Many recent keyboards can actually be taken apart pretty easily, and allow you to completely separate the electronics from the dirty bits.
I have an MS Natural Keyboard, and the top face comes off nicely with the keycaps attached (all just plastic). I just throw it into the bathtub with some soap, and then let it dry by a window. Then if necessary, even the insides (clear plastic sheets with circuits printed on them and some rubber "springs") and bottom cover (if the tiny PCB is unscrewed and removed) can be cleaned without too much trouble.
I'm stupid because I went with the $10 deal ($10 is less, right?). But after less than a month I have more than 300 full albums (close to 6000 songs, and more than half of that was in the first day). Nobody has complained to me yet (I'm more worried about my ISP).
I'm certainly not going to complain about the cost.
You could instead use Media Player Classic which is a "clone" of Windows Media Player 6.4, and can also play Quicktime and Real stuff (as long as you have them installed).
"But the second thing you need is a good, quick way to shift focus from window to window."
Like a scroll wheel? By itself, it could change your focus, and while holding the right mouse button, it could actually move your view position in and out of the screen's space.
But Phoenix/Firebird is NOT Mozilla LE. Firebird is now going to be the main Browser application, and Mozilla is the name of the open source project behind it.
It is possible that they are doing this to get a better sense of the interest in the show. Who knows? Maybe if they see enough people buy these DVDs, they'd consider putting it back on the air.
Seriously. After waiting 12 hours in line a week early to get tickets to a morning showing on the first day, the film melted right before the movie started!!!
Of course, everyone in the theater went nuts. But then the manager came down and said they would use another reel and everything would be ok.
My friend just laughed because with my bad luck, he was kind of expecting something like that to happen.
"We believe that we can provide consumers with a better product and a better user experience."
I'd imagine that means having links to hotmail, articles on other MSN-related sites, advertisements, having to log in (and out for those using public computers), etc.
I seriously don't understand how anyone can actually think that these things provide a "better experience" for a search system than a box for entering search terms and a button to start the search, all resulting in a simple list of relevant results. How is this better than this?
Even as a "portal" (more so than before), Google still does a better job than the others.
"If you make an alternative software application, but it isn't an exact clone of the "leading" application in that market (which of course is determined by marketshare alone), then they complain that it's "too hard to use", or has a "confusing UI", or is "lacking features" (which no one actually uses)."
I don't think that's what he meant. Actually, it's probably none of the above. Photoshop is an application that has been evolving for more than 10 years now, and most of those features are there because a whole bunch of people wanted them. Even then, it's not about how many features it actually has, or whether or not The GIMP has them too. There are a lot of people out there who can use programs like Photoshop the way someone would play a musical instrument, and while The GIMP may have a similar feature list (or at least those that you consider useful), that kind of interation with it isn't currently possible.
If a musician prefered to play on a certain type of instrument (for example, one piano instead of another), would you call him stupid just because you can't hear the difference?
" I thought the point of going back to the past was to get out of the arc idea. Back to the Sci-fi roots of TOS."
Yeah, that seemed to be the case until the Enterprise crew just started to invent all of the tech we see in the other Treks, and now it's basically just more of the same.
"When Rick (*cough*-ing) Berman talks about creatively working the Borg into a pre-Picard timeline, I get worried."
Ah, but they left out part of the interview in the article. They only mentioned that he said "So we have managed to deal with that in what I feel is a very interesting fashion" but he did then go on to say "Chef accidentally drops a pinch of tachyon particles into the steak dinner at the end, so they all go back in time to the begining of the episode, but T'pol (being a vegetarian and getting her own special meal) prevents the encounter from happening again, and doesn't tell anyone about it because they would just think she's lying anyway (which as a Vulcanoid, she isn't supposed to do)."
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I've known a few people who never updated from Netscape 4.7x because they were waiting for 5 and it never came.
Are you Blackwulf the Dragon Master from the Triumph/Star Wars video?
Many recent keyboards can actually be taken apart pretty easily, and allow you to completely separate the electronics from the dirty bits.
I have an MS Natural Keyboard, and the top face comes off nicely with the keycaps attached (all just plastic). I just throw it into the bathtub with some soap, and then let it dry by a window. Then if necessary, even the insides (clear plastic sheets with circuits printed on them and some rubber "springs") and bottom cover (if the tiny PCB is unscrewed and removed) can be cleaned without too much trouble.
I'm stupid because I went with the $10 deal ($10 is less, right?). But after less than a month I have more than 300 full albums (close to 6000 songs, and more than half of that was in the first day). Nobody has complained to me yet (I'm more worried about my ISP).
I'm certainly not going to complain about the cost.
Obviously Mac OS has been running on MOL since MOL was created (duh). Your quote doesn't say anything about Mac OS X though.
Shouldn't the command have been something like gnodes -d?
...and many of us do so for $10 a month from emusic.com.
No Spider-Man?
You could instead use Media Player Classic which is a "clone" of Windows Media Player 6.4, and can also play Quicktime and Real stuff (as long as you have them installed).
It's pretty slick.
"But the second thing you need is a good, quick way to shift focus from window to window."
Like a scroll wheel? By itself, it could change your focus, and while holding the right mouse button, it could actually move your view position in and out of the screen's space.
But Phoenix/Firebird is NOT Mozilla LE. Firebird is now going to be the main Browser application, and Mozilla is the name of the open source project behind it.
It is possible that they are doing this to get a better sense of the interest in the show. Who knows? Maybe if they see enough people buy these DVDs, they'd consider putting it back on the air.
Wouldn't it be better if the felt good about supporting Linux?
...they could have been smart about it, and quickly changed it to a page of advertisements. That would probably have helped with their bandwidth bill.
...and just start selling CDs that nobody can listen to? I know I'd buy them!
Seriously. After waiting 12 hours in line a week early to get tickets to a morning showing on the first day, the film melted right before the movie started!!!
Of course, everyone in the theater went nuts. But then the manager came down and said they would use another reel and everything would be ok.
My friend just laughed because with my bad luck, he was kind of expecting something like that to happen.
"We believe that we can provide consumers with a better product and a better user experience."
I'd imagine that means having links to hotmail, articles on other MSN-related sites, advertisements, having to log in (and out for those using public computers), etc.
I seriously don't understand how anyone can actually think that these things provide a "better experience" for a search system than a box for entering search terms and a button to start the search, all resulting in a simple list of relevant results. How is this better than this?
Even as a "portal" (more so than before), Google still does a better job than the others.
"If you make an alternative software application, but it isn't an exact clone of the "leading" application in that market (which of course is determined by marketshare alone), then they complain that it's "too hard to use", or has a "confusing UI", or is "lacking features" (which no one actually uses)."
I don't think that's what he meant. Actually, it's probably none of the above. Photoshop is an application that has been evolving for more than 10 years now, and most of those features are there because a whole bunch of people wanted them. Even then, it's not about how many features it actually has, or whether or not The GIMP has them too. There are a lot of people out there who can use programs like Photoshop the way someone would play a musical instrument, and while The GIMP may have a similar feature list (or at least those that you consider useful), that kind of interation with it isn't currently possible.
If a musician prefered to play on a certain type of instrument (for example, one piano instead of another), would you call him stupid just because you can't hear the difference?
Huh? All you have to do is provide some support info and the path to YOUR uninstaller. Yes, the same one you put into the start menu.
And the manual? How about in the program's help menu?
I found a baby crying WAV at http://ladywing.crosswinds.net/wavs.html.
Without editing it, you can play it backwards in the Quicktime Player by pressing ctrl-[left arrow], and ctrl-L will loop it.
Anyway, it actually sounds pretty much the same played both ways.
I'm sure someone here has a recording of a baby crying and the ability to reverse it and put it into an MP3.
I've gotta know what this sounds like.
" I thought the point of going back to the past was to get out of the arc idea. Back to the Sci-fi roots of TOS."
Yeah, that seemed to be the case until the Enterprise crew just started to invent all of the tech we see in the other Treks, and now it's basically just more of the same.
"...but then again, I thought that the episode "Carbon Creek" (S2X02) was possibly one of the top 10 episodes of the entire Franchise."
I agree. But I also think that since Voyager started, the only good episodes were the funny ones. I can't take Trek seriously anymore (yeah, I know).
Maybe they should just make it a comedy.
"When Rick (*cough*-ing) Berman talks about creatively working the Borg into a pre-Picard timeline, I get worried."
Ah, but they left out part of the interview in the article. They only mentioned that he said "So we have managed to deal with that in what I feel is a very interesting fashion" but he did then go on to say "Chef accidentally drops a pinch of tachyon particles into the steak dinner at the end, so they all go back in time to the begining of the episode, but T'pol (being a vegetarian and getting her own special meal) prevents the encounter from happening again, and doesn't tell anyone about it because they would just think she's lying anyway (which as a Vulcanoid, she isn't supposed to do)."
OK, so I've been hearing that it would be the normal cliffhanger episode...
But then things seemed to wrap up pretty nicely anyway...
But then OMG!!!
And then "to be continued" comes on? They surely could have removed that if it's really the end, no?
And then "thanks to the crew, etc. for four years" comes on...
So, WHAT THE HELL???