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As others have said Firefox loads slower than IE initially because portions of the IE code are always running in memory, and are loaded in the background when Windows boots. If IE were a standalone application like Firefox, it would be about the same speed or slower. Use the turbo option that others have described to keep parts of Firefox in memory and get a similar effect. Mozilla has that option available from preferences for years, I'm not sure why they left it out of Firefox.

What I do instead of closing Firefox is to leave it open, and have any documents open in a new tab in the browser that's already running. This can be configured under the Advanced preferences. In that same section there is an option to warn before closing any browser with more than one tab open, which is what you're looking for. That option has been there since at least 1.0pre that I know about, and on a fresh install it should have been selected by default. Just go in there and check that box.

There is an extension that can make tabbed browsing even more wonderful than it already is. Just go to Tools -> Extensions and click on the blue link to get more extensions, and install the Tabbbrowser Preferences extension. What it can do is keep all related tabs together in colored groups, and let you move tabs around manually, make the tab bar scroll when there are too many tabs to display, and some other stuff like making links that would normally open in a new window open in a new tab instead. Also, it will save and restore a group of tabs, and restore the tabs you were using when Firefox crashed. I'm not sure if Firefox can do that by default. Oh, and you can undo closing any number of tabs. I'm sure you've also many times closed a tab when you didn't mean to. With the Tabbbrowser Preferences extension, you can bring that tab back. It's very cool.

The other extension that I really recommend is Adblock. Install that, and then get a pre-defined filterset for it like Filterset.G, so you don't have to train it. Just save the file there with the latest date as part of the filename. Import the filterset by going into the Adblock preferences and clicking on Options -> Import Filters.

Enjoy Firefox.

attaches via an USB interface to any computer, takes over the Internet connection and creates a VPN connection via Terminal services to a proprietary backend system, the SOBA router. In this process, the MPS hibernates the host PC's operating system and takes over hardware components such as screen, graphics, keyboard and mouse.

You've got it all wrong. This is by far the coolest toaster.

I suppose next you are going to tell me that ESR is a communist as well?

All of this keeps reminding me of Gandhi. In colonial India, there was a salt monopoly granted by the British government. It was basically indirect taxation and a mockery of market capitalism. Gandhi proposed that people would venture to the sea and make their own salt using nothing but their bare hands. For this he was incarcerated.

The monopolists of today would like to incarcerate you for doing a simple copy. They create artificial scarcity to better control and bend prices and profits in their favour, like in the past. This is not just reward for merit or work. I much prefer the Open Source market capitalism way of rewarding people per task accomplished, rather than granting imbecile monopolies for near perpetuity. You pay a contractor to build you a house. You get your house. You do not pay what is basically a tax to him for the house during his natural life, to his children, etc. This is essentially what copyright and patent law achieve.

But they let Richard Stallman have an office to just live out the rest of his life in on the student's dime, doing and producing absolutely nothing for society or for the University.

Maybe you missed something... Miramax Films, property of Disney, has made many anti-catholic movies, or movies that go against catholic morals. http://www.indiewire.com/biz/biz_990623_briefs.htm l

Search for "Miramax catholic" on google to get an idea. Of course, this only shows more of disney's hidden agenda.

Uh, nice reference dude. A geocities site which also claims that autism is caused by immigration and that there's a connection between
Timothy McVeigh and UFO:s.

I wouldn't trust that reference if it said the sky was blue!

Uh, nice reference dude. A geocities site which also claims that autism is caused by immigration and that there's a connection between
Timothy McVeigh and UFO:s.

I wouldn't trust that reference if it said the sky was blue!

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Formula D is obviously capitalizing off of popular anime Initial D. The manga version of which is sold at Radio Shack next to the RC cars. So there's plenty of geek interest there.

As for Girls Gone Wired... that's just another example of how patheticly detached from reality our culture has become. It'll be boring though.

(Side note: In terms of which anime is appropriate for kids to watch and which aren't, Initial D is #1 on my list for teens not too watch. That last thing you need is for them to display "imitiative behavior" and illegally race cars down treacherous mountain roads.)

Yeah, I've had a few of these moments. Perhaps the best was the time when I was in my early teens and I'd been playing Laser Squad on the Spectrum (Timex) for hours and hours. I woke up in the middle of the night needing the bathroom, and for about a full minute I lay there trying to work out how many Movement Points it would take to get there and back - could I do it in one move? How about if I cut diagonal corners at the doorway? Then I snapped out of it, but for a brief period it was a very real concern.

And then plenty of times I'd notice a crack in a wall, or a blemish in the plaster, and immediately register it as a different 'texture', possibly a secret door or panel. Reflex action. I've admired the lighting model of streetlamps, too.

I think I'm better now, because I got nothing like that from Half Life 2 - no urge to play around with planks and bricks, for example. I can easily pass a barrel without wanting to hurl it at the nearest NPC, I mean bystander.

Light pressure and the heat of fusion.

Stars don't become black holes until they burn up their fuel, collapsing (and perhaps exploding, perhaps even multiple times) in on themselves until they are much more dense than any visible stars. Then, assuming they they haven't blown off so much of their mass that they no longer have enough mass and will instead become a dwarf or a neutron star, they can collapse to become a black hole.

Link: HOW BLACK HOLES ARE FORMED

Yeah, about that...I opened a present one Christmas morning that was in the shape of a Gameboy game box. I was really excited until I opened the wrapping paper, and there inside was a game title "Joshua." Talk about a letdown. Anyways, the game sucked. It also locked up my gameboy quite frequently. I've also (unfortunately) owned King of Kings, but it is no longer for sale on their website (it was released for the NES). Here's an interesting "article" about the company:
http://www.geocities.com/tgz6/odd_page_images_file s/About_Color_Dreams.htm

Enjoy!

1. Media Center, no video in/out
2. Router, no dual NIC
3. Gaming Rig, no upgradeable AGP

However, the first two can be partially met by Firewire: VirtualDVHS and IP over Firewire. But I'm still waiting for my PowerMac LC.

Actually, Earth's rotation has been slowing down since it began (See here for one explanation). The quake just added a couple of years back into the decay of the rotation.

BTW: Did you know that at least one theory calculates that a day was only 8 hours long when the Moon was formed? This, no doubt, is where the 8 hour workday idea came from...

Interestingly, an 8 hour day would mean that a year would be about 1096 days long (think about it...).

Which reminds me of one of the funnier things Chris Rock has ever done. You might be addicted to porno.

"[Your husband] may be addicted to porno. Mine was, and he left me to go be number seventy-three in The World's Biggest Gangbang.

[voice in the background]("I WON!")

You can see a BRAND NEW picture of the dark side! Low res image mirror here. --------- (kill me AFTER I've paid off my student loans)

My favorite static rocketry exhibit is the Redstone Missle in Warren, NH which you can see a nice picture of at: http://www.geocities.com/redstone_mrbm/displays.ht m

Von Braun started making these souped-up V2's for the good ol' USofA. Gotta love it!

http://www.geocities.com/simon_lba/worldz.gif

The big external source here might be the congressional record. Baldrson posted his testimony-but I don't think the Congressional Record online goes back that far yet.

As to the rest of his ad hominem attack, my challenge still stands: falsify the quite readily falsifiable claim of presenting a genuine letter from Robert W. Bussard, co-founder of the United States fusion energy program, denouncing, as an originator of that program, the Tokamak.

I feel I should chime in here, as the person who originally removed the geocities links from the article.

I removed the link because; number one - wikipedia does not publish original research, two -Jim Baldrson has been a known trollish crazy on Kuro5hin for years and a troll on Usenet for over a DECADE landing himself on a kook-of-the-month list way back in 1994, three -The ideas expressed on his geocities site (which is down now but I'll link anyway, maybe it'll be back up) are just plain insane. Here's a real gem: "Immigration Causes Autism" a lovely little racist tract (also, racist extremists endorse his views), fourth -he started editing wikipedia articles in suspicious anti-semitic and racist ways (see here, though these are merely revivals of his MANY earlier anti-Jewish ramblings) though his changes were reverted by other users fairly quickly, fifth -he seems to go "underground" when he's noticed by others as a problem and then starts posting changes to articles using only his IP. So in conclusion I think its quite clear that neither he nor his ideas or motives are trustworthy. He is closely watched on wikipedia right now and I doubt he will get away with too much shenanigans.

One hilarious bit of irony I can't help but relish is that he came here to cry a river about how he was being "censored" on wikipedia and then had four +5 comments posted below him agreeing with his opposition after recognizing him for the kook he is. Wow, congrats Jim!

Sounds a lot like communist theory. (see also http://www.geocities.com/aufheben2/auf_11_tcreply. html.)

History in Eastern Europe suggests that eventually communism collapses, to be replaced by a more capitalistic society (with rampant corruption in many cases). Perhaps society is circular.

jimicus.

I'm going to quote you out of order here. Appologies in advance:

Thanks for the unexpected air of civility on Slashdot.

it seems to me that you're interpreting what I said to mean that I really do only want the rule to apply when it is to my liking.

Mine was a general posting aimed at those who would change rules for this election while being perfectly happy to accept the outcome of the Bush/Gore election, which was strikingly similar in closeness. You will note that I did not say "you" in my original posting in this thread. Nor did I assume, or mean to imply, that you, personally, would have used a double standard. I don't believe that you would.

If I had to speculate, I'd guess that you support the results of the third recount in Washington, and that fierce political debate in that area has caused you to react to comments about the subject emotionally instead objectively.

I don't know that I would say "support." I am mildly happy that, in a state on the other side of the country, a Democrat was elected Governor.

Since my suggestion would have put your long awaited positive outcome into question you probably assumed without even thinking about it that I was arguing for the other side... But then that's just speculation.

It wasn't "long awaited" to me and, in fact, I was not even aware that there was a too-close-to-call race taking place in Washington State until I heard a news report on the third recount.

What gets my goat is the hypocrisy of the Republicans. In Florida during the Bush/Gore race, they used every dirty trick in the book to stop the recounts. They even had the gall to fly in Republican staffers, posing as concerned locals, to stage a door-kicking, window-banging protest to intimidate Miami-Dade canvassing board into suspending a recount that was underway. See this and this. They accused Democrats of the trying to steal the election. And now, four years later, albeit in a smaller election, suddenly they want each and every vote counted again and again until their candidate wins. They are mounting the types of court challenges that they lambasted the Gore for using. When Gore supporters brought up allegations of voter intimidation of minorities in Florida, later proven to be true, they were called "sore losers." When Democrats complained that Republican party operatives illegally changed 4,700 absentee ballots, Republican officials basically decided to ignore them and no charges were filed. The whole thing showed just what a vicious machine the Republican Party has become and this election shows jusy what hypocrites they really are.

I believe that the entire point of Intelligent Design is to dress creationism in a white lab coat

With tape you could use whatever you wanted to record a record, it all got put to the same tape and in most cases the tape lasted a very long time, 50 years plus.

This is true only in an optimal sense. In a very real and practical sense, it's not true at all. Many tapes are stored in only moderately optimal facilities, and a lot are stored in attics, sheds, and basements. A major scourge is the "Sticky shed" syndrome as described here, for example. while the old Ampex tapes were major culprits, in my own personal experience I have seen a large number and variety of tapes suffer similar fates.

Several months ago I had to resurrect a number of video tapes that had a similar problem. In short: tape is not as archival as vinyl. The question of archival quality audio reproduction is a hot topic being debated in library science. AFAIK, there have been no real concrete conclusions to the problem. From what I can gather, it seems very likely that the 21st century will simply disappear from history.

I hope that's not true, but there are an awful lot of extremely obvious and seemingly implacable problems facing archival audio and video storage.

RS

The incursions of barbaric pastoralists seem to do civilizations less harm in the long run than one might expect. Indeed, two dark ages and renaissances in Europe suggest a recurring pattern in which a renaissance follows an incursion by about 800 years. It may even be suggested that certain genes or traditions of pastoralists revitalize the conquered people with an ingredient of progress which tends to die out in a large panmictic population for the reasons already discussed. I have in mind altruism itself, or the part of the altruism which is perhaps better described as self-sacrificial daring. By the time of the renaissance it may be that the mixing of genes and cultures (or of cultures alone if these are the only vehicles, which I doubt) has continued long enough to bring the old mercantile thoughtfulness and the infused daring into conjunction in a few individuals who then find courage for all kinds of inventive innovation against the resistance of established thought and practice. Often, however, the cost in fitness of such altruism and sublimated pugnacity to the individuals concerned is by no means metaphorical, and the benefits to fitness, such as they are, go to a mass of individuals whose genetic correlation with the innovator must be slight indeed. Thus civilization probably slowly reduces its altruism of all kinds, including the kinds needed for cultural creativity (see also Eshel 1972).

Rather, I think Hamilton was an optimist:

The current forces driving panmixia, such as modernized global transport and climate control, are likely to produce not simply another collapse, but a dark age from which we may never recover because it will purge the entire world of its "barbarian pastoralists" refuges, leaving no source of rejuvenation for future generations.

This might not happen were it not for the fact that freedom of association, foundation of all other human rights, is systematically attacked by every globalist authority, denying even residents of reservations for indigenous peoples the right to determine their own associations without government interference.

The myth that people outside the reservations have anything approaching genuine freedom of association is falsified by every court decision regarding Title VII of the Civil Rights act of 1964 and Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of 1870 -- making business and residency a domain of enforced panmixia, violating even individual preferences for association. It's bad enough that this fits the definition of genocide under the Geneva Conventions but guys like Diamond have turned it into a State religion crammed down the throats of the entire world via self-absorbed dupes like Gates.

I don't want to worship their gods. I demand my freedom of association. They have declared war by military and police enforcement of their religion upon the peoples of the world who do not want to participate in the technologically amplified mixing of ecosystems and cultures -- who believe something different is best for themselves and wish to associate exclusively with others of like mind -- even though they can't "prove" they are right anymore than can Diamond or Gates about their religion.

The incursions of barbaric pastoralists seem to do civilizations less harm in the long run than one might expect. Indeed, two dark ages and renaissances in Europe suggest a recurring pattern in which a renaissance follows an incursion by about 800 years. It may even be suggested that certain genes or traditions of pastoralists revitalize the conquered people with an ingredient of progress which tends to die out in a large panmictic population for the reasons already discussed. I have in mind altruism itself, or the part of the altruism which is perhaps better described as self-sacrificial daring. By the time of the renaissance it may be that the mixing of genes and cultures (or of cultures alone if these are the only vehicles, which I doubt) has continued long enough to bring the old mercantile thoughtfulness and the infused daring into conjunction in a few individuals who then find courage for all kinds of inventive innovation against the resistance of established thought and practice. Often, however, the cost in fitness of such altruism and sublimated pugnacity to the individuals concerned is by no means metaphorical, and the benefits to fitness, such as they are, go to a mass of individuals whose genetic correlation with the innovator must be slight indeed. Thus civilization probably slowly reduces its altruism of all kinds, including the kinds needed for cultural creativity (see also Eshel 1972).

Rather, I think Hamilton was an optimist:

The current forces driving panmixia, such as modernized global transport and climate control, are likely to produce not simply another collapse, but a dark age from which we may never recover because it will purge the entire world of its "barbarian pastoralists" refuges, leaving no source of rejuvenation for future generations.

This might not happen were it not for the fact that freedom of association, foundation of all other human rights, is systematically attacked by every globalist authority, denying even residents of reservations for indigenous peoples the right to determine their own associations without government interference.

The myth that people outside the reservations have anything approaching genuine freedom of association is falsified by every court decision regarding Title VII of the Civil Rights act of 1964 and Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of 1870 -- making business and residency a domain of enforced panmixia, violating even individual preferences for association. It's bad enough that this fits the definition of genocide under the Geneva Conventions but guys like Diamond have turned it into a State religion crammed down the throats of the entire world via self-absorbed dupes like Gates.

I don't want to worship their gods. I demand my freedom of association. They have declared war by military and police enforcement of their religion upon the peoples of the world who do not want to participate in the technologically amplified mixing of ecosystems and cultures -- who believe something different is best for themselves and wish to associate exclusively with others of like mind -- even though they can't "prove" they are right anymore than can Diamond or Gates about their religion.

here's some linkage and here too...

We've got Bush getting re-elected (and nutcases putting up webpages about it), biblical-sized disasters occuring, and now someone made a sensible decision in a case involving the RIAA???

Dunno 'bout you, but I'm going to start stockin' up on canned food and shotgun shells.

> I mean, think about the UTTER stupidity of pronouncing Gnu as "Gah-new".

What does Gary Gnu have to do with RMS?

"No guh-noos is good guh-noos!"

which section of the constitution are you referring to?

No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.

Spending money on the CIA that Congress appropriated to Air Force procurement clearly violates the requirement that money be drawn from the treasury only according to appropriations made by law. Similarly, the intentional false reporting of CIA spending as something else clearly violates the requirement of a "regular Statement and Account."

By the way, you can't use audio cable for SPDIF. SPDIF requires coaxial video cable (75 ohm impedance). It will not work well with anything else.

See, you had me on the voltages thing because I really didn't know. Stuff in class has always been in terms of 0, +5, and -5 and every power lead I've ever seen used in a computer was 5 or 12 volts so I just assumed most data connections were like that.

But cheap wire works just fine for any digital audio connection I've ever made, and I don't think I have any wires with an impedance that high. To quote from here: There is some debate whether using true 75 Ohm RCA connectors is of any use when the impedance of typical RCA panel jacks are not anywhere near 75 Ohms.

The way I figure it, a digital audio signal could only be 2 or 3MHz (128kHz on 2-7 channels for SACD, which is likely inaccurate but over compensating) and if this cable can transmit at "beyond 200MHz" and be twice as efficient as a $2 cable then I should be just fine.

There is a this guide to making 75 Ohms of impedance cables but I can't take it seriously since it refers to things like breaking in the dialectric. Is this the kind of person that believes in 75 Ohm impedance requirements?

nice, my new desktop wallpaper

I made a colorized, jazzed up version for ya.

Enjoy it sober :-)

Are you sure that's not Senator Lieberman's Death Star? :)

http://www.geocities.com/stallmanus/

The other aspects of national security, that is really a major item:
cessation of trade deficits and cessation of the use of foreign nationals in handling of sensitive data or managing critical infrastructure. A major item in stopping trade deficits it getting energy policy back on track, and as you have pointed out elsewhere
the solution is proving of proper incentives.

"Please state the nature of the medical emergency?"

I started my argument - that cities have essentially reached their limits because the population is approaching stability - with the assumption that, well, population is approaching stability. This is true for much of western europe, but apparently it's not so for the USA. I had no idea that immigration was at such a high level. It seems that planning around a stable population isn't a reality yet, and won't soon be.

Reading over the car-free city page... well, the main problem is that it's modelled on Venice. It's too small in population, and it's neither a major industrial center nor a commercial one. The page claims that the design scales between one and three million, a population exceeded by most major American cities.

It's based on a traditional European model that, for better or quite possibly worse, Europe itself is moving away from. Big-box retailers and malls are more efficient and thus cheaper. As nice as it was to go to the local grocery store in Budapest when I lived there, people tell me that large national chains like Costco are now everywhere. Even european cities are getting suburbs. A certain percentage of people will always want their own house with a lawn; suburbs become an inevitability.

All that aside, the problem with the car-free city is that cities aren't planned from scratch. We could try building small neighbourhoods in that style, but people would probably still seek out the nearest stadium-sized walmart because its massive size allows for cheap goods.

We have to look at the cities we already have. We have to reduce the reliance on the car and maintain the urban/suburban model. I think a great way to do that would be to have high speed superhighways carrying people to massive and cheap park-and-ride lots at the edge of the urban core. People would then board a fast, efficient, and comprehensive rail-based rapid transit system that takes them within walking distance of practically everywhere. The first step to acheiving this is to have that comprehensive rail system. I'm thinking something like Paris rather than the one or two lines that run through most cities.

If you build such a system, you might even start to see European-style cities taking shape around it. When you can get anywhere with the subway, a percentage of your roads become superfluous, and can be eliminated.

It's not a car-free city, but it's a city in which a car is optional. Use it when convenient, take the train otherwise. If you make transit good enough, people will actually want to use it. This won't alienate the suburbanites either.

But, like you said, no one wants to spend money on public transit.

No problem, so long as you understand that I neither said nor implied the US paid for the entirety, simply that we paid for the majority of the station as currently built, and will have paid for the large majority at core-complete. I already did it once tonight, might as well just repeat the post (which, for the record, got modded 0 Flamebait.)

We are funding, if not building, nearly all of the station, even the limited core-complete version that was the plan immediately prior to Columbia's loss. The new core-complete plan, as shown here , shows launch methods. Items funded by other countries:

JEM (Japanese Experiment Module, Japan funded)
Columbus (European Research Module, EU funded)
Zvezda (Service module, Russia funded)
RRM (Russian Research Module, Russia funded if it ever launches)

This page has an accurate image showing who funded what; that exact image is hanging over the desk of one of the shuttle payload integration managers, last I knew - the guy responsible for making sure that once something is launched and attached to ISS, it works properly. Of course, looking at that image, SPP is unlikely to ever be built at this point due to lack of funding (according to the Russians), and RRM is unlikely as well (same reason), so shrink the Russian contribution considerably.

Russia funds/funded around 2 percent of ISS; the remainder comes from the US and other Western countries. Japan funds 13%. ESA funds roughly 9%. CSA funds another 2%. And guess who funds the rest? That's right. The US. Roughly 70-75%, depending on how you interpret the numbers, and what year it is.

If there were a Pave the Earth Society, I would nominate the geniuses behind this plan.

Is combining utilities distribution, mass transit, freight railways, commuting traffic, long-haul hazardous waste traffic, and oil and gas pipelines into one, easy to attack target a good idea?

Yeah and these are even older.

Doe snot render in FireFox and is missing a few images now though.

But I am pretty sure these predate the article.

They are correct; we are funding, if not building, nearly all of the station, even the limited core-complete version that was the plan immediately prior to Columbia's loss. The new core-complete plan, as shown here, shows launch methods. Items funded by other countries:

JEM (Japanese Experiment Module, Japan funded)
Columbus (European Research Module, EU funded)
Zvezda (Service module, Russia funded)
RRM (Russian Research Module, Russia funded if it ever launches)

This page has an accurate image showing who funded what. Of course, SPP is unlikely to ever be built at this point (according to the Russians), and RRM is unlikely as well, so shrink the Russian contribution considerably.

Russia funds/funded around 2 percent of ISS; the remainder comes from the US and other Western countries. And guess who funds the majority of that? That's right. The US.

What is vital is that we in the West ban any Taiwanese from working on electronics technologies of such importance. The Taiwanese have a history of spying for Beijing.

What is vital is that we in the West ban any Taiwanese from working on electronics technologies of such importance. The Taiwanese have a history of spying for Beijing.

Apparently, the latest Japanese assessment that China is a hostile foreign power has pervaded the government of Japan, and Tokyo will not be cooperating with Beijing for the intermediate future.

For those who are not aware, the Japanese government recently issued a defense whitepaper identifying Beijing as a hostile military threat. Unlike the Taiwanese, the Japanese do not wish to hand critical space/aeronautical technologies over to the butchers in Beijing.