1. Exactly - you accelerate your tasks. Your keyboard is not accelerated. Combining keys does not make your keyboard faster; that's like calling shorthand a "pencil accelerator." Really it's a quibble, my problem thanks to a liberal arts education. Your mileage varies, that's fine, don't worry about it.
2. Your orginal post, which raised my question, hailed the benefits of not moving the mouse pointer. But you do move your mouse pointer. As long as your mouse-hand is in action, a pie menu seems a reasonable alternative to getting the other hand involved; thus leaving one hand totally free for vital multitasks: for snacking, for twiddling the remote, for twiddling yourself, etcetera.
"Keyboard accelerator" is a fancy misnomer for a keyboard shortut, since your keyboard is not accelerated. Excuse me for what many would term a quibble, but that is a torture of the language, IMO.
You did not answer my main question yet: How do you select a link and create a bookmark of it using a keyboard shortcut?
You left out the "select a link" part. Conveniently, I might add.
That java applet is really confusing when you have pie menus installed...you get Pie on Pie, as if Bob Dylan recorded a tribute album to the 3 Stooges.
I used to work tech support, and I would gladly help all you far-sighted geezers with your font sizes. We would refer to you as "magoos." (No offense meant, I'm near-sighted myself.)
Overruling type sizes is not a Konqueror "innovation." They just put it where the Magoos could find it.
You've always been able to override specified font sizes -- since Mosaic, if I recall rightly. In Internet Explorer, try the "Accessibility" button in Internet Options. You can even specify a "style sheet" file that not only specifies font size but color (no more ochre-on-brown!) and other design niceties.
I thought so too, then I tried loading the page in Mozilla. (Remember when Bill Gates used to lock out Netscape now and then?) Loaded slow, but loaded and I now have pie menus!
How do you select a link and create a bookmark of it using a keyboard shortcut? And what the hell is a "keyboard accelerator?" You mean the setting that speeds up key-repeat?
It's more like the owner of a synth software package, distribbed as freeware, offering such limitations. You're unlikely to be able to download a free guitar from Fender, and that does make some difference.
In essence, they are saying, "this is our work, and we are entitled to profit from it. You are licensed to use this for 'play,' and your play may result in additional profits for us, but will not provide profits to you."
Harsh by some standards. But the other option, to play elsewhere, is always available.
People have been saying media is 25c/disk for about a year now...Unless you mean 650mb disks, please provide a link. Except for the occasional rebate, I can't seem to find better than 40 or 45c/disk on 700mb media.
(moderators, this is not off-topic, I'm thinking about my mobile mp3 options here...)
I am not harming any companies by exercising my right to free information on the Internet.
A little bit of trolling is like a little bit of spice. When the spice takes over the dish, it's too much.
On the off-chance that you may not be troling, however...why would you have a "right to free content on the Internet," but not have a "right to free apples from the orchard by the highway?"
Just like an apple taken by you could be sold to another (thus depriving a farmer of income), the bandwidth you use could be provided to a "paying customer." What intrinsic difference are you talking about in these two exchanges?
(To moderators: Before hitting that "off-topic" checkbox, consider the same principles applied to this gentleman's "right to free music on the Internet.")
If the Times provides these pages (which, by the way, are loaded with ads to subscribe to the Times) without registration, what is the problem with accessing them?
How is loading a publicly-available webpage "cheating?" Especially when people have quite legitimate issues about spreading their personal info around -- we all have to make our own choices about what justifies revealing ourselves.
Note: I've been registered with NYT for several years.
No but its root, "muse," was (and always has been, so the statement still makes no sense). I don't know which is more apalling; the NY Times allowing this through their copy editors, or Taco's admiration of this sorry statement.
Ive been in the same spot. Unfortunately, the fact that we are AOL's competitor makes it sometimes hard for people to buy this. In those cases, I direct them to a search engine and recommend they type "aol class action lawsuit" for details.
First let me say there is much about the slashdotroids that I hate.
But faster processing of submissions is bound to happen thanks to the smaller workload at kuro5hin (way less submissions just being part of what eases their job). Neither site is profit-bearing, so the slimmer site is bound to be more "efficient."
New.net is "bundled" with other software, most notably "imesh" (file-sharing).
I work at an ISP, and we see a fair share of problems from this Trojan Horse.
You're correct -- no one forces anyone to put new.net on their machines. But the most frequent scenario I encounter is the patriarch of the family calling about the "family system." When Add/Remove programs reveals the presence of IMesh and New.net, invariably the statement is, "I guess one of the kids..."
This is legally very precarious ground. Kids are not old enough to make contract agreements, so unless there is some sort of age-check performed, these Trojans are coming in a backdoor with no legal agreement involved.
This is especially dangerous where no "opt-out" is offered. DivX Nteworks is currently offering an "ad-sponsored" version of their new codec, DivX 5.0 (otherwise a nice piece of software) -- we are already getting calls about "where are all these pop-ups coming from?"
I installed the DivX package and guess what?
1. There is no choice in installing it, if you want this package, you must install the advertising software.
2. It doesn't just deliver ads. It provides detailed information about your net activities to a server that then decides what ads to deliver to your system.
3. Uninstalling DivX does not remove the service that it adds to an XP machine. DivX Networks claims in its forums that it uninstalls with their software, but no user has yet agreed with them on this point.
So, when "Junior" installs DivX on the family PC, the entire family gets spied upon, with no one of legal age having consented.
This is a lawsuit waiting to happen. DivX Networks in particular stand to lose a great deal in terms of community resect/user trust, if not in cash.
My last attempt to report this was downmodded as "flamebait," so I will attempt to re-state in such a way as not to offend the oh-so-sensitive feelings of our esteemed and hard-working moderatroids:
Kuro5hin, and anyone else, could have gotten the story here over a week ago. Also included on that page: rebroadcast times and VCR plus codes.
Of three cable systems I've used in the last 4 years, all three included Sundance (and the Independent Film Channel) as part of their first-tier "premium" (that is, the deal that gets you Lifetime and Cartoon Network as well as the broadcast channels). Of course, that's in the L.A. and NYC areas, so YMMV
Having these two channels has successfully preserved me from signing up for HBO, Showtime, or any other channel that forcefeeds you nightly showings of Bruce Willis end-of-the-world movies.
yOU stewpit cRack-shMmoking m0derators! kUR05HIN got the story here, where it's been posted for over a WEEK!
ID10TS...now give me my 5:informative, damn you to hell!
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Ummm....yet again, no. The article is about the foutrth iteration, as I said. I didn't mention the picture. I don't care about the picture. Web publishers like to have illustrations and, in the absence of a pic of the Profile 4 they used the Profile 3. BFD.
My point is the submitter did not seem to have read the article.
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Yep, that's it, 701C!
Did I forget to mention there was an orange juice accident?
Doesn't impair the fubnction at all, but the butterfly keyboard hesitates a little before it snaps open....haven't had the nerve to try giving it a shower.
Giant Robo is a title I picked out of a hat, I was actually riffing off of a complaint of a friend of mine with 2 pre-schoolers.
If I recall correctly, his problem was with a video shop that started carrying more Ranma and Sailor Moon at his request (request made for his kids), yet the movie-snob management chose to get subs over dubs. That, you gotta admit, is going too far.
While most dubs are abysmal, Cowboy Bebop, and anime features like Blood, Jin-Roh and Metropolis, show they don't have to be. Despite Viz's so-so job of dubbing, dubbed Ranma is still better than much US "product" for kids. (Yes, I am aware of the topless scenes in Ranma. I really don't think animated breasts are a problem for kids who haven't been taught that they're a problem.)
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2. Your orginal post, which raised my question, hailed the benefits of not moving the mouse pointer. But you do move your mouse pointer. As long as your mouse-hand is in action, a pie menu seems a reasonable alternative to getting the other hand involved; thus leaving one hand totally free for vital multitasks: for snacking, for twiddling the remote, for twiddling yourself, etcetera.
You did not answer my main question yet: How do you select a link and create a bookmark of it using a keyboard shortcut?
You left out the "select a link" part. Conveniently, I might add.
If you 'linger' a beat, the labels appear a la MS "tooltips."
You missed "gemnastics." And I thought fairies were infallible like the Pope.
That java applet is really confusing when you have pie menus installed...you get Pie on Pie, as if Bob Dylan recorded a tribute album to the 3 Stooges.
Two words for you: Natalie Portman.
You've always been able to override specified font sizes -- since Mosaic, if I recall rightly. In Internet Explorer, try the "Accessibility" button in Internet Options. You can even specify a "style sheet" file that not only specifies font size but color (no more ochre-on-brown!) and other design niceties.
Microsoft has sample style sheets for the vision impaired that you can easily modify to your tastes or use as is.
(Moderators: go ahead and ding me as off-topic. I'll still have the satisfaction of helping out one more "magoo.")
I thought so too, then I tried loading the page in Mozilla. (Remember when Bill Gates used to lock out Netscape now and then?) Loaded slow, but loaded and I now have pie menus!
Here's some relevant links that still seem to load rapidly: Developer's home page
Screenshots of the menus with a key to their functions.
How do you select a link and create a bookmark of it using a keyboard shortcut? And what the hell is a "keyboard accelerator?" You mean the setting that speeds up key-repeat?
It's more like the owner of a synth software package, distribbed as freeware, offering such limitations. You're unlikely to be able to download a free guitar from Fender, and that does make some difference.
In essence, they are saying, "this is our work, and we are entitled to profit from it. You are licensed to use this for 'play,' and your play may result in additional profits for us, but will not provide profits to you."
Harsh by some standards. But the other option, to play elsewhere, is always available.
But it's a bitch re-ripping an SVCD designed for 80 minute disks to a 74-minute disk-size.
(moderators, this is not off-topic, I'm thinking about my mobile mp3 options here...)
A little bit of trolling is like a little bit of spice. When the spice takes over the dish, it's too much.
On the off-chance that you may not be troling, however...why would you have a "right to free content on the Internet," but not have a "right to free apples from the orchard by the highway?"
Just like an apple taken by you could be sold to another (thus depriving a farmer of income), the bandwidth you use could be provided to a "paying customer." What intrinsic difference are you talking about in these two exchanges?
(To moderators: Before hitting that "off-topic" checkbox, consider the same principles applied to this gentleman's "right to free music on the Internet.")
How is loading a publicly-available webpage "cheating?" Especially when people have quite legitimate issues about spreading their personal info around -- we all have to make our own choices about what justifies revealing ourselves.
Note: I've been registered with NYT for several years.
But faster processing of submissions is bound to happen thanks to the smaller workload at kuro5hin (way less submissions just being part of what eases their job). Neither site is profit-bearing, so the slimmer site is bound to be more "efficient."
New.net is "bundled" with other software, most notably "imesh" (file-sharing).
I work at an ISP, and we see a fair share of problems from this Trojan Horse.
You're correct -- no one forces anyone to put new.net on their machines. But the most frequent scenario I encounter is the patriarch of the family calling about the "family system." When Add/Remove programs reveals the presence of IMesh and New.net, invariably the statement is, "I guess one of the kids..."
This is legally very precarious ground. Kids are not old enough to make contract agreements, so unless there is some sort of age-check performed, these Trojans are coming in a backdoor with no legal agreement involved.
This is especially dangerous where no "opt-out" is offered. DivX Nteworks is currently offering an "ad-sponsored" version of their new codec, DivX 5.0 (otherwise a nice piece of software) -- we are already getting calls about "where are all these pop-ups coming from?"
I installed the DivX package and guess what?
1. There is no choice in installing it, if you want this package, you must install the advertising software.
2. It doesn't just deliver ads. It provides detailed information about your net activities to a server that then decides what ads to deliver to your system.
3. Uninstalling DivX does not remove the service that it adds to an XP machine. DivX Networks claims in its forums that it uninstalls with their software, but no user has yet agreed with them on this point.
So, when "Junior" installs DivX on the family PC, the entire family gets spied upon, with no one of legal age having consented.
This is a lawsuit waiting to happen. DivX Networks in particular stand to lose a great deal in terms of community resect/user trust, if not in cash.
Kuro5hin, and anyone else, could have gotten the story here over a week ago. Also included on that page: rebroadcast times and VCR plus codes.
Having these two channels has successfully preserved me from signing up for HBO, Showtime, or any other channel that forcefeeds you nightly showings of Bruce Willis end-of-the-world movies.
yOU stewpit cRack-shMmoking m0derators! kUR05HIN got the story here, where it's been posted for over a WEEK!
ID10TS...now give me my 5:informative, damn you to hell!
My point is the submitter did not seem to have read the article.
Did I forget to mention there was an orange juice accident?
Doesn't impair the fubnction at all, but the butterfly keyboard hesitates a little before it snaps open....haven't had the nerve to try giving it a shower.
If I recall correctly, his problem was with a video shop that started carrying more Ranma and Sailor Moon at his request (request made for his kids), yet the movie-snob management chose to get subs over dubs. That, you gotta admit, is going too far.
While most dubs are abysmal, Cowboy Bebop, and anime features like Blood, Jin-Roh and Metropolis, show they don't have to be. Despite Viz's so-so job of dubbing, dubbed Ranma is still better than much US "product" for kids. (Yes, I am aware of the topless scenes in Ranma. I really don't think animated breasts are a problem for kids who haven't been taught that they're a problem.)
Thnaks for the clarification. That is funny.