Getting the text out of a Word document is not that difficult. Open it up in a text editor and most of it will appear to be junk, but if you scroll down you should find the document's text and be able to just copy it out. I suppose there would probably be more junk in the middle of text if there were more formatting changes, but I am not sure on that. (I have not looked at Word documents like this much, but I have been able to fully recover the text of a couple that were recovered from floppies.)
First, I'd like to say that (1) I use FireFox and (2) Opera's UI has some nice unique features. On the other hand, some of those features do exist in FireFox (at least with the extensions that I use).
There are multiple session management extensions. I have the Tabbrowser Extensions session management module enabled, and, although I do not use it much, I believe it does what you say Opera's does. Although, from my experience with Opera's session management, it's very nicely done.
In FireFox, I have the "zap colors" and "zap images" bookmarklets on my bookmarks toolbar. You can also go to view-->Page Style-->No Style, but that's not one-click.
Page zooming is one feature that stands out as very nice in Opera. I don't know why it is not in FireFox. Paste and go I've never used.
Go To URL of selected text can be done a few ways in FireFox: 1. Highligh text URL and drag it to the tab bar. 2. There was an extension "Text links" or something like that that if you highlighted a URL it gave a "open url in new tab/window" option. I'm not sure if it works with the latest version. 3. I use an extension Linkification which uses regular expressions to automatically make plain text links into links. (very nice when viewing.txt files)
Close tab by middle clicking... I didn't know this wasn't default in FireFox. I guess Tabbrowser Extensions must do it.
Keyboard support... this is another feature which sounds like it's very nice on Opera.
The ability to copy the URL of any conceivable page, frame, image, or link with two clicks Sounds like FireFox is beaten there, too. You have to right-click and goto to page/frame info and then copy it, although it does have "copy image location".
Or you could use Gaim instead of the official client and not get any ads. You'll also get support for Gaim's plugins, contact aliases, and tabbed IMs, but it doesn't support some of the AIM features like video and voice IM (they're working on it). Also, there are other unofficial clients including Miranda and Trillian. Or you could use an AIM hack like Middle Man (or one linked from their list of other AIM hacks) that remove the ads and add other features like logging.
Hmm... I believe most of the VCDs I've seen have been encoded by TMPEGenc, although I don't know what settings. It is quite possible that that is why they didn't look very good. I don't remember seeing a difference between watching them on a computer and either of my DVD players that support CD-R VCDs. Mainly the problems were noticable in the subtitles of subbed anime, but the subtitles were still readable.
It doesn't really matter now. I use a DVD player made by lite-on (LVD-2001, I think, they don't sell that model anymore, but I guess the LVD-2010 replaces it.) that, like the one the article is about, plays divx and xvid off burned CDs and DVDs, which results in much smaller and better quality video files.
VCDs are compressed with MPEG1 at a resolution about a quarter of regular TV. More info on the VCD format. In my experience, VCDs look pretty bad no matter what device you're playing them on.
In XP you have to, in any folder, go to tools --> folder options... --> view (tab) --> scroll all the way down and uncheck "Use simple file sharing (Recommended)". That will give you a "security" tab in the properties of every folder and file allowing you to set NTFS permissions from explorer.
IIRC, that's part of the standard for e-mail addresses. Every email service is supposed to allow you to do username+otherjunk@example.com. Of course, an intelligent spammer could just remove the part after the + and your filtering wouldn't work. (Unless you automatically deleted all messages without a +)
On the other hand, I did not know you could put periods anywhere in the address. That's nice to know.
when hundreds of thousands of travellers in airports across the world are delayed because one of the busiest airports in the world is shut down due to a 10 year old known bug in your operating systems that has not been fixed, that is simply not acceptable.
Wait a minute! I'd understand if there was no patch (and it sounds like it was pretty stupid to release it in the first place), but the link to the fix is in the article text. I'm not sure how recent it is (only date I see on the link is "Last Reviewed: 8/9/2004 (3.2)"), but a fix does exist.
I'm not saying they should be using Windows. They should certainly use a more stable OS, but this problem is not purely Microsoft's fault, they already patched it.
Supposedly, extensions (I've never had to update plug-ins) are supposed to work in future versions starting with the 1.0 release (hopefully, that includes 1.0PR). Previously, the FireFox team claimed the "it's beta" excuse, although as other posters mentioned, the old extensions tended to work and just didn't know they did.
That sounds a lot like deep freeze, which the school I go to uses. I believe that because of the way it works, if someone boots off a floppy or a CD they can make permanent changes to the hard drive, but I've never actually tested that.
When political ads stopped being about the candidate, and his/her views and platforms, and when they started just being about bashing the other guy?
It's been happening pretty much since the United States was formed as a nation. A notable early example is the election of 1840, known as the "log cabin and hard cider" campaign. The Whigs protrayed their canadate, William Henry Harrison, as a poor farmer who lived in a log cabin; someone who could relate to the American voter, when in fact Harrison was quite wealthy. His campaign involved attacking the Democratic Martin van Buren as a too wealthy aristocrat, when he actually grew up in poverty. (For those who don't know, Harrison won by a landside in the electoral college and promptly died a month later.)
I believe that in eariler races, candidates didn't even have published platforms, they just were popular for whatever reason.
Put simply, it's a FF rendering bug which we've had for ages
So, wait, it's a bug in slashdot's code, but then firefox changes the way it renders the page if you twiddle a nob? Shouldn't firefox consistently render it the same (broken) way every time?
It's a FireFox bug. Changing the font size forces FireFox to rerender the page, resulting in a correct render. IIRC, the problem has something to do with threading in the render during load feature. The bug has been fixed in the.10 trunk, but, as far as I know, no one has announced either way on it being part of v1.0.
Probably, the parts other than the hard drive are really cheap and counting bulk pricing the whole thing comes out really really cheap, so they can make money selling the whole thing at less than the retail price of the hard drive.
I agree. DOS had such a program called "help" (which seems to be missing starting with Windows 95), which is how I learned the command line originally. When I first started using Linux, I had a lot of trouble since the only DOS command that's the same is "cd" (and "dir" is aliased in the default Debian Woody setup), I often had to ask what's the Linux version of [insert simple command]. At least the simple commands like mv, cp, and rm are just what they do minus vowels, so they're easy to guess, but I never would have guessed du or df by myself.
Huh? Why would it be at all difficult to find out what method lynx uses? It's open source. Look at the source for a version of lynx dated (significantly) before this patent. Look for its method. Simple.
Old guys like me who remember early versions Windows (I think up to v.3.0), will remember an odd system of cut copy and paste commands with the insert, delete, shift and control keys that few could keep straight.
You mean [ctrl]+[insert] for copy, [ctrl]+[delete] for cut, and [shift]+[insert] for paste? They still work in Windows.
I've always wanted solar power on a pda. The battery requirements would be a little mroe forgiving.
That would be a problem because in my experience direct sunlight makes the screens of PDAs (grayscale and color) appear faded and difficult to read. I have a feeling that the indirect light the PDA recives on what little space is not covered by the screen or the user's hand would have almost no effect on the battery life and would waste weight and bulk better spent on... a better rechargeable battery?
I'm not sure what problems you've had with battery life, but on a recent PDA with a rechargeable battery and a color screen, you don't have to worry about data loss because the color screen takes so much power compared to the RAM that when the screen won't turn on the RAM may last for as long as a few weeks.
1. They do, it's called IOException.
2. Not sure why that would matter, for dev, the Java compiler and JVM should be the only things touching the files. For running a program, they should all be in a.jar, anyway.
3. Java's standard class libary doesn't use Hungarian Notation, so I don't know what you're talking about.
As a logical continuatation of keeping "Hello World!" short, we can see that Microsoft's QBASIC is obviously the best programing language:
? "Hello World!";
(For those of you who do not know QBASIC: "?" is a shortcut for "print" and a semicolon after a print string instead of a comma makes a newline after the string.)
Seriously, Java is obviously not the best tool for the job of printing a string to the screen (not even counting the verbosity, the start-up time and memory usage would be too much). On the other hand, in larger projects, the verbosity means the code is easy to read. Also, as mentioned by other posters, Java IDEs have autocomplete with Javadoc preview, so actually opening up the docs is rarely needed once one is used to the class libary. Of course, if you believe that Java is not the right tool for the job, don't use it.
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Getting the text out of a Word document is not that difficult. Open it up in a text editor and most of it will appear to be junk, but if you scroll down you should find the document's text and be able to just copy it out. I suppose there would probably be more junk in the middle of text if there were more formatting changes, but I am not sure on that. (I have not looked at Word documents like this much, but I have been able to fully recover the text of a couple that were recovered from floppies.)
First, I'd like to say that (1) I use FireFox and (2) Opera's UI has some nice unique features. On the other hand, some of those features do exist in FireFox (at least with the extensions that I use).
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There are multiple session management extensions. I have the Tabbrowser Extensions session management module enabled, and, although I do not use it much, I believe it does what you say Opera's does. Although, from my experience with Opera's session management, it's very nicely done.
In FireFox, I have the "zap colors" and "zap images" bookmarklets on my bookmarks toolbar. You can also go to view-->Page Style-->No Style, but that's not one-click.
Page zooming is one feature that stands out as very nice in Opera. I don't know why it is not in FireFox.
Paste and go I've never used.
Go To URL of selected text can be done a few ways in FireFox:
1. Highligh text URL and drag it to the tab bar.
2. There was an extension "Text links" or something like that that if you highlighted a URL it gave a "open url in new tab/window" option. I'm not sure if it works with the latest version.
3. I use an extension Linkification which uses regular expressions to automatically make plain text links into links. (very nice when viewing
Close tab by middle clicking... I didn't know this wasn't default in FireFox. I guess Tabbrowser Extensions must do it.
Keyboard support... this is another feature which sounds like it's very nice on Opera.
The ability to copy the URL of any conceivable page, frame, image, or link with two clicks
Sounds like FireFox is beaten there, too. You have to right-click and goto to page/frame info and then copy it, although it does have "copy image location".
Or you could use Gaim instead of the official client and not get any ads. You'll also get support for Gaim's plugins, contact aliases, and tabbed IMs, but it doesn't support some of the AIM features like video and voice IM (they're working on it). Also, there are other unofficial clients including Miranda and Trillian. Or you could use an AIM hack like Middle Man (or one linked from their list of other AIM hacks) that remove the ads and add other features like logging.
Hmm... I believe most of the VCDs I've seen have been encoded by TMPEGenc, although I don't know what settings. It is quite possible that that is why they didn't look very good. I don't remember seeing a difference between watching them on a computer and either of my DVD players that support CD-R VCDs. Mainly the problems were noticable in the subtitles of subbed anime, but the subtitles were still readable.
It doesn't really matter now. I use a DVD player made by lite-on (LVD-2001, I think, they don't sell that model anymore, but I guess the LVD-2010 replaces it.) that, like the one the article is about, plays divx and xvid off burned CDs and DVDs, which results in much smaller and better quality video files.
VCDs are compressed with MPEG1 at a resolution about a quarter of regular TV. More info on the VCD format. In my experience, VCDs look pretty bad no matter what device you're playing them on.
In XP you have to, in any folder, go to tools --> folder options... --> view (tab) --> scroll all the way down and uncheck "Use simple file sharing (Recommended)". That will give you a "security" tab in the properties of every folder and file allowing you to set NTFS permissions from explorer.
The grandparent said nothing about the internet. He said there was no World Wide Web in 1990. There was an internet before HTTP and HTML existed.
IIRC, that's part of the standard for e-mail addresses. Every email service is supposed to allow you to do username+otherjunk@example.com. Of course, an intelligent spammer could just remove the part after the + and your filtering wouldn't work. (Unless you automatically deleted all messages without a +)
On the other hand, I did not know you could put periods anywhere in the address. That's nice to know.
Wait a minute! I'd understand if there was no patch (and it sounds like it was pretty stupid to release it in the first place), but the link to the fix is in the article text. I'm not sure how recent it is (only date I see on the link is "Last Reviewed: 8/9/2004 (3.2)"), but a fix does exist.
I'm not saying they should be using Windows. They should certainly use a more stable OS, but this problem is not purely Microsoft's fault, they already patched it.
Supposedly, extensions (I've never had to update plug-ins) are supposed to work in future versions starting with the 1.0 release (hopefully, that includes 1.0PR). Previously, the FireFox team claimed the "it's beta" excuse, although as other posters mentioned, the old extensions tended to work and just didn't know they did.
That sounds a lot like deep freeze, which the school I go to uses. I believe that because of the way it works, if someone boots off a floppy or a CD they can make permanent changes to the hard drive, but I've never actually tested that.
It's been happening pretty much since the United States was formed as a nation. A notable early example is the election of 1840, known as the "log cabin and hard cider" campaign. The Whigs protrayed their canadate, William Henry Harrison, as a poor farmer who lived in a log cabin; someone who could relate to the American voter, when in fact Harrison was quite wealthy. His campaign involved attacking the Democratic Martin van Buren as a too wealthy aristocrat, when he actually grew up in poverty. (For those who don't know, Harrison won by a landside in the electoral college and promptly died a month later.)
I believe that in eariler races, candidates didn't even have published platforms, they just were popular for whatever reason.
Probably, the parts other than the hard drive are really cheap and counting bulk pricing the whole thing comes out really really cheap, so they can make money selling the whole thing at less than the retail price of the hard drive.
I agree. DOS had such a program called "help" (which seems to be missing starting with Windows 95), which is how I learned the command line originally. When I first started using Linux, I had a lot of trouble since the only DOS command that's the same is "cd" (and "dir" is aliased in the default Debian Woody setup), I often had to ask what's the Linux version of [insert simple command]. At least the simple commands like mv, cp, and rm are just what they do minus vowels, so they're easy to guess, but I never would have guessed du or df by myself.
When did accent marks start working on Slashdot?
Huh? Why would it be at all difficult to find out what method lynx uses? It's open source. Look at the source for a version of lynx dated (significantly) before this patent. Look for its method. Simple.
So he made the best detected counterfeits? Does this get him a title like smartest idiot? While we're at it, is he also the tallest short person?
I'm not sure what problems you've had with battery life, but on a recent PDA with a rechargeable battery and a color screen, you don't have to worry about data loss because the color screen takes so much power compared to the RAM that when the screen won't turn on the RAM may last for as long as a few weeks.
Although you don't learn it until much later into the book, Ender did kill that kid in that fight.
Oh? Seems to be pretty much identical in responsiveness and appearence to me. Or did you install that awful thing called "modern skin support"?
Contary to its name, VideoLAN works rather nicely as a regular media player. I've never used its streaming features.
1. They do, it's called IOException. 2. Not sure why that would matter, for dev, the Java compiler and JVM should be the only things touching the files. For running a program, they should all be in a .jar, anyway.
3. Java's standard class libary doesn't use Hungarian Notation, so I don't know what you're talking about.
(For those of you who do not know QBASIC: "?" is a shortcut for "print" and a semicolon after a print string instead of a comma makes a newline after the string.)
Seriously, Java is obviously not the best tool for the job of printing a string to the screen (not even counting the verbosity, the start-up time and memory usage would be too much). On the other hand, in larger projects, the verbosity means the code is easy to read. Also, as mentioned by other posters, Java IDEs have autocomplete with Javadoc preview, so actually opening up the docs is rarely needed once one is used to the class libary. Of course, if you believe that Java is not the right tool for the job, don't use it.