There is a reason McDonalds was sued. McDonalds use to crank up the temperature so people wouldn't drink as much of the free refills. They were warned repeatedly to stop making their coffee so hot and yet they persisted. It just happens that one lady got lucky and won the huge payout that made McDonalds change their ways.
Problem: ACPI is an open standard, but unfortunately, vendors' closed source BIOS implementations for the last few years are written against the Microsoft ACPI parser, bugs and all.
Possible Solution: Accept that if something is used by the vast majority of hardware vendors out there, it just may be the new "standard". Swallow that anti-Microsoft sentiment and get the god damned thing working. Remember if it doesn't work with anything it is an inferiour product so stop claiming otherwise.
I have to back this guy up, Kingmax are dirt cheap and their USB Drives are great quality, the only problem I can seem with their drives is that the necklace connects to the cap, not the drive, so if the cap breaks (unlikely at best) you loose your data. That said a small drill peice fixes that little problem.
I was like you about a year ago, I never wanted to try another browser, Opera was just for yuppies as far as I was concerned, oooh tabbed browsing, I couldn't see the point. Mouse gestures... well I still don't see the point. I didn't realy mind ads because I used a massive host file to block adservers, but this was still limited. I was constantly getting popups and requests to install plugins I knew I didn't want, in short the web was turning into crap.
Then I decided to try out phoenix, why not, everyone else here was using it. So I downloaded it and I have never looked back. Seriously with an adblock extension and a clean looking theme it was leaps and bounds ahead of Internet Explorer right there. People just don't have an understanding of how convenient it is to google something, go down the first page middle clicking and then have all the pages of interest loaded by the time your done. Browsing slashdot is exactly the same, where before I was opening around 20 windows to view the stories I was interested in, I now just go down the front page, middle click all the stories and read mores... and by the time I'm done the first one is loaded.
But there is just so much more, NO popups, google search. I know you can get google bar but that is a third party addon and sometimes it just doesnt gel. And then there is the type and find function, if for example your looking at a large page of links you can just start to type the text of the link and firefox will find it. Go to suprnova.org and click in the movies frame and start to type the name of the movie you want.
I don't think less of those who haven't used anything else but IE, but seriously you need to try it, you just can't begin to fathom how much the internet doesn't suck without all the crap that targets IE until you stop using it and try something better.
The only woe I have with firefox is that a recient Windows XP update has screwed up launching webpages from the run dialogue, firefox still works but windows pops up with an error annoying but not that bad. I believe Windows XP would be infinitly better if I could actualy get rid of IE for good, but until such a time I'll just ignore it and hope it goes away.
And what, pray tell, is wrong with making ethanol from sugarcane?
Brazil has ethanol cars, and guess what they make theirs from.
This is exactly what Australia needs right now, ethanol powered cars. Our sugar industry is in ruin due to deregulation and our ozone hole keeps getting bigger.
There are plenty of free satellites up there that you can point a dish at, some of these are bound to have some coverage, it may not be in english but commentry isn't exactly necessary.
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There is a reason McDonalds was sued. McDonalds use to crank up the temperature so people wouldn't drink as much of the free refills. They were warned repeatedly to stop making their coffee so hot and yet they persisted. It just happens that one lady got lucky and won the huge payout that made McDonalds change their ways.
Mi Sister wik bit by an anonymouse once.
Don't pay, move away, what are they going to do? reposess your pins?
Actually if that description was correct it could just be the DRM record companies are looking for.
As a person who's name is Mallory I find this comment and your subsequent emails to your girlfriend offensive and arousing respectivily.
Liquid Paper?
As a thinking point, what would happen if all tech workers went on strike simultaniously?
When will people learn... Downloading music is NOT stealing, if it was they wouldn't have a copyright infringment law. They are two different things!
I hate to reply to a troll but come on, there are heaps of reason a person could develop pancratitus
Somewhere out there there are four electronic engineers laughing their arses off and about a million other slashdotters scratching their heads.
Problem: ACPI is an open standard, but unfortunately, vendors' closed source BIOS implementations for the last few years are written against the Microsoft ACPI parser, bugs and all.
Possible Solution: Accept that if something is used by the vast majority of hardware vendors out there, it just may be the new "standard". Swallow that anti-Microsoft sentiment and get the god damned thing working. Remember if it doesn't work with anything it is an inferiour product so stop claiming otherwise.
One wonders if one of those 10 million songs was "Let the Eagle Soar"
I have to back this guy up, Kingmax are dirt cheap and their USB Drives are great quality, the only problem I can seem with their drives is that the necklace connects to the cap, not the drive, so if the cap breaks (unlikely at best) you loose your data. That said a small drill peice fixes that little problem.
Good god give this man some mod points.
You clearly have never used another browser.
I was like you about a year ago, I never wanted to try another browser, Opera was just for yuppies as far as I was concerned, oooh tabbed browsing, I couldn't see the point. Mouse gestures... well I still don't see the point. I didn't realy mind ads because I used a massive host file to block adservers, but this was still limited. I was constantly getting popups and requests to install plugins I knew I didn't want, in short the web was turning into crap.
Then I decided to try out phoenix, why not, everyone else here was using it. So I downloaded it and I have never looked back. Seriously with an adblock extension and a clean looking theme it was leaps and bounds ahead of Internet Explorer right there. People just don't have an understanding of how convenient it is to google something, go down the first page middle clicking and then have all the pages of interest loaded by the time your done. Browsing slashdot is exactly the same, where before I was opening around 20 windows to view the stories I was interested in, I now just go down the front page, middle click all the stories and read mores... and by the time I'm done the first one is loaded.
But there is just so much more, NO popups, google search. I know you can get google bar but that is a third party addon and sometimes it just doesnt gel. And then there is the type and find function, if for example your looking at a large page of links you can just start to type the text of the link and firefox will find it. Go to suprnova.org and click in the movies frame and start to type the name of the movie you want.
I don't think less of those who haven't used anything else but IE, but seriously you need to try it, you just can't begin to fathom how much the internet doesn't suck without all the crap that targets IE until you stop using it and try something better.
The only woe I have with firefox is that a recient Windows XP update has screwed up launching webpages from the run dialogue, firefox still works but windows pops up with an error annoying but not that bad. I believe Windows XP would be infinitly better if I could actualy get rid of IE for good, but until such a time I'll just ignore it and hope it goes away.
Hate to nitpick but its only a dupe on the second post. If anything this is a Quad.
Fuck that, I could have used a wallhack for the girls locker room.
You must be new here... Step 3 is Profit!
Orrrrr attach a mercury switch to the record function and leave it in your pocket.
You know, some people just ask to be foxed
And what, pray tell, is wrong with making ethanol from sugarcane?
Brazil has ethanol cars, and guess what they make theirs from.
This is exactly what Australia needs right now, ethanol powered cars. Our sugar industry is in ruin due to deregulation and our ozone hole keeps getting bigger.
That blimp is a stupid publicity stunt, the Greek government wants people to be able to look up and see a blimp and think... gee I'm safe.
No one bothered to point out that a blimp can get into a whole lot of shit if it simply gets windy.
There are plenty of free satellites up there that you can point a dish at, some of these are bound to have some coverage, it may not be in english but commentry isn't exactly necessary.
Thats the point, your eyes don't change, your fingerprints don't change.
So as soon as someone has your fingerprint they can just make a fake thumb and be you anywhere they go.
The apple I-lock. Its transperant purple, has only one key and costs $349.95.