WTF? Just how dumb are the devs you work with, and why hasn't working with them driven you to quit and find a job somewhere not staffed by morons?

Not noscript, I did that once and I got bollocked for that a bit because 'using the web was too hard as he had to press buttons every site he went on', the guy was a real pleb but nevermind

no, you got bollocked because noscript is shit. Adblock is a blacklist that comes with a nice choice of subscriptions, noscript is a shitty whitelist that comes with no option of preconfiguring commonly required scripts, and to top it off noscript is written by an untrustworthy dipshit who has a history of trying to fuck with users adblock settings for his own gain and spamming his site with the daily updates.

Browsing the web today with no scripts is akin to browsing with no images. Sure, it's possible but the experience is shit. I wish someone would put out a competitor to noscript that worked on the blacklist model, they'd take over in an instant. Can you imagine how much people would hate adblock if it was a whitelist and you had to add exceptions for every site you visited in order to see any content? Try it out, remove your subscriptions, add a block everything rule and start browsing the web. Then come back and claim that guy was a pleb because browsing like that is a pain in the ass. He may have been a pleb for other reasons, but he wasn't wrong about noscript

I interpret that statement (with knowledge of the shit sony typically spins) that their windows and mac software will "enable the user to read PDF, Word, BBeB and other text files on the Reader". in other words, it's going to do a conversion and look just as shitty as the kindle version amazon did for you. perhaps it's poorly worded and the device actually supports those formats natively... but this is sony we are talking about so I doubt it

I'm not convinced that's the right question. whether it is man-made or just natural climate cycles, it still looks like it's on track to fuck shit up and cause major problems for us in the future (seas rising and all that jazz).

the real question is can we do anything to stop it.

if reading things in cursive was beneficial, we'd all be using cursive fonts all over the place on computers. I dont think I've seen anyone use a cursive font on a computer that made things better in any way ever, so I can only conclude that reading cursive sucks compared to a nice clean (preferably san serif) font.

now there's the personal preference aspect, that you may prefer to hand write something; but having established that reading cursive is inferior to pretty much any decent font, you're not doing anyone any favors by opting to handwrite things.

in short, good riddance.

hey, is there some way I can get in contact with you? I've been using your iphone'ized /. for a while, and found some inspiration to spend a few hours tonight making some changes to the source that I figure might be worth sending back your way. drop me an email: sootman.lucas_ at xoxy dot net

bullshit. Ares2 was doing what he's supposed to do, blocking ads. people use adblock because they dont want to see ads. the slimebag running noscript was being a cocksucker trying to subvert the users of adblock's wishes so they'd see his ads and he'd make money from the ridiculous number of do-nothing updates he releases that send users to his site. if users wanted to make an exception for noscript's ads for whatever reason, they'd do it themselves. that is not noscript's decision to make.

this doesnt really affect me since I dont use noscript, because when I did it just found it to be nagware. it seemed like everytime I restarted firefox it was updating and sending me to their site, but this latest behavior from the developer doesnt surprise me in the least

to flip your observation, are you honestly claiming that an OS's usability wouldnt go down the toilet if they replaced all the widgets with blinking fluorescent colours? usability and "eye candy" or look and feel are a lot more deeply intertwined than you're trying to portray them as

OMG, splitting a tweet into multiple sms's would be unthinkable! oh the horror!

I cant stand halogen lighting for this very reason; I'm quite sensitive to the heat they produce. other people dont even seem to notice, but I feel the heat from even the small downlight ones. my parents redid their house with halogen downlights; maybe if they were somewhere cold I would appreciate it, but where they live is on average 30-35C so halogen bulbs just meant I would rather sit in the dark and than have the lights on. if you want heat, I'm sure a ceramic heater would be more efficient than halogen bulbs anyway

no, the USA has Amazon. like so many other sites involving music, people outside of the USA get shafted

that's ok, I'm just gonna "mostly ignore" the legal alternatives to bittorrent

I go through periods where I'll be having 8-10 cups a day, every day, for months on end ; and then at the turn of a hat (say, going on holidays) can cut back to 0-2 a week with no noticeable withdrawal symptoms. I cant imagine how much it would suck to deal with withdrawal symptoms like those described, every time I changed my level of intake down like that; I'd probably give up caffeine all together

I was wondering the same think. Scott Ludlam certainly wasnt and I dont think Bob Brown either; both were vocal opposition. I think it was Scott Ludlam who was one of the first people Conroy accused of supporting child porn by opposing the filter. just which members of the greens were supporting this, gp?

hell, considering the system being replaced and has been good enough until now, you could go dumpster diving every 5 years and upgrade his system for free, forever (or at least until people start disposing of computers in a more environmentally responsible way)

about 10 years ago i got a 1200mhz athlon, it was pretty sweet but within about 3 years it was no good for what I wanted to do with it anymore (was an avid gamer). ram standards changed meaning there wasnt much worth keeping (cpu slow, old style ram, mb didnt support newer processor) so it got turfed. thats a computer with over 10x the power of their current vet system thrown out as scrap. i would of happily given it to anyone who could make use of it. it's not a particularly uncommon scenario either

I would guess the vet is looking at it from an "if it works, dont mess with it" point of view, but from a geek point of view it screams "if anything goes wrong with that pc, you're fucked". good luck finding compatible replacement parts for even a 10 year old pc. remaining current is not just about chasing teh megahurtz. it's about being able to walk into a shop and buy a replacement for whatever component just let out the smoke