There are many reasons I like Opera. Here are a few:
It's not Microsoft or AOL/TW
Mouse gestures are nice
Tabbed browser windows are great
Easily installed skins and color schemes are fun
Email client is nice
CSS that doesn't work in IE appears to work in Opera
Ability to EASILY turn on/off pop-up windows, including ability to allow requested-only.
Many, many customizable features
Speed. Always faster than IE
Those are the main reasons. It's well worth the small price to get a browser with so many good features. I find it amazing that anyone chooses to use IE!!!!
I've been drinking black coffee since I was in grade school. Now I am making pretty good money doing what I like. I'm in Mensa. I'm charming. Kids today sit around on their fat asses, chugging carbonated sugar water. They're fat, lazy, and dumb. We need a movement to get more of today's children drinking coffee. Black coffee.
Really, how can you truly enjoy coffee with all that crap in it? I agree, it's heresy. It's like someone who loves wine coolers bitching about how real wine doesn't taste good. Bastards.
What's worse are those god-aweful flavored coffees! The ones where they actually flavor the beans with some aweful chemicals. One time, this stupid house-keeper where I work thought she was being nice, so she cooked up a batch of this insane blueberry flavored coffee! The whole place reeked of that crap. The flavor agent bonded into the coffee basket, so the coffee tasted of blueberry for about a week. It was a dark time.
I came up with a catchy phrase, suitable for bumper-stickers, sigs, whatever:
I submitted this a few days ago, but apparently it wasn't deemed worthy.
I use Opera almost exclusively and suffer very few web annoyances. There are sites that are run by crap-heads which only work with IE, so I use it for that, but otherwise, Opera is great. It's also way faster than IE. I have never seen IE act any quicker than Opera. Perhaps it's because I use LAN and DSL access exclusively. Who knows.
Opera also seems to render CSS a lot better than IE. If you have any interest in avoiding the Evil Empire, I highly recommend giving Opera 7 a shot.
Really, unless you've created a superior alternative, and until you're charged for the services provided by/., why bitch like a little schoolgirl? Try being nicer, like me!
The idea is, find a stretch of unobserved border, and jump over the fence. Obviously, if you did this right next to the Tijuana border crossing, you might get shot down.
If your 'puter is getting to loud, you might want to...
I'm assuming this person meant TOO LOUD. Unless, maybe, there's a little noise guage on the case with a little arrow indicator, and it has gotten to "Loud". But I doubt that.
Anyway, here again are some samples of the correct usage of To, Too, and Two.
1. I am going TO the grocery store.
2. Not only is Elvis dead, but he's stinky TOO!
3. Between the numbers one and three is TWO.
Unless English is not your first language, you should have mastered this by now.
In these little clips, the riders look very awkward, like they're struggling to keep going. Or, like they're trying to hold a massive bowel movement in (or both). They seem to be thinking "Damn it, I paid $3000 for this, I'm going to enjoy it whether I like it or not! HEY! LOOK AT ME!"
Then in winter, you know they'll be hitting you up for a ride to work. Just you wait and see!
That is not true. When you click start, you are actually browsing the start menu, which is $WINDIR\Start Menu in 95/98, and under your profile directory in 2000, and probably XP, NT. Programs is a subdirectory of Start Menu, as is Startup. These folders (typically) contain "shortcuts" to files all over your computer, not necessarily located in the Program Files directory. If you were to browse the Program Files directory, you would see an ASSLOAD of stuff.
Also, you can double click My Computer and browse your drive from there. Or, you could click Start -> Run, and type in something like "c:\" to browse the c: drive. Or, use Windows Explorer. Or, use Internet Exploder. The directories in Windows are hardly hidden. However, certain file types ARE hidden by default, so the first thing I ever do when I touch a Windows computer is turn off the "hide file extensions of known types" and "hide system files". Those are the only 2 methods by which MS "hides" files from users.
The goofballs at my pharmacy have yet to master COUNTING. The primary, base job of a pharmacist, or pharmacy intern, whoever it is, is to count pills. However, they somehow manage to screw this up. Although, once I got 100 pills for the price of 30 due to their incompetence, which saved me like $60! Heh, of course I didn't complain that time.
Son, I accidentally dropped you on your head when you were seven. That's why you can't remember anything prior. Sorry about that. If it's any consolation, you didn't have a very interesting childhood.
I can make a shell script in about 10 minutes that will do, in a matter of seconds, something that a human would take hours to do with their favorite GUI app. I rarely run Linux X apps. I do run X apps exported off unix servers on occasion, but the real power of Linux is what I mentioned above. Plus, I don't need to worry about, or even have, an X display driver. We have New Fangled windows-based systems that simply have no way of doing these rudimentary, STANDARD functions (outside of purchasing $$$ or building $$$ specialized apps).
Microsoft has been doing these at least since Win95 days. Exact same file name, size, different contents. So if you downloaded office 97 SR-1 the day it was released, then again 2 years later, it would probably be different.
....or have there been more meteor showers over the past few years then there normaly is?
I understand English may be a second language to you. If not, well, here's a tip. Your comment should read "... or have there been more meteor showers over the past few years than there normally are?
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Those are the main reasons. It's well worth the small price to get a browser with so many good features. I find it amazing that anyone chooses to use IE!!!!
Here: The Brick Testament
Really, how can you truly enjoy coffee with all that crap in it? I agree, it's heresy. It's like someone who loves wine coolers bitching about how real wine doesn't taste good. Bastards.
What's worse are those god-aweful flavored coffees! The ones where they actually flavor the beans with some aweful chemicals. One time, this stupid house-keeper where I work thought she was being nice, so she cooked up a batch of this insane blueberry flavored coffee! The whole place reeked of that crap. The flavor agent bonded into the coffee basket, so the coffee tasted of blueberry for about a week. It was a dark time.
I came up with a catchy phrase, suitable for bumper-stickers, sigs, whatever:
Decaf is for the lazy and the damned.
No, sir, you are not alone.
I submitted this a few days ago, but apparently it wasn't deemed worthy.
I use Opera almost exclusively and suffer very few web annoyances. There are sites that are run by crap-heads which only work with IE, so I use it for that, but otherwise, Opera is great. It's also way faster than IE. I have never seen IE act any quicker than Opera. Perhaps it's because I use LAN and DSL access exclusively. Who knows.
Opera also seems to render CSS a lot better than IE. If you have any interest in avoiding the Evil Empire, I highly recommend giving Opera 7 a shot.
George will likely seek the hand of Athina, the grand-daughter of Aristotle Onassis, now that she's turned 18 and inherited all that money.
Anyone else get that impression?
I only watched the half-time stuff, then turned back to Fear Factor.
SuperBowl Sunday should be declared a national holiday: National Homoeroticism Day.
Please join me in writing your congressman/woman to get this glorious day recognized as it should be.
Thank You.
Really, unless you've created a superior alternative, and until you're charged for the services provided by /., why bitch like a little schoolgirl? Try being nicer, like me!
What's so amazing about this?
Every time I go to KFC, I get the 4-winged chicken!
Ha ha haha aaaahh.
The idea is, find a stretch of unobserved border, and jump over the fence. Obviously, if you did this right next to the Tijuana border crossing, you might get shot down.
Load'er up with pot, jump over the border, unload, repeat.
Uh... be sure you restart apache after changing the config file.
If your 'puter is getting to loud, you might want to ...
I'm assuming this person meant TOO LOUD. Unless, maybe, there's a little noise guage on the case with a little arrow indicator, and it has gotten to "Loud". But I doubt that.
Anyway, here again are some samples of the correct usage of To, Too, and Two.
1. I am going TO the grocery store.
2. Not only is Elvis dead, but he's stinky TOO!
3. Between the numbers one and three is TWO.
Unless English is not your first language, you should have mastered this by now.
Thank You
In these little clips, the riders look very awkward, like they're struggling to keep going. Or, like they're trying to hold a massive bowel movement in (or both). They seem to be thinking "Damn it, I paid $3000 for this, I'm going to enjoy it whether I like it or not! HEY! LOOK AT ME!"
Then in winter, you know they'll be hitting you up for a ride to work. Just you wait and see!
That is not true. When you click start, you are actually browsing the start menu, which is $WINDIR\Start Menu in 95/98, and under your profile directory in 2000, and probably XP, NT.
Programs is a subdirectory of Start Menu, as is Startup. These folders (typically) contain "shortcuts" to files all over your computer, not necessarily located in the Program Files directory. If you were to browse the Program Files directory, you would see an ASSLOAD of stuff.
Also, you can double click My Computer and browse your drive from there. Or, you could click Start -> Run, and type in something like "c:\" to browse the c: drive. Or, use Windows Explorer. Or, use Internet Exploder. The directories in Windows are hardly hidden. However, certain file types ARE hidden by default, so the first thing I ever do when I touch a Windows computer is turn off the "hide file extensions of known types" and "hide system files". Those are the only 2 methods by which MS "hides" files from users.
The goofballs at my pharmacy have yet to master COUNTING. The primary, base job of a pharmacist, or pharmacy intern, whoever it is, is to count pills. However, they somehow manage to screw this up. Although, once I got 100 pills for the price of 30 due to their incompetence, which saved me like $60! Heh, of course I didn't complain that time.
Son, I accidentally dropped you on your head when you were seven. That's why you can't remember anything prior. Sorry about that. If it's any consolation, you didn't have a very interesting childhood.
Love, Dad.
Too bad there aren't any real apps you could use with it.
sed awk grep cron sort ftp smb etc.
I can make a shell script in about 10 minutes that will do, in a matter of seconds, something that a human would take hours to do with their favorite GUI app. I rarely run Linux X apps. I do run X apps exported off unix servers on occasion, but the real power of Linux is what I mentioned above. Plus, I don't need to worry about, or even have, an X display driver. We have New Fangled windows-based systems that simply have no way of doing these rudimentary, STANDARD functions (outside of purchasing $$$ or building $$$ specialized apps).
They're called Silent Updates.
Microsoft has been doing these at least since Win95 days. Exact same file name, size, different contents. So if you downloaded office 97 SR-1 the day it was released, then again 2 years later, it would probably be different.
I've been saying this for a year now.
Please, oh please make a LOTR topic so I can ignore it!!!!!
Thanks
....or have there been more meteor showers over the past few years then there normaly is?
I understand English may be a second language to you. If not, well, here's a tip. Your comment should read "... or have there been more meteor showers over the past few years than there normally are?
Thanks for your attention.
It looks just like the little picture on the Palm. Perhaps he should draw better. It's not like the Robot made the original design.
Actually, it's a pretty catchy tune.
I might actually see Twin Towers now, just to hear that theme song again.
Please, please, please, let's have a new category for LOTR so that those of us who don't give a rat's ass about it can never see it.
Please, oh please oh please already!
And okay, yes, make a special category for me so you don't have to see my posts. Hardy har har, I beat you to it this time.