Yeah, and they said they didn't want to use them because they would confuse users. But now, it sounds like they'll have a combo of pop-up windows, and tabs! What's the point of having tabs if you still have your pop-up windows?
Actually... I believe there are way, way easier, and more lucrative ways for crooks to get money than snooping on a geek's keyboard traffic. Besides, your credit card should include fraud protection anyway.
I rented the "original" Star Wars because my young son had never seen it. We watched it last night. This was not the original film. I kinda remember reading something about how the original was bastardized for DVD release... but had no idea it would be so bad. I was thinking maybe some color optimization, cleaner effects, whatever.
But what I saw was just wrong. Nobody should ever go back and futz up their movies 20+ years later. Or at least, it should've been renamed "Director's Cut" or something.
It was crap. There are now cartoony aliens painted into several scenes... The Jaba The Hut is ridiculous. It's so much crap. I can hardly believe it. A big thumbs DOWN for George "Still Fondling My Inner Child" Lucas. I will not pay to see the Sith, as I have not paid to see any since Return of the Jedi. Shame on you Mr. Lucas! Shame, Shame on you!!!!!
It's good, and free, and as far as I can tell, is identical to it's Windows version, which makes going back and forth pretty easy. There's also a What's New with 4.1 demonstration at www.javalobby.org
It has to do with tracking them, making it easier to administer the system.
It would be very lovely if spending more money on reforming them actually helped, but most criminals are not reformable. So, we should herd them like cattle and call it good.
It doesn't matter if it's REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, a crime against society. What matters is that they are crimes. If you don't like the law, try to get it changed. In the meantime, a crime is a crime.
Unfortunately... one of IE's big strongholds is the flaky ActiveX stuff. It has allowed a LOT of vendors to build browser-based apps to do stuff rather than have to build actual programs. Maybe if one of the alternative browsers magically included ActiveX support, we could ditch IE, which, coincidentally, requires an MS OS (except for Macs, which have what, 1% of business pc market?)... Since IIS gives everyone a free "development" platform, I don't see vendors rushing to use real development tools to build replacements for these IE "apps" any time soon. And hey, since we've got the MS OS, and browser, and web server, heck, let's just go all MS... ka-ching!
We use this... mostly in conjunction with our main HIS (Healthcare Information System(?))... I work at a hospital. You can, and I do, use win32 API's within scripts that you can embed in the jobs. This is sometimes necessary when trying to accomplish things that their pre-built steps can't accomplish. For the most part, it's a really nice product. Each job is set up as a task, with drag-n-drop stuff like send keystrokes, wait, move mouse to position x/y, ftp stuff, write to files, etc, etc, etc. You can check out their site: www.networkautomation.com I'm not affiliated, just a user.
I'm open to trying non-Norton AV. Besides effectiveness, I'm concerned with bloat. I hate having dozens of TSR's running. I also like FREE. Which would you recommend, Trend or AVG, and why? Thanks!
Does anyone really need all those descriptions? Doesn't everyone know what's in a control panel and etc? Why does this GUI seem to be saying "Hey, I know you've been using this computer for several days now, but just incase you're a functional moron, here are nice wordy descriptions of what all this crap does. Don't worry, I'll popup a dialog box describing them further if you move your mouse over them." ???
Also, who needs two columns of stuff on a start menu? It's annoying! I truly believe MS peaked with Win2000.
back in 1977, before many of you were born... I now have a son of my own, and he's just old enough to care about movies and stuff. And I cringe, when today's Disnified Star Wars CRAP comes on tv. No, No, No, I tell my son. Star Wars was once a great thing, now it's CRAP. You don't want to watch that CRAP.
Sigh.
George Lucas needs to stop fondling his inner child already.
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· Score: 4, Interesting
I've been using Opera for a while, and have tried Firefox. I'm not associated in any way with Opera.
The main thing about Firefox that bugs me is the plugins. Features such as tabbed browsing, and mouse gestures come standard with Opera, where with Firefox (at least when I tried it), you're required to track down and choose what plugin you want. These appear to be third-party plugins. God knows what code's in them, or if they'll break if you update Firefox.
My second main complaint with Firefox is the horrendously huge Thunderbird. Again, Opera has it's own built-in mail client.
The things that keep me using Opera are:
It's fast
Built-in mouse gestures, tabbed browsing
Built-in mail client
Built-in IRC client
Very customizable, with skins and color schemes
Most plugins work with it
Lots of very handy keyboard shortcuts
Easy to use (or not use) password keeper (Wand)
Backing of an actual company with actual employees and income.
It's not Internet Exploder.
A good user community that doesn't exist solely to bash other browsers
That's about all I can think of right now. These things, to me anyway, make it worth the purchase price.
Re:Not being trollish, but...
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Opera 8 Released
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I read a Slashdot article a while back saying there were 6 (?) Firefox developers, only one of which was active. Opera is an actual company with actual revenue and a commitment to their product.
Having tried Firefox, and having used Opera for a long time, I can honestly say that yes, it is worth it to pay for a nice bundled browser package, even if you could jerry-rig a free browser to have most of the same functionality. I'm willing to bet that a few years from now, Opera will still be around. I have my doubts about Firefox.
The general public... not the Slashdot/geek crowd... if they think about processors, which isn't likely to begin with, and they hear the names Intel and AMD... probably think of Intel as genuine, and AMD as an imitator/wanna-be. I'm not saying this is the case, this is quite likely how the public, Dell's market, sees these chip manufacturers.
I've been thinking about upgrading my pc, and want to go either dual-core or dual processor. The dual Opteron (not dual core, but the ones that have been out for a while) looks pretty attractive. But, with this dual core thingy, should I wait? Should I just get 1 dual core chip instead? Say I have $1000 to use on 1/2 cpus, ram, and a motherboard. Assume that I use very few (if any) multi-threaded apps, but have many apps running concurrently.
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Yeah, and they said they didn't want to use them because they would confuse users. But now, it sounds like they'll have a combo of pop-up windows, and tabs! What's the point of having tabs if you still have your pop-up windows?
Actually... I believe there are way, way easier, and more lucrative ways for crooks to get money than snooping on a geek's keyboard traffic. Besides, your credit card should include fraud protection anyway.
It's okay, so long as you're wearing your tinfoil hat while doing it.
You might enjoy Unfortunate Star Wars Costumes. It was a Yahoo! pick recently.
I rented the "original" Star Wars because my young son had never seen it. We watched it last night. This was not the original film. I kinda remember reading something about how the original was bastardized for DVD release... but had no idea it would be so bad. I was thinking maybe some color optimization, cleaner effects, whatever.
But what I saw was just wrong. Nobody should ever go back and futz up their movies 20+ years later. Or at least, it should've been renamed "Director's Cut" or something.
It was crap. There are now cartoony aliens painted into several scenes... The Jaba The Hut is ridiculous. It's so much crap. I can hardly believe it. A big thumbs DOWN for George "Still Fondling My Inner Child" Lucas. I will not pay to see the Sith, as I have not paid to see any since Return of the Jedi. Shame on you Mr. Lucas! Shame, Shame on you!!!!!
It's good, and free, and as far as I can tell, is identical to it's Windows version, which makes going back and forth pretty easy. There's also a What's New with 4.1 demonstration at www.javalobby.org
4) plugins like adblock (presuming IE's renderer sees the final version of the DOM... that'd be an interesting test)
I first read renderer as reindeer! Heh. WTF is IE doing with reindeer? I thought, they're taking over the north pole too?
Wowza!
It has to do with tracking them, making it easier to administer the system.
It would be very lovely if spending more money on reforming them actually helped, but most criminals are not reformable. So, we should herd them like cattle and call it good.
It doesn't matter if it's REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, a crime against society. What matters is that they are crimes. If you don't like the law, try to get it changed. In the meantime, a crime is a crime.
Yes. People are still and allways will be stupid. Next question.
Unfortunately... one of IE's big strongholds is the flaky ActiveX stuff. It has allowed a LOT of vendors to build browser-based apps to do stuff rather than have to build actual programs. Maybe if one of the alternative browsers magically included ActiveX support, we could ditch IE, which, coincidentally, requires an MS OS (except for Macs, which have what, 1% of business pc market?)... Since IIS gives everyone a free "development" platform, I don't see vendors rushing to use real development tools to build replacements for these IE "apps" any time soon. And hey, since we've got the MS OS, and browser, and web server, heck, let's just go all MS... ka-ching!
It seems like, every day, I'm reminded that my Opera purchase was a good decision.
Really, I've been amazed, for YEARS that anyone uses IE. I've been amazed for MONTHS that anyone uses Firefox. But that's just me.
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We use this... mostly in conjunction with our main HIS (Healthcare Information System(?))... I work at a hospital. You can, and I do, use win32 API's within scripts that you can embed in the jobs. This is sometimes necessary when trying to accomplish things that their pre-built steps can't accomplish. For the most part, it's a really nice product. Each job is set up as a task, with drag-n-drop stuff like send keystrokes, wait, move mouse to position x/y, ftp stuff, write to files, etc, etc, etc. You can check out their site: www.networkautomation.com I'm not affiliated, just a user.
I'm open to trying non-Norton AV. Besides effectiveness, I'm concerned with bloat. I hate having dozens of TSR's running. I also like FREE.
Which would you recommend, Trend or AVG, and why?
Thanks!
Heh. Ehhhh.
Does anyone really need all those descriptions? Doesn't everyone know what's in a control panel and etc? Why does this GUI seem to be saying "Hey, I know you've been using this computer for several days now, but just incase you're a functional moron, here are nice wordy descriptions of what all this crap does. Don't worry, I'll popup a dialog box describing them further if you move your mouse over them." ???
Also, who needs two columns of stuff on a start menu? It's annoying! I truly believe MS peaked with Win2000.
back in 1977, before many of you were born... I now have a son of my own, and he's just old enough to care about movies and stuff. And I cringe, when today's Disnified Star Wars CRAP comes on tv. No, No, No, I tell my son. Star Wars was once a great thing, now it's CRAP. You don't want to watch that CRAP.
Sigh.
George Lucas needs to stop fondling his inner child already.
The main thing about Firefox that bugs me is the plugins. Features such as tabbed browsing, and mouse gestures come standard with Opera, where with Firefox (at least when I tried it), you're required to track down and choose what plugin you want. These appear to be third-party plugins. God knows what code's in them, or if they'll break if you update Firefox.
My second main complaint with Firefox is the horrendously huge Thunderbird. Again, Opera has it's own built-in mail client.
The things that keep me using Opera are:
That's about all I can think of right now. These things, to me anyway, make it worth the purchase price.
I read a Slashdot article a while back saying there were 6 (?) Firefox developers, only one of which was active. Opera is an actual company with actual revenue and a commitment to their product.
Having tried Firefox, and having used Opera for a long time, I can honestly say that yes, it is worth it to pay for a nice bundled browser package, even if you could jerry-rig a free browser to have most of the same functionality. I'm willing to bet that a few years from now, Opera will still be around. I have my doubts about Firefox.
It always has.
The general public... not the Slashdot/geek crowd... if they think about processors, which isn't likely to begin with, and they hear the names Intel and AMD... probably think of Intel as genuine, and AMD as an imitator/wanna-be. I'm not saying this is the case, this is quite likely how the public, Dell's market, sees these chip manufacturers.
Heh. ehhhh.
I've been thinking about upgrading my pc, and want to go either dual-core or dual processor. The dual Opteron (not dual core, but the ones that have been out for a while) looks pretty attractive. But, with this dual core thingy, should I wait? Should I just get 1 dual core chip instead? Say I have $1000 to use on 1/2 cpus, ram, and a motherboard. Assume that I use very few (if any) multi-threaded apps, but have many apps running concurrently.