I think it's safe to say most people use Google in their Firefox toolbar search field.
Geez, I didn't even realize Yahoo was in there... I just click it down for eBay or Dictionary.com when I don't use Google... I guess my mind kind of filtered out Yahoo... scary.
When you are downloading the movie via BitTorrent you are also farming it out to multiple other clients. So the anology is more like going into Best Buy with your DVD-burning laptop, sitting there and making copies and handing them to customers, then leaving with your own copy.
banning the ownership of handguns. That way they wouldn't shoot each other.
Oh wait, they are already illegal, so why are people getting shot? If that law did any good, people would just be throwing copies of Grand Theft Auto at each other and fewer people would be dead.
But a competent driver (reasonably good drivers) let the act of driving sink into their subconscious
Some aspects yes, BUT proper defensive driving involves slightly more active mental engagement than people usually give it. For example, maintaining a space cushion around your car requires that you do a left-side mirror -> rear-view mirror -> right-side mirror visual sweep every ten seconds or so. If you are shortcutting proper driving behaviors while talking on the phone and the guy in front of you slams on the brakes, you won't immediatley know if it's best to swerve right, swerve left, or go ahead and impact because of the cars next to you.
People are slamming my practical test because they are almost (and in a couple of cases absolutely) relating driving to involuntary muscle action because they believe "autopilot mode" is sufficient and safe.
Blaming this on cellphones makes about as much sense as blaming it on other passengers and car audio systems. Let's outlaw those, too.
I see your point, however because a phone conversation requires participation in a feedback loop it rises above very brief things like hitting a button to roll up a window or hitting track forward on the CD player in terms of driving distraction.
It's like eating a meal with someone and having a conversation... simple motor functions won't detract from a mental engagement like a conversation. Eating doesn't require a significant degree of mental engagement, while driving and a conversation both require mental engagement.
I have always maintained that handsfree doesn't do squat... it's the split mental attention and not having both hands on the wheel.
Try this easy test... during the superbowl, call someone up on your phone (with headset or without, doesn't matter). During the conversation, after every play, write down the number of yards gained/lost and the number on the jersey of the player that gained/lost them. You'll probably experience "slave can't serve two masters" syndrome and have to dedicate more attention to one or the other, either by having to say "hold on" or "um, what was that?" to whoever you are talking to or missing play stats to keep up with the conversation. Unfortunately, priority in a car most often goes to the conversation.
Let's see... in 1995 it was a Web browser. In 1999 it became the operating system that still is still a browser. Bloat refers to lots more code that doesn't add very much.
If growing up means becoming bloated, taking over the operating system, and opening itself up to every h@x0r known to netdom then I hope Firefox stays young and naive.
Okay, it technically only applies to mirrors I think, but maybe not. Photographs steal your soul and vampires don't have souls, so technically they couldn't be photographed.
Your reply assumes that labs do things for the public good, when reality is that drug companies fund things that will be profitable.
If the medical community REALLY thought stem cells would cure lots of things, labs would be writing their own checks to research it. How many Fed dollars do you think went into erectile dynfunction? Probably zero, but it is a profitable venture so it got funding.
On top of that you can contribute $3,000 (now $4000 in 2005) to your IRA. This is per-person.
Not at the income levels we're talking about. I mean, contrinute to your IRA all you want, but it won't be tax deductible so you might as well invest it in non-retirement mutual funds.
Many of us downloaded and listened to the audio of the probe falling through Titan's atmosphere... could it be possible that processing the audio with known things such as downward velocity of the probe and assuming what it was flying through was methane (or whatever hypothesized atmospheric makeup), etc could yield similar wind speed estimates?
Everybody keeps saying "great, now all my users can move off Outlook". One reason why I personally haven't moved my entire desktop over to Linux is that I can't easily and reliably move all my years' worth of Outlook email, calendar, task, and notes data into Evolution.
So a port of the app is nice, but we also need de-mensa'd data migration tools.
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I think it's safe to say most people use Google in their Firefox toolbar search field.
Geez, I didn't even realize Yahoo was in there... I just click it down for eBay or Dictionary.com when I don't use Google... I guess my mind kind of filtered out Yahoo... scary.
When you are downloading the movie via BitTorrent you are also farming it out to multiple other clients. So the anology is more like going into Best Buy with your DVD-burning laptop, sitting there and making copies and handing them to customers, then leaving with your own copy.
I'd love to key in "DVD player remote" or "car keys" and have it show me a map of where it is in my house.
banning the ownership of handguns. That way they wouldn't shoot each other.
Oh wait, they are already illegal, so why are people getting shot? If that law did any good, people would just be throwing copies of Grand Theft Auto at each other and fewer people would be dead.
But a competent driver (reasonably good drivers) let the act of driving sink into their subconscious
Some aspects yes, BUT proper defensive driving involves slightly more active mental engagement than people usually give it. For example, maintaining a space cushion around your car requires that you do a left-side mirror -> rear-view mirror -> right-side mirror visual sweep every ten seconds or so. If you are shortcutting proper driving behaviors while talking on the phone and the guy in front of you slams on the brakes, you won't immediatley know if it's best to swerve right, swerve left, or go ahead and impact because of the cars next to you.
People are slamming my practical test because they are almost (and in a couple of cases absolutely) relating driving to involuntary muscle action because they believe "autopilot mode" is sufficient and safe.
It's what the big boys have been shoving your head into everytime you get out of gym class at school.
Blaming this on cellphones makes about as much sense as blaming it on other passengers and car audio systems. Let's outlaw those, too.
I see your point, however because a phone conversation requires participation in a feedback loop it rises above very brief things like hitting a button to roll up a window or hitting track forward on the CD player in terms of driving distraction.
It's like eating a meal with someone and having a conversation... simple motor functions won't detract from a mental engagement like a conversation. Eating doesn't require a significant degree of mental engagement, while driving and a conversation both require mental engagement.
/. authors drunk like type.
I have always maintained that handsfree doesn't do squat... it's the split mental attention and not having both hands on the wheel.
Try this easy test... during the superbowl, call someone up on your phone (with headset or without, doesn't matter). During the conversation, after every play, write down the number of yards gained/lost and the number on the jersey of the player that gained/lost them. You'll probably experience "slave can't serve two masters" syndrome and have to dedicate more attention to one or the other, either by having to say "hold on" or "um, what was that?" to whoever you are talking to or missing play stats to keep up with the conversation. Unfortunately, priority in a car most often goes to the conversation.
Let's see... in 1995 it was a Web browser. In 1999 it became the operating system that still is still a browser. Bloat refers to lots more code that doesn't add very much.
only in the open and work for free?
Sorry.
If growing up means becoming bloated, taking over the operating system, and opening itself up to every h@x0r known to netdom then I hope Firefox stays young and naive.
Don't you just dump a bucket of water on blind people to get the same effect?
my best sig is this one.
Do they make one that unblurs you?
Okay, it technically only applies to mirrors I think, but maybe not. Photographs steal your soul and vampires don't have souls, so technically they couldn't be photographed.
Your reply assumes that labs do things for the public good, when reality is that drug companies fund things that will be profitable.
If the medical community REALLY thought stem cells would cure lots of things, labs would be writing their own checks to research it. How many Fed dollars do you think went into erectile dynfunction? Probably zero, but it is a profitable venture so it got funding.
Let's see... isn't
New stem cell harvesting was outlawed in the USA by a 2001 Executive Order from President Bush. To be precise, stem cell harvesting wasn't outlawed.
kind of like saying
Water is made of nitrogen. To be precise, water is made of hydrogen and oxygen.
On top of that you can contribute $3,000 (now $4000 in 2005) to your IRA. This is per-person.
Not at the income levels we're talking about. I mean, contrinute to your IRA all you want, but it won't be tax deductible so you might as well invest it in non-retirement mutual funds.
Many of us downloaded and listened to the audio of the probe falling through Titan's atmosphere... could it be possible that processing the audio with known things such as downward velocity of the probe and assuming what it was flying through was methane (or whatever hypothesized atmospheric makeup), etc could yield similar wind speed estimates?
They figured out how to route space! Does this route time too?
My network closet router only routes closets.
Everybody keeps saying "great, now all my users can move off Outlook". One reason why I personally haven't moved my entire desktop over to Linux is that I can't easily and reliably move all my years' worth of Outlook email, calendar, task, and notes data into Evolution.
So a port of the app is nice, but we also need de-mensa'd data migration tools.
Finally, a major space project based on an open-source database. This is a huge boon for OSS, though it socks MySQL in the mouth.
Is anyone reading slashdot really going to learn anything new from a review of firefox? Haven't we all been using it for years?
My God, and that's just the tip of the problem.
My best sig is this one.
THAT's where it's hiding it's intellectual property theft evidence!
My best sig is this one.
I'm sure this can be twisted to somehow upset v|agr@ as the top spam subject.
My best sig is this one.