Interesting. Chrome omits the menu bar, much like IE7+; but since it keeps the tabs at the top of its window, when it's run maximised, you get the benefits of a "mile high" tab bar. You can just slam the mouse to the top of the screen to pick a tab, much like the much-touted Mac OS menu bar.
I wonder if this violates any Apple UI patents? I have heard that Apple patents are one of the main reasons why Windows attaches menu bars to windows in the way it does.
It also doesn't bother with a status bar at the bottom; hyperlink destinations get a sort of "slide-up notification" at the bottom, but the space is generally used for rendering the page. Good idea.
All in all, it seems to be a fine product - but I will keep using Firefox until Chrome gets some extensibility, I think. Hopefully Chrome's good ideas will be adopted by Firefox as well!
What font anti-aliasing technology does WebKit (and by extension Google Chrome) use?
I'm curious to know if it is using ClearType under Windows or its own built-in anti-aliasing. Does Windows Safari render text exactly the same as Chrome? I vaguely recall some criticism of Safari for Windows when it came out on this basis.
I'd say that was the second-oldest motive, at best. After all, the world's oldest profession was formed by the combination of the two oldest motives...;)
When companies post announcements via third party media, those announcements are presumably archived. I wonder what the impacts would be of blog-disclosures being retracted or edited after the fact, Ministry of Truth-style?
I don't think the Middle East even *has* an indigenous population, to be honest. There's been so much back and forthing over the millenia...
I mean, if the biblical account has historical truth at the core, it couldn't be more clear that the Jewish arrival in the "Promised Land" was nothing less than a military conquest.
Personally I don't have a lot of respect for "native population" arguments, maybe because I'm a white Australian. To me they seem inherently racist, since they're saying that someone deserves special rights based on their ancestry that will never, and can never, be extended to anyone whose ancestry does not meet the requirement.
I acknowledge that, for instance, the history of indigenous Australians goes back tens of thousands of years before the arrival of my ancestors; but the actual indigenous Australians who are alive *now* are no more or less Australian than any other inhabitant of the country. How many generations does a line of descent need to live in a place for them to be natives? Are people of Norman descent considered English, or is that reserved for descendants of Angles and Saxons only? Is a third-generation Latino-American person less American than a fifth-generation African-American or an umpteenth generation descendant of a Pilgrim?
I don't think you need tariffs on imports and tax breaks on exports; the falling US dollar should do that job just fine, if everything is working right.
I know I've bought a lot more US goods now that the AUD buys me nearly one USD, compared to a few years ago when it was worth half that. If the greedy bastards who publish software weren't price gouging by maintaining AUD prices in the face of the falling USD (and hence more than doubling their profit margins), I'd probably be spending even more.
I'd suggest looking at the bottom of that page and following up the references to some decent history books, rather than relying on Wikipedia itself, however.
His gut might be a bit better at extracting nutrients from the food in the first place.
Unless, of course, you're suggesting that poop contains no useful energy at all - in which case, I do wonder what benefit the flies see in it for laying eggs.
It would also likely have dramatic health & nutrition impacts in developing countries, as refrigeration becomes economically accessible to people who would not previously have been able to afford it.
That might partially offset the energy savings, but since it would have direct benefits in reducing food wastage, it's still a very good thing.
We're also one of the world's major uranium suppliers.
Of course, the citizenry here is way too NIMBY to actually use any of it here. We happily export uranium to lots of people, but for our own power? Coal & gas, baby.
Interesting that you should mention that the neighbours might someday decide to enslave them.
While the despicable trans-Atlantic slave trade was made so large and profitable by Europeans, it was very very rare that the actual original enslavement was performed by Europeans. My understanding of it was that the slaves would generally be purchased by Europeans at port cities on the African coast; the actual enslavement of free peoples was generally performed by one African tribe or society going out and capturing members of another, and then selling them off to "whitey". Obviously the gold and silver of the Spanish, English and so on was a major inducement... but they still participated very willingly.
That's something that never gets mentioned by those who want to maintain a black-vs-white racial divide...
Serial ports are practically a must-have for anyone working with industrial controllers. Parallel ports are less important, but there's still a fair bit of old-yet-mission-critical software floating around with parallel port dongles - for instance, for programming the afore-mentioned industrial controllers.
According to Sid Meier, the Civilization computer game is not based on the original Avalon Hill "Civilization" board game. Having played both, I'm very inclined to agree.
Apparently the "Sid Meier's Civilization" board game is not that great. On the other hand, I've played the Age of Empires III board game, and it's excellent... (but not very similar to playing an RTS).
I think it's worked out pretty well in the field of telecomms. The competition in the mobile phone industry or ADSL service, for instance, is fairly vibrant. (Proviso: ADSL service is only really competitive in the profitable urban areas. But still.)
I agree that the energy privatisation hasn't brought us much obvious benefit. And the public transport privatisation in Melbourne was a complete waste of time and effort...
Er.. I don't wish to sound like a dick, but I really think I should let you know that the word you're looking for is exacerbating (to make something worse), not exasperating (infuriating or annoying).
I went to a car museum a few months back and saw a poster from about, oh, 1900 or 1910. It was advertising the latest model of Studebaker "saloon car"; apparently, it was perfect for "picking up guests from the railroad station".
The thing that astounded me: it was available in gasoline and electric models.
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Interesting. Chrome omits the menu bar, much like IE7+; but since it keeps the tabs at the top of its window, when it's run maximised, you get the benefits of a "mile high" tab bar. You can just slam the mouse to the top of the screen to pick a tab, much like the much-touted Mac OS menu bar.
I wonder if this violates any Apple UI patents? I have heard that Apple patents are one of the main reasons why Windows attaches menu bars to windows in the way it does.
It also doesn't bother with a status bar at the bottom; hyperlink destinations get a sort of "slide-up notification" at the bottom, but the space is generally used for rendering the page. Good idea.
All in all, it seems to be a fine product - but I will keep using Firefox until Chrome gets some extensibility, I think. Hopefully Chrome's good ideas will be adopted by Firefox as well!
What font anti-aliasing technology does WebKit (and by extension Google Chrome) use?
I'm curious to know if it is using ClearType under Windows or its own built-in anti-aliasing. Does Windows Safari render text exactly the same as Chrome? I vaguely recall some criticism of Safari for Windows when it came out on this basis.
It's the oldest motive known to man - economics.
I'd say that was the second-oldest motive, at best. After all, the world's oldest profession was formed by the combination of the two oldest motives... ;)
SQ372 has been perturbed by the gravity of Uranus
I can't help but feel there's a "Yo Mama" joke in there somewhere...
Does the DS have Age of Empires?
Age of Empires is a Microsoft game. The day when you will see that running on a non-MS platform is probably the day hell freezes over.
Yes, the DS does have Age of Empires. It's not quite the same game as the PC version, though.
When companies post announcements via third party media, those announcements are presumably archived. I wonder what the impacts would be of blog-disclosures being retracted or edited after the fact, Ministry of Truth-style?
I don't think the Middle East even *has* an indigenous population, to be honest. There's been so much back and forthing over the millenia...
I mean, if the biblical account has historical truth at the core, it couldn't be more clear that the Jewish arrival in the "Promised Land" was nothing less than a military conquest.
Personally I don't have a lot of respect for "native population" arguments, maybe because I'm a white Australian. To me they seem inherently racist, since they're saying that someone deserves special rights based on their ancestry that will never, and can never, be extended to anyone whose ancestry does not meet the requirement.
I acknowledge that, for instance, the history of indigenous Australians goes back tens of thousands of years before the arrival of my ancestors; but the actual indigenous Australians who are alive *now* are no more or less Australian than any other inhabitant of the country. How many generations does a line of descent need to live in a place for them to be natives? Are people of Norman descent considered English, or is that reserved for descendants of Angles and Saxons only? Is a third-generation Latino-American person less American than a fifth-generation African-American or an umpteenth generation descendant of a Pilgrim?
I don't think you need tariffs on imports and tax breaks on exports; the falling US dollar should do that job just fine, if everything is working right.
I know I've bought a lot more US goods now that the AUD buys me nearly one USD, compared to a few years ago when it was worth half that. If the greedy bastards who publish software weren't price gouging by maintaining AUD prices in the face of the falling USD (and hence more than doubling their profit margins), I'd probably be spending even more.
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What.
They really think that use of cellphones is on the same level as stopping a known carcinogen from cycling through the air of every one on board?
Good grief.
There's some references to it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_slave_trade
I'd suggest looking at the bottom of that page and following up the references to some decent history books, rather than relying on Wikipedia itself, however.
His gut might be a bit better at extracting nutrients from the food in the first place.
Unless, of course, you're suggesting that poop contains no useful energy at all - in which case, I do wonder what benefit the flies see in it for laying eggs.
Feh. No sense in sacrificing Earth for the benefit of an uninhabitable Mercury, Venus or Mars.
It would also likely have dramatic health & nutrition impacts in developing countries, as refrigeration becomes economically accessible to people who would not previously have been able to afford it.
That might partially offset the energy savings, but since it would have direct benefits in reducing food wastage, it's still a very good thing.
We're also one of the world's major uranium suppliers.
Of course, the citizenry here is way too NIMBY to actually use any of it here. We happily export uranium to lots of people, but for our own power? Coal & gas, baby.
Interesting that you should mention that the neighbours might someday decide to enslave them.
While the despicable trans-Atlantic slave trade was made so large and profitable by Europeans, it was very very rare that the actual original enslavement was performed by Europeans. My understanding of it was that the slaves would generally be purchased by Europeans at port cities on the African coast; the actual enslavement of free peoples was generally performed by one African tribe or society going out and capturing members of another, and then selling them off to "whitey". Obviously the gold and silver of the Spanish, English and so on was a major inducement... but they still participated very willingly.
That's something that never gets mentioned by those who want to maintain a black-vs-white racial divide...
I realise I'm missing your point... but the only place where Ugh is likely to encounter a dinosaur would be at a Creation "Science" "Museum".
Dinosaurs were long, long, long extinct by the time *any* hominids were on the scene. Dinosaurs vs cavemen is strictly an invention of pop culture.
Dinosaurs vs ninjas, pirates and robots... doubly so.
Of course consumer 3D television is moving forward. Up/down and left/right are already well taken care of by existing 2D television.
Right, but the Joker's a liar. Two mutually exclusive stories for the scars on his cheeks... probably neither of them close to the truth.
Not a schemer, my foot. As a friend of mine said, he's the schemiest of the lot - and they're all pretty schemey.
Serial ports are practically a must-have for anyone working with industrial controllers. Parallel ports are less important, but there's still a fair bit of old-yet-mission-critical software floating around with parallel port dongles - for instance, for programming the afore-mentioned industrial controllers.
Right. But since there were no jet engines in the 20s and 30s, you were 100% accurate the first time. :)
According to Sid Meier, the Civilization computer game is not based on the original Avalon Hill "Civilization" board game. Having played both, I'm very inclined to agree.
Apparently the "Sid Meier's Civilization" board game is not that great. On the other hand, I've played the Age of Empires III board game, and it's excellent... (but not very similar to playing an RTS).
I think it's worked out pretty well in the field of telecomms. The competition in the mobile phone industry or ADSL service, for instance, is fairly vibrant. (Proviso: ADSL service is only really competitive in the profitable urban areas. But still.)
I agree that the energy privatisation hasn't brought us much obvious benefit. And the public transport privatisation in Melbourne was a complete waste of time and effort...
Er.. I don't wish to sound like a dick, but I really think I should let you know that the word you're looking for is exacerbating (to make something worse), not exasperating (infuriating or annoying).
Sorry for the pedantry,
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I went to a car museum a few months back and saw a poster from about, oh, 1900 or 1910. It was advertising the latest model of Studebaker "saloon car"; apparently, it was perfect for "picking up guests from the railroad station".
The thing that astounded me: it was available in gasoline and electric models.
So, yeah. Howabout it?