I fall into this group. If they'll just add an option (turned on by default is fine with me) that says "Use Awesome Bar algorithm?" that I can uncheck and use the old, sensible algorithm, I'll be happy.
Count me among that group. Hate is a very appropriate description. Yes, I am fully aware I can go get an extension to remove this "feature" but really, was it too difficult to have a checkbox to turn it off?
The extension doesn't change the behavior, just the appearance.
This is correct behaviour for the setting, which is why it pisses me off that people are still saying it's a fix. All that about:config entry changes is that it doesn't match your bookmarks, and it only matches pages you've visited by typing the URL in.
The appearance doesn't really bother me. It's the matching algorithm. Typing in "ca" should match carrionfields.com, but it shouldn't match chewbac.ca in my opinion.
I'm still on Firefox 2, and looking for a new browser. Unless they fix the URL bar, I'm not upgrading, and eventually they'll drop support for FFx 2, so...
That and the fact that FF is really not a franchise for casual gamers... it doesn't really cater to the Wii audience regardless of how large that audience is.
Yep. I'm proudly a casual gamer, and I can think of many, many, many things I'd rather do that play through a single player game that last over 9,000 hours. I think releasing it on the 360 is a much smarter idea.
It's been proven that people pay to have their stories Digged or Dugged or whatever that shitty/. ripoff calls it. So, I don't see why the firehose (a shitty ripoff of a shitty ripoff of/.) would be any different.
victimless crimes like drugs and speeding to the active denial of a person's fundamental right to live.
So when I come down the road you live on going say 160 and can't stop in time for you pulling out of your driveway, I guess that's a victimless crime?
I don't disagree that drug use in and of itself is a victimless crime (the crimes that people who are addicted to the harder drugs are obviously not victimless, but that doesn't apply to marijuana or LSD), but making a blanket statement that speeding is a victimless crime is just stupid.
If anybody can figure out how to get zenburn working with Aquamacs, I would forever love them. The color scheme I have right now is really too high-contrast.
I think it comes down to this: is Carrion Fields perfect? No, it isn't. There's things I think should be changed. But in my experience, for a decent (again, not perfect) roleplaying experience without having to find a local pencil and paper group or whatever, it's the best out there.
I still say, though, that even if that's a useful application of marketing, the general opinion of the tech-oriented/. crowd will be that marketing is only used to sell things people don't need.
The first thing I did when I opened the page is searched for "MUD" to make sure he had covered them. Quite honestly, I'm happy playing my MUD of choice (Carrion Fields if we're gonna do a little advertising here) over any MMO I've tried. If for no other reason, because roleplaying actually takes place on it. I tried playing WoW for a while, and immediately went to the RP/PK servers (coming from CF, that's what I'm used to), and I was confused as hell when I saw all these advertisements about guilds with "no RP required!". The truth is, MUDs are still much closer to pencil and paper than MMOs will ever be, and I prefer that.
Protip: if you're having to overcome a bunch of objections, it's probably because the person doesn't actually need what you're selling. That's why so many of us think marketing people are scum: they make a living off of conning people into buying things they (or sometimes anyone at all) have no use for.
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Or, what if the South Ossetians had it when the Georgians bombed innocent targets simply because they sought to form their own democracy.
I believe he was saying he wanted free as in speech, which Opera is not.
That's no presumpt ion, that's my wife!
I fall into this group. If they'll just add an option (turned on by default is fine with me) that says "Use Awesome Bar algorithm?" that I can uncheck and use the old, sensible algorithm, I'll be happy.
Count me among that group. Hate is a very appropriate description. Yes, I am fully aware I can go get an extension to remove this "feature" but really, was it too difficult to have a checkbox to turn it off?
The extension doesn't change the behavior, just the appearance.
That's the entire purpose of OpenDNS. Open is just a misdirection word they stuck in there to make themselves sound better than they are.
I would suggest a live corpse, as it's much scarier.
This is correct behaviour for the setting, which is why it pisses me off that people are still saying it's a fix. All that about:config entry changes is that it doesn't match your bookmarks, and it only matches pages you've visited by typing the URL in.
The appearance doesn't really bother me. It's the matching algorithm. Typing in "ca" should match carrionfields.com, but it shouldn't match chewbac.ca in my opinion.
Which still doesn't fix it. Like the person below me said, type "co" in and watch it match every site you've typed that ends in ".com".
Unfortunately, it seems that the Mozilla developers don't care if people dislike it.
Except that's misinformation that refuses to die. The about:config workaround doesn't fix it, and the OldBar extension just changes the way it looks.
I'm still on Firefox 2, and looking for a new browser. Unless they fix the URL bar, I'm not upgrading, and eventually they'll drop support for FFx 2, so...
Co-signed.
That and the fact that FF is really not a franchise for casual gamers... it doesn't really cater to the Wii audience regardless of how large that audience is.
Yep. I'm proudly a casual gamer, and I can think of many, many, many things I'd rather do that play through a single player game that last over 9,000 hours. I think releasing it on the 360 is a much smarter idea.
It's been proven that people pay to have their stories Digged or Dugged or whatever that shitty /. ripoff calls it. So, I don't see why the firehose (a shitty ripoff of a shitty ripoff of /.) would be any different.
Well, I would imagine people temporarily installed the nvidia drivers, until they just open-sourced all their stuff?
Firstly, I don't think anyone has to convince anyone that Blizzard releases good products. That seems pretty obvious, given their sales figures.
Then you agree that Hannah Montana makes some of the best music of all time?
Not saying Blizzard makes bad games, just that high number of sales does not imply good games.
victimless crimes like drugs and speeding to the active denial of a person's fundamental right to live.
So when I come down the road you live on going say 160 and can't stop in time for you pulling out of your driveway, I guess that's a victimless crime?
I don't disagree that drug use in and of itself is a victimless crime (the crimes that people who are addicted to the harder drugs are obviously not victimless, but that doesn't apply to marijuana or LSD), but making a blanket statement that speeding is a victimless crime is just stupid.
Food for eating...
If anybody can figure out how to get zenburn working with Aquamacs, I would forever love them. The color scheme I have right now is really too high-contrast.
Go back to playing a MUD, then. Most are free (ignoring the pay for perks crap ones), and have better gameplay than WoW.
I think it comes down to this: is Carrion Fields perfect? No, it isn't. There's things I think should be changed. But in my experience, for a decent (again, not perfect) roleplaying experience without having to find a local pencil and paper group or whatever, it's the best out there.
PS, STSF is OP.
Point well taken.
/. crowd will be that marketing is only used to sell things people don't need.
I still say, though, that even if that's a useful application of marketing, the general opinion of the tech-oriented
The first thing I did when I opened the page is searched for "MUD" to make sure he had covered them. Quite honestly, I'm happy playing my MUD of choice (Carrion Fields if we're gonna do a little advertising here) over any MMO I've tried. If for no other reason, because roleplaying actually takes place on it. I tried playing WoW for a while, and immediately went to the RP/PK servers (coming from CF, that's what I'm used to), and I was confused as hell when I saw all these advertisements about guilds with "no RP required!". The truth is, MUDs are still much closer to pencil and paper than MMOs will ever be, and I prefer that.
Protip: if you're having to overcome a bunch of objections, it's probably because the person doesn't actually need what you're selling. That's why so many of us think marketing people are scum: they make a living off of conning people into buying things they (or sometimes anyone at all) have no use for.