When I was in seventh grade, the eighth grade science teacher performed the standard "throw a chunk of sodium in the water bucket" experiment for one of his classes. This time, he was distracted by some goofus in the class and whacked off a piece that was a little TOO large. BIG boom...
End result was the school was evacutated, the ceiling tiles were torched, and he singed off his eyebrows. (He looked rather ridiculous for some few weeks.)
Amazingly, he not only kept his job, but the next year, when I was in his class, out came the water bucket and the jar of sodium... The chunk was small enough not to blow up the classroom, but it still made quite the pop and shot a quick burst of flame at least 3 feet into the air.
I still remember hearing (for the first time) a teacher swear out loud in front of me. He felt his his face and said "At least this time, I've still got my god damn eyebrows..."
I've installed Moz 1.1 on my WinXP box (a crappy little 500Mhz Celery with 256Meg) and it leaves a lot to be desired on the speed front.
Initial rendering speed is actually faster than IE, and with the preloader, it comes up just nearly as fast.
But woe be unto you if you try to scroll, resize or move that window around. My god! It's like one of those "mouse trails" cursors that leaves a half dozen copies of itself trailing behind it.
I realize XUL isn't going to compete with native widgets, but this is ridiculous. It's pretty much unusable except for single-screen static pages.
I'm still trying to see if the mail client can import my Outlook Express mailbox (my gut feeling is "no"), but having played with that a while, it reminds me of how much I hated Communicator's email client...
I've heard that Shirley Corriher (your favorite food technologist) has some sort of consultnig relationship with Cook's Illustrated, but do you and Christopher Kimball ever chat?
The reason I ask is I am amazed at how often I will read a copy of Cook's Illustrated and then see their latest "discovery" (brining was one) show up on the next episode of Good Eats (and vice versa). Given production and publishing schedules, I'm certain no one is ripping off anyone else here, but are you all reading the same stuff, talking to each other, or hanging out with Shirley at the same time?
BTW, the 8-3-1 + 1 basic rub "recipe" is terrific! (Even if I tend to +2 rather than +1)
Taken from David Brin's Uplift series (he also wrote a great non-fiction book on the effects of technology on privacy called The Transparent Society), Creideiki is the first dolphin commander of a starship.
He also eventually becomes brain-damaged and has problems retrieving memories (insert your own mySQL indexing-related joke here).
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But I have to say that Moz 1.2b on XP rocks! Faster than IE, love the tabs.
Trying to crawl out of negative Karma space...
When I was in seventh grade, the eighth grade science teacher performed the standard "throw a chunk of sodium in the water bucket" experiment for one of his classes. This time, he was distracted by some goofus in the class and whacked off a piece that was a little TOO large. BIG boom...
End result was the school was evacutated, the ceiling tiles were torched, and he singed off his eyebrows. (He looked rather ridiculous for some few weeks.)
Amazingly, he not only kept his job, but the next year, when I was in his class, out came the water bucket and the jar of sodium... The chunk was small enough not to blow up the classroom, but it still made quite the pop and shot a quick burst of flame at least 3 feet into the air.
I still remember hearing (for the first time) a teacher swear out loud in front of me. He felt his his face and said "At least this time, I've still got my god damn eyebrows..."
Initial rendering speed is actually faster than IE, and with the preloader, it comes up just nearly as fast.
But woe be unto you if you try to scroll, resize or move that window around. My god! It's like one of those "mouse trails" cursors that leaves a half dozen copies of itself trailing behind it.
I realize XUL isn't going to compete with native widgets, but this is ridiculous. It's pretty much unusable except for single-screen static pages.
I'm still trying to see if the mail client can import my Outlook Express mailbox (my gut feeling is "no"), but having played with that a while, it reminds me of how much I hated Communicator's email client...
I've heard that Shirley Corriher (your favorite food technologist) has some sort of consultnig relationship with Cook's Illustrated, but do you and Christopher Kimball ever chat?
The reason I ask is I am amazed at how often I will read a copy of Cook's Illustrated and then see their latest "discovery" (brining was one) show up on the next episode of Good Eats (and vice versa). Given production and publishing schedules, I'm certain no one is ripping off anyone else here, but are you all reading the same stuff, talking to each other, or hanging out with Shirley at the same time?
BTW, the 8-3-1 + 1 basic rub "recipe" is terrific! (Even if I tend to +2 rather than +1)
Taken from David Brin's Uplift series (he also wrote a great non-fiction book on the effects of technology on privacy called The Transparent Society), Creideiki is the first dolphin commander of a starship. He also eventually becomes brain-damaged and has problems retrieving memories (insert your own mySQL indexing-related joke here).