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I created an account just to say, that is the best post I have seen, on any forum, ever.
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I've never understood this fascination with Opera. I've used it like once or twice and I see no reason to move from FF to it, other than the FF memory footprint.
I'm not saying Opera is bad or anything, because I really don't want to start a browser flame war, I'm just interested in people's (unbiased) opinions as to why Opera is a good choice.
Actually the only thing I use Opera for is Ninan. If I leave the Ninan web interface refreshing overnight, FF fills my RAM. And I have 2GB (pagefile disabled). Opera thankfully seems to reuse the memory.
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I just got back from a weekend at Bellagio in Vegas. they had the most moronic alarm clocks. I didn't set the alarm, but my roommate said it was frustrating as controls to set the alarm where on both sides of the clock.
The next morning we woke up too early, and I tried to hit the snooze button. I slammed my hand down on top of the radio, and nothing... I groped around looking for a large button, and nothing. I finally silenced the radio by hitting so button, but I wasn't sure if it was the snooze. So I woke up and looked at the alarm closely.
The Snooze button was about an inch long, and right next to the snooze button, with no separation (It actually looks like a single long button with a split near one end) is the OFF button! The entire button is about 1.5 inches wide, but the right most 1.25 inches is snooze, and the left quarter inch is off. What a brillant design!
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Neal shouldn't have NEVER gone in that office. In that way, the shouting idiot and his crew would have directly faced their only rightful destiny that is to be deserved for them: extinction. If the only guy able to see if a blocked content icon is flashing would have not helped out that pack of subhuman creatures, the mankind would now be a much brighter entity to be a part of.
Kudos for fixing the problem, but he wasted a lot of precious resources (i.e. air, water etc.) allowing that ad company to still affect mankind.
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Pretty much it's a nice, small, whole browser, with all the features that you need built in and less security flaws than IE and less memory leakage than Firefox.
I've been using it solidly since 5.0, as netscape 4 pissed me off with bad standards compliance and IE has a manky interface. I use due to it being excellent at web standards, speed of rendering, having tabs, mouse gestures and just having a well designed interface (IE is terrible at user feedback; Firefox feels clunky and has that stupid download system which always puts file just where you don't want them).
I suppose it's a choice.
BTW to the person that says that Opera isn't the default browser, it is: a lot of mobile phones (such as the symbian based ones), PDAs and even the Nintendo DS use Opera by default.
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And just what was the point of that?
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that reminds me of this:
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I am going to have to disagree with your math here, it is pretty obvious that Neal is able to do in a minute more than 9 people can in 45 minutes. So it is safe to say a minute of Neal's time is equal to 135 minutes of normal time. Since he already had worked 3 minutes (or 6:45normalized) he only needed to work for another 1:15 normalized (36 seconds Nealized).
Note Neal was able to finish the task which the rest of his office couldn't in 45 minutes, assuming the task would of taken them another 8 minutes, he is done with work.
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Um...if he was blocking the word "banner", then when Google suggested "banner" for "bnner", it would have been blocked, no?
Or am I missing something, perhaps whitelisting of Google in Opera?
...phsiii
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The other nice bit about Opera is that it passes the ACID2 CSS compliance test ( http://www.webstandards.org/action/acid2/ ). As someone who does a lot of web work for my job, it's certainly nice to have a good reference browser so you know what is a browser bug in FF or IE, and what is your own stupid CSS mistakes. Mouse gestures (especially the left->right click for forward and right->left click for back) are a nice touch, as well.
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No, the problem is that he didn't want to eat his own dog food.
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He wasn't blocking the word banner. He was blocking any URL with the word banner in it. The URL for a google search of "Banner" has the word banner in it. The URL for a google search of the word "bnner" does not.
http://www.google.com/search?q=banner
http://www.google.com/search?q=bnner
Follow?
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Me too. Although once it really wasn't me. Supposedly it wasn't the compiler either, but the aluminum wiring in my house. Sure enough my code wouldn't hang when I plugged in a UPS. Still it was only that one compiler that was sensitive to the power quality. I learned then and there to not beat myself up and to always look for an external source first.
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Even more amusing is that the "White House editing war banners" story turned out to be false too (every video on the White House website has that black bar at the bottom...to obscure the CNN text news crawl).
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This isn't a WTF. This is a Treasure. Priceless. Ignorance, denial, and finger-pointing, all in the episode. This made my day.
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I do indeed...thanks. I was wondering why nobody else had picked up on this!
...phsiii
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Still laughing at this comment. You obviously are fluent in AI. Well done.
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They'd be amazed how much better live goes if their first reaction is "What have I done wrong?". Applies to people skills too: "How did I cause/exacerbate this problem?". Essential for programming, as you find thousands of your own bugs for every one of anothers.
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Eek, no. This would effectively lower the productivity of each worker to the level of the slowest/dimmest.
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I heard a similar story about a town council officer in the UK, who had some new spam filtering software installed and enthusiastically entered a long list of 'banned' keywords, including a certain 4-letter expletive beginning with C. Shortly afterwards, he noticed that his incoming email had dropped to nearly nothing.
He worked for the town of Scunthorpe.
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Which, of course, brings us nicely on to the old chestnut:
I say, I say, I say... which three professional football clubs can't you search on in search engines?
Scunthorpe
Arsenal, and
Fucking Manchester United
Boom Boom.
No quack.
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Why is that hypocrrisy? I don't have a personal use for each and every product we develop at our company (besides, 8 hours of porn a day is enough) and I bet that's quite the standard.
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Just pokin fun. I've always suspected my friends - the Brits, as the source for American cuss words. It's the sublime disguise of overly engineered British names, that Americans reflexively reduce, abbreviate, and mis-pronounce, resulting in the easy-to-speak curse. Can you think of any more shires that we may have reduced to shites?
Of course... we've butchered the english language to such a point that a proper noun can become a verb based on advertising popularity. Thus the adnoun. ( googled it, xeroxed it ) So it's not a stretch to think we would conjure a cuss from the name of a perfectly repsectable forkshire.
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briliant post. So...
Ifts written, congratiulations.
If its generated, what did you use?
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tools, preferences, advanced, content, blocked sites
not sure when it showed up, I'm running 9.1
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An attempt to get TDWTF blacklisted by Google, apparently.
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That happens to pretty much every mid-sized mortgage/broker/lender/realtor that institutes anti-spam; you gotta start somewhere, right? And you can only do so much upfront, without putting it in production. If the IT department isn't right on top of it to roll it out properly and be ready to deal with it, well, there's your WTF. I'm sure pharmaceutical companies have the same problem, although pharma spam has become so incoherent this last year you might confuse it with line noise.
Small companies just enable outlook antispam (or their local norton's, SBC's, or whatever), and big companies have their redundant test servers and crazy shit like that.
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Or just run this through the dialectizer. Would it become
Or would it become:
Or maybe it'd turn into:
But I guess we'll never know...
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This was more funny than any realise. Its mostly what happen but I think some things must have been change to protect the identity. It went on many hours before Neal got there and the boss was having heart attack because he thought ALL the search engines were screwing him too because none of them worked with those words either. Whats really funny is the boss uses opera because he is "tech savy" and he always says explorer sucks but he thinks firefox is for unix. The people in the office were sales so they poorly use a browser they cant understand one correctly but they all have explorer and none of them tried it on their computer. Neal was only here for going away goodbye because he got a better employment and did not work here since the day before. Thats why the boss screamed for Neal screwing him and all the time they talk Neal give him bugs bunny what a maroon look face to face. Very priceless.
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OMG There's no way I'll ever believe the written word again. Everything I read from now on, I'll wonder....was this run this through the dialectizer. What was it originally?
What a Hoot.
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Triso wrote:
>>Bolivian marching powder
Best euphamism for Coke ever.
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So is this really a true story or just a joke? Its hard to believe that would actually be real. I have seen that google does ban websites but you can resubmit them. My friend has a site http://www.datearichguy.com which if you put that whole url in google wouldnt come up and then he contacted google and they said it was because of the previous owner.
So if you do notice google banning something just email them....
Just an FYI.
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Jason,
it's not monday. Where's your excuse for a lack of reading comprehension?
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Hahhaha .. I wonder how many people tried searching for "banner" or "war banners" while reading this article .. :D
Atleast I did ... :D
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Dont worry. Mine was original. No running through a dialectizer. Pure unadulterated fun.
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Kinda ironic, this article has an ad at the bottom.
Captcha: pizza. My captchas are never on topic :(
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I was wondering when someone was going to bring this up. Wtf is Neal doing working for a company producing such a loathsome product?
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"It's f---ing Google!" he screamed, "they're f---ing trying to put me out of f---ing business. They're screwing me, you're screwing me, everyone is f---ing screwing me!"
He he he he :) Wasn`t this man`s name "Scarface" ?
Cheerz.
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Is his name "David Walker"?
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And the mouse gestures always work. In Firefox at times I do a mouse gesture only to get the message "mouse gesture aborted", because the application was too slow in recognizing it.
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Or is this just a spam-plug?
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But Firefox is better at playing ogame.
Ha.
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Followed by a big-ass banner ad. Alex explains that it is ironic for an advertising firm president to block banner ads, then says he doesn't like them himself and shows one. Is that meta-irony? Super-irony?
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Wooohoooo! My home town made it onto DailyWTF!
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You do realise that the download-location in Firefox is user-configurable, or you can configure it to ask at every download...
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So did I :)
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You'll be pleased to hear that berks don't come from Berkshire. They are named after Berkeley Hunt in Cockney rhyming slang. Bristols are named after Bristol City (yes, another football club) in a similar rhyming way.
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Perfect!!
~SE