I get the feeling they made a cool bomb and wanna show it off. Like you get bloggers writing about cool case-mods or home made flamethrowers.
They don't really have anyone left to blow up, now that the muslims in Chechnya have been whipped.
Maybe they'll sell the bomb to the US. Looks like it would be handy for the next Fallujah... the yanks could just coax all the terrists into one city like in Fallujah but instead of air-strikes, artillery and small-arms stuffing around and losing troops, they could just drop one of these babies and take te rest of the day off.
To support the site. If the ads are pay-per-view, loading but hiding them will benefit the site owner. If they are pay-per-click, showing an outline labelled "ad", then open them all in new tabs while reading the site you want to support, then just close the tabs without looking at them. That way you help out the site whose content you enjoy, and it just costs you a trifle of bandwidth and a few mouse-clicks. The only loser in this equation is the advertiser, and, well, who cares? Better to gouge some useless third party, than the people who produce the content you crave.
Bandwidth is not a big concern. Most ads don't take more than a few kilobytes. Unless you're living in some third-world country, bandwidth costs are insignificant.
Come to think of it, adblock could use two new options: 1: load but hide ads. 2: "click" all ads in background, to generate revenue for site you're viewing.
"It is my computer. It is my licensed copy of the browser. It is my browser process. It's my pair of eyes. I'll decide what shows up on my screen. I have all the power in this relationship. I don't want ads. Ner ner ni ner ner."
An option for ad-block to load banners, but not display them, would please website owners, website users, ad companies, but not ad clients. Three out of four ain't bad. With this business model, somebody has to suffer.
Bingo. Libertarian is the opposite of authoritarian... not right or left. Libertarians can see that everything big government touches turns to shit. That's why they're libertarians.
Is your brother-in-law still using windows? Then you've done him more harm than good, with your "lots of work".
I'm starting to think we shouldn't be rescuing people from their windows problems. Let them get burned and stay burned, it will do them good in the long run.
Be cruel to be kind, spare the rod spoil the child, first: do no harm, that sort of thing...
I'm hoping Novell survives this, and furthermore takes every opportunity to deride Microsoft and counter their FUD, within the limits of their contract.
Hmm.. I've had a k700i for almost three years now, and it's still going strong. I'm a white-collar worker though, so I don't exactly bury it in dust every day.
... or a blank spot on the tab panel for a new tab, or a tab itself to open in that tab... handy... but I like the feature of Galeon that lets you paste a link into the window with the middle button, can't figure out how to make firefox do this.
..and Bush said he'd usher in a "humbler foreign policy". They're politicians. If their lips are moving, they're lying.
Look, all the most popular candidates are professional actors. Their job is to charm votes out of you, then pass the legislation their owners want passed. If you want someone good for the geeks, look for the bad public speaker with the good voting record.
The best thing a president could possibly do for nerds or just about anyone else is stop making more laws and start dismantling the stupid laws perpetrated by previous governments.
I am not in the US, so I can't do much about your choice of president, but at least I can have my say here. The way I see it from here, your options can be divided unambiguously into two groups:
1: Scumbags that will sell you out, nay, have already sold you out, to whichever corporate and special interests will finance their campaign.
2: Ron Paul.
I am a cynic. I hardly expect people to vote in their own best interests. There's a reason the scumbags sell their souls for campaign money - it gets them elected. So I expect another scumbag leading your country in 2009. But please, please, for the sake of all that is good, pure and true in this world, anyone but Giuliani.
I swear, if you guys elect Giuliani, I am going to go out every weekend, find drunk Americans, and beat the crap out of them. Maybe even daily. You've been warned.
Using lots of virtual memory is not necessarily a bad thing. I note from your stats there that it's 285 virtual and 67 resident. If most of the virtual is just caching recently visited pages, you might as well cache it in swap as in regular files. 67 megs resident with four tabs open is not great but not terrible either. Even with a 512 meg machine that's only about 14% of your RAM, leaving plenty for other stuff.
Why care if most of it's memory use is swapped out anyway? Those 218 swapped out megs aren't hurting you at all... why worry?
A lot of the underlying libs are common to the different redundant apps. Mplayer, xine, totem, etc share a lot of libs, and various KDE and GNOME apps with similar functionality tend to have libraries in common also... CD and DVD burning software all tends to use the same libraries and command-line utils under the hood. That's why it's possible for people to produce yet-another-text-editor so quickly... learn the library interface and whack a gui on it that scratches your particular itch. Tons of free software is just a pretty gui shell over a command-line program...
No, it's too late already. The GPLv2 explicitly grants the right to redistribute the software under GPLv2 or ANY LATER VERSION. If any coupons have already been handed out, then Microsoft has effectively distributed GPLv3 software and the game is over.
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Why perpetuate another generation of rapist genes? Even if it is a child, kill it.
They could start calling it the 100 pound laptop.
Not really. They go to prison for a long time, while recreational, law-abiding shooters use up a pack of bullets at the range every weekend.
I get the feeling they made a cool bomb and wanna show it off. Like you get bloggers writing about cool case-mods or home made flamethrowers.
They don't really have anyone left to blow up, now that the muslims in Chechnya have been whipped.
Maybe they'll sell the bomb to the US. Looks like it would be handy for the next Fallujah... the yanks could just coax all the terrists into one city like in Fallujah but instead of air-strikes, artillery and small-arms stuffing around and losing troops, they could just drop one of these babies and take te rest of the day off.
communism, as opposed to Stalinism/Maoism, is a government that ensures no one is taken advantage of by any other.
So what you're saying, is, there's no such thing as communism.
To support the site. If the ads are pay-per-view, loading but hiding them will benefit the site owner. If they are pay-per-click, showing an outline labelled "ad", then open them all in new tabs while reading the site you want to support, then just close the tabs without looking at them. That way you help out the site whose content you enjoy, and it just costs you a trifle of bandwidth and a few mouse-clicks. The only loser in this equation is the advertiser, and, well, who cares? Better to gouge some useless third party, than the people who produce the content you crave.
Bandwidth is not a big concern. Most ads don't take more than a few kilobytes. Unless you're living in some third-world country, bandwidth costs are insignificant.
Come to think of it, adblock could use two new options: 1: load but hide ads. 2: "click" all ads in background, to generate revenue for site you're viewing.
"It is my computer. It is my licensed copy of the browser. It is my browser process. It's my pair of eyes. I'll decide what shows up on my screen. I have all the power in this relationship. I don't want ads. Ner ner ni ner ner."
An option for ad-block to load banners, but not display them, would please website owners, website users, ad companies, but not ad clients. Three out of four ain't bad. With this business model, somebody has to suffer.
Americans would keep bumping into each other.
Bingo. Libertarian is the opposite of authoritarian... not right or left. Libertarians can see that everything big government touches turns to shit. That's why they're libertarians.
Hmm.. let's analyze this:
One grappler versus one monk = grappler wins.
Equal number of grapplers versus monks = grapplers win.
Grapplers outnumber monks = grapplers win.
Monks outnumber grapplers = monks win.
Weapons versus no weapons = weapons win...
Best combo: grapplers with bayonet/assault rifle.
Anyone with that much motivation has a much better paying job already.
Go to the brothel.
Not everything that can be bought is bad for the environment.
Today's terror alert level brought to you by the letter W and the color orange!
Is your brother-in-law still using windows? Then you've done him more harm than good, with your "lots of work".
I'm starting to think we shouldn't be rescuing people from their windows problems. Let them get burned and stay burned, it will do them good in the long run.
Be cruel to be kind, spare the rod spoil the child, first: do no harm, that sort of thing...
I'm hoping Novell survives this, and furthermore takes every opportunity to deride Microsoft and counter their FUD, within the limits of their contract.
You could always conquer your fear and learn to make it work yourself. Very rewarding.
Hmm.. I've had a k700i for almost three years now, and it's still going strong. I'm a white-collar worker though, so I don't exactly bury it in dust every day.
Being a patriot means loving your country.. and, consequently, hating your government.
... or a blank spot on the tab panel for a new tab, or a tab itself to open in that tab... handy... but I like the feature of Galeon that lets you paste a link into the window with the middle button, can't figure out how to make firefox do this.
..and Bush said he'd usher in a "humbler foreign policy". They're politicians. If their lips are moving, they're lying.
Look, all the most popular candidates are professional actors. Their job is to charm votes out of you, then pass the legislation their owners want passed. If you want someone good for the geeks, look for the bad public speaker with the good voting record.
The best thing a president could possibly do for nerds or just about anyone else is stop making more laws and start dismantling the stupid laws perpetrated by previous governments.
I am not in the US, so I can't do much about your choice of president, but at least I can have my say here. The way I see it from here, your options can be divided unambiguously into two groups:
1: Scumbags that will sell you out, nay, have already sold you out, to whichever corporate and special interests will finance their campaign.
2: Ron Paul.
I am a cynic. I hardly expect people to vote in their own best interests. There's a reason the scumbags sell their souls for campaign money - it gets them elected. So I expect another scumbag leading your country in 2009. But please, please, for the sake of all that is good, pure and true in this world, anyone but Giuliani.
I swear, if you guys elect Giuliani, I am going to go out every weekend, find drunk Americans, and beat the crap out of them. Maybe even daily. You've been warned.
Using lots of virtual memory is not necessarily a bad thing. I note from your stats there that it's 285 virtual and 67 resident. If most of the virtual is just caching recently visited pages, you might as well cache it in swap as in regular files. 67 megs resident with four tabs open is not great but not terrible either. Even with a 512 meg machine that's only about 14% of your RAM, leaving plenty for other stuff.
Why care if most of it's memory use is swapped out anyway? Those 218 swapped out megs aren't hurting you at all... why worry?
A lot of the underlying libs are common to the different redundant apps. Mplayer, xine, totem, etc share a lot of libs, and various KDE and GNOME apps with similar functionality tend to have libraries in common also... CD and DVD burning software all tends to use the same libraries and command-line utils under the hood. That's why it's possible for people to produce yet-another-text-editor so quickly... learn the library interface and whack a gui on it that scratches your particular itch. Tons of free software is just a pretty gui shell over a command-line program...
No, it's too late already. The GPLv2 explicitly grants the right to redistribute the software under GPLv2 or ANY LATER VERSION. If any coupons have already been handed out, then Microsoft has effectively distributed GPLv3 software and the game is over.