Okay, trying it out, and immediately found an annoyance: They've implemented Smooth Scrolling in the tab bar. I really dislike smooth scrolling, and turn it off whenever possible, but in this case, you can't.
to your prefs.js file. Unfortunately, this also disables the good bits of this patch, one of which is that triple-clicking on the arrows at either end of the tab bar will take you to that respective end of your tabs list. That's not very well worded, but if you use lots of tabs, you'll know what I'm talking about and why it's a good thing.
However, I doubt that they'll add an option to turn the smooth scroll off after all the hard work they went to to implement it. As they say: "animation is something we definitely want to do more of" (blatantly out of context quote, but it does seem to be the majority opinion...)
Unfortunately I think I'll never see a FF3 version of Sage or MouseGestures.
Why is that? Not questioning your assertion, I just am curious. Mouse gestures are one of those usability enhancements that have become second nature to me (long-time Opera user). The first extension I always install is All-In-One gestures. (And turn off the bloody mouse-trail. I know what gesture I made, I don't want you to waste time drawing it for me.) Haven't had a look for a while at alternatives - searching just now revealed Mouse Gestures Redox and Firegestures, both of which I might give a test run.
I have to say, though, Opera's strategy of building the gesturing right into the browser engine does make them feel a bit "snappier". If I could code worth a damn, I'd hack up my own version of FireFox that did the same...
From the web page of the/. hero of the hour: Magistrate Judge Arthur J. Boylan ruled that Vilana cannot copy my computer hard drives and I don't have to produce email between myself and my attorney. However, I must turn over email with the terms "Vilana", "Vilenchik", "Zubitskiy", "Kazaryan", "Walker", etc. I sent Vilana's attorney a DVD with over 500 emails...they can sift through my private thoughts and feelings about their misconduct as described to my parents, sisters, and friends. Note: at trial in November, 2007, Vilana's attorney actually cross-examined me on these emails, which did not appear to prove anything except my own version of events.
Note to self: if ever thinking of getting involved in litigation, seed potential keywords into an email spam generating engine of some kind. "All emails with terms (keyword)? Certainly - here's 8G of text for you to read..."
Congratulations to Mr. Gregerson. Reading the timeline shows it was a long, hard battle that many would have given up on.
They only tested for dark colors on light background and not light colors on dark background...
Yes, but they explain their reasoning for doing so, and also discuss this at the end of the article:
"According to a manual by AT (1989), the direction of the contrast (dark on light, or light on dark) might also affect legibility. When light text is placed on a dark background the text may seem to glow and become blurred; this is referred to as halation, and it may make the text harder to read. Some evidence for an effect of halation was found in the current experiment... more research is needed on this topic before any strong recommendations can be made."
I've watched this film thirty-plus times, and it sounds like 'fucker' to me, every time. Really not sure where people get this idea of a slurred / doubled pronunciation. Don't forget that Hauer is a Nederlander by birth and despuie all his work and training, isn't immune from occasional inflections.
Well, he may not be slurring it, but I've always heard it as having the intent to at least sound a little like "father". I wouldn't be surprised if it was changed from "father" to "fucker" by Hauer - he also cut down the "tears in the rain" speech from its original much longer form. Perhaps someone could ask Mr. Hauer next time they see him...
Anyway, the thing is, I'm hoping that this is not actually a change - I prefer him saying "fucker".
True, but it's something I'd like to see kept in Scott's final ultimate no-this-time-I-mean-it-really edition.
Anyways, I recently placed an order for the 5-disc version, with the work print as well, so it's not like I'll be missing out.
I think it's well worth having the original version, too, as with the narration it's an excellent piece of modern noir (if you ignore the happy ending).
From TFA: In the scene where Batty confronts Tyrell, the line, "I want more life, fucker" has been replaced with "I want more life, father".
I'm wondering if this is actually a change. In the original, it's a beautiful bit of ambiguity: Hauer slurs the word, so that it sounds halfway between "father" and "fucker", neatly summing up his feelings towards Tyrell. If they've actually re-dubbed that, I'll be a little disappointed.
Oh well, Scott's still unlikely to mess things up as much as Lucas did...
Agnus Dei is one of my favorite tracks, game soundtrack or otherwise.
It's worth tracking down the recording by The Sixteen. Probably the best version of the Agnus Dei I've heard, although the Homeworld one is pretty good.
This immediately jumped to mind. My flatmate discovered that if you put the game CD into a CD player, it would play the soundtrack. It was pretty novel at the time, and had some neat, catchy string music.
The nearest I've heard to it in popular music is Brainbug's "Nightmare".
The other one people seem to be missing is Arcanum. That had some great chamber music in it.
"we know Velociraptor was a vegetarian, as can be clearly deduced from its long rows of razor-sharp teeth, perfectly designed for tearing leaves from trees or rooting for truffles and other buried delicacies, and could therefore be domesticated at very low risk."
If you actually RTFA, it says that geeks came up with a solution to a particular problem, i.e. traditional warfare, which was then applied to a different problem (non-traditional warfare / insurgency, etc) and it didn't work so well.
But now a different set of geeks are coming up with new solutions that do work, whilst building on the previous solution.
IOW, Don't Blame The Geeks. Or the tech, for that matter.
This actually happened back in '99 - chap sent an encrypted confession of a crime to Jack Straw, pointing out that under his proposed law, he could be jailed for not releasing the key to the police.
Okay, so it's not "bombarded", but it really did happen.
Well, yes, I was using "fascist" mainly in the pejoritave sense, a la Rick. And I was actually referring to the overall ideals of our government, not the specific piece of legislation.
I could argue, however, that the Work Choices legislation does in fact encourage fascism, in that it allows employers to remove those who do not comply with some sort of societal norm from their positions.
Thanks - the initial article I read (before/. ran the story) seemed to imply there was a comic about the arrest. Re-reading it shows that I was inferring this from a couple of unclear sentences, so I probably should have figured that out.
On the main page for Three Panel Soul, Matt says "Sorry folks, I just had to take this down," obviously referring to a comic (or a rant) originally posted as a coda to the trio of comics that got him in trouble. I'm presuming the "Alchemy and Pastries" one is a quick replacement due to legal threats.
So, did anyone see what got taken down? What was it about?
This is the internet, goddamnit. Someone must have a copy...
I hate to tell you this, but you can not fire people, even contractors, for just ANY reason.
Just FYI, and to show you that the US isn't the only Western country with a fascist government, in Australia... you can.
Under our Glorious Leader's "Work Choices" legislation, companies with less than 100 employees are exempt from the Unfair Dismissal laws. You're pregnant? Bye! You're Asian? Sorry! You're not willing to work unpaid overtime? Seeya!
(Okay, it's not quite that out of hand, but it's getting there. My sister was fired for being a volunteer fire-fighter.)
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They've implemented Smooth Scrolling in the tab bar. I really dislike smooth scrolling, and turn it off whenever possible, but in this case, you can't.
Unless you dig into the discussion of the patch to find that you have to add to your prefs.js file. Unfortunately, this also disables the good bits of this patch, one of which is that triple-clicking on the arrows at either end of the tab bar will take you to that respective end of your tabs list. That's not very well worded, but if you use lots of tabs, you'll know what I'm talking about and why it's a good thing.
However, I doubt that they'll add an option to turn the smooth scroll off after all the hard work they went to to implement it. As they say: "animation is something we definitely want to do more of" (blatantly out of context quote, but it does seem to be the majority opinion...)
Unfortunately I think I'll never see a FF3 version of Sage or MouseGestures.
Why is that? Not questioning your assertion, I just am curious.
Mouse gestures are one of those usability enhancements that have become second nature to me (long-time Opera user). The first extension I always install is All-In-One gestures. (And turn off the bloody mouse-trail. I know what gesture I made, I don't want you to waste time drawing it for me.)
Haven't had a look for a while at alternatives - searching just now revealed Mouse Gestures Redox and Firegestures, both of which I might give a test run.
I have to say, though, Opera's strategy of building the gesturing right into the browser engine does make them feel a bit "snappier". If I could code worth a damn, I'd hack up my own version of FireFox that did the same...
Well, I'm glad that someone got it before I had to get all curmudgeonly.
"Think of a number. Any number at all."
"Three" - this being the highest number that mattresses could count to.
"Wrong. See?"
(Apologies for typos - quoted entirely from 10 years on memory).
Marvin reveals all! How could you not get that?!
And, yes, it's a lame Question to the Answer. What, you were expecting maybe Gödel?
Go Kevin!
... wait, what? Which country now?
Down with John Howard!
And it's payday!
2.5 TB ZFS NFS, here I come!
By my reading, the watermark was originally towards the bottom of the image, and they just cropped it out.
The new watermarks seem to show he's learned his lesson.
From the web page of the /. hero of the hour:
Magistrate Judge Arthur J. Boylan ruled that Vilana cannot copy my computer hard drives and I don't have to produce email between myself and my attorney. However, I must turn over email with the terms "Vilana", "Vilenchik", "Zubitskiy", "Kazaryan", "Walker", etc. I sent Vilana's attorney a DVD with over 500 emails...they can sift through my private thoughts and feelings about their misconduct as described to my parents, sisters, and friends. Note: at trial in November, 2007, Vilana's attorney actually cross-examined me on these emails, which did not appear to prove anything except my own version of events.
Note to self: if ever thinking of getting involved in litigation, seed potential keywords into an email spam generating engine of some kind. "All emails with terms (keyword)? Certainly - here's 8G of text for you to read..."
Congratulations to Mr. Gregerson. Reading the timeline shows it was a long, hard battle that many would have given up on.
I usually do. However, some websites I need to access regularly break with Opera, and sometimes I need to test things under Firefox.
When I do, I like things to work the way I'm used to.
Yes, that's exactly my problem.
Most of the plugins I use fall into the "Make Firefox work more like Opera" category, and very few of them work with FF3.
A "Legacy Plugins" option would be great.
They only tested for dark colors on light background and not light colors on dark background...
Yes, but they explain their reasoning for doing so, and also discuss this at the end of the article:
"According to a manual by AT (1989), the direction of the contrast (dark on light, or light on dark) might also affect legibility. When light text is placed on a dark background the text may seem to glow and become blurred; this is referred to as halation, and it may make the text harder to read. Some evidence for an effect of halation was found in the current experiment... more research is needed on this topic before any strong recommendations can be made."
I find it highly ironic that the ad I got with this story was for "Rackspace Green Server Configurations".
I've watched this film thirty-plus times, and it sounds like 'fucker' to me, every time. Really not sure where people get this idea of a slurred / doubled pronunciation. Don't forget that Hauer is a Nederlander by birth and despuie all his work and training, isn't immune from occasional inflections.
Well, he may not be slurring it, but I've always heard it as having the intent to at least sound a little like "father". I wouldn't be surprised if it was changed from "father" to "fucker" by Hauer - he also cut down the "tears in the rain" speech from its original much longer form.
Perhaps someone could ask Mr. Hauer next time they see him...
Anyway, the thing is, I'm hoping that this is not actually a change - I prefer him saying "fucker".
True, but it's something I'd like to see kept in Scott's final ultimate no-this-time-I-mean-it-really edition.
Anyways, I recently placed an order for the 5-disc version, with the work print as well, so it's not like I'll be missing out.
I think it's well worth having the original version, too, as with the narration it's an excellent piece of modern noir (if you ignore the happy ending).
From TFA: In the scene where Batty confronts Tyrell, the line, "I want more life, fucker" has been replaced with "I want more life, father".
...
I'm wondering if this is actually a change. In the original, it's a beautiful bit of ambiguity: Hauer slurs the word, so that it sounds halfway between "father" and "fucker", neatly summing up his feelings towards Tyrell.
If they've actually re-dubbed that, I'll be a little disappointed.
Oh well, Scott's still unlikely to mess things up as much as Lucas did
Agnus Dei is one of my favorite tracks, game soundtrack or otherwise.
It's worth tracking down the recording by The Sixteen. Probably the best version of the Agnus Dei I've heard, although the Homeworld one is pretty good.
Mechwarrior II
This immediately jumped to mind. My flatmate discovered that if you put the game CD into a CD player, it would play the soundtrack. It was pretty novel at the time, and had some neat, catchy string music.
The nearest I've heard to it in popular music is Brainbug's "Nightmare".
The other one people seem to be missing is Arcanum. That had some great chamber music in it.
... 2-month-old news..."
Copied straight from TFA, emphasis mine:
"Legal Pad
With Roger Parloff
September 10, 2007, 6:14 am"
Time machine on the blink again, Professor?
"we know Velociraptor was a vegetarian, as can be clearly deduced from its long rows of razor-sharp teeth, perfectly designed for tearing leaves from trees or rooting for truffles and other buried delicacies, and could therefore be domesticated at very low risk."
Sadly, the Creationists really believe this.
If you actually RTFA, it says that geeks came up with a solution to a particular problem, i.e. traditional warfare, which was then applied to a different problem (non-traditional warfare / insurgency, etc) and it didn't work so well.
But now a different set of geeks are coming up with new solutions that do work, whilst building on the previous solution.
IOW, Don't Blame The Geeks. Or the tech, for that matter.
This actually happened back in '99 - chap sent an encrypted confession of a crime to Jack Straw, pointing out that under his proposed law, he could be jailed for not releasing the key to the police.
Okay, so it's not "bombarded", but it really did happen.
Oh god, I've gone blind.
Well, yes, I was using "fascist" mainly in the pejoritave sense, a la Rick. And I was actually referring to the overall ideals of our government, not the specific piece of legislation.
I could argue, however, that the Work Choices legislation does in fact encourage fascism, in that it allows employers to remove those who do not comply with some sort of societal norm from their positions.
Thanks - the initial article I read (before /. ran the story) seemed to imply there was a comic about the arrest.
Re-reading it shows that I was inferring this from a couple of unclear sentences, so I probably should have figured that out.
Nice metaphor, btw.
On the main page for Three Panel Soul, Matt says "Sorry folks, I just had to take this down," obviously referring to a comic (or a rant) originally posted as a coda to the trio of comics that got him in trouble. I'm presuming the "Alchemy and Pastries" one is a quick replacement due to legal threats.
So, did anyone see what got taken down? What was it about?
This is the internet, goddamnit. Someone must have a copy...
I hate to tell you this, but you can not fire people, even contractors, for just ANY reason.
Just FYI, and to show you that the US isn't the only Western country with a fascist government, in Australia... you can.
Under our Glorious Leader's "Work Choices" legislation, companies with less than 100 employees are exempt from the Unfair Dismissal laws. You're pregnant? Bye! You're Asian? Sorry! You're not willing to work unpaid overtime? Seeya!
(Okay, it's not quite that out of hand, but it's getting there. My sister was fired for being a volunteer fire-fighter.)