Well, Best Buy (the Geek Squad) charges 59USD to take in a computer and diagnose if it has a problem. Then they charge 79USD to do an OS Service, which basically is clearing out temp files, making sure the registry isn't hosed, and ripping out any spyware or viruses they can find.
And they require the diagnostic, they will not just do an OS Service for whatever reason - probably just to gouge money.
So, hmm 138USD for computer service - you realize that is about a third of the cost of some of the new computers that Best Buy sells? If you were really going to do this every 3 months, you might as well do what I recommend people do - buy a new cheap PC every year!
Wow, my mail client of choice. I see we just work in diametrically opposed ways. With Opera anyway, you can drag and drop or move via appearances 95% of the UI elements. If you ever look at the opera forums (or whatever) screenshot threads, you'll see 500 totally different layouts.
Of course, you've got a browser already setup and working, why go through the effort? I won't.
domain.tld=5 tells Opera to lie that it's actually IE6. Basically it's a website code issue that sends broken code if you tell them you are using Opera. You will see it happen on some sites with FireFox also, but many still cater to netscape, which is what FF says it is (sort of, long story) for historical reasons.
Someday (soon I hope) companies will stop developing for the one biggest browser, or "contientious" companies for the 2 biggest browsers and instead develop for the standards.
So, in the above, when the site thinks you are IE, it then sends the correct code. See how stupid said sniffing is? They do extra work to send you different code, then you do extra work to get them to send you the original code which then works. Imagine the effort savings if they just served one codebase that was standards complient?
The sad thing is UA settings only work on sites that only discriminate via UA. Some also use js, and then you need js fixes to do the same thing. The Opera forums has more info, but to make it simpler, there is the help -> report a site problem. Assuming it can be easily fixed, Opera software will push out such fixes once a week via the check for new version feature.
True, but how does firefox know if you want to find in page, or use a keyboard shortcut?
Anyway, I think Opera got away from one button shortcuts much to my chagrin because it would suprise people when things changed by an accidental keypress - like g used to turn off images.
What's odd is aesthitics are very personal - and in the age of skinnable apps, kind of a stupid reason not to try out a product.
However, it is a compelling reason even if illogical. I refuse to use firefox for that same reason, the installs I've seen (default one) are so fugly that the googles do nothing. That said, I think IE7 beta interface is actually WORSE.
The thing that worries me for Opera is: Back then, they were motivated to quickly fix the issue because he (presumably) was a paying customer.
Why would they even care much today and in the future? He's not going to buy another site license. He's not going to push sales of 100 licenses to users of his site... Heck, the dev himself isn't even going to purchase *ONE* license now.
The problem here is what incentive is there to put the user first? The whole point of OSS is to empower the developer. And it's all designed and worked on to scratch the developer's itches.
OSS isn't about users, it's always been about developers. The only focus is what developers want to work on.
The point I'm making isn't to blindly let people go or not, but to follow the rules. There are many reasons there are rules the government has to follow.
Look, if someone is saying they will commit a crime, that can be brought before a judge. We have procedures in place now to deal with people we have arrested that we feel are too dangerous to let out on bail - namely, no bail.
But I cannot think of any good that can come from letting the government just hold anyone they like indefinately without charges or declaring them a POW.
If this is a war, then declare them POWs. There's already functions in place to deal with "enemy combatants" and has been for over a century.
What about innocent until proven guilty? You seem to be arguing for the government to tag people based on secret criteria, and by virtue of saying they are bad, get to ignore the constitution, geneva convention and anything else they want to ignore.
I think we've all seen how well unregulated police powers works out for a countries citizens in the past.
I'm sorry, wanting to follow the constitution and bill of rights is going to "drag our country down... under the guise of political correctness"?
A desire for due process does not equal "etting these bastards free once they hit our shores. Free to commit more attocities, more murder in the name of their 'god'."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you click on an extension install at the mozilla site, doesn't firefox offer to install it? If so, what indication would a user have that they could both install in any other method than the touted web based one, and how would they know how to save vs install it?
6th: Speed? How often do you start up your browser a day? If the load time of your browser starts to eat significant time of your day, because you start it up so often, then you should maybe take a closer look on your work habits, since those seem to have more impact on your little time.
I see this complaint a lot, and I have to ask, in the days of tabs, why are people opening and closing their browser all day long? Seems like a waste of time and effort to me.
I mean, do you also shut down your PC every time toy turn away for a minute or five? Do you turn off the engine of your car at a stoplight?
Well, it depends on what you compare it to, but for instance - no e-mail is a big one, though not really an extension, it's another program.
Compared to Opera, you miss a lot of little things - movable tabs, sessions, zoom, fit to width, hotclick menus... I could go on. There are some lists of extensions to duplicate Opera functionality in FF, and currently they are ~20 extensions to hit all the little and big things. That can be untenable to maintain, not to mention significant numbers of people on various web forums recommend keeping the extensions under ~6 in the current releases 1.0.6/7 to maintain stability.
What I don't get is why MS is going toolbar happy. I think if they pay any attention, the in thing has been minimilism. iPod. FireFox/IE6... etc..
I'n not a minimalism freak, but I find that I won't want bars and panels and such wasting space.
I have yet to ever find a useful sidebar for anything. All they do is waste space 95% of the time, and I could just hit a key to pop it up the 5% of the time it's useful.
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This depends on the car. My Mom's Subaru has a lever that is marked with a gas picture that you pull - it's also described in the manual.
The Oldsmobile I have just has a finger notch on the gas door that you pull on. It's rather obvoious with that.
Well, Best Buy (the Geek Squad) charges 59USD to take in a computer and diagnose if it has a problem. Then they charge 79USD to do an OS Service, which basically is clearing out temp files, making sure the registry isn't hosed, and ripping out any spyware or viruses they can find.
And they require the diagnostic, they will not just do an OS Service for whatever reason - probably just to gouge money.
So, hmm 138USD for computer service - you realize that is about a third of the cost of some of the new computers that Best Buy sells? If you were really going to do this every 3 months, you might as well do what I recommend people do - buy a new cheap PC every year!
There's also always the venerable proxomitron or privoxy for windows and cross platform respectively
Wow, my mail client of choice. I see we just work in diametrically opposed ways. With Opera anyway, you can drag and drop or move via appearances 95% of the UI elements. If you ever look at the opera forums (or whatever) screenshot threads, you'll see 500 totally different layouts.
Of course, you've got a browser already setup and working, why go through the effort? I won't.
domain.tld=5 tells Opera to lie that it's actually IE6. Basically it's a website code issue that sends broken code if you tell them you are using Opera. You will see it happen on some sites with FireFox also, but many still cater to netscape, which is what FF says it is (sort of, long story) for historical reasons.
Someday (soon I hope) companies will stop developing for the one biggest browser, or "contientious" companies for the 2 biggest browsers and instead develop for the standards.
So, in the above, when the site thinks you are IE, it then sends the correct code. See how stupid said sniffing is? They do extra work to send you different code, then you do extra work to get them to send you the original code which then works. Imagine the effort savings if they just served one codebase that was standards complient?
The sad thing is UA settings only work on sites that only discriminate via UA. Some also use js, and then you need js fixes to do the same thing. The Opera forums has more info, but to make it simpler, there is the help -> report a site problem. Assuming it can be easily fixed, Opera software will push out such fixes once a week via the check for new version feature.
Is there a URL we could test? Cause it might be fixable via userjs if we saw the code. Or it might even be fixable via a UA.ini entry.
You might try that anyway - go to opera's profile dir (help-> about Opera, profile line gives dir)
close Opera.
Open UA.ini with notepad or your favorite text editor and add
domain.tld=5
save, open Opera and see if that helps. Obviously substitute domain with the domain and tld with com or whatever tld it is.
True, but how does firefox know if you want to find in page, or use a keyboard shortcut?
Anyway, I think Opera got away from one button shortcuts much to my chagrin because it would suprise people when things changed by an accidental keypress - like g used to turn off images.
8.5 just came out today. So, unless you downloaded it today - no you aren't running it.
Mostly not using the IE core and the attending security that comes with that.
How do you do find as you type?
I do / and then type, if no match, it immediatley says no match, and I never have to hit enter....
have you looked for a FireFox keyboard setup file?
I'm still a diehard ctrl-n fanatic though, as it's the way wordprocessors worked, and has carried me forward for many years!
That's really odd. I use outlook web access just fine in Opera at home...
I think you really ought to upgrade. You have no idea what you're missing with things like tabs and CSS...
What's odd is aesthitics are very personal - and in the age of skinnable apps, kind of a stupid reason not to try out a product.
However, it is a compelling reason even if illogical. I refuse to use firefox for that same reason, the installs I've seen (default one) are so fugly that the googles do nothing. That said, I think IE7 beta interface is actually WORSE.
Leave it to microsoft.
The thing that worries me for Opera is:
Back then, they were motivated to quickly fix the issue because he (presumably) was a paying customer.
Why would they even care much today and in the future? He's not going to buy another site license. He's not going to push sales of 100 licenses to users of his site... Heck, the dev himself isn't even going to purchase *ONE* license now.
The problem here is what incentive is there to put the user first? The whole point of OSS is to empower the developer. And it's all designed and worked on to scratch the developer's itches.
OSS isn't about users, it's always been about developers. The only focus is what developers want to work on.
The point I'm making isn't to blindly let people go or not, but to follow the rules. There are many reasons there are rules the government has to follow.
Look, if someone is saying they will commit a crime, that can be brought before a judge. We have procedures in place now to deal with people we have arrested that we feel are too dangerous to let out on bail - namely, no bail.
But I cannot think of any good that can come from letting the government just hold anyone they like indefinately without charges or declaring them a POW.
If this is a war, then declare them POWs. There's already functions in place to deal with "enemy combatants" and has been for over a century.
What about innocent until proven guilty? You seem to be arguing for the government to tag people based on secret criteria, and by virtue of saying they are bad, get to ignore the constitution, geneva convention and anything else they want to ignore.
I think we've all seen how well unregulated police powers works out for a countries citizens in the past.
I'm sorry, wanting to follow the constitution and bill of rights is going to "drag our country down... under the guise of political correctness"?
A desire for due process does not equal "etting these bastards free once they hit our shores. Free to commit more attocities, more murder in the name of their 'god'."
Isn't that analogous to both fractions as well as the various science classes stressing getting things in like terms?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you click on an extension install at the mozilla site, doesn't firefox offer to install it? If so, what indication would a user have that they could both install in any other method than the touted web based one, and how would they know how to save vs install it?
6th: Speed? How often do you start up your browser a day? If the load time of your browser starts to eat significant time of your day, because you start it up so often, then you should maybe take a closer look on your work habits, since those seem to have more impact on your little time.
I see this complaint a lot, and I have to ask, in the days of tabs, why are people opening and closing their browser all day long? Seems like a waste of time and effort to me.
I mean, do you also shut down your PC every time toy turn away for a minute or five? Do you turn off the engine of your car at a stoplight?
So, wait, you'll need something like Java for it???
That sounds painful.
Well, it depends on what you compare it to, but for instance - no e-mail is a big one, though not really an extension, it's another program.
... I could go on. There are some lists of extensions to duplicate Opera functionality in FF, and currently they are ~20 extensions to hit all the little and big things. That can be untenable to maintain, not to mention significant numbers of people on various web forums recommend keeping the extensions under ~6 in the current releases 1.0.6/7 to maintain stability.
Compared to Opera, you miss a lot of little things - movable tabs, sessions, zoom, fit to width, hotclick menus
What I don't get is why MS is going toolbar happy. I think if they pay any attention, the in thing has been minimilism. iPod. FireFox/IE6... etc..
I'n not a minimalism freak, but I find that I won't want bars and panels and such wasting space.
I have yet to ever find a useful sidebar for anything. All they do is waste space 95% of the time, and I could just hit a key to pop it up the 5% of the time it's useful.
InDesign.