Depending on which cinema you go to, they generally range between twenty and thirty minutes, starting with mostly ads and finishing with mostly previews, but they're normally interwoven to a degree. Personally I don't mind the previews so much (after all, they show the best bits of movies you might like to watch), but the ads often get annoying...
Erm... Australia? We've given up for too much of our Sovereignty to lose the FTA now on a simple technicality that could be fixed if we give up a bit more sovereighty.
Not only that, but follow the actual link and you're greeted by the Secunia front page which isn't the new vulnerability that's being discussed (it talks about two in Internet Explorer, so till I noticed the address I was a little confused). You don't need to link to a source's front page, but when you do, please link only the organisation's name.
And worse still, the Secunia webpage says 'Secunia Research has reported a vulnerability, which affects most browsers'. It should read either '... a vulnerability that affects...' or '... a vulnerability which affects...'. Do not accept your grammar checkers suggestions unless you really did mean to write that. (Prescriptivist grammarians will object to the commaless which-form, but a lot of people find it grammatical and it means what they wanted it to mean so it's okay.)
Your sig (just because you're schizophrenic doesn't mean they aren't out to get you) needs to say 'paranoid', not 'schizophrenic'. Not all people with schizophrenia are paranoid, and not everyone who's paranoid is necessarily schizophrenic.
That doesn't appear to be a word, or at least dictionary.com doesn't have it with the intended definition. There is a word similar to it, though, with the meaning intended. Does anyone know what it is? I've been trying to remember it myself...
IANAL, but I have a friend who's a law student, and at some point in the past I asked him about this. Apparently Australian courts are open to the possibility of using precedent from other Common Law courts when there's nothing applicable in Australian courts. I imagine that's especially true in today's climate of harmonisation of laws between nations.
I think an example of this is that Australian courts have used various rules set in American courts with regards to software patents.
We might be an independent country, but that doesn't mean we can't shop around for court decisions when they haven't been made here. Alternatively, we're an indepedent country, but if we only look at British law we don't look independent, so we have to look at others with similar setups to our own:)
Umm, actually, it's a very useful feature sometimes. Lets you stop scrolling if you decide you no longer want to. Alternatively, I suppose you could show whether the thumb originally was and perhaps snap back in place when you're within a few pixels or lines of it... Or you could make escape... escape the operation
Incidentally, considering all Tog's comments about usability, you think he'd be able to get a simple pre-computing bit of usability down pat. It took me ages to work out what he meant by 'Let's you save me some work'. Eventually I worked out he had an incorrect apostrophe in 'let's', but even with the correct punctuation it's a hard-to-decypher sentence.
For example, putting a button with a 1 pixel wide inactive border at the edge of the screen is not a good thing to do. Fitt's law says, in effect, that if the button is not at the edge, you have to slow down and hit it directly, whereas with the button at the edge, you can just slam into the edge with the mouse and hit it.
Of course, I just bounce of the edge of the screen---much quicker (or easier at least) than slowing down.
Making the "Back" button bigger on Firefox, as the article suggests, probably doesn't save you any significant amount of time
ROX-Filer lets you have a close item in the toolbar. I have my toolbar set to icons-and-text, so I get nice buttons. I've found that without thinking, I'll always prefer the toolbar button to the window manager button because it's *so* much easier to press. I wish all toolbars included a close button. (These are filer windows of the sort you wouldn't ever maximise, not that it matters tho, I almost never maximise windows anyway, so my corners are for system tasks: home directory, terminal emulator etc.)
See ROX. Applications based around it mostly do what you ask (though ROX itself needs an installer for convenience, most people like having a 'rox' wrapper in their path). A related project is Zero-Install, but it needs a kernel module to work. But it has all the advantages of everything except a central repository (and you can't compile-in-place so different OSes/architectures can run the software from source at the moment).
The Australian one's probably better; it already grants the Queen unlimited power should she choose to accept it. Gets rid of all the nastinesses when the pollies have to work out how to get around it.
People who travel often from one point to another and don't have a computer at both places, but always have a power point. Probably said person can't afford or doesn't want a fully fledged desktop. You may also get people who want it for the aesthetics or the meaning; a desktop replacement laptop can be moved around a lot easier than a desktop, so rather than going to the computer, you can bring the computer to you.
I have little desire or need for an über-portable laptop, but a desktop replacement fulfils my needs quite nicely.
Screw the FSF and EFF? Why? Don't you know that money, like anything can be replicated digitally, is unlimited? You can give plenty of money to Blackboxvoting, the FSF and the EFF, all at the same time!
Actually, neither have I. I thought I had, but upon re-reading what I thought was the source (H. G. Wells' "The Country of the Blind"), it merely quotes it. Apparently it comes from a Dutch priest Desiderius Erasmus, or so says Wikiquote. You might try searching with "country of the blind" rather than "land of the blind", it seems to be an older translation.
What other forms of creationism are there? (I was taught nothing but evolution in a Catholic primary and secondary school. Everything I know about creationism has come from American websites...)
I have no problems hiding them. I'm not their intended audience. Almost all of them seem to be aimed towards Americans in business, apart from a handful for Think Geek. I already know about the latter and I'm an Australia in (l)Uni
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I want a copy of this ad. Does anyone know how I can get a copy of the relevant issue of NYT in Melbourne, Australia?
Depending on which cinema you go to, they generally range between twenty and thirty minutes, starting with mostly ads and finishing with mostly previews, but they're normally interwoven to a degree. Personally I don't mind the previews so much (after all, they show the best bits of movies you might like to watch), but the ads often get annoying...
Erm... Australia? We've given up for too much of our Sovereignty to lose the FTA now on a simple technicality that could be fixed if we give up a bit more sovereighty.
Not only that, but follow the actual link and you're greeted by the Secunia front page which isn't the new vulnerability that's being discussed (it talks about two in Internet Explorer, so till I noticed the address I was a little confused). You don't need to link to a source's front page, but when you do, please link only the organisation's name.
...' or '... a vulnerability which affects ...'. Do not accept your grammar checkers suggestions unless you really did mean to write that. (Prescriptivist grammarians will object to the commaless which-form, but a lot of people find it grammatical and it means what they wanted it to mean so it's okay.)
And worse still, the Secunia webpage says 'Secunia Research has reported a vulnerability, which affects most browsers'. It should read either '... a vulnerability that affects
Your sig (just because you're schizophrenic doesn't mean they aren't out to get you) needs to say 'paranoid', not 'schizophrenic'. Not all people with schizophrenia are paranoid, and not everyone who's paranoid is necessarily schizophrenic.
Maybe Apple oughtta buy IBM's PC line :)
I hate Firefox (preferring Galeon), but Thunderbird is the best graphical MUA for 'nixes that I've found, so I use it...
You know, it doesn't work when it was written as an acronym in the first place :P (Also, the old Zeeland is spelt with two e's and one a.)
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That doesn't appear to be a word, or at least dictionary.com doesn't have it with the intended definition. There is a word similar to it, though, with the meaning intended. Does anyone know what it is? I've been trying to remember it myself...
IANAL, but I have a friend who's a law student, and at some point in the past I asked him about this. Apparently Australian courts are open to the possibility of using precedent from other Common Law courts when there's nothing applicable in Australian courts. I imagine that's especially true in today's climate of harmonisation of laws between nations.
:)
I think an example of this is that Australian courts have used various rules set in American courts with regards to software patents.
We might be an independent country, but that doesn't mean we can't shop around for court decisions when they haven't been made here. Alternatively, we're an indepedent country, but if we only look at British law we don't look independent, so we have to look at others with similar setups to our own
Umm, actually, it's a very useful feature sometimes. Lets you stop scrolling if you decide you no longer want to. Alternatively, I suppose you could show whether the thumb originally was and perhaps snap back in place when you're within a few pixels or lines of it... Or you could make escape ... escape the operation
Incidentally, considering all Tog's comments about usability, you think he'd be able to get a simple pre-computing bit of usability down pat. It took me ages to work out what he meant by 'Let's you save me some work'. Eventually I worked out he had an incorrect apostrophe in 'let's', but even with the correct punctuation it's a hard-to-decypher sentence.
For example, putting a button with a 1 pixel wide inactive border at the edge of the screen is not a good thing to do. Fitt's law says, in effect, that if the button is not at the edge, you have to slow down and hit it directly, whereas with the button at the edge, you can just slam into the edge with the mouse and hit it.
Of course, I just bounce of the edge of the screen---much quicker (or easier at least) than slowing down.
Making the "Back" button bigger on Firefox, as the article suggests, probably doesn't save you any significant amount of time
ROX-Filer lets you have a close item in the toolbar. I have my toolbar set to icons-and-text, so I get nice buttons. I've found that without thinking, I'll always prefer the toolbar button to the window manager button because it's *so* much easier to press. I wish all toolbars included a close button. (These are filer windows of the sort you wouldn't ever maximise, not that it matters tho, I almost never maximise windows anyway, so my corners are for system tasks: home directory, terminal emulator etc.)
See ROX. Applications based around it mostly do what you ask (though ROX itself needs an installer for convenience, most people like having a 'rox' wrapper in their path). A related project is Zero-Install, but it needs a kernel module to work. But it has all the advantages of everything except a central repository (and you can't compile-in-place so different OSes/architectures can run the software from source at the moment).
The Australian one's probably better; it already grants the Queen unlimited power should she choose to accept it. Gets rid of all the nastinesses when the pollies have to work out how to get around it.
And gee, the people who made the reverse claim? Well, they're stuffed too! NLD contains Gnome!
Obviously, this points indisputably to the fact that Novell is intending to replace Gnome and KDE with ROX and FVWM2. Without a doubt.
People who travel often from one point to another and don't have a computer at both places, but always have a power point. Probably said person can't afford or doesn't want a fully fledged desktop. You may also get people who want it for the aesthetics or the meaning; a desktop replacement laptop can be moved around a lot easier than a desktop, so rather than going to the computer, you can bring the computer to you.
I have little desire or need for an über-portable laptop, but a desktop replacement fulfils my needs quite nicely.
You mist the negative. The GP was saying it was clear BitTorrent was *not* designed for copyright infringing uses.
Besides, I just might think not enough of Americans will actually care.
:) :(
Well of course not, most voted for Bush
Screw the FSF and EFF? Why? Don't you know that money, like anything can be replicated digitally, is unlimited? You can give plenty of money to Blackboxvoting, the FSF and the EFF, all at the same time!
No-one asked how it effected you, only how it affected you.
It's eleven hours (to the east coast) from GMT, so it's more like sixteen I think (taking a random place in America)...
Actually, neither have I. I thought I had, but upon re-reading what I thought was the source (H. G. Wells' "The Country of the Blind"), it merely quotes it. Apparently it comes from a Dutch priest Desiderius Erasmus, or so says Wikiquote. You might try searching with "country of the blind" rather than "land of the blind", it seems to be an older translation.
What other forms of creationism are there? (I was taught nothing but evolution in a Catholic primary and secondary school. Everything I know about creationism has come from American websites...)
To paraphrase: "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."
Incidentally, have you ever read the source work?
I have no problems hiding them. I'm not their intended audience. Almost all of them seem to be aimed towards Americans in business, apart from a handful for Think Geek. I already know about the latter and I'm an Australia in (l)Uni