"Three different flavors: Gentoo, Fedora, Ubuntu
Three different versions: Fedora Core 3, Fedora Core 4, Fedora Core 5."
You are right, I do not understand. Is it like the difference between "flammable" and inflammable"? Or the difference between "Trekkie" and "Trekker" ?
For starters, we can stop calling versions "flavors" when the word "version" will do just fine. "Flavors" are for suckers. Who wants to lick an OS anyway? Especially one called "Warty Warthog"?
"Maybe it's a new feature of v2, but on mine the popup has an option for "remember password", "not this time", and "never for this site"
None of which is as useful as "never for any site". Worthless annoying popups killed forever, with one click, no need to dig down into multiple menu layers to get rid of this problem.
Great. Instead of having a computer that is obsolete when receive it, you can now pre-obsolesce your machine so you can be assured that it is obsolete and that you paid too much for it lnog before it ever arrives.
I'm hoping they fix it. However, as per a typical "beta", there was no place to report problems other than the usual "drop comment into a black hole" Microsoft feedback area.
Yes, it turned off my Visual Studio. After I installed IE7 and tried to run Visual Studio (I admit, an older version), I got a DLL error. I googled the error, and confirmed the incompability. I simply uninstalled IE 7 (could not stand it due to the messed-up control area and menu anyway) and VS worked again. Luckily.
"I'm going to assume you never looked under Tools->Options->Privacy->Passwords because there is this handy checkbox that turns off saving passwords"
You are right. I didn't dig deep in obscure menus to kill this annoyance that (1) should not be the in the first place and (2) should have a turn off option right on the pop-up. I know, it's an old glitch. Netscape has had it going WAYYY.... back.
I keep going back to the "Bad" one after using Firefox. Reasons including pages that don't display right in Firefox and that nasty "do you want to remember this password?" or whatever pop-up that LACKS a basic "no, and never ever ask me again for ANY site!!!!" option right on the popup. Better yet, it shouldn't ask this in the first place.
Don't want it. They force tabbed browsing on you whether you want it or not (there's a big hole in the screen if you turn it off), and the locations of other things are moved to less-intuitive locations. Worst of all, installing it turns off "Visual Studio".
"Wages should be based on the value of the work, not relative to those the worker deals with, or relative to the worker's self-esteem."
What a novel concept: the idea that trades should involve the actual value of something. Sort of blows to bits the idea of minimum wage, living wage, etc.
"you have to make stuff work with it, but searches are hugely hampered by blogs, aggregators, search engine traps, link farms"
But for me, that is what I want. When I search the Internet for something, I want a search engine to return all pages that contain what I am looking for. Period. (I even want the pages with robots.txt: if you don't want it indexed DON'T PUT IT ON THE WEB!, but I know that is too much to ask for).
"The key was Google knew what people wanted, and gave it to them"
I dumped Altavista once Google had indexed more sites than it. I actually preferred Altavista's search results because they are more accurate, but Google having more sites (and caching!) more than made up for the problem of Google searches being sprinkled with irrelevant, unwanted, results. I don't even mind that Google indexes blogs, etc: when I search the Internet for something, I want a search engine to return all pages that contain what I am looking for. Period.
"I work at an outsourced customer support company. The policies where I work is if your caught abusing the information you get, you get fired. Simple as that"
Is it easier to fire the bad guys there because you are less likely to have a crooked lawyer come up out of the ooze and file a frivolous "wrongful termination" lawsuit? I know that is a problem in the US.
"Not every Indian is necessarily corrupt. However, even an handful can ruin the reputation of the entire bunch. The Indian Govt. has to crack down really hard on the people caught selling the data."
Substitute "American" for "Indian" in that sentence. Then start going down the line with other countries. P.S. I am an American too.
I like Altavista's actual search mechanism better (it is more precise, and makes sure that the returned pages contain the information I look for without having to place Google's annoying required) "inanchor" tag. However, sites like Altavista and others don't have anywhere near as many pages as Google. Also, the UI/interface/look on all of the other sites really sucks compared to Google.
I loved the image search on A9 when it first came out. Then all of a sudden it was gone, and it is still gone. I stopped going there.
"The thing is, I don't go to IMdB and Amazon to do generic websearches"
The only time I use them is if I accidentally click on these "outside" search buttons instead of the nearby buttons to search inside IMDB or Amazon. Other sites have these useless outside searches, including Myspace.
"Unless Microsoft craps a miracle and their clunky "available in white, black, and brown" player turns out to be amazing, this service is going to languish and fail like dozens of others."
Hi-dee hi! But it wouldn't be so bad if the music didn't happen to be crap as well.
"Knowing BestBuy, they will be heavily pitching (or shoving down your throat) extended warranties on their music, since your backups will probably be rendered useless by their DRM."
And they'll advertise music players for $29.99, but when you get there you find out that it's really $159.99 with a $130 rebate, which you never receive after you mail in the rebate form (there is fine print that basically says they aren't obligated to pay you after all).
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" 'Our games are not propaganda,' Kasmiya says. 'Our games are a reflection of our history -- past or present."
This coming from the guys whose history includes the "fact" that the Holocaust did not happen.
"but claiming that the judge is ignorant, stupid, or malicious is ridiculous"
OK, maybe the judge himself is not ignorant, stupid, and malicious. However, his decisions are. Is that better?
"Three different flavors: Gentoo, Fedora, Ubuntu Three different versions: Fedora Core 3, Fedora Core 4, Fedora Core 5."
You are right, I do not understand. Is it like the difference between "flammable" and inflammable"? Or the difference between "Trekkie" and "Trekker" ?
For starters, we can stop calling versions "flavors" when the word "version" will do just fine. "Flavors" are for suckers. Who wants to lick an OS anyway? Especially one called "Warty Warthog"?
"Maybe it's a new feature of v2, but on mine the popup has an option for "remember password", "not this time", and "never for this site"
None of which is as useful as "never for any site". Worthless annoying popups killed forever, with one click, no need to dig down into multiple menu layers to get rid of this problem.
"I'm pretty sure implementing a clean UI free of clutter"
Step 1: No annoying worthless popups. You have to admit, these do clutter, right? Right???
"There is nothing wrong with this feature being on in the first place"
Just like there is nothing wrong with web page popups at all, is there?
"since there is nothing to stop you from turning it off or clicking "No".
Yes, clicking NO over and over and over again....
Great. Instead of having a computer that is obsolete when receive it, you can now pre-obsolesce your machine so you can be assured that it is obsolete and that you paid too much for it lnog before it ever arrives.
I'm hoping they fix it. However, as per a typical "beta", there was no place to report problems other than the usual "drop comment into a black hole" Microsoft feedback area.
Do you like tabbed browsing, by the way?
Yes, it turned off my Visual Studio. After I installed IE7 and tried to run Visual Studio (I admit, an older version), I got a DLL error. I googled the error, and confirmed the incompability. I simply uninstalled IE 7 (could not stand it due to the messed-up control area and menu anyway) and VS worked again. Luckily.
"I'm going to assume you never looked under Tools->Options->Privacy->Passwords because there is this handy checkbox that turns off saving passwords"
You are right. I didn't dig deep in obscure menus to kill this annoyance that (1) should not be the in the first place and (2) should have a turn off option right on the pop-up. I know, it's an old glitch. Netscape has had it going WAYYY.... back.
I keep going back to the "Bad" one after using Firefox. Reasons including pages that don't display right in Firefox and that nasty "do you want to remember this password?" or whatever pop-up that LACKS a basic "no, and never ever ask me again for ANY site!!!!" option right on the popup. Better yet, it shouldn't ask this in the first place.
Don't want it. They force tabbed browsing on you whether you want it or not (there's a big hole in the screen if you turn it off), and the locations of other things are moved to less-intuitive locations. Worst of all, installing it turns off "Visual Studio".
Has a firm "don't ask, don't tell" policy been defined before we send droids into space?
"Wages should be based on the value of the work, not relative to those the worker deals with, or relative to the worker's self-esteem."
What a novel concept: the idea that trades should involve the actual value of something. Sort of blows to bits the idea of minimum wage, living wage, etc.
"you have to make stuff work with it, but searches are hugely hampered by blogs, aggregators, search engine traps, link farms"
But for me, that is what I want. When I search the Internet for something, I want a search engine to return all pages that contain what I am looking for. Period. (I even want the pages with robots.txt: if you don't want it indexed DON'T PUT IT ON THE WEB!, but I know that is too much to ask for).
"The key was Google knew what people wanted, and gave it to them"
I dumped Altavista once Google had indexed more sites than it. I actually preferred Altavista's search results because they are more accurate, but Google having more sites (and caching!) more than made up for the problem of Google searches being sprinkled with irrelevant, unwanted, results. I don't even mind that Google indexes blogs, etc: when I search the Internet for something, I want a search engine to return all pages that contain what I am looking for. Period.
"I work at an outsourced customer support company. The policies where I work is if your caught abusing the information you get, you get fired. Simple as that"
Is it easier to fire the bad guys there because you are less likely to have a crooked lawyer come up out of the ooze and file a frivolous "wrongful termination" lawsuit? I know that is a problem in the US.
"Not every Indian is necessarily corrupt. However, even an handful can ruin the reputation of the entire bunch. The Indian Govt. has to crack down really hard on the people caught selling the data."
Substitute "American" for "Indian" in that sentence. Then start going down the line with other countries. P.S. I am an American too.
" Sunil Mehta, a vice president at Nasscom"
I saw a picture of this guy once.
I like Altavista's actual search mechanism better (it is more precise, and makes sure that the returned pages contain the information I look for without having to place Google's annoying required) "inanchor" tag. However, sites like Altavista and others don't have anywhere near as many pages as Google. Also, the UI/interface/look on all of the other sites really sucks compared to Google.
I loved the image search on A9 when it first came out. Then all of a sudden it was gone, and it is still gone. I stopped going there.
"The thing is, I don't go to IMdB and Amazon to do generic websearches"
The only time I use them is if I accidentally click on these "outside" search buttons instead of the nearby buttons to search inside IMDB or Amazon. Other sites have these useless outside searches, including Myspace.
"Unless Microsoft craps a miracle and their clunky "available in white, black, and brown" player turns out to be amazing, this service is going to languish and fail like dozens of others."
Hi-dee hi! But it wouldn't be so bad if the music didn't happen to be crap as well.
"Best Buy, Microsoft DRM and Real. Could they possibly have come up with a better combo for me to rush out and ignore?"
I donno....maybe they can slap the Packard Bell name on the digital music players?
"I'm really suprised how much effort is going into the DMA when it is so easily thwarted."
At one point, the ear itself will be outlawed because of its DMCA-defiant qualities.
"Knowing BestBuy, they will be heavily pitching (or shoving down your throat) extended warranties on their music, since your backups will probably be rendered useless by their DRM."
And they'll advertise music players for $29.99, but when you get there you find out that it's really $159.99 with a $130 rebate, which you never receive after you mail in the rebate form (there is fine print that basically says they aren't obligated to pay you after all).