I've neve quite understood these contoured keyboards. For example, I tried the MS Natural keyboard, and hated it. It sucked. And it felt LESS natural than my standard keyboard I'm using now.
remove the Scroll Lock key, match the color of the keys with model paint to cover up the original words and then I neatly painted "ANY" on the key before replacing it
That's pretty fucking stupid, because the Scroll Lock key is usually one of the few keys on the keyboard that will NOT be registered by a program monitoring for input when waiting for you to press 'any' key.
I know the joke is about homosexuality (haha) but a rather more intelligent punchline is that, of course, the men on the space station would die even if they came back to Earth because what would kill most people would be the dust clouds from a meteorite impact and the enormous climatic changes which would result from the Earth's shifting obrit of the sun.
Maybe they're the 2 best selling PC games of all time because they're some of the only well-made games that don't involve violence? How many sales, in absolute numbers, of violent and non-violent games have there been?
Right. But the vast majority of users that download this stuff, I would think, are on 56ks or something. At least, the vast majority of ads I have seen for this kind of software have been to 'turbocharge your modem'. Makes no sense.
And I've never understood why they think that opening up 6 connections when downloading a file would be quicker than just one. Quite apart from the fact that that insane kind of tactic can get your IP banned from some HTTP servers.
It's a great feature. Try using it and you will see that your back button gets only a small fraction of the use that it once had.
I don't buy this. Tabs are no big deal, I just open new browser windows instead. When using Mozilla, I always open a web page in a new window rather than a new tab. Far more used to organising browser windows like that than having a load of tabs.
Application software doesn't need to be upgraded? Because I thought it would. Wouldn't Mozilla or Internet Explorer (older versions at least) complain if you entered "3ffe:0501:0008:0000:0260:97ff:fe40:efab" into the address bar? Isn't internet application software usually built to parse IP addresses of IPv4 type?
But for the people that do already have IPv6 they can use
What exactly does it take to 'have' IPv6? What stuff neds to be upgraded? Application software? OS? Router? Does your ISP need to 'have' or 'support' it? It also seems a hell of a lot more complex to type in an IPv6 address than an IPv4 one, but I guess that only matters if you're not using a domain. Then again, with so many IP addresses available with IPv6 this may be the case, as there won't be nearly enough domains to hold everyone's IP!
I'm sorry that this will sound ignorant, but if I'm asking the question and I'm not exactly dumb, it's no wonder all the AOLers aren't using IPv6! I don't even know how you use it, and there are barely any servers using it either, no?
Well if you read my comment, I did in fact refer to *general elections* rather than mayoral elections. But anyway, my real point still stands; the left wing agenda in this country is too strong to be stoppable.
"Sorry officer, I didn't know it could be an offence to purposely unscrew my plates and put on my friend's plates, thereby tricking people into thinking my car is my friend's and very quickly losing me the friend. I mean who wouldn't want to do that? Are you telling me it isn't perfectly legal?"
But London has good public transport. People have a choice.
I'm sorry but this is just bullshit. London's public transport is slow, inconvenient, dirty, cramped, and frankly horrible. Be it tube or bus, it's terrible. Many Londoners say the same thing and anyone who says otherwise is either not near London or is Ken Livingstone out on a publicity campaign.
Oh come off it, this is complete bullshit. I'm so fed up with people saying that if you aren't talking face to face, you deserve *no* privacy in your communications. Of course you do! What if your wife/gf is overseas? And you want to talk to her intimately over the phone? 'Too bad, go talk to her face to face', yeah that's really fucking realistic isn't it.
And there are plenty of communications online that are intended to be totally private too, people may well encrypt e-mails in order to try and enforce this. But 'it's online so people have the right to force the encryption key out of you and read the e-mails becuase you didn't talk face to face'
Dude, if you're an NTL sales rep, go home. You've done your work here, anyone that may have bought NTL's service has now bought it. But if you're not, then you should shut the fuck up, because there are plenty of people giving evidence to the contrary!
then the ADSL provider you choose whether it be BT, Freeserve or whoever decide that they are gonna impose restrictions cause everyone is now using them to leech. where you gonna go then.
To another, uncapped ADSL provider? You see, that's the really good thing about DSL in the UK (and many other countries) - there's REAL competition because the telephone company have to provide it wholesale to ISPs. So ISPs can spring up that cater for the needs of all users, including ones that want to eat up loads of bandwidth for a slightly higher subscription price, instead of one 'catch all' ISP that kicks off a minority of users because they don't fit into their 'normal usage' template!
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I've neve quite understood these contoured keyboards. For example, I tried the MS Natural keyboard, and hated it. It sucked. And it felt LESS natural than my standard keyboard I'm using now.
True, the pure dvorak layout is not well designed for programming. But it's advantages in English are astounding.
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Maybe you should learn that you don't put an apostrophe in impersonal posessives before you start trying to improve your keyboard layout
remove the Scroll Lock key, match the color of the keys with model paint to cover up the original words and then I neatly painted "ANY" on the key before replacing it
That's pretty fucking stupid, because the Scroll Lock key is usually one of the few keys on the keyboard that will NOT be registered by a program monitoring for input when waiting for you to press 'any' key.
I know the joke is about homosexuality (haha) but a rather more intelligent punchline is that, of course, the men on the space station would die even if they came back to Earth because what would kill most people would be the dust clouds from a meteorite impact and the enormous climatic changes which would result from the Earth's shifting obrit of the sun.
Maybe they're the 2 best selling PC games of all time because they're some of the only well-made games that don't involve violence? How many sales, in absolute numbers, of violent and non-violent games have there been?
Could I ask why you put a space in your URLs? I mean there might be a perfectly good reason but I can't think why. Hell, why not hyperlink them too?
I think that if it was delivered to '1000000s of customers' through Opera, Microsoft *would* be worrying.
Right. But the vast majority of users that download this stuff, I would think, are on 56ks or something. At least, the vast majority of ads I have seen for this kind of software have been to 'turbocharge your modem'. Makes no sense.
And I've never understood why they think that opening up 6 connections when downloading a file would be quicker than just one. Quite apart from the fact that that insane kind of tactic can get your IP banned from some HTTP servers.
But... doesn't HTTP 1.1 support resuming? I've resumed files over HTTP before...
Whenever I see a list of FTP mirrors with one HTTP version, the HTTP version is faster and more reliable 9 times out of 10.
I suspect that's because 99% of people are downloading from one of the FTP servers.
It's generally simpler to get to from a browser, which is where 95% of people's online life is anyway.
I honestly don't see how.
Yeah, you can rig up a FTP URL, but it seems a bit kludgey
ftp://www.mysite.com/file.zip
How is that cludgey?
My LG CD-RW burner has never had a single problem with my media, and all my CD-Rs and CD-RWs are Memorex.
It's a great feature. Try using it and you will see that your back button gets only a small fraction of the use that it once had.
I don't buy this. Tabs are no big deal, I just open new browser windows instead. When using Mozilla, I always open a web page in a new window rather than a new tab. Far more used to organising browser windows like that than having a load of tabs.
Application software doesn't need to be upgraded? Because I thought it would. Wouldn't Mozilla or Internet Explorer (older versions at least) complain if you entered "3ffe:0501:0008:0000:0260:97ff:fe40:efab" into the address bar? Isn't internet application software usually built to parse IP addresses of IPv4 type?
But for the people that do already have IPv6 they can use
What exactly does it take to 'have' IPv6? What stuff neds to be upgraded? Application software? OS? Router? Does your ISP need to 'have' or 'support' it? It also seems a hell of a lot more complex to type in an IPv6 address than an IPv4 one, but I guess that only matters if you're not using a domain. Then again, with so many IP addresses available with IPv6 this may be the case, as there won't be nearly enough domains to hold everyone's IP!
I'm sorry that this will sound ignorant, but if I'm asking the question and I'm not exactly dumb, it's no wonder all the AOLers aren't using IPv6! I don't even know how you use it, and there are barely any servers using it either, no?
Well if you read my comment, I did in fact refer to *general elections* rather than mayoral elections. But anyway, my real point still stands; the left wing agenda in this country is too strong to be stoppable.
I borrow my friends plate
Haha, this is funny.
"Sorry officer, I didn't know it could be an offence to purposely unscrew my plates and put on my friend's plates, thereby tricking people into thinking my car is my friend's and very quickly losing me the friend. I mean who wouldn't want to do that? Are you telling me it isn't perfectly legal?"
But London has good public transport. People have a choice.
I'm sorry but this is just bullshit. London's public transport is slow, inconvenient, dirty, cramped, and frankly horrible. Be it tube or bus, it's terrible. Many Londoners say the same thing and anyone who says otherwise is either not near London or is Ken Livingstone out on a publicity campaign.
I'm just amazed that this isn't being advertised much!
There's a very simple answer. There are barely any petrol stations that sell LPG.
You obviously don't know about the current state of British politics. It goes something like this: at any general election, Labour will get voted in.
So that rule doesn't actually apply.
Maybe they meant to say that all they had was an eight-nibble IP address (32 bits)?
That's what talking face to face is for.
Oh come off it, this is complete bullshit. I'm so fed up with people saying that if you aren't talking face to face, you deserve *no* privacy in your communications. Of course you do! What if your wife/gf is overseas? And you want to talk to her intimately over the phone? 'Too bad, go talk to her face to face', yeah that's really fucking realistic isn't it.
And there are plenty of communications online that are intended to be totally private too, people may well encrypt e-mails in order to try and enforce this. But 'it's online so people have the right to force the encryption key out of you and read the e-mails becuase you didn't talk face to face'
Go get a fucking clue.
Theoretically, if recording to the exact same format as the source file (in terms of kbit/sec and khz), shouldn't the quality be exactly identical?
Dude, if you're an NTL sales rep, go home. You've done your work here, anyone that may have bought NTL's service has now bought it. But if you're not, then you should shut the fuck up, because there are plenty of people giving evidence to the contrary!
then the ADSL provider you choose whether it be BT, Freeserve or whoever decide that they are gonna impose restrictions cause everyone is now using them to leech. where you gonna go then.
To another, uncapped ADSL provider? You see, that's the really good thing about DSL in the UK (and many other countries) - there's REAL competition because the telephone company have to provide it wholesale to ISPs. So ISPs can spring up that cater for the needs of all users, including ones that want to eat up loads of bandwidth for a slightly higher subscription price, instead of one 'catch all' ISP that kicks off a minority of users because they don't fit into their 'normal usage' template!