Uhh...you do. When you're downloading, a small link saying "pause" appears beneath the download in the download manager. If you click it, it stops the download and changes to a "resume" link. Try it.
I only have adblock and bugmenot, so it's not extensions causing the problem.
I think it must be adblock. I've heard so many people complaining about this, I wish one of them would try and narrow it down to a single cause. I have Firefox 1.5.0.1 on XP, with 26 tabs, over two windows, and my memory usage is at 130 MB. This includes several comics and sites with Java. I have All-in-One-Gestures, SessionSaver, undoclosetab and FLST as extensions. It's been running for about a week (I think that's the last time I restarted). Why am I not seeing the same memory usage that others see? It's very odd.
Well, I tried to open one of those files with the File/Open IN OpenCalc and it just opened a OpenWrite window with the numbers HA!
I looked for an "Import" button, I tried with the "Document Import wizzard" without luck. So I could not even *start* to compare it.
This is a bit silly, as I think it should at least ask what to open in if there's any doubt. But you were trying to be too complicated. Just drag and drop the file onto Calc and it'll work exactly the same as Excel. Alternatively, if you rename the file from.txt to.csv it'll work too.
As for Calc lacking options: well, you claim it but it has exactly the functions you required. I don't know what you're complaining about here.
BTW, if you're planning to do a lot of stats work later, it really is worth taking the time to learn a real stats package. It'll save you a lot of work in the long term. SPSS is quite easy to pick up.
Cell phone records? I want his credit card number, bank account numbers, SS number, name, dob and so on. Maybe even his passport info for good measure.
Get your computer to generate all the numbers from 0 to 10000000000000000000000 dumping them to a file (actually, *don't*, but theoretically). There you go: you now have my phone number, my mobile number, my credit card and account numbers, and my ip address in decimal. Do what you like with them....or are you going to claim I own bits of that file? That you've just breached my copyright?
And since the information is free and cannot be restrained, according to him, I can use all of it any way I want since I now own that copy.
No, you can use it any *legal* way you want. If you happened to find out that entering my phone number in your bank's security system disabled all their security, and you steal all their money, you'll find that the judge won't find "but it's his phone number! He gave it to me!" a convincing excuse.
As for the other guy's SS number, bank accounts, etc...you do realise it's not illegal for you to be in possession of that information, don't you? Of course, if you were to use that information to pretend to *be* him....well....I suggest you consult a lawyer about that first...
Well, I'm not him, but I would have a problem with the release of my phone records, but not because I own that information (as a matter of fact, I don't). It's because the phone company has then breached our confidentiality agreement. If I told you, as a secret, "John's having an affair, but don't tell anyone", I'd be pissed off if you did tell, and if you'd signed a contract saying you wouldn't I could sue. But if someone else wrote "John's having an affair" on their website, I couldn't claim that I somehow *owned* that information and there would be nothing I could do about it.
This is why I don't like the phrase "Intellectual Property" as it groups together very different things. I support the idea of abolishing copyrights and patents, but I think Trademarks are a good idea.
The KDE Guarddog firewall does not show up in "top" as a process that takes up memory, unless you boot up the configuration interface to make changes to the firewall rules.
That's because Guarddog isn't a firewall. It's a configuration tool for iptables (Linux's built in firewall).
Can you find any links backing up that tale? The Sunday Times website shows no such headline as "U.S. terror attacks foiled"; in fact the only result googling that phrase returns is that very story on several different websites.
Also, reports says the planned to attack Italy. Can you find any links supporting the idea they intended to attack in the US?
Contrast the quote in your article with: "Italy's interior minister, Giuseppe Pisanu on Friday played down the case, saying "too much fuss" was being made about it. However, he said that Italy remains on "high alert" over possible terrorist attacks." (from previous link)
Finally, the phone taps in this case appear to have been conducted entirely legally. How would this have aided Mr Bush in any way? The Italians can catch terrorists without breaking the law, but Americans can't?
No, actually, I modded you troll and am now posting to remove that moderation.
The reason I modded you as "troll" in the first place was because I was sure that no-one could really be so stupid as to think that just because a person could produce a graphic for a splash screen, they must also be able to program and write in 16 bit support, and it was just a matter of priorities. Surely anyone with a brain would be able to realise that they would be completely different involved in the two activities, I reasoned. Therefore I figured your post must be a troll rather than a serious complaint.
However, given your followup postings, I now realise I was mistaken and you actually are that stupid. Sorry about the misunderstanding. Troll moderation duly removed.
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The Japanese life expectancy is high, but there are a couple of things to consider which I suspect have more impact than their lack of concern:
* Japanese men smoke a lot. The figure is very low for women. * Their diet is generally a lot better than the typical western diet. * Smoking did not become popular in Japan until after WWII. Expect to see a rise in smoking related illnesses as the effects start to hit.
AFAIK, that's the only government in the world whose military budget is over $100 billion / year...
If you meant that other countries spent less than $100 billion, then yes...much less...China is the second biggest military spender and spent $51 billion.
If you meant the USA spent more than $100 billion, then yes...much more...the USA as biggest military spender spent $420 billion.
OTOH, without all that spending there's no way you could have got your national debt to hit $8 trillion last month! Pretty impressive stuff! Only took two years to go from 7 trillion to 8 trillion and it shows no sign of slowing, so I'm betting on 9 trillion by the end of next year. (Cue "brazillion" joke)
Grr, why is it that every release breaks the old extensions and requires a rewrite? Seriously, do the developers lack so much foresight that they can't settle on an extension API and support it in subsequent versions?
They don't require a rewrite and aren't broken. It's the extension writers setting the version number they support too low. Just changing that number in the extension is normally the only change that's required. Complain to whoever wrote the "broken" extension. You can check this yourself by unzipping the.xpi file, editing the Install.rdf file and change em:maxVersion to something like 2.0. It won't complain that it's broken again (of course, if something changes that really *does* break the extension, it will stop working without warning (unless of course the extension has a new release, which you install (which would, presumably, require you to edit the Install.rdf again to keep it working))).
OED: Buttle, v.
a. To pour out (drink). 1867 B. BRIERLEY Marlocks Merriton 5 in Lanc. Gloss. (E.D.S.) 60 The broad village green buttled round its cheap delights. 1875 E. WAUGH Old Cronies iii. 34 ibid., 'Buttle out, free!' cried Giles to the servants.
"Rebuttle" is not a word. Neither is "Buttle". It's "Rebuttal". Look it up
Actually, "buttle" is a word. It means to pour out drink (it's a back-formation from "butler"). Therefore "rebuttle" is obviously to refill someone's glass. Or something. Ahem.
So if I read this right, this amazingly easy installation procedure (which is pitched as a strength of FOSS) does not have any dependency on the Free/Open Source development model because the installation packages are binary
And here you have stumbled upon the dirty secret of Linux. I was keen to enter into the world of Open Source myself, and had heard that Gentoo was an excellent Source Based distro. Imagine my horror when I discovered that running the "emerge" command not only downloaded the Source Code, but then proceeded to compile it into binaries before installing!!! I was disgusted and dismayed at this pollution of the Open Source ideals! It's good to know I'm not the only one who feels this way, and I will continue in my quest for a Pure Open Source Operating System, untainted by the blight of "binary code".
Not that I want to be skeptical, or claim to know the real story, but do you have any non-catholic sources for that information?
There's one here though I think it's a bit harsh on Galileo....the Catholic ones are kinder! It's a much more interesting story than the simplistic myth, I think. With all the factions that had a stake in the matter, it would make a fascinating documentary.
So what if you do an OS upgrade? You're stuck without a browser. Oh, where would you go to get a browser? I'd probably think www.opera.com or www.mozilla.org. Shame I don't have a web browser to get there. There's FTP; who remembers FTP addresses
They're ftp.opera.com and ftp.mozilla.org respectively. If only you had a 4 digit slashdot id, you'd be able to perform these stunning feats of memory too!;-)
I've been watching daily for an update and there still isn't one. Firefox sells itself on security.
This isn't a security hole, it's code that crashes the browser. There is no exploit here. On the other hand, you shouldn't have been modded down there, since it's that security page you linked to hyping themselves that lead to this kind of confusion...
It doesn't, but the default meaning is that of the sewing implement, as that is what needle refers to. If it was referring to something else it would have stated this. Bottle has the alternative meaning of "A bundle of hay or straw" and therefore makes sense in that context. There is no such reference for "needle".
Actually, in re-reading my original response, I had meant "Where else would the phrase come from?" as a genuine question, but I can see how it could be read as an arrogant remark. My apologies. I can well believe that such an item (a haystack needle) exists, but it's not where the phrase comes from. And I am curious, as I remember helping with making haystacks by hand when I was younger, and we never used any such implement. What exactly was it for?
You sound so confident, and yet, so wrong and amusing.
I sound so confident because I looked up the origin of the phrase in the OED beforehand. First usages are:
"1592 R. GREENE Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. Ev, He..gropeth in the dark to find a needle in a bottle of hay. 1690 W. WALKER Idiomatologia Anglo-Lat. (1695) Pref., A labour much like that of seeking a needle in a Bottle of Hay. 1711 E. WARD Vulgus Brit. VIII. 95 Seeking we may say, A Needle in a Truss of Hay. 1742 T. GRAY Let. 24 May in Corr. (1971) I. 203 A coach that seem'd to have lost its way by looking for a needle in a bottle of hay. 1779 W. ROGERS in J. Sullivan Jrnls. Mil. Expedition (1887) 262 But agreeably to the old adage it was similar to looking for needles in a hay stack."
Your suggested origin makes absolutely no sense. Do you have a cite for it?
as though *your* world experience encompasses all that could have ever been
Fortunately I am able to read and therefore benefit from the experience of others. You might want to give it a try yourself rather than attempting patronising comments.
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Hang on...they tried to get a bunch of Americans to try and spot sarcasm?! Well, isn't that ironic...
As for Calc lacking options: well, you claim it but it has exactly the functions you required. I don't know what you're complaining about here.
BTW, if you're planning to do a lot of stats work later, it really is worth taking the time to learn a real stats package. It'll save you a lot of work in the long term. SPSS is quite easy to pick up.
No, you can use it any *legal* way you want. If you happened to find out that entering my phone number in your bank's security system disabled all their security, and you steal all their money, you'll find that the judge won't find "but it's his phone number! He gave it to me!" a convincing excuse.
As for the other guy's SS number, bank accounts, etc...you do realise it's not illegal for you to be in possession of that information, don't you? Of course, if you were to use that information to pretend to *be* him....well....I suggest you consult a lawyer about that first...
Well, I'm not him, but I would have a problem with the release of my phone records, but not because I own that information (as a matter of fact, I don't). It's because the phone company has then breached our confidentiality agreement. If I told you, as a secret, "John's having an affair, but don't tell anyone", I'd be pissed off if you did tell, and if you'd signed a contract saying you wouldn't I could sue. But if someone else wrote "John's having an affair" on their website, I couldn't claim that I somehow *owned* that information and there would be nothing I could do about it.
This is why I don't like the phrase "Intellectual Property" as it groups together very different things. I support the idea of abolishing copyrights and patents, but I think Trademarks are a good idea.
Also, reports says the planned to attack Italy. Can you find any links supporting the idea they intended to attack in the US?
Contrast the quote in your article with: "Italy's interior minister, Giuseppe Pisanu on Friday played down the case, saying "too much fuss" was being made about it. However, he said that Italy remains on "high alert" over possible terrorist attacks." (from previous link)
Finally, the phone taps in this case appear to have been conducted entirely legally. How would this have aided Mr Bush in any way? The Italians can catch terrorists without breaking the law, but Americans can't?
I thought it sounded like a good name for a GSV. They must name at least one ship after it...
The reason I modded you as "troll" in the first place was because I was sure that no-one could really be so stupid as to think that just because a person could produce a graphic for a splash screen, they must also be able to program and write in 16 bit support, and it was just a matter of priorities. Surely anyone with a brain would be able to realise that they would be completely different involved in the two activities, I reasoned. Therefore I figured your post must be a troll rather than a serious complaint.
However, given your followup postings, I now realise I was mistaken and you actually are that stupid. Sorry about the misunderstanding. Troll moderation duly removed.
The Japanese life expectancy is high, but there are a couple of things to consider which I suspect have more impact than their lack of concern:
* Japanese men smoke a lot. The figure is very low for women.
* Their diet is generally a lot better than the typical western diet.
* Smoking did not become popular in Japan until after WWII. Expect to see a rise in smoking related illnesses as the effects start to hit.
If you meant the USA spent more than $100 billion, then yes...much more...the USA as biggest military spender spent $420 billion.
OTOH, without all that spending there's no way you could have got your national debt to hit $8 trillion last month! Pretty impressive stuff! Only took two years to go from 7 trillion to 8 trillion and it shows no sign of slowing, so I'm betting on 9 trillion by the end of next year. (Cue "brazillion" joke)
Use File...Exit instead of just closing, and it will keep all your windows.
Well, you need a better dictionary then ;-)
OED:
Buttle, v.
a. To pour out (drink).
1867 B. BRIERLEY Marlocks Merriton 5 in Lanc. Gloss. (E.D.S.) 60 The broad village green buttled round its cheap delights. 1875 E. WAUGH Old Cronies iii. 34 ibid., 'Buttle out, free!' cried Giles to the servants.
It doesn't, but the default meaning is that of the sewing implement, as that is what needle refers to. If it was referring to something else it would have stated this. Bottle has the alternative meaning of "A bundle of hay or straw" and therefore makes sense in that context. There is no such reference for "needle".
Actually, in re-reading my original response, I had meant "Where else would the phrase come from?" as a genuine question, but I can see how it could be read as an arrogant remark. My apologies. I can well believe that such an item (a haystack needle) exists, but it's not where the phrase comes from. And I am curious, as I remember helping with making haystacks by hand when I was younger, and we never used any such implement. What exactly was it for?
"1592 R. GREENE Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. Ev, He..gropeth in the dark to find a needle in a bottle of hay. 1690 W. WALKER Idiomatologia Anglo-Lat. (1695) Pref., A labour much like that of seeking a needle in a Bottle of Hay. 1711 E. WARD Vulgus Brit. VIII. 95 Seeking we may say, A Needle in a Truss of Hay. 1742 T. GRAY Let. 24 May in Corr. (1971) I. 203 A coach that seem'd to have lost its way by looking for a needle in a bottle of hay. 1779 W. ROGERS in J. Sullivan Jrnls. Mil. Expedition (1887) 262 But agreeably to the old adage it was similar to looking for needles in a hay stack."
Your suggested origin makes absolutely no sense. Do you have a cite for it?
Fortunately I am able to read and therefore benefit from the experience of others. You might want to give it a try yourself rather than attempting patronising comments.