any firm that has ever bought or sold anything from any firm you ever did business with, had a pop-up ad get in the way of your mouse cursor, or that pretended to be a Survey or Poll.
plus any firm that any of the following sold their lists to.
think about it - that's virtually any business anywhere.
If you use Play launch firefox extension (with mplayer and mplayerplug-in), launch.yahoo.com works just fine. Heck, it works just fine on linux for me.
Thanks, I'll see if I can get that working tonight.
First useful advice I've seen on this issue... thanks!
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wouldn't render under the Opera version I downloaded just last weekend.
real users won't even bother to do this - they'll just use IE - and we all know that.
again, we're dealing with real user expectations, not geek expectations, and they won't try to fix it, they'll just replace it with IE.
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The Sun will come out tommorow, grab your Java code and it's a new day [breaks into song]
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because if the browser doesn't work with Yahoo, it is the browser that gets deleted.
Sad, but true. I lost two possible FireFox converts over this just this week alone. They just want to play music, and they don't care why it doesn't work.
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You must be a developer. Guess what, Mr. End User doesn't care that its Yahoo's problem, the alignment of the stars, or a fluctuation in the space-time continuum.
All Mr. End User cares about is that launch.yahoo.com WORKS in IE, but NOT in Firefox. Hence, it becomes a Firefox problem.
You're absolutely correct. I was talking with my sister in Santa Barbara last night, and she didn't even know what BROWSER she was using...
All the end users care about is:
does it work?
not
why doesn't it work?
Our competition is MSFT, not us geeks.
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Wouldn't it be more appropriate and less alarmist to say that Firefox 1.1 will instead be called Firefox 1.5?
You can hear the interesting segment here. The expert is a jerk... it's pretty funny.
Even if it does save 1-2 percent, we could save 20 percent just by getting rid of the tax deduction for low MPG cars bought for businesses, or even more if we got rid of subsidies for imported oil and natural gas.
Efficiency is all relative. Even Saudi Arabia is switching to wind power.
now all we have to do is hire lots and lots of programmers to go thru all our code and find the bugs - otherwise civilization will end.... yawn...
seriously, anyone ever thought this is all just an elaborate ploy by Sun and Microsoft to force users to upgrade their OS so it will "deal with the DST problem"?
Because right now, nobody seems to be interested in Longhorn or other "new" OS as they have no "killer app".
What better application than one provided by the DC elites at their beck and call?
"When upgrading, all your Extensions and Themes will be disabled. This is not an issue, but it may appear to be one..."
This may be a pretty serious issue. After I updated firefox, it wouldn't start. It turned out I was using the bookmarkshome extension, and I had my homepage set to the bookmarkshome page. Since the extension was disabled, the homepage couldn't be generated, which apparently prevented firefox from starting.
I had my BioBar reload, but it took three startups to get it working - and that was for the FireFox 1.0.5 release - now you're saying I have to go thru that AGAIN with 1.0.6... aaargggghhhh!
The Internet has arrived, and all of those people are now just like ITU: IETF has become the ITU."
Not a big shock... about 15 years ago, the two power centers in BC Politics were the NDP and the Social Credit Party.. The left wing was in the NDP who had power at the time, and the Socreds had pretty much lost favour as the reigning right-wing party (( yeah that belies their name, but having been decades in power, the right wing had taken them over )). Then an upstart Liberal party maaged to worm their way into the leaders debate and caught fire, becomming the official opposition.
By the next election, the formeer Socred political machine had taken over the Liberal Party and kicked out it's leader. These are the people who now run the province.
Strange, when I looked at the results it looked to me like the Green and NDP managed to knock each other out [with a higher vote] than the L by running candidates in the same race in most key areas.
But I haven't lived in BC since 1989, so maybe the vote totals lie.
Oh getting into the school is not an issue, getting into the CS department is a pain in the arse!
Ah. Well, I was in the CS department at SFU and some other colleges in BC, and only did a post-grad certificate here. But, as I indicated, we just opened up a lot of student slots at the UW, almost as many as we admitted fresh students last year, so it's highly likely you have a better chance to get in now.
Besides, combo degrees are all the rage. You could get into the new Department of Global Health the Gates Foundation created and do a joint CS-GH degree in Bioinformatics, or some such.
Did you really want to only be CS? Hybrid degrees are better IMHO.
that could also be because the MSFT cycle is on a hiring upswing while the Boeing cycle is on a hiring upswing at the same time.
But the Pacific NW is not on the same business cycle as the rest of the USA, we're more tied to the Far East trading patterns, so I wouldn't expect this to mean much in the rest of the USA.
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We've already lost.
All the rest is commentary and excuses.
any firm that has ever bought or sold anything from any firm you ever did business with, had a pop-up ad get in the way of your mouse cursor, or that pretended to be a Survey or Poll.
plus any firm that any of the following sold their lists to.
think about it - that's virtually any business anywhere.
If you use Play launch firefox extension (with mplayer and mplayerplug-in), launch.yahoo.com works just fine. Heck, it works just fine on linux for me.
p ?application=firefox&id=593
... thanks!
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.ph
Thanks, I'll see if I can get that working tonight.
First useful advice I've seen on this issue
wouldn't render under the Opera version I downloaded just last weekend.
real users won't even bother to do this - they'll just use IE - and we all know that.
again, we're dealing with real user expectations, not geek expectations, and they won't try to fix it, they'll just replace it with IE.
The Sun will come out tommorow, grab your Java code and it's a new day [breaks into song]
because if the browser doesn't work with Yahoo, it is the browser that gets deleted.
Sad, but true. I lost two possible FireFox converts over this just this week alone. They just want to play music, and they don't care why it doesn't work.
You must be a developer. Guess what, Mr. End User doesn't care that its Yahoo's problem, the alignment of the stars, or a fluctuation in the space-time continuum.
...
All Mr. End User cares about is that launch.yahoo.com WORKS in IE, but NOT in Firefox. Hence, it becomes a Firefox problem.
You're absolutely correct. I was talking with my sister in Santa Barbara last night, and she didn't even know what BROWSER she was using
All the end users care about is:
does it work?
not
why doesn't it work?
Our competition is MSFT, not us geeks.
Wouldn't it be more appropriate and less alarmist to say that Firefox 1.1 will instead be called Firefox 1.5?
No, Firefox 1.5 will be Firefox 5.
I've spent the morning reading WONTFIX bugs on the Firefox text zoom issue. I'm feeling down on the browser just now.
Yeah, well, there's tons of WONTFIX bugs for music in FireFox as well, and that's usually the deal breaker for early adopters.
Sad, really, as FireFox is my browser of choice.
Steal Microsoft's thunder and release it right after IE 7. :)
Even better, release it right after IE 7 and say it's the bug fix for IE 7.
Please, say it's so!
I've lost two FireFox potential converts over this issue just this week.
but they don't.
Best intentions of the world, poorly executed and masked by closed source privacy, still result in large gaping holes in oh so many areas.
So, rather than complain about how YOU can do it, MSFT, just get it DONE, and stop telling us that you COULD do it.
You can hear the interesting segment here. The expert is a jerk... it's pretty funny.
Even if it does save 1-2 percent, we could save 20 percent just by getting rid of the tax deduction for low MPG cars bought for businesses, or even more if we got rid of subsidies for imported oil and natural gas.
Efficiency is all relative. Even Saudi Arabia is switching to wind power.
now all we have to do is hire lots and lots of programmers to go thru all our code and find the bugs - otherwise civilization will end. ... yawn ...
seriously, anyone ever thought this is all just an elaborate ploy by Sun and Microsoft to force users to upgrade their OS so it will "deal with the DST problem"?
Because right now, nobody seems to be interested in Longhorn or other "new" OS as they have no "killer app".
What better application than one provided by the DC elites at their beck and call?
"When upgrading, all your Extensions and Themes will be disabled. This is not an issue, but it may appear to be one..."
... aaargggghhhh!
This may be a pretty serious issue. After I updated firefox, it wouldn't start. It turned out I was using the bookmarkshome extension, and I had my homepage set to the bookmarkshome page. Since the extension was disabled, the homepage couldn't be generated, which apparently prevented firefox from starting.
I had my BioBar reload, but it took three startups to get it working - and that was for the FireFox 1.0.5 release - now you're saying I have to go thru that AGAIN with 1.0.6
actually, it has a later bugtraq connector as well.
The Internet has arrived, and all of those people are now just like ITU: IETF has become the ITU."
Not a big shock... about 15 years ago, the two power centers in BC Politics were the NDP and the Social Credit Party.. The left wing was in the NDP who had power at the time, and the Socreds had pretty much lost favour as the reigning right-wing party (( yeah that belies their name, but having been decades in power, the right wing had taken them over )). Then an upstart Liberal party maaged to worm their way into the leaders debate and caught fire, becomming the official opposition.
By the next election, the formeer Socred political machine had taken over the Liberal Party and kicked out it's leader. These are the people who now run the province.
Strange, when I looked at the results it looked to me like the Green and NDP managed to knock each other out [with a higher vote] than the L by running candidates in the same race in most key areas.
But I haven't lived in BC since 1989, so maybe the vote totals lie.
probably the same way that they still haven't fixed the music.yahoo.com bug either.
well, you take the GRE to get in to Grad School, where you get your Post-Grad.
GRE is Graduate Record of Examination. Fairly complex - reminds you of those Love Hina tests Shinji would freak out over.
I noticed this problem in FireFox 1.0.5 as well, that some of these domains like fastclick still let unauthorized pop-ups thru.
I checked bugzilla and even though this was reported back in 1.0.3 it's still not resolved at all.
UNACCEPTABLE! DOES NOT COMPUTE! MUST PLAY RADIO STATION!
Cause it refuses to work for my prior versions, won't even show the submit button when you try to sign up for their Music Station service.
Yeah, i should RTFM, but it's a new laptop and workarounds are sometimes quicker.
If I may ask, what is post-graduate? I thought that PhD was as high as a person could go?
Bachelors is grad. Post-grad is Masters, Doctorate (PhD), and other equivalencies.
Oh getting into the school is not an issue, getting into the CS department is a pain in the arse!
Ah. Well, I was in the CS department at SFU and some other colleges in BC, and only did a post-grad certificate here. But, as I indicated, we just opened up a lot of student slots at the UW, almost as many as we admitted fresh students last year, so it's highly likely you have a better chance to get in now.
Besides, combo degrees are all the rage. You could get into the new Department of Global Health the Gates Foundation created and do a joint CS-GH degree in Bioinformatics, or some such.
Did you really want to only be CS? Hybrid degrees are better IMHO.
that could also be because the MSFT cycle is on a hiring upswing while the Boeing cycle is on a hiring upswing at the same time.
But the Pacific NW is not on the same business cycle as the rest of the USA, we're more tied to the Far East trading patterns, so I wouldn't expect this to mean much in the rest of the USA.