"You're still using the same buggy, insecure, and otherwise terrible IE engine for web page rendering."
Buggy? Horseshit. The IE engine works smoothly, and with Avant I can avoid most of the insecurities that the real IE has, for example the exploit that this article discusses. I've never seen another browser that renders pages as well as IE (admittedly I've never tried Firebird). That's exactly why I like Avant. I get the benefits of IE, but with a superior front-end.
Avant Browser. All the functionality of IE, without the hassles of IE. This exploit does not work in Avant. Avant has popup blocking, Google Bar support, one-click Flash disabler, etc.
I like Opera, and I'm curious about Mozilla, but I just don't see the point since Avant has absolutely everything (as far as I can tell).
I vaguely recall my mom's yellow Vega. I was pretty young when she had that thing, but I have some memories of it.
The sight of that Pinto really brought back memories for me. My first car was a Bobcat, which was Mercury's equivalent of the Pinto. It was a glorious green. Fortunately, the Bobcat didn't have the exploding gas tank flaw that the Pinto had, but it didn't stop everyone I knew from making jokes about it everytime I gave them a ride anywhere.
Ahh, and that Fiero. In high school, I thought the Fiero was the coolest car in the world. A friend's sister bought one. I was soooo jealous. I think she sold it within a year.
This is not meant to defend them, though. I can't stand pop-up advertising, and I won't visit any site that I know carries these ads. And if I do stumble across one of the ads by mistake, I'll boycott the product being advertised.
I keep thinking we're trying to solve the wrong problem. Instead of making computers so simple that a complete moron can figure out how to use it instantly, teach the moron how to use it.
People don't get to drive a car until they learn how to drive a car. Using a computer is significantly more complicated than driving a car, yet we expect people to just sit down in front of it and start being productive. And when they're not, we blame the computer, or at least its designers. This is fundamentally wrong.
Modern computer operating systems, whether Windows, Linux, OSX, whatever, are all quite easy to use if you learn how. I think this problem will largely be solved over time as we have generations growing up in a computerized world. But as for your parents and grandparents, if they want to use a computer, teach them, don't expect the computer to be "click here and magic just occurs exactly the way you want it to", cuz it ain't gonna happen.
"I have a problem with the institution making the students be the ones to submit their works to have it validated.
What does that teach a student? That they are not trusted. That their teachers have no faith in their character."
Question: wouldn't you agree, then, that any attempt to check for plagiarism, whether performed by the student through pressure, or performed manually by the professor, is a sign of distrust? Doesn't the fact that professors say, at the beginning of each term, "you are not allowed to plagiarize", essentially teach the students that they are all assumed to be criminals? Why does this opposition to the lack of trust only arise when it comes to having the students submit the paper to an online service to check for plagiarism, and not when the professor goes looking for the exact same evidence?
I don't agree with the opposition to this service on these grounds. I do, however, disagree with forcing students to give up the rights to their own original works to a company that will use said work for profit. That's just simply wrong.
Personally I don't click on any of that kind of crap either. Nor do I even use XP, for that matter. But, when I click on a checkbox that says "Make this your default browser", I would expect that the result would be that the browser in question becomes my default browser, not that it becomes my default browser, except for this or that situation. In my opinion, what Microsoft is doing is breaking their own functionality, ultimately making their product (Windows XP) worse. It's a bug, not a feature.
07. The original shooting scene between Han and Greedo has been restored.
There you have it. Proof positive that this is a fan-created list, not a Lucas-created list. There is no way Lucas would ever admit that one of his previous "enhancements" was a mistake and should be removed.
Just give me the original movies on DVD. I'd even like the option to view Ep. IV in its original original format (ie. without the "A New Hope" subtitle) as a special feature.
Hmmm. I enjoyed "Meet the Parents". It didn't change my life, but it made me laugh. Then again, I really like Ben Stiller, and you can't go wrong with something that originally came from the warped mind of Emo Phillips.
However, I see no need for a sequel (what, "Meet the Grandparents"? "Meet the Parents Again"? "Meet the Kid Sister"?), and more importantly, I can't imagine this being a more important project than H2G2.
Mr. Roach, you, sir, have let a lot of people down.
Garth Jennings?!? How did he get the director's chair on this? Whatever happened to Jay Roach, whom Douglas Adams had selected back when he was still alive and able to have any say in the movie?
I'm curious if this is really a defense mechanism on Adobe's part. I mean, the trend these days in dealing with widespread legal problems is to go after the tool-makers, rather than the people using the tools illegally (think RIAA/MPAA going after Napster, Kazaa, anyone who whispers the letters "DeCSS", etc). Maybe this is Adobe's attempts to avoid being blamed for what counterfeiters do with their software.
I hope that if you posted confidential information about your company online, in addition to firing you, your employer would take immediate actions to remove that confidential information, rather than leaving it where it is, declining an offer to remove it, and drawing attention to it so that the entire Slashdot crowd sees it, rather than just the 10 people who regularly visit the site in question.
"...painting the company in a bad light...(a)s far as the G5s go, why wouln't MS want them?"
Everyone here seems to be commenting about the fact that it's obvious Microsoft would have G5s. They do, after all, develop Mac software. So then, why is it "painting the company in a bad light" to point out the obvious fact that they happen to have some G5s on campus?
"Imagine walking into a Target or Krogers or Walmart and seeing aisle after aisle of seizure-inducing, moving displays that blur into a undulating mass of 'buy ME!' and over-stimulation."
Get serious. I mean, sure, that'll start to happen. But soon people will be so fed up with it that even the thick-skulled advertising industry types will realize that they've gone too far. And then this kind of advertising overkill will go the way of spam and popups.
So unless Episode 3 has a huge song and dance scene with a whole parade of digially generated Natalie Portmans in that super tight white Princess Leia like outfits singing "You Are My Sunshine"
If Lucas did that, you just know he'd have to include Bea Arthur in there somewhere.
"you'll find that Greedo was a wanna-be bounty hunter who was setup to get Han as his first bounty."
I have problems with that. Let's not forget that Han, who hung out with bounty hunters regularly, knew exactly who Greedo was. I don't buy this idea that Greedo was on his first bounty hunting gig.
Besides, even a wanna-be bounty hunter would take the time to actually learn how to fire a blaster at someone 3 frikkin' feet away from him.
Hmm, count the blaster shots in all the movies. How often do you see a blaster misfire?
I got here when there were only 2 comments posted, but already the poor link was slashdotted. Nicely done.
Not that I expected the link to be legitimate anyway. Although, I did read a plot synopsis of Episode II a few months before it came out that turned out to be 100% accurate. Nevertheless, it's way too early for "leaked" summaries on this one.
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Buggy? Horseshit. The IE engine works smoothly, and with Avant I can avoid most of the insecurities that the real IE has, for example the exploit that this article discusses. I've never seen another browser that renders pages as well as IE (admittedly I've never tried Firebird). That's exactly why I like Avant. I get the benefits of IE, but with a superior front-end.
I like Opera, and I'm curious about Mozilla, but I just don't see the point since Avant has absolutely everything (as far as I can tell).
Hmmm, once again, Avant Browser passes the test. :)
The sight of that Pinto really brought back memories for me. My first car was a Bobcat, which was Mercury's equivalent of the Pinto. It was a glorious green. Fortunately, the Bobcat didn't have the exploding gas tank flaw that the Pinto had, but it didn't stop everyone I knew from making jokes about it everytime I gave them a ride anywhere.
Ahh, and that Fiero. In high school, I thought the Fiero was the coolest car in the world. A friend's sister bought one. I was soooo jealous. I think she sold it within a year.
I noticed you placed those in order from most likely ("Microsoft releases Office under the GPL") to least likely ("Duke Nukem Forever released").
At my current client site, they're making me develop with PowerBuilder. {Shudder}
This is not meant to defend them, though. I can't stand pop-up advertising, and I won't visit any site that I know carries these ads. And if I do stumble across one of the ads by mistake, I'll boycott the product being advertised.
Avant Browser's "Allow Flash Animations" button, when clicked off, nicely prevents the samples on their site from displaying. Sweet.
People don't get to drive a car until they learn how to drive a car. Using a computer is significantly more complicated than driving a car, yet we expect people to just sit down in front of it and start being productive. And when they're not, we blame the computer, or at least its designers. This is fundamentally wrong.
Modern computer operating systems, whether Windows, Linux, OSX, whatever, are all quite easy to use if you learn how. I think this problem will largely be solved over time as we have generations growing up in a computerized world. But as for your parents and grandparents, if they want to use a computer, teach them, don't expect the computer to be "click here and magic just occurs exactly the way you want it to", cuz it ain't gonna happen.
What does that teach a student? That they are not trusted. That their teachers have no faith in their character."
Question: wouldn't you agree, then, that any attempt to check for plagiarism, whether performed by the student through pressure, or performed manually by the professor, is a sign of distrust? Doesn't the fact that professors say, at the beginning of each term, "you are not allowed to plagiarize", essentially teach the students that they are all assumed to be criminals? Why does this opposition to the lack of trust only arise when it comes to having the students submit the paper to an online service to check for plagiarism, and not when the professor goes looking for the exact same evidence?
I don't agree with the opposition to this service on these grounds. I do, however, disagree with forcing students to give up the rights to their own original works to a company that will use said work for profit. That's just simply wrong.
Personally I don't click on any of that kind of crap either. Nor do I even use XP, for that matter. But, when I click on a checkbox that says "Make this your default browser", I would expect that the result would be that the browser in question becomes my default browser, not that it becomes my default browser, except for this or that situation. In my opinion, what Microsoft is doing is breaking their own functionality, ultimately making their product (Windows XP) worse. It's a bug, not a feature.
There you have it. Proof positive that this is a fan-created list, not a Lucas-created list. There is no way Lucas would ever admit that one of his previous "enhancements" was a mistake and should be removed.
Just give me the original movies on DVD. I'd even like the option to view Ep. IV in its original original format (ie. without the "A New Hope" subtitle) as a special feature.
However, I see no need for a sequel (what, "Meet the Grandparents"? "Meet the Parents Again"? "Meet the Kid Sister"?), and more importantly, I can't imagine this being a more important project than H2G2.
Mr. Roach, you, sir, have let a lot of people down.
Garth Jennings?!? How did he get the director's chair on this? Whatever happened to Jay Roach, whom Douglas Adams had selected back when he was still alive and able to have any say in the movie?
Just a thought.
Publicizing the incident is one thing. Publicizing the allegedly confidential information is another altogether.
I hope that if you posted confidential information about your company online, in addition to firing you, your employer would take immediate actions to remove that confidential information, rather than leaving it where it is, declining an offer to remove it, and drawing attention to it so that the entire Slashdot crowd sees it, rather than just the 10 people who regularly visit the site in question.
Everyone here seems to be commenting about the fact that it's obvious Microsoft would have G5s. They do, after all, develop Mac software. So then, why is it "painting the company in a bad light" to point out the obvious fact that they happen to have some G5s on campus?
This is nothing new. Remember when Windows 2000 came out, and magazines were filled with all those Microsoft ads making fun of the Windows 98 BSOD?
They trashed Win98 to sell Win2K. Why wouldn't they trash Office2K/XP to sell Office03?
Get serious. I mean, sure, that'll start to happen. But soon people will be so fed up with it that even the thick-skulled advertising industry types will realize that they've gone too far. And then this kind of advertising overkill will go the way of spam and popups.
Oh, wait........
*cough*From Dusk Till Dawn*cough*
If Lucas did that, you just know he'd have to include Bea Arthur in there somewhere.
I have problems with that. Let's not forget that Han, who hung out with bounty hunters regularly, knew exactly who Greedo was. I don't buy this idea that Greedo was on his first bounty hunting gig.
Besides, even a wanna-be bounty hunter would take the time to actually learn how to fire a blaster at someone 3 frikkin' feet away from him.
Hmm, count the blaster shots in all the movies. How often do you see a blaster misfire?
Only if baby Greedo throws a tater-tot first.
Not that I expected the link to be legitimate anyway. Although, I did read a plot synopsis of Episode II a few months before it came out that turned out to be 100% accurate. Nevertheless, it's way too early for "leaked" summaries on this one.