Exactly. The moderation system works quite well. Browsing at +1 keeps most of the Beavis and Butthead speak away, and makes for nice reading. Keep up the good work, Taco et al.!
I hope you're right. They have the advantage of being able to skip about 100 years of technical evolution while we carry all the balast. But they can still choose not to do that if it turns out to be too expensive.
Yeah, I browse at +1. I must say the moderation system on/. works quite well; the quality of the posts here (that are rated 1 or higher) is much better than on, for instance, digg.com. I read/. more for the comments than for the news. It's always nice to read other peoples thoughts, if they really have something to say.
I think the water vapour is an unwanted, ubforeseen side effect of global warming. CO2 is a greenhouse gas and helps raising the temperature of the atmosphere. Because of the increased temperature, more water evaporates and the water stays in the atmosphere longer. This helps increasing the temperature of the atmosphere even more...
I once attended a talk about the greenhouse effect, and this guy told us that even if we stop emitting CO2 totally from now on, the temperature of the atmosphere will still rise in the coming 50 years. After that it will decrease again, but it will still take 150 years or so to become normal again. Of course, with the Chinese economy booming like it does, and the rest of the world not stopping producing CO2 in quite large amounts, we can expect to have troubles for a few hundreds of years to come.
I know, but really, the letters are all mixed up if you load it in Preview in Panther. I wasn't joking. I checked, and indeed, in Tiger it looks all right.
I had just the problem you described: the letters are in such a weird order that it's not readable anymore (it's in Dutch but I guess you guessed that already). That's a bit weird. Maybe it's a Panther problem that got solved in Tiger?
I love OS X. I also love Preview. But sometimes it doesn't display pdf correctly. Try to read the second story about Sophie on my website in Preview, for instance...
A not too well-known feature of Acrobat Reader is that when you press shift during loading it skips all the plugins, reducing loading time by about 100 %.
Apple currently offers iBooks with either a standard 12- or 14-inch screen, but looks poised to introduce a completely new model built around (what appears to be) a 13-inch widescreen. Whether the company will offer other iBook models or standardize around the new widescreen model remains unknown.
I never understood this widescreen frenzy that's going on these days. On a computer, widescreen is much less useful than on a TV. High-screen, that would be handy, because then you can see more of the document you are typing. But why anyone would want a widescreen laptop is beyond me.
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I really didn't know that, thanks! So my comment is nonsense.
I can remove all of Safari and my Macs keep working just fine. To do the same with IE is difficult, if not impossible.
We will see version 2 of Steve's monkeydance soon?
Exactly. The moderation system works quite well. Browsing at +1 keeps most of the Beavis and Butthead speak away, and makes for nice reading. Keep up the good work, Taco et al.!
This seems to me scaringly close to reality. Not funny at all...
I hope you're right. They have the advantage of being able to skip about 100 years of technical evolution while we carry all the balast. But they can still choose not to do that if it turns out to be too expensive.
Yeah, I browse at +1. I must say the moderation system on /. works quite well; the quality of the posts here (that are rated 1 or higher) is much better than on, for instance, digg.com. I read /. more for the comments than for the news. It's always nice to read other peoples thoughts, if they really have something to say.
Nice to see that, in the true American spirit (après nous, le déluge), the troll you responede to was modded Insightful.
I think the water vapour is an unwanted, ubforeseen side effect of global warming. CO2 is a greenhouse gas and helps raising the temperature of the atmosphere. Because of the increased temperature, more water evaporates and the water stays in the atmosphere longer. This helps increasing the temperature of the atmosphere even more...
I once attended a talk about the greenhouse effect, and this guy told us that even if we stop emitting CO2 totally from now on, the temperature of the atmosphere will still rise in the coming 50 years. After that it will decrease again, but it will still take 150 years or so to become normal again. Of course, with the Chinese economy booming like it does, and the rest of the world not stopping producing CO2 in quite large amounts, we can expect to have troubles for a few hundreds of years to come.
Weel, trying to cut down on CO2 production is always a good idea, even if it's just to be able to enjoy our fossil fuels longer.
Yeah, he has this amazing new weapon... :-)
Maybe there weren't any eggs available at that time and she volunteered to give some of hers.
A man's got to do what a man's got to do: I'm going to patent the patent.
The early adopters will be the real beta testers, everybody knows that.
Wow, that was an Insightful remark! Pity I don't have mod points!
I know, but really, the letters are all mixed up if you load it in Preview in Panther. I wasn't joking. I checked, and indeed, in Tiger it looks all right.
I had just the problem you described: the letters are in such a weird order that it's not readable anymore (it's in Dutch but I guess you guessed that already). That's a bit weird. Maybe it's a Panther problem that got solved in Tiger?
I love OS X. I also love Preview. But sometimes it doesn't display pdf correctly. Try to read the second story about Sophie on my website in Preview, for instance...
A not too well-known feature of Acrobat Reader is that when you press shift during loading it skips all the plugins, reducing loading time by about 100 %.
Mainstream Linux is also 5 years away! Watch me get modded down for this...
How dare you speak like that on /.? Apple != M$, therefore Apple == Good (TM). You should be modded down, you.., you... Halfbaked Plan!
Apple currently offers iBooks with either a standard 12- or 14-inch screen, but looks poised to introduce a completely new model built around (what appears to be) a 13-inch widescreen. Whether the company will offer other iBook models or standardize around the new widescreen model remains unknown.
I never understood this widescreen frenzy that's going on these days. On a computer, widescreen is much less useful than on a TV. High-screen, that would be handy, because then you can see more of the document you are typing. But why anyone would want a widescreen laptop is beyond me.
Haha, now I'm informative. /. is getting funnier all the time. It was a serious comment, but informative? Come on!
I think UFO's are a lot more interesting than fireballs. I, for one, welcome our firy overlords.
Hahaha ROFLOL!