Where the hell is the PDF? Aside from the fact that this is really fucking annoying it has some really worrying implications. They're trying to boot out the PDF format, which is nice, open and ubiquitous with their own format - and they're using their monopoly on the desktop operating system market to achieve this.
I don't really understand how you can say this. Not that I don't believe it's not true - I believe MS *will* push XPS as a replacement for PDF. However, MS are entitled to publish their own documents in whatever format they like. Before this, their documents were always in Word.
Tell me, do you expect their webcasts to be given in RealAudio and QuickTime formats, too? No, of course you don't, because that's not the latest fad for people to bitch about in Slashdot comments.
I'd like to point out that I'm no MS fanboy, nor am I an MS hater. I'm just saying that MS aren't *required* to provide any of their documents in the format which *you* want them to.
Whether they're trying to boot PDF out with XPS is a different point to what you're bitching about.
I've made up a quick fix for firefox as a user stylesheet if you're interested. It messes up the title a bit with the fancy graphics, but it's still perfectly readable. Paste the following in the userContent.css file in your firefox profile directory:
In firefox on windows, this lives in this directory on my machine:
C:\Documents and Settings\James Booker\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\4l4cjs9q.default\chr ome
If the file doesn't exist (which it probably won't if you've not defined other user styles) you can create it. The fix should work in IE/Opera too I guess, although I haven't tried it.
Yep, I'm happy to wear the dunce hat on this one - I didn't catch the show, and didn't realise it was a double-whammy hoax of a hoax on the people who thought it was a hoax on the peo..........
No. Sorry, and I know that as a Brit my opinion is biased, but if you'd read the article you'd know that the thing has been *advertised* AS A HOAX. The 'cadets' are being hoaxed, for the entertainment of television viewers (in much the same way as thousands of hopeful people are invited to audition for 'pop' reality shows, and ridiculed in front of the country by showing people who really can't sing for the enjoyment of the public, occasionally throwing in one which does have talent for the sake of credibility)
My point is, the british public hasn't been hoaxed, since the program's been entirely advertised as a hoax since day one, as from the article:
"[Space Cadets]... is blasting a group of adventurers, ordinary members of the public, off into space to spend five days orbiting the earth. It's thrilling, it's exciting, and it's totally bogus. "
Note the word bogus.
If you want to settle scores, then I'm afraid the US is still in the lead, with William Shatner's "Invasion Iowa" which was an attempt to trick an entire town in Iowa into thinking aliens had landed. As I've not got around to watching any of this yet, I can't comment on its success.
You're not forward-thinking enough - it's not a case of supporting Linux and Mozilla, it's a case of releasing their code to the community to be improved upon and modified as in free speech.
We'll have virii wittily named 'GNU/Klez.Backdoor.A' by the security corporations!
Open-source collaborative virus-writing. I can't wait.
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I don't really understand how you can say this. Not that I don't believe it's not true - I believe MS *will* push XPS as a replacement for PDF. However, MS are entitled to publish their own documents in whatever format they like. Before this, their documents were always in Word.
Tell me, do you expect their webcasts to be given in RealAudio and QuickTime formats, too? No, of course you don't, because that's not the latest fad for people to bitch about in Slashdot comments.
I'd like to point out that I'm no MS fanboy, nor am I an MS hater. I'm just saying that MS aren't *required* to provide any of their documents in the format which *you* want them to.
Whether they're trying to boot PDF out with XPS is a different point to what you're bitching about.
I've made up a quick fix for firefox as a user stylesheet if you're interested. It messes up the title a bit with the fancy graphics, but it's still perfectly readable. Paste the following in the userContent.css file in your firefox profile directory:
r ome
div.commentTop div.title h4 {
display: inline !important;
}
div.commentTop div.title span.score {
position: relative !important;
right: 0 !important;
top: 0 !important;
}
In firefox on windows, this lives in this directory on my machine:
C:\Documents and Settings\James Booker\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\4l4cjs9q.default\ch
If the file doesn't exist (which it probably won't if you've not defined other user styles) you can create it. The fix should work in IE/Opera too I guess, although I haven't tried it.
Yep, I'm happy to wear the dunce hat on this one - I didn't catch the show, and didn't realise it was a double-whammy hoax of a hoax on the people who thought it was a hoax on the peo..........
:)
AUGH. you all win.
No. Sorry, and I know that as a Brit my opinion is biased, but if you'd read the article you'd know that the thing has been *advertised* AS A HOAX. The 'cadets' are being hoaxed, for the entertainment of television viewers (in much the same way as thousands of hopeful people are invited to audition for 'pop' reality shows, and ridiculed in front of the country by showing people who really can't sing for the enjoyment of the public, occasionally throwing in one which does have talent for the sake of credibility)
... is blasting a group of adventurers, ordinary members of the public, off into space to spend five days orbiting the earth. It's thrilling, it's exciting, and it's totally bogus. "
My point is, the british public hasn't been hoaxed, since the program's been entirely advertised as a hoax since day one, as from the article:
"[Space Cadets]
Note the word bogus.
If you want to settle scores, then I'm afraid the US is still in the lead, with William Shatner's "Invasion Iowa" which was an attempt to trick an entire town in Iowa into thinking aliens had landed. As I've not got around to watching any of this yet, I can't comment on its success.
You're not forward-thinking enough - it's not a case of supporting Linux and Mozilla, it's a case of releasing their code to the community to be improved upon and modified as in free speech.
We'll have virii wittily named 'GNU/Klez.Backdoor.A' by the security corporations!
Open-source collaborative virus-writing. I can't wait.