Are you new here? You may not remember the days when this mess all started. IE was king and you *had* to work around it. You couldn't just let it be "their problem" and "left them to it". That's so "counter-productive, I can't even begin to explain it". These customers (sheep running IE) would come to *you* in droves asking why they couldn't view your website. And your response was going to be "because IE doesn't display my standards-compliant page"? Wow...no...that doesn't work.

Nowadays, things are clearly different. Which is great. But to suggest developers should have never used the user-agent tag to distinguish browser differences is ludicrous.

Since nobody else has posted it....

Best 32-Bit Windows System In 2012? - No

It took some cognitively acquired, complex environmental manipulations to parse that sentence. But in fact, it's actually a well-worded statement and a generally good point. Which leads me to believe that you accidentally posted your response on the wrong site. You do realize this is Slashdot, right?

Wow. That whole "to the king" section was at least as interesting to me as the rest of the book...

Oh, good...I wasn't the only one reading that line multiple times over trying to figure out what I'd missed.

You're kidding right? I have the Ford Sync system from Microsoft in my new F150. And you do, literally, have to reboot the truck sometimes to get the USB interface to sync up. I mean come to a stop, turn off the ignition, wait for a few seconds and then turn it back on and pray to the sync-gods that it works this time so you can finally be on your way.

I like.

Thanks! I needed the laugh this morning. That was classic.

Wow. That's bad. I mean real bad.

Yeah, as long as they provide a simple work around like that that we can all use to hack/defeat the original implementation, then I'm all for the law. But anything that's going to blank the very screen I would find most useful on me when I most need it would be utterly retarded.

No it's not. It's completely disorienting to me when someone rotates a map around like that (i.e., my wife). She says it helps her keep left/right straight in her head. But for me, I'd rather have the map be a fixed reference and I'll just swap left/right in my head.

We argue about who's right and who's wrong and what each preference suggests about the person's spatial brain, but the point is...neither solution works well for everyone. I think forcing GPS displays down any single path is going to be fine for about half the population and make it totally disorienting for the other. I don't see this dramatically reducing accidents in any way.

FTFY

Someone mod the parent up... Despite the stupid initial question, there's some excellent info there.