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why is poverty still possible

The problem is that there still remains too much socialism and regulation of free market activities in much of the developing world. A graph of economic freedom versus per capita GDP tells the story. Countries with lower economic freedom tend to have lower GDP per capita, correlation=0.67.

The good news is that the adoption of less socialism and more capitalism (especially in India and China) has lead to less global income inequality:

"The period between 1988 and 2008 witnessed the first decline in global income inequality since the Industrial Revolution"

I'll admit that the best thing Gates could do is to research why it is so hard to eliminate entrenched power structures that continue to keep low levels of economic freedom present in many developing countries, and what could be done to change things there.

1999 called, they want their multiple windows back.

I don't see anything in the Chrome store that's even close to TabKit vertical tabs.

"Tabs Outliner" for Chrome is only a step up from "Side Tabs"... the tab bar is still horizontal and over crowded, and now I need to manage another window to focus when switching applications. It's decent, but needs to be in the same window as the browser and replace the existing tabs.

Ooo me too. Am I doing it right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2ySHSTEzjQ

Seriously though, you wanna stop a war? Get the ones on the right to do a youtube spoof on Call Me Maybe. That shit would spread like wildfire. Public support for a war would evaporate.

Opera already supports a full-screen presentation/projection mode, as defined by CSS (2?). See this example, then press F11 to go full-screen. The content is split into screens/pages, use Page Down to go to the next one.

Except in demonstrations of CSS, I've only once seen this used.

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If you use compliant CSS, yes it does:

http://devfiles.myopera.com/articles/5042/gradients_demo.html

renders fine, for instance.

Funnily, this was the exact campaign pitch of Opera 11.

http://files.myopera.com/EspenAO/files/eleven-post-aleks.png

Nope. Here is a Windows 7 screenshot that looks like ass compared to this nice looking KDE4 screenshot. This is all a matter of taste. It's like comparing Blondes to Brunettes. You can find beautiful and hideous examples of both but at the end of the day it's all personal taste.

OMG! Comic book artists can get lazy and use the real world as a model for their art!

My common sense is tingling!

Indeed. I found yours and put it on the internet. Here it is.

My little brothers' Wii stopped reading discs, I shipped it to Nintendo and they told me that fixing it would cost about 100 since it was out of warranty. Fine, it costs something because it's out of warranty, but that's little bit too much for fixing an old machine. So, I told them to ship the machine back and I bought a new Wii for 182,30. I started transferring game saves from old machine to the new, and got this message "You must first play this game on your Wii Console to move save data" http://files.myopera.com/Leevi/errors/mustplay.jpg _ really, I have to play every bloody game before I can transfer the saves, what a waste of time, you have to jump through some hoops to get it done, but you can still do it. Except you can't transfer some saves http://files.myopera.com/Leevi/errors/cannotbemoved.jpg If I would like to have those game saves transferred, I would have to send both machines to Nintendo. That is not very (eco)logical and there is absolutely no reason to do this, if Nintendo would be a nice company they would just update Wii software so people could do the transfers themselves.

My little brothers' Wii stopped reading discs, I shipped it to Nintendo and they told me that fixing it would cost about 100 since it was out of warranty. Fine, it costs something because it's out of warranty, but that's little bit too much for fixing an old machine. So, I told them to ship the machine back and I bought a new Wii for 182,30. I started transferring game saves from old machine to the new, and got this message "You must first play this game on your Wii Console to move save data" http://files.myopera.com/Leevi/errors/mustplay.jpg _ really, I have to play every bloody game before I can transfer the saves, what a waste of time, you have to jump through some hoops to get it done, but you can still do it. Except you can't transfer some saves http://files.myopera.com/Leevi/errors/cannotbemoved.jpg If I would like to have those game saves transferred, I would have to send both machines to Nintendo. That is not very (eco)logical and there is absolutely no reason to do this, if Nintendo would be a nice company they would just update Wii software so people could do the transfers themselves.

I'll second that, and put in a request for more HTML 5 support. I am particularly interested in when firefox will implement the "combo box" feature of HTML 5. This is something that has been requested in web programming since day one.

Here is an example of how to do it (opera has the only implementation as of yet).

But still the browser really dedicated to overall snappiness (and for quite some time now) will yet again be forgotten.

Not really. The iPhone version looks like it's pretty much a platform-customized version of Opera Mobile with client-side support removed; the interface of Opera Mini on the iPhone and Opera Mobile on other platforms looks nearly identical.

Actually, they have made the UI for Mini and Mobile really close on all platforms in recent versions, if you look at most up-to-date Mini versions (which are betas for some platforms, including J2ME and Android). Judging by screenshots of the iPhone version, it looks pretty much identical to the Mini (not Mobile!) that I have for Android.

Proof pics:

- Opera Mini on iPhone
- Opera Mini on Android

Try to find a difference...

Consider also that Opera Mini is a Java app, which the iPhone does't support.

Opera Mini is not really a single app, and never was even before iPhone release. Yeah, it's Java for both J2ME and Android, but those two have vastly different UI APIs, so there's no real portability there - and Opera Mini client is by and large just UI (since all HTML parsing etc happens on the servers) - so those are likely completely different user bases (maybe with some shared code that handles communication with the servers). Furthermore, Opera Mini for Windows Mobile (which has been around for a while) is not a Java application at all. No idea about BlackBerry version.

In general, it seems that they try to use the native development tools for every platform, but do make the UI look identical on all platforms.

I honestly think that Flash has a lot to fear from Canvas, but as you said, Javascript is holding it back. Check out this neat little thing (Canvas Game by one of the Opera staff): http://devfiles.myopera.com/articles/650/step_4_enemies.htm and you can see that Flash has a lot to fear. Onwards and upwards I say.

The near-infinite wisdom of Gary Larson.

Finally, SVG support in browsers sucks complete ass. ... Add animation or interactivity too it and you are in for a freaking world of pain.

Eh, it's not that bad for interactivity. Simple things like the FindTheCountry interactive geography quiz done entirely in one SVG file, and interactive map layers work in all good (non-IE) browsers. Animation through SMIL support seems pretty limited, but nowadays people are more likely to modify the SVG directly using DOM calls.

The <canvas> tag gets all the attention and awesome demos, but now there are JavaScript libraries like the Burst framework that can read in SVG elements and render and animate them. So an artist can create and name all the graphic assets in an SVG file, then a programmer pulls them out as needed.

Inkscape's fine for static SVG editing, but there are no good authoring tools for these animation and interactivity tricks. Furthermore many SVG demos on the web still use deprecated syntax to load SVG files.

How about some actual cool examples like this instead?

Opera is now 100% & Apple is back to 2nd place (they should be use to that position by now).

http://files.myopera.com/DotEd/blog/DSC00210.JPG

It looks allright

That's a nice banner ad in your screen shot. I remember those.

I'm not sure I understand what "ad" you're talking about. (not only does Opera have built in a feature similar to adblock, you can even use Adblock's list of blocked addresses. However, Opera doesn't come with this list by default. But then again--FF doesn't come with Adblock at all by default)

http://files.myopera.com/agony_/sig/linux.png - any questions? :-P

Nice try, but would the nose of your render turn blue when rolled over? :P
Opera got cheeky and did something similar, albeit after passing: http://files.myopera.com/chuanz/files/acid2.png

If you can't bring your nav arrows to your File/Edit.. toolbar, you should bring your File/Edit... toolbar to your nav toolbar :)

I've seen this done several ways:

First, shut off the File/Edit/....Help toolbar so it's gone completely. Then:
1)Use the previously mention wiki to add each button back to your address bar or where you'd like them.

2)Use a drop down button that you click to get a drop down of all the Tool/Edit features (this saves space, but adds more "clicks")

3)(my choice) is to just have small button on the toolbar that turns on the tool/edit/help menu. Since I rarely use these (shortcut keys to get to all the dialogs) this seems to work best.

Screenshot:
Menu Off:
http://files.myopera.com/Eddie_Lopez/files/tool_me nu1.gif

Menu On:
http://files.myopera.com/Eddie_Lopez/files/toolmen u2.gif ...look at the "09" button there. This turns my tool/edit bar on off. But you could just as easily leave that off all the time, and instead of the "09" have your own "File" "Edit"..."Help" buttons.

If you can't bring your nav arrows to your File/Edit.. toolbar, you should bring your File/Edit... toolbar to your nav toolbar :)

I've seen this done several ways:

First, shut off the File/Edit/....Help toolbar so it's gone completely. Then:
1)Use the previously mention wiki to add each button back to your address bar or where you'd like them.

2)Use a drop down button that you click to get a drop down of all the Tool/Edit features (this saves space, but adds more "clicks")

3)(my choice) is to just have small button on the toolbar that turns on the tool/edit/help menu. Since I rarely use these (shortcut keys to get to all the dialogs) this seems to work best.

Screenshot:
Menu Off:
http://files.myopera.com/Eddie_Lopez/files/tool_me nu1.gif

Menu On:
http://files.myopera.com/Eddie_Lopez/files/toolmen u2.gif ...look at the "09" button there. This turns my tool/edit bar on off. But you could just as easily leave that off all the time, and instead of the "09" have your own "File" "Edit"..."Help" buttons.

http://files.myopera.com/pincopallino/albums/35390 /microsoft%20ce%20me%20nt.png

Oh I thought they meant Alf.

Mozilla is all fine and dandy provided you have the serious hardware required to run it. Try running it on something like a Pentium 200. Its painful. At best. There has been a lot of talk in the Opera newsgroups (in which I'm a regular) about the adware version, without much real consenus on it. We do have some details on the adware implementation itself though. Here is the protocol they are using. We have information from Tollef (who works at Opera) about what information is logged by the ad server, apparently all it tracks is which ads have been shown to which client, and whatever personal information (which is totally optional) was put in by the user. It doesn't log IP addresses, email addresses, or anything of that nature. I haven't had a chance to download the browser yet, since it came out at 1am in my time zone. I do know that I should be able to use it without getting a system upgrade, which is more then I can say for shit like Mozilla.