Two problems: First, as you close tabs, they resize and those X buttons jump around. If you want to close, say, 5 tabs next to each other, it's quite easy to do in FF, but more difficult to do in Opera. This is solved by middle-clicking, since the target area is larger and likely to still be under your cursor -- but at that point, why bother with the Xes?
Second problem: Multiple close buttons take up lots of space. Taking up 16 pixels for a site icon helps visually distinguish the tabs, particularly when the sites actually have icons. But when you have 32px reserved for icons, it only takes a dozen or so tabs before you get down to "S..." for everything. There is a threshold beyond which Opera will hide all the Xes on background tabs, giving you back the space, but I really have seen it down to one letter and an ellipsis on every tab. Lowering that threshold, or making that behavior permanent, is on my wishlist for Opera.
A bit extreme, but I see your point. I've found ext3 and Reiser3 to be of roughly the same stability, but I've had much better success with ext3's recovery tools than Reiser's.
When they're working, they both work great, and they both handle unexpected shutdowns well. But when they crash and burn, you're more likely to be able to salvage a broken ext3 system than a broken Reiser3 system.
I've voted Democrat in the last several presidential elections, but I'm registered with the "decline to state" party. (Hmm, wouldn't it be funny if there really was a party called "Decline to State?" The American Independent party confuses things enough already...) In 2000, California had just instituted an open primary, which meant that any registered voter could vote for any candidate, regardless of the voter's party. That meant that Democrats could vote in the Republican primary and vice versa. (And us decline-to-staters could vote in the primary, period.)
I voted for McCain in that primary. Had he won the nomination, there's a serious chance I might have voted for him, depending on what came out during the campaign. But the moment Bush got the nomination, I knew my vote was going to Gore.
I'm tired of voting against people. I'd like to vote for someone once in a while. The last time I got to do that at the state or national level was 1996 -- and even that was kind of dicey.
Oh, and that open primary? Ruled in violation of the (state?) constitution. I guess people didn't like the idea of the opposition choosing their candidates. I mean, who'd want a candidate people on both sides might vote for?
There are two things I am not fond of with the current non-Beta Firefox. The first is the way it needs to download the whole installer just to update a point release.
Good news: One of the major new features in 1.5 is an incremental update system. You'll be able to update just the parts that have changed by going to Help->Check for Updates.
In theory there should be time for extension authors to update before the final is released. I've only got 6 extensions, of which one worked already, and one was updated during the day today.
Tell me, did anyone seriously expect the shuttle to re-launch anytime soon?
Come on, raise your hands.
Bueller?
After the last mission consisted of little more than "can we make it back in one piece," and they grounded the shuttle for months, I'm beginning to think NASA should do one of two things:
1. Scrap the shuttle fleet entirely and throw all its efforts into building a modern, redesigned replacement fleet. 2. Have the guts to admit that dammit, space travel is dangerous, let's get up there, fix the @#$% Hubble and see what else we can do outside the atmosphere.
You can't make strapping yourself on top of a rocket in a 30-year old tin can with obsolete technology safe. It's not gonna happen. Either you admit that and go anyway, or stop pretending you're going to extend its mission and do something else with the resources.
Anyone else remember the Real Life storyline in which they went to the future to pick up a game before it was released, and all the major game stores had merged into one, with all the names mashed together?
It happened with comic books. Now it's happening with games. Ultimately, some new form of entertainment will come along that will attract the eyes of moral crusaders, and the game industry will spend less time in the spotlight.
Less time, sure... but it won't escape entirely for quite a while. You could replace every instance of "video game" with "comci book" (and change the examples to match) and you'd still have a largely factual article. Neil Gaiman made a great comment a few weeks ago about how mainstream coverage of comics books alternates between "Wham! Bam! Comics have grown up!" (which is 20-year old news) and "OMG! This comic book not meant for kids has material unsuitable for kids in it!"
There's an advocacy organization, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, that works to raise awareness and raise funds to help defend comic book authors, artists, retailers etc. from attacks against freedom of expression. Retailers have been arrested for selling adult comics to adults. Artists and publishers get sued for parodies. It doesn't get as much covereage as video games anymore, but what coverage it gets is still as biased as it was in the 1950s.
It sounds like a lot of the people doing this kind of investgation aren't actually computer experts, but using pre-packaged software or following a list of directions someone has tailored for IE.
Effectively, they're professional script kiddies working for the common good instead of against it.
The lesson? Training. You wouldn't put a detective in the morgue and hand him a scalpel, and you wouldn't drop him in a science lab. You'd hire a coroner, you'd hire someone trained in forensic science. If you're going to search someone's computer for evidence, hire an expert or train someone to become an expert.
Actually, trees will grow back by themselves. Not necessarily the same species, and it may take so long none of us will ever see it, but it takes a lot of human effort to get rid of them.
Of course, we are expending a lot of effort to get rid of trees, either to clear land or to transform them into things like houses, furniture, boxes, books, junk mail, and those annoying flyers people stick on your windshield.
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Punching them in the face is probably against company policy.
Maybe zapping them with a spray bottle?
Two problems: First, as you close tabs, they resize and those X buttons jump around. If you want to close, say, 5 tabs next to each other, it's quite easy to do in FF, but more difficult to do in Opera. This is solved by middle-clicking, since the target area is larger and likely to still be under your cursor -- but at that point, why bother with the Xes?
Second problem: Multiple close buttons take up lots of space. Taking up 16 pixels for a site icon helps visually distinguish the tabs, particularly when the sites actually have icons. But when you have 32px reserved for icons, it only takes a dozen or so tabs before you get down to "S..." for everything. There is a threshold beyond which Opera will hide all the Xes on background tabs, giving you back the space, but I really have seen it down to one letter and an ellipsis on every tab. Lowering that threshold, or making that behavior permanent, is on my wishlist for Opera.
Silly decepticons running slashdot.
Starscream's in charge of the server?
That explains so much!
"Well, we don't know everything they are up to, but we do know their slogan and we disagree with that."
From context he's probably not referring to "Don't be evil" -- but seriously, who can turn down a sound bite (sound byte?) like that?
War Games, portable music... We really are still preoccupied with 1985!
Well, I'd tell you about the joke, but then I'd have to kill you.
my voice is my passport.
Verify me.
Ah, thanks! I was trying to remember the name.
1992, though -- that's older than I thought. I figured it had been in the works for a while if it showed up in a "What's next after NT4" chapter.
A bit extreme, but I see your point. I've found ext3 and Reiser3 to be of roughly the same stability, but I've had much better success with ext3's recovery tools than Reiser's.
When they're working, they both work great, and they both handle unexpected shutdowns well. But when they crash and burn, you're more likely to be able to salvage a broken ext3 system than a broken Reiser3 system.
On top of that, I remember reading about the nifty stuff that was going to be in WinFS way back when Windows NT 4.0 came out -- in 1996!
WinFS has also been a long time coming. Though I suppose 9 years isn't as exciting as 10.
Hell, Washington had this power, he just didn't have any nukes.
I've voted Democrat in the last several presidential elections, but I'm registered with the "decline to state" party. (Hmm, wouldn't it be funny if there really was a party called "Decline to State?" The American Independent party confuses things enough already...) In 2000, California had just instituted an open primary, which meant that any registered voter could vote for any candidate, regardless of the voter's party. That meant that Democrats could vote in the Republican primary and vice versa. (And us decline-to-staters could vote in the primary, period.)
I voted for McCain in that primary. Had he won the nomination, there's a serious chance I might have voted for him, depending on what came out during the campaign. But the moment Bush got the nomination, I knew my vote was going to Gore.
I'm tired of voting against people. I'd like to vote for someone once in a while. The last time I got to do that at the state or national level was 1996 -- and even that was kind of dicey.
Oh, and that open primary? Ruled in violation of the (state?) constitution. I guess people didn't like the idea of the opposition choosing their candidates. I mean, who'd want a candidate people on both sides might vote for?
There are two things I am not fond of with the current non-Beta Firefox. The first is the way it needs to download the whole installer just to update a point release.
Good news: One of the major new features in 1.5 is an incremental update system. You'll be able to update just the parts that have changed by going to Help->Check for Updates.
Well, it is a beta.
In theory there should be time for extension authors to update before the final is released. I've only got 6 extensions, of which one worked already, and one was updated during the day today.
Das Keyboard: For people whose desks are a complete Disaster Area.
Though I hear it works best on the new Sun "Diver" systems.
I hate to break it to you mate but they are movies. The people in there have never actually worked for Nasa!
No, they didn't work for Nasa. But they did work for NASA!
(Or did you mean the actors?)
Tell me, did anyone seriously expect the shuttle to re-launch anytime soon?
Come on, raise your hands.
Bueller?
After the last mission consisted of little more than "can we make it back in one piece," and they grounded the shuttle for months, I'm beginning to think NASA should do one of two things:
1. Scrap the shuttle fleet entirely and throw all its efforts into building a modern, redesigned replacement fleet.
2. Have the guts to admit that dammit, space travel is dangerous, let's get up there, fix the @#$% Hubble and see what else we can do outside the atmosphere.
You can't make strapping yourself on top of a rocket in a 30-year old tin can with obsolete technology safe. It's not gonna happen. Either you admit that and go anyway, or stop pretending you're going to extend its mission and do something else with the resources.
First Apple released the iPod, then the iPod Mini. Now there's the iPod Nano.
And last year, Apple introduced the Mac Mini.
<joke>Does this mean we should expect the Mac Nano sometime next year?</joke>
Anyone else remember the Real Life storyline in which they went to the future to pick up a game before it was released, and all the major game stores had merged into one, with all the names mashed together?
It happened with comic books. Now it's happening with games. Ultimately, some new form of entertainment will come along that will attract the eyes of moral crusaders, and the game industry will spend less time in the spotlight.
Less time, sure... but it won't escape entirely for quite a while. You could replace every instance of "video game" with "comci book" (and change the examples to match) and you'd still have a largely factual article. Neil Gaiman made a great comment a few weeks ago about how mainstream coverage of comics books alternates between "Wham! Bam! Comics have grown up!" (which is 20-year old news) and "OMG! This comic book not meant for kids has material unsuitable for kids in it!"
There's an advocacy organization, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, that works to raise awareness and raise funds to help defend comic book authors, artists, retailers etc. from attacks against freedom of expression. Retailers have been arrested for selling adult comics to adults. Artists and publishers get sued for parodies. It doesn't get as much covereage as video games anymore, but what coverage it gets is still as biased as it was in the 1950s.
And the second marketing ploy of this type to hit Slashdot this week, too!
From what I've seen in the Opera forums, their 1-day giveaway has been quite successful at both generating buzz and bringing in new users.
I think he meant the name of the repository, which, if I recall, is "Click N Run" and abbreviated as CNR.
Hmm, there's a thought. "Nice app! CNR?"*
*Obscure joke that you'll only get if you grew up watching TV in the 80s.
Quick question: is the average detective familiar with C or C++?
No?
What good is the source code going to do him?
It sounds like a lot of the people doing this kind of investgation aren't actually computer experts, but using pre-packaged software or following a list of directions someone has tailored for IE.
Effectively, they're professional script kiddies working for the common good instead of against it.
The lesson? Training. You wouldn't put a detective in the morgue and hand him a scalpel, and you wouldn't drop him in a science lab. You'd hire a coroner, you'd hire someone trained in forensic science. If you're going to search someone's computer for evidence, hire an expert or train someone to become an expert.
Actually, trees will grow back by themselves. Not necessarily the same species, and it may take so long none of us will ever see it, but it takes a lot of human effort to get rid of them.
Of course, we are expending a lot of effort to get rid of trees, either to clear land or to transform them into things like houses, furniture, boxes, books, junk mail, and those annoying flyers people stick on your windshield.