I remember reading the term "Party Line" in Mad magazine. That lead me to believe that it was some kind of telephonic swingers service. Following the link from the article I'm even more confused than ever! What the heck is a party line?!!
It's because if you post a comment without a question, people will assume that you didn't stop to question the article yourself - buy asking questions in the summary it's like saying "Hey, I found this story... I don't necessarily agree with it - what do you think?"
And there-by avoid the flames of hurtful slashdotters!
That's great that Firefox doesn't hog memory on your machine. But for heaps of people it does. Even the Mozillazine KB says "For most users, Firefox doesn't use an abnormally large amount of memory. For others, however, Firefox's memory consumption is a major problem."
I use firefox at least 15 hours a day (9 hours of work, 6 hours of play:) I need to restart it at least once a day, and I crash it regularly - at least every other day. Sure I have a bunch of extensions (I know which extensions are supposed to leak etc) but that is THE idea of Firefox - have a lean browser that you add to to meet your requirements.
It's by far my favourite browser but it's not rock solid.
I was thinking that the title should really read "Fighter Jet Has Wings Like an Ancient Reptile", seeing as the fighter jet came 200 million years later and all...
Yeah, or remember the guy that comes to fix the computers... "What you doing with my computer?" "It's not your computer is it? It's Wernham Hogg's." "Right. What you doing with Wernham Hogg's computer?" "You don't need to know." "No I don't need to know but could you tell me anyway?" "I'm installing a firewall." "OK what's that?" "It protects your computer against script kiddies, data collectors, viruses, worms and trojan horses and it limits you're outbound internet communications. Any more questions?" "Yes. How long will it take?" "Why? Do you want to do it yourself?" "No, I can't do it myself. How long will it take you out of interest?" "It will take as long as it takes." "Right, er, how long did it take last time when-" "It's done."
Its an awesome feature for Developers! Developers! Developers! - This feature has been in IE at least since IE 6 came out. That means Microsoft is again leading the field when it comes to AJAX and Web2.0 products.
Think of the awesome client-side applications people will be able to come up with now that they are no longer restricted by pesky cross-domain security policies!
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(Mostly off topic, but, heck.. what is the topic?)
If you only get black and white pixels, I hope they are rendering them as XBM images. XBM is the coolest long-lost, widely supported image format - client side scriptable too!
Thats what I said in The Fonz uses AJAX to spy on you (ajax-fueled text adventure included) - but as everyone will point out to you in overly angry tones, that could have been done a zillion years ago with a hidden iframe.
I think the difference now is that people are thinking about how to apply ajax, so you are gettin all sorts of new and cool applications. Which also means you are getting all sorts of new and evil applications:)
I keep trying Linux, and keep moving back to windows. Each time I go Linux I stay there for longer and longer. Until I do stupid things and Linux wont boot because I tried to re-compile the kernal without reading any docs.
The thing that I've got out of it though, is that my windows environment is becoming more and more open-source-filled. I cant believe I was so used to using WinZip and pressing "Accept" everytime I wanted to open a zip file, etc.
Whenever I look for any kind of program now I go straight to sourceforge. I only started doing this because of my rounds of Linux using.
Eventually, Ill master Linux and never come back. But until then I think Ive got it pretty good with the "best of both worlds"
Ha ha!
They just don't want to lose any of their precious income from Pokie machines at the pubs. Those babies bring in $50,000 per annum - don't want that cash heading elsewhere now, do we!
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I remember reading the term "Party Line" in Mad magazine. That lead me to believe that it was some kind of telephonic swingers service. Following the link from the article I'm even more confused than ever! What the heck is a party line?!!
Ummmm, did you just say "boyish good looks"?
It's because if you post a comment without a question, people will assume that you didn't stop to question the article yourself - buy asking questions in the summary it's like saying "Hey, I found this story... I don't necessarily agree with it - what do you think?" And there-by avoid the flames of hurtful slashdotters!
Gives it that well-thought-out fell. Like a movie that ends with a question mark.
I've been using Web3.1 for Workgroups for a while. It has a great version of solitaire.
That's great that Firefox doesn't hog memory on your machine. But for heaps of people it does. Even the Mozillazine KB says "For most users, Firefox doesn't use an abnormally large amount of memory. For others, however, Firefox's memory consumption is a major problem."
:) I need to restart it at least once a day, and I crash it regularly - at least every other day. Sure I have a bunch of extensions (I know which extensions are supposed to leak etc) but that is THE idea of Firefox - have a lean browser that you add to to meet your requirements.
I use firefox at least 15 hours a day (9 hours of work, 6 hours of play
It's by far my favourite browser but it's not rock solid.
I was thinking that the title should really read "Fighter Jet Has Wings Like an Ancient Reptile", seeing as the fighter jet came 200 million years later and all...
Well, speaking as an IT Professional in Australia I can safetly say... Dey Turk Er Jerbbs!!!!
Yeah, this is web2.0 gone mad.
Yeah, or remember the guy that comes to fix the computers...
"What you doing with my computer?"
"It's not your computer is it? It's Wernham Hogg's."
"Right. What you doing with Wernham Hogg's computer?"
"You don't need to know."
"No I don't need to know but could you tell me anyway?"
"I'm installing a firewall."
"OK what's that?"
"It protects your computer against script kiddies, data collectors, viruses, worms and trojan horses and it limits you're outbound internet communications. Any more questions?"
"Yes. How long will it take?"
"Why? Do you want to do it yourself?"
"No, I can't do it myself. How long will it take you out of interest?"
"It will take as long as it takes."
"Right, er, how long did it take last time when-"
"It's done."
Its an awesome feature for Developers! Developers! Developers! - This feature has been in IE at least since IE 6 came out. That means Microsoft is again leading the field when it comes to AJAX and Web2.0 products.
Think of the awesome client-side applications people will be able to come up with now that they are no longer restricted by pesky cross-domain security policies!
(Mostly off topic, but, heck.. what is the topic?)
If you only get black and white pixels, I hope they are rendering them as XBM images. XBM is the coolest long-lost, widely supported image format - client side scriptable too!
Thats what I said in The Fonz uses AJAX to spy on you (ajax-fueled text adventure included) - but as everyone will point out to you in overly angry tones, that could have been done a zillion years ago with a hidden iframe. I think the difference now is that people are thinking about how to apply ajax, so you are gettin all sorts of new and cool applications. Which also means you are getting all sorts of new and evil applications :)
Never attribute to post-modernism that which can adequately be explained by stupidity!
Mental note... RTFA then post... VMWare Disk Image located on their homepage!
Slashdotted but. Any mirrors?
That'd be cool to give this a bash with our shiny new VMWare players!
Its hardly a coincidence they sound the same! Linus made Linux as a free version of Mininx! Dunno how compatible they are anymore though...
...with a shiny firefox user agent string - we could easy get that figure up to 30%!
Can someone point us to a tutorial on digitizing messages for space. Sounds difficult.
[X]Hilarious slashdot humour-form post with relevant options ticked.
I keep trying Linux, and keep moving back to windows. Each time I go Linux I stay there for longer and longer. Until I do stupid things and Linux wont boot because I tried to re-compile the kernal without reading any docs.
The thing that I've got out of it though, is that my windows environment is becoming more and more open-source-filled. I cant believe I was so used to using WinZip and pressing "Accept" everytime I wanted to open a zip file, etc.
Whenever I look for any kind of program now I go straight to sourceforge. I only started doing this because of my rounds of Linux using.
Eventually, Ill master Linux and never come back. But until then I think Ive got it pretty good with the "best of both worlds"
After a couple of hours of GTA I always want to punch someone. And I'm a reasonable, dweeby, pacificist nerd.
Ha ha! They just don't want to lose any of their precious income from Pokie machines at the pubs. Those babies bring in $50,000 per annum - don't want that cash heading elsewhere now, do we!
Hey hey, let's not bash Flash for being annoying. You can be equally annoying and stupid in DHTML too, you know.
Dang, they've taken out the libraries... If only there was some other place I could find subversive information...