I was one of the Opera faithful for a couple of years, but switched to Phoenix/Mozilla Firebird about six months ago and haven't looked back since.
Opera started losing favor when the Daily Python site kept coming up in Greek (not that there's anything wrong with that, I just can't read Greek) and their tech support was completely unhelpful.
Mozilla Firebird is close to everything a browser should be. And nothing more, which is at least as important.
If you want e-mail support in your browser, just use a mail to web gateway. There are many fine ones available. If you want a real mail client, pick one and download it.
Personally, I prefer to have a choice in e-mail clients, just like a I enjoy having a choice in browser software.
I don't have an SP yet, not sure about the design as I have large fingers - might be a good option for my daughter though.
I have full-sized adult fingers, and the SP is actually more comfortable than the classic GBA design. Not sure exactly why, but it is. The tilt to the screen and better tactile feel of the buttons helps, but the overall grip is better too.
For example, I got past a boss in Metroid Fusion that had been giving me problems with the old GBA, the first time I tried him with on my SP.
I'm... uh... (counts on fingers)... 34, by the way.
Strange. It works fine with the Firebird nightly build from 2003-04-29 running under WindowsXP... I can't check on Firebird under Linux until I get home, but I'm guessing it will work fine there too.
You probably got a spurious.tar added after the filename. Check the filename before attempting to open it with Winzip. If the name is "blahblah.tar.gz.tar", just delete the last.tar from the name and try again.
Um, no thanks. Quetzel is a character from the children's cartoon "Dragon Tales". Some kid's cartoons are quite enjoyable, but DT is remarkably banal and insipid.
I just read an article on some mainstream newspaper's online site (probably either the NYT or the Washington Post, given my surfing habits), and they had an interesting article about cops who pose as 13-year-old girls in order to sting child molesters. It was a fun article, because the middle aged male cop had to go around asking the women in his department how to chat like a barely postpubescent teenage girl.
I was concerned that this might constitute entrapment, but now I'm much more worried that the officers are violating Michigan law. For example, if you are a pedophile who lives in Ann Arbor, are you legally entitled to sue an officer that uses such a ploy?
I mean, I'm all for taking pedophiles off the streets. I'm less enthusiastic about tempting them into compromising situations. But there's a certain irony to the Michigan statute in this application that only confuses my already bewildered sense of right and wrong.
There's a prototype gardening robot that "eats" slugs. Currently runs on batteries, but the developers would like to modify it so that it converts their slimy decomposing bodies into a power source (my guess is methane-based).
Call me a skeptic, but I don't like robots doing too many tasks, let's not forget human's make robots, and some humans are crooked, so who knows when you will end up with an influence robot?
I keep bringing this up, and yet we now have computerized voting "machines" here in Maryland. Windows based, no less.
Repying to my own post... But I just checked eBay, and there are now a few sellers for the plush Ein doll. Damn, I wonder if the movie revived interest in the item?
Damn, I am so hoping this does decently. I've been looking for a plush Ein doll for a couple of years now, with no luck. Even eBay can't help with this one, though I know they do exist.
If the movie does well, maybe the Ein dolls will be re-released... *crosses fingers*
Well, I'm off to see if the movie is in any area theatres.
I'm using fake transparency with tint on my Eterms, and it's a lot better looking than that screenshot. Mainly because the top terminal is actually readable (only the background shows through, not other windows) -- the screenshot for the win32 Glass thing is a muddled mess.
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I was one of the Opera faithful for a couple of years, but switched to Phoenix/Mozilla Firebird about six months ago and haven't looked back since.
Opera started losing favor when the Daily Python site kept coming up in Greek (not that there's anything wrong with that, I just can't read Greek) and their tech support was completely unhelpful.
Mozilla Firebird is close to everything a browser should be. And nothing more, which is at least as important.
-- Bander
Maybe you want a kitchen sink with that browser?
If you want e-mail support in your browser, just use a mail to web gateway. There are many fine ones available. If you want a real mail client, pick one and download it.
Personally, I prefer to have a choice in e-mail clients, just like a I enjoy having a choice in browser software.
-- Bander
If animals weren't meant to be eaten, why are they made out of meat?
-- Bander
I have full-sized adult fingers, and the SP is actually more comfortable than the classic GBA design. Not sure exactly why, but it is. The tilt to the screen and better tactile feel of the buttons helps, but the overall grip is better too.
For example, I got past a boss in Metroid Fusion that had been giving me problems with the old GBA, the first time I tried him with on my SP.
I'm
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Strange. It works fine with the Firebird nightly build from 2003-04-29 running under WindowsXP... I can't check on Firebird under Linux until I get home, but I'm guessing it will work fine there too.
-- Bander
The Second Life site works fine with my mozilla-based Firebird (cough) browser. What version of Mozilla are you using?
-- Bander
And I thought this was going to be about a game that casts you as a WHO operative tracking down the source of the SARS epidemic...
-- Bander
You probably got a spurious .tar added after the filename. Check the filename before attempting to open it with Winzip. If the name is "blahblah.tar.gz.tar", just delete the last .tar from the name and try again.
HTH
-- Bander
Um, no thanks. Quetzel is a character from the children's cartoon "Dragon Tales". Some kid's cartoons are quite enjoyable, but DT is remarkably banal and insipid.
:^)
What about "Geckzilla"? 0.5
-- Bander
I just read an article on some mainstream newspaper's online site (probably either the NYT or the Washington Post, given my surfing habits), and they had an interesting article about cops who pose as 13-year-old girls in order to sting child molesters. It was a fun article, because the middle aged male cop had to go around asking the women in his department how to chat like a barely postpubescent teenage girl.
I was concerned that this might constitute entrapment, but now I'm much more worried that the officers are violating Michigan law. For example, if you are a pedophile who lives in Ann Arbor, are you legally entitled to sue an officer that uses such a ploy?
I mean, I'm all for taking pedophiles off the streets. I'm less enthusiastic about tempting them into compromising situations. But there's a certain irony to the Michigan statute in this application that only confuses my already bewildered sense of right and wrong.
-- Bander
Yet another technology moving ahead quickly with the lucrative and powerful boost of porn.
And Pakistan will fall even further behind...
-- Bander
There's a prototype gardening robot that "eats" slugs. Currently runs on batteries, but the developers would like to modify it so that it converts their slimy decomposing bodies into a power source (my guess is methane-based).
A BBC article on this robot
Mmmmmm... slugs. *drool*
-- Bander
Call me a skeptic, but I don't like robots doing too many tasks, let's not forget human's make robots, and some humans are crooked, so who knows when you will end up with an influence robot?
I keep bringing this up, and yet we now have computerized voting "machines" here in Maryland. Windows based, no less.
*deep sigh*
-- Bander
Repying to my own post... But I just checked eBay, and there are now a few sellers for the plush Ein doll. Damn, I wonder if the movie revived interest in the item?
-- Bander
Damn, I am so hoping this does decently. I've been looking for a plush Ein doll for a couple of years now, with no luck. Even eBay can't help with this one, though I know they do exist.
If the movie does well, maybe the Ein dolls will be re-released... *crosses fingers*
Well, I'm off to see if the movie is in any area theatres.
-- Bander
Charging by magnetic induction. They say, "like magic or something"... Har har. Kinda cool:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5cf5/
(I'm not trying to sell you these, I'm not affiliated with ThinkGeek, yadda yadda...)
-- Bander
Good luck fitting the NZ90 into a shirt pocket.
And that better be one fekkin' big purse.
Bander
That's my Locnar you crazy bitch!
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Eat that, Cleve Blakemore... Wherever you are. Wizardry 8 did beat you out of the gate.
Sometimes it's irony, and sometimes the Universe just likes to deliver a smackdown to the unbearably arrogant.
Bander
Goddess-damned Randroid. Get back in your cave.
Bander
Apparently, the part that is "open" is the CycML schema, and I suppose the database that makes up the "common sense" thing that is so ballyhooed.
sigh
Bander
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When is this ever not the case?
Bander
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