Oh, I must have read the thread wrong then. I absolutely agree with you there. It's not firefox's position to decide what is advertising and what is not. It's there to display web pages.
And is the focus of Firefox not on doing it's job well? It looks that way to me and looks to be doing a pretty good job. Plug-ins are written by 3rd party developers, who's focus is to improve the user experience.
That Firefox incorporates features to extend it's functionality, I don't believe for a second takes away from it's main focus of being a fast, (mostly) compliant browser.
Slightly off topic, but quite amusing all the same..
My old housemate was emailing a number of companies for a placement year out of university and one guy who he'd had an interview with was taking a while to get back to him, so he was sat on my computer writing him an email to find out what was going on. My housemate was having a bit of a moan about it while he was writing this email and was narrating the email that he actually wanted to write, which started along the lines of, "Dear Luca, you cunt..". Obviously he wouldn't be so stupid to actually put that in an email.
Two days later, Luca sent him an email and my housemates face suddenly dropped when he read out the email which went along the lines of "Marcus, calling someone a cunt is no way to win friends of influence people...".
I also try my best to avoid web sites who have gone over the top with adverts. Taking CoolTechZone http://www.cooltechzone.com/index.php?option=conte nt&task=view&id=779&Itemid=0&limit=1&limitstart=1, for example. This particular page, has 9 lines of content and 6 adverts. Not simple discrete text or static image ads, but flashing, gaudy animated ones. It's a bit much really when the adverts FAR FAR outweigh the actual content.
Having spent a number of years in the US, I can say from experience American food is all about portion and little about culinary skills. If the UK had the same number of cows then perhaps our restaurants could serve up the quantity of meat served up in an average American restaurant. Just because it's big doesn't mean it's good.
Noddy Holder goes into a charity shop to buy some clothes, as he is reforming Slade.
He tells the shop assistant: "I'd luyke (that's like, with a Brummie accent) a nice tartan waistcoat, luyke, one of those yellow shirts with the big collar and the frills down the front luyke, and of course, the biggest pair of flares you've got, luyke."
"Certainly, Noddy," says the assistant. But don't you want a kipper tie?"
"That would be great, luyke," answers Noddy. "Two sugars please."
You want to try living in a US house. Damn things blow away in a light breeze. At least our British homes are made of something sturdier than plastaboard, like I dunno.. stone?
Are we to presume you haven't actually looked at the pirated sites page then? Because obviously if you had seen it then you'd agree that 99% of those sites haven't simply borrowed or been influenced by other sites, rather completely and blatently ripped them off. There's absolutely no excuse what these people have done. And if that's your idea of "influence" then you're just as bad as the other guys.
It's an iPod killer in what way exactly? It's ugly and it has 32mb ram. I'm not sure how this is news exactly, as almost every other mobile phone that has been released in the past 6 months can play MP3s. Yes, it can play WMA files (as can numerous other mobile phones) and it can hook up to iTunes. Great.
It's definitely ugly. Apart from the RAZR, it's a typical ugly motorola phone. I've had a few Motorola phones in the past. Never again.
The software is ugly, the hardware is ugly. They're just.. ugly.
I'd buy a RAZR if the software wasn't ugly.
I wouldn't have a Nokia phone either, only because everyone in the world has one, but that said Nokia rules the roost for user interface design on mobile phones.
I've heard of Switzerland, in fact I lived there, and I can assure you, gun owners are not allowed to pop random caps in anyone's asses. The ammunition they're given is accounted for by the military.
I would probably say, and this is just a stab in the dark mind, that the reason they don't care is because a PC (of the Windows/x86 architecture type) isn't a Mac. Perhaps?
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Or alternatively their boss has paid 650 bucks for a copy of Photoshop. I very much doubt anyone on here has paid $650 on Photoshop to touch up their digital photos, unless of course they're stinking rich and money is an irrelevant factor. I would suggest people on here using photoshop to touch up photos have "acquired" it or alternative if they have spent $650 on photoshop then they've got a pretty good reason to do so. I don't have 650 to spend on photoshop, the company I work for doesn't either so I'm using GIMP. It's still not as usable as photoshop though or even close.
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Oh, I must have read the thread wrong then. I absolutely agree with you there. It's not firefox's position to decide what is advertising and what is not. It's there to display web pages.
And is the focus of Firefox not on doing it's job well? It looks that way to me and looks to be doing a pretty good job. Plug-ins are written by 3rd party developers, who's focus is to improve the user experience. That Firefox incorporates features to extend it's functionality, I don't believe for a second takes away from it's main focus of being a fast, (mostly) compliant browser.
Slightly off topic, but quite amusing all the same..
My old housemate was emailing a number of companies for a placement year out of university and one guy who he'd had an interview with was taking a while to get back to him, so he was sat on my computer writing him an email to find out what was going on. My housemate was having a bit of a moan about it while he was writing this email and was narrating the email that he actually wanted to write, which started along the lines of, "Dear Luca, you cunt..". Obviously he wouldn't be so stupid to actually put that in an email.
Two days later, Luca sent him an email and my housemates face suddenly dropped when he read out the email which went along the lines of "Marcus, calling someone a cunt is no way to win friends of influence people...".
Oops.I also try my best to avoid web sites who have gone over the top with adverts. Taking CoolTechZone http://www.cooltechzone.com/index.php?option=conte nt&task=view&id=779&Itemid=0&limit=1&limitstart=1, for example. This particular page, has 9 lines of content and 6 adverts. Not simple discrete text or static image ads, but flashing, gaudy animated ones. It's a bit much really when the adverts FAR FAR outweigh the actual content.
Having spent a number of years in the US, I can say from experience American food is all about portion and little about culinary skills. If the UK had the same number of cows then perhaps our restaurants could serve up the quantity of meat served up in an average American restaurant. Just because it's big doesn't mean it's good.
That'll teach you to go to Birmingham.
Noddy Holder goes into a charity shop to buy some clothes, as he is reforming Slade.
He tells the shop assistant: "I'd luyke (that's like, with a Brummie accent) a nice tartan waistcoat, luyke, one of those yellow shirts with the big collar and the frills down the front luyke, and of course, the biggest pair of flares you've got, luyke."
"Certainly, Noddy," says the assistant. But don't you want a kipper tie?"
"That would be great, luyke," answers Noddy. "Two sugars please."
I thang yow.
You want to try living in a US house. Damn things blow away in a light breeze. At least our British homes are made of something sturdier than plastaboard, like I dunno.. stone?
Are we to presume you haven't actually looked at the pirated sites page then? Because obviously if you had seen it then you'd agree that 99% of those sites haven't simply borrowed or been influenced by other sites, rather completely and blatently ripped them off. There's absolutely no excuse what these people have done. And if that's your idea of "influence" then you're just as bad as the other guys.
It's an iPod killer in what way exactly? It's ugly and it has 32mb ram. I'm not sure how this is news exactly, as almost every other mobile phone that has been released in the past 6 months can play MP3s. Yes, it can play WMA files (as can numerous other mobile phones) and it can hook up to iTunes. Great.
It's definitely ugly. Apart from the RAZR, it's a typical ugly motorola phone. I've had a few Motorola phones in the past. Never again.
The software is ugly, the hardware is ugly. They're just.. ugly.
I'd buy a RAZR if the software wasn't ugly.
I wouldn't have a Nokia phone either, only because everyone in the world has one, but that said Nokia rules the roost for user interface design on mobile phones.
But it's definitely just you, it seems.
I've heard of Switzerland, in fact I lived there, and I can assure you, gun owners are not allowed to pop random caps in anyone's asses. The ammunition they're given is accounted for by the military.
What they failed to report is the current robot team would probably beat the Scotland team as it stands!
I would probably say, and this is just a stab in the dark mind, that the reason they don't care is because a PC (of the Windows/x86 architecture type) isn't a Mac. Perhaps?
Or alternatively their boss has paid 650 bucks for a copy of Photoshop. I very much doubt anyone on here has paid $650 on Photoshop to touch up their digital photos, unless of course they're stinking rich and money is an irrelevant factor. I would suggest people on here using photoshop to touch up photos have "acquired" it or alternative if they have spent $650 on photoshop then they've got a pretty good reason to do so. I don't have 650 to spend on photoshop, the company I work for doesn't either so I'm using GIMP. It's still not as usable as photoshop though or even close.