There's even better one. I wonder why isn't it included in the guy by now..?
user_pref("dom.disable_open_click_delay", 1500);
This little beauty enables popups for 1.5 seconds after you press mouse button. Neat, huh? You have to play a little with the delay so that you get all the popups you wanted but none of the obnoxious onloads.
I like space stories as much as the next person. However, this one reads like a company sales spiel more than a serious initiative. And everyone shoulds know what "within 10-20 years" really means, no? That's how much longer to fusion it's been for quite a few decades. And it's still 10-20 years from commercial applications.
No matter, this nano-material they're plugging should be quite useful for a few real-life applications right now. If there's no "well, you see.." about it somewhere.
Maybe I'm wrong, but aren't PS & PS2 only linux-consoles out there? As in you can actually buy a linux distro for them and the dev tools are actually linux?
Plain old Mozilla does that just fine. Even with Win32. so no problem with popups. In fact, if I have to use IE, i get this eww! feeling from all the garbage you get plastered with. The Proxomitron is also a decent piece of work for filtering the web.
I keep on handing out my spamcop address everywhere but I get almost NO spam. I'm kinda disappointed.. They claim no messages are ever deleted without being dumped into your "held mail" folder. So I quess dog+world has blacklisted spamcop along with.gov:-)
Not only that. Since Hotmail implemented one-click filtering, spammers have been using to: and cc: instead of bcc: so the commercial messages you have requested get throught into your mailbox. Annoying as hell. One reason I went over to Yahoo. Later I changed to spamcop, since yahoo aka large-intrusive-popup-ad-parlour sucks:-)
No, spam does not have to work because there's so much of it. What does work is selling harvested email addresses to assholes.
I don't think a pacemaker would -EVER- be hooked up to the internet -- not only is there no point, but it's just extra risk for something to go wrong.
I think it wouldn't be that bad idea, if done right. You could remotely check how the patients are doing and the box could call 911 when something goes pop. No point of having it work over public internet if it uses gsm data which is probably the most ubiquitous wireless network for the time being. In fact, I do believe there are similar systems for (wealthy) pensioners as it is. They don't use.net either.
I have a traffic shaper running in my linux router box right here. Works like a charm. The important thing is that you can have two or more priority classes. Higher one for ACK packets and slower one for "bulk" traffic. So ACK packets still do not fill up your upstream buffer, but they'll always get preference over data packets. You can read all about it in the linux traffic shaping howto (http://lartc.org/).
You might think this is a one-stop solution for running P2P-apps unfairly, i.e. with extra slow upstream quota. Unfortunately, edonkey etc keep on opening new upstream connections since they think there's still plenty of bandwith to spare.. 20-odd rate-limited upstream connections is bad for your karma:-)
Seen any USB drivers for NT4 around? That was supposed to come in SP7. M$ has been hoping it would have forced businesses to go W2k and these days, XP, but it didn't. So enter Licence 6.0 and for the good measure, they're witholding USB 2.0 driver for W2k.
I use Mozilla for work. Stabler, no backdoor of the day, no asking if I'm sure I rather wouldn't use MSN instead every time I log into webmail.. It's just nicer to use, period.
However, as a HW designer, I have to spend quite a bit of time browsing the net for datasheets etcetera. I don't mind flash sites and I have zero problem using them. If done right. I really do hate fixed size flash windows. It's just *so* hard to understand that if you make a guy making purchasing decisions view your product listing via 600x400 window, he'll probably start thinking about competitors.
There are quite a few sites which will work with IE only but same flash(y) interface would work just as well with mozilla. In any case, high-density I/O connectors may be boring, but a gimmicky site design doesn't help as far as I'm concerned.
As far as I know, DU is superior to tungsten in AP rounds because it "shaves" off into a sharp(er) point when it starts to shatter. Tungsten will blunt and form a "mushroom".
So, high mass is great, pyrophoric quality is something of an overkil.. The fact that the shell point will stay sharp while it's penetrating the armor is really why it's such a good material for ammo.
I wonder how well would this metallic glass do in this application. The round heats up like crazy when it hits the target.. What's to keep it from behaving like a ice cream cone in a hot day?
Funny how everyone equates VCRs with user-friendliness. Wonder why. Could it be that it's the most common device Unwashed Public comes into touch which that requires you read some docs to make the clock work..
On the other hand, some VCR UIs really do stink. I think a good lithmus test would be whether you can use the remote without reading the manual.. That's not as obvious as you might think. Many VCRs, mine included, require you to hold down button a while you're using rocker b to perform function c. All completely unmarked in the remote, of course. And the docs. Oh god, I'm an engineer, I write technical docs and I'd fire half of the people on the spot responsible for some of the docs.. If you need to re-read the same page more than twice to make sense of what's written there, either the docs suck, or you do.
Okay, I know what the *nix crowd's gonna say to that..
Why not integrate some kind of "buy" button into winamp/whatever. So when you hear a great song being streamed, you could go into the on-line store and buy that track or maybe a whole album from the team. Another idea that won't happen.
Moby fans are more tech-savvy? Really? Why? Is there geek music? Since when did Moby qualify? This couldn't be because his latest album was not that great and/or more of the same? No, I don't listen to the man, just speculation for disappointing sales..
I really do wish they weren't so anal about all this. If you could conveniently buy high-quality non-crippled copies of your favourite artist's songs, that *might* eat into p2p-"marketshare".. But it's impossible until there's DRM which will give absolute control to Record Industry.
I'm just one person, but I do buy CDs from artists I like. First I rip 'em and then put the CDs away. I usually go for the "mid price" discs, tho..
What next? Two transistors in a single molecule? The article doesn't say how well did that device actually function as a semiconductor, I quess it isn't the point.
In any case, I don't think anyone should go rush buy their stock. Semiconductor fabs are so expensive even evil multinational corporations have to team up to build them. I don't think this technology will compete withing next ten years (tm)
I just love these stories. It is a marvel of biotech and engineering. Maybe engineers have trouble picking up girls. Every day, in every other way, they make bigger and bigger difference.
There's one thing to be said for reducing CO2 emissions. Even if it had zero positive effect on environment as such, to achieve reduced CO2 levels you have to cut back use of fossile fuels dramatically. In my books, that is a Good Thing. Local cuddly nuke plant does not spew crap all over the sky while making electricity to power up my PBEM session!
Of course it was. The National Review, unlike, say, the New York Times, is very open about the fact that it is a conservative opinion journal.
I think I have heard of NY times. In any case, there's conservative and there's conservative. I don't see any conflict of interest being a free-market kind of guy and not feeling paranoid about UN.
National Review has long argued that foreign aid indeed does harm recipient nations. Originally foreign aid was thought to only be efficient if given to governments themselves for large infrastructure projects.
I thought foreign aid was primarily funding state-owned industries' pet projects in 3rd world. Pals of the goverment donating the money, not the recipient. AFAIK, now the money is used to hire local contractors. That causes other problems.. Subsidiaries corrupt markets.
It might be worth a try to use the foreign aid to drop tariffs on products developing countries produce. See me cry a river if a Portuguese farmer has to compete with product quality and production efficiency. Now they have any real competition blocked and get big subsidiaries to boot. Some 60% of the union budget goes to agriculture subsidiaries as it is.
That's not to say the steel tariffs are any more healthy for the local industry Stateside. By the way, since when have subsidiaries and tariffs been conservative policies?
Now that was one biased article. Let's see, we have UN slammed repeatedly, open source commie liberal trash berated, Bush looked up to for crapping on international treaties.. Almost good enough to be on/.! I especially enjoyed the part which equated foreign aid to funding kleptocracies. Personally I think much of the foreign aid is spent in ways that hurts the recipient nations more than helps them, but.. Hard to come up with something better.
Writer misses the point in any case. You need warships to claim a piece of soil as a private property. And as far as I know, US doesn't have spacegoing navy. Yet.
Bush couldn't ratify Kyoto even if he wanted to, since the Senate voted against it 95-0 [globalwarming.org] in 1997 (admittedly it was non-binding, but it needed 67 votes to pass). Clinton signed the treaty, but during his term, he did nothing to try to implement it.
Well. If you feel unhappy about it, you know what you have to do, don't you? I don't think giving authority to 3rd party in anything has much popular support Stateside right now. But if you don't vote, you didn't do anything. In any case, Kyoto requires nuclear power if you're being a realist. We're building a shiny new one right here.. You'd need to build 40 in US to have same effect per capita. You think that's going to happen?
Note I didn't say it wouldn't be a good idea to do so. Just that I don't think it'll happen, at least not until the deserts in US soil start creeping..
You can see a different angle
here. Carmack's saying that R300 kicks GF4s' ass and that's why they did demo DoomIII with ATI in E3.
Here's the relevant bit:
Doom III is very much hardware driven, and one of the controversies of this year's E3 was that the game was demonstrated on the latest ATI graphics card rather than a card from NVidia.
"NVidia has been stellar in terms of driver quality and support and doing all of the things right," says Carmack, who has been an outspoken evangelist for NVidia's GeForce technology. "For the past few years, they have been able to consistently outplay ATI on every front. The problem is that they are about one-half step out of synch with the hardware generation because they did Xbox instead of focusing everything on their next board. So they are a little bit behind ATI."
So what happened to the lawsuits? Investors were suing transmeta because their processors were not fast enough..? I'd like to think the suits were dismissed as frivolous, but.
In any case, it's good to see that people are finally doing something beyond souping up the old 386 architecture. Of course, AMD's souped up version garners more positive press than Intels genuinely new design (Itanic). Goes to show new trick's not necessarily a better one. And as far as I understand, AMD did some straightforward changes (MORE REGISTERS!!) that make the core a lot better.
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There's even better one. I wonder why isn't it included in the guy by now..?
user_pref("dom.disable_open_click_delay", 1500);
This little beauty enables popups for 1.5 seconds after you press mouse button. Neat, huh? You have to play a little with the delay so that you get all the popups you wanted but none of the obnoxious onloads.
I like space stories as much as the next person. However, this one reads like a company sales spiel more than a serious initiative. And everyone shoulds know what "within 10-20 years" really means, no? That's how much longer to fusion it's been for quite a few decades. And it's still 10-20 years from commercial applications.
No matter, this nano-material they're plugging should be quite useful for a few real-life applications right now. If there's no "well, you see.." about it somewhere.
Maybe I'm wrong, but aren't PS & PS2 only linux-consoles out there? As in you can actually buy a linux distro for them and the dev tools are actually linux?
More power to them, why reinvent the wheel etc.
Plain old Mozilla does that just fine. Even with Win32. so no problem with popups. In fact, if I have to use IE, i get this eww! feeling from all the garbage you get plastered with. The Proxomitron is also a decent piece of work for filtering the web.
.gov :-)
I keep on handing out my spamcop address everywhere but I get almost NO spam. I'm kinda disappointed.. They claim no messages are ever deleted without being dumped into your "held mail" folder. So I quess dog+world has blacklisted spamcop along with
Not only that. Since Hotmail implemented one-click filtering, spammers have been using to: and cc: instead of bcc: so the commercial messages you have requested get throught into your mailbox. Annoying as hell. One reason I went over to Yahoo. Later I changed to spamcop, since yahoo aka large-intrusive-popup-ad-parlour sucks :-)
No, spam does not have to work because there's so much of it. What does work is selling harvested email addresses to assholes.
I don't think a pacemaker would -EVER- be hooked up to the internet -- not only is there no point, but it's just extra risk for something to go wrong.
.net either.
I think it wouldn't be that bad idea, if done right. You could remotely check how the patients are doing and the box could call 911 when something goes pop. No point of having it work over public internet if it uses gsm data which is probably the most ubiquitous wireless network for the time being. In fact, I do believe there are similar systems for (wealthy) pensioners as it is. They don't use
I have a traffic shaper running in my linux router box right here. Works like a charm. The important thing is that you can have two or more priority classes. Higher one for ACK packets and slower one for "bulk" traffic. So ACK packets still do not fill up your upstream buffer, but they'll always get preference over data packets. You can read all about it in the linux traffic shaping howto (http://lartc.org/).
:-)
You might think this is a one-stop solution for running P2P-apps unfairly, i.e. with extra slow upstream quota. Unfortunately, edonkey etc keep on opening new upstream connections since they think there's still plenty of bandwith to spare.. 20-odd rate-limited upstream connections is bad for your karma
I've never understood why someone would drink decaf.. I you're using drugs, there's little point just taking placebo, is there?
Some people..
Seen any USB drivers for NT4 around? That was supposed to come in SP7. M$ has been hoping it would have forced businesses to go W2k and these days, XP, but it didn't. So enter Licence 6.0 and for the good measure, they're witholding USB 2.0 driver for W2k.
Help us CKK, you're our only hope..
I use Mozilla for work. Stabler, no backdoor of the day, no asking if I'm sure I rather wouldn't use MSN instead every time I log into webmail.. It's just nicer to use, period.
However, as a HW designer, I have to spend quite a bit of time browsing the net for datasheets etcetera. I don't mind flash sites and I have zero problem using them. If done right. I really do hate fixed size flash windows. It's just *so* hard to understand that if you make a guy making purchasing decisions view your product listing via 600x400 window, he'll probably start thinking about competitors.
There are quite a few sites which will work with IE only but same flash(y) interface would work just as well with mozilla. In any case, high-density I/O connectors may be boring, but a gimmicky site design doesn't help as far as I'm concerned.
Remember Service Pack 7? Which reminds me.. SP3 is awfully late.
If this guy's some kind of changelin'
As far as I know, DU is superior to tungsten in AP rounds because it "shaves" off into a sharp(er) point when it starts to shatter. Tungsten will blunt and form a "mushroom".
So, high mass is great, pyrophoric quality is something of an overkil.. The fact that the shell point will stay sharp while it's penetrating the armor is really why it's such a good material for ammo.
I wonder how well would this metallic glass do in this application. The round heats up like crazy when it hits the target.. What's to keep it from behaving like a ice cream cone in a hot day?
Funny how everyone equates VCRs with user-friendliness. Wonder why. Could it be that it's the most common device Unwashed Public comes into touch which that requires you read some docs to make the clock work..
On the other hand, some VCR UIs really do stink. I think a good lithmus test would be whether you can use the remote without reading the manual.. That's not as obvious as you might think. Many VCRs, mine included, require you to hold down button a while you're using rocker b to perform function c. All completely unmarked in the remote, of course. And the docs. Oh god, I'm an engineer, I write technical docs and I'd fire half of the people on the spot responsible for some of the docs.. If you need to re-read the same page more than twice to make sense of what's written there, either the docs suck, or you do.
Okay, I know what the *nix crowd's gonna say to that..
Hey?
Here I've been thinking since I was 12 that the title was referring to Minas Tirith and Minas Morgul, not Orthanc and Bara-dur?
Another concession to the hollyweird?
Why not integrate some kind of "buy" button into winamp/whatever. So when you hear a great song being streamed, you could go into the on-line store and buy that track or maybe a whole album from the team. Another idea that won't happen.
Moby fans are more tech-savvy? Really? Why? Is there geek music? Since when did Moby qualify? This couldn't be because his latest album was not that great and/or more of the same? No, I don't listen to the man, just speculation for disappointing sales..
.. But it's impossible until there's DRM which will give absolute control to Record Industry.
I really do wish they weren't so anal about all this. If you could conveniently buy high-quality non-crippled copies of your favourite artist's songs, that *might* eat into p2p-"marketshare"
I'm just one person, but I do buy CDs from artists I like. First I rip 'em and then put the CDs away. I usually go for the "mid price" discs, tho..
What next? Two transistors in a single molecule? The article doesn't say how well did that device actually function as a semiconductor, I quess it isn't the point.
In any case, I don't think anyone should go rush buy their stock. Semiconductor fabs are so expensive even evil multinational corporations have to team up to build them. I don't think this technology will compete withing next ten years (tm)
I just love these stories. It is a marvel of biotech and engineering. Maybe engineers have trouble picking up girls. Every day, in every other way, they make bigger and bigger difference.
There's one thing to be said for reducing CO2 emissions. Even if it had zero positive effect on environment as such, to achieve reduced CO2 levels you have to cut back use of fossile fuels dramatically. In my books, that is a Good Thing. Local cuddly nuke plant does not spew crap all over the sky while making electricity to power up my PBEM session!
Of course it was. The National Review, unlike, say, the New York Times, is very open about the fact that it is a conservative opinion journal.
I think I have heard of NY times. In any case, there's conservative and there's conservative. I don't see any conflict of interest being a free-market kind of guy and not feeling paranoid about UN.
National Review has long argued that foreign aid indeed does harm recipient nations. Originally foreign aid was thought to only be efficient if given to governments themselves for large infrastructure projects.
I thought foreign aid was primarily funding state-owned industries' pet projects in 3rd world. Pals of the goverment donating the money, not the recipient. AFAIK, now the money is used to hire local contractors. That causes other problems.. Subsidiaries corrupt markets.
It might be worth a try to use the foreign aid to drop tariffs on products developing countries produce. See me cry a river if a Portuguese farmer has to compete with product quality and production efficiency. Now they have any real competition blocked and get big subsidiaries to boot. Some 60% of the union budget goes to agriculture subsidiaries as it is.
That's not to say the steel tariffs are any more healthy for the local industry Stateside. By the way, since when have subsidiaries and tariffs been conservative policies?
Now that was one biased article. Let's see, we have UN slammed repeatedly, open source commie liberal trash berated, Bush looked up to for crapping on international treaties.. Almost good enough to be on /.! I especially enjoyed the part which equated foreign aid to funding kleptocracies. Personally I think much of the foreign aid is spent in ways that hurts the recipient nations more than helps them, but .. Hard to come up with something better.
Writer misses the point in any case. You need warships to claim a piece of soil as a private property. And as far as I know, US doesn't have spacegoing navy. Yet.
Bush couldn't ratify Kyoto even if he wanted to, since the Senate voted against it 95-0 [globalwarming.org] in 1997 (admittedly it was non-binding, but it needed 67 votes to pass). Clinton signed the treaty, but during his term, he did nothing to try to implement it.
Well. If you feel unhappy about it, you know what you have to do, don't you? I don't think giving authority to 3rd party in anything has much popular support Stateside right now. But if you don't vote, you didn't do anything. In any case, Kyoto requires nuclear power if you're being a realist. We're building a shiny new one right here.. You'd need to build 40 in US to have same effect per capita. You think that's going to happen?
Note I didn't say it wouldn't be a good idea to do so. Just that I don't think it'll happen, at least not until the deserts in US soil start creeping..
Here's the relevant bit:
Doom III is very much hardware driven, and one of the controversies of this year's E3 was that the game was demonstrated on the latest ATI graphics card rather than a card from NVidia. "NVidia has been stellar in terms of driver quality and support and doing all of the things right," says Carmack, who has been an outspoken evangelist for NVidia's GeForce technology. "For the past few years, they have been able to consistently outplay ATI on every front. The problem is that they are about one-half step out of synch with the hardware generation because they did Xbox instead of focusing everything on their next board. So they are a little bit behind ATI."
So what happened to the lawsuits? Investors were suing transmeta because their processors were not fast enough..? I'd like to think the suits were dismissed as frivolous, but.
In any case, it's good to see that people are finally doing something beyond souping up the old 386 architecture. Of course, AMD's souped up version garners more positive press than Intels genuinely new design (Itanic). Goes to show new trick's not necessarily a better one. And as far as I understand, AMD did some straightforward changes (MORE REGISTERS!!) that make the core a lot better.