Re:Another opinion: a mediocre book
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I was also thinking of his Salon article about Amazon; do you think that he might be the one who submitted the article to Slashdot? Sure, this review isn't as gushing as the reviews he gave to his earlier work, but perhaps he's learning the art of self-reviewing as well, and thinks a false review that gives a B+ will be more believable than one that gives an A+? Anything to push some more copies of the book, right? It's the only reason I can come up with that it would be submitted this late after publication.
I just switched to Nightly versions for my Mac, and uninstalled the Logitech Control Center. The middle-click functionality built-into the current Nightlies is *way* more responsive than the Logitech hack was.
There's a bookmarklet that does this. Go to the page http://www.efritz.net/AutoFill2b.html (page appears to be down right now, so check back later), fill in the data, and save the resulting link to your Personal Toolbar. Also, give it a Keyword like 'fill', and you can just type fill in the URLbar to have your form filled in.
There is an extension, named Show Old Extensions, that allow you to reveal 'old' extensions in the new Extension Manager, and in the latest version (0.13) is supposed to show old themes as well. Discussion is here on Mozillazine.
There's a fix proposed for the GDI memory problem which messes up the interface; go to the following thread to get Mook's build, which incorporates this fix: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php? t=5959 3&sid=7b15c23111c67fd04cb6f42c489179c3
Agreed. Outland seemed like a "sophmore slump" album, where the artist decides it is time to make a statement rather than just be entertaining, and fails to do either.
Jack Vance wrote "To Live Forever", which includes a population limiter. You can live your natural life if you choose, or enter the program and your life span is set to (if I recall correctly) 80 years. You then have to "give enough back" to society to be granted the next 20 years, and there are 5 levels before immortality. When your time is up, you are killed.
The interesting ramifications come in when people realize that their "slope" (good deeds versus time) isn't going to reach the next plateau. Often leads to mental breakdown.
As Heinlein said, "There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest."
I may be late to add this, but HydrogenAudio has just begun the second testing phase. See the announcement page. "Building on the AAC at 128kbps test results, this test is meant to compare the AAC winner (QuickTime) against other popular compression formats: Musepack, Vorbis, WMA Pro and MP3." Submit your results by August 3.
While this is true, if you go through the entire discussion on HydrogenAudio, there is a quote from someone at Apple who designed the codecs. According to him, the Best setting is only appropriate for things such as DVD-audio, and there should be no difference between Better and Best when encoding from a CD (except for additional processing time).
RTFA. This was onlyl the first step; next, HydrogenAudio will take the AAC winner (QuickTime) and compare it to what they consider the best encoders for the OGG Vorbis, WMA, MP3, etc.
The Tabbed Browsing Extension by Piro can handle your automatic reloads as well as saving tabs on crash. And many many other cool things. Extensions are beautiful, come back to Moz.
The musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1961) covered this already. I don't have the script handy, but in an introductory scene:
Man 1: Did you get the old man's memo? Man 2: What memo? 1: The memo about memos. We're sending too many memos and it's got to stop! 2: Right, I'll send out a memo on that.
I think they own a large chunk of Akamai, which spreads out the information over a large net. Or something like that. Anyway, it's hard to bring them down.
Aren't there any other sources of news out there other than Wired? This is probably the 8th article from the current issue of Wired posted to Slashdot this week. It's a good issue, admittedly, but really now.
Re:Maybe it is getting interesting again...
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I've been subscribing to Wired, and I think there are 2 or 3 articles in the current issue that *haven't* been posted to Slashdot. Makes me almost wonder why I need to check this page.
Actually, this was very easy to do. My friend had one, and we discovered that if you told to to access the auxiliary card (for more words), but didn't put a card into the slot, it would speak what we thought of as Martian. Good times.
Ad-Aware is critically out of date, and therfore dangerous, according to SpyWareInfo. It's expected to be "out of commission" until February for the free version. He recommends Spybot in the meantime.
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I was also thinking of his Salon article about Amazon; do you think that he might be the one who submitted the article to Slashdot? Sure, this review isn't as gushing as the reviews he gave to his earlier work, but perhaps he's learning the art of self-reviewing as well, and thinks a false review that gives a B+ will be more believable than one that gives an A+? Anything to push some more copies of the book, right? It's the only reason I can come up with that it would be submitted this late after publication.
I just switched to Nightly versions for my Mac, and uninstalled the Logitech Control Center. The middle-click functionality built-into the current Nightlies is *way* more responsive than the Logitech hack was.
There's a bookmarklet that does this. Go to the page http://www.efritz.net/AutoFill2b.html (page appears to be down right now, so check back later), fill in the data, and save the resulting link to your Personal Toolbar. Also, give it a Keyword like 'fill', and you can just type fill in the URLbar to have your form filled in.
There is an extension, named Show Old Extensions, that allow you to reveal 'old' extensions in the new Extension Manager, and in the latest version (0.13) is supposed to show old themes as well. Discussion is here on Mozillazine.
There's a fix proposed for the GDI memory problem which messes up the interface; go to the following thread to get Mook's build, which incorporates this fix:? t=5959 3&sid=7b15c23111c67fd04cb6f42c489179c3
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php
Negativland was my first download as well. Took me quite a while to find something to play MP3 files on my Mac after I found it, however.
... that's the Windows version of Firebird 0.7. Sorry I forgot to mention that.
Mozilla Firebird 0.7 bittorrent, from the unofficial Mozilla BitTorrent page.
Of course, you could always use the open source PDFCreator printer driver in Windows to create PDFs.
Agreed. Outland seemed like a "sophmore slump" album, where the artist decides it is time to make a statement rather than just be entertaining, and fails to do either.
Jack Vance wrote "To Live Forever", which includes a population limiter. You can live your natural life if you choose, or enter the program and your life span is set to (if I recall correctly) 80 years. You then have to "give enough back" to society to be granted the next 20 years, and there are 5 levels before immortality. When your time is up, you are killed.
The interesting ramifications come in when people realize that their "slope" (good deeds versus time) isn't going to reach the next plateau. Often leads to mental breakdown.
As Heinlein said, "There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest."
I may be late to add this, but HydrogenAudio has just begun the second testing phase. See the announcement page. "Building on the AAC at 128kbps test results, this test is meant to compare the AAC winner (QuickTime) against other popular compression formats: Musepack, Vorbis, WMA Pro and MP3." Submit your results by August 3.
While this is true, if you go through the entire discussion on HydrogenAudio, there is a quote from someone at Apple who designed the codecs. According to him, the Best setting is only appropriate for things such as DVD-audio, and there should be no difference between Better and Best when encoding from a CD (except for additional processing time).
RTFA. This was onlyl the first step; next, HydrogenAudio will take the AAC winner (QuickTime) and compare it to what they consider the best encoders for the OGG Vorbis, WMA, MP3, etc.
How does it translate "omg, LOL"? Or perhaps there's a teenager->English option?
One of my favorite comparisons:
Kenny G is to Jazz
as
sugar is to soup.
The Tabbed Browsing Extension by Piro can handle your automatic reloads as well as saving tabs on crash. And many many other cool things. Extensions are beautiful, come back to Moz.
The musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1961) covered this already. I don't have the script handy, but in an introductory scene:
Man 1: Did you get the old man's memo?
Man 2: What memo?
1: The memo about memos. We're sending too many memos and it's got to stop!
2: Right, I'll send out a memo on that.
Nothing in the business world really changes.
I think they own a large chunk of Akamai, which spreads out the information over a large net. Or something like that. Anyway, it's hard to bring them down.
Aren't there any other sources of news out there other than Wired? This is probably the 8th article from the current issue of Wired posted to Slashdot this week. It's a good issue, admittedly, but really now.
I've been subscribing to Wired, and I think there are 2 or 3 articles in the current issue that *haven't* been posted to Slashdot. Makes me almost wonder why I need to check this page.
Actually, this was very easy to do. My friend had one, and we discovered that if you told to to access the auxiliary card (for more words), but didn't put a card into the slot, it would speak what we thought of as Martian. Good times.
Ad-Aware is critically out of date, and therfore dangerous, according to SpyWareInfo. It's expected to be "out of commission" until February for the free version. He recommends Spybot in the meantime.
You should be plenty safe with this one. Disney has never sued anyone for soundalikes...