I remember now what two main things annoy me about firefox vs mozilla. Maybe the extensions can fix it??
1) no "new tab" button on the tab bar - have to right-click or do kbd shortcut
2) search bar is separate from address bar - i like having one address bar and when i want to search instead of browse i hit down arrorw twice and enter (in mozilla)
Thanks much for mentioning that. I think I've looked through those options sometime a long time ago, but had long since forgotten about it. Very useful.
Now - do you know of a list which outlines each option? Some aren't very clear...
Anyone else having problems even logging into their account today? I keep getting an error:
Server Error
Gmail is temporarily unavailable. Cross your fingers and try again in a few minutes. We're sorry for the inconvenience.
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I've found that Firefox (at least up to and including the last release, haven't tried the new one yet) has a very stripped-down version of the user preferences. Mozilla has a lot more options, and a few of them are ones I prefer not to be without, including some relating to the handling of browser tabs.
Please guys will you just implement the full set of MOzilla options!
Yes, this article is about Linux PVR's, but how do people feel that the popular ones mentioned (Freevo, MythTV) compare to Windows Media Center Edition's PVR functions?
Don't treat this as a troll (I still expect usual M$ backlash from/.), but I'm really curious. A few things I know already about Media Center:
1) records in proprietary format (dvr-ms?) 2) no skipping of commercials (except of course fast-forward) 3) doesn't require a TV-tuner, can use any vid card with video capture (S-Video, RCA, coax, etc) 4) generally comes with a remote for all PVR functions and a IR transmitter to actually change your cable box channel 5) supports other media-ish functions like music, pictures, etc 6) It's Windows for chrissake
Please add/subtract/multiply/divide from this list. Just trying to get an idea of how MS's (cruddy) product stacks up to the free competition.
No, it's not actually that easy. You know what happens when you assume...;)
There are other methods to prevent this such as monitoring body heat and pulse. Makes it a lot more difficult and obvious if someone has your severed hand hooked up to a heater and some kind of pump device to simulate pulse at an ATM or airport terminal...
I am lifting this directly from a Meteorology textbook:
Some of the earliest folklore forecasts in Western culture, such as the following, come from ancient mariners:
Red sky at night, sailor's delight Red sky at morning, sailor take warning.
This saying is fairly accurate. A clear western sky at sunset allows the Sun to shine through the atmosphere, its light reddening due to Rayleigh scattering and then reflecting off clouds in the eastern sky. Clouds to the east usually move away; storms in the middle latitudes generally travel to the east under the influence of jet-stream winds. The reverse is true in the morning, when the red sunlight shines on storm clouds approaching from the west. However, this folklore doesn't work at all in overcast conditions, or at tropical latitudes where weather often moves from east to west.
So it's generally true in the mid-latitudes, but still YMMV.
Here's what I don't get... This guy is a programmer and he not only can't block spam emails effectively, but look at this quote from the article (yep I'm one who actually reads them;):
Booker said the problem stemmed from a program he mistakenly downloaded from the Internet that brought a continuous stream of advertising to his computer.
So this is a guy who clicks 'Yes' to popups that say Do you want to install HorsePornSpamSender.exe?! And furthermore, doesn't know how to download and run AdAware or SpyBot (or even search Google to find out that they exist)?
Doesn't sound like a programmer I'd want working for my firm...
This guy doesn't agree with transportation systems, freeways, his (probably) public education, the fact that he can call 911 when he falls asleep with a bottle of scotch and a cigarette in his hand and his carpet starts on fire, etc, etc...
I highly doubt this book is even a true story anyway, so I don't know why I'm thinking about it, but this is the classic example of the freeloader problem. An excuse to take advantage of the services provided by other taxpayers' money.
That's *why* I said generally... The word means "in most cases", but not necessarily all. And if you think one power outage in how many years is bad... If the power grid were left up to the government things would probably be worse. Of course, that's just speculation.
Look at the cases of the phone systems in Britain and Argentina when they were in a system of a welfare state (pre-Thatcher)..
So not only will the tech be outdated by the time they finish half of the rollout, but getting a repair to your line that got cut by someone digging for a new building will take 2 years at least...
Generally it's best to let private industry manage the "commanding heights" in an economy (power, transportation, infrastructure). History has proven this time and again.
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And in other news, IE will include tabbed browsing in a service pack to be released in 2007 with much fanfare of how it will revolutionize browsing the web!
But in general, public colleges obtain 75%+ of their funding from the taxpayer, not from tuition.
A number I pulled right out of my ass!
Seriously, how can you just arbitrarily post random statistics without backing it up whatsoever? If you can prove that data, please do, because I have serious doubts that 75% of a university's operating budget comes from joe taxpayer.
While I do agree with you that a large number of incoming college freshman are not very well prepared, the blame for that lies not with the college, but the high schools, parents, society, whatever you like. But not the college, because they haven't even been there yet.
Besides, do you want a bunch of burnt out drones coming out of college? College is about education, but it's also about a well-rounded, liberal education. A college campus is supposed to be a hotbed of ideas and innovation. Music promotes creativity, and creativity promotes "good things for you."
Well, think of the opportunity for corruption. I mean, there were reasons that they gov't didn't really go ahead with the program when the original story was posted. Say there's a bet on there for "When will the next terrorist attack be?" Obviously someone is going to see the opportunity to make money off of any real situation and create a self-fulfilling prophecy...
Do you really want to live in a world where major world events are influenced by people trying to make a quick easy buck off gambling?
Well, what about people who have no interest in education? Should they have the choice to not pay portions of their taxes that go towards it? It's because it benefits the majority of the people.
If some people don't use it, there's probably something they DO use that somebody else DOESN'T, but had to pay for it.
Let's also not forget that in this case, unlike taxes, the person actually has the CHOICE to attend the institution. Nobody's forcing a person to attend PSU. If they are that opposed to the fee, they can always go to a different school. Take the good with the bad, you pay for the whole package.
I'm sure you feel smug in your sarcasm and vindictive attitude, but you're not seeing the whole picture.
I attend a Big-Ten university, and our campus has one such agreement. I also work for an IT department in the med school here, and can say that there are a vast number of students (remember, the majority are non-tech-geeks) who wouldn't even know how to violate software copyrights or pirate software, but benefit greatly by huge discounts on major software packages (Office, etc). Not just MS, but Adobe, Symantec, and other companies as well have provided students with great prices on great software that they otherwise could never afford, nor would they have access to pirate copies (ie. Photoshop, Pagemaker, etc etc).
But then again, this is/. so I guess it's customary to immediately think any motive behind something MS does is evil.
Did I make any complaint whatsoever about FrontPage? CERTAINLY NOT. I was making the observation that a site which generally takes a very anti-MS stance (/.!) has ads for them on their home page.
Maybe you should read a comment first before posting a flagrant knee-jerk reaction and contributing to the growing idea-dev-null on/.
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I remember now what two main things annoy me about firefox vs mozilla. Maybe the extensions can fix it??
1) no "new tab" button on the tab bar - have to right-click or do kbd shortcut
2) search bar is separate from address bar - i like having one address bar and when i want to search instead of browse i hit down arrorw twice and enter (in mozilla)
Thanks much for mentioning that. I think I've looked through those options sometime a long time ago, but had long since forgotten about it. Very useful.
Now - do you know of a list which outlines each option? Some aren't very clear...
Anyone else having problems even logging into their account today? I keep getting an error:
Server Error
Gmail is temporarily unavailable. Cross your fingers and try again in a few minutes. We're sorry for the inconvenience.
???
Also:
I've found that Firefox (at least up to and including the last release, haven't tried the new one yet) has a very stripped-down version of the user preferences. Mozilla has a lot more options, and a few of them are ones I prefer not to be without, including some relating to the handling of browser tabs.
Please guys will you just implement the full set of MOzilla options!
Yes, this article is about Linux PVR's, but how do people feel that the popular ones mentioned (Freevo, MythTV) compare to Windows Media Center Edition's PVR functions?
/.), but I'm really curious. A few things I know already about Media Center:
Don't treat this as a troll (I still expect usual M$ backlash from
1) records in proprietary format (dvr-ms?)
2) no skipping of commercials (except of course fast-forward)
3) doesn't require a TV-tuner, can use any vid card with video capture (S-Video, RCA, coax, etc)
4) generally comes with a remote for all PVR functions and a IR transmitter to actually change your cable box channel
5) supports other media-ish functions like music, pictures, etc
6) It's Windows for chrissake
Please add/subtract/multiply/divide from this list. Just trying to get an idea of how MS's (cruddy) product stacks up to the free competition.
Seriously though, what the heck is he pointing to here ???
IIRC, 3500 calories is about a pound of weight gain! Of course, that's 3500 unused calories..
A PC inside another PC, as in a recursive PC.. box inside a box. Guess I must not have ever actually seen a a Windows XP cardboard box ;)
Not only that, but I jog with my regular 3rd gen iPod all the time with no problems!
Good point. You'd think they would try to make this common knowledge to avoid a rash of finger severings (a new crime?), but then again who knows...
No, it's not actually that easy. You know what happens when you assume... ;)
There are other methods to prevent this such as monitoring body heat and pulse. Makes it a lot more difficult and obvious if someone has your severed hand hooked up to a heater and some kind of pump device to simulate pulse at an ATM or airport terminal...
There are safeguards to prevent this, such as methods to determine body heat and pulse being necessary for a positive ID.
I am lifting this directly from a Meteorology textbook:
Some of the earliest folklore forecasts in Western culture, such as the following, come from ancient mariners:
Red sky at night, sailor's delight
Red sky at morning, sailor take warning.
This saying is fairly accurate. A clear western sky at sunset allows the Sun to shine through the atmosphere, its light reddening due to Rayleigh scattering and then reflecting off clouds in the eastern sky. Clouds to the east usually move away; storms in the middle latitudes generally travel to the east under the influence of jet-stream winds. The reverse is true in the morning, when the red sunlight shines on storm clouds approaching from the west. However, this folklore doesn't work at all in overcast conditions, or at tropical latitudes where weather often moves from east to west.
So it's generally true in the mid-latitudes, but still YMMV.
Here's what I don't get... This guy is a programmer and he not only can't block spam emails effectively, but look at this quote from the article (yep I'm one who actually reads them ;):
Booker said the problem stemmed from a program he mistakenly downloaded from the Internet that brought a continuous stream of advertising to his computer.
So this is a guy who clicks 'Yes' to popups that say Do you want to install HorsePornSpamSender.exe?! And furthermore, doesn't know how to download and run AdAware or SpyBot (or even search Google to find out that they exist)?
Doesn't sound like a programmer I'd want working for my firm...
Furthermore...
This guy doesn't agree with transportation systems, freeways, his (probably) public education, the fact that he can call 911 when he falls asleep with a bottle of scotch and a cigarette in his hand and his carpet starts on fire, etc, etc...
I highly doubt this book is even a true story anyway, so I don't know why I'm thinking about it, but this is the classic example of the freeloader problem. An excuse to take advantage of the services provided by other taxpayers' money.
That's *why* I said generally... The word means "in most cases", but not necessarily all. And if you think one power outage in how many years is bad... If the power grid were left up to the government things would probably be worse. Of course, that's just speculation.
Look at the cases of the phone systems in Britain and Argentina when they were in a system of a welfare state (pre-Thatcher)..
So not only will the tech be outdated by the time they finish half of the rollout, but getting a repair to your line that got cut by someone digging for a new building will take 2 years at least...
Generally it's best to let private industry manage the "commanding heights" in an economy (power, transportation, infrastructure). History has proven this time and again.
And in other news, IE will include tabbed browsing in a service pack to be released in 2007 with much fanfare of how it will revolutionize browsing the web!
But in general, public colleges obtain 75%+ of their funding from the taxpayer, not from tuition.
A number I pulled right out of my ass!
Seriously, how can you just arbitrarily post random statistics without backing it up whatsoever? If you can prove that data, please do, because I have serious doubts that 75% of a university's operating budget comes from joe taxpayer.
While I do agree with you that a large number of incoming college freshman are not very well prepared, the blame for that lies not with the college, but the high schools, parents, society, whatever you like. But not the college, because they haven't even been there yet.
Besides, do you want a bunch of burnt out drones coming out of college? College is about education, but it's also about a well-rounded, liberal education. A college campus is supposed to be a hotbed of ideas and innovation. Music promotes creativity, and creativity promotes "good things for you."
Well, think of the opportunity for corruption. I mean, there were reasons that they gov't didn't really go ahead with the program when the original story was posted. Say there's a bet on there for "When will the next terrorist attack be?" Obviously someone is going to see the opportunity to make money off of any real situation and create a self-fulfilling prophecy...
Do you really want to live in a world where major world events are influenced by people trying to make a quick easy buck off gambling?
Well, what about people who have no interest in education? Should they have the choice to not pay portions of their taxes that go towards it? It's because it benefits the majority of the people.
If some people don't use it, there's probably something they DO use that somebody else DOESN'T, but had to pay for it.
Let's also not forget that in this case, unlike taxes, the person actually has the CHOICE to attend the institution. Nobody's forcing a person to attend PSU. If they are that opposed to the fee, they can always go to a different school. Take the good with the bad, you pay for the whole package.
I'm sure you feel smug in your sarcasm and vindictive attitude, but you're not seeing the whole picture.
/. so I guess it's customary to immediately think any motive behind something MS does is evil.
I attend a Big-Ten university, and our campus has one such agreement. I also work for an IT department in the med school here, and can say that there are a vast number of students (remember, the majority are non-tech-geeks) who wouldn't even know how to violate software copyrights or pirate software, but benefit greatly by huge discounts on major software packages (Office, etc). Not just MS, but Adobe, Symantec, and other companies as well have provided students with great prices on great software that they otherwise could never afford, nor would they have access to pirate copies (ie. Photoshop, Pagemaker, etc etc).
But then again, this is
Did I make any complaint whatsoever about FrontPage? CERTAINLY NOT. I was making the observation that a site which generally takes a very anti-MS stance (/.!) has ads for them on their home page.
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Maybe you should read a comment first before posting a flagrant knee-jerk reaction and contributing to the growing idea-dev-null on
YOU SIR, are the one who needs to grow up.
Probably /. can clarify as well... Anyone notice the MS FRONTPAGE 2003 banner ad on slashdot today?!?! never thought i'd see the day...
So what!
You can hate MS as a company, but still think a device that runs their software is extra cool.
Not everything in life must be done for zealous, idealistic reasons.
So the Linux PDA was cool. And the MS PocketPC phone is cool too. Great!