Google toolbar is more than a quick search. Here are the features that I would like to see from the toolbar
Most importantly it highlights (optional) the search words in the document. Therefore, you don't have to CTRL+F and type your search world again after you visit one of the search result which is 10 pages of text and look for the relevant section.
Second, the pop-blocker of the toolbar makes a "click" sound and cursor changes momentarily to let you know that a pop-up has been blocked. With opera, you have no idea this happened. So when the pop-up window has some actual content, with goolgle toolbar you can allow the pop-up to see the content. In opera, you wouldn't know what happened.
And finally, the toolbar has a translate button which uses the google translator for converting webpages into english (and other languages) with one click. With opera, you have to manually give the url to google (or altavista) for translation.
See toolbar.google.com for complete details of the toolbar. It does a lot more like autofill, etc.
For me it's only one reason for opera: mouse gestures
Yes, I have the tried the mouse gestures in mozilla. They are not at all consistent. You have to "draw" the gesture exactly with sharp edges or it failes to recongnize. With Opera it is very robust. And yes, mouse gestures is important to me.
This one might be my ignorance, but I can't get the tabbed browsing to work right on Mozilla. Most of the time it opens new tab for new window but sometimes it will open a new window. Not to mention that the download window always opens a new window. Opera always keeps everything in the same window.
And finally, I love that I can close opera and start it later and have all my open webpages restored. No need to temporary bookmarks. Couldn't find this mozilla.
So until mozilla gets these right (specially mouse gestures), I will stick to opera. Although one thing I miss that mozilla has is the google toolbar. Hopefully, opera will pick it up soon.
Opera gets some more recognition. I love the mouse gestures, image off browsing, autosave links for when you need to reboot the system but don't want to bookmark all the open pages and lots of other cool features.
Now only if they could get a search keyword highlight (like the google toolbar), I will stop using mozilla (which has a google toolbar lookalike).
Has anyone noticed the growing trend on undergraduate research? NSF is paying lots of money for REU . I am an international undergraduate student from India (flame me if you like) going to a VERY expensive private school in US (~$25K tuition/year). Being international, I am disqualified for any student loans here and not eligible for most jobs because of INS rules. Hell, I can't even wash dishes at the local restaurant to feed myself.
Anyways, I have supported myself for the past 2 years through research jobs at school . I like what I do (currently I am working a nasa's version of maglev train) and I get paid well along with tuition. I just graduated (3.5 years, no summer school) and might have a job offer soon from a Fortune 500 co. through my advisor's network. I also got to publish a paper at a prestigeous conference which will help when I go to grad school.
See if you can find something similar in your school. Keep an eye out for who's getting funding, stay around them (take classes, volunteer, etc.) and eventually he will ask you to work for him.
more likely, something went wrong during whatever sequence of actions the probe was supposed to follow, and the only theory involved is Murphy's law.
More likely? definately. Worth assuming? Definately not.
I have watched their recent press conference (26th, 27th, 29th Dec). They started out clearly saying that although it is more than likely that the lander crashed, they are only considering the problems that they can actually do something about .
I think that is the smart way of handling the situation. Imagine, what if the clock had actually went out of sync during landing. It would have been really stupid if they lost the probe to that just because they thought it crashed and nobody even bothered imagining other less probable reasons for communication failures and fix it.
One of the biggest problems with maglev trains is the vertical stability. Since the train is floating, it has a tendency to oscillate vertically aroud it's central position. The solution that the Japanese,Chinese and even the Germans deploy uses passive figure-8 coils that tries to keep the the magnets from oscillating using the induced em forces. Although, this is a good solution, being passive the system does have a finite response time which restricts the maximum horizontal speed. The way the Japanese (and others) solve the problem right now is by modifying train design, increasing magnet strengths, etc. Though, these give them extra juice to boost the speed it does not solve the problem.
The actual solution to the problem that some others beleive is to actively control the figure-8 coils to acheive the desired stability externally. So instead of the train magnets and the track coils trying to balance each other, you can externally control the stabilization which is restricted only by the accuracy of control equipments (currently, not a problem). Therefore, by using this method, you could you could just beef up your equipment and baam you are ready to double the train speed.
NASA and navy are currently quite interested in this technology to use to launch the shuttle in the future. Ofcourse, to do that you will need speeds more than 1000 mph. Our school has substanstial funding and even a model track (~12m long) to develop the idea. It is incredible to see the model train (.3m long ) zip along the track
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Most importantly it highlights (optional) the search words in the document. Therefore, you don't have to CTRL+F and type your search world again after you visit one of the search result which is 10 pages of text and look for the relevant section.
Second, the pop-blocker of the toolbar makes a "click" sound and cursor changes momentarily to let you know that a pop-up has been blocked. With opera, you have no idea this happened. So when the pop-up window has some actual content, with goolgle toolbar you can allow the pop-up to see the content. In opera, you wouldn't know what happened.
And finally, the toolbar has a translate button which uses the google translator for converting webpages into english (and other languages) with one click. With opera, you have to manually give the url to google (or altavista) for translation.
See toolbar.google.com for complete details of the toolbar. It does a lot more like autofill, etc.
Yes, I have the tried the mouse gestures in mozilla. They are not at all consistent. You have to "draw" the gesture exactly with sharp edges or it failes to recongnize. With Opera it is very robust. And yes, mouse gestures is important to me.
This one might be my ignorance, but I can't get the tabbed browsing to work right on Mozilla. Most of the time it opens new tab for new window but sometimes it will open a new window. Not to mention that the download window always opens a new window. Opera always keeps everything in the same window.
And finally, I love that I can close opera and start it later and have all my open webpages restored. No need to temporary bookmarks. Couldn't find this mozilla.
So until mozilla gets these right (specially mouse gestures), I will stick to opera. Although one thing I miss that mozilla has is the google toolbar. Hopefully, opera will pick it up soon.
Now only if they could get a search keyword highlight (like the google toolbar), I will stop using mozilla (which has a google toolbar lookalike).
Anyways, I have supported myself for the past 2 years through research jobs at school . I like what I do (currently I am working a nasa's version of maglev train) and I get paid well along with tuition. I just graduated (3.5 years, no summer school) and might have a job offer soon from a Fortune 500 co. through my advisor's network. I also got to publish a paper at a prestigeous conference which will help when I go to grad school.
See if you can find something similar in your school. Keep an eye out for who's getting funding, stay around them (take classes, volunteer, etc.) and eventually he will ask you to work for him.
Good luck.
More likely? definately. Worth assuming? Definately not.
I have watched their recent press conference (26th, 27th, 29th Dec). They started out clearly saying that although it is more than likely that the lander crashed, they are only considering the problems that they can actually do something about .
I think that is the smart way of handling the situation. Imagine, what if the clock had actually went out of sync during landing. It would have been really stupid if they lost the probe to that just because they thought it crashed and nobody even bothered imagining other less probable reasons for communication failures and fix it.
And, find out here what options they have to communicate with beagle
One of the biggest problems with maglev trains is the vertical stability. Since the train is floating, it has a tendency to oscillate vertically aroud it's central position. The solution that the Japanese,Chinese and even the Germans deploy uses passive figure-8 coils that tries to keep the the magnets from oscillating using the induced em forces. Although, this is a good solution, being passive the system does have a finite response time which restricts the maximum horizontal speed. The way the Japanese (and others) solve the problem right now is by modifying train design, increasing magnet strengths, etc. Though, these give them extra juice to boost the speed it does not solve the problem.
The actual solution to the problem that some others beleive is to actively control the figure-8 coils to acheive the desired stability externally. So instead of the train magnets and the track coils trying to balance each other, you can externally control the stabilization which is restricted only by the accuracy of control equipments (currently, not a problem). Therefore, by using this method, you could you could just beef up your equipment and baam you are ready to double the train speed.
NASA and navy are currently quite interested in this technology to use to launch the shuttle in the future. Ofcourse, to do that you will need speeds more than 1000 mph. Our school has substanstial funding and even a model track (~12m long) to develop the idea. It is incredible to see the model train (.3m long ) zip along the track