I'd like to see PaleMoon and SeaMonkey go off and do their own damn thing together, and to hell with Firefox. For what do we need Firefox's changing the guts all the damn time anyway?? How does it benefit us, the users??
SeaMonkey user here, PaleMoon in a pinch, Konqueror on the side (tho I gather we're about to be deprived of that soon). Haven't even installed Firefox since SM came out, and probably never will again. If I wanted fucking Chrome, I'd use Chrome!
What does that chart look like if for modern times, you take out all those that would only be visible via satellite? Because before that, only the chance of a ship spotting one in the far ocean told us about those out of sight of land......or over lightly populated land... did anyone pay attention when Lydia passed over southern Baja last week? It was WAY bigger than Harvey.
The reason there was so much destruction whenever a hurricane hit Florida up through the 1960s and 70s is because housing developments were built using staples instead of nails. When wind is moving a structure, staples pull out a lot easier than do nails. Of course most of those structures are long gone, and using staples in construction has since been outlawed.
As to flattening a city... northern Colorado's east slope regularly gets winds of 160mph, and that's not enough to take out a well-built house, let alone a commercial building.
We've had a dearth of hurricanes over the past 15 years -- far fewer than normal. So when we get a few bad ones, now all of a sudden it's the end of the world. Wait til you see how bad they get when the Earth cools down a bit more, even just to where it was in the 1960s, and there's enough temperature differential to drive *really* big weather.
Seems to me bittorrent could be adapted as a marketplace -- low-cost subscription/purchase (beating even Netflix since this won't need to make profit at the distributor level) and micropayments for anyone who seeds, perhaps based on ratio -- and you've got a huge and instant distribution network that only costs you the trouble of creating a new torrent app and doing an initial seed, and after that takes care of itself... with a much longer tail than normal retail.
Taxing robots on a per-labor-unit basis might work, except for the minor detail that a great deal of that labor, robots and all, has already moved overseas. Try taxing a robot in Malaysia or China...
Someone gift me a pair of Blublocker sunglasses (real ones, not knockoffs), the kind with yellowish lenses that are supposed to block UV. And they seemed to do that (I can see some UV, so I notice). BUT after a few hours in sunlight, they made my eyes sore, and it felt like a heat-burn, not like normal sunburn, as if my eyes were getting proportionally more IR.
That was the end of wearing 'em in sunlight, tho they worked fairly well for improved contrast in rain or fog.
Actually, it probably started when lard was replaced by soybean oil in the 1960s. Soy contains high levels of phytoestrogen, which is a thyroid inhibitor -- the effect is only about 5%, but that's enough to cause carb cravings (to alleviate the hypothyroid brain's glucose starvation), and a natural shift toward eating more sugar. Our dietary habits are more instinct-driven than we'd like to believe... and the market supplies what people prefer.
Flaxseed meal has 3x as much phytoestrogen as soy. Take note of the "healthy" breakfast cereals loaded with it, and the recent plague of obese grade-schoolers (even when they have reasonably normal-weight parents).
Suppose so, but they get their bulk meat from Cargill like everyone else, so if it were true you'd see it from Costco and the average chain grocery as well.
And I've been buying meat there for years and have never seen excessive shrinkage, and I eat beef next thing to raw. Of course if you cook it well-done it'll always shrink, sometimes by half its volume. And the better the meat (less connective waste) the more it shrinks, because overlong cooking damages it more.
Islamic terrorists (and Islam in general) have a great deal more in common with the Bolsheviks than with any genuinely right-wing groups. They don't really care about "conserving" anything; they care about overthrowing anything they don't control. It's just easier to control that which you've knocked down to medieval levels.
Probably some technical improvements under the hood, but I have XP, XP64, and Win7/64 side by side, and every time I have to use Win7, it's one little annoyance after another, and I am SO glad to go back to XP.
One problem with opensourcing commercial software is that usually there's a spaghetti tangle of licensing, since it's a rare commercial product that doesn't use code licensed from somewhere else.
Of course there's always ReactOS, which should be viable about the time Windows 26 is released...
Source for MSDOS is out there (it seems to be v5 with some of v6's changes, but not a complete v6)... a search therein for "IBM" or "fuck" (often arriving at the same spot) will indeed provide enlightenment.
If I want lack of sorting, I'll use the default Windows viewer! Geez, but that would be Google... any functionality that a raw beginner can't find, we can ALL do without.
Photos and Videos vs Movies and TV... I'd guess it means "amateur-made" vs "commercial source" but yeah, someone only knew cellphone-speak.
I've tried others now and then, and have been through the whole gamut on linux. Nothing beats WinAmp for what I want it to do, which is just be a damn player and stay out of my way. I dislike needless complexity, cutesy interfaces, instability, resource hogging, and anything that fucks with my files.
And I have somewhere around 25,000 MP3s. But I manage that mass of files with directory trees and by using playlists (didja know WinAmp can load multiple playlists at once?), not with the player.
Actually, putting 'em into dirtrees and playlists means I don't have to do any management at all, just point and shoot.
Thanks for the rundown. I use ACDSee mainly as a quick way to run through the zillions of images from digital cameras (continuous mode was invented by the devil). Stepless zoom sounds worth the install all by itself, and I probably have an older Picasa here somewhere.... I haven't looked at Irfanview in ages, didn't like it much way-back-when, but as we're bitching, things change!
"Story Remix" sounds like they're letting kindergarteners steer development. WTF??
There exists WinAmp3 for linux, but since I can't get the durn thing to run (not even after unpacking the RPM, since it wouldn't install either), I can't tell you if it sucks.
Dunno, but for general bitmap editing... I try other stuff, and always wind up fleeing back to Corel PhotoPaint. I've actually bought CorelDraw just to get PhotoPaint. (Admittedly at a sharp discount, but still.)
PhotoPaint v9 for linux exists, and was a free download back in the day, but I've heard is an Adventure to get running.
While we're in ancient history, Vern Buerg's LIST, v9.final.
LIST v6.0 source code was released as public domain, but good luck finding a copy; it seems to have vanished off the planet (tho I have one stashed on an old HD somewhere).
I wonder if that's a legacy of when, as I vaguely recall, GIMP wouldn't edit JPGs at all because of the usual not-free-format religion. (I may be dysremembering.)
Oh, there's another I'd pay for: Corel PhotoPaint, preferably v8.
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Saw somewhere that Konqueror is now abandoned and will be deprecated. :(
Whatever problems it has are all overshadowed by one great virtue: It is neither Firefox nor Chrome.
I'd like to see PaleMoon and SeaMonkey go off and do their own damn thing together, and to hell with Firefox. For what do we need Firefox's changing the guts all the damn time anyway?? How does it benefit us, the users??
SeaMonkey user here, PaleMoon in a pinch, Konqueror on the side (tho I gather we're about to be deprived of that soon). Haven't even installed Firefox since SM came out, and probably never will again. If I wanted fucking Chrome, I'd use Chrome!
What does that chart look like if for modern times, you take out all those that would only be visible via satellite? Because before that, only the chance of a ship spotting one in the far ocean told us about those out of sight of land... ...or over lightly populated land... did anyone pay attention when Lydia passed over southern Baja last week? It was WAY bigger than Harvey.
The reason there was so much destruction whenever a hurricane hit Florida up through the 1960s and 70s is because housing developments were built using staples instead of nails. When wind is moving a structure, staples pull out a lot easier than do nails. Of course most of those structures are long gone, and using staples in construction has since been outlawed.
As to flattening a city... northern Colorado's east slope regularly gets winds of 160mph, and that's not enough to take out a well-built house, let alone a commercial building.
We've had a dearth of hurricanes over the past 15 years -- far fewer than normal. So when we get a few bad ones, now all of a sudden it's the end of the world. Wait til you see how bad they get when the Earth cools down a bit more, even just to where it was in the 1960s, and there's enough temperature differential to drive *really* big weather.
Seems to me bittorrent could be adapted as a marketplace -- low-cost subscription/purchase (beating even Netflix since this won't need to make profit at the distributor level) and micropayments for anyone who seeds, perhaps based on ratio -- and you've got a huge and instant distribution network that only costs you the trouble of creating a new torrent app and doing an initial seed, and after that takes care of itself... with a much longer tail than normal retail.
Taxing robots on a per-labor-unit basis might work, except for the minor detail that a great deal of that labor, robots and all, has already moved overseas. Try taxing a robot in Malaysia or China...
Someone gift me a pair of Blublocker sunglasses (real ones, not knockoffs), the kind with yellowish lenses that are supposed to block UV. And they seemed to do that (I can see some UV, so I notice). BUT after a few hours in sunlight, they made my eyes sore, and it felt like a heat-burn, not like normal sunburn, as if my eyes were getting proportionally more IR.
That was the end of wearing 'em in sunlight, tho they worked fairly well for improved contrast in rain or fog.
Actually, it probably started when lard was replaced by soybean oil in the 1960s. Soy contains high levels of phytoestrogen, which is a thyroid inhibitor -- the effect is only about 5%, but that's enough to cause carb cravings (to alleviate the hypothyroid brain's glucose starvation), and a natural shift toward eating more sugar. Our dietary habits are more instinct-driven than we'd like to believe... and the market supplies what people prefer.
Flaxseed meal has 3x as much phytoestrogen as soy. Take note of the "healthy" breakfast cereals loaded with it, and the recent plague of obese grade-schoolers (even when they have reasonably normal-weight parents).
Suppose so, but they get their bulk meat from Cargill like everyone else, so if it were true you'd see it from Costco and the average chain grocery as well.
And I've been buying meat there for years and have never seen excessive shrinkage, and I eat beef next thing to raw. Of course if you cook it well-done it'll always shrink, sometimes by half its volume. And the better the meat (less connective waste) the more it shrinks, because overlong cooking damages it more.
Considering I can stand there and watch them cut and package it, you'd think this extra step would be more obvious...
Islamic terrorists (and Islam in general) have a great deal more in common with the Bolsheviks than with any genuinely right-wing groups. They don't really care about "conserving" anything; they care about overthrowing anything they don't control. It's just easier to control that which you've knocked down to medieval levels.
Who says you get to decide if the smartcar is turned on or off??
I'm thinkin' a spare PC, a Hauppauge dongle, and a dumb screen would do just fine.
Actually, I haven't even watched TV in 15 years, so I don't know why I'm here in the first place!
Probably some technical improvements under the hood, but I have XP, XP64, and Win7/64 side by side, and every time I have to use Win7, it's one little annoyance after another, and I am SO glad to go back to XP.
One problem with opensourcing commercial software is that usually there's a spaghetti tangle of licensing, since it's a rare commercial product that doesn't use code licensed from somewhere else.
Of course there's always ReactOS, which should be viable about the time Windows 26 is released...
Source for MSDOS is out there (it seems to be v5 with some of v6's changes, but not a complete v6) ... a search therein for "IBM" or "fuck" (often arriving at the same spot) will indeed provide enlightenment.
If I want lack of sorting, I'll use the default Windows viewer! Geez, but that would be Google... any functionality that a raw beginner can't find, we can ALL do without.
Photos and Videos vs Movies and TV... I'd guess it means "amateur-made" vs "commercial source" but yeah, someone only knew cellphone-speak.
I've tried others now and then, and have been through the whole gamut on linux. Nothing beats WinAmp for what I want it to do, which is just be a damn player and stay out of my way. I dislike needless complexity, cutesy interfaces, instability, resource hogging, and anything that fucks with my files.
And I have somewhere around 25,000 MP3s. But I manage that mass of files with directory trees and by using playlists (didja know WinAmp can load multiple playlists at once?), not with the player.
Actually, putting 'em into dirtrees and playlists means I don't have to do any management at all, just point and shoot.
Thanks for the rundown. I use ACDSee mainly as a quick way to run through the zillions of images from digital cameras (continuous mode was invented by the devil). Stepless zoom sounds worth the install all by itself, and I probably have an older Picasa here somewhere.... I haven't looked at Irfanview in ages, didn't like it much way-back-when, but as we're bitching, things change!
"Story Remix" sounds like they're letting kindergarteners steer development. WTF??
Ouch. I hate when that happens! Just stop fucking with my software already!
I never did try Picasa. What am I missing?
There exists WinAmp3 for linux, but since I can't get the durn thing to run (not even after unpacking the RPM, since it wouldn't install either), I can't tell you if it sucks.
Dunno, but for general bitmap editing... I try other stuff, and always wind up fleeing back to Corel PhotoPaint. I've actually bought CorelDraw just to get PhotoPaint. (Admittedly at a sharp discount, but still.)
PhotoPaint v9 for linux exists, and was a free download back in the day, but I've heard is an Adventure to get running.
While we're in ancient history, Vern Buerg's LIST, v9.final.
LIST v6.0 source code was released as public domain, but good luck finding a copy; it seems to have vanished off the planet (tho I have one stashed on an old HD somewhere).
Since I still use an ancient ACDSee v3.something that came in a printer bundle... I'll consider myself warned!!
While we're leading an active fantasy life -- make that WinXP and XP64 !!
(Since to my mind, they started breaking usability after that.)
I wonder if that's a legacy of when, as I vaguely recall, GIMP wouldn't edit JPGs at all because of the usual not-free-format religion. (I may be dysremembering.)
Oh, there's another I'd pay for:
Corel PhotoPaint, preferably v8.