I just happen to like Farscape.
(Aeryn and Crichton are making out aboard Talyn when the ship is attacked).
Aeryn: "Frell!"
Crichton: "Yes"
Aeryn: "No, bad frell."
The other posters are correct. If you really RTFFA, you'll find that it was solved October 20th 2002, well over two years ago.
Even the link you provide only mentions the corresponding doctoral thesis beind defended recently (January 27th 2005). Perhaps you should RYOFL (Read Your Own Frelling Links).
There was actually a sort-of legitimate reason for this. Larry Osterman posted about it on his blog, here, with a follow-up here.
It may have been implemented in a nasty way, but I doubt it was inspired solely by malevolence.
I might think the letter I sent to the minister actually had any effect. Can't have that, now can we? Next thing we know, I might actually believe public opinion matters to elected officials in other areas, too. Now that's a scary thought.
Hmmm... you could wipe your "exhaust" with the newspaper when you're out of toilet paper. I'd like to see you do that with the laptop (well, not actually see it).
What're you writing? The Encyclopeadia Britannica? A Windows bug list? You'd still have room to transcribe the entire Linux kernel, the Bible and War & Peace! (Well, perhaps not if you include the Windows bug list, but you get my point!)
1) Live bookmarks (it's the only advantage FF has for me, but not enough to switch to FF, especially since it keeps closing the bookmarks menu while it updates the headlines).
2) Composer should not reformat the line breaks in my HTML unless I tell it to (it now wraps long lines and converts line breaks in
Resistance? Resistance is futile! You will be assimilated.
Seriously, don't you think there's a reason the Borg or, for that matter, pretty much any cyborg fantasy, are portrayed as being evil or at least having the potential to be not "something new and wonderful", but "something new and terrible"?
Like many/.-ers, my work heavily involves using computers, but on some level I am afraid of them (or rather, what technology may eventually become). Irrational? Maybe...
Ctrl-Click does indeed open a tab for me now. Don't know why it didn't work before. Thanks.
"Open Location" goes to the location bar (MozSuite: Ctrl-L) instead of popping up a window (MozSuite: Ctrl-Shift-L).
There's no FF window icon. There is an application icon, but nothing for the window (by default).
Being a longtime user of MozSuite, I've often wondered what the hype is about FF. I don't care about the mail and IRC clients etc, just the browser.
There's some stuff in MozSuite that I have missed in FF:
Ctrl-click to open in new tab (no middle mouse button on my touchpad)
"Open URL" box (I have location-bar-o-phobia, an irrational fear of entering URLs through the location bar)
A proper window icon (yeah, I know I can put one in myself, but most novice users will find themselves staring at the frelling MS Windows logo!)
And some good stuff in FF:
Displaying the server name in the context menu when blocking images.
Ability to set a standard download folder.
Most of that is pretty trivial. Startup time isn't bad for either browser. (I don't use the MozSuite preloading option) and I can't say either one is noticeably faster than the other in use.
Of course, switching from IE to FF or MozSuite is a no-brainer, but what would convince a MozSuite user to switch to FF? Personally, I don't see the need and think it's rather sad that all the users' and developers' attention seems to go to FF.
I already knew white mice and dolphins were more advanced than us lowly human beings, but now we've been surpassed by a mustard plant!!???
Douglas Adams would've laughed his head off...
I, for one, would love to see the things that were missing. The scourging of the Shire, the actual defeat of Saruman. Christopher Lee's scenes really should've been in the theatrical version! At least the EE will allow us to see those parts.
I remember a comment from Adams saying he spent large parts of each book reuniting the characters. At least this time, they were all in the same place.
Deleting a user's home directory is a bad idea. It's not portable. How about those poor folks running Windows 9x. They don't have proper home directories. Even the ones in WinXP are half-baked.
You'd have to build in a routine that'll erase the C:\ drive for those poor saps.
there is mention only of unices.
Operating System Mapper. Dynamite supports operating system mapping between any two Unix/Linux-like operating systems, as well as mapping between mainframe and any Unix/Linux-like operating systems.
Don't see "Windows" mentioned in there. I assume it would be a lot easier to run a Linux version of Quake 3 on BSD-based Mac OS X than to convert stuff to/from a rather more different OS such as Windows.
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Slashdot misses a moderation option here. "+1 Astonishing" seems appropriate.
I just happen to like Farscape. (Aeryn and Crichton are making out aboard Talyn when the ship is attacked). Aeryn: "Frell!" Crichton: "Yes" Aeryn: "No, bad frell."
The other posters are correct. If you really RTFFA, you'll find that it was solved October 20th 2002, well over two years ago. Even the link you provide only mentions the corresponding doctoral thesis beind defended recently (January 27th 2005). Perhaps you should RYOFL (Read Your Own Frelling Links).
There was actually a sort-of legitimate reason for this. Larry Osterman posted about it on his blog, here, with a follow-up here. It may have been implemented in a nasty way, but I doubt it was inspired solely by malevolence.
I might think the letter I sent to the minister actually had any effect. Can't have that, now can we? Next thing we know, I might actually believe public opinion matters to elected officials in other areas, too. Now that's a scary thought.
Hmmm... you could wipe your "exhaust" with the newspaper when you're out of toilet paper. I'd like to see you do that with the laptop (well, not actually see it).
What're you writing? The Encyclopeadia Britannica? A Windows bug list? You'd still have room to transcribe the entire Linux kernel, the Bible and War & Peace! (Well, perhaps not if you include the Windows bug list, but you get my point!)
What is this GUI thing you speak of, you young whippersnapper? I'll use a command line 'til my dying day, pounding the keys with my cane if I have to.
But it is a very nice story nonetheless.
Resistance? Resistance is futile! You will be assimilated. Seriously, don't you think there's a reason the Borg or, for that matter, pretty much any cyborg fantasy, are portrayed as being evil or at least having the potential to be not "something new and wonderful", but "something new and terrible"? Like many /.-ers, my work heavily involves using computers, but on some level I am afraid of them (or rather, what technology may eventually become). Irrational? Maybe...
Dubya is a twat and...
Gotta go... secret service is knocking on my door.
Ctrl-Click does indeed open a tab for me now. Don't know why it didn't work before. Thanks. "Open Location" goes to the location bar (MozSuite: Ctrl-L) instead of popping up a window (MozSuite: Ctrl-Shift-L). There's no FF window icon. There is an application icon, but nothing for the window (by default).
Being a longtime user of MozSuite, I've often wondered what the hype is about FF. I don't care about the mail and IRC clients etc, just the browser.
There's some stuff in MozSuite that I have missed in FF:
- Ctrl-click to open in new tab (no middle mouse button on my touchpad)
- "Open URL" box (I have location-bar-o-phobia, an irrational fear of entering URLs through the location bar)
- A proper window icon (yeah, I know I can put one in myself, but most novice users will find themselves staring at the frelling MS Windows logo!)
And some good stuff in FF:- Displaying the server name in the context menu when blocking images.
- Ability to set a standard download folder.
Most of that is pretty trivial. Startup time isn't bad for either browser. (I don't use the MozSuite preloading option) and I can't say either one is noticeably faster than the other in use.Of course, switching from IE to FF or MozSuite is a no-brainer, but what would convince a MozSuite user to switch to FF? Personally, I don't see the need and think it's rather sad that all the users' and developers' attention seems to go to FF.
I wish I could deny the existence of negative numbers. My bank, on the other hand, insists that is how much money I have...
I already knew white mice and dolphins were more advanced than us lowly human beings, but now we've been surpassed by a mustard plant!!??? Douglas Adams would've laughed his head off...
Considering how many people use their PC for the sole purpose of playing Solitaire, it might actually be a viable business model.
If the filename is anything to go by, the thingamajig in the middle represents proteines. If they look like that, I should eat less of them...
I, for one, would love to see the things that were missing. The scourging of the Shire, the actual defeat of Saruman. Christopher Lee's scenes really should've been in the theatrical version! At least the EE will allow us to see those parts.
after 584542046 years. Okay, I admit... when you reach that time, you'll probably have other problems than a Win2K crash.
I remember a comment from Adams saying he spent large parts of each book reuniting the characters. At least this time, they were all in the same place.
You should win an award for the most gratuitous use of the word "Belgium" in a /. thread.
Deleting a user's home directory is a bad idea. It's not portable. How about those poor folks running Windows 9x. They don't have proper home directories. Even the ones in WinXP are half-baked. You'd have to build in a routine that'll erase the C:\ drive for those poor saps.
there is mention only of unices. Operating System Mapper. Dynamite supports operating system mapping between any two Unix/Linux-like operating systems, as well as mapping between mainframe and any Unix/Linux-like operating systems. Don't see "Windows" mentioned in there. I assume it would be a lot easier to run a Linux version of Quake 3 on BSD-based Mac OS X than to convert stuff to/from a rather more different OS such as Windows.
It's not impossible, just very very improbable.