Really, because when Mozilla/Netscape was available in 1999/2000 it was a 25MB download, which took a damnable long time over a dialup connection. Compare that to Opera 5/6, a 3.5-5MB download that also included an email client, tabs, customizable interface, low memory footprint, etcetera etcetera.
There are a handful of breeds, known as "Primitive" dogs, which are noted primarily because their breed has remained relatively pure (not interbred/interference from humans) and they have similiar builds and traits. Primitive Dogs
Primitive or aboriginal dogs are canids that have kept close to the original form and have evolved with little or no purposeful human intervention. They spread throughout the world with the first colonizers but preserved a loose association with man.
Primitive dogs in all countries have a very similar, typical morphology known as the "long-term pariah morphotype" (LTPM) or primal body design from which most other dog forms are derived: a wolf or fox-like appearance with wedge-shaped head and a pointed muzzle, almond eyes, erect ears, for optimal sound retrieval and possibly body temperature regulation, and a long, curved tail. More
We found out about this interesting subset recently, when we found out that our "mongrel" puppy was actually a Canaan breed.
Considering Opera has these default settings in Opera:Config
Persistent Storage
Domain Quota Exceed Handling For localStorage: 1 (Open a dialog when the quota for local storage is exceeded)
Domain Quota For localStorage: 5120
Global Quota For localStorage: 102400
User JS Storage Quota: 0 (Quota in kilobytes available for user script storage. Set to 0 to prevent any use.)
Yeah I'd say it's not vulnerable to a harddrive filling exploit.
Opera definitely has issues with site-compatibility - usually due to browser sniffing, than actual standards that aren't implemented.
But it is far and above most of it's kin as far as security is concerned.
Most of the browser extensions work pretty much the same or exactly the same -- there have been very few exceptions to this (or possibly only one). Extensions would be much easier to deal with - especially when the browsers have produced the same implementation prior to it becoming the spec if we could just use "--new-feature", and if there was an alternate/differing implementation by ms, opera, webkit, or mozilla then a specific extension could override the generic --new-feature as -o-new-feature or -moz-new-feature, etc.
As is, attempting to implement pre-spec features makes the css a complete mess, e.g. 4 rounded corner borders could require up to 16 lines of css.
Yeah, unlike every other Foam/Rubber tip replacement that work with almost all earbuds out there this is for Decibullzshit headphones only. I'll stick with the foam tips ($15) that I picked up at Radio-Shack; still have 4 sets - they wear over time, but a single pair (pkg of 5) lasted a year or more.
Also appears to be primarily apple-only, as the "remote" is for the iphone. Awesome way to kill sales.
The linux/unix shell has been stuck in the 70's and never evolved.
It's pretty sad that cmd.exe can handle lists of files easier than a linux shell script. Heck with UnxUtils you can even use (G)AWK with a cmd batch script. Of course these days, I'm more likely to write a needed script with AutoHotkey - that easily understands spaces, unicode, windows, processID's, and what have you.
Maybe things are better now? But the last time I dealt with linux bash (or most of the shell tools/cmds) - unicode characters in either filenames or within the files (parsing text) caused major issues or would just flat out fail. Not to mention the absolute nightmare of trying to deal with escaping special characters and escaping escaped escapes...
I prefer Windows case-insensitivity, that treats all of those as the same file -- but still allows you to _Display_ the file with the case that you want.
About a 18% increase in price from 20 months ago -- Seems pretty high to me.
Last year, March 2011
$69,99 / 1.5TB, Western Digital WD15EARS Caviar Green Hard Drive - 1.5TB, 3.5", SATA-3G
That was on sale, $10-20 off, I don't recall. And not the best drive certainly.
Today, the closest match I can find is:
$109.99 / 2TB, WD Green WD20EARX 2TB Desktop Hard Drive - 3.5", SATA, 64MB Cache
Disregarding possible firesales, and slight markup going to higher data density 1.5 to 2.0, and general reduction in price over time we get:
2011 Price, 1.5 TB to 2.0 TB:: $93.99 (70/1.5)*2
2012 Actual Price of a 2.0 TB:: 109.99
On the heels of a Ben Gurion University study showing that drivers under the influence of marijuana are less dangerous than drunk drivers, comes yet another study indicating that driving stoned might not be quite as bad as some think. Published in the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, the Hartford Hospital/University of Iowa study titled “Sex differences in the effects of marijuana on simulated driving performance,” concludes that:
Under the influence of marijuana, participants decreased their speed and failed to show expected practice effects during a distracted drive. No differences were found during the baseline driving segment or collision avoidance scenarios. No differences attributable to sex were observed. This study enhances the current literature by identifying distracted driving and the integration of prior experience as particularly problematic under the influence of marijuana....
There was also an interesting experiment in the UK on Top Gear where they had similiar findings.
Many other diseases have been shown to have their symptoms almost immediately lessened or completely abated from marijuana use: Depression, Schizophrenia, Chronic Pain Syndrome, among many others.
Can it make a better programmer? Possibly, depends on the programmer and the type of marijuana - of which there is basically an infinite variety - since it is so easily crossbred.
One of the effects of some types of marijuana is enhanced thought, as it is activating all the THC receptors in the brain (you know those things that developed the neural network that your brain functions with). Marijuana can speed the thought process, wherein instead of logically stepping through logical steps of A to B to C to D, your brain instead is able to almost time-warp from A directly to D.
Marijuana has also been shown to help people focus on a task - especially creative tasks like music, writing, or yes - even programming.
If all you know about Marijuana is what you've seen in the Movies or the pot-heads from high-school, then you don't know much.
I did install a driver from Mayflash, I'm not 100% sure if it was required or not. As it's quite possible all the driver enabled was the minor customization of the buttons --- which really only allows you to reassign the buttons themselves, and choose between "HAT"/Digital for the D-Pad.
Hardly, You don't need the games to support gamepads if you get the right adapter.
I just recently bought a Mayflash usb-adapter ($10) that allows 2 Wii classic/classic pro gamepads to be plugged into one usb-port. By default the driver allows basic assignment of the buttons, but it works near flawlessly with JoyToKey (shareware, $7) - which allows extreme customization of the gamepad, if you also throw AutoHotkey into the mix... Now you have a controller that can replace keyboard and a mouse for many games.
I've been testing it with GuildWars 2, the only slight drawback is a mouse is still more accurate for moving the camera, or cursor on the screen as opposed to using control-stick #2 for that.
Except, back then (2001) Opera (v5) was only a 2.2MB download... on the other hand Mozilla was what 20-25MB and took 2-5 hours to download on dialup.
Of course now-adays, Firefox and Chrome have reamed their user-interface, IE has too to some extent... Opera while still as customizable as ever has gotten more and more unstable version after version - starting around v9.
CodeLobster PHP is the best that I've found. The editor itself is free, the devs charge a small fee if you want access to their plugins --- which include WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, among others.
Some Features: code-highlighting, code-folding, auto-complete, tag-matching, regex search/replace.
Default View is "code" but it also includes "Preview Mode" (WYSIWYG) and Inspector -- a mix between CodeView/Preview/FileView : personally I don't find Inspector all that useful, but the rest is decent.
CLPHP can (as other editors I'm sure) quickly open a file with your browser of choice as well.
The Open-Source Editors I've looked at for dealing with HTML/CSS/PHP are either plain buggy, not updated, missing significant features or just clearly don't do what they claim to at all. As well many of the best "text-editors" that are recommended for dealing with WebDevelopment don't do much more than code-highlighting - when it comes to the specifics of html/css/php et al.
Adobe's Brackets (editor) looks interesting, but I haven't had time to mess around with it yet.
Costco in our area has raised Bacon prices 40-50%. I'll have to see what the regular stores, Vons, Ralphs, etc are doing price-wise... as 40-50 is a damned far-cry from 10. If it's not due to the so-called shortage, then they are just pulling something similar to their Coffee-commodity-hike:
That's not the main purpose of Advertising. Product Awareness is the KEY purpose of Advertising. And most people wont necessarily even realize it. When the time comes that you need to purchase product-type-x, unless you go with whatever is the cheapest, you are more likely to buy something by a Brand that you've seen before --- whether that was an Internet Ad or Television, Billboard, whatever.
The Reinheitsgebot is no longer part of German law: it has been replaced by the Provisional German Beer Law, [2] which allows constituent components prohibited in the Reinheitsgebot, such as yeast, wheat malt and cane sugar, but which no longer allows unmalted barley.
I know, no way it could be 350,000 more than 960,000. As every phone that is sold has to be shipped in the very same quarter. And no one, certainly, ever buys a used or refurb phone...
I abstained from purchasing V, so I can't say from firsthand knowledge... but I followed and participated in numerous threads on civfanatics.com; had many conversations with long-time modders, and fans of CIV4... and watched countless threads on civfanatics devolve into haters vs defenders. The most amusing part being that the defenders would always claim that "this is how it always is when a new CIV is released... people hate it" --- except in Civ5's case the hate didn't lessen or go away.
A couple searches on Amazon indicates that Civ4 has still sold better than Civ5. It'd be interesting to know the full numbers (from all sources), but its hardly in 2KGames best interest to release that - if in fact Civ4 has sold that much better than the 5th iteration.
This was one of my favorite (in-depth) articles about Civ5:
Not mentioned anywhere that I could find. Though it was asked in one of the comments on RPS. If Ubisoft DOES patch their older properties, then myself (like others, possibly) will be willing to look at some of their older games. I'd certainly be interested in trying out Settlers, as Civilization V was an effing bad joke.
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Really, because when Mozilla/Netscape was available in 1999/2000 it was a 25MB download, which took a damnable long time over a dialup connection. Compare that to Opera 5/6, a 3.5-5MB download that also included an email client, tabs, customizable interface, low memory footprint, etcetera etcetera.
Primitive Dogs
We found out about this interesting subset recently, when we found out that our "mongrel" puppy was actually a Canaan breed.
Yeah I'd say it's not vulnerable to a harddrive filling exploit.
Opera definitely has issues with site-compatibility - usually due to browser sniffing, than actual standards that aren't implemented.
But it is far and above most of it's kin as far as security is concerned.
They can't get my LastPass password, unless they have physical access to my machine AND me - as I don't know what it is. As my LastPass password requires a token-string combined with a keyboard-shortcut that includes CTRL that then generates the password on the fly, which is something like: 59`äh12©íJ26846÷á2ásÓj3’¦0
--- of course slashdot is removing some of the high-ansi chars I just pasted.
Where are these rules? :-) One of my favorite Risk games was Risk II on the PC.
Basic Risk rules are flawed for sure, even if all you consider is the value of retaining certain "continents" per round.
Most of the browser extensions work pretty much the same or exactly the same -- there have been very few exceptions to this (or possibly only one). Extensions would be much easier to deal with - especially when the browsers have produced the same implementation prior to it becoming the spec if we could just use "--new-feature", and if there was an alternate/differing implementation by ms, opera, webkit, or mozilla then a specific extension could override the generic --new-feature as -o-new-feature or -moz-new-feature, etc.
As is, attempting to implement pre-spec features makes the css a complete mess, e.g. 4 rounded corner borders could require up to 16 lines of css.
Yeah, unlike every other Foam/Rubber tip replacement that work with almost all earbuds out there this is for Decibullzshit headphones only. I'll stick with the foam tips ($15) that I picked up at Radio-Shack; still have 4 sets - they wear over time, but a single pair (pkg of 5) lasted a year or more.
Also appears to be primarily apple-only, as the "remote" is for the iphone. Awesome way to kill sales.
The linux/unix shell has been stuck in the 70's and never evolved.
It's pretty sad that cmd.exe can handle lists of files easier than a linux shell script. Heck with UnxUtils you can even use (G)AWK with a cmd batch script. Of course these days, I'm more likely to write a needed script with AutoHotkey - that easily understands spaces, unicode, windows, processID's, and what have you.
Maybe things are better now? But the last time I dealt with linux bash (or most of the shell tools/cmds) - unicode characters in either filenames or within the files (parsing text) caused major issues or would just flat out fail. Not to mention the absolute nightmare of trying to deal with escaping special characters and escaping escaped escapes...
I prefer Windows case-insensitivity, that treats all of those as the same file -- but still allows you to _Display_ the file with the case that you want.
Yeah, you could switch to google.ca ;-)
Seems like it might be more like 4 Hockey goals.
... 138/33.33 = 4.14
NBA: Average pts per team per game = 99.5 (so 200)
NHL: Average goals per game = ~6
200/6 = 33.33
Although a non-linear relationship would likely be more accurate/relevant.
Maybe, 1 goal / 21 pts... so 6+ ... not bad.
Although in Soccer thats only about 1.5 not so great.
Last year, March 2011
That was on sale, $10-20 off, I don't recall. And not the best drive certainly.
Today, the closest match I can find is:
Disregarding possible firesales, and slight markup going to higher data density 1.5 to 2.0, and general reduction in price over time we get: :: $93.99 (70/1.5)*2 :: 109.99
2011 Price, 1.5 TB to 2.0 TB
2012 Actual Price of a 2.0 TB
There was also an interesting experiment in the UK on Top Gear where they had similiar findings.
Hilarious. Alcohol is not only bad for your liver it's bad for your brain too. Alcohol kills your brain cells.
Interesting that no one here appears to be aware that the brain is created with THC.
Marijuana-Like Chemicals Guide Fetal Brain Cells: Scientific American
There are also significant studies showing benefits for Alzheimers (yes, imagine that - the disease that causes you to lose your mind/memory, helped by weed)
Research Reveals Medical Marijuana Has Benefits For Alzheimer's
Many other diseases have been shown to have their symptoms almost immediately lessened or completely abated from marijuana use: Depression, Schizophrenia, Chronic Pain Syndrome, among many others.
Can it make a better programmer? Possibly, depends on the programmer and the type of marijuana - of which there is basically an infinite variety - since it is so easily crossbred.
One of the effects of some types of marijuana is enhanced thought, as it is activating all the THC receptors in the brain (you know those things that developed the neural network that your brain functions with). Marijuana can speed the thought process, wherein instead of logically stepping through logical steps of A to B to C to D, your brain instead is able to almost time-warp from A directly to D.
Marijuana has also been shown to help people focus on a task - especially creative tasks like music, writing, or yes - even programming.
If all you know about Marijuana is what you've seen in the Movies or the pot-heads from high-school, then you don't know much.
I did install a driver from Mayflash, I'm not 100% sure if it was required or not. As it's quite possible all the driver enabled was the minor customization of the buttons --- which really only allows you to reassign the buttons themselves, and choose between "HAT"/Digital for the D-Pad.
Hardly, You don't need the games to support gamepads if you get the right adapter.
I just recently bought a Mayflash usb-adapter ($10) that allows 2 Wii classic/classic pro gamepads to be plugged into one usb-port. By default the driver allows basic assignment of the buttons, but it works near flawlessly with JoyToKey (shareware, $7) - which allows extreme customization of the gamepad, if you also throw AutoHotkey into the mix... Now you have a controller that can replace keyboard and a mouse for many games.
I've been testing it with GuildWars 2, the only slight drawback is a mouse is still more accurate for moving the camera, or cursor on the screen as opposed to using control-stick #2 for that.
Except, back then (2001) Opera (v5) was only a 2.2MB download ... on the other hand Mozilla was what 20-25MB and took 2-5 hours to download on dialup.
... Opera while still as customizable as ever has gotten more and more unstable version after version - starting around v9.
Of course now-adays, Firefox and Chrome have reamed their user-interface, IE has too to some extent
CodeLobster PHP is the best that I've found. The editor itself is free, the devs charge a small fee if you want access to their plugins --- which include WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, among others.
Some Features: code-highlighting, code-folding, auto-complete, tag-matching, regex search/replace.
Default View is "code" but it also includes "Preview Mode" (WYSIWYG) and Inspector -- a mix between CodeView/Preview/FileView : personally I don't find Inspector all that useful, but the rest is decent.
CLPHP can (as other editors I'm sure) quickly open a file with your browser of choice as well.
The Open-Source Editors I've looked at for dealing with HTML/CSS/PHP are either plain buggy, not updated, missing significant features or just clearly don't do what they claim to at all. As well many of the best "text-editors" that are recommended for dealing with WebDevelopment don't do much more than code-highlighting - when it comes to the specifics of html/css/php et al.
Adobe's Brackets (editor) looks interesting, but I haven't had time to mess around with it yet.
That's not the main purpose of Advertising. Product Awareness is the KEY purpose of Advertising. And most people wont necessarily even realize it. When the time comes that you need to purchase product-type-x, unless you go with whatever is the cheapest, you are more likely to buy something by a Brand that you've seen before --- whether that was an Internet Ad or Television, Billboard, whatever.
Reinheitsgebot aka Bavarian Purity Law.
I know, no way it could be 350,000 more than 960,000. As every phone that is sold has to be shipped in the very same quarter. And no one, certainly, ever buys a used or refurb phone...
I abstained from purchasing V, so I can't say from firsthand knowledge... but I followed and participated in numerous threads on civfanatics.com; had many conversations with long-time modders, and fans of CIV4 ... and watched countless threads on civfanatics devolve into haters vs defenders. The most amusing part being that the defenders would always claim that "this is how it always is when a new CIV is released ... people hate it" --- except in Civ5's case the hate didn't lessen or go away.
A couple searches on Amazon indicates that Civ4 has still sold better than Civ5. It'd be interesting to know the full numbers (from all sources), but its hardly in 2KGames best interest to release that - if in fact Civ4 has sold that much better than the 5th iteration.
This was one of my favorite (in-depth) articles about Civ5:
Not mentioned anywhere that I could find. Though it was asked in one of the comments on RPS. If Ubisoft DOES patch their older properties, then myself (like others, possibly) will be willing to look at some of their older games. I'd certainly be interested in trying out Settlers, as Civilization V was an effing bad joke.