Opera has that as default, with everything hidden in a dropdown but I don't care for it. I'd rather have the flexibility that Mozilla Netscape and seaMonkey offered/offer. The various pieces of the menu are "floating" so you can juggle your menu until it all fits on the top line, instead of using three.
People who don't like guessing what the picture is supposed to represent. "Does that S-shaped picture mean save, search, snake, or something else entirely?"
BTW one of my chief annoyances with the Mac OS is the inability to quickly and easily switch between windows. You have to juggle windows around on the screen. i.e. It's stuck in the pre-95 era. The Windows & Linux tab bars are a very easy solution to that problem.
>>>What this IS is an example of democracy. The people of that county are free to rule themselves in this matter.
Progressives (big government types) only believe in democracy when it agrees with them. When it doesn't agree with them, then they ram it down the voters' throats even if they don't want it. Like when 80% were against the Bush Corporate Bailout Bill, but it got passed anyway. And 70% against the Healthcare Bill, but it too got passed.
In THIS case the voters don't want a fire department. They want an opt-in system Some here, the progressives, thing the will of the voters should be over-ruled. They don't believe in democracy.
>>>lowered property values for the entire neighborhood...
Bullshit. That's the same argument the Housing Association gave when they refused to let my parents put an antenna on the roof (to get TV). The lawyer, who was quite good, dug-out the 1996 Telecommuncations Act which gave my parents the right to erect an antenna. He also noted several other laws the HA was in violation of (requiring a certain kind of grass), which eventually led to the judge dismantling the HA for multiple counts of abuse against citizens.
You see: Congress decided freedom to "pursue happiness"
was more important than property values. Freedom means nothing, if you are not truly free to make your own choices.
I don't insure my car. Do you think you have a right to FORCE me to insure it? You don't. Neither do you have a right to force me to insure my house.
My state doesn't have a county government (you insensitive clod). Everything is controlled from the central capitol which operates administrative offices with essentially no power but to follow the dictates of the legislature.
As for this "victim" he made his choice, and he paid the ultimate price. Just the same as my car is not insured, so if I wreck it, the car is done. What the fire department should have is an "post-fire fee" of about $1500 (i.e. twenty years worth of coverage). That way it would encourage people to insure their houses upfront with $75 fees, rather than after the fact.
Still - they should have the choice. It should never, ever, never be taken away from them. Freedom is too precious to be not free.
>>>There's no reason that one should have a choice
Heil Mein Fuhrer!!!
Ooops. Sorry. I just saw Dr. Strangelove last night. But seriously: Why shouldn't people have CHOICE? You can choose to insure your house, or not. You can choose to insure your body, or not. You can choose to wear a condom, or not. You can choose to abort a human fetus, or not.
"Choice" is the foundation of freedom (so long as your choices don't physically harm others). Without choice you are no longer free.
How do you put Firefox's address bar on the same line as the menu bar?
I used to be able to do that with Mozilla Netscape but FF doesn't seem to have the option (nor Opera). Hmmm... I wonder if seamonkey can do it. I bet it can.
It's harder to design menus for left or right positioning because our languages flows horizontal, not vertical.
For example if I drag the Windows tab bar to the left ("zip"), it creates a mess. It's taking up FAR more room on the left than it did on the bottom. The same would be true if you moved the Web browser or Word processor menu to the left or right.
STRAWMAN ARGUMENT. I never clammed I dont make spellinf mistakes. I just claimed that I don't buy what's advertised. I don't buy Tampons, or tread-climbers, or Air Jordans, or Pretty Ponies, or whatever else they advertise these days. .
>>>why Coke and Pepsi are twice as expensive as generic sodas?
First it's not twice expensive... just a few pennies more. And because they taste better. Same reason why when I bought Walmart "O's" instead of Cheerios, I immediately knew it was a mistake when I ate the first bite. Better ingredients == higher cost but also better taste.
As further proof, in the UK where most TV/radio is advertising free, are their goods any cheaper than US goods with advertising? No. On the contrary it's usually higher.
I was just about to say that. The majority of consumers are demanding 16x9 screens for their HD videos. Those of us who still do actual work, and need enough vertical pixels to fit an 8x11 page into the screen, have become the unimportant minority.
Maybe you should advertise on ebay or amazon? WANTED: The old VGA monitors or S-video TVs you don't want, so long as they are 4:3 ratio. Will pay $30 to cover shipping.
My old LCD was only 1024x800 you insensitive clod! That new HD 900 pixel high screen was an upgrade for me. (Also shouldn't it really be 1920x1080 for full HD?)
Because that's what the people are demanding: 16x9 screens for their HD videos. Those of us who do actual work and need room to fit a 8x11 page into the screen have become the unimportant minority.
Who cares if you're first? You've still done something 99.9999999% of the other humans never did. Even something as trivial as saying, My name is on Mars* makes people go "oooh really?". People are easily impressed. I'm sure "Hi I'm Gene Cerman and I walked on the moon" will get him laid at any party.
* *Back when Carl Sagan was still alive, he convinced NASA to include the names of everyone who donated towards the Mars Rover program. My name is one of those, printed in tiny 0.01 point type along with several thousand other people. Not a big deal really, but it's good for parties and ditzy blondes ("Mars? Is that a zodiac sign?").
Last time NASA tried to string a tether, the space aliens cut it. I know I've seen the proof on video.
/end crazy mode
But seriously. This is a great idea for powering space stations and such, but how the heck do you get the power back to the ground? You'll lose a lot of power during transmission from satellite to ground. More importantly how do you avoid killing people with the heat wave? If you thought the Parabolic Hotel was a hot spot, wait until a satellite error makes the megawatt beam go careening across civilization.
What would should be doing is looking for realistic solutions: - Depopulate: Less babies == less humans == less need for energy - Convert from nonrenewable oil/plastics to renewable vegetable oils and wood - Build homes like the Passiv Haus that don't need heat (because they are 99.9% perfect insulators) i.e. Reduce energy use
So if I throw myself against this wall enough times, do you think I'll eventually learn to walk through it?
No. More likely the laws of physics say it's impossible. Or at least highly improbable (if I lived a million years, and threw myself against the wall constantly, there's a 1 in googleplex chance I'll pass through the wall). The same is true about crossing the space between stars.
"his Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land"
The president may claim otherwise, that the Constitution is not supreme, but he is wrong. The Law always reigns supreme above men - that's why we are a Republic not an Oligarchy.
The really sad part is that I've heard people say Muslims shouldn't have constitutional rights ("they are the enemy"), even if they were natural-born Americans.
Stupid, stupid bastards.
That's exactly what the Germans did - redefine jewish-German citizens as "not german" and therefore executable whenever the government felt like it. And then the US did it in 1942 by defining japanese-Americans as "not american" and locked up 0.2 million of them. Why are we repeating the same mistake in 2010?
When the revolution comes, I nominate that judge to be the first against the wall & shot as a "domestic enemy" of the US and Vermont Constitutions.
The purpose of the "not be compelled to testify against oneself" is to protect the accused(s) from older 1600s and 1700s governments that would torture them to confess. Or imprison them, until they confessed. That's what is happening here: Imprisoning people until they confess the password.
>>>In the scenario you propose the person is ignorant,
Or they could be me like me, someone with two college degrees whose been around computer for three decades, and yet he has a computer infected with a Virus that nobody, not even experts, has been able to remove. Seriously. After trying all kinds of programs, including bootblock editors, the online experts told me to just wipe my drive and do a clean install. (Good thing I kept the original disks.) .
>>>switch to a real OS such as Linux or OS X.
OS X won't run on the user's existing IBM PC-compatible hardware, so that's poor advice. Linux OS is virus free (mostly) but now you've got a user trying to run familiar programs like MS Word or IE or Flash, and unable to make them work, so that's poor advice as well. Are you sure when you used the word "ignorant" you weren't speaking of yourself? Maybe that's why you were modded "-1 troll".
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Opera has that as default, with everything hidden in a dropdown but I don't care for it. I'd rather have the flexibility that Mozilla Netscape and seaMonkey offered/offer. The various pieces of the menu are "floating" so you can juggle your menu until it all fits on the top line, instead of using three.
>>>Who puts words in their menu's anyway.
People who don't like guessing what the picture is supposed to represent. "Does that S-shaped picture mean save, search, snake, or something else entirely?"
BTW one of my chief annoyances with the Mac OS is the inability to quickly and easily switch between windows. You have to juggle windows around on the screen. i.e. It's stuck in the pre-95 era. The Windows & Linux tab bars are a very easy solution to that problem.
>>>so put the menu at the top.
Are you blonde?
Oh yeah: "woosh!"
>>>What this IS is an example of democracy. The people of that county are free to rule themselves in this matter.
Progressives (big government types) only believe in democracy when it agrees with them. When it doesn't agree with them, then they ram it down the voters' throats even if they don't want it. Like when 80% were against the Bush Corporate Bailout Bill, but it got passed anyway. And 70% against the Healthcare Bill, but it too got passed.
In THIS case the voters don't want a fire department. They want an opt-in system Some here, the progressives, thing the will of the voters should be over-ruled. They don't believe in democracy.
>>>lowered property values for the entire neighborhood...
Bullshit. That's the same argument the Housing Association gave when they refused to let my parents put an antenna on the roof (to get TV). The lawyer, who was quite good, dug-out the 1996 Telecommuncations Act which gave my parents the right to erect an antenna. He also noted several other laws the HA was in violation of (requiring a certain kind of grass), which eventually led to the judge dismantling the HA for multiple counts of abuse against citizens.
You see: Congress decided freedom to "pursue happiness"
was more important than property values. Freedom means nothing, if you are not truly free to make your own choices.
I don't insure my car. Do you think you have a right to FORCE me to insure it? You don't. Neither do you have a right to force me to insure my house.
My state doesn't have a county government (you insensitive clod). Everything is controlled from the central capitol which operates administrative offices with essentially no power but to follow the dictates of the legislature.
As for this "victim" he made his choice, and he paid the ultimate price. Just the same as my car is not insured, so if I wreck it, the car is done. What the fire department should have is an "post-fire fee" of about $1500 (i.e. twenty years worth of coverage). That way it would encourage people to insure their houses upfront with $75 fees, rather than after the fact.
Still - they should have the choice. It should never, ever, never be taken away from them. Freedom is too precious to be not free.
>>>There's no reason that one should have a choice
Heil Mein Fuhrer!!!
Ooops. Sorry. I just saw Dr. Strangelove last night. But seriously: Why shouldn't people have CHOICE? You can choose to insure your house, or not. You can choose to insure your body, or not. You can choose to wear a condom, or not. You can choose to abort a human fetus, or not.
"Choice" is the foundation of freedom (so long as your choices don't physically harm others). Without choice you are no longer free.
C64_love - Pro-Choice on everything.
Most people are impressed by 1920x1080 HDTV, because they had been watching analog cable or broadcast TV, and those formats are only ~440x486.
So basically it's a 9 times jump for them.
How do you put Firefox's address bar on the same line as the menu bar?
I used to be able to do that with Mozilla Netscape but FF doesn't seem to have the option (nor Opera). Hmmm... I wonder if seamonkey can do it. I bet it can.
It's harder to design menus for left or right positioning because our languages flows horizontal, not vertical.
For example if I drag the Windows tab bar to the left ("zip"), it creates a mess. It's taking up FAR more room on the left than it did on the bottom. The same would be true if you moved the Web browser or Word processor menu to the left or right.
STRAWMAN ARGUMENT. I never clammed I dont make spellinf mistakes. I just claimed that I don't buy what's advertised. I don't buy Tampons, or tread-climbers, or Air Jordans, or Pretty Ponies, or whatever else they advertise these days.
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>>>why Coke and Pepsi are twice as expensive as generic sodas?
First it's not twice expensive... just a few pennies more. And because they taste better. Same reason why when I bought Walmart "O's" instead of Cheerios, I immediately knew it was a mistake when I ate the first bite. Better ingredients == higher cost but also better taste.
As further proof, in the UK where most TV/radio is advertising free, are their goods any cheaper than US goods with advertising? No. On the contrary it's usually higher.
Bingo!
I was just about to say that. The majority of consumers are demanding 16x9 screens for their HD videos. Those of us who still do actual work, and need enough vertical pixels to fit an 8x11 page into the screen, have become the unimportant minority.
Maybe you should advertise on ebay or amazon?
WANTED:
The old VGA monitors or S-video TVs you don't want, so long as they are 4:3 ratio. Will pay $30 to cover shipping.
>>>HD 1600x900
My old LCD was only 1024x800 you insensitive clod! That new HD 900 pixel high screen was an upgrade for me. (Also shouldn't it really be 1920x1080 for full HD?)
Because that's what the people are demanding: 16x9 screens for their HD videos.
Those of us who do actual work and need room to fit a 8x11 page into the screen have become the unimportant minority.
No way was IE6 better than Netscape 5
(which, due to a poor management decision, was released as 4.9 but was still better)
Who cares if you're first? You've still done something 99.9999999% of the other humans never did. Even something as trivial as saying, My name is on Mars* makes people go "oooh really?". People are easily impressed. I'm sure "Hi I'm Gene Cerman and I walked on the moon" will get him laid at any party.
*
*Back when Carl Sagan was still alive, he convinced NASA to include the names of everyone who donated towards the Mars Rover program. My name is one of those, printed in tiny 0.01 point type along with several thousand other people. Not a big deal really, but it's good for parties and ditzy blondes ("Mars? Is that a zodiac sign?").
Last time NASA tried to string a tether, the space aliens cut it. I know I've seen the proof on video.
But seriously. This is a great idea for powering space stations and such, but how the heck do you get the power back to the ground? You'll lose a lot of power during transmission from satellite to ground. More importantly how do you avoid killing people with the heat wave? If you thought the Parabolic Hotel was a hot spot, wait until a satellite error makes the megawatt beam go careening across civilization.
What would should be doing is looking for realistic solutions:
- Depopulate: Less babies == less humans == less need for energy
- Convert from nonrenewable oil/plastics to renewable vegetable oils and wood
- Build homes like the Passiv Haus that don't need heat (because they are 99.9% perfect insulators) i.e. Reduce energy use
>>>By the time you get close to exiting our solar system, you will already be closer to a neighboring star then you will be to Sol.
Completely false. The edge of the system, the Oort Cloud, is only 0.8 lightyear away. The nearest star is still 3+ lightyears past that point.
So if I throw myself against this wall enough times, do you think I'll eventually learn to walk through it?
No. More likely the laws of physics say it's impossible. Or at least highly improbable (if I lived a million years, and threw myself against the wall constantly, there's a 1 in googleplex chance I'll pass through the wall). The same is true about crossing the space between stars.
"his Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land"
The president may claim otherwise, that the Constitution is not supreme, but he is wrong. The Law always reigns supreme above men - that's why we are a Republic not an Oligarchy.
The really sad part is that I've heard people say Muslims shouldn't have constitutional rights ("they are the enemy"), even if they were natural-born Americans.
Stupid, stupid bastards.
That's exactly what the Germans did - redefine jewish-German citizens as "not german" and therefore executable whenever the government felt like it. And then the US did it in 1942 by defining japanese-Americans as "not american" and locked up 0.2 million of them. Why are we repeating the same mistake in 2010?
When the revolution comes, I nominate that judge to be the first against the wall & shot as a "domestic enemy" of the US and Vermont Constitutions.
The purpose of the "not be compelled to testify against oneself" is to protect the accused(s) from older 1600s and 1700s governments that would torture them to confess. Or imprison them, until they confessed. That's what is happening here: Imprisoning people until they confess the password.
I once had an account with them, back in the 33k days. Also Erols. I guess these old services never truly die..... they just fade away.
>>>In the scenario you propose the person is ignorant,
Or they could be me like me, someone with two college degrees whose been around computer for three decades, and yet he has a computer infected with a Virus that nobody, not even experts, has been able to remove. Seriously. After trying all kinds of programs, including bootblock editors, the online experts told me to just wipe my drive and do a clean install. (Good thing I kept the original disks.)
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>>>switch to a real OS such as Linux or OS X.
OS X won't run on the user's existing IBM PC-compatible hardware, so that's poor advice. Linux OS is virus free (mostly) but now you've got a user trying to run familiar programs like MS Word or IE or Flash, and unable to make them work, so that's poor advice as well. Are you sure when you used the word "ignorant" you weren't speaking of yourself? Maybe that's why you were modded "-1 troll".