As proven on Mythbusters, almost everything is dirtier than a toilet seat, the floor, the counter, your mouth, your hands, all contain more bacteria than a toilet seat. So people, stop with the toilet seat analogies, they are meaningless! So clearly we should be putting keyboards in toilet seats. Not only would we have better hygiene, but you wouldn't have to stop coding when you need to take a dump...
On the plus side, I recently discovered some features of Firefox that allow me to make it behave even more like Opera. Now if Firefox could just get Opera's speed, clean up the code base/fix memory leaks, and become fully standards compliant then I'll be happy. Funny. Maybe windows is different, but after reading the/. hype for years I decided to try the linux version of Opera the other day. It's a beautiful browser, and if looks were all poor ol' firefox would be dead in the water. But in terms of usability I found it slow, unresponsive... and it used even more memory than firefox!
I never would have thought that firefox was a slimline browser memory-wise. But Opera's proved me wrong.
I don't even want to think about the amount of time I've lost playing around with latex2rtf and tex4ht trying to convert my latex papers to an acceptable format. Well if you didn't do that we in production would have to. We don't get paid enough to spend hours faffing about on each paper, and the people in Singapore, whither production is increasingly being moved, certainly don't! By your response it sounds like you're involved in the production of a scientific journal... If so, can I ask - surely an open, typeset format is more useful to a typeset journal than a proprietary, non-typeset format?
Or heck, a math professor my husband had in grad school, who used LaTeX because that's standard but used a WYSIWIG editor (and barely could use that) because the actual markup was far beyond him. What's wrong with using LyX to write latex? I use it all the time, and I can assure you it's a lot faster to write and easier to read than raw markup...
My experience is that most journals accept TeX submissions. Your experience clearly has not been in the biological sciences. Very few accept latex, and those that do will do so grudgingly.
I don't even want to think about the amount of time I've lost playing around with latex2rtf and tex4ht trying to convert my latex papers to an acceptable format. The only saving grace is that some journals (Nature and its progeny for one) accept PDFs for the first submission.
Anyone trying this at home, note that the reaction is hideously exothermic (at least with the 5M NaOH that I've got in the lab:) Have a (big) bucket of ice handy to slow the reaction if necessary. Lots of heat and lots of Hydrogen aren't a good combination...
I believe we are in agreement in general. Yes, I think so:) I'd certainly agree that FF 2.0 was a rushed job that shouldn't have been released on the masses at the stage it was at.
Mind you, the masses were so used to IE bugs that they don't seem to have cared overly much, so I guess it all evens out in the wash.
All too often releases are made for reasons other than having a release ready product. While I notice this mostly in the proprietary world, the last release of FF jumps to mind as an OSS example. But "release early, release often" refers to bleeding-edge development builds, not to stable products! The whole point of the concept is to get as many users as possible providing constructive feedback and testing, so that when a stable release does happen it's as complete as possible.
(Of course, in these happy days of SVN, it's pretty much been made irrelevant, since everyone has easy access to the development version of OSS projects.)
Don't get me wrong, there are many things to be improved in Bugzilla's interface. Still, the normal public of bugzilla is either motivated enough (as I am) to work with it, or is not, in which case they tend to use IRC channels, email or other tools to submit their reports (as I sometimes do: I don't always want to register on a bug tracker database just to report one single bug. But that's the problem with large OSS projects - there's often no contact information for submitting bugs other than the link to the bug-tracking software.
And the problem with Bugzilla is that (a) you can't submit anonymous bugs, and (b) the search engine to check if anyone's submitted the same bug before you is particularly sucky. Which means that a lot of bugs don't get submitted because users can't be bothered, and the ones that do get submitted often turn out to be dupes.
Sourceforge.net has a much better tracking system, IME. It makes it as easy as possible for a user to submit a bug, rather than trying to discourage them from doing so.
What if your parents were mistakenly arrested and placed in gitmo. You know they are being "forcibly coerced". You also know that they will never leave, since they can never provide the information sought from them, and will never get a fair trial. In the eyes of the authorities, they are already guilty. In the eyes of the populace, the fact that they are already in gitmo makes them guilty.
If you are happy with the above as a necessary sacrifice for upholding the free world, then I will accept your point of view. If, on the other hand, you feel a bit squeamish about sacrificing your parents for the good of the world order, consider this:
In a world where human rights no longer exist, where there is no system of justice, where the protections provided by the Geneva Convention are something to be avoided through the use of technicalities, the terrorists have won.
I think there are going to be a lot of defensive replies from dSLR owners. But with enough light, a small lens and sensor can take a good picture. Five things you won't see on a camera phone any time soon:
Dynamic range Ability to reduce DOF for portraits/macros/etc Real resolution (not oversampled tiny pixels from a crappy lens) Noise-free photos Colour fidelity/white balance
If these aren't important, by all means use a camera phone.
Seriously--am I blind, or is this most basic of all features missing? Am I the only one who does this? No need to sort by subject when you've got a client that supports threads...
Handspring was started in the late 90's by a few ex-Palm employees. "A few ex-Palm employees"... you mean, the inventors of the Palm Pilot who founded Palm Computing, Inc? I think it's you that needs a history lesson!:)
The sad thing about Palm is that time and time again they've created a brilliant product, and then squandered their technological lead in a quest for profits and mindless bickering. When I bought my first Palm (a IIIx) the company had a virtual monopoly on the handheld market; now, they're just a bit player.
I could be totally and absolutely wrong about all of this. I don't know, and I really don't care - I just liked the mental image of this bus speeding along at 0.99c, all full of people doing Mexican waves really quickly, and everyone's happy, and everyone's laughing about getting in the Guinness Book of Records, and the cute foreign couple down the back are taking pictures...
And then all of a sudden some wildlife jumps out onto the road and the driver slams on the brakes...
But all too often, the products they make MORE money on, save FEWER lives, but they push those products anyhow, since they're only motivated by money. Sometimes this happens, yes. It's a problem with capitalism, I guess - nobody's ever worked out how to prevent this (although stopping patent ever-greening would be a good place to start.) But as far as this cervical cancer vaccine goes, I don't see that that's the case - it seems a fairly decent product to me, and one that will improve the lives (and save the lives) of lots of people. And if you want the drug companies to keep on producing products like this, you're going to have to pay money for it.
If someone doesn't get the vaccine, it affects no one else but them. Well, actually, it does affect others - because just like any other STD, if they do become infected because they refused the vaccine, they can then transmit HPV to others in the population.
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I never would have thought that firefox was a slimline browser memory-wise. But Opera's proved me wrong.
Nature does take PDFs for initial submission, though, thank god.
I don't even want to think about the amount of time I've lost playing around with latex2rtf and tex4ht trying to convert my latex papers to an acceptable format. The only saving grace is that some journals (Nature and its progeny for one) accept PDFs for the first submission.
This is Palm's next great idea? Really? Sad, innit? Even sadder to think that the PDA market three years ago was in better shape than it is today
I guess we can safely say, mobile phones killed the PDA star
Anyone trying this at home, note that the reaction is hideously exothermic (at least with the 5M NaOH that I've got in the lab :) Have a (big) bucket of ice handy to slow the reaction if necessary. Lots of heat and lots of Hydrogen aren't a good combination ...
Mind you, the masses were so used to IE bugs that they don't seem to have cared overly much, so I guess it all evens out in the wash.
(Of course, in these happy days of SVN, it's pretty much been made irrelevant, since everyone has easy access to the development version of OSS projects.)
And the problem with Bugzilla is that (a) you can't submit anonymous bugs, and (b) the search engine to check if anyone's submitted the same bug before you is particularly sucky. Which means that a lot of bugs don't get submitted because users can't be bothered, and the ones that do get submitted often turn out to be dupes.
Sourceforge.net has a much better tracking system, IME. It makes it as easy as possible for a user to submit a bug, rather than trying to discourage them from doing so.
A brief question:
What if your parents were mistakenly arrested and placed in gitmo. You know they are being "forcibly coerced". You also know that they will never leave, since they can never provide the information sought from them, and will never get a fair trial. In the eyes of the authorities, they are already guilty. In the eyes of the populace, the fact that they are already in gitmo makes them guilty.
If you are happy with the above as a necessary sacrifice for upholding the free world, then I will accept your point of view. If, on the other hand, you feel a bit squeamish about sacrificing your parents for the good of the world order, consider this:
In a world where human rights no longer exist, where there is no system of justice, where the protections provided by the Geneva Convention are something to be avoided through the use of technicalities, the terrorists have won.
Dynamic range
Ability to reduce DOF for portraits/macros/etc
Real resolution (not oversampled tiny pixels from a crappy lens)
Noise-free photos
Colour fidelity/white balance
If these aren't important, by all means use a camera phone.
The sad thing about Palm is that time and time again they've created a brilliant product, and then squandered their technological lead in a quest for profits and mindless bickering. When I bought my first Palm (a IIIx) the company had a virtual monopoly on the handheld market; now, they're just a bit player.
And then all of a sudden some wildlife jumps out onto the road and the driver slams on the brakes
Yeah, can't argue with that one either.
Or are you suggesting that it's OK if Jane Doe doesn't get vaccinated, because, well, everyone else will be vaccinated so it doesn't matter?
Please, please, tell me that wasn't your argument?