when grandma tries to change her wallpaper, and it tells her "you don't have root privileges".
I don't know whether this is hyperbole or just a bad acid trip, but either way, it shoots holes in his credibility big enough to drive a truck through.
Unfortunately, tabbed browsing is a bit ahead of its time in terms of website coding. If you click a link that doesn't open in the parent tab, it opens in a new window. When I can have all my "new window" links open in a new tab instead, firefox will be more of a force.
You can just middle-click the link to open them in a new tab. Works fine for plain-Jane URLs. Doesn't work when the link target is JavaScript (e.g. "form.submit()") - if those cases are a big deal to you, then check out the various extensions mentioned in the other replies, I'm sure some or all of them will take care of it.
It's still good to have a reminder that falls closer to the date in question. You're right, though, they should have added a standard "we've reported this before" comment and link.
If it's "machine-readable" and "on a medium customarily used for software interchange", then it satisfies section 3a of the GPL and is thus legal (albeit annoying). For instance, if the cards are readable by any IBM card reader that still has a reasonable number of units in service.
I'm reminded of the Terrible Proposals from Nomic World - particularly #6, which (if adopted) would have required all future proposals to include page 106 of the 1961 Vladivostok telephone directory. (Nomic is a family of games in which changing the rules is a type of move. The Terrible Proposals were designed to exploit a rule that awarded points based on voting.)
People are interested in writing in their own blogs, because it makes them feel like people are listening to them. Sometimes they're right; see next item.
People are interested in reading their friends' blogs. LiveJournal (among others, most likely) offers a page where you can read all your friends' recent entries in one place, rather than having to go visit them all separately.
People are interested in reading about shared interests. LiveJournal (among others, most likely) facilitates this, too; you can create or join a community, which is basically a group-writable blog that shows up on the aforementioned friends'-recent-entries page. Sure, you could do the same thing with a mailing list or newsgroup or web forum, but some people prefer using blogs to do it.
2) Make all services open and extensible. Mainly, this means that they should stop requiring someone to open yet another unused email account in order to use their services. I already have half a dozen unused email accounts and I don't need another. It would be great if I could use my existing email account for access to IM, Yahoo auctions, etc. But I don't use these services because I don't want to bother with another email account.
This is only a one-time bother, though, so I don't see it as a big deal. If you don't want to check the account for e-mail after it's created, then just don't.
My Yahoo mail account was disabled ages ago, but the ID works just fine for mailing lists (which I receive at a different address) and IM. Same deal with Hotmail and MSN Messenger.
Now if any of their services (I've never tried their auction service, for instance) requires you to receive e-mail at their mail account, then I agree it's goofy.
If "post" is indeed restricted in the way they describe, then it's perfectly understandable that they would grant themselves some sort of right to use it, so as to prevent idiots suing them for using the data in ways that no reasonable person would find objectionable (e.g. serving message-board posts from the message-board web server, or copying them to backup tapes).
That said, they really ought to include an explicit definition of "post". And an explicit promise that they won't obscure the poster's identity without prior consent.
The kilogram was originally defined as the mass of one litre of pure water at a temperature of 4 degrees Celsius and standard atmospheric pressure. This definition was hard to realize accurately, partially because the density of water depends ever-so-slightly on the pressure, and pressure units include mass as a factor, introducing a circular dependency in the definition of the kilogram.
The kilogram was originally defined as the mass of one litre of pure water at a temperature of 4 degrees Celsius and standard atmospheric pressure. This definition was hard to realize accurately, partially because the density of water depends ever-so-slightly on the pressure, and pressure units include mass as a factor, introducing a circular dependency in the definition of the kilogram.
tabbed browsing is ridiculously overrated. Windows XP groups all your IE windows on the taskbar anyway.
But tabbed browsing goes beyond that, in a number of ways.
Suppose you start out reading page #1, and on it, you run across pages #2 through #6 that you want to read later - after you're done with page #1.
"Open" (left-click) is a poor fit. You have to read the new thing right away, then go back to page #1.
"Open in new window" (right-click) is better, but still has problems. You have to Alt-Tab each time to get back to page #1. Then, when you do finally close page #1, the other pages come up in the opposite order that you chose them (i.e. #6 #5 #4 #3 #2).
"Open in new tab" (middle-click) is perfect. The browser opens a new tab, but doesn't switch focus to it, so you stay on page #1. Then, when you do finally close page #1, the other pages come up in the same order that you chose them (i.e. #2 #3 #4 #5 #6).
Suppose you have ten sites that you want to read on a daily basis. Bookmark folders have an "open in tabs" option, which opens all the bookmarks in that folder. (If you have considerably more than ten, then split them up into multiple folders to avoid overload.)
You can have multiple browser windows, each of which contains multiple tabs. Maximizing or minimizing a window affects all its tabs. Closing a tab always sends focus to the next browser tab (as opposed to whatever window, browser or otherwise, happens to be next in the z-order).
Interestingly, some old-school *n*x window managers have windows-and-tabs built in; you can do it with anything, not just browser windows. I don't personally use them, but it's nice to know that the option is out there.
Slashdot Mirror
False.
Crunchly meets the Water-Powered Computer:
73-06-04 (glitch)73-07-24 (overflow bit)
73-07-29 (bug)
73-10-31 (ad-hockery)
74-08-18 (water MIPS)
74-12-25 (number-crunching)
74-12-29 (winged comments)
75-10-04 (bit bucket)
76-02-14 (washing machine)
5678 (flush)
76-07-18 (core dump)
It's still good to have a reminder that falls closer to the date in question. You're right, though, they should have added a standard "we've reported this before" comment and link.
I'm reminded of the Terrible Proposals from Nomic World - particularly #6, which (if adopted) would have required all future proposals to include page 106 of the 1961 Vladivostok telephone directory. (Nomic is a family of games in which changing the rules is a type of move. The Terrible Proposals were designed to exploit a rule that awarded points based on voting.)
Try linking to Wikipedia directly and correctly. :)
Already been done.
I tried it just now, also using .co.uk, and imatix.com was first (hostelshop.com was second). Same on .com.
while (1) {
// ...
buffer = in.read();
if (buffer == -1) break;
}
And what, pray tell, would happen to legitimate opt-in mailing lists? Not all ham is letters to Grandma, you know.
My Yahoo mail account was disabled ages ago, but the ID works just fine for mailing lists (which I receive at a different address) and IM. Same deal with Hotmail and MSN Messenger.
Now if any of their services (I've never tried their auction service, for instance) requires you to receive e-mail at their mail account, then I agree it's goofy.
That said, they really ought to include an explicit definition of "post". And an explicit promise that they won't obscure the poster's identity without prior consent.
Perhaps this hinges on the difference between how many people can access such-and-such code, and how many people actually do.
Wikipedia is your friend.
I didn't get it either, at first.
Hint: 282933 is cool, base 28.
From the Wikipedia article on "kilogram":
Recently overheard in rec.puzzles:
"15973846 is prime, base 28."
Suppose you start out reading page #1, and on it, you run across pages #2 through #6 that you want to read later - after you're done with page #1.
- "Open" (left-click) is a poor fit. You have to read the new thing right away, then go back to page #1.
- "Open in new window" (right-click) is better, but still has problems. You have to Alt-Tab each time to get back to page #1. Then, when you do finally close page #1, the other pages come up in the opposite order that you chose them (i.e. #6 #5 #4 #3 #2).
- "Open in new tab" (middle-click) is perfect. The browser opens a new tab, but doesn't switch focus to it, so you stay on page #1. Then, when you do finally close page #1, the other pages come up in the same order that you chose them (i.e. #2 #3 #4 #5 #6).
Suppose you have ten sites that you want to read on a daily basis. Bookmark folders have an "open in tabs" option, which opens all the bookmarks in that folder. (If you have considerably more than ten, then split them up into multiple folders to avoid overload.)You can have multiple browser windows, each of which contains multiple tabs. Maximizing or minimizing a window affects all its tabs. Closing a tab always sends focus to the next browser tab (as opposed to whatever window, browser or otherwise, happens to be next in the z-order).
Interestingly, some old-school *n*x window managers have windows-and-tabs built in; you can do it with anything, not just browser windows. I don't personally use them, but it's nice to know that the option is out there.