"Overloading" means one thing with more than one purpose, for example operator overloading in C++ means that the + in a+b will add a and b together if they are numbers, but will concatenate them if they are string objects. A single button that either stops the current page from loading, or reloads it, depending on whether the page has finished loading or not is an overloaded button.
Don't overload the Reload and Stop buttons! I read about MS doing that in IE7, and it's one of the most stupid ideas I've heard. Then I tried Opera, and saw that they've done it too! The tabs being ABOVE the toolbar (ugly ugly ugly) is the main reason I don't use Opera, but the combined Stop/Reload button is another reason.
Trespass is a civil offence, not criminal. The police would have no grounds to arrest you. Maybe the police in the states are all stupid bastards, but that isn't the case in the UK.
I have had friends who were police officers, and they aren't all like Chief Wiggum. Some of them are genuine, public-spirited heros. Sure, there are bad apples, some go in for it just for the power, and some are corrupted by it, but not all. As for them all being stupid, well, all I can say is that if you're trolling then you got me.
Minor point, I think the act was used by the police to prevent him from re-entering. They just used regular bouncers to eject him.
Sometimes the police deliberately push the envelope on what they consider to be bad laws in order to provoke reconsideration of the law. There's a possibility that this is one such example, by a policeman who doesn't like the totalitarian direction that we are taking. Not all police support the creation of a police state, it gives them more work to do for one thing.
That's another way of saying "losable cap". Tether it to the unit, or provide a way of fixing the cap to the back of the stick (like the cap of a biro), and I might consider it.
There was an article recently, on Tom's Hardware I think, that explained how to dismantle your 360 and it didn't look easy. MS have deliberately made it difficult to disassemble, part of discouraging the mod-chippers I'd imagine. here it is. Anandtech, not Tom's. Sorry, An!
Yeah, he could spend that time bitching on Slashdot about people wasting their time. Sheesh. If you have ever bought a toy, shut up. Someone had to invent it, and you just had to go and encourage the wasteful, pointless, toy-invention industry.
[Note 1 that in all of this, I have been using virus protection, adware protection, software firewalls, and up-todate patches]
Well, there's your problem. Anti-virus and active adware protection on server machines can't be a good idea. How's it going to get a virus? It's a server, not a user's email and browsing machine. Even my own WinXP laptop has been running for 18 months with no anti-virus and I've had not a single incident. Anti-virus is grossly over-rated.
Lots of chemicals that are transparent themselves, but when mixed turn some color.
When I was little, the senior school chemistry teacher gave the prep school children a demonstration which involved mixing various clear liquids and showing how they turned into different colours and went clear again when another was squirted in. It seemed like magic to me - where did the colour go?
If this is safe (and that's a big if, I hope that dye chemist knows what he's created) then I know a little girl who's going to love it.
Just because some addictions are expensive and frequently lead to such social problems, that doesn't mean that you have to suffer those problems in order to qualify as being addicted to something. Lots of people are addicted to nicotine or alcohol, but I am not insulting or denigrating crack-heads by making that factual statement.
But as usual, people knee-jerk react to the FUD being spread by Microsoft, without even thinking about it to see if it's really a problem.
Thinking isn't always enough, it needs to be discussed, because such problems are not always obvious to us fortunate non-disabled people. That's what's happening, and it is a good thing. Many eyes make all bugs (or, in this case, functional deficiencies) shallow, and all that.
Well then you should use a decent browser like Firefox, not that accessibility-impaired Internet Explorer! I just tired it in IE, and indeed, you can't change the font size! (works fine in Firefox)
Honestly, thanks for pointing out, that's made my day!
If anyone is unclear about the definition of irony, then "a web site about accessibility, that can't be displayed in a larger font size for the visually impaired" is just about the perfect example. "A web site about MS claiming better accessibility, that turns out to be more accessible in Firefox than in Internet Explorer" is also very ironic. "Rain on your wedding day" is just annoying, and not irony. Rain on a weather-forecaster's wedding day is ironic.
That's silly. If they had chosen a format for which no software existed at all, then they would have been criticized, and justifiedly so, despite the fact that anyone can implement it. It is claimed that they chose a format for which the current market does not supply adequate accesibility functionality. It was phrased in the form of a non-sequitur, but it's a valid point nonetheless.
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One of these days I will devote some time to getting to know Opera. Enough people whose opinions I respect have said that it is good.
I accept that my post was not as clear as it could have been.
"Overloading" means one thing with more than one purpose, for example operator overloading in C++ means that the + in a+b will add a and b together if they are numbers, but will concatenate them if they are string objects. A single button that either stops the current page from loading, or reloads it, depending on whether the page has finished loading or not is an overloaded button.
Don't overload the Reload and Stop buttons! I read about MS doing that in IE7, and it's one of the most stupid ideas I've heard. Then I tried Opera, and saw that they've done it too! The tabs being ABOVE the toolbar (ugly ugly ugly) is the main reason I don't use Opera, but the combined Stop/Reload button is another reason.
It's about open formats that can be implemented in Open Source. No, they aren't providing any code, no-one said they are.
someone got shot in the chest!
or is that article so full of shit that it's hard to know where to start?
Trespass is a civil offence, not criminal. The police would have no grounds to arrest you. Maybe the police in the states are all stupid bastards, but that isn't the case in the UK.
I have had friends who were police officers, and they aren't all like Chief Wiggum. Some of them are genuine, public-spirited heros. Sure, there are bad apples, some go in for it just for the power, and some are corrupted by it, but not all. As for them all being stupid, well, all I can say is that if you're trolling then you got me.
Minor point, I think the act was used by the police to prevent him from re-entering. They just used regular bouncers to eject him.
Sometimes the police deliberately push the envelope on what they consider to be bad laws in order to provoke reconsideration of the law. There's a possibility that this is one such example, by a policeman who doesn't like the totalitarian direction that we are taking. Not all police support the creation of a police state, it gives them more work to do for one thing.
Saw it linked on www.venganza.org
That's another way of saying "losable cap". Tether it to the unit, or provide a way of fixing the cap to the back of the stick (like the cap of a biro), and I might consider it.
There was an article recently, on Tom's Hardware I think, that explained how to dismantle your 360 and it didn't look easy. MS have deliberately made it difficult to disassemble, part of discouraging the mod-chippers I'd imagine. here it is. Anandtech, not Tom's. Sorry, An!
Yeah, he could spend that time bitching on Slashdot about people wasting their time. Sheesh. If you have ever bought a toy, shut up. Someone had to invent it, and you just had to go and encourage the wasteful, pointless, toy-invention industry.
If this is safe (and that's a big if, I hope that dye chemist knows what he's created) then I know a little girl who's going to love it.
No shit, it really does! And one-eyed lambs cure cancer, too!
Just because some addictions are expensive and frequently lead to such social problems, that doesn't mean that you have to suffer those problems in order to qualify as being addicted to something. Lots of people are addicted to nicotine or alcohol, but I am not insulting or denigrating crack-heads by making that factual statement.
The article is about consumer electronics such as DVD players and TVs, not music.
No-one I know has even mentioned AOL or AIM, but a couple use MSN Messenger.
Yeah, like Australia and New Zealand are relevant. Pfffft.
Well then you should use a decent browser like Firefox, not that accessibility-impaired Internet Explorer! I just tired it in IE, and indeed, you can't change the font size! (works fine in Firefox)
Honestly, thanks for pointing out, that's made my day!
If anyone is unclear about the definition of irony, then "a web site about accessibility, that can't be displayed in a larger font size for the visually impaired" is just about the perfect example. "A web site about MS claiming better accessibility, that turns out to be more accessible in Firefox than in Internet Explorer" is also very ironic. "Rain on your wedding day" is just annoying, and not irony. Rain on a weather-forecaster's wedding day is ironic.
That's silly. If they had chosen a format for which no software existed at all, then they would have been criticized, and justifiedly so, despite the fact that anyone can implement it. It is claimed that they chose a format for which the current market does not supply adequate accesibility functionality. It was phrased in the form of a non-sequitur, but it's a valid point nonetheless.