit holding his shoes, he's probably done this before"
Those aren't discomforts coming from the other passengers, those are coming from the government/security/organisation. I'm glad I fly mostly inside Europe because it seems you guys got it bad. The biggest problems I face now are having to put liquids in the checked-in baggage (sucks because for short flights I would rather take a small carry-on) and having to take out the laptop, and sometimes they make an extra check on my camera or external hard drive.
The problem is that I probably will be flying to the USA in a few months, so I'll probably be taking my easy to remove shoes.
They call it an exit row. I call it "first class" I call it the "no-you-can't-have-a-bag-with-you-class". My bag is where I keep all my flight un-borers such as mp3 player, portable console, candy, etc., so it's something I like to bring with me to my seat.
I don't get pissed off at the people who are flying for the first time and aren't aware of the procedures. Yeah, it's annoying, but everyone should have a chance to learn, and perhaps next time they will know.
What pisses me off are the people who have obviously flown many times before (I know because some of them are my colleagues), and yet don't make an effort to streamline the process. No, it's not that they don't have the documents in hand, it's just that they only start removing the belt and the contents from their pockets at the last possible moment while everyone waits, and then proceed through the metal detector and somehow still get flagged. Then when they are finished with the search, they proceed to cautiously redress at the end of the conveyor -- do you really have to put on your belt while everyone's waiting? Do you really need to carefully dress your jacket and make sure it looks ok before exiting the security gate?
*That's* what pisses me off. For me the whole process usually takes less than a minute: belt and everything from the pockets into my bag, bag in the conveyor, pick up the bag, refill my pockets on the way to the gate.
Speaking of which, what software do you use for GPS? I tried Google Maps, but they don't support bluetooth GPS on my mobile (also a run-of-the-mill Sony Ericsson).
Have you tried Opera Mobile? It's working wonderfully on my Pocket PC and it certainly beats the crap out of Pocket IE, even with all the plugins added.
Unfortunatelly it's not free, but you can use the unrestricted trial for a long time before you decide if you like it or not.
I want some new options for moderation just for posts like this. +5 Ignorant +5 Arrogant! Why would the Ignorant and Arrogant mods be positive? Oh, right, this is Slashdot:-)
I think Dell allows you to configure it without an optical drive and with either a secondary batery or another hard drive. There may be other options, but I don't remember. You can play with all of these options at their website, it's pretty cool.
All of that is immaterial. His feet don't 'give him way more energy' than a naturally footed sprinter. They can't. The only energy they store is that which is put there by the runner. I haven't studied his running style, but I expect that he has modified his style to maximize the energy put into the foot, and that the foot unloads the energy back into his lower leg on rolling off of the toe. Now, this is unnatural and required a great deal of training before he mastered it well enough to beat footed sprinters. I call bullshit on the IAAF. Yeah, but couldn't you also make the same case for a bicycle? The person on the bicyvle is expending the same energy as a runner could, except that his energy is being more eficiently used through the benefits of better equipment.
I'm not going to repeat the same point others have made, but I just wanted to throw the "expand to an extreme case scenario" that I usually use to make a point to myself.
Same here. I bought the book because I wanted to support the guy and I thought this sort of humour would be something my girlfriend would like.
In the end, I found another gift for her so I decided to keep the book to myself, though I'm still contemplating offering her the book anyway (I've been reading it cautiously in order not to leave any marks).
PBF is certainly one of my favourite comics on the internet, and it's a good feeling to know that I contributed something back, which is something that I don't do often enough.
About this one:
Header files you can't #include without getting errors because you didn't #include something it requires (but stupidly doesn't #include itself) Coding mantra at my university (as in, I heard it from more than a few teachers) is that you should never have your includes in header files. Of course this always sounded strange to me because then you have to always remember what includes are required for that particular header. I think it had something to do with avoiding multiple header declarations, but I though that's what the #ifndef XXX_H #define XXX_H technique was for.
So what I'm asking is: why have I always heard that #including in your headers is a big no-no?
I've never been to Europe so I don't know how Vodafone treats their customers (Vodafone is part owner of Verizon Wireless) so I don't know who's influencing these decisions. It's hard to tell, because if they wanted to be dicks (and I believe they would), they would get hammered by the competition.
But for reference, I just bought a Vodafone-branded phone, even though it's unlocked and I'm using it on another network. In this phone, of the three available buttons on the home screen, one is set to access the vodafone web page (which doesn't confirm if you want to access the internet -- it just does). As you might expect, this button is used for other things, like hanging up a call, which means that you can have lots of fun closing your web browser every time the person on the other side hangs up before you do, and you press that damn "vodafone live" option by mistake.
For what it's worth, I never saw the standard software for this phone (SE W660i) so I don't know if the button always had this functionality, but I had another SE (K750i), and it didn't have this problem.
I will buy a phone with Android as soon as it's available. I hope its open nature will stop companies from being able to pull crap like this, but at least I should be able to change some option on the web browser which asks for confirmation before accessing the web.
Exactly. There was a time where you could install iTunes without quicktime. Then some marketing genius at Apple started seeing all those downloads for iTunes without quicktime, and decided to bundle the install files, though you could still decompress the bundled.exe and install iTunes separately. Now it's still possible to decompress the file, but iTunes will cry like a little girl if you don't install quicktime.
At least that was the situation last year when I got fed up with Apple's antics and installed songbird, and later, winamp (songbird's new beta broke a lot of stuff). I just wish someone would port banshee over so I could have a decent music player at work.
It worked. He didn't even have to resort to the threats. I don't know, but this part:
or else good luck ever getting a permit to dig up another sidewalk in this town sounds like a threat to me:-)
Exactly. I have replied to this guy before with the same request, but apparently he just doesn't care, which makes him a spammer, from my point of view.
It's not the first time I see this kind of thing (though usually it's not commercial in nature) and since the moderators don't seem interested, I wish slashdot would police this.
On an unrelated note, I understand that you have a business and you want to promote it on slashdot, but could you please use the standard signature facility to do it? That way, those of us who have "show signatures" disabled in our profiles could benefit from that option.
I understand that this will limit your audience somewhat, but I would argue that those aren't your target audience anyway, and either way it's rude to make us read it in every one of your posts.
Be careful when listing Luxembourg in any per-capita statistics: it's a very small country and most people (60% according to the CIA world factbook) who work there live in the neighbouring countries and cross the border everyday (nowadays in Europe you almost don't even notice when you're crossing borders).
Therefore, Luxemburg has the statistics of a country with many times it's real population, which usually inflates per-capita indexes.
I saw a similar sign at a computer shop, only instead of "if you help" it was "if you ask questions". I asked if it was a joke and the lady said: "only half".
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If you like the old interface you have a few good options: look for (or code) an extension that mymics the old behaviour; don't upgrade; adapt to the new behaviour; or, if all else fails, use another browser.
Well, you could always complain and try to convince the developers to revert to the old bar, but as you admitted yourself, there are many people who like AB and it's helpful to new users.
Your complaint is valid, but your solution isn't (IMHO).
The propper fix for that problem isn't to throw AB out completely, but to improve it so that it learns which results to show on top.
I found these phrases from your post funny/sad/scary:
"TSA is constantly yelling", "another week or two before the nagging went away", "guy in the suit holding his shoes, he's probably done this before"
Those aren't discomforts coming from the other passengers, those are coming from the government/security/organisation. I'm glad I fly mostly inside Europe because it seems you guys got it bad. The biggest problems I face now are having to put liquids in the checked-in baggage (sucks because for short flights I would rather take a small carry-on) and having to take out the laptop, and sometimes they make an extra check on my camera or external hard drive.
The problem is that I probably will be flying to the USA in a few months, so I'll probably be taking my easy to remove shoes.
My bag is where I keep all my flight un-borers such as mp3 player, portable console, candy, etc., so it's something I like to bring with me to my seat.
I don't get pissed off at the people who are flying for the first time and aren't aware of the procedures. Yeah, it's annoying, but everyone should have a chance to learn, and perhaps next time they will know.
What pisses me off are the people who have obviously flown many times before (I know because some of them are my colleagues), and yet don't make an effort to streamline the process. No, it's not that they don't have the documents in hand, it's just that they only start removing the belt and the contents from their pockets at the last possible moment while everyone waits, and then proceed through the metal detector and somehow still get flagged.
Then when they are finished with the search, they proceed to cautiously redress at the end of the conveyor -- do you really have to put on your belt while everyone's waiting? Do you really need to carefully dress your jacket and make sure it looks ok before exiting the security gate?
*That's* what pisses me off. For me the whole process usually takes less than a minute: belt and everything from the pockets into my bag, bag in the conveyor, pick up the bag, refill my pockets on the way to the gate.
Speaking of which, what software do you use for GPS?
I tried Google Maps, but they don't support bluetooth GPS on my mobile (also a run-of-the-mill Sony Ericsson).
Have you tried Opera Mobile?
It's working wonderfully on my Pocket PC and it certainly beats the crap out of Pocket IE, even with all the plugins added.
Unfortunatelly it's not free, but you can use the unrestricted trial for a long time before you decide if you like it or not.
Oh, right, this is Slashdot
I think Dell allows you to configure it without an optical drive and with either a secondary batery or another hard drive. There may be other options, but I don't remember.
You can play with all of these options at their website, it's pretty cool.
A better question would be "where".
I would like to uhh, confirm this bug.
I'm not going to repeat the same point others have made, but I just wanted to throw the "expand to an extreme case scenario" that I usually use to make a point to myself.
Same here. I bought the book because I wanted to support the guy and I thought this sort of humour would be something my girlfriend would like.
In the end, I found another gift for her so I decided to keep the book to myself, though I'm still contemplating offering her the book anyway (I've been reading it cautiously in order not to leave any marks).
PBF is certainly one of my favourite comics on the internet, and it's a good feeling to know that I contributed something back, which is something that I don't do often enough.
Same here, and never looked back (except for work -- damn simulation software!)
Of course this always sounded strange to me because then you have to always remember what includes are required for that particular header. I think it had something to do with avoiding multiple header declarations, but I though that's what the #ifndef XXX_H #define XXX_H technique was for.
So what I'm asking is: why have I always heard that #including in your headers is a big no-no?
Bonus fun if you're middle-eastern-looking and keep flying your plane into buildings :-)
But for reference, I just bought a Vodafone-branded phone, even though it's unlocked and I'm using it on another network.
In this phone, of the three available buttons on the home screen, one is set to access the vodafone web page (which doesn't confirm if you want to access the internet -- it just does). As you might expect, this button is used for other things, like hanging up a call, which means that you can have lots of fun closing your web browser every time the person on the other side hangs up before you do, and you press that damn "vodafone live" option by mistake.
For what it's worth, I never saw the standard software for this phone (SE W660i) so I don't know if the button always had this functionality, but I had another SE (K750i), and it didn't have this problem.
I will buy a phone with Android as soon as it's available. I hope its open nature will stop companies from being able to pull crap like this, but at least I should be able to change some option on the web browser which asks for confirmation before accessing the web.
Exactly. There was a time where you could install iTunes without quicktime. .exe and install iTunes separately.
Then some marketing genius at Apple started seeing all those downloads for iTunes without quicktime, and decided to bundle the install files, though you could still decompress the bundled
Now it's still possible to decompress the file, but iTunes will cry like a little girl if you don't install quicktime.
At least that was the situation last year when I got fed up with Apple's antics and installed songbird, and later, winamp (songbird's new beta broke a lot of stuff). I just wish someone would port banshee over so I could have a decent music player at work.
Exactly. I have replied to this guy before with the same request, but apparently he just doesn't care, which makes him a spammer, from my point of view.
It's not the first time I see this kind of thing (though usually it's not commercial in nature) and since the moderators don't seem interested, I wish slashdot would police this.
On an unrelated note, I understand that you have a business and you want to promote it on slashdot, but could you please use the standard signature facility to do it?
That way, those of us who have "show signatures" disabled in our profiles could benefit from that option.
I understand that this will limit your audience somewhat, but I would argue that those aren't your target audience anyway, and either way it's rude to make us read it in every one of your posts.
I believe that's considered Bad Form(tm), though I am loathe to start a coding discussion on Slashdot.
Be careful when listing Luxembourg in any per-capita statistics: it's a very small country and most people (60% according to the CIA world factbook) who work there live in the neighbouring countries and cross the border everyday (nowadays in Europe you almost don't even notice when you're crossing borders).
Therefore, Luxemburg has the statistics of a country with many times it's real population, which usually inflates per-capita indexes.
I saw a similar sign at a computer shop, only instead of "if you help" it was "if you ask questions".
I asked if it was a joke and the lady said: "only half".