Absolutely. This is my default setting on Opera. Disable plugins as a default, too.
I enable images with keyboard shortcut and javascript/plugins on a case by case basis. The sites I frequent (./ and NYT etc) get to run with JS/p[lugins/images. the rest, barebones.
Not trying to whore Karma, but check out the small 1 GB disk at these links: here and here.
In addition to LEDs and data storage, GaN based devices have tremendous potential in communication (cell phone base stations), space electronics, compact UV photodetectors, high power microwave integrated circuits, power electronics, medical devices, etc. (Sh*t, this stuff seems to be coming from my thesis-writing mode I'm in.)
I'm finishing up my PhD in Gallium Nitride research, and have been a part of the GaN effort at a U.S. university for ~ 6 years. The story is not as simple as it appears.
Nakamura indeed got extensive support from the company. The company and Nakamura BOTH bet on this family of semiconductor materials, with Nakamura leading the way and the company providing him the money and the freedom to take the risky path. Before Nakamura's breakthrough inventions, Nichia sold phosphors for use in CRTs, stuff NOWHERE near semiconductor materials.
Nakmura invented practically all the necessary materials science research and laboratory equipment to make blue LEDs feasible. At research conferences such as MRS (http://www.mrs.org) his results completely cleaned out the field. Lightyears ahead of the rest of the research community combined. He often did not understand the physics of the stuff to as much accuracy as others later figured out, but he made GaN WORK. He is an awesome inventor. Never took a vacation for more than a DECADE!
Nichia owns more than a hundred patents because of the research he led and contributed to enormously. To be compensated a few thousand bucks for those patents (I believe it is $182 PER PATENT), is a frickin' JOKE. How bad will Nichia look if Nakamura gets a Nobel Prize and Nichia does not compensate him better?
The commercial potential of GaN is ENORMOUS. In addition to blue LEDs, you have a huge improvement in optical storage (see http://www.licensing.philips.com/information/bd/ ).
So, in a fair world, Nakamura would have been compensated much better than he has been. The rest of the researchers on his team should've been, too.
Lemme add another one to the nice list of things above: on laptops and small sized monitors, you can turn off the "windows" bar (tabbed windows, i.e.) and use rightclick-mousewheel to move from one window to another.
The Internet is, by and large, a refuse-ridden electronic drooling cup, and we haven't BEGUN to tap its power for good yet.
IMO the NYT is worse than the internet, and HAS NO power for good AS LONG AS it only prints the news "fit to print."
here's an idea: how about an ad for every third (or fourth,...) comment? This ad could be a TEXT LINK or a small half-inch by four-inch graphic. the textlinks/banners could be sprinkled between comments and that way the readers will actually see the ads instead of the banner they see at the top.
All you need to look at is a picture of earth at night, showing how much it's glowing. Do you think the surface temperature of the earth is anything like it was 200 years ago? We're burning up a LOT of energy.
Graffitti sucks bigtime. The Transcriber on PocketPC 2002 is VERY good at handwriting recognition once you train it (which can be saved as a small file, so if you do a hard reset, all you need to do is reload the file and off you go). The screens on the PPC devices are MUCH better than the crappy Palm/Handspring screens. ClearType is a treat for the eyes. I have an ipaq with 100 MB of MP3s loaded on a compactflash card, several programs (including windows media player) installed on the card, with about 20 ebooks and there's still a good amount of storage space to spare on the 128 MB card. Almost the whole 32 MB of RAM is available for running programs and it's snappy enough. Anyone who cares to customize the hardware buttons can easily have FIVE of their favorite (most used!) apps accessible with ONE button press from the powered-off state. Internet Explorer actually works, hotmail is one tap away. Pocket Word kicks ass. There's tons of hardcore geek-oriented apps available (vxutils from www.cam.com for example, you can run all kinds of network queries (traceroute anyone?)).
Granted, hordes of pocketpc users make you cringe like the typical AOLuser, but that doesn't mean the hardware isn't sexy.Try it sometime, spend an afternoon playing with the regedit on the WinCE devices, stick a compactflash ethernet adapter into the slot and you're connected (at 700 kbps via my home cable modem!). I wish I had this thing when I was a kid; it would be heavenly to surf the web under the blankets after the mandatory lights-off orders from mum & dad.
Anyways, I am digressing. Don't underestimate the hardware. Rather than badmouthing something just because it's microsoft, go ahead and check it out for yourself. Install linux on it if you liketo live on the edge and dare to risk the flashROM on the ipaq.
No, use something that touches on the self interest of the person who sent you the MSWord doc:
1. MS Word docs contain a lot of hidden information, beyond what you see on the screen when you open the doc. The sender might be inadvertently sending stuff they wouldn't want others to know about.
2. MSWord documents can contain viruses (Melissa, ILOVEYOU, etc). You would prefer the sender sends a format that is not so virus-prone.
3. Yes, the size. MSWord docs are unnecessarily huge.
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Absolutely. This is my default setting on Opera. Disable plugins as a default, too.
I enable images with keyboard shortcut and javascript/plugins on a case by case basis. The sites I frequent (./ and NYT etc) get to run with JS/p[lugins/images. the rest, barebones.
"A study of 243,068 users found that 76% of them were vulnerable to history detection by malicious websites."
Vulnerable != affected
In Opera: F12 -> Disable Javascript
Enable Javascript only when you really need it. takes care of pretty much everything, when combined with junkbusters proxy.
what do you have to say about Turkey's oppression of Kurds, and the specific case of the dmoz editor being punished with 10 months prison?
Rapid technological development, large scale persecution of minorities, impunity for perpetrators of mass crimes.
Check this website for some seriously documented work on disappearances that make Pinochet look like an amateur: Report of the Committee for Coordination on Disappearances in Punjab. Happened in Punjab in the 80s and early 90s, and is happening in Kashmir every day now.
In addition to LEDs and data storage, GaN based devices have tremendous potential in communication (cell phone base stations), space electronics, compact UV photodetectors, high power microwave integrated circuits, power electronics, medical devices, etc. (Sh*t, this stuff seems to be coming from my thesis-writing mode I'm in.)
I'm finishing up my PhD in Gallium Nitride research, and have been a part of the GaN effort at a U.S. university for ~ 6 years. The story is not as simple as it appears.
Nakamura indeed got extensive support from the company. The company and Nakamura BOTH bet on this family of semiconductor materials, with Nakamura leading the way and the company providing him the money and the freedom to take the risky path. Before Nakamura's breakthrough inventions, Nichia sold phosphors for use in CRTs, stuff NOWHERE near semiconductor materials.
Nakmura invented practically all the necessary materials science research and laboratory equipment to make blue LEDs feasible. At research conferences such as MRS (http://www.mrs.org) his results completely cleaned out the field. Lightyears ahead of the rest of the research community combined. He often did not understand the physics of the stuff to as much accuracy as others later figured out, but he made GaN WORK. He is an awesome inventor. Never took a vacation for more than a DECADE!
Nichia owns more than a hundred patents because of the research he led and contributed to enormously. To be compensated a few thousand bucks for those patents (I believe it is $182 PER PATENT), is a frickin' JOKE. How bad will Nichia look if Nakamura gets a Nobel Prize and Nichia does not compensate him better?
The commercial potential of GaN is ENORMOUS. In addition to blue LEDs, you have a huge improvement in optical storage (see http://www.licensing.philips.com/information/bd/ ).
So, in a fair world, Nakamura would have been compensated much better than he has been. The rest of the researchers on his team should've been, too.
F.
Bull. Check out just this ONE site: ojps.aip.org.
hehehe.. I'd hate to have the phone accept a call when I'm providing..er.. oral services to my girlfriend.
They've been wired for MONTHS now, dude. Just look at their traffic graphs etc.
Lemme add another one to the nice list of things above: on laptops and small sized monitors, you can turn off the "windows" bar (tabbed windows, i.e.) and use rightclick-mousewheel to move from one window to another.
The Internet is, by and large, a refuse-ridden electronic drooling cup, and we haven't BEGUN to tap its power for good yet. IMO the NYT is worse than the internet, and HAS NO power for good AS LONG AS it only prints the news "fit to print."
IMO the NYT is worse than the internet, and HAS NO power for good until it only prints the news "fit to print."
here's an idea: how about an ad for every third (or fourth,...) comment? This ad could be a TEXT LINK or a small half-inch by four-inch graphic. the textlinks/banners could be sprinkled between comments and that way the readers will actually see the ads instead of the banner they see at the top.
All you need to look at is a picture of earth at night, showing how much it's glowing. Do you think the surface temperature of the earth is anything like it was 200 years ago? We're burning up a LOT of energy.
The correct name is Marshall McLuhan.
Uh, should have included this in the comment earlier: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,35091,00 .html
Check out www.beaver.edu -- they used to be called "Beaver College" and were the butt of so many jokes they changed their name to Arcadia University.
Pennsylvania also has a county named Beaver.
Excellent poem, BUT
why is there no mention of goatse.cx?
Microsoft also denied API access to Netscape. Read the materials.
Graffitti sucks bigtime. The Transcriber on PocketPC 2002 is VERY good at handwriting recognition once you train it (which can be saved as a small file, so if you do a hard reset, all you need to do is reload the file and off you go). The screens on the PPC devices are MUCH better than the crappy Palm/Handspring screens. ClearType is a treat for the eyes. I have an ipaq with 100 MB of MP3s loaded on a compactflash card, several programs (including windows media player) installed on the card, with about 20 ebooks and there's still a good amount of storage space to spare on the 128 MB card. Almost the whole 32 MB of RAM is available for running programs and it's snappy enough. Anyone who cares to customize the hardware buttons can easily have FIVE of their favorite (most used!) apps accessible with ONE button press from the powered-off state. Internet Explorer actually works, hotmail is one tap away. Pocket Word kicks ass. There's tons of hardcore geek-oriented apps available (vxutils from www.cam.com for example, you can run all kinds of network queries (traceroute anyone?)).
Granted, hordes of pocketpc users make you cringe like the typical AOLuser, but that doesn't mean the hardware isn't sexy.Try it sometime, spend an afternoon playing with the regedit on the WinCE devices, stick a compactflash ethernet adapter into the slot and you're connected (at 700 kbps via my home cable modem!). I wish I had this thing when I was a kid; it would be heavenly to surf the web under the blankets after the mandatory lights-off orders from mum & dad.
Anyways, I am digressing. Don't underestimate the hardware. Rather than badmouthing something just because it's microsoft, go ahead and check it out for yourself. Install linux on it if you liketo live on the edge and dare to risk the flashROM on the ipaq.
'nuff said
No, use something that touches on the self interest of the person who sent you the MSWord doc:
1. MS Word docs contain a lot of hidden information, beyond what you see on the screen when you open the doc. The sender might be inadvertently sending stuff they wouldn't want others to know about.
2. MSWord documents can contain viruses (Melissa, ILOVEYOU, etc). You would prefer the sender sends a format that is not so virus-prone.
3. Yes, the size. MSWord docs are unnecessarily huge.
very interesting. how IRONIC that the /. editor posting this story is none other than Michael Sims.
the guy's actions make me puke.
Use Opera (www.opera.com)
Why are you using netscape 4.77? It's crap. Use 4.08 if you must use netscape.