You're disregarded because of your sinister practices... (awful pun fully intended:-) I wouldn't call the pun awful -- obscure? yes. I even had to look up the etymology of "sinister" to be sure. And I thought I knew all the negative words and phrases associated with "left". Nice one though:-P
I wouldn't be surprised if a scrolling track pad was added on the left of the mouse where the thumb rests, because an ugly "scroll wheel" on top wouldn't be aesthetic. Not to mention how unusable it is.
Where most people's thumbs rest, but the trend of more and more mouses being 'ergonomical' is anathema to us left-handers, since there are almost never left-handed versions. Talk about unusable:-( I'm happy when I can still just get a symmetrical mouse. Why is it that some 10% of the population is so often disregarded? Ah well, at least we still have the advantage at drive-thrus:-P
I don't know if you can still get them, but they were among the best, and very portable too; I don't know how many lunch breaks I spent playing those at school. Ah, memories...
Decency is not maintained, but defined, by censorship.
This is quote-worthy material! It sums your whole post up nicely. Did you just make that up, or was that from another source? If it is from another source, I'd love to find out where that is. If you made it up: Bravo!
Sorry, couldn't resist but.... remaining silent, by definition, doesn't change the signal to noise ratio at all, since it's neither signal nor noise;-)
The setting you're looking for is: Section "Monitor"
DisplaySize [x] [y]....(other Monitor settings) EndSection
where x and y are the screen width and height in millimeters. X then calculates the dpi from that. Most distributions seem to set this based on the 'usual' size for screens of a certain resolution, but that's usually way off for laptops. I just measured my laptop screen and set it appropriately.
I see no problem with firing employees that refuse to curtail major, avoidable, unnatural risk factors that cost the company money.
So there's no problem with firing someone who goes skiing or skydiving in their free time? How about swimming? Or most sports for that matter. All risk factors. Maybe not as high as with smoking but who determines what is major? Then there's travel. Some countries are more dangerous than others; will employers have lists of 'approved' destinations for vacation? For that matter living in or visiting certain parts of many U.S. cities can increase your risk factor: "We didn't fire him because he's black, we fired him because he was visiting the ghetto where he grew up: a major, avoidable, unnatural risk factor!"
I know this is a slippery slope argument, but the point is that saving the company money shouldn't trump your freedom to spend your free time as you see fit. Life is dangerous and uncertain. You can't put everything on a balance sheet when it comes to human beings, and as long as companies are hiring human beings then they need to consider that to be the *company's* risk factor. After all there are still laws which prevent discrimination against handicapped people, even if it costs more money, and even if they are handicapped because they fell asleep at the wheel or broke their neck horse-back riding (both avoidable risk factors).
I forget what movie, but a guy is hypnotized to see people he would love as a person as "hot supermodels", i think to some extent, the brain does this as you get older, so you can still find a 45 year old cute or atractive.
Originally Spider-man got Venom from a trip into space with the X-Men but obviously they can't do that for licensing reasons.
Wait, wasn't that the trip into space with half of Marveldom? Where everyone was transported to some weird planet to fight in that tournament and Spidey gets the black costume? Or am I mixing storylines up? It's been a long time (I stopped collecting mid-80's).
Re: ambiguous - Like I said, I was too lazy to get more verbose (and I should be working as well), but I'll bite on a couple of those comments, for the rest try airing this stuff at KDE dot news or the appropriate forums/mailing lists. Maybe you'll get some answers to help you, assuming you want it.
No. There isn't a web browser in your file manager because it is sliced, so to speak. There is a web browser part which is displayed in the Konqueror frame. If you don't want to use that part, don't enter a web url. Konqueror does have one purpose: To display files (you sound like a unix type, so you must agree that a directory is also a file) which can be referenced by a url or to start a program which has been associated with said file, depending on how you've configured it.
Flexibility means doing it either way: Konqueror allows this (see file-types->embedding), though I'll give you that changing the behavior doesn't seem to work properly for tars (bzip or gzip) on 3.3.0; still it does work for pdf and the like. For the tars and indeed for any file type regardless how it's configured see the next line.
To open a file externally: middle click. No right click menu necessary.
Slow? It used to be, I'll admit that, but not in 3.3.0 and they're already up to 3.3.2
Trash source directories? News to me, though I guess it's possible. Still, it sounds like you have used it more than I had assumed from your post. What version are/were you using?
There, I went and typed a lot more than I had intended - sigh. I'm just trying to say, maybe you should look into how flexible Konqueror is by asking in the appropriate forums... you might be surprised.
The way they did it seems to be done in a manner just to be contrary to the way it's done in Windows (which is odd for a window manager that also decided to copy the file browser-that's-also-a-web-browser annoyance)
This statement alone tells me you know nothing about Konqueror, how it works, what the design philosophy is, and where they got their ideas. I'm too lazy for more than this short rebuke; so if you're too lazy to actually learn about the subject at hand than maybe you should save yourself the effort of typing anti-informative crap like this.
Just 12 years ago, the Republicans were the ones without the Presidency, and with minorities in the House and Senate. When democracy wasn't going their way, they didn't waste time bitching and moaning about the liberals in power and the people who voted for them.
Yeah, they went ahead and impeached the Democrat. No pussy-footing there.
Mostly I don't understand the refusal to question the leadership in the name of patriotism. When you nation is founded on principles, what can be more patriotic than asking hard questions about whether or not those principles are being followed?
Exactly!!!! I can't understand it either. I wish I could express clearly in written words how very much I don't understand it. But it does fit well with that old Göring quote about war. (or the original German if you can read that)
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Moderate Religious Fundamentalists
;-)
What?!?!?!
On a side note, it'd kinda hard to be a moderate Fundamentalist.
Somewhat like how it's kind of hard to be slightly pregnant...
Hmmmm. I have the feeling you are trying *very* hard to be diplomatic
-chris
You're disregarded because of your sinister practices... (awful pun fully intended :-) I wouldn't call the pun awful -- obscure? yes. I even had to look up the etymology of "sinister" to be sure. And I thought I knew all the negative words and phrases associated with "left". Nice one though :-P
-chris
I wouldn't be surprised if a scrolling track pad was added on the left of the mouse where the thumb rests, because an ugly "scroll wheel" on top wouldn't be aesthetic. Not to mention how unusable it is.
:-( I'm happy when I can still just get a symmetrical mouse. Why is it that some 10% of the population is so often disregarded? Ah well, at least we still have the advantage at drive-thrus :-P
Where most people's thumbs rest, but the trend of more and more mouses being 'ergonomical' is anathema to us left-handers, since there are almost never left-handed versions. Talk about unusable
-chris
Dude, if you're in Helsinki you've got Fazer, which is not too bad either.
-chris
Illuminati
;-)
Mmmmmm... Illuminati. The best back-stabbing game
-chris
I don't know if you can still get them, but they were among the best, and very portable too; I don't know how many lunch breaks I spent playing those at school. Ah, memories...
-chris
Decency is not maintained, but defined, by censorship.
This is quote-worthy material! It sums your whole post up nicely. Did you just make that up, or was that from another source? If it is from another source, I'd love to find out where that is. If you made it up: Bravo!
-chris
Nah, people admitting they're mistaken are usually modded redundant or offtopic so you don't see those posts ;-)
-chris
Sorry, couldn't resist but.... remaining silent, by definition, doesn't change the signal to noise ratio at all, since it's neither signal nor noise ;-)
-chris
The setting you're looking for is: ....(other Monitor settings)
Section "Monitor"
DisplaySize [x] [y]
EndSection
where x and y are the screen width and height in millimeters. X then calculates the dpi from that. Most distributions seem to set this based on the 'usual' size for screens of a certain resolution, but that's usually way off for laptops. I just measured my laptop screen and set it appropriately.
-chris
I see no problem with firing employees that refuse to curtail major, avoidable, unnatural risk factors that cost the company money.
So there's no problem with firing someone who goes skiing or skydiving in their free time? How about swimming? Or most sports for that matter. All risk factors. Maybe not as high as with smoking but who determines what is major? Then there's travel. Some countries are more dangerous than others; will employers have lists of 'approved' destinations for vacation? For that matter living in or visiting certain parts of many U.S. cities can increase your risk factor: "We didn't fire him because he's black, we fired him because he was visiting the ghetto where he grew up: a major, avoidable, unnatural risk factor!"
I know this is a slippery slope argument, but the point is that saving the company money shouldn't trump your freedom to spend your free time as you see fit. Life is dangerous and uncertain. You can't put everything on a balance sheet when it comes to human beings, and as long as companies are hiring human beings then they need to consider that to be the *company's* risk factor. After all there are still laws which prevent discrimination against handicapped people, even if it costs more money, and even if they are handicapped because they fell asleep at the wheel or broke their neck horse-back riding (both avoidable risk factors).
-chris
Wow. This sounds like great material for a 3D shooter. When's the release date? ;-)
-chris
I forget what movie, but a guy is hypnotized to see people he would love as a person as "hot supermodels", i think to some extent, the brain does this as you get older, so you can still find a 45 year old cute or atractive.
"Shallow Hal" - great movie.
Cheers,
Chris
Really? Could your direct me to any websites that catalog such differences?
;-)
Try any porn site
-chris
Originally Spider-man got Venom from a trip into space with the X-Men but obviously they can't do that for licensing reasons.
Wait, wasn't that the trip into space with half of Marveldom? Where everyone was transported to some weird planet to fight in that tournament and Spidey gets the black costume? Or am I mixing storylines up? It's been a long time (I stopped collecting mid-80's).
-chris
...as opposed to my idiot boyfriend...
;-)
Who's the bigger idiot? The idiot, or the idiot who dates him?
Sorry, couldn't resist.
-chris
Re: ambiguous - Like I said, I was too lazy to get more verbose (and I should be working as well), but I'll bite on a couple of those comments, for the rest try airing this stuff at KDE dot news or the appropriate forums/mailing lists. Maybe you'll get some answers to help you, assuming you want it.
No. There isn't a web browser in your file manager because it is sliced, so to speak. There is a web browser part which is displayed in the Konqueror frame. If you don't want to use that part, don't enter a web url. Konqueror does have one purpose: To display files (you sound like a unix type, so you must agree that a directory is also a file) which can be referenced by a url or to start a program which has been associated with said file, depending on how you've configured it.
Flexibility means doing it either way: Konqueror allows this (see file-types->embedding), though I'll give you that changing the behavior doesn't seem to work properly for tars (bzip or gzip) on 3.3.0; still it does work for pdf and the like. For the tars and indeed for any file type regardless how it's configured see the next line.
To open a file externally: middle click. No right click menu necessary.
Slow? It used to be, I'll admit that, but not in 3.3.0 and they're already up to 3.3.2
Trash source directories? News to me, though I guess it's possible. Still, it sounds like you have used it more than I had assumed from your post. What version are/were you using?
There, I went and typed a lot more than I had intended - sigh. I'm just trying to say, maybe you should look into how flexible Konqueror is by asking in the appropriate forums... you might be surprised.
-chris
The way they did it seems to be done in a manner just to be contrary to the way it's done in Windows (which is odd for a window manager that also decided to copy the file browser-that's-also-a-web-browser annoyance)
This statement alone tells me you know nothing about Konqueror, how it works, what the design philosophy is, and where they got their ideas. I'm too lazy for more than this short rebuke; so if you're too lazy to actually learn about the subject at hand than maybe you should save yourself the effort of typing anti-informative crap like this.
-chris
Thanks for the great link! I particularly liked the Scandal Girls page linked from there.
-chris
I think they should change their motto to:
;-)
Because we're not watching our children.
Maybe some civic-minded Slashdotter will read your post and change it for them...
Ahem. Nevermind. Forget I said that.
-Chris
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-chris
Sure lot's of people read the articles. Just not the ones who post ;-)
-chris
I'm surprised nobody has said this yet. We just have this guy count all the votes!
-chris
Just 12 years ago, the Republicans were the ones without the Presidency, and with minorities in the House and Senate. When democracy wasn't going their way, they didn't waste time bitching and moaning about the liberals in power and the people who voted for them.
Yeah, they went ahead and impeached the Democrat. No pussy-footing there.
-Chris
Mostly I don't understand the refusal to question the leadership in the name of patriotism. When you nation is founded on principles, what can be more patriotic than asking hard questions about whether or not those principles are being followed?
Exactly!!!! I can't understand it either. I wish I could express clearly in written words how very much I don't understand it. But it does fit well with that old Göring quote about war. (or the original German if you can read that)
-chris