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That's a feature, dude. The white screen in between page loads is where the government flashes the subliminal commands, instructing you to consume, worship and be content.
Not to mention, why continue to support Windows versions that MS doesn't support anymore? If someone wants to port it to them and is able, then I'm sure they will but they seem like an odd place to put priorities anyway, when they could be spent elsewhere.
As for the memory usage, it seems that the answer is always "it's not a memory problem - that's just the result of how Firefox uses it's page caching features to provide fast recall!". I'm not sure that makes a lot of sense to me, because it strikes me as odd that any kind of browser "feature" would possibly consume 500mb or more memory on a regular basis.
no significant interface changes have been made. These alpha releases focus on making improvements to the core elements: graphics, JavaScript, page rendering, etc." In other words, there have been no changes to anything that MSIE users care about, like 3d buttons, blocky, chunky, weird, chunky tabs and nifty "click" noises every time you click something, load something, go back a page, go forward a page, scroll down a page, select something, delete something, type something, submit something or refresh something?
Yeah, but how many 70 year olds do you think are actually saying to themselves "Hey, I should go spend $300 on that Wii thing so I can get into videogaming!". There's a big difference between them playing the games and them actively getting into the Wii of their own accord. And really, as people are aging it's not that remarkable anyway. Someone who is 65 today would have been in their late 20s when videogames started hitting the market.
I don't get the point of this story. How does someone being ten years old or someone being disabled and on social security make their behavior any different? The question is whether or not they did what was claimed. If they did, then why should someone be treated differently if they're on social security than if they're fully employed and working hard and paying taxes?
Sure we'd have 24 hour coverage of girls being kidnapped. They'd just have to show other girls who aren't blond haired, blue eyed, attractive and from affluent families.
The people at KinderStart (let's be honest - it's actually just some fat stay-at-home house frau with six kids) sure have a lot of balls. I mean, NAMBLA got in a lot of trouble for sending out news letters to members with rather detailed instruction guides on how to get away with child molestation. But to have an entire search engine that is just for kids?! That's just wrong and I demand that our politicians put a stop to this perverted sickness and these freakos so openly helping match child molestors with children via their search engine for kids.
The lawsuit was filed by KinderStart, a parenting information Web site that claims it was illegally blocked from Google search results. So the judge ruled in Google's favor and decided they could seek damages against KinderStart . . . for acting like a bunch of babies.
There was a time when almost nobody had internet access. Back then, the internet was a beautiful place. It wasn't built around what's best for Amazon and Citibank. It wasn't built around think of the children or delivering stupid flash games to mentally retarded adults. You didn't have banner ads and commoditization of every single website on the net (in fact, it was a lot like back in the BBS days when it was all about offering services to people because you enjoyed it - and you didn't care that you spent more money on it than you would ever earn back.. and you didn't even attempt to).
Besides, a huge amount of Americans believe in creationism, alien abductions, that the moon landing was faked and that global warming is a scam, though lesbians cause hurricanes. The fewer of those that we push to the internet, the better.
The only people that want MORE of these idiots to join the net are corporations, so they have a greater pool to suck money from. It in no way benefits the actual internet as a means of communication or intellectual expression.
Perhaps it's just a pet peeve of mine, but I find alliteration to be one of those most idiotic devices a person can use. It's a good way to drop your representative IQ by about forty points.
The really impressive numbers will be how many burned out PS3s there are from running 24x7 and the electricity bills parents find themselves paying because their idiot kids are running folding for the pharmaceutical industry 24x7 (and don't kid yourself that it's anythign else, regardless of it being a Stanford project).
I guess I'm out of the loop, because I have no idea what "ze frank" is. I suppose this is a lot like that stupid mini "newscast" that the chick with the big tits used to do that everyone thought was genius until she left it and the rest of us were like "what the fuck is the big deal?!".
Ah, boy. The internet. The land of the overinflated ego and sense of self-celebrity!
I don't even know who makes the Airbus and I don't care. I wasn't bashing the Airbus. I was illustrating an absurd point, which is that all it's going to take is one or two crashes of 600 to 1200 passengers each before the media and airline consumer groups go insane as well as the news media and those who consume it.
I think the Airbus is genius and I hope that we come to see larger and larger capacity planes. I also can't wait to see the absurd conclusions and fears drawn from the first few crashes that contain enormous numbers of victims.
People don't look at the reality of the statistics, though. People somehow feel safer in their car, despite all reason. That was essentially the point of my post. There is so much opportunity (and a certainty of it, in fact) for sensational stories once this air bus starts to have a couple of crashes. Seriously, imagine the fervor in the news and the fear in the public the first time many hundreds die in an accident.
Obviously that is no reason not to have such an airplane. Hell, devise one that efficiently transports ten thousand people at once for all I care. But the perception of the general public will be a very perverted, warped, extreme one any time there is an accident.
I frankly love flying. And the best parts are the takeoff and landing, which frighten people the most. It's just like a giant roller coaster as far as I'm concerned. Most are only going to see the headlines, though. And I guarantee when there are a couple big crashes under its belt, there will be senators proposing that such large capacity airplanes be banned and stories asking if you should feel safe next time you fly, etc.
Hell, we have convinced an entire society that a one ounce bottle of purell hand sanitizer is a risk to everyone's life in the air...
Just wait until the first air disaster, with numbers like "six hundred dead...".
I seem to recall there is also another jet in the works that will take either 900 or 1,200 passenegers. Just wait until one of those crashes on take off and you've got over a thousand dead in one swoop. Not to mention, a terrorists wet dream! Why bother shooting it into a building when you can take just the airplane itself out and wipe out enough numbers to make the average pansy cry and the average cable news programmer wet himself in excitement.
Advertising linux to the masses is a terrible idea. Linux is not ready for the masses. It is not ready for your mom or your grandmother or your little sister. Your grandmother is not going to spend a week trying to figure out what to change to get her sound card to work in linux without making scratching noises or how to properly install and configure proprietary codecs that will allow her to play MP3 and WMV files.
You don't advertise to everyone so they all come running to Linux, find out how difficult it is for the average user to accomplish the simplest of actions and then run away and are less likely to ever give it a chance again, because of those initial bad experiences.
Who cares what the amazon sales rank is? That is supposed to be a rank of the number of books that are selling. Not the other way around. Nobody actually buys a book because it's in the top ten Amazon books.
As a drop-out-done-good myself (probably doing better than anyone I ever went to school with as well as the teachers and administrators), I would probably react to an honorary degree with a big fuck you. Like someone who stuck it out on their own and made something great for themselves in the world inevitably need some stamp of approval from a bunch of nose-in-the-air academic snoots?
If I met someone who acquired their education via Second Life, I would laugh hysterically at them. Then I would toss my spare change into their tin can and while I continue on my way to work.
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That's a feature, dude. The white screen in between page loads is where the government flashes the subliminal commands, instructing you to consume, worship and be content.
Not to mention, why continue to support Windows versions that MS doesn't support anymore? If someone wants to port it to them and is able, then I'm sure they will but they seem like an odd place to put priorities anyway, when they could be spent elsewhere.
As for the memory usage, it seems that the answer is always "it's not a memory problem - that's just the result of how Firefox uses it's page caching features to provide fast recall!". I'm not sure that makes a lot of sense to me, because it strikes me as odd that any kind of browser "feature" would possibly consume 500mb or more memory on a regular basis.
Hurry up and rush out that Get Off My Lawn! title for the Wii!
Yeah, but how many 70 year olds do you think are actually saying to themselves "Hey, I should go spend $300 on that Wii thing so I can get into videogaming!". There's a big difference between them playing the games and them actively getting into the Wii of their own accord. And really, as people are aging it's not that remarkable anyway. Someone who is 65 today would have been in their late 20s when videogames started hitting the market.
I don't get the point of this story. How does someone being ten years old or someone being disabled and on social security make their behavior any different? The question is whether or not they did what was claimed. If they did, then why should someone be treated differently if they're on social security than if they're fully employed and working hard and paying taxes?
Bill O'Reilly would call this judge a secularist-progressive activist legislator and demand his removal from the bench. Or something.
Sure we'd have 24 hour coverage of girls being kidnapped. They'd just have to show other girls who aren't blond haired, blue eyed, attractive and from affluent families.
How is this dude's comment a troll?!
The people at KinderStart (let's be honest - it's actually just some fat stay-at-home house frau with six kids) sure have a lot of balls. I mean, NAMBLA got in a lot of trouble for sending out news letters to members with rather detailed instruction guides on how to get away with child molestation. But to have an entire search engine that is just for kids?! That's just wrong and I demand that our politicians put a stop to this perverted sickness and these freakos so openly helping match child molestors with children via their search engine for kids.
There was a time when almost nobody had internet access. Back then, the internet was a beautiful place. It wasn't built around what's best for Amazon and Citibank. It wasn't built around think of the children or delivering stupid flash games to mentally retarded adults. You didn't have banner ads and commoditization of every single website on the net (in fact, it was a lot like back in the BBS days when it was all about offering services to people because you enjoyed it - and you didn't care that you spent more money on it than you would ever earn back.. and you didn't even attempt to).
Besides, a huge amount of Americans believe in creationism, alien abductions, that the moon landing was faked and that global warming is a scam, though lesbians cause hurricanes. The fewer of those that we push to the internet, the better.
The only people that want MORE of these idiots to join the net are corporations, so they have a greater pool to suck money from. It in no way benefits the actual internet as a means of communication or intellectual expression.
Perhaps it's just a pet peeve of mine, but I find alliteration to be one of those most idiotic devices a person can use. It's a good way to drop your representative IQ by about forty points.
The really impressive numbers will be how many burned out PS3s there are from running 24x7 and the electricity bills parents find themselves paying because their idiot kids are running folding for the pharmaceutical industry 24x7 (and don't kid yourself that it's anythign else, regardless of it being a Stanford project).
I guess I'm out of the loop, because I have no idea what "ze frank" is. I suppose this is a lot like that stupid mini "newscast" that the chick with the big tits used to do that everyone thought was genius until she left it and the rest of us were like "what the fuck is the big deal?!".
Ah, boy. The internet. The land of the overinflated ego and sense of self-celebrity!
I don't even know who makes the Airbus and I don't care. I wasn't bashing the Airbus. I was illustrating an absurd point, which is that all it's going to take is one or two crashes of 600 to 1200 passengers each before the media and airline consumer groups go insane as well as the news media and those who consume it.
I think the Airbus is genius and I hope that we come to see larger and larger capacity planes. I also can't wait to see the absurd conclusions and fears drawn from the first few crashes that contain enormous numbers of victims.
People don't look at the reality of the statistics, though. People somehow feel safer in their car, despite all reason. That was essentially the point of my post. There is so much opportunity (and a certainty of it, in fact) for sensational stories once this air bus starts to have a couple of crashes. Seriously, imagine the fervor in the news and the fear in the public the first time many hundreds die in an accident.
Obviously that is no reason not to have such an airplane. Hell, devise one that efficiently transports ten thousand people at once for all I care. But the perception of the general public will be a very perverted, warped, extreme one any time there is an accident.
I frankly love flying. And the best parts are the takeoff and landing, which frighten people the most. It's just like a giant roller coaster as far as I'm concerned. Most are only going to see the headlines, though. And I guarantee when there are a couple big crashes under its belt, there will be senators proposing that such large capacity airplanes be banned and stories asking if you should feel safe next time you fly, etc.
Hell, we have convinced an entire society that a one ounce bottle of purell hand sanitizer is a risk to everyone's life in the air...
Just wait until the first air disaster, with numbers like "six hundred dead...".
I seem to recall there is also another jet in the works that will take either 900 or 1,200 passenegers. Just wait until one of those crashes on take off and you've got over a thousand dead in one swoop. Not to mention, a terrorists wet dream! Why bother shooting it into a building when you can take just the airplane itself out and wipe out enough numbers to make the average pansy cry and the average cable news programmer wet himself in excitement.
Advertising linux to the masses is a terrible idea. Linux is not ready for the masses. It is not ready for your mom or your grandmother or your little sister. Your grandmother is not going to spend a week trying to figure out what to change to get her sound card to work in linux without making scratching noises or how to properly install and configure proprietary codecs that will allow her to play MP3 and WMV files.
You don't advertise to everyone so they all come running to Linux, find out how difficult it is for the average user to accomplish the simplest of actions and then run away and are less likely to ever give it a chance again, because of those initial bad experiences.
Who cares what the amazon sales rank is? That is supposed to be a rank of the number of books that are selling. Not the other way around. Nobody actually buys a book because it's in the top ten Amazon books.
Here is what I, Robot was like:
Robot (does something or whatever).
Will Smith: Dayamn! You did NOT just do that! Nuh-uh! You be trippin'!
And no, I'm not kidding. That is exactly what the movie was like.
Go to a Star Wars, Star Trek or comic book convention.
If one can't figure out why the sci-fi genre isn't taken seriously by the time one gets back home, they'll never get it.
As a drop-out-done-good myself (probably doing better than anyone I ever went to school with as well as the teachers and administrators), I would probably react to an honorary degree with a big fuck you. Like someone who stuck it out on their own and made something great for themselves in the world inevitably need some stamp of approval from a bunch of nose-in-the-air academic snoots?
If I met someone who acquired their education via Second Life, I would laugh hysterically at them. Then I would toss my spare change into their tin can and while I continue on my way to work.