Chances are that eventually some of them will fight, but the likelihood of death (from fights) is minimal. Same 10 people, plus a sword, the chances of fights, injury and death, are increased. Same 10 people, a sword and a gun, the chances of fights, injuries and death are increased.
However, you could also argue that with a sword and a gun, the remaining people would be better able to prepare and eat the dead, thus increasing their chances of survival. However, that doesn't translate back to TV in vehicles very well.
This is more anecdotal gibberish, but personally it seems to me that it generally tends to amplify the smokers natural(?) mental tendencies, ie: someone who enjoys thinking, sort of strives to think more, will do so, someone who desires to shut down their brain, will do so. Much the same as alcohol is to the physical/emotional (primarily) inhibitions, pot works on more of a direct cognitive level (trickling down to physical/emotional), allowing you to think the way you (have set your brain to) want to think.
By no means scientific, but thats my general consensus, and generally the answer to "why do you smoke pot?" for most people. So for some, it likely can or will make them stupid, for others it may have the reverse effect, and might improve their acuity. However, the same could probably be said for chewing gum, and likely wouldn't be able to prove or disprove it.
I could have sworn that "et al" was "and others", whereas "etc" (et cetera) was "and the rest", it's only fairly recently that "etc" became generic and stood for both more, or the rest. And that "et al" was more of the same, but "etc" is more, but not necessarily the same...
Bob, Joe, Lisa... et al. Ferrari, Mazda, Honda... et al.
Dogs, Butterflies, Plants... etc. Plates, Bowls, Forks... etc
Considering this isn't all the browsers only some (most) of the main ones, "et al" is more correct than "etc", otherwise there would be at least 100 more browsers in this benchmark.
You can also filter them basically the same way AdBlock does... Opera has the "Blocked Content" (edit manually, or enter the "blocking" mode and just start clicking on stuff) which will do the whole.com/ads/* sort of blocking, you could even download, or use the your existing Adblock list (patterns.ini) with a bit of parsing/editing and using it for Opera (urlfilter.ini), and CSS and JS for more complex blocking
It's completely idle excluding RSS/Email, those are useful/necessary processes, it' doesn't randomly start doing something unless it needs to is basically what I meant.
Also, with all this extra stuff, it still runs faster and smoother than any previous version of their browser, there is absolutely no feeling of 'bloat'... and when you turn something off, it stays that way, Turbo, Unite, Mail, Widgets, Dragonfly, etc...
v10 alpha was already faster than v9.64, and almost every new snapshot has been quicker/better than the previous.
It's memory footprint isn't really better, but isn't worse than most others... mine's been running for about 4 days since the last time I closed/re-opened it Current: 161MB Peak: 398MB VM: 205MB Handles: 708 Threads: 26
But I don't care about that, from a cold start it launches in under a second, whereas Safari and Chrome take about 4, IE and FF 3.5 take about 9, I've ran into 0 problems with webpages with Opera v10, but FF 3.5 (just as Beta as Opera) won't even allow Slashdot to work half the time, however it is a bit faster on some sites, like Facebook... Plus, Opera hides in the systray, and stays completely idle until i need it, or it shows me a new RSS, or email... making it show up instantly when asked, which is more important (to me) than any memory footprint.
Yes, the file sharing is basically like FTP, you pick a folder that has the files you want to share, anyone who browses your files or downloads on, downloads it from you directly. The browsing is some sort of auto-created webpage depending on which section you are sharing under (Images, Music, Generic, Web-Server). If you go offline, or disable it, then that's that no one can connect or download. I would assume the same for The Lounge chatroom although I haven't had a reason to use it, but the Fridge/PostIt note thing might work differently, if you go offline it might keep the messages on one of their servers until you connect again.
As a side note, I played with it for awhile, photo-sharing was decent, but file and/or music sharing was a huge pain and crashed (well froze for far too long, would take about 15 minutes to load/refresh the pages) a few times. It' doesnt deal with large amounts of files (currently anyways). Sharing about 25 files/tunes... is ok, but thousands, and it craps out. And the URL's are horrible: unite://home.%username%.operaunite.com/file_sharing/access/... etc But all in all it's promising, and rather useful if you don't have any other alternatives or dedicated applications to do the same things.
Also, although I have no idea about it's security fundamentally, it allows you to share things with 3 different options: Wide Open (anyone who knows the urls, or hunts you down on my.opera can view/use) Password Protected Only Me
I'd be interested in seeing some sort of document too for the "60-100 thousand", do nurses really ask everyone if they use a keyboard? I think any figure would be pulled out of thin air, nevermind if it's worldwide or US only, or France or wherever this guy is from. As for the latter, does there really need to be one? I mean we all get old, we all die, I'd say that's "trouble typing".
Yes, however they have increased security, and increased security, and they still happen.
So, basically the result is, they add some of these blimps to soccer games, riots still happen, their choice of action now is to add more blimps, riots still happen, so they add more... as well as adding more regular security, eventually people stop going because it's no longer entertaining or pleasurable, or people bring bigger weapons/motivation and turn attacking blimps and guards into the riot, people end up going just to attack the security, or the "games" go underground, where they become even more dangerous.
They'd probably be better off having a sort of mosh pit, regular seating for the passive observers, some caged no-mans-land for the people who take it far too seriously, but then who decides who goes where? Or you could drug everyone as they enter, or make them wear electric collars... fun stuff...
0,024% = 24% thats huge! If only as a spelling mistake.
But I agree, Dell could probably make the same percentage advertising on bathroom walls, if not more... they probably make about the same from product placement in movies... it would be far more impressive to hear of a small business that doesn't have the 15 years or so of previous advertising and marketing, that's doing well relying on Twitvertising alone.
Seriously though, in the entire history of modern stadiums, is there really enough of a threat to warrant constant surveillance of that kind? How many millions of people go to stadiums each year for games and races, and how many are killed, blown up, stabbed, or raped, 0.01%?... if that? And are these blimps really going to prevent that from happening again? I doubt it.
The eye-witnesses combined with the usual surveillance (guards, cameras, at the gates, ticket centers, etc) is likely quite sufficient in tracking anyone who blows something up or kills someone, and probably even better at tracking down people who may have planted something there days or weeks beforehand when the blimp wasn't even there.
Besides, your example is excluded almost entirely from this scenario, that wasn't a normal event, it was a large gathering of people essentially forced to that location which just happened to be a stadium, in a rather intense point of time, the same sort of stuff would have happened no matter where they were, and the military and whatever else was already involved and would have brought their own surveillance equipement, not called in the survaces of some private blimp.
Ahh, but blimps have also been used in utopian fiction, and in reality they have both previously been used for both good and bad purposes, just like airplanes, trains, cars, and video recording devices of all kinda.
Most peoples perception of whether a blimp is good or bad relies almost entirely on it's markings and previous experiences with those markings, the Goodyear blimps(s) have been used and seen as passive, non-threatening for years, how would you tell if it's a "good" or "bad" Goodyear Blimp? A smaller one, that's painted white with happy colored trim, even at a lower altitude, would likely be seen much the same, it's not attacking an killing people, it's just pleasantly floating there like some airborn whale.
"...a century or two..." so, Mercedes, Oldsmobile if they still made cars, Ford... kinda slim pickins... nevermind the ones you lump into the second century, most of those would be far worse than whatever came of this.
"Nickname", go into the bookmark editor, select desired bookmark, go to it's properties, then enter anything* you want as the nickname, it also checks for duplicate nicknames.
* "A nickname cannot contain a period, question mark, colon, slash or back slash", although Opera already accepts/. and expands it to http://slashdot.org/ by default.
Exactly, if only they had been joking around they would have been fine, I can sit comfortably in liquid nitrogen while naked, as long as someone is laughing.
completely inaccurate guestimation, but probably only about 1% of anything carved in stone, is still decipherable or even exists, same with scrolls, otherwise we'd be littered with 2000 year old shopping lists, love letters, etc, how many notebooks (the paper kind) have you gone through during school, as journals, boredom... still have them all?
Hell, we probably only have about 1% of the stuff that was written down 100 years ago, probably only about 3% of the buildings, 0.3% of the cars, 2% of the paintings...etc...etc... most of the ancient books we have, are copies of copies of copies, and we can do that with magnitudes of efficiency now, not to mention recovery, hard drive gets erased, it's easier to get the data back than a scroll that's been erased, or a stone.
If even 0.1% of what we have on the internet right now exists in 500 years, it'll still probably be more than everything we have in stone, scrolls, and print right now...
With the various sorts of "Library of Congress" out there, if you had the chance to peruse and take/read whatever you wanted, you'd probably only find 0.5% of it interesting anyways, much like what's on the internet.
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Is that *really* so painful? It's basically pressing one button, your way, is basically pressing one button... if it's more problematic then that, I think you are either doing it wrong, or running hardware from 1988...
Besides, this allows you to swap back and forth between the BIOS/OS, and the HD/OS without restarting, with the added benefit of having the BIOS/OS being able to keep the HD/OS from fucking shit up.
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Indeed...
You have 10 people locked in a room:
Chances are that eventually some of them will fight, but the likelihood of death (from fights) is minimal.
Same 10 people, plus a sword, the chances of fights, injury and death, are increased.
Same 10 people, a sword and a gun, the chances of fights, injuries and death are increased.
However, you could also argue that with a sword and a gun, the remaining people would be better able to prepare and eat the dead, thus increasing their chances of survival. However, that doesn't translate back to TV in vehicles very well.
This is more anecdotal gibberish, but personally it seems to me that it generally tends to amplify the smokers natural(?) mental tendencies, ie: someone who enjoys thinking, sort of strives to think more, will do so, someone who desires to shut down their brain, will do so. Much the same as alcohol is to the physical/emotional (primarily) inhibitions, pot works on more of a direct cognitive level (trickling down to physical/emotional), allowing you to think the way you (have set your brain to) want to think.
By no means scientific, but thats my general consensus, and generally the answer to "why do you smoke pot?" for most people. So for some, it likely can or will make them stupid, for others it may have the reverse effect, and might improve their acuity. However, the same could probably be said for chewing gum, and likely wouldn't be able to prove or disprove it.
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I could have sworn that "et al" was "and others", whereas "etc" (et cetera) was "and the rest", it's only fairly recently that "etc" became generic and stood for both more, or the rest. And that "et al" was more of the same, but "etc" is more, but not necessarily the same...
Bob, Joe, Lisa... et al.
Ferrari, Mazda, Honda... et al.
Dogs, Butterflies, Plants... etc.
Plates, Bowls, Forks... etc
Considering this isn't all the browsers only some (most) of the main ones, "et al" is more correct than "etc", otherwise there would be at least 100 more browsers in this benchmark.
But, I could be wrong.
Yeah, but this must be "The Way It's Meant To Be Played".
You can also filter them basically the same way AdBlock does... Opera has the "Blocked Content" (edit manually, or enter the "blocking" mode and just start clicking on stuff) which will do the whole .com/ads/* sort of blocking, you could even download, or use the your existing Adblock list (patterns.ini) with a bit of parsing/editing and using it for Opera (urlfilter.ini), and CSS and JS for more complex blocking
http://www.adsweep.org/
http://userstyles.org/styles/299
etc... quite a bit more manual, but it's not something you have to do very often, however it's essentially the same thing.
It's completely idle excluding RSS/Email, those are useful/necessary processes, it' doesn't randomly start doing something unless it needs to is basically what I meant.
Also, with all this extra stuff, it still runs faster and smoother than any previous version of their browser, there is absolutely no feeling of 'bloat'... and when you turn something off, it stays that way, Turbo, Unite, Mail, Widgets, Dragonfly, etc...
v10 alpha was already faster than v9.64, and almost every new snapshot has been quicker/better than the previous.
It's memory footprint isn't really better, but isn't worse than most others... mine's been running for about 4 days since the last time I closed/re-opened it
Current: 161MB
Peak: 398MB
VM: 205MB
Handles: 708
Threads: 26
But I don't care about that, from a cold start it launches in under a second, whereas Safari and Chrome take about 4, IE and FF 3.5 take about 9, I've ran into 0 problems with webpages with Opera v10, but FF 3.5 (just as Beta as Opera) won't even allow Slashdot to work half the time, however it is a bit faster on some sites, like Facebook... Plus, Opera hides in the systray, and stays completely idle until i need it, or it shows me a new RSS, or email... making it show up instantly when asked, which is more important (to me) than any memory footprint.
Yes, the file sharing is basically like FTP, you pick a folder that has the files you want to share, anyone who browses your files or downloads on, downloads it from you directly. The browsing is some sort of auto-created webpage depending on which section you are sharing under (Images, Music, Generic, Web-Server). If you go offline, or disable it, then that's that no one can connect or download. I would assume the same for The Lounge chatroom although I haven't had a reason to use it, but the Fridge/PostIt note thing might work differently, if you go offline it might keep the messages on one of their servers until you connect again.
As a side note, I played with it for awhile, photo-sharing was decent, but file and/or music sharing was a huge pain and crashed (well froze for far too long, would take about 15 minutes to load/refresh the pages) a few times. It' doesnt deal with large amounts of files (currently anyways). Sharing about 25 files/tunes... is ok, but thousands, and it craps out. And the URL's are horrible:
unite://home.%username%.operaunite.com/file_sharing/access/... etc
But all in all it's promising, and rather useful if you don't have any other alternatives or dedicated applications to do the same things.
Also, although I have no idea about it's security fundamentally, it allows you to share things with 3 different options:
Wide Open (anyone who knows the urls, or hunts you down on my.opera can view/use)
Password Protected
Only Me
I'd be interested in seeing some sort of document too for the "60-100 thousand", do nurses really ask everyone if they use a keyboard? I think any figure would be pulled out of thin air, nevermind if it's worldwide or US only, or France or wherever this guy is from. As for the latter, does there really need to be one? I mean we all get old, we all die, I'd say that's "trouble typing".
Yes, however they have increased security, and increased security, and they still happen.
So, basically the result is, they add some of these blimps to soccer games, riots still happen, their choice of action now is to add more blimps, riots still happen, so they add more... as well as adding more regular security, eventually people stop going because it's no longer entertaining or pleasurable, or people bring bigger weapons/motivation and turn attacking blimps and guards into the riot, people end up going just to attack the security, or the "games" go underground, where they become even more dangerous.
They'd probably be better off having a sort of mosh pit, regular seating for the passive observers, some caged no-mans-land for the people who take it far too seriously, but then who decides who goes where? Or you could drug everyone as they enter, or make them wear electric collars... fun stuff...
0,024% = 24% thats huge! If only as a spelling mistake.
But I agree, Dell could probably make the same percentage advertising on bathroom walls, if not more... they probably make about the same from product placement in movies... it would be far more impressive to hear of a small business that doesn't have the 15 years or so of previous advertising and marketing, that's doing well relying on Twitvertising alone.
Aha, nice little twit for twat...
Oh no it's the Badyear Glimps.
Seriously though, in the entire history of modern stadiums, is there really enough of a threat to warrant constant surveillance of that kind? How many millions of people go to stadiums each year for games and races, and how many are killed, blown up, stabbed, or raped, 0.01%?... if that? And are these blimps really going to prevent that from happening again? I doubt it.
The eye-witnesses combined with the usual surveillance (guards, cameras, at the gates, ticket centers, etc) is likely quite sufficient in tracking anyone who blows something up or kills someone, and probably even better at tracking down people who may have planted something there days or weeks beforehand when the blimp wasn't even there.
Besides, your example is excluded almost entirely from this scenario, that wasn't a normal event, it was a large gathering of people essentially forced to that location which just happened to be a stadium, in a rather intense point of time, the same sort of stuff would have happened no matter where they were, and the military and whatever else was already involved and would have brought their own surveillance equipement, not called in the survaces of some private blimp.
Ahh, but blimps have also been used in utopian fiction, and in reality they have both previously been used for both good and bad purposes, just like airplanes, trains, cars, and video recording devices of all kinda.
Most peoples perception of whether a blimp is good or bad relies almost entirely on it's markings and previous experiences with those markings, the Goodyear blimps(s) have been used and seen as passive, non-threatening for years, how would you tell if it's a "good" or "bad" Goodyear Blimp? A smaller one, that's painted white with happy colored trim, even at a lower altitude, would likely be seen much the same, it's not attacking an killing people, it's just pleasantly floating there like some airborn whale.
"...a century or two..." so, Mercedes, Oldsmobile if they still made cars, Ford... kinda slim pickins... nevermind the ones you lump into the second century, most of those would be far worse than whatever came of this.
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"Nickname", go into the bookmark editor, select desired bookmark, go to it's properties, then enter anything* you want as the nickname, it also checks for duplicate nicknames.
* "A nickname cannot contain a period, question mark, colon, slash or back slash", although Opera already accepts /. and expands it to http://slashdot.org/ by default.
opera:config
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And, finally, to protect myself, some humor...
Exactly, if only they had been joking around they would have been fine, I can sit comfortably in liquid nitrogen while naked, as long as someone is laughing.
nonsense...
completely inaccurate guestimation, but probably only about 1% of anything carved in stone, is still decipherable or even exists, same with scrolls, otherwise we'd be littered with 2000 year old shopping lists, love letters, etc, how many notebooks (the paper kind) have you gone through during school, as journals, boredom... still have them all?
Hell, we probably only have about 1% of the stuff that was written down 100 years ago, probably only about 3% of the buildings, 0.3% of the cars, 2% of the paintings...etc...etc... most of the ancient books we have, are copies of copies of copies, and we can do that with magnitudes of efficiency now, not to mention recovery, hard drive gets erased, it's easier to get the data back than a scroll that's been erased, or a stone.
If even 0.1% of what we have on the internet right now exists in 500 years, it'll still probably be more than everything we have in stone, scrolls, and print right now...
With the various sorts of "Library of Congress" out there, if you had the chance to peruse and take/read whatever you wanted, you'd probably only find 0.5% of it interesting anyways, much like what's on the internet.
How is that different from a normal Dual Boot?
Select OS:
Linux _____
Windows __
Is that *really* so painful? It's basically pressing one button, your way, is basically pressing one button... if it's more problematic then that, I think you are either doing it wrong, or running hardware from 1988...
Besides, this allows you to swap back and forth between the BIOS/OS, and the HD/OS without restarting, with the added benefit of having the BIOS/OS being able to keep the HD/OS from fucking shit up.
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