Click on the link: type ahead is for selecting the next link to go to. It is more flexible than FF.
When viewing google search results, type "next" and enter to go to the next page of results. Or type "images" and enter to instead search for images that match your search. Etc. etc...
Mozilla also has most of those features. They may not be as straightforward or as immediately available as in Opera (eg. may require downloading a module, hacking the prefs file, etc.) but in a sense, this is one of Mozilla's strenghths, at least for programmers/hackers (not grandmothers).
Besides being open source and having the C source availalbe, Mozilla contains approx 150,000 lines or 4.5mb (uncompressed) of javascript code. Its object hierarchy is very accessible and can be easily reconfigured. New modules can alter the existing set of javascript in infinite ways.
So, while it's likely harder to tweak Mozilla to exactly suit your needs, in the long run, it's much much more flexible than opera, and because it has a larger marketshare, its features will eventually easily surpass Opera's. Mozilla may always be a step behind in terms of speed, but in terms of features, it definitely won't.
Selecting a link to go to is by definition the most important interaction there is with a browser. If you don't browse sans-mouse very often, it may not be worth it to you to lose all those keys (though you still have ctrl/alt/shift).
I personally think (being a keyboard nut) that mouseless browsing is probably faster for the large majority of pages out there. But even without that extremist view, I think that it's a pretty straightforward argument that least a portion (eg. this or this) of webpages are better served by keyboard-only browsing.
The geocities account is no longer owned by the Fizzer creator, it's now legitimately owned by the anti-fizzer group. I was suggesting that since they've put so much personal time into fighting the worm, that they probably wouldn't mind fronting the $10-40 to help out the internet community even more.
It only takes a few bucks, something the charitable soul probably wouldn't mind at all. As long as consumption doesn't go over 35gb/month, they're fine.
For photographic images JPEG would have supplanted GIF anyway. JPEG became the web format of choice for photos sometime in the early 90's, where were you?
Despite its technical promise, PNG is still, after eight years, a fringe player. IE and NS support it, and while it may not be widely used, any web page designer can be assured that 90+% of their readers can view PNG images.
I think it's about time ISP's started charging for each e-mail both sent and received
I don't think that's the best approach. It's artificially raising the price of a very basic service. While individual users might not mind paying 100 cents more a month, Amazon sure would be upset if it had to stop its confirmation emails, or pass that cost on to the consumer. All these companies operating slightly less efficiently ends up being a small drag on our economy.
And what's to stop us at charging extra for email? Why not http since so many unsolicited ads get sent over that? Or usenet? While SMTP may be the big pain right now, who's to say that the scum won't move to a different (free) protocol in response?
I work for a large corporation, and they encourage every employee to try to create 4 patent proposals a year. Coworkers have submitted many proposals, but I don't know in my local group who's gotten a patent all the way through... I don't konw how much rubber-stamping the USPTO is doing given that our legal department is rejecting 90%+ of our submissions.
I'm a thorough perl evangelist, but I usually end up telling coworkers to wait on Perl 6. As soon as they start dipping their toes in the water, they run across some weirdness that's not very intuitive to them. Invariably perl6 has changed that feature to be the way the newbie initially thought it should be.
Bah. I thought about finding links to back up my statements, but it's in the middle of the workday and I need to cut down on my slashdotting. A semi-well-known security prof stated in his class that most security break-ins are due to a company's own employees, or something like that. As far as hard evidence, I'm pretty sure anyone could find it if they looked.
Haven't you seen Office Space? Most security breaches are by a company's own employees... most money lost illegally is due to the company's own employees. Reasons obviously include at least greed and revenge. And maybe bragging, but only to your girlfriend and the guy on the other side of the wall.
Google proved it could really mop up by focusing on a high quality search engine rather than focusing on ramming as many big obnoxious ads as possible down your users throats, and they also did it without comprimising on their ethics. Without google around, everyone assumes that the only way to make more money is to abuse and exploit your users more, but with Google around, the execs start listen to the more rational members of their corporations more.
No google isn't sacred, and I'm sure their search tech will be trumped at some point, but it's not likely that company will have as much integrity unless google manages to stick around enough to permanently alter the whole sector or more.
SBC has stated that they will now put their broadband deployment plans in Kansas on hold
They're either pouting or bluffing. SBC's competitors will start getting more broadband customers, and SBC can't ignore that for very long despite what they claim. SBC will be salivating and eventually they'll have to take a bite no matter what they say about keeping their hands off.
It's not JUST a political statement. You're also inadvertantly funding MS's efforts to ensnare you, so it's understandable how one might not want to do that.
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The main suspected "kink" are the telomeres, and if we do discover it's a kink, it may be a difficult one to work around. Here's a good article on telomeres and telomerase.
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Is there a command-line linux version of bittorrent? Looks like the official one requires GTK libraries and such...
When viewing google search results, type "next" and enter to go to the next page of results. Or type "images" and enter to instead search for images that match your search. Etc. etc...
Besides being open source and having the C source availalbe, Mozilla contains approx 150,000 lines or 4.5mb (uncompressed) of javascript code. Its object hierarchy is very accessible and can be easily reconfigured. New modules can alter the existing set of javascript in infinite ways.
So, while it's likely harder to tweak Mozilla to exactly suit your needs, in the long run, it's much much more flexible than opera, and because it has a larger marketshare, its features will eventually easily surpass Opera's. Mozilla may always be a step behind in terms of speed, but in terms of features, it definitely won't.
I personally think (being a keyboard nut) that mouseless browsing is probably faster for the large majority of pages out there. But even without that extremist view, I think that it's a pretty straightforward argument that least a portion (eg. this or this) of webpages are better served by keyboard-only browsing.
Or you can use Mozilla and take out the word "about".
Notes can't be, but that's not a huge loss in my humble opinion. There are possible better alternatives (notepad, vim, ...)
Mozilla's type ahead sounds far better than fast forward.
Everything else is supported in Mozilla...
The geocities account is no longer owned by the Fizzer creator, it's now legitimately owned by the anti-fizzer group. I was suggesting that since they've put so much personal time into fighting the worm, that they probably wouldn't mind fronting the $10-40 to help out the internet community even more.
It only takes a few bucks, something the charitable soul probably wouldn't mind at all. As long as consumption doesn't go over 35gb/month, they're fine.
JPEG became the web format of choice for photos sometime in the early 90's, where were you?
IE and NS support it, and while it may not be widely used, any web page designer can be assured that 90+% of their readers can view PNG images.
I don't think that's the best approach. It's artificially raising the price of a very basic service. While individual users might not mind paying 100 cents more a month, Amazon sure would be upset if it had to stop its confirmation emails, or pass that cost on to the consumer. All these companies operating slightly less efficiently ends up being a small drag on our economy.
And what's to stop us at charging extra for email? Why not http since so many unsolicited ads get sent over that? Or usenet? While SMTP may be the big pain right now, who's to say that the scum won't move to a different (free) protocol in response?
There are lengthy descriptions available, but the best way to describe it is via pictures.
- A 486DX 50mhz system with 16mb of ram is well enough for these purposes
You haven't used MSIE or Mozilla lately, have you?I work for a large corporation, and they encourage every employee to try to create 4 patent proposals a year. Coworkers have submitted many proposals, but I don't know in my local group who's gotten a patent all the way through... I don't konw how much rubber-stamping the USPTO is doing given that our legal department is rejecting 90%+ of our submissions.
At least part of it is the fact that current prison sentences don't reform people very well (and maybe can't) and people know that.
It's "Hello MOTO", not "Goodbye Motorola". Get your consumer jingles right.
I'm a thorough perl evangelist, but I usually end up telling coworkers to wait on Perl 6. As soon as they start dipping their toes in the water, they run across some weirdness that's not very intuitive to them. Invariably perl6 has changed that feature to be the way the newbie initially thought it should be.
Bah. I thought about finding links to back up my statements, but it's in the middle of the workday and I need to cut down on my slashdotting. A semi-well-known security prof stated in his class that most security break-ins are due to a company's own employees, or something like that. As far as hard evidence, I'm pretty sure anyone could find it if they looked.
Haven't you seen Office Space? Most security breaches are by a company's own employees... most money lost illegally is due to the company's own employees. Reasons obviously include at least greed and revenge. And maybe bragging, but only to your girlfriend and the guy on the other side of the wall.
No google isn't sacred, and I'm sure their search tech will be trumped at some point, but it's not likely that company will have as much integrity unless google manages to stick around enough to permanently alter the whole sector or more.
They're either pouting or bluffing. SBC's competitors will start getting more broadband customers, and SBC can't ignore that for very long despite what they claim. SBC will be salivating and eventually they'll have to take a bite no matter what they say about keeping their hands off.
One word: MOO2
8 more days! I canna wait.
It's not JUST a political statement. You're also inadvertantly funding MS's efforts to ensnare you, so it's understandable how one might not want to do that.
The main suspected "kink" are the telomeres, and if we do discover it's a kink, it may be a difficult one to work around. Here's a good article on telomeres and telomerase.