Let's say I am on a page with 40 small image previews (thumbnails) that are clickable and lead to another page with the full image. Let's say I want to grab all full images only, not the HTML, not the thumbnails but the full images that thumbnails lead to. Well, no browser allows this kind of functionality.
Uuhh, Firefox allows you to do this with the "linky" extension. Select the thumbnails you want to open, right click, go to linky, click "open all image links in one tab", or "open all image links in tabs" and there you have it!
It is definitely worth it to browse through the available extensions for firefox. There are a few that I can not live without, "Linky" being one of them.
The POSIX environment is far better suited to the server market than Windows, and Linux seems to be the popular choice their.
I don't want to invalidate your point, but you have a complete misunderstanding of POSIX. Windows (from 2000 onwards) is in fact POSIX certified, whilst Linux is NOT. Check here: Microsoft compatibility. Linux is POSIX compatible yes, but AFAIK has not been POSIX certified except for a few small realtime Linuxes, like Linux-ft
Go to IEEE for more info on POSIX.
Slashdot has a few rendering issues, at least in 0.8. I believe that the problem is when the HTML updates as new data is downloaded. You can fix your issue by changing the font to one bigger, end then back. (CTRL+ and then CTRL-).
I don't want to sound like a troll, but this seems only fair with the amount of uninformed Windows-bashing that goes on here...
Dude, your parent post does not even mention windows, he was talking about computer design in general. He may not be correct (how would I know?) but he certainly was NOT bashing windows. You don't work for Microsoft by any chance?
>I was assuming that people would put resistors >on their doorknobs.
Actually a resistor would not allow you to charge the cap very well, you would lose a lot of the energy in the resistor. You want to put in a diode. The diode will allow current to flow from you to the cap but not the other way around. like so:
You--doornob--->|---cap
That thingy between the doornob and the cap is supposed to look like a diode that blocks current from the cap.
Gunnlaugur SE Briem, the person who developed the typeface for the London Times has a lesson on writing italic. Actually his whole webpage is very worth reading. Here it is
Re:One of the questions in the article
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Dude, Here is a picture of a frog levitating in a 16 Tesla (160,000 Gauss) magnet. According to this page, humans have a similar diamagnetic susceptibility to frogs.
Thus, if you could apply 16 Tesla or more over the volume of a human, he/she will levitate.
Cheers,
Johann
Re:Is it worth upgrading?
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· Score: 5, Informative
>was no way (that I could find) to get completely >rid of the dock/paper-clip/squares.
Dude, you haven't really tried, have you? Open WPrefs (the Window Maker preferences app), you can turn either the dock or the clip or both off from the seventh tab from the left (Workspace pereferences)
We keep hearing about the bad uses for RFID technology, but do people know of any good uses that don't invade on our privacy?
Yes. When I was a student I did some vac. work for a company that manufactures RFID tags. They aren't the like the very small tags used by gillette, but are bigger and have much more range (30m). Some of the things we used them for:
Automitic Lap and split timing at motorcycle races and off-road rally's.
Embedding them into conveyor belts (with some modification). If the belt breaks or tears, the tag stops responding and the conveyor shuts down.
Tagging ostriches. Males and females need different types of food, if a female approaches the food bowl, one side opens, if a male approaches the food bowl, the other side does.
Tagging cattle. Weighing each cow as they come in at night, coupled to the tag in it's ear. Weight loss is an early indication of disease and other aspects of cattle farming that I do not fully understand.
Tagging gas canisters used for welding. When the truck leaves the company knows exactly what bottles are leaving and where they are going so they can get them back. (These canisters are often stolen)
There are hundreds of ways to use tags in a good way, you can tag the product, but do not make a link between the product and the person that buys it.
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lets not forget the most mispronounced word in the US: "nukuler weapons".
I find that Real Life is not fair to chaotic characters. Lawful characters have it much easier. I mean, just look at the artifact weapons: Lawful characters have the Thermonuclear Bomb which does 4d10 shock damage, 3d8 fire damage, and 2d6 radiation damage for 100 turns afterward. Chaotic characters only have the SCUD Missile which has a -1 to hit and only 3d6 damage. Lawful characters can enchant the Thermonuclear Bomb up to +6 when it becomes a Hydrogen Bomb which does 8d10 shock damage but less radiation damage. SCUD Missiles cannot be enchanted but instead lose -1 to hit for every year left in the desert.
When it gets up to a certain speed, the wind resistance against your body will be greater than the friction of the belt against your feet, and you will cease to move forward...
IANAP either, BUT I just walked to our wind tunnel at university, and stood in it. It takes no effort to stay upright up to 50km/h. At 80km/h one has to concentrate on staying upright, didn't go faster than that.
Because navigation in a 3D world is more complex tha n a 2D world. I don't think granny is going use all the keys needed to play Descent just to surf the web. Remember Descent?, man you had like eight fingers on the keyboard at all times. In a 2D world you can navigate with only a mouse wheel.
For non-text, gzip has been the choice for a long time.
Could someone who has been around for a longer time than I have please explain why gzip is the "industry standard".
In my opinion bzip2 does a much better compression job. Bzip2 is a bit slower than gzip, and that is the only reason I can think of not to use it.
Historically I cannot believe that people chose speed in a compression/speed tradeoff; disk space has been more expensive than CPU time for a while now.
Anyway I hope that somebody could clear this up for me.
And so, patents in ireland only take one day to be aproved and/or posted to their website? That's pretty impressive!
That is a good point, but one of the items I searched for was "application date", and assuming patents are entered electronically, I see no reason why the title, abstract and application date can not be posted the same day. Also, it was not clear from the article wether the patent was aplied for, or recieved "last thursday", that is why I searched for "application date" as well as "date granted". Anyway giving them only a few days to get it on the website might be a bit ambitous.
I wonder what the gain is on a Deep Space Network antenna..
I'm not a telecom's expert, but i believe that deep space probes retransmit every signal a few hundred times at fixed intervals. This exploits the ability (for lack of a better word) of white noise that it cancels itself when adding all the signals. this technique can allow one to resolve signals even when you have a noise to signal ratio of a few dB. It all depends on how many times you want to retransmit. I am guessing that the gain would not be much more than the antennae used for the link in the article. Remember that high gain will amplify the noise as well... And yes I know it's not 10Mbps
The moment you transmit high watts wirelessly it becomes potentially dangerous. I don't know on what frequencies the above link operates,but if it is 1-2GHz then it could probably be used as a (slow/small/low power) microwave oven if you would push the watts to say 500W or above. The FCC will prohibit you from transmitting signals with energy more than a few watts. For a comparison, the radio transmitter on the Pathfinder mars probe was 4 watts. amazing eh?
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Set the room temperature to cold (around 72-78C.)
:)
Dude, that is wicked hot
Let's say I am on a page with 40 small image previews (thumbnails) that are clickable and lead to another page with the full image. Let's say I want to grab all full images only, not the HTML, not the thumbnails but the full images that thumbnails lead to. Well, no browser allows this kind of functionality.
Uuhh, Firefox allows you to do this with the "linky" extension. Select the thumbnails you want to open, right click, go to linky, click "open all image links in one tab", or "open all image links in tabs" and there you have it!
It is definitely worth it to browse through the available extensions for firefox. There are a few that I can not live without, "Linky" being one of them.
For me the text overlaps the side nav on the main page
I have this too. Here is the solution:
press CTRL+ (font size one up) and then CTRL- (font size back to normal).
This will rerender the page correctly. hth
The POSIX environment is far better suited to the server market than Windows, and Linux seems to be the popular choice their.
I don't want to invalidate your point, but you have a complete misunderstanding of POSIX. Windows (from 2000 onwards) is in fact POSIX certified, whilst Linux is NOT. Check here: Microsoft compatibility. Linux is POSIX compatible yes, but AFAIK has not been POSIX certified except for a few small realtime Linuxes, like Linux-ft
Go to IEEE for more info on POSIX.
Slashdot has a few rendering issues, at least in 0.8. I believe that the problem is when the HTML updates as new data is downloaded. You can fix your issue by changing the font to one bigger, end then back. (CTRL+ and then CTRL-).
I don't want to sound like a troll, but this seems only fair with the amount of uninformed Windows-bashing that goes on here...
Dude, your parent post does not even mention windows, he was talking about computer design in general. He may not be correct (how would I know?) but he certainly was NOT bashing windows. You don't work for Microsoft by any chance?
I have done what you want before, povray is a excellent tool for this.
If you go to the blender scripts page you can get a pov->blender converter.
>I was assuming that people would put resistors
>on their doorknobs.
Actually a resistor would not allow you to charge the cap very well, you would lose a lot of the energy in the resistor. You want to put in a diode. The diode will allow current to flow from you to the cap but not the other way around. like so:
You--doornob--->|---cap
That thingy between the doornob and the cap is supposed to look like a diode that blocks current from the cap.
Gunnlaugur SE Briem, the person who developed the typeface for the London Times has a lesson on writing italic. Actually his whole webpage is very worth reading.
Here it is
Dude,
Here is a picture of a frog levitating in a 16 Tesla (160,000 Gauss) magnet. According to this page, humans have a similar diamagnetic susceptibility to frogs.
Thus, if you could apply 16 Tesla or more over the volume of a human, he/she will levitate.
Cheers,
Johann
slackware packages are already available at:. 2/contrib/Slackware/9.1/
http://download.kde.org/download.php?url=stable/3
>was no way (that I could find) to get completely
>rid of the dock/paper-clip/squares.
Dude, you haven't really tried, have you? Open WPrefs (the Window Maker preferences app), you can turn either the dock or the clip or both off from the seventh tab from the left (Workspace pereferences)
RTFM
Yes. When I was a student I did some vac. work for a company that manufactures RFID tags. They aren't the like the very small tags used by gillette, but are bigger and have much more range (30m). Some of the things we used them for:
There are hundreds of ways to use tags in a good way, you can tag the product, but do not make a link between the product and the person that buys it.
lets not forget the most mispronounced word in the US: "nukuler weapons".
I find that Real Life is not fair to chaotic characters. Lawful characters have it much easier. I mean, just look at the artifact weapons: Lawful characters have the Thermonuclear Bomb which does 4d10 shock damage, 3d8 fire damage, and 2d6 radiation damage for 100 turns afterward.
Chaotic characters only have the SCUD Missile which has a -1 to hit and only 3d6 damage.
Lawful characters can enchant the Thermonuclear Bomb up to +6 when it becomes a Hydrogen Bomb which does 8d10 shock damage but less radiation damage. SCUD Missiles cannot be enchanted but instead lose -1 to hit for every year left in the desert.
Not fair i'm telling you.
After all, the forbidden fruit is always the most desirable... and the best way to ensure that children do something is to disallow it!
Yeah, the best way to ensure that children commit homicide is to disallow it!
When it gets up to a certain speed, the wind resistance against your body will be greater than the friction of the belt against your feet, and you will cease to move forward...
IANAP either, BUT I just walked to our wind tunnel at university, and stood in it. It takes no effort to stay upright up to 50km/h. At 80km/h one has to concentrate on staying upright, didn't go faster than that.
Why isn't the web going 3D?
Because navigation in a 3D world is more complex tha n a 2D world. I don't think granny is going use all the keys needed to play Descent just to surf the web. Remember Descent?, man you had like eight fingers on the keyboard at all times. In a 2D world you can navigate with only a mouse wheel.
a Pentium 4/3.2GHz w/8 Megs of RAM
I know I am feeding the troll here, but you could not expect anything to get very far on 8 megs of ram, 8 MEGS!. get a life
For non-text, gzip has been the choice for a long time.
Could someone who has been around for a longer time than I have please explain why gzip is the "industry standard".
In my opinion bzip2 does a much better compression job. Bzip2 is a bit slower than gzip, and that is the only reason I can think of not to use it.
Historically I cannot believe that people chose speed in a compression/speed tradeoff; disk space has been more expensive than CPU time for a while now.
Anyway I hope that somebody could clear this up for me.
Yes these are cool but what purpose would they exactly serve in such a large number? beowulf cluster anyone?
Was I the only one that read: Produce orgasms...From Printer?
dirty me
And so, patents in ireland only take one day to be aproved and/or posted to their website? That's pretty impressive!
That is a good point, but one of the items I searched for was "application date", and assuming patents are entered electronically, I see no reason why the title, abstract and application date can not be posted the same day. Also, it was not clear from the article wether the patent was aplied for, or recieved "last thursday", that is why I searched for "application date" as well as "date granted". Anyway giving them only a few days to get it on the website might be a bit ambitous.
I wonder what the gain is on a Deep Space Network antenna..
I'm not a telecom's expert, but i believe that deep space probes retransmit every signal a few hundred times at fixed intervals. This exploits the ability (for lack of a better word) of white noise that it cancels itself when adding all the signals. this technique can allow one to resolve signals even when you have a noise to signal ratio of a few dB. It all depends on how many times you want to retransmit. I am guessing that the gain would not be much more than the antennae used for the link in the article. Remember that high gain will amplify the noise as well...
And yes I know it's not 10Mbps
The moment you transmit high watts wirelessly it becomes potentially dangerous. I don't know on what frequencies the above link operates,but if it is 1-2GHz then it could probably be used as a (slow/small/low power) microwave oven if you would push the watts to say 500W or above. The FCC will prohibit you from transmitting signals with energy more than a few watts. For a comparison, the radio transmitter on the Pathfinder mars probe was 4 watts. amazing eh?