He tells Man (a special creation that did not come from 'lower' beings) to 'be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth'. He also tells Adam that he is in charge of the brids of the sky and beasts of the ground.
Ah yes, the Intelligent Designer who didn't realize that Adam would need a mate.
I agree about the cutscenes. This is Serious Sam, not Deux Ex. I don't care about the plot. I just want to shoot hundreds upon hundreds of monsters. It's frustrating because on one hand I don't want to sit through the rather lame cutscenes, I just want to get back to the action, but I'm also afraid that some vital plot point will be revealed in one of the cutscenes, so I'm hesitant to skip them. Stupid blue midgets, I don't care about your village.
Musical theater groups who license the rights to perform The Wizard of Oz have the option of adding that number back in. I haven't see the deleted footage you saw in school, but I have seen Jitterbug performed live.
Two weekends ago I met a guy who works part-time for Cingular. All he does is walk around downtown Chicago for six hours pretending to talk on a cellphone and throwing in an occasional pro-Cingular phrase, like "Oh it's okay, I've got unlimited minutes through Cingular", or "Man, even in an elevator I get great reception with Cingular", etc.
THEN, last week US Cellular hired people to paint their faces blue and do pretty much the same thing. Just people in business attire with blue faces riding the subway and talking up US Cellular. And probably plotting how to take back Scotland from Edward the Longshanks...
"One of the defendants supposedly has an end user license agreement pursuant to which computer users are to be informed that spyware will be installed. However, the plaintiff alleged that that defendant has three means by which to avoid showing this agreement to computer users."
Uh, yeah. Occam's Razor will always favor supernatural causes. Nice argument. Now if only there was a single shred of evidence that there is such a thing as the supernatural....
"Does anyone else find there is no way to read a PDF with the scroll buttons..."
No. I just set it to Continuous. See those four icons in the lower right corner? (assuming you've got a recent version) Play with those. You want the second button from the left
"This goes along with the concept that for an electronic format, I do NOT need a sentence (or even worse, hyphenated word) broken up by two inches of top and bottom margin filled with page numbers, miscellaneous watermarks, repetitive titles, etc."
Well, the whole purpose of PDF is to "preserve the look and integrity of your original documents... regardless of the application and platform used to create it." Blame the creators of that particular pdf file if you don't like the headers, footers and margin size. When I make pdf books to read on the train...I just finished Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath by Lovecraft...I open the original ascii text file in Word, make the top & bottom margins tiny, change the font to something tolerable and export it.
Is there any product for Windows like Bastille Linux that would help a user lock down any vulnerabilities in their system like file shares, unnecessary accounts, open ports, unnecessary services, IE settings, etc?
If not, there should be.
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You do realize that Joel didn't write any of these essays, right?
"Firefox goes against IE behavior and starts each browser instance from scratch. IE intentionally brings the browser history into the new window: the bet being that users who want to continue from where they left off can, and those that want to go their home page can do that with one click."
This was my number one frustration with IE. When I want a new browser window (or tab) I want a blank one. I want my browser to be fast and responsive. I DON'T want to wait the second or two that it takes for IE to reload the page (that I don't even want) for the new window. Often it doesn't even grab it from the cache...it actually re-downloads the page from the internet. So I learned to hit Escape immediately after Ctrl-N to stop the reload. And as far as I know, you can't turn that feature off. Meh. I use Opera now. It's nimble and responsive. New tabs are blank. In the extremely rare situation where I actually want to reload the current page in a new tab, there's Window/Duplicate in the menus.
And then he mentions home pages...just out of curiousity, do any of you use a home page? What do you use it for? My homepage is set to blank in all my browsers. Google is the site I visit most frequently, but I've got the search box on the toolbar so I never have to actually go to Google.com and then type my search criteria. I can't think of any site that I would want to load every time I launch a browser. But maybe that's just me.
Sometimes it's interesting to follow a comic book nerd debate (e.g. Hulk vs. Juggernaut). The debaters put so much effort and citations into their argument, some even going back decades ("the Hulk lifted a mountain in Secret Wars!"). Ultimately though, no one seems to realize that there is no objective truth in a fictional world, and the outcome of any battle is entirely the whim of the writer. If the writer needs the Hulk to get the tar beaten out of him by the Toad, then it'll happen (depsite furious cries of "Uh-uh, no way!").
(But don't listen to me, I'm still bitter that a powerless Storm beat Cyclops for the leadership of the X-Men way back in um, Uncanny X-Men #201?)
(I looked it up and I'm right. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing)
More Start button woes...I run my taskbar at double-height because I run my monitor rotated 90 degrees and the taskbar becomes too narrow to find things. So, double-height taskbar gives me two rows of program buttons, two rows of quick-launch shortcuts and two rows of stuff in the systray (and I get the day of the week in addition to the time! score!). But instead of staying down in the corner, the Start button is docked to the top of the taskbar with a big Start-button-sized empty space below it. I can't do the corner thing at all.
But the actions needed post-hurricane are much the same actions required after an attack with chemical or bio weapons. We're very unlikely to have advance notice of any attacks, much less 18 hours, so the response has to be fast to be effective.
Is anyone impressed with this display of preparedness and response?
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Okay, most moden archeological evidence and Egyptian history shows that the Jews were never slaves in Egypt. Is that contradictory enough for you?
He tells Man (a special creation that did not come from 'lower' beings) to 'be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth'. He also tells Adam that he is in charge of the brids of the sky and beasts of the ground.
Ah yes, the Intelligent Designer who didn't realize that Adam would need a mate.
It's so plausible!
Now tell me the one about the talking snake.
I think most people point to Wolfenstein as the first FPS.
I agree about the cutscenes. This is Serious Sam, not Deux Ex. I don't care about the plot. I just want to shoot hundreds upon hundreds of monsters. It's frustrating because on one hand I don't want to sit through the rather lame cutscenes, I just want to get back to the action, but I'm also afraid that some vital plot point will be revealed in one of the cutscenes, so I'm hesitant to skip them. Stupid blue midgets, I don't care about your village.
Musical theater groups who license the rights to perform The Wizard of Oz have the option of adding that number back in. I haven't see the deleted footage you saw in school, but I have seen Jitterbug performed live.
But the "You broke our laws and have to abide by our rulings" play is somehow unreasonable?
"Microsoft has not taken the high road, but neither has South Korea."
Care to elaborate? The KFTC is asking them to unbundle certain software, not abandon the South Korean market.
Why would it come to that? Nothing about this would invalidate existing installations of Windows.
Two weekends ago I met a guy who works part-time for Cingular. All he does is walk around downtown Chicago for six hours pretending to talk on a cellphone and throwing in an occasional pro-Cingular phrase, like "Oh it's okay, I've got unlimited minutes through Cingular", or "Man, even in an elevator I get great reception with Cingular", etc.
THEN, last week US Cellular hired people to paint their faces blue and do pretty much the same thing. Just people in business attire with blue faces riding the subway and talking up US Cellular. And probably plotting how to take back Scotland from Edward the Longshanks...
From TFA:
"One of the defendants supposedly has an end user license agreement pursuant to which computer users are to be informed that spyware will be installed. However, the plaintiff alleged that that defendant has three means by which to avoid showing this agreement to computer users."
Uh, yeah. Occam's Razor will always favor supernatural causes. Nice argument. Now if only there was a single shred of evidence that there is such a thing as the supernatural....
How does "We Love Katamari" refer to Taiwan in the global level? I assume the King of All Cosmos is the ultimate authority.
"Does anyone else find there is no way to read a PDF with the scroll buttons..."
... regardless of the application and platform used to create it." Blame the creators of that particular pdf file if you don't like the headers, footers and margin size. When I make pdf books to read on the train...I just finished Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath by Lovecraft...I open the original ascii text file in Word, make the top & bottom margins tiny, change the font to something tolerable and export it.
No. I just set it to Continuous. See those four icons in the lower right corner? (assuming you've got a recent version) Play with those. You want the second button from the left
"This goes along with the concept that for an electronic format, I do NOT need a sentence (or even worse, hyphenated word) broken up by two inches of top and bottom margin filled with page numbers, miscellaneous watermarks, repetitive titles, etc."
Well, the whole purpose of PDF is to "preserve the look and integrity of your original documents
Is there any product for Windows like Bastille Linux that would help a user lock down any vulnerabilities in their system like file shares, unnecessary accounts, open ports, unnecessary services, IE settings, etc?
If not, there should be.
You do realize that Joel didn't write any of these essays, right?
Type "yahoo" in the address bar and hit Enter.
This can be customized under Preferences/Network/Server Name Completion.
And even if you did accidently close Opera (my confirmation are turned off), all your tabs would be reloaded the next time Opera launches.
And BTW, middle-clicking on a link has the same effect as the "CTRL+SHIFT+CLICK/Open in background tab feature".
"Firefox goes against IE behavior and starts each browser instance from scratch. IE intentionally brings the browser history into the new window: the bet being that users who want to continue from where they left off can, and those that want to go their home page can do that with one click."
This was my number one frustration with IE. When I want a new browser window (or tab) I want a blank one. I want my browser to be fast and responsive. I DON'T want to wait the second or two that it takes for IE to reload the page (that I don't even want) for the new window. Often it doesn't even grab it from the cache...it actually re-downloads the page from the internet. So I learned to hit Escape immediately after Ctrl-N to stop the reload. And as far as I know, you can't turn that feature off. Meh. I use Opera now. It's nimble and responsive. New tabs are blank. In the extremely rare situation where I actually want to reload the current page in a new tab, there's Window/Duplicate in the menus.
And then he mentions home pages...just out of curiousity, do any of you use a home page? What do you use it for? My homepage is set to blank in all my browsers. Google is the site I visit most frequently, but I've got the search box on the toolbar so I never have to actually go to Google.com and then type my search criteria. I can't think of any site that I would want to load every time I launch a browser. But maybe that's just me.
Also, apples are red and shiny and oranges are orange and bumpy. So consider that.
I think you're at least 5 or 6 years too late for a "me too!" joke to be relevant.
Sometimes it's interesting to follow a comic book nerd debate (e.g. Hulk vs. Juggernaut). The debaters put so much effort and citations into their argument, some even going back decades ("the Hulk lifted a mountain in Secret Wars!"). Ultimately though, no one seems to realize that there is no objective truth in a fictional world, and the outcome of any battle is entirely the whim of the writer. If the writer needs the Hulk to get the tar beaten out of him by the Toad, then it'll happen (depsite furious cries of "Uh-uh, no way!").
(But don't listen to me, I'm still bitter that a powerless Storm beat Cyclops for the leadership of the X-Men way back in um, Uncanny X-Men #201?)
(I looked it up and I'm right. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing)
That phrase has 13,200 hits on Google, so I kinda doubt the AC was the originator.
More Start button woes...I run my taskbar at double-height because I run my monitor rotated 90 degrees and the taskbar becomes too narrow to find things. So, double-height taskbar gives me two rows of program buttons, two rows of quick-launch shortcuts and two rows of stuff in the systray (and I get the day of the week in addition to the time! score!). But instead of staying down in the corner, the Start button is docked to the top of the taskbar with a big Start-button-sized empty space below it. I can't do the corner thing at all.
But the actions needed post-hurricane are much the same actions required after an attack with chemical or bio weapons. We're very unlikely to have advance notice of any attacks, much less 18 hours, so the response has to be fast to be effective.
Is anyone impressed with this display of preparedness and response?
With the Windows version of Opera, Ctrl-H made it reside in the system tray. I didn't even know it could do that.