Seriously. It's fast becoming the XP Home of browsers. Too bad neither the fanboys nor the development team realizes this. It could've been a nice browser, smaller and faster than SeaMonkey. It lost its way around the time they renamed it "Firefox." Now it's just SeaMonkey with memory leaks (yeah yeah it's a feature) and an incomplete, annoying interface.
No, I don't care that I'll get modded down for criticizing Firefox.
Excuse me, but have you worked for Telvista/Verizon? What you are saying is scarily similar:
judge them strictly on talk time average and number of calls taken. Provide them with little or no training, no physical examples of the supported product, and no way to talk to the engineers that truly know how it works under the hood.
We do have a 'First call resolution' metric, but it's based mostly on if another ticket is coded exactly the same within 72 hours, and it's not a priority. "Quality" - saying the things they want you to say, doing the things they want you to do - and average handle time are far weightier. Unfortunately.
It's no faster than Seamonkey
It's annoying. Go to about:config to do things I can do in Seamonkey's prefs dialog? Please.
Where the fuck is the new tab button? No, extensions can't place one on the tab bar, where it belongs
Its users are annoying.
There's one thing uTorrent (or any other client, for that matter) hasn't matched.
Azureus's queuing/seeding priority system. It may be unimportant to leechers, but as for me, it's the reason I keep Azureus.
You know, it doesn't have to be new to be called technology. I see nothing wrong with it. AJAX is "the practical application of knowledge...in a particular area"... technology right there. Webster much?
But see, how many desktops do you see at CompUSA with anything other than Windows or OSX installed? When you go to Best Buy or Circuit City, how many stereos do you see with a name other than Sony? Microsoft faces far less significant competition in its primary market than does Sony in any of the markets that Sony plays in. Microsoft is even one of Sony's significant competitors, in one particular market.
If people don't play games for social interaction, why is the chat screen constantly rolling on most multiplayer games?
People like to talk trash, clearleh.
How do you organize a 40 person raid on an imaginary dungeon? I can't get 40 people together in real life, but I can in a game. And that's not about social interaction?
It's all about the phat lewtz!
There is not a single day where I don't have to kill Mozilla from the task manager or where it does not crash.
There is not a single day where I have to kill Mozilla from the task manager or where it crashes.
Fixed. Mozilla? Crash? Ridiculous. Mozilla doesn't crash. Firefox does. Seamonkey does. Mozilla? Never. I've been using Mozilla for years. Of the extremely rare crashes I've experienced, most can be chalked up to OS instability (Windows in need of a rebuild) or a specific hardware incompatibility with 1.3+ and a specific Creative Labs video card which shall remain nameless, or in a recent case, testing a proof of concept for a DoS exploit crashed it. I abuse Mozilla, and it just keeps on running. Windows 98SE, Windows 2000 Server, Emoticon OS, Linux, no matter -- Mozilla crashes on me less than once in the proverbial blue moon.
And I do have and use Opera. I like the 8.x series, which is more than I can say for the 7.x versions, but not enough to switch. It isn't for want of adblock, either. I've gotten used to running Privoxy and have got it working pretty well with little collateral damage.
Personally, I can carry on a conversation with a passenger just fine. My cell phone, however, remains off or ignored while I'm in the car, period. I've tried the cell phone driving thing on occasion, and decided it's best just not to do it. I have no scientific explanation as to why the cell phone distracts me more, it just does.
Azureus does have the best seed priority/queuing system, I'll give it that much. 'Course, that's enough for me. I seed a bunch of torrents from various sources, most of which are permanent seeds on my box. Prioritization is a must.
If I didn have so many seeds running, I'd be using uTorrent or something else.
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Firefox dumbed down again, film at 11.
Seriously. It's fast becoming the XP Home of browsers. Too bad neither the fanboys nor the development team realizes this. It could've been a nice browser, smaller and faster than SeaMonkey. It lost its way around the time they renamed it "Firefox." Now it's just SeaMonkey with memory leaks (yeah yeah it's a feature) and an incomplete, annoying interface.
No, I don't care that I'll get modded down for criticizing Firefox.
if I still had mod points...
Excuse me, but have you worked for Telvista/Verizon? What you are saying is scarily similar:
judge them strictly on talk time average and number of calls taken. Provide them with little or no training, no physical examples of the supported product, and no way to talk to the engineers that truly know how it works under the hood.
We do have a 'First call resolution' metric, but it's based mostly on if another ticket is coded exactly the same within 72 hours, and it's not a priority. "Quality" - saying the things they want you to say, doing the things they want you to do - and average handle time are far weightier. Unfortunately.
I'll criticize Firefox then :)
It's no faster than Seamonkey
It's annoying. Go to about:config to do things I can do in Seamonkey's prefs dialog? Please.
Where the fuck is the new tab button? No, extensions can't place one on the tab bar, where it belongs
Its users are annoying.
Long live Seamonkey!
There's one thing uTorrent (or any other client, for that matter) hasn't matched.
Azureus's queuing/seeding priority system. It may be unimportant to leechers, but as for me, it's the reason I keep Azureus.
Or users continue to use the old version...
You're exactly right. If it weren't for the windows logo, I might think I were looking at someone's crazy linux desktop theme.
You know, it doesn't have to be new to be called technology. I see nothing wrong with it. AJAX is "the practical application of knowledge...in a particular area" ... technology right there. Webster much?
Simple. It's PHB-speak. Haven't you ever read Dilbert?
I haven't had any issues (aside from the ever-present waste) using FAT32 on drives double or more that size.
But see, how many desktops do you see at CompUSA with anything other than Windows or OSX installed? When you go to Best Buy or Circuit City, how many stereos do you see with a name other than Sony? Microsoft faces far less significant competition in its primary market than does Sony in any of the markets that Sony plays in. Microsoft is even one of Sony's significant competitors, in one particular market.
Clamwin may be free and open source, but its performance is horrible. AVG, Avast, and AntiVir leave it in the dust while also still being free.
AC said: Cookies are delicious delicacies.
I was wondering when someone would get around to saying that.
It'd be a heckuva lot better than Senator Hatch!
If only I had mod points....
nobody in their right mind wants the incumbent Senator Orrin Hatch
If I were a resident of Utah, I'd vote for anyone or anything other than Hatch. Anyone. Anything. Even Michael Moore. A duck. A teddy bear. Whatever.
Just gotta poke fun ;)
If people don't play games for social interaction, why is the chat screen constantly rolling on most multiplayer games?
People like to talk trash, clearleh.
How do you organize a 40 person raid on an imaginary dungeon? I can't get 40 people together in real life, but I can in a game. And that's not about social interaction?
It's all about the phat lewtz!
Aw, come on, this hasn't been modded funny or underrated yet? Mods, wake up! :)
I'm sure theres a joke there when you lump George W. Bush, Hitler and Jesus together...
Of course there is. It's gonna be the next great sitcom on NBC...
Diablo 2 had random levels? Really?
hollowpoint for home defence to prevent the bullet from striking additional targets... I'd acquit.
There is not a single day where I don't have to kill Mozilla from the task manager or where it does not crash.
There is not a single day where I have to kill Mozilla from the task manager or where it crashes.
Fixed. Mozilla? Crash? Ridiculous. Mozilla doesn't crash. Firefox does. Seamonkey does. Mozilla? Never. I've been using Mozilla for years. Of the extremely rare crashes I've experienced, most can be chalked up to OS instability (Windows in need of a rebuild) or a specific hardware incompatibility with 1.3+ and a specific Creative Labs video card which shall remain nameless, or in a recent case, testing a proof of concept for a DoS exploit crashed it. I abuse Mozilla, and it just keeps on running. Windows 98SE, Windows 2000 Server, Emoticon OS, Linux, no matter -- Mozilla crashes on me less than once in the proverbial blue moon.
And I do have and use Opera. I like the 8.x series, which is more than I can say for the 7.x versions, but not enough to switch. It isn't for want of adblock, either. I've gotten used to running Privoxy and have got it working pretty well with little collateral damage.
Personally, I can carry on a conversation with a passenger just fine. My cell phone, however, remains off or ignored while I'm in the car, period. I've tried the cell phone driving thing on occasion, and decided it's best just not to do it. I have no scientific explanation as to why the cell phone distracts me more, it just does.
You're both right. This is English we're talking about, there are exceptions. Do I need to give examples?
Azureus does have the best seed priority/queuing system, I'll give it that much. 'Course, that's enough for me. I seed a bunch of torrents from various sources, most of which are permanent seeds on my box. Prioritization is a must.
If I didn have so many seeds running, I'd be using uTorrent or something else.