I can't control-a in the URL bar and select the whole thing and delete it.
F6 switches focus to the address bar and selects the entire text (also toggles the selection of the address). Alt-D is roughly the same first step but it doesn't toggle the selection of text.
Looks like it's a good opportunity for them to move all web. After all, it did work for Netflix - if somebody could come up with a similar system for games, we gamers/geeks are fairly notorious about going after new tech/stuff.
It may not have the appeal of a brick and mortar store, but you can offer so much more.
Which makes me wonder why I can't record an RDP session somehow.
It may not be the solution you're looking for, but there's several utilities out there that can record the activity of a window (i.e. the RD window) and make a movie out of it.
These serve mainly to create demos and stuff like that.
I always keep a shell window open and no matter how good the editor/IDE I work with, I could not live without grep. Especially as I can pipe output from one grep to the next and refine (-v) the results till I locate some specific result.
And for all my downloading needs I use wget. Besides being way out useful for downloading movies (annoying pages that embed movies and controls that don't allow you to save those movies for later enjoyment), flash animations, PDFs, being able to see the dialog with the server (-S) helped me more than once to figure out what was I doing wrong with my web apps.
"the value of the publishing market in Japan is huge - last year saw sales of $22.6bn. Compare this with the $5.6bn spent on music and you'll see why ebooks have the potential to excite."
Further proof this product was oriented specifically to cut into Japan's paper book business:
The average book in Japan weighs 309g; we designed the LibriË to weigh 300g, including case and batteries
No wonder they don't advertise a free service like Project Gutenberg. It's almost like Micro$oft advertising you can run OpenOffice on Windows XP:)
1) Politeness. When I send the same email (usually funny things) to a bunch of friends, I put them all in the BCC field becaus I don't want one to know about the email address of others without asking... I find annoying when somebody sends me such an email and puts me in the To field with a dozen other people.
2) Mailing lists. The email I receive from some of the mailing lists I belong to is addressed (To:) to some common email account (e.g. butler@mailinglist.org), and script send me the message but keep the To: address so when I hit reply it goes to that butler instead of going to the person that sent the original message.
I don't know if you want to go this route, but if you're at least considering it let me make a couple of points.
1. a backpack (usually) has 2 shoulder straps. that was the biggest advantage in my opinion. why you may ask? well, for once I've carried a regular laptop bag and I had to kept switching shoulders every now and then, but it ended up killing me - the freakin' bag was almost as heavy as the laptop, I swear. 2 straps means the weight on each shoulder is basically half of what you'd have to support with a regular case.
2. so having 2 shoulder straps also means that I can use it as a regular backpack (for longer trips - I ride my motorcycle to work), or just throw it on one shoulder for short trips (short = from the building to the car, when I'm driving).
3. larger capacity. you already know that what you can fit in a laptop case is pretty much just that: the laptop, cables and some papers. but that's pretty much it. I can put a bunch of other stuff in my back pack. In addition to my laptop and its cables, I also carry papers (in a back pocket), my cd-player in a front pocket. even my papers fit it. I can even cary one 2L bottle of coke in addition to the laptop. or whatever...
4. reusable. I can hardly think I would want to use my laptop case for anything but carrying a laptop; however, I use the backpack when riding bikes, when going out to play sports, when going out to shoot some pictures, I even use it as a carry-on for trips and travel. My backpack it's been one of my most useful things in the past 3 years. I suggest you buy one and try it for a couple of weeks. if you don't like it you could always return it.
But, would it protect my laptop in case it would fall? No, I think not. But it's been through a bunch of stuff and my precious laptop is still fine, thank you. I'm willing to bet that part of the fact that being a backpack is built sturdier.
Oh, if you do decide to go with a backpack, I suggest you get one with a leather bottom. I don't know if it's better (i.e. more resistant), but it looks more stylish.
Pretty much everybody that is into space stuff could tell you that (space debris) collisions are the #1 unfixable problem that could happen to almost any craft out there. While most of the systems are redundant (although the recent Japanesse problems have shown and redundancy is not all), the outer shell is obviously not, therefore any damage to it is *HUGE* oooops.
Take some problems: Fire on board - you can control (if nothing you can vacuum the chamber). Power failure - almost all of them have redundant power systems, enough to allow repair to the primary one. Life systems failure - autonomous suits. Computer/Electrical failures - switch to one of the 2 (or 4 in newer shuttle models) redundant system.
Advances in in-flight repairs might bring us the good oxygen mouth needed till we manage to come up with better, stronger, cheaper alloys. (However, one question begs: where are the energy shields?:))
This thing it's the product of a conspiracy of the Secret Service. Now the president won't have a clue if there's a security detail problem or the agents are simply talking to their girlfriends.
Come to thing about, I don't think GW ever figured it out:)
If you read the article, it's actually mainly NOT about books but rather about the other digital publications: zines, online-newspapers, et all.
I think this is very useful as a large number of online versions of paper zines & newspapers have far more resources than their dead-tree counter part. Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times to name the few. So far, there was no central and/or organized way to capture this information.
I also liked the bit:
"This new legislation means that a vital part of the nation's heritage will be safe and accessible as an important resource for businesses and education users in the future," said Mole.
IANAL and here's my moral dilemma. Obviously supporting piracy cuts in the large pockets of execu^H^H^H^H^H poor artists and makes them rich as ^H^H^H^H^H^H starve to death. BUT!...but... if we all stop pirating m0viez and musik and start supporting artists, thus we all become legit, we won't have any stu^H^H^H moral lawsuits. Thus the lawyers will become unemployed, will start being ripped of by the same executives that were getting rich in the first case.
Now think about it. We have (FAR) more lawyers than artists. Is it fair to pick the artists over lawyers?! You see my dilemma.
End even more, when did one of these artists ever contributed a good story to our beloved slashdot?! But without lawyers... next it's gonna be the government and we're gonna loose and *entire* section here!!!
Laugh. It's funny. No seriously, it really is funny!
You are obviously throwing your 2 cents in without being very well informed...
If you look closely, you'll notice that in order to use the camera you'll have to rotate it out of it's place and thus expose the objective. Except for the NZ series all the Sony's had rotating cameras. If you don't rotate the small wheel that exposes the camera, the PDA looks as if it had none. So I don't see what your point about being ugly is....
Almost the same thing for "adding useless bulk": if you ever looked at one, you'll notice the camera wraps around the clam-shell hinge, like a ring. Therefore nothing bulkier gets added.
As for the being a burden on the battery - that's straightforward silly. If you don't use the camera it consumes no battery. Even a 3 year old would know that much.
While I calling it disorder may be far fetched, I certainly feel better somebody put a spot on it.
It happened to me too, and yes it's addictive. Have you every wonder what makes you watch countless hours Discovery Channel running features about WW2 when in fact you hate all WW2 movies and/or literature (overdebated subject)? How about History channel mesmerized by the biography of a person you never heard about, whose actions and acts may hardly have anything to do with your main interests? Ever found yourself reading articles from newspapers, zines and such(*) even though you really have no interest to you?
(*) - (if I would've said "open/. every 10 minutes to see if there's something new" and a) would've said it's BAD they were gonna mod me as Flamebait or b) would've said it's GOOD I would've gotten modded as Troll:))
I've done all that. If it was in print, I would read it (have you ever caught yourself reading, with no reason, beer bottle labels? well, I do. why? I don't know. I can't stop... reading.). If it was on Discover/History/TLC/etc I would watch it.
First I thought it was fun. But I wasn't "smiling". Then I've blamed it on having an inquisitive mind. But that didn't hold water cuz I was not interested in finding out more. Then I realized I just had an "urge" to process information. Did nothing with it, just read it/listened to it and discarded it.
My lunch break consists of reading everything on slashdot, including posts. Sad. I've recently spent evenings learning how to customize/mod a motorcycle. I don't own one. I've lost two days looking for Widgets/Toolkits and language bindings. I only do web/command line apps. I write code (and goof around, of course) for 12 hours - I come home feeling excellent. I spend 6 hours a day goofing around and browsing/reading stuff (i.e. not "working") and I come home with the worst headache ever.
No reason for all these, but somehow happens. Maybe I should step forward and admit I have an addiction...
Yooo hoooo....
I could post anything and be the first...
All the beowulf cluster of those, soviet russia, and even start a flame war of GCC vs something else.
Sorry, just trolling in here
Philosophy and Mythology are always appealing
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I think that in terms of movies, there are only a couple that have generated as much attention and fandom and Star Wars, The Matrix, Lord Of The Rings and Harry Potter have generated (LOTR & HP are also bestsellers in books as well). So what do they have in common?
I would dare to angry anybody and say Star Wars is Lord of the Rings a couple of millennia into the future. Same for The Matrix being Harry Potter. But in terms of movies, I think the reverse is equally true. I think LOTR has to be thankful to Star Wars for part of its success, the same way Harry Potter has to be thankful to The Matrix opening the gates to the Magic Hero trail.
However, ancient and future heroes, battle of good and evil, greek, roman, chinese mythology have been part of a zillion good movies. I mean, good vs evil is THE subject of all modern movies. So why doesn't Sixth Sense, Toy Story and Austin Powers generate such an impressive fandom?
Let me wobble over a couple of reasons I think stand behind such a tremendous success as these four movies have inspired:
Tickle the imagination. I mean, this is a no-brainer. See the success of the James Bond series. However, the battles and forces the heroes have to face in any of these movies are exceedingly large and victory seems to be against all odds. Death Star, Mordor, The Matrix and Valdemort are perpetuous threatening presences no one else can really win in a battle agains them.
Bildungsroman and neverending battles. Frodo and Aragorn, Neo, Harry Potter, and Luke Skywalker are red-threads through the entire story, characters that don't stall, but rather learn and evolve in a continuous manner, all of them led by a human yet higher, more esoteric force: Gandalf, Morpheus/Oracle, Dumbledore and Obi-Wan/Yoda. That's the bildungsroman part. In the never ending battle, I'd like you to recall that in any of these movies, in any of the parts, evil is defeated, but not extincted. Now, obviously some could argue that this is part of the Hollywood plot to allow more income from sequels:). But honestly now, how many times have you fixed something so that it will never go bad again in any condition?!. Evil is a character, and people can identify it. If Batman keeps changing enemies and Double-Oh-Seven keeps blowing them up, the bad guys are no longer an identifiable part, one that the viewers can relate to and can create their own mental plots/dreams about destroying it in wars of their own. Evil never dies, right? Make a good juicy character out of it!
Subtle mythology - OK, Harry Potter and LOTR have mythology written all over them (Greek and Celtic/Norse), but what about Star Wars and The Matrix? Matrix is quite easy, the mythology is mostly Christian (devil sending its messengers), although some aspects of Greek mythology is present (think Hydra). Star Wars is not as easy; being similary to LOTR, one could argue about its Celtic roots, but I think it's the aliens in SW that make us think of fabulous creatures, and if there is anything in the old books greater number than heroes, that is the fantastic creatures, ranging from tiny and funny to large and kind, from little and wicked to big and evil. All of us, as kids, had some exposure to mythology, and I think that is a strong identifiable emblem in a movie. You may not be able to put the finger on it and tell exactly what it is, but at least it spurs a shadow of deja-vu in your mind and that is enough to make you feel comfortable with the characters and the whole plot.
Philosophy. I've left philosophy at the end, because that is the most difficult and esoteric part. Anyone who read Tao Teh Ching has found The Matrix to be an living illustration of it. While I'm not going to mull through what is philosophical in each of the movies, I think adding this touch to a movie gives it an extra kick, and makes possible for one to argue that it really has depth, that it really goes into exploring those dark corners of the human mind. We all love to imagine a
No they don't. "Mozilla Firebird" is too many syllables to use in everyday speech, just like people don't say "Microsoft Powerpoint" much either. It's too long to put on "Start" menus or window titlebars.
No they won't. In my Start Menu it clearly says Microsoft Powerpoint, Microsoft Word, etc. And so does the title bar of the app. IE clearly appends Microsoft Internet Explorer to the title of every page... check your IE titlebar.
I suggest you double check before making any unadvised remarks and spreading any more FUD.
they will be looking for "Firebird web browser". Browser-users don't have the same level of sophistication as SQL operators, so many of them will stumble upon the websites firebird.org, firebird.com, and the sourceforge FirdBird SQL project.
Please do a search on Google for "Firebird web browser" and let me know on which position you'll find any form of link to the Firebird DB.
"Yes, officer, I confess. Hand me a piece of paper to write off my guilt.
Twenty-seven, sir, twenty-seven and I'm still playing CartoonNetwork.com games. Even during business hours - that should be definitely added to my charges.
Say what?
Oh, no sir, a please pardon me for letting you down and not getting caught playing legally allowed games like: Grand Theft Auto, Quake 3, WarCraft and other. I find them... err... unrealistic.:)"
Serious now - for kids under 9, just like me (divided by 3), I found the games available on cartoonnetwork.com hard to resist. If you wanna get the addicted to good stuff (of course), that IS the place.
Slashdot Mirror
Or click on the Text link to read without all the flash.
Here's a shortcut
The Escapist - Casual Fortunes
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/print/8/14
Looks like it's a good opportunity for them to move all web. After all, it did work for Netflix - if somebody could come up with a similar system for games, we gamers/geeks are fairly notorious about going after new tech/stuff.
It may not have the appeal of a brick and mortar store, but you can offer so much more.
These serve mainly to create demos and stuff like that.
Hope it helps.
It actually does have Linux Drivers: "Project: Linux Nostromo Speedpad Driver" http://sourceforge.net/projects/nostromodriver/
... and here's your Cease & Desist written by us. MPAA
I always keep a shell window open and no matter how good the editor/IDE I work with, I could not live without grep. Especially as I can pipe output from one grep to the next and refine (-v) the results till I locate some specific result.
And for all my downloading needs I use wget. Besides being way out useful for downloading movies (annoying pages that embed movies and controls that don't allow you to save those movies for later enjoyment), flash animations, PDFs, being able to see the dialog with the server (-S) helped me more than once to figure out what was I doing wrong with my web apps.
Further proof this product was oriented specifically to cut into Japan's paper book business:
No wonder they don't advertise a free service like Project Gutenberg. It's almost like Micro$oft advertising you can run OpenOffice on Windows XP :)
Dude, I need to know where do you come from? From what I've heard, over here the "wife" entity has a much higher monthly maintenace charge :)
You might be missing something.
1) Politeness. When I send the same email (usually funny things) to a bunch of friends, I put them all in the BCC field becaus I don't want one to know about the email address of others without asking... I find annoying when somebody sends me such an email and puts me in the To field with a dozen other people.
2) Mailing lists. The email I receive from some of the mailing lists I belong to is addressed (To:) to some common email account (e.g. butler@mailinglist.org), and script send me the message but keep the To: address so when I hit reply it goes to that butler instead of going to the person that sent the original message.
Hope it makes things a little bit more clear.
I don't know if you want to go this route, but if you're at least considering it let me make a couple of points.
1. a backpack (usually) has 2 shoulder straps. that was the biggest advantage in my opinion. why you may ask? well, for once I've carried a regular laptop bag and I had to kept switching shoulders every now and then, but it ended up killing me - the freakin' bag was almost as heavy as the laptop, I swear. 2 straps means the weight on each shoulder is basically half of what you'd have to support with a regular case.
2. so having 2 shoulder straps also means that I can use it as a regular backpack (for longer trips - I ride my motorcycle to work), or just throw it on one shoulder for short trips (short = from the building to the car, when I'm driving).
3. larger capacity. you already know that what you can fit in a laptop case is pretty much just that: the laptop, cables and some papers. but that's pretty much it. I can put a bunch of other stuff in my back pack. In addition to my laptop and its cables, I also carry papers (in a back pocket), my cd-player in a front pocket. even my papers fit it. I can even cary one 2L bottle of coke in addition to the laptop. or whatever...
4. reusable. I can hardly think I would want to use my laptop case for anything but carrying a laptop; however, I use the backpack when riding bikes, when going out to play sports, when going out to shoot some pictures, I even use it as a carry-on for trips and travel.
My backpack it's been one of my most useful things in the past 3 years. I suggest you buy one and try it for a couple of weeks. if you don't like it you could always return it.
But, would it protect my laptop in case it would fall? No, I think not. But it's been through a bunch of stuff and my precious laptop is still fine, thank you. I'm willing to bet that part of the fact that being a backpack is built sturdier.
Oh, if you do decide to go with a backpack, I suggest you get one with a leather bottom. I don't know if it's better (i.e. more resistant), but it looks more stylish.
Pretty much everybody that is into space stuff could tell you that (space debris) collisions are the #1 unfixable problem that could happen to almost any craft out there.
:))
While most of the systems are redundant (although the recent Japanesse problems have shown and redundancy is not all), the outer shell is obviously not, therefore any damage to it is *HUGE* oooops.
Take some problems:
Fire on board - you can control (if nothing you can vacuum the chamber).
Power failure - almost all of them have redundant power systems, enough to allow repair to the primary one.
Life systems failure - autonomous suits.
Computer/Electrical failures - switch to one of the 2 (or 4 in newer shuttle models) redundant system.
Advances in in-flight repairs might bring us the good oxygen mouth needed till we manage to come up with better, stronger, cheaper alloys.
(However, one question begs: where are the energy shields?
pedotofil? naaah... waaaay too close...
This thing it's the product of a conspiracy of the Secret Service. Now the president won't have a clue if there's a security detail problem or the agents are simply talking to their girlfriends.
:)
Come to thing about, I don't think GW ever figured it out
I think this is very useful as a large number of online versions of paper zines & newspapers have far more resources than their dead-tree counter part. Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times to name the few. So far, there was no central and/or organized way to capture this information.
I also liked the bit: "This new legislation means that a vital part of the nation's heritage will be safe and accessible as an important resource for businesses and education users in the future," said Mole.
Well darling, when you have a large mass of experts in anything from Rocket Science to Loosing Weight, why not making good use of them?!
Here's the link that could help you:
Renown IANA* Expert Group
IANAL and here's my moral dilemma. ...but... if we all stop pirating m0viez and musik and start supporting artists, thus we all become legit, we won't have any stu^H^H^H moral lawsuits. Thus the lawyers will become unemployed, will start being ripped of by the same executives that were getting rich in the first case.
Obviously supporting piracy cuts in the large pockets of execu^H^H^H^H^H poor artists and makes them rich as ^H^H^H^H^H^H starve to death.
BUT!
Now think about it. We have (FAR) more lawyers than artists. Is it fair to pick the artists over lawyers?! You see my dilemma.
End even more, when did one of these artists ever contributed a good story to our beloved slashdot?! But without lawyers... next it's gonna be the government and we're gonna loose and *entire* section here!!!
Laugh. It's funny. No seriously, it really is funny!
You are obviously throwing your 2 cents in without being very well informed...
If you look closely, you'll notice that in order to use the camera you'll have to rotate it out of it's place and thus expose the objective. Except for the NZ series all the Sony's had rotating cameras. If you don't rotate the small wheel that exposes the camera, the PDA looks as if it had none. So I don't see what your point about being ugly is....
Almost the same thing for "adding useless bulk": if you ever looked at one, you'll notice the camera wraps around the clam-shell hinge, like a ring. Therefore nothing bulkier gets added.
As for the being a burden on the battery - that's straightforward silly. If you don't use the camera it consumes no battery. Even a 3 year old would know that much.
It happened to me too, and yes it's addictive. Have you every wonder what makes you watch countless hours Discovery Channel running features about WW2 when in fact you hate all WW2 movies and/or literature (overdebated subject)? How about History channel mesmerized by the biography of a person you never heard about, whose actions and acts may hardly have anything to do with your main interests? Ever found yourself reading articles from newspapers, zines and such(*) even though you really have no interest to you? /. every 10 minutes to see if there's something new" and a) would've said it's BAD they were gonna mod me as Flamebait or b) would've said it's GOOD I would've gotten modded as Troll :))
(*) - (if I would've said "open
I've done all that. If it was in print, I would read it (have you ever caught yourself reading, with no reason, beer bottle labels? well, I do. why? I don't know. I can't stop... reading.). If it was on Discover/History/TLC/etc I would watch it.
First I thought it was fun. But I wasn't "smiling". Then I've blamed it on having an inquisitive mind. But that didn't hold water cuz I was not interested in finding out more. Then I realized I just had an "urge" to process information. Did nothing with it, just read it/listened to it and discarded it.
My lunch break consists of reading everything on slashdot, including posts. Sad. I've recently spent evenings learning how to customize/mod a motorcycle. I don't own one. I've lost two days looking for Widgets/Toolkits and language bindings. I only do web/command line apps. I write code (and goof around, of course) for 12 hours - I come home feeling excellent. I spend 6 hours a day goofing around and browsing/reading stuff (i.e. not "working") and I come home with the worst headache ever.
No reason for all these, but somehow happens. Maybe I should step forward and admit I have an addiction...
Yooo hoooo.... I could post anything and be the first... All the beowulf cluster of those, soviet russia, and even start a flame war of GCC vs something else. Sorry, just trolling in here
I would dare to angry anybody and say Star Wars is Lord of the Rings a couple of millennia into the future. Same for The Matrix being Harry Potter. But in terms of movies, I think the reverse is equally true. I think LOTR has to be thankful to Star Wars for part of its success, the same way Harry Potter has to be thankful to The Matrix opening the gates to the Magic Hero trail.
However, ancient and future heroes, battle of good and evil, greek, roman, chinese mythology have been part of a zillion good movies. I mean, good vs evil is THE subject of all modern movies. So why doesn't Sixth Sense, Toy Story and Austin Powers generate such an impressive fandom?
Let me wobble over a couple of reasons I think stand behind such a tremendous success as these four movies have inspired:
No they won't. In my Start Menu it clearly says Microsoft Powerpoint, Microsoft Word, etc. And so does the title bar of the app. IE clearly appends Microsoft Internet Explorer to the title of every page... check your IE titlebar.
I suggest you double check before making any unadvised remarks and spreading any more FUD.
they will be looking for "Firebird web browser". Browser-users don't have the same level of sophistication as SQL operators, so many of them will stumble upon the websites firebird.org, firebird.com, and the sourceforge FirdBird SQL project.
Please do a search on Google for "Firebird web browser" and let me know on which position you'll find any form of link to the Firebird DB.
"Yes, officer, I confess. Hand me a piece of paper to write off my guilt. :)"
Twenty-seven, sir, twenty-seven and I'm still playing CartoonNetwork.com games. Even during business hours - that should be definitely added to my charges.
Say what?
Oh, no sir, a please pardon me for letting you down and not getting caught playing legally allowed games like: Grand Theft Auto, Quake 3, WarCraft and other. I find them... err... unrealistic.
Serious now - for kids under 9, just like me (divided by 3), I found the games available on cartoonnetwork.com hard to resist. If you wanna get the addicted to good stuff (of course), that IS the place.