I had a song I heard on the radio going through my head a few minutes ago. I feel guilty now. Maybe the RIAA should implant lobes in my head and charge my credit card automatically whenever I think about a song. It's only fair.
I'll be intrested when they have something like a DIMM form factor that is actually better than existing memory.
By the time this hits the market, we won't be using desktop computers anymore.You'll just hit a button on your cell phone and your monitor, keyboard and mouse will turn on and interface with it automatically.
Bottom line is I don't think they'll bother making full-size components anymore; it'll be integrated-or-nothing by the time this technology arrives. We're certainly headed that way anyway.
That, or it's a more efficient use of space to have displays and inventory running down the center of the store, rather than a huge empty lane leading into a tree of registers.
What a coincidence! That's exactly what I said when I was penetrating your sister's tiny asshole last night. Strange she kept calling out your name. Were you watching, you naughty boy?
Honestly, I don't know. Why did your mother bother to conceive you? Why do you eat your own feces? Why do you rape cats, moles and other small vermin? Why is your penis so small it warrants measurement with a micrometer?
There are some questions to which there are no good answers.
I didn't mod you down you thickwitted nimrod. When I get mod points, I use 'em to mod posts UP - because they're interesting, informative, or funny, NOT because I happen to agree or disagree philosophically or politically with their content.
I suppose you can throw your self-righteousness out the window now.
It's simply that girls are starting to be interested in computers at an accelerated rate compared to how it was ten or twenty years ago. I know I became interested in computers because of games, as did many males of my generation. Girls are starting to become interested in computers because of the social aspects such as Facebook and SMS messaging. If they think Computer = Facebook, they'll be much more inclined to study a subject with a tenuous relationship to their interest, at best.
Let's see, OSS programs I have open right now: RSSOwl, K-Meleon (a lightweight Firefox alternative), Xampp, LibreOffice, Audacity.
I didn't say I'm not thankful for free software. I am. I just don't see a good reason to use it if a free commercial product is available and of arguably superior quality.
Huh. I never even knew you could do that. I've never really been too aware of the advanced tab features in browsers cos I never have more than four or five open anyway.
I try not to use Google if I can help it, so I've never observed what you're describing. I'd gotten used to living without autocomplete in the search bar a while back (although I've found it works for non-SSL Wikipedia, strangely). I like the privacy features of the alternative search engines enough that it doesn't bother me at all now.
What's even stranger is that I've read the majority of Opera's operating revenue comes from Google, so it's really odd that they would go out of their way to disable certain features on their site.
I just wonder how the opera fanbois will mod this post.....
They probably won't, because they're too busy REPLYING.
Dunno if you're using a different OS, but my windows version opens tabs with Ctrl+T. As far as tab order goes, I have mine set to open in new background tabs, but the order has never really bothered me. When you Ctrl+Tab they go through in the order you opened them, anyway. I could almost do without the tab bar in the first place.
I also use the standard skin, with the standard menu rather than the Chrome-y dropdown menu. I use a 16:9 monitor, so I put the tabs with the screens on the right-hand side, and then links/history/page info/whatever on the left, so the resulting profile more resembles a standard-aspect monitor rather than a ton of wasted whitespace. It looks more tricked-out than it really is, especially when DragonFly is open.
Or maybe they're just a small, quiet company that does their job very well, without the advantages of being a browser that's installed by default on an operating system (IE, Firefox, Safari) or being made by the world's largest search engine (Google).
I'm hoping that'll change over time. I've been telling everyone I know to use Opera since I first started using the 9.x version.
I wouldn't know about the mouse gestures, I've got all the keyboard shortcuts memorized so I hardly use the mouse at all. I use Ctrl+Left and Ctrl+Right for back and forward, and the shift+arrow keys work great for reaching hyperlinks and form elements 95% of the time. I develop with Dragonfly and haven't had any major beefs, though I do wish they'd give more I/O data. I also enjoy their click-on-play plugin elements and their image-blocking system, as well as Opera Link's customization import/export features.
But the main reason I use Opera? Their search engine system is without equal. IE, Firefox and Chrome, maybe if there's an engine enough people like they'll throw you a bone and you can add it. Opera's is quick, easy, and infinitely customizable. My personal search engine list: Scroogle SSL w/ POST, Ixquick SSL w/ POST, DuckDuckGo SSL w/ POST, Google SSL, Wikipedia SSL, Yauba, Amazon, Ebay, YouTube. It's fucking glorious.
And as for people who say Opera doesn't work with Gmal/Slashdot/whatever? Bullshit. I've encountered maybe three sites in the two years I've used Opera that wouldn't work correctly, and that's because the site was programmed to refuse it based on the user agent. Opera's a major, major innovator, a hell of a company, and I will keep irritating my coworkers, family and friends pushing them to use the wonderful product I'm submitting this post with.
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I had a song I heard on the radio going through my head a few minutes ago. I feel guilty now. Maybe the RIAA should implant lobes in my head and charge my credit card automatically whenever I think about a song. It's only fair.
I'll be intrested when they have something like a DIMM form factor that is actually better than existing memory.
By the time this hits the market, we won't be using desktop computers anymore.You'll just hit a button on your cell phone and your monitor, keyboard and mouse will turn on and interface with it automatically.
Bottom line is I don't think they'll bother making full-size components anymore; it'll be integrated-or-nothing by the time this technology arrives. We're certainly headed that way anyway.
"Here, son, let's look at this Wordpress site that hasn't been updated in 18 months. Now, this is called 'SQL Injection' and 'Cross-site Scripting.'"
Nothing better than learning by example...
You see this stuff on Hack A Day from time to time. If this is your sort of thing I'd recommend reading it.
That, or it's a more efficient use of space to have displays and inventory running down the center of the store, rather than a huge empty lane leading into a tree of registers.
What a coincidence! That's exactly what I said when I was penetrating your sister's tiny asshole last night. Strange she kept calling out your name. Were you watching, you naughty boy?
Honestly, I don't know. Why did your mother bother to conceive you? Why do you eat your own feces? Why do you rape cats, moles and other small vermin? Why is your penis so small it warrants measurement with a micrometer?
There are some questions to which there are no good answers.
you're an idiot
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the sound of victory. *bows*
That's 'adorabee.'
*ba-dum, ching*
Yes, but one could argue incentive for critical thought and problem-solving skills among today's youth pays dividends down the road.
I didn't mod you down you thickwitted nimrod. When I get mod points, I use 'em to mod posts UP - because they're interesting, informative, or funny, NOT because I happen to agree or disagree philosophically or politically with their content.
I suppose you can throw your self-righteousness out the window now.
It's simply that girls are starting to be interested in computers at an accelerated rate compared to how it was ten or twenty years ago. I know I became interested in computers because of games, as did many males of my generation. Girls are starting to become interested in computers because of the social aspects such as Facebook and SMS messaging. If they think Computer = Facebook, they'll be much more inclined to study a subject with a tenuous relationship to their interest, at best.
Call it "How to Get 5000 Facebook Friends Before Everyone You Know."
Then start the class off doing proofs on discreet math. They'll all cry and drop the class, and the whole world will be win.
Oracle will be anxiously anticipating their handout in the coming weeks.
It was from the Wikipedia article on the company, I think...
Look two posts up, I list them all.
Scroogle is my default search engine.
Let's see, OSS programs I have open right now: RSSOwl, K-Meleon (a lightweight Firefox alternative), Xampp, LibreOffice, Audacity.
I didn't say I'm not thankful for free software. I am. I just don't see a good reason to use it if a free commercial product is available and of arguably superior quality.
Huh. I never even knew you could do that. I've never really been too aware of the advanced tab features in browsers cos I never have more than four or five open anyway.
I try not to use Google if I can help it, so I've never observed what you're describing. I'd gotten used to living without autocomplete in the search bar a while back (although I've found it works for non-SSL Wikipedia, strangely). I like the privacy features of the alternative search engines enough that it doesn't bother me at all now.
What's even stranger is that I've read the majority of Opera's operating revenue comes from Google, so it's really odd that they would go out of their way to disable certain features on their site.
Why would you not, as long as you're not some Richard Stallmanian pseudo-communist free software puritan?
I just wonder how the opera fanbois will mod this post.....
They probably won't, because they're too busy REPLYING.
Dunno if you're using a different OS, but my windows version opens tabs with Ctrl+T. As far as tab order goes, I have mine set to open in new background tabs, but the order has never really bothered me. When you Ctrl+Tab they go through in the order you opened them, anyway. I could almost do without the tab bar in the first place.
I also use the standard skin, with the standard menu rather than the Chrome-y dropdown menu. I use a 16:9 monitor, so I put the tabs with the screens on the right-hand side, and then links/history/page info/whatever on the left, so the resulting profile more resembles a standard-aspect monitor rather than a ton of wasted whitespace. It looks more tricked-out than it really is, especially when DragonFly is open.
Or maybe they're just a small, quiet company that does their job very well, without the advantages of being a browser that's installed by default on an operating system (IE, Firefox, Safari) or being made by the world's largest search engine (Google).
I'm hoping that'll change over time. I've been telling everyone I know to use Opera since I first started using the 9.x version.
I wouldn't know about the mouse gestures, I've got all the keyboard shortcuts memorized so I hardly use the mouse at all. I use Ctrl+Left and Ctrl+Right for back and forward, and the shift+arrow keys work great for reaching hyperlinks and form elements 95% of the time. I develop with Dragonfly and haven't had any major beefs, though I do wish they'd give more I/O data. I also enjoy their click-on-play plugin elements and their image-blocking system, as well as Opera Link's customization import/export features.
But the main reason I use Opera? Their search engine system is without equal. IE, Firefox and Chrome, maybe if there's an engine enough people like they'll throw you a bone and you can add it. Opera's is quick, easy, and infinitely customizable. My personal search engine list: Scroogle SSL w/ POST, Ixquick SSL w/ POST, DuckDuckGo SSL w/ POST, Google SSL, Wikipedia SSL, Yauba, Amazon, Ebay, YouTube. It's fucking glorious.
And as for people who say Opera doesn't work with Gmal/Slashdot/whatever? Bullshit. I've encountered maybe three sites in the two years I've used Opera that wouldn't work correctly, and that's because the site was programmed to refuse it based on the user agent. Opera's a major, major innovator, a hell of a company, and I will keep irritating my coworkers, family and friends pushing them to use the wonderful product I'm submitting this post with.
Uhm, I just quit Gmail a couple months ago, but I'd been using it ever since nine point something with no problems at all.
If you like the browser, check out Fastmail.fm, their newly-acquired mail service. It's rock-solid, but it's a shame you have to pay for SMTP...