Yeah, it's so goddamn hard to realize there are some taxes when every receipt you get looks like this:
VAT WITHOUT TAXES TAX WITH TAXES 1 22.00% 7.03 1.55 8.85 3 17.00% 5.57 0.99 6.86 Total 12.90 2.54 15.44
Not only they tell us there's a tax, not only they tell the percentage, they show every friggin' cent of the tax paid. And what it would cost without. Pretty well hidden indeed.
So, anyway, do you guys know how to read? After all, if all that's supposed to be something something evil government deliberately wants us not to know...
Oh, I've used Privoxy before. But the fact is, 99.9% of the time adblock does just as well, is a lot faster and lot better integrated into the browser. Filtering is the only thing it really does that other solutions don't...
If I end up on a one-in-thousand page that has ads that are non-blockable without filters, chances are that I'll never end up there again anyway. Why on Earth should I bother wasting hours writing a regexp that is, after all, only useful for that one site I'll never visit again? Complex filters eat a shitload of CPU time on big pages as well.
Filtering web proxy may have some uses, but simple adblocking sure as hell isn't one of them, it's like trying to kill a fly with cannon.
I do not understand people who try to kill flies with cannons.
We don't know that her non-functional organs were due to a genetic error(s). After all, there are many things that can go wrong during pregnancy even if a baby has perfect DNA.
I'd be more inclined to think this might not be "right" thing to do because organs are always in short supply, and those could've saved eight children instead of only one.
Thermal overload protection should be based completely on the chip, not off on the motherboard!
It's motherboards job to make sure that every thing required for the operation of the chip is right, why should temperature be any different than rest of the bunch? You'll end up integrating the whole computer into CPU if you start down THAT road.
But if you leave it up to the motherboard to protect the CPU from overheating, that is just asking to let the magic smoke out, IMHO.
Well, it's about equal to letting motherboard worry about CPU getting the right voltage, both result in magic smoke if done wrong, yet motherboards have done that pretty well forever. And will continue to do so.
Because the FX-5x line of chips is using a socket type that is doomed in few months. So after you want the fastest ship after few months you end up buying a new motherboard as well. The new socket on the other hand is going to be in use for some time.
Sure, if you've got money buy whole machine every time you want to update the processor (or if you already have a board that's compatible with FX) go for it.
The cycle does continue to ad infinitum, but this is more of a case of deciding at which point to enter the cycle, now it's nearing its end and beginning of another.
See the weird line of numbers in that url? It's usually called "date". Magically you can deduce from that the information that the article in guestion is about three and half years old.
If some boards don't include something that's required by the specs, well, that's problem of the greedy bastards manufacturing such crap and the fools tricked into buying them.
Nokia seems to have this weird fixation of pushing more and more weird keypads to their phones one after another. Not that they are the only ones, something like Siemens SX1 is even worse, but still...
What's wrong with the good old squarish design with all numeric keys being at least approximately same size & shape?
I've had it with mobile-phones... when something new like this comes out, they cost like 2000$, and when the prices are low enhough for the average person to buy something new has been released.
So? It's not like the original phone (or whatever, this applies to EVERYTHING if you haven't noticed) becomes any worse because there's also this new and expensive toy for milking early adopters.
Unless you've got some strange fixation that it needs to be the newest and more expensive or nothing. Which doesn't seem too likely considering the age of phone you are using, after all.
Would everyone please just STOP whining about the goddamn "innovation".
It's not like copying good features from somewhere else and combining them is not just as good for your desktop as trying to waste your time thinking about some never-ever seen stupid feature just to be "innovative".
Or if you're feeling so fucking innovative today, do it yourself instead of insulting works of others. If you can't do that, go ahead and give some of those uber-bright ideas to programmers, let's see if it's feasible for them to do it, just do anything but bitch and whine on Slashdot about some mysterious INNOVATION that is missing from everyone.
It's looking like a troll because it IS a troll, and you're looking like and idiot and an ass.
Hmmmm? Gel Glass matrix? Sounds odd, I wonder who's doing research with GLASS and VIRAL infections?
Botulin is a bacterial toxin. If you don't even know that much (it's fscking common knowledge) why should anyone take the rest seriously?
Here's WSU's view on Viral Glass, they seem to think it's real:
WSU's view? They? That's a course material of one professor. Oh yeah, that paragraph is also talking about botuline, not viruses.
Perhaps I should read less and get out more, your right...
Well, you demonstrate a remarkable ignorance about even the basics of microbiology, and tried to use few hastily googled pages (36 hits, quite a few of those quotes from fiction, woo hoo, clearly commonly used real technology) having any glass and viruses, no matter the context, in the same page to pretend you know something about the topic.
Maybe you shouldn't read less, but you could start by checking WHAT you are reading, cross-checking for reference. And after reading, you might want to take few moments thinking before establishing it as an absolute truth.
Please use the new one for one week, then try reverting to the old one;)
I kind of doubt that. The bastards have destroyed the keyboard usability for click-click-click obsessed idiots. Oh well.
More seriously, GTK file dialog has always been click-intensive if you want to go higher the filesystem
Click once on drop-down box, another click on the level you want to go to (alternatively, drag, you'll make it in one). To the other way, it's one double click per level, both are, well, just like every other file selector on the planet.
(and focus-input-clear-selection-type-slash-tab-and-use -completion is not an option for most users;)
And why is it not an option? It's not like it's hard to do or anything, of course you must know the functionality is there but after that, it takes about five seconds to learn how tab-completion works.
Oh, and it's focused and selected by default, it's type-slash-tab.
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It's because of both.
But I don't think he was, just wondering about how big it was.
Besides, I don't live in the UK you insensitive clod.
Yup. 22%. Yeah, it's big, and it sucks, but it's not hidden, what is what the grandparent was trying to imply...
Then again, I've been living AND doing college on government money for last four years. Bit hard to see that as a bad thing.
It always struck me as fundamentally unfair that traffic tickets are fixed and not based on income.
Around these parts they are.
Here you go, now that is what I call a traffic ticket.
This fine is not an one-time offer...
Step 1) Eliminate Competition
Step 2) Profit! ($40 Billion in cash)
Step 3) while(naughty) { Get fined $0.5 Billion for being naughty }
Step 4) File for bankruptcy
Step 5) ???
Step 6) PROFIT!
Well, not counting mplayer of course.
The US case was first aboud bundling IE, and in the later phase about bundling media player as well.
Yeah, entirely different. Nothing even remotely similar... oh wait, it's the same thing.
Yeah, it's so goddamn hard to realize there are some taxes when every receipt you get looks like this:
VAT WITHOUT TAXES TAX WITH TAXES
1 22.00% 7.03 1.55 8.85
3 17.00% 5.57 0.99 6.86
Total 12.90 2.54 15.44
Not only they tell us there's a tax, not only they tell the percentage, they show every friggin' cent of the tax paid. And what it would cost without. Pretty well hidden indeed.
So, anyway, do you guys know how to read? After all, if all that's supposed to be something something evil government deliberately wants us not to know...
I seriously doubt that a performance improvement 10% is even noticeable to the user.
Maybe it isn't. But if few releases in a row could each make 10% improvements, the cumulative 50% improvement damn certainly is noticeable.
Oh, I've used Privoxy before. But the fact is, 99.9% of the time adblock does just as well, is a lot faster and lot better integrated into the browser. Filtering is the only thing it really does that other solutions don't...
If I end up on a one-in-thousand page that has ads that are non-blockable without filters, chances are that I'll never end up there again anyway. Why on Earth should I bother wasting hours writing a regexp that is, after all, only useful for that one site I'll never visit again? Complex filters eat a shitload of CPU time on big pages as well.
Filtering web proxy may have some uses, but simple adblocking sure as hell isn't one of them, it's like trying to kill a fly with cannon.
I do not understand people who try to kill flies with cannons.
It's a Mozilla extension in case you didn't notice.
Retro? Well, let me know when moz can block _ANYTHING_ (yeah, that includes flash), and based on a pattern of some kind as well, not just server.
We don't know that her non-functional organs were due to a genetic error(s). After all, there are many things that can go wrong during pregnancy even if a baby has perfect DNA.
I'd be more inclined to think this might not be "right" thing to do because organs are always in short supply, and those could've saved eight children instead of only one.
Apparently the 1-euro and 2-euro coins are also like this, but I haven't handled either of them yet.
They are.
Pre-Euro Finnish 10mk coin was like this as well.
Well, Frankenstein was built, so even if he was composed of human body parts, wouldn't that make him at least half-robot.
Quite a bit like fantasy flesh golem, but animated by technology instead of magic.
Thermal overload protection should be based completely on the chip, not off on the motherboard!
It's motherboards job to make sure that every thing required for the operation of the chip is right, why should temperature be any different than rest of the bunch? You'll end up integrating the whole computer into CPU if you start down THAT road.
But if you leave it up to the motherboard to protect the CPU from overheating, that is just asking to let the magic smoke out, IMHO.
Well, it's about equal to letting motherboard worry about CPU getting the right voltage, both result in magic smoke if done wrong, yet motherboards have done that pretty well forever. And will continue to do so.
Because the FX-5x line of chips is using a socket type that is doomed in few months. So after you want the fastest ship after few months you end up buying a new motherboard as well. The new socket on the other hand is going to be in use for some time.
Sure, if you've got money buy whole machine every time you want to update the processor (or if you already have a board that's compatible with FX) go for it.
The cycle does continue to ad infinitum, but this is more of a case of deciding at which point to enter the cycle, now it's nearing its end and beginning of another.
Not that it works... adblock and few handy regexps quickly negates whatever evil trickery they've resorted to.
Got to love blocking flash with patterns.
See the weird line of numbers in that url? It's usually called "date". Magically you can deduce from that the information that the article in guestion is about three and half years old.
If some boards don't include something that's required by the specs, well, that's problem of the greedy bastards manufacturing such crap and the fools tricked into buying them.
Eh, that would be: http://www.siemens-mobile.com/cds/frontdoor/0,2241 ,hq_en_0_15803_rArNrNrNrN,00.html
Nokia seems to have this weird fixation of pushing more and more weird keypads to their phones one after another. Not that they are the only ones, something like Siemens SX1 is even worse, but still...
What's wrong with the good old squarish design with all numeric keys being at least approximately same size & shape?
I've had it with mobile-phones... when something new like this comes out, they cost like 2000$, and when the prices are low enhough for the average person to buy something new has been released.
So? It's not like the original phone (or whatever, this applies to EVERYTHING if you haven't noticed) becomes any worse because there's also this new and expensive toy for milking early adopters.
Unless you've got some strange fixation that it needs to be the newest and more expensive or nothing. Which doesn't seem too likely considering the age of phone you are using, after all.
Would everyone please just STOP whining about the goddamn "innovation".
It's not like copying good features from somewhere else and combining them is not just as good for your desktop as trying to waste your time thinking about some never-ever seen stupid feature just to be "innovative".
Or if you're feeling so fucking innovative today, do it yourself instead of insulting works of others. If you can't do that, go ahead and give some of those uber-bright ideas to programmers, let's see if it's feasible for them to do it, just do anything but bitch and whine on Slashdot about some mysterious INNOVATION that is missing from everyone.
It's looking like a troll because it IS a troll, and you're looking like and idiot and an ass.
Hmmmm? Gel Glass matrix? Sounds odd, I wonder who's doing research with GLASS and VIRAL infections?
Botulin is a bacterial toxin. If you don't even know that much (it's fscking common knowledge) why should anyone take the rest seriously?
Here's WSU's view on Viral Glass, they seem to think it's real:
WSU's view? They? That's a course material of one professor. Oh yeah, that paragraph is also talking about botuline, not viruses.
Perhaps I should read less and get out more, your right...
Well, you demonstrate a remarkable ignorance about even the basics of microbiology, and tried to use few hastily googled pages (36 hits, quite a few of those quotes from fiction, woo hoo, clearly commonly used real technology) having any glass and viruses, no matter the context, in the same page to pretend you know something about the topic.
Maybe you shouldn't read less, but you could start by checking WHAT you are reading, cross-checking for reference. And after reading, you might want to take few moments thinking before establishing it as an absolute truth.
We have enough WMD to destroy the earth 1000 times over
... (you at least know what 100% means, don't you?)
... but then we don't. Make up your mind, will ya?
We don't have anything even near to destroy it even once. You haven't got the slightest idea of sheer power it takes to destroy an Earth-sized planet.
that's PLENTY to wipe out 100% of life
So we have plenty of weapons to destroy every last life form on this planet
(not including cockroaches I guess..).
Cockroaches, and other insects are alive if you haven't noticed, not only that but they make up a significant portion of that 100%.
Please use the new one for one week, then try reverting to the old one ;)
e -completion is not an option for most users ;)
I kind of doubt that. The bastards have destroyed the keyboard usability for click-click-click obsessed idiots. Oh well.
More seriously, GTK file dialog has always been click-intensive if you want to go higher the filesystem
Click once on drop-down box, another click on the level you want to go to (alternatively, drag, you'll make it in one). To the other way, it's one double click per level, both are, well, just like every other file selector on the planet.
(and focus-input-clear-selection-type-slash-tab-and-us
And why is it not an option? It's not like it's hard to do or anything, of course you must know the functionality is there but after that, it takes about five seconds to learn how tab-completion works.
Oh, and it's focused and selected by default, it's type-slash-tab.
You can set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in, for example, loader shell script, to force loading of libs from specific directory at runtime.