No, I'm familiar with xmodmap, X, and cygwin, and that's why I doubted it would work. I had powertoys installed at one time, and don't recall that option being present. It doesn't seem like this would be configurable, because alt and tab are on every keyboard, in almost the same exact places. I've worked with keyboard maps in Windows before as well, and don't recall being able to modify non-character keys (this may have been a shortcoming in the.kbd editor, as well).
No, you're going to bitch no matter what. If the size is different, you'd say it's too large and bulky in the pocket or some crap. The only reason you're against the edge method is because you're not used to it. If you used dollar coins everyday, you would quickly change the way you carry and handle change.
Note, some of my comments are directed at you, but are really meant for the status quo types that are against every kind of change to the currency.
you'd have a far easier time talking in liters than in gallons, when increasing the volume.
No, it'd be about the same. No one uses kilolitres or anything like that, and there is no widely-used larger volume in the english system. As such, you would be ordering x gallons or ~x/4 litres.
Changing the size of the bills here would meet with such outrage as hasn't been seen since the Susan B. Anthony dollar. (Good thing we issued the Sacajawea dollar - everybody's using that, right?)
Actually, in some parts of the country, dollar coins are much more common. In the NYC area, the coins are used in all of the transit vending machines (this includes NJ Transit, PATH, NYCTA (Subway/Bus), Metro-North/LIRR). Retailers don't look at the coins funny, and theres even a slight chance you'll get one as change from a human (which, btw, is the largest problem of the coins IMO. While machines give them as change, if you ever spend them at retailers, they seem to just ship them right to the bank for a crummy piece of paper).
While an interesting proposition, I dunno how well xmodmap for Cygwin will work on Windows. Even so, it would take a lot of getting used to for other uses of the tab key, not to mention backslash.
Correct and you bring up the main reason why I use duals, and why my dual setup is the way it is.
I use 2 15" monitors, at 800x600 each. While most of you are probably thinking, "I get more than 1600x600 on my single 19"!", I say bollocks. Running at 800x600 allows for a much nicer type size, and much less eyestrain. Sure, I may do a little more scrolling, but if you think about it, you are pretty much going to be scrolling no matter what. There is a very small set of pages/documents where it is multiple pages at a lower resolution, but only one page at a higher res. With the advent of the mousewheel, scrolling a few more times per page is barely noticed. The only drawback I find from this setup (which I've been using for almost 3 years) are high-resolution pictures. If a picture is 800x600 or larger, I cannot view it at 100% resolution on one monitor, and splitting it across the 2 is silly.
I can't even count how many times I've avoided a crash because I noticed the CPU use suddenly spike as some app began behaving poorly. If I didn't have that window always visible, I'd never see the usage spike until the machine started to crawl, by which time the opportunity to kill the offending process may have passed
Huh? I happen to have multiple monitors, but I don't keep task manager open all the time on one of them. If an application locks and takes all the CPU, I have no problems closing it as the WinNT/2k/XP kernel is preemptive. You're not still running a 9x product, are you? (Note: I'm still running media player 6.4)
You disagree, but only offer anectodal evidence based on your own experience. You switched from a desktop to a notebook as your primary machine, so of course you aren't going to be wild about multiple monitors anymore.
Also, alt-tab is an outrageous right-handed world creation. If you use your left hand on the mouse, you are probably taking your hand off the mouse to alt-tab (yes, I have a right-handed alt-tab method, but it's just not as comfortable).
What is "truly effective software" and why do you imply that only Microsoft has the resources to make it? If it is so easy, why hasn't anyone else done it yet? (Hint: maybe Word is already pretty damn effective as it is, but no, you would rather rant about people mis-using well written software)
This does not change the amount of heat produced, but provides a more efficient way to move the heat away from the heat source. As such, it would have the possibility to lower the size of the radiator, not the engine. I haven't RTFA, so I can't say if such a system would be sensible for an auto cooling system.
Oh my oh me I truly misunderstood the context. Yes, you were trying to say we need to speak up or we'll be eliminated. That was painfully obvious, don't worry. Anyway, the quote, and poem, are too famous to say that you stripped the holocaust material away from it. That's like saying I stripped the American Revolution out of "Give my liberty or give me death". There were hundreds of thousands of ways you could have made your point, but you chose a specific one. Whether you did this to try to be clever, sensationalistic or what, I don't know (or care).
As if no progress was made until the 19th century (before which patents did not exist). This view is a scandalous ignorance of the history of our culture and science.
And your view is a scandalous ignorance of the history of the past 150 years. No one is saying progress cannot be made without patents (on slashdot that is, I'm sure there are corporations willing to take such outrageous stances). However, progress is no longer held back by lingustic and geographic bounds. Furthermore, significant investment, of both time and money, is required for just about any technological advancement. While I don't disagree with your public funding/university proposal, the avenue must exist for private interests to research and market products. Without patents, there is no such avenue. Medicine is a special field because a medicine patent allows a company to extort individuals who might require the new product to continue living. However, this does not discount that for many fields (not including software), patents are workable and should continue to be used.
While I'm not saying that you can't get good sound at home, I still stand by my assertion that you cannot get theatre quality sound at home. There is simply a different acoustic feel to a room in a house than a movie theatre that cannot be easily emulated. In a theatre, I can 'feel' the front sound coming from 40ft away, and the rear coming from 20 ft. At home, I can 'feel' that it's only 8 and 4, respectively.
Sending a 900 code when page isnt found would break every existing client.
Not really. While you wouldn't get the correct error message, as long as you are using a browser written well, you would still get an error. It does not have the effect of returning pages where no pages exist.
I'm not sure if your scheme would work. As I understand Referrer in Mozilla, a site is sent as the referrer only if you click on a link. If you type in the location bar (such as correcting a typo), referrer is not sent. This is the technique I use to view bugzilla links on slashdot. When you first click it says "No referrers from slashdot" or something, but you can just go up to the location bar and hit enter, the referrer isn't sent, and you get the bug report.
Most of the time in a theater, you can see scratches and dust and such on the film, which you don't see on a DVD. (Some theaters are better, and this typically gets worse the longer the movie has been out. I've never been to a digital theater, but they wouldn't have this problem)
I tend to go to only a few films a year, and generally right when they come out, so I hardly notice any film noise at the theatre. I would also argue that this, in most cases, is not a problem and rarely detracts from the experience(either that or the theatres I go to (always Loews) are good about it).
As for sound, I don't have the money to get a good system. Even if I did, the room is so small that just one speaker of a normal setup would overpower the room. I also live in a duplex and even normal listening levels can be heard by the other tenants. Also, I do not feel that home theatre audio is anywhere near the quality of actual theatres. True, the encoding (dts, dolby digital) is the same, but the effect is not. Rarely are home theatres balanced properly, and even if that is the case, rarely are the room's acoustics proper. The effect that the loudspeakers have in the large theatre is completely different than the effect smaller speakers have in a home setup.
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Thanks for reminding me why I continue to click "do not upgrade" when WMP prompts me.
No, I'm familiar with xmodmap, X, and cygwin, and that's why I doubted it would work. I had powertoys installed at one time, and don't recall that option being present. It doesn't seem like this would be configurable, because alt and tab are on every keyboard, in almost the same exact places. I've worked with keyboard maps in Windows before as well, and don't recall being able to modify non-character keys (this may have been a shortcoming in the .kbd editor, as well).
No, you're going to bitch no matter what. If the size is different, you'd say it's too large and bulky in the pocket or some crap. The only reason you're against the edge method is because you're not used to it. If you used dollar coins everyday, you would quickly change the way you carry and handle change.
Note, some of my comments are directed at you, but are really meant for the status quo types that are against every kind of change to the currency.
you'd have a far easier time talking in liters than in gallons, when increasing the volume.
No, it'd be about the same. No one uses kilolitres or anything like that, and there is no widely-used larger volume in the english system. As such, you would be ordering x gallons or ~x/4 litres.
Oh please! If the change to a coin was forced, the population wouldn't "not use it". We still need to buy things!
Changing the size of the bills here would meet with such outrage as hasn't been seen since the Susan B. Anthony dollar. (Good thing we issued the Sacajawea dollar - everybody's using that, right?)
Actually, in some parts of the country, dollar coins are much more common. In the NYC area, the coins are used in all of the transit vending machines (this includes NJ Transit, PATH, NYCTA (Subway/Bus), Metro-North/LIRR). Retailers don't look at the coins funny, and theres even a slight chance you'll get one as change from a human (which, btw, is the largest problem of the coins IMO. While machines give them as change, if you ever spend them at retailers, they seem to just ship them right to the bank for a crummy piece of paper).
While an interesting proposition, I dunno how well xmodmap for Cygwin will work on Windows. Even so, it would take a lot of getting used to for other uses of the tab key, not to mention backslash.
Correct and you bring up the main reason why I use duals, and why my dual setup is the way it is.
I use 2 15" monitors, at 800x600 each. While most of you are probably thinking, "I get more than 1600x600 on my single 19"!", I say bollocks. Running at 800x600 allows for a much nicer type size, and much less eyestrain. Sure, I may do a little more scrolling, but if you think about it, you are pretty much going to be scrolling no matter what. There is a very small set of pages/documents where it is multiple pages at a lower resolution, but only one page at a higher res. With the advent of the mousewheel, scrolling a few more times per page is barely noticed. The only drawback I find from this setup (which I've been using for almost 3 years) are high-resolution pictures. If a picture is 800x600 or larger, I cannot view it at 100% resolution on one monitor, and splitting it across the 2 is silly.
it's just the problem of weight, spacing and interference between 2 19" CRTs
No it's not. Use 15"s. Cheaper, smaller, lighter.
I can't even count how many times I've avoided a crash because I noticed the CPU use suddenly spike as some app began behaving poorly. If I didn't have that window always visible, I'd never see the usage spike until the machine started to crawl, by which time the opportunity to kill the offending process may have passed
Huh? I happen to have multiple monitors, but I don't keep task manager open all the time on one of them. If an application locks and takes all the CPU, I have no problems closing it as the WinNT/2k/XP kernel is preemptive. You're not still running a 9x product, are you? (Note: I'm still running media player 6.4)
You disagree, but only offer anectodal evidence based on your own experience. You switched from a desktop to a notebook as your primary machine, so of course you aren't going to be wild about multiple monitors anymore.
Also, alt-tab is an outrageous right-handed world creation. If you use your left hand on the mouse, you are probably taking your hand off the mouse to alt-tab (yes, I have a right-handed alt-tab method, but it's just not as comfortable).
Simple. Because they don't care and know that the only people that are using PNGs on websites are not worth the time to modify the browser.
What is "truly effective software" and why do you imply that only Microsoft has the resources to make it? If it is so easy, why hasn't anyone else done it yet? (Hint: maybe Word is already pretty damn effective as it is, but no, you would rather rant about people mis-using well written software)
This does not change the amount of heat produced, but provides a more efficient way to move the heat away from the heat source. As such, it would have the possibility to lower the size of the radiator, not the engine. I haven't RTFA, so I can't say if such a system would be sensible for an auto cooling system.
Oh my oh me I truly misunderstood the context. Yes, you were trying to say we need to speak up or we'll be eliminated. That was painfully obvious, don't worry. Anyway, the quote, and poem, are too famous to say that you stripped the holocaust material away from it. That's like saying I stripped the American Revolution out of "Give my liberty or give me death". There were hundreds of thousands of ways you could have made your point, but you chose a specific one. Whether you did this to try to be clever, sensationalistic or what, I don't know (or care).
As if no progress was made until the 19th century (before which patents did not exist). This view is a scandalous ignorance of the history of our culture and science.
And your view is a scandalous ignorance of the history of the past 150 years. No one is saying progress cannot be made without patents (on slashdot that is, I'm sure there are corporations willing to take such outrageous stances). However, progress is no longer held back by lingustic and geographic bounds. Furthermore, significant investment, of both time and money, is required for just about any technological advancement. While I don't disagree with your public funding/university proposal, the avenue must exist for private interests to research and market products. Without patents, there is no such avenue. Medicine is a special field because a medicine patent allows a company to extort individuals who might require the new product to continue living. However, this does not discount that for many fields (not including software), patents are workable and should continue to be used.
Okay, settle down there, Gallagher.
Did you just compare computer companies to the Holocaust? I knew there were some out of touch people here.. but wow. Wow.
While I'm not saying that you can't get good sound at home, I still stand by my assertion that you cannot get theatre quality sound at home. There is simply a different acoustic feel to a room in a house than a movie theatre that cannot be easily emulated. In a theatre, I can 'feel' the front sound coming from 40ft away, and the rear coming from 20 ft. At home, I can 'feel' that it's only 8 and 4, respectively.
Sending a 900 code when page isnt found would break every existing client.
Not really. While you wouldn't get the correct error message, as long as you are using a browser written well, you would still get an error. It does not have the effect of returning pages where no pages exist.
I'm not sure if your scheme would work. As I understand Referrer in Mozilla, a site is sent as the referrer only if you click on a link. If you type in the location bar (such as correcting a typo), referrer is not sent. This is the technique I use to view bugzilla links on slashdot. When you first click it says "No referrers from slashdot" or something, but you can just go up to the location bar and hit enter, the referrer isn't sent, and you get the bug report.
Most of the time in a theater, you can see scratches and dust and such on the film, which you don't see on a DVD. (Some theaters are better, and this typically gets worse the longer the movie has been out. I've never been to a digital theater, but they wouldn't have this problem)
I tend to go to only a few films a year, and generally right when they come out, so I hardly notice any film noise at the theatre. I would also argue that this, in most cases, is not a problem and rarely detracts from the experience(either that or the theatres I go to (always Loews) are good about it).
As for sound, I don't have the money to get a good system. Even if I did, the room is so small that just one speaker of a normal setup would overpower the room. I also live in a duplex and even normal listening levels can be heard by the other tenants. Also, I do not feel that home theatre audio is anywhere near the quality of actual theatres. True, the encoding (dts, dolby digital) is the same, but the effect is not. Rarely are home theatres balanced properly, and even if that is the case, rarely are the room's acoustics proper. The effect that the loudspeakers have in the large theatre is completely different than the effect smaller speakers have in a home setup.
No, you would be smug. Don't lump all of us in with your arrogant ass.
If HL2 is the same or better than HL, then there is no question: People will buy it when it comes out.