Myself, I try to keep FF as simple as I can possibly stand it:
Flash Click to View (aka: Flashblock) - No more flash ads is wonderful. Sometimes this extension can be annoying (you have to re-click after every page load), but IMO people should just use less friggin Flash. All-in-One Gestures - Best. Extension. Evar. I know some people don't like mouse gestures, but I am completely hooked on them. I can do anything, anywhere, faster. I'm even to the point where my navigation bar is hidden - I never have to use it! Things They Left Out (TTLO) - Just adds some more handy options. Most of them I never use, but some are really nice to have (MIME types, for one). Nuke Anything - Everyone should have this extension. EVERYONE. Mouse gestures are preference, but as far as i'm concerned, NukeAnything should just be built right into the core. Being able to remove almost ANY aspect of a page is invaluable. Don't like an image? Nuke it. Don't like a paragraph of text? Nuke it. Text entry box? You can nuke that too. Just click on anything, select "Remove this object", and poof - its gone! The only thing it doesn't work for is flash... which is why we have FlashBlock! Popup Count - Pure curiosity. I like to know when a webpage tries to spam me with popups so I can make a mental note of never visiting there again. Show Failed URL - Something that should be default behavior IMO Tabbrowser Extensions (TBE) - Another extension I couldn't live without. All the excellent options and abilities this thing gives you is almost overwhelming. It can take a while to set up, but once you get your mix right, you'll love it. Download Statusbar - Download boxes suck. This extension is ten times better than Firefoxes "feature". IEView - For those oh so rare occasions when I need to view a website in IE. I can just pop into teh devil's tool for a second, do my business, and get the hell back out. CuteMenus - Makes it easier to browse context menus at a glance. I just wish you could define custom icons for other extensions' additions. Firesomething - Because "Mozilla UberBadger" is just funny.
But hey, thats just me. Everyone else can have whatever the heck they want - which is why extensions RULE!:)
Props for putting it so elequently man! I couldn't have done it. My opinion of cows is that they're somewhere between a plastic bucket and a not-too-smart rock. And thats an insult to plastic buckets and rocks.
I don't know why, but people today seem to have this idea that cows are cute and can talk like they do on TV - it'd be hillarious if it weren't sad. But in reality they're just some of the stupidest creatures you'll ever find. Dogs can be smart. Horses can be smart. But cows? Not even close. Name just about any other common farm animal, and chances are its twice as smart as a cow (notable exception: chickens). Cows know as much about whats going on around them as we do about extraterrestrial culture: Sweet F.A.
So just shoot the stupid things and put em on my plate, in my car, or wherever else they have a use. At least then they'll serve a purpose.:)
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Whoa whoa whoa - back up there sparky and take off the tinfoil hat. He never said ANYTHING about 'licensing the internet'. He just compared it to a firearm to elicit a strong reaction.
Personally, I like the analogy (I even thought of it while reading the article). A weapon is just a tool, like the internet, and both can be used for good or bad. IMO, leaving a loaded firearm sitting around in your back yard for anyone to use just because you might accidentally shoot someone one day and want to skip out on the manslaughter charge isn't a good idea. Both morally and legally. This whole "unsecure is secure" idea is a little too deep into the gray area for me. I certainly wouldn't risk my neck like that anyways, but the rest of you are free to do whatever the hell you want.:)
Interlocks are also a fucking pain in the ass. Both to use and maintain. They're nowhere near reliable enough, and have much too short a lifespan to stick them in a car permanently.
I know because I used to install the damn things.
You might be interested to know that DirectX 9 is deemed the MINIMUM spec for Unreal Engine 3. If and when DX10 is released, i'm sure the engine will be ready to take full advantage of it. But we probably won't see UE3 until 2006 at the earliest.
Bumps and dimples tend to make things fly more reliably...
Oh! So THAT'S why geeks are always thrown farther by the bullies!
Here I thought it had something to do with reduced mass, but nope - its all aerodynamics!
Um, thanks for the tinfoil hat response... but i'm not your typical driver:). I'm more of a car enthusiast, so octane is a little more important to me and my car. Its the difference between 18 lbs of boost making huge power, or a huge repair bill;).
If its any comfort though, my parents only run on 89:P
Just as a stupid car-guy question, whats the average high-Octane rating for US gas? I've found most of Canada's best juice is that pee-water stuff they call 91. Some places have 92, and a few might have 93. I know some places in Ontario (Sunoco stations) sell 94, but where I live thats not much more than a pipe dream.
So how is it down south? I heard Cali got screwwed with the 91 stuff too, but doesn't the rest of the country have the luxury of slurping back 93 or 94? Or is that just a rumour?
Yeah, Timmies doughnuts have gone to shit ever since they fired all their chefs. I used to have a buddy (cousin's boyfriend, actually) that was a chef at a local Timmies. Holy fuck did he make some good goddamn doughnuts... but of course, free always tastes better;). Anyways, he got shuffled around between so many stores and shitty shifts that he told them where to stick their job. A few weeks later, other chefs started getting let go, and in their place came big trucks with boxes full of frozen "standardized" (read: smaller) doughnuts that any idiot could toss in the oven to make. Ever since then, the dougnuts just haven't been the same:(.
Their soups, sandwitches, etc are still pretty tasty though. Especially the soup... "AND THEN I ATE THE BOWL!" Mmm. Bowl. (And i'm sure only the Canadians got that joke:P)
Personally, I'm interested in hybrids but not for fuel efficiency reasons. I'd like to see auto makers combine the output from different energy sources into all-wheel acceleration of a normal car.
Have you seen the new Mitsubishi Eclipse concept car? Its a similiar V6 FWD powertrain from the 2000+ models, but they're looking at strapping a hybrid(ish) electric motor to the rear wheels to boost both performance and fuel economy. Mitsbishi is claiming a total of 470 "horsepower" for the car: 270 from the V6 (which seems overrated, considering the current Eclipses V6 only puts out 210hp/205lb-ft), and ~200hp from the electric motor. Personally i'd like to hear some torque specs on the electric motor instead of horsepower, but I can't find em anywhere. Anyways, the car is a bit outlandish (check out the groovy see-thru roof), and according to the rumour mill it won't ever make it into production, but its a pretty damn interesting concept nonetheless.
Myself though, I just wish Mitsu would ditch that overweight pile of junk they call a Grand Am - oops, I mean, Eclipse - and get back to the 1G/2G roots: AWD + Turbo'd 4G63 domination. It'll never happen, but I guess in the same vein i'll never forgive Mitsubishi for disgracing the DSM family. *Sigh*
I hope its not ALL "west coast gangstas" style. One of the things I loved about San Andreas in the original game was working with the Triads. Now THOSE were some mean fuckers. I'd love to be out "bringing honour to my family" with RC bombs again! Muahahaha!!
(Next week on Slashdot: Young teen male in California builds bomb out of remote control toy: Take Two Entertainment sued over deaths. Again.)
*Ahem* Uh, yeah, excuse me, but i'm FBI agent and i'm going to be "investigating" your daughters for possible terrorist links. So if you would kindly hand over all known photos of them, allong with their phone numbers so that I may "contact" them if nessecary.
The article said the drug only targets white fat. Virtually all of the "important fat" in your body (eg: membranes around the heart, blood vessels, brain, myelin, etc) is "brown fat". White fat (actually yellow), on the other hand, is the stuff that you find in love handles, beer bellies, fat-asses, and our other beloved yet misshapen body parts. The big difference between to two in your bodies eye is that white fat is for storage, whereas brown fat is for other things like protection and temperature regulation. Brown fat tissue doesn't really get "fat" (you'd be dead if it did) because thats not it's purpose.
So as long as this drug really only does affect white fat, it should (theoretically) work. It certainly wouldn't be a miricle drug though. For one thing, it seems like it would attack fat indiscriminately. Your body stores fat in preferred locations, but theres no way to tell the drug to "just" go after your gut. It would eat fat away from your entire body - not just your problem areas. Imagine how many women would bitch after their boobs shrunk, their arm muscles were exposed, but their ass was still too big?
The other major problem with it is that it wouldn't be permanent. Fat cells don't have a specified size - they'll grow or shrink depending on the bodies need. So even if you kill off half your fat cells one week, theres no guarantee that next week your remaining fat cells will just start growing 2 times bigger (this is why lyposuction 'doesn't always work'). This means the drug probably wouldn't work for your "typical fat American kid", because their diets won't change. Sure, they could slice off a few pounds with a pill, but if they keep eating unhealthy their bodies will just pile more into their existing cells. If they go on the drugs repeatedly (or permanently), they could wind up with serious health problems - or worse.
The best audience for this type of thing would be people who eat healthy, but for whatever reason can't loose fat, or want to loose more of it. People like bodybuilders (for that even more ripped look), or possibly women who haven't lost pregnancy fat after birth, or something. For the majority of us who snack on chocolate cake and pop between our 6 course meals, it probably wouldn't work.
Sorry to ruin everyones day:)
Sounds like someone has had a bad experience or two:(
Personally, I'll never purchase a prebuilt desktop again. I put together my own last year, and it's worked awesome. I've never had a hardware problem (I did do a ton of research though - it certainly payed off), and the worst of my software issues was a M$ "security update" that made windows refuse to boot (Safe Mode and System Restore saved my ass on that one). Otherwise it was pretty simple. Putting together the hardware was a snap (almost literally). The worst of my setup nightmares was trying to get my network sorted out. I hate networking and don't have much experience with it, so it took me a little while to get my old computer + router + my computer (with two network cards, firewire, etc) all talking to eachother. No thanks to Windows on that one.
Otherwise its been amazing. I think the best part of the whole thing has just been the experience. You learn so much more about your computer when you put it together yourself. Even as much as I was obsessed with computers before, i'm so much more comfortable with them now. You have a drastically different kind of relationship with your own handywork - something a little more intimate than a $2000 recipt.
So it doesn't have to be all headaches and strife. My advice is to treat your first computer like your first lover: Take things slow, be gentle, ask lots of questions, and never force anything. (There ya go - advice for computers AND girls in the same thread! If this doesn't get modded up, I don't know what will;))
...will be horrified at how much time their children waste playing video games when they should be working to educate themselves
They are educating themselves.
I won't pretend that games are a replacement for schooling, but they're FAR from being completely "mindless", as so many critics claim. Not everything you need to know about the world can be found in a text book.:)
Anyone else here use Rainlendar?
I find its a VERY nice piece of software, even if it doesn't have all the fancy contacts/synching/whatever features of other calendars. Nope, its pretty much just stick notes on the days, and glance at your ToDo list. Nothing professional, but for me it works really well.
No, its not perfect... but hey, it IS open source, so you could mod it yourself if you wanted!:)
I'd reccomend it to anyone whos at that awkward stage between "No calendar" and "Bloated calendar". Heck, maybe even if you're already using a bloated calendar and just want something simple. Give it a whirl, it cant hurt.
And its not even only their software. Just look at the perhiphrials market (keyboards, joysticks, wheels, etc), where Microsoft actually makes some competetive products. I'm primarilly a Logitech man myself, but my Microsoft sidewinder wheel is actually a pretty good piece of hardware (even if the software bundled with it sucks:P)
I've never tried Effexor... I thought that drug was used a lot to treat OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) and FMS (Fibromyalgia syndrome) in conjunction with depression?
Anyways, i've got a form of anxiety disorder, and my SSRI of choice is Celexa (aka: Cipramil, Apertia, Cipram, Elopram,
Lupram, Prisdal, Sepram and Seropram). I was on Paxil for a while, and that stuff was utter crap. But then I switched to Celexa and its worked great, and the only side effect is a slightly increased thirst (but hey, I was never drinking enough water before anyways:P). Oh, and I hear Celexa's sister drug, Lexapro, is really good shit too.
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Nice picks ya got there.
:)
Myself, I try to keep FF as simple as I can possibly stand it:
Flash Click to View (aka: Flashblock) - No more flash ads is wonderful. Sometimes this extension can be annoying (you have to re-click after every page load), but IMO people should just use less friggin Flash.
All-in-One Gestures - Best. Extension. Evar. I know some people don't like mouse gestures, but I am completely hooked on them. I can do anything, anywhere, faster. I'm even to the point where my navigation bar is hidden - I never have to use it!
Things They Left Out (TTLO) - Just adds some more handy options. Most of them I never use, but some are really nice to have (MIME types, for one).
Nuke Anything - Everyone should have this extension. EVERYONE. Mouse gestures are preference, but as far as i'm concerned, NukeAnything should just be built right into the core. Being able to remove almost ANY aspect of a page is invaluable. Don't like an image? Nuke it. Don't like a paragraph of text? Nuke it. Text entry box? You can nuke that too. Just click on anything, select "Remove this object", and poof - its gone! The only thing it doesn't work for is flash... which is why we have FlashBlock!
Popup Count - Pure curiosity. I like to know when a webpage tries to spam me with popups so I can make a mental note of never visiting there again.
Show Failed URL - Something that should be default behavior IMO
Tabbrowser Extensions (TBE) - Another extension I couldn't live without. All the excellent options and abilities this thing gives you is almost overwhelming. It can take a while to set up, but once you get your mix right, you'll love it.
Download Statusbar - Download boxes suck. This extension is ten times better than Firefoxes "feature".
IEView - For those oh so rare occasions when I need to view a website in IE. I can just pop into teh devil's tool for a second, do my business, and get the hell back out.
CuteMenus - Makes it easier to browse context menus at a glance. I just wish you could define custom icons for other extensions' additions.
Firesomething - Because "Mozilla UberBadger" is just funny.
But hey, thats just me. Everyone else can have whatever the heck they want - which is why extensions RULE!
Props for putting it so elequently man! I couldn't have done it. My opinion of cows is that they're somewhere between a plastic bucket and a not-too-smart rock. And thats an insult to plastic buckets and rocks.
:)
I don't know why, but people today seem to have this idea that cows are cute and can talk like they do on TV - it'd be hillarious if it weren't sad. But in reality they're just some of the stupidest creatures you'll ever find. Dogs can be smart. Horses can be smart. But cows? Not even close. Name just about any other common farm animal, and chances are its twice as smart as a cow (notable exception: chickens). Cows know as much about whats going on around them as we do about extraterrestrial culture: Sweet F.A.
So just shoot the stupid things and put em on my plate, in my car, or wherever else they have a use. At least then they'll serve a purpose.
Whoa whoa whoa - back up there sparky and take off the tinfoil hat. He never said ANYTHING about 'licensing the internet'. He just compared it to a firearm to elicit a strong reaction.
:)
Personally, I like the analogy (I even thought of it while reading the article). A weapon is just a tool, like the internet, and both can be used for good or bad. IMO, leaving a loaded firearm sitting around in your back yard for anyone to use just because you might accidentally shoot someone one day and want to skip out on the manslaughter charge isn't a good idea. Both morally and legally. This whole "unsecure is secure" idea is a little too deep into the gray area for me. I certainly wouldn't risk my neck like that anyways, but the rest of you are free to do whatever the hell you want.
...there isn't.
;))
Ever heard of Cliffy B?
Half game designer. Half pimp. You either love him, or you hate him (try both, its fun!)
(PS: If any Epic staff read this... WHY ARE YOU ON SLASHDOT?! GET BACK TO WORK! I WANT NECRIS FOR MY BIRTHDAY IN JULY DAMNIT!!
Hah, thats cool. Make sure you drop some photos around the Initial D community when you get it all put together! :)
Interlocks are also a fucking pain in the ass. Both to use and maintain. They're nowhere near reliable enough, and have much too short a lifespan to stick them in a car permanently.
I know because I used to install the damn things.
Are you, bychance, an Intial D fan? :)
Takumi's 86 has one of them annoying little chimes. Great attention to detail in that show
Whoa.
You might be interested to know that DirectX 9 is deemed the MINIMUM spec for Unreal Engine 3. If and when DX10 is released, i'm sure the engine will be ready to take full advantage of it. But we probably won't see UE3 until 2006 at the earliest.
Check the link, its a redirect:m ?site=http://www.peoplesprimary.com/?n=lutz
http://pediatrics.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.ht
Here I thought it had something to do with reduced mass, but nope - its all aerodynamics!
Um, thanks for the tinfoil hat response... but i'm not your typical driver :). I'm more of a car enthusiast, so octane is a little more important to me and my car. Its the difference between 18 lbs of boost making huge power, or a huge repair bill ;). :P
If its any comfort though, my parents only run on 89
Just as a stupid car-guy question, whats the average high-Octane rating for US gas? I've found most of Canada's best juice is that pee-water stuff they call 91. Some places have 92, and a few might have 93. I know some places in Ontario (Sunoco stations) sell 94, but where I live thats not much more than a pipe dream.
So how is it down south? I heard Cali got screwwed with the 91 stuff too, but doesn't the rest of the country have the luxury of slurping back 93 or 94? Or is that just a rumour?
Yeah, Timmies doughnuts have gone to shit ever since they fired all their chefs. I used to have a buddy (cousin's boyfriend, actually) that was a chef at a local Timmies. Holy fuck did he make some good goddamn doughnuts... but of course, free always tastes better ;). Anyways, he got shuffled around between so many stores and shitty shifts that he told them where to stick their job. A few weeks later, other chefs started getting let go, and in their place came big trucks with boxes full of frozen "standardized" (read: smaller) doughnuts that any idiot could toss in the oven to make. Ever since then, the dougnuts just haven't been the same :(.
:P)
Their soups, sandwitches, etc are still pretty tasty though. Especially the soup... "AND THEN I ATE THE BOWL!" Mmm. Bowl. (And i'm sure only the Canadians got that joke
Myself though, I just wish Mitsu would ditch that overweight pile of junk they call a Grand Am - oops, I mean, Eclipse - and get back to the 1G/2G roots: AWD + Turbo'd 4G63 domination. It'll never happen, but I guess in the same vein i'll never forgive Mitsubishi for disgracing the DSM family. *Sigh*
I hope its not ALL "west coast gangstas" style. One of the things I loved about San Andreas in the original game was working with the Triads. Now THOSE were some mean fuckers. I'd love to be out "bringing honour to my family" with RC bombs again! Muahahaha!!
(Next week on Slashdot: Young teen male in California builds bomb out of remote control toy: Take Two Entertainment sued over deaths. Again.)
Oh yeah, well MY computer knows ALL the digets of Pi! Just watch!
**NO CARRIER**
*Ahem* Uh, yeah, excuse me, but i'm FBI agent and i'm going to be "investigating" your daughters for possible terrorist links. So if you would kindly hand over all known photos of them, allong with their phone numbers so that I may "contact" them if nessecary.
Thank you for your cooperation.
...
*Runs like hell*
The article said the drug only targets white fat. Virtually all of the "important fat" in your body (eg: membranes around the heart, blood vessels, brain, myelin, etc) is "brown fat". White fat (actually yellow), on the other hand, is the stuff that you find in love handles, beer bellies, fat-asses, and our other beloved yet misshapen body parts. The big difference between to two in your bodies eye is that white fat is for storage, whereas brown fat is for other things like protection and temperature regulation. Brown fat tissue doesn't really get "fat" (you'd be dead if it did) because thats not it's purpose.
:)
So as long as this drug really only does affect white fat, it should (theoretically) work. It certainly wouldn't be a miricle drug though. For one thing, it seems like it would attack fat indiscriminately. Your body stores fat in preferred locations, but theres no way to tell the drug to "just" go after your gut. It would eat fat away from your entire body - not just your problem areas. Imagine how many women would bitch after their boobs shrunk, their arm muscles were exposed, but their ass was still too big?
The other major problem with it is that it wouldn't be permanent. Fat cells don't have a specified size - they'll grow or shrink depending on the bodies need. So even if you kill off half your fat cells one week, theres no guarantee that next week your remaining fat cells will just start growing 2 times bigger (this is why lyposuction 'doesn't always work'). This means the drug probably wouldn't work for your "typical fat American kid", because their diets won't change. Sure, they could slice off a few pounds with a pill, but if they keep eating unhealthy their bodies will just pile more into their existing cells. If they go on the drugs repeatedly (or permanently), they could wind up with serious health problems - or worse.
The best audience for this type of thing would be people who eat healthy, but for whatever reason can't loose fat, or want to loose more of it. People like bodybuilders (for that even more ripped look), or possibly women who haven't lost pregnancy fat after birth, or something. For the majority of us who snack on chocolate cake and pop between our 6 course meals, it probably wouldn't work.
Sorry to ruin everyones day
Sounds like someone has had a bad experience or two :(
;))
Personally, I'll never purchase a prebuilt desktop again. I put together my own last year, and it's worked awesome. I've never had a hardware problem (I did do a ton of research though - it certainly payed off), and the worst of my software issues was a M$ "security update" that made windows refuse to boot (Safe Mode and System Restore saved my ass on that one). Otherwise it was pretty simple. Putting together the hardware was a snap (almost literally). The worst of my setup nightmares was trying to get my network sorted out. I hate networking and don't have much experience with it, so it took me a little while to get my old computer + router + my computer (with two network cards, firewire, etc) all talking to eachother. No thanks to Windows on that one.
Otherwise its been amazing. I think the best part of the whole thing has just been the experience. You learn so much more about your computer when you put it together yourself. Even as much as I was obsessed with computers before, i'm so much more comfortable with them now. You have a drastically different kind of relationship with your own handywork - something a little more intimate than a $2000 recipt.
So it doesn't have to be all headaches and strife. My advice is to treat your first computer like your first lover: Take things slow, be gentle, ask lots of questions, and never force anything.
(There ya go - advice for computers AND girls in the same thread! If this doesn't get modded up, I don't know what will
He never said they were illegal files. Who knows, maybe he's got a server filled with MP3s of himself singing in the shower?
I won't pretend that games are a replacement for schooling, but they're FAR from being completely "mindless", as so many critics claim. Not everything you need to know about the world can be found in a text book.
Anyone else here use Rainlendar? :)
I find its a VERY nice piece of software, even if it doesn't have all the fancy contacts/synching/whatever features of other calendars. Nope, its pretty much just stick notes on the days, and glance at your ToDo list. Nothing professional, but for me it works really well.
No, its not perfect... but hey, it IS open source, so you could mod it yourself if you wanted!
I'd reccomend it to anyone whos at that awkward stage between "No calendar" and "Bloated calendar". Heck, maybe even if you're already using a bloated calendar and just want something simple. Give it a whirl, it cant hurt.
And its not even only their software. Just look at the perhiphrials market (keyboards, joysticks, wheels, etc), where Microsoft actually makes some competetive products. I'm primarilly a Logitech man myself, but my Microsoft sidewinder wheel is actually a pretty good piece of hardware (even if the software bundled with it sucks :P)
I've never tried Effexor... I thought that drug was used a lot to treat OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) and FMS (Fibromyalgia syndrome) in conjunction with depression? :P). Oh, and I hear Celexa's sister drug, Lexapro, is really good shit too.
:)
Anyways, i've got a form of anxiety disorder, and my SSRI of choice is Celexa (aka: Cipramil, Apertia, Cipram, Elopram, Lupram, Prisdal, Sepram and Seropram). I was on Paxil for a while, and that stuff was utter crap. But then I switched to Celexa and its worked great, and the only side effect is a slightly increased thirst (but hey, I was never drinking enough water before anyways
Just wanted to give those two drugs my props.