The third party ISPs are not exactly Bell resellers. Their rent the ADSL connection from Bell but they have their own network and upstream providers. Having said that, yes, the ADSL scene is not looking good in Canada. The third party ISPs are not getting the faster ADSL2 service, and the fucking CRTC passed UBB to give even more power to Bell to screw customer and third party providers. I'll still choose third party ISPs, though. They still provide better service, and even though it looks like a losing battle, I think it's good to have someone to keep fighting against Bell.
And then when the implementation has a bug, it never get fixed because, by definition, it is the specification, and alternate implementation have to introduce the same bug in their code.
A similar issue happens with Chinese names. Most Chinese people have one word or two word names. If a person have a two word name and fill it in in the form: "Chow, Yun Fat", the system likely would take "Yun" as the middle and and "Fat" as the first name, or vice versa, which often reduce the name to "Chow, Yun", or "Chow, Fat". One way to reduce this confusion is to use hyphen to join the words, like "Chow, Yun-Fat".
Pinyin is just one way Chinese is typed. There are other ways to type Chinese characters, for example, Cangjie input method, which is based on the graphological aspect of the characters instead of it's sound.
Funny. But a realistic case is when the driver wear sun glasses. This is basically a device that, instead of the driver giving it orders, it guesses what the driver want to do. I don't know how anyone can come up with idea as stupid as this. It's much worse than autopilot cars. Although the reliability of an autopilot car is doubtful, at the very least, it analyse road condition. What does this device do? It monitors the input device of the driver.
Flying cars sounds cool. In fact, I'd like to have one. However, if there are thousands and thousands of cars flying in the sky, it's not cool anymore.
Going to the search bar (ctrl-k) can be just as fast as going to the location bar (ctrl-l). However, I still prefer the "custom keyword" method, mainly because I can setup multiple keywords ("g" for google, "w" for wikipedia, and a couple others). In the search bar, selecting a different engine isn't as convenient.
In fact, the situation might be WORSE for medical research, because researchers often have to curtail their research in order to avoid using patented chemicals or techniques.
Having just read another article about AIDS, I have to wonder, is this why we still don't have a cure for AIDS?
In Firefox trunk, the close button appears on every tab when there're only a few tabs. It appears only on the active tab when there're lots of tabs.
Personally, I still prefer the behaviour in Firefox 1.5, where there's only one close button on the right. It's more efficient when I need to close multiple tabs. (aim, click, click, click vs. aim, click, aim, click, aim, click)
You Sound like you haven't check the progress of OpenOffice.org/StarOffice for quite a while.
StarOffice 5.x was the last version with the "desktop" UI. StarOffice 6.x and later has the same interface as OpenOffice.org.
After Sun open sourced OpenOffice.org, StarOffice 6/7/8 was based on OpenOffice.org's codebase, with Sun's addons. They haven't really "diverged". (IIRC, StarOffice 6 adds extra fonts, a database program, and wordperfect file support. Not sure about StarOffice 7/8.)
It's strange that you claim StarOffice (I assume you are talking about SO 5.x) has better compatibility with MS Office documents. OpenOffice.org has lots of fixes that improve compatibility.
There IS an open standard document format. It's called OASIS OpenDocument Format. It's the native format OpenOffice 2.0 uses for storing documents.
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removing the uniforms? sounds good. :p
The third party ISPs are not exactly Bell resellers.
Their rent the ADSL connection from Bell but they have their own network and upstream providers.
Having said that, yes, the ADSL scene is not looking good in Canada.
The third party ISPs are not getting the faster ADSL2 service, and the fucking CRTC passed UBB to give even more power to Bell to screw customer and third party providers.
I'll still choose third party ISPs, though. They still provide better service, and even though it looks like a losing battle, I think it's good to have someone to keep fighting against Bell.
And then when the implementation has a bug, it never get fixed because, by definition, it is the specification, and alternate implementation have to introduce the same bug in their code.
A similar issue happens with Chinese names.
Most Chinese people have one word or two word names.
If a person have a two word name and fill it in in the form: "Chow, Yun Fat", the system likely would take "Yun" as the middle and and "Fat" as the first name, or vice versa, which often reduce the name to "Chow, Yun", or "Chow, Fat".
One way to reduce this confusion is to use hyphen to join the words, like "Chow, Yun-Fat".
Pinyin is just one way Chinese is typed.
There are other ways to type Chinese characters, for example, Cangjie input method, which is based on the graphological aspect of the characters instead of it's sound.
Funny.
But a realistic case is when the driver wear sun glasses.
This is basically a device that, instead of the driver giving it orders, it guesses what the driver want to do.
I don't know how anyone can come up with idea as stupid as this.
It's much worse than autopilot cars.
Although the reliability of an autopilot car is doubtful, at the very least, it analyse road condition.
What does this device do? It monitors the input device of the driver.
And soon, people will be driving naked, if you know what I mean.
Pretty much everyone here recognize the stupidity of this idea, yet the researchers don't. Are they aliens?
Flying cars sounds cool.
In fact, I'd like to have one.
However, if there are thousands and thousands of cars flying in the sky,
it's not cool anymore.
My thought, too.
I also uses the bookmark toolbar a lot so hiding them in a bookmark button sucks.
Simple. Eliminate it, but give it a new name. There, we have something new. :)
Konqueror and Safari use two different HTML engines, KHTML and WebKit.
I don't think they should be considered two different engines as WebKit started as a fork of KHTML and now they are merging together.
Who said it was illegal?
The one who use the word "piracy"!
Going to the search bar (ctrl-k) can be just as fast as going to the location bar (ctrl-l).
However, I still prefer the "custom keyword" method, mainly because I can setup multiple keywords ("g" for google, "w" for wikipedia, and a couple others). In the search bar, selecting a different engine isn't as convenient.
but don't the printouts have staples or punch holes on it? :)
also, don't the printouts have saliva over it by the end of meeting, too?
Are you sure?
For many people, their employer is not their only source of income.
What about interest on bank accounts, mutual funds, stock...?
umm... so the solution to fast hard disk erasure is Magneto. :)
Interesting...
beware though, *69 may be a pay-per-use service.
A few kilobytes to store the file location, that's awfully inefficient.
9. Obviously, you can carry a camcorder. :)
In fact, the situation might be WORSE for medical research, because researchers often have to curtail their research in order to avoid using patented chemicals or techniques.
Having just read another article about AIDS, I have to wonder, is this why we still don't have a cure for AIDS?
I just took a visit to bugzilla. This "feature" is bug 308396.
There's an extension called Tab No X to revert to the old behaviour.
Well, I use ctrl-w, too. But there are times when my right hand is already on the mouse and my left hand is not on the keyboard...
In Firefox trunk, the close button appears on every tab when there're only a few tabs. It appears only on the active tab when there're lots of tabs.
Personally, I still prefer the behaviour in Firefox 1.5, where there's only one close button on the right. It's more efficient when I need to close multiple tabs. (aim, click, click, click vs. aim, click, aim, click, aim, click)