Heck, why stop at making the menu have infinite height when it's on the top of the screen. Give it infinite Height when it's on the bottom as well. And infinite width when it's docked to the side in Windoze.
Anything that makes a feature easier to use is a good thing. And make everything customizable and/or optional. Don't force features on the users, allow them decide what they want and how they want it.
Do you realize how many times I go to click on an application on the windows taskbar and either
1) have to adjust the mouse and click again because I was too far down or,
2) have to put up with Quicktime or RealJukebox open because I was too high and had clicked on the "Quick Launch" (misnomer, eh?) bar instead?
Then I have to put up with my father telling me that it's because I go too fast. Anytime I have a problem, it's because I go too fast. I closed Simcity and for some reason the OCR daemon (I know MS calls them TSR's, but that's a game manufacturer) loaded and that was because I go to fast. I don't know how to click slower.
Although I enjoyed the graphic effects and landscape of the TV movie, I prefered the style of the orginal film. I cannot comment on how well this fit with Frank Herbert's vision of Dune because I never read the book, my father has, though and he agreed with me.
Like when when the duke was going out to the desert and Paul's suit is properly adjusted and wuzziz name takes a five minute pause before speaking. Anyone who hadn't already read the book or seen the original movie would probably think "what's the big deal".
As for the ornithropters: they looked more like the moths in Lexx than how I would picture an ornithropter.
But I read this story and all I could think about was when the Daily Show had Steve Carell reenact the performance some gymnast because NBC's exclusive "right" to broadcast the Olympics prevented them from showing us the actual clip.
Mo Rocca did the voice over and Carell even showed the exact mistakes that were made.
But, if you take someone who has never used a PC before, and therefore has not been tainted by Windows, and you give that person a Linux system (just for example, but could be any OS with a GUI) then you don't have to worry about their preconceived notions of how Win9x works, you show them how to perform operations w/ this machine.
I ain't a zealot of any sort. There is no reason for me to get the Blue Screen o' Death when all I did was placed my copy of The Sims into the DVD-Rom drive and clicked on "Install". Of course the subsequent reboot fried my Hard Drive.
Microsoft claims that Linux isn't a real OS because it doesn't have this or that feature that Winows has, well when you think about how buggy those features that Windows has are, then Windows doesn't really have them.
Oops, I've gone on too long, I'm starting sound like a zealot.
And when did you conduct this poll? What are the percentages? What was the makeup of the population (ie High School Students, Recent College Graduates, Business Owners, etc)? What is the margin of error? How is "popular defined: is it which OS you use, which OS you think outweighs the others, etc?
Maybe it wasn't a poll, maybe you looked at number of downloads/purchases of the OS. Still we need to see some numbers and methods. Did you verify that an OS wasn't being downloaded multiple times by the same IP?
Also, did you go by machines using the OS, people using the OS, are amount of time OS is used?
Don't make claims like this until you learn about using statistics and can back up your claims using data, not your opinion.
Back to Netscape v4.7x again, yes crashes too much but atleast it lasts for 1-2 days before something bad happens.
Until recently, the only reason I had Netscape 4.7 running at all was that I have McAfee CrashMonitor installed and could "Autofix" the immediate, otherwise fatal, crashing of Netscape and the subsequent crashing of that stupid Feedback Agent that I can't seem to turn off.
Then, sometime last week it started loading without a crash. Curioser and curioser.
BTW, does anyone else have that problem where all of a sudden clicking on a link doesn't work anymore and the only way to get them to work is to reboot? This is also 4.7 on Win98.
Sorry, I understand that when the FBI confiscates computer equipment they take everything and keep it until it has decomposed into a semi-decent fertilizer.
I was not thinking about the retrieval of the backups. Obviously, if the FBI has your equipment, you'll most likely be replacing it anyway.
It's not a hoax, it's satire. The author was not trying to imitate The Great Evil. He was just trying write a funny story.
Haven't you ever seen humor before? Dave Berry? (pre 1990)SNL? They don't try to make any attempt at passing themselves off as the real deal. It's about making people laugh.
Don't need to buy additional equipment for off-site backups. Now that there are free services that let you store data on their servers, you can use those. Or, you could spread out amongst several free web server accounts (ie geocities, tripod, freeyellow, etc.) Of course, you will need several accounts to backup everything you need, but you can restrict your backups to only the very important stuff.
Uh, if I had files with incriminating or illegal data, then after deletion I'd be pretty sure to defrag my harddrive and zero-out storage in the process.
Anyone who commits a crime and thinks they won't caught most likely will be. It's the paranoid criminals who will get away with it.
In another post of mine I mention someone who tried to destroy evidence on a floppy be cutting up the disk, his mistake was thinking that this would make the disk unusable. Why didn't he burn it? Because he wasn't afraid of being caught.
Part of a "true crime" show I was watching several months back was about some guy who arranged to have his wife killed (I think it was actually done, but I forget). The guy had typed a letter to the person who was supposed to do it and the file had been saved on a floppy(I think this was the specifics, it was a while ago but this was the gist of it).
Anyway, the guy had deleted the file and, knowing that the data was still accessible, he cut up the disk into small bits. The investigating agency managed to put the peices back together and read the disk.
Of course in the yankee.com situation here, the FBI only needs to take the harddrive, they could leave the student the rest of his hardware. They could have made backups of anything he needed, as well.
Actually, if there's blood on your wall that the FBI wants to investigate, they'll keep you out of the house/apartment/whatever because it's a crime scene. I've seen Columbo, I should know.
Until recently, it wasn't done in America, either. The competition was reffered to as "the leading brand". Then, one by one, comercial advertisemnts started calling their competitors by name. I liked the old way better.
I agree, Gore is the lesser of two evils. But I feel that is a large difference. Sort of like comparing "evil incarnate" to a "minor demon". Sure, Gore takes money from certain corporate sponsors, but so does Bush.
But it's a trade-off. Gore is more likely to ensure that your protected from Big Business, while Bush will allow Corporations to run you down because he wants government to mind it's own business. Yet, at the same time personal liberties will be diminished by a Bush administration. Freedom of religion will be down the tubes because he sold his soul to Right-Wing-Religious-Radicals. Good Bye Roe v. Wade.
Now some tell me I should vote for Nader. But the truth is he's just stealing votes from Gore. There is no possibility he will win and the people going to his side would have "settled" for Gore otherwise. Right now the polls are too much in Bush's favor for me to vote Nader. Besides, I believe someone posted here a while back that Nader fought for mandatory airbags in cars. Why would I want someone in office you thinks something that takes more lives than it saves is good. Might as well vote for Charlton Heston.
Besides, on the Daily Show's interview with Nader last week, he, too, said that although he says Gore and Bush are the same, he thinks Gore is the better of the two.
There was a recent story on MSNBC's (the TV station, not the site) _Home_Page_ show. It was about some high school or junior high school that is requiring students to have a PDA. The student's have to obtain the devices on their own, either by buying or renting one, although there is an assistance program available to them.
After the story, one of the "reporters" hosting the show made this brilliant comment: "I'm all for them as long as they don't replace learning".
I don't advise that you watch this show unless you have had a lobotomy. I think I lost brain cells.
Tee-Shirts!
Yes! That was a great episode.
BTW I'm 21 and the only reason I don't watch Pinky and the Brain now is because I don't have the time. School and taking over the world take up too much time.
The UCITA though, makes nearly everything illegal and provides that the software doesn't need to work, so by living in those states, you basically agree that buying an empty box that claims to contain software is just fine...
Well, I live in Rhode Island, a state that has not yet even looked at UCITA. As far as I know.
(And in doing so, I researched a bit of the law... It's not illegal in any way to crack software. The exception being if you live in the USA, in a state that has ratified the UCITA, where the 'no reverse engineering or modification' clause is binding.)
Is legal if I use a crack that was not created in the US?
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Anything that makes a feature easier to use is a good thing. And make everything customizable and/or optional. Don't force features on the users, allow them decide what they want and how they want it.
1) have to adjust the mouse and click again because I was too far down or,
2) have to put up with Quicktime or RealJukebox open because I was too high and had clicked on the "Quick Launch" (misnomer, eh?) bar instead?
Then I have to put up with my father telling me that it's because I go too fast. Anytime I have a problem, it's because I go too fast. I closed Simcity and for some reason the OCR daemon (I know MS calls them TSR's, but that's a game manufacturer) loaded and that was because I go to fast. I don't know how to click slower.
Like when when the duke was going out to the desert and Paul's suit is properly adjusted and wuzziz name takes a five minute pause before speaking. Anyone who hadn't already read the book or seen the original movie would probably think "what's the big deal".
As for the ornithropters: they looked more like the moths in Lexx than how I would picture an ornithropter.
But I read this story and all I could think about was when the Daily Show had Steve Carell reenact the performance some gymnast because NBC's exclusive "right" to broadcast the Olympics prevented them from showing us the actual clip.
Mo Rocca did the voice over and Carell even showed the exact mistakes that were made.
I ain't a zealot of any sort. There is no reason for me to get the Blue Screen o' Death when all I did was placed my copy of The Sims into the DVD-Rom drive and clicked on "Install". Of course the subsequent reboot fried my Hard Drive.
Microsoft claims that Linux isn't a real OS because it doesn't have this or that feature that Winows has, well when you think about how buggy those features that Windows has are, then Windows doesn't really have them.
Oops, I've gone on too long, I'm starting sound like a zealot.
Maybe it wasn't a poll, maybe you looked at number of downloads/purchases of the OS. Still we need to see some numbers and methods. Did you verify that an OS wasn't being downloaded multiple times by the same IP?
Also, did you go by machines using the OS, people using the OS, are amount of time OS is used?
Don't make claims like this until you learn about using statistics and can back up your claims using data, not your opinion.
Intermediate: I can't remember
Expert: 1:59 (That was a typo)
So, NOW who has too much time on his hands?
Beginner: 8 sec Can't remember current intermediate score expert: 1:49
Until recently, the only reason I had Netscape 4.7 running at all was that I have McAfee CrashMonitor installed and could "Autofix" the immediate, otherwise fatal, crashing of Netscape and the subsequent crashing of that stupid Feedback Agent that I can't seem to turn off.
Then, sometime last week it started loading without a crash. Curioser and curioser.
BTW, does anyone else have that problem where all of a sudden clicking on a link doesn't work anymore and the only way to get them to work is to reboot? This is also 4.7 on Win98.
I do believe he is referring to an installation icon, as oppose to a web link.
I was not thinking about the retrieval of the backups. Obviously, if the FBI has your equipment, you'll most likely be replacing it anyway.
Haven't you ever seen humor before? Dave Berry? (pre 1990)SNL? They don't try to make any attempt at passing themselves off as the real deal. It's about making people laugh.
Anyone who commits a crime and thinks they won't caught most likely will be. It's the paranoid criminals who will get away with it.
In another post of mine I mention someone who tried to destroy evidence on a floppy be cutting up the disk, his mistake was thinking that this would make the disk unusable. Why didn't he burn it? Because he wasn't afraid of being caught.
Anyway, the guy had deleted the file and, knowing that the data was still accessible, he cut up the disk into small bits. The investigating agency managed to put the peices back together and read the disk.
Of course in the yankee.com situation here, the FBI only needs to take the harddrive, they could leave the student the rest of his hardware. They could have made backups of anything he needed, as well.
But it's a trade-off. Gore is more likely to ensure that your protected from Big Business, while Bush will allow Corporations to run you down because he wants government to mind it's own business. Yet, at the same time personal liberties will be diminished by a Bush administration. Freedom of religion will be down the tubes because he sold his soul to Right-Wing-Religious-Radicals. Good Bye Roe v. Wade.
Now some tell me I should vote for Nader. But the truth is he's just stealing votes from Gore. There is no possibility he will win and the people going to his side would have "settled" for Gore otherwise. Right now the polls are too much in Bush's favor for me to vote Nader. Besides, I believe someone posted here a while back that Nader fought for mandatory airbags in cars. Why would I want someone in office you thinks something that takes more lives than it saves is good. Might as well vote for Charlton Heston.
Besides, on the Daily Show's interview with Nader last week, he, too, said that although he says Gore and Bush are the same, he thinks Gore is the better of the two.
I want you to know that I voted for Bradley.
Linux is a Religion.
MacOS is a Cult.
Windows is a Doomsday Cult.
After the story, one of the "reporters" hosting the show made this brilliant comment: "I'm all for them as long as they don't replace learning".
I don't advise that you watch this show unless you have had a lobotomy. I think I lost brain cells.
Tee-Shirts! Yes! That was a great episode. BTW I'm 21 and the only reason I don't watch Pinky and the Brain now is because I don't have the time. School and taking over the world take up too much time.
Well, I live in Rhode Island, a state that has not yet even looked at UCITA. As far as I know.
Is legal if I use a crack that was not created in the US?
You neglected to state your Country of Residence