The small cd's actually fit in your pocket (typically of my coat) so I can have a useable linux distro wherever I goThat's gotta be one of the geekiest things I've ever heard. Congratulations.
Buddyzoo already does something like this. You upload your AIM buddy list and it draws connections between people by seeing who has who on their list. It rates your popularity based on how many people have you on their list and makes note of cliques (when a group of people all have each other on their list). It even generates a nice SVG diagram to show how the people on your list are linked with each other.
They haven't already? People claimed they downloaded music because it was easier/faster than going to the store and they didn't want to pay for a whole CD when they only wanted one song. So now Apple is letting people download single songs, and the price is less per song than on a CD. How is that not adaptation?
I am aware of nonconformities to the latest CSS standards.
You've gotta be kidding me. You do know we're talking about IE here, right?
Look at this chart. Just scroll down and skim the list. See all that purple in the first and second columns? Those are all things that IE doesn't do properly. Check out the third column from the right, Mozilla. Not much purple there at all.
Or try here. Scroll down and look at all of the non-green in the first column (IE 6). Compare it to Gecko (Mozilla).
Even better, try this one. Be sure to use the blue arrows at the bottom right to go through all of the pages. Compare IE6 to Netscape 7 (Mozilla).
I'm going to have stop here because I just can't stop laughing. Try and code a webpage sometime, you'll see how bad IE is. I think a better question to ask is "What CSS standards does IE comply to?"
However, as a browser, it is one of the browsers that will render even partially received information (or broken HTML) correctly.
That's bad. IE is the reason web coding has drifted from the standards in recent years. You only have to make a half-assed page and it looks 'okay' in IE. Not good at all.
I've been using one of these since they came out, maybe 8 years ago? It's the first and only mouse I've ever bought (ie, that didn't come with a system). It fits perfectly and it still works exceptionally. I've found Microsoft's version to be very uncomfortable to hold. I do wish Logitech would come out with a wireless version that had more buttons, though (browser back, side scroll, etc.).
Tires and dead batteries are something we can prepare for. Anyone can afford the space to leave some jumper cables in the car. Spare tires are there so you don't have to load the car onto a truck to move it should a tire pop. The other things are problems that either can't be helped by carrying spare parts in the car (due to size, tools/skills required to install them, etc.). As long as you have a tire you can roll it safely out of the way and have it towed.
That was the most positive effect of a slashdotting I've seen. Both of those clocks are now sold out, and the second one is even on back order till late February. Good job!
Since I'm picky about my electronics and gift certificates are rather impersonal coming from my girlfriend and immediate family, I use the opportunity to get things I wouldn't normally buy for myself, like clothes. Yeah, I know a lot of people here probably don't care about what they wear, but it's nice to get a few new items a couple times a year to keep the wardrobe up to date. Besides, they have better fashion sense than I do.
Tried Firebird and didn't like the separate search bar and simplified preference dialog.
You don't need to use the separate search bar, and you can easily remove it from your screen (you can move/remove everything, actually, even the address bar and bookmarks). If you type something into the address bar that's not an address it'll do a Google "I'm feeling lucky search", or you can setup a keyword bookmark so that typing, for example, g searchterm does a standard Google search for 'searchterm'. You can set these up for other things as well (IMDB, dictionary.com, google groups, google news, and quickly searching your favorite sites).
As for the advanced preferences dialog, it's still available at chrome://communicator/content/pref/pref.xul (sorry, can't link it here). Just bookmark it for easy reference. If you took a good look, though, you'll see that most of the prefs are still in the newly-designed dialog.
I experienced this once after an extended Halo session. The connection was laggy and often hung or skipped, but my eyes were solidly focused on the screen. When I finally got up and walked down the hall to the bathroom, it was weird having the walls move by me smoothly without jerking.
You need Tag & Rename. It's easily the best ID3 tag editor out there. You can very easily generate tags for all your mp3s based on filenames or directory structures as well as doing group edits and renaming files based on the tags. Since it sounds like your collection is already ripped and organized, I'm sure the 30-day trial would be plenty for you to update your whole collection.
I don't know, I thought the PMP-100 and the PMC-100 looked much cooler. The first appears to have a bigger screen and less wasted space than the IHP-300.
Not to mention that this would be a basic intro for HTML for people, and it were known that making a webpage was "just like writing an e-mail" we'd see fewer websites overridden with clashing colors and large images and putting too much emphasis on visuals.
I really wish a stripped down version of HTML (like Slashdot's) were the standard for e-mail and usenet. It allows only the good, useful tags (links, paragraphs, bold, italic, lists, fixed-width/preformatted) and none of the bad ones (colors, images, font sizing, embedding). Sure there are probably one or two more tags to throw in (maybe font sizing should be allowed for just one size bigger or smaller), but other than that it allows you to make highly readable messages without adding potential for abuse (large file sizes, viruses, etc.)
They were able to compromise one of Ayyash's fellow Hamas members, who gave him a cell phone full of explosives. When they confirmed Ayyash was using it, the Shin Bet detonated it, killing him instantly.
MP3 is covered by patents - in fairness to Fraunhoffer, they never intended it to be used the way it is.
How did they intend to use it? More to the point, what else is a lossy 10:1 compression scheme good for except to store/transmit files in places or on networks where size is a big issue? Like JPG, MP3 saves the common user from gigantic raw files by producing a very small, "good enough for most people" (quality-wise) file.
You've gotta be kidding me. The animation in Shrek was not nearly as good as Monsters Inc. (which came out the same year). In fact, it wasn't even on par with Toy Story, which came out 6 years prior. There weren't many good textures, movement wasn't fluid, the characters' mouths didn't match the words at all, and the story telling was extremely gimmicky (just threw a bunch of old tales together). There was none of the originality, quality, or artistic style that you see in other CG animated movies.
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Buddyzoo already does something like this. You upload your AIM buddy list and it draws connections between people by seeing who has who on their list. It rates your popularity based on how many people have you on their list and makes note of cliques (when a group of people all have each other on their list). It even generates a nice SVG diagram to show how the people on your list are linked with each other.
They haven't already? People claimed they downloaded music because it was easier/faster than going to the store and they didn't want to pay for a whole CD when they only wanted one song. So now Apple is letting people download single songs, and the price is less per song than on a CD. How is that not adaptation?
Look at this chart. Just scroll down and skim the list. See all that purple in the first and second columns? Those are all things that IE doesn't do properly. Check out the third column from the right, Mozilla. Not much purple there at all.
Or try here. Scroll down and look at all of the non-green in the first column (IE 6). Compare it to Gecko (Mozilla).
Even better, try this one. Be sure to use the blue arrows at the bottom right to go through all of the pages. Compare IE6 to Netscape 7 (Mozilla).
I'm going to have stop here because I just can't stop laughing. Try and code a webpage sometime, you'll see how bad IE is. I think a better question to ask is "What CSS standards does IE comply to?"
That's bad. IE is the reason web coding has drifted from the standards in recent years. You only have to make a half-assed page and it looks 'okay' in IE. Not good at all.Really, I hope you were joking...
I've been using one of these since they came out, maybe 8 years ago? It's the first and only mouse I've ever bought (ie, that didn't come with a system). It fits perfectly and it still works exceptionally. I've found Microsoft's version to be very uncomfortable to hold. I do wish Logitech would come out with a wireless version that had more buttons, though (browser back, side scroll, etc.).
Tires and dead batteries are something we can prepare for. Anyone can afford the space to leave some jumper cables in the car. Spare tires are there so you don't have to load the car onto a truck to move it should a tire pop. The other things are problems that either can't be helped by carrying spare parts in the car (due to size, tools/skills required to install them, etc.). As long as you have a tire you can roll it safely out of the way and have it towed.
In the same vein, Internet Explorer. Especially for web developers who understand how bad it is, yet still have to adhere to its "standards".
That was the most positive effect of a slashdotting I've seen. Both of those clocks are now sold out, and the second one is even on back order till late February. Good job!
Since I'm picky about my electronics and gift certificates are rather impersonal coming from my girlfriend and immediate family, I use the opportunity to get things I wouldn't normally buy for myself, like clothes. Yeah, I know a lot of people here probably don't care about what they wear, but it's nice to get a few new items a couple times a year to keep the wardrobe up to date. Besides, they have better fashion sense than I do.
As for the advanced preferences dialog, it's still available at chrome://communicator/content/pref/pref.xul (sorry, can't link it here). Just bookmark it for easy reference. If you took a good look, though, you'll see that most of the prefs are still in the newly-designed dialog.
To make a link:
There needs to be an "unfunny" mod choice.
I experienced this once after an extended Halo session. The connection was laggy and often hung or skipped, but my eyes were solidly focused on the screen. When I finally got up and walked down the hall to the bathroom, it was weird having the walls move by me smoothly without jerking.
You need Tag & Rename. It's easily the best ID3 tag editor out there. You can very easily generate tags for all your mp3s based on filenames or directory structures as well as doing group edits and renaming files based on the tags. Since it sounds like your collection is already ripped and organized, I'm sure the 30-day trial would be plenty for you to update your whole collection.
Not to mention that this would be a basic intro for HTML for people, and it were known that making a webpage was "just like writing an e-mail" we'd see fewer websites overridden with clashing colors and large images and putting too much emphasis on visuals.
I really wish a stripped down version of HTML (like Slashdot's) were the standard for e-mail and usenet. It allows only the good, useful tags (links, paragraphs, bold, italic, lists, fixed-width/preformatted) and none of the bad ones (colors, images, font sizing, embedding). Sure there are probably one or two more tags to throw in (maybe font sizing should be allowed for just one size bigger or smaller), but other than that it allows you to make highly readable messages without adding potential for abuse (large file sizes, viruses, etc.)
It was a joke. Here, check this out.