This reminds me of my favourite English-language quote...
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
It's really easy to get rid of the search bar, actually. Just right-click on the toolbar and click "Customize...". Then drag the search bar off the toolbar and into the customize box.
At that point you can set up bookmark keywords for google (the whole "g [keyword]" thing), and get more or less exactly the browser experience as you would from Mozilla.
For that matter you can enter the following code in the user.js file in your profile directory to make non-url text in the location bar use regular google search instead of "I'm feeling lucky":
Why? Challenger was the oldest of the shuttles. I doubt that it was using anything other than chemical propellants.
The only thing this shows is that we need to reevaluate what we use for re-entry shielding. Challenger was state of the art 20 years ago, yes, but I'm sure technology has progressed at least a little since then.
By this I assume you mean using client-level filtering. I do. Alot. I typically get about 60-80 pieces of spam a day, and have set up 30 or so filters. But that only catches about 2/3's.
Simply put, there is no client-level filtering solution that is going to work 100% of the time.
I recently started using Mozilla 1.3a, which includes Bayesian filtering for incoming email. So far, having only trained it for a few days, I'd estimate it's flagging around 95% of the spam I recieve. It got a few false positives in the first day or so I was using it - mostly on mailing list messages, but once I told it those weren't spam it's not had any problems since.
This doesn't solve the underlying problem of the spam clogging up the mailserver, but it does mean I don't have to deal with it.
One quibble - DOS is copying CP/M. IBM originally tried to aquire CP/M for its first PCs, but couldn't, so they asked MS if they had anything that would work as an OS. MS quickly bought something called QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) which was really, really similar to CP/M.
As for "state-sponsored amoral acts", how about the Bay of Pigs fiasco in the 50s? (I think it was the 50s, anyway.) That was America creating a guerilla army to invade Cuba... which, as it happened, failed dismally. But what gave them the right to do that? Yes, Castro had overthrown the previous regime in Cuba, and seized all foreign-owned property... but if the US was going to do something about that, an actual invasion would have been rather more appropriate.
(Could any answer to this question please avoid the general concept of "die, you evil Commie bastards!" -- it has long been a strange habit of some Americans to classify anything they disagree with as "Communist", and so somehow "wrong". Here's news for you; Communism isn't all that bad - just poorly executed. And no, I'm not trying to say that all, or even most, Americans are like this.)
America's track record of training terrorists overseas to oppose regimes that're anti-American is nothing to be proud of. There only difference, in my mind, between a "guerilla" and a "terrorist" is which side the person talking is affiliated with.
In my experience, I've not noticed much of a speed difference between Mozilla and Opera. Mozilla definitely sluggish for me, although I can only claim to have tried the Win32 version.
Check any research field over the last 5 months. In any field that's about the same size as microbiology, it wouldn't seem unreasonable for that many people to die.
So they could probably have written this article about the mysterious deaths of cabbage farmers in the midwest, I suppose. It'd be about as relevant...
In a similar (although completely different) vein, might I recommend Gnucleus, which is an open source fileshare program (whose code was recently appropriated by the well-known Morpheus).
Actually, I came out of reading these books thinking they had a fairly similar attitude to war. Starship Troopers has similar hints as to it being the humans who started the war, and for similar reasons - it's just written from Rico's perspective, and it would be a tad out of character for him to start questioning the war.
The biggest difference between the books, I felt, was that Starship Troopers is more of an argument against fascism than it is opposed to war and its consequences.
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And have you submitted a bug report? Have you checked the release notes to see if this is an acknowledged problem? Have you created a new profile to see if the problem is somewhere in your old one?
Have you considered that for most people it works without a hitch? (I installed it and it worked - it's been my main browser since 0.7).
And it deserves a topic on Slashdot because Slashdot is 'news for nerds' - and Mozilla is a big open source project. And quite a few people are interested in Mozilla. That is why.
'Micks'? I'm English, and I've never heard that word...
Anyway; what do you mean 'no great english authors'? There are lots of english authors who are, at least, very good (Mary Gentle, for one, who I know is english because she only lives 30 miles away from me). I could probably point out several, but I don't have the energy, so I will just say one word: Tolkein.
On second thoughts I'll expand upon that; J.R.R. Tolkein (English) wrote the Lord of the Rings which is widely considered to be one of the best books of the century.
It is. Or at least it is the Windows shell. Windows is the OS, IE is the shell, without IE win98 and win2k don't function (unless you use the excellent 98lite).
There is nothing intrinsically wrong with Communism. As an ideal it sounds very good (equality for all, no one person treated any better than any other, etc) - it is only in implementation that it hasn't worked out, and that mainly due to the fact that there has always (Russia, China) been someone who was essentially a dictator. Stalin and Mao both had absolute rule, which means that they weren't really Communist, neh?
It doesn't sound that bad if we say that the star is designed to make people think of the ability of all programmers to have an equal effect on Mozilla development, as anyone can get the source.
My message is: don't hate the ideal for how it is implemented.
I do wonder why some people seem to assume that the Internet is a hotbed of child porn and corruption. I, speaking as someone who would be termed a 'child' legally, can say that I have NEVER seen child porn on the net (or off it for that matter). Sure links to porn sites crop up in search results, but how hard is it to avoid something that says 'SEX SEX SEX!!!!' if you don't want to look at it.
When you think about it, children will find ways to get their hands on porn if that is what they want, and there is no way to stop them.
RAH was writing from the viewpoint of someone who believed in that society. He didn't try to insert any message other than 'this is what it would be like' and by doing this he let you think about the pros and cons of a fascist society.
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They say. In the episode where she's introduced, right at the end, Faye says something along the lines of "You're a girl?!?!?!"
Plus, she's referred to as "she" on the dvd covers. Not guaranteed to be accurate, I admit, but...
This reminds me of my favourite English-language quote...
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that
English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words;
on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
- James D. Nicoll
Which does seem to have some basis in truth...
It's really easy to get rid of the search bar, actually. Just right-click on the toolbar and click "Customize...". Then drag the search bar off the toolbar and into the customize box.
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At that point you can set up bookmark keywords for google (the whole "g [keyword]" thing), and get more or less exactly the browser experience as you would from Mozilla.
For that matter you can enter the following code in the user.js file in your profile directory to make non-url text in the location bar use regular google search instead of "I'm feeling lucky":
user_pref("keyword.URL", "http://google.com/search?btnG=Google+Search&q=")
And there you have it. Simple, no?
Why? Challenger was the oldest of the shuttles. I doubt that it was using anything other than chemical propellants.
The only thing this shows is that we need to reevaluate what we use for re-entry shielding. Challenger was state of the art 20 years ago, yes, but I'm sure technology has progressed at least a little since then.
By this I assume you mean using client-level filtering. I do. Alot. I typically get about 60-80 pieces of spam a day, and have set up 30 or so filters. But that only catches about 2/3's.
Simply put, there is no client-level filtering solution that is going to work 100% of the time.
I recently started using Mozilla 1.3a, which includes Bayesian filtering for incoming email. So far, having only trained it for a few days, I'd estimate it's flagging around 95% of the spam I recieve. It got a few false positives in the first day or so I was using it - mostly on mailing list messages, but once I told it those weren't spam it's not had any problems since.
This doesn't solve the underlying problem of the spam clogging up the mailserver, but it does mean I don't have to deal with it.
One quibble - DOS is copying CP/M. IBM originally tried to aquire CP/M for its first PCs, but couldn't, so they asked MS if they had anything that would work as an OS. MS quickly bought something called QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) which was really, really similar to CP/M.
As for "state-sponsored amoral acts", how about the Bay of Pigs fiasco in the 50s? (I think it was the 50s, anyway.) That was America creating a guerilla army to invade Cuba... which, as it happened, failed dismally. But what gave them the right to do that? Yes, Castro had overthrown the previous regime in Cuba, and seized all foreign-owned property... but if the US was going to do something about that, an actual invasion would have been rather more appropriate.
(Could any answer to this question please avoid the general concept of "die, you evil Commie bastards!" -- it has long been a strange habit of some Americans to classify anything they disagree with as "Communist", and so somehow "wrong". Here's news for you; Communism isn't all that bad - just poorly executed. And no, I'm not trying to say that all, or even most, Americans are like this.)
America's track record of training terrorists overseas to oppose regimes that're anti-American is nothing to be proud of. There only difference, in my mind, between a "guerilla" and a "terrorist" is which side the person talking is affiliated with.
In my experience, I've not noticed much of a speed difference between Mozilla and Opera. Mozilla definitely sluggish for me, although I can only claim to have tried the Win32 version.
*shrugs*
Check any research field over the last 5 months. In any field that's about the same size as microbiology, it wouldn't seem unreasonable for that many people to die.
So they could probably have written this article about the mysterious deaths of cabbage farmers in the midwest, I suppose. It'd be about as relevant...
Oh, it'd still be very inert and noble. You just wouldn't be around to appreciate it.
In a similar (although completely different) vein, might I recommend Gnucleus, which is an open source fileshare program (whose code was recently appropriated by the well-known Morpheus).
What about Nethack? Low system requirements, but incredably playable.
Actually, I came out of reading these books thinking they had a fairly similar attitude to war. Starship Troopers has similar hints as to it being the humans who started the war, and for similar reasons - it's just written from Rico's perspective, and it would be a tad out of character for him to start questioning the war.
The biggest difference between the books, I felt, was that Starship Troopers is more of an argument against fascism than it is opposed to war and its consequences.
And have you submitted a bug report? Have you checked the release notes to see if this is an acknowledged problem? Have you created a new profile to see if the problem is somewhere in your old one?
Have you considered that for most people it works without a hitch? (I installed it and it worked - it's been my main browser since 0.7).
And it deserves a topic on Slashdot because Slashdot is 'news for nerds' - and Mozilla is a big open source project. And quite a few people are interested in Mozilla. That is why.
'Micks'? I'm English, and I've never heard that word...
Anyway; what do you mean 'no great english authors'? There are lots of english authors who are, at least, very good (Mary Gentle, for one, who I know is english because she only lives 30 miles away from me). I could probably point out several, but I don't have the energy, so I will just say one word: Tolkein.
On second thoughts I'll expand upon that; J.R.R. Tolkein (English) wrote the Lord of the Rings which is widely considered to be one of the best books of the century.
Beat that.
It is. Or at least it is the Windows shell. Windows is the OS, IE is the shell, without IE win98 and win2k don't function (unless you use the excellent 98lite).
There is nothing intrinsically wrong with Communism. As an ideal it sounds very good (equality for all, no one person treated any better than any other, etc) - it is only in implementation that it hasn't worked out, and that mainly due to the fact that there has always (Russia, China) been someone who was essentially a dictator. Stalin and Mao both had absolute rule, which means that they weren't really Communist, neh?
It doesn't sound that bad if we say that the star is designed to make people think of the ability of all programmers to have an equal effect on Mozilla development, as anyone can get the source.
My message is: don't hate the ideal for how it is implemented.
I do wonder why some people seem to assume that the Internet is a hotbed of child porn and corruption. I, speaking as someone who would be termed a 'child' legally, can say that I have NEVER seen child porn on the net (or off it for that matter). Sure links to porn sites crop up in search results, but how hard is it to avoid something that says 'SEX SEX SEX!!!!' if you don't want to look at it.
When you think about it, children will find ways to get their hands on porn if that is what they want, and there is no way to stop them.
RAH was writing from the viewpoint of someone who believed in that society. He didn't try to insert any message other than 'this is what it would be like' and by doing this he let you think about the pros and cons of a fascist society.