XP, Server 2003, and presumably other NT-family Windowses have support for those. In the logical disk manager, you can elect to mount a disk partition in a directory instead of assigning it a volume letter.
That was Soundwave. Shockwave was the angular purple ray-gun.
Soundwave could be an iPod, though he wouldn't have his private army of cassette robots any more. Unless someone can think of a way to make MP3s transform into robots?
Every time I pay for something with my chip-and-pin card, the cashier still just swipes it and asks for my signature. So, either my bank hasn't got its act together despite issuing me with a chip-and-pin card and a PIN to go with it, or the cashiers aren't being retrained, or both. In any case, signature fraud will continue until the new technology is properly implemented.
Possibly because: 1/ the King James version is long out of copyright -- the original version was published in 1611; the last revision was published in 1769; 2/ by including the Apocrypha -- the secondary books accepted by some Christian denominations but not others -- they're providing the most complete information.
A couple of hints that might make Firefox less frustrating for you if/when you switch:
That image minimizer thing is just incredibly annoying... and it cannot be disabled.
It can, though it's not obvious, and really ought to be in the preferences window. Go to "about:config", and set "browser.enable_automatic_image_resizing" to false.
There is also the absence of a button to create new empty tabs.
I missed that when I changed from Mozilla to Firefox as well. There's an extension called "Tabbrowser Preferences" that puts it back, among other things.
Is 10 megs really that much harder to download then 5? Is it?
On a dialup connection, yes.
I hope you realize the only reason so many useful settings have been stripped from Firefox is because they think its users are too stupid to handle them. I don't know about you, but this is insulting to me.
Someone once told me that "offence is never given, only taken". I don't completely agree with the statement, but I think it applies in this case.
Don't take offence that Firefox's UI was designed for people who prefer simpler apps. Just stick with the suite for now, because you obviously prefer it. After the suite goes away, you'll be able to continue customizing Firefox through "about:config", which you are clearly intelligent enough to cope with.
Personally, I use Firefox for a simple, fairly shallow reason: its default theme isn't ugly and uses native GTK+ widgets. It's therefore an attractive app that fits in with the visual style of the other graphical apps I use. As a Linux person who appreciates consistency across applications, this is important to me.
When TOS was cancelled, there was a letter-writing campaign by fans. In fact, there was a campaign at the end of every season of TOS, because it was constantly in danger of cancellation due to the network not quite knowing what to do with it.
There were no campaigns for TNG, DS9 and VOY because they weren't cancelled; they ran seven seasons apiece, then came to natural conclusions.
I'm not surprised; it just seemed such an obvious thing to want to do. I look forward to the feature becoming part of the language, and hopefully Mono will support it soon as well.
The only other major gripe I have with C# is the lack of checked exceptions. I've been bitten too often by errors appearing at runtime that I just forgot to check for because the compiler didn't warn me. Hokay, so this is probably more due to my poor coding than anything else, but I like the security that I have with Java, knowing that I'm catching every exception that might be thrown. I wish C# would offer me the same security.
I see loads of love for the C# property syntax, but I personally find it a bit irritating because you can't have different access qualifiers on the getter and setter. If you want, say, a public getter and a protected setter, you have to write a special setter method that defeats the purpose of having the special property syntax.
If the property syntax were modified to look like this, it'd be perfect:
string Foo {
public get { return foo; }
protected set { foo = value; } }
AmigaOS is a microkernel; drivers run as tasks separate from the kernel. So it's just a case of running a GPLed program on a non-GPLed operating system.
I hacked my kernel to "solve" the uselib() problem. "Solve" is the wrong word, because all I did was perform an appendectomy; I replaced the body of sys_uselib() in fs/exec.c with the single line:
return -ENOSYS;
so any code that calls uselib() (which is an utterly obsolete syscall that hasn't been legitimately used for years) will simply fail with a "function not implemented" error.
It's not a real fix. The real problem is a locking issue in do_brk(); the uselib() alert was simply one way to exploit it. But it'll do for now.
I haven't heard Grand Finale, though one of my favourite FF CDs is "Fithos Lusec Wecos Vinosec", the corresponding orchestral CD for FFVIII. The original game soundtrack was fairly orchestral-sounding, so most of the arrangements sound very natural, though there are a couple of fairly odd ones (the synth-pop battle theme "The Man with the Machine Gun" is arranged into something that sounds almost like big band music).
It would be one of the best CDs ever if it weren't for the awful "Eyes on Me".
The article is an interesting report about a new biological discovery which provides evidence of the evolution of the eye. However, creationism is not mentioned at all; looks to me as if the submitter is trying to start an argument for no reason.
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XP, Server 2003, and presumably other NT-family Windowses have support for those. In the logical disk manager, you can elect to mount a disk partition in a directory instead of assigning it a volume letter.
-Stephen
That was Soundwave. Shockwave was the angular purple ray-gun.
Soundwave could be an iPod, though he wouldn't have his private army of cassette robots any more. Unless someone can think of a way to make MP3s transform into robots?
-Stephen
Every time I pay for something with my chip-and-pin card, the cashier still just swipes it and asks for my signature. So, either my bank hasn't got its act together despite issuing me with a chip-and-pin card and a PIN to go with it, or the cashiers aren't being retrained, or both. In any case, signature fraud will continue until the new technology is properly implemented.
-Stephen
I think the poster meant that it was controversial when it was first released.
-Stephen
Why that specific version, and not another?
Possibly because:
1/ the King James version is long out of copyright -- the original version was published in 1611; the last revision was published in 1769;
2/ by including the Apocrypha -- the secondary books accepted by some Christian denominations but not others -- they're providing the most complete information.
-Stephen
So they've got Origin of Species, but not the Bible? I predict that the Kansas education board will shortly ban Google from all state schools.
-Stephen
A couple of hints that might make Firefox less frustrating for you if/when you switch:
That image minimizer thing is just incredibly annoying... and it cannot be disabled.
It can, though it's not obvious, and really ought to be in the preferences window. Go to "about:config", and set "browser.enable_automatic_image_resizing" to false.
There is also the absence of a button to create new empty tabs.
I missed that when I changed from Mozilla to Firefox as well. There's an extension called "Tabbrowser Preferences" that puts it back, among other things.
-Stephen
Is 10 megs really that much harder to download then 5? Is it?
On a dialup connection, yes.
I hope you realize the only reason so many useful settings have been stripped from Firefox is because they think its users are too stupid to handle them. I don't know about you, but this is insulting to me.
Someone once told me that "offence is never given, only taken". I don't completely agree with the statement, but I think it applies in this case.
Don't take offence that Firefox's UI was designed for people who prefer simpler apps. Just stick with the suite for now, because you obviously prefer it. After the suite goes away, you'll be able to continue customizing Firefox through "about:config", which you are clearly intelligent enough to cope with.
Personally, I use Firefox for a simple, fairly shallow reason: its default theme isn't ugly and uses native GTK+ widgets. It's therefore an attractive app that fits in with the visual style of the other graphical apps I use. As a Linux person who appreciates consistency across applications, this is important to me.
-Stephen
Best not annoy him too much, or he'll publish a tract about how Slashdot is the work of the Devil.
I wonder if he has an opinion on the BSD Daemon?
-Stephen
When TOS was cancelled, there was a letter-writing campaign by fans. In fact, there was a campaign at the end of every season of TOS, because it was constantly in danger of cancellation due to the network not quite knowing what to do with it.
There were no campaigns for TNG, DS9 and VOY because they weren't cancelled; they ran seven seasons apiece, then came to natural conclusions.
-Stephen
I'm sure your Slashdot username looks far better on a CV :-)
-Stephen
This was a very large customer request
I'm not surprised; it just seemed such an obvious thing to want to do. I look forward to the feature becoming part of the language, and hopefully Mono will support it soon as well.
The only other major gripe I have with C# is the lack of checked exceptions. I've been bitten too often by errors appearing at runtime that I just forgot to check for because the compiler didn't warn me. Hokay, so this is probably more due to my poor coding than anything else, but I like the security that I have with Java, knowing that I'm catching every exception that might be thrown. I wish C# would offer me the same security.
-Stephen
I see loads of love for the C# property syntax, but I personally find it a bit irritating because you can't have different access qualifiers on the getter and setter. If you want, say, a public getter and a protected setter, you have to write a special setter method that defeats the purpose of having the special property syntax.
If the property syntax were modified to look like this, it'd be perfect:-Stephen
Are you kidding? "Drunkenbatman" will look awesome on the guy's future Pulitzer Prize.
-Stephen
AmigaOS is a microkernel; drivers run as tasks separate from the kernel. So it's just a case of running a GPLed program on a non-GPLed operating system.
-Stephen
I hacked my kernel to "solve" the uselib() problem. "Solve" is the wrong word, because all I did was perform an appendectomy; I replaced the body of sys_uselib() in fs/exec.c with the single line:
return -ENOSYS;
so any code that calls uselib() (which is an utterly obsolete syscall that hasn't been legitimately used for years) will simply fail with a "function not implemented" error.
It's not a real fix. The real problem is a locking issue in do_brk(); the uselib() alert was simply one way to exploit it. But it'll do for now.
-Stephen
Awww, what a waste of an "I've found remote roots in qmail and djbdns" joke opportunity :-)
-Stephen
I haven't heard Grand Finale, though one of my favourite FF CDs is "Fithos Lusec Wecos Vinosec", the corresponding orchestral CD for FFVIII. The original game soundtrack was fairly orchestral-sounding, so most of the arrangements sound very natural, though there are a couple of fairly odd ones (the synth-pop battle theme "The Man with the Machine Gun" is arranged into something that sounds almost like big band music).
It would be one of the best CDs ever if it weren't for the awful "Eyes on Me".
-Stephen
Internet uses old people!
-Stephen
... should give performance ten times of conventional processors.
Twenty times, after absorbing an android or two.
-Stephen
As long as you pick a good theme
This guy's themes are superb. I used to use the Sawfish ports of D.A.E. and Orange Juice, then stuck with Orange Juice when I switched to E16.
Orange themes are nice.
-Stephen
its survival of the fittest!
:-)
Are you telling me that Al Gore didn't create the Internet in six days?
-Stephen
The article is an interesting report about a new biological discovery which provides evidence of the evolution of the eye. However, creationism is not mentioned at all; looks to me as if the submitter is trying to start an argument for no reason.
-Stephen
I, for one, welcome our new Decepticon overlords.
-Stephen
What can't you do on a Windows platform that you can do on Linux?
Modify the kernel.
-Stephen