Firebird on my 866mhz Pentium III machine was almost faster than IE on my Athlon XP 1400, and then I did this and there was no contest. Speeds up page rendering quite a lot.
I used to think that there were some people, children, grandmother's etc, who might find the fella endearing and cute or helpful. I was in a school computer lab once and the girl next to me, who was not a regular computer user, was typing in Word and clippy pops up. She didn't understand what it was or why it was there, and asked me what to do.
I explained that it just pops up and tries to offer help with certain tasks. She thought it was very very annoying and made me get rid of it.
So I guess the thing is just as annoying no matter how familiar you are with computers. I think the only thing more annoying than the office assistant is the search dog. Grrr.
When I downloaded test1, a couple weeks ago I think, I remember noting that kernel.org had some nice bandwidth; I was downloading it at about 200kb/s. So yeah that is a pretty big dip.
Yes, if there were a page that somehow combined this and this, that page would almost perfectly represent the class of sites that the average teenager visits.
The Windows Magnifier under accessibility tools can help people to read text that is too small, but I realize this must be a pain; I know I wouldn't want to use it. I agree that there should be a more elegant way of making the UI more readable, but it's not like it's impossible now.
Yo dizzog, i is gonta go to da ATM machine and put in my PIN number so's i can gets some cash money so's i can go see 2 Fast 2 Furious. Wanna come wit?
YFI 3 in a row! Once more and you get a free Classic Italian Sub at Subway!
Re:on second thought, pass the lead gloves please.
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Yes, like I said in my post way up there, people have a lot of funny ideas about radioactivity and nuclear weapons. One of those funny ideas is that nuclear bombs just vaporize everything they touch and there'd be no point in hiding under a desk if one where to hit. Sure, there'd be no point in that if it hit your stupid elementary school, but the area that is absolutely destroyed by a nuclear bomb is not that large. If you are a good ways away from it, hiding under a table or in a doorframe could do a great deal of good. A nuclear blast is more like a tornado that affects a very large area, plus a large scale fire-bombing. In fact, when the US hit Hiroshima, many there thought that that was what it was, that the Americans had somehow sprayed fuel over a very large area and ignited it, similar to attacks they had used earlier.
To get an idea of what a nuclear blast is ACTUALLY like, and about it's damages, read John Hershey's Hiroshima. Although today's nuclear weapons are much more powerful.
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Everyone is way too paranoid about radiation. Sure you wouldn't want to handle it every day, but a piece of uranium metal is not the same thing as a nuclear bomb, ok?
Even though these samples may be very radioactive, most likely, the handwashing as they say is all you would really need. They're the experts, they deal with it. Trust them.
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ISR regexes parse YOU!
...and IBM ducked?
Nightly binary or one of the milestones? The last milestone in my experience crashes a lot.
I'm sorry man. Next time hit her upside the head with a lart or a clue-by-four.
Firebird on my 866mhz Pentium III machine was almost faster than IE on my Athlon XP 1400, and then I did this and there was no contest. Speeds up page rendering quite a lot.
Seriously, you're even more annoying than the real ones.
Spam at Walgreens is 3 bucks a 12 oz can.
I used to think that there were some people, children, grandmother's etc, who might find the fella endearing and cute or helpful. I was in a school computer lab once and the girl next to me, who was not a regular computer user, was typing in Word and clippy pops up. She didn't understand what it was or why it was there, and asked me what to do. I explained that it just pops up and tries to offer help with certain tasks. She thought it was very very annoying and made me get rid of it. So I guess the thing is just as annoying no matter how familiar you are with computers. I think the only thing more annoying than the office assistant is the search dog. Grrr.
Don't forget the classic:
When I downloaded test1, a couple weeks ago I think, I remember noting that kernel.org had some nice bandwidth; I was downloading it at about 200kb/s. So yeah that is a pretty big dip.
Umm, maybe there aren'ts any "breaks" because it isn't "broken"?
Yes, if there were a page that somehow combined this and this, that page would almost perfectly represent the class of sites that the average teenager visits.
The Windows Magnifier under accessibility tools can help people to read text that is too small, but I realize this must be a pain; I know I wouldn't want to use it. I agree that there should be a more elegant way of making the UI more readable, but it's not like it's impossible now.
Leave him a new keyboard while you're at it. His is obviously broken.
One good troll deserves another.
".Hey"? what the hell kind of syntax is that?
Also,
Will these new ATM machines use the HTTP protocol?
Yo dizzog, i is gonta go to da ATM machine and put in my PIN number so's i can gets some cash money so's i can go see 2 Fast 2 Furious. Wanna come wit?
At first I was like, huh? I'm only 18, and I remember Zork and it had sweet graphics. And then I was like, oh. I remember Zork Nemesis, not Zork....
Indeed
Bah. Ya'll ruined my joke.
I always spelt it "je ne sais quois."
is John Galt?
YFI 3 in a row! Once more and you get a free Classic Italian Sub at Subway!
Yes, like I said in my post way up there, people have a lot of funny ideas about radioactivity and nuclear weapons. One of those funny ideas is that nuclear bombs just vaporize everything they touch and there'd be no point in hiding under a desk if one where to hit. Sure, there'd be no point in that if it hit your stupid elementary school, but the area that is absolutely destroyed by a nuclear bomb is not that large. If you are a good ways away from it, hiding under a table or in a doorframe could do a great deal of good. A nuclear blast is more like a tornado that affects a very large area, plus a large scale fire-bombing. In fact, when the US hit Hiroshima, many there thought that that was what it was, that the Americans had somehow sprayed fuel over a very large area and ignited it, similar to attacks they had used earlier.
To get an idea of what a nuclear blast is ACTUALLY like, and about it's damages, read John Hershey's Hiroshima. Although today's nuclear weapons are much more powerful.
Everyone is way too paranoid about radiation. Sure you wouldn't want to handle it every day, but a piece of uranium metal is not the same thing as a nuclear bomb, ok?
You can hold plutonium metal in your hand and you can even eat uranium metal with minimal harm.
Wow, huh?
Even though these samples may be very radioactive, most likely, the handwashing as they say is all you would really need. They're the experts, they deal with it. Trust them.