Reminds me when the cable guy came to my apartment to install it. I already had a network card installed so there wasn't too much for him to do. But apperently he wanted to set the browser startup page to be THEIR homepage. He looks around the desktop for a minute (I only have 4 icons there anyway), then he looks around the start menu (only around 10 icons). Finally he says, where's internet explorer? Finally I just dig it out of "program files" for him and he sets the page. Every 4-5 months when I need to use IE for some reason I sort of get a laugh and remember that he did that when I see the page load. Imagine that, someone using a DIFFERENT browser.
Does the Zaurus have any sort of graffiti(tm) input? Most of what I've seen you have to input stuff using that small keyboard (which I'm not so particular on).
I don't know what would be more disturbing. The number of pedestrians you probably had to hit in order to start hitting 57% less, or the fact that you do drive by shootings and have in depth analysis of your accuracy.
What happened to the good ol days when you saw some guy you didn't like, and stuck a tommy gun out the window, let her rip. Then drive away without looking and see if you got him by reading the newspaper headlines the next day? Now days we have spreadsheets analyzing our hit ratios! Kids and these new fangled devices....
Why would I donate money to anyone that leaves their tip jar on the street? There have been more than a few projects that I was actually planning on making donations to, but didn't because they only accepted payment through paypal.
I feel bad for the maker(s) of Abiword (although I don't use it), but if you let the fat kid hold the cookie jar, don't be too surprised when only crumbs are left.
Vote for someone else. Left or right, it doesn't matter, just shake out the incumbents.
Thats what I used to say, but I just don't care anymore. They're all a bunch of corrupt bastards. You want my vote? Supporting term limits is the ONLY way you'll get it.
I think you'll find that most people aren't Open Source advocates in the sense that RMS is. I'm happy to puchase/use closed source stuff provided that:
1) it is worth how much I pay 2) they are generally open in other ways (file formats, etc.)
You'll find that most people on Slashdot like Apple because they have really cool ideas, and actually INNOVATE. Microsoft on the other hand hardly innovates much at all, but to their credit they do buy up businesses that innovate so for the most part the end user can't tell the difference. At the very core of things, people on slashdot like Mac OSX because it looks cool and it's UNIX.
Wow, I was way off when I predicted that Microsoft would further obfuscate their Word format. This seems to be in all respects a Good Thing.
Wait until you have to buy a new version of MS office to read them. Okay, maybe I'm too much into conspiracies, but I don't think it matters anymore to MS. They have enough dominance that they can push this "subscription" model onto office. This means that it doesn't matter if they don't update the software, or improve their software in any way. You pay regardless. Changing their format just one more time is all they need if they can get everyone to into the subscription model. (And we all know how the forced upgrade works because older versions can't read the new format)
If.01% of people have multiple personality disorder, they could ignore and be interested in the product at the same time causing an overlap. This could be a very good market for spammers, because if they can get both (or more) personalities interested in the same product, then they can sell it to the same person twice.
That's mainly why I won't use one. Maybe the business where I work just got unlucky, but every LCD that we've gotten looks good at ONE resolution (around 1280x1024 or something like that). Want to go higher or lower? Guess that's too bad for you. And most people there only want 800x600 where it gets fuzzy. The command line looks ungodly blurred to me. When they asked what sort of LCD I wanted, I told them they could pry my CRT out of my cold dead hands, or I'd start using one of the serial terminals (not that I like green on black all day either..) . When I see LCDs approach the quality of a CRT and that lets me use the resolution I want, then I'll switch, but I have a feeling that will take well over a year or two. Until then I like the extra shelf space that a CRT gives me. I don't know where my books and other crap will go if I change. Putting them in front of an LCD means I push it back. Putting it behind means it's a pain in the ass to get them.
Windows isn't THAT bad if you don't install very much (i.e. anything that integrates with the OS). This is more marketed towards people who purchase new cars anyway, and those people tend to change cars within 2 or 3 years anyway. By then this will be just another one of those fancy gizmo's that comes with the car new and doesn't work by the time a person that buys used cars gets it.
But the universe isn't neccesarily measured by what is there, it's measured by existence. So I'm not sure you can measure the universe just by where light has been able to travel, that's all I'm saying.
To me the question is, does using native widgets actually allow you to follow CSS? Does it allow this across all platforms? My guess is that probably not, judging how IE seems to handle some things but not others.
For instance, create a textbox with the border set to one and notice how it doesn't work the same as a textarea with border set to one - bug in IE, or limit of the widget? how about setting the margins and borders of elements inside of a dropdown menu?.
Mozilla allows you to control everything with the widget because mozilla uses it's own. I imagine people wouldn't be too impressed if things worked differently in the windows 98 version compaired to the windows XP version because the OS. When we're talking about a browser that works in everything from OS2 to Windows to Unix (using god knows what windows manager/widget set) the Mozilla team would spend forever chaising their tails just trying to accomplish the same things. In my opinion it makes sence that they use their own widgets.
That being said, it would be ncie if some of them looked a little nicer...
One suspects that, as galactic hydrogen slowly becomes transmuted into helium->iron the rate must decline
It's easy to think that by looking at how massive stars are, but remember that the ammount of stars aren't really all that important in the bigger picture. The vast majority of matter is crap that just floats around in the dark. I last I read they projections (right now) of matter in the universe were something like +97% hydrogen, +2% helium. Ignoring decimals, the rest of the elements are so insignificant that they really don't even warrent a percent. The rate of star formation declines because of the ammount of matter close enough to clump together to form a star decreases as they form and eventually die out, not really because of elemental conversion.
Well you're sort of assuming that reality expands at the speed of light. Where there is no reality, there are no rules, so I don't think we could really say how fast reality expands at the border between existence and non existence.
Not really. I'd ask if you just wanted to get rid of the bloat, but since your on Win2k, you aren't getting rid of it anyway. With tweakUI you can hide all the icons on the desktop. You can set up short-cut keys on everything on the start menu by right clicking (on a program in the start menu) and going to properties, and entering a shortcut key, [ctrl+alt+m] for mozilla for instance. The command line is instantly available by using [winkey+r] as well as windows explorer [winkey+e].
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and man would their kid have problems....
Back then tech support was a breeze (under some circumstances).
User: Why is my computer running so slow?
Me: [hits the turbo button]
User: oh...
Reminds me when the cable guy came to my apartment to install it. I already had a network card installed so there wasn't too much for him to do. But apperently he wanted to set the browser startup page to be THEIR homepage. He looks around the desktop for a minute (I only have 4 icons there anyway), then he looks around the start menu (only around 10 icons). Finally he says, where's internet explorer? Finally I just dig it out of "program files" for him and he sets the page. Every 4-5 months when I need to use IE for some reason I sort of get a laugh and remember that he did that when I see the page load. Imagine that, someone using a DIFFERENT browser.
Does the Zaurus have any sort of graffiti(tm) input? Most of what I've seen you have to input stuff using that small keyboard (which I'm not so particular on).
I don't know what would be more disturbing. The number of pedestrians you probably had to hit in order to start hitting 57% less, or the fact that you do drive by shootings and have in depth analysis of your accuracy.
What happened to the good ol days when you saw some guy you didn't like, and stuck a tommy gun out the window, let her rip. Then drive away without looking and see if you got him by reading the newspaper headlines the next day? Now days we have spreadsheets analyzing our hit ratios! Kids and these new fangled devices....
Why would I donate money to anyone that leaves their tip jar on the street? There have been more than a few projects that I was actually planning on making donations to, but didn't because they only accepted payment through paypal.
I feel bad for the maker(s) of Abiword (although I don't use it), but if you let the fat kid hold the cookie jar, don't be too surprised when only crumbs are left.
Vote for someone else. Left or right, it doesn't matter, just shake out the incumbents.
Thats what I used to say, but I just don't care anymore. They're all a bunch of corrupt bastards. You want my vote? Supporting term limits is the ONLY way you'll get it.
I think you'll find that most people aren't Open Source advocates in the sense that RMS is. I'm happy to puchase/use closed source stuff provided that:
1) it is worth how much I pay
2) they are generally open in other ways (file formats, etc.)
You'll find that most people on Slashdot like Apple because they have really cool ideas, and actually INNOVATE. Microsoft on the other hand hardly innovates much at all, but to their credit they do buy up businesses that innovate so for the most part the end user can't tell the difference. At the very core of things, people on slashdot like Mac OSX because it looks cool and it's UNIX.
in between me and those huge, huge objects that were so very far away still sends tingling down my spine whenever I think about it.
I think so.
Wow, I was way off when I predicted that Microsoft would further obfuscate their Word format. This seems to be in all respects a Good Thing.
Wait until you have to buy a new version of MS office to read them. Okay, maybe I'm too much into conspiracies, but I don't think it matters anymore to MS. They have enough dominance that they can push this "subscription" model onto office. This means that it doesn't matter if they don't update the software, or improve their software in any way. You pay regardless. Changing their format just one more time is all they need if they can get everyone to into the subscription model. (And we all know how the forced upgrade works because older versions can't read the new format)
If .01% of people have multiple personality disorder, they could ignore and be interested in the product at the same time causing an overlap. This could be a very good market for spammers, because if they can get both (or more) personalities interested in the same product, then they can sell it to the same person twice.
Anybody got quality concerns?
That's mainly why I won't use one. Maybe the business where I work just got unlucky, but every LCD that we've gotten looks good at ONE resolution (around 1280x1024 or something like that). Want to go higher or lower? Guess that's too bad for you. And most people there only want 800x600 where it gets fuzzy. The command line looks ungodly blurred to me. When they asked what sort of LCD I wanted, I told them they could pry my CRT out of my cold dead hands, or I'd start using one of the serial terminals (not that I like green on black all day either..) . When I see LCDs approach the quality of a CRT and that lets me use the resolution I want, then I'll switch, but I have a feeling that will take well over a year or two. Until then I like the extra shelf space that a CRT gives me. I don't know where my books and other crap will go if I change. Putting them in front of an LCD means I push it back. Putting it behind means it's a pain in the ass to get them.
you forgot the integrated browser version.
Maybe he wasn't really saving a byte. I mean it wouldn't seem like a slashdot post if the spelling were entirely correct.
Windows isn't THAT bad if you don't install very much (i.e. anything that integrates with the OS). This is more marketed towards people who purchase new cars anyway, and those people tend to change cars within 2 or 3 years anyway. By then this will be just another one of those fancy gizmo's that comes with the car new and doesn't work by the time a person that buys used cars gets it.
True, but notice that IE widgets can do quite a bit more than the regular windows widgets seem to.
nope, you have to midify pref.js to diable it
user_pref ("accessibility.typeaheadfind", false);
er.. with IE set the border not only to 1px but set it to solid also..
But the universe isn't neccesarily measured by what is there, it's measured by existence. So I'm not sure you can measure the universe just by where light has been able to travel, that's all I'm saying.
To me the question is, does using native widgets actually allow you to follow CSS? Does it allow this across all platforms? My guess is that probably not, judging how IE seems to handle some things but not others.
For instance, create a textbox with the border set to one and notice how it doesn't work the same as a textarea with border set to one - bug in IE, or limit of the widget? how about setting the margins and borders of elements inside of a dropdown menu?.
Mozilla allows you to control everything with the widget because mozilla uses it's own. I imagine people wouldn't be too impressed if things worked differently in the windows 98 version compaired to the windows XP version because the OS. When we're talking about a browser that works in everything from OS2 to Windows to Unix (using god knows what windows manager/widget set) the Mozilla team would spend forever chaising their tails just trying to accomplish the same things. In my opinion it makes sence that they use their own widgets.
That being said, it would be ncie if some of them looked a little nicer...
One suspects that, as galactic hydrogen slowly becomes transmuted into helium->iron the rate must decline
It's easy to think that by looking at how massive stars are, but remember that the ammount of stars aren't really all that important in the bigger picture. The vast majority of matter is crap that just floats around in the dark. I last I read they projections (right now) of matter in the universe were something like +97% hydrogen, +2% helium. Ignoring decimals, the rest of the elements are so insignificant that they really don't even warrent a percent. The rate of star formation declines because of the ammount of matter close enough to clump together to form a star decreases as they form and eventually die out, not really because of elemental conversion.
Well you're sort of assuming that reality expands at the speed of light. Where there is no reality, there are no rules, so I don't think we could really say how fast reality expands at the border between existence and non existence.
Not really. I'd ask if you just wanted to get rid of the bloat, but since your on Win2k, you aren't getting rid of it anyway. With tweakUI you can hide all the icons on the desktop. You can set up short-cut keys on everything on the start menu by right clicking (on a program in the start menu) and going to properties, and entering a shortcut key, [ctrl+alt+m] for mozilla for instance. The command line is instantly available by using [winkey+r] as well as windows explorer [winkey+e].
emacs?
easy, you check the md5 of the md5.