I know a guy who uses bing exclusively, he avoids all things google because they track everything you do.
Does he also travel everywhere by jet-powered luge because he thinks cars are so dangerous?
Agreed. Also I would have a very different life if not for dmr. His contribution to the field simply cannot be overstated.
I hate to break it to you, but Bing has a very long way to go to make it that far up the list.
Except that the Trans-Siberian Railway already exists and has done so for decades.
I think the multi-window arrangement made more sense than it does now back when focus-follows-mouse was the dominant focus control method in unix-a-like environments, but almost everyone now uses click-to-focus.
I'm slightly surprised at that assertion, mostly because the very first thing I have to change when using a vanilla WM is the focus behaviour to focus-follows-mouse (or pointer). Clicking to focus seems a waste of a click - the pointer is already in the window, why should I click just to get focus? And in doing so, I've got to watch what I click on - if it's a browser I would have to take care that I'm not clicking on a link, etc.
Am I so much in the minority here?
And, just to keep this vaguely on topic, I like the MWD and have no plans to enable single window mode in GIMP.
We need a new mod category: "Far Too Informative".
Netbook battery life drops to an average of 12 minutes.
JavaScript [...] is extremely helpful for making useful, clean, modern websites.
I'll see your "useful, clean, modern" and raise you "glacial, bloated, bug-ridden".
Both JS and non-JS sites can be written well or poorly, and I'm not averse to a little javascript where it demonstrably improves the user experience, such as auto-focus into form fields for example. However, the problem is that some designers/developers just don't know when to stop, and seemingly only test their results on a gigabit LAN with a browser on their quad-core monster. As a consequence they think nothing of pulling in scripts and libraries from half a dozen sources and then proceed to use only one tenth of that code in the page. Frequently I see JS code where the whole way through it keeps testing over and over again for specific user agents so that it can choose which hackish workaround to employ instead of testing once and pulling in a brower-specific library. I have a 10Mbps broadband connection here and some pages take longer to load and render than they did 15 years ago.
Good designers and devs can produce excellent JS-based sites. But the other 99% are just a struggle to use and a good proportion of those are close to unusable.
You'll notice that most of the growth comes from adding support for new web standards, and adding workarounds for broken sites.
And therein lies the rub. A browser should never, never incorporate workarounds for broken sites. The broken sites should be fixed. End. Of. Story.
And, you cannot copy paste your login password to an OS
What? Of course you can.
$ ssh -l foo bar.baz.com
Password: [*paste*]
bar-foo 1 $
That's not to say you should of course, because it would be much better to use PKI, but the point is that you could if you really wanted to.
Kudos to AC for Reference of the Day. However, Microsoft is closer to Gecko than Teldar. Buying up competitors just to junk their offering, suing their own customers for piracy, vendor lock-in, EULA, anti-trust convictions, etc. - are these worse than what the finance houses get up to?
Wrong mood in TFS.
Nonsense - there are plenty of legitimate uses for domains other than web servers.
Hmmm. Both OpenOffice and LibreOffice have 4 syllables. Perhaps a similarly long but better name would summarise the main features of the suite instead of just picking a contentious name. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you DocCalcChartShow!
The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the `social sciences' is: some do, some don't. -- Ernest Rutherford
