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  1. Re:hmmm... on Speeding up Evolution · · Score: 1

    Can anyone else see where this is going?

    Yes, into tighter birth control laws, better management of available resources and the legalization of abortion. Don't forget that people like Paul Ehrlich and Lester Brown also (wrongly) predicted a global catastrophe caused by population growth during the 1960s and early 1970s -- and they still continue to publish books containing predictions of global disaster due to overpopulation nowadays.

    Don't understimate humanity.

  2. Code Rush or The Story Of How Mozilla Came To Be on Realistic Portrayals of Software Programmers? · · Score: 1

    If you want the real thing, watch Code Rush (its the only working link about Code Rush that I could find). Its a very interesting documentary that follows the pre-release period of Mozilla and the problems, both at a professional and personal level, of the Netscape employees to get the first release of Mozilla out into the public (from memory: the Netscape Navigator code cleanup, the acquisition by AOL, the moral struggle and demissions because of AOL, the scepticism about open source, the story behind Zarro Boogs, the perilous quest to find the "Missing In Office" Netscape Mac developer and make him do some work for a change, the constant time pressure and its detrimental individual and social consequences, etc).

    It doesnt get more factual than this.

  3. Re:Useful? on Gestures For The Linux Desktop · · Score: 3, Informative

    Maybe they should make them customisable (choose your own gestures - that would be cool and people probably have their own personal gestures they find it is easier/harder for them to make ;-) ) and also make it so one can choose which individual gestures you want installed (i.e.: not the kill the app one if your fingers slip sometimes).

    Actually, you can customize and choose which individual mouse gestures you want to use in Phoenix/Mozilla with the Optimoz Mouse Gestures Extension. All you need to do is go to the directory where you installed Phoenix/Mozilla (for example, C:\Program Files\mozilla.org\Mozilla), then navigate into chrome\mozgest\content\ and open the gestimp.js file (so, following the previous example, it would be C:\Program Files\mozilla.org\Mozilla\chrome\mozgest\content\g estimp.js). Now, edit whats in function initGestureTable() -- for example, edit
    addGesture("L", "g.BrowserBack", "BrowserBack();");
    to
    addGesture("LUDR", "g.BrowserBack", "BrowserBack();");
    in order to change from performing a "Left" gesture to go back one page to "Left, Up, Down, Right". You can also delete the gestures you dislike this way. Its archaic and troublesome, I know, but it works.

    Personally, I only use the "Left" for Back, "Right" for Forward, "Up" for Stop, "Down" for New Tab, and "Down, Right" for Close Tab. All the rest is bloat that gets in the way, for me at least.

  4. Playzilla on Review of Mozilla's 2002 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Youre not understanding the Playboy article: its promoting Mozillas qualities as a porn browser, not as a general use browser; just notice the features they highlight in the article and consider what kind of audience Playboy has. I guess we can assume you wont ever read in a general living, or style, magazine about how great Mozilla is when you want to jerk off to pictures of scantily dressed girls.

    Oh, and heres a link to the Pornzilla project -- theyre the ones whove been putting pressure on the developers (and contributing some code too) to make Mozilla a wonderful browser for all the perverts out there.

  5. Confirmed hoax on The Joystick Is The Root of All Evil · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Just check this out:

    December 30, 2002 Final Project: MAVAV.org
    My MAVAV.org (Mothers Against Videogame Addiction And Violence) satire/parody/hoax web page was a success.

    A summary and documentation can be found here.



    And, apparently, this isnt the first hoax site done by David Yoo.