Let it be known that WebSideStory's Firefox numbers trail other browser-monitoring firms' numbers, such as OneStat and XiTi. A marketshare graph detailing these numbers can be found here. As you can see, Firefox is still trending upwards, by no stretch of the imagination. We're still in good shape.
This may be nit-picking, but does anyone hate it when you accidentally middle-click a tab that's not in focus? To be consistent with the tab bar's red X, one should be able to close a tab only if it's in focus, IMO.
And regarding your sig, It's only called terrorism when they do it to us. should be changed to It's called terrorism only when they do it to us.
According to Wikipedia, the name "cocktail" had its origins around 1800.
My first cousin once removed, Phil Greene, is a descendant of Antoine Amedee Peychaud, "the 19th New Orleans pharmacist who concocted Peychaud's Bitters and is credited with coining the term "cocktail."
Attorney, author of manuscript Creole Gumbo, and freelance writer and historian, Phil Greene is a descendant of the Peychaud family of New Orleans and the Bordeaux region of France (home to Chateau Peychaud). Among Phil's ancestors was Antoine Amedee Peychaud, the 19th New Orleans pharmacist who concocted Peychaud's Bitters and is credited with coining the term "cocktail." As the story goes, Peychaud mixed sugar, his own secret blend of aromatic bitters, and French brandy (for its medicinal powers, of course), and served it in a double-ended egg cup, called a "coquetier, which later was blurred into the term "cocktail." This brandy drink eventually evolved into the Sazerac cocktail, a classic New Orleans drink, which is still made with Peychaud's Bitters. Phil has become an authority on the life of the ironically initialed A. A. Peychaud, and tale of the cocktail, as well as New Orleans history, in general. As a founding board member of The Museum of the American Cocktail, he assists with outreach, promotion, writing, and local communications, while providing legal counsel. A graduate of New Orleans' Loyola University School of Law, Phil is Senior Counsel for Internet Technology with the U.S. Department of Commerce and lives in Washington, DC with his wife and three daughters.
...while wearing a shirt that said "car for sale".
A more accurate comparison would be:...while wearing a shirt that said "create a carbon copy of this car and drive it around without the car designers receiving due compensation."
The machine being discussed here, the Dimension 2400, began last week at $299.
Yeah, and once you remove the CRT and the "free printer" at checkout, the price drops to $200. If there were an option to remove the keyboard/mouse, Dell could get the price down to $180 for the box alone. Highway robbery, I tell you.
I work at the Department of Energy, and recently put in a request to have Firefox installed on my terminal. My boss said it might take a while because Tech Support must first test the software to make sure it's not harmful! [oh, the irony...] After a few weeks, Firefox was approved and some random computer dude came down to my cubicle.
Dude: "I'm here to install Firefox." Me: "Yeah, I have the executable right here on my desktop." Dude: "Ok. [pause] So, what is this thing?" Me: "It's a browser." I could tell he thought I was disgusted at his ignorance, so he said, Dude: "You know, I've been playing around with Macs lately.." I felt like patting him on the head and saying "good boy."
...going back to the original technicolor negatives, preserved in temperature-controlled rooms...
It still amazes me that somehow having something in a temperature-controlled room is even worth mentioning. For crying out loud, my crummy apartment is a temperature-controlled room.
--Matt
Check the 14th parargaph, where it gives an external link to download Firefox. I just about pissed my pants.
"Stop using Internet Explorer. Microsoft's Web browser is a hog. Switching to the Mozilla Firefox or Opera browser can yield swifter program launches, faster page loads, and an all-around smoother ride. In my personal experience, Firefox has proven the fleetest browser..."
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Let it be known that WebSideStory's Firefox numbers trail other browser-monitoring firms' numbers, such as OneStat and XiTi. A marketshare graph detailing these numbers can be found here. As you can see, Firefox is still trending upwards, by no stretch of the imagination. We're still in good shape.
And regarding your sig, It's only called terrorism when they do it to us. should be changed to It's called terrorism only when they do it to us.
According to Wikipedia, the name "cocktail" had its origins around 1800.
My first cousin once removed, Phil Greene, is a descendant of Antoine Amedee Peychaud, "the 19th New Orleans pharmacist who concocted Peychaud's Bitters and is credited with coining the term "cocktail."
http://www.museumoftheamericancocktail.org/welcome /Founders.html:
A more accurate comparison would be: ...while wearing a shirt that said "create a carbon copy of this car and drive it around without the car designers receiving due compensation."
That would make for a nice t-shirt.
The machine being discussed here, the Dimension 2400, began last week at $299.
Yeah, and once you remove the CRT and the "free printer" at checkout, the price drops to $200. If there were an option to remove the keyboard/mouse, Dell could get the price down to $180 for the box alone. Highway robbery, I tell you.
In a similar vein...
I work at the Department of Energy, and recently put in a request to have Firefox installed on my terminal. My boss said it might take a while because Tech Support must first test the software to make sure it's not harmful! [oh, the irony...] After a few weeks, Firefox was approved and some random computer dude came down to my cubicle.
Dude: "I'm here to install Firefox."
Me: "Yeah, I have the executable right here on my desktop."
Dude: "Ok. [pause] So, what is this thing?"
Me: "It's a browser." I could tell he thought I was disgusted at his ignorance, so he said,
Dude: "You know, I've been playing around with Macs lately.."
I felt like patting him on the head and saying "good boy."
This fits much better in my bookmarks than the current title "Mozilla - Home of the Firefox web browser and Thunderbird e-mail client".
Would have to copy and pase the url into IE to change my avatar or play games...
Kiss copying and pasting goodbye and download Launchy, one of the more useful Firefox extensions.
~Matt
...going back to the original technicolor negatives, preserved in temperature-controlled rooms...
It still amazes me that somehow having something in a temperature-controlled room is even worth mentioning. For crying out loud, my crummy apartment is a temperature-controlled room. --Matt
Yes, but MSN actually warns you not to use IE: http://tech.msn.com/howto/article_203-2.armx
Check the 14th parargaph, where it gives an external link to download Firefox. I just about pissed my pants.
"Stop using Internet Explorer. Microsoft's Web browser is a hog. Switching to the Mozilla Firefox or Opera browser can yield swifter program launches, faster page loads, and an all-around smoother ride. In my personal experience, Firefox has proven the fleetest browser..."