This is gonna kill my karma if there are any school-system admins on here, but...
I was a teacher a good number of years ago and you've never seen amateurs as bad as the "admins" at the district I worked at. I think it's a dumping ground for all the MCSEs who couldn't get a real job. Seriously, I had one guy tell me that is was "impossible" to get a web page to consistently fill up 100% of the screen, because you couldn't tell what resolution the users' monitors were...
I use FF for basic browsing (without many extensions) and I mostly think it's great. Rarely crashes, renders most sites fine, etc.
But I really, really don't like the apparently single-threadedness. Each tab should be its own thread, IMO, so that when one tab is busy with some random java applet, the others are still getting enough CPU slices to actually be usable.
Another time you get this behavior is when you open multiple tabs one right after the other. The tab you are viewing slows to a crawl while content is loaded in the other tabs.
I'm not saying this is better in Opera/IE/Safari/Lynx, but I'd really like to see this fixed.
I've heard it paraphrased as "Give me enough medals and I'll conquer the world"
Except there's a difference here: when you see some guy wearing a CMH or Silver Star, you know that what he did really was above and beyond what your average citizen would do. Putting his body between his beloved home and war's desolation, and all that.
When you see some guy walking around the Redmond campus with 12 wristbands, you know he did what? Screwed off with Vista for a couple of weeks?
I find it surprising that Microsofties are that silly, but maybe I shouldn't.
'cause I once got a set of bugs against my documentation where each instance of the same typo (a function name) on the same page was entered as a separate bug. Wow, you guys found 5 bugs today! What phenomenal QA work.
Whichever dimwitted misanthrope came up with "number of bugs found" as a metric for QA "engineers" should be shot. And then drawn and quartered. And then dipped in boiling oil. And then forced to use Vista for a month.
Yeah, I'm wondering if those "bracelets" were the shiny metal kind that take keys... and that's how they kept Vista testers at it. I can't imagine any other way to get people to actually use it:-)
My grandmother lived in Norfolk, and a lot of aunts and uncles in Virgina Beach. I used to drive up from Ft. Bragg in N.C when I was stationed there and a lot (most) of the drive was by way of rural areas. Which made me wonder...
Where the "moties" build museums in hardened buildings with locks that are openable only when you have a basic understanding of mathematics, because their civilization collapses (due to population pressure) every few years.
When my wife and I were first married (and childless) I used to give these kinds of gifts to my nieces and nephews.
My favorite was "DJ Johnny Bot" and extremely annoying remote controlled robot/music player that was about 18" tall. It had this feature where if you played with it and then let it sit for a few minutes, it would "say" something to get your attention again (The best of all was this annoying robotic voice saying "I put the FUN in Funky!")
Now that I have a two-year-old daughter, and another on the way, each birthday/Christmas I look at the wrapped gifts with trepidation, wondering which is loaded with some terrible revenge:-)
Makes me think of Mr. Incredible's job from the Pixar film, where he loudly tells the little old lady "No, we can't cover you" for his boss' consumption, while whispering the numbers of the forms she'll need to fill out to help her in a voice that can't be overheard. Of course, the best part of that bit is where he punches his idiot boss so hard he flies through the entire building and winds up in a full body cast.
I was surprised to see Virgina on the list for just that reason. Sure there are some densely urban places in Virgina, but there's a lot of rural area there, too.
But I agree that this reads like another report by "Captain Obvious"
It's like LAPSE (Low Altitude Parachute Extraction System) if you've ever seen them do that: they can jerk a tank (well, OK, an APC) out the back of a flying C-5 at low level (REALLY low level--like 5-10 ft) by attaching a chute to the armor and throwing it out the back of the aircraft while it's flying.
The plane is flying straight and level at altitude, they open the tail section and deploy the chutes which are supposed to pull the mock-up out of the cargo compartment. It's not completely clear to me from TFA but either these deployment chutes or the "orientation" chutes (that orient the capsule so it's right-side-up for the "real" chutes to deploy) failed.
When I was in the 82nd Airborne, we'd get a jump or two every month. In big operations (where a full regiment jumps together) you'd pretty much see at least one mae west and sundry other "minor" screw-ups.
When you have a trained parachutist on the end of the risers who can tweak them or decide to pull his reserve, it's a lot less dicey than when some "mock up" that's unable to respond to the situation drills in from 20,000 ft.
This is a feature of Safari that... um.. a "friend" of mine likes. Choose > Private Browsing and sites that you visit are not added to the browser's history until you turn Private Browsing off. So you open a tab, switch to PB, do your... um... gift shopping, and then close that tab and your mom/significant other/spouse need never know that you were looking at... tableware.
First, it's almost impossible to prevent people from gaming the system. For instance, on Amazon.com, reviews are frequently written by people who haven't actually read the book, they just don't like the author. I foresee a lot of "I hate liberal blogger x" and "conservative outlet z sucks" bias creeping in.
Second, the Wikipedia problem: why is the input of millions of idiots more insightful than the intelligent analysis of someone who knows what they're talking about? Answer: it isn't. As an example, democracy is fine and all, but frankly allowing 100 million mouth-breathers to elect a government hasn't been working out so well recently.
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This is gonna kill my karma if there are any school-system admins on here, but...
I was a teacher a good number of years ago and you've never seen amateurs as bad as the "admins" at the district I worked at. I think it's a dumping ground for all the MCSEs who couldn't get a real job. Seriously, I had one guy tell me that is was "impossible" to get a web page to consistently fill up 100% of the screen, because you couldn't tell what resolution the users' monitors were...
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Or perhaps
Many sink down to the underworld, but few return to the sunlit lands?
Yep, that's my one beef with FF.
I use FF for basic browsing (without many extensions) and I mostly think it's great. Rarely crashes, renders most sites fine, etc.
But I really, really don't like the apparently single-threadedness. Each tab should be its own thread, IMO, so that when one tab is busy with some random java applet, the others are still getting enough CPU slices to actually be usable.
Another time you get this behavior is when you open multiple tabs one right after the other. The tab you are viewing slows to a crawl while content is loaded in the other tabs.
I'm not saying this is better in Opera/IE/Safari/Lynx, but I'd really like to see this fixed.
So, "me too" then, but with one less letter? That'll be useful on /. for sure
I've heard it paraphrased as "Give me enough medals and I'll conquer the world"
Except there's a difference here: when you see some guy wearing a CMH or Silver Star, you know that what he did really was above and beyond what your average citizen would do. Putting his body between his beloved home and war's desolation, and all that.
When you see some guy walking around the Redmond campus with 12 wristbands, you know he did what? Screwed off with Vista for a couple of weeks?
I find it surprising that Microsofties are that silly, but maybe I shouldn't.
'cause I once got a set of bugs against my documentation where each instance of the same typo (a function name) on the same page was entered as a separate bug. Wow, you guys found 5 bugs today! What phenomenal QA work.
Whichever dimwitted misanthrope came up with "number of bugs found" as a metric for QA "engineers" should be shot. And then drawn and quartered. And then dipped in boiling oil. And then forced to use Vista for a month.
Yeah, I'm wondering if those "bracelets" were the shiny metal kind that take keys... and that's how they kept Vista testers at it. I can't imagine any other way to get people to actually use it :-)
Does having one make you feel closer to Ballmer and Gates, the other two Zune owners? And is that a good thing or a bad thing? :-)
I kid, I kid!
God will know His own
My grandmother lived in Norfolk, and a lot of aunts and uncles in Virgina Beach. I used to drive up from Ft. Bragg in N.C when I was stationed there and a lot (most) of the drive was by way of rural areas. Which made me wonder...
Nothing incentivises geeks of the future like antique porn!
It's a cookbook!
They flash a mathematical sequence of lights at the alien ships, right before a giant death ray blasts the city into oblivion.
Where the "moties" build museums in hardened buildings with locks that are openable only when you have a basic understanding of mathematics, because their civilization collapses (due to population pressure) every few years.
I like it!
"Cross my line of death and I'm buying a puppy!"
When my wife and I were first married (and childless) I used to give these kinds of gifts to my nieces and nephews.
My favorite was "DJ Johnny Bot" and extremely annoying remote controlled robot/music player that was about 18" tall. It had this feature where if you played with it and then let it sit for a few minutes, it would "say" something to get your attention again (The best of all was this annoying robotic voice saying "I put the FUN in Funky!")
Now that I have a two-year-old daughter, and another on the way, each birthday/Christmas I look at the wrapped gifts with trepidation, wondering which is loaded with some terrible revenge :-)
Makes me think of Mr. Incredible's job from the Pixar film, where he loudly tells the little old lady "No, we can't cover you" for his boss' consumption, while whispering the numbers of the forms she'll need to fill out to help her in a voice that can't be overheard. Of course, the best part of that bit is where he punches his idiot boss so hard he flies through the entire building and winds up in a full body cast.
I was surprised to see Virgina on the list for just that reason. Sure there are some densely urban places in Virgina, but there's a lot of rural area there, too.
But I agree that this reads like another report by "Captain Obvious"
It's like LAPSE (Low Altitude Parachute Extraction System) if you've ever seen them do that: they can jerk a tank (well, OK, an APC) out the back of a flying C-5 at low level (REALLY low level--like 5-10 ft) by attaching a chute to the armor and throwing it out the back of the aircraft while it's flying.
The plane is flying straight and level at altitude, they open the tail section and deploy the chutes which are supposed to pull the mock-up out of the cargo compartment. It's not completely clear to me from TFA but either these deployment chutes or the "orientation" chutes (that orient the capsule so it's right-side-up for the "real" chutes to deploy) failed.
Ain't it the truth.
When I was in the 82nd Airborne, we'd get a jump or two every month. In big operations (where a full regiment jumps together) you'd pretty much see at least one mae west and sundry other "minor" screw-ups.
When you have a trained parachutist on the end of the risers who can tweak them or decide to pull his reserve, it's a lot less dicey than when some "mock up" that's unable to respond to the situation drills in from 20,000 ft.
This is a feature of Safari that... um.. a "friend" of mine likes. Choose > Private Browsing and sites that you visit are not added to the browser's history until you turn Private Browsing off. So you open a tab, switch to PB, do your... um... gift shopping, and then close that tab and your mom/significant other/spouse need never know that you were looking at... tableware.
I'd love to see this in FF
Now then, the next question is: What makes women happy?
Figure that out and your onto something.
More like "figure that out, and she'll change her mind"
Just kidding, honey! Honest.
First, it's almost impossible to prevent people from gaming the system. For instance, on Amazon.com, reviews are frequently written by people who haven't actually read the book, they just don't like the author. I foresee a lot of "I hate liberal blogger x" and "conservative outlet z sucks" bias creeping in.
Second, the Wikipedia problem: why is the input of millions of idiots more insightful than the intelligent analysis of someone who knows what they're talking about? Answer: it isn't. As an example, democracy is fine and all, but frankly allowing 100 million mouth-breathers to elect a government hasn't been working out so well recently.
4) Profit!