I do pretty much the same thing and tabs help because my "daily reading list" (http://fiftyfly.mine.nu/kb/links.php) is pretty extensive. Sometimes, if you've gone and opened 30-40 windows, it's easy to forget why that link looked interesting - 45 minutes ago. So I like to open many windows, and keep related links in one mozilla instance via tabs. All the fark links in one window, the/. in another, the various misc bits (like jerry pournelle & today's weather) in another window. That sort of thing.
Unfortunately, it wasn't smart enough to realize that I just wanted the plain-text translation of it, so it pasted the HTML that made the code look all pretty in the page, not the HTML itself I wanted to bring over. I had to paste it into Notepad, then re-copy it.
Haven't looked in a while, but I'm pretty sure that "paste special -> plain text" does the same thing.
I guess the one "usability" thing I'd like out of the whole kde/gnome/X/mozilla/etc mess is _one_ global, consistant, working clip board.
I never fenced, but I did spend (and still do) a very large amount of time shuttling between airports, pools, more airports, vans, another pool(s) and so on. When you're not supposed to do much of anything you end up playing a lot of cards, reading novels doing homework & such, but there can be sooo much time to fill. Think of a 4 day weekend, minus sleep (40 hours) eating (10 hours) warmups/stretching (10 hours) and racing (5 minutes. hey, I'm a sprinter;p ) that leaves 35:55 to fill while sitting in a hotel room with nothing but springer on the tv.
I'm in rather a different position. I've had edey@hotmail.com since, well let's just say the front page proudly annouced they'd hit 10,000 users. It's the only email account I've had through a big chunk of highschool, university & a couple years there after. In short I've had this spam trap for a loooong time, and most of the people I converse with no it. It's easy to remember, it doesn't have any stupid numbers in it, it's known - but it get's about 150 spams a day. Maintenance is a giant pain because if I leave it for more then about 36 hours it fills up.
I do, now, run an imap server on one of my boxes here, but I hate to rely on it completely incase my ISP decides to enforce their TOS. So I keep the hotmail account and daydream about dumping it for good.
If the FBI can hunt down CEO's & CFO's for stock fraud, why can't we get them (and their lawyers) on the hot seat for conspiracy against the consumer at large?
Because stock fraud (and the like) kill stock prices. Stockholders care about stock prices, not the consumer.
perhaps not, but you'd think of another/. headline today about lawyers prepping to sue for damages against future ginger related injuries. Given the Americans amazingly litigious society (not that we're much better up north)I can't be the only one wondering why there hasn't been a massive class action suit.
While i don't particularily like the idea of proprietary software vendors trying to trick me into thinking that any license I've "accepted" is legal, I'm not shure that click-wrap is a bad thing for a truly legal license. In other words, I really don't think that this is the reall problem. The battle we need to face is against those who try (fraudently I would say) to pass off license that should never see the light of day. If the FBI can hunt down CEO's & CFO's for stock fraud, why can't we get them (and their lawyers) on the hot seat for conspiracy against the consumer at large?
The onl diff of course being that the resaraunt sold me "all I could eat in this sitting" while shaw cable sold me (lordy, the promises they made 4 years ago, but that's another rant) "all I could eat, all the time, whether I was eating or not".
To put it another way, whether or not my provider likes it they sold me a connection rated at such and such "24/7". If I share that connection & my bandwidth goes up I still can't generated any more traffic then I could on my own. If my provider over sold their serveice based on the idea that I (and everybody else) would use some fraction less then 1 of the bandwidth we were sold, well who's problem is that?
So yeah, a buffet might work as an analogy, but whatchya gonna do when your budget is based on 2 plates per person and myself & the rest of the swim team walk in after workout? Don't even try to pin that one on me.
well, actually I'm pretty sure it's the other way 'round. kinda like saying that a gallon has to be about 4L 'cause that's the volume milk comes in & we need a handy milk measuring unit.
GL
Mike
As far as Led Zeppelin is concerned, I don't think I know their music well enough to adequately judge them, but what I've heard of it I didn't find to be particularly original. You said it right, to each his own.
A couple (big) reasons for that:
1) Unlike (another fav band of mine) AC/DC, Zep did not make a doz albulms that all sound the same, each was differnt, unique & stood on it's own. So they had many different sounds
2) Many, _many_ bands show a strong Zep influence. Much of what they did that was so unique is much more common place today. It's actually a testament to how different, yet "right", their stuff was that it now sounds not "particularily original"
Not exactly.
They're targeting corporations. Companies that can afford to pay large amounts of money to have someone else worry about the operating system for them.
Not only that but companies _want_ to pay someone else to do that kind of maintenance. Why? because a fee is a _known_quantity_ - you can budget around it. The last thing the comptroller wants to hear is "Oh, I don't know how much the TCO will be, who cares it was free! Now pay me some value, for an unkown number of overtime hours, to keep it running".
it could easily replace my toilet computer/laptop
If you're spending enough time on the toilet to need a computer there, may I suggest more fiber in your diet? Wow.
dude they'd just charge triple, they'd go for royalties on the transaction you -> record store.
Re: the point is largely the local area.
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You don't know much about the South West of England eh:) Probably 95% of the land is countryside, we have 2 huge national parks that are protected. We're not in any great danger of running out of natural habitats here yet.
In a related, though hardly usefull, point it's interesting to note the size of the United Kingdom 244,820 sq km and the size of Canada's national Parks 244,540.0 sq km.
I've not been to visit despite it only being 20 minutes away
That being said I live in Alberta which, among others has bits of Jasper, Banff & Wood Buffalo National Parks and of the three I've only visited 2. Well Banff, which is only a 3 hour drive, I've only driven through.
I think the point that he was trying to make is that it's nothing more then a "related:foo" google search - prob the first use of the google API to be noted without actually saying so. At least I'm guessing, as the "molasses" appears to have been shipped along with that north pole excursion & frozen quite solid.
It was "Waht do you care what other people think". Excellent book - i also have a copy that he voiced. Everyone should be exposed to Feynman - it's so rare to find people so capable who communicate so well. Feynman lives! (should see ghengis blues too;p )
Mmmm, I got my % by taking the 30%-ish and figuring that I'll only get a discount on 1 in 10 items I buy.
One might also note that paying cash doesn't mean they can't track you. The till know's what you bought, and it's got your card #/swipe strip to match it to.
mmm, I'm in a similar boat, though I think that it's highly cool that the movie(s) borrow from other works that do ask some "better" questions. Watching the first martix was a bit like a game, figuring out where I'd "seen" (read) that little bit first. The fact that the script did that (for me) while still preenting a flick that was fun to watch says something.
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I do pretty much the same thing and tabs help because my "daily reading list" (http://fiftyfly.mine.nu/kb/links.php) is pretty extensive. Sometimes, if you've gone and opened 30-40 windows, it's easy to forget why that link looked interesting - 45 minutes ago. So I like to open many windows, and keep related links in one mozilla instance via tabs. All the fark links in one window, the /. in another, the various misc bits (like jerry pournelle & today's weather) in another window. That sort of thing.
Haven't looked in a while, but I'm pretty sure that "paste special -> plain text" does the same thing.
I guess the one "usability" thing I'd like out of the whole kde/gnome/X/mozilla/etc mess is _one_ global, consistant, working clip board.
I never fenced, but I did spend (and still do) a very large amount of time shuttling between airports, pools, more airports, vans, another pool(s) and so on. When you're not supposed to do much of anything you end up playing a lot of cards, reading novels doing homework & such, but there can be sooo much time to fill. Think of a 4 day weekend, minus sleep (40 hours) eating (10 hours) warmups/stretching (10 hours) and racing (5 minutes. hey, I'm a sprinter ;p ) that leaves 35:55 to fill while sitting in a hotel room with nothing but springer on the tv.
aw jeez - how silly was that, meh. http://fiftyfly.mine.nu/cam/Cards.jpg might work a little better.
heh - that's what putting comp's in plastic boxes is for ;p : http://192.168.1.102/cam/Cards.jpg
It makes a lot more sense if there's plans for IBM to buy VA - in a M$/Hotmail sorta way.
sure, but instead of 4 potential users, make it 10000 random users. Then we'll talk about statistically significant experiments.
mmm, fresh whoop ass _and_ hair styling to boot! i hear the charred look is really coming back...
I'm in rather a different position. I've had edey@hotmail.com since, well let's just say the front page proudly annouced they'd hit 10,000 users. It's the only email account I've had through a big chunk of highschool, university & a couple years there after. In short I've had this spam trap for a loooong time, and most of the people I converse with no it. It's easy to remember, it doesn't have any stupid numbers in it, it's known - but it get's about 150 spams a day. Maintenance is a giant pain because if I leave it for more then about 36 hours it fills up. I do, now, run an imap server on one of my boxes here, but I hate to rely on it completely incase my ISP decides to enforce their TOS. So I keep the hotmail account and daydream about dumping it for good.
While i don't particularily like the idea of proprietary software vendors trying to trick me into thinking that any license I've "accepted" is legal, I'm not shure that click-wrap is a bad thing for a truly legal license. In other words, I really don't think that this is the reall problem. The battle we need to face is against those who try (fraudently I would say) to pass off license that should never see the light of day. If the FBI can hunt down CEO's & CFO's for stock fraud, why can't we get them (and their lawyers) on the hot seat for conspiracy against the consumer at large?
The onl diff of course being that the resaraunt sold me "all I could eat in this sitting" while shaw cable sold me (lordy, the promises they made 4 years ago, but that's another rant) "all I could eat, all the time, whether I was eating or not". To put it another way, whether or not my provider likes it they sold me a connection rated at such and such "24/7". If I share that connection & my bandwidth goes up I still can't generated any more traffic then I could on my own. If my provider over sold their serveice based on the idea that I (and everybody else) would use some fraction less then 1 of the bandwidth we were sold, well who's problem is that? So yeah, a buffet might work as an analogy, but whatchya gonna do when your budget is based on 2 plates per person and myself & the rest of the swim team walk in after workout? Don't even try to pin that one on me.
well, actually I'm pretty sure it's the other way 'round. kinda like saying that a gallon has to be about 4L 'cause that's the volume milk comes in & we need a handy milk measuring unit. GL Mike
*sniff* one Canada Day 'eve too, isn't it just *sniff* beautifull?
Not only that but companies _want_ to pay someone else to do that kind of maintenance. Why? because a fee is a _known_quantity_ - you can budget around it. The last thing the comptroller wants to hear is "Oh, I don't know how much the TCO will be, who cares it was free! Now pay me some value, for an unkown number of overtime hours, to keep it running".
dude they'd just charge triple, they'd go for royalties on the transaction you -> record store.
In a related, though hardly usefull, point it's interesting to note the size of the United Kingdom 244,820 sq km and the size of Canada's national Parks 244,540.0 sq km.
That being said I live in Alberta which, among others has bits of Jasper, Banff & Wood Buffalo National Parks and of the three I've only visited 2. Well Banff, which is only a 3 hour drive, I've only driven through.
I think the point that he was trying to make is that it's nothing more then a "related:foo" google search - prob the first use of the google API to be noted without actually saying so. At least I'm guessing, as the "molasses" appears to have been shipped along with that north pole excursion & frozen quite solid.
It was "Waht do you care what other people think". Excellent book - i also have a copy that he voiced. Everyone should be exposed to Feynman - it's so rare to find people so capable who communicate so well. Feynman lives! (should see ghengis blues too ;p )
becuase XFree86 has a port to cygwin so you get a free xserver to do your x forwarding over ssh with
Ooooh! and get 'em a copy of cygwin so they can ssh into work. Nuthin' says 'easy' like (not) working from home ;p
Mmmm, I got my % by taking the 30%-ish and figuring that I'll only get a discount on 1 in 10 items I buy.
One might also note that paying cash doesn't mean they can't track you. The till know's what you bought, and it's got your card #/swipe strip to match it to.
mmm, I'm in a similar boat, though I think that it's highly cool that the movie(s) borrow from other works that do ask some "better" questions. Watching the first martix was a bit like a game, figuring out where I'd "seen" (read) that little bit first. The fact that the script did that (for me) while still preenting a flick that was fun to watch says something.