Get Mozilla or Firefox (I hope I don't have to provide HTML links to them for you). With them you can just select the URL and drag and drop it to the create new tab button on the left of all the tabs. It then opens a new tab and starts loading that URL.
Unfortunatelly with Mozilla you do need to have at least two tabs open for the button to be visible, but still it is very usefull.
AdBlock not only blocks images, but also iFrames. iFrames are used on other people's websites to display Google's adsense text adverts. I assume that this will also show the image based adverts.
You can block the whole iFrame and you can use wildcards so you can do stuff like: block: *.doubleclick.net/*
I've just found an article at Wikipedia that confirms what you said. Other countries have to.
Most of them have changed to deal with border crossings. Britian is an island and so we probably won't be chaning anytime soon although more and more people are driving over on the continent these days but there isn't actually any roads going directly over there. You have to get on a ferry or a train.
Hey, perhaps Slashdot should cache such sites. Or even cache every site that is posted except for the very large ones, such as media companies and Microsoft.
However you could use Solar towers. Sorry, I couldn't find a better link. These towers don't use solar cells, but instead rely on having a large volume of heated air trying to escape up a very tall tower and use a turbines up the tower to generate electricity. The heated air comes by what is basically a very large green house.
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A few years ago I was got a new Debit card and forgot to sign it. I went out Christmas shopping with it. The first store (Argos) didn't check the signature, and so didn't notice anything was up.
The next store (Dixons) noticed and asked me to sign the card, then they allowed the transactions!
I guess its because they're not liable, their nation-wide uber company is so their jobs not worth it.
Microsoft don't provide any guarantees or suggestions that their software is secure. A lock is solely for security.
Perhaps it would be better to ask if a house-maker didn't add locks to the houses they sold, should that house-maker be liable? And, should the owners of houses built by this house-maker add locks to them?
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In the UK, all in-store credit card transactions will require a pin. I think that comes in next year.
I think Royal Bank of Scotland do photos on your credit card. However it would be even better if when the cashier swipes your, a photo of you would be downloaded and appear on their screen so that they can compare you to that photo. A photo on the card might be forgeable.
Obviously this would require a significant investment but I expect it would reduce fraud.
Getting back on topic, does anyone have any idea if Mini / BMW has any plans to release a hybrid version of the Mini Cooper? When my current car wears out, the next one seems likely to be either a Prius [or some other hybrid] or a Mini, but if a gas/electric version of the Mini were available, there would be no question which one I'd want to buy...
I'm glad you like the Italian Job and minis in general. My brother is a mini fanatic. Anyway, the new minis actually use a Toyota engine, the same ones as are used in the Toyota Yaris. AFAIK BMW isn't developing hybrid engines but clearly Toyota is. So, it shouldn't be too long before they add one to the mini although there are factors like space for the battery which could be a problem in a small car like the Mini.
As a fan of Diesels, I'm looking forward to more availability of Bio-Diesel and a Hybrid Diesel which I believe Ford are developing. A few years ago I read an intresting article in Computer Shopper about how Hybrid cars are more efficient than an all electric vehicle. This is not only due to the fact that most of our electricity comes from fossil fuels but also the inefficent distribution system. It came with convincing figures, but unfotunatelly its not available on the net.
I should have said I'm in the UK and I drive a 10 year old Diesel Ford Fiesta similar to this one. OK, it isn't as good as the French diesels but it isn't bad. Its quoted as having a combined 54 MPG, I get 48 MPG, yes I have worked it out!
Anyway the most fuel efficient Diesel I have found is the Citroen C2 with its 1.4HDi, it is quoted as getting a combined 68.9 MPG. I think Citroen stopped selling state side 20 or 30 years ago so (if you are American) you may not have heard of them, but I'm not really qualified to say.
Have you seen the original Italian Job? There is a scene in it where they drove three minis into the back of a moving truck. It wasn't some special effect, they actually did it in real life. Even more impressive than that is when one of the minis actually jumped between two building (with the aid of a take-off ramp). They actually did it for the film, no special effects. The only difference was, they weren't really carrying gold bars in the back which might have made it harder.
I think though that Hybrids are kind of stupid since in europe you can buy non-diesel cars with greater fuel effiency.
Can you provide more information such as make and model of these cars? The only non-diesel car that I know of that has better combined (I haven't been keeping tabs on urban and extra-urban) fuel efficiency than the Toyota Prius is the Honda Insight but that is also a Hybrid. Even if there is one with better fuel efficiency, I doubt it would have the performance of the Toyota Prius.
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See what the Liberal Democrats say about this.
Yes, they are against ID cards!
I can't find a source right now but Iceland has an older democracy than Britian.
This does seem like a very good move for Mozilla. Now, it may increase market-share and we could see more websites that demand IE.
However I suspect people will buy WinCE devices and run IE because they want something as similar to their desktop PCs as possible.
I'd prefer to convert music into my desired format, so I will continue to purchase physical media.
Her site has been on the front page of Slashdot twice now and hasn't gone down. Some people made mirrors of it and some zipped it up.
a _por_Kool.rar. So that might be the one.
I don't think there is any need to use P2P to distribute this site it seems pretty solid. Anyway a quick search on eMule has brought up this link: Recopilacion_fotos_y_videos_Elena_Anaya_y_Paz_Veg
Here is a link to Elena's updated website.
Get Mozilla or Firefox (I hope I don't have to provide HTML links to them for you). With them you can just select the URL and drag and drop it to the create new tab button on the left of all the tabs. It then opens a new tab and starts loading that URL.
Unfortunatelly with Mozilla you do need to have at least two tabs open for the button to be visible, but still it is very usefull.
AFAIK, here in the UK it isn't a percentage, but rather a fixed tax. Probably something like 60p/litre.
Thanks to both AC and a_whoabot, for those insightfull filters. I would mod you up if I had mod points.
Thats very usefull stuff.
AdBlock not only blocks images, but also iFrames. iFrames are used on other people's websites to display Google's adsense text adverts. I assume that this will also show the image based adverts.
You can block the whole iFrame and you can use wildcards so you can do stuff like:
block: *.doubleclick.net/*
I've just found an article at Wikipedia that confirms what you said. Other countries have to.
Most of them have changed to deal with border crossings. Britian is an island and so we probably won't be chaning anytime soon although more and more people are driving over on the continent these days but there isn't actually any roads going directly over there. You have to get on a ferry or a train.
Such as? Examples and names please. I'm intrested, I didn't realise any country had switched.
Hey, perhaps Slashdot should cache such sites. Or even cache every site that is posted except for the very large ones, such as media companies and Microsoft.
However you could use Solar towers. Sorry, I couldn't find a better link. These towers don't use solar cells, but instead rely on having a large volume of heated air trying to escape up a very tall tower and use a turbines up the tower to generate electricity. The heated air comes by what is basically a very large green house.
A few years ago I was got a new Debit card and forgot to sign it. I went out Christmas shopping with it. The first store (Argos) didn't check the signature, and so didn't notice anything was up.
The next store (Dixons) noticed and asked me to sign the card, then they allowed the transactions!
I guess its because they're not liable, their nation-wide uber company is so their jobs not worth it.
Using my brain I have worked out that he was meaning 'surely wrong'.
Microsoft don't provide any guarantees or suggestions that their software is secure. A lock is solely for security.
Perhaps it would be better to ask if a house-maker didn't add locks to the houses they sold, should that house-maker be liable? And, should the owners of houses built by this house-maker add locks to them?
As an earlier poster pointed out, this has already been done!
In the UK, all in-store credit card transactions will require a pin. I think that comes in next year.
I think Royal Bank of Scotland do photos on your credit card. However it would be even better if when the cashier swipes your, a photo of you would be downloaded and appear on their screen so that they can compare you to that photo. A photo on the card might be forgeable.
Obviously this would require a significant investment but I expect it would reduce fraud.
Those colour support hacks also work in Chatzilla, part of Mozilla.
I'm glad you like the Italian Job and minis in general. My brother is a mini fanatic. Anyway, the new minis actually use a Toyota engine, the same ones as are used in the Toyota Yaris. AFAIK BMW isn't developing hybrid engines but clearly Toyota is. So, it shouldn't be too long before they add one to the mini although there are factors like space for the battery which could be a problem in a small car like the Mini.
As a fan of Diesels, I'm looking forward to more availability of Bio-Diesel and a Hybrid Diesel which I believe Ford are developing. A few years ago I read an intresting article in Computer Shopper about how Hybrid cars are more efficient than an all electric vehicle. This is not only due to the fact that most of our electricity comes from fossil fuels but also the inefficent distribution system. It came with convincing figures, but unfotunatelly its not available on the net.
This is why I was suprised by 'non-Diesels'.
I should have said I'm in the UK and I drive a 10 year old Diesel Ford Fiesta similar to this one. OK, it isn't as good as the French diesels but it isn't bad. Its quoted as having a combined 54 MPG, I get 48 MPG, yes I have worked it out!
Anyway the most fuel efficient Diesel I have found is the Citroen C2 with its 1.4HDi, it is quoted as getting a combined 68.9 MPG. I think Citroen stopped selling state side 20 or 30 years ago so (if you are American) you may not have heard of them, but I'm not really qualified to say.
Have you seen the original Italian Job? There is a scene in it where they drove three minis into the back of a moving truck. It wasn't some special effect, they actually did it in real life. Even more impressive than that is when one of the minis actually jumped between two building (with the aid of a take-off ramp). They actually did it for the film, no special effects. The only difference was, they weren't really carrying gold bars in the back which might have made it harder.
Can you provide more information such as make and model of these cars? The only non-diesel car that I know of that has better combined (I haven't been keeping tabs on urban and extra-urban) fuel efficiency than the Toyota Prius is the Honda Insight but that is also a Hybrid. Even if there is one with better fuel efficiency, I doubt it would have the performance of the Toyota Prius.
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