If there's more than one "monopolist" in the same business, they're called OLIGOPOLIES, you stupid scumsucking scumsuckers. Christ, they teach this shit in Economics 101. Go back to sucking scum, please. Idiots.
No, American. Have the Belgian priests been banging their nubile, young choir boys too? Over here in Boston it's all over the newspapers. PRIEST SO-AND-SO LIKES SEX WITH LITTLE BOYS and so on.
Well, the word of God is constant, is it not? Unless you're Christian, then the word of God is whatever suits at the moment. Gays evil! No, wait -- let's all have sex with the choir boys! And so forth.
Whoops, had my numbers off. -1k to post at 0, -5k to post at -1, -10k is the bottom threshold. I salute you, Anonymous Cowturd, for setting me straight. Not that I was gay or anything, just... you know, er... Penile post!
Ol' WIPO Troll had -150 at one point. Then Slashdot changed the rules. To autopost at -1 used to require manual intervention of an Editor, now it's automatic. You used to start autoposting at 0 when you hit -25, but that was it. So you could still get modded down. Now it's -5 to post at 0, -10 for -1.
"Yeah, except I see similar results on my linux box and mac in this area. It does some very, very weird things when drawing out that form field."
Well, it's probably the same phenomenon on the other OSes -- calls to the GUI toolbox to draw widgets, be they Mac, Windows, GTK, QT, or who knows what else, are slowing it down. Saying Windows was intentionally doing this was just me Toeing the Slashdot Party Line (Karma wh0ring troll, meh).
"after completely thinking I closed mozilla, I'll still see mozilla.exe running, and have to kill it from the process manager in windows 2000"
Are you sure this isn't the QuickLaunch thingamabob? Mozilla keeps a daemon-like copy of itself running in the background so it can start up as fast as IE. IE does this too, except the background process is called "Windows" and killing it may reboot your computer.
"Mozilla seems to render pages extremely slowly and choppy. What I mean is, if you take it to a page that has a huge select box on it inside a form with over 1000 entries that is showing multiple rows, say 10 for example, the browser freaks out and takes about 15 seconds on my machine to load it."
Rendering form elements requires the browser to tell the OS (Windows) to draw GUI widgets like checkboxes and buttons; these are not handled directly by the browser renderer. Windows can probably tell you're using Evil Non-Microsoft Software and intentionally stalls it every time it requests a GUI widget. Your solution here is to assassinate Bill Gates.
"I have a laptop which has an ATI mobile graphics card in it (I'm not sure if this matters) running Windows 2000. When I open Mozilla up, I get little black evenly spaced dots or dashes at random across the URL bar."
It sounds to me that your computer is trying to send you subliminal messages in Morse code. I believe either the CIA or FBI have you under surveillance, and are most likely performing some kind of psychological conditioning upon you. The only way to defend against this would be to line your apartment in tin foil, and NEVER use your laptop anywhere else. A fresh tin foil hat wouldn't hurt either.
Hey, genius, it sounds like typing "sh mozilla-installer" is the equivalent. The change to superuser was optional; if they were doing this on Windows 2k they'd have logged out and logged in as Administrator before running the self-extracter, right?
Just because you can't point and click... oh, hell with it, go back to using AOL.
"I have noticed that in comparison to IE it takes longer to find a site."
This sounds like a problem with your ability to effectively use a search engine. It's not Mozilla's fault that "that geek news site I keep hearing about" didn't get you to Slashdot in 1 click.
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If there's more than one "monopolist" in the same business, they're called OLIGOPOLIES, you stupid scumsucking scumsuckers. Christ, they teach this shit in Economics 101. Go back to sucking scum, please. Idiots.
What's an eBay? ...?
Is it anything like a PENILE POST
Here's Penile Post in your eye!
No, American. Have the Belgian priests been banging their nubile, young choir boys too? Over here in Boston it's all over the newspapers. PRIEST SO-AND-SO LIKES SEX WITH LITTLE BOYS and so on.
Hmm, I just wrote a post about flaming homosexuality AND pedophiles and forgot to work Jon Katz into that. I think I'm slipping...
Hold me. I'm scared.
Well, the word of God is constant, is it not? Unless you're Christian, then the word of God is whatever suits at the moment. Gays evil! No, wait -- let's all have sex with the choir boys! And so forth.
pi^3/3 is a constant. How, exactly, does this have a rate of change?
Another penile post.
Another PENILE post!
8===PENIS===D
Enjoy!
Too busy calling Taco names for being a flaming homosexual, is why.
First penile post!
Whoops, had my numbers off. -1k to post at 0, -5k to post at -1, -10k is the bottom threshold. I salute you, Anonymous Cowturd, for setting me straight. Not that I was gay or anything, just... you know, er... Penile post!
"Im stuck in the middle with trolls... ew, gross!!!"
Do you have a problem with my Penile Posts? Don't like Penis? Do you have a Penis? Do you remember to pet it every morning?
Another Penile Post for you.
Ol' WIPO Troll had -150 at one point. Then Slashdot changed the rules. To autopost at -1 used to require manual intervention of an Editor, now it's automatic. You used to start autoposting at 0 when you hit -25, but that was it. So you could still get modded down. Now it's -5 to post at 0, -10 for -1.
"Who trolls the trolls?"
Metatroll? Oh, and you can't write worth shit.
What kind of meaningless gibber-jabber is that? Unicode boxes?
Second penile post.
Third post overall.
Allow me to present my rebuttal...
Hey, you fucker Linus you! Incorporate that shit into your shitty kernel now!!
Sincerely,
Partially Informed Slashdot Reader
(First penile post.)
First penile post!
"Yeah, except I see similar results on my linux box and mac in this area. It does some very, very weird things when drawing out that form field."
Well, it's probably the same phenomenon on the other OSes -- calls to the GUI toolbox to draw widgets, be they Mac, Windows, GTK, QT, or who knows what else, are slowing it down. Saying Windows was intentionally doing this was just me Toeing the Slashdot Party Line (Karma wh0ring troll, meh).
Speaking of which, back to crapflooding. Penis.
"after completely thinking I closed mozilla, I'll still see mozilla.exe running, and have to kill it from the process manager in windows 2000"
Are you sure this isn't the QuickLaunch thingamabob? Mozilla keeps a daemon-like copy of itself running in the background so it can start up as fast as IE. IE does this too, except the background process is called "Windows" and killing it may reboot your computer.
"Mozilla seems to render pages extremely slowly and choppy. What I mean is, if you take it to a page that has a huge select box on it inside a form with over 1000 entries that is showing multiple rows, say 10 for example, the browser freaks out and takes about 15 seconds on my machine to load it."
Rendering form elements requires the browser to tell the OS (Windows) to draw GUI widgets like checkboxes and buttons; these are not handled directly by the browser renderer. Windows can probably tell you're using Evil Non-Microsoft Software and intentionally stalls it every time it requests a GUI widget. Your solution here is to assassinate Bill Gates.
"I have a laptop which has an ATI mobile graphics card in it (I'm not sure if this matters) running Windows 2000. When I open Mozilla up, I get little black evenly spaced dots or dashes at random across the URL bar."
It sounds to me that your computer is trying to send you subliminal messages in Morse code. I believe either the CIA or FBI have you under surveillance, and are most likely performing some kind of psychological conditioning upon you. The only way to defend against this would be to line your apartment in tin foil, and NEVER use your laptop anywhere else. A fresh tin foil hat wouldn't hurt either.
Hope this helps.
Hey, genius, it sounds like typing "sh mozilla-installer" is the equivalent. The change to superuser was optional; if they were doing this on Windows 2k they'd have logged out and logged in as Administrator before running the self-extracter, right?
Just because you can't point and click... oh, hell with it, go back to using AOL.
"I have noticed that in comparison to IE it takes longer to find a site."
This sounds like a problem with your ability to effectively use a search engine. It's not Mozilla's fault that "that geek news site I keep hearing about" didn't get you to Slashdot in 1 click.
I'd prefer her carrying my 47-foot pole. Or your sister.