Good Christ, if you don't have a clue, PLEASE don't fuck up the discussion by injecting your little opinion turds as though they were fact. Many large cities, including New York, actually pay productions to shoot in the city, in the form of tax breaks, dedicated police units, parking permits, etc. This is meant to encourage business, and it seems to work.
BTW, the New York you describe is very hard to reconcile with the New York I know. Just across the Brooklyn Bridge is nowhere near Williamsburg. Perhaps you meant the Williamsburg bridge? Or were you working in Brooklyn Heights? I can't think of any public housing projects near either.
Chicago's a much nicer place than New York in a lot of ways, and even more forward-thinking—the greenroofs movement in private development, for example—but New York is still the safest big city in the country according to the FBI's comprehensive crime statistics, as it has been for many years. It's safer than most suburbs too, for that matter, thanks to its population density.
Clearly Google should take a principled stand on this issue. If the authorities ban them from doing business in the U.S., they'll only be hurting themselves, and at least Google's honor will remain intact.
Or does this reasoning only apply to laws decreed by people with funny skin colors?
No Applescript is going to do be able to give me the X & Y dimensions of anything within a web page.
I find your lack of imagination to be tediously, depressingly predictable. Perhaps you aren't aware that the entire DOM tree is accessible through AppleScript. (Firefox doesn't even let you AppleScript the fucking UI widgets.)
In any case, why would you turn to AppleScript, let alone a fucking browser plugin, to do the Web Element Inspector's job?
For fuck's sake, they're guidelines, not commandments. You PC users have this autistic need to find rules to follow, and so you never seem to understand that the HIG should be broken when it makes sense to break them. Note that Firefox breaks them for no reason whatsoever, and fails to break them where it should. In this it bears the indelible stamp of PC-world mediocrity.
Also, why would I care about IE-only sites? Last I checked, microsoft.windowsupdate.com was IE-only, yet I couldn't care less about visiting. Same with www.beige.com or www.bushcheney2000.com or wherever it is you PC users throng.
"The launch of Vista is literally days away"? I thought it had already been released?
No matter, I don't follow news that doesn't concern me in the least. Are you PC users of the world still paying attention to Microsoft? Why? It's not the '80s anymore, you know.
"But what I think REALLY hurts is the Cingular tie in."
Indeed. What the hell was Apple thinking? Cingular is probably the most tasteless, beige, and customer-unfriendly of the mobile networks. It belongs to the company that ditched Saul Bass's iconic AT&T logo for a fucking cream puff with lowercase type because, in the words of the CEO, "they tell me it's more trendy and modern." Seriously, how much uglier can you get?
"But how about MeasureIt? How about Colorzilla? How about DownloadThemAll?"
Safari is AppleScriptable. Download a free script (or write your own) and pop it into your Scripts menu. Or you can get a bookmarklet that will accomplish the same thing. There's more than one way to do these things; have some imagination, try thinking outside the dotted lines for a change.
"How about themes?"
Your choice of ten million mediocre skins, or one superb interface that thinks just the way I think? The only reason Firefox needs themes is because its default interface is shit.
The day Apple gives in to PC users like you, who have a thoroughly beige worldview and can't wrap your heads around what is, really, a truly simple version numbering scheme, is the day Apple dies.
Of course, you PC users have been predicting Apple's death for over 30 years now, but you're as wrong now as ever.
Whatever it is you do for a living, it's quite clear that you and your organization would do yourselves a favor by dropping the pretense of being Mac users. If you're the type of people who think like Firefox thinks, then I suggest you use an operating system that suits you similarly.
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Maybe it's because he's not a brickheadedly literal-minded pedant like autistic ol' you.
"...lower quality AAC files without DRM than the ones with DRM..."
Lulz. Enjoy your forthcoming "troll" and "flamebait" moderations for your almost unimaginable lack of clue.
Meanwhile, Slashdot continues on its slide to oblivion.
Move to man's natural habitat: the city.
Good Christ, if you don't have a clue, PLEASE don't fuck up the discussion by injecting your little opinion turds as though they were fact. Many large cities, including New York, actually pay productions to shoot in the city, in the form of tax breaks, dedicated police units, parking permits, etc. This is meant to encourage business, and it seems to work.
BTW, the New York you describe is very hard to reconcile with the New York I know. Just across the Brooklyn Bridge is nowhere near Williamsburg. Perhaps you meant the Williamsburg bridge? Or were you working in Brooklyn Heights? I can't think of any public housing projects near either.
Chicago's a much nicer place than New York in a lot of ways, and even more forward-thinking—the greenroofs movement in private development, for example—but New York is still the safest big city in the country according to the FBI's comprehensive crime statistics, as it has been for many years. It's safer than most suburbs too, for that matter, thanks to its population density.
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Ahhh, much better.
The moderator who marked your comment "flamebait" is evidence of Slashdot's decline. What is this, a community of humorless pencil-pushers?
"I'm pretty sure the guys who write their model/artist paychecks [...] are using Windows"
What part of "above-average household income and education" don't you understand?
Interesting studies, in any case.
Clearly Google should take a principled stand on this issue. If the authorities ban them from doing business in the U.S., they'll only be hurting themselves, and at least Google's honor will remain intact.
Or does this reasoning only apply to laws decreed by people with funny skin colors?
Well, no. If you feel more comfortable with maximized windows, just use a PC. Nobody's forcing you to use a Mac.
Yeah, sure you did. Way to misspell the title, by the way.
I find your lack of imagination to be tediously, depressingly predictable. Perhaps you aren't aware that the entire DOM tree is accessible through AppleScript. (Firefox doesn't even let you AppleScript the fucking UI widgets.)
In any case, why would you turn to AppleScript, let alone a fucking browser plugin, to do the Web Element Inspector's job?
You're the one who failed James Joyce out of English class, aren't you?
Hmm, I don't know... From what I can see, Drosera still looks more useful (and more intuitive). Thanks for the recommendation, though.
For fuck's sake, they're guidelines, not commandments. You PC users have this autistic need to find rules to follow, and so you never seem to understand that the HIG should be broken when it makes sense to break them. Note that Firefox breaks them for no reason whatsoever, and fails to break them where it should. In this it bears the indelible stamp of PC-world mediocrity.
Also, why would I care about IE-only sites? Last I checked, microsoft.windowsupdate.com was IE-only, yet I couldn't care less about visiting. Same with www.beige.com or www.bushcheney2000.com or wherever it is you PC users throng.
"The launch of Vista is literally days away"? I thought it had already been released?
No matter, I don't follow news that doesn't concern me in the least. Are you PC users of the world still paying attention to Microsoft? Why? It's not the '80s anymore, you know.
Rather a lot, judging by how the FCC "announced" the Zune and the wireless Mighty Mouse.
"But what I think REALLY hurts is the Cingular tie in."
Indeed. What the hell was Apple thinking? Cingular is probably the most tasteless, beige, and customer-unfriendly of the mobile networks. It belongs to the company that ditched Saul Bass's iconic AT&T logo for a fucking cream puff with lowercase type because, in the words of the CEO, "they tell me it's more trendy and modern." Seriously, how much uglier can you get?
Oh sure, and Bush is a real Harvard graduate. Avril is real punk. And sticking feathers up your butt makes you a chicken.
I'm sorry that your friends are posers.
Yeah, that's what happens when inveterate PC users start trying to pretend they're Mac users.
"But how about MeasureIt? How about Colorzilla? How about DownloadThemAll?"
Safari is AppleScriptable. Download a free script (or write your own) and pop it into your Scripts menu. Or you can get a bookmarklet that will accomplish the same thing. There's more than one way to do these things; have some imagination, try thinking outside the dotted lines for a change.
"How about themes?"
Your choice of ten million mediocre skins, or one superb interface that thinks just the way I think? The only reason Firefox needs themes is because its default interface is shit.
The day Apple gives in to PC users like you, who have a thoroughly beige worldview and can't wrap your heads around what is, really, a truly simple version numbering scheme, is the day Apple dies.
Of course, you PC users have been predicting Apple's death for over 30 years now, but you're as wrong now as ever.
Whatever it is you do for a living, it's quite clear that you and your organization would do yourselves a favor by dropping the pretense of being Mac users. If you're the type of people who think like Firefox thinks, then I suggest you use an operating system that suits you similarly.