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  1. Re:REVEAL CODES IS GOOD on HP Drops Microsoft Word in Favor of WordPerfect · · Score: 1

    Tried everything you said above, while at work, where I have Word, and typed the equivalent of "Hello World" and had absolutely no way to know that the space should be inside a bold tag.
    Sure Word puts a silly little dot for each space, and a paragraph symbol for each new-line, but its altogether useless compared to WP reveal codes, where you get the equivalent of "[BEGIN DOCUMENT]Hello[BOLD] [END BOLD]World.[HRt]"

  2. REVEAL CODES IS GOOD on HP Drops Microsoft Word in Favor of WordPerfect · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I still use WP to this day, and have since v5 for DOS. Reveal codes is good!! it makes word processing closer to html editing in notepad. Total control over the document layout. I can not stand Word at all with its lack of this hugely important editing feature. Go HP!!!


  3. Re:MARQUEE AND BLINK on Mozilla 1.1 Hits The Street · · Score: 1

    Dunno, guess I thought it didnt support blink because I disabled blink long ago when I used to use Netscape 4, via my adblocker proxy:

    SAB

  4. Re:Major Problem... on Mozilla 1.1 Hits The Street · · Score: 1

    I see Universal in my 1.1.
    I just installed ontop of 1.1b, which was installed ontop of 1.1a however..

  5. Re:Mozilla theme on Mozilla 1.1 Hits The Street · · Score: 1

    I love the smallness and cleanness of the pinball theme, but it hasn't been updated to have the icon for a new tab yet, and its based on grey-modern instead of regular modern, which makes it look ugly in win2k.

    I've switched back to LittleMozilla recently, now that its no longer all purplish, and he re-widened the scrollbar.

  6. Re:Question about Proxies on Mozilla 1.1 Hits The Street · · Score: 1

    NTLM authentication has been pushed back to 1.2alpha


    http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23679

    Of course, the bug has been open since Jan 11, 2000. Nobody ever seems to get it finished, and I wont be surprised if it still doesn't make it into even the final 1.2 :(

    Go vote for it, we're up to 84 votes!

  7. MARQUEE AND BLINK on Mozilla 1.1 Hits The Street · · Score: 1

    They added marquee and blink support :(


  8. Re:Pennies... on Police Database Lists 'Future Criminals' · · Score: 1

    At least mention that its just from the simpsons. That doesnt make it true.

  9. Re:Frustration on An Asteroid For Amateur Viewers · · Score: 1

    .. I second that ..

    You think at least the CNN article would tell me when the hell the UT time is for me and which of the 4 basic directions I should be looking? Are those constilations in the north, south, west or east sky for me? WTF?

  10. Re:penny arcade says it all on Carmack Expounds on Doom III · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Wolfenstein 3 (maybe?)

    Kinda like, one day somebody made a game with that Quake3 engine, and called it RTCW.

  11. I wouldn't mind a EU-only-net .... on A Private European Internet? · · Score: 1


    So long as I can get access to it. (from the USA)

  12. Re:Citrix? on Shattering Windows · · Score: 1

    Mod this AC up for lazy bums like me who didnt read the article yet. (I will read it later when I have time, tonight..)

  13. Citrix? on Shattering Windows · · Score: 1

    Does this effect Citrix? ...

  14. Re:Ummmm So what? on NeoNapster's NeoAudio Rips Off CDex · · Score: 1

    That is why GPL is bad :)

    Seriously, where is a license thats mostly-GPL, mostly-open-soruce, but disallows certain things like spyware/adware, or marketing of a competitive product (I have some nice programs I will be selling in the future for windows that work great under linux, which I wish I could give out the source for the linux version and not worry about somebody making a free windows version from the source)

  15. Re:Killing pop-up ads is a bad thing on Pop-Up Ads Begin To Face Serious Opposition · · Score: 1

    If they do, I will make sure *MY* ad blocker can handle them (http://www.morpheussoftware.net/sab/)

    Its not hard really, just check for some certain types of javascript or tags. Fake the referrer strings if needed.. Whatever it takes - I'll program it. Anything that annoys me and gets by Mozilla and SAB wont get by for long.

  16. Re:SS# on Governmental ID System in Japan · · Score: 1

    15%? Damn, can we switch SSN's ?

    I think my SSN gives me about a 35% discount on my paycheck.

  17. Not a sphere or a line, more like an arc on See 4-D Space With 3-D Glasses · · Score: 1


    A 3D sphere intersecting a 2D plane would create a circle, but you could only see the circle from a 3D view ontop of the plane.
    If you were on the plain and had no concept of 3D, but still had depth perception, what you would see would be an arc. You could think its a circle, but without going around to the back and making sure the arc follows itself around the entire 360 degrees, you wouldnt know it was complete from just a single viewpoint on the 2D plane.

  18. Re:Ummm. no. on Earth's Gravitational Field Is Getting Flatter · · Score: 1


    It was just a guess :)

    So maybe the moon is getting closer to the Earth, or some alienes landed on the dark side and set up a secret base?

    Guess we'd probably notice if the moon was really getting closer, but would anybody notice if something snuck up and landed on the dark side of the moon? We dont even see asteroids coming from the direction of the sun until after they pass.

  19. Maybe its because on Earth's Gravitational Field Is Getting Flatter · · Score: 1, Interesting

    A star or planet or something that is now closer then it was before is tugging at the Earth as it spins, causing it to bulge out towards whatever is pulling at it?

  20. Re:MySQL supporters need to learn SQL on MySQL 4 - Is it Stable? · · Score: 1

    Isn't this about MySQL 4? The point being a lot of these features are being added to, or already in MySQL 4. Subselects I'm sure are. Some might be planned for 4.1, but the question is asking is MySQL 4 stable enough to go ahead and switch over to, in order to GET some of these features mentioned.

  21. Re:Why would Mozilla be more secure? on Ars Technica Reviews Mozilla · · Score: 1
    IE has had more than it's share of security problems, but who says Mozilla won't? Despite being closed source, IE's had a lot more eyes on it, for a lot longer. This may change over time, but Mozilla is a "1.0" release, and from a security perspective, it's usually better to go with a more mature application. As the continual release of vulnerabilities against both open source and closed source software demonstrates, being O.S. is no security panacea.
    Well Netscape 7 must be more secure then IE 6, since 7 is higher then 6, its more mature. Netscape 7 is probably 7 times more mature then Mozilla 1.0 I would wager.


  22. Re:bsod, etc. on New Way To Grade Decay of Computer Installations · · Score: 1

    printf("\t\b\b"); comes to mind

  23. Re:The "Moon": A Ridiculous Liberal Myth on Back to the Moon? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why the HELL is this being modded up? Its times like this I really wish taco or somebody would just play god and mod it down it -10 or something.

    Didn't we leave a flag and a rover on the moon when we went there? Lets go back and show this fuckwits that they are still there so they can stop posting this garbage.

  24. So many posts about not getting there on Back to the Moon? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why are so many people so damn ignorant that they actually believe we never went to the moon?

    This is a good site, even if they are conspiracy theorists about other coverups and such:
    http://www.lunaranomalies.com/fake-moon.htm

  25. Re:Different filter needed on 235,000 Software Engineers Can't Be Wrong, Right? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I agree completely. Having or not having a tech job relies very much on whether you are qualified or not. If you are good at what you do, you will have no trouble finding a good job.
    If you are a half-assed dot-com'er, you will be finding it increasingly harder to find a good tech job.
    If chinese or indians happen to be more qualified then a lot of the trash thats hired right now, I would much rather import the more competant workers.

    BTW, no I am not chinese or indian.