I think it's in Mozilla, too.
In Phoenix:
Preferences>>Advanced
Check the box for reject popup windows.
Below that is a box which you can add sites which you need to allow popups for.
I know it sounds crazy, but some sites you might want to access have some pretty annoying navigation mechanisms that depend on things such as flash or popup windows.
Sorry if this comes off as a MS-bashing rant. It's not intended as such.
The fact that MS doesn't seem hard at work implementing spam filters in Outlook or popup blockers in IE is a good example of consumers suffering due to Microsoft's monopoly. It also demonstrates how Microsoft is able to leverage its monopoly in one area (mail and web clients) to build profit in another market.
This other market is it's aspring ISP services. The app and mail client development teams aren't implementing these features because the Microsoft ISP wants to be able to tout the ability to filter spam and block popups. If the browsers and email clients used by 90%+ of the internet users had these features, then it wouldn't be a selling point for their ISP. This is a clear example of the company witholding features in the free products so it can profit from the antidote.
It also demonstrates the lack of competitive pressures in the market that normally drives a company to implement features at a rapid pace. Consumers are stagnating with a product for which the developer has no competitive pressure to improve. Hence that list of 102 things Mozilla can do that IE can't do.
The site-specific white list feature of Mozilla's pop-up blocking seems to work fine enough. The number of sites where you actually want popups from is far less than those offering popups. So manually adding these exceptions to the white list is not such an annoying task. I think bayesian filtering would be overkill in this case.
Totally deserved gripe. Sorry about excluding the moms out there. I got caught up in the reference after reading the Charles Benton's site (linked in the original post) where he talks about building a KAP rig for his son's science fair project. I know a lot of moms are out there also doing their children's science fair projects for them. They're just as guilty as the dads.
I thought it was pretty ironic that Benton was essentially doing his son's science fair project and he's a professor of Architecture @ UC Berkeley! No knock on him, though. He did a tremendous job on his site and is an accomplished Kite Aerial Photographer.
A dad can have children which are not kids. My dad has no kids because I am now 33 years old. My dad has no kids, and therefore, has no science fair project responsibilities.
I agree with the other posters that I shouldn't have excluded the moms out there from science fair responsibilities. Sorry, moms.
If the internet shutting down will free me from having to clean my mailbox of spam, then bring it on! If you ask me, these worms sound like the strongest spam filter I've ever heard of....
Check out Kelly's fully-detailed location chronology down below. Lots of episodes are filmed in America. You can pretty much tell by the sky not being overcast and the challenges being held on terrain not readily-accessible to their British locale. I'm thinking specifically of that horrible snowmobile episode as an example...
The real pisser is that TiVo can only avoid re-runs of pre-recorded material when the guide description for the episode is available. Believe you me, I wish the Anna Nichole show had its program guide description complete. My Tivo records every airing and it plays like twice a day!
Perhaps you made a simple typo here. Not sure. Maybe you just don't know.
Let's do the math-- 1 DVD player yeilds a profit no greater than maybe $20-$50 for a hardware manufacturer. Subsequent purchases of DVD movies yeilds a profit of perhaps $5.00 per copy sold. If the owner of the DVD player purhcases 20 DVD titles, that's a profit of $100. The asian hardware manufacturers are making pennies compared to the hundreds of millions made by entertainment producers.
If people can't immediately recognize that the junkyard is stocked, then they're likely also not comprehending the engineering principles being discussed in the show. Seriously. It's a show filmed in America, yet there are British cars all over the place. Minis haven't been imported legally in America since the sixties. They're all over the place in Junkyard Wars. Things like that fiberglass rescue dingy are thrown in to make the set look more interesting. The purpose of this Q&A was to ask questions that will shed insight on this subject in ways that a Jay Leno interview would never provide.
Not to be outdone in whoring a corporate icon, BMW is marketing a
skateboard.
This waste of engineering is a little different than the laptop in that it looks like it was actually designed by the car company, and not a family member.
to make some extra Marks Sorry to nitpick here, but Porsche Design could only wish to make some Marks. Germany switched over to the Euro. It was the country risking the most since their currency was the strongest of all the European Union countries...
I strongly doubt the design company's goal is to 'nurture the Porsche brand'. This laptop carries none of the trademark Porsche qualities such as power or curviness. And being that it's sold at Best Buy, it's not very exclusive, either. Porsche owners are probably going to stick with the Apple TiBook.
I wasn't living in Texas at the time, though I am now. I never saw Black Flag live, but those pics do look like it was a fun show.
You can't see his tattoos in the photos because they're all bleached out from the light shining on him. It's pretty high contrast. Henry had a black flag tattoo from before he was even in Black Flag. He was in a band called SOA (State of Alert) and worshipped Black Flag. He also had a Misfits tattoo back then, too.
More than remember Zoogs Rift, I have one of their albums! I think it's purple and has some bald man on the cover. Can't really remember it off the top of my head, though. I do have a fondness for Saccharine Trust. I like their part on the SST video that has the Meat Puppets and Husker Du.
But back to the topic which brought your response... Henry Garfield. It's funny. People inside of something like a cult/movement/religion will see something in such a specific way, while those outside see things a different way. No amount of rational dialogue can really convince one or the other to gain the other person's perspective. And from these differing perspectives each person is more inclined to share opposite interpretations of events relevant to the issue that seperates them. For instance, when you relate having seen Rollins looking after a toddler while the father unloads equipment, I'm inclined to say, "There's another example of Rollins being lame. A good guy would help the drummer for the opening act unload his equipment. A rockstar is content to sit around and play with a child while the drummer unloads it himself."
If Rollins has children, I would actually not think he's a very good father to them. For starters, I don't think he's married, so the kids are growing up in a single-parent household. His touring doesn't give the children much exposure to their father. But that's probably for the better. Many people who were victims of abuse as children (as Henry says he was) will grow up to abuse their own children. Sure, Henry is very disciplined with himself. But the emotion he spends the most time discussing is anger. I'd hate to have a dad who's always angry. Wouldn't you?
As for the irony, I'm able to recognize it. Of his three books I've read, however,I've never found any passage where he talks about how appreciative he is of his fans or how he enjoys interacting with them. He just talks about how lame they come off when they tell him he's their hero. Please explain the irony of this if you can.
I actually happen to know a lot about pre-MTV Rollins.
I own several albums which Rollins performs on. Starting with an SOA 7", then a bunch of Black Flag (Damaged is the best), then The Henry Rollins Band, then Henrietta Collins & the wifebeating childhaters, and lastly Wartime. I also own 2.13.61 (second pressing), Pissing in the Gene Pool, and Art to Choke Hearts.
Black flag was Henry's shining moment. The first 2 solo albums (Hot animal machine and the henrietta collins releases) were somewhat inspired. Everything beyond has been self-indulgent Henry-centric drivel. His writing and spoken word (which is his writing, but he can sell tickets to it), fails to provide insight on any topic other than the way he feels, which I could hardly give a shit about. Everything is written from the first-person perspective, which rarely is the mark of a talented writer. It's all, "I this.." and "I that..." He never provides solutions. Just observations about his own alienation/self-hatred/complaints/etc. The whole rest of the world is screwed if you read his rants. Sensitive? I would really like to see that demonstrated. He's got a song on the Henrietta Collins EP about how he wants to rape a policewoman. How sensitive is that to victims of sexual assault?
A 'national treasure'?!? Who is the real troll here? I could somewhat believe some kids saying that about Ian MacKaye, but Rollins?!? Sheesh. What in the f has he ever done for anyone but himself? Do you see him ever doing benefit shows? Do you really see him breaking ground with anything he's done since Black Flag? His intellect is an illusion. People romanticize the notion of a punk-rock prophet, but there is nothing there with Rollins. What great solution could he recommend to complex issues like Israel and Palestine? Whoops! That's off his witty one-liner list. If it ain't about people looking funny at him when he's walking down the street, he doesn't have an opinion.
Do you realize that while you are singing his praises, he is at the same time criticizing you? In his writings he mocks the people that come up to him and shake his hand and say he's they're hero. He ridicules people, like yourself, who act as if he's an 'acquaintance' of yours when he doesn't even know your name. Rollins is laughing in your face and stuffing your money in his pocket. And you respond by calling him a 'national treasure'.
I own several albums which Rollins performs on. Starting with an SOA 7", then a bunch of Black Flag (Damaged is the best), then The Henry Rollins Band, then Henrietta COllins & the wifebeating childhaters, and lastly Wartime. I also own 2.13.61 (second pressing), Pissing in the Gene Pool, and Art to Choke Hearts.
Black flag was Henry's shining moment. The first 2 solo albums (Hot animal machine and the henrietta collins releases) were somewhat inspired. Everything beyond has been self-indulgent Henry-centric drivel. His writing and spoken word (which is his writing, but he can sell tickets to it), fails to provide insight on any topic other than the way he feels, which I could hardly give a shit about. Everything is written from the first-person perspective, which rarely is the mark of a talented writer. It's all, "I this.." and "I that..." He never provides solutions. Just observations about his own alienation/self-hatred/complaints/etc. The whole rest of the world is screwed if you read his rants.
Extremely intelligent and articulate? I would really like to see that demonstrated. Everytime he was ever on Politically Incorrect, they'd toss him the mic for a bit and he'd just fall flat. Let's see that jackass come up with a solution to ANYTHING!
If you're looking for a punk-rock founding father who can say some outrageous things about society with some amount of wit/humor/eloquence, look to Jello Biafra. He's far more thought provoking than Rollins.
I fully agree with you that JYW is superior in the engineering principles dealt with compared to Battlebots. Battlebots does have a few engineering elements if you scrutinize the designs that win and lose, but there was very little discussion of them in the show. It was mostly pandering to the masses cravings for destruction. Not unlike Mr. Rollins, I suppose. Perhaps Battlebots is to Junkyard Wars as Henry Rollins is to Jello Biafra.
PS- If you still question my familiarity with Rollins, I'll point out that on the SOA No policy 7", Rollins has a tattoo of the Black Flag logo (along with a mohawk). This picture was shot when he was just a fan of Black Flag and wasn't even connected with the band in any way. Him later joining the band as the singer is not unlike the way that guy Ripper Owens was in a Judas Priest cover band and then later was chosen to replace Rob Halford in Judas Priest. Not that SOA was a BF cover band....
I don't know what demograph you're aiming for with this show, but if it follows in the tradition of Junkyard Wars and Battlebots, I'd expect you're going for the male, engineering, nerd crowd with a slight bend toward the hillbillys-like-things-that-go-boom crowd.
If so, why is Henry Rollins hosting? This man represents brawn over intellect. His solution to social aloofness/alienation is to spend more time in the gym, not study your ass off in highschool so you get a scholarship to MIT.
If this show is meant for nerds, why host it with someone who represents the nerd-beaters of the world?
That guy is a complete muscleheaded retard. He's not an engineer. He doesn't know shit about shit. He's perhaps the least qualified person I can imagine to be providing commentary on this type of a show. Remember Carmen Elektra's out-of-place cluelessness on Battlebots? Same deal here, except who wants to look at some 40+ man with some old, dumb tattoos, grecian formula hair treatment, and a jock attitude?!?
I would recommend either a witty comedian (Rollins fails here as well) or an engineering genius (like one of the Brothers Long) to host the show.
If you're an electrical engineering major who reads slashdot, I wouldn't be too confident that the wife and kids thing will just fall into your lap later on down the road. You might want to get to work on that part right away. It could take some time to implement.
If you're using Mozilla, or the recently-released Phoenix (highly recommended), you can also accomplish your browsing style by right-clicking the links and selecting "open in new tab". The other page will open a new tab within your existing window. When you're done reading the current page, you can click on the tab for the other page without having to juggle windows.
What's nice about Phoenix in this respect is the default behavior is to have the new tab open in the background. I complimented the design team for this on their discussion board and some guy came back and said you can also set this up in Mozilla via the prefreences. It's supposed to be controlled by the checkbox 'Load links in the background'. You can also set middle or right-click to open these tabs in the preferences.
I wouldn't worry too much about it. The charge would be theft of service. I have seen precedents where some guy was using electricity for free for 30 years and only had to pay a $5000 fine. Can't find it on google, though.
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PS- If you still question my familiarity with Rollins, I'll point out that on the SOA No policy 7", Rollins has a tattoo of the Black Flag logo (along with a mohawk). This picture was shot when he was just a fan of Black Flag and wasn't even connected with the band in any way. Him later joining the band as the singer is not unlike the way that guy Ripper Owens was in a Judas Priest cover band and then later was chosen to replace Rob Halford in Judas Priest. Not that SOA was a BF cover band....
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