You know, this reminds me: I've noticed that my local sub shop does these things called "Philly cheesesteaks." I immediately filed a complaint, explaining that the majority of this planet's population would not know what "Philly" was. Come to think of it, most would not know what "cheese", "steak", or a "cheeseteak" were either.
However, it turns out the neighborhood doesn't really care when they go out for food.
Those are all true... and meaningless.
I use map websites about once a day, and I have never needed any of those features. PDA display would be kinda neat - I assume, I've never used it myself - but it'd be foolish to think G won't implement it.
People who TRULY, REALLY, need directions for business purposes use GPS anyway. This ain't targetting them.
Actually I've never seen anything as shortsighted as posting this boring complaint as if it's the only one in the whole thread.
I'm sure all UK companies always include their US non-customers in all their products.
Imagine that: you start typing "talla..." and Google Suggests "Tallahasee, FL".
(For those who don't know: Google Suggest is a kind of a real-time AutoComplete for the search box.)
If, in the real world, I have in front of me a very large map on a table, when I "click" on it (i.e. hold it against the table) and move down, the map moves down.
I don't consider this a blunder at all: a personal preference, maybe, and one where I'm on Google's side... sorry...
Being a regular Mapquest user, I was a bit confused by the boxes on the right. Why are there two in each category? Where do I type in my search? Can I type in a home address in the "find a business" box?
Turns out those are exactly what the heading says - *example* searches. You still search from the main google box at the top. They just put the stuff on the right if you're too lazy to type something to try this out.
IMO, they should have made those text links rather than form fields. They break the layout on Firefox/OS X - I get a perpetual horizontal scroller (doesn't happen after I've typed in my own search and the form on the right is gone).
Was anyone else confused by this?
Well, perhaps result #6 should have really been the one to stop Google from naming their search the most obvious and confusion-free way...
"Scholarships
Since 1932 LULAC Councils have been selling tacos, tamales, having dances, etc., to raise monies for scholarships that are given to Hispanic students meeting certain guidelines."
And those bitches at Google would take away these poor people's tacos and tamales... is nothing holy to them???
Yeah, awful business that grammar. We'd do much better without it. Or perhaps we should replace it with one of those universal cosmic rules that weren't *invented*, like "he who smelt it, dealt it."
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Do you have any idea how many times I've seen the Parrot Sketch? The Cheese Shop Sketch? MST3K's treatment of "Manos, Hands of Fate"? 'The Producers'? Because I don't. I just know they're hella funny every time.
- It's faster than Outlook (though slower than Firefox). In the latest Outlook, message rendering can take up to a few seconds - the UI is just not very responsive.
- Leaner UI overall. I like Outlook's corporate functions, but I just don't use them that often at work, and never at home. Also, Outlook suffers from having 15 different ways to get to your folders - they keep adding new panels and icons. I don't consider this a good thing at all, since it rarely - if ever - increases my productivity or improves my user experience. It just makes me click around idly.
- Significantly faster (and better) quicksearch (there are even rumors of search-as-you-type in the future!)
- As with any other Mozilla product, they listen to the users' comments. If a reasonable, much-requested feature doesn't make it to the release, I'll bet my hat there's an extension that does it.
- Shockingly, it's a better client for Ma and Pa User. Fewer buttons, leaner out of the box, no office environment mumbo jumbo. (I'm not even going to take seriously suggestions to use Outlook Express in that case.)
I wouldn't normally bring this up in what will naturally be a purely techie debate, but Slashdot frequently suffers from this problem:
Upon seeing the article headline in my RSS, I thought, "Rocket fueled slackware? It did??" Rocket-fueled slackware", please. And what about "New URL Spoofing Bug in Pre-SP2 IE"? Are they saying that a new URL is spoofing a bug in IE?
The writer of "New RIAA File-swapping Suits Target Students" knew what they were doing. This is not pointless pedantry, it's a question of clarity - how would you read "New RIAA File Swapping Suits Target Students"? Who's swapping what?
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You know, this reminds me: I've noticed that my local sub shop does these things called "Philly cheesesteaks." I immediately filed a complaint, explaining that the majority of this planet's population would not know what "Philly" was. Come to think of it, most would not know what "cheese", "steak", or a "cheeseteak" were either. However, it turns out the neighborhood doesn't really care when they go out for food.
Those are all true... and meaningless. I use map websites about once a day, and I have never needed any of those features. PDA display would be kinda neat - I assume, I've never used it myself - but it'd be foolish to think G won't implement it. People who TRULY, REALLY, need directions for business purposes use GPS anyway. This ain't targetting them.
Actually I've never seen anything as shortsighted as posting this boring complaint as if it's the only one in the whole thread. I'm sure all UK companies always include their US non-customers in all their products.
Imagine that: you start typing "talla..." and Google Suggests "Tallahasee, FL". (For those who don't know: Google Suggest is a kind of a real-time AutoComplete for the search box.)
If, in the real world, I have in front of me a very large map on a table, when I "click" on it (i.e. hold it against the table) and move down, the map moves down. I don't consider this a blunder at all: a personal preference, maybe, and one where I'm on Google's side... sorry...
Perhaps it's not in Google's business plan to acquire listings from places they stand to make absolutely no money in. I mean, perhaps.
map24 is very pretty. However, it crashes the Java on firefox/OS X. Re: EPIC, I will go out on a limb here and say that guy's scenario is laughable.
If you don't need the map, why do you even care?
Being a regular Mapquest user, I was a bit confused by the boxes on the right. Why are there two in each category? Where do I type in my search? Can I type in a home address in the "find a business" box? Turns out those are exactly what the heading says - *example* searches. You still search from the main google box at the top. They just put the stuff on the right if you're too lazy to type something to try this out. IMO, they should have made those text links rather than form fields. They break the layout on Firefox/OS X - I get a perpetual horizontal scroller (doesn't happen after I've typed in my own search and the form on the right is gone). Was anyone else confused by this?
Well, perhaps result #6 should have really been the one to stop Google from naming their search the most obvious and confusion-free way... "Scholarships Since 1932 LULAC Councils have been selling tacos, tamales, having dances, etc., to raise monies for scholarships that are given to Hispanic students meeting certain guidelines." And those bitches at Google would take away these poor people's tacos and tamales... is nothing holy to them???
Yeah, awful business that grammar. We'd do much better without it. Or perhaps we should replace it with one of those universal cosmic rules that weren't *invented*, like "he who smelt it, dealt it."
Do you have any idea how many times I've seen the Parrot Sketch? The Cheese Shop Sketch? MST3K's treatment of "Manos, Hands of Fate"? 'The Producers'? Because I don't. I just know they're hella funny every time.
- It's faster than Outlook (though slower than Firefox). In the latest Outlook, message rendering can take up to a few seconds - the UI is just not very responsive.
- Leaner UI overall. I like Outlook's corporate functions, but I just don't use them that often at work, and never at home. Also, Outlook suffers from having 15 different ways to get to your folders - they keep adding new panels and icons. I don't consider this a good thing at all, since it rarely - if ever - increases my productivity or improves my user experience. It just makes me click around idly.
- Significantly faster (and better) quicksearch (there are even rumors of search-as-you-type in the future!)
- As with any other Mozilla product, they listen to the users' comments. If a reasonable, much-requested feature doesn't make it to the release, I'll bet my hat there's an extension that does it.
- Shockingly, it's a better client for Ma and Pa User. Fewer buttons, leaner out of the box, no office environment mumbo jumbo. (I'm not even going to take seriously suggestions to use Outlook Express in that case.)
There is, of course, an extension that adds this functionality: http://minimizetotray.mozdev.org/ Happy extending.
I wouldn't normally bring this up in what will naturally be a purely techie debate, but Slashdot frequently suffers from this problem:
Upon seeing the article headline in my RSS, I thought, "Rocket fueled slackware? It did??" Rocket-fueled slackware", please. And what about "New URL Spoofing Bug in Pre-SP2 IE"? Are they saying that a new URL is spoofing a bug in IE?
The writer of "New RIAA File-swapping Suits Target Students" knew what they were doing. This is not pointless pedantry, it's a question of clarity - how would you read "New RIAA File Swapping Suits Target Students"? Who's swapping what?